Elie and Asttarte

Heart Opening Breakthrough

Ok, its been years since I've written in here...again. I have no doubt that no one remembers me here. However, all my other blogs are pretty public. I want to get this out before I make it public.

My husband/sons dad/soul twin and I have been apart for 2 and 1/2 years now, the longest break ever. I've had other relationships during that break, but they didnt last very long.

He and I had gotten together a few times since Novemeber. It wasn't planned. I had just been with another lover, but with this other lover, something was always off. It wasn't a relationship, no committment, no deep feeling in love feelings.

So after the 4th time of getting together with my ex, he decided to stop meeting that way. I don't blame him, after this past weekend, I now finally understand.

I went to a Shamanic Heart Opening, Sacred Medicine Ceremony experience that had people trained as a facilitators to support people through the process. The training and teachings came from Peru, and the sacred medicine was given to each participant specific to what they needed. I felt I was finally ready for this, and my dear sweet friend who helped me realize the potential of this, guided me gently to get there, with assurance, conversations, and comfort as though I had a friend. That helped me to get through the door. The rest was on me.

The Shaman clearly felt it was my time to break open my heart. She had given me several pills to help me unravel my heart. This was sacred medicine, not hallucinogens. I did not hallucinate in any way during the entire experience. I had done enormous work with Landmark to help break open my heart, but I feel this was even more profound, deeper into my soul, breaking open my identity, and helped unravel my lifetime of personality and charatcer patterns. I learned that I am the 9 of clubs on the outside, but on the inside I am the Queen of Hearts!

The Queen of Hearts is who has dominated my personality, and I learned with every ounce of my being, that all the abuse I received from my mother, I had recreated in my behaviors towards the man I love more than anyone in the world; the man I had insulted, labeled as narcissistic, psychopathic and abusive on many forums, blogs and such and was trying to figure out how to be with someone like that. I learned that it wasn't him who I had to learn to be with, but it was my way of thinking and acting that was causing him to become that. Yes, he has stress, and has anger, sometimes huge, but that I intensified it, by my not listening, by my blaming, making wrong, and by my hurting him to the point of perhaps making him feel abused. I did not acknowledge, or thank him, and appreciate him in any way. Nothing was good enough, and I hurt him. I was the dominant Queen of Hearts, who had a locked heart, was judgmental, guarded and my own heart was locked with a key inside myself. No one could break it open, because it was him I loved, and it was him that I directed all that anger towards. No wonder he felt hurt by me. No wonder, he was protective, and no wonder he didnt feel safe. I created that.

I realize I had to heal to the depths of my being in therapy and other programs and modalities before I could even come to this conclusion. And, I also realize he may never forgive me, or be able to heal the hurt I caused in him. But if I can continue doing this Shamanic work, keep my heart open, and share my awareness with him, let him know he's the most wonderful and greatest man I've ever known, and keep loving him, maybe in the future a miracle will happen. And, at least my heart will be filled more with peace for knowing I let him know everything he had been trying to tell me for many many years. Others in the program feel I may be able to heal my marriage with him, for taking ownership and responsibility for how I now know and realize I treated him before.

We are in our 40s now, and my therapist of many years only saw good in me. He never saw the part of me E saw in me, because I only portrayed that behavior in front of him. He was the direct target. And I see so clearly that is exactly how it was with my mom. I felt abused and tormented by her, and everyone else that knew her, thought she was a saint and the kindest and most friendly woman they knew. I remember how hurt I felt when people told me this, because my experience of her was very different.

If I can stay in my heart, and he is open to truly hear me, and listen to the huge breakthroughs and awarenesses I have about him, how I treated him, what i created, and where I can take ownership of my part in the relationship, perhaps a huge healing can occur. I know its not only my fault that caused him to be upset, but I do know I exaserbated it. There's no way I would be able to be a true Healer and Theraist if I couldnt be fully present to other people in their process. For example, if I worked in a mental hospital and dealt with schizophrenics, I would in no way be able to help them if I blamed them and made them wrong every time they got upset. I would have to be loving. That's the same thing with E. He did have pain in his body, still does, did have depression, and anger, but I made it worse by forcing him to heal, getting mad at him to get help, to do this or that healing program, and never just loving him from the heart, never listening to how he really felt. I see that in his eyes, I was a bully. And that is not the way you love someone or support them. I realize I just couldnt. I was in pain too. I was hurting too. I was healing too. But now that I have healed all that, confronted myself, healed my pain, healed my rape, and healed the majority of my Lymes Disease, I can just be loving to others. If I can be loving to him, and he can finally realize my love, I will be the happiest woman alive. He and I may never be together again, but at least now I know how to love someone. For that, I am forever grateful!

I'm going to call up a couple of my old lovers and boyfriends too and talk with them about my realizations, and perhaps, either E, or a new true Beloved will come into my life!

I'm going to do more of these retreats also, and hopefully, when the time is right, they will accept me to become a facilitator as well, if I still want that at the time! Only time will tell!

Much Love,

Niseema ~ Asttarte 
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The rock underneath the fish

no titleSo, my beloved RK left me. His fears, anxieties, and resistance to getting deeply close won! And, my battle of waiting has decided to put down its white flag. He being another avoidant, and my entire being got so frustrated. We met, had amazing sex, and a week later, again over the phone. but it wasn't enough, and I was mad!!!! I had decided, screw that, I'm not going to reach out to him anymore. He can reach out to me, if he wants, which at this point I doubt! I'm hurt and actually pretty sad.

I went to a dance therapy class, that I thought he would be at, and it was right down the street from my ex-husband, my sons dad. RK never showed up. And amazingly, its probably best! I was in enormous pain, and after the class, having tapped deeply into my heart, I saw my ex, my husband, who has refused to divorce me, and I reached out to be friendly, touched his chest, with my son there near by, and he pulled away, only showing affection for my son. And, I had no idea I still had feelings there, but after getting into my van, I completely broke down. My son buckled in and started talking to me, and I didnt answer. And, he said, "are you mad at me?" I said, "No, I'm not mad," after about 5 minutes or so. I was sobbing at this point. I thought I had processed him, my sons dad, but clearly there was still more there. And after the outer layer of my beloved RK left me, the deeper piece of my husband showed up, the person that most of this blog is about. The person who pulled away often whenever I got close, who would get mad if I wanted more time alone, or wanted more affection, he too, being an Avoidant.

I actually never wanted to break up. He came home from Colorado. I thought we had a breakthrough in our relationship after I did the Introduction to Leadership Program with Landmark again. We were going to move to Colorado. I had signed up for child support at the state office, BC, we had discussed his moving, and as a means for him to support me while he was gone, working to set up a place for my son and I to move to after some time had passed. But he took it the wrong way!!!! He thought I was trying to go after him. He still says he's mad about this. That was NOT my intention. It was to set up everythig so we would be prepared and work together towards our goals of being a family.

He came home angry from Colorado about a girl who was staying in the home he was staying in, about her working as an escort or something. He came home and wanted to share about it, and I was impatient and horny, and really really missed him, and just wanted to have sex with him, and he was still angry about whatever happened out there and his feelings, and then he acted out his anger on me, and violated my breasts, and my nipples and hurt me. And it threw me so out of the loop of the intention of us meeting, and I was SO unbelievably upset, that I filed for Protection a couple of weeks later. I know I should have waited to sort out my feelings, but I didnt. And even though I dropped the order, he says he will never ever forgive me. I tried talking to him about the misunderstanding and asked if he would please share what he was upset about, but he shifted his upset onto me instead, and then filed for custody against me. Then we went to court for months and months, which was completly not the goal or objective at all. We were supposed to be a family, and get married and live together. But, instead, it went out of proportion into another direction all together!!!!!

I realize now, I am still not done processing this, and RK, helped me process it a little, and distracted me with his sexiness and love, but now that he has disappeared too, and I've deeply grieved him, I still want a man who will commit to me, a husband, a beloved, and still have sadness, disappointment, and deep feelings about ES. We were spiritually married, and had a marriage ceremony in Oct. 2006, but I was hoping to make it legal. We were going to go to Ashville, NC for a road trip and then Colorado, and start a new lfe. I had waited 9 years to bring us together as a family, and at the last minute when we were that close, all hell broke loose!!!!! I realize I want a closeness like this with RK too, and that is not what he wants right now at all. So, I have to just feel into all of this, breathe into it, and process and transform again.

I titled this the rock underneath the fish, because my beloved ES was the rock, he was solid and stable and wasnt going anywhere, until this last event, and the fish was RK, who has swam into my life, and then quickly swam away!

I was recommened to get a few books to help with this journey:
Conscious Uncoupling
The Warrior Goddess in Training, by Heather Ash Amara
and
In The Meantime, by Inayla
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Sharing Love

Hello darling
I know you do not yet know me
Nor do I know you
Yet, I feel you just the same
your strength
your power
your love
your care
and perhaps
reservation

I am so wanting to go deep
and I know that desire
comes from within me
And I will keep doing my practice
to breathe
in the love
let go
of expectations
of whatever feelings arise
those feelings are mine
and mine alone

I wish for harmony
balance
to be calm
feel calm
and know
all is perfect
in the exact time it is meant to be

I am wanting you love
feeling you close to my heart
taking in the pleasure we have shared
and letting it consume me
envelop my heart
holding onto it every second
remembering its power
its joy

I want to hold you
into my arms
and embrace you
and let you know you are loved
safe
cherished
and deeply appreciated

you are so innocent
so sweet
and your caution is wise
it helps me
slow down
and breathe in the moments
we have shared
and know
if it is meant to be
we will share many more.

(Inspired by RK)
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Fear of the Unknown

Hello love
Please do not fear what you do not know
I will do my best to do the same
It is fear that creates fear
As you feel me
I feel you
and the cycle repeats itself

Please do not fear me
for I only wish to love
And the desire to be loved
is just as strong as yours

I am here for you
And so grateful for that
I will listen
and hear you
please just do the same

We have so much to share
and teach each other
the ride and waves of love
are entoxicating and brings into the deep
ones shadow will alway rise
It always does

Mine is only that I loved others
who just didn't know how
to return it to me
My wish is that you understand
and can hold the space
to be kind and continue to hold that love
and know I will return it right back to you

You are cherished
I adore you
you are sacred
You have all the power within you
And, as I do the same

Mirroring love brings back love
mirroring greatness brings back greatness
whatever we put out, we get back just as strong
And, I am sending healing vibrations
to electricfy your soul
I am grateful for this time
I am so deeply grateful
for you.

(Inspired by RK)
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Miracles

I know it is I who creates my own reality
My feelings are mine and mine alone
If I have nervousness
that's mine
If I have fear
that's mine

What I am choosing is to surrender into this love
This love is a miracle
A decision being made
accepting and surrendering into it
And going deeper into the choice
to Be
to connect
To love

To have joy
to let go of any feelings in the way
of that joy
To celebrate love
and know
it is all from the creation
the miracle
of saying yes
of walking forward
of believing
walking towards you
is ok
and I welcome it in

(Inspired by RK)
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Such Joy

I am loving every moment I spend with you
wanting to hold you tight into my arms
breathing you into my heart
knowing there is no such thing as forever
and yet this now feels so much greater than forever
being in the unknown can be frightening
yet can be glorious for the risk of letting someone close

I had thought to wait, for I might not be ready to be with someone
and you reflected the same
I am grateful for our powerful talks
the ability to communicate is so precious
for my past partners struggled with such
I hope we will continue to communicate powerfully, clearly
with love, respect, surrender, clarity, integrity, humbleness, kindness and patience

you are filling a place in my heart that had perhaps forgotten my joy
the truth of power and pleasure, and happiness
is so worth the ride
I waited years of being with someone that was not a match
to have now been met with you
I am grateful
to you
I am grateful
for your open heart
and letting me in

let us build trust
continue the ride
and see where this goes
I feel my love for you is strong.

(Inspired by RK)
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New Love

New love
It feels so much bigger
and brighter
than all other matters of life
new love takes precedence
its value is sacred
powerful
rich

One wants to harvest it
keep it alive
build a home around it
allowing the freshness
and feeling of love
to stay strong

But one never knows what will come
never knowing if it will stay
or fizzle into empty space
one only hopes it lasts
and builds mountains of miracles
for love is new life
love is a miracle
by itself

I cherish you
this feeling of love
this richness of you
I hold you close to my heart
and know I cannot hold you down
and yet, I welcome your forever arms
to caress my soul!

(Inspired by RK)
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Lovers Poem 3

Of all the times you left my place
over the last nine years
more than half
I wished you stay
and the other times
turned around and came back.
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Lovers Poem 2

Am I delusional thinking?
Am I living on fear?
No never truly letting
go of someone
To never giving up hope
Maybe its a fantasy
Maybe its a dream
Maybe its a reality I
knew with him before
The memory of how deep
I loved consumes me
Maybe I think one day he'll return it
Maybe I'm wrong, insane
insane about love.
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A Lovers Poem

Tantra, Sex, Erotica
Have I forgotten who I am?
Spirituality, Love, Bliss
Is it all but just a tease?
Orgasm, again, and when?
I am the master of my dream.
To fall in love
To fall out of love
To stay in love with the same man
Will I ever stop loving and be free?

Do I keep waiting for his love to return?
And why do I wait?
For he cannot make up his mind
Or maybe he does
But his mind changes on him
And he is just as frustrated that he has no control
I wish he would let me help him, guide him.
So I don't have to grieve
someone I wish to be his wife.
So I can call him my family
my home, forever. 
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