Lunar Lunes, How Opal Luna taught me to Own my Power

Lunar Lunes - Owning Our Power

Opal Luna, la Loquita….. She said…. “You must want to know Power if you chose a dog like me.”

When I arrived at the pound to meet doggies, I walked by Opal and she was curled up and quiet. She had a quiet and very luring stregnth. I brought her home. It was scary because she turned out to be very fearful. I couldn’t sit by her without her lunging unexpectedly. With ignorance and love I kept her. I did lots of training with her and a k9 trainer even shared with me that b/c she was instilled with fear, she would never be safe.

She was 1.5 years young when I got her. Like a 10 year young abused child. I stayed in my ignorant bliss of needing to Own a doggie like Opal Luna.

Opal had a tendency to attack smaller dogs.
She looked like a coyote but howled like a wolf.
She was Fear wrapped up in Fearless Power.

I would take her with me, to my first studio location downtown or the forest and she made me feel Powerful, Fearless and Safe.

Later in life I was in an unhealthy co-dependent relationship and Opal & Soleil were both out on the porch. When a new person arrived at the house, Opal attacked Soleil, fracturing her spine and my partner at the time rushed her to the emergency.
Later that day, my friend took custody of Opal.

Opal shared with my animal communicator, Christine….. “Soleil was Love and She was Power and the day Love Conquered Power she would die.” She said, “she didn’t trust me and my choice of relationship and that it was not time for the person that I was with and that she needed to “take care of herself and any threats.”

She also said these wise words… “What’s it like to Own a your Power and not use it?”

When I shared this with the person I was in the relationship with, he didn’t like that. I learned he didn’t like Opal bc She was too much like him. He too was abused and fearful. 

She opened my eyes to an unhealthy relationship and may have possibly saved my life.
I am so grateful.
Opal lived on a farm, and there she was happy until she was left unattended with a child who was always trying to grab her and Opal again attacked. Thank goodness the child was okay. I took Opal back.
Ignorant me and even more cautious.

When Victoria was about 1 year young while Chris and I were in the garden, we heard Soleil. Opal attacked again and injured her badly, she survived for another year.

After 10 years of Owning Opal luna,. She was 11.5 .

I had no choice but to Own my Power.
She ran her last run and was released into the Winds born by la Luna. 
Our Powers can be used for good or bad. Unfortunately it took me having “Victoria”, to realize that Love will always Conquer over Power. Just like Opal Luna predicted.

Sometimes it takes repeated ignorance and desire/hope to change another being, whether doggie or human, to only be forced thru difficult circumstances to Own our Powers. I am grateful for Opal teaching me how to turn my own Fears into Power and to Own them, but with Love. I am just sad it was at Soleil’s poor expense.
My love for Opal also taught me that a fur parent sometimes pays more attention to the needy furbaby over the independent one, and sometimes ends up hurting the independent one. All b/c they want to “fix” them or “make them not suffer”. I could have easily adopted Opal out to the man that worked with wolves and Soleil would not have suffered. But I just spent to much time convincing myself differently.

Enabling vs Empowering was a tough one for me and though I wish I didn’t have to experience these difficult times or decisions, I apparently needed to learn them.

Owning my Powers thru tiny Whispers of the Wind is my responsibility to stay open and attentive to and so I share every Monday the Lesson of Opal Luna and how to Own Our Powers.

I truly understand how to surrender to the powers of la Luna within myself. Her words are written on ever breeze, every rain drop, and each month I have the opportunity to stare her straight in the face to check in with myself.

~ Gracias Opal Luna
The tides are constantly stirring with us like a fire, we must tend to those stirrings, not with ignorance but with intention and love, just as we would stir the soil of the rich Earth to grow a beautiful plant.
If we choose to be ignorant to not understanding the truth of another, and we will never transcend.