Each and every one of us has a crucial role to play in the Cosmic Dance. You might as well learn the steps, so that you can shine on the dance floor of your life. Sometimes, your dance partner is a person. Other times, it’s a particular situation that is designed to etch upon your soul the knowledge of your strengths and, sometimes, your deepest fears. Nevertheless, the Cosmic Dance in which you are a partner has never, nor will it ever, be danced by anyone but you. It is sacred. The whole universe, of which you are an integral part, orchestrates the people and events that have the highest learning potential for you–the potential to reveal your brilliance and your capacity to love–unconditionally.

By conscious design, you and your nonphysical teachers have imposed filters on your psyche–archetypes. These archetypes are culminations of traits, such as nurturing, dominance, gentleness, aggression, dishonesty, and cowering.

The components of particular traits become a pattern of influence or “character.” These characters have been written about through the ages in fairy tails and mythologies of various kinds.

Dominant traits that are expressing through the personality become filters through which we can learn about our soul and the nature of the Creator or Source from which all things come, and disappear into.

These filters show up as archetypal paradigms, such as the Warrior, Saboteur, Mother, Lover, or Victim. These archetypes are neutral and impersonal, and are designed to work as aids in uncovering what blocks us from expressing and appreciating love. In our limited awareness, we are both polarizing (experiencing as positive or negative) and uniquely personalizing these patterns to reveal our Cosmic Dance.

Your life is your dance floor, the experiences are the dances, and each person that is in your life, or has been and will be in it, is a dance partner designed to teach you how to love and become fully human, fully actualized, and aware that you are a cosmic citizen of unmentionable worth. My life is my dance floor, too, and the people and events that I have “danced” with have taught me that there is an organizing power that is deeply invested in my knowing who I am. It is my sincerest wish that by sharing with you the story of my dances and some of my partners, I will encourage you to embrace your dance, too!