Submitted to: Contest #295

The Hidden Portals of Love and the Crystals of Light

Written in response to: "Write about a portal or doorway that’s hiding in plain sight."

Adventure Coming of Age Inspirational

As the wand circles and swirls overhead, a lightly held rose quartz crystal creates a trail of stardust and luminous patterns pervading the dawn as it illuminates tiny specs of magical creation, cleansing, clearing and purifying the energy body of negativity for the day ahead as its protection and gentleness is called forth with unconditional love.

A small yet sacred task performed amongst the few and one which requires mindfulness and discernment at its foundation. A new way of life is not to be taken lightly, a privilege not afforded to many unless willing to enter the frey. An ability to be open minded and discerning on a path of inner illumination and sacredness. A responsibility to find the inner connection and truth of one’s higher soul and connection. As the guidelines narrow on the path, more responsibility and awareness unfold at a higher vibration opening doorways to portals that were previously guarded by fear and remain closed.

The path of enlightenment is not for the feint hearted. It’s an epic journey of faith and trust into the realm of the Divine and a heart trusted process of self-love and devotion, navigating the trials and tribulations of values and virtues along the way. It’s a continuous journey of unfolding consciousness, and an undoing of past learnt behavior’s, thoughts and beliefs that no longer serves the highest good as they ripple and poke through life explicitly tripping us up when one least expects it and it is as individual as everyone on the planet.

There is a world that belongs to mantra’s, chanting, crystals and meditation that is a heart given gift for the soul and not one ever imagined possible as one opens to more love than ever before. The old ways of being and reacting are over, as a new reimagined self and soul essence emerges. Gifted with insights and realisations of old patterns and perceptions as they lift to the surface and into one’s awareness, to be forever uplifted, changed and transmuted. The inner light of illumination and Divine connection is the gift of one’s higher soul to truly open into and through the Portals of Love into self-realisation and eventual Moksha opening one into the true Golden Age of Peace.

Where are these portals? They are invisible to the naked eye unless you are clairvoyant. They are not always recognised, regarded, valued, or identified, yet there are times at which we can definitely feel their presence and sacred gifts.

It’s through everyday life that this journey unfolds. We all know our own stuff, the things that irk us, the things we don’t and won’t tolerate. We know when our buttons are pushed, triggering an outpouring of defensiveness, assertion or justification. We can recognise our own criticism and judgements, not only through interactions with others but also as we sit back in observance and watch, not always recognizing, connecting or allowing our emotions to be felt and accepted nor realising everything is a mirror. It’s not wrong to feel our emotions, after all they are a part of us, even if at times they feel scary to acknowledge and accept. It’s what we do with them that counts towards our own illumination and growth and where the Portals of Love open, slightly, fully or remain closed, until our next outing and endeavour.

Seeds of acceptance are planted in all of us, and so is forgiveness, yet we hold them in abeyance as not being worthy of them. It’s never about others. It’s always about ourselves. Where are our beliefs and perceptions set? What are our reactions in any given situation, are they slightly amiss, spot on, or what just happened and why? It’s simply the place where we can put love back in through nurture, but it doesn’t mean that if we feel the inner need to RUN, we don’t, don’t question it, RUN or walk away if we feel we are in danger, and especially if it is a question of safety and distance required. 

We can deal with the outfall and emotions later. The wounded inner child needs love and attention in all things, but not at the expense of intuition and gut feelings, these are there for a reason, it’s not judgement, it’s discernment.

It’s what, and how we feel and when we ignore it that creates the great divide, we can easily make ourselves wrong and stuff our emotions into the background, eviscerating them into a meaningless existence, however it is almost always this vitriol that somewhere in the future gets spewed out onto others in opposition as one’s inner landscape and higher soul pushes through an agenda of awareness of our rhetoric and mis-stepped behaviours, and in reality ultimately showing where there is an opportunity to input love, value and virtue. Who knew? No one truly understands until we’re catapulted into a valuable life learning moment that cracks the ego so the light can enter, do we spring into the realm of sacredness and spiritual learning and understanding, under-pinned by the value of self-worth and self-love newly recognized.

The Portals of Love have many doorways through which we can enter and emerge triumphant and liberated in life, not always seen, acknowledged, approved of, or understood and are the paradigms and kingdoms of our own consciousness, karma, learning and growth.

Earth is the learning zone for all souls in the physical world, set forth into this realm with its own blueprint and within an imprint of duality, gravity, and the seven gifts of touch, taste, smell, seeing, hearing, feeling, and speech. Life for a soul on Earth is all about learning, the knowledge and wisdom gained through experience and then what is done with it that counts the most, creating karma or dharma, for what we give out we will receive back. So be aware of any intention that sits behind it all, for that is what creates ease and grace or harshness.

Lessons are orchestrated leilas for our karmic learning and ultimate release. They are designed for us to go through and emerge from, changing us forever in some way. There is always a before, during and after, what we acknowledge, what we’ve learnt, how we’ve reacted and how we feel. Have we forgiven ourselves or others, which can take a lifetime as we try to move forward, leaving it in the past, we do need to ask ourselves if we have cleaned up the underlying energy of it within ourselves? Have we found peace with it yet? Maybe, maybe not. It takes courage and a willingness to let go of baggage, indecisiveness, fear, unworthiness, victimness, shame, blame, drama and terror of being truly loved and allow ourselves to be Divinely connected, not outside of ourselves but internally connected through faith, devotion and love and allow ourselves to receive love and not just to give.

The Portals of Love are always there, shrouded behind the limitations we have set for ourselves in this lifetime for our learning and growth as we learn each side of the values and virtues held within the higher soul and sit with the lower soul as our leilas for growth to be worked through.

It can be an extremely rough road of learning at times, not knowing what we are really dealing with or the outcome that will eventually unfold, however the difference it makes having churned through the “griss for the mill” and extract ourselves from the jaws of unworthiness and the chagrin it once held is liberating.

The majesty of Grace is love, internal, external and surrounded by, bound only by hope, faith and trust and our willingness to engage.

There are many doorways into the Portals of Love. It is to be remembered however there are keys to unlocking them, in that The Portals of Love are guarded by fear, and anger always masks fear. 

The Portals of Love cannot be bought, however they are continually fought over through the judgement and lack of love for ourselves and others. One can never truly enter if we fight for what is not ours, one can never truly enter if one holds grudges, disparages others, belittles, bullies or ridicules them or ourselves. It just isn’t possible, however, there is always a level of love available at all vibrations, just like the Yin and Yang symbol, in great light there will always be a spot of darkness and in darkness there will always be a spark of light and at any time we can be in the depths of one or in the heights of the other, or simply be somewhere in between.

Generosity, Service, Forgiveness, Courtesy, Kindness, Understanding, Compassion, Caring, Empathy, Patience, Tolerance, Trust, Respect, Dignity, Boundaries, Peacefulness, Humility, Gratitude, Appreciation, Dependability and all the virtues are the keys to the doors that open The Portals of Love for us to walk through. It is the continual, and repetitious effort of learning to stretch into the virtues when we instead have the impulse and compulsion to retract into heavy and lower vibrational states which keep the Portals available and open. The ego doesn’t diminish quietly, it rages until we choose to refine it, usually through lessons learnt and an adaptation and need of wanting to change.

Have you guessed where these Portals are yet? 

They sit within our energy body, and within our auric field. They are part of our chakral configuration which hold our beliefs, thoughts, consciousness and karma and overlay our blueprint at the level of our DNA. 

The heart chakra in the centre of our chest is the Portal of Love which is also the inner core of our crown chakra sitting on the top of our head and the pathway to our Divine connection through which we reach up to our Soul Star Chakra and then up through the many chakras above that to the highest point of light and love connecting with our own pillar of light which we can grow wider and stronger as we stretch and reach for our higher soul and a higher level of consciousness and bring that down through our upper and lower chakras and into the Earth realm and Earth Star chakra creating a stability we never knew existed.

There are many ways to connect with the Divine and our pillar of light through our heart and crown, and is achieved with an intention to simply and firstly find our heart centre and to use our breath to strengthen our connection.

The longest journey on Earth is from our head to our heart, it takes time, awareness, patience and resilience to achieve it and definitely worth the journey, and once we know we can’t go back.

The Great Invocation from the point of light is a fabulous resource and daily prayer, so is the Lord's Prayer and many mantras from all traditions, but they aren’t the only ones, so are charity and voluntary work, being helpful, honest, supportive and true to oneself.

There is much to learn and more to life than we could ever imagine.

There are many pathways and many doorways, we just need to find the one that resonates with us the most to find our heart and soul and be able to live in Peace, Harmony and Balance with all living things here on Earth.

Blessings to all on our journeys into Unity, Hope, Faith, Trust, Truth and Love.

Om Namo Narayani

Posted Mar 23, 2025
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Heidi Fedore
13:27 Mar 30, 2025

Your writing style is lovely and fluid. As I read, I kept trying to find the story within the words and am interpreting this as an essay rather than a short story. You seem very passionate about this spirituality topic and it shines through in your words.

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