Entering the Mythic Mind with Serendipity and Serenity

August 8, 2026

On the night of the Lions Gate, I had this dream where a modern mythic story unfolded, taking me into another story I didn’t know I needed, just like Serendipity, which also shined a light on the nature of Serenity.

Identical twin sisters named Serendipity and Serenity, were introduced to me in dreaming, and their story unfolded. Both with blonde chin length French bob haircuts, deep blue eyes like the sea, ivory skin like satin, with round pleasing features where they should be. Young and voluptuous women in their twenties pleasing to the eyes. Sexy and innocent looking to most, they hold a power of beauty embodied as Goddesses, or Faery Queens, or Jinns, where something perplexing yet potent is felt when encountered that sinks into your consciousness like Marilyn Monroe.

Serendipity has a boyfriend, who accompanies her. He looks like a strait laced, educated career city planner, headed towards politics wearing leather dress shoes, a tan suit and a Stetson fedora that was essential attire for professionals in the fifties. He holds rolled up plans for a city project he is working on getting through, and Serendipity is helping him. His plan is a good one that will benefit the people, he is looking to develop sustainable change. He also has his career plans mapped out in his head too, he expects this project will move him on a trajectory towards his ambitions of getting elected to local office.

Marilyn Monroe in the Asphalt Jungle in 1950. The film won a golden Lion Award in Venice.

Serendipity is helping him by tracking ahead along possible outcomes for his planning project he has in his hands, to reroute any obstacles in play, like Google Maps. There isn’t anything she can’t handle, but the main situation that is a challenge is the public opposition to the project. He needs the public behind the project and Serenity is the only one who can change people’s minds when they are agitated, and bring peace of mind to accept change. Serenity, on the other hand, is not about to bring the stability or sustainability required to bring about the plan at hand. The architectural drawing of the development the handsome city planner has in mind is getting ready to present at a city hall meeting. He wants to take Serenity with him, but she is no where to be found, because she is not lasting. Peace of mind changes like the weather and comes and goes with the tide.

He believes he cannot bring about his plan without Serenity, he thinks he needs the twin energy of both Serenity and Serendipity. He relies on his partner Serendipity, but when he goes in search of Serenity, she is hard to find. She is like a misty morning covering all, as the light shines through a gentle dawn breaks open a beautiful day, with perfect weather, and waking up from a the most peaceful dream, to start the day.

The planner cannot find her in these moments, she has become the dawn and covers all with her beautiful light. As the day moves on and a harsher light beats down, she can now be seen in her human form again. Serenity has another side that is disruptive and conniving. Her shapeshifting nature is a trickster of our own folly, to help bring us back to our selves. She holds up a mirror of what we try to hide, unable to face ourselves. She guides us back to Serenity, by helping us face what we try to hide.

Because humans are not to be trusted, long term Serenity is out of the picture I’m afraid. Serenity was born first, so she is the oldest, and wisest, but it does not seem so, because she doesn’t act like you would expect. She enjoys playing tricks and laughing at your expense. Serendipity on the other hand, is more mature because she is a more reliable partner. Always showing up when you need her, she tracks along possible pathways to see what is in store for you, and intervenes at just the right moment of luck to bring about the best opportunities for the soul purpose to thrive. She shows up with her unresistable charm and trusted council to allay fears and doubts and boost confidence. She has a certain magic about her that is both mysterious and confounding, setting your life down paths in connection with people and places you never knew you needed. She shows up just in the nick of time. A relief that is so welcome and does not require beliefs. EOD

Serendipity goes by Saran for short. Her name means dwelling place of Lion’s island. Her name is also known as Sarandip or Serendip for the island of Sri Lanka, where the Sinhala people reside. The word Sarandip comes from Persian language, and the word Serendipity comes from a Persian Fairytale called the Three Princes of Serendip from the Book of the Eight Paradises by Amir Khusrau, a famous Persian poet from the 1300’s. More and more Saran appears to be a Jinn. The word Serendipity was coined by a British author in the 1500’s from reading the Persian fairytale, where the story depicts situations where fate shines among the three princes when they are able to discern the past and solve challenges in the present and the future through their powers of perception towards favorable ends.

Three Princes of Sarandip

Through Serendipity this dream came on the night of the Lions Gate to bring through a modern day fairytale of Serendipity and Serenity, which lead me to the ancient Persian fairytale for the Three Princes of Sendip, meaning the people who dwell on Lions Island in what is also known as Sri Lanka. No Lions dwell there, but Sri Lanka was along the trade routes between Persia, India and Sri Lanka. The symbol for ancient Persia is a Sun Rising over a Lion, which represents the Sun in Leo, as we are currently. The Persian Lions gate resides in Lebanon, and the Greek Lions Gate resides in Mycenia, and the Lions gate in the Old City of Jerusalem leads to Bab al Asbat (the gate of the tribes), or Bab Sitna Maryam, it functions as the entrance to the Temple Mount, and the start of the Christian Pilgrimage route for Via Dolorosa, and the Jewish pathway to Kidron Valley, and the Mount of Olives. Given the war we are currently in started by Israel in Iran supported by the U.S. the Lions gate may be opening energies that have been exchanging for centuries.

Lions Gate as a crossroads at the Old City of Jerusalem

In the story of the three Princes of Seredip, there is a significant part of the story that involves a big hand hovering over India each morning, intimidating all who reside, and at night comes and snatches people out of their bed. This authoritarian show of force and public fear, is seen in many countries right now including the U.S. In the story the second prince decides to confront the giant hand, by simply raising his hand as a victory sign, or perhaps as a peace sign. This small act of resistance revealed the Big Hand is not as powerful as it wants us to believe, and shows signs of both resistance and victory against authoritarian governments watching our every move, threatening with removal from our homes, and removing our freedoms. Another significant part of the story is the magic mirror that the King uses to find out who is lying and dole out punishments to those who try to lie and hide. This part of the story is about Justice, and how Serenity, who also holds up a magic mirror to reflect what we are hiding. Without Justice, we cannot have peace. We cannot have sustainable community without peace of mind, where our rights and freedoms are protected. Serendipity and Serenity brings ancient presence of wisdom that can see beyond the limited mind, and track ahead to possible pathways, where we can be pointed down soul pathways of wisdom for sustainable peace and justice

People of the Land

It’s Personal

In February 2020, about a month prior to the pandemic storm, a dear sister and healer invited me to try her newly created float tank, and knowing my connection with dreams, she was keen to have me try it to see how it might be a helpful modality for conscious dreaming. I was also keen to try it and the liminal space created by floating in salt water, providing a primal womb of dream incubation. I focused my intention in my float session on personal healing and gaining any insights that would be helpful for me at this time. I had been doing a lot of private healing sessions on individual clients, and knew the salt waters would be restorative for my energy field as well.

As I floated in the tank in a conscious dream state, that place between waking and sleeping reality, I saw images come and go, then suddenly, dropped deeper into a dream, which opened before me from the core of my being. I was now inside a conscious dreaming reality with an Oracle Goddess, who emerged from a mountain. Her face, her hands, and her breasts became visible. Her strong voice was heard inside my dream. She said, I have not been seen in a very long time. It is time for me to emerge. I tell her I had set the intention to work on personal work, and not focused on collective energies right now. It is personal! She snaps back! Alright then, I am paying attention! I then see a volcano next to her, with lava flowing down, and molten lava erupting from the top, as the face of the Goddess Pele is reflected in the fires of the Earth. I feel her powers of destruction and creation. Suddenly, I hear cows mooing and see them grazing in a peaceful green pasture, and the Blue Faced Goddess Hathor descends from the Pleiades, with her nurturing and peaceful, loving energy. Finally, I see the Three Goddesses before me, a blazing fire beneath HER feet. I am human sized, standing before them, but in the body of Kali Ma, Black Mother Earth, Treasure House of Compassion, Giver of Life to the World. I run toward the sacred fire with fierce love and compassion and lunge my ceremonial knife (truth) into the Sacred Fire (Life). The Oracle Goddess says, It is done, and it is good.

These days I am opening myself to deep dreaming as a guide through the tumultuous times we are facing. I seek guidance in this world, and the otherworld, in this time and other times, everywhere and everywhen.

People of the Land

February 13, 2025

In the Dreaming, I am on a quest to return to the old ways and people of the Land. I found a community of people living in connection with the land and the ancestors. It was through an eruption of a volcano, that the return of the ancestors came to be, and I came to know myself more than ever before. I was sacrificing myself for future generations.

I found myself in the Dreaming, where two separate realities were before me. I had a home in two different places.

I held in my hands two swords from ancient times. One was Persian, and engraved with calligraphy, the other was the shape and make of an Egyptian Khopesh Sword, first appearing in Sumer in the third century until making its way to Egypt. The sword represents power and authority held by deities such as Sekhmet. I crossed the blades slicing against the steel, and when I made contact it opened the dreams, rituals and stories held in the blades, and brought out the secrets held inside.

Zulfiqar sacred sword of the Prophet Muhammed

As the dance went on, mud was rising to the surface of the Persian blade over the carved calligraphy and the stories of the land were revealed. The memories held inside the ancient blade came forth as dreams hovering before me within the dream. Portals of pilgrimage for the Pele Volcano, A sacred waterfall, Uluru Rock, and the Egyptian pyramids. Visiting one of the houses on my multidimensional timeline, I open the door to the backyard and see the dream portals hovered before me as entry points to the Everywhen.

Everywhen

Uluru Rock is located in Australia, and considered the place of creation and sacred to the aboriginal peoples. “The Dreaming is used to represent Aboriginal concepts of “Everywhen“, during which the land was inhabited by ancestral figures.” It is considered the Navel of Creation.

Uluru Rock, Australia

The Halemaʻumaʻu crater at the summit of Kīlauea Volcano is home to the Goddess Pele, her name in hawaian is ka wahine ai honua, which means “the woman who devours the earth”. It is a place of destruction and Creation.

Kilauea Volcano

The waterfall may be from the Big Island of Hawaii where beautiful waterfalls are found around Hilo. The Rainbow Waiānuenue waterfall is a sacred place where the Goddess Hina is connected.

Rainbow falls in Hilo Hawaii, home to the Goddess Hina.

The great Pyramid of Giza is considered a gateway to the otherworld, and the mysteries of the afterlife and ongoing journey of the Dua, or soul.

The Pyramids of Giza

Myth

My research indicates the deeper story of the Sword dance is connected with myth and prophecy. The Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet known as the one before whom evil trembles, is a warrior and healer. She was known to wield the Khopesh sword associated with protection, justice, and disarming enemies. As healer she was known to cure all ills, even plague and pestilence. The Khopesh Sword has been traced beyond Egypt to Mesopotamia and Ancient Sumar.

Prophecy

The Persian sword known as Zulfiqar is believed by early Shiʿites to be brought down from heaven by the archangel Gabriel and given to the prophet Mohammed. The sword disappeared and is considered occulted in the unseen until the time when the world is in a state of complete tyranny. Recently a sword with calligraphy as being identified as the Zulfiqar sword has been identified and confirmed from 1500 years ago, and within the language of the time. In the 13th century, the great Sufi poet Jalāl-al-Dīn Moḥammad Rūmī portrayed Zulficar as the incarnation of al-Ḥaqq, or Divine Truth.

Dreaming Pilgrimage

Taken together these 4 portals of pilgrimage contain a formula of ancient wisdom from ancient peoples whose mystery traditions may be a remedy or map for the times we are encountering now. A Map of Creation, Rebirth, Healing, and Soul Flight. Dreaming can help us in all of these areas, and while it may be more difficult to make a physical pilgrimage at this time to each of these sights, we can visit in dreaming through entering each of the hovering portals.

Embodied Prayer

The sword dance holds a powerful energy at the intersection of sharpening truth and discernment. One blade holding prophecy of the people of the land coming forth, at the cross section of a powerful warrior goddess Sekhmet, who cleansed the Earth of the darkness of men. This sword dance is a gathering and reclaiming of power, able to defend the vulnerable, and a return to truth and justice. An embodied prayer of the land, and the people of the land.

I invite you to join me on this dream pilgrimage, to enter portals of Creation, Rebirth, Healing, and Soul Flight, to dance into myth and prophecy and heal the stories held in the land, and join in solidarity with the peoples of the land, to bring justice to the vulnerable and protect the peoples of the land.

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