Rachael Pullin, Spring of Being, 2022. Graphite, watercolor, pastel, and gold on paper.
Rachael Pullin, Jenny, 2022. Graphite on paper.
“Expand in the heart, for this is healing through new growth, in resonance with the light of the Earth. The Spring of being.”
Spring of Being (detail)
I felt the light of consciousness inhabiting a celestial space. And the words “a star being slumbers” repeated in my awareness.
This consciousness—an aspect of the sitter’s own—activated. Light rose up and created a circular portal through which a progression of triangular geometry could be seen.
These golden shapes held the resonance of evolution achieved through healing the past. As the spiral evolved, each of the forms guided the sitter’s energy through its catalyzing structure. In this instance, the triangle was experienced as a dynamic, geometric union of past present and higher self.
Spring of Being (detail)
The progression slowed to stillness and the sitter’s energy appeared as an almost molecular looking geometry. Brilliant green spherical forms laced with golden light felt like a kind of blueprint for the growth of the soul.
There was a sense that a cycle had been completed. The sitter had inhabited the proportions of karmic learning necessary. The work of understanding the aspects of this self to date had been done. The time had come to move into the next phase.
The stillness became an opening, a calling.
The energy exited the path it had been on and entered a garden of light. The things seen and felt in that space have only been shared with the sitter. The form was fortified by what it had received there.
Spring of Being (detail)
After the garden, there was a call toward expansion. The spheres turned gold and from this form issued an expanse of the energy within, as if bathing existence in a healing earth light. The feeling was akin to that experienced as the life returns to dormant winter grounds.
The green that came through felt like a color of healing through growth and the energy of the heart, a color of transition and of new life on Earth.
Here, gentleness was an active power that claimed its space and unapologetically filled the visible expanse.
In this vision, expansion was also receiving. The more this energy received as it expanded the more it transformed into its light. It felt as though it moved on the pure energy of the heart…a kind of restoration and loving life into existence.
These words came through for the sitter although I think we all may benefit:
Expand in the heart
For this is healing through new growth
In resonance with the light of the Earth
The spring of being
Jenny
Jenny’s energy is profoundly kind and nurturing. Having endured its opposite on so many occasions has imparted a slightly reserved manner, yet her perceptive and generous spirit pierces through.
As a child, Jenny’s curiosity lingered on the science of things. She is an old soul and born explorer of the natural world and the stars. Her connection with nature is also deeply intuitive. It holds a sense of wonder that makes you want to see where it’s going and what its wanderings may find there.
A high achiever in many ways, her multifaceted intelligence and talents have been beacons for the expectations of others. Throughout her youth, Jenny’s light was molded to fit roles and responsibilities beyond those normally placed on someone so young. As a child actor, she experienced what it meant to shine in a demanding world filled with rejection. At home, a long illness in the family inverted traditional caretaker dynamics. From this place, the breadth of her compassion grew alongside a desire to rise despite incredible pain.
Through these experiences, this empathic spirit sharpened her capacity to observe what those in her world needed and do her best to provide it for them. Such compassionate acuity is a great strength. While there is a shadow side to this ability that can leave one depleted, it becomes a powerful tool for transformation when centered in the heart’s guidance. Guidance that nourishes the self as well as the other.
Among the many things that came through while creating this portrait series was the message that the sitter has very diligently tended her personal foundation and that it is safe to open again. With external expectations removed from her vision, she may proceed with bringing through what she was meant to. This ground is ready for growth that is inherently her own.