Cutting Chords

June 19, 2019

Art means the world to me and one way I’ve honoured my love for it is through four very unique tattoos on my body. These tattoos carry a profound symbolic meaning reflecting different stories and stages in my life.

My final, and fifth one (which is also symbolic – 5 being my life path number) is going to be a mirror, paradoxical image of what I now have on my left shoulder blade and cusp. My left side is of a raven’s wing (a very personal symbol very few people know the meaning to), but the final one I’m getting I will share because I need for you to understand how deeply I believe in the power of cutting chords and how much I honour the process. On my right shoulder blade and cusp I am putting Archangel Michael’s white wing with his sword somewhere through it.

This sword is the symbolism to a very powerful practice I engaged in a while back in which I was carried through a deeply emotionally charged exercise in which I was asked to metaphorically cut chords with souls I was holding on to that were in need of being separated, not just for my own spiritual, emotional and mental health, but for theirs as well.

It was a very difficult time in my life. I was being forced to face a slew of challenges in which I felt I was drowning in and had no way to the resurface from. It was a very dark, necessary period in my growth and one I will honour by engraving on my skin for eternity. For it is my story. My journey. My canvas. People may see my tats and admire them, I honour them and cherish them for their profound symbolism.

The practice of cutting chords is perhaps one of the most significant and life affirming, liberating experiences anyone can have. It’s a multi-layered process. You must first acknowledge who you are tethered to that is no longer serving a positive purpose and who needs to be set free and from whom you need to be set free from in order to thrive. It’s a karmic release. An acknowledgement that what is done is done; lessons that needed to be learned, absorbed; that the ankle must be let loose in order for you to fly free and move forward.

I get that all this may sound like a shit ton of malarkey to most….so please feel free to move along. No judgement here. I’m happy with who I am and if this resonates with someone, I am so grateful and humbled.

It’s a difficult thing to do, this “cutting of chords”. Perhaps one of the hardest things you will ever do. For no one sees you doing it. You only see it in your mind’s eye and no one is the wiser for it. But you are. And that’s the point. You must dig deep and decide what is best for you. You must decide which chapter to close completely. You must decide if your connection to some people is helping your growth, or holding you back. You must decide if those that are holding you back are just a nuisance or if they are destroying your spirit. There are so many things to consider.

And then the hard part is who the person is….because the closer they are to you, the harder this becomes. Obviously.

When I came to terms with whom I needed to symbolically detach myself from, it was truly unnerving. I felt I wasn’t prepared to take this final swing, even if it was symbolic or on a different plane, because that final affirmation is downright frightening. It was frightening because I wasn’t doing it for others, no one was going to be the wiser and I just had to acknowledge that it was completely and utterly my truth because it was for me and only me.

And when I did this I was overwhelmed. It was truly a powerful experience. The process was carried through by the help of my spiritual mentor, but the work was all mine. And like someone very dear to me recently expressed about his own personal experience, it was like the weight of the world was lifted off my shoulders. A weight I hadn’t even noticed was there that had slowly redefined my physical, emotional, spiritual and mental state. It just slowly crept up and added on, year after year, but once it was released, my true healing process was free to unfold.

Cutting chords doesn’t mean cutting people out of your life in the physical sense. It symbolizes a release. A deep untethering of souls that have served the purpose needed in their lives – a karmic release and acknowledgement of a contract finalized. Once you have cut a chord, you are sending one off in peace and love and understanding. You are honouring a process and who they are in your life….who they have been and who they can be in their new, free role.

The sword is the mechanism from which the cut is applied, but the source of all power comes from our deepest core and guides. It’s about protection, healing and flight. Freedom, if you will.

Cut the chords, if need be. Make no apologies in your heart and in your spirit send love. Always love. It may be the deepest, most profound spiritual practice you can engage in and one that will change you forever.

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