Lady on the Foreshore came flooding out of me one morning in December 2020 when I began to open to a WildWood entity who has associations with the Sea.
At first, I thought it was a suicide song and that it was about a woman (who I saw in Victorian garb) shedding her worldly self and embracing the eternal by walking into the ocean. It seemed that she was battling some inner turmoil and her way out was to end her life.
But the entity I worked with told me that I could not be more wrong.
What the song is actually about is divination/oracular work: the ways in which people can and have looked into the tides, into everything that surrounds them in a coastal setting, for answers to questions that they are holding.
The cliffs form a container that holds space quite literally for the Lady standing on the sands below. They contain a range of different plants and rocks and birds and animals and other beings, all of whom add something to the working being done below. The song only briefly hints at this, but it is there between the lines, beneath the melody.
The Lady in the song uses a range of different methods for seeking answers.
She uses the motion of the waves and the sound of their coming into shore to move into a trance state whereby she may be shown a vision or receive knowledge in another way.
She counts the waves to provide her with a sense of when something is going to occur.
She uses the combination of wind and water to find direction: much in the same way that someone may use a pendulum.
She uses the wind scattering her footprints as a vehicle for breaking old habits that tie her down. The wind takes them so they may be transformed into something new. Or perhaps the waves take them.
She places her voice onto the gulls so that they can be her envoy and help her to be heard by those who reside in some other realm, such as the one above. Some things cannot be uttered aloud – they are too powerful or secret for that. Using the voice of the gulls enables them to be heard by those who need to hear them but not understood by those they are not intended for but who may overhear them.
She watches the clouds for a response: their shape, their colour, their movement are all signs that can be interpreted.
All of this is done at a particular time of day – sunset.
The sun makes a path on the waves. For someone who works with trance states, this path can be walked and lead somewhere of relevance.
So why did the song take me over a year to put on my blog? Because it isn’t finished. There’s a whole lot more that is yet to come.
The lady goes into the ocean by moonlight where more mysteries are revealed. But I haven’t received that part yet. I was waiting for it to come through, but it is not yet the right time.
So, think of Lady on the Foreshore as being Part One.
Hopefully Part Two is on its way.
© AM (Xander) Hunter January 2022
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