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Volume 9 Issue 6 ISSN# 1708-3265



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 		Initiate
by Parzival Sattva

Blind with unknowing
Suspicions but no sight
Individuals stumbling
Grasping for light

To reach, to touch
Connect on some scale
Requires the piercing
Of the diaphanous veil…

Sharp, searing pain. The kind of pain that has no low tones to it, such as what might be felt when punched in the gut. This pain was more like being stung continually by bees, or the physical equivalent to fingernails against a blackboard.

My first tattoo. I had no idea it would hurt so much. But with that first touch of the needle, I knew it was going to be a long day.

During a brief respite when Andrew, my tattoo artist, was reloading the needle with ink, I wondered what was it exactly that had brought me to this place. I don't normally associate a first tattoo with a 40-something man, especially an owl covering a left pectoral. More specifically, my pectoral! So why was I undergoing the most painful thing I've ever willingly put myself through?

The answer is, at once complicated and yet unbearably simple. I was there because Owl had come to me; a spirit animal I had never given notice to before had patiently but insistently touched me again and again. To honour that connection, I was putting a representation of Owl on my body.

Why else? I was also there because the notion of a tattoo on my body had been, prior to meeting Aleesha, something I never considered. But having met her and seeing how body art can be beautiful, symbolic, and even vital to the person who is wearing it, I decided that to permanently wear Owl on my chest was far better than wearing owl jewelry.

And other reasons too, I'm sure. That's the beauty of doing something new and different; the reasons for doing and not doing are both known and unknown, reaching the conscious and unconscious alike. Exploring the new involves changing who we are, bringing us from the former Self to the new Self.

Therein lies the beauty of initiating contact with ideas, experiences, and people. Even to consider making a change, no matter if that change materializes in life, brings about a change within.

And so an owl's piercing gaze erupts forth from my chest and in my mind's eye that gaze helps penetrate the dark of the void, make sense of the maelstrom of the chaos, and make sense of the senseless or deliberately misleading. A small evolution of my self occurred with each notion broached, each decision made, and each action taken.


Parzival Sattva means "Follow your Heart, Purify your World". Parz's journey began with academic pursuits. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Astronomy and then joined the Navy before earning his Master of Accountancy and his Master of Science in Taxation. His thirst for knowledge, innate skepticism, and childhood experiences brought about his spiritual awakening.

Parz is a spiritualist, Reiki Master/Teacher, Certified BodyTalk Practitioner, Tarot card reader, philosopher, and Wanderer on the endless quest of Life. He found a fellow seeker and was handfasted to her in a ceremony on the beach in the Bahamas.

He's an award winning author who has been published in Voice of Choices and Harmony magazines and is nearing completion of "I", the first book in his series "I AM GOD &UR2". Please visit his webpage.

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