What if it is all unicorns and rainbows? What if everything else is an illusion?
This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Unicorn Magic: Awaken to Mystical Energy & Embrace Your Personal Power.
“[Isaac Newton] deduced that the white light that appears to surround us actually contains all the different colors we find in a rainbow. White was not separate from these colors – or a color unto itself – but was the result of all colors being reflected at once.”
~ Joann Eckstut and Arielle Eckstut in The Secret Language of Color
What if it is all unicorns and rainbows? What if everything else is an illusion?
I am asking in all seriousness.
If you examine what you actually know to be “real,” you will find there are no certainties. Everything, after all, is filtered to your awareness through your senses. So can we trust that what we perceive exists outside of our consciousness? Alas, we cannot. As such, we are living a life that is not much different than a dream.
In this dream we call life, everything that appears in our field of vision is shaped and defined by color and light. We are told that our eyes actually evolved the way they did because of our sun, and that the pure white light of the sun is refracted in a million different ways to form all that we see.
So, in an actual sense – at least visibly speaking – it is all rainbows.
Still, the question remains: is it also unicorns?
The literal answer is no. You cannot look under a microscope and see that everything is made up of tiny unicorns. We are not generally observing light from the sun being bent or refracted to create the appearance of unicorns. In fact, if you look in the index of any science book, you are not likely to see unicorns listed even once.
On the other hand, unicorns are a symbol of all the most precious things about human consciousness: wonder, imagination, courage, purity, creativity, positivity, fairness, wisdom, joy, and the power to heal. Albert Einstein wrote, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”
Imagination embraces the entire world.
So, yes: symbolically speaking and from the perspective of human consciousness, in addition to being all rainbows, it is also all unicorns.
And they are closely related. Just as rainbows give birth to every visible thing, the imagination and wonder that are the unicorn’s domain allow humans to refract and recombine the pure light of consciousness into our own spiritual and scientific evolution: all that we invent, conceptualize, and create.
To celebrate and integrate the astonishing truth that it is all rainbows and unicorns, I suggest that you take a break from your to-do list to create something beautiful now. It could be a painting, a poem, a song, a flower arrangement, a cake, an equation, or maybe the magical charm below.
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Rainbow Charm to Fill Your Home With Joy
This fragrant and colorful charm will bless a home with wave upon wave of joyful energy. Make it for yourself or give it as a gift.
Ingredients:
- 7 ribbons: one in every color of the rainbow, about 1/2 yard each in length
- 9 sprigs of rosemary
First, empower all ingredients by placing them in bright sunlight for 1-2 minutes. Then, tie the rosemary into a bunch with the ribbons, placing the ribbons end to end and tying them in a bow.
Hold the charm in both open palms and visualize bright, beautiful, rainbow energy filling and surrounding the home in a blinding blitz of color. Inwardly summon your connection with the unicorn realm to powerfully bless the space with love, light, laughter, and every wonderful thing. Feel gratitude, and know that it is done.
The best place for the charm is above the front door, inside, or out. You can refresh it regularly (perhaps every few months or so) by removing the ribbons, releasing the rosemary to the earth or a moving body of water, and repeating the process with 9 sprigs of fresh rosemary.
What do you think: is it all unicorns and rainbows?
Please share your thoughts in the comments below.
You may also like these 5 Unicorn Spells to Try Right Now.
Hi Tess, my name is Coraluna and I am a writer, artist, and pagan. I have studied and practiced for about eighteen years. I recently began undergoing my second phase of shadow work, this time with Athena Perrakis. I wanted to tell you about what happened to me last night and today. I think you will appreciate the sacredness of it.
Last night I realized that in the course of my initial shadow work, along with the traumas I have endured, I had embraced my shadow to the point of becoming it, and that my light has been suppressed.
Last night I had a realization that, in order for the shadow work to make sense, I had to view my light as the suppressed aspect of myself.
I realized also that I have not encountered any Light Archetypes to which I could look for inspiration. And, while talking to my husband, it occurred to me (in a moment of humor) that the only one I could think of was Princess Celestia. Although I laughed at first, the more I thought about it the more I understood that there is true Light medicine in the Unicorn as spirit guide. And so, in that moment, I held a piece of Lemurian quartz and asked for my spirit guides (although I don’t really know them very well at this point in my life) to send me the soul medicine I need in order to make this transition… to evolve.
The only image that stayed in my mind was that of the unicorn…. all last night and into the early morning.
But I slept on it.
When I woke today, I saw Athena was hosting a live crystal sale. I watched the preview, not planning to attend or shop… until I saw a flash of aura crystal in the corner. However, it wasn’t a piece she was featuring in the preview, and – frustrated in a curious way – I watched until I realized what it was.
It was a unicorn…
…a glorious, sparkling angel aura druzy unicorn that only appeared for a brief moment. I decided to watch the sale until it was presented and to bid as soon as it was available.
So I watched… and waited… with the words “sold Unicorn!” poised in my comments. I felt so drawn to it.
My heart sank when she said they were finished, and I still had not seen the unicorn.
But then, her staff reminded her about “the giveaway!” and my heart leapt… and there it was. I have never won anything before, so when they said it was a giveaway…. well, I was so hopeful, but a little sad too.
And then as I was commenting about how “I was waiting for this the entire time!” (after asking in the comments a few times throughout the sale when they were going to show the unicorn, realizing no one else knew what I was talking about)….
She said my name.
It was meant for me all along! A gift! A sign from my spirit guides that I am meant to connect with the energy of wisdom, protection, purity, love, and beauty…. a sign that I don’t have to be trapped in the darkness of survival mode any longer… a sign even, perhaps, that my own unicorn spirit guide is waiting to connect with me, after all these years.
So, after calming my energy (which took several hours, lol!) I started researching ways to work with Unicorn spirit medicine. I sifted through a few pages of… less than substantial subject matter… before landing here.
And so I want to say thank you for writing this. From one writer, from one spiritual practitioner, to another… I appreciate you. Thank you for bringing this kind of depth and substance to the profound archetypal elemental presence of the Unicorn.
I have pre-ordered your book, and I have also shared these two links (this and the “five spells”) in the Soul Shift group (Athena’s group for her registered students). I created a post sharing my elation and many were congratulatory and expressed their own love and interest in unicorn energy… and so I shared the best of what I found upon researching unicorn spirit medicine so that I may properly honor this profound synchronicity.
I will say that I don’t believe this was just a case of me liking unicorns. There is something much deeper at work here, and I am honored to have been Seen and Heard.
So, thank you for contributing to this sacred journey upon which I am embarking. I appreciate you, and I look forward to connecting deeply through the wisdom in your book. )O(
Coraluna, beautiful! Thank you for sharing! I hope you enjoy the book.
That was so uplifting and inspiring, Tess. There was nothing fluffy about it, that was thought-provoking and really made me ponder how we view and perceive the world. And the topic was rainbows and unicorns!! My perception is that it really all is rainbows and unicorns, and whatever other magical and delightful things I’d like to add. The options are endless! Our only limit is our imagination. Thank you for sharing this. I am really looking forward to reading the whole book!!
Charity, thank you for your kind words! I’m so glad you see the world this way too.
I LOVE this! I have always believed in unicorns, even though I’m older – but you know what? I am wiser because I know that there are unicorns waiting to help us. Thank you for this timely reminder.
Peace and blessings.
Tamara
Tamara, I’m so glad you love it! Thank you. And don’t stop believin. 🙂