My whole life, I’ve believed in a sacred love.
A love that transcends time, space, and even circumstance.
I didn’t consciously understand it. I wasn’t consciously searching for it. Maybe that’s part of why I stayed single for so long—my heart knew what it was waiting for, even if I didn’t.
I’ve believed that love is all we ever need, and on the soul level, this is absolutely true. However, part of my own ascension journey was understanding that love isn’t just love. It’s a layered emotion and belief and action within our human experience. Love is the standards we set for ourselves, including the respect we give and receive, how we nurture our own worth, and our ability to express ourselves fully and authentically in a way in which we liberate ourselves and others around us. Love is an active energy in how we show up for ourselves and share compassion with others. It’s also a belief we hold, and our ascension returns us home--beyond belief--to a love that simply is.
I’ve felt this sacred love in every corner of my life for my whole life. I felt it when I was a child and talking to angels on the pink carpet of my childhood bedroom floor. I felt it in the ancient mountains of France when I was guided through my grief. I felt it in the crucible of illness as my saving grace. I felt it during a guided meditation when he sat beside me in silence, and I was moved to tears.
I felt it when I met my sacred partner.
It’s a love that’s remembered—pure, unconditional, and eternal.
Listening to the Hadestown soundtrack the past few days, I’ve been activated once again to remembering a love that crosses realms and defies limitations, a love that is part of the very imprint of our destiny.
HADESTOWN AS REFLECTIVE OF OUR SACRED UNION PATH
Hadestown, the musical, reimagines the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in an industrial underworld. The setting is a stark contrast to ancient Greece and the original mythology, but it’s also a perfect testament to modern times—and perhaps even reflective in deeper layers of our collective experience.
In the play, Orpheus, the son of a muse, is on a journey to rescue his beloved Eurydice from the underworld after she’s lured there by the illusion of safety and security amid a barren landscape of a seemingly endless winter. He believes that love can triumph over anything, and his journey becomes one of faith and trust—both in himself and in the love he shares with Eurydice.
When Orpheus first meets Eurydice, he recognizes her light, her beauty, and her essence. This is similar to how the Divine Masculine recognizes the Divine Feminine first, albeit unconsciously. The Divine Masculine is drawn to the Divine Feminine with a deep sense of soul-connected purpose and desire to protect. Orpheus, similarly, immediately wants to protect and care for Eurydice, whose own story begins in a place of survival. The setting is harsh, and famine is widespread. Eurydice is struggling with poverty, starvation, and uncertainty.
Orpheus is idealistic, youthful, and perhaps even a little naïve. Gifted with music, passed down from his mother (the muse Calliope), he’s in the middle of writing a song to make spring come again so they’ll no longer have to struggle. When he meets Eurydice, the song is half-finished, but Eurydice falls in love with him, singing that he makes her feel alive.
(Check out our recent Soul Path Reading, “Singing the Song of the Sacred” for a connected channeling!)
The winter comes early when Hades arrives to bring his wife Persephone, Goddess of Spring, back to the Underworld—to Hadestown. With the weather growing colder and the landscape more barren, the world becomes harsher. Orpheus continues his mission of writing his song to bring spring back again, and Eurydice begs for him to finish it soon. In her struggle to find firewood and food, she becomes intrigued by the security and protection that Hadestown seems to offer. Drawn into survival mode, she follows Hades to the Underworld. When Orpheus discovers this, he follows her to rescue her.
In the play, the Underworld is a grim industrial realm known as Hadestown, filled with lost souls and laborers working for Hades with no sense of freedom or escape. They represent the shadow side and the unconscious--those who are trapped in cycles of survival without any hope or vision of change.
Orpheus, with his music and bright, idealistic outlook, is a stark contrast to the despair surrounding him. He sings to himself, clinging to the belief that his love for Eurydice will be enough to free her and prove that love can overcome even the darkest of places. He pleads with Hades to let Eurydice go free, and Hades offers him a deal. If Orpheus can lead Eurydice out of Hadestown without looking back at her, they’ll both be free.
It’s a test. A trial of not just love but of faith and trust.
The Underworld is dark, and Orpheus’s doubt begins to creep in as they begin the journey out of Hadestown. Eurydice walks behind him, but Orpheus can’t hear her steps or see her presence, making him question whether she’s truly following him.
“Wait for me, I'm comin',” she sings in an echo of his earlier song when he followed her into the Underworld. “Wait, I'm comin' with you/Wait for me, I'm comin' too…”
But still, he can’t hear her, and the tension between trust and fear intensifies, symbolizing the shadow work that accompanies the twin flame/sacred union ascension journey in which we’re asked to confront the doubts, insecurities, and fears that challenge faith and trust.
As Hermes (a pseudo-narrator for the show) sings:
“The meanest dog you'll ever meet
He ain't the hound dog in the street
He bares some teeth and tears some skin
But, brother, that's the worst of him
The dog you really got to dread
Is the one that howls inside your head
It's him whose howling drives men mad
And a mind to its undoing...”
As Orpheus nears the exit of Hadestown, the doubt overwhelms him. His belief in the love he shares with Eurydice falters and, so close to freedom, he looks back at Eurydice. His pact with Hades broken, Eurydice is pulled back into the Underworld. This devastating moment marks the end of their potential reunion and serves as a powerful lesson in the twin flame journey: how our own doubt and fear can keep us from love.
It’s a reminder that love, trust, and faith must be fully embraced, even in the darkest times, and that your inner knowing is your only guide.
The play then resets at the beginning again (“It's an old song...but we're gonna sing it again…”), representing the cycles we experience and how breaking these cycles is part of our purpose on the sacred union path of ascension.
EXPLORING ORPHEUS & EURYDICE: THE DIVINE MASCULINE & FEMININE
Orpheus and Eurydice embody the journey of the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine and the twin flame journey—or, as I like to call it, the sacred union path of ascension.
Orpheus represents the ungrounded Divine Masculine, and Eurydice, the wounded Divine Feminine, both navigating the Underworld of themselves as they make their way towards union.
When he meets her, Orpheus awakens Eurydice from the survival mode she’d been in, essentially bringing her back to life with his love (“Hey little songbird, why do you hide?”). This is the Divine Feminine’s ascension activation into higher levels of love and the embodied, authentic self where you’re examining your beliefs about yourself and about love, propelled on a journey of soul growth and discovery.
Previously, the Divine Feminine is in more of a distorted or unhealed feminine energy in which she doesn’t allow herself to receive--perhaps like Eurydice, she's too much in her masculine survival mode (“All I’ve ever known is how to hold my own/but now I want to hold you,too…”)
But true, soul-centered love will always show you the mirror of yourself.
When Orpheus responds by singing, “I don’t know how or why/Who am I that I should get to hold you?/It’s like I’ve known you all along./I knew you before we met/and I don’t even know you yet/All I know’s you’re someone I have always known,” he’s mirroring the Divine Feminine’s soul-recognition that both experience at the beginning of their journey. This also reflects the Divine Masculine’s role as the mirror to the Divine Feminine’s journey, holding space for her awakening.
It’s the Divine Feminine that holds the blueprint and more conscious awareness of the journey, but the Divine Masculine, at his highest energetic level, supports the Divine Feminine’s ascension by creating space for her to delve into the underworld of herself. It’s in this descent that she discovers and heals her own inner masculine—the energies of safety, security, and presence—rather than seeking it externally.
In this part of the journey, Eurydice’s struggle to find faith in herself mirrors the Divine Feminine’s challenge to reconnect to her own inner strength. Despite Orpheus’s love awakening her, she still grapples with doubts, returning to old survival patterns and seeking validation from the external world: “I'm trying to believe/That the song he's working on/Is gonna shelter me from/The wind, the wind, the wind.”
Eurydice’s descent into the Underworld parallels the separation between twin flames and sacred partners. At times, it might seem like your Divine Masculine isn’t present—perhaps there’s no communication or it looks like he’s off living his own life with little thought of you--but his journey is always intertwined with yours. These moments of silence or separation is where you learn to have faith, to trust that your connection transcends the physical, and to tune into your heart’s inner knowing.
“Orpheus, my heart is yours/Always was, and will be.”
Love isn’t about abandoning or rejecting yourself to stay attached to a connection. The connection is always there, and any doubts to that end are pinpricks of separation making themselves known. However, you can and do hold space for the connection by allowing for unconditional love to flow through you as you continue your own growth-- your own ascension--without becoming stuck in the waiting. You’re meant to focus on your journey, set appropriate boundaries, and listen to your inner guidance to help you navigate the human aspect of what is a sacred, spiritual connection.
After the Divine Feminine undergoes her ascension, the Divine Masculine follows, facing his own Underworld as he journeys into the core of himself. Orpheus follows Eurydice into Hadestown, symbolizing the Divine Masculine’s willingness to confront his own darkness for love. “To get to Hadestown, you have to take the long way down. Ain’t no compass and ain’t no map,” Hermes reminds him.
This is the core and crux of the sacred union journey—trusting your heart to guide your way.
In the show, Hermes asks Orpheus if he truly wants to follow Eurydice into the Underworld, and his reply, “With all my heart,” shows the depth of his commitment. When Orpheus is tasked with leading Eurydice out of Hadestown, he’s tested again—he must trust that Eurydice is behind him, even if he can’t see or hear her without letting his fears, insecurities, and doubts get the better of him. In the end, though, the doubt is too great. He looks back, propelling Eurydice back into the Underworld.
This is where embodiment becomes crucial: For the Divine Masculine to step into his conscious, sacred masculine energy, he must trust the Divine Feminine and her journey. Similarly, the Divine Feminine must trust the Divine Masculine.
This is the cycle you’re breaking on your twin flame/sacred union journey—trusting in each other, breaking free from old patterns, and embodying the faith that is at the heart of sacred love.
LOVE LIGHTS THE WAY: THE RIPPLE EFFECT
Orpheus and Eurydice’s love in the Underworld radiates as a source of light, not only for them but for everyone around them. This is the essence of what I call the Twin Flame Cosmic Effect—when your love, rooted in healing and consciousness, ripples outward, inspiring and uplifting those who are also on their own journeys.
Orpheus’s unwavering belief in love, even in the face of unimaginable darkness, becomes a beacon that others can follow. It’s not just a personal journey but one that serves as a reminder of what's possible when love is the guiding force.
The workers in the Underworld, who are trapped in their own struggles and despair, sing in chorus:
“Show the way so we can see
Show the way the world could be
If you can do it, so can she
If she can do it, so can we
Show the way
Show the way the world could be
Show the way so we believe
We will follow where you lead
We will follow if you
Show the way...”
The strength of the song and these lyrics speak to the transformative power of Orpheus and Eurydice’s love. It’s not just their own light that illuminates the path—they're showing others that it’s possible to rise above the shadows, to believe in a love that can conquer all, and to trust that it can lead them out of the darkness.
The workers in the Underworld recognize the potential of this love, and they see in Orpheus and Eurydice a reflection of their own desire for freedom, hope, and transformation. Just as Orpheus’s music brings Eurydice to life and pulls her from despair, it inspires those around them to believe that if love can conquer the Underworld for these two, then it can bring them light as well.
This is the truth and beauty of the Twin Flame Cosmic Effect. The energy of your love--unconditional, in union within and then expressed without--ripples out to reach beyond your lives, leading others by the shining light of your own example.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Orpheus stands as a powerful reminder that your journey is a sacred one and that love is worth believing in, even when it seems like the odds are stacked against it. It's not the external world that matters but the trust and faith kept within your heart that directs your destiny. Connections like this sacred love doesn’t require chasing or forcing but a trust that love--and your union--is already here and always has been, even if the past seems to pull us back, and even if the path ahead seems uncertain.
Love, like Orpheus’s music, is the driving force that guides us through the dark. It’s easy to fall into doubt when we're in a season of struggle and believing in separation, but the sacred love that always exists within you leads you forward, whether you're conscious of it or not. Trust it. Follow it. Know that it will always bring you home.
“That's why times are so hard/It's because of the gods/The gods have forgotten the song of their love”
This is your ascension journey. This is your remembrance. Hadestown, and the barren landscape above it, might represent a lost connection with the divine, a forgotten remembrance of love. So it is in our own lives when we feel disconnected, lost, like we’re wandering a barren world where love is elusive.
But the journey of ascension is one of bridging these worlds—the one we live in, full of doubts and struggles, and the one we dream about, where love reigns and guides us to our highest selves. Orpheus and Eurydice show us that love has the power to lead us home.
We just have to trust ourselves and each other.
To quote Hadestown: “To the world we dream about and the one we live in now.
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