Finland - the unspoken collective trauma

I have entered a 6 months’ time of transition, leaving Scotland and the intentional, ecological and spiritual community of Findhorn Foundation after serving here for 7 years, moving back to my native Finland around spring equinox 2016.  I recently became a grandmother and I want to be nearer to my granddaughter and be part of her and her family’s life, lend a helping hand. 

My subconscious is currently very busy connecting with the field of Finland and through my dream life preparing the way. Recently Carl Gustav Mannerheim, Finland’s war-time (WWII) president appeared in my dreams and I was helping him prepare for his secret travels to the ancient unknown land of Tibet. Another night the sacred mountain of Koli in Eastern Finland appeared and I entered the depths of her exquisite inner etheric dimensions and a third night I was accompanying composer Eino Juhani Rautavaara to the underground church (Temppeliaukion kirkko – the Temple Square Church) in Helsinki for a wedding, as we walked in he was hushing me to be quiet.  

What are these underground- and journeys to the unknown trying to tell me? The obvious is that I am myself entering the unknown as I re-enter the land of my ancestors, but my expanded spirit seems to also suggest that the collective consciousness (carried by the archetypes of presidents, famous composers and sacred sites) of the Finnish people is on an underground journey into the unconscious and it’s unresolved past, inviting the healing of the unspoken and that which has been silenced. 

I was struck by an acquaintance on Facebook recently describing that the Finns are currently numb and paralyzed, unable to deal with the challenges facing the country. The refugee migrant crisis has taken the country by surprise and its timing coincides with sever austerity measures put forward by the current government to ensure competitiveness on the global market, polarizing the country further into the have’s and the have-nots. In some ways Finland is, in my mind, one of the most Americanized countries in Europe where the American dream has been wildly adopted: "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement". This adopted ethos has started turning sour, where seeking self-gratification and forgetting about other people and other life-forms eventually causes unrest and upheaval, not to speak of the fact that Mother Earth cannot carry this selfish attitude much longer. In the human energy field this is the realm of the solar plexus centre and it is pushing humanity collectively forward on our evolutionary path to open our shielded hearts, please read more about the solar plexus and the heart centre elsewhere on this blog.

What does America and Finland have in common other than the above mentioned ethos and turning our backs on the cruelties of our past? Both are youngish countries, borne out of civil wars where brother killed brother, suppressing and relegating the wounds of their birth pains for independence onto the shadow lands of the unconscious realms, the unspoken and the grief entering the collective psyche of the people, creating a culture of taboos and fear of the other.

Finland declared its independence in 1917 and fought an intense civil war in 1918 where 39.000 people lost their life in a very short period of time, an ethnic cleansing of those who had remained faithful to the communist revolution in Russia. For Finland its birth and formative years was fraught with three more wars, The Winter War 1939-40, The Continuation War 1941-44 and the Lapland War 1944-45 resulting in many, many more lost lives, devastated families and a stream of refugees, some of whom migrated to America and some 70.000 children who were shipped to Sweden. I’m re-reading the history of my country as I try and understand the numbness and paralysation of its collective psyche today as spoken by my friend. It is gruesome reading and it is not so long ago, but human memory is short especially around things it does not want to, or is too scared to look at. There was the loss of the areas of Petsamo and Karelia, our shame from collaborating with the Nazis, their total demolition and devastation of Lapland as the Germans finally retreated and the lease of Porkkala to the Soviet for 50 years.

My parents were born in the 1920ties and lived through three of these wars, but never ever talked about them. They were young adults during the wars and became part of the generation who built the country after the war, looked to the future and closed their eyes, their minds and their psyche’s to the pain that the wars had caused, i.e. suppressed the pain. The powers at be at the time asked the Finnish people to look to the future and not dwell on the past and so a whole generation did just that.

Today we know that any pain relegated in such a way into the unconscious realms of our psyche continues to live a life of its own causing depression, unease, illness, disease, sense of separation & loneliness and a tendency to defend and project any uneasy outside of ourselves blaming the other, whoever that other may be. The unresolved energy is frozen causing the solar plexus (the centre where we defend ourselves) and the centres below the solar plexus to remain congested with unresolved emotional energy of trauma.  

We also know from new studies in genetics and especially epi-genetics that we carry the memories of our ancestors in the protein markers of our genes. It takes up to two or three generations before the trauma lived by a previous generation is cleared, if it is brought into the light of conscious awareness. It may take longer if not.

Is it therefore finally the time for Finland’s own truth commission looking fairly and squarely into its past? Today we are known in the world as a country participating in UN peacekeeping forces, in bringing forth negotiations between quarrelling parties and being the go-between player in areas of political unrest in the world. Yet, we have a huge piece of work waiting in our own back yard. It is like the healer is trying to lend a helping hand healing others when she/he is actually in a subtle, unconscious way trying to heal herself/himself. The famous axiom: “healer heal thyself” could in this context say “Finland heal thyself”! Naturally we are drawn to this type of world work by our unconscious field which continues to present possibilities to look at what has been hidden from the collective radar screen, but so far as a people we have done very little and lacked the courage to look at these traumas of Finland’s past. 

The migrant refugee crisis might just present us with such an opportunity, as we are faced with helping, integrating and soothing these war-traumatized people flooding our borders. They may prove to be a blessing in disguise for the future generations in Finland if the collective human heart of the Finnish people dares to break open allowing the love of the One Humanity to conquer fear and separation.  Can we sit in the fire with our own unresolved collective pain? Can we sit in the fire with the refugees?  We might just heal something in ourselves if we are able to do so.

In my own journey, searching my unconscious shadow and working towards wholeness, coherence, expansion and healthy flow in my energy field I have identified and transmuted three strands of energy inherited from my ancestral lines going back several generations. I have named them: 1) absent father, 2) betrayal and 3) sacrifice by the quality and frequency of energy they carried. The first one came from my paternal line, the second was present in both lines and the third one came from my maternal line. By scrutinizing and healing the events of my own life and seeing how I have unconsciously invited and called forth experiences where these energies of my unconscious field have tried to make themselves known to me in order to be healed. I did get there eventually and the light of awareness lifted the energies of these patterns, brought in more life-force and released a whole field of entangled energies in my family lines. This is causal purification, transmutation and soul work, something those of us working on soul-levels are called to do, often as part of our soul-contract and choice of families we incarnated in. 

I’m also a budding esoteric astrologer and my current interest in my homeland made me look at Finland’s chart. She has her work cut out for her, with lots of planets (read energies) in the 12th house of karma currently calling for the healing of the past. Chiron (the Wounded healer) hitting both her Progressed Sun and her Solar Return Sun in this 12^th house – these Suns are in Pisces, the sign of healing the watery emotional unconscious realms, with Saturn pushing on the descendent towards her soul-purpose in Gemini (rising sign), inviting the resolution of polarity and duality into unity. On the Solar Return chart, Chiron is coming up to her Progressed Pluto – lord of the Underworld - to look at what has stayed hidden in the house of values, resources and life-force. In any unresolved trauma, life-force is disassociated from, numbed, frozen and paralyzed whether in an individual human being or in a collective field of a nation.

I’d like to call forth a group of energy healers, trauma specialists who work on the subtle realms, family constellation experts, sound healers & therapists and shamanic workers, anyone interested in this kind of work in Finland to initiate a series of events, healing circles, to help shift this numbness in the collective field and help move the healing that is required along. I do not believe there is one family in Finland that has not been affected in some way through their ancestral lines. Maybe our grandparents and parents were too close to the trauma, unable to do the work, but we can! In the subtle inner worlds there is no separation and we are utterly connected to our ancestors and the fields of our chosen incarnations. This is a special kind of subtle activism, a kind of energy savotta, come and join me. I’d like to contribute in any way I can to ensure that those generations to come do not need to carry these debilitating energies in their genes any longer! (savotta means logging site, but can also mean doing something together for the good of the whole).

If this kind of service resonates with you, please don’t hesitate to contact me at cosmicdewdropsinfo@gmail.com or write me a comment with your contact information on this blog, you can write to me in Finnish, Swedish or English. I shall start the initial planning, with the intent to start offering events/healing circles next summer in Finland. Please spread the word, thank you!

PS1! If you are someone fluent and able to translate this text to Finnish as a contribution to the project, please contact me, I’d welcome the support. After nearly 15 years with English as my first language, my Finnish is a bit rusty. 

PS2! If you are someone willing to contribute funding towards this work, do come forward.

"Can one ascend and descend in isolation? Truly, no being can act without affecting his surroundings. Not only does he stir up the various layers of the atmosphere with each action but he literally drags his near ones with him. Man must realize his responsibility toward the universe. A person, with each elevation of the spirit, is of substantial aid to others. But a person falling in spirit may thereby even kill someone. Beyond the range of one's conscious thought flows a constant unconscious interaction, embracing wide circles, limited by the law of karma and the affinity of auras.
Agni Yoga. 168."

Love to you all,

Micaela