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Diana Riviere was one of the closest and dearest friends I have had in this lifetime. It all began through a local astrological event held down the street from my new Center. It was at the Heart Song Center where I gave my predictions for the New Year and in the very small audience was my soon to be best friend Diana. I had just founded the Dallas Metaphysical Center where I offered an array of metaphysical classes. I had just had my third son so I know the year was 1995. We began sharing our astrological knowledge and became friends.
She had just moved from Connecticut and had a job as a top sales director for a computer company. She was so dynamic and I was impressed that she could be at the top of her field in a male dominated world. She was a free spirit, managing to begin an entire new life in Texas where it must have seemed like another planet from where she came.
Diana was always searching for a better life and seeking more information whether it was in astrology, mysticism or alchemy.
As we reminisced about life this past summer she revealed to me she believed she had a very hard and difficult life. She came from meager beginnings in a middle class household in New Jersey. Her mother, a Christian Scientist, was always very stern and unaffectionate towards Diana, the eldest one in her family. She told me she had scar tissue on her heart from severe bouts of strep throat. Her mother would not give her any medicine when she got sick. She told Diana she was sick and couldn’t get well because she didn’t pray hard enough. Diana had hard feelings concerning the beliefs of her mother. They didn’t have a very nurturing relationship. Her mother died when she was 57 from diabetes because she refused medicine. Her grandmother also died at age 57. Diana was convinced she would die at age 57. She passed a few weeks after turning 58.
As with most young girls looking to escape their home environment, Diana married very young. She was married to Dan for 13 years and they moved each and every year of those 13 years. She had her 3 beautiful children during that time. Diana loved being a mother, and her children turned out to be loving caring human beings. They are each exceptionally talented and care about humanity. Jane is a talented architect and has taught at the University of Texas. Jessie is the creative type, musically talented. Mary is the caretaker and works as a counselor.
Because of the constant moving with her first husband, Diana never set down roots. She told me she liked to have the freedom to pick up and move as she liked. I admired her free spirit. She never was attached to things.
Diana was always searching for the love and commitment she never had as a child. She sought out individuals she believed were loving and knowledgeable like herself. But her choices never really gave her what she was seeking. I remember our being in the car when a song by U2 came on and she sang whole heartedly with the lyrics, “And I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.”
Once Diana divorced her first husband who had keep them on the run from place to place for 13 years, she seized the opportunity to put herself through college. She got her degree in English with high honors. She was a talented writer and helped many publish their books. She formed the publishing company “Archive Press.” I always encouraged her to write her own book but she put all her energy into helping others publish theirs. She published Ken Johnson’s “Mansions of the Moon” and most recently his book, “Jaguar Wisdom.”
She helped me run the Dallas Metaphysical Center by editing my newsletters and teaching classes. She also helped me organize and produce the Vedic astrology conferences; she actually came up with the name of the conference which later became the title of my book, “Eastern Astrology for Western Minds.”
She was there when I reopened my center as the “Galactic Center.” She brought me a beautiful bouquet of flowers. And when I moved into my new house she brought me an array of pastries. She was always there for me in all my life’s openings and events. She even knew and liked my mother, someone to whom many others could not relate nor understand.
We roomed together at the astrology conferences staying up late at night talking in depth about the theory and practice of astrology, life and the soul. We shared our souls' desires and the meaning of life together.
This past summer we reconnected after a long time away and we shared our hearts' and souls' feelings. Despite, a difficult past few years for us both, we were determined to have fun when she came to Dallas in 2009 for the workshop we were sponsoring for Ken Johnson and his presentation on the year 2012. We were excited to be together and she enjoyed eating the French food at the restaurant. She told me her heritage and name Riviere was French, and she was proud of it. I am glad to say we did have quality time together just like old times. She would get excited when she spoke of her new findings astrologically, particularly about the asteroids.
Diana was a listener who listened to all my complaints and agreed with all my thoughts concerning what is wrong with this world. I have no one to agree with all my beliefs now. We spoke almost every morning around 10am right before I began my work day of readings. She truly listened and gave unconditionally of herself and her time. Such a loving and spiritual person definitely deserved more than she received in this world. She was the nurturer her mother was not, and was everything she sought in others. Sometimes life just doesn’t seem fair. It didn’t seem to be fair for her. She said to me when she got sick, “It is amazing just how little we actually truly need.”
As the goddess Diana, who she was so appropriately named after, she was a seeker always searching and hunting for more spiritual information and truth. Goddess Diana was the nurturer and a loving mother and this was definitely our beloved Diana. When I was in Greece I bought her a sculpture featuring the face of the beautiful goddess Diana. The goddess actually looked as beautiful as my friend, Diana. She had such grace and beauty.
I hope and wish with all my heart that Diana is happy and at peace now, and most of all I hope she has found what she was looking for.
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"I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. Only my condemnation injures me. Only my own forgiveness sets me free. How deceived I was to think that what I feared was in the world, instead of in my own mind. Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict. As forgiveness allows love to return to my awareness, I will see a world of peace and safety and joy. This world will change through you. No other means can save it. My forgiveness is the means by which the world is healed, together with myself, let me then forgive the world, that it may be healed along with me. Peace will come to all who ask for it with real desire and sincerity of purpose." -- A Course In Miracles
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