May 1st has long been an exuberant day of celebration, honoring the fertility of the land, people and animals. In Earth-based spirituality, it is one of the 8 holidays on the "Wheel of the Year", and is known as Beltane.
Mike Nichols, a Pagan-focused writer, offers a literate and expansive essay on the day, observing in part:
"May Day ushers in the fifth month of the modern calendar year, the month of May. This month is named in honor of the goddess Maia, originally a Greek mountain nymph, later identified as the most beautiful of the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades. By Zeus, she is also the mother of Hermes, god of magic. Maia's parents were Atlas and Pleione, a sea nymph.
"The old Celtic name for May Day is Beltane (in its most popular Anglicized form), which is derived from the Irish Gaelic 'Bealtaine' or the Scottish Gaelic 'Bealtuinn', meaning 'Bel-fire', the fire of the Celtic god of light (Bel, Beli or Belinus). He, in turn, may be traced to the Middle Eastern god Baal.
"...This date has long been considered a 'power point' of the Zodiac, and is symbolized by the Bull, one of the 'tetramorph' figures featured on the Tarot cards, the World and the Wheel of Fortune. (The other three symbols are the Lion, the Eagle, and the Spirit.) Astrologers know these four figures as the symbols of the four 'fixed' signs of the Zodiac (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius), and these naturally align with the four Great Sabbats of Witchcraft. Christians have adopted the same iconography to represent the four gospel-writers..."
The Beltane Society offers a succinct explanation of how the purifying "Need Fire" ceremony was held in Celtic celebrations.
And according to most of the visionary new thought leaders whose sites I frequent, May 2006 is destined to be a grand month of purification, resurrection and heart-expansion for all of us worldwide. Patricia Cota-Robles says, in part, that during this mystical month of May, "We will remember that we came to Earth during this Cosmic Moment with but one desire, to do God’s Will. We will understand that we volunteered to be powerful Instruments of God during this critical time and that we have been training for aeons of time for this mission. We will also remember that we promised to be the full manifestation of Divine Love while serving the Light in this embodiment.
"During the holy month of May, Mother Mary will assist our I AM Presence to expand the Chalice of our Immaculate Hearts, which cradle our Immortal Victorious Threefold Flames. The expansion of the Chalice of our Immaculate Hearts will allow our Heart Flames to finally be brought into perfect balance.
"As this occurs, our Heart Flames will blaze forth as a great Transfiguring force of Divinity within us. We will become aware of the Presence of God in every cell and atom of our Beings. This will pave the way for the integration of the perfection of our crystalline Solar Light Bodies into our physical, etheric, mental and emotional bodies.
"Functioning within the frequencies of our Solar Light Bodies, we will be able to consciously magnify the Divinity within ourselves and all Life until our up-reaching consciousness conducts the substance of Divine Love, Healing, Prosperity, Peace, Joy and Happiness into the world of form. All of this will further prepare Humanity and Beloved Mother Earth for the influx of Light that will fill the voids with the patterns of perfection and assist in transforming this blessed planet into the Garden of Eden she is destined to be."
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Mystery School Moments at the New Moon
Visionary activist astrologer Caroline W. Casey hosts a rascally irreverent radio show Thursdays on listener-supported KPFA, which, thanks to streaming audio, you can now listen to even if you're not within live radio reception range. She's also launched a Compassionate Trickster Experimental Mystery School missive (henceforth available by paid subscription only). The April issue serves up Caroline's typically luscious observations, laced with wit, wisdom, humor and a certain je ne sais quoi that always tickles my synapses into new connections and ah-ha's!
Here are some excerpts for your visual dining pleasure:
"Eclipses are associated with the downfall of tyrants.
What do we want eclipsed and by what?
Let reverent collaborative ingenuity eclipse tyrannical dominance, for instance. May the beauty of Mystery eclipse the tyranny of certainty.
The Eclipse of March 29th occurred on the very day that Pluto was stationing, appearing to stand still from the earth’s perspective, symbolically beaming down its energetic intelligence. The Underworld opens. Pluto stations, then retrogrades, appears to move backwards in Sagittarius, catalyzing 're' endeavors: to retrieve, remember, reclaim the realm of story. We are to return (5,000 years ago is still in our blood), to excavate stories that have been held hostage.
In the myth of Inanna (representing the Venus cycle) the deal is cut whereby she can return from the Underworld, and sensual and cultural Spring with her, as long as she sends down a replacement. And she chooses Dumuzi, her consort, a man who’s been behaving badly.
As the Moon moved across the face of the Sun, she turned the Sun into a crescent, an image of herself, and suddenly Venus shone forth from the darkening daytime sky, as a 360 degree sunset of orange and gold framed the horizon. We saw Venus, when we wouldn’t normally see her. Pluto opens the doors of the Underworld, and out pops Venus-Inanna, ready to send down the replacement. Tyranny tumbles. And Dick Cheney, it turns out, is allergic to pomegranates (associated with rich luscious feminine Underworld-High Priestess, Persephone's fruit), as though his body was anticipating his symbolic role...
Pluto represents our understanding of power. Pluto is in Jupiter's sign of storytelling Sagittarius, while Jupiter is in Pluto's sign of deep-delving Scorpio. They are in what is called 'mutual reception,' i.e., cahoots. Jupiter strengthens the theme by also being retrograde, revealing the tales we need to know now if we are to have a democracy.
And Jupiter squares Neptune, the god of mystery, symbol and metaphor, further describing the dissolution of certainty while reminding us that all spiritual beliefs -- as well as scientific theories -- are fluctuating metaphors.
When a story no longer serves life or is supported by unfolding facts, it is to be shape-shifted into a more beautiful and useful formulation. Neptune says, since we can never directly perceive the truth, nor the Divine, we work with the most useful illusions. Illusion comes from 'in ludo,' meaning 'in the game,' as opposed to delusion, 'de ludo,' meaning 'out of the game.'
The eclipse is but one month in the past, yet mythologically potent for 5 more months. And, ah, the Eclipse at totality for those four precious-beyond-measure minutes is a powerful energetic beautiful pulsing alive mystery, that elicits tears and hooting and falling to knees from sheer awe, (of even the most reserved of 'scientists'), not to mention the emotional energetic eroticism of its symmetry – that the Sun and Moon are the exact same size in this sky as they conjoin, replenishes our cells. Dark weds light, at this time of year when the light and dark of our days and nights are equal. The Sun and the Moon, the Day and the Night, the Yang and Yin are not at war, but dancing.
All Mystery Schools begin by requiring the initiate to declare to themselves the next tangible desire (not vague like 'enlightenment') for something they want to be, have, do, that will allow them to cultivate, animate and contribute their unique gifts to the community in a manner that is replenishing.
Beginning on the New Moon of April 27th, every day, devote some time to visualizing the next desire (the eclipse of four life-changing minutes declares that even that amount of time is sufficient)."
And I remind you that the New Moon is in Taurus, along with the Sun, catalyzing sensual, Earthy, passionate celebration as we glide towards mystical May, Beltane, and Wesak. On her post-eclipse show, Caroline's guest was a very cool Damascus woman named Deborah, who reminded us that the Whirling Dervish dance (which illuminates the spiral, symbol of regeneration and love), like yogic breathing, are an amplification of the obvious so that we can see it. "Breathing in and breathing out is all there is to do." (See the May issue of my e-newsletter, What Shines, out early next week, for the origin of this quote!)
Here are some excerpts for your visual dining pleasure:
"Eclipses are associated with the downfall of tyrants.
What do we want eclipsed and by what?
Let reverent collaborative ingenuity eclipse tyrannical dominance, for instance. May the beauty of Mystery eclipse the tyranny of certainty.
The Eclipse of March 29th occurred on the very day that Pluto was stationing, appearing to stand still from the earth’s perspective, symbolically beaming down its energetic intelligence. The Underworld opens. Pluto stations, then retrogrades, appears to move backwards in Sagittarius, catalyzing 're' endeavors: to retrieve, remember, reclaim the realm of story. We are to return (5,000 years ago is still in our blood), to excavate stories that have been held hostage.
In the myth of Inanna (representing the Venus cycle) the deal is cut whereby she can return from the Underworld, and sensual and cultural Spring with her, as long as she sends down a replacement. And she chooses Dumuzi, her consort, a man who’s been behaving badly.
As the Moon moved across the face of the Sun, she turned the Sun into a crescent, an image of herself, and suddenly Venus shone forth from the darkening daytime sky, as a 360 degree sunset of orange and gold framed the horizon. We saw Venus, when we wouldn’t normally see her. Pluto opens the doors of the Underworld, and out pops Venus-Inanna, ready to send down the replacement. Tyranny tumbles. And Dick Cheney, it turns out, is allergic to pomegranates (associated with rich luscious feminine Underworld-High Priestess, Persephone's fruit), as though his body was anticipating his symbolic role...
Pluto represents our understanding of power. Pluto is in Jupiter's sign of storytelling Sagittarius, while Jupiter is in Pluto's sign of deep-delving Scorpio. They are in what is called 'mutual reception,' i.e., cahoots. Jupiter strengthens the theme by also being retrograde, revealing the tales we need to know now if we are to have a democracy.
And Jupiter squares Neptune, the god of mystery, symbol and metaphor, further describing the dissolution of certainty while reminding us that all spiritual beliefs -- as well as scientific theories -- are fluctuating metaphors.
When a story no longer serves life or is supported by unfolding facts, it is to be shape-shifted into a more beautiful and useful formulation. Neptune says, since we can never directly perceive the truth, nor the Divine, we work with the most useful illusions. Illusion comes from 'in ludo,' meaning 'in the game,' as opposed to delusion, 'de ludo,' meaning 'out of the game.'
The eclipse is but one month in the past, yet mythologically potent for 5 more months. And, ah, the Eclipse at totality for those four precious-beyond-measure minutes is a powerful energetic beautiful pulsing alive mystery, that elicits tears and hooting and falling to knees from sheer awe, (of even the most reserved of 'scientists'), not to mention the emotional energetic eroticism of its symmetry – that the Sun and Moon are the exact same size in this sky as they conjoin, replenishes our cells. Dark weds light, at this time of year when the light and dark of our days and nights are equal. The Sun and the Moon, the Day and the Night, the Yang and Yin are not at war, but dancing.
All Mystery Schools begin by requiring the initiate to declare to themselves the next tangible desire (not vague like 'enlightenment') for something they want to be, have, do, that will allow them to cultivate, animate and contribute their unique gifts to the community in a manner that is replenishing.
Beginning on the New Moon of April 27th, every day, devote some time to visualizing the next desire (the eclipse of four life-changing minutes declares that even that amount of time is sufficient)."
And I remind you that the New Moon is in Taurus, along with the Sun, catalyzing sensual, Earthy, passionate celebration as we glide towards mystical May, Beltane, and Wesak. On her post-eclipse show, Caroline's guest was a very cool Damascus woman named Deborah, who reminded us that the Whirling Dervish dance (which illuminates the spiral, symbol of regeneration and love), like yogic breathing, are an amplification of the obvious so that we can see it. "Breathing in and breathing out is all there is to do." (See the May issue of my e-newsletter, What Shines, out early next week, for the origin of this quote!)
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Beyond Level 42
I read once that the rock band, Level 42, took its name from a premise in one of my own well-loved novels, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which a computer named "Deep Thought" tells the people of Earth that the answer to "Life, the Universe, and Everything" is "42". I expand upon this theme in my essay, 42 Forever: The Ultimate Anti-Aging Tonic.
This excerpt from an untitled poem by Juan Antillon Montealegre, published in the Spring 2006 issue of Yes! magazine, takes us, like so much of the work we awakening ones are co-evolving now, beyond Level 42:
If all goes well
The police
out of total boredom
will go home
Borders will disappear
Even the toy factories
will stop making arms
If all goes well
there will be no Premier
President
Savior of Democracy
King
Emperor
Tyrant
If all goes well
they will stop
trying to convince us
with lies.
If all goes well
Ayatollahs
Great Lamas
Popes
will allow God
to once more be human
dolphin
extraterrestrial
cedar and seagull
herb and star
sea
mountain
insect
dog
and cat.
This excerpt from an untitled poem by Juan Antillon Montealegre, published in the Spring 2006 issue of Yes! magazine, takes us, like so much of the work we awakening ones are co-evolving now, beyond Level 42:
If all goes well
The police
out of total boredom
will go home
Borders will disappear
Even the toy factories
will stop making arms
If all goes well
there will be no Premier
President
Savior of Democracy
King
Emperor
Tyrant
If all goes well
they will stop
trying to convince us
with lies.
If all goes well
Ayatollahs
Great Lamas
Popes
will allow God
to once more be human
dolphin
extraterrestrial
cedar and seagull
herb and star
sea
mountain
insect
dog
and cat.
Friday, April 21, 2006
Every Day is "Earth Day"
Saturday, April 22nd, marks the 36th anniversary of Earth Day, an environmental event that, according to founder Senator Gaylord Nelson, was "self-organizing"--like the Earth, Herself. We've come a long way in consciousness since 1970. I'm sitting on the campus of Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona, where students come from all over the U.S. to study environmental issues. The Crossroads Cafe serves up healthier fare than the local health food store! And it's encouraging to talk with 18-year-olds who somehow sound far more mature than I remember being at their age, as they calmly share their awareness of wellness, environmental dangers such as EMFs, and desire for deep community. It's heartening to hear.
We're all awakening en masse in these creational times, when living the NOW places us in sync with the ineffable. As a beautiful newsletter I just discovered [thanks to What Shines reader Jasna Kamin from Slovenia] says, "The Kingdom of Heaven is your habitat." HeavenLetters reminds us, "Heaven is only a handclasp away. There is no path to Heaven, and there is no path from it. There is no entrance nor exit. There is your pondering, that’s all. There is you exploring the unexplorable. There is you searching for gold when you are the gold. Your search is ending. It is ending the only way it can, and that is with discovery. You are finding the end of the rainbow, and it’s you."
Be the Rainbow you are by loving your Home every day. If you need some ideas for how to begin, New American Dream offers them by the bushel. I know personally how daunting it can be to feel at home here when you know you're a Star Being who has chosen this Earth assignment to help midwife the planet's ascension. The vagaries of planetary initiation can challenge even those who know what's happening and why. So the more Love we can express for every aspect of Earthiness, the easier the transformation will become.
We're all awakening en masse in these creational times, when living the NOW places us in sync with the ineffable. As a beautiful newsletter I just discovered [thanks to What Shines reader Jasna Kamin from Slovenia] says, "The Kingdom of Heaven is your habitat." HeavenLetters reminds us, "Heaven is only a handclasp away. There is no path to Heaven, and there is no path from it. There is no entrance nor exit. There is your pondering, that’s all. There is you exploring the unexplorable. There is you searching for gold when you are the gold. Your search is ending. It is ending the only way it can, and that is with discovery. You are finding the end of the rainbow, and it’s you."
Be the Rainbow you are by loving your Home every day. If you need some ideas for how to begin, New American Dream offers them by the bushel. I know personally how daunting it can be to feel at home here when you know you're a Star Being who has chosen this Earth assignment to help midwife the planet's ascension. The vagaries of planetary initiation can challenge even those who know what's happening and why. So the more Love we can express for every aspect of Earthiness, the easier the transformation will become.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
The Corridor Between the Worlds
The subject header is a phrase I use often in my work, about living in the void space between who you've been and who you're choosing to become. Now it applies to us all. Aluna Joy reminds us that we are unplugging from Fourth World consciousness but have not yet entered the Fifth, which is a new world we will create without the help of angels and guides, accessing our own creative power and wisdom that we've been collectively heightening for years.
The ancient ones say: "Your work is almost complete. You have set your ancestors free. You have also set yourselves free. You have readied the temples for new frequencies. You are now in that space between in which to create a new world for yourselves.
"The past will not and cannot offer you anything useful at this time. Don't look back and don't look outside yourself. The truth is not out there…it is in you. Look forward inside yourself for you are your own ancestors returned to set yourselves free of the limitations of the Fourth World.
"You are being unplugged from this world. This is a time between time; a time for you to prepare."
Aluna shared that while we are unplugging from the Fourth world and have yet to enter the Fifth world, "we might feel like we have lost our inner compass. We might feel like we are just going through the motions of life and not really being present or connecting anywhere. The things we feel, think, or want to do might not make practical sense.
"When you unplug, your body may begin to feel like it is not supported by the Fourth world. This is actually very true. The ancient council suggested that it is very important to talk to your body to let it know that it will not die. Remind your body that it is just transforming into something better that it does not understand at this time. If you don't talk to your body, it is possible to manifest issues that are related to lack of support. You might experience your knees and hips going out. Also you might see issues with lungs, like asthma or bronchitis. Tell your body not to fear."
Well, this all makes crystalline sense to me, as always. I've been sick since I traveled to Arizona, first with what felt like some weird flu lodging in my lungs and throat, now with total congestion that feels like allergies (which I've never had before!). I also collided with a cactus and its poisonous quills have wreaked havoc with my left knee. Amused? Slightly…
The Source Force gathering took place over Easter weekend, which coincided this year with the Jewish Passover, signaling significant release and resurrection, regardless of one's religious orientation. It's impossible to "summarize" the event as it was co-created by 20 of us from across the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia, functioning as a fluid, living organism, so each happening is imbued with multiple overlays of perceptual shifts. A few highlights from my personal perspective:
When people were speaking of feeling disconnected one morning, Soleira used the word alienation, and my mind heard, "alien nation": as though we were part of a collective of space beings connected through our Earth service. It actually felt very affirming to me: as though my Pleiadian oversoul had found a way to be more present in my human body. (When I heard Bruce Lipton, author of The Biology of Belief, speak last fall, he said, "You're an amoebic consciousness—you represent a community of cells. See yourself as a nation.")
And when Soleira and other healers in the group facilitated another woman and me to move deeper into releasing the pattern around environmental sensitivity, I had a vision of the egg I saw years ago, that I wept to recognize as the power of the Feminine Frequency residing in and guiding me. Only this time it was huge, and sort of crystalline, and growing as they held the energy with me.
The resonance with outer world energy didn't even occur to me until several days later, when I opened Toronto astrologer Tara Greene's message about Easter: "…an ancient fertility, re-birth and resurrection symbol of new life beyond the Christian symbols. It was sacred to the Goddess Eoster, and her sacred animal the rabbit, whose symbol still is associated with current Easter symbolism. The egg symbol is the great round of eternal life, birth, death, re-birth, Spring. Christ died during Passover so all the symbols and myths are interconnected." WOW! I did say to the group, at the conclusion of that particular ceremony, "All one, all one, all one!"
The main theme seemed to be how we're coming out of hiding as a collective. One participant shared a poem by Zen master Thich Nhat Hahn that really resonated with many of us:
I have arrived, and I am Home
In the here and in the now
I am solid and I am free
In the Ultimate, I dwell.
That's what I call understanding how to hold the both/and!
There was also humor: at one point, having created a symbolic "fire" in the workshop room with ornate walking sticks, a group of us went outside and spontaneously began a line dance that resembled a moving totem pole; we took turns leading and seeing what shapes our shadows reflected back to us. At one point I suggested, "Is this what's meant by integrating your shadow?"
Then there were the squirrels. They became quite bold, as we usually had bags of chips or other snacks with us in circle. Finally I decided to grab the Medicine Cards book from the kitchen and see what Squirrel energy had to offer us. The keynote is "gathering"! And furthering the play on words, the poem about Squirrel contained the line, "nuts by the score" (we were 20!) Alien nation, indeed.
So let go and allow, knowing that we are all in this strangeness together, and…we have all the wisdom and awareness we need to know our Selves and to co-create the new world we've been waiting for. We are the new alchemists.
Here's an affirmation that came to me en route to AZ:
The alchemists of old
Transmuted lead to gold
The alchemist of Now
Transmutes the dross to WOW!"
Blessings to you…
The ancient ones say: "Your work is almost complete. You have set your ancestors free. You have also set yourselves free. You have readied the temples for new frequencies. You are now in that space between in which to create a new world for yourselves.
"The past will not and cannot offer you anything useful at this time. Don't look back and don't look outside yourself. The truth is not out there…it is in you. Look forward inside yourself for you are your own ancestors returned to set yourselves free of the limitations of the Fourth World.
"You are being unplugged from this world. This is a time between time; a time for you to prepare."
Aluna shared that while we are unplugging from the Fourth world and have yet to enter the Fifth world, "we might feel like we have lost our inner compass. We might feel like we are just going through the motions of life and not really being present or connecting anywhere. The things we feel, think, or want to do might not make practical sense.
"When you unplug, your body may begin to feel like it is not supported by the Fourth world. This is actually very true. The ancient council suggested that it is very important to talk to your body to let it know that it will not die. Remind your body that it is just transforming into something better that it does not understand at this time. If you don't talk to your body, it is possible to manifest issues that are related to lack of support. You might experience your knees and hips going out. Also you might see issues with lungs, like asthma or bronchitis. Tell your body not to fear."
Well, this all makes crystalline sense to me, as always. I've been sick since I traveled to Arizona, first with what felt like some weird flu lodging in my lungs and throat, now with total congestion that feels like allergies (which I've never had before!). I also collided with a cactus and its poisonous quills have wreaked havoc with my left knee. Amused? Slightly…
The Source Force gathering took place over Easter weekend, which coincided this year with the Jewish Passover, signaling significant release and resurrection, regardless of one's religious orientation. It's impossible to "summarize" the event as it was co-created by 20 of us from across the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia, functioning as a fluid, living organism, so each happening is imbued with multiple overlays of perceptual shifts. A few highlights from my personal perspective:
When people were speaking of feeling disconnected one morning, Soleira used the word alienation, and my mind heard, "alien nation": as though we were part of a collective of space beings connected through our Earth service. It actually felt very affirming to me: as though my Pleiadian oversoul had found a way to be more present in my human body. (When I heard Bruce Lipton, author of The Biology of Belief, speak last fall, he said, "You're an amoebic consciousness—you represent a community of cells. See yourself as a nation.")
And when Soleira and other healers in the group facilitated another woman and me to move deeper into releasing the pattern around environmental sensitivity, I had a vision of the egg I saw years ago, that I wept to recognize as the power of the Feminine Frequency residing in and guiding me. Only this time it was huge, and sort of crystalline, and growing as they held the energy with me.
The resonance with outer world energy didn't even occur to me until several days later, when I opened Toronto astrologer Tara Greene's message about Easter: "…an ancient fertility, re-birth and resurrection symbol of new life beyond the Christian symbols. It was sacred to the Goddess Eoster, and her sacred animal the rabbit, whose symbol still is associated with current Easter symbolism. The egg symbol is the great round of eternal life, birth, death, re-birth, Spring. Christ died during Passover so all the symbols and myths are interconnected." WOW! I did say to the group, at the conclusion of that particular ceremony, "All one, all one, all one!"
The main theme seemed to be how we're coming out of hiding as a collective. One participant shared a poem by Zen master Thich Nhat Hahn that really resonated with many of us:
I have arrived, and I am Home
In the here and in the now
I am solid and I am free
In the Ultimate, I dwell.
That's what I call understanding how to hold the both/and!
There was also humor: at one point, having created a symbolic "fire" in the workshop room with ornate walking sticks, a group of us went outside and spontaneously began a line dance that resembled a moving totem pole; we took turns leading and seeing what shapes our shadows reflected back to us. At one point I suggested, "Is this what's meant by integrating your shadow?"
Then there were the squirrels. They became quite bold, as we usually had bags of chips or other snacks with us in circle. Finally I decided to grab the Medicine Cards book from the kitchen and see what Squirrel energy had to offer us. The keynote is "gathering"! And furthering the play on words, the poem about Squirrel contained the line, "nuts by the score" (we were 20!) Alien nation, indeed.
So let go and allow, knowing that we are all in this strangeness together, and…we have all the wisdom and awareness we need to know our Selves and to co-create the new world we've been waiting for. We are the new alchemists.
Here's an affirmation that came to me en route to AZ:
The alchemists of old
Transmuted lead to gold
The alchemist of Now
Transmutes the dross to WOW!"
Blessings to you…
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Kachina! The Wild West Offers a Challenging Welcome
After more than six soggy months in Sonoma County, California, I opted for the desert. I'd lived in Santa Fe for two years in the mid-90s and figured I knew the hot, dry drill. Except I didn't travel to Arizona last time, the driest, windiest place I've ever seen, or cross the Mohave while sick. Not exactly the premier combination for robust health.
So I've spent the last week living into a new meaning for "drying out": not from alcohol, but from lack of O2 and H2O! Whether I will remain in Prescott as intended remains to be seen. While I've long been an advocate of positive aging, my skin feels a decade older already! What a rant. I find it especially amusing that my April newsletter, What Shines, is all about amused surrender. My sense of humor evaporated along with my body moisture somewhere along Rte. 40E, but it's slowly rehydrating.
The impetus for my move at this juncture is the Source Force, a global gathering of lightbearers who'll meet in Payson (near the center of the state) April 13-16th. Facilitated by Soleira Green, whom I count among the handful of true planetary visionaries now, it promises to be "a breakthrough course for the evolution of collective consciousness," as she describes it. I'll recap the event afterwards, of course.
Despite my personal challenges in making this journey, celestially it couldn't be a better moment. Tomorrow heralds the Aries full moon. According to SouledOut.org:
"Aries is the beginning of the Spiritual New Year. The Light of Aries ~ The Light of Life Itself ~ is at the center of all beings. It opens us to new beginnings, to new cycles of emerging opportunities. This Light reveals how each of us may become a vessel for divine expression.
"The Aries full moon marks the Easter Festival, the first of the three major Planetary Spiritual Festivals. At the time of the Aries full moon, the moon is within the constellation Virgo, associated with the Holy Grail, the cup of communion. By tuning in and holding this energy, by being this vibration ~ we serve.
Meditation at the time of the Aries Full Moon
"We mentally link up with people of goodwill everywhere, as part of the united group channel through which the spiritual forces can become available. Affirming this channel, we stand poised united as one soul with our Spiritual Hierarchy. We hold the focus.
"Now we visualize a grid of light all over the earth that connects the light of every lightworker and each sacred energy vortex. This network serves as a conduit through which the heavenly blessings may flow through each of us and to the planet Earth."
So I've spent the last week living into a new meaning for "drying out": not from alcohol, but from lack of O2 and H2O! Whether I will remain in Prescott as intended remains to be seen. While I've long been an advocate of positive aging, my skin feels a decade older already! What a rant. I find it especially amusing that my April newsletter, What Shines, is all about amused surrender. My sense of humor evaporated along with my body moisture somewhere along Rte. 40E, but it's slowly rehydrating.
The impetus for my move at this juncture is the Source Force, a global gathering of lightbearers who'll meet in Payson (near the center of the state) April 13-16th. Facilitated by Soleira Green, whom I count among the handful of true planetary visionaries now, it promises to be "a breakthrough course for the evolution of collective consciousness," as she describes it. I'll recap the event afterwards, of course.
Despite my personal challenges in making this journey, celestially it couldn't be a better moment. Tomorrow heralds the Aries full moon. According to SouledOut.org:
"Aries is the beginning of the Spiritual New Year. The Light of Aries ~ The Light of Life Itself ~ is at the center of all beings. It opens us to new beginnings, to new cycles of emerging opportunities. This Light reveals how each of us may become a vessel for divine expression.
"The Aries full moon marks the Easter Festival, the first of the three major Planetary Spiritual Festivals. At the time of the Aries full moon, the moon is within the constellation Virgo, associated with the Holy Grail, the cup of communion. By tuning in and holding this energy, by being this vibration ~ we serve.
Meditation at the time of the Aries Full Moon
"We mentally link up with people of goodwill everywhere, as part of the united group channel through which the spiritual forces can become available. Affirming this channel, we stand poised united as one soul with our Spiritual Hierarchy. We hold the focus.
"Now we visualize a grid of light all over the earth that connects the light of every lightworker and each sacred energy vortex. This network serves as a conduit through which the heavenly blessings may flow through each of us and to the planet Earth."
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Wonder By The Numbers
Saturn, planet of form and structure, turns direct after a lengthy retrograde phase on April 5th (I knew there was a reason my departure for Arizona was delayed until 4/4!).
Synchronistically, we'll have a numerical line-up on the 5th that's a twice-in-a-lifetime experience (once in the a.m., again in the p.m., for yin/yang balance):
On Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.
That's 01 02 03 04 05 06
This won't ever happen again.
If you add them up numerologically, they reduce to 21, which to me has always signified graduation (on many levels) and finally to 3, the number that opens us up to possibilities beyond duality.
Pretty cool, even if you don't believe in playing by the numbers :-)
Synchronistically, we'll have a numerical line-up on the 5th that's a twice-in-a-lifetime experience (once in the a.m., again in the p.m., for yin/yang balance):
On Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.
That's 01 02 03 04 05 06
This won't ever happen again.
If you add them up numerologically, they reduce to 21, which to me has always signified graduation (on many levels) and finally to 3, the number that opens us up to possibilities beyond duality.
Pretty cool, even if you don't believe in playing by the numbers :-)
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Eclipse!
Even though this morning's total solar eclipse wasn't visible from the U.S., we're feeling its effects. Here are some extraordinary photos to help you get up close and personal with the energy, courtesy of NASA.
With the Earth, Moon, and Sun in alignment during an eclipse, we connect with our destiny's deeper calling. At the Lunar Eclipse on March 14th, we cast a light on our interior shadows for purification. And it was intense! (See March 28th entry, Emergence).
At the Solar Eclipse, we're called to dive even deeper, to bring forth our highest and best selves. Pluto, planet of transformation (its calling card reads, "Sex, Death, Rebirth"), is at the Galactic Center--which it hasn't visted in 248 years. Individually and collectively, we are ready to clear the blocks to greater common-unity and healing/wholeness.
Eclipses are an intense point in "time", shining the Light into Earth's darkness as well as our own. Emotion (energy in motion) is at high tide (the Moon rules emotion.)
Knowing this allows us to be more consciously in control of how we respond, rather than reacting by rote. It's a time of loss, of blessing and releasing the old with gratitude for its teaching. Then we have space for the new to enter us.
Pluto and the Galactic Center are shifting the 3rd dimensional reality template. While this process is underway, the best place to be is quiet and calm within your own core. Meditation, yoga, drumming, dancing, journaling, walking in nature, are all good practices for now. Remember, too, to drink lots of pure water to aid toxin release, as necessary on the emotional plane as the physical one.
At the same time as all this is happening, the New Moon is in Aries, planet of forward motion and action. So, once we've made peace with the old and space for the new, it's time to welcome Spring full-out, embracing life with the sensual, Earthy ecstasy that is the Ram's hallmark.
Blessed Be!
With the Earth, Moon, and Sun in alignment during an eclipse, we connect with our destiny's deeper calling. At the Lunar Eclipse on March 14th, we cast a light on our interior shadows for purification. And it was intense! (See March 28th entry, Emergence).
At the Solar Eclipse, we're called to dive even deeper, to bring forth our highest and best selves. Pluto, planet of transformation (its calling card reads, "Sex, Death, Rebirth"), is at the Galactic Center--which it hasn't visted in 248 years. Individually and collectively, we are ready to clear the blocks to greater common-unity and healing/wholeness.
Eclipses are an intense point in "time", shining the Light into Earth's darkness as well as our own. Emotion (energy in motion) is at high tide (the Moon rules emotion.)
Knowing this allows us to be more consciously in control of how we respond, rather than reacting by rote. It's a time of loss, of blessing and releasing the old with gratitude for its teaching. Then we have space for the new to enter us.
Pluto and the Galactic Center are shifting the 3rd dimensional reality template. While this process is underway, the best place to be is quiet and calm within your own core. Meditation, yoga, drumming, dancing, journaling, walking in nature, are all good practices for now. Remember, too, to drink lots of pure water to aid toxin release, as necessary on the emotional plane as the physical one.
At the same time as all this is happening, the New Moon is in Aries, planet of forward motion and action. So, once we've made peace with the old and space for the new, it's time to welcome Spring full-out, embracing life with the sensual, Earthy ecstasy that is the Ram's hallmark.
Blessed Be!
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Emergence
In the year preceeding my dark night of the soul journey, I felt very "out of phase" with my old life, although I didn't have the language then to describe it. I tried psychotherapy for four months, and one of the first tasks I was asked to do was complete a drawing of where I was in my life. I labelled my picture, "Emergence" and told the therapist it was a baby--but what I meant was, a fetus: something gestating, not yet ready to be born. My soul knew I had a profound transformation to undergo before I'd be ready to birth myself anew.
The past months, especially March, have been a global gestation. Karen Bishop's latest alert, Coming Through the Gates, describes the process precisely--especially the hard-won awareness that what our ego/mind says we're ready for, and what we're really ready for, may not necessarily be in sync. And boy, was March 16th ever a doozy for me; I felt raw and vulnerable in a way I haven't since 1994. Fortunately, it was all part of the release process. Here's an excerpt:
"If there is anything in our lives that we feel we absolutely must have, then we are not yet ready for it. When we reach a point where we are happy where we are and can see great beauty in what we interpreted as darkness, then we usually receive everything in the palms of our hands. It is when we get out of our own way and let Source fill us up that we receive what we no longer want. And in this state, we are being much more of Source.
"These past few months have greatly assisted us in getting to this place so that we would be good and ready to receive what is to come. It basically involves getting out of our ego before we receive ways and means to create and be in the higher ways.
"The energy shift and big surge of March 16th really assisted as well. We had completed much purging and were now a little more empty so that we could fill up again with a higher vibration. During this time I had ascension symptoms that I had not experienced for several years, and I'm sure many of you did as well. Although brief, I had heart strain, pain and palpitations (trying to accommodate the higher energies), experiences of living in non-linear time where I was in the past, present and future all at the same time (not my favorite one!), some underlying panic and anxiety (more of the ego leaving), a vulnerability (ego defense mechanisms now gone), a period of a loss of creating ability and disappointment (learning not to create from ego), the shoulder pain (right for getting out of the way, left for learning to receive) and then...the darkness.
"There is a pattern in ascension that occurs when we are in an energy surge and bumping up. Darkness arrives but great creativity arrives as well. One is about moving out and the other about moving in. And in this space, if one needs to go back to the old 3D reality it can feel downright awful and leave you plummeting into a darker and denser reality. Best to stay here and in your creativity and oneness with nature and the Earth as much as possible. Letting go and not being afraid to 'leave' can give one the fuel to 'jump across.'"
The past months, especially March, have been a global gestation. Karen Bishop's latest alert, Coming Through the Gates, describes the process precisely--especially the hard-won awareness that what our ego/mind says we're ready for, and what we're really ready for, may not necessarily be in sync. And boy, was March 16th ever a doozy for me; I felt raw and vulnerable in a way I haven't since 1994. Fortunately, it was all part of the release process. Here's an excerpt:
"If there is anything in our lives that we feel we absolutely must have, then we are not yet ready for it. When we reach a point where we are happy where we are and can see great beauty in what we interpreted as darkness, then we usually receive everything in the palms of our hands. It is when we get out of our own way and let Source fill us up that we receive what we no longer want. And in this state, we are being much more of Source.
"These past few months have greatly assisted us in getting to this place so that we would be good and ready to receive what is to come. It basically involves getting out of our ego before we receive ways and means to create and be in the higher ways.
"The energy shift and big surge of March 16th really assisted as well. We had completed much purging and were now a little more empty so that we could fill up again with a higher vibration. During this time I had ascension symptoms that I had not experienced for several years, and I'm sure many of you did as well. Although brief, I had heart strain, pain and palpitations (trying to accommodate the higher energies), experiences of living in non-linear time where I was in the past, present and future all at the same time (not my favorite one!), some underlying panic and anxiety (more of the ego leaving), a vulnerability (ego defense mechanisms now gone), a period of a loss of creating ability and disappointment (learning not to create from ego), the shoulder pain (right for getting out of the way, left for learning to receive) and then...the darkness.
"There is a pattern in ascension that occurs when we are in an energy surge and bumping up. Darkness arrives but great creativity arrives as well. One is about moving out and the other about moving in. And in this space, if one needs to go back to the old 3D reality it can feel downright awful and leave you plummeting into a darker and denser reality. Best to stay here and in your creativity and oneness with nature and the Earth as much as possible. Letting go and not being afraid to 'leave' can give one the fuel to 'jump across.'"
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Awakening to the Wisdom of the Fifth World
We are re-birthing ourselves in a whole/holy/healed new way, as our collective consciousness rises to a higher octave. Aluna Joy Yaxk'in, sacred site guide, author and mystic, has spent much time in the Mayan lands and shares this extraordinary missive about what's coming: Prophecy of the Fifth World. It's long but infinitely inspiring.
Here's an excerpt:
The Prophecy of the Fifth World...
The Prophecy of the Fifth World is yet to manifest. But when the ancients ones looked ahead, this is what they can share that we can understand at this time. The Four Worlds that we are moving from were all on the same level of time, space and dimension. The Fifth world is a step above previous worlds and marks an enormous transformation.
The Fifth World will be a blending and harmonization of all four worlds, but taken to a different level. These four worlds together, in a cosmic equality, will bring about a new kind of life. Mineral, plant, animal and human will be looked at as being equally alive. There will be a type of intelligent communication between each world. The ancient ones know that it is hard for us to imagine this right now.
In the Fifth World, the new life will not use other kingdoms (mineral, plant, animal) to manifest what they want or need. More over, it is a symbiotic relationship or type of cooperation between the four world life types to create what is needed. A lot of what the Fifth World will be for us, we can't conceive as yet. But as time grows closer to the unveiling the pearl of the Fifth World, the clearer it will become.
Most important…when the Human Kingdom leaves the Fourth World, it will leave the world of force behind. The four integrated worlds will enter the cosmic law of Gravitation. Gravitation is one of the laws of the Fifth World. Life will not manifest by force in order to make something happen. The new life will use gravitation or allowance for manifesting. People will not pray or affirm things into being, but instead assume it is so…and allow it to gravitate to them. This is Fifth World Alchemy. Some of you are already living this way.
There were some ancient civilizations that did live a similar form of this Fifth World for brief times upon the planet. They did this to anchor the possibility for the future of the Fifth World. It is like if you didn't know what chocolate tasted like, how could you explain it? The lands you call Atlantis (most of which is now under the sea except for Santorini in Greece, and the Bahamas in the Caribbean), the Peruvian Andes and some places in the Himalayas are some of the places the ancient ones anchored the memory or, should we say, lived the prophecy of the Fifth World. Many of you are drawn to these places for mysterious reasons. Now you know why!
They are many of you out there that this message will speak very loudly to. You are the ones that could never understand why the world is the way it is. You may have never felt at home. You also might have felt that you hid secret knowledge somewhere that you have yet to uncover. You feel soul tired. If you know this in your heart, you are one of these ancient ones who have come back from the future to this important time…you are the ones who have come back to reawaken the blueprint of the Fifth World.
Here's an excerpt:
The Prophecy of the Fifth World...
The Prophecy of the Fifth World is yet to manifest. But when the ancients ones looked ahead, this is what they can share that we can understand at this time. The Four Worlds that we are moving from were all on the same level of time, space and dimension. The Fifth world is a step above previous worlds and marks an enormous transformation.
The Fifth World will be a blending and harmonization of all four worlds, but taken to a different level. These four worlds together, in a cosmic equality, will bring about a new kind of life. Mineral, plant, animal and human will be looked at as being equally alive. There will be a type of intelligent communication between each world. The ancient ones know that it is hard for us to imagine this right now.
In the Fifth World, the new life will not use other kingdoms (mineral, plant, animal) to manifest what they want or need. More over, it is a symbiotic relationship or type of cooperation between the four world life types to create what is needed. A lot of what the Fifth World will be for us, we can't conceive as yet. But as time grows closer to the unveiling the pearl of the Fifth World, the clearer it will become.
Most important…when the Human Kingdom leaves the Fourth World, it will leave the world of force behind. The four integrated worlds will enter the cosmic law of Gravitation. Gravitation is one of the laws of the Fifth World. Life will not manifest by force in order to make something happen. The new life will use gravitation or allowance for manifesting. People will not pray or affirm things into being, but instead assume it is so…and allow it to gravitate to them. This is Fifth World Alchemy. Some of you are already living this way.
There were some ancient civilizations that did live a similar form of this Fifth World for brief times upon the planet. They did this to anchor the possibility for the future of the Fifth World. It is like if you didn't know what chocolate tasted like, how could you explain it? The lands you call Atlantis (most of which is now under the sea except for Santorini in Greece, and the Bahamas in the Caribbean), the Peruvian Andes and some places in the Himalayas are some of the places the ancient ones anchored the memory or, should we say, lived the prophecy of the Fifth World. Many of you are drawn to these places for mysterious reasons. Now you know why!
They are many of you out there that this message will speak very loudly to. You are the ones that could never understand why the world is the way it is. You may have never felt at home. You also might have felt that you hid secret knowledge somewhere that you have yet to uncover. You feel soul tired. If you know this in your heart, you are one of these ancient ones who have come back from the future to this important time…you are the ones who have come back to reawaken the blueprint of the Fifth World.
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Verging on the Vernal Equinox
Tomorrow's Spring Equinox is a potent moment to sow the seeds for the future you desire to manifest. At Equinox, when the Sun is directly over the equator, the days and nights are of equal length all over the world, representing a time of balance between the light and the dark. Many ancient cultures built their greatest architecture - tombs, temples, and sacred observatories - so that they aligned with the Solstices and Equinoxes. The early Egyptians built the Sphinx so that it faces directly towards the rising sun on Equinox.
Visionary activist astrologer Caroline Casey says this particular Equinox is "a particularly strong time of coming back to life, followed so closely by a total solar eclipse in the Middle East (Libya and Turkey) on March 29th, as Pluto, principle of powerful metamorphosis, stations on that day. Re-connect with the power of storytelling, bring the old stories alive by fresh language and metaphor. We toss into the spiraling cauldron of this time, all we don't need, all past poisons."
I did exactly this yesterday, at an alchemical sound healing event to clear the ancestral lineage and welcome back our generational gifts. Led by shamanic ceremonial sound practitioner Kathleen Casey (no relation to Caroline), the ritual helped me release, forgive, regenerate and integrate on a cellular level material I've been resolving by layers for years. Today I feel radiant.
I was even graced with a fresh way of describing my work, which came to me just as we sat in circle introducing ourselves: "practical alchemy to help you transmute poison to power and wounds to wonder."
Let your inner Sun shine, dear ones! We need your Light more than ever now, as the entire planet rises in Love and comes back to life at a whole/holy/healed new level of awakening, awareness, joy.
Visionary activist astrologer Caroline Casey says this particular Equinox is "a particularly strong time of coming back to life, followed so closely by a total solar eclipse in the Middle East (Libya and Turkey) on March 29th, as Pluto, principle of powerful metamorphosis, stations on that day. Re-connect with the power of storytelling, bring the old stories alive by fresh language and metaphor. We toss into the spiraling cauldron of this time, all we don't need, all past poisons."
I did exactly this yesterday, at an alchemical sound healing event to clear the ancestral lineage and welcome back our generational gifts. Led by shamanic ceremonial sound practitioner Kathleen Casey (no relation to Caroline), the ritual helped me release, forgive, regenerate and integrate on a cellular level material I've been resolving by layers for years. Today I feel radiant.
I was even graced with a fresh way of describing my work, which came to me just as we sat in circle introducing ourselves: "practical alchemy to help you transmute poison to power and wounds to wonder."
Let your inner Sun shine, dear ones! We need your Light more than ever now, as the entire planet rises in Love and comes back to life at a whole/holy/healed new level of awakening, awareness, joy.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Forgive — for Your Health!
Back in the day when Julius Caesar was warned, "Beware the Ides of March!" forgiveness probably wasn't big on his agenda. He scoffed at the portent, and didn't live to regret it.
Fortunately, we've come a ways since then. British teammate Anne Naylor reports that March 15th is International Forgiving Day, a creatively conscious recasting of the Ides. I encourage you to especially focus on self-forgiveness, since most of us tend to be our own harshest judges. One of the many e-mails I've received around the intense celestial dance currently in motion contained the delightful suggestion to "take yourself by surprise!"
If you're going to be in London on March 18th, you might wish to participate in Anne's upcoming workshop based on the John Morton book, The Blessings Already Are. E-mail Anne to learn more.
Blessings!
Fortunately, we've come a ways since then. British teammate Anne Naylor reports that March 15th is International Forgiving Day, a creatively conscious recasting of the Ides. I encourage you to especially focus on self-forgiveness, since most of us tend to be our own harshest judges. One of the many e-mails I've received around the intense celestial dance currently in motion contained the delightful suggestion to "take yourself by surprise!"
If you're going to be in London on March 18th, you might wish to participate in Anne's upcoming workshop based on the John Morton book, The Blessings Already Are. E-mail Anne to learn more.
Blessings!
Monday, March 13, 2006
Plutonic Power Eclipse: Inner Wealth Builder!
To many people, the planet Pluto, which represents sex, death and transformation, is only slightly less petrifying than the words, "Mercury Retrograde." Since we are already deep into the current retrograde (from 3/2 - 3/25), tomorrow's full lunar eclipse with Pluto smack dab in the center of our galaxy might seem to portend utter emotional chaos.
Yet it's actually a homecoming of the highest order. See my March 10th entry, All Hail the Dark Mother, and may the inspiring words of Free Will Astrology creator Rob Brezsny, in his book, Pronoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You With Blessings, fill your chalice as it fills mine:
"In the best-known version of the Greek myth, Persephone is dragged down into the Underworld by Hades, whose title is 'Pluto'. But in earlier, pre-patriarchal tales, she descends there under her own power, actively seeking to graduate from her virginal naiveté by exploring the intriguing land of shadows.
"'Pluto' is derived from the Greek word plutus, meaning 'wealth'. Psychologist James Hillman says this refers to the psyche-building riches available in Pluto's domain. Hades, he says, is 'the giver of nourishment to the soul.'"
Yet it's actually a homecoming of the highest order. See my March 10th entry, All Hail the Dark Mother, and may the inspiring words of Free Will Astrology creator Rob Brezsny, in his book, Pronoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You With Blessings, fill your chalice as it fills mine:
"In the best-known version of the Greek myth, Persephone is dragged down into the Underworld by Hades, whose title is 'Pluto'. But in earlier, pre-patriarchal tales, she descends there under her own power, actively seeking to graduate from her virginal naiveté by exploring the intriguing land of shadows.
"'Pluto' is derived from the Greek word plutus, meaning 'wealth'. Psychologist James Hillman says this refers to the psyche-building riches available in Pluto's domain. Hades, he says, is 'the giver of nourishment to the soul.'"
Sunday, March 12, 2006
The Color of Light
This morning I completed a new "treasure map" of words and images to help guide my soul cartography--that is, mapping my geographic Earth journey in right relation to my planetary service. To read about this concept in depth, please contact me and ask for the March issue of my e-newsletter, What Shines.
Soon afterward, I was driving through yet another of the odd rain/sun showers that have been gracing northern California lately, glanced to my right, gasped, and pulled off the road, as many other drivers were also doing. There in the sky was the first true double rainbow I've ever seen: magnificently arching into the perennial pot o' gold on both ends, with its sister rainbow appearing a yard or so higher. Between them they held a smoky blackness like the Feminine, like the inner darkness we're all releasing, like the promise of Night. I lifted my arms and began invoking blessings, joyously affirming as the droplets cascaded onto my face and clothing, "Anything is possible!"
These are the exact words I exhulted silently after completing my birthday firewalk on February 4th. Fire and water, which I've also written about often, are perfect complements: the masculine and feminine essences.
We are, quite literally, in our element. These rainbows, like the ones that appeared singularly, two hours apart, on February 28th, were in the eastern sky. Fire, sunrise, new beginnings. Let the fire and water burn cleanly that which no longer serves us, cleanse and renew us in wonder.
Here's to awe: Awakening Wonder-filled Earth!
Soon afterward, I was driving through yet another of the odd rain/sun showers that have been gracing northern California lately, glanced to my right, gasped, and pulled off the road, as many other drivers were also doing. There in the sky was the first true double rainbow I've ever seen: magnificently arching into the perennial pot o' gold on both ends, with its sister rainbow appearing a yard or so higher. Between them they held a smoky blackness like the Feminine, like the inner darkness we're all releasing, like the promise of Night. I lifted my arms and began invoking blessings, joyously affirming as the droplets cascaded onto my face and clothing, "Anything is possible!"
These are the exact words I exhulted silently after completing my birthday firewalk on February 4th. Fire and water, which I've also written about often, are perfect complements: the masculine and feminine essences.
We are, quite literally, in our element. These rainbows, like the ones that appeared singularly, two hours apart, on February 28th, were in the eastern sky. Fire, sunrise, new beginnings. Let the fire and water burn cleanly that which no longer serves us, cleanse and renew us in wonder.
Here's to awe: Awakening Wonder-filled Earth!
Friday, March 10, 2006
All Hail the Dark Mother!
The upcoming eclipse on March 14th ushers in the Feminine frequency more potently than any other celestial event since the Transit of Venus in 2004. Prepare to surrender into your deepest self and open to the Mystery! Canadian astrologer Tara Greene does a terrific job of explaining what in Heaven is going on. Long, and worth the read:
"Eclipses are Gateways to new consciousness and beginnings. Every six months the Earth, Moon and Sun align precisely enough to eclipse each other. Think of it as a race or a competition, the Heavenly Olympics. As the shadow of the Earth obscures the Light of the Moon we have a special opportunity, a gateway to see in the dark, through our fears of being without the Feminine, the Goddess, the comfort and innate memories of the womb, and uncover new truths. Eclipses occur in relation to the Lunar Nodes, the points in space where the Moon crosses the ecliptic — the Celestial Equator. Formed by the Moon, the symbol of the Feminine, the Lunar Nodes represent where we get our nourishment from on a Cosmic Level and feel it in a 'down to Earth' way. The North Node indicates for all of us what current and future intentions support our spiritual development and the South Node what has nurtured us in the past. The Nodes of the Moon are karmic in nature, specifically representing, feelings, emotions, the womb, memories, Source, the primal Feminine energy, the Goddess.
"This eclipse is extremely potent and powerful! This eclipse finds the sun, source of Light, Life and the Soul, (they don't call it SOL for naught!) near the North Node in Pisces at 24+ degrees of Pisces, the last and most spiritual of all the Signs of the Zodiac. The Light beckons us to return to the Source of all. The Moon opposite is at 24 + degrees of Virgo, near the South Node (at 4 degrees of Libra) a sign which seeks perfection of the earthy, body levels and of the mind. Pisces knows all is already perfection. Virgo/Pisces polarity is about integrating the seeming opposites of Mind/Body and Spirit. This is a very important eclipse as Pluto, the great Redeemer, is almost perfectly squaring (90 degree angle) the Sun and Moon. Squares are tense and push us into action. I would call it a Plutonic Eclipse.
"Pluto is almost exactly on the Galactic Center (G.C.) of the Milky Way galaxy, the galaxy we call 'home.' Galactic means 'mother's milk'. The G.C. is a huge black hole sucking in all light, all matter that comes its way. The essence of a black hole is change, sudden, dramatic, reversals of the status quo reality. To the ancient Mayans the G.C. was the great maw, mouth, yoni, gateway where all souls pass after death, before physical birth into and out of their journey through this galaxy. Pluto will be hovering around the Galactic Center all year, magnifying the alignment of our consciousness with our origins and radically magnifying the evolutionary impetus of the galactic impulses in the yoniverse.
"In this number 8 year, 2006, the Galactic Center is the pivot, the x crossing of the infinity symbol. Black holes are metaphorical crossing over points, galactic gateways of change, which is the nature of all in the universe. Life is growth and change, death, rebirth. The Galactic Center is the place where time is destroyed, and space as well. Time flows 6,000,000 times more slowly at one centimeter above the surface of the event horizon of a black hole.
"This eclipse is a harbinger of galactic time, an opening into hyper-dimensions of reality. Black holes destroy time and space. The Galactic Center is the ground of our being, the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. Some see it as YHVH, the nameless source of the 'I AM' presence. The Galactic Center emits massive amounts of infrared radiation that arouses the subconscious portions of the brain and provides intense stimulation to the root chakra. This activation of the subconscious promotes the retrieval of information from the past, of this life and many other lives that interact with the self-preservation instincts of the root chakra. We are actually being cosmically stimulated and affected from the Galactic Center at all times.
"So with this eclipse, Pluto, the 'psycho pomp' guides us and helps us to see beyond the myths of the Fall to see ourselves truly as the divine messengers that we all are of God, forgiving ourselves for forgetting our divinity and knowing that we are souls playing the game of duality in this 3D Galactic Playground Center. Pluto is the grounding rod for integrating in-depth soul level transformational power. We can bravely go into the black hole's depths, our origins, and retrieve the mythologies that have blinded us unconsciously and bring that back into consciousness with the sun in Pisces, and experience galactic integration. We are all one. One galactic heartbeat. All born of the same Galactic Mother's womb."
"Eclipses are Gateways to new consciousness and beginnings. Every six months the Earth, Moon and Sun align precisely enough to eclipse each other. Think of it as a race or a competition, the Heavenly Olympics. As the shadow of the Earth obscures the Light of the Moon we have a special opportunity, a gateway to see in the dark, through our fears of being without the Feminine, the Goddess, the comfort and innate memories of the womb, and uncover new truths. Eclipses occur in relation to the Lunar Nodes, the points in space where the Moon crosses the ecliptic — the Celestial Equator. Formed by the Moon, the symbol of the Feminine, the Lunar Nodes represent where we get our nourishment from on a Cosmic Level and feel it in a 'down to Earth' way. The North Node indicates for all of us what current and future intentions support our spiritual development and the South Node what has nurtured us in the past. The Nodes of the Moon are karmic in nature, specifically representing, feelings, emotions, the womb, memories, Source, the primal Feminine energy, the Goddess.
"This eclipse is extremely potent and powerful! This eclipse finds the sun, source of Light, Life and the Soul, (they don't call it SOL for naught!) near the North Node in Pisces at 24+ degrees of Pisces, the last and most spiritual of all the Signs of the Zodiac. The Light beckons us to return to the Source of all. The Moon opposite is at 24 + degrees of Virgo, near the South Node (at 4 degrees of Libra) a sign which seeks perfection of the earthy, body levels and of the mind. Pisces knows all is already perfection. Virgo/Pisces polarity is about integrating the seeming opposites of Mind/Body and Spirit. This is a very important eclipse as Pluto, the great Redeemer, is almost perfectly squaring (90 degree angle) the Sun and Moon. Squares are tense and push us into action. I would call it a Plutonic Eclipse.
"Pluto is almost exactly on the Galactic Center (G.C.) of the Milky Way galaxy, the galaxy we call 'home.' Galactic means 'mother's milk'. The G.C. is a huge black hole sucking in all light, all matter that comes its way. The essence of a black hole is change, sudden, dramatic, reversals of the status quo reality. To the ancient Mayans the G.C. was the great maw, mouth, yoni, gateway where all souls pass after death, before physical birth into and out of their journey through this galaxy. Pluto will be hovering around the Galactic Center all year, magnifying the alignment of our consciousness with our origins and radically magnifying the evolutionary impetus of the galactic impulses in the yoniverse.
"In this number 8 year, 2006, the Galactic Center is the pivot, the x crossing of the infinity symbol. Black holes are metaphorical crossing over points, galactic gateways of change, which is the nature of all in the universe. Life is growth and change, death, rebirth. The Galactic Center is the place where time is destroyed, and space as well. Time flows 6,000,000 times more slowly at one centimeter above the surface of the event horizon of a black hole.
"This eclipse is a harbinger of galactic time, an opening into hyper-dimensions of reality. Black holes destroy time and space. The Galactic Center is the ground of our being, the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. Some see it as YHVH, the nameless source of the 'I AM' presence. The Galactic Center emits massive amounts of infrared radiation that arouses the subconscious portions of the brain and provides intense stimulation to the root chakra. This activation of the subconscious promotes the retrieval of information from the past, of this life and many other lives that interact with the self-preservation instincts of the root chakra. We are actually being cosmically stimulated and affected from the Galactic Center at all times.
"So with this eclipse, Pluto, the 'psycho pomp' guides us and helps us to see beyond the myths of the Fall to see ourselves truly as the divine messengers that we all are of God, forgiving ourselves for forgetting our divinity and knowing that we are souls playing the game of duality in this 3D Galactic Playground Center. Pluto is the grounding rod for integrating in-depth soul level transformational power. We can bravely go into the black hole's depths, our origins, and retrieve the mythologies that have blinded us unconsciously and bring that back into consciousness with the sun in Pisces, and experience galactic integration. We are all one. One galactic heartbeat. All born of the same Galactic Mother's womb."
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Surviving the Spiritual Gauntlet
This urgent and extremely healing message just came through from Aluna Joy Yax'kin. May it carry you through these transcendent times...
"Having entered the first couple days of March, it has become quite apparent that we have hit some really powerful energy. I have been watching Equinoxes over the past 12 years, and they just seem to be getting more and more powerful. I have been having powerful visions/dreams...and nightmares (unusual for me) where I see dark beings rising up from the underworld, and I fight to stop them. The last couple of nights I could not tell if I was still here, or if I had crossed over to the next world. I can feel my nervous system getting re-wired or short circuited...it is hard to tell which in this moment. Some of the pieces that I have collected over the last 20 years are just now coming together. All this makes me feel like everything is about to change. I wonder sometimes how we can endure the rise in intensity. But somehow we do.
"The entire month of MARCH, that surrounds the Equinox, will be an intense emotional roller coaster month. We will feel far more sensitive to the world. Things might seem so dark that we wonder if we can survive this time. Many people have been having unfounded fears of dying or that the world is ending. Will this shift be comfortable? NO! But will we emerge Masters of it? Absolutely YES! We are going to get REALLY CLEAR about what is not working anymore to the point that we will be forced to make many shifts in our lives to continue on. The world is going to change. Our lives are going to change. We cannot tolerate the injustices and misuses of energy and power in this world anymore.
"This month is beginning to really look like what I would call a Global Dark Night of the Soul. This sounds really scary, but it is not. Dark Night of the Soul, by nature, is deliberately transformative. It feels like death on all levels. While we may feel battered and worn in the transformation, realize that our Spirits are being tempered in the process. It is MOST IMPORTANT to surrender and trust the process. These unrelenting and intense times help us build spiritual strength by showing us our weak spots. It shows us where we are becoming Masters in our lives. This is a necessary step for our ability to evolve into the 5th world. What a great opportunity for all of US!
"It will be imperative at this time of powerful energy, coupled with the Equinox, to be helpful and cooperative with each other. Be good to each other. Love each other. Help each other. This is the beginning of the new world and the birth of a new community. We are the baby chicks struggling to get out of the egg, the caterpillar fighting its way out of the cocoon. The birthing process is hard but well worth the effort. We are not going to give up. We are about to bust free of the limitations that we have tolerated for way too long. The time is so close now...the times are so powerful...We are letting go of this world...
"This Equinox is going to be emotionally challenging for most all of us, but it will also prepare us for the entire year of HUGE transformation and spiritual awakening. This awakening cannot be stopped. I bet you have tried to stop it, so you could be comfortable, at one time or another. It is not going to work this time. This is a time of breakdowns, losses and dissolving old paradigms on all levels. This is a time of GREAT OPPORTUNITY. We can build a new temple without tearing down the old one. It is time to get BRAVE...get out the spiritual work clothes and go to work.
"The two eclipses in the month of March will light up any shadows in your back closet that you have yet to clean out. Eclipses shine light into our own darkness. On March 14th there is a Full Moon lunar eclipse triggering even more emotional tidal waves.
"In these most powerful times, it is very helpful to give yourself time in a sacred place in nature. Sacred places, like mountaintops and temple sites, hold and support higher frequencies, so the transformation comes MUCH EASIER and with MORE CLARITY. If you can get away sometime in the month of March, especially around Equinox, it will ease the transition considerably. Also, high altitudes (over 7000 feet), forks in rivers, waterfalls, the oceans (silicon beach sand can elevate the issues), or deep deserts can clear our heads and lighten the heart.
"This is a time where our Spirits are being tested to reach and maintain a higher level of impeccability and personal mastery. Becoming Masters is NOT about avoiding our feelings and emotions, but being master over how we react to them no matter what the outer circumstances. Not feeling our emotions is flatlining. We are here to LIVE. So feel the issues, do not take them personally, rise above them and help those around you."
"Having entered the first couple days of March, it has become quite apparent that we have hit some really powerful energy. I have been watching Equinoxes over the past 12 years, and they just seem to be getting more and more powerful. I have been having powerful visions/dreams...and nightmares (unusual for me) where I see dark beings rising up from the underworld, and I fight to stop them. The last couple of nights I could not tell if I was still here, or if I had crossed over to the next world. I can feel my nervous system getting re-wired or short circuited...it is hard to tell which in this moment. Some of the pieces that I have collected over the last 20 years are just now coming together. All this makes me feel like everything is about to change. I wonder sometimes how we can endure the rise in intensity. But somehow we do.
"The entire month of MARCH, that surrounds the Equinox, will be an intense emotional roller coaster month. We will feel far more sensitive to the world. Things might seem so dark that we wonder if we can survive this time. Many people have been having unfounded fears of dying or that the world is ending. Will this shift be comfortable? NO! But will we emerge Masters of it? Absolutely YES! We are going to get REALLY CLEAR about what is not working anymore to the point that we will be forced to make many shifts in our lives to continue on. The world is going to change. Our lives are going to change. We cannot tolerate the injustices and misuses of energy and power in this world anymore.
"This month is beginning to really look like what I would call a Global Dark Night of the Soul. This sounds really scary, but it is not. Dark Night of the Soul, by nature, is deliberately transformative. It feels like death on all levels. While we may feel battered and worn in the transformation, realize that our Spirits are being tempered in the process. It is MOST IMPORTANT to surrender and trust the process. These unrelenting and intense times help us build spiritual strength by showing us our weak spots. It shows us where we are becoming Masters in our lives. This is a necessary step for our ability to evolve into the 5th world. What a great opportunity for all of US!
"It will be imperative at this time of powerful energy, coupled with the Equinox, to be helpful and cooperative with each other. Be good to each other. Love each other. Help each other. This is the beginning of the new world and the birth of a new community. We are the baby chicks struggling to get out of the egg, the caterpillar fighting its way out of the cocoon. The birthing process is hard but well worth the effort. We are not going to give up. We are about to bust free of the limitations that we have tolerated for way too long. The time is so close now...the times are so powerful...We are letting go of this world...
"This Equinox is going to be emotionally challenging for most all of us, but it will also prepare us for the entire year of HUGE transformation and spiritual awakening. This awakening cannot be stopped. I bet you have tried to stop it, so you could be comfortable, at one time or another. It is not going to work this time. This is a time of breakdowns, losses and dissolving old paradigms on all levels. This is a time of GREAT OPPORTUNITY. We can build a new temple without tearing down the old one. It is time to get BRAVE...get out the spiritual work clothes and go to work.
"The two eclipses in the month of March will light up any shadows in your back closet that you have yet to clean out. Eclipses shine light into our own darkness. On March 14th there is a Full Moon lunar eclipse triggering even more emotional tidal waves.
"In these most powerful times, it is very helpful to give yourself time in a sacred place in nature. Sacred places, like mountaintops and temple sites, hold and support higher frequencies, so the transformation comes MUCH EASIER and with MORE CLARITY. If you can get away sometime in the month of March, especially around Equinox, it will ease the transition considerably. Also, high altitudes (over 7000 feet), forks in rivers, waterfalls, the oceans (silicon beach sand can elevate the issues), or deep deserts can clear our heads and lighten the heart.
"This is a time where our Spirits are being tested to reach and maintain a higher level of impeccability and personal mastery. Becoming Masters is NOT about avoiding our feelings and emotions, but being master over how we react to them no matter what the outer circumstances. Not feeling our emotions is flatlining. We are here to LIVE. So feel the issues, do not take them personally, rise above them and help those around you."
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Interview with God
This lovely flash movie has been floating around for awhile, and just returned to my inbox this morning. An uplifting reminder for a retrograde...
The Interview With God
Breathe in the beauty...remember your own magnificence...
The Interview With God
Breathe in the beauty...remember your own magnificence...
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Retrograde Wisdom: Testing Your Water Wings
Mercury, also known as Hermes, the Winged Messenger, turns retrograde today in the water sign Pisces until 3/25. Astrologer Judith Goldberg, who penned an excellent article on retrogrades during the last one, entitled Retrogrades Without Regret, shares these words of wisdom for now:
"Pisces rules spirituality, intuition, emotion, the unconscious mind, dreams, art, music, poetry and dance. During this time be more conscious about your boundaries. Keeping a dream journal can be helpful. Your unconscious mind has messages for you. Turn on your inner ear."
Slowing down is always so key, and never more so that when walking (or dreaming) through water! My e-mail delivery time is operating as though the server has relocated to a tropical island, and I've already watched myself make an embarrassing goof this morning, trying to operate in too-linear, rational mode.
I like to think of Mercury Retrogrades as an opportunity for us to live the old Aretha Franklin song, "R-E-S-P-E-C-T", in which she sings, "Re-re-re-re..." That's what retrogrades are all about: re-vision, renew, review, remember, reclaim, reimagine...in my case, relocate! Judith says that as long as I'm focused on the "re" aspect (i.e., "relocate", rather than "move") I'll be an attuned traveler.
I also realized retrogrades are an auspicious time to answer e-mails, 'cause EVERY message you repond to begins, "Re:"
Blessings and reconnections,
Amara
"Pisces rules spirituality, intuition, emotion, the unconscious mind, dreams, art, music, poetry and dance. During this time be more conscious about your boundaries. Keeping a dream journal can be helpful. Your unconscious mind has messages for you. Turn on your inner ear."
Slowing down is always so key, and never more so that when walking (or dreaming) through water! My e-mail delivery time is operating as though the server has relocated to a tropical island, and I've already watched myself make an embarrassing goof this morning, trying to operate in too-linear, rational mode.
I like to think of Mercury Retrogrades as an opportunity for us to live the old Aretha Franklin song, "R-E-S-P-E-C-T", in which she sings, "Re-re-re-re..." That's what retrogrades are all about: re-vision, renew, review, remember, reclaim, reimagine...in my case, relocate! Judith says that as long as I'm focused on the "re" aspect (i.e., "relocate", rather than "move") I'll be an attuned traveler.
I also realized retrogrades are an auspicious time to answer e-mails, 'cause EVERY message you repond to begins, "Re:"
Blessings and reconnections,
Amara
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Over the Rainbow
It's been an odd day, weather-wise: lots of cloudbursts followed by radiant sun, then more rain. I spied two rainbows in the exact same location, about two hours apart. Earlier, I'd forgotten today was Mardi Gras, though these signs are certainly in keeping with the theme of celebration. The rainbows appeared in the East, the direction in which I'll soon be bound. And the East, in all native teachings, heralds new beginnings...
So as we prepare to dive into a watery Mercury retrograde in Pisces on Thursday (till 3/25), remember to stay in the flow, release what you think you know, and open to manifest: all money metaphors contain water imagery. Currency/currents, reserves (as in Federal Reserve)/reservoir, liquid assets, cash flow. Affluence literally means, "to flow abundance."
Here's to your wealth! May it also bring you the wisdom to use it well.
So as we prepare to dive into a watery Mercury retrograde in Pisces on Thursday (till 3/25), remember to stay in the flow, release what you think you know, and open to manifest: all money metaphors contain water imagery. Currency/currents, reserves (as in Federal Reserve)/reservoir, liquid assets, cash flow. Affluence literally means, "to flow abundance."
Here's to your wealth! May it also bring you the wisdom to use it well.
Monday, February 27, 2006
Enrolling in Crystal U
We've been hearing about Lightbody and Lightwork for awhile; now, it's open enrollment for all planetary citizens! Being in the Light is itself enrolling: engaging our senses and hearts in a vibratory field that's literally helping us heal and release density.
Archangel Michael through Celia Fenn says we are Cosmic Crystals in a Field of Love, and the image alone is enough to elevate consciousness. Michael explains:
"Since the activation of the Galactic Lightbody, the human body is rapidly assuming its orginal template form and design - exquisite crystalline geometries designed to vibrate in a field of pure love and to express that love in many dimensions!
"The significance of these energies for the planet is immense and wonderful. They will ground and bring peace to a turbulent world as they transmute and transform. But, on the individual level, there will also be miraculous changes.
"The Galactic Lightbody, with its specific geometry of the Icosa-Dodecahedron, and the Quantum 'Field of Love', with its specific crystalline geometries, will produce, by sympathetic vibration or resonance, a crystalline state in the human body. This will be through the water matrix of the body. Your body is 70 to 80 percent water, and this water will begin to vibrate in crystalline forms. Once this happens, the physical body will receive and transmit more and more light. You will indeed become radiant and luminous.
"'Becoming Light' in this way means that the body becomes less dense and is able to be thought of as light. It can be transformed, healed, rejuvenated, at the speed of thought! This is the 'highest potential' that is encoded in your DNA in the Paradise template, and that is being activated now by the Sirian Blue Star geometries and the Galactic Field of Love. But this will be a gradual process, dearest ones, there is no rush. Allow your bodies the time they need to make the changes. Some may need lots of rest and quiet times to allow the transformation, others may not. You are individuals and each of you will begin to work with these transformative energies in your own individual way.
"And, dearest ones, you will have much work to do to assist those who are still awakening to understand the energies of change, for they will affect everyone. The entire planet is in the Fifth Dimension, although most people still identify with a Third Dimensional reality frame. But when these deep changes start to become evident, there will be much education and support work to be done as people learn the truth of their Angelic nature and how to express their highest potential on Earth."
Archangel Michael through Celia Fenn says we are Cosmic Crystals in a Field of Love, and the image alone is enough to elevate consciousness. Michael explains:
"Since the activation of the Galactic Lightbody, the human body is rapidly assuming its orginal template form and design - exquisite crystalline geometries designed to vibrate in a field of pure love and to express that love in many dimensions!
"The significance of these energies for the planet is immense and wonderful. They will ground and bring peace to a turbulent world as they transmute and transform. But, on the individual level, there will also be miraculous changes.
"The Galactic Lightbody, with its specific geometry of the Icosa-Dodecahedron, and the Quantum 'Field of Love', with its specific crystalline geometries, will produce, by sympathetic vibration or resonance, a crystalline state in the human body. This will be through the water matrix of the body. Your body is 70 to 80 percent water, and this water will begin to vibrate in crystalline forms. Once this happens, the physical body will receive and transmit more and more light. You will indeed become radiant and luminous.
"'Becoming Light' in this way means that the body becomes less dense and is able to be thought of as light. It can be transformed, healed, rejuvenated, at the speed of thought! This is the 'highest potential' that is encoded in your DNA in the Paradise template, and that is being activated now by the Sirian Blue Star geometries and the Galactic Field of Love. But this will be a gradual process, dearest ones, there is no rush. Allow your bodies the time they need to make the changes. Some may need lots of rest and quiet times to allow the transformation, others may not. You are individuals and each of you will begin to work with these transformative energies in your own individual way.
"And, dearest ones, you will have much work to do to assist those who are still awakening to understand the energies of change, for they will affect everyone. The entire planet is in the Fifth Dimension, although most people still identify with a Third Dimensional reality frame. But when these deep changes start to become evident, there will be much education and support work to be done as people learn the truth of their Angelic nature and how to express their highest potential on Earth."
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