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Sunday, August 22, 2021

Infinite Waters (Diving Deep)Ralph Smart: THE COMING DARK NIGHT!!! ๐Ÿ‘️+ "I PREDICTED Everything That's Happening" Prepare Yourself To Trust Your Intuition! + "You Won't Believe What I'm About to Tell You" Prepare Yourself Emotionally For What's Coming!



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"I PREDICTED Everything That's Happening"
Prepare Yourself To Trust Your Intuition!

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Thursday, December 17, 2020

Steve Nobel on How To Know If You're a Starseed | The You-est YOU™️ Podcast


Steve Nobel on How To Know If You're a Starseed
| The You-est YOU™️ Podcast

•Nov 23, 2020
Julie Reisler
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Steve Ahnael Nobel is the author of 5 non-fiction books, the most recent is a free Ebook entitled ‘Starseeds’. He was a director of a not for profit spiritual organisation called Alternatives (based in St. James’s Church, Piccadilly, London W1) for 13 years, leaving on the Winter Solstice of 2012. Subsequently, he began his own healing and awakening work. He has created a healing system called Soul Matrix Healing for Starseeds. He has created a library of free resources including meditations and transmission to help Starseeds which are freely available on his website and YouTube channel. These meditations and transmissions are played all over the world and so far, the platform has over 104K subscribers. He regularly runs events in the UK, Europe and the US.


Want to know if you're a starseed? Steve explains that starseeds are not native to this dimension on earth and come from various dimensions and systems from other star races. Typical starseed statements growing up are having the feeling that 'you don't belong here or in this family'. You probably have the feeling of wanting to breakaway, and are drawn to things like saving the planet, raising consciousness on this planet, shifting from darkness to more light.


Still wondering if this might be you? Steve breaks it down to explain that starseeds are all about shedding the conditioning that has plagued our society for hundreds of years, including moving from just left-brain logic based only ways of doing life to connecting and trusting more with intuition and creativity. This is a time to connect to our heart. Remember that everything is vibration so as you shift your consciousness (starseed or not), you are shifting your vibration.


Steve also shared how our planet is moving from a 3D realm to 4D and eventually 5D. To break this down (since I needed an overview as well), here's the deal:


1. 3D is what we've been in for the last two thousand years and it's all about fear, separation consciousness (us vs. them), shame, anger, guilt and frustration. We can see this construct being challenged and crumbling now as we start to look at the real racial and cultural injustice embedded in our country and world.


2. 4D is all about the mastery of I am responsible for my reality. This is a pivotal point in change and is based on courage. It's all about the "I am co-creating my reality, I can shift from the inside out."
Our planet moved into a 4th Dimensional realm in 2012 when we went from the age of Pisces to the age of Aquarius.


3. 5D is about an open connection to higher self and love consciousness with reality. My favorite quote from this interview came at the end. I asked Steve if he had a 'heart flare' to share and he said "Do not feed the fear, focus on inspiration, being of service, love, gratitude and what you can do to step towards that." My sacred friend, this is our mandate right now. May we all feed the field with our own heart energy.


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Saturday, November 14, 2020

DAYKEEPER'S ENERGY UPDATE NOV 13-19, 2020 THE PHOENIX RISES


DAYKEEPER'S ENERGY UPDATE
NOV 13-19, 2020


THE PHOENIX RISES

 


Crystal says:


"This entire weekend is bursting
with potential. On Friday, November
13, restless Mars stations to turn
direct. We’ll be feeling revved up,
with our hot more in gear than our
trot, until a week later, when the
planet of action moves out of the
slowest part of its storm. Bear in
mind that the three featured orbs,
Jupiter, Pluto and Mars, all relate
to wrestling. Mindfulness is
advised to help us avoid an
explosion from our inner Hulk,
which could distract us from an
underlaying opportunity, turning it
into a pointless brawl.


On Saturday and Sunday ...
we can renew our commitment
to intentions for positive change.
Moon and Sun make a sextile to
Jupiter and Pluto in Capricorn,
sign of building. These are
practical harmonies that support
positive, lasting results. Also at
this lunation, Venus squares Pluto.
With the planet of love and finance
currently ruling Uranus, planet of
surprises, the changes we commit to
can influence our finances,
self-esteem and relationships."


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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

AstrologerCoach: New Moon in Virgo, Aug.- Sept. 2019 -- Simplify!

New Moon in Virgo, Aug.- Sept. 2019 -- Simplify!

Published on Aug 26, 2019
 
 
Join Sonja as she shares about several upcoming astrological events:


* New Moon in almost 7ยบ of Virgo (exact on Aug. 30th, 2019 at 6:37am EDT) 6:01
* Stellium in Virgo: Mercury, the Sun, the Moon, Mars and Venus 0:54
* Mercury is the ruler of Virgo, in its own sign: exalted until Sept.14th 2:44
* Things to watch out for with this many planets in Virgo 9:24
* The higher vibration of Virgo 10:08
* New Moon in Virgo conjuncts Mercury, Mars & Venus 14:12
* Chiron in Aries quincunxes the New Moon 15:40
* Uranus in Taurus trines the New Moon, Mercury, Mars & Venus in Virgo 23:10
* Venus in Virgo opposes Neptune in Pisces, and both square Jupiter in Sagittarius: T-Square with Jupiter as the Focus Point 25:39
* Empty leg of the T-Square lands in Gemini 31:37
* Venus in Virgo trines Saturn in Capricorn 36:49
* To sum it all up for this New Moon 40:28
* Best and most potent time for setting Intentions 43:49


Do you have an Ascendant (or any personal planets) in 5-9 degrees of Virgo, Pisces, Gemini, or Sagittarius? 42:33


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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Seeking Solitude In Nature: A Meditation Teacher Shares Her Story

Stephanie Nash is a mindfulness coach & has worked closely with Shinzen Young for 20 years.
solitude in nature




By the time we’re 60, we will have been alive for almost 22,000 days on this planet, rarely, if ever, stopping to watch just one. By immersion into nature in solitude, we allow the natural human to become entrained to the nature of the planet we are part of.




On the 7th day, my mind was flowing at the speed of sea fog. Or maybe that was the description of my nervous system. I felt so present with a gentle flow — and my mind felt open to whatever arises. Good stuff.


I had been camping in solitude in nature — on a hill over the ocean on the coast of California — as I have done twice a year for the past 20+ years. I jokingly call it my “People Fast”, which I have always assumed I needed since, as a meditation teacher and an actress, what I do in the world involves intense and intimate interactions with people, and I figured that we always need an opportunity to “clear out” and refresh or reground ourselves.


But there is more to it than that — at least for me.



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Solitude In Nature For Monasticization



I find this immersion into nature – in total solitude – to be the most advantageous environment for cultivating deeper states, insights, and restoration. It is my monastery.


As a mindfulness meditation teacher, I am, of course, always encouraging people to set aside time to practice – whether formal eyes-closed practice or incorporating mindfulness into daily activities – so that they are...

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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

A Message to Lightworkers – January 29, 2018 by Caroline Oceana Ryan



Greetings, Powerful Co-Creator!


Another Full Moon is coming up on Wednesday!


We can form powerful intentions now, and keep them foremost in our heart-minds from now through Wednesday night, so they can be empowered all the more by the Blue Moon energies coming in.


This is a co-Creative time, if there ever was one!


The Collective point this out in today's Message—that our co-Creative powers, long hidden and suppressed, are now rising to the surface again, along with all the knowledge and wisdom needed to use them in beautiful ways, as we honor and connect with Lady Gaia.


Sending much Love & Light,
Caroline


~~~

A Message to Lightworkers – January 29, 2018

The latest guidance from the Ascended Masters, Galactics, Earth Elementals, Faery Elders, Angels and Archangels known as the Collective:


Greetings, LightWeavers and co-Creators of the New Earth!


We are pleased to have this chance to speak with you today.


We have been asked by several of you about Earth’s Ascension, and the changes the Earth is experiencing at this time.


And so we will offer the questions and our reply here, with the request that each of your Spirit teams speak to you in ways you can clearly hear and respond to, on these issues.


QUESTION: How is Mother Earth—the plants, flowers, trees, rocks, water, air—all the Elementals—responding and changing with these new fifth dimensional frequencies?


We hear a lot about all the high-impact changes to our Earth—hurricanes, tornadoes, mudslides, fires, drought, weather swings.


The Collective talk about being out in Nature, to ground as we transition, and to walk in Gratitude, Joy, and Peace.


Are there new ways we are to connect with the Earth and its elements in these 5D frequencies? Are there new ways to support the Ascension of the planet as we Ascend?


I keep feeling that I need to see with a new perspective, and to support the rising consciousness of the planet.





THE COLLECTIVE:
You are indeed correct, that the Earth is becoming new again, in the sense that She is evolving into not only a higher frequency, but a higher expression of what you call the physical. And that you are also evolving.


Just as Earth evolves into a higher vibrational version of Herself, you are also, down to every cell, becoming the New Human, in order for higher frequencies of Light and higher expressions of Universal knowledge and wisdom to live in your spirit/psyche, as well as in your outer being.


Were these to take root and express themselves in purely fifth dimensional terms right now, you would find yourself stepping out of your body in order to inhabit those frequencies, rather than remaining in the body while experiencing them.


And so as with any newly birthed being, there is both a sense of real violence—the tumultuous Earth shifts you refer to—and the sense of the extreme delicacy, yet also, the hardiness, the determination to live, of the tiny being who is just now being birthed.


We would say, that if you could walk the Earth mindfully, with respect and compassion for Her shifts and changes, just as you live with compassion and kindness for your own mind, body, and spirit’s changes and shifts, that you would do a great deal for your own well-being despite the tumult of this time you live in.


This is in fact not a new way to honor the Earth.


It is the way of the pre-ancients, the indigenous folk who walked the Earth and knew Her power, and knew their own co-Creative power, including how to work with not only Earth energy to create or remold outer circumstance (including the weather, and Earth shifts and eruptions), but how to work with Universal energy as well.


That information is again open to you, if you are open to learning and accepting it.


It does indeed feel dangerous at times to be in certain places on the Earth now, just as childbirth feels to have an element of danger in it.


And we, as the midwives assisting in that birth along with your guides, Angelic guardians, higher selves, and all the Galactic and Angelic legions now assisting the Earth—we are aware of the toll it is taking on your mind-body-emotions, to be moving from one etheric shape to another, and to be taking the physical with you on this profound journey.






And so when you speak to this New Earth, send Her the Light you would send to one who is birthing a new reality.


Then send that same Light, shining out from your high heart, to everyone on the planet at present.


Your mind may tell you to send that Light only to fellow Lightworkers in the throes of the Ascension process.


Yet as a fifth dimensional human, you would not send healing Light only to certain parts of the Earth, ignoring those volcanoes erupting or earthquake-prone areas, because they seem troublesome, and you don’t like how they behave.


We understand the desire to support those who appear vulnerable and are open to such.






Yet we assure you, those in most desperate need of your Love and your Light at this time, offered in unqualified and open ways, are those who appear least open to it.


And so send that same Love and Light to those whom we have often called the dark hats—for that is a title they once gave themselves, and taken on with great pride and determination, though they now find themselves in a greater pickle than they could have ever imagined.


Because as they say, “The power of Love is overcoming the love of power,” and it has never been more true than in this moment of Earth’s history.


You will never again see such a tumultuous shift in power than this shift, which is the move from the ego-mind or pure willed determination to rule, oppress, and exterminate, into the heart-mind’s quiet decision to birth, heal, forgive, release, and nurture.


This is what makes this a New Day, dear ones!


You have collectively, as a race, decided to give up the need for control, and are surrendering to your own higher good and higher purposes.


And so when you send Light each day to your own body and heart-mind, thanking them for how strong they are, for how smoothly and beautifully they are making this transition to the Lightbody, take a moment to send that same Light, Love, and heartfelt appreciation to every being on this Earth.


Every tree, bush, flower, or blade of grass.


Every Earth movement or eruption, or rainfall or wind blowing.


Every bit of soil, air, water, or ether.


Every human, animal, and insect, as well as the Faery beings guarding and guiding their growth.


Every molecule of Earth is in need of your care and concern, but not only in the sense of picking up bits of rubbish you see by the side of the road, or not using dangerous cleansers or weed killers.


Not only in the sense of recycling, or drinking and cooking with structured water, and signing petitions to keep nature preserves and national forests protected.


All of that is exceedingly important and fine.


But some of the greatest work you can do, is speaking to Mother Earth as the dear and precious goddess that She is, thanking and acknowledging all She has done for you and all that She is.






And in that same moment, understanding that You Belong To Her, and that your life is inexorably caught up in Her well-being.


Then, just as you would have compassion and patience and respect for all She is experiencing now, extend those same high intentions toward yourself, for all the remaking and revising and transmuting going on in your every cell, etheric and physical.


Remember you cannot live separate from Her processes.


And so respect both with all your heart—have a special moment each day where you thank your body and spirit for all they have done for you, and then extend that same Light and thanks to all who live upon and within the Earth, and to Earth Herself.


And know that as you do, that beautiful intention will be magnified many, many times over by every Angel and elemental working to assist in the birth of the New Earth, and in your own Ascension.
You are here to witness a miracle—the release of one expression in this Universe, as it gives way to a far higher one.


You have asked to be here at this time, and have been given the great honor of helping to birth and bring forth nothing less than the even and honorable balance of Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine, and the gratitude of a thousand Suns will reach you, as you allow yourself to feel their warmth.


Namaste, dear ones!


You are not alone in this.


We are with you, always.



Copyright 2018, Caroline Oceana Ryan
If you repost, please maintain the integrity of this information by reprinting it exactly as you find it here, and including the link to the original post. Thank you.

About Caroline Oceana Ryan

Caroline Oceana Ryan is an author and speaker who channels the higher wisdom and guidance of the Collective, a group of higher beings assisting humanity as we Ascend into fifth dimensional life.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Energy Update Portal to Unified Timelines | awakening5Dhealing.com

Energy Update Portal to Unified Timelines | awakening5Dhealing.com




Awakening to a world in crisis can make us feel overwhelmed by the state we, the planet, our world is in. Spiritual awakening, soul activation, shows us everything is changing. The Trinity Supermoon Portal, due to close with the lunar eclipse super blue full moon on 31 January is propelling us through this process. Humanity strives to reach the tipping point of fear to love. As unified consciousness spreads, illuminating our world, we try to make sense of it all. We come to see clearly the problems and seek long term solutions.


Humanity unifying as a planetary people under one name Gaia, is our path forward through cosmic chaos. To rebuild, redesign and recreate systems, foundations of society, built on love, peace and compassion. This is our calling. To liberate Gaia and her people from slavery, mind control and predatory oppression. We do this by starting with ourselves. Our immediate reality transforms with mindfulness and gratitude. We integrate self care into our daily lives, resisting toxins and toxic people. We embrace high vibrational activities, nature and people. We are creative beings, we are manifesters. To tap into our creative potential is to trigger an awakening of our soul. Our chi starts pumping through our chakra system, waking up our energy, brightening our aura, raising our vibration at a cellular level.


Everything is circular, a spiral of convoluted quantum multi verses. Keep pushing through the sludge of karmic purge. As transmuters, creators, alchemists we are deep cleaning our world of dark, dense, sticky, tricky, heavy karma. At times we may feel we are caught in quicksand, sinking down into lower frequency energies. At other times we are soaring, flying, riding waves of high frequency bliss. This is transcendence. This is evolution. We are living it, breathing it, making it happen. What we are looking for is within us. What we seek is deep inside us waiting to be activated. Turn the dial up cosmic suffers. Even as we get sucked down into the sludge and the grime, the relentless fear, drag ourselves back up to spaces where light fills our beings. Connecting to universal love frequencies, nourishing us from the inside out, as we transform ourselves and our world.


Take one day at a time. Use mantras to set intentions that can be revisited throughout the day. Listen to energy, tune into your energetic environment, to others, to cosmic vibrations. Work within these parameters. Be quiet, be vivacious, be wise, be kind. We are riding the crest of a gateway wave of planetary evolution. Go easy on ourselves at this time. Prioritise self care to enable completion of upgrades. Meditate, float to beautiful music, dance around the kitchen, chat to those who resonate, give space to those who don’t. Tap into dreamstate for inspiration and karmic clearing. Eat well. Stay hydrated. Rest and be creative. Stretch our mind, body and soul. Listen to our soul waking up. Follow our heart, our passions, our dreams and hopes. Honour our true path, our highest space of being. Find our true nature. Learn to walk to the beat of our own drum. Quieten the ego with a healing hug, reenergise with holistic healing therapies. Plug into nature. Hit flight mode and take some time out. Be light. Be love. Be grounded in Gaia.


We are mid quantum leap. We are recalibrating whilst still following routines, honouring responsibilities and running round the rat race. Holding our heads above the matrix waterline. We are being upgraded without going offline. Cosmic evolution has introduced us to the fifth dimension now we need to consolidate those higher frequencies into our mindbodysoul systems. The Trinity Super Moon Portal offers us the opportunity to integrate and solidify DNA activation. We can stabilise in the fifth dimension. We release fear frequency, embedding our energetic beings in love vibration. We are expanding our consciousness, we are living through momentous times. Kansas is going bye bye and a new world is coming our way. Peace is possible beautiful people xxx


Mantras


I will have/am having a calm/safe/joyful/creative/efficient/peaceful/fun day.


I inhale love and exhale fear.


I connect at all times to universal love frequency.


I am safe, I am safe, I am safe.


Namaste.


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Thursday, November 23, 2017

Yes, There Is A Way To Work Through Family Conflict Mindfully. Here's How

Yes, There Is A Way To Work Through Family Conflict Mindfully. Here's How

Photo: Maa Hoo
While Thanksgiving grants us an opportunity to give thanks and reunite with loved ones, it also puts us in tight quarters with family members who may may know how to push our buttons. Conflict in families is natural, but to make your holiday a happy one, here are a few practices that can help you move through tension mindfully.


Us
e the right phrases and avoid generalizations.


While it might be tempting to raise your voice if you feel like no one is hearing you, do your best to keep your tone even and use phrases that diffuse conflict. "Try using phrases such as 'I hear what you're saying' or 'I understand that you're upset' so your family member feels acknowledged," suggests psychologist Nathalie C. Theodore. Elizabeth Lombardo, Ph.D., suggests avoiding generalizations and "you" statements. "'You' statements like 'you never help out' or 'you always sit on the couch' come off as accusations," she says.


Breathe.


It seems so simple, but practicing a little breathwork can make a world of difference. "Just breathe and let it go," says Theodore. "When you're home for the holidays and everyone's at each other's throats, sometimes the best thing you can do is take a deep breath and agree to disagree."




Focus on being happy and present.


Do you want to be right and perfect or present and happy? Lombardo suggests you aim for the latter. "Your uncle is not going to suddenly change his behavior, and your mother-in-law is not going to suddenly gush over what a great mom you are. Don’t expect them to be perfect. Your mantra can be, 'I accept people for who they are' or 'I get to choose my reaction to my family. And I choose happiness.'"


And on the note of happiness, Lombardo suggests not focusing on convincing your family of how wrong they are. "Focus on being happy, not right," she says. "By this I mean don’t try to convince your family that they are wrong now. Now is not the time to make sure others admit to being wrong. Instead, concentrate on topics and activities that you can engage in together that will bring more joy to you and those around you."


Make self-care a priority.


Last but not least, Theodore suggests you remember to be a little selfish when working through family conflict. "Always remember to make self-care a priority. If too much family togetherness has you feeling stressed, steal some moments away for the sake of your sanity," suggests Theodore. "Go for a walk, check out a yoga class, or call a friend if you need to blow off some steam."


Going through a hard time? Read about how the worst year of one woman's life led to the career of her dreams.