Showing posts with label Surrender to the Process. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Surrender to the Process. Show all posts

Friday, January 11, 2019

Kate Spreckley: ECLIPSE CORRIDOR | SPIRIT PATHWAYS

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daily inspiration 9 jan 2019

dialy inspiration 9 jan 2019



We are in a very pivotal time as we move through this eclipse corridor, which opened with the Solar Eclipse on the 5th. The incoming energies are intense and triggering the release of old, heavy emotions. Until the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse on the 20th we are moving through a powerful purification process. Old pain and trauma is surfacing for one more final clearing making room for further healing, expansion and growth. As a result, everything is being accelerated and we are moving forward at warp speed.

Everything is coming together, and it is important that you stay hopeful about the future. The energetic environment is shifting and while you may not understand exactly where you are going know that a new and radiant pathway is opening for you. So much is changing. Trust that you are opening to new potential. Remember to surrender into the process, feel your emotions and flow with the energetic currents.



Much love,
Kate

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

The Akashic Records of January 2018 (an excerpt from the Monthly Message) by Jen Eramith | Akashic Transformations



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The Akashic Records of January 2018 (an excerpt from the Monthly Message):


The energy this month brings a sense of being flattened or spread broadly. It is not as if you have been stomped or harmed, but more like you have been gently pressed into a new form. The feeling is that things are lower -- there are fewer possibilities and there is less room to move. Imagine lying underneath a mattress. You are not being crushed to death. In fact, it may be a little bit reassuring or comfortable. But you cannot move much, and you cannot see farther than the tip of your nose. In the same say, you will not be able to get much done and you will not be able to make many choices. When you try to make choices, the range of possibilities available will be very small. When you make a choice, you will not be able to act on it quickly or effectively.


This month brings a sense of silence. The sense is that the sound of the universe is muffled. Another way you can imagine the energy of this month is like paint with a matte finish. There is less of a shine on everything. Despair may come up this month, and some of you may feel depressed or hopeless. When these feelings arise, take it as an opportunity to rest, slow down, and be tender with yourself. Do not read too much into a feeling of despair that may arise this month. These emotions seem to indicate a response to the oppressive energy, and less a sign that something is going wrong.
The best thing to do this month will be to take one task at a time, and one day at a time. Let yourself move through each day -- one event, one breath, and one moment at a time. As you move through time, you will develop a new rhythm. There is a beauty and a sense of surrender when you accept the limitations that surround you, rather than fighting to resist or change them. That is the wisdom contained in the month of January 2018.


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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

How The ‘Spiritual’ Community Has Made A ‘Demon’ Out of the Human Mind

How The ‘Spiritual’ Community Has Made
A ‘Demon’ Out of the Human Mind

Posted By Joe Martino, Collective Evolution


What does it look like to live from your heart? What is the mind’s role in our experience? In my 10 years of studying and practicing living from the heart, I’ve discovered an emerging trend: The spiritual community has made a demon out of the mind.


There is no doubt that the mind is the source of suffering — the incessant thoughts and worries, the endless ego stories, the mental tricks we often play — but this doesn’t mean the mind as a whole is the problem, nor does this mean we should avoid the mind.



It seems now that any form of thoughts, ideas, planning, logic, and so forth get put into the category of “not in the flow” or “being in the mind,” and this is simply a misunderstanding. I’ve seen people try to avoid their mind like the plague, to avoid thought, avoid processing, just because “the mind is evil” or other such misconceptions. So, let’s dive into how the mind works so we can better understand its true role.


How Our Mind Works in Our Experience


You are a soul, playing out a physical experience on this planet. Your soul enters a vehicle called the body that allows us to have a physical experience on Earth. The body is made up of a number of essential parts including your brain, which is comprised of many components that ultimately serve to decode this reality into something that isn’t simply an energetic soup. It also allows us to process important aspects of the human experience, using things like logic and calculation so you can understand how to walk, run, jump, communicate, build, create, and so forth. Your consciousness USES the mind as a tool in the human experience.


For example, when you receive information from your higher self, through your heart to your physical experience, the mind processes that information and learns how to use it within this experience. The connection between the heart and brain is quite evident scientifically, and the heart actually sends signals to the brain to communicate. The mind is a key factor in the entire relationship between our mind, body and spirit. One can’t function fully within the human experience without the other.


Where We’ve Become Unbalanced


So now we know that the mind is actually here working in our favour to have the experiences we need. But it’s also important to mention that in some ways, we’ve gone off course a bit.


The mind is layered and also contains a powerful program called the ego. The ego can essentially be broken down into two layers: upper ego and lower ego. The upper ego has the basic understanding that we are separate, in experience, from others and are playing out an individual identity for the purpose of evolution. The lower ego is more about intense and increased separation, strong identity attachment, fear, and incessant stories. The lower ego has served us by showing us what it feels like to be disconnected from our true selves and from others, unable to live harmoniously with the Earth, animals, etc. This has been a tool in many ways, but our challenge is now to overcome the power it has and learn to find our true selves beyond it.


Why is this happening now? Living with it in the driver seat has already taught us what we needed to learn from it, but for quite some time, we’ve been resisting the change that is being presented to us. It’s now time to move forward. This is why we’re seeing such a huge rise in interest in this topic collectively. People are exploring meditation, spirituality, the ego, and so much more as a reflection of a collective evolution.


To create this shift, from our ego being in the driver seat and from overusing the mind to living from our hearts and simply using ego and mind as tools, we must focus on creating more self awareness. We must pay attention to our thoughts for a moment and simply observe them. When we observe them we begin to see that, though they are part of our experience, they are nevertheless separate from us. Over time we learn to quiet those thoughts by not giving them so much attention or weight and by using tools like meditation.


This is a journey. It’s a practice, not something that happens overnight, and like building any muscle, it takes time. Here are a few tips to start to quiet the mind.


How to Live From the Heart and What It Looks Like


When you begin to identify less with the ego and incessant mind thoughts, you begin to FEEL more. This does not mean having more emotions; this means having a deeper feeling within your heart. Some might call this following your intuition or listening to your gut. It’s about paying attention to the subtleness of each moment, the energy and nature of what exists in presence.


What does this look like? Are you ‘zenned out’ constantly? No! This is where a huge misconception comes in. Living from the heart does not suddenly mean you don’t think, you don’t do work, you don’t live life, or that you meditate all day. It means you begin experiencing this life with your heart driving your experience. It means doing things from a space of heart-driven consciousness rather than what your ego is telling you to do for reasons you can’t quite describe. It’s doing things because they come naturally versus out of fear or worry. It’s about doing things because you feel it’s what you need to do, not because you need to be keeping up with the Jones’ or following trends everyone else is jumping on. There’s no emotion behind it; it’s simply neutral and it flows lightly.


As you live from the heart you still use your mind, your body, your logic, your creativity, etc.; your actions are simply guided by something entirely different and your ego becomes a quiet program that sits off in the background. Your monkey mind doesn’t have the same power it does because you are dialed in to something different.


Do you need to meditate to get into the heart all the time? At first yes, but eventually, no; it becomes completely natural and part of your everyday way of being. It becomes automatic.


The process of moving from a state of being in ego or mind almost all the time to living from the heart starts with getting the ‘stuff’ out of the way. You have to ask the important questions: What does it mean to be a human on this planet? Who am I? Why do I do what I do? What do I feel I really wish to be doing right now? Why am I concerned with my appearance or with what someone said about me?


When we all begin to live from the heart, we no longer need to operate using theories or philosophies of how to be. Instead we live naturally through oneness consciousness, which is what’s already emerging from our hearts. We care for one another, we create systems that work for everyone, we treat each other as equal because we do not judge differences, and we collectively create a world where we can all truly thrive and utilize the gifts we each came here with. Living from the heart is where we are headed, but we must do the work to embrace it and move it along. It won’t happen by simply waiting.


It’s a Process — Let It Unfold


Practice self awareness to avoid being hard on yourself during this process, but also be aware of the limits we often place on ourselves to justify certain behaviours. We often want to say “We’re only human,” meant to imply that we make all ‘mistakes,’ but it’s a slippery slope to constantly justify the avoidance of evolving beyond old patterns that can be challenging to transcend by accepting it’s part of ‘being human,’ when it’s not. This is probably one of the most limiting statements we can actually make about ourselves, as who we truly are is not human, but a soul of infinite potential HAVING a human experience that happens to be going through a massive evolution in consciousness at this time. The statement also allows us to blame the human experience rather than taking responsibility and looking at who we are and why things happen, and truly understanding and shifting our experience.


Allow the various tools of our human experience to be there, understand the role they each serve, and avoid demonizing any one of them. They are there for a reason and, as far as the mind goes, let’s remember how important it truly is in decoding our reality. Demonizing useful thought, logic, planning, and creation will only limit our ability to thrive and let our true self shine through.



https://openheartedrebel.com/2017/09/25/spiritual-community-demon-human-mind/

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Nature Does Not Have Expectations Ann Albers a message from Ann Albers

Nature Does Not Have Expectations

My dear friends, we love you so very much,


Release yourself from the bondage of expectations dear ones. By all means, have intentions, goals, dreams, desires, and wishes, but then release life and yourself from expectation and live now. Make the best and happiest choices you can make now. When life does not look as you expect, bless it anyway. When you do not feel as you expect, bless yourself anyway.


There is far too much time on earth wasted in resisting life. There is far too much energy spent wondering what "should" be, rather than dealing with what "is." There is so much agony over what "isn't going according to plan" rather than surrendering to a "higher plan."


So look forward to the unexpected! Allow yourself to get up every morning and pray. "Dear God, Dear Angels... this is what I would like to happen today. I ask for your help and release my expectations as to how this must look. I trust that everything that comes my way today is in Divine and perfect order." Then dear ones, live that way. No matter what happens, remind yourself, "I am loved. I can make the next most loving choice." In this reality you are dancing with love, flowing with life, free to move forward without resistance or attachment to how you think life must look.


This dear ones is freedom - the freedom to choose love in each moment. Try it this week. Allow yourselves to be free from expectation. Set your intentions. Pray for your dreams and desires. And then... dance with life.


God Bless You! We love you so very much.
-- The Angels

Message From Ann
I dance with life all the time. My way is not always the way things work... in fact quite frequently my schedule gets rearranged by a higher power. It happened again last week....


I often spend special days in silence communing with God, my angels, and all that is. And so on my birthday, I was running out the door, with my hiking shoes on, backpack stuffed, and water bottles ready, when the sudden guidance to visit a friend became very strong. It was so strong that I changed clothes and changed my plans. I felt the angels smiling but had no idea what they were up to. And sure enough, I couldn't believe the outpouring of love that surprised me during the day as synchronicity after synchronicity brought me in contact with the kind and generous hearted people who made the day even more special that I could have asked for. I ended up hiking the following day and so was blessed doubly.


On an office day earlier this week I was running errands. Again, I got in the car, with my plans as to what I would do first, second, third, etc. It made "logical" sense. Instead things got rearranged. I had the impulse to change the order of my errands. As I was dropping off some items to donate at a thrift store, I thanked the young man unloading the car. He stopped in his tracks and asked me what color my eyes were. "I'm not sure today." I answered honestly, "They change." Quite innocently, he came up to me and peered into my eyes as if looking into the depths of the ocean. Without warning (to me!) the healing energy that comes through my eyes turned itself on. My heart felt big as a barn and it felt like a river was pouring through me. He stood transfixed. I'm not sure what he felt, but suddenly he broke the gaze and shook his head and wished me a good day, looking back as he went into the warehouse. I felt so much love pouring through my heart it was amazing. I may never know what just happened there, but I do know God was pouring love through me to this soul that I encountered in a dance of divine timing.


So when you think you know how life "should" look, as the angels say, lighten up a little. Be willing to change plans, be flexible, and trust that if you get the urge to shift things around or if something doesn't look the way you thought, just dance with life as the angels say. People are not always cooperative... move around them. Life does not always look as we think - Assume there is a higher order. It is a more relaxed and wonder-filled way to live :)


Love you all! Have a blessed week.


Ann


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April 2015 Astro-Energy Report: Keeping It Real By Sarah Varcas


 
April 2015 Astro-Energy Report: Keeping It Real
By Sarah Varcas



This month’s astrology has the feel of Fresher’s Week at university, when arriving students are oriented to their new life. Choices abound and the air is heavy with potential and possibility. Excitement is everywhere, fueled by a new-found freedom alongside anxiety, homesickness and sometimes a hefty dose of fear. We are those students and life the university. Last month’s solar eclipse on 20th reshaped our future by shutting off paths not chosen and potential not realised, not as punishment for our not grasping the nettle but because life itself must move in cycles of becoming, fulfilment and demise, whether or not we join in. What was once an option becomes out of reach, hopes not yet fulfilled begin to fade, potential once vibrant becomes jaded. Last month saw an unequivocal completion of a cycle begun in 1997. This month sets the new one off on its travels. Where will it take us? Who will we become? What will be asked of and offered to us? April 2015 is a month of questions and learning to live with them is key to how it unfolds for each one of us.


Pluto and Uranus bring their influence to bear upon the Sun as the month begins. They remind us that wherever we find ourselves now bears the hallmark of who we are, whatever we make of our current circumstances. Astrology teaches that the life which ebbs and flows around us is characteristic of the life which dwells within. We each bear our own unique energy signature which we both offer to life and receive from it. The better we know the particular ‘key’ in which is played our life’s music, the more able we are to shape our experience into one of authentic fulfilment. We must know every note and every tone to be in alignment with the sacred field as it runs its hand across our strings, bringing to life their melody. Discovering and claiming as our own the harmonics of our unique key is the central task of human incarnation. Bringing into consciousness every subtle harmonic nuance and each discordant clash, we become ever more deeply anchored into our life’s special melody, playing it with insightful intention not the desperate need of an ego under siege.


The first week of April is a good time to review the landscape of our life: material circumstances, relationships, activities, anything and everything which populates the space of our everyday existence. Having done so we can ask ourselves ‘What of me is reflected in this?’. It is no longer enough to point the finger out there, be it at other people, fate or plain old bad luck and divest oneself of agency in one’s own life. What we see when we look out reflects aspects of what we see when we look in. The more willing we are to observe in this way the greater the insight gained into what this new cycle asks of us in the coming years. We encounter nothing in life which does not have the capacity to wake us up to who we are, to reveal and unfold aspects of both our false and real selves. Whatever we encounter, be it welcome or otherwise, can be used as a mirror to show us something of who we are and how we can edge ever deeper into the field of the sacred in which true power resides. Power to relinquish all that holds us back from expressing our authentic self and allowing others to do the same.


A Lunar Eclipse in Libra on 4th April bids us reflect rather than respond. It highlights instinctive behaviours born of old habits and past experience. The discomfort of not quite knowing where we’re headed at the moment, the blank slate of possibility or a sense of restlessness that demands a response, can all seduce us into action now, regretted further down the line. Temperance is needed, patience, and a willingness to allow life its own timing. This is a time for deep listening not rash decisions. A time to sit in the silence and allow inner wisdom to bubble to the surface, for it knows all that we need and is the most compassionate arbiter of our life. This new cycle, so fresh in its infancy, will require a deep and abiding relationship with our inner sage and this eclipse is our first opportunity to demonstrate just how committed we are to our side of the bargain!


Jupiter stations direct in Leo on 8th April, after four months retrograde. This time has offered ample opportunity to observe ourselves as both ego and divine, to embrace the fact of both and discover our true identity as a fusion: ego shot through with divine essence, sacred presence filtered through the self in all its unique richness of personality and identity. As Jupiter prepares to move forward once more we can more powerfully commit our egoic self to sacred service. The eradication of ego is not the agenda here, but instead its purification, bringing it into alignment with a deeper source of wisdom that shapes its expression and activity for a greater, more transformational end. This integral aspect of conscious evolution will be under an increasingly bright spotlight in this new creative cycle. Too long has ego either held sway to its own ends or been battered into submission by itself! The evolutionary imperative now is one of offering ego up to sacred service, allowing it to shine a light on the path ahead, enabling us all to walk it together.


We may encounter inner resistance to change this month, alongside an internal imperative to do exactly that! This paradoxical state reveals how our minds work when we’re not really sure what’s going on! We either want things to stay the same, affording the comfortable familiarity of the known, or we want to be at the outcome of the change process, fully fledged into our new life. We don’t, however, feel quite so excited about the process in between! It confuses us. We feel lost, especially at the start when old ways are no longer possible but the new path has yet to reveal itself. We are uncomfortable with being a work in progress unless we know what that work will look like eventually. Trouble is, right now we simply cannot know that. It is way too early to envision where we are headed from here. So abide in the confusion and unknowing we must, resting there in faith, allowing the questions, anxieties and fears born of uncertainty to rise up and speak before fading once more into the silence.


Between 12th and 15th April a Yod formed by Neptune, Mars, the North Node and Black Moon Lilith alerts us to the power available when we anchor deep truth into our every day consciousness. Together, Neptune and Mars exhort us to commit to the long haul of conscious evolution, not seeking a short cut to escape the fray of challenge and change. By embracing exactly where we now find ourselves, whatever form our present takes, we are signalling to the cosmos our willingness to do what is necessary to further the interests of the global community as a whole; to honour Mother Earth and all her creatures, and to walk this path together for ourselves and each other. Power lies now in recognising that we simply cannot do this alone, that we must each do our part for the continued awakening of the Sacred Self in the everyday. It is not necessary to escape elsewhere to realise our divinity. We can know it fully, here and now, in physical form in this material world. The duality of this paradoxical realm is fuel for the fire of awakening not a distraction from it. Its rough edges and sharp corners serve to remind us where work is still to be done, truths to be uncovered, wisdom to be lived and breathed as we do the very oxygen needed to survive. When Pluto begins a five month retrograde passage through Capricorn on 16th April we will be left in no doubt that escapist tendencies will get us nowhere and getting to grips with the world in which we live, its environmental challenges, interpersonal struggles and practical paradoxes, is now paramount.


A New Moon in Aries on 18th/19th April reiterates the importance of knowing the ‘key’ in which the song of our life is played and the ability to recognise when something or someone is in tune with it. We can know this by just the kind of deep listening required at the lunar eclipse. This practice of careful attention to our inner knowing must continue as a feature of our everyday life if we are to navigate the coming months with the level of discernment necessary to liberate the Real Self further. This new cycle of becoming requires deep anchoring into the earth plane even as we expand our knowledge of life’s multi-dimensional nature. The ability to know what and who will assist us in this process is vital. Identifying those places, circumstances and people who will support us to ‘keep it real’ rather than live a spiritual lie, has never been more important than it is now.


The final ten days of April provide ample opportunity to get back down to earth if we still need it! With the Sun, Mercury and Mars in Taurus it is time to feel our feet on the ground and honour the deep and abiding support that our planetary mother provides us every day. Ultimately we do this for her. All of it. For if we cannot live in a manner that honours and supports Mother Earth we cannot live, end of, and past exploitation and disrespect is coming back to haunt us now. So whilst we may not know on a personal level quite where we’re heading, on a planetary one we can be very clear: we are heading further into crisis if we do not own the part we play in the protection or destruction of our beautiful home. If we focus on nothing else at this time, we can focus on that: loving our Mother, thanking her, honouring her, recognising her awesome power and heart-wrenching beauty. As we do this we bring ourselves back home, extricated from future fantasy and self-deception into a vibrant, earthed relationship with the circumstances of our lives and all beings within it. Only once we have done this can we truly know where the next step needs to be taken, for it is in the present moment, earthed and grounded, that we now receive the deepest guidance from the divine within.


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Sarah Varcas



Tagged as: Black Moon Lilith, Conscious Evolution, Conscious Relationships, Coping with emotions, Deep Truth, earthed spirituality, embodied spirituality, embracing the shadow, facing fear, Lunar Eclipse, managing change, managing the mind, Mars, Mars in Taurus, Mercury, Mercury in Taurus, Moon cycles, Neptune in Pisces, North Node in Libra, Personal healing, planetary healing, Sun, Sun in Taurus, unity consciousness

 

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

A short update on the upcoming lunar eclipse | Aisha North

For now, much has been set into motion that will take more than a few of you by surprise, as the incoming crescendo of light that will accompany the darkening of the moon will be such, it will literally blow the lid off the deepest of reservoirs within. And when this treasure trove opens, much will be put into action in ways that will be apt to take more than a few of you by storm. For as the moon darkens, you will all begin to light up in a way you have not been able to do before, and as such, this upcoming period will be one of great enlightenment for all. But as usual, with the light also comes strife for those so inclined, as the refusal to accept these emissaries will be met with an increase in pressure that will set alight quite a few incendiary flames within many a troubled soul.


So once again we say, expect the unexpected to arise left, right and center, but do not look upon this as a message of doom and gloom. Rather, it is a reminder that with the light comes change, and as change is a concept that is oft met with the strongest of resistance within the very depths of mankind, it will in turn engender a veritable smorgasbord of reactions within your environs. Be that as it may, always remember that the greatest effect it will have, will be for the benefit of all, even if it will make quite a few individuals out there chafe at the reins because they see little or no options as what to do with all of this internal pressure they will feel arising within them as these emissaries continue to gather at their door. For this time, they will not leave, for this time, they will be insistent and so, whatever will be construed as a blockage is where the pressure will be increasing the most.


So expect to see annoyance arise within people around you, perhaps even within yourself, but know that this is simply an aid for you all to openly embrace the incoming light fully. And the more you are able to put aside any ideas of being in control in the upcoming days and weeks, the better this incoming energy will be at helping to release the inner workings that will greatly assist you and the rest of humanity in the time ahead.


For upheaval as such is not the goal of this energetic session that will shortly commence, rather, it is a well coordinated mission to liberate what has been trapped for eons, and as such, the path towards attaining that goal may be construed as more uneven than usual. For as we said earlier on, this time, the well-wishers and the aid workers will not stop from making their presence felt no matter how stubbornly some amongst your fellow men may cling to the belief that they are untouchable by the light. For the light will find a way in, even to the seemingly impenetrable of hearts, and when they do, a reaction will be set off in all, causing actions that will span the entire bandwidth of human psyche.


And so we say stay centered, lest you should be caught off guard by some of the machinations of your fellow men, for as is usual when the enlightened pressure increases, the will to lash out in fear and confusion will arise within those still set on maintaining an impenetrable perimeter against it. Of course, they will not see that the reason their anxiety will grow is that there is something within them that will start to vibrate in compliance with the incoming frequency, and so, all they will be able relate to, is a confusing current of discordant energies boiling within that will cause them to blow their lid in all sorts of ways. Be that as it may, for the ones such as you who have already embraced the idea of openness towards the light, this upcoming period will be an uplifting one indeed, as it will serve to catapult you even further on that illustrious journey you have already embarked upon. And so for you, this upcoming swell in the energies will simply envelop you in an extremely beneficial bubble of uplifting energy.


So take this to heart in every sense of the word, and know that your current status is one that will once again be enhanced by what will be coming your way in a few days from now. So stay tuned, and stay open to what is coming in, and stay alert lest you should come within reach of someone’s eruptive behavior as this flow of enlightened consciousness continue to build in momentum and in strength, and you will all find yourself sailing smoothly through these rapids, continually picking up speed as you go. So let your heart set the course, for the heart will never set anything in your way. For the heart is more than willing to embrace all of the light being offered to you, and so, it will help you to welcome it all in ways that will benefit you the most. So stay calm, and allow yourself to become elated as these incoming elements of enlightenment start to knock on your door. For they are here to lift you heart, your soul, and all of your being to a new height that might feel dizzying at first, but will soon feel just like home for you all.


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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

21st/22nd January – 11th February 2015: Mercury Retrograde in Aquarius: What Lies Beneath? By Sarah Varcas | Astro-Awakenings


Mercury retrograde in Aquarius, Mercury retrograde January 2015, identity, ego & essence, managing the mind, opening the heart  “Claiming the World” by Gary Rosenberg


21st/22nd January – 11th February 2015:

Mercury Retrograde in Aquarius: What Lies Beneath?
By Sarah Varcas | Astro-Awakenings



Mercury stations retrograde in the 18th degree of Aquarius at 3:48 pm GMT on 21st January, one day after the Aquarian New Moon. The Sabian Symbol for this degree speaks of unmasking to reveal true motive and intent. There is nowhere to hide as Mercury journeys retrograde in the coming weeks. Deceptions large and small will be revealed whether we like it or not, not to destroy those who perpetuate them (which we all do to some extent) but to provide a wake-up call which both course-corrects and realigns us with truth and authenticity. We will all have the opportunity to look ourselves in the eye and see who’s really looking back at us, before painting on the face we prefer to show the world.


The power of this Mercury retrograde cycle cannot be overestimated. Conjunct the Moon and opposing Black Moon Lilith and Jupiter in Leo, it resolves to pull no punches and take no prisoners. Nor would we want to be held captive, for the promise of this time is that of freedom from the constrictions that our own deceptions and inveiglements perpetuate. We are speaking here not of intricate scams executed to deceive but of the everyday twists and turns we undertake to avoid coming face to face with who and what we truly are. It is time to illuminate our inner world and look around with eyes wide open to all that we see. To recognise that the parts of ourselves we would prefer to avoid are as much who we are as the bits we readily embrace, but we may be so good at the game of pretend even we don’t realise we’re playing it!


Identity is an issue here: emotional investment in the person we perceive ourselves to be. It’s time to look at the labels we choose for ourselves and why they mean so much. Whether spiritual, political, religious or otherwise, we all adopt them and they can be useful to identify our allegiance in a complex world. But all too often these labels become an identity invested with increasing significance as time passes. How does it feel to drop them, to be label free and simply ourselves for a while? How does it feel to fade into the background, not defined as anything or anyone? How does it feel to drop even our own name and become a nobody: nameless, without identity or substance; empty of meaning?


It is just such an experience that labels and identities seek to avoid. Few things are more unsettling than the feeling of being completely pointless, of no significance to anyone or anything. Inconsequential. Everyone seeks purpose to give life and its ups and downs meaning. It is human nature to do so. But right now the cosmos seeks to blow all that apart so we can experience what lies beneath the ‘I am this, that or the other’ to discover the ‘I AM’ which sustains everything without fuss or fanfare. To embrace so fully our chosen identity we must necessarily cast a blind eye to that in us which doesn’t fit the image. Therein lies the most fundamental deception. In fact we are all things. No one is completely consistent within and without. It is the tension of paradox and the oftentimes absurdity of the human condition which propels us onward in life, seeking answers, meaning and wisdom sufficient to accommodate all that we are. On route we settle for less than authenticity and truth in an attempt to fit in, be acceptable to ourselves or others and garner a sense of meaning and purpose. We become alternative versions of ourselves at different points on the journey into wholeness, but ultimately peace lies at the point where we can be everything and nothing, simply alive and resonant with the energy which ebbs and flows through all things. To identify requires separation: ‘me over here being this and you over there being different’. To drop identification allows true connection beyond the false barriers we build between ourselves and others.


This retrograde passage of Mercury requires a willingness to be nothing in order to be all that we are. It exhorts us to release our most cherished identities, even for just a while, to experience what lies beneath. The more we emotionally invest in notions of ‘I am this type of person living this kind of life’ the more we are likely to trip over our own identity in the coming weeks, not because we are wilfully lying about who we are, but because we are inevitably so much more than any label can allow us to be. The radiant and universal heart is neither augmented nor diminished by identification. It simply cannot be defined in terms that satisfy the human mind so remains outside of our awareness as long as we unwittingly adopt and perpetuate identities which do. In the coming weeks we can step out of the need to be someone, into the sacred field which connects us with all things and renders separation non-existent. When life subsequently demands that we pick up identity again, as it will inevitably do, we can do so with less emotional investment, less energetic striving, secure in the knowing that any self perception is a pale reflection of the vastness of the divine which forms our very essence.


Enjoy this time of Mercury retrograde. Let your self fall away. You’ll be so much more alive for having done so.


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Sarah Varcas

Friday, September 26, 2014

The New You: Becoming the New You by Selacia


go ahead the sun is out

The New You: Becoming the New You
by Selacia

Sept. 24, 2014

"Do you ever feel like you are stuck in the middle, like you are in between worlds?
It is like one world is the old existence you thought you were done with and the new world is not yet fully formed.

This feeling of being in a void is in fact common on the path of awakening. In fact, the more conscious and awake you are, the more you will be able to sense subtle shifts in your life phases. It’s actually natural to have moments when you sit in a void, a space within which creation of the new is taking place. Your conventional mind may worry that nothing is happening – so untrue!

Your spiritual transformation, after all, is a process over time. Never a finished product, you continue to push the envelope, relentlessly seeking to express more of your authentic divine changemaker self. During phases of experience, you grow spiritually and shift in countless ways.

Since this is a typical part of the path, why do these cycles of change seem so much more intense now?

First of all, most everything can seem more extreme these days because of the volatile energies present in this cycle of history. Even right now as things feel a bit lighter and optimistic, there is so much uncertainty and change in the air that only the most skilled people can effectively handle the ups and downs.

Another big factor in the intensity of living now is the sheer magnitude of changes you and others are undertaking in this single life. You have a lot on your plate, to be sure, much more than in earlier lifetimes when perhaps your biggest challenge was discovering how to succeed in your family’s business. If only it could be that simple this time around, you may be asking!

It’s normal to want things to be simple, all buttoned up in a nice package with a colorful bow. The simple you long for, however, is an illusion based in linear conditioning that is too limited for the quantum you emerging now!

The new you emerging over time in this life indeed is quantum. That is your true nature and it is vast. You were born during these auspicious times – full of potential to leave nonworking linear approaches behind – to embrace this vastness.

This involves a steep re-learning curve, for you have forgotten how to live as a multidimensional being. At a core level, of course, you don’t really forget. However, your human lifetimes have conditioned you to think small and to see the world in black and white. Your cosmic self knows that you are integrally connected to everyone and everything – not just on Earth but across the cosmos."

Copyright 2014 by Selacia – author of Earth’s Pivotal Years, healer, and teacher * All Rights Reserved * www.Selacia.com * Feel free to share these articles with your friends and post to your blog or website as long as you include this copyright line and the full article text.

go ahead the sun is out

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Solar Flares Anonymous! | Dana Mrkich - Evolution Revolution

 

Solar Flares Anonymous! | Dana Mrkich - Evolution Revolution
Friday, September 12, 2014


The Sun has released some powerful solar flares over the past few days - an X flare and a few M flares, and I've noticed something really interesting over the last couple of months. 





In years gone by these flares would really rock us, whereas now a flare helps me feel balanced and more alive. Even if it triggers things to the surface, it's over with quite quickly and I emerge out the other side feeling a lot clearer and even re-invigorated, refreshed and re-enthused about life. 



I find the days with no flares to feel very hibernative (which we also need, but there is such a thing as cabin fever or retreating so far inward as to feel like you're flat-lining). When lots of big flare-free days build up there's a palpable feeling of tension building - so I kind of find myself hanging out for a major eruption! Hopefully this isn't some kind of addiction - Solar Flares Anonymous anyone? - but just a natural, healthy response to what is much needed vitalising energy coming to us via the Sun. 


Obviously becoming dependent on anything external for a shot of vitality isn't in alignment with 'it's all within' but I just had to be honest and say I'm loving the flares lately! This doesn't mean it's all been happy happy joy joy - it's definitely triggered some stuff taking things to a new and ultimately healthier level - but they just feel so efficient, productive and encouraging. 


How are you all feeling?


(c) Dana Mrkich 2014
 

Monday, September 8, 2014

DAILY OM ~ September 8, 2014 Silent Change: Letting Nature Work

"Change can enter our lives silently and this change can be just as important
as change we have worked hard for."



by Madisyn Taylor


"We all see things about ourselves, our relationships, and our world that we want to change. Often, this desire leads us to take action toward inner work that we need to do or toward some external goal. Sometimes, without any big announcement or momentous shift, we wake up to find that change has happened, seemingly without us. This can feel like a miracle as we suddenly see that our self-esteem really does seem to be intact, or our partner actually is helping out around the house more. We may even wonder whether all of our hard work had anything to do with it, or if it just happened by way of grace.

As humans, sometimes we have relatively short attention spans, and we can easily lose track of time. We may worry about a seedling in a pot with our constant attention and watering for several weeks only to find ourselves enjoying the blooms it offers and wondering when that happened, and how we didn’t notice it. Nature, on the other hand, has infinite patience and stays with a thing all the way through its life. This doesn’t mean that our efforts play no part in the miracle of change—they do. It’s just that they are one small part of the picture that finally results in the flowering of a plant, the shifting of a relationship, the softening of our hearts.

The same laws that govern the growth of plants oversee our own internal and external changes. We observe, consider, work, and wonder, tilling the soil of our lives, planting seeds, and tending them. Sometimes the hard part is knowing when to stop and let go, handing it over to the universe. Usually this happens by way of distraction or disruption, our attention being called away to other more pressing concerns. And it is often at these times, when we are not looking, in the silence of nature’s embrace, that the miracle of change happens."



photo: Nature's Lace, Bussey Hill by Phoenix Boulay

Sunday, August 31, 2014

NorthPoint Astrology Journal by Pam Youghans September 1 to 7, 2014




NorthPoint Astrology Journal by Pam Youghans
September 1 to 7, 2014


Highlighted Aspects:
MON: Mercury enters Libra; TUE: Pluto sesquisquare Venus; WED: Pluto trine Sun; THU: Saturn semisquare Mercury; FRI: Pluto quincunx Jupiter, Venus enters Virgo, Uranus sesquisquare Venus; SAT: Neptune quincunx Mercury; SUN: Pluto semisquare Mars, Chiron opposite Sun


WE START to breathe a little more easily now, with the Saturn-Mars alignment behind us. While it's true that this alignment represents focused effort and a renewed commitment to creating a life of purpose and passion, it's also a heavy energy to work with.

When Saturn and Mars are joined, we usually are aware of a greater seriousness of purpose. But we can also feel lonely, overwhelmed, or even depressed with the burden of knowing we are ultimately in charge of our progress or lack of it.

IN THE WEEKS AHEAD, as Saturn continues to move forward in Scorpio and picks up speed, many will start to see movement in areas where we have felt stalled, perhaps since the beginning of the calendar year.

Due to being retrograde (moving backward) from March 2 to July 20, Saturn is now revisiting terrain it first crossed in early December 2013. Plans and goals that were first conceived around that time, that have been slow to get started, will now either find their sea legs and gain strength, or be found inadequate and discarded for new, improved versions.

PLUTO appears several times in our list of highlighted aspects for the week. While some of these aspects represent challenges, the strongest is a helpful Pluto-Sun trine, exact on Wednesday.

Pluto is known as the Great Transformer, always assisting us in a process of metamorphosis, moving us from one state of being to another. Like the butterfly who must leave the cocoon, we are urged by Pluto to leave behind old definitions of self, as well as old habits and methods that were born from beliefs in limitation and lack of power.

THESE TYPES OF CHANGE always involve adjustments and alterations in how we have created life to this point, and especially in how we perceive our position in that life. Pluto ultimately encourages us to gain new levels of empowerment, and if structures in our life have been built on foundations of seeing ourselves as "less than," those structures necessarily must change as the butterfly emerges.

Those changes and adjustments are represented by the other Pluto aspects this week. On Tuesday, the Pluto-Venus aspect provides evidence of how relationships must shift going forward, and we become aware of what resources -- personal and financial -- are really available and supporting us.

The Pluto-Jupiter aspect on Friday helps us see that we must let go of our need for permanence and consistency if we are to allow the new joy we've been seeking to manifest. And, Sunday's Pluto-Mars aspect reveals the remnants of old power struggles that are based in purposes and desires that are no longer valid in our life experience.

WE'LL BE STARTING to work with the energies of another SuperMoon by the end of this week. Chiron is exactly opposite the Sun on Sunday, and then becomes a major player in the Full Moon on Monday (September 8).

Chiron, known in astrology as the Wounded Healer, provides both the awareness of a wound or fear, and the opportunity to heal the issues related to that wound or fear. Chiron is currently in Pisces, presenting faith and surrender as antidote to the fear of the unknown.

Barbara Hand Clow writes that Chiron in Pisces requires "the deliberate bringing down into body of the higher will and higher self." It is this process of merging the human personality self with expanded higher self / inner being / soul that Chiron offers as healing for the symptoms of disillusionment and separation.

Blessings,

Pam

Photo: Auroras over South Canol Road, Yukon, Canada on August 28, 2014 (credit: Joseph Bradley, posted on SpaceWeather.com)

Thursday, August 28, 2014

A short update on the energies | aisha north

Surrender to the process…all is well!

A short update on the energies | aisha north


Originally posted on aisha north:

The time has come to once again bid farewell to something that you no
longer need to carry with you. You see, as you are being propelled ever
faster forward by this incessant stream of light, you will continue to
be encouraged to lighten your load in any way you can. We know that by
now, many of you will feel as if that is what you have been asked to do
from the very beginning and that is indeed easy to understand, for this
has in many ways been an unending process of jettisoning old baggage.
But now, what we refer to, are not those old and ingrained habits of
yours that used to stand in your way. For these have been removed from
your being, even if some lingering traces can still be found here and
there. No, what we refer to now, is actually something far more…



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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Endless Loop | The Creator Writings

Phoenixfirebird:

Transcending fear and limitation…

Endless Loop | The Creator Writings


Originally posted on The Creator Writings:
"You can live in the endless loop of your own story or you can say, “I freely release this and allow myself to draw whatever wonderful things The Universe has to offer”. Truly opening yourself up to what can be is one of the most liberating acts of self-love you will ever experience." ~ Creator






Saturday, August 23, 2014

Inspiration of the Week: Accept What Is ~ by Shanta Gabriel


Inspiration of the Week: Accept What Is ~ by Shanta Gabriel

Accept What Is

We are drawing on the compassionate and timeless wisdom of The Gabriel Messages in these articles to provide insight and inspiration each week that we can bring into our daily lives.

For this week’s issue, the Gabriel Message is a wake-up call to greater empowerment of your life situations.

The Gabriel Message card for this week:

    Accept what is and allow change to occur around you without attachment.

I remember receiving this message and especially the difficulties I experienced with the concept, “accept what is.”

How could I even consider accepting the horrendous and traumatic occurrences I saw or read on the news? How could I accept what appeared in my life as the loss of all that I considered valuable?

It is a challenging concept, especially in this era of instant world-wide information with more awareness about what is transpiring not only in the lives of others, but in the life of the Earth and its sustainability. Yet what I have learned is that nothing can change unless I accept “what is.” I have to be very clear about what it is that I am experiencing so I can ask for something different. Often I need to recognize the recurring patterns so I can clear something from my past history, in this and other lifetimes. I am really aware that when I accept what is in my present time, I can address what I need because the contrast is so great between what I am experiencing and what I want to have in my life.

We come into the world as beings who want to experience and learn from the life we have chosen. We expressly volunteered to come into this time and place so we could help bring the changes the Earth needs to thrive in the New Life Awakening now. This includes our soul’s lessons and the empowered teachings we need in order to bring our own lives into a higher order.

When I do a private session, I always begin with prayer to set the energy and invite guidance. Then I ask my guidance to give me clarity about the person I am working with; usually something like, “Where are you now and what do you need to know?” These questions open doorways into the unconscious mind and the soul’s requirements for a next step in life. The discussion that ensues from that question is always enlightening and allows greater awareness to develop and be accessed.

The next key word is Allowing. We are becoming really alert to this word and its importance for living the happy life we want to live. There are so many things we do that get in our own way as we journey through life. The practice of Allowing demonstrates trust that we live in a benevolent universe and have a powerful built-in support system. It encourages us to step back from forward movement into our inner center of balance so we can receive all the love and support we need. Even though it feels insignificant, this activity is an amazing action step and is a requirement for greater Well-being.

In my classes we have been working with Light Field Technology for years, a system that works with Divine Light and emphasizes the higher frequencies contained in certain words since 2012. We can literally create a field of Divine Light within and around ourselves when we focus on these words and allow their frequency to work within our beings. We found that are three incredibly life-transforming words that all start with the letter A. They are Allowing, Acceptance and Alignment.

Alignment with Source energy is the beginning point for every change you want to make in your life and for the creation of health and happiness. For almost every question I bring up, Alignment, Acceptance and Allowing has been the answer. When I take those steps within my life, I experience a new level of ease and effortless momentum. A friend that I hike with regularly started calling this awareness the ABC’s of Quantum Living, which is a very fun yet powerful tool we will be working with in the next class. This series was inspired by the Archangels after opening the Stargate of the Heart on Solstice. The first teleclass begins September 4.

So when you look at all the changes you would like to make in your life, remember to apply the A’s to simplify that manifestation. Acceptance, Allowing and above all, vertical Alignment with your Source energy, are the keys. Truth is really simple, but it does take conscious awareness to apply. That is another reason it is called a Spiritual Practice.

Shanta Gabriel, 2014
www.Shanta Gabriel.com

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The Gabriel Messages #43

Accept what is and allow change to occur around you without attachment.

Dear One,

When we suggest for you to accept what is, we mean to be lovingly aware of all situations occurring in and around you — both personally and globally. This means to accept the appearance of what is occurring, without judgment. There is a greater truth underlying all things, no matter how it appears. When you accept a situation as it is, it allows you to release any attachment to having it be different. It is this attachment that can cause you pain.

Just as a child grows and blossoms when in an atmosphere of acceptance and love, so does our world become more expansive and creative when we bring to it this energy of acceptance. When we try to force a child to do what we want, when we have great attachment to his or her behavior conforming to our idea of what is appropriate, the child’s energy is restricted. There is no freedom to express the expansiveness of individual creativity.

This also happens to the adult. When there is too much judgment about behaviors and actions in the world, there can be no free-flowing expression of the creativity and love inherent within each person. This does not mean to be tolerant of behavior that is destructive. It means to be aware of the way things appear, to remember the greater truth, to ask for the qualities we would prefer to have manifest, and then to release our attachment. This allows God and the Angels to begin to work in and through all things.

When you release a person or a situation to Spirit, you allow them to be in the Divine Flow taking them to their highest good. Know that even though you have prayed for the greater good, you do not know precisely what this will look like. This is where faith comes in. No matter how something appears, if you have prayed, that prayer is being answered. It does not assist things for you to be attached to the outcome. Know that Infinite Intelligence is working, creating change in the direction of balance and harmony. If there is more that you can do, trust that you will be guided to know this through your intuition.

Acceptance and allowance are two of the greatest powers available to you. These two energies free you to live in the expansiveness that is your divine birthright. When you have an expanded perspective about life, there is greater freedom to express the dynamic, creative qualities inherent within you. There is greater love, for yourself and for all others. You also will feel connected to your Higher Self, which brings about great joy. It is as the Master Jesus said, “Know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Remember your message from the Angels today:

Accept what is and allow change to occur around you without attachment.

Shanta Gabriel, 2014
www.TheGabrielMessages.com

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Notes from A Third Conversation With Cobra August 5, 2014 Posted on August 6, 2014 By Elizabeth Whitney | Beyond the Horizon



Notes from A Third Conversation With Cobra August 5, 2014
Posted on August 6, 2014
By Elizabeth Whitney | Beyond the Horizon



Elizabeth: I know there are a lot of hot spots on the planet, but what I am sensing is that there is a really big overview you can offer. Are you feeling a big wave coming through that is affecting everything?

Cobra: What kind of wave are you speaking of?

Elizabeth: Whatever this build-up toward compression breakthrough would feel like as it is getting stronger. The sense that things are being destabilized across the board.

Cobra: Yes, it’s a process and, yes, it is intensifying.

Elizabeth: I live in area where what we are talking about is the housing crisis. We are all being driven out of housing. There is affluence for a small group and yet everyone else is in trouble. And then there are parts of the world where it is full-on war and terror and madness, I would say. Do these pieces fit together into the elements that would bring about the Event?

Cobra: Actually what is happening now is the purification of all suppressed darkness. Everything that was suppressed before is coming to the surface. This is not an easy process and that is why people are experiencing so much discomfort. This discomfort will be ended at the Event, so this process needs to go through. What was suppressed needs to be cleared. Needs to be purified.

Elizabeth: Is this what is being done on the etheric plane? Pulling it out to be purified?

Cobra: Yes, there is intense purification on the etheric plane right now.

Elizabeth: What is that process like and how has it changed in the two years of this intense work?

Cobra: What basically happens is the Light Forces have a certain technology which removes negative beings from the etheric plane, and it also removes their technologies from the etheric plane. In the last two years there was massive progress in that area. You need to understand that this etheric plane and higher planes were accumulating all kinds of energies and beings from thousands and thousands of years and in two short years I would say we have managed to clear the majority of this.

Elizabeth: From your perspective, where do you see we are? Are we coming into the last loop of the process? I’m trying to imagine what it is like to be in the thick of what you are doing and how you see the status of things.

At this point, I lost all the rest of this recording through some kind of mysterious mis-instruction to the recorder, so I can’t reproduce Cobra’s words, which are always crystal clear. I can share the gist of this experience and hope it has value. My intention from the beginning was to refocus on the Compression Breakthrough theme and see if there were some indications that we were close to it. Here are some things that did evolve from the conversation.

Cobra said that the process of going into the dark and purifying it was far more difficult than was anticipated. He used the onion analogy saying layers were peeled off and that they were down to the core. Once the core is dealt with, then the Event will happen, so we can say that it is close now. That felt like a piece of good news.

When we talked about the events of the world, he encouraged me (and all of us) not to allow ourselves to be led by the Cabal into swallowing the mainstream news, which he says is deliberately elevating issues into fear-mongering. The Ebola outbreak, for example, does not include the fact that the Cabal has the antidote for the virus if they want to use it. He explained that there is the mainstream news being fed to us and there is the reality behind the scenes that will never make the news.

I find this an interesting dilemma that makes us on the one hand have to shield ourselves from the impact of the news and our reactive behavior and also gives us no real news to chew on. I think of this as one of the challenges that we have as we feel starved for real news and why we are so indebted to Cobra for what he tells us. The value of intel is really critical to our ability to ride out this time and the skills we need to navigate it are difficult to acquire. Cobra wants us to continue to practice discernment and use of our inner guidance.

In a December 3, 2013, interview with Alexandra Meadors, she asked: “How do we decipher between that which is so-called real, and not real?”

Cobra: You combine your intuition—I am speaking about trained intuition: your own contact with your higher self—and your rational mind. By the rational mind, I mean the mental body, which is trained by educating itself. When you combine those two, you can get pretty sharp. You can’t always discern, 100 percent, but you can get much more accurate than any external information source. You will begin to see patterns, energy signatures. You will begin to see that disinfo comes in a certain way, it has a certain structure, and you will be able to get better and better with practice.

This leads into the whole issue of how heavily we are programmed, a subject that came up. We have layers of obfuscation between the reality that we could be interacting with from a position of native intelligence and what we are being fed. We have manipulations implanted in us that lower our intelligence, etheric holograms projecting images of negativity and technologies that block our free will and positive initiative. Overcoming these requires effort, discipline and courage. The work of the positive ETS on the etheric plane is helping this and these are areas in which we can support each other.

We got into a discussion of duality and Cobra explained that the artificiality of duality, such as the sense that darkness must exist to define the light, is completely false but deeply imbedded. Negativity and everything associated with the dark he defined as a disease, just as those who perpetrate it are diseased beings. After the Event all these situations will dissolve, as will disease. In other communications, he has described the return of balance, such as the balance of the masculine and the feminine, which is not the same as duality.

A false reality that has been defined us for thousands of years is being peeled off in layers. The programming includes a psychological veil between us and the truth. This deliberately distorts everything we experience and colors it with emotional reactions like fear and anger. We consider this normal now and it is reinforced in the mass media that the Cabal controls and all institutional centers of learning and history, also under their control. As we continue in the purification process, my impression is that the depth of centuries of deception is becoming more and more obvious, and this is what we are coping with in our time. We could look at “the news” through this lens, the horrors of history being unraveled before our eyes for the last time.

Once again Cobra emphasized the power of our unified meditations as our most effective defense against the darkness and deception in which we are embedded. He expressed that the next phase of this movement needs to be more unified and introduced the theme of cooperation. He spoke of a plan for all spiritually inspired groups, “new age to old age” to join together at the same time on a regular weekly basis to create a powerful field of positive energy. This idea came from one of the Dragon Families suggesting a weekly time of meditation, harmonizing all the spiritual paths, and building what he beautifully described as a Network of Light. These meditations will express a state cooperation that has not yet occurred, an issue that includes situations within Dragon families as well. It is important to note that encouraging and creating a field of cooperation is a key theme now and very relevant to bringing the Event into reality.

I asked him about the cosmic nature of the Event since we had heard from the beginning that it will be instigated by a pulse from the center of the galaxy. He replied that our planet is interactive with the whole galaxy. We do not exist separately from it. We are relevant to and it is relevant to us, so what is evolving here is very significant. We are both sending and receiving signals. That we don’t know this is again part of the delusion that has been our conditioning and isolation.

Cobra spoke of the recent conference in Taiwan and the significance of being a center of one of the most densely populated places on the planet. It is a microcosm in a sense of the whole of humanity. He has no plans at this time to be in the US. He seemed pleased with the conference and continued his theme of the progress being made at each of these conferences.

Since I wasn’t able to record the whole 45-minute conversation and didn’t take notes, thinking I was recording, I think the most valuable thing I can offer in its place is my own sense of the overview I was seeking. This is my third interview with Cobra [the other two were November 16 and March 17 and are on my blog “Beyond the Horizon” at timebandit15@wordpress.com]. I always start these interviews hoping I will get a specific piece of information that confirms we are on the threshold of the Event. Like so many people following this information since 2012, we live in a state of perpetual anticipation and have to balance this with persistent patience—not easy! Each time I imagine Cobra giving me the inside scoop…but he gives me something else instead.

This interview particularly felt relevant to show us how we can participate in the Event rather than wait for the Event to change our lives and solve our problems. The clue, to me, was the word cooperation. I feel we can turn our attention to that theme in all the aspects of our lives and find that it is feeding the great vortex that is coming called the Event. We can examine the fragmented way we function with our allegiances to specific teachings and practices and see how we can merge those into a larger field with others who have similar dedicated lives. The idea he launched of creating the Network of Light and regular hour-long meditations once a week struck me as a powerful insight. Global meditations are evolving as we know right now with several pending timing dates, the August 8 meditation and one planned for September 21 as the Global Day for Peace, and finding a formula for a weekly practice that could grow organically feels like a natural evolution for the meditation movement.

The consciousness of the Event has been defined by Cobra on many occasions. On his April 12, 2012, blog he wrote:

To reach the critical mass of kinetic energy required for the Event, we are adopting a certain strategy. This strategy for overthrowing the dark Cabal is constant non-violent critical mass resonance of truth, revealed in the face of opposition. If you constantly and coherently reveal the truth in the face of the mind matrix created via mass media, this will dissolve the last power base of the Cabal: the programmed group mind of humanity. If the truth is exposed, all lies are dissolved. Truth creates a web of light on the mental plane for divine intervention that then manifests on the physical.

The Event occurs when Compression Breakthrough occurs, defined as follows:

This planet is in a sandwich. There are light forces above the surface of the planet in the sky—positive ETs—sending light toward the surface of the planet from above. Then there is a resistance movement underground. All of these forces are holding the light below the surface and sending the light toward the surface. So the surface of the planet is in this compression. All of the darkness that was compressed on the surface needs to come out, because the light is constantly pressuring it to come out, so that it is processed and healed and removed. When the light from below meets the light from above at the surface, that’s the moment of compression breakthrough and that’s the moment of the Event.

[Cobra interview, November 16, 2013, timebandit15@wordpress.com]

These two quotes describe the process that we ourselves are engaged in to liberate the planet and bring about the world we yearn for. Cobra and the Resistance fighters are deeply involved in the darkest and densest aspects of the purification but we, too, are involved. If you are reading these words, you have woken up out of the hypnotic spell of mass programming. It’s a one-way street and it leads into a warrior path of self-purification. Indulging in projecting so-called darkness on others is not viable on this path. Being reactive to political situations we cannot comprehend is not viable on this path. Surrendering to a state of cynicism and bitterness is not viable on this path. Cobra’s challenge to us is the path of the heart, which means to face and forgive that which has enslaved us. At that point we and the Event become one and the same.


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My tags: Earth, Compression Breakthrough, Surrender to the Process, Transmuting Energy, Layers of Darkness, Anchoring Light, The Event, Transcending Fear & Limitation, Reality Constructs, Duality, Deception, Discernment, Meditation, Co-Creation, Galactic Family, Proactive, Deeper Truth, Resonance,

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Outrageous Openness – Letting The Divine Take The Lead By Lissa Rankin, MD

Outrageous Openness Letting The Divine Take The Lead

Outrageous Openness – Letting The Divine Take The Lead


24th July 2014
By Lissa Rankin, MD
Guest Writer for Wake Up World


We’ve been taught that in order to get what we desire, we need to either force our desires into being through hard work, sweat, and tears. Or we need to apply the Law Of Attraction, whereby we visualize what we desire, say affirmations that affirm that we already have what we desire, and “manifest” the desire into being. But what if there’s another way to deal with desire?

In her book Outrageous Openness, a book which seriously changed my life, Tosha Silver teaches that the Law Of Attraction, improperly taught, is merely another way to push/strive/struggle in order to bring our desires into being. What if instead of making it happen, we acknowledge our desires, but then turn them over instantly to Divine Will?

Surrender in this way is also not about becoming a desireless zombie or getting rid of your desires. But it’s also not about handing a shopping list to God, filled with specifics about exactly what you want and when you want it with the expectation that God will fulfill all your desires. As Tosha says, “God is not your Costco. God is not your bitch. God is not here to grant all of your specific wishes like some cosmic fairy godmother”. The Law Of Attraction implies that you know what’s best for you. God doesn’t.

But what if it’s not about getting what your ego wants but instead, allowing Divine Will to lead your life?

Tosha’s prayer is one of utter surrender. “Take me over! Use me! Make me yours!”



Can You Trust? Can you imagine letting go of attachment to all your desires, really trusting that living in Divine alignment will be more fulfilling and meaningful than anything your ego might conjure up? Can you dream of trusting that you will be shown your part in the cosmic orchestra in the perfect way, in the perfect time? If that feels impossible, if you can’t bear to trust that the Divine has a plan for you that might be better than your own, Tosha suggests saying a “Change Me” prayer. “Change me into someone who is ready to surrender.”


Here are some examples of variations on Tosha’s “Change Me” prayers, collected from Outrageous Openness.

When things aren’t going well at work:
I call Divine Order into my work. In the right time, in the right way, let my offering become available for the good of all, to all who need to be guided to me and to know.

When you’re looking for love:
The perfect partner is already selected. He/she is arriving in the right way at the right time. I am so grateful to receive him/her.

When something you want isn’t happening as fast as you wish:
My life is unfolding in Divine timing. All delays are beneficial. I’m always at the right place at the right time.

When you’re looking for clients:
I’m now available to receive anyone who can benefit from my teaching. Let all who need me find me. Let me help relieve suffering. The Divine is my complete Source for all prosperity and will provide.

When stressed about travel:
Let every aspect of this journey unfold in harmony. Let Divine Order arrange and show me every detail. The right airline connection, lodging, and all else are already selected and I’ll be guided to them easily. I’ll follow the leads as they are shown.

When you feel an impulse to be of service:
Wherever I can be a force for Love, please guide me. Take me wherever you wish me to go. Let me do your bidding.

When struggling to get over the painful loss of a relationship:
This entire relationship now belongs to Divine Order. It is in God’s hands and I am open to a miracle of completion The situation now unfolds in the perfect way for the good of all. I needn’t fear letting go; my needs are always met.

When trying to decide about whether to do something you can’t quite afford but wish to do:
Please show me if you wish me to go. If you do, please bring a sign, and a miracle. Please show your Divine Will in this matter and send a clear sign that gives the proper direction. And if for some reason I’m about to head the wrong way, please, please stop me.

When dealing with writer’s block:
I ask that if I can be of service, and I this be God’s will, that the perfect chances will arrive to pulverize this damn writer’s block once and for all.

When dealing with a customer service cluster f*ck:
With every fiber of my being I invoke God as my Source and cast the burden of this mess. I pray that the perfect people who intercede on my behalf will come at the right moment.

When struggling to find the perfect apartment or just the right parking spot:
I am now being guided to the right apartment [or parking spot] at the right time. It’s already handled.

When unclear about what’s next:
My perfect new path is already selected and will arrive at the right time. I’ll be shown the steps to receive it.

Then, after making these prayers of intercession, you have to let go and trust that it’s all handled, even if what shows up doesn’t look the way you hoped it will look.

Surrender to Trust

Tosha teaches that surrender is hot. It’s about committing yourself – not just part of yourself but all of your self – to being available for use as a Divine vessel. The ego doesn’t like this one bit and will get very tricky, trying to manipulate you into thinking you need to be in control if you want to bring your desires into being. The ego cannot trust that Divine will is better than the ego’s will and so it will convince you that there is much to DO in order to bring your desire into being.

Letting the Divine Take The Lead - Surrender Personal Will to Divine Will


Surrender needn’t be misunderstood as passivity. Sometimes inspired actions are necessary, and Divine will appears as an instinct towards enlightened action. You can tell the difference between enlightened action and ego-driven striving based on how you feel in your body. Is it “spanda”, the rising shakti that leaps you to your feet and makes you say, with a full body YES, “I’m doing this!” Or are you exhausted just thinking about what it will take to force what you desire into being? Say yes to spanda, because it’s a Divine yes. Say no to dread because it’s an ego trap.

Here’s the “how to” version of what Tosha teaches, boiled down from what I learned in her book and her workshop:

1. Notice your desire or the problem you feel you need to solve.

2. The minute the desire or problem arises, offer it over to Divine Will. Say a prayer or set the intention, “If I am to have this or solve this, please send a sign. If not, please stop me.” The act of the offering is what creates the conduit for the Divine to allow the inspired actions that arise spontaneously from within your own body, thereby opening space for receiving, none of which can happen when you’re grasping. She uses the example of reaching for a feather. The very act of grasping for the feather generates a wind current that pushes the feather away, but if you just stand there and let it float, if it’s meant to come to you, it can.

3. Release attachment to outcomes. Once you’ve offered over the desire or problem, let it go. In this moment, your desires become merely preferences.

4. Look for signs. The signs may arise as inner knowing or as external feedback. Are you getting the “in the flow” green light or is Universal Intelligence trying to stop you with the cosmic red light? Do youjust know what you’re supposed to do? Appreciate both “yes” and “no” guidance with equal openness and gratitude.

5. Pay attention to “spanda.” Surrendering to Divine Will doesn’t equal passivity. Sometimes you’ll be called to inspired action. Can’t tell whether or not to act? Then use your body as a compass. If you’re considering taking action, do you feel a full body YES that makes you leap up with enthusiasm? Or does your body feel exhausted at the mere thought of it? If an impulse to take action feels good to your body, do it. If not, keep waiting patiently, trusting that the impulse for inspired action will come when and if it’s time.

6. Follow the guidance. Guidance may appear as an exciting idea, an inner voice giving you instructions, a vision, or an external sign from the Universe. It’s okay to hesitate if you’re guided to do something you’re not ready to do. But if you get the same message ten times, try saying a “Change Me” prayer. “Change me into someone who is ready to take action.” Otherwise, you may remain at the mercy of the fearful small self indefinitely. If you perpetually avoid what you’ve been guided to do, you will not succeed in your Divine mission.

Are You In?

Will you commit to letting the Divine take the lead in your life? For inspiration, stories of how others have done this, and further guidance, read Tosha’s book Outrageous Openness (available on Amazon). In my endorsement of Tosha’s book, I wrote, “The holy grail is right here in this gem of a book. Tosha Silver’s wisdom goes down as easy as a mint milkshake and leaves you feeling so free you’ll want to do cartwheels on the beach. But don’t be fooled by the simplicity of this message. Look no further for an easeful path to enlightenment infused with rapture and hope, which comes as much needed medicine for the soul.”

I can’t recommend this book highly enough. Really, it changed my life.

Love,