All the work we’ve been doing is making a difference. All the rummaging through stuff we no longer need, and then discarding, has given us some breathing room. Our housecleaning is paying off. When we do the work to clear ourselves out and lift ourselves up, we are enabling a new expanded awareness to come forward. We’ve typically been surviving by establishing habits to get ourselves through our day. That used to work for us, but now it may not because we’ve gotten ourselves stuck in a rut. If we mix up the order of that which we normally do, or change how we do them, we are forcing ourselves to be more mindful instead of running on autopilot. We are shifting from routine living to one that is interacting with the magical NOW.
The starting point to living as a conscious creator is to step out of the dream and bring your conscious awareness forward independent of the Maya (the dream.) To live by The Tao, also called The Way, is to live as an eternal being having a temporary experience as a human. The typical things that frustrate us don’t because we are no longer buying into the illusion. We just will not want to pick up the same old drama. Instead of complaining about not getting what we want, we are empowered to create it. What is the thing blocking our way? Old anger, hurt, resentment, fear, shame and regret. What is the answer? Forgiveness. When we forgive we are untethering ourselves from being karmically shackled to an unhealthy situation or a person with tendencies of a lower vibration. We don’t have to play it out because we have called in grace. The whole situation becomes flooded with God’s benevolence, love and mercy and we become free souls once again. Grace is The Way.
The Great Way is universal; it can apply to the left or the right.
All beings depend on it for life; even so, it does not take possession of them.
It accomplishes its purpose, but makes no claim for itself.
It covers all creatures like the sky, but does not dominate them.
All things return to it as to their home, but it does not lord it over them;
thus, it may be called “great.”
The sage imitates this conduct:
by not claiming greatness,
the sage achieves greatness.
Lao-tzu, The Tao, Verse 34
I pulled a card from the beautiful oracle card deck The Secret Language of Light. It is the 21st card named Soul Tree. It shows the tree of life springing up from the Earth as an Angel. The wisdom for this card inspires us to connect with nature and see trees as physical manifestations of Angels, to interact with them by asking questions and listening for answers with an open heart. They remind us to stay rooted in our strength no matter what may blow around us.
“When you know that trees experience pain and have memories and that tree parents live together with their children, then you can no longer just chop them down and disrupt their lives with larger machines.”
Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees
The trees right now are trumpeting a time of housecleaning. Their fiery foliage heralds a time of discarding lower vibrational energy, dusting off our wings and flying to new levels of experience. They coax the Angelic part of us to shine forth with a Light that is uniquely our own. Trees teach us to become the Angels of our better nature because we have cultivated the strength and compassion to live in harmony with nature as intended. They inspire us to live consciously aware and fully engaged in the magical NOW.
