Category: The Shift

On Elevated Levels

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It doesn’t take much to be a friend indeed to a friend in need. It doesn’t take a whole heck of a lot to sit and listen. To lend a compassionate ear. The kind of conversation that incorporates patience and kindness. To encourage a space that is safe and induces healing to occur. To be a manifestation of God’s lovingkindness in an active moment. To embody Grace, and give of it freely. It shows someone that the kind of unconditional love that comes from God does exist, and even if someone is on their deathbed, that can be a miraculous healing balm to the Soul.

I’m not talking about superficial gossip or gripe sessions. In his book, The Four Loves, author CS Lewis comments on people who seem to have the world at their fingertips but just refuse to be happy. He describes it as “the demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that hell should be able to veto heaven” This can become a virus of negativity and discontent. A malaise that has the capability of spreading from person to person, if one is not awake and aware, refusing to dive down into darkness, keeping their light shining brightly.

We have become so used to complaining that, as Lewis aptly puts it, “We want to be loved for our cleverness, beauty, generosity, fairness, usefulness. The first hint that anyone is offering us the highest love of all is a terrible shock.” What he means is, we tend to conduct personal interactions based on ego terms, but, when a conversation becomes elevated as to communicate soul to soul, it can be somewhat shocking. Our soul kind of does a double-take, and quickly tries to decide how to respond. But we will need to get used to it because this elevated level of communication is fast becoming the new normal.

Our world is rapidly shifting from ego mind-based matrix to something that is much more profound. Something that makes one want to be awake, and participate in their world. To awaken in man, a supernatural appreciative love for all the gifts life has to offer. When we take a moment to listen to someone who is truly in need, we nibble the precipice of Angelic action. Lewis, once more offers, “This is of all gifts the most to be desired. Here, not in our natural loves, nor even ethics, lies the true centre of all human and angelic life. With this all things are possible.” It is the act of carrying divine love in order to be divine love when needed, or, called upon. We can be this loving, this compassionate, this honest, we only need to summon the courage. He goes on, “God knows, not I, whether I have ever tasted this love. Perhaps I have only imagined the tasting.”

On Being Human

by CS Lewis

Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence
Behold the Forms of nature. They discern
Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities
Which mortals lack or indirectly learn.
Transparent in primordial truth, unvarying,
Pure Earthness and right Stonehood from their clear,
High eminence are seen; unveiled, the seminal
                 Huge Principles appear.

The Tree-ness of the tree they know-the meaning of
Arboreal life, how from earth's salty lap
The solar beam uplifts it; all the holiness
Enacted by leaves' fall and rising sap;

But never an angel knows the knife-edged severance
Of sun from shadow where the trees begin,
The blessed cool at every pore caressing us
                 -An angel has no skin.

They see the Form of Air; but mortals breathing it
Drink the whole summer down into the breast.
The lavish pinks, the field new-mown, the ravishing
Sea-smells, the wood-fire smoke that whispers Rest.
The tremor on the rippled pool of memory
That from each smell in widening circles goes,
The pleasure and the pang —can angels measure it?
                 An angel has no nose.

The nourishing of life, and how it flourishes
On death, and why, they utterly know; but not
The hill-born, earthy spring, the dark cold bilberries.
The ripe peach from the southern wall still hot
Full-bellied tankards foamy-topped, the delicate
Half-lyric lamb, a new loaf's billowy curves,
Nor porridge, nor the tingling taste of oranges.
                 —An angel has no nerves.

Far richer they!  I know the senses' witchery
Guards us like air, from heavens too big to see;
Imminent death to man that barb'd sublimity
And dazzling edge of beauty unsheathed would be.
Yet here, within this tiny, charmed interior,
This parlour of the brain, their Maker shares
With living men some secrets in a privacy
                 Forever ours, not theirs.

The Help Hub

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I imagine that we’re so very busy in the astral whilst we’re sleeping. Now is such a dynamic time, I see Souls staffing something called a “Help Hub” where someone can go to be directed to their new work. Don’t think this couldn’t actually be happening during our sleep while we dream. It follows the theme that people are getting organized to start new phases of their lives. We each have a calling and we are about to step into it, if we haven’t already.

A second form of helping is a reciprocal exchange. Someone pops into our lives to give us a hand and directs us to look inward and locate our home, that infinite, unwavering depth of oneness and Light that is at our core. We accept the help with gratitude and offer something in return to show our appreciation. This exchange, blessed by God.

Sometimes in the search for God everywhere out in the world, desperate for a real connection, it sometimes leaves us feeling deserted. God has not deserted us, the connection we are yearning for is not outside us, it is inside. It is when we look inside that we discover that God is in the home that resides within each of us.

“God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.” –Hebrews 6:10

Our way home to the truest part of our infinite selves, is to know ourselves beyond the socialized matrix of the mind-constructed reality. When we find it, we want to rejoice that we found home again. That deep heart-based presence of our home being at our core. In that Light, we are whole and complete and perfect. We take our divine home wherever we go. When we resonate with the Love that we are, our world reshapes around us. Realizing we are worthy of receiving any and all gifts that we are blessed with now. 1/22 is an Angel day (today) so expect a wink and a smile from your Angelic family, perhaps a surprising appearance of something that reminds you how much you are loved. Be open to new gifts; your worthiness is real.

“The first characteristic of the spiritual life is the continuing movement from loneliness to solitude. Its second equally important characteristic is the movement by which our hostilities can be converted into hospitality. It is there that our changing relationship to ourself can be brought to fruition in an ever-changing relationship to our fellow human beings. It is there that our reaching out to our innermost being can lead to a reaching out to the many strangers whom we meet on our way through life… But still- that is our vocation: to convert the hostic into a hospes, the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.” –Henri Nouwen, from his book Reaching Out

Changes are accelerating. Mayhaps that is why there is such a need for a “Help Hub.” People sharing a common goal, a sense of family, each wielding their own individual special skillset, all in service and being directed from within according to divine guidance. In that spirit of networking to make forward progress toward common goals and solving common problems. Keeping forward momentum going, helping others as we go, help will come as needed. Where will it come from? It is all around us, we just may not see it yet…

 “Don’t be afraid,” the prophet answered. “Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. -2 Kings 6:16-17

Just as we, in service to the greater good, agree to appear to be of help to someone else… help appears for us, from all around. And that is just how it is to live in Mother Earth’s flow. The synchronicity is real. The flow carries us. In the flow and exchange of energy creating something greater than the sum of its parts.

Moving Forward

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There comes a time when we look around at all the struggle and mish-mosh in the world and wonder what this is all leading to. Where is this taking us? The world that we view, tends to reflect what we are able to see. All the scary stuff of the old systems in their devolement and collapse. They are driving us inside ourselves. Many of us have gone inside to hide, but what is happening is that it has turned into a cocoon, and we are going through transformation from the inside out.

Courageously seeing our shadows and stripping down our egos. Our hearts opening to our traumas and Light pouring in on an inward trajectory, cleaning and clearing and lifting. Blame and resentments no longer have their enticements because we realize we can no longer hide behind them; realizing that we don’t really want to anymore. Being forced to look at what no longer serves us to clear the clutter and let it all go. Whether aware of it or not, the cleaning and clearing happening in the outside world is also happening within. We may feel lost, like our GPS has been stuck rerouting. We may feel a bit raw and vulnerable, like someone has torn away all of our covering and protections.

We will find our footing again. When we realize the enormity of the adjustment we have just gone through and are still going through, we will be amazed. Be willing to see the positive improvements in you and out in the world. They are there, I promise. Learn to call on your own Light and that of the Creator. Ask for assistance when you need it, expect it will come, and apply healing in a thoroughly loving way. Surrender all resistance to the pressure to give up our old self and receive The Light. Everything is falling into place according to the Flower of Life in order to flow in harmony with our dear Mother Earth, and that includes every one of us. Our Angels and Guides are here helping so know that all is okay. Whatever you need help with, ask. Trust the process and keep moving forward.

Whatever we have to go through, know it will be worth it. Sincere gratitude having been chosen to be here going through this amazing time. My heart spills out Love for the entirety of it all and everyone involved. Humanity is being given the best do-over, ever and my heart wants to rejoice.

Harmonizing

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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Masculine and feminine energies are coming into balance and harmonizing, which brings the whole world into balance. Amen.

When we can see and be seen, out in the open and not hiding anything, disarmed and trusting, we can come to a deeper love. Through this process though, the release of old unhealthy patterns release. Shadows emerge to be healed. Defenses come down so we can come more into our hearts. The subconscious may also present challenges from childhood patterns. If we can resist the urge to run, but if we choose to be even more present and mindful, our fears can fall away, allowing us to expand to where we can live a deeper, fuller life. Passion can drive us to seek resolution by healing ourselves, overcoming all barriers by which we are confronted. We do it because our relationship is worth it and when we rise, we rise together.

Sonnet

by CS Lewis

The stars come out; the fragrant shadows fall
About a dreaming garden still and sweet,
I hear the unseen bats above me bleat
Among the ghostly moths their hunting call,
And twinkling glow-worms all about me crawl.
Now for a chamber dim, a pillow meet
For slumbers deep as death, a faultless sheet,
Cool, white and smooth. So may I reach the hall
With poppies strewn where sleep that is so dear
With magic sponge can wipe away an hour
Or twelve and make them naught. Why not a year,
Why could a man not loiter in that bower
Until a thousand painless cycles wore,
And then—what if it held him evermore?

Here the Whole World

by CS Lewis

Here the whole world (stars, water, air,
And field, and forest, as they were
Reflected in a single mind)
Like cast off clothes was left behind
In ashes, yet with hopes that she,
Re-born from holy poverty,
In lenten lands, hereafter may
Resume them on her Easter Day.

Peace and Promise

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A symbol of peace and promise with the innocence of a dove.

So imagine you are Noah. You’ve been adrift with your family with no land in sight for over a year. You don’t even have a clue whether any land exists anymore. You’re family is getting tired of water and keeps asking “are we there yet?” So you pick out a bird that can travel long distances, a raven, and send it off to go scout for land. The raven came back with nothing. So you tell your family to hush up and get back to fishing. Time passes, your family refuses to eat another fish. You have to do something, so you choose a different bird… a dove.

Why did Noah choose a dove? The symbolism of the dove goes way, way back, and it varies a little bit. Ancient goddess traditions relate the dove to traditional feminine sexuality and mother symbolism. Alexander the Great sought wisdom from oracles that were associated with the dove. Slavic culture believes that the soul turns into a dove at the moment of death. Christians hold the dove as a form that the Holy Spirit can take, as well as a symbol of peace and promise. But across ancient cultures, before Christianity, the dove was considered the embodiment of maternal instinct. Noah and his family needed a sign of hope that new life was possible and his family needed the love and caring of the mothering dove to find it.

Native Americans honored the dove and used its feathers in prayer sticks. It’s soulful song became associated with life-giving water holes and springs. We westerners typically associate it with mourning, but on a deeper level, out of its mourning emerges new waters of life. This is a reminder for us that no matter how life looks right now, new life is still possible. Interestingly, the song of the dove in some Native American cultures is known as “the rain song.”

In the Bible, Dove is used for many things. In Song of Songs/ Song of Soloman, dove symbolizes long-standing fidelity between a man and a woman and is used as a descriptor for the Soul that we see in another’s eyes.

“Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.” -Song of Solomon 4:1

Song of Solomon 5:12- “His eyes are like doves beside streams of water, bathed in milk, sitting beside a full pool.”

Just as dove is used to denote the Soul’s presence in the human body, the song of dove is also used to denote grief and mourning when the soul leaves the body.

Isaiah 59:10-12- “We grope for the wall like the blind; we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men. We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us. For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities.”

When I look at both of these, I see dove’s innocence, dove’s unabashed willingness to embrace its own self. Dove’s utter surrender to being dove, being 100% committed to being the core of dove when all of the layers are peeled back. Dove is unable to undertake any other method than to follow dove’s heart. Dove’s appearance in the Bible as the physical manifestation of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:16, Mark 1:10, Luke 3:22, John 1:32) leaves us to ask another question, why did God choose a dove? We may find a few clues in the Bible.

“be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.” -Matthew 10:16

There are several other references to dove being used as offerings signifying that it is considered a clean animal. That would make the choice of dove an appropriate choice for a vehicle for God. What is noteworthy is that God chose dove as a vessel for the Holy Spirit both in the Old Testament and New. Dove is a very potent symbol to Jewish people and Christians alike. So here one more way dove shines so brightly, as a bridge-builder between faiths, and that comes directly out of the maternal instinct of loving dove. Dove’s appearance now as a symbol of peace and promise in the world during this time is significant. When we let dove into our own heart, we can embrace our innocence.

Whirlwind of Change

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In our swirling, whirlwind of a world, it feels like everything we thought we knew as dependable and constant, has become a liquified collection of facts. Things that used to be are doing a complete turnaround in a different direction. How can that be? My feeling is, and you may not like hearing this, that this is how things are going to be. There is an ocean of new energy to be embraced and in order to swim we are going to have to let go of old ways of thinking and doing things.

We’ve crossed a threshold. As we strive to figure out a new map of how to go forward, it becomes clear that it’s up to us to decide how we’re going to live. Are we going to stay in old familiar fear driven survival or are we going to rise to live an empowered creative love-focused life. Dream big and even bigger. These dreams will find fertile soil to grow now. Plant those dream seeds. Let go of all sense of control and move forward with excitement. Feel your dream in all it’s entirety and let it grow to full fruition because it is already happening.

Tapping out any faltering thoughts or doubts because they are not ours anymore. Leaving problems behind, we step forward into the light. Rather than putting so much into what we don’t want, we begin to spend our time and energy on what we do want. The air has caught a new vibrancy that is calling us to leave behind all we thought was real in this reality and embrace our best life, our best dreams.

In this whirlwind of change, belief is king.

Dawn is Coming

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God and Mother Earth are moving forward rapidly.

As we consciously work together to make the world a more positive place, I am feeling victory emerging from a swirl of chaos.

Advice:

  • Keep rising up with The Light
  • Use your wisdom
  • Drink plenty of water
  • Focus on your own energy
  • Go back to your baseline when things feel wonky
  • Exhale everything that no longer serves you
  • Let your body reprogram, recode and repair
  • Set the intention to connect with the new Christ Consciousness grid
  • Line up with the North Star and let it all go into The Light
  • Inhale light, freedom, joy, love and your best life!

In the past we may have attracted others to help us heal our inner wounds and unhealed traumas. The shift means now we will start attracting those who are are truly meant to be in our lives. That is exciting. We are aligning and harmonizing with the higher vibrations. We can feel that it’s different this time around and know that it has become clear that this is the way now. You are starting to create the life you have always intended for yourself and once and for all everything is going to start to feel right.

If you feel tired and unmotivated, then you may be picking up on the energy of the Collective. There are a number of dense emotions being released by the Collective as we rise. Send them into the Light and clear your own energy. The pressure is on us to evolve and rise above a multitude of things.

Tea to Relieve Mental Stress

1oz Reishi tincture

1oz Rosemary tincture

1/2oz Gotu Kola tincture

1/2 oz Milky Oats tincture

1/2oz Passion Flower tincture

Add a small dropper full to a glass of water and drink throughout the day.

This tea can also be made hot by steeping the ingredients in dried herb form in boiling water for 5 minutes and straining.

Don’t forget to treat yourself to a long hot bath or a walk outside in the fresh air in nature.

Breaking Chains

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I always felt MLK Jr’s words were for everyone. Wisdom like that doesn’t come along very often in leadership. It has always been my belief that nobody can own another and that true equality exists between humans on a soul level because we are each eternal souls in a human body. That is what makes us truly equal.

It is the light that shines from inside of us that reaches out and touches, that gives evidence of our uniqueness, demonstrating who we truly are. Can we break out of all limitations and shine our best, our truest light? It is possible to drop the chains holding us and step forward as beautiful, magnificent fractals of God.

Breaking Chains

by thinkcarebelieve

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Let the Light come into Humanity’s Hurt,

The pain and sorrow that hang, inert.

To permeate the hearts of greed and power,

That makes the kindest souls shrink and cower.

~

The Battle of the Shadows is now ending,

Mercy and forgiveness starts the mending.

If you’ve never felt another’s pain,

Then go stand naked in the rain.

~

Light shines into Humanity’s Heart,

So we see each Soul from the start.

The Golden Rule must be our guide,

So we can start the healing… worldwide.

~

Inspired to Inspire

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My Guidance is letting me know that we are making progress. As darkness dispels and decreases, People, Lightworkers showing up and coming online is on the increase. The wheels of progress in this magnificent change happening without falter. We must remember to go inside and feel into the silent stillness for our guidance from our divinity within, so that we stay on track, abiding humility, careful not to feed ego.

As dormant gifts emerge, they become buoyed by our light and we simply cannot deny them. We feel the Song of our Soul calling our gifts forward. The elegant organic dance that is taking place, as if a spell has been broken and for the first time people are hearing the call that entices them to rise.

Our bodies, the temple within, carry the divine spark that whence ignited, begins to flame and sputter. We seek to maximize that divine energy in everything we do. To channel the potent life force energy in our work and send it outwards to reach the scared, dormant, cut-off part of another may be one of the most noble pursuits one could undertake. By being in touch with one’s own passion, in all innocence, releasing it out into the world to perform a “seek and find” for those who are ready and just waiting for our signal. Inspiring another to long for and reach up to that God force energy in its purest form. That is the goal.

It is Chi, the Mana that feeds us that we are channeling through our bodies and through our work. It touches others and communicates directly. It helps them by inspiring them to rise above the problems of the world to resonating with a lighter, better version, and magnetically drawing it into our reality. Mother Earth is already a diverse, bio-dynamic, loving force to be esteemed. Starting with our own temples, cleaning and clearing our bodies of heaviness. Because maximizing our own life-force energy is the gateway to bringing heaven to Earth. We can shift our path by aligning our choices with this higher life energy, then we will naturally create more opportunities to anchor higher energies into our world. When we know the joy of this life-force, feeling so vibrantly alive, others are inspired to make higher vibrational choices too. It is the gift that is within us, and all around us.

Inspired

by thinkcarebelieve

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Greatly known My Soul akinder,

Wings of flight take off a-winder.

Glorious glowing slippery-sliding,

Progress made, no more hiding.

~

Not known from whence awareness came,

Perhaps in dewdrop or lion’s mane.

By evidence, a fire has been lit,

Passion swells and does not quit.

~

A force of life in honesty,

Touches a Spark in dormancy.

Inspires it to rise from awaken,

Choosing, committing, the new path taken.

~

Knowledge Sets Us Free

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As we inform ourselves, and open our eyes we realize that so much of our old tightly held beliefs were pure illusion. That is a freeing feeling. Knowledge sets us free and we are only limited by our willingness to understand.

Many of the large global systems of the world, corporations and governments have been leading us in a dark direction. We are standing up and speaking out. We have educated ourselves and are letting them know that we know their tactics… and we are not getting frustrated any longer because we have rewired ourselves and disconnected the buttons they used to push to make us fearful. We’ve dealt with our shadow and we are moving forward in the direction of the light. We are so much stronger than we realize, particularly when we stand up together. As we understand ourselves and eachother better, we able to see the world in a way we can accept and work our way forward, together.

I think the most surprising truths coming out is role that agencies have played to lead the public astray. Those in agencies who took oaths to protect the public at large, when in fact, evidence is showing that has not been the case. When we see evidence released that our own government may have been involved with the JFK assassination, then we know truth is making it’s way into the light. There are puzzle pieces, there are details and facts, connections to be made and revelations that make us say “Wow”. Most of all, we need to forgive ourselves for feeling foolish for believing this or that, for not speaking out when we should have, for not being able to stop certain things that affected our family and friends.

We have to do this. We must go through this metamorphosis to divest ourselves of the darkness that has plagued us for centuries. We must shed this tight old skin and step into our expansive new future. As we learn we rise up and use those lessons as stepping stones. Be strong, be brave, be bold. We got this.