Wednesday 29 May 2013
The Mermaid Diaries : The Tango and the Waltz: Learning to embody the Ma...
The Mermaid Diaries : The Tango and the Waltz: Learning to embody the Ma...: The triptych of eclipses has more or less passed; well at least in terms of the intensity of their influence. However their long term ef...
Thursday 23 May 2013
The World is my cauldron! Becoming an alchemist of change.
Yesterday had me running for the beach. The winter Sun was out in his splendour and glory and my mind and body were in serious need of a solar fix; a blast of his fiery cleansing rays.
Much has been changing and morphing over these past six months its hard to remember what it was like prior to December 2012, that so called watershed that cosmic counsellors have been waxing lyrical about for years.
I personally, never took too much heed of all the hell fire and brimstone theories but in retrospect there is no doubt that much has changed. Some of it has been hitting the proverbial fan, but in essence if you dare to slow down and seek deeply, (as would a mermaid), you will be blown away by the shift.
As I lay flat on the beach soaking in the life force I was blessed with a sky scape of brilliant blue: not a cloud in sight. As the minutes ticked by the odd lonely cloud blew in to view. Within seconds of a cloud appearing in my field of vision it would start to disappear. It was truly magical to watch. My eyes like a camera on time lapse took it all in, marvelling at the speed and ease with which this moist, seemingly dense body of water vapour just melted into nothing. Immediately I felt this same phenomenon begin to operate in my own body and mind. I knew now that nothing that I did not want to hold on to could be dissolved instanteneously.
The world was my cauldron!
There is great alchemy in the air at the moment. Greater than it's ever been. Our lives are the crucible in which we can make any magic happen.
I know we have heard it all before; the power of the Law of Attraction, you are what you eat, what you think about you bring about blah blah, but the potential of these ideas is now greater than it has ever been.
It's like up until now there was some weird almost tangible, physical structure that kept us somewhat at arms length at manifesting our dreams or our desires. There was perhaps an invisible thread that kept us connected to our 'reality". Even in the last six months it still felt like there were training wheels attached to our cosmic bikes kind of keeping us tethered at some level to a world and experience that we knew we wanted to change but it wouldn't let us go completely until we were really desperate and dying.
Nature has a way of being cruel to be kind. Animals toss their babies out of nests and into the dangers of the wild to get them ready for their best selves. However they still tend to keep a watchful eye on their young at first and bat the hell out of them if they don't get it right. This is what it has been like for those who have been tuned in to the change.
Those training wheels are off now and we are free wheeling and wobbling around trying to get in touch with our new found freedom. Its exhilirating and terrifying all at once but rest assured the grid we once lived with, the tracks we once followed have been lifted away leaving us with no road, no yellow bricks or even a gravel path to follow, for we are truly drivers of our own lives. The only thing is we don't really know how to drive now that the Highway Code has been axed. Making decisions for ourselves that hold fast the code of the heart; love, compassion, appreciation, joy and peacefulness is something completely new.
Anyone who carries an energy of being a victim, anyone who chooses to hold on to guilt or a sense of 'justification" is merely operating from the perspective of the rational mind. Our history reveres this view point, it calls it 'reality" it gives it the label of being realistic and intelligent.
The rational mind thinks it knows more than it actually does. We are a work in progress moving between the heart and rational mind and probably profoundly confused and possibly a little scared of giving in fully.
What we think or thought was reality is no longer a collective truth but the rational mind is still engaged and employed in this soon to be archaic way of navigating life and so there is a sense of conflict. We are interns in using this new vantage point of the freedom of choice.
We are in a phase where our birth right of free will are coming out to party. This process is guided by the heart whose connection to Source/God/Self is coming online, in fact we are already serviced with a broadband network via fibre optics... if we choose.
Changes on a personal and collective level will not come through tried and tested means. They will not morph by giving attention to the 'problem or attempting to fix what is broken, for the more we carry the vibration of needing to 'fix" something, whether its our body, the politics of a place, or our partner and children the more food you give to the idea of it being broken.
Transformation now comes from turning away from the dark, from our 'reality" and bringing more focus, more light to appreciation, joy, compassion and love.
There is no longer a real demarkation between inside and out. The boundaries between the perceived two states, like those clouds, are fast dissolving. How fast they dissipate is entirely up to us because in truth there was never anything that really separated us; duality was as fictional as we chose to make it.
The power that we see or saw in others, in institutions, out 'there" in the world, that seemed separate from our own was merely a reflection of what we chose to feel about our own divine majesty.
The sentence 'Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?" holds more truth now than ever so if you want to be state of the art, step right into your heart!
Much has been changing and morphing over these past six months its hard to remember what it was like prior to December 2012, that so called watershed that cosmic counsellors have been waxing lyrical about for years.
I personally, never took too much heed of all the hell fire and brimstone theories but in retrospect there is no doubt that much has changed. Some of it has been hitting the proverbial fan, but in essence if you dare to slow down and seek deeply, (as would a mermaid), you will be blown away by the shift.
As I lay flat on the beach soaking in the life force I was blessed with a sky scape of brilliant blue: not a cloud in sight. As the minutes ticked by the odd lonely cloud blew in to view. Within seconds of a cloud appearing in my field of vision it would start to disappear. It was truly magical to watch. My eyes like a camera on time lapse took it all in, marvelling at the speed and ease with which this moist, seemingly dense body of water vapour just melted into nothing. Immediately I felt this same phenomenon begin to operate in my own body and mind. I knew now that nothing that I did not want to hold on to could be dissolved instanteneously.
The world was my cauldron!
There is great alchemy in the air at the moment. Greater than it's ever been. Our lives are the crucible in which we can make any magic happen.
I know we have heard it all before; the power of the Law of Attraction, you are what you eat, what you think about you bring about blah blah, but the potential of these ideas is now greater than it has ever been.
It's like up until now there was some weird almost tangible, physical structure that kept us somewhat at arms length at manifesting our dreams or our desires. There was perhaps an invisible thread that kept us connected to our 'reality". Even in the last six months it still felt like there were training wheels attached to our cosmic bikes kind of keeping us tethered at some level to a world and experience that we knew we wanted to change but it wouldn't let us go completely until we were really desperate and dying.
Nature has a way of being cruel to be kind. Animals toss their babies out of nests and into the dangers of the wild to get them ready for their best selves. However they still tend to keep a watchful eye on their young at first and bat the hell out of them if they don't get it right. This is what it has been like for those who have been tuned in to the change.
Those training wheels are off now and we are free wheeling and wobbling around trying to get in touch with our new found freedom. Its exhilirating and terrifying all at once but rest assured the grid we once lived with, the tracks we once followed have been lifted away leaving us with no road, no yellow bricks or even a gravel path to follow, for we are truly drivers of our own lives. The only thing is we don't really know how to drive now that the Highway Code has been axed. Making decisions for ourselves that hold fast the code of the heart; love, compassion, appreciation, joy and peacefulness is something completely new.
Anyone who carries an energy of being a victim, anyone who chooses to hold on to guilt or a sense of 'justification" is merely operating from the perspective of the rational mind. Our history reveres this view point, it calls it 'reality" it gives it the label of being realistic and intelligent.
The rational mind thinks it knows more than it actually does. We are a work in progress moving between the heart and rational mind and probably profoundly confused and possibly a little scared of giving in fully.
What we think or thought was reality is no longer a collective truth but the rational mind is still engaged and employed in this soon to be archaic way of navigating life and so there is a sense of conflict. We are interns in using this new vantage point of the freedom of choice.
We are in a phase where our birth right of free will are coming out to party. This process is guided by the heart whose connection to Source/God/Self is coming online, in fact we are already serviced with a broadband network via fibre optics... if we choose.
Changes on a personal and collective level will not come through tried and tested means. They will not morph by giving attention to the 'problem or attempting to fix what is broken, for the more we carry the vibration of needing to 'fix" something, whether its our body, the politics of a place, or our partner and children the more food you give to the idea of it being broken.
Transformation now comes from turning away from the dark, from our 'reality" and bringing more focus, more light to appreciation, joy, compassion and love.
There is no longer a real demarkation between inside and out. The boundaries between the perceived two states, like those clouds, are fast dissolving. How fast they dissipate is entirely up to us because in truth there was never anything that really separated us; duality was as fictional as we chose to make it.
The power that we see or saw in others, in institutions, out 'there" in the world, that seemed separate from our own was merely a reflection of what we chose to feel about our own divine majesty.
The sentence 'Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?" holds more truth now than ever so if you want to be state of the art, step right into your heart!
Thursday 9 May 2013
Reconsidering Idealism and the Imagination. The Solar Eclipse.
The previous Lunar Eclipse was one that brought to the surface inner, hidden patterns and elements. It was a cosmic event that brought to light unidentified dross that needed to be sifted out from our-cellves. Now its time to turn that dross into gold.
Past emotional baggage such as old childhood wounds revolving around not being loved, abandonment issues, loss, scarcity and anything that hummed of a lack of self worth were likely poked and prodded by the cool fingers of those lunatic moonbeams. If you didn't at some point, dissolve into tears, consider checking yourself into the nearest nut- house, or just got the feeling that something MUST change over the past few weeks then you were made of more than titanium.
It's a very "watery" year for us with many powerful outer planets in water signs so buy some shares in Kleenex and get yourself a really sturdy umbrella and some wellies. The waves and tides will be high. How we surf and swim with these currents is entirely up to us.
In the wake of that very intense Lunar Eclipse we are brought back from our inner, largely emotional experience of life to a more external place; that place we like to call 'reality". The dive down deep into the inner landscape instigated by the Moon now brings those treasures to the surface for review; for the Sun to dry them out and see them in the cold light of day.
What we took for granted as being practical, infallible or 'truth' may suddenly feel like it's crumbling. Many of our structures that appear noble, wise and realistic will be on the table trembling in their boots like bemused, faithful employees waiting to be fired for no apparent reason.
The Solar Eclipse currently in process (9/10 May 2013) has the potential to illuminate beliefs and habits that we are largely conscious of. It is a time to reconsider the values we have thought served us best. It's a time where we metaphorically throw out old clothes that we think suited us but now seem strangely ugly and outworn. All of a sudden that classic black Chanel dress you thought you would never give away seems old fashioned and unusable.
We cannot create a new situation without turning our backs completely on an old one. The theme for the next few days will be about using our idealism and imagination. The strange thing is that this idealism might seem like it is anything like ideal. This is where the imagination really has to upgrade to its' 2.0 version and be daring and outright bold.
For example if you are dealing with physical issues; illness, poor habits or just knowing that somewhere along the line you and your body could have a better relationship, now is the time to turn all of your previous ideas around how you 'should" achieve your goals on its head.
The planetary influences are here offering you the potential to decide HOW you want to achieve your dreams. What works is what you choose will work.
On a collective level what is seemingly not ideal or defies, common sense is probably what will bring progress and access to a better result. Whether the platform is political, economic or personal, what will work is daring to break out of tried and tested formulas to try something new. Something new that speaks to the heart and gives the mind the heave- ho.
If you suddenly get the urge to cure your physical dilemmas with a daily cupcake rather than stick to a stringent diet or choose to elect a political leader that hasn't inspired your mind but reaches some weird place in your heart, do it! There is something in the air that might just make it all work.
There is a new type of 'mastery" available to us. We have been brainwashed for eons to believe that progress or empowerment comes from direct action. As a society we are addicted to action thinking it is the only way to facilitate change. However this new 'mastery" involves less of the do-ing (thank goodness, aren't we all really tired and worn out?!) and more be-ing, imagining and aligning with ideas that feel more human.
This "easy does it" is not for the faint hearted. It requires intense focus on this alignment process, it involves activating an imagination that has been lying largely dormant for eons, it asks us to really bring forth into our daily lives compassion, consistent gratitude when there might seem very little to be grateful for and mostly it insists that we release all judgement of ourselves and of course others. It begs us to be first of service to ourselves and then from that fuller place we are automatically contributing constructively to the world of others.
The be-LIE-f that we are impotent or helpless in the face of the bigger picture or held back by the 'other" or some external circumstance is being asked to be released. The penny is beginning to drop that we are both the internal and the external in everything; no circumstance is bigger or more powerful than we are. We are catalysts not just for the transformation of our own lives but by virtue of each individual being part of a whole, how we choose to en-vision our selves will undoubtedly affect the wider profile; its just plain physics.
During this Eclipse sandwich ( the next Lunar one is on 25 May) there is the possibility for a lot of physical release (read pain!). On- going aches and pains in muscles, joints and bones, digestive issues, twitches, a sense of foreboding, mild anxiety, restlessness and sleeplessness are all just signs that there is a releasing of outworn energies and beliefs.
As the imagined boundaries and illusory notions that our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies are separate entities are dissolved by our evolving consciousness, our bodies jettison these thoughts physically clearing pathways for new improved dynamics. This is a ritual of purification.
What we focus on we will energise so be vigilant with thought. Eclipses in ancient times were often considered periods of danger. In hindsight what that really means is monitor your thoughts for the veil is thin. The timescale for manifestation is shortened so what you think about you may well magnify fairly quickly.
In light of this, any residue of poor self worth has the potential to rear its ugly medusa like head (well it is the Year of the Snake), not to punish you or prove to you that you are worthless but to shine a light on the nonsensical notion that any one of us has true deficit. Yes, we are all works in progress but that is our most magical beauty for it keeps the door open to our infinite expansion. How dull and boring it would be if there really was an end line. When the cup can never be full it means more drinking time!
The easiest (a must in current energies) way to address the way you see yourself is to ask yourself if your value judgements are truly helpful. They may be mainstream and practical. They may seem tried and tested. They may be deeply rooted in religious or cultural indoctrination but are they helpful? Do they make you feel full and replete? Do they make you feel self loving, compassionate and free? Or do they weigh you down with the list of things to 'do" before you can feel good? If its the latter you are still holding duality, you are still dressing your ego in his finest robes.
It's a really good time to offer yourself and others (when you are ready) unconditional love. Its a good time to really use gratitude as your main App and actively seek out abundance in all things. It doesn't matter if you don't have enough money, no primary relationship or an ailing body. This Eclipse gives us the energy and impetus once we start the ball rolling to lift stones and find what at first might seem meaningless things that show us how full and rich our lives really are.
What we seek we always find.
Past emotional baggage such as old childhood wounds revolving around not being loved, abandonment issues, loss, scarcity and anything that hummed of a lack of self worth were likely poked and prodded by the cool fingers of those lunatic moonbeams. If you didn't at some point, dissolve into tears, consider checking yourself into the nearest nut- house, or just got the feeling that something MUST change over the past few weeks then you were made of more than titanium.
It's a very "watery" year for us with many powerful outer planets in water signs so buy some shares in Kleenex and get yourself a really sturdy umbrella and some wellies. The waves and tides will be high. How we surf and swim with these currents is entirely up to us.
What we took for granted as being practical, infallible or 'truth' may suddenly feel like it's crumbling. Many of our structures that appear noble, wise and realistic will be on the table trembling in their boots like bemused, faithful employees waiting to be fired for no apparent reason.
The Solar Eclipse currently in process (9/10 May 2013) has the potential to illuminate beliefs and habits that we are largely conscious of. It is a time to reconsider the values we have thought served us best. It's a time where we metaphorically throw out old clothes that we think suited us but now seem strangely ugly and outworn. All of a sudden that classic black Chanel dress you thought you would never give away seems old fashioned and unusable.
We cannot create a new situation without turning our backs completely on an old one. The theme for the next few days will be about using our idealism and imagination. The strange thing is that this idealism might seem like it is anything like ideal. This is where the imagination really has to upgrade to its' 2.0 version and be daring and outright bold.
For example if you are dealing with physical issues; illness, poor habits or just knowing that somewhere along the line you and your body could have a better relationship, now is the time to turn all of your previous ideas around how you 'should" achieve your goals on its head.
The planetary influences are here offering you the potential to decide HOW you want to achieve your dreams. What works is what you choose will work.
On a collective level what is seemingly not ideal or defies, common sense is probably what will bring progress and access to a better result. Whether the platform is political, economic or personal, what will work is daring to break out of tried and tested formulas to try something new. Something new that speaks to the heart and gives the mind the heave- ho.
If you suddenly get the urge to cure your physical dilemmas with a daily cupcake rather than stick to a stringent diet or choose to elect a political leader that hasn't inspired your mind but reaches some weird place in your heart, do it! There is something in the air that might just make it all work.
There is a new type of 'mastery" available to us. We have been brainwashed for eons to believe that progress or empowerment comes from direct action. As a society we are addicted to action thinking it is the only way to facilitate change. However this new 'mastery" involves less of the do-ing (thank goodness, aren't we all really tired and worn out?!) and more be-ing, imagining and aligning with ideas that feel more human.
This "easy does it" is not for the faint hearted. It requires intense focus on this alignment process, it involves activating an imagination that has been lying largely dormant for eons, it asks us to really bring forth into our daily lives compassion, consistent gratitude when there might seem very little to be grateful for and mostly it insists that we release all judgement of ourselves and of course others. It begs us to be first of service to ourselves and then from that fuller place we are automatically contributing constructively to the world of others.
The be-LIE-f that we are impotent or helpless in the face of the bigger picture or held back by the 'other" or some external circumstance is being asked to be released. The penny is beginning to drop that we are both the internal and the external in everything; no circumstance is bigger or more powerful than we are. We are catalysts not just for the transformation of our own lives but by virtue of each individual being part of a whole, how we choose to en-vision our selves will undoubtedly affect the wider profile; its just plain physics.
As the imagined boundaries and illusory notions that our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies are separate entities are dissolved by our evolving consciousness, our bodies jettison these thoughts physically clearing pathways for new improved dynamics. This is a ritual of purification.
What we focus on we will energise so be vigilant with thought. Eclipses in ancient times were often considered periods of danger. In hindsight what that really means is monitor your thoughts for the veil is thin. The timescale for manifestation is shortened so what you think about you may well magnify fairly quickly.
In light of this, any residue of poor self worth has the potential to rear its ugly medusa like head (well it is the Year of the Snake), not to punish you or prove to you that you are worthless but to shine a light on the nonsensical notion that any one of us has true deficit. Yes, we are all works in progress but that is our most magical beauty for it keeps the door open to our infinite expansion. How dull and boring it would be if there really was an end line. When the cup can never be full it means more drinking time!
The easiest (a must in current energies) way to address the way you see yourself is to ask yourself if your value judgements are truly helpful. They may be mainstream and practical. They may seem tried and tested. They may be deeply rooted in religious or cultural indoctrination but are they helpful? Do they make you feel full and replete? Do they make you feel self loving, compassionate and free? Or do they weigh you down with the list of things to 'do" before you can feel good? If its the latter you are still holding duality, you are still dressing your ego in his finest robes.
It's a really good time to offer yourself and others (when you are ready) unconditional love. Its a good time to really use gratitude as your main App and actively seek out abundance in all things. It doesn't matter if you don't have enough money, no primary relationship or an ailing body. This Eclipse gives us the energy and impetus once we start the ball rolling to lift stones and find what at first might seem meaningless things that show us how full and rich our lives really are.
What we seek we always find.
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