Surprise!!! – Richard’s Commentary

While thinking about my response to Rosemary’s article on this subject I received an email from a mentor/teacher/friend, a deep scholar and also a gifted astrologer, about the energies of the times we are experiencing. I’m quoting a bit of his latest offering to set the stage for my thoughts about surprises.

More on the BIG astrology now – it IS that important – from Chris

“The aspects of the end of this week represent a rupture in consensus reality.  In other words, what we take to be true about ourselves, our community, our nation, and our planet could be challenged or expanded (or both).  My best advice is that if we see an opening in the “medieval fort” of everyday, programmed awareness, we should run through that opening.

“The possibilities for expanding consciousness are huge.  But we have to choose to engage with those possibilities.  We have to step outside the fort and challenge things we take for granted.”

Chris Largent

 Surprise!!!  A “rupture in consensus reality” certainly has the element of surprise embedded in it! Wow! But what does this really mean?

We have been anticipating big shifts with all the thought-energy, the expectations generated around 2012.  While much of the hype is gone, many understand that the Winter Solstice, 2012, was a turning point, not THE EVENT itself. We are now in the midst of that long turn. Some are suggesting that we may see big shifts with the Summer Solstice as the transformation to a new era begins to unfold in earnest. And many astrologers are aligning events in the Heavens with the correspondences of ancient calendars to conclude big things are happening.

Beliefs are certainly shifting and rapidly. Just look at one example around the issue of same-sex marriage rights. No matter what side of this issue you might support there has been an incredible, rapid shift in American acceptance of the LGBT Community and their rights to equal treatment under the law! Consensus reality is reforming here in a surprisingly positive direction. Chris goes on to say:

“The consciousness doors that open now will allow for big inner and outer shifts through the summer of 2014 – but the opening is NOW.”

Rosemary has this to say about consensus reality:

“As a human being, it is easy to fall into the trap of always wanting to be in control of your life. That would be nice. But the Earth is inhabited by other human beings who also want to be in control of their lives. What happens when these two desires collide?”

What happens is, willing or not, consensus reality is reformed around that collision. Of course it doesn’t have to be a collision! Chris says:

“…we are like currents in a river.  In other words, we look at the world in terms of fluid processes (and whole systems).  If we look closely at our lives, that’s what we see: we flow within larger patterns, and we create patterns as our life-processes flow with other life processes.”

I love this analogy of lives that flow together, but there’s no doubt that there is colliding yet to come as we bump through the next months of transformation! As consensus reality dissolves around us we need to be prepared for the reformation of our reality. These are exciting times! And while I don’t always like surprises (I’m one of those people who likes to be in control) I am now at a stage of life where anticipation of big changes and moving forward on the evolutionary path of consciousness is very appealing.

What other cultural surprises might we anticipate? Well, they wouldn’t be surprises if we knew about them in advance! Are you prepared for the long predicted and anticipated shifts? Are you ready for the BIG SURPRISE?

EXPLORATION: “Shift or Stay Behind”

Are you ready for the Transformation?  Are you willing to transform?  Are you able to make the shift?

In these times of transformation we must become active participants in the evolution of our consciousness, for we can no longer limp through life in a reactionary way.  It is time to take conscious action in the direction of the vision of your life purpose, as revealed to you in your biggest dreams.  Step out!

So many people are hiding their gifts, playing small in a big world that requires them to play big.  Are you hiding?  Have you been playing it safe, instead of leaping forward?  The pause is over.  The time for action is upon us.

Are you aware of your gifts?  Do you know why you are on Planet Earth for this momentous occasion, the Great Shift in Human Consciousness in 2012?  Are you committed fully to manifesting your Soul Purpose in the time when all other Souls are waiting for you to step up?

These are the most important questions you can answer for yourself.  Go inside and spend some time in self-reflection as you ponder your life to date and where  you are heading.

In my work with clients I find that, more often than not, what they are hiding from is their greatness, their Inner Light, their immense power, not qualities that they are ashamed to reveal.  You know that you are more powerful than you have been demonstrating.  You know that you have gifts that have not yet been fully realized in the outside world.  You know that you can turn up the light inside you and shine more brightly.  This is not news to you, at some level.

Where is the fear?  What is holding you back?  Are you really afraid of failing or are you afraid of scaring yourself with your own magnificence?

Well, Merry Christmas, my gift to you is to hold up a mirror so that you can see that your magnificence is the gift that the rest of us are asking Santa for this year!

I see your Inner Splendor.  I KNOW you!  I SEE you!  I LOVE you!  Thank you for agreeing to share this wonderful time on Planet Earth with me.

Let’s hold hands and move forward knowing that we can support each other in bring more Light to the Planet.  Your Soul knew what it was doing before you were born when it chose this path, these circumstances, your parents, your friends – all those who are classmates with you at Earth University.  All that is or has been in your life has contributed to your personal growth and to the consciousness that you hold at this moment.  And you agreed to share the journey with the other Souls around you.

Realizing that this is a community effort, Community Consciousness, then how can you spend the energy it takes to hold yourself back when the whole Universe is conspiring to support you in leaping forward?  Relax into the New You being called forth!  Shift – into high gear and get leaping!

The world will not end in 2012 but it will change.  As each human being decides whether or not to awaken and shine his/her Light into the world, the world will light up.  Be the bright node in the fabric of humanity!  Shine your Inner Splendor Light and keep making it brighter and brighter!

With great gratitude that you have decided to share this time of transformation with me, I invite you to take the step forward that brings your Light out into the world for all to see.

Be the Shift!

PS: Have a wonder-filled Holiday Season and many blessings in the New Year!

VIDEO MYSTIC MESSAGE: “Reach into the Future for Your Power”

PS: Have a wonder-filled Holiday Season and many blessings in the New Year!

EXPLORATION: The Tools of Your Trade

If you were a carpenter, you would have a huge toolbox filled with tools that are designed for each specific task that might be required.  If you are a doctor, your office is outfitted with all the tools that you need.  And I’m sure that whatever you do you have gathered to you the tools that you need to do your work.

But what about those intangibles?  What about the tools that aren’t hammers and scalpels and mixers and computers?  How is your toolbox for Conscious Living Tools?

You might think these are not as important as the tools of your trade but I believe they are even MORE important, for success in your work depends on being successful in your life, and the 21st Century is asking us to increase our spiritual tools.

These are not religious tools, but the ones that fit us into a bigger picture than just the physical life we lead.  Do you have a way to connect with your inner guidance?  This can be meditation, journaling, connecting with Nature.  Sometimes it’s useful to have a physical tool, like a pendulum or an oracle deck of cards.  Do you have an altar, formal or informal, where you can light a candle that communicates to your unconscious mind that you are getting ready to focus inward or pray or send your intentions out to the Universe?

Creating an altar in your personal space is a very powerful way to set an intention and support the manifestation of that intention.  You can do this simply by gathering a few objects that are meaningful to you.  This does not have to be a complicated process or a formal one.  In fact, this is so personal that someone coming into your home might not even realize that the collection of crystals on the windowsill or the candle and pictures, etc. on that side table are really your altar.  What’s important is that you create something that speaks to your unconscious mind every time you see it.

Take a space that will be undisturbed and gather some meaningful objects.  Then add a candle.  I like to use candles in glass so that I can leave them burning for a while without worrying.  (And make sure there are no curtains or other flammables that can blow into them!)  You might like incense and you can certainly have an incense burner on your altar (adds the element of air).  Add pictures of spiritual teachers or loved ones or your vision board.  If you do healing work for others you might keep index cards handy so you can put the names on a card on your altar when you are intending to do healing work.

It’s nice to have the elements represented: water, fire, earth, metal, wood. Some add air to the list.  A plant or flower.  A bowl of water, especially sacred or blessed water.  One or more crystals or rocks.  Use your imagination and tap into your own intuition about what is meaningful to you.

If you use some kind of cards to get a message you can place today’s card on your altar.

Have fun with this!  I have put fruit, pictures, jewelry, gifts I am giving – you name it! Anything you put on your altar gets charged with the energy of your intentions.  If you have a new business card, put one on your altar.  A problem you want to solve?  Write it out and lay this on your altar.  Keep a pendulum or other tool on your altar.  Are you having an issue with a person?  Instead of being upset by them, put a picture or their name on your altar, maybe upside down so you’re not going into the negative energy, but set an intention to heal the problem.

There are lots of ways to use your own energy to bring healing into your life and creating an altar of intention is a powerful way to focus your energy on your desired outcome.  This also helps your unconscious mind know the direction that you want to move so it can support you on your journey.

And I’d love to see your altars!  Send me an email with a picture of your altar.  I’ll gather them on my altar to join with you in manifesting your intentions.

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MUSE-INGS: Personal Growth is the Ticket to the Future

I’ve been ‘muse-ing’ a lot lately about the Path of Personal Growth. We all seem to be facing a lot of lessons, opportunities to choose growth or stagnation. It’s sometimes easier to think about staying where we are instead of moving forward. It might even seem as if the path of least resistance is to stand still.

But I have learned that the currents of change are rocking us. Standing still takes more energy than going with the flow. Moving forward is the energy that carries us while trying to stand still or, horrors!, to go backward, takes more energy.

What does this mean for the 21st Century human? It means that every moment is a moment of choice. At any given point we are making a choice about our direction.

Do you feel you are fighting the tide of change while just trying to hang onto what you have? Is it getting harder to stand still in your life? Does some part of y ou long for a change, even if you don’t know what that is? When fear of change has you in its grip, it’s easy to think that standing still is the choice that takes the least energy. But that is a fallacy.

Face the fear of the unknown. When the energies of Earth existence are carrying humanity forward, it is time to learn to trust that the Universe has a plan that is working out as it should. There is a greater intelligence at work. And we are all in this together. You are not alone in this moment of change.

Personal growth is the ticket to the future. The message of 2012 is to commit to this growth. How exciting to be on the Planet at this amazing time of Transformation! Your Soul asked to be allowed to be here. We live in amazing times. And we agreed to share the journey with each other.

In this Universe’s Plan, each of us has an important role to play. We grow into this role just as an actor grows into their part while the  director leads them. Are you willing to shape yourself into the person of that important role? Are you willing to do the work required?

We are promised that the resources will be there when we need them. Our side of the equation is to commit Time and Treasure, to ‘prime the pump,’ as it were. When we send a signal out to the Universe that we are truly committed to our growth, then everything else is free to flow to us. Everything that we need will arrive as it is needed.

How have you been trying to push against the current of change? How have you been trying to ignore the internal push to move forward? What circumstances, situations or relationships have you been unwilling to examine in case the guidance is to let them go?

THIS is the work of 2012. Be the seed that Mother Earth has been nurturing. Blossom. Push through that soil into the Light. Be the flower you were meant to become.

It is time to GROW!!!

And remember, the seed doesn’t do mind games on itself to try to avoid growth. It just allows the nutrients to come when needed and it blossoms forth to be what it was meant to be – no questions asked!!!

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MUSE-INGS: It’s 2012. Do You Know Where Your Transformation Is?

Well, 2012 has certainly been an interesting year for us! And it’s only half over!

I’ve been teaching about the coming changes for 20 years as a spiritual teacher and intuitive advisor. It’s never been about hoarding food or building a concrete shelter.

Oh, I remember the days of the Cold War in the 1960s, living in Washington, DC where we had to keep a week’s supply of food and water and pillows, etc. at school in case there was a nuclear attack and we couldn’t leave the school building to get home. (Not sure now how much protection it would have been from a nuclear attack if we’d been huddled in the school cafeteria but at least the nuns would have been praying for us!) And on Saturdays at noon the air raid sirens would be tested at the local schools and all traffic would have to stop for a few minutes. Everyone walked around on pins and needles wondering if the red button would be pushed. No one knew what would happen.

Some people have approached 2012 with the same kind of caution and preparedness. Having shelters built at great cost so they could live for a week or a month or a year. Stockpiling food and water and, maybe, guns and ammunition. Others have poo-pooed the idea that 2012 would bring with it any changes at all, discounting anything the Mayans might have predicted and relegating discussions of 2012 to ‘new age mumbo-jumbo.’

2012 is here. What is your experience so far? Are you seeing anything in and around you changing?

I have been focused on helping clients to leap forward in their personal and professional growth, for, really, those are intertwined. It’s time to claim your power and live your purpose. Are you ready? Have you done the preparatory work to leap ahead?

Personal growth work doesn’t mean the kind of therapy that was popular back in the 1960s and 1970s when we were worrying about the nuclear bomb. Today it means learning to examine your life and the world around you through the lens of this question, ‘What am I to learn from this?’ Everything has meaning. Every experience that you have is a growth experience, an opportunity for learning. Everything that happens is not happening to victimize you but to provide you with this opportunity to learn something – about you, about the world, about life.

Have you done the work to educate yourself about your typical responses to change, to external events? Do you know your instinctual reactions so that you can choose consciously how you want to respond? Have you identified your Life Purpose, the reason your Soul incarnated in this lifetime, so that you can bring your life into alignment with your Purpose? Are you willing to grow? To learn? To change?

Transformation sounds great, but it requires the shedding of the old as you grow into the new you.

I was bitten by a snake recently. I am fine, but a couple of weeks after that, we saw an empty snakeskin at my sister’s home, reminding me of the shedding of the old so that the new could be formed. Shortly after that, the Waldo Canyon Wildfire engulfed our neighborhood in Colorado Springs. We had to make peace with the possibility that we would be letting go of all our belongings that were still in that house. Blessedly, the house stayed intact although 346 homes in our area were destroyed and many more were damaged. Now, we are able to help a family displaced by that fire by selling our house to them so that they can start to rebuild their lives after losing everything.

What’s happening in your 2012 world? How much transformation are you prepared for? Are you living your Life Purpose? Are you living a Conscious Life?

It’s 2012. It’s time now.

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MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: How’s 2012 Treating You?

Dear Ones,

The energies of 2012 are speeding up and those who are Awakened Ones are feeling the energetic shifts in their personal, professional and political lives. Are you awake?

In personal lives, transformations are occurring at a rapid pace. People are dealing with changes that they had never imagined. Relationships, homes, health, finances – all areas are showing signs of restructuring. How is the energy of transformation showing up in your life today?

Professional lives are shifting in enormous ways around the globe. Businesses are being forced to reassess their mission and their relationship to employees. Employees are rethinking loyalty to a company that displays no loyalty to them. Many are shifting their energies from being employed by a big company to creating their own company and becoming entrepreneurs. Taking charge of generating one’s own income is a form of financial independence that relying on a paycheck from someone else cannot equal.

One’s political life doesn’t really mean being a member of a particular political party. Rather, it refers to one’s life as a member of the ‘body politic’ or the collection of individuals in a certain place. Are you examining your role in your community? Are you assessing your values as they relate to others around you? Are you able to make decisions considering the well-being of all rather than your own selfish desires? Are you acting in a way that creates a healthy relationship with those around you and with Mother Earth? Are you cognizant of generations to come and what your choices today mean to those future generations?

2012 has long been heralded as the year that would bring with it major changes. Many have posited what those changes would be. We would tell you that the place to look for change is within yourself and within your own sphere of life. Are you actively pursuing your personal growth? This is really your only mission for these days of 2012.

Personal growth is the path to change for your higher good. One can never stand still, no matter how hard you try or how much you resist change. The energy of transformation is around and inside of you. Your DNA has been awaiting this moment in time so that you could blossom into the New Human that the evolution of human consciousness has created. 2012 energies support your shifting from the old paradigms into the new. If you resist, you will be attempting to hold back a mighty push of evolutionary energy. Do you really want to spend yourself fighting that push?

Resisting change is really a choice to move backward. Awakened Ones are people who are willing to evolve. Knowing that change is a part of the evolutionary process allows you to ‘go with the flow,’ to move in the direction of greater consciousness, higher awareness.

Reach for this growth. Examine yourself in the light of 2012 consciousness. Your Life Purpose is waiting to be expressed as a part of helping humanity to its higher level of understanding, an expression of the Consciousness of the Universe.

Self-examination for personal growth allows whatever is happening around you in 2012 to have meaning. You are a part of the evolutionary process underway. You can choose to resist and go backward or you can choose to move forward. There is no standing still.

Which direction will you choose?

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MUSE-INGS: Personal Growth and New Ideas

If our thoughts come from ideas, then we really do need to be careful about the ideas that we embrace, don’t we?

In working with private clients over two decades I have seen that the limiting beliefs people carry with them stem from some idea that they embraced as immutable truth, usually when they were a child. This is not to criticize the parents, for they were doing the best they could, and often they had no idea that the child was embracing what the child thought was immutable truth but which the parent was able to contextualize differently.

How many of our current thoughts rise up from some idea our 5- or 6-year-old inner child embraced as Truth with a capital ‘T’? This is the work of personal growth, to ferret out those ideas, embraced without examination, that form the basis for many of our current thoughts, especially those that are holding us back from accessing our own inner greatness and from sharing that with the world.

I believe that each of us has an Inner Splendor, a brilliant Light that is ready to shine forth into the world when we access, appreciate and allow it to shine. When we shine this Light through our Soul Purpose in Life we invite others to join us on the Path of Light. This is the beauty of accessing our Inner Splendor and shining that Light.

But what blocks most people are the thoughts that limit them from their own greatness, the thoughts that, when the original idea from which they stem is identified, can be examined and eliminated or embraced depending on whether or not they serve the individual at this time. This is the real work of personal growth.

Are you on a path of examining your thoughts for their origins? Do you continually examine situations in your life for whether or not they stem from beliefs that come from somewhere or someone else, not your Inner Splendor?

The 21st Century has its own transformative energy [especially emphatic as it was ushered in in 2012] and invites us to examine every aspect of our lives so that we can grow in Consciousness and expand our awareness of the workings of the World.

Personal growth is not just about the person. Personal growth is the work we do as individuals that moves us forward on our path so that we might manifest that Inner Splendor as we agreed we would do when we took on this lifetime. Each of us has a Soul Purpose to realize and express. We have a Mission to accomplish on Planet Earth. And all of this depends upon our doing our personal growth work to create clear channels of the energy of Light that shines through us.

Commit yourself to doing your personal growth work. It’s never ‘done.’ I have been actively engaged for a very long time and I am still surprised at things that come up for me to examine and change. I still find things that lurk inside with their insidious influence. It feels so good to release them!

And when I work with clients it is a joy to get the feedback of the freedom they experience when they release their limiting beliefs, the thoughts that no longer serve them!

Do your personal growth work, whatever form that takes for you today. Release the thoughts that depend on your holding onto beliefs that do not serve you. Reach into that higher frequency level of the Light of Consciousness for some new ideas to examine.

You’ll be glad you did!

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MUSE-INGS: Shine!

Isn’t it interesting that so many Mystic Messages seem to be about the changes that are upon us and what our response needs to be? This is the 2012 Shift we’ve all been hearing about.

What’s important about addressing these changing energies is that we have an individual call as well as a collective one to be fully human and to be active participants in the evolution of consciousness on Planet Earth.

All of humanity will not act as one until each of us accepts that we are connected, that we are all members of the human race, not independent of each other. Quantum Physics is showing us, in no uncertain terms, that what happens to one electron is reflected elsewhere in the Universe in another electron. There really is no such thing as ‘isolation.’

The poet, John Donne, writing around the turn of the 17th Century, wrote
No man is an island entire of itself ; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

From the 17th Century to the 21st Century, from the poet to the physicist, the message is the same. We are all one.

So now accept that you DO have a Light within you that is your Light, your Inner Splendor, the Light that is calling you to shine into the world around you. Your Light and the Light of all the others on the Planet are meant to shine as one bright Light of Humanity across the surface of the Earth and beyond. No one person is an island, in the darkness. Even if you sometimes feel as if you dwell in darkness, even if you feel that your life is filled with darkness, there is always a Light within you waiting to be released into the atmosphere. When you cannot access that Light within you, then allow the Light of others to light your path until you find the connection inward to your own Light again.

We seem to be looking to the outside for the Light. It is time to reach inside for your own Light. Shine that Light brightly and others will be drawn to connect with you. Lift the Light of Consciousness to higher levels so that you can extend your reach beyond what you thought was your ‘island’ and connect with others. This is the shift that the world has been waiting for.

As each individual takes responsibility for their contribution to the uplifting of Consciousness and to the increase of Light on the Planet, then we will see the shifts that we are hoping to see in the world. The outside does not light up the inside. But we can help each other find our own inner Light.

I believe that we are seeing a rise in the number of coaches and counselors in our Western Societies because we are reaching to others for help along our path. We feel the need to do personal growth and we recognize that the path is easier when someone ahead of us holds our hand to lead us. This is how I view my work with clients – I hold your hand while we explore your inner Light until you feel confident taking that Light and shining it brightly into the world around you.

Make sure that you are surrounding yourself with people who want you to shine your own Light. Do not listen to those who would shut you down or dim your Light. Do not give away your power to those who would criticize you or try to diminish you. You are the Light of the World and the World is looking for you to light your candle and hold it proudly high.

Let’s connect our Lights today and see how brightly we shine when we have millions of candle-power Lights beaming into the atmosphere!

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MUSE-INGS: Consciousness. Success. Freedom.

These are all concepts that are not easily discussed in a short piece but it makes sense that we are being called at this time to consider these topics. In this long-awaited year of 2012 we will be experiencing an expansion of consciousness that is really challenging every human being to address their own understanding of their ‘self’ and their place in the Universe. I believe that no one will be allowed to ignore what I will name ‘The Call of Consciousness.’

Humanity is on an evolutionary path that is not just about walking upright or brain size or the physical attributes of the human. Quantum Physics is exploring topics that were not even dreamed of 100 or 200 or 1000 years ago. I started my professional career with a degree in mathematics and a job programming complex operations on a computer that filled a huge room in the basement of a building. I think my iPhone has more compute power than the computer on which I did matrix transformations of spectrum allocation analysis [are you suitably impressed?]. When our kids were young we had an Atari computer that has been replaced in our home by a desktop PC, a Mac Book Pro, a Mac Book Air, an iPad, 2 iPhones and a Droid. Not to mention our Kindles, etc. Who even bothers to remember their multiplication table because we all have calculators on our phones?

But because we have computers and technological advances we are not necessarily more advanced as a civilization. We still seem to have a need to kill each other. We still steal from each other, and harm our neighbors and covet what they have. I could list a lot of other things that we do to each other, but I think there is a very simple reason why this list is so long. It’s because we still think of ourselves as separate beings living a separate existence in the world and if I have something then it must be taken from another. And if someone else has something it means that I don’t have that. We then create the need for greed because I want what you have.

We have forgotten that we are all connected in an abundant Universe. We focus on lack – you have something that I lack and, therefore, I must make that imbalance right by going out and getting what I want [‘keeping up with the Joneses’ syndrome] or taking from you so I can feel better about myself when I have it and you don’t [‘king of the mountain’ syndrome]. We think of ourselves as separate and then we act to make ourselves feel better about that separation.

Religions, societies, communities, spiritual teachings all address connectedness in some form, but humans can twist that message into a message of ‘otherness’ and separation that cause great deals of conflicts between parties because they have fallen into the traps inherent in a belief in separation.

Each child in a family is a separate being with a personality all their own, but don’t they, at the same time, feel a sense of connectedness in a family unit? And I’m not talking just about what some people call a ‘family’ but of what we create – the ‘family’ of people united into community by some kind of bond. What if we all started to expand our definition of ‘family’ to include all sentient beings, especially all human beings, so that our awareness encompasses the consciousness of the connectedness of all?

Couldn’t we improve life on Earth by adopting this expansion of consciousness? We are being called to become our greater selves at this time. Think of yourself as connected to all others. Expand your own consciousness. You will be contributing to the expansion of the collective consciousness. This is how your life purpose fits into the whole.

Namaste.

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