Hello from chilly, wintry Maryland!
Get ready for the New Year! Lunar New Year, that is. With our second New Moon this month, on Thursday, January 30, at 4:36 pm Eastern Standard Time, we have another opportunity in January to invite in new possibilities. The Chinese New Year of the Wood Horse starts on Friday, January 31, honoring the Moon Cycle of the year. The energy of the coming week is about cleaning up the old ‘stuff’ from last year and maybe even from decades of ‘old thinking.’
Have you broken any of your New Year’s Resolutions from the Western New Year, January 1? Don’t feel bad! Lots of folks make resolutions but find them difficult to maintain and, by the end of January, they’re out the window and those same folks are feeling that they’ve somehow failed, perhaps with a ‘yet again’ attached.
That’s why we in RosemarySpace don’t believe in those old-fashioned resolutions! We start the year with Chinese New Year and get through the January blahs, the packing up of holiday decorations, the putting away of or returning of gifts, the clearing out of the old year’s junk so that we can pull in the new energy of the year with this Lunar New Year New Moon.
The Possibilities Playshop is deliberately scheduled for just before this New Year so that all those resolutions that you might have thought you ‘should’ make can be out the window while you ponder who you want to BE in the New Year! Even if you can’t join us TOMORROW for the Playshop, you can still benefit by registering to receive the bonuses, exercises, materials list, etc. and the recording of the Playshop so that you can experience this new way of approaching the year at your own leisure. When you join in the fun you’ll be ‘playing’ with creating a guidebook for 2014, practicing tuning in to your own guidance for the year, planning little surprises and rewards for yourself through the year, clearing blocks and fears that might hold you back, and lots of other activities/visualizations that wil l help you with your focus on being who you ARE. AFTER you create your guidebook, you can plan what you will DO, but you will be a much more powerful planner when you have already claimed the YOU that you want to BE! For you, as a subscriber to the MuseLetter, there is a discount code so that you can register to receive the recording and all the other goodies, at the Early Bird Discount rate of only $97 – enter coupon code PLAY to get your discount. Here’s where you’ll find more info: PlayShop Link
I’m thinking of making this an annual event as a way to start each year with a focus on BEing vs. DOing. Feedback on this idea is appreciated!
We had our first big snow in Maryland! 6+ inches is a lot for us to shovel. [OK, Richard did all the shoveling!] Tara, our Lhasa Apso, must remember that her breed is originally from Himalayan Tibet because she loves the cold weather and the snow. I like to look at it from the comfort of INSIDE my warm home! I am hunkering down during these winter months to get the book done – hurray! You might not see me at as many networking events or gatherings because this is ‘cave time’ for those of us in the northern hemisphere. I hope my efforts to get the book written result in a good experience for the readers. Stay tuned to the saga! I have blocked off some time to continue to do private consultations each week so send me an email if you’d like some help getting yourself clear about goals, direction, next steps for this year or if you have some blocks you’re ready to clear. rosemary@TheScientificMystic.com
Stay warm! Although my friends Down Under keep posting on facebook about how hot they are. Shall I send you some snow?
Have a week filled with New Ideas!!!
Mystic Messages 
Get Ready for the Big Shift! – Richard’s Commentary
January 30, 2014 — RichardYou’ve been hearing about this “big shift” from Rosemary, many others and me for a long time. We talked about it leading up to that momentous pivot point of the Winter Solstice of 2012. And we have been talking about it for more than a year since that point. Is it coming? Is it here? And most importantly:
Are you excited about taking a quantum leap forward in your life?
I am excited! And I do sense this is the time. Rosemary says this:
Now is the time! The world around you is showing you in not-too-subtle ways that you have turned the corner into the place where you are facing the biggest shift of your life. Are you willing to shift?
But notice something here: she is not talking about something on the outside; this is not necessarily a change that is coming at you. She says, “you have turned the corner.” Indeed we have all turned a corner and we now have to embrace what we have generated.
This “change energy” is an internal potential. The calendar has little to do with it other than to focus our attention and intention on a specific time. Yes, there are many factors pointing to this time as important: a Mayan calendar change, a rotation of the wheel of the Zodiac through to a new sign, other calendars, other potential physical shifts in galactic space, even a potential shift in the Earth’s magnetic poles.
But the shift Rosemary and I are talking about is a shift in consciousness. Yes, this shift may be influenced by one or more of these external factors. But, the important shift comes from within. This is a shift in awareness. This is a shift in who we think, and feel, we are as conscious beings.
So, the question of being ready does not motivate building a bomb shelter, stocking the basement with a year’s supply of food and water, getting all of our affairs in order or preparing in some physical way for impending earth changes. Preparation is an internal check-in; it is a matter of preparing our bodies, emotions, minds and spirits for the next phase of human evolution.
If you are reading this post you are a “cultural creative”, you are on the leading edge of expanding human consciousness. And you are key to this coming shift!
How do you get ready? That may be a personal question you must answer for yourself; you are likely already preparing, may even be fully prepared. Here’s what I’m doing:
I am meditating more – more frequently through the day and for longer periods of time. I am reading through the Kalachakra Tantra Rite of Initiation by His Holiness The Dalai Lama and Jeffery Hopkins. I am practicing yoga and qigong. I am practicing the six Transcendent Perfections of Buddhism (as best I can). I am attending to my body, speech and mind. And I am planning to attend the Kalachakra Initiation of 2014 in Ladakh, India this July.
I may not be ready for the “big shift” but I am “being the big shift.” I am practicing what I can to be prepared. And I am excited!
The Moon is new today at 4:38 pm Eastern Time. This marks the end of the old Lunar year and a shift into the Year of the Horse. I feel the energy gathering and galloping in. I am as ready as I can be for this shift and the bigger shifts to come.
I hope you are ready with me!