Last March we were still in the “glow” of Rosemary’s Playshop when we created our “bodacious wish” for the year and created our Playbook to help visualize reaching that wish. Rosemary is planning another Playshop for next week, Saturday, September 20. You can find more details at her website.
Creating a bodacious wish for yourself is like creating that vision Rosemary talks about this week in her “Take a Step” theme. Are you ready to step out in confidence?
My “Two-Minute” Video for this Week: Take a Step!
September already! There’s always an air of expectancy when school starts, as if the New Year really starts now and not January 1, even after your own school days are long behind you.
It’s time to ‘go back to school’ for me, too. Heading to Christine Kloser’s Transformational Author Breakthrough Experience in Baltimore this week. Will I see you there while I am wearing my ‘Rosemary, the author’ hat? Be sure to connect!
And we’re gearing up for another Possibilities Playshop on September 20 in Severna Park, Maryland! We always have a blast at these! Come join us and create your own Playbook, complete with pictures pulled from magazines and glued onto pages in your binder. No, this is not your typical ‘vision board exercise’! You learn to trust your unconscious mind and your guides to select the pictures for you and to attach them to the Moon Cycles in your Playbook. And you laugh and chat with other playmates while you capture your Big Dream and clear those blocks.
We have a limited number of seats at the Playshop but would love to have you join us. Great way to start the ‘school year’ – with a Saturday of fun! Get the details here and hurry to reserve your spot because the Early Bird Investment is up soon! Details and Registration Here
We’ve got another Super Moon with the Full Moon in Pisces, where Moon is in the sign opposite to the Sun’s sign of Virgo. This happens today, September 8 at 9:38 pm Eastern Daylight Time. Remember that the Full Moon is a great time for letting go of blocks and beliefs that have been in the way of your personal growth. It’s also a time to use the Virgo Sun power to pay attention to details and clean out the clutter in your mind and your life while the Pisces Moon energy helps you to really feel your emotions. Clear out the emotional clutter, too! Let go of whatever is holding you back.
The Divine Feminine are giving us great guidance in our The Oracle Speaks events as I channel messages from them to audiences both in person in Maryland and joining us online. If you haven’t been live at these events, you’re going to want to get the recordings and listen to this wisdom (you can purchase the recordings HERE: Oracle Recordings. The last message taught about the relationships among the Spirit, the Soul and the Ego/Personality. Deep Wisdom from The Divine Feminine is in each channeled message!
The next opportunity to join us (and you get to ask questions if you’re with us live!) is Wednesday, October 15 at 7:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time. Register here and get your questions ready! Details and Registration
On a personal note, we’re enjoying spending Facetime with our new grandson who lives across the country from us! Although technology can sometimes trip us up, it’s a boon to grandparents who live at a distance! Hanging out with moving pictures is better than disembodied voices on the phone! Don’t you just love living in the 21st Century? Remember, your Soul chose to incarnate at this time!
Celebrate September! Have a Harvest Moon week!
Have you ever felt ready to step out, to move toward a vision, a dream, a goal and been paralyzed or unable to move forward?
We all have, at some point. We can see where we want to go. We can feel what it will feel like to be there. We can almost taste that space. And, for some reason, we are stuck. We can’t seem to put one foot in front of the other and move.
What does it take to get to that destination?
It takes the First Step.
Once you have taken that First Step, the second, third and fourth are much easier to take. And they seem to be evident, with a lot less confusion or trepidation, than the first one.
But what will keep you from taking that First Step? A lot of things. Fear. Doubt. A sense of unworthiness. Confusion about what the First Step is. A Concern that you don’t have the entire route mapped out and you don’t want to take the First Step until you know for certain what every subsequent step looks like. A lack of confidence in yourself. A lack of commitment to actually moving toward that dream.
So what can you do when you are stuck in the Paralysis of Step Zero?
Here are the 5 Steps to the First Step:
Then, step out in innocence and trust.
The First Step will reveal the Second which will reveal the Third. If you can’t see where to step next, then pause and Breathe. Repeat Steps 1 through 5 for the Next Step.
You can do this!
Today’s video from last November is a clip from one of my channeling events. In this segment The Divine Feminine are talking about the evolution of consciousness and how we can energetically align with this potential. They, The Divinine Feminine, are very supportive of our conscious evolution and speak frequently about it. They did again in my most recent event August 27, a fascinating Oracle Speaks message about our environment as the “classroom for our lessons and evolution.”
Enjoy this segment with my blessings!
PS: Recordings of the most recent Oracle Speaks events are available on my website:
Rosemary’s article and post this week continues this conversation about “being the light.” I have heard her and the multiple “sources” she channels say many times “you are the light of the world.” This is an easy phrase. Many of us have heard it most of our lives as quotes from the New Testament of Christian Bibles. Jesus frequently said this about both himself and his followers.
But when that simple phrase is closely considered it is not necessarily the easiest concept to embrace! In particular here is one challenge Rosemary throws out:
And when you are having a bad day, do you seek the light within yourself or do you try to pull others into your bad mood to commiserate with you?
OK, I don’t think I try to pull others into my bad moods. But I do have them. And when I am in a mood that is not necessarily of the lightest variety, do I seek the light within? Not always! Do you know what I mean? Are there moods you experience that are dark but you want to stay there, to feel them, to wallow for just a bit? There’s a soothing quality to these moods sometimes.
But consider others around you. I have to pull this notion toward me first when I am in one of my moods. Now that I’m retired I “work” at home. And, yes, it is actual work to keep two businesses going. The point is I am home, with Rosemary, a lot. We do have a big enough house to spread out and go to separate rooms. However we are frequently and often together; our moods rub against each other. It is much easier and more pleasant to reach for the light, even when I am in the darkest of moods – it’s only fair!
How do I do this? As I’ve written many times I have lots of practices to move my moods around: body practices include Yoga and Qigong and I do one or both almost daily. My mental practices include reading, research and my “morning pages.” My “pages” are the quickest way to shift my mood. I enjoy writing anyway; to write about my moods is a sure way to dig in to them, sift through them and finally shift them. Some of my page writing begins quite negatively. But by the end of the third page they always end on high notes! I don’t even know how this works, but it is true. It’s a wonderful practice, for me, and the reason I’ve been doing it for years now.
My spiritual practices include several forms of meditation. But it is difficult, for me, to meditate when I am in a mood. The mood needs to be shifted first. I need to “seek the light within” first and be in that space of light in order to still my mind. But there is one Koan meditation practice that does work; I’ve written about it here before. It is to simply ask the question “what is this?” when the mood insinuates itself enough to be recognized as “a mood.” The question is answered and then repeated several times until the root cause is revealed. It works. You might wonder at first if this is more like a mental practice, but as the questioning and answers move deeper the process does become meditative.
You may ask “why go through all this; moods change eventually.” Hopefully for most of us this is true enough. But here’s what Rosemary says about the “why”:
Your purpose on Planet Earth is to be your own Sun, to shine your light. Those around you are looking to you to shine. They need the light of your love and warmth as much as they need the Sun’s. Who are you to withhold that light from them?
It starts inside. We need ourselves to be lights for ourselves! And this radiates out to those closest to us. And it continues to radiate out to the neighborhood, the community, everyone we encounter from store clerks to friends, from family to strangers (friends we just haven’t met yet). Imagine if we all knew this purpose and became “suns” for everyone else on the planet!
For one thing we’d all have shining eyes – and that would be something to smile about!
My “Two-Minute” Video for this Week: Be Your Brighest Self!
Labor Day! Here in the US this signals the end of Summer. School has started for the kids, swimming pools are closing. Nights are getting cooler and days are getting noticeably shorter. Sigh…
And yet I love the Autumn, when the leaves change colors and air crisps up and we can wear clothes with sleeves in them again. (I’m not particularly fond of being hot!) So bring it on!
We are still in the energy of the growing New Moon so keep your focus on bringing in what you desire. Have you ever made a crystal grid? Set an intention and arrange some crystals or gemstones (or rocks and jewelry) in a pattern that appeals to you. Invite what you need, for your Highest Good, to come into your energy space. Light a candle near this every day. Maybe add some incense. Keep your unconscious mind focused on the positive thoughts of what you are attracting and stay in gratitude for having already, in some dimension, received it. Practice moving your thoughts from what you don’t have to what you are accepting from the benevolent Universe.
I am so excited about the wisdom and guidance that The Divine Feminine are sharing with us each month! The Oracle Speaks event in the Sun sign of Virgo was really deep teachings and covered many sources of information and support that humans might be unaware are around (like whales who created their own internet!). If you couldn’t join us live, you can still purchase the recordings of The Oracle Speaks events. I urge you to listen to these! Those who have attended have benefited from the profound guidance they received. Details are here: The Oracle Speaks
The next Possibilities Playshop is scheduled for September 20 in Severna Park, Maryland. These are really fun times to play, connect with your guides, create and/or update your personal Playbook, and explore possibilities for the coming months. Learn more and grab one of the limited spaces while the Early Bird Discount Investment applies! This is a great way to get ready for the Fall Equinox (September 22) and for the rest of 2014. Give yourself a day to hang out with some other fun folks and come play with us! Here’s more info: Possibilities Playshop
Enjoy your final Summer fling and plan to start off the Fall Season with a time to play in the field of all possibilities with us!
…And shine like the star that you are!
It is time. No more hiding your light under the proverbial basket. You were formed from the stardust of the Big Bang. You were meant to SHINE!
What’s holding you back? Are you shining your light brightly in the world? Are you bringing light to everything that you do by being the light that you really are?
Here is what this can look like in your everyday life.
When you are in conversation with another person, you can really open your heart and listen, not just with your ears, but with your heart as well. You can hold the thought in your own mind that, ‘You are a being of light and I hold you in my heart with love.’ Hear what they are saying and hold them, as a person, in your heart in the light of love. How different would your response be if this is what was happening on your side of the conversation no matter what happened on their side?
A friend of mine posted on Facebook recently that someone called him an idiot. He just thought about the person with love. Do you think you could do that?
Remember that having healthy boundaries allows you to be who you really are no matter what is going on around you. Is someone having a bad day? Can you still hold them in your heart in the light of love and allow them to have the space to have a bad day on their own? Or do you feel as if you need to rush in and fix things or get them to get out of their bad mood? What is yours to do in this situation?
Sometimes being the light that you are means giving someone else space to be wherever they are in the moment. You remain the light no matter what they are doing on their side of that healthy boundary, even if they try to drag you across the fence into their own territory. Resist this and hold the light.
And when you are having a bad day, do you seek the light within yourself or do you try to pull others into your bad mood to commiserate with you?
The light is always shining within you even when you forget that it is there. When your day appears to be all darkness, the challenge is to find the light that lives within you like an eternal flame, your very own pilot light. Sometimes you need to ask for help in being reminded that you have that light inside you. Ask for that help.
Your light is meant to shine. Your life is meant to be filled with light. On the dark days there is still some light to be found. No matter how dark things might look to you now, as Annie the orphan sings, ‘The sun’ll come out tomorrow’!
Your purpose on Planet Earth is to be your own Sun, to shine your light. Those around you are looking to you to shine. They need the light of your love and warmth as much as they need the Sun’s. Who are you to withhold that light from them?
Be your brightest self. Shine that light. Thank you!
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5 Steps to the First Step – Richard’s Commentary
September 10, 2014 — RichardYou know that old expression – “watch that first step; it’s a doozy”? Well, Rosemary assures us not to worry too much about it because that step can be divided up into five! And I know how well this works.
A few years ago, we were still in Colorado, when Rosemary offered a weekend seminar in her program, The Intuition Edge. Across two days of a workshop setting (more like a playshop!) we learned her system to determine that next, first step. It included these five lead-up steps Rosemary outlined in her post on Friday. As a quick reference here they are again:
As you might guess I really like that first step. I do a lot of breathing; it’s part of my Qigong practice, my Yoga practice, my meditation practice. When awareness needs centering, breathing is the best approach.
It is the breath that helps us connect with anything, and everything. It is essential to connect within. And where does that vision of where we want to go next reside? Within!
How do you “see” your vision? I think we in the west call this direction we are headed a “vision” because we are such a visual culture. But can you sense your vision in other ways? Can you taste it, smell it, hear it, touch it? If you truly want to activate your vision apply all of your senses; begin to experience the vision in your whole body, as if it is real. It is real!
What blocks stand between you and your vision? Do you fear attaining that vision? Do you hesitate because you are unsure if it is the “right” vision? Are you confident you have the resources needed? There are many ways we sabotage ourselves. This may be the most important and the most difficult step of the five. Do the inner work here, whether it’s to dispel limiting beliefs, move through inner-child fears or gain trust in yourself and the Universe.
Commitment is a requirement. If you are not truly committed to your vision then no “first step” will appear. If the commitment is weak, go back to step 2 and connect or re-connect to that vision. This is a process. It is likely not a linear one but circular; view it as a spiral as you get closer and clearer about your vision.
When you are committed go for the guidance. Once again this is inner guidance and once again we get there, seek it through the breath. See why I like this process so much? We get to breathe!
And then there are many tools to use to stimulate and listen to the inner guidance, that intuitive side of our consciousness, our intuition edge. Use as many as you need and are comfortable with. Use divination tools like a pendulum, oracle cards, Tarot cards, astrology, numerology. Test your vision using these tools and ask for the next step toward that vision. Remember, you only need the NEXT step.
Then TAKE it…”step out in innocence and trust.”