My Two-Minute Video for this Week: Connections for 2014
PS: Do you want to create some new connections in 2014? Come to my playshop, in person or by video link, and connect to a great group; and lay out your play script for 2014! January 25. Details Here
I’m looking forward to this busy week! Here’s where you can find me for the rest of the month:
***A Conversation with The Other Side***
Thursday, January 16, 7:00 to 9:00 pm, Severna Park, MD and online by video conference
Are you ready for 2014?
Do you need some guidance to get the year started off in the right direction?
Are you missing a loved one who has crossed over?
Join Rosemary as she tunes into your energy and the guides, spirits, angels and loved ones who surround and protect you, and brings you their divine guidance. Ask her questions they can answer. This is a wonderful small group experience. Join us in person in Severna Park, Maryland and online. Space is limited to keep the group small.
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***Satsang with Rosemary***
Janaury 18, at 7:00 pm in Severna Park, MD and online via Video Conference
Rosemary is teaching and channeling from The Divine Feminine and other dimensions every third Saturday of the month! If you have spiritual questions, if you want to hear messages from the spiritual realm, if you are curious about life beyond this physical, three-dimensional world, join us for a unique experience! This is an interactive gathering; come with your questions. Rosemary will teach and channel for part of the time and answer your questions at the end of the evening.
We’ll be at 503 Evergreen Road, Severna Park, MD 21146 and online via Video Conference or phone.
***Possibilities Playshop: Create Your Guidebook for 2014***
Janaury 25, 12:00 to 4:00 pm Eastern time, in Severna Park, MD and online via Video Conference
In this one-day event you’ll get together with others to learn to clear the path to a wonderful New Year, contact your guide(s) for the year and learn how you will receive messages from them throughout the coming months. You will have a chance to practice some exercises to help you grow and leap forward into opportunities. And you will have FUN!!! Save those magazine pictures that you’ve been pulling out (or start now!) and know that this is not a ‘vision board’ exercise – pull any images that speak to your heart and don’t worry about why they do that.
We’ll be at 503 Evergreen Road, Severna Park, MD 21146 and online via Video Conference or phone.
The details and registration are here
***On Purpose Networking, Connections over Coffee***
Friday, January 31, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, Columbia, MD
I’ll be networking with this fun group in Columbia, Maryland. Join me if you can.
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How are you liking 2014 so far? A lot of people seem to be experiencing the excitement of anticipating a lot of movement forward this year. I don’t think we’ll be allowed to sit still through the next 12 months!
If you’re wondering what the energies for 2014 will be, there is a lot of information in the Satsang with Rosemary message from the Winter Solstice 2013. The Divine Feminine gave us a good description of what to expect. You can purchase the audio download HERE Download if you weren’t able to join us.
Or you can receive if FREE as a bonus when you decide to join the Possibilities Playshop: Creating Your Guidebook for 2014 on January 25! We are going to have so much fun that day as you meet your Spirit Guide for 2014 and discover your theme for the year, plus create tools to support you all through the following months. Get the details here and be sure to sign up before January 17th to get the early bird discount!
We’re planning the Playshop to get ready for the Lunar New Year, just before the second New Moon in January 2014. The energy of the Full Moon on January 15 will help you clear away the cobwebs from 2013 as you release what doesn’t serve you so you can move forward in your life. This Full Moon happens at 11:53 pm in the Eastern Time Zone so it’s almost at midnight. As you go to sleep on the 15th, invite your unconscious mind to release the beliefs that have kept you disconnected from your inner essence in the past. Pay attention to your dreams that night, or to the fact that you might not remember any. That’s okay – it means your deep unconscious has done all the work for you!
Plan to celebrate the Chinese New Year/Lunar New Year with the next New Moon at the end of the month. 2014 holds lots of NEW energy for you!
By the way, a second bonus for joining the Possibilities Playshop is the audio of the Moon Cycles message from The Divine Feminine to help you work with the energy of the Moon through its cycles.
Here in the US we’ve been experiencing some frigid weather. I hope you’re staying warm! And to our friends in Australia who are too hot, thanks for sending a warmup our way!
Remember that Winter is a time to go into your cave and meet yourself. Take time for YOU to honor your own need to hibernate or to question or to retreat a bit. Connect to yourself.
May the temperature in your area be perfect for you! And may you enjoy the Power of Connection through the coming week!
My Two-Minute Video for this Week: Dream BIG!
PS: I can help you with your big dreams! I channeled an hour-long message from The Divine Feminine on the Winter Solstice; they offered guidance and advice on what we might expect in 2014, and how to approach the year’s energies. Expect more change! The transformation continues! This message is available as an MP3 recording for a modest price; check out the details here: Winter Solstice Message
Happy New Year! We are at the start of a brand new year, a time to move forward in the direction of our dreams. Let’s hold hands and do it together!
The New Year’s Day New Moon energy is still with us so clarify your dreams and wishes for this New Year and do some ritual to help you manifest them. Today’s message from The Divine Feminine urges you to get moving on those dreams!
We’ve been given TWO New Moons (actually SuperMoons) this month so January is a month to leap ahead with new ideas and to bring in all that’s new. If you’re still sweeping out the old stuff, from closets and the corners of your mind, then keep sweeping! With every sweep, focus your attention on new ideas, new thoughts, new behaviors.
The REAL New Year starts with the next New Moon, which occurs on January 30 at 4:40 pm Eastern Time. The Asian New Year is the Lunar New Year and begins then. So you still have time to get rid of the old and figure out what your dream vision for the New Year is.
The best way to usher in this Lunar New Year is to join us for the Possibilities Playshop: Create Your Guidebook for 2014 on Saturday, January 25 and spend 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Eastern Time with us! In this Playshop you’ll connect with your Inner Guidance and gain Wisdom for the New Year. You will also clear away some blocks to making this your best year ever. Contact your guide(s)/playmates for the year and create your Guide to 2014 Playbook to help you receive messages from them throughout the coming months. You will have a chance to practice some exercises to help you grow and leap forward into opportunities. And you will have FUN!!! Save those magazine pictures that you’ve been pulling out (or start now!) for your Playbook – pull any images that speak to your heart and don’t think about why. ( This isn’t a ‘vision board’ exercise!) You have two ways to participate: join us in person in Severna Park, Maryland or from anywhere in the online video conference! Here’s where you can get more details and register to join us on Saturday, January 25: Playshop Link Special investment level if you register EARLY! So check out the link now!
Everybody needs to be prepared for what’s coming in 2014! If you weren’t able to join us for Satsang with Rosemary on the Winter Solstice, you missed an amazing message from The Divine Feminine that outlines the energy cycles for 2014! When you sign up for the Playshop on January 25th you will receive a bonus of a free download of the recording of this important message. If you can’t join us for the Playshop, you can hear this guidance by purchasing the audio download for only $14 here: Audio Link Please share this email with your friends! This audio contains important guidance for the coming months!
I hope that you had a wonderful holiday time and that you are ready to experience quantum leaps in the New Year! Clear away the cobwebs and the blocks and Dream Big!!!
Hope to see you in the coming year!
As my commentary on Rosemary’s important post from yesterday I simply want to trace the development of the reflections leading to the guidance for the new year and note why these thoughts and development are so important to our growth in consciousness.
Each of us has a responsibility to ourselves and to others to learn how to live in community with the people around us. Evolution in conscious returns us to community. I say “returns us” here because as the human race was developing a few thousand years ago, we did so only in community. The “rugged individualism” of the so-called modern west had yet to arise. Humans depended on other humans, living together in social structures in which everyone had a role to play, a dependent and cooperative role. We need to return to that level of consciousness.
Reach out beyond what you can see to the possibilities that are there. Always reach higher. We are never finished with development. “After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.” There is no limit, no goal that can be achieved and sustained without reaching higher.
A crystalized belief feels like an energy block. Examine all beliefs; The Divine Feminine during the Winter Solstice message channeled by Rosemary, said our beliefs will be challenged in 2014. We will be called to defend them. Are you prepared to defend all of your beliefs? Are you prepared to release the ones that are holding you back?
When you find yourself stuck in a rut, or not sure what your next step is, remind yourself that you are always at a point of choice in your life. We are always at choice. This can be either exhilarating or daunting. Choose the freedom and exhilaration this requires and make the best choices you can with the information you have in the moment. If it turns out to be the right choice, celebrate your brilliance. If it turns out there may have been a better choice, forgive yourself, learn the lesson and move on!
It’s okay to consider yourself and your own needs. It’s not “selfish” to take care of yourself. You cannot serve from an empty container. You first have to love yourself in order to be able to love your neighbor, and your enemy!
When you put your attention on being instead of doing, your energy flows into being the you you were meant to be. We are human beings. Find the way to be, in the moment, in the present, right here, right now. Now is the only reality. If you find the way to be then you will have the energy and the motivation to do.
When you demand control of your environment, you limit the ways in which the Universe answers your requests. This is excellent advice for the western mind. We are all about control; we want things just so, the way we planned them, the way we expect them, the way they “should” be! But what if the Universe has something better in store? What if we pause, be in the present and listen? Letting go of that false sense of control not only opens the doors to possibility greater than we can imagine, it also relieves an incredible load of stress!
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This message is from The Divine Feminine for us:
“Dear Ones,
The flames are licking at the Doors of Change. Those who fear change are trying to engulf the opportunities in flames so that you and others will not walk through them. Do not let these fear-mongers paralyze you.
Change and Opportunity are two sides of the same coin, of the same door.”
Choose change and you choose opportunity.
Community, possibility, examined beliefs, choice, self-care, presence, flow and fearlessness open the doors of opportunity. The change you find there will be of your own making! And it will make for a wonderful 2014!
PS: The Divine Feminine, as channeled by Rosemary on the Winter Solstice, offered amazing advice for 2014. Expect more change! The transformation continues! Their message is available as an MP3 recording for a modest price; check out the details here: Winter Solstice Mesage
Here are excerpts from selected posts from 2013. May they guide you into a happy and prosperous 2014!
From April 12, 2013
Each of us has a responsibility to ourselves and to others to learn how to live in community with the people around us. We are not private islands with ‘No Trespassing’ signs on our foreheads! The most important lesson to learn about living in a civilized society is to learn what healthy boundaries are. Learn what to let in and what belongs to the other person.
From February 22 2013
Reach out beyond what you can see to the possibilities that are there. Keep your mind open to optimism. Maybe things aren’t as bleak as they seem. Maybe the glass really is half-full and not half-empty. Take charge of how you think, speak, feel about something and it just might change around you.
From December 6 2013
A crystalized belief feels like an energy block. It is not negative or bad; it is merely a block where the energy feels stuck. It is important, though, because stuck energy prevents us from moving forward into our highest potential. And the longer energy stays stuck the more problems that block can cause us.
From August 30 2013
When you find yourself stuck in a rut, or not sure what your next step is, remind yourself that you are always at a point of choice in your life. What benefits are there to staying in that rut? Do you really not know the next step? Or are you afraid of what it might ask of you and, therefore, you choose not to seek help in identifying it?
Happy Birthday to YOU!!! Today is your birthday. You get to choose who you are today, right now, in this moment. You don’t even have to be the same as you were when you woke up this morning. OR you can decide that you like the YOU who woke up and you re-decide to celebrate YOU! Either way, it’s your birthday today.
From January 11 2013
It’s okay to consider yourself and your own needs. Sometimes we need permission to do that. You have that permission now. Focusing on what you need is vital to supporting your efforts to help others in need. Fill up your cup so you can serve from the overflow in the saucer.
From July 5 2013
When you put your attention on being instead of doing, your energy flows into being the you you were meant to be. Doing, taking action in your life, then follows being yourself.
Where are there energy blocks in you, in your life? Identify the stuck places and take action to move the energy through the blocks. Free up any stuck energy so that you can truly be free. Focus your attention on manifesting your dreams and watch how much energy can then flow into that manifestation.
From March 22 2013
When you demand control of your environment, you limit the ways in which the Universe answers your requests. Your thoughts are projecting an often unconscious request to keep things just the way they are. And, yet, there are laws of the Universe about change being ever present.
For today, remember this equation:
EVENT leads to your REACTION and then you choose a RESPONSE.
While you might not control all the events that happen [Surprise!] and your reaction is your immediate ‘knee jerk’ feeling, you DO control how you respond. Put your energies into practicing Conscious Response – choosing the response that demonstrates your personal growth. Then you can relax into making peace with the ‘not knowing’ and enjoy the ‘Surprise!’
From May 24 2013
This message is from The Divine Feminine for us:
“Dear Ones,
The flames are licking at the Doors of Change. Those who fear change are trying to engulf the opportunities in flames so that you and others will not walk through them. Do not let these fear-mongers paralyze you.
Change and Opportunity are two sides of the same coin, of the same door. Opportunity is the invitation to Change. Every time you say ‘no’ to Change you are leaving a Doorway to Opportunity closed. Every time you ignore or say ‘no’ to Opportunity you are saying ‘yes’ to everything staying the same.
Is there something in your life that you wish to Change? Then you must walk through a Door of Opportunity or there will be no Change.
Are you seeking Opportunities in your life? Then you must Change something.
Those who prevent change also prevent opportunities from being realized. If you are one who wishes to preserve the status quo then you are not ready for increased Prosperity and Abundance in your life.
Think about the energy it takes to resist Change. The evolutionary forces of the Universe are not static. They are always and forever moving forward, taking with them those who are connected to growth and leaving behind those who wish to go backward, which is the same as attempting to stand still. There is no standing still. There is only moving forward or being swamped by the Tides of Change.
In every moment cells in your body are changing. With every thought your brain is changing. Energetically, your field is changing with every thought, feeling, heartbeat. What vibration are you emanating as these changes take place? You are changing and you are constantly generating an energy field around you. Your choices create the energy vibrational frequency of your field. What energy field are you choosing to present to the world?
Think about the people you have attracted to your energy field. Do they emanate the vibrational frequency that you wish to share? Think about the situations in your life right now. Are they what you wish to manifest in your world?
Now is the time for you to consciously choose the Opportunities you wish to pursue. What do you desire to Change? Which Doorway of Opportunity will bring about that Change? And what must you Change to take advantage of that Opportunity.
Opportunity and Change.
The only way forward is to walk through the Doorway.
And so it is.”
Happy New Year! For even more guidance for 2014 you may want to listen to a message I channeled from The Divine Feminine on the Winter Solstice; they offered guidance and advice on what we might expect in 2014, and how to approach the year’s upcoming energy. Expect more change! The transformation continues! The message it is available as an MP3 recording for a modest price; check out the details here: Winter Solstice Message
My short end-of-year video for this week: Reflect on 2013, Ponder 2014
PS: While you ponder 2014 you may want to listen to a message I channeled from The Divine Feminine on the Winter Solstice; they offered guidance and advice on what we might expect in 2014, and how to approach the year’s upcoming energy. Expect more change! The transformation continues! The message it is now available as an MP3 recording for a modest price; check out the details here: Winter Solstice Message
Rosemary and I just returned from our monthly gathering of the EQUAAC group we are part of. This is the Equality Anne Arundel County group who, among other things, worked for the passage of Marriage Equality in Maryland. It’s a wonderful, warm group of men and women, both gay and straight who happen to believe in “equality” in all things! Rosemary and I are always welcomed with open arms, hugs, kisses and big smiles. It is such a pleasure to be part of this group!
And one thing always strikes me when we get together: I can be my authentic self with these wonderful human beings. I don’t have to pretend; there are no pretenses; there are no hidden motives, no one trying to get an upper hand or convince anyone of something other than genuine gladness to be together.
Maybe this is a luxury of getting older. I can be myself no matter whom I’m with or what I’m doing. Why can’t it always be this way? Here’s Rosemary’s answer:
We forget.
We forget to reach inside ourselves for answers. We forget that we are ‘enough’ just as we are. We forget that no one else knows exactly what our Soul Contract with the Universe is and that we agreed to come into this world at this time.
I am forgetting less often! I am working very hard, through my various practices to remember who I am, why I’m here and to live with that level of authenticity. And it does take practice. The ego wants to pretend; it’s sometimes easier that way, less risky. The ego doesn’t always like authenticity. But inside there are better answers; “real” answers. When we go inside we do remember what’s important.
And it is a matter of remembering, as Rosemary points out in yesterday’s post. We all come in knowing and remembering our purpose, our true self and the true reason the Universe called us to BE, here and now. Society and our ego want us to forget. We go through our growing years and our “educational process” learning to forget! If we all remembered to fulfill our purposes society would be very different. And society, just like our egos, wants to maintain the status quo.
There may be stability in the status quo but I wouldn’t call it success. Where is the impetus for evolution if we all toe the line and forget our purpose? Where’s the progress if we ignore our inner truth and accept someone else’s judgment about that? Where’s the lesson, the gain, the success if we pretend we are something other than who we came here to be?
Our success can only truly be measured against our true purpose. We all know our purpose; we may have forgotten it but it is in there, inside. We came with blueprints; we can remember. It takes practice but it is there.
Rosemary’s clarion call is to “remember.” I echo this call! We are called to awaken to our purpose, to our authentic selves. What better time than now, this holiday season and at year’s end to take up this cause and remember!
Mystic Messages 
Dreaming BIG!!! – Richard’s Commentary
January 9, 2014 — RichardHow are you doing with those New Year’s Resolutions? Did you make a few, a lot? If you are anyone like me you have given up on trying to change your life that way. No, I made no resolutions, but that doesn’t mean I have no big dreams!
The Divine Feminine are spot on when they address this issue of resolutions, dreams, transformation and how to manifest the changes you want to see:
Where are you looking for your resources? Are you waiting to win the lottery? If so, are you buying tickets? Are you using the word ‘someday’ in your vocabulary of dreams, always placing that dream in the far distant future? Do you know what you actually need to take a step in the direction of your dreams?
You need Clarity, Commitment and Consciousness.
For me, clarity means “clear intention.” If we are muddled in our thinking, unsure of what it is we want to change, hesitant about reaching for the big goal, then the Universe can’t support us. Clear intention lets the Universe know our direction and can then offer the resources to help us realize our goals. This is the first component of manifestation.
Over the past few months I have become very clear in the direction I want the rest of my life to take. And the Universe is responding! Just as a trivial example of this, I received a book as a gift from a dear friend; it is Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo. My friend had no idea when she picked this up for me that I have moved firmly back onto my Buddhist path. She had no idea that I am planning my own journey this year to return to my roots. Merullo’s novel and his characters have so much in common with my own life that it’s almost silly. My friend was moved by the Universe to place this book in my hands! (I’ll have more to say on Breakfast with Buddha in a future post.)
Now, I have studied, practiced, sat Zazen, read and explored in most ways possible this notion of Buddhism for many years. But I have never really committed to this path. This is the second component of manifestation. The Universe needs to know we are serious about our clear intentions. All of my past studies and practices, while I took them very seriously, were not true commitments to the path. They were exploratory, forays into the fascinating world, but with no real committed intention of remaining there.
This has changed. I am committed. My living habits are changing to support the commitment: diet, drink, sleep, dream-time, meditation are all much more focused, real, and supporting my commitment. Again, the Universe is responding to my commitment with the resources I need to continue.
And it’s really all about changing our mind, isn’t it? One of Rosemary’s expressions I’m fond of is: If you want to change your life, change your mind. Reality is after all nothing more than consciousness, the third component of transformation. We all encounter blocks along our way. Most of these stumbling blocks, scattered across our paths, are mental blocks, maybe old beliefs planted in us from childhood. Much like the main character in Merullo’s book, Otto Ringling, I was raised as a Lutheran in the Midwest. “Lutherans don’t become Buddhists!” We don’t even think about Buddhists, unless they are setting themselves on fire in Viet Nam when we are burning our draft cards at a safe distance at the University! I’ve been changing my mind about a lot of things over the past 60 years; it’s time for this once-upon-a-time Lutheran to admit his true colors. Through many cycles of birth, old age, sickness and death, I’ve traveled the road as a Buddhist! I think I’ll finish this one the same way!
The Divine Feminine conclude: Dream BIG!!! With Clarity, Commitment and Consciousness you can live that dream!
And I do have Big Dreams for 2014. I hope you do too!