And I surrender....

     Wow. What a process this last month and a half has been of letting go and surrendering to my Divine purpose- which continues to only be shown to me in flashes of nanosecond lengths.  I have purged most of my material possessions- I am down to some books, clothes and my prize crystals and singing bowl, along with a few miscellaneous art supplies. I have never felt so raw and exposed to the world. My layers of comfort are dissolving rapidly from one day to the next. I have $6 in my pocket and have had very little luck finding work lately. Were it not for the generosity and hospitality of a couple friends I would be in a very different position, as I have no vehicle and no income stream.

      The energy has been very intense with the full moon on 6/4 and the transit of Venus eclipsing the sun on 6/5. I, along with almost everyone I've talked with recently, have felt like a total looney bird. It feels like we are being pulled, squeezed and compressed through a tiny gateway into the next portal of consciousness. It has been an intense and highly emotional time. From one hour to the next my moods fluctuate from high vibration where I feel the magic and love of Source so fully and intimately that my heart sings out in joy and gratitude, to feeling overwhelmed with the enormity of my daydreams and perceived responsibility to share my light, in essence a judgment of myself for perhaps not doing all I think I should be. I tear up and cry at random moments and sometimes just feel like stomping on the floor in a fury of tantrum. I know that I am healing from many lifetimes of pain and suffering and I have chosen to be here at this time in order to experience this planetary shift in evolutionary consciousness.  I consistently remind myself that I am clearing out the old patterns of stuck energy in order to make room in my vessel for the maximum amount of light possible. This is a time for healing on multiple levels and dimensions. My etheric body and my physical body are aligning and showing myself the utmost love and forgiveness is the easiest way to help this transformation take place.
  
     Surrendering to my Divine plan is easy to grasp theoretically but, has been pretty difficult to put into practice. For years I have had grandiose visions of starting farms around the country that teach job skills to the homeless, where there is a community kitchen so no one goes hungry. I've dreamt of learning to sail so that I could charter boats to take people to commune with the dolphins and whales. I've brainstormed and toiled with starting a vegan ice cream company with fresh tropical fruits, where for every cone sold I donate one at the children's hospital. I fantasize about all the art I want to create from recycled materials I find washed up on the beach, or altars and medicine wheels I want to build from live and dried plant and mineral matter. I think about learning natural building skills in order to create sustainable communities where people can live in their joy. I get excited thinking about creating venues or outlets for ecstatic dance to take place. I want to continue with my woodwork- visions in my meditations have clearly pointed to building hand planes and surfboards, and continuing with the line of skateboards I started. To balance that I want to plant trees. I dream of having a space to practice energy medicine and continue my ethnobotanical studies. And I fancy doing all of this while living part of the year in Maui and who knows where the rest of the year. I want to travel and see the world but I want to do it while following the flow of energy. And most importantly I want the basis of all of the above mentioned dreams to be in service to others. I've learned that I am only truly fulfilled when I am opening my heart and connecting to others through giving. My biggest quandary right now though is which dream to start with and knowing where my energy will be best utilized. My head is buzzing with ideas and yet I am so overstimulated and inspired that I can't feel in which direction my heart is tugging me. I am afraid that my lack of resources will prevent me from making progress even once I do figure it out and, yet instinctively I know that once I fully let go and stop worrying about what I don't have and focus my intent on what I do have, the energy will start to flow to provide me with what is in alignment with my highest good.

    So, my objective now is to still myself more and refine my subtle energy so that I may recognize where the doors are opening before me, and so that I can continue to create my vision of heaven here on earth. I affirm Divine timing in my life and trust that by staying in my joy and continuing to honor and love myself fully, I will continue to attract experiences and opportunities of the highest vibration. I open my entire being to be flooded with light and love so that I may continue to radiate that love outward to all of you. I am filled with gratitude simply to be alive. I know the veils are rapidly deteriorating and that I have a choice in how I perceive this reality. Thank you to everyone reading this for your love and support. Shine on bright stars...

Ho'oponopono

Ho'oponopono is the ancient Hawaiian healing method of forgiveness and release. All it involves is taking responsibility for everything you are experiencing in your life, regardless of fault, and blessing it with this mantra:
I'm sorry
Please forgive me
Thank you
I love you

I am just starting to learn more about this healing modality and I will keep you posted as I start to experience its benefits. Mahalo nui loa.

A Radical Shift

I'm sharing an article from starchildglobal.com which I think clearly articulates what many of us are experiencing right now. Enjoy.


Radical Shift: The Venus Transit of 2012 (Repost)
By Celia Fenn – June 1, 2012

http://starchildglobal.com/

I think by now most people will have become aware that we are passing through a very powerful series of Energy Adjustments and Recalibrations.

These commenced with the Equinox in March and have been ongoing, building towards the Venus Transit on the 6th of June.

Archangel Michael did say in the January transmission that the Venus Transit would be one of the two power points in this year, and it is surely proving to be just so.

It is the first part of the major Realignment that will take us through the 2012 portal and into the New Earth Reality beyond. And the key word is Realignment.

We are all being realigned and recalibrated on the Light Body level so that we can raise our consciousness and our personal frequencies to the levels that will allow us to be comfortable and happy in the New Earth. So, what this means, in “real” terms, is that many of us are facing major challenges with regards to money, homes, relationships and work, all those very basic things in our lives in the 21st century.

This is because things are realigning for the New, and whatever is not in alignment with the new is feeling great stress, as it crumbles and drops away. If we are wise, we will realize that it is best to allow this process and to flow with it rather than trying to fight against it.

Just know that in the place of what is being released, something far better and more in alignment with you and your life in the New Earth will arise to take its place.

These changes and challenges may be very intense, as this is more or less the last adjustment before the big whooosh as we move through the 2012 portal. I call it Radical, because at this point your Higher Self may be giving you that last push that says that this is not working for you, you need to let go and create something new. Of course, if you have been allowing the shifts and changes, then you may find that your life is opening up wonderfully into new levels of Creativity, Partnership, Relationship and Joy. You may be following your passions in your life and work and finding that flow of Abundance that is the energy of the New Earth. If not, this period of Radical Shift will bring you into closer alignment with what you need.

Venus is the Solar System level of Consciousness that resonates with the Goddess Energy, with Love and Relationship, with Money and with Passion and Beauty. At this time, all these issues are being highlighted and transformed. On a Planetary scale we can see how the Economic system is crumbling, especially in the “First World” of the USA and Europe, and how it is making space for the “New Economy” that will take us into a sustainable and co-operative way of living. On the personal level, many people are finding that they are making radical shifts in their attitude towards money, and that the desire for conspicuous consumption has been replaced by the desire to live in an balanced way and in harmony with the Earth. Money is simply a means of achieving a balanced lifestyle, where the focus is on living in the energy of beauty and harmony with all beings and with the Earth.

In close connection with this is finding work that ignites your Passion for life and is harmony with your soul purpose and brings you Joy. Many of you will be feeling the urge to let go of past ways of work and reaching out for work that is an expression of your Soul and your Passion.

As far as Personal Relationships are concerned, there will also be tension in partnerships whose basis is no longer in alignment with the purpose of your Soul and the energy of the New Earth. At this point, you will be guided to reconsider your contract in your relationship, or to simply move on to a new partnership that is more aligned with what you are becoming and what you wish to create in your life.

These energies and challenges will build towards the transit on the 6th, and you may find around that time that there will be some very deep and fundamental changes in your life. Don’t panic! This is all leading you towards something better and deeper, and more suited to where you are heading in the time after the 2012 portal!

You may also be feeling quite intense physical symptoms as your Light Body makes its final adjustments for the Transit and for the later Portal transit. As you bring your Soul Star and Earth Star chakras “online”, you may experience pains and discomfort in the legs, or dizziness and nausea and disorientation, or bouts of flu and colds.

These are all part of the process as the DNA activates and the Light Body surges energy through the system to bring everything into harmony and activation. This also activates the Template for Human Divine Perfection in the DNA and activates the ability to go the “next step” in this ongoing process of Spiritual and Physical Evolution.



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Divine Love

It's time to honor & balance the energies of both the Divine feminine & masculine. Compassion opens the door for unconditional love to fill our hearts!!

Venus Transit - By Govinda - May 2012
Source: via Elevate page on Facebook

Venus passed between the Earth and our Sun on June 8th, 2004, and initiated an eight-year cycle known as the "Venus Transits".

The Venus Transits cycle is a rare celestial event that occurs every 113 - 130 years, when Venus eclipses the Sun two times - at the beginning and at the end of an eight-year period.
The second Venus eclipse will occur on June 5th, 2012.

Astrologically, Venus represents our relationships with others. Communication is a major factor in all of our relationships. Whenever Venus eclipsed the Sun in past recorded history, there was a major breakthrough in communications.

For example, at the time of the last Venus eclipse in 1874, the Transatlantic Telegraph Cable was completed that created the first intercontinental communications by wire between the East and the West. In 1761, another year of a Venus eclipse, there was a collaboration of astronomers at 77 observation points from all over the world to determine the distance from Earth to the Sun.

Today, we have expanded global communications for the masses through the Internet and satellite systems. Our ability to communicate with each other worldwide is continually expanding. The questions now become: What are we communicating to our world - love or fear? and, How is our media (the Internet, computer games, the movie industry, cell phones, etc.), affecting society as a whole?

A successful relationship is created through good communication, mutual respect and consideration for one another. This happens best when we recognize and honor the Oneness in all of us. When we are able to do this, we will create peace between each other, our organizations, our governments and countries. A good way to resolve conflicts with others is to recognize how we are the same, not how we are different. This creates a foundation from which we can build a positive, peaceful relationship. For example, when a mother loses a child in war, regardless of her color or faith, the pain is the same. When someone is shown respect and love, the joy is the same. If you realize that you and your perceived enemy both want peace so that suffering may end, then you can begin to talk from a place of mutual understanding, rather than from aggravation.

The Divine Feminine Awakens
Venus eclipsing the Sun represents an awakening of the Divine Feminine energies in our world. For thousands of years, the world has been ruled by patriarchal societies. These masculine rulers have created wars, power struggles, destruction, pollution, fear, pain, separation and famine. They have shown little or no respect for feminine wisdom or our Mother Earth.

The patriarchal organizations of the world have repressed most knowledge of women's roles in world history. Recently, information has begun to be revealed that recognizes the truth of how women have affected our history. The books, The DiVinci Code, by Dan Brown and The Expected One, by Kathleen McGowan, both reveal the truth about Mary Magdalene and her relationship to Jesus, are good examples of such information. It is time for the pendulum to swing back towards the Divine Feminine and rest comfortably in the middle. To become whole, we need both the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine energies, equally in our lives.

As the Divine Feminine energy interfaces with human consciousness, it awakens and expands compassion within our hearts, and emotional healing can occur for all of Humanity. Compassion awakens the ability to feel and express unconditional love. To be able to love without attachments or expectations is the highest form of love that a human being can express. This kind of love supports the healing of others and our personal evolution/ascension.

One of the keys to accessing Divine Feminine healing energy is through forgiveness.
Only when all is forgiven will total love be available to us. We must forgive others and ourselves for all of the perceived wrongs that have ever been done. We can heal ourselves if we are willing to feel and express all of our emotions, and then to forgive ourselves and others for all that we have perceived as wrong. This process will liberate us from the bondage of our emotional pain.
Forgiveness is the key to releasing ourselves from our past. When we are liberated from our past and live fully in the "now" our true happiness may be realized and our power to create is maximized.

A Question Of Balance
Venus is the planet of love. The world needs creative solutions, feminine guidance and love in order to heal. These energies will continue to increase during this period, in spite of the attempts of the fear tactics of male dominance.
Venus represents the heart and the feminine side of our being.
The Sun represents our individuality and the masculine side of our being. Venus aligning with the Sun is symbolic of our Feminine (Anima) and Masculine (Animus) energies coming into unity and balance. Venus eclipsing (in front of) the Sun symbolizes our need to consider the feminine expression first, before the masculine, and to allow the feminine energies to guide and balance masculine expression.

Creativity Awakens!
Venus also represents the creative and artistic sides of our natures. The Venus Transit will catalyze previously hidden, latent, artistic talent and creative abilities. People who have never expressed an art form before will awaken their hidden talents. Artists will discover new modalities through which they can express themselves more deeply. For example, many people who have never played a musical instrument will suddenly feel a desire to learn and express themselves through music. Some will want to join the local acting clubs, and so on.

Uncovering Secrets In Relationships
Again, communication is a key factor in all of our personal, business and international relationships. This Venus Transit is calling for a deeper honesty in relationships. Since the Venus transit from 2004 - 2012 coincides with the Uranus in Pisces cycle, communications between humans will develop on intuitive levels. The combined energies of these two cycles will catalyze heightened intuitive awareness of our hidden emotions and desires, as well as awareness of our partners' hidden emotions and desires. Eventually, we will no longer be able to, or need to, hide our true feelings from each other. In time, we will develop total trust and love for each other.

Walking through the Valley of the Shadow of Death
The world needs a higher, altruistic, spiritual love to manifest and prevail over the lower, more selfish emotions. A world where unconditional, spiritual love prevails is our potential as human beings. Conscious and unconscious fear-based emotions are obstacles to this higher love. To discover and express this kind of love, Humanity must first expose and purge the fear-based emotions in our collective consciousness.
From an astrological perspective, Venus represents the emotional energies in our relationships with others. When Venus eclipsed the Sun, it blocked some of the Sun's light and exposed the dark side of Venus, which represents the shadow side of our emotional natures. This began an eight-year process of uncovering the shadows in our emotional relationships. These shadows are the unresolved, repressed, fear-based psychological energies that unconsciously cause dysfunctionality and unhappiness in our relationships. They cause us to behave in ways that undermine our relationships, block intimacy, and cause breakdowns in communications. Essentially, these shadows block our ability to truly love another person. These repressed emotions usually begin during our early childhoods and/or may be carried over from past lives.

We must take responsibility for how we show up in our relationships with others. It is important to observe our feelings and our behavior with the important people in our lives, and to come to terms with our dysfunctional emotional patterns. It may be helpful and revealing for each of us to ask these questions: "Where am I not able to be truly open, honest and real in my relationships with others?", "At what point do I shut down emotionally?", "Where are my boundaries?" and "Are these boundaries healthy or are they blocking my intimacy?"

It is up to each of us to allow intimacy into our heart to expand our relationship with others.
Intimacy can only happen when we allow others to "Into me see." This develops when we let down our barriers and allow others to see into our hearts. To the best of our abilities, we must be honest with ourselves. We must allow ourselves to be vulnerable and expose our true feelings (even if they are negative emotions) to those whom we are in relationships with. This will endear ourselves to others and deepen our intimacy with them.

Expanding Love
Another result of the Venus Transit is an increase of our capacity to love others more completely, deeply and intensely. This will include heightened feelings of love and appreciation for our partners and other people in our lives. Our emotional natures are melding with our spiritual natures, which is expanding our capacity for unconditional love.

The opposite will also be true.
We will become more clear and sensitive to the truth about all of our relationships. If a person is not in alignment with our higher good, we will become increasingly disillusioned with this person. Our dysfunctional relationships will become increasingly apparent, and we may feel a need to change the structure or boundaries of these relationships. We may need to end some of our relationships that are no longer serving our personal evolution.

What you Appreciate, Appreciates
In our relationships with others, it is good to let them know how much we appreciate their being in our lives. Let's be thankful for all of the qualities that we enjoy in others and let them know how much we appreciate them. Remember that what we appreciate, appreciates.

The most effective way to accomplish self-understanding and personal mastery is through our relationships. We can monitor our process of personal mastery of our egos by observing our interrelations with others - are we experiencing conditional or unconditional love?
Compassion opens the door to unconditional love. Unconditional love is supported by seeing the Divine in others and acting in integrity with love. Our relationships with others are our greatest gifts, and integrity is vital for each relationship to work. Do unto others what you would have them do unto you. It helps to ask, "What is the highest good for all concerned?" The higher good for all can be perceived in your heart from a feeling of love.

No Man is an Island
We should never underestimate our power to influence the evolution of the world. Each of us is an integral part of the Collective Consciousness of Humanity. When one person evolves spiritually, the Collective Consciousness evolves as well. Whenever even one person increases compassion and opens their heart to unconditional love, he/she raises the vibrational frequency of the World. As the Collective Consciousness evolves, so too shall each individual. A quote from Bette Reese says it all: "If you think you're too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito."

Integrating Sacred Love
By the time of the second eclipse of the Sun by Venus, on June 5, 2012, Humanity will have evolved to a place of greater readiness for a higher love. Hopefully, after eight years of processing the shadows of our emotions, awakening intuition and developing compassion, we will have cleared the psychological obstacles to unconditional love.
Then, Peace on Earth, and Goodwill towards all people will be possible.
Sacred love expands when the Divine in one person appreciates and honors the Divine in another. Thus, the sacred wheel of love is created and Heaven on Earth will manifest for those individuals. As this happens for everyone, Peace on Earth will become a reality. Namaste - Govinda
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Rev. Kedar St John
Temple of Peace

A prayer

Spirit of love
That flows against our flesh
Sets it trembling
Moves across it as across grass
Erasing every boundary that we accept
And swings the doors of our lives wide-
This is a prayer I sing:
Save our perishing earth!

Spirit that cracks our single selves-
Eyes fall down eyes,
Hearts escape through the bars of our ribs
To dart into other bodies-
Save this earth!
The earth is perishing.
This is a prayer I sing.

Spirit that hears each one of us,
Hears all that is-
Listens, listens, hears us out-
Inspire us now!
Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat,
And also there within the flowered ground beneath our feet,
And- teach us to listen!-
We can hear it in water, in wood, and even in stone.
We are of this earth, and we are bone of its bone.
This is a prayer I sing, for we have forgotten this
and so
The earth is perishing.
~Barbara Deming