LEO full moon

All Full Moons offer us a chance to reflect on the growth of the seed planted at the previous New Moon. This Leo Full Moon is the offshoot of the intense Capricorn New Moon which was conjunct Pluto, a New Moon that called for soul growth and evolution. ~ Cathy Pagano - The Cosmic Story

The seeds we planted can bring about personal and cultural transformation and intense change. It won’t happen this week or even this year, but we are preparing the ground for it.

Instead of working to heal the Earth for future generations, bringing our infrastructure online with clean energy, creating jobs which pay a living wage, we get into inane ideological arguments that have spilled over into outright rage and rebellion. 

We, the People, have to find a better way. Because if we don’t, nothing changes.

Wonder Woman 1984 movie poster

When I saw Wonder Woman 1984, I wasn’t exactly sure what it was supposed to be about. And then I realized that it was about how America was turned into a consumer society back in the 80s, when corporations steered our focus onto all our petty desires to the exclusion of the greater good. The corporate message was: if you just buy enough things, you’ll be happy (and they get wealthier).

But we didn’t get happier. Instead, we became a nation of consumers, who are never satisfied, but who feel entitled and exceptional. And instead of planning for a better future, we chose our own immediate gratification over the well-being of our children’s children’s future.

What if we decide to be restore instead of consume?

Jesus the Christ

Most know who Jesus was, but who was the Christ? Is the word simply Jesus' last name? Too often, Rohr writes, "our understandings have been limited by culture, religious squabbling, and the human tendency to put ourselves at the center."

Jesus was called "Christ"

Father Richard Rohr is a Franciscan friar, wisdom teacher, and founder of Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He founded the center because he saw a deep need for the integration of both action and contemplation.

"It took me longer to write this than any book before. I want people to recognize something that is thoroughly biblical, but never the mainline tradition. What I’m trying to say for most of you will sound very new and very different." 

Richard Rohr on The Universal Christ, 2018

This hour-long video provides a deeper exploration into the Universal Christ. Father Richard delivers a framework for reading Scripture and understanding church history that demonstrates how these ideas have been a part of the Christian tradition since the beginning.

Christ is not an individual, Christ is a collective - Oneness. Learn more about the Universal Christ at https://universalchrist.cac.org/

seeds planted

Retaining and sustaining our natural rhythms is best achieved by aligning and connecting with nature. Had we maintained and honored this relationship more we most likely would be living in a better balanced and healthier world. 

68 Voices, 68 Hearts by Gabriella Badillo

wisdom weavers of the world

Early in 2020 - when most of us were still more worried about lock down restrictions than the reason we had it - these group of elders came together and gave us a collective message of hope. 

On the last few days of 2020 this video is a great reminder that we are all interwoven within and around each others lives. 

Wisdom Weavers of the World

Over ten thousand years ago, Elders at that time knew that a great imbalance was coming, so the original instructions of how to live in harmony as one Earth family were partially hidden by a wave of forgetting to keep them safe.

Each group of people had enough wisdom to survive and continue on, but no one people had all of the knowledge once available to them. It takes all of us to join together - connect and collaborate in our communities and lives.

Challenging as the year has been, we have much to rejoice over and be grateful for. May 2021 be a year of insightful change and inspired reflection. 

Happy New Year to us all! 

vessels of consciousness

All along the eastern seaboard we just had our first major snow storm of the season. Although it's bright and sunny today, it still has not stopped snowing and the sixteen inches of snow is barely melted. 

Let's not forget that it's still officially fall and not yet winter, making this sting even more. This first snow is magical and magnificent, even as we shovel white fluff off our sidewalks and driveways into high mounds at inconvenient corners. 

Nature in all her glory, her pristine and crystalline brilliance blinding in today's bright sunshine, lords it over all. 

Sahasrara, crown chakra

Just like much of 2020, we're not sure how to do this, how long it will take, or what lies beyond this change. For those who have the realization, all we know is we can no longer stay where we were. It feels that the amount of people who are hearing their soul calling has occurred at a much higher number in this pandemic.

December 2020 message

This message is from Sandra Ingerman and Isis - posted on Sandra's website, December Transmutation News 2020.

I felt that the message Isis shared was a powerful one, and I wanted to share it with all of you in case it speaks to you and touches you on some level. I am sharing only the core of her message:

“There are an abundance of planets and dimensions where spirits incarnate to learn and evolve. 

Steiner veil painting

Here on Earth you were born to experience love, light, and joy, but the lesson was to first experience suffering and then to be able to reach beyond that dimension where inside of you (not outside of you) there is an inner sense of love and joy. Actually, joy is not the correct vibration for in reality it is bliss that your spirit feels. 

In your world, teachers, including your own, encourage you to open your heart to the spirit of love. 

advent season

Many of us are looking forward to the end of this challenging year of horror. Even with the virus still raging out of control we find ourselves more hopeful with the advent of the holidays. 

This time last year few of us were aware or alerted to the news of COVID-19. None of us ever foresaw how far and deep the devastation would affect us all around the world. Yet as our world crumbled around us many resorted to more inspired ways of being.

homey Advent candles

Much as we love the holidays, Christmas tends to lose its magic and charm as we grow older. Participating in Advent may bring back that awe and wonder our younger selves enjoyed so well. 

The rituals and traditions associated with Advent are both ancient and fluid. Churches have observed Advent for centuries, but each congregation and individual may participate in different ways.

Many light candles each Sunday, telling a different part of the Christmas story leading up to Christ’s birth.

Isaiah 9:2

Advent is a gift. A time to behold the wonders of this expectant time of year. Embracing the themes of hope, joy and preparation we feel God more tangibly in his message of love and salvation and the birth of Christ.

Advent invites us to slow down and enjoy the hope and miracle that each day of life brings us. Instead of overeating, traveling, stockpiling — we fill our deepest interior with a holy presence.

We reset our internal watch to God’s time. We listen to the divine within instead of the constant barrage of buy, buy, buy.

Hope springs eternal in us

Honoring this time reminds us of the lessons in waiting, the joy in anticipation, the pricelessness of hope.

subject | object | symbol

Science and spirituality can be quite surreal when dealing with reality as revealed by quantum physics and the Buddha's teachings on Oneness. We truly are each co-creator with and in the universe. 

Print by Philipp Igumnov

Never have we been more polarized in any and all aspects of our lives, stretching bounds to breaking point. In a continuous feedback loop of infinite creativity the dreamer is the dream and witnessing the dream changes it.

The revelation of the dream state is the true nature of humanity - as connected and collective. The hardest of hard sciences shows us we can dream up the highest possibility if we set our minds to it - literally and figuratively. 

Being unaware creates trance states that cause disassociation and leads to collective madness. Just witness our current state of divisiveness across the world - what other proof do we need? 

As conscious awareness influences how the dream manifests. We can actually dream ourselves awake. 

We all have our own individual inner guidance that is always here with and for us. 

We do have to learn to listen before we can energetically express inner into outer manifestation. 

We have whatever it takes to heal ourselves. Do we want this enough to achieve it? 

11.11.2020 & its significance

What does 1111 mean?

Cosmic trigger. Auspicious sign. Awareness booster. Awakening alarm. Ascension gateway.

Change is happening all around us and our involvement in shaping this change towards a better outcome which is of critical concern.

When your attention is repeatedly nudged by recurring numbers and patterns, what strikes you? 

Is it chance or coincidence? Or do you believe in its alignment and synchronicity?

open portal

More important than chasing after what 1111 means pay attention instead to what is happening in your life as you notice 1111 or other repeating patterns. According to those who have had this experience for decades you may be guided, assisted, triggered or reminded in the moment for a specific reason or particular purpose.

Uri Geller has expounded some controversial belifs regarding this.

I believe that people who have constant contact with the 1111 phenomena have some type of a positive mission to accomplish. It is still a mystery to me what it is that we all have to do or why are we all being gathered and connected together, but it is very real and tangible.

I feel that it is immensely positive, almost like there is a thinking entity sending us these physical and visual signs from the universe. In me, it activates the power of prayer, love and determination to somehow help the world. Someday I suspect we will find out the true meaning behind this puzzling phenomenon.

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In shamanism the belief is when heart and life force are aligned and united as one, then anything is possible as we step into the realm of dreams and miracles. 

Shamans around the world are calling out to wake up from this current collective [non]consciousness we are all living with, and dream a new world into being. 

Watch out for the next big day - 1212. 

breathe in, breathe out

Our breath is so valuable and intrinsic a part of our life force and yet how many of us can honestly say we breathe at our optimum best?

Do you take round full breaths or are you a shallow breather. Under stress or duress, does your breath remain deep and steady, or do you find yourself hyperventilating? 

Watch this animation of how our lungs look and work to get a better idea of how they serve us. 

Single Cell Animation of the Respiratory System

Did you know that our lungs are different from one another? The right consists of three lobes - Superior, Middle, and Inferior. While the left only has two lobes - the Superior and Inferior.

Lungs are encased by the Pleura - a membrane surface that lubricates the lungs movement as we breath.

The Diaphragm is the muscle that helps pump air into and out of the lungs. As it contracts (moves down), the air is sucked in, as it relaxes (just as bellows work), the air is pushed out.

The respiratory system is such an amazing wonder. It is good to remember this to appreciate and care about ourselves more.