Category: 2012

The Spiral Dream

Saturday, 25 February 2012 22:51 0 Comments

I’ve been pondering the issue of tiredness. Virtually everyone I talk to feels tired despite sustained efforts toward health. We might be eating well, exercising, getting enough rest, and yet still in the morning we can feel dragged out. Sometimes we remember many deep and complex dreams. Others are having difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep.

Last night I received a message about the process we’re in. I was shown a number of identical golden spirals, each spiral representing a part of my life force incarnated in the hologram of lives. Although we think of life and past lives in a linear way, they are actually all occurring at the same time. And although we see other people as distinct and separate from us, we are all in fact one vibratory force incarnated into separate bodies over lifetimes, that are, of course, occurring all at once. Our time/space model conditioning makes this kind of difficult to understand, but if you just relax into the concept and think of yourself as a droplet of water in the center of an ocean, you can intuitively feel the concept. Another drop of water might be in the ocean on the other side of the world, and yet water is all water and it would be impossible to separate the droplets permanently.

I was shown that while dreaming I am focusing attention on these spirals and bringing them into alignment, into a sense of oneness. Slowly each spiral came closer to the other and began to line up on top of each other and then merge.

I was told that once they are all merged together my task of integration will be complete and I will be free, and that this message extends to everyone, which is why I am sharing it. Visualizing a number of golden spirals all around you and then merging within your heart can be a powerful meditation.

Then to my amazement as I looked for an image of a golden spiral to go with this post, I discovered the golden spiral is a geometric construct:

In geometry, a golden spiral is a logarithmic spiral whose growth factor is φ, the golden ratio.[1] That is, a golden spiral gets wider (or further from its origin) by a factor of φ for every quarter turn it makes. (from Wikipedia)

Amazing! There are actually images of golden spirals all over the internet! Perhaps I should have known about this as my new logo is a nautilus and it is a close approximation of a golden spiral, but I guess I slept through geometry class! I was thinking of the nautilus as showing us how we start small in the center and continue building our consciousness, moving into each larger room we create for ourself, yet our original rooms are always still intact. Very psychosynthesis.

As well as working with the golden spiral image in your meditations, give yourself the gift of sleep, as much as you can take. Try to sleep in without an alarm clock on any days you can. Takes naps when possible. A few yoga stretches first thing in the morning and last thing before bedtime can help with sleep and the day’s sense of wellbeing and purpose.

We are coming together in Oneness, despite the forces that are still trying hard to make us believe in separation and turmoil. Ignore the voices of fear and feel your connection to everyone who is connected to their inner spiral as we create a brilliant new paradigm.

True Love

Monday, 06 February 2012 07:52 0 Comments

Did you happen to notice a dreamy feeling flooding in around midday last Friday (February 3rd)? Neptune, the planet representing high love, compassion and intuition, moved into its own sign of Pisces, signaling a consciousness shift we will be experiencing on many levels for the next 14 years. This is a powerful shift within us that calls for deeper levels of meditation and retreat, spiritual discipline and connection with nature to be integrated elegantly. As we align with this frequency, our connection to a sense of Spirit in general, our Spirit guides, our High Self, our higher purpose and compassion for all may be heightened. I think of this as the a wild card of love that has been waiting in the wings. Without this infusion of compassion, the current revolutionary energy of Pluto and Uranus wouldn’t be nearly as encouraging.

While spiritual focus might be our best way to align with Neptune, another perfectly lovely response might be to connect to transcendent forms of creativity, from inspirational films that touch our hearts and minds, to music, dance and many forms of art.

The risk of Neptune in Pisces is that we will drift into a confusing fog, content to pursue addictive or mind numbing activities. These include socially accepted addictions such as endless television and gaming, unhealthy food used to stuff feelings, or simply allowing our minds to stay stuck in story lines, denial and delusion. When we find ourselves feeling the compulsion to zone out like this (and most of us do from time to time), it’s helpful to look at how we might be overwhelmed by various external energies. Perhaps we’re watching or reading too much news or mindless superficiality, or we’re hanging out with negative, energy-draining, complaining people — perhaps working too hard or succumbing to other people’s agendas and pressure. Setting boundaries and making new choices, however small, will help us feel centered in our own energy and less inclined to pursue numbness.

One simple mindfulness technique to stay connected to Spirit is to do things in a non-habitual way. The easiest starting place is to use your non dominant hand to eat, to brush your teeth, wash your face, or other daily tasks. Get out of bed from the other side. Change your morning routine. Even small mindfulness changes create powerful rewards.

Combining mindful actions with deep, meditative breaths throughout the day, helps us stay balanced. The gift of Neptune in Pisces is the possibility of boundless joy and bliss as we open our hearts. This true love of the compassionate open heart leads to healing in our personal worlds and in the world at large.

One of the finest gifts of healthy Neptune in Pisces is the ability to feel compassion for those who are ill or suffering, to surrender and trust in the power and perfection of the Universe, and to give whatever we are able to give without becoming a martyr or a victim.

Expect miracles!

Astrology Highlights for January & February 2012

Thursday, 12 January 2012 18:47 1 Comment

We began the year with an opposition between Jupiter and Saturn that will last until mid February. Saturn represents the structure, stability and groundedness in our lives, what we’re working diligently on to create in the material world. It also may signal a time to look at where we feel blocked and challenged by the various brick walls of reality, sometimes leading to a feeling of discouragement or depression. Jupiter represents hope and optimism, an inner sense we can expand and accomplish anything in alignment with our beliefs. So this tension between the possibilities of who we are and the apparent limitations of the world sets the entry level stage of 2012. On January 1st significant planets are talking to Saturn (connected by aspect: Pluto & Sun by quintile, a creative vibration between the structuring principle and transformation and identity, Neptune by trine (flow between structure and higher love), Uranus by quincunx (hard to find a connection between the structure and the need for freedom and enlightenment), and of course that opposition to Jupiter.

Meanwhile Pluto is in Capricorn, continuing our ongoing saga of transformation of all structures. You might see how the opposition of Saturn to Jupiter is related. We have to transform the parts of our lives, and our world, that are no longer sufficient to hold a container for our expanded beliefs. As Neptune enters the sign of Pisces on February 3rd to stay until around 2026, we will be infused with a greater level of heart and spirit than we can probably imagine, although if we were paying attention last year between April and August we had a taste of this genuinely compassionate, intuitive, spirit infused field of consciousness that holds a good part of the key to our world’s transition. On the shadow side, we must be mindful of addictive and mind numbing activities. We are called to surrender to that we cannot control, each of us a conduit for unconditional love and compassion.

I’ve been feeling an interesting window of time between the full Moon we just had on January 8th and the new Moon on January 22nd. It feels like we’re still working with the energies to release old patterns during this time, and not ready for a real new year’s start until the new moon in Aquarius on Sunday the 22nd of January. This is a great time to get your life in order and slowly put your new year’s plans into effect. Yet, right with that new moon, Mars will go retrograde on January 23rd at 23 degrees of Virgo. The action planet in the sign of diligent work indicates there’s still more to review. Between this retrograde of initiating force and a Saturn retrograde beginning February 7th, we may feel like our plans are not generating the results we’re hoping for. The answer is to be patient, do the work, be conscientious about the details, and take the long term view during this period of time that lasts until April 13 (Mars direct) and June 24 (Saturn direct). It’s not that nothing happens in a retrograde period, it’s that there’s a great deal of internal work to do and the energies we are cultivating now will often pay off later.

The natural rhythm of things:
START ON NEW MOONS / COMPLETE ON FULL MOONS
January Full Moon: January 8 @ 11:30 pm PST: 19 degrees Cancer
January New Moon: January 22 @ 11:40 pm: 3 degrees Aquarius
February Full Moon: February 7 @ 1:54 pm PST: 19 degrees Leo
February New Moon: February 21 @ 2:34 pm PST: 3 degrees Pisces

Mercury Retrogrades – the year of the Action/Emotional (Fire & Water Sign) review
March 11 to April 4 – 7 degrees Aries back to 24 Pisces
July 14 to August 7 – 13 degrees Leo back to 2 degrees Leo
November 6 to November 25 – 5 degrees Sagittarius back to 19 degrees Scorpio

Honoring your Own Turning Points

Sunday, 08 January 2012 18:12 0 Comments

I have to admit, I really didn’t resonate with New Year’s Day this year. I wasn’t ready to release the old and bring in the new. I was steeped in an internal philosophical battle between the part of me that wants to simply live in each now moment, and the part that wants to organize and plan for the future. The pain in my back for the first few days of the year engaged my concentration, and my desire to focus on diet and health was met with powerful resistance. Ever notice when you decide to change something your internal parts that don’t want to change become very very strong?!

So I decided today, January 8th would be my New Year’s Day. Seemed like that would give me enough time to get into the year and be ready. And yet as we arrive at this day I am noticing it is the day of the Full Moon, exact at 11:30 pm tonight, Pacific time. The Sun is in Capricorn, the Moon in Cancer. We are all triggered internally to find balance between structure, success and our goals, with our needs for love, nurturing and family (family includes friends and beloved pets too!). And, a Full Moon always has a quality of completion, of letting go. Intuitively, today is a great day to ponder the past month and what it has brought to us, and perhaps to consider the whole year of 2011: where we’ve felt success and accomplished our aims as well as where we’ve felt blocked. We might also look at where have our emotional needs been true, clear and met with healthy care and love, and where have we depleted ourselves in our mission to feel secure and loved. The chart for this Full Moon also inspires us to balance between caution and conservatism and a desire to expand our selves and our life, as well as an ability to think deeply about the transformational process we all find ourselves in.

The New Moon on January 22nd will in fact truly be the beginning of the new year energetically. At 3 degrees of Aquarius and forming a tense yet creative alignment with the forces of constructive conservatism and expansive optimism, after January 22nd will really be the time to initiate significant change, internally or externally, if that’s what we’re called to do. The first three weeks of the year give us much time to analyze, transform and slowly initiate the changes, letting go of old patterns and understanding ourselves and our shadow material more deeply.

We are meandering into 2012, unlike the obvious shift at the turn of the year that we feel in some years. I am honoring my internal call, and accepting the energies of each day as I perceive them, creating my own turning points and rhythm.

Happy New Year!

Monday, 02 January 2012 08:20 0 Comments

We like to wish each other happiness. Happy New Year, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays. This is lovely, we generally would prefer happiness over unhappiness and we wish the best for others. But over the past few days I was pondering what it is we really want, or are likely to get, and perhaps it’s more complex than happy.

And since the Universe likes nothing more than a teaching story, I was given my personal version of Happy New Year today.

My lovely plan for a happy day was to wake up slowly, go to a special yoga workshop, work on a blog, finish cleaning my closet, journal and go for a walk or work out later in the day. In honor of the perennial New Year’s ‘and I’ll be more healthy this year’ kind of thought process I decided to cook a simple fish and salad dinner, but in honor of “it’s still a holiday” I wanted to also bake a cake, something I rarely do.

I did wake up slowly. That was kind of happy. And the yoga workshop was fabulous … and with an unanticipated result. The body ‘intention’ I set at the beginning of class was to release any old emotional energy I’m holding in the lower pelvic region, and about an hour into the class my back seized up with that lovely psoas muscle that goes from the back kind of around the inside of the pelvis and down to the inner thigh. Leading to a lot of crying (definite emotional release) not to mention barely being able to walk, stand, lie down comfortably or sit for the rest of the day. My plans mostly dissolved and released, along with emotion that felt old and deep, just like the muscle.

After hot baths, endless stretching and lots of massage I was able to hobble around to cook the tilapia and bake the cake. The accomplishment of two pans of cake in the oven was quickly diminished when I realized I’d carefully measured out two teaspoons of potato starch into the batter, not the baking powder I thought I’d used (Bob’s Red Mill … if you know the brand you know all those little bags look alike). So now my cake didn’t have leavening in it. I was beginning to see a theme. Happiness, Plans & Reality.

We metaphysical folks can be a little superstitious. Everything can be a sign from the Universe, especially when our day is not going as planned. I asked myself should I not do so much yoga? The inner voice said no, yoga is great, this is the release of old emotional energy I asked for. Should I not bake cake? Well probably, but I already knew that it’s not my superfood.

To me, the truth is when we imagine a good day, a happy holiday, a good life, a fabulous year, it’s not necessarily smooth sailing. There are steps to climb, ravines to cross, nasty people in traffic to consider in a new and different way. Wanting to release emotional energy isn’t always a quick breath and stretch leading to unbridled happiness. Sometimes release really hurts. And maybe we actually don’t want a consistently happy mellow existence every hour of every day. That might be boring and not very growthful. The bottom line is we don’t always see in advance exactly how our wishes and dreams will play out, or what needs to happen first, second and third before what we think we want occurs. Flexibility and surrender are often crucial ingredients in happiness.

We want to be able to meet each moment with an alive sense of who we really are, with skills and talents to handle what comes up, hopefully thriving. We want to feel deeply, both highs and lows, and not get caught or stuck in attachment. We need to be able to accept difficulties, intuitively aware of an approach or tactic to meet the challenge, cognitively clear and grounded, willing to soften and accept assistance and guidance when needed, willing to release and surrender, or to go to Plan B.

For me, my day revolved around the release of the emotional and physically connected energy and other wishes had to be postponed. On some level this must be my highest wish because that’s the way it happened. And it turns out cake not exactly leavened with potato flour isn’t all that bad!

I wish you a magnificent year, filled with life, love and authenticity.

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