The June 15th Lunar Eclipse marks the middle of the summer eclipse series. We are in a month of intense energies from eclipses, the summer solstice and the Mayan Calendar. Eclipses serve as portals or doorways to higher consciousness so we have a golden opportunity to increase our vibration. You may have noticed how fast your life seems to be moving. Changes that used to take years or months are now happening in weeks or days.
So if you want to get on this train and ride, a good way to do this is through ceremony. My last post, Celebrating Summer Eclipses, shows you how to prepare for an eclipse ceremony. Anyone can perform a ceremony. It is not just for spiritual leaders. I encourage everyone to do one as a way of reconnecting with nature, the sacred and the magical flows of energy that are now bathing the earth.
Eclipse Theme
Have your ceremony mirror the energies of the eclipse. This will create a more profound connection. So what exactly are the energies of this eclipse? It happens in the zodiac sign of Sagittarius, which deals with expansion, seeing the big picture, and questing for a higher truth. The Galactic Center, which is even more expansive, is located in Sagittarius very close to this eclipse so again we are being stretched to see a much bigger picture than our human mind has been able to in the past. The theme of this eclipse is to replace old beliefs with a much bigger picture. To read more about the meaning of the three summer eclipses see Eclipses: Doorway to Higher Consciousness.
Altar
Using what you learned about setting up altars from my last post, choose a beautiful scarf or cloth napkin for an altar cloth. Choose purples, gold or fiery colors to create a feeling of expansion and upliftment. Candles will increase the fiery energies. Whimsical items bring in happy, joyful feelings. Be outrageous. Create a happy altar.
There is a very powerful dance of the planets unfolding in the sky this month. This dance, which involves three eclipses and the summer solstice, creates potent energies that can be used to change and transform your life. To read more about these energies see Eclipses: Doorway to Higher Consciousness. Using them with awareness is a huge gift to you and the planet. As you use these energies to shift and transform your life, you support the transformation of the New Earth.
I have found that ceremonies are an effective way to attune to the eclipse and summer solstice energies. See New Earth: Calendars & Seasonal Cycles to learn more about the summer solstice. To read about a very usual summer solstice celebration in Seattle see New Earth Summer Solstice Celebration Ceremonies are a way to return the sacred to our lives. They bring cleansing, celebration, and realignment as we move through life transitions. They open us to the rhythms of nature, to our intuition and center us in the now. They satisfy an inner longing for ritual and connection to each other and the Earth.
Everyone can perform their own ceremony. It does not require a spiritual leader or special talents. It simply involves opening your heart and mind to what is present.
We have a power packed eclipse series happening this month. It is an opportunity to step into higher consciousness and to create a New Earth. Normally we would have just two eclipses at a time but this summer there are three. The normal pattern is one solar eclipse and one lunar eclipse that occur 2 weeks apart. The extra solar eclipse creates a four week period of powerful energies for making significant life changes. All of this is coupled with the last wave of the Mayan Calendar, which causes us to feel as if time is speeding. The summer solstice on June 21 occurs also in this month adding to the intense energies.
A Solar eclipse happens when the moon lines up with the sun in the sky. As the moon comes between the sun and the Earth it disrupts the flow of energies streaming from the sun. Light encodes information and this disruption creates a reboot or reorganization in our consciousness. Often with Solar Eclipses, we experience new beginnings.
Have you noticed how strong the energies for change are right now? We are in a two week period that is hemmed in by a lunar eclipse (June 25) and a solar eclipse (July 11). Between these two eclipses is a period of intensified energy. The powerful eclipse energies combined with the rare dance of three outer planets see Planetary Dance Causing Consciousness Shift is really amping up the energies out there.
Spawning Eureka’s
It’s an opportunity to experience two benefits. The first one is the ability to have amazing Eureka’s and ah-ha’s right on the spot. Your intuition, creativity and understanding are so expanded that you can have spontaneous insights about things you have pondered for years. Wow! That has been happening for me since the first eclipse. Just this morning I had a Eureka about how things manifest. Now, I have understood and worked with these principles for years, but today it all fell together in one big overview picture… with tips even, on how to steer around obstacles.
I’ve been writing a good bit about the intense energies unfolding right now and I want to make sure we don’t lose sight of what they are all about. They are the impetus for birthing a new species of human, Homo Luminous, that is the new YOU!
I know many of us are feeling pretty uncomfortable right now and I want to point out that because of the nature of human beings, this is the only way to create the extreme changes that must happen if we are to evolve in to new humans. Truly, how do you make changes? Do you change your behavior because you think it is a good idea, you’d be happier or it would be good for you???? Well, you’d like to I am sure. But truth is, most humans change when things are so uncomfortable that change is the only option left. So that is what is going on right now. Our soul intention is to become the new human (or we would not be on the planet right now) so spirit, the universe, powers that be, whatever you call it is helping us to achieve our intention.
With so much intensity now unfolding in our lives we are looking for answers, tools and solutions. Here are sentiments expressed by one of my clients, “Oh what to do! Been going round and round. Not used to this. I pray this will pass. Just not sure what to do.” This pretty much sums up how many of us are feeling right now. This is an intense merry-go-round we are on and we’d like to get off or at least slow it down.
Well, we are stepping pretty spritely now in to the New Consciousness and what we are feeling is simply its higher vibration. Our bodies, our minds, our daily lives are simply not used to functioning in energy this high. So we are going round and round not knowing quite what to do and feeling overwhelmed. The most obvious thing to do is to begin raising our vibration to match the energy we are now living in. It’s All About Energy!!! That is exactly what a consciousness shift is – a raising of energies.
Are you feeling the birthing pains of the new Consciousness? Is your life or the life of your friends changing dramatically, falling apart, in crisis or chaos?? If so, those are birthing pains of the new consciousness. What is happening here? Well, there are a lot of intense energies flooding the Earth with higher vibrational energies of the new consciousness. So anything in your life that does not match that high level of vibration is being transformed or cleansed so that you can live happily in the new energy.
Now this probably doesn’t feel good and you are wondering how any good could come from it. You’ll need to shift how you view it to understand how you really are headed toward a more harmonious and peaceful life. Let’s say your health or your marriage or maybe your job is falling apart. Look and notice what is not working about it and how, in fact, it probably has not been working for a while…maybe even years. The “not working” part is the lower vibration I am referring to. Now if it did not fall apart, you’d just keep on keeping on and not make any change. But that lower energy cannot exist in the higher energy of the new consciousness so your higher self is trying to detox that from your body, mind and spirit so that a new you can embrace the new consciousness and all of the peace, abundance and happiness it brings.
The seasonal cycles of the Earth are one expression of her aliveness. In this post, we’ll examine how the Earth’s natural cycles and our calendar are out of sync creating a disconnect in our subconscious. One aspect of waking up, in preparation for 2012, is to become more sensitive to the aliveness of the Earth. This is known as the Gaia Theory and states that the Earth is an alive sentient being. So let’s look at how we can do that.
The calendar is a major part of our everyday life and working with it creates an alignment with the concepts it represents. A part of our calendar is contrived. Consequently this puts us out of sync with the organic cycles of the Earth. Since our calendar is based on the earth’s 365 day journey around the sun, this aspect is in alignment with the Earth’s natural cycles.
However, our year is divided into 12 months, which are meant to represent the moon’s journeys around the Earth. This journey takes 28 days and the moon makes 13 of these each year rather than 12. So here, our calendar is not in rhythm with the moon’s cycles. This results in a blue moon like the one coming up on December 31. A blue moon occurs when we have two full moons in one month. It is the extra full moon related to the 13th trip of the moon around the earth. Some years we have an extra new moon rather than an extra full moon.
Another feature that is out of sync is our calendar’s start date on January 1st. In nature, the real beginning of the year is the winter solstice, which just occurred on December 21. On the winter solstice, in the northern Hemisphere, the Earth has turned her face as far from the sun as she can, and on that day, she starts her journey back to the light. As the light returns – a new cycle begins.
Pagans and some indigenous people base their holidays on this cycle. However at an unconscious level, it seems that all of humanity is attuned to this new beginning in nature. This is demonstrated by the many festivals of light around our globe this time of year – Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanza, and many others.
We can relate this cycle metaphorically to the growth cycle of a plant. So Earth’s calendar looks like this:
Winter solstice – beginning of new cycle – seed is planted
Spring Equinox – cycle expands – seed sprouts
Summer Solstice – cycle peaks – plants flower and blossom
Autumn Equinox- cycle ends – fruit is harvested, plant dies and returns to the earth
This natural cycle of the Earth is one aspect of her aliveness. We can see how our man-made measurement of time as expressed in the Gregorian calendar does not support connecting with this organic cycle.
So what can we do to remedy this? One thing we can do is to honor these seasonal cycles with a ceremony. Ceremony is a powerful way to form new neural nets in the brain, which will then automatically cause an alignment with these cycles. The more we do them, the more attuned we become.
Another way to form an alignment is to notice how our own body expresses this Earth cycle. In the winter, like the seed, we want to hibernate. Spring comes and we feel fresh and alive just like the little sprout. In the summer, our energy is at peak. We go on vacation, do outdoor activities and enjoy the uplifting, outward flowing energy. Fall comes and we begin to pull inward. We focus back on work and harvesting all that we have been striving for all year long, knowing that the cycle is ending and we’ll soon be starting a new year.
So as you celebrate the holidays in your tradition, know that Mother Earth is also beginning a new cycle.
In this post, I want to focus on the very important concept that we have a choice in how the Awakening Shift unfolds. Secondly I want to stress that your choice is important. We often think that as one person, we cannot make a difference. But as we move toward 2012, one person’s choice will be the one that tips humanity in the direction that it ends up going.
So what makes me say that we have a choice? In a nut shell, we humans actually create life as it is on earth by our thoughts. We are all connected by an energy matrix which out-pictures the vibration of the collective thoughts in the matrix. Let me explain exactly what I mean by that statement. We have a choice, because we as humans, create life as it unfolds on planet Earth. Every thought we have, every feeling we have, every belief we have sends out a vibration. Remember the principle that everything is energy vibration. As we experience these, their vibration permeates the noosphere. This term describes what we might refer to as mass consciousness or the Earth’s mind.
Here is an explanation of the noosphere. In an article written byAnodea Judith about Teilhard de Charden, who coined the term noosphere, she says “He suggested that the Earth in its evolutionary unfolding, was growing a new organ of consciousness, called thenoosphere.The noosphere is analogous on a planetary level to the evolution of the cerebral cortex in humans. The noosphere is a “planetary thinking network” — an interlinked system of consciousness and information, a global net of self-awareness, instantaneous feedback, and planetary communication.
This concept is supported by Greg Braden’s work about the matrix, which he calls the Zero Point Field. At his workshop here in Tampa, he gave this example of how human thoughts and emotions can impact the energy field of the Earth. He said there are two satellites that measure the magnetic fields of the Earth. One day, scientists noticed a huge spike in the field and wondered what it meant. After overlaying a calendar on the data, they discovered it was Sept 11,2001. The disaster caused a heart opening in millions of people around the globe, which in turn was reflected in Earth’s energy field. So there seems to be proof that we humans impact what happens in the energy field of the earth.
The next step in the process is to realize that when enough people embrace a certain belief, a critical mass is reached and the belief spreads through the matrix impacting everyone. Using a wave in the ocean as a metaphor, we know that when enough drops have gather to form the wave, it reaches its tipping point, and there is no stopping it. All the water rushes forward. Same with humanity. As we seed the noosphere with a pattern of thought and a critical mass is reached, the change acclerates so that all of humanity is transformed by the new belief.
Another theory that expresses this same concept is known as the Hundredth Monkey Principle, in which monkeys changed their behavior when a critical mass had learned the new behavior. Although considered an urban legend by some, the work of Rupert Sheldrake supports this theory with his concept of morphic fields. The concept is that a critical mass is reached when, for instance a hundred monkeys learn the behavior.
So now to connect this principle to how important your choice is. Here is a personal story that demonstrates how that could work. About 20 years ago, John Randolph Price, who understood this concept, started a World Peace Meditation to take place each year on December 31st . Everyone adjusted the time for their time zone so we would all be mediating at the same time. I lived in the Northwest at that time, so 4:00 a.m. was the time I was to to meditate. Although I am not at all a morning person, for years I would get up for the World Peace Meditation. Sometimes my husband, at that time, would join me. Other times, he’d say, “I am sleeping through it this year” to which I would always jokingly reply, “But what if you are the hundredth monkey?”
So we are in that choice point now where a minority can make a tangible difference by spreading positive ideas to the majority. Just as one drop of water tipped the wave, it only takes a single individual to tip the wave of critical mass. So the question I leave you with is “What if you are the hundredth monkey– the person who causes the tipping point?”
Each one of us has a vote. How are you voting? Are you moving into fear and buying into concepts like those presented in the movie 2012 or are you holding for a world of abundance, joy, peace and goodness for all??
Here is a wonderful song about the choice you have to make. I heard Shawn Galloway sing it here in Tampa at the I Can Do It! Conference and it was so uplifting. Enjoy!
That’s my invitation to you – awaken to the awakening shift! And that’s why I have created this blog – to provide support, information, and tools to help you do just that.
With the 2012 movie having just been released, lots of folks are beginning to wonder what the real truth is about 2012. I say it is a deep and profound awakening in our consciousness that is causing a shift in how we experience our world. I have coined the term “Awakening Shift” to describe this awakening movement in consciousness that is creating a shift in our lives.
So in this first post, I’ll give a couple of examples of how we are waking up. But first, I want to define what I mean when I say consciousness. I am referring to our level of awareness, how attuned we are to all that is unfolding in our world- externally and internally. If we look at world history, we can see that we have been a pretty numbed out. Certainly, aware beings would not do to each other and the Earth what we have done.
But now, our race is waking up. In fact, we are waking up so much that, I believe, we are evolving into a new species. Several scholars subscribe to this theory and have suggested names for the new “us”. Homo spiritus is the name given by David Hawkins, MD, Ph.D. to beings who are awake and vibrating at a high level according to a consciousness scale he has developed. Alberto Villoldo, anthropologist and shaman has labeled it homo luminous to indicate that we are becoming beings whose energy fields are luminous. And Barbara Hand Clow, Cherokee elder and writer, calls the new human homo pacem, to indicate we are becoming a species focused on peace.
Another sign that we are coming out of our stupor is we are waking up to the needs of the planet as shown by the huge “green movement” now afoot. We are saying, “Ah, we are all in this together. Either we all survive, or no one survives.”
I invite you to go one step farther…. beyond the Green Movement and begin to look at the Earth as a living, sentient being. This is known as the “Gaia Principle.” Many indigenous people refer to the Earth as our Mother, indicating that she is an alive being who provides us with our physical needs to sustain life. In South America she is referred to as Pachamama meaning Mother Earth.
What I am saying is that the earth is not just a big hunk of rock and dirt whirling around the Sun. It is alive and has an awareness and consciousness, one that our human minds may not be able to comprehend. Opens another can of worms, though. If the Earth is alive, so is Mars, Venus, Jupiter and all the other planets…and the sun and the stars! We live in a universe of alive sentient beings that are expressing as stars and galaxies. How mind stretching is that!
So in this first post, I want to introduce these two concepts. We are evolving into a new species and we live on an alive sentient being. I know this isn’t news to many of you, but for others these concepts may occur as way outside of your comfort zone. However, the only way to wake up is to stretch ourselves out of our old way of thinking. So, I invite you to visit my blog often and leave comments so I can know what other questions have arisen out of my posts.
These are two of what I call my foundation principles that I suggest you will need to embrace to be able to align with the new energies and flourish on our New Earth. I have written an article entitled Five Foundation Principles of the Awakening Shift to explain these five principles. You can access it under articles.
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