Welcome 2018

I love this piece from Heart's Calling

More than life, our minds open and close doors to our way of living. What if we allowed the sharp edges of criticism and blame to soften. What if we could blend into stillness long enough to allow the openness of our souls to free of us from harsh thinking. All that is constructed, with critical and examining thought, will not reside with us when we finally leave this plain. What our hearts hold, brings us to touching compassion and love, brings us to our true selves if we allow it. My wish is, as we transition day to day whether through one year to the next, whether 2017 to 2018, that we hold ourselves in gentleness. Not let the scars of our sharp edges bleed, let healing come when we believe we are good enough right now. Choices that do not knock us down but cause us to rise with vision, joy; holding our world in tenderness, but mostly ourselves. Oh how we need to be more tender to ourselves. 

I wrote this poem on New Year’s Eve on December 31, 2013. May it hold peace and light unto our souls. 

I am brilliant,
and vibrant-
ready to spark,
no holding back-
facing my dark,
now-
I am more than,
a whisper in the wind-
I lift my voice,
passed my mountain-
illuminating within,
the dim.
I give myself,
permission-
to be surprised,
the gift of-
stepping forward,
living alive-
too many times,
the moments-
have passed,
my world comes to-
calling me,
I will not let it pass.
I am my dance,
listen to my drum-
I rise to my music,
I am the poem,
let me ignite-
the world,
with the fire of me-
book now unfolding-
words now released.

Author Maureen Kwiat Meshenberg ©
Heart's Calling

Sacrifice

"Sacrifice is a show of trust in the unknown. It is the pruning that redirects your energy toward the life of becoming. Like quitting a job, only to have an opportunity appear the same afternoon; or breaking up a bad relationship only to meet your true love, there is magic in sacrifice. Life is calling you toward it, and your relinquishment of those tethers that bind you to outgrown forms is the answering of that call. Your willingness to step into the emptiness from which all life springs is a show of devotion to your own belonging." - Toko-pa

Wonders

Sir Thomas Browne wrote, “All wonders you seek are within yourself.”

Super moon 2017

The Stormy Super New Moon Energy of May 25, 2017

Dear Friends, this week’s New Moon on Thursday, May 25, 2017, is a SUPERMOON! This means that, for the first time since the year 2009, it will be a new moon (not a full moon) that presents the year’s closest and largest supermoon.

A super new moon really is an amazing thing. A supermoon occurs when the moon is at its closest point to Earth in its monthly orbit. You won’t be seeing this moon (it’s a new moon after all), but nevertheless, it will strongly affect earthly tides and human emotions in days before and following May 25.

A New Moon signifies new beginnings and fresh starts. It’s the perfect time to turn a new leaf, set your intentions, acknowledge goals, and commit to your vision for the next 28 days. A Supermoon also signifies a time of high energy thanks to the moon being closer than ever to us.

On this Super New Moon get ready to make big and significant decisions. Things will be happening fast and out of the blue. The choices you make this week will be bringing closure and ending chapters so that new beginnings can enter your life in the next moon cycle. Emotions will run high during this Supermoon because of this extra ‘super’ energy. Remember to keep it cool.

‘The Hyades’ Stars

This particular Super New Moon will take place in a star cluster called ‘The Hyades’ situated in the Taurus constellation. The Hyades cluster is the closest star cluster to Earth, at a distance of 130 light years. This cluster is very easy to spot in the night sky because it has a compact and distinctive shape of the letter V on the face of the bull.

The Hyades were the nymphs that brought rain in Greek mythology. According to the myth, their brother Hays was killed while hunting, so they started crying from grief, which is how they brought rain down onto the earth.

This ‘stormy and bitter’ energy emanating from these stars will be passing through the Super New Moon this week, generating an implacable and rebellious type of energy that will be reaching the Earth.

Please make sure you take some time to relax and engage in quiet daily meditations throughout the week. It’s a week for keeping your emotions balanced, otherwise, things might get a bit out of control leading to sorrow and disappointments.

All of us are already going through a major transformative period, our old Self is slowly merging with our new Enlightened Self. This process of spiritual alchemy has been generating emotional frictions within and among ourselves. We are all becoming ‘Phoenixes’, we are all learning to become bright Human Beings of Light.

Because of this, please be kind and patient with yourself and with those around you during this week’s Super New Moon. Deep emotions might come up to surface in those of you who need to let go and cleanse old outdated belief systems.

This Super New Moon will also be encouraging us to review and assess the state of our mental activity and our thought processes. As we identify and release old habits, we become more available to new and inventive ways to move forward in our Soul evolution.

On Thursday, May 25, set crystal clear intentions to have a peaceful, fulfilling, and balanced life. Plant the seeds of harmony, understanding, and Divine Love so they can grow deep roots during this new 28 days cycle.

May the energy of this special New Supermoon in Taurus give you the impetus to confidently and gracefully jump full speed into your new/renewed Enlightened path.

Much Love,

Diego

Celestial Energies

Art  Tarot by Cecelia

"I can't be happy if my mother is unhappy." Have you ever felt this?

Usually this belief comes from the pain of seeing your mother suffer from her own inner deprivation and compassion for her struggle under the weight of patriarchal demands. However, when we sacrifice our own happiness for our mothers, we actually prevent the necessary healing that comes from grieving the wound in our maternal line.That just keeps both mother and daughter stuck. We can't heal our mothers and we can't make them see us accurately, no matter how hard we try. What brings the healing is grieving. We have to grieve for ourselves and for our mother line. This grief brings incredible freedom.

With each wave of grief we re-unite with the parts of us we had to disown in order to be accepted by our families.

Unhealthy systems need to be disrupted in order to find a new, healthier, higher-level equilibrium. It's a paradox that we actually heal our mother line when we disrupt the patriarchal patterns in the mother line, not when we remain complicit with the patriarchal patterns to maintain surface-level peace. It takes grit and courage to refuse to comply with patriarchal patterns that have generational momentum in our families.

Read more: http://www.womboflight.com/the-rupture-of-the-mother-line-and-the-cost-of-becoming-real/

Irene, you are a mighty, brave and courageous person. You love immensely and care deeply. Your behaviour comes from heart that is divine, pure and heavenly. But, people should never take advantage of your generosity and kindness. If they do,they have made a huge mistake. You will show them your bad-ass and savage side and take them down like a fire-breathing Dragon takes down his enemies - to ashes and dust! This is the meaning of your name. You are precious, rare and one-of-a-kind. Share your result and let the world know who you truly are!

ABOUT YOU: Through your absolute lightness of being, you have (or will have) the ability to transform yourself and the world around you into a thing of immense beauty and enlightenment. You have the ability to recreate yourself many times and to rise above any negativity which might try to hold you down.  You can elevate your thoughts above earthly matters to those of pure spirit.  You are the ultimate "free spirit" whose abilities to deal with change are almost magical.

 

Your name in ancient Sanskrit is बुत्तेर्फ़्ल्य् स्पिरित त्रन्स्फ़ोर्मतिओन्  which means butterfly who can spiritually transform.

Sorrow

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

~ Rumi

Exhaustion

One of my biggest turning points came in the form of exhaustion. I found myself repeatedly exhausted--not the everyday exhaustion that comes from being busy or frazzled. It was a kind of existential exhaustion that seemed to permeate every cell of my physical and emotional being.

I realized I was exhausted because my underlying approach to life had been primarily formed by the energies of striving and struggle. Struggle, as in the expectation that things would be difficult, that I would have to brace myself for inevitable loss, that I must labor tirelessly for what I desired. Although it was always cloaked in optimism and enthusiasm, I realized this approach to life was burning me out. I reflected on how striving and struggle had helped me achieve so much, however, it was no longer serving me the way it once did. I was against a wall--I saw that my life-force had been muscled into striving and I could not continue that way anymore.

I reached a point where I had basically achieved much of what I wanted in life, but I still felt this impulse to keep striving from a place of lack and a belief that I needed something else to complete me. It was like a motor running. I realized this motor of struggle had been running my whole life. I had an interesting realization: struggle and striving felt good to me, this mode of struggle felt normal and very safe. What felt odd and uncomfortable was to NOT strive, but to simply BE.

Read more: http://www.womboflight.com/releasing-the-need-to-struggle/

What if All I Want is a Mediocre Life?

KRISTA O'REILLY DAVI-DIGUI

What if I all I want is a small, slow, simple life? What if I am most happy in the space of in between? Where calm lives. What if I am mediocre and choose to be at peace with that?

The world is such a noisy place. Loud, haranguing voices lecturing me to hustle, to improve, build, strive, yearn, acquire, compete, and grasp for more. For bigger and better. Sacrifice sleep for productivity. Strive for excellence. Go big or go home. Have a huge impact in the world. Make your life count.

But what if I just don’t have it in me. What if all the striving for excellence leaves me sad, worn out, depleted? Drained of joy. Am I simply not enough?

What if I never really amount to anything when I grow up—beyond mom and sister and wife? But these people in my primary circle of impact know they are loved and I would choose them again, given the choice. Can this be enough?

What if I never build an orphanage in Africa but send bags of groceries to people here and there and support a couple of kids through sponsorship? What if I just offer the small gifts I have to the world and let that be enough?

What if I don’t want to write a cookbook or build a six figure business or speak before thousands? But I write because I have something to say and I invest in a small community of women I care about and encourage them to love and care for themselves well. Because bigger isn’t always better and the individual matters. She is enough.

What if I just accept this mediocre body of mine that is neither big nor small? Just in between. And I embrace that I have no desire to work for rock hard abs or 18% body fat. And I make peace with it and decide that when I lie on my deathbed I will never regret having just been me. Take me or leave me.

What if I am a mediocre home manager who rarely dusts and mostly maintains order and makes real food but sometimes buys pizza and who is horrified at moments by the utter mess in some areas of her home? Who loves to menu plan and budget but then breaks her own rules and pushes back against rigidity. Who doesn’t care about decorating and fancy things. Whose home is humble but safe.

What if I am not cut out for the frantic pace of this society and cannot even begin to keep up? And see so many others with what appears to be boundless energy and stamina but know that I need tons of solitude and calm, an abundance of rest, and swaths of unscheduled time in order to be healthy. Body, spirit, soul healthy. Am I enough?

What if I am too religious for some and not spiritual enough for others? Non-evangelistic. Not bold enough. Yet willing to share in quiet ways, in genuine relationship, my deeply rooted faith. And my doubts and insecurities.

This will have to be enough.

And if I have been married 21 years and love my husband more today than yesterday but have never had a fairy tale romance and break the “experts” marriage rules about doing a ton of activities together and having a bunch in common. And we don’t. And we like time apart and time together. Is our marriage good enough?

What if I am a mom who delights in her kids but needs time for herself and sometimes just wants to be first and doesn’t like to play but who hugs and affirms and supports her kids in their passions? A mediocre mom who can never live up to her own expectations of good enough, let alone yours.

What if I embrace my limitations and stop railing against them? Make peace with who I am and what I need and honor your right to do the same. Accept that all I want is a small, slow, simple life. A mediocre life. A beautiful, quiet, gentle life.

I think it is enough.

Rest In Peace Henry Slaczka

Henry Slaczka Past away January !8 2017

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