New

The new is all about fresh beginnings.  It's about being born to a different life; a new set of circumstances.  It means I have finished a previous type of life, and I get to participate in a new and unknown life.  I am feeling grateful, humbled, and eager to move into this newness.  These days are about transitioning.  I am currently transitioning out of a life that no longer serves me, and into a life that will allow for the best expression of who I AM.  It feels like the best kind of do-over, and I am freely and easily stepping into a new adventure!  All good!

"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

                                     --Chris McCandless   

  

Opening

As doors close in so many parts of my life, I realize there is another side to this process of letting go.  This other side has everything to do with being, and with opening to a new way of living my life.  That new way is one of listening and moving with the natural energy of my life essence.  It is a life of ease, joy, and doing things without effort.  As I stay open to this new life, a whole world is opening to me that I wasn't aligned with before.  It carries a wonderful feeling of lightness, free of burden.  Fully free... .

"Right at the end of the road, a new way will be revealed."

                        --Hiral Nagda

"And suddenly you know:  It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings."

                        --Meister Eckhart

 

Growing Time

We are now in the Summer Solstice season.  This time is when all the plants and animals are growing toward the fullness of this year.  I am feeling this energy, too.  Spring gave us the focus of our growth for the year.  Now we are nurturing, watering, feeding, and tending to our unique projects for this year of large change.  I feel so much that my own main project is creating myself.  I am creating a new self that I haven't previously known. I am moving toward a better self.  A self that is more attuned to nature, to others around me, and especially to the new direction that my life wants to go.  It's a time of anticipation, openness, and definitely growth.  I am steadily watching this process, participating in the enjoyment of each day, and waiting to see what comes into full  bloom.  This is a definite growing time.  Enjoy and care for the steady growth of your own life.

"As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.  We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom.  It happens in its own time."

                                  --Dennis Waitley      

Discernment

We are all traveling a unified path on the Earth.  We are here at the same time within the framework of an individual lifetime.  The diversity within this unified path is immense.  Our task is to recognize, and have awareness of, this collective path while also giving ourselves individual space and clarity within that unity.  We each have the ability to discern what serves us well and what does not.  It is up to each of us to hone our skills of knowing and growing.  To learn when it's time to stay and when it's time to let go and move forward.  All of these decisions guide, create, and become our life paths.  The best possible outcome may happen when we set the intention that our uniquely expressed paths will contribute to the unified whole and to the peaceful and harmonious linking of humanity.

"The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive."

                                                      --Criss Jami                                                      

"Be courageous and face this moment in time consciously and with all the discernment and clarity within your power."

                                                      --James O'Dea

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Radiance

For me, the word radiance is full of comfort, joy, promise, and power.  We have experienced a long, slow, chilly spring here in the Northwest with many overcast skies and days of drizzling rain.  In a huge departure, these past 2 days have brought full sun, and the day temperatures have bounced up into the mid-80's.  This  beautiful radiant sunshine and warm air brought everyone outside.  The feeling was wonderful--warm, supportive, energizing.  I was highly motivated to plant in my garden, to transplant overgrown plants, and to put flowers into baskets and containers.  It was so great to play outside after weeks of gray skies!  

Radiance and radiant energy flow to us and bring us back to life.  This season of spring is full of this kind of energy and opportunity.  Immerse yourself in your own sunny, radiant connections, both inner and outer.  Feel the joy!

"When you understand who and what you are, your radiance projects into the universal radiance and everything around you becomes creative and full of opportunity." 

                                              --Harbhajan Singh Yogi

"If there ever was a time that life needed you to move through each moment as the colorful radiant Creative Intelligence that you are, it is now!"

                                              --Corry MacDonald

Seedlings

Even though this spring has been extra cool, the plants have not seemed to be deterred.  Yes, they are slower to come fully to life, but their new beginnings are firmly in place.  I feel like my own projects in life are following the same course.  They are slowly coming into being, and there are clear signs of new life in formation. This is exciting and gratifying.  I feel encouraged that these new starts have fertile ground in which to grow and develop. Their internal blueprints are solid, and these projects will build and expand with the energy of this season.  I will continue to nurture and care for the growth of these new seedlings of my creative life.  I am filled with joy at the prospect!

"Never underestimate the importance of the beginning.  Of anything.  The beginning has the seeds of everything else to come."

                                              --Carolyn Coman         

Home

"Home is where the heart is."  Feels like that's even more good reason for me to know my heart well.  Allowing my heart to be home is grounding, stabilizing, comforting; my shelter; my rock.  If we don't know our hearts well, then home is subject to the whims of our external world.  This world around us at present is a world of upheaval, wild releasing, and rapid change.  This means it is necessary for us to know ourselves well, and to take action based on our true heart's energy.  Doing this will allow us to maintain our solid footing, and to create a home in this shifting outer world.  Our hearts must be our anchor.  It is powerfully essential that we cultivate our personal sense of home as we whirl through space and time, and through this current transformation process. 

"Listen to the Wind--it talks 

Listen to the Silence--it speaks

Listen to your Heart--it knows the way"

                  --Native American wisdom

"Your heart knows the way.

Run in that direction."

                  --Rumi