Simple Thoughts for 2011

The world would be a much better place, if we could only remember and understand some of the simple laws of our universe.

What goes around, comes around. (For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction and you don't have to believe this for it to be true.)

Treat others as you want to be treated.

Karma needs no address. People make conscious choices everyday for their highest or lowest good.

Show respect & love to yourself, you are made in the image of God.

WE are LOVE!

We are all connected! If you hurt others, you hurt yourself!

The only thing you can change about a situation is how you view it.

Actions, speak louder than words.

Our gifts lie in our shadow issues! We must face them to gain access to them.

Your path is what lies in front of you.

Creativity promotes healing.

Change is inevitable, embrace it!

What you think, you  become!

It is your divine birthright to thrive & do well!



Do you have any more to add to this? I would love to hear from you.

Giving

During the holiday season too much emphasis is put on holiday giving and too many people painfully go into debt in order to give material things to each other and their families. It is time to step back and look at things from an old and new perspective. It is time to do our holidays a new way and not allow ourselves to be swayed by ads, peers, commercials and news.

It is time to stop ourselves from being lead like cattle in any direction the people behind the retail sales and media blitz see fit. Giving from the heart is what's most important and the following poem from a historical author reminds us of what is important to our souls. We can fix our holiday traditions to work more in alignment for everyone's highest good. It is not necessary to spend money we don't have or give gifts for the pure material sake of giving, because we feel the pressure to do so. This is not what Christmas is about in the first place.

Ask yourself, How can I give from my heart to my family and teach my family to give from their hearts? There is something very special about giving out of love and from your heart. Let's recapture the true essence of giving and receiving this holiday season. Make the holidays come alive inside of you! 

What new family tradition will you be start this year? 

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet, Poem on Giving

Then said a rich man, speak to us of Giving.

And he answered:

You give but little when you give of your possessions.

It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for 
fear you may need them tomorrow?

And tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring to the over-prudent

dog burying bones in the trackless sand as he follows the pilgrims 

to the holy city?

And what is fear of need but need itself?

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is 

unquenchable?

There are those who give little of the much which they have -

and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes

their gifts unwholesome.

And there are those who have little and give it all.

These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their

coffer is never empty.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their

baptism.

And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do 

they seek joy, nor give with mindfullness of virtue;

They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance

into space.

Through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind 

their eyes He smiles upon the earth.

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, 

through understanding; 

And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is 
joy greater than giving.

And is there naught you would withhold?

All you have shall some day be given.

Warrior of the Light Behaves Like Water

The Warrior of the Light sometimes behaves like water,
flowing around the obstacles he encounters.

Occasionally, resistance might mean destruction, and so
he adapts to the circumstances. He accepts, without complaint
that the stones in his path hinder his way through the
mountains.

Therein lies the strength of water: It cannot be touched
by a hammer or ripped to shreds by a knife. The strongest
sword in the world cannot scar its surface.

The river adapts itself to whatever route proves possible,
but the river never forgets its one objective: the sea. So
fragile at its source, it gradually gathers the strength of
the other rivers it encounters.

And, after a certain point, its power is absolute.

-Paulo Coelho

Remember when things get tough to be like water.

Divine Mystic

Warrior of the Light

Some excerpts from Warrior of the Light by Paulo Coelho to help challenge our thinking as Lightworkers and Warriors of the Light! It is an amazing book to help us change our vision and focus to where it needs to be! I highly recommend this book for all Lightworkers on this Path.

Every Warrior of the Light has felt afraid of going into battle.

Every Warrior of the Light has, as some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone.

Every Warrior of the light has trodden a path that was not his.

Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed that he was not a Warrior of the Light.

Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties.

Every Warrior of the Light has said "yes" when he wanted to say "no".

Every Warrior of the Light has hurt someone he loved.

That is why he a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.

The Warrior of the Light always checks to see he carries these 3 things - faith, hope and love. And when these 3 things are there, he does not hesitate to move forward.

The Warrior simply has to accept the challenge, He knows that God never overlooks a single mistake made by those he loves, nor does he allow his favorites to pretend ignorance of the rules of the game.

A Warrior of the Light realizes that his best teachers are the people with whom he shares the battlefield.

The Warrior of the Light meditates.

A Warrior of the Light knows that in the silence of his heart he will hear an order that will guide him.

Becoming Authentic in Relationships

There are many aspects and transits happening in our heavens to help us realize it is now time to become authentic in our relationships. The November Issue of Conscious Inspired Living is available now. There are many wonderful and great articles to help get you inspired in this magazine.

My new article can be read at this link Becoming Authentic in Relationships.

Many blessing to you during the holiday season and  on this Journey of Self Discovery~ Divine Mystic

Celebrating You & Life

During the holiday season much mention is made of celebrating life. Today is the beginning of the rest of your life. What will you do with it? Celebrating the beginning of the rest of your life can be challenging without the right perspective and light. So stop and think about this!

Do you have something to celebrate?

Yes, YOU!

Do you have problems?

Yes, it is life; we will always have problems. Highs and Lows. Ups and Downs. Growth and Learning. All of us make good and bad choices that affect us and everyone around us everyday. It is why we must work hard to make the best possible choices for ourselves and others every moment.

Does this stop you from enjoying your life and keep you from moving forward?

Look at the blocks. This is your next step and what you must work through. Allowing the pain of the world to stop you is forcing you to continue to be the victim. Pick yourself up by the boot straps, ask for guidance and direction from within and start those boots marching. You have the power to change your own life.

How do you create a new perspective and reshape how your life looks?

You can’t change the past. You can only change what happens today and from this day forth.  Remember you can’t take the same approach or attitude about everything and have a different result. You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect something new. So ask yourself how do I look at this situation differently? How is it serving my highest good? What steps can I take or what do I need to understand so I can shift my thinking for the better?

Don’t be afraid to step into your own power. Look at what is blocking you from being all you can be and take steps to get help in these areas of your life. Ask for support from your friends and like-minded people. Check your fears at the door and step through the door and don’t look back. They are no longer serving you in your new way of being.

The strong man conquers his fears and continues to do so as they raise their head. No one said living on this planet would be easy. It is a school where we come to learn and it is not our home. Thank heaven we are only visiting so we may benefit from our learning. How far have you come in learning your spiritual lessons?

When we come here we fall into delusion of our true nature and we truly must find who we are again, stay connected to source and stay true to your core self to be happy, survive and thrive.

What Do Praying Mantis & Our Times Have In Common?

While we were out yesterday my daughter saw this Praying Mantis and stopped to show it to her daughter. Of course, we had to take a photo of it and being who I am came home to check what Praying Mantis has to share with us. It's a very interesting totem.

It is a time for us to be still & emotionally clear inside so we may hear & see where we are being lead with our wisdom, visions & dreams. When you go within you draw upon the Universal Power to help you manifest according to your higher self! Every thing starts to fall into place. It gives you single mindedness in your focus of accomplishing what you came here to do for you souls design and needs.

It is always best to remain invisible & not expose your new plans until the right timing, so people don't try to stop or block you before you are ready!

Look at the Master of Camouflage. It matched this yellow pole perfectly. Talk about an eye for color! :)

We need to allow ourselves to change the colors of who we thought we had to be and morph into allowing all expressions of us to flow now! Our souls are rainbows! Follow the openings in your life, you never know where it may lead! It is time for us to be all we can be!

THE TIME IS NOW!

Many blessings to you!

Divine Mystic

Praying Mantis Totem

The Power of Stillness

The Praying Mantis teaches how to still the outer mind and go within ourselves.

Through this, we can draw upon greater power -- physical, emotional, mental or spiritual. That stillness can be simple contemplation or meditation or even dreaming.

Healers often have Praying Mantis totems -- for they use their inner stillness to focus their healing power.

The greatest lesson this totem teaches is patience. Learning to wait for the right moment before striking. * above referenced from here - http://www.linsdomain.com/totems/pages/prayingmantis.html 

"They are masters of adaptability and camouflage. This and the willingness to wait in stillness for what they want are the two primary characteristics of mantids and those with this totem. These folks have "invisibility" medicine. They blend in so well, no one notices them, unless they want to be noticed. By then they have already scooped the situation, news event, or negotiation."



"Mantis medicine is about the creative process of becoming. Personal and direct kinship with everything and everyone is the very process of life itself. Has modern life made you feel overly critical, analytical, isolated and powerless? Can you say that you know yourself, or are truly known by another, your community, or by the creatures and plants where you live? Feeling yourself to be yourself, you could commit to a daily practice of meditation, facilitating knowing and accepting yourself in the stillness of the dreamtime, thereby experiencing oneness with yourself and kinship with all beings. Call upon Mantis to help you live a life of universal kinship. Then, wherever you go on earth, home will always be with you, in you." Cie Simurro, aka Thunderbird Starwoman **http://wisdom-magazine.com/Article.aspx/1659/

Psychological Gremlins & Shadow Issues

This is a photo of the recent Autumn Equinox, Full Harvest Moon creating the largest golden orb full moon of the year; showing it's shadow side in the lens.

 

My Psychological Gremlins & Shadow Issues magazine article is available to read now! Lots of wonderful reading and ways to get inspired in the new October addition of CIL, Conscious Inspired Living Magazine! Feature article on Hank Wesselman, PhD, World of Things Hidden. He is an anthropologist & scientific researcher. 

 

Another great article on Failed Dreams or New Directions by Robin Linke and the list of great articles goes on and on! Stop by and get inspired!

 

 Click here to go to the article - 

Psychological Gremlins & Shadow Issues Article

 

Happy Halloween, Day of the Dead  & Fall to You ALL!

 

Pluto in Capricorn, Square Saturn in Libra - Another Fine Mess You Got Us Into Ollie... from Laurel & Hardy

When you find your life in a mess, don't blame someone else. Look no further than the mirror. This is a time to get real with oneself and others. There is no way out of this now. People are being forced to become real; where we our wounded as individuals and as a group is coming out for all to see. People, Institutions, Governments, Authorities are now crumbling; if their house was built in sand. Those of us who buried our heads for too long allowing others to run our lives and government without watch dogs are now paying the price. We are being forced to wake up as individuals & a collective!

When you realize the government is only a representation of the people. It is a sad note of who we have become as a nation, since our forefathers and so many others fought and continue to fight so hard for our freedom. And we haven’t taken good care of honoring them by giving it away by our own choosing; through ignorance, out of fear, despair, being beaten down, greed and forgetting who we truly are and came here to be.

The time for living in La La  land is fast coming to an end. You can feel this energy slowly changing as more and more abuse of our money by people we trusted, institutions and such comes to light. No more living pipe dreams or lives that don’t suit us or represent who we truly are in the design of our soul.

Let’s break this down – Pluto rules atomic bombs, authenticity, transformation, death & rebirth for starters. It’s in the sign of Capricorn that rules authorities, government, status quo, false egos, etc.  Its energy is limiting and restricting and gives us boundaries and focus.  So right here we have two energies at work - One breaking apart and forcing us to become real and transforming the other trying to hold on to the status quo & false ego. These two now square Saturn in Libra. Saturn again is ruled by Capricorn so all the same attributes apply as above and this is now in the sign of Libra which rules relationships and can we please just all get along. It wants things balanced, harmonious and nice. Things must work for the group now, not just the authorities or government and the status quo is being redrawn to more authentically represent us the people, again individually and as a whole.

So the battle lines have been drawn and we are being forced to realize and see where we need to become more healthy for us, grow into our power and by doing this we help the whole. Relationships of all kinds come into focus and must become real as well with Saturn in Libra Squaring Pluto and it will expose the strengths and weaknesses in them.

When life knocks you down and you start to have a pity party, look around and see that others are far worse off. Find gratitude in everything. There are gifts deeply hidden in the darkest hour; don't forget to look for them. They are priceless and remain hidden until you reap the rewards by searching for the treasures! The situation is just a distraction keeping you from finding them. It is a game to see how bad you want them. We must work for what we want and God helps those who help themselves.

 In the dark, shadow moments, our gifts are hidden in the reasons we are in pain. We must look harder because there is no light to see where they are hiding. If you stay sad in the dark, who is going to care? Only we can recognize how and where our lives are not working and why we find ourselves in these dark painful places. It doesn't always mean you must toss people away; we just need to approach our thinking from a different perspective and then decide which road to take.

If things are falling apart it is for good reason and you are being forced to see where things aren’t working in your life. Thereby needing to make a plan so we can bridge from the old crumbling life, into that which will represent who we truly have become now.  Finding your gifts along the way and being thankful instead of fighting the changes will help greatly in this process and finding support from like-minded people and friends!

Lighten up, don’t be too serious, Laugh at life’s situations and most of all Love & Forgive oneself & others always.

Jupiter & Uranus in Pisces & Healing

"By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing." ~Caroline Myss

 While Uranus and Jupiter are moving back into Pisces for the last time. We must see where we have been allowing ourselves to be victims, not having good boundaries and facing many things we have hidden away in our closets, including our shadow issues. We must face them and claim our hidden strengths & gifts by overcoming our weaknesses. It is time to forgive ourselves and others for the choices we have made so we may heal this hidden patterning keeping us from claiming our power.

 We are being given opportunities through crisis and break downs in our lives to see what is working and what is not. It doesn't work to go around blaming others anymore, we must look to ourselves to see why this is happening to us. What attracted it to us and how can we change that? It is time to claim our strength and step out of the crowd and old way of blaming and being the victim and take control of our destiny, lives and wounding. 

 Right now many are going around feeling like victims and blaming the economy, their work, their loved ones, their government & others for the places they find themselves. It is time to start living and thinking a new way as these planets finish up in Pisces. We need to  pick ourselves up by the nap of our necks and start taking responsibility for where we are and how the heck do we fix our lives?

 Once you start looking for answers the teachers will come!

  Happy Fall Season to You All!

Resistance to Change - Our Shadow Issues

It is human nature to resist change, yet when pain comes along in life, it can force us to start asking questions and looking for better ways of being for our highest good. In this sense, pain serves a very positive purpose, as long as we can step out of the pain long enough to look for answers. This is usually when people start a spiritual quest. They want to learn how to take responsibility for their lives and live them in a more joyful way.

Since we are human we run into resistance from our constructed egos along the way. This is a normal reaction since the ego only feels comfortable doing what it already knows, what was planned or what it thinks it is supposed to be doing. Most of the time this is learned behavior from family, society and peers. It doesn’t matter if it is working for us or not, or whether it represent who we truly are or not. It will resist new openings, ideas, thoughts and actions! It will say this is not how we were going to do this, or it has to be done this way for it to be correct.

What happens in these situations is then you are not allowing room to be Spirit Led. It is good to have a plan in life, but we have to go with the openings that are coming in now. We may eventually get back to our plan, but in the meantime we need to follow the openings in front of us to live a Spirit Led life! If what we want for ourselves is not working at this time, then there is something else we need to be doing now.

This is when resistance raises its head to keep us from moving forward in a direction the ego doesn’t think is right. Resistance is when energy in motion is stuck. When we resist openings that are right in front of us and we block ourselves from moving into them. Sometimes this resistance is saying we need to do things another way.

When we find reasons why we shouldn’t do something that is opening to us for one reason or another, we must become aware of the resistance and then see if there is good reason for the resistance; or if it is the ego resisting something new. When we can’t do something that has opened up to us, it is time to become aware we are running into resistance.

When we are leaving old ways of doing things behind and moving into new ways of trying things, we need to find support from others to help us on this path. New families come together of like minds. We need to see where can we share, give, and express more of us? We help others and ourselves through our gifts and our talents. See yourself as a great, giant receiver. Remember, we are always in a state of receiving and know you are in a state of abundance because you are open to receiving blessings.

What are our gifts, our spin on things? Our personalities are important now too. All parts of our individuality need to be expressed. We also need to get rid of things in our lives and not have too much stuff now. If it is just sitting there, it represents old consciousness. It is time to Cleanse, Release, Rearrange and RENEW!

What do I need to keep in my life and how is it serving me now? Let’s create MAGIC like feather medicine, be like the HAWK & EAGLE and rise above the unhealthy happenings in our lives so we can continue to be all we can be and see the broader view.

(Article was written from notes taken during a workshop with Michele Meiche on August 28, 2010.)

Change Your Neverending Story!

“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.” Robert Collier

When you quickly fall into old ways of painful thinking, stop yourself and say how can I do this differently?

Anything that isn't fluid, in the flow or in the present you are caught in projection and being triggered. Michele Meiche

The old ways of handling our problems are not working! If it is causing us pain and we continue to do the same thing over and over again; we will not get a new result. If we continue to think about how awful our situation is day in and day out we are only attracting more negativity and pain to us!

We must stop the subconscious from falling into the trap of lies and continuing to believe the never-ending story that was told to us; which is not the true or authentic story of our souls/lives. We are the only ones who can change this story and what we believe about us, by changing the story we tell our subconscious every day!

We are made in the image of God and are a spark in his likeness, how powerful is that? Yet we complain we are powerless. We must change how we think and what we believe about ourselves! The true story of who you are must come out now so you may shine as the unique individual your soul is and we must do our part in helping to heal ourselves and the whole! We are all connected like waves on the Ocean! Everyone working on themselves is helping our world, communities and families become a better place to be!

Re write your story to reflect the authentic you!

Endings, New Beginnings and Manifesting

For those of us who have been working on healing ourselves, walking our walk, talking our talk and realizing where we need to let go; then starting to see the new ways we need to bring in. It is definitely a time for endings, new beginnings and manifesting right now.

It is very important when you think about manifesting what you want that you watch how you are thinking and the actions you are taking on those thoughts! Be specific in your asking and what you want to manifest.

Don't just say I want a good looking woman/man...cause there are lots of good looking woman/man who are very damaged, cheaters, emotional abusers...get the idea??? My point is be specific in what you want to bring in for you and always ask for it to be for your highest good.

Do you want to move? where? what does the house look like? how much does it cost? how many rooms? bathrooms? color? square feet? what does the outside look like? what type of neighbors? how close are they? What is the city like you live in? Is it a city or a forest? getting the idea?

Next, we must be sure the things we are doing are for our highest good and that they are authentically representing us in our actions and thoughts on all levels.

We have the power to bring forth what we want from Spirit, as long as 1) it is true for us and resonating to our being (*i.e. you love yourself and know you deserve what you are asking for and it is for your highest good.) 2) You don’t continue to think thoughts, or fill thoughtforms with doubt, have negative rationalizations, or allow your conscious or unconscious minds to distract you from what you are concentrating on.

You can ask the Lord for a million dollars, but if you don’t love yourself enough to know you deserve it or you don’t handle your money well then the chances of attracting that are slim to none; because we are creating a block. We must be resonating to what we are attracting, so we must look to us to see where we are blocking ourselves and what needs fixing in us! We need to get the log out of our own eye before we can help others with theirs. We are the way showers and are here to help others find the way by showing them how, not blaming them for our problems.

Last, but not least; for example, if you want a good marriage and you believe yourself to be a victim how will you attract a good marriage? You will always attract being the victim or being someone’s scape goat.

We must look to what is being mirrored to us to fix in our lives now and see what isn’t working and visualize the new ways we want in our lives to make this happen. The time of being a victim is now changing when we leave the Piscean age behind and move into the age of Aquarius. So much is being asked of us to change for the shift in this energy coming in! We now must become the unique individuals that we are, be comfortable with who we are and our unique gifts. We are not made in molds and then we can bring this wonderful healthy person into the whole to make a better world for us all!

On top of all of this, remember things are happening in new ways you would never expect or look for; so keep an open mind!!

Blessings to all of us, take advantage of these opportunities for new beginnings, have fun, relax and when you mind is not well you know something needs fixing. Start tuning into your self to find your answers. Develop a relationship with Spirit and trust what is being said.