Category: Choice

I AM Love, I BE Love, I DO Love

10/17/2014

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“For even more than doers, we are deciders.
And once the decision is clear, the doing becomes effortless". ~Ralph Blum

This month looks to be quite a doozy, as Lucie pointed out in Circle this week. The funny thing is that the challenges will be coming from Within. Meanwhile, we are again being offered the most support, love and encouragement to make the SHIFT to be more aligned with our purpose and true Self than ever.
That doesn’t make it any easier when the shift involves letting go beliefs, emotions, and stories that we have built our whole identity and life on up to now! AND…letting go of all these IS as easy as choice.
The simplicity of this shift is what’s key. The question is “What is it I need & require to BE my SELF in this world?” The answer is recognizing what makes us vibrate higher or lower, that’s it. The only thing we are responsible for is choosing the vibration.
Lucie says right now the ONLY thing we have control over is how we fold the laundry…!

PS – You may feel grounding is challenging. Walk outside for 5 minutes feeling connected through the top of your head & feeling the tap root from your first chakra to the sun in the center of the earth.

For more info on the upcoming eclipse this Thursday 10/23 from 1:52pm – 5:44pm (PDT)
http://earthsky.org/tonight/partial-solar-eclipse-for-north-america-on-october-23
http://darkstarastrology.com/solar-eclipse-october-2014/

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The secret to Balance

9/26/2014

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Dear Ones –
So, did you balance an egg Monday evening?
What did you experience?
Did you find any interesting beliefs with your abilities?…your luck? ..or that of other’s abilities?
Did you have FUN?

…My brother shared a way to get the egg to stand at ANY time…It requires SALT.

Yes, the substance we use to purify. By placing our hands in the salt and setting the intention to release negativity and to ground, we are blessed by the salt’s ability to soak up all that does not serve us.

How interesting that the substance we use for purification can assist in Balance?

* Just place a small pile/circle of salt on a flat surface, the egg will stand.

* Blow the excess away, and you have achieved balance!

You may want to try this exercise again, and see how it effects your own perceptions of balance. See how the two objects work together…Collaboration is everything!

Please post in comments below or on facebook what your experiences are…

Blessings & Love!

Lucie

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What's in a Name...?

9/8/2014

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In Circle this week’s cycle, Lucie made a few very important points:

·         More & More we will be called upon to hold the container for others & ourselves. It is not really an option to set it down and forget it anymore…our purpose is to stay on task while listening to our guidance and wisdom, stay in the center of our wheel accepting help from all directions, elements, kingdoms.

·         Being grounded allows us to hold more energy, light, and/or feeling - Otherwise it just washes through and is gone. Don’t wait till the end of the day to evaluate where you are. Once an hour, take three deep breaths, stretch, do a body check, etc…

·         Introduce yourself before Prayer - *see if you get different results*

This last one really jumped out at me. How often DO we introduce ourselves? Depending on our contact with others, I know it varies. However, It made me think about the fact that I don’t introduce myself to my friends…they already know who I am. I hardly ever claim my-self to mySelf, it seems odd to me. So how do our guides know whom they are coming to assist? How do we claim our Selves in our prayers? How do we communicate with spirit? Do we just assume that spirit knows who we are?

Look at your own name. Look up its meaning. Think about how formal you are with yourself and others’ names. I think this is a really interesting and fun experiment to practice through these next couple of weeks.
As we continue the gathering of the *Harvest of our Selves* and our Intentions we planted this spring… think about how that reveals who you really are. The harvest can sometimes look very different from the planting…especially when you are harvesting the wisdom of yourself on this path of purpose and Love.

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Gathering the Harvest of Self

8/20/2014

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All I can say about this time we are living in, right now........ is WOW, just…wow. It seems as if everything is conspiring to speak to us. The universe, the animal kingdom, the planets, …our selves…

This week in circle, we talked about the details of where we “are” in terms of planets, phases, seasons. We are just about to enter a New Moon next Monday, August 25th, in Virgo. The Sun enters this same sign this Saturday, August 23rd, and the last solar cycle before Autumn Equinox begins. This is the harvest, the gathering time. We begin to pull together all we have watered, visioned, created & nurtured. Gathering and receiving all the experiences that support our purpose is what this time is about. Are you ready to receive?

The support available to us is astounding, even in the tiniest of ways. First let me show you the basic energies holding us in support right now: We have a trine with Uranus (Connection with Great Spirit), Mercury (Communication from Guides & Answers), and Mars (Primal Force, movement toward Right Action) – All lining up with a quixunct to Saturn (Ancient Wisdom, Seven Generations), bringing challenges, redirection, adjustments and diversions. Don’t think stops & starts are wrong right now, even with all that is going for us, stops and halts have purpose and reason. All is in alignment to put us in touch with the sacred…and our self.

When something slows you down, ground and check your space. What emotions are manifesting, and where does it take you out of your joy and peace. Check the directions see if something calls to you. Check to see if elements or one of the four kingdoms are making themselves known. I was craving water something terrible at Circle Monday…Ha! It was “faith” (the lesson of the West) that ended up revealing itself to me later this week!

On my way here today, I found myself “stuck” behind a driver going *gasp* the speed limit. I grew agitated and impatient, wanting to be where I had not arrived yet. Then I remembered the part about hold-ups, and took a couple deep breaths and thought about where my impatience came from. It came from a lack of trust (faith) that I was going to get myself where I wanted to be exactly when I wanted to be there…which was NOW. I was trying to control it and do it all myself. I let my grip on the steering wheel relax and decided to let my guides help with the drive. I concentrated on my grounding and working the automobile, but allowed the rest to be taken care of.

….Immediately, the driver turned…all other cars on the road were gone, I sailed through several green lights all the way through the busiest intersections in town! Even when I did hit a red light…I realized that it wasn’t a blockage, just a slow down for safety. I was still going to “get there” and five minutes of stress give or take were only going to get in the way of my thoughts. This way, I glided with my guides the rest of the ride and enjoyed the view and the revelation along the way…wow, right?

THAT is exactly how this energy is working for us right now. It’s right here for us to harvest and receive, if we just allow for it and pay attention. The moments, thoughts, ideas and feelings we catch ourselves in this week are revealing to us more and more about our selves and our alignment with our purpose.

This is a great time to start a new pattern, change old beliefs for new ones, harvest your best self in the moment – While being fully supported by the Universe/Creator.

Once you receive the messages, watch how they reinforce each other. I realize that just the revelation of my feelings of impatience vs. faith is just the tip of the cookie. I’m sure the next week will have me see this reflection is a thousand different ways, big & small. All I can do is stay grounded and keep taking the next step…

Both Circles this Monday (women’s & men’s) were visited by chickadee. By the second circle, they were even flying around inside the tent and sitting on the branches nearby during meditation. The chickadee medicine is “cheerful & truthful expression.” According to Ted Andrews’ book, Animal Speak, there are seven types of chickadees, representing the sacred 7 - Associated with the seven rays of power, seven planets, seven energy bodies of a human being, and the seven energy centers.

These tiny messengers are all around us. In finding our truth, we receive more joy in being here on the planet, and our expression of this joy radiates to All. Wow, just wow. We are so lucky to be right here, right now, receiving our harvest!

A-ho!

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June 22nd, 2014

6/22/2014

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Oh the JOY of MidSummer! …A perfect blue sky and breeze rustling the leaves…the trees and grass in full growth, lush and full of LIFE!

The word *Solstice* literally means, “standing still”…The sun ceases its northward arc, and then will eventually begin to move southward on the horizon as we swing back to Equinox. It is a magical moment, like those few seconds of lightness at the arc of a swing, where flight seems almost natural, inevitable… That fullness embodies the height of summer and the fullness surrounding us. On the Medicine Wheel, the South, Summer & Fire represent – Nurturing, Joy, and Fullness. This is the time to revel in what fills you up, makes you shine your brightest, what sparks your Heart’s desire. Creative energies are at their peak, bursting with possibility.

While sitting in my yard yesterday, feeling the breeze and sunlight wash over me…listening to the sounds of nature, breathing in the smells of grass and flower, looking at the myriad of shades of GREEN that abound as nature grows, I thought about the difference between the seasons as they reveal themselves. Its one thing to feel that excitement seeing the first shoots of life in the Spring…quite another to realize those shoots are now waist high grass! (This makes my cat think he is a tiger hiding in the jungle, hunting grasshoppers.)

There is still some time before the harvest, and our lesson until then is to continue to cultivate our inner garden. We get to fertilize and care for that which we choose to nurture in our lives, while weeding out false beliefs, actions, or people who do not serve our Hearts and ourselves.

Meanwhile – Recognize the “arc” that this point on the year-wheel gives us and revel in the fullness, the bursting forth of life, the joy that Mother Earth feels as she does what she does best. Let your own petals unfurl in the Summer sun!

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February New Moon 2, Mercury Retrograde 2014

2/10/2014

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While some of you might know we had two New Moons in January – How many of you know we had an entire year’s worth of experience in that one Lunar Month? Then we enter February with mercury going retrograde…marking this as a time of reflection for the next three weeks. During this time, we feel the moon filling again and we use this container to re-work our dreams and purpose and actions and desires once more… It is as if this Year has already given us a ‘Cosmic Do-Over’ by giving us TWO New Year New Moons!

Did anyone notice how much shifted between December and now? How fast things happened and how easy it became all of a sudden to manifest, dream, and identify things? THIS is the essence of 2014, and now the Year of the Horse. In Native American totem medicine, Horse represents power, strength, and FREEDOM. This year we are Free to follow our purpose …and have the rewards truly appear in ways we have only dreamed.

This brings us up to speed with where we are right now and where we are ‘pausing’ for the next moon phase or so. Consider the previous month-year a preview of what’s possible. Ask the questions “was there more I’d like to add? How do I fine tune this? What do I want to take away? How do I choose my next right action?” Be willing to sit in the vibration of the feeling of what you want to choose for yourself right now. Don’t be too caught up in pictures, because it’s bigger than that. The word is really ALLOW.

“How do I allow myself to have what I choose?” “How do I allow my purpose to move me forward?”

We don’t have to push anything away or bring anything into us – Because we are already full and whole when grounded solidly between Heaven & Earth. Remember as we fine tune our choices and goals, we also fine tune our-selves in each moment. Check your grounding cord at least one an hour. Stiffness and pain in the joints is where we hold other’s stuff so that it doesn’t go deeper and stick in our soft tissues and organs. This time of year, seems to challenge our joints. By staying connected into the Earth and continuously flushing ourselves with that healing salve from the center, we allow for release to keep flowing easily.

This is a watery retrograde and the New moon was watery as well. Emotions and waves will be common. When having a BIG Emotion:
· Check to see if you are FULL/WHOLE in the NOW
· Check your BREATH

All the old directives - would, could, should - all of those are the pieces of ourselves we leave behind. These are old programs that need updating. Claim your power by stating
“With what I know now, I CHOOSE.”
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For the next 2-3 weeks…
Listen to the guidance and that little voice ~ do what it says without question. (You may get the urge to pull over to the side of the road for a few breaths…it could be all about divine timing, safety, and where you will show up next…so do it.)

Find a way to take a retreat, even a mini-one. But don’t make RULES about what it has to be or what it is supposed to look like. The minute you put anything in a box, it stops the flow of intuition.

Before action, STOP and include your Heart, include your Self…then Do.
~ ~ ~
Blessings and here’s to the Full Moon on Feb. 14th !

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I AM Love, I BE Love, I DO Love

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February New Moon 2, Mercury Retrograde 2014

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