June 2009 

There is so much going on right now for us as a species it is at times dizzying.  Pluto is up there encouraging us to take responsibility for who we are, and as we do so, Saturn is changing the structure of the world in response.

We are living very creative lives as we prepare to continue birthing our authentic selves, in the world, this spring and summer.

Like heroes on a quest, we are finding the discipline and motivation to act on the inspiration whispered to our hearts. Weeding out whatever is taking our energy and attention away from hearing and responding to that voice is one of the enormous and vital tasks we are individually addressing. Vital work, for, as each of us gets closer to operating from that place of inspiration and love, the more love, there is in the world.

Rumi, the poet wrote, "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

Last week, an Incan spiritual messenger was visiting from Machu Picchu. We were talking about the changes right now in the world, and about how important it is to release our ego (he identified seven egos) so that we can be reborn, which in turn will rebirth the world. At one point we were talking about how being 'triggered' is an important teaching opportunity to release old patterns of belief. He recommended we sit with our feelings (anger, fear, sadness)  and move into our inner temple. Within our body is our spiritual or divine mother(heart), father(mind), god(cosmos). By calling on that energy, we engage our inner temple, and can let go of the ego and dissolve it in the fire of love, which his tradition calls the great mother.

Friends here are video-taping conversations of Willaru's teachings, so if you are interested send me your e mail and I'll pass on the video/web link.

I'm getting hot flashes these days, and I can use those few moments while gripped in the fire of the mother, to throw any stress or anxieties that might be floating in the air, into my personal furnace and transmute them.

This is a great time to be doing our alchemical weeding. Weeding is also described as cleaning and clearing, and there are a few really powerful techniques that many of us have been drawn to using recently. I find they work really well together. One is Emotional Freedom Technique, which is often affectionately referred to as 'tapping', and the other is Ho'oponopono, which, at it's most simple, is a means of taking responsibility for everything in the world and replacing it with love.

Emotional Freedom Technique is like a needle-free acupuncture you can learn to do yourself that connects the bodies subtle energy and your emotions (emofree.com) I like using the technique to talk to my body about beliefs. For example, I might tap on the points saying, “Even though I react to dairy, I love and approve of my body unconditionally, and I know I will get over this.” In this understanding, when we are ill, our bodies are offering us points of focus, where blocks to the flow of our life energy are needing our unconditional love. Emotional congestion, negative beliefs of the conscious and unconscious mind, are part of what we need to cleanse from our bodies to bring health.

Ho’oponopono is a Hawaiian teaching that assumes we are divine, and that  it is the responsibility of each of us to clear away what is preventing us from being fully present. We can do this by speaking to divinity directly and simply saying, “I Love You; I am sorry; Please forgive me for whatever is going on in me that I perceive this in a certain way; Thank You.”. As we repeat this phrase, we are  allowing divinity to begin clearing away the  ‘weeds’ (memories and subconscious programs), freeing up a path for the divine to enter our life. We are being asked to do this work not only for ourselves but for the benefit it brings all of us, because we are all connected after all.

Friends gathered around a fire on May Day to check in after the long winter and acknowledge how each of us were being inspired, and then we drummed under a beautiful night sky until the rain began to fall, nourishing our spirits. A beautiful woman at the fire who had just returned from traveling alone in the Andes for four months said, ” Some of us are getting a little older and it’s important when we share that we speak up.” We immediately laughed at the physical truth of what she said, and then smiled at her deeper meaning; it is time for each of us to speak up, from your authentic self, and offer our wisdom to our community. Many of us have lived in a world run by other, more monetarily powerful people. Now, as each of us clears a path to make our authentic selves the directors of our actions and thoughts, we become the change we seek in the world. I love you.