All Ground is Holy Ground

I started writing this on Winter Solstice and the day where, synchronistically, Jupiter and Saturn joined together at 0 degrees Aquarius. Now the year has changed, and the light is growing and expanding, bringing the Solstice seeds we’ve planted ultimately to the surface.  These seeds are imbued with the energies of the Saturn/Jupiter conjunction and will help us create humane, Aquarian-age social structures that so many of us have been longing for.

Has the Age of Aquarius dawned?  Not according to my astrologer friends, although there are other astrologers who would say ‘yes,’ this is the astrological demarkation. From my perspective, a shift in a 2000-year astrological age is not a single celestial event, but rather a gradual passage we’ve been in for a while. But this current conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, aligned with the powerful Solstice energies, is definitely the opening of a new portal of consciousness which helps shift the consciousness of the collective.

As new portals open, in order to fully participate in this Aquarian social shift, those of us who are way-showers are being asked to expand our perspective to support the 5D qualities of Unity consciousness, of living from the truth that we are all One. It is so interesting and no coincidence that simultaneously many of us are holding opposing narratives, which presuppose different versions of reality.  While frankly, I have found this unsettling, I also realize that there is a higher purpose here… one that allows us to let go of our attachment to our own narrative and know that it is not going to be ‘facts’ that change the world, but rather energy.

To release attachment to our version of what is “real,” means releasing our ego’s need to ‘know.’  If we are certain that we ‘know,’ then we are immediately thrust into judgment that people who disagree with us ‘don’t know.’  Instead, if we can allow the energies of love to flow from our hearts to all beings, including ourselves of course, and to all of Creation, then planetary transformation to bring in equality, compassion, harmony and justice for all, (which is part of the Aquarian vision of a humane, inclusive world,) is free to grow.

So I encourage you to notice in your daily life how you have been conditioned to hold the “us vs. them” consciousness.  Notice when you want to convince people that there is only one way to view reality and that yours is the way.  And then imagine you can breathe into a much larger vision, a vision that holds all perspectives as part of the tapestry of the current state of humanity’s consciousness.  Notice if you can feel love for all of that humanity.  Notice what happens to your heart when you can. It is from here that we will create New Earth.

As I look at my year ahead, in addition to my commitment to myself to transform feelings of stress and overload into joy and flow no matter what the outer circumstances, I’ve also made a commitment to keep my work growing to be of service to the planet.  New offerings emerging.

At long last, I am scheduling my 10-week Zoom class Connecting Star Consciousness with Earth Consciousness based on my book Activating Your 5D Frequency, to begin Sunday, February 21st.  Each of the weekly classes will focus on one chapter of the book, and will include a meditation and teachings to bring us all closer to holding these new high frequency energies that shift our lives and our planet.  This class will be offered at an introductory price.  And if you register by January 31st, you can save an extra $25.00. (Scroll down for more information).

While the current circle for our online Global Mystery School is full, Carley and I will begin a new mystery school circle this August.  Participation is limited so you might want to look over the information below to see if you are being called… Registration opens March 15th.

As we welcome the energies of 2021, may this new year reflect the gifts we have received from the lessons of the cycle that has just passed away.  May these new energies help us flourish and support our soul’s yearning as never before.

And as you walk through your life, remember “All ground is holy ground.”

Ready to Raise Your Frequency and En-lighten Your Cells?

I don’t know about you, but it’s been quite a week for me.  The last seven days have brought exciting connections, deep concern about loved ones, less sleep than usual, new opportunities to spread high frequency 5D consciousness on our planet, new types of tech stress, and a big challenge through all of this to keep my sense of calm and balance.  Whew.

Most ironic here is that my large ring with a yin/yang symbol on it, which I have named and used as “my balance ring” has suddenly disappeared despite the fact it’s in my house.  Hmmmm…. That message from the Universe is definitely not subtle.  Several growth experiences and opportunities to deepen my ability to regain balance have been thrown my way in a very short period of linear time.  I have not aced this course, but I’m certainly working on it.  Lots of deep breaths, prayers, gratitude, more deep breaths, rinse and repeat. Perhaps some of you are going through this as well.

But that’s not why I’m sending out this newsletter today.

I want you to know about a very exciting free summit “The Flow of Living in 5D,” that I’ll be presenting in next Sunday.  This summit, which will take place on Facebook Live from Friday October 16 – Sunday, the 18th, is being put on by Abigail Mensah-Bonsu, a beautiful, high frequency woman with a very important mission on our planet. The unique piece for me about this summit, is that it is all about helping you feel into 5D, helping you raise your frequency to feel more joy and more flow, while strengthening your vision of living on a 5D planet.  So not only will the information be useful, the experience will be even more so.

In order to join the summit, you have to become a member of Abigail’s Facebook Group:  Moon Goddess Sacred Sanctum.
This is a group well-worth joining.  In the little time I’ve been connected with Abigail, I’ve experienced first hand how she embodies the 5D frequency.  When I watched the video she has put out for presenters, which is pinned to the top of her group page, her vision, as well as her presence, affected me deeply. Even though you won’t be presenting in this summit, I encourage you to watch that video.

My summit presentation will take place Sunday, October 18th from 1:30 – 2:30 Mountain time (3:30 – 4:30 my time).  The first 1/2 hour is Activating Your 5D Light Codes, the second 1/2 hour is Envisioning Life on our 5D Planet.  I hope you will all join me.

I have exciting news about our GLOBAL Shamanic Multidimensional Mystery School… We are almost full!  This is going to be another amazing circle. And we have 6 time zones represented already… it is indeed a global experience.

If your soul is calling you to join us, you are not going to want to miss this opportunity.

GLOBAL SHAMANIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL MYSTERY SCHOOL                      Becoming A Fifth Dimensional Human On Planet Earth

This is a 4-segment mystery school which will take place over the course of the next 18 – 24 months.  To learn more click HERE.

This is what former students have said about their experience:

“Magical” “Life Changing”  “...”has helped me widen my vision to see beyond my normal perspective of the world, the universe, and myself and open my heart in love and grace”.  “I have experienced an evolution of growth from within my essence and among kindred spirits.”  “The energy of oneness amplifies the mysteries, inspiring my own self-realization, development, vision and divinity.”  “The sacred container of mystery school honors the wisdom in each of us to create the circle; the puzzle of each holds a unique yet collaborative piece. I felt held in the insecure places and challenges as we dove in to the mysteries and experienced my Universal Wisdom in its full unfolding boldness” “Felt the empowerment of grace to create and support a world of 5th dimensional love and being.” 

Sending you all blessings and love.

Evolution is the Key

These are amazing times — challenging and wonderful.  Truly when all is said and done, what is really being asked of us is simple:  that we keep growing and nurturing our spiritual evolution.  And that we remind ourselves that no matter what happens in 3D, the outcome is not the point, the journey is.  The more we can release our attachment to outcomes, the more we can activate our 5D frequency and therefore our light body.

It is from this frequency that we feed planetary evolution as well.  So much of our suffering and angst right now is really getting stuck in the smaller picture of 4th dimensional drama.  I am not suggesting that people not step forward with activism to heal and transform our third dimensional world, but I am, yet again, saying it starts as an “inside” job.  Heal it within, and it will shift your frequency, which in turn will shift the outer expressions on our planet.  Together we can all do our part to create New Earth, but that part begins by understanding that everything we may feel appalled about on the outer, also is within us because we are all interconnected.  Find that part no matter how much you don’t want it inside of you, send it love and see it begin to melt away.  And of course always keep listening to the direction from your heart.

The early bird discount for the Global Mystery School is about to run out. October 1st is the deadline.  If your soul is calling you here, you are not going to want to miss this opportunity.

GLOBAL SHAMANIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL MYSTERY SCHOOL                      Becoming A Fifth Dimensional Human On Planet Earth

We have taught two in-person circles, each in four segments a piece, and the results have been amazing.  To learn more click HERE.

What former students have said about their experience:

“Magical” “Life Changing”  “...”has helped me widen my vision to see beyond my normal perspective of the world, the universe, and myself and open my heart in love and grace”.  “I have experienced an evolution of growth from within my essence and among kindred spirits.”  “The energy of oneness amplifies the mysteries, inspiring my own self-realization, development, vision and divinity.”  “The sacred container of mystery school honors the wisdom in each of us to create the circle; the puzzle of each holds a unique yet collaborative piece. I felt held in the insecure places and challenges as we dove in to the mysteries and experienced my Universal Wisdom in its full unfolding boldness” “Felt the empowerment of grace to create and support a world of 5th dimensional love and being.” 

Check out my latest interview with Lea Chapin on her wonderful show Inspiration from Spirit. Besides being a great interview and great fun to do, it started off for me rather hilariously.  I was a tad nervous ahead of time as happens to me, despite the fact that interviews are always fine.  I clicked the link her producer sent me 10 minutes before the show started, per their instructions and got a message that I had to download another browser to support the link.  So obviously that was going to take a few minutes.  Several deep breaths at that point.  I had interviewed with Lea years ago on her radio when my book Empowering the Spirit came out.  I thought I was still going to be interviewed on audio… no video involved, until I was finally able to click the link and saw Lea there looking all beautiful and then her producer as well.  I said “Is this video??!!!”  And yep it was.  I asked for a minute to at least comb my hair (I was not a pretty sight) and her producer assured me that I had a few minutes before the show would begin.  So off I tore, to throw on a colorful shawl, get myself looking decent and managed to get back to my computer exactly at the minute that Lea was finishing up my introduction.  I felt that Spirit (and also of course my lack of research) had put that slight obstacle before me to let me know that I can handle whatever comes up and stay on task to make my contribution.  If you want to check out that interview:  Here’s the
Link to Inspiration from Spirit:

Sending you all blessings and love.

Using The Energy of Our Inner Light to Create an Enlightened Planet

As the sun shines over these beautiful mountains I call my home, my heart aches for all the suffering that is still prevalent on our planet.  Here I am, safe, well-fed, surrounded by peace and natural beauty, while Mother Earth and so many of her inhabitants struggle because of the myths we have been conditioned to believe.  This myths have bred the lack of consciousness that has allowed us to terrorize each other and mutilate the natural world.

Fires are raging on the West Coast and in parts of Colorado.  Weather patterns are bizarre.  COVID is still around, and has brought not only hardship and illness but an intensification of the strange social divisions that currently exist in this country. People of color are clamoring for safely, respect and fairness, while others show up at counter demonstrations with machine guns and threats.

We so need help!  And the help needs to come from within each of us.  Each and everyone of you reading this newsletter has chosen at a soul level to incarnate on this planet at this particular point in history because you have gifts, wisdom and inner light which can shift the course of history.  Those gifts and that inner light radiates out from our hearts, spreading healing and hope. It is this light of consciousness which will propel our evolution forward.  It is far more powerful than the forces resisting this change, but only if we meet and clear the aspects of those forces which are reflected within us, and keep focused on our intent to share our gifts with courage and clarity.

And so this is a call to action.  Both inner and outer.  Look within to find anything which still is limiting you, anything holding you in old wounds, habits or fears. Look within too, for inspiration, deeper levels of compassion and creativity which invoke your unique contribution to uplifting our world.  Ask for direction and then as direction arises, commit to following it no matter how unsettling or scary it might seem.  We are at a critical turning point, a point that this planet has faced many times in pre-history, a point where the evolution of the human soul can step into its highest expression, but only if we are willing to do what we have come here to do.  And that ‘doing’ will look different for all of us:  for some we may step into a much larger arena of influence, for others, we may have more subtle but no less important a job.

If you are seeking more clarity of direction in terms of who you really are and what you have come here to do, you may find you are called to register for our Global Shamanic Multidimensional Mystery School, that my dear friend and colleague, Carley Mattimore and I are offering via Zoom.  Our early bird discount is available until October 1st.  This circle has already begun to form as people have stepped forward to sign up.  Check to see if you too, have a sacred appointment to join us.

We have taught two in-person circles, each in four segments a piece, and the results have been amazing.
Here’s a few things some former students have said about their experience:

“Magical” “Life Changing”  “...”has helped me widen my vision to see beyond my normal perspective of the world, the universe, and myself and open my heart in love and grace”.  “I have experienced an evolution of growth from within my essence and among kindred spirits.”  “The energy of oneness amplifies the mysteries, inspiring my own self-realization, development, vision and divinity.”  “The sacred container of mystery school honors the wisdom in each of us to create the circle; the puzzle of each holds a unique yet collaborative piece. I felt held in the insecure places and challenges as we dove in to the mysteries and experienced my Universal Wisdom in its full unfolding boldness” “Felt the empowerment of grace to create and support a world of 5th dimensional love and being.” 

Sending you all blessings and love.

As Realities Become More Permeable, It’s Time to Embrace Living in the “I Don’t Know”

I don’t know about you, but I have been constantly faced with different versions of what we call “reality.”  Collectively, those of us in the United States cannot even agree that maybe it’s wiser and kinder to wear a mask in public. There are so many story-lines right now, that even areas that may seem obvious no longer fall in the “we-can-all-agree” category.

Conspiracy theories abound and many are convinced they are “real”  — whatever “real” means these days.  We know the old story isn’t true.  Well some of us do.  I’m sure that cannot be agreed on either. Perhaps it all comes down to our fear and resistance of living in uncertainty.

As much as we may try to free ourselves from our old dysfunctional conditioning, we are still hungry to know “this is right,” “this is wrong,” “this is true,””this is false.”  We still seem to hope there is still some external truth we can rely on.  And of course any “truth” that comes from outside us, is not likely to be ‘truth’ at all.

So how to navigate?  How to open our minds to just live in the “I don’t know?” How to just surrender to uncertainty?

The first thing that comes to me when I ask this question is that it is important to bring our fears about living with uncertainty into our conscious awareness.  I know that things I’m uncertain about these days include ‘Is it insane to get on a plane so that I can finally see my grandchildren?” (it’s been almost a year). ” Will I have enough energy and inspiration to keep getting my teachings more and more into the world?” (I need a vacation.). “Is it safe to go on a vacation?” ” Is is safe to not play it safe?”  (I’ve always thought so in the past, but that was before COVID.). “Will new people show up in my life, as old groups are falling away?”  Which all comes down to “Can I really count on the Universe,” which comes down even more to “Can I really trust my inner Guidance?”  The more we are able to connect with that Guidance, to tune into what feels right and what does not feel right for us, the easier ‘uncertainty’ becomes.  As an example, I don’t have to know if I will have the inspiration and energy to get my teachings out in the world in a month, but I know that I can do what needs to be done right now.

There is a book called The Art of Uncertainty which I don’t own and haven’t read, but I love the title.  And the thesis is that learning to live in uncertainty, lets us live in the NOW, let’s us embrace the mystery.  And isn’t that we where we all want to be?

So ponder what it might take to embrace the “I don’t know,” to embrace the uncertainty and learn to connect with the wisdom within to provide you with clarity on where to put your foot next.  Breathe deeply and feel the ease which comes when you allow yourself to be guided into the mystery.

And speaking of mystery, this Saturday my dear friend and colleague Carley Mattimore and I will be opening registration for our Global Shamanic Multidimensional Mystery School…(yeah that’s a mouthful).  We have taught two in-person circles, each in four segments a piece, and the results have been amazing.  Now with Covid, we have decided to launch the school online via Zoom so where-ever you are in world, you have an opportunity to join us.

Here’s a few things some former students have said about their experience:

“Magical” “Life Changing”  “...”has helped me widen my vision to see beyond my normal perspective of the world, the universe, and myself and open my heart in love and grace”.  “I have experienced an evolution of growth from within my essence and among kindred spirits.”  “The energy of oneness amplifies the mysteries, inspiring my own self-realization, development, vision and divinity.”  “The sacred container of mystery school honors the wisdom in each of us to create the circle; the puzzle of each holds a unique yet collaborative piece. I felt held in the insecure places and challenges as we dove in to the mysteries and experienced my Universal Wisdom in its full unfolding boldness” “Felt the empowerment of grace to create and support a world of 5th dimensional love and being.” 

I’ve been doing some wonderful interviews, with more upcoming.  One of my very favorite podcasts was with a young woman named Dana Whitby.  While this won’t go live until September 23rd, I’m putting in the link anyway, just in case you want to save it and put it on your calendar.  https://athenarising.libsyn.com/activating-your-5d-frequency-interview-with-judith-corvin-blackburn

Lastly, but definitely not least, I’m in the process of creating a Zoom course for my book Activating Your 5D Frequency. If you haven’t yet gotten the book, there are links below to make that easier for you.

Sending you all blessings and love.

And remember to learn to embrace uncertainty, certainly can make your journey easier.

Becoming a Safe Container for Our World

What a wild ride I have been on this weekend and I have learned an important and painful lesson:  Speaking one’s truth can clear the air and open positive dialog, or it can create more pain and division.  In my community, the latter has occurred.  And I realize it is because there was no longer a safe container to hold our views or our shadow.  Sadly it is much like the outer world.

In functional relationships, there is a foundation of love and trust.  If that foundation is there, pointing out behaviors and attitudes one believes are creating disruption and dissension, in the hopes that they may be acknowledged and changed, can be healthy and healing.  But for this to be productive, to have a positive outcome, we need both to hold a loving space for the others involved and for ourselves.  When people feel loved, they may not like what is being said, but they are able to keep an equilibrium and know that differences can be hashed out, and that honesty can clear the air and strengthen connections.

But here’s the important caveat:  In order to receive that love, to trust it, we need to be able to hold a loving container for ourselves.  Then we are able to hear criticism, to calmly ponder its validity, to own what is ours with an intent to ‘work on it,’ still feeling safe, loving and good.  If we lack authentic self-love, it becomes impossible to use critical feedback productively.  Either we will not be able to see any of its truth and go on the attack, or we will feel we are being victimized, or we will use whatever has been said, to victimize ourselves.  Or all of the above.

Sadly, that level of self-love and therefore our ability to hold a safe and loving container for ourselves and others is very rare.  And it is perhaps the most important quality we need to develop in order to transform our planet.  Years ago, a channeler told me I was not ready to get my books out into the world because I did not love myself enough.  I was shocked.  I thought I did.  But in closer examination, I realized that while I liked myself, I did not love myself enough to open to others’ criticism of me and my work, and still feel safe to get my teachings out to the world.  I have worked long and hard on this, and I’m grateful that now in my mid-70’s, this has totally shifted, but if I hadn’t been directed to look more deeply, I might never have gotten here.

So please look within.  Look at the places where you love yourself and can hold loving support for others.  Look more deeply at your places of fear, of your need for other’s approval and recognition. Then look deeply at your competitiveness, jealousy, self-righteousness, unprocessed anger.  Call in your angels and Spirit guides to fill your cells with Divine love.  Breathe that in and breathe that out.  And love yourself all the more for your willingness to do all of this. Now more than ever, we need to step into emotional health and well-being to hold a transformative container for ourselves and our world.

Below you will find information about my podcasts as well as current and exciting new offerings.  Please check these out.  I’ll be doing another Zoom book event this Sunday, and I’m most excited about the Global Shamanic Multidimensional Mystery School that I co-created with Carley Mattimore and which we are now preparing to offer ONLINE starting early November.  You’ll have to scroll down for more information.

Sending you all blessings and love.

And remember to love your beautiful self and your un-beautiful self.

Our Hearts Break to Birth a New World

I cannot bear to watch the video of George Floyd’s murder. It is heartbreaking. It is horrifying and it is far from an isolated incident. What is unique is that it was captured on film, and we are forced to admit the racism, cruelty, abuse of power and oppression that truly exists in this country and in our world.

Masses of people are saying “no more!”  Most are saying this peacefully. We are being threatened with a militaristic response designed to silence us.  I pray that we will not be silenced.  We are seeing our collective shadow in one of its ugliest permutations.  How we respond will determine how much longer we will live on a planet filled with cruelty and suffering.

I was recently asked in a radio interview with Monique Chapman to give a 5D perspective on this.  I did not do it as well as I would have liked:  I was too caught up in the pain and outrage… too caught up in 3D. How do we honor the anger and grief of a tortured and battered humanity, while simultaneously knowing that we can shift our frequency, open our hearts, and uplift ourselves to create a very different collective reality — a reality formed from a spiritually awakened, empowered and compassionate populace who understands that we are all interconnected? When we are violent and cruel to another, we are only hurting ourselves. Hating another no matter what the outer story, is really a projection of our self-hatred.  Fearing those who appear different from us reflects fear of our own uniqueness, and illuminates our internal fragmentation.

I believe that George Floyd’s soul agreed to be sacrificed to serve a higher good, to help wake us up and hopefully to propel us into a higher frequency, both individually and collectively.  If we are to honor this sacrifice, if we are truly to change our world, we need to not only send prayers, love and compassion to George Floyd’s family, friends, community, and to all those who have been oppressed by the system, we also need to be able to send this to the oppressors and perpetrators of these horrors as well.  We need to not only acknowledge the realities and cruelties with which our society has treated people of color, we need to realize that those who act out these cruelties are profoundly damaged souls, disconnected from any loving source, suffering in their own way.  Then we need to go one step further:  we need to find the hatred and oppression that we carry in our own psyches.  We need to hold love and compassion for ourselves while we look within to identify and integrate our own shadow so that it will no longer show up in our outer world.

In the early 1980’s, I was at a spiritual conference where Elizabeth Kubler Ross was a keynote speaker.  Kubler Ross had grown up in Switzerland during WWII, helped many holocaust survivors and had visited the death camps after the war.  She saw the horrors.  She told each of us in the audience, that just like her, we needed to find the Hilter within us.  We were all capable of the highest love and lowest cruelty, and it would be by owning this inside ourselves that we could stop this from happening again on our planet.

Our planet is filled with ‘little holocausts’ everywhere. We must let this old world die away.  It serves no one. Look within for any part inside yourself that may resist this death, that fears this birth canal into unknown territory.    Find the Hitler within yourself and love him into wholeness.  Hold yourself and all living creatures in compassion.  Speak up, speak out, and stay strong to the vision that New Earth, which is our higher-consciousness-5D-Frequency Planet, is ready to be birthed, and we are ready collectively to midwife in a whole new loving reality for humankind.

Getting What You Wish for is an interesting Journey

My prayers have been answered, my sacred intentions manifested. This coming Tuesday, 5/5/20, my newest book, Activating Your 5D Frequency, will be officially released, published by Inner Traditions/ Bear & Company, aka “dream publishers” for books like mine.  And fear and overwhelm keep lurking in the shadows jumping out at their whim to play havoc with my joy.

Yes, I’m hugely grateful.  I’m grateful for the book coming through me, for the book contract (thank you Linda Star Wolf,) and for all the hoops I’ve been asked to jump through.  (Trust me there have been many unanticipated hoops in this process.) Growth is my friend.  Stepping out of my comfort zone is something I’ve always believed myself to be fairly skilled at. I’m grateful for my life which has magically or otherwise, provided me with all of my heart’s desires.

But I’m not yet grateful for the fear.  It’s annoying.  It disrupts my inner peace. And I don’t like overwhelm — I like a relaxing, satisfying flow.  Apparently though, fear and overwhelm and oh yes, stress, come with this new territory I’m stepping into:  I’ve committed to and scheduled my virtual book launch (see below), which calls on several new skills including tech stuff (Ugh), and asks that I be interesting, informative, inspiring and articulate about the book. (Whew — no pressure there!). I’m making videos, actually fun once I start, but getting started is always scary and daunting.  Then there are the new interview and media opportunities coming my way.  I’m excited.  I’m overwhelmed.  I’m connecting with amazing people.  I’m figuring I’m probably nuts to be agreeing to some of these.

Let me give you some examples.  I received an email through my website from a man who produces a radio show called the Kingdom of Nye saying he would like to schedule me on the show and to give him a call.  So I called him and got his voice mail.  He called me back while I was leading a phone meditation with 18 people.  They had just closed their eyes and were focusing on their breath when my phone flashed a new call, which with my lack of tech skill caused me to hit “accept and …” thinking I had not accepted, which in turn cut off all those 18 people. I let him know I hadn’t meant to answer and was in the middle of something and I’d call him back.  (Luckily my meditation folks were all there still waiting…)

When I called him back, he was so lovely, that I ended up agreeing to be on this live show that starts at 9 pm Pacific time and goes to 1 am, which is midnight to 4 am my time!  Yes, I am insane to do this. He keeps assuring me I’ll have a blast when all I’m hoping is that I don’t nod off in the middle a sentence. (I’ll be taking listeners questions so maybe I’ll be entertained enough… one can only hope.)

Then there was the video I made with my Experiencing Your Multidimensionality meditation (which is from the book.) It took me four tries on Zoom to actually be recording it correctly, but on the last try I was doing great, and I had just brought everyone back from the meditation, all of us in a state of peace and calm, when a phone call showed up on my computer (yep, there’s a pattern) and I hit ‘not-accept’ but it took me away from the recording screen. At which point I said  “F—!!  I can’t believe this!”– then I made several unattractive faces, and then I realized I was still recording!

While I got the humor of it all, and now know how to make my phone NOT show up on my computer when I record, I did not want to throw away a good 20-minute video!  So I found a way on Zoom to clip it.  Then loaded it on my YouTube channel — but those last few minutes were still there!  I tried this every which way, several times without success. Finally I found another program to successfully edit out the expletive and weird faces.  Stress? oh yes!

Another example (if you’re not yawning yet): this very lovely woman contacted me through my publicist to see if I would do a written interview with her.  She loves the book (great) and in checking out her website, I saw she’s Dutch, living in The Netherlands, and publishing this wonderful online magazine called Global Heart, where she wants to publish the interview.  Wonderful!  But her questions are so broad, I could write a whole book to answer them.  (Oh wait… I did!)

I could go on, but this is already getting too long.

So my main point to you all:  We truly can get what we wish for, but be prepared:  fear, overwhelm and stress may well come along as part of the package.  As we stretch into our highest potential, growing pains are a natural bi-product. Or as we said back in the day;  “Another f–king growth opportunity.”

I hope you will all join me for my virtual book launch (see the details below).  If you haven’t ordered your book yet, I’ll be having a drawing to give two signed copies away.  But do order it anyway, and ideally from your local independent book store.

Lest we forget, we’re all still in the middle of this very weird pandemic. Be safe, be gentle with yourself, reach out for support if needed, find your inner peace. And please keep holding the vision of us emerging as a spiritually-awakened planet.

SPRINGING INTO ANOTHER OCTAVE OF OURSELVES

Spring has arrived.  The jonquils and daffodils are in bloom.  The leaves are preparing to burst forth with their greenery.  The birds are singing and chirping and calling to each other all day long.

Yet for many of us, our focus has been more on this global earthquake we are all experiencing.  Nature may still be behaving with her lovely seasonal predictability, but we humans find ourselves in uncharted territory that could create profound change.  Not only do we have a life-threatening pandemic, a crashing economy, hard hit working families and small businesses, we are also facing closures that have never before existed in my 74 years on the planet, as well as shortages on grocery shelves, and quarantines which soon may not be voluntary.

What does this mean for us emotionally and spiritually?  No matter how evolved we are, it is still likely we will experience fear. It is a natural human response to entering into an unknown that appears to hold many dangers.  For me, fear became activated when I thought about struggling to breathe.  While I don’t believe that I will get the virus or if I do that it will be serious, I still could feel the fear in my body. That fear has quieted because I’ve worked with it, but I’m aware of others I’ve been carrying which show up as physical sensation.

These other fears for me are connected to this next octave of my work:  My book Activating Your 5D Frequency will be released on May 5th, and that holds a set of various fear-based old beliefs that I won’t bore you or myself with here.  But again, it has compelled me to work with fear in a whole new way.

And that new way is about learning to dance with it. We want to allow any and all fears to come into consciousness because that helps it lose its power, and simultaneously we want to breathe through it so we don’t find ourselves driven by it in any way.   We are being given an amazing opportunity to step into this time of global change with compassion, authenticity and hopefully a renewed hope in humanity.  Mastering fear is going to be an important part of this.

We all know to breathe deeply.  To be grateful.  To be creative.  To meditate and do yoga.  To get out in nature.  This all helps the dance.  But also remember to be gentle with yourself.  Feeling fear is not a negative judgement on your evolution!  You are learning new steps here.  Scream if you need to.  Stomp if that helps.  Hug a pillow.  And send love always to yourself and all others as you pray for the well-being of all.

The old world is dying to make room for a new one to be birthed.  This is an inside job not just an outside one.  Not only is the old world driven by out-dated and inhumane beliefs, but we have been programmed to hold these within our psyche.  Beliefs like “it’s a dog eat dog world,” beliefs that we can’t count on others, beliefs that we are undeserving, or suffering is just part of life. And most important of all, beliefs that we are the victims of circumstance, powerless to create new ways of living.

We know better in our hearts. We know that we are powerful beings who can activate deeper parts of ourselves to face these new challenges that will ultimately heal our planet.  We know we are all interconnected, that all of our well-being is interconnected.   We know we have the power to create a healthy world through being loving and kind and generous no matter what.

It is simply time to open our hearts, learn these new dance steps, activate our courage and inner resources and step into who we are really meant to be.

Though schedules are in flux right now, I have listed my currently scheduled book talks, signings and events below.

I send you all love.  I see you all at your most empowered stepping fully into self-sovereignty.  I am grateful you are all here on the planet with me at this time.

TOGETHER WE CAN ACTIVATE OUR 20/20 Visions to Create New Earth

Happy 2020!  May our vision(s) become more and more clear and our hearts more and more open.

As we roll into a new decade on Planet Earth, I find myself thinking about my journey and our collective journey over the past 10 years, as well as my continued hopes and visions for humanity.

At the beginning of 2010, I gave up my comfortable, fulfilling life in Springfield, Il. Springfield had been my home for 35 years. It was where I met my husband, raised my children, wrote two of my books, had a booming psychotherapy practice and a large following for my spiritual teachings.  It is still a place filled with so many people I dearly love.

Yet my soul knew that the very ease I was living in could soon stunt my development, and it was time to spread my wings and move into a new phase. And so the Universe, as it does, opened the door.

Dennis and I had taken a Shamanic Journey to Egypt in 2005 led by Nicky Scully, Linda Star Wolf, Brad Collins and Anyaa McAndrew.  Anyaa and I met in Springfield in the late 70’s and ended up working together at the newly formed Rape Crisis Center to council sexual assault and abuse survivors and to educate the mainstream population on these issues.  We went on to form a women’s counseling collective offering holistic and low cost counseling to anyone seeking it.  Then Anyaa left and I continued my journey there.

By the time we went to Egypt, Anyaa had just moved into a cabin in the Isis Cove community, started by Brad and Star Wolf in the magical mountains of Western North Carolina. A few months after returning from Egypt, we went to visit her and ended up buying a beautiful piece of land there with the intent of moving down once we retired. (Well I’ve never retired but that was an imagined possibility).  Dennis retired at the end of 2009. I closed up my office and sold our family home in early 2010 and we moved to Isis Cove to begin our new life.

As much as I love the people in my small community and the sweet little town nearby, the transition was not easy.  I was on new ground both literally and figuratively.  My children, who I thought would all love to move to nearby Asheville, did not. They and our grandchildren are spread out around the country.  I was used to running my own show, and while I stepped into some leadership in our new community and a supportive role for Star Wolf’s and Brad’s, Venus Rising, I found the energy here much more intense than the laid back vibe of the Midwest.   The people in the surrounding area knew nothing of me or my work, and while, on one hand, I had a strong sense of inner empowerment, I was also dealing with my shyness and fears about putting myself “out there.”

The adjustment period for this new phase was surprisingly long.  Even now daily life can still be more stressful, and all that growth-producing stretching can create discomfort.  Would I trade it?  Absolutely not! There are numerous and delightful blessings in my new life, and it is exactly and wonderfully where I’m meant to be!

In the midst of all this personal change, the political landscape shifted dramatically in our country during the last decade.  I have been a progressive ever since becoming involved in the Civil Rights Movement in high school in the early 60’s.  My concern about income inequality and the environment started soon afterwards.  Now several decades later, we not only had a federal administration that seemed hell bent on rolling back equal rights and environmental protections, giving more tax breaks to the rich, more power to the corporations and implementing inhumane immigration policies, we had deep divisions within families, reflecting a deep division in our populace and inside ourselves.

As painful as this is, and as much hatred of different groups has emerged out of the shadows of our collective psyche, this is ultimately a collective call to a much larger healing.  Our shadow must be faced. External divisions are always a reflection of internal psychological splits.  As we heal ourselves, we heal our world.

We need to learn to hold compassion for all no matter how much we may dislike their views.  Hatred emerges out of repressed self-hatred and fear.  We are all connected.  We are all in this together and we have a chance to shift the entire paradigm of the planet to a higher frequency as we free ourselves from dysfunctional societal programming and reclaim our multidimensional potential.

This new decade opens an opportunity to create a new world and a new reality where every single being is honored, respected and loved, where everyone’s basic needs are met. We have the chance to heal and honor Mother Earth for the living being that she is, and to support a whole new era for humanity on our planet.

As for me, here I am a full decade later.  Thanks to Star Wolf, I was able to connect with a wonderful publisher and my book Activating Your 5D Frequency will be released by Inner Traditions, Bear & Company this Spring. I’m gearing up for several book talks, signings and workshops around the country.  I have faced my own fears and doubts.  I have honored the discomfort that intense growth can bring and I’m ready to step through a new portal to carry out my soul contract to help humanity create New Earth.

I urge you to follow your soul’s direction out of your comfort zone, no matter how scary it might feel.  Keep holding visions of a new world of emotionally healed and spiritually awake people who transform the suffering that has infused this planet for more than 10,000 years, by stepping into a new paradigm of consciousness.  The time is now.  2020 can provide us with clear sight to bring our loving, evolved visions into manifestation.

If you are looking for more guidance around how we do this, you might want to pre-order my new book.

Sending love, wishes for your highest development and clear vision to all.