Giving Thanks

This Earth is such a gift to us the caretakers.  I feel so much Gratitude for being on this Earth at this time.  I give thanks to this gift of life and my beautiful family and friends to share it with.  I have been doing the 21 day Meditation Challenge done by Deepak Chopra, it is so beautiful, if you get a chance check it out.  It truly starts your day in mindfulness.
As each of us makes a connection to this beautiful Earth, each in our own way.  I was pondering one day why it is that I feel such a connection to life forms of the Earth.  I feel the connection to a flower, crystal, mountain, water all of nature?  As Spirit is good at answering our questions, if we listen, I ran across a beautiful explanation in the book The New Earth by Eckhart Tolle.  His statement about our connections to all life-forms is:  "Since time immemorial flowers, crystals, precious stones, and birds have held special significance for the human spirit.  Like all life-forms, they are of course, temporary manifestations of the underlying one Life, one Consciousness.  Their special significance and the reason why humans feel a fascination for and affinity with them can be attributed to their ethereal quality.?  " Their Divine Life Essence."  When I read this I thought this is one of the best explanations of why the Mesa work in the Shamanic carries for me such a beautiful connection, why, when I am out side and I encounter the different birds that I actually engage in a conversation with them.  We see each other divine essence.  How incredible is that.  Someone once said to me that they felt no connection to their Mesa, they thought the stones were pretty but did not understand the energy of the stones.  To me in doing the Mesa work, if you understand the divine essence you can change your perceptions just by moving the crystals and stones in your Mesa.  Yes, I just caught myself getting the cart before the horse.  A Mesa is a portable alter that in Shamanic tradition of the Quero.  In the Shamanic traditions of the Quero a Mesa created by gathering stones that are symbolic of each directions.  Each direction has rights that are given and a process like a rights of passage.  In this process one creates a connection to each stone.  By the time you have gone through all the directions and received your rights to be a full Mesa carrier.  I went through the traditions of the Mesa work or Medicine Wheel with The Four Winds Society, whose founder is Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D.
I mention all this because it is one way to connect with the Creator of All That Is.  The energy that is here now and will increase in the future, brings to our attention our connection to life.  Too many of us are still walking around unconscious which does not bode well for your future.  There are so many sources out there now to get connected with self, to live more meaningful.  This in part is what this blog is about.  connecting to the tapestry that we are weaving.  Is this weaving something we want to wrap around us, or is it woven with weak threads.  It is about are we conscious and if not how to we get there to aware.....These are questions we all need to ask ourselves.  Lets step into the elements of our being....

Mercury In Retrograde

Just a heads up....
Mercury is in its last stage of a retrograde, meaning in appears as it is moving backwards.  If you are planning a new adventure it isn't wise to do it on a retrograde Mercury.  Usually a planet starts its influence 3 days before and 3 days after the actual event of when the retrograde begins.  During a retrograde Mercury, our electronics can go on the fritz, emails get lost, paper work get lost, it isn't wise to make any major transactions, like buying car, homes, or businesses, many times things will unravel when Mercury goes direct. It can be a very frustrating time.  It is a time where you would benefit by deep breathing techniques.  You may find many you have to go back and do things multiple times. The beauty of Mercury Retrograde it is only temporary.  There is more in-depth information of the web, in case you want to have more information.

Power

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Each of us has had the experience where we have relinquish our power to another person or organization. It may start by first relying on what there opinion is.  Then before you know its, they are the ones making your decisions for you.  Even for the easiest decision we ask is this okay.  Now you are no longer in the drivers seat.  We  are already hardwired to carry our own wisdom our own sense of what is good for us. When we give over control to another, we can become confused, indecisive, we become anxious about oh am I doing the right thing.  At this point no you are not. You feel you have to ask this person does this work.  We have lost sight of who we are and we relinquish our boundaries to this person or organization.  Our natural boundaries, keeps us in our own integrity, our own power.  I can truly speak from experience.
When one has relinquished their power to another and the other person is taking advantage of this, then we are talking sorcery.  Sorcery is when another person inflicts their will on another.  Some who practice sorcery actually convince you that what is happening and the decisions you are making is totally your idea.  But how can that be you aren't even close to being in your power.  You will know you are not in your power if people that have been in your life nor longer are.  Energetically you will start feeling very depleted.  If you aren't there to sustain you then you start taking energy from others...oh, what a cycle.  Spirit will start dropping hints that something is terribly wrong, you will start feeling not right, huge emotions may flare up, but all this is to get you to pay attention and look at what really is going on around you.  Hopefully you will go wow that doesn't feel right, you will feel that you are coming out of a fog when you allow your senses to be active again.  Hopefully your BS meter will come into full swing.  
It is important that we get ourselves back to our Authentic Being because changes are a comein.  There is a  energetic change coming, and yes it is coming, and will effect the collective on some level or another.  For those who have given their power, and buried the authentic self are being given the opportunity to take it all back that in our innocence we let go.  No one in Heaven or Earth can hold your power unless you give it to them.  It is yours to take back and please make the opportunity to do so, do it now!  Collect your $200.00 and pass go...(a little Monopoly humor).  When you are in a relationship and that person convinces you that they have all the answers then back away from the person as fast as you can.  YOU, YES, YOU, and of course the Creator-God- Allah-The Great Mystery, what ever you want to call the source of all things are the only ones that have all the answers for YOU.  We are naturally hooked into the bluetooth of Spirit, communication is not an issue.
Would love to hear from you....who ever you all are....
Be in Peace, Be in Light, Be in Love...