Getting Our Ducks in a Row: Alchemy for Wholeness or Parts-of-the-Self Therap
True, we are experiencing the onset of a seasonal quickening. In the Northern Hemisphere, February 2 is the halfway point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. This turning of the Wheel of the Year is celebrated in traditions of Nature Spirituality, prominently in Celtic communities as “Imbolg," as “Candlemas” in other pagan traditions, as well as by the Catholic Church. In secular U.S.A. and Canadian culture, it is Groundhog Day.
If one consults a wildlife calendar for my region (Virginia, U.S.A.), it seems very obvious that all these traditions are grounded in a seasonal quickening that begins at this time, predominantly in the animal realm (though there are uplifting signs of spring in the plant kingdom as well) and continues through the Spring. February in my wildlife calendar contains a listing of delightful events like “Woodcocks moving North into Virginia; Song sparrows, cardinals, and doves singing their spring songs; Mating season for skunks; Doves begin courtship; Robins, redwings, and grackles congregating in large flocks; Spring peepers calling in wet areas as night temperatures rise . . . Bear cub births begin.”
As I wrote in a previous blog (see below), a divine intervention is triggering a quantum leap in human consciousness. Waves of energies coming in through the sun are profoundly affecting our biology as well as our consciousness.
The same goes for the animals!
Perhaps you have noticed changes in your pets physical bodies and behavior. If you feel that these changes are a sign of disease, please do consult a veterinarian. However, minor issues may be explained by the fact that our animal friends are transforming physically and spiritually along with us. For example, I have noticed one of my cats now reacts to petting with a seeming sensory overload, she finds it annoying and doesn’t want as much of that as she used to. Another cat developed a skin rash very similar to a rash I had. Some pets may feel anxious, but others are just changing their routines. (I would love to hear from you about any changes you are observing. Click on the mail icon at the bottom of the page to email me.)
Some techniques I have used to assist my cats are: (1) meditation (when I meditate, they calm down and either sleep or meditate with me) (2) homeopathic skin itch remedy and anxiety remedy (3) Reiki, especially the calming Reiki symbol, Se Hei Ki (4) Catnip for cats, more play time (5) checking in one-on-one (5) having crystals placed around the house (6) Earthing, providing extra opportunities for getting their feet on the ground. I also use muscle testing to help me assess what is going on with them (people who use pendulums effectively can use them in this way.)
On a spiritual level, I have noticed that I am communicating both verbally and telepathically way more effectively with my pets. It’s really amazing me. Making the effort to talk to them really pays off.
Wild Ones, Too
I have noticed that the creatures outside my house are coming closer to me. I feel I am increasing my communications with them. Being influenced by shamanic traditions, I always looked to the creatures that cross my path for their medicine teachings. With recent increases in my perceptive abilities, the messages are coming in with ever more clarity.
As we humans awaken more and more and tune-in to the true nature of reality, we can experience that we are all part of One Quantum Field of Manifestation. Daily life can become an ever more magical relationship with Creation, and of course that includes our beloved animal companions, domestic and wild.
Are you in fear about the state of the world? Please be aware, that both the Mainstream Media and much of the so-called Alternative Media are tools of a dying, controlling caste that has been manipulating our governments, corporations, and culture for millennia . . . and they want you in a state of fear. Fear and mind control are the main remaining tools they have left at their disposal and although the picture they paint is dire from any point of view, the reality is, a Divine Intervention is in play and their behind-the-scenes systems of control are being dismantled. They are on their way out! No fear!
If you take time to center yourself, release fear, drop into your heart and scan your body you understand that we are changing. Some of us feel downright weird. We are escavating our True Selves from the rubble of distorting programming, not just from this lifetime but from our past lives and our ancestral line in our DNA. This process is being accelerated and deepened by wave after wave of ever Higher Frequencies ordained by the Divine to help Humanity take a Quantum Leap into a New Earth where we embrace our role as co-creators, living in peace and harmony with the Earth and All Life in the Universe. Many people are referring to this as the process of Ascension. It is an Ascension of Consciousness that is also a transformation of the physical body.
Symptoms
Our DNA has been manipulated along with our minds. And our bodies have been infiltrated by toxins by our food and environment. The Higher Frequencies are vibrating the toxins out of our DNA and our bodies’ cells. Everyone is experiencing this cleansing (and accompanying activations of our latent potential) differently. Many of us have been feeling a variety of symptoms such as: fatigue, ear ringing, itching, rashes, aches and pains that come and go, brain fog, dizziness, odd indescribable sensations, flu symptoms, anxiety, and headaches.
Activations are also unique to each person, but you may be noticing you are more and more in tune with your intuition and that your inner journey is becoming something you did not expect. You are tuning into your True Self and it is amazing. Eventually, we will all be Telepathic.
Some Relief
Hydration (to assist the cleansing process) is very important. Getting out in Nature and placing bare feet upon the ground can be not only balancing, but blissful as well. A powerful antidote to anxiety about all the changes and fear about what is going on in the world is to drop your awareness into your heart. The heart is a portal to inner knowing and connecting with your Spirit Guides. It is also where you can experience the Divine Unconditional Compassionate Love that is there for everyone. Fear melts away in that Love.
The Highest Frequency is Love. It is the key to everything that our True Selves wish to co-create at this amazing time to be alive. When in doubt, Unconditional Compassionate Love for self and others guides the way.
~~If you have any questions, you can email me (click the envelope icon at the bottom of the page). Thanks to John Lennon’s inspiration, I drew the line drawing at right.
I send crystalline white, full spectrum, Divine Lovelight to you. The Divine Plan manifest now. I give thanks.
What follows is one way of making sense of the political chaos, earth changes, and accelerating spiritual energies in our world and points to a good way of responding to it all.
Present times were foreseen in various religions, philosophical movements, and Indigenous prophetic traditions. For example, in Biblical prophecy, this era was described as the “Time of Revelation”; in Deep Ecology, as “The Great Turning”*; in Mayan Calendars, as a “cycle of great changes”**, and in Hopi prophecies***, as the “Closing of the 4th World.”
When I was a young woman in the 1970’s, I had visions that dramatic change was coming. Since then, my understanding of these visions has deepened by studying Nature Spirituality and by exploring the evolutionary potential of natural cycles. I am especially grateful to Native American teachers who not only have prophesied these times of transformation, but who have explained the reasons behind them. They also have described an “Ark” we can ride through them, so we can survive, thrive, and co-create together a new world of peace and harmony.
Unbeknownst to me at the time, during the 1970’s, the Bear Tribe Medicine Society spread the message of the teacher, Sun Bear, who had a more detailed vision of coming Earth Changes. He asserted “...that the dominant society has created imbalances because of ignorance and irresponsibility.”* These imbalances must be healed and harmony restored through Earth Changes.
Sun Bear’s vision inspired a group of people to come together as The Bear Tribe, to “re-learn their proper relationship with the Earth Mother, the Great Spirit, and all [our] relations in the animal, mineral, plant, and human kingdoms.” They published The Bear Tribe’s Self Reliance Book (1977), with practical ideas for co-creating small, self-sustaining communities of like-minded individuals that would make it possible to survive such changes.
In the 1980’s, I was blessed to be present when the Medicine Man, Rolling Thunder spoke in Virginia. At that time, he predicted the coming of the “Cleansing Times”, when fire and water would purify the Mother Earth. I believe we have seen the beginning of this Cleansing in recent years.
“Blend with the Earth and Celebrate Life”
I have learned that the visions and prophecies mentioned above echo the thousand year old prophecies and instructions preserved by Hopi Traditionalists. Thanks to a wise and fortuitous recommendation from a Comanche friend to read The Hopi Survival Kit (1997) by Thomas E. Mails, I discovered that an Earth Guardian, Maasaw, emissary of the Creator, interacted with the Hopi a Millennia ago. Maasaw not only foretold the closing of the current “4th World” of human civilization due to corruption and imbalance, but recommended ways of being that would help people live through a necessary purification. These balanced ways of living would actually mitigate the intensity of earth changes and cleansings necessary to heal and re-balance Earth Mother. The Hopi instructions recommend living in self-sustaining communities of like-minded people who “Blend with the Earth and celebrate life.”
The attitudes, feelings, and rhythms of a life of celebration and blending with the Earth comprises what Mails (with the permission of the Traditionalist Hopi Elders) called a “Spiritual Ark”--a way of being we need to get on board if we want to survive into the next Golden Age.
The Hopi Survival Kit gives further, detailed instructions that I recommend readers study in depth. One instruction is to live “a simple life.” Living a simple life, close to the Earth, resulted in joyful, 100+ year lifespans among the Traditionalist Hopi Elders still alive in the 1990’s. This feat was accomplished despite the harsh oppression and disruptions brought about by the destructive intrusion of U.S. government into their lives. Maasaw assured the Hopi that if they followed the instructions provided they would keep the balance on Mother Earth. The Elders taught that anyone who lives in these ways, no matter what her or his religion or skin color, helps keep and restore balance and thus lessens the need for extreme cleansings and/or changes!
“Celebrating life” involves attuning with the seasonal cycles of the year as one blends with the Land. Summer, the coming of which we celebrated at the Summer Solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere (June 21, 2023), is the season for tending the plants. The plants in our gardens, “... newly born infants” that were birthed in the Spring, are now our growing children, facing “all the challenges of nature, wind, animals, and insects.” Caring for the plants also involves singing to them and working with the unseen beings who are part of the growing process.
Hopi ceremonies in summer include dramas with Kachinas who appear as clowns “to check if there are any corruptions.” To me, this represents their community’s effort to remind everyone that individual actions effect the larger community and are seen by others. In my mind, this advises us that a community needs to “reboot” regularly, to check for corruptions, and review the original template (a process I believe our nation has now begun).
I have steadily grown within the wombs of communities of like-minded people and today focus on co-creating earth-loving, life-affirming, egalitarian, and spiritually aware community. In my personal path of interfaith nature spirituality****, I recognize that the height of the sun’s energies bring people out into the world more, reinforcing our community connections and nurturing our individual and communal growth potential. It is a good time to think about the value of community, especially what some call “intentional communities” and to make plans, if so inspired, to co-create or board a Spiritual Ark, to blend with the Earth, and celebrate life in community, as we ride the through the Great Turning into a Golden Age of a healed Earth of Peace and Harmony.
There are many Intentional Communities thriving across our country! Many are open to new members and give tours. Check out: https://www.ic.org/community-bookstore/product/communities-directory-book-new-7th-edition/ Or connect with people of like mind and start one. Wherever you dwell, you can live with the intention of contributing to the community around you!
References
*Macy, Joanna. “The Great Turning.”http://ecoliteracy.org June 29, 2009
**Nodjiwon, Kevin. “Mayan Time, Prophecy and the Tzolk’in in Mayan Timekeeper Gerardo Barrios Kaanek’.” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mayan-time-prophecy-tzolkin-timekeeper-gerardo-barrios-kevin-nadjiwon December 10, 2017
***Mails, Thomas E. (1997) The Hopi Survival Kit. NY: Stewart, Tabori & Chang.
see also, http://traditionalhopi.org and I ask non-native friends to please consider doing what you can to right the wrongs of our government against the native peoples of our continent.
Sun Bear, Wabun, and Nimimosha. (1977) The Bear Tribe’s Self Reliance Book. Spokane Washington: Bear Tribe Publishing.
****Spiral Grove, An Interpath Community of Nature Spirituality. (We don’t have our own land, but we do celebrate together regularly and do our best to blend with the earth and create community. New folks are welcome.
Starhawk (2011). The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups. Canada: New Society Publishers.
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