One benefit of the global ‘pandemic’ will be the re-writing of Self-Care. Today is the inception of the 10-day celebration of the Elephant-Headed God Ganesha, in case you weren’t aware. The celebration is an opening for the removal of obstacles, letting in celestial flows of wisdom . Obstacle removal is Ganesha’s gig. His stories are many, and I encourage you to look up a few.

What does this have to do with Self-Care? Invoking the removal of obstacles is a request to the Divine for ease, grace, and smoother flow. It can be a request for the removal of karma as well, including how we self-punish, self-poison, and self-condemn.

It is deeply understood in Hindu culture that when we ask for karma to be smashed, it must be opened, taken out of mothballs and storage, and released so that it can then be dissolved by Source. Karmic patterns, once set in motion, MUST play themselves out. They re-enact again and again until we understand their lessons, and even then it can be difficult to release a karmic pattern, if we’ve made agreements and contracts around it, armoring it in. How do we know? The pattern keeps repeating, no matter what.

When was the last time you asked for a sign? “Oh, I don’t do that anymore…” indicates a spiritual ego process. “Five minutes ago,” could indicate a constant need for validation. Or, are you in the flow with it, asking for signs when your mind/ego will accept nothing less than physical earth-space-time proof or guidance? And, when you receive a sign, how do you interpret that information?

As you awaken, your vibration rises and you become more physically empowered…theoretically. Some of us have programs in place that prevent our empowerment beyond whatever parameters our programs are hiding. Does that resonate at all? The more your vibration rises, the more empowered you are. The more empowered you are, the more awake you can become. That is if your ego doesn’t co-opt the process. They all try. The trick is not to spiritually bypass but to use empowered vibration to assist you.

This is such an important part of the journey that it seems to require its own post. So here goes.

We all need help. We all need guidance. The forms of that help and guidance vary. The first mistake most of us make is not to reverently honor the guidance we receive. What does that mean? Probably not what you’d imagine. DEFINITELY not what you “think.”

When we receive a “correction,” on the path to enlightenment, to spiritual advancement, ascension, living a better life, or whatever our goal might be, our egos will, first and foremost, try to sabotage that correction. The ego misinterprets the information, and, truth be told, downright lies to us.

The thoughts we have are that we are not being correctly perceived, not being seen. If the guidance is real, the truth is usually that we are being correctly perceived and our ego will do ANYTHING to avoid the discomfort that causes. It will do ANYTHING to protect its behaviors. Mine did this over and over. I know whereof I speak. You can always tell the voice of the spiritual ego. It is always “right.” I stopped caring about being “right” decades ago. I care about the truth. Don’t you? Your ego does not. Trust me on this.

Remember the movie Contact? The wormhole transit system that enabled Jodi Foster’s character to travel to a distant star system, through several linked portals? Quantum leaping begins this way. First, we surrender the concept of an either/or in every choice we make. “This one or that one” becomes a series of case statements: this one or that one, this one and that one, some combination of both, some combination of neither, and, finally, all of this or something better…

As the world begins to move outward again, one baby step at a time, we need to turn our focus inward, as fully and completely as possible. What seems to be, is not what is. We need to pay attention to how we are using our energies, our emotions, and our stories.

What will move us into the most optimal new realities is a combination of surrender, faith, and trust.

I always ask Source, “What have I not yet surrendered about this?” when challenging feelings or situations show up. Most of our unsurrendered internal content has to do with how we want things to be, with expected or hoped-for outcomes. Some of these are conscious, some unconscious.

If I Could…

…tell you what to do, I’m not sure I would. It’s not up to me, anyway. SHE leads all our ways.

What is it like to walk this world awake?

I’m not talking “woke,” in the current pop-vernacular, meaning that one chooses to open one’s eyes to what one does not yet believe. Not the kind of awakening where one surrenders to the truth of information one does not want to believe. Those are the baby steps into awakening. Vital, but not where fully awake awareness is best applied.

I always wanted to skip to the end, and have it done. That place does not exist. It seems a long learninng, that, and so obvious now that the bridge is behind me… wherever that direction might be. From the still center of all. that. is. directions like forward and behind become meaningless. Presence. Is.

It’s coming on Bealtaine, the fires are bright. Re-lit at the dawn from HER ever-enduring light.

The mounting energies of the cross-quarter opening are a very welcome quickening to the deep healing stillness of late. Deeper connections have been made, remembered, and are being cultivated at Bealtaine’s seeding, harvested at Lughnasadh in the southern hemisphere. And, at this juncture, White Tara blesses and holds it all.

If you are a Starstream, and/or know yourself to be a morphing being of light, this transition is for you. The realities you have awaited are incubating. Almost ready to begin the birthing. Can you feel the deep breath before the push?

The world has been in a period of shamanic death for a few years now. To say that the process has been accelerated is both accurate and inaccurate. As of this writing, we are all in a sorting period, a threshing floor, where the remnants of the old are being sifted from what we will require going forward. Some are ready to move into the energies of new creation and some are moving through the sorting process a bit more slowly. This is happening for everyone. There is no right or wrong way for anyone to be with this…except perhaps for fear and panic.

Your Source-Self still resonates…even in that moment when you wish you could either take back the whole thing, or wish you could have pushed ahead, right into the kill zone. Your Source-Self still resonates within you.

Find the Light. Find the Stillness. Find the Love. Find anything that will bring you into alignment with who you truly are. If, in the moment, you honestly don’t know, don’t give up! Surrender instead. Let HER show you, teach you, tell you. Show is always optimal, but sometimes we can’t see.

I’ve written on this topic before. Some of HER voices within me might feel a bit weary of repeating the “It’s tough out there” message, and I am more than well aware that many of your ears and antennae are more than weary of hearing about it. Let’s cut to the chase… mostly because there is time for little else.

In a lifetime of transitions, we can expect to experience the shamanic death of almost everything. Our work changes, our relationships to everyone and everything change, because we are morphing in place.

“Is THIS what I’m here to do ? What’s next?!!!”

We’re all hearing variations on that scream. Our minds have been trained and conditioned to operate on the what and how… without the understanding that SHE is both of those qualities… We are designed to take the actions guided by that flow.

What we call humanity is a collective energy field. This field does not run our lives, though we have been taught to act as if it does so. We give it our power so that we have something to blame when things go awry for us, and we count on it for protection, no matter what we might otherwise believe.

No matter what the circumstance, we always have choices. And, most of us choose for things to remain as they are. Unconsciously, or sometimes consciously, we count on the collective field of humanity to protect us. If we are part of that collective, we have a place to belong, to “fit in,” or so our ego tells us. We choose for the status quo in a million ways, every day.

The question for us now, is whether those choices are as beneficial as we might have believed. What motivates a choice to stay enmeshed?