Springing Light

Many of you have seen your dramas played out in unexpected ways this past month.  There continues to exist for you an undercurrent of change and growth, and many of you are feeling knocked off center by this.  Understand that of course you are building new pathways, forging new roads, creating new growth and new branches in the tree that is your life.  But the beginning of this growth process is of necessity a clearing-away of the old that lies underneath, clearing away what no longer serves and what you no longer wish to hold within you.  This wish, of course, may not be at a conscious level and there is a part of you screaming to hold on to those familiar bits, even though at their core they may have created some of the very discomforts you are now experiencing.  And the irony of this does not escape you, does not escape us in our advisement of you, does not escape the Universe in its laughter at itself.

“So what do I do now?” you wonder.  “What can I do to hold onto myself?”

The trick is not in the holding, of course.  The trick is in the letting-go.

When you let go of what’s holding you, let go of your past hurts, your past injustices, your past discomforts, you create space that can be filled by every magical aspect of you that you wish to now bring in.  This is a time of clearing, then, a time of laying ground for that new growth that is to come, a time of preparation for what is next in your lives.  It’s also a time for thinking ahead just the tiniest bit: who are you, at core, and who do you wish to be?  Are those two selves at peace with one another or is there a gap between what you think you are and what you wish to be?  Finding peace with that gap may be one of the best things you can do for yourself at this time, then, and may help lay ground for its eventual closure.

Give yourself, then, this month, the time and the space to allow life to unfold as it will.  You have set things in motion and it is simply time to allow this part of the play, this portion of your dance, to play out.  There is a part of you that knows the next scene and is getting ready for it; allow that portion to rest as you enjoy what you have already begun.

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More change!  What a surprise!

Not really.   But it seems that the nature of the transformation, where we are collectively in the process, is changing.  Interesting, no?

Monthly Message November 2007

This indeed is a season of change for many.  What began manifesting through natural events and through a sensation of transformation has grown into a much deeper experience for some.  Old patterns are being unearthed and examined, laying the fields bare for new thoughts, responses and reactions to eventually emerge, leaving behind what has been discarded to be used as energetic compost to assist others in similar patterns of experience.  Oh, do you feel you are the only one in the universe having this experience? Indeed you are not, and indeed there are many who share your experience, yes even THAT ONE, and it is through your undeniable connection that even allows you to acknowledge the truths of your own dark experiences, the ones you are just now coming to be able to shed light upon.  It is this shared experience, this universal and human commonality, that forever links you, forever, and inextricably links you, to everyone and everything else.  It can be no other way, do you see?

Think of yourself now, then, as but an atom in a field just recently cleared for harvest.  One atom amid thousands, millions, trillions of others, all awaiting the sunlight, the rain, and time to bring what will eventually be much growth and then another harvest.  It is an unending cycle, this cycle of clearing, waiting, growth, and harvest.  It occurs over and over and over again, and no part of this cycle can occur alone, no part is any less than any other part, and each part relies upon each of the others.  Do you see how it is all linked?  And you are but one atom in this field of incredible transformation, one atom forever a part of every other atom, forever a part of the entire growth and transformation and eventual death cycle, one atom without which the entire system would be incomplete.

It is this unending hopefulness that we wish to bring you today, this assurance that you ARE a necessary part of a whole, that you ARE indeed a wholeness yourself, that you ARE acting out of choice in every moment.  For all of these are true.  There is no choice you could make at any time that would lead to disaster not chosen, no choice you could make that would lead to difficulties you are unable to move through.  For you we wish to impart the thought that everything is simply a matter of perception; indeed, all change, all transformation, is only a difference in perception.  And if you come to varying places in your ability to perceive, it will indeed feel as if change has taken place within your life, will it not?

In the next month, then, you will continue to perceive differences in your perception.  How could you not?  The act of simply breathing brings a change in your perceptions.  Breathe in, breathe out.  Life is no more difficult than that.  In and out.  Round and round.  Change will occur around you even if you do nothing but breathe and stand still.  For time will pass, even though time is simply a way of perceiving in itself, and your perceptions will change.  And you will continue to feel transformation, sometimes wrenchingly, sometimes gently, but always present.  By moving into this possibility, by accepting your every breath as an agent of change, you create additional space for the transformation yet to come.

Breathe in, then, and create your own space.  Breathe out and prepare your fields.  Embrace yourself, for you ARE the change you see in the world.

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I’ve spent the past ten days in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, far from my present home in the northeast but closer, much closer, to my true spiritual home, and during this time one of my specific goals was to immerse myself into a deeper connection with nature. Though my home is in a semi-rural area, affording me an opportunity to frequently bike through rolling hills amid cornfields and farmhouses, I really don’t feel all that connected with the nature element of it usually. Perhaps it’s because I don’t connect energetically with the space, or resist a deeper connection; perhaps it’s the human element in a long-inhabited space that has overwritten the elements of nature, but in any case I felt a huge difference in my little cabin in the forest, a short walk from the beach, easily moving into a space of love and appreciation for nature and my place within it. I spent several hours roaming the trails through the forest, meandering along the beach, and standing in the rain under the trees at night.

And then I upped the ante considerably and spent some time in a different forest night before last. I think of it as Matthew’s forest, for he inhabits it completely, and it’s a huge part of him as well.

We entered the forest under a nearly-full moon, bright on a cloudless night, and instantly I felt a different sort of welcoming, an embrace, an invitation. Through connecting with the trees who are themselves all connected and always aware of that connection to one another, to the earth, and to All That Is, I could reach back into time and feel roots tapping into the dawning of human consciousness on the planet with such primordial innocence that it took my breath away. At the same time I was aware of every possibility that continues to stretch before us in time: possibilities for each one of us and all the myriad possibilities available at any given moment, every choice, every road taken and not taken, and I felt vast, knowing that I was a part of everything that ever has been and everything still yet to come. I was as tall as the trees and as bright as the moon, and I turned my face toward her, accepting the spotlight, fully acknowledging my completeness and perfection.

To say this was a joyous and magical experience doesn’t quite do it justice.

But it served as a wonderful reminder, one that I will take back to my home with me and one that I offer you now, that our connection with nature is an essential of simply being human. It’s part of us, and to deny it is to deny part of Self.

There is of course value in connecting with animals, trees, and other elements of what you consider to be “nature”. These elements, are of course, part of your home, part of your world, and are as such connected to you, to humans, in a very intimate way. You share space. You share air. You share resources. Not only that, but you share in the creation of your world, the global creation of the reality you know as life on the physical plane. And because of that, there is an undying connection between you as a human and ALL of the so-called “natural” elements of nature.

Some of you feel this connection more deeply, more emotionally, than others. Some feel a return, when confronted with nature, especially in her most raw state, to that innocent and childlike state of simply Being, existing, that lies dormant within all of you. And as such, you feel it deeply when one of nature’s children, one element of the intricate tapestry that is constantly being woven and re-created, moves through natural transition into another state. There is, for you, a deep sense of loss, as there is the recognition not only of the timelessness of transformation and the cycles of life on the planet, but also of the transference of human-type connection to an element of nature. You can mostly only experience connection with nature by transferring those feelings to a more human perspective, and when loss of an element of nature, such as a pet or tree, occurs, there is transference to the human state of grief.

We have mentioned the energetic connections between you and your pets and we wish to elaborate. Again, not only is there a very real symbolic connection here (discovery of Self, of Love, of perspective: these things were gained through and with your interaction), but also there HAVE in most cases indeed been some past-life associations. Though most animals live lives in mainly hive-type soul arrangements, there is a constancy of energy that can flow generation after generation through one individual animal to another, and even of course crossing boundaries of species. There has been for many of you, then, a common thread through many lifetimes of connection with various elements of nature, and it is this thread, now running through you and the pets you love, that has touched this present lifetime.

The lessons from connection to nature are many and varied and often depend on the individual, but regardless of perspective there is ALWAYS growth opportunity through human connection with nature. After all, it is your home. It is your LIFE. To deny nature is denying an aspect of Self, and to fully EMBRACE Nature, to ACCEPT it in all its splendor, ugliness, and beauty, is a HUGE step in actually accepting your Self.

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I think this is a good time to tell you a little more about me and my journey and how I came to be writing bits of spiritual wisdom from that journey here at Springing Light. After all, I didn’t start out as a channel and had to learn the process, making mistakes along the way!

At 18 I read the book “Messages From Michael” and was entranced. Not only did I find the material compelling and very familiar despite growing up in no spiritual tradition at all, but I was fascinated by the stories of those channeling the material presented in the book. It was the bits about channeling that were the most interesting to me: how did they do that? And what a wonderful gift! Could I be a channel one day?

Fast forward, then, several years and through much life experience until I began a search following experiencing debilitating symptoms of fibromyalgia. One thing lead to another and I was drawn ever closer to a very different world: studying world spiritual traditions, alternative healing practices, and various elements of the New Age movement. I was drawn to Reiki, first as a way to heal my pain but soon as a way of life, and from that arose an interest and facility with shamanism.

Now understand that I had always known, even before that time, that we receive messages from our intuition. But I thought that the process of really being in touch with that inner wisdom was capricious, coming and going and difficult to really rely on. And I often felt things without knowing them. I knew the information was there but I felt blocked from receiving it.

Often, though, I’d be talking to someone and they’d relay a difficulty they were having with someone in their life, perhaps, or a work situation, and I would suddenly have wonderful advice for them about matters I knew nothing about! I felt very wise and wished to help people.

Other times I knew I was receiving messages for myself but had difficulty interpreting them. One time I was driving en route to the airport to begin a much anticipated trip to the Bahamas, and I felt extremely anxious. I wondered if perhaps the plane we were scheduled to be on was going to crash, the anxiety was that deep. As it turns out all that happened was that we were late and missed our flight (which didn’t crash, by the way, as that would have been more of a story), and after that all the anxiety was relieved.

So how did I move from a state of knowing there is information out there for me within reach, and actually being able to access that information at will? That is what I am going to teach you to do for yourself. Everyone has this ability. Everyone can access their own inner wisdom. It’s a natural thing to do and we have simply allowed ourselves as a culture to feel powerless and alone instead of empowered and connected, which is our natural state.

So let’s start at the beginning. Knowing that each of us has the ability to channel, the ability to access intuition, guides, inner wisdom, the higher self, however you wish to think of it, is key. We all have this ability. As children we are born with it, and it is not something you can lose, although you can lose your belief in the ability.

In addition it’s important to realize, at least on some level, that you are never alone. We ARE connected, we ARE one. But being separate as we are, each of us in our own bodies, does lead to a sense of isolation and disconnection. If you are more connected to your inner you-ness, your essence, your soul, then you feel less alone.

How to reach inside, then, and connect with what’s there? For many of us, this concept is very alien and feels odd. So lets think of it instead as a conversation. You have conversations with people every day and think nothing of it. It’s not much of a stretch,