DESPAIR

2015, DESPAIR, PAIRING

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

What is it to Despair?  It is more than being un-paired from High Self.  It is a condition of silence.  Possibly, you don’t recognize silence.  Possibly, this is because you do your very best to fill your time, your days, your spaces, with sounds and textures that distract you from what you might otherwise give your focus.

To Despair is to lose Faith, even temporarily.  It is to lose self-worth.  It is to lose sight of what is possible, favoring instead an outlook of what might be probable in a mortal, limited, and final sense, abjuring to everything that is negative.

To Despair is to suffer; it is to render oneself blind, deaf, and dumb.  To Despair is to sing away the sweetness of all, even when bounty sits upon the table, waiting for the diner’s pleasure.

Is Despair always a condition of choice?  To say that it is would be cruel.  Sometimes, life circumstances grow temporarily larger than the Spirit’s ability to frame the reference in the largest scope and field where it may be viewed.  Sometimes, a condition is met before the conscious mind is quite ready to deal with all it brings.  What then, do you?

Know this:  Despair is paired with its own undoing.  As darkness falls, so lifts the light.  When you wake in the dark and cannot see, remember that you have other senses on which you may rely.  Use them.

What does this feel like, this Despair?  Does it feel real?  How deep is it?  Are you in this room alone?  What brought you here?  What conditions might summon you, or Despair, away?

Let the undoing that is paired with Despair do its work.  Do as the three blind men did when surveying the elephant:  its trunk, its body, and its tail.  Despair has a personality.  It has packed a bag by which it comes calling.  What is in that bag?

Are you currently in visitation with Despair?  Do as do the blind and study its condition by your other senses.  

Unpack its bag and inventory what Despair has brought calling.  You may not see the approach of dawn, but listening closely, you will hear the birds in the glen herald its approach....

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: February 5, 2015

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THE WILDERNESS

2015, DARKNESS, WILDERNESS

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

There is a Great Wild in you.  Do you feel it?  Gnarled and feral, it is made of all the dark and tangled spaces that comprise nightmares, fears, chaos, and lack.  It is a body of yearning that seems antithesis to desire, a counterpoint to production, and a strike against forward movement.  What is this Wilderness?

It is You.

Do you know your own Greatness?  There are multitudes of multitudes inside You.  The Great All knows you in your every essence and thought.  Your Wilderness is liken to your Being as is your Sunlight and Glory . . . necessary, but more secretly kept.  It is the cobbler’s bench, the writer’s sheaf, the artist’s board.  It is where you go to work.

Make peace with your Wilderness.  Praise its darkness and confusion.  Ask it to show you the language of its gnarls:  what its twists and turns and shadows cast in your life and how it adds strength.  The Earth does not thrive in sunlight alone, nor do You.

When you understand your own fear, you have compassion for another’s.  When you feel adrift in chaos, you are not so quick to reprimand your neighbor for his own.  And feeling lack in your own life helps you to see it outside yourself.  Wildness cannot be understood through what is sterile.  Wilderness cannot be understood through what is controlled.
What do you control?

Do you control Your Self?  How so?  How tangled is your Wilderness with the Wilderness next door?  How great is the forest?  How great are You?

You seek to sit in the sunshine, yes, but how often do you seek to sit in your Wilderness . . . seeing it merely for what it is?  This is no destructive force, but a counterpoint.  Do not seek to understand the world through only one eye.  Open your eyes.  Open your heart.  Let the world in.

When you let the world in, as it is, you let in the Wilderness.  The Wilderness can show you what society has taught you to un-learn.  Relearn this.  

You are part of all, a sentient among sentients:  not separate from.
Not separate from....

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: February 4, 2015

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CERTITUDE

2015, CERTITUDE, FAITH, RESOURCES

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Certitude is assurance.  It is saying:  I receive aid whenever and wherever it is needed, and saying it with the same Faith that you would say, ‘we are born into flesh and born out of it.’  Certitude is more than certainty or agreement.  Certitude is an active Core speaking Truth.

You possess Certitude for various things, but on whole, when stripped down, how many of your Certitudes are merely Beliefs?  Many think that certainty in mortal life—beyond death—does not exist.  Oh, ye of little faith.  Your lifetime is filled with Certitude and their proofs.  Just as we spoke to Reciprocity and Manifestation, we now gleefully inform you that there are certain matters which require no thought, no decision making, and no labor.  This is Certitude.

That Great All formed the idea of You is a Certitude.  That Great All’s Love abides, never-changing, is a Certitude.  That each particle of energy, no matter its current purpose, is part of the Whole, is a Certitude.  Certitudes do not fail or shift.  They Are.

When you give thanks, remember that there is much support and Love, of which you may or may not consciously be aware—so plentiful and so dense, that it is like oxygen.  You realize your need and ability to breathe when you stop to think of it, but for the most part, you take breathing for granted.

Once you are aware, what do you do with this knowledge?  Know that you were created in an image of Love, that you are ceaselessly Loved, and that you are part of a great Whole.  You are never alone, and you are at all times surrounded in an ocean of particles from which you may draw at any time.

When a ‘Guru’ drags his empty hand through the sand and brings forth a statue, he is applying his belief in Certitude.  His belief, combined with the Thought Form that he holds in his conscious mind, spontaneously combines the particles available to make his idealized shape.  Without his knowledge of Certitudes, he would fail.

Certitudes go deeper than Beliefs.  They operate the universe and are the infrastructure that holds together the Great All.  Certitudes are glue and magic and intuitive forms that respond to ordered direction.  They are the spark in ‘your Daddy’s eye.’

Take time today to contemplate this subject.  Which Certitudes are you aware of and how do you interact with them in your life?  We hope to reveal to you new sources from which you may draw to Create.  This is your heritage and a proof of Love.

Open to Certitude.  Concentrate on Certitudes and there is little room for doubt.  Concentrate on Love, and darkness has no home.  Send your energy outward, forward and back, round and round, and know that you have no limits.

Transform Self through transforming your connection to Certitudes.  It is the only way.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: February 3, 2015

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TREATISE

2015, GROWTH, STUDY

FEBRUARY 02, 2015

When you decide to study something, how do you go about it?  Is there a first, close observation made by self-inspection, or has attention been drawn to something by an external source?  That is, do you self-motivate to study, or do you study in response to something your environment has shown you is necessary, optimal, or urgent?

Some learning is done as a natural course of growth: learning to walk and talk and socialize.  Some is done to increase chances for survival: food gathering, shelter, mates, self-protection.  Other skills are acquired, at first, merely for pleasure: dancing, singing, swimming, star-gazing, and the like—even though the skill sets gained might add to other, less ‘frivolous’ skill sets.

If you wanted to make a hook onto which you could hang your coat, you might find a piece of limb on the forest floor already shaped for the task, and merely trim it.  With greater skills and better tools, you might look for harder wood, and after harvesting it, trim the wood to exact specifications.  If your coat was very heavy, or you had many coats to hang, perhaps you might choose metal instead, and that fabrication process would be more complex yet.

Still, the process of making a coat hook from metal, is far below the understanding and skills needed to forge a very fine sword from metal—is it not?  This is the difference between illuminating ideas in an essay form and in Treatise.  And there is a leap again between Treatise and deep study, and then again, mastery, of any subject.

Understand, that in reaching out to you, we walk in the woods together.  We make conversation.  We point out to you some things on the forest floor, or perhaps in the growth around you.  We do not seek here to lead you to any great or deep understandings, but to merely make you aware of something that you have perhaps, not taken notice of, or given your attention to in any measure for some time.  We give you direction.

Connecting with your High Self is a perpetual condition, but one that sometimes exhausts the conscious mind.  Programs run beneath programs.  You become so used to them, they are invisible, and so sometimes you believe they are gone—but they are never gone.  It can be tiring, listening in to what High Self wants and needs, for it so often conflicts with what the smaller self, or Earthly self, wants and needs.

How can we help you?  Through gentle reminders.  Do not worry that each and every thing we say should be made into Treatise, here or in your own mind, or in your own Life.  This is not possible.  Truly, you may deeply study only one thing at a time—otherwise you are not deeply studying.

We are here with you.  This journey is ours, together.  We encourage.  We shine light.  

We remind you that we were made in Love and are forevermore, connected by Love.  For today, let Love be your Treatise.  Think deeply on that sublime condition.  And now, feel it....

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: February 2, 2015
 

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ALIGNMENT

2015, ALIGNMENT, DISCORD, HARMONY

FEBRUARY 01, 2015

Harmony occurs when influences come into and enjoy, Alignment.  Often, this condition is thought of in spatial terms, but we speak of conditions that are deeper, that of vibration.

When you gaze at the stars, noticing their Alignment, one to the other, do you see that in their aspects, there is more harmony and less harmony—or degrees of harmony—between their bodies and fluctuations?  

Some of this is created by perception:  that angle of viewing from which they are perceived; the perceiver; and the current state of what is being perceived.  Some of this is created by the actual vibration, or attunement, of each body, and how that attunement reacts with other bodies and influences.

When you enter upon spaces that are populated by other active vibrations, you notice your Alignment, or Mis-Alignment with the other entities.  Certain waves will sing well with your own, and certain waves will disrupt your Song.  When the effect occurs at either end of the spectrum, you will take immediate note of this:  “Your influence causes me to feel very comfortable or elevated,” –or— “Your influence causes me to feel very uncomfortable or threatened.”

This is why certain places and spaces feel nurturing to you and other spaces feel hostile.  This is why you are attracted to certain persons or objects and repelled by others.  We bring this to your attention this morning, because mastering the principles of Alignment adds value to your Life and that of your community.

You have been in places that felt holy.  You have been in the presence of persons who made you feel calm and capable.  That is because, something in those Alignments spoke to your First Song, and reminded you of the Love that Great All has for you in unending abundance.

Taking the principles of Alignment:  weaving into a space, the very highest of vibrations, soon subsumes the lower vibrations.  All of Creation gathered into this net, dances with the joy of it.  It is Eden, remembered.

How is this done?  Through feeling.  Your heart knows the way.  Start with one small space:  an altar, or a prayer or meditation nook.  Decorate a bower under a tree.  Dedicate the stone around where beautiful flowers grow.  See it filled with Light and Love.  Lift it.

As confidence grows, start to lift dark places, and sad ones.  Give Light where it is Lightless and Love where it is Loveless.  Give Patience where only Harshness abides, and Courage where Fear treads.  Show through your Earthly labours, that the Creator of All has Love for All, and warriors aplently to spread this message.

Have you want for a better world?  Are you Aligned with Purpose?  Then, be you Aligned with Love.  Aligned with Love, no idea fails, no matter its time for homecoming . . .

Blessed Be This Day
This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: February 1, 2015

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AUTHORITY

2015, ACCOUNTABILITY, AUTHORITY

JANUARY 31, 2015

You were born with an inner Authority, a knowing or wisdom, to tell you which thought, behavior, and act, is the highest one to follow in each circumstance you encounter.  Yes, some circumstances require close listening.  Some require willpower.  Many will require sacrifice.  This is part of the Life experience.  It builds character.

Sometimes you are swept away by emotions:  need, desire, fear.  You forget what you are here for, who are your companions, and what you have set out to do.  You put Self first.  You put what is material first.  You put first what is temporary above that which is Eternal, and what is illusion before that which is Manifest.

If you completed each task in your daily cache perfectly, you would likely not be enjoying this Earthly experience, but would be elsewhere doing otherwise.  Be present with your Self.  Notice how you think, believe, and do.  You are that Authority. 

Assess yourself.  Correct that which you would do in a higher way.  Perform with greater Love and Awareness, those things which can bring about change for all who are influenced by you.  Can One change the world?

Yes. That One is You.  You have that Authority.

Blessed Be This Day
This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: January 31, 2015

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RITUAL

2014, CHANGE, REPETITION, RITUAL

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Your Ritual practices expose your Beliefs, and that exposes who you are currently busy pretending to be.  Do you know who that is at this moment?

Is this character in the play a person whom you would be proud to know and glad to spend time with?  Do they possess things of value to share, from which you can learn and illuminate your life?  Are they wise and kind and compassionate?  Do they have courage and strength?  How does your family and community see this character you play?  

The activities—and thoughts and feelings—that make up your days are Rituals, when they have become habit.  How health-building and expansive are your Rituals?  With what frequency do your Rituals bear out Truths that banish lies?  Do you use Rituals for growing your Self or do you use them for hiding?

Understand Ritual:  the cup of coffee made in the morning with a survey of last night’s dreams or the day ahead: “how-are-you?” – “I’m-fine-thank-you” ; throwing spilled salt over your shoulder; making the sign of the cross; saying grace; weddings; funerals.  From small and rather unconscious Rituals to large and serious ones, you are surrounded, every day, by Ritual.

How many ceremonies do you engage in consciously, to uplift conditions, and how many to degrade conditions?  Make no mistake:  when you look in the mirror and say to yourself “not good enough,” repeating this as a mantra, it has become Ritual—as it is when you thrust this idea upon others.

How many ceremonies do you engage in unconsciously, to falsely elevate yourself, separate yourself, remove yourself from blame, or resist change?  When you feel “not part of,” “not good enough,” or “not complete,” even beneath your thoughts, you are engaging in Ritual self abuse, and quite likely acting out your internal Beliefs somewhere in your external Beliefs and environments.

We are creatures of Ritual.  This is not to be synonymous with stagnant conditions or un-illuminated predictability.  This is to be joyfully part of Great All’s harmonious whole and Its glorious rhythms. 

Many persons, here and there, meditate and pray, taking still moments to find Their centers and contemplate Their present place and condition.  This is Ritual.  Though it is sometimes maladaptive or imbalanced in its use or construction, for the most part, it serves a higher condition for those whom engage in the Ritual.

Sleep Rituals and waking Rituals are also common.  Birth, death, and other transitional Rituals such as child-to-adult, wedding, graduation, promotion, and induction ceremonies are also powerful and positive in many societies.  You yourself are changing each day, aren’t you?

What Rituals might you invite into your Life in order to promote peace, wisdom, clear-seeing, and compassion?  How might advancing your Self and the character you play ease your days and increase your joy?

Nothing has more power than Ritual for creating change.  For as you repeat intentions—making them conscious and positive—you invite growth that exponentially shifts What Is.  Small or Large, Ritual declares the path, and Your returning footsteps illuminate it.

Blessed Be This Day 

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: December 27, 2014

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****From Cathrina:  below are two links to one of my favorite mantras, from the Hebrew. I'll let the web-links speak for themselves, neither agreeing, nor disagreeing, with the philosophy, but offering a resource as a starting point:

"Kodoish, Kodoish, Kodoish, Adonai Tsebayoth"

http://www.ezinekaleidoscope.com/beautiful-prayer-kadoish.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8559arekFk