An Outlook for 2007
View Ideas for New Beginnings
Monday, January 1st, 2007
We begin as a feather. Our stalk is strong but light, and our edges are whispy, ethereal, angelic. Even when we fall, we dance.
When a new year begins a thrill runs through me, as I ride the wave of the collective energy of new beginnings. The chance that anything is possible seems renewed for people, and potentials for opportunities abound as believing in ones dreams again feels more meaningful. The soil opens as seeds of new hope begin to breathe.
The new year is the perfect time to reflect on a practice called the White Heart, a series of alchemies given to me by the Egyptian deities while I visited various temples on my trip there a year ago. The White Heart is synonymous with a light heart, and the alchemies are designed to assist us in keeping a light heart, allowing us not only to pass into the blessed lands when we die, but to exist in the blessed lands here and now on earth.
I’m not sure who originally told us that life was a burden, but it is one of the most pervasive and greatest lies ever told. Life, and its origins are as light as a feather, and this year, of all years, is the one to embody this truth. For never will it have been easier, or more crucial, to do so.
If we are already heavy-hearted then when burdensome things hit us we sink to the bottom very quickly, and it usually takes a good deal of recovery time to rise back to a level of joy. If we are light the burdens can’t even hit us, and keep falling to whatever place they must, beyond our concern. This quest for lightness is what calls us to do energy clearings, detoxify, get rid of things around the house, have a good cry, or tell someone what we really think, even when it scares us. It causes us to reevaluate what we are responsible for, and what we may have been carrying emotion related to. It makes us look at the bags we have been carrying and ask ourselves, “what the heck is in these again?”
There is a great moment that comes when we decide that whatever risk it is to start over, it must be worth the utter liberation that comes from letting go of what holds you back. One morning in India several weeks ago I woke to the image of Durga still leaning over me from a dream, “fierce liberation” she said to me, before disappearing.
What would fierce liberation look like in your life? What would it look like if you made drastic changes that reflected what you good-well, god-darned, just-plain wanted your life to feel more like? How would you RATHER that things were? Which things in your life are you holding onto simply because you think you have to? These are questions that just bear more and more fruits the more we think about them. The times we do not create our reality are usually quite simply the times we think that we can’t…all because of a pesky belief or two that need to get out of the way. We need to let go of those beliefs so that we can claim what we are wishing to bring into being.
Contrary to popular belief all of this can be very simple. We often think we can’t find out what our negative beliefs are in order to clear them, and we feel that we are at the mercy of this lack of information. But truthfully all we have to do to drive our negative, outmoded, and non-serving beliefs out of the closet is to smoke them out. We do this with the fire made by doing what we fear, and giving ourselves whatever we can of the things we most want. That will make them flock out into the open. Then we can deal with them head-on and examine our attachments to them, and consider how to let them go. Like going through our closets and seeing that we hold onto certain things because they are practical or sentimental, rather than because they really make us feel great when we wear them. It just involves taking a good, clear, fresh look at things.
Pray to Durga, hindu goddess of power who rides on a tiger and who was born when Parvati became righteously angry, if you would like help finding this “fierce liberation.” If you would like to have help embodying the freedom of the White Heart pray to either Isis for healing, or to Yeshua, who was a human being who so much embodied its spirit. You may also pray to Magdalen, who embodied the Red Heart, a state only attained when a White Heart has been achieved first…a whole other story altogether. To start this year off right, and as an extension of these teachings, I am beginning my workshops with The White Heart this month, Passion and Surrender with Magdalen in May, and The Oracle Training Retreat in June. Altogether these workshops make up the foundation of the work that comes through me as an Oracle, and the very best of what I can offer from the Universe.
As you make the choice to have a light heart in this phenomenal upcoming year, you will find that at first your doubts about it are very convincing (you don’t deserve this, it can’t be this easy, everything will fall apart if you don’t hold it together, you owe this to someone or something, you have to earn your worth, etc, etc, etc.) but when you call their bluff by ignoring them, they suddenly transform into old leaves falling away from the tree…silently. Then you begin to hear the notes of a new song coming in….the one you have been waiting such a long time to really hear.
May this year answer all your heart’s deepest prayers, and see the birth of all your hopes and dreams into their best possible form. May you be blessed with a heart as light as a feather, and may the deities cheer you on joyfully as you pass, over and over again, into the blessed lands of your heart’s true happiness.
To Read Another Article About the White Heart Click Here
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White Heart Workshop this month, Click Here
Passion and Surrender with Magdalen in May, Click Here
The Oracle Training Retreat in June, Click Here
