Thursday, August 17th, 2006

On a cosmic level these last several weeks have been like rolling around inside a stormy ocean. The waves are challenging to ride, but abundant with power.

When the energies are this shifty and frenetic, and you still want to harness their fantastic potential to enhance and transform your life, it is a good time to return to inspiration.

It may seem like you need to have a plan, but my recommendation is simple…just return to a place in nature that makes your heart sing, like Miranda and the tempest in the painting here. This place should reflect the way you most naturally feel your own nature and spirit. This should be the kind of place that holds you, and at the same time offers you infinite space.

Perhaps it is time to take a trip to the ocean, or the mountains. Perhaps it is just time to take a walk, right now after reading this. Perhaps it is time to take an afternoon off and take your notebook or blanket somewhere and just be.

This will open the window for you to dream again, with a fresh and renewed perspective, and therefore allow you to channel more easily the energies that are ever-present and especially strong right now. The likelihood is that there is a new dream inside you waiting to be discovered, or a new aspect to a dream you have long held that will show you the doorway to making it real in your life. Like a shell or pearl at the center of your being, it waits, and when you decide to go there it is easy to find.

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

I won’t tell you that letting go is easy, and you wouldn’t believe me if I did since you have tried it before, but I will tell you that sometimes it is the only way to truly have what you are holding onto. Until you let it go it is just a bird trapped in your rib cage and yearning for the open skies.

I know most times it seems like the last possible thing you would want to do when you have ahold of something that you think just might be great…is almost exactly what you want. True, it would be foolish to throw it away, but to let it go is to let it breathe, and breathe in a way that all things must in order to live. To let something go is just to recognize that although it is within your soul, it is not in your hands. You are not the one who has to “make” it happen, or crush it. You are a shepard of your dreams, and only the heartbeat and life blood of the universe can bring it into being.

It isn’t that we aren’t meant to help the universe give us what we are looking for. It is just that if we don’t loosen our grasp sometimes we won’t be able to look between our fingers and see if we are even holding onto what we think we are. We may just be holding on tightly to a handful of dust. We have to open if we want starlight to bless our way.

You see, not only does it release our energy to let go, it lets in all the support from the universe that wants to flow in. When we are holding on too strong…to our identity, our plans, outcomes, we don’t let in the magic as well.

We have a chance….a beautiful, golden, magnificent chance in this life to be brilliant. Not just smart but to shine without shrinking back and to leave a trail of color wherever we go, without apologizing for our rainbows. There will always be reasons to hold on, but like the body grows weary of clenching, the soul grows tired as well, and our true treasures and those dreams which are most meant to come true, will come into being when we make our efforts with faith and trust, and let the goddess and god do the rest. May all your dreams come true. Love, Jennifer