A portal of light is opening, creating the catalyst for awakening our world to a new level of Truth and Love.  This teaching, both ancient and sacred, is knocking on our door. We who are called are realizing that if we are to rise to the occasion, new tools are necessary.  Receiving this power requires a heightened awareness of our soul and destiny.  This great and wondrous adventure, the opening to love and to light, provides the opportunity to bring our mind and body up to speed, as we use spirit in action. This time stirs up the core of our identify as we release darkness and struggle.  Joining this endeavor requires courage and strength to develop new capacities that we may not have trusted before.  Much of what we know in our head needs to awaken in our body.  This awakening brings experiences of the spiritual field and teaches us how to use it skillfully.

          We all recognize the deep desire to live in a spiritual world where love is always present.  This spiritual field of love operates in higher frequencies. We often hold this place as magical and many of our dreams come from this exalted space.  These fields of power are becoming available to assist us in manifesting our deepest vision.  As we learn to hold this spiritual field, we are directing our conscious mind to live in unconditional love, truth and the awareness that anything is possible, if only we believe. We are literally surrounded with light. 

          This opening calls us to go deeper into our feelings, creating a magnet that pulls us to places in our self that go beyond words. The first pass is purification, clearing our dark core of identity, developing a willingness to go beyond fear and the need for security.  We do not eliminate these feelings, instead, we learn to use the energy of our emotions in a new way.  We discover new dimensions of our human nature.  This is not an evaporation of our instincts.  Old wounds must be forgiven and negative reactions transformed to wisdom.   Through release of our habitual ways of reacting, we open new perceptions and see through the eyes of love. Our ego moves from self-centered absorption to clear-minded awareness.

          This purification allows you to see the results of your thoughts and actions immediately. It gives you the power of choice and choose you must.  The vows you make from now to the end of the year will have great impact on your life.  As you realize the effect that old patterns have on your behavior, your vision will realign your energy field. If you are tired, loosing your energy quickly, it is a sure sign that you need to shift your attention to the heart and tell the truth. Your ego can not carry the weight of the world alone.  Behavior that is motivated by duty and self-preservation will not have the same drive to perform. The energy flow is shifting to a deeper place of empowerment in the heart.

          This is a major initiation into the soul.  Energetically, we are moving our primary focus from the will to the heart. The mind serves the heart.   If enough people make this internal shift, then it will be transferred through our personal field into our world. The merging of mind and heart brings vitality and creates sacred awakenings.  We have talked about this shift for a long time, it is happening now.  We are in initiation time.

          Much of our past training has been with the warrior; we overcame and conquered. This way of existence strengthened our personal will and trained us to exert our power over nature and over others, creating victims. We gauged our competence by how fast we got things done and how much we accomplished, as if the goal of life was to be a production center. The ability to control was our measurement of success.  Without balance, we became victims of our own achievements. 

          Although this training gave us tremendous power, the spiritual side of our being became enslaved and starved for creative expression. We must now use the courage of the warrior in a new way. Our discipline holds the strength of the trained will and keeps us grounded as we enter into sacred awakening.  Quiet the process mind and learn to listen to the heart.  The power of spirit is upon us and asks us to be gentle, to embrace ourselves with acceptance and to explore what and who we are, naming what is important.  The need for space and freedom to be, which are qualities of the heart, are now calling for attention. Without the space and time to love and to breathe, we are enslaved to the machine of production.  Without love and compassion, life is empty. Our heart yearns for spiritual presence.  When we have integrated this, it will amplify to the next level of alignment and create the vision needed for the greater merging of our heart and will.

          The end of separation begins with the willingness to tell the truth, to stop protecting the personality from its fear of darkness.  The fear is not the problem so much as the need to mask your emotions. The darkness comes from incomplete cycles of the past. The need to hide disconnects you from your heart and your life.  Your emotions have great power; denial    of these currents can create depression. Used skillfully, depression  can guide you through the alienation and absorption of darkness, where you lost your light and identified with the dark core.   This process is the dark night of the soul.  Now you must choose to come home, transforming the power of the wound into wisdom.  The heaviness goes away when you are willing to tell the truth, at least to yourself.  As you bring your spirit to this concentrated darkness and communicate what is wrong from a deeper place, then you will feel the power to connect and make new choices. 

           We have been trained to respond like children with no power; we believe that we have no voice in the decisions that create our world.  From this wounded space, we do not believe that we can meet our needs. The unconscious mind operates in apathy and mistrust, collapsing our field back into fear.  If you are stuck, acknowledge the numbness and feel where it is coming from. This teaching is asking us to shift from 'I want' to 'I am.'  Find your voice and take action to serve the highest good.

          In the spiritual field, Truth is number one. Using your words as power gives you the ability to create and destroy. It is an incredible force and must be used wisely. The motive behind your words is felt more than the words you choose.  A compassionate heart gives life and wisdom, fostering love and acceptance.  When you use truth to hurt or get even, it becomes a sword that can destroy.  A critical mind can feel like slash and burn, destroying all in its path.  It may free you from illusion but you suffer in the process.  The compassionate heart will be the greatest tool in  the future.  It will be the key that allows you to enter into dimensions of empowerment and release judgments.

           The heart is the home of the sacred.  It needs to be your strongest center. If you closed your heart for protection, the memory of separation, where you lost your spirit, will be vivid. The situation that forced you to make such a sacrifice will activate until you  resolve the old hurt. If you feel betrayed and hurt, ask what needs to be learned here?  You can not be betrayed when you live in the truth, willing to accept the strength and weakness of others.  Acts of betrayal break old fantasies, bringing you closer to reality and offering deeper access to old wounds.  The pain is the breaking the ego shell that sealed you into your separated world. This process of the broken heart absolves the past and opens you to a whole new world. 

          If you fear that your heart can be broken, and therefore, can not be used, like a delicate piece of china, look again. When you close your heart,   you become frozen in the hurt with no way out.  Practice opening your heart to spirit, even when the pain seems unbearable. As if a mysterious riddle, this opening, painful though it may be, shows you where you lost your vision.  You find the belief patterns that stopped you from receiving love and sharing your deeper self.   Respect this process.  There is no way to escape the reality you are in. 

          The priority now is to learn to call on spiritual fields of awareness and adjust your personality to an increase of power. You are enslaved to the world as long as you choose not to do what your heart is asking.   As you learn to function in a new way, the training will be brought to you through your work, your family and friends, and your spiritual practice.  You will learn to trust inner wisdom and hear the call of that which is greater. While you are primarily your own teacher, interpreters such as healers and friends can help you to see your reality more clearly.   Acknowledge your inner mentor and welcome its voice.  Be willing to stand before your divine reflection every day and see what is important.   Open to creativity, listen to your deeper calling and find freedom within your present situations.      

          A flower has the knowledge to move from seed to full blossom.  In so doing, it provides elixirs that bring beauty and healing to your soul.  The same is true within human evolution.  You have knowledge bred into your genes, that is a timetable for your evolution. Start by accepting that there is a part of your consciousness that lives in wisdom and a part of your personality that may not have a clue.  When you are fully present in the spiritual field, the energy flow is effortless.  Some growth periods can be difficult as you are sorting out fears and prejudice, letting go of struggle patterns. The state of effortlessness is hard for some to accept, as it goes against the old training. Until you experience the grace and ease, you will not understand the full power of the spiritual field.

          The power of the teaching will reveal itself as you move off the fence where you want to dominate the world while at the same time maintaining a spiritual field of grace. These two modes do not go together. You may find both parts in operation as you are transferring the power to the heart. Attachment to weakness, fear of change and movement to light-filled  awareness, will be our greatest challenges in the time ahead.  This compassionate awareness offers a grace that clears the old karmic record and gives a space for loving that we have not seen the likes of for a long time.  Use it wisely.

          Our sacred self awakens in the heart space.  Our breath becomes the breath of God because our spirit lives within the heart.  Vow to live from the heart every day, to create a temple space in which to live.  This teaching calls us to be more present, to live in the voice and power of our spirit.    We feel this in our hearts as we reach for a deeper union with love.  We are calling for fulfillment of our dreams, learning how to live in the world that truly serves the highest good.