2008:
A YEAR TO STEP UP AND STEP OUT
PIONEER
/BIONEER/ IMAGINEER
Here we go! This walk around the wheel of life offers us the chance
to look at time. How we use it, invest it, think about it, and certainly
to how we waste it. There is a considerable importance inherent in how
we visualize the twelve months ahead. Collectively 2008 asks us to consider
what it is we are each willing to start. Yet this isn’t a normal
number one- year of beginning again. What we are doing now is building
upon the foundation that we’ve laid for the past nine years. This
year we spiral up and out to encompass a vital quality of manifestation.
So cast a line of thought out into the future and imagine for a moment
what this world might be like in 2017. Ask yourself what looking forward
can offer…build a vision…consciously and conscientiously.
Consider the ideas and dreams of your today that will be growing from
their seed form until their harvesting then. This is a year for dreaming
and doing simultaneously. Think BIG PICTURE. Be aware of available materials.
Couple this with the idea of limitless possibility. Stretch the brain
and don’t forget to play!
A friend sent along the following communication at the close of ‘07
and I thought I’d share it with you for several reasons. The first
being that this year, perhaps more than we’ve seen in the past
decade, it pays to have a mentor and to be a mentor…so here is
someone we might all gain some insights from:
Friends:
We are entering a new paradigm. Perhaps it is not a new paradigm.
Mystics, saints, and seers have advised, guided, taught us about the
nature of our Divinity since time
immemorial.
But it may be new in the sense that so many factors, prophecies, and
channellings of major teachers indicate we are heading for a collective
leap in consciousness, perhaps unparalleled in human history. The
reality is, for it to take place, we must each do our part. We must
each come into the states of heightened Grace and Awareness that are
our natural essence.
For many, it is a challenging time. Chaos seems upon us. Yet, it is
a time of birthing, of new emergence, of new awakening, with the blessings
of the Cosmos ready to empower us with all the beauty and bliss of
our highest potential. Dedicate yourself to your own highest ideals!
Embrace them, trust them, bring them into reality!
Every thought, word, and deed, can and does make a difference.
Let us do this together. Indeed, we must, if it is to occur!
On the eve of this new year, continuing into this new millenium, we
send our dearest thoughts and blessings to each and every one of you,
that you may find your path, your joy, your renewal, your awakening,
your abundance, your beauty, the fullest sense of Your Being, right
where you left it, in your heart, awaiting your touching, and igniting
it, again.
Many blessings to all. Shalom, Salaam, Absa, Shanti, Vrede, Pau, Sidi,
Mir, Waki Qiwebis, Peace be with you.
Zacciah Blackburn and the Staff
@The Center of Light
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Let’s
keep our eye on the idea of “birthing, new emergence, new awakening”
and consider these the type of seeds that we plant for the next decade.
It is indeed a beginning/renewing year. And what we place into the ground
of our being now will germinate, sprout and come into abundant harvest
by 2017…so enjoy the process of thinking ahead.
Why is it useful to look into the distance to 2017? Because today, and
throughout this year, what we get involved in and how we respond to
situations before us (and more importantly, within us) will set the
tone for where we travel in the coming decade.
It’s a new day. Here are the first 4 Dictionary.com entries for
a most important concept of ‘08…that of being a pioneer:
1.
a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus
opening it for occupation and development by others.
2. one who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry,
enterprise, or progress: pioneers in cancer research.
3. one of a group of foot soldiers detailed to make roads, dig entrenchments,
etc., in advance of the main body.
4. Ecology. an organism that successfully establishes itself in a
barren area, thus starting an ecological cycle of life. And then there
is the state of the art idea of being a Bioneer. I would highly recommend
that we each become familiar with the opportunities that exist within
this level of involvement…check out http://www.bioneers.org/
and see where you might fit as a student/teacher/mentor of new thought
and leadership.
We
are made for these challenging times and challenge does not have to
be a negative. Challenge can be an edge place that opens us to something
more, that makes us different; as in less afraid. In 2008 we may notice
an expanded sense of belonging to this new energy frontier yet this
will depend upon a willingness to show true strength and an ability
to speak up and speak out for these new times. The energy of the year
that we are stepping into is offering each of us the chance to take
on the role of spiritual pioneer/bioneer/imagineer, a forger of new
views and a leader of those who will follow. In other words, we are
each being offered the cloak of role model: a person eminently skilled
in something, such as an occupation, an art, or a branch of science.
2008 asks us to be a person in charge of our own thinking/feeling nature
at the very least, as we contemplate with tremendous inner strength,
exactly what qualities are required to effectively evolve as two leggeds
on our planet home at this unprecedented time.
The Universal Year (UY) for the previous twelve months (2007) brought
the energy of 27/9. It was about being generous, magnanimous and interested
in the highest good for all. It placed a focus on evolving the best
of what we are capable of, particularly in our humanitarian goals. It
has been a year for being a world server…a healer activating either
the fine arts or the healing arts in order to bring a greater awareness
of our collective potential to the day-to-day workings of the world.
If you attained a truer sense of cell-deep compassion and willingness
to consider the well-being of others and if you are currently feeling
compelled to move out into this world to see what you can add in more
substantial ways… then welcome in 2008…this new world needs
you!
This year the energetic qualities naturally shift to a higher octave,
that of 28/10 and the Universal Energy will be providing us thinking/feeling
critters with the chance to look honestly at the levels of leadership
and enterprise that we can create and disseminate.
Leadership is a dynamic word. It represents the ability to step up and
step out. Real, unadulterated leadership fosters mentoring and the power
to be true to the underlying strengths that contribute to true place
success. As we learn about and apply leadership qualities and then step
forward our own suffering and that of others declines because we are
actively engaged and we are doing something productive about it. Now
we are better prepared and can reach out to take action. 2008 is a ‘doing’
year. DO you’re your dream…make it active and give it form.
2008 is a twelve-month cycle that allows each of us the energy and the
materials to manifest the highest good of all…even if it’s
only in our own back yard.
The 28/10 level of energy that this year carries requires that we really
think about the direction we’re moving. It’s a no nonsense
sort of vibe that says ‘what you see is truly what you get’.
Bitch n’ moan and you will see your life situations take you to
the local landfill. Find a way to weave a fabric of vision, mission
and values and watch the door swing open year by year throughout the
decade ahead. Think of being a pioneer/bioneer/imagineer of the spirit.
This is a year for playing that role in all the ways you can manage
and imagine. Many individuals who lead effectively and from the heart
have come to terms with their own inner demons of disappointment, disapproval
and embarrassment. They keep on keepin’ on and by demonstrating
an awareness of true security they lay down an electric lit energy trail
so well illuminated that others can more easily follow. Let your light
shine! Without judging the means by which some have and some have not
we can simply imagine how in this twelve months before us we might each
step into a confident and visionary way of living so as to enhance the
environment in which we dwell.
In 2008 we will continue to learn much about the need to balance the
forces of light and dark. This past year helped us discover new and
additional tools. We were given, through the Universal Energy of 2007,
the capacity to forgive, release and reconnect with compassion. And
as asked in last year’s Lifecycle Forecast: ‘Do I carry my
piece of a vision for collective good? Is my desire cavernous and am
I dedicated to my ability to make a difference in the situation here
and now?’ In Tibetan Buddhism there is reference to doing our practice
‘as if our hair is on fire’…in other words, no time to
waste…that’s fitting for the way to move through this year
ahead.
Last year we were offered situations and opportunities for gaining deeper
levels of kindness and for paying it forward. Now we’re building
off of this base of selfless service and when we are of service we have
an inner security and the quiet determination to help without thought
of return.
Gaze out at the blank slate that is before us and ask, ‘Do I lead
through my vision? Do I see a way of working for the collective good?
Am I secure enough to let my voice be heard and my light shine? Maybe.
Maybe not. And certainly none of us are at 100%. Yet in asking these
questions we can move, month by month, toward a deeper spirit of ‘we’re
all in this together’ because we will each be an inquiring mind
seeking the direction for doing our part. This continued striving is
admirable provided that in our participation we don’t ignore or
deny the shadowy parts of ourselves ever calling to be illuminated.
During this past year many of us may have discovered or uncovered aspects
of the fear-filled dark side, the monsters, dragons and strange beliefs
that we carry and that can be found lurking and hidden in the physical,
emotional or spiritual zones. Certainly we’ve watched these collective
shadows and the forces of nature continue to escalate in their dance
on the world stage.
The power of 2008 collectively, as seen through the Universal Energy,
is that of finding a higher degree of beginning again. When we come
into contact with situations, circumstances and relationships that challenge
our internal freedom we will be well served by monitoring our actions
with a confident vision and, again, asserting a positive vitality that
freshens stale air, to be part of the solution and to stop complaining
about the problems, to practice ‘the art of the start’, and
to continue to move in the direction that brings an increased feeling
of being joyfully alive. These twelve months will offer us collectively
the greatest chance within the context of this new nine-year cycle,
to birth a new world view, as we continue to do all that we are able
to express the highest good for all.
1999 was the last time this energetic quality came to call. It was obviously
a very different world back then. Where were you and what were your
experiences? Perhaps nine years ago you needed a lift. Take a few minutes
and reconnect to the manner in which you moved through that time period.
Look back to reconnect with some world conditions at http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/yearinreview/.
Keep in mind that this Lifecycle Forecast is representative of the Universal
Energy system that acts like an umbrella over us all. Realize that whatever
you were giving birth to a nine years ago is energetically matured now.
If those seeds rotted in the ground and did not produce what you had
hoped for then 2008 is the year to replant the seedbed for what you
will be growing for the coming nine years. How exciting is that!? We
can be deliberate. We can focus. We can have a new sense of vision and
values. We can step into this timeline with the awareness that we get
what we ask for whether we want it or not. If you grew a healthy, flourishing
plot between 1999 and 2007 then be prepared to take your skills to the
next level of master gardener. If you are less than satisfied with the
general lay of your inner land then this is the time to till the field
of your being and plant what you truly want. At the beginning of a cycle
we are asked to hold a vision of what is possible and to reach even
further than that to find our guiding star.
Experience the vibrant quality of this new beginning… all over
the globe there will be a pulse-point of taking a new direction and
visualizing what is necessary to accomplish collective goals… as
we set these seeds in the ground and look at the compassionate leadership
role we play as global citizens we’ll see new ideas surface for
ways in which to safely grow and harmoniously evolve.
Using numerology, the reading of vibrational energy fields, as a window
into the year ahead we find this to be a Universal Year # 28/10. The
universal quality of any given year points us in the direction of how
best we can each align with our role as a Planetary Citizen. The UY
also lets us see, sense and feel when we miss the mark. Shirley Blackwell
Lawrence in her book "Behind Numerology" explains that
“both heaven and hell have the 10 root, but heaven’s root
total of 28, new experiences and unlimited opportunity, while hell’s
root of 19 shows there is a karmic lesson to be learned.” She
says: “the 2 is the peacemaker and the 8 is the executive of
good judgment. The 28 is known as the “breaking number.”
New experiences are in store, surprises and unlimited opportunity…a
new beginning.” There is before us in 2008, an opportunity to move
day by day in a direction that can satisfy our spiritual hunger for
a new garden of unity and fellowship. Here we go.
ARE
YOU A LAZY BONES OR A LEADER?
It’s
a fresh slate. We can benefit by paying attention. This is a conversion
point. It offers us vibrancy and increased energy as we grow for the
greater good. ‘Dream and do, dream and do, dream and do’ is
a fabulous mantra for now.
I consider this level of energy that of the ‘The Road Not Taken’.
It spurs us on to choose the path that is most meant for us and simultaneously
challenges us to trust that life will support us in our choice. This
is a direct energetic line to The
Fool’s Journey and the wellspring of ideas that assist us in
our greatest life adventure.
When we are out of alignment with this force we experience discouragement
and are in fact aggressive in our stance. So that rather than being
a healing presence we act as a poison within the environment and contaminate
everything around us. This is not where we want to be making our energetic
deposits as we open up this brand new nine-year pattern.
28/10 rules cycles and solutions. Look in the direction of entrepreneurship
or strike out on a new course of action to advance a cause. In these
areas we know that great courage is required and many years of self-starting
are needed to achieve any hint of ability to lead others. Whether it’s
a wish to create a new thought system, invention, model for living or
head out on a ‘road not taken’ let your voice be heard. Experience
and face your own inner demons and dragons. Likewise elect to create
the path through the landfill of accumulated and even hoarded human
baggage. This entails a tremendous capacity to keep both feet on the
ground. Look for inner security. When we reach this 28/10 level of energy
we are being asked to accomplish even more, as if we are climbing a
new mountain and connecting to unseen helping hands… moving forward
and upward.
Some keywords/phrases that will lead us up the High Road throughout
this year are: change of attitude, new thought, start, confidence, SELF-assurance,
positive future, poise, proactive, expansion, create, vitality, shine,
and conversion point. Some of the words that conform to a path that
leads down a slippery slope are: unstable, aggression, timid, discouraged,
laziness, anger, insecurity, impulsive, holding grudges, hell-realm
and loner. Take any of these words and look them up in the dictionary
then ask each of them to tell you about the way in which it lives through
you. You may find it helpful to journal your responses to gain insight
as to how to move forward expressing genuine empowerment.
DO
YOUR HOMEWORK HONEY
Homework
for the year ahead:
Once more
for this year I’ve chosen a story from the Osho Neo Tarot ©
Osho International Foundation to help us to connect to the 28/10 level
of ‘08s Universal Year energy.
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
You
can be no one but who you are. So relax! Existence needs you as you
are.
I have heard:
A king went into his garden and found wilted and dying trees, shrubs
and flowers.
The oak said it was dying because it could not be tall like the pine.
Turning to the pine, he found it drooping because it was unable to bear
grapes like the vine. And the vine was dying because it could not blossom
like the rose.
Then he found one plant, hearts-ease, blooming and as fresh as ever.
Upon inquiry, he received this reply:
“I took it for granted that when you planted me you wanted hearts-ease.
If you had desired an oak, a vine or a rose, you would have planted
them. So I thought, since I can be nothing but what I am, I shall try
to be that to the best of my ability.”
You are here because this existence needs you as you are! Otherwise
somebody else would have been here. You are fulfilling something very
essential, something very fundamental, as you are.
Why should you become a Buddha? If God had wanted another Buddha he
could have produced as many Buddhas as he wanted. He produced only one
Buddha, and that was enough. Since then he has not produced another
Buddha, or another Christ. He has created you instead. Just think of
the respect the universe has given you! You have been chosen— not
Buddha, not Christ, not Krishna.
Their work is done, they have contributed their fragrance to existence.
Now you are here to contribute your fragrance.
Just look at yourself. You can be only yourself…there is no possibility
that you can be anybody else. You can enjoy it and bloom, or you can
wither away if you condemn it.
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THE UNIVERSAL YEAR: MOON-BY-MOON
To assist us on our journey let’s look at how we might align our
attitude through each progression of the moon cycles in the Universal
Year # 28/10. Keep in mind that I will be describing the umbrella energetic
qualities that affect us all. There are also personal fields of energy
that are unique to each of us. To learn more about your personal 2008
energies; physical, emotional and spiritual email me: drozda@donnaionadrozda.com
January 8, 2008 # 11 – February 5, 2008
"Divine justice works within me, eliminating all that is unnecessary
from my thoughts and granting to me all that is good. I walk in balance,
knowing Earth’s care." - Carol Bridges
For the first twenty-four days of this moon cycle feel the fresh opportunity.
Do all that is useful, beneficial, of no harm. The vibrations that swirl
about us ask us to lighten up on our grasping for particular outcomes.
Laugh often. Even though it is a year for new beginnings there is no
reason to assume that we know the best of what the beginning opportunities
are. This cycle it’s better to invest in visualizing what is possible
than to think we can ever figure out what will possibly be. The quality
of the cycle is attuned to spiritual strength and will. That’s
a kind of code for allowing things to BE and finding our place within
the flow of WHAT IS. Keep in mind that all this year security and courage
will be a matter of free will. Choose and choose again…starting
now. When we look first to the culture to supply elemental qualities
of security we are likely to forfeit our true power every time.
We can apply this chant and feel the buoyancy
I live within the light. I love within the light. I laugh within
the light. I am sustained and nourished by the light. I joyously serve
the light. For I AM the Light. I AM the Light. I AM the Light. I AM
I AM I AM Delight.
The last five days of the cycle bring about a turn toward a new sense
of identity that we will carry through to the close of February. Consider
the abundance of beauty in simply being you.
KEYWORDS for attuning to this cycle:
+: Spiritual vision, ideals expressed, highest thought, launch of the
invention, interest in general welfare, psychology.
- irritability, impracticality, hoarding, hurtful words.
February
6 – March 6
Feb.
6 Chinese New Year of the Earth Rat and the annual eclipse of the
Sun
“I
am a fertile ground of possibility. My talents, abilities, and experiences
now combine and compel me toward my highest expression. As I allow myself
to be nurtured, I am confident that I will flower."
-Carol Bridges
The
first twenty-four days of this moon cycle continue to bring us into
clearer contact with our sense of identity and self-esteem. In this
year of new beginnings it’s a good cycle for focusing in on the
birth of what feels new within you. Keep in mind that the Universal
Energies are affecting each and every one of us so if we can be the
one within our circle who is consciously connected we can actually assist
in the transformation of the world. As heady as that sounds it makes
sense. The 21st century is leading us into a new way of relating with
the Divine Feminine, the receptive side of our self, and it’s still
so new that it feels quite foreign. Therefore any one who steps up and
decides to claim this renewed sense of identity in this beginning year
helps us all.
On March 1st the energy shifts to that of opening the heart to the work
that is yours to do. Perhaps it’s time to set some new boundaries
and to protect what feels precious within you. Real heart work is in
the knowing how to connect to the joy that you were born to express.
It requires endurance to live enough life to come to the place where
you realize what you are here for. Again and again remind yourself that
you can start again now. You can claim your true nature. You can express
the true you…and you need not apologize to anyone for honoring
the self that you are in your heart.
I have come to adore this ‘Metta Meditation’ that states so
beautifully
May you be at peace. May your heart remain open. May you awaken
to the light of your own true nature. May you be healed. May you be
a source of healing for all beings.
KEYWORDS:
+ poetry, goodness, beauty, guided imagery, self-expressive, optimistic
- scattered, whining, jealous, depressed
March
7 – April 4
Spring
Equinox March 20
“I now create the structure through which all of my gifts will
be actualized. I am the governor of my world. I am the ruler of my life.
From Limitless Spirit, I draw all things needed for right action.”
Carol Bridges
The first twenty-five days of this moon cycle continue to connect to
your true work and the boundaries necessary to make the space to accomplish
that work. Work of the heart is readily available and eager to be called
in. Think Spring. This is a time for love and freshness. Make the space
in your heart for what really matters. Ask the questions that are on
the tip of the tongue most all the time: ‘What now?’ ‘What
next?’ ‘What, in my heart of hearts, really matters?’
‘What would love do now?’ Pay attention to the guidance that
you receive. Once more, write things down in a journal or notebook to
refer to later in the year. December will bring a similar quality back
around to offer us success with whatever we are focusing upon now.
On April 1 and for the last 4 days of this cycle the opportunity arrives
to change or release something that really needs to go. Think about
emotional freedom and sense the adventure that you are on as you step
out of your comfort zone to explore. With the new moon on April 5 the
‘change energy’ continues.
KEYWORDS:
+ hard work, boundaries, discipline, organization, sincere, loyal
- intolerance, disorder, fixed opinions, limitation, dull, bored, crude
April
5 – May 4
“I
am the mediator between my God-self and my world. I bring the within
outward, recognizing that my presentation and the world’s response
are just. I am at peace with all outcomes.”
Carol Bridges
The
energy of ‘divine discontent’ and confusion continues to visit
for the next 26 days as April unfolds. Being restless and anxious can
obviously be cause for concern. Throughout April we are asked to calm
down so that we can sense other directions for the transformation that
is most appropriate. But we tend to freak out when we are offered the
chance to make changes. We can spiral into obsessive/compulsive patterns
that usurp the opportunity to enlist in the adventure before us.
Be brave, be very brave and face the demons of the habitual parts of
your self that try to keep you living in fear, at worst or at best,
in the status quo.
Do something harmless and fun…try wearing a different style, put
on new colors, eat foods foreign to your taste buds, go some place different,
break out of your mold in some way. Take a class or a trip and notice
notice notice the world as if for the first time.
This cycle rules the energy of addiction and so be very honest about
what you are locked into, be real about what has you by the throat.
Then, with a vengeance, see if you need help to release your grasp,
or the grasp it has upon you…if so, ask for that help to assist
you now in becoming free of these unhealthy attachments whether to person,
place or thing.
The month of May brings a focus upon relationships. Balance is the lesson
at all times in this arena and so think about and consider the ways
in which you might bring more attention to your own center as the cycle
opens. Funny thing that so little of you education, if any, is spent
in helping us to be balanced beings, so along comes this cycle and it’s
spotlight of seeing and sensing and feeling the relationship between
the inner male and the inner female dwelling within. Do you know these
parts of yourself? Here in 2008 we are at the threshold of a whole new
way of relating to the world. Can we each look inward to glimpse the
way in which we move and breathe and function either as whole and harmonized
or as distrustful and fragmented?
KEYWORDS:
+ change, expansive, new things, new people, adventure, peace-making,
education
- obsessive, discontent, nervous, confused, negative, addictive
May
5 – June 2
“With love, I entice the inner person into relationship with
the outer world. I attract what I wish to become and I radiate what
I am. Beauty surrounds me. The Earth and I are one.”
Carol Bridges
We
now have 27 days of this cycle to continue to reform the relationship
that we have first, with the self, and then with others. This is the
time to take responsibility for the way in which you respond to your
own self-talk and to the communications you exchange with others. Cut
your self some slack. Be overly kind if you are prone to be the one
who is easily rattled. We’re five months into the year of new starts,
fresh beginnings and it is time to cast a line out into the future.
Not so that we can predict the outcome but rather so that we can visualize
the possibility. During this cycle it could be powerful and relevant
to consider the relationships that are most important to you and whether
they will be able to go the distance…all the way out to 2017…and
beyond. Naturally you will look at the relationship that you have with
your precious self first of all. There probably isn’t any more
challenging and useful work at this time than to check in with who you
have become and to see if you feel connected to that you. If not, enlist
the assist of an inner feng shui practioner. I don’t know what
that person will look like or what their qualifications will be yet
if you consider finding someone to help you bring your self back into
balance and congruence you’ll be on the right track.
June is offering us the time to meditate on what we’ve learned
thus far. Consider it the cycle that brings you the opportunity, for
the year, to clean house and put things in priority. Putting things
into priority isn’t something that we give a lot of time and attention
to. Here we have the chance to look at what is really meaningful at
this time of forging a new, or renewed, sense of purpose. When I think
of this energy and consider its true purpose it is to help us rise above
fear and find the wisdom of love for where we are and for what we’re
doing. If that idea doesn’t compute for you then travel back to
May and see what it is that you didn’t release…it’s never
too late to let go.
KEYWORDS:
+
cheerful, intuition, discriminating, accommodating, kind, responsible,
truth, trust, nature, music
- sad, arrogant, emotionally unbalanced, bossy, distrusting, meddlesome,
out of balance diet
June
3 – July 1
June
20 Summer Solstice
“I am a point of power for the divine plan which works unfailingly
through me. Having set my will to follow the highest within, I am strengthened
to express the victorious life.”
Carol Bridges
28 days into this cycle, or the remainder of the month of June brings
us the continuing quality of clearing away the excess so that we can
discern the essence of what is truly working. This clearance is best
approached in each of the main areas of life: physical, emotional and
spiritual. This is a perfect place to pause in the constant motion of
the year and to take time out to meditate on what is happening in each
of these zones. Are we, as the classic question asks, human doings or
human beings? Figure this out before the first of July since the energy
then is going to want to sweep us up in the dynamic action that is required
to make the whole year hum. Think of this near four-week period as an
extended cleaning house (you being the house) and you’ll be on
the right track for what is to follow.
KEYWORDS:
+ thinking deeply, dignified, quiet mind, meditation, self-examination,
studious, persistence, steadfastness
- depression, fearful, suspicious, aloof, secretive, unapproachable
July
2 – July 31
“All of my desires have aligned with my highest ideals, thus
my presence heals. I look forward with confidence to the eternal splendor
of my love-filled life.”
Carol Bridges
Come July we pop. The vibe is catapulting us into the mainstream, the
market place, and the land of investments, acquisitions and ‘I
want what I want when I want it’. It can be draining, yet if we’ve
prepared it can be exhilarating and inspired. Truth is we actually misinterpret
this quality when we read it as I’ve just stated…it’s
really much more than that. It’s more about trusting that all the
resource we require comes to us at the appropriate time in the appropriate
manner without our constant strain and trying to make things happen.
We’re such go-getters though that we’ve lost the ability to
‘go with the flow’.
What a grand experiment it would be to see if during this cycle we couldn’t
simply witness life working. This energy says ‘be a spiritual master
of the physical plane’. What a concept. We can practice now.
This is the first time all year when the sun and the moon are riding
together in the same space of time…this makes it easier than ever
to get on track with what we give and what we receive. Try to monitor
the tendency to lunge toward or back away from what’s happening
in your life and simply allow what is. We get so squirmy when we have
no reason to be. Working with these energies really just puts into a
harmonious flow and being there we sense the intuitive next step and
before we know it we’re actually in a space of sufficiency and
joy…check back to May to be certain that you released the emotional
detritus so that no one is pulling you down.
KEYWORDS:
+ true success, constructive expansion, good judgment, great inner strength,
ambitious, handle money wisely, stable
- lack vision, abuse power, pushy, manipulative, careless with finances,
need philosophical study
August
1 – August 29
“I and my High Self are one. I stand alone on the sure foundation
of eternal Being, lighting the way for others who follow behind me.”
Carol Bridges
We continue on the path of sun and moon in shared space so that all
we need to focus upon this moon cycle is the idea of evolution. Reminder…this
is a Universal Year we’re addressing here so we keep in mind how
much each one of us in our own unique way can have an impact on our
world. It’s miraculous and marvelous and true. One person can change
the world. It doesn’t happen often yet in a year like this it’s
worth the effort to dwell in that zone.
Something that I haven’t mentioned until now is that everything
that we’ve been doing since January is really a wobbling between
where we’ve come from and where we’re heading. It isn’t
until next moon that we really kick into gear with the whole idea of
starting fresh. We’ve needed these first nine cycles to remember
the reason for stepping through the doorway into this pioneering/bioneering
arena.
Back to the idea of evolution, which rhymes with revolution, and requires
a solution in order to actually be of worth. We don’t evolve just
by dreaming we have to have a path of action. The energy here and now
is about the compassion to act for the highest good of all. This is
the time to consider what can help rather than what’s in it for
me. What a great time to reconnect to the Golden Rule. Did you learn
that concept as a child? Could you demonstrate it to a child now?
KEYWORDS:
+ selfless service, compassion, impersonal love, generosity, broad outlook,
art, theatre, dramatic literature, medical arts, healing of the highest
quality
- aimless, frustrated, conflicts, isolation, unfulfilled, narrowed interests
August
30 -September 28
Autumnal
Equinox September 22
“All that I have allowed to dwell in my imagination has become
true through my words and actions. The Creator is embodied in me. I
gratefully accept the harvest of my creation.”
Carol Bridges
Two days into this cycle we enter into the energy field that we’ve
been working up to all year. It is the conversion point and here is
where we will get a glimpse, a taste and a feeling if we have actualized
the opportunity to be revitalized, re-invigorated and simply jazzed
about life as we’ve invested in it so far. Let’s not get too
distracted by what’s taking place ‘out there’. This work
is about balance of the inner with the outer and that requires just
a bit more emphasis on the former in order to put the latter into proper
perspective. Some of the wisest teachers to ever visit this dimension
have touted the importance of recognizing that there is no ‘out
there’ that we create it all in our mind, that we make it all up.
Well, be that as it may here we are at the place within the year when
we can be honorary members of the pioneer/bioneer spirit just to see
what it feels like to wear that cloak for this time.
See, sense and feel every aspect of your life as if for the first time.
Look around and celebrate the beauty and the wonder that surrounds.
If you can’t see it go back to May and see what it is that you’ve
carried forward past its time. Whatever it is practice the art of forgiveness.
Forgive yourself. Forgive the situation.
This is a point of division…either we take ourselves down the ‘quiet
path in summer’ or into the toxic chemical dumpsite…you decide
KEYWORDS:
+ extra vitality, conversion point, begin, new, assert, proactive, new
thought, confident, leadership, create
- lazy, timid, impulsive, aggressive, discouraged, unstable
September
29 -October 27
(this cycle is an energy preview of ‘09)
“Divine Justice works within me, eliminating all that is unnecessary
from my thoughts and granting to me all that is good. I walk in balance,
knowing Earth’s care.”
Carol Bridges
Pay particular attention to the days that visit in October. They will
provide us with an energy preview of the coming year. Now we are given
the chance to receive the sacred. Open to the ideals that you dream
of seeing materialize. Within the bookends of these 31 days practice
the role of the master and launch your spiritual invention, your vision,
your plan to improve general welfare within your community and through
transference to the world.
In many ways we are each preparing throughout this year for the opportunity
to experience mastery in ’09 so consider the ideas and information
that are within you and the ways in which, thus far this year, you’ve
released the splendor of your Higher Mind.
Once again, as in January ’08, the overarching quality of this
month (moon) is that of spiritual vision and ideals expressed.
KEYWORDS:
+ community, psychology, social betterment, receptive, diplomatic
- timid, irritable, impractical, insincere, moody, tactless
October
2 - November 26
“I surrender to the greater good. The Great Spirit and I are
one. The beauty I see, I will bring through me.”
Carol Bridges
It’s not a bad idea to think about what needs to die, timely too,
as we reach the
Day of the Dead, all Hallow’s Eve, All Saints Day and the general
year-end period of release.
As October closes and we step into the main energy of this cycle we
find that following death comes rebirth. Ask yourself ‘Who am I
now?’ Be willing to sense a new identity; an identity rich in beauty,
poetry, art, optimism and humor. How fine to notice these traits within
ourselves as the year wraps round to a close. It’s the quieting
time in the natural cycle of the year. Notice the rhythm of nature and
be brave enough to echo this still point. Contrary to what the outer
world suggests the only way to really know who you are is to allow solitude.
Take some time for this now and there will be a grand balance of choosing
your community with a sense of intuitive guidance and awareness. If
we were all to listen to the still small voice within during this cycle,
for even 15 minutes a day, It would most likely help us to see and sense
and feel the true success of who we are in this NOW moment. What could
be greater than that?
KEYWORDS:
+ guided imagery, goodness, truth, self-expression, abundance, self-esteem
- disheartened, sad, discouraged, spread too thin, overwhelmed, lonely
November
27 – December 26
“I accept the changes that will come through higher states of
consciousness. All change works to bring about my freedom and my good.
I let go and am free.”
Carol Bridges
Open your heart. Here we are, another walk around the Medicine Wheel
of Life is soon behind us. During this cycle it’s all about the
work of your heart and the ability that you’ve gained to set appropriate
boundaries so that you can focus upon your goals. There will always
be situations, circumstances and challenges to distract us but we close
the year with the chance to re-consider where true passion lies.
The year began with the spotlight on creative wisdom and it closes with
the beam upon disciplined organized and sincere heart-song. Don’t
be afraid to cut loose from that which attempts to hold you in the status
quo. Be the authority, the power, the dynamic and decisive being that
the year has prepared you to be. Recognize the structure that you have
built off of the quality of leadership that imbues this twelve-month
walk and do what needs to be done here at the wind down to secure your
concentration.
The circle of the Universal Year is now coming to completion. Let’s
weave together the overarching action oriented/leadership theme of the
year with the contemplative/reflective aspects of this cycle. Notice
a feeling of heart to heart healing. The Universal Year #28/10 has carried
us forward and upward toward a more spirited and ground breaking heart/mind.
Let’s gather the strength that we have forged. Let’s close
this year with the wherewithal to step across the threshold into the
2009 as true to you as you can dream of being. Keep in mind that what
seeds you’ve planted, what steps you’ve taken, what action
you’ve accomplished will now continue to unfold for the next 8
years. It will be 2017 before we will see the full extent of what we’ve
now sown.
Hopefully we have each in our own way found a quietly empowered way
in which to lead and mentor. This time period is a kin to being visionary
and willing to do whatever it takes to be a way shower to those in need.
There is a deep sense of assertive strength.
What a wonderful gift; the ability to step up and out. Let’s see
if we can walk our talk with our feet firmly planted on the ground at
this special time of the year.
KEYWORDS:
+ examination, deliberation, concentration, cognition, discussion, loyal,
boundaries
- dull, fixed, crude, intolerant, limited, inattentive
PLANTING NEW GARDENS
"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead
of colors,
there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."
~Rainer Maria Rilke
The 28/10Year in a cycle of Universal Years brings us to the point of
beginning. How grand. It shows us what we are made of as adults and
elders and instills within us a force for way-showing love and a pioneering
spirit. Practice the art of leadership and action, cycle by cycle, joining
with the Highest Good for all in mind and heart.
Each day continues to have the capacity to change us forever as we barrel
on into the new millennium. It can be helpful to remember that the present
energetic set-up starts with Level Two energy…as in the 2000’s.
This force is asking us to begin every thought, every action and every
emotion with a focus upon being receptive and enlisting the power of
the creative use of our imagination. The millennium of the 2000’s
teaches us that we are now here for the purpose of ‘Being Peace’.
This directive demands tremendous skill. Think and feel: seeds of action.
Moving forward we can become better with each year of practice. 2008
turned us toward the future…a collective vision for the decade
before us. Our individual life will continue to indicate where we need
to release the past so as to allow a new and vital life force to flow
through us.
I echo the greeting that my friends and community at The Order of the
Dove send out:
Wishing
you the most joyous New Year, as we enter 2008, the Year of Hod (Splendor)
what we think and vision will truly be what we live. May we all think,
feel and demonstrate harmlessness, oneness and joy in building communities
of Peace.
May
we each send this out as our wish for the World.
Donna Iona Drozda © 2008 all rights reserved
