Tuesday, February 10, 2015

The Goddess Returns In 2015, by Sophie Bashford

I am deep within the feminine void of new creation. Although the season is fading, it is still winter here, the later season of stirring from hibernation, inner reflection, and deep gestation. I love my winter walks and connecting with the fresh air and skylight of the fading winter days, and I am feeling the presence of the Divine Mother's Shakti deeply. I came upon this message today from Her and the lovely Sophie Bashford.~ I wanted to share.
For those who are hearing and heeding Her call at this time (the call of the Divine Feminine) this is for you:

A blog from the lovely Sophie Bashford
@ http://www.sophiebashford.com/blog/


THE GODDESS RETURNS IN 2015


Let Her prove Her Love to you, this year, Beloved Emissary of the Sacred Feminine Light. You will discover, as this year unfolds it's wings, that you are worthy of more love, more care, more devotion, more overflowing passion than you ever believed in, or knew was there for you. 

She has been waiting patiently to love you for longer than you can comprehend. She has been waiting to breathe new life into you, to set your delicate heart alight with flames of sacred love, to show the world how magnificent, radiant and glorious you are. 

The Time Has Come to fall, blissfully, without restraint nor shame, into Her adoring, devoted arms. 

~ Sophie Bashford


2015 is a year in which the Goddess Returns with more force and strength than ever before in the modern age. The preparations for this Divine Feminine resurgence have been underway for many years. Those who have elected, as part of their Sacred Contracts, to assist with the rebirth of these primal Shakti energies on Earth are being organised with great precision by Spirit.

The Ones who have been chosen to anchor, channel, and midwife the Great Birth of the Goddess Spirit onto the Earth plane once more will most likely have had their lives significantly shifted over the past 7-10 years. This is so that the ancient Life Codes of She can be once again accessed and trusted; so that those who were initiated in the powerful language of the Divine Feminine Essence can open up their personal sacred channels and once more be the conduits for the Goddess to radiate Her unequalled Life Forces.

These Divine Healing forces are urgently needed to re-balance and re-stabilise the energy currents presently working through the Earth planes.

Many Emissaries of the Goddess are only recently being Called into Action. It may only be in the last few years, or past months, that they have felt the distant, yet profoundly deep and aching longing to be once again reunited with Her, and to answer the Sacred Call for devotion to all that She represents.

Some Emissaries and Channels for the Divine Feminine Spirit are only just being stirred into Life again - but for ALL chosen and elected Channels of the Divine She-Forces, 2015 will prove to be a pivotal time of unprecedented activity and renewal.

When the Ones who carry the Codes of the Sacred Feminine are contacted, and reminded that they too have a central role to play in midwifing and supporting the new birth of the Goddess Energies, they nearly always find that their Earthly lives are required to change (sometimes dramatically) in order for their energy fields to accommodate the Mission.

Plainly speaking, if you find that your life being re-ordered in perhaps unsettling and uncomfortable ways, whilst you simultaneously are experiencing an overwhelming, irresistible Call to follow a new path - one that is more aligned with your True Self, your deep inner creativity, your urges to follow your heart, your desires to be free and uninhibited by social or familial expectations - you are more than likely being Called into Action by the Goddess now.

For many Souls such as this, who have profound links and past life experiences with the Divine Feminine in various early civilisations around the globe, you could find that your life takes on a quality and shape that you have not designed this year.

You are probably aware of the first whispers and murmurs of these changes, but will have no idea how the Goddess can radically and dramatically overhaul your existence in order to get you where She needs you to be.

You are in Her Service - and you agreed to it many, many distant lifetimes ago. There is no turning back from the Divine Mission of your Lifetimes. You are needed, you are prepared internally and spiritually (even if you are not presently aware of this), and you will be used as a messenger, an advocate, a torchlight of Divine Feminine power.

You cannot stop the tidal wave of energies that are now poised to flood your way. There is no stopping this accelerating Plan as it continues it's pre-destined course. You are meant to be doing things differently; you are meant to be breaking out of old patterns and conditions; you are meant to be heading resolutely into the Unknown (although it is actually more planned than you realise).

The Goddess is supporting, guiding, leading you more than ever as we begin our new calendar year and open up to 2015. You will enter territories that you never knew existed, let alone could plan to travel to. You will be taken to new levels of intimacy, new vistas of spiritual awareness, new horizons of consciousness regarding your own incredible, awe-inspiring creative and Divine powers of transformation.

Take a deep breath on this first day of 2015, because you are right now being spotlighted by the Goddess Herself - the Prime Creatrix of All. This is the most powerful and mesmerising spiritual contact you could ever experience.

You have been Called into Action, on Her behalf, on the most necessary and urgently needed healing Mission that has existed for eons. Much will change this year, as you shed old skins, old, draining and heavy relationships and conditions, and take the hand of the Goddess Herself. She will charge you with a Light that is beyond comprehension, beyond compare, beyond the visions of your wildest dreaming.

Take a breath, and prepare to roll with the changes, for there will be many, and they will be deep-rooted, long-lasting, and potent. This is not a time to run and hide from your destiny. It is a time to surrender more deeply than you have ever done, and let Her lead you into a New World, one more beautiful, more ecstatic, more electrifying than you ever thought you were worthy of.

You are the most worthy, because you have proved to Her over many lifetimes of initiation that you are trustworthy to carry out this most Holy of Missions.

Let Her prove Her Love to you, this year, Beloved Emissary of the Sacred Feminine Light. You will discover, as this year unfolds it's wings, that you are worthy of more love, more care, more devotion, more overflowing passion than you ever believed in, or knew was there for you.

She has been waiting patiently to love you for longer than you can comprehend. She has been waiting to breathe new life into you, to set your delicate heart alight with flames of sacred love, to show the world how magnificent, radiant and glorious you are.

The Time Has Come to fall, blissfully, without restraint nor shame, into Her adoring, devoted arms.

She Will Never Leave You. Jump off the cliff edge, Dear One, because She is ready to catch, support and love you into flight.

by Sophie Bashford
http://www.sophiebashford.com/blog/


Sophie Bashford
She Changes Everything She Touches
What is the power of a woman who has opened to the sacredness and Divine truth of herself? What happens when she has the courage to bring the inner light outwards? What transpires when she softens her hard edges, plants her bare feet on the soul of the earth, opens her sacred channels to the Ancient Ones and declares, "Yes, I am ready to be seen?"
She changes everything she touches.
The pulse of Life that was given as she incarnated as feminine form, housing extraordinary creative and healing powers, begins to throb faster, deeper, with a rhythm in tune with the universal, eternal heartbeat.
With each throb, each memory-stirring resonance, each vibration subtly speaking ancient words of remembering, She begins to come alive to Her Shakti Essence. This is a conscious, intelligent, prescient, truthful and profoundly transformative energy.
She begins to change. She feels changes on the inside, calling her to a Old Dance that can be heard up in the hills, up in the mountains, out near the sea. The Dancing is in time to a sensuous and seductive rhythm, and there are voices, chanting, music, laughter. It is the sound of women who are in love with themselves; in love with the Earth; in love with the oceans; in love with the sky. It is the sound of women changing, and supporting one another as they do so. It is the sound of women loving, with pure sacred force, and bringing their love to all places that are wounded, terrified, shaking, and lost.
The circles of women who are dancing realise that they change everything they touch. They realise that their powers are immense, omnipotent, unfathomable, essential. They have been reminded by the Great Goddess that if they do not rise up now, if they do not open themselves to this energy, this support, this love, this power - that the promulgation of the Divine Feminine light will greatly suffer.
It is time to remember that when She is in connection with Her deepest knowing, Her deepest wisdom, Her deepest intuitive responses, her deepest healing medicine, her deepest loving heart - She Changes Everything She Touches.
Her Light will affect every room she enters. It will alter the balance of energies within every person she encounters. It will spark off transformation and healing within each and every situation that she is brought into contact with.
She has a power that has been gained through lifetimes of learning and practicing with the Great Ones, lifetimes of pulling herself through ritual after ritual, rite after rite, initiation after initiation. She has worked from dawn until dusk, through the night, hour upon hour, breath upon breath, to hone and develop the Sacred Essence of Woman. She has worked hard, and long, to prove to the Goddess that she is capable of this mission. She is trustworthy, pure, wild and infinitely connected to Light.
She can bring down the energies, she can pull up the healing, she can work her magic with lightning-speed - all without you ever knowing she is doing anything. You are probably just chatting with her. You might be receiving a hug from her. You may be walking with her. You might be asking her to use her abilities just for you. You might even be making love with her. Be prepared, for a level of transformation to occur that is relative to the level at which you have engaged her energy field.
You must be aware of who you are dealing with. These women are everywhere now, but they are usually unrecognised by the masses. Those who 'know' will see them instantly, by the way their bodies shimmer and glow with truth; their eyes appear like Mysteries, rich with knowledge that pierces the Soul; their hearts seem to embrace, comfort and cherish without a single word spoken.
They are magnetic, unforgettable and ravishing, because the Goddess is alive within them. Wave upon wave of nourishing light emanates from their bodies and flows to where it is needed - healing, restoring, transmuting. Powers such as these have long been forgotten on our planet, so it may come as a surprise when you are touched by this energy that you cannot understand nor forget. When you meet her, only remember this.
She Changes Everything She Touches, so prepare to be changed.
She Changes Everything She Touches, so realise that you called her into your life for a reason.
She Changes Everything She Touches, so be aware that she will bring up in you what needs to transform.
She Changes Everything She Touches, but don't ask her how she does it.
Those kind of secrets rest in the sacred vaults of Heaven, the most hidden natural places on Earth, the most arcane tombs and temples of the Mystery.
Someday, in the very distant future, you may get to witness her Divine methods and be permitted to enter her private, sacred domains of healing and magic. This day is a long way off. Until then, all you need to know is this:
She changes everything she touches.
Forever.
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Thursday, January 22, 2015

The Journey, a Poem by Mary Oliver


The Journey, from the wonderful Mary Oliver. 
an Anniversary of sorts. I love this piece. perhaps you know it too.

The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could save.

Mary Oliver

Artwork: Haughty Woman by DoraTaya
at etsy.com http://www.etsy.com/shop/dorataya

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Seeding the Future

Setting our Dreaming Mind for the New Year ~ Dreaming a New Year 2015. Tips for setting New Years Intentions:
1. Begin the New Year with a clean slate. Forgive.
A great way to begin any new year is to let go of the year and years that have already gone by. Create a forgiveness practice or ritual this week. Imagine anyone or anything that has harmed you or that is blocking you from feeling free and light in this new moment. Forgive the past, forgive the others, and forgive yourself. You don't have to go back to old harmful people or patterns this year, but you do need to let go of the past to be free. Of course, it's a practice. But create an activity or ritual this week where you imagine everyone who has harmed you since early and forgive them, sincerely. It's time. And it's the best foundation for cleaning the soil where your new seeds can and will be planted.
2. Create or Identify your New Years Fondest Intention.
Now that your soil has been cleansed and prepared, and in honor of your heart's deepest callings, take some time this week to really feel into what you would like the New Year to be and bring into your life this year. Ask yourself, "what is my deepest heart's desire for this special year?" Honor this as a sacred ritual to bring love to yourself and those you love at this potent new time of year. Be willing to look beneath the surface to identify the real core seed of what would bring you the most happiness this year. Hint: Yoginis know there is a magical difference between "I will" and "Thy will." Sink deeply into your feeling/being dream this year.  
3. Begin to dream it ~ Feel it, Paint it, Dance it, Sing it
Once you have your true heart's desire identified, use your heart's happiest imagination and begin to imagine and *feel* how it would feel to have this true heart's desire today. Continue to sit (or dance, move or sing, whatever moves you in the moment) by your altar or in your sacred place and like a true prayer ceremony, begin bringing that heart's desire closer to your being by imagining how it would feel if it were already real. Imagine. Smile. And let yourself enjoy. As you continue with this practice over time, add some creativity. As you move forward this month, follow any impulses to paint, write, dance, sing or sketch your dreams as you see/feel them happening too. But begin the process of dreaming by feeling your heart's desires and intentions for you and those you love this year. This is the Art of Dreaming. Imagination can be a wonderful practice for your meditations this year as well. It's a powerful time and new season to plant some seeds. Reflect, imagine, and en-joy.

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Christmas and the Highly Sensitive Soul

Christmas and the Highly Sensitive Soul ~
"We don't need twenty thousand Christmas lights, a party every weekend or a mortgage-sized Christmas present. What is wonderful, in fact, is that the simplest of gifts, the quietest carols, the smallest of gestures are enough to fill our hearts with joy."
I've always loved a quiet Christmas. Perhaps that's in part because the Christmases in my well-meaning but dysfunctional family of origin were always so overwhelming for me. But this is also due to the fact that I am a highly sensitive person.
I have loved soft, romantic, intimate Christmases since I was in my 20s - a walk around New York City holding hands with my sweetheart, a humble day cozy at home with a lover or close friends in Santa Fe, and now a tradition of spending the day happily and joyfully with our dogs and sometimes one set of in-laws has continued well into my marriage now of (going on) 14 years. I love the intimate and easy more quiet-kind of Christmas holidays.
I love a simple tree, soft simple dancing lights, and unfancy tender gifts from the heart that hold deep sentiment as a suggestion of thoughtfulness and love more than anything else. That's what brings me joy this time of year and always has. Well, maybe not when I was 10, but you know what I mean.
Many HSPs (highly sensitive people) discuss the need to honor boundaries and our needs for safety, peace and sanity with the world and (especially) family at this time of year, and that is important too - we so easily absorb and feel the negative or dysfunctional moods, thoughts and emotions of others we may gather with at this time. But there are benefits too to being an HSP on the Holidays and that is where my focus is this year.
In celebration of the Highly Sensitive Soul at Christmas, I share this story of "A Christmas Gift", by HSP blogger Deborah Ward. I love how she too focuses on the gift, and not the struggle, of an HSP Christmas. ~ Happy Holidays ~
A Christmas Gift
The advantage of being a highly sensitive person at Christmas
by Deborah Ward
Being a highly sensitive person in the weeks leading up to Christmas can be overwhelming to say the least. The crowds, the shopping, the parties, and the incredible business of the season can leave me feeling like I'm on a roller coaster and I want to get off. While it is fun, it can all be a bit too much, too fast and we end up not enjoying the season but feeling frazzled and worn out.
But there is an advantage to being highly sensitive, especially at this time of year.
Sensitivity means that you feel things intensely, including both sensory information such as sounds, colours, lights and smells, and emotional information, which includes both other people's feelings and your own. But that doesn't mean it is always too loud, too bright, too intense, or too much. When we absorb positive sensory or emotional input, we are able to feel a special kind of joy, and a recognition of beauty that others cannot even see.
What this means, essentially, is that it takes very little to excite or impress us or make us happy. We don't need twenty thousand Christmas lights, a party every weekend or a mortgage-sized Christmas present. What is wonderful, in fact, is that the simplest of gifts, the quietest carols, the smallest of gestures are enough to fill our hearts with joy. I am incredibly happy watching the morning sun light up the icy branches of the birch trees outside my window. I love the smell of pine cones in the woods and fresh coffee back at home. I can light candles in my living room and put on my favourite music and I am in a cathedral, as grand as any in London.
The smallest gestures from people mean so much as well. It is always challenging to keep the negative moods of others at bay, but when they are happy, I radiate. And it doesn't take much. A simple politeness in the grocery store, a wave from a neighbour, a smile from a colleague. All it takes is sincerity. A genuine kindness. And when those simple gestures come from someone you love, the sensitive person is set alight, flying a few feet off the ground, with a heart wide open and blood rushing, set free with an indescribable happiness.
No matter what kind of presents and experiences come our way, the best part about being a highly sensitive person at Christmas is the gift we already possess - an amazing and wondrous appreciation of the simplest things in life. Being able to see beauty everywhere, in everything and in everyone is a gift I will always treasure.

Thursday, December 4, 2014

A Tribute to Healing and Social Change


For Eric Garner, his family, and all the other innocent men of color murdered by police officers in this United States. 

When are WE going to stop this? What is happening in our Judicial system that jurors are being manipulated out of their own humanity? NO clear and healthy human being viewing that video could have chosen "no indictment" unless they were manipulated via court orders to disregard THE EVIDENCE.

BE IT KNOWN: If you are asked to serve on a Jury.. your CONSCIENCE and HUMANITY come first. If you see or hear something that indicates foul play, and are instructed to ignore it... DON'T. and then, report the indecent and unjust orders and experience immediately afterwards. Speak up. Speak out.

IT IS YOUR RIGHT to uphold a greater law than we apparently have in certain police and judicial systems in this country. and this is so so sad. 


Peace and healing to the families of Eric Garner, and slain black teenagers Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, and too too many other innocent, unarmed, and too-young American boys and men. 

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Ferguson, Are you Kidding me?

I am on vacation in Florida at this time but am compelled to express some deep and heartfelt reflection today....
Ferguson, are you kidding me? Feeling such heaviness this morning. It's like waking up in Groundhog Day again and again and wondering when the day is going to change.
Last night at a restaurant was an image of a black woman's face on the TV news, mugshot, with the bold caption "Indicted: for the murder of unarmed husband." We were awaiting news of the Ferguson outcome, and my heart sank. hard. It was in my throat as I imagined this woman self defending against a large and abusive man. And the blatant and typical headline in bold appeared at the very time we were waiting for another verdict: Would there be an indictment for the unnecessary murder of an unarmed black teenager by a white male cop? The timing was crushing, the headline so telling. Moments later, literally, there it was, in large bold caption: No indictment in the Ferguson case.
How many times will we have to live this same sad and maddening day again and how long will this history repeat itself before we ALL take a stand for the obvious.
Another gross and unnecessary murder of (another) innocent young man, unarmed, and without any factual or reported real threat. So he stole a handful of cigarillo cigars, how many other kids are murdered for shoplifting? Maybe he had an attitude. Who wouldn't have an attitude in that environment. All I can think of now is Bruce Springsteen's song 41 Shots. If you don't know it look it up.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

What is Happening in America - American Dysfunction in the Political System

What is happening in America?
a personal response to post-election reaction in the U.S.
Re the outcome of our recent election, let us remember that this country is still pretty equally divided, there was no landslide, one side as usual won by a very slim margin, just off of the pure 50/50% mark. I am personally so tired of the immature and childish Obama-bashing I hear from even some of my own Republican friends. We are not children guys, we are adults now, and this country and world are in CRISIS. These issues are real, and they are huge.
It's going to take mature people with healthy minds to get this country working smoothly again and working through the needed changes - which include the questions of how to care for our sick and elderly, keeping our educational system up to par with the rest of the world, dealing with terrorists who threaten human lives and rights, not to mention how are we going to switch over to new energy sources and systems that will allow us our energy independence as human and corporate greed continue to bleed and destroy our very environment and earth, something we as America also have to take responsibility for.
These issues are huge and they are REAL. and no matter who or what you voted for, we need to work TOGETHER to even have a chance at repairing and recovering from all that is wrong in our world today.
So please, lets PLEASE try to show a little respect for ourselves and take the higher stance of working together as human beings with big issues to solve. It is imminently important that this country become led by people who are interested in healing and BETTERING our local and global systems and world. This will not happen if we continue to fight and attack and block compromise and progress for no other reason than being stuck in a childlike, uncompromising and immature mentality.
We have to work together despite our differences. This is serious, guys. Get into your adult mind and let's all learn to work together already. (ps. how old are we? I could swear some of the hater-rants and attacks and such I am seeing are coming from repressed 2 or 3 year olds.)
Let's grow up and get it TOGETHER. We need to work together... as mature adults, as the BEST that we are, not the most shameful, to confront and handle the huge and challenging issues we are facing today.
So I forgive you and you forgive me, ok, and let's get on a page that is "for" local and global recovery. We have **alot** of work to do to correct the damage that has been done, and alot to clean up and evolve.
It doesn't matter "what side" you are on, we are ALL on one side. Get it?
Alexa
11.5.2014