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Transforming Consciousness at the Pachacuti
When I opened my eyes at sunrise, fog obscured both valley and hills beyond. The fog lifted and settled again. Over and over the far view was obscured and cleared, obscured and cleared. This unusual shifting seemed a metaphor for these times.
We are being asked to dance and shift moment by moment these days; to step between the worlds with fluidity; and to explore vibrations and energies that only recently were unknown to most of us.
I have been asking, and listening to hear, what is most important to write about in these few weeks leading to the Pachacuti, the turning over on 12-21-12. I ask this every month, and have for the nine years (!) some of you have been on this journey with me. Like my website, this blog was inspired by prophesies of the changing world and our intent to meet it, together, as best we can.
Everything is connected, as we always say. At this turning over of the world, we have two interwoven tasks. We are individual humans shifting our own consciousness, and we are consciousness transformers and light workers.
Shifting Our Individual Consciousness
Our inner states of being and feeling are reflected in the world around us, as we all know. Expanding our sense of connection and open-heartedness feeds our experience of the hopeful and positive. Reconciling our inner conflicts and shadow states (judgments, despair, disempowerment) helps us come into balance and alignment. I use this mantra to focus:
Release the heavy, what does not serve me. Fill with the light. Condense and experience the light and love in all my cells. Expand my essence.
An old saying, "Experience is the best teacher," guides us to remember our inner wisdom, inner resources, and the power of direct revelation as we move through these times. As Stargazer Li (Walters) writes,
"This is a time of taking heart and committing to living authentically from our depths, for ripening into living as our true selves. No more apologizing for who we are, pretending in order to please others, or trying to control others. Rather it's time to live from our own authority. We know what is true and it's time to live it, to show ourselves actual respect and love. And in turn, to respect those and what we love."
The heart of the world is right here, right now. Meditation--that process of slowing, listening, and connecting--renews us and feeds the heart. Taking every opportunity we can to sit in silence, to sit in community, and to sit with all the global meditations being offered right now is essential.
Transforming World Consciousness
When we move beyond the personal to the communal, when we look at our roles as participants in the transformation, we are called, first of all, to witness. Grief opens our hearts; witnessing all the energies of transformation--hurricanes, floods, votes, uprisings, suffering--with full hearts is what we are here for. In this way we become anchors for those who feel buffeted and overwhelmed.
Our compassion makes heart opening easier for others. Our light, love, joy, hopefulness--whatever we can muster--expands possibility.
When we are connected, all our perceptions of ailments and exhaustion disappear. Our webs of connection support us as well as all the unseen, mysterious energies that work with us to feed this beautiful world. Those of you who do the Earth-Cosmos Meditation, or something similar, know that as the filaments of connection grow, our experiences of union and bliss do too!
Meg Beeler/Earth Caretakers
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"Indigenous culture is based on the understanding that people are not moved through persuasion; rather, people are moved through being aligned in purpose...one's experience of communion and reconnection with the living earth always arouses the desire to act on its behalf..." -- Don Oscar Miro-Quesada "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." -Helen Adams Keller,1880-1968 | 
