I was called to welcome in the new year with myself, honoring the sacred passage to the energies that 2012 offers. I lit my candles and incense, donned my robes of mastery and wore my crown, acknowledging my royal roots. We are divine beings and I was shown that it is time to carry myself as such in the world. Indeed it is this acknowledgment, that opens the gateways to our inner wisdom and gifts. The timing is so beautiful as the frequencies of our planet are rising as we awaken into unity consciousness. As we each take up our rods and staffs, our symbols of mastery and power, we take our places as the stewards of the dawning Golden Age of Peace and Love. It is time to own our expansive natures as we continue to offer our services to one another, to our mother and to the Creator. We came to co-create heaven on earth and it shall be so. It has begun and it feels so delicious!

I came across this on my walk in the park and its violet letters spoke of Saint Germain and his freedom flame of violet light.

I loved this graffiti, BE FREE, on a retaining wall I passed, as it is exactly the feeling I have as I walk into the landscape of 2012.  We can chose freedom in every aspect of our lives. We can chose to free ourselves from roles that no longer fit, from jobs that no longer feed our souls, from habits and beliefs that limit rather than expand our outlooks, from relationships that constrict rather than ennoble our growth. Every aspect of our lives is up for change and renewal. I have read that the energies of January are about destabilization. Uncertainty is a place that we are learning to accept and be comfortable with. We are learning to grow our heart- lights and find our security within. There will be movement in the outer world seeking to throw us off balance as the structures of the old paradigm come tumbling down. The old way of doing business is no longer supported as so many have cried out for freedom and peace. It is manifesting in the outer world as we become it in our inner worlds.

How do we do this? How do we become peace and discover the freedom to be our authentic selves? As I reflect on my path, one of the first things that stand out is the mirror exercise. Standing in front of a mirror and saying, “I love you”. It is so simple and yet so powerful. For me, simplicity is a draw. I do not have the patience for lengthy and drawn our processes. As you look into your eyes, you will begin to notice aspects of yourself that you have not met, looking back at you. Introduce yourself, say hello and begin to get acquainted. I love the surprise of seeing a new aspect of myself peering out at me!  You may find tears flowing, it may be uncomfortable to stare into your own eyes but you will find parts of yourself that are seeking love. You can stand there and love yourself fully. Nurture your beauty by saying all those things that you wish your mother had said to you as a child, all the things that you wish your lover would say, all those things that you have longed to hear.

I remember my first experience with a “healing session”. It was all new, this idea of energy work and some new friends offered me a healing. At the end of my time on the massage table with the three of them gathered around me, one of them channeled a message from Jesus saying, “This is my daughter in whom I am well pleased.” Wow, did that rock my world! The idea that Jesus was happy with me, that I had done some things right. Tears flowed freely at this sentiment being expressed. You are divine, speak the words to yourself that you long to hear. Another example was from an older Indian professor at an ashram for Indians where I was the lone foreigner. As I was granted admittance through a friend, I was allowed to take a 10 day meditation course. This professor, who spoke English, agreed to work with me. At the end of the final meditation where we went out into the cosmos (I had no conscious experience nor understanding of this at this time, simply trusted that was where we were going!) He said to me: “You are a force of love in this world.” This was perhaps the most beautiful thing anyone had ever said to me. I was not ready to own this at that time (4 years ago and about a year into my inner journey) but have since come to know it as my truth.  Speak the words that make your heart alight with joy: I am beautiful, I am dear, I want to do good in the world, I am love, I am joy……on the list goes. Love yourself for this and so much more. The more I grow in my own light, the more I see the dearness of others’ hearts. We are such amazing beings; resilient, resolute, compassionate, loving, courageous, giving……and the list goes on. Claim these qualities. Look at this note that I passed lying on the sidewalk today. Don’t you just want to hug this person and tell them that all is well? How dear is the heart that admits it is scared. Who among us has not been in that place. He (it feels like a he to me) goes on to apologize. Wow, a master in the making right here!! We are always growing and stumbling and being brave and feeling scared. But we keep on keeping on as this person did. To be human is to experience the gamut of emotions, to feel them all and let them move through us. I sent my heart-light to this note writer and thanked him for his courage as I held him in the pink flame of love.

We are taught to play the tapes of “you are not good enough, you will not amount to anything, you don’t take care of yourself, you are not bright enough, you are clumsy, you are difficult, you are not trying hard enough…….yada yada yada. Delete those tapes once and for all. When you hear them, tell your mind STOP in no uncertain terms and replace them with new tapes of your own making. Create a mix that you would play to a dear child. You are a dear child in the Creator’s eyes. Gentleness and kindness for yourself, let these become your new year’s resolutions. This act of loving yourself, will create peace in your inner world and that allows peace on earth to become a reality. To live in a world of love, I have to become love. It starts with me. It starts with you.