Here is some more insight on the current retrograde. I especially love the last statement Emily Trinkaus shares about the way ” Caroline Casey describes Retrograde planets, with the image of pulling back an arrow in a bow. It may feel like you’re moving backwards and it might look like nothing’s happening, but you’re actually generating momentum, behind the scenes, for your Horse’s future gallop.” Perfect way to describe how we can optimize this time and our view of what is really at work beneath the surface. I happen to have Mercury in Pisces in my natal Birth Chart, so the energy abound right now feels very native and natural for me. In essence though, regardless of what placements we have – which will add a bit of extra energetic twists and turns to each individual’s journey – there is a way to navigate retrogrades so as to make the most of them and stay on top of things. Or, as Laura Bruno shares in her insightful post: My Own Take On This Mercury Retrograde, “If you, like me, like to utilize the predominant energies to amplify intentions, then get creative!”
March 20th is approaching in a month and a half, and that day holds threefold meaning.
It happens to be the last day of the shadow post-retrograde period where we will be transitioning into Spring with the Equinox.
It also happens to be the first day of the upcoming Reiki Renewal Retreat – Spring Equinox in Laguna Beach, CA – Yay!
AND, it is the last day to receive registration gifts of up to $200 off the upcoming Accelerate Your Vibration Bimini Retreat this Summer in July.
Flyer Design by Jennifer Helminski – http://www.jenniferhelminski.com/
Reiki Renewal Retreat – Spring Equinox in Laguna Beach, CA March 20 – 24th:
I can accommodate only 2 more people on the Reiki Renewal Retreat.
So don’t forget, if you’re interested in joining, February 28th is the last day to get your registration in for that.
That’s just 3 more weeks. Everyone who registers will be receiving a free surprise gift from me, which you’ll receive at the Retreat.
Here’s another look at this beautiful extended weekend immersion we will be sharing if you join:
Accelerate Your Vibration Bimini Retreat July 20th – 25th:
Flyer design by Jennifer Helminski – http://www.jenniferhelminski.com/ from an actual photo I took in Bimini
Don’t forget, if you register by 3/20 Spring Equinox for this magickal experience, you can receive up to $200 off when partnering up with a travel companion, or $100 if you’d like to meet up with your new pod family on your own.
All who register also receive a free Brazilian Quartz crystal that will be programmed and Reiki charged just for you.
Check out: Accelerate Your Vibration for all details on what awaits you.
I just booked my flights a week ago for Bimini and am already counting down! 🙂
There is so much fun, love, sharing, growth, expansion, inspiration, empowerment, adventure, and magick continually unfolding and yet to come!!
Please contact me at tania@taniamarie.com with any questions, requests, inquiries, and to register. I’m always happy to support in any way I can.
Today seems to be an “energy” post day indeed. Here’s another great one that was brought to my attention by my dear friend Laura Bruno, about the Mercury Retrograde that took place at a 4:44 pm EST portal.
Live out loud, the authenticity of you. I share this a lot and it aligns with this theme of “Emergence” Lee Harris shares for this year.
Step forward. Become bigger in your life. Feel more.
Trust where you get led this year to bring your energy of service and ask yourself if you will emerge into your life and into this world in a bigger way than ever before.
And remember that there are always shades of gray to everything.
I’d like to add that to truly understand wholeness, you must understand this is both the dark and the light and all of the in between. It’s not about ridding ourselves of things and turning a cheek, but knowing how to navigate through it all with that wisdom, grace, respect, and awe so that we become empowered, integrated, and in harmonic balance.
How are you navigating the energy of this new year so far? If you’re feeling anything like I am, you might be at this juncture where everything is beginning to unwrap and release that has been carefully cultivated over the years.
And “release” seems to be one of the themes for this month, according to Mystic Momma’s update from Lena Stevens.
You have the potential for some major acceleration, or could create further blockage, depending on the preparation and integrative work you’ve been doing. And a lot of this will also stem on how well you can prioritize heart over mind.
That’s not to say that one is better than the other (as they do work beautifully in partnering balance), but sometimes we allow our old, patterned ideas and beliefs surrounding what we “think” or have been conditioned to believe is better, more practical, or valuable, to take precedence over what is naturally aligned with our authenticity and divine flow – which ultimately will provide optimal results.
Some of the standout passages from Lena’s insights, which reflect my own, are these:
(That last part has felt so true and the same message I’ve been receiving. The birthing is now. And the experience will be fun, free, simple….if you can integrate and release the old ways, feelings, actions, and beliefs.)
(Oh my gosh is this ever my experience. Right now I am totally engaged in setting priorities that match my authenticity and joy, and are intuitively guided with right timing, while remaining flexible.)
(I’ve seen this where I easily can get caught up in a lot of “busy” work, so I consistently have to tap my shoulder and check in with my heart to see how it’s feeling with the work at hand, and if it has a different message for me in terms of focus that would be more beneficial and optimizing – even if I don’t understand how.)
(Again, so right on! The beauty and joy of right now is that there are unlimited choices. I have been facing these wonderful potentials and possibilities in abundance over the last couple of months, and so it really takes some fine tuning into the radio of my heart to ensure I’m not missing the important cues it is singing to me. This includes not just latching on to any ol’ thing that comes my way. Alignment with your vibration is key.)
The opportunity is for releasing how you hold fear, worry and anxiety. It is time to re imprint yourself with the notion that everything has its right timing and everything of importance will get done.
Take some time every day and release a judgment that you have of yourself or someone else. Observe the space and freedom you create in this release.
You can read the entire post at Mystic Mamma, which includes more insights you may find helpful (these are just the ones that intuitively stand out to me) here:
The Theme For February 2014 is RELEASE
You may also enjoy Tom ‘Kaypacha’ Lescher’s recent Astrology Forecast for the week of February 4th, 2014. His messages ring right in line with Lena’s and my own.
In his forecast you’ll find the message of recognizing that when things challenge us, to remember it is Spirit at work that is creating surprises, twists and turns, to help you align in love, evolution of soul and heart, and with conscious awareness of the unity of all existence.
These “challenges” are reminders that our “plans” need to align with these for the magick to be experienced without disillusionment or confusion.
Tom also feels there’s an emphasis on taking a vacation from the mind – turn it off while turning on your heart and feelings. Again, this is to help in the repatterning until you can learn to use them in balanced partnership. For now, we’re overhauled in the mind department and it isn’t even really the productive use of mind, but a lot of old programming and fearful ego aspects that are running the show.
We are learning to “be” and when we embody this, then the doing becomes an extension of that “being”, naturally.
Tom says, “It’s time to learn your lessons and if you have, then you can go sailing!”
Weeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
But indeed, the wounds have to re-open, clean out, and heal, before they can mend. So just realize that this potential uncomfortable enhancement is temporary, if you allow it to run its “natural” course.
As this post shares, the science is NOT settled, NO consensus has been reached, and the questions about GMO safety are NOT closed. 297 scientists and experts reject these claims made otherwise. If you haven’t already been on board with people against GMO’s because of these false claims, this may be cause for alert. More and more truths are and will continue to be revealed about GMO’s, and more on the world scene. Thanks for the share Laura and Jon.
Three nudges makes a charm. This is the third time within the last two days that my post on The Three Incan Laws comes to my attention. It’s actually a post that has drawn a lot of resonance and interest since it first went up and has been very meaningful for a lot of people in varying ways.
The three nudges included 1) a new client that was drawn in by it, 2) it suddenly popping into my thoughts last evening likely based on its message link to current energies and an upcoming retreat, and 3) the lovely Angela Gerber of Butterfly Effects Meditation (who wears her own pair of magickal butterfly wings tattooed on her back to reveal her inner Butterfly Goddess) asked to share it along with some of her own thoughts, in a post for her website, which went live today here:
So with that, I am feeling guided to reshare it, as the foundational simplicity of the three laws really speak to creating harmony and grace within your experience of life.
You can also view my original post here:
I couldn’t resist. I know everyone has heard this famous quote more times than they can count from this powerful little, lovable guy, but here it is again! Simple and to the point!
I actually just sent this to a friend because of the conversation we were having over his trying, but missing the bulls eye because of repeating the way he’s always done things, even though on the surface he seems to have changed a lot. The mental and emotional patterns take some repatterning too, however. And in the interim, his health is being taxed immensely.
We’ve all been there in one way or another right? And until you experience that click where what you’ve heard, have come to understand, or been telling yourself, after hearing it countless times, comes together on all levels, you feel trapped and frustrated in not knowing how to get out of the vicious circle. Until things align, after enough is enough, or that final threshold is reached, and then bam!
Luckily, he has a great sense of humor, which helps, and so with someone like him, I can be frank in humorous ways right back. But the bottom line is, if something isn’t working to achieve the results you want, then maybe there’s a different way you could be choosing to do it. Right?
There is a fine line being addressed here, and a lot of it stems around your commitment and full embodiment of the new thing or belief you want to have. That isn’t to say there’s anything wrong with trying. Everything is part of our individual journey and is perfect every step of the way for exactly what we need. We each do the best we can with what we have in the moment.
The focus isn’t whether or not you’re doing it wrong, but if you truly want a different result, then that entails different choices and actions. So how willing are you to choose and be different?
Anyway, I say this all the time when someone close to me says that they will try and if I ever catch myself saying the same. A little Yoda “Lessons in Life 101” always does the soul some good.
Enjoy the flashback while facilitating the power of the now!
Recently there’s been an on-pour of things coming in, like the floodgates have opened and all that had been percolating last year is coming out at once. Likely many of you are feeling this too. So the task has been to use wise discernment, trust my intuition above all, time management, prioritizing, yet being flexible to change always.
At first it can seem overwhelming, but that is when we’ve stepped out of our natural frequency and start letting mind over heart take over. While we will be asked to make quicker decisions, put things into action, and be ready at each turn to take the next step, we also need to exercise patience and not grasp at everything that comes our way, nor over-burden ourselves with unrealistic demands. We also need to learn to allow only that which is most authentically representative of our true nature to lead the way.
It’s a fine balance that we are learning always, and at times it will seem like we are on a teeter-totter, going up and down, until we mix the perfect blend that harmonizes at center. I know it can get frustrating, but keep gently reassuring yourself, breathe, and take a step back when the heat feels on high.
Finding tools that assist you in relaxing and returning to your personal frequency, becomes essential at these times. It can be hard to know what is naturally you, when so much “noise” is clouding your ability to feel that. That’s why I use things like music to assist me in that return.
When the heart is continually being conditioned by the mind, its voice and inspiration become stifled and confusing, even when you try to engage it for its direction. When you allow the mind’s influence to overpower the heart’s, you place limitations on the extraordinary source and well-spring of energy, guidance, intuition, and inspiration it can provide naturally.
A wild heart is one that operates naturally, instinctively, and freely, providing direction from your authentic and true self and from the deepest passions and desires that stem from that truth. This is hidden between layers of “ideas” you have about yourself and the “desires” that you have come to learn. Your wild heart will lead you toward real liberation, satisfaction, harmony, and balance that stems from the core of your being. Part of what is needed is to let go of old mental and emotional patterns and the conditioning that reins you in from experiencing your own wild and free heart.
Ask yourself what your life would be like if you were living from this wild heart and freed mind, rather than a domesticated heart and mind?
Since we’re in the Year of the Horse, the analogy that fits for me also fits perfectly with this energy. I’ve written about my “Horse” journey and breaking free from the saddle and bridle mentality of the race horse I’ve been so accustomed to being. This would be the harsh and driven push to run faster and faster, rather than the unbridled freedom to choose to let my heart take the lead and run with passion when instinctively desired.
From speaking with several people lately, I’m guessing this analogy isn’t far off the mark for others either. A wild horse is quite different than a conditioned race horse, although still a horse. It is connected to the natural rhythms of being, rather than told to perform in certain ways and at certain dictated times.
So while much is channeling through right now, I am keeping on top of fine-tuning myself so I don’t fall into the old patterned race horse. And the more I do so, it becomes easy to recognize the difference.
And when things feel compounded in any way, I always remind myself, I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing. All is well in my world.
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.” ~Epictetus
As mentioned, one way that I easily tune my natural frequency back on, when I teeter off balance is through music. It is an essential part of my life and only certain music will resonate and align for me. But the right music will bring me exactly back into balance and I can easily feel the “natural” me at that point, which then makes it easy to discern things and make choices that most align with that.
I share a lot of music that inspires me and today felt like a good time to share another that has been supportive lately. This piece is another one of my favorites and has been playing constantly for me over the last week. I can’t listen to it without huge flows of beyond-love tears. It does to me things I can’t explain and don’t need to, as that is the beauty of sound and music, or anything for that matter. We simply don’t always have to understand or dissect the process. It just happens and you know it in a way that defies need for explanation.
This piece brings me to a recognition of my home frequency and the peeling of layers to that Source happens instantaneously while listening to it. Music and sound I find to be one of my most powerful tools for healing, remembering, and alchemy.
I hope you enjoy these chosen videos, as you are navigating your way through the day and learning to liberate your authenticity.
The full theme from “The Mission” in its grandeur by Ennio Morricone:
“On Earth as it is in Heaven” from the same film score for “The Mission” by Ennio Morricone. I specifically chose this version with no images so you can create your own that it conjures up. Definitely a landscape for that wild horse within set free:
And a beautiful rendition by Yo Yo Ma:
