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For A New Beginning
My dear friend Mari shared this poem by John O’Donohue with me yesterday, in loving support and celebration of the “new beginning” that I am embarking upon.
It was inspired by my last newsletter message announcement and it couldn’t be more perfect.
I thought you might also enjoy and find it inspiring and resonant with what you might be embracing in your own life currently.
The images I’m sharing along with it are from a wedding attended yesterday of very dear friends – it was an amazing all-vegan wedding too I might add.
The sunset sky was on fire and wildly passionate with creative sparks of new beginnings. Perfect August 1st celebration of Lammas after the Aquarius Full Blue Moon.
For a New Beginning
by John O’Donohue
In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.
For a long time it has watched your desire,
Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.
It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the gray promises that sameness whispered,
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,
Wondered would you always live like this.
Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream,
A path of plenitude opening before you.
Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life’s desire.
Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.
New Moon ~ New You
I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling an extra burst of enchantment emerging in my life, likely in part because I’ve been heavily immersed in Faery energy of late (moreso than usual, if you can believe that 😉 ). But also because I’ve been in process the last few months of doing what these two astrologers share in their energy take on tomorrow’s upcoming Cancer New Moon.
I like how astrologer, Cathy Pagano puts it:
“Since the New Moon is in a challenging aspect to Uranus in Aries, there is an opportunity to allow a new sense of yourself out…If you’re lost on a small island, you have to become the hero/ine of your own life. Let your archetypal identity come through and challenge yourself to make those changes that will give you the life you want and deserve…”
And astrologer, Robert Wilkinson adds:
“Just stay focused on how to demonstrate what your heart’s really into, go for whatever refreshes you and get the exercise you need, see things from multiple points of view, and be willing to transcend your old self, and graduate into a new realm of Being.”
For me, that “new realm of Being” is actually a deepening more into my truest soul essence like never before. There are always greater depths and expansion we can go to…after-all, everything is infinite.
My soul focus has been on going from joy to ecstacy…I personally resonate with that word, rather than bliss.
Since I’ve returned Sunday from British Columbia and the magickal time spent there at Epona Rise with the horses and Faeries, it’s like I’ve received access to another part of me that hasn’t been yet the time to bring forth, but is now taking form – permission granted, loose ends getting all tied up, slate clean, timing aligned, all systems go. Yay!
So, if you’re feeling like it’s time for a new lease on life, this is a great opportunity with the New Moon’s influence, to harness another level of self-love to take you there.
This Moon is a cleansing moon, full of feminine nurturing that can really support you into loving more of you, your feelings, and bring self-sabotaging illusions to light.
Stay on top of heightened emotions, fears, attachments, while gently and lovingly give yourself permission to gracefully let it all go.
Wishing you a beautiful New Moon beginning, as you allow yourself to be more fully you.
Endings are Beginnings
Not only have I concluded another sacred journey, but a cycle in my life has also come to closure, as well as this year in general for me is a #9 culmination time period for me.
All of this pointing to a new, fresh beginning…or rebirth – something we can always embrace in every moment we are willing to embody the renewing truth of this potential offered to us.
I bring this up, as yesterday was a big energetic shift while I parted ways with two dear and powerful friends – my giant Crystal beings. They have been with me since 2008 and yesterday they were picked up to prepare for their journey to their new mom and Crystal Guardian to begin a new journey along the path of service they will all be sharing.
Our work had come to closure and this also represented a huge release of things in my life, including the full embodiment and realization that there is nothing I need outside of myself to be empowered. While things assist us and are wonderful to cherish and honor as the natural and invaluable beauty they are and what they have to share, ultimately, we are all that we need.
This was huge because the two of these Crystals – a giant Lemurian Seed Crystal and a giant Amethyst Geode Rabbit (both 150 lbs+ each) – came into my life at a major transformational time period in my life, supporting me all these years since with the work I was facilitating personally and collectively.
The giant Amethyst Rabbit channeled Nestor and at the time was very comforting having physically lost her.
I got both from a dear Crystal Keeper based in Northern California and I giggle remembering how Laura, myself and Seann somehow transported and got the Lemurian in my SUV – 3 wee Fae ones.
It was a time period when I had just moved out on my own, was in process of a divorce, had just seen my beloved rabbit, Nestor, pass into her eternal essence, was going through major spiritual recalibration and expansion, and was beginning the foundational work that has brought me to where I am now.
I used to live in literally a Crystal Cave when I first created my new little sacred sanctuary above and looking out on to Lake Tahoe – my little home filled with Crystals and love, which I shared with my tortoise, Gaia, and my new bunny love, Joy.
These crystals have held the space of all that I’d been creating, were part of the grid here, and my little ones also adored them.
So seeing them off yesterday was nostalgic, as I honored each, energetically prepared them for the journey, gave them a bath of Crystal Elixir spray and a deep, soul and heart kiss.
It was also a very empowering moment, continuing in the vein of what I’ve been deepening into recently. I told them that we will continue our connection and work, but no longer would we need to do that within physical proximity. Our connection is timeless and boundless.
It feels different here at home without them, but it is not an emptiness. It is an expansion and lightness. The energetic footprint they have made in my life remains, but now we are free.
I am so pleased they are going to such a loving home where they will be honored by someone I hold dear. I look forward to seeing them again in May when I co-teach a Crystal workshop with their new mom and Guardian in Florida, as they will be holding the space for this.
It is only the beginning.
Choosing to “Gleen” – Messages Surrounding the Upcoming Solar Eclipse New Moon this Sunday 11/3/2013
This Sunday, November 3rd there will be a Total Solar Eclipse New Moon in Scorpio. Very potent and just a few days after celebrating the magickal blessings of Samhain – a day and evening of the thinnest veil between worlds.
And that it was for me last night indeed, as I went to bed with my Strawberry Lemurian Starbrary Crystal under my pillow after infusing it with magickal intention. During the middle of the night those veils did in fact thin and a couple of Star Family members slipped through the dimensions. I was in the dream/wake state of being conscious of what was taking place and experiencing the reality that our night explorations more easily provide us.
Without detailing everything, two extraterrestrial friends emerged from the dark backdrop I was facing at the edge of the abyss – first seeing interesting star formations and shapes of light move across in interesting patterns, then larger and then shifting until an opening of varying color in amoeba-like form spread wider and the two beings slowly materialized through. To make a long experience, short…one stepped closer and then behind me, in response to my welcoming, as I knew he was there supportively to gift me with something – much like in my other experiences where I receive integrative work.
He placed his hands around the back of my neck and upper portion of the area there between neck and Higher Heart, as well as where the start of your neck curves in your shoulders. I immediately felt a deep chill and the sensation of the loving touch and energy.
I then kept seeing and hearing the word “glean” as a message. It was very clear. I remember thinking this morning, was it meant to be spelled as I saw it, with “ea” or did the spelling not matter and it was the word itself I was to remember, as there is also the word “gleen” I later found out?
However, since messages received come telepathically, they can be symbolically conveyed. And I just remembered that in the dream after the word “glean” appeared, I was given the symbolic key code for it in a way for me to interpret it, which was their associating it with my toothpaste. LOL! I love how even my extraterrestrial friends cherish simplicity and humor. So, in the context of what toothpaste we know to do, does – makes your teeth shiny, sparkly, and perhaps whiter by clearing away the layers of grime and old “stuff” – the glean may have been meant as the first definition that corresponds to “gleen” – to glisten and gleam.
I actually didn’t know either word was a real word, until I looked them up this morning. 🙂 In either case, the message seemed fitting. Since “glean” means to gather, learn, find out and discover bit by bit what is left by reapers, perhaps there is a dual message within the simple message of piece-by-piece unfolding the layers to the core of me/you.
There is also the concept of “gleaning the low hanging fruit first, rather than the high fruit” – this to mean doing things one step at a time with what is most accessible and easier, then little by little working your way to the hidden and more challenging things, but with the confidence and abilities learned along the way. You don’t have to do everything now, nor do it all at once! Every little bit counts and is valuable and needed, and one step is more powerful than none at all.
My dear friend Laura Bruno told me to check out her post on “Gleaning” after I posted today’s blog article – synchronicity train strikes again! Her post also shares how “gleaning” the low fruit (collecting leftover produce) can help re-envision the world. Gleaners are volunteers who pick leftover produce and distribute it to the poor. There are also gleaning operations of volunteers that go into the countryside to collect produce and bring it back to their town/community to be distributed, which is reflecting a newly conscious public that is thinking more about not just where their food comes from, but with awareness about the connectivity of the collective Earth.
I’ll let you to explore that in your own way of interpreting. All I know, is that I always receive some kind of message and some I know I’m meant to convey.
But it is interesting that my Strawberry Lemurian is a Rosetta Stone Starbrary, remember? This to mean that it translates other Star System languages and I slept with it on the eve of Samhain.
And in reference to the definition of “gleen” – to “gleam” – I found the first sentence of MysticMamma’s Astral Insights for the Solar Eclipse New Moon approaching, to be quite synchronous. She writes:
“Embrace the Total Solar Eclipse New Moon in Scorpio! Scorpio is the sign of regeneration and teaches us how to shed our skins and peel away the layers to uncover our gleaming core.”
It doesn’t get any more fun than that! 🙂
And she goes on to share:
“What is essential is to to tap into our own river of truth and know that we each have a unique path to walk in life. This demands courage and the wisdom to understand that our worlds are defined by our own parameters.
We are each unique just like each snowflake is unique! (interesting use of symbolism here, as I have an older painting titled, “Uniquely You, Divinely One” pictured to the left, which was featured on the cover of Balanced Life Magazine’s December 2009/January 2010 issue) We each have our intrinsic design that must be encouraged and celebrated.
Allow what is truest in you to unfold and don’t try to be like anyone else. Radiance is the result of allowing the uniqueness within each of us to shine forth.
So little by little, spiral inward to the landscapes of your mind, and sweep clean the panorama. ▸▸▸ You have all you need inside you to guide you.”
And perhaps that sheds a little light for you, on the message received. So simple, and yet so powerful.
Another synchronicity with MysticMamma’s post is the link with another portion of what I originally was going to share today. It so perfectly weaves into what Astrologer, Cathy Pagano, one of the highlighted readers in the post shares:
“With a Solar New Moon Eclipse in Scorpio, very close to Saturn, this could be a new beginning for many of us, a flushing out of old emotional patterns, probably from many lifetimes. What kind of emotional openness, along with keen insight into others, do you want to develop in yourself? And how will you develop it?
…Life really is all about the story you tell yourself, deep down in the underworld of your consciousness—unconscious stories about your beliefs, your hopes, your prime directive; your fears, your dogma, your captivity. Stories and beliefs which shaped our unconscious when we were children, before we had a say about things. Why not step back and really look at that old story, and then choose a better story to live by—instead of holding that better story at arm’s length?
“What story are you living in? How do you need to change it? Most us of repeat the story we’re living in (‘I don’t have enough money’, ‘I feel like a prisoner’, ‘nobody loves me’, ‘I’m afraid and alone’, ‘my life sucks!’, ‘I never have any luck!’ etc.) making it our reality by reinforcing our beliefs. But we don’t have to choose that story to be in.”
I have to preface what I’m sharing below, by saying, I wrote this portion as the first part of this blog post before even reading any of MysticMamma’s article insights. I then secondly wrote about my last night experience, and THEN I happened upon her article and found the exact correlations to the messages I was guided to share today.
I LOVE LIVING A SYNCHRONOUS LIFE!
You saw the “glean/gleen/gleam” correlation above, and here is the correlation with Cathy’s insights on “the stories we tell ourselves and how we can choose a different one.”
Someone close to me last weekend was asking me questions about the work I do and some of my beliefs. They then expressed one of their “stories” which included having a lot of anger built up throughout their life (he was in his 60’s) that continues to affect him greatly, and he shared how his mother had challenges, which then passed to him and his siblings and on to their children later in life. So he understood the cycle and patterns and even said he understood it wasn’t her fault, as that was what she had been raised with. And yet, here he is still feeling a victim of this experience, angry, and unable to change the torment he experiences because of it.
Then he asked me a question about this and when I answered, “Well, there’s a bit more to the process that can help with this, but one fundamental thing I’ve come to believe is that everything is a choice and we can choose NOT to be angry anymore.” He paused for a second, like that truth had hit home and I saw behind his now wider eyes, the wheels turning, as to whether or not to accept that responsibility that seemed both too simple and too much to embrace, and he then instead chuckled it off and edged in very close, sweetening his surprised face, and said in a cutesy, tender voice, “Sweetheart, you’re so full of sh–”
LOL! No joke! That was the extent of the response, which said nothing and everything all at once.
And he went on choosing his story, but the words I spoke, I truly believe, and they may stick in his mind the next time he is overcome in his anger, although he may choose differently.
We do have a choice every moment, but it’s up to us to want to accept that responsibility and up to us how much it really means to us to change our experience. If it really bothers you, are you willing to invest the same amount of effort into a different choice, as you put into the anger, or sadness, or guilt, etc.?
There are so many new doorways you can walk through in the deepening of self-understanding, self-undoing, and self-realization.
If you’d like to read more about the energies of the current transformational aspects being experienced, please continue reading MysticMamma’s Solar Eclipse New Moon in Scorpio – November 3rd full article.


