Working with Change
There is no doubt we’re living in a time of accelerated change. Sure, our ancestors had to deal with unexpected change in their lives, but today there’s a quickening, a sense that the pace of change is accelerating on so many different levels simultaneously that it can feel a little overwhelming at times. And, it’s trespassing on all aspects of life. Like those who came before us we need to deal with both positive and challenging aspects of change through the course of life. Yes, we have to face personal change, adjust to changes in relationships, and confront changes at home, with work and finances and deal with changes in health as we adapt to life. Even technology is moving at such a rapid pace and changing the world so fast that it seems alien to the world of my childhood. If you think this is enough to handle let’s compound the situation by bringing in a destabilising global financial meltdown, dire climate and environmental concerns, changes in the earth’s magnetism, and to top it all off, we’re experiencing changes in our auric system and an exponential change in mass consciousness. The very foundations of our reality feel like a quake zone and it’s difficult to find certainty in the debris of our shaken paradigm. I can sympathise with my friend who yelled out the other day, “Stop the world, I want to get off!”
Why do the changes we’re facing today make many of us feel like we’re facing the onslaught of a tempest? Is this protracted moment in global chaos necessarily a bad thing in the bigger scheme of things? Is the financial freefall that has gripped the world the product of conscious, or unconscious collective free will at play, or is karma operating on a deeper level as part of a divine plan to get us to where we need to be? To understand what is happening to us today we should first take a look at nature of change. In essence, change is the agent for transformation. It alters a situation, or a dynamic from one state to another state rendering it different from its original core, or state of being. Change is an inherent part of life.
Things change whether we like it or not and, just as the seasons come and go, nothing really remains static in nature. As we grow our body changes, people drift in and out of our life, and our perception changes with time as we gather new insights and wisdom that comes with experience. Some may argue that not all things change, look at people stuck in patterns. Yes, some people are trapped in a repetitive pattern, thinking along the same lines everyday, copying the same motions as they did the day before, but while their perception and behaviour is static, their bodies are still changing with age, the people they attract in life and the lessons that they draw in usually don’t remain the same. Consider your emotions, don’t they shift like desert sands under the winds of change? Thoughts can be equally volatile. The ability to feel and share love, joy and laughter is juxtaposed by the pain of loss, hunger and darker emotions. Simple things, such as finding food, recovering from illness or sharing love are tangible experiences that give meaning to our life. But they are transient moments. As George Harrison quoted, “All things must pass.” The pyramids may still be standing but the people and the culture that built them vanished thousands of years ago. The pyramids may appear to be a permanent structure but they too are slowly being eroded by the elements. Life on earth is in a constant state of flux and the earth itself is constantly changing its own landscape. It is the very lack of permanence that makes us cling to things we know and trust especially during periods of unexpected change. Why?
While we embrace change in some areas of life, for the most part we resent change, unless we ourselves are the agent for change because we are creatures of habit. It is one thing to wake up in the morning, make an empowering statement like, “today I am going to make a new friend,” and go out and do exactly that. You feel great when you make that contact and create that life changing friendship. You don’t feel quite as empowered when a close friend rings up and tells you that the friendship is over, offering no explanation, and cutting you completely out of their lives. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that in the first instance embracing change is easy to do because there is an incentive and a drive to alter your life; it’s harder to embrace changes that are placed upon you by a situation or another person because you haven’t got any real control over the changes. In cases like this, the change hits our ego right to the core. The ego is the projection of the “I” or “self”. From birth the “I” sees the world through its own unique eyes and relates to the world from a space of “I want” and “I need”. This satisfies the ego’s need to make things concrete and real; it gives it a sense of solid space. This is why the ego likes to keep a tenacious hold on belief structures developed at various stages in life and explains why many of our beliefs are based on old familiar patterns. These patterns may have been significant to us once but have since lost their relevance. Of course the ego clings to them as the ego does not like change.
Change brings movement and new opportunities for growth. Sometimes we make the mistake of stifling change because of uncertainty and fall into the trap of becoming entrenched in what is familiar and safe. How many times have you run for cover when a certain issue comes up in a relationship? How many times have you held on to a problem? Think for a moment about what you thought about yesterday. Did you think about the same thing last week? You know the average person has thousands of thoughts a day, but ninety-five percent of them are exactly the same ones we had yesterday. This gives new meaning to the saying “stuck in the moment”. Change threatens the ego’s sense of security because it ushers in the unknown. It might bring a positive, progressive movement into your life but then again it is equally capable of bringing in things you don’t want, which is why the ego builds a protective wall around itself. I could tell you that change is an essential component of evolution but knowing this doesn’t make it any easier for someone who has just lost their job or home.
Change makes us grow, but when you can’t put food on the table, the last thing you’re going to be thinking about is that your soul will grow from all of this. When you’re in survival mode, getting through the day and thinking about how to get through tomorrow is your primary concern. Right now people are being impacted by the global financial meltdown and they are feeling the effects in their lower chakras – the base, sacral and solar plexus. Everyday I hear of people losing their jobs, their savings and their homes. It’s cold comfort to hear me philosophising about the bigger picture of what change is trying to teach us all. Right now, at ground zero, people want to know how to emerge from the dark shadow and get some semblance of personal power back and some form of permanence back into their uprooted lives.
I will talk about some very simple energy techniques that can help you stablise your lower chakras and help you get back on solid ground within yourself, but before I do that I want to talk about this moment in history, and give you a deeper understanding of why there are so many changes going on. I always find that when you understand why things are, it’s easier to let go and move on with life. The first thing I want to mention is that while we can point the finger at the financial institutions for the global meltdown, there’s a lot more going on than meets the eye. Now some people will tell you that if you peer deeply enough under the veneer that there are hidden power brokers who initiated the collapse of the house of cards. But, I’m more concerned with the energetic forces behind the global changes of the past few years.
Anyone who has a basic understanding of astrology will tell you that back in late 2007 when Saturn moved into the austere sign of Virgo that there was going to be a correction on its way and it’s certainly lived up to its promise. Secondly, we now have Pluto in Capricorn to 2023, which will totally transform the way that finance industries, governments and corporations conduct their business. The old order is falling down. A new way of working with power and authority will emerge from the global financial crisis one which is designed to make us sit with our personal power, speak with our personal authority, and bring the necessary changes to the way the world is run. We have also had Saturn clashing with Uranus, which not only creates physical disruptions such as earthquakes and volcanic movements; we find that these two planets are tearing up our personal foundations as well. They’ll meet again in September just to test us to see how well we have adapted to the changes, and if we have worked with these energies, we’ll feel stronger for it. If we haven’t, then our foundations will get another little shake up to motivate us to do things differently. Mind you, the universe only pushes what needs to be pushed, and it only destroys what needs to be destroyed.
These planetary energies are agents of change – they are ushering in the new by dismantling the old. It’s all part of our collective growth to move us into a new level of awareness. While it is changing the financial, environmental and social fabric of the world, on a more intimate level, it is getting us to question our goals and our attachments, the way we love and the way we connect to others and how we conduct our relationships. This year, one of the biggest collective lessons is to learn how to work hand in hand with other people. It’s interesting, only yesterday I read an article on three elderly ladies in their eighties discussing their childhood in the great depression and the key point they made was that in hard times people pulled together. They talked about how pretension was pushed aside as people went out of their way to help one another, especially those less fortunate than themselves. Difficult as times were, they knew they had to make the best out of a tough situation.
So, we’re having a global financial crisis in order to learn how to share? Does the idea seem that outrageous? You might want to argue that it’s a strange way of going about creating a sense of solidarity by taking away jobs, money, homes and adding so much pressure onto people’s lives but just step back for a moment and consider this: before this crisis reared is ugly head, how many people cared about what was happening in the world? When the times are good and you are safe and secure and having fun, do you really think about what’s happening in some impoverished part of the world? I’m not trying to be judgemental here but how many people left the safety of their comfortable world to head into these places and offer their help for nothing in exchange except for a heartfelt smile and gratitude? Now, with difficult times slashing through our comfort zone we have the opportunity to consider how the other half of the planet live their daily lives not knowing where their next meal is going to come from. Change is a ubiquitous teacher.
Why did it have to take an environmental and climate crisis, to get the collective consciousness sitting up and becoming aware of our carbon footprint? Did we really have to wait until large Antarctic ice shelves broke away, and images of stranded polar bears hit our radar, before we were pushed into looking into to greener technologies? It took the collective a while to look at animal rights but it’s heartening to see that we have made some significant advancements. I find that the provocative images of the Victorian bushfires such as the picture of the fireman feeding a bottle of water to an injured koala speak for themselves.
We really have made some significant strides and we are definitely becoming more aware as a collective on a mundane level, but would we have looked beyond our own back yard if alarm bells weren’t sounding off loud and clear? Perhaps that is the way it needed to be, and we are only playing out our collective karma making choices based on what we have known, and what we know now. This isn’t the only change that is going on. I have mentioned changes in the earth’s electromagnetism, in our auras and in our collective consciousness.
For a while now the earth’s electromagnetism has been changing. I have felt its affects in my earthstar and in the way it has sharpened psychic awareness. We are intricately linked in to the earth’s electromagnetism and when there is a significant shift in the planet’s magnetism, we feel it energetically whether we like it or not. At times it creates confusion and chaos, but what it is really doing is creating energetic changes within our aura (especially in the chakras and dimensional chakras) to transform our level of awareness of our symbiotic relationship with the earth. Slowly but surely this rewiring is giving people in western civilisation a stronger connection to earth consciousness, helping us synchronise with the earth and open our senses to other realms of reality that until recently lingered behind a collective perceptual veil. We are becoming a conscious part of a living planet, something that indigenous cultures have been aware of for centuries.
I recently read an article on changes in electromagnetism on other planets in the solar system. Apparently the atmosphere on five planets plus the moon is changing forming new gasses, plus they are getting brighter and their magnetic fields are also changing. The article pointed out that the planet Venus is showing the most changes in brightness, while Jupiter's energetic change has risen so high that there is now a visible tube of ionising radiation that's formed between the surface of Jupiter and its moon Io. Photos reveal this luminous energy tube between Jupiter and Io. Two other planets, Uranus and Neptune are also becoming brighter. It is intriguing to note that the magnetic fields of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune are also changing. Jupiter’s magnetic field has more than doubled and Neptune’s is increasing. All these three planets are becoming brighter and their atmospheric qualities are changing, but scientists really don't know what this all means.
Scientist have also commented that Uranus and Neptune have recently had magnetic shifts, and that the Sun, which has a magnetic shift every 11 years, will have its next shift in 2012. The solar flare scheduled to erupt in 2012 will send solar winds that have the potential to disrupt communication systems and, since there are now holes in the earth’s weakening electromagnetic field, there is some concern that certain areas will receive a higher dose.
How will the electromagnetic changes affect us? My guides have shown me that these changes are going to help us expand our understanding of dimensional realities and how parallel universes work. I remember being in a shopping centre in late December 2007 and being overwhelmed by the noise and the movement of energy when I was shown a golden mesh template energy surrounding the 3d reality we know so well. This golden grid template was dissolving in front of my eyes. I tuned in and was told this was a mesh that held our consciousness into a certain paradigm and that in 2012, along with the solar flare and changes in earth’s electromagnetism, we will be able to expand our awareness to a new level that allows us to interface with newer realms of reality.
So, back to my opening statement on accelerated change. Yes, we do live in times of accelerated change with all that is happening in the planet but in the bigger scheme of things it is all part of a karmic cycle, one that’s designed to move us up a notch in our collective consciousness. We are becoming more aware of the world we live in, we’re starting to search for life on other planets and opening to the concept of becoming less egocentric based beings (lower self), starting to connect to our higher selves and slowly becoming what we need to be - the universal self. We are starting to look at what it means to truly be connected – to ourselves, to other people, to the planet and to the universe as a whole, not in the state of separateness the old energy grid held us in. Yet, despite all the changes around us I don’t have any real sense of gloom that the prophets of doom would have us believe about the pending demise of the earth in 2012. I know certain economies will take some time to recover from the global financial crisis, and yes there will still be a lot of disruption, loss and pain for people during the interim, but if you are one of those who are feeling the brunt of all these changes please remember that it is a part of a cycle, and all cycles have a beginning and an ending. I know we are creatures of habit, and no one likes the fact that changes can come in the most unexpected ways in unguarded moments and change the course of our life.
I mentioned earlier I would provide a few techniques to help you work with change.
The first key is simple this – learn to accept change.
I know it’s hard to accept change, especially if you didn’t anticipate or actively create it. But fighting change is like shadow boxing. If you accept the changes that have occurred, you are in a position to move through them and reclaim your personal power so you can do something to manifest changes that suit you.
The second key is to understand the karma behind change.
If you look at the bigger picture you will see that what we are experiencing in the world today isn’t just happening to me or to you, it’s happening to millions of people. We are really all in this together. Instead of focussing on why we needed to have this collective lesson, why not focus on where these changes are actually taking us to?
The third key is to evolve with change.
In the Tarot there is a card called the Tower, which depicts the Tower of Babel being shaken to its foundations after being struck by a bolt of lightning. Some people dislike this card because it looks bleak and sinister with its crumbling walls and promise of ruin. It signifies the need to let in change. The bolt of lightning symbolises new knowledge cracking through old beliefs. Sometimes our world gets turned upside down and we need to radically change our point of view and adopt a newer, fresher perspective.
Since all the changes in the earth’s electromagnetism has been affecting the earth star and the chakras I am going to recommend a few energy techniques that will help you to align your energies to the emerging energies that are reshaping our perceptions.
Exercise:
Relax. Visualise a column of white light washing down your entire aura removing any residual energy. Let go of restrictive thoughts and emotions you may be holding in the auric bodies, just make a conscious choice to let them go and visualise them flushing down past your feet, down through the earth star, and into the planet. Ask that this released energy be converted into healing energy for you. Call on a healing angel, and on a guide who can assist you in aligning to the new energies on the earth.
After you have connected to them visualise a golden grid of energy washing down over the entire aura, taking it down past the earth star and visualise it creating golden roots deep within the earth. Relax and allow this energy to connect. When you feel it has connected so as to integrate the new energies of the earth into these golden roots, visualise [these new positive energies] going into your earth star, into the 4 major quadrants - earth, water, fire and air - and into the lesser circle of ether, akasha and fohat.
As the new energies enter the earth star call on the forces of Archangels Uriel, Gabriel, Raphael, and Michael to reconnect your earth star to the earth and to bring this new consciousness into your base, sacral, solar plexus and heart chakras. Then visualise a silver white light from the universe through the Transpersonal point into the elements of ether, akasha and fohat (and to a lesser degree into earth, water, fire and air) and ask the archangels that govern these elements realign your transpersonal point to the cosmos and to the new emerging energies to help you integrate new consciousness.
Then clean all your chakras and allow this new consciousness to filter into each chakra.Once you have finished, do a quick meditation to help you integrate change. Look at any restrictive thoughts or feelings that block you from embracing change and use the angelic healing energy to dissolve the blocks. Ask to be shown how these changes are going to benefit you, and ask to be shown how you can work with these energies to create a stronger foundation in your sense of self, and to be given a deeper understanding of the karma of the global changes we are living through.
Namaste.