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January 2021, Issue #232 Want to Tweet this newsletter? Click to share with your Twitter community! We who have been asleep for years return to plant seeds in abandoned gardens. We summon the rain and beg for the sun to release its energy to our care. The Earth is all that lasts. We who were flattened by our inability to rise above the wreckage of the past are eating shadows in order to stay alive. The Earth is all that lasts. We who were invisible, except to those with similar vision, stand here possessed by our old lives. We are unwilling to disappear from our origins. We have replaced shame with serenity, doubt with desire. Our skin is bursting with new muscle. We are one with snowmelt and with Fire." ~ from Sacred Fire, 1998, Nancy Wood The Tao of Now: What Do You Know?  One long ago December, a magazine asked me to write an article to help people become more conscious of how to sustain their energy at work.In my lede, describing my chaotic life at the time, I wrote, "Knowing there are no accidents and that life never gives us more than we can handle..." The editor changed "knowing" to "believing," and when I requested my original wording, she asked why. I replied, "Because knowing and believing are two different things." This is a crucial distinction now. There is much we've been asked to believe over the past year. And in fear, it's impossible to hear the still, small voice. Losing Your Mind to Find Yourself Collectively, we spent 2020 "losing our minds" - an essential step on the awakening path. Mandated to remain at home, countless people around the world used this time to relinquish daily patterns and mindsets, accessing aspects of their nature our everyday energy diminishes. Many were inspired to new heights of creativity, e/merging (energy and emotion merging) with offerings in music, art, writing, startups. These exciting developments were born in the heart, where wisdom resides.You can't awaken with your mind, because this is a lived experience. It's not something you think your way into, just as a planetary upgrade is not a mental choice. Evolution happens when a people and a planet are ready. We are, and Earth is. But opening to this higher octave is no walk in the park - especially when we're forbidden to do so! Out of Control and into Limitlessness In a recent interview about her two new album releases in 2020, Taylor Swift, who's modeled astute career management in the music industry, acknowledged she and her collaborators were not in control this time - and how freeing this awareness became. "I thought, this could be an opportunity to do things in a way I haven't done them before. What would my work sound like if I took away all my fear-based checklisting I have inflicted on myself?"I remember my 20s and early 30s: a tight rein on everything, born from endogenous fear. Then awakening came calling in the guise of injury and illness, catapulting me out of my comfort zone. This is what the journey demands of us: absolute surrender to something far vaster than our small selves. And in prying those mental fingers loose, we discover an invisible cosmic trampoline beneath us - or we grow wings in mid-flight. However it happens, when you choose to lose your mind and loose your grip, bounteous surprises await. Our Palindromic Initiation We'll experience a palindromic inauguration in the U.S.: 1.20.2021, a numerical invitation/initiation to welcome all manner of possibility, a mystical pro(fusion) of ancient wisdom and digital wizardry. Like the historic Jupiter/Saturn conjunction that ushered in the Age of Aquarius on Solstice, this Möbius strip-like inaugural date hints at what's to come: an expansion of the both/and, allowing a more evolved sensibility to take root worldwide.We are right on track. The Star Elders through Aluna Joy share: "This is the change you have asked for. Duality is canceling itself out through the use of exaggerated extremes ... "You are on the master's path. This is a very fine-tuned dance ... to not take sides, or take up arms and go to battle for any extreme position. The way through is to keep your balance, stay in your center and out of the non-permanent distraction of chaos around you. "You can maintain your balance by adopting an attitude of flexibility and radical acceptance of the process that is in front of you. Remain in your heart without judgments. Be very patient, and stay in your grounded body. If you become polarized, you could collect impurities that you will have to clear and heal later and with more challenges." What We Know for Sure  In her magazine's end column, What I Know for Sure, Oprah focused on inner truths that guide her life journey. She used the word "know" in the sense of the ancient Greek aphorism, "Know thyself," inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi: to be viscerally aware of who you are and why you're here. This is where we recognize (literally, "to know again") our brothers and sisters, the return to Oneness shining in their eyes.Following the Great Conjunction in Aquarius, Stargazer Li writes: "We're taking to the skies, building networks, gathering as peers, and contributing our uniqueness. It's all about, and made of, energy and ideas. Perhaps what changes is the path we've been on (for millennia) of material ownership, where once there was kinship - with each other and the natural world. "Now's the time we step into freedom, living friendly loving relatedness, by choice, as a revolutionary act, and becoming human in the process, in relatedness with all Life." We are one with snowmelt and fire. How will we live this grander Love? Here are four under 280-character posts. Select one, copy and paste: Shine On  Let's Make 2021-derful!  Life Crafting: Navigating the wild waters of change? I'm your guide for a smoother ride through the rapids. Talks and Wisdom Gatherings: Could your business, organization or school benefit from discovering how to integrate spirit into daily life? Business Alchemy: Need custom content and branding brilliance for your website, blog, or entire marketing campaign? I'll springboard your success. E-courses: The Inanna Initiations accelerates your evolution seven-fold. Loving Our Lunacy amplifies the feminine frequency. eBooks: What Shines: Practical Wisdom for Unleashing Your Inner Brilliance: an alchemical nexus for conscious evolution, adapted from the first 7 years of this enewsletter. 
Digital download/CD: "What You Need to Know Now - A Road Map for Personal Transformation" guides you on the journey home to yourself. Wear and Share Your Light: Sweatshirts to shoulder totes, journals to jerseys, baseball caps to bumper stickers. Find all your essentials, emblazoned with the inspirational Live Your Light logo. Vivify the Vision Please help sustain and expand this work. You may make ongoing or occasional love offerings online via PayPal's secure server. Simply click on the button below and follow the easy instructions: Snail-mail preferred? Please send a check or money order (in US dollars) payable to Live Your Light: Live Your Light Thanks for your contribution to our collective evolution! What Shines is written and produced by Amara Rose for LiveYourLight.com. To ensure that you receive our monthly newsletter alerts, please add amara@liveyourlight.com to your address book or approved-sender list. To Subscribe, please go to the What Shines Subscribe page. To Unsubscribe, please visit the What Shines Unsubscribe page. If you change your e-mail address, send a message with "Change of E-mail Address" in the subject line, and please include both your old and new e-mail addresses. Missed an issue? Email me and I will be happy to send it to you as a Word document. You are welcome to forward this newsletter in its entirety, including copyright information, to anyone you feel would enjoy it. Contact information: Amara RoseLive Your Light 321 South Main Street, Ste. 24 Sebastopol, CA 95472 USA amara@liveyourlight.com 1-800-862-0157 Many blessings! Live Your Light! |
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