If you are beginning this month is a state of despair, you are not alone. Many are walking this road with you. Not only will the road take a turn in the not-too-distant future – a road toward your chosen destination in this life – but the journey you are undertaking will reveal far more support than you have yet been aware of.

• You are not alone.
• You have help.
• You are on the path to your chosen life destination – your sacred destiny.

What could be better than all that?

Yes, but things do not look very good from here, you might be saying. That is true. This month, then, you climb a little higher. Ascend to new heights. Why? Because things look different from up there.

I've been trying to make it home

Got to make it before too long

I can't take this very much longer, no

I'm stranded in the sleet and rain

Don't think I'm ever gonna make it home again

The mornin' sun is risin'

It's kissing the day

Oh, the wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'

I don't know where I'll be tomorrow...

This month, the Great Wheel turns. Slowly. Momentum is on the upswing. Slowly. Do you hear it? Do you hear the creaking of the Wheel as ancient bones begin to turn?

This, then, is the month that discernible Change becomes part of your everyday awareness. You might not yet feel it, but your new world is just on the horizon. Waiting for you to realize it is there.

Oh, sure, change happens all the time. There are measurable cycles of human experience where we routinely feel that great change is about to occur. That sense is part of what keeps us going, part of what gives us hope for a better future.

At the same time, there is a difference in the air this month. You really do have the chance – now, if you take it – to walk into a new world. To step into what is yours and claim your happiness. To flow with the movement of the Great Wheel and to add your weight to its creaking bones, lending your heart and mind and soul to the great flood of change that is coming our way.

This is the month to claim yourself.

How do you step into your power? How do you know you are making choices that lead you through the door of flow?

Easy.

Breathe. And check in.

Simple.

Let's do it now, together. Think of a choice you are about to make. Big or small. A choice that you are thinking about but have not yet fully stepped into. Got one? Great. Let's go on.

Are you sitting down? Awesome. Place your feet flat on the floor. Feel them? Feel into your feet now. What do you feel? Pain? Tingling? Buzzing? Warmth? Coolness? Really feel your feet. Breathe now. Breathe down into your feet.

Now, ask yourself a question. Something like this: "Is the choice that I am about to make a choice that supports my walk through the door of flow? Is this choice part of my journey to claim my power?"

Ask the question. Say it out loud.

Now feel. Feel into yourself. What is there? You already dropped into a feeling place when you felt your feet. The answer is likely right there. Inside you. What do you feel?

Breathe.

There you go. Now you know.

January is all about walking into a shining ray of clarity. Look for it. Try not to overthink it. Just rest in the knowing that you will likely create – with no extra discernible effort on your part other than feeling into your choices – a path to stepping into your power this month. This path will serve you all year and beyond. You are turning the Great Wheel. Kissing the day.

Personal

Slow and steady wins the race. This is foundation stuff here this month, so try not to – ahem – be in a hurry. Take each day for the shining gift that it is. Let every dawn and dusk teach you something new. Use your time wisely. Reflect on each day – did I complete my tasks? Was I kind today? Did I see something beautiful? Did I make a difference? Each time you ask yourself those questions – and then feel into your body for the answers – you strengthen your inner compass. You take a step toward claiming your power. You crack the door into flow open just a little wider.

Try not to allow individual days to color your entire month. January is a spectrum. Some of the month will likely feel beautiful, flowing, free. Some of the month will feel cramped, dark, or like hard work. Let the overall flow of the month be your guide rather than a single moment or single day. Just remember that overall you are walking toward your next steps. Let you inner feeling compass guide you and be your night star. Each night as you prepare to rest, ask yourself one more question: What may I learn tomorrow?

Affirmation: I know what is in my heart.

Relationships

January is an internal month. You may feel left in the cold, a wintry reminder of our eternal search for warmth and connection. Allow your compass to guide you here as well, and to help you remember that you inner quest is much like the inner quest of the people who populate your world.

When you triumph, so do those around you. When you despair, so do those whom you love. Connections intertwine more inextricably this month. When you inhale, you breathe in the essence of those who love you. When you exhale, you give the people in your life your gift of inner essence. Breathe now. Remember that you breathe with and for those who love you and those whom you love. Your air is theirs. Your steps are linked. Your paths embrace and intertwine.

A greater sense of the eternal nature of our connections may bring up sadness for you this month, especially if you are not feeling as connected to and intimate with your loved ones as you wish to. Remember that you have choice in your connections. Try to allow space and time in your day for intimacy, even if it is only a momentary meeting of the eyes of a passing stranger. Give those eyes the gift of your heart, of YOU, with nothing asked in response, and observe what you receive in return. This is the building of real intimacy, of true engagement with others. As the Great Wheel begins to turn this month, it begins to turn toward intimacy and connection. Let your path be among those that guide us into the future.

Affirmation:  I AM a gift of love.

Communities

The glue that binds personal inner growth also binds communities this month. After months of moving apart and reforming, new interest in community expression surfaces this month. If you are a community-seeker, this may be the month to expand your heart into the possibilities that lie all around you. Your heart-waves will attract heart-waves of other community-seekers, and connections begin to form this month, often in seemingly unlikely places. Remember that kindred spirits often emerge in forms that are unexpected.

Spend some time this month, then, thinking about whom you wish to spend your time with. Be specific. What qualities in other people light you up? (hint: what qualities do you most admire in yourself?) How many friends do you need to feel truly supported? How often do you need contact? How deeply do you wish to connect? Do you prefer long languid conversations that meander over dinner, or engaging in activities that get your heart beating? The more thought you put into what truly feels good to you in terms of your community, the better you will use your available time and the better a support system you will co-create.

Affirmation: I AM a link that connects hearts around me.

Global Politics

What a rollercoaster ride! American politics are so...dismal, aren't they? Do you see much hope on the horizon? If you do not, then you, like so many people, are stuck in the polarization that has been on the rise for months now. Be patient. The polarizing effect is a smokescreen for real change. It is an illusion, but a necessary one. Be patient and hold on. The ideals you seek – no matter what "side" you now find yourself on – are present and being supported.

Globally, it is another story. Expect a continuation of jockeying for position among several superpowers. Expect lies and illusion coming from North Korea and Iraq. Expect smaller European countries to continue to struggle. Eventually, alliances will occur that will strengthen the bonds between countries, but this month the illusion continues. Be patient. Hold space for the expansion of the heart-space of the collective consciousness. Be aware that heart energy will manifest in many unexpected forms.

Affirmation: I AM a space-holder for heart expansion.

Earth Changes

The Great Wheel turning has an inevitable effect upon Mother Gaia. Growing pains and groaning bones translate into earth tremors and seismic activity that may bring devastation before month-end.

And as the human population walks into great change and an opening of consciousness, many species may choose to exit. Try not to take this as evidence of failure, but perhaps as evidence of completion of part of a cycle that is emerging into a new one. As some species disappear from the planet, others evolve into newness. This is the way of change.

Affirmation: I AM willing to be a part of the change that occurs around me.

Global Spiritual Changes

Personal inner growth frequently translates into great shifts in overall consciousness. As you yourself claim your power this month, so too does the planet, walking now into a doorway that leads to new horizons. You have much to look forward to. This is your home, your planet, your traveling place and your playground. You are a caretaker of this place and of the hearts that walk here; attending to your own journey can only but enhance the collective path we all walk.

Affirmation: I expand and create worlds.

2012. Twenty. Twelve.

A whole lot of energy has been placed into those words. The number. The date. The year Everything Becomes Awesome. Right? Is that what you have been holding out for? If so, you are not alone. A billion breaths are being metaphorically held. A billion hearts beat a little faster, thinking about Great Change To Come. A billion collective souls are actively helping create an opening into new ways of being, new countries formed and old ones dissolved, and new beings brought into the collective global pool of potential.

And six billion more people, maybe more than that, are simply living their lives. Going from day to day. Eating. Working. Loving. Surviving. Learning. Growing. Dancing.

Who has it more right? Those who yearn for change and hold onto the promise of something new, or those who are making that change with every breath, every heartbeat, every step?

There is no right answer.

There is no wrong answer, except perhaps to deny oneself the pleasure of physical being while holding out for something better. No judgment here. But 2012 is the year you will learn more about the business of being human. And it is from that place – the place of reveling in the beauty of being an exquisite creation of humanity – that you will create the sweeping changes yet to come across the planet.

How's that for exciting?

What does this mean to you? How can you become more aware of your humanity? And how will an increased global attention to the gorgeous physical aspects of being in a human body create change?

What it means to be human

Perhaps you have not thought about this in a while. So think now. What it is about you that is an essential part of your humanity? Is it part of your body? Your beautiful heart? Is it your way of thinking that sets you apart as human? Or is it an evolutionary thing, like having opposable thumbs? What makes you human? Perhaps that is a rhetorical question, but it begs an answer. What makes you....You? Perhaps it is all the things mentioned: your body, your heart, your thought, your way of being in the world. And that is a good thing, yes? That you are here and that you are a gorgeous creature of stunning proportion, capable of doing oh-so-many things? Capable of feeling. Of choosing. Of loving.

This year, you will likely guide yourself on a path that includes a deeper exploration of your own humanity. Of your connections to other humans. And of your collective connections to each other and to the world in which you live.

Exploring individual humanity is part of your collective human path. That is 2012.

How can you become more aware of your own humanity?

A mirror is your best tool this year. Look into it. Use an artist's eye as best you can and look at yourself in the mirror every day. Describe to yourself what you see there. Be ruthless. Honest. Compassionate. Do this daily. Keep a journal if you dare. Notice what changes you see, and notice also what stays the same. No two days will reveal exactly the same being.

There is another side to the mirror. You are on one side. On the other side is everyone else around you. Remember that they are mirrors for you. What you see in your loved ones is what you possess inside yourself. And you, yourself, are a mirror for those around you. You provide a deeper glimpse for those you love. Not everyone likes this, to be deeply seen. Remember that as you go about your day. Remember your own morning self-inspection in your own mirror and extend your beautiful, human, compassionate heart to those round you who – like you – are struggling to live, to love, and to make a difference in the world.

Increasing compassion is part of your collective human path. That is 2012.

How does being aware of the beauty of humanity create change in the world?

First, a question to you: How can awareness of the beauty in humanity NOT create change in the world?

Greater attention to the beauty of humanity – as opposed to the burden of it – creates an opening, a pathway, to increased levels of beauty in the world. Attention to beauty creates greater satisfaction. Greater satisfaction creates greater levels of kindness. More kindness makes people happier. Happier people make better choices. Better choices include room for more people. And more people feeling supported, cared for, and productive helps everyone feel connected, loved and valuable.

Is that the future you wish to help create?

Becoming more aware of the beauty of humanity – yours and everyone else's – is part of your collective humanpath. That is 2012.

What To Expect in 2012...

Personal

Becoming more aware of one's own humanity can be deep work. Expect revelations this year: skeletons rushing out of dark inner closets, to be fully fleshed and clothed in beauty as you breathe life into their dusty bones. Try not to be afraid of what you find deep inside yourself – you once placed it there with love and care. Remember that you are a sacred being, as are the deep dark parts of yourself that you are afraid to look at. It is they that need the most love.

Every year presents a roller coaster spectrum of experience for most people, and this year will be no different. Some days will feel better and some worse. That is part of the beauty of human experience, the fact that there is such a wide variety of experience to choose among. Allow that to be part of your exploration. Let yourself wake up some days wondering about the amazement in store for you that day. Let yourself wake up not knowing whether you will feel better or worse than the day before. Let yourself wake up in a state of readiness for whatever you create that day. Let yourself wake up remembering that you are a sacred being. Let yourself wake up knowing of your beautiful heart and deep compassion. Let yourself wake up in wonder at your exquisite humanity.

By year-end, if you attend to your inner exploration with love and trust, you will walk more firmly, love more deeply, live more fully, and be more beautifully human.

Relationships

Dusty skeletons running around free from their closets could certainly wreak havoc with relationships, yes? Interestingly, however, the energy of the year lends itself to stability in relationships overall. Not for everyone of course, but in general the effect of this year's energy will be greater compassion, kindness and feelings of support and trust. This translates in general into stronger relationships.

Do not worry of your relationship is not among the strong ones that lasts through the year in harmony. Perhaps your past has run its course. Perhaps skeletons – yours or someone else's – feel too scary or unwieldy to manage while at the same time being a mundane being who has to get to work, remember to buy milk on the way home, and only gets to sleep in on Sundays. Let that be okay. Let any relationship that comes apart be your impetus to gaze more deeply into the mirror and remember how what we feel is mirrored in those around us. Strive to give thanks, if you can, for the courage of the hearts around you in their own struggle to accept the beauty of humanity and to relinquish the burden of it. Give thanks as well to your own courage, to the valor in your own heart, for having loved.

If you are blessed with a degree of intimacy and warmth that feels good to you already, then 2012 will likely bring you additional gifts of blossoming and unfolding of your present relationships into deeper, warmer and stronger connections. As you dive inside to unlock your inner boxes, you naturally allow your heart to open wider. This is a natural part of the inner exploration process. The more you trust in the inherent goodness of your own human nature, the more you will see the beauty in the people around you and the more space you will hold for inner exploration and opening in those people. In other words, increasing awareness of your own human beauty will help everyone around you have the courage to love their human natures more as well.

Communities

Communities remain in flux this year. Not everyone will be on the same page with their inner exploration and increasing awareness of the beauty of humanity. Some people will need to see ugliness before they can feel beauty. As best you can, let this be okay and remember there can be compassion for a spirit trapped in ugliness. The more firmly you walk on your own path, the more light you hold for those still in darkness.

Bring your own light that comes from your personal exploration of the beauty of your own humanity, and bring it to the places that are closest to you: your own neighborhood; your workplace; your family; your city; the community circles that touch you most. It is these places that you walk in most and can make the most difference. As you explore your own face in the mirror this year you will begin to see your inner change reflected in the faces you see in the communities around you. Remember that everyone is waking up in the morning to wonder, or to heaviness and despair, or to fear, or to magic. Every person you meet each day has woven a new story since waking that morning. It is up to you to determine what part you play in that story. As best you can, try to make your part come from your remembrance of your beauty.

As with some relationships, you may find yourself releasing communities this year that no longer feel like a part of the path you walk forward. This is a natural part of your inner exploration process, but you will wish to allow yourself space to grieve. Try to be clear what it is you are grieving: is it connection? Is it what might have been? The feel of being needed? Give yourself plenty of time to muse over your circles and how they reflect your inner mirror. Remember that your life is inextricably intertwined with the lives of many many others. When you exhale, others breathe. When your heart beats, it beats in time with those around you. Cast your light a wide and far as you dare.

Global Politics

Inner exploration has far-reaching consequences, sending shocks and reverberations across the globe. While some wars are ending, others begin. Political tensions increase as some people walk more deeply in their fears. This too is a normal part of the process of awakening to the beauty of humanity, but for many people life may look worse this year before it gets better. Politics, power plays, fear-based regimes, and increased external protections will likely be common.

At the same time, there are a few places in the world that are overtly beginning to walk in a more heart-centered way and the governance begins this year to reflect this. Iceland. Denmark. Fiji. New Zealand. Small nations, perhaps, but with reverberation that eventually walks around the globe.

2012 is not a year of great sweeping change politically. Too many people wish to hold on to what they believe they have to allow that to happen. Yet change is significant nonetheless. Remember that nations as well as people act as mirrors for one another. What you observe occurring in a nation across the water may well be a reflection of the political climate of your own. It is well not to cast stones but to instead go more deeply inward to enact the greatest change outwardly.

Earth Changes

Shocks and reverberations? Why...yes. 2012 is potentially a year of greatness in the realm of earth-centered change. Icebergs slipping into the ocean. Mountains shuffling their feet. Volcanoes becoming restless. Land swallowed up by the sea. All these occurrences are of course a natural part of growth and change for the planet, but at the same time it appears that 2012 holds the potential for monumental and possibly devastating earth change. Earthquakes in Italy. Portugal. South Pacific. Volcano activity in Hawaii. Japan. Pacific Northwest US. Iceberg slippage in Antarctica that creates change in ocean level. Land slippage from mountainous oceanside cliffs in many places: southern California; Mexico; South America, the British Isles; Madagascar; Scandinavia; Russia.

There are no inherently 'safe' places to live on the planet. Every location is fraught with the peril that comes from the sheer experience of being alive. While this can feel disconcerting, it can also help you open to connection to the flow of energy and life that is the human experience on this planet. And why would you deny yourself the power and majesty of fully dropping into your humanity and connection to the beautiful rock that is your collective home?

If at times you feel that the movement of the planet under your feet feels like more than you wish to take on in that moment, let that be okay. But know as well that you can increase your feeling of connection to the flow of the planet easily. From that connection might also emerge a greater feeling of awareness of your own humanity. Win win.

To aid in your feeling of connection to the planet, try this:

Place your feet on the floor. Feel how the soles of your feet meet the hardness of the floor under them. Feel how solid the floor feels to you now. Take this in to yourself now by breathing deeply, up from the soles of your feet into your heart. Imagine there is a current running through your feet and legs, right up to your heart. This current enlivens you. Awakens you. Refreshes you. Feel how alive your feet and legs feel right now. Feel the gift, also, that lies in your heart as it touches the current that comes up through you from the earth. This gift is you. Your beautiful, human heart. Your humanity now touches the earth and enlivens it. Awakens it. Refreshes it. Remember this feeling and touch into it when you feel the need.

Global Spiritual Changes

Ah, 2012. This was to be the year of Great Change, was it not? Could the Mayans have been wrong? Or could they simply have failed to account for a planet that lived far beyond their lifetimes? Have you been holding out for Great Change this year? Then perhaps you will feel more connected, more loving, more attached to the outcomes of your experiences and choices if you allow your every action to become permeated with the knowingness of your own humanity. As best you can, in each moment. And then allow your inner change to be the mirror for the changes occurring all around you.

That is, in essence, the magic of 2012. Increased attention and awareness to the beauty of humanity. More compassion. Better, more mindful, choices. Greater love for the person within you. Greater love for those around you. Greater opening, awareness, and flow.

A year from now, you are invited to look back. To remember the journey you took since today. To reflect your inner desires out into the world. To give love and thanks for the person that you were that has brought you to the person you are now. To remember the gifts you offer collective humanity and the pleasure you have felt in diving into your humanity.

Thank you for your courage, for your heart, and for your love.

This month – December 2011 – is all about taking action from the beat of your heart, from the rush of life within your own body, and from the dreaming of your wild dreams. What calls to you this month? What speaks to you with a deepening and a quickening? What connects your breath to the breath of a million throats? What lights you up?

This is what you will be examining and unfolding this month: your story. The deepness of Who you are. And especially how you will let the world know you. How you will bring your gifts -- your reason for being in this body on this planet at this time – to the world. And you do this now because as the drumbeat of your heart quickens, you hear within it the footsteps you will take to get to where you go next. You are sure now about the path that takes you to where your wild dreams unfold. You know Who you are and where you go.

True, from where you stand and breathe right now in this moment, you may not see the path unwinding from you into your wild dream. You may not yet think you know the steps you need to take in order to bring action to the dreams you so beautifully crafted last month. That is because you still lack one essential ingredient, one that is so easily obtained because it already exists within you. It is so easy! All you have to do – ALL you have to do – in order to take this one essential ingredient and make it yours ... is to simply breathe. Breathe in, and out, and in again. Breathe and the world is yours. Breathe and you activate the wild drumbeat within you, the drumbeat of your heartsong that whispers inside you, ready now to become the shout that you take to the world to say, "I AM HERE. I MATTER."

This is the month where you can begin to dream your dreams into reality. Oh? Can that really be true? Can I truly live my dreams? Of course you can. You always could. And this is the month where you begin to see your power of dreaming put into action.

There are a few tricks to this. You knew there would be tricks! If it were so simple, then wouldn't everyone be doing this, be living their wild dreams and having the lives they truly wanted? Of course they would. Which brings us to Trick #1.

Trick #1. You are already living the life you choose.

Yes, on some level you are choosing the life that you have, right now. You chose everything about it – your eye color, your occupation, your favorite kind of breakfast. You chose all this on some level. You are already living everything you wanted.

Now take that in for a moment. Do you feel the enormous power that you have? The power you had in arranging things – just so – to be the way that, on some level anyway, you truly wanted? Tap into that sense of power for a moment. Really enjoy it. Feel your bigness, your majesty, your infinite connection to all there ever was or will be.

Can you imagine all this for a moment? Good. Hold on to that while you take in Trick #2.

Close your eyes a moment. Go ahead. Relax. Breathe now and drop down into your heart. Your beautiful, beautiful heart. Ahhh. Did you feel what just happened? Your body relaxed. You let go of everything you were holding, just for a moment, and were completely present, aware, and yourself. Just for a moment.

Imagine what your life might be like if you could manage to be in that space, in that very present awareness, all day long. Imagine who you might be if that were the case. Imagine what being you would feel like.

That is what you are doing this month. You are re-structuring. Re-creating. Re-living. Re-newing. Dreaming yourself into being. Becoming You.

This is hard work! So much creating. You know the saying Rome wasn't built in a day? Well, neither were you! And neither is this complex, messy, beautiful world you are co-creating with all of humanity and the planet's beings. You are a work in progress. A masterpiece! Ever closer to perfection, ever closer to being as real and true and as expansive as you were meant to be. As you are now choosing to be.

Make this your personal New Year this month! Create a proclamation, and proclaim your desires to the world: I am in this moment and henceforth choosing to create myself anew, to drop down into my heart and allow myself to Be, in all the beauty that is mine to claim. I now become Me.

Hold on! Some of you are thinking, Hey wait, aren't I already me? What's up with that? I've been working on this Me thing a long, long time...when am I going to be finished? When do I feel gooood?

Oh, but you will! By choosing to step firmly upon your path and claim what is already yours, you will feel a shift. Just like that. Just like what you felt when I asked you to drop down into your heart. Remember? If you want that feeling again, go ahead: close your eyes. Breathe. Now again feel your beautiful, beautiful heart. Feel its indelible connection to every other heart, to the breath of the universe, to the divine, to your sacred destiny. Feel how you expand into your bigness. Feel your path stretching ahead of you, the path that now includes you claiming your birthright, choosing to Become You.

Daily practice to support the energies of October and your personal proclamation:

Honor your path and your personal proclamation by choosing a daily reminder of your expansiveness, of your path of creating yourself anew. What speaks to you? Rituals are powerful when they honor one or more of the senses. Which of your physical senses speaks to you now?

Hold a stone in your hand and feel its song

Stand under a tree and breathe with it

Draw a Tarot card and gaze at the image

Indulge in a sensual massage

Immerse yourself in a tea ritual, sipping slowly

Let the bass notes of loud music permeate your being

Taste delicious fruit

Breathe the scent of just-fallen rain

What does creating yourself anew look like? Feel like? How is this month different from any other?

Think back now to the past year. Remember. Remember where you were and what you were feeling and doing, one year ago. Now feel into today. What has changed? Who are you now? Who are you becoming?

In the past year, we were engaged in tearing away what was no longer needed to reveal the foundation. You have good bones! And so much beauty can be built upon good bones. But restructuring, recreating, reliving....this is difficult work sometimes. Disconcerting. You may not feel much like yourself. You may feel that something is missing. You may wonder whether you are coming or going. All are okay and to be expected.

If you don't feel like yourself. You aren't! You are changing. Be open to the possibility that you are now letting go of the parts of you that you do not choose to keep, that do not serve you best and that do not reflect the beauty of who you are. Breathe and relax.

If you feel that something is missing. It just might be! Be open to the possibility that what is missing is what you don't need. On a soul level, you are directing yourself to create the experiences that serve your growth as a beautiful being. Be open to the perfection of the masterpiece that you are creating.

If you wonder whether you are coming or going. You might be doing both! Rest in one of the daily practices above to ground and renew. Remember that tomorrow is a new day, that you are at all times in the midst of change and that you can choose the change that you experience.

Personal

Creating yourself anew is hard work. Do not feel surprised to feel a spectrum this month, from amazingly energized and jazzed about yourself and your life to unexpectedly tired and lacking in energy or motivation. Do your best not to be too unnerved by this. Ride your spectrum as if you are riding your own inbreath and outbreath. We all have a natural external rhythm: heartbeat, breath, digestion, brain function, thought patterns, sleep. We also live by natural external rhythms: the sun's journey across the sky, the turning of the year, the moon's pull on the oceans. This month you will likely find yourself more in touch with the natural internal and external rhythms of your life, helping you feel more connected both to yourself and to the world around you.

Personal experience this month will also likely include the sense of starting over, beginning again, or reliving past familiar patterns. This is your opportunity to reflect and release, using these walks through yesteryear to remember where you have been and how far you have come. Do not discount the importance of this. Pay attention to the seeming coincidences and synchronicities around you.

Affirmation: I AM wiser than I remember being.

Relationships

With so much going on for us on a personal level, you would think that relationships take a beating this month, but much like last month they are only made stronger this month by the deep internal shifts occurring for us on a personal level. As you choose carefully from the personal buffet of qualities that you are creating as part of the future masterpiece of You, you also choose much of your relationship experience as well. In other words, what becomes important to keep as part of your personal experience also becomes part of your closest relationships. If you have doubt of this, look around: see the mirrors of your intimate relationships reflecting yourself back to you.

Affirmation: I AM willing to see myself in the mirrors those closest to me provide.

Communities

As we continue to approach our collective future, our coming-together within community becomes increasingly important. Now is the time to reflect on the shaping of the communities around us. How do they serve? Are your communities meeting your needs? How can you contribute to the evolution of your communities? What role do you play in the greater world around you?

Communities this month remain in flux. Leadership changes, vacuums are created, and new energies step in and step up to fill the holes and bring the evolution along. This is the perfect time to reevaluate your role within the communities you are a part of, and to consciously make choices and changes that serve your coming needs.

Affirmation: I AM willing to step into the role now that best serves me.

Global Politics

Change hurts sometimes. Growing pains, right? This will continue to be heartbreaking to many. If you have strong feelings about how the world should be and how we should be treating one another, this may not be the month for you. Expect unkindness of action, acts of outright inhumanity, and egregious power plays. War, genocide, civil rights abuses. Lest you become too disheartened, some perspective – as a species we have always created pain as one way to experience growth. It does not need to be that way, but it will take time to change. Do your part as you feel called to do, and remember that often things get worse before they get better, much like a painful broken bone will heal stronger than it once was.

Affirmation: I AM a harbinger of peace.

Earth Changes

Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink... This is a juicy month. Gaia's interpretation of that will likely include flooding, typhoon, and torrential rain. This is a watery planet that was once one vast ocean. We are not too far from that state now, and we rest precariously upon the rocky outcroppings that lie above the surface of all that water. Remember that and honor your watery past, perhaps with a daily gratitude ritual: fill a glass with fresh clean water, and sip it slowly, feeling our collective watery beginnings.

Affirmation: I AM the evolution of all who came before me.

Global Spiritual Changes

You can feel it, can't you? So close! So much happening under the surface. So much hope in the world, and so much pain. It is all a part of our global experience. And just as we each are individually creating our masterpiece, creating our Selves anew, so too do we create our collective experience, the evolution of Gaia's inhabitants.

Each day explodes with possibility. New ways of healing, of experiencing, of being come into being all the time. Use your discernment powers by dropping once again into your beautiful, beautiful heart to know what spiritual path is True for you, what tools you take with you into your creation.

Affirmation: I AM the embodiment of the majesty I see before me.

This month there is mounting excitement, the sensation of a growing underground wave that is nearly ready to burst free into glorious being. Everything is electric. The very air snaps with joyous expectation. Impatience for trending change is on the increase. Everyone and every thing seems more alive, more awake, more on the prowl for What Comes Next.

Is this you? Did you wake up this morning wondering why the walls around you, your bed, your face all still look the same, because this morning – this morning – you were convinced that in the night, while you slept, you finally dreamed your Real Self and the Real World into being? Are you waiting for the world to catch up with your dreams?

Along with the excitement and anticipation of the manifestation of the growing undercurrent of change comes ... disappointment. Impatience. Disconnection. Sadness. You can feel that you are ready – oh so ready! – to take the reins of your life and to step into the You that you have been dreaming into being, but ... it's not there yet. Not quite. And so there is fear. Fear that the change will never happen. Sadness. Sadness that you aren't yet all that you know you can be. Anger. Anger that the world has yet to catch up with you, anger that the world has yet to catch up with itself.

And joy. Do not forget joy! Underneath all those feelings of lack and disempowerment is real joy. Real joy! Remember why you are here? Why you first took breath in this body? You are here because you chose to be. Right now! In this world, just as it is, in this moment. And why? Because you can make a difference. Your life has meaning. And there has never been a better time to bring that into being. Right now. This month, this week, this day, this moment. This breath. Now.

Take a moment. Close your eyes. Imagine in front of you the most delicious, luscious, juicy fruit you have ever tasted. Look at it. The color of it, deep ripe color, bursting forth with life. This is your harvest! Now breathe in your fruit's delicious scent. Breathe it right into you, the scent of ripeness, of a glorious moment, of Now. Breathe it into you and down into your heart, your feet. Now feel your feet grow roots, right into the ground, soaking up all the rain and sun goodness that the soil has been collecting for years, waiting just for you, in this moment. Hold your fruit now in your hand and feel its weight. You can almost taste it, this delicious heavy ripe fruit just waiting for you, for the right moment. Bring your face right to it and breathe it in again. It is almost time. Almost time to take a bite, one juicy bite, a bite of YOUR fruit, your delicious fruit. You will taste it when the time is right. Know this and feel satisfied at the beauty of your inner harvest.

What to Expect This Month

Personal

Ahh, there is nothing like a little dichotomy to stir things up a little! How did you feel when you read above that you are almost ready to move into your harvest, into fruition, into the What Comes Next that you have been dreaming into being, but ... not quite? Did you feel excited? Impatient? BOTH? When we approach major choice points, points of change that have been long in the making, it can be easy to step into the expectation of that fruition as having already happened. And why not? You can feel it, smell it, almost taste it. It feels real, doesn't it? And yet it has not become its complete self. It is still your dream, and you are still creating it.

So...let it be. Breathe again in the moment. Remember that there is time.

So! On a personal level, there will be, well, impatience. Eagerness to get started. The desire to get the show on the road, to step into What Comes Next. Of course, on many levels you are always already doing this, but as the Equinox approaches this sense seems to hit more strongly. Something is about to change, and YOU want to be in control to make it happen, to initiate, to taste your fruit.

Resist. The. Urge. To. Push.

This may lead to frustration. Fine, be frustrated. Breathe. You may feel angry. Fine! Be angry! Breathe! You may feel afraid. Fine! Feel your fears. Breathe. You may feel sadness. Fine. Feel sad. Breathe.

You MAY feel joyful. Hurrah! Breathe, oh breathe it in.

P.S. Remember that everyone else is going through this as well this month. Breathe for them as well.

Affirmation: I AM the source of all that is wonderful in my life.

Relationships

Oh me, oh my, aren't we having fun? Relationships turn a corner this month. Move into the sublime. People will just seem awesome this month. Really. Spectacular. More beautiful and more perfect than ever before. This isn't your personal set of rose-colored glasses – what happens this month is that you are able to see into other people's hearts. You see them for themselves, as they are, without all the trappings of fears and protections they normally wear. And guess what? People are amazingly, heartbreakingly beautiful. Every last one of them. See for yourself!

And guess what this does for relationships? Where things were good, now they are great. Where things were rocky and challenging, now there is compassion. Where you were once lonely, now you feel the courage to expand your ripples outward and approach others for connection.

This is a month of beginnings, and of strengthening. Make the most of it.

Affirmation: I AM touching the hearts of all who I see around me.

Communities

Conversely, communities face challenges this month. As each of us inches closer to tasting our fruit of dreaming-into-being, we seem to forget how to work in connection with one another. In the flush of love and connection in relationship, we forget how to be with one another in a group. No matter. This will pass into yet another merging and forging time. Extend your compassion of self to others in your communities. Keep your heartlight extended around you to keep you safe when walking lonely streets; communities in flux often attract acting-out of fears and frustrations through increased violence, theft, and other social warfare activities. Keep your wits about you as you travel, and remember to look into the hearts that are worn on the faces you see, for that will connect you to the inner humanity of each and every person you encounter, friend or foe.

Affirmation: I AM the soul of my community.

Global Politics

We are heating up! Increased personal satisfaction brings about ripples of change throughout the planet, which includes political upheaval, activism, demonstration and other surface manifestations of the getting-ready feel we are all experiencing on a personal level. Look for a little chaos this month. Surprising political candidates in the U.S. Political scandal in Europe. Death in South America. Everywhere there is change – as always.

Let change this month be the beacon of what it is you seek for the future.

Affirmation: I AM connecting my political communities to the heartbeat of the planet, with each breath.

Earth Changes

This month is about fire. Underground fire: volcanic activity. Over ground fire: wildfires threatening populated areas. Fires burning in urban places, man-caused and man-hurting. Fire is our way of burning clean, of creating renewal, of nourishing the planet. As the Equinox approaches, remember that fire is the spark of life that we all yearn for, the bright spinning star so far in the heavens that we aspire to reach, to touch, to savor. Let this month's fire spark your own personal renewal.

Affirmation: I AM holder of the spark of creation of the universe.

Global Spiritual Changes

Let this month be part of your personal jumping-off place, your launching pad to your own spiritual greatness. Breathe in the works, the words, the spirit of one spiritual teacher this month, the one that calls to you in your deepest being, that nourishes your soul. Treat yourself to your own spiritual divinity this month by honoring the sacred within you, becoming your own wisest teacher. Allow your breath to wash the faces of those closest to you, washing them in joy and connectedness. Create your template for spiritual enrichment in the future, your plan to honor your inner divine and connect more deeply to your internal compass. Let someone help you with this, to walk with you and be your anam cara, your soul friend. Be the soul friend to someone else. We all walk this path together.

Global changes again ratchet skyward, taking quantum leaps and increasing the overall vibratory levels of the planet. These are exciting times to be alive. Your job is to live as well as you can, to live as close to your own divine state as you dare to. Why not dare to reach the starts? They are within your grasp.

Affirmation: I AM the divine that walks the heavens.

Consider this your coming-out party. A celebration of You, of the You That is Within and the You that you have been keeping from the world. This month, you take the spotlight. You shine forth your beacon of Self. You let the world see you in all your glory. This month, you let your secrets out, the secrets inside you that have been gnawing at you, eating away at your inside bit by bit, and keeping you from being the complete, beautiful, passionate, heart-filled person that lives within you. August is your month to surrender into You. To feel more yourself. To feel more whole.

What secrets have you been hiding? Ferret them out now, for if you do not push them out into the light on your own, they will be drawn from you through one situation or another, and perhaps in ways that leave you feeling alone, afraid and uncomfortable. The lesson this month, then, is to be bold. Be unafraid. Even if you find it impossible to love some dark corner of your soul, bring it out into the light anyway, for there will surely be love for it even if you think you cannot love it. Trust. Be bold and bring your Self out.

This month, then, you alternate feeling bold, confident and strong, laughing with the hilarity of the universe, with feeling cold and alone, afraid and small. Or, worse, hiding from yourself, doing all that you can to keep anyone – even yourself – from seeing into the deepest parts of you that have been in shadow these long years. But what is shadow other than simply a corner that has yet to see light? There is nothing inherently wrong with the dark, with those shadowed corners, other than the loss the world feels by not having all of you to love.

Sigh. You know what this means, don't you? Yes, it's time to 'fess up, to stop pulling the wool over your eyes (and the eyes of the world) and to let down your defenses and take a good long hard look at the You that lies so deeply hidden within.

Go ahead. Do this now.

All year you have been preparing for what is to emerge from deep within you this month. This is the month that you connect with the True You, the fire deep within, the source of power and strength that is inside you and always has been. This is the month that you begin to manifest your True Self, showing yourself and the world the beauty, the perfection, the exquisite imperfect humanity that is you. This is the month you become more of yourself than you ever have been before. This is the month you draw on the power of The Fire Within.

What is The Fire Within? Inside each of us is the kernel, the source, the seed that is the potential we possess to become our sacred destiny. The Fire Within is the source of unlimited power that ignites that seed into being, gives it life and infuses it with infinite energy and passion. The Fire Within is our personal awakening tool, the becoming of our life's potential. Igniting The Fire Within makes us stronger. More self aware. Healthier in our bodies. More heart centered. More connected to all life and to the infinite universe.

Coiled within you has been All That You Are. Waiting. Hiding, perhaps. Resting. Growing stronger and more powerful. This All That You Are is now ready, nearly ready, to begin to make its way upward and outward into the light. Thus begins The Rising.

You may think of this as kundalini. Do you know it? Kundalini is the sleeping serpent that lies within you — your potential, your corporeal life force. Sri Ramana Maharshi said that the kundalini is the natural energy of the Self, the Self being the universal consciousness that lies within every human being. And that is so. The way to expose the kundalini is self-realization, knowledge of one's True Self, awakening of inner knowledge.

Can you not feel this within you? As what was not needed within you was burned away in the inner fires of May, now your True Self lies exposed, vulnerable perhaps, but ready to begin to emerge upward and outward into being and into the light you shine upon it. This process is not happening TO you; you are creating it by inviting your own awareness of Self, awareness of your joys, desires, faults and shortcomings, and welcoming all of that exquisitely human panoply into awareness and being. You are You. That is enough.

This month, what is not needed is burned clean. Many of us will choose to allow layers of held emotions, patterns, and beliefs to burn away into a fiery pyre, sending sparks of intention up into the ethers and sending a message to the universe about – clearly this time – what is needed and what is not. From the ashes of this burning away will rise the new shining you, bathed in golden promise and replete with all the nutrients necessary for strong green growth and glorious prospect.

Think of this. For years, the true You has lain fallow, nourished and protected deep underneath the surface, but longing for sunlight and to be shown to the world. This month, then, your top layers burn away into ash, and from those ashes rise your personal phoenix, wings spread, a fiery branch clutched in its talons, ready to become a symbol of personal and global hope and potential. Just like new growth springs from the ashes of a forest fire, Nature’s way of making way for transformation, your new growth will begin to be in evidence by month's end.

What does the burning look like? Feel like? What can we expect to happen afterward?

Rolling beneath you right now are the reverberations of what has now become years of foundational activity. This manifested physically last month as the devastating and planetary game-changing earthquake and tsunami in Japan, but continues still as movement underneath, behind the scenes, and growing momentum for supported global change. Are you ready?

Whether or not you feel you are now in a position to assume the mantle of your life purpose and to step firmly onto your path, rest assured that yes, you are ready. As a member of a global community, you are already engaged in what it is you need to do in order to play your part in the overall whole and to weave in your thread in the global communal tapestry of creation. How do we know this? Simply because we are all connected, now more than ever and increasingly on a conscious level -- the world response to the Japan tsunami brought that to bear clearly. Understand that no one need be consciously aware of this connection – it exists regardless of individual awareness and will continue to be strengthened by world events.

What does this mean to you, to your family, to your community, and to the planet? Things are moving underneath at a rapid rate. You may feel off balance, as if you are spinning at a different rate than the planet’s motion. Vertigo. Uncertainty. Wanting to feel the ground firmly under your feet. Relationships strengthen considerably or move farther apart in a widening chasm. Political polarization continues, while each end of the spectrum becomes more aligned with itself. Communities strengthen intention through shared experience or begin to fall apart. People make rapid and often dramatic changes.

If you feel personally off balance at any time, try this:

This month, March 2011, represents your birth. Rebirth, to be exact.

Last month you set your path for the entire year, glimpsed the heavens for a brief shining moment … and then for many it slipped away. Life happened. Old patterns came a-calling. Old fears, old hurts, old relationship dynamics, old ways of looking at Self and the universe. They all came knocking at your door, and were not at all quiet about it. Your usual way of looking at these old patterns, especially if you are a person who has been doing self work for a while and gaining self awareness, has been to wonder what on earth you were doing wrong, what you missed, what you did to cause this new-old pain. And to panic. Fears set in.

But there is nothing wrong. Old patterns often come back so you can embrace them and the gifts they once taught you. They are not something to get rid of. They are old friends. They are with you to help you, to help you learn and grow and to be there when you shift into What Comes Next and step through the doorway into what you are creating. Old patterns are your gift of remembrance, of how far you have come and of how you have a choice in how to proceed now and in every moment.

This month, then, is a month where you begin from the ground up. February took you down to the bone. The tumult of old patterns has created, for many of us, a perfect playground of empty tiredness. This, together with the chaotic energies cascading around the planet as characterized by Wisconsin, Libya, and Egypt, has made any of you soul-weary. You have nothing left. You are bare, raw, and vulnerable. All your deep inner fears are on the table where you can see them. Exposed.

It is the perfect time to build from the ground up. You have your foundation. Your bones are strong. All you have to do is to decide what you will create on top of them. What face will you show to the world? What gifts do you clothe yourself in? Who do you become that will support what it is you wish to do?

It is beginning. The world of magic you have been creating, breathing into life, is beginning to take shape this month. This is the month when some of the difficulties and uncertainties stirred up in late 2010 and early 2011 begin to fall away, leaving new shapes and new glorious designs in their place. The life you are creating begins now. You knew this, right? You knew that fruit would come of your labors, your travails, your intense questioning and down-to-the-bone anxieties. You knew, else you would not have persevered. You would not be here now, taking this in, beginning to receive the gifts you are giving yourself.

It is a glimpse of the heavens.

Feeling at peace with the life choices you are making is paramount and is one of the rewards that comes within this month, even if the feeling is only fleeting. You knew this, didn’t you? That things will continue to change, emerge and evolve? Life is not static. It does not stay in one place. No, your experiences are constantly changing as you create the next and the next and the next. The more okay you are with this state of constant flux, the more you open to the gifts you constantly are awarding yourself. Be present, then, this month with the gift you’ll receive at some point during the month of feeling at peace – truly at peace – with your life choices. Use that sensation later as a touchstone to bring you back again to center when life seems to be swirling around you uncontrollably, a maelstrom, leaving you breathless. Use the sensation that you will create for yourself as a guide, a way back to balance, to allow you the regain perspective when you most need it.

That is what the heavens are like.

Balance. Perspective. A sense of wholeness. A feeling of perfection, even for just that moment.

Can you feel this? Can you feel the potentials of this in your life? For the coming year?

Can it be that we have reached the final month of this calendar year? Now is the time that you will look back upon your accomplishments while beginning to look ahead into the coming year, wondering what it is that you will create. At the same time, you will experience the energy that December brings: Culmination and Beginnings. You will likely feel the dual energies, then, of grand endings and the completion of long-due projects, while at the same time you’ll feel the siren’s call of the Next Big Thing that awaits you. This energy translates across the board into all areas of experience: personal/spiritual, occupational, relationships, and universal.

How to deal with this seeming duality? Remember that the Solstice occurs this month, with the earth turning from dark into light or light into dark, depending on which hemisphere you live in. Both hands reach across the Solstice: endings and beginnings, each inextricably linked to the other. How can you separate where one half of the year ends and the other begins? There is a measurable moment, but blink again and the moment is gone. It is the same with your experience of moving across from one end of the creation spectrum to the other, from Culmination into Beginnings. They are each part of a grand circle of experience that you create, so look this month not for endings but for a sense of fullness that accompanies the emptiness of possibility when you look ahead into your coming year. What things are feeling complete? What frightens you about the vastness of what is Yet to Come? Recognizing that you will feel both completeness and emptiness this month – sometimes in the same moment – helps you navigate the crossing of the cycle and your own personal turning from dark into light.

Use what is going on seasonally around you now to assist you. In the Northern Hemisphere there is an inward focus as you embrace fully the season of darkness. Shine a light within and see that inside you it is replete with activity, all in preparation for the outwardness of the coming Spring. In the Southern Hemisphere you are outwardly in a season of light now, but at the same time there is knowledge that the light is fleeting and that you will be moving inward again as the light wanes. For everyone, know that this time is a bridge between your completion and your new beginnings.

This month’s energy is all about Waiting for Fruition. You have laid the groundwork for transformation and for assimilation; now is the time to move into that new space that you have created, savoring it slowly while it unwinds throughout the month. Many of you have been working consciously at becoming aware of the thinning veil that surrounds you, and it has seemed that your What Comes Next is just out of reach, hazy and indistinct. This is the time, then, that your seemingly distant future comes into sharper focus, bringing with it something tangible that you can touch, taste, see, or feel.

You realize, of course, that with the clear choice you made in September, you brought with it a sense of import for the future. This wasn’t any capricious choice; in that time you set a conscious path toward your destiny, your life path, your deep inner reason for choosing to be on the planet at this time. You may not still be completely aware of the turn you took back in September, yet it is possible that you feel already on a course of change as a result. Many people are feeling more like themselves now than at any other time in their lifetimes. This sense of rightness, of flow, will only be on the increase as you begin to unwind the bandages that cover your eyes yet from seeing the entirety of your life unfolding in front of you.

And now, while the veil is thin and the knowingness of collaborative transformation flows across the planet into beyond, it is your opportunity to think consciously about what it is you seek in this life. What your heart truly desires at its deepest level. What you have always known is true yet never dared dream might be. This is the time to move slowly into your What Comes Next, allowing it to unfold in front of you like a lover doing a slow striptease, savoring each ripening moment before the next one begins. This is the time to ask yourself, your guides, and your spiritual teachers for assistance, opening yourself to new worlds and possibilities as a result. This is the time to connect consciously and deeply with your fellow humans also on this path of deep discovery, offering your support and love as well as asking for assistance and community. This is the time to dream deeply and wildly, allowing your heart to soar to majestic heights and to look ever outward to carry you along toward your What Comes Next.

What to do with the likely impatience you are feeling to finally move into your creation? I love the phrase “think big but non-specific.” This allows you to move into the possibility of what you are creating — at least on some level — without creating attachment for a specific outcome. Easier said than done, you say? Well, yes. It’s a new way of thinking about your life, but haven’t you yet noticed that whenever you attempt to blast through the brick wall ahead into what you think of as your What Comes Next, that what you seek disappears like a gossamer soap bubble when touched? Instead, then, feel your way into your creation by bringing yourself down to the smallest moment possible – this one. To support your new way of thinking and being, try this mindfulness practice this month. It only takes a few minutes each day.

A Daily Mindfulness Practice

Center yourself and decide to remain present for exactly one minute. One minute, you say? Why, anyone can do that! Yes, and that is why I suggest it. One minute, perhaps two, is all it takes. Do this daily, or a few times a day. Decide to let go of everything around you except for one of the following for that one minute:

Breath

Sound

Sight

Then, for that minute, focus on nothing else but your breath; the sounds around you; what you see (shape, color, form, shadow). Withhold judgment as best you can about what you focus on. Simply notice what is there, for your one minute. When you are finished, thank yourself for your effort and resume your day. You will feel as if you have just breathed in clean, fresh air: rejuvenated, refreshed, and ready to move on with your day.

Now what about the Fruition that is yours this month? Let it go, like letting your personal soap bubble float freely. The less you think about what your fruition looks like, the more it will unfold naturally. If you allow it to, you will see more clearly by mid-month, and certainly by the 21^st, a pivotal date this month. On that day, you will fix in your being much of what you intend to do with this creation you have been working on these past several months, and you will see what next steps there are ahead for you. This is the time to practice mindfulness even more, then, as you reach an apex of desire and fulfillment around this date. Afterward, energies subside in intensity as you move along on the “downhill” side and begin to enjoy your creation.

What to Expect this Month

Personal

If you haven’t been sure of who you truly are yet in this lifetime, this is the perfect time to tap into what is available. Get guidance if necessary, but energies now fully support your awareness of Self vs. Others, as well as the release of old patterns and dynamics of interacting that no longer suit you or support your True Self.

Affirmation: I AM consciously connecting with my Self at the deepest level.

Relationships

While Venus is still in retrograde through the 18^th, you have the perfect opportunity to continue exploring relationships in terms of what works for you and what doesn’t. Use this time to examine your deepest heart-desires with the people in your life and to create certainty about what you wish the future to look like.

Affirmation: I AM the perfect expression of all that has come before this moment, and my relationships reflect my deepest heart’s desire.

Communities

This is not the best time for community-building, as people will be primarily focused on Self this month, but understand that the inner Self work lays a deeper groundwork for a new type of community that is building and just beginning to emerge. Satisfy yourself with time spent with others, but don’t attempt to force this into being. Like with relationships, follow your heart and come together in groups in ways that nourish you on a soul level.

Affirmation: I AM creating a new world community simply by being more of my Self.

Global politics

Because of the emphasis on the inward expression this month, politics becomes even more polarized as people continue to attempt to hold onto the familiar. Expect some nasty twists and turns this month as a result. Having compassion for the “other side”, whatever that may be, will assist you this month in assimilating these big energies.

Affirmation: I AM creating a new paradigm by doing what I believe to be right.

Earth changes

Internal change always is accompanied by external manifestation of those energies. While on the surface you are spending much time simply “waiting” while you continue to process your Self on a deep level, Gaia stirs and awakens. Expect some potentially massive and devastating results from this type of energy: earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, as well as an increase in odd phenomena like massive sink holes swallowing up buildings, and natural gas leaks or mining disasters. As things heat up on the surface, remember that a great many people are choosing to transition over the next many years. Wish them well and remain in gratitude for their passing that supports your experience.

Affirmation: I AM in deep constant connection with the energies of Mother Gaia and feel her warm embrace constantly.

Global spiritual changes

This is more subtle this month, but overall there is a shift toward a sense of peacefulness and solidarity of purpose worldwide. This will peak during the Christmas season and on into the first half of January but begins this month with a feeling of communal fellowship and harmony. Use this time to meditate deeply on the world you feel you are creating and how that can play out with the global community and all the planet’s citizens, human and non-human alike. Spend some time regarding your non-human compatriots – animal, plant, mineral – and honor them in ways that feel meaningful to you.

Affirmation: I AM an expression of the global community and maintain awareness of my importance within the overall tapestry that we together create.

Relax, breathe, and BE.