Use your energy in positive ways. Enact change by remaining attached to what is good and right for all. Keep the world beautiful in spite of the changes that push for destruction, in spite of the hatred that seeks to dominate, in spite of the overall tendency to give up. Help yourself and the world around you by maintaining your personal sense of positive vibes, for even you, one small person, can impact the whole world. Do good.
Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Keep your intent strong and focused so that what you desire may be achieved. Continually hone your intentions so that the good and benevolent spirits will understand you and so that you will not be tricked by what you inadvertently manifest. With a pure heart, and innocence as your motivation, let yourself be guided to manifest that which you need the most. If you set your intent and remain open eventually you will be met with the answers to your dreams.
Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Change is in your hands. With a combination of love and discipline set yourself on a new path of change that will be productive, meaningful and lasting. Without doing harm but with the fierceness of a warrior set about on your journey of change with a sack of love and a pocketful of discipline, enough to get you through any trial. Call to you the help of good and benevolent spirits and they will aid you as you wish to be aided. State your intent clearly, and with a measure of love and discipline carry on.
Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Today marks a change, whether symbolic or otherwise does not matter. What matters is the opportunity it offers. Take advantage of its power to enact change in your own life, a time to step in a new direction, to start something new, to change the self in some profound and meaningful way, something you have long put off perhaps. It’s never too late to change. Let nature be your guide. Note how in nature things change daily, and note as well how this is also true of you, you too change daily. Make today different, change intentionally. With intent everything is possible.
Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Inspiration for this blog comes directly from my reading of my dear friend, and noted Jungian analyst, Michael Gellert’s recently published book: Far From This Land A Memoir about Evolution, Love, and the Afterlife, which includes his soul’s profound interactions with the spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. His book also provides a serious exposition of Jung’s technique of active imagination, in combination with dreams and visions, to interact directly with the inner contents of one’s psyche, as well as the greater Spirit.
Rest assured, this is not a dire blog. The Greek roots of the word apocalypse are apo, meaning away and kalyptein, meaning to cover. To take away the cover of something is to unfold its inner truth. To remove the shell of a nut is to reveal the seed of new life. Apocalypse is, literally, the action of the unfolding of truth and new life.
The dark foreboding cataclysmic connotation of such a pure and promising event that the word apocalypse actually depicts can be traced to its biblical usages. The ancient title for the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament, is Apocalypse. This book depicts apocalypse as Armageddon, imbuing it with end of the world scenarios.
Certainly, the unfolding of new life can be a violent process. The labor that brings forth new human life is often accompanied with cataclysmic contractions, perineal lacerations, and bleeding. Sometimes, thankfully rarely, the unfolding of new life can be fatal for both mother and fetus.
Indeed, the apocalypse of birth is not without great risk. Nonetheless, apocalypse, with all its lethal propensities, is the bringer of new life, not the consummate punctuation of life’s end.
The apocalyptic chaos of birth is the condition addressed in hexagram #3 of the I Ching: Difficulty at the Beginning. The images that form this hexagram are thunder and rain, the elements that combine to generate a great storm, the prelude to a change of conditions.
“Times of growth are beset with difficulties. They resemble a first birth. But these difficulties arise from the very profusion of all that is struggling to take form. Everything is in motion: therefore if one perseveres there is a prospect of great success, in spite of the existing danger.” –I Ching, Wilhelm edition, p.16
Hurricanes, fires and floods abound. Great migrations of people escaping uninhabitable environments or conditions of aggression dominate world decisions. Threats of viral infection impact every world citizen. To remain persevering in this time of obvious apocalypse is to maintain an attitude of awe and love as these rigorous energies, channelled through nature and human nature, bring forth new life.
To succumb to the current apocalypse, as if it were armageddon, is understandable but misguided. Indeed, there is much in the world that must change. We must let go of old ideas and ruling principles that are unsustainable. The unfolding of our new world will, and is, shaking off that which stands in the way of necessary growth.
However, one ruling principle is far from being shaken off—in fact, is ever refining in this current time of apocalypse—and that is, the rule of love. The obvious polarization of people, even intimates within the same family, is merely the clash of energies generating irrationality in this time of great change. These polarized opposites are stages of differentiation and refinement that must, of necessity, find ultimate union. That can only happen through the refinement of real love.
Love based upon the truth and the interdependent needs of all is the seed that is being planted from this current apocalypse. Nonetheless, the shell of that seed is one tough nut to crack!
Hold on tight, for love is, indeed, coming to us all.
Unfolding,
Chuck