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June 2010, Dragon Speak In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the month of maximum light with the coming of the Summer Solstice on June 21. With the help of this expanded light, Mother Nature is in high-gear; fruiting, flowering, and growing. And with this expanded light, humans are also going into high-gear. Both nature and humans are filled with energy, hope, new ideas, and a general exuberance for life. This is the time in the cycle of nature when outer action and manifestation are called for. We have talked before about the great changes that are happening on your planet. And, we have talked about the implications of these changes for both individuals and society. It is time to be reminded that, before great changes occur and take root, there are a series of small action steps that bring those changes into being. 
Change begins with the holding of a clear intention for what you want. Then you must decide what actions could move you toward your goal and begin putting those actions into practice. Change often involves breaking old habits, beliefs and behavior patterns. To do this, you must remember that breaking old habits does not happen immediately, but takes consistent practice of the new behaviors. You must be consistent and persevere, because the old ways have power in your life. Patience is important because you may need to discard some of your new behaviors because they don't seem to work. You must be able to adjust and recalibrate so that you can move ahead with what works, while releasing that which doesn't. This is the creation process that moves step by step toward the manifestation of the new. It is very easy during this process to become frustrated because you may have had to readjust the new behaviors a number of times before you find what seems to work. There is also the rule of "unintended consequences" when a change of behavior takes you in a direction you had not anticipated. And, sometimes the process of change re-shapes your original goal because of what you have learned, and your goal itself changes. The "quantum leap", when the change you have worked to achieve for so long suddenly seems to be real and an integral part of your life, only comes about after this period of experimentation, analysis and re-shaping. Society changes in the same way that individuals change. Because you are a part of a bigger society, the changes that you make will effect the whole. You are not helpless, you are not powerless. As you make your own changes, you can be a role model for many others without being aware of it. When enough people shift, society as a whole moves. If you want to manifest a society that reflects the law of oneness, you can achieve it! So, what small changes in your individual behavior can you make that will bring this vision of oneness into reality? For example, you could begin to practice one "random act of kindness" per week. You could also begin to watch your negative words, thoughts, judgments because words, thoughts and judgments lead to behavior and can increase the very things you want to prevent and transform. Remember, your choices matter and will effect change at a collective level. You are an important part of the paradigm shift. This is the time for conscious creation!
May 2010, Dragon Speak In the Northern Hemisphere, the signs of Spring are well established. The days are longer, the temperatures are warmer and trees and flowers are budding. These signs help you to recognize that nothing is static whether it be in nature or in your personal lives and that cycles of change are an integral part of life on your planet. You are now in a grand cycle of change that we have talked about before as a “paradigm shift”. Paradigm shifts are, by definition, changes on a fundamental level, where your basic presumptions of reality are being altered. When basic assumptions about reality are changing, then too the methods you use to achieve goals must also change.
Let’s look specifically at the methods that you have used in the past to achieve your goals. For much of your existence on this planet, force and manipulation were the tools that you chose to get what you wanted. Often personal integrity and compassion for others were sacrificed to get your needs met. The philosophy that underlies this is “the end justifies the means.” So, violence against others, lying, cheating, stealing, back-stabbing and, even a total loss of personal integrity, have become acceptable, as long as you get what you want. This philosophy has resulted in wars and artificial shortages of goods. It also shows up in a passive acceptance of people going hungry, people being homeless, people not having health care, people being sent to fight wars for economic reasons, human trafficking, genocide and torture. These methods of dealing with your world are based on the premise that you are all separate beings and your only loyalty is to yourself and your immediate family. Once you recognize that this belief has been running you and your society, you can see how these beliefs have hurt you, your children, your brothers and sisters across the world, and the Earth herself. These accepted norms of behavior must be seen before they can be changed. Now is the time to take your head out of the sand and take action to change these fundamental beliefs that have caused such pain. This paradigm shift is about recognizing that you and all creation are indeed ONE. What effects you, effects the entire world, and vice versa. If others suffer, then eventually you too will suffer. When you truly believe and act from the axiom of “do unto others what you would have them do unto you”, because you have experienced its truth, then your consciousness changes and that leads to your behavior changing. We are talking about the literal changing of life on Earth, because you are no longer operating under the “separation belief”. This change of consciousness, which is the first step, is about getting rid of the false sense of separation between you and the world which allowed you in the past to turn away and ignore other’s suffering and manipulation. Compassionate and just methods of achieving goals are already present in your world. You just need to begin to employ them. For example, you may still want wealth and success, but achieving this does not come at the price of hurting others or the environment. Hold onto the energy of Spring as you work toward creating a world that brings relief, hope and joy to you and to all.
April 2010, Dragon Speak April Fools Day, taking place on April 1, originated in ancient times in many European cultures. The exact origins of the day are not known, however, April Fool’s Day has been associated with a calendar change in France and with the advent of Spring. It has also been associated with the need for societies to invert the social order for a brief period of time to allow social tensions to dissipate (a blowing off of steam). April Fools pranks were strictly time limited and often were only allowed to be practiced until Noon on April 1. This ensured that the normal social order would be quickly restored. In the tarot decks, there is a “Fool” figure which is the first card in the major arcana. This “Fool” figure represents every person in his/her spiritual journey. The image tells us a few things about the character of the Fool. The Fool is much more than a prankster or trickster. The Fool has his feet in both the spiritual and material world and is a bridge between vision and practical reality. The Fool is a visionary who can manifest his vision because he knows the rules of the material world.
The Fool archetype is a part of each human. This archetype has important lessons to teach humanity. For example, the Fool is not so captured by everyday reality that he cannot see the possibilities of change. Most of you are so trapped in the necessity of making money, caring for your families, and the everyday responsibilities that material life requires that you don’t often have the time or energy to imagine or explore other possibilities. It is at this time of paradigm change when you need to allow the Fool in all of you to come out and play. The Fool is a figure that knows about trust, taking risks, spontaneity, and playing with possibilities. The “trapped mind” and the hierarchical system of most societies look at the Fool as irrelevant, crazy, and weak. So, you have been programmed to not allow this part of yourselves to help you to be unconventionally creative, (to think out of the box) when big changes are happening in your life. The Fool in you helps you to play with possibilities that have not been accepted by your culture. You are able to move outside the rules to entertain anything that might work and solve the problems that you are facing. Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem at the same level of consciousness that created the problem. The “same old, same old” no longer works when humanity is standing at the brink of a “new world”. It is at this time that the visionary is most needed and should be supported not only in yourself but in the culture as well. Old consciousness and old ways of understanding only lead to old solutions. So, the old ways will only produce more of the same, more of the old solutions that are no longer working. It is time to invoke that place in yourself that knows about play, breaking the rules, and putting together unusual combinations. This is the time to trust your intuition, your dreams, and your creativity because it is in trusting these that you will be able to plug into visions that have never been seen before. This will enable you to go beyond the limits of the known world. This known world with its own set of rules and limitations have held you from tapping into your vast realm of imagination that is essential in the creation of your new world. The old realm carries judgments that limit the individual, the society, the culture and the world. It is the Fool in you that has the courage to stand up to the judgments and the fears and take the risks necessary to imagine something different and then to make that happen. The Fool values the knowledge that comes from the heart as much as the knowledge that comes from the intellect. Unless you have both, you only have half the answer. So, we call on the blessed Fools of the world to emerge now, in courage and in laughter, to create a world that has never been seen before, a world of heart and mind, a world of spirit and matter, a world where everyone counts and peace and respect are not just words.
March 2010 Dragon Speak We have spoken before about the Earth and humanity being at a point in its cycle of change where there must be a necessary break with the past . Part of being in this shift means that organizing principles of your culture are changing dramatically and are opening the way into the formation of a radically different scenario. It also means that you are caught between the death of the old paradigm and the birth of the new.
Times of profound paradigm shifts have been labeled in astrological terms as moving from the Age of Gemini to the Age of Taurus then to the Age of Aries then into the Age of Pisces and now into the Age of Aquarius. Each age has been associated with different developmental stages of man’s growth.
As you come into the Age of Aquarius, you have reached the developmental stage where you can move beyond your adolescence and into a level of maturity that recognizes that each of you is part of God. As you already know, leaving adolescence is a difficult task. Adolescents experience themselves as the center of the universe. Their developmental task is about forming and claiming their individuality. Peer pressure and acceptance is very important at this time, and adolescents do not want to be told that their actions have consequences. Adolescents have loyalty to their small peer group and don’t see their connection to the larger world. The agenda is set, in the adolescent world, by those that are popular and “cool”. Everyone else either follows this lead or they are diminished and shamed. Can you see how this applies to the current situation on your planet? The adolescent frame of mind cannot solve the problems that it has created. A new level of maturity is necessary to find the solutions that are needed. The Age of Aquarius is supporting the maturation of the human race. This maturation gives you a clearer vision of what is actually happening because you are ready to move beyond an adolescent self-involved framework of understanding. For example, it is only in recent years that humankind has become aware that their economic endeavors have environmental consequences. So the alarm has been sounded, but you are still denying the consequences of your behaviors and choices. You have the facts, and now you must act on those facts as you move from adolescence into maturity. The adolescent vision has also impacted how you have treated one another. In the past, when richer countries exploited poorer countries, no one knew about these evils. Now with the internet and TV, you know what is happening across the Earth within hours. In addition, you have been able to see the devastating consequences of some of your actions. When you are able to see and relate to others across the Earth, you are aware that all humans want and need the same basic things. You see the connection between all beings. What moves you into your maturity is turning this awareness into action to solve these problems and restore justice. Your current situation, which is one of seeing the issues around you, but having no solutions in sight, is full of frustration and can bring on a sense of hopelessness. You need to realize that this sense of frustration is the fuel that is needed to fire up and motivate change. Just as when individuals are in a process of change, you need to be unhappy enough that you are willing to strike out in a new direction. These heavy feelings are just another part of this process. So without unhappiness, frustration, and hopelessness, there is no reason to change. As uncomfortable as it may feel, this is the fire that lights the dynamite that will blow up the old structures and clear the ground for something new. You are now standing at a breaking point of a new wave of energy that is moving mankind into a new era. You can either stand still and let the wave drown you, or you can move with the wave and ride it into shore. This is the moment to act. Talking and being aware are no longer enough!
February 2010 Dragon Speak In some parts of the world, this is the month reserved for Valentine's Day or, more inclusively, this is the month of the heart. This month serves as a reminder that you spend much of your life in your head and not in your heart. For example, you believe that, when you make decisions, those decisions should be dispassionate and based only on facts and analysis and what you can predict in the short-term. But, this has been an excuse to not look at long-term results and not look at the damage that may be done by short-term and narrow thinking. For example, companies often make decisions based on short-term profit projections, and fail to look at the long-term consequences to workers and the community. When decision making also comes from the heart, long-term consequences that may have negative effects on people and the community are taken into consideration, because the heart holds the knowledge that, what hurts the one, hurts the all. To deal with the entire picture when making decisions, the heart is what is called upon. The intellect only sees part of the picture. Self-interest only sees part of the picture. The heart sees the whole and is open to intuition, deeper wisdom and concern for all beings.
So, when we speak of the heart, we are not speaking of just emotional reactions. We are speaking of the wise center that knows that decisions are not made in vacuums, but have greater implications for the whole. The heart considers all the aspects of a decision and the ripples that go out and reach into the community and the world. A "bottom line" decision works for profits but injures people, communities and the environment. (When indigenous peoples made decisions, they considered the consequences up through the 7th generation.) You are now beginning to realize that your limited view has brought about suffering, not only to the world at large, but to the individuals making those decisions. Any decision made anywhere on your planet has an impact on the entire planet. Air pollution in China and the resulting ozone is making its way to the West Coast of the US and making smog worse. (This according to a January, 2010 newspaper article in a California paper.) In the Western world, especially, you have been trained to believe that "greed is good" and that self-interest is more important than the common good. At this time of radical change, when the movement of consciousness and the recognition of the Spirit that you are, are under way, it is essential to move into the "bigger" self to complete the journey. This is where the heart comes in. The heart recognizes what a smaller vision does not, that your self-interest is irrevocably tied to the interest of all beings. Listening to your heart is vital to your own growth and to the future of the planet. A holistic approach to decision making and to your entire life is required at this time.
January 2010 Dragon Speak The new year is upon us. In Chinese astrology it is the year of the Tiger. Let's consider the archetype of the tiger as it emerges in these last years before 2012. When you image a tiger, do you see it stealthily creeping through the jungle looking for its prey? We know that most predators look for that which is old, sick and wounded. So, without predators, the balance in nature cannot be achieved. How does this archetype play its role in today's urban world?
The energy of the tiger is a natural force that is important to maintain balance and to clear out that which no longer works. Without death, life does not continue. The irony is that, literally, death feeds life. Not only does dead plant material feed the earth for other plants to grow, but also, death maintains a working balance that ensure that the land can carry diverse species into adulthood. This tiger energy which helps the natural world flourish also is important in the nourishing of the social order. Man- made structures, ideas and beliefs also need this "culling" process so that which no longer works is replaced by the new that does work. Without this process, culture becomes fossilized and no longer functions. We see this cyclical process when a new idea or invention sweeps in popularity across the world because its time has come and you humans are ready to take the next step. It is natural to want to hold on to that which is familiar. But, if you hold on too long, then you are subverting the life process which is one of change. When your energy is tied up in maintaining the old, it is not available to proceed with the new. The tiger energy will help you let go of the clutching and fear so that you can use your energy to embrace and enhance the new. The tiger energy can destroy the old before there is any sign of the new coming. You may be left with only shredded and bloodied pieces of the original form well before you can see the new idea on the horizon. Isn't this where the world is standing now? Reacting to this tiger energy by digging in your heels, refusing to acknowledge the passing of the old, or by feeling fearful and angry because this change is not of your choosing, only brings you more pain and fear. For change is inevitable. When you are sitting in the transition time, it is always difficult and scary and confusing. Please acknowledge these feelings and the anxiety that accompanies them. But also, know that change is coming, and no matter how hard you try and fight it, it is still coming. Is there any way for you to feel and work through these very real difficulties without making this process a power struggle between you and the change? The tiger also symbolizes courage and that is exactly what is needed at this time. Ask the tiger to assist you in finding the courage that lies within you.
December 2009 Dragon Speak We are back from vacation and feel the need to speak to you about a serious topic. We need to talk again about the presence of illusions in your lives. It is necessary for you to become conscious of these illusions that influence your decisions if you are to be free. We wish to speak specifically about those illusions that are basic and counterproductive to your spiritual growth and independence.
A recent event that was covered by TV and print in the U.S., involved several illusions. People paid a large sum of money to attend a workshop. During the workshop, some of the participants failed to listen to their own bodily wisdom and suffered dire consequences because they gave their own decision making ability and common sense to another. Why is it that you cannot trust yourselves? Why do you mute and ignore your own inner wisdom? Why do you believe that money, degrees and popularity give expertise and wisdom about what works for you in your life? Why do you give control to others who assure you that they know what is best for you? Throughout history some of these assumptions have resulted in death and slavery. How do you give yourselves permission to question these illusions and begin believing in yourself and your own inner vision? The first step is to get to know yourself and what your values are. This requires quiet time and self-examination. Take the next few weeks and ask yourselves: what are my values, who do I trust more than myself and in what areas and why do I trust them? (For example, you trust doctors without question, but they make mistakes too. Where is your line between trusting the doctor and trusting yourself and your inner guidance?) You cannot really trust yourselves until you know who you are, what is important to you, and what you are willing to do to achieve your goals. You cannot really trust yourselves until you listen to your deep inner reactions and feelings. This takes time and effort. You have allowed your inner wisdom to be devalued, and your inner voice to be silenced. It is easy to distrust yourselves when the culture tells you that authority figures are more reliable than your own inner knowing. You also have been told that if something is valuable it must be expensive. So you tend to judge truth and meaning according to outer "tags" like cost, titles, popularity, and salesmanship. This is an illusion, these outer "tags" do no measure truth. They merely measure the current state of your culture. This is the time to allow and encourage your inner wisdom to be heard and acted upon in your life, because this time is about empowering yourselves to experience the God in you.
Dragon-Speak September - November 2009 We have been away for two months taking care of other major projects. Now, we are back and glad to be here! We thought we would talk again about the year 2012 in your Western calendars. There has been much written about it and much fear engendered of late. We want to stress again that this particular moment- Dec.21, 2012 to be exact- isn't about the end of the world or some Armageddon experience. It is a date which marks a magnificent opportunity for humanity and planet Earth that has been a long time in the making.
The journey of creation from the Divine into matter and back to the Divine is the essence of what your existence is all about. There has been a deep forgetting about your Source and about the fact that you are on a journey. This information has been "seeded" in you and in the Earth so that, at the appropriate time, you would "wake up" from a deep slumber and begin to integrate this great awareness that would lead you to a jump in consciousness - a paradigm shift- for the entire planet. This "jump" experience has been offered before to many planets and civilizations, but its acceptance involves being ready and being willing to bring Truth into your everyday lives for the good of all beings. You still struggle with warfare and greed and competition, but there are now enough people who have lived their commitment and Truth that the invitation to "jump" is being offered again. Ancient calendars, traditional peoples and deeply spiritual cultures have known about this time. They were able to encode these teachings in their documents and drawings and the oral teachings of gifted Elders. The date mentioned by so many and held sacred is almost here. As we have said before, everything that is happening in your society and world-wide is part of the preparation. In addition, all that is being brought into readiness in the cosmos and in the Milky Way and in your Solar System is part of this approaching time of destiny. Ask to know about this if you don't already, and you will be lead to people and places that will help you. You are standing on the edge of a great spiritual birth. Just as your legends say that a star appeared in the Heavens to denote the birth of a Messiah-figure, so this time is marked by many "stars", many heavenly bodies moving into alignment. This alignment, as well as events on planet Earth, are heralds of what is unfolding. Don't mistake what is happening as chaos or irrelevant or tragic. Yes, there are deathings of old ways and systems, but it is the labor pains preceeding a new birth in you and in all. How can you best prepare for this upcoming time since the unfolding Reality is with you right now and impacts your life daily You have evidence at your fingertips that nothing is the same as it was and something new is happening. In the next few months, we hope to give you some more instruction that will assist your flow into the new. We ask you to take very seriously this juncture in your history. You are about to be in a position that last occurred 26,000years ago. Can you handle it and not miss the opportunity being offered to move into the position designed for you in the beginning by Divine Love? Trust, surrender and vision are being asked of you, even when you can not yet see the wonderous changes to come. Think and reflect on this. Dragon Speak August 2009
As you continue to live through this "Shift of the Ages", you have undoubtedly noticed that your experience of time has changed. As magnetic energy shifts on this planet, your sense of time is being altered. In the past, you were able to experience the apparent steady forward movement that accompanied your efforts. Events seemed to develop in a consistent sequence that you could build on, that you could predict and monitor easily. Your experience in the past has defined time as a constant. There is a past, present and future. This belief needs to be reconsidered in the light of information coming from quantum physics and consciousness studies. These studies give you a new paradigm from which you can understand that time is a construct of human consciousness. Not only is new information coming to you, but in fact, your consciousness is expanding, and you are able to see the universe and your place in it in a much larger context. As your consciousness expands, you become aware that you are connected to all creation and are part of the universe. With this expanded definition of who "you" are, there is nothing that "you" are not. You are part of All and have always been and will always be. Technically, then, there is nothing that is called "past" or "future" that is not part of your present experience of yourself. How does this manifest in your life? Have you ever been around children who knew much more than their age and experience would account for? Have you had moments of sudden clarity (an epiphany) when disparate pieces of information came together to make a whole? Have you ever experienced déjà vu? Are you aware of things before they happen? Do your dreams give you information that you need? Have you experienced synchronicity happening more frequently? Things that were called "coincidences". These experiences and many others like them are instances of time revealing itself as non-linear. Another experience of non-liner and non-local events is involved in long- distance healing. The desire to heal is a state of consciousness that moves beyond time and space. In quantum physics, a researcher who focuses on his experiment gets one result, but that same experiment with the same researcher, who does not focus on the experiment, gets a different result. Intention and attention (where we put our focus) move beyond narrow limits of time and space. Once you become aware that you are part of creation and that past, present and future no longer mean what they once did, you become comfortable in a new skin as a citizen of the cosmos, not bound by small visions of time and space. And, you realize because you are part of everything, that you and your actions directly effect everything and that you are effected by everything. All is connected, that means YOU! You co-create the world. Believe this because it is true! Because your traditional sense of time is speeded up, events are occurring out of their usual order. This can have an impact on your physical and emotional health. But know -this is one of the changes being birthed by the "Shift of the Ages". To help your adjustment to these changes, recognize that you are not going crazy, but these changes in your perception of time are real. In any time of change, you need to begin to let go of the "old ways" and allow the new to come into your everyday life. Be the tree that sways in the storm, not the tree that breaks with a high wind. Be flexible and kind to yourself and to everyone else. You are all experiencing this reorganization of life on this planet. Dragon Speak July 2009 July is often a time set aside for vacationing, meeting with friends and family, having fun activities; in general, changing your usual pace of life to one that is reviving and different. You don't have the usual expectations of yourselves and can throw away your "to-do" lists!
Vacation time gives adults in your societies the permission to play! Play is not just for children. Play is necessary for health on all levels. And, play keeps you from getting overwhelmed, stale and unable to see new solutions because you are so over-loaded with the usual responsibilities. It is so easy to get stuck in a rut and keep utilizing the same old strategies to handle the challenges in your life. Play gives you new energy and allows you to see with fresh eyes. When you are "in a rut" and can't see ways to approach difficulties, anger, stress and frustration build. Play enables you to stop running in circles and put your life, with all its current issues, in perspective. Also, when you are in this rut, you can become blind to the tools and support that you already have in your life. Play brings lightness into your situation so that the obstacles don't seem so formidable. In addition, play brings a rest to your entire system, and the body doesn't need to function in high gear as it does normally. More and more evidence is accumulating that sleep and rest are imperative for good health and functioning. Sleep and rest, and the restoration these bring, are not just luxuries, they are vital. So often, humans forget that their bodies are sacred and need care and refreshment. Allowing the "inner spaciousness" that play brings, invites your imagination to blossom. You are able to imagine new possibilities. Any "staleness and stuckness" that you feel can loosen and dissolve. Your life can seem new again. You can detach from whatever you have held so tightly so that new energy flows in you. Life can seem joyous rather than a constant drag! When play opens you up to new and fresh energy, handling your responsibilities can become less of a heavy burden, and you can handle them in a lighter way. God didn't put you here to become a grim and joyless automaton. Life isn't just about shouldering responsibilities, solving problems and being serious. Life is also about laughter, playing, having fun and being able to appreciate the beautiful world and people that surround you. Integrating play into your life is not just about two weeks in July. It is a vital part of living and feeling alive. Even when you are home, a small change of routine, a day at the park, a few hours in the library, having coffee with a friend, choosing a different pattern during your work day, taking a free day from the electronic maze you live in, playing with the children or pets, playing a game, listening to music; just having unscheduled "free" time each day can keep you healthy, physically and mentally. You also need to feed your connection to God so that you can experience that you are part of something greater that is unfolding. Meditation and prayer can assist this. Try for at least a few minutes a day to connect with the God that lives in you. Go out and have some fun! Dragon Speak June 2009 We wish to honor the male principle that is celebrated in some countries during the month of June as Father's Day. On earth, male energy is associated with action, structure, discipline, work, protection, judging and competition.
As we mentioned last month, it is important to mother yourself, and it is equally important to be a good father to yourself. How can you be a good father? The voice of the father in you tells you that you need to establish boundaries to define who you are and to protect who you are. Boundaries help you to discern what values, attitudes and beliefs are truly held in your heart and not just flooding in from your environment. Boundaries help you to stand strong and to be clear when outer influences seek to persuade you to act against your own truth. Fathering energy also supports self-discipline. Self-discipline helps you to achieve difficult goals, for when the goal is difficult, it is sometimes easier to give it up. Discipline helps you to define who you truly are and to stay in alignment with truth, because it is so easy to be swayed and follow the lead of others. Fathering energy is also about manifesting who you are in the world. Healthy father energy teaches you how to function in the classroom, in a job, in the marketplace. For it is in the marketplace where you learn the importance of staying true to yourself while you fulfill your work responsibilities. Integrity is built by the balancing of these two arenas, and there are times when bold decisions must be made if your job compromises your personal values. Commitment is closely related to integrity since making a commitment involves your honor and your pledge to do what is necessary to fulfill your commitment. How you keep your commitments is a measure of who you are! Fathering energy includes judging, and judging, in its purest form, is about evaluating whether your actions have produced the results that you wanted. It also enables you to determine if people and situations fit your values and standards. (This judging is not about condemnation of yourself or others.) Competition is another area where the father shows himself. You have taken competition to its negative extreme, but there is also a positive side to competition. That positive side is related to healthy self-esteem, because you feel that you are worthy enough to deserve what you need and willing to step out into the world to try and achieve your goals. Fathering energy is about action. You cannot simply sit on your beliefs, values and attitudes. You must put them into action in your life. You live in the material world, and you must function in that world by manifesting who you are in a tangible form. The healthy and whole "mother and father" are not always mirrored perfectly in your parents. So, you must become your own healthy "mother and father". This means that you are striving for wholeness in your life. That wholeness means that you balance the softer and nurturing qualities of the "mother" and the more outward, active qualities of the "father". You can have a happy and whole childhood no matter what age you are!! Dragon Speak May 2009 Some countries honor mothers during the month of May. This honoring extends from images of Divine Mother, like Mary, Isis, Demeter, Kwan Yin, etc. to your own special mothers. When you think of a good " Mother", you usually think of one who is nurturing, unconditionally loving, compassionate, accepting, and protective of the young.
All humans carry a "mothering" energy that is an aspect of your personalities. This is true whether you are male or female in gender. When someone is suffering or in need of a friend, some of these mothering instincts will emerge quite naturally. We would like to suggest that not only is it important to honor those qualities that are associated with the "good mother", but it is also important to act as your own "good mother". The "softer" qualities of mother are certainly needed in your societies. Too often, these qualities have been seen as weak and only needed by children. As you grow into adulthood, you are often told to "toughen up", "don't cry", "don't act like a baby". And, these commands are more often told to the male of your species. What is wrong with crying or needing support and comfort when you are hurting or you have lost something important in your life? For, only by grieving and receiving comfort both from yourself and from others, can you accept the losses that you suffer and then move on to the new things that are coming to you. Change and loss are an integral part of life. Even when those changes are positive (a new job, a marriage, a baby), something must die in your old life to make way for the new. Every change in your life asks that you make adjustments and that an emphasis be put on new aspects of your life. So, like the "good mother", it is OK to be nurturing and gentle with yourself as you navigate these changes and losses in your life. You will find that these adjustments will take place faster and with much less difficulty if you are kind to yourself. Your species is so judgmental of itself. So often you expect yourselves to master the new with few mistakes and with a short adjustment period. You show little if any compassion for yourselves when you make the needed mistakes in your learning process and even less compassion as you make the adjustments in your own personality and life that are needed when you are in a new situation. Compassion is not for the weak and underachievers, it is the quality that is needed whenever a new challenge is faced. Earth is a learning laboratory for humans to experience how spirit and matter (your body) work together, and those "kinks" are still being worked out. So, all of humanity and all of the universe is in a very large and long learning curve. Compassion is the grease that allows the difficulties of learning something new to smooth out the journey. A "good mother" does not yell at her child when the child is learning to walk and falls. Instead, the "good mother" praises the child for the small steps forward and loves and comforts the child when a fall happens. A game is made of the child learning to walk. Support and out -stretched hands are available whenever the child needs them. It is very difficult to learn a new skill when you are constantly criticized for every mistake or misstep that is taken. It is more important than ever to give the gift of "good mothering" to yourself in whatever ways you can. Can you stop judging yourself when you did the best you could but couldn't quite achieve what you had hoped for? Can you be compassionate and accepting of who you are even when some of your characteristics are not valued by your family or society? Try to come up with one act a day that is just for you, something that makes you feel special and cared for, something that comes from the "mother" in you to feed and nurture the you that may be weak or confused or despondent. Maybe this is simply sitting down to eat inside of standing up and eating quickly to rush off to the next chore. Whatever it may be, make this May a self-mothering month. All those you love and care for will also benefit from your joy, your peace, and your centeredness. The Dragons wish you a Happy Mother's Day!
Dragon Speak April 2009 Resurrection of HopeIn the Northern Hemisphere, the Spring Equinox has just occurred. Easter is coming. These holy days are about the strengthening of hope after a long and difficult winter. "Winter" is not only a season of the year but also felt as a "winter" in the heart. Especially, during this winter, many around the world have been "frozen" by a lack of hope and a feeling of powerlessness.
The daily news is magnifying human behavior at its worst: greed, selfishness, cheating, lack of compassion for others, and lack of integrity. The news is also filled with the consequences that global warming may have on Mother Earth and you. The constant reminders that conditions are bad seem to make those conditions even worse. With all this bad news coming at you daily, it is difficult not to be swallowed by darkness, fear and depression. Therefore, it is very important that you notice what you are listening to, what people you are spending time with, what things you are reading. In general, you need to screen what you are allowing into your consciousness. This is a time of opposing forces: despair and hope, destruction and construction, powerlessness and empowerment. Humanity is at a crossroads. When you are at a crossroads, you must choose one way or the other. No choice is an approval of the status quo. What will you choose? If you choose hope, construction and empowerment, you must act on this choice. If you don't act, then you are supporting the status quo, because nothing changes in your life. What is hope? It is trusting that the future will be better than the present, even when there are few signs to hang your hope on. When the fields are frozen and covered with snow, it is hard to imagine that in a few months, those fields will be covered with new life. Hope is also the belief that life moves in cycles and one cycle feeds another. Just as in a forest, the decaying of old vegetation nourishes and supports the birth of new life, so it is with human life. We build on the old structures and form new more vibrant life. Looking at human history shows this cycle over and over again. For example, the agrarian age giving way to the industrial revolution and the industrial revolution giving way to the technological age and the technological age giving way to the green revolution and global consciousness. Resurrecting hope in your life is not foolish or unrealistic. Hope is based on real life experience, and it is what you can hang onto during these difficult times. Hope is also a vehicle that moves you. When you are hopeless, you are stuck because there is no life energy to get you moving. When many are hopeless, the change process slows down, because the hopelessness takes away vision and motivation. So encouraging hope in your life not only feeds you, but gets the change process moving so it will go faster.
March 2009 We mentioned the Chinese New Year in our last article. We'd like to start there this month. The Chinese people have always honored Dragons and always appreciated the nature and value of earth energies. When they spoke of the twelve animals coming to the Buddha to be named and assigned to the years of the calendar, they did so because each animal would indeed embody a certain set of characteristics of that cycle of time. The animals were chosen appropriately because the people were in tune with underlying principles of the energetic field of Earth.
As you know, this year on the planet has been designated as the year of the Earth Ox. What does this signify? And, how might knowing this help you? The key words for the Earth Ox are: structure, service, persistence, creativity, hard work, strength, and service to the Earth and environment. These characteristics are important during this year, as old structures weaken and fall and new structures are being creatively birthed. Also, while new structures are built, persistence, hard work and strength are required. For example, when you build a house, the entire house doesn't go up in one day. You must build a foundation, put up the walls and roof and then begin to fill in the rest. Such is the case when you build any structure, internal or external. This is a time when you must act even though you don't see the final product for a long time. This is a time to build for the long term because with persistence, hard work and strength the structures will be built soundly and for the ages. In particular at this time, the world is attempting to rebuild economic systems. This requires the laying down of many small pieces that will eventually come together in a whole. Along the way, however, this requires faith, persistence and patience as the pieces slowly form a whole. You may not see the end result for a few years. This process is also true for you and any internal changes that you may want to put into place. You must lay the foundation by having an idea and intention, practice new behaviors with determination, believe in your ability to make change, and wait for the change to appear. The temptation today, in a world of instant gratification, is to make an intention and want it to manifest over night. Real change demands the intention (Spirit) be brought into the physical realm (matter) through action. Since you are both Spirit and matter, change happens when the two arenas are integrated. The process may take some time to appear and so you must be both patient and determined. March is also the month of the Spring Equinox, a time of new beginnings. So both this month, and the year of the OX, are supporting and encouraging new beginnings for you and for the Earth. It is time to consider what personal structures are no longer working for you and need to be released, what structures can be kept but need some adjustments, and what new structures need to be built. Spring cleaning is the order of the day for yourself and the planet.
February 2009 If you are in the northern hemisphere, you are sitting in the middle of deep winter. Long nights of darkness and cold forced humans to “pull-in” to conserve heat and energy. So, winter also became associated with introspection and hibernation. This year, your time of introspection takes place in the midst of great change. During this time when you are aware that both you and the world are in transition, you need to enter the quiet inner realm where plans can be made and ideas seeded in preparation for springing into action and blossoming.
During this time of major transition, it is important to take the time to re-evaluate long held views upon which you have based your actions and your life. These views were established at an earlier time in your life and in the life of the world. Have the changes that have already occurred made these old views counterproductive or obsolete? You can no longer act unconsciously, following in “old ruts” of thought or emotion. Awareness is necessary now! Winter rooting and contemplation can be frustrating if you expect instant results. This time is most important. You must build a foundation within that will support and nourish the changes that are to come. Manifested change takes work and change that will last and be positive needs to be planned and supported. Why was the holiday (holy day) of Valentine’s Day place in the heart of winter? “What does love have to do with it?” How does love help you during this time of introspection and re-evaluation? The love we speak about here is unconditional love. The unconditional love that is continually offered by the Divine to each of you. It is this unconditional love that is necessary when you begin to re-evaluate your beliefs, actions, thoughts and emotions and to weigh what has worked and what needs to be released. Unconditional love is so important because it allows you to forgive and release all that has not worked, or doesn’t work in this present time. Instead of condemning yourself as “stupid”, “inadequate”, “bad”, etc. you are able to forgive these “mistakes”, learn from them, and decide what you can do differently in the future. Without unconditional love, the process of re-evaluation can often lead to harsh judgments and paralysis when you believe that things will never change or get better because you made mistakes, suffered a failure, or the old way no longer works. Life is full of mistakes and failures and in order to not be a victim of your mistakes, you must love yourself enough to forgive your mistakes, learn from them and formulate new plans. Life is a giant classroom. You would not punish a child, who while learning a new skill, is not immediately proficient in that skill. And so it is with life on Earth, where you learn new skills, change outlooks, re-evaluate and refine plans as you and your situation changes. The great changes, that have already happened and will continue to happen, require that you allow the unconditional love of the Divine to fill you so that you can “roll with the punches” during the coming months and years. Remember, these changes are all pointed toward a more loving, compassionate and forgiving world for all. Let the change begin with you! P.S. The month of February also brings the Chinese New Year, celebrated by many peoples around the world. This year is the year of the Earth Ox. At this time when you have much to heal on this planet related to the treatment of the Earth and of one another, the Ox is here to help you.
January 2009 Happy New Year To All!This is the turning of a new year in your western calendar. Some other traditions have already begun the new year and still other traditions will begin a new year shortly. This year is a transitional year from the ways of the past into a new paradigm of wholeness and global consciousness. As with all transitions, there is excitement and fear. As we have said before, the old ways are falling apart before the new ways are formed, and this is scary. Many people are suffering financial loses as the old financial structures implode and the old ways of thinking that supported those structures are no longer viable. You are moving away from the third dimensional values that were anchored solely in the material realm. You are shifting toward the values that come from a higher dimensional appreciation of justice, oneness and compassion for all beings.
Despite the current sufferings and difficulties, hope can arise and turn your attention toward creating a better future for yourselves and for the entire world. There is something about hope that casts light into even the darkest corners. The spark of hope is never entirely extinguished. And, it takes only a small act to have it bust into flame. Even in the most difficult of human experiences, hope has been triggered. Remember those who survived the Holocaust and went on to live lives helping others in dire circumstances. Remember Nelson Mandela who, despite years in prison under apartheid, survived to be a leader of his nation and the world. Remember all those victims and perpetrators who went through the time of “Reparations” with Bishop Tutu. You are just beginning to perceive the budding and shaky pictures of what may be coming. So, this is the right time to allow the gift of hope to guide you and assist you. We send you these blessings of hope, as do so many Masters, Teachers and Angels! But, it is also necessary for you to do your piece by nurturing this gift of hope so that it is deeply planted in you and your world. What does the gift of hope give you? Hope is a state of expectancy that doesn’t allow fear to have the last word. You are able to see possibilities when you are hopeful that you are blind to when fear fills your vision. Hope gives you the strength to manifest your vision and opens your perspective to draw in those things that will help you create your new world. Hope is the magnet that attracts new possibilities. Some people believe that hope is just wishful thinking and, it can be, if it has no basis in reality. If you believe that you can become the Queen of England, that is wishful thinking because it has no basis in reality. On the other end of the spectrum, you can find hope that is grounded in reality. Hope is saving money on a regular basis that will allow you to purchase a home in future. In between wishful thinking and realistic hope lies the realm of miracles. This is the realm where tumors miraculously disappear and there is no scientific explanation. Between wishful thinking, realistic hope and miracles lies a huge landscape of possibilities. What can you do right now to bring hope into your life and into the life of the planet? You can begin be being more aware of the words that you speak that transmit a positive or a negative vision. Because words are energy, they tend to create what they embody. When you catch yourself thinking only about the negative, change your thinking! When you speak a negative, change the words into something more positive or stop speaking. Gratitude, about who and what you do have in your life, is a way to bring the positive into your thoughts and speech. Negative thoughts and speech lead to negative behaviors that further emphasize the negative vision. For example, when you are fearful, you tend to close down emotionally and isolate yourselves. When you notice a behavior like this, change the behavior to its opposite. Go out into your community and do a kindness for someone. Begin slowly but BEGIN! One suggestion that we have is to create a “Beacon Bowl”. This would be a bowl, glass or cup that is transparent. Place this object in a room where you spend time and where it is easily visible. Get a package of glass marbles or a package of glass beads that are used to hold flower arrangements in vases. If you wish, you could place any type of battery- operated light into the vessel. (As light is reflected in the beads or marbles, they are another example of how the light that you put out spreads into the world.) Every time you are able to change a thought, a word, a behavior from negative to positive, or perform a hopeful act, place a marble in the vessel. Also, every time that you feel gratitude for who and what you are, place another marble in the vessel. The Beacon Bowl is a visible manifestation of the hope that you are creating in your life and thus in the life of the planet. The New Year is a good time to start this, and you may want to extend this practice into the first day of Spring or longer, if you choose. May your hope continue to grow and light-en your life and the life of others! December 2008 It’s time again for the celebration of the Winter Solstice, Hanukkah and Christmas, as well as other newer holidays. These times on Earth are times of generosity and hope, marked by gift- giving and reflection. These are times that teach about the value and beauty of Light coming into dark places. These are also times that celebrate the Divine energy integrated throughout matter, Divinity being “born” into form. It is a special celebration for each being on planet Earth because it celebrates you as Light and as an aspect of God!
It’s a time when even the hardest of hearts begins to soften through images, music, family gatherings and good will moving through communities and across the world. It continues to give a preview of what could be throughout the year on this planet. Some wonder if this is an unrealistic fantasy, but we Dragons are here to tell you that it would not be a wish and dream in your hearts if it were not possible to achieve. The seasonal changes of light and dark, hot and cold, serve to teach you that change is a natural part of human life. Everything changes, and nothing stays stuck in nature and in human nature. A time of spring and summer activity gives way to fall and winter quiet and reflection. It is important for you to remember that a cycle comes to fulfill a purpose. This purpose may be seeding new ideas, harvesting those ideas or providing a time of inner quiet when new ideas are preparing to be born. Humans seem to forget that life is cyclical and that neither the “good” nor the “bad” lasts forever. It is only your belief that things last forever that makes it seem so. If you only trusted the nature of cycles, you would be able to sustain hope during the difficult times because you would know that one phase passes into another. This is especially important now when so many aspects of human life on the planet are experiencing radical change. Radical change often involves endings, endings before the new is visible. This time of the year with the light returning slowly into the darkness reminds you that light is always with and in you, even when you cannot see it clearly. This time of the human yearly cycle generates hope, warmth, and generosity. Why is it only at this time that it is easier to act on these qualities? Why does your heart open to embrace humanity and the world? Why do charities and food banks get more donations at this time? Why do people reach out to the lonely and hungry at this time? WHY DON’T YOU DO THIS DURING THE ENTIRE YEAR? What blocks the process? Maybe, during this time of reflection, you could ponder what changes need to be made so that this spirit can take root during all the months of the year to come. There will still be periods of challenge, of course, but how can you change your beliefs and actions so that the challenges don’t destroy your hope, but give birth to new ways of coping and bouncing back?
November 2008 "The Sky Is Falling"It sure feels like the sky is falling with the continuing financial crises on this planet. When basic institutions that you have trusted and effect your everyday lives are disintegrating, terror and confusion are set free in your minds and bodies. When institutions collapse, it is especially fear-filled because it is beyond the ability of an individual to remedy the situation. You feel helpless because the problems effect you directly and yet you can do nothing significant to solve the difficulty. 
When institutions like banks, stock-brokerage houses and mortgage lenders allow greed to be the only factor in making decisions, poor decisions are made, and the average person becomes a pawn, losing all sense of trust in the system. When trust goes, the foundation of the life you have struggled to build becomes shaky and threatened with destruction. (Let's not forget that it isn't only big institutions that exhibit greed. Wanting something for nothing gets many people in trouble!) Even though these events are able to shake your inner and outer worlds with tremors of anxiety, confusion and distrust, remember that there is another process being revealed. In a prior Dragon-Speak we spoke of the death-life cycle and the need for the old to die before the new can be born. Well, you are right in the middle of this death process! This process, while it seems never-ending, has an end. Knowing that there is an end to this part of the cycle can help you to keep going even when you think you can't. Cycles on this planet have three parts-birthing the new, establishing the new and the destroying of the status quo so that another new phase can begin. Living through a "destruction" phase is very difficult and demands a vision of the whole process, plans for survival and perseverance. Even though you are captivated and entranced by the destruction phase, to break the trance you need to pay attention to the teachings of the Masters. As you may know, ancient prophecies have predicted a major planetary change in consciousness around the year 2012. The entire planet is sloughing off its old skin which leads to major transformation which you will see as a birth of new institutions and systems. In fact, the great teacher, Sanat Kumara, who assisted this planet in its original birthing phase and then returned to the etheric level of the planet Venus, has returned to the Earth to midwife the coming shift on this planet. He returned here in August of 2008 in the midst of what seems to be a devastating time of change. He came because the falling apart of many systems was the sign of the Earth's readiness for beginning the birth cycle. The Dragons know that this is a disorienting time when people are facing very difficult situations, but we want to remind you that these difficulties lead directly to better times when greed and self-interest is not the predominant mode of operation. There are many choices when you are facing such a time. You can choose to contract in fear or to expand in hope, or you can experience a combination of both. The Dragons hope that your choice will not be to stay in the contraction of fear. It is understandable to bounce from fear to hope because fear is part of change. But, try to remember that there is help and hope on the planet at the very same time that fear is so rampant. The illusion that we have about hard times is that things can only get worse and that the hard times will never end. Most of you have had experience of times that were difficult and that you thought would never end. But, they did, and you survived. Remember this when despair tries to capture you! The Presidential election in the United States is about to happen at this critical time. This election will be significant for the entire globe. It may end up being a vote for fear or for freedom, for the old status quo or for a new paradigm. We ask you to carefully consider your goals and dreams for yourself, your family and your world. Then, determine which person can best fulfill these hopes. The unfolding events in the US will influence human history, not just in an economic way, but in the unfolding of all life in all nations on this planet. Fears are being stirred up by political analysts and "spin-doctors" to achieve the effect they want. It is past time to wake up and take charge because everything is at stake. Choose a world where many of the old ways of "doing business" won’t work any longer and where new considerations of compassion and justice can direct the power for the good of all. No longer can you afford to wait for centuries to do this. The time is now.
October 2008 Postscript to the Summer Olympics 2008There were many millions of viewers for the opening of the Olympics and many who were watching favorite venues during the course of the Games. Because of these shared images and events, it may be important to us all to reflect on several themes.
1. A sense of world unity is already in existence. The athletes “parade of nations” pointed out that we are all citizens of planet Earth, meeting here together at this point in history. In addition, we have seen that many coaches from different nations chose to work with teams from other countries, as well as athletes playing for nations other than their own. Some athletes have gone to live in other countries to be trained before returning to their native lands. This is the “stuff” of unity, proceeding from a deep knowledge of another land and culture. It is occurring naturally. The motto for these games, “One World, One Dream” said very clearly that mankind holds similar desires! 2. The usual contradictions were evident. Despite coming together to share a vision, participating nations continued to be engaged in wars. An athlete who wanted to call for the traditional Olympic truce during the games had his visa suspended! What do we need to do to stop living with contradictions? 3. Some of the opening rituals were so well choreographed that the human beings involved almost seemed to be automatons. No one seemed to be “out of step.” This brings up questions about harmony and order. To achieve great things with masses of people, do we need forced control? We know that tight control can produce results. But, can mankind achieve major productions, no matter on what level, and still maintain freedom and individual choice? Can free and creative people come together on a project and manage to have success? A related area of thought involves the portrayal of diversity. The colorful costumes of so many nations, even new nations “born” since the last games, gave us a sense of the beauty of difference! So many times, we have tried to erase variety in fear of possible conflicts. How can diversity be a source of respect and a fuller understanding of life on earth? 4. If you watched the beach volleyball events, you no doubt heard references to certain players who were able to get up from the sand quicker than others and to the sand quality being able to capture the feet and legs of the players. In a metaphoric way, these sand references teach us that sometimes life situations, trainings, cultures, prejudices, assumptions, beliefs can trip us up and make it difficult for us to rise. But, if we develop the ability to work with this tendency of the “sands of life”, we can learn to rise up quickly to “play” again. The problem or issue is not in the falling but in the ability to rise up quickly and keep going. Those who rose up could still work toward a final success! 5. There were many situations during the games that illustrated the highest and lowest possible actions that humans can demonstrate. Kicking a referee or throwing a medal away exhibited the ego control that can take over and backfire. But, trying consistently against seemingly impossible odds, often resulted in victory. And, there were those times when, despite years of efforts, no medals were won and obscurity- not fame- was the result. Yet, people went on, did what they could do and supported others. There are many other insights that flow from these games. You might want to look back over the course of this competition to discover what strikes you or moves you. The presence of the faces of so many innocent and hopeful children, the images of planet Earth facing ecological crises and possible solutions, the reverence for nature especially in wind and water, and the lighting of the Great Fire bring up concerns and feelings that all residents of Earth share. The Closing Ceremonies with an emphasis on circles, a sign of oneness without hierarchy, and the living flame that projected an image of taking the flame into our inner worlds, were fitting closing symbols to these “games” that really brought China into the modern world, exposing the west to its beauty, imagination, technical prowess and humanity and exposing China to the similar human spirit lived in the west. Mankind can work together to achieve what may have seemed impossible in the past, and mankind can put an end to the contradictions that have been played out for so long to achieve something new and magical for all beings! This is the real message of the Olympics, but individuals need to make the choices so that energy for the new is released to do its work. You need to make a choice! Addendum: US Election Elections for the US President are coming on November 4th. This decision will affect the entire world, not just the US. We ask that you be aware of the difference between truth and illusion. Much of the TV political advertisements will play on your emotions and use illusions to do so. When you feel your emotions deeply engaged, fear and anger especially, take care and examine the facts more carefully. Is the ad playing with these emotions or truly dealing with facts? While considering emotions is an important element in decision-making, these critical times require that you examine carefully all the facts that you can gather and use your intellect to discern who will best suit the needs of the country and the world at this time.
September 2008 Body MattersIllusions are all around you and have blinded you to the truth. One of the biggest illusions in your belief system concerns the nature of the body and the material world.
Your body and the material world have been seen as "less than" the spiritual world. You have been taught that the body is evil and a source of temptation. Therefore you have been taught that the body must be disciplined and controlled. This view of the body leads to an exaggeration of the body's natural needs turning love into lust, hunger into gluttony, and self-esteem into pride. We are here now to proclaim that the body and the material realm are of the divine. In fact, all creation is of the divine. The body and the material realm are denser and of a lower vibratory rate therefore are governed by different rules than the spiritual realm. This difference does not make one less than the other. You have been told for centuries that what is infinite and everlasting (spirit) is superior to that which is finite and time- bound (matter). But in fact these different realms are two sides of the same coin. Because you have been told that the material is inferior to spirit, you tend to mistreat all of matter. Your body is either ignored or disciplined harshly. You are constantly trying to mold and change it. This mindset is also applied to the planet and all the natural world. You take what you want, you dump what you don't want and you ignore its natural needs. To get back in balance you need to see clearly the natural rules of the material world. What is the nature of the material world? The material world changes and deteriorates and is dictated to by time and space. If you are embodied you take up space and you age, and you have a past, present and future. Being in matter involves being in the front lines of life, you bleed, you get hungry, you lose loved ones, you get sick. And you also know the joys of good food and drink, the joys of loving each other, the joys of satisfying achievements, and the joys brought by the beauty of the natural world. Being human gives you the whole package, the joys and delights and the sufferings and fears. As humans you unite worlds within yourselves and you strive to balance the material and spiritual to become whole. Yes, as humans you can go to extremes and experience lust and gluttony and pride, but this is part of your learning to balance the material and the spiritual. When you acknowledge and honor the specific nature of both realms, balance and wholeness become possible. Look at your own training and education and notice what messages you have been given about your body and the material world. Take a personal inventory on where you have achieved some sort of balance and where you need to work harder to become whole. How do you view your own body and the material world? Do you take care of your body? (Do you smoke? Do you push until you are exhausted? Do you eat right?) Do you judge your body when it gets sick or doesn't perform to your expectations? Do you listen to the wisdom of the body? Do you even acknowledge that your body has something to tell you? How do you view the natural world? Do you treat the Earth as a garbage dump with your litter. Do you think about the impact that your decisions have on the world? (Do you buy more than you really need?) Do you see the plant world, the animal world and the mineral world, in fact, the planet herself, to be as important as yourself? To create a new and balanced world, it is vital to honor the material as an aspect of the divine. Love yourself, all of you, as part of the divine.
August 2008 Prelude to Dragon-Speak August 2008
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