~ Happy Navaratri ~

Welcome to the 'nine nights' of the Goddess! In the vedic traditions, today's new moon also heralds Navaratri, the festival of the Creatrix, honoring the Goddess energies in 3 of her traditional forms ~ these three forms are Durga, the Invincible Force, slayer of negativity, Lakshmi, wielder of all that is abundance, beauty and good fortune, and Sarasvati, holder of wisdom, music, creativity... each aspect of the Goddess energies receiving honor for 3 nights. Today begins the cycle with Durga, the Invincible Force of love ~ that nothing can withstand. This sweeping wave of Truth clears all else from its path, and thus, if it is invoked, from ours.

How many of us, faced with the above roadsign, would do whatever it took to shift lanes, take that exit, put ourselves on the path of Truth, no matter where it might lead? I will always take that road. I have made that choice so many times, in so many forms, and for so many lifetimes now that it no longer feels like a choice, but the 'only option'. Truth is a funny thing. It is subjective until it is not. And that, as they say, is a very long journey ~ or a short one, I suppose, depending on one's point of view.

So on this new moon morning, a new moon in Libra, the first day of the Goddess' celebrations, focused on our inner relating, I asked again. If this roadsign loomed before me, as truly it does in every moment, are there any aspects of self that would swerve in the other direction? Put on the brakes? Blow a tire? Allow the engine to break down? The metaphor is usually felt in the body. Our physical 'vehicle' for navigating life. Are there patterns left in the physical or emotional body, still, that might choose a delay at the very least, because "truth hurts" or "truth will make you mad" or "truth....(fill in the blank)"...Are there patterns that would choose a breakdown at the mere appearance of this choice? And if so, may I find the compassion within my being to provide an alternate flow of information so that Truth may find its place?

Happily, this morning, there were none of these voices in evidence in the body, as it is happily recalibrating in a very new energy. Celebrating with the Goddess archetypes a new way of being ~ in health, in safety, in unabashed, unhidden, relationship AS ONE. "Human" in appearance only, pretending no more. Moments such as this are precious to me. I am grateful. Grateful for the trees we walked through at sunrise, for the creature beings we saw and felt along the way, for Surya, the sunrise itself, for the surface world, such a miracle in this universe, and for Divinity in the body, at what seems like long last.

May we all consider deeply and well the choice for Truth, what it may hold at any moment, and the gifts along the way!

Happy Navaratri! (and new moon!)
~unending love
Nalini (Mary)
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New Moon, New Alignments

Fluidity in Creative Fire

This week, there was an 'extra' transmission in the "Friday" Divine Feminine Transmissions series: a 'fifth' download for the moon cycle that ends right now as I write this..at 12:42P mdt, the new moon alignment happening right about now.

I thought to send it along here as well, as the opportunity that awaits us at this time of transition and awakening is the alignment inward, deeply inward, with our creative fire elementals - our personal 'salamander' guides - and with the outer reflection of the inner light. Like my friends here above, flinging ourselves into the light in timing with the wave of Grace we now find ourselves held and emcompassed within.

~ Creative Fire ~
This week, being the 5th week in the lunar cycle we call 'July', there would not normally be a transmission. The Great Mother feels otherwise. Here it is. Gratitude to all who receive Her. ~Nalini

"My creative fire burns brightly. It illuminates even the deepest, darkest ocean depths within this world and within your essence. Where you persist in holding yourself separate from my transition, you will experience its transformative flames, purifying, transforming, mystifying you with its intensity. You are BEING mystified! It is my best humour at play. Your inner, mystical nature is what carries you ~ holds you ~ feeds and nurtures the core essence of all that you are.

The urge to move inward need not be a withholding of self from other(s). Drawing inward draws you closer to Me, into My Heart, into the heartspace where we co-exist as One. The essence MUST now draw itself in and upward. As your Earth Mother reforms herself in this way, a conscious choicepoint lies within and before you. Flow with the currents of Gaian evolution or perish in the attempt to remain separate 'ahead' or 'behind'. A world is evolving, ascending, and few have chosen themselves to accompany Her transcendent flight. All you need choose is 'yes' and Divinity will provide the answers. One moment in time, at a time. There will be no linear path forward in this choosing, but a oneness within the dance. Dance well, dance mightily, dance as though the turning worlds ARE watching! For, in Truth, the cosmos breathes with this journey, this moment, as a reflection of ALL That Is."< br />

~ as given thru 'Nalini' from the Great Mother 07/29/2011 ~ Happy New Moon!

Dust off your intentions and jump!!!

May Every Blessing Find you!
Nalini
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~ Falling Into Ascension ~

Today the cycles and divestiture are in the offing.

Yesterday's transition in the Venus cycles, was the stage in the mythical/mystical journey of Inanna, where she adorns herself with full ceremonial regalia and begins her journey into the Underworld. When she reaches the first gate she is told she must enter the underworld like everyone else and is required to give up one of her vestments. This first gate on the deepening journey represents the 7th chakra where she is asked to give up her crown.

The first gate is also known as the Gate of Divine Authority and the release of her crown represents the release of any distortions she has with her direct connection to spirit and the divinity that she innately is. Succinctly put, she must relinquish any remaining spiritual ego, any misperceptions of the Divine essence that she currently embodies. She must release the 'crowning glory' she has worked so diligently to attain.

In Sobonfu Some’s book Falling Out of Grace she says:

"…If we are going to achieve our purpose in life, we must be willing to fall out of grace and accept its lessons. When we feel righteous about ourselves or deny our brokenness, we are fighting against the higher states of grace that await us.

Here is something…I have had to learn over and over again through experience: To fall out of grace is a gift, one of the greatest gifts that one receives in life.

When we are in grace, we begin to take things for granted and we actually stop working on ourselves. Falling out of grace shakes us up. It reconnects us to the larger universe in order for us to see ourselves anew. It forces us to rediscover where our true center begins. And, to learn what needs to be set aside."

Returning to the mythical Goddess archetype, Inanna’s journey requires her to relinquish her divine knowing – making a full initiation possible. She is willingly embracing an invitation into the unknown and/or shadow realms while also releasing the references that have defined her past knowing of who she is. She is 'giving up to Grace' all that she knows herself to be.

This new moon is an opportunity to surrender what you know so you can enter into the unknown and grow in ways that wouldn’t be possible if you were not willing to brave the deepest inner journey.

Embracing our shattered, brokenness is not the same as indulging or wallowing in it! We make a conscious choice to divest ourselves of any self-righteous self-aggrandizement and simply 'be' as we traverse the realms of the unknown. Allowing the unknown to embrace us fully is the opportunity of this alignment.

It is the deepest letting go of all.

May you let go with ease and grace and allow the Flow to carry you!

May Every Blessing Find you,
Mary (Nalini)
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Sivaratri and the Year of the Tiger

~ Breaking the Cult of Normalcy ~

When we are addictive, we are in an unhealthy trance state. We all know this about material, physical addictions. What about psychic, spiritual addictive states? The largest addiction that humanity has succumbed to is the 'cult of normalcy'. What is normal? How to fit in? How to survive amongst everyone else? How do I make money through the status quo when I see through the illusion? For lightworkers, this translates to being addicted to the particular form of helping. 'How I help' has become 'fixed' or has become an identity.

When we look deeper, when we commit to the deepest strata of self-inquiry and not only honor but live ONLY by our authentic divine expression and the guidance it provides, then we begin to embody that which will dream the new cycle forward ~ dreaming from the heart, as the Divine Vibration of Creation.

Welcome to the energy shifts of 2010!

We have, within this week, opportunities to release the addiction to normalcy through the celestial alignments available. Receive the gifts! Celebrate the light in all Her forms!

February 11th (12th in India) Maha Shivaratri ~ the Night of Siva!

Lord Shiva is the representation of primordial energy from which everything was born and into which everything in the universe will dissolve. In other words, Lord Shiva is also the Great Mother. This week we celebrate Shivaratri. This is the night where Lord Shiva is said to have revealed the dance of primeval conception, preservation and destruction.

Maha Shivaratri occurs once a year, and this year it falls on February 12th in India (and February 11th in North America). Prayers offered during Shivaratri are said to be amplified 10 million times. This is Shiva's mercy, the descent of Divine Grace. If there is a more auspicious time than any other when you can elevate your thoughts and empower your goals, it is this special night!

Practices that empower these energies:
~ Clean your living space and clear your mind
~ Enlighten your thoughts by remembering the Divine
~ Allow the prosperity of enjoyment and bliss! Have fun!
~ Light a ghee lamp or some incense or burn sage to purify negative energies
~ Celebrate everything that is good in your life right now!

Traditionally, one chants 'Om Namah Shivaya' at this alignment.

Dattatriya Siva Baba has initiated a new version of this mantra, as
Divine Mercy for the transitional times we are in: VaYaNaMaSi !
"Do this one million times and your life will be a miracle" ~ Baba

For more information on Sivaratri, you are invited to visit
http://www.astroved.com .

New Moon ~ The Initiatory Time of this lunar cycle ~

Saturday, Feb 13. The Aquarius New Moon is at 6:51 pm Pacific Time.
This new Moon is a time for energizing the mysteries of innovative kindness toward self and others. Kindness has the power to facilitate radical life changing experiences at a deep cellular level. The Aquarius New Moon inspires us to envision and seed the freest possible expression of our true heart’s desires in livelihood, self-realization and in relationship.
Adding kindness to our visioning and seeding practices for any new moon raises our vibration, accelerates and accentuates the power of Gratitude, along with increasing our skill as conscious co-creators.

This new moon is illuminating the forefront of innovative, cutting edge, shamanic healing energies and technologies. This furthers creating paradigm shifts in consciousness designed to create a shamanic healing process that reconnects us with our inner knowing.

Remember to, just after the new moon timing, or within the next 10-12 hours, write down your hearts' desires and put them under your pillow for the night, or - better still - send them to yourself in an email, letting the Universe know that these are your intentions. Await signs of their fulfillment at the next full moon at the end of the month! The Goddess always grants what is asked of Her. It is up to us to allow and receive, first the signs, then the manifestations thereof.

For help with this process, join us at Delphic Wave on Friday the 14th at 12 Noon Pacific time, for a new moon tele-gathering. For more information or to register use this link.
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Sunday Feb 14, Chinese New Year ~ Year of the White Tiger

The New Year begins in China on February 14 with the New Moon. Due to the time difference, the New Moon for the United States is in the 13th. The Tiger is a symbol of power, authority, luck and great courage. Tiger years hold Spirit and Strength for those who align with these energies.
This is a time to courageously express the wisdom and strength of your personal power through your own inner divine authority, for the purpose of creating your own special luck and magic during this Chinese year of the White Tiger.
Ride the tiger! Be as the Goddess Durga and embody the invincible force within. This is done by mastering ease and grace, and allowing the Shakti to flow through you, using your hands as Her own.

May Every Blessing Find You at this auspicious time,
Mary
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New Moon Dreaming

~ Consciously Seeding a New Reality ~
~ Dreaming through the Heart ~

A new moon is once again upon us, this coming Saturday night (or whatever day it will be for you in your part of the world). The new moon time is the dreaming-forward time, the time just past the 'dark', when all things turn inward, the time for stating consciously in the still-small centre within each of us, what our hearts and souls truly desire. A new moon is a catalytic time, a time to seed, to plant and water. What is the heartseed of this time for you? To what will you give your heart energy during this next lunar cycle? Find the place within you that your heart swells to meet. What uplifts and inspires and delights the new within you?


We can use our dreaming abilities to proactively create many things. We can dream our expanding consciousness forward, clearing all that no longer serves, (http://www.delphicwave.com)

We can dream our livelihoods forward in a way that serves Source as She moves through us, one another, and All Our Relations, (http://www.whisperingenergy.com).

In our dreaming we choose, each moment, what our focus will be and what we will become. There are many traditions for 'new moon intending'. All focus on aligning with the lunar cycle to more easily make manifest the dreams of our hearts' desires. With each new dreaming we find more of ourselves, more pieces of the real, fewer holdouts in the shining of the light that we are.

This new moon alignment is a time to re-dream your intentions, and to relax into gratitude for the buds and signs that will appear as your dreaming finds fruition.

The next new moon forms on Saturday, October 17 at 10:33 PM PDT at 25º Libra, the sign of balance, partnership, and peace.

Dream well! Dream your wisdom! Water the seeds of your heart!

May Every Blessing Find You,
Mary
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Remembering Conscious Dreaming

Today is a time for setting new intentions, (it is a new moon, a ‘supermoon’ at that, aligned with both Venus and Neptune in ways that call for deep listening and remembering) for opening to your hearts’ desires, in the form of the deep yearning, calling voice within.

This new moon brings the opportunity for celebrating SELF... not the little, limited, programmed, conditioned voice of ‘I’, but the voice of the heart, that speaks from a place of purity, of connectedness, of wisdom and of knowing.

There are many tools, methods and ways for setting intentions. Sometimes we need a formal ‘form’ for doing so. Other times, it is the out-pouring, upwelling from the heart that stirs us.

One ‘form’ of setting new moon intentions that has always been fun for me, is to send ‘mySELF’ an email, during the window (within a few hours after the exact time of the new moon) of the seeding time. As I am writing to Source, the note can take any shape, contain images or not, be long, short, succinct or detailed. I hold the feeling states, the vision, in my heart, body and soul, then hit ‘send’... releasing the energies of intention into the Universal ALL.

Of course, the mail comes into my ‘inbox’ as I have sent it to SELF.
The joy and surprise is in opening that particular piece of mail, scanning it as Source speaking to Source... and being joyously surprised and pleased (like waiting for santa claus) at what signs begin to show at the first quarter and the full moon timings.

Set your intentions (like your sails) - send our your ship (your message) ~ and watch the skies for the signs to arrive! It also helps, sometimes, to file the email away somewhere to peruse again at the full moon time, so that you can celebrate the signs arriving for you at the first time of flowering in the lunar cycle. It is a time to celebrate... to add ease and grace and joy and FUN to your conscious dreaming.

And, if you perhaps encounter resistance to your receiving, remember... in the world of duality ONLY, does there exist a split between sending(giving) and receiving, between offering and acceptance, between ‘anything’ and ‘anything else’. Transcending duality is inherent in wholeness... perhaps seed to plant at this, quite powerful, new moon.

May Every Blessing Always Find You,
Mary
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New Moon ~ new cycle ~ new life

Today is the new moon, at 4:22AM PST. A new moon window lasts approximately 24 hours, and is the perfect time, in each moon cycle, to set new intentions, to re-format what is forming in our lives.

This new moon is the 'last' in the calendar year 2008 in the West, and has some auspicious aspects worth contemplating. A new moon is the end of a cycle and the beginning of a new one. This moon, in Capricorn has to do with how we manage our physical resources / our bodies and our physical lives. It is aspected by a conjunction of Venus and Neptune. Venus is the planet of the 'personal' divine feminine energies of love, or living from the heart. Neptune is the higher octave of the divine feminine, the connection with our Universal Feminine, or unconditional LOVE. Loosely translated, and apologies to my friends who are astrology professionals, this new moon is a seeding time for how to 'marry' our personal soul alignments with divine alignment in and from the heart, and how to "play that forward" in new archetypal alignments and structures in our physical bodies and lives.

A new moon intention practice is helpful in manifesting from the feminine principle. This is one of my favorites.

Sit for however long suits you (or lie down, if that is more comfortable - this is a YIN practice!) and contemplate the energies of the new moon. This is best done after the exact alignment of the new moon and before is moves into the next sign.
Ask yourself what speaks to you in this alignment.
Set intentions for what you are choosing (yes, choosing) to manifest, be it energetically, or materially, in the coming two weeks, and fully rejoice in the expectation of receiving that choice in miraculous abundance directly from Source, at the time of the Full Moon.
Avow your trust in the Divine Feminine magnetic principle, drawing this to you.
Now, put it away. Mark your calendar for the full moon, to joyfully receive whatever aspect of your miracle awaits you!
I have practiced this for years, and am continually amazed and in gratitude for what Source provides!

This new moon is an initiation into the heart. May yours bloom in abundant peace and joy and may its fragrance delight those you encounter.