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Becoming REAL

In recent years many of us have felt like stand-ins in our own lives: understudies playing a role on short notice while we waited for our "real" selves to return. We've been in dress rehearsal for the quickening, and it's been a flume ride of the highest order.

The good news is that density is transmuting into destiny faster than we can say "anagram". The world stage is welcoming us as the… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on January 9, 2010 at 8:24pm — No Comments

The Heart of the Matter

We've entered a quantum realm, where mainstream "realities" of force and fear seem more and more illusory, while living in the flow and in the know feels real. The mental, hierarchical structures and strictures are dissolving, although it doesn't always look that way! Embracing the matrix is key. How do we do this?

In Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World, Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, reminds us that the words… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on January 4, 2010 at 9:13pm — No Comments

Once In A Blue Moon: A Potent New Year's Blessing

On December 31, 2009, we'll experience a blue moon lunar eclipse. A blue moon typically refers to the second full moon in a given month, which only happens once every few years, making it unusual enough to generate a sense of expectancy. However, the original definition referred to the 13th full moon in a "tropical year", or growing season, traditionally measured from one winter solstice to the next.

So while the full moon and blue moon… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on December 29, 2009 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

Mercury Rx: A Healing New Year's Gift

On December 26th, the planet Mercury will appear to move backwards in the sky until January 15, 2010 — a dance it typically does three times each year. Because Mercury rules communication, transportation and technology, many people have an instinctive aversion to these retrograde cycles. But as with all shadows, Mercury retrogrades contain hidden gifts.… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on December 25, 2009 at 1:27pm — No Comments

Season of Stories

"The universe is made of stories, not atoms." ~ Muriel Rukeyser

As we enter the year's prime shopping season, stores tend to replace stories as the gift source of choice. I grew up in Paramus, New Jersey, the shopping capital of the known universe, so I understand just how seductive — and soul diminishing — the material mindset can be.

Emerson said: "Rings and jewels are not gifts but apologies for gifts. The… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on December 17, 2009 at 2:34pm — No Comments

Reaching Your Boyle-ing Point

At an age when most performers have hit their peak and may already be on a downward spiral, one rising star has captivated the world — not only with her phenomenal voice, but with her story. Susan Boyle shot to stardom just before turning 48.

We generally groom our superstars as youth: usually a new name enters our consciousness when the performer is between 18-22, sometimes… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on December 7, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

December newsletter: From Resistance to Resilience

Years ago a popular television commercial featured a maternal manicurist who would soften her customers' hands in Palmolive dishwashing liquid. The theme was both arresting and funny. The patron, upon learning the contents of the cuticle-softening dish, would jerk her hand away and gasp: "Dishwashing liquid?" Madge would calmly pat her hand back down, reassuring, "It's Palmolive!"

I was ruminating on how such a commercial might play in the… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on December 3, 2009 at 3:38pm — No Comments

How to Become a Magnificent Manifester

"Start a huge foolish project, like Noah." ~ Rumi

What do a purple sweatshirt hanging from a tree branch, a loaf of freshly baked bread, a dead car engine on a stormy night, and a magical forest cabin have in common? They're just a few of the inspiring stories I frequently share about the role of synchronicity in our lives, and how learning to recognize it, embrace it, and nurture it can be the key to changing the way we live.…

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Added by Amara Rose on November 26, 2009 at 2:06pm — No Comments

Gratitude Guide: Six Simple Ways to Give Thanks

1. Offer an ear. The greatest need most people have is to be heard. You can listen someone into healing just by being fully present to receive what they want to share. This is mutual gift giving.

2. Offer a hand. When you spot your elderly neighbor out raking leaves, wander over and ask to assist; suggest you need the exercise. He may be longing for someone to talk to, so you'll be a double dose of gratitude.… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on November 21, 2009 at 3:09pm — No Comments

Is Your Life a Banquet?

Thanksgiving is about food the way Christmas is about presents. In modern life, neither expresses the true spirit of the holiday — although the potential is there. Because at core level, the real issue is always love.

Is there enough love to go around? The answer is yes, and — we must awaken to this truth on… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on November 20, 2009 at 11:09am — No Comments

Going Wireless: Taking the Risk You Fear Most

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." ~ Helen Keller

Though we live in an increasingly wireless world, most of us are hardwired to feel an impending sense of doom when a "deadline" looms: when we experience ourselves as being… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on November 18, 2009 at 3:09pm — No Comments

Enough

It's almost that time again in the U.S.: Thanksgiving. We celebrate the Pilgrims' gratitude for the kindness of their Native American neighbors, who taught them how to plant and harvest enough food to survive in a new world. It's an appropriate moment to reflect on what "enough" truly means. READ THE…

Added by Amara Rose on November 16, 2009 at 12:06pm — No Comments

Scared to Sacred: How to Fall in Love with 13

Uh-oh, it's Friday the 13th! Superstition was terrific as a Stevie Wonder song, but it's not so great as a life pattern.

A society steeped in superstition and a materialistic value system will find it easy to assign anxiety to anything that threatens the status quo. Thirteen is actually is the number of movement, of change — a wild card — and that can be very scary. But it's our lost connection with the Divine in everyday life… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on November 13, 2009 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

A 100-Word Formula for a Soul-Inspired Life

In the current issue of my e-newsletter, What Shines, I write about how surrendering to Love, with a capital L, leads to the experience of oneness we simultaneously seek and fear. I quote from Neale Donald Walsch's final book in his Conversations With God series, Home With God.

Synchronistically ~ because synchronicity is one huge sign we're living in the flow… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on November 12, 2009 at 4:52pm — 1 Comment

11:11 = Eleven a-lovin'

November 11th always signals a transformational gateway. Eleven is the master number reflecting the transmutation of physical to divine. You may have begun noticing 11:11 on digital clocks. This is an encoding that activates our cellular memory of the ascension process that's well underway. Gillian MacBeth-Louthan says, "The energy of 2009 comes to one of its many peaks through the valley of change, as we enter a placement of time and light that has… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on November 10, 2009 at 10:13am — 2 Comments

The Sky Is Falling — NOT! The Truth About 2012

On November 8th, we enter the next phase of our global evolutionary upgrade, known as the Sixth Night of the Galactic Wave Movement, according to Mayan scholar Carl Johan Calleman. It's a demanding time, and a bit messy, as planetary birth processes tend to be. But is it cause for alarm?

Until recently, comparatively few people were interested… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on November 7, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Living in the Slipstream: Creating Community Everywhere

My November newsletter delves into our deep yearning to connect, both in cyberspace and 3D. Looking forward to your feedback!
What Shines/November 2009: Living in the Slipstream

Added by Amara Rose on November 2, 2009 at 10:23am — No Comments

Halloween: Just a Specter of Samhain

In the U.S., Halloween is all about costumes, trick-or-treating, candy and, occasionally, mischief. Few people realize the date also marks a sacred day on the Celtic calendar, Samhain, ushering in the dark half of the year. October 31st precedes Day of the Dead/All Soul's Day, which takes place November 1-2, honoring those who have… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on October 27, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Is Fun the Secret Ingredient to Positive Change?

Would you take the stairs versus an escalator if the former were somehow enticing? How about if the staircase turned you into an instant pianist?

This brilliant concept originated in Stockholm, where a normal staircase was transformed into a giant piano keyboard. Each stair played a corresponding note on the musical scale, so you could literally step to the beat! The idea fired people's imaginations — so much so that two-thirds more people used the stairs than on a typical day.… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on October 15, 2009 at 5:57pm — 5 Comments

Aching teeth? Sore ears? Unquenchable thirst? Relax ... it's just ascension

Some of the symptoms of becoming "galactic" or fifth-dimensional humans can seem downright weird. Just as we've grown accustomed to (if not comfortable with!) feeling exhausted, wired, anxious, or having strange digestive troubles ... new symptoms arise. READ… Continue

Added by Amara Rose on October 3, 2009 at 6:15pm — No Comments