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

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

What could be better than all that?

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

I've been trying to make it home

Got to make it before too long

I can't take this very much longer, no

I'm stranded in the sleet and rain

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

The mornin' sun is risin'

It's kissing the day

Oh, the wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'

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

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

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

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

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

This is the month to claim yourself.

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

Easy.

Breathe. And check in.

Simple.

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

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

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

Ask the question. Say it out loud.

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

Breathe.

There you go. Now you know.

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

Personal

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

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

Affirmation: I know what is in my heart.

Relationships

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

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

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

Affirmation:  I AM a gift of love.

Communities

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

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

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

Global Politics

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

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

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

Earth Changes

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

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

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

Global Spiritual Changes

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

Affirmation: I expand and create worlds.

2012. Twenty. Twelve.

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

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

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

There is no right answer.

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

How's that for exciting?

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

What it means to be human

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

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

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

How can you become more aware of your own humanity?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is that the future you wish to help create?

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

What To Expect in 2012...

Personal

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

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

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

Relationships

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

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

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

Communities

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

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

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

Global Politics

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

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

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

Earth Changes

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

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

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

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

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

Global Spiritual Changes

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

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

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

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

What Wild And Delicious Life™ Are You Creating?

If it were up to me, we'd be issued helpful tools at birth. Like:

1. Crystal ball
2. Road map
3. Guidebook
4. Compass

But it's not up to me. Instead of being born with a backpack filled with awesome and fun tools for navigating a strange land, we're born naked. In a foreign country. Not knowing the language. And for the longest time we can't even go where we want. Who planned this vacation, anyway?!!

Human life is intentionally mysterious. But not everyone likes surprises. I happen to ADORE surprises, but sometimes I just want that crystal ball. I want to know that the life choices I've made up to now are good ones that will lead toward the wild and delicious life I want.

So that's where you have me on your side. Think of me as your personal guidebook. Your tour guide through the next year. I'll show you the guideposts and landmarks to look for through the coming year that will help you feel like you are on the map of your wild and delicious life.

What Can I Expect From My Wild and Delicious Life™ Yearly Life Guide?

A years' worth of themes, goals and delicious exploration. 1500-2000 words, several packed pages. Guideposts, roadblocks, beautiful sights to look for. Practices tailored just for you that help you open to your wild and delicious life.

Personal - Self Relating to Self

• Issues that will likely unfold this year.
• Patterns that will emerge and arise.
• Internal conflicts.
• Personal triumph.
• Championing your unique wild and delicious self.

Physical - Earthly Manifestation of Self

• Physical condition.
• Patterns of energy manifestion.
• Challenges.
• Practices to support optimum health and vitality.

Relationships - Self Relating to Other

• How do others see me?
• Relationship challenges.
• Patterns that will likely emerge and arise.
• Practices to support wild and delicious relationships.

Spiritual - Self Relating to the Universe

• What is your relationship with the Universe?
• Guideposts along your spiritual path.
• Why are you here?
• Personal spiritual practice.

Career and Occupation - Self Manifested in the World

• Does what you do reflect who you are?
• What changes might occur this year?
• How to best take advantage of energy flows and opportunities.

What My Wild and Delicious Life™ Yearly Guide Is -- And Is Not.

I rock at tapping into your potential. I am a visionary and together with you, I can vision many aspects of your life. It is up to you to make the choices that support the possibilities open to you. You can choose to accept and flow with what is present for you -- or you may make other choices. Either is okay and both lead to growth. My Wild and Delcious Life™ Yearly Guide details the wonderful world of possibility that is being held open to you.

I believe that nothing is foreordained. We have a soul-level template of possibility. Sometimes we choose to walk within this template, sometimes not. The closer in connection we are to our True Self, usually the closer we walk to this template. My Wild and Delicious Life™ Yearly Guide taps into your personal template. The choices that you make are up to you, and not always on a conscious basis. That is how life works -- often we are led to act in life because of influences we cannot see.

My Wild and Delcious Life™ Yearly Guide is not an absolute prediction of everything that will happen to you this year. That would be ... kind of creepy, wouldn't it? But it IS a guide to a deeper exploration of the True You. Which means it is also a huge step along the way to your manifestation of your soul-level life template.

Wait. How Is This Different From The Other Stuff You Do?

I do three other things.

Channeled sessions. An hour on the phone or in person. Q & A with my sources: Polaris, your guides, your higher self. YOUR questions. YOU direct the session. Anything can happen.

Soul Connections sessions. A chat on the phone with me and then 45-50 minutes on your own, basking in the amazing energy flow I direct your way. Meanwhile I'm getting an awesome intuitive lowdown on whatever's up for you -- physical stuff, emotional stuff, life purpose stuff. I email you my magical metaphors and practices to work on.

Sacred Destiny Coaching. Ten power-packed sessions with moi. Connecting the dots of your life. There's homework. We meet weekly. Your life changes. Voila!

So.... My Wild and Delicious Life™ Yearly Guide is not any of those things. It's the framework that you -- on a soul level -- intend to play within over the next year. I don't give this kind of information in this detail and depth any other way.

If you want the crystal ball thing, this is the closest way I know of to get it.

Great! I'm In! What Do I Do Next?

CLICK RIGHT HERE and scroll down to find the pretty Purchase Now! button. Add to cart. Complete your order (you'll be invited to play with Paypal before you're done). I'll respond when I receive your order to let you know it arrived safe and sound. Then you'll be in the queue to receive My Wild and Delcious Life™ Yearly Guide. Count on yours within two weeks of ordering. Elves and fairies are working overtime for this.

I heart you.

Oh jeez. It's December. I know, right?

I saw somebody's Facebook post the other day. It said:  Is it December already? OMFG. I think I knew what they meant.

It's December and I'm supposed to feel great. Merry ho ho. But I am so not feeling it. Instead ... is that dread? Really? There is way too much to do. Parties to go too, whoop. Food to eat/cook/clean up after. Avoiding the baleful stares of the Salvation Army Santas stationed like sad sentries guarding the gates of Wal-Mart as you hustle in for some last minute Scotch tape. (Oh wait, that's me? Fear of Santa-clad bell-ringers?)

And I haven't even started my shopping. And I have stuff to send overseas. Hellllp.

I adore the idea of the holidays.

Egg nog, OMG!

Sparkly foil-wrapped presents! With big Martha Stewart bows!

And glitter-covered unicorn chocolate-y reindeer!

Holidays are supposed to be magical. They used to be. Remember? They always were for me when I was little.

I remember....

• Anticipation.
• Knowing that something wonderful is going to happen.
• Togetherness.
• Feeling people's hearts.
• Smiling eyes and faces.
• The sound of singing.
• All my favorite foods. Cookies and hot winter tea.
• Beautiful twinkly llights
• Houses smelling of pine trees and cinnamon.

We can have that back. The beauty, the joy, the feeling of being connected, of loving and feeling loved. We can have that, or at least a piece of it. A reminder. Steps on the path to awesome. Toward magic mojo.

That's where I can help.

I thought about what I need to feel more together during the holidays. The things that I value. The things I find magical. And I came up with a Big Box 'O Awesome to share that I think you'll really like. The Holiday Magic Mojo Kit, to help you take back the magic and reclaim the awesome in your holiday season this year.

A peek into your personal magical mojo reclamation kit:

• Where does the magic go and why? The four biggest magic suckers and what to do about them.
• Five easy-peasy tools to take back your mojo, instantly.
• Your biggest ally in reclaiming your magics and releasing your Inner Grinch.
• How to spread the love and feeling-good feelings, cuz you know you want to.

Again, why am I doing this?

Because I believe the holiday time -- whatever holiday you celebrate, or even if you don't celebrate at all -- is a magical time. Everything is heightened. We feel a lot. We have memories. But that also means we feel things that don't feel so good. It can be hard to turn one switch on and another off. So we end up turning it all off. That's how The Grinch became so Grinchy -- was his heart really three sizes too small when he was born? Hardly.

I want to feel my magic mojo at holidaytime and I want you to, too. Kind of like one big Kumbayah moment, standing in a circle holding hands and singing. Doesn't that feel good? I want to hold your virtual hand and sing gently to you. And creating and offering this Holiday Magic Mojo kit is my way of holding your hand and singing to you.

Here's what you'll get:

My professionalish magical guided meditation mp3 (24 min) to help you connect with your body. Why your body? Because that's what gets used and abused most this time of year (we have fruitcake to thank for this). The meditation comes complete with my oh-so-soothing magical voice and awesome sound effects that add to the calming, magical experience to help you feel yourself and the power inside you.

A second professionalish magical guided meditation mp3 (27 min). This one helps you connect to your emotions. Why emotions? Cuz this is the time we can go all emo and get eye-stabbingly out of control. My oh-so-soothing magical voice and enhancing sound effects will help you feel grounded and connected, just in time to stand in last-minute line at target or face a houseful of relatives. Trust me.

[BONUS: many people report deep transformation and shifts occurring with these meditations, so your walk back into magic mojoland could also be healing and transforming. Double win.]

My 20-page e-book step-by-step of super-useful, easy-to-do practices and awareness exercises to help you get grounded, release the stress gunk and step back onto your personal magic mojo carpet.

How much is it?

$10.

Why not more?

I normally offer each of the mp3's at $12. That's EACH. And they rock. When I say professionalish, I mean it. These are really good meditations.

And the 20-page PDF alone is worth more than $10, easy.

But I seriously want to hold your hand and help give you that magic feeling back. And I want to make this easy for you. One easy kit to help you feel more magic this holiday season. What could be simpler than that?

How does it work?

Soooo simple. Clickety click THIS LINK RIGHT HERE. Scroll down and find the magic button. Add to cart. Check out. Donesville. You'll get two automatic download links emailed automagically and direct to your pretty little holiday-themed inbox. And I will mail you the PDF personally. With a kiss.

Download, listen, read the PDF, and you are on your way to reclaiming your holiday magic mojo.

All you have to do is click.

Your magic starts....NOW.

And hey, if you're not yet sure if this the Holiday Magic Mojo kit sounds like your cup of hot winter tea with cinnamon, think about this:

This stuff works.

It's really good.

I care whether you have magic.

And if it's not your thing, no worries. I still think you're awesome. Maybe I can hold your hand and sing to you another time.

Love,

Talyaa

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

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

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

And now you stand, your face turned upward to the stars, ready to join hands and leap joyously into your future. Do you feel the energy? Do you feel the power of Truth, Love and Beauty standing there beside you? Do you feel the hum of the ancients, the whispered songs of yore, the tangled threads now made smooth by time and intention? This, then, is your call, your awakening, your step into the What Comes Next. This is 11-11-11.

Watch now as you awaken to your sacred destiny, the path that connects you to your family, your community, your world. See how your thread weaves seamlessly and beautifully into the threads all around you, each thread a necessary and integral part of the entirety of the weaving that is the creation of human experience. See your part and honor its magnificence. For you surely are magnificent. So beautiful. So achingly and beautifully human in all your messiness and pain and joy. Each moment that you breathe is held motionless in the annals of time. Each breath is a creation unto itself, a whisper of hope and potential. Remember that the next time you take a breath, and another, and another ... each breath creates a new world.

What do you create now?

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

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

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

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

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

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

I would like to speak to you today about some of the changes that are taking place around the world at this time. There is a lot of concern about the future; and rightly so, because changes are happening. Some of these changes may impact us personally: our family, our friends, people in our neighborhoods. Changes like this bring with them fears and uncertainties.

There are things that may help us put all this into perspective. These things will not mitigate the effects, necessarily, of changes that occur and affect you on a personal basis -- but they can help us put what's going on around the world into a larger perspective.

You understand that everything experienced is a choice. There are, therefore, choices made on a collective level to create the change that is taking place around the world. There will continue to be economic changes that affect people greatly. There will continue to be fears and uncertainties that surround these changes. Both the change itself and the fears and uncertainties are part of a global collective choice.

At the same time, what's coming out of the other side of all this change and surrounding fear is a new way of thinking -- a new way of relating with one another.

What we have built over the past 50 to 100 years is a culture that exists in its separation; in other words, it is a culture that exemplifies the isolationist aspects of living in physical reality. There are many of us, though, who have felt like something is missing, like something needs to change. We felt a lack, a disconnection from ourselves and from one another.

Life on this planet wasn't always like this. Once upon a time people lived in close connection with one another, in close connection with the Earth and with animals, with plants. And that time is coming again. It won't be exactly as it was before -- we have technologies available to us that are so different from how things were 500 and 1000 years ago. So we won't return to a more primitive way of life. What will happen is that we will learn to rely upon one another. We will learn to help one another. There are so many of us out there now who are looking for ways to increase the connection that we feel with one another. We are looking for ways to help people -- to help others live lives that are more joyful, more prosperous, more connected.

This is what I see happening. Any change brings pain with it as well. When we separate from the old way of doing things there is a pain of that separation, but when we know what's ahead it can help alleviate that pain and uncertainty. This is what I hope to do for you now. Again, we know our world is changing -- we can feel it! We see it happening around us. But when we know also that one of the end results of all this change will be a closer connection with one another as people -- and that we as humans have chosen this collectively -- it does make things easier.

I do not mean to belittle the pain of what people might experience on an individual basis. I understand how difficult this will be for many of us. But in looking ahead to our future as a planet and as a species, I also see the wonderful joy and connection that will be a result of all change and upheaval of today. And it is this joy and connection that we will experience on a personal and a global level.

And so be it.

If you live in the United States, you likely have heard of the grass roots protest going on for the past three weeks around the country. It began September 19, created and fueled to protest corporate influence on democracy, address a growing disparity in wealth, and the absence of legal repercussions behind the recent global financial crisis. And now it seems a nation is transformed.

What does this mean? To you, to me, to the world?

Whether or not you agree with the politics behind Occupy Wall Street, this movement comes from an inner force that is inside each one of us. And that is a very very good thing insofar as the unfolding of the world's communication and sense of empowerment is concerned. For in some ways, this movement (and the others it was based upon) marks the beginning of a new way in the world. A way in which people find their voices. A way in which we learn to cooperate. A way that we learn to harness the power of the new media. And a way to create real change.

It is very likely that real change comes of this movement. Not just in the way we interact, but positive social change that affects a great many people. It will likely not look the way that activists might like it to look (handing over 99% of the world's wealth to 99% of its people is a lovely thought but is not likely to be the path we take), but it will be real change nonetheless. It is nearly impossible to galvanize and enchant a nation without that inner force taking hold inside each and every one of us and coloring our future actions. Do we become kinder, gentler people? Do we look at our neighbors differently? What about the homeless man, hands out in supplication, at the street corner? Do we begin to see and feel the humanity inside each and every one of the planet's seven billion human brothers and sisters?

The short answer is Yes.

Yes we are changing how we see one another. Yes we are changing how we treat one another. Yes we are changing how we see ourselves as a species and we act our larger part in the universal tapestry of creation.

Positive influences to expect from Occupy Wall Street:

• Learning new ways of organizing groups of people
• Kindness in supporting the do-ers
• Greater realization that small actions by one person do make a difference
• Greater awareness of social structures
• Increased hope for change

So! Sounds great, right? It does! But be aware too that there are no actions without consequences. Some other consequences from Occupy Wall Street might be these, mostly fueled by newfound awareness of individual status and the (unfounded) fear that there is little one can do on an individual basis to change this:

• Greater levels of anger and dissatisfaction with current living conditions, leading at times to desperate individual actions
• Decreased population
• Uncertainty leading to increased levels of attempts at governmental control

But wait! There's more!

Consequences of these seeming negative consequences will likely be like these:

• Greater numbers of people becoming facile with group facilitation techniques and personal growth modalities, becoming happier and more supportive of others. Win!
• Fewer people overall is a lighter planetary burden, resulting in less pain from famine, disease, and war.
• Increased numbers of people empowering themselves by linking arms in smart activism that can create real change.

Occupy Wall Street is a piece of the overall ever-changing tapestry of human evolution. It acts as a touchstone -- a focal point -- that suggests real and positive change influencing the future of the planet. It appears to be one in a long line of similar events that point to the uprise in individual and group empowerment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hold a stone in your hand and feel its song

Stand under a tree and breathe with it

Draw a Tarot card and gaze at the image

Indulge in a sensual massage

Immerse yourself in a tea ritual, sipping slowly

Let the bass notes of loud music permeate your being

Taste delicious fruit

Breathe the scent of just-fallen rain

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

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

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

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

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

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

Personal

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

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

Affirmation: I AM wiser than I remember being.

Relationships

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

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

Communities

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

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

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

Global Politics

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

Affirmation: I AM a harbinger of peace.

Earth Changes

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

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

Global Spiritual Changes

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

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

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

As we approach the Equinox, not only do the days and nights become closer to being in balance, one the same as the other, but as a global human collective there is also a striving for balance as well. You will see this in your personal experience as you attempt to create connection between your inner world and the external one, or as you attempt to reconcile any two seemingly disparate elements of your life. You will see this in community, as groups strive to create harmony (and often at the expense of actual forward movement). It is much the same in nature. The earthquake activity around the globe – Fiji, Japan, Aleutian Islands – is but Gaia's attempt at releasing energies needed in order to achieve a certain element of balance.

But why become balanced at all? What is the impetus? And when achieved, can balance be maintained. Should it be maintained? How?

Your questions ring loudly!

The impetus to balance is in part to match the energies of nature. We all feel energies around us, regardless of ability in discerning or naming these energies or feelings. We all are affected by what surrounds us in nature. So when such a strong daily influence as the sun's path is creating a certain dynamic, the natural desire of all beings is to be in harmony with that dynamic. We want to be in tune with our environment. It feels better that way, things flow more easily, and we feel less pain and more pleasure.

Another reason for wanting to be in balance is that balancing acts as a rest to the body, mind and spirit. Part of human-nature design was to allow such a focal point to be almost impossible to ignore on a regular basis. Therefore, part of the beauty of the sun's inexorable march across the heavens is to create a field of balance twice yearly that all beings can then respond to accordingly. Animals know what to do instinctively. Your cat, for instance, has likely been shedding for a few weeks as part of her preparations and internal resetting. Plants also respond to changes in sunlight. Every part of the natural world has its own response to this time of resetting, of balancing, of juxtaposition between the internal and the external.

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

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

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

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

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

What to Expect This Month

Personal

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

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

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

Resist. The. Urge. To. Push.

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

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

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

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

Relationships

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

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

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

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

Communities

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

Affirmation: I AM the soul of my community.

Global Politics

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

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

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

Earth Changes

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

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

Global Spiritual Changes

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

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

Affirmation: I AM the divine that walks the heavens.

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

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

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

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

Go ahead. Do this now.

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

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

Recently I had a total facepalm moment. You know what I’m talking about. It’s like Homer Simpson’s “D’oh!”s but stronger. More like the moment you realize that all your life you have been Doing It All Wrong. There is a better way. So you slap the palm of your hand to your face. Yeah. I could have had a V-8.

That’s what has been happening to me about Wants. About saying what I want.

I figured out I have been going about my Wants all wrong. Well, not wrong exactly, since nothing is ever “wrong” in the larger sense (it’s just a learning opportunity, right?). But certainly inefficient. Here’s why.

I was never saying what I really wanted.

I suspect I am not the only one doing this. Hey, I lived on the planet for many years not realizing what I was doing. Or, rather, not doing. Do you say what you really want? Really?