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.

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."

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.

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.