May 2011 Monthly Visions: Moving from False Authority to Authentic Autonomy

May 2011: Moving from False Authority to Authentic Autonomy

I’ll be honest. I had a hard time getting in the space to write these Monthly Visions this month. Yep I forgot April’s Monthly Visions advice to connect to my inner zero point and I was hovering out of my Vortex for about a week there. How many times have I written ‘don’t let external events determine your inner reality’? Yet something well and truly took the wind out of my sail on May Day: The official announcement that Osama had been killed, and the ensuing celebrations by flag-waving patriots that they had finally smoked the evil one out of his cave and dumped him in the ocean where he belonged. The SuperMan good guys scored a goal for Team “Truth, Justice and the American Way” and the world could sleep a little more sound that night.  Hmmm...

Leaving the topic of ‘Is he or isn’t he dead?/Has he actually been dead for years?’ debate aside, did anyone hear any mainstream news media commented on the astounding amount of data indicating that perhaps Osama and Al-Qaeda weren’t behind 9/11, but that there may have been other forces with other agendas at work there? Did anyone hear any mainstream news media mentioning how many innocent civilians, international journalists and troops have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since the US and coalition’s ‘War on Terror’ – it’s estimated the figure is 303 times the amount of people killed on 9/11!!! We are talking almost a million people!! (You can find some interesting figures backed up by official sources here: http://www.unknownnews.net/casualties.html) 

As masses of the population united in a collective Shadow dance of ‘the bad guy is dead’, our personal tendencies to project onto the Other all that we disown and fear within was on high beam display.  In reality nothing, whether on the personal or global level, is so black and white. There is no ‘us and them’. Rarely is the ‘good guys and bad guys’ story as clear cut as the movies would have us believe. Yet May Day showed that we still love a good movie as long as we all live happily ever after, with no real conscious thought or action or questioning on our part.  The real causes of our terror may still be lurking in the shadows, but pointing out someone else who we believe is ‘really bad’ makes us feel relieved, as if that somehow absolves us of any such badness.  In actual fact, all we are doing is abdicating our responsibility (three words that have come up many times this week) to find the real causes of our problems so that we can powerfully find real solutions for our dreams and desires. Why do we do this? As scared as we are of living with fears and restrictions, are we even more scared to actually live with authentic freedom? And in a nutshell, this is really what sent me off balance this past week, pondering how many people on this planet are still unconsciously choosing the illusion of freedom at the cost of quite the opposite for not only themselves but millions of others?

Yet how can one choose an alternative door of reality or reality perception if you really don’t see it or believe in it, or think your door is perfectly fine? And who are we to judge anyway?  Doesn’t every spiritual master say that all doors and choices are fine, that everyone has their own path to their own destination? Yet one thing just keeps bothering me. While I respect everyone’s decision to choose the door of choice for them, it angers and saddens me no end that not everyone can see ALL the doors!!  None of us can. How is that a fair choice? How is that freedom? It isn’t and that is why we have all been looking forward to this Shift for so long. This is known as the time of revelations – when all that is hidden is revealed with our graduation gift being a rise in vibration and consciousness for the whole planet and everything on it, opening us to more doors of reality and perception and choice. Bring it on, I say!! I want to see all the doors available to us, I want everyone to see all the doors available to them! Then choose away to your heart’s content!

Yes I know the whole theme of this huge cycle we’ve been karmically travelling has been about experiencing certain doors and intentionally being blind to others...blah blah....but we’re coming to the end of that cycle now, right? So, I’m thinking it’s high time some more doors starting getting blasted open for more people. Yes I know it’s happening, I’d just like to see it happening a lot faster with more gusto. Sure everything in its right time – but surely that includes our own inner alarm clocks that are ringing loudly, arousing us from our spiritual slumbers and awakening us into a new phase of conscious action. Our awakening has a greater purpose beyond the personal. Our awakening has a planetary, collective purpose, and it is time for more of us to step into that greater purpose.

It is true that all we each have to do is be our best possible true self, and we will be fulfilling our role in our giant jigsaw. Change starts within, and you can’t change anyone except yourself. Yet it is time for us all to expand what we believe we are capable of doing as individual beings. It is time for us all to expand our concept of just how influential and inspirational our individual actions and thoughts can be. While we are not responsible for shifting others, that can only happen from within, we are all responsible in our own way to shift this awakening up a notch, if we feel called to do so. By that I mean, if you work for a magazine for example and you keep getting a nudge to run a certain story but are sure the editor will say no, don’t just give up before even trying. Pitch the story, and even if you don’t get that story published, maybe you’ll get something close. Point being, we all need to stop automatically deferring to external authority, and start following our inner autonomy.

On the upside regardless of which side of the conspiracy theory fence you are sitting on, one thing is being made very clear: the majority of people do want freedom and peace and I believe that that collective desire will get us there. Some of us might get there in a harmonious way, others a more challenging way, but surely being united in a common desire counts for something when it comes to co-creating a different kind of future?

There is a story of a positive little boy who upon entering a room filled with manure smiled widely saying “With all this s*@$ there must be a pony here somewhere!” So too, with all this heavy Shadow stuff  intensifying on not just the global level but in many of our personal lives, there must be a massive amount of incoming truth and light creating that Shadow!

The best way to hand over all power, control and responsibility for our lives is to believe in lies. The problem is, what happens if we have believed a lie for so long we just assume it’s the truth? How do you stop believing a lie if you don’t even know it is one? How do you even decipher between what is truth and what is not?  Asking someone to ‘tell you the truth’ isn’t necessarily going to work, because they might be totally convinced that what they are saying is true even if it is not.  This becomes dangerous when they are in a position of authority, whether it’s your parent, teacher, doctor, priest, political or spiritual ‘leader’ or nightly news broadcaster. We rationalise ‘well this person I see as my authority, or the authority on the matter, said it, so it must be true.’  Unless we were lucky enough to be raised in a conscious environment, we never really learned to think with our hearts, to feel with our souls, to sense with our energy. Quite the opposite, we were taught to completely ignore those things and to ‘do as you’re told, stop questioning everything, you’ll get into trouble with that kind of attitude’. If we did learn to do these things, we would soon start seeing the difference between truths and lies as clearly as if a neon light was flashing above someone’s head.

With ‘the Apocalypse’ now coming toward us like a speeding train (this is a good time to remind everyone that Apocalypse means ‘lifting of the veil’, ‘revelation’, ‘that which has been hidden to be revealed’) we are currently experiencing a personal and collective lifting up of the carpets. While the upside of this time of revelations is that much truth is being and is yet to be revealed, the other side of the process is that all the lies that have been swept under the carpet are coming up like a choking dust storm. New lies that don’t want the old lies to be revealed are emerging out of nowhere. Old lies that you thought had died long ago are suddenly in your face again. 

Deeply imbedded family beliefs that your cells may have carried without your conscious awareness are likely confronting you in one way or other. It may be blatantly and directly or subtly via the blocks you keep coming up against that are intensifying now. We are becoming aware of where we are still holding on to our parent’s or grandparent’s beliefs/lies like ‘you’ll never afford that’, ‘you can’t make a living doing that’, ‘get back to reality’, ‘who do you think you are’ and so on. 

The good news is, for those who are starting to think with their hearts, feel with their souls and sense with their energy, anything that is not true is clear as a bell. Everyone has their own body signs of when they hear something that is true, or not true.  Some of us experience truth as tingles in our body, our heart beating excitedly, an inner knowing of ‘yes’ this is true, or a general inexplicable feeling that is as strong as knowing the difference between a train track clicking into place or not. Some experience lies as having no energy, like the voice saying it is hollow or disconnected from something, like a knot in the stomach or a general sick or cold feeling. Everyone is different, but where we are all the same is this: your body knows the difference between something that is true for you, and something that is not. It is really, really, time to start listening to your body!

In these times of ‘revelations’, we can expect both major truths and major lies or distortions of truth, to confront us. It’s time to take responsibility for how we choose to respond to what it is we hear and see. We need to think twice (the second time with our heart if not the first) before we believe what we are told just because it comes from someone ‘in authority’.  A word of warning: if you choose to see and perhaps even share what you feel is truth, you might be dismissed as crazy, a conspiracy theorist or a leftie hippie, all meant to infer that you just have no common sense, are unpatriotic and just don’t understand how the world works. The irony is, you may be standing there with a truckload of intelligent, factual evidence supporting your case, but such is the stronghold of ‘authority’ that people will ignore a truth unless it is made ‘official’ by someone in ‘authority’.

It is time to let go of our addiction to false authority, and turn inward to our authentic autonomy. If we believe that the big bad boogeyman outside us can threaten our lives, we also must believe that there is someone outside us who has the power to better our lives.  We are the ones who have the power to change our lives. We are the ones who will determine how our world looks in 2013 and beyond. As the Hopi say, We are the ones we have been waiting for.

(c) Dana Mrkich 2011. Permission is granted to share this article freely on the condition that the author is credited, and the URL www.danamrkich.com is included

Message from a Mayan Elder

Message from Don Alejandro, Mayan Elder:

"At the time of the 13 Baktun and 13 Ahau is the time of the return of our Ancestors and the return of the men of wisdom. That time is now. Arise, everyone, stand up! Not one, nor two groups be left behind the rest.This prophecy is in reference to all: rich or poor, black or white, men or women, indigenous or non indigenous, we all are equal, we all have dignity, we all deserve respect, we all deserve happiness; we all are useful and necessary to the growth of our planet to make it a place where we can live with respect among the different cultures.

According to the Maya Long Count Calendar, we are finalizing the 13 Baktun and 13 Ahau, thus approaching the YEAR CERO. We are at the doorsteps of the ending of another period of the Sun, a period that lasts 5,200 years and ends with several hours of darkness. After this period of darkness there comes a new period of the Sun; it will be the 6th one. In each period of the Sun there is an adjustment for the planet and it brings changes in the weather conditions and in social and political life as well.

The world is transformed and we enter a period of understanding and harmonious coexistence where there is social justice and equality for all. It is a new way of life. With a new social order there comes a time of freedom where we can move like the clouds, without limitations, without borders. We will travel like the birds, without the need for passports. We will travel like the rivers, all heading towards the same point the same objective. The Mayan prophecies are announcing a time of change. The Pop Wuj, the book of the Counsel, tells us, It is time for dawn; let the dawn come, for the task to be finished."

-Don Alejandro, Mayan Elder

April 2011 Monthly Visions: Connect to your Inner Zero Point

So it’s not enough that we have Doomsdayers out there trying to convince everyone that we are approaching the end of the world. (Apparently they have an inability to comprehend that there are calendar cycles far superior to and older than our familiar 365 day cycle, and that just like we start a new calendar cycle every January 1, so too do we start a new cycle every 5, 200 years, and every 26, 000 years, as we are about to do now. And just like the world doesn’t end every December 31, nor does the world end every time we get to the end of a longer calendar cycle!). Now we also have the Denialists showing up at the opposite extreme, basically saying there’s nothing happening, nothing at all, nothing to see here folks, move along.

I watched a video blog piece today by a well known author that said the Mayans simply didn’t get around to finishing their calendar, kind of like half-finishing a book, and so there’s no significance to the end date!!  In actual fact, they did finish the calendar and there is huge significance to the specific amount of days covered in what they call their Long Count. It is a very precise calendar incorporating the Pleidian star system of which our Sun is a part, and the movement of our Earth in relation to our Galactic Centre and Equator. So precise in fact that they knew the exact moment that Earth would be aligned with a point in space that the ancients referred to as a ‘crossroads’ and a point of spiritual awakening. They knew precisely how long it would take to get to that point. They knew precisely that a cycle around our Spiral Galaxy takes 5, 200 years and that every approx 26, 000 years we would experience the culmination of a Great Cycle corresponding with the Precession of the Equinoxes (the Earth’s wobble that alters the direction of it’s Polar Axis). We are at these points now! Sure it’s all very complex so it’s okay not to understand it, but to suggest that life will continue on as normal, perhaps in an attempt to reduce fear, is missing a grand opportunity to be a conscious, active participant in the transformation of our Earth and ways of living.

Denial of the Shift feels to be rooted in the same fear of change held by the Doomsdayers. Denialists don’t want to see signs of Winter, meanwhile Doomsdayers are blind to the coming Spring. Both must therefore be scared that Winter signifies a permanent ending of life, rather than acknowledging the natural cycles of life that ensure we evolve not stagnate.  We need to love, accept and embrace all phases of this cycle. Yes the Earth is shaking, and yes much will collapse, but we didn’t come here to sit and cry amongst the rubble for our lost reality. Now is the time to be like the mythical Phoenix, who at the end of her long life builds herself a nest and sets it alight. She emerges from her own ashes as a new egg, ready to be reborn and live a new long life. The beauty of this story is of her graceful honouring of the natural cycles. She doesn’t see her fiery end as a failure, she simply knows when it’s time to ‘change bodies’. She doesn’t fear ending one life, because she knows a new one awaits. Just as spring and the dawn follow our winters and midnights, so too will a new cycle follow the old. Just like the transformation from one season to another doesn’t happen overnight, so too our cyclic evolutionary transformation won’t happen overnight or occur on one certain day.  It is happening right now, and to deny it or fear it, is to stick our heads in the sand during one of the most spectacular transformations ever to happen to a planet with a humanity of 7 billion transforming right along with her.

Earth is literally shedding her skin like a snake, wriggling out of her old vibration and rebirthing into her new vibration. Every single event occurring right now that looks like collapse or destruction is a huge wake up call opportunity for us. As we rush to re-build homes demolished by earthquakes and floods, are we going to re-build in the same old ways or are we going to take this opportunity to build sustainable, off the grid homes using renewable clean energy and recycled materials? As we witness the meltdown of the nuclear reactors in Japan are we going to listen to the politicians trying to convince us that nuclear plants are still essential and low-risk, or are we going to listen to our hearts that are telling us the risks of nuclear plants far outweigh the benefits, and that we have alternative energy sources available that are zero risk to the health of all living beings on this planet. I am tired of governments and corporations selling out the wellbeing of humanity for money! They do this with wars, with pharmaceuticals, with toxic chemicals, enough already!  

As Earth sheds her skin we are experiencing changes in our magnetosphere, the field protecting our planet from space weather. So we are feeling affected more and more by Solar Flares, and the incoming frequencies of the Galactic Centre.  Lately you may be feeling dizzy, lightheaded, like you are a bit out of your body and not quite ‘with it’, you may feel you need to sit down or pull over in the car, you may be experiencing headaches or migraines, and feel like you need to lie down more regularly. On top of that, you may be highly sensitive to the movements of the Earth as she goes through her Changes, and highly empathetic to the Changes being experienced by your brothers and sisters around the world as they go through their personal and community upheavals. Thus, you may be more emotional than usual, crying intensely, feeling sad or depressed.

The theory is that the changes in our magnetosphere will continue until we get to Zero Point, at which moment we will literally be 100% exposed to space weather and thus the full frequencies of the Galactic Centre. It is said that in that moment we will have the opportunity to have our veils blown fully off us, to have our minds blown wide open, to have a moment of knowing all, remembering all. If you have watched the movie Limitless, I am guessing it would be kind of like that but even better, and without the drugs! 

As you can imagine constantly being influenced by these changes, along with a reality-altering moment of heightened awareness that turns everything you thought to be real and true upside down, is enough to make a person crazy – unless you are tuned in to your own personal Zero Point.

And that’s where we seem to be at right now. The strongest message right now feels to be ‘find your inner Zero Point and learn how to connect to it and stay in it.” What is your inner Zero Point? It is a space in which you feel Centred Stillness. It simultaneously feels calm and energizing, you feel connected to the core of the Earth and the heart of the great central Sun, you feel connected to your own authentic/higher self and Source Energy. You feel protected and know that no matter what, you will be okay – whether in this body or without this body. Your soul is powerful and continues to live no matter what.

In this space of inner Zero Point, there is no fear for there is nothing to fear. Fear is simply the head turning away from Source, from Love, from Consciousness, from Truth. To be in your Zero Point is to be highly aware of everything, yet not react erratically like one of those bouncy dolls that sway to and fro in reaction to every punch.  This emotional tendency to react to external events whether in our own home or on the other side of the world is something that makes us human, yet when we are not connected to our Inner Zero Point our reactions are erratic and often make us feel helpless and powerless. When we are connected to our Inner Zero Point we can observe what is happening, and feel in a hyper aware way what is the best thing to do in any given moment. To be in your inner Zero Point is not to be in numbness or apathy. From your inner Zero Point you are free to respond consciously, from a space of inner wisdom and higher consciousness. From your inner Zero Point you are in your Power and connected to your Higher Power. You do not fear collapse because you no longer see it as destruction, rather you know it to be part of the process of rebirth and rejuvenation.

With increasing amounts of Earth changes, political and social changes, and fear running riot around the planet, it is very important that we each know how to connect to our inner Zero Point and as much as possible live from that space.  We can drive ourselves crazy reading websites that are telling us this country is safe, that area is not, get to a high mountain, start storing food etc, but the right guidance will be different for every person.  From your own inner Zero Point, you will intuitively be guided as to what is right for you. If you need to move, you’ll feel it. If you get an urge to plant vegetables and fruit trees, do it. If you get the feeling to put a crystal into the Earth somewhere, go for it. While certain events do need to happen during this transformation process, we don’t have to experience this time in a freaked out turmoil. We can move through it with calm, grace, power and positive thoughts and actions. Certainly the people of Japan have shown us that this approach is possible even in the worst of circumstances.

From our inner Zero Point we can consciously use our powers of intention and manifestation for the highest good. We can vision a new Earth, a new reality for humanity, one that is based on greater truth, harmony, authenticity and freedom. We can say goodbye to the fear and the numbness that has kept us trapped in the old illusion where truth was hidden.  Very importantly, we can practice discernment. What rings true for you? What resonates? What doesn’t? As the incoming light bombards the planet over the coming 20 months, you can bet that the ‘darker’ energies, will rise up like you’ve never seen before.  Prison wardens don’t really like to see their sources of power (us) flee the prison! So nothing would surprise me. Anything to try and keep people in fear and terror. Use your discernment when you hear something on the media. Ask yourself, does this feel true?  Don’t feel we are in a battle here of Light and Dark, rather think of it as a People’s Liberation as we finally SEE both the light and dark and are thus freed. That which is hidden from view (both light and dark) has kept us repressed and controlled.  As truth is revealed, we become free, empowered beings who can truly start to be the conscious co-creators of our reality.

So how do we get to our inner Zero Point? Every one has a different way that works for them. Essentially connecting to our inner Zero Point means finding a way that you can instantly access that deep place of stillness and bliss experienced during meditation. We can’t walk around meditating with our eyes closed all day, nor might we have time for a 20 minute meditation should we find ourselves in the middle of an earthquake!  You want to know how to plug in instantly, and live plugged in to your Zero Point. For those that find words and affirmations powerful, you can daily say something like “I am connected to my Higher Self. I am connected to the Highest Source of Truth Love and Light.  I am connected to the Core and Heart of Mother Earth. I am aligned with my best possible self, best possible reality and best possible movement forward”. Or you can find other words that feel good to you. You don’t need to use the words Inner Zero Point unless they particularly resonate with you – this isn’t any sort of official name for it, it’s just words they have used to describe the point we all need to connect to right now within. If you love connecting with your breath, use your breath to connect to it, perhaps focusing on your Solar Plexus. If you are visual, there might be a symbol or image that instantly takes you to that place where you are out of the drama, and in the zone of All that Is. Some people highly resonate with the words I AM, or Om Namah Shivaya (I bow to my true identity/my inner self). There is no one way, there are many ways. Use whatever works for you!

As our new collective Phoenix rises from the ashes, truth will be revealed, our vibration and consciousness will be elevated, and we will truly start to live as if born anew. For some this has already happened, and if you are in this group you will already feel a state of calm, peace and higher awareness more days than not. For others still in the birth canal so to speak, know that this greater reality is your destined reality. Connect to your inner Zero Point and love yourself forward. Let this be your ultimate authority, and ultimate guide. YOU are your own ultimate authority and ultimate guide. 

(c) Dana Mrkich 2011. Permission is granted to share this article freely on the condition that the author is credited, and the URL www.danamrkich.com is included

10 Things to Learn from Japan

I don't know who wrote this but it is all over the internet....well said:)

1. THE CALM

Not a single visual of chest-beating or wild grief. Sorrow itself has been elevated.

2. THE DIGNITY
Disciplined queues for water and groceries. Not a rough word or a crude gesture.

3. THE ABILITY
The incredible architects, for instance. Buildings swayed but didn't fall.

4. THE GRACE
People bought only what they needed for the present, so everybody could get something.

5. THE ORDER
No looting in shops. No honking and no overtaking on the roads. Just understanding.

6. THE SACRIFICE
Fifty workers stayed back to pump sea water in the N-reactors. How will they ever be repaid.

7. THE TENDERNESS
Restaurants cut prices. An unguarded ATM is left alone. The strong cared for the weak.

8. THE TRAINING
The old and the children, everyone knew exactly what to do. And they did just that.

9. THE MEDIA
They showed magnificent restraint in the bulletins. No silly reporters. Only calm reportage.

10. THE CONSCIENCE

When the power went off in a store, people put things back on the shelves and left quietly.

The Earth Changes are Saving Us

With the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami happening so close after the Christchurch quake, a lot of people have been quick to take this as proof that Mother Earth is not happy. Another way to look at it is, she is a Living Being, a Living Planet that goes through her cycles just like we humans do. She has been here for billions of years, long before we came, and will be here long after. It is typical of humans to ignore natural cycles, and it is especially historically typical to disregard and dishonour feminine cycles. Oh yes, Earth is not only a Living Being, she is a Feminine Being.  Have you ever heard her being called Father Earth? I don't think so.

As a Feminine Being, Mother Earth goes through very specific cycles - some we see regularly in our Summer, Autumn/Fall, Winter and Spring. Others we only get to see every 5000 or 126000 years, and how lucky are we, we get to be here for one of those Great Cycle Transitions! Yep, we are receiving the gift of being on Mother Earth while she is moving from one transitional stage to another as one cycle ends and a new world is born. As with any change or birth, it doesn't happen without ...ummmm...change!!! Enter...the Earth Changes phase. And guess what, just like any woman, this comes with labour, and contractions, and waters breaking! I don't know about you, but I don't think a woman in labour is going to appreciate being told to 'calm down'! I don't think a woman in labour is going to appreciate us saying "Could you please stop shaking and screaming, I'm trying to get some sleep over here!"  Because guess what, this isn't about you or me! This is about a planet going through an amazing rebirth process, and by some amazing synchronicity there happen to be billions of humans on her for the first time ever, and so by default WE GET TO BE REBIRTHED WITH HER!!! Yes Humanity are going to benefit from this amazing event.  Further if Mother Earth wasn't going through these changes right now, we would not have a planet to live on much longer. We have been terrible tenants and I'm surprised she didn't evict us a long time ago. But she didn't because hard as it may be to believe, she loves us. She kept taking care of us just like any Mother does, even if we have treated her quite abysmally. These Earth Changes are allowing her to rebirth herself, and revive herself. And guess what? The very Earth Changes that we feared are going to be the end of us, are going to be the very events that we will look back on and realise: those Changes SAVED us. They saved the Earth, they saved us from continuing to destroy her, they saved us from destroying ourselves.

As Earth aligns with the Galactic Equator and Centre she is turning this way and that accessing as much high vibrational Light as possible. Will this set off more earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami's and cyclones? There's no easy way to say this but yes. However she isn't doing this to harm us or hurt us, it is part of the process. It is rebalancing and cleansing her. It is providing us with essentially a new planet on which to live (and I hope we treat Earth version 5.0 a lot better than previous versions!). It's not her fault we happen to have houses and buildings that are falling down because of all the action. Gosh this sounds so heartless in black and white, but it is not meant to be. It is just a request to look at it from another perspective - that of Mother Earth, and that of our future survival vs our present and old needs.

As turbulent and traumatic as events appear, ultimately we are going to be a better humanity out the other side. But not if we spend the whole labour process crying about how WE are being affected, crying about what WE are losing. We have to pull ourselves together and let go of the old world. The old world is going. No electricity? Well guess what we have a big SUN in the sky that has been trying to get our attention for years. It's called free Solar Power. Look up here, somebody anybody, helloo?? No oil? Free energy. No money? Free energy. Need something? We will remember that Mother Earth truly has all we need, and we will remember our ability to create all we need in a good way without harming her.

To all those who are mourning the loss of life, please know that as souls we continue to live. Please know that all souls leaving now pre-contracted to do so, and are helping us through this process from a higher realm. It is so hard to live physically without a loved one once they have passed I know, they aren't there to hug or to call or to share your daily joys and struggles. But they are with us. They are living on another dimension. They are watching over us. They are helping us. You can talk to them. And if you close your eyes and allow it, you can feel them and hear them, if not through words then with your heart. We are ALL in this together - those who have passed, those who will yet choose to pass, and those of us choosing to stay.  When my mum passed she told us not to hold onto her with our grief 'because then I won't get my wings and I won't be able to fly and do what I have to do". So too, we have to honour those who are choosing to pass on during these Changes. They have to get their wings and they have to fly, because they have so much to do to help us through this. Honour their lives and their passing by seeing them free, flying with their wings, doing their soul's next purpose.

March 9 2011 - Oct 28 2011 marks the final wave of the Mayan Calendar. Think final wave of a woman's contractions. Yes it is going to be turbulent, but within that turbulence there will be miracles, there will be joy, there will be tears, there will be beauty. There will be the sounds of a life falling away that will no longer be, and the sounds of a new life emerging that we cannot yet even imagine. 

(c) Dana Mrkich 2011. Permission is granted to share this article freely on the condition that the author is credited, and the URL www.danamrkich.com is included