Wednesday, April 11, 2012

April 2012 Monthly Visions: Re-booting, Re-wiring and Recalibration


April 2012 Monthly Visions: Re-booting, Re-wiring and Recalibration

What feels like a big void and an inability to get your thoughts straight is part of a massive re-booting, re-wiring, re-setting and recalibration process that was triggered onto a whole new level by the recent Mercury Retrograde.  As always, this process is happening on both a personal and global/collective level. Usually you can expect some clarity to emerge once Mercury goes direct again, but this time around it is more that the retrograde kick-started yet another stage of our ongoing vibration upgrade with that stage now setting the theme for the next couple of months leading into the June Solstice. 
This stage is all about recalibration which opens the way for more clarity, but just like any renovation project the process itself can look and feel more like confusion. Ironically, by allowing all the myriad of thoughts, feelings and experiences that will come up at this time, and not expecting to be clear, you can relieve yourself of some of that confusion! Think of it like a bunch of stuff being thrown in the air, it gets re-organized up there, and then comes down in a new way. The more you resist with thoughts like “Why am I so unclear”? “Why does nothing make sense?” the more it feels like it is going in slow-motion and taking forever. The more you allow it with thoughts like “Everything is getting re-organised”, “I’m about to become so much clearer/stronger/productive”, “This is great!” the faster it happens.
Renovations are supposed to look and feel a little messy but they always involve an organised plan and so it is with this process. This organised plan is not usually evident until the end of a project. It’s only when everything is finished that onlookers say “Oh wow, if you’d told me it was going to look like this a few months ago I never would have believed you, but now look, it’s amazing!” The builder/architect/designer knew what it was going to look like, even in the midst of the renovation chaos, and we can learn from them with our approach to our current changes. We can get overwhelmed and anxious and think everything is falling to pieces, or we can trust that some higher part of us knows exactly what is going on and has their hands on the bigger picture/plan.
When some people read ‘trust’, they think it means to passively sit back and let things happen. Sometimes things magically do happen, usually after much inner vibrational work. Other times it is your inspired action that allows things to happen. So when we say trust here, we don’t mean ‘sit back and hand over responsibility’ we mean trust that you have a very intelligent force inside you guiding you every step of the way toward manifesting and attracting the life you came here to create. This intelligent force is making it more and more clear these days whenever you are on or off track with your thoughts, words and actions. Trust in this intelligent force is energetically active, not passive.
If it makes you feel better, say to yourself “There’s a plan here, show me the next step.” Don’t ask for what’s going to happen ten steps down the track or how you’re going to take those ten steps. Just ask for the next step. 
Different people will respond to this time in different ways, depending on where you are at in your personal process. If you are feeling relief at the thought of all this re-wiring, you’re doing great and you’re right on track. You’ve done a lot of work on yourself, you’re ready for a quantum leap and can feel it coming.
If you are feeling frustrated, you’ve done more than your fair share of toe-tapping, fingers drumming, waiting for something to change. You are among the group shouting at the universe show me something for goodness sake!! You fall into the category ‘You are the one you are waiting for’. Ask  “What part of me is waiting for me to own it? What part of me is waiting for me to catch up to it?” Own it. Catch up to it. Then grab it with both hands and run with it. No more waiting. This recalibration process for you is about realising you already are that which you are waiting to be, you just have to realise it.
            There are lots of different energies co-existing this month - some harmoniously, some conflicting, some on one dimension, some on another. Some energies are leaving, others are incoming, nearly all are shifting and adjusting. Imagine a bunch of different coloured laser lights all crossing over each other, moving up and down, blinking off in one place, returning in another (or not), transformed (or not) .and you’ll get the picture.
            This can at times feel like a bustling central station with so much going on we don’t know what to do with ourselves.  When the different energies bump up against each other (eg two people who are living in different vibrational spaces) the result can be pretty unpleasant if one or both insist that their vibrational space/reality/viewpoint/perspective is the right one.  Multiple vibrational spaces and thus perceptions of reality are existing right now (always have actually, only now it’s becoming more obvious), and the more we keep that in mind the more harmonious our interactions with those around us will be. There is no one right vibrational space, there is only that which is right for you for right now. Sometimes it will feel like we’re all becoming our own little vibrational island. Feeling a bit separated or disconnected from others for a bit is actually an important part of sorting out who you really are, as opposed to who you have thought you are based on the influences of others.
            We are going to start seeing a lot of extreme clashes of opinion and polarizing played out as people start to gravitate to the vibrational spaces that are right for them, yet feel that everyone not in that space is wrong. Don’t waste energy on any of this tug-o-war type thinking.  We are also going to start seeing a lot of judgement and projection going on wherever people are resisting the ownership of any of their wholeness. For example, someone unhappy in their job might lash out at someone who has just left theirs saying “Who are you to think you have a right to be happy at work? Work isn’t about being happy.”  Even if we’re no longer attracting this type of stuff in our personal lives, we’ll see it in the media, politics and social networks. While this might seem like we’re going backward, it’s actually a collective manifestation of what happens whenever we individually have a big breakthrough. You know how it is – just as you commit to a new behaviour, your old patterns rise up in your face. This happens as a kind of ‘clearing the last speck of dust in the room’ opportunity. Our soul’s commitment to shift will feel relentless. Everyone is going to be increasingly pushed and triggered to remember and reclaim their wholeness. We can do it kicking and screaming, or we can do it gracefully. Our choice.
            Some of us are feeling a big void where we feel nothing is happening nor do we even feel like doing anything. It’s like the quiet time when all the buses at central station have left and the arrivals are yet to arrive. If you are feeling too quiet and unmotivated, you may be in the midst of a ‘Passion upgrade’. The old things no longer interest you but you don’t know what new things do interest you. This is an excellent time to start a new vision board, only this time try not to have any pre-conceived ideas about what you might want to put on there.  If you see a picture or word that jumps out at you, cut it out or print it out. Let things come to you that may not make sense when applied to your ‘old life’ but for some reason keep whirring around in your head for attention. It could be a country, a course, a project, an ambition, a goal, a desire, a dream, an idea or even just a word. Follow a lead even if your logical mind says you are being silly. Ask for a brochure for that trip or course that’s calling you, go inspect that car or house, even if you have no idea how you’d pay for it. Some call this wishful thinking, and it is. Those who know that our thoughts create our reality practice wishful thinking all the time. When we follow our thoughts like Hansel and Gretel cookie crumbs they guide the way to the manifestation of all sorts of impossible things.
Now more than ever we have to daily remind ourselves: WE create our own reality. WE collectively are going to determine what happens over the coming year and years. WE are responsible for what every aspect of our life looks like. Don’t let yourself fall back into old victim mode habits (What if I never resolve this issue, What if the world never changes, What if I never become who I am here to become). If the best you can do right now is repeat to yourself I’m getting there, we’re getting there, everything is getting clearer, then repeat that.  Don’t let yourself fall back into old apathy mode habits. Recalibration can feel a bit like everything is on pause or chaotic, so if you are prone to despondency (and who hasn’t been sometimes, especially when you feel like you’ve waited for things to change for soooo long) then it is especially important to remind yourself “I’m getting there, we’re getting there”. Feel like you’re lying to yourself? Ah, at the risk of talking in circles – now is the time to remind ourselves WE create our own reality. If you have a “But” at the end of that sentence then some part of you is still unplugged from some part of your power and authentic self – and ultimately that’s what this recalibration process is all about. We are reconnecting to our power. We are reconnecting to all parts of our authentic self. We are reconfiguring all those aspects of us that made us think we were less than who we really are. Some intelligent force within is reminding us: you are more, much more than you can possibly imagine.  We are remembering and we are re-membering.

(c) Dana Mrkich 2012. Permission is granted to share this article freely on the condition that the author is credited, and the URL www.danamrkich.com is included. Dana Mrkich is an Energy Intuitive, Writer, Speaker, Teacher and Author of A New Chapter.  Follow Dana on Facebook: www.facebook.com/danamrkichnews



Saturday, March 03, 2012

March 2012 Monthly Visions: The Foreignness of Freedom

March 2012 Monthly Visions: The Foreignness of Freedom       

Earth is much like a racing car right now, foot down on the accelerator, moving forward at breakneck speed into more and more of the higher vibrational light showering down on us.  The light, and the speed with which we are entering it, is throwing off our veils and shackles faster than you can say ‘We’re not in Kansas anymore Toto’.  Sometimes the light makes us feel overwhelmingly peaceful and blissful, when no matter what is seemingly going on in the outside world all is well in our inner domain. Other times, like the days leading up to March, we feel like hapless passengers holding onto our seatbelts for dear life, knuckles white and tight. Sticking our heads out the window for some air brings no relief – we are met by 500 miles per hour winds flapping into our faces.  We look over to the driver – one Ms Mother Earth, who has a surprisingly lead foot for a woman several billion years old, hoping the harried look in our eyes might make her take pity on us and slow down.  No such luck. She looks over to us with a wild gleam in her eyes and shouts out “Don’t ya love the feeling of freedom!”.  Errr, that’s what this is?
                   Yes folks. The knot in your stomach, the fear gripping you and the panicked hyperventilating is a result of waking up every day to more and more energetic freedom, thus paving the way for more freedom in our physical, materialised lives.  We don’t have to play the same old roles anymore. We don’t have to repeat the same old stories anymore. Old beliefs?  In the trash. Jobs and relationships that aren’t working for you anymore? Tribal council has spoken – you can vote them off the island.  Surely this sounds like paradise? Isn’t that what our new reality is supposed to feel like? A blissful, wondrous, paradise?  Somehow we forgot to read the fine print in our ‘Come to Earth in the midst of the greatest Shift ever!’ contracts: Freedom may feel slightly terrifying and completely disorientating after lifetimes of general repression and limitation.
                   The energies of Freedom are well and truly upon us, and March is stepping it up a notch or thousand. While our Soul is sitting on top of the race car grinning like a jockey about to win the Kentucky Derby, our ego/mind/old self is the one having a hard time below us.  “You want to do what? Leave your job? Are you crazy? You’re never going to survive financially. What are you going to do?  You think there’s a soulmate out there for you? You think you’re going to change your life with your new positive thoughts/positive goals/positive whatever? Yeh right, it will last a few days like everything else, who do you think you are? You have what you say? Needs?? You have your own needs? And you want them met? Hahahaha very funny, get back to work.”
We are facing a period of up and down energy as we undergo a major paradigm transition. The need to creatively and authentically express our true selves is fiercely burning through us. We know that there can be no more compromises. No more procrastination. No more broken promises to ourselves. Enough already with delaying being who we really are, delaying doing what we know we want or need to do. Yet while this feels exciting and exhilarating on one level, it is also triggering every last nook and cranny of self-sabotage patterns within us – and these patterns are being mirrored via situations or people outside us that seem to be blocking us as well as our own critical inner voices.  Seem being the operative word because there is only one self-sabotageour in the building. Guess who?
                   So all this freedom can actually feel quite heavy and sad at first, with us feeling disappointed and disillusioned about ourselves, our lives, our dreams, our world. Every cell in our body wants whatever it is we want, and now more than ever we truly know that we can’t possibly keep moving forward in our lives being less than who we truly know ourselves to be. We just can’t keep doing what we used to do, we can’t go back to, or stay in, what energetically we have already moved on from. We have to go do what we need to do, and there is a strong ‘it’s now or never’ feeling to this urge. Yet there is all this stuff within us and around us telling us we can’t do it, can’t have it, it’s not going to happen, it’s impossible. So we are spending a lot of time feeling stuck and confused. Not wanting to stay where we are or go back to where we came from, yet not knowing quite how to move forward.
                   We are feeling this way because the concept, and reality, of limitless freedom feels totally foreign to us. Limitless freedom is of course not foreign to us, it is our natural state of being. However we have been without it for so long, or at least we have been in the illusion that we are without it for so long, that we have almost forgotten what to do with it and how to use it.  We are like prisoners who have just been set free from years in darkened isolation. The light of an open sun-filled sky can be blinding, and it is an actual fact that two-thirds of prisoners re-offend upon release because they don’t know how to function in a healthy, empowered way as free adults. Prison becomes the comfort zone.
                   We cannot allow our old reality to be our comfort zone because as you know, it’s really not all that comfortable. Yes aspects of it may have provided us with something we needed – financial security for example – so another reason we are finding it so hard to let go of the old and jump head first alongside Mother Earth into the new is we fear that the new won’t provide us with those things we need. The irony is, the new has the potential to not only provide us with what we need but also open doorways to experiences and opportunities we never even thought to ask for.  These doorways are usually not visible from the perspective of our old lives, so as much as we love to have guarantees before we make any drastic changes, it’s often only when we finally commit to the new that our new doorways appear. 
                   How does this work in real life with bills to pay and children to support? Ask to be shown a bridge from the old to the new that will help you get there in an easeful way. ‘Just trust’ does work but it’s easier said than done for lots of people. So if ‘just trust’ sounds a bit lala for you, ask for a bridge. Don’t ask with your arms crossed in a ‘fine if I’m meant to change, prove it, bring me a bridge’ way. The universe is not going to do the work for you and your belief that change it not really possible will override your genuine desire to attract it. It will meet you more than halfway if you take the first step, but you have to take the first step. The bridge is for those of you who genuinely in your heart of hearts know it is time to make a change in one or more aspect of your lives, but just don’t know how to get from here to there. From your heart, ask for a bridge.
                   Another reason we are feeling stuck as we transition from ‘here to there’ is that our true power has become just as foreign to us as our freedom.  We are hearing the voice of our dreams and desires calling to us ever louder, but our inner voices and beliefs telling us we can’t do it have been way louder for a long time. We have become used to setting our dreams, our needs and our true desires aside, and as a result our inner power feels more like an inner deflated balloon.  
                   There are hundreds of healing tools available now for addressing our issues with not owning our power and freedom, but something you can do right now is simply decide enough’s enough. Tell yourself “Lack, I don’t believe in you anymore...Limitation, I don’t believe in you anymore....The part of me that says I can’t do it, I don’t believe in you anymore.”  Visualise your Power and right to Freedom as if they are long lost friends. Embrace them and say “It’s been a long time, and I can’t really remember how to use you or how this all works, but I’m ready to remember. Please show me. Please guide me.” Another thing that may help is something I say daily:  “I am aligned with my best possible self, best possible reality and best possible movement forward.”
                   What is your desired dream? What is it that you keep putting off or telling yourself you can’t do yet because...? What do you feel you’d be letting go of by following your heart?  Why do you feel that your desired dream can’t meet whatever needs were being met in your old life? What is it about your desired dream that you’ve used as an excuse to not go for it and create/attract it? Take some time to answer these questions if you are ready to embrace your freedom, as foreign as it may seem.
                   Usually selfless people are awakening to their own needs right now, and this too feels foreign after a lifetime of putting others first.  This doesn’t mean we are becoming selfish and inconsiderate, rather we are realising that at times we have not considered ourselves and it is time now to do so. Lines in the sand are being drawn all over the place, boundaries are being strengthened and we are learning that sometimes we have to say no to others to say yes to ourselves. We can no longer serve others from a position of not serving ourselves – our true selves. Make the embodiment of your true self your first priority right now, and that in itself will work as a compass and magnet for you to create and attract right relationships, right work, right service and right lots of things in your life. This embodiment will ensure that you are always in the right place at the right time (something that lots of people are concerned about right now), and also guide you to do the most good for the most amount of people in the best way possible for all (including yourself). To help this embodiment process affirm “My thoughts, words and actions are aligned with my true self.”  
                   Our authentic power is being reclaimed and it can be shocking to realise just how much of it we have given away by not believing in ourselves, not standing up for ourselves, not being true to ourselves and not loving ourselves. Those days are over. We are entering the age of Light and of Love. Not in a fluffy new agey way, but in a real, practical, walk our talk kind of way.  The kinds of fear-based and ego-based decisions we have seen made by our governments, media, big business and banking institutions were ultimately a result of a lack of light (awareness of truth) and a lack of love, especially self-love which manifests as a lack of love and consideration to others. Those days are ending. They cannot exist out the other side of this shift, no more than darkness can exist once you have turned on the light in your house.
                   It is time to believe in the Light and in Love more than you believe in the lack of it, and believe in its ability to transform our world – inner and outer. As you see and feel the chaos, and all renovation projects are preceded by some chaos, trust in this ability. Trust in your own ability, no make that your own destiny, to be a powerful part of the process.

(c) Dana Mrkich 2012. Permission is granted to share this article freely on the condition that the author is credited, and the URL www.danamrkich.com is included. Dana Mrkich is an Energy Intuitive, Writer, Speaker, Teacher and Author of A New Chapter.



Wednesday, February 01, 2012

February 2012 Monthly Visions: Strange Sounds and Showtime

February 2012 Monthly Visions: Strange Sounds and Showtime

There is a definite ‘calm before the storm’ energy in the air right now, with the storm representing a massive shift beyond our current comprehension. You may be experiencing this ‘calm’ as not calm at all, instead feeling a sense of anxiety or even fear, but that is just because what lies ahead is a big unknown.  Others are feeling a buzzing excitement but are not sure what it is they are so excited about. For many people our contracts from the old reality have expired, but it’s not exactly time yet for our new ones to kick in, and so there is a sense of being in limbo, waiting for ‘something’ to happen, but not being able to put your finger on what that something is. 
This in limbo space can manifest as feeling depressed, disillusioned or a “what’s the point of doing anything?” energy coming from lose/lose thoughtforms swirling and gathering around us like “If the Shift doesn’t happen, what was the point of anything, and if it is about to happen, what’s the point of doing anything now?” 
There are so many different energies currently flying around because even though more people than ever feel that ‘something’ is happening, every individual is responding in a different way – and even within each individual we are all experiencing multiple, often conflicting, emotions about what’s going on. Our emotional and nervous systems are on overdrive, revving the car to prepare for mass acceleration, but our minds cannot at all compute what we’re doing, where we’re going or how we’re going to get there.  The Shift is beyond the Mind. It is beyond simply old systems and structures falling away to make way for new, more ethical and harmonious ways of doing things.  New things are replacing old things all the time – that is evolution. What we are in the midst of, and on the cusp of, is an evolutionary quantum leap but just how exactly that will play out in our physical world is the great mystery that no-one knows exactly the answer to. We do feel we’re going to find out very soon, but the suspense is becoming unbearable!
            It is as if we are a cast of actors waiting for the premiere of our new play to start. There is 15 minutes to go until showtime. We have rehearsed our lines inside out and back to front, there is nothing more we can do to prepare. There’s a feeling that if we don’t know our lines now we never will – thus for many on the ‘frontline’ who have been on an awakened path for a long time there is a retreat from having more healings, reading more books or attending more workshops. You have done what you needed to do in this old play, learned what you had to learn, and are now awaiting the signal for your new role to start.  Your new role, whatever it may be, will be one, has to be one, based on mutual empowerment, authenticity and integrity.
The sound and lighting guys have gone through their final checks, and the wardrobe department is ready to go.  Some of us are sitting around nervously drinking tea, wondering: what if no-one shows up? Others are pacing the floor, repeating their lines, hoping they don’t forget what it is they have to remember. We all have butterflies in the tummy, our hearts are racing and adrenalin is pumping. All our hard work and rehearsals have been about preparing for this moment about to come. We sense a wave building toward a climax, and hope that we aren’t in for an anti-climax of things not going the way we’ve hoped.
            Our nerves are at an all time high because as much as we have prepared for this, as ready as we know deep down we are, there is one crucial piece of the puzzle missing: we have no idea what is about to happen!
Up until now one thing has been certain: we are heading into a new reality for humanity and the Earth. We can no longer continue in the way we have been. As the planet shifts into a higher vibrational frequency, so too all living beings, systems and structures on her must also shift – or collapse.  Where the unknown factor lay was in how this shift would play out.  Would it happen gradually or quickly? How many people would be conscious of what was going on as it happened?
My purpose for as long as I can remember has been to help awaken as many people as possible by a certain time. One of the analogies my guides have used to show me what needs to happen is: get as many people across the bridge and onto the ship as possible, before the bridge comes down and the doors to the ship close. The bridge is a metaphor for our awakening process, for shifting into the higher levels of consciousness we need to be in by a certain time. The ship represents our new destination both physically and vibrationally. This includes new ways of living and being that are already being experienced, as well as temporary vibrational/emotional/physical holding spaces keeping us safe until certain personal and collective new ways are ready to be fully created. You may be experiencing these holding spaces as a feeling of being in a bubble, somewhat insulated from the demolition process going on in the old world.  Know that this is a protective bubble and part of a positive process. Misinterpreted, this bubble can be attributed to the feelings of apathy, depression and disillusionment mentioned earlier.
The doors shutting indicate a window of opportunity that is only going to be open for so long.  The feeling is that this time is now upon us. The bridge is coming down and the doors are closing. Apart from a few stragglers running in at the last moment, it really feels like at this point you are either on the ship or you’re not.   This process has happened before in our human history, but it has never happened with so many people living on the planet – and it’s never happened with so many people destined to come along with Mother Earth for the ride.  More people than we realise are on the ship.  Being ‘spiritual’ in the new age sense is not a pre-requisite, so don’t assume that your neighbour Larry will get left behind just because he isn’t into meditation or self help booksJ Our boarding pass has to have one main thing stamped on it: that we are living from our hearts, or that our soul has an authentic desire to do so.
Some people believe that the analogy of a ship is a literal one alluding to huge starships that will beam us off the planet during any upheaval, (who knows, they may – woohoo how fun!) but don’t hold your breath because the purpose of our star brothers and sisters is not to save us. We need to save ourselves, and we will do that from within via our own abilities to access our higher levels of consciousness and wisdom, and live in an authentic way in alignment with our hearts. So, during any upheaval our safe holding spaces will more than likely be our states of consciousness and less likely be the ‘beam me up Scotty’ kind.  Having said that there are a lot of daily ufo/starship sightings happening all around the world, increasing in number every day, so mainstream awareness of our galactic heritage and family is only a matter of time, but it has to be at a time when we are neither in a space of mass fear nor mass worship toward them.  Owning our autonomy and taking responsibility for ourselves and the lives/world we create is an important part of the graduation process prior to becoming ‘galactic’ citizens.
A lot of people ask “What about the people who don’t shift?”  It feels like one of two pathways will open up for them: a) Their souls will choose to move on to another place and space, continuing their particular evolutionary journey elsewhere. This does NOT mean they ‘failed’  - every soul has a higher plan and it is not necessarily in everyone’s plan to continue living in what will be a new world here on Earth.  Thus, just because someone has passed prior to the Shift, doesn’t mean they weren’t ‘conscious’ enough or didn’t do their soul work. It simply means they finished whatever they had pre-intended to do on this planet, and may well continue to work for our humanity and planet from another realm. Or do something else entirely. Their choice. The second pathway b) Some will stay here with a newly revealed awareness of how reality really works and will need support to deal with the shock and other emotional consequences of the unveiling of many truths. (Remember, the meaning of the word Apocalypse is ‘that which is hidden to be revealed’). 
Life can no longer continue as the mouse on a wheel game humanity have been on for so long, but as tedious as that life was it was the comfort zone for the majority.  While our new lives will be based on joy and freedom, many will need time to adjust to the loss of what they thought was real, time to adjust to discovering how deeply we’ve been lied to and used for the gain of others.  Imagine finding out you’ve spent your whole life working twelve hours a day digging ditches with a shovel, meanwhile just over the hill they’ve had bulldozers that do in five minutes what has taken you a lifetime to accomplish – time you could have spent doing what you love. While there will be cause for celebration as we regain our right to be autonomous beings, there will also be cause for much sadness and grief, some of which is already being felt right now. 
Most of the conscious community have been aware for some time that we are on the cusp of a quantum leap in consciousness and reality.  Many of us agree on what our new reality will look like (watch the movie Thrive for a wonderful description) but we can’t seem to get any consensus or clarity on how exactly we’ll get there. As we’ve moved through the first few weeks of 2012, a lot of people can feel something major is about to happen connected to our quantum leap, yet no-one can quite put their finger on what that will be. It feels like something that is beyond our current level of comprehension. The message I get is it would be like trying to explain the colour blue to someone who has never seen blue before.  You know how you just can’t explain certain things to someone that isn’t awake no matter how hard you try? Well this feels kind of like that, except this time we’re the ones who aren’t yet able to get it.  The show starts in a cosmic clock 15 minutes, not a moment before, and until then all we can do is sip our tea and ponder on our various theories about what could possibly shake humanity up so much as to trigger such a quantum leap.  
Strange sounds are being heard all over the planet, which surely hold a piece of the puzzle to our burning questions. These sounds were heard in 2010 by people I know personally but as of January 2012 a massive increase in recordings are being posted on You Tube daily from countries all over the world including Chile, Costa Rica, Canada, Australia, Norway, Ireland, the U.S and the Ukraine. To hear them for yourself go to YouTube and search Strange Sounds. Please note, some are copycat videos and are fakes or end with a hoax funny gag, but just like the crop circles don’t let a few man-made ones distract you from the fact that a whole bunch are real.
There are several different sounds, and all of them seem at first to be coming from the sky although the sounds could easily be coming from the Earth with the echo bouncing off our atmosphere back down to us.  Some sound like a giant hammer, banging down on a piece of iron. Others are more of a groaning, kind of like a steel bar being bent over. Scientists have offered their theories, including the impact of the Solar Flares and an intensification of the transitional phase of our Earth’s Core.  What is very exciting is that the ancient prophecies are coming together now with current, tangible happenings.
As I finish this month’s monthly visions I am hearing the following phrase being repeated over again: “Round' and 'round she goes, and where she stops, nobody knows”. Sounding familiar I looked up where this phrase comes from, and apparently it was used on a show called ‘The Original Amateur Hour’ while they spun the Wheel of Fortune – which in the Tarot Deck represents a turning point, moving in a different direction with a sense of destiny.  We are ready!

For more info about the Strange Sounds including a video compilation of some of the most recent ones: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/240863-Strange-Sounds-in-Sky-Explained-by-Scientists

(c) Dana Mrkich 2012. Permission is granted to share this article freely on the condition that the author is credited, and the URL www.danamrkich.com is included. Dana Mrkich is an Energy Intuitive, Writer, Speaker, Teacher and Author of A New Chapter.



Wednesday, January 04, 2012

January 2012 Monthly Visions: The Year of Expansion, Integrity and Authenticity


January 2012:  Expect More
The Year of Expansion Integrity and Authenticity

So here we are in the long awaited year of 2012.  You may have found that you went on a big spring clean of your life in the days and weeks leading up to the new year, feeling like you didn’t want to take any baggage, job, relationship, living situation or other circumstance into 2012 unless it truly felt right and  good for you – even if it meant jumping into the unknown having no idea what’s waiting for you.  While this can be true on one level for any new year, this year there is a stronger sense of urgency: that now is the time to act, to change, to shift, to let go. We are reaching deeper into our souls for all the courage and strength we can muster to do what we know we have to do. Whereas in past years circumstances may not have ‘allowed’ us to make changes, this year we are saying “Hang the circumstances, I have to make this change/go for my dreams/follow the call of my heart and soul even if I have no clue as to how it’s going to happen or work out.”
For some, this may mean you’re travelling pretty light right now having let go of a lot, but that’s okay – all the more room to start fresh with new situations that are totally in alignment with who you really are.  This total alignment pull will be like a magnet steering us in the right direction. Much like a radio dial needing to be exactly on the right station for a clear signal, so too we are all going to be pulled into our exact right stations – anything different just won’t feel right. Again while this has been happening our whole life to a degree, this year it will take on a completely new level. Where we meandered, took detours and procrastinated, this will be no longer.  We are hitting the highway and moving directly straight ahead!  Some will experience this as feeling very excited and even if you have no clear sense of what exactly you’re doing or where exactly you’re going, you absolutely know you are heading in the right direction simply because you know you are no longer heading in the wrong direction!
Others might temporarily experience this as being in limbo – you’ve let go of whatever you had to let go of, yet you aren’t moving forward in the way you’d like. Know that while you might feel like you are standing still, a lot is happening energetically within you and in front of you. Your ‘future’ self is sweeping the broom along the road ahead clearing the path for you, so even if you aren’t feeling movement things are progressing and happening.  Rather than feeling frustrated, it is helpful to ask yourself: why am I choosing my current situation? Get out your pen and journal and start writing and see what comes through. If you are doing all you can to move forward but aren’t there is likely something still serving you (or you believe it is still serving you) about your present circumstances. The more clear you are about what that is, the faster you can move to a space of feeling a sense of appreciation and calm about your NOW, and the easier you can shift into the path that has been prepared for you.
This spring cleaning energy will stay with us throughout the year as we will continually be called to move into greater authenticity, shedding anything that existed primarily due to fears based in the old illusion reality. This year integrity and authenticity override fear. This is such a strong theme that it is worth repeating: this year integrity and authenticity override fear. This is true on both a personal and global level. Our new ‘real’ reality is overriding the old ‘illusion’ reality, therefore many of us are actioning change we’ve wanted to make for years but have always been too scared, or didn’t know how to do it, or even know if it was possible. For those leaving ‘secure’ well paying jobs, long term relationships or established homes/locations to follow your dreams and hearts, (more numbers of you than ever did this leading up to this new year), well meaning friends and family may be saying “What are you going to do?? You’re crazy!” You find yourself replying “I can’t do it anymore, I just can’t”.  
Bills to pay may be looming yet deep down you are not worried and feel a great peace emanating from somewhere inside you. You know that you will be taken care of and that whenever you follow your heart the universe will always support you. This is the year of walking our talk, and living what we know to be true.  That is another sentence worth repeating so read it again and really inhale it. This is the year that we show the world that our ‘crazy’ ways actually work, and that in fact the old ways of working is what’s crazy!  It is the year that many conscious souls who have not been able to find their place in the mainstream will come out of hiding as if an inner alarm has gone off saying ‘get out there’. More people will be asking for, and needing, assistance to understand the higher energies that are coming in and the resulting changes occurring to them and around them. You will be shining your light brighter than ever before, but this won’t be coming anymore from a ‘I have to save the world’ mentality. As you shine your light, you will help others find their own light. It’s like being in a dark forest with a huge torch, so that others can look down and find their own torch that has been on them (in them) the whole time.  One has to enter the new reality from a space of self-empowerment, but that doesn’t mean we are on our own – support is available for anyone who asks in whatever form they need it. Looking down on humanity from above, it’s going to look like the scene when you fly over a city just as sun sets – millions of little lights all sparking up one at a time.  It is beautiful and magical.
            In many ways it will seem like a year of contradictions.  Every day we will be immersed in more and more high frequency energy, giving us more support than ever before to embody our true, divine natures, create magical lives and co-create a magnificent world. At the same time there is less and less energy supporting the ways of the old world, and so we will witness a lot of collapsing systems and structures that will be experienced as either cause for celebration or cause for despair, depending on which side of the reality coin you predominantly reside in.  The two realities are like a sticker peeling away from a piece of paper. They have co-existed for a long time but now that the peeling away has begun there is no turning back, there is no ‘sticking it back together’. As the sticker peels further away from the paper, we may experience it as a feeling of disconnection and detachment from the old reality, and those still residing there. It can at times feel like there is a movie playing somewhere, but you know it isn’t real and if you don’t want to watch it you simply don’t tune in to that channel.  This doesn’t mean we ignore people’s genuine suffering and hardship – quite conversely we may find ourselves more and more wanting to be out there on the ground working actively toward social reform and assisting with humanitarian efforts. Rather, we will feel no connection to people engaging in old dramas, and we will see right through the facade of news broadcasts, political speeches and perspectives given to us by the media. It will feel like we are watching a fictitious movie because in reality we are.
Much of the discomfort, chaos and difficulty we’ll see experienced this year by mainstream society is directly proportional to the degree of individual and collective resistance toward letting go of the old (illusion) and allowing the new (reality).  It is important to know that the new reality isn’t something we all collectively are going to wake up to during some mysterious big bang event aka the rapture. Ascension is not about all of us suddenly being beamed up into the sky – ascension is an ascent into a higher dimension/frequency/vibration. Dimensional shifting is about opening your awareness to other potentials, perspectives and realities, it is not necessarily about being in a different physical/geographical space. The new reality is here right now, co-existing with the old,  yet back to the sticker analogy the two realities are moving further and further apart. There is an energetic bridge between the two, on which one must travel to shift realities. Those in the new reality can go back to the old anytime they want to assist those travelling over, but it will be increasingly more uncomfortable to do so. It all sounds a bit woo woo science fiction movie, but if you are living predominantly in the new already you’ll know what I’m talking about.

The Shift of the Ages
Imagine a piano accordion (squeezebox) that has gradually been coming in to close over many thousands of years.  Used as an analogy for our reality, the accordion is a symbol of our evolutionary journey in this current great cycle that is now drawing to a close. This cycle has been rich and perfect and has served us well, but it has also now served its purpose. Once something has served its purpose, where it was once essential for our growth it conversely becomes a block to our growth, and at that point we have to let it go.  The closer a piano accordion gets to being fully closed, the less space there is between the pleated layers and thus less air.  So too, the closer we get to the close of a great cycle, the less energy there is to support that cycle and thus the more suffocating and restrictive our experience is of that ending reality. Even though this doesn’t always feel pleasant, it actively helps the letting go process because we start to consciously recognise that things need to change, that what was once comfortable now no longer fits who we have become and who we aspire to be.  For the minority who were using (and abusing) the old illusion to gain power over the majority, this letting go will feel intolerable and inconceivable. They underestimated humanity and our innate destiny to go toward, and grow toward, the light and thus one day fully recognise and own our inner power. That day is now here.
The accordion analogy is also akin to what ancient yogi’s call ‘the Breath of Brahma’ -  it is said that one cycle of creation is caused by the out breath of the Great Creator while the next is caused by the in breath. The Out breath, during which we moved away from the Creator, forgot our true divine, natures and experienced ourselves as separate, is ending now. The new Mayan/Galactic cycle is now ushering in the In breath, bringing us closer to Source Energy, homeward bound toward unity consciousness and remembering who we really are.
Traditionally the Out Breath is associated with Expansion as the Universal Breath moves outward toward getting to know different aspects of itself, while the In Breath is associated with Contraction, moving back inward toward itself.  However, as far as our current level of soul memory is concerned we certainly experienced the Out Breath as a contraction (limiting even though in reality we were growing/expanding) and similarly we will experience the homeward bound In Breath as an Expansion of reality and potential, thanks to our awakening consciousness, awareness and memory of who we already are.  With that, we start a new phase of evolution for Earth and Humanity.

Expect More
What does this new phase mean for us in 2012?  The theme of the year feels to be Expect More, as in it is time to expect more out of our reality. It is time to raise the bar. It is time to expect a better, more harmonious, peaceful, abundant world for all who desire it. To expect something you have to believe it is possible, you have to feel you deserve it, you have to know that you have a right to receive it.  When we expect something, we can create it but our major problem has been that up until recently the quantity of energy available on Earth supporting this higher expectation, was vastly less than the quantity of energy not supporting it. This quantity of energy is not necessarily determined by numbers of people, rather by the strength of our individual expectations which in turn is determined by where we are located on both our personal and collective evolutionary timeline.
We have been located in the Out Breath, thus the Universal Energy itself was not available to us in the same way that it will now be available to us as we become immersed by the In Breath. What seemed impossible just a few short years or even months or weeks ago, will increasingly not only look possible but will actually start to materialise in our physical reality.  This will be a process. We aren’t going to wake up tomorrow to a global utopia where we all teleport to our next holiday destination, but we have definitely set our train tracks toward it. Sounds idealistic? Like science fiction? Another theme of 2012 and beyond is that what has previously been dismissed as idealistic, utopian or science fiction is actually reality; reality that has been hidden from us. 
The numbers of those not supporting a better reality for humanity have been tiny (the so called 1%) yet clearly where they were tiny in numbers they were giants when it came to power.  It served them to keep us in the dark, and on a higher level it served us too. Remember that. This time is not about engaging into an us against them battle. Our power will come from acknowledging our part in the whole play: We learned a lot but now it’s time for a new play. We don’t need those old devious characters anymore, we don’t need to be puppets or victims anymore, so it’s time for the curtain to close on that story. See ya!
Now that it is time to re-enter the light, a lot of people will be shocked by the amount of deception and restriction humanity has endured. We will witness one revelation after the other across all areas including politics, health, science, religion, economy, energy and other-planetary beings. It will be hard for many people to digest the fact that the minority have held knowledge about free energy technology and health cures for decades, have deliberately created wars and repressed truth simply because it benefitted them to do so despite the detrimental effect on others. For a heart-centred person, which most of humanity are, it is inconceivable to think that someone with a cure for cancer for example or the ability to ensure all people have access to electricity and running water, would repress this information for the sake of making more money or gaining more power, yet we’ll discover that there are such people. We will also (eventually) discover that this minority were being used in the same way they were using us by some of the less nice other planetary beings, being promised untold power in exchange for selling out earth and humanity. However it is not our destiny to be sold in this way, and thus those beings also have underestimated both us and those who protect us (benevolent other planetary beings – our Star Family and other good Star People.
The so called Arab Spring and Occupy Movement are not random events, they are the beginnings of something we will see increase: the uprising of a humanity who have had enough. We are all now active participants in an evolution revolution triggered by our growing awareness that something is very wrong and needs to be put right, and triggered by the awakening of our true selves and authentic power.  The world is not ending in 2012, the illusion is ending. In its place a new reality will be revealed, a new humanity will emerge and a new world will be born. These are truly special times.

What you can do to maximise the energies of 2012
*Follow your heart: do what you feel called to do even if your logical mind, fears or well meaning people are trying to sway you otherwise.
*Trust your intuition: if something doesn’t feel right or true for you it probably isn’t.
*Believe in yourself: you are your own best teacher and source of guidance. You are the only person who truly knows who you are and what you came here to do.
*Let go of judging yourself and others: know that everything you have done was for a reason, and that others have a reason for what they do too.
*Expect more from your life and from reality. If you were to write a list of dreams for your ideal life and reality for humanity and the planet, make it as amazing as possible. Realise where your personal ceilings and limits are and lift them. Then lift them some more. If you were to use your imagination to write a magical book you would have no limits right? So expect the same from your life because it is our imaginations now that are in the driver's seat! Play your part in creating a magical world for us all.

 (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. Dana Mrkich is an Energy Intuitive, Writer, Speaker, Teacher and Author of A New Chapter.


Tuesday, November 08, 2011

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Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Monthly Visions Corrections!

For some reason the Monthly Visions sent out last night had a couple of half sentences and paragraphs missing here and there! That has now been corrected!  If the version you read feels like it had copy missing, it's all there now:

http://danamrkich.blogspot.com/2011/11/november-2011-monthly-visions-last-day.html


Thank you,

Dana

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

November Newsletter


November 2011
What's New this Month!  

- November Monthly Visions: The Last Day of the Circus
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Thank you to everyone for your well wishes for the upcoming birth of our little one! I will let you know when he or she arrives! In the meantime enjoy the November Monthly Visions and the special e-course offer.  I will be taking one day at a time when baby comes, but will still be in touch with Monthly Visions and the newsletter.
Many blessings to all, Dana xo

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November Monthly Visions: The Last Day of the Circus

On the night of October 28, the date associated with the end of a 16 billion year Galactic cycle, we were having dinner with my sister and her partner when we noticed a fireworks display happening outside their lounge-room window. This wasn’t a few small sparklers being thrown about by neighbourhood kids. It was a major extravaganza in the night sky, similar to the display that happens in this same location every New Year’s Eve. The fireworks were coming from the park where a circus has been set up for a couple of months and I said ‘It must be the last day of the circus.”  As soon as those words came out of my mouth we all had a big chuckle, realising it was October 28, 2011 and indeed what a wonderful confirmation that we were indeed experiencing the last day of ‘the circus’ – complete with New Year’s Eve fireworks! Read rest here: http://danamrkich.blogspot.com/2011/11/november-2011-monthly-visions-last-day.html

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DANA MRKICH
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Conscious Evolution Teacher, Writer & Speaker  
Author, Freelance Journalist & Radio Host
BA Comn. (Social Inq/Media)
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