Remember Your Innocence

Remember when you were a child, and every day was an adventure, every moment held possibility, and you quickly let go of disappointment, as you moved on to the next exciting thing that caught your eye?  The inner child is your direct line to happiness and fulfillment.  In all your adult-ness, don't leave him or her behind.  Imagine, play, laugh, be silly, see magic in everything and enjoy the sensual pleasures of life.  Your inner child embodies innocence.  Let this innocence heal and rejuvenate you.  Today is a good day to reflect on the child within and the dreams you used to dream.  Now is a good time to heal old wounds and let the child come out to play.

~ Old Sage

Truth ~ A February Msg of Love

If you want to be free and happy, you must free yourself from lies.  It is a lie that you are supposed to be or do any specific thing.  YOU ARE FREE TO CHOOSE WHAT TO BE AND DO.  And if anyone told you that there is a deadline for your being and doing, they told you a lie.  LIFE IS ETERNAL.  How?  How is this possible?  This is only possibly because LIFE LOVES YOU UNCONDITIONALLY.  Your parents may not have loved you unconditionally, your church may not have, your teachers may not have, the government may not have, but life does and always will.  And THIS IS YOUR LIFE TO LIVE.  If February finds you unhappy and feeling like a victim, and you are wondering what has gone wrong, remember that YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE POWER TO CHOOSE.  Choose to see that wherever you are now does not define you.  It is simply where you are now in your journey.  And where you are now in your journey is OK because LIFE DOES NOT JUDGE YOU.  Only people do that.  Only you do that.  It is a lie that you need to judge and punish yourself in order to get to where you want to be.  Someone taught you how to do that.  It didn't come from YOU.  If you feel down in February, it's ok.  But remember this: YOU ARE ONE CHOICE AWAY FROM FREEING YOURSELF FROM THE LIES.  So, commit to finding and living YOUR TRUTH.

Blessings, Spiritual Warriors!

~ Divine Explorer

"Honoring the Journey" ~ A January Reflection

 

Well, folks, another year, another birthday, another transition!  First off-HAPPY 2013!!!  We made it!  What now?  Life goes on.  The adventure continues.  Yes!

 

Ever since 2013 arrived and I turned 35 years-old, I have not wanted to continue blogging in the way I had before the new year marker.  Something else has been gestating in me for quite some time, and I feel it is now preparing to move through the birth canal.  So, darkness.  I have been in quite a fertile darkness the past few weeks.  And I have been reminding myself that Winter can be a time of turning inward, reflection and pause.  I am honoring the flow of my own personal seasons, and the natural rhythms of my heart and psyche.

Are you honoring your own natural rhythms?  Or are you trying to push ahead, when your spirit is gently inviting you to pause, rest, reflect and to give some quality nurturing time to whatever has been gestating inside of you?

I offer you a possibly radical idea; it's ok to not be busy all the time, to rest, to pause, to embrace the receptive part of your being.  It's ok to go "off schedule."  It's ok to be quieter in the transitions.

So, I am being quieter, as I am in the middle of a wonderful transition that will bring me to a place of greater clarity and integration of my unfolding gifts and contribution to the world around me.

In the near future, I'm looking to create a new website and to begin a whole new phase of my spiritual healing and counseling work.

I may do some tweaking to this blog, in the meantime, but it may be a bit quiet around here for the rest of the Winter.

I hope you are all jazzed about this new year and the awesome eruption of energy that has been unleashed in our collective psyche.  What-all awaits us as individuals and as a collective, I have no idea.  The potential for positive evolutionary change is enormous, and there's no going back.

Here's to honoring the Self and the Other in new and beautifully loving ways!

Here's to honoring the journey.

Many blessings!

~ Divine Explorer

"The Shift" ~ December's Astrological Reflections

In our heart-of-hearts, we know a deep change has taken place, and that we cannot go back.  The SHIFT has already happened.  Now, it is time for our minds to become emblazoned with the NEW TRUTH and LIGHT OF INSPIRATION and POSITIVE POTENTIAL FOR THE FUTURE.  This is what will carry us through into new territory, as we close-out 2012.  December will be a month of paradox.  We will be feeling the positive and buoyant expectancy that Sagittarius brings, as the Sun is already in this sign, and Mercury and Venus move into this sign on the 10th and 15th, respectively.  The NEW MOON IN SAGITTARIUS ON THE 13th underscores this heightened sense of FUTURE POSSIBILITY and a more EXPANSIVE PERSPECTIVE on where we are headed.  The mind will be caught up in a wave of NEW MOMENTUM, as it awakens to NEW INTUITIVE INFORMATION.  Soon after the new moon, URANUS STATIONS DIRECT.  Uranus has been appearing to move backward in the sky since July 13th, and during this time, our urge for FREEDOM and AUTHENTIC EXPRESSION OF OUR TRUE NATURES has been more focused within.  We have been doing a great deal of soul-searching around who we are becoming, and what structures we may need to break-away from in order to continue our evolution.  As Uranus turns directs and moves forward in the coming months, many of us will break-away from established routines and realities that no longer support the direction in which we are headed.  The first part of the month looks to be full of this expectancy and renewed hope for these sensed future possibilities that will be unfolding in 2013.  However, the WINTER SOLSTICE ON DECEMBER 21st will bring another shift in awareness.  Of course, this is the long awaited date that many have seen as a turning point in our collective reality, where we will irrevocably move into a new paradigm which will allow us to evolve more quickly into a place of peace, equality and universal love.  My sense is that this time will come with a deep feeling of RESPONSIBILITY.  This shift does not mark a magical time where we do not have to do the work ourselves.  It is quite the opposite.  This shift is about KNOWING THAT WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR CREATIONS.  This truth may be quite frightening for some of us, until we realize this knowledge is our release into a new application of POWER and CONFIDENCE to move forward and shape our shared realities how we see fit.  Toward the end of December, we will all get an opportunity to make a deeper commitment to FEAR or LOVE, and which direction we choose will quickly be played out in 2013 and beyond.  CHOOSE LOVE.  CHOOSE CELEBRATION OF ALL LIFE.  CHOOSE FRIENDSHIP AND DEEPER INTIMACY WITH ALL OTHERS.  CHOOSE COMPASSION.  If we choose wisely, we will watch our world transform into a deeply fulfilling expression of our collective soul.  Happy holidays, everyone, and may the celebrations at hand carry us forward into a new and wondrous future!

* Dec 10 ~ Mercury in Sagittarius
* Dec 13 ~ New Moon in Sagittarius
* Dec 13 ~ Uranus Stations Direct in Aries
* Dec 15 ~ Venus in Sagittarius
* Dec 21 ~ Winter Solstice, Sun in Capricorn
* Dec 28 ~ Full Moon in Cancer
* Dec 30 ~ Mercury in Capricorn

~ Blessings, Cosmic Travelers

Divine Explorer 

"Thank You!" ~ A Thanksgiving Moment

THANK YOU.
FOR LITTLE THINGS
ALL THE SMALL TOUCHES
THAT MAKE MY LIFE POSSIBLE
FOR THE JOURNEY ITSELF
THE SOARING HEIGHTS
THE VALLEYS LOW
THIS KALEIDOSCOPE OF EXPERIENCE
A WONDER
THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
TOO MIRACULOUS TO FATHOM
I AM SO BLESSED TO KNOW HOW TO OPEN MY HANDS
TO RECEIVE
AND BE GRATEFUL
THANK YOU

~ Divine Explorer

"I Have a Dream..." ~ This week's Msg of Love

Whatever  happens, we are all in this together.  There is no "us" and "them."  THERE IS ONLY ONE.  During this election season, it has been so easy to divide and point the finger.  I am as guilty as anyone else.  It's ok.  Anger can be a fuel.  All of us care about something, and it is good to speak up.  But when the dust finally settles, we all get raised up together, or we all go down together.  I have hope.  If we look back over history, we can see a progression toward more inclusion, equality and love on this planet.  Some are ahead of others in this evolution, but with each nation that takes a stand in this direction, others are more quickly pulled into the momentum of positive change.  We are moving forward, folks.  Don't let the media hype distract you from all of the wonderful evidence of positive change that is occurring around the world.  We are marching forward.  Whatever happens with this election, let's not lose sight of what Obama stands for...let's not lose sight of what he inspired in us four years ago.  We will always be the change that we wish to see in the world.  And today's election results will not change that truth.  One by one, the flames of awareness are being lit, and I am happy to say that I love being a part of this human family.  Let's keep marching forward and envisioning a better world for all of us to enjoy and celebrate.  Our time is now!

~ Much peace and love,

Divine Explorer

"Going Deeper so that We Can Go Higher!" ~ November's Astro-highlights

November will be full of TRANSFORMATION and REBIRTH potential.  What keeps us from experiencing joy and true fulfillment?  It is fear of those dark unknown spaces in the psyche and protection against imagined threats.  This month, we have even more opportunity to visit the dark and see the illusions and shadows for what they are-old and outdated interpretations of the past that keep us chained to past wounds and experience.  At the beginning of the month, MERCURY RETROGRADES IN SAGITTARIUS TO RETURN TO SCORPIO for one last round of intense delving into the deep dark spaces, to see what is left over in the psyche that has the opportunity to be purged and healed.  We all get an opportunity to look again with laser-like focus at our fear of death, at sex and our intimacy issues, at taboos that are ready to be explored, our wounds that we have aggressively hidden and defended and our greatest potential for transformation and rebirth into a fuller expression of the soul on its evolutionary journey.  The SUN CONTINUES TO MOVE DEEPER INTO THE HEART OF SCORPIO, and that potential for rebirth will continue to be the focus until the SUN MOVES INTO SAGITTARIUS LATER IN THE MONTH.  We get a spiritual boost with all of this transformational work that we are doing on ourselves, as NEPTUNE STATIONS DIRECT IN PISCES ON THE 10TH.  It had been retrograde since June 4th, and we may have found ourselves doing much introspective and reflective work on our deep spiritual journey and personal ideals.  When Neptune moves forward again, I get the sense that we will begin to flow downstream again and create many new avenues and pathways for the expression of our spirituality and ideals.  Now, we will begin to feel more inner guidance and more of an intuitive clarity about our spiritual direction.  We will now begin to manifest the forms that allow us to express our renewed sense of spiritual understanding.  This movement forward will support our intense transformation and healing over the course of the month.  Finally, we have two eclipses this month: a SOLAR ECLIPSE IN SCORPIO ON THE 13TH and a LUNAR ECLIPSE IN GEMINI ON THE 28TH.  The solar eclipse on the 13th highlights all of the work we have been doing on ourselves in order to let go of the past and move forward into a more fulfilling future.  For those of us that have been doing the work of becoming more conscious, this will be a time of renewed power and possibilities!  The lunar eclipse on the 28th marks a shift into a lighter atmosphere of  innocence, curiosity, bright mental connections, and understanding of how far we have come, and where we are headed.  It looks to be a very full and rich month ahead.  With all of the evolving that we are doing at such a fast pace, let's remember to take time to ENJOY IT ALL!!!  The deeper we go into healing and transformation, the higher the emotional and spiritual fulfillment we can experience in life, which allows us to soar like the Phoenix of our true selves...and that's the whole point!

* Nov 6   ~ Mercury Stations Retrograde in Sagittarius
* Nov 10 ~ Neptune Stations Direct in Pisces
* Nov 13 ~ New Moon Solar Eclipse in Scorpio
* Nov 21 ~ Sun in Sagittarius
* Nov 26 ~ Mercury Stations Direct in Scorpio
* Nov 28 ~ Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Gemini

~ Blessings, Cosmic Magicians

Divine Explorer