Cultivating the Path of Joy
You don’t have to know everything about your spiritual purpose to be true to your path in life. Undertaking endless studies and traveling to the world’s sacred places may add to your experiences, but these aren’t guaranteed to help you reach self-realization.
Cultivating and following the path of joy, however, will help you reach new heights of spiritual insight.
Giving Yourself Permission to Cultivate Joy
Every moment of every day you're receiving "cues" from your environment of the next step you can take on your journey of self-realization and joy. Begin each day by asking yourself what you can do that brings you joy. Give yourself permission to act on the answers. As you place your focus on joy, you will naturally know how to handle any challenges that come before you. When you're in a state of joy, your energy field is open and flowing. Information, guidance and life force energy pulses through you. You are open and receptive to guidance and feelings of well-being.
Many of you have settled for what passes for joy in your life, feeling it’s impossible for you to be truly joyful. You will always find this circumstance disappointing. You will only have true joy in your life when you bring your focus to allowing it. Don't settle for anything less than this no matter what’s going on around you.
Joy is Self-Love and Appreciation
Part of joy is experiencing love and compassion for yourself. Affirm you are a unique and Divine being and this will be your experience. Value who you are. Value the gifts you have to offer, value your time.
One of the ways people fail to appreciate and love themselves is by giving their time and energy to things that don’t feel joyful. If something does not feel joyful, examine if it is aligned with your highest good. One of the primary ways people become ensnared in joyless situations is through relationships. It’s is through connections with others that some people give their time, energy, and joy away. Often, this happens when one allows themselves to be drawn into others’ crises.
There are times when you will need to say no to others. Dependency is not for your highest good; nor is it for the highest good of others to validate their choice to live in a state of crisis. This sends the message to others that they can command your attention by creating crises. Observe if what others are asking of you is for your highest and best and for theirs.
If you are involved in situations that siphon joy from your life, it’s time to take charge of how you spend your time. You do not owe anyone your time. The way to experience joy in your life is to respect and honor your time. When you respect and honor yourself, people will show up in your life you respect and honor you.
Another way people become ensnared in joyless situations is through career choices. Examine if staying at a job that has grown stale is for your highest good. Learn to read the subtext of your life. By staying at a job where you feel undervalued and unappreciated, you are affirming you're not worthy of anything better. You are in effect the one doing the undervaluing and under appreciating, and others are simply mirroring this to you.
Joy is Loving and Releasing the Past
The path of joy involves accepting all that has been in the past. Release the past, never looking back in regret. Open to receive the message of the experiences you created. Release the past by loving it and expressing gratitude for it.
Releasing Resistance to Joy
You will not experience true abundance as long as you resist doing the things that bring you joy. Be willing to examine any barriers you may hold that keep you from experiencing joy. Sometimes people judge themselves, feeling they don’t deserve to have joy in their lives. Examine if you hold resistance to joy and shine the bright light of your awareness to dissolve this resistance.
Entraining Yourself to Joy and Abundance
Each moment you allow yourself to move along the path of joy is an opportunity to experience greater love and abundance. As you allow yourself to experience joy and abundance, you will become magnetic to people and circumstances aligned with these frequencies. From this place of alignment, more love and abundance will naturally flow into your life.
Discovering Your Spiritual Purpose
As you allow more joy into your life, as you entrain yourself to the frequency of joy, you begin to act through joy. In other words, you begin to choose and do things based on the joy they bring you. As you explore all the things that bring you joy, you come face-to-face with your spiritual purpose. If you're not sure of your exact purpose, just begin doing what brings you joy and you will soon find it.
Each Day is a New Opportunity to Experience Joy
Begin each day by affirming it is another glorious opportunity to experience joy. Hone your gifts and talents and share these with others. This is another day to step into the unlimited abundance of spirit. Having a goal and purpose for everything you do allows you to examine each proposed activity to see if it adds meaning and joy to your life or if it is just another empty, meaningless activity void of fulfillment.
Much energy is available for those on their spiritual path at this time. If you are aligned with your intention to experience joy, if you hold the intention to assist with the healing and transformation of the planet, much abundance is available to you now.
We offer here some ways to cultivate the path of joy in your life, opening to receive greater love and abundance and blessings.
Ways to cultivate the path of joy in your life:
One) Spend time in nature
Two) Notice where you place your focus and attention
Three) Create a joy list
Four) Focus on the blessings in your life
Five) Create emotional freedom. End self-sabotage
Six) Value and honor your time and energy and learn how when to say no to others
Seven) Cultivate your imagination. This is your doorway to experiencing joy
Eight) Be here now
Nine) Practice discernment with others
10) Read the subtext of your actions to learn any ways you are buying into scarcity
11) Build a new vision for your life
12) Align with your spiritual purpose
Excerpt from Abundance Magic: 44 Steps to Manifesting the Future of Your
Dreams by DL Zeta
The Eclipses of Summer 2009: The Magic Begins
Energetic openings in spring and summer 2009 unleashed portals that brought new insights to life through the window of cosmic potentials. These portals were designed to offer glimpses of realities beyond a purely physical existence. They offered opportunities for the spiritual freedom that helps each person recognize the full scope of their gifts and potentials. These potentials empower those who embrace them to assist all of humanity and the universe.
Following on the heels of celestial events earlier this year are a series of powerful eclipses that will occur over the course of the summer. The lunar eclipse of July 6/7 was the first a triad of eclipses that will usher in a series of reality shifts on planet Earth. It will be followed by a total solar eclipse on July 21/22 and another lunar eclipse August 5/6. (Exact timing of these events depends on location). These shifts will occur on different levels, including Earth changes, personal transformations and challenges, events on the world’s stages, and interdimensional openings.
One major aspect of the July 6/7 eclipse is that it lifted veils between dimensions, making it easier to receive messages and information from high-level guides and entities. The moment of an eclipse is just the opening; its influence can extend into weeks, months and beyond.
Receiving Spiritual Messages
Those who are skilled in receiving spiritual messages will now be able to receive new forms of communications and heightened access to realities not yet perceived or understood. Some of what will be brought through may at first seem far removed from present-moment existence on Earth. However, these never-before-seen glimpses will reveal more of the guiding principles and energies behind the scenes of changes now being seeded.
For those just beginning to receive spiritual messages, this will be a time for breakthroughs. The energies are clearing the channels for guidance and information to flow through dream states and meditations. Be ready to receive insights that will transform every facet of your daily life. New inspiration and passions will be ignited in coming months as the past slowly falls away.
Events on the World’s Stage
During this time, new events will play out on the world’s stage. These will center around the life and struggles of individuals but will hold deep symbolic significance for all of humanity. The best way to navigate these events is to be present with whatever circumstances appear before you. Remain present, remain fluid, remain open and alert. Be ready to respond internally and externally to whatever you encounter or witness in your physical world while opening to the deeper meaning of these events. As you open to receive the message of every encounter and circumstance, you are transformed and prepared for the next step.
During this time, your conscious mind will often be at a loss in terms of a response. This is by design. The events unfolding can only be translated and understood in the language of spirit. Your subconscious, in conjunction with your higher self, can relay needed translations "within the moment." The more comfortable one is in setting the conscious mind aside and stepping into the subconscious, the smoother the translations will flow.
Experiencing a Dark Night of the Soul
During this time, many will experience "shake-ups." Someone will undergo rites of passage or "dark nights of the soul" that offer opportunities to release emotional baggage of the past. Such clearings open a space for direct psychic communion and spiritual transformation. Even in the darkest passages, you can stand strong in the knowledge that you planned and orchestrated your rites of passage before you came here. As you come to embrace them, you open to receive their message and the gifts they contain.
Cosmic Activations and Lucid Dreams
The July 6/7 eclipse is opening the doorway for galactic activations and dimensional shifts. A number of those incarnated now will be activated to fulfill their contracts for this timeframe. The eclipses of summer 2009 will trigger many into remembering their purpose of helping transition the Earth into a New Time. You will see messages, guidance and information begin to flow from higher realms. Some will begin to experience lucid dreams along with vivid dreams of other time planes and dimensions.
The time is ripe with opportunities for deeper understanding and deeper communion with your guides and higher self. Pay attention to all symbols and signposts that show up; pay attention to your dreams. Pay attention to Earth changes, to events that play out on the world’s stage. Many signs and symbols will appear in coming days to reveal to each person their next step on the rapidly unfolding journey of planetary transformation.
Joining Together in the Festival of Goodwill
Today and over the next five days, there is a unique opportunity to join with
other souls to anchor greater light to the earth plane and make it available for
all of humanity. As the Gemini full moon approaches, many souls are joining
together in the Festival of Goodwill that will help disseminate the
transformative energies coalesced during the powerful Wesak full moon in early
May.
Preparing your Consciousness
Over the next two days, you can prepare yourself to anchor these energies and
make them bioavailable to all who seek to access them. To prepare your
consciousness, affirm you are releasing all negativity. Affirm all that has ever
happened and all that will ever happen radiates love and spiritual perfection.
When you have stepped free of any densities and judgments that bind you to the
physical plane, further detach by moving beyond any limiting identities you may
hold. See yourself as an infinite and expanded being that carries the codes for
uniting Heaven and Earth. See your body filling with light as you become a
vessel for the energies of love flooding the Earth plane. Join in consciousness
with all people of goodwill on the planet.
Reprogramming Your DNA
On Sunday, during the Festival of Goodwill, enter a time of complete inner peace
and silence. Reach up to contact the energies and allow them to flow into your
consciousness. Open to the dreams, visions and peak states these energies offer.
Allow these energies to filter into every level of your being. See them entering
the cells of your body and reprogramming the codes in your DNA. This new coding
brings you into stronger alignment with your higher self and allows you to more
easily download healing and spiritual guidance.
The two days following the full moon are a timeframe in which you filter these
spiritual energies through your intentions of goodwill and radiate them out to
the places where they are able to do the most good.
Stepping into the Next Phase of Your Spiritual Mission
This is a powerful time. You have just experienced the apex of the spiritual
year when the Wesak full moon brought an influx of revitalizing and regenerative
energies to the Earth plane. This energy was further amplified by the shifts in
consciousness now taking place, and facilitated by the potent cosmic conjunction
of Neptune, Jupiter and Chiron. Now you're able to take a step further and
serve humanity during this time by opening to receive the energies gathered and
focused during Wesak and throughout the month of May, and making them
bioavailable to all on the Earth plane who wish to access them. As you anchor
and distribute these energies, you're able to step into the next phase of your
spiritual mission. As you radiate these energies for the highest good of all,
the identities you currently hold are transformed, expanded, and filled with
light.
Identity Shifts and Designing Your Realities
In coming days and weeks, you will see yourself in a new way. As you go through
your days, you will observe changes in your vision and preferences. These are
signposts of the changes taking place within you. These changes you observe in
yourself reflect the energy shifts on the Earth plane and the New Time that is
now being seeded. You are now able to come into resonance with your future
self, which is able to guide you through this time of transition on planet
Earth. You will be able to open to the message of your sacred wound and learn
its wisdom. This will allow you to step off the karmic wheel and begin
designing your realities in the shape of your deepest dreams.
Expanding the Vision: Stepping into Cosmic Time
Your life as you now know it is a direct result of the pictures you have held in your mind over time. These images speak to every aspect of your being: who you believe you are, what you feel you deserve; what and who you love, and your future possibilities.
We are here to tell you that these images are ready for an update! You are now entering a powerful cosmic time in Earth's future history when it is possible to step far beyond anything you have imagined.
Accessing Moments of ‘Heightened Experience’
Many souls have chosen to incarnate at this time due to the opportunities for heightened experience now unfolding. Many of you have been receiving images of these possibilities in your dreams or during quiet times of reflection and meditation. You may have glimpsed spiritually empowered and emotionally free versions of yourself; you may have received images of creative works unlike anything yet seen on Earth; you may have witnessed creative processes that seem magical in present time. In your dreams, you may have traveled to otherworldly places or witnessed things you have not thought possible.
What you’re experiencing are moments from Earth’s near future energetically reaching back to seed themselves in your present timeframe.
During this time, you may receive visions of the next phase of your journey here. You may be amazed by the dazzling possibilities contained in these visions, but startled by what they require you to leave behind. Understand all is as it should be. This is the course you charted long ago; it is the course that will lead you to completion.
Moving toward Spiritual Mastery
Those who have spent years studying, learning and following spiritual practices know that progress can be incremental and slow. You may have felt frustrated at times. Now you are seeing how your efforts and your faith have brought you to a place where you are ready to step easily and effortlessly into the next phase of your becoming. Your struggle, your past efforts have primed your consciousness, mapped your intentions and created a field of possibilities that allows future probabilities of spiritual mastery. The blessings now flow for those who have persevered on their path with only their trust, inner knowing and the light of their spirit to steer by. After navigating oceans of life experience, many of you are now ready to approach mastery.
The foundation is in place. Your work over time transformed your beliefs and opened your heart and mind to what is now unfolding; that is, the opportunity to step outside physical reality and experience “cosmic time” where you exist as spirit incarnate on Earth. Just a few seconds in cosmic time can entrain the rest of your life to its vibration and essence.
Stepping into Cosmic Time
It is possible within your present moment to step more fully into an expanded vision for your life. Stepping into “cosmic time” allows you to simultaneously witness and experience moments of "future vision" that alter both your DNA and your belief system.
To make the most of the cosmic energies now unfolding:
One) Eat light and eat live foods. This frees your physical energies from the shackles of digestion and allows a freer flow of energy throughout your physical system.
Two) Spend time daily in silence and meditation. Even if you are not a longtime meditator, you can now access greatly enhanced states by entering deep states of relaxation and stilling your mind.
Three) Open up a direct dialogue with your higher self. Daily journaling is an excellent way to open up this dialogue. Write out your questions on one side of the page, then turn over your pen to your higher self. Allow answers to flow onto the page. You can also use a tape recorder for this process.
Four) Be playful. Be creative. One of the most important things you can do during your day is to make time for creative play. Your imagination is your doorway into cosmic time. All images, visions, ideas and inspirations flow through this corridor.
Five) Pay attention to the symbols of your dreams and waking life. Make note of the images that flow into your mind. These images are offering you glimpses of new possibilities now crystallizing in your energy field.
Six) Affirm daily that you are an infinite being. As an infinite being, your birthright is the unlimited magic and abundance of the universe. Open to allow abundance and synchronicities to flow into your life in magical and unexpected ways.
Seven) Release any attachments you may have to your present identity, to others, or to ways of being. Attachments and expectations bind you to old habits and patterns and keep you from experiencing new and expanded ways of being.
Eight) View all images/experiences/visions/desires through the lens of your spiritual purpose. Affirm that whatever benefits you receive you extend to all others through your spiritual purpose.
Nine) Allow greater and greater amounts of joy into your life. Make a list of what brings you joy and constantly look for ways to expand this list.
Ten) Accept and embrace whatever unfolds in your life. When you accept what comes before you, you open to its message and wisdom. By contrast, whenever you resist something, you close yourself to its message. This dooms you to repeat the experience.
Awakening to the Dream: May 27 Portal Offers Healing and Transcendence
A rare astrological configuration appears on the horizon this coming week, ushering in a new and greatly expanded time on Planet Earth. In coming days, Neptune, Jupiter and Chiron rendezvous in Aquarius to create a new unique portal offering healing and transcendence at all levels. This alignment will weave throughout coming weeks, lifting veils between dimensions and making fifth-dimensional consciousness more accessible than ever before.
In addition to providing opportunities for healing, this portal opens new doorways of perception, allowing glimpses into future timeframes; it strengthens and enhances psychic abilities; opens access to new forms and levels of abundance; and sets in motion a cultural renaissance that seeds the New Time prophesied by seers throughout history.
Following on the heels of the powerful Wesak opening in early May, this portal expands the earlier initiation, allowing those who choose to do so to step more fully into the New Time. The key to stepping fully into this gateway is to embrace every wound, every experience, and open to the messages they contain. If you are willing to step past the physical trappings of your life, the spiritual blueprint of your mission is revealed during this time. This blueprint contains a lens that brings the plan for your life into focus and helps you enter direct communion with your higher self and aspects of your being that exist throughout time.
There will be a broad range of responses to this energetic vortex. Some will make use of these energies to go beyond anything they have imagined while others will flounder, sinking deeper into disillusionment and despair. Some will not be affected at all.
This portal spurs those already on their spiritual path to step into new levels of joy, creativity and abundance, while taking quantum leaps toward transcendence and world service. It allows the newly-awakened to advance rapidly on their path. While the energies of this portal may trigger times of unrest in sleeping consciousness, it will offer opportunities for all of humanity to step into the next phase of evolutionary growth.
Becoming World Servers
Those who have been following their spiritual path for some time will find unique opportunities for understanding and fulfilling their spiritual purpose during this opening. Many who have been teaching, sharing and channeling will now step into an even stronger role as direct conduits for spirit.
The willingness to step into the next level of your mission is an important aspect of this portal. You will be asked to step into new levels of joy, new levels of self-responsibility, new levels of compassion and spiritual communion. The fact that this conjunction happens in Aquarius says every facet of this opening is based in global service. Every step you take, every effort you undertake, will be intricately linked with lifting up the Earth and all its inhabitants.
The Drive toward Meaning and Purpose
Many who are newly awakened will develop a sudden fascination for all things spiritual. This may be accompanied by a strong drive to find a deeper meaning and purpose in life. Many lightworkers will be called upon to serve as guides for increasing numbers of these awakening souls.
While many lightworkers followed a natural progression in their journey of awakening, developing spiritual awareness over decades, you will now see many beginning this process with the need to come on board quickly, entering resonance with shifting energies in a brief timeframe. This will signal a need for record numbers of mentors and life coaches to assist with the transition. As a result, many who have considered themselves students will be asked to step up to the plate as guides and teachers.
The Dream of the Sleeping World
There will be those around you who don't perceive or embrace the energies of this portal. Many of these will struggle in resistance. It is important that you allow others to be where they are. This is not the time for arrogance or judgment, but for a deeper sense of acceptance, tolerance and compassion.
Depending on one’s level of healing and evolution, the energies of this portal can affect you in different ways. Those who are sleepwalking through their lives may respond to the energies through escapist patterns and addictions; they may navigate this time through denial, running away from fears, taking their angst and confusion out on others; or other forms of self-sabotaging, dysfunctional behaviors. It may lead to psychological distress and troubled emotions that trigger accidents, illness or reversals of fortune. Some may experience their life circumstances seemingly “falling apart”.
During this time, the level of one’s spiritual development is everything. Those who are directly connected to their soul will be able to embrace their wounds, open to the messages they contain, and undergo healing that allows them to step fully into their spiritual powers and abilities. Those who resist “unseen” realities beyond the physical will manifest challenges designed to help awaken them. Many will experience both the higher and lower expression of this portal in different areas of their life.
A Portal of Spiritual Healing and Awareness
During this opening, spiritual healing and awareness are highlighted. This is a time when "wounded healers” are able to access deeper levels of their own healing and bring new techniques out to share with the world.
Those who thought they had healed and released their wounds will awaken to new levels of healing. This new insight will reveal the message and the hidden plan that sleeps within the wounds, waiting to be discovered. This discovery unlocks the door to quantum evolution of consciousness. It is in this way that this conjunction simultaneously paves the way for healing and expansion of consciousness.
Those who have served as healers will be able to reach deeper understandings of disease and health. They will be able to see through the surface of physical reality to the roots of illness and assist others in understanding the message of their symptoms. Those who have served as intuitive counselors will be able to access fresh insights into the nature of human suffering and open new doors for others to be able to understand and accept themselves. Likewise, those who have followed their path for many years will be called upon to acknowledge their own need for healing, which allows them to become more powerful healers and guides.
The New Cultural Renaissance
It is during this time that new works of art, new writings, channelings and new inventions encoded with energies of the New Time will begin to take form “in the ethers.” As these creations are birthed into physical reality, they will seed a new cultural renaissance. This is a time when creativity itself is understood in a new way. This new vision for art as a form of spiritual messaging will make multidimensional realities more accessible on the Earth plane.
Accessing New Levels of Abundance
This gateway contains opportunities for new forms and levels of abundance. As you gain awareness of the true meaning and nature of spiritual wealth, you are able to remove your focus from old misconceptions and old definitions of abundance. This allows you to place your focus and attention on the true nature of abundance – your spiritual mission. Once you realize you have all that you need within you, you will be able to energize and “bring forth” whatever is called for within the moment. From this place of flowing abundance, there is never any lack or need. You are able to view life from a higher perspective attuned to frequencies where true wealth flows easily and effortlessly. Living life from this spiritual dimension of your existence immensely broadens and enriches your life experience.
Awakening to the Dream
During this time, messages may arrive in dreams and meditation. You may travel more readily into other dimensions, including future timeframes. You may receive future visions and glimpses of future events that bring realization of your destiny. Doorways of perception open to allow the dreamer to awaken to the dream. You may experience “vertical time,” where it seems a month or even a week is equal to a year of linear time. You may undergo mind-expanding experiences and peak states of consciousness. You may experience openings where the channel between your higher self and conscious mind becomes telepathic.
All of this leads to the burning away of the old self, and the awakening to new fields of possibility.
Steps to Accessing the May 27 Portal
The price of admission to this portal of evolutionary opportunity is a willingness to release all that no longer serves your growth and well-being. Behaviors, patterns and beliefs that no longer serve you and all narrow pursuits will become obvious at this time. Anything from the past that needs to be healed and cleared will come up for review. This is a time when you will be able to more easily transcend the dramas and traumas that are part of human existence.
We offer here some steps to making the most of this gateway:
1) Practice awareness in all that you do. Slow down, allow yourself to expand into the beauty of nature. Listen with your heart. Pay attention to the symbols that show up in your dreams and waking life.
2) Revisit your belief system. You may find this the perfect time to develop a philosophy of life. As part of this new perspective, examine what gives you joy. Place more value on being than doing. Expand what gives your life meaning.
3) Practice balance in all things. The new energies may amp up your enthusiasm for all things metaphysical, but keep in mind the need for groundedness. Because this alignment falls in Aquarius -- an air sign -- there is the possibility of becoming caught up in a vision to the extent of failing to take the steps to bring the vision into physical reality.
4) Learn to stand strong in your visions, to trust and believe in their "realness," no matter how fantastic or incredible they may seem. Those who are deeply rooted in physical reality will not embrace visions of a future beyond what they have imagined. Bless them, but don’t allow them to sway you from your mission.
5) Undertake vision quests, spiritual pilgrimages and begin new areas of exploration. Fasts, retreats, new dietary disciplines rich in life force and new spiritual practices are helpful at this time.
6) Prepare for this opening by meditating on the New Time. Set your intentions to open to every facet of your spiritual purpose. Prime your consciousness during meditation.
7) Love your wounds and issues. Love all aspects of yourself. Trust that as you open to the messages they contain, you will step more fully into your role as a world server and healer.
8) Be willing to move beyond who you thought you were and what you have known. This is the time to shed timeworn identities and adopt new ones more closely aligned with your purpose.
9) Make time for silence and solitude each day. Learn to still your mind and enter states of alert listening. This allows you to “download” guidance for the next step of your role in assisting the Earth through coming times of transition.
10) Be willing to allow new levels of love, abundance and joy into your life. Affirm that as an infinite being, you are worthy of the best the universe has to offer.
11) Practice tolerance, acceptance and compassion with everything that comes before you.
12) Stand strong in your trust and faith in the higher order of things no matter what is going on around you.