Howling at that old Montana moon (again)
…was quite an experience this month. All activity came to a halt except of course exercising my lungs and howling.
Howling at that old Montana Moon
It seems too early to be coming out of my winter den, but I trust it’s the right thing to do. Nature is in divine balance and doing its thing to adjust with the earth changes, I too am adjusting but in my own way. I believe all on the planet are doing the very same thing. How much we fight those changes can greatly impact our experience.
Feelings of internal unease can be disconcerting. Clinging to what no longer exists can keep us hooked to pain. A good howl, cry or scream goes a long way in releasing stress. They are not the only ways,but sometimes they just plain work.
What are you carrying around that feels like an anchor around your soul? Cut the tie and release your spirit to change. How you ask? or even “What the heck are you talking about?” may be coming up in your thoughts. Good.
Awareness
Yes awareness that you have something tethering you to pain, to old ways of being that sure aren’t working anymore. Not the way they once did. The old ways of being can no longer be an excuse to stay in the dark and with pain once an awareness that change to a magnificent way of being is possible.
Ask
Ask God, the Universe, Spirit whatever you call that energy, force or being that is love and greater than all things, to help. You may being saying I have asked, and asked, and asked again. I never get an answer or help. Well it’s possible you were limiting the ways in which the information, next step, light could come. Ask, explore and expect something will present the next step, and maybe only the next step. Asking and expecting to not hear an answer, you receive exactly what you expect. Asking and expanding how the information will present its self and having full out faith you do receive, will change the outcome. DO NOT limit how you will receive.
Feel
What is divinely perfect could come as a feeling to do something, it could be a feeling to contact someone, it could be an accidental meeting you feel happened for a reason. Can you see the thread here. FEEL has a lot to do with receiving. Learn to feel again without control over what you are feeling. Open to the possibilities that what you are feeling is a catalyst to great change. Learn to stay present and feel. Life will change. Answers will come. Blessings will be presented. It is your choice to FEEL all of these things are possible.
Try howling at that old Montana moon (again).
Or whatever vantage point you are viewing massive and intense light on your discomfort and pain.
Welcome to 2012.
Definition of AUSPICIOUS:
: showing or suggesting that future success is likely
We are embarking on such a year. There is always a lot of thought given to what a new year will bring our way. We make New Year’s resolutions with the belief we will never keep them more than a short time. We shoot for the stars in what it is we yearn to change. We see our future through the eyes of our past so we have a history of where we are going before we get there. In other words you can’t get something new with an old template. This year has the added bonus of FEAR.
Fear:
- because nothing is as it was even yesterday
- the world is falling apart
- we are all spiraling to our doom
- what little illusion we had of security is slipping away
That is only the truth if you make it your truth.You have a choice. Today, just like any other day, you can choose externally or internally what you are taking part in. Do you fill your time riveted to the media and its campaign of fear? Funny isn’t it that the government has even more solutions that take away more and more of your rights as a human being. Check out the National Defense Authorization Act if you still question what fear is asking you to give away to not be in control of your own life.
- What if it were possible to play differently this year?
- What if the ways in which you limited your self were no longer guiding you?
- What if you went beyond failed resolutions?
- What if…
There are lots of what if’s. When did you last ask yourself “Does this feel right for me?” Check in to see if you are answering from the past, from fear, from not wanting to do anything that means you might have to ask yourself some tough questions. You might have to change. Even if something is hard doesn’t mean it doesn’t need to be done.We are bombarded everyday by the ease and swiftness at which we can steer away from feeling, from emotions, from knowing our loving self.
Feed your fear, your insecurities, your resistance. What you have already gotten from feeding an insatiable monster? Yes these are times of great challenge. How are you approaching them? Spoiled. Wanting a way that doesn’t exist anymore. Or honoring and understanding what is important.
Feed your heart, your joy, your Self and see what can happen. It takes time to diminish the lure to the old.To get your tire out of an old rut. It takes commitment to nurture Love. To let it blossom in your life, as your life. There are many ways to begin anew. One breath at a time.
What is your criteria for fulfilling a great year for yourself? Does it nurture? Or just add stuff?
No one can take away your living an auspicious year. Your the only one that can give it away. One thought at a time creates either outcome.
Life is full of love. It is loving by nature when we live from the heart. You may think “that’s easy for you to say, your world is not falling apart.” No it is not easy for me to say, and it is not some flip, pie in the sky thinking. Pain may give the illusion of overshadowing the love surrounding you. It may be difficult to see it in the fear based world. It is there in the world that feels its own life force and the power within it. It is there in the power of love. Not a love that is in the mind. But in one that comes from your core self, self love.
If you take a moment to breath deeply in this moment (even if you are mumbling about anything I believe to be true). And in this moment ask Love to come forward in your feelings, in your breath and your awareness. In your breath of life are you aware of a very powerful force that runs through your body? I define this life force as something greater than I am. I define it as the larger picture of I AM, of the Divine. It is also viewed as Universal and Source energy to name a few. In breathing the awareness of this energy as me and in me my feel of it shifts, from my minds perception to my internal self’s knowing. And in that moment I feel a loving vibration of Divine resonance that connects me to a much larger picture of Love, of the great I AM.
Is it any wonder that the worlds awareness of a resonance that is connected and within all things has faded from view. I am not referring to religion being lost in many lives, but to ones own internal knowing of self. To ones accountability to self. And to ones connection and awareness to what they contribute in sending out into the world as their beliefs. Yes God has been taken out of our lives by government. After all we wouldn’t want to be politically incorrect and slight someone who does not believe in God. So lets take God out of society all together. What happened to diversity and personal accountability? Instead we homogenize the world and leave no room for honoring all beings. We bring the focus outside to what might offend someone instead of keeping it inside knowing our self and in the process loving the diverse nature of all individuals and working out differences from love and peace.
SELF LOVE, UNIVERSAL LOVE and SOURCE LOVE are not something we can give away or regulate so as to not offend someone. The return of the awareness of LOVE in you, starts with you and stays within you. What we resonate out into the world from LOVE begins to heal all.
All may appear dark, but love is coming to light in the darkness.
I have been trying to take a picture of a bald eagle since I moved to my home in Montana. It became something I would laugh about when I would call my dad and told him about the latest almost picture.
It started with my waiting in my car while my husband was inside a business in Bozeman. I felt a strong nudge to get my camera out. I ignored it after all I was behind a building in the city. What picture could I possibly want to take. I ignored the urge only to have a bald eagle fly pretty low near the car. So as a joke I took a picture of the space where the eagle had flown threw, basically empty blue sky.It became a joke to tell my dad about the latest almost photo.
One day several bald eagles where in a pasture by the side of the road. I had not taken my camera with me that day.
The next eagle encounter I thought he will never believe this one, but told my dad anyway. I had been driving along Int 90 at 75 mph when an eagle dropped down to my line of vision in my lane and flew in front of me for less than a minute. Something I wouldn’t have believed if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. I immediately called my dad on that one. That is after I was able to close my mouth that had been hanging open. My dad has since that call gone into a nursing home in CT. So the spontaneous calls have ended.
So the sighting of the eagle in the tree yesterday was an ooh ooh moment. Maybe I can finally get a picture to send my sister to show my dad. The eagle did not take off as I pulled my truck over to the side of the road I lowered the window, raised my camera and took three photos. This majestic animal received my gratitude as I drove away.
The sweetest part was imagining the smile on my dad’s face when he sees the pictures my sister will show him. 
My dogs have the best of friends. One in particular showers them with love and treats from her pet store bakery, Lovable Pets in Billings. They would adore her even without the treats. Ellie her husband (an equally loved person by my dogs) and their two dogs are just plain special in their eyes. They are truly my dogs friends, as well as mine.
One of the treats my dog loves from the bakery are cupcakes. Mention the word and Cleophas licks his lips and all but ties a napkin around his neck.
During yesterdays visit, with cupcakes of course, Ellie mentioned her staff loves these particular cupcakes made especially for dogs and asked me if I wanted to taste it. I jumped at the chance, they smelled and looked wonderful. Being wheat intolerant I could only have a bit of the cupcake, but a bigger bite of the topping. It certainly was delicious. Cleophas had not understated their taste.
This morning after breakfast Cleophas reminded me about the cupcakes he was to eat before they dried out. I took the box off the top of the refrigerator with both my dogs riveted attention on my movements. I thought” oh just one more bite” as both Cleophas and Ezzy watched me take a piece for myself. I started to laugh and pointed out to them that see mom finally did beg some of your snack from you. I had been telling them for years how would they like it if I begged at their dinner plate. I finally got to do it in reverse. It felt good. The only difference between their wanting part of what I eat and getting it and me asking and taking part of theirs was they never feel guilty and I did.
Never a dull moment at the OK corral. Yes my dogs are spoiled and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
