As Starseeds, Lightworkers, or whatever you prefer to be known as, we step onto our spiritual journey with high expectations. We KNOW we have so much that we can give to the world. We learn how to move energy within our bodies, how to store Qi, and how to direct Source energy towards others to aid in their healing. We see people in need and we do not step past them. We feel as if we are called upon to give of what we can in order to help this beautiful world and all its inhabitants rise to its full promise.
Some of us become key players in the local community. Some move into the world of study and the deepening knowledge that has been passed to us through the eons. Some, eventually, may become Teachers, leaders – and all of us run the risk of forgetting that we cannot be of the best assistance to others that we are capable of being if we have not done the work on Self.
We struggle with work, family, finance, security, safety, equality and so much more. We worry about such things even as we know that our one lonely voice is not going to make a big difference. And we see that however much we talk about Starseeds coming together as One, we don’t seem able – yet – to achieve it. We hang on to the dream that we are separate. We haven’t learned how to travel within to the Place of Stillness where we are all One. We have to go deep within Self to find that place, and that can be difficult journey to take.
We hold in our hearts this dream of helping to bring this world to a state of Nirvana, but it all seems so hard. Nothing seems to change, and I ask, could that be because we are all so fixated on fixing things that are not broken? We need the difficult in order to understand what is easy. We need the darkness, because without it we would never understand light. I personally know how blessed I am only because of the hardship I have experienced.
The sharing of yourself requires balance, agility, knowledge, an understanding of when to step forward and when to step back. It requires that you know when to share yourself and when not to, so that others may have the opportunity to experience their own life lessons. The sharing of yourself requires that you know when your own Ego is in play, and that requires that you have first done the work on Self.
If we can each do that work on Self, there will be, indeed, nothing left to fix.
There has been a tradition within Celtic society, that is steeped in history, and possibly stretches back thousands of years: a tradition of talking to the bees.
Beekeepers would decorate the hives and share with the bees what has happened within the community. They would tell the bees about who had married, new babies born, the joys and the sorrows. Especially important was the tradition of telling the bees of the passing of people from this realm to the next.
When the bee keeper died, it was a requirement that the new bee keeper introduce themselves and formally ask for acceptance from the bees.
The reason that this tradition is so strong, is that Bee is a Spiritual Messenger. She is in communication with the Divine. She’s like the insect version of a telephone line leading directly to the Goddess.
The bees, the sun, and the trees were considered to be a ‘golden triad’ to the Druids, who, it is thought, danced like bees to honour the life force of the sun.
The Bee is symbolised by the Sun. She carries the Energy of Fire.
As an adult she grows hair on her legs in order to gather pollen and then takes flight in a way that appears to be impossible. Her wings are just not big enough to support her body and the whole is definitely not aerodynamic as we know that, so everything about her says that she shouldn’t be able to fly – yet she does. What this tells us, is that we should never say that something is impossible – because it is quite possible that the impossible can and will happen! No matter how impossible your task seems, you are super-powerful and you can make it happen. Providing you don’t give up. Providing that you don’t allow the addictive Energies of Fear and Anger to rule you, and providing you learn to work with others in your community.
Bee is letting us know that it can be easy for humans to forget the commitment they should hold for the welfare of their community. We all get tied up with our individual lives and forget that we can achieve so much more if we all work together. Bee tells us that we can live in harmony if we really want to. A single bee colony can hold over 60,000 individuals – and they all work together to ensure that the hive thrives.
We need to re-commit to achieving harmony in order for our communities to thrive.
Bees communicate through dance, letting others in the community know where to go to collect pollen, what direction, and how far to travel. Like them we need to communicate, sharing information in whatever manner best describes the direction we should travel and the goal we are aiming for, not as individuals but as human beings.
We need to develop a strong work ethic, together. We need to come together, determined not only to survive as a species, but to succeed. Bee reminds us we ARE a part of a Collective Consciousness – a community. And despite how difficult it might appear – we can fly!
That strong work ethic that bee is known for, also includes a commitment that is so strong and so protective of the hive, that bee will even sacrifice herself to protect her home. Now – that doesn’t mean that we have to sacrifice ourselves, just that we have to develop a very strong determination that we will come together to protect our home. Our Planet. Gaia. At the moment we are all scattered and separated by the illusion of borders and other barriers. We are separate physically, emotionally, and spiritually. And that needs to end.
Another thing that Bee asks us to look at, is how productive we are being. How well we are sharing the burdens. Are you one who has a very heavy load or are you waiting for someone else to tell you what to do? Find balance in your life. Yes, your work is essential, but it is not everything. Take time to smell the flowers every now and then.
With Bee medicine, you are reminded that you are a part of a much larger community. That means that you have support and you are able to give support. You are not doing it alone. With persistence and teamwork, with everyone knowing their role, we can do this. Even if we are not aerodynamic – with intention, determination, and with the support of community we can fly.
We all have those points in life when we stop and look around us and think that it’s time for a good clear out. That might be a clear out of your wardrobe or your fridge, or your list of Facebook friends, but it can also be about the less tangible clutter of beliefs that you hold.
The wardrobe sort-out is easy: I’ve not worn that in ages/don’t like the colour/no longer fits – and it’s off to the Op shop (Goodwill). With your fridge it could be a case of getting a big garbage bag and ditching everything that is out of date or growing it’s own furry coat in the bottom of the veggie bin! These are a whole lot easier to deal with than with your emotional /spiritual world.
When Echidna (sometimes known as spiney ant-eater) comes into your world, she is giving you a nudge, and seeing this post could be for exactly that! She appears because you probably need to do a bit of digging into your life, a sort-of housekeeping of your thoughts and beliefs.
It is so easy when following a spiritual path to latch onto something that feels right at the time, and then hang on to that belief for ever more. But we really do need to dig at our beliefs on a regular basis; we need to take them out and question them. Do they still hold as truth? If we don’t do this, then we are surely walking a path towards stagnation.
Even though it is actually one of the most wide-spread native animals in Australia, Echidna is actually one of the rarest animals in the world, and it’s unlikely that you’d actually get to see one in the wild!
Echidna, and its cousin Platypus, are like all mammals, warm-blooded, have hair and produce milk to feed their young – but these mammals are unique in that they don’t give birth to live babies, echidna and platypus are the only mammals that actually lay eggs.
Echidna is often confused, in people’s minds, with hedgehogs. They sort of look similar but they are not even closely related. Echidna is much bigger than the hedgehogs I remember as a child in England. They have a long, bald, tubular beak which protrudes straight forward from the dome-shaped body that is covered in spines. They have small eyes and tiny slits for ears. That long beak is where all the activity goes on – it has two small nostrils and a tiny mouth that has no teeth, but does have a long sticky tongue! The beak is used to forage for food and they hunt by sensing the electrical signals given off by their prey. They feel the energy of their food.
Echidna is an ancient animal that is thought to have evolved some 65 million years ago and is respected as a keeper of Ancient Wisdom, especially of Earth Energy. Echidna helps you to centre yourself when you feel overwhelmed. She helps you to ground, to connect with the heartbeat of Gaia.
In order to fully access this Ancient Earth Wisdom, you need to look into your life. You need to seek what might no longer fit; or what is past its use-by date. You do need to dig deep and Echidna shows us how to do that. When she digs, her front feet dig the earth forward and to the sides, her hind legs face backwards which allows her to dig straight down; so their digging ends up looking like a circular drill hole into the earth. It tells us that digging deep is needed in order to get straight to those places that you need to review – the habits, the beliefs and the stuff you keep on doing because you always have done it. You should scrutinize your Self with honesty. What beliefs do you hold that need to be reviewed. Are these beliefs still your truth, or has your knowledge moved forward to where you can see that something no longer rings true? Is it time to do more research? What needs to be changed so that you can keep moving forward, supported, and nourished by Gaia? Feel for these things energetically, and much the same way as Echidna senses the electrical signature of her prey, we need to keep our senses, our Knowing, switched on and aware.
Echidna tells us not to worry if we appear different to others – if our thoughts and desires and the way we do things is not mainstream. We are unique, and valuable. Echidna is a mammal that lays eggs – you don’t get much more unique than that!
Echidna tells us that it’s time to start sifting through our old thought patterns, seek nourishment from those patterns that you choose to keep, and restructure or discard those that no longer suit where you are in your life.
Echidna hunts by sensing electricity with her beak – she uses this to learn about her surroundings, to learn about what needs nurturing. We can do a similar thing and start to learn about the things that seem strange, and maybe a bit frightening, but are essential to living in our reality.
Echidna helps you to understand who you are and where your place is in this realm, she can guide you to re-connecting with the Earth Energy, and creating a strong connection to our Mother Earth.
She tells us to look beneath the surface to seek the Ancient Wisdom of balance and stability.
Some things, most things, will not change easily, but we have to start somewhere. Like Echidna foraging for her food by sensing the electrical output of ants and earthworms, we need to feel our way forward by being aware of the Energy of everything we come across. And then deciding if it is something we want in our reality. Or not.
Scenario 1: You follow a path for years and years, constantly striving to move forwards, to grow, and yet nothing seems quite so motivating anymore. You just keep seeing the same-old, same-old fluff coming around and around.
Scenario 2: You’ve been working hard for what seems to be a really long time and you have achieved many of your goals. Ahead of you, you can see your life path spread before you, and it is beautiful. Suddenly, something happens that stops you in your tracks, and you know that you can’t go any further forward in that direction.
Scenario 3: You’ve been working hard, for a long time, to reach a specific goal. It’s almost in your grasp. In fact you have been offered to be guided into the next level, but suddenly you become fearful that you can’t do this role that you have been working towards. You step backwards losing the opportunity, possibly forever.
What do you do? How do you keep moving forward when the way ahead is no longer clear and well mapped out? What’s next?
This would be one of the times that it can be a good idea to review where you are and where you want to go with your life. The choices in front of you may seem hazy and ill-defined. You may feel as if you are drifting or being sucked into chaos. You may have hard things to deal with emotionally, mentally, or physically. How do you turn things around? And especially, how do you keep from falling apart?
It’s time to sit down and make conscious decisions. It’s not time to allow yourself to just drift for very long.
I recently hit such a point in my life. There’s been a few of them, and I have approached each one differently, and as it often appeared at the time, disastrously. These are the crossroad points, written into my Sacred Contract for this lifetime; choices that have defined me and given me the opportunity to choose how to move forward – or not.
This time, I took an imaginary left-hand turn at the door that had closed in front of me, and I strode forward into an unknown future. At first my focus was only on putting one foot in front of the other, but very soon I started looking down the path in the direction my life is now travelling. What is in front of me? Where is it going? I don’t know yet, but I have faith, trust and respect travelling with me together with all the knowledge and experience I have gained thus far.
My childhood passion was ballet. My sister was the one who was (and still is) into horses, and, somewhat warily, I got to know her horses – who were mainly rescued from abusive situations. I saw them bloom under her care and I saw that the love she gave to them was returned to her ten-fold. When my daughter became interested in horses, I decided that it would be a good idea for us both to have lessons in riding and caring for these amazingly empathic beings. I only had a few lessons – I have a fear of heights and I was too far up in the air for my comfort. I also couldn’t find the brake or the gears!! My sister despaired, and my daughter’s riding lessons continued without me as an active participant!
These amazing creatures, who so obviously understand love and devotion, have been around for something like 50 million years, although at that time they did look a bit different and were only about 50cm tall. Modern horse appeared about 4.5 million years ago and, very strangely, a lack of fossils show that they totally disappeared from the American continent about 10,000 years ago, only returning with the Spanish explorers in the early 16th century. No-one knows what happened.
There are so many words that you can apply to horse energy: noble, majestic, confident, heroic, beautiful, willing, spirit-filled… Simply making a list of these is enough to lift your spirits.
If you feel that you are trapped into a situation, or bearing too many weighty demands on your time and energy, think of horse energy to get you through. They are excellent at sharing the load; can jump over barriers and they can run like the wind.
Right now is a good time to stop and have a look at where you are. Not where you are physically on this planet, but rather where you are on your journey through this lifetime. We talk about having a goal, something to aspire to and whether that goal is defined right down to the nth degree or whether it’s fairly nebulous and free-flowing is kind of irrelevant. What is important is the actual journey. Are you still following your path towards your goals? Ask yourself, “How’s it going so far?”
Many Starseeds/Lightworkers (or whatever you prefer to call yourself) have wonderful ideals at the start of their journey. They have plans to safeguard humanity. To work together to build a better reality. They are going to ‘awaken’ the sleepers, heal the infirm, and sort out the inequalities and injustices of this world. They are going to jump into 5D, or New Earth, or Ascend to somewhere. They are going to become One. I know all about this… that’s the path every neophyte steps onto, and it was my path too, at one time.
Then you work out that it’s not your place to try to fix things for other people – and that trying to do so has huge potential for building a karmic imbalance. You discover that the thing you need to do before anything else is ‘fix’ you. You need to work on Self. You need to learn to be able to sit in Silence.
That is why we need to review our path every now and then. Your path should never remain constant. Why? Because constancy holds a high risk of stagnation. You should be studying, learning from the Ancient – and the modern – Masters; gaining knowledge and experience; and being an active part of your local community. For example: actually helping individual people through volunteer work instead of talking about the greater horrors of our world that you, as an individual, cannot fix.
And so, the wise person takes time out every now and then to review their journey, to look deeply and honestly at how they are moving through their life. What are my aims? Am I still pointing in the same direction as when I started out, and is that still where I feel it is right for me to travel? Where can I gain more knowledge or experience? Do I still have things in my past I need to deal with? And how do these things that belong to me affect the well-being of the Collective?
The start of each year is a time of opportunity. Opportunity for the individual and also opportunity for the human race to move forward in a positive way towards our future. The problem is that we – as individuals and as the Collective – can miss those opportunities because we don’t notice that we have become bogged down with a heavy weight of irrelevant fluff. And if we miss them… they are gone forever.
A few years ago I lived in a beautiful tourist town on Queensland’s east coast, and every year between late July and mid October, a different type of tourist would arrive that would lift the excitement of the town, and its human visitors, to new heights.
As a manager of several holiday resorts, I was in the thick of it, and every year had the opportunity to go out into the bay and interact with these amazing animals. First would come the teenagers; then the females and new babies, closely followed by the males. It is tourist season for Humpback Whales.
These animals are fascinating. They spend all summer in the Antarctic, eating themselves silly and putting on thousands of pounds of blubber before starting the long swim up the east coast of Australia to the Great Barrier Reef where the pregnant females would give birth. A relatively short distance from the birthing areas is a huge, wide bay protected by K’gari Island. A safe haven to spend a few weeks teaching the juveniles the skills they would need to survive the long journey home. The last year that I was out on the water during whale season, the bay was described as being ‘whale soup’ with an estimated 15,000 humpback whales stopping off for R&R.
I could talk forever about these wonderful creatures of the deep. Of how they would come up to the boats and that you could never be sure who was more amused by whom? They have just as great a curiosity about us, as we do of them. They were there on holiday and wanted to see all the sights – us!
These particular whales teach us a valuable lesson about emotion, vulnerability, and the power of resurrection. A little further south is Morton Island which, between 1952 and 1962, was home to a whaling station which decimated the humpback population from tens of thousands to under 500. Every single one of the whales visiting the wide bay this season, are the children and grandchildren of those survivors.
Whales are known as Earth’s Record Keepers, and it is said that these whales carry with them the stories of their lost families, and that they return to the bay each year in honour of their ancestors. They remind us to honour the past but to also examine how that past has brought you to this point. Check if you have been diving too deeply into murky waters and are feeling the pressure. It could be time to rise to the surface and release, with a powerful out-breath, all that holds you back.
Listen to your inner voice. Listen to the communication between yourself and family and friends. Seek support in community, and bridge any gaps that may be causing separation between you and those you love. Be willing to go the distance to achieve your goals.
Take a deep breath – gather your joy, and your curiosity, and go make a big splash!!
My first thought, when I think of cherishing Self, is a pamper session. A massage, getting my nails done, a gorgeous lunch with friends, a walk on the beach… but that isn’t the meaning I want to explore today. I want to feel into what it means to Cherish the aspect of your Soul that is your Conscious Self.
For me, this is about stopping and recognising just how far I have travelled. It is about acknowledging the continuous work on Self. In the last eight years that I have been a serious student of the Mysteries, I have battled my Ego (which was definitely running amok); I have faced my fears (and still do on a daily basis); I have felt as if I have energetically jumped off a 40 storey building into a tea cup. I have flown high and I have crash-landed. I have learned much about my human Self – some of which I really did not like and some of which I can see the light shining from.
Right now though, I’m recovering from one of those crash-landings and that is why it is time to cherish my Self. It is time to acknowledge that the wants and the desires of the human “I” are not necessarily where the deeper “I” needs to explore. It is time to come to understand that every single thing that I have experienced through all the years of my life – the good and the bad – is a part of my Journey and holds something that is meant to bring information, knowledge, experience and more to the aspect of me that is nothing more than a miniscule filament of the One Mind – my Conscious Self. It is time to truly understand – and not just repeat the words – that I, like you, have purpose.
As I look to cherish my inner self, it is impossible not to cherish all the aspects of Self that have accompanied me on this Journey. All the parts of me that have lived through dark times as well as joyous times. I love and cherish all parts of every experience that has made me into the ME I currently am – a conscious human.
With those deeper thoughts, and knowing that you can’t separate the physical from the spiritual…. I’m off for a bubble bath!
Years ago I used to live in a small Queensland town, Tin Can Bay, which is home to a pod a rare, wild, Australian Humpback Dolphins. We were honoured to have these beautiful creatures in our backyard and when I first moved there, there were very few restrictions regarding interaction.
The residents of the town were like family to the dolphins. We knew their names, their history in the area; new babies were brought to us to be admired and we mourned with them when one of them died.
One of the things that I especially loved about these dolphins is that they were fully aware when somebody with a disability went into the water. They were gentle, protective, and ready to be of assistance if needed.
Ancient Greeks believed that dolphins carried the souls of the dead to the afterlife. When you are blessed with being able to interact with dolphins, your life is forever changed and so they represent for us, spiritual and personal re-birth.
Dolphins are peaceful creatures, who are brilliant at problem solving and can even plan for the future. They are highly intelligent, social animals, who know how to live together in peace and harmony.
They tell us to seek ways to be of assistance to others within our family and our wider community; to protect those who are weaker, who struggle; to seek the goodness in those around you and to work in co-operation for the betterment of all.
Recognise your self-confidence; speak your mind when needed. Trust in self; trust your inner-knowing and how to recognise your inner-strength. But also remember that it is not all about work – we all need time to play, to laugh and to have fun.
I have prosopagnosia – face blindness. I do not remember faces or the names attached to them. It’s possibly an aspect of Aphantasia and SDAM and there is research currently happening to try to determine that. I am part of a forum of scientists, psychologists, researchers, and everyday people who have this wonky wiring and in that forum, someone asked this question:
Without looking in the mirror, could you describe yourself?
That is a very interesting question. If we are asked by another person to describe our Self, it’s not that often we would start with a physical description of our features. We have a tendency, as humans, to describe ourselves as what we do – I’m a teacher, a receptionist, a hairdresser, a carpenter. My go-to description is Meditation Therapist and Holistic Counsellor. We then will often follow up with where we live. Often, but I think less importantly nowadays, we’d include our marital status, whether we have children…. and so on.
However we describe ourselves on the physical level, what we never really do is describe ourselves through our emotional, mental, and spiritual self. I might, if appropriate, say that I follow a spiritual path, but I am very unlikely to say that I struggle with emotions and will cry at the drop of a hat. At least not until someone knows me well enough that they’ve already worked that out! But these are the very things that we seek to understand more when we set off on a Journey to discover Who We Are. Why do I cry at the drop of a hat?
I find this question infinitely interesting – on a personal level, but also because I can see how that question “Who Are We” in human society as a whole. Who has ever started a description of themselves with “I am human. I live on this beautiful planet we call Earth…” We don’t say such things because we believe them to be obvious.
But to my mind, we need to state the obvious – because we forget this truth. We are all human. We all come from planet Earth. And that, to my mind, makes us all family. And, as family, we need to recognise each other and stop bickering.
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