Following Journeys #11 and #12, its actually no great surprise to see information coming through about rain. It’s what we need to germinate the seeds we have planted on our path. But on any journey, there comes a point where we have to wash off the dust of the road. Freshen up, rest, and rejuvenate our energy before travelling forward again.
We need to take a good deep look at the weights we have been carrying too. These are the true things that hold us back on the journey to wherever we are heading. They are the bricks in our backpack that will totally squash the planted seeds – if we allow them, but it is not always easy to take these bricks out and really look at them. It can be even harder to leave them behind.
Sometimes we don’t need to leave those bricks behind though. They are the history of our journey through life and often need to be respected for the wealth of knowledge and experience they have brought to us. Sometimes, all we need to do is leave them in the rain for a little while, allow the hard parts to melt away, and see if there are hidden gems within.
Treat those memory ‘bricks’ with love for they are the experiences upon which you can shape the road ahead of you. Especially if you find those hidden gems, for they are the Wisdom you have gained on the road of life.
Murmuration. Isn’t that a lovely word? It is the collective name for a big gathering of starlings.
Originally from Europe, starlings are known through most of the world as an “Alien Invasive Species”. They are considered a pest, but they are also beneficial to us as they mainly feed on insects
Have you ever been privileged to watch what happens when they fly together? How they sweep through the skies in a magnificently choreographed aerial dance that seems to flow like water. They are masters of unity. They are aware that when they can work together, in unity, they are much stronger than each individual could possibly be.
They understand that which humans are struggling to remember, that there are no boundaries. They know that it doesn’t matter if there are physical differences between each bird – they are all Starlings. For millennia, humans have placed boundaries around themselves, boundaries of race, creed, sex, country and by doing this we limit our growth as a species. If we could also work in unity, we too would find ourselves in a much better place.
How do we start to bring about this unity of Earth? We communicate. When starlings are chattering amongst themselves it sounds as if they are aiming to solve all the world’s troubles. We need to start, as individuals, looking deeply into our relationships with every being and situation we meet. We need to look at what we favour and what stirs our fears. Prejudices arise from fear, so this is a good place to start. What do you fear, and why. When you understand and accept the ‘why’ you can choose to move away from the fears or to remain within them but with deeper knowledge which can help bring about a better understanding.
When a murmuration of starlings sweep and soar through the sky, they can seemingly change the direction of their dance with a single thought. Humans, more subject to individuality and not so skilled at working together for common cause, need to seek within our individual self with honesty, humility, and a willingness to change direction.
It will certainly take longer for us to change to a new direction – but we can get there. And it starts with you.
When you think of the word ‘riches’, what comes to mind? A healthy bank account; the Crown jewels; a dragon’s hoard?
Maybe your riches are more modest: a place you call home; a regular income; being able to take a holiday once in a while? Or perhaps your riches are more emotional: the first time you look into the newborn eyes of your first grandchild; the achievement of a dream?
For some people, these riches in life seem to flow easily whilst for others, we have to work hard to achieve them. It is the working hard that I want to talk about today.
Regardless of how many riches we already hold in our lives, there is always a goal to aim for – a dream. In Journey #11 I spoke of planting seeds. Here I talk about cultivating those seeds so that we can, when the time is right, reap the reward.
Like the farmer, we need those seeds to fall on fertile ground, and sometimes it is needed to dig those seeds deep, so they can rest until it is time to grow. Within our spiritual belief system we often call this time of dreaming our dreams as manifesting. Yes, sometimes our dreams fall into our laps, but most of the time, like all seeds and young plants, they need nourishment and that takes work in the physical world as well as the spiritual world. What we feed these seeds of our dreams with is energy. The energy generated by going out into the world to seek the knowledge or other tools we need to birth these dreams. We have to do the work to make the dream move from possible to probable to here it is. If it is your dream to travel the world – you need to gain knowledge in how you will fund such a journey, how you will feed yourself and find a place to sleep. You need to work out the visa requirements of the different countries and more. If you dream is for a great job, you need to make sure that you have the knowledge and experience needed to perform that job well.
Sometimes, we also have to accept that our dreams are not going to materialise in this lifetime. The seeds that were planted in Journey #11 are very unlikely to bloom in my lifetime – but that’s OK. I will not lose faith. I’ll just point my energy in a different direction and keep on walking.
I find it fascinating that Penguin appeared for this reading. Penguin was the first animal to appear with a message within the International Koalition of Krones You Tube chats. At that time (7th May 2020) Penguin brought this very powerful message which is even more relevant today than at that time:
“You are a survivor of your past, but you are the creator of your future.”
At that time Penguin spoke of choosing how you wanted to view your future. It was the start of the pandemic and there was a lot of fear and worry developing in the human world. We could choose to fall into that fear, or to be aware of the situation but not allow fear to rule us or we could refuse to make any choices – which is also a choice of non-action.
Now, with Penguin returning, it is time to once again take our future into our own hands and allow the past to fall away. You have survived. This time, Penguin is not talking of individual choices, but rather, of making choices that recognise that we are each, individually, an aspect of our Community.
A community of penguins is called a ‘huddle’. I love that. It makes me think of snuggling up with loved ones, and if you look at such a colony you can easily see why – they really do huddle up to each other – for safety, security, and support. They move constantly taking turns at being in the inner circle and experiencing the warmth and in the outer circle protecting those inside from the freezing winds. To the human eye it can look really chaotic, but to the penguins it is well organised.
During that time, it is the male penguin who has been constantly moving forward within that chaotic colony. Penguins are there for each other. We need to do the same – be there for our family and friends and our community. Penguin mum has gone off to hunt for some very needed food and has left dad in charge of the chick. She is away for over two months and during that time, Dad moves in the huddle with his chick balanced on his feet.
The things that Penguin can teach us from this are many. We can work together for the survival of all. We do know how to share the load in a diplomatic and well-mannered way. We can keep moving forward, whilst remaining flexible. And even in chaos we can remain strong, balanced and in harmony with Self and with others.
A few years ago I found myself part of the planning for an amazing project that would have been of assistance to so many people around the world. The physical building of this project would have become the eighth wonder of the world and the spiritual aspect would have helped bring peace and love and plenty to many, many people.
But it wasn’t to be, and with the start of Covid all the plans were pulled back and very quickly collapsed. One of the remnants of the planning of that time, is the logo I developed for the project. Planting Seeds and Shining Light was the theme, and that is the picture you see attached here.
Today I pulled a card for the Collective Consciousness of Humanity and the card that came through was also called Planting Seeds. With that card came the memories of those dreams and the recollection that even though the project never came about the seeds had been planted and that at some time in the future, at the right time, those seeds would blossom and grow.
We are in a time of changing seasons. What better time for seeds to start to grow – if we choose to nurture them.
We all have dreams; we have mountains to climb; rivers to swim. We have choices and decisions to make. Sometimes those decision are really easy and obvious, and sometimes they are more tricky and complicated. So I pulled another card to help and what came up was a card labelled “Trusting Your Intuition.” My intuition led me in a direction I was not sure I wanted to travel – until I made the decision. Then it became the obvious choice. The right choice.
If you know that something is not practical or possible for right now… gather your knowledge and your information and plant the seeds of hope for the future. Then make sure that you hold the highest energy you can so that the seeds can be nurtured for when the time is right.
There is a primordial energy that you can feel even when you just think of a sabre-tooth tiger. It grabs you in the gut, fills every muscle in your body with raw power and you are either deeply drawn to that energy or you want to slowly back away so that you won’t be noticed.
Even though they have been said to be extinct for over 10,000 years, Sabre-tooth tiger still holds an influence over our world. She appears in myths and stories and the tales of the first peoples of this earth.
Sabre-tooth Tiger can often appear in your dreams or meditations when you are feeling overwhelmed by something that is happening in your life. She is a powerful animal and you can draw on her energy to support you. She is also a pack animal and reminds you that the members of your pack – family and friends – will also support you as you gain more knowledge about what you are facing. From this comes the inner wisdom that will support you throughout your life.
You know that sometimes you need to stop and review the situation – to look through the shadowy trees to see the path ahead. When you hold strength and wisdom within you, you have the power to chose which direction to take, what action is needed to achieve your goals. Sometimes that action will be to melt back into the trees and move away in a new direction.
In Japanese folklore, Sabre-tooth Tiger is said to be a creature of immense intelligence that can control Time and Space.
When Sabre-tooth Tiger enters into your world, it is time to take control of that world. You need to release the stories you tell to yourself, and others, and acknowledge your strength and power.
But also be aware that strength and power can be a destructive force. Be guided by your Inner Wisdom and Humility.
In this spiritual belief system we often talk about Unconditional Love. What, exactly, does that look like? We can make up all kinds of stories about how it means that it doesn’t matter what the person is doing, looks like, says etc. – you love them anyway. You might say that it means that even if they do wrong, you will always love them anyway. That it is a love that holds no boundaries. That they fill your heart so much you barely know what to do with that love.
Whatever story you use to describe Unconditional Love, you only have to have a dog in your life to know exactly what Unconditional Love looks like. It looks like a dog.
They follow you. You are their WORLD. They’d jump in front of a bus for you. They miss you when you are gone – and they welcome you home as if you are the prodigal son returned – even if you’ve only been outside to the mailbox! They turn those doleful eyes at you when you are eating and they are not. “Honest… I know I ate 20 minutes ago but I really am starving,” they seem to say. You know they are saying this because you can hear them telepathically.
They sleep in your bed and snore and fart run in their sleep and take up far too much room for their size. They make you go walk in the rain when you’d really rather stay home and dry. They romp through the grass, or the water, or the sand with an amazing zest for life… and bring all the debris home with them that they have collected in their fur. They drool, all your clothes and most of your furniture are decorated with dog hair – which blocks up the vacuum. They know which are your favourite shoes because they smell so strongly of you that they simply cannot – just cannot – not chew them because it makes them feel closer to you when you are not there.
You look at your dog – and you smile. Your heart is filled to capacity. You are joined, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. You look into your dog’s eyes, and you see all your love returned ten-fold.
THAT, in the eyes of dog is, to my mind, Unconditional Love.
That is what we need to be able to feel for our entire planet and every being upon her. Human or otherwise.
In this Collective Consciousness the individuals work together. They are industrious, determined, and strong. With stamina and patience they can build or bring down things that are far greater than they each could as individuals. They work together for the good of all members of their community. If one gets injured others will tend to it. Others will carry his load. They work diligently. They understand that they have to put in the hard yakka – the hard work – if they want to succeed. And believe me, they want to succeed and they are successful. There are an estimated 1.4 million ants on this planet for every human who lives here!
They have one goal – the ongoing survival and success of their community. They are social creatures and they know that all things will come with hard work, time, and conviction and that they can overcome any obstacle if they all work for that one goal. So they do. They all work for that one goal – survival of their species.
I could be talking about humans. We all like to think we have all these attributes, and we certainly do – except one. We too are strong, most of us will work hard at what we need to do to survive as individuals and family groups. A lot of us will help others who are in need. We can overcome amazingly hard challenges. We are social creatures. The biggest difference between us and the animals I am talking about, is the one major step that we have not yet fully gained in our evolution – we don’t work together for the survival of our species. We don’t work together for the survival of our home, Earth.
I think it’s fair to say that there are very few humans on this planet who do not really dislike ants. Some folk may have a fascination about how their societies work, but generally we fear them. They invade our homes. They can EAT our homes – certainly they can here in Queensland. They invade our homes and try to take over our food sources, our water. They get into our kitchen cupboards, our pets drinking bowls, our beds for goodness sake! They swarm, they try to set up new colonies in the wall behind your sofa – and we wage war on them. Most people I talk with are capture-and-release people, but Ants and Cockroaches (especially the big flying ones) – well there’s no capture and release for these – these are killed!!! Swatted. Sprayed with Tea-Tree oil, boiling water poured over their home, our home surrounded with a moat of diatomaceous earth….. When they attack our homes It Is WAR!
Yet, other than their physical form, in many ways they actually epitomise what we, humans, are aiming for. We talk about aiming for Oneness. For everyone to understand that they are each a small part of something that is far bigger than us. That we are all connected. That if something hurts our planet, our trees, our oceans, our family, we too – every one of us – are hurt. All of us. Including, ultimately, those that do the harm.
Other than our physical form we have so many things in common with ants. So many similarities and this, I believe, is why we really do not like them. They could have been the dominant species of this planet if they were bigger. We won that race because we have opposable thumbs and because we don’t follow that path of Oneness – that society that has only one mind, however much some of us strive towards it. It is our ability to think individually that allowed us to become dominant. Though I suspect that ants would challenge that thought if we could communicate with them!
That ability to think individually is our greatest gift and our greatest burden. I suspect that ants don’t have Eureka moments; I suspect that an individual ant couldn’t think up something as complicated as a motor car. Or Electricity. Or the wheel. It’s probably just as well because if they could – we, humans, wouldn’t be here now. And I think – just my personal opinion – that it is this very ancient threat to our species that makes us hate them so much; the potential of similarity in everything other than physical form makes them too alike, too close to us for comfort.
Ants’ message is to remind us that we are stronger than we think.
That if we can come together in common cause, then with hard work, time, and conviction we will achieve our goals.
We can turn dreams into reality.
Individually we are small – together we are stronger than we could possibly imagine.
All things are connected – but humans have that added ability to think individually.
We need to learn to think individually and act as one for the survival of our species.
It’s time to stop thinking about the small things; these will resolve themselves if we focus on that one thing we all desire – to build the best possible future for our species.
If all your dreams came true – what would your world look like?
Would it be filled with castles and cars, riches, and adventures? How about travel – seeing every part of the world you’ve ever thought of? How about sleeping under the Northern Lights? Diving in waters of the Great Barrier Reef? Visiting every pyramid we know about on this Earth?
Maybe your dreams are really grand – like having access to the great library of Alexandria? Seeing the Great Crystal Grid of Atlantis? Dancing with dragons and fairies? Being on the first shuttle taking humans to Mars? Or having the means to ensure that everyone sleeps under a roof?
Maybe your dreams a much smaller, but very important to you. Maybe they involve safety, warmth, a special person.
Our dreams are beautiful, and some of them could come true, but however much you want to manifest your dreams, they won’t magically appear out of thin air. You need to build your dream, see them in your soul and then work out how you can achieve them without ever letting go of the dream. Even the ‘impossible’ dreams can be worked on. No, you will probably never get to see that Atlantean Crystal Grid – but maybe you could search for an Atlantean Record Keeper quartz and sit in meditation with it.
It can be done. About eight years ago I started to manifest my dream. Life threw all kinds of difficulties in my path, and I often despaired and doubted these dreams would ever be achieved. But I am sitting in my dream – right now as I sit at my desk. Dreams can manifest when you keep them alive and you do that by doing the work you need to do in order to achieve them, whilst retaining gratitude and humility for all the gifts you already hold.
What are your dreams? How are you working to make them come true?
What amazing creatures are bats. I’ve spent many a night gazing up at the dusk or dawn skies watching millions of bats flying overhead in what appears to be almost total silence other than the sound of wind on wings.
From the smallest Pipistrelle I watched in England to the amazing Flying Foxes of Queensland, the bat has been a creature of fascination for me.
Bats live in darkness and so we have often attributed them as representatives of the underworld – of harbingers of death, but in reality they are symbols of transformation, birth, and re-birth. They represent change in the ending of something and the start of something new. If you are in a time of change, then calling upon Bat energy could be very helpful.
Bats are amazing masters of navigation and communication. They fly through darkness, which is symbolic of a journey through a time in life where your way forward is unknown. Bat walks between worlds and that means recognising that you do possess the courage to face the hard times in your life.
Be aware of the Energies that surround you and trust your senses. You possess all the tools and the knowledge to get through the harder times in your life.
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