August 2000: The Veils Lift & the Flower Opens

During the past few months we have been making deep changes within our inner beings. These changes have also been reflected in our outer lives. There have been a constant series of adjustments on both inner and outer levels.

I see our current situation as a group of gears and dials. Each gear and dial must be put into its new position. As we let go of our pasts, a dial is recalibrated. As we change residence, another gear moves into position. As we let go of old relationships or old relationship patterns, we turn another dial into its new position. The more we get clear with what we really want and who we have now become, we turn the dials. The more we listen to our hearts, gears rotate. We find a new job which actually gives us joy, a gear turns. We become more honest in expressing our true feelings, a dial moves into position.

Some of us are still in our old physical situations. We haven't yet moved or found a new career or that great relationship. Yet, we are profoundly changing within ourselves, becoming so very free inside. We are interacting with our old situations in new ways. Living new lives in the midst of the residue of the past. This causes the calcification and stuck patterns of the past to dissolve, freeing us far more than we yet realize.

Others of us have changed residence, moving to the place of our New Lives. Yet, we still haven't completely landed there. The outer situations may have changed, but we still have work to do inside ourselves. There are more gears to turn.

When all the gears and dials are set into their proper positions, the veils are going to lift and our New Lives will fully begin.

In August, we are still going to be resetting our gears and dials. Much is going to happen that will speed this process along. August will be full of major breakthroughs, amazing chance encounters with people we are meant to meet, miracles and revelations.

It's going to be a month full of action and this action is going to propel us into our New Lives. Like June, we are going to be so busy that we won't have time to think about what we are doing or where we are going. We are just going to be swept along by a surging current that's going to require our full participation and involvement. And we are going to be taken to where we need to be.

Then, when the veils lift, we shall suddenly see our lives with great clarity. We will know the amazing perfection of everything which has happened to us.

It's like a huge flower is forming. We can feel this flower all around us, shimmering with promise. We can feel the unfurling of its petals. Yet, we can't see its pattern, shape or color. And we shouldn't even try to. Just let it be. Let it reveal itself when all the gears and dials get into their appropriate positions.

In the meanwhile, there is much to be done, both inside and outside ourselves. Each action or change we make moves a gear, sets a dial. Release whatever doesn't give you joy. Let go of your fears of the Unknown. Recenter yourself in the clarity of your own heart and truest feelings.

As more gears and dials are set into their new positions, life will become easier. We will be able to do things differently-- more consciously, more lovingly, more honestly. More of the flower of our New Lives will be revealed.

UPDATED AUGUST 14, 2000: ROUGH SURF ALERT!

Some of us have definitely been getting slammed about in the Surf for the past few days. Each time we think that we're almost out of the Rough Surf, the challenges just keep getting stronger. It's like riding the rapids; a wild ride which we have no control over and which takes every ounce of our energy.

As I write this, the sky is grey with smoke from the numerous forest fires around me here in Montana. I'm alone on 120 acres in the forest and I have a tooth abscess which is making my whole body sick with infection. I can't get a dentist to treat my tooth until September and I'm almost out of money.

I know that many of you are going through tough times as well. Relationships are shattering, many are experiencing financial crunches, and it's sometimes very hard to stay positive. Let's try to remember that this is our birth process and we just have to keep on going through these wild rapids and let the Rough Surf pull us along into our New Lives.

We are creating the templates for our future now!

Enjoy this wild ride into the New.

Let's fearlessly love with our whole beings!

Be constantly open to the unexpected!

BE REAL, no matter what!