Venus transit

I have just had the most surreal and wonderful experience.  All morning, the morning of the Venus transit which we can’t see here in France but which I can most certainly feel, my crown chakra and the rear of my heart chakra have been tingling with huge amounts of energy.  As the sun had just started to peek out from behind the clouds I went outside to do a distance healing session in the garden.  As I sent the request all the colours suddenly greyed out for a few minutes and became almost ‘smudged’ looking, like looking through a soft-focus lens. Then gradually I watched cloud upon cloud of energy (or spirit?) rolling like a morning mist through everything in my field of vision.  I’ve seen these colours regularly since I’ve started Reiki, and feel sure they are from the same source as the Northern lights, but I’ve never seen them in such huge quantities before; indigos, and blues and pinks and greens swirling through the sky and the gardens.  The greyed out colour of the things I was looking at then took on a hue that I find hard to describe; the grass was such a vivid green.  When I looked at the sky it was as if there were ‘ripples’ in it that I felt sure were massive amounts of incoming energy, a bit like the effect when you throw a pebble into a pond.  The sound of birdsong and bees buzzing were, for a few minutes, incredibly loud.  Consider me officially blown away.

Photos Daily Mail

Anticipation

All around me in my ‘ordinary’ world all seems to be crumbling; the entire financial system is perilously close to total collapse LINK, Fukushima is continuing to spew out its vile pollution into our seas and air and is clearly having a far wider impact than first thought LINK, civil unrest is breaking out all across the world, there seems to be violence and corruption everywhere, there have been an unprecedented number of unnatural weather events, many people I know seem to be falling ill with life threatening diseases, losing their children, struggling financially, to the point of poverty. Yet in my ‘other’ world, where I can talk ‘openly’ about the changes and emotions I’m feeling; in the closed groups on Facebook, the online communities of healers and people fascinated by the meta-physical, the Reiki shares, there is a very different atmosphere.  Despite the fact that the majority of the people in these groups seem to be struggling desperately in one way or another, there is a quickening, a feeling of anticipation, of excitement and exhilaration.  There is a collaboration and a co-operation, an exchange and a sharing between people across the globe that I have never before experienced.  We sense, we know that something huge is about to happen.  And we understand what comes after chaos.

I feel like I shouldn’t admit this, but I am almost hoping that the financial system will crumble, that whole governments will fall, and that we will finally wake up to how much control the huge corporates have been wielding and the total corruption practiced by many of the super-wealthy.  It is a shame that we have to be pushed so hard before we react, but now that more people are opening their eyes we can start to build something wonderful, something fair, something sustainable.  The guidance I have received in recent days has been more practical than spiritual; start a vegetable patch, plant herbs, get some chickens, energise the drinking water and food eaten by my family, make sure the (previously injured, now Reikied!) horse that has stood idle in the field for what seems like forever is well handled and starts to come into work.  I’m listening carefully. These days I have total trust in my inner guidance system. 

An endless knot

Yet again, another night, another piece of sacred geometry sent to me at a quiet time when I was most definitely not asleep.  I really must start keeping a pen and paper beside my bed so that I can capture them when they are still really clear in my mind.  It came right at the end of the session with Panache Desai that I had nodded off through the night before, just as the theme music was playing and I saw it as clear as a bell.  Although this time I didn’t feel like it was particularly a ‘message’ for me, more that it was some sort of ‘download’, a bit like when you upgrade a computer programme. My entire body was absolutely buzzing with energy both before and after, and sleep was pretty much impossible.

This one was a version of the endless knot (or eternal knot).  How do I know that? I didn’t! But on waking I Googled sacred geometry in the hope that I might see the image amongst the symbols that the search would invariably throw up and it was the very first one I came across!

Information seems to be coming thick and fast to all of us affected by these changes of late.  Many of the spiritual and personal development teachers and speakers who I have been listening to recently are claiming that their latest ‘package’ was a complete ‘download’ from the Divine (Rikka Zimmerman, Panache Desai, Kenji Kumara, Anne Taylor amongst others – Anne Taylor even goes so far as to incorporate requests for God to ‘use his new technology’ in her healing prayer sessions).  Channellings via sources I have grown to trust for their incredible accuracy seem to be coming on a more regular basis and are becoming increasingly more specific.  The intuitive horoscope I receive each day always seems to be bang on the nail.  Each day I have a daily message that pops into my in tray and it is always, always, perfect and exactly what I need to read at that particular moment.  I have no idea how I subscribed to it, or what the source is, and for once it never tries to sell me something or get me to visit a certain website.  New relationships, both virtual and real, seem to be forming at an incredible rate, as pertinent information flows back and forth between the various communities.  I wonder if cells communicate in a similar way, receiving downloads of the information they require so that they can go on to develop into the arm or the leg they were designed to become?

I would stress that what I have been listening to and reading has not all come from the same source.  I’ve been blessed to find incredibly rich and intriguing variety of material from around the globe recently.

So what does the endless or eternal knot represent? According to Wikipedia it is an ancient symbol, one of the eight auspicious symbols and is found in places significantly influenced by Tibetan Buddhism such as Tibet, Mongolia, Tuva, Kalmykia and Buryatia.  There are many variations, however, to be found throughout numerous other cultures such as Chinese knotting and the Celtic knot.

The endless knot has been described as ‘an ancient symbol representing the interweaving of the Spiritual path, the flowing of time and Movement within That Which is Eternal. All existence, it says, is bound by time and change yet ultimately rests serenely within the Divine and the Eternal. (source Wikipedia)

Amongst the various interpretations offered, several of which ‘speak’ to me are:

• Eternal Love and Friendship
• Samsara (the endless cycle of suffering or birth, death and rebirth within Tibetan Buddhisim.
• The inter-twining of wisdom and compassion
• Interplay and interaction of the opposing forces in the dualistic world of manifestation, leading to their union, and ultimately to harmony in the universe
• The mutual dependence of religious doctrine and secular affairs
• The union of wisdom and method

I was also prompted to Google ‘Symbolism Illuminati’ this morning, which is really not ‘my thing’. Leaving aside (or at least, mentally filing for future reference) the usual warnings that these symbols are inherent in our modern society and the many links to Freemasonry, what stood out for me was how powerful these symbols seem to be energetically.  And it once again leads me to wonder about their significance in crop circles found near Leylines around the world.

I also received a very interesting update this morning from the ever-wonderful and talented Elizabeth Peru advising us to be very conscious of being responsible for our energy.  She suggested magnetising the food and water we drink.  One reader replied that they have recently felt compelled to regularly charge their water and that they can taste the difference in their 'Reiki water'.  They said it seems softer, cleaner and seems to have the cellular memory of waterfalls.  I wonder if it is simply to power up our energetic field or if it is also to negate the effect of all the additives, hormones etc in the food & water we buy these days, over which we currently have little control.

A week of learning

What a week this has been. Comparatively (and perhaps a little frustratingly if I’m being honest) quiet on the Reiki front. Instead it has been a time for discovery and intensive learning – every spare moment has been spent reading or listening to MP3 downloads about spirituality, collective consciousness and the metaphysical.  As I’m writing this there is yet another halo of light around the moon that is shining through my window.  Having listened to Shifra Hendrie’s Authentic Kabbalah series earlier in the week http://www.kabbalahoftransformation.com/authentic.html and gained a deeper understanding about the relationship between sun and moon I’m looking at it with new eyes.

The series was an easy stepping-stone to some of the most fascinating speakers I have listened to: http://www.quantumhealingandsoul.com/ (you have to register, but you don’t get spammed to death afterwards).  More of the inspiring Jennifer Hough, who leaves me buzzing each time I hear her speak. I loved Rikka Zimmerman’s take on the collective mind and was particularly intrigued by the concept that, in much the same way as I have become aware of other people’s energies, all those thoughts that keep popping into my heads might not necessarily be my own. Alex Lloyd’s Healing Codes has made it onto my ‘must buy’ list; what he had to say about cellular memory made so much sense and the results are compelling and scientifically supported. Lynne McTaggart’s Intention Experiment and the way she sees consciousness and community rang so many bells.  It was brilliant to have confirmation that collective intention is being proven to have an effect on things such as the growth of plants and conflict resolution. I knew it! After listening to her for just an hour and a half I came away thinking ‘Yes! This is what it’s all about!’ and consequently have loads of new projects on the cards.

I also did Rav Daniel Kohn’s meditation in the middle of the night, whilst I was on the cusp of sleep.  At the start I felt a little uncomfortable about the fact that it seemed a bit religious, but I decided to remain objective and leave my mind open.  The meditation generated an incredible amount of energy that seemed undiminished by the fact that I was listening to a replay.  What was particularly intriguing is that at a key point in the meditation my 11-year-old daughter who happened to be sleeping in bed next to me that night started gabbling away in her sleep, speaking very clearly but in a language that was neither English nor French, a language that I did not recognise.

Lots of learning about the effects of the recent solar flares and ‘Ascension Symptoms’, or Ascension Flu as many are referring to it (and I can see why)  http://laurabruno.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/ascension-symptoms-and-solar-flares/, both in theory and first hand.  I’ve felt absolutely exhausted for the past few days, so much so that I gave up and spent much of Saturday in bed.  Piercing headaches (which I’m not usually prone to), check, sinus pains (but no cold), check, tingling and pulling in my jaw, check, tender scalp, check, pain around crown and brow chakra, check, constant ringing in the ears, check, sense of tipping forward, check, fluid retention (despite eating well, drinking no alcohol whatsoever and getting plenty of exercise), check, hot flashes (but I am mid-menopause…), check, feeling that ‘Now’ is incredibly important, check, knowing rather than linear thinking, check, incredible happiness (and optimism for the future, I’d say), check. Add to that list a vibrating tongue and bottom lip, inability to concentrate, and a ball of tingling energy behind my heart on the left side of my back.

Learning too about the five new (or new to me?) chakras http://aquariusflowerremedies.com/pdf/extendedchakras.pdf. 

So much learning to do, and at the same time it feels like time has speeded up and there’s never enough time to fit everything in.  I can’t believe where the months are going to, they seem to be flying by and not just because I’m not getting any younger, is it something to do with the higher vibrations?

A halo around the moon

I had planned to blog this morning about gratitude (and will still do) but have found myself sidetracked by an amazing, amazing sight in the sky over our part of Brittany last night. The moon was in the dead centre of a perfect circle of luminous cloud, as if it had a halo.  Looking up, it was as if we were in the eye of a tornado, without having had a storm.

Although the rest of the family could see the moon halo effect, I was also able to see a strong royal blue circle around the moon itself.                                       

It was so mesmerising I sat for ages in the garden with a blanket over me just gazing up at the night sky in awe of the beauty and absolute perfection of the universe.  At one point something which I assumed to be a plane went past leaving a straight line trail through the sky which went straight through the centre of the moon and the circle.  I have since seen on the news this morning that the biggest meteor in 30 years was seen across Scotland at around 21.40 GMT, which would be 2240 here in France which was around the time that I saw the ‘plane’.  I’m now convinced that it was the trail of the meteor I witnessed.  I failed miserably to capture it on my phone, but I was nevertheless intrigued by the circles of light in the photo when I downloaded the picture I took, similar in form to all the flowers of life that seem to have kept popping up everywhere I've looked over the past few days.

It was very similar to the luminous cloud effect I had seen a few weeks earlier over the Mont Saint Michel just from a different angle.  There are scientific explanations to be found for it on the Internet (see http://www.cidehom.com/ in French and What makes a halo around the moon? in English. I’m not posting a link to this video Recent UFO sightings worldwide for the over-dramatic, Americanised look at strange objects in the sky, but because what I saw over the Mont Saint Michel looked exactly like the cloud formation in the clip over Moscow on 8 October 2009. 

Perhaps I’m being delusional, but I had an overwhelming knowing that those clouds, both around the moon and over the Mont Saint Michel, were filled to the brim with spiritual energy.

Is it a coincidence when I was looking for other images of similar natural phenomenon that I came across these photos? 

Or that I read that moon halos seem to be particularly common in Hawaii (also on a Leyline)? Or that yesterday was 3/3/12 (1+2 equalling 3) although perhaps numerologists will tell me differently and that it was actually 3/3/2012 so the third three doesn’t work. A halo and the Trinity on the same day?

Is it a coincidence that a blind friend in the UK posted a link to a video on Facebook as he is becoming increasingly aware of ‘sounds’ coming from the sky?  There are plenty more like it from around the world on YouTube, albeit some are shown as being hoaxes. The videos are a couple of months old, but I think the fact that he keeps hearing a sound not unlike ‘singing’ is significant.  Possible explanations are given here Strange sounds in the sky around the world.  I for one would not be surprised if it is linked to significant changes in the earth’s magnetic field. I did my first chakra sound meditation Chakra tuning yesterday morning and was struck by the similarity of the sounds.  Mankind imitating the sounds of creation? Mother earth in her own ascension?

Is it a coincidence that sky watchers say there has been another solar flare in the past couple of days, with more anticipated? http://www.spaceweather.com/

Whatever the reasons behind these strange natural phenomenons, whatever physical sensations that many of us whole feel energy are experiencing and whatever uncertain times may lie ahead, I am certain of one thing. That what is good, and pure and right will prevail and the world will ultimately be a better place for it.

Messages

I reckon I should have called this blog ‘My Awakening Diary’ rather than ‘My Reiki Diary’.  When I first sat in front of the keyboard I had a somewhat misguided idea that this would be quite a clinical account of what I witnessed during the Reiki treatments I was present at, what worked, what didn’t, anything of particular note. Instead it bears witness to the most profound changes that are taking place in my life on a spiritual level.

On a physical level I feel as if my entire body is being syringed with love and compassion, so that there is no room left in me for anything else.  At times it is pure, blissful joy, at other times it is almost uncomfortable, like when someone won’t stop tickling you, except that it goes on for hour after hour. The energy I have felt over the past few days has been incredibly powerful and I know that many others (and am I right in thinking that most of them are women?) are feeling the same way. Over and over I read of women all over the world who are experiencing the same sensations, who are struggling with an urge, a drive, a compulsion to change their careers from ‘sensible’ well-paid jobs in order to do things such as helping the homeless or campaigning for the environment; sane, rational women, doctors, and lawyers and professional people suddenly starting to post on ‘Inner Goddess’ forums and the like.  The exhilarating speed of it all is at times almost overwhelming.

On the Reiki front I am witnessing miracle after miracle. My friend who has been without feeling in his foot and his arm since his stroke three years ago can now feel four toes and can balance on one leg unaided, which was previously impossible.  The feeling in his arm is starting to come back. My horse’s kicked, cut & swollen leg is already completely healed. I was at a house with clients and their aged dog, who is normally very nervous of strangers and who was walking lop-sided (also after a stroke), came and lay down on my lap and let me hold his head. I’m unlikely to see him again, but I just know that there was significant healing taking place. Family have commented that the distant healing I am sending them is making a difference. My father in law, who has bowel cancer that is now on his liver and lungs, said he has been feeling twitching & energy pulses in a place that is probably best left unmentioned. My mother-in-law who has been struggling by on anti-depressants says she has a spring in her step. Universally, everyone I have treated has reported having more energy after the session. I am more conscious than ever of stepping back and letting the energy do its thing, but at the same time I am becoming more aware of other people’s pain. I feel it physically in my own body. A neighbouring farmer had shoulder pain; I felt it too (and am in awe that he has put up with it so cheerfully for so long). I seem to know instinctively where something hurts or where energy is blocked. I am seeing the colours of the aura far more easily now although I still have to learn what they mean. There seems to be much more energy flowing throughout the treatments too. I can put my hand gently on one part of someone’s body, only to witness twitching, gentle spasms and muscle contractions somewhere entirely different.  It is witnessing these miracles, and feeling the strong physical sensations when giving a Reiki treatment that keep me from thinking I’m going round the bend and imagining it all.

I have been unable to sleep at night; instead I lie (literally) buzzing, with my head full of guidance, the energy pulsing, ebbing and flowing. A Facebook friend posts a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yaUih2KSqc&feature=related (check out the lyrics) as if to confirm that I’m not the only one experiencing these nighttime wonders.  I pick up my iPhone to read and time upon time I am guided to something that shouts ‘read me’, and when I do a million pennies simultaneously seem to drop into place. This, for me, has been the most amazing part. Over and over I have in my mind that I am a ‘healer, lightworker, writer, messenger’.  ‘Why a healer?’ I ask myself and am immediately answered ‘The world needs lots of healers.  You must shine your light so hard that there is no room for darkness’. Over the past few years I have lived through many difficult experiences, but now I can’t help wondering if they weren’t all for a reason, and at whose instigation.  Whether the problems I encountered were actually of my causing, and whether I ever had any control over the outcome.  I ask whether there is any truth in this gut instinct and the next page I turn to on the internet reads:

‘People often wonder why their lives are so challenging.  Sometimes, our doors are shut as a deliberate attempt by our spiritual guidance system to get us to focus our attention on God.  This is how most people come to find God.  When their lives become hopeless they finally look to Him to remove the obstacles.’

All around me people seem to be being pushed to breaking point in some way, shape or form as things crumble around them.  From the collapse of the financial markets, the riots in Egypt, tragic accidents and disasters, famine, poverty or fighting serious illness, everyone seems to be touched at some level. I sense that we are on the cusp of the most miraculous year ever known on this planet. And we are all part of it. Everywhere I look I read people writing about channelling with angels, articles that only weeks earlier I would have dismissed as completely ludicrous but now their messages seem to make perfect sense.  For example, this message popped up in my Twitter timeline but could have been written in answer to all my questions and fears: http://trinityesoterics.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/surrender-flow-and-three-bean-salad-channeled-january-28-2012/. 

I can’t help but believe that we are at the beginning of some wonderful transition, and I sense on a deep level that the spirit of Christ/God is back on this earth, but this time not embodied in one man but spread throughout many of us. I thought long and hard before I wrote that, because (aside from the fact that it seems a bit batty and overly religious) it seems verging on the blasphemous to suggest that I and many, many others might have the spirit of God inside us.  But I can’t shake the way I feel. Like a wonderful Divine love has been breathed into and throughout my body. And of course, I’m gently led to another page on the internet which reassures me that I’m not alone in this belief:  ‘In the last days’, said God, ‘I will Pour out my spirit upon All people.’ Acts 2:17.

It is only the beginning and I read with fascination that one of the roles of the lightworker is to prepare the way for the rest of mankind. 

‘In the macrocosm of the World, the transition from one sign of the zodiac to another happens every 2160 years. The last time this occurred was during the time of the man named Jesus, when all of humanity transition from the sign of Aries, into the current sign of Pisces’.

Apparently, we are now moving into the age of Aquarius and the implications are profound:

http://hiddenlighthouse.wordpress.com/category/age-of-aquarius/

(please note, I do not have the slightest understanding of astrology beyond the fact that there are twelve signs of the Zodiac)