Awakening a Deeper Connection to Self & Source
I transform pain and suffering into a greater capacity for love.
This month is an opportunity to explore your relationship to Self and Source by awakening to a deeper level of compassion and acceptance for your past selves, others, and even difficult situations in your life. You are being invited to accept an offering of deeper understanding of the wisdom of your life through integrating all aspects of yourself so that you can offer your unique gifts to the collective in a powerful way.
Beneath the surface illusion of separateness and duality, there is an energy that connects and animates all life. It is this energy that I refer to as ‘Source,’ while others have many, many other names for the idea of a subtle and intelligent life-force.
We are connected and a part of that oneness, but it is something we often forget. The magnitude of being in the presence and remembering this Oneness is something human beings can only experience fleetingly, and some never.
Somewhere deep within you is the remembrance of a Self beyond the labels, programming, experiences, and everything that causes us to forget our origins from this Source energy. There is an inner knowing of your Infinite Self that is beyond all definition.
This is the Self that is calling for recognition and embodiment this month.
During this Leo season, you will be guided to integrate parts of yourself you have long forgotten or judged inadequate.
You’re being asked to trade that inner critic for compassion and let your heart open to a larger love than the conditioned and conditional love you’ve come to expect.
Extend this compassion first to yourself by meditating on your heart chakra and asking for insight into where you may need to forgive yourself for past mistakes.
We may be holding things against ourselves on a deeper level than we are aware of.
Notice what triggers you this month, what causes strong negative reactions that do not match the situation. Bring curiosity to these places and ask yourself what is the wisdom being shared here; what new perspective can be gained?
Notice the places and pieces of yourself that you reject, dislike, look down upon, or try to avoid. How can you invite these pieces of yourself to the table to be honored, acknowledged, and integrated?
Suffering, it is said, is a necessary part of life until it is not.
When it ceases to become a necessary part of life is when we have learned the key, the ‘trick’ so to speak, of enlightenment.
Contrary to popular assumption, enlightenment is not a single event, but rather a discipline, a commitment, and a labor of love.
Enlightenment is the discipline to create the space for love within your heart and cultivate it patiently.
It is the commitment to seek love in all places, even when it is not obvious.
And, finally, it is a labor of love to continually go to the edges of your psyche to mine the gold within, refine it, and bring it back to serve the collective.
Every experience we have had in this human experience, in this body and on this earth is just as sacred as the experiences we have on other levels of existence.
Yet our Earth, our bodies, our perspectives have long been cast as ‘the problem.’
Our desire to know and experience; our need to withdrawal and find stillness'; the cycles we follow and patterns we disrupt. The darkness from which we are born and to which we shall all return.
All these aspects of our lived experience have been vilified in one way or another, rejected, and called ‘evil.’
But those who know, know that every aspect of our Self from the physical to the spiritual to the mental can be seen and experienced as holy.
Every experience can be transformed for our Highest Expression and can be used as a doorway into deeper levels of understanding and connection to ourselves and Source.
This is a time of stepping into your Soul’s work, what we sometimes call our “destiny,” or what we were meant to do here in this lifetime. It is an opportunity to meet all those different parts of ourselves that may still hold on to fear or need to heal and rather than reject them, we offer them forgiveness and compassion.
Shake up your usual routine this month to create space for a Higher Wisdom to speak to and guide you. Keep your eyes and your heart open and feel for that inner ‘hell YES,’ as you surrender the let go of the mind’s programming and begin to lead from your soul.
Love first, love Always
Ae