Spiritual Themes for May 2008

May these themes for May help  you in your continued spiritual development
and  advancement    
There is a  great power in this time period-we can change our fate. Our  fate
is dictated by our soul patterns, are unconscious  directives coming from
ancestral and karmic patterns in our  minds. The power of the month of May is
that we can change our  fates personally and collectively.  To give one small
example of changing one's fate,  according to mine, I would be dead by now, and I
would never  get married because I have too much work to accomplish. I am  
happy to say that I have been happily married for twenty-three  and a half
years, and I haven't been a slouch in the work  department either.  
It is in our  very nature to transcend limits that have been imposed upon us  
personally and collectively, taking us, step by step, back to  the awareness
of Oneness. Transcendence is a path of ever  expanding consciousness, leading
us to the point that we  transcend consciousness itself for Awareness.  
The strain on  the Earth that began in March continues for another two weeks.
 So far we have done very well in healing ourselves down to the  collective
levels, so that the birth has been relatively easy,  without the need for
massive Earth shifts. This is a good time  to change your fate. It helps the Earth,
and it helps you.  Changing one's fate comes more easily in both the best of  
times, and the worst of times.  
One way to  change your fate and the fate of the world is to choose  Heaven's
thought system over the ego's. So far we have chosen  the ego's, as evidenced
by the world we live in. To  continuously choose the thought system of love
would lead us  more and more to a "heaven on earth" experience.  
To make it  practical, you could spend five minutes, six times a day, or  
fifteen minutes every time you can grab them, to close your  eyes and choose the
world you want to see-love, or fear. You  can't have both at the same time.  
Each one belies the  other. If you are looking for abundance, truth, peace and
joy,  then choose a world of love. There is no problem you or the  world has
that is not driven by fear. Every time you finish a  meditation, however short,
look to see the effects in the  world around you.  
This is a  month of transition, which will probably start out  uncomfortably
because of what is unfinished from April, which  was a chronic problem month.
You can change April's effects in  this transition month.  
Another major  issue this month is regard to money and banking systems. We  
are attempting to get to love and abundance as we move beyond  greed,
competition and sacrifice. The old banking system is so  stressed it could collapse
this month or this year. Again, we  have come to create an easy birth, and it can
be done in  regards to money, but how we have used money is what we are  
called upon to change.  
For this, the  great healing gift of acceptance is called for. Recognize your
 beliefs and acknowledge your situation regarding money. You  may believe
that money is the root of all evil (a misquote of  the Bible-it said that the
lust for  money was the root  of all evil, which is greed). Actually, it is the
authority  conflict that is the root of all evil. Acceptance of  everything
this month can accelerate your expansion of  consciousness and fast track you to
joy, which is a by-product  of love and Being. Accept money, forgive money and
integrate  money.  
Acceptance  keeps you from getting stuck. It is paradoxical. If you accept  
something you don't like you immediately move beyond it.  Resist it and you are
stuck with it.  
Healing your  shadows is a quick way to change your fate. They are not just  
places of resistance, they are places of heavy self-judgment  and hatred
projected out on something outside, or buried  within us, which generates
self-punishment and torture. When  we accept our shadows they are released and
reintegrated,  bringing wholeness and wholesomeness. Accept what you hate  about
others.  
Accept the  worst things you see in the world around you. This does not  mean
you condone them. By accepting them you go into a flow  and do not reinforce
what is negative with your resistance.  Healing shadows will do much for you,
for those you love and  for the world.  
If you are  really dedicated to changing your fate and creating a big  
transition for yourself and the world, it could be the easiest  of all possible
births. Look at every pain, problem, failure,  negativity and victim situation in
your life and in the  collective level as reflecting the deep unconscious mind
where  you have gods of vengeance.  
Ask yourself  how many you have, and how they have affected your life.  
Examine every problem and every issue as your responsibility.  Examine it as a
place of worship to the god of vengeance, a  false god that demands your blood as
you attack others. If you  are not abundant you have an idol of vengeance in
regard to  money. It means you have refused a gift of abundance, and in  so
doing, you are attacking a significant other, yourself and  God. It is a poor
choice. For the most part we reject and hide  our vengeance, feeling it is
unacceptable. This only makes it  stronger. Accept your revenge this month. You
don't have to  like it to accept it. Remember that every failure, or even  average
performance, is an act of revenge. When you succeed  you will know it by the
joy that you feel.  
Your gift this  month is the healing of death temptations. Death is a  
transition in which you lose your body but stay stuck in the  same mind. Death is
either a form of vengeance, or it is as  easy as slipping out of your clothes.
Receiving the gift of  healing death temptations will make for a month of easy  
transitions. It will also help you save lives before someone  falls for the
temptation. This is a great and powerful gift.  
Heaven is  trying to share the grace of wild abandon with us. If it's a  
world of love, you know Heaven is handling everything. This  leaves us the joy of
going beyond outrageous fun into wild  abandon.  
So, this  month, choose love. Commit to love. Want it with all your  heart.
Give up being right so you can be happy. Use your will  to choose Heaven's
thought system with all your spirit.  
Accept  everything. Each time you accept something there is more flow  and
less pain and negativity. What you accept is no longer in  your face, but is put
into perspective and let go.  
Have a month  of joy, abandon and easy transition. If you become totally  
aware of your vengeance, you will then become totally  accepting of it, and you
will finally let go of it easily,  allowing yourself abundance, and the world
money system an  easy shift to a level of cooperation and  sharing.
Have a great month,  friends!

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