Dear Friends,

 

How wonderful to be entering into the spring equinox this month.  After a long cold winter, and an even longer period of introspective healing and clearing out our energetic hindrances, we can now emerge refreshed and anew along with the budding of the trees and spring tulips (my favorites). 

 

By numerology, 2008 is a 1 year - a new beginning.  So this year, the spring equinox seems to have a particular importance.  As we celebrate the balance of the light and dark and Easter, we too are in the midst of transitioning into greater balance and a new beginning.  Several aspects of us will start coming into balance; the masculine and feminine energies, our light and dark aspects of being, the physical and spiritual aspects of existence.  This balance is important as we eliminate duality and become integrated into the oneness of the universe...  Heaven on Earth.

 

I have been coaching many folks on this transition.  Many of us, myself included, have become masters of the masculine energy; making things happen, taking care of all the details, giving it all you've got, doing, doing, doing.  The energy of the Earth has supported this way of being.  Now the tables are turning.  EEEK.  To be successful, we now have to balance this energy with the re-emergence of the divine feminine.  This energy is receiving, receiving, receiving.  What does that mean?  That was my question too.  The answer I received from my guides was described as a pregnancy; we must first receive, then nurture, grow and develop and then give back.  This applies to work, family, service, community, intimacy and all our relations and responsibilities.  This sets up a co-creation with our fellow humans vs. co-dependency.  This exchange allows for each of us to better receive and give with each other, which allows each of our puzzle pieces to come together with greater grace and ease in putting the big picture together.

 

Many folks on the spiritual path are seeking "the light".  And in that trek, some fail to reconcile with their shadow aspects.  Remember that the earth is only half light, thus half dark, at any given time.  We are no different.  We judge our shadows harshly.  We fear them.  I can tell you it is impossible to know who you are until you confront your shadows to get to know all aspects of you.  I have found it to be extremely freeing.  I was holding on to such fear that I had the capability of being too powerful, too egotistical, too destructive and even to light.  When I allowed myself to explore those aspects of me, I realized that it was my fear of letting these things get out of control that was limiting, egotistical and destructive.  How ironic.  I now know where my limitations are, what circumstances promote my getting emotionally triggered and out of control.  And I am more in control now than ever before.  We cannot be whole without first knowing the totality of who we are and how we operate.  No one can tell you this, no one has the same constructs as you, you must discover this through your own explorations.  It helps to have really great and honest friends and of course a really great healing coach!

 

When we discover the totality of who we are, we can discover the totality of the oneness, of god that resides in each us, that makes up the wholeness of our universe.  We then lose judgment, gain compassion and stand strong in our physical existence with the unconditional love of the universe, as our guide in becoming one with our physical, energetic and spiritual environment. 

 

Let the beauty of your complete unfolding happen along with the emergence of the beauty of nature this spring. 

 

Enjoy.

 

With love,

Carolyn Dunow

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