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Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.
Albert Einstein

Surrender. Let silence have you. And if you find you are still swimming on the surface of the ocean, let go and sink into the depths of love. –Kar Kirpa Sahib-

Surrender. Let silence have you. And if you find you are still swimming on the surface of the ocean, let go and sink into the depths of love. 
–Kar Kirpa Sahib-

A new moon phase within the lunar cycle is a wonderful time to set new intention(s), plant new seeds, create a new opportunity  or start a new routine and or habit. You must get your intention and inspired ideas set to go. 
Consider the following: Venus is already Retrograde in Gemini at the time of the New Moon/Solar Eclipse in Gemini on May 20th. Old or past issues are prominent themes around the topics of love, values, relationships, friendships, networking and exchanging ideas. Past thoughts or ideas  or interesting opportunities surface for you to weigh out.
For some relationships, the weak spots become glaringly obvious and therefore there may be sadness or realizations occurring now. It is helpful to trim away superficial relationships and keep only those that are quality, meaningful and valuable. The retrograde phase is extremely helpful as it can help you sort resolve past issues and clean up the energy.
This aspect symbolizes, there can be confusion, deception, anxiety and uncertainty surrounding this aspect as thoughts and feelings are being mixed up on the inside of you with a sense of there’s no way out. It’s as if logic and feeling are clashing with each other.
We need to understand what is fantasy or illusion and what is real and factual. We have to find a way to transform the limitation into freedom and to bring harmony to thoughts and feelings so there is clarity. Sorrow, tears, anxiety and even a bit of high strung energy is possible now.
Healing can take place to help open up the heart energy center. We may see where compassion and empathy is a necessity to heal and move forward into new beginnings. The potential of this aspect is: It is wise to understand things from a Spiritual perspective and then it makes sense on a logically level.  Our thoughts may be Spiritualized by this process. Hearts and feelings could expand quickly.
Promise or agree to only what you can deliver. We have solid strength to access and bring out ideals into reality with that which is highly valuable to us. By the way, do your best not to be overly stubborn. Listen to what is being said and then make the decision…
Remember, that each astrological aspect has something valuable to teach and offer us so that we move with the higher stream of evolution. It is about becoming more and more conscious, empowered and aware. Who we are, what our higher purpose is and how to express it with the utmost integrity in the physical world.
Here is the download from Master teacher and Mayan shaman and wisdom keeper Miguel Angel Vergara:
On these dates the Eclipse of the Sun presents an opportunity for the Suns of the Pleiades to illuminate our Planet, and everyone who is in synchronization – spiritually and energetically – will receive these wonderful rays of light from the Heart of the Pleiades: Alcyone, which has the most powerful energy of the Pleiades Suns. Our Planet Earth is a small world that revolves around Alcyone, one of the seven suns of the Pleiades. Each one of these Suns gives life and light to their corresponding planets that revolve around them.
…align yourself and receive these sacred cosmic energies that will undoubtedly give us the opportunity to make a major quantum leap in our Spiritual evolution and development.
Let’s take full advantage of this great Cosmic Moment when the Pleiades sends us its extraordinary energies of Light to work miracles in the Minds and Hearts of each one of the participants at this wonderful Galactic Conjunction.
© Copyright 2012 – Miguel Angel Vergara
From Aluna Joy:
As the sun is blocked so perfectly by your moon, in this very still, no-time place, a new operation system will be created and uploaded into your body as well as your world, solar system and universe.
Remember that this is a universal shift and recalibration … not just a planetary one. We are shifting with you, as well as Ascended Masters and Angelic Realms. We are all transforming together as ONE in unity.
This new operating system will begin to spread across the Earth over some time (a month or two). Again we strongly say, gather with fearless ones on the days surrounding this reboot. Gather with ones that come from the inner knowledge of Love, trust and truth that this transformation of our reality is already victorious.
© Copyright 2012 –Aluna Joy.
Here’s another great download from astrologer Patricia Liles from thePowerPath.com:
The very electro-magnetics of our Earth and our bodies are connected to the Sun, so when there is an interruption of that communication flow with an eclipse situation, a brief opportunity for a reset of our entire system is experienced.  Upgrades take place, frequencies shift, the past is easily shed; we can step rapidly through to the other side newly unencumbered.  A completion and a new beginning simultaneously unfold…
It’s a time of new beginning.  Energy can shift on a dime.  With the right use of intention, we can make good use of this portal for perceptual shift to take place in our old ways of thinking – about our self, our world, the past, the future.
Embracing spiritual practice and focusing one’s creative intelligence (same thing) couldn’t be more important at this time.  It’s a time of the West on the medicine wheel where we need to let go and dream a new dream.  Lift your hearts to the Sun on this powerful eclipse and expand your relationship to All That Is.
✧☽ [Your life is a sacred journey. And it is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way.You are on the path… Exactly where you are meant to be right now… And from here, you can only go forward; shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity and of love.] ☾✧- C.A. Miller

✧☽ [Your life is a sacred journey. And it is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way.
You are on the path… Exactly where you are meant to be right now… And from here, you can only go forward; shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity and of love.] ☾✧
- C.A. Miller

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≈ Resonating Beyond the Light of all Cosmic Wonder ≈

The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colors which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.

- James Allen - 

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One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be completely honest with everyone you encounter. Some may say others cannot handle their honesty, but true honesty is not a strategy or a weapon of any kind. It is the willingness to be open and absolutely transparent in sharing how any moment feels in your heart. It has nothing to do with confrontation, accusation, or any form of blame. True honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who you are – beyond all ideas.
Matt Kahn 

There are experiences that most of us are hesitant to speak about, because they do not conform to everyday reality and defy rational explanation. These are not particular external occurrences, but rather events of our inner lives, which are generally dismissed as figments of the imagination and barred from our memory. Suddenly, the familiar view of our surroundings is transformed in a strange, delightful, or alarming way: it appears to us in a new light, takes on a special meaning. Such an experience can be as light and fleeting as a breath of air, or it can imprint itself deeply upon our minds.

Deliberate provocation of mystical experience, particularly by LSD and related hallucinogens, in contrast to spontaneous visionary experiences, entails dangers that must not be underestimated. Practitioners must take into account the peculiar effects of these substances, namely their ability to influence our consciousness, the innermost essence of our being.The history of LSD to date amply demonstrates the catastrophic consequences that can ensue when its profound effect is misjudged and the substance is mistaken for a pleasure drug. Special internal and external advance preparations are required; with them, an LSD experiment can become a meaningful experience.
Slowly I came back from a weird, unfamiliar world to reassuring everyday reality.The horror softened and gave way to a feeling of good fortune and gratitude, the more normal perceptions and thoughts returned, and I became more confident that the danger of insanity was conclusively past. Now, little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux. It was particularly remarkable how every acoustic perception, such as the sound of a door handle or a passing automobile, became transformed into optical perceptions. Every sound generated a vividly changing image, with its own consistent form and color.
Of greatest significance to me has been the insight that I attained as a fundamental understanding from all of my LSD experiments: what one commonly takes as “the reality,” including the reality of one’s own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous — that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego. Reality is inconceivable without an experiencing subject, without an ego. It is the product of the exterior world, of the sender and of a receiver, an ego in whose deepest self the emanations of the exterior world, registered by the antennae of the sense organs, become conscious. If one of the two is lacking, no reality happens, no radio music plays, the picture screen remains blank.

What constitutes the essential, characteristic difference between everyday reality and the world picture experienced in LSD inebriation? Ego and the outer world are separated in the normal condition of consciousness, in everyday reality; one stands face-to-face with the outer world; it has become an object. In the LSD state the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world more or less disappear, depending on the depth of the inebriationFeedback between receiver and sender takes place. A portion of the self overflows into the outer world, into objects, which begin to live, to have another, a deeper meaning. This can be perceived as a blessed, or as a demonic transformation imbued with terror, proceeding to a loss of the trusted ego. In an auspicious case, the new ego feels blissfully united with the objects of the outer world and consequently also with its fellow beings. This experience of deep oneness with the exterior world can even intensify to a feeling of the self being one with the universe. This condition of cosmic consciousness, which under favorable conditions can be evoked by LSD or by another hallucinogen from the group of Mexican sacred drugs, is analogous to spontaneous religious enlightenment, with theunio mystica. In both conditions, which often last only for a timeless moment, a reality is experienced that exposes a gleam of the transcendental reality, in which universe and self, sender and receiver, are one. The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it possible with their help, and after suitable internal and external preparation, as it was accomplished in a perfect way at Eleusis, to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak.
But this ever broadening factual knowledge, which constitutes objective reality, need not be a desecration. On the contrary, if it only advances deep enough, it inevitably leads to the inexplicable, primal ground of the universe: the wonder, the mystery of the divine — in the microcosm of the atom, in the macrocosm of the spiral nebula; in the seeds of plants, in the body and soul of people.

- Albert Hofmann- 

“It’s not true that one part of the brain does reason and the other does emotion. Both are profoundly involved in both. It’s not true that language resides only in the left hemisphere. It doesn’t. Important aspects are in the right. It’s not true that visual imagery is only in the right hemisphere. Lots of it is in the left. And so in a sort of fit of despair, people have given up talking about it. But the problem won’t really go away. Because this organ, which is all about making connection, is profoundly divided and it’s got more divided over the course of evolution. Say the ratio of the corpus callosum to the volume of the hemispheres has got smaller every evolution, and the plot thickens when you realize that one of the main, if not the main functions, of the corpus callosum is in fact to inhibit. It’s to inhibit the other hemisphere. So something very important is going on here about keeping things apart, and not only that: The brain is profoundly asymmetric.”

- Iain McGilchrist - 

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