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Aug 14 2016

Acknowledge Where You Are Now As OK

I will admit…I’m feeling like I’ve hit rock bottom. Things have not been this scary for me in many years.

So much is going on in the world and the astrological events have us feeling unstable, unsure and disappointed.

Fortunately, Saturn turned direct after its four months in retrograde. Literally, from the second day it went retrograde until yesterday, I have been in a state of questioning. What exactly IS my work? What kind of routine do I want? How do I do what I really want to do? I’m very unhappy with certain things in my life right now.

Saturn has been in my 6^th house – the house of work, service and our routines.

I can look back now and see how it made me question everything, it made me weigh all I was doing and make some core decisions. It hasn’t been pleasant.

I over-reacted when things felt out of control and my ‘reality’ seemed unsure.

I know that focusing on my uncertainty and my current frustration isn’t going to get me where I want to be.

This has been a huge opportunity for me to really hone in on how we need to NOT focus on the stuff around us that feels and looks negative.

But, how do we do this?

After my housemate did a tarot reading for me, I calmed down. She assured me that underneath the surface, things were just fine. I think some wise advice for things right now are to take deliberate actions instead of reacting to how things seem to be.

I reached out for help by talking to a few friends. It helped immensely. We all need that right now. Don’t forget to reach out if you need to. Allow yourself to receive care and support, and be open to unexpected GOOD. Things are better than they seem. Even if it feels as if nothing is happening – guess what? It is – even if we can’t see it right now.

The exercise below helped me a lot, so I wanted to pass it along to you.

Here are 3 powerful steps to help you clear any past (or current) gunk so you can move forward:

Acknowledge where you are right now. Acknowledge it on an emotional level. The past doesn’t exist anymore. Who you were is no longer. But, as humans, we hold onto all that gunk and it clogs us up when we try to make any changes. Guess what? It’s all OK. Own it. Own any negative feelings you have right now about money issues, about how you feel about yourself, how you feel about how you make your living, how you feel about any failures, mistakes or confusion. You can’t get clear when the muck of any negative feeling is clogging you.

Do you feel stuck? Scared? Unsure? Powerless?

Write it all down. Create a poem about it. Dance it out. Slather paint on a board that represents it.

Make sure you address all negative emotions that you currently have about your life.

Then step back and say. “All of that is OK. But now I’m focusing on how I want it to be and I’m moving on. And you’re not moving on with me.”

You must release it to the point that it no longer has an emotional charge for you. Because what’s in front of you right now is perfect.

Yes, read that line again: Because what’s in front of you right now is perfect.

How can bad health, or no money, or the insanity of our country’s politics, or the economy be perfect as it is?

Narrow your focus down to just YOU. Where you are, what is going on, IS perfect, right now.

You do this in order to retrain how you think and focus.

Regardless of what is going on around you and what others are saying, feeling and thinking, you don’t have to buy into it and make it your vibration. You can choose NOT to focus in on it, always be talking about it, getting all riled up about it. You have a choice, which is what your innate power is – to choose your reality.

To move past what is not feeling good for you currently in your life is to become a vibrational match for what you DO WANT as often as you can.

What are the majority of your thoughts? THAT is what Source will match and bring to you.

The stuff that is upsetting you is upsetting you because that is what you are focusing on. Paying attention to it isn’t going to make it better. Expecting things to be better, imagining how you want it to be and knowing things WILL improve WILL make it better.

Back to that where you are is perfect statement.

It is where you need to be in order to know exactly what you want.

That has been HUGE for me. Because of how things are for me right now, I have been getting REALLY clear on exactly what I want, where I want to be and what I want to do.

Once you acknowledge the gunk –

You focus on all the positive things you have going on right now and have accomplished and are grateful for in your life.

Where have you succeeded? What do you do well? What in your life is working really well? What do you have that you love? What do you do that you love and are good at?

Don’t limit this list. Get into everything about you that is on track and awesome – even the little things!

Go back to that first list and one by one, take responsibility for it. With each one, say, “Yes, this is how I feel about this. I created this. It happened. So what?”

Surrender to it. With no judgment.

So what if you’ve been stuck? So what if you’ve been scared and freaked out about money? So what if you’ve felt a lack of confidence in your abilities? So what if someone made a negative comment about something you did? So what if your parents think you are not as far in life as they think you should be? So what if you failed at the last 3 attempts to start a business?

Why can you say “so what?” to all of it?

Because the ONLY thing it means is that you weren’t in alignment with what you wanted.

Period.

It has NOTHING to do with your ability, potential or possibilities. Zip. Nada.

Shit happens. Shit happens to all of us. We all go through negative times and feelings. We all get stuck, make mistakes and freak out.

But now….now you realize this and you can just let it all go and stand in a new space… a space of: “Now I know what I want and how to be in alignment with it so I can manifest it.”

You know how contrast can make a story, image or poem pop? Well, it makes life pop too. It makes us see and know what we don’t like or want, so we can focus on what we do want.

That is all.

Repeat after me. “That is all.”

Here is a little secret for you: If you let it go and truly release the emotional charge of it, then anyone who might’ve been part of making you feel bad about it, will also stop.

The world can be going “to hell” as we like to say, but things can be blissfully peachy for you – because that is what Source will deliver to you – as long as you take your focus OFF the “going to hell” stuff. 😉

Let’s retrain how we think, shall we?

Aug 01 2016

How And Where Did Your Spiritual Leap Begin?

What was a major turning point in your life that assisted in your leap? What transpired that helped you on your spiritual journey? howwhere

I had the opportunity this past week to go back to a place where it all began for me. I want to share that story with you.

The thing that stood out for me in going back was how far I’ve come. It was like visiting the college you graduated from. You see your old professors and everything is going along as it was when you went there – but you are different. You took that experience and knowledge and you formed your life.

In my twenties, I made a choice to seek my spiritual path. Not the path I was raised on or expected to follow, but my own.

Then things began happening.

To keep this from being a novel, I’ll list the next few events:

I began studying my dreams and went looking for any book I could on dream work. (I mainly studied Carl Jung at that point)
At some point in the study of my dreams, I came across the magazine that the Association for Research and Enlightenment put out called Venture Inward. This is the Edgar Cayce Foundation in VA Beach, VA. I had no idea who Edgar Cayce was, but the dream work from a spiritual perspective intrigued me.
One day when taking my kids to the Library in Albuquerque, I was slowly walking down the aisles as my kids were playing in the children’s area. At one point, a book literally fell off a shelf and landed at my feet. It was called There is a River – The Story of Edgar Cayce. I checked it out and read the entire book that night.
That book was exactly what I needed to bridge that gap I felt between my traditional upbringing and the new more metaphysical things I was learning. I was so intrigued by his story and by what the A.R.E was doing and what Edgar Cayce taught from his readings, that I subscribed to Venture Inward.
I discovered more and more through their magazine. I found an Edgar Cayce study group in Albuquerque and studied the readings. I knew that I wanted to learn more and be a teacher of metaphysics someday. (I had no idea I’d have a daughter who channeled!)
I would spend each day daydreaming about living near the A.R.E and being able to study there. My new spiritual path was exciting and I was changing and growing, but I was trying to do it all alone and I was craving peers and teachers. I kept all of this to myself. I sure as heck couldn’t say to my hubby, “Let’s move to Virginia!”
The A.R.E in Virginia Beach, VA

( I had never been further east than Louisiana.)

One day hubby came home from work and announced that he had lost his job. We both did the usual freak out thing…Albuquerque wasn’t exactly the best place to find a good job and we had three small children to take care of.

We did the usual hunt-for-work thing for a few months to no avail. Then one evening I got a phone call from a close friend who lived in Utah. She said her hubby was driving to VA and asked if he could spend the night with us?

I said of course he could!

He arrived and we picked his brain about why he was going to VA. He told us a new power plant had been built and he was going for a job interview there.

We asked how he knew about the job and he told us the name of the guy who told him about the job.

Well, the guy was my hubby’s long lost best friend! We had lost track of him and his wife over the years (this was pre-internet).

We called him up and after catching up asked about this power plant. He filled us in on the details of the small town and the power plant.

When they hung up, I said to my hubby – we are moving there in 2 weeks.

We owned a home, had no money to move on and there was absolutely NO guarantee that hubby could get a job at the plant. We had never been to VA, and we had no idea what it was like there!

But, we did it. We packed up and left in 2 weeks’ time – sight unseen, no home to move into and no money.

But it all worked out, every little step along the way.

AND – the town this plant was in? An hour inland from VA beach.

I immediately began going to the A.R.E and practically lived in their extensive Library. (The largest metaphysical library in the world!)

That continued my spiritual studies in such a rich and exciting way.

That was in 1991.

Alternative health, Astrology, Numerology and Divination were my primary topics, but I immersed myself in many and had years of being able to uplevel my life. I ended my clinical depression, got healthy and in shape and taught my kids to follow their bliss.

When I discovered what the playing cards were really all about, I knew that was the topic/tool I was meant to share and teach. All I had learned on my journey had prepared me for what I do now.

While we were at the A.R.E. this past week, we listened to a lecture on Reincarnation.

What stood out for me was how much the speaker talked about how we, as souls, come to Earth for the experiences and growth we get here.

The number “5” is the number of man, the number associated with earth. It represents the five senses. We come here to evolve and grow as souls. (Which allows Source to evolve as well!)

Someone in the audience asked why would we want to come here and live over and over when we could just be in the spirit realms?

It is because this is such an excellent school! I could go on and on about what the number 5 represents. Look at an apple, how many seeds does it have when you cut it in half? Five. Even the numerology of America is a “5” (7+4+1776 = 5)

The birthday of our Federal Government is also a “5” (3+4+1789= 5).

And Edgar Cayce was a 5 of Diamonds!

The Five is about change and requires action. Change has been a HUGE buzzword lately – for me personally and for society as we are moving though such an intense time in history. (more on that topic when I begin my posts about America’s forecast for this year via the cards).

But, I bring it up here because that was what stood out for me the most in going back to the A.R.E.

I had changed. I had grown. I had evolved.

The A.R.E. was my school and the tool that helped me change and build my foundation. I grew into learning from my omniscience and by using the tool that resonated with me the most (the cards).

My oldest daughter (Randi) was just in elementary school when we would go there is now channeling. My youngest daughter works with autistic kids – but in a way that sees them not as defective, but as special beings with a message for us, for they are here to live through a different lens.

My son has created a creative community in Santa Cruz and produces music with musicians who have a vital message to share regarding how we treat one another and how important our connection is to our planet.

We sat in the gardens there (it was the kids favorite place when they would go with me) and we did a channeled session. All three of us owe a lot to the A.R.E. 20160726_164555

We can look back and see the incredible journey that led us to where we are now.

And best yet, we know that we still have a LOT more ahead on our journey!!

My daughters having a deep conversation in the garden

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Jul 18 2016

The King of Spades – What is Self-Mastery?

The King of Spades. He is the King of Kings –and this card epitomizes Self-Mastery – which is what we are all striving for, right?

What is this self-mastery that the King of Spades teaches us? King_spades

When I posted the channeled session about What is Living as a Multidimensional Being? I wondered what card epitomized living fully as a multidimensional being.

It is truly the King of Spades. the highest card in the deck – the card we are working towards becoming in how we live.

This card sits at the intersection of the Sun and Saturn in the Earth Spread.

At first glance, this can seem confusing (at least it did to me) because Saturn is the planet of restrictions, self-discipline, challenges, limitations and Father Time. It is also considered the planet of Karma.

It is the planet with a ring around it. I call it the putting-us-in-a-time-out-box planet. It is like that awful P.E. teacher that made us run sand hills and the bleachers until our lungs and legs burst into fire and disintegrated before our very eyes.

Now, I get why we need challenges. The running of those sand hills created toned, lean, strong legs several months later. We benefitted from it and once we got through it, we could look back and thank that P.E. teacher and those sand hills.

But, I still didn’t get why the King of Spades sat in that position.

Let’s look at what Self-Mastery is all about:

Mastery is a state of alertness and clarity in the moment.
It is a state of awareness that gives you freedom to move spontaneously, able to respond to what is needed in the moment.
It is NOT a function due to a static body of knowledge.
It is active, conscious awareness of the moment
It is being ready for masterful action because of confidence, conviction and a knowing of the appropriate (notice I didn’t say “right”) thing to DO in the moment, without hesitation.
It is living in a state of being present – of having a presence; presence of mind and being.
This presence is powerful, charismatic, magnetic and commanding.
It is being a powerful leader who leads through their unique perspective (they know the importance of expressing their perspective, but to also be open to the perspectives of others.)

Because of the above qualities, they draw to themselves the resources, circumstances and people that allows them to reach their goals.

They know that no matter what is occurring; whatever is showing itself – people, ideas, attitudes, unexpected situations and changing circumstances- that they will maintain a state of equanimity. (A state of calm, level-headed, unperturbed awareness)

He knows that every single view, thing and person has value.

He knows that there is no need to resist situations. (this is not about living with zero discernment or thinking that everything that is going on is OK – it is about realizing that because we are of the Whole, everything and everyone is THEM.)

He views life from the whole; he examines it from the whole; he allows for all of it.

He knows that every situation could be the catalyst for a solution or innovation.

The King of spades is the King of Kings. It is the last card in the suit of spades- the last suit.

Spades are the culmination of all. The suit represents our challenges and experiences that help make us wise. It represents our work, our health and our spiritual life.

If you think about those areas of our life, it pretty much sums up everything. Our work affects our health and happiness.

Our health affects our work and happiness.

Our spiritual beliefs affect our health and work and happiness.

The King of Spades represents living from the realm of Infinite Possibility.

This is why we strive to live with self-mastery. It puts us in this position of living opened to solutions and surprises that are beyond our immediate view.

Back to his placement of Saturn and the Sun.

The Sun represents our life force. It is consciousness and creativity. It is aware and it creates. It is what creates life.

If Saturn is the hard task-master, then it is those situations that make us uncomfortable. It is those viewpoints, ideas, people and situations that, when viewed from this higher place, create the better solutions and reveal beneficial possibility.

Saturn is the 5^th planet. The astrological glyph looks like a 5. Five is the number of change, of uncertainty and exploring new ideas and ways of being.

We cannot expand our consciousness if we never experience other perspectives.

The number five tells us to be open to change.

The King of Spades has the ability to be open to the idea that anything that shows up is valuable even when we disagree with it because it is likely to be a contributing factor in the result we want to produce, particularly when the result we are after is unprecedented. Evolution and expansion can only happen when we go beyond what already is.

The essence of life is uncertainty and unpredictability. This self-mastery of the King of Spades is the ability to read the uncertainty and use it.

Imagine this: Being open to any possible occurrence, any idea, any belief or situation as integral to the process that will bring about your desired result.

How would your life be different?

Jul 17 2016

What is Living as a Multidimensional Being?

Here at Create the Leap we share how to live the entirely of you – to live as the multidimensional being that you are.

But what is living as a Multidimensional Being?

So, I asked this question in a session and this post is the response to that question.

Dali: So the topic of multidimensionality or the the word “multidimensionality” is a little bit of a fuzzy one to the person who is not fully familiar with the term. It is almost like the term the universe -what does the universe even mean?

So we will attempt to explain it with a little bit more precision.

A human being in your focused frequency, in your now, is doing many things at one moment.

To be multidimensional is to have your reality focused in multiple dimensions at one time.

That might seem a little wild to you; a little “Back to the Future” for you to realize that you might be in several different dimensions at one time, but we would say to you, you are now in many familiar dimensions.

In other words, as you sit reading this material, you are a cellular being. Your heart is beating. Your breath is moving through your body. Your food is digesting, or your stomach is crying out for more food. Your brain is sending synapses through your body. Your hair is growing. Your nails are growing. Your bug bites are itching, or you are hearing sounds that the brain is processing as background noise. Your eyes are reading the lines of this. You are recalling memories or associative images from reading this material. You are swallowing perhaps, or you are thinking about what will come after reading this material and we would say to you that all of this is happening in your now and in multiple layers which we are calling dimensions.

So it may be a little bit of a foreign concept to consider being hungry as a different dimension from processing and reading material, but it is. Because dimension is simply a place of energy; a focusing of energy that results in a reality or a world of recognizable focus.

So the digestive system exists on an energetic dimension. The mind exists on another energetic dimension.The physical body and the shared construct of your focused dream (as living this reality and this particular place and time) is another dimension and often we would characterize that as a density as well, so DD becomes a more appropriate term for this sort of thing. [DD = Density/Dimension or Diaphanous Dream]

When you think about constructs that you would just simply say is your daily life, we would say that that is a DD – a repetitive experience of a frequency that is a culmination of many dimensions.

Such as your processing of food, your heart beating, your breathing, your cognitive processes, your creating of a baby if you are pregnant, your cumulative history or personality that also recognizes abilities. So if you know how to play the saxophone, then you carry that dimension of frequency within you so that when you pick up the saxophone, you simply play it. But we would say the same to you with any skill.

So being able to exist in a DD as a human and a body and carrying with you all these multiple frequencies that are your personality: that are your humor; that are your abilities; that are your desires; that are your repetitive motions; that are your body in its state of being – all of these are culminated into something that we refer to as multidimensional.

This same application of that definition carries over to being multidimensional in the non-physical existence.

In the same way that your body is creating all these levels of processing – as well as the brain and the personality – understanding what abilities and what focus it exists as, we would say to you that non-physically you are souls – you are in a soul organization and you are also your version of your focused frequency.

You understand yourself as that person with a particular birthday, with a particular focus on today’s date, but there is also all the other versions of you that exist from your birthday to the present now.

Again, time is an illusion, and yet there’s a shared construct of all of the infinite versions of you that exist from your birthday to every little nuance of decision that you did or did not make, every little nuance of action that you did or did not make, every little nuance of dream that you followed or did not follow.

In other words, you can imagine being born and let’s say another nurse is on shift or an incident happened to this little baby. Maybe she hit her head and became deaf or maybe she had a meal at a different time. So you can see that the cause and effect of all things that happen in focused frequency create another version that splits off, in a sense, from that main focused frequency that you would consider as you.

So if you would imagine a fanning effect as a spherical construct of: You exist in the center and yet there are infinite points of focus circling around you.

Now we would say to you that this is your energetic extension, for as a multidimensional being you are also all of those versions of yourself in the same way that you are all the cells in your body; in the same way that you exist as all of the constructs of your past experience.

You identify yourself as a particular person in a particular body with a particular history, but we would say to you that as an expanded multidimensional being, you also exist as all the alternate timelines and this is what we mean when we say all of those alternate versions of you – from your birth date – are part of your energetic extension in the same way that your cells in your body have intelligence and they have a unique purpose. Every single cell, they are your energetic extension and so is every alternate timeline of you, every other version of you.

So we can go broader and broader and broader in our examples of multidimensionality in the sense that we are simply just speaking initially of you from your birthday and every energetic deviation of that. We would say that goes even further. There are those versions of you that were born on different days or to different parents, born in different countries, or different nationalities. That’s when one truly understands what everyone might be calling a past life, but we are simply calling alternate lifetimes.

Alternate timelines differ, for a timeline denotes Randi as she was born and Randi as she understands herself from her conception of being on this Earth (called a “personality”).

An alternate lifetime is Randi energetically represented in other physical constructs of matter – so other bodies, other lives, other cultures… If you would take that even further, she is just as much the alien from our planet Rain as she is the past life of her being a connoisseur of the arts in Spain in the 1600s.

We are wanting to alert you to the fact that you all are ready in this Age of Omniscience to foster your energetic relationships, in the same way that you have become very accustomed to understanding the processes of your body, and the extent of your personality, and the extent of your reality.

We would say to you that in the Age of Omniscience, your multidimensionality is simply expanded to the sense that you carry with you (as you carry with you the information from every cell within your body) the information from every life, timeline, and manifestation of you in non-physical matter and physical matter that you may not include in your physical reality.

You cannot see, smell, taste, touch or feel them, and yet you can just as easily learn (as if you were a child learning to process your sensory data and construct a physical reality from your experience)…you just as easily can construct an expanded reality that includes non-physical and physical, and connect threads to all of these lifetimes and learn how to access and be in these alternate bodies and be in this alternate version of yourself and understand what another alternate version is feeling. You can understand what happened to you when your parents stayed together instead of divorcing, understand what happened to you when you took that job or didn’t take that job.

So what we are saying to you is that being multidimensional is simply accessing your energetic extension, and truly your energetic extension is infinite. For as an omniscient being, you are all things and Source experiencing itself – whether that is a physical manifestation, non-physical: the thought form, idea form, or a dream form – it all exists right now.

Just as a baby is learning to be in a physical body and construct a reality as you all have understood it, you are learning to experience your omniscience.

We will be guiding you through, in a sense, on how to walk in the Age of Omniscience. We are holding your hands and we are there to catch you when you fall, and we would say to you, that you are ready to experience this and take those first steps, or more appropriately, take that leap into something that you know energetically, that you have been living; you are simply extending your focused frequency into that which may seem unfamiliar to you, but that you are already knowing in an expanded sense.

You are remembering what it is to walk. We are assuring you that when the baby is born, the baby is born with that information on how to walk. And it’s not only in its body, and its genes, and it’s DNA as I will learn how to walk, but there’s a multidimensionality, even to the the small child, that is alerting it to those stages of growth. If you were to expand that metaphor wide wide wide, it is you all in this focused frequency having that information within you to alert you to now is the time – let us go from learning to walk in our energetic extension to leaping into being all things in this construction of the Universe and beyond.

Do you have any questions about living as a multidimensional being? Ask us in the comments!

Jul 16 2016

Pathway

Greetings Viviacious Viewership!

I wanted to share an unexpected experience to begin my vacation roadtrip.

I had planned to meet my parents in Virginia on a Thursday evening. I had done my work for the day, taught two yoga classes, and was thrilled to be packed and ready to hit the road from there. I called my dad to confirm where we were meeting to find out that I had gotten the date wrong and I wasn’t due to meet them until the next day. I was an hour out of town, and too hyped with a sense of adventure to turn back.

So I consulted the intelligence of my smart phone and wondered where I should stay for the night. I nearly booked my first Airbnb stay when I saw that a hostel near Boone, NC was available for cheaper. I wondered as I drove east further into national forest why the “mistake” of me getting the rendezvous date wrong was made…was I meant to be on this course for some expanded purpose?

I landed at Harmony Hotel in Banner Elk, NC and chatted to Holly, the lovely woman who owns it. I’ve stayed at many a hostel while traveling overseas, and I was happy with how serene and pleasant the set up was. A nice evening starting a fiction book and a new type of tea to fortify the changing cells in my body (wild cherry bark) while the July rain storms visited to provide a welcome soundtrack.

The next morning, I knew why I had energetically chosen to muck up the travel dates. I talked further with Holly and we quickly went from small talk to soul talk. I spoke of my new “business” of channeling, and she talked of the adventure of moving away from Asheville to open the hostel. We discovered we were both Capricorns and related in the way we are driven by our ambition to see projects through. I shared that my mantra for the year has been to “Trust & Enjoy” while so many changes are happening in my life, and putting faith in the unfolding of the journey.

I offered to write an article for her to use in advertising her place. I am happy to do it. I told her my recent explorations in Energetic Exchange, how others have helped me, and in fostering that energy of trusting and enjoying, I am passing it on.

It was an inspiring conversation for both of us. A reminder that the paths we have chosen are continuing us down a road on which we cannot see the destination, and we need friends (or strangers – who, of course are closer than we “think” as we are ALL connected!) to encourage us to continue.

Because of the date mix-up, I continued on to a hike towards Grandfather Mountain. 0715161228a~2

I didn’t have time to see the mountain itself, but spent a few hours on a trail leading to it. I hiked quickly to get as far as I could on the trail, but had to turn back in order to meet my parents in Virginia as originally arranged. I thought about the way we focus on our destination, and lose so much of the journey in our myopic obsession with the end goal.

0715161236a~2 No, I would not see the epic stone-grated mountain face, but I slowed my steps and marveled at the diversity of life punctuating the vibrant cocoon of green: mushrooms from a childhood dream of fairies and gnomes, red blossoms that might birth those fairies, stone benches for ferns or carpets of wild vines.

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A poem emerged. I finished the hike, but the journey continues, with unexpected but soul-contracted twists and turns. May yours be enlightening with every simple, or intricate step!

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Pathway

The woods
speak to me of bridges
impermanence
to permanence.

They whisper:
now now now now.

Love,
Randi

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