Being the Wave

"I am the spiritual impulse itself - an evolutionary intuition embedded within the sacred unfolding of the cosmos." - Pierre Teihard de Chardin


Everything changes. All the time.

Stars die. Galaxies are born.

A human embryo gestates. The fetus becomes a baby, then a child. The child matures to adulthood, ripening with age.

New life emerges from the womb of winter. Caterpillars turn into butterflies.

Civilizations rise and fall. New species appear. Some vanish. Seasons turn.

Life is cyclical, an evolutionary unfolding. Life is consciousness. Consciousness is love.

As vast cycles of time come to an end through 2012 and beyond, love promises a new beginning.

My spirit has anticipated this moment for millennia. Has yours? My soul chose eons ago to be incarnated here, now. I wanted to experience the transition to the next world age - to see, to feel, to taste this awakening.

As we know all too well by now, this transition is not without pain. Transformation often means struggle. The creative force pulsing through the cosmos is necessarily destructive. The passing away of the old makes way for the new.

We humans tend to resist change, yet the persistent unfolding of life yields infinite gifts. Without tasting sorrow, would we recognize bliss?


Lunar festivals

Celestial and Earth energies are building again. More changes are on the way. Can you feel it?

This weekend's Full Moon initiates a wave of evolutionary potential that culminates in an explosive eclipse series in June and July. Now's the time to prepare on all levels.

In evolutionary terms, whatever has outlived its usefulness is on the way out. The process is physical, yes, and also mental, emotional and spiritual.

What's dying within you? How are your values and beliefs shifting? Is it time to release thoughts, conditioning, patterns or habits that no longer serve your evolution? Are you living your purpose?

All full moons illuminate what's been held in the subconscious. With the influence of Neptune and Chiron transiting Pisces, the next three lunations carry enormous potential for deep inner healing and expanded awareness.

Tonight's opposition of the Sun and Moon in Aries-Libra is the first of three spring lunar festivals in esoteric tradition. This one is the Festival of the Christ and coincides with Easter and Passover. The alignment is exact at 10:44 PM Eastern.

In May, we'll have the Festival of the Buddha, a holy day celebrated as Wesak in Buddhist tradition. The energies are building in a giant crescendo toward a total lunar eclipse in June, which is also the full moon Festival of Humanity.

There are two other eclipses coming up, too. Partial solar eclipses will happen on June 1 and July 1, with the Solstice in between.

Meanwhile, the Mayan Ninth Wave is pulsing in nine- and 18-day rhythms. The evolution of consciousness is accelerating toward a culmination in late October.

Our experiences on this journey will not be ordinary.

From economic reconfiguration to climate change, spiritual awakening to social revolution, the changes are coming faster and faster. How do we deal with all this?


Being the wave

Earlier this year, it felt like the evolutionary waves were forming off in the distance, flowing toward us. Waves of change seemed to be somehow separate from "us" as souls embodied on Earth. The goal was to ride the wave.

With each passing day, it's become clearer that the key to navigating the acceleration of change is to merge with the force of creation - to become the wave.

There's no real secret to merging with the cosmos. We're already embedded within it. This is not a "doing" so much as a remembering that we are one with the divine unfolding. There's infinite grace and power in this way of being.

While we can experience divine consciousness any moment of any day, the possibility is enhanced during times of significant planetary alignments. Celebration, ritual, prayer and creative intent will be amplified during these upcoming configurations:

May 1-5 is the cross-quarter gateway of Beltane in the northern hemisphere (Samhain south of the equator). This year, the Taurus New Moon falls within this gateway, on May 2/3, depending on your time zone.

The Full Moon in Scorpio-Taurus (Wesak) is May 17 at 7:09 AM Eastern. (The Full Moon rises on May 16 for most readers.)

On June 1, a new moon partial eclipse in Gemini is exact at 4:03 PM Eastern. The power-packed total lunar eclipse in Sagittarius-Gemini on June 15 is conjunct Galactic Center. The lunation is exact at 4:14 PM Eastern.

The Solstice on June 21 is the apex of the solar year in the northern hemisphere. South of the equator, it's winter and the shortest day of the year.

The grand finale of the eclipse series arrives July 1, when the Sun and Moon meet for a partial solar eclipse in Cancer, conjunct the great star Sirius. Our lives are likely to look vastly different by July than they do today.

Details and additional alignments are outlined in my 2011 Astro Forecast mp3 and PDF (links below).


What to expect

Throughout this period, we'll notice more acutely the interplay of darkness and light. The differences between seeming polarities (for example, night-day, masculine-feminine, wealth-poverty, love-hate) grow more striking before ultimately resolving into unity. The illusion of separation will grow more intense as the truth of oneness emerges.

On a large scale and personally, we'll see more chaos and destruction, endings and new beginnings.

Everyone will experience these shifts differently. As relationships or jobs dissolve, new opportunities arise. You or your loved ones might experience accidents, illness, fatigue, agitation or even the sudden awakening of spiritual gifts like clairvoyance, clairaudience or prophetic dreams. Emotions run high. Addictions try to get a footing. Miracles happen more often.

How do we navigate this next round of changes gracefully?

Every day, attune to the flow of creation.

In the northern hemisphere, it's spring and we're celebrating new life, the transcendence of the human spirit. The sun warms our skin in this season of rebirth and renewal. In the southern hemisphere, it's fall, a time to count our blessings and reap the harvest of the solar year.

The change of seasons is a perfect time to liquidate personal belongings, donating unused items to those in need. Spring and fall are also traditional times for a full-body cleanse.

Have you been tending to your body, mind and spirit? What helps you feel supported on all levels? Take a careful look at your habits, and your budget. Eliminate the frivolous. Get back to basics. Make caring for yourself and your loved ones a priority.

Grounding and centering are essential. Eat fresh, unprocessed foods, especially root vegetables and dark, leafy greens. Mother Earth provides the sustenance we need in these times, especially fruits, vegetables and grains. Medicinal herbs, healing teas, essential oils, flower and gem essences also support us on the journey.

Additional tips for navigating the shift are included in my 2011 Astro Forecast mp3 and PDF (links below).

During times of potent planetary alignment, the effects of our thoughts, intent and action go quantum. Meditate and give thanks. Offer a simple prayer for your loved ones, all beings and the Earth. Offer your hands, your heart and your mind in service.

Be the wave. Be love.



2011 Astro Forecast PDF
http://www.starpriestess.com/AllisonRae2011AstroForecast.pdf

2011 Astro Forecast mp3
http://www.starpriestess.com/events.html#forecast


Getting Personal

In my individual consultations, I specialize in helping you connect with the wisdom of your soul, revitalizing your body, mind and spirit. With celestial and earth energies building toward a major culmination this summer, there's no better time to tune in for guidance and prepare for the volatile months ahead. Sessions include 2011 Astro Preview Readings, Life Path Consultations, Lightbody Activation and Astro-Shamanism.

Details and rates:

http://www.starpriestess.com/services.html


Related Posts

What If?
Published March 16, 2011
http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-if.html

It's Time
Published March 12, 2011
http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2011/03/its-time.html

The Next Wave
Published March 7, 2011
http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2011/03/next-wave.html

Mayan Ninth Wave
Published January 24, 2011
http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2011/01/ninth-wave.html

Timeshift 2011
Published January 22, 2011
http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2011/01/timeshift-2011.html



Copyright 2011 Allison Rae/StarPriestess.com

The Next Wave

How will you spend the end of time?

Silently, this week, a new wave of consciousness is forming. Off in the distance, the mother drum sounds, heartbeat of creation. In rhythmic overtones, she heralds a new beginning.

Beating......beating...... The drum builds to a crescendo through the Equinox in March, on though a volatile mid-year eclipse series and beyond, toward an infinite moment of divine splendor.

The end begins now.

A radical and profound interpretation of the sacred Mayan calendar pinpoints March 9 through October 28, 2011, as the ninth and final wave of consciousness expansion in the current evolutionary cycle that began 16.4 billion years ago.

The interpretation is offered by Mayan scholar Carl Johan Calleman, who's been tracking this ancient timekeeping system for several decades. His research diverges from the commonly held belief that the Mayan calendar ends in December 2012.

In Carl's view, a cosmic, evolutionary process is encoded in the Mayan system. Through a simultaneous series of nine underworlds, the drama of life unfolds, each phase building on the last and accelerating by a factor of 20 until we reach the highest plateau. Because of the acceleration encoded in the pyramid structure, the ninth underworld is the shortest, lasting only from March 9 through October 28.

This is a time of awakening and rapid evolution, the seeding of a new paradigm we're creating together with every breath.

A deeper, felt experience of time is emerging as we align with the rhythms of creation. Within this phase, our concept of linear time collapses and we become more aware of the cyclical nature of time.

On this wave, we have a new and rare opportunity to merge with the quantum field of infinite possibility, the realm of God(dess) and, ultimately, the conscious manifestation of reality. We begin to experience true time, the eternal now that encompasses past, present and future.

All that's needed to attain this next evolutionary level is the intent to ascend in consciousness.


Rhythms of creation

Throughout the ninth underworld, cosmic energies pulse in 18-day waves made up of nine ascending days of light and nine descending days of darkness. This 18-day rhythm builds throughout the cycle, culminating near the end of October, according to Carl's calculation. (The link to download the Ninth Wave calendar shown to the right is included below.)

Waves of creation flow in increasing intensity as the evolution of consciousness accelerates. Structures, forms and beliefs collapse, and time seems to speed up. Individually and collectively, we'll experience an acceleration of the chaotic energies that have already become familiar in recent years. The revolutionary wave spreading through the Mideast will travel around the world.

I've been sitting with this concept since I learned about it in 2001, journeying with the rhythms Carl has discovered. It feels right and real to me, although I don't perceive that the truth of Carl's interpretation negates the truth of other day counts or interpretations, or other timekeeping systems. Carl doesn't have all the answers, but I do believe he's discovered something important that helps us make our way through a tumultuous transition.


Turning into one

In Carl's interpretation, the ninth and final phase that begins this week is called the Universal Underworld. We're completing the Galactic Underworld, which began in 1999. Think of the transformation you've experienced since then, and you'll get an idea of how much change will be packed into the next six months or so. Wow, right?

Through the galactic portal, we access the universal. "Universe" means, literally, "turned into one." And unity consciousness is what the Ninth Wave is about. This idea of "oneness" isn't just an awareness that we're all brothers and sisters and need to live in harmony with each other and the Earth. It's the attainment of divine consciousness. You might call it God consciousness or enlightenment, Christhood or Buddhahood, yoga or union with Source.

As I wrote in my book, Cosmic Time, the Mayan calendar tells of the possibility of a direct, personal experience of the divine, the awakening of humanity to its unlimited evolutionary potential.

We've been assimilating the galactic energies pulsing through the eighth wave, and this week we begin the climb toward our evolutionary destiny as divine souls embodied on Earth. This is a journey that lasts through late October, on through 2012 and beyond.


What to expect

Reality as we've known it is dissolving in this end of time.

In my 2011 Astro Forecast, published back in December, I wrote: "As we all know by now, the game has changed on Earth. Economies, governments, businesses, education, social systems, the arts, sciences, technology and medicine all look radically different than they did just a few years ago. Incoming cosmic frequencies are speeding up the changes. In 2011, ramped-up evolutionary forces shift into overdrive. The reconfiguration is just beginning."

We’ve reached a tipping point. By focusing on love and abundance and holding a higher vision for the future, we can seize the moment and become empowered co-creators manifesting a compelling destiny aligned with our true purpose.

If you're going the empowered route, don't trust anyone who tells you what's going to happen during this highly volatile, highly creative time. The whole point of the next evolutionary wave is for each of us to take responsibility for creating the future. We incarnated to grow through this experience. Why give your power away to channels and psychics who make predictions?


Attunement

You and I and everyone else have an opportunity to directly access - even merge with - the consciousness of all creation in this next level of evolutionary expansion.

There are many ways to attune to the natural rhythms pulsing through this wave. Among my favorites are silence, unplugging from technology, spending time in nature, drumming, chanting, sacred movement, gardening, aromatherapy and other integrative body-mind-spirit practices.

Pretend you know nothing. Be like a child, no conditioning, no expectations. Allow yourself to be surprised and delighted by the miracle that is life.

Stillness is a necessity. Periodically throughout the day, and in preparation for sleep, I like to center, close my eyes and breathe with the forces of creation.

In these moments, I'm brought back to a simple awareness, the remembrance of love. Love is the organizing principle of the universe. Through love we conceive. Through love we create. Love is all. And it's all, now, as we awaken beyond time.

On March 9, you may enjoy breathing with others around the world who are consciously choosing to actualize the potential of the Mayan Ninth Wave. You're invited to join in the Universal Breathing Room from your location (details below).

Other potent alignments include:

Equinox - March 20
Spring Lunar Festivals - April 17, May 17 and June 15 (which is a total lunar eclipse)
Eclipses - June 1 and 15, July 1
Solstice - June 21
Equinox - September 22/23
Eclipses - November 24 and December 10
Solstice - December 21

These and others are detailed in my 2011 Astro Forecast mp3 audio recording and PDF document (links below). I'm also putting together a special global teleconference for March 20 to explore, play and create with the energies of 2011-2012 and beyond. Details will be announced shortly.


Links

Ninth Wave - Gregorian dates
Download the JPG and follow along
http://www.4-ahau.com/ressources/Ninth_Wave_Calendar_4-AHAU.jpg

Tree of Life Celebration
Join with others in co-creative conference calls and ceremonies throughout the Ninth Wave
http://www.treeoflifecelebration.com/

Carl Johan Calleman
Recent articles about the Ninth Wave
http://www.calleman.com/content/articles/Mayan_Calendars_NineNine_dayCount.htm
http://www.calleman.com/content/articles/dawn_of_the_unity_wave.htm

The Ninth Wave
Posted in January 2011

http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2011/01/ninth-wave.html

Timeshift 2011

http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2011/01/timeshift-2011.html

2011 Astro Forecast mp3
Audio recording
http://www.starpriestess.com/events.html#forecast

Astro Forecast PDF
2011: Gateway to 2012 and Beyond
http://www.starpriestess.com/AllisonRae2011AstroForecast.pdf

YouTube Videos
Includes Ian Lungold's expert presentation of the nine Mayan underworlds
http://www.youtube.com/starpriestess111
(Look under "Recommended about 2012")

An Invitation

Join with others around the world as we greet the incoming Ninth Wave of the Mayan calendar on March 9, 2011. We encourage you to find a way, big or small, to take an action step towards planting a seed of unity consciousness and nurturing it to mature fruit through October 28, 2011. It can be as simple as joining with one breath for the Mayan Calendar Breathing Event (below), planting a tree, lighting a candle andeven blowing wind instruments like vuvuzelas and whistles to break up the vibration of the old world.

Please be a co-creator of unity consciousness by sharing this announcement with your friends and networks.

Mayan Calendar Breathing Event

On March 9, 2011, people around the world will unite in breathing together as we enter the Ninth Wave of the Mayan calendar. Celebrate unity consciousness and know that peace and prosperity begin inside each one of us now.

Tree of Life Celebration and Do As One invite you to experience connection by breathing together synchronously with everyone currently logged into the Universal Breathing Room. They will automatically reference user IP addresses to show where everyone you are breathing with is located around the world in real time. At a pace of five breaths per minute, instill the power of conscious, deep breathing as you oxygenate your body, heighten awareness and increase your overall wellness.

March 9, 2011
Noon-3 PM Pacific
8-11 PM GMT

Connect to the Universal Breathing Room here:
https://www.doasone.com/BreathingRooms.aspx?RoomID=1

Copyright 2011 AllisonRae/StarPriestess.com

All rights reserved

Galactic Love

Emotions are running high as the Moon waxes to full in this season of love. Everyone seems to be bit more sensitive than usual. Jubilant, yet wary.

As we integrate each massive change in our lives and our world, we anticipate the next. The new changes are already building, gathering momentum.

It's only February, and it already seems certain that 2011 will live up to its potential as a pivotal year in human history.

The Full Moon in Leo/Aquarius rises Thursday night (February 17/18), illuminating the divinity of the human spirit and inviting us to discover our unique individuality within the context of the collective.

What a galactic awakening this is, a flowering of the heart.


What Is Love?

Every year when Valentine's rolls around, I notice how my perceptions of love have evolved. To me, love is all there is. Each being, each soul, every act and every thing is an expression of the one source of all creation, and that source is love.

Love is a walk in the forest or a stroll on the beach. It's a meal shared with friends, a celebration with family. Love is a tear shed by a father beholding his child. It's a handful of seeds planted in spring. Love is a conversation. It's a sacred promise, a commitment. Love is a blessing and a gift. Love is innocence. Love is the wind.

What does it mean, then, to be in love? I like to think of love as a way of life, of being in love with life, of living in harmony, the full integration of body, mind, spirit and soul, one with the earth and the cosmos.

To be in love is to love your self, to love each other and all of creation.


Sacred Relationship

When we live in a soul-centered, heart-centered way, relationships develop and unfold naturally. We’re all one, all sacred. From the stranger on the street to your newborn grandson, from the birds singing in the trees to the ocean waves dancing in velvet moonlight, life is an interwoven tapestry of relationships.

As we evolve, we begin to feel safe expressing and relating physically, emotionally and spiritually with others.

In these times of accelerating change, many relationships begin and end quickly, freeing us to spiral into ever higher expressions of human connection. Some relationships continue and deepen as we transform.

We learn through interaction with another. Each one is sacred other, a teacher, mirror and guide. Our children and parents, partners, friends, extended family, teachers, caregivers, colleagues, everyone who crosses our path touches us, enriching our life through the act of relating.


A Vision

In this transition to the next world age, conscious souls are finding each other, reconnecting. The flames of love are rekindled. One-on-one relationships form the basis of community.

Knowing that our children’s future depends on our actions today, we begin to build our communities, creating a foundation that ensures their birthrights of freedom, prosperity and fulfillment.

We search for common ground, a shared vision, and put down roots. We design a new culture, free from the past yet harvesting the wisdom of our rich and varied experiences. We create an economy. We learn the art of interdependence, respecting and honoring the individual, sacred other. Each one contributes, and receives, through this powerful, self-sustaining matrix.

In this Aquarian moment, we are one global community, an ever-expanding circle, linked in a common destiny – the survival and evolution of the Earth and humanity.

Our histories, our skin colors, our languages, religions and philosophies vary. One spirit unites us and draws us together, weaving a luminous fabric of unity in diversity.

It all begins with love.



Awakening
A gift of love from soulmates Miten and Deval Premal, from the album, Soul in Wonder.
http://www.starpriestess.com/audio/Awakening.mp3
http://www.devapremalmiten.com


Valentine's Specials
Love your self and each other with special readings at special rates this week. Details in my Cosmic Time newsletter. Click here.

Waves of Change
http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2011/02/waves-of-change.html

Feast of Love
http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2011/02/feast-of-love.html

The Ninth Wave http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2011/01/ninth-wave.html

Timeshift 2011 http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2011/01/timeshift-2011.html


Copyright 2011 Allison Rae/StarPriestess.com

The Ninth Wave

"The year of 2011 is not scheduled to be just like another year. This is our last chance to live up to being co-creators with the cosmic plan." - Carl Calleman


Welcome to the flow of evolution.

For those who read the first incarnation of my 2011 Astro Forecast document and/or listened to the audio recording of our 1/11 Astro Forecast Teleconference, I need to clarify something.

Carl Johan Calleman has updated his calculation for the beginning of the "ninth wave" of consciousness evolution encoded in the Mayan calendar. He originally published that the ninth and final wave, called the Universal Underworld, would begin February 11, 2011, a date included in his early books and the Powerpoint presentation referenced in my astro forecasts for this year.

He has revised his calculation, and the new date for the beginning of the ninth wave, or Universal Underworld, is March 9, 2011. The end date of this wave, and the completion of all underworlds, remains October 28, 2011.

When I wrote to Carl about the discrepancy in the dates, he explained: "In my book I wrote February 11, 2011, as a provisory date. I could not yet tell what was the actual beginning date and now I have come to lean over to the March 9, 2011, date. It was simply too difficult to see this clearly when I wrote it in 2001 or even earlier." I've updated my 2011 Astro Forecast, available here: http://www.starpriestess.com/AllisonRae2011AstroForecast.pdf

Mayan Activation

I became acquainted with Carl's work in 2001 through Ian Lungold, whose presentation of the intricacies of Carl's interpretation was superb. Ian's website, http://www.MayanMajix.com, continues his legacy, and I've posted videos of his talks on my YouTube channel.

For those not familiar with Carl's work, he has devoted much of his scholarly life to interpreting the intent and meaning of the Mayan calendar. He's best known for calculating a different "end date" of the calendar (October 28, 2011 rather than the commonly held December 21, 2012), but more importantly, he sees the calendar less as a timekeeping system and more as an expression of unfolding consciousness, a process that's accelerating (and thus, related to time).

It's mindblowing stuff, and I highly recommend getting to know his work if you're at all interested in the deeper, esoteric meaning of what's happening on the Earth at this time. You might also be interested in joining up with others around the world who are creating ritual and intent in alignment with the beginning of the ninth wave of consciousness evolution on March 9.

I don't know who's right about the end date of the Mayan calendar, and my sense is that it doesn't matter. Over the years I've been exposed to many wisdomkeepers connected with the Mayan calendar and teachings, and I feel certain they're all making enormous contributions to the awakening of consciousness on our planet during this transition to the next world age. I will say that when I experienced Ian's presentation of Carl's information, every cell in my body lit up with recognition of cosmic truth. That didn't even happen when I was in the presence of Mayan daykeepers, so I know Carl's onto something.


What's Gonna Happen?

In our teleconference on January 11, a caller asked the obvious: What does all that mean? What will happen? I only half-jokingly responded that she might ask Mr. Calleman himself because I hadn't seen anything from him lately on the subject. He has since published an intriguing article on his website.

He writes: "March 9, 2011, is the dawn of the wave of unity." In a radio interview last fall, Carl explained how his understanding of unity consciousness is bigger than the oneness we feel with each other, the Earth and all of creation. Unity is union with our Divine Source, or what he terms "God." If that doesn't change the world, what will?

The most intriguing aspect of this ninth and final wave is that it's so fast. We have from March 9 through October 28 to step into our power, and our birthright, as divine co-creators embodied on Earth.

No wonder they call it a quickening.


The Ninth Wave

As the evolution of consciousness accelerates, each of us will very likely experience the shift differently, according to our perceptions, beliefs, conscious intent and subconscious conditioning.

One thing seems clear. Exactly what will happen is up to us.

So it's important to purify the mind, open our hearts, and align with the soul and higher truth, connect with others who are consciously making this journey in service to all beings and the Earth, and allow the guidance to flow about how to navigate these uncertain waters.

"There is no single right answer to how this transformation to unity consciousness is to be brought about everywhere," Carl writes. "These will be extraordinary times."


Carl Calleman
9th Wave - Universal Underworld
http://www.calleman.com/content/articles/dawn_of_the_unity_wave.htm

Ninth Wave - Gregorian dates
Download the JPG and follow along
http://www.4-ahau.com/ressources/Ninth_Wave_Calendar_4-AHAU.jpg

Nightfall Interview with Carl Calleman
http://www.nightfall-project.com/3/post/2010/10/nightfall-project-interview-with-carl-calleman-day-7-of-the-galactic-underworld-the-universal-underworld.html

Tree of Life Celebration
March 9, 2011
http://www.treeoflifecelebration.com/

Mayan Majix
With gratitude to Ian, Matty and Michael
http://www.mayanmajix.com

Astro Forecast PDF
2011: Gateway to 2012 and Beyond
http://www.starpriestess.com/AllisonRae2011AstroForecast.pdf

2011 Astro Forecast mp3
Teleconference recording
http://www.starpriestess.com/events.html#forecast

YouTube Videos
(Look under "Recommended about 2012")
http://www.youtube.com/starpriestess111

Copyright 2011 Allison Rae/StarPriestess.com All rights reserved

Timeshift 2011

"It is not the strongest of the species who survive, not the most intelligent, but those who are the most adaptive to change." - Charles Darwin


Ready or not, here comes the next big wave.

If you're feeling edgy, apprehensive, maybe a bit fearful and sometimes ecstatic, you're tuned in to the next phase in the quantum evolutionary journey that is 2011.

With six eclipses this year, four planets changing signs and volatile outer-planet configurations on the way, 2011 is bursting with potential and equally enormous challenges.

Notice the massive upheaval we've already seen in the first few weeks of the new year, including historic flooding in Australia, political revolution in Tunisia, and tragic loss in an attempted assassination in the United States. And then there's the mysterious "aflockalypse" afflicting land, sky and sea creatures around the world as the environment continues to deteriorate.

The challenges are great, but we're up to it. As the waves of change come faster and faster, this year offers a rare opportunity to revolutionize our reality, and it's going to require vigilant focus and great love to do it.

The next two months will give us an idea how all this volatility will play out.


The Line-Up

Today the gas giant Jupiter completed his journey in the spiritual depths of Pisces and entered the initiating fire of Aries. On March 11, Uranus, planet of chaos, will follow. Between now and then, Saturn turns retrograde in Libra, Chiron enters Pisces, and the final underworld of the Mayan calendar begins.

The period of February 2-4 is especially potent with the Aquarius New Moon aligning with the cross-quarter gateway of Imbolc (or Lammas if you're in the southern hemisphere) and leading into a potent Full Moon in Leo/Aquarius on February 17/18.

In March the energies ramp up when Uranus blazes into Aries, igniting the Leo Full Moon just before the March 20 Equinox. On April 4, transiting Neptune joins brother Chiron in Pisces, opening a multidimensional gateway of illumination that will be confusing as well as enlightening.

And that's just the next two months!

The Universal Underworld in Carl Johan Calleman's interpretation of the Mayan calendar is the single most intriguing element of the 2011 landscape. Beginning March 9, the rate of consciousness evolution speeds up by a factor of 20, so a shift in consciousness that took a whole year from 1999 until now (or 20 years prior to 1999) will take only 20 days. This phase, and all nine underworlds in Calleman's system, end on October 28 of this year.

If Calleman's right, and I believe he is, life on Earth will look radically different before the end of the year.

Time as we've known it is collapsing, and we'll notice the biggest shift yet beginning in March. So thoughts turn into reality faster, and we're flooded with possibilities each moment. This new way of being is chaotic, but also exhilarating once we get the hang of it.


The Big Picture

As I wrote in my 2011 Astro Forecast, 2011 is a tipping point, a huge new beginning for humanity and the Earth. If you wait around for 2012, you’ll miss it.

Are there areas of your life that are due for an overhaul? Now's the time. In 2011, you can ride the energy waves and make changes very quickly. On the flip side, if you don't participate in your evolutionary process, the energies will initiate the changes anyway, and it will be even less comfortable.

The trick to navigating the energies is to stay slightly ahead of the wave, like these surfers in Hawaii.

Below are some materials to help you navigate the intense energies of 2011. I've spent much of the past three months in deep communion with what's on the horizon to be able to put this together. If you care to join others around the world who are finding these helpful, just follow the links below.

2011 Astro Forecast mp3
http://www.starpriestess.com/events.html#forecast

2011 Astro Forecast PDF
http://www.starpriestess.com/AllisonRae2011AstroForecast.pdf

You'll learn more about the Mayan underworlds as well as the planetary alignments of 2011, and how to surf the cosmic energies into a brighter future.

Away we go!



Copyright 2011 Allison Rae/StarPriestess.com All rights reserved

Surf's Up

What's next?

With all their galactic connections, the December 21-January 4 eclipses catalyzed a major consciousness upgrade at the beginning of the year.

Now here we are, facing reality. Today's world doesn't quite synch up with the potential we experienced through these portals...at least not yet.

The expansion at the turn of the year offered a taste of elation, and relief. Real change is supported in a new way in 2011. We can shift the trajectory of life on Earth to create a more sustainable, just and enlightened world.

We've reached the tipping point.

This is the year to begin creating a new paradigm even as the old is collapsing. There's a lot to do, very quickly, and each of us has a part. Incoming cosmic frequencies support our efforts.

This year is different from 2010 in some intriguing and challenging ways. In 2011 we begin manifesting at warp speed, so we need to be vigilant, stay focused and stay positive. As waves of change come faster, there's less time for recovery and integration. And less time is needed.

We'll preview the celestial energies, the power portals and what to expect as we make our way toward 2012 and the end of the Mayan calendar during our New Year's Astro Forecast Teleconference tomorrow, January 11.

This special presentation includes themes and highlights of 2011, techniques for riding the waves masterfully, new study materials, and a special group meditation and attunement. If you miss the event, the audio recording will be available after the call.

Details and registration: http://www.starpriestess.com/events.html#forecast

Join others from around the world as we begin to actualize the potential in the Shift of the Ages and participate in the creation of a new paradigm on Earth. We're going to play and have fun with this. Surf's up!

Copyright 2011 Allison Rae/StarPriestess.com All rights reserved

Empty

The past dissolving, future not yet formed, all of creation rests in the dark emptiness, the shadow, between. This is the next eclipse, and it's coming right up.

For those of us in the Americas, the partial new moon solar eclipse will happen overnight Monday going into Tuesday morning. Across the Atlantic, the eclipse is Tuesday, January 4. A darkening of the Sun will be visible in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and much of Asia.

Solar eclipses are super-charged new moons. Whether seen or merely felt, this eclipsed meeting of the Sun and Moon signals not only the beginning of a new year but also an enormous energy shift into the next evolution on Earth.

If you're feeling excited, jittery, disoriented, lethargic, apprehensive, elated or any combination of the above, you're probably highly sensitive and already picking up on this potent planetary configuration.

Something big is indeed about to happen.


Eclipse details

Eclipses are special alignments of the Sun, Earth and Moon that happen twice a year, in pairs or triads. The electromagnetic energy shifts associated with eclipses affect the tides, weather and seismic activity on Earth. With an event of this magnitude, we can feel unsettled in our bodies at eclipse time.

Since ancient times, eclipses have been viewed as portents of change. This is because the shifting electromagnetics help break up energy patterns so something new can take shape.

Eclipse periods are also potent times for manifestation. The creative potential in the January 4 event requests our attention.

This week's eclipse is paired with the galactically charged Total Lunar Eclipse on the December 21 Solstice, and energy patterns have been shifting around intensely for the past two weeks. What's been held deeply in the subconscious has surfaced, provoking healing and integration. With a little bit of focus on Monday-Tuesday as the Sun and Moon meet in Capricorn, a new matrix clicks into place, and away we go into 2011.

The impact of our thoughts and prayers goes quantum with this powerful alignment at the beginning of a brand new year. How perfect it is to energize our intentions for 2011 in this way.

Here's the timing:

Eclipse begins 6:40 AM GMT (January 4)
Greatest eclipse 8:50 AM GMT
Eclipse ends 11 AM GMT

To convert to your time zone: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc


What it's about

In a solar eclipse, as darkness crosses the face of the Sun, we're transported into the quantum field of infinite possibility. The cosmos fuels our intent.

In this alignment, the Sun and Moon meet in mid-Capricorn. Pluto, Lord of the Underworld, and Mars, the Warrior, are also transiting Capricorn. The Sabian symbols for their positions speak volumes about the meaning and potential in this alignment.

14 Capricorn (Sun-Moon): An ancient bas-relief carved in granite remains a witness to a long-forgotten culture. An alternative description reads: A vast pile of Mayan ruins in tropical America discloses a perfectly preserved bas-relief carved in the granite.

And, as the Sun crosses 13 Capricorn on the way to meet the Moon, the symbol is: A fire worshipper meditates on the ultimate realities of existence.

5 Capricorn (Pluto): An American Indian encampment rests by the side of a canoe-filled stream and on shore the war dance commences.

21 Capricorn (Mars): Excitement fills the grandstands during the relay race as each runner springs to his place with eagerness.

Amid the ramped-up energies of the new year and the many challenges and changes we face in this dawn of the next world age, a message is embedded in the sacred remains of the Ancient Ones, a cellular activation, memory of home.

Jupiter and Uranus contribute galactic overtones as they align for an exact conjunction in late Pisces, square to the Galactic Core.

Communing with the Ancestors, the elements and spirit world, the Earth, Sun, Moon, the other planets, the stars and the Great Beyond fuels our manifestation process as divine co-creators embarking on the journey of a lifetime.


Expect miracles

A lot of people are asking about life purpose these days. Even if you're not clear what your purpose is, or the next expression of it, now is a perfect time to make a commitment to serve in the awakening, the evolution of consciousness on Earth.

Capricorn asks us to take responsibility. Pisces connects us with spirit guidance and the unseen realms.

Imagine the future you long for future generations to inherit. Dream big. Open to the ways you might, in this life, help bring about your vision. Find others who share a similar vision. As I wrote in my 2011 Astro Forecast, evolutionary forces support the kind of quantum shift that will help our dreams manifest suddenly.

Within this moment of infinite possibility, open to the miraculous. Om Shanti

Copyright 2011 Allison Rae/StarPriestess.com

More about the December-January eclipse series: http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2010/12/great-moment-of-truth-approaches.html

Astro Forecast 2011-2012 and Beyond:

http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2010/12/year-ahead.html

Here's a lovely opportunity to connect with others in global meditation at sunset leading into the solar eclipse alignment: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=185640298115651 You have to be logged into Facebook to see this page!

2011 Astro Forecast Interview with Carl Munson - January 4, 2011

Carl Munson with Barefoot blogspot radio has invited me to talk about the forecast for 2011 in a special interview just after the eclipse on Tuesday. Click here to tune in. The interview will also be posted in the archives for later listening.

2011 Astro Forecast Teleconference - January 11, 2011

Join others from around the world for a 90-minute program previewing the celestial energies and quantum potential of 2011. The event will be recorded, so you don't have to be live on the call to receive the information. Details: http://www.starpriestess.com/events.html#forecast


2011 Astro Forecast Presentation in Morro Bay, CA - January 12, 2011

If you're in central California, you're invited to a special live presentation. Veteran astrologer Harry Farmer and I will team up for a two-hour astro forecast event at Coalesce Bookstore's Garden Chapel in Morro Bay. Details: http://www.starpriestess.com/2011AstroForecastCoalesce.pdf

Copyright 2011 Allison Rae/StarPriestess.com All rights reserved

Solstice Moon

A great moment of truth approaches.

Over the next seven days, our Sun aligns with the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy. On Monday night, just hours before the Solstice, the Earth's shadow will cross the face of the Full Moon, collapsing time in a dimensional portal of infinite possibility.

Welcome to this year's Solstice. Standstill. Night of creation, ancient home.

The total eclipse of the Moon will be visible throughout the Americas. The effects will radiate beyond time and space to all sentient life, everywhere, carrying our hopes and prayers into the next millennium.

The alignment of the eclipse with the galactic core is a rare cosmic phenomenon and not a coincidence. It's connected with 2012 and the Mayan calendar, the cycles of Venus, the Earth and the Moon. This opening in the heavens signals a time of great change on Earth, of purification and enlightenment.

Deep, unmasked truth lies at the heart of this eclipse. Whatever darkness remains within our own hearts will be revealed. Within the interplay of shadow and light, secrets from the individual and collective unconscious are exposed in tones of raw emotion. Suffering is transformed by the caress of perfect love.

This is likely to be an uncomfortable passage through the heart of darkness and into the ultimate bliss of self-realization, the galactic consciousness that awaits our embrace.


The Serpent

Right now the Sun is transiting a part of the sky that connects us with the Great Beyond via Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer.

The medicine of this great healer is truth, a potent elixir that heals the wounds of many lifetimes and helps us find our way home to love. The serpent initiates our becoming.

Each year, the Sun aligns with this region of the heavens, and divine cosmic frequencies stream to Earth on the galactic cross. This is the alignment that religions and spiritual traditions around the world celebrate as the return of spiritual light to Earth.

As 2012 approaches and the Mayan calendar comes to a close, the feathered serpent symbolizes our ascended state as fully realized, galactic humans.

Out of darkness we are reborn.


The Eclipses

A most auspicious event happens this year as the lunar and solar cycles dovetail in a special eclipse series that coincides poetically with the dawning of the next world age.

These eclipses echo the Grand Cardinal Cross eclipse series earlier this year and yet another series a year ago. This entire period marks a turning point for humanity and the Earth.

Eclipses happen in six-month and 19-year cycles. Issues that surfaced over the summer months will be back, with higher stakes this time. Themes will also relate to 1991 when eclipses previously happened in the same place in the sky.

Both individually and collectively, we're ending and beginning important cycles along these timings, within the context of the great cycle shift known as the Turning of the Ages.

The December 20/21 event is the first total lunar eclipse in three years. There will be two more in 2011.

In the Americas, where the eclipse is visible, it happens overnight December 20-21. Here's the timing:

Partial eclipse begins 1:33 AM Eastern December 21
Total eclipse begins 2:41 AM Eastern December 21
Mid-eclipse 3:17 AM Eastern December 21
Total eclipse ends 3:53 AM Eastern December 21
Partial eclipse ends 5:01 AM Eastern December 21

As the Moon appears to darken, it will actually turn a deep shade of red. The entire event lasts three-and-a-half hours. Within that, the period of totality is 72 minutes. If you live in North, South or Central America and have a clear sky, you can watch from beginning to end.

All the phases of a 28-day lunar cycle will be condensed into three-and-a-half hours. Beyond the Moon-Sun opposition, 26,000 light years away, lies Galactic Center, the heart of the Milky Way in late Sagittarius. Gazing in this direction activates your cellular memory, awakening wisdom codes deep within your being.

The Sun enters Capricorn later that day (3:39 PM Eastern December 21), as lunar and solar energies bathe the Earth in divine love.

This is a Solstice to be remembered, a galactic initiation offered to all who are open to receive it.

The December 21 lunar eclipse is paired with a New Moon Solar Eclipse on January 4. As the Sun and Moon meet in Capricorn, the new year begins.


The Potential

The ongoing galactic alignment in December and the 2009-2011 eclipses bring to completion millennia of spiritual darkness on Earth and mark the beginning of a new era of enlightenment, peace and prosperity. Our divine hearts are awakened.

Each year, the Sun appears to rise and set in the same place for three days surrounding the Solstice before turning south (or north, if you're in the Southern Hemisphere) for the next six months. Time seems to stand still, creating an extended moment of silence designed for quiet reflection and review in preparation for the next cycle.

Timed within the Solstice gateway, the December 21 lunar eclipse expands the potential to infinity. The effects of prayer and meditation are magnified exponentially through this portal.

Energetically, humanity is poised for a quantum evolutionary leap. We're invited to step into our power as divine co-creators who will shape our destiny and craft a remarkable future for humanity and the Earth.


The Experience

Each of us needs to find our way through the maze of meaning within this rare alignment. Issues central to this experience will be:

- Addictions, the ways we numb ourselves and limit the actualization of our highest potential

- Emotional and physical healing

- Alignment with the soul, the cosmos and our deepest purpose

It might seem easier to ignore the vastness of this opportunity, yet the consequences of denial are far more devastating than facing the truth.

There are many ways to attune to the celestial frequencies to embed and direct the transformative effects of eclipses. My favorites include:

- Time in nature

- Communion with the planets and stars

- Healing work with exceptional practitioners

- Purification of body, mind (thoughts) and emotions

- Journaling

- Celebration with loved ones

- Creative activites (art, music, dance, drumming, chanting, etc.)

- Devotional practice (prayer, contemplation, meditation, drumming, chanting, etc.)

- Movement (yoga, t'ai chi, xi gong, walking, running, swimming, etc.)

- Eating foods that grow in and close to the Earth (especially root vegetables and dark, leafy greens) plus mineral supplementation

- Crafting intent

Ceremony is most potent in the hours before, during and after the eclipse alignments, and at sunrise and sunset during each day of the Solstice gateway. As the energies are building, then disseminating, our prayers expand and multiply.

I'd like to offer, for the benefit of all beings, a prayer that we might carry in our hearts through this eclipse passage.

A Solstice Prayer

Beginning now, I choose to walk in a new way on planet Earth, to attune to her as I remember cosmic truth and embody my divine purpose.

I forgive myself and others and open my heart to receive the infinite blessings of divine love flowing throughout the universe and coursing through my very veins.

As I attune to the Earth, the Moon, the planet and star beings in the heavens, I breathe with universal forces of creation. Divine Source enters me, filling the cells and spaces of my being with pure love and light. I am healed, whole, and renewed.

May I be gentle with myself and others as pain, fear and suffering are released. I bless all I encounter and embrace my fellow beings, all situations and circumstances, all thoughts, feelings and emotions, as reflections of my own divinity.

I joyfully claim my destiny as a force for positive change at this turning point in Earth's history. Together with my brothers and sisters of all colors and faiths, I will shape the future in ways that serve humanity's highest evolution and fulfill the needs of generations yet to come.

Aligned in truth, I am.

Astro Forecast & Solstice Celebration

Details about Ophiuchus, the Solstice and eclipse series, the Venus cycle, Mercury retrograde, the galactic cross and Turning of the Ages are featured in our Astro Forecast and Solstice Celebration held live via teleconference on December 7. A special group attunement meditation is also included. The audio recording is available here: http://www.starpriestess.com/events.html#forecast


Ophiuchus: 13th Sign of the Zodiac
A special initiatory journey with the Serpent Bearer is also available by mp3 download. The powerful event was held live with callers from around the world on December 8 during the Sun's transit of Ophiuchus (which continues through December 25). Enter the ancient Temple of Aesclepius and attune to your inner healer. Details: http://www.starpriestess.com/events.html#ophiuchus


Cosmic Time
Personal and planetary transformation within a cosmic context is the subject of my book, Cosmic Time. The book is potent reading during the Solstice season. Excerpts and ordering information: http://www.starpriestess.com/time.html#timebook


Solstice and the Serpent
http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2010/12/holy-light.html

http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2010/11/tales-of-serpent.html

http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2010/11/triumph.html

Eclipse Timing and Visibility
http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar-eclipse-december-21-2010.html

Mr. Eclipse
http://www.mreclipse.com/LEdata/TLE2010Dec21/TLE2010Dec21.html

NASA Eclipse Page
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2010.html#LE2010Dec21T

Eclipse Animations and More - Shadow and Substance
http://www.shadowandsubstance.com/

Copyright 2010-2011 Allison Rae/StarPriestess.com

All rights reserved

Sustainable Change

"I want to feel the evolution of things. I don't believe in transcending, but in being embedded in a reality that is temporal."

- Ilya Prigogine

Now, between the Equinox and the Libra New Moon, our future gestates within the pre-dawn womb of consciousness.

Evolutionary forces beyond this dimension inspire us to sing the songs of creation in harmony with Mother Earth and all being, to heal, open and align, to attune to the rhythms of life and join the cosmic dance.

In a year of quantum change, we've reached the season of the harvest and celebrate the accumulated experiences of the journey so far. The joy and sorrow, ease and hardship, miracles, obstacles and the spirit that infuses all.

Days are growing shorter here in the northern hemisphere, lengthening below the equator. Leaves wither. Seeds sprout. Life slows down or speeds up, as the cycles turn.

The change of seasons in the outer world reflects our inner transformation. What's next?

In 2010, we're initiating a new sequence for the coming times. The window of opportunity is now. This is a year of tearing up the fields, turning the ground, then casting seeds for what will be through 2012 and beyond. What are we creating?

Life as we've known it is changing swiftly. It has to. The path we've been on will not sustain us much longer. We have to evolve. Natural cycles indicate we have two years to change direction and lay the foundation of a new world.

I've prayed all year that enough beings will seize this opportunity so we can turn things around on planet Earth. Now it's time to put that prayer into action.


Desert Awakening

Earlier this month, during Mercury's retrograde phase, I took a trip through the desert and awakened, again, to my deepest desire.

High in the San Jacinto Mountains of southern California, I pondered the state of our world, the economy and what all this change means day to day in people's lives. For generations, too many on all continents have lacked the basics of shelter, food, medical attention, education and our greatest human need, love. Today the numbers are growing fast as the economy shifts and the population swells unchecked.

As I drove from Los Angeles to Phoenix in 100-degree heat, I was shocked to see how much development has sprung up in the harsh desert terrain. Mile after mile of houses, condos, resorts, golf courses, shopping malls and strip centers line the desert streets. Where does the water come from to sustain life here? How many tons of coal does it take to keep the air conditioners running through most of the year? How much of the electricity is coming from wind and solar power?

I thought of my brother and his wife up north in Winnipeg. Where they are, millions live in near-tundra conditions, with countless homes and businesses dependent on a steady flow of natural resources and food.

What becomes of the people who live in these places if the power grid goes down during the searing heat of summer or the frozen depths of winter?

Development like this around the world is not sustainable. We can't keep draining the Earth's resources indefinitely. There are other ways of being that will ensure humanity's survival.


What's Sustainable?

The solutions rest in blending modern technology with ancient wisdom. Our ancestors thrived in extreme climates for generations without lights, air conditioning, heat and gasoline. Some tribal cultures still do. We can learn from them how to live in harmony with the Earth and natural cycles.

The devastating oil spill earlier this year in the Gulf of Mexico was a wake-up call. At least briefly, it focused the world's attention on the rampant global environmental crisis and the need to reduce our dependence on Big Oil. The damage created by this one accident will impact future generations for decades to come.

If we heed the message of the incident, the crisis could be a turning point that gets us headed in a positive direction that will heal our lives, our communities and our world.

The problem isn't going away just because the leak in the Gulf has been capped. We need to fix this. The Earth is out of balance, and she will do what she needs to do to rebalance her systems. We can participate in this process by harmonizing with Mother Earth and each other.

This is the next evolution.

On the Libra Equinox-Harvest Moon gateway last week, I shared how I will contribute to this turnaround on Earth, and I invite you to join me. After returning to the ocean from my desert journey, I received an e-mail with a link to a video that offered me enormous hope, and a vision for what we can do if we work together.


Four Years

"Four Years. Go." is a collaborative project bringing together organizations and individuals around the world in a unified effort to forge a new direction.




Check it out. Join if you feel called. And help spread the word.

My book Cosmic Time describes how our experience on Earth is embedded in a vast cosmic matrix of accelerating change, fueled by the creative force of love. It explores personal and planetary transformation within a cosmic context as we make our way through Earth's transition to the next world age.

As I wrote the book, I understood that the next evolution of my work will be to focus on sustainability, to continue exploring and sharing the wisdom that has been shared with me by those who are pioneering in renewable energy, natural building, alternative communities, local food production and other sustainable lifestyle practices infused with the spiritual light of the cosmos and rooted in the Earth and ancestral wisdom. This is Eco-Spirituality, and it is my passion.

In these times, sweeping change is forcing us to evaluate our priorities and pool our talents to address humanitarian needs, restore balance to the Earth and create a new world, a world we want our children and their children to inherit.

This is the essential message of the prophecies around 2012. We must change our ways to assure not only the survival of Mother Earth and her creatures, but the flourishing of a new, empowered, galactic culture on Earth.

The clock is ticking.



Earth in Balance

Where do we go from here?

We explored this question and previewed planetary energies in detail during the September 20 Autumn Equinox-Harvest Moon Teleconference.

Highlights include the Equinox and harvest season, Full and New Moons, Venus' upcoming shamanic journey in the Underworld, the Samhain/Beltane Gateway, planetary retrogrades and the eclipse series coming up in December/January. On this call I also shared more about my commitment to creating a sustainable future for the Earth and her children.

You can order the mp3 here:

http://www.starpriestess.com/events.html#forecast

Find out when the hotspots are in the next three months and how to navigate the energies. A special guided meditation will help you attune to the divine frequencies streaming to Earth through these planetary portals.