Cosmic Calabash is a space created to help inspire and support ALL who are willing to move through this great transformation and leap in consciousness on emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual levels. A space to share experiences and run out the doubt and embrace your magnificence.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Getting the Selves Together
Thursday, April 29, 2010
The 3 selves
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Huna, Spiritual Knowledge
Monday, April 26, 2010
Mana
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Rainbow Warriors
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Love
To give love and feel compassion is something that comes naturally for a everyone. It's something that doesn't have to be learned. It is natural for a person to want to comfort and reach out to others. So, why is it that we put so many conditions on love, have so many definitions, and so many ideas of what we think love is?
I once heard a person tell me that he knew he was ready to marry, when he know longer felt as if he needed his now wife, but he wanted her.
I felt this was such a profound statement and wise.
I believe the reason that we place so many conditions on love is because of the fear and the result of a belief that is carried within that we are not worthy of being loved through our Source and it comes from a perceived separation from Source and one another. Through our journey we are given experiences in our life to know we are loved through our Source, no matter what. Unconditionally. This remembering is the knowing of the pure state of the energy of love, which does not have conditions. The conditions that we place upon love are ideas of the mind.
We can not have a relationship with Source if we feel separate and unlovable nor hold these ideas taught through many religions of the world, that we are tainted, sinful, and unlovable and that we must do this or that before our Source will accept us back into the fold.
So here are 2 questions I present to you to ponder. Do you feel your Source rejects your being OR is it you who reject your Source with your ideas of not feeling perfect? Does your Source reject loving you OR do you reject your Source because you believe you are not worthy and perfect enough to be loved, or until you reach this higher state, a state which changes with the minds fancies?
There is lots of talk, books and teachings on the topic of awakening. I don't believe you can force someone to awaken. It happens as it does in nature, it's own time, own coding, and when a person is ready to remember oneness. Once the pain is so great in the experience of separation, then and only then will a person choose to awaken to what is familiar and the nature within their core, oneness. I also don't believe you can teach another how to love thy self.
As a person remembers and falls in love with thy self again, they will arise and know the preciousness of their being, and see the error of their beliefs which created the separateness from their Source from the beginning. This awakening and teaching usually occurs when pain is present, unfortunately, and this I believe is because we are willing at this point to realize that our own answers are not cutting it anymore.
When you are in a place of giving love without the conditions, which by the way is a difficult place to be all of the time just given the human conditioning, but when you are there, you will know because you are not attached to outcomes.
It will not feel as this is a natural place until you integrate and remember, and you certainly can't fool anyone or Source. I guess this is the surrender that must take place. Our will, verses Thy Will.
It really is our purpose here to give and accept love, even with the many gifts and talents one comes with and in these many experiences learning of the fuel of our being, the flame that gives us eternal life and the energy of love that all of creation is founded upon will we learn that Love's well is ever flowing. We learn our unlimitedness.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The Wisdom In Dreams
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Giving Love
Friday, April 16, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Mercury Goes Retrograde♥
Mercury went retrograde today, and for those that do not have but little knowing of astrology, well with Mercury in retrograde until May 11th, it has it's positives and negatives, as all things do of course.
This Mercury in retrograde is in the sign of Taurus, which means you have the energy on your side for planting and gardening.
Also during this particular retrograde the signs of Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, will be particularly affected by this energy, bringing introspection.
The two strong days that perhaps can give you some trouble where energies are at a peak are the 24th and 25th of April because of the Mercury/Mars square that weekend. So tread carefully, and pay attention to details.
The obstinacy and stubbornness of the bull (Taurus) which are characteristics also apply to this retrograde in the areas of travel, sales, communication, and all mental pursuits. Watch driving, and road rage.
During retrograde things tend to break down, allowing you the opportunity to be aware to get things in better working order and fixed. People tend to cancel appointments, reschedule, and cancel again. Be careful with your communication with loved ones. Many misunderstandings take place or mixed communication. If you are in school, double check to make sure the teacher received your papers, as this also goes for those at work. Many times during retrograde paper or important documents get mixed up or are never received. It's annoying for sure.
Retrograde is a time to assess, finish up projects that have already been started before Mercury went retrograde. It is not a time to start new, or sign contracts, jobs etc....
The energy of this retrograde picks up towards the later phase, so those that don't seem too affected at first, don't let your guard down.
The positive things about retrograde are that you are made aware of what's not working, and a time to take a breathe and be, before Mercury goes direct again.
Also, word of caution, 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after retrograde the energy is am pt up, so because it is May 11th, it can take some time for the energy to settle.
So, enjoy...and have patience, and don't try to fight the energy. Just accept that you may have to do some of the simplest things twice.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
The Other....People
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Treasures♥
Monday, April 12, 2010
Creating Our Own Speical Design
When growing up, my best friends and I would laugh about wanting to get married and wanting to move next door to each other, so we could wave from window to window to one another. It's so natural really for all of us to want to be in oneness and when the valuable life experiences come a knocking, more often than not, separation time is near, and those once best friends inseparable in heart, hold a look within their eyes of a stranger.
With the expansion of energy, you may find this happening a lot, with family members, friends, relationships, and marriages, for everyone is aligning, adjusting and creating anew. We outgrow places, people and things as our calabash opens, and we need to let them go, for they don't belong to us. We may protest to the universe about breaking our alliances, but we are all always at the right place and the right time and with the right people for our experience. You might also find that as each align, these places, things and people return, step back in from time to time.
We are always in a place of rebirth, whether we are aware of it or not. We are like the serpent shedding the old worn out limited self, to embrace the more expanded new self that is to be born. This is an endless cycle, so we never die, we are only born.
Before our birth there is pain, and there is pain when we are reborn. There is pain before your new self emerges, of course not until all things in your life seem to fall apart to make way for the new. Your personal relationships transform to relationships that are run through spirit, and not identified with the personality any longer. You won't be able to wait for that daily phone call, for that phone will only ring when there is a prompting from spirit.
As the new you awakens, and keeps awakening you will see yourself reflected all around you, and you will only meet what you carry within you. This is why changing your thoughts changes your reality.
You can't change the past, but you can change your thoughts. Every moment a new beginning starts. Every moment begins a new moment. As your consciousness expands you will see it manifest all around you.
Shared perfectly by Kristen Zambucka, "Our present experience is the result of past decisions...change your mind today, and you build your world of tomorrow. Your mind is your garden...tend it well,"
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Middle Ground
Friday, April 9, 2010
Gratitude
How we choose to respond to our life has everything to do with our continued perception. So, if one is troubled it is because they are refusing to see the gifts that the universe brings them everyday. No person can be miserable unless they choose to be.
Being grateful and having gratitude is seeing the love reflected in all things. To appreciate brings happiness, to depreciate brings unhappiness. You can feel how true this is in having just one grateful thought. Having gratitude supports your worthiness and abundance, on the other hand ungratefulness supports resentment and scarcity.
In every moment we have to decide whether we want to play the victim or stay in our knowing that the universe never gives us a bad gift and we accept that whatever comes our way brings value even if we can't see it at the moment. If you play victim you will not see the value and resent the gifts brought forward and see your experiences more as a punishment.
Now is the time as we create our new reality to shed our feelings of unworthiness, our resentments, our scarcity thinking, and embody more of our heart, our power, for there is only one world everlasting and that is the world of oneness. There, is no fear here, for there is no lack of love. There is no scarcity, for there is no lack of abundance. There is no resentment, for there is no lack of gratitude.
Love yourself and open the door to allow the channel of love and light to fill you, so that you may remember your magnificence.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Oh! no! Initiation Time!!
I have experienced three major initiations, 1 on the physical level, 2 on the emotional mental levels, and 1 on the spiritual level. Focusing on the positive side, the outcome changed my being, and a fine tuning took place, and enabled me to hold more energies, this in turned gave me more tools for assisting people here. It allowed for my spirit to be more fully present in the body which is called a major descension. The experience physically was scary. Before I get started on sharing the details, I will say that it is very helpful if you counsel with an astrologer, and one that has devoted their life to this extensive art. I will give a link to the astrologers I have used and recommend to my own clients. Astrology is very helpful because Astrology helps you understand energy and you can learn what energetic aspects can be working with you or more in opposition and Astrology is not horoscopes, it is very detailed, and takes many years to read the maps.
One of the most intense initiations I have ever experienced was on a physical level. The day started like any other day, it was sunny, it was in June. I woke up with a bit of anxiety, something that I had not felt for a long time. I decided to not let the anxiety ruin my day, so I jumped in my jeep and went for a ride. I noticed that my right hand was starting to shake as I held on to the steering wheel, and I could feel a strong energy pushing down on my shoulders, I felt my teeth clinch, as if I was being moved up slowly in energy. I turned the jeep around and headed home, for the feeling was unpleasant and unfamiliar. As I pulled into the driveway, I noticed looking out of the windshield the energy pouring down from the sky like a hard rain. I thought...I need to lie down..as the feeling became increasingly more alarming to me. A neighbor across the street who was also an energy worker came out of her house, and yelled to me..."what's happening, do you see that?" I said, yea...I'm going back inside! The days following, I noticed burning marks on both of my wrists, that released a watery substance. I had burning marks on my middle. My hair started to fall out, and my hands shook violently, especially if a person would step into my energy field. My voice shaky. Anxiety, mostly because I wasn't sure what to do other than just sit tight. It felt like someone upstairs had failed to turn off the energy faucet. Each day the symptoms continued, so I decided to call an older spiritual friend of mine to see if she had any ideas. She confirmed my knowing, that I was experiencing a physical initiation and integrating new energies. But, still carrying some doubt I thought, well..,it's very common for channelers to have thyroid and adrenal problems so I took a visit to my doctor, tests where done, negative of course for any problems, she said she never had seen anything like it, and that perhaps it was stress. I knew then, it was a no hope situation and I was just going to have to not know and flow with it. I had to stop all readings and energy work because any type of pulling of more energy made me shake even more. I basically took sleeping for about 6 months, and then magically gone! I happen to be looking at the website of my teacher in Hawaii who is a Kahuna, real one too! and noticed something very interesting.....she about 2 months prior to my episode had a very similar experience, different places of burning. She was told through a priest she was having Stigmata, of course...I called her and we were both amazed that we experienced this energy so close together. When I first met her, I was prompted to take a twin crystal with me and give it to her, only to find out, she lost her crystals on the trip. Though I am not Catholic, I suppose this is what some label this energy exchange, stigmata, not at all like the movies, but scary none the less. After the 6 months the gift left to me that I noticed right away was what the Navajo Indians call a hand trembler. It's a shamanic gift of being able to feel vibration. My hands tremble when doing energy work or with any type of energy field, and once the person is balanced the trembling stops. My hands became like a dowsing rods for energy. Also saw that my other senses had been heightened my clairaudiance, voyance, and clairsentience which was a wonderful gift in continuing my work in the spiritual counseling and healing field.
Each initiation has been different and tough in it' s own way, but once you make it to the other side you'd have it no other way.
Here are some of the physical symptoms that many will experience as the energy expands and of course you won't experience these all at once. You can feel hungry all of the time, and your body doesn't seem to feel full. This is because you need light, go out in the sun for about 15 minutes, also you can make the shape of a triangle with your fingers tips and allow the light to shine through onto your face, this makes like an antenna. Some people feel drawn to alcohol especially beer. Sleeping patterns change erratically, you may feel as if you need no sleep or sleep for hours and hours. Sharp pains in the head, neck and shoulders. Pressure between your eyebrows, severe headaches at the base of the skull, flu-like symptoms, muscle aches and joint aches, fever and sweats which is when your energy bodies are vibrating out of cycle with your physical body, tiredness, pain in the center of your sternum, vibrating when you are awake, pain in the lower back and hips, arms and hands tingling or falling asleep, perceptual changes, your senses become more acute and open to your psychic gifts, excessive sensory input, where all of a sudden all your senses amplify, feeling spacey and ungrounded, low level anxiety, dizziness, and clumsiness, hazy vision, objects appear to move, melt or shimmer, hearing beeps, tones, music, or morse code, memory loss, there are many more. I would suggest reading the book (What Is Lightbody) by Tashira Tachi-ren, which will explain in more detail what your being may experience. Some of the 1st wavers have already gone through a lot of this, the 2nd wavers a good bit too, however those encoded now to awaken will have to travel a very quick steep path upward. It is good information to know and pass on and can make a huge difference for a person suffering with not knowing what is happening to them, can be very frightening. Many will just run to the doctor, which in some instances can be helpful because all bodies are intertwined, however if it's energetic traditional methods won't help. If anything take to the herbals which hold different energies for balancing. Assist each other, but resist trying to cure a person in an energetic crisis, just support and allow them to save themselves, it's just a releasing and taking in of more light, and it's one's process. I think the best way to assist each other is to just be present without judgment and remind them that this too shall pass. Just the love and understanding alone can make an initiation much easier, and really all benefit from participating in it. Sometimes, it's good to seek an alternative practitioner, just to bring your being at ease.
I finally out grew the fear of initiation, took time. If you feel that you may benefit or have the need for assistance and you are going through a tough integration or initiation, please feel free to contact me for spiritual counsel or energy work; my email is: rainbowbridge@verizon.net
These are magnificent times and we all have chosen to be here together.
Embody the God that you are.
Pour our like a creator.
Extend your hand in love, and the sun will shine in your soul forever.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Our Thoughts, Our Seeds
My mother held steadfast to the belief that if you stood an infant on it's legs for too long, the baby would become bowlegged. She even continued to believe this after the doctor told her that this was a myth and of course she replied with, "Oh, what does he know anyway." Now, not that I don't agree with her in some instances as far as traditional medicine and doctors go, yet I found it interesting that even when speaking with an expert her own truth she would not abandon, even when she found that her truth was not a truth at all, she would not allow for a shift to take place within her own thinking. Though we might chuckle about this, we all are guilty of it and probably more often then we remember, until you become aware, that the only real truth and knowing is your own experience, and even then, some will have experiences others will never have, and frankly don't need to have.
So, all one truly knows is what they have experienced, in whatever realm and if you are in question, you are not in your knowing.
It is important and part of the human condition to try desperately be on the same page or similar pages with the group, and I wondered if it is because many aren't sure of their own shaky reality and thus many have the tendency to always be looking at what's growing and happening in an other's garden or yard. Everything we need to know has always been in your own backyard, and yet all of us peek over the fence, just to make sure we keep our reality in some kind of check, however for me it usually happens when I am not creating or bored.
We all have our time to create and start anew, and there isn't a better time then right now with the coming of greater light, a time when the cosmic calabash is opening and our thought seeds may grow and create a new reality. As we continue to move through this consciousness shift, birth, and transformation, manifestations will take hold quickly, and especially the ones that are attached to emotion. Everything will seemed to be quickened. In my experience it is important to be quite careful in exercising your will to shape your reality, because remember that learning of (unknowing) thing I spoke, and a MUST to have focused attention and intention, which may or may not save you from your own creations and manifesting a mess. I am not a very Kum-ba-ya person, and I don't consider myself part of the metaphysical community. However, my experiences, and knowing are wide and deep on many many levels of existence. I always felt blessed and very full within, and I left manifesting for others for a good portion of my life. I was grateful for whatever came into my life...mostly. I think I almost felt a bit guilty for even thinking about trying to manifest more then what I had already been given, for inwardly I always saw so much abundance, but outward not sure but a choice few would be able to spot it. I was not born from a wealthy family or lived in a huge home or anything like that. Actually, my life was rather tough growing up, but there are people who had it tougher. I was always waiting for the other shoe to drop, and usually it did, but I even accepted this as being okay. Funny those beliefs and truths... Whatever our make up, Earthly, Stellar, Angelic or whatever one would like to label themselves as an expression of their grand being, we all share the human condition, and this humanness is a precious gift to embrace, and not to be looked upon as a lower vibration. We embrace and embody our humanness, not go beyond it, integrate it.
Finding your nature and know well of your intent and your will, is very important in order to be able to manifest for the greater good.
Our thoughts shape our inner and outer worlds and our nature weaves our reality and our life becomes our thoughts and our dreams. I have had the question arise more than once when giving intuitive readings or spiritual counsel, how did one know if they are hearing their own intuitive guidance or was it just perhaps their imagination, their thoughts coming from their mind, and in addition, even more interesting is that as we cross the line into adulthood, how imagination seems to mean and be perceived as false/not real. Our conscious mind is held in high honor above our hearts knowing and the child within is thought of in those unaware as unknowing and yet, the inner child holds the keys to entering higher dimensions and the kingdoms. This lack of honor is also mirrored in society, where many do not honor the children as the pure beings they are.
Anyone that practices creative visualization will tell you that you can use your thoughts to direct the shape of your reality and without imagination you would not have become. More than any other space now, one must be careful and know whatever seed they plant they will have to continue to water, so make sure you sow good seeds, be aware of what your planting. Have your seeds grow in states of respect, honor, trust, and away from the desire to control or manipulate and be detached from an outcome, which we can become very attached to, for remember we are awakening to unknowing, and leaving the need to know with your mind. It is most important to not be tempted to use visualization to control the will of others, even if your intent seems good. Many of us eons ago, had to learn that hard lesson. The seeds that you plant have always been what determines your harvest, for you are the keeper of your own path. Be in touch with your intentions that are in connection with your words, your thoughts, and your actions. Stay conscious of what your intention is for yourself and then you will be more present in creating your reality. Try to imagine more details in what you would like to manifest, for if you can not see it, you might never be able to manifest it. It is also important to use the sacred breath to bring the energy through you when you are manifesting so your seeds do not fall to the wayside, it is as if the sacred breath is the Miracle Grow for your manifestation and once this is done, release it with the knowing it will be on its way, if it is in the highest good for your being. It is important during this incredible birth and leap in consciousness, to remember to stay flexible and not attached to things, as you realign yourself to the more whole you. It is not a time of force, doors open and close easily, so watch the messages that come through your guidance as to which doors to walk through. Oil and water will no longer mix, so many will be connecting to more like minded people which will bring comfort. In order to not become disturbed, remember to allow, and by allowing things to work out differently from what you may have wanted or expected, you may discover that the universe has other possibilities for you that are far more exciting.
Manifesting at this time will serve as good tool for protection and strength as we move through the transition of leaving duality and moving into oneness together.