Dear Ones, as you start to fully step into your authentic power and embrace your role as co-creator, we urge you to dream big but to also stay open to even more wonderful, because the universe often desires to bring you much more than you can even imagine possible. Give us the room to serve and delight you. ~Archangel Gabriel

by Darity Wesley

Attention: The energies and directions for the month of February are evolving around focusing our attention this entire month. What can that mean? It means that we need to understand that first of all there is much more going on than meets the eye and second of all that we can discern some of these goings on to our advantage if we focus our attention all along the way this month…so do, read on…

We have probably all heard that whatever we put our attention on is where we produce results or what we focus on expands. If we focus on what is working in our lives, we will create more of that and if we focus on what is not working in our lives we get more of that.

It works the same in relationships, if we pay attention to and focus on the complaining, the negative, the judgmental and critical attitudes of others, we get more of that. If we do not step into that mode and just continue on, focusing on our own non-complaining, positive, allowing attitude, it strengthens our balance and equilibrium rather than putting us into a lower vibration. It is about supporting everyone in our lives in feeling successful or positive and they will continue the kind of behavior that promotes those feelings.

Alanna Ketler, Collective-Evolution
Waking Times

Trichocereus Pachanoi, aka San Pedro, is a columnar cactus native to the Andean mountains of Peru, and Ecuador. Some of the indigenous names for San Pedro are: huachuma, chuma, and wachuma. It is one of the four most sacred plants of Peru, along with Tobacco, Ayahuasca and Coca. San Pedro has hallucinogenic properties and is often compared to the more popular cactus known as Peyote; both are members of the mescaline family. Mescaline is a psychoactive alkali that occurs naturally in the aforementioned cacti and also other species of Cacti. Shamans and natives have used San Pedro for at least 3000 years. The earliest known depiction of the cactus that dates back to 1300 BC is a carving of a mythological creature holding the cactus. San Pedro got its name because in mythology God hid the keys to heaven in a secret place and the Christian Saint who was named San Pedro used the powers of the cactus to uncover the secret hiding places of the keys and later the cactus was named after him.

Simone Wright, Guest
Waking Times

Learning to develop and trust our intuitive intelligence is more important now than it ever has been before. According to a recent UCLA study, we are exposed to a tsunami of information that amounts to over 174 newspapers full of data per day. That is more than 5 times the amount of information we were exposed to just 20 years ago. Included in this deluge of data are countless opinions, endless streams of expert advice and a myriad of gurus and guides telling us what we should be doing in order to live our best lives.

The reality is that the only guidance system we need to assist us in living our best life is the wisdom held within our natural intuitive intelligence. When properly developed it can and will lead us to the choices, ideas and innovations that will guide us towards what is truly in our best interest and help us create the highest good in our lives. Intuition is a subtle language so understanding the various ways it communicates makes having a deep and meaningful relationship with it rewarding, reliable and much more fun. Intuition operates in our body and nervous system on levels that range from basic, binary, survival-based communications to complete conversations that are elegant, sophisticated, and evolved.

Guy Lyon Playfair, New Dawn
Waking Times

Is there a special bond between twins? Can they read each other’s minds? Are they telepathic? If you have been hearing questions like these being asked regularly but have never found an answer, look no further. The short answer is – yes, and no. Let me explain.

As Orwell famously observed in Animal Farm, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” So it is with twins – some them are indeed more identical than others. In fact, the term ‘identical’ is misleading. The medical word is ‘monozygotic’ (MZ) for twins originating from a single zygote or fertilised egg which then splits into two (or more), those originating from separate zygotes being termed dizygotic (DZ) or fraternal (non-identical). Yet although MZ twins are commonly referred to as identical, there can be wide differences among them. Probably the most important one has to do with just when that original egg divides. Usually this takes place a day or two after fertilisation, but division can take place up to twelve days later, or in the rare case of conjoined (‘Siamese’) twins, not at all.