What if you thought of your emanations as having a poker game with the universe? Every time you bet love, we see your love and raise it with more love. There is no reason to ever bluff or call you on your offerings, and everyone wins. ~Archangel Gabriel

Dr. Jane Goodall with Freud, a chimpanzee from Gombe. Photograph © Michael Neugebauer

Rhett A. Butler and Jeremy Hance, Mongabay
Waking Times

Jane Goodall is not only arguably the most famous conservationist who ever lived, but also the most well-known and respected female scientist on the planet today.

Her path to reach that stature is as unlikely as it is inspiring. Told to “never give up” by her mother, Goodall set out in her 20s to pursue her childhood dream: to live with animals in Africa. By the time she was 26 she doing just this.

What would your life be like if you did not care what other people thought of you? If you were completely independent of people’s opinions, good or bad, and would go about your day without so much as a single self-conscious decision. It would be wonderful freedom, of course. You would feel free to do what you wanted, and have a clarity of mind that comes with not being constantly preoccupied with thinking about the judgment of those around you.

Looking at our current state of affairs, it would seem that the culture we humans have created for ourselves is driven by “what other people think,” the tension between the desire for approval and the fear of disapproval. Businesses, families, friendships, sports, politics; everything is, if not completely driven by this tension, at the very least heavily influenced by it. And this we can see very clearly when looking for it, how much our motivation for doing things arises in the concern for what the world thinks. It is a feeling that your very existence relies on other people’s judgment of you; that you exist only as a mental image in other people’s minds. Which is mostly unconscious, of course, because when we drag it up to the surface and into the light we can see clearly just how insane it really is.

by Mara Freeman, M.A.

Why are we still fascinated by stories of the Holy Grail told long ago in the courts of medieval Europe?  It’s my belief that the Grail myth persists throughout the centuries like a recurring dream that must be brought fully to consciousness, understood, and resolved.  This is the theme of my latest book, Grail Alchemy.  As mythologist Joseph Campbell said, the quest for the Grail is “the founding myth of Western civilization.”

The Grail is a sacred vessel as old as creation. A rounded container, it belongs to the family of symbols – bowl, cauldron, vat, well, cup or crucible – which are all images of the divine feminine, the Mother Goddess whose womb holds the waters of life, found as far back as the Neolithic era and in cultures from ancient India to classical Greece. In Celtic myth and legend, this hallowed icon of Western spirituality has its origins in the magical cups which have life-giving and protective properties and more often than not, these cups belong to goddesses or female spirits.

by Salvador Russo

Flames of freedom have begun to blaze forth from the epicenter of today’s New Moon in Sagittarius! Spiritual invigoration throughout the world will rise into irresistible crescendos as these heavenly fires amplify our spiritual power and inspire our conscious actions, leading us to strike out at every lie and corruption within our mind’s reach. Consciousness will bloom and beam with inspired learning, as if diamonds were being placed into our minds by our “friends in high places.”

We will be gaining or re-gaining cherished freedoms which will restore shaken perceptions of the future and motivate us to explore the good pastures which God will be guiding us into. When the freedoms come seize them with passion, just as Alexander the Great did. This is a time of alchemical fire so harness this fire and use it to fuel your focus and the desires of your heart. Let this flame burn brightly in your mind forever: Deep within, we are all masters of our reality.