Winter’s Dark Night

Many people seem to be experiencing great shifts and changes this winter.  They seem even more extreme than usual.  The vibrations surrounding the Earth right now are very chaotic, they are filled with revolution, freedom and breaking away from patterns of behavior.  This energy can seem extremely disturbing and downright irritating as it brings to the surface old fears, doubts, anger, rage, sorrow, grief and despair.  Work with the energy by claiming the light within your heart and soul.  Remember that the light shines into the darkness and does not fear what it sees in the shadows. You have more power to claim this energy and use it to build your dreams than to cower in fear from the velocity of the energy.

The dark night of the soul waits for no one to place a date on the calendar to deal with it.  The dark night comes when the soul is ready to see into the deepest, darkest depths and come out as a shining light, braver, stronger and bolder than before.

Cave of Despair and Grief

This winter provides a great time to experience the dark night of the soul.  Winter is the time to reflect, review and release all of the past year and often times, years of pain, mistakes and regrets.  This winter seems to have taken the darkness to a whole new level.  With weather extremes and energetic vibrational extremes forcing many of us to take refuge and hide away.

Go with the natural flow of the season.  Take time to relax, give yourself the freedom to review your life without prejudice or criticism.  It is ok to have made mistakes and it is ok to forgive yourself and others for pain that has been caused in your life.  Let go of the pain, release the regrets and reclaim your power.

If you feel as though you are overwhelmed by the darkness of the season, make sure to keep light around you.  Light candles, turn on the xmas lights if they are still up and replace light bulbs with full-spectrum light that will reflect the sun. 

Be gentle with yourself and take time to nurture your soul at this time.  Plan activities that will boost your spirit, feed your soul and renew your energies.  Surround yourself with friends and family who support you and let go of those that don’t.

Winter can be difficult, but it doesn’t have to drag you down to the depths of despair.  You will survive the winter, allow this time of reflection to help you clear the path to a brighter spring.  Reflect on new goals, new ideas and new creations to birth this spring.  What do you want to plant? 

In order to plant anything, you will have to let the ground rest and regain the vital nutrients the soil needs to allow any new life to grow.  Nourish the soil of your soul’s garden.  Clear away the debris that will threaten the new growth and weed out all that zaps your garden of vitality.   Allow yourself to sit in the mud, let it soak into your pores and cleanse away the toxins that have built up.  You will feel so much better when you are done and wash it all away in the rain.

Stormy Field

Waiting for Your Love

Someone is waiting for only the special love that you can share.  Perhaps it is your partner, your family, your friends or someone new who is waiting on you.  Break down the walls that keep you from sharing the special gift of your love.  The gift of your love costs nothing but has infinite and amazing returns on investment.  Share your heart, share your love.

Never before in human history have so many been so connected all over the world, yet so few feel loved.  How is it that we can chat, write and connect in so many ways yet lose the intimate connection with family, friends and new friendships? People are starving for love, starving for human contact and connection.  The busyness that surrounds modern life places a wall around people’s hearts, places a wall that blocks out true spiritual heartfelt connections.   Granted many are able to move beyond the superficial, but so many get lost in a blur of constact connectivity without the true reward of being known intimately.  Being known intimately for who you are and loved for who you are, boosts a person’s self esteem, boost’s a person’s ability to cope with stress and change. 

If you find that you are not able to cope with the world around you and feel worn out from stress – reach out to someone you can touch, who can look you in the eyes and affirm that you are someone worthwhile, someone who in worthy of love, someone who is worth the time it takes to sit by your side and listen to you.  If babies thrive on human touch, don’t you think adults also thrive on human contact?  Why is it as adults we lose the ability to give and receive friendly affection?  A pat on the shoulder, a gentle hug or a smile with direct compassionate eye contact can help others and yourself thrive and stay alive. 

Perhaps you know of others who are lonely or suffering, perhaps you are the one who can help bring them some comfort, joy, and love.  Don’t let the fear of reaching out and being rejected for your efforts keep you from allowing your heart the freedom to give love generously.  Don’t let the whirlwind of life keep you from slowing down long enough to hug someone, give your ear to listen from your heart and your shoulder to cry on if needed. 

Some easy ways that you can move from being closed off yet overly connected is to smile and say hello to each person you pass while you go about your day.  Smile truly from your heart and through your eyes.  The special light and love that is yours to give will come through in that brief moment where your soul acknowledges another with compassion and respect for the journey we all are on together.  Ask someone new out for lunch, perhaps you feel intimidated wondering what you will talk about or why they would go out to lunch with you.  Don’t pass negative judgement on yourself.  Quit rejecting yourself and removing the option of acceptance from someone else before they even have had a chance to know you.  Believe you have something amazing to offer, something so valuable that the world would be lost without it! 

Everyone has something vital to give this world.  Everyone has a unique love and light that is all their own.  Take time to find out why others are so special and let them find out why you are so lovely, too.  Remember, someone is waiting for your love.

Love Does Not Fear the Darkness

Love does not fear the darkness.  The darkness fears love.

Love surrounds the darkness in light and truth

until the darkness no longer exists.

Cloak yourself in love and there is nothing to fear.

 

 

What do I mean by saying the above?  Love does not fear the darkness, darkness fears love.  Simply means that when one is in a state of pure love and pure light that there is nothing to fear from that which is darkness, for one in that state realizes that there is truly nothing in the universe that is dark. 

 

Within all is a spark of light that comes from Spirit even if the human factor has decided to deny it. When one denies the light within, they become quite confused, thinking that others are attacking them.  This confusion leads them away from the true cause of their discomfort.  The true cause of their discomfort is their own betrayal of self.  It is their own denial of the darkness within them.  This has nothing to do with anyone else but themselves.  Yet they will continue to blame others, going to such lengths as to lie, betray and accuse others of wronging them.  When in reality they should be looking themselves straight in the mirror. 

 

Deal with your own darkness; do not force that darkness on others.  It is not becoming and does not serve anyone.  The betrayal has come from within yourself!  You have betrayed your spirit and your own spirit is attacking you with love! 

 

Spirit loves you so strongly and wants you to return you to a state of love, health and peace that you continue to deny and battle against it, causing no end to your suffering, no end to your pain.  So think all you like that someone outside of yourself is harming you, attacking you from the spirit realm.  One day you will realize it is merely yourself, harming yourself because you will not love yourself. 

 

Love surrounds the darkness in love.  Darkness, because it has been lost so long, alone with itself for so long, does not recognize love.  Darkness thinks love is an attacker, when in actuality; love is love and always has been love.  Darkness suffers and retreats from love because it has no place there anymore.  Darkness withers in the face of love because darkness is based on fear.  Fear is the opposite of love.  Fear is baseless, ego-filled moments of lies, betrayal, attacks, rage, sorrow, jealousy, grief, envy of others happiness and love. 

 

Darkness fears love because it is the end of loneliness and suffering.  When one has been living in that space for so long, it is hard to imagine a place filled with love and light.  Allow yourself to be surrounded in love and light, allow yourself to be healed of all darkness that you carry.  Release the fear from you, release the rage from you, and release the sorrow and pain from you.  Release all that is not love from you.

 

Return to the light, return to the love that is your birthright.  Those of us who care are around you, surrounding you in love.  Do NOT mistake love for attacks. 

 

Your own guilty conscience attacks you, you know what you have done in this lifetime and without forgiveness and healing you will continue to attack yourself, attacking your darkness with love.  Do you not realize that all you have to do to get these attacks to end is to say you are sorry and forgive yourself?

 

Be filled with love, be filled with light, be filled with peace.  Be at peace with who you are and the life you have chosen.  It is all up to you, child.  Allow yourself to be healed and filled with love.

 

I have chosen to place this entry here as well, since I wrote about how to deal with ‘attacks’ and learn to rise handle them.  I wrote the above in response to someone claiming I was spiritually attacking them.  It has been interesting and a learning experience to see how much energy can be placed into feeling someone is attacking you – it becomes your never ending focus.  With that much focus it creates the cycle over and over again. 

 

It goes against everything I believe in to attack another, in any way, physically or spiritually.  Unless it is in defense for my own life or someone I love’s life, then one must do what is necessary to survive.  To attack another takes away their free will and choice over their own life, it takes away the other’s choice to choose another path, another way to return back to the Light and back to Oneness with all. 

 

Many times I come across ‘dark’ entities that ‘attack’ me due to their own loneliness, emptiness and jealousy to be back within the Oneness and love of the Universe.  Many times these entities will rejoin the Light after being sent an incredible amount of love.  It is up to that entity to accept the love, though I cannot deny that to some of those entities, that love feels like an ‘attack’ of its own.

 

When you have been in such deep pain, such emptiness and loneliness, when love surrounds you it sometimes hurts because it is such a deep pain to be healed.  Many of us who have been on a healing path have felt this pain, hurt from healing when we release all of the old pain and hurts that we have carried deep within our souls.  It hurts to let those go – because that is all we have know – pain, suffering, despair, sorrow, grief, loneliness.  It takes courage to let go of what we have always known, courage to allow ourselves to be free from that pain, free from that weight of sorrow and rage. 

 

It takes unbelievable courage to step back into love, back into trust, back into faith.  It is hard and painful to allow your heart to open to love, but baby step by baby step, it hurts less and starts to feel good, starts to feel joyful, blissful and happy.  It brings back the balance of peace, serenity, unity, beauty in the world around you.  Open the heart and it leads you back to Oneness with All. 

 

Into the Void

The past few days I have been getting a glimpse of something that I can’t quite put my finger on. Change is a foot all around us as we begin the slow crawl towards spring, though maybe some can’t tell that now with all of the snow around the country again and more on its way.  This year living in Jackonsville, there hasn’t been any snow but the weather changes have been very severe these last couple of weeks.

 

Overall the weather pressure and full moon seem to reflect the inner and outer pressures that seem to surround daily life, everywhere I look at work or around shopping everyone is under so much stress and appears to be so pressurized that they are about to explode at any second. Many times I catch myself riding with this high pressure, feeling the intense emotions that so many are feeling, stressed beyond words, moved to tears or rage that I scream in my car on the drive home from work.

 

Last night a gift was given to me to see what lies beneath the high pressured emotions that are circling around the Earth at this time, there is also a space of clearing and relief. A void hiding underneath all of the chaos is waiting, simply waiting to be entered. All I can see within the void is a small spark of light, nothing more and nothing less. It is a space of calm, peace, surrounded in an earthly darkness, like an enveloping cave or a mother’s arms.

 

Today at work I tried out the void many times, each time I felt like I was being carried away with the wave of high pressure, I entered the void and touched the spark within. As soon as I remembered the void, I was calm, peaceful, almost joyful and content. Each time I returned back to the void I felt the light within me grow, my own security and confidence return. This is a space of creation for the spring and what is to come.

 

The void waits for each one to enter and create what they need, to leave the mundane world and worries behind that are not real or even tangible, they don’t belong to spirit or to heart. Allow yourself to be taken into the void and see the light within.

Crystalline Structures

Crystalline Structures
Alicia M. Erchul, 02.21.2008

Another day, another dollar.
Without creation of something vibrant, alive or holy.
Spiraling and spinning, weaving and wondering.
Looking, watching, waiting.

Where or where is this road leading?
Walking in the light but traveling in darkness.
Chanting out your name within whispers of evil.
Calling for healing while encircled in disease.

Winds of change, winds of chaos whoosh around.
Drops of rain cleanse and burn.
Salt of the Earth, Stars of the Sky.
Shine on us, abide with us.

Be calm, be peaceful, be holy.
Who is there walking with you?
Who is there holding your hand?
Who is there keeping this time with you?

Crystalline structures built upon the Universe.
Rain down onto the Earth.
Some broken, some brilliant.
Others lost in darkness.

Twists of fate reign over the skies.
Which way will fear lead?
Which way will love lead?
Which way will you go?

Choices are free.
Options are open.
Possibilities are endless
What will you create?

One in a Million ~09.20.07

One in a Million

~ Alicia Crystalus

When the world frustrates and angers you, take a moment to step back.
In that moment, focus your attention inward to find your flicker of light.
Let that flicker of light grow and spread until it fills your entire being.
Let the light flow out to the rest of the world.

Let your light bathe the rest of the world in golden white light.
Shining brightly onto every street, every house, and every city around the world.
See the world cleansed, refreshed and renewed with the light you are sharing.
See the world as a place that brings you joy and happiness.

Let the light carry with it a message of peace and love.
Not only for yourself and those you love.
But for the entire world, especially the ones who anger and frustrate you.
Carry that message on to those who bring fear and darkness into this world.

Let your light shine so others can be free of the fear and darkness.
Create the world as you would like to see it.
Regain the power you have so long set aside to others
Who is better able to design a world filled with joy than you?

When you regain your power, you will not have to react with anger.
Instead you will be able to react from a place of love, light and power.
Never underestimate the power of love to change the world.
Each moment spent in love is one less moment spent in fear.

Even if love only changes you and your perspective
The world as we know it will have been changed forever.
One living in love outweigh millions who are living in deep seated fear and anger.
Be the one in a million and share your love, light and peace with the world.