2022 - The Courage to Live from Your Heart

To everything there is a season. We just happen to be in the season of chaos. It is all around us and it grows larger every day. Governments in turmoil, protests around the world, food and water shortages, threats of war and terrorism, hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and floods creating more and more climate refugees, and poverty - all amidst a global pandemic that has pushed us to the brink of more division, arguing, and hatred. We seem to be self-destructing. Is there any way to save us from ourselves when we can't even agree on basic human rights?

We are at a critical juncture in the grand cycle of the cosmos. Everything changes, from the universe to our milky way galaxy to our solar system, sun and Earth - they all change like clockwork. We just happen to be living at a quarter to midnight before the next grand cycle ends and a new one begins. This is how creation works: From nothing comes everything, from chaos comes creation, from creation comes destruction, from nothing comes everything. Every 12,000 years or so, the cosmos cleans and clears the energy. It is similar to wiping a computer clean and downloading a new operating system. When the cosmic alarm clock goes off, there is great destruction...and from nothing comes everything and so starts the grand cycle over again.

We can't stop the Universal clock but we can wake ourselves up from centuries of nightmares from living in fear. Perhaps the reason for this season of chaos is to wake us up to realize that the only way we can make it through this extreme chaos is to live from our hearts.

We are all on this Earth together and together, in what may be a matter of decades, we will hear that cosmic alarm clock sound. Our ancestors before us have survived these grand cycles of change because they were connected to Mother Earth through their hearts. We have forgotten how to live from our hearts.

The overriding themes of this past 12,000 year cycle are greed, power, corruption, get ahead at all costs, and selling our souls to make money just to have basic survival needs that were once free for everyone. When humanity decided to charge for what Mother Earth so lovingly supplies us, such as food, water, and materials for shelter and clothing, corrupt thinking was born. Power and domination took over and we forgot that each soul on this Earth has a right to all She provides for us regardless of social standing, job title, or how much a person has in the bank. Mother Earth loves us unconditionally but we forgot to love her back. The Hopi say that when our hearts and minds become separated and are no longer one, Mother Earth will heal herself through catastrophic change. Even with all of the fires, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, and hurricanes, we still haven't gotten the message.

It takes courage to live in these times. The courage to do your inner work and raise your consciousness. The courage to be different. The courage to follow your heart and trust its guidance even when it goes against the what the majority believes. The root of the word courage, cor, comes from the French meaning heart. Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." How many of us have the courage to speak from our hearts?

2022 is a year of cour-age: the age or time of the heart. If we are to survive even greater changes and challenges, we must live from our hearts. Living from the heart means listening to that still small voice. Following what feels right even though it may be illogical. The heart is not logical or linear for it is connected to the universal or cosmic mind that knows more than what our human minds can comprehend. 

The Institute for HeartMath has shown that intuitive information comes into the heart first. Your heart has over 40,000 neurites that form a mini "brain." Your heart's electromagnetic field is 5000 times stronger than your brain's. The heart is mission control, not the brain.

We have been living mainly from our minds. It is time to come into our hearts and listen to what our intuition is telling us. We must balance our minds and our hearts in this time of great change.

Find your courage, live from your heart, raise your consciousness, pay attention, set intention, be in your integrity and 2022 can be a magical year.

(If you want to learn about the heart and how to use its power, you can purchase my ebook, Heartwired to Heaven: Unlocking the Power of the Creative Heart, on Kindle or Google Play Books.)

Revolution

As the five retrograde planets slowly move forward, we can see and feel their effects within us and in the world. This is a time of going deep and releasing the old on all levels from personal to societal. We are preparing ourselves for great change.

A word for sudden, complete or marked change is revolution. Many of us are experiencing this in our personal lives but we are also experiencing it globally. In the US, people came out in great numbers to vote for and support candidates like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump whose philosophies do not go along with the status quo. People protested both candidates and there were two attempts on Trump's life. There have been protests across the country about alleged police brutality. A terrorist attack at the Orlando Pulse nightclub brought people together to support the LBGT community and the families of those who lost their lives in the shooting.

Britain voted to leave the EU. This will have major economic repercussions around the world. Many economies are on the verge of collapse or have already collapsed. The decline in oil prices contributed to Venezuela's economic collapse. People are rioting because there is not enough food, medicine, and electricity. 

In Mexico, protesters are calling for revolution over the abduction and murder of 43 students by drug gang members. There is so much political corruption that neither the police nor the Mexican Army would intervene to save these students from their barbaric deaths. There was another protest over education reform where police fired on the protesters and killed eight teachers and wounded hundreds.

In March, more than a million Brazilians came out to protest governmental corruption and the worst recession in a century.

Currently, there are so many protests over France's labor law that exhausted police asked that the protests be postponed so that they could rest.

People across the globe are waking up and speaking out. Even Mother Earth is getting in on the action. We are in the beginning stages of solar minimum where there are few sunspots. With this decreased activity of the sun comes the greater likelihood of galactic cosmic rays hitting the earth. Things will continue to heat up globally within and on the earth. As her mantle heats up, it can cause more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. There's a whole lot of shaking going on and it won't let up any time soon. That's okay. The old ways need a good shake-up.

The world as we have known it is changing - in BIG ways. Now. Before our eyes. What is broken is falling apart. What shall we build in its place? What will our children say about this time? Will we use our hearts and not just our heads to create this new world? 

"Finally the tables are starting to turn. Talkin' bout a Revolution." 
(Lyrics and music by Tracy Chapman)