Play Ball!

One of my favorite holiday movies is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.  At the end of the movie, while watching a flaming Santa's sleigh streak through the sky, Clark's Aunt Bethany exclaims, "Play ball!"  Yesterday's earthquake near Washington, DC is the energetic equivalent of Aunt Bethany's command.  Let the games begin!

'Tis the season for dismantling the old to make room for the new.  The shake-up in DC yesterday was just that...shake up the systems to facilitate their breakdown.  On July 26, Saturn is opposed Uranus ushering in an energy to support dramatic social change. Watch for signs of another more severe downturn in the economy.  Banking regulations continue to change as power gets redistributed.  Government programs that supported us in the past can no longer hold the weight of millions of people out of work, in debt, or homeless.

The quake not only shakes up systems, it shakes down the corruption that has long been the life blood of the beltway.  That corruption doesn't end there as we have witnessed with BP.  Government and big business have been bed fellows for too long.  

Pluto is in Capricorn and this energy can bring about major changes in petroleum and government.  Pluto is the great transformer, unearthing whatever is not in its integrity.  Hum.  The Gulf oil spill is certainly unearthing quite a bit.  There is more than oil and gas coming up to the surface.  Long-held discontent of the populace is bubbling up.  People are waking up and realizing we are destroying our planet.  We are finally getting that we must make deep and lasting changes in our way of life...now!

This weekend is the celebration of the Conscious Convergence Carl Calleman talks about.  With the ceremonies and intentions of this weekend, we the people, consciously usher in unity consciousness.  It is from this level of consciousness that we will solve the greatest challenges this world has known.  If this resonates with you, please take a moment and say this shared agreement from the commonpassion.org website where you can find more information about the Conscious Convergence: 
"I, as a sovereign being, join together with All That Is to call forth the presence of balance and unity within me and in our world. I am the conscious presence of harmony and reconciliation and I am grateful for the wholeness I bring forth in this and every moment. And so it is."

Acknowledging our oneness and connection with All That Is is the first step in our road to renewal and rebirth.  We are experiencing the labor pains of rebirth.  The Washington, DC earthquake was the first contraction.  There will be many more before We the People birth a new world.

As you ride the waves of change, you may be looking for a lifeline.  During the acceleration this summer and fall, I have decided to expand my blog to offer a series of nine teleconferences to offer:

• Information on the latest energies and changes.
• Tools to maintain balance in a chaotic world.
• Group sound activations to free you to live your divine purpose now.
• Group meditations to heal Mother Earth and all of her inhabitants.
• A supportive community of like-minded people.

The Life Lines...for a changing world Teleseries begins August 1 at 7 PM Eastern, 4 PM Pacific and runs every other Sunday through November 21.  For more information and to register, please visit the events and classes page of my website.

Eclipsed

Eclipse.  The word means any obscuration of light. On this Partial Full Moon Lunar Eclipse day, light is partially obscured.  Take the time now to look within while there is light cast on the old belief systems.  Discard.  Delete.  Deep clean.  Do it now.

According to astrology, eclipses, which travel in pairs, always herald change.  We have already seen our share of change in 2010 and even deeper change is on the way.  In this two week window between the lunar eclipse on 6/26 and the solar eclipse on 7/11, we may experience an event that may well turn out to be the defining moment of humanity.

Astrologers are talking about the Grand Cross.  Astronomers are keeping a watchful eye on the sun.  Geologists are measuring the decreasing magnetic field of the earth and the increase in earthquake activity.  Volcanologists are busy predicting which volcano will erupt next.  Marine biologists are assessing the loss of life and the damage to the ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico.  Meteorologists are shaking their heads in disbelief as weather patterns do not follow the predictable ways of the past.  Mayan Elders predict more monumental change.  AND...Eclipses herald change.

The oil spill in the Gulf is a recipe for monumental change.  The tens of millions of barrels of oil already spewed out of the well along with the hundreds of gallons of toxic dispersant create the mixture from hell.  Add in lies, cover-up, and a tropical storm or hurricane and stir well.  The result?  Disaster on steroids.

The effects of eclipses can be felt for weeks before or after.  The July 11 solar eclipse is a total eclipse of the sun.  Darkness is cast on the South Pacific Ocean then across Cooks Islands and Easter Island to southern Chili and Argentina.  Most of the darkness will be cast over the water, as if we don't have enough darkness in the form of oil covering the water.  In Dr. Emoto's words, "Water, I love you.  Water, I thank you.  Water, I respect you."  Please say it daily and whenever you drink water, shower or bathe, wash dishes, or are near water.

It only takes a little awareness and the understanding of a junior high science class to predict what may be coming.  It only takes enlightened beings to prevent it.  Alleluia for the influx of light from the galactic center, photon belt, and the sun.  The cosmic convergence, when this great influx of light is due to come in, is only a week after the solar eclipse.  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you!

I wrote about the earth changes in my book, In the Key of Life, An Activational Journey to the Soul:
The earth is changing now.  Love her in her transition.  Love the rain, love the tremors, love the volcanoes.  She is cleansing.  She is readying herself for her rebirth, renewal and new life. 

Yes, love is the answer.  Send love to the water, to the marine life, to people of the Gulf, to those who lost their lives, to those who are cleaning up the spill, to those regulating the clean-up, and to those responsible for the spill.  There is no power greater than love.  Love it all, including yourself especially during these times.  You are cleansing.  You are readying yourself for your rebirth, renewal and new life.

We are at the cusp of the end of one era and the beginning of the next.  Since we are the ones we have been waiting for, it is up to us to choose differently, to change, and to challenge ourselves in ways we may have not thought possible.  We must step fully into who we really are, into our empowered truth, and step out of this tired illusion of victimhood. As old worn out systems and beliefs crumble and the dawn of a new day begins to peak through the clouds, courage, constancy, and creativity will see us through.

Birth by Fire

Fire is an interesting element.  It needs air to consume matter, and as it does, it produces light.  What we are about to enter is no less interesting, all-consuming, or light-producing.

Fire got the attention of the world when the fire and ash the Icelandic volcano kept spewing into the sky temporarily halted air travel.  When the BP oil rig exploded we witnessed fire's destructive power.  Everyday we see the effect of that power - the 90,000 or so barrels of oil that continue to flow out of Mother Earth.  As I said in my last blog, she is bleeding out.  Just before the oil well blew and shortly thereafter, there were at least three mine explosions around the world - West Virginia, Russia, and Turkey.  I can't help but think Mother Earth wants us out of her...now!

From a bigger perspective, we live on one of billions of planets in the universe.  What we do here affects the rest of creation.  Perhaps some good has come from the oil rig explosion and Icelandic volcano eruption.  We are FINALLY starting to understand that everything is connected and what happens in one location can and does affect the rest of the planet...and the universe.

Some of our planetary neighbors are about to add to the fun.  On May 27, Uranus, the planet of sudden changes, shocks, upheavals, innovative thought, rebellion, independence, liberation, and awakening, heads into Aries.  Aries is a fire sign.  More fire.  The Aries fire is ambitious, impulsive, full of energy, self-centered, aggressive, and argumentative.  Put the two together and you have a recipe for sudden profound change.  Birth by fire.  From the cosmic blacksmith's fire, we will be reformed. We, the People, will soon have enough.

In the midst of our personal and collective transformations, more earth and economic changes will most likely alter the landscape of the world.  As tectonic plates move and waves crash, we may wake up one day and look out at a vastly different world.  As money continues to be drained from us, we realize we must work together.  

When can we expect things to really "heat up?"  July, of course - from mid July through October we are likely to have a bumpy ride.  On May 27 at 9 PM EDT I will offer a free teleconference about the coming changes for the remainder of 2010, entitled "The State of the World."  Even if you cannot listen in at that time, the call will be recorded.  If you are interested, please email me and I will send you the call in number, access code, and call back number to listen later.  I am compiling some useful information which I will send you once it is complete.

Joan Cerio - Keeper of the Keys to a Masterful Life

Look, Listen, and Feel

We live in a world faced with global warming, global terror, nuclear war, water and food shortages, crumbling economies, and environmental holocaust.  9/11 was our spiritual wake up call.  The world is in a state of emergency and in dire need of first aid.  It is time to look, listen, and feel.

Look around.  The world is literally crumbling around us.  America's infrastructure is a code blue.  Roads in need of serious repair will soon have signs, "Drive at your own risk."  Bridges pronounced DOA will be closed.  Recently, a building in upstate NY was so structurally unsound that a section of a major interstate was closed because the DOT was concerned a wall of the building might topple onto the highway.  Mother Earth is adding to the destruction as she shakes to relieve her elevated pressure.

Look at the consequences of our actions.  We forgot about the law of cause and effect.  Our bad habit of taking from Mother Earth and not giving back to her has left her in critical condition.  Oil and water well drilling, excavation, mining, subterranean building, and the like have wounded her.  She is bleeding out.  We need to apply direct pressure, but where?  On the holes we have created within her, on the corporations and governments responsible, on the consumers who keep demanding more, or all three?

Look at what is, not through the lens of the media or government, but with the innocent perception of a child.  See what is really happening.  Look at each other through our hearts' eyes.  See who he or she really is, not what the false facade of the body suggests.  

Listen to the cries of the children who do not have enough to eat, who are orphaned, and who are living on the street.  Listen to the call of the animals as their homes are destroyed daily.  Listen to the water fowl as they take their last gasp of air through the black oil that surrounds them after another off shore oil well explodes.  Listen to our still small voice within. Listen to our gut instincts.  Follow our intuition. 

It's time to feel.  We have become disconnected from our hearts and let our minds rule.  We were dumbed and numbed down.  It's time to wake up and stop feeding ourselves unhealthy food and unhealthy images on TV.  No wonder heart disease is rampant in the US.  We forgot our connection to Source, to the Divine.  We forgot we are powerful beyond measure.  Somewhere along the way, we stopped feeling.  Feeling and emotion are our power tools.  The universe is hard-wired for emotion.  Love is the glue that holds everything together in the universe.  Obviously, we forgot to love.

To reconstruct a crumbling world, we need to FEEL.  Love it back together.  Come from your heart.  The world might be in critical condition and we have the power to save her.  When we fall in love with Mother Earth, her condition naturally improves.  Her prognosis is full recovery.

Joan Cerio - Keeper of the Keys to a Masterful Life

Remembering Our Divinity

 In my first blog this year entitled "2010:  A Year of Miracles", I wrote that after the spring equinox, the energy would be fast forward motion.  By now, we are well on our trajectories, like a cannonball shot out of canon.  It is no coincidence that I use the analogy of a canon.  After experiencing the energy of death and resurrection from this past Easter weekend, we are now experiencing our canonization.  We are reborn into who we truly are.  We remember our divinity.

And so it is with me.  I am being called to step fully into my divine essence.  A client this week said to me, "I know this sounds stupid but I am afraid of being who I really am."   Clients are a beautiful mirror for me since I recently had a similar thought.  The fear of being powerful beyond measure is greater than the fear of being impotent.  Foolish or not, it is the knowing in our hearts that we are powerful beyond measure that elicits such strong emotions.

How great thou art.  How utterly awesome and magnificent are you.  Gentle and strong, kind and loving, your beauty radiates like a sun around you.  The last key of my first book, In the Key of Life, An Activational Journey to the Soul, reads "When a plum reaches ripeness, it cannot hide its sweetness."  We cannot hide the sweet nectar of our truth.  It drips out to sweeten others.

It comes as no surprise to me that my energy is currently focused on allowing my sweetness to flow.  Just as my first book activated my mind to integrate the truth of who I am, my current book, Remembering Your Divinity, A Co-Creator's Guide to Manifesting by Heart, is calling me to live the truth of who I am.  I already know how powerful this new book is and it is not yet complete, nor is my integration of who I truly am.

I feel great changes will begin this month especially in the US and around the world. The old structures of the past will come tumbling down and the earth will continue to shake beneath our feet.  For a while we will feel the energy of death and destruction like never before.  Extreme and unexpected earth and social changes are at our doorstep.  My mantra for this year is "Expect the unexpected."

At the same time, the energy of rebirth  and resurrection is building.  Amidst the rubble and dust from the crumbling of the old facade, the light of a new day is dawning.  We may be challenged in ways, that until now, we have never experienced in this life.  When this time comes, we will be ready for we will know we are powerful beyond measure.  We will know we are majesty in form.  We will know and live as God incarnate.

We enter the final cycle of the Mayan Calendar in just 11 months.  During this cycle, we will experience a consciousness shift every 18 days until the Calendar ends on October 28, 2011!  The end date of the Calendar was recalculated by Carl Calleman along with some Mayan Elders.  Are you ready for this acceleration?  Are you prepared to become a conscious co-creator?  My new book, Remembering Your Divinity is so timely and so needed.

I invite you to step into the co-creator that you are and assist me in co-creating this book.  I recently entered the Next Top Spiritual Author Contest.  When I win, I will be awarded a contract with Hampton Roads Publishing.  My book is longing to be shared with the many instead of the few.  In order to advance to round two, I need your vote.  Please take a moment and cast your vote for me and my book.  Here is the link:
http://www.NextTopAuthor.com/?aid=458

In return, if you email me at keykeeper@selfaware.com and tell me you voted for me, I will enter you to win your choice of either three free personal transformation sessions over the phone or a scholarship for my school of self-mastery.  Just indicate in your email your choice.  You must vote no later than May 3.  I will announce the winner of my offer on May 5. 

In Gratitude, Love, and Light,

Joan Cerio

Keeper of the Keys to a Masterful Life

A Fortune-Telling Story

A couple of nights ago I went to the local Chinese restaurant for some take-out.  After I enjoyed my meal, I opened my fortune cookie.  Once again, the fortune was quite appropriate for me.  I love to save the fortunes and place them in my wallet to read at a later time.  So I opened my wallet and took out the fortunes that I had already saved.  As I read each one, I realized they were telling me a story.

Messages come to us daily in many different ways, whether it is a song on the radio, the headline on a newspaper, or fortunes from fortune cookies.  Our job is to pay attention to the signs along the way and decode the breadcrumbs of insight the universe leaves for us. 

I am always amazed at how perfectly the universe choreographs events.  All things in divine timing, I always say.  The timing of this fortunate event of reading my fortunes is no different.

Here is the "fortunate" story told by my fortunes -

We must become the change we want to see.

Stop worrying and take a chance.

Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.

The human body was designed to walk, run, or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

A recent investment will pay off.

They will be grateful that you cared enough to make it.

All the news you receive will be positive and uplifting.

And the fortune I received just the other night... Love is on its way.

For five years now, I have dedicated my life and work to assist others in realizing who they really are and remembering their divinity.  During this time, I published my first book, In the Key of Life, An Activational Journey to the Soul, and created a school of self-mastery called Coeuressence based on my book.   

In the Key of Life consists of inspired writings with accompanying sacred geometry drawings that represent the energy of the writings.  The writings activate the conscious mind and the drawings activate the subconscious mind to assist readers in realizing who they truly are and to live their life purpose.  It is like taking my healing work and putting it into the book, which is meant to be re-read and used as a tool for self-transformation.

Part of my work in the world is to teach others how to become self-realized.  I saw the grand vision of what Coeuressence School of Self-Mastery will become.  My job was to step it down into a meaningful and manageable program to start.  Just this past year I completed the first phase - an enhanced self-study program that anyone anywhere can access.

Before I could write the book and create the school, I "became the change I wanted to see."

I believed in myself and decided to "stop worrying and take a chance."

I remained single-minded with my creation - "Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself."

If I want my dream to manifest, I must do my part - walk, run but not coast.  As many of my friends know, I have been "on the road" for over five years so there was no "coasting" for me! 

I believe in myself and know that even if I use some of my savings that my "recent investment will pay-off."  In a world full of uncertainties and financial ups and downs, I took a chance on me, knowing that the odds are in my favor.

I continue to believe knowing that "all the news I receive will be positive and uplifting."  I know this because I trust in love.  I do my work because I love the Earth and all of her inhabitants so deeply.  "Love is on its way" not only for me in my personal life.  Love is on its way for humanity.  When we awaken to the truth of who we are, it must be so for "at the heart of who you are is a love song that has always been resonating." ~ In the Key of Life, An Activational Journey to the Soul.
  

Joan Cerio - Keeper of the Keys to a Masterful Life

Awakening the Avatar

If you are a movie buff, read the newspaper, or watch TV, by now you have heard about or seen the movie, Avatar.  It has surpassed Titanic as the highest grossing movie worldwide.  Besides its beautiful colors, awesome special effects, and astonishingly real 3-D images, this movie represents more than high tech movie-making.  James Cameron, its writer and director, envisioned this movie over a decade ago. Since then, he has worked on developing the 3-D technology and computer simulations that would make his dream a reality upon the screen.

Timing is everything.  Technologically and consciously we were not ready for this movie ten years ago.  More important is the exact timing of its release.  The movie, which was released on 12/18/2009, is still drawing in crowds more than a month later.  When I look back at the energies from 12/18 until now, a lot has been going on.  From mercury retro and then direct, to mars retro in Leo, to the full blue moon lunar eclipse on 12/31, to the solar eclipse of 1/14 in Cancer/Capricorn, to Saturn retro, and Jupiter moving into Pisces, there has been a lot going on!

To me, this energy represents shaking out the old, seeking the new, and sharing who you really are with the world.  In a word, these energies assist us in becoming congruent - our true essential selves are portrayed as who we are or more simply, our inner world matches our outer world.  What does this have to do with the movie, Avatar?  A whole lot.

The term avatar comes from Hindu mythology meaning "the descent of a deity to the earth in an incarnate form or some manifest shape; the incarnation of a god."  In other words, an avatar is one who has mastered congruency.

This movie is filled with metaphor.  The protagonist, Jake Sully, agrees to take on his Na'vi human hybrid body called an avatar.  He does this to fill the role of his now deceased brother and to help the humans understand and control the Na'vi natives to "obtain the unobtainium."  As he goes back and forth between his human body and avatar body, he begins to loose his identity.  In one of his video journals, he records he doesn't know who he is anymore.  Does this sound familiar?

Watching Avatar was an activation for me.  I saw the movie in 3-D, which made it even more potent.  I chose to see the movie on my birthday as a gift to myself, not knowing that at the end of the movie Jake says he doesn't want to be late for his party...his birthday party.  Perhaps the term birthday was used metaphorically as this was the day he chose to leave his human body and enter into his avatar body for the remainder of this lifetime.  I think of birthdays as re-birthdays and this was truly a rebirth day for Jake...and me. 

As I said in my last blog, the energy at the beginning of 2010 is purely full steam ahead.  Once you embark from shore, there is no going back.  Once you embody the persona of who you really are, there is no going back to who you were.  Jake Sully knew that once the ritual was performed, he could not return to his human body, to who he was. 

After I left the movie theater, I was shaking.  Like Jake, I questioned who I am.  I wondered if I was losing my mind.  Am I leaving the old me behind and fully embodying the avatar that I am?

We are losing our minds, our limiting thought patterns and old consciousness, in order to make room for the new.  This year is characterized by emergent energy - the energy of coming into existence and coming into view or notice. 

Dear lightworkers, this is the year we emerge from our chrysalis.  As I wrote in my book, In the Key of Life, An Activational Journey to the Soul:  "...there comes the moment in a caterpillar's life that requires the ultimate act of surrender and faith.  It knows it must allow the death of one body in order to step into another that will allow it to reach the sky.  Just like the caterpillar, within each of us is a butterfly waiting to fly."

And so it is.

Joan Cerio - Keeper of the Keys to a Masterful Life
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