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
Life Lines - Publishing high vibrational words that serve as "lifelines" for self-transformation.

2010 - A Year of Miracles

What an incredible year we have in store for us.  2010 started with a bang.  With the Full Blue Moon Solar Eclipse on New Year's Eve to herald in the new, to Mercury and Mars going retrograde, and with a New Moon Solar Eclipse coming on January 15, we have a truckload of potential energy.

This combination of energy is like pulling back on a slingshot, the bow of an arrow, or the trigger of a gun.  Back we go again for another round of "re's" - rethink, revise, reconfigure, redo, revisit.  This pulling back motion takes energy.  It takes energy to pull back the bow or cock the trigger and at the same time, we are creating potential energy.  The energy of the stretched-back bow is what propels the arrow.  This energy is waiting to be released into that forward motion for which we have waited for so long.

After the Solar Eclipse on January 15 and Mercury goes direct on January 16, the energy lets go and we let go.  It is total fast forward motion and when we release the bow or pull the trigger, there is no more controlling what we have set in motion.  Once we let go of the bow, we cannot grab the arrow and retrieve it.  We can't even change its trajectory.  Once the task is executed, there is no stopping it.  We cannot return the bullet to the barrel, the arrow to the bow, or the stone to the slingshot.

After we let go, we are at the will of our hearts.  Our hearts create the patterns we follow.  They created the trajectory of our arrows.  The universe will now mirror back our hearts' desires that we projected years ago.  It is the projection of what we felt in our hearts and its passion that has been building and building, literally building the roads, bridges, tunnels, and superhighways for our forward journey this new year.

This next week, before the release of this energy, is the time to clean out our spiritual closets.  Replace the old with the new.  Review our vision for our future.  Soon it will be time for us to come out of our spiritual closets.  The world wants to see us, to hear us, to know who we are, to shine our light!  It is time to bring all of who we are forward.  Remember in this forward motion, there is no going back.  

By the time the spring equinox comes, we will truly spring into action.  It will be the dawn of a new day.  Around January 17 the "big bang" happens and at the equinox, the physical takes form.  It takes time after the release of energy or the big bang for things to manifest.  Everything may be in total chaos to begin.  Creation comes through chaos and then order starts to appear.

By March 20 we will see a concrete pattern of what is forming in our lives this year.  Now the etheric template that we created through our hearts' desires will come into the physical.  We will precipitate our passions.  We will see it, we will feel it, and we will know it.  There is no more guesswork.  What we have dreamed, what we have envisioned, what we have loved into existence, becomes reality.

So now as we are now going back and "ringing out the old", this twisting and pulling energy is fueling our potential.  When enough energy builds, we will release our potential.  This release, this letting go, this surrender of our will to divine will will propel us forward, into the life of our dreams.  Our wildest dreams will become our reality and more - beyond what we can envision.  This is only the foundation of what we are creating, for what we are creating is so enormous, we could not envision it with our present mindset.

Expect miracles this year and know that our beliefs will change.  A miracle is only a miracle until we have a new experience that changes our beliefs.  We all may say, "I thought this wasn't possible but now I see that it is."

We are God incarnate.  We are the Divine in form.  We are the ones that co-create our reality.  We are victims no more but the masters of our lives.  And so it is.

A most glorious New Year to you all!

Joan Cerio - Keeper of the Keys to a Masterful Life
Life Lines - Publishing high vibrational words that serve as "lifelines" for self-transformation.

'Tis the Season

I love the holidays, especially when they are celebrated consciously. We start the holiday season with Thanksgiving. What a beautiful way to begin with the vibration of gratitude. It reminds us the way to start anything is with gratitude.

Hanukkah and Christmas are next in the holiday parade. Hanukkah reminds us that our essential nature is light. The word Christmas is literally defined as Christ's festival, the celebration of the birth of a master. A master who mirrored to us who we are. It was the advent of Christ consciousness within the matrix. Joy and good/god will are part of our original blueprint, something to be shared everyday instead of once a year. As the Hopi say, we are the ones we have been waiting for. We are our own saviors. No one and nothing outside ourselves will "save" us from our limited belief systems but ourselves. It is time to celebrate the masters of light that we are!

On New Year's Eve we reflect on the past year. We take time to review our actions and beliefs, knowing that self-reflection is key to self-growth. It is also time to make resolutions and set intentions for the new year. It is interesting that we use the term new not next to describe the coming year. New Year's Day holds the energy of renewal, when the universe hands us another year upon which to write our life. Our hearts are full of gratitude for another year. The holiday cycle is complete!

This holy-day season, may you awaken to the Christ consciousness within and celebrate the God that you are! May your new year be filled with joy, hope, love, laughter, peace, and gratitude.

Joan Cerio - Keeper of the Keys to a Masterful Life
Life Lines - Publishing high vibrational words that serve as "lifelines" for self-transformation.