Autumnal Equinox After-Notes

Equinox After-notes. . .

NB an anagram of notes = After-tones offering musical /harmonic images. I so love that words can do that!

Greetings Beautiful Awakening People on The Universal Journey!

How incredible Life can become when you consciously, heartfully, recognise and then align with any new incoming energies. Aaahhhh – humbly - blissful.

The way my previous 10 days was accumulating energies, holding several very strong meditation ceremonial sessions for the Autumnal Equinox with different groups, as well as a perfect balance of qigong & its visualisations, which always helps to integrate & process any changes internal or external, I wondered if I could be focussed enough in the 3rd dimensional world to begin my newest adventure within that! But as usual, all my “Guys Upstairs” (and by that I also mean feminine, masculine and everything in between!) were right onto that for me! Gotta love ‘em .

I recently read, and many of us know, that if you claim to ‘be’ something, like a teacher, or a healer or whatever, then along with that alignment that you are projecting, comes the related ‘trainings’, realisations and humility lessons! So that if you think you are labelled as something, then you are virtually being given the whole circumference of aspects of that subject. Does that make sense?

So, for example, in being named a teacher, and really consciously knowing that – you also find that you are not only learning how to become a good teacher, but also a good student, hence humility, patience, tolerance and so much more! And the range and variation of learning and perfecting (?) that is infinite. It’s like a balancing act that is out of our hands entirely. So if you can open and allow this wonderful range of experiences to evolve in your inner world, it becomes a great portal in your outer world!

So the more obvious challenge is to be continually open to these incoming situations, relationships etc that arrive with this evolutionary process.

Another most beautiful thing that I experienced this week, apart from joining with most beautiful souls in classes & a weekend wellness workshop: I re-met Yogananda. (Hence I type in the colour I recognise him in – which also matches Autumn)

 I was first introduced to him, or his energy signature frequency, many years ago during a massive awakening process lasting several months in suspended Time and Reality (both of which are all relative! Hahaha)  during a massive cosmic event and portal opening. Anyway, the soft gentle loving vibration that I felt with Paramahansa Yogananda came again & touched my heart to tears around this current Equinox time. Along with him was Quan Yin & supporting energies from specific symbols. It seems a bit confusing or complex as I write it now, but all fell into place perfectly at significant times & in particular companies of souls.

So, if this Equinox has opened a bigger picture to new dimensions for you – go with it all! Use your intuition as much as possible. It is all well and good to listen and heed your Guides, and I do that too, but they are also wanting you to become more confident & strong in your own personal energetic purpose, higher intuitive guidance and figure things out for yourself – even when they can be giving you some assistance , hahaha! This is very empowering for you.

Yes, these current years have seen the thinning of the veil between realms, dimensions, Beings. But that also means that you can access other aspects of your own multidimensional Self. . . and that process, realisation and awakening is beyond words. We are also learning to become an engaging race of interactive cosmic beings – so I encourage you to accept and open to that especially if it is a new concept for you. We are creating, no, co-creating our new world of higher vibrations to become that bigger part of ourselves in harmony with all others.

Take that in. Be empowered in your own Higher self and all that can expand for you to totally broaden your horizons more than you ever expected. SO don’t ‘expect’ – just release expectations and particular ways of how things may happen for you like the leaves of beautiful Autumn and flutter on the breeze to wherever you will be taken. There is great awesome surprise in this freedom that comes by letting these human mind-sets go. Being moved gently, safely, most intentionally by the Higher Guiding Forces that you are a part of.

Blessed Be You Dear Ones

On

The Universal Journey x <3 x

Threshold Preps for the Autumnal Equinox.2018.

THRESHOLD PREPARATIONS for AUTUMNAL EQUINOX. 2018.

There is a doorway approaching; a portal to enable balance & a threshold over which to pass, granting a fresh perspective of your Life from the recent months before & a more profound immersion, to bathe in the present & wade into the new Season of Autumn. Autumnal Equinox.

My meditations this week, as can often happen, begin to align with this portal. New Guides may announce themselves. New Animal Totems too. New colours draw your attention, or just the quickening that can be felt, has the opposite necessity for slowing down, focus & just being present & grounded.

A key quality of any Equinox is balance. As all equinoxes, this is the time of equal length of day as night. It is relative to the quarter phase of the moon (half in dark half in light); the ebb of the out-going tide before it begins to turn in the opposite direction; the pause after we have taken an out-breath before we take an in-breath; a segment of the yin yang symbol of cycles denoting the midway point as each is turning into the other.

From another aspect of the balancing effect, are the numbers for the Equinox - 

21.3.2018=  3 + 3 + 11 = 3+3+ 2 = 8. 

8's for me totally mean balance as well infinite possibilities.

Notice there are 2 x 3's and when we reflect one to the other & bring them together , they - by way of their design - form an 8. An even greater vibration of a higher balance, alignment, opportunities and harmony. And with the final 8 being the total for the day. And the year currently, as it continues to be, a portal represented as the 11, before reducing to a 2.

In our general life, a time of brief pause, taking stock somewhat of where our initial creations & manifestations of the beginning of the year has brought us, before we move deeper into the next quadrant of the year following those steps.

Or, perhaps we need to make a few adjustments, a few changes, delete a few things or tweak a few things as we are going along now. There can be a clearer perception of where we are going now as we have time to pause and review our life choices and steps so far. Life is still in flux, so a pause is a perfect point of reference to open your awareness objectively and allow for changes & adjustments.

For us here in Australia, we have Autumn as our Easter time. The weather is usually cooling – and we can feel it especially in the mornings & late evenings. Plants begin a shift in their own cycles, as any avid gardener will tell you! Even the birds may sing or call a little differently; and the stars have drifted into different alignments and positions. because our precious planet is tilting towards the opposite direction that is has been in the previous months! And so our Sun's dawning, traversing and setting placements of course change with the new course in motion.

Drink it all in and sink your feet into the earth or waters of Nature. Connect a little more deeply with Mother Earth for this day or two at Equinox (20th/21^st). I know from experience that some people sense the shift a little ahead of the actual human calendar date, or exactly on it, or a little after. No matter the human timing, it is of your own body that you will ‘hear’ or feel the call to do whatever it is that assists you, as you ask to align with this reference point of the seasons. And just go with that. Someone right beside you may be called to do something very different. And so it often is!

Any which way, this weekend, I suggest you become still & clear your mind – preferably out in nature with your head beneath the open sky. As we are at the threshold of the Equinox, arriving next week. Take stock by grounding as well as you can, of where you are in the Grand Plan, and in your own life. Then ask for divine higher guidance as to what best works for you right now for the equinox portal. Then create your own private ceremony, or just make a simple notice of awareness to the Universe, or you may be urged to join in a more open gathering.

[If you are local to me (contact via my FB page below) then you may like to enquire about my group plans for this event. ]

So divine blessings & guidance to you for your Equinox preparations

On The Universal Journey

Starwhite Healing and Guidance

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Celtic Cloth Dancing

8.3. 2018

Today's Numbers Beginning and ending with the 8 of perfect Balance.

Greetings on The Universal Journey!

Nature is awesome. . . and when we are able and allow ourselves to truly deeply connect with all that She is – then we are embodying that awesomeness along with Her.

Today I took my Celtic cloth from my meditation table and went to my yard.

I stood upon the deeply grounding bedrock in my bare feet.

I looked up to the grey windswept sky.

I opened out my green patterned cloth and waited for the winds of change to pass by.

I lifted my cloth high as I could and it caught the winds of change as they swept and blew.

I swooped my cloth and swept my cloth until my arms tired, dancing it to the winds.

I then took it back inside and swept and danced with it into every room.

I laughed at how funny & crazy other people would think me! Then I laughed more!

I stood with my cloth and draped it around me like a new cloak; nestled, absorbing, settling, sensing, resting, safe, comforted.

Amidst deep clear breaths I returned my cloth to my meditation table to settle in.

And then the rain returned outside with its dappled beating to help in the manifesting of the new wishes & dreams – unspoken, and somewhat even unknown.

She brings in the new vibrations to come.

Those that are blowing in for Autumn, for change, for renewal, for flow.

Aah all is blissful in Nature, just go with the shifts and changes, rather than against them to suit your own will. That is what she is there for. She gives you hints and nudges, and sometimes flat out smacks. You will find much less struggle and less blockages to be undone later!

Aho!

And so it is and so it shall be.

Breathing, Awakening, Engaging and Expanding in Sacred Space.

6.3.2018 = 6+3+11 = 9+11 = 11 = 2

Greetings Good People on The Universal Journey,

How about those numbers for today!?  Awesome!

Eleven is a Master Number in numerology, therefore extra potent & see how many there are in today's calculations. It is also very auspicious, as it is my first full day back into this ‘unreality’ after a weekend of bliss within our Being Woman bubble. 11 is also a Gateway. Nine is a number for endings, particularly of cycles. Today for me the final 2 encompasses me returning to or reclaiming my true self so:  me + me = t(r)ue.

Or in another way:  I AM!

So I see today as myself stepping over the threshold into my newly woven creation of my intended reality, henceforth, ending some of my old ways of being, in freshness and wonder and adventure!   Sounding it - A-HO!

I have my Power Stance ready for those moments when I may slip back into the old version I had. (HA!)

I have lots of new ‘em-powering tools’ from beautiful energetic workshops abundantly waiting within me to come into full expression whenever needed to assist my new reality in remaining woven & clear. (OOOHHH)

I have multiple threads interwoven which formed the fabric of our Gathering of the Inner Goddess, Earth Mother and Feminine on which I may call or refer to if need be too, for support at any future given time. (SSHHEEEE)

Life is all about Change. Now I feel well equipped to step out further and engage in it from my newly woven creation of myself!  (AAAHHHH - heart sound)

From another perspective comes deep Gratitude:

~ For having been gifted the offer to facilitate my own form of Qigong to weave that thread into other women’s lives.

~ To have been welcomed and provided for and held within a precious and engaging group of powerful women! All of them. This includes all those who came to practise qigong with me. . . such a humble blessing.

Across the weekend came waves of bliss, peace, acknowledging, intensity, relief, delving, discovering, holding, unfolding, peeling away, deeper connecting, mirrors reflecting aspects of me to see and release or embrace and nurture, ceremonial honouring within and without, freely swimming, openly sharing, and so much more. Or sometimes you just want to sit and be.

If you have never gifted a retreat such as this to your precious self, please give it a go.

I admit many years ago I too was tentative: what if I have issues arise that I can’t handle? What if I feel uncomfortable? I sometimes am shy & quiet, can I still be a part of something like this? What happens in these retreat groups that is so sacred and special? What if I offend someone with my manner of openness; what if, what if, what if??

Yes, there can be lots of those. But allow yourself a little peaceful moment to sense from your own inner calling, your own inner being. Perhaps, hopefully, there will come the call to attend, but it may wane, or doubts may creep in as it approaches. This is all very natural and just a mechanism that arises from fear of the unknown. My best advice – ignore it. It comes from an old version of you that feels threatened by change . . . change for the better I must add! 

In the words of Lao Tze (Tzu): "The Only Constant Thing in Life is Change"

And so in the words of Molly Meldrum – “Do yourself a favour” – look for a beautiful nourishing supportive retreat that suits you, and especially that continues to offer to hold you well after you leave.

If you would like just a small taste of such a thing to begin with, or if this articel resonates and you are in need of a much overdue sacred you-time, attend my:

 WESAK Event on Sunday May 27th at Tamborine Mountain QLD.

Here you can find sacred space and nourishing time for a few hours of honouring the Peace & Compassion within you together with the Buddha energy and other Ascended Masters. I will love to guide you through a simply magical ceremonial & celebrational day with joy and light.

For details & contact visit: https://www.facebook.com/starwhitehealingandguidance/

Blessings be with you on

The Universal Journey.

Terri.

Dragonfly Magic

Monday 26.2.2018.

DRAGONFLY MAGIC.

Greetings Lovely People on The Universal Journey.

Lately I have noticed so many dragonflies around. Sitting quietly, near a pool, I opened my eyes to find one hovering at my face – checking me out?! Delicate, spontaneous, agile & colourful, they dart and hover as the whim takes them – on their own mission of whatever that may be!

According to A. Cartwright, dragonfly animal magic/totem suggests or symbolises the message that life is not what it appears to be. She also offers the following: Its keyword is clarity. It challenges & prompts change as it manoeuvres around things from different angles – reflecting and refracting light and colours in a multitude of ways. Dragonfly shifts consciousness, form, energy and colour, allowing you to be an observer through higher frequencies of light and consciousness; thereby revealing the essence of truth beyond the illusion. This can help you transform situations that have held you in a state which has been holding you back. Clarifying the mind - able to change behaviour or circumstances for long-term happiness. This beautiful delicate creature can be changing the way you are feeling or thinking at the moment. . . shifting your consciousness by opening the 3^rd eye. . . breaking down illusion, old patterning & strategies you have created to protect yourself. It also allows healing to occur on different levels. Dragonfly also connects you to elementals, plant or nature spirits. She helps open your heart to feel joy, grace and support your evolution.

Thank you A. C. for your insights into this amazing creature’s potential magic for us! Let alone a mesmerising few moments of captivating nature at one of its prettiest. 

Happy dragonfly spotting on The Universal Journey!

The Poetic Universe of Qigong

Saturday 24.2.2018

“The crisp morning air touches the bare skin of your face and hands and draws attention to the nostrils taking in its freshness. A deep exhilarating breath awakens the throat and lungs and sets the biological ball rolling for the pre-emptory movements about to happen for your body.

 Lazy ducks glide across the pane-glass surface of the pond; Willie wag tails and finches twitter and bob between the native trees of the surrounding parkland; and the grass shimmers with the touch of sunlight upon its dewiness. This same sunlight sends a lighted delicate glow all around. Ah Nature!”  T.M.

This is a perfect setting for beginning the practice of a Qigong session. 

Qigong, literally translates as life-force energy (qi, chi) cultivation, work or development. But in its doing, there is not meant to be any vision or intention of ‘work’ in the usual sense whatsoever. Like the lazy duck that glides across the pond, there is much more than meets the eye with qigong. ‘Lazy’ the duck is definitely not. For beneath the surface of the water, it is ‘working’ intuitively to move its streamlined body through the water. In its seeming effortlessness, it produces an image of ease, peace and detachment from obstructions or worldly affectations. And in this gliding, this natural activity, the duck paints a delicate yet profound wake upon the pond water; not a disturbing picture to behold, but an inspirational one where the yin and yang concepts are reflected in the ever-changing nature and play of light and shadow over the water.

Not only is the above introductory passage a pretty and poetic one, but also a perfect  mindset and attention to surrounding natural detail that sets the body’s internal scene for the acceptance of the innumerable benefits of Qigong. For not only do we gain physical benefits from this beautiful movement practice, but also on other levels of our being, very possibly all levels in fact – but who could possibly count them!?

The mind can find peace, clarity, stringent focus, and a newfound re-adjustment of the nervous system processes to allow for a more in-sync and fluid altering of old mindset patterns which have not served us well and can be discarded. Mindful and intentional practice can bring a natural ease to many systems of the body. But this is not meant to be a measurable thing – it is a very personal experiential one, as results vary and range in diversity from person to person.

There are lots of technicalities I could write about Qigong. I could tell you about the Yin and Yang Theory, the Five Elements Theory, the human meridian system that is an amazing and intricate part of our energy body framework that carries our life-force. There is a wonderful web of mythology and esotericality (is that a word? J) around it too. There is a real strength and antiquity about it as its roots come from the attention to primal, elemental and natural forces: these forces being both its inspiration and ours, as well as its purpose in re-connecting us with these pure forces, as opposed to the artificial ones imposed upon us or manipulated around us.  But, I have read about these all before and you probably have too.

But it is the intuitive, or natural, nature of Qigong that inspires me to write about it here and share the passion I have for you to know on a different and deep level of your being. . . your own poetic side.

Anything you do can be done in a Qigong way. Just immerse yourself fully, consciously, momentarily, in whatever your body is actively doing, or not doing. Recognise, and in that way, grow a new respect and understanding for your very own body’s real talent and subconscious effort to keep you alive and active and mobile.

Take a step – an actual physical step - and breathe, but not only ‘do’ that, be fully present ‘in’ that. Sense the angle of your knees, the weight shift and pressure as your foot takes you forward from the movement of your hip and the very first spark that ignites in your brain that decides you are physically and consciously going to place one foot in front of the other, in order to get you from one place to the next. Acknowledge every part of that sequence of mini-events that occur in your body from that very first intention to move all the way through to the culmination of the entire act of stepping!

We are incredibly complex beings of nature and we owe it to our true selves that are striving for balance and connectedness and true peace, to be not only aware of that , but of our unrealised potential as individuals as well as a race, of evolving and improving humanity and our own personal form of humanity.

Of course, we needn’t be so distracted looking internally that we forget what is around us. I am speaking of momentary inner viewing and awareness, but this state which can also be utilised in good Qigong practice to deliver vast enrichment of life itself and the flow through of that into our extension of the greater world of which we are a part – especially referring to the Natural world of course.

However, the realm of Qigong is not isolated to just the Chinese aspect of practice. For certain, it is at the traditional forefront in its history, complexity, beneficence and practical extension into our current world. But if its literal meaning is widened, then we can see that it also flows to include the native dance of Africans, the Whirling Dervish, the Native American Indians and more as you may notice for yourself.

So, Qigong, from my perspective? I am a born poetess. Poetry was my first love from a very young age: that natural flow of writing poetry and descriptive prose. Once I discovered the power of transformation and illustration of this medium, it gripped me forever! It has followed and detailed my heartfelt experiences through my own life and in viewing others; intricately and lovingly detailing the simplicity, trauma, love, hope and complexity of each stage and in relationships. Poetry is something that never fully leaves me and can always pop up when I least expect or at an impromptu moment, delivering a loving account of my inner experiences of the time. I am so grateful for this gift. 

And then came Qigong. I experience my practice as poetry in motion, literally. I sense my body movements in my nature spaces just as poetically as any words that may come to mind. How poetic the two forms are together and reflective of each other and expressions of the self both inner and outer. And Qigong itself inspires those words too. A friend of mine who also practices Qigong has reflected similarly and commented that 'moving in qigong is like moving through honey'. And it really is. When the mind and body become harmonised, focused and combine in the active movements of the body, there is that definite sensation of being in a surrounding viscous filled space, yet totally limitless and abundantly peaceful and aligned with the Universe and your Higher Self. Qigong may not be for everyone, but that is in itself, an aspect of the Nature of Life.

Breathing

Moving

Turning

Still

Grows yin on the outside and yang within.

Dragon swims

Crane flaps wings

Bear turns

And seasons begin

Opening

Closing

Lying in wait

A limitless process beyond humanly state

Breathing

Moving

Walking

Still

Enter True Nature that qigong does fulfil.

(All copyright T.M. 2016)

Year of the Dog Begins 2018.

Sat 17.2.2018.

Welcome to the Year of the Earth Dog, Universal Journeyers!

AKA 'GOH'.

(Even though my pic contains my dog with her rabbit - that is for another year:))

If you were born in any of the following years then it is an auspicious year ahead for you:

1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018.

The characteristics of the Dog can also be found in people born in November, of any year.

According to C. Al Huang, a Chinese Spiritual Master, in his beautiful art-book " The Chinese Book of Animal Powers" the following is characteristic of Dog Year people:

"We call it 'man's best friend'. But before we made it depend on us, it was wild and free as a wolf, coyote, or fox roaming in wilderness, howling at the moon. . . . If you were born in the year or month of GOH you are sensitive and affectionate by nature. You come alive and thrive in the outdoors, by the campfire, basking under the sun, or glowing beneath the full moon. You may enjoy sheltered comfort, but you cannot be cooped up inside for long. You love people and thrive on kindness; appreciate being cared for but hate being patronised. You have a natural instinct to guide others to the right paths, but avoid being humourless. Cultivate a rue zest for life and inspire others to do the same. Being often right on target and usually extremely helpful to others makes you happy. GOH represents our natural instincts and the most affectionate and trustworthy qualities in all of us. "

So , hopefully, many of these qualities rub off a little on all of us and infect us all with good doses of kindness, loyalty, trustworthiness, unconditional love, playfulness, focus, living-in-the-moment and divine patience for the year ahead. 

Go Well Dear Ones, 

Until next time.