Reconnecting...

08 September 2006

Welcome to "Reconnecting..." for September. 

Some years ago my husband and I stayed on holiday at a beautiful self-catering cottage in Cornwall.  On a mirror in the bedroom were written the words "Truth, Simplicity and Love".  At the time all three resonated deeply with me and I remember our week there as one of peace and expansion, an unfolding and a letting go.  It is only fairly recently that I came across the teachings of Babaji and realised that these words constitute the foundation of his teaching.  (If you are interested to know more about Babaji, click on this link).  Their pull for me now is even deeper.  I am coming to realise that 'truth' is one of the most complex concepts we can engage with - until we realise that there is no such thing as 'truth'.  My truth can only ever be what is real for me, what is true for me.  And yours for you.  And that indeed is simple.  The only place we can really find that truth is in our hearts. 

As for love, it is becoming more and more my truth to live every moment from my heart, from a place of love.  I don't always succeed, and yet the more I  do it, or rather the more I allow it, the simpler life becomes.  This is perhaps the first time I've seen how clearly Truth, Simplicity and Love are interrelated.  Can you let yourself imagine, feel and experience what life is like when you come from your truth, in simplicity and with love? What an amazing place to live from!

This month I invite you to explore the following questions and the answers you receive when you connect to your own truth:

• Where in your life are you experiencing disconnection (often in the form of pain or conflict) from what you know to be true for you?
• How can you change this? (and yes, you can!)
• Would simplifying things bring peace or resolution?
• How might you go about that?
• Where do you feel you are coming from a place of love - true, unconditional love - in your life, and where do you sense or know that you are not?

You may like to write the words Truth Simplicity and Love somewhere you can see them often!

There probably won't be an issue of "Reconnecting..." in October as I'm going to South Africa at the end of September for a couple of weeks to deepen my connection to Colourworks.  I will be staying at the place where this amazing system originates from - near Cape Town - where the whales come to give birth each year at around the time I will be there...

I will, however, be compiling a new issue of the quarterly Colourworks Newsletter when I get back in October, so I'll keep you posted.  I'm booked up now until I go away but will be available for Colour Readings, Soul Readings, Colour Healing and Reconnective Healing from October 11th.  Email me or give me a call on 01722 781096 to book your session.

Have a great month or two and I'll be back in touch soon.

With love and blessings to you on this incredible journey of life.

Erica Connolly
Colourworks Therapist/Teacher
Reconnective Healing Practitioner
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Quote of the Month:

"Come to the edge, he said.  They said:  we are afraid.  Come to the edge, he said.  They came.  He pushed them.  They flew."
      
                      Guillaume Apollinaire

Book of the Month: "No Time for Karma" by  Paxton Robey with Lone Jensen



This month's book is actually an e-book, available as a free download on the net.  It's sub-title is 'Stepping off the Wheel of Pain and Struggle' and it's a great read!  Click here to go to the introduction page to decide if this is one for you.  I keep finding new jewels in this little book each time I read a new chapter.  Much of it is what we may already 'know' on some level, but it's messages are shared in such a way that concepts we may have struggled with become clear, easy to grasp.  It is insightful, often humourous and quietly empowering.

Visit www.notimeforkarma.com for further information.

CD of the Month:  "Innerra" by Mohammad Bashar Al-hneidi

This meditation CD is hot off the press and has been produced by my lovely friend Mohammad Bashar Al-Hneidi.  Track one is a simple and enjoyable meditation to relax, ground and connect you.  Track two is a powerful series of "I AM" statements, which take you beyond limiting thoughts and beliefs into the realms of true authentic power and grace.  The music is haunting, peaceful and uplifting and the meditations themselves are extraordinary.  The energy can only be described as 'multi-dimensional' and expansive.  I have listened to the CD several times since receiving it a week ago and have found that the experience deepens each time I listen. 

Mohammad is a Reiki Master, Joyrie and Magnified Healing Master and meditation teacher, and has used the meditations on this CD successfully with many people, including the young people he works with who have challenging behaviours.

"Innerra" is available to purchase for £15.00 from Mohammad, phone 07888 724282 or email mohammadbasharal_hneidi@yahoo.co.uk

Website of the Month:  www.welcomechanges.com



This is an 'abundance' website from Velma Gallant, a Canadian abundance and prosperity coach.  The website itself has some interesting articles, but is mostly for promoting Velma's programmes.  It's her weekly email newsletter which I find of most interest, as they are often timely reminders of how we can fall into unhelpful beliefs and how we can shift our state to one of abundance. 

Visit www.welcomechanges.com to subscribe to her free newsletter.

Colourworks Bottle of the Month:  No. 28 - New Beginnings



This bottle acts like a broom, sweeping all the old dead leaves away to make room for something new. It brings a freshness and vitality to this time of
changing seasons, and opens the way for you to create more of what you want in your life. It helps you to stop the struggle and release the fear, bringing
you to a place of trust. It also brings a sense of joy, lightness and positivity.

'New Beginnings' is available for £20 + p&p. Contact me to purchase or to find out more.

My next "Colour 1 "course is being held on October 21-22. If you want to experience powerful shifts on your journey and learn how colour 'works', this course is for you. Places are limited and are booking up quickly! Visit my website or email me for further details.

"Have you been enjoying the ride?"...an Astrology Update

This came my way this week and I thought it summed up so much about where we're at on the planet that I've asked Marcus for permission to use it in
the newsletter. It's very long but is worth the read as it explains a lot! Thanks Marcus.

Solar Spirit: Occasional Astrology Update:
What has been happening with those outer planets...have you been enjoying the ride...when will it end..and can we get off soon please?

Phew! Was just talking with a friend about the challenging planetary alignments that have been occurring for the past several months, and suddenly arrived at a place of clarity about what has been going on astrologically, and what the possible outcome will be, so thought I would like to share it with you. I hope it helps.

First, a note about retrograde planets:

Planets appear to go backwards through the zodiac, when the Earth is either moving faster and/or, as it were "overtaking" them, so that for a period of time, they look like they're receding or going "retrograde". This is an illusion, as the planets are not really going backwards, they only appear to do so from our Earth-based perspective; this does however appear to have a very strong energetic effect on our human psyches and global events. The energetic qualities of retrograde planets become very inward and internalised, enabling us to get in touch with issues, patterns and past traumas that need to become conscious and be released, individually and collectively. Because the planetary energies get focused inwards at these times, their energy is not so available for being outwardly effective, so things "out there" in the world often appear to "go wrong" or suffer delays and setbacks. It is just a question of timing, and once the inner work and changes have taken place, then things can once again move forward in more positive ways in our outer lives.

The history:

It feels like it has been going on for ever, with Saturn retrograde in the early part of the year, then Jupiter retrograde, then on March 29th, Pluto (our spiritual will - the I AM presence within) went retrograde, and has been so ever since. It goes direct on Tuesday September 5th. I will try to explain what it all means, but first, the rest of the scenario:

Asteroid Pallas Athene (female warrior and self-protection) went retrograde on 7th May, Chiron (our wounded healer) went retrograde on 15th May, and started bringing up all those old wounds, fears, anxieties, and lacks that we thought we'd dealt with long ago - what were they doing back again?

On May 22nd, Neptune went retrograde - now the sense of trust, inner support, unconditional love and Oneness all started to feel a bit shaky and unreliable - one minute it was there, and the next it was gone, not good when you're re-visiting the old wounded places that you thought were healed, or at least well on the way to it.

On 18th June, Uranus (spiritual wisdom, insight, sense of independence) went retrograde, so probably about now the last vestiges of believing that at least we understood intuitively what was going on, started to become very cloudy and uncertain, and unpredictable...one minute crystal clarity, the next chaos and confusion.

Three days later on 21st June, Summer Solstice, asteroid Ceres (mother goddess, our connection with the spirit of the Earth) went...you guessed it, retrograde.

So, since then we have had these 6 spiritual and soul-centred planets and asteroids and the Moon's Node of our spiritual purpose (which is always retrograde) all going retrograde on one side of the zodiac between Sagittarius and Pisces, with seven other personal and relationship planets and asteroids going direct on the other side of the zodiac between Taurus and Leo, with poor old retrograde (up till 6th July) Jupiter in Scorpio, struggling to hold the balance in the middle between them all...but Scorpio is going to dig in deep - it's not the most fun place for Jupiter to be, but can be very productive. And so the pendulum has swung between being immersed in all the deepest, most difficult and painful aspects of our psyches, to feeling that it's all a bit unreal, and everything is OK really, and life is actually going along alright, until the pendulum swings the other way again, everyone experiencing this in our own unique way, according to our own patterns.

What does it mean?

It's the three retrograde heavyweights that have been the most challenging - Pluto, Neptune and Uranus. In response to those who have just decreed that Pluto is no longer officially a planet - try telling that to anyone having their birth planets triggered by the Pluto retrograde...Somebody should tell those astronomers with their big telescopes that size isn't everything, and Pluto acts on our consciousness like a very high potency homoeopathic remedy, or for those who don't believe that homoeopathy is a medicine either, it's like a small amount of radioactive nuclear material..it doesn't take much of it to cause a big explosion in our consciousness...Pluto has a strong affinity with nuclear processes at all levels.

Pluto has been digging deep into the darkest recesses of our psyches, to root out those core beliefs about who we are and how we really value ourselves, how much we are really in touch with our inner spiritual power, not just what we believe about ourselves, or the emotional patterns that we may have worked on about how we may undermine our possibilities or give away our power, this has been about getting to grips with our fundamental, core sense of value, deep within our spirit, our primal sense of our right to exist as spiritual beings, without any sense of shame, fear, guilt, pride or false humility..our sense of I AM...can we really be that? Meanwhile, Neptune has been dissolving all our attitudes and beliefs that we are not that I AM consciousness. Neptune will always bring, at some level a sense of disillusionment...showing us our illusions, or helping us to see that we are living within an Illusion, in the Buddhist sense. When it is retrograde, we are confronted with those patterns that we carry, which hold us within our illusion, and at the same time, it offers us the possibility to "unhook" ourselves from being caught in the Illusion of our separateness from Oneness...with Neptune retrograde, it's very much a case of "now you see it, now you don't".

Then along came Uranus to blast away any debris left by those illusory beliefs and attitudes, and actually enable us to get free of them once and for all, if we so choose. It's been all about letting go of our attachments to our suffering and however we create that...letting go with our will (Pluto), letting go with our heart (Neptune) and letting go with our mind (Uranus), all at once.

And just for good measure, Ceres is retrograde, calling us to let go of anything that does not truly nourish us at the level of our soul and spirit, and to let go of anything that does not put us into right relationship with the Spirit of the Earth. If we are letting go of our attachment to the Illusion, than we also have to let go of our attachment and beliefs about the material, physical nature of our planet, and realise that she is not fixed and responds totally to, and manifests for us whatever our core beliefs are.

And Pallas Athene is retrograde, giving us the innate possibility of knowing just how to cut the ties and attachments that hold us. All we have to do is to choose to do it, and we are free...or we can choose not to do it and stay stuck, and go around the merry-go-round of our patterns once more, berating the gods and fate for bringing us back again to the same old lessons. It's up to us, and this is a really golden opportunity to let go.

The Outcome:

On September 5th Pluto turns direct. All of our hidden cats will be out of their bags then, and whatever we have been struggling with, will at least be out in the open, so we can see what it is that needs to change.Then it will take until 24th December for Pluto to "make up the ground" that is has been passing over whilst retrograde. And on 29th December it comes into conjunction with the Galactic Centre at 26deg.56min. Sagittarius. This is a bit like being plugged back into the Galactic Mains circuit, with a much more reliable connection and higher voltage than before...so, expect a major shift and acceleration from the 24th December until about the 3rd January 2007.

Meanwhile...Neptune will go direct on 30th October. This will enable us to really begin to let go of what we have decided should be let go of. Neptune will take until 16th February 2007, to make up the ground that it covered whilst retrograde, so it may take that long to really feel we have released all that needs to be released.

Finally, Uranus will go direct on November 20th, taking until 6th March 2007 to make up the ground covered whilst retrograde. Uranus is about realisation - the realisation of "what was that all about?" But at least from 20th November onwards, we will all begin to understand what has been happening to us over the last few months. And the good news is, no retrograde planets at all until 6th December, when Saturn goes retrograde, and begins the integration process and the release of any internal and external structures which are preventing us from moving forward according to the realisations that we have had in the previous months - a good time to call on Ganesh, the Remover of Obstacles..."Om Gum Ganapatayei Namaha".

Jupiter, holding the balance in the midst of it all is about keeping a sense of perspective between the smaller personal picture and the larger transpersonal picture - it is a universal shift taking place, it's not personal, even though it might feel like that at times. The only thing that is personal is how we choose to respond to the, at times, chaotic energies that are flying around. Stay calm, remember to breathe, meditate, walk, stay in contact and communion with the Earth at all times, and keep reminding yourself that this is not personal, it's just about letting go of everything that doesn't serve you any more.

The key to enjoying the rest of the ride is not to hang on too tight!
With love and blessings, Marcus

Marcus Mason is a Soul-Centred Astrologer, Acupuncturist and Sacred Earth Energy worker. He has practised and taught astrology for 25 years in England, and more recently in Ireland, Belgium and USA. He is available for one-to-one Life-purpose Astrology and Astro*Cartography (Location Astrology) Readings. He has also worked with Earth Energies for many years, facilitating workshops, meditations, ceremonies and Sacred Sites Journeys in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Belgium, South Africa, and Alaska. He is committed to working with individuals and groups, and to enable each of us to fully realise, awaken and embody our soul’s potentials, through "remembering" and developing our deep relationship with the Earth, planets and stars.

Visit www.solarspirit.eclipse.co.uk and www.2006eclipse.com

Israel/Palestine Ceasefire Call

After the great response to the online ceasefire campaign for Lebanon, the organisers of the campaign are redoubling their efforts, this time to call upon
the UN Security Council, the Israeli Prime Minister, the Palestinian President and Palestinian Prime Minister to immediately implement a ceasefire in
Israel/Palestine and re-launch a new and comprehensive peace process.

Sign up at www.ceasefirecampaign.org

Peace, one minute at a time...

"just-a-minute" (j-a-m) is about experiencing the power of a peaceful and still mind, starting with just one minute at a time. just-a-minute is
"a growing movement for people who feel the need to pause and reflect in the midst of a frenetic modern lifestyle".

Kicking off with an inspirational launch event in London on Sunday 17th September, which promises to be a global fusion of music, dance and theatre,
featuring world famous celebrities and artists, j-a-m will offer "the love, peace and wisdom of three women, who between them have the combined power
of 200 years of spiritual study and meditation." The launch event is dedicated to the United Nations Day of Peace on 21 September.

Find out more at www.just-a-minute.org

SKHM - Cairo Workshop 23-31 October 2006

Patrick Zeigler, world-renowned workshop leader, is teaching in Cairo this October .  Experience your own activation of the All Love energy in the same way Patrick did in 1980, when he received the Seichim Energy as he lay in the sarcophagus within the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid.

After the workshop remain in Egypt to ground your SKHM energy by visiting other sacred sites in and around Cairo, Memphis and Minia.

For full details visit www.SKHM.org.  Email Rita Westlake on ritawestlake@rivendell2.fsworld.co.uk or telephone 01208-850204 or text 0779 251 0291.

"The Price we Pay"

The link below will take you to an example of a wonderfully helpful and inspiring newsletter, "Uriel Heals".  The messages here are universally empowering.  Click on this link to read one of the recent newsletters which talks about how we often buy into 'no pain no gain'; the belief that we must suffer in order to learn or grow.  The author of the newsletter, Jennifer Hoffman, offers another approach - that in fact it is our belief that we must go through painful lessons in order to grow that attracts them to us...

Visit www.urielheals.com

Unique Soul Portraits



"My name is EloChean.  I do Ascension/Soul Portraits that connect people to their HEART CENTRES, helping them re-direct their lives back onto a STARLIT path of creativity and LOVE. These pictures are individually DIVINED and UNIQUE to each person. They heal at the deepest, most cellular/dna levels. This is STARLIGHT and MAGIC all in one! They assist you in coming back IN to your body, to live a TRULY magnificent life. If you feel drawn to experience your own Soul Portrait, I would be honoured to do one for you. They will cost £120-£150 each for an A3 original. You will not regret inviting this pure energy into your home, it transforms on a deeply magnetic level…."

Visit www.diamonddoorways.eu to view examples of Elochean's magical artwork.

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