I have been approached by many of my Reiki students expressing their desire to learn more about metaphysical subject matters. It appears there is an avid interest in learning more about Astrology and learning to read the Tarot proficiently. I was delighted to hear their enthusiasm and see their eagerness to learn about these occult areas of knowledge, and decided to write about both topics, since I have been teaching on such topics on other platforms for the better part of 25 years.
I ended up writing a series of manuals for use and reference alongside my live lectures. These publications are now available for purchase online.
The new training courses I’m offering through the Hālau are called Astra Prima™ Astrology for Novices and the Arcana Institute’s Tarot 101. I’m engaged in a project where I’m lecturing on both subjects concurrently, with students using my books as their course textbooks. We are seven weeks into our coursework, and so far, feedback has been positive, and the material has been enthusiastically received. Well, that is, until they engage in our first round of midterms, scheduled for the first two weeks of August. I won’t gloss over the fact that I am a strict instructor, but then again, proof of the success of my approach continues to manifest in the quality of my students’ acumen and proficiency.
I’m now extending an invitation to the Halau’s readership to consider and join me in these new opportunities for growth in learning the basic concepts of Astrology and the foundational bridges it shares with Tarot, and learning how to read the Tarot proficiently and beyond the ken of a soothsayer. Both courses will become paths toward deeper innerstanding of yourself, who you are, and realizing your life purpose … insights often characterized as achieving your Great Work, accomplishing your Magnum Opus.
For now, I leave you with a sample of my work. This linked MP3 is my brief introduction to astrology and my learning approach. Enjoy, and I hope to see you in class soon!
Ko Aloha la ‘ia … Always keep your Love of Self and each other,
There comes a moment in the turning of the year when the green abundance of summer begins to reveal its purpose.
The fields, once young and tender beneath the spring sun, now bow beneath the weight of ripening grain. The days are still warm. The light remains strong. Yet something has changed.
The Earth has begun to give herself away.
This is the season of Lammas, the ancient festival of the First Harvest.
Traditionally observed around August 1, Lammas stands at the threshold between high summer and the first subtle descent toward autumn. It is a festival of grain, bread, labor, gratitude, sacrifice, and the profound spiritual mystery of transformation.
At Lammas, we are invited to look upon the harvest of our own lives and ask a deceptively simple question:
What has grown from the seeds I planted?
The Meaning of Lammas
The word Lammas is commonly understood to derive from the Old English expression meaning “loaf mass.”
In the agricultural communities of early medieval Britain, the first grain of the harvest could be gathered, ground, and baked into bread. A loaf made from the new wheat might then be brought for blessing.
Bread was never merely a convenient food.
It was survival.
It represented the cooperation of soil, rain, sunlight, human labor, animal labor, and the mysterious generative powers of nature. A loaf of bread contained within it an entire cosmology.
The seed disappears beneath the soil.
The grain rises.
The stalk matures.
The sickle cuts.
The millstone crushes.
The oven transforms.
Only then does bread appear.
Lammas therefore carries a hidden teaching.
Transformation often requires the surrender of one form so that another form may emerge.
The grain cannot remain standing eternally in the field if it is to become nourishment.
There is a time for growing.
And there is a time for harvesting.
Lammas and Lughnasadh
Lammas is often celebrated alongside, or spoken of in relation to, the Gaelic festival of Lughnasadh.
Although the two observances developed through distinct cultural and historical traditions, modern Pagan practice frequently brings their themes together.
Lughnasadh is associated with the god Lugh, a powerful figure of Irish tradition connected with kingship, skill, mastery, and many arts. The festival was traditionally connected with gatherings, games, trade, community assemblies, and the beginning of the harvest season.
The stories surrounding Lughnasadh also contain an important theme of remembrance.
In Irish tradition, the festival is linked with Tailtiu, the foster mother of Lugh, who was remembered for her labor in preparing the land for agriculture. According to tradition, Lugh established funeral games in her honor.
Here again we encounter the mystery of sacrifice.
The cultivated field exists because labor has been offered.
The harvest exists because the Earth has given of herself.
Every abundance carries the memory of something spent.
Lammas asks us not merely to celebrate what we possess, but to remember what made the harvest possible.
The First of the Harvest Festivals
Within many modern Pagan interpretations of the Wheel of the Year, Lammas is regarded as the first of three great harvest celebrations.
Lammas honors the grain harvest.
The Autumn Equinox, often called Mabon in modern Pagan practice, celebrates the balance of the season and the gathering of fruits and agricultural abundance.
Samhain marks the final harvest and the entrance into the darker half of the year.
Lammas therefore begins a long spiritual meditation upon gathering, discernment, and release.
The year is no longer primarily asking:
What will you plant?
Now it begins to ask:
What will you keep?
What will you share?
What must be cut away?
These are questions of harvest.
And harvest requires judgment.
A wise harvester knows the difference between ripe grain and barren stalks.
Spiritually, we must learn the same art.
The Sacred Mystery of the Grain
The symbolism of grain is among the oldest spiritual symbols known to humanity.
A seed appears small and lifeless.
Placed within darkness, it disappears.
Then, mysteriously, life emerges.
The seed becomes the plant.
The plant becomes grain.
The grain is harvested and transformed into food.
For this reason, agricultural symbolism has frequently been associated with death, rebirth, initiation, and divine sacrifice.
The grain offers a powerful spiritual metaphor:
That which is cut down is not necessarily destroyed.
Sometimes it is being prepared for transformation.
At Lammas, the sickle becomes more than an agricultural instrument.
It becomes a symbol of spiritual discernment.
What within us has reached maturity?
What work is complete?
What habit has served its purpose?
What dream is ready to move from imagination into manifestation?
And perhaps most difficult of all:
What must now be released because its season has ended?
The spiritual harvest cannot occur without the courage to cut the stalk.
The God of the Grain
In some modern Pagan and magical traditions, Lammas is associated with the mythic image of the Grain God or Corn King.
This figure embodies the living vitality of the fields.
His life is visible in the green stalk.
His strength grows beneath the summer sun.
At harvest, he is symbolically cut down.
Yet his death is not meaningless.
Through the harvested grain, the community is nourished.
Through the preserved seed, the next generation of crops becomes possible.
He returns.
The myth expresses a profound magical principle:
Life sustains life through cycles of offering and renewal.
The harvest is therefore simultaneously joyful and solemn.
We rejoice because the fields are abundant.
We pause because the fields must be cut.
Lammas understands that gratitude and grief can occupy the same sacred space.
This is one reason harvest festivals possess such emotional depth.
Every fulfilled dream carries within it the memory of the person we were before the journey began.
Something has been gained.
Something has also been left behind.
Lammas as a Festival of Work
Lammas is sometimes romanticized as a picturesque celebration of bread, wheat, candles, and golden fields.
Yet at its heart, Lammas is a festival of labor.
Harvest does not happen through intention alone.
Someone must prepare the field.
Someone must sow.
Someone must tend.
Someone must wait.
Someone must cut the grain.
Someone must carry it home.
This gives Lammas particular significance for practitioners of magic and spiritual development.
We may speak often of intention, manifestation, visualization, prayer, and will.
But Lammas asks a more practical question:
What work did you actually perform?
Magic without participation easily becomes fantasy.
A seed may contain tremendous potential, but the field must still be cultivated.
Lammas teaches that manifestation is a partnership between inspiration and labor.
The magician wills.
The practitioner acts.
The harvest reveals the relationship between the two.
Taking Inventory of the Soul
Lammas is an excellent season for spiritual inventory.
Think back to the beginning of the year.
Perhaps at Yule you contemplated the return of the Light.
Perhaps at Imbolc you sensed the first stirring of a new intention.
At Ostara you planted symbolic seeds.
At Beltane you gave those desires passion and vitality.
At Litha you stood beneath the fullness of the Sun.
Now Lammas arrives.
What happened?
Look honestly.
Some intentions may have grown beyond your expectations.
Others may have developed slowly.
Some may have failed entirely.
This is not a spiritual condemnation.
A farmer does not stand in the field screaming at every seed that failed to sprout.
The farmer observes.
The farmer learns.
The farmer adjusts.
Lammas invites the same wisdom.
Celebrate what has grown.
Study what has not.
The harvest is information.
Bread as a Magical Symbol
Few ritual objects are as beautifully ordinary as bread.
Bread contains all four classical Elements.
The grain rises from Earth.
Water enters the dough.
Air causes the bread to expand.
Fire completes the transformation.
Spirit, we might say, is present in the life-giving mystery that unites them.
For this reason, baking bread can become a profound Lammas ritual.
As the ingredients are combined, intentions may be contemplated.
As the dough is kneaded, effort and discipline may be acknowledged.
As the dough rises, the mysterious processes of growth may be honored.
As the bread enters the oven, transformation through sacred Fire may be contemplated.
When the loaf is finally broken and shared, abundance becomes communion.
A harvest that is never shared easily becomes hoarding.
Lammas reminds us that true abundance naturally seeks circulation.
The loaf is broken.
The table expands.
The community is fed.
Ways to Celebrate Lammas
Lammas does not require an elaborate ceremony.
The deepest observances are often simple.
Bake bread from scratch and offer the first portion in gratitude.
Create a meal using seasonal grains, fruits, herbs, or vegetables.
Visit a farmers’ market and consciously honor the labor behind the food you purchase.
Place wheat, oats, corn, sunflowers, or other harvest symbols upon your altar.
Light a gold, yellow, orange, or brown candle.
Write down the achievements and blessings that have emerged during the year.
Give food, money, or practical assistance to someone experiencing need.
Complete a project that has remained unfinished.
Gather with friends and share a meal.
Tell stories.
Sing.
Create.
Lammas is also traditionally compatible with festivals of skill and craftsmanship.
In the spirit of Lugh, you might practice an art, demonstrate a skill, teach something you know, or begin mastering a discipline that requires patience.
The sacred is not found only in prayer.
Sometimes the sacred appears in a craft practiced well.
A Simple Lammas Reflection
Sit before a candle and place a piece of bread upon a plate.
Take several slow breaths.
Consider everything that was necessary for this simple food to exist.
Earth.
Rain.
Sunlight.
Seed.
Time.
Labor.
Harvest.
Transportation.
Preparation.
Fire.
Now consider your own life.
Ask yourself:
What is my harvest at this moment?
Do not immediately judge the answer.
Observe.
What have you learned?
What have you built?
What relationship has deepened?
What skill has improved?
What pain have you survived?
What truth have you finally accepted?
These too are harvests.
Then ask:
What must I release so that the next season of my life may begin?
Remain in silence.
When you are ready, break the bread.
Eat slowly.
Receive the harvest.
The Wisdom of Lammas
Lammas teaches a spiritual lesson that our modern world frequently attempts to avoid.
Nothing remains at its peak forever.
Summer does not fail when autumn approaches.
The grain does not fail when the sickle arrives.
A season ending is not evidence that the season was meaningless.
The purpose of a cycle is not permanence.
The purpose of a cycle is completion.
At Lammas, we stand beneath the golden Sun and observe the first signs of the coming descent into darkness.
Yet we do not despair.
The barns are beginning to fill.
The bread is upon the table.
The seed of tomorrow is hidden within today’s harvest.
And perhaps this is the deepest mystery of Lammas:
We are always harvesting the past while planting the future.
Every action becomes a seed.
Every habit cultivates a field.
Every choice moves quietly toward harvest.
So at Lammas, pause.
Give thanks.
Honor your labor.
Share your abundance.
Cut away what has completed its season.
And when the bread is broken, remember that you too are part of the great cycle of becoming.
The Wheel turns.
The harvest comes.
And the sacred Earth, generous and ancient, continues to teach us how to live.
The relationship between sutratmic continuity and present learning is likely to remain obscure unless one is ready to probe deeply into the simplest things of life. For example, whilst it may seem easy to learn to walk, anyone who has ever made the effort to teach a cat or dog to walk on two legs would soon discover that it is exceedingly difficult. Circus trainers are able to get four-legged animals to walk like two-legged human beings for short lengths of time. With proper stimuli they can produce predictable responses. But these patterned responses are quite different from the intrinsic Manasic ability of children to hold their heads and spines erect and to be able to function as self-moving beings. The Socratic conception of the psuche as a self-moving agent, together with the Platonic idea of nous as the matter-moving mind, points to the initiatory potential inherent within every human being. Whenever an individual makes a new beginning, initiating a considered line of activity during a day, a week, a month or a year, such a commencement could signify the start of a new phase of learning. Whether one takes as the starting-point of such an endeavour one’s birthday or any other cyclic reference-point in life, one is recognizing the permanent possibility for all individuals of making fresh ventures into the unknown. Ordinarily, human beings are protected by not knowing too much about their previous lives or knowing too much even about the immediate future of this one. Since individuals learn to live in ignorance of the unknown, and at the same time venture on the basis of what they do know, clearly there is an indestructible element in every immortal soul which enables a human being again and again to make a fresh start. This permanent element is not simply the Atma-Buddhi or Divine Monad, but also the distilled and assimilated wisdom of past lives gathered in the sutratman, the repository of the fragrant aroma of past learning.
If every human being brings this precious inheritance of prior efforts towards individuation into the present life, and if all have passed through several initiations in distant lives, what relevance does this have to the onset of the Aquarian Age? Commencing on June 19, 1902, and having completed its first degree, the Aquarian Age has already brought about an unprecedented heightening of self-consciousness, and it holds a tremendous potential for the future. Something of the fundamental significance of the Aquarian Age can be glimpsed by recollecting that the year 1902 was not unconnected with the increasing concern to fly in the air. In the nineteenth century, on the other hand, the ocean was the common term of reference for many people in regard to travel, exploration and geopolitics. If people in the last century took many of their analogies and metaphors from the nautical world, this was because they had such an impressive collection of imposing sailing ships and modern steamships. In Greenwich and in Plymouth, from Cathay to Cape Horn, the romance and excitement of the pioneering exploration of the world’s oceans fired the imagination of adults and children alike. Beginning in the sixteenth century, the rapid expansion of sea trade lay at the basis of the commercial and cultural growth of European civilization. By the close of the Victorian Age, the idea of a maritime civilization had become crystallized in the minds of such writers as Mahan and Fisher and consolidated the image of a globe governed by sea power. The construction of large ocean liners capable of sailing thousands of miles at considerable rates of speed provided ordinary people with basic metaphors concerning the conduct of life. The exacting skills needed in navigation received an attention reminiscent of older conceptions in literature and myth, viewing man as the captain of his soul. Yet now, in the twentieth century, with the vast elaboration upon what the Wright Brothers began, there is a fundamentally new outlook that has emerged with reference to the atmosphere surrounding the earth.
Even early in the century, artists and visionaries were stimulated by grand, if sometimes fanciful, conceptions of what the implications of flight could mean to human beings in general. By the time of the First World War, shrewd politicians like Winston Churchill perceived with almost prophetic clarity the significant change in the balance of power brought about by the airplane and the appalling dangers that this new capacity could unleash. For most people, despite pioneering efforts by individuals and businesses, it was not until after the Second World War that they were able on a large scale to travel by air. Then suddenly they experienced what otherwise could only have been done by climbing mountains – they gained some sense of what it is like at different elevations. In the past few decades this upward ascent has passed beyond the proximate atmosphere of the earth, reaching into the empyrean of space. Tapping the theoretical insights of a few and drawing upon the cooperative labours of specialized teams of scientists and engineers, a small coterie of intrepid individuals has travelled into space and brought back beautiful images of the earth as a shining gem suspended in the void. Spacecraft with intricate instruments have ventured towards Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, linked to earth only by the finest etheric threads of electrical impulse, and returning copious information regarding long-recognized globes in our solar system.
Broadly, the Aquarian Age is typified by the concept of vertical ascent, whereas during the nineteenth century and before, the idea of horizontal movement was far more prevalent. This is not to minimize the importance of the great circumnavigations of the globe conducted in the maritime era, nor to discount the considerable knowledge gained by daring explorers and naturalists in regard to diverse forms of life. At their best, the nineteenth century naturalists discovered valuable principles of continuity in living form and developed significant intuitions into the geometry of dynamic growth. But now, in the twentieth century, principally because of air travel, people are much more conscious of the enormous relevance of factors such as altitude and atmosphere in relation to the elevation of consciousness. Through the beneficent invention of pressurized cabins, vast numbers of people have had the opportunity to observe that the earth does not seem the same when seen from an airplane as it does when seen on the plains.
All of this merely suggests that there has been a vital change taking place in human consciousness progressively over the last eighty years. From a merely empirical standpoint the entry of human beings into the airy regions is conclusive of nothing. From the standpoint of the Gupta Vidya, however, these outward changes are emblematic of the shift in the fundamental perspective of human experience. The nature and significance of this change cannot be comprehended through conventional and pseudo-rationalistic schemes of popular astrology. Caught up in erratic frameworks and outdated calculations, most astrologers are no more aware of the true meaning of the Aquarian Age than the average person. Few, if any, have deeply reflected upon the precession of the equinoxes, or upon the essential differences between the Taurean, Piscean and Aquarian Ages. Nonetheless, an increasingly large number of individuals have begun to sense a new awakening of human consciousness. Whether they interpret this from a purely personal standpoint, or connect it to some form of secular or sectarian millennial thinking, they can discern that a fundamental change is taking place in the global atmosphere of human life. Some who are sensitive see this in terms of a subtle beauty and alteration in the atmosphere of the earth itself, whilst those who are more perceptive detect a similar change in the atmosphere that surrounds each human being. In general, there is a growing recognition and widespread acknowledgement of a fresh opportunity for human souls at the present time of metamorphosis. Such glimmerings provide an array of opportunities which bring with them fresh avenues for awakening and growth.
In order to gather together the afflicted, the Divine Cowherd summons all awakened souls, wherever and however disguised, through the sounding of the mighty conch. Independent of all modes of external communication, and relying upon the oldest mode of communication known to the Ancient of Days – controlled transference of benevolent thought and ineffable sound – the call is heard by scattered volunteers “in the fierce strife between the living and the dead.” As with Jacob’s ladder in his dream, heaven and earth are reunited, even if momentarily. In this manner, over the coming years the world will move through the darkness, yet mysteriously, step by step, faltering and failing yet persisting, it will move towards that moment when Anno Domini has ceased to be, and a new era will dawn with a new name. There will then be no U.S.A. but a new Republic of Conscience which will take its place in the community of mankind which would have come of age and declared itself as one family.
This is a grand prospect for which there can be inherently no empirical or merely rational proof. Yet it may be tested by any intuitive individual who is courageous enough to pour his or her deepest unspoken feelings, unarticulated dreams and unexpressed inner agony into the alchemical crucible of spiritual striving on behalf of others. It is a tryst that such souls make with destiny, but also with the grandchildren of persons yet unborn. It is a tryst with the humanity of the future, and with the full promise of the Aquarian Age which dawned on the nineteenth of June, 1902, ninety-three years ago, with mathematical precision. This has an exact relationship to that moment five thousand and ninety-seven years ago, in 3102 B.C., when Krishna, having witnessed the outcome of the Mahabharatan war between the greedy Kauravas and the foolish Pandavas, was able to end his seeming life on earth and withdraw from the terrestrial scene. Thus standing apart from this universe, into which he never really enters, he creates therein his mayavi rupas through the mighty magic of prakriti, the seminal potency of mystic thought in the eternal life of self-ideation. Again and again, under different names, it is the same being behind every divine incarnation, whether past or future.
As Dakshinamurti, the Initiator of Initiates, he is seated immovable above Mount Kailaś, in mystic meditation since over eighteen million years ago from the time when there was no Mount Kailaś and no Himalayas as presently understood. Coming down through all the subsequent recorded and unrecorded eras, he carries forth in unbroken continuity the onward spiritual current which is the irresistible, unconquerable, ineluctable forward march of humanity. He is Shiva-Mahadeva, reborn as the four Kumaras in the successive races of humanity, and that still more mysterious and solitary Being alluded to in the secret teachings.
The inner man of the first * * * only changes his body from time to time; he is ever the same, knowing neither rest nor Nirvana, spurning Devachan and remaining constantly on Earth for the salvation of mankind.
The Secret Doctrine, ii p. 281
Attuned to the rhythms of the cosmic ocean of Divine Thought, he is the still motionless centre in its depths around which revolve, like myriad mathematical points in spinning circles, the scattered hosts of humanity. Amidst the larger and larger circles of ripples upon ripples, waves upon waves, all souls are citizens of that universe which is much vaster than the disordered kingdom which, as earthlings, they may seem to inherit but to which they have no claim except as members of a single family.
This mystic vision can only be fleetingly glimpsed and partially understood by beginning to ask sincere if faulty, searching if somewhat confused, questions. Herein lies the starting-point of the dialectical method taught by Krishna in the fourth chapter of the Gita. The sacred teaching of the kingly science was originally given by Krishna to Vivasvat, who in turn imparted it to Manu. Then Vaivaswat Manu taught it to Ikshvaku, who stands for all the regal Initiates of forgotten antiquity in the golden ages of myth and fable. Thus the vigilant preservers and magnanimous rulers of this world, without abdicating from their essential state of Mahatmic wisdom, assumed the guise of visible corporeality to descend on earth and reign upon it as King-Hierophants and Divine Instructors of the humanity then incarnated upon the globe. It is this self-same eternal wisdom that Krishna gives unto Arjuna, an unhappy warrior, not for his own sake, especially when he was not entirely ready to assimilate the Teaching, but for the sake of his work in the world and his help in concluding the Mahabharatan war.
In the great summation of the eighteenth chapter of the Gita, Krishna reveals secrets upon secrets, wrapped in each other in seemingly unending layers, like a Chinese treasure. Every time a secret is revealed, there is more and yet more, because in the end one is speaking of that which is part of the secret of every human soul in its repeated strivings and recurrent lives upon earth. Amidst the chaos and obscuration of misplayed roles, faded memories and fragmented consciousness, coupled with the fatigue of mental confusion, there is also the power of persistence, the sutratmanand its conatus which enables every person to breathe from day to day and through each night. In deep sleep, as in profound meditation and the intervals between incarnations, the immortal soul enters into the orbit of the midnight sun and emerges out of the muddle of mundane life and mangled dreams. There it discerns the melody of the flute of Krishna, the music of the spheres, and the hidden magic of the ages which, when heard self-consciously, frees the soul from the fatuous burden of self-imposed delusions. It is the priceless prerogative of every Arjuna in our time to seek once more the pristine wisdom, the sovereign purifier, through unremitting search, through fearless questions, through grateful devotion and selfless service.
Surveying the wreckage of this century in bewilderment and dismay, many have sought an understanding of events in the oft-quoted, though little understood, remarks of H.P. Blavatsky concerning the role of the New World in the evolution of the races of humanity. Too many have submitted to the delusion, to the strange idea, that spiritual evolution is possible only for a few. The idea that any single people out of the globe’s teeming millions, selected at random and fed on the fat of the land, weighted down by the gifts of blind fortune, should be preferred by Krishna must be firmly repudiated. No instrument of the real work of the Lodge of Mahatmas can ever be permitted to become the refuge of the few, the chosen avenue for the exclusive salvation or cloistered comfort of any élite. Now, thanks to many benefactors and blessings in disguise, Americans are being made to slow down to the point where they may hear some of the echoes of what the pilgrim fathers heard when they landed in Plymouth over three centuries ago. In a way which could not have been known clearly to them, their setting out upon a long and difficult sea voyage was reminiscent of far more ancient voyages of seed-pilgrims across the waters of floods guided by Manu. These pilgrims to the New World had set out after having formed a compact with each other, which was a pure act of faith in themselves and in the future and in whatever their God had to offer them. This was one of many precious moments in the long and unwritten history of this mighty continent, whose vastness extends from the Arctic Circle to the Straits of Magellan, encompassing great rivers, the Grand Canyon, and awesome ranges of mountains girdling a third of the globe.
There is much more in the civilizations and peoples of pre-Columbian history than can ever be garnered through perfunctory reading of post-Columbian events. The brief journey of Columbus from Spain to the Caribbean, in search of India, but resulting in the rediscovery of America, could foretell little of the future birth in these lands of old Hindus from the India of a million years ago. It could convey few hints of the far-flung variety of spiritual strivings that would occur on the American continent, or of the enormous blasphemy, pride and temerity of inscribing the Third Eye upon the dollar bill. Yet somewhere, past all the humbug of petty educators, pompous bureaucrats and self-serving politicians, an impartial witness can only feel a genuine empathy with the series of lonely men carrying a strenuous burden of leadership in the emerging American republics.
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Hurricane Irma, a category 5 and one of the strongest storms ever recorded
in the Atlantic with winds of up to 185 miles an hour, is now in Caribbean
and heading towards the United States.
The devastating affects of a powerful hurricane can be greatly minimized through divine intervention and our unification as an ‘enlightened group harmonic’, that is vibrating from omnipresent awareness.
Therefore, as one Group Avatar, we are invoking intervening assistance to help shift the reflective strength of Hurricane Irma and its potential path of destruction.
We are projecting our consciousness right into the eye of the storm as we pulsate the vibration of love and transformation.
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* Our highest alignment is with Divine Will as the mighty qualifier of this transmission and its final outcome.
* We know that humanity is undergoing great soul initiation and all will unfold in accordance to the highest good of all concerned.
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