May's theme is Committment

As you read this forecast, ask yourself what your conscious and unconscious committments are.  Are you living in alignment with them, or not?  If you want support with this, you may want to do a "Committment Repatterning" with me by phone or in person if you're in or near Santa Fe.  Or, join me from any time zone for the upcoming May Joyful Manifesting Intensive.  More info on the Intensive is at http://www.joyfulmanifesting.com.

I hope you enjoy this forecast from shamanic practitioner Lena Stevens and find it useful.  She and her husband have a website called www.thepowerpath.com.  I like these forecasts very much and usually publish them here, but here is info from them to sign up directly if you're interested: 


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What is commitment?


Commitment is removing the back door, the escape route and the words “if”, “maybe” and “when” from your vocabulary. Commitment is moving into your future with no turning back and no escape hatch. Commitment is eliminating the worry and anxiety that comes with ambivalence, doubt, consideration and “too many thinking”. Commitment is a natural segway of any bid for power. A bid for power without a proper commitment to launch it is not a serious bid for power.


If your bid for power is to stop smoking, you can’t qualify it with “if I find the right program” or “when I get more of a handle on my life” or “maybe next week”. No, if you want to stop smoking you stop right now. You make a commitment that goes along with your bid for power. Once you commit 100 percent, then the program or other support will show up and you will begin to get a handle on your life.


It is the same thing for relationships or work or health. If your bid for power is to make a change in the direction that is better for you, then do it now without procrastination and without the ability to sneak out if it does not work. Most of the reason for something not working out is your lack of true commitment to it. All of you have made some bid for power last month whether you are aware of it or not. This is the month where you either commit to it or choose a new one that you can commit to.


There are two types of Commitment: Commitment that is unconscious and manifested by your actions rather than what you verbally intend, and commitment that is consciously and deliberately planned for and chosen. The unconscious commitment is the one you may not be aware of but everyone else is by your actions around it.


A good example is someone who complains and complains about the nature of their relationship because it is not a good fit, and says they want something else, but ends up staying in the same relationship “until something better comes along”. This is not a serious bid for power for a new relationship and certainly not the way spirit works. This example is showing an action that the universe reads as a commitment and therefore will not provide another “better relationship” to take its place while the action shows a commitment to the current one. So this person may think they are bidding to change their circumstance but as long as they stay in the current relationship they are not serious about the change. If you are truly committed to changing your relationship dynamics you must show you are serious by becoming conscious about the ways you are showing commitment to the things you say you do not want.


Another example may be the person who says, I am on a diet, I intend to lose weight and really should not eat this piece of cake and then proceeds to eat it anyway. Are they serious about their bid for power to lose weight? Where is the commitment? Another example is the bid for power to have more fun and make more time for self. However if the person continues adding things that are not fun to their plate, they are showing by their actions that they are not truly committed to their intention and guess what, spirit will always give you more of what you are putting your energy into. This person may likely say, “I will make time when things slow down.” This is not good enough for spirit, as it is a conditional commitment and shows through action that the real commitment is something different than the spoken intention.


True commitment is unconditional, something we are not used to having or working with. Conditions create the “ifs”, “whens”, and “maybes” in our vocabulary. Placing conditions on your bid for power waters down the commitment to it and is like putting only your big toe in the water when you really intended to take a swim. Hesitancy, doubt, confusion, ambivalence, worry, anxiety, fear and mistrust, all take their toll on your ability to commit to something cleanly and clearly."


To read more of this forecast, go to: 
http://www.thepowerpath.com/index.php/power-path-home/the-power-path/monthly-forecast/451-may-forecast-2012


Many blessings,
Ellen

Gather the women

There is a building energy to gather the women, to do what we can to heal each other. As we do, we support every woman in expressing her compassion, gentleness, fierce protection of the young, more integrated brains, emotional intelligence and all that women bring to the world.

The elders are saying it, astrology heralds it, many different voices are saying this is the time of the return and re-emergence of the Divine Feminine. But in balance, with both men and women expressing these qualities..along with the Divine Masculine.

The men of wisdom are acknowledging this too. I have heard that the Dalai Lama said this, and I myself heard Pete Seeger say, "it's the women who are going to save the planet." We can't do that if we're too busy trying to downplay who we are or be more like men. Vive l'difference and I for one am so darn tired of apologizing or minimizing my glorious gorgeous self! It's incredible how often women say "I'm sorry."

There are more women in their midlife to crone years than ever before on this planet. To you my fellow (oops, "fellow women?"--better rephrase)..Never mind, to my women peers in this massive group of midlife women: we are a FORCE. We have consumer power and we are represented in leadership roles. We're better educated, healthier and with more opportunities than our foremothers could ever dream of.

Yet the feminine is still so squelched and all her gifts, which could so help the planet, are not being unwrapped and circulated. After the women's movement, the pendulum has swung so much the other way, that just declaring oneself a feminist seems to be a radical act of courage. Let's take back the word, and shed the tired old stereotypes around it. Or reinvent another one, to celebrate our true feminine essence. Being for the recognition and rights of women is simply supporting 50% of the human race.

Let's celebrate women's true power, which is about community, protecting other women, children and families, our passion and compassion, our intelligence which is far better at connecting feeling and intuition with logic. Let's celebrate our hearts and our love, our sensuality and creativity. This power is of a totally different flavor than the masculine power model we've tried so hard to copy since the 1970's and 80's when we came into the workforce in greater numbers.

I have been going to a Sacred Women's circle here in Santa Fe, it started about 3 months ago and it is just blossoming. Lately over 25 women are crowding into our friend Diana's living room. We will soon outgrow meeting in someone's house. Yes, indeed it's time for the women to gather!