The meaning behind it all...

Ah. Been a long time since I have written. So much going on in the cosmos, so much going on in my life. I have taken some time away from writing the weekly Cosmic Weather to engage with the mystery of life and to flow with all of the changes we are all being asked to make.

There has been a lot of talk about the Grand Cross, Conscious Convergence and the Mayan Calendar. Some of it has gone over the top. Sometimes I feel as if I just want to live and flow and not have so many ideas and opinions and prophecies crammed down my throat.

I believe most of all in transmutation ~ alchemy. We have the power to change anything. Remember that matter is neither created, nor destroyed. So, what happens to it? It is transformed. We hold that power, my friends. We have the power to change our circumstances, to change our lives. I will never believe that we are bound to a prophecy, an astrology transit, a prediction.

The bottom line in all that is happening astrologically in the here and now, is that we are all being called to seek a balance between our sense of security and our sense of freedom....adn most of all to live our highest Truth...walk our talk. We've all heard it before...but the rehearsal is over. This is it. How do you want to "transmute" the energy of your life? You get to choose. Yes, some of the choices may be difficult, even excruciating ~ but they can also be liberating, exciting and empowering. A good astrology reading can certainly help to make sense of things, but in absence of seeking counsel, intuition will always serve as your best and most accurate guide.

If you've had your "ship bouyed to the dock" ... all tied down for fear of change and braving the open seas, then you are likely feeling uncomfortable and feeling like the Universe is handing you a whirlwind of upset! The reality is...you are being asked to trust in change and to flow with new possibilties. Uranus is the planet we are talking about here. Think of this energy as a giant rut-buster. The more stale and stagnant you or your life has become, the more powerful the winds of change must be to get things moving again.

If you have been "out to sea," with one hapless adventure after the next," then you are being asked to make some committments toward your sense of stability and security. Likely, you are feeling penned in and cuffed in restraint. This is the energy of Saturn, my friends. Saturn calls for discipline, integrity and serves us with one reality check after the next until we begin to "plan out work, and work our plan."

It's in large part, about the balance between security and freedom.

At the helm of it all, is our good friend, Pluto...aksing for nothing less than our total surrender of anything or anyone that stands in the way of our highest good ~ our highest truth. The more we resist, the more pain we are likely to be feeling. This may require you to re-evaluate your closest relationships, your friendships, your marriage, your business associates. Are you compromising yourself? Your ideals? Your principals? Your values? If so, then something's gotta go.

The bottom line: It's time to live your life authentically and step into your personal power in your true divine essence and naked soul.

I am so pleased that the world seems to be waking up into a global consciousness. That said, the best thing you can do, is be who you were created to be. You can't do anything about the oil spill in the gulf if you can't even manage what's in your own backyard.

Now is the time to clean up your own mess, live with integrity, live with honesty and good will. Be gentle with yourself, and you will automatically be gentle with others. Fix what's right in your "own house" and you will automatically help everything else "wrong" in the world right now.

I've had a lot of contacts lately asking me to write, asking if I still doing readings. As part of my truth, I have also been through many changes. I am standing in my power and walking my talk, but much has been sacrificed in the process.

I am still doing readings. I am still writing, but it has become more personal, more self-directed.

I am faciliating my second 12-week Artist's Way Creative Cluster at the Temple of Peace in Haiku. I am working on publishing some works that have been brewing in my head for the last year or more. I have moved to Haiku and surrendered my relationship with my lover of 5 years, as it clearly was not in alighment with my highest good. Painful...yes. Empowering...yes. Liberating...yes.

It seems that many of us are a bit "in the water" at the moment. Maybe that is the best place we can be. Maybe we have become dry and brittle from living lives in someone else's clothing, in someone else's ideal of who we should be, at the expense of being who we are and being okay with that. Maybe it's time to moisten ourselves with a few tears, letting go of a lifetime of grief held by all ~ so that we can better embrace joy, peace and happiness.

We are being called to let it all go now. To trust. To have faith. To know that we are exactly where we're supposed to be. The trust is in ourselves...that higher God within us. It's not up to anyone else to tell us how to live our lives, what we need or don' t need to be or to do. What we should believe and not believe.

This is a call to engage the mystery in life, the trust. It's not about making an enemy of fear, rather it's about embracing our fear. Loving "all" of ourselves. It's not about "getting rid of" those parts about ourselves we'd rather not admit to. It's about loving those parts with all your might. It's about forgiving yourself for everything.

I just want to say...above all...my friends...just love yourself! Just love yourself...

With much sincerity,
Dawn Elizabeth