It doesn't matter whether you remember your dreams or not. They are there, and they are in high service to your well -being. You can go to bed nearly destroyed with the weight of life in a body, and with the aid of sleep, your vehicle gets rested, and with the aid of dreams, your Soul gets remembered and restored.
 
Even nightmares are in service, though it would not seem so for they are accomplishing something. Nightmares are a mechanism for playing out something that needs releasing, or needs to be faced. They serve to get your attention in an undeniable way. I never met a nightmare I did not come to appreciate.

Shakespeare nailed it when he referred to sleep as knitting up the unraveled sleeve of care. That it does, when it is deep and restful. But dreaming is also connected with traveling throughout the worlds and universes at large. We die to this world every night and are born to other worlds but then, our Soul, understanding we are not done here with our purposes, returns us. Like little lambs,  our Soul sees to it that we return to our body, wagging our tails behind us, ready to take on life in the physical again, fortified and, in the case of perfectly marvelous dreams, greatly inspired.

Such a gift, dreams. Lifesaving, really. Just another example of how taken care of we are.

When a musician performs, you generally think of them as wanting to please an audience. In watching this exuberant Peruvian young man sing and play his guitar (image to left), his joy was explosive and filling the room, as was true of others performing with him. He does this all the time, and it never gets old, I could tell. Probably he is already a happy kind of person but something about watching the joy he got from making the music, being the instrument of all that passion and tone and rhythm totally captivated me.

You may not think of yourself as having music inside of you that wants to express but I promise you, it is there. The way you know that is how you feel, maybe in the shower when no one else is around, when you sing as if you knew how. And just the rhythms of your life, of your steps when you walk and the cadences of your speech and how you write, and the sound of your laughter . . .that is what I call high music.

I am convinced we are supposed to be enjoying ourselves on a very regular basis and the more we can feel and appreciate how we are the embodiment of music and are always sounding our tone, the better. Look at the man's face! Through the blurriness, you see the truth of what he is feeling. That is also a mirror of something inside of you, if you just poke around and locate it.

There are so many things we know, but we don't know that we know. It is true of children but of adults of all ages as well.

Throughout my life, maybe only once a decade, I have hit points of feeling like I need to do a major re-write of my life script. These have been times when I have sustained the deep, sinking feeling that I am simply not getting it right. Whatever I am supposed to be doing with my life is not what is happening. I would hit points of despair, about myself mostly (not having a clear idea of who I was or what I was here for).

I don't remember when I started doing this or why, but at these very low points, before I would go to sleep at night, I would simply say (and usually out loud) "I need to meet with the Council."

I am an excellent dream re-caller, in general, but on the nights I asked to meet with 'the council', I would invariably awaken the next morning with absolutely no dream recall but with a sense of well- being.

Years ago, I was meeting with a friend of mine who was one of the most powerful healers I have ever known and somehow I mentioned to him about 'the council' and he laughed with glee that I knew about "them."

Recently, I have been reading about all the information obtained from thousands of hypnotherapy sessions by a therapist named Michael Newton. (Book title Journey of Souls). Mr. Newton's main interest was (and is) on what the soul experiences between  lives. Fascinating material that I read with an open mind. Well, lo and behold, one of the pieces he has obtained from many many different clients is about 'a council' that we meet with at certain junctions in the 'after life' (strange name in that we are very much alive then!). These meetings are deemed crucial. The council is made up of very high beings, higher than our own personal guide that we work with on the other side.
 
In reading about all this, I knew that I knew about this information. I would not call it 'remembering' what I knew so much as 'recognizing' what I knew.

I feel such a deep sense of gratitude that something in me knew to reach out to these high beings when I most needed their help. I also somehow knew they were not to be called upon trivially, for we are to work out our own issues as much as possible, so that we can learn and grow. But sometimes, when between a rock and a hard place, reaching out is an act of tremendous self- regard.

I pass knowledge of this resource along to all with whom it resonates. Sometimes, we simply need all the help we can get.

In life, cells and human personalities are healthiest when they have intact boundaries. Boundaries can appear to be walls that cause separation, and they do, but it is a case of healthy separation that allows for an inner building of identity. You  want a kidney cell not to get  all mixed up with being a liver cell or nothing would get done.

As we think of the spiritual journey of our souls having a human experience, we are at the place of being on the verge of a new way of being together called by some Unitive Consciousness in which, on the level of the soul, there is a recognition we all come from Source and in that way, are One.The shifting from duality awareness where polaities  prevail with lines being drawn all over the place . . .going from there  to Unitive Consciousness is not a simple matter. So many steps of development must be mediated and incorporated. Timing is everything. When It is time for letting go of old boundaries and joining with our oversoul and others in our soul family, we will know that. Until then, boundaries can be our friends because they keep certain inner systems healthy and intact.

Many Light workers are empaths. They come into this lifetime with very poor  psychic boundaries so they frequently are feeling and experiencing what is outside of themselves and not the inner truth of their own being. The advantage of being an empath is you always know where something needs help and balance. You easily hear the cries for help. You can also blend with joy and celebration of others when they are in that frame in a most marvelous way, so this is the upside for you personally.

Empaths though can become easily exhausted and lost and it takes a lot of practice to learn to simulate good boundaries for the sake of their own health and balance. Cells that do not have good boundaries become vulnerable to disease because they can be invaded. Same sort of thing. We have here, a micro/macro example.

I am dedicating this blog to all you empaths. You must, you simply must learn to take as good care of yourselves as you aspire to take of others, once you have felt what is going on with them. You probably did come in to be a healer and be of service and that is why you are an empath. To be as powerful and effective as you are capable of being, and for the sake of your physical health as well (for your cells tend to fall in line with the guidelines of your soul for living), learn to say "no" or "not now" or learn to leave a situation to recharge, and some situations, just leave forever so as not to become a martyr. Learn the signals that you need to take better care of yourself. Become an expert at the finer points of what puts you a a place of flourishing, and serve that with the same dedication you serve others. It is simply imperative that you do so. 

Having said all that, a great big thank you for coming on board when there is such need.

This is a love letter, one long overdue.

On Mondays, for going on over two years, a gathering occurs spanning the globe.We, all the sundry beings that we are, connect on a free conference call line, which was started by one lone soaring spirit named Kati. Next thing you know, there were three of us soaring together, of which I was one, and now we are the many.

There is something magical afoot in what we do together. We are each so unique and yet, when we combine, we are lifted as one. We have no agenda. We have no rules. What we have is a flowing together that is effortless, rewarding and never predictable.

I am not exactly sure where the name 'Lovercraft' came from though I think it was Donna who donated it, but it fits. We travel around together in spirit and all manner of magic results. The giftedness and 'specialities' of each person becomes  apparent in each contact we have, yet, we have no hiearchy. No one is at the helm though Kati is the revered launcher-in-chief. Speaking up happens just the way it happens and we all adapt and adjust to the rhythms. It just works.

I have seen other groups attempting to form around shared values and pictures of what is going on currently and I have seen a kind of awkardness that can happen trying to get things to run smoothly, especially in the beginning. From day one, the Lovercraft has not been awkward. It is a beautiful example of what happens when not trying to make anything happen.

I am convinced we are a vehicle of the future inhabiting the present. So much new needs to be created in this time of disengaging from the tired and dying structures of the past, and that is what we are doing week to week in the most amazing of ways. We are the wind under each others wings. The more we give, the more we receive. Like the cedar waxwings in the picture, we migrate in spirit all over the world just responding to what is going on in the moment and in so doing, are lifted very high ourselves..

I know lovercrafts are forming world wide. This just happens to be the one I am familiar with. I just wanted to say a big, re-sounding, wingflapping thank you to all the ones on our weekly call who choose soaring and sharing as the way to be.

You have not seen what celebrating water looks like until you watch what dolphins do in it and with it. And young children give dolphins a run for their money in their enthusiasm for water. If there is a fountain in a mall, mothers of toddlers need to grip their hands hard or they will be given the slip as the toddler gallops to the fountain. Ghetto kids' joy in playing in a spewing fire hydrant on a hot summer day  is case in point two. A male friend of mine shared the story of his six month old daughter the day he first took her to the beach. He set her down on the sand momentarily to do something and she became like a little sand crab scuttling in record time towards the surf. He intercepted her but came to realize, he could not just set her on the sand because she would not stop heading out to sea.

Water gives us life and renewal in all ways. To become unconscious about what water means to us actually robs us because that which we love, we will protect.We don't tend to protect what we take for granted.

 Protecting our seas and waterways is now a crucial crucial thing. This is a tipping point. There are plenty examples of that being the case. If you have no water issues where you are, count yourself as most blessed of people.

So, I hereby, being of sound heart, advocate on this Valentine's Day of 2013 that we honor and appreciate and celebrate water in all ways, and that from this day forward, when Valentine's Day rolls around, you remember this as "Love Water Day". I know enough about working with the water spirits to know that they are exceedingly sensitive to when they are being appreciated for all they do for us. Any action we can take on their behalf is a most good thing to do, and we stand to benefit so much.

 I count conscious awareness of gratitude as 'doing', by the way. If you want an example of what that looks like in motion, watch whales and dolphins in the great playground that is the deep blue sea, and watch elephants playing in a water hole.

I cannot tell you how many times I have heard this story, of how a dolphin just happens to show up right when needed by someone going through a challenge, or feeling a need to connect with unconditional love or just wanting some company. Over and over I hear these accounts and I have had ample personal experience of the finnies reading my heart and my emotions.

So how do they know? How do they do it, this showing up when most needed thing? It is a grand mystery but here is my take. The field around us, the matrix of vibration we all swim in is like a giant message board. Every thought and feeling we have is up there somewhere. Dolphins are like the interpreters of some kind of Morse code, comprehending what is vibrating in the field, whereas to most of us, we just hear blips and bleeps of sound, having no idea what it means..

Dolphins are fond of humans and have been for eons. Why, nobody knows, but they are. Oh there is speculation a plenty, and I could make a pretty good case for why I think so, but the point is this. They can read heart emanations. When they pick up a signal coming from someone's sad or scared heart, they tend to go to the source of those signals. They may not turn it into a personal encounter. There may be no eye contact, but they are just there. A dolphin fin showing up (whale as well) is, I would venture to say, a universal sign for reassurance. Dolphins are the great fear dissipators on the planet. 

When Burt Bacharach wrote the words "What the world needs now, is love sweet love, it's the only thing there is just too little of", he must have been channeling his inner dolphin. Dispelling fear is the way home and when fear leaves, love steps through the door. Dolphins are being very busy bees and certainly doing their part to help us humans feel loved, and safe. I think they are also saying "come on in, the water's fine" meaning, it is just fine for us to become like them and treat life as a great big fish banquet.

Removing protection around the heart that has built up over time and even over lifetimes can be rough going. Even if the price paid for having a highly fortified heart was living with feeling love only under certain very prescribed conditions, real full bore open hearted love, at least there was a sense of some degree of safety.

Now that way of being has been turned on its head. Now, in 2013, it is not in the least safe to live with a bound up heart and in fact, will kill you if you try to, maybe not immediately but sooner rather than  later. You will be killed from the unbearableness of being separated from the Truth that wants its name known now. Just what is that truth? I suggest it is, we are all ONE.

Any experience you have during these times that is causing you to feel pain in your heart I propose is an indication that the defences around your heart are being dismantled. You are undergoing, as it were, surgery to give you access to a much more open heart. Healing from this surgery will surprise you in its speediness and almost immediately, you will run into a barrage of the effects of having a far more open heart. One of the effects I want you to be on the lookout for. It will give you a good barometric reading of where you are in the open heart department. When you honestly feel as happy for another's success and joy as you do for you own, you are in open heart land. The quotient of the joy now possible for you to experience at any point in time shoots through the roof. You are not limited to just your good fortune. Dolphins taught me this a long long time ago. It is why I feel rich as Croesus

The understanding of the snake coiled at the base of the spine came to us Westerners primarily from the Eastern cultures of spiritual understanding. East and West have comingled enough that now all over the world, it is recognized that humans are constantly going through a process of awakening and remembering who they are through the agency of this etheric process of energetic movement that allows the unseen world and the seen world to blend and meet. The effects of this process are sometimes extraordinary and highly unusual leaving many at the mercy of experiences for which they have no precedent.

The times we are living in currently are so rapidly expanding the potential of what it means to be human that more and more people are riding these amazing energetic waves within their own being. This is not the time to rush to conclusions about what is happening to us. It is most definitely the time to realize that whatever is happening has purpose behind it and is not your enemy.

Many people now are able to refer to the time or times of "their opening", and that is saying it about as well as could be said. These experiences pull back the veils. We are allowed to see and know in whole new ways. Sometimes, the only really good way of sharing what comes through is through art.

Always, it is good to be with others who have already "opened" to assist at these amazing times of birthing our more advanced selves, for those who have not been through it will attempt to interpret through too narrow a lense. What is needed is love and space to have the experience and be kept safe from interference until you get to higher ground.

However odd your experience, you are not alone, and even though you cannot tell at first, something wonderful is happening, if you are in a place of love and safety. This is something we can do for each other, to assist at these times. The ancient Incans had a very high value in their culture on 'reciprocity'. When you have gone higher in your consciousness (or 'awareness of what is', if you prefer) then it is your job to give a hand up to your younger brother who hasn't arrived yet. As we do this, we all get to arrive at the mountaintop and share the incredible vistas we never knew were there before. It is far better as a shared experience, and it is most assuredly where we are all headed.

Isn't that a lovely way of saying it? Calling the times when your Light has shown and gotten recognized by another, or many others, youf day in the sun? According to the Incan records, we are living in the time of the return of those they call 'the Children of the Sun.' It is time for the wattage of all our lights, and of our combined light to shine, shine, shine.

There is a woman, let's call her 'South Dakota Cate' that makes it her job to recognize Light when she sees it. She sees it everywhere she looks (and I am deeply hoping that includes when she looks in the mirror). Cate has this gift of recognizing in people what their primary gifts and offerings are and powerfully responding and calling it out to others. She, in essence, makes for so many people, a chance to feel they are having their 'day in the sun'. I don't know if she realizes it or not, but by giving that much credit where credit is due, she is doing Spider Medicine, and creating a web of fulfillment and confidence on the parts of many many people to support their shining even more, and even brighter. It is sacred work, and I wanted to bow my head to it in appreciation and also in laughter because that is what ripples out when that much Light mutually engages.

Thank you Cate, so very much.