Opening the Door to 2012

As we wrap up 2011, many would like to simply close the door quietly and move on. No end-of-year wrap-ups please. The bumpy ride of this past year is still freshly felt, especially since it has been ending with quite a dust-up for many. So we put our hand on the doorknob of 2012, and hesitate for a moment. This year has been looming in our consciousness for so very long. It is a bit surreal to finally be stepping into it. Perhaps we do so with trepidation, excitement, or curiosity. Few are neutral about what is to come, at this momentous time in our earth's history.

We turn the handle and pull slowly. What is on the other side? Who among you does not wonder? What is on the other side for you personally, for those in your life, and for the world at large?

It will not be a quiet year; there will be "nary a dull moment." The tides of change will be dramatic. We will each experience this differently, depending on our vantage point. And there will be times when we are flowing along beautifully in sync with the new energy, and other times when a wave comes and momentarily knocks us over. This is life, yes, that is the way things always have been. The difference being that it will all be very, very compressed. Our concept of time is shifting and will continue to shift. The year will go by in a flash, and at the same time so much will occur in those 12 months that we will look back in disbelief that this all happened in just one year.

The energy we have already begun to experience in the past two months is not just an amplified version of what came before. It is a new energy, and it takes some getting used to. You may look around and say, "well, things still look the same. There's the same furniture in my home, the same trees in my neighborhood, the same grocery store I shop in." True. But the energy I am referring to is connected with consciousness, though it is also felt on the physical, emotional, and mental level. It is working to connect all of these aspects. If you open to it, allow it in, then it will work its way through you interweaving your soul with your body/mind/emotions. You will move closer and closer to becoming fully integrated in this way. 

As you have heard from many, this process of awakening we are going through is not only about expanding our soul - but rather integrating our body with our soul. Knitting the two together. Your Higher Self then is no longer "out there" but "in here." In fact, it is then no longer Higher, but rather simply, your Self.

Most will not complete this process by the end of 2012. But the new and vastly improved energies of this year give us the potential to move further along towards this integration. We can close the gap more in one year than we have over many lifetimes. For all but a few, there will still be a significant gap at the end of the year, though we will have a growing feeling of what it would be like to be all the way there. And this will motivate us to go further the year after, and the year after that. The momentum will continue to build and carry us further than we thought imaginable not too long ago.

There are words and thoughts that I see as being a dominant part of the energy of 2012. One is authenticity. This word has been coming front and center in my awareness for months now, and it seems to be doing so for others as well. You can see the energy of this word playing out on the world stage, as well as within our personal lives. Dishonesty, deception, the masks we wear to appease, please, or control, artifice in all its forms - these are all being pushed to the surface so that we may look and see more clearly. Notice this in politics, religion, education, finance, business - it is becoming more and more blatant and yet still many follow along like sheep. The good news is that many of the sheep are no longer allowing the wool to be pulled over their eyes. 

On a personal level we each are being called upon to connect with our core essence. This is what we find when we peel back endless layers of ego, and the stories about who we are, based on what we have experienced. All of the stories about our being wounded by family, friends, lovers, spouses, bosses, teachers, priests; through illness, financial ruin, job loss, . . . or simply circumstances. All these things were quite real. Our pain was understandable. We have been tested and tried by all of this and more. And underneath all of that, who we are, the essence of our Being, remained intact. 

And so this is our path: that which takes us closer and closer to rediscovering our core essence. Letting go of anger, of fear, of all our wounds. Accepting our losses as a part of our life's experience. Enfolding all of the joy and the sorrow of each moment of our life and knowing that what really matters is what is even deeper than all that. That essence at our core is pulsing with life. The energy it contains, if unleashed, will light us on fire with passion and creativity. 

This, it turns out, is what 2012 is all about. It's not about the end of times; not about being left behind, or ascending up into the ethers. It is about what has been here all along and is just waiting, patiently waiting to be discovered. 

Come with me and let's explore. The Universe is within. And what is within creates the Universe. As Above, So Below. As Without So Within. And so it Is.