What’s Up with 2012?

 So it’s the famed and controversial year 2012.  Are you afraid the world will come to an end? Or are you ignoring the whole thing?

I spent the evening quietly watching movies, listening to music and writing letters to friends. Mostly I am in a wait and see mode.

As an astrologer, you would think I would be all over the doomsday prophecies , or refuting various opinions about what the Mayans meant in their cryptic calendars.  Maybe it’s just the opposite, seeing it only as a another tick on the clocks and calendars of time. 

Time is relative anyway, depending on where you stand on the planet. Traveling will do that to you. It was midnight several hours earlier over there, several hours later over there…. and so on. We have created clocks that measure the pace at which we live, based on the rotation of one planet Earth. And remember Earth is just a small blue-green marble in a huge galaxy among billions of galaxies in the Universe. We have our subjective existence to consider.

Time is an agreement we make so that people show up for meetings or get work done. Animals, fish and birds don’t wear watches or carry cell phones to order their lives and yet after millions of years they still get through natural phases and seasons.

Studying the charts of Western Astrology, I notice a few important aspects for the early part of this year. Jupiter opposes Saturn which is a struggle for control over expansion, but Jupiter also trines Pluto. In an effort to gain power in the corporate sectors, big business and politics will likely see major improvements but not without  making long cases for their sides. Uranus begins its 7 year journey through Aries, a sign of new beginnings. There will be headstrong and spontaneous bursts of energy for new projects, but take care now that one doesn’t blow a fuse.  Fire prone areas in drought conditions will  probably be a concern again.  In places where water and gas leaks are a problem, the trine between Saturn and Neptune will assist in repairs. This aspect is also good for bringing  dreams into reality.  

According to Chinese Astrology, 12 animals rule the cycles of time.  This will be the year of the Dragon again. In simple terms, the dragon signifies transformation and change of luck, because it a mythic being of power. That would be nice for the many who are suffering at this time.

It is also a year of Solar Maximum, in its 11 year cycle of activity, which can affect the planets around it. We have been hit with some strong Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) and faced their effects in the recent months.
They influence satellites, radio transmissions, the bio-magnetic resonance of the mind, emotions, health, decision-making, and therefore stock markets and economies. There are theories about elevated levels of electromagnetism in our environment and potential results, but I will save that for another day.

Most likely this year it will  be a continuation of  goals to accomplish and lessons we  have to fulfill. As the solar system turns again, we will look back at our celebrations and expectations as part of the great matrix of energies that took us through the experience of Life.  Ω

the Spirit of Life after Death

The Mother holds her dying Son, at the Shrine of St. Joseph and Way of the Cross, an open air Church, in Yarnell, AZ

Photo by Su Maya

If you have ever lost someone close, you know how painful the experience is and how long it takes to resolve the feelings of loss. 

Our family losses are the hardest, especially around the holidays. Last year our Mother passed away 3 days before Christmas.

 As the months creeped by I have come to accept her loving presence as One with the Great Ones beyond our present comprehension. 

She holds us the same way now, as They do, when we are sick, or in danger, or need reassurance that there truly is Life beyond death.

Sometimes it’s hard to sense because their touches are so much softer than before,  against the din of traffic, shops, technology and all the distractions of daily life. 

So I want to share in my holiday message this year, that I have come to understand even more than before, that their lives, in the non-physical, are  

 SO MUCH GREATER THAT THIS.

One day we will all be together in the Ocean of Light that is waiting for us on the  other side.

May you take comfort and trust that it will be.

Happy Holiday however you choose to worship.  

 

 

 

 

The Nature of the Soul

The Nature of the Soul

By Su Maya
Inter-Faith Minister And Spiritual Counselor

Over the years, we have come to understand the nature of the Soul as a grouping of collective memories and experiences that are in the unconscious. All our many lives on Earth in the process of soul evolution, bring higher and higher levels of refinement to our form and function, to the choices we make and our depth of compassion. We can visualize this as a linear progression on a horizontal plane.The individual person is also said to be existing on many levels of awareness at once, while only being active on a specific focus of attention, usually the body and its needs. That is the reason for learning meditative techniques which allow the inidividual to explore and hold their attention on higher levels, which expands the consciousness. This can be visualized as a vertical axis of progression.

On these other levels, such as in hypnotic states, one can reach deeper memories, gain insights and creativity, contact ancestors, angels and the Ascended Masters. Many of the writings that have come to us throughout the ages are reports from such encounters and direct knowledge. There are also manuscripts that label these, similar to the archetypes that were described by Carl Jung in his treatises on the collective unconscious.

The Native American Indians and other tribal cultures have said that the animal spirit of the Bear family or Crow, for example, in which all crows know one another, are part of the same soul family and bring the spirit of their lives back to the land of origin. Perhaps it is easier to picture that each species has its own parent soul which encodes each generation of births and rebirths with much of the same instinctual behaviors, based on prior knowledge and that there are inter-species experiences that get relayed back and forth to share.

Individual tribes have aligned their journeys here with clans of animal spirits and continue the tradition to this day. Even contemporary people are said to resemble or relate to a particular animal. This is most likely a true soul connection, to an inner memory, to other lives and travels.

Now, let us view the soul within an even greater context called the Oversoul. The term oversoul was first introduced to me in the ’70s by the late writer Jane Roberts through her series of Seth books and spiritual fiction, in which a soul can manifest itself into many forms and points of awareness. So soul mates, soul families, and soul groups are related, even though they may appear in physical reality as varying cultures, species or eras in time. Past, present and future lives co-existing all at once, higher selves and lower selves conversing.

It is possible to see a soul as an ocean, far greater than an individual can perceive of itself. In that ocean, a point of conciousness can be aware of itself, its needs and hungers, its belongings etc., like a fish, a crab or a crop of seaweed. Each point of awareness is limited to its own view and sensations in the very moment that it is alive. Unless given the larger perspective, it is not aware that it is the ocean which is its soul, its Self. In addition, one body is not able to receive, process and sort all of the information that is possible through the myraid other points of reference which its soul created within the paradigm of Ocean.

In another shift of paradigm, it is possible to see that the billions of people on the planet, are just part of one Oversoul of Human Being. The focal point of one individual may be considered a cell of a much greater whole being. All your feelings add to the whole being, including the ones that you like or dislike, the ones you don’t know, the ones you watch on TV, whether you perceive them as causing pain, injustice or good deeds, all lives bring this information home again.

This is what is called Adam Kadmon in the Qabalah, meaning the “first being”. While there are references in the book of Genesis, Adam Kadmon is not exactly the Adam in the Bible story. It is more like the prototype of the oversoul of humanity in its perfected state, with all the possibilities and potentialities inherent in God’s vision for the total accumulation of men’s lives. In their ascended domain, the Masters such as Christ or Buddha, are good examples for us. Their energy is not limited to a body and can touch many lives at once.

Therefore, every cell and every local point of awareness is part of the entire evolution of an Oversoul. Even the spaces between are full of energetic connections and emanations.

Keeping this in mind, it is easier to see why people do some of the things they do, even if we do not agree with them. It does not really give permission to be harmful or decadent with your life, but it is easier to forgive yourself for the mistakes and corrections, for the suffering and healing you have tried to do for the sake of a higher cause.

Life is a gift that should be cherished, and used to evolve the whole of God’s Universe. Use your life to fulfill the purpose your Soul has given you in the larger scheme of things.

I hope this brings some light and understanding to the long journey Home. Peace be unto you and every innocent one.

~ ~ ~ Su Maya is an inter-faith minister and spiritual counselor. For 22 years she has been receiving and sharing direct knowledge through various media, including fines arts, intuitive writings and radio transmissions. Living as a traveling monk now, she provides private sessions by phone only.

This article is one chapter of a book in progess…

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Summer Flowers

Last summer I was living in Taos, where hollyhocks and lots of other flowers were bright and beautiful. I harvested some of the many seed pods and brought them with me on the road. 

Now every campground I stay at, and even at a few private homes when it is permitted, I am  planting seeds. My hope is that whether I see them or not, there will be a trail of flowers across the US wherever I have been. Maybe someone from the sky will see it later.

Of course there are so many kinds of weather and terrain for these places that I do not know which seeds will grow and bloom, but that is Nature. I am just passing through….

Holiday 2010

 

Photo by Su Maya

 Stained glass window in Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Taos, NM

 

Greetings Friends,

Hope you are doing well and enjoying good health.

I am on the road again, visiting more towns, watching landscapes, sampling the cultures of the various regions of our country. Been practicing my guitar and even playing with a few people around.

After spending more than a year in New Mexico, doing an artist’s residency, and showing in a gallery, I have decided to get back to the simple life. It’s about being in the moment. I could not ignore the presence of weather that told me it was time to go south for the winter. So my little inter-species family packed up and moved on.

I have met so many really good people along the way and if I do not get to communicate this individually, please forgive me. You have made my life richer and kept my head up when times were tough. Thank You.

Hope you have a wonderful holiday season.

Many Blessings, Su

　

180 ‘ Degrees

180 Degrees

There’s nothing I can say that isn’t already said.

The more you try, the more you lose instead.

People on the streets haven’t got a thread.

 

Oh the irony of life, you get just what you find,

You want what the books say inside so you read between the lines.

 

But you can’t give it up boy, lay around in bed.

There’s a place out there, maybe marked in red.

No way to know now, take the middle road.

You roll on down, ’til it’s time to go.

 

Oh the irony of life, you get just what you find.

The higher up you climb, the more you leave behind.

 

When you push it away, it will call you back.

Everything you gain, only comes from lack.

Love and money and fame stored in a sack.

 

Oh the irony of life, you get just what you find.

180 degrees is a straight line.

Around and around and around in time,

180 degrees is a straight line.

 

(c) Su Maya, June 2010

　

About Letting Go

About Letting Go…..

 

How do you know when to let go of a place, or people, or job set? How do you know when to take on a new adventure, a new identity with a new set of rules?
 
Who is truly in control of the decision to remain in the center of the next reality, to hold a clear vision of its purpose and anchor the myriad patterns of life?
 
The one called God, by many names, by many faces and images, is the one held responsible for the paths, and of every result. That is how it was taught in the Big Books.
 
Maybe the books are limited, after all they were written by mortal men and women with just the information of their human lives.  They wrote a lot of laws that need revising as we evolve throughout the centuries..
 
Now the year is 2010. Astronomers have seen through more advanced telescopes to the edges of the Universe, and have come up with a few general theories:
      – 72% of the Universe is filled with Dark Energy which is pushing it apart. No one know what kind of energy this is.
      - 23% is made composed of Dark Matter which bends space but has yet to be understood.
      - Only 5% of the Universe can be observed and measured, including the 100′s of billions of gallaxies that emit light and radio frequencies.
 
And a God who created it ALL must be much larger than that.
 
This Universe is not attached to our little lives. What you think is important has no bearing on a Supernova exploding in deep space 11 billion light years away. If you change your mind or location on Earth, does it change the direction of colliding solar systems in another galaxy? No.
 
The best answers to the questions lie in listening to the momentum that is created by your thoughts and actions, by your relationship to the Creator and all Its waves and motions.
 
If a new path opens and it reveals a world of potential that may roll smoothly, then Go.  If it shows you that it will hurt or cause problems for more creatures, that it will be pitted with holes to stop progress, then Wait.
 
Waiting is good too. There is almost Infinite time in the Universe. No hurry, no place to go until the time is right.
 
Although time is a relative term. It represents a point of view based on the cycles of the Sun, Moon and seasonal changes. Astrological charts can give a subject a wider perspective on the timing of events throughout their lives. For instance, the 12 year cycles of Jupiter and 30 year cycles of Saturn can have lasting effects of their own. That’s how it looks from our blue-green planet.
 
Astronomical calculations demonstrate tremendous variations from star to star, and far away from our normal clocks, calendars, and transit charts.
 
Looking at so many possibilities, which one manifests the best destiny of everyone in the multi-faceted ring of spheres? Or causes a confusion of energies that become chaotic or go nowhere?
 
When time and direction align with the flow of currents, then the path will be smooth. You are free to go, to manifest a new reality that will probably be good for most of those involved. It’s like sailing with the wind rather than against it.
 
Still you are responsible for the effects of free will that ride along each spoke of the wheel, radiating outwards.
 
You are a system in motion. So is everyone else.
　
　
　

   ~  Su Maya

 

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The Little Book of Travel

    
The Little Book of Travel
  
 
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An Introduction to Freedom


This is a guide for anyone having a need to go away from their current situation to another. Your reasons for moving across land, sky and water may be different than mine, but the journey is just as important.
 
 
 
Chapter 1:  Who you think you are is much bigger, and much smaller than that. Who you become will not be as dependent on what you did for a living, any roles you played in other peoples lives, where you grew up or got a degree. 
 
 
Chapter 2:  What – Keep it Light & Simple 
Travelers can be on a bicycle with a knapsack, or living in a luxury motor home worth a half a million dollars.
 
Most of us fit in somewhere in between.   There are literally thousands of places to visit. Landscapes, seascapes, lakes, forests, deserts, hills and canyons.

 

Chapter 3: Where – There are soft places and  hard places. 

Stand anywhere and look around, at the expansive skies above, to the rocks on the ground beneath your feet.  

 

 Chapter 4:  When -  Go North in the Summer, South in the Winter. 
 
I listen to the environment. The temperatures and humidity can shift overnight. 
Sometimes it is the culture that holds an interest, or sends me away.  
The deeper aspects of intuition are what I trust to tell me when to go.  Trust your instincts about danger.
 

Chapter 5:  Why – The Elements of Life.    Your senses will open up if you feel them. They can receive more knowledge than you think. 
 

 

A Blessing:
May the roads you drive on be smooth.
May you find whatever you need.
May you see beauty everywhere.
May you always know where to go, and when… 
 
-Su Maya 2010
Originally sketched out in the Apache National Forest.

 
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A Cherokee Legend

 

Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth’s rite of Passage? His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help to anyone. Once he survives the night, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own. The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him . Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man! Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm. We, too, are never alone. Even when we don’t know it, God is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him. If you liked this story, pass it on. If not, you took off your blindfold before dawn. Moral of the story: Just because you can’t see God, doesn’t mean He is not there. ‘For we walk by faith, not by sight.’ Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass … it’s about learning to appreciate the Power, and the gift of Rain.  - Author unknown….thanks to my Father who sent this to me.