HJ: Life gives you whatever experience is most helpful for the growth and expansion of your consciousness.  That’s a two way street.  Some experiences are pleasurable, others are painful.  But even the painful experiences have much wisdom for us and we are only forced to repeat them if we have not yet learned the lesson they hold for us.  So in order to help you live a more pleasurable, fun and happy life, todays article is all about transmutation.  Specifically, transforming wounds and struggles into wisdom and strength.  Enjoy.

- Truth

12 Ways to Turn Your Wounds into Wisdom and Strength

By Marc Chernoff | Marc and Angel

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“Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.”
―Bob Dylan

I hear a multitude of you saying, “What now, what next, where do I go?” The answer has always been, “go within.” If you are constantly looking outward to change, fix or otherwise offer advice to someone else, you are not tending your own spiritual garden. ~ Creator

The greatest joy comes from expressing yourself in your truth, your authenticity, in a fully present way. If you are not experiencing a lot of joy in your life, how are you not allowing your truth to shine? How can you find ways to do that? What can you start to do to allow yourself to experience what we call the sweet spot, fully embracing your self and the present moment at the exact same time?

Do activities that you love. If you don’t know what you love to do anymore, we suggest you go to a book store or library and wander up and down every aisle. Pay attention to where you linger, it is a good indicator of what interests you. Find the perfection in yourself as a beloved and vital piece of Source. Find perfection in the present moment. Become a joy detective, looking for it wherever you go!

Dear Ones, joy is not something that cruelly eludes you, or is some prize that you may win if you are lucky. You can find joy by savouring biting into a jelly bean, in examining a snowflake, in hearing children’s laughter. It is all around you, just waiting for you to embrace it and join in the fun. ~Archangel Gabriel

We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. ~ Mark Twain

Most of us don’t know ourselves. We think we do, but this is mostly mental abstraction. We have an image, and a story, but very rarely do we have a complete and honest picture of who we really are. Yet knowing oneself is the only true way any of us can make any real progress, find any measurement of personal peace and help aid in the transformation to a better world.

One of the greatest hindrances to this is anger. As with all of the shadow emotions, we are taught to hold anger in from an early age, as it is socially unacceptable. Hence we grow up bottling a lot of powerfully charged negative emotion that doesn’t go away, but instead finds its outlet through other behaviours and physical symptoms...

by Kathy Biehl

January 20, 2015

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The 2015 Aquarius New Moon gives us a propulsive send off into the adventures to come. It’s a high-octane blend of fiery individuation, more tectonic plate shifting and cool, cool objectivity.

It may feel like a switch has suddenly flipped, especially given the diffuse, bittersweet energies and the flurry of startling departures in the week preceding We’re being outfitted for blasting out of stuckness and into a wild and wooly future. 

The 2015 Aquarius New Moon’s ruler, Uranus, is fueling the fire power and shifts. He’s moving toward two contacts that are scheduled to detonate in March: the easy flow of a trine to Jupiter, pouring flame accelerant onto radical liberation and actualization of the self, and the final, change-demanding square to Pluto, which will finish the restructuring of our foundations that has been in process since June 2012.

Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

Effort is always required for the seeker who wants to attain enlightenment, but things get easier after we work hard for so long. If we want to achieve anything, we have to show some incentive and refuse to give up when things don’t seem to go our way, and as long as we stay dedicated, we’ll be rewarded for our dedication.

Our reward will come in the form of a greater perception, which we’ll have justly earned by the time we receive it. As we’ll learn here, some effort is necessary in the beginning of our quest for enlightenment, and the harder we work (and the more dedicated we are) the easier things will get over time.

Some of us try our best and make as much of an effort as we can, and yet, we still don’t seem to experience the fruits of our work. When this happens, the best thing we can do is detach, perhaps meditate, and evaluate where we’re at along the enlightenment path.