Let’s look at everything in a new way. Why on Earth look at everything the same old way? Why be bound with boundaries?

Life may be compared to an escalator that keeps going up. If you have been getting off at the second floor all the time, note that there are other floors above, and each floor contains something that the floor below did not. Of course, in a department store, the 5th floor may not be more wonderful than the 4th floor. When it comes to consciousness, each floor has different offerings, and each floor builds on the one before. Each floor is golden in the sense that this is the floor you are on and where you belong until you leap to what We call a higher floor.

Is each floor easier to assimilate? Yes and no, yet there is nothing to question. You don’t want to go back to a lower floor, and so you rise higher, ready or not. When you rise, you are ready, no matter how stretched you may feel. After all, you did advance to a new floor.

Of course, in life the floors are not so easily identified. You may have risen to the 7th floor without realizing it. Or, let us consider, that you have always been on one magnificent floor. This is closer to the Truth. There is something great about discovering what floor you are on, and you may hardly believe that you have been on the top floor all along. You just weren’t able to read the signs until, gradually or abruptly, you spotted the floor number you are on and are amazed.

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.