In this October Energy Update 2022 we discuss the energy of October which is one of divine fire and revelation. During this month we are invited to engage in the alchemy of fire in order to recreate ourselves in truth, recreate our relationships in truth, and reclaim the sacred fire of divine love and eros. The fire element will continue to increase in strength as we approach the 2024 solar maximum. The question is how will we work with it? The invitation is to use the energy of fire in a constructive way through the process of alchemy. Fire is a powerful force for both creation and destruction. When skillfully used fire enables us to destroy what is dead and no longer true in order to create from a place of greater truth and authenticity. When fire runs amok or is used unskillfully we see a lot of senseless suffering, destruction, and death. Yet whether fire is used in a skillful or unskillful way, we can trust that we will get the experiences we need. What needs to be destroyed will be destroyed and something more true will eventually take its place. The only question is how much suffering will we need to endure in order to get there. The key to working with the fire element within us is to identify and cultivate our own desires. Desire is our inner fire. When we are attuned to it our desires can light our way and burn us clean of delusions. When we suppress our desires, fire will express itself in destructive ways. When we don’t tend our own inner fire it may go out, and we may find it difficult to find purpose, direction, and motivation in our lives. Our first responsibility to the self is to tend the fire of our own desires. To notice and allow them to run through us. That does not mean every desire is acted upon. Rather every desire is noticed, honored, and respected. Then the will is used to work with those desires in a constructive way. As we tend our own inner fire of desire this month we are being invited to recreate ourselves in truth. A lot of 2022 has been about bringing our life circumstances into greater integrity with truth. That starts with the truth of who and what we are, which can only be known when we are clear on our own desires. Because it is our desires that tell us what needs to be experienced in order to continue our spiritual evolution. When we ignore or deny our desires we are denying the divine within us the experiences it needs for evolution.

In this video we discuss Sexual Attraction and Spiritual Awakening, and how sexual attraction often changes after spiritual awakening. The most significant spiritual awakening most of us ever have is the initial opening of the heart chakra, which brings online energetic sensitivity and a greater capacity for love and intimacy. After that initial awakening we often think of our lives in terms of what came before our awakening and what came after. This is also true of sexual attraction and romantic relationships, which is the most potent vehicle there is for spiritual evolution. Sexual attraction changes after a spiritual awakening. Our pre-awakening sexual attractions are usually determined by the lower chakra lessons we need to learn in order to reach the heart space. So we are often working out our karma and may find we are attracted to conventional beauty and those who possess wealth, power and/or social prestige. The evolutionary imperatives at this point often relate to security, survival, procreation, and learning to harmoniously relate with one another. The good news is there are a lot of people who can help us learn the basic lessons that help us open the heart and achieve the initial awakening. For many people that may involve having and raising children together. Things can get more challenging and interesting after awakening, the basic lessons have been learned and we are ready for a more advanced curriculum. For instance, many of us awaken within a partnership that taught us the lessons we needed to awaken, but after the awakening the sexual attraction goes away. Fundamentally we are sexually attracted to people with whom we have the potential to do work in consciousness together to evolve. The root chakra draws in the experiences we need in order to evolve in consciousness. We are sexually attracted to those with whom we have polarity, and the potential to do work. At its most primal level that polarity is the difference between masculine and feminine energies (regardless of bodies), but more generally polarity is the capacity of two people to catalyze one another's spiritual growth and help facilitate healing of karmic patterns, greater balance and wholeness. Once we move beyond the basic lessons of the lower chakras we may find we are no longer sexually attracted to those who are unable to meet us at the heart space to do the advanced lessons. The advanced lessons include cultivating unconditional love free of the desire to possess or be possessed, engaging in open and honest communication that facilitates the sharing and harmonization of vibrations, and ultimately the sacramental merger of beings with one another and the divine. Many wonder what to do when they have a spiritual awakening while in a relationship, and after the awakening sexual attraction to their partner goes away. When sexual attraction disappears in a relationship it usually means polarity at the root chakra has been resolved, which can happen for a number of reasons. Sometimes that means we have successfully learned the lessons the mated relationship had to teach us, and are not compatible for the advanced lessons. Other times it may mean we simply no longer view the person as appropriate or able to do the basic work in consciousness "assigned" to us. Whatever the reason for a lack of sexual attraction things can always change, if there is a mutual desire, willingness, and ability to continue using the relationship as an evolutionary vehicle. However, if any of those factors is absent the relationship has likely served its evolutionary function. That doesn't mean it has to end. You can have a very happy and harmonious relationship with someone with whom you lack sexual chemistry or Eros. However, the relationship has ceased to be a romantic mated relationship at that point, whether or not it is acknowledged as such. Therefore it is useful to recognize there has been a shift, and to update the terms and conditions of the relationship so they are in alignment with what is true and alive.

In this September Energy Update 2022 we discuss the energy for September which I described as a "Bridge to the Future." Many of us have experienced LIFETIMES of growth and transformation this year. So much so that it has often felt difficult to integrate it all. As we move into September and the September Equinox we are entering a period of turning inward and harvesting all that was good and true about what we have experienced so far this year. Now is a good time to take stock and examine the new foundation for your path forward.

In this interview with Michaël Bijker we discuss the yoga of descension and integrating the human. We can often think of the first leg of the spiritual journey as the yoga of ascension, where through discipline and renunciation we disentangle ourselves from the addictions and attachments that keep us trapped and stuck in order to experience higher states of consciousness. But there comes a time when we must confront the aversions that develop as a byproduct of renunciation and integrate higher consciousness into the human, so that we may become spirit in form.

Michaël Bijker is a yoga, breathwork, pranayama, meditation & QiGong teacher and has the best-selling course creator of breathwork, QiGong and meditation courses with over 70.000 students worldwide. His courses are among the highest-ranked on Udemy and his teachings have transformed the lives of thousands of people around the world.

Michaël has practiced mind training and meditation since the age of 14 and studied QiGong and Yoga since having to recover from a severe car accident that happened in the year 2001. By the powerful methods of QiGong and Yoga and the grace of God he was able to recover from injuries of which medical professionals considered he would probably not heal. Since then he has been committed to helping others to learn these wonderful techniques as well that will not only give health, focus and strength, but makes us realize what we truly are and what our true calling is.

After years of living as a modern spiritual renunciate Michaël met his partner and became a father, which has led him to integrating the realization of higher consciousness into the life of the householder.

In this Lion's Gate 2022 energy update we discuss the themes of the August 8th Lion's Gate Portal. As a collective we find ourselves at a crossroads. One path leads to heaven on Earth, the other to a hell of our own making. There is no pre-destination. It is all a choice. We are choosing heaven or hell moment by moment day by day. Late last year we said 2022 was going to be an ascension rocketship. What we didn't realize at the time was that we would be building the rocketship mid flight. As we build our rocketships mid flight we often have to improvise. Sometimes a part won't fit, or will stop working, and we have to adapt. We are mid flight, so if we don't figure out how to make it work the only option is to fall. The message I have for everyone is to keep going. Keep improvising. Keep the rocketship in the air, even if you are simply maintaining altitude at this point. It isn't about being graceful and easy. It is about being dedicated to embodying a higher state of consciousness. It is about showing up each day and doing the things you need to do in order to embody more peace, joy, and love while serving others. There is a prophecy amongst the indigenous peoples of the Americas that humanity has split into two tribes, the condors and the eagles. The condor tribe is intuitive and feeling, and lives in harmony with Mother Earth, viscerally experiencing her as an extension of self. The eagle tribe is powerful and intelligent, and lives for conquest, domination, and exploitation of the Earth Mother. It is said that for a 500 year period the eagle tribe will grow stronger and stronger, until they grow so strong that that they all but wipe out the condor tribe and destroy Mother Earth. At the end of that 500 year cycle the eagle tribe will have a choice. They can choose to continue doing the things that destroy the planet, or learn to live in harmony with her and the condor tribe. In order for both tribes and the planet to survive the eagle and the condor will have to learn how to fly in harmony with one another. We are in the time of choice, where the eagle tribe will learn to live in peace with the condor tribe and plant or destroy itself and everything else. There is no predestination. It is all choice that must be made over and over on a daily basis.

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In this conversation with Agape Garcia we discuss resilience and community. Be Your Incredible Self (BYIS) best describes Agape Garcia’s tenacious attitude towards empowering others. Agape shares how she overcame a violent and tumultuous childhood, a double attempted homicide while 8 months pregnant (by the father), and the resultant physical and emotional trauma. Agape's journey demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit, and how our extended community can help us survive and thrive.

More about Agape: https://tinyurl.com/byis47

In this June New Moon Energy Update 2022 we discuss the energetic themes of the June 28th new moon. Some of the themes discussed are continuing to deepen our capacity to embody loving awareness, finding nourishing community, owning the queer parts of our being, and nourishing the thirsty parts of ourselves.

A theme of this year has been deepening our capacity to embody loving awareness. That has meant releasing judgments and noticing the things that make us numb and contracted. Often the discomfort of a relationship or situation is what causes us to numb out and not be present. When that happens we need times of retreat to withdraw, heal, and nourish ourselves. Sometimes we may even need to distance ourselves from people and situations that we are unable to remain conscious while in relationship with.

The search for nourishing community and relationships is a big theme of this new moon. Many of us have outgrown the old containers of our lives and they are no longer nourishing. Which has led many of us on a quest to find community that will provide fertile ground for us to continue our growth.

As part of learning to be in community in a deeper more authentic way we are being invited to own all the queer parts of ourselves. June is Pride month which is a celebration of diversity and loving all of who and what we are. We all have queer parts of ourselves, which don't necessarily have anything to do with sexuality or gender identity. We all have aspects of ourselves that remain hidden, unloved, and unacknowledged which are being asked to be owned and embodied. It is only when we own all the queer parts of ourselves that we are able to show up in community and fully be a part of it.

Nourishing all the thirsty parts of ourselves is a theme of this new moon. Notice where you are lacking nourishment. Notice where you are lacking in love, attention, and light and give it the nourishment it needs. It is only when we are nourished that we can really experience true abundance.

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Live YOUR Life Like You're Dying! In this interview with Barry Nicolaou we talk about how the prospect of death can help us prioritize what is important in life, find our purpose, and live our life to the fullest. The Inspiration Barry absorbed one fateful day at a cemetery led him to write and publish a #1 Best Selling book on Amazon. His book; The 11 Master Secrets to Business Success and Personal Fulfilment outlines the 11 areas that intersect economic freedom with personal fulfillment. His forte' is in deconstructing the layers beneath cognitive fear, indecision, subconscious paradigms, Inherited thinking, habitual thinking and their intimate relationship to real-world expectations and experiences. His new presentation on Gratitude Leadership for corporations and numerous mental health programs that have been added to his 1-1 work, assisting businesses to take a holistic look at their culture as an 'energy' that feeds straight to the bottom line.

Barry's 1-1 work can be found at https://www.fiverr.com/share/26KQVX

His corporate work can be found on www.barrynicolaou.com