by Mercedes Kirkel

When we crossed over into the month of December, I felt a sudden realization that 12-12-12 and 12-21-12 are almost here. Two questions played through my mind: How did we get here so quickly, almost without me noticing? And what is going to happen?

I’ve heard these same questions voiced from many others. And so I’d like to offer my thoughts in response.

I definitely feel a sense of time speeding up in my life. Over the last month in particular, I’ve made a conscious choice to do less altogether and to do more of what’s really important to me. In other words, as time gets faster my solution is to get slower, or really more essential—as in “living from essence.” I’m living more from my core, who I really am, and less from the periphery. I’m doing the things I really value with more intention and also more peace. And I’m trusting that what needs to get done is getting done, that I’ll be sustained in the midst of this however Spirit chooses.

I’m enjoying this greater surrender into Spirit. What’s happening has become too big for me to try to stay in charge. I’ve become humble, open, trusting.

I’m trusting my emotions more. I’m trusting my guidance, in all its forms. I’m trusting myself. And I’m trusting God.

I do not have an inside line on what’s going to happen in the future, including the dates people have targeted as significant. I was invited by The Sedona Journal of Emergence to be a contributor for their December double issue of predictions for the future. I declined, telling them that my guides don’t offer predictions. They offer help for us to create our own future, because they love us and, at the same time, respect our free choice. They hold the point of view that the future is not fixed. I agree with that.

I do believe that we’re on a path of ascension into higher consciousness, which will manifest outwardly as transformation into higher states of being. I doubt that this will happen overnight sometime this month, but I don’t rule it out as a possibility. What seems more likely to me is that this will happen gradually over a period of months or even years, but at an ever-increasing speed, until we reach a new state of balance at our next level of evolutionary growth.

I don’t think we’re moving into the end of the world or a period of cataclysmic destruction. I think we’re going through the end of an age, one in which we’ve dropped to a very low frequency at times and in certain arenas. Now we’re going through a birth process into a new epoch, which I am very excited and hopeful about.

I think it’s possible that this birthing process could include some “purification,” which might look like destruction and people transitioning out of this lifetime. That is one of the ways that growth and change occur, through the death-rebirth process. And for many of us, this brings up a very deep-seated fear of death, arising out of our survival instinct. This fear is one of the things that Mary Magdalene addressed in Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love:

You fear that death is the end, and you don’t want to “lose” your life. . . . You have this fear because you have a veil over your remembering. This is part of the process you agreed to in choosing to manifest in third-dimensional reality. In this reality, there is a veil over your remembering of all the lifetimes you have lived and of all the other realms you have been in between your lifetimes. There is a veil over your remembering of your greater self, which is so much larger than the part of you that you’re aware of in this third-dimensional reality. And there is a veil over your absolute connection to, your absolute inherence in, God. If you could remember all that and know it as your present-time and never-changing reality, you wouldn’t have the idea of death that so many of you have. You would see death as a change of clothes, like a snake shedding its skin. When you die, you’ve outgrown your physical circumstances and you’re ready to move on to something that’s going to serve your next phase of your soul’s journey. You might think of it as being something like getting a new car.

So we’re back to trust—trust in the greater process of life, greater than what we can currently see, or perhaps understand, or possibly even imagine. Maybe this kind of trust, in the midst of not knowing what’s happening, is what we experienced in our birth into this lifetime. Or maybe we’re being called to a new level of trust that we haven’t known before.

Mary Magdalene likens the transition we’re in the midst of to a human birth. She talks about the revolution that occurred in the modern birthing world when the natural birth movement took hold. I remember when I was pregnant and received training in preparation for childbirth. It was all about learning to relax in the midst of intensity and pain. Even though my natural reaction to extreme pain was to tense up and fight or resist it, there was a lot of motivation for me to learn what seemed to be a completely counter-intuitive response. I strongly believed that learning to relax would help make the birth easier and would provide the best and safest experience for my baby and for me.

I think the same is true for what we’re going through in birthing ourselves into the next age of our evolution. I think we’ll all be helped by relaxing into the process as much as we can, even if it seems unfamiliar or possibly overwhelming at times. I remember being told many years ago that God never gives us more than we can handle, but it may be more than we’re comfortable with.

The other thing I believe is happening, as part of the purification process in preparation for the new to come in, is that whatever yet remains for us to handle, complete, take responsibility for, or let go of from our past is coming up for us to deal with. This might be physical ailments or challenges, emotional issues, old ideas or beliefs, or things in our relationships. What I feel we’re being called to is love, forgiveness, and healing—taking full responsibility for all the circumstances in our life as coming out of our choices, letting go of the victim mentality of blaming others or outside forces for what’s happening with us, and instead reaping the lessons from those circumstances, with gratitude for what we’ve received.

I think it’s called growing up. I think we’re ready.

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Mercedes Kirkel is a channel and spiritual guide, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light, as well as Akashic Record Readings. Her new book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.

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