Relating to Money & Twin Flames
From High Angel Pietre
Part 2 of a Message Received through Mercedes Kirkel
on January 20, 2013
Question: I would like to ask about money and have your perspective on money, as we go forward in these changing times. A lot of people live their whole life just focusing on making ends meet, which could be a limitation on how to evolve in their own development. What’s your perspective on money and how to navigate in relation to it?
High Angel Pietre: This is a very broad question and I enjoy it.
The first thing I wish to say is that money is a very third-dimensional mechanism, which is very much based in the physical kind of consciousness. In the third dimension, when people are very physically based, very dualistically based, they often lose connection with their life-purpose, which gives meaning to their life. When this happens, individuals find other things to give meaning to their life. And one of the things that many people have found is money—the attainment of money, the collection of money, the keeping of money, the spending of money, the flaunting of money. (Pietre laughs)
Really, money is only a vehicle that you have created in the physical realm for representing energy. It is a way of storing energy in a physical, concrete form—not the actual energy but the exchange of energy. Rather than giving energy to someone in the present moment, you can give them money. Then they can give that to someone else later as a form of energy and it can be stored. It’s an understood system. You can exchange energy in this way so that you do not have to exchange it in the moment. You can do it over time. There is some ingeniousness to this system. It does address some of the challenges you face in the third dimension with physicality relative to space and time. But it also has its limits.
The greatest limit of money is that it gives people the sense that energy is limited, that there is only so much available, because money is finite. And usually the money that any particular individual has is finite. Any time there is a sense of limitation like this, it is generally accompanied by a sense of fear—fear of there not being enough. This is another characteristic of the third dimension. There is a sense of there not being enough of what you need—whether that be money, things that money can buy, resources, or things that you need to survive and sustain you in the physical dimension. It can also take subtler forms, feeling that there is not enough friendship, not enough love, not enough community, not enough caring, not enough whatever.
This consciousness that there is not enough is one of the hallmarks of the third dimension. And money greatly reinforces this consciousness. This is probably the greatest limitation that most people suffer relative to money, this reinforcement of the idea of there not being enough. In truth, there is plenty. You might say there is more than enough. There is certainly always enough.
This is part of the shift to the fourth dimension. When you are in the fourth dimension, if you need something, you will realize that you have the power to manifest it. You have that power now in the third dimension. But because your consciousness is so tied into physicality, duality, limitation, and the sense of there not being enough, it is difficult to make use of that power. It is difficult to believe in it. When you make the transition to the fourth dimension, it will become easeful and obvious that you have that ability, that power. When you have that, it will change everything.
Imagine that you had enough of whatever you needed or even wanted at this time. How would you change your world? How would you change your life? Would you still do what you do now during the daytime? Or during the nighttime? Would you still spend your time and your energy in the same way? Would you care about money? (Pietre laughs) Would you need money? Would you relate to other people differently? These are valuable things to consider, because they give you a glimpse of what you’re moving into.
In some ways, a person’s sense of dependence on money, or their attachment to money, or their feeling of being confined or limited by money is a reflection of where their consciousness is primarily resting right now in the spectrum of moving from completely third-dimensionally based consciousness into fourth-dimensionally based consciousness. The greater freedom you have in your consciousness, the greater freedom you will have relative to money. Ultimately, that freedom will allow you to interact with money very freely. But at that time, you also may not need money anymore as a method of exchanging energy. It will have become obsolete.
For many of you, that will be a great joy. It will free up energy because there is energy bound in the way that your consciousness is relating to money and assuming limitation around money. So that is very much involved in this transition being talked about. That does not mean that overnight everyone will let go of money, and you won’t need it, and everything will change. That is always a possibility, but it is relatively unlikely in the scale of possibilities. It is more likely that you will change gradually in your relationship to energy and exchange of energy, because this tends to support stability in individuals, as well as groups. And it is generally the way that is most easeful for change to occur.
Question: I would like to ask about how to stay centered when one has the feeling of having one foot in the third dimension and one foot in the fourth dimension, and not really doing either one of them solidly. There can be confusion that arises or just deep inner angst around having one foot in this dimension and one foot in the next.
High Angel Pietre: This is natural for the kind of change and the speed of change that many of you are undergoing. It is unfamiliar, which often brings a certain level of fear with it.
It is probably more the foot, as you say, in the old ways, the old dimension, the old consciousness that is more experiencing the fear. The third dimension is very much centered around fear, in general. And it is fear specifically about survival, because it is a physically-based realm with this sense of limitation and this pervasive sense of separation. For many people, at the physical level, that is represented by death—separation from life. So at the most physically based level, there’s a sense of “How can I spend my time doing these things?” or “How can I allow myself to be in this way that might be dangerous, that might not support my survival?” That is a third dimensional fear that arises, when you stop doing the things you have learned to do at the third dimension to insure your survival.
There are things you can do to make it easier. One is to know that you’re going to feel a certain level of discomfort, or fear, or anxiety because you’re experiencing new things. Just that awareness can help. Oftentimes children go through this, when they’re experiencing something new to them in this lifetime. What can help them is to have others who are older, who they trust, who have already gone through this who reassure them. If you have connection with guides, angels, beings who you sense are operating at a higher dimension, you might ask them for their help, their support, their reassurance, if that is open to you.
You can always ask for help. You can always ask God directly for help. You can always ask for help from whoever feels most available, accessible, and aligned to you to ask for that help. It is good to ask for help that is for your highest good and the highest good of all. That is always a valuable thing to do. But you can ask for help in very practical ways. You can ask for help for very day-to-day things: “I’m struggling with this.” “I’m feeling tired.” “I’m feeling grumpy.” “I’m feeling confused.” “I’m feeling unsure.” “Please help me.” You can ask for those. Oftentimes people don’t realize that you can ask for help, just the way you might ask one of your best friends for help.
And you can also ask your friends for help! (Pietre laughs.) One of the things that’s very, very valuable to do is to talk to other people who you sense are going through something similar. This is why gatherings of this nature are very important, for you to talk to others about what’s occurring, because support is very valuable. For those of you who are in the forefront, who are the leaders in going through this change, it is very valuable to have support from others who are in a similar position. So talk to them. Tell them what you’re experiencing. Ask what they’re experiencing. Ask how they’re dealing with it. That will be helpful, to support each other in that way.
It’s also very valuable to notice your own process and be aware of it. Notice that you might be feeling confused, overwhelmed, tired, whatever it is. Then notice, “Oh, things still worked out alright, even though I felt strange, funny, I didn’t do things the way I usually do them. Things still worked out alright.” That can help reassure you that you can take the next step and you will be alright.
Or you might reflect back and say, “Well, things worked out alright in this way. And this could have been better if I had made these choices instead.” Then you can modify your next steps. So this can also help you, by being aware of your own process and how it’s working or not working. Allow that to inform you.
Do the things you already know how to do. If you know how to take care of your body well, do that. If you know how to take care of yourself well socially, do that. Do it even more than you might tend to do. It’s like preventive medicine. It will support you and you might be surprised. There might be things that you’re needing more of that you don’t realize. You might be needing more of physical strengthening, more of getting out in fresh air and having exercise, more of being nice to yourself, being gentle and nurturing with yourself, things like taking a bath or a nap or a special dessert for yourself or whatever it is. Think about the things that help you and do more of them.
Relate to yourself the way you might relate to a good friend who is going through something like this. What advice would you give to them? Give it to yourself and follow it.
One other thing that I strongly recommend is to create a regular practice, a meditation practice. I use that word cautiously, because some of you have very confined notions of what meditation is. It does not have to be sitting in a certain position and stilling you mind in the way that perhaps you have thought was meditation. It means doing what you do to allow yourself to access higher states of consciousness. Create a regular rhythm, a regular form and practice, where you do that as often as you need to to maintain that, to support yourself in that, where you don’t lose it. That will tell you what regularity you require. How often do you need to do that so that it is maintained, rather than forgotten about and then you re-access it and go, “Oh yes, now I remember again.” Find that. Support yourself with the regularity that you find is optimum for you. This I highly recommend.
The other thing that can be very helpful at times like these is to offer help to others, especially others who are close to the level that you are dealing with but maybe not quite there, so that you have your own experience to offer them and your own sense of confidence in the path. That can also be very helpful.
Question: Is there a twin flame for each one of us?
High Angel Pietre: There is a twin flame for everyone, but not necessarily manifesting in the same realm that you are currently manifesting in. Even if you are currently manifesting in the same realm as your twin flame, it is not necessarily for the highest good of both of you and the highest good of all that you meet and recognize each other as twin flames at this time. But there is absolutely a twin flame for each being.
In your meditation, in your sleep, in your times of resting in communion with your higher self, you can make the connection with your twin flame in the heart. You can potentially communicate with your twin flame. What is more likely is that you would be most moved to simply rest in that incredible heart space together. That is something that is always available to everyone.
Sometimes twin flames will make an agreement that one of the twin flames will incarnate and the other of the twin flames will support the one who’s incarnating from a higher dimension to help them remember who they are, and to help them remember that they are not separate from the higher dimensions.
As you move into the higher dimensions, it is much more likely that you will be uniting with your twin flame in that same dimension. But here in the third dimension, there has been concern about individuals forgetting their process of knowing themselves as God and returning to God. For this reason, this structure was set in place as a safeguard—having one of the twin flames remain in a higher dimension to help anchor that awareness, so that the one in the third dimension did not become lost by forgetting who they are and what their life-purpose is.
We will close now. This has been most special for me to have this time with you. My heart is enriched by my connection with all of you. You are all beautiful beings, more than you may know. Your light is so strong, so powerful. Your love is immense. And I, along with many others, hold you in high, high regard. We offer our love, our blessings, our support, and protection.
Blessings to all of you.
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Copyright 2013 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
Mercedes Kirkel is an author and spiritual channel, 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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Going Beyond Subtle Forms of Overpowering Free Will & Knowing Your Life-Purpose
From High Angel Pietre
Part 1 of a Message Received through Mercedes Kirkel
on January 20, 2013
Blessings dear ones,
This is high angel Pietre, who you may also call Peter, and I would like to communicate with you today. I thank you all for inviting me here today, for holding space for me, for yourselves, for all beings. This is a beautiful space of love and blessing that you have created and it is wonderful that you are doing this. I acknowledge you, and thank you, and support you in this. And I particularly thank you for making space for one of the higher beings to come through, and for allowing me to come through and to talk to you.
I am mostly interested in being with you, in having this time of connecting with you, and sharing with you in what you might call an energetic way. I have blessings to bring to you and they do not require words. They simply require my connection with you and my communion with you, which I feel and which we are already engaging together. As you more and more move into higher consciousness and the higher dimensions associated with being in higher consciousness, you will find less and less of a need for words and verbal communication. Those of us who are already living in these higher dimensions rarely use words. We are able to connect in a different way, which has more of an energy basis. So for me it is more natural to connect with you in this energetic way.
Yet I know that for many of you, words are what you are very familiar with and what helps you to communicate—to feel understood and heard in what you want to communicate, and to understand and hear what others communicate to you. It is why I am speaking in words through this channel, to make it completely mutual between the two of us, so that you have as much ease in communicating with me as I do with you. So I invite you to use words and to communicate with me, through your words, that which you would like to communicate. And I am happy to communicate back in words. Even so, know that as we do this, I am also communicating with you in this other way that is more natural to me, which does not involve words.
Know that when I communicate with you in this way, there is no transgression involved. You are completely at choice as to whether you wish to receive my communication or make a communication back to me energetically. I say this to make sure there is no fear or concern on anyone’s part that I may be doing something to you that you are not in choice about or would not want to be done to you if you realized that was happening. Your energy body is completely at choice and I do not have power to do anything to you, nor do I choose to do anything to you, that you do not want or invite at the energetic level. I hope that sets you at ease and peace that there is no transgression involved.
Transgression of that nature is something that is anathema to beings at higher levels of consciousness. We have greatest respect for beings’ free choice, and we understand that it is a grave error to try to override free choice in any way—an error for ourselves as well as for the other one involved. So that is not attractive to us to do that.
This is something that beings at the third dimension are very much learning about. Part of the reason that beings have come into the third dimension is to learn about this, to experiment and explore with the power that you have to transgress and override the free choice of another being, as certainly you are aware of at this dimension. Part of your exploration in coming here, part of the experience you have come to gather and garner is to discover what the outcome is of doing that—when you override another beings’ free choice. What is the outcome for yourself when you do that? What is the outcome for others when you do that? What is the outcome when others do that in relationship to you or when others do that in relationship to others other than yourself?
Many of you are aware of the more obvious ways in which this is done, which are physical ways, where someone physically overpowers another being. There can be all different reasons why someone would choose to do this. Generally it involves some sense of threat. There is some sense of threat to yourself or to others, such that you feel it is necessary to overpower another beings’ choice and even overpower them physically. Sometimes that threat may be real. Oftentimes that threat is real in the sense that the being experiencing it really feels a sense of threat. But it may not be real in the sense that they are not controlled by the other. They have the power to take care of themselves such that they no longer feel threatened. But oftentimes they are not aware of this. They feel it is necessary to overpower another to relieve the threat. But this is not actually the case.
Sometimes beings in your realm try to convince others that it is for the highest good that some form of this overpowering of free will take place. We at the higher realms see that this is very rarely the case. It is very rarely beneficial to overpower another. There are, of course, exceptions—when a parent is caring for a child, when you’re caring for someone who, for whatever reason, is not capable of caring for themselves, perhaps mentally they’re not capable or whatever. There are exceptions when someone has made a choice that will hurt others and, in the broader picture, you are preventing some form of hurt by overpowering someone’s free choice. But this must be handled with great care, with great caution, because it is so easy to assume that you are “right,” “doing the right thing,” “more right than the other person,” and that you have “the right” to forcefully take away another’s free choice. This is one of the great traps of the third dimension. This is a very delicate arena that you want to handle with great care. At all times, if at all possible, always respect and support all beings’ free choice.
Your leader, Gandhi, was a great example of this. He saw harm being done and wanted to change that. But he did not want to change it by bringing force to others in ways that would potentially bring more harm. He was a very inspired being who brought the consciousness of the higher dimensions in practical ways into your world. He is a great example of that.
What many of you are coming to learn about is subtler aspects of the way that you might bring force, subtler ways that you might try to overpower another’s free will. (And when I say “you,” I do not mean you specifically. I mean all people who are functioning at the level of the third dimension and that consciousness.) There are subtler ways of doing this. Many of you are familiar with this. There are ways of bringing what you might call emotional force or mental force, where you say things or think things that are a way of trying to force someone to do something. Perhaps you tell yourself that others are forcing you in certain ways. Your language often reflects this. You have words that you use that communicate this belief in subtler kinds of force. You say things like this person “made you” do something, or that you “have to” do something. A subtler form of that is to say that you “should” do something, or another person “should” do something. You also use words that imply that other people force certain things upon you, such as saying that another person “abandoned” you, or “betrayed” you, “hurt” you, whatever it is.
These are ways that your language reflects your thinking. Your thinking is still based, in these subtler ways, on the idea that other people are overpowering you or you are overpowering other people. This is a subtler form that people who are more advanced in their progress in consciousness are coming to work with, and to understand, and to go beyond—just as at an earlier stage you’re learning to go beyond more physical forms, which you might call “bullying” or “war” or all sorts of things. Now you’re learning these subtler forms and learning to go beyond these.
Your words are very important, because they both reflect and reinforce your consciousness. When you use these words, they reinforce the idea that one person is a victim, or that one person is “right” and one person is wrong,” or even that “there is a right way and a wrong way to do things and that someone—probably you—knows what that way is. (Pietra laughs softly). All of these things are forms of subtle traps. They trap your energy. They trap you into dualistic thinking, and even more, into thinking in terms of opposition, thinking that it’s you against others, you against the world, you against God, whatever it is.
So these are things that I wish to make you aware of, to the degree you are not already aware of them, and to support you in moving beyond. This will liberate your heart, will liberate your mind, will liberate your consciousness, will liberate your energy, will liberate your whole being to what is so much more joyful. You will not lose your power in any sense at all. Indeed, what you are doing now is actually losing a great deal of your power, giving it away in many forms that you do not realize. So this will also be a form of empowerment and strengthening. But it will be a very different kind of power than the one that is based in third dimensional ways of thinking. It is a power that increases love, that increases connection, harmony, union. closeness. It is a beautiful form of power, a power of connection, of being together, a power of unity. I highly recommend this and support you most fully in it.
I feel complete with this communication and I thank you for listening to my words. Now I would like to change the format and listen to your words. I ask you to please give voice to what you would like me to hear, what you would like help with, what I can support you with. Please voice that to me at this time.
Question: I would like to ask for guidance on the next level of service I’m supposed to be doing. I’m delving deeply into evolutionary consciousness and it feels like that’s what I’m supposed to be doing. But I don’t know in what way I’m supposed to be using that to be of service.
High Angel Pietre: It is very possible that this kind of evolutionary consciousness you are feeling called to is a reflection of the higher consciousness that many people are moving into at this time. You are in a special time on the earth, you as human beings. There is tremendous change going on. You may not remember other times, but this is not like other times. You are changing at an extraordinarily fast rate. And you are changing into another dimension, and with that into higher consciousness.
It is natural that many of you will start to feel called to change what you have been doing with your life, your time, your energy, your work, perhaps where you live, perhaps the people that you are associating with. It is very natural that that kind of change would accompany the sort of shift that is happening in your world and in yourself.
What you have called service, I might call life-purpose. It is the form through which you manifest your life-purpose. For some people, this may be something you do for work, which helps to support you in practical ways. For others, it may be something that you do that is, in some ways, different from your work, but that you do in the midst of your work. Or perhaps you do it at other times, outside your work. There are different ways that this can be manifested.
Of course, everyone’s life-purpose, at its deepest level, is all the same. Everyone’s life-purpose is to know yourself as God and to return to total union with God. This can take different forms at different times. Right now, it is taking the form for most of you of moving from the third dimension into progressively higher dimensions. Some of you are calling this the ascension process. This is the larger process in which all of this is happening.
It is not for anyone else to tell you what your service or your life-purpose is. If you were to listen to another person, you would not be engaging an integral part of your growth process, which is to go deeply into your heart and your higher self, and to receive the communication of what your life-purpose is. This is an essential part of the growth work that is particularly involved in the transition from the third to the fourth dimension.
In the third dimension, many of you lost your connection to your life-purpose. This is a very sad thing, because when this happens you tend to lose the sense of meaning, and joy, and fulfillment in your life. Not all of you have lost this, but that can happen at the third dimension. Beginning with the fourth dimension and beyond, it is virtually assured that you will be aware of your life-purpose and connected to it in an ongoing way.
One of the characteristics of the transition from the third dimension to the fourth dimension is that you are reconnecting with your life-purpose with clarity and allowing the guidance to come through of how to manifest that in practical ways, in your life and in the world. If this is not clear to you—either what your life-purpose is, or how to manifest it in practical ways—the work is to learn how to go into your heart and from your heart to connect with your higher self. Then you can ask your higher self these questions. That is where you will receive your guidance.
So if you are not sure, if you are not clear, that is most likely what needs strengthening. And that is something you can have practical help from others with, to learn how to do that—to go into your heart, to connect with your higher self in your heart, and to receive guidance as to what your life-purpose is, as well as how to manifest that in your life. This is a fundamental fourth dimensional process. If this is coming up for you as a question, an unsure-ness, a desire for greater clarity and understanding, it is a sign that you are ready for that kind of learning. And I would urge you to receive help with that.
Blessings to all of you.
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Copyright 2013 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
Mercedes Kirkel is an author and spiritual channel, 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.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico, including Guidance from Beings of Light and Akashic Record Readings. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
Relationships in the New Energy
From Lady Mary
Part 2 of a Message Given through Mercedes Kirkel on January 6, 2013
[Note: Lady Mary is the same being often referred to as Mother Mary.]
Now I would like to hear your questions. What would you like to ask of me, that I can be of service and help you. Please ask me now.
Question: The question I would like to ask is about relationships. There are so many of us right now that are searching for that special one and have a desire to join in a sacred relationship. We’re feeling almost like a struggle with this. What was the purpose of that?
Lady Mary:For many of you, your light was required in making this transition you have been going through in your world. It was very important that the shift in your world be the primary arena that your light was being given to. So there was an aspect that was called in of putting relationships on hold if they were not already formed, if they were not already strong and full relationships. This has been a part of what has been going on. It has been mysterious to many of you, whose hearts long for that kind of connection—which is natural—and wondering why that is not coming in, when you feel so ready, so prepared, and so desirous of having that strong love with another being.
This is changing now. It is part of this change that you are beginning to go through. Again, it will not be immediate and overnight, where everyone will immediately be in a relationship that they have dreamed of. But the field is open now. The new energy has come in. It has been grounded. It has been set in place. The frequency is there now; it is stable. So this is going to free up people to move forward in their personal paths in ways that it was asked that this be on hold for a period of time prior to now.
We thank all of you who have given your light, your love, your service to this transformation of your world. The effect, let me assure you, is going beyond your world. It is not just this world that is being affected. The change that is happening is vast. Your part in it has been most important, each of you, and it has been required that your energy be given. But now that is being freed up. So you will find new openness, new ease in creating the love relationships that you desire.
For some of you, this will not be entirely on the same dimension as the one that you are primarily manifesting in. Some of your relationships will be in higher dimensions, where there are beings of higher dimensions, and you will find this very fulfilling and satisfying. It will not be, “Oh well, that’s nice but doesn’t really fill me the way that I am wanting.” For some of you it will be extremely satisfying and wonderful. For others of you, that will not be the case and your primary relationship will be on the same dimension in which you are primarily manifesting.
You also should know that part of the shift that you have gone through is that in the old form, the old consciousness, the old reality, partner relationships of an intimate kind were virtually the only kind of safe haven that you experienced for your heart, where you could open up to the depths of your being in a way that not only sustained you but fed you, kept you going, nurtured you. Now it is not going to be so. It is not going to be that that will be the only form through which you will be fed and sustained. More and more you will be forming families of light, communities of light, villages of light, networks of light, where you are feeding and supporting each other in many, many ways. This is going to create great freedom for you, great love, great support. It will allow you to expand your relationship possibilities.
You may still find yourself in wonderful partnership relationships with an intimate. These forms may also change. They may take new forms that in the past you did not think you would be involved in. But it will also be that you will be fed by many forms of relationships, many kinds. It will not be that you will be relying on one person, primarily, for your love, for your security, for your companionship, for your spiritual closeness, for so many things that in the past most people have looked to and received from their intimate relationships. Now it is going to be so much fuller. You will not feel the kind of desperation that so many of you have sadly experienced, feeling that you had to work so hard to survive—physically, emotionally, socially, however it was. This is also going to be changing.
You are going to be assured that you will be cared for, that you will be loved in this dimension in a new way. It is going to make life so much easier, so much happier, more joyful, so much more full because you are freed up to live your true life purpose, whatever that is, and are giving that and sharing that so fully and freely with others. Your world is going to be a different place. And the role of relationships in your world will change because of that.
But that does not cancel out, it does not negate that intimate relationships are one of the great joys of human beings. You will certainly continue to experience those and they will be supported in new, wonderful ways. And many will be coming in. That is part of this new time that is happening. We thank all those who have waited, which, we are so aware, has not always been easy. Thank you so much.
Question: Some of the people in my life are challenging to be with in a compassionate and loving way. I want to create a healthy boundary for myself with these beings. I want to release them with love and compassion, but I don’t always know how to do that gracefully. Can you offer any advice?
Lady Mary: Yes. I thank you for your question. This is something that many people struggle with and it is most valuable that you ask.
There is both inner work and outer work that you can do in relationship to people who are challenging in your life. The inner work is to ask yourself why you have called this person or this situation into your life. Even to get to that question is a step of responsibility that is valuable and not always easy for people to make. People oftentimes feel that they have no choice in the matter of what is manifesting in their life. But in reality, you have always had choice.
Some of the things in your life are things you have called in for particular reasons—to help you grow. There is a phrase that some people have used called “tough love.” When you have these kinds of difficult situations in your life, they are actually a form of tough love that you have given to yourself. They are helping you in some way.
Sometimes the people you have difficulties with are reflecting yourself in ways that are hard for you to see. But because you have manifested them, it is a sign that, through the law of attraction, you have called in that which is like yourself. There is some aspect of what is happening that is like yourself. Oftentimes, when you are struggling with it, it is because you do not realize the similarity. And so you do not see it as a gift, either. You see it as a burden or a hardship.
It is very valuable to look at the circumstances and the people in your life that you have difficulty with and say, “Why have I brought this into my life? Is this reflecting something in me that I need to look at? Is this circumstance or this action that the person is engaging similar to a circumstance I create or actions that I take?”
Or perhaps you call in a circumstance or a person because it supports you in a certain way. Actually it is always the case that it is supporting you in a certain way. If it were not supporting you, you would not be calling it in. So this is another question that you can ask yourself: “In what way is this situation supporting me? What am I getting out of being in this situation?” This may be difficult to see. It may be helpful to ask another person who you trust to help you with these questions, to see it from another perspective, because you may be hiding it from yourself. It may be something that you’re scared of facing about yourself, in some way or other.
When you get to the root of these questions, when you get to the place where you can answer these questions and it feels true for yourself—and you will know when you get there; you know within yourself when it has that ring of truth, when your body says, “Yes, ah-ha, this is what is really going on.” When you get to that place, it’s like a knot that unwinds. Suddenly you don’t need that outer circumstance anymore to reflect to you what’s going on. You’ve received the gift. You’ve received the lesson. And you can start to be in choice about how you want to respond to that circumstance, that lesson, whatever it was.
Once you start to make that response and you start to change yourself, you will see your outer circumstance change. You will no longer need that circumstance and you will no longer be calling it in. You will call something else in from the changes you make.
So that is the inner work that needs to be done. And it is important that you do that first. If you only do the outer work, you will simply create this same pattern, this same scenario in another circumstance or with another person in your life. This is because you have not changed what’s really at the root, what you’re doing that’s calling that situation in so that it manifests in your outer circumstance. So it is very valuable to do the inner work first.
Once you do that inner work, it will generally be easy to change the outer. You will be a different person and you will have a new freedom—energy will be freed up from the work that you have done. With this energy, and also with the clarity of new awareness and new consciousness that comes in, you will have much greater ease in creating a different circumstance in your outer world. This different circumstance may include all sorts of practical things. It may be that you spend less time with people who are difficult for you. You may choose to change certain circumstances. You might change your living circumstance, your work circumstance, whatever it is. But it will be much easier, because you’re a different person and you now have freed up energy and awareness to make this change. It will also be more joyful, because joy has been released for you in your life.
The final thing is that you will have compassion. When you have made these changes within yourself, then you will see that these other people who are difficult for you are simply struggling with their own growth, doing the best they know how with their life lessons and their growth. You will have compassion for them. That will be a very different circumstance than feeling that they are somehow controlling you. They will have lost their control over you. Then you will be free to love and have compassion.
Is this helpful to you?
Questioner: Yes. I feel that I do offer love and compassion. Sometimes it’s not received as that and it’s taken advantage of.
Lady Mary: You cannot engage the love and compassion until you do the inner work. Before that point it will never be felt as love and compassion. Love and compassion on the outer level alone is very limited in its scope, because you’re still struggling on the inner realm relative to these people. That is what you actually communicate outwardly, is your struggle. So people feel that.
When you have done the inner work, you become strong. You may not be able to change your circumstance. And certainly, you do not want to try to change the other people. That almost never works. And it is almost never beneficial to you or the other person to try to do that.
What you want is to love the other person. But you can only love them when you are free. As long as you are feeling controlled by them, you are not able to love them. It’s not possible. You need that love for yourself first. So put your attention on yourself. Give your love to yourself. Do your own work. Then it will unfold in a natural, true way that leaves you strong. You may not be able to affect the circumstance with the person, but you will be able to remain in love.
It is a beautiful thing that so many of you long to be compassionate and loving with people, even people that you have difficulty towards. But sometimes this is a gesture that actually creates a kind of a barrier, a wall, an artifice that is not most supportive for you or for others. True love, true compassion arises naturally on its own. It is natural to you to be compassionate and loving. If you are not compassionate and loving, you need to tend to yourself, not to the other person. It is not to try to superimpose, or even “inflict” compassion or love on another. It is to look at what you are suffering, what is your pain that is keeping you from being compassionate and loving, naturally. That is the work that is so important.
You see, you are always creating the outer world. You might think of it as being like your dreams. When you’re in the dream, it’s not so obvious that it’s a dream. Then you wake up and you think, “Oh, that was just a dream.” And it’s easy to think, “I just created that.” Sometimes you may think other things about your dreams. But there is an element with dreams where it’s much more obvious to you that you’re creating it, and that it can change very quickly. It doesn’t take long processes of great effort to change a dream. You can change a dream in an instant. And many of you do. Many of you know this power.
This realm is not any different. Just like a dream, you don’t have to go around fixing all the characters in your dream. Your work is with yourself, with your consciousness. As soon as that consciousness changes, the dream changes. So it is with this realm. It is just the same. This is going to become more and more apparent to you in this new time, and you will enjoy it most wonderfully. Your skills will come to you. You are young in these abilities of bringing this into this new period. So be patient with yourself. Be compassionate with yourself, first and foremost. It will come.
Question: I’ve noticed with these lighter energies that a lot of people are simplifying their lives, releasing a lot of their material possessions. There are also a lot of people that are feeling called to move geographically right now. If we are creating everything around us where we are, why do we feel such a calling at times to move to a different location? Is it about where we are on the Earth and helping her? Could you offer insight into that?
Mary: Yes. There could be different reasons. Because you are becoming more of an energy being, you are drawn to where the energies are most harmonized with your energy, or where you’re most harmonized with the energies of that place and the other beings of that place. So there’s a natural movement towards that energetic resonance. That is a big part of it.
For some people it may also have to do with service and your life purpose, your spiritual work. You may be called to a certain area that’s more in need of your service or more supportive of that. So both are true. But it’s fundamentally about energies. And that is why there is movement going on, because people are realigning energetically.
Are there other questions?
(Silence for a period of time)
I hold you all in my sphere of love, in a great sphere of love and light. I encourage you to refresh yourselves in this love and light regularly, so that you can more and more live in this space with others. You have a wonderful future ahead. I bless you. I thank you. I celebrate with you. My heart is with you.
With my blessings, I leave you now.
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Copyright 2013 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
Mercedes Kirkel is an author and spiritual channel, 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.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico, including Guidance from Beings of Light and Akashic Record Readings. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
What Happened on December 21st, 2012
From Lady Mary
Part 1 of a Message Given through Mercedes Kirkel
on January 6, 2013
Blessings to all who are gathered here, to all who will be receiving this at future times, to all beings everywhere who are open, who are moved to grow, to receive the light, to expand themselves, to be part of this wonderful shift that is happening in your world. I offer my blessings to all.
I am Lady Mary—Mother Mary to many of you. It is the same one.
I come to you today because this is a most beautiful time. It is a time in which you have been through much, many of you. And it is a time of wonderful new things coming in. Because I have such a special relationship with the beings of the Earth, I feel moved to speak to you at this time, to share with you and to try to help you in any way that I can about the time that you are in, this new time period. And so I begin and will do my best to talk about this.
Many of you were tuned in and very aware of the winter solstice that you just went through. Many of you heard many things about this being a very significant time, an important time. There was a wide range of what people were anticipating to happen at this time. Some thought it would be a time of hardship, of possible catastrophe, of possible ending of the world as you know it, figuratively or literally. Some thought that it would be a wonderful time, a transformative time, possibly the time when the Earth would shift into a higher state of reality and the people of the Earth would shift into a higher dimension. Some were not sure, some were open, some were cautious. There was a great spectrum of what people were anticipating.
Now you have moved through this time and some people are wondering what happened. Did anything happen? Some people are feeling quite sure that things did happen. Some people are perhaps feeling disappointed. Some people are relieved that the things they were anticipating did not happen. There is still a wide range of responses. So I would like to address this passage that you have just gone through.
To begin with I would like to say that this particular date was not standing in isolation. In some ways it was a center point that you were moving into, but that you have been moving into for a long period of time. So the changes that had been occurring didn’t just begin on December 21st. You have been leading up to them for many years. And they did not end on December 21st. They are continuing now.
Yet something did change at that time. It was an opening into a new portal of energy, which many of you felt. Some of you felt it as a lightening, a releasing from perhaps denser, more difficult energies that you’ve been experiencing. Some of you may have felt a certain level of purification, which is part of what can accompany moving into higher energies. Anything that is not fully matched to that energy, fully in harmony and in synch with that energy, can come up to be released. In that process of being released you will often experience the energy as it’s being released. So it can feel like you are going through a lower energy time, a difficult time, and it may be accompanied by various symptoms. Many of you are familiar with this. You often call it “ascension symptoms.” It is part of the process that you have been going through. So some of you may have experienced that, too, during this time, which may have come as a surprise.
Regardless of whether you experienced a lightening, or a more difficult time, or perhaps did not experience much of anything at all, it does not change that the energy has shifted. You are in the beginning phase of a lighter energy, which you may experience as lightness at the physical level, lightness at the energetic level, lightness at there actually being greater light in the world, lightness at the emotional level, lightness at the mind level. There are many things you might be experiencing. And you may be noticing that you feel different. It might have a subtle quality to it, but if you tune in you will notice that there is a different feeling. There is a sense of more light available to you in more easily accessible ways. This is a wonderful thing that your Earth has gone through, that your world has gone through, and that you have gone through.
Of course, how you use this will determine the way that it unfolds in the future. But in some ways you have already chosen your path as the Earth. You have chosen the path of greater light. You are coming out of a time of great darkness. You have chosen to leave that great darkness behind. You have chosen that the learning you received from this is complete, does not need to be repeated, does not need to be continued. You are moving into a time, a new age, of greater light. You will see the changes one by one, person by person, aspect by aspect. Of course, people will not be changing all at once. It will happen as a process. There may be some dramatic moments, but in general it will continue as a process. But you are going to see things getting easier, personally and collectively. That is a very wonderful thing.
You are going to start to realize your power to manifest the world you want, personally and collectively. You will wonder why you didn’t see it before, why you didn’t realize that this power was available to you. But you were involved in other forms of growth, other forms of learning. Now those forms are not necessary anymore and you can move forward.
You will see that it becomes easier to connect with people, to help other people, for other people to receive help, for you to receive help, for you to give help. The connection between all of you will become easier and stronger. The love that you have desired will start to become more literal in your world, more obvious, more manifest. These are all wonderful things that you are moving into.
The more people that move into this, the more that others will be helped to move into it. It is a tipping scale, where enough people are making this choice, enough people are living in this state, that it becomes much easier for the others who are in the process of choosing, have not yet chosen fully, to join you, to cross over, to create this new world together.
Not everything will be perfect immediately. It will take time. There will be things that will still be painful in your world, things that you identify with darkness, that you want to end. They will not immediately all disappear. But over time they will lessen, decrease, and eventually be gone. And you will be moving into a wonderful new age that your hearts have called in, that you all desire so much in your hearts.
So I come to reassure you of this and to support you in listening to yourself, in giving space to that part of yourself that may feel new, that may feel lighter, that may feel drawn to function in ways that you haven’t functioned before, that may be drawn to not function in ways that you’re familiar with, that seem necessary or even essential. Yet now you’re feeling a call to not do those things anymore. I support you in listening to that, in allowing that. You are giving birth to the new in yourself and in your world, and it will require change. You are fully up to it. You are strong, you are ready, and you are capable. This will be coming in.
Keep turned to the light. Be compassionate with those who are still drawn to aspects of darkness, but do not identify with them. Do not give energy to their draw to the darkness. Give love. Love them. Hold them in light. And show them your joy, your light, your brightness, your peace, your happiness, your heart space. Let your hearts be open and shown. It is safe to do this. Create a world that is about the heart. This will be a most wonderful world. This is your future. And I celebrate it with you.
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Copyright 2013 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
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.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico, including Guidance from Beings of Light and Akashic Record Readings. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
Mary Magdalene: The Dark Night of the Soul
An Excerpt from
Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love by Mercedes Kirkel
Message from Mary Magdalene:
Beloved ~
Yes, I want to talk to you about the dark night of the soul. This is a very mysterious concept to many of you. Most of you have a place within you that you’re afraid of going, something that brings up too much pain. The dark night of the soul is about facing your fear and pain and going into it rather than avoiding it.
What happens when you do that? It is not what you fear. There is an initial period in which you feel your fear, feel your pain, whatever it is. There is often a feeling of expansion with this, since you usually have shrunk back or contracted away from the pain or fear. There is a sense of relaxing and opening as your feeling nature expands into your whole experience. At some point, often sooner than you would expect, a shift happens. At that point, your experience changes to one of trust and peace, perhaps a sense of being carried—as in carried by a river rather than fighting against the current.
What has happened is that you have connected with the beings of light that are there to support you, to carry you. The pain may or may not go away, but your experience of it is different because you are in the light. The light is stronger—and you are more attracted to it—than your pain. You have entered the River of Light, and it is now cleansing and guiding you.
Your job as humans is to stay in this River of Light. That is your true heart’s refuge and calling. It doesn’t take you away from life. It takes you into true life. This is the river that truly quenches our thirst.
All people eventually, sooner or later, come to the dark night of the soul. There may be more than one dark night, depending on the person’s design for their lifetime, the depth to which they let themselves go into their pain or fear, and the depth with which they connect with the River of Light. All connections with the River of Light are divine gifts that move us further in our path of growing in love and light.
With all my blessings,
I AM Mary Magdalene
Commentary from Mercedes Kirkel:
Mary’s discussion of the dark night of the soul continues her instructions from the previous transmission about turning to God when we’re in pain and asking for God’s help. Now, she gives us an actual step-by-step practice for how to connect with God through fully experiencing our fear and pain.
Mary acknowledges that the dark night of the soul is a mysterious concept for many people. She explains that most of us have a place within our being—some part of ourselves—that we don’t want to experience because it brings up too much pain. The dark night of the soul is about facing our fear and pain, about going into it rather than avoiding it. Most of us are afraid to open to our pain because we imagine doing so will invite in too much suffering. We may picture ourselves sinking in a quicksand of agony, possibly becoming so overwhelmed that we die of pain. These deep-seated fears activate our instinct for survival. But in reality, when we go into our pain, something very different occurs.
Mary tells us there’s an initial period of simply feeling the pain, which includes feeling the fear associated with it. And so we feel both our fear and our pain. As we continue opening to our feelings, we’ll experience a sense of expansion, a sense of relaxing and opening. Where before, out of fear, we contracted or shrank away from the pain, now the contraction begins to unwind and release as it is replaced by expansion, relaxation, and openness. We experience our feeling nature as it extends again into our whole being.
At some point in this process, we undergo a shift as we feel lifted out of our distress. Mary points out that this release often occurs sooner than we expect, countering our tendency to assume that we’re going to be stuck in misery without end. Even if the conviction that we will never get beyond the pain does arise, we can boost our faith by remembering that this state is temporary and absolutely will change. I have consistently found that the process works exactly as Mary describes. Even so, during the early stage of opening, I still notice my deep-seated belief that I’ll get lost in my anguish and be overwhelmed by suffering. This is why I find it invaluable to be aware that an integral part of the dark night of the soul is my initial assumption that my pain will last forever. Now, when that thought arises, I see it as a sign that the process is under way, and I continue to open, knowing that a shift will occur.
What is this shift? Mary describes it perfectly as a shift to trust and peace, perhaps a sense of being carried—as by a river—rather than fighting against the current. I find this description affects me viscerally. I can tangibly feel the transition from a somatic state of fear and contraction to one of trust and peace. I notice that my belly relaxes and my breathing drops lower in my body. My state of growing relaxation is deepened by the image of relaxing my fight against the current and allowing myself to be carried by the river. I feel a sense of lightness and ease, along with the experience of trust and peace.
Mary explains what has occurred: we have connected with beings of light who are literally supporting and carrying us. She calls this entering the River of Light, an experience that cleanses us of our fear and guides us. While the pain may or may not go away, we are changed because we are in the light, and the light is stronger than the darkness of our pain. As we are drawn to experience the light, our pain will inevitably recede, if not go away altogether.
I picture the original pain and accompanying fear as a pitch-black cave. The cave represents the dark night of the soul. When we choose to open to pain, we choose to enter into the shadows of the cavity. Stepping inside, we allow our consciousness to expand to the cavern’s full dimensions. We feel its cool, moist surfaces. We may still fear that the darkness and the unknown will overwhelm us, yet another part of us whispers that opening to the cave is the best option and urges us to trust the process. We begin to have a sense of letting go and relaxation as we release our resistance to experiencing whatever exists here. At a certain point, we’re drawn to the other side of the cave, which opens into a River of Light. We give ourselves to the river, experiencing a great depth of trust and peace. As we let ourselves be carried by the beings of light that form this river, we’re cleansed and guided to where we need to be. Our pain becomes more distant as the light of the river replaces the darkness of our fear.
The process Mary describes reminds me of Elisabeth Kübler- Ross’s model of the stages of grief that people experience in coming to terms with death. These stages—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—seem similar to Mary’s description of the first part of the dark night of the soul, where we expand into the cave of our fears and eventually come to acceptance. Mary’s elucidation of opening to the light reminds me of accounts of people at the edge of death who have seen angels or various manifestations of light and experienced great bliss and peace. Mary suggests that we can have these experiences not only at death, but during life as well.
In fact, Mary tells us that the River of Light takes us into “true life” and that our job as humans is to stay in the river. She’s not just talking about an isolated, one-time event. The River of Light is a state we can continue to experience. In so doing, she tells us, we realize our true heart’s refuge and calling, which “truly quenches our thirst.”
Just hearing Mary’s description stokes my longing for union with this river and for the place in my heart to which it connects me. I feel the trust and peace the river carries us to. It’s a place I know in my soul, and yet the path there still surprises me: that surrendering into pain leads to such beauty. I’m heartened by the awareness that each time I engage this process of letting go into pain, I’m strengthened in my ability to stay connected to the River of Light. Residing in this river has become my spiritual path.
I believe that opening fully into any moment will take us to the River of Light and the heart’s refuge. And yet, pain is a particular gift for supporting us to merge with our experience. It’s like an alarm that keeps going off to remind us that something’s not right. If we heed the warning, pain provides a unique form of help, guiding us all the way through to our very depths and beyond. However, our painful places are also the ones that most of us tend to avoid. Mary points to our avoidance of pain as the biggest stumbling block to uniting with God. I think that’s why she’s so insistent about focusing on pain in her communications. She sees we need it. Merging fully with our experience, to the point of total unity or oneness, is the way through to our next step in spiritual evolution. And because it’s a process of surrender, it’s a particularly Feminine path she’s bringing forth—for both men and women.
Mary makes it clear that, sooner or later, everyone will experience at least one dark night of the soul. She urges us to recognize it as a doorway and make good use of it. As her final words affirm, “All connections with the River of Light are divine gifts that move us further in our path of growing in love and light.”
OPENING TO PAIN
1. Notice you’re in pain.
2. Choose to fully experience and open to the pain.
3. Merge with the pain by relaxing and expanding into it.
4. Allow the pain to take you to Source (inner divine qualities).
5. Experience the shift into peace as you begin to flow with the River of Light.
6. Rest in connection to God.
7. Let God direct your actions.
Healing Trauma and the Consciousness of Nature
Part 2 of a Message from The Lord of Consciousness
Given through Mercedes Kirkel on August 13, 2012
Question: I have two dear friends that have come to me. I believe it’s because of my heart connection. They both are suffering from their war experiences in Viet Nam and holding tight to those stories. I want so much to be able to help them release that old story. Can you give me some insight into how to approach them?
The Lord of Consciousness: Yes. When people have a story they are holding onto, it is because there is some kind of emotion that has not been released. When it is a very traumatic story, it is often very traumatic emotion, great shocks that have been experienced that the beings do not know how to integrate and resolve. Talking and telling the story is an attempt to create this kind of resolution. It is often limited in its ability to achieve that, especially when it is a very powerful, strong experience.
There are a number of things that you can do to help. You can point the person towards the feelings that are behind the story, because that is what is trapped like ghosts within the person’s being—those feelings that they are still containing and have not felt the freedom or the safety to let them out. So that is one thing—to identify the feelings that are behind the story. That alone is a great support. If you are comfortable, you can invite the person to express or experience the feelings. But simply the identification alone will help tremendously. Giving it a name—words like horror, or shock, or whatever it is—and asking, “Is that what you felt?” or “Is that what you feel now?” can be extremely helpful.
There are two other things that can help. One is that beneath whatever feelings are there for the person, those feelings are always tied to something you might call “positive” that the person values. If you can identify the positive underneath the feeling, it is helpful. For example, in a war situation, the person might be feeling gut-wrenching pain over taking someone’s life because the positive is that they want to protect life, they want to support life. So with painful experiences, there’s a kind of duality in there. There’s the extremely painful emotion, but it’s tied to something beautiful, life-positive. If you can identify what’s underneath and hold both—hold the emotion and help the person to clarify what the positive was that that emotion is connected to—there is healing in that.
However, do not do this as a way to get out of painful feelings. Do not do this to suppress or push down the feelings, or to say, “Don’t feel that,” or “Yes, you feel that but really it was about this.” Do not make it an either-or. Hold both. “Yes, you have these feelings and they’re so strong, and it’s because of this positive thing that was blocked, that was not allowed to be the case.” Hold both at the same time, the painful feeling and the positive quality. That can be very helpful.
Then, when that is complete—and that may take a very long time to complete… It can happen in pieces, in stages. But you do not want to rush this. You need to give full space for that. When it feels like that is complete, then the last piece is the forgiveness piece. Most often what people are suffering is forgiveness of themselves. They have not forgiven themselves for what they engaged, what they experienced, what they participated in. This is something you can help people with.
Ask them what they need forgiveness for. Do they need to forgive others? Are they angry at others? Do they need to forgive them? What would they need to forgive them?
Do they need to forgive themselves?
Simply ask the question. Let them find the answer. If you have a strong intuition, you might suggest this thing or that thing, but only as a suggestion. Always turn it back to the person. Let them find it. They know. Their higher self knows what they need. But they may tremendously need support because it feels so overwhelming.
Is that helpful?
Questioner: Thank you. Yes.
The Lord of Consciousness: Always hold the person in love as you’re doing this. Always see them in their perfection. See the beautiful person, no matter what they did or others did. See them in their completeness, their wholeness, and their divinity. Do not use that to deny their pain. That is your work, as you are holding the container for them to fully express, and connect with, and own their pain.
Many people feel that the way to handle pain is to put it aside, move on, forget about it, let it go. Most of the time, this doesn’t work. Pain has a function. It is part of our healing. The way to most directly heal is to receive the gift of the pain. This is another thing that you can do, to ask them, “What is the gift of this pain? What has this pain brought to you that is a gift?” Until we receive the gift, it continues, because it’s for a purpose. It’s to help us. So rather than running away from the pain, trying to lose it, we need to receive the gift.
So it is very wonderful that these people have come to you. It is a sign that they are ready. They may not realize what they’re ready for or what they can do. But it is a sign. And it is a gift to you to help these people, as well.
Question: Can you speak to us about the consciousness of the mountains surrounding us in this region? [Santa Fe, New Mexico] What is the best way to connect with and amplify the message that that consciousness wants to bring forward?
The Lord of Consciousness: Mountains are a very strong aspect of the element of earth. They also hold a great deal of consciousness. Mountains have been understood throughout history as places of pilgrimage, places to receive spirit-messages from, because they are uniquely suited to connect you to earth and to consciousness, the sky-energy, at the same time. Part of receiving the gifts of mountains is to walk on the mountain, to hike, to be with the mountain physically. If you are able to do this with direct skin contact—bare feet, bare skin contact on the mountain, this is even stronger. Or perhaps a natural material, such as the Native Americans understood with leather, which carries the frequency of the mountain into your body. This is very valuable.
It is valuable to do ceremony, to honor the elements and to invite in your connection with spirit and spirit-beings. Fire, in particular, is valuable on mountains, the element of fire as part of your ceremony. And nighttime is also very strong on mountains.
Any natural feature that you bring your love, your devotion, your energy to, will respond. Mountains are very responsive. And so you engage your interaction with the mountain as a holy ceremony. You ask permission of the spirits to enter into this sacred space. You communicate with the spirits. You receive their messages. Listen to the trees. Let the trees guide you. Touch the trees. Receive the trees into your body, the trees’ energy, the trees’ wisdom. All the elements—the wind is especially strong in mountains and this carries the spirit. Be attuned and let the spirits guide you.
This is my recommendation.
[Silence for a time.]
Do you feel the spaciousness… the quiet… the vastness? These are the signs of consciousness. The depth… the sense of liberation… these are my gifts. And they are given in love.
With this, I have said enough for tonight. Blessings to all. I thank you for this time we have shared, this interchange.
Blessings.
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Copyright 2012 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
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.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
How To Make Use of the 12-12-12 Gateway
By Mercedes Kirkel
Tomorrow is 12-12-12. I see it as an opening of a doorway into stronger energies, leading up to 12-21-12. These energies offer a special opportunity for transformation, if we choose to make use of them in that way.
Many people are suggesting meditations and particular processes to engage on 12-12-12. If one of these resonate with you, I support you in doing that. However, it’s not necessary to follow someone else’s process. You have everything you need to fully make use of these special energies. Indeed, I strongly believe that part of the change that we’re in the midst of is the shift from the paradigm of leaders and followers into a co-creative world of self- and other-empowerment. You may still choose to follow someone else for a particular purpose, such as being part of an organized process that a group is engaging together. It’s just that you do this by choice, knowing that you have infinite choices, which includes the option of leading yourself in your own process.
If you feel moved to create your own form of consciously receiving and activating the energies of 12-12-12 for your highest good, here are my recommendations:
1. Relax. Create a clear space for yourself physically, emotionally, mentally, and energetically. Set aside “busy-ness” and minor concerns that don’t need your immediate attention.
2. Focus. Set your intention for what you want to bring in for yourself and for the world. Some possible intentions might be:
- to live stably and continuously from your heart
- to open your third eye and higher mind
- to open the channel of communication with your higher self
- to shift into unity consciousness
- to move into the fourth dimension for yourself and all beings on Earth
- for peace, compassion, and higher consciousness to be manifested on Earth
- for the transition into the next stage of our spiritual evolution to be easeful and direct
3. Create sacred space. Set aside a specific time to receive the energies of this gateway and to allow yourself to be a vessel of transformation for your intentions. You may do this with others or by yourself.
4. Call in your guides, angels, or whatever beings support you spiritually. You can do this even if you don’t know who they are. Assume that you have beings supporting you for your highest good (which you do). Acknowledge them and ask for their help.
5. Express gratitude. This is an important step which opens you to receive. Express gratitude to your guides, to the specialness of the day, for your life and blessings, or for being present at this time to go through this great transformation.
6. Ask for what you want. Give voice to your intentions, for yourself and the world. It is best to do this out loud, as the frequency of your voice integrates all of your bodies in calling this forth.
7. Open to the energies. This may be a particular form of meditation that you do. Or it may be to simply be still and intend to receive. Breathing fully and openly will support your receptivity.
8. Give thanks. Whether you experience something or not, assume that you’ve received what is perfect for you. Give thanks for what you’ve received. Thank your guides for supporting you.
May 12-12-12 be a blessed and most wonderful day for you and for all!
What Will Happen on December 21, 2012?
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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Copyright 2012 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
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.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
The Nature and Effects of Consciousness
Part 1 of a Message from The Lord of Consciousness
Given through Mercedes Kirkel on August 13, 2012
Blessings dear ones. I am the Lord of Consciousness. I have many names and I take many forms. You may call me by whatever is most comfortable for you. Perhaps you would call me the Divine Masculine. That is a name I am happy to use, if it is meaningful to you.
I am the force of consciousness. This is a principle that is starting to be understood more and that is a very good thing. Still, it is somewhat challenging for many to have a sense of what consciousness is. What is this consciousness?
In some ways it is easier to talk about what it is not. It is not the same as your thinking or your mind. Yet there is a relationship between consciousness and your mind. It is not the same as your world. Yet there is a relationship between consciousness and your world.
In some ways, the opposite of what I am saying is also true. It is also true that consciousness is the same as your world, which would include your mind—that there is only consciousness and that all the things you identify as your world, or particular objects, or beings, or whatever you may identify is simply consciousness. There is nothing but consciousness. And that is true.
It is not an easy thing to describe or define. It goes beyond this world. Yet you know it, at some level, in this world. And it is very much a part of what you are calling the ascension process, because this ascension process is about connecting with higher levels of consciousness.
Some have used the metaphor of a movie, that everything that is happening is a movie. Your world is somewhat like a movie that you are seeing. Consciousness is the space the movie is occurring in and the awareness, the intelligence that is creating the movie. For most of your life and most of your time on earth, especially that you have been aware of, the movie that has been created has been the third-dimensional movie. This is what many of you call reality.
But—to continue this metaphor—in some ways, your reality is no more real than the movie that you watch in a movie theater, which often seems very real while you’re watching it. You forget that it is just a movie. And so it is with your reality.
But there is a slight trick to this, which is that it also is real, because it is consciousness and consciousness is real. The manifestation aspect of consciousness is sometimes referred to as the Mother, the Mother as creator, the Divine Mother, the Divine Feminine, just as you have a relationship with Mother Earth. You could see the Feminine principle as the principle of manifestation, and the Masculine principle as the principle of consciousness. In truth, we are not different. We are the same. This is where the understanding comes from that you are always creating your reality. It is because you are creating it from consciousness, in consciousness, and as consciousness.
This is not something that is grasped through the mind. It is grasped through your beingness. But, as I said earlier, it affects the mind. Depending on your state of consciousness, you will have a different experience through your mind. Your thoughts will be different. Your ideas will be different. Your understanding and impressions of what you call reality will be different. These are shaped by your consciousness. It is in consciousness that all things are unified. If there is only consciousness, you are connected to all, always. This is one of the beautiful aspects of the ascension process: As you grow in consciousness—in your connection to and awareness of consciousness—you affect all of manifestation through consciousness. So you have great power—much, much more than most of you have ever realized—in consciousness.
At the third dimension there tends to be a struggle, in some ways, between consciousness and manifestation. It feels like they are different and there is a very strong pull towards manifestation. As many of you are experiencing the ascension process, there is a sense of lightening up of this pull of the material world. This is often experienced as a relief. While that pull is very strong, it is not necessarily pleasurable. Much of the time it is painful or difficult. Yet, at the third dimension, it is not easy to break free of this. It is a gift to do so, and you are being helped, also. There are many who are helping you from the higher dimensions to remember yourself as a higher-dimensional being; to remember that there is more than this third-dimensional reality, this manifestation; and to help you, through love and the great law of attraction, to remember this beauty of the higher dimensions. It is like remembering a beautiful smell of a rose or the sweet strain of celestial music. It reminds you, and distracts you, and calls you with a gentleness that is more powerful than this pull of physicality.
It is not that you have to give up anything. You do not have to give up the physical. This is a natural process. You simply are moved in this direction, and it happens naturally and, in many ways, easefully. There may be some challenges, some discomforts, as with many growth processes. But you are strong and will move through these. The more that you move through these, the stronger you become; the more that you are freed up to allow this higher frequency of consciousness to create your life; the more easeful this process becomes; and the more strong you become. You also generally become happier, more joyful. It is not, perhaps, the kind of joy that you would have identified with at a more third-dimensional, physical level. It is an inner joy, the joy of light, the joy of love, which often comes in quiet forms, in peaceful ways of deep fulfillment.
Consciousness is attractive. It is why you have always been drawn to teachers, sages, gurus, awakened beings—because there is great attractiveness in the force of their higher level of consciousness, their greater openness to higher frequencies of consciousness. As you grow in consciousness, you will become more attractive to others. It is inevitable. This process of growing in consciousness is inevitable. It is good that you are talking about supporting each other in this process, supporting each other in a conscious way with those others who share a level of dedication to this ascension process. But beyond that, you are sharing your support with all beings, regardless of their conscious participation in this process or not. That is very important. It is wonderful that you are feeling the call to that kind of sharing and responding.
I believe that is all that need to say at this time. As you will see, as you grow in consciousness, the urge to speak generally diminishes. When you do speak, you will be quite brilliant.
And so I feel complete.
Blessings to all.
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Copyright 2012 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
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.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
A Vision of Spiritual Community
by Mercedes Kirkel
image courtesy of www.karunaarts.com
I want to be part of a spiritual community that’s a living sphere of Love and Consciousness, a field of energy that’s a blessing for all who enter into it. It will be a place for people to experience the wholeness of Spirit manifesting in life, giving everyone inspiration, guidance, and joy.
I envision a shared value and dedication amongst the participants to deep and full spiritual living, which I describe as Seven Chakra-TantraTM.
Seven-Chakra Tantra includes:
First Chakra (root chakra) ~ Having healthy and strong bodies (yoga & exercise, natural diet, being connected to Earth, natural healing modalities); growing organic food and living sustainably in relationship to Earth; and beautifying and honoring the Earth through art, landscape, and ritual.
Second Chakra (emotional/sexual center) ~ Valuing and expressing our emotions, energy, and sexuality to enrich life; living our spirituality through our relationships; raising children holistically; healing emotional wounds from our past; and engaging our Spirit-inspired passion.
Third Chakra (solar plexus) ~ Power-sharing and partnership cooperation; living our individual and collective life-purpose; maintaining the intention to bring love and consciousness in all our interactions and the will to align our actions with that intention; living as conscious manifestors for the highest good of all.
Fourth Chakra (heart) ~ Living on the basis of heart-connection and love, through giving & receiving life in words, actions, and touch; serving the manifestation of light in the world; following our spiritual path; and practicing abundance-consciousness.
5th Chakra (throat) ~ Transparent communication, speaking the truth, and expressing gratitude; bringing life-serving creativity to all circumstances; and spiritual expression through the arts and beauty (music, dance, visual arts, theatre, writing, and healing arts).
Sixth Chakra (third eye) ~ Connection to the transcendental through meditation and prayer; maintaining conscious connection with the Divine in all moments; and connecting with our higher self, Spirit-guides, and beings of higher realms through intuition, insight, telepathy or inner knowing, inner vision, inner hearing, and inner sentience.
Seventh Chakra (crown) ~ Receiving and transmitting divine light; living our unity with the Divine, ourselves, and all of life; manifesting unity-consciousness in relationship with others; connecting with and growing into higher dimensions of being; and living on the basis of joy.
I envision a residential community and spiritual center dedicated to living Seven Chakra Tantra on 15-50 acres of beautiful, private, quiet, fertile land. The land will have mature, food-producing trees, gardens, communal structures (including a large gathering space and a communal kitchen-dining area), living spaces for 12-24 adults plus children, and retreat facilities.
Q. Will the Spiritual Community be a non-profit or profit organization?
A. The structure could be profit or non-profit, depending on what would best support the community vision.
Q. Will it be solely owned, a partnership, or community owned?
A. It will be a combination, where residents own their structures and some other entity owns the communal portions.
Q. Where will the community be located?
A. The founding members will determine the location, based on what seems most supportive to the vision and all involved.
Q. How will the community be funded?
A. I believe that Spirit will provide guidance in manifesting the resources we need, as we are ready.
Q. What kind of people are you looking for?
A. People who are inspired by this vision and want to put their life-energy into creating it with others.
If you resonate with this vision and would like to know more,
contact Mercedes Kirkel
P.O. Box 32742, Santa Fe, NM 87594
www.mercedeskirkel.com
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Copyright 2012 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
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.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
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