 This is Ona, welcome to Art of Awakening and it's been a little while since I posted. It's been sort of in the middle of this prolonged household move and going a little longer than I expected. So all my stuff is kind of piled in the living room right now, including some of my recording stuff. So getting a lot of beautiful lessons on patience. So it's a kind of fun time. But I am able to hear to sneak in a little time to do you a reading for the full moon. This is the second new moon of August 2019. So no one going to Virgo and reading will be really addressing the next month. And I think I know about you that this has been and I think maybe it's partly because it's been bridged by two new moons. But the month of August has really been one of a lot of introspection for me anyway and I'm thinking maybe for some of you as well. Lately there's been, you know, just a lot of what I'm feeling is kind of a lot of sort of emotional flare ups, flare ups is the word. And especially I'm feeling this connection with the fires going on in the Amazon right now. A lot of fire energy, okay. So there's a lot of stress kind of coming up to the surface. And so I want to say a few words to that because what I am seeing moving forward is I just have been getting this kind of visions of the word shake ups coming up repeatedly this year. I'm really getting that coming up forward for the next few months to maybe even a few years period. And so I'm looking kind of forward in the timeline now I don't see necessarily actual like very sharp events but I get a feeling for kind of trend and what's going to happen in the energy. I'm getting sort of like this bumpy, bumpy, bumpy, bumpy. And I'm not saying that to alarm people at all. It's quite the contrary. But just to expect that there might be a lot of unexpected things. So expecting unexpected for the next few months and maybe for the next few years we just had a tremendous shift in consciousness on the planet shifting into the more divine feminine. And with that there's going to be a lot of shake ups because we're creating a new reality here collectively. And any time that you do create, okay, so this is true of any art that the act of creation kind of demands some kind of destruction. So like you cannot create a painting for instance without you're going to be destroying that clean slate, that white canvas, right? It's got to be destroyed in order to build something more. To create even the pigments you got to grind up stones and rocks to create that. So there's that destruction that has to precede actual constructive creating something. If you're creating a house you've got to either maybe chop down some trees to create the lumber and there is sacrifice involved in that. So what I'm saying, shake ups and rocky road ahead a little bit. It doesn't mean that it's necessarily going to be a negative thing. In fact, it's actually a necessary thing. So I know you may have already heard, I've been feeling for quite some time that we may be looking at another economic slowdown or recession. We're starting to hear that a lot as the weeks go forward, hearing that louder and louder, people are believing that the banking system, at some point that banking system of ours, it is just not sustainable and there's so many things in our society that are not sustainable that they will need to collapse in order for something new to come up out of it. So what I'm getting, the important thing here is, okay, so when these things happen, the important thing is to really recognize it first of all as not necessarily we want to think it's the end of the world. There's going to be people that are going to be saying this is the end of the world, this is terrible, and everybody's going to die, and this and that, blah, blah, blah. And this doesn't mean that we had to be ahead in the clouds and deny that there's serious stuff going on because there is, but to keep in mind that that is part of the creative process first of all, to remember especially in terms of any ecological disasters that are happening that Mother Earth and nature are more resourceful than we ever give them credit for. So this is a wake-up call and this is a request on the part of Mother Earth to help, right? And yes, we should be concerned, but what's needed is what happens with this kind of thing is the panic reaction that actually feeds the flames, right? So what's needed is overall in our society, in human consciousness on the Earth right now, we have an overabundance of fire energy and that has been true over the past few decades to a couple centuries. There's been an overabundance of fire, it's where all the fossil fuels, and even just war activity, the firearms, the development of bombs, the weapons of mass destruction, that kind of thing. It's all fire energy. Fire energy really wants to get things done and it's got a lot of kind of forceful energy to it, okay? It's an overabundance of the young of the masculine element, that masculine element has a lot of positive things to it. It can go negative just like the feminine can go negative, right? So this is sort of a manifestation of overabundance of young and especially the forceful kind of masculine energy that we are moving out of. The reason it's coming up so forcefully right now is we're just flushing. The Earth is starting to flush this out, right? And so what is needed to happen is to bring some of that fire down, bring in more Earth, bring in more water, okay? Just calm it down here. And so when things like this come up, what can happen is if we buy into the whole panic thing, then we start getting into, we take on that kind of energy, we take on that fire where we're going to do, we take on the panic, okay, and that feeds the flames. So what Mother Earth needs most from us and what we need from ourselves is for us, each of us individually can think of each person as like a cell of Mother Earth, right? So we are living pieces, living parts of Mother Earth, okay? We all play different roles. So it's really easy to look at a situation like this and feel helpless, okay? And we look at this situation and feel helpless. What that does is it feeds that sense of anxiety and that it creates a sense of information within ourselves, okay? It makes us feel stressed out, which brings on more fire energy, which feeds the flames, okay? So anything, whether it's the economy or the environment or the people around you or whatever it is, when we get that stress kind of flare up inflammation reaction, the thing that needs to happen in order to get out of it is to be conscious of it, okay? To be aware. This is a pattern. This is a pattern that, yes, we can do something about it, okay? And as individuals, the best thing that we can do and that really is effective and I know this may sound like, oh, you know, just taking care of myself doesn't really help anything but it really does because remember we are all connected. So when we ground ourselves, when we bring ourselves back to center, what that does is it cuts that negative feedback loop off right at the roots, okay? Or even underneath the roots, okay? It stops, the buck stops right there, okay? And the reason that's so important is that you think of it as a fire break, right? So when you cut a fire break, it's not necessarily anywhere near the fire, it's not actually actively fighting the fire, right? A fire break isn't like pouring water on the fire, it's not like you're not necessarily anywhere near fire, it simply cuts it off. It stops it from spreading, okay? So the more each of us can be conscious of stress or anything like that that wants to make us feel even more stressed out and the more you can just kind of breathe that away and bring yourself back to center and calm and ground and anchor, that is the biggest thing that we can do even if you are able to do more proactive action stuff, which is great, you know, but even if there's nothing else, that is actually the biggest thing we can do each as individuals is to ground ourselves as much as possible, okay? And to recognize that these loops happen through the emotions. So how things manifest is first with the thought or the word, right? The idea then through emotions and it's through the emotions that the actions happen, right? So when we start first of all having the idea of, okay, these flames aren't going any farther, it stops here and then feeling the emotions that they're happening and this doesn't mean to repress the emotions, it means to acknowledge them, you know, allow them to kind of, you know, just acknowledge that they're happening, but then bring yourself back to center, recognize this is a feedback loop that I'm buying into. If I allow myself to start getting, you know, acting on the whole stress deal, I'm just going to be going around and around this loop and I'm also going to be allowing those flames to be passed from me to other people to the earth, okay? So when we just kind of breathe, breathe down to the earth, give your, and you can call on the angels, right? Call on the angels to help, call on your spirit guides to help because they will. And again, these things are more powerful than we give them credit for, okay? So we are all connected in the more each of us, you know, each additional person that decides I'm not going to buy into this panic anymore. I'm going to stay and I'm going to ground and I'm going to be rational. The more that happens, then the more the people in power who tend to be driven by emotions, right? Or driven by ambitions, the more they feel around them, the solid grounding that's going to bring them back, bring them back a little bit to center, whoever is able to actually act. All right. So, and also just it's like if you do feel that panic, ask your angels to help and you ask them to help them, help you to, to give that stress, give it to Mother Earth. And that, you know, when I first heard that, it's like, oh, what, you know, give my stress to Mother Earth, isn't she stressed enough? Well, no, it's because that's what she's designed to do. She's designed to be, she is our mother, okay? She can take that, you know, and a good mother understands that when her child is screaming and shouting, that it does not mean that, you know, that, that she's able to just kind of take that and hold it to her and calm it down, right? Because she stays within herself. Mother Earth is really good at staying within herself, right? So when we give our stress and allow that to drain down into her, that's trusting, that's showing her that we trust her, okay? So if we start worrying and worrying and worrying that worry reaction that keeps it up on the surface, that's when you start getting the fires going, okay? Fires metaphorical or, or, or actual literal, okay? So actually giving the cares, giving the stress to Mother Earth actually just helps her to release it, okay? And trusts to her that we, we have the faith, okay? And helps everything to calm down on the surface, right? Because remember the core of Mother Earth is fire. So you can send all the fire you want down to the core of Mother Earth. So you can handle it, right? And that helps as well to keep us individually grounded. So I wanted to pull a few cards here for this coming month just to help to keep us, like, see what, see what the animals want to say about kind of the energy coming up forward for us. And the first one coming up is Beaver, okay? So here we are, water, water coming in, okay? Beaver, interesting animal. I'm going to be posting a video on Beaver very quick, very soon here. So it's interesting this came up. But Beaver actually does have a lot of the energy that is contributing to these fires, right? You know, it's that industry, it's that, you know, kind of building stuff, right? Expansion, whatever. You know, so that is that beaver energy out of bounds. That's what we're seeing here, okay? So this is really saying, okay, there are a couple sides to beaver. So the other side of beaver is stewardship, right? So being able to make things sustainable. So remember that when beaver, beaver does this thing, it cuts down trees and so forth and so on and it builds. But when it's really in the right place in the environment, when it's, when it has found its place, the activities that beaver does to sustain itself actually creates beautiful environment for other species. So it really is one of these keystone species that helps to actually create a more sustainable environment for many around it. Okay, so we can actually take some of this human energy of wanting to create, wanting to build, wanting to be progressive, right? And the one, you know, the industriousness, even the financial is associated with beaver. Okay, so this means that we can take that whole energy, that whole human desire to create and build something bigger to create a better life, right? And we can take that and kind of turn that if, and work it in a more positive direction, okay? So this is really a card of hope, okay? So that it doesn't mean, and there's this tendency to look at things like this and get very, very judgmental and very, very, you know, just sort of incriminating. And to just realize that you're not to throw the baby out with the bathwater, okay? That we can, we can, you know, if we just balance this beaver energy, we can actually work in partnership with the earth and still have that creative force. You know, we as humans are very creative beings. We are busy. We like to build things okay, but we can't do it in partnership. And that's bringing in more of that water, that more calming, stilling, kind of cleansing energy into everything that we do, okay? So next card, coming up, otter, another water animal, okay? Another, the water is coming forward. Big time otter is an invitation to play, a reminder that, you know, that there is joy in life, right? And that sometimes we need to proactively, you know, seek it out because it's really easy when things get hard to get those on this very negative, negative, negative, you know, the world's coming to an end and oh, I've got to just, you know, maybe I just need to put the nose to the grindstone all the time and make sure that I'll have enough money to get through whatever my, you know, that's, yes, we want to be proactive. Yes, we want to think ahead, but let's think about how we can bring celebration into everyday life. How we can bring joy. How we can make life a dance instead of a, you know, a march or a slog, right? We want to make it a dance and we can do that and still be productive and still, you know, to provide for our families. And then I'm going to pull one more card. Let's see what I want to come forward. This one, spider, right? Okay. So spider is an, it's interesting because spiders have been coming up a lot for me too. Okay. So spider, again, it's very like beaver. It's the feminine beaver and spider. Okay. Both of these beaver sort of epitomizes the masculine aspect of, of creation, right? And in its dark aspect, it can be very forceful, very destructive in its, in its light aspect, it's the provider. Okay. And it's the provider as it provides for itself. It is the side effect is to make life, you know, the world better for everybody around it, the community. It's a real community kind of thing. Spider is the feminine aspect of this whole creative force. And in its negative aspect, it can be very entangling, but in the positive aspect, we're looking at interconnections. So looking at how, what you do and everything that you do actually does have an effect on everything else. Okay. Little of you, little of me, we have a lot more power than we know that we give ourselves credit for. So if you see when the spider web, you touch any little bit of that web, everything feels it, right? You can, that's where the spider does it sits on the web. And no matter what part gets touched, it feels that. Okay. So even little actions that you do make a difference. Okay. So if you decide to, you know, and I'm coming back to this idea of stress, because we are as a society, the most stressed, like humanity has never experienced stress at this kind of level that what we're dealing with. Okay. So if things feel a little hard once in a while, give yourself some credit. You are dealing with more stress than any human was ever designed to deal with. Okay. So give yourself credit for the grace with which you've been able to do this, even if it doesn't seem like it. Okay. You're doing amazing. And so allow yourself to recognize that you are a part of a whole, that you're connected with everything and that you can draw. And if you look at these, these beautiful pieces of the web, that you can kind of draw energy. I see this almost like a starlight kind of web. You can pull energy from the stars. You can ask for energy from the Earth. You can ask for energy from the angels. You can, you know, you, you can ask for this help because we are all connected. And as you, any little thing that you do for yourself is going to be felt throughout the web of the universe, right? So if you're feeling a little stressed, even just taking one minute and do a little deep belly breathing, something like that, that is going to actually echo way past your own. You're going to find you do that. You allow yourself to take breaks, to take these stress breaks, just do things to de-stress a little bit in between. If you're feeling this, it will help to cool those volumes, cool the fire, and it actually really does make a difference beyond you. The planet herself is going to feel it. Okay. So there goes my dog flopping down a rest. All right. So hang in there. If it's been a tough time, if it's not, you know, not everybody is feeling a stress. So if you are feeling like things are chill and that's great, that's wonderful. You are being a real anchor of just an anchor of groundedness for the world. We need that. Okay. So if you are ever feeling like who you are or what you're doing is not making a difference or, you know, I'm not really doing anything interesting with my life or I'm not doing anything big or fantastic, don't, don't, don't go down that route because there are people like just like we have cells in the body. Like I mentioned, each one of us is like a cell from other earth. Remember that, you know, there's cells that have all different functions and some, some of us are like immune cells and we're reacting, right, to things. And others of us are like, like, like bone cells, right? A bone cell doesn't, it's kind of long lived and it just sits there and it's, but it's structural. So if you are one of these people that's like, you know, just a solid kind of in, in maybe, maybe there may not be a huge amount of these people watching this because a lot of the people that are, that are going to be watching are maybe going to be a little bit more of the sensitive, but give things to the people around you who may not be quote unquote awakened, but there are people that are really good solid souls who are really anchoring calm energy on the earth right now. Okay. I mean, know some of them. And if you do, give thanks for them because they're really helping to anchor. And for the rest of us who tend to be more like, well, okay. It's part of the path here in awakening is to learn to anchor, learn to ground and to start to recognize patterns and then to exercise, you know, the control of the self to be able to, when you recognize pattern, start to shift the pattern. Okay. And right now a lot of that is learning to breathe, to anchor, to ground, to get more yin and less yang. All right. So have a good one. I hope you've enjoyed this. If you're interested in purchasing one of my decks, it is the spirit animal awareness deck. I'll leave a link below. Thanks so much for your support. And I'll catch you next time.