 Hello, beautiful souls. Welcome back to Art of Awakening. My name is Ona Christie, visual artist and mystic oracle. And in this video, I'm going to be sharing insights into the energies of July 2023. This is a huge month. We just came off of these, the June solstice of 2023. We're moving towards the Lions Gate in August. And this whole month is going to be between those two powerful points. This will be a month of intense light activations. I'm sure you can feel them already. And so in this video, I'm going to be sharing an Akashic message to explain what these energies are all about. I will be sharing the spirit animal of the month and what spirit animals coming forward to support these energies, as well as a few thoughts about what the themes are for this month and how we can navigate these energies to support our higher selves during this time. And I am thinking about ending with an angel card reading as well. So hold tight for that. I'm going to start with just a couple thoughts about July itself. In addition to being between these two powerful astrological events, we also have the sun going into Leo. And that's why I've got the lion here. He represents the self, right? So whatever happens as we move into Leo is going to kind of set the stage for the year ahead, right? It really is whatever activations come in at this time are going to be affecting our soul development. And then another very important astrological event that happens in July is going to be the 7-7 portal, which is another really big energy portal. And I'll be doing a separate video about that because when I fell into that, there was so much about the numerology of that and the energies of the 7-7 that I thought it would make more sense to address that separately. So if you haven't yet subscribed, hit that subscribe button, hit the bell notification that will give you notice when that video is posted. Okay, so I'm going to start with the Akashic message for July 2023. And as always, I just tuned into my own guidance. And I'm just going to share that with you. So the first thing that they showed me when I tuned in was not so much words but an image. And they showed me two armies gathering on the battlefield with dust rising in columns and an eagle high above. It was like a scene out of the Lord of the Rings. And what it also reminded me of is the opening scene of the Bhagavad Gita, which is that ancient Hindu text with Lord Krishna instructing Prince Arjuna on basically how to be human, how to really stay aligned, right, even under the rest. And so I feel like that's such an important sacred text. I'm going to see if I can find a link to that free online. I'll put that in the description box below this video. But check out the Bhagavad Gita if you feel inspired to. And so while we're showing this to me, here's the message that I received. July 2023 is an important month because of the rising surge of power. The forces of good and evil, light and dark, are facing off at this time. We are about to plunge into open confrontation with the dark forces that have ruled the world for millennia. Do not underestimate your own power. The power they wield is worldly, and they have a lot of it. In fact, they have systematically gathered to themselves by far the lion's share of worldly power and resources in the human-centric biosphere. Their power is immense from a worldly perspective. If you remain in your 3D stations, you will perish or remain enslaved forever. They are invincible at this point, but only if they are confronted with resistance at their level or below. In actuality, their power is extremely limited. The power you have access to, even the least of you, far outshines their ability to generate. But you must realize it, own your power, and release your emotional attachment to the very things that are keeping you in bondage. Sacrifice is a law of the universe. For growth to happen, to enter a new form, one must release the old. For a plant to sprout, the seed must break open. For the fruit to form, the flower must die. Remember who you are, a shining son or daughter of the sun. Salvation lies within you. Okay, heavy stuff, and there's a few things that I want to bring forward again, and that I'm just being asked to call your attention to. Okay, forces of good or evil are facing off at this time. We are in a spiritual war. I think it's pretty obvious, and one thing that I think needs to be really brought up is that this is a war within, and it's also manifesting outwards because this is a critical mass of humanity that has reached a point where we are powerful enough to confront it, and that's why it's coming into the collective, and the shadow is showing up in the form of wars of environmental degradation, in the form of all sorts of things going on right now, a lot of polarity and a lot of division and a lot of conflict. All right, we know this. The other thing that they're saying is that this is, well, a couple of things. One, the idea of the dark forces systematically working throughout millennia, and this is something I've really been wanting to talk about for a while. My guidance has been saying not yet, not yet, and I think it's because I kept getting bits and pieces and starting to piece things together and connect the dots, but I didn't feel like I had the whole picture yet. I have been given a whole cosmology of human evolution and planetary evolution that's part of the picture. I did share that a couple of years ago in a webinar, but it just seemed like I didn't quite have it all, and over the last couple of weeks, there's a fellow YouTuber, her name is Gigi Young. I was just guided to go to her channel and I started binge watching some of these videos that she's got, a couple of playlists that are absolutely phenomenal. She exposes all of this. She really explains occult science and how the dark occult is moving into the world as well as shedding a lot of light on the light occult because we have that too. If you are a light worker or if you're a star seed, then you're actually part of the light occult and we need to know how things actually work, how spiritual science actually works. I've been on the spiritual laws for quite a while because my guidance has been telling me this, but what she offers really fills in so many gaps and has confirmed so many of my intuitive messages and I feel like this is the most important thing that anybody can be watching right now. It's like we need to understand how things actually work because the dark occult or the dark forces on this planet are very, very well orchestrated. I've been aware of this for quite some time and they, even though they're operating at a lower level, there are so in lockstep and such amazing organization and planning that they've managed to put themselves in this position where they're ready to take things to a really high level in terms of dark things happening on the planet. We're already seeing this really starting to explode and this is where it's coming to a head in this month of July is that this is time for us to really start to insist on the truth. This is a big theme that's coming up is truth. I'm seeing a lot of blue flame energy around this. I spoke about that last month and it's really time for us to make a decision. We each have to make a decision right now. Are we going to cling to fallacy? Are we going to cling into false narratives and false beliefs or are we going to have the courage and the strength to stand up to that and to look right into the shadow and to identify what is false out there and then to draw the line and fight against it. The spirit animal that's coming forward for this month of July 2023 and this is one that I came forward even before the message here. It's not lion, it's not whale, it is mama bear. There she is right there. So mama bear having the courage and the strength to just stand up and protect the truth. Now truth, this is a concept that I don't think gets very much press in the new age and I think there's a reason for it, but it is absolutely the core center of like the old wisdom schools. Without being aware of the truth, we are just going to be led in so many ways and if you're feeling at all scattered or confused or like you can't get traction in your spirituality or in life, I hear you because I've been through this, I've been going through this as well and honestly it's like the more you start facing the false narratives that you've been holding on to and I've held on to a lot in the past five years, so much of what I believed was true in the world. I no longer believe, my whole political beliefs have changed, my spiritual beliefs have changed, my personality has changed, all the stuff because there is so much illusion and so much manipulation out there and it's up to each one of us. Each one of us needs to take the personal responsibility to learn and when you first start getting into spirituality and it's like you feel this amazing new world opening up around you and it's beautiful and it's wonderful and it is and you don't have to lose that but you can get lost in it and so this is a call to not only hold on to the beautiful side of spirituality, the rainbows and the unicorns and all that, but also the truth side, right, learning the spiritual law and learning as I'm finding out more and more the actual history, the spiritual history, right, and spiritual science, how things actually work, it is going to open your eyes, okay, so a couple of things that may be coming forward this month, one is would be more purification and sacrifice and this means ego death, right, the dark night, the soul thing is often what happens, right, and it depends on where you're at in the awakening process, could feel like those dark night experiences, losses of relationship, career loss, job loss, illness, financial loss, moving, all those things, but it can also express this really energizing and enlightening, right, sometimes it's like when we release that old baggage, that purification, it'll feel exhilarating and uplifting, right, so like letting go of a big weight, it can go either way but regardless, the encouragement is to emulate Mother Bear and have that big courage and strength to stand up and and look the shadow in the eye and just say you know it stops here, I will not accept lack of truth anymore and so the encouragement is to question the narratives, if you start hearing something over and over and over again, be really suspicious of it, right, question the narrative, question the narrative because if there's something that's being repeated over and over in the kind of in the mainstream or even in the mainstream of the new age, you can bet almost certainly there's going to be something underneath it that's pushing an agenda and we've got to train ourselves to see the agendas, okay, all right, so one way to do that is to get back into true timing and this is a theme that has a lot to do with Mother Bear, right, she's one that helps us with this, is to get back in sync with the organic time flow. That means we need to start really feeling into our bodies and paying attention to the natural cycles of time, how it feels to be aligned or not aligned, right, when we push ourselves past being tired, that kind of thing, the dark agenda wants to push us into things before we're ready and we need to take that back, okay, and in fact, a lot of times when I do these messages, it's not just the message itself, but it's how it's delivered that is part of the message and in this time, when I tuned in, it was like I wasn't quite settled or grounded yet and they gave me kind of a lecture, my higher guiding step, they told me you would need to allow us in if you were to receive messages from us, relax, slow down, center into your heart and release expectation of outcome, release subtle worries, there is no urgency here, even when swift action is called for it must be undertaken without urgency, action centered in infinite stillness is powerful, far-reaching and clean, even well-intentioned and aligned action undertaken under emotional duress will be tainted and create karma, shreds of anxiety, fear, desire for personal gratification or any other lower emotion will unbalance the intended action and produce unintended or negative results and or side effects, it is like shooting an arrow with a piece of string tied to it, it will not fly true, okay, so we are all right now being called to be spiritual warriors and that means being able to master one's emotions, now as a spiritual warrior, as the first message said, you can't fight darkness on its same level because it will win, it's too organized, it's taken too much of the power of the world but what we do have is the power that's above the worldly power, okay, so we need to understand that it's the power of the heart, okay, so one of the most powerful things we can do right now is come into stillness and come into our heart and breathe into and out of the heart, put your hands on the heart we'll open that chakra up and to ground ourselves into that what I call the cosmic time, the universal time, it's from there that you can receive the messages and the light codes and the guidance that will tell you what to do next, what to watch next, you know, where to get your information, how to figure out if you're in the truth or not, okay, it's all within you, it's all within you, all right, again the salvation lies within you and your guidance knows but you have to be willing to question everything even if it's something that you're really invested in, it could be that you need to change your career or it could be you know that it's going to be different for everybody, for some people it just means drop the resentment around going to work and for some people it's like it's time to shift and you know do whatever else you're called to do but your heart will tell you, your heart will tell you, okay, and then I think for all of us to learn the spiritual law and learn the spiritual science is imperative, we are not going to get out of this without being, this is a time, this is a time in human evolution that we're being called to unite heart and mind and that also means to unite spirituality with science, okay, there is spiritual science, science, the materialist science that we've been taught, it's separated like everything else, you know that's part of this dark agenda to separate out spirituality from science, they need to be brought back together because they are seamless and when you start understanding spiritual foundations that underlie you know how the world works then things start to become clear to you, you can start to see through all the agendas and the new age is full of them, okay, there's a lot of beliefs that are being promoted through the new age and I think this is really really important and if this is making you uncomfortable, good I want you to just kind of feel into that, okay, because there's part of us that wants to stay in our lovely little world of rainbows and unicorns and it's time that you know when we first start getting into a spiritual life that feels so beautiful, we have this beautiful world opening up and it's lovely and I'm not saying to let go of that because that's such an important part of you know what we're bringing to the world right now but it's not enough in and of itself, we also need the structure, right, we need to understand the structure of how things work spiritually because without that you know all this beautiful stuff can be really led, can lead us astray, okay so there's a lot of stuff and thank you for sticking with me, I am going to be pulling an angel card here to support us in the end, this is actually the second time that I filmed this, so let's see if the same card comes up and if not I might share that first one too, yep cleanse and shield your energy, this isn't the same one but it's it's very closely related in fact let me see if I can find the other one but cleanse and shield your energy, it's psychic protection absolutely absolutely important right now if you have any kind of protective practice that you do this is a really good time to really work on that and then the other one that had come up earlier was this one centering in divine light so look look and see how that's almost the same card isn't it right and actually centering in divine light is one of the most powerful spiritual protection practices that you can have and again that relates directly to moving into the heart energy right breathing in another heart and really seeing the light there and breathing that forward okay understand that we are we are divine that each one of us has this divine spark within us and that is our true self that is our true self okay and that it has everything that we need salvation is within you that you will be given the answers but you need to slow down enough to open and hear and receive them okay and that whatever you see happening out in the world it's happening in order to force us to come back to this light and to stand up for it and to speak the truth okay so drawing on the courage and strength of mother bearer to to speak out you know if there's an untruth that you're seeing it's so easy especially if it's a popular untruth and there's so much out there right now that you know if you're not speaking the narrative that you're vilified this is a test this is a test this is only a test right we are going to need to make choices that may be uncomfortable choices but we're going to need to choose truth we're going to need to choose our own inner impulse of what we know is right over the popular things or the things that the authorities are saying that aren't right and there's it's so easy to fall into doubt right but I want you to really feel into what it feels like in your body when somebody's saying something that you know is not true and if you find yourself moving into that just because it's the easiest thing to do stop okay this is not going to be easy and it's intentionally not easy it's a test we're being tested in terms of are we strong enough and courageous enough to stick with the truth even if we are you know put under the gun for it this is sacrifice right and every one of us needs to decide right now what's more important to us you know our little worldly safety or our eternal spirit and truth okay it's like you're going to either choose your higher self your christ self or you're going to choose a lie and which is it going to be right so deep stuff if you feel like this is an important video please do like share and subscribe it does help to spread this message and remember you were born to be free