 Hello, beautiful souls. Welcome back to Art of Awakening. In North Michigan, where I am, it's the dead of winter and this is such a beautiful time of year because it really speaks to me of, you know, some of this process that we're going through and sometimes it feels like just the deep chill, right, that we're never gonna see the sun again. But there's a lot that nature can teach us about the whole awakening process and I think this time of year is a beautiful time of year where nature really has a lot of lessons that we can look to for guidance. My name is Ona Christie. If you don't know me, I am a visionary artist and inner wilderness guide and today I'm taking out in the woods for a little snowshoe. And so as we stand here at this point of what I believe is actually the very beginning of this tremendous great collective awakening on planet Earth, there's a couple things that this is bringing to mind to me and one of them, one of them is that that there's gonna be a lot thrown at us in the next, especially the next year, maybe a few years and it could feel blinding at times, like when there's a lot of snow, I'm getting more and more snow coming down here. It will obscure the vision and that's part of the process. Vision is like this super, super, super important thing that we really have to keep in mind and as we move forward, really tuning into the inner vision because the outer vision is gonna be very much you know, it's like we're walking into a blizzard. We can't expect all sorts of things that are going to be, you know, distracting us, blinding us, you know, or at least trying to keep us from seeing that beautiful, beautiful vision that we, you know, are of a beautiful new world and that's this new world that we're here to build. And that brings me to the second thing is which is this energy of the mother, the great mother. And this is something I've been feeling awakening really big time right now, just that that great mother energy. This is divine mother, okay? And this is something that, you know, that energy of the mother has been twisted and run backwards for a long, long time. So this isn't the mother that eats last and eats her food cold, okay? This is this is the divine mother and she's amazing and so what's the mother energy? It's that which brings forth, okay? And there's a number of us and I think all of us awakened people, part of our our job here is to bring forth and physically, literally, materially bring forth you know, something new and beautiful, a new way of living on the planet earth in partnership with mother earth, right? And this is respect of the mother and that includes respecting our bodies and working in partnership with our bodies in partnership with the planet in partnership with all the glorious and beautiful creatures here on the planet. Just motherhood have to do with vision. Well everything because if you think of bringing forth that just that the mother does and if you think of that word conception, right? And conception means, of course, to spark new life, but it also means to have an idea to bring in this idea, right? It's the same thing. And so when we start to really tune into the spirits, you know, the awareness, the intuitive, those downloads that we get, right? And this visualizing of a beautiful new future, that's conception, okay? And so that is the starting point of literally birthing the new earth, okay? And this is what we're all here to do. So just a couple of encouragements. One, don't get discouraged if it looks like the world's going into a deep freeze or or the opposite because that is part of the cycle, right? We're all in these cycles and you know, looking around right now, it looks like we're never gonna see green leaves again, but we know it's there, right? We can forecast into the future. And also, this is the time of year pretty soon. It's almost February. We're gonna start seeing the owls nesting and the foxes mating and stuff. The animals know they feel it. They feel it with their bodies. They feel it deep inside that there's warmth coming. The sun is on its way. You know, the light is rising and they instinctively know that. So just tuning into that instinct, you know, they're not looking at what appears to be, they're feeling into what is with the rising light and they're acting upon that. And that's what we need to do as well. And so if you haven't been, you know, it's so easy to get distracted and feeling down about what's going on in the world, but just think past, okay? It's just some of these old structures need to just crumble, but we're here to build a new earth. We're here to build a new society, right? And it starts now. It starts now, all right? So thinking, putting in your third eye, what is it that we want to build? What's this beautiful new reality that is being brought forth starting now with the conception, with the ideas of, you know, what does it want to look like, right? And that's such an important part of the creative process. That's what's starting right now. It's beautiful. And, you know, if you've already got that conception of what you're building in your life or what you want to see in the world, great, then looks in for those intuitive guidances and start to take action as you're guided. You know, this is a beautiful, beautiful time to be alive. And let's celebrate it and let's really start looking beyond the icy desolation and forward to the spring that we know is coming. And by the way, speaking of animals, if you haven't yet, do check out the Animal Oracle Card Summit. It'll be January 25th through the 26th. I'm super excited to be a speaker on that first day and it is free. So check below for the link.