 Hello beautiful souls. Welcome back and if you're new to Art of Awakening, there's a raven there. Welcome to my channel. I am coming to you from outside of Marquette, Michigan, one of my favorite trails here and what I'd like to share with you today is very personal and it's also universal. So starting, I'm just gonna start with a personal and if you've been following me for a while you probably know me as Christy. That's my middle name is Christina. Full name is Anne Christina and I've been going by Christy for a while. But it's not a name I've always been comfortable with. Anne Christina, I've been kind of changed my name quite a few times throughout my life. I've gone by Anne, I've gone by Anna, Christy, Christina and they never seem to quite fit. But there is one name that I have always felt fit and at this point in my life I just turned 50. Things are changing a lot for me, have changed in very good ways and it feels like it's time to reclaim this name. I think sometimes we come into the world with a true name where we, you know, discover one very early on or sometimes later on and it's kind of hard to change name. People don't like it. People get used to calling you by a particular name. But words have power. Words have a lot of power and I've been, you may know me as an artist, I'm a writer too and have been doing writing for businesses as a living for the last 11 years and I have come to recognize the power in words. And even if you look at, you know, in the beginning was the word. Words have a lot of power. They have a lot of power to create and that's why affirmations are so powerful. And so a lot of what I've learned over the past many years in this line of work is in terms of both the writing and the spiritual is the power of our words to influence, to influence the world, to create change in our lives. And so I have made this decision here to go ahead and go back to or actually just reclaim, take a stand for who I am through this name and in other ways as well. The name is Ona. It's O-N-A. And I'm gonna tell you a little bit of a story of why this name when I was about three. I don't even know where, where the name came from, where it came into my head. But I decided that that was my name. And I was, I remember writing it on the walls even. It was, it was that important to me at the age of three. Well my mother hated it. And not just because of the writing on the walls, but because, you know, she had kind of ownership of this name that she'd named me. She'd spent a lot of time choosing it and chose it very carefully. And Christina and, and she really made her mad that I didn't like it. I think maybe, maybe she felt rejected at some level, but basically the idea of me being Ona kind of got quashed pretty early on. And, but as I recall, you know, when I was a very young child, I used to sing. And at some point I stopped singing. And I really started to correlate that, that name thing with stopping singing. It was sort of like it took away my voice. And now I'm reclaiming it. And, okay, so that's the personal story, but let's look at how this relates to the universal and what's going on in the world right now. And to do that I'm going to look at the root meanings, and meanings plural of the name Ona, because, you know, at the age of three. I wasn't aware of that, but, but since then I've really done a little bit of research of this because it's, like I said, it's not easy to change a name. And I really wanted to make sure that this was something that really fit and was resonating and not just a whim. So, yeah, so I looked into the meanings of the the name. And as it turns out, it's Ona is a name that surfaces in many, many different cultures across the world. So first of all it's global, and which I really love, because I really feel what we called it to minister. I guess minister, I don't like that word, but to serve the earth herself, the earth. I have a connection with Mother Earth, and I love that the name has this global feel to it. So some of the meanings of the name Ona, one thing that I love is that it means both unity and one. Okay, so we have both the connection, the togetherness, the unity, and the individual. And that's something that's beginning to really, that's happening right now in the world. We're beginning to individuate and become, I think, a lot of this awakening process is the process of learning who we are as individuals and to claim our power as individuals and to recognize and honor that. And it's a very important, important thing to happen because when we have our own power as individuals, that's when we can unite and come together in a way that is very, very powerful. And that's another meaning of the word. The name Ona is unity. And to me, that really hits on the core of my own particular life's purpose is to help to unify humanity, bring lightworkers together in particular. I'll be talking about that in a sec. Okay, so other meanings of the word, the name Ona, in Bantu, I believe it's an African language, it means to see. And you know, to witness and to kind of recognize the truth of something. In Catalan, it means wave. And I believe Ukrainian, it means she. And it sounds like in Japanese, it means woman. Okay, so and then also in Hebrew, it is a variation on my given first name and which means grace. So all these meanings together, for me, really resonate because, you know, I'm putting them together and I'm looking at, wow, this is like a wave of awareness and a wave of bringing the divine feminine into awareness globally and unifying all these individuals who have, you know, these, who have like, world standing in the light and unifying all of us as individuals, as a collective, as a whole. So to me, this is just like when I realized all these meanings and how they come together and how they really resonate with my purpose, it's like, okay, well, I can put up with having to change my name one more time. And because it really feels like it's in alignment with why I'm here on the planet. Okay, so let's talk about some of the energies that are happening right now. And why I'm realizing it's like, I've kind of felt lost for a long time in terms of my name, but this is the perfect, perfect time. And it's probably a good thing that that name was not, you know, that I wasn't empowered to hold on to it until now because this is the time. And this is the time right now when it's the world is ready, the world is ready for lightworkers to start coming together. And the message around this is that, you know, that I've been receiving is that lightworkers really had to, you know, we were isolated for a long, long time. It was for our own protection. And however, it's like the energies are shifting right now have shifted to a point where it's safe to come out. And, but not just that, it's like I think we've had to be really work on ourselves individually. And in order to come out of that isolation, there's been a lot of, you know, a lot of us have had to awaken with a lot of isolation. And sometimes it's scary. It's like, you know, things happening spiritually, and you don't even know what they are, and there's nobody to talk to. And I hear this a lot. I was fortunate enough that when I started, like my awakening process took a long, long time. And I wasn't even aware that I was awakening for a long time. But when the big awakening for me happened, I was right away brought into this group of lightworkers. And it was amazing. It was like, I didn't know what a lightworker was, you know, but I'd always felt like just like not really connected, just sort of different and and always felt just sort of like, I wasn't really connecting with society. But then I walked in this room, and it was like, Oh my God, there's a lot of people, just all these people, there was like 20 people in this room that got me. It was amazing. And in that feeling, I just will never forget it. It's like, Oh my God, I found my people. And I think, you know, for me, that process of awakening, I mean, it was still hard. I had a lot of trials to go through it. But I had all the support, and it was incredible. There is no way that I would be experiencing the life I'm experiencing without that. I mean, it would have taken me probably more lifetimes, you know, without all these beautiful, amazing, awakened and awakening souls around me. And I would like that for others. Because right now, we're at this time where enough of us have woken up that it's really opening up, you know, for the collective. It has opened doors for the collective. And we're going to start seeing, we already are, start seeing more and more people starting to awaken in the coming months and few years. It's going to be like huge waves of people waking up. And what I'm being guided to do is to really encourage light workers to get together face to face, okay, face to face. And it's good to have these online groups and things. That's good. But especially if we can get together face to face in person, in the same room, that is so, so powerful. Those connections, even, you know, sometimes, even if it's temporary, even if it's like getting together, you know, just people flying in to one spot, whatever. But like local groups, I'm finding are just super, super powerful. I just started a local group last year of light workers getting together. It's the Market Light Workers Collective. And it's been amazing. It's grown. It's like, and people are telling me it's like, I am so grateful for this group for this opportunity to have these other people because I was feeling so alone. And what I'm feeling and what I'm seeing is like the awakening process does not have to be as hard as it has been for many of us. And those of us who are already awake, we can really smooth the road for those of us who are coming on board. And you know, we awaken each other and we we heal each other. And I'm seeing too, it's like, we're all messed up, right? In certain ways, because we're, you know, how can you be fully healed if you're coming out of a society that isn't, right? But what I'm seeing is like, messed up, people can come together and heal each other. We can pull each other up by our bootstraps, by each other's bootstraps. It's amazing. And that's what's happening as we come together. And so that's why I really feel like I'm taking this name, Ona, and I'm owning it. And because in taking that name, I'm taking a stand for the earth and I'm taking a stand for the light on the earth. And because that's my calling is to help in this process of bringing lightworkers together. So if you follow my last video, I mentioned that I would be more than willing to put together step-by-step instructions of how to start a local group because I realized that, you know, I've got a background in marketing. I know how to do this, right? But it's not something that a lot of people know how to do right off the top of their heads. So I'm going to start with, I haven't done this yet, so at the time of recording this, but by the time I do this, I'm thinking probably the best way is to start a Facebook group. And I can post, I'll probably start just with a one sheet of simple instructions and then as I have time to, here comes, like somebody with a dog. I think as I have time, I will elaborate on that to make it easier. So thank you so much for watching. I gotta go here. I got a dog here. I hope I have my dog and I'll catch you again later. Okay, I think I better finish this and let you know when we're to find this information. I'm going to be posting it below, on my channel, below this video. I'll just post a link once I get that together. And I totally invite you to, if you're interested at all in starting a group in your own local area, absolutely, even if you know how to do it, you know, I'd love for you to be part of this group because like I said, we can't help each other. We can give each other tips and just help each other, bootstrap each other up. So, all right, thanks for watching. And I love you all and we'll catch you again later. Bye-bye.