 A little bit difficult. Welcome back to Art of Awakening. My name is Ona and I'm just coming in to do a quick energy update and spirit of and reading This is the week of January 10th going into I guess that what is it the second week of January? And so I've got a little message here that I was given from spirit that I want to start with because I think I just felt feels right and they're talking about truth Okay, they're talking about really staying in your truth So they say the highest the highest guru is within you, right? So that trusting that we each have our own inner guru, right? That we can really count on to give us that advice tell us exactly what to do to help us through whatever it is that we're going through and They say trust in the voice that brings you sustaining peace So one of the the the questions that I think all of us go through is this is this really the voice? This is this is this really the voice my guidance Or is it something else and that's something that we all have to work through because there's all sorts of things that come At us that want us to you know kind of take us off into their agenda and Sometimes these key things could be really really subtle So the advice that was given here is like trying you know helping to discern what is you know What's your truth and what isn't so the same trust the voice that brings you sustaining at peace That means you have to be very very discerning of you know when you listen to this advice How does that feel with you right? It's just to sit with it for a while They say when you feel your spirits lift when you feel that sense of freedom not escape But freedom and that's true guidance. Okay, and so these are really really subtle distinctions And sometimes we have to kind of go along with some advice for a while first before we figure out Is this really feel good or not? They say that true guidance is measured by a bliss and an inner peace Depending on circumstance. This may feel like joy or it may feel like an absolute knowingness Knowing that you're feeling it's more of a feeling feeling like that you're exactly in that right place at that right time If you just feel like you're kind of in that groove You know when you feel like you just know what to do, right? That's your true guidance kicking in You know no matter how hard or challenging, you know The your situation may seem when you feel that kind of grounded inner peace that that's generally good your true guidance Um Motivation by fear is not true guidance and neither is motivation by winning Right, it's motivation to win without the presence of that joy that bliss that that grounded inner peace It is simply a fear of loss and it's not true guidance So they're saying that winning is a natural Byproduct of being in your truth doesn't mean you don't want to win Of course we do but when he's a natural byproduct of being in your truth, not the goal, okay, so there's a real shift there When you're really following your heart song, right? It's that's that true guidance and you start to lift you up and it feels good even if you're going through something really challenging so right now, of course we're all going into this kind of very challenging period of time and Um, you know, I don't know how people are you know, wherever you are at right now and for like For some it may feel really exhilarating like things are finally moving and this is why I'm here on earth and for others It may be like, oh no, I'm not ready for this. I think for a lot of us it may be both So, you know, just if you're feeling really overwhelmed Um, just kind of keep in mind that, you know, that light cast shadows like I've got this candle here and I don't know if it's dark enough really to show but if you if you should that light on it, you know it's gonna start to cast some funky shadows and That's when you know when we're all going through Typically, there's this ascension process, right? We start to waken up and that's where light starts to shine and Then once that light starts to shine the funky shadows start to happen, right? That's what wants to take us, you know, kind of off-path because we're just only around the dark You only have a little candle, you know They can it can get confusing. So But this is always what happens is this is, you know, part of this whole ascension process We've got this whole collectiveness planted ascending right now So we've got this happening at a major major scale, right? Lights starting to shine more lights coming in we just had a huge amount of light energy coming in and It's starting to throw even more shadows, right? The shadows are coming out and they're coming at us pretty hard for a lot of, you know Whether it's individually or collectively So the shadows gonna come forward in a number of ways and it does it in order to take you off-path. Oh Ultimately one needs to realize that the shadow is our ally, right? And in the very very very big picture what the shadow does is it kind of We bump up against the shadow and we start getting a strain and we realize this isn't the right way And so it forces us back onto the path So it's got a number of techniques that it uses and it's really good to be aware of these so that you can start to You know as you go through see them a lot quicker one is confusion like the gaslighting the lies the projection Okay, confusion is a huge huge huge tool that the shadow uses to get you off-track and so One way out of confusion is To start really taking the bigger picture and also to be aware of what's going on around you because the more you can be aware of You know rather than looking at one perspective if you can see multiple perspectives of what's going on You can get a much bigger picture and a better idea. So if you You know if you are feeling drawn to following current events and seeing what's going on Encouragement is to maybe start listening instead of maybe to one side of the issue Start listening to different sides and see if you can't get a bigger picture of kind of how to Put two and two together things aren't always as they seem There's a lot of disinformation out there and that may be impossible to know exactly what's disinformation and what's not But I think the more that you can feel into it and whether you're watching the news or just kind of feeling into things or watching How people observe if you can stay Disinterested, okay, that's another thing that it does is it tries to Get you emotionally hooked. Okay, so that emotional hooking is Like a huge huge tool, right? So the more you can stay grounded stay centered stay like, you know Be aware of the emotions And then choose those emotions that like the joy, right and the bliss start following those Separation and isolation another huge tool that's used by the shadow side, right? So just being aware of that And you know, we'll see what happens in the coming months Suppression is another one right a lot of lightworkers have issues with the throat chakra and that's often from you know kind of past life just kind of really being stuffed out or Bound and gagged right? Censorship is another one of suppression. It's another tool of the dark. So just that you're aware of those things And remember also that we have multiple aspects of ourselves. So when these things come forward It's going to come forward on the spiritual level and on the mental level but also at the physical level, right? Manifesting the physical world and so one of the things that it's easy to do is to think okay Well, this is a spiritual process and it is But to neglect that physical whether it's our health or or our physical surroundings or whatever these things are all important to all right, so anybody ready for a Little bit of a little reading. I'm going to pull a couple cards for this week and See what wants to come forward January 10th and If you haven't yet subscribed, I encourage you to do that And I always appreciate your likes in your comments Hi steamer embrace the shadows says they do not survive in the presence of light absolutely, right? And that's the thing is that the more we Start really focusing on our inner bliss our inner joy that inner guidance It makes that light shine brighter and brighter and brighter until finally it becomes like a sun and there's no holding Shadow to the sun right so absolutely steamer. Thank you maintain the caphash and observer state You love them to death absolutely right even if they're doing things that are abhorrent. The core is love Yeah, so Alright, let's see. I'm gonna put an animal card here. This is bear Coming up as a bit of a challenger. Okay So I always think of bear when it comes up in this position here as kind of coming up out of the You know the the den in the spring time. They've been in there for months there, you know, they You know where their store fat, right? They're hungry. They're crabby I didn't imagine kind of waking up in the morning so One one thing is to kind of you know, there's a lot of intense emotions going on around here You know just in general on the planet right now And it's easy to again be brought into that those emotional kind of eddies and currents and so And a don't to that right is first of all as steve says kind of the compassion of observer states if you can consciously stand that compassion observing states it can help you to kind of Just breathe and Keep those emotions from raging right because it's so easy to be triggered It's so easy to be triggered when everybody around you is in this emotional turmoil, right? Because we have this what's called limbic resonance. It's it's in our brain stem It's like we resonate with other people and if you're an empath It's even easier to do that, right? And if other people and it may you know, even if they're angry You may resonate as anxiety, right? So it's compassion observer just recognizing that all this is happening ultimately for the highest good and That's the best thing that we can do as awakened beings on this earth is to stay as grounded as centered as we can okay as centered as we can because that is really it's gonna have a Calming effect over the whole planet the more we can do that I'm gonna pull another one here This one is cooker Again that calm cool collected had I think of the most of the big cats especially Cooper It just strikes me as a strategist And one that can kind of stay in in that it's it's very much itself, right? Staying in your truth having your boundaries, right? Your boundaries are so so so important, right? and if you have a practice of You know Putting that shielding up before you go out before you know You might want to do it before you hit the social media anything like that It can be very very very helpful as well. I'm gonna pull an angel card here to around this off Here this one is oh soulmate relationship. Okay, that that reminds me because that's something that I was going to touch on is that This connecting with the inner truth It's something that we're all Of course being called to do more and more isn't as individuals and I don't think there's ever an end to that It's not like you get to where oh, yeah, I'm in my truth right, it's always a progression, but We can also and especially the more and further we get along in on that journey I think there's gonna be more and more of a call to Start connecting with others right who are also resonating with that kind of truth that blue ray kind of truth feel to it as We start advancing On the earth as the ascension starts, you know, the earth itself ascends as the collective continues this ascension We're gonna start to see more of these soul groups coming forward and you may have been experiencing I've started to experience this already connecting with people sometimes out of the blue sometimes from across the world whatever it is, but people who Have a certain resonance and it's like these relationships are gonna be feel very easy and very just flowing right and you may have been through relationships, you know That helps you in your suggestion process that were it may be difficult or challenging These relationships coming in when you get to a certain point I think at this time on the earth that we're going to start to see more of these these kind of Soulmate and this doesn't always mean romantic. It can be Anybody right but these soulmate relationships of people who really are resonating and vibrating and a very high level together and We when we start coming together with these people in whatever way it raises the vibration and it becomes Another entity. It's just like the two coming together with the and creates a third, right? This is the tri-wave Pattern that starts to happen. That's very expansive and that really assists in this ascension process We're gonna see this more more. We're gonna see more and more telepathic things happening and this is going to be super important, right and what by telepathy it It sometimes is like we may not even be aware of it But I'm seeing this starting to happen more and more more of the synchronicities between people, right? I have Somebody that I follow that that puts out meditations on YouTube and it seems like every time I start thinking I really need Some kind of a meditation of this topic this person posts one It's uncanny. We're gonna start to see more and more of that and this is To me it's really really exciting. It's a watch for that and you know, just start being aware of these Person-to-person or person-to-group synchronicities because I feel like that's This is something that is a very powerful force on the world right now in the world That's that's really beginning to rise and it's going to be very very instrumental in assisting with this whole getting all this all of us this collective through This period of darkness that we're kind of in right now So again, don't be afraid of this darkness. It is just something that you know, that happens as we go through this collective ascension All right, so thank you guys so much for watching me and I Just wish you all The best the you know tons of love and light to you Thanks for joining me. We'll catch you again soon