This week I am guided to share with you a message brought to me in a very strange way in
my morning meditation last weekend. As always. I began by bringing in the light through my crown chakra. Most days that light from Source is white or a golden yellow, but that day I had to do a double take. The light that was coming in was black and white striped and I heard myself describe it as “zebra.” My first reaction was to stop my meditation immediately. After all, why would I allow “black energy” in? Almost as quickly though, I put that fearful thought from my ego aside and reassuringly repeated to the Universe, “I allow in only as Divine intended.” When I meditate, in fact in my life, I always trust that the Divine will only bring in what is in my highest good. So… in response to the fragment of lingering fear, I just wanted to repeat that phrase for good measure. To my surprise, the zebra stripes continued. Totally trusting that this was meant to be, I became curious. What was the message in this black and white energy?
As the energy flowed progressively through all of my chakras and then to Mother Earth, I heard the word “Balance.” Then Spirit gave me a bit more. I was shown the Yin/Yang symbol. Ah Ha! This zebra energy was a balance of the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine energy. I completed my meditation, knowing I was to send that balanced energy to the places I usually send love and healing to. Later, reflecting further on this new experience, it made sense as I know we are experiencing an influx of the Divine Feminine energy globally to balance with the Divine Masculine energy that we have been living with for decades. But what more did Spirit want me to know about “balance” at this time? What else did this energy have to teach us?
A Life Out of Balance
Balance in my life has been something I have strived for most of my adulthood. Balance between work and family. Balance between the go, go, go of the never-ending list of things to do at home and at work versus leisure time. Balance between caring for and giving to others versus time for myself, for self care. In fact, striving for the elusive balance in my life has been so prominent, that I used to joke that “my life purpose was to achieve balance, and I would know when I was successful because then I would pass on!” Since then, of course I have purged that statement from my mind and belief system. I really don’t want the Universe to oblige me on that one! I would prefer to live a long happy balanced life. Do any of those “balance challenges” sound familiar to you? Where do you need more balance in your life?
As I pondered Spirit’s message about the masculine and feminine energy, I realized the things in my life where I felt out of balance did reflect a dominance of the masculine energy and a lack of feminine energy. For example, the hierarchal structure and drive to achieve at work used to occupy many more hours of my day than the sweet love, compassion, and collaboration found in my family life. Just as many of us work through this life lesson in balance, so too do we see this struggle on a global scale. Unfortunately, you only need to listen to the news to see an overabundance of the negative traits of masculine energy. The positive aspects of being willing to negotiate and valuing family have been crushed in so many war torn areas and replaced by the negative masculine traits of aggression escalating problems, anger, competition. This same swap out has also occurred more subtly in global governments. So how do we personally get to balance and what can we do about the global imbalance?
From Duality to Unity
Spiritual gurus tell us that as the Divine Feminine moves in, it is here to come into balance with the masculine, not to replace it. We have entered a time where we are moving from the concept of duality to unity. What does that mean? Duality has us seeing the world in terms of “opposites” where we need to choose one over the other – good or evil, forward or backward, hot or cold, me or them, masculine or feminine, etc. It emphasizes an approach of competition between individual entities. It perpetuates separation and even isolation as individual beings. Unity, on the other hand, views life and the world we live in as everything and everyone being part of a whole, where all are interconnected. This leads to more empathy, compassion, and a sense of oneness with all that exists. With unity, we have a balance of the masculine and feminine taking part in our lives.
When we look at our sense of self, duality has us thinking we need to express ourselves as unique individuals, different from everyone else. The ego has us striving to stand out and separate ourselves from others so that we will be recognized and achieve a certain hierarchical status for our uniqueness. The hierarchy extends to our spiritual beliefs and perspectives where we see ourselves as separate and less than a patriarchal divine existence. Duality also leads us to see ourselves not only as distinct from other humans, but as “more highly evolved” and superior to animals and other creatures in nature, and even nature herself. Unity puts the competition of the ego aside and has us seeing ourselves as unique and beautiful parts of the whole where there is no hierarchy. We are different but not “better” or “worse” than something or someone else. We see ourselves as part of nature and recognize the beauty, strength and our connection to nature and all creatures on the planet. We view ourselves as one with the Divine, the Creator, as interconnected sparks of the same light of Source.
Finding Balance
We are now moving towards a unity consciousness where the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine exist in balance. We will experience aspects of both in our lives as we move along our path. For example, the masculine ego’s concept of competition brings to light life lessons in judgement. As we learn about judgement, we see things and people from a different perspective where everyone and everything has value. We will learn to balance the positive aspects of the masculine and feminine energies and as we do, we move into a unity consciousness.
To facilitate this integration, we need to become more heart centred. We may still need the
mind for some things, but the voice of the ego will lesson. For example, we need the mind to problem solve but we can also be more heart centred viewing problems from a compassionate and learning perspective rather than from the thought of a troublesome burden. As we move into our heart through focusing on it and its energy of love, joy, and compassion, we connect more with the heart of the Earth as well as Source and those same energies emitting from there. We will also feel and strengthen our connection to all other beings on the planet. This connection to the heart centre will reveal to us all of the wisdom and knowledge we hold there. The voice of our intuition, our higher self will become louder.
Move into your heart now. Imagine a space where your heart centre exists - see the colours, feel the warmth, remember the feeling of love and compassion, of joy. Imagine expanding that energy to everyone and everything around you – in your immediate space/same room, then to the building or area outside, then to your city or county, then to your country, then to the world, then finally out into the cosmos. Allow this great expansion to happen. You do not need to “work at it.” How does your expanded state feel? You can return to this place any time you wish.
Smile, feel the love and it will grow as you bring in more Divine Feminine energy to balance the masculine and replace any masculine negativity. Soon you will be replacing negative troublesome thoughts with feelings of competence, gratitude, and joy. Your mind will be able to switch perspectives to positive ones of curiosity and learning versus worry, fear, guilt, shame, or sadness. As you learn and grow, you will feel more of a connection to others, to nature, and even to the heavens. You will understand and recognize that what you think, feel, and do has a ripple effect on all things because we are all one. Have you begun to experience this already? I not, don’t worry. It will come.
On a global scale as chaos and fear rises, as the global “powers” continue to restrict and manipulate, more of “we the people” are recognizing this now and are being a vehicle for the Divine Feminine. We see this in the pressure on world powers to stop the escalation of war, in many people coming together globally (although virtually) to pray for peace or to send loving healing energy to war torn areas and areas of “natural disasters.” We see people reaching out to help strangers and praying or sending love and healing to those they don’t even know. There is more and more of a recognition that we are all connected the more we become balanced in the Divine Masculine and Feminine.
The Journey Not the Destination
Remember me telling you how I used to joke about once I achieved balance I would die? Well Spirit has news for me and for you. Balance is in the journey not the destination. As we achieve balance in the masculine and feminine energies, our destination is unity or oneness. It is time for humanity to evolve past the separation that has created so many of the world’s hardships both on a personal level and a community level. As we move into balance we learn. Our lessons are built on one another – we learn in a spiral, constantly advancing, building on what we have previously learned. The spiral stays perfectly balanced based on a firm foundation of our interconnectedness. As you move up your spiral, look to your intuition, your soul, to guide you versus the fearful voice of the ego in your mind bringing up all the “should’s” and “but’s” in your life. Cast those aside and move into your heart to access your wisdom.
We are all getting closer to our destination – you, me, and every part of this planet. We are
not there yet though. As my dragon reminded me the other day, “We have work to do.” So, call in your Guides, your Angels, the Ascended Masters, passed loved ones, ancestors, all mythical creatures, and even your dragons or zebras to assist you on this journey. They are part of the destination too. We all are. We will get there together.
Sending you love and light,
Marilyn
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