The intent for change I expressed on New Years’ Eve seems to be bearing fruit already!
My intent is to change my patterns of my behavior so that I may expect something different (perhaps a miracle?) in my future, rather than rehashing the why’s ,how’s,and who’s of the past. I want to bypass all of the boring conversation and just get on with it!

Sooo…I accepted an invitation to awaken very early and travel to the other side of the island!

Why?

To perform the ceremony and invocation opening the New Year -Full Moon energy of the Ecstatic Dance Group (about 200 people  arrived for the opening-gasp!) Believe me when I say, this was breaking my patterns – I am nocturnal to the extreme. I usually perform ceremony at night, not mid-morning, after a 2 hour drive!

The outcome of meeting this challenge head-on and disciplining the voice of my indulged inner child that wanted to stay in bed because “I don’t do daytime ceremonies….I am useless in the daylight-why did I agree to such a challenging activity-I must be crazy!”
Ignoring those complaining voices in my head I made the journey with grace, supported by my two wonderful escorts Donny and Kirk from Crystal Expansion.com, who came to share our Christmas/New Year celebrations at the Mystery School in Hawaii, from San Francisco.

The Celebration  and Invocation were a great success at the Ecstatic Dance Venue by the ocean,surrounded by the scents and colors of the Hawaiian Spirit of Aloha (sharing our Ha- Breath), triggered something new inside my own soul.
I consciously felt a shift in my own energy and my destiny path became a little clearer and easier to comprehend.

Change creates Opportunity-it’s up to us to qualify the change and the opportunity in our life and act upon it in service to the Earth. From this new place of being we perceive in a new way. We are aligned in a new field of energy that consequently attracts new experience.

Yesterday upon our return from this unconventional date with Destiny, the evidence was immediate that things had changed for the better. There was along list of phone calls from people offering their support for the Mystery School. (I have often felt burdened and overwhelmed by the isolation of my role and my strong sense of duty and loyalty will never let me quit….so, suddenly people are offering to help!

The final wild,amazing moment of this day of change came just before midnight. A knock at the door is a rare thing out here on the Lava Desert at the end of the Universe….
It was my favorite musician, who struggles constantly with self-loathing, and that tragic pattern of today’s disenfranchised youth who live by the code of

“Poor Me…F@#k You.”

He had come to apologize…a very rare and amazing evolution…something I thought would never happen! Now we can play together again and open up to anew level of creative expression.

Change your personal patterns (what you put out there in the world that represents you) and be ready to deserve to be heard, you deserve to be supported, and you deserve to feel loved. Yes, yes, yes!!!

Blazing tales of wonder,

Remembering all that  we have ever been or are about to become,

Your Sister in chaos and comfort,

Shankari The Alchemist

The New Year’s Eve fire circle at Oceanview on the Big Island of Hawaii, at the Mystery School was spectacular! There were more guests than I had expected! People kept arriving from around the island and around the world.

I felt the presence of many ancient and future students and creative souls from around the world, around the sacred fire.

The Great Mother of all creation was kind to us. The trade winds were gentle and the night sky clear and sparkling with a billion stars. We performed ceremony directly under the Milky Way with the Moon and Jupiter as our sentinels. With the smell of Plumeria (Franjipani) and night blooming jasmine on the breeze, our spirits soared.

Each participant provided a piece- a poem, a song, a mantra, a musical interlude. The tapestry of grace and beauty created by their overlapping love was a breath taking experience.

We shared Pomegranate wine from a Persian Blue Glass Chalice and declared our intention for change and positive evolution then grounded our purpose with the energy of the Star Ruby in the crystal wand dedicated to the mystery school. Spirals of light from the grid mixed with the fire works as they spun in space.

I felt you there. I felt the energies of the planet re-aligning for the better. I felt in my bones how powerful we all are as a team intending to do good upon the Earth.

I believe in you and your power to make a difference!

I am ready, everyday adjusting to what IS and never complaining about what IS NOT. You are becoming masters of your own destiny. It is the skill to use what YOU HAVE to create WHAT YOU WANT, and never complaining, explaining, and dismissing our power to make a positive difference here and now, with what you have available NOW. Opening up to all possibilities, feeling the love of the universe lift us up and out of fear and sadness and into trust and joy!

We can make 2009 really wonderful because we are the ones having the experience. Choose to love and live in joy, the here and now, and live in appreciation-this is how to magnetically align to all good things.

Loving you from the inside out!

Blazing tales of Wonder, remembering all we have ever been and all we are about to become.

Your sister through chaos and comfort,

Shankari the Alchemist.

If you keep taking the same actions, thinking the same thoughts, going to the same places with the same people, having the same conversations about the same subjects, you will be stuck forever on the treadmill of life, bored and confused.

During my formative years I was fortunate to have a great teacher who shared with me some of the true secrets of success, as an evolving student of the mysteries. One of his constant themes was “Change Your Patterns”-Never create routines that take over and leave you in a mindless robotic state of being. When you break your patterns, you change your expectations.

Now it’s up to you, are you expecting things to get better or worse? Do you read the absence of an old pattern or friend as abandonment or freedom? For myself, this New Year Celebration is about letting go of old patterns of relationship that do not serve my highest good and taking on a new way of seeing and feeling about myself and my mission.

I warmly invite you to take a moment on New Year’s Eve to see yourself sitting by a sacred fire in Hawaii at the mystery school. Feel the warmth expand your heart. Hear the music and allow the memories within your soul self to bring you home to your own heart. Know that I am with you in your moment of sadness, I have cried and laughed and prayed out loud, let peace allow all that does not bring you joy to dissolve into the fire.

Lift your head and see the horizon with 270 degrees of Ocean View, The freedom of open  illuminated lava flows from ancient days, trade winds cleanse your soul, blowing gently through your spirit. Expand your potential, your happiness.

Be in the now, let everything else fall away so you can dance in the dawn of a new time on Earth. It’s up to you! No one else can do it for you! You must search for joy and freedom within your world and expand upon that!

Blazing tales of wonder, remembering all we have ever been and are about to become, letting go of judgment on ourselves and each other.

Shankari the Alchemist

p.s. Choosing Freedom, Creativity, Lightness and Joy, all targets for a successful New Year!