WELCOME IN THE LUNAR NEW YEAR

OF THE SNAKE

January 2025

Hello everyone,

MAY YOU FEEL BLESSED TO BE RECEIVING AND GIVING LIGHT!

We are keeping our vibrational frequencies uplifted for the world. Honor who you are. 

We are still calling forth our new operating system for this 2025 energy, even though we are almost through the month of January. We are still in that unknown, new expansive perspective, and creating our new year. 

The world and my future unfolding feels like a kaleidoscope where so much change is happening at once that I can't even Pin It Down or process enough to talk about what I am experiencing.

As we expand in consciousness, we are breaking through boundaries that assists us in providing dimensional light that expresses our wholeness. This is opening time for a demonstration of Homo Luminus, our new Light Self is awakening.

On January 29, we enter the lunar new year - the year of the snake. Even though for some. snakes may not be our favorite creature, I'm remembering a wonderful image from the movie Siddhartha. A team of rainbow cobras arched over the top of the Buddha creating a beautiful umbrella so he could be protected from the elements and stay in meditation.

1. The Snake represents wisdom, knowledge, intelligence, intuition and creativity. 
2. Snakes are also associated with good luck, prosperity, fertility and longevity.
3. In some legends, snakes are considered divine messengers and guardians of sacred places. 
4. Snakes are also revered for their ability to shed their skin and renew themselves, symbolising transformation and rebirth. This is all good news for 2025.

Remembering our 21 Day Spiritual Practice

From Solstice December 21, as a group, we began to Call Forth the Light of Divine energy on to the earth and within all beings. We are open to receive this Light now and embody this divinity in our hearts.

Our Peaceful Hearts expand and transmit Light to the World.

During the holidays, we felt the influx of Christed Light on the 12:12. On Christmas Eve we began the celebration of the 12 Holy Nights, which ended on Epiphany, January 6. I loved this practice, especially lighting many colored candles to honor our spiritual resources every evening. Of course, I really love lighting so many candles at one time!

In the Rudolph Steiner tradition, each of the 12 Holy Nights honors a specific Light Being such as the archangels. It also focus different spiritual principles, that are good for us to embody as in Patience. 

We were also honoring a different month of 2024, remembering the year that we were just passing through. I liked how it stretched the Christmas season to provide support for our new year.

Over the last months my guidance suggested patience and lifting of consciousness to create times of peaceful awareness as the New Year began. I still feel that I am immersed in that possibility without any real clear knowing of what I shall do besides that I stay mindful in the holy moment.

My intention is: I now establish new fields of Alignment within me that bring more love and positive direction into the present moment.

Since Completion of our Group Practice

Since January 6th which was our epiphany completion, my life has taken a dive into deep inner work. I have enjoyed so much solitude, that it is difficult to come back out into the world. I have some physical therapy and doctor appointments. I am in the world of interactions involving food and potential work. Mostly it just feels as though I am quietly building the space to create the next phase of my life.

 I have been very sensitive to noise and busyness. As with our holiday meditation Retreat, I have continued the morning creation of Sacred energy by listening to mantras sung by Krishna Das on Door of Faith. He is repeating the many names of god, goddess, All That Is - which is called Puja. In many eastern cultures, this is an intentional and historic practice. Candles are lit, as well as incense, which is offered to the divine. This creates a temple atmosphere, which for me is very soothing.

 In the physical world, I have met with the Director of a beautiful meeting center, which can be used for groups, musical events, and the creation of a place where people can come together that have opposing viewpoints, however, can have a conversation to find peace. It's a beautiful place surrounded by forest. There is a possibility that I may be doing some in-person groups, such as women's moon circle and forest bathing (Shin Rin Yoku - A healing practice from Japan that has become very popular when chronic diseases were released from stressed-out business executives in Tokyo.

There is nothing immediate that I can do while the timing unfolds for 2025, but holding the intention to create expressions of loving presence that can be purposeful, uplifting and inspiring.

One thing that is taking my attention is having foot surgery on February 25. They are going to remove two neuroma that have attached themselves to my nerves on the top of the foot. My doctor says that it will take three weeks to recover and I won't be able to drive because it's on my right foot.

 Once again, the universe is suggesting that I stay quiet to heal.

I am sure you are feeling the expansion and the quickened pace of the world right now.

The state of our consciousness is of Number 1 Importance at this time. Being in harmony, while having a peaceful heart and mind are the best ways for us to be dealing with Life in this time.

 It feels like multi-dimensional energy is swirling in the Quantum Field around us. We need radical neutrality, and perspectives that open us to resolution; while expressing calm detached but loving energy as we live intentional lives.

Also, we need to ground these intentions and empower our Light now. I am giving you a meditation to use for this.

Powerful Teachings and Support from the Trees for Changing Times – Shanta Gabriel

Download Your Free Meditation on a Tree (mp3)

A Gift for You: This is a 23 minute meditation that inspires creation of a strong grounding force within your Base Chakra Field that nourishes your Light Being. (I hope the link works for you) It is in the Blog section of my website: https://shantagabriel.com

Northpoint Astrology from Last Week by Pam Younghans - Jan 19-26

(Today Pam will be coming out with next weeks planetary alignment. In the meantime, we will know what is affecting us now.)

THE SATURN-PLUTO CYCLE: Saturn and Pluto aligned in Capricorn in January 2020, marking the start of a new synodic cycle between the two planets. That conjunction began a 33-year period in which humanity — and each of us individually — is gaining a clearer understanding of our true source of power and authority.

The global crisis that began to unfold at the Saturn-Pluto conjunction has had great impact on all of our lives. Events in 2020 and beyond tested our ability to maintain our inner strength while dealing with situations that were outside of our control. It represented the first phase of what ultimately will be a great dismantling of our reliance on external authority, and of our human tendency to allow outer circumstances to determine our well-being.

SATURN-PLUTO SEMISQUARE: Since May 2024, Saturn and Pluto have been dancing in and out of being semisquare each other (separated by 45 degrees). This is the first significant hard aspect between the two planets since their 2020 alignment, and is thus challenging us to take the next step in reclaiming our innate sovereignty. Any ways in which we "stand down" and hand over the reins of our lives to others are being challenged, especially if we give authority figures the ability to disempower us or else expect them to rescue us.

Next Sunday, January 26, the third and final Saturn-Pluto semisquare perfects (the first two aspects were exact on May 6 and September 25 of last year). However, the effects of the aspect will be strongly activated much earlier in the week, since the Aquarius Sun is semisquare Saturn on Monday and conjunct Pluto on Tuesday. 

As we once again work with this Saturn-Pluto influence, we must ask ourselves: what limiting perspectives we are still holding onto, that serve to convince us that power lies outside of us? With Saturn in submissive Pisces, where do we continue to play the victim or martyr? And with Pluto in progressive Aquarius, in what ways do we resist or fear stepping into greater mastery? 

This week, as we perhaps navigate another external circumstance that appears to be outside of our control, we have a choice. We could succumb to the old, fear-based beliefs that tell us we are powerless, and thus dissipate our energy in blaming others. Or, we might instead choose to actively dismantle those limiting interpretations of reality. To help us in this process, we can acknowledge and tap into the only source of true power, the vast spiritual energy that lies within us, and allow it to both support us and guide our steps going forward. 

May the Force be with us all!

Divine Presence,

We are so grateful for your assistance in keeping us aware of when we need to breathe into our hearts and feel more grounded. Thank you for all the tools required to keep a peaceful heart in this time of change.

Thank you for the support of this circle and its continuing light filled matrix. We are grateful for the Grace of the spiritual resources that support us, seen and unseen, now and always.

We remember that we are Love and open our hearts and minds to share the Beauty and Power of Divine Grace with all. And so it is.

Blessings to you all! Please take care of yourself and know you are loved.

I hope to have a gathering on February 1. Zoom link will be provided soon.

Love, Gratitude and Peace, Shanta