20060105

Whether it's karma or that colic you had as a baby, the conditions of your reality are just that: conditional. So may the script be flipped.

"'There is little difference if you believe that your present life is caused by incidents in your early infancy or by past lives over which you equally feel you have no control. Your events, your lives, your experiences, are caused by your present beliefs. Change the beliefs and your life changes.'

"Said another way: change your truth, or what you believe is true, and you change your reality. Again, this is a reminder that our power to create our reality is based in the present moment and the conscious choices we are making right now...

"[The planetary gearshifting of January 2006] is likely to further challenge and expand our current perception of reality. The old structures are giving way to new concepts and ideas. The more we try to hang on to what has been, the more intense the events will be that will force us to let go.

"This change is happening because it is time. Letting go of all our preconceived ideas of reality and how things should or should not be helps to facilitate what is already in process. Inspired action (Mars) that is guided by our inner knowing (Neptune) helps to consciously and innovatively (Aquarius) co-create a newly expanded (Jupiter) reality (Saturn) beyond what we have previously imagined. This is a natural, pre-ordained process similar to what happens to the caterpillar when it is time for it to become a butterfly. Just as the caterpillar can't fully imagine what it is like to be a butterfly, neither can we fully comprehend or imagine what is shifting and changing, or where it is leading us.

"Ultimately, we could say 'resistance is futile,' because the process is natural. Just as the caterpillar cannot get out of becoming a butterfly, we cannot ultimately get out of the transformational process already underway. However, the process is a lot more fun when we surrender to the magic and mystery that is there for us to experience [as a part of] this pre-ordained unfolding."

-- From Carolyn Brent's
Dec/Jan Shamanic Astrology timings