Gratitude and New Connections

Well, I'm having an interesting day. My printer starting spitting out pages like a wild thing and then my computer froze. After a shutdown there were still issues and now I can't get into the World Gratitude Gathering forum.

This is just plain weird! I feel like I'm being locked right out of my online little world. I do realize Mercury's in retrograde until October 15th, so I guess this is par for the course, but wow...

It's interesting that What's Up On Planet Earth just did an update that says it's time for everything new, as the old falls away (I'm paraphrasing here). Maybe the energies are clashing. Well, that's the story I'm going with for now.

Well, for the moment, Blogger is still working, thankfully, so before anything else goes whacko on my computer, I'm posting my gratitude list for the end of this day!

Tonight I am grateful for...

1. The opportunity to leave the city for 2 days
2. My manager's creativity and support
3. My daughter's undying patience with me
4. My friend who trades off childcare with me
5. The printing I already did before my printer crashed
6. My sanity... althought that's questionable at the moment ;)
7. Blogger still works for me, so I can post this here!
8. My "Easy Now" herbal tea for stress relief
9. My creative talents
10. That I made it through today even though it's been frustrating
11. And you... anyone who is reading this blog - Thank You!

Love, Light & Gratitude,
Brenda

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Fall Equinox Greeting Song - New Video

September 22nd is Fall Equinox here in North America, and I celebrated by channeling a song and recording it as the song came to me. Have a look...



Happy Fall Equinox!

Brenda

Finding Perspective

I took several pictures like this one of the sunrise, from the plane back to Toronto from BC last October. You know I never noticed the orbs in this one until just today?

Funny there aren't any orbs in the other pictures I took seconds before or afterward, but in this one, I can't even count them all. The first time I saw orbs, the skeptic in me was wondering if they were maybe an illusion caused by dust in the camera lens or something.

But now I can see them with my physical eyes with or without my glasses, so I know they're real. They always seem to show up where there are high vibrations like laughter, feelings of gratitude, love, amazement and joy. Here's a closeup.

Apart from the orbs, I just love the way the sunlight created several full spectra.

What interests me most is that each full spectrum is shaped just like the light crystals that were inserted into my energy system just before 08/08/08. What's even more interesting is that I pulled up this photo today - at a time when I can feel my energy shifting and have just had some bursts of inspiration and creativity.

Last week I got what was obviously a channeled message. It flowed out of me almost before the thoughts could form and I couldn't remember what I had written. I only knew it had to do with something big coming for us Earth beings. Anyway, I got tears in my eyes when I read it a few minutes ago, because now I understand what's been happening for me...

Yesterday was interesting. Everything was kind of "off balance" in my little world.

I was getting ready for a day out with my daughter and discovered I had hardly anything to wear. My daughter was coming down with a cold, so I let her sleep in even though the fashion show and our workshop started at 10am. So yeah, I had double-booked myself too!

I had a bizarre thought on the subway...

What if everyone on the subway were to suddenly just do whatever they would normally do when nobody was around?

And I was flooded with images of people dancing to their mp3s, talking to themselves, laughing out loud all by themselves, you get the idea. I shared this with my daughter and we both got laughing so much that we missed our stop.

The day continued like this... I felt like it was nearly impossible to focus, lost my sense of direction completely (not that it was great to begin with lol) and physically could feel my balance was off. I remember the moment it hit me that the Full Harvest Moon is coming up. I let go at that moment, realizing anything could happen, and the rest of the day felt better in all its quirkiness.

And that brings me back to the beginning of my blog when I uploaded that sunrise picture I took on a plane. I have hundreds of photos in about 12 folders on my computer. Coming across that particular photo today has sparked recognition in my spirit. Seeing those rainbow lights and orbs, and the way the photo has captured the motion of light... this is really stirring something in me. I won't be surprised if I have a vision, dream or spiritual moment in the next day or so.

How Spirit does express itself.

When I read through my blog from September 7th, I noticed I had written that the energy of the universe was going to become like a spiraling whirlpool for each of us, focusing all of our desires down through the centre and into our personal reality.

And now here I am getting another message from Spirit, that while this whirlpool of energy is being focused into manifesting our desires, it is also stripping us of anything we still need to release. No wonder last night I did a sketch about letting go, for my grant proposal! Have a look... and tell me what this image says to you.

Anyway, clearly this is a time to sit back and allow old stuff to bubble up and be released from wherever in your energy system you have blockages (chronic pain, depression, illness, etc.). I don't mean for you to consciously try and dredge up old pain, by the way. I mean if stuff does come up for you in the next little while, don't attach to it, and realize this is part of a much bigger process leading to more light for you.... and that light will be coming very soon!

I hope you have a wonderful week and find ways to relax into the final pull toward manifesting your personal Harvest.

Peace, Love & Light,
Brenda MacIntyre, Medicine Song Woman

Are You Ready to Celebrate?

Summer is gone, for students and stay or work-at-home parents, but Fall promises to be a time of celebration. But what on Earth would you celebrate?

Traditionally, Fall Equinox is a time of celebration for the harvest. Symbolically, that means it's a time to celebrate all our achievements, and all the desires we've been able to bring into reality.

In other words, right now is still a window of opportunity. When Fall Equinox comes around, what do you want to celebrate? What desires do you want to see fulfilled?

I've already been given a gift from the Universe, an unfolding manifestation of something I've wanted for a long while - and it's a pretty tall order. Receiving this gift - and the fact that I saw it, picked it up and am about to completely accept it - tells me that I'm on my path.

Sometimes when the Universe hands us a gift, we're so caught up in other things that we don't even see it for what it is, much less pick it up and say YES and Thank You! Well, this time I am saying a great big YES and a huge THANK YOU for this gift and I know it will propel me forward.

You'll have to wait until I have sealed the deal, so to speak, before I say what that gift is, but it's something that promises to propel me forward with all my goals, hopes and dreams for my career and life.

I'm writing this with tears of overwhelming gratitude as I ready myself to move forward at lightning speed toward transformation, light and a heightened ability to share my gifts of healing and music with more and more people. And that is just what I've been asking for.

I've heard from several sources - and received my own personal message from Spirit - that clarity is just around the corner. Also, this Fall is going to really deliver BIG on what we've been intending to manifest.

Another message is coming through as I write this. I see that when September 15th brings us the Harvest Full Moon, it will be like this:



Imagine all your prevalent thoughts, intentions, desires and feelings swirling clockwise, slowly around the widest edge of a funnel - not a tornado - imagine one of those funnels you use for cooking something, or imagine how the water goes down the drain in your bathtub when you release the plug... except what's going into the drain is positive, empowering and transformational.

Envision all those thoughts, feelings, intentions and desires spiraling and being pulled inward and down into the bottom point of the funnel, where it is all focused into something beautiful and remarkable for you, that will inspire you to actions you hadn't thought of before. This feels like what the Equinox will bring (September 22nd).

From what feels like September 22nd through October and into early November - this beautiful and remarkable gift will be released through that bottom hole into your reality. And it will inspire you to take actions you wouldn't have thought of. And these actions will take you very quickly into a place in yourself that is closer than ever before to what you truly want for your life. That's what I see happening for the Fall. The trick is to go with it, instead of resisting as many of us usually do.

And then this winter feels like it will be a true time of regeneration - something like what's happening right now for many of us - where we'll need to recuperate, slow down and come into acceptance of the great changes that have happened for us. But it will be longer than this short period is right now. This mirrors the season of winter, and if you can go with it, it can bring you much inspiration. And this winter in particular will be a time to begin to integrate our own transformations into our bodies and our lives.

I've been out of sorts for a little while and when I got my latest alert from whatsuponplanetearth.com, I read that we're in a sort of downtime phase of preparation. Reading these alerts always gives me confirmations and new understandings about what I'm experiencing. And then I can relax knowing what to expect (she has such accuracy!), which makes transitions much easier on me.

Since I read that alert and relaxed into what's happening, my healing gifts have begun a process of being enhanced again. How do I know this?

1. Since a few days ago, my hands have been giving off heat and healing energy constantly instead of just when I do a healing session

2. With my physical eyes (open), I'm now able to see orbs and the thick, pulsating, multidimensional field of life force surrounding us - it's hard to describe but I can see how nonphysical everything really is and how nothing is truly separate. I know that that's a paradox since quantum physics say that nothing is truly touching anything else, but it's the energy in between that connects us. It's like connective tissue that binds everything in the universe together.

3. Yesterday after I did a healing session, I got a healing of my own from Spirit. I could feel a surge of energy go through me from top to bottom and out through my feet.

4. I have a feeling I'm being worked on energetically.

5. I've also gotten the clear message that I am to begin giving readings soon as part of the work I do. I know I need further preparation and clarification before I do this but I sense that I'll be ready within a few weeks.

6. Another gift coming through is the ability to articulate what the wind and Spirit are telling me, and the visions I see, about what's happening in the universe, into a coherent description - like this blog today.

Right now is really a time to allow yourself to find your way back into alignment with your original purpose, and if you're already there, then it's time to integrate it more fully into your life. Many are feeling that urgency or a feeling of things being 'not quite right' and a need to know why. The thing is, we don't need to know the "why" or the "how".

It's funny... I've been hoping for the inspiration to write in this blog for about a week but nothing was coming to me. I was sort of frustrated about it but I knew it was to do with this time of preparation, so I just waited and trusted when the time is right, something will come.

Every time I remind myself that I don't need to know why or how things will happen or work out, and I consciously bring myself back into a feeling of gratitude or even just relief, miracles happen. And this Fall is going to bring plenty of miracles.

So get ready to celebrate!

Peace, Love & Light,
Brenda MacIntyre, Medicine Song Woman

Clarity is Coming

Greetings!

Today is a day of further clearing for me, after the intense energies of yesterday and the day before flooding my whole being with so much light. So I'm sitting here drinking cedar water to help me release whatever might come up. I encourage you to drink an abundance of water in the following week to help you move this energy through you.

I'm excited. Really excited. And yet I can't even bring to mind what I'm excited about... it's a feeling of anticipation. Whenever I feel like this, something really big and really good is about to happen.

And my mind is saying "What could possibly top the past 2 days?!?" Well, I'll get back to that...

Last night's 08/08/08 Awakening event was truly amazing. I had been feeling the energy cresting all week. I felt like I was in the middle of an expanding bubble that was about to burst and spread positive energy everywhere. I think instead of bursting, that bubble just kept on expanding all night. In my sleep, I kept having cold and hot flashes, which is - well it never happens, this is the first time!

Today - for me - that bubble burst. All day it's been thunderstorming. And I LOVE it. Rain and thunder are very healing when you have respect and gratitude for them. The rain and thunder together come to cleanse Mother Earth and release built up pressure... in the air but also in us. And yesterday was one big build-up of energy!

One of the last songs I sang last night was Water From the Sky, upon request. That song brings rain when I sing it in ceremony, so I sang it a bit different and intended for it to rain today and not last night. Who knows if that song was responsible for today's rain or not, but either way, I am grateful for it.

Preparing for 080808

I don't know about you, but when I take in and begin to generate high levels of positive energy, emotions can come up to be released. Have you ever laughed so hard you cried? Or felt so happy or proud that tears came up? Those are healing tears. In my preparation for 08/08/08 Awakening, I had been doing meditation and other activities to raise my frequency and release what I no longer needed. And I released a lot of healing tears.

On August 7th, I went for a massage and ended up getting a miraculous energy activation. When I saw light coming out of what appeared to be holes all over my body, space was being made for me to receive light of a higher frequency (see blog post of August 7, 2008), and to make my body a clearer channel for the song and other energy to flow through.

One of the things I was doing was reading high vibration material on the Internet. I had just been looking at my friend Kiernan's blog when she called me on the phone. We'd been emailing back and forth about similar spiritual experiences in relation to this new energy.

Ever since we met in relation to a mutual television appearance and event we both presented at in the spring, I've had a feeling of spiritual synergy between Kiernan and me. We've recently had conversations about possibly working together in some way. And last night that synergy was taken to a whole new level through our healing work.

When Kiernan said she'd be coming to the 08/08/08 Awakening event, I invited her to share if and how she felt moved to. When she arrived, we didn't even need words to communicate how charged the energy was - not that we could find the words anyway! We were just buzzing with positive energy.

How the event unfolded

The (spiritual) light and energy in the room were so intense that my eyes were almost watering. As Kiernan and I spoke it came clear how we would work together using our gifts.

My role was to do a global Back to Your Blueprint Energy Activation. That means doing a smudging ceremony, traditional Aboriginal welcome song, guided meditation and then channeling a Medicine Song as I connect to Source, my spirit, the universal energy field and the group. I usually do other energy work afterward with my hands and medicine rattle as well, but not this time.

When Kiernan suggested that she act as a conduit of light to do what she calls a Divine Blueprint Activation for the group and globally, I got chills and it just felt right for both of us.

As I read the meditation, I could feel the energy in the room changing from fizzy to a slow motion flow of energy and a sense of everything being in its place. Once the song came through me, I could feel the familiar connection and flow of energies. Kiernan flowed light through her as I sang, and then I led a grounding meditation. It was very moving.

I held a sharing circle afterwards and it was fascinating to hear some of the results of our work together, complemented by this new energy. One woman had been doing Reiki during the activation, someone got an instant connection back to her true purpose, another person had been feeling angry beforehand and now felt at peace, and one of the cafe staff said she had a sudden dizzy spell as she walked by me and a friend before we had even begun. A friend of mine in Manitoba called me to say she felt the connection when she did the meditation from her place.

The local event in Toronto had a great turnout and positive results, and I am excited to hear what some of you experienced globally! Please comment me here or on myspace with your own experiences with tapping into this energy. And don't forget I'll be posting the mp3 of the live activation some time this week.

I almost forgot! What could top the last 2 days?

What's coming... clarity. It may feel for many of us like we're in a fog for a bit but soon our inner sun will be shining and our minds will be clear. And with clarity will come inspiration. When inspiration strikes, just remember to dive in!

Peace, Love & Light,
Brenda, Medicine Song Woman