This has been another intense week as we moved into the Lion’s Gate on 8/8. I have been feeling this one very strongly, like we are being pushed thru the eye of the needle. We are just not taking any of our baggage or non-essentials with us. I’m sure you’re noticing the dropping away of what is no longer needed. As someone near and dear to me just mentioned, he is no longer able to watch anything with violence on TV. It wasn’t something he tried to change, it just happened. Watch for these changes in your own life, because they are happening.

The small community that I moved to about 20 years ago had lots of wild space and trails thru the woods when I arrived. We have our own elk herd, and they had lots of space. Lately, there’s been a frenzy of lots being sold and built on. And many are wanting to clear all the trees and put fences and landscaping with rock and bark. It’s changing the character of this beautiful space, where the houses used to be tucked back in the trees and most of the “yards” were left with native ferns and rhododendrons and pine trees. You could walk or bike along the road in a corridor of those trees and sometimes be surprised by the elk peering out at you from the shadows. This is all happening in the midst of us discovering who we really are. And in the midst of us discovering more about our relationship with the Earth and with the natural world. We are moving from being users to being co-creators and discovering how we can work with the natural world, how we can all thrive, how we can support each other and not just simply take and use. We are finding that we just can’t kill what we don’t like—insects and weeds—but instead we are coming to realize our important role in working with the natural world so that we can all flourish.

Our powers continue to materialize and we may get pictures of them before they come in. Just realize you are being shown, with your imagination, what is possible. And just allow the development of this power. And remember that all our new power is used for good.

As we move thru this portal of the Lion’s Gate, as I said, we are being squeezed. And this squeeze moves us more into our truth, and our truth becomes what is, but in a simple and clear way, in a neutral way. And as we become activated and so much a part of the new light, we are finding old relationships to be challenging. I have had a few people shouting at me about what they believe when I have said almost nothing.

One friend caught up with me on my bike ride (she was also on her bike) and shared that she wished everyone would wear a mask. I said, everyone gets to choose. That completely set her off, and she was shouting that we don’t get to choose. I said, I believe we all have freedom to choose. Anyway, it just went downhill from there, even tho I didn’t say anything else. She later emailed to offer to help me separate fact from myth. But once we move into seeing truth, it’s not about facts or myth. It’s about honoring our sovereignty, our ability to create our new world, and our ability to make choices based on our own knowing. And yet, being able to communicate this to anyone who is locked into fear is extremely difficult. Their world no longer makes sense to us, and our world does not make sense to them. It’s an indicator (albeit a challenging one!) of the transformation taking place that is happening and will happen to everyone. I began seeing the word freedom right after that, in several places, a reminder of what we are experiencing.

So you may find this in your own lives. Many are going thru this, seeing longstanding friendships being challenged, seeing heartfelt relationships ending. Those of us who found ourselves on this path know there is no going back. We are here to create a New Earth and we are doing it. We are choosing to no longer agree to the way things were, to the lies and deception that were promulgated as “fact,” to the way that “facts” are conveniently manipulated to meet the needs of those putting them out there. We feel a deep sense of commitment to this work.

I noticed as a journalist in the 1990s how slippery facts were, and I didn’t quite understand why. But I saw that it was very hard to arrive at the truth using facts. Truth lies beyond facts. Truth is something we feel inside of us, that resonates within with a feeling that is undeniable. One of our powers is the ability to recognize truth. The more we connect with the truth of who we are, the more we can see truth around us.

But it has become very challenging to converse with those who are believing the “facts” coming from the media these days, especially when these generally mild-mannered people are driven to shouting to try to make their points. Here is how it works: as each person moves into sovereignty and begins to embody their ability to create using their blossoming divinity, then each takes responsibility for their Self and their world. They are not telling anyone else how to be, they are simply following their own guidance for how to be their most awesome and inspired Self.

But notice how many people are trying to CONTROL their surroundings out of fear and thus spilling into other people’s personal sacred space. We are seeing a lot of that now because of all the intense energies moving us in the direction of newness. Every single person is being moved, some faster than others, but we are all being impacted. Those of us who specifically came to create a New Earth are currently the most impacted because we are being evolved so quickly. This is so we can be ready to create and so that we can hold our leadership roles and anchor the new light in our new Selves and all around us. Not easy, but we are all doing our best.

So we hold the new space even when someone is shouting goofy stuff at us. We hold the space because we are in it and we can feel how new and incredible it is, and we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that we will never go back into any old ways of living.

And the beautiful thing is, there is no going back now. We will see the gap widening between us and those who are still holding tight. But thankfully we are also seeing the incredible evolution of those we love and care about, as they begin to make their way into all this newness. It is happening, the transformation is underway, there is no stopping it now.

Thank you for all the work that you are doing, because there is still much to do. And each will be guided in their own roles and in their own emergence and awakening. Each of us is contributing. Keep creating, and keep envisioning our incredible New Earth, with its peace and abundance, its unity and its Love. It’s here, and it’s ours for the inhabiting.