“Quickening” Card, The Power Deck

“You can never really teach a warrior with words about the unknown; you must use experience. But if you look into the eyes of a woman of power, you may catch up with her a little. She has years of truth ahead of you. Her eyes can quicken you like a river heading toward the rapids. Open yourself with love, not with understanding. You cannot love with your mind. Listen from your heart. If a camel is walking down a path and another camel passes him, the first camel will go faster to keep up. This is how power works. Don’t learn everything with your mind. Quicken your spirit by letting go of attachments and move to a stronger vibration of power.”

Dear Friends,

Have a Joyous and Happy New Year! You are all so divine, and I appreciate you all so much in my life, as does the Sisterhood of the Shields. We all love you and are grateful for your commitment to this healing work and your own wonderful spirits!

2012 is a year of awakening. So much has been said about 2012 as a time of cataclysm, the “ending of time,” and the ending of the world as we know it. Certainly, I have before never seen so many movies and images of disaster. I think this is both unfortunate and fortunate, in a way. It does make us aware of 2012, and it makes us pay more attention to the grave problems our planet faces.

2012, however, 2012 has meaning, a very specific meaning, and that meaning is the awakening to higher frequencies of mind and heart.

This awakening, to me, means that we must now become the host, the host of the Great Spirit or the higher awareness of divinity, whoever the God being is to each of you. You become the host to that divinity, and when you do, the sense of Great Spirit, the sense of eternal life and beauty comes to you as a guest. So often, this beauty – this consciousness of Divine love – knocks on the doors to our perception, but we don’t open the doors. We’re absent to our guest; we’re not even alert to the fact that this – right now – is a time of exquisite possibilities.

When you become host to the Great Spirit, Great Spirit does not become aggressive in your life. Rather, it enters as a soundless beauty, a beauty of stillness within your being. We often notice the beauty in nature, but how often do you actually hear the whisper of joy? When you become host to the Great Spirit, you realize that you are automatically alert to all of the beauty that is around you, that you had often not been able to see or hear before.

Now is the time to seize ability to see things like never before. This is what, to me, the true meaning of “2012″ really is, that we can now see with a sensitivity that is unique, if that is our choice. It’s like we are being offered a new computer chip or even a brand new computer, if only we will say, “Yes!” to a conscious awareness of the presence of the Great Spirit Within us. And, unless you are very aware, you are going to miss the footsteps of the Great Spirit reaching all around you.

To become a host of the Great Spirit is to become a host of new possibilities, a host of the fullness of your heart and of the space within you where power can live, if you will only open the door. This is a time of power, and when I say power, I mean, it’s a time of taking your power and realizing your dream. You absolutely must define your dream, as I’ve said so many times.

If you could, imagine this as a truth, that the Great Dreamer is awakening, and the dream he has been dreaming for us disintegrates as he awakens. Now is the time we must each create our own dream. At last, we have the opportunity to become responsible, truly and absolutely, for the reality that we create.

And I send you this message because I understand the importance and the depth of what becoming the host really means. You may ask, “Where in all of the chaos, the stress, and the joy that I am feeling, where is the Great Spirit? Where is the presence of higher consciousness, and how in the world do I become the host in the first place?”

The answer is simple. You have already become the host in a really knowledgeable way if you have studied and grown your light in one way or another. And that is something you have all done; that is why you have chosen to receive this mailing. So, in other words, “When the host is ready, the party is given.”

In many ways, that is what we’re experiencing, whether we choose to recognize it, or not. This New Year is a celebration of all possibility, not of destruction. In a way, you can say that when a new piece of art is created, something had to be destroyed for it to come into existence, and that is the truth. But maybe, just maybe, in leaving behind what no longer serves you, you begin to realize that you are the disciple, and you are ready, and the presence of Divine energy welcomes you. And you create a feast together! You create a feast of the possibilities that are ahead of you, and as you do, the possibilities of light on this Mother Earth expand. You see her incredible sacredness and you see the paradise that will be created, so that each of us has a glowing, luminous dream that is beautiful and new.

Please join me in a prayer of new celebration:

As the morning light walks in the land, I think of you, Great Spirit, of the way you have illuminated the dark corners of my soul. Morning light, as you awaken the plants and glisten off the pine needles of these great trees, I hear you coming, Great Spirit. The birds sing their welcome and speak of your presence among us. In a blaze of splendor and golden light, you warm our lives. As the forest comes to life, I, too, am quickened, Great Spirit. I see you in the morning light, and my soul is filled with your beauty. My heart is full. HO!

In love and spirit,

Lynn Andrews

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Registering now: “The Hoop of Earth,” January 27 – February 9, 2012.

The 1st Online Tier I Master Tutorial in the 2012 series of master intensives,

“Fundamentals of Shamanism, The Dynamics of Sacred Energy.”

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Registering now:

The 19th Session of the Lynn Andrews Center for Sacred Arts and Training,

a “Mystery School.”

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 School year begins in February

Testimonial from “Jan”
Lynn and her teachings have awakened me to the cosmic differences between a spiritual path and religious dogma. As a result of Lynn’s eclectic and practical approach to living a more spiritual life, I have become more aware that “truth” belongs to everyone. The Native American call to “All my relations” is a powerful concept that encompasses everything from microbes to monsters. More than ever, I’ve become aware that we are all one. The freedom from narrowness in Lynn’s teachings has enabled me to choose what is most appropriate for me in living my life and in assisting others on their path. Lynn’s sincerity and generous humor have helped me to appreciate that all the world is a stage and how we perceive our worlds is determined by how we design them.

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Registering Now:

The 2012 Session of Writing Spirit, The School,

with internationally best-selling author Lynn Andrews.

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 School year begins in April.

I just could not wait to share with you our very first Writing Spirit – The School Event!
At the end of our year-long journey together, for three days we drank in the beauty of the desert, wrote until our fingers were numb, listened to each writer’s voice sing out her poetry, and then we wrote some more.There were laughter and tears, praise, critiques and hugs.Throughout the entire event – ever present around us all – there was Spirit!

On the last night, we drummed down the sun and the next morning, I sent these wonderful women back into the world to inhale deeply, put pen to paper and gift the world with their writing spirit.The efforts of all inspired us and it is with great pleasure that I announce that we have opened registration for the next class, the 2012 session of Writing Spirit – The School. — Lynn

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Out and About with Lynn Andrews…

Tuesday, 1/31, 9-10 a.m. PST:Kindred Spirits Radio Show with host Lynn Andrews.

Lynn’s guest will be Shaeri Richards, author of “Dancing with Your Dragon.” Listen at www.HealthLife.net.