Humanity has succeeded in achieving what it set out to do: explore the illusion of separation and limitation to its fullest. Our god-selves wanted to see if we could convince ourselves that we are separate from one another and limited so that we could have the fun of rediscovering that this is not who we are. We have spent years wandering the wilderness, looking for the road home. Along the way, many found this road, and we consider them masters: Buddha, Christ, Mary, Lao-Tzu, and the many quiet, nameless masters who avoided history. These beings completed their cycle to light the way for the rest of us, leaving us with a hunger for spiritual knowledge so that we can have what they found. To get there, however, we had to play out the game we started. Each spark of God did not come here to live the same life; we came to live many different lives, so that we could experience the illusion fully.

Part of the illusion was to experience new feelings. Love is all there is, and our natural state of being is Joy, and Joy alone, but in this world, we succeeded in forgetting that. Believing that we are separate and limited resulted in new feelings: sadness, grief, anger, hate, disgust, and melancholy, to name a few. We became masters of limitation, yes, but also masters of these new emotions. Emotion is required for creation, and negative emotions allowed us to create damaging things that do not serve mankind.

The world was born of duality, and the first beings to come here literally had to divide themselves in order to play the game. But the world was born of Love also, from two great races, with a divine purpose of returning to Unity and accelerating the evolution of many beings in our Universe. We are now in the process of returning to that Unity.

We created many things on this earth: great wealth, empires, civilizations, religions, and societies. These things have set the stage for our spiritual school, the school of Life. We have explored this planet and debated what God could be, both from the standpoint of believing that we are separate from God and from the memory of knowing that we are not. The physical, material world has been our teacher. It reflects us back to ourselves, and every thought and belief manifests, creating our reality. Eventually, we learn that our thoughts and beliefs have consequences, and we learn that we can change them.

Emotions are the driving force in creation, and in mastering the illusion, we experienced all of them. We have lived through the good and the bad and the easy and the unbearable. And we matriculate a little more each time.

Our strength is our ability to dream. If you can dream it, you can create it, but we must learn that there is no limit to what we can create. When we believe that we are limited, as we have succeeded thus far in doing, this presents one of our primary spiritual challenges.

Christ is reported to have said that to enter the kingdom of Heaven, we must be as little children, and this is true. As we follow in the footsteps of masters, we recover our childlike joy and the trust that children naturally have that the Universe will magically meet their needs, as indeed it will. Trust of this magnitude requires that we release our desire to control things that we can't control: other people or situations.

At this point in time, we are poised, waiting. The old systems are failing, everything is changing, and many are walking along a wall: on the one side, the new world; on the other, the chaos of a world that is disappearing. It is time to choose. We are all contemplating what this means, considering what our answer will be.

To enter into the new world, we must not only relinquish control, but we must let go of our judgments as well. There is no "good" and "bad," of anything. We cannot see things as they truly are—Divine—with judgments of what they are not clouding the view. Love and abundance flow from an open and generous heart, so it is imperative—absolutely imperative—that we work on opening our hearts. On one level, this means acceptance of the world, as it is, and on another it means opening our hearts to the Love that God feels for us.

The world that is disappearing is one of duality; the Earth itself is not going to disappear. Instead, it will be reborn. We are nearing the end of one age, and the beginning of another. This new era will be marked by the shift in consciousness that is occurring now, and has been occurring for some time. It is a process that will continue for a number of years. There is no single event or end date that will mark the end of this transition.

With this shift in consciousness, new knowledge will become available to us as we tap into our Divine mind. We have the capacity to recreate the world in a way that will serve the planet and all life on it. Divine technologies will replace the harmful ones that we have come to depend on and which have caused so many problems in the world. Likewise, as we change, so will our governments, as they reflect our own sense of compassion and support the higher good. This is the divine flow of things:  in order to effect change in the world, we must change ourselves first. The government cannot save us until we save ourselves.

Mother Earth is in the process of giving birth to support the change in consciousness. Without her, we would not be here. Our very life energy is connected to hers, and when she is sick, we are sick. When she is well, we are well. To make this great change, our mother is healing, so those who want to make this shift must heal also. We are fundamentally connected; we are One. Some people will choose not to heal, and they will cross over. There is no judgment in this. It is not a right or a wrong choice. It is just a choice, just another way to experience this planet and what is happening now. Many people made this choice before incarnating, and it is part of their life path.

Balance is the key to living successfully with our Mother and with each other. We cannot make a mess and then expect to sleep in it. We can't eat more food than the land is capable of providing. We can't soil the water that we must drink. Balance in all things is essential, particularly with regard to one another. We will still feel our emotions, but balance and proper expression is necessary.

As we create this new world with the aid of our Earth Mother, we will have a lot of building to do. We must rediscover how to work with the land and the animals and the waters, but it doesn't mean that we are returning to primitive technologies. We can have conveniences, and we can live well. But we must be willing to do the work.

That which was previously hidden is coming back to light. Ancient civilizations had greater technologies than we currently have today. We will rediscover this ancient knowledge, and it will cause a new spirit-based technological revolution that will cause great changes in the way we live, all for the better. This will still pose a challenge for many, however, as great change always does. In these times, it is best to remember that the reed that bends with the wind does not break.

When this transformation comes to full fruition (many years after 2012; remember, this is a process), we will be ready to take our place with the other civilizations in the Universe. When we have healed our own minds and remember who we are, we will be welcomed back into the fold by the very family members who helped us embark on this journey through duality in the first place.

As we move through these incredible, amazing times, it is really important to live in the present—in the Now—as much as possible. It is so easy to bemoan what we think we do not have while we ignore the beauty and love and abundance that is right in front of us. Put down your book, your computer, your work, and stare into the eyes of someone you love. Watch the rain drip off of the trees. Hug your children. Pet the cat. Savor a cup of tea. This is where your power is:  here in the glorious present. Live there. Forgive past hurts; they are gone. Don't dwell on what might be. Enjoy what is.

The inner child card for this reading is Aladdin and the Lamp, which corresponds with the Magician in traditional decks. The lamp, or the light, is something we all possess. We can summon it forth at any time to work for us, and it will do precisely what we ask of it, even if the results aren't what we intended. We have always manifested our thoughts and beliefs into reality, but this process is accelerating more and more each day. Learn to manage your thoughts. Negative thoughts will still come into your mind, but when they do, consciously refocus them into a positive thought. The genie in the lamp will grant your wishes very literally, so be careful what you wish for!

The power animal card for this reading is the Grouse, whom Native Americans honored with a spiral dance. The spiral represents cycles and spiritual illumination. The spiral travels outward but eventually returns to its source. We are returning to a state of being we have forgotten. We are moving beyond the veil that was devised to help us forget. We are in the process of waking up. The ages of our planet are cyclical, and we have traveled far enough into separation. The pendulum is swinging back again, back toward remembering our Oneness and our divine power, and that we have no limits at all.