Personal Note From Suzanne while in India June 2013

I am once again in India for a few weeks. At this time in my life I marvel at how much I seem to be on the road.

It was like this when I was a dancer with all the touring and shows in other places and locations. Then for many years I was mostly traveling to Los Angeles and back. Now once again I am traveling to other countries and places. In many ways it is a wondrous stretch regardless of where I am.

Travel opens the eyes and awakens the senses to other realities and ways of being. 

I read recently that if a child learns another language he or she is more adaptable to changing circumstances and life's challenges. Many years ago when I lived in Berlin, learning to adapt to another culture and language was such a stretch that I realized that everyone should travel to other countries if at all possible. 

What you learn is that people are all the same and our hearts all beat as one. We feel the same feelings, suffer the same losses and love deeply the same way. We are not that different and yet culturally how we move on a daily basis can be very different. What we adapt to as normal is tremendously different culture to culture, religion to religion, country to country. And it is time for all of us to stop making stories up about other ways and other types of people. This negative thought pattern that "they" are bad or wrong people is tremendously harmful to societies. It is the main cause of war and suffering. We need to see that regardless of what you believe underneath our skin color, beliefs systems, or education we are all humans with feelings and we are all striving to do our very best sometimes under very difficult circumstances.

As American's we have so much. We are blessed in so many ways that until you are in other countries and see the struggles and challenges that others face daily you cannot truly appreciate what a gift this life is to you right now.

When I see the challenges of people in India just to have clean water to drink and a place where people and animals are not living on top of garbage piles, my compassionate heart almost breaks. 

There is so much money in the world and it astounds me that those with the most cannot seem to work together to find ways to solve obvious challenges. All the challenges I see are fixable but the cost is high. I can see how expensive infrastructure is to create. But isn't world peace worth it?

How much money is enough? What do we really need to survive? What can we do in small ways to support others?

I try to do my small part. I donate to saving the pit bulls. I find if we have compassion for animals then we can have compassion for others. I donate to Tibet Aid where for $35 per month I can feed a family of 5, give education in Tibetan culture, English language, and Chinese culture classes as well as get medical care for those children in Tibet for illness such as polio, etc. I find it is amazing what $35 can do each month for another family. I may not be able to save the world but I can save a part of it. Saving one family is still saving one family. Giving love and shelter to those animals that are misunderstood, tortured, and suffering, somehow deepens my consciousness.

While I am here in India I do not buy stuff, I tip those helping me. I know that American's have this reputation that we throw cash as everything but I try to help those that are working and are attempting to do an honest days work. That does not mean that I do not follow my intuition and when I see a veteran on the street begging that if I feel a heart connection I will also gift him with money. I may not be able to save everyone but for one day they might be able to eat and relax.

I challenge each of you to reach within and find where your heart is touched by something, then follow that heart and allow it to love and connect to others in a way that expands love.  

My teachers always told me that the only thing you get to take with you to the other side that lights your way through the darkness into the divine is the love and compassion that you have shared with others. I choose to live with that thought in my heart on a daily basis.

Remember, we all have days when we are able to stay in conscious awareness and clarity and others where we feel as if we are failing. But you never fail when you remember that you are love and you then bring yourself back into the awareness that allows you to find peace, happiness, and joy in the smallest expression of compassion. Have a wonderful month.

INTUITIVE PATTERNS FOR THE MONTH OF JULY 2013

Osho Zen Tarot: Friendliness, Celebration, Existence
Medicine Cards: Otter, Swan
Mayan Oracle: Polarity, Chichan
Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Seven of Disks, The Devil, Strength
Aleister Crowley Deck: Queen of Wands, Prince of Cups, The Priestess
Words of Truth: Transformation, Truth, Change

Here we are finally and fully into the Grand Water Trine for the next year and as our emotions begin to open and flow, it restores a feeling of trust in the world and the possibility that their might be a bit of method to the universal madness over the past 3 plus years.

I like to think of this Trine and the official return of the divine feminine to the planet.

The past few years have felt like we got caught up in a slew of metaphorical earthquakes where the foundations of our reality have been shaken to the point of crumbling and breaking down our old self and perspective around money, life, trust, love, work, and our spirituality. Now there is a tsunami of water to soothe and bathe us into a calmer perspective. The divine feminine returns and is washing away the chaos of the past and allowing us to wipe the slate clean.

The challenge comes in if we are unwilling to let the past go and if we are unwilling to allow a new flow to guide us rather than our mind.

Over the past 3 plus years our relationships have been challenged because of the Grand Cardinal Cross and Saturn being in Libra. We have felt pulled in four directions and the effect was that the ground seemed to come out from underneath us. We felt like we were free falling into the unknown. Then the squares between Pluto and Uranus have made us feel pulled between our future and the past. (By the way, the future always wins.) Next we had Saturn move into Scorpio on October 5, 2012 and for some of us it felt like the Grim Reaper meets Darth Vader. That is all bad because these two big energies are at least talking and working together. But it has made us pull ourselves back up and get back on the horse to work towards the goal that has seemed to evade us for the past few years. This can feel like a challenge but if we did not have the grounding aspect of this pattern, with Jupiter exalted in Cancer (a joyous and celebratory expression of love and devotion), Neptune at home in Pisces (an extremely artistic expression that throws all of us into the deep end of the emotional pool and wants to pull us into dreamland) we could have found our reality quite ungrounded and our head in the clouds and out of touch with reality.

Saturn is so grounding in Scorpio that it will help us translate this huge wave of energy into a much more realistic and tangible outcome.

From July 17-23 we have some cosmic effects that allow for emotional healing in a profound and deep way. It also allows for a spiritual healing and a resurgence of faith and trust. We will feel as if we have more energy than we have felt for a long time to kick us into gear. We should feel uplifted and more optimistic (which would be very helpful after all this gloom and doom). We will also notice that we have a magnetic power to draw things into our life what we want and need. Through this process we can finally come to understand our own emotional choices and see a larger divine plan at work in our life.

If you are a water sign or if you have significant planets at the early degrees in water, you will feel tremendously empowered and energetically transformed.

This is a wonderful time to heal old family wounds and conflicts. Expect people from your past to come back into the picture and allow the healing that is being asked to release you from the story you have been telling yourself about that person or situation.

This month has the potential of being one of forgiveness and love. You are in a cycle of healing and reunion. But this healing is not superficial. It will be deep and profound and touch the very deepest parts within your core.

This month, surrender up your story of the past, allow yourself to play in the cooling waters of the feminine, feel the strength you have gained by confronting your deepest fears and celebrate the massive shifts you have manifested. You are on the road to reconnecting to what inspires your soul, allows you freedom, and supports your expansion into your greatest self.

Have a fabulous month.