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Thoughts from Winter...
November
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There's
no such thing as coincidence.
It's
just the secret meaning making itself
known.
I
don't know about you, but I was a big fan of the
X-Files. To some extent it was because I knew that
much of what they portrayed was true, either from my own
experience or from my contacts within the halls of the Russell
Senate Office Building. Even when I had no direct experience
of the subject matter, I always suspected that many topics
presented on the show were "truths" hidden between lies, or
"...a lie convincingly hidden between two truths."
X-Files quotes, such as the above, and
Scully's, "I'm afraid that God is speaking...but no one's
listening," may form the basis for one of the more truthful
television programs that have aired.
God is speaking, but no one's listening.
This newsletter, the first in over a year, is taking
shape because over the past few months I have made a point to
listen, and try not to ignore (or deny) what I hear. I'm also
taking time to see the spirits who walk among us...people,
animals, spirits. (Or maybe we are walking among them in their
world; we just don't know it.) I don't think it's fantasy, or
that I'm nuts, and I'm definitely not on a drug. I'm just old
enough now to believe in the old saying, "Show up, tell the
truth, and don't be attached to the outcome."
Now here's the appealing factor in all of this. When
I listen, really listen, or watch spirits move among us, it's
comforting. It's comforting, even though dramatic changes in
our world are happening much faster than I anticipated even
two years ago. At times I wonder what life will be in four
weeks, two weeks, tomorrow? It is very clear that we cannot
turn around, or go back to our "old" normal life.
Unpredictable weather patterns (super storms), our fiat
currency (the end of money as we know it), species extinction,
intensively to each other, unprecedented loss (of jobs,
wealth, lifestyle, and relationships) are the new "normal." A
friend commented yesterday, " I think we are living the end of
normal."
It is my opinion that the current changes are moving us
toward a spiritual awakening, a way of being never before
experienced on earth. Something new is coming into existence.
We are giving birth, with all its birthing pains, to a Mystery
much greater than ourselves. (The Mayan prophecy, December 21,
2012 actually means an opening...a new beginning, not an
ending.)
This Divine mystery has been showing her self in many
ways, not just the chaos we see in our media. Over the last
year, the Tower Card has been a regular visitor to my personal
and private readings. This image can be disturbing-a tower
cracking, tumbling, lightening bolts striking, people
and animals leaping from the tower.
The message is "Cosmic Intervention-a spiritual
shakeup is taking place." The implication is that we need to
have faith in things that can't be seen, but nevertheless
exist. To me, it is the secret meaning making itself known,
suggesting that we can only know the ultimate truths through
experience.
Certainly these days the Universe is intervening to shake
up the status quo. In the short-term, the energies of the
Tower are stressful and challenging, but over the long-term
the situation is improved. (I am inclined to think that, in
this instance, long-term means years, not months.)
Another facet of the Great Mystery, the study of
astrology, closely aligns with the meaning of the Tower. In a
recent post, astrologer Bill
Herbst wrote, "Currently Uranus and Pluto are about to
radically disrupt the cozy arrangements of "business-as-usual"
for those in positions of power and privilege. Only two
previous Uranus-Pluto transits were comparable: a seven-pass
transit from 1755-1758 that set up the American revolution,
and a nine-pass transit from 1496-1500, that marked the
beginnings of colonization of the western hemisphere by
Europeans. The 2010s will be just as important."
Regardless of the lens that we use: Greece, Wall
Street, the Tower Card, the Uranus-Pluto cycle, or Pluto in
Capricorn (suggesting meltdown, collapse of major
institutions), all suggest a blinding flash of insight, or a
moment of truth so overwhelming that there is no way to ignore
it. What is false and rigid cannot survive. And, as with all
endings, there will be a new beginning-a period of
restoration, healing, and rebuilding with major internal
change and restructuring. (Credit: The Tower text is adapted
from The Tower
Awakening.)
So we are living at an extraordinary time. It's time
to cultivate a strong connection with Spirit, with the
Divine. It will be through this connection, and our
intuition, that we forge the new path, a new way of Being.
Along with this connection, we will continue to find ways to
get closer to our family and friends, and to establish closer
communities. It's time to return/relearn simple ways of
living. There is something much, much greater going on than
anything we can see with our physical eyes.
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Upcoming
Retreat Programs
Bill
Herbst said to me recently that what I was trying to do
was ahead of my time, but that I would do it anyway...as
practice for what would be needed in the future. For the past
three (or more) years I have felt "called" to facilitate the
strengthening of the intuitive process with hands-on,
practical, preparedness skills. No doubt there is
comfort in being relaxed, hearing our inner voice, stepping
out of our busy lives...but there is also reassurance in
knowing that I have a larder, a four-season greenhouse, and
solar hot water.
These self-sufficient things will mean nothing if I
don't have community. There is comfort and community in
sharing our fears and our strengths (I can help you
design/plant a greenhouse if you will teach me to make cheese.
But even that isn't enough.) We need Spirit and we need
heart-felt connection. As Carolyn
Baker would say, "Emotional resilience is essential in
turbulent times. Those who are able to connect their existence
to something greater than their ego are much more likely to
persevere through adversity."
For now, and into the future, I will offer "new
normal" retreats. The new normal embraces our roots, our
connection to Spirit - the voice that is always with us, the
part of ourselves that stretches before and beyond time. Like
comfort food, we return to our roots for reassurance and
strength when everything around us seems to be falling apart.
It is our roots that help us prepare emotionally, physically
and spiritually for a future of global and local change.
If you feel called, I hope that you will join us at
one or more of the programs highlighted
below.
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Preparing
for the "New
Normal" Part I
of
a Skill-Building Series
November 12, 2011 - 9am-1pm
$75.00
To set the stage for future preparedness skills,
this workshop will help you:
- See, speak, and hear Truth
- Reconnect with your roots
- Uncover fears
- Release struggle
- Maintain balance in a world of chaos
- Discover what you need to "be prepared"
- Tap into the power of reflection, prayer and
ritual.
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register, please complete form
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Preparing for
the "New Normal" Part II
(date to be
announced)
Baking
in a bread oven with Louise Wakefield. If we have bread
we have comfort. If we have food, clothing and shelter,
we are meeting our basic needs. Louise and I hope that
you will join us for this class in baking bread in an
outdoor bread oven. We will knead, bake, explore our
intuition, and share good company on this winter day.
(In a future retreat Louise will teach us to make
cheese.)
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New
on the Book Scene
An
updated and edited version of Intuitions, Seeing with
the Heart (my first book) will soon be available
online in e-book format and in an audio version. Watch
my website FMI.
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Medical
Intuition Online
Class New!
This
online class focuses on the relationship of intuition to
health: Your health, the health of your client, the
health of the whole.
Click here FMI.
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Mount Rogers Community Services
Board - Wytheville, VA
March
29 - 30, 2012
We will
celebrate our 10th year of working with MRCSB. We
anticipate this will be a special time and we hope that
you will be able to join us! Call Kathy Cressel at
(276)223-3219 for more
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The
Worldwide Tipping Point Project
A
place on the web where dozens of the world's greatest
thinkers share their insights on what is really
happening on Planet Earth right now, and what we ALL
should be doing during this time of great
change. Listen & learn online at the Worldwide Tipping Point
Project.
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You're
Invited!
The
Unnamed Salon - November 19, 2011 6:30-9:30
p.m.
Location:
149 Simpson Road, Buxton, Maine
The Unnamed
Salon. (The first of, we hope, many.) Not a party, not
superficial, but rather a genuine exploration into the
adventure of life. It's time to connect, to process, to share.
Come with an open mind and pot luck dish. There is no leader,
no agenda....just a desire to seek Truth, which must come from
within all of us. Join us November 19th at 6:30 p.m. at 149
Simpson Road, Buxton, Maine. FMI contact Winter Robinson via
email or phone
(207)929-6960.
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Client
Openings Available
As a
licensed therapist, I currently have space in my practice for
new long or short-term clients, please contact me if you are
interested at 207-929-6960.
About Winter
Robinson: Winter is internationally recognized as an
author, teacher, consultant and medical intuitive adept at
facilitating the intuitive process, multi-sensory development
and exploring human consciousness. A licensed therapist, she
is the author of A Hidden Order: Uncover Your Life's
Design, Intuitions: Seeing With Your Heart, and
Remembering: A Gentle Reminder of Who You Are. Winter
has also created a series of guided imagery CDs to help the
listener with the reduction of stress and deepen the alliance
with the source of inner wisdom. Visit Winter online.
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Workshop
Registration
Preparing for
the
"New Normal"
Part I
November 12, 2011
9am-1pm $75.00
Location:
149 Simpson
Road
Buxton,
Maine
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Register early as space is
limited!
Name:_________________________________________________
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Telephone:_____________________________________________
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$75 per person per session, or a special reduced rate
for two people registering together of $70 per person per
session (or $140 combined). To register two people at this
reduced rate, please complete contact information for first
individual above, and provide contact information for second
individual on reverse of this form.
Please mail this completed form along with your $25
non-
refundable deposit to:
Winter Robinson
PO Box 484
Bar Mills, Maine 04004-0484
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