Embrace Your Power

We are currently going through a tremendous energy shift. May 20th brought a solar eclipse, a new moon, and an earth-sun-moon-Pleiades alignment. I spent that morning in an intense Kundalini mediation with 200 people! It was very powerful and the energy is still with us.

We are connected to the cosmos so even though it may be difficult for us to believe we are absolutely affected by what goes on ‘up there’. Right now, the angels and masters are beaming energy to us. Take advantage of this time. When you meditate, beam your consciousness to the Infinite. Let yourself feel the wisdom being poured into your psyche. This is a very important time and we can either choose to grow or turn away from the light. Let’s choose growth! It won’t always be easy but life isn’t easy.

One of my teachers says that if you go through a day without a challenge then you are cursed! How many of us have thought of life that way? Each day brings opportunity and each opportunity brings the potential for growth. Those opportunities may come in the form of ‘problems’ or ‘challenges’, but we can handle them. Every single one of us is being called to step into our Grace. If we take even an instant to go into self-pity or fear or anxiety, we can spiral down very quickly because the energy is very strong right now. Our minds are powerful and we must take control.

I learned something really powerful and I want to share it with you. Have a Kundalini mantra with you always because the moment your mind begins to go down a dark path, you can cut that path and change directions with a mantra. Mantras clear karma and heal. (I have three Kundalini events scheduled for June. If you’d like to learn more visit www.brittanykjames.com). If  you don’t know any Kundalini mantras, work with your guides and angels and ask them to clear your mind with whatever mantra you choose. For instance, for years I would recite the names of 15 archangels or The Goddess Chant over and over again as my mantra. (Goddess Invocation with The Goddess Chant Mp3 available. Contact info@brittanykjames.com for details.) You can use a prayer, or any highly devotional words such as the names of saints, angels, masters like Jesus, or any of the names for God that you choose. This is powerful work!

Be powerful. It’s your nature to be in alignment with God. You are needed right now-your Light, your Grace, your radiance…

I hope to see you soon!
As always, I bow to the Divinity within you..
Love,
Brittany

Knowing Your Magnificence

Every time I sit down to write a newsletter I ask to be guided. Each month something flows forth and I just allow it to happen. This time I sat down and I felt nothing move me. That’s a scary place to be! When we are used to a certain form of guidance, if it doesn’t come, we feel lost. But we’re never lost. I began to write about not knowing what to write. I mean why not? It was the truth. So I typed and erased and typed and erased and finally just settled for being okay with not knowing what to do.

And that’s when I realized the message: It’s okay to not know what to do sometimes. We aren’t always going to have things figured out and sometimes that’s the lesson. Did you know that as we move deeper and deeper into this new age of awareness that we are being called to move even further than working in the vibration of trust? We are being called to truly be the expressions of God that we are. And that goes way beyond trust. That is pure knowing. Even deeper, that is pure experience.

We cannot shy again from or back down from experiencing our own magnificence. Now, how many of us are comfortable with feeling spiritually magnificent, which in essence means magnificent in all ways? It’s a pretty enormous feeling, isn’t it? And most of us have a hard time embracing it. We hold cellular memory in the body and in the energetic field around us and we remember all the times someone hurt us, made fun of us, made us feel less than. And even if we don’t consciously remember things, the cells remember, the subconscious remembers. When the subconscious is in charge we are ruled by a mind that is not under our command. We recreate situations that give us the opportunity to heal and clear the subconscious but we don’t see it that way. All we see is that we are coming up against the same problems over and over again.

But we can heal. Yes, we can truly heal. No matter the the situation we can heal. The angels and masters show me time and time again that nothing is beyond the healing force of the Divine and the Divine never wants us to suffer. We can learn our lessons, clear our karma, and be whole. We can heal, we can change less than ideal circumstances and we can step into our full Grace. So how do we do that? It is time for us to get really tough! It is time for us to refuse to accept anything less than the purity of who we really are. And we have to put an energetic foot down! In the angelic healing modality IET®, we learn about a process called Respectfully Demanding. It is when we literally demand from the universe what it is that we need to show up in our lives. It can seem daunting, right? Demanding? Really? We are demanding God do something for us? How arrogant! But it’s not. It is partnering with Spirit and saying to the universe that we are ready to receive our full Grace. Nothing is more humbling than that because once you do that, once you declare your partnership with Spirit, be it through respectfully demanding or any other process, you are actually surrendering. You are surrendering to the greatest will, true will. The Will of God.

We have to know our own magnificence. The time truly is now. Get still and talk to God, the angels, the ascended masters, a goddess, whomever you connect with and then listen. Let the mind run as it is a sign that the subconscious is clearing. Release expectation, be okay with not knowing everything if you are feeling lost and just be. Be the Grace that you are, partner with Spirit. Imagine yourself as a perfect yogi, as an angel, as a goddess. Don’t be afraid! Just be. Make that Divine connection. It is the truth of who you are and then you will know pure experience.

“May the long time sun shine upon you, all love surround you, and the pure light within you, guide your way on.”

With love, Brittany

Coping with Change

There is great change occurring right now. Some people feel it on a subtle level knowing that something is happening but they are unsure of what. Some can pinpoint exactly the changes they are seeing because they are showing up in career, relationships or the view of self. And others are tuned into global changes. Regardless of whichever way you may be perceiving change, you may be feeling like it’s all a bit overwhelming at the moment. You’re not alone. I’ve talked to many people lately who are feeling that way. But change is a good thing even though it may not show up as what we think of as good all the time.

But what is it exactly? It is a recognition by your soul of cosmic awareness. This is a new time. Things are different. The old isn’t working anymore. So what do we do? We follow the energy of our lives. No matter what it looks like right now we follow it and we see where it leads us. But you must be willing to be intuitive. You must be discerning between the cosmic energy that is speaking to you on a soul level and the voice of the ego. This time that we are in, it’s an intuitive time. Aren’t you seeing and feeling and sensing and knowing and experiencing that your old ways of thinking and doing aren’t working like they used to? There’s a reason for that. They’re not supposed to work anymore.

If you haven’t been working to develop your intuition now is the time. It is vital. There is a sense of ‘the time is now’ coming from Spirit that is telling us to get on board, to get ourselves together and we can! And the beauty is that it’s not even foreign to us! It’s experiencing our true nature. Being intuitive is our true nature. Right now, today, spend a few minutes with long deep breathing and awareness of your own self. Really, just a few minutes will get you started. You are your own best intuitive. You are your own best channel. But it takes effort. I had a teacher once say that people in the West aren’t willing to give up anything in order to get anything. I had to really think about that. Where had I been unwilling? It was an essential lesson and one that I am so very grateful for.

Let’s work on things together! This month we have angel meditation and kundalini yoga. We always have the angels and our guides to lead the way…let’s let them show us!

Please be kind to yourself, love yourself and take care to listen to yourself. You are so beautiful, so radiant, so gifted, such a blessing! Thank you for allowing me to connect with you! I am grateful for you! Very grateful…

I hope to see you soon and, as always, I bow to the Divinity within you.

With love,
Brittany

*visit www.brittanykjames.com for meditation and yoga dates

The Choice for Love

A Course in Miracles teaches us that we either Love or Fear, that anything that isn’t love is fear and in every moment and every circumstance we choose either.

When I was growing up my mother worked in an office surrounded by executives who weren’t always the nicest to her or the other secretaries, as they were called in those days.  She used to tell stories of the seemingly ridiculous ways those in charge wielded their ‘power’. She always said that if you’re in an environment where someone is being unkind to in turn “kill them with kindness”. I laugh now at her choice of the word ‘kill’! But I understand. Time and time again she completely disarmed the executives in charge. They ended up loving her, promoting her, and she just went on about her business with faith in the power of love.

Years ago I found myself working in a restaurant. One day my boss instructed me to go get something important from a fellow employee. The person knew I was on my way with this errand. So I went. I walked into the open area and was greeted with a barrage of anger. “What are you doing? You’re interrupting! Can’t you see we’re busy?” etc, etc. He was yelling at me, and it hurt. But the still small voice of Spirit inside me told me how to respond. I looked him straight in the eyes and said, “I’m sorry. I understand. It won’t happen again.” Clearly this person was stressed. Clearly this person was in some kind of fear, but the anger focused on me for no apparent reason, was overwhelming. I was just doing what my boss told me to do…I went to the ladies room and cried before pulling myself together and getting on with my day. And a funny thing happened. From that day forward, not only did that man treat me with utter respect and kindness, he became warm and friendly. He had an incredible sense of humor and we became good friends. Because I responded to his fear with love, the energy shifted. Had I yelled back, “Look, I’m just doing my job. I’m not going back to tell the boss I didn’t do what she asked me to do…” and on and on, something else would have happened. What exactly, I’m glad I don’t know. What I do know is that love diffused a volatile situation and what could have become an edgy, fearful workplace turned into a loving, supportive one.  I never cried another day on that job except for the day I left..and it wasn’t the job I would miss! It was the people, the love.

These may seem like small examples, but every choice we make in every circumstance, be it ‘big’ or ‘small’ has a lasting effect on who we are and how we treat those around us. We can go into that place of fear that recoils at the challenge to love, or we can slip into the comfort of love from the start and ride the wave of compassion to empathy and grace. One of my spiritual teachers and mentors always says, “It is better to pray, than to worry.” She is in essence saying that it is better to love than to fear. And it is. There is always the choice for love. Always.

Embracing the Dark Goddess

I wrote this piece for my dear friend Melissa Frei for her October newsletter. I wanted to share it with you here. I hope you experience the magic of the season and the deep knowing of the Whole of who you are! You can find Melissa at www.melissafrei.com

This being October and the time of year when we celebrate the thinning of the veil between our world and the world of Spirit, it is the appropriate time to talk about embracing the natural darkness within ourselves. Do you ever wonder why so many of us love scary movies or why we seem to embrace Halloween so readily? There are many reasons including that Halloween is based on an ancient pagan holiday known as Samhain (pronounced sow-en). Samhain was the day set aside to remember loved ones who had passed on and a time to recognize that the veil was thin and so spiritual communication was easier. Because this history is in our collective consciousness, it informs all of us and so stirs the very cells of our being that remember we are greater than just this earthly plane.

This is also the time of year seasonally when the Wheel of the Year turns and we enter Fall and so begin to feel the deep energies of the wise crone goddess. She of Winter and descent into the deepest regions of ourselves. She of hibernation, withdrawal, and dormant energies resting before birthing creativity again in the Spring. She is the wisdom of experience and sometimes our experience comes from our darkest moments. This is where the dark goddesses come to our aid. The energy of the natural world is turning inward right now as trees, flowers, and animals respond to the change of season. Just as the natural world turns within, so do we. We are part of the natural world. This is why linking with the seasons and the cycles of the moons helps us stay in sync with our own rhythms. The world around us is a reflection of our inner selves and in turn we infuse the world around us with the recognition that we are all One. This turning within is one of the things dark goddesses help us do. They help us face all of the Whole of who we are. They help us see that our fears are really sacred journey markers along our path that show us where we need to work, change, grow, and shift our perceptions.

Contrary to the fear the word ‘dark’ might conjure, a dark goddess is not a ‘bad’ deity. She is the representation of our shadow selves, our inner darkness, and also sometimes, our greatest strength. One of my spirit guides is an ancient celtic goddess named Morrighan. One the first things she said to me when she showed up in meditation was that she was my “missing link”. She said she was the part of me that was missing when I was too afraid to do something and she encouraged me to call upon her anytime I needed to face and walk through my fears. That was several years ago, and believe me, I have called upon her many times!

The idea of a goddess at all may be unusual to you, let alone a dark goddess. But I assure you that the manifestations of Divine Mother are all of the Light, it’s just that some of them help us on the end of the spectrum that we call ‘dark’, which again, is a sacred part of ourselves that is here for our growth and spiritual learning. If you would like to work with a dark goddess to learn the wisdom of your experiences, meditation during a dark moon cycle is perfectly suited for this endeavor. The dark of the moon is the cycle that belongs to Her. It is the time when the moon has finished waning after being full and it will be dark before the first sliver of the new moon is visible in the night sky. Sit quietly and say whatever prayer of protection you normally say before spiritual work. Call upon goddess Brigit or Archangel Michael to be your “spiritual bouncer” to ensure that you are safely protected in the Divine Light of Mother /Father God as you meditate. Then, simply ask for a dark goddess to work with you for your highest good. Make sure you pay close attention to any thoughts, visions, feelings, and words that may show up. Ask her name and ask any questions you feel guided to, but particularly ask how you can overcome any fears you feel may be holding you back. Make sure you record your meditation experience and thank your goddess for working with you. You could even research dark goddesses first and pick one that you feel you most resonate with. A word of caution: there are many, many things written on the web that are not exactly the Truth. If you go looking for information on dark goddesses, please use a discerning eye and trust your intuitive guidance.

Working with dark goddesses is not easy. They will show you what needs to be worked on. When Morrighan first showed up to me, I did not know who she was, and quite frankly, she scared me! However, she explained to me that she could be scarier than anything I would ever encounter and that she was stronger than my ego self. That moment was life changing for me and began a path of true transformation that honestly, has not always been easy, but has always been for my highest good. I love Morrighan and I am grateful for her everyday. Whenever I do spiritual work, she is one of the goddesses who holds the four corners of the room for me or any sacred space I am in. I trust her implicitly. She is strength and courage, and deep, deep wisdom. She is friend and teacher and companion.

As you move into the essence of All of who you are, do not deny your darkness. You might just find your greatest gifts, strengths, and yes, spirit guides! Have a blessed Samhain!
I bow to the Divinity within you.
Love,
Brittany

Angel Answers

I recently had the absolute pleasure of interviewing my friend and 12angel.com colleague, Radleigh Valentine. As many of you know, I co-host The Divinity Tree with Tina Marie Daly and every week we are blessed to speak to people in the Spiritual community. We ask the questions we genuinely want to know the answers to! And hopefully you do as well!

As we spoke with Radleigh a few weeks ago, he said something that I thought was vitally important to share in case you missed it. He said he often has clients call him for readings saying, “I am waiting for the angels to tell me what to do.” He then wisely proceded to explain that he gently lets his clients know that if we wait for the angels to tell us what to do, we will be waiting a very long time. Angels do not interfere with our free will. They, as Radeligh so eloquently put it, are waiting patiently for us to tell them what we want to create in the world so that they can then help us do it.

As someone who has dedicated her life to Spirit and has said, “Show me where to go, and I will follow.”, I understood. Because, it wasn’t until I made the decision to dedicate my life to Spirit, that I could actually receive and follow my guidance for my highest good. If this is sounding contradictory to you, just think about this for a moment: If the angels told us what to do, and we did not have to make any choices, there would be no point to being human. We are here for a reason. We are here to grow, shift, change, create, learn, and yes, ascend. We must do this by our choices. There is definitely help along the way! But we must take the first step. This is how we work through our karma and so become the whole of who we are.

We are responsible for our life because we are responsible for our choices. I remember something I heard years ago that has always resonated with me: “Your thoughts create your words. Your words create your actions. Your actions create your character. Your character creates your destiny.” Thoughts, words, actions, character, destiny. How powerful that is! Now, imagine if you never had the choice to choose your thoughts in the first place. It would be an act of theft upon you to not have the Divine opportunity to create. Your karma would be stagnant. You would never change. There are souls lined up to come to earth because they know this is one of the most difficult places to be, and so holds one of the greatest potentials for soul growth. This is why we are here. To choose. To grow.

The angels would never interfere with the birthright of our choice. However, once we ask for help, once we embrace what it is we want to create in life, aligned with our highest good, there is no manner of force that could keep the angels from our side! Their help is all inclusive and we begin to co create with the Divine. We are extensions of our creator, just as the angels are. We are a part of the Unity Consciousness and when we hold this in our thoughts, those thoughts become even more important. Then we are thinking, speaking, acting, and creating destiny not just for ourselves, but for all of humanity. This is how powerful we are. Thank you Radleigh, for the inspiration.

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The Shadow of Love

Lately I’ve been noticing a trend where many of us are being called to look at parts of ourselves we’d rather not look at, but we are being called to do so in order to grow. This is understandably not a comfortable process, but it is a deeply healing one. If you’re feeling this way, I invite you to shift your perception, for you are standing in the shadow of love. Standing in the shadow of love is a beautiful place to be. I’m not speaking of the shadow cast by love that creates an umbrella of support for all who seek it’s shelter. I’m talking about our personal shadows. Those pieces of ourselves that we try really hard not to look at but that make an appearance one way or the other regardless of what we impose on our personalities. These shadows are love. These shadows are gifts. These shadows are teachers. They are us and we are them and they carry great wisdom.

Shadows are sacred journey markers along the way that call to our attention a place that needs a love infusion. They are that part of us that we push aside and bury deep so as to not ever have to think about who we might be or who we might have been before. They are like those most embarrassing moments, the ones that literally make you physically shudder to think about! But they are in and of themselves, light, because they illuminate something we need to address. This is why they are the shadows of love.

It all comes down to choice-we can choose love or we can choose fear. When we choose fear, we push away the shadows, we turn away from the illumination we could have gleaned, and we lock the door to inner knowing. But, if we choose love, we see that shadows are not darkness at all, but glorious shades of light that throw the doors open and allow us to enter new worlds of understanding.

We have all the grace to turn within, to become the Grail Knight and seek the sacred. We become the Holy Grail ourselves because we are willing to look with love at everything. This is the beauty of the shadow self, which in Truth, resides in love.

Spirit of the Mother

Mother’s Day always holds a bit of mystery for me. Besides honoring the mothers in our lives, be they in Spirit or the earthly plane, there is a magic and mystery to Mother’s Day that holds me.

There is the part of us that creates and then breathes our creations into life. That part of us is the Mother. She lives within us whether we are male or female. She is that part of us that feels pregnant with possibility when we are working on something that stirs our soul. As the Father spirit in us takes action to put our creations out into the world, it is the Mother spirit who conceives them in the first place. Without her, there is no life to put action to.

We find her in the full moon, the Empress card in the tarot, Mother Mary, Mother Earth, she blooms around us whether it is winter or spring. She helps us hold our ideas and thoughts in the precious womb of creation. She tends the fruits of our ideas so they can ripen and be birthed into the world. This is the Great Mother. The Spirit of the Mother. The Spirit we carry.

We must honor this part of ourselves because in doing so, we give it strength and recognition. We can even move deeper with the Mother and delve into the Grandmother Spirit. She lives within us, too, showing us our bloodline both modern day and magical. She is the line to our ancestors and she can show us our true path in life. The Grandmother Spirit is beyond time. She carries wisdom that is our wisdom if we allow her to show us.

This Mother’s Day, honor the Mother Spirit in you. Hold a small candle in your hands and breathe deeply. Allow yourself to relax. Call forth the Mother/Grandmother Spirit in you and to you. Let all of these energies flow through you and into the candle. Next, light this candle in honor of all those who have come before you. As the flame burns, the energy of gratitude will be dispersed into the world as a blessing for not only yourself, but all others. The Mother Spirit will infuse you and your surroundings with love, creativity, protection, and joy.

We do not need to be physical earth mothers in order to know the Spirit of the Mother. Whether man or woman in this lifetime, we are charged with her beauty, grace, knowledge, and strength. Happy Mother’s Day.

The Living Mystery

Welcome. May we journey together through the world of Spirit, knowing our Oneness, knowing our Divinity, knowing the living Mystery……

It’s Beltane for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere and Samhain for those in the Southern. Wherever you are, the veil between the worlds is thin today. Today is one of those days where we feel more, we respond greater, we know in a way that is somehow more pronounced than usual. And though we may not be in the ancient lands in the ancient days, there is a part of us that remembers. And it is in this remembering that we are called to follow the living Mystery.

She is the Oneness. She is the great connection. She is the strength and the life and the gift. She is the road both taken and not taken. And if we allow Her to guide us, She leads us to the whole of who we are. We step into our inner sovereignty and so step onto our path.

It is always the choice of either ego or Spirit that we contend with. If we choose Spirit, we begin to do things that may seem illogical to others, but these things make perfect sense in the logic of Spirit. This is the path of the living Mystery. She is always unfolding and showing us new things. If we go with Her gentle guidance, follow Her graceful flow, move in the waters of intuition, life becomes a ballet of Spirit that envelops our every thought, our every action. When we see that every moment is a benediction, a blessing, we begin to see the Mystery and we allow Her to lead us because to surrender to Her is to rise to our purpose.

There is not a part of us that is not connected. There is no animal that does not breathe in the rhythm of life. There is not a plant that grows, no flower that blooms, no bird that flies without the Mystery. The magic of our existence permeates our cells and cleanses our energetic bodies. Each breath we take is in time with the great I AM the Ascended Masters teach us. Each breath is in consort with Mother/Father God. Each thought is a co-creation and testament to what we believe the moment we think it.

On this magical day when the veil is thin and the Mystery weaves within and around you, breathe in the knowledge that you are a sacred part of the Whole. That there is no way that you could not be vital. There is no way you could not contribute. And there is no way you could not gather the gifts into your heart and know Divine Love in infinite compassion and gratitude.

You walk in the moonlight of Her grace. She is the balance. And so believe the magic and embrace the living Mystery. You are Her and She is you.