FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

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    Go ahead and close your eyes and just come

    into a sense of presence.

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    The color that is coming through as we're

    connecting together is the color orange.

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    The color of what is passed down from generation

    to generation: the stories, the challenges,

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    the hope...

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    This is a color that we're all sharing together.

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    Allowing your eyes to open if it feels okay

    for you... really tuning into considering

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    what we pass down from one generation to the

    next and considering how it would be possible

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    to no longer pass down our limiting beliefs

    or our pain, but more pass down the hope.

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    Here's a seed that I planted many many generations

    ago in the hopes that for future generations

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    will be able to see that tree bloom and the

    fruit be beared, right?

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    I think also when we consider what is passed

    down from generation to generation, we get

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    the theme of the month being: For the Future

    Generations.

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    I think we almost have to begin with a respect

    for innocence.

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    And really looking at innocence as wise.

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    Like, if you've ever really spent time with

    kids, you notice that they say exactly what

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    they think and exactly what they feel, and

    most of the time, they're super spot on, actually,

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    about what is happening and going on around

    them.

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    There's so much wisdom in their innocence.

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    They don't have the filters of the should

    I or shouldn't I yet.

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    They don't have the filters of, "Oh, I'm gonna

    get judged or I'm gonna get cancelled if I

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    share this thing or do this thing."

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    No, they're just saying what they feeling

    and they're saying what they see, and there's

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    a lot of freedom in that.

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    I think that as we become adults, we get so

    much more guarded, but that guardedness sometimes

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    leads us to living out of alignment with what

    really feels true for us or what really feels

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    right for us.

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    That guardedness, a lot of times, leads us

    to focusing on creating this really strong

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    fortress around us, and nothing can get in

    and nothing can get out, and we're always

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    perceived in one specific way to the world

    around us, and is it really the example that

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    we want to set for those who are so open and

    so innocent?

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    Is that really the example that we want to

    set?

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    Or do we want to, as we grow on our spiritual

    path and as we deepen our spiritual practices,

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    focus on trying to reclaim our innocence,

    you know, coming back into that place of wise

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    innocence within us.

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    You know, I'm going to keep all the wisdom

    I've gained from experience in this lifetime,

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    but I'm also going to come into that place

    of innocence and openness, and be in the potential

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    that I could be wrong about something....

    trust that I have so much more to learn.

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    Even if I've studied spirituality for 20 years,

    30 years, 40 years, I still have so much to

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    learn, I still have so much growing to do,

    I'm still just at the very beginning.

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    When we're healers and when we're teachers,

    coming from a place of wise innocence is so

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    important.

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    Like -- look -- I've practiced this for a

    long time, but I'm not coming from a place

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    of, "this is right and that is wrong."

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    I'm not coming from a place of "I know everything

    and I have nothing more to learn."

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    I'm coming from a place of really, you know,

    "this is what I've experienced.

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    This is what I have found.

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    This is what I have discovered, but I'm also

    open to the opportunity of at some point being

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    wrong."

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    You know, the moment we get into this place

    of righteousness, the moment we get into this

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    place of, "I am right and you are wrong,"

    then we are really truly in a place of ignorance.

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    First of all, that's so much pressure to always

    be right all the time, you know, that's gotta

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    be so much pressure and also so frustrating

    when you're walking around all the time like,

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    you're right and everybody else is wrong...

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    But the moment I get into that place of assumption...

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    Remember when we assume, we make an ass out

    of you and me, right?

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    And, then assuming that I am right and you

    are wrong, I am immediately in a place of

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    ignorance.

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    Probably, also, I'm in a place of intolerance

    for what you feel or you believe is right,

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    and then probably also that will lead me to

    a place of indifference like, if you're not

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    ready to hear my way or do things my way,

    I don't want to have anything to do with you.

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    This creates so much separation, because we

    have these voices of righteousness within

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    ourselves, right?

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    And, we also have them as a collective in

    ourselves that we share with the world.

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    As soon as we get into this place of righteousness,

    meaning "I'm right, you are wrong" -- "whatever

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    I say is right, whatever you say is wrong,"

    then we start to create like a really great

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    divide.

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    And I don't think that it's really acknowledged

    how important it is to kind of come out of

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    that place of finger pointing and come out

    of the great divide that is happening, because

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    actually in order for us to help to heal the

    Earth and focus on the things that really

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    truly matter, we actually all need to come

    together and we need to focus on the things

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    that we can do on any given day that will

    help this unified work of healing and of growth,

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    and basically of becoming more human, becoming

    more loving.

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    Not to say that I know the right way and everyone

    is wrong, right, because that will put me

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    in a place of ignorance, right, but I do think

    if there's a way to come out of this place

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    of finger pointing that is done, and all the

    division, and calling people stupid because

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    they don't believe the same things as you,

    insulting people's intelligence because they

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    have a different view than you...

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    If we come away from all of that, I think

    there's a place where we can connect and we

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    can connect to anyone.

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    From that place of connection with each other,

    we can start to make things easier for future

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    generations.

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    The only reason why we are really here up

    until a certain age or up until a certain

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    point, is to make things easier for future

    generations to become more whole, more balanced,

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    healthier, you know?

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    We are here today to make way for the future

    generations to become more whole, more balanced,

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    more healthy, more healed.

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    I think about how difficult things were for

    my father, my grandfather, my mother, my grandmother.

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    I think about how difficult things were for

    them, and even though I had a lot of challenges

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    that I faced at a young age, I still didn't

    face the kind of challenges that they were

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    facing, and each generation we should really

    be focusing on what's going on at this time

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    and in this generation that can eventually

    make things easier for the future generations.

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    Also, having a respect for innocence and a

    respect for the wisdom that is in innocence,

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    gives us an opportunity to answer that question

    of how we can perhaps make things better for

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    future generations.

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    It's just a respecting innocence.

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    You know, it's not like, because this person

    is five, I have nothing to learn from them.

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    Because this person is twenty, oh what do

    they know?

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    You know, that's a huge mistake that happens

    as we age and we become less and less flexible,

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    as we start to assume that we know more because

    of our age.

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    It's really important to have that respect

    for innocence.

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    I remember when I was younger and I was really

    deep on a spiritual path at like seventeen

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    years old, I was so fully in it, you know,

    and I began teaching and doing healing work

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    at that time, I remember people decades older

    coming to see me and being like, "well what

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    does she know?" and luckily these are people

    who still would give me a chance and be open

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    to what I had to say and could receive a lot

    from me, but I always remember this feeling

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    of, "man, I can't wait to be older.

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    I can't wait til I'm older because people

    will take me more seriously."

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    It's just such a frustrating place to be in

    -- having to wait until you're older for people

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    to take you more seriously, and I mean, I

    still get judged by what I look like and how

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    people assume I am even though I am older...

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    It's just part of it, but I do think that

    one thing that I remember and I hold really

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    close to my heart from that age is I shouldn't

    judge people who are younger than me or look

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    at them like what do they know or they have

    less wisdom than me.

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    I think I have so much to learn from children

    and the innocence in nature, and it gives

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    me a really really strong feeling like I want

    to protect what is innocent.

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    I want to protect the innocent animals and

    I want to protect the innocent people and

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    the innocent bodies of water in the Earth

    as much as I can.

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    That feels like my way of trying to consider

    how to make things better for future generations.

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    So, I hope that you have a month full of growth.

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    We have Beltane coming up... the celebration

    of rebirth, of flowering, of blooming...

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    such a beautiful time.

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    And just so much magic and medicine this month.

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    We see in the Northern Hemisphere, all the

    little flowers blooming and it's so beautiful.

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    We have a total lunar eclipse on the Full

    Moon in Scorpio, which should be really really

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    interesting.

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    A New Moon in Gemini, which should be a little

    bit balancing, and of course, our favorite

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    -- a Mercury Retrograde beginning on May 10th,

    so it's probably going to be a month with

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    a lot of emotional energies coming up -- emotion

    as in water.

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    It's probably going to be a month with some

    challenges because it's so focused on growth,

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    but I think it's important to focus on reclaiming

    our innocence.

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    Protecting what is innocent within us.

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    Taking care and protecting the gentle little

    flowers and things that are blooming and trusting

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    that whatever challenges are being faced,

    whatever we're going through, if we can keep

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    this sense of openness and trust and hope

    within us.

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    We will be able to get through anything, just

    like water.

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