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.