Are YOU a Perennial or an Annual?

Spring is in the air in the Northern Hemisphere. The ground is thawing. Tiny green shoots are poking their heads through the moist earth in search of sun. Rivulets of due are trickling across the vibrant green of unfolding leaves. And the dawn of birdsong has returned.

In the Southern Hemisphere, the sun is setting earlier. The days are cooler. Tree sap is beginning to pull itself deeper into it’s roots. And the last hurrah of vibrant color is preparing to erupt in the branches of the trees, before the leaves flutter to the ground and settle into the earth’s quiet in-breath.

The equinox always brings to mind the death and rebirth of nature.

Have you ever noticed the way of perennial plants?
They each have their own pattern, their own rhythm, their own season. The equinox is their time of transition. During their dormancy, you may not even know they exist until they poke their pointed little noses above the ground through the layers of dirt and leaves in search of light. They don’t fight with the leaves. They don’t try to talk them out of their way. They don’t send someone ahead with rakes to smooth the path. They simply mind their own business and continue reaching for the light, until they break though the upper crust of the earth.

As the weather warms and the gentle rains nurture them, sparks of color appears. One by one, the petals unfold into glorious beauties of nature dancing in the breeze and wafting their fragrance without concern as to who takes notice of them. Some bloom in the early spring. Others pace themselves, bursting forth in mid-summer or presenting themselves as the last remnants of color in Autumn. When their season draws to a close, they shake their leaves loose and add to the mulch that covers their roots. The stem turns brown and its energy retreats into the warm core of its heart in sweet repose, while the chill of winter blankets the earth.

Like the perennials, we each have a unique Divine blueprint, each with our own distinctive color, often standing out amidst the colors of everyone else. Within our own personal seasons, we know when to sprout, when to spread our petals to send a sensuous fragrance into the air and when to retreat. We coded it all into our hearts eons ago. Some of these codes have laid dormant through a long winter of darkness. But the New Crystalline Light has warmed our hearts and melted the walls that have encased them. Alas, the codes are quickening, to expand our awareness and activate our newly awakened DNA.

Blossoms beyond anything we’ve ever seen before are stirring below the surface. The only fertilizer we’ll ever need is our Love and Passion for the bountiful beauty.
Our only job is to allow these new sprouts to poke their heads through the overlying debris. There is no need to fight the old. Quite frankly, it doesn’t know how to fight back. It can only respond to our machinations. If we keep our focus on the warm caress of the sun, our sprouts will slip right by the old debris because we’re much more powerful than we realize. And if not distracted by our artificial worries and fears, we will effortlessly rise to meet the sun, bursting forth with wide grins on our faces.

Sometimes, our gardens need an extra boost of color. That’s when we tuck in a few annuals, those seedlings that bloom in vibrant color all summer long until the first crystalline frost wilts their petals for the very last time. They are short-lived, but the spurts of joy and beauty they offer are greatly appreciated while their blooms dance in the summer breeze. We often have projects like this. Spurts of Joy fully spent in the moment, knowing they were never meant to be long-lasting.

Sometimes we plant a seed to flare for a few moments in the sun, just for the pure pleasure of it. Other times we plant for longevity….like the perennials that honor their seasons of growth and development.

It’s important to know the difference. When you plant for flare, enjoy it and then let it go, savoring it’s sweet memory without attachment. And when you plant for longevity, honor the dormant seasons with the love and appreciation that add to your expansion, knowing that everything recycles stronger and fuller each season with more vibrant blooms than ever.

So are you a blooming perennial or annual?
Why not be both!!!!

~Sharon Lyn Shepard~
http://www.sharonlynshepard.com

Loving Gratitude to our BeLoved Louise Klein for her stunning photo!!!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Etheric-Eye-Narrative-Nature-Photography/400092600064636

Dreaming It Into Reality

What beautiful dreamtime!!!
I awoke with an image of standing naked as my I AM presence after having dropped all of my “I-dentity”. The old pieces of me were lying on the floor to the left and right like piles of rumpled clothing. Here I AM glowing in the center of it all. I remember saying, I choose to remain this way. I do not choose to pick any of that back up. (It reminded me of the huge pile of clothes I took to the charity shop a few weeks ago.)

What do I look like now? What do I do now?
It doesn’t matter. I AM simply reveling in the JOY of it, the JOY of ME.
Oh Blessed One, I rest in the You that is Me. Nothing else matters. Yes, we will take this GLOW out into the New World, but not now. Now we are resting in the Sacredness of it all, reveling in the Beauty of it all and celebrating the JOY of it all. For it has been a long journey to arrive at this place, and we need to rest here in it’s goodness before we continue on.

And that is well and good….something I’ve never done in the past. Every time I’ve attained something, I blow by it asking “what’s next?”, always hurrying past the acknowledgement of it. This time there is a need to pause, to “see” how far I’ve come. Not just in this lifetime, but through all time and space. Oh yes, it is a splendid view.

I AM Home. There is no place to go. Nothing to do. When I’m ready, I will KNOW without a doubt what the next step is. There is a path laid out for me by my Soul but I’m in no hurry to step upon it. The current task lies in being aligned with it before I embark upon it. This is a time of Rest and Rejuvenation, so my physical body can fully align with the BEaUty of this Sacred moment. It is a MasterFULL moment in time. A moment to be savored.

I have tears as I’m writing this for I know its truth. I kept getting lost in wanting to “do” something, to know my personality. It wasn’t until I put that all aside that I could “see” and “feel” the truth of I AM.

Thank you… for this dream that brought it into view, into reality. Bravo to me!!! I took the leap from duality into a New World. But because it took so long to get here, I just wanted to “get on with it”. I wanted to push past this moment too quickly and I now see the importance of recognizing the FULLness of who I AM before moving on. To rest here. To enJOY it rather than being bored by the non-activity of it. Oh my joy-meter was so off kilter! Now it’s fully recalibrated to the New World where JOY is the moment of BEing… with all these precious moments strung together like a pearl necklace.

Yesterday my Soul urged me to buy myself a bouquet of pink roses. Now I understand the significance of that simple act, “to stop and smell the roses”. And why I’m being drawn to wear my pearls today. Blessed BE. . . I AM…Dreaming it into Reality.

Sharon Lyn Shepard
http://www.sharonlynshepard.com

Bless your Open Heart for Sharing. . .
Sharing always adds to the abundance of life for ALL of us٠٠••●●♥♥❤

Cosmic Roller Coaster of Time

    Many years ago… a handful of us stepped out of our well-entrenched lives of perceived security into a string of Light-emblazoned cars onto the Cosmic Roller Coaster. Once we were all aboard, and strapped in, the Divine chain clicked into place and we began the chug uphill to the top of the highest crest we had ever envisioned.

Oh the view that met our eyes!!! The same view we’ve held in our hearts for eons of time, long forgotten in the hustle bustle of Earthlings. Here it was, pricking our memory banks, spread out before us into infinity. But to our dismay, there was no station at the top of this crest. We were strapped in for the ride and there was no time to get out and saver the moment.

With a whoosh of air, we catapulted downward at the speed of light, leaving our stomachs waylaid behind us…. momentarily touching the earth for an instant before we were tilted to the left, dumped to the right, and spun upside down in a matter of seconds (or was that years, or lifetimes?).

With friends and family left behind, no jobs to support us and home base a distant memory, we often thought we had lost our way. Our well-oiled world no longer held significance. There was no going back. And with our hands in the air, we were out of control. Yikes!!!

There were often rockets ablaze in the star studded sky stringing messages to us from way on high. Other times we tunneled through the murky haze with fog-filled brains and buzzing in our ears. Some stretches were bumpy with a jarring effect. Others smooth as silk brushing sweetly across our cheeks. As time sped up it became a blur, with the kiss of death and the kiss of life all melded into One.

Just when we thought we may have gone crazy, with our minds a jumble and our bodies exhausted beyond recognition, our Light-emblazoned cars pull into Station 2013.

The sky is ablaze with celebrations gone wild. Our Cosmic families, who supported us and cheered us on along the way, await with our well-earned crystalline crowns. We disembark as honored royalty because WE took the chance… WE followed our hearts… and WE endured.

We’ve done it!!! The planetary SHIFT is behind us and The New Golden Era has begun.

As soon as we step onto the platform we realize that we’ve entered a new Matrix. The 3D platform doesn’t exist here. This Matrix of Crystalline Energy is omnipotent, omnisciencent and omnipresent. It doesn’t react in the restricted ways of our old duality. It has it’s own Intelligence. . . the Consciousness of Universal Mind.

What does that mean for those of us still in physical bodies? As you recall, you arrived baggage free. You are a Sovereign being, no longer tethered to the earth. Once you ground into your Heart-Center, your Crystalline program will fully engage. Your Consciousness will expand and your KNOWing will be fully activated. Everything you need to know will be available “in the moment” without the need to ponder it, understand it, or control it. Those were 3D constructs that no longer work here. The best part is that our lives are significantly simplified when we allow everything to stem from our Divine Intelligence, and be fed and nurtured by the eternal Source.

By engaging the innocence and excitement of our childlike wonder, life is effortlessly revealing itself to us with a new expanded Consciousness. Take a moment and breath it all in. Breathe with the breath of the Universe for it is ALL yours as your Divine birthright.

With tears of LOVE and JOY in our eyes we join the celebration as Master Creators who have transcended the Cosmic Roller Coaster of Time with all the accumulated experiences we need to create something stellar and new.

With open arms, we invite everyone to join us in a New World beyond anything humanity has ever known. As a new train of cars pull into the station we begin the chant, “Welcome Home, BeLoveds, Welcome Home!!!”

~Sharon Lyn Shepard~

http://www.sharonlynshepard.com

Bless you for sharing. . .
Sharing always adds to the abundance of life for ALL of us ·٠٠••●●♥♥❤

There are no Ascension Role Models

Bringer of the Dawn by Rassouli

No one has EVER ascended in the current way that humanity has chosen, by fully embodying the Divine in physical form while continuing to walk upon this earth. We are creating a new human template. How exciting is that!!!

The time for searching for your guru has come to an end. Stop turning your power over to others. The are no rules, no elite initiations, no prescribed ceremonies. Turn down the volume to all the rhetoric, because that’s all it is, rhetoric. NO ONE knows what to expect. Other Masters may have cleared the path for us, but there is NO one walking out in front of us showing the way.

WE ARE IT!
We are the Master explorers, transmuters, and ascenders in human bodies. The gates to a New Reality have been thrown open by the power of OUR Hearts, not some unseen beings. They are waiting for us on the other side, cheering us on, but WE did the work… WE tore down the walls of the Heart to dispel the darkness that accumulated over eons of time.

BRAVO my BeLoveds….
Bravo to us, the ULTIMATE MASTERS of DIVINE LOVE!!!
Our Divinity shines Brightly and together, we are creating Heaven on Earth!!

~Sharon Lyn Shepard~

http://www.sharonlynshepard.com

Grounding the 13th Sacred Ray

Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadeloupe.
How appropriate for it to fall on 12-12-12 for SHE has been holding the energy of Love and Compassion for humanity for eons, sprinkling miracles so that we would not forget this Sacred power that lives within each of us.

On 11-11, the Madonna blew into my consciousness with her instructions for me to ground the 13th Sacred Ray of Unity. This was a completion of the cycle that I initiated in November of 2001, when she instructed me to ground the 12 Sacred Rays. These were the original 12 rays that seeded planet Earth. As the density of the planet decreased (by Divine providence), these high vibrational rays were no longer able to inhabit the planet and only 4 Sacred rays remained. (the four primary races of red, yellow, black and white) At that time, She told me that the planet would not ascend until each of the 12 rays were once again represented on the planet. Per her instructions, I grounded the 12 Sacred rays at an ancient medicine wheel in Sedona and I thought my work was complete.

11 years later, I was called to return to Sedona to ground the 13th ray of Unity Consciousness, the amalgamated ray of the Black Madonna. On November 28, 2012, the day of the Lunar eclipse, I was guided to the Chapel in the Red Rocks. It was buzzing with activity up there, but the moment I walked into the chapel, everyone disappeared. Alone at the altar in front of the huge floor to ceiling windows looking over the red rocks I was instructed to light 13 red candles. My hand shook with excitement as I passed the flame from one candle to the next. With my task complete, I stood in the center of the windows with my feet firmly rooted, grounding the most AMAZING BLESSINGS I have ever experienced. Tears ran down my face for an eternity as my body was flooded with LOVE and COMPASSION for all of humanity. When I returned to the back of the chapel where my soul sister Sandi was waiting, I threw my arms around her and sobbed for a long time in the arms of the Mother, the Sister, the Child. On the patio in front of the chapel, we were instructed to plant a small garnet crystal, that I’ve been carrying with me since 2001, at the foot of a Madonna statue at an outside fountain. Our work was complete. The ceremony was simple and sweet without the need for long invocations, the usual plethora of accouterments, or a gathering of people. No words were necessary, only a silent open heart.

The only other instructions were to light a 5 day candle when I returned home to connect the energies grounded in Sedona with my 500 year old statue of the Black Madonna. And voila…when I returned home a beautiful cd of “Ave Maria” sung by Kiki Carter Webb was awaiting in my mail box. With her voice wafting through my sacred space, I lit a rose scented candle of Our Lady of Guadalupe to integrate all these amazing energies.

Five days have passed and today, on 12-12-12 I’ve chosen to light successive candle in honor of all that humanity has gone through to come to this point of Ascension. If you so desire, you may choose to listen to Kiki’s version of “Ave Maria” http://dancinglight.us/avemaria.html and light a candle with us (on whatever day you are reading this) to share in these blessings.

Blessed BE, my BeLoveds… Love and Compassion has been rooted on this planet ready to sprout into fruition for all of Humanity.

Sharon Lyn Shepard
http://www.sharonlynshepard.com

 

To listen to “Ave Maria” by Kiki Carter Webb   http://dancinglight.us/avemaria.html

For more information about my journey with the Black Madonna:
http://www.blackmadonnadiaries.com

Dream BIG!!!

As a child I learned early on not to dream too big. For me that meant, give up all your dreams, because my dreams were HUGE, way beyond anything my family or friends could conceive of, despite the fact that they felt normal to me. So I shut those glorious dreams down and found a place in my heart where they could be walled off behind big thick walls so they couldn’t haunt me by creating unhappiness with what I did have, rather than dreaming about what I couldn’t have.

But funny thing about dreams, they don’t just go away. When we least expect it, they waft into our sleep and remind us that they are still present and alive. But when we awaken in the morning, we know them for what they are, unattainable dreams that float in the clouds. And if we spend too much time yearning for them, we become unhappy with what we DO have. So instead, we lock those big dreams back into their prisons and dream small dreams, things we think might be attainable.

At least that’s been my experience… up until now…

Over the past few weeks, several things have disrupted my peaceful quiet life…the one I dreamed in and manifested. Then two days ago, I was informed that something was going to be dropped into the middle of my current dream that would totally disrupt it. My reaction surprised me. At first I wanted to get angry, but the anger wouldn’t come. Yes I was upset, but not angry. Well, I thought, that’s a good enlightened reaction. I realized that I had no control over this situation and I simply needed to accept it for what it was. I had no choice but to give up this dream, let it go. That brought a huge flood of tears, way beyond what this situation warranted. I spent the day feeling into this stream of sadness, going deep, trying to figure out why it felt so intense, where it originated and how to handle the eminent changes in my life. Totally befuddled, I went to bed with a prayer for answers and turned it all over to the Universe.

This morning I awoke from a dream that I’ve had on numerous occasions over the years. This was not a night dream, it was my Heart’s Dream, the one I came to the planet to live. I’ve always known it’s Truth for me, but the planet has never been ready for its splendor. This morning it felt REAL for me, no longer a dream, but a reality. It had expanded the vibrancy of it’s prior imperceptible details with all the elements of what I desire, all rolled into one. It no longer felt like an unattainable dream. It felt like my next step in life, made easily with grace and joy. The only thing holding me back was my clinging to this little dream that I’m now living. The one that has been nothing more than a stepping stone to something much Grander.

The last two days have been emotional butt-kickers for me, but now I realize I needed my butt kicked because I had become too comfortable in my currently manifested dream. It is, after all, more than most others would even reach for. I remember feeling this way in 1999 when I got the message to leave my work and all my possessions to move to Spain. But by leaving a life I loved, I was ushered into a life bigger than I could have dreamed of.  Now I feel there’s even MORE coming my way.

So I went back to my current situation in my mind and I allowed myself to let go of the small dream. A flood of tears nearly drenched me. But this time the tears were not sad tears, they were tears of Joy as they washed away that thick prison wall that had incarcerated my childhood dream, that huge dream that was held captive to everyone who said it was nonsense.

The old dreams have served me well and I give gratitude for them. All those little dreams have brought me to this point in time and space where the energies of our planet can now support my huge dream that no longer feels so huge.

That dream is my birthright, your birthright, that was held in safe keeping in our hearts until the time was right. When we simply meet life as it presents itself, without trying to control or manipulate it, we are in PERFECT orchestration with the Universe and the Divine Plan, knowing All is well in all of Creation.

Look around my BeLoveds, the time is right. We are being supported in manifesting our Heart’s Dreams. It’s time to Dream Big again. ¸¸.☆¨¯`♥´

~ Sharon Lyn Shepard

http://www.sharonlynshepard.com

 

Bless you for sharing. . .
Sharing always adds to the abundance of life for ALL of us ·٠٠••●●♥♥❤

Re~congnizing myself as I AM

This morning I truly re~cognize myself as I AM.
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What an amazing dreamtime. All night long others were trying to impose their beliefs and personas on me. They approached me with placards to hang around my neck, some with jewels of necklaces, bracelets or rings. Each time I would say, “I love you, but no thank you. That’s not mine.” The last thing I remember was touching my third eye with my middle finger. As I did, my Light Signature blazed to life with the embodiment of my I AM.

I looked around inside myself and I’m completely hollow. Everything has been cleared out. The space within me is clear, awaiting my command. In that moment, I realized that God is not the creator…. I AM, via my thoughts, words and actions. God is the omnipotent, omniscentienit, omnipresent substance that brings it into manifestation.

Without us, there is no physicality. There is no need for it in the other realms. We are a world manifest unto ourselves in the physical. And yet, we effect all-that-is. The etheric beings can not do what we do. They are not Creators. They are not the Masters, WE are. This is a huge realization…real-I-zation, to make real. This is the reality that we are living in the here and now, in the physical, in a world made manifest.

I have re~cognized myself.
I AM… and so it is.
~Sharon Lyn Shepard~

http://www.sharonlynshepard.com