Imbolc ~ The Light Grows Stronger

Happy Imbolc everyone, the old Pagan holiday halfway between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. February 1st or 2nd. The days grow longer. Perhaps the snowdrops have appeared where you live. This time is sacred to the Lady, the child-woman, the virgin who is known as Brighid. Virgin, yet the mother of the Child of Light who is growing stronger. In the Southern Hemisphere, we celebrate the opposite holiday on the wheel of the year, the harvest of Lammas.

Christians adopted Imbolc as St. Brigid’s Day, also is known as Candlemas, recognizing this as a fire holiday. Brighid is also a triple goddess of the fires of the forge, health, and poetry. It is a day for initiation. A day of opening.

In Under the Stone Paw, the opening of the temple beneath the paws of the Sphinx takes place on this day. Here’s an excerpt:

The five moved as one up the six stairs into the small, precious chalice of a room, taking their places on the smaller star tetrahedron laid out in tile on the floor. Each stood tall, arms up, waiting for the flow of cosmic energy from the galactic core handed down through the star tetrahedron of planets in the alignment.

Beside each Keeper, several octaves higher in dimensional frequency, stood a Neter in the lighter blue star tetrahedron, adding its voice, holding up the sacred flame. Ptah stood with Michael, Sekhmet with Anne, Horus with Tahir, Osiris with Marchant, and Isis with Maria. Now they were ten. Cagliostro took the empty place in the formation, but Hathor waited by the entrance.

Something coiled at the bottom of the Nile, down deep near Elephantine, woke, and stretched its head. Power stirring from far south flowed downriver, gathering force as it came. From Khnum’s island and the island of Bigeh it flowed, from the root of physical form to the womb of the world, then to Kom Ombo, where the great crocodile dove in and swam northward. The river of power rolled on through the great temples at Karnak, Dendara, Abydos, and Edfu, the essence of each temple they’d visited joining the flow, braiding in its particular frequency, its special light. The vast flood reached Giza, the crown jewel in the spine of the Nile, and the Keepers were inundated. Just as a river surrenders to the sea, all their limitations simply washed away.

A door opened in their unified mind, an ancient door containing certain knowledge. Everyone knew at once.

May light fill you on this sacred day!

Unity Consciousness

In Three Awakenings: A Spiritual Memoir, I explore three experiences of Unity Consciousness I’ve had in my life. All were a surprise—a welcome surprise. All were in different circumstances involving different spiritual traditions.

In my novels, many of my characters go into altered or higher states of consciousness. I’ve based these on the teachings of the Vedas and Western Metaphysics, but in truth, all the world’s traditions recognize heightened awareness as our true human potential. Some say that living in enlightenment is our birthright.

I open Three Awakenings with this description of spiritual illumination:

I felt the ripple that was both Maharishi and I extend out of the room, across the mountains, and into the night sky. Everything was the same. One unlimited consciousness.

We looked into each other’s eyes and burst out laughing. We laughed long and full at the delightful joke of it all. About how one piece of infinity came to another piece of infinity asking to be made infinite. Asking in desperation, out of a crying need, in deep pain. And the joke was not only that this piece of infinity wanting so desperately to be infinite already was. But that I could not even have been searching, could not have even conceived infinity if I hadn’t already been exactly what I was looking for.

In Under the Stone Paw, the experience of Unity comes at the end when all the crystal holders come together to perform their appointed task of opening the Hall of Records:

Something coiled at the bottom of the Nile, down deep near Elephantine, woke and stretched its head. Power stirring from far south flowed down river, gathering force as it came. From Khnum’s island and the island of Bigga it flowed, from the root of physical form to the womb of the world, then to Kom Ombo where the great crocodile dove in and swam northward. The river of power rolled on through the great temple at Karnak, Dendara, Abydos and Edfu, the essence of each temple they’d visited joining the flow, braiding in its particular frequency, its special light. The vast flood reached Giza, the crown jewel in the spine of the Nile, and the Keepers were inundated. Just as a river surrenders to the sea, all their limitations simply washed away.

Tahir describes the experience as Unity Consciousness. Unity is the seventh state of consciousness in the Vedic (Hindu) system. It is that state in which we experience that we are the One Consciousness that has created and makes up the universe and that everything and everyone else is too. We experience this directly—not intellectually, but literally, like you know you’re sitting in a chair or holding a phone in your hand right now.

Tahir smiled. Now they knew. The quest was over. Every single human being was a living, breathing library of cosmic knowledge. All humanity would return to this high state of consciousness, this exquisite unity that could never be written down, that had to be experienced. Just as the first lines of the Tao said and the Rig Veda. Hadn’t all sages said this down through the ages?

Even this description focuses on knowledge, while the actual experience is more a vast sea of eternal awareness that supports and upholds us.

How do we achieve Unity? Most of these sages recommend meditation. Daily practice of meditation in which you allow your consciousness to go from your regular, daily reality and settle into the One Consciousness that supports you and everything. Some people use sound or mantras. Some use their breath. Some use mindfulness. I think you must find the meditation that resonates with you. Since it is a natural state, once in a blue moon it just dawns on a few lucky folks.

Meditating between the paws of the Sphinx

Power places can help—places that have naturally high frequency because of their location on the planet. Perhaps because of crystal in the rock, water, and sunlight. Places where people have done spiritual ceremony for a long time. The third experience I write about in Three Awakenings takes place at an ancient Templar tower in the South of France, an area replete with structures and natural caves that form sacred geometrical alignments.

Just regularly turn inward without focusing on the content of thoughts. Use a point of focus that allows you to sink into your deepest Self. Keep returning. Don’t worry about how long it will take. The universe is a big place and there’s plenty of time.

Crystal Skull Gives Romantic Advice

Max & Me

If an ancient crystal skull played matchmaker, would you take its advice? 

I did. 

Some folks say that makes me crazy, but it worked out. Max the Crystal Skull introduced me to Stephen Mehler at a meditation circle. We dated, we got serious, we got married at the Hathor Temple in Egypt. She’s the goddess of love and sacred sexuality. Then Max put us to work teaching and writing and leading tours. He even appears as a Master Skull in Atlantis in my novel Beneath the Hallowed Hill. Every time we see him, he asks if we’re doing our work. Such a task master! 

Read all about it in Three Awakenings: A Spiritual Memoir

Me, Max & Stephen

Three Awakenings & Sacred France #1

Remember Holy Blood, Holy Grail? The book that revealed the sacred bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene? One of the authors was Sir Henry Lincoln who went on from this book to discover the secret geometry underlying the sacred sites in Cathar Country. His protégé, Allysha Lavino, unveiled the sacred grid in her novel The Heretic. Here’s what she has to say about my memoir Three Awakenings.

“Have you ever experienced a life-changing, soul-shaking, Divine encounter?

In the footsteps of The Heretic, my dear friend Theresa took me up on my invitation to ‘See for yourself…’

She traveled to the power sites in the Languedoc of Southwest France and experienced a profound awakening.

As she tapped into the land of the Cathars, she experienced the ancient Wisdom there.

AND SHE DISCOVERED A POWERFUL MESSAGE…

Now, she’s decided to share this life-changing adventure in a powerful and intimate memoir. (She even mentions me and Sir Henry in the book!)

As a visionary fiction author, Theresa Crater usually writes magical stories about ancient temples, lost civilizations, and secret societies.

Now she’s bearing her heart in a powerful and intimate memoir about deep awakenings and Divine enounters… including the powerful magic she experienced following in the footsteps of Lily in The Heretic!

Theresa has actually lived a pretty amazing life—diving deeply into ancient schools of meditation and traveling the world through mythic lands of legend.

And I’m so excited to learn about the personal stories that have made her such a powerhouse visionary!!

But the main reason I’m looking forward to getting my hands on this book is the way Theresa translates and transmits magic.”

I’m blushing for sure. 

Discover what happened to me in France. Support the Kickstarter campaign to hep bring the book to life!

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Real life is stranger than fiction. At least mine has been.

My occult and supernatural fiction is based on real life, but readers have always wondered what’s real and what’s made up. In this book, I go behind the scenes and tell the real story!

Three Awakenings takes you on an uplifting, humorous, and sometimes sad journey through wildly different paths that all lead to the same place – our deepest, truest Self. Learn more about meditation and explore ancient artifacts. Explore how the earliest temple sites still hold sacred energy and whispers of history. Through each of my life chapters, I share personal encounters with the unseen spiritual world that is always there for each of us to reach for if we so choose.

This marvelous, engaging, and fascinating memoir of spiritual exploration will leave you wanting more while inviting readers to explore their own unseen world for the nuggets of gold waiting for them there.

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The U.S. Pluto Return

What the heck is going on? The U.S. has been in political and social chaos for a few years now. People are deeply divided. Facts don’t make an impact on discussions. A pandemic swept through—actually a few since the virus kept mutating. Political corruption keeps being revealed. Gun violence is raging. The Congress passed a tepid bill only to have the Supreme Court dismantle gun control in New York State. Not to mention wiped away abortion rights for women just yesterday.

But this is not a political post. This is about astrology.

The U.S. is going through a Pluto return. What’s that?

Pluto has traveled all the way around the U.S. birth chart and returned to the same degree. This happened on February 20, 2022. Pluto made an exact conjunction to its natal degree at 27° Capricorn in the 1776 US Sibly Chart. There’s a bit of controversy over the exact time the Declaration of Independence was signed, but Pluto is a slow moving planet, so it doesn’t make that much difference for this part of the chart.

OK, so Pluto has returned. So what?

Pluto is the planet of death, the underworld, and rebirth. When Pluto comes calling, we have to look under the covers to see what we’ve hidden. We hide what we’re ashamed of. Also our traumas. All the ugly scars, wounds, mistakes and awfulness. We fight this. Nobody likes airing their dirty laundry, much less facing fears and shame—feelings that we’re sure will kill us and harm the world if we let them loose.

And we’re talking about a country here. A country that was full of Native Americans before the Europeans showed up. A country that used enslaved people for labor and treated those people in ways are so horrific I don’t even want to write it down. See, that’s Pluto. Pluto says you better look at it.

Whew! It’s intense, and I’m a Scorpio. Ruled by Pluto. I’m pretty comfortable with the underworld.

Pluto will bring all this shadow stuff to the surface so it can be healed. How do we heal it? We just feel it. We just face it. We don’t fight the feelings. But we don’t take it all out on somebody else either. We breathe. We meditate. We do what we can to put people with integrity in leadership positions in government and corporations.

(I hear you laughing. See how bad the corruption has gotten?)

The good news is after this reckoning, after our walk through our unconscious, after we bring all these wounds to the surface to be healed, we get to be reborn. The U.S. is remaking itself. We will emerge from this new and fresh and full of light, just like any newborn. We can reclaim what still works about our original vision, and there’s a lot of good there.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men – people – sentient beings – are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” There’s one revision. We could change “their Creator” to “Universal Consciousness,” but that’s just me. Maybe you, too.

When it all gets to be too much, take a break. Meditate. Listen to this chant. Then get up and pursue your dream for the U.S.

Peace to all beings. May we all remember who we really are.

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