The envelope representing your environment and all that you know has been stretched and the task now is about becoming more comfortable with the larger container that surrounds you. You have personally been stretched and tweaked  and poked and pushed and pummeled and forced into areas of growth that have challenged all your levels of physical, emotional, mental and energetic comfort. You may not know which side is up or down sometimes. This month the instinctive center is adjusting to this new space and finding ways of anchoring and trusting the unknown. It is all about the intention of moving to the next step and widening your horizons. It’s a bit like finding yourself in a 5000 square foot home when you have been used to living in 500 square feet. It is a lot of new territory to get to know and feel you way into making it your own. Beware of the tendency to crawl into a corner and hide as well as the tendency to frantically fill the space too soon with your usual manifestations. Instead, take this opportunity to trust that spirit has given you a bigger container for reasons you may not yet be aware of. Allow spirit to bring the right fillings for this new container in their own and right time.

Some of what you may experience is a non-specific set of sensations and feelings as your whole system adjusts to a new position in your blueprint. You may get waves of grief or sadness wash through you without any tangible reason. You may experience anticipation, excitement or dread with no apparent trigger. You may find yourself feeling altered, spaced out, irritated, worried, anxious, happy, or depressed for no real reason having to do with anything going on in your life. This is simply energy moving, finding its way in or out of your emotional and mental bodies, reconfiguring itself to a new container. It is very important not to judge or link these sensations with anything your mind defines as real. Keep a “don’t know mind” as you energetically explore your spacious new surroundings. This is about allowing the expansion instead of pushing into the expansion. There is almost a relaxed quality to it that could be interpreted as lethargy, fragmentation or low energy. Allow yourself to simply be and experience instead of always doing. The doing will come as it always does.

The dream state is likely to be very active during this time. Watch for snippets of past relationships, events and memories to float and weave their way into your current dreamscapes as your instinctive center reconfigures some of its foundational patterns. Karmic residue is in the process of being re-filed and redefined. Observe how your reactions to others, especially where you may have had anger or resentment or resistance towards someone, are changing. Because of this change in your reactions it may seem like you don’t know who you are anymore. You also may experience times of feeling like you are idling in neutral, waiting for your engine to get into gear and go somewhere. Trust that whatever  choices and decisions you made in the last few months are allowing you to unfold in ways that will lead you to your next level. Be receptive to spirit and wait for the road to open in front of you instead of trying to control the map.

The biggest challenge this month will be your own comfort level with the unknown. Watch for non-specific and irrational fears to surface at the most unlikely times. Watch your own stubbornness as the false personality tries to seduce you into believing the new expansive environment is full of danger and booby-trapped. This is a month where you should take some risks in trying new things especially when spirit guides them to you.

How do you know when something comes to you from spirit?

• It feels right in your heart
• There is an alignment or coincidence to the opportunity
• There is support
• There are multiple signs
• There are no strings attached or expectations
• It would be wise to consider these opportunities and ask “why not?”

What are the signs the false personality is trying to undermine you?

• The reasons for not moving forward are based on the past
• The fears are irrational
• One or more of the obstacles are hard at work (Stubbornness, Martyrdom, Impatience, Self Deprecation, Arrogance, Greed, Self Destruction)
• The need to please someone else or the fear of disappointing another carries too much weight
• Your motivation is not coming from spirit

In shamanism it is a practice to experience non-ordinary reality whenever  practically possible. This month provides a great opportunity to play in non-ordinary reality, whatever that means for you. Getting yourself out of ordinary reality so that you can experience a multi-dimensional way of being will help you to grow into those new horizons of your life and its possibilities. This is an incredible time for expanding your awareness, your creativity, your ability to manifest, and your spiritual wisdom and understanding beyond their old limitations. Non-ordinary reality can be chaotic and fluid as it contains all potential and possibility. The discipline is for you to become comfortable with the chaos and fluidity of potential at the same time as having good boundaries around keeping unwanted debris from collecting and forming in your new expanded space. For some of you more intellectually centered ones, the mind may go crazy that it is not in charge of what is being created. Reassure the mind it can trust spirit and then allow the heart and your instincts to lead. Keep setting the intention for allowing only that which will serve you in your expansion to the next level to magnetize itself into your experience. Then sit back and receive.

PERSONAL GROWTH AND WELL-BEING

This month provides a great opportunity for expanding and developing yourself spiritually and expanding your awareness and your intuition. A sense of well-being comes from trust in spirit and in your own ability to make choices driven by spirit rather than false personality. Be careful not to get lost in the formless side of chaos. It will be important to have a spiritual practice to keep you on track especially during times of not knowing and sitting in neutral.

RELATIONSHIPS

Relationships have the opportunity to expand into new territory, to become more intimate and trusting. Old wounds related to dependency and abuse can be healed and healthy boundaries established. Higher centered experiences are possible as trust opens up. More than anything trust yourself to make the right choices and move into more intimacy with the right people. Trust spirit to magnetize what you need in order to move into an expanded place regarding all relationships in your life. In keeping with the shamanic aspect of non-ordinary reality, this is a great month to explore relationship with the spiritual aspects of nature and the physical world thus expanding your awareness.

PHYSICAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

Physical challenges this month will be related to energy levels, blood sugar issues, brain function, memory issues, balance and equilibrium. As you adjust and expand, the body tries to keep its balance and footing. Work with the earth for grounding and walk a labyrinth as frequently as possible for brain balance. If you are energetically or emotionally resisting expansion, the body may try and compensate. Water retention, weight gain and general sluggishness may be the result. Regular exercise, walking in nature, moving the body, will definitely help. Practice trying something new, exploring a new trail, joining a new class, learning a new sport.

BUSINESS, PARTNERSHIPS, THE ECONOMY

This is a great month for starting a new business, taking a risk (provided you are directed by spirit), expanding your horizons, setting new intentions and stepping further and deeper into your life’s work. Choices may not make any rational sense especially when they dictate leaving a structure behind that provided a container of security. However, if you know it is right in your heart, spirit will support it as long as you have trust. It is also time to trust others in partnerships. The time to do things alone is long past. In general the economy is likely to go through a positive spurt, a mini upswing. Continue the practice of having your personal prosperity and intentions be above and beyond what the collective beliefs may dictate.

CLIMATE, WEATHER AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The climate will continue to be erratic and unpredictable. The theme of expansion can also show up as a fullness or ripeness of experience. Weather patterns and phenomena may provide that this month through full and ripe expressions of water, wind, heat, fire and earth movements. Practice enjoying the climate whatever it may be instead of resisting it. Certain timely concepts of sustainability, green living and protection of the environment will go through their own expansion into the minds and hearts of global citizens. This is a gradual process, a little like hair growth.  All of a sudden, one’s hair is long but it is impossible to track the daily progress.

POLITICS AND GLOBAL ISSUES

Think new horizons, moving into the unknown, supported and directed by spirit. The task is to keep the frequency of your thoughts about the political state of things as high as possible so that you are not feeding old patterns of thought. Any form of judgment is a low frequency behavior. Stay out of judgment especially if you think you know better or have the answers. Be prepared for a bit of chaos, fluidity and a sense of things being a little out of control. Keep “don’t know mind”.

Important Dates:

June 1-7: Supported by the element of water, this time frame may feel watery, unfocused, dissolving of structures and plans. Be flexible, allow yourself to be washed clean. A good time for a cleanse, a sauna, a steam bath, or a swim. Work with water as an ally for supporting expansion. Water fills space with its fluidity. Beware of getting lost in the fluidity. Practice your daily disciplines but allow for the dissolving of some plans and the flowing in of others. Be spontaneous and try something new if it should show up without effort.

June 3: New Moon at 12:23 AM Mountain Standard Time (1:23 AM Daylight Time) A good time to set intentions without attachment to form or structure. Do something with water or an aspect of water. As an exercise, think about the current structures in your life and contemplate them dissolving as if being washed away by water.
   
June 8-15: A burst of energy will push you either into a positive and elated state of expansion or into fear and constriction and hiding in the corner. Get support, move your body, take risks and tell the truth about whether you are making choices from spirit or not. If you experience non-specific sensations of anger, irritability, sadness or anxiety, move the energy in the body through exercise, massage, yoga etc. Do something new and different and acknowledge yourself for having courage. Watch for Martyrdom, Self-Deprecation, Impatience and Self-Destruction in yourself and in others. This is just the false personality trying to put the brakes on your personal evolution.

June 16-22: A time of re-evaluation and resetting the patterns of the instinctive center. This could show up in many different ways. The more proactive you can be with this process the better. You will need to give spirit the directive of how you wish your life to look, what you want in it and what you do not want in it. As we move through the summer solstice it will be up to you how you manage your own expansion process, giving spirit plenty of room of course to bring you what you cannot even imagine.

June 18: Full Moon at 10:30AM Mountain Standard Time (11:30 AM Daylight Time) Practice being fully present with whatever you are experiencing in this time of re-evaluation and re-setting of patterns. Practice gratitude for all that you have in life, no matter how uncomfortable the growing pains have been. Acknowledge all of your support: community, nature, allies, and your spiritual practices.  Do not leave any room for judgment or any of the obstacles to have their say.

June 20: Summer Solstice: Take this day and celebrate all your new horizons, awareness, intuition, intimacy, friendships, opportunities, experiences, and all the ways that spirit has supported you to expand and flow into your larger container. Make a commitment to continue your personal growth in new and wonderful directions.

June 23-30:  A highly creative time where you get a chance to use new skills, manifest new intentions and move forward from a new place both energetically and physically. You may be involved in a project, relationship or work that you could not have imagined or anticipated at the beginning of the month. This would be a result of your growing into the new expanded container. You should be feeling a certain enthusiasm and comfort level with your newfound energy and manifestation. Just remember that you are still in process and that there is no “there” there. You are a work in progress. So relax, have fun, don’t judge and dare to dream big!

Have a great month!
Lena