Blog | Alicia Eichmann

Inviting the magic

Moon

These next few days we are in the crescent moon, which is a time to invite spirit to send signs and guidance.

The message of the cards today is that it is safe to forge a new path.

Feel into the wonder of being creative, together with spirit.

Invite your inner wisdom to play with possibility. Lean into curiosity and joy.

Watch for signs and fresh ideas. Feel gratitude for the magic that is to come.

Consider what you want to see in the world.

What do you feel drawn to contribute?

What do you want to create?

Feeling into a new cycle

Moon

Today is the beginning of the astrological new year. This new moon invites us to start a fresh cycle on many levels.

And to begin, we listen to our body. We sit with our feelings. Feel into the future, gently, with the eyes of your heart.

This card, Wait, is inviting us to connect with our intended feelings and then to offer them up as a prayer, and wait, allowing spirit to make the path before us.

There will be a time for action. Today is a time of alignment, and setting our intention.

An intention formed first from the wisdom of our body. Today we choose to feel the future.

Close your eyes. Breathe.

How do you feel?

Breathe.

How do you want to feel?

Breathe.

And if you did feel that way, how would it feel?

Breathe.

Invite that feeling into your body, as a part of you coming home.

Breathe.

Set your intention to give that feeling a home in you this next moon cycle.

Deep Rest before the New Moon

Moon

With Friday being the new moon, today is a time for deep rest, for breathing out.

This card, the Weight of the World, invites us to release the worries of the world, to trust the universe to care for itself.

And to bring our awareness in, to that which is around us, which is our domain, which is for us to own and watch over.

And then in that, the approaching new moon invites us to surrender and trust and be, to yield to the yin energy that is reaching its peak.

Let go of what is not yours to carry.

And then what is yours, in your heart lay it in the moonlight for spirit to watch over while you relax back into the deep rest of this moment.

You are safe. You are held.

It is safe to relax your grip.

It is safe to rest your mind.

As millennial parents, we know that our kids will face unique challenges. Our kids, born 2010-2025, have been termed Generation Alpha, and they will be the first generation born entirely in the 21st century.

This gets me thinking: What kind of world will they live in? What challenges will they face? How can we best prepare them?

The world is the most global and interconnected that it’s ever been. The United States, founded as a nation of settlers and immigrants, is the most diverse ethnically and culturally that it’s ever been.

However, as millennials we have inherited a society that in many ways has forgotten its identity and lost its way. Many of us are disillusioned with the religious and political establishments.

If you pinned us down on it, we’d have to admit that deep down we have big questions about the fundamentals of life. Why are we here? Is there a higher power on our side or are we all alone? How do we make decisions, what beliefs make up our compass?

Sometimes we pull ourselves together and we think we’ve got some answers, other times not so much. But what do we believe strongly enough to teach it to our kids?

What do we want them to know about life? What are the values that we want to pass on? What are the things that we know that we know? How do we pass on the humility that is honest about our struggles with some of these questions, while still preserving the message of hope?

I want my kids to value love over fear, peace over division, hope over despair, and freedom over security.

I want them to be creative and curious, hopeful and free. I want them to go into the world with open eyes and open hearts, knowing they will encounter darkness at times, but also certain of their ability to carry the light.

Let’s explore how to raise our kids to be joyful, courageous and resilient, to live lives of creativity and freedom, of love, joy and compassion.

Let’s talk about science, history, and technology, but also politics, economics, religion and philosophy.

Because our kids can take it. They are ready to go there. Our kids are brave and kind, they are earnest and smart, and they were born for this. We must not white wash our history, dumb down our curriculum, or insulate them from the important issues and events of our day.

Instead we must gently inform, educate and equip them for the tasks set before their generation. Just like their parents, I believe our kids crave authenticity, honesty and challenge. They want to know what’s real, and they want to know how to engage their lives with intelligence and passion.

This path is not for the faint of heart, for it will require that we go into our own hearts and face our own demons. To teach our kids the real stuff of life, we’ve got to stop hiding from it ourselves. But it’s not quite as daunting as it sounds once we get into it, because this is also our path. We were also born for this.

We are brave, we are strong, we are resilient. We are here to do all sorts of awesome things, and one of those is to equip our children and set them on their own paths.

This is What I Believe

Spirituality

I believe there is one beautiful, loving, divine essence, which you could call God, or spirit, or source. This spirit is energy, it is the energetic field that is around and in everything and sustains the entire universe because it is the universe.

I believe in love, and hope, and truth, and faith.

I believe God, spirit, has been revealing itself to us in our humanity through time and space, throughout history. Within every religion is divine truth; within every religion we can find precious nuggets of wisdom, and in bringing them together we can integrate a new spirituality.

My focus is on connecting the dots, integrating separate faith traditions, and finding new common ground together.

We will explore all of the religions and the space outside of religion.

My emphasis is on psychology and changes in our theology, because my big questions are about our relationship with ourselves. My themes are balance and wholeness. We will integrate all of these ideas and apply them.

I believe in the power of a right theology, and in the importance of community.

I believe in our mission as lightworkers, and I know we are pioneering a new path for humanity.

As pioneers we are in partially uncharted waters, but many great spiritual teachers have done trailblazing for us over the past 70 years.

I believe in studying those who have gone before, both to learn and to test and to integrate their teachings into a new whole.

I believe in testing, applying and filtering new ideas.

I believe in the importance of understanding ourselves, both our reality and our potential.

I believe we can find a new common ground based on universal spiritual principles.

I believe we are made of love and that fear is something we have learned and can unlearn.

I believe we are energetic, spiritual beings having a physical experience.

I believe Jesus was a great teacher.

I believe Bhudda was a great teacher.

I believe there is great wisdom in the chakras from the Hindu tradition, for helping us understand the energetic part of ourselves, the energy body that overlays our physical body.

I believe in interfaith dialogue and interdisciplinary studies.

I believe in wholeness and balance and allowing paradoxes to illuminate spiritual mysteries.

I believe in the efficacy of yoga and meditation and prayer.

I believe in an energetic evolution carving a path through history led by spirit.

I see an evolution in our understanding of ourselves as a species.

We have evolved in our experience and are continuing to evolve.

We must continue this journey toward consciousness in order to become people who will not militarily destroy each other.

I believe it is time for an energetic shift on the planet.

I believe that religions served a sacred purpose but are now holding us back from following spirit into what the divine is doing in us now, and the future we are being invited into as a race.

I believe this can be a lonely journey for us lightworkers, but I also know it is vitally crucial and necessary for us to walk this path. I know that we are contributing to the uplifting of collective humanity and the positive evolution of the entire race.

I know the importance of right theology, I can feel it in my bones and in my spirit.

As I study the spiritual teachers of our past century, I can see the path forward, and as I look around I see so many beautiful souls who are in this space, on this rainbow bridge of love, light and energy, and I see the obstacles posed by a world that is asleep, that does not understand this mission to awaken, to recover the heart.

As lightworkers we are kind, but we must surround ourselves with the resources and the community we require to take this mystical path that we know was always meant to be the journey of our soul.

We are the awakened ones. We have awakened not only to a new sight of the world, but to a new vision of ourselves.

We have been awakened by our hearts, with our hearts, for our hearts. Our world has forgotten the power and the wisdom of the human heart. Our mission involves reminding the world, showing the world that we must recover our heart’s wisdom, intelligence, and experience, it has a voice we must listen to.

The head divorced from its heart will laugh at our journey toward wholeness but as we press into a new and sacred psychology, and an intuitive, holistic theology that frees our hearts to awaken and integrate in wholeness with our mind and spirit, we will be the Awakened Ones, the Awakened Hearts, and we will press forward, offering only love and peace to a sleeping world.

It is valuable for us to cultivate a new spiritual perspective of the world, and to nurture a new understanding of ourselves. This is our mission.

This new spirituality that spirit has awakened us to is meant to transform our outer world, but the journey starts with a transformation of our inner world.

Our relationship with ourselves is changing.

We are discovering our heart, our love, our inner peace, freedom and power.

I believe with everything in me that this new theology of ourselves and our world is the foundation that will support our newly emerging experiences of spirit and heart.

But it’s not our job to convert the world. We can preach to the choir and contribute to the energy accumulating in the light, and it is the work we do on our own inner world that is the foundation for a later work of healing the world.

But first we must heal ourselves, we must become whole, we must allow ourselves to be fully worthy of that which we are so eager to give others.

It is out of loving ourselves wholeheartedly and opening our own hearts to receive love, that we will become the vessels that can truly channel light and love and truth to those we are here to serve.

Dear Lightworker

Letters, Spirituality

Dear Lightworker,

The world needs you, it needs you to rise up and wake up and realize how wonderful and marvelous you are.

You are love. You are light. You are what the world needs. Once you awaken and you are it, you don’t need to do anything.

Your presence comforts the world.

They can feel your love, your compassion; its unconditionality is soothing in a world full of rules and strings and formulas.

You love them because of who they are, because you know that their essence is your essence, that we are all parts of a whole.

You are free because you know who you are. You are love because you are who you are.

You offer love to the world, you hold it in your unique container. There will be those who judge your container, because they are projecting their own fears and anxieties in reaction to your container. They may or may not be able to receive what you have to offer, but if your Presence exudes peace and love they will feel the divine touch, it will reach them and warm the edge of their souls.

You are here for this. You were born for this. Everything in your life has brought you up to this beautiful moment of now, of being here, right now, in this beautiful, beautiful moment.

Breathe. Allow your soul to be at peace. Practice the holy instant of realigning with Love with a thought. With a quick feeling, a simple wordless thought, you align and connect with the boundless, abundant loving power of the universe, of the spirit and energy that is around us and surrounding us.

Many do not see it, but that is not your worry, when you find yourself judging the state of the world, slowly zoom out your perspective and relax your mind a bit to let go of time, picture yourself sitting cross legged surrounded by the stars of the universe and imagine that a much bigger loving intelligence sees from a much bigger perspective and that at some vantage point, love is the ultimate truth. Imagine that your soul and every other soul on earth knew the primary difficulties it would have on earth. Imagine that your soul and all of the others, that they all knew and agreed, that they came down to an imperfect world to have a beautiful experience of healing and growth, accepting the nature of the physical world, the current state of humanity, and the complex nature of challenge, pain, growth, and joy.

Imagine that part of this process is forgetting what was known and agreed upon, and arriving as a helpless baby, with years of development ahead of developing a personality before even beginning to rediscover their soul that had been with them the entire time.

Dear beautiful, sweet lightworker, this is what it means to trust the universe. You have a path but you also have free will. The free will of your soul helped set you on your path, and it is your path to walk.

You can ask for assistance and guidance. You are surrounded by all kinds of divine assistance reading and waiting to guide and aid. But you can also choose at times to simply follow your heart, follow your joy, listen to your intuition, feel into the call of your soul. What gives you joy, when you allow yourself to admit it? What are your true feelings when you allow yourself to have them? These clues point to your true self, to your divine soul, to the path that you co-created for yourself with spirit outside the bounds of time.

Listen to spirit, and listen also to yourself. Trust spirit and choose also to trust yourself.

You are beautiful. Life is beautiful. The world in all of its imperfections is perfectly perfect from the timeless perspective of spirit. Allow yourself to abide in love, to rest in the knowing of a bigger picture. Expand your awareness to feel the universe caring for the universe. And then bring your perspective back in tight, allow everything that is to be, and then listen to your own call inside your core that is whispering who you are, what you are about, why you are here, and what you are doing next.

Breathe in tapping into love, breathe out tapping into trust, and then allow yourself with joy, in flow, to fully embrace your Next step, to live in the Moment, to feel the Joy of being alive. Then do the work, take your next step.

This is being a Lightworker.

For more like this, read My Letter to You, and This is What I Believe.