What is The Fire Within? Inside each of us is the kernel, the source, the seed that is the potential we possess to become our sacred destiny. The Fire Within is the source of unlimited power that ignites that seed into being, gives it life and infuses it with infinite energy and passion. The Fire Within is our personal awakening tool, the becoming of our life’s potential. Igniting The Fire Within makes us stronger. More self aware. Healthier in our bodies. More heart centered. More connected to all life and to the infinite universe.

Just as you might suspect from igniting your Fire Within, this month is likely to bring quantum leaps to many on a personal level. Now is the time, then, to examine and identify what it is that you want. What part of yourself, the True You, emerges this month? You get to choose. What manner of Awesome do you desire to bring forth into the light cast by The Fire Within? Spend some time now in determining what part of your Self will arise to be lit and loved this month.

Fire burns brightly. Use this energy to ignite your passion. What lights you up? Use this time to work on your hearts’ desire and unlock your Sacred Destiny. Remember the things that make you happy and do them. Is it ice cream? Indulge yourself. Is it conscious movement? Then dance away. Do you love poetry, art, archaeology? Spend time this month devoted to the things that make you happy. To fail to do so is to invite stagnation, repression, and an inward burning rather than an outward lighting-up. Indulging your desires brings you in closer connection with your http://www.polarisrising.com/vmchk/Coaching-and-Mentoring/View-all-products.html/ Sacred Destiny.

Dreams are important this month, as they have much to tell you. If you do not already do so, consider creating a dream journal. Use the full moon time also to dream when awake, setting intentions and visioning your path onward from here.

Affirmation: I AM the power of my heart’s desire.

Relationships

With all the learning, growing and evolving taking place on a personal level this month relationships can suffer a shakeup. Understand that this tendency is temporary for most. Allowing space for change within relationships is healthy and leads to further interpersonal growth and understanding. Stepping within, going deep into your heart and igniting The Fire Within will have an overall positive effect on the relationships in your life, as you will bring more of Yourself out to play. Remembering that everyone with whom you are in contact with is also going through a similar process will help you develop and maintain a sense of empathy and understanding. In other words, it is probably not about you! But if it is, continue looking inside and again focus on your heart, your http://www.polarisrising.com/vmchk/Coaching-and-Mentoring/View-all-products.html/ Sacred Destiny, your inner fire.

Relationships severed during this time will tend to come to a natural close. Relationships begun now will have a greater chance for longevity. Family-of-origin relationships will tend to ride more smoothly this month, with old patterns beginning to come to resolution or release. Allow whatever is not needed to waft away with the ash of your personal Fire Within.

Affirmation: I AM immersing my Heart into all my relationships and I am feeling the richness that results.

Communities

Communities begin a new focus this month. A each individual’s passion ignites, so too does the collective consciousness, thereby bringing the glimmering beginnings of a new way of interacting as communities into being. While it may take time to see this on an individual level, know that all actions taken now in community are important in developing this overall changing dynamic, which will be more heart-centered and more focused on common goals and aspirations than in the past. You may find yourself abandoning communities that no longer seem to fit the True You, and seeking new ones that give you deeper connection and a more heart-centered approach. There is a great deal of magnetism in this evolving communities, and it is helpful to be open to the possibility that you will find the community you need now and that needs you.

Affirmation: I AM willing to step into the community role that supports my Fire Within.

Global Politics

Politics take a back seat to internal work this month, but that does not mean that plenty is not happening below the surface. Back-door deals, power shifts, backstabbing and name-calling will be the most visible outward signs of change that will erupt more noticeably in the future.

Interestingly, at the same time, politics as a whole takes a big step into a more heart-centered approach this month — in stark contrast to the outward signs described above, unlikely partnerships can be formed this month that lead to increased harmonious dealings among previously unfriendly countries.

Affirmation: I AM the heartbeat of a new political paradigm.

Earth Changes

Paralleling the emergence of The Fire Within from deep within your own being will be the emergence of deep fires from within the planet. Look for rumblings and sighings to manifest as earthquake activity (potentially in New Zealand, Chile, and along the Pacific Northwest coasts of Alaska and British Columbia) and volcanic activity (Hawaii, the Cascades, Peru). The fires now waning on the surface of the planet are making way for the manifestation of the planet’s http://www.polarisrising.com/vmchk/Coaching-and-Mentoring/View-all-products.html/ Sacred Destiny, one which you are very much a part of. Use this time to vision the planet of your dreams. Connect to the heartbeat of Gaia and ask her about her desires. Use this time also to lend strength to the global visioning process now taking place.

Affirmation: I AM able to move mountains.

Global Spiritual Changes

Connecting more deeply to your own Fire Within helps ignite the passions of those around you, spreading – like wildfire – in ever-expanding circles around you. Doing your personal work, you help make room for the global consciousness to expand, grow, and evolve. Globally, this month many changes take place including the spontaneous “awakenings” or “enlightenment” of a relatively large number of individuals. This is caused by the increase of personal vibration that results from a closer connection to Source, to The Fire Within, and to http://www.polarisrising.com/vmchk/Coaching-and-Mentoring/View-all-products.html/ Sacred Destiny. Urgent messages from various sources suggest that action is needed to continue the planet’s spiritual evolution, but I believe that our greatest change results from our attention and acceptance of Who We Are, thus inviting the power of our True Selves into greater being.

You may think of this as kundalini. Do you know it? Kundalini is the sleeping serpent that lies within you — your potential, your corporeal life force. Sri Ramana Maharshi said that the kundalini is the natural energy of the Self, the Self being the universal consciousness that lies within every human being. And that is so. The way to expose the kundalini is self-realization, knowledge of one’s True Self, awakening of inner knowledge.

Can you not feel this within you? As what was not needed within you was burned away in the inner fires of May, now your True Self lies exposed, vulnerable perhaps, but ready to begin to emerge upward and outward into being and into the light you shine upon it. This process is not happening TO you; you are creating it by inviting your own awareness of Self, awareness of your joys, desires, faults and shortcomings, and welcoming all of that exquisitely human panoply into awareness and being. You are You. That is enough.

How any of us truly know that we are enough, right now, in this moment, as we are? You may notice a tightening, a contraction, as you read these words. Enough? you say to yourself? Why, no. I must be More. I must try harder. I must be a better person.

Those are all worthwhile goals, but in order to fully accept All That You Are you must first know yourself intimately. Your deepest desires and fears. Your joys, your warts, your inner tremblings. Know yourself and allow all that you know to rest in a space of love. You do not have to actively love all those things within you in order to allow them to be bathed in love and therefore made ready for your inner and conscious acceptance.

Here is a practice that will assist you in allowing All That You Are to be bathed in a space of love, to assist you in becoming ready for The Rising, the emergence of your inner power.

Close your eyes and breathe in through your nose. Part your lips slightly and breathe out through your mouth. In through your nose, out through your mouth. Rest in this breath for a moment before going on.

Next, relax your hands and focus your awareness on your fingertips. Whatever position your hands are in now, simply allow them to rest where they are and become aware of your fingertips. Ten fingers, each at the tip of the energy flow that begins in your heart, or your hara, deep in the center, the core, of your Being. Imagine then that from deep within you, in each breath arises some of the Truth of who you are. It bubbles up naturally. You do not have to force it. It bubbles up and travels down your arms, through your hands, and into your fingertips. Allow this energy to gather there in your fingertips for a few breaths. In through the nose, out through the mouth. Now that you are acutely aware of your fingertips, connect them together, one hand to the other through the tips of the fingers and thumb, as if you hold a grapefruit between your hands. Look at the sphere inside your hands now, as this connection is made from fingertip to fingertip. Imagine that All That You Are is contained within that sphere inside your hands and that as you breathe, in through the nose and out through the mouth, you rest in the Love that is contained within the infinite space inside your heart. Each breath bathes you yet again in the infinite Love.

A few more breaths and you are complete. You may practice this daily during the month, and doing so will assist you in allowing your True Self to emerge with grace and ease.

Just as in the last two months you unearthed long-hidden parts of yourself, this month you practice bringing them out into the light. That’s right, now comes the test: you may choose to show yourself, your True Self, to others. Never fear, it will not be as if your drawers are suddenly dropped and you are standing in the spotlight, pants around your ankles, naked and vulnerable. No, if you continue to connect to your heart and to your breath, all will be well. Your hidden True Self will emerge slowly, softly, a bit shyly perhaps, but gently. And be welcomed warmly. Yes, this is the month to begin to believe that who you are inside – your True Self, All That You Are – is as wonderful as the True Self that you see in others.

Affirmation: I AM the miracle I see around me.

Relationships

What happens when two scared children confront each other, each too afraid to admit he is scared, each too proud to admit his vulnerability? That’s right: they fight. Beware the effects that the fears of those closest to you may have on you this month. Remember, too, that as challenging, uncomfortable, or joyful your own rising-into-the-light process may be for you, so it is as well for the people you love most. Be kind. Give space. Taste your reactions before you speak them: are they bitter? Sweet? Speak sweetly and with kindness. Speak to others as if you are speaking to the scared child within yourself.

Relationships that weather this time of potential tension become much deeper, stronger, and passionate than they were before. How could they not, now that the breath of life, of True Self, of the coiled serpent within has been breathed into them? More of You interacts with more of the people around you, giving you far more juice and life than you ever felt possible. And this is only a start. What comes after this month is an exponential increase of what you move through now. Remember that and allow it to give you something to hold onto when you are afraid and are confronted with the fears of those you love.

Affirmation: I AM showing my heart to those I love.

Communities

A big part of the 2012 changes and all that comes afterward will be changes to how we interact with one another in community. The old models are failing. Some of us hold onto them more tightly and some let go, but together we all are creating change. Try to remember that this is a dance we dance together, in global partnership, and that each of us plays a part in the overall growth we experience as a species. Not one of us is more important than another, and we are all connected in some way. We all breathe the same air. We all drink the same water. We all walk the same earth.

And as the month progresses we find that the first glimmerings of change in how we commune are occurring. What does this look like? Since we are still a very political people with a strong sense of boundaries and rules, then we begin by working within that framework. Again, the old models are failing and new ones will be built and tried on. This month shows some of the spectrum of this type of change. Cities and towns are becoming disillusioned with governmental process. Big political change begins at a local level, so local politics – perhaps in your community – is the first to change significantly. Local elections bring surprises. Other types of communities are also experimenting with newer models of interaction, so look for significant change in rules, structure, and hierarchy in all types of communities.

Affirmation: I AM breathing in harmony with everyone around me.

Global Politics

Here is where things begin to become interesting this month. Expect some serious upheavals in some major governments, things like scandal, assassination, and military coup. Likely countries experiencing these kinds of shakeups are: Thailand, Bolivia, Turkey, Syria, the U.K., Germany, Poland, and Russia.

As ripples spread outward from inner change becoming external this month, you may expect conflicts and misunderstandings to occur. Today’s culture spreads such conflict easily through the media, often exposing things and exploding them into a far larger situation than might have occurred without media attention and overexposure. Be vigilant, then, in listening to your heart when it comes to political news, and attempt to feel with your heart rather than blindly trusting what you read or hear. You may find it necessary to tune out and turn off the news this month as a result, allowing you to feel with your inner sense and to remain connected to your True Self, your All That You Are, rather than to your old, burned-away patterns of fear.

Affirmation: I AM dreaming change into being.

Earth Changes

Wind and storms involving wind, whether they are tornadoes, hurricanes, or wind-fanned wildfires, will figure prominently this month. All that has been burned away must now be swept clean. Gaia is cleaning house this month.

This is the month, then, to be a willow. The oak tree stands firm but falls in the face of strong winds, whereas the supple willow bends and dances with the wind but does not break. Use this in your own life this month as you learn to dance and sway with the winds that swirl around you.

Other earth changes this month involve new scientific discoveries about the nature of man’s impact on the planet as well as a renewed focused interest on the future of the species as relates to the planet. Man is reviewing his impact on the planet and relationship with not only the other inhabitants of the planet but with the system as a whole. What impacts whom? If I breathe out in Taiwan, what does that do in Belgium? Impact from ripples sent ever outward are examined this month and governments and other communities begin to bring structure to a plan that might well serve us into the future.

Affirmation: I AM listening to the heartbeat of the planet.

Global Spiritual Changes

As 2011 moves toward its second half, the focus begins to shift to the What Comes Next for all of us. So, not only will many of us be bringing our Inner Selves out into the light we shine upon them, but we will also be looking ahead and outward into our collective What Comes Next. For some, this looks like increased inner awareness. For others, it brings messages of hope and inspiration from many sources. For still others, it looks like connection to a calm, centered place that arises from the center, the core, of the planet.

Remember that the work you do with yourself to bring your All That You Are out into the light you shine upon it impacts everything around you and assists others in shining their own light. The more work you do for yourself and the more joy within which you rest, the more you give of yourself to the planet.