This is a powerful time.  This moon is pushing us to experience the beautiful in our lives, in the world around us and in ourselves.  It is time to create different ways of being, as our dear planet Earth ascends into the fourth and fifth dimensions and away from Greedy 3-D reality.  We can no longer DO the Greedy 3-D, it hurts!

So, we must let go.  This does not mean wipe our slates clean of those people, places and things around us.  Though many are choosing to do this at this time because letting go of anything or anyone that dis-empowers us is mandatory this year.  Yet, this is only a choice.  There are no bad choices only better ones and each choice is an individual choice.  Be an individual.  Take responsibility for yourself and your choices.

We are challenged to stay in the NOW, slow down and enjoy our lives once more.  It is time to find our true passion and LIVE IT!  The time/space reality of the Greedy 3-D has shifted.  We no longer have the same amount of time in a day.  If we turn off our cell phones and experiment with our telepathy, space takes on new meaning as we discover we are all connected no matter where we live in the world.

We are challenged to LIVE the truth and reality of the Fifth Dimension NOW!

What does this mean?  Stop struggling and trying to fit the Greedy 3-D reality into the 4th and 5th dimensions of reality that we are living in now!   Move past the Greedy 3rd-Dimension.

The truth and reality of the upper 4th dimension, and our final destination in the 5th dimension of reality, is explained in depth by Echart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW.

The Year of the Dragon is all about POWER.  How do we use our own personal power?  How are the institutions around us, who say they are in our service, using their power to do so?  What are we seeing in our world?  The dismantling of abusive power?  So, there it is.  We can use our amazing power for good or not?  What is your choice?  This is what this year holds for us.  We will see in our own lives where our own power struggles induce change within us and around us. 

These are growing pains, no more than that.  We are birthing a new world.  This is an exciting adventure.  Flow with it.  Let go.  Embrace change.  Be a light for others to see thru their darkness into their light.  Duality has been a reality of the  Greedy 3-D.  We have suppressed our darkness instead of embracing it and loving it and using it in constructive ways for good.  Our inner power is Plutonic.  This means it is dark and powerful yet it has been seen by our society as unacceptable.

I do not mean anything that hurts anyone else, ourselves, or any other being on our dear Mother Earth including Herself.  I mean make the subconscious and unconscious desires within us CONSCIOUS!  How do we do this?  Take the time to get to know ourselves and peel our own onions of past life Karma brought into this life and unresolved childhood issues. 

Laugh your way through this year and notice your feelings, knowings, the things you hear and see.  Stay in gratitude no matter what!  This is just the beginning not the end!

Have a blast!  Enjoy the ride!  Act up not out!  Misbehave!  Be Outrageous!  Embrace the BEAUTIFUL in yourselves and others and in everything on/in and around our dear green jewel of a planet.  Let yourselves get amazing ideas for new ways of being in this world then demonstrate them to those around you!!!!

2012 is a year of POWER!  How will you use your personal POWER???

PS Because we are being challenged by certain astological aspects for the next few months, I suggest you look into non-violent communication if directly afflicted.  You will know because your anger will become explosive or those around you may explode on you.

2012 Full Moon in Cancer- January 8-9

Moon in Cancer is a self nurturing time.  A slow down and take care of yourself time.  A brilliant reconnection to nature time.  A great time to focus on family, pets and your home and make a sanctuary for all your loved ones including and most importantly …you!

 Cancer Moon helps us focus on the importance of water.  Water is the key to all life on our shimmering blue/green jewel of a planet.  Water is nourishing, fluid, intuitive, and calming.  Water is the strongest element because it yields with non-resistance and therefore cannot be overwhelmed.  Water just finds another pathway when it hits a wall.  Water never loses its ability to nurture and create life.  Life lives within Water.  Let us all send our prayers of renewal to Water at this special time of the Full Moon in Cancer.

We are all heading into amazing territory of 2012 yet there is a learning curve here, because our thoughts, feelings and words appear in our reality sooner now.  So, it is a good time to reflect on what you WANT to see in your world!

Focus on Beauty.  Be grateful.  Slow down and make self-care a priority this year.

Blessing to you all for a JUICY 2012!!!!!

Weight Gain As Energetic Protection

 Many of us wonder why it is that we have trouble losing weight and even sometimes gain weight when we diet, or eat less with specific intent to be a certain number on the scale.  We tend to forget that each of us has a unique body that responds to our own individual thoughts and feelings.  Our body animal is like our most attuned pet.  It wants to please us, has unconditional love for us, yet misbehaves when ignored or threatened.  We are in the driver’s seat.  We are the SOUL encased in a living body temple.  Yet, we are not always conscious of the thoughts and feelings we are sending our bodies. 

Just as our pet dog, cat, horse, or any animal close to us, is psychically attuned and can read our thoughts and feelings, so can our bodies.  Our bodies are highly advanced animals.

We have entered into a highly energetic time where our thoughts and feelings manifest in the world at a rapid rate.  We have to protect ourselves against negativity of all kinds.  Some say they thrive on negativity, violence, constant debate and struggle, yet most of us do not.  We thrive on peace, joy, love, harmony and gratitude!

Some use all kinds of unconscious tools for psychic protection.  Hard drugs, alcohol and cigarettes are a few of the most dense and dark energetically.

 Some examples of lighter energetic abuse involves overuse of cell phones,  addictive video games, addictive shopping, over-working, over-exercising, or over indulgence in food.  All these imbalances are just distractions and protection from the real issues of soul growth that we are faced with at present. 

All energetic imbalances provide protection and distraction from the need to change, which is scary and requires real courage.

Let us now talk about food and weight gain which I believe to be the most accessible avenue for the most people.  Food is needed by every human being and affects everyone in different ways.  Most important, at this juncture in time, are our children.   Modeling a new world for them is paramount for survival of the human race.  You may be thinking at this point, ‘What does this have to do with my weight??’  Simple, all mature adults are role models for children not just their biological parents.  Let us consider that we are ALL parents even if we are biologically challenged or childless by choice.   So, are we modeling that it is alright to be unhealthy?

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 I want to relate a personal story to you at this point.  I have struggled with my weight on and off since I hit my pre-teen years.  I remember looking down, with horror at age 16, and seeing the beginning of dimples on my thighs.  I was not abusing food at this point yet had not been an athlete and hereditary influences also play their part.  My mother, who was very busy sewing all my clothes, immediately put me on a diet.  I would later find out that all her sisters, in Australia, became obese in their twenties and that she had bucked that family trend by strict dietary means.  She became determined that I would not become obese.  This was her issue, not mine.  Naturally, I wanted to please her so I starved then secretly binged, beat myself up emotionally then starved and secretly binged again and again until this pattern was embedded in my psyche.  Sound familiar?

We take on the unresolved issues of our parents or whoever brings us into adulthood.  This was my passage into adulthood.  My unconscious initiation.  This initiation involved major food problems, which, of course, really mask deeper more unconscious emotional issues.  Fast forward to my first career as a singer/dancer/actress which involved more starvation and secret binging.  It is a miracle, an angelic intervention really, that I did not develop a more dangerous food problem like anorexia, bulimia or prescription drug abuse of some kind.

This food behavior went on for the entire 22 years of my professional career.  Then, into my second career, as a Holistic Heath Practitioner, I started to really delve into nutrition, particularly my body needs.   I had been a vegetarian since childhood, cut out most dairy while singing and acting then experimented with the raw lifestyle.  Now, I am a 80/20 raw vegan.  This means that 80% of my food is raw fruits and vegetables and nuts and the other 20% is cooked.  This works for me because I live in a desert climate.  The summers are so hot that salads, hummus, cold fruit and lots of water is all I want yet the winters get cold so then I add oatmeal, soup, bread, vegetable stir-frys and cooked beans and… sprouts.  I dropped 45 pounds on the raw diet yet became weak and was bruising because I was not sprouting.  I traveled into Veganism and gained some needed weight to even out.  I thought I had cured myself of my food problems.  But no!   Then, I decided to do home care for my mother who began her Alzheimer’s journey, and I immediately gained twenty pounds again!

This time, I was eating a balanced diet yet I found myself craving sugar again and giving into it.  I now know that for me, and many others, sugar is a tipoff that I am angry.  Sugar is not good for me and too much sugar is toxic for me.  I knew this, yet I could not stop myself from indulging.

Looking back on the emotional grenade that hit my life at this time, I now understand what I had done to get through a difficult situation. I kn0w I am only one of MANY with similar events happening in their lives at this time!

I was protecting myself psychically from the increasing abuse from my mother, she was a rage-aholic at times, and my boyfriend’s constant complaints, non-emotional support and general negativity even though he had chosen to move in with us to “help”!  I was tossed between them like a people pleasing puppy who doesn’t realize that she is damaging herself while putting others first.  So, I cut-off from my feelings, became secretly angry and stuffed it down with sugar.  Weight gain for energetic protection against negativity coming at me from all directions.

Near the end, things really got crazy, I abused coffee, couldn’t eat from the grief and lost the twenty pounds.  Then, the next difficult challenge appeared: selling her house.  Two escrows fell through and I had gained the twenty pounds back again.  I was tossed between my brother and my boyfriend. Two opposing factions again and I was in the peacemaker role again.  Anger, sugar, weight gain!

So, we finally sold, moved, bought and settled, yet, I had the weight still on me.  Through all the grief, stress and exhaustion, it became stunningly obvious that I was not with a emotionally supportive man.

At last, it was finally time to lose this twenty pounds and get back to myself when I hit another wall.  I loved this man for helping in his not so small way, he kept the house from falling apart with my mother.  Yet, I realized that he really was in it for the free rent and total freedom it afforded him because I was less stressed if he was left to his own devices.   After our joint Crystal business had to be put down, because I had to be at home with mom, his personal guitar business took off.  He was in a few bands and taught.  He had the time to really focus on it and was fully supported financially to do it.  He was happy and successful so I left him to it.  I was heartbroken, too emotionally exhausted to deal with him and twenty pounds over-weight again.

He wanted to move to Northern California, yet for many reasons that did not happen and we ended up in Arizona.  He had trouble rebooting his guitar business.  He complained so much about our location that I told him to leave many times.  I was grieving, resting, getting stronger and working at home.  He was searching for another career that worked out here.  He found it at last.  It was very lucrative and he became very happy yet was gone working alot and when he came home had no time for me.  We made no plans, did nothing together and basically had separate lives.  Also, during this time he started pushing me away sexually, making all kinds of excuses.  So, I spent a long, very hot summer stuffing my anger with sugar and potato chips and gained another 20 pounds.  Now, I am forty pounds over-weight!!!

 Now, you have to realize that to many I look normal.  I was underweight after my raw year and a half.  THAT is when I met this man, at a raw dinner, so he sees me as grossly overweight!   He, being Vegan, helped me climb back to a healthy weight yet I was still skinny.  This matters because his love is dependent on my hotness factor only.  So, his love is really not love at all, is it? 

What I suspected, and confirmed at last, was his double life in another city with another woman and her family.  So unknowingly, yet attuned psychically, all that hot, angry summer I had been protecting myself from their energy with sugar and potato chips.  Of course, now that I know, the weight is peeling off and I don’t crave sugar and never eat potato chips!  These are two things that are NOT my normal food selections.  Either is too much coffee.  Sugar is anger.  Coffee is grounding.  Potato chips are salty and Asian women can use too much salt in their food.  I was just picking up her energy.  Salt creates heat in small, skinny, cold bodies.  Over eating salt is worry. 

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 You and I are alike.  We are all psychic.  You know things, feel things, see things, hear things that are unexplainable to your practical mind.  The energy of the NOW is so high that we are all globally being sent into high evolution, revolution, CHANGE!

It is paramount at this time that you create a healthy hormonal balance in your body to evolve gently and easily.  This means that food isimportant.  What you consume has a vibration which either matches yours or does not!  Do not assume that if you have problems eating a certain thing that you are unhealthy.  It may be a soul call from your body to eat higher vibration foods.  These are organically grown fruits and vegetables, raw nuts, gluten free bread, hormone-free salmon, flax seeds, chia seeds, omega three oils, organic beans and lentils, home sprouted breads, sprouts or all kinds and a very small amount of organic soy products.

You will also intuit the right supplements for your body.  Get interested in your body.  It is your highly advanced animal.  Instead of protecting yourself with food, there are many other forms of healthy psychic protection available.  Gemstones and crystals, flower essences, sacred, silent walking in nature, yoga, tai chi, chi gong and all forms of meditation, exercise, gardening, art, singing, dancing, playing an instrument, knitting, healthy cooking and laughing with friends!!!!

Get creative if you feel anger.  Get moving if you are restless and worrying, get help if you are emotionally eating and need to resolve some childhood or past life issues.

Most of emotional eating is the direct result early trauma whether spiritual, emotional, mental or physical.  This is where you actually need a facilitator if you keep repeating the same drama in your life.

There are many great books on all these subjects: Source it out! Google it!  Find the information that resonates with you.  You create your life. Take charge.  Be the star of your own movie NOW!

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Now, let’s discuss ENERGY vampires.  I mean those people who suck energy from others.  This is a huge lesson in weight control for most of us because we protect ourselves from the aggressive, negative, taking without giving back energy of those around us.  The more of those kinds of people we attract because we are caring and compassionate and they see an easy mark.  This may be conscious or unconscious behavior on the part of the other.  Most of this bad behavior is dependent on unresolved childhood issues on both parts.  The Taker (Energy Vampire) preys upon the Giver (Over-compassionate person with low self esteem) because he or she can!

I have had both male and female ENERGY vampires try to suck my energy all my life.  This started with my mother and father, teachers, bosses, managers, all my husbands, some of my step-kids, many  so-called friends and of course anyone trying persistently to sell me something!  All of these people took more than they gave to me and I allowed it, suffering quietly as the martyr until NOW!!!  The image that I present to the world (childhood patterning and astrological influences) is such that I thought I had to sublimate my true, tough, smart, and very astute authentic self to be loved.  Not so, it seems!  What a revelation, to us all, that we can be guilty of presenting only half the truth of who we really are, to others.  Is it any surprise that after deceiving another (consciously or unconsciously) we are then drained of our energy by the wrong person we attracted through (unconscious or conscious) deceit!

To be perfectly clear, we must walk the middle path spiritually, mentally, emotionally and psychically.

The middle path is the balance between our personal power (leadership) and compassion (unconditional love).  If we are too much in our power (walking over others to get what we want out of fear of not enough for everyone-unresolved childhood issues around money, love, acceptance and all energy) we become the ABUSER.  If we are too compassionate (low self esteem and unresolved childhood issues revolving around spiritual, emotional, mental, and or/physical trauma) we become ABUSED!

Some of our life issues go back to past lives and astrologers and past life specialists can identify these.  As is true with any issue, when you are aware of its existence in yourself you can witness it, embrace it withlove and then release it.  The more you can be the dispassionate witness to your own antics the faster you can release disempowering and self-sabotaging behavior.  Needless to say, blaming others and staying the victim, because you are attached to that image of yourself, is non-productive.  This information is for those pro-active souls who have a big part to play in changing our world into the peaceful, abundant, joyful and pristine place it is meant to be!

So, celebrate yourself and give yourself the gift of YOU!!  Take up your power and learn to live the middle path.  See, hear, feel and know the miracles that happen when you do.  Please do this for yourself, our children and dear Mother Earth. 

Many blessings to you today and always!  Love, light and laughter, Lindy

 

We have something wonderful happening here in Sedona.  It’s called Winter Feast for the Soul.  Basically, it is a way to set your intention for a peaceful 2012.  Everyone gathers to meditate on peace for forty minutes on 40 days then pledges to continue daily on their own for the entire year.  The Dalai Lama has endorsed this as a practice.  He says humanity will be at peace when enough individuals choose to make peace a part of their spiritual practice.

Valerie Skonie, from Hailey, Idaho, founded this event after contemplating Rumi’s three line poem,

“What nine months does for the embryo

40 early mornings

will do for your growing awareness.”

This event will continue here, and many places all year, yet you can add your own peaceful meditation from the comfort of your own home every morning.  You can hook into the major flow of energy that is encompassing our world.  We are the change we want to see.  As Valerie Skonie says, “Now, it is our turn to participate in this shift and not look to our spiritual leaders to do it for us.”

I am pledging to sing for peace 40 minutes a day all year.  That is my true joy and gift.  As Picasso said, “The meaning of life is to find your gift and the purpose of life is to give it away.”

So, think about what you want to see, feel, touch, hear and think in this powerful year of 2012.  What is your gift? Could it be you? What can you give away? Love? Please visualize and create love for yourself, others and the planet.  You are the gift!  Embrace your own sweetness on this Christmas morn!

We are in the choice point or HOTPOINT as I call it!  A really juicy time for releasing all the people, places, things, past situations and trauma that are holding us back from stepping into our full potential, our full power. 

First, we had the amazing influx of feminine energy pour onto the planet forcing us all to balance out right and left hemispheres of our brains and address any and all hormonal imbalances that we may have amassed.  Because, as we all know, a healthy hormonal system is the key to these times of mass transformation.  The energy is so high now and will only get more intense and juicy as we travel into the NOW!!!!

So, what are you eating?  Is it laced with hormones that are incompatible to your energetic vibration?  What are you thinking?  Cynical and critical thinking hurts, doesn’t it?  Blame hurts, doesn’t it? Pointing the finger at someone else hurts, doesn’t it?  Are you walking the middle path?  Do you even know what the middle path is?  Are you grounded?  What tools do you need for grounding?  And most importantly: what are you feeling???  Are you staying in the NOW?

Are you in appreciation?  Are you grateful?  Are you watching yourself, with detachment, go through your antics so you can identify and release them?  Do you understand that your biggest issues are up to be looked at and released?  Are you laughing at yourself yet??

ARE YOU TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR CREATIONS YET???  It is time to release, regenerate and celebrate!!!!  Merry, Merry to us all!

We are at an important juncture as a living, breathing humanity sharing our dear planet with more loving and more evolved species.  I mean animals, fish, whales and dolphins, plants, trees, insects, minerals, water, fire, air and Earth herself!!!   Mother Earth, Gaia, Pachumama: the sacred, living container for all the abundant life on Her, in Her, above Her, around Her and through Her!

We normally think the advanced species are in other dimensions or on other planets, yet why do we discount the truly glorious ecosystems that sustain us?  These beings do not destroy their habitats.  They work together to create sustainability.  So advanced!  SO NECESSARY FOR LONGEVITY!

I give a prayer of gratitude today and I hope you will join me.  I pray to Mother Earth for gentleness in her transitions this coming year and offer my help wherever I can give it.  I offer my service to Mother Earth at this time.  I AM grateful for all that Mother Earth supplies.  I AM grateful for the diversity of climates.  I AM grateful for Her grand beauty.  I AM grateful for Her compassion.  I AM grateful for HER!

Opening the Doors to the Future…..www.Aluna Joy.com

I dare to LOVE in moment even if I AM afraid of being hurt.

I dare to live in TRUST that all is well even if I feel fear with mounting prophecies to the contrary!

I dare to let go of GUILT for whatever reason even if it has provided me a safe haven in which to limit myself.

I dare to let go of SHAME for whatever reason even if I feel that others blame me.

I dare to feel WORTHY under all conditions and circumstances.

I dare to SPEAK TRUTH in each moment even if it may cause temporary chaos.

I dare to be brilliant even if I am afraid that it might make others jealous.

I dare to be powerful even if I am afraid that I might abuse this power.

I dare to be OUTRAGEOUS, AUDACIOUS and OUTSPOKEN even if I am afraid that it may intimidate.

I dare to be UNIQUELY ME even if I am afraid that I might not be excepted.

I dare to be WEALTHY even if I am afraid that I might lose it all and/or others believe it is not spiritual to be rich!

I dare to be a FAITHFUL SERVANT even if I am afraid that nobody will take care of me.

I dare to do SPIRIT’S CALLING even if others may threaten me to stop.

I dare to enter the NEXT WORLD joyously even if I am afraid of the vast void in front of me.

Most of all, I dare to GIVE MYSELF back to GOD even if I am afraid that I might lose myself.  Because losing myself to GOD makes all the other things I think I need to DO or BE……..obsolete!

Early Retrograde for Many

This is a power-packed month of change, change , CHANGE.  Transitions, whether we see them as good for us or bad for us, are just change.  Some do well in this energy.  Some flow and are energized especially if they are well positioned: meaning willingly have gone though massive changes earlier so that heart, mind and body are now grounded in Spirit.

This is not some unrealistic, New Age, mumbo jumbo type rhetoric.  I am speaking here of preparation for the astrological energies bombarding the planet at this time.  Are you prepared?  Physically, Mentally, Emotionally and Spiritually prepared?

We are all in this together.  This earth dance.  Anyone can see the widespread changes crossing the globe, the unrest, the rebellion, the angry resentful feelings of repression, environmental and economic collapse. 

Globally, it’s time to act!  Problem solve.  Move into a sustainable NOW, now! We are seeing this excitement everywhere.

Personally, if we are not grounded in Spirit it can be a time to act out!  Yep, that’s what’s happening in many relationships during this emotionally intense month of Scorpio.   The unsaid or unspoken rises to the surface for release and those who are not prepared to feel their feelings run, act out, or hide.  Others, who have trouble speaking up develop thyroid problems.  Issues around the throat.

These are all growing pains.  Yet, it is time to learn through joy instead of pain.  That way of being in the world, that lifestyle, lived through passed down behavior, inherited wounding, indecision, poverty, depression, addictions and constant physical pain is just plain crazy making now.  For many of us, that way of living on this planet is over.  We have chosen to be responsible for ourselves and our behavior.   Many of us have chosen The Path of Joy! After all, it comes down to CHOICE and there is no right or wrong choice just BETTER choices!

Don’t get me wrong. Nobody is perfect.  We all are flawed yet that does not preclude happiness and joy. There is so much to do. One lifetime is just not enough time. So why not choose to live a healthy lifestyle, inward and outward, and live longer to realize all your dreams? The Path of Joy includes a willingness to  learn something new at any age.

Wouldn’t this world be a pristine jewel of a planet if everyone could learn through joy, practice harmlessness, and honor themselves and every other being, including the planet Herself, as sacred?

September 27th, 2011 is a new moon and a supermoon.   Supermoons are special because not only do the Moon, Earth and Sun line up exactly, also the moon comes the closest to the earth.  These are volatile times where the extra energy pulls on the ocean tides and our human feelings. 

Supermoons accelerate karma.  We must be diligent at these points to choose our words wisely because the karmic power of our thought and intentions can actualize.

Why are there so many supermoons this year and more acomin?  Solar and galactic cycles are growing in intensity.  They are portents of greater solar storms and increased galactic radiation.  These events peak in 2012 and 2013 to drive the riots of super-consciousness onward and shift this world to its core.

Why now?  We are going to destroy our planet if we don’t have a mass awakening.  Our technology has grown to the point that it interferes with the communication between every living cell on Mother Earth.

These are powerful, radical, revolutionary and evolutionary times ushered in by Supermoons.  Let’s be willing to settle our karmic and practical accounts so we can reap an autumnal harvest.

Happy Autumnal Equinox!!!

Be! You are enough!

The spiritual component of stress calls attention to the three lower chakras.  This area encompasses in the middle of your body down to your groin.  Highly stressed people are blocked in these areas.  This can produce fear of death, lack of creativity, depression, lack of money, bad relationships, health problems, skin problems, lack of good sleep, lack of trust in oneself and others and overall anxiety.

To unblock the first three chakras-

1. Work with a massage therapist experienced in chakra energy
2. Do gentle Hatha yoga every day.  It naturally aligns and opens the chakras.
3. Walk alone in nature without music or any stimulation for at least twenty minutes.
4. Wear black tourmaline or obsidian for the first chakra, carnelian for the second chakra, citrine for the third chakra.
5. Eat only red, yellow and orange fruits and vegetables.
6. Drum or play a drum tape with deep, resounding sounds
7. Wear the colors red, yellow and orange or put things in these colors in prominent places, that you see all day, at your work station.
8. Sound the Tibetan bowls or crystal bowels, chimes, toning forks or bells above these chakras when lying down or directly in front or in back of the areas of your stomach, below your belly button and the groin area.

These are just a few suggestions.  Most often meditation or contemplation is necessary.  Quiet time alone can realign and rejuvenate.  We often over-schedule ourselves thinking that a productive day is a full one without time to breathe.  Too many days of this kind lead to a stressed mind, body and spirit.

In these accelerated times where the energy is shifting to higher and higher degrees of spiritual transformation, we must slow ourselves down.  If we do not, there are sharp consequences.  This may sometimes look like a total breakdown for you and others around you yet it is only a wakeup call for readjustment to the energy of the times.