Fabric Art, by Catherine DiPietro

Happy Spring Equinox

How are you doing? It’s been a year since things changed drastically worldwide. It seems like this uncertainty will be around for awhile. Thing is…I think it’s really been there all along.

Life has always been uncertain for me. As a child, we moved around, a lot! I went to 3 elementary schools, 1 middle school and 2 high schools. While it was uncomfortable sometimes starting new schools and meeting new friends, there was a part of me that loved it. I got to re-create myself every move.

After school was over for me, I moved out of my parents at 17 and lived out of my backpack, working seasonal jobs, learning things like massage, life-guarding, teaching aerobics, painting fabrics, art, screen-printing, playing poker, traveling, etc. My son and I were recently walking along the beach and we talked about all the places we lived. I was up to about 49 different homes, then lost track. He was at 10.

And when I moved, I just moved. No job to go to. No house to live in. I just arrived and created from scratch. Some people would look at me and ask, “how can you do that? I couldn’t. It’s too uncertain.” To me it was natural.

I realize now that this way of living, prepared me for what is going on today. We are all faced with uncertainty BIG TIME! I’ve sure had my moments of struggle, but with the tools I’ve learned in my life and now teach, I manage to find my way back home, to my source, my center, that chuckles at everything.

Our source, our powerful non-physical, eternal self; may be the only certain thing we can count on.

So what have you done in your life, that prepared you for this? You may not realize or see it, but I bet you’ve got that special something to share in your community or circle, that you lived, learned or experienced on your journey.

I’ve listened to visionaries and mystics over the last 15 years, talking about a time of upheaval and chaos, world-wide. Some of it was a bit scary, some of it was way off the mark. But here it is, this time of great shifting and changing. Some say it’s downright biblical, from their perspective.

So what do we do? I’ve been very aware of myself, at levels I’ve never been before and that awareness grows daily. It’s such a huge shift within. Then I noticed a shift in my perception of things outside of me, that brought more information, that opened me up even more.

YOU can do this too, if you choose. What are you choosing? All it takes is a little focus within, to your feelings about things and noticing what you are talking about, watching, focusing on. What are you aligning too? The story? What story? What ‘side’ are you on? Is there a side? Aren’t we all one? Maybe that person standing in front of us, is simply our mirror showing us a little bit about ourselves, our vibration, our story we are wrapped up in.

Can we open and truly love, going beyond our minds ideas and opinions, that separate us all?

I’ve learned recently about ‘mind construct’. It was created by the Nazi’s and they trained people how to use it. To keep this short, it’s used today, to control people. When you notice it, you see it’s everywhere. Example…you are not a good person if you don’t wear a mask, therefore, you don’t care about others, especially the older folks that are so vulnerable. The Nazi’s learned to control people, by manipulating their innate goodness. Oh my, I’ve seen the apparently so awake and aware - the teachers - caught in it and they have NO IDEA they are in it. WOW…eye opener.

I’m not much of a social media person, but recently noticed that FB has a “care” emoji that pops up when you like something. I wrote a post and someone put this “care” emoji in response. Here it was…I was reminded to care. I was told in this response that I didn’t care. They were under this ‘mind construct’. I didn’t believe the story of what the government was saying to me, what mainstream news was saying, therefore I didn’t care.

So, are you in a mind construct? It could be operating you, no matter what you believe in. When you understand it and see it, you’ll realize how others are just not able to take in news that is contrary to the status quo. Do you have friends that have shunned you because you don’t believe the mass media story? Won’t take anything else in? Can’t take anything else in? This is why. It’s the program of fear and control. We are all born into it, perhaps to use the resistance of it, to expand? To find ourselves again? Could this all be a game of hide and seek?

I felt something was coming, very strongly, in the last while. Last week’s meditation, we dove very deep within and asked for a message from our inner being and Gaia. The answer I got was to play. So I did. I played in the dirt, planted veggies. Went for walks. Talked to the trees, the horses, the dogs. Had a moment of insane laughter. (ok that was definitely my weekly highlight) Because I followed that message, ignored my mind telling me I had to do this, worry about that, get that going…the BIG thing dropped in, in a conversation I had with my sister. (thanks sis)

The energy was so BIG….I was up most of the night. The excitement was intense. I know from the past, to let big energy move and settle, before making any decisions. And I was presented with, “well okay, you asked, here it is.” FAK, it’s rock up time. Eeek, it’s time to call on that inner resistance fighter and walk the talk.

So what’s my great point about all this? Uncertainty, how are you doing, watch yourself, feel into yourself, where are you focused? Caught in a mind construct? Stuck in fear, numb to your fear? What is your potential, your gift to offer in all this? Are we pointed to ourselves, worrying about our survival, blind to what’s going on beneath this story we are told? Or are we asking, ‘well what the heck can I do?’

So much love and grace, Catherine DiPietro