I’ve been around the Openhand work for a bit of time now. Many revelations and realizations have moved through my being. At times questioning the magnitude of all this unfolding.

My mind has been on this unwinding journey. Dissolving and letting go of this reality that I placed so much energy into. I lost my true self in it all and it’s been yearning to come back home inside my being.

The energy that has been coming up for me over the past year is “Emerge”, but I feel that this is not just specific to my journey. There is an element of the collective that I’ve been feeling and seeing, internally and externally. Coming back to ‘Trust’ is a theme coming up for me strongly now.

Lots of movement internally and externally in my personal life. Feeling frozen and paralyzed at times by the fear of this or the fear of that. Feeling downtrodden and flat-out exhausted at times, when is this all going to end. I know the only way out is through.

I went back to work in the world as a remodeler helper. I put my head down and I thought to myself, do whatever it takes to support your daughters. The first day went great as I got back out there in the world and was working with my hands. Then day two came and I was asking myself, “is this what I’m supposed to be doing”? It became clear and evident to me on day two that I was going back to living in old patterns of fear and low self-work. It was if my soul was putting me through yet another test.

As I got off work on day two, I had a message from a friend who was asking me if I could work in a couple weeks in Boston. Now sitting with continuing this construction gig or following the unknown, I had a decision to make. Many different thoughts and scenarios flooded through my being.

I woke up at 2am contemplating and reflecting about the way forward. I popped on to Openhand web and read the above article. I feel and sense these changing energies moving through my life currently. My orientation to the Shift has changed. I cannot fake it a day longer, the energy building within in is growing stronger with each passing day. I now realize that aligning with my soul is the only place to come from moving forward.

In the middle of the night sitting with all this energy that was coming up for me, I decided to pull a card from my new Rumi Oracle deck. I took the cards out and started shuffling them until a card fell out. I was doing this in the dark. I turned on the lights and the number 13 card came out “Arise”, it brought tears to my eyes as confirmation landed as to the way forward.

I dance before you in sacred spectacle, hoping to garner your attention. “Look at me!” I cry to your ailing spirit and despondent flesh, ‘Look at me!”

If you were to look up you would see that I am a mirror of your own being, your light, your heart, your spirit, your all. Yes, there is pain; yes, there is letting go taking place and you are frightened and uncertain sometimes. But you make this mean something that it does not! It means that you are to turn your head away from what is dying; do this gently but firmly. Turn your head towards what is living.

Look at me! I will show you truth and you shall laugh your deepest belly laughter with so much glee, sharing in my secret that the only force at work in your life is unconditionally loving divinity.

I chose to speak my truth to my new employer and chose the path of the unknown.

I share this with you all as we learn to Arise individually and collectively into our true divine nature. I feel things are speeding up and we’re being confronted with all the nooks and crannies inside our being where things are still getting stuck and snagged. The impetus to follow the soul through this Shift is gaining traction, I can feel it within and without. I choose to step into my authenticity as an Earth-anchor. Holding space for self and all to gain the courage and confidence to step into our dormant multidimensionality.

We are not alone; we are all in this great unfolding together!

Sending love and grounding energies to those in Florida who are being affected by the acceleration of this great Shift.

With Love and Gratitude,

Chad