Earth Mother energy suddenly coming to life inside me drew me to action.  I dropped the task at hand, grabbed my down jacket, stepped out the door and headed straight for the canyon, my canine angel flying off ahead, following a well-worn deer trail. Within minutes, pellets of snow, driven by a sudden forceful wind, stung my face and bare hands.  Visibility plummeted to zero. Stopping for guidance, my feet were suddenly immobilized, my attention drawn to the energy of the carpet of dormant vegetation beneath my boots.  Simultaneously, as if having their own consciousness, my feet became sensors, probing deep within the soil, pushing through miles and miles of hidden mysteries, and then deeper still, deep into the heart of the Earth Mother--into her center.  

A thought formulated somewhere in my consciousness, “Mother Earth, how are you managing the magnitude of change upon you?  How are you managing all this fear in the world?”  Her response was to draw me deeper into her heart, into a space of calm--a profound unearthly vastness. 

Simultaneously, a similar calm began pulsing down from above.  The words “Galactic Heart Center” penetrated my consciousness.  As my awareness was drawn upward into that center, my feet extended downward into the calm of the Earth Mother...ever more deeply.  Back and forth, rays of calm moved between heaven and earth, my own Heart Center being overpoweringly attuned.  The two avenues of energy movement grew stronger and then merged, nothing else existing but an all-pervasive, timeless calm.  

Earth mother announced in her wordless way that this unworldly calm must be actively brought to the world.  I must be the center of calm between there and here. That to counteract the escalating fear in the world, we must all, not simply take comfort from the calm within our own hearts, but we must put that calm into a useable form and bring it into the world, touch heart and minds with it.  

She took me into a potential future, one where calm was like the air we breathed.  Calm was the sustaining factor.  My gratitude reached out to her…she returned it exponentially. 

Then, as if walking out of a dream, the white-out ceased, the winds quieted to a breeze, the sun burst forth, my feet were released.  I laughed to myself at the thought of being able to see now…laughed, because it was the white-out that gave me in-sight.  I reversed my steps back through the canyon, treading lightly on the pellets of snow blanketing the earth, not here nor there, but in the calm of my own Heart Center—this place of no fear.

Calm is what will make a critical difference as these wondrous winds of change move ever more strongly through our lives. Staying connected to the heart of the Earth Mother and to the Galactic Heart leaves us centered within our own hearts and brings us to the Collective Heart… where a higher order of consciousness awaits!