12.12.12 – The Time Has Come!

12.12.12 is here!

So many have questioned and feared the arrival of this day. Some think it’s the end of the world. I think it ‘s the end of the world as we know it, and that’s a good thing. Because of the planetary rotations and the electromagnetic fields that are changing, the energy has changed to open us up to unconditional LOVE, PEACE across the world and HAPPINESS / JOY as an outcome. The image shown here represents that unconditional love.

John Smallman…

Many have talked of the End Times approaching, but you are really approaching the Beginning Times as a new age of peace, harmony, and abundance for all humanity comes into view. The satisfaction and contentment that you will experience, as all that could frighten, worry, or cause you any kind of suffering just dissolves, leaving absolutely no trace to disturb your constant state of sublime peace, is definitely something to which you can look forward. A New Age, for which you have been yearning, is about to dawn.

As the short period remaining before you winds down, it would be good to address any issues that you may have been avoiding, or perhaps considered too insignificant to concern yourselves with. However, anything that would fall into the category of holding a grudge, a derogatory judgment of another, or something unforgiven, no matter how small or inconsequential it seems, does need to be released. If you can remember it, then it needs to be released. Everyone has things that have been totally forgotten that could have been released, but if they are truly forgotten they are as good as already released and forgiven. It is just the small niggling things, which are occasionally retained because they give a person a sense of satisfaction, of being right, that now need to be released to clear your energy fields – that person who queue-barged, pinched your parking-spot, made an unwarranted and unkind remark – small seemingly insignificant momentary occurrences that you still remember. Let them go.

In a sense, 12.12.12 is more important than 12.21.12, the day when these planetary changes are firmly established and we are all awake to the new vibrations. If you don’t feel lighter, more energetic and joyful right away, don’t worry about it…you will as the days unfold.

Today on 12.12.12, many around the world will be uniting in two global meditations to uplift humanity and bring about a positive shift as we enter a new age. Feel free to join with us for a relaxing, easy meditation at 9:30 pm EST.

The Master Shift

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Mother’s Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe, 1870

This is to wish my family and friends a wonderful Mother’s Day – both men and women. I choose to celebrate every day all year long, keeping in mind that many of our holidays were diverted from the original thought into big business for profit. On the major holidays, I choose not to spend money for THEIR self-serving interests.

While I appreciate all the Mother’s Day greetings I get from family, friends and especially my children, I am saddened because many who I know are depressed today. Really depressed. Many friends have contacted me saying their mother’s have passed away, died unexpectedly, their children are away, or they have son’s who died in war. I’m aware that many in this nation suffer greatly because their children have been murdered, like Trayvon Martin’s mother. Mother’s Day should not be a reminder to these people of that pain they feel all year. As the rest of us celebrate with our loved ones, millions suffer in silence.

How different and strengthening would this nation be if we celebrated Mother’s Day for its original intent? No wars and a focus on peace and equality. Wouldn’t all mothers AND fathers be much happier? Would that be something to celebrate?

Here’s the original intent for Mother’s Day and the woman who created it. With this in mind, I choose to focus this day and all days toward PEACE and DISARMAMENT, which was the original intent for this day. After the Civil War, this woman campaigned for womens’ rights, anti-slavery, equality, and for world peace. She was an ardent antislavery activist who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic in 1862, sung to the tune of John Brown’s Body.

Think about why you may be learning this for the first time and why we don’t focus on what Julia Ward Howe intended for this special day.

Marion Young
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Mother’s Day Proclamation
by Julia Ward Howe, 1870

The First Mother’s Day proclaimed in 1870 by Julia Ward Howe
was a passionate demand for disarmament and peace.

Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or tears!

Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have taught them of charity, mercy and patience. We women of one country will be too tender of those of another to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”

From the bosom of the devastated earth, a voice goes up with our own. It says, “Disarm, Disarm!”

The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession. As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail & commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesars but of God.

In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.

Biography of Julia Ward Howe

US feminist, reformer, and writer Julia Ward Howe was born May 27, 1819 in New York City. She married Samuel Gridley Howe of Boston, a physician and social reformer. After the Civil War, she campaigned for women rights, anti-slavery, equality, and for world peace. She published several volumes of poetry, travel books, and a play. She became the first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1908. She was an ardent antislavery activist who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic in 1862, sung to the tune of John Brown’s Body. She wrote a biography in 1883 of Margaret Fuller, who was a prominent literary figure and a member of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Transcendentalists. She died in 1910.

http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/0000/1870_howe_mothers-day.htm