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 a mirror showing us a little bit about ourselves, our vibration and the 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. The Nazi’s learned to control people by manipulating their innate goodness.

It’s been a big eye opener watching some spiritual teachers that claim to be leading edge, caught up in this construct. They may have some unique gifts to share but most of them lack the perception to know who’s lying to

So how are you doing? Do you watch yourself, feel into yourself or see 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