| Have we reached the "End Times"? Are we | | | | You may have noticed that it is more difficult for you |
| approaching them? Are we in danger of a pole shift or | | | | to be positive and proactive in your life. You may feel it |
| some other form of catastrophe? | | | | is more difficult to take action or make choices. This |
| No, no, and no. I get asked these questions all the time | | | | feeling of oppression doesn't mean you are becoming |
| by people who are concerned with the approaching | | | | a lazy slob or that you are losing your motivation. You |
| "deadline" of 2012, when the Mayan calendar | | | | may simply be affected the current global energy. |
| supposedly "ends." In truth, according Tony Shearer, | | | | You may have also discovered that you are easily |
| who dedicated his life to studying the Mayan calendar, | | | | affected by the energy of another person. For |
| the calendar doesn't end in 2012, but instead simply | | | | instance, suppose you talk on the phone who is feeling |
| starts over. | | | | down in the dumps. Do you notice that you also feel |
| There are plenty of books and articles on the Mayan | | | | down in the dumps, or anxious about your own |
| calendar, so I won't go into a detailed explanation of | | | | situation, after getting off the phone with that person? |
| this predictive tool, but I will say that each time the | | | | That's the Law of Contagion at work. You are simply |
| calendar prepares to shift into a new cycle, our world | | | | more easily affected by any energy you come in |
| does experience major energetic shifts. | | | | contact with. |
| What Energetic Changes Are Happening Now? | | | | What to Do About the Law of Contagion |
| One major energetic shift I notice occurring with this | | | | So what can you do about the Law of Contagion? |
| change of cycle, which will happen around 2012, is that | | | | How to preserve your sacred space? From a magic |
| energy moves much more quickly than it has in the | | | | point of view, I would suggest cleansing your space |
| past. Specifically, the energy of our thoughts and | | | | (your home, office, car) with sage and pine resin, or |
| feelings are manifesting much more quickly into | | | | other cleansing herbs. That's a good start. |
| physical events and occurrences. For instance, a | | | | Next, look around your environment and decide |
| negative thought like "I hope I don't lose my job!" is | | | | whether protection symbols would be useful, both to |
| translating much more quickly into a lost job than it did | | | | wear on your person or to put up around your |
| about a decade ago. At the same time, a positive | | | | environment. For instance, I recently re-shielded our |
| thought such as "I really feel soul mate is on her way | | | | property and added some protection symbols, like the |
| to me" now manifests as a meeting between soul | | | | Eye of Horus and pantacles. Other people have |
| mates very quickly. It's a fast-changing world that is | | | | reported useful shielding results by wearing the psychic |
| much more reactive to our thoughts and feelings than | | | | shield amulet, which is in the design of the |
| ever before. This is both good and bad--the usual | | | | seven-pointed faery star. Finally, others like introducing |
| double-edged sword. | | | | the energy of animal totems to gain the protection of |
| Another major energetic change has to do with the | | | | Wolf, Buffalo, and so on. |
| Law of Contagion. The Law of Contagion deals with | | | | Finally, on a mundane level, you may want to become |
| how easily we are affected by other people's | | | | far choosier about the people you contact. In a |
| thoughts and feelings. In the past, when energy moved | | | | wonderful mixing of technology and magic, the prudent |
| much slower, it was easier to maintain our own sacred | | | | use of caller-ID to help you decide whether to pick up |
| space, and not be affected by other people's energy. | | | | the phone can mean the difference between feeling |
| These days, not only does energy move faster, but | | | | down in the dumps and accessing a more positive |
| the whole stream of energy pulsing around the globe is | | | | flow of energy. In this day and age, you have the very |
| much larger. This means that not only are we more | | | | real possibility of manifesting what you want in life |
| affected by the energy of another person, but we are | | | | faster than ever, but only if you take the time to |
| also much more affected by global energy. | | | | create true sacred space around yourself. Cleanse |
| Every nation in the world is currently being affected by | | | | your space, protect it, and choose your contact with |
| the economic downturn, and this is creating a large | | | | other people in the world carefully! |
| stream of energy filled with doubt, fear, and paralysis. | | | | |