Our message for 2001 spoke of a building momentum of coming changes which included challenges to how you viewed your reality. Everything would become more amplified and sped up. You were encouraged to confront your own unresolved issues, discover what your own truths are, become more responsible, become involved with the world, work through your fears - such as your lack of inner security and peace. You were going to have to adjust to a new and closer, and very volatile world.

Our personal key word and focus for the past year was "Luminary." Indeed it was a challenge to continue to be and represent the energies of light in face of the tragedies you faced. But, being prepared ahead of time, helped somewhat. We all saw in the midst of catastrophe the worst and best of humanity. There were thousands of luminaries beginning to light up the planet since Sept. 11. We have also been fortunate to have various spirits' input into how to cope with the events from Sept. 11th. We are very grateful for all of it.

The year 2002 continues the energy wave that began in 2001, but takes it to a deeper level. You can no longer deny or escape what goes on in the world and how each person contributes to it. Every person's thoughts and feelings directly effect what takes place. As you continue to process and release your pain, your fears and insecurities, please be more conscious of your thoughts and feelings for what you want to create, and what are the motivations behind these creations. Be alert that you do not spring back into the old energies of fear, because what you fear you will attract to yourselves. If you would like some guidelines how to work through fear, please read Torah's article.

Now we would like to address more on the topic of fear. The fear is everywhere. It is within those who are religious fundamentalists because they fear individual freedom, change, progress, and equality, the balance of the male and female. They don't fear death as the free world does, and this frightens the free world. The fear within the free world is also because people don't want to lose their freedom, nor equality, nor progress. The fear prevents honesty and intimacy. The fear is about having or losing control. The world still fears that which is foreign and different, rather than loving and respecting diversity. And both sides fall into the trap of justifying killing. You are on both sides of the same issue of fear with conficting belief systems, like a seesaw going up and down - sometimes too far on either side, struggling to find the balance point. Change does not have to be feared, nor be devastating...it can be joyful. Please do not get caught up in the illusions that fear often generates.

While there is fear and powerlessness in one camp, as it were, there is appreciation, hope, true power in the other. YOU ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. Remember that each being is an aspect of yourselves, even if some fight it or are unconscious of it. Although you do all come from the same Source, and you have different experiences and belief systems, you are connected and interrelated. You are responsible for how you act and respond to what occurs KNOWING that others are all a more expanded part of yourself. This is why it is important to know yourselves even more intimately, and be clear what YOU want for your future.

After Sept. 11, I had a vision of a pyramid of light in place of the World Trade Center. This pyramid was symbolic as well as being a literal energy form. The pyramid is an important construct because it is the strongest structure one can build, and it's peak is a great receptor and transmitter of energies. You can use this image and energy of the pyramid any time you wish to refine and accelerate, recreate, your own energy connection to the Source, seeing the top of your head as the capstone. Use the shape as an anchor for grounding and then bringing in energy from above and drawing it down below, creating balance and harmony.

When you are secure in knowing yourself, in your own connection with your Higher Self, your essence, you can step back and view this drama from a broader persepective and know what is true and what you have to do. We can't make you do this. We can only suggest and encourage it. You have to be courageous enough to make the move into authenticity and personal power on your own. If you can do it, you will be preventing something from dragging on longer, and more painfully, than it could. If you are ready to step out of pain, stress, martyrhood and victimhood, then do it now by getting to know and trust your honest, real, magnificent, inner self and listen to its guidance. Your "leaders" and nations will reflect your strongest desires.

So use this momentous opportunity to think about the most wonderful planet you can imagine and how you can manifest it calmly, with beauty, with joy, and by honoring diversity that now shares common goals - to remove terror, have more love, live in peace, and value life. Yes, there are people still struggling to hang onto their anger, illusions, their destructive belief systems, but rest assurred - they are the minority. The majority are tired of fighting. This is the year where you can fully be the luminary that you are by consciously spreading this light far and wide, and co-create the world of your dreams as your reality.

Our next article will be on your next evolutionary step, which is moving into the state of grace. When you feel the energy of grace soaring throughout your being, you will have moved well beyond fear and doubt, beyond the illusions of separation, and into more awareness, acceptance, pleasure, allowance, peace, and a celebration of life.