December is the 12^th month of the year and as we are moving into 2012 next year December gives us a little taste of what next year has in store for us.  On the surface bottle 12 sounds wonderful, but the challenges of December come from bottle 3.  A bit like the Christmas season, all pretty and sparkly on the outside and yet under the surface things are not so rosy.

So let’s look at pretty and sparkly park first.   Bottle 12 is clear over blue and in the Aura-Soma system bottle 12 is called Peace in the New Aeon.  The energy of December has the potential for us all to find inner peace despite the fact that the “silly season” is upon us!  As we come to the end of 2011 and move into 2012 with all the end of the world hype, inner peace will be an essential quality.  Blue of course is the colour of the throat chakra, therefore the potential for peace will most likely come through our ability to communicate peacefully, truthfully and in ways that are nurturing to all concerned.  The downside of blue is of course feeling blue.  Depression comes from feeling of futility and the inability to effect change in our world.  Finding peace will come from a degree of letting go, applying the old principle of having the wisdom to know what you can change and what you cannot.

Peace in the New Aeon sounds all very wonderful but if you add 1 and 2  together  you get Bottle 3 blue over green and this bottle is called the Atlantean/Heart Bottle.  Bottle 3 reveals more of the challenges of December.  Whenever I get a client with a 12 or 3 in their birth numbers I always have the difficult task of advising them that their soul is emotionally immature.  Many adults are affronted by this concept so let me explain.  Emotional maturity is obtained by going through the tough stuff of life, developing emotional muscle just as you would develop physical muscle.  Many souls have done their best to dodge this lesson.   As a result they carry enormous emotional wounding coupled with an emotional body that is severely underdeveloped.  With no inner reserves this person is always looking for things and people outside of themselves to make them happy.  The Christmas season has become all about the shiny bright things on the outside.  Emotional maturity and inner peace go hand in hand.  Emotional maturity brings inner contentment, self-reliance and self-love that no thing or person on the outside can disturb.  Emotional maturity brings with it the capacity to genuinely nurture not only yourself but others from a different perspective.  The shadow side of green is jealousy and envy and unfortunately Christmas has a great potential to bring this out in ourselves when we are feeling needy and require outer things to make us feel good.

It is also important to note that Bottle 3 is the Atlantean bottle. Atlantis marked the end of our last incarnational cycle, when there was a change from matriarchal to patriarchal dominance.  What this means is that the vast majority of humanity is still carrying wounds from this cycle.  Everyone got a free pass at the change of ages, it is unlikely that this will occur again.  Each and every one of us needs to take individual responsibility for our soul’s progression. We have become caught up in the mental world and tried our best to suppress our emotions, not the best recipe for creating maturity!  Our challenge for December which will continue into 2012 is to create a new heart space, where there is no separation between head and heart – they are one.  This can only happen when both the masculine and feminine, shadow and light, mental and emotional are of equal power and development.

So take it easy this December, try not to get caught up in the world of bright shiny things and overindulgence in food and alcohol.  Sit with yourself and your loved ones, find joy and happiness in the little things that money cannot buy.  If you have ever considered personal development and spiritual growth then now and next year is certainly the time to begin.  Find your inner strength and peace –  Be the change you want to see in the world!

February the 2nd month of 2012 is embodied in Bottle 2. I discussed the issues of Bottle 2 in my previous article 2012 The Year of Beginnings, Endings and Change, in a nutshell, struggles with authority and finding peace on every level. So this time I thought I would take you a little deeper into the reality that we collectively participate in. A reality that robs us of inner authority and peace on every level.

Einstein is quoted as saying “the mind that created the problem cannot solve the problem” What does that actually mean? It means that a BMW can only be a BMW, a BMW’s attributes, how it handles, what it is capable of doing is bound up in it’s design and this design prevents or limits other possibilities that say a Holden may have. Even though they are both cars. Now lets assume that both cars are self aware enough to observe that they both have different capabilities than each other, perhaps the BMW wants to be a Holden and it was possible for the BMW to reinvent itself to look and behave life a Holden, and so it did! The question for you to answer is – even though the BMW is now a Holden has the reality for the car really changed? Or has the world of cars just shuffled around a bit and the fundamental reality of car world actually hasn’t changed. Then suppose rather than the BMW engage in self-transformation, it goes to an expert on car making to be part of the change over process. So again the BMW becomes a Holden but even with an expert has the world of cars really changed?

Our world has become increasingly complex, the software that runs our reality is constantly breaking down, world peace is tenuous, there are more “have nots” than “haves” in the world. We keep adding patches, reliant upon the “authorities” and experts to fix it for us, but they are part of the problem as are we.

So how do we find inner peace? How do we find our way to a new reality that is based on equality and freedom for all? How can we do this when as Einstein states “the mind that created the problem, cannot fix it!” We have to go within, if we do not go within and find a solution from our higher-mind, from our visionaries and mystics who can see beyond this reality we will find ourselves facing change in the ways that humanity has always faced it in the past…..War and environmental upheaval.

Have a great month everyone and start thinking outside the square or circle that you live in!

This is the year that the ancient Mayan’s predicted as being the end of an age, that is of course providing we have interpreted their calendar accurately.   Hence, 2012 holds the hope and dreams for many who seek a better world.  For the Chinese it is just another year in their wheel of time; 2012 is a Water Dragon year – drama, vitality and change.  Drama is usually motivated with some kind of emotional charge. For the western mind water symbolizes flow and especially emotion.  The numerology, astrology or whatever of a year is the backdrop of the energies of the year, how we respond and interact with that energies is up to us. Whatever, you feel about the world and your place in it, 2012 will be what we collectively decide it will be.  Our collective decisions will be made on the basis of our individual inner realities.

As I previously said indicated in December 2011 (Soul of December), 2012 is going to be a year of facing our emotional selves.  Our bodies are emotional creatures by nature and yet we have had centuries of civilization were in we have systematically tried to suppress and eradicate emotion.  In pursuit of rationalism we have tried to divest ourselves from any sentiment or emotion, which essentially means we loose any feeling for context and bigger picture perspective.

2012 is a complicated creature, so grab yourselves a cupper and get yourselves comfy…

So lets look at the energy of 2012, by beginning with the Aura-Soma bottle 20 Blue over Pink, this bottle is called the Star Child/Child Rescue. Its primary impetus is the communication of unconditional love, which of course can only be extended out to others when we have first reached that state within ourselves.  Bottle 20 helps us find the child within, and heal that child. Our children are largely emotional beings with not much rational thought; however, suppression of emotion does not generate sound rational thought.   It is such a shame to be 30, 40 or 90 and still living your life through the emotional immaturity of a two-year-old child and usually a wounded child at that.   The hallmark of emotional maturity involves moving beyond childish temper tantrums, schoolyard or boardroom he said/she said feuds.  Emotional maturity is not about suppression of your emotions but mastery of them and in so doing becoming independent of the opinions and approvals of others. This however, does not mean that you no longer take into consideration the wellbeing of others.  With emotional maturity comes with awareness and responsibility.

20 can be broken down to 2, which is Bottle 2 blue over blue – peace on every level. The only way I know to create peace on planet earth is for each and every one of us to find peace within ourselves.  We all need to find the love an acceptance that comes from within.  Unfortunately we are taught from the time we leave the womb that we must seek love outside of ourselves. When we cannot find a satisfactory source many turn to drugs, prescribed or “recreational”, alcohol or the endless pursuit of things and people to make us happy.

Bottle 2 also embodies the energy of our struggle with authority.  Our first authorities were our parents.  If you have problems with authority, your unconscious mind will reproduce this experience in many different areas of your life.  We cannot have peace whilst we are still struggling with corrupt authority or uncaring institutions. The secret is to understand that we cannot change them from the outside; we must change them from within each and every one of us.  Peace on every level means within all the layers of our mind, body and soul.  Bottle 2 challenges us to become our own inner authority, which does not mean that we never listen to others or that we believe that we know everything.  But our own inner balanced authority that is based in unconditional love can be heard guiding us. Our inner authority is primarily for us and us alone, it should not be used to enslave others to our ways, a balanced inner authority naturally acknowledges and respects the inner authority of others.  An inner authority that suggests or demands dominion over others is corrupt. It is an honour and a privilege to have others listen to your inner wisdom and guidance not a right bestowed by virtue of social role, gender or age.

The final influence of hidden within Bottle 20 is Bottle 16 violet over violet.  Violet is obtained when you shake Bottle 20 and the pink and blue mix together producing violet.  Violet has always been associated with positions of power and authority traditionally because the colour was expensive to produce.  Bottle 16 is called the violet robe because it can hide a multitude of “sins”. Alluding to the fact that those in power and authority are not necessarily those who act from a balanced position.  A position of authority can become a vehicle of self service rather than service to the greater community as well as oneself.  In order for each individual to awaken to their own authority they must find their true self, which is beyond the emotional wounding that they carry.  The energy information to completely review who you are and what is right for you is all contained in violet over violet.   Violet is also the balance between heaven and earth and all should be very mindful of giving up worldly authority to only take on another authority in the form of spiritual guides etc.  In the end you must be your own authority, everything and everyone else is just information upon which to base your own choices.  With personal choice comes responsibility and accountability.

The frequency of bottle 20, 2 and 16 are the backbone of the 21^st century.  We are currently 12 years in, you can judge for yourselves how well we are doing so far! Also as I have said in a previous post, bottle 20’s frequency links back to the ancient civilization of Lemuria, which preceded Atlantis.  We in Australia have a strong connection to Lemuria and particularly those of us here in SA.  Lemuria was a much more balanced society than Atlantis which eventually blew itself up.  Most, westerners still carry the scars of lessons not learnt from Atlantis.  If you look carefully at the world at the moment we are in danger of repeating the same mistakes.

Next lets look at the energy of Bottle 12, clear over blue the energy of December and the twelfth year.  This bottle is called Peace in the New Aeon.   As I indicated above 2012 is the year that many new agers have been heralding as the end of the old era and the beginning of the new, all based on the Mayan calendar.  Whether we change and create a new era or we just continue on with the same old same old will be up to each and every one of us.  Bottle 12 again brings to our door our issues of authority.  One of the major difference between authority issues of bottle 2 and bottle 12 is that the clear on top provides clarity, allows the light to be shown on some of the issues so that you can work through them.  So perhaps more than ever 2012 will bring the energies we require to work out what we need to sort out and how we are going to do it.  Bottle 12 encourages us to deal with the inner authority issues, particularly our own inner masculine rather than focus on the outer masculine. In the end it is one thing to hear our inner authority, it is another to willingly listen.  The clear in bottle 12 allows the light of awareness to dawn upon our consciousness and so we may finally “get it” – we are all part of the problem and therefore part of the solution.  This is a particularly important concept to understand – whatever is happening on the outside is also happening on the inside.  It is also important to understand that the mental reality that created the problem is not capable of changing its reality.  Change requires acceptance of a seemingly outer agency for change…but in the end it is just another aspect of us.

When you add 1 and 2 together you get Bottle 3 blue over green, this bottle is called the Atlantean/Heart Bottle.  This bottle embodies the crux of the emotional healing required for humanity to move forward.  Whenever I get a client with a 12 or 3 in their birth numbers I always have the difficult task of advising them that their soul is emotionally immature.  Many adults are affronted by this concept so let me explain.  Emotional maturity is obtained by going through the tough stuff of life, developing emotional muscle just as you would develop physical muscle.  Many souls have done their best to dodge this lesson.   As a result they carry enormous emotional wounding coupled with an emotional body that is severely underdeveloped.  With no inner reserves this person is always looking for things and people outside of themselves to make them happy or fix things for them. Emotional maturity and inner peace go hand in hand.  Emotional maturity brings inner contentment, self-reliance and self-love that no thing or person on the outside can disturb.  Emotional maturity brings with it the capacity to genuinely nurture not only yourself but also others from a different perspective. It is also important to note that Bottle 3 is the Atlantean bottle. Atlantis marked the end of our last incarnational cycle, when there was a change from matriarchal to patriarchal dominance.  As I mentioned before the vast majority of humanity is still carrying wounds from this cycle.  Everyone got a free pass at the change of ages; it is unlikely that this will occur again.  Each and every one of us needs to take individual responsibility for our soul’s progression. We have become caught up in the mental world and tried our best to suppress our emotions, not the best recipe for creating maturity!  We got our first taste of this in December now continues for 2012. Humanity needs to create a new heart space, where there is no separation between head and heart – they are one.  This can only happen when both the masculine and feminine, shadow and light, mental and emotional are of equal power and development.

Finally when you add together 2 + 0 + 1 + 2 you get bottle 5 yellow over red, the sunset bottle.  An interesting name for the bottle considering the possibility of 2012 being the end of an era.  This is why I like the Aura-Soma system so much, they are just so relevant to what is happening despite the fact they were created many years ago.  The challenge of bottle 5 is to use the energies that we have available to us wisely and ultimately follow our bliss.  When clients come to me and they have a 5 in their birthday they are usually very sensitive and are quite fractured due to severe trauma either in this life or previous lives.  You can easily translate that human condition to our current society, there has been enormous incidents of oppression, abuse to one another, to our environment and the other creatures we share it with.  This abuse and wounding is so endemic to our way of life it is hard to imagine how life would be without it.  But imagine we must, but before we can imagine we need to squarely face the emotional traumas that are imbedded in our social structures and therefore within ourselves.  Bottle 5 is not an easy lesson; it is something that we will need to work together on collectively.

When you shake bottle 5 the yellow and red mix together to produce orange – bottle 26 the Humpty Dumpty Bottle, which very nicely describes the inner work, required to heal the wounds of bottle 5.  Finding all the pieces no matter how small and putting them all back together again.  Every little piece is of equal importance, and so it is, in our world. Orange brings soothing energies that can help heal the emotional shocks that we contain within our bodies.  Orange is the colour of a belly chakra, our creative chakra, whether we use our creative energies to create further destruction or move towards peace and harmony, depends on our emotional state.  Orange has within it the capacity to facilitate deep emotional wounds and moving towards a state of bliss.  Orange is a good colour to wear to protect the emotional self.

Because bottle 5 is such an intense and complicated bottle it is worthwhile looking at the other bottles within the Aura-Soma system that are also yellow over red but paler in shade.

Bottle 22 yellow over pink, the rebirther’s bottle.  To go through a re-birth of consciousness requires finding a completely new perspective, awakening to the possibility that life could be different.  For me the new perspective of this bottle is to understand that we all have the capacity for good and evil and that we should own that capacity and yet still love ourselves unconditionally.  Once we understand the darker aspects of ourselves we can let go of our deepest fears and allow joy and love to flow through us, hence in this bottle the red has turned to the pink of love.

Bottle 59 pale yellow over pale pink the most intense form of bottle 5.  This bottle is called Lady Portia, the capacity for self-love.  This bottle offers the energies of the completion potential that bottle 5 started.  Being able to accept who you are without fear of judgment.  Finding that harmonious place deep within us that allows caring and warmth for the benefit of everyone.  Finally we can achieve interdependence.

2012 is going to be a big year!  So what can each and everyone of use do to navigate 2012 with ease and grace and be a part of the putting things back together again and moving into and new era?   In a nutshell, become conscious!  Develop the observer within and do try to creator an observer that is kind and loving rather than harsh and judgmental.  Then observe yourself, ask yourself – what motivates me to do this and that and what results am I getting from my actions, thoughts and feelings.  Actively choose to engage in healing and self-development, you don’t have to be really broken to benefit. Personal development and healing is not for the weak of mind, in actual fact it is for the courageous and strong.  Consider that you are probably only living to 1/10^th of your potential.  For the world to change each and every one of us needs to be responsible for our little part in it.  You must be the change you want to see in the world.  If you don’t believe it is possible to heal and change, then we are already lost.  The main reason that society has not changed is that we have not changed internally at a very deep level.  We have changed our surface intellectual thoughts but not our deep emotional unconscious thoughts about others and ourselves.  And just to get you started January is bottle 1 blue over deep magenta – physical rescue.  Find away to listen to the communication of peace that can come from deep within you.  Nourish your physicality, acknowledge your shadow, bring it into balance and move on.  If you don’t know how which is the case for most people ask me I will show you how!

I thought I would end with some wisdom from Carl Jung: “one doesn’t solve problems; one outgrows them!”

The absolute keynote for 2012 – When problems arise, use them as an impetuous for change on the inside.

A little background on the Aura-Soma system of healing and Divination.  Aura-Soma is a colour healing system developed by Vicky Wall in 1984.  Aura-Soma is a system based on the language of colour.  Shamarie Flavel of Shamarie’s Body and Mind Therapies primarily uses the Aura-Soma system to give clients and insight into their soul strengths and challenges.  Shamarie can also produce for you an Aura-Soma birthdate reading, a bit like an astrology natal chart.

The Soul Colour of 2011

In the Aura-Soma system 2011 is made up of four bottles: Bottle 20, Bottle 11, Bottle 2 and Bottle 4.

Bottle 20 is blue over pink and is called the Child Rescue/Star Child bottle which is all about intuitional love and the communication of unconditional love.  So what does this mean? This particular colour combination is the backbone of our current century.  Bottle 20 is about finding the child within, and healing that child.  It is such a shame to be 30, 40 or 90 and still be living your life through the emotional immaturity of a two year old child.

Bottle 20 is about finding that child, healing that child and finding unconditional love and acceptance for the child that is not dependent upon outside opinions or approvals.  It is not until we have found love and compassion for ourselves within ourselves that we can offer this to others.  Bottle 20’s frequency links back to the ancient civilization of Lemuria which preceded Atlantis.  We in Australia have a strong connection to Lemuria and particularly those of us here in SA.

Bottle 11 is clear over pink. Bottle 11 offers Pink for the depths of love and a brand new clear space in the conscious mind to express it.  This is the bottle we use in the Aura-soma system when nothing else you seem to do in a therapeutic setting seems to work. This bottle ties in with what I was saying above, that when none of the prescriptive therapies and meanings have meaning.   Use the frequency of this bottle to find another way that may be completely new.  This bottle is about clarity of mind, to see one’s soul clearly and to allow love to be the abiding principle in all that one does.  Probably the biggest challenge of this bottle is to overcome self-doubt and allow yourself to truly feel again.  Allowing yourself to receive love as well as give love.  You can see that Bottle 20 and Bottle 11 strengthen each other.  We really do have to find new ways of being and existing on this planet before we have no planet left to receive from!  The old ways of doing and being, whether they are religious or scientific, need to make way for a more complete understanding that is based in love.

Bottle 20 and Bottle 11 can be broken down to Bottle 2, which is blue over blue and represents peace on every level. The only way I know to create peace on planet earth is for each and every one of us to find peace within.  We all need to find the love an acceptance that comes from within.  We cannot find this through drugs, prescribed or “recreational”, nor can we find it with alcohol or the endless pursuit of things and people to make us happy.  Christmas was not a happy event for many of the big retailers because there has been a massive shift and disenchantment with the pursuit of things.  We cannot have peace whilst we are still struggling with corrupt authority or uncaring institutions, but we cannot change them from the outside, we must change them from within each and every one of us.  Every woman alive knows that even though conscious thought is saying that women are equal, legislation has been put in place to facilitate equality, but in reality it is only lip service.  Why is this so? Because the outside world may have changed but the individual inner realities have not.  Each and every one of us must be responsible for a little piece of the whole, we must be responsible for changing our inner truths. Legislation will never do this.

2011 adds up to Bottle 4, Yellow over Gold, the sunlight bottle.  Bottle 4 encourages us to find inner knowledge and wisdom.  Start to think for ourselves in an organic and wholistic way.  To let go of all forms of worship of something or someone outside of us.  Whether it’s money, gold, things, people, movie stars, heroes or heroines, even our concept of god and goddess.  Worship always encourages us to be less than we are and make another more important or more powerful.  Worship of the one creates a hierarchy within the world rather than equality and consensus.  Do you need to worship your partner in order to love and respect them?  I don’t believe so. Nor do I believe that the divine within each and every one of us requires us to worship them, we are one and the same.

November 2011

Because November is the 11^th month is means that the year’s energies of Bottle 11 and 2 are magnified!  So more that ever during November it is time to find your inner peace and be the change that you wish to see in the world.  The outer authories’ currently in power will only change if we demand change, otherwise they will continue to feather their own nests.  Interestingly enough, November is also the first calendar month of the beginning of the shift into 2012 according to the Mayan end of times predictions.

Bottle 11 calls us to find new ways to give and receive love.  Unfortunately, our current understanding of love needs to be re-evaluated.  Whether you receive love should not be based on who you are, what you have or your position in society.  Love more often than not is based in need or lust, both are confused with love and when the need is replaced by something or someone else or the lust evaporates then this kind of “love” dies with it.

A word of caution to any who feel that change will just happen around them and they will not have to do anything……..this is a full hardy approach, it’s like saying “I know the river is flooding at my doorstep but other will be responsible for putting the sandbanks in place”.

So ride the energies of November 2011, re-evaluate what is important in your life, stand up for your values and be an agent for change in a way that is loving and just.