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Hello-it is very good to be connecting with you as I look at the energy of the four weeks ahead.

Most noticeable of all is the eclipse- in terms of the stars- that occurs on 26th June. I am no astrologer- or astronomer- but the energy of this event speaks loud and clear.

For most of us the last weeks have been incredibly busy. There really is a sense of events speeding, too much to do, too little time. In some cases this has been exciting, in others oppressive. Or a mixture of the two. Now, ahead of us, in the last week of June comes a dip.

The energies point towards conflict in the wider world. This does not need to mean conflict in our inner world, but they may suggest conflict in the outer world, which obviously will affect reality for all of us. I may suggest. I am not making a prediction about events on earth, just telling you that there is energetic conflict ahead. Of course it can clear situations and lead to good, as well as being a little difficult to live thorough.

The need is to stay very steady indeed. To look at all times to your higher self, and the greater good. This is a time to be especially wary of demonizing others, be they nations, people or organizations. But it is also time to be firm and clear, holding to your highest standards. Remember, means do not justify ends. Sometimes punishment, or firm means are necessary, but the need in those circumstances is to revert to normal as soon as possible. Do not drag out situations of conflict. Do not fuel conflict.

Keeping calm, remembering that the best influence you can offer comes from your inner, true self is the way ahead. Remember love. It may seem a curious point to make when faced with pressures, but it is the only point. Cast your mind back to a time or place where you remember the feelings of love. Hold onto those feelings and let them inform all actions and attitudes you hold to. That is the surest way of creating joy, peace and plenty.

Incase the conflict or pressure results in physical symptoms in your body manifesting or emerging- which it sometimes can do, the message is the same. This is an excellent time to deal with what needs to be addressed, and to do so quickly. If you act firmly, thoughtfully and immediately the prognosis is good. However, again this is not a prediction of physical problems. It is simply my view of best steps for you to take in dealing with the energies if they become physical issues.

There is a strong sense of entrepreneurial activity around too. It’s a good time to listen to your hunches, and follow up on ideas. You may have plenty of those.

So- remember Love, and trust in your creativity and the next four weeks, however busy or even turbulent they are, will be productive and bring you joy, and eventually, peace.

The ELU this month remembers Love!

Go well, be well.
With love and best wishes,
Michal

HOLY CITY
ELU 18th June 2010

Looking for the road
To the Holy City of my Heart.
Passing by the green fields
Each one stamped with
Your face.

I see your smile in
The waving corn, feel
The loving gaze of your eyes
In the piercing color all
Around. Green for growth
Green for my love,
And yours.

You are alive in my memory,
The fields surrounding me
Speak your name,
And my loss? If you match
My memory, if you love me
Still, if you remember-

Then the fields answer
Me. The sweep of the land
And the spread of
The trees are your reply:
Endlessly and forever.

As spring ripens
Into summer, and autumn
Follows close, year after year,
I yearn for you
And search for you.

In you, and you alone,
I know the road to
The Holy City of my Heart
The place where I belong to You.

Endlessly, and forever.

© Michal Levin 2010

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Frank Skinner (Brit comedian) on Desert Island Discs (cult radio) last weekend described “the tingle” (his words) he felt when hearing Placido Domingo hit a high “C”- he thought- for the first time. That’s energy making itself felt! Listen to the ELU. Nothing at all like the fantastic Placido, of course, but most people report feeling a “tingle” that could be similar. It’s the “hit” from the energy that accompanies the piece. Try it for yourself?

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I saw a shape, in the wind,
That had no name. As I
Tried to call, it changed
Before my eyes – Shapeshifter.
It led me from person to person
Trying each against the figure Holding,
moulding my mind.

So time, and disappointment, rolled
One after another; the tide
Of my inward tears ate into
The shore, till I watched
From the safety of the dunes –
Poised, posed in sum and air.
I saw you still, but where?

Then one evening, in the
Drizzle of early fall, in a
Strange but comforting place,
Ringed by trees and built of wood,
The unexpected seemed to happen.
You reached out your hand
To me. Is it you?

Show me your face.
By your actions,
Show me your truth.
And by my deeds
I pledge my truth,
My eternal promise
To you, and to myself.

Travel well,

Go well be well.

Audio: Click here to listen online or download as an MP3.

© Michal Levin 2010

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Peace! It might seem elusive at the moment but it’s exactly “what the doctor ordered”. Or at least what I am telling you.

The pace is gathering tremendously. In many cases it hasn’t been appropriate to go full steam into new projects, though where decisions have been essential to your well-being you have made them. Congratulations! Now it is certainly time to be planning and ordering both the past and the future. Recently it may have been difficult to see what to go ahead with, and what to leave behind. The coming month will make it much clearer. You will know far more often, and there are many opportunities for the joy that you have planted to grow.

But the real key to both growth and joy now is peace. With so much happening – and it will continue – on all sides, you need peace! That peace may not be possible to find in the outside world. However you can always find it within.

Surrender to peace – let go of imaginary fears, tune out the “noise” around you and re-connect with the innermost, deepest joys. Then the world within will be reflected in your world without. Holding joy and peace, you will see the path of joy and peace ahead of you.

Go well, be well,

with love,

Michal

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The White Swan ELU 26th March 2010

Backwards, forwards time moves
At a tremendous pace.
Life is swept up in a whirlwind
Of activity, needled by the damp
Fear, and sometime despair, that lurks beneath
The common, shared surface – crocodiles
With glowing eyes waiting for
Unwary victims.

Searching for peace,
A single swan, gleaming white
Beneath the bridge, signals to me.
White for peace?
Or a white flag for surrender?

On the ever moving river
Ripples race in quick, fluid
Motions, like an old film
Flickering. I am waiting
To understand the message.
Now I know it.

The river, like the film, like time
Seems to move so quickly
But it’s essence is unchanging:
Surrendering to peace.
Be the white swan under the bridge.
Glide in stately circles, ignoring
The perturbations of the water, imaginary
Crocodiles, or some other whimsy.

White is for peace, and
It’s no surrender.

The distant snow capped mountains
And the dusty plains call. I
Belong to the overarching sky.
Let the flotsam and the jetsam
Of the river float by. You call
Me, and I hold you to my heart,
My distant mountain,
Keeper of my deepest desire.
Dearest.

© Michal Levin 2010

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Another month. This one opens with the wound that never heals completely. Are you feeling its effects? The month ahead offers the opportunity to loosen its grip. Indeed to slip from its hold. The plans you have formulated face the rigors of reality. As ever reality’s first hurdle is the past.

Will the wound that never heals completely sabotage your best efforts? Will it take you back to the furrows you have ploughed before, ground you have abandoned as too stony, or simply needing a fallow year?

This month message says very simply- healing is more than possible. It is your growth edge. It is your obligation, and, it is your path of pleasure too. Look for healing in a sense of space. Create spaciousness around you and the effects will – almost magically – bind and allow that wound to heal. Then power, joy and satisfaction will have their way.

This month’s ELU emphasizes the message. click here to listen to the ELU OR download the ELU as an MP3.

The Wound That Never Completely Heals

The past is jumping
On my grave -
Thump, thump, thump.
It’s calling me, pushing
Me towards a cold confinement,
Driving me into the frosty earth.

Now the river is still.
Its dark, silent depths obscured.
Its surface is barely broken
By the beating oars
Of the racing row boats
That flash across its
Glittering but opaque face.

I am listening for your voice.
Silence. Instead, the hills call,
And the lines of the land
Whisper their wisdom-
Space, space, space.
O- you are speaking to me!

Pure oxygen pours into
The wound that never
Completely heals and works
Its blessed ways,
Bringing color to my cheeks
And tender succor to my heart.

Now ripples float away
From the pull of the oars.
Suddenly the river’s surface
Is alive as the past recedes.
The air is light with
The hint of spring and
Coming blossom. The
Curve of the hills is sweet,
And I see signs of you
In the regeneration everywhere.
O -thanks be given!

Go well, be well. May the month ahead bring you peace and joy.

© Michal Levin 2010

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Here is the ELU for you to listen to (listen online or download MP3) in conjunction with this month’s Intuitive Month (below). Remember, the Intuitive Month helps you to understand the message of the ELU, and the ELU helps you to get the best from the Intuitive Month’s guidance for the month ahead.

However- the ELU works entirely alone too. You just need to listen and be with it! Click to listen to the ELU: Listen online | Download MP3

Choosing As Above So Below.

I watch the water
And see the sky reflected.
As above so below,
Always.

Yesterday the tide
Breached the river banks,
Today the water has sunk back,
Low and rippling, as if waiting -
Is further chaos, another torrent coming?

All along the sodden river banks
Boats lie, breached, or
Hauled to safety.
Mud covers the footpath
That I walk with you,
Old issues and rotted leaves
Squelching underfoot.

I watch the water
And see the sky reflected-
As above so below,
Always.

As the light dims
The river sparkles-
I see Heaven
Shining thorough,
And choose the calm and clarity.

As above so below
Always.

Go well, be well.
May the month bring you peace and joy.

© Michal Levin 2010

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Here is the ELU for you to listen to (listen online or download MP3) in conjunction with this month’s Intuitive Month (below). Remember, the Intuitive Month helps you to understand the message of the ELU, and the ELU helps you to get the best from the Intuitive Month’s guidance for the month ahead.

However- the ELU works entirely alone too. You just need to listen and be with it! Click to listen to the ELU: Listen online | Download MP3

The Fledgling

My heart is like a fledgling
Bird, sheltering in my hand.
Each pulse-beat transmits
A new message, received
By every nerve:
Alive and almost overwhelmed.

My feathers are glued
To my fragile skin, and
Pieces of the shell
Of my old life
That nurtured and protected
Me still stick,
Here and there.

Cradled by the warmth
Of my palm, your palm,
My fledgling soul will
Soon preen those
Damp feathers till
They surround me like
A downy halo, and carefully
Detach the fragments
Of the shell that once
Enclosed me.

My fledgling and I move
Together now, jerkily,
Preparing for the time
When you will raise
Your hands to release us,
To join the sky.
Then, we will fly
To be with you.

Go well, be well.

May peace and joy be yours in the month ahead.

Michal

© Michal Levin 2009

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We have entered the time of planning and detail. The next few weeks are about the details of the agreement, or the plan, or the way ahead. And the structure of the same.

Go slowly and steadily is my advice. The pace may be fast, you may be clearing up issues that need to be cleared up. Be generous, be kind, but also be scrupulous.

The emotions that were stirred up in the previous few weeks are strong. They will not immediately settle, and they may color your thinking. You need to pause as necessary, and think clearly now. It is not a time for resting though.

The wind has turned; there is a new path ahead. Plan your way ahead. Honor all existing agreements. Listen to your deepest heart- the place where truth and transcendent love reside. Combine your heart and your wisdom. The devil is in the detail, be sure to iron it out. Give thanks for past joys, gifts and learning, and welcome, plan the way ahead with honor.

Go well, be well.

May the month ahead bring you peace and joy.

Love

Michal

Wind Whistling ELU 26 Nov 2009

The wind whistles across
The barren ground
And through the bare trees.
The sky above blazes
A clear and cool blue.

A fine, piercing light
Shows the detail
On the parchment leaves
That lie scattered across the path,
The ridges made by the veins of the past.

Stark and illuminated
Brown as the earth,
Brown as old blood.
Still, they feed a deeper reality
That nurtures the changing
Of the year, the eternal
Process of the wheel
And all eternity that sings
In my own blood.

You are dead but alive.
We are crucified and risen.
You are mine for ever,
Your place engraved on my heart
In honor of the ages.

One god in three.
Three gods in one,
Delivered now as my Soul
Runs free in the wailing
Of the wind and the stirring
Beneath the soil.

© Michal Levin 2009

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The time of desire is upon us. As the nights lengthen and leaves turn in the western hemisphere, the language of love is in the air. In the southern hemisphere the heat is rising, too – albeit a different heat. But it goes to the same place. This is a month before all else to recognize and acknowledge your real desires, in the cradle of love (that’s the complex part of it.)

Part of the process is not only knowing what you want -and need- but perhaps what you need less of, or differently.

Its not necessarily an either or choice you’ll be making (or just have). The month’s message very rarely needs you to exclude something, someone, a dream, or a practice- though it may need a change of attitude. My friend Ken Wilber’s wonderful phrase “transcend and include” is so often the best dictum. But now you need to choose the “weighting” of your love. How much to give to the different aspects of your life? Which passions do you want to pursue? How much to the new that you are bringing to life? And how much to the old? At all times though honor and truth must be aligned to your desire.

Give honor where it is necessary. Acknowledge desire, but be sure let love, with all is knowledge of responsibility, lead. You can make strong efforts now to allow your life to be shaped by the reality of what it is you love and desire, providing you are sure of the honor and truth of that desire. (No wild flights of fantasy that ride rough shod over others needs! Or your duty!). You choose your heart’s path; and watch the signs around you as you follow that choice.

It’s also a month where art and beauty may play their part too. You may be particularly susceptible to the energy that comes together in the construction or revelation of beauty. Perhaps this will be a month where you will see truth and beauty align?

Finally this month may bring positive finances too. I hope it does just that for you.

The ELU (EneryLink Up message) that follows is about recognizing Love.

Go well, be well,

May the month ahead bring you joy and peace,

Michal

© Michal Levin 2009

The EnergyLink Up message below is about finding your Love- the love that will fulfil your desires.

Is it you?
ELU 30 Oct 09

I saw a shape, in the wind,
That had no name. As I
Tried to call, it changed
Before my eyes – Shapeshifter.
It led me from person to person
Trying each against the figure
Holding, moulding my mind.

So time, and disappointment, rolled
One after another; the tide
Of my inward tears ate into
The shore, till I watched
From the safety of the dunes -
Poised, posed in sum and air.
I saw you still, but where?

Then one evening, in the
Drizzle of early fall, in a
Strange but comforting place,
Ringed by trees and built of wood,
The unexpected seemed to happen.
You reached out your hand
To me. Is it you?

Travel well,

Go well be well.

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Here’s the sound recording to go with my IntuitiveMonth posting of 24 September 09. It’s called The Rhythm and the Balance.

Remember, the ELU is like an energy pill (in Zen Buddhism they might call it a koan). The action of listening to it is designed to help you integrate its message. It’s a way of taking you closer to the meaning of the words- it does not depend on your understanding- the energy of my voice does the work.

If you’d like to know more about the ELU click here for an extract from a talk I gave that includes more information .

Remember too that every Sunday there is a virtual link up, where you can connect with a group in meditation or contemplation to benefit from the energy of the ELU.

For your local time, and instructions to join the LinkUP, please check out http://www.michallevin.com/energy_link_up.php

For past IntuitiveMonths and ELUs go to http://michalblog.com/category/energylinkup/

May the month bring you peace and joy.

Michal

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Intuitive Month
24th September 2009

It’s time again for my intuitive take on the month or four weeks ahead.

And this month’s EnergyLinkUp, or ELU follows my intuitive take on the month. Read the ELU notes on how to use it. It’s a poem (or a koan as a wise friend said to me) to reinforce the meaning of the Intuitive Month’s message. So, read on:

A time of balance is approaching. It is as if you have been dealing with varying degrees of chaos- some of them very fertile indeed, others backward looking and reminders of a past that no longer serves you. Or you have been wavering, undecided. But all that is being eclipsed in the next week or two. Instead- balance, and renewed vigor are calling to you.

“Balance” means the desire and the imperative to find a place of harmony. In its positive form that can be immensely “grown up”- real mature behavior. In its negative form, it can mean simply sitting on the fence. Don’t sit on the fence. Use all your persuasive powers, your intellect and the great force of your heart to strive for balance, an empowered balance. Take decisions where necessary; forge paths if you need them. But always strive to keep, or establish, equilibrium.

That does not mean compromise at any cost. Compromise can reek of disempowerment. There’s an expression “everything matters but nothing matters terribly”. It is sometimes trotted out to deal with romantic agonies, or awful emotional excesses. It has its virtues. When the heart is out of balance, feelings can run away with you and rivers can run red. However, it can also be stifling – a memento of a crippling gentility.

Everything matters. It matters greatly, not terribly. The enormous responsibility, and joy, facing us all is to find the place of balance, to hold all that matters so much in a powerful balance.

Well, for approximately the next four weeks, that is our task. It will be followed by significant change. So, use this opportunity to put all in order, before the change that is coming. And make it useful, productive order. Don’t bury issues under the pretense that you are ordering and balancing the situation. Shake them out, wash and iron them and put them away in good condition to be used again. Then all will be balanced. The force will be behind you!

Go well, be well- with love and best wishes,

Michal

The Rhythm and the Balance

The rhythm of the waves beats an
Irregular pattern as the swell
Crashes onto the shore. Sometimes
It’s deceptively meek, a watery blue,
Where I see your face reflected.
Sometimes wild and hungry almost oranges,
And muddy browns, do the devil’s work.

Then I jump at their fearsome collision,
Dodging hundred upon hundreds
Of gallons of water carrying
Sharp needles that graze my skin,
While applying an antiseptic
Salt burn at the same time.

But now my pace changes.
As if the magnet that drives the tides,
Drives me too.
I hear the rhythm anew.
It beats seven times, in the swells
Before repeating the pattern.
Over and over again.
Then the numbers change, but
Still I hear the rhythm. No surprises
Take me unaware.

I slow my pace
And see the waves with different eyes.
No ravenous power threatens me,
No harsh breakers assail me,
But a great force unfolds
Playing with its power
Backwards and forwards.
Offering me the energy of a millions facets-
Reflecting all the shades of the sky
Above and the sandy bed below.

So you turn to me and sing
To my soul, till I hear your melody
And finally recognize the tune.
How sweet is the sound.

Travel well,

Go well, be well.

© Michal Levin 2009

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MichalGardenHello,

It is very good to be connecting with you again.

Now, housekeeping first of all. You have been very patient seeing the IntuitiveWeek through all its changes from its original form as the ELU or Energy Link Up to its current mode, which includes the ELU.

Well – there is another change coming, and I do hope you will be as accommodating. Ultimately, I trust it will be to your advantage. Due to pressure of time, and the competing claims on my time, I can no longer write and record an edition of the IntuitiveWeek every week. (As most of you know, its not something I trip off in a casual half an hour! It’s more like a labor of love; I especially love writing the ELU message). I wondered what to do – and came up with a solution that I hope you will accept. Read the rest of this entry »

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