Welcome to April. After surviving the tsunami of energy we experienced in March, April is a month for action. But with a twist – this must be inspired, intentional action, not going in any direction because we’re so glad to be free of the grinding downloads and the restrictions we have been feeling since the beginning of 2019. We have had brief glimpses of energetic freedom, harmony, and flow, but we’re tired of appetizers, we want the whole meal.

The key to success is activating our soul’s guidance, our inner GPS to ensure that our intention is aligned with our highest potential and what we envision is not just the right thing, but the most powerful of our potentials. Sounds like a lot of work? It isn’t but we do have to participate in the process by taking action, trusting our own intuition, and release our fears, confusion, and lack of belief in ourselves.

April opens up with ‘April Fool’s Day’. Generally people play practical jokes on this day but if you’re a tarot reader you know that the Fool card is #0, the very first card, (tarot decks begin with 0, not 1). 0 has specific symbolism because it represents infinite possibility and pure potential. It is not ‘nothing’, it is ‘no thing’, where nothing exists and energy is present and waits to be created into some thing. It is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the point of pure potential where everything is possible and nothing is happening yet.

The space of pure potential feels empty because it is our chance to be creators, as we move from karma, where our life path is pre-destined with the healing work we need to do, to creation, where our life path unfolds according to our thoughts and beliefs.

All of the clearing and release work we do brings us to the space of ‘no thing’, and sometimes that is quite literal, there is ‘nothing’ left in our life. That can feel very scary and isolating but we don’t have to wait until our life is empty to start filling it up with new people and situations.

In this very creative month and year (2019 is a year of creative potential), try creating something new as soon as something leaves or realize that the moment you create an energy container for a ‘new thing’ everything that is not aligned with it will be eliminated (which means being shown the door). This is an active month and we need to activate our creative skills if we’re going to start creating something out of ‘no thing’.

What else is happening in April? This is the final month of new and full moons at 15 and 0 degrees, respectively. This has been going on since October 2018, where the new and full moon energies are at the balance point (15 deg) and the zero point, or beginning. It has created some powerful energy swings as we cycle from balance or neutral position to zero or no thing.

Remember the long Mercury retrograde in March? It’s now over and Mercury is direct again but it won’t be out of shadow until the 17th when it hits the 29 Pisces degree again. And this brings another big cycle to a close. Mercury rules karma so Mercury cycles are important to us and 29 Pisces is the final degree of the zodiac. We also have to look at Mercury’s relationship with Pisces since it rules Virgo, the opposite sign. What we have here is an end to a collective karmic cycle that pushes us into a new paradigm.

My guides told me that we were entering into this new paradigm on April 1 and while you may or may not feel it yet, it’s there for all of us to eventually integrate – remember everyone integrates energy in different ways and at different levels. If you have been feeling the need to clean, clear, release, and move things out of your energy space, blame both Mercury retrograde and the upcoming end of this karmic cycle. On a soul level we are so ready for this new paradigm, our bodies just need to catch up.

We also have Mercury, Venus, and Mars, the trio of personal planets, all changing signs this month too, adding to the action potential. Keep the energy moving, just remember to take time to smell the flowers along the way.

And this month we have a rare event that happens every 9 years, where Pluto aspects the North Node but this one will only happen once in our lifetime, with Pluto in Capricorn. In November 2010 it was conjunct, which happens only once every 19-20 years. The first week of April we have Pluto opposite the North Node which impacts the mother, family, and emotions. Are there any big debates going on that involves babies, families, mothers, and the home? It is an ongoing theme and that will get some resolution or a lot more attention with this Pluto/North Node action. That is part of the Great Awakening we’re experiencing all around us. It’s also setting another rmarker for the upcoming Capricorn stellium of early 2020. Pluto represents total transformation from the ground up – no small changes here – it’s scorched earth, start over from the beginning. Let’s see what happens on the world stage with this powerful and rare aspect.

April’s theme is inspired and intentional action, with a focus on harmony and flow, which is what we achieve with congruence – the balanced flow of energy into and out of our lives. When a new intention arises, all of our energy shifts to create energetic space for it. Release then becomes effortless (not always easy or without a twinge of regret) because it is also part of the in/out flow.

As I have been writing since 2011 about the ‘Becoming 360’ path, which has several levels that move us through healing and wholeness first, intention creates the path for all of this to happen. So try out some new intentions this month, go deeply into the forgotten corners of your heart and bring up some of your old dreams, visions, and plans that you once thought had great potential but decades of life and living pushed them farther and farther back into the ‘some day’ closet. It’s time to bring them out and give them another look. Who knows, this may be the moment that everything aligns, including you, to move them from maybe to ‘here we go’.

Never lose hope, it is the anchor for your vision and what will allow you to bring the dreams of your heart and the potential of your soul into your reality. Joy is your purpose.

Have a wonderful month.

Ready for something new? There will be ample opportunities this month to create in new ways and to experience renewal that will help you thrive and move forward. After a month of tricky energies with Mercury Retrograde, things are lightening up and it likely will be much easier to connect the dots and see situations more clearly.

Helpful Insights Coming to Light

April will be a month of revisiting what’s real, what’s right, and what needs to be rewritten. This is on both a personal and societal level, with very old unfinished business coming to light and people having an ability to see themselves more clearly. Consider, on a very personal level, that this means you can get more in touch with your gifts, positive traits, and light within – perhaps recognizing some of them fully for the first time. Continue reading to see how these things play out.

What’s Real

Societal Level: We’re living in times when information is often manipulated or withheld. It’s not unusual to see scientific facts questioned or even denied. Information that the public typically had access to is sometimes being withheld to protect the powerful. As I describe in “Predictions 2019” disinformation campaigns disguised as truth are destabilizing key countries. The energies of April will bring such things more out into the open. Those of us on the leading edge of change are being called to question more deeply than before, and confront injustices when we see them.

Personal Level: On a personal level, this month’s energies could be the perfect catalyst to dive deeper into your self-understanding. If you are like most of us, you have had plenty of conditioning that taught you to doubt yourself, to fear taking risks, and to see yourself as inadequate. Now is an excellent time to blast open those fears. They are not real. You know that on some level, of course, but conditioning has you giving into them anyway. Even small steps you take this month to break this conditioning will benefit you enormously. With personal inner work and healing modalities like DNA, you can rewrite the habits and patterns that keep you stuck.

Heart Check-In

I suggest that you take time DAILY to check in with your heart about yourself and your reality. Invite a knowing of what’s real and true vs made up and false. Ask for clarity about the appropriate path for you – to know what is right for you as a soul. Tune into examples of how you criticize yourself, tell yourself something will be hard, and compare yourself with others. And then, knowing your heart will tell you the truth, ask to be reminded of your positive qualities and your light and how those things allow you to make a real difference in this world.

Moon Energy Gateways

April has two moon energy gateways. The April 5 New Moon in Aries is a wonderful time to connect with inspiration and fiery energy for your special projects and new starts. The April 19 Full Moon in Libra – the second Libra Full Moon of 2019 – can be a key opportunity to resolve or energize relationships and financial issues.

For Right Now

As April begins envision a series of blessings unfolding in your life.

Hi my friend,

How have you been feeling, with all the changes that have been taking place within each of us, and in our world?

If the month of March was a bit all over the place for you, especially when it came to your emotions, know that you are not alone.

Collectively, we all moved through a powerful few weeks that had us consciously and/or subconsciously processing our feelings, emotions, and thoughts in deep ways that helped us receive greater clarity.

That clarity is showing us what we really desire to continue nurturing and growing in our lives, and what we now desire to honor and let go of.

As challenging as times like this can be, when we process in this deep way, we shift the foundations of our reality so that they more easily support us and create more balance in our lives.

The month of April will feel much different.

Turning the Corner

April will be a month of action and movement.

This is an excellent time to complete unfinished projects or tasks you’ve set for yourself.

This is also a great time to begin brand new projects, be inspired to experience greater healing and personal development, enter new relationships or a new career, or to embrace a new hobby or creative endeavors.

This is the time to honor an inner call to action.

If for any reason you find yourself procrastinating or feeling unmotivated, honor these behaviors by being gentle with yourself.

The mind uses patterns of procrastination and lack of motivation as coping mechanisms when it’s faced with a new beginning.

Yet these behaviors have absolutely nothing to do with who you are.

One of the main reasons the mind chooses to procrastinate and feel unmotivated, is because it usually prefers things to stay exactly as they are.

As a result, the mind will create stories such as, “I can’t . . . I’m not able to . . . I’m not good enough . . . What’s the use,” etc., to make sure everything stays the same.

Once we realize that this is just one of the mind’s defenses, it becomes easier to have compassion for the mind.

It’s just doing the best it can with the information it has, to keep itself/us safe.

Really, how could we be upset with the mind for just desiring to protect itself?

Most people who choose to remain in procrastination are only there because they are judging themselves for not moving forward.

Yet there is always another option.

When we express compassion for the mind instead of being upset with it, this helps the mind to feel seen, heard, honored, and acknowledged.

Over a short period of time, that act of compassion allows the mind to lower its guard and its coping mechanisms, so that more space can occur for it to recognize the benefits of other ways of being.

Honoring our mind through compassion also creates space between the fear-oriented stories that the mind creates to protect itself, and our old habit of needing to believe those stories.

From there, it’s easier to get back into and embrace our own Universal Life-Giving Energy, which allows us to feel motivated—to take inspired action in the direction of the greatest vision we have for our life.

The energies of this month greatly support our treating our mind in new ways.

All that is asked of us is to be willing—to do our part by creating a daily practice of being more compassionate and loving with our mind and ourselves.

This month’s energies are in the flow of helping us move in the direction of treating ourselves in a more compassionate and loving way.

This supports us in integrating a daily practice of compassion and love for ourselves that will help us move more easily through the times that feel more challenging.

A Time of Action is a Time to Manifest

Because the energies of April are so movement-oriented, we have the opportunity this month to refine our manifestation skills.

This supports us in creating experiences that reflect what we want more of, instead of what we don’t want.

One of the ways we can refine our manifestation skills is to understand the clear difference between intentional manifesting and future-casting.

The main difference between them is that one facilitates events to occur in present time, and the other projects events into the future.

Future-casting happens when someone views their desired intentions as being a future circumstance or event, rather than already feeling the qualities that that situation will bring them.

If you are finding yourself getting mentally caught up in the story and specifics of how your desired intentions “should” show up in your life, you are future-casting, rather than intentional manifesting.

When we future-cast, we keep our desired intentions just out of reach, so that they are never fully realized in our present experience.

Future-casting is a coping mechanism the mind uses to protect itself, and to keep feeling structured and organized. It’s often mixed with doubt, worry, and fear.

When we realize that this is what’s happening when we future-cast, it becomes easier to have compassion and love for the parts of our mind that choose to cope this way.

Intentional manifesting requires us to first enter the present moment. To fully be here now.

It’s in the present that we operate at our most powerful, and are able to create the most joyful and fulfilling life.

Here are a just a few ways we can align with the present:

• Acknowledging and being fully present and aware, actively using all five senses
• Honoring all of our feelings and emotions
• Expressing gratitude often
• Meditating
• Placing our bare feet ion the grass/on the Earth often, and spending time in nature
• Performing acts of service without expecting anything in return
• Eating natural foods that nourish and support our body
• Moving the body through dance, exercise, and intentional walks
• Working with affirmations
• Taking in 10 to 15 minutes of off-peak sunlight each day
• Receiving massage/touch therapy
• Using essential oils
• Recognizing that you are a timeless Spiritual being (through self-development, self-inquiry, self-healing)

Adding any of these into our daily routine will help us come back to the present with greater ease, to where we are able to intentionally manifest and create more of our desired reality.

Then, as we are operating in the present and choosing to intentionally create from the Now, we can expand out of the “specifics” of our desired manifestations, which tend to limit us and hold us back.

We can then instead focus more on the qualities that these manifestations would bring into our lives.

For example, a very specific desire would be something like: “I desire to manifest my soulmate so that I can create a family with them, and have two or three children.”

The quality asks us, What is the purpose of this desire?

By questioning the specifics, we can see that there’s something much more expansive underneath that original vision.

In this case, when we ask “What is the purpose of my manifesting my soulmate, so that I can create a family and have children?” we might receive ideas such as, “I desire to experience love, understanding, joy, romance, care, etc.”

This reveals to us that these are the qualities we desire to create more of in our lives.

We can then ask ourselves questions such as, “Where in my life have some of these qualities already shown up?

“What would happen if I released the specific pressures I’ve placed on my desired soulmate, to provide me with these qualities?

“Wow! Would I be able to give myself the things I was relying on others to give me?

“Would I then be freer, happier, and more empowered? Might I be able to create and manifest more experiences that are aligned with my greatest good?”

It’s powerful, isn’t it, what happens when we free ourselves from all the pressures and entanglements of the specifics the mind uses, simply to protect itself!

Give yourself permission this month to honor the parts of you that have been future-casting. And when you’re ready, give yourself permission to choose to do something different.

Enjoy a month filled with action, fun, and wonderful surprises.

And of course, just be mindful of all the inner calls to action you receive, so you can work happily with the beautiful energies available to us at this time.

Until next time,

Miraculously yours,

Emmanuel