The Brighter the Light, the More Dirt You See (a true story)

By Norma Gentile

The other day I was waiting for a client to arrive. As I stood in the hallway, I noticed the sunlight pouring in a window it seldom shines through. The sunbeams slide underneath a couch, glinting off of the beautiful natural wood floor, and illuminating a pile of cat vomit. Yes, a fur-ball. And yes, there is a spiritual message here.

I sighed very deeply. I had just cleaned. And I had missed it. Totally missed it. Until the setting sun was at just the right angle to reach all the way underneath the couch, I had no clue it was there. It was nice and dry. It probably dated from a few weeks earlier, when I had heard that infamous sound of a cat releasing a fuzzy fur-ball.

Upon hearing the cat's cough, I had dutifully pulled myself out of a sound sleep. I walked through every room of the house. Turning on all of the lights, I searched for the inevitable warm slippery pile of kitty fur and dinner remains. For me, the one thing worse than cleaning up a fur-ball at 3am is finding it with my bare feet during my morning somnabulance. And yes, I wanted to check on my kitty, to make sure he was comfortable.

As I gazed at the now setting sun and what it illuminated underneath the couch the doorbell rang. I didn't have time to fetch the hairball, as my client had arrived. The sun was setting, and I knew that within a few minutes the area under the couch would no longer be visible. I made a mental note to move the little couch later, and give the floor a good cleaning.

Why share this story? Besides giving away that I am a cat person and perhaps not the Martha Stewart of housekeeping, I mean to point out an opportunity we are given each year with the arrival of a special Light.

Each year the Sirius stars provide our solar system with a surge of energy. From about July 23-September 17 there is an influx of Sacred Masculine energies into our planet from Sirius. These energies build and peak in the middle and third week of August, slowly fading away by the end of September.

While we are bathed in these energies, they provide us with an abundant amount of Light that reveals what other Light does not let us see. Just as I could not see the cat's fur-ball under the couch with regular lighting, there are personal issues which the Sirius energy illuminates for us that we normally cannot feel or see.

For this reason, I invite you to consider what you have noticed is most 'up' for you in August and early September. What issue or issues do you feel like you are tripping over? Pay particular attention, my Hathor guide Atamira says, to 'whatever you don't want to deal with, because you already dealt with it.'

It's like having to do again something that you feel you just did. I felt a great, deep sigh of resignation about having to clean under the couch, again, when I thought I was done cleaning. So too, we often address an issue, go as far as we can with it, and assume we are done.

It's hard, especially for some of us (like me) to remember that it isn't a failure on our part when an issue reappears. It means that we worked the issue or situation as far as we could with the tools and experience we had at the time. The re-emergence of an old pattern into our lives means that we are allowing the Light to shine even more brightly. And we can now see more than we could before. It also means that this is an issue or situation our soul is choosing to change. Our personality may or may not want to change it.

As you listen to the sound healings, know that whatever you are noticing and addressing now in your life comes because you are ready. Not just to change yourself, but also to give a gift. Every time we change, we offer that change to the pattern or situation itself.

Every time you or I change, the energy that makes up that pattern is freed from its form and can itself change. Every energy is in a cycle of evolution or involution. All That Is is learning from itself. When we change, we also set free the energies of that same pattern which were in our bodies or energy field to continue on their own journey. When we release these patterns onto their own sacred path, we experience an uplift ourselves. This is the healing sigh that often comes just after a sound healing. Just as we desire to grow, so do all energy patterns desire to move into their next step of growth.

If you want to read more about this healing process, please see my article Escorting Energies Homeward.

And have a listen to this month's sound healings.

My blessings to all,

Norma

Copywrite 2008 Norma Gentile. www.healingchants.com

About Norma Gentile

Sound Shaman Norma Gentile stands on the precipice between the worlds of professional music making and energy healing. Holding a master's in voice and years of study with esoteric teachers, Norma channels both in written words and through music. She maintains a private healing practice, and writes regularly for The Sedona Journal and Spirit of Ma'at. She has four albums of sacred healing chants available, including her newest, SONGS of SPIRIT, now at the Ma'at Shop.

Her formal training in music (BM, MM, University of Michigan, Voice Performance) combined with her studies in esoteric healing have helped Norma understand how sound affects our ability to heal, and influenced her exploration of chant as a modality of healing. Norma's website www.healingchants.com offers free sound clips of her albums, podcasts, articles, and a free subscription to her monthly e-newsletter.