On New Year’s Day 2003, I began a ritual of picking an angel card for the year. That first year, I picked Release, and that was the year that my former husband and I took off our wedding rings on our eight-year wedding anniversary. Now, eight years later, on this New Year’s Day 2011, I again picked Release. (Angel cards, by Kathy Tyler and Joy Drake, Narada Productions, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 1981.)

Before picking the angel card this year, I put on some Arabian Sandalwood scent, took a little kava kava tincture, ate part of a Lulu’s Raw Love Bar (handcrafted raw chocolate with vanilla bean), lit candles on my altar, and waved some incense around the cottage. Then I bowed on the floor crying to Amma and Neem Karoli Baba in gratitude for the intensity and gifts and lessons and blessings and Healing in 2010. (“Healing” was the angel card that I had picked for 2010.)

Through those healing tears, I offered all of myself – my personality, ego, mind, heart, body, soul, connections, & lilas – to my Gurus, and I asked that they see the purity of intention in my heart: that my deepest intention is to be used by the Universe for spreading Light and I am asking to be financially supported in my work. I thanked them for the blessing of the unrequited love lila, because even though I can’t understand it yet with my little mind, some higher part of my mind does understand that it is all perfect and a blessing. So then, from that crying surrendered state, I asked for angel guidance for 2011 and picked Release.

I could not have picked a more perfect card! Yes, I am ready to release rules, release ideas, release boxes, release plans, release strategies, and release blocks to Shiva Union, such as romantic lilas with earthguys… Rather than continuing to try and grow through painful situations that drain my life force energies, I release those karmic connections, sending them out to be dissolved into Healing Light in the Universe.

Merging with my intentions for 2011 (as stated in previous blog articles this week): Shiva ~ Power ~ Magic, I say “YES! Yogini! Release what no longer serves you and march forward boldly in your own being!” May each of my roles – mother, author, circle facilitator, Reiki practitioner, vegan cook, and many more – spontaneously flow out of Shiva~Power~Magic.

May all beings everywhere experience some Magic this New Year 2011.

May all beings have food, clothing, shelter, peaceful sleep, and spiritual upliftment each day.

Om Shanti (Peace),

Yogini Tejaswini

Photo by Hubble Space Telescope.