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April 2026, Issue #295 awakened souls may be a key to co-creating a sustainable future and living in harmony with the earth." ~ Frances Vaughan, PhD, transpersonal pioneer and author of Awakening Intuition The Tao of Now: The Currency of Wholeness  Forty years ago, José Argüelles conceived an event based on a historic astrological alignment, and Harmonic Convergence lit up the planet August 16-17, 1987. This globally synchronized peace meditation took place pre-internet; communication happened on the innernet.We've been verging on convergence ever since. Unity consciousness is a whole new currency, based in love, synchronicity, and spiralic awareness. And the cosmos still defines the narrative arc: Late into last month's Mercury retrograde, my seatbelt suddenly retracted. The harder I pulled, the further inward it slipped. Since my car has long been symbolic of my life, I considered this. The restraint is gone. It's an apt metaphor for 2026, a year of unbridled forward momentum, unrestrained vision and action. In alignment with this message, I discovered a fabulous experience that launched as Mercury turned direct: The Great Mother March. On the road with the Divine Feminine  The Great Mother March, which began March 21st in Asheville, North Carolina, is a 500-mile pilgrimage designed to transform hierarchical, often obstructive Saturnian structure into collaborative, Neptunian visionary action.It's a walk not in protest, but in prayer: towards healing and regeneration, for the waters, for the trees, for future generations and ancestral wisdom. A sacred discovery journey to reweave the connection between people and planet, the walk concludes, appropriately, on Earth Day, April 22nd, in Washington, DC. The Great Mother Manifesto reads, in part: "We are moving and creating as one - a body of many hearts, in service to life, love, and the Great Mother who lives in us all. "This is how we rise. "This is how we remember. "This is how we walk the way forward." Celebrating unity consciousness  This resonates like memory, because my whole journey has been about coming home to the Great Mother of All.I fell in love with the Moon, in a state of raw, unfiltered - unrestrained - vulnerability. I threw my arms around trees and sobbed out my grief, feeling their loving embrace. I began talking to crows, paying tribute to their visceral wisdom in a poem that concluded, "A coded conversation/In guttural cries/Opens my eyes/And lifts me higher." This is how peace begins: by singing the wild symphony of nature back into our cells; feeling the music of the spheres in our marrow; embodying the feminine creative principle - a trinity of creator, created, creation. This is also how we heal our bodies, and the body of Gaia: "immune" means sacrosanct, inviolate, whole. Becoming coherent  I find it intriguing that "cohere" means to join together, and "coherent" means lucid, luminous. We shine brighter when we collaborate, create communion and community, unite in the Light.Did you know this type of connection was possible from the start? The US Constitution is patterned directly on the Iroquois model of leadership, with one notable exception: there is no Council of Clan Mothers, or Grandmother Council, which is the backbone of Native American decision-making. Perhaps if our Founding Fathers had included Founding Mothers in the new nation's governing body, we'd consider ceremonial decision- making that honors both masculine and feminine voices the natural course for balance and well-being. Just imagine what our culture might look like if the government consulted a group of wise women prior to implementing any major policy change. The Great Mother March is a return to what we know in our marrow: We are each cells in the body of Gaia, our common Mother. This is the year of unrestrained exuberance; we are on fire with purpose, passion and possibility. Recalibration is happening on all levels at Lightspeed. Welcome to our whole new world! Please share on Twitter!
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