What Shines: the inspirational newsletter of LiveYourLight.com

November 2025, Issue #290

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to
everything else in the Universe."

~ John Muir, naturalist and co-founder of the Sierra Club

The Tao of Now: Only Connect

Lately I've noticed people, predominantly men, saying "hi" to me on the street and in stores with increasing frequency. The exchanges feel different than a typical nod to a stranger - more like a call to be seen.

A fellow coach opined these overtures could be a manifestation of our deep desire for connection, since we've been under the spell of our screens for so long. My natural inclination is to smile at others, which liberates their own Light.

What's exciting as well is a perceived energetic shift: from the second to the third and fourth chakras (energy centers). That is: the male energetic is rising from the more instinctual pelvic region to the solar plexus, where personal power resides, and to the fourth chakra, which is the heart - the bridge between the upper and lower chakras. The heart connects the three lower "physical" chakras with our three upper "spiritual" ones. In this sense, the heart is a stargate, joining Heaven and Earth, enabling multidimensional streams of possibility.

Digital exhaustion as a design flaw

In the Age of the Phone, we crave real connection, even if we can't articulate this need. After metabolizing digital memes as a steady diet, we hunger for the heart of our humanity.

LinkedIn connection Gabriel Millien articulates this societal slide and what we can do about it: "Connection didn't disappear. It just got redesigned...badly. We traded porches and neighbors for feeds and notifications. The result? More contacts. Less connection."

But opting out of social media isn't the solution, either, says Zach Hansen, who maintains deleting social media creates a vicious cycle, and what's needed is a grounded identity that can use and enjoy the digital landscape without being defined by Likes and Follows.

Befriended or bereft

We fall prey to this sense of loss if someone Unfollows us, or our post receives no love - um, Likes - because this feeling is hardwired into our circuitry now. In this sense, we're like AI: our bodies can't discern the difference between analog loss of connection, such as a longtime friend who abruptly drops us after a misunderstanding, and a digital drop in "Friends." Emotionally, they feel the same. And it can be devastating.

Yet despite its rapid growth in replicating what humans produce in writing, music, and other genres, AI cannot replicate the Light. It isn't self-aware, and doesn't understand empathy and other human emotions. Even in the 24th century, on Star Trek: The Next Generation, the android Data struggles to comprehend what humans feel and why we behave as we do. Herein lies the danger:

Behavioral analyst Tom M. Novak describes how cigarettes are cool again, because, "The deeper signal here is not about tobacco. It is about a generation groping for the analog, for rituals of embodiment that resist digitization."

This is terrifying. It's well known that loneliness is as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day. Reaching for poison to assuage the pain is literally jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

One with the All

Unity consciousness is blossoming, though what it looks like can be difficult to parse, as the above examples illustrate. In terms of personal evolution, we're playing the long game.

Near-death researcher and author PMH Atwater writes, "The major cycles that change our planet and our lives began to be felt in a major way in 1969, and again in 2004. Critical energy shifts began in 2022, with intensity increasing in the timeframe of 2024 through 2026. The fabled Aquarian Age does not begin to show its real power until around 2132 and 2133 - with the 33rd passage of Halley's Comet. As The Age of Pisces leaves, it piggybacks The Age of Aquarius (now arriving), intensifying every thought, feeling, and incident out of proportion to what we're used to."

This month's Mercury retrograde (November 9-29th) and the annual 11:11 activation are clarifying pools. Dive into the evolving energy to transform living in tension to living intention. To help recalibrate our internal guidance system we can:

Improve signal-to-noise. Step away from the phone and tune into the planetary pulse. Ethnobotanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger says the more time we spend with our devices, the more we need to spend time in a forest. "Walk into a pine forest; you'll come out smarter." She explains how the biochemical aerosols pine trees release on warm days penetrate the human central nervous system, making us calmer, better able to focus and learn. In some cultures, forest bathing is a natural healing balm. You can also sing, dance, and share stories, natural forms of deep connection to your heart and with others.

Join the primal social network. German forest ranger Peter Wohlleben shares how rediscovering a reverence for Nature's wisdom benefits us: "Trees are social beings. They can count, learn and remember; nurse sick neighbors, and warn each other of danger by sending electrical signals across a fungal network known as the 'Wood Wide Web'." Gabriel Millien says redesign can start simply: "Hug your kids. Call your parents. Check on a friend. Bridge the wisdom gap at home, at work, in community."

Monitor emotional frequency. When we're tuned into our internal guidance, the information we receive will feel calming; there'll be a sense of rightness to it. If we feel frazzled, grounding or Earthing can strengthen our connection. We can tune our biofield with specific frequencies, such as 432 Hz, a frequency shown to lower heart rate, increase serotonin (mood hormone) and enhance a feeling of well being.

Breathe, hydrate, sleep deep, give thanks, get sunlight!

Nature is harmonic, and Mama Gaia has enough hugs for everyone. "Only connect" can be our epigraph as we continue to become One with the All, human stargates.

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Shine On

Rancor: the Hidden Emotion That Is Keeping You Stuck. Biofield tuning pioneer Eileen McKusick elucidates how rancor (self-righteous anger, judgment, rejection) impacts the tissues and function of our bodies, disrupting our vibration, keeping us in a holding pattern and blocking the flow of Love. Forgiveness is the movement that lets Love in. Includes a mini-tuning that begins 10 minutes in.

3I Atlas Activates Earth's Iron Core: As an interstellar comet glides past our Sun, eminent astrologer and cosmic researcher Barbara Hand Clow describes how this seismic shift affects us all: a portal is opening; dimensional awakening is happening; biological consciousness is blossoming. A riveting listen!

Humanity's Cosmic Future: In this transformative interview with Emilio Ortiz, Lee Harris discusses our accelerating evolution, exploring how cosmic consciousness, technology, and the human heart are converging to reshape our future. His channeled guides, the Zs, reveal why 2025-2026 marks a historic turning point for Earth, what it means to embody the "Future Human," and how the breakdowns we're witnessing are preparing us for an entirely new era of connection and creativity.

The Gift of the Gold Violet Flame: Archangel Michael says, "The Gold Violet Flame illuminates the distortions and resets the holographic geometries that create the grids of Golden Fire within the Holographic Template and Blueprint of the Divine Human Template. This gift of the Gold Violet Flame will mean that in the New Earth it will be possible to live without disease and to maintain a state of vibrant health and well-being."

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