Ascension Updates
2015 : The Return of Sovereignty
by Samantha OrthliebIt’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you but no one can walk it for you. – Rumi Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you. – Ali ibn abi Talib Come out of the masses, stand alone like a Lion, and live your life […]
A Spark of Creativity and Passion
by Samantha OrthliebYou must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” – Joseph Campbell “I feel a subtle shift. It is deep within me, though; deep down to my bones. And something is rising up… bubbling to the surface… beginning to make itself known…” – Dana Tate […]
Truly, Madly, Deeply
by Samantha Orthlieb“The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t yet come to the end of themselves. We’re still trying to give orders, and interfering with God’s work within us. ” –A.W. Tozer “It’s healthy to say uncle when your bone’s about to break.” –Jonathan Franzen “You have […]
Acceptance and Surrender as a way to Joy and Peace
by Samantha Orthlieb“Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? What could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working […]
2014: The Year of the Spiritually Fittest (Part 2)
by Samantha Orthlieb“Once you go into a ceremony, you go into the light, around the curve, and you bring your patients back from another world where they are already dead, from lack of spirituality.” – Yakima healer “The white man talks about the mind and body and spirit as if they are separate. For us they are […]
2014: The Year of the Spiritually Fittest (Part 1)
by Samantha Orthlieb“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!’ ‘Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical…There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin “The crisis of our times is not only an […]
And Now For Something Completely Different… (The Alchemist Archetype)
by Samantha Orthlieb“We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher’s stone. Our music is our alchemy.”― Saul Williams There is much […]
Breaking Free: Recalibrating and Realigning for a New World
by Samantha OrthliebGo back a little to leap further.” – John Clarke “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt In the last week we have been through three significant astrological […]
Dying into Big Love
by Samantha Orthlieb“I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this,you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.” – Judith Minty, Letters to My Daughters October 2013 marks the biggest death yet of our inner selves and for the old way of living for our species. And with […]
Is Sacred Union Possible?
by Samantha OrthliebAs we venture into Mercury Retrograde today, it feels to me that we have reached another tipping point for Unity within or what I refer to in one of my recent blogs as Sacred Union. I stressed in my book that the unity of the co-creative masculine and co-creative feminine is one of the necessary […]
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The Age of Transparency and the Spiritual Warrior Archetype
by Samantha Orthlieb“We are powerful beyond measure, and so deeply vulnerable at the same time. This may seem like a dichotomy, but it isn’t. We have misunderstood real power. It has been something assertive, non-surrendering, pushing on through. This is not real power. This is simply willfulness. Real power is something else- receptivity, openness, the courage to […]
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Purifying into Sacred LOVE
by Samantha Orthlieb“Spirituality begins when you decide that you will never stop trying. Spirituality is the commitment to go beyond no matter what it takes…A spiritual being feels as though they are always against the edge, and they are constantly being pushed through it”. Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul “What would happen if you stopped fighting, […]
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