The Diamond Room Newsletter

Happy Full Moon!

in Leo

Yes, hello, I'm back from vacation

Two weeks of warm weather, good food, great people, and some spectacular sun and scenery?

Yes, ma'am.

The vacation vibes are real, man. Coming home it's just...no thoughts, head empty.

I've talked a lot before about the value of rest. Hell, I might have said something even earlier this month on that topic. But I don't think I've been this fully rested in months, maybe years.

It's a strange alchemy of all the different forms of rest: the joy of being with people you love, the joy of adventure, of new things and novelty, of having nowhere to be and the permission to do absolutely nothing, the creativity of trying new things, the sleep and dozing that come with almost zero stress, and the pure eustress of taking on things that bring you more joy.

Is joy rest? Are resting and joy the same thing? Possibly. One certainly involves more use of my fancy new pillow just for side-sleepers, but there might be something there.

Eustress is the pursuit of things that are exciting and new and challenging and thrilling, by one's own measurements. The scared-excited feeling of taking something on that fuels your heart and your soul, even if it's not easy (even especially if it's not too easy, the kind of challenge that feels like a worthy match for your skills).

Thoreau said it this way: "Every [hu]man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour."

As a massage therapist, I deal in stress. Specifically, I deal in distress, the opposite of eustress and the kind of stress we usually think of when we say, "I'm feeling stressed."

I had kind of forgotten that the point of being alive isn't to reach a magical fairy-land of totally no stress whatsoever. That's called being dead, and eventually we'll all arrive there. So will everyone that we love. The beautiful thing about being alive is that we have the chance to pursue eustress, to feel fully present and alive in the moment, to make something else happen, and to dive deep into our personal strengths, gifts, and challenges.

This is probably going to be a theme this year, as I work out for myself what this means for me. I'd have told you before this trip that I understood rest, eustress, and how to live a bountiful life. Now I'll tell you I know no such things.

We are all beginners in the sea of life. Which makes it way more interesting and difficult, let me tell you. I've certainly got a lot of journaling to do here to get my brain together on this one.

Do you have insight or questions of your own on this topic? Hit reply and let's muddle through it together. :)

In the meantime, here's your insight from the Akashic Records for the full moon.

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Some wisdom from the Akashic Records for the month ahead...

This month I asked the Akashic Records for wisdom on how we can nurture our relationships in 2024. What specific knowledge or understanding can we use to improve our interpersonal relationships this year?

Here's their response:

In 2024, the energy is different. It is bolder, wilder, and more efficient-seeming. This means that the wild wave you're on will guide you, like the ocean currents, around the obstacles if you let them, and you will have the pleasure of a life that is not obstacle-less, but in that one path where it is less. Less means that they are fewer, they are rounder (fewer spikey edges to get tangled up on forever). They last longer as lessons: you learn more from each one, reducing the number you require to understand a lesson in time. When you've understood one, for the lesson it provides, it disappears back where it "came from": into your mind, your soul, your reality of "knowing" what's true.

You never knew what it was like then, in the past, where the waves were turning you towards. You thought it was a wave (another wave, to crash into), and you thought it was a rock (to be beached or stranded on), you thought it was the shore (to be left behind). And you cried out to the wave "take me with (you, me, the world, together)."

It is an understanding you've combined with others' to understand more fully what's really happening. Maybe you compared notes, or went to a psychics' reading fair, or you just made a mental note to ask someone. You've been asking around in some way, researching, making your way in and around this realm of people who "speak your language." Even though they all speak their own languages, trying to understand and be communicated in their own way. Each one a world of experiences, bright and new (to you).

In keeping with the 2024 theme of Courageous Transformation, (natch), we're encouraging you to dream these connections bigger, fuller, more innately and intimately connected and wired together, like a light bulb on a wire with other lights: easy flowing connecting and circuitry among many, all flowing one to another in symmetry with the others. It's like snowflakes: each unique and all a snowfall together. Each piled up on top of the others, snuggled up and making clean air where it all falls down together.

You can be like this too: easy, and simply put in contact with the others that you love. Easy, untroubled. Not "easy" as in "no problems ever", lol. No one could be like that while they're alive. It's a matter of perspective on these problems that says that they cannot be made to feel surmountable. It is a perspective that makes them feel unmoved even with much trying. It's a perspective shift that makes them feel like earthquakes -- an eruption of the fissures between us all, an "enlightening" illumination of the cracks between us. That keep us separate, that make us fear one another. That make us feel all alone and lonely about it.

The cracks between people are oneness. This makes no sense, we know. (laughing) There isn't a need to be aware of it all at once, to be aware of what we're all growing together in these fissures and cracks between us. It's the growing we're intending to preserve, and to treat kindly enough to see it bloom. But enough of that. It's not useful to you.

The cracks between each of you are the predicament you find yourself in. As humans, there isn't oneness built into the mold. You live "separate-feeling" lives of bone-chilling wonder at what you've lost, at the oneness and ease of it all around you. Of the birds and the plains, the trees and the ocean. You never wondered where the rocks went to slumber. It never occurred to you until now. It never mattered until some of you asked, "how can we make it better?" Not a band-aid for the world, but a sense of rightness to yourselves, inside. You ask it more and more these days, and we marvel and wonder that it should be so now of all times.

You ask us "why do these people in my life cause me pain, anguish, and suffering?" They don't. You do. You're connected to them via pain, anguish, and suffering. They connect to you that way too. It is the marvelous natural bond of suffering you connect with. Ask as much, "why do these connecting wires convey energy back and forth, to and fro, between me and the thing I connect with and am wired to?" It's the same. You must reconnect with new wires to build a new connection, or sever them entirely. Easy. (Simple, not not-difficult.)

The more you do this (rewire the wires, sever the connections) the more you free up yourself and your thinking, your emotions, and your energy, space, mood, being free up. It's magical; it's basic magic. Your realm of emotions is basically tied to those others of your "kind" around you. They are basic bonds. You're not made up of much more than those, really. It's basic math.

Treat your bonds as extensions of yourself, your being, and explore the results of that exploration.

That's it.

This wisdom from the Akashic Records -- the energetic library of all soul knowledge, brought to you through the magic of channeling and the internet -- struck me as interesting for its highlighting of one of the basic "facts" of human life: the illusion of separation between ourselves and the "outside" world, which includes other humans.

It's absolutely a mindfuck, but it basically impossible to prove that there's anything in existence besides the basic awareness that seems to perceive existence. In your case, this is probably the part of you that seems to be able to "watch" your thoughts and emotions happening, "watch" the world go by outside your eyes, etc. It's cool, but unsettling, to consider that everything else is probably a lie.

All of the seemingly separate "objects" in the world, including other people, are actually not separate. Not in a "the hip bone's connected to the leg bone" kind of a way. More like "this bucket of red paint is just as much red paint at the top as it is in the bottom."

Which is, y'know, kinda trippy. I'll give you that.

So when the Records say, "The cracks between people are oneness," I hear them pointing to the apparent separation between you and other people as the access to connection with others. Look at what you see as "not-me" and recognize it as the same as you. That's the way in for you to deepen your relationships with the people in your life this year -- they're you, more of you, a mirror for you to see yourself in, a connection to yourself, a further extension of your you-ness in a place you never expected.

Is that deep? Well. You've got all year for contemplation, my friend.

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And that's it today, folks! Here are a few more great shots from the Caribbean to warm your dark winter day. Credit goes to my bff Anna, a whiz with a camera <3