Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin

This week Tuesday-Sunday, our Sun transits Gate 38: Opposition. Struggle is part of life. How much meaning and purpose we give to our life determines how much meaning and purpose our struggles have. The more we are attuned to the depth of our being, the more we can experience Opposition as the transforming nature of life. We can easily mistrust life, and want to fight the world in our desire for freedom. The truth is we are all one, and the Light that makes us Warriors of Light illuminates everything and everyone with Honor. Honor starts inside us, as we honor the truth of our being alive in this rare window of time on earth. Listen for meditations and more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

This week our sun transits Gate 58: The Joyous. What are you doing with your life on Earth? “Why are you “there”, when you’re everywhere?” – to quote John Lennon. Bliss is our nature and our birthright. It cannot be faked, and according to Richard Rudd, our dissatisfaction will continue to point us to our true nature: Bliss. We tap our Vitality in our silence, aligning, discretion and care. We All Shine On…like the Moon and the Stars and Sun. Listen for meditations to ground you in your Bliss this week.Instant Karma This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

Saturday through Wednesday (12-20 to 12-24), our Sun transits Gate 10: Being Human, Treading, Love of the Self, with the Gene Keys of Naturalness, Being, and Self-Obsession – the unique soul spark, the Atman inside the heart, integrating into the voice, intuition, and creative source. This is called Treading. It’s the Behavior of the Self with a capital “S” in this life. This is my gate of Vocation, my unconscious Mars. And, as a Line 3 here I have experiential knowledge to share around this gift. But each of us has our own Naturalness. We are Source experiencing and loving itself in a new way. Listen for meditations and more.Bjork "Human Behavior" video This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

A conversation with Liva Nayeli. We talk about “depth with delight”, hypnotherapy, the subconscious, being fully here in this moment, the magic of receiving, bringing joy in offering, strengthening connection in life through collaborating in new ways, and sharing authentically. This touches on manifesting and keys to manifesting wealth and a full life. She shares a practice to do this with us, too. Serving our deepest authenticity and helping the process of loving our selves in a new way. Where is my work? Who are my people? Liva’s work creates a space to access our true essence, our true selves, and our authentic expression of who we are – a container to meet the parts of us that we may not even be aware of. There is a “re-membering” Inviting all the parts of us into our life and awareness with love. This work is truly integrating and inspiring, bringing strength and resonance. Liva gives us a wonderful gift for Calling it In – a technique for receiving we can carry with us every day. Listen for all this and more. This conversation also resonates with this week’s Transit Meditation: Mind of Light. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

The sun transits Gate 11 this week. Monday-Friday. Ideas, Idealism, The Mind of Light, and the Language of Light. I call it Ideation. And Ideation is an important part of manifesting the best world and life. Even the “unimaginable” can become manifest in the Language of Light as this gift carries the potential for our imaginations to be illuminated by divine will. This enters the mind as thought and illuminates the imaginal-realm with the coherence and diversity of our One-ness, our “Isness”. The best business is our “Isness”. We can be deeply honest in ourselves to avoid living in fantasy and delusions about what dreams ought to become a reality. The “right use of the Imagination” is in alignment with service, with life. We know it because it is unlocked in our expression and with others. It is actually Love of Creation. We know the truth when we experience it. This creates the great dance of lightness and darkness, “good and bad” that are ever evolving us into reunion with our whole nature. Love of Creation is the gift within this gift. This gift truly can take us beyond good and bad, rightness and wrongness…so that all that wants to manifest does so in this reality. Reality is magic, magic is reality. We do not do magic, we are magic. Our awareness can go deep in the mind and body with this Light. Our words can carry the coherence and language of Light. Our lives can be defined by “impossible” miracles when we serve the Light of our truest and most resonant dreams. Because, we are Source dreaming this world into reality. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

This week our sun transits Gate 26: The Sacred Salesperson. This gift is all about imagining an abundant future for others, selling, and the right use of willpower. This is a great time to know thyself, and love thyself. Whenever someone works with you, hires you, or buys your product, they are “buying” your energy, your frequency, your enthusiasm, your gifts, and your natural magic. This is a great time to remember to “sell your soul” in the best possible way. haha. Share your gift with this world; market yourself as a person authentically, and have fun doing it! The best work in this world is in the place God calls you to. “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the worlds’ deep hunger meet.” - Frederick Beuchner. Listen for meditations and more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

James Governale and I have an expansive conversation around the Full Moon this week (fullest at midday Thursday Dec. 4th 3:30pm Pacific). How the Full Moon draws out the polarity between Sagittarius and Gemini is discussed as a spectrum of experiential knowledge we can choose to engage with. The presence of the Moon’s nodes in Pisces and Virgo add dimension to the workings of this Full Moon. Bring a sense of structure and soul potential. Through it all we bring our sense of structure, detachment, experience, and practical knowledge. We also have the opportunity to heed the Moon’s North Node call towards Soul Love and surrender as we enjoy the structures and practices that we have built that work and let loose those things that are not so needed this week. The added awareness is sure to be an interesting ride!James Governale is a Health Coach, writer, and astrologer. Check out his High Heart podcast and substack. He has authored a book of poems about Saturn Return and the book Are You Ready for health practitioners to establish couching strategies and behavior change. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

Wednesday-Sunday [Dec 3-7], our Sun will be transiting Gate 5: Patience. The energy here is to listen to our inner timing to create healthy habits, rituals, and patterns. If the foundation is laid in this inner listening and inner timing, our patience becomes very active and vital. We are able to channel the Timelessness of our Being into life’s natural rhythms. Like the shadow of Hunger, our Impatience is so worried about things, when it is our experience of things that makes our lives full and magical. The gift of Patience is our presence in the flow of life’s rhythms. Listen for meditations and more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

What is there to be so Determined about? Your inner magic, your Heart’s Magic, is immortal, invincible. It has dreams. And when our dreams are this natural, so deeply natural, all they want to do is become fulfilled. Accepting all that is, and knowing just what is essential and where to put our focus. You become the one who is helping that Heart Dream happen. This is the Determination we are talking about. Just letting our most magical dream come true. Showing up for this everyday, and in every way. Your being here for it is what is making it happen. Not too Reluctant, because of a lack of trust or will power – Not Diverted by keeping busy doing everything but being in my Heart’s Will. Take the first step in the heart’s direction, and break through patterns. When I am most present, my soul’s dream can fully present itself, unfold its dance with this world, and change the world as it changes me. Listen for the recipe, meditations, and tips for uniting your daily life with your Heart’s Magic. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

Have you felt your Majesty lately? Saturday through Thursday (Nov 22-27), our Sun transits Gate 34: Gate of Power. This gate is about the difference between Power and Force. Between outer Force and Inner Strength. Each of us has the gift inner power, and when naturally expressed it is unselfconscious and Majestic. It is simply the right application of our power and in divine timing, responding and not reacting. We can apply power in just the right way. How are you treating your body? Does your creative power have the resources it needs? Listening to the moment, and being present is very powerful here. Listen for meditations and more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

This week (Sunday through Friday, Pacific) the sun transits Gate 14: Power Skills. The shadow here is Compromise, which is really about inner compromise; Doing what we know is not right for us. When we do what is resonant with out inner wisdom, inner authority and actual gifts and innate genius, we show our Competence. We know it by our efficiency, flair, enthusiasm, and flexibility. I talk about the inner resolve to compromise inside, and being “unseducible.” Listen for meditations and more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

Gate 43 will be active Tuesday through Saturday, Pacific time (Nov 11-15). Breakthrough, Crashing Through, Determination, Insight, and Inner Wisdom are all key here. The paradox to insight is that it is not found in the mind. Our greatest Insight and Epiphany come when we listen to what our body is telling us. Our feelings, sensations, intuition, instinct, or inner knowing are our wholeness. The shadow here is our Deafness, not listening to our inner wisdom. But we can embrace our Deafness, not to our inner wisdom, but our Deafness to the status quo! Because when we listen to our inner authority we are aligning with the Divine Plan. Our Epiphany is ultimately that it is all consciousness. And al that we know is that we don’t know. That is such a freeing and friendly feeling to have. Listen for useful meditations for being in your Pure Aura, and affirmations for the season. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

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This week, Friday-Tuesday, our sun transits Gate 44: Coming to Meet. This gate is about Teamwork and Patterns that keep us supported and supportive, and those that cause Interference. Looking at our karma and clearing it can be of great benefit. We can forgive the past. There is a simple tool we can bring to protect our sovereignty while supporting our interdependence; silence. Listen for meditations and more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

This week the sun transits Gate 28: Great Preponderance. Our fear of death keeps us in our “sin” and keeps our inner demons in the dark. With courage of heart, and knowledge of our true gifts – ourselves, we can see life for what it is; a game. Our great challenge in life is to let it come, and play our part. Listen for insights around sin, demons, death, immortality, and more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

This week (Sunday through Friday, Oct 19-24) our Sun transits Gate 50: Cosmic Order. We take for granted how much we are all working together to support each other. Life is always helping life. We are so adjusted to a baseline of dysfunction, of struggle, of failing systems and false promises, we forget our natural state is Harmony. We are designed to resonate our gifts and to share those as meeting community and group needs. When harmonics resonate, wow it is a shift! Being of service to whole, and really helping, is such a gift. We must first be empowered and in harmony in ourselves. Listen for meditations and more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

Monday-Saturday (Oct 13-18), our sun transits Gate 32: Preservation, Failure, and Veneration. The only constant is change. Impermanence is our spiritual reality. What endures? What is worth enduring? We only fail when we cut ourselves off from the whole. “Failures” in life are needed to further what sustains us. What doesn’t work must fall away for what does to work. This week we have the ability support what deserves supporting and let go of what no longer serves life. Not in isolation, but in relationship, and in the community. The deep gift here is to see ourselves in the web of life, and on the “Hawkin’s Scale of Consciousness.” We can Venerate life at every turn, and every little part, as we let go of our fear of death or being cast out by the tribe, listening to our natural instinct for knowing what is needed to support life in us and around us. Listen for more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

This week, Tuesday-Sunday Oct 7-12, our sun transits Gate 57: Intuition. The shadow here is Unease, what happens when we don’t trust our Intuition. If we put our authority outside ourselves, in expert authority, peer pressure, rationalization, or any other form of understanding that is not within us, we are subject to this feeling of Unease. However, we can simply remain calm, trust our Intuition, and listen to “the wind in the trees.” What is it saying? What is coming? What is happening? This week we have the opportunity to improve our art of intuition, trusting those whispers in the wind to bring us Clarity, and more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

This week, Thursday through Monday (Oct 2-6 Pacific), our sun transits Gate 48: The Well; Wisdom. This gift of Wisdom is really about the gift of Resourcefulness, tapping something within us that has a answer for every need. That is our nature, because it is the essence of nature; Creative Intelligence. The shadow here is very sad, because we have been made to feel we are not enough. We feel Inadequate. Inadequacy is a widespread shadow. We can’t trust our bodies to feel, or nature to provide, and in turn try and force this world to give us the illusion of security. The nature of this gift is endless abundance and the support of endless creativity – with the caveat that it is necessary, of service, and honest. Meditate with with Avalon to explore this “Ground of conscious nothing where the rose ever blooms” and the “Boundless Potentiality” within you that you can access right here, right now. Bonus meditation to transform Fear into Wisdom included. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

Friday through Wednesday (Sept 26- Oct 1), our sun transits Gate 18, Judgement, Integrity, and Perfection. This week we can experience the limits of our victim mindset. We can simply bring awareness to our Judgement, and see it for what it is: the shadow of our great gift of Integrity. Integrity is really about integration. Wholeness. Ultimately this takes us to the healing potential within everyone and everything. From our hearts desire to serve and protect all of humanity, we can see the right use of our perfectionism; the potential to move towards perfect form. Listen for this week’s meditations and more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe