The Barista

Photo by Maria Chambers

As many of you know, I love frequenting a local Starbucks for what I like to call my morning ritual.  Over time I found the one I like most.  As we know, all Starbucks are not created equal.  They may all look similar, but each one has its own energy signature.

The staff is friendly, and as I observe them over time, I notice they are a close-knit group and seem to enjoy working together.  Of course that trickles down to the customer.  We can sense those things and it can make for a much more welcoming experience.

I always say, one of the most important relationships in life is the one with your barista.

So one morning one of the young male baristas was pouring my dark roast.  He had been part of the staff there for awhile.  He was friendly, and seemed to enjoy working with the others.  We exchanged our usual pleasantries and he asked, “room for cream?” after which I proceeded to say, “Yes, ma’am!”

Our New Reality

Sometimes we are so physically and emotionally ‘shell-shocked’ from this integration process that we can’t see the beauty of this embodied enlightenment.

How we are literally creating a new reality, right here within an old, dualistic one.  And this new realty never existed before – in which opposites come together.  The human and the eternal self.  We are still surrounded by a very dense, and often harsh 3D reality but we are becoming less and less subject to its influences, even to its physics.  Yes, we are beginning to defy physics itself!

I Am Woman: Hear Me Roar

As I sit here at a cafe sipping my Gold Coast, I notice an elderly man in a wheelchair, on his own too.  I feel a deep honor and compassion for him.  For the road he is traveling can’t be an easy one.

So there is also that part of me, as a woman, that feels compelled to talk to him, make him feel cared for and loved.  But now I am becoming more aware that those feelings, as powerful as they are, as much as it feels like it’s in my DNA, those ARE NOT MINE!

I am becoming more and more aware that there is also another part of me that doesn’t need to nurture.  It is not my job to nurture the male because he may or may not feel lost or abandoned by the feminine.

At this point doing so just thwarts my light body and ascension process.

The Fifth Wave (The New Feminism in the New Energy)

Artwork by Maria Chambers

If you’re reading this and resonate with it, you are one of the few who came to this planet to discover who they are, and to change the direction of history. If you are a woman, you came here to become the new role model of the enlightened woman. You were brave enough to make this lifetime the lifetime of change for yourself.

Personally I am done looking for role models of an enlightened woman. Let’s be honest, isn’t it embarrassing how women are still perceived in the world. In this day and age, there are women in certain countries that are still severely oppressed. Add to that the ridiculous depiction of women in the media and in the entertainment world. I keep looking for role models but all I see are Supermodels. Major and minor roles alike in movies and television are showing women as more and more young, glamorous, thin and classically beautiful.  I’ve taken to watching more TV shows that originate from England because at least the women are cast as normal looking, and not as glossy magazine runway models.

We have been challenged as women to see our self-worth as either nurturers or emotional and physical caregivers.  In order to be taken seriously in the work world, we had to act like a man and embody that mental, competitive edge.  Our self-worth has been heavily defined by our body image, which generally can never meet up to the unhealthy standards set by our culture, at least here in the United States.

We’ve come in with a few handicaps. But we also knew that the new spiritual leaders are women.   It’s all changing now.