Every Woman Visionary: Let It Shine, Let It Shine, Let It Shine!
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Jacke Schroeder
“Every wise woman buildeth her house….”
My fingers dancing across my keyboard, I’ve just submitted an immediate resignation severing my part-time managerial position. At our Holiday staff luncheon, a woman I supervised handed me a “gag” gift – a toy silver metal gun – and told me she felt like shooting me when I asked for her workplan. The formal grievance I filed wasn’t taken seriously. Many women I know have dismantled their outer house – changing jobs, selling homes, relocating, marrying, divorcing, etc.
Beginning February 4th, right when the whole planet is undergoing dramatic chaos, the Chinese Female Water Snake of 2013, known for her astonishingly beautiful 3rd eye, reflecting the seat of spiritual wisdom, sheds her skin, providing the transformational way for new beginnings.
Her message is: shed all that’s holding you back – emotionally, mentally, physically, financially, and spiritually. Investigate your past, fears and beliefs to detect patterns and behaviors limiting you. It’s time to change the course of your future.
Marianne Williamson said, “This year is a moment out of time, a leap beyond the rationally predictable linearity of history. Don’t just expect the unexpected; DO the unexpected, and you’ll have more cosmic support than your mortal mind would expect.”
The Female Water Snake returns every 60 years. Born in 1953, during the last appearance of this “mesmerizing beauty with her charismatic aura,” I welcome her return, Calling-to-Action my Highest Visionary Self. And, I’m shouting out to you, Visionary Sisters – Join Me!
To access unlocked hidden doorways, gain insight and inspiration, I use golden keys – Questions.
I turned my focus in, opened my senses and asked, “What are visionary women facing at this time? How can we let ourselves shine?”
Like in a waking dream, I found myself climbing up a coastal redwood in Muir Woods. Met by a Crow at the top, he lifted me off, swirled me through the dark grey turbulent atmosphere, then crossed me through a firmament. There I was met by an ethereal teacher who perched me atop his shoulder. Peering far across the landscape, I saw more commotion. Suddenly from the right side of my head came a vast, enigmatic luminescence. Quickly it receded, revealing a Lighthouse. A Lighthouse! Immediately, I was inside the Lighthouse. I then became the Lighthouse. I heard the words, “You are a visionary woman. You are all visionary women. Be the Light. Be it. Each one build your house – your body and Being. Together, each be a Lighthouse amid the storms. Together, enter into one Lighthouse; form as One Lighthouse. Envision it, feel it, hear it, know it. Be One Lighthouse.”
Questions lead to more questions. “How do we “be” Lighthouses, One Lighthouse?”
I heard, “Be your true self. Be true to yourself to your core. Resolve to cultivate your fortitude. Have the audacity. Be true to what is true to you. Your home is you, your relationship with yourself. Everywhere you are, choose to recognize yourself as a Lighthouse. You can build it or you can tear it down. Every wise woman builds her house.”
These days, I live with my cousin. We’re like sisters. She told me it’s not so easy to be a visionary woman. Usually people only trust and believe what they can see and touch. It’s easier to go with what’s concrete.
For me, I suffer when I don’t devote myself to my “house.” Living life is harder when I don’t trust my intuition. I’m willing to take a leap of faith to experience the beautiful things that can’t be seen or touched, like when I followed my intuition to trek up Mt. St. Helens to bury my old self.
Another question…“How do we Be Lighthouses? By being loving? Is being loving being a Lighthouse?
“Go inside yourself and stay there until you find the silence. Then dwell there.”
Amazingly, following my questions, I heard an interview with Eckhart Tolle. A woman asked about the power of love. He said there’s a common misperception. Humans who try to project love are ineffectual because when sending that love they’re doing it from human frequency. But if you enter into silence you open an aperture for Universal love to pour though. It illuminates you. That Light shines forth into the world web. It’s only through becoming still and going into the silence that you can open for it to come through. It’s far beyond what humans can do. It’s not the same vibration as compassion or love, but higher. Staying in the limited conditioned chattering mind of past and future, out of present moment time, closes the opening.
Let’s Be Wise. Let’s go into the silence. Building our individual Lighthouses, our One Lighthouse, will build all of us.
Let your Lighthouse Shine!
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Jacke L. Schroeder, MSW, LCSW-C, founder of Corporate Shaman U, brings spirit to work and ties personal growth to the bottom line. She cracks open doors of hard-to-reach places and the truth slips in. Clients catch a glimpse of their greatest potential. Her candid kindness, stalwart companionship and unanticipated comedic delivery, reinvents one’s change process. Disciples become their own Masters when they invest in themselves as well as their businesses. How do you put a price tag on that?
Baltimore/Washington D.C. based, Jacke’s local and national delivery portals include: personal and executive leadership development, business consulting, customized workshops, classes and speaking engagements.
Jacke is proud to be in the 2013 edition of The Spirited Woman Directory: A Collection of Stories & Resources for an Inspired Life!, which is bringing together women from around the world in a massive collaborative effort. Featured in the magazine-style digital Directory celebrating the “every woman” visionary, are women who are inspiring and changing the world, one Spirited Woman step at a time.