Solstice to Solstice:
ReBirthing of Divine Inner Light
Jamie “Cedar” Rogers ~ 1! ~
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Contains portions of music from “A Himitsu - Lost Within” by Argofox under CC BY 3.0 ~ !2 ~
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In Dedication To the Earth and the Stars To the Enrichment of Our Lives In Harmonic Resonance Of Becoming All That We Are and Always Have Been From Within Our Hearts Let Us Be Guided By Our Hearts, Bodies, and Spirits In Creating A New World Together Let Us Connect and Remember Let Us Be Compassionate and Respectful Let Us Be Grateful Let Us All Ascend Together Into Greater Dimensions of Being 
Hummingbird Silhouette and Hummingbird Silhouette 2 by GDJ, Bird-heart by Karontrix under Openclipart ~ !4 ~
In Reverence to the Joy Of Our Rising Hearts I cannot go on walking down the street denying the truth that sits within my heart
In doing this I will also hold your heart in mine coaxing it with the same tenderness and love allowing it the return of its own truth
It sits there patiently loving me but ever so lightly prodding me to rise up To rise up to what’s there inside When I am ready I will rise up to fully claim my truth I will do so not to prove anything but to simply love who and what I am
Cedar
In loving myself I will hold my heart with all the tenderness of a newborn babe nurturing myself back to the truth that has always laid there deep within me ~ !5 ~
Only then can we stand together lovingly loving the truth of ourselves the truth that has always existed right there deep within our own hearts — Cedar 
Table Of Contents Day 1: Reflections Of The Winter Solstice __ 24
Day 10: Joyful Flowing Intentions
Day 2: Take Out The Garbage...
Day 11: Reflections
December 21, 2015
December 22, 2015
December 30, 2015
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December 31, 2015
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Day 3: Be Still With Becoming ________28
Day 12: The Precious Growing Seed Within __41
Day 4: Influencing Seed Expression _______29
Day 13: Recreation (Re-Creation) ______42
Day 5: Natural & Celebratory Influences ___30
Day 14: Guidance Through Animal Spirits ___ 43
Day 6: Let Things Fall Apart _________31
Day 15: Instigating Change ___________45
Day 7: Asking For Guidance & Surrendering
_32
Day 16: Walking Into The Fog ________47
Day 8: Offering Your Loving Heart & Spirit _34
Day 17: Tarot Card Guidance _________49
Day 9: Using Altars To Cultivate Intention
Day 18: Needs, Wants, & Desires
December 23, 2015
January 1, 2016
December 24, 2015
January 2, 2016
December 25, 2015
January 3, 2016
December 26, 2015
December 27, 2015
January 4, 2016
January 5, 2016
December 28, 2015
December 29, 2015
January 6, 2016
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January 7, 2016
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Day 19: Heart-Centered Discernment ______53
Day 29: Speaking Your Current Truth ______70
Day 20: Core Light, Power, & Self-Love ___55
Day 30: Inspirations Of Darkness & Light __72
Day 21: Rest & Reflect On Your Journey ___57
Day 31: Releasing Fear Of Creativity _____74
Day 22: Your Journey Within Community ____58
Day 32: Aligning With Soul Contracts
Day 23: Asking The Right Questions _____59
Day 33: Noticing, Observing, & Seeing ____78
Day 24: Needs, Desires, & Experiences
Day 34: Arranging The Pieces
January 8, 2016
January 18, 2016
January 9, 2016
January 19, 2016
January 10, 2016
January 20, 2016
January 11, 2016
January 21, 2016
January 12, 2016
January 13, 2016
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January 22, 2016
___60
January 23, 2016
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Day 25: No Plan Just Trust __________62
Day 35: What Kind Of Seed Are You? ____82
Day 26: Subtle Shifts In Energy ________63
Day 36: Developing Aspects __________84
Day 27: Intimacy
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Day 37: The Grief Of Change ________ 85
Day 28: Abandoned Creativity & Spirit ____ 67
Day 38: Love As Seeing & Nurturing Gifts __87
January 14, 2016
January 24, 2016
January 15, 2016
January 16, 2016
January 25, 2016
January 26, 2016
January 17, 2016
January 27, 2016
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Day 39: Early Bloomers & Spiraling Growth _89
Day 49: Heart Openings & Expansions ___108
Day 40: Gifts Revealed In Genuine Curiosity
_91
Day 50: Energetic, Light Information _____110
Day 41: Creative Visioning Through Collage __93
Day 51: Recognizing Personal Core Vibrations _112
Day 42: Who Am I______________ 95
Day 52: Time To Wake Up! _________113
Day 43: Reflections From An Orchid______96
Day 53: Incubation ______________114
Day 44: Just Allowing, Noticing, Sensing
___98
Day 54: Death, Letting Go, & Living ____116
Day 45: Sensing Energy, Identifying Blockages __99
Day 55: Timing & Breaking Through _____ 118
Day 46: Engaging With Energy Blockages
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Day 56: Vocally Vibrating The Heart Open _ 120
Day 47: Finding Wisdom Through Art ____104
Day 57: Struggling Within The Mystery ___122
Day 48: Creating From Intention, Not Skill
Day 58: Forever Awakening Heart Expansions _ 124
January 28, 2016
January 29, 2016
February 7, 2016
February 8, 2016
January 30, 2016
February 9, 2016
January 31, 2016
February 10, 2016
February 1, 2016
February 2, 2016
February 11, 2016
February 12, 2016
February 3, 2016
February 4, 2016
February 13, 2016
February 14, 2016
February 5, 2016
February 6, 2016
February 15, 2016
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February 16, 2016
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Day 59: Preparation
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Day 69: Neighboring Environment _______146
Day 60: Transformational Birthing ______ 128
Day 70: Restructuring & Reorganizing ____148
Day 61: Shedding Death
Day 71: Feeling Nourished
February 17, 2016
February 27, 2016
February 18, 2016
February 19, 2016
February 28, 2016
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February 29, 2016
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Day 62: Activations _____________132
Day 72: Receiving Nourishment ________151
Day 63: Expansion In Letting Go _______134
Day 73: Stretching & Shifting Perspectives __153
Day 64: Strength, Flow, & Timing ______136
Day 74: Gratitude ______________155
Day 65: Being Held _____________138
Day 75: Openings _______________157
Day 66: Heart Opening Alignment ______140
Day 76: Listening, Noticing, & Heeding ___159
Day 67: Receiving Community Support
Day 77: Levels Of Preparation
February 20, 2016
March 1, 2016
February 21, 2016
March 2, 2016
February 22, 2016
March 3, 2016
February 23, 2016
March 4, 2016
February 24, 2016
February 25, 2016
Day 68: Twin Flame Reflections
February 26, 2016
March 5, 2016
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March 6, 2016
_______144
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Day 78: Silence ________________163
March 7, 2016
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Day 79: Nurturing Unique Inner Beauty ____165
Day 89: Listening, Hearing, & Releasing
Day 80: Perfect Struggles, Perfect Life ____ 167
Day 90: Equinox Root Stretch
Day 81: Nutritious, Transformative Exchanges
_168
Day 91: Awareness Of Your Vivaxis ______ 187
Day 82: Heart-Centered What’s Next ____170
Day 92: Balancing The Middle Way ____188
Day 83: Growing Structural Roots
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Day 93: Choosing Your Pathways _______189
Day 84: Synergetic Connections ________173
Day 94: Vibrational Energy As Information __191
Day 85: Synergistic Creativity _________175
Day 95: Choosing Dissonance _________193
Day 86: Breath Awakened Cellular Wisdom
_177
Day 96: Returning Home ___________ 194
Day 87: Portals of Transformation _______179
Day 97: Informed By Experience ________196
Day 88: Transformative Imagery & Words ___181
Day 98: Rejuvenation Underneath The Heart _197
March 8, 2016
March 18, 2016
March 9, 2016
March 10, 2016
March 19, 2016
March 21, 2016
March 22, 2016
March 13, 2016
March 23, 2016
March 14, 2016
March 15, 2016
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March 20, 2016
March 11, 2016
March 12, 2016
__183
March 24, 2016
March 25, 2016
March 16, 2016
March 26, 2016
March 17, 2016
March 27, 2016
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Day 99: Building Agitation __________199
Day 109: Ordinary Guidance _________215
Day 100: Sources Of Inspiration _______ 200
Day 110: Being In The Middle _______217
Day 101: Transforming Death Into Life
___202
Day 111: Focal Point Balance _________219
Day 102: Transformation Begins _______ 203
Day 112: Sadness, Happiness & Balance ___221
Day 103: Perfecting Imperfect Becoming ____205
Day 113: Divine Birth____________ 223
Day 104: Navigating Life’s Turbulence ____206
Day 114: Morphic Energy Fields _______ 225
Day 105: Non-Action ____________208
Day 115: Seeing Signs, Trusting, & Leaping
Day 106: Root Body Expansion _______209
Day 116: Infinitely Imperfect Flowering Life __228
Day 107: Dreaming Life ___________211
Day 117: Hints Of Becoming
Day 108: Energetic Recharging ________213
Day 118: Approaching The Threshold ____ 232
March 28, 2016
April 7, 2016
March 29, 2016
March 30, 2016
April 8, 2016
April 9, 2016
March 31, 2016
April 10, 2016
April 1, 2016
April 11, 2016
April 2, 2016
April 12, 2016
April 3, 2016
April 13, 2016
April 4, 2016
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April 14, 2016
April 5, 2016
April 15, 2016
April 6, 2016
April 16, 2016
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Day 119: Whose Becoming Is It Anyway? ___235
Day 129: The Bucket List
Day 120: Noticing The Shifts Of Light
Day 130: Movement _____________254
April 17, 2016
April 18, 2016
April 27, 2016
__237
_________252
April 28, 2016
Day 121: First Exposure ___________ 239
Day 131: Multiple Dimensions Of Becoming
Day 122: Restricted Heart Stretch ______241
Day 132: Pendulating Between Extremes ____257
Day 123: Flexible Expectations ________242
Day 133: Then Magic Happens _______ 259
Day 124: Pace Yourself ___________244
Day 134: Expanding Your Horizons ______261
Day 125: Accepting Change
Day 135: Holding Your Vision
April 19, 2016
April 29, 2016
April 20, 2016
April 30, 2016
April 21, 2016
May 1, 2016
April 22, 2016
April 23, 2016
_256
May 2, 2016
_________245
May 3, 2016
________263
Day 126: Life Vows _____________247
Day 136: Redirection
Day 127: Retrograde Growth _________ 249
Day 137: Relaxed, Intentional, Becoming ___265
Day 128: Going Deeper ____________251
Day 138: Grounded, Balanced, Ebbs, Flows __266
April 24, 2016
May 4, 2016
April 25, 2016
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May 5, 2016
April 26, 2016
May 6, 2016
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Day 139: Playful Spiritual Connectedness ___268
Day 149: Wealthy Symbology _________286
Day 140: Reflection Process & Journey ___270
Day 150: Symbology Of A Journey ______ 289
Day 141: Hitting The Fog
_________272
Day 151: Wing Spreading Pains ________291
Day 142: The Journey Of Becoming _____274
Day 152: Spiraling Heart Ascension _____ 292
Day 143: The Courage To Struggle ______276
Day 153: Discovering Our Heart Depths ___294
Day 144: On Becoming ___________277
Day 154: Don't Trash The Beauty Within __296
Day 145: Changing, Transforming, Becoming __279
Day 155: Transforming Struggle ________298
Day 146: Heart Centered Life ________281
Day 156: Riding The Waves _________300
Day 147: Noticing Symbology_________282
Day 157: Transforming Expectations ______302
Day 148: Communicative Symbology ______ 284
Day 158: Dilemmas Of Decision Making
May 7, 2016
May 17, 2016
May 8, 2016
May 9, 2016
May 18, 2016
May 19, 2016
May 10, 2016
May 20, 2016
May 11, 2016
May 21, 2016
May 12, 2016
May 22, 2016
May 13, 2016
May 23, 2016
May 14, 2016
May 24, 2016
May 15, 2016
May 25, 2016
May 16, 2016
May 26, 2016
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Day 159: Energy, Intention, & Responsibility
306
Day 169: Meaningful Heart Journey Sounds __325
Day 160: Exchanges Of Darkness & Light _ 308
Day 170: Making A Living _________327
Day 161: Bringing Light Into Darkness ____310
Day 171: Numbness ______________329
Day 162: Bringing Darkness Into Light ____312
Day 172: Vocal Sound Healing ________331
Day 163: Life Given _____________314
Day 173: Balanced, Supportive Freedom ____333
Day 164: Plant Expressions & Offerings ___ 316
Day 174: Same Life Different Vision _____334
Day 165: Radical Shifts Coming
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Day 175: No Wishes, Just Intentions _____336
Day 166: Otherworldliness __________320
Day 176: Love Resurrects & Remembers ___ 338
Day 167: Orchestrations ___________322
Day 177: Developing Seeds, Renewing Growth _340
Day 168: At The Heart
Day 178: Spiritual Challenges Just Beginning _341
May 27, 2016
June 6, 2016
May 28, 2016
June 7, 2016
May 29, 2016
June 8, 2016
May 30, 2016
June 9, 2016
May 31, 2016
June 10, 2016
June 1, 2016
June 2, 2016
June 11, 2016
June 12, 2016
June 3, 2016
June 13, 2016
June 4, 2016
June 5, 2016
June 14, 2016
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June 15, 2016
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Day 179: Transitions _____________343
June 16, 2016
Day 180: Preparing For Birth ________344
June 17, 2016
Day 181: Transitional Rituals & Ceremonies _346
June 18, 2016
Day 182: Cultivating, Mothering, Fathering
June 19, 2016
_348
Appendix _________________________350 References
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Resource Links, Practices, Examples by Day ________355 About The Author
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Foreword Solstice to Solstice was a creative space that Jamie Rogers had brought forth and opened up to those, who in one way or another had been connected, ready to recognise what is truly going on around them and share insights with one another of their personal journey.
outward on our own individual journey, having different physical events reflect our journey’s path, there is such beauty in going inward and feeling the Earth’s events, putting you inline with others in turn, greatening the force of collective consciousness.
As the dates marked out the longest day of darkness 21st December 2015 for some, the opposing hemisphere would be experiencing the suns force and warmth….to be journeying up to the 20th June 2016 whereby true to cycle form, the shadows and light in people’s lives would neutralise, life and death ‘Rebirthing’. This journey was where we gave daily offerings within an online space that was so very sacred, yet also open, to explore how different people were feeling during this time. This opened a gateway for me to see, that as we all go
Reading the synchronicities of others journeys from across the waters, bought an inner calmness amongst what would otherwise have been felt as utter chaos. By being part of this you start acknowledging ‘If others are experiencing a similar thought pattern, events and realisations, then it is time for us to truly start connecting again’ – connecting using our every sense. It is a reminder that we truly are all one. “......allow your journey to free flow, allow it to go off balance, allow your soul to dance between light and shade, through Winter and Summer, from Solstice to Solstice” — Nadia Bevis ~ ! 16 ~
Being part of this helped keep balance, on some days a much needed sigh of relief in reminding us to have the upmost
faith in the process, the cycle, the axis’ rotation. Trust that nature has bought us this far, that we are all being guided under a divine law; although events may appear haphazard, there is a divine higher order. For after darkness there will always be light.
I am so grateful to Jamie to having created this sacred space, for sharing her journey and bringing her light and wisdom helping me journey through the waves of the cycles, connecting back to Earth.
The Re-birthing being part of the cycle that has no defined beginning or end, but to feel the waves of energy flow, see how others are experiencing this time period, leading up to a unifying awakening.
— Nadia Bevis Bournemouth, United Kingdom
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Preface I didn’t, as you might imagine, start by wanting to write a book. I didn’t even know that I would embark on this journey until just a few days before it started. Thus, this journey seems to be a divinely guided occurrence, which begins with a project of written reflections and images but ends up becoming a book.
divinely guided journey I took to visit sacred sites within Ireland, England, and Scotland. Within that particular journey, I did visit both Newgrange and Stonehenge, the sacred sites of the Winter and Summer solstices. A book about this journey is still in my plans, which will include my reflections, my artwork, my vocalizations and other experiences while visiting these and other sacred sites.
The fact that this project would take nearly a year of my life astounds me even now. Prior to this, I was unsure of my ability to commit to even a weekly offering of guidance through imagery and reflection. But, I had just completed being committed to a couple of months of daily healing offerings of different types for specific individuals. So, it seems that a momentum for committing myself to a project was building. I did, however, want to change the way that I was making those offerings.
This Solstice to Solstice: ReBirthing of divine Inner Light project, however, initially began as a Facebook event that lasted from the Winter to Summer Solstices of 2015-16. Within this, I committed myself to 182 days of written reflections and associated imagery. After doing so, I felt the content was worthy of sharing further to a wider audience. Thus, this content was converted to this PDF eBook format. In converting these 182 days of reflections from Facebook posts to daily chapters, the content has been edited but remains largely the same as the original offering. Many of the images, however, needed to be revised to enable use in publicized materials.
Within the previous project, I was making offerings and sending healing energy, which took an extended amount of effort on my part. I have no doubt that what I was offering was having some effect, but this seemed to restrict the number of people I could serve over time. So, perhaps this project arose out of the desire to continue the previous one, but in a way that served more people.
I hope you will enjoy this journey into the rebirthing of your divine inner light that I have created in service to myself and others.
In addition, I’ve come to find that this project is really one piece of a larger project, which extends from another
— Jamie “Cedar” Rogers ~ ! 18 ~
Introduction Welcome to this Solstice to Solstice: ReBirthing of divine Inner Light journey. Although this content was framed around the Winter to Summer solstices of 2015-16, I believe it is of use at any time in your life that you want to set an intention for growing and becoming into something different than you are currently experiencing within your life. However, I also believe that following this path near the cycles of the solstices, as it was originally laid out, will allow greater support from mother earth and universal forces as they transition through their own natural paths of life, death, and rebirth. In moving through these words and reflections, I want to remind you that this book is the result of a project that originally resided as a Facebook event. Thus, you will find words like “Facebook” and references to “posts”, i.e. Facebook posts, which refer to the original posts themselves. I decided not to try to translate this, but left this language in place. Just know that these references refer to different days directly near the day that you are currently reading. Thus, “yesterday’s post” or “previous post” means “yesterday” or a day prior to the one you are reading. Another aspect you might notice about this book is that some topics seem to be repeated. This was not exactly purposeful, but it is what came up at the time. Repetition, however, can serve to remind us of particular aspects over time, to deepen what we have already learned, and to provide varying perspectives. Thus, if looked at from the perspective of flowing interactions over an extended period, as was the original intention, greater value might be received in revisiting certain topics. Overall this book is meant to allow the development of reflective experiences, rather than to specifically offer knowledge or information. From this viewpoint, the book’s format, layout, and imagery become as important as the words. So, I invite you to slow yourself down and to allow greater space for both your reflections and creativity to arise within you. Take a literal 182 days to journey with yourself, to rebirth yourself, and to rediscover your divine inner light! Namaste! — Jamie “Cedar” Rogers
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Day 19: Heart-Centered Discernment
January 8, 2016 A favorite and ongoing discussion topic for me has included reflecting upon how we might all create a new way of living on mother earth. But, within these reflections, I have been concerned about the processes used for creating these visions. Why am I concerned? I am concerned because I am biased toward heart-centered discernment and feel that mind-driven discernment will not improve our current situations but merely create more of the same. I feel this way because I see us so immersed in our surrounding culture, it's ideas, and influences that we become unconsciously aware of our conditioning and the values that seed it. So much so, that attempts to discern with the mind often become problematic, confusing, and overwhelming in trying to understand what's required for creating the changes that will enliven and invigorate our lives.
Digitally Collaged Image by Jamie Rogers using: • “Tillamook Head Trail” by Jamie Rogers • Modified “Heart of Light” by Emmanuel Huybrechts under CC BY 2.0 • Modified “Starburst” by Peter Marheine under CC BY-SA 2.0 ~ ! 53 ~
I believe we need to do this in a different way, a heart driven way, a body driven way, and a spirit driven way, with the mind following to fill in the details. In this way we can move toward our own authority and values through inner rather than outer coherence. Otherwise, it just feels like more of the same but trying to do it in a "better" way. So, I ask you to FEEL into your heart, into your body, and into your spirit, receiving the signals and inspirations from those places, as guidance into your life and into your next becoming here on mother earth. Create from this space. Discern from this space what is fully desiring to be created and refreshed into your life that makes it really valuable and worth living. 
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Day 40: Gifts Revealed In Genuine Curiosity
January 29, 2016 A couple of days ago, I wrote something that felt rather profound within my body. I was questioning whether we can "love each other into revealing our unique, precious, and wondrous gifts.” Then a friend asked how we might do this, to which I responded "with curiosity.” This was also the same response that I had offered someone else earlier this week, who was desiring to generate conversation with strangers. So, it seems that "curiosity" has been trying to grab my attention to talk about in greater detail. As I think about this, an old memory of a thought comes up. The thought was directed toward me from someone else and said "love me first and then I will love you.” This thought took me aback, because I felt that I deserved love without condition. But today I am thinking about it in a slightly different way. What if love was our curiosity about other peoples gifts? What if we changed the thought to say "be curious about me first and then I will be curious about you”?
Digitally Collaged Image by Jamie Rogers using: • "CAT LOVE!" by Ralf Κλενγελ under CC BY-SA 2.0 • "Celtic trinity knot" by techwriter under Openclipart ~ ! 91 ~
What I am suggesting here, in relation to discovering and revealing our gifts, is that we change the energy from an anxious desire to know and understand our gifts to an open and loving desire to know and understand the gifts of others through our genuine curiosity. Then, by being in relationship in this way, three offerings are likely to come back to us. First, we are likely to learn more about our own gifts as we learn about the gifts of others. Secondly, they will be more likely to return our curiosity/love of them with their own curiosity/love for us. Thirdly, because this curious and loving relationship exists between us, they are also more likely and willing to see, offer, and reveal the gifts that we are desiring to know and understand about ourselves. In the end, we may begin to notice, as we work in this environment of curiosity and love together, the greater meaning and truth of the threefold law. That is, we may begin to see how the sending of our curiosity/love outward returns this curiosity/love to us through the blossoming of three distinct pathways of nurturance and love for ourselves and others. 
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Day 53: Incubation
February 11, 2016 I awoke today with feelings of incubation, of something inside of me in a slow process of cultivation. Words of incubation, germination, and formalization come to mind. The feeling is that something is in the process of creation but not yet ready to become. This sense inside of me has actually been coming within the last couple of weeks. But it only started to become more concrete two days ago, as I drew with the intention of asking for some information to arise within me from a specific place. This incubation process that I am in doesn't exactly relate to the beginning of the Winter solstice of 2015. But it does relate to this project, to my life, and to what I feel I am to show through my personal experiences. So, this incubation actually extends from just before the Summer solstice of 2015, when I embarked on a journey of visiting, experiencing, drawing, meditating, and toning at several sacred sites within Ireland, England, and Scotland. Since then, I have been unsure about what I actually received. The jour ney was not particularly pleasant. It was difficult and not especially satisfying with regard to the limited time that I allowed myself to spend at each site. My
“Incubating Energies� by Jamie Rogers ~ 114 ! ~
initial experiences and understandings fell short of my highly elevated expectations. But now, I'm feeling the awakening, the incubation of something within this process. It has taken a lot longer than I expected but at the same time feels so right. In essence, this is what I now believe. I went on a journey, collecting and storing information within my body, in much the same way that a crystal can store information within its structure. Upon returning from my journey, I transmitted and stored this information in a specific place to begin the incubation process. In counting the months back since my journey, I find that I am now in the eighth month of my incubation. And, given that humans incubate their sacred creations, their sacred births for nine months, I now have the expectation that a birthing process may begin within the next month. So, as you are perhaps still in your seed pod, I invite you to reflect upon how long you have been in your process of incubation. What was happening nine months ago for you? What are all the things that actually relate to this next becoming that is currently incubating within you? 
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Day 101: Transforming Death Into Life
March 30, 2016 Walking around a small pond yesterday, I came upon a garter snake lying directly in my path. It didn't move. I thought maybe it was dead, but it didn't feel like it was. The fact that this snake appeared alive but remained motionless made me curious. So, although I'm not one to touch snakes, I decided to reach down and lightly touch this one with my index finger. Still, it didn't move. I walked over it and looked back at it, still wondering. Then, as I reached down to touch it once more, it began to slither off rather slowly into the nearby vegetation.
Image by ambermb under CC0 1.0
Never have I had such an experience with a snake. I have often seen them on a path sunning themselves, but then they usually move aside quickly before I ever reach them. This snake, however, seemed to want to show me something. Perhaps it was trying to show me that something appearing to be dead is still quite alive or in the process of transforming itself anew. In symbolic terms, the appearance of a snake relates to things like transformation, transition, healing, wisdom, and initiation. And this particular snake seemed to really want me to see and understand something with this regard. So, in moving forward within your own transitions and into your next becoming, I ask you to look at those things in your life that appear dead and lifeless. What exists within you that feels dead but is only waiting to be resurrected? What feels frozen without movement due to fears, oppressions, or repressions? In what ways can you bring more life into these dead and frozen areas? In what ways can you transform or heal them? In what ways are you now ready and willing to risk the next scary step or initiation, which will propel you over the ridge and into your next becoming?
Messages from Snake: Spirit Animals & Animal Totems ~ Spirit Animal Totems ~ Totem Talk Working With The Animal Totems  ~ ! 202 ~
Day 163: Life Given
May 31, 2016 Staying with the metaphor of the cyclical life of a plant, my thoughts extend further yet from within the darkness of the soil. As the soil, which once was a plant, becomes food, knowledge, and remembrances for the plant, it also becomes part of the plant's transformative processes, it photosynthesis processes. Thus, the soil becomes part of the elements that are moved around within the plant, with some of them remaining with the plant in the form of leaves and with some of them leaving the plant in the form of oxygen. As the oxygen leaves the plant, however, another cycle of life begins that includes our own. We breathe in that oxygen, that life giving force, which the plant has given away. So, what we are breathing in is actually both the spiritual guidance coming into the plant through the sun's energy and the knowledge and memories coming into the plant from the soil. In addition to breathing in the life given away by plants, we also consume the plants themselves, regardless of whether we eat them directly or as processed by other animals. Thus, the plant's spiritual energy,
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knowledge, and memories are cycling through us, albeit in different forms and in different ways. It cycles through us and we digest it within our breath and within or intestinal tracts. Does this make us plants of a different form? Does this make the soil our collective knowledge, as processed through the plant and breathed through us? For today, I suggest taking some time to ponder these cycles of life, these gifts of life and how they are interrelated to each other. Where does one life end and another begin? Where does our knowledge really come from? How is it that the becoming of one life leads to the becoming of another? Then, within this, what plant knowledge do you want to invoke and consume in support of your next becoming, your homecoming? And furthermore, what knowledge of your own do you want to cycle back to the plant, to the soil, and then back out to something else? 
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Day 176: Love Resurrects & Remembers
June 13, 2016 Who in the world pushes you onward, lifts you up, moves you more and more into your next becoming, your homecoming? Who allows the space for gracefully remembering who you are? Who desires you to live your life to the fullest extent possible? Who wants you to fully become who you are, who you always have been, without restriction and without condition? Today I look back on the experience of love lifting me up in unexpected ways, under unexpected conditions, during unexpected times. This love I experienced was unexpected, as it was not specifically received from a lover, partner, close friend, or family member. I could never have known how it would make me feel, where it would take me, and how it would continually open me up. It has lifted me up into deeper and deeper parts of myself, with greater knowing and understanding. It has caused me to be more and more vulnerable and more and more true to who I am.
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body, however, I began my resurrection, my remembrance of who I am, who I was meant to be, and who I have always really been in truth. So, today, as you contemplate your own experience of your next becoming, your homecoming, I ask you to take notice and acknowledge those people who connect with you and lift you up from deep within their hearts and souls. I ask you to be grateful for their presence and their importance within your life, in the way that they have lifted you up and held space for the resurrection and remembrance of who you are, who you have been, and who you will always be. Love allows rests. Love allows space. Love lifts you into the courageousness of your being. Nothing less can really be defined as true love. With all of this said, I leave you today with the song that came into my consciousness this morning with the words of "everything emptying in to white” from Cat Stevens’ song Into White (see Into White - Cat Stevens (lyrics) uploaded by Astranaut via YouTube) or as I might translate it to everything emptying into light, with the light of truth and love forever fused together. ——— As an addition, as I reflect further on this in November 2016, I am reminded of the wonderful expressions of the late Maya Angelou in describing how “Love Liberates”, as heard through Dr. Maya Angelou - Love Liberates from within the video uploaded by Lencha Sanchez via YouTube.
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About The Author Jamie “Cedar” Rogers is a Holistic Life Guide, Writer, and Artist. She has a master’s degree in Art Therapy Counseling from Southwestern College of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her combination of life experiences have led her on a path of deeper presence and reflection, which she now shares through personal interactions, writing, and artwork. Currently based in Portland, Oregon, Rogers desires to offer connected and empowered holistic life guidance that enables access to personal inner wisdom and gifts for greater health, meaningful life direction, and joy. Of most importance within this is reconnecting people to a deeper understanding of themselves through their hearts, bodies, and spirits and through their connections with the universal forces of the earth and the stars. With this greater understanding, she believes healthier, more meaningful ways of living life can be realized. Rogers offers various levels of services, which are shamanic, metaphoric, and reflective in nature. She utilizes therapeutic art processes, medicine walks, energetic work, breathwork and sound healing, as well as her own reflective writings.
Upcoming works in progress from Jamie “Cedar” Rogers include: My Rising Heart: A Path of Love and Intimacy - This will be a book of poems and complementary artwork meant to open the heart and to invoke a greater depth of feeling and understanding of oneself.
Portals into Your Sacred Knowledge: A Journey of Deepening Awareness - This book will offer reflections, artwork, recordings, and insights into gaining sacred knowledge of oneself and into deepening personal awareness, as offered by way of Rogers’ divinely guided journey to sacred sites of Ireland, England, and Scotland from June 14, 2015 to July 1, 2015.
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