On the last day of November, I sat down and wrote the following in my journal: “Ahh, thankfully only one more month of this year of Release! (I picked the angel card, Release, for the Year 2011, and this year has indeed required almost constant release work.) My intention for the month of December is to release as many impurities as possible: to release negativities, fears, anxieties, cravings, attachments, desires, sorrows, expectations, confusions, and delusions, so that I will be more clear for meaningful work in the world to come through.”

So then, after writing that, I got a cup of strong mate-black tea with coconut milk, lit a candle, and opened the book I am currently reading: Be Love Now by Ram Dass. Amazingly, I read the following: “We can’t mask impurities for very long. When we suppress or repress them, they gain energy. Eventually we all have to deal with our same old karmic obstacles… kama (lust), krodh (anger), moha (confusion), lobh (greed)… the spectrum of impulses and desires… This clearing out opens the door for dharma, for being in harmony with the laws of the universe…” (Later in the book, Ram Dass describes “the dharma” as “the perfect harmony of God’s will and the human mind.”)

Well, after reading the same thing that I had just written in my journal, I was just in total awe of the synchronicities of the universe… And then, it got even better: a few days later, I picked my angel card for this week, and got Purification. Yes, Beloved Universe, I noticed the perfection of that one!

Today I am embracing the spiritual purification that is happening in my being this week. I may not like all the emotions that are clearing out, but I am standing firmly in the process, saying “Yes! Please release everything that is blocking me from living the dharma. My intention for 2012 is to live simply in happiness, health, and dharma. I visualize dharmic right livelihood arising from releasing all blockages to Harmony between this human mind and the Will of the Universe!” May it be so.

And you, what are your intentions for the New Year? 

May all beings live in harmony on this sacred, sacred earth. 

Om Shanti (Peace), 

Yogini Tejaswini

Photo of Purification angel card on Teja’s kitchen table taken by Teja Shankara.