Beloved students, I greet you at the dawning of another month. As you step into this fresh year, what will you make of the opportunities in 2018? That question should be forefront in the consciousness of every spiritual aspirant if she or he is to face arising potentialities with mindfulness. I urge all of you to make 2018 a year in which choices are made with focused intention.
Indeed, many crises that erupted in 2017 still lack resolution, as do the backlashes they triggered. Thus, many people are feeling their forward progress in 2018 is somewhat tenuous. This is, of course, understandable, since relatively few people dwelling on Earth today feel secure with regard to their futures or the future of the planet, for that matter.
Much of our focus in 2017 was on the return of Buddha consciousness and the planetary shift into the Aquarian Age. As people pondered what such a paradigm shift might mean, their imaginations became engaged, and many shared their notions and expectations as to how both might emerge. Some people thought that the presence of Buddha consciousness gracing Earth at the dawn of the Aquarian Age would surely mean that life on Earth would instantly and radically be changed — by some outside force, of course. What’s more, some thought this might happen “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,” to borrow a phrase from St. Paul.