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Heal Your Life: The New Moon of Taurus

The extraordinary healing energy of Taurus is available to everyone this month. But what does it mean to have healing consciousness? And how can we put that consciousness into action to create real healing in our lives?

Tonight, April 10, we enter the second month of the astrological calendar, Taurus. In Hebrew, it is known as the month of Iyar, which stands for the words “Ani Hashem Rofecha” and means “I am God, your Healer.”

To connect to the healing energy of Taurus, there are three steps in consciousness we can take this month:

1. Not accepting chaos as a normal part of our reality

God created us to have healthy and happy lives. Good health is normal; sickness, illness, disease is not. We’ve come to expect the opposite though and are comfortable with chaos as random events that we feel we have little control over.

2. Taking responsibility for the current state of our lives

The only way to regain control now is to accept that we created our physical, spiritual, mental and emotional situations in the first place. When you are the driver in your life, then you can decide to make a u-turn. Taking responsibility isn’t about fault, guilt or shame. It’s simply recognizing that life is a chain of cause and effect. It’s realizing I am the cause, and knowingly or not, I planted seeds that have created my circumstances. In the moment that I accept that I am the creator, I awaken the unlimited power within me to create healing energy and plant new seeds.

There is an unlimited power within us that gives us life and heals us. It’s the divine power that joins an egg and sperm, creates trillions of cells and flows through our body pumping blood and performing a thousand other functions! Sometimes we block this life force through our own negativity. We need to get out of the way and let the Light flow with ease, rather than dis-ease.

3. Changing our physical reality by changing our thoughts

Curing our lives of dis-ease starts with cleansing our thoughts, as Kabbalist Rav Berg explains in the introduction to the spiritual text of Kabbalah, The Zohar:

Misfortune and illness are not considered separate and apart from thoughts. Our minds, bodies, thoughts, and environments are inseparable. Therefore, we must treat thought more than the disease itself. We must treat the entire thought process that is instrumental in bringing about the disease in the first place. We must also realize that the thoughts of others can cause some form of disease within our bodies. Our states of mind can make ourselves and others well and can speed recovery from illness. We have the power to heal and the power to remain well.

Thoughts are real, and they directly affect our body. In the book Evolve Your Brain, Dr. Joe Dispenza speaks about a new field of science called psychoneuroimmunology, which directly demonstrates the connection between the mind and the body. Basically, every thought produces a biochemical reaction in the brain that is then transmitted to the body. For more information, Rav Berg further explores this scientific truth of mind of matter in his book Nano.

Back to Action!

Change your thoughts, heal your body. Easier said then done. To start, time to discover the patterns of your thoughts - victim consciousness, me me me syndrome, fear, worry, doubt, denial - and break them. Most of our thoughts are about ourselves. Ask the Light force to shine through you to others. Ask what you can do for someone else. If you are physically limited, you can mentally send healing energy to others.

Interesting fact: For a body to be healthy, it needs to be oxygenated. The more a body moves, the more oxygen it has. Ironically, Taurus is characterized by a desire for comfort and lack of movement. To tap into the healing energy of Taurus, we must transform that energy and move! The more uncomfortable our acts of sharing are, the greater Light we will reveal.

Tools to Help Us:

72 Name of God & Letters of the Month: Meditate on these ancient channels of energy to draw down support for your efforts in shifting your consciousness and actions (see images at the top and bottom).
The ArchAngels Michael & Raphael: To call on the guardian angels of healing, connect to their energy and focus your intention on healing and desire for life-changing, everlasting Light.

I had a friend that was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. She identified her jealous thoughts and selfish acts. She went outside of herself to volunteer and share with strangers. She is now 3 years cancer-free!

You can heal yourself too! I wish for all of us a month of taking charge, mental cleansing, uncomfortable sharing and all-around healing.

With love,

Sarah Yardeni

Our Most Important Meeting

How can we prepare for the most important meeting of our day? It starts just after midnight while we’re fast asleep but our soul is not! What exactly is our soul doing at night?

Every night, our soul leaves us and joins the Creator. Like meeting with a supervisor, our soul reports to the Creator to review our previous day and fortify us for the following day. As The Zohar, the ancient text of Kabbalah, all of our daily thoughts, words and actions – seen or unseen – are on record:

Come and see, During the time when people sleep and taste of death, the soul rises up and gets to stand in a certain place, where it is examined about its daily activities which are recorded in the book. What is the reason for this? Because the soul rises up and testifies about all the person’s activities and every single word that came out from his lips.

- Naso, verse 6

Our positive thoughts, words and actions create positive angels that serve to protect and provide us with those inspiring thoughts that seem to come out of nowhere: Call that friend you haven’t talked to in a while. Take that job. Our positive doings also serve to open up the gates of Heaven and bring us closer to the Creator for blessings, wisdom and strength, especially during those nightly connections.

Our consciousness and behavior determines the quality of the angels we create. Words and actions with an agenda will beget angels that are not perfect, and through negative behavior, we can create angels that speak falsehoods and can even be terrors. Our daily negativity not only locks the gates of Light but paves a pathway for chaos in our lives.

The good news is no matter the day we’ve had – our boss pushed our buttons or we volunteered from morning til night – there is something we can do before dozing off to ensure we have the most productive nightly meeting with the Creator. This preparation also determines how well we sleep, sending our soul to a place that it is nourished by the angels rather than lodged into a space where it is given false messages.

It’s all about transformation. The first tool of our transformation, known as Teshuva, has four simple steps to follow.

Step 1. Reflect on my day to find the moments I would want to pause, rewind and change something – a negative word that came up, or energy waisted with people I shouldn’t have been with – and recognizing the cause of the negative behavior. E.g. Pride, judgement, control, etc.

Step 2. Feel the pain of my negativity caused on a soul level. Imagine the consequences of my action for myself, others and the world.

Step 3. Replay your day again, and imagine being proactive in those moments. How would you feel, what would you think and what would you do differently?

Step 4. Make a sincere commitment to not repeat that behavior in the future. Imagine what my future would look like without that behavior.

The second thing we can do before going to sleep is to extend forgiveness to anyone who hurt us – in this lifetime or another, knowingly or unknowing – to ensure we don’t go to bed angry and resentful, which could block us from receiving Light during our meeting.

Knowing what you know now about the most important meeting of our day, what does the departure of the soul at night what does it mean to you? Think about what you can do differently during the day and before bed. Remember, the purpose is always to change.

Thank you,

Sarah Yardeni

A Message from Above…

Usually out-of-this-world stories come to us through a friend of a friend of a friend’s brother who knew the guy. However, I was urged to share this personal story by a student as a shining example that there is so much more to this world than meets the eye.

Last week, Lisa Mirchin, a longtime student of the Kabbalah Centre, and I went to her mother’s grave on her 3-year death anniversary to make a special connection. Kabbalah teaches that on a person’s death anniversary, his/her soul returns to its burial site, the place of its leftover physicality.

There we were on a beautiful sunny day, sitting up on a hill of a cemetery that felt more like a friendly garden, with all the Kabbalistic tools with us to make a connection and give energy to the soul of Lisa’s mother.

Lisa had a huge desire to receive a sign from her mother. Before her mother died, Lisa had asked her if she would send a sign after she passed, but at the time, her mother had been unwilling to discuss it.

“I don’t feel her.” Lisa kept repeated. Conversely, I had felt a surge of emotions from the minute we arrived. I reminded Lisa that she was here to give energy and to stop wanting to receive from her mother instead.

We meditated on the 72 Names of God for Contacting Departing Souls, and I asked help from my teachers, the Rav and Karen Berg, and righteous souls to really connect to and see what would be the best thing to happen right now.

I closed my eyes and saw a woman who was singing. I asked Lisa, “What’s your mother’s favorite song? I think she wants us to sing to her.” But Lisa quickly dismissed the idea.

As we continued reading The Zohar, Lisa told stories about her mom, including how
her mother died in Lisa’s arms with Lisa kissing her all over as she cried. Between her stories, I kept asking Lisa about her mom’s favorite song, and she kept averting the question.

Sensing Lisa frustration, I told her to just open The Zohar anywhere for guidance. With the book in her hands, Lisa closed her eyes, dramatically opened it wide, swung her arm around and drove her finger down. In volume 20, page 88, her finger landed on one word: song.

It was the wakeup call Lisa needed. She grabbed her iPod and hit play on her mother’s favorite song, Que Sera Sera – the familiar song about a mother and daughter talking about life. The tears started flowing.

Without further prompt, another song started to play – “Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling
Together)” by Queen (video above). And in its lyrics, Lisa got a sign as clear as the day:When I’m gone

No need to wonder if I ever think of you
The same moon shines
The same wind blows
For both of us, and time is but a paper moon…
Be not gone

Though I’m gone
It’s just as though I hold the flower that touches you
A new life grows
The blossom knows
There’s no one else could warm my heart as much as you…
Be not gone

Let us cling together as the years go by
Oh my love, my love
In the quiet of the night
Let our candle always burn
Let us never lose the lessons we have learned

Hear my song
Still think of me the way you’ve come to think of me
The nights grow long
But dreams live on
Just close your pretty eyes and you can be with me…
Dream on

When I’m gone
They’ll say we’re all fools and we don’t understand
Oh be strong
Don’t turn your heart
We’re all
You’re all
For all
For always

Besides the wow factor, what can we take away from this story to help us in our lives?

No matter what happens, we must remember that love is everlasting - through time and yes, different dimensions. Especially when we are experiencing the pain of losing a loved one or darkness of any difficulty, we must remind ourselves that there is a bigger picture that we don’t see and in it, the Light is always there.

Thank you,
Sarah Yardeni

A note to Lisa: Thank you, dear friend, for inviting me to participate in, what turned out to be, an amazing experience.

Are you blessed or cursed in life?

We know that the Creator only intends for our lives to be filled with goodness and Light. So, who is blessing or cursing us? The truth is leading a life full of happiness or a life full of chaos is a choice that we make.

In life, there are two paths to choose. The path of happiness is filled with blessings of good health, abundance, love, fulfillment, peace – all of the good things we want. Meanwhile, the path of chaos makes us feel cursed with problems, anger, disputes, wars and chaos of all different ways, shapes and forms.

Choosing the path of happiness is choosing the path of proactive transformation, on which we stretch and transform ourselves, channel most of our energy towards caring for people and consider the effects of our actions.

Choosing the path of chaos is choosing the path of reactive transformation, on which we are pushed, through great pain and pressure, to stop, look at ourselves and change. Many times when we are taking this path, it feels like life is not going well or things do not happen for us – just as if we are cursed.

Each and every moment of our lives, we decide which road to travel in life. Take a moment to consider this reality. Which path are you choosing right now?

This week, be more conscious than ever that the actions, thoughts, words and feelings you choose promote proactive transformation in the long run, rather than reactive transformation now. It’s either one or the other; it cannot be both.

Some of us think that have everything we want is a blessing that will bring happiness. We look at people that have a lot of money, and we judge them to be happy. Yet, happiness can only be something a person feels inside, not what his/her life looks like from the outside. Nor is happiness the result of any external circumstances; it does not depend on what I have or do not have.

The greatest curse is to be sad, while the greatest blessing is to be truly happy. We experience true happiness when we are spiritually wealthy. Spiritual wealth is a person’s a deep connection to the Light and profound understanding of the purpose of life. When we have spiritual wealth, nothing can make us sad, nothing can make us poor.

Happiness is a choice. A beautiful tool to strengthen this type of consciousness is the Hebrew-letter combination of the 72 Names of God for happiness, Vav Hei Vav (see below). Whether you have 30 minutes or 30 seconds, take time to close your eyes and mediate on this combination and the corresponding affirmation:

I want to plant a seed for the rest of the week that I am choosing to be blessed, I am choosing the path of proactive transformation, and I am choosing happiness. I am dropping my ego and moving towards actual and lasting fulfillment. I restrain my selfish longings, and I ask for what my soul needs. Looking ahead, I want elevation for my soul and real transformation. I restrict my dark impulses and tendencies towards negativity and complaining. I appreciate everything around me and reach into my soul at the deepest level to connect with real happiness and true joy.

I wish that all of us are able to manifest this reality of true happiness idea every day, in every second.

Thank you,

Sarah Yardeni

If you’re life was a movie, would you like what is playing on the big screen?
Luckily, our lives do not have predetermined endings like films do, and we have the power to shift our destiny.

I’d like to share with you an insightful story from The Zohar - the ancient text of Kabbalah. When reading stories from The Zohar, not only can we learn profound truths about life but also gain the strength to remember and apply those truths when life challenges us and we seem to forget everything we know! It’s when we rise to meet these challenges that we can change our movie.

From the portion Behar, verse 58, it begins: Rabbi Chiya and Rabbi Yosi were walking along the way and chanced upon a mountain. They found two men walking, and at the same time a man coming, who said to them: Please, I pray you, give me a piece of bread. For I have been lost in the desert for two days and have had nothing to eat. One of the men went aside, took out the provision he brought with
him for the way and gave it to him; he fed him and gave him drink. His companion said to him: What shall you do when you need food? For as for me, I will eat my own AND SHALL GIVE YOU NOTHING. He said to him: I do not rely upon YOUR FOOD! The poor man sat by him until he had eaten all he had, and he gave the remaining bread to the poor man for the road. And he went away.

Rabbi Chiya said: The Holy One, blessed be He, did not wish it to be done by us. Rabbi Yosi said: Perhaps there is an impending sentence upon that man, and the Holy One, blessed be He, wanted to put this in his way in order to save him. While they were walking the man became exhausted DUE TO HUNGER. His companion said to him: Did not I tell you not to give your bread to another? Rabbi Chiya said to Rabbi Yosi: We have food with us, let us give him some to eat. Rabbi Yosi said: Do you wish to take away his merit? Let us go and see, for surely death follows in his footsteps-MEANING THAT THE DANGER OF DEATH IS FOLLOWING HIM and the Holy One, blessed be He, to prepare a merit for him in order to save him.

Meanwhile, the man stopped to sleep under a tree. His friend went further and sat in a different place. Rabbi Yosi said to Rabbi Chiya: Let us sit down and watch, for
surely the Holy One, blessed be He, intends to perform a miracle for him. They stood up and waited. While they were waiting, they saw a fiery rattlesnake standing by him. Rabbi Chiya said: Woe unto that man, for he is about to die. Rabbi Yosi said: This man is worthy of a miracle of the Holy One, blessed be He. A snake then came down the tree with the intention of killing him. The rattlesnake attacked the snake and killed it. Then the rattlesnake turned its head and went on his way.

Rabbi Yosi said: Have I not told you that the Holy One, blessed be He, wished to perform a miracle for him, and you must not take away his merit, THAT, HE
SHOULD NOT GIVE HIM FOOD. In the meanwhile, the man awoke from his sleep and rose to go. Rabbi Chiya and Rabbi Yosi joined him and gave him food. After he ate, they told him of the miracle the Holy One, blessed be He, performed for him.

THE CURE COMES BEFORE THE ILLNESS
Like the man with death following him, we may have chaos trailing us as a result of reactive behavior, which can manifest as difficulties in relationships, illness or even death. But, as we also learn from The Zohar, the cure is always created before the illness. What does that mean? There is always an opportunity for us to shift our destiny for the better before chaos created by our reactive behavior actually manifests.

The man with death following him was sent the hungry man as an opportunity to act against his reactive nature and merit a change in his destiny. In order for
him to share all of the food he had left, he needed to have had a very strong and clear consciousness that whatever he had always came from the Creator – not from his companion, not from himself or anyone else. Because he trusted that the Creator would take care of him, he was able to give.

SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE & TRUST THE PROCESS
The lack of interference from Rabbis Chiya and Yosi, who watched the events unfold also allowed for a change in the man’s destiny. They understood that beyond what they saw was a bigger picture and process. They also knew about merit – the result of an action of giving above and beyond our ability, logic that creates an opening in our lives for us to receive assistance and protection, which is also above and beyond our expectation and nature.

In our lives, we are afraid to go through the process. We try to run from it, pass it off or find temporary solutions – anything to prevent it. And when we see
those we care about struggling in their process, we naturally want to jump in and fix things to prevent it for them too. We say things like, “I don’t want you to go through the pain I went through. Let me do this for you.” This story reminds us to step back and trust the process; it can lead us to an amazing end result.

This week, look for opportunities to create merits and change your destiny through giving above and beyond, especially when it is most uncomfortable. Don’t try to escape the process. Don’t try to create shortcuts. Through every step of the process, trust that you can show up in the best possible way and reach a positive outcome. We are all destined for a beautiful final result where we are happy, fulfilled and connected to the Light of the Creator.

I wish all of us an amazing connection to the Light of The Zohar – especially with the death anniversary of its author Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai on Wednesday night through Thursday – so we can maintain this consciousness and make the most of every opportunity we receive to create the shifts for the better in our life’s journey.

Thank you,
Sarah Yardeni

Looking for your next big breakthrough? The one that can bring you more happiness, love, clarity, strength and all that you desire? This week the leap you seek can be achieved!

Is there anyone who doesn’t want to experience more fulfillment in their lives? Some of us may be riding high in life and want to continue onto the next big wave. Meanwhile, some of us may not be completely satisfied in our careers, relationships, spirituality or all of the above. Either way, at some point, we all find ourselves wondering:

How do I breakout of where I am?

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, the Light is the infinite energy of giving in our lives. It is the source of all the fulfillment we can ever desire, and as Kabbalists explain, it is the birth right of our souls to be fulfilled!

By creating openings in our lives for the Light to enter our consciousness and hearts, the gates to the fulfillment and solutions we truly crave can be unlocked.

How do we create openings for the Light?

As a positive force of sharing, the Light always wants to come in to help us, but our egocentric nature blocks us from receiving it. In order to get out of our own way, we need to seek opportunities to go outside of ourselves and share.

When you feel overwhelmed with your own problems, open up and care for someone else. When you think you know it all, open up and ask for advice.

All it takes is a crack created by us for the Light to break into our lives, as The Zohar, the ancient text of Kabbalah, reassures us:

“OPEN ME AN OPENING AS BIG AS THE EYE OF A NEEDLE, AND
I WILL OPEN FOR YOU THE CELESTIAL GATES.”
– Portion Emor 129

As perfect as the eye of a needle, so too can our sharing actions be – whole, full of effort and love – and through those actions can the Light come through to unlock the gates of fulfillment for us.

SPIRITUAL HINT!
The greatest Light lies in the moments we find it the most difficult to open up and let the Light in.

For this week and always, may we merit the opportunities to create those unique
openings in our lives to allow the Light in and breakthrough to the next level in our spiritual journey.

Thank you,

Sarah Yardeni

To read more about the quoted text above, check out Secrets of the Zohar by Michael Berg.

Here’s some food for thought: Choose your thoughts, create your reality. It may be hard to believe that we can actually choose our thoughts - sometimes negative thoughts just come in! - but the power to cleansing our minds is now available in the healing month of Taurus.

At the beginning of this week, we entered the astrological sign of Taurus, the second month of the lunar calendar. Ruled by the planet Venus, this month is known in Hebrew as “Iyar,” which stands for the words “Ani Hashem Rofecha,” which means “I am God, your Healer.” It is also called the month of “Ziv,” which means Light.

Curing our lives of all chaos and sickness includes addressing the state of our thoughts, as Kabbalist Rav Berg explains in the introduction to the spiritual text of Kabbalah, The Zohar:

Misfortune and illness are not considered separate and apart from thoughts. Our minds, bodies, thoughts, and environments are inseparable. Therefore, we must treat thought more than the disease itself. We must treat the entire thought process that is instrumental in bringing about the disease in the first place. We must also realize that the thoughts of others can cause some form of disease within our bodies. Our states of mind can make ourselves and others well and can speed recovery from illness. We have the power to heal and the power to remain well.

Everything begins with our thoughts. When we heal our thoughts, our entire reality can be healed, including the body, which really suffers the impact of our consciousness because it is the lowest level where consciousness is being manifested. When we heal our consciousness, everything else, including the body, can be healed.

Thoughts have energy. Even if we never act on our thoughts to express the feelings born from them, they still impact our lives because the ability to think is actually a result of us tapping into a high level of the soul. We are using divine energy to think.

Our thoughts create our reality. When we use our thoughts to share energy, we create light and blessings in our lives. When our thoughts are selfish or judgmental, we create darkness and chaos. This month, we are supported by the energy of Taurus in clearing our minds of limiting, negative thoughts, and choosing to fill them with boundless, healthy thoughts.

Only you know what goes on in your mind. Only you can choose to make that shift. By simply starting to say to ourselves, “I want my mind to host healthy, sharing, loving thoughts,” we open up to receive positive ideas. With that energy, we will be able to create all of the beautiful, healthy, loving reality that we want for ourselves and for other people.

Practically, we can use on the two Hebrew letters that represent the month, Pei and Vav (see below) to draw the ability to heal our thoughts and our minds, to heal ourselves and others. Also, we can meditate on the three-Hebrew-letter sequence from 72 Names of God specifically for healing (see above).

I wish for all of us a great month of healing. Let’s extend that energy to everybody in the world around us.

Thank you,

Sarah Yardeni

What do our words really stand for? Do we consider our thoughts before we speak or do we let our them just roll off our tongue? It may require some effort to choose our words carefully, but it’s more than worth the energy.

Right now, we are in a period of time known as theOmer – the 49 days between the second day of Passover and the next holiday of Shavuot. Kabbalah teaches that these holidays celebrate special energy that enters our world and is available to everyone, rather than commemorate an event in history.

During Passover last week, we were gifted with a huge amount of energy, which freed us from all of our negativity, or klipot, we produce – fears, doubts, unhealthy habits, etc. Kabbalists explain that we cannot truly keep or hold onto to something for which we have not fully worked or earned. Therefore, that Light of freedom from Passover cannot stay with us without some effort on our part.

Life is about earning our spiritual fulfillment. Now, during the Omer, we have the opportunity to earn back the Light we received. As we do the spiritual work for 49 days, we will work our way up to a high level of energy known as Shavuot, and then, all the energy we earned will be able to stay with us.

In this week of the Omer, we are building our vessel to hold Light and are at the level of energy known Gevurah. Gevurah refers to judgment, and this week’s Torah portion highlights one of the main forms of judgment: negative speech. Our words have great power – the power to increase judgment or sweeten it for ourselves and others.

What is negative speech?

Negative speech is when we speak badly about another human being. It is derogatory and degrading talk that can harm another person or cause him/her shame or even, financial loss. It also includes revealing personal information about another or speaking harshly about people’s traits, feelings, family or actions. Negative speech awakens judgment for the person who is being discussed, the person talking and even those who are listening.

Yet, there are two antidotes to sweeten the judgment in our lives and others that we learn from Maggid of Mezritch, Rav Dov Ber. First, any characteristic we notice in others, especially those we criticize and find especially bothersome, are present in us. We are simple shown problems in others so that we may see them in ourselves – not so we can point out to that person that he/she, is at fault.

Understanding that people are mirrors for us can help us transform judgment into mercy and earn the specific Light available to us this week.

The second way to remove judgment is by doing the opposite: See people favorably. Even though we may think someone is wrong or at fault, always look for the good. Find the positive motive behind others’ actions. Come with compassion and with mercy, instead of judgment. As Karen Berg says, instead of prejudging, let’s prelove.

At the end of the week, the astrological month of Taurus begins, and with it comes the energy of healing. The seed level of all sickness, whether it is physical, emotional or mental, is the desire to receive for the self alone. This month, we can heal our desire – the driving force of our actions – and become motivated from a place of sharing.

I hope that all of us will be able to inject mercy and compassion this week. Let’s be especially aware of what comes out of our mouths.

Sarah Yardeni

“Of this it is written, ‘He who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from trouble.’”
- The Zohar, Tazria 86

If you could change anything in your life, what would you change? The tremendous power to change the seemingly unchangeable is the amazing gift we are given this week.

The truth is that for any challenge we face, we already have the strength to transform it. For any problem we encounter, we already have the solution to fix it. In order to access that unknown power, we need to connect to the creator within ourselves. God doesn’t create miracles - we do.

This week, we can regain control over our lives – overcome addictions, break through negative patterns and transform our selfish wants into sharing desires – as the annual energy of Passover enters the universe. On Thursday night and all day Friday, the energy used by the Israelites thousands of years ago to change their lives and miraculously split the Red Sea becomes available to us.

First, picture this: Having left enslavement in Egypt, the Israelites are being chased by the Egyptians and have reached a seemingly dead end, the Red Sea. To reach freedom and a better life in the Promised Land, the Israelites know they have to cross the Red Sea but don’t know how to do so. Desperate for help, they call out to the Creator, who replied: Why are you calling to me?

One person, Nachshon ben Aminadav, starts walking into the water with complete certainty in the power of the Light. Not until the water reached his nostrils does the sea split to reveal dry land for all the Israelites to cross over. After they make it across, the land returned to being a sea, preventing the Egyptians from following them.

One of the many tools we can gain from this story is the secret to changing our reality: realizing our purpose. After the Red Sea split, the Hebrew story says the Sea returned to its ‘le’eytano,’ which translates to mean ‘strength.’ Only when we are able to change do we truly access our strength. For an even deeper meaning, the letters of ‘le’eytano’ can be rearranged to make the word ‘condition.’

Sages say that when the Creator formed the Sea, he made a condition for it: Although it was a body of water, when the Israelites needed to cross, it would have to change and become something it is not – dry land. In the same way, The Zohar (the source of Kabbalistic wisdom, see below) tells us that we were created with the condition that we will use our body - the clothing of our soul - and the life we are giving to change our limiting nature, known as tikkun, and reveal Light in ways that are personal of each of us.

The Red Sea kept its condition and changed the reality for the Israelites. If we keep our condition, we will be able to change our reality too. To really reveal Light, we need to completely transform our innate limiting traits into proactive qualities. In fact, when the Red Sea split, the world became imbued with the ability to change its nature in order to reveal Light in the world. We have the ability to change our nature and change our reality; we just have to activate it!

Many times, we perceive strength as, ‘This is who I am, and I am not changing it.’ The ability to really change shows true strength. When do we really become who we are? When we can become something else for others, especially for those we love, for the sake of spreading Light. We really need to be so much bigger and demand so much transformation from ourselves in order to do what we need to do. In transformation lies the power to change our lives.

Like the Red Sea that became land, sometimes we need to be willing to be what we are not. Think about your defining limiting traits that you want to change. If you are closed emotionally or mentally, become open. If you are judgmental, become accepting.If you are controlling, become open and trusting.

Remember, like the splitting of the Red Sea, there is nothing in the world which cannot change in order to fulfill the Creator’s desire and reveal Light in our lives. Anything can change. For extra support on the path of transformation, the 72 Names of God Meditation Book by Yehuda Berg (below) is one of my favorite practical tools to use.

To specifically plug into the infinite energy of the Red Sea splitting on Thursday night, Kabbalah Centres all over the world, including major cities such as New York and Los Angeles, will be hosting events. To find a location near you:

Visit www.kabbalah.com/locations
call: 1-800-Kabbalah or 1-310-289-5011
email: care@kabbalah.com

I wish for all of us to draw maximum energy during this week of Passover in order to reach a true state of freedom and become who we really need to be in this world.

Sarah Yardeni

Are you a thinker or a doer? Why not be both! It is the final day of the First 12 Days of Aries – a special time during which our actions now will influence the next 12 months of our lives.

As we know, each of the First 12 Days of Aries corresponds to a month in the astrological calendar along with the month’s specific energy. As Kabbalah reveals, the method to accessing the blessings of each month is by transforming the reactive nature of the month’s energy.

From sunset Monday to sunset Tuesday, we had the spiritual opportunity to draw from Aquarius’s unique energy through taking specific actions, such as sharing our originality with others.

How did you do?

What actions did you take and which ones did you avoid?

How did your choices impact your day? Please share your experiences at:
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Onto the last and final sign of the Zodiac – Pisces! During day 12, we have the chance to turn the thoughtful nature of Pisces into real action.

To make the most of the day, we have four amazing tools to help us:

· Two Hebrew letters that give us control over the Zodiac sign (see above)

· Specific action to take that go against the nature of the month (see above)

· Meditating on a special three-Hebrew-letter sequence from the 72 Names of God (see below)

· Inject consciousness by dialing into the daily conference call at 11:00 PM EST: 712-432-0075 with access code 872736#; for a recording of the latest call, dial 712-432-1085 with access code 872736#

Here’s to turning our best intentions into results!

Sarah Yardeni

12 Days of Aries Calendar Schedule

Fri. sunset, March 23 - Sat. sunset, March 24 Aries

Sat. sunset, March 24 – Sun. sunset, March 25 Taurus

Sun. sunset, March 25 – Mon. sunset, March 26 Gemini

Mon. sunset, March 26 – Tues. sunset, March 27 Cancer

Tues. sunset, March 27 – Wed. sunset, March 28 Leo

Wed. sunset, March 28 – Thurs. sunset, March 29 Virgo

Thurs. sunset, March 29 – Fri. sunset, March 30 Libra

Fri. sunset, March 30 - Sat. sunset, March 31 Scorpio

Sat. sunset, March 31 – Sun. sunset, April 1 Sagittarius

Sun. sunset, April 1 – Mon. sunset, April 2 Capricorn

Mon. sunset, April 2 – Tues. sunset, April 3 Aquarius

Tues. sunset, April 3 - Wed. sunset, April 4 Pisces