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Why Am I Changing My Name?
Hearing Your Guides: What It Means (February 2010)
Many people come to me
requesting help in opening to guidance.
People are under the assumption that their life would be better somehow
if they were able to hear and understand what their guides were saying to them. They believe they would be confident and sure
about their decisions, and yet no one ever suspects that their guides would
tell them to do something that was not what they, the small individual, would
want to be doing anyway. However, in my experience, my guides are usually telling
me to do things that I don’t really want to do.
In truth, I never feel ready to follow their guidance. I am quite sure what they propose won’t work,
or I don’t feel like I have the skills and abilities to accomplish the task. And, even though I know what I am being asked
to do, I can openly admit that I’ve never felt confident because of it. And I have noticed that many of questions I
have, that I would appreciate my guides weighing in on, go unanswered because
my guides really have no opinion on the matters that seem important to me.
So, I
might ask you to consider very carefully whether you really want to know what
your guides have to say before assuming your life will be easier or better with
such an ability. In fact, many of you may
already be hearing your guides if you were not so assuming of the nature of
what those guides might be saying.
Truly, would you give up a decent job to clean toilets in the service
industry if your guides told you to?
Most people would simply assume that information was not coming from
their “guides.” However, my guides are
forever pushing me out of my comfort zone.
I was told to offer group holographic healing sessions, but not told
“how” that would work. Instead I had to
completely trust that when the time came, something would happen. I was also told to offer the consciousness
downloads that you find on my website, and I put it off for a long time because
I was sure I was going to be a laughing-stock for selling such snake-oil. But indeed, both of these things have helped
countless people since I took my guides’ advice, but it was not easy to step
into these challenges. I have not once
seen my guides point down a comfortable path.
My guides’ latest pronouncement
is no different. They have instructed me
to take a different name! Ugh! When I sit in the flow and connection of
heart and consider this possible path, I can see that it is, indeed, the path I
need to take for many reasons. But when
I sit in the real world and realize what a hassle it is going to be, and how,
as far as a business decision, it doesn’t fit into the prudent category, I
start to waver a little on my commitment.
But as my guides revealed the name I was to take--Jaden Rose Phoenix—I
could feel again that this was the right path.
And so it is with mixed trepidation, as always when I follow my guides,
that I announce my new name! It is going
to be hassle, it will require a lot of paperwork, and there will be those who
don’t like it--my mother refuses to talk to me about it, and someone just a few
days ago outright told me that it was an awful name! So yes, this definitely feels like all those
other things that my guides told me to do that I can count on to eventually be
just the right thing for my path.
Why would my guides ask me to do
this? Well there are a couple of very
clear answers that they gave me right away. In many ways, this is a mark of entering a new level of service on the
planet. It is a letting go of thinking
of myself as an individual—and indeed, when I took the last name “Shelley” over
twenty years ago, I did so because it meant “belonging to me.” And so, relinquishing that name is a clear
signal that I agree to be of service to the planet in an even bigger way. This advancement entails new responsibilities
and the corresponding spiritual gifts. The name chosen for me also indicates a
specific vibration that is in alignment with that service. My guides roughly translate the entire name “Jaden
Rose Phoenix” to mean “Divine Earth Transmutation,” and I'm super thankful they chose to translate it into something somewhat normal.
But I also get the distinct feeling that there are reasons beyond my
ability to understand at this time. And
I look forward to learning those reasons at the perfect future time. But until then, I will simply say, that yes,
I accept and am honored to take this new name.
In light and blessings,
Jaden
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