In recent years many of us have felt like stand-ins in our own lives: understudies playing a role on short notice while we waited for our "real" selves to return. We've been in dress rehearsal for the quickening, and it's been a flume ride of the highest order.

The good news is that density is transmuting into destiny faster than we can say "anagram". The world stage is welcoming us as the human holons we are, stepping up to the plate and into our soul missions as never before.

Holding the both/and has become paradoxically more challenging and much easier than in the past. We've had more than a taste of primordial chaos and pain; some of us are still slogging through the morass. The flip side is primordial joy: what sociologist Emile Durkheim called Collective Effervescence (the idea that ritually induced ecstasy cements social bonds) and anthropologist Victor Turner termed Communitas: the spontaneous love and solidarity that can arise within a community of equals.

The unknown is both scary and powerful. Resistance cripples. Resonance emancipates.

As Heraclitus explained in his famous quote about not stepping twice into the same river, we can have constancy precisely because there is flux; it's a primordial truth. Balance means loving all of who we have been, are, and will become. Or, as Shakespeare put it half a millennium ago, "This above all: to thine own self be true/And it must follow, as the night the day/Thou canst not then be false to any man."

Of course, a proven way to make the imaginal real is through love. In one of my favorite children's books, The Velveteen Rabbit, a little boy loves his stuffed bunny with all his heart. The Skin Horse, wise elder among the nursery animals, explains the "Real-izing" process: "It doesn't happen all at once. You become. That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or who have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

As we travel this "3" year (2+0+1+0 = 3), we dive into a period "emphasizing creativity, self-expression and happiness. A renewed positive outlook expands our enthusiasm," says astrologer Karyl Jackson. We're becoming more real than we've ever been.

While we can't yet see the outcome of the shift that's taking place worldwide, we can't miss the beauty that's flowering all around us as we live ever more fully into the Love that we are. We're remembering and reclaiming our wholeness, magnetically attracting and integrating what was once "other" — and the understanding that grows as we do so is beyond any joy we've ever known. Welcome home!

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About the author:

Amara Rose is a spiritual artisan, author, speaker and "midwife" for our global rebirth. She offers one-to-one guidance, e-courses, CDs, talks and playshops to accelerate your evolutionary journey. Learn more at LiveYourLight.com, where you can also subscribe to her free e-newsletter, What Shines. Her eBook trilogy, What You Need to Know Now: Practical Wisdom for Unleashing Your Inner Brilliance, is available from RadiancePublishing.com