It’s time to get off the bridge

A Starseed Update

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Listen up, my beautiful, sweet, loving starseeds. It’s cancer season. Which means everything is feeling a little … tender. Things have been feeling a bit weightless lately. A bit suspended. A bit .. up in the air. We’re watching the crumble of the previous systems. All that could no longer be considered “in balance” (and let’s face it, never was), is coming to a crash.

It’s sparking fear. It’s sparking noise.

And while it can feel so affronting — so assaulting — to feel like you’re a part of this whole catastrophe that is the modern world, you must remember what you came down here to do. You didn’t come down here to fix everybody and everything. You didn’t come down here to identify so deeply with your patriotism, your claim to land, your identity as it stands in the current patriarchy that the rocking rumble of it all is going to destroy you.

You are embodied as a human, right now. We sit as students in the Global Classroom. We are here to bring hope, energy, messages of love. We are here to remind ourselves and others around us that life can be beautiful when we create, express, co-operate. We cannot stop the systems from falling. In fact, this is why we incarnated at this time. This is what we signed up for.

And, if you’re like me, I’m sure you can feel somewhere, deep inside, a drum calling. A beat beating. Our call to action. Not to war, of course (duh). We know deeply — as empaths, as starseeds, as sensitive souls — war and fighting is not the answer. It’s a disruptive expression of power and control and greed.

We’re not here for the war part. We’re here as messengers as peace.

I don’t suggest we hide and forget the suffering that is happening on a global level. I don’t suggest we bury our heads and try to un-hear the news and updates.

But I do suggest that now, in this Time, we focus on our mission.

Do you remember how many artists emerged from the Chrysalis during Covid? While the rest of the world was panicking, putting signs up to “Stay the Blazes Home” (or at least in my community), and hoarding toilet paper — there were people creating. There were people making art. There were people expressing love, showing hope, and allowing our minds to expand past the current atrocities of the realities we were seeing.

We must believe in a better future.

That is why we are here. To be the examples of the good stuff to come. To embody the higher vibrations. To connect to joy and experience (and express) love. Authenticity. Unity.

For most of us, (starseeds, I’m talking to you here), we don’t even spend that much time incarnated here on earth. Sure some of us love it here. We fall in love with the little blue planet with the funky animals and flowers and things called rainbows and choose to come back here againandagainandagain. But the truth is that most of us came down here for this one special trip. We are here to help Earth and Gaia make the shift — and we are in the middle of it.

We’re in it.
Right here right now.
We’re doing the thing.
We’ve got solar flares coming in to increase the frequency of the planet. We’ve got more help coming down. We’re going to make it through.

This is the centre of it all, anyway. This is the sticky middle. (I Bet your mind imagined something worse, didn’t it? I know mine sure did).

And, of course, to help with it all, I’m here to report on the collective download that seems circulating the spiritual / messenger community:

It’s time to get off the bridge.

I first heard this from Sheila Hill (whom I don’t always agree with in terms of ego but I do hear the resonance in a lot of her words) — and to be honest, I didn’t really get it.

The message was essentially that if you’ve been focused on ascension and the healing path, that there’s a time to lean into that deeply — and a time to lean out of it. Now is the time to lean out.

What was she talking about, “get off the bridge?” Aren’t we the bridge? Aren’t we the ones bridging together earth and cosmos in a way that connects humanity and moves us ‘forward’ (or upward, in the great cosmic spiral?) How are we supposed to get off the bridge? How are we supposed to abandon our healing work? Now, of all times?

.. And then I received the download, as well.

It’s not about abandoning our healing work. It’s about getting on the ground with it and bringing it to the people.

Let’s use an example:

Some of the people I resonate with the least are the hyper-spiritual white women (spoken as a hyper-spiritual white lady) who are spending thousands of dollars on crystals and quantum healing treatments and going on retreat — but are doing absolutely nothing in their communities. They have the privilege of focusing so much on their own healing that their daily thoughts are about whether the scone they ate in the morning was going to throw off their ‘clarity’ for the day. They’re internally focused. They’re using their energy and their spiritual power to focus on adhering to fitting an idea of perfection that is virtually impossible to attain as a human. No matter how clean you eat, or how deeply you connect with the cosmos, you’re still going to get zits. You’re still going to gain weight, or lose weight, or lose sleep.

I can say this, because I’ve been Her. Maybe not spending the thousands of dollars part, but certainly the “pre-occupied with my own healing so much” part that I’ve completely forgotten that I’m part of a collective.

C o l l e c t i v e.

Togetherness.

Messiness, imperfectness, kids-interrupting-the-soundbath-ness.

We’re not going to get there alone, isolated, and panicking about where the ingredients of our cacao is sourced and whether it affects it’s ability to open the heart chakra.

It’s time to get off the bridge of the individually-intensive focused healing and onto the beach of community and the collective.

Get your toes in the sand. Get a little messy. Hell, get a lot messy.

For some of us, this is also going to look like a change in reality — and might come with a little mourning or grief.

Do I wish I was spending 4 hours a day on energy practices, journaling and Qi-gong and communing with nature to receive *all* the downloads for the collective?

…I mean, yea, kinda. I love that shit. I love being away from the noise of humanity and deep in the realms of the spiritual and in nature.

But recently — selling my art + clothing at markets (you can buy stuff online from me if you’re into it) and talking with people on the regular — having moments of community, of insight, of spiritual discussion — without the deep and isolating ceremony of it all — it feels more real. It feels important. It feels like I’m doing what I came here to do.

Strangely enough, the “get off the bridge” concept has been playing out in the physical, as well. For example — I stopped drinking coffee about eight years ago. It wasn’t that I didn’t love it (I did, and still do), but it was simply too strong for me. It was upsetting my body and nervous system, but on top of all that — I started to feel ‘cut off’ energetically when I was drinking it. It felt like I was placing a veil over my third eye — placing me firmly on the conveyor belt of the buzzing collective that was all drinking the same substance from the same cup. So I stopped.

This went for alcohol, too. I’ve been alcohol-free for much longer — a substance that never really agreed with me all that well and something I stopped doing in my early twenties because of its harsh effect on my body and mind (I was not a nice person to be around the following days. Plural). The energetic effects, additionally, were stark. It was almost like I could hear the doors on my psychic abilities closing every time I engaged with alcohol. It was strong, and very obvious — suddenly I was very much firmly rooted on Gaia with no guides whispering in my head or magical connections to anything. I was just … there. Here. and without my contact to the spiritual realms, especially working as a reader, as a healer, as a psychic… it felt wrong. So I gave it up.

It was really no effort to forfeit either (although I did miss coffee periodically), but it sure did feel a bit isolating. My choice not to participate in those substances was often perceived with a healthy side order of purity consciousness, and met half the time with a slight eyebrow raise that signified a “does she think she’s better than us?” feeling.

It sucked, honestly. But I was devoted to being “on the path,” “on the bridge” and building my own conscious ascension. So I (uncomfortably) stood my ground through social events, coffee dates, and other moments of collective celebration that I truly did want to participate in. For that time being, as well, Spirit agreed with me. No substances were better for me. I was more balanced. Healthier, for the moment.

Lately?

With all the energetics of the shift going on, and the call being made to come down and participate, I’ve had a few things come unspooled in the once tightly wound yarn-ball of my life.

In the past two weeks, I’ve had coffee (more than once), a muffin, with wheat (which, a few years ago would have possibly killed me for days), and alcohol. Yep, that’s right. I had a whole beer. Well — almost a whole beer. And boy, did I feel hungover the next day. But I also enjoyed the time I had socially — and I didn’t feel any spiritual walls closing in on me. In fact, I did a spontaneous reading for someone at the party I was talking to. A few years ago? That would have never happened.

If anyone’s going to be the spokesperson of embodying the shift and getting off the bridge, I guess it’s me.

(You’re welcome! It’ll save you the hangover).

I’m not suggesting you forfeit your spiritual practice. And I’m not saying to give up on it all, and just “be a boring human” who forgets their cosmic origins, their sensitivities or their gifts, either. We will always be working internally. We will always have moments of communion, of insight, of deep spiritual connection with ourselves, land and Spirit. We are always going to be spiritual beings.

But the siren call that is being heralded is one of participation. If one of getting off the ascension track — the proverbial bridge that has kept us seeking and in search of spiritual answers — and onto the beach of community and of living. We must live and participate in our lives in order to express ourselves. We must live our messages and get messy in order to share our gifts with the world. This is what we came down here to do. This is why we’re here. Not to be perfect, seamless, representations of whatever galactic community you originated from when you signed the contract to come down and help. But to be embodied as humans — to live our messaging from the divine.

It’s okay to be a little messy in your spiritual existence.

Come join me on the beach.

(And if you feel a little lost on how to get onto the beach, or what that looks like for you, you can book a session with me here).

Much deep, kind, and loving energy to you all.

Go out there and be weird and radical,

XO Kate