Beloved Students, I greet you this month as one who loves you more than you can imagine and who seeks your complete liberation from suffering. Indeed, my genuine desire for your liberation includes liberation for your planet as well, for she suffers as humanity suffers, and her freedom is a grand reflection of your own. As you know, 2010 has thus far provided eight months of amazingly power-packed, attention-grabbing events. Although the global events of this year have certainly been compelling to behold, when we look beyond the manifestation of those events, a bigger question arises as to just what it all may mean.

Clearly, there has been a lot of suffering, much of which has taken center stage in the collective experience, drawing massive public attention. Such happenings are a pretty good indicator that the planet is trying to get the attention of as many of her perpetually distractible offspring as she possibly can. From the perspective of Gaia, this is not an easy task. She does not speak to you with a booming voice that rattles her mountains, that creates tsunamis in her oceans nor that fills the air with any known language. Even so, she has some pretty profound ways of communicating with her offspring. From her perspective, the issue is not one of a lack of messages; rather, the real problem is getting her offspring to pay attention.