Greetings, beloved. It is I, Hilarion. I realize that this is the first time that I have come through you [Editor's note: Mercedes, the channel], and you are not as familiar with me as with others. So I am happy to introduce myself and to make myself known to you and to all in this way tonight.

I am especially moved to come now because this is a very potent time on Earth. It is a time that is powerful, it is a time that is pivotal in many ways, and it is a time that is very blessed. Many of you are noticing the changes in your lives. You are noticing patterns. You are noticing the speed at which things are happening. You are noticing a sense of things going faster, having more intensity, and perhaps being a little bit more out of your personal control. You're noticing that there is something larger than you that is directing the things that are happening and you are being carried by that, as opposed to you, yourself — as an individual, with will and intention and mind — choosing what you're doing. It is not that your will or your mind or your intention are shut down or turned off; it is that something greater is at play and is affecting you. Many of you are noticing this and are aware of this.

I confirm that this is so. These things are happening. It is reflected in the events that you are seeing in some of the astronomical/ astrological bodies — the eclipses, the transiting of Venus, the solstice that will soon be upon you, and the various astrological influences that many of you are aware of. This is an unusual time when so many things are happening virtually simultaneously. You could say that they are affecting you, and that would be accurate. But in another sense, you could also say that they are reflecting the transformation that is happening within you and within your world. It is something like what you call the chicken-or-the-egg situation. It is not that one created the other; it is that they are both happening simultaneously, and, depending on your perspective, it may appear that one is causing the other. But really, these are two phenomena that are pointing to the same thing. They are pointing to great transformation.