Waitangi Day

Today is Waitangi Day… a day of deep and mixed emotions for many.

On 6^th February, New Zealand marks the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. In that year, representatives of the British Crown and over 500 Māori chiefs, signed what is often considered to be New Zealand’s founding document. It’s also a day of deep contemplation and I've been doing just that.

It’s not my intention here to get caught in any of the upheaval, heartache, politics, blame or control around the many feelings, truths and lies attached to this day. My celebration of it is in regard to assisting both the release of the old ancestral, karmic ties and the healing and balancing so this wonderful country can begin to come into its full potential at this time of grand change.

By making Waitangi Day a holiday, it brings forth all the emotions so they can be felt in a mass conscious manner in the now moment. When the past is brought up so intensely in one moment, it provides a wonderful potential for healing and change.

I’m Australian, so who am I to speak about New Zealand’s past? My truth is that while I was born in Australia in this lifetime, I’m very aware of lifetimes in Lemuria (at the original immersion and others), Atlantis (in the Temples of Tien), Ancient Egypt (after our emergence from under the ground), France (active Knights Templar), England (before and after the burnings), America (post first landing and in the civil war) and New Zealand (pre Māori).

So from this perspective, for me, I've not been of any one tribe or any one belief for more than perhaps two or three lifetimes. For me, now, holding to ancestral karma from one or two incarnations when I've had thousands, is just not reasonable, helpful or productive in my soul journey. Keeping myself stuck in old beliefs, anger, fear and revenge blocks my soul awareness and keeps me separate from myself. When I’m separate from myself I create my life from old patterns and beliefs not from new potentials and clear choices.

In truth, what your ancestors did doesn’t have to be your burden… even if you were your own ancestor! That was an experience then, this is NOW. If you hold to an ancestral pain you keep it going through the lifetimes. If you accept what the experience was then without holding on to the dramas, you start a whole new chapter from what IS not what was.

Governments, Religions and those in power will always try to keep you caught in their old power games… let it go!!!… follow your heart not their games. All the wars still raging around this world have no real attachment to the original battle. That original battle has been covered with layers of anger and pain from generation to generation. Those layers keep the pain and the game going. Will you choose to let it stop and release yourself from thoughts of injustice and embrace the healing and expansion into new potentials? What you experience in your life really is your choice when you release the layers of the past!

This is my awareness from my day of contemplation in the new energy of my Waitangi Day. Someone said to me not long after I moved to New Zealand, “Maybe it will take one removed from the pain to assist the pain to heal”.… maybe, but I know I can only assist others by doing it for myself… if we all let go of the pain for ourselves… what would it look like?

Blessings on this day of grand new potentials.

Sue Norman