Cutting edge spiritual articles at PlanetLightworker Magazine, www.planetlightworker.com, August 2009 Issue

DEAR SUBSCRIBER, of all the editor’s letters and updates I have penned to you over the past 10 years, this is the one that has been the most difficult to write.

This month, PlanetLightworker.com celebrates its 10th birthday. This month also sees the very last edition of PLW in its current form. As of the end of this month, we will not be producing any more editions for the foreseeable future. There are several reasons for this – some of them are energetic, some of them relate to the evolutionary shift we are experiencing, and some are plainly pragmatic.

We know there is a shift taking place. Since the day of its inception, PLW has always been a ‘live’ being to us; an energy that we have never really been able to control, but rather, one that has always ‘spoken’ to us on some level about what “it” (whoever or whatever “it” is) needs to have happen.

In the mundane world, change comes to us through mundane events – we lose our job, we meet a new love, we marry, divorce, or are widowed, etc., all of which affect what we do and where we go next. But as many of us know, this is just the way the Universal energy operates to nudge us in the directions we need to go in order to fulfill the next part of our mission, contract or plan. In the mundane world, the current economic climate, coupled with the shifting energies, have conspired to bring us to a place where we have no choice other than to accept that we simply do not have the financial, emotional, energetic and physical resources to go on supporting the production and publication of PLW in the way that we have been doing for the past 10 years.

Indeed, that the magazine has continued for as long as it has (and looks as beautiful as it does) is solely due to the selfless commitment of the wonderful, talented team of people who have given so much to it over the years – people like TammiLu, Laura, Mike, Sharyl Jackson, Ron, Damian, Evan, Vara and Steve and Gemma Hansen – as well as the dedication of the contributors, columnists and authors who have graced our pages with their wise words. The truth is, PLW has never been (nor was it ever intended to be) a profit-making venture. The people who have worked on the magazine were never in it for the money, for the simple reason that it cost them, and me, more time, effort, money and energy to work for PLW than PLW could possibly afford to match.

And it’s important you know that none of us has ever begrudged a moment of our time, an ounce of our energy, or a penny of the money we ourselves have had to put into the magazine to maintain such a consistently high quality. What we have personally got from producing PLW and from our interactions with you, our readers, and contributors, has far outweighed anything we have invested.

And now, the time has come for something to change. After this August edition, PLW will cease production for the moment. It is not going to “die” completely… rather, it is going to go into hibernation, as it were, for a period of time, until it has completed whatever quiet period it needs in order to metamorphose into something even more beautiful. In the meantime, we are going to unlock the archives, and throw the entire magazine (all 10 years of issues) open to anyone who wants to access our archive of articles – all of which are just as timely and relevant today as they were when they were first written.

We will change a couple of technical elements that will require visitors to sign up for free access, and we shall continue to send out regular newsletters on a monthly basis. Carol Holaday’s monthly Crystal Star Oracle Reading and Carola Eastwood’s astrology column will still be available in the Newsletter, and we shall also continue to provide you with specific items of news, events, recommendations and information that we feel you will want to know about, as well, perhaps, as the occasional article or two.

Instead of featuring the article index, the contents page on the website will link straight to the archives. We will also update the contents page from time to time with notices, news, updates and information about the Inspired Parenting Radio Show, World Puja shows and anything else that we feel you will want to know about. The AdSpace pages also will continue to remain available, so that you can still find resources and other items of interest.

The INSPIRED PARENTING RADIO SHOW is to continue being broadcast twice every Sunday on the World Puja network and as of this Fall, I shall also be hosting another new Internet radio show, which will focus on the latest and most cutting edge, complementary health products technologies and modalities that, in our opinion, offer the most assistance to our bodies, minds and spirits, as we navigate the coming shift from the 3rd, through the 4th, to 5th dimensional-living. We’ll continue to keep you posted about the shows and forthcoming guests via the contents page and PLW monthly newsletter.

While this may look like the end of an era, we, that is Vara and myself, are choosing to believe that what’s happening is a simple and natural part of the evolutionary process that all of us are experiencing. For those of you who don’t know, PLW was launched on August 11th, 1999 – a date that was deliberately chosen to capture the energies associated with the last big eclipse of the 20th century. On July 22nd just prior to PLW’s 10th birthday, we experienced what many astrologers say is the strongest eclipse of the 21st Century – the synchronicities seem too obvious to ignore. If you want to know more check out Carola Eastwood’s interpretations of these eclipse and what they are requiring of us right now in our July and August editions: