We grow when we live consciously rather than unconsciously (that is living habitually or on automatic).

We grow through our willingness to make mistakes.

We grow when we take a risk face and move through our fear and inner resistance to being more in our lives.

We grow when we align ourselves with our Higher self (spirit) and begin to live our life in harmony with the Universe rather than seeking to struggle against our evolution.

We grow when we awaken a new soul quality such as a sense of adventure, clarity, joy, or wonder.

We grow by doing something differently and unexpected and through embracing our inner vulnerability.

We grow through relationships and being congruent in our dealings with others.

Ultimately we grow through being loving and always acting from love.

Usually we end up, through early conditioning and the education system, being either predominantly left or right brain. Society tends to encourage more left-brain thinking but since nature constantly seeks balance there will always be a number of people who will rebel and go to the other pole. This creates a society of lop-sided people.

Many people become 'heady' because they overate the power of the intellect so much and do not believe or experience the power of other parts of the conscious mind. Many people who believe in the supreme power of the intellect seek to feed that part of themselves constantly with information and this leads to a state where they can become disassociated from their emotions and physical bodies. 'Heady' people often feel little connection with spirit since they are too busy analysing everything.

The cure for such people is to embrace more right-brain activities such as meditation and painting and also to connect with their emotions and physical bodies. When I feel heady I usually go for a walk in nature and then sit for a while there in silence.

Finding balance is so important to living joyfully.

The Warrior and Priestess are names I have given these aspects of our conscious mind. The left-brain is more yang and warrior like and the right-brain is more yin and more priestess like. The warrior is the part of us that is action orientated and has the ability to navigate objective reality and is also necessary in defending the more vulnerable parts of the psyche. The priestess is able to look within and understand the unconscious. She has the power of inner vision and is our link to the spiritual dimension. She is the part that is open to inspiration. When we are balanced then the priestess is receiving messages from our Higher self and the warrior the acts on those impulses. For many people the inspiration that comes through the priestess is not acted upon by the masculine, which instead seeks to suppress the feminine. This is a major problem for many people who have been taught not to trust their inner feminine energy.

Another way of explaining these aspects is that the warrior is our means of propulsion in life and our priestess is our inner radar.

The conscious mind is just one aspect of who we are since we also have an unconscious dimension and a spiritual dimension. Many have called the unconscious part of us our inner child and this part governs the running of our physical body (it regulates such things as digestion, the heart beat, sexual energy etc.) and is also the domain of our emotional nature. This is the part of us that laughs and cries. The inner child is also the domain of memory and this enables us to learn things at an unconscious level so that we can play the piano or drive a car without having to consciously think about every physical move we need to perform. The abilities of the unconscious are immense yet it is often here we get the most stuck. Our unconscious can take on a number of beliefs about life and ourselves that are not always helpful and that need changing.

The next layer is our Higher self which is the part of us that holds the overview of this lifetime and why we have chosen to incarnate. This part of us exists in pure light and works through synchronicity and miracles. It is our personal guardian angel through life and is available to give us help (although it will not interfere in our growth).

Aligning all three aspects of who we are will give a tremendous boost to our ability to grow joyfully and to create a heaven on earth rather than a desolation.

So far the book has concentrated on understanding and aligning our inner power. This is but one side of the equation for there is also power that exists within the universe and when we align with that power we have connected ourselves up to a grid of energy that can help us live with more grace, flow and miracles. We are never really separate from this grid or web of energy for if we were we would cease to exist.

We can connect with the web by taking time to be in nature and to connect with its vital spirit. Wild places have more power than parks generally and by finding the wild places in the world we can awaken the wild power in ourselves. The web also connects communities of people and we can feel the power of the web moving through groups. The power of the web is a bit like electricity, which can be used to heal or harm and some groups use power destructively and they are to be avoided.

We have all heard the song from the musical Hair about the dawning of the age of Aquarius. No one really knows when Aquarius starts but what is happening now is an extraordinary explosion of interest in spirituality and magic that seems to indicate that Aquarius is near. The old age of Pisces has been about growing through conflict and struggle and about learning about compassion, devotion and love with its flip side of sacrifice, martyrhood and suffering. Aquarius on the other hand is about growing through cooperation which allows for the possibility for win/win on the planet between nations rather than the old model of I win therefore you lose.

For too long the spirit of humanity has been held in a vice of dogmatic thinking and a the depressing view that the universe is just some great machine whirling in space. Freeing the Spirit is long overdue where we can discover that rather than being ghosts in the machine we are bright spirits having an amazing adventure in consciousness.

As Aquarius draws near all the old shackles that have constrained us will break and then we will truly discover that we are angels that can fly!