This was a post that I sent in to my Otherware Yahoo group last week (who I'm happy to say, are some of the most brilliant people I've ever had the honour to know), and as it's also a bit of a round-up of my holiday season, I thought I would post it here as well. I've been finding it harder than I thought to find the time to post as much here as I've wanted to but I'm going to get there. I think this offering is a good start.
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Happy New Year lovelies!! May 2008 be a joyful celebration of all that we have learned thus far, as we all get better at processing, integrating and implementing life-affirming strategies, tools and wisdoms....especially the ones we share here, in our sacred cyberspace meeting place.
We may only be three or four days in to this year, but I can already feel a tremendous amount of energy “for good things” propelling many of us who’ve done the inner work, forward in delightful and surprising ways.
I have been away from the computer for the last few days as I’ve been immersing myself in music as you know, in preparation for my Dj sets over the Christmas and New Year period, and I’m pleased to say it was time well-spent, but I’d wished I could’ve been around here a bit more. I just get so one-pointed in my focus at times, and I was very inspired by all the new music I’ve been acquiring lately, and having LOTS of fun working out how to put it all together.
The gigs were pretty amazing, both in terms of how I performed and how well people responded to me. I’ve found “my sound” developing in new ways and becoming more and more refined over the last two years, and this holiday period things really came together. The first gig was on Christmas night – in fact it was the first set I’d played in months so I was a little nervous, and beforehand lots of people asked if and when I was going on, and the usual response from everyone was that of excitement, pleasure, eager anticipation, genuine respect and in some cases, adoration when I would say, “I’m on in an hour”, or “I’ll be on in 10 minutes”, which was beautiful of course. It was a special event as well, a reunion of sorts for Melbourne house music lovers, so it was made even better by being able to catch up with some people I hadn’t seen since last Christmas or longer before that. In clubland, it’s funny how many deep friendships are created that basically only exist through seeing each other at “the disco”. Sometimes that means you’ll see each other every single weekend while dancing or hanging out in one of the other corners of the venue, and you get to catch up on each other’s lives and do the usual things friends do...but when the night or the club that you both went to closes, it may be a while before another opportunity arises to see each other. Nevertheless, some disco friendships can be very real and it was nice to be reminded of that on Christmas night. I didn’t spend this Christmas with my blood family as I was too busy with work but I remember saying on so many occasions that night how seeing everyone again was the best present I could’ve had.
There were a few factors that made the night so great. I’d been slotted into the midnight set, which meant that most people who were coming would’ve been there by then and I had a full club to work with. The sound system was brilliant, it was a warm, balmy night, there was that post-Christmas day warmth and relaxation still lingering within people, the venue was fantastic - very stylish and well located, and the entire line-up of Dj’s consisted of the cream of Melbourne’s underground house scene – pretty much everyone had been a Dj for ten years or more so there was also a lot of shared history there, and the comfort derived from that is something only veterans of any vocation can understand, but there is a special camaraderie among long-term house Djs that I really love. This was also the first gig I'd done since returning home in mid-November so I had a few nerves prior to going on, but I was well-prepared and earlier in the day I’d done a meditation to fill the venue and everyone who went there with light, plus I'd stated a whole bunch of intentions out loud at the time, and so energetically, the space felt great, and once I got on stage I knew within ten minutes that it was all going to work out as I’d hoped. By the time I’d been on for twenty minutes the floor was full and people were starting to make some noise, and after that there were people waving and smiling at me, often with cheers and screams when they recognized a song they loved, which is pretty much the best response one can get.
After my set I was literally ambushed by people wanting to tell me how much they loved what I’d played..and others who had arrived after I’d finished playing were ambushed by their friends telling them as soon as they walked in, things like “Oh my God, Liz killed it, you should’ve been here”. I only know this because these same people would come up to me and tell me what they’d been told upon arrival. Complete strangers would approach me on the dancefloor and ask if I had been Djing earlier, and when I’d say yes, they’d tell their whole group of friends, “this is the Dj who was on before”, and all of them would crowd around me at once telling me things like I was the best Dj they’d ever heard and more....it’s almost a bit embarrassing relating this back because people were SO kind, it was almost unbelievable...but there is a point to sharing all this detail besides making me look like I’m self-aggrandizing. It’s got to do with how the inner exploration and ‘work’ can affect every area of our lives, and even in a nightclub environment, which generally focuses on stimulating and encouraging satisfaction of just the lower chakras, in the current energetic environment, one can create transformation and lift things up an octave or two. It is nice to notice that this new level of consciousness is permeating so many fields where it really wasn’t possible before.
One of the best moments of the night happened while I was chatting at the bar with another Dj/producer friend of mine who’d also played that night, and a pretty gorgeous male friend of his I’d never met before approached us. He leaned in to my friend and said, in a voice low enough to indicate that he hoped he was out of earshot, “Can you introduce me to Liz Millar?”, which is flattering enough, but when we were introduced he told me that I’d been a huge influence on him, and how the music he was making now wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for me. This is something I've been fortunate enough to have heard from others on quite a few other occasions, but it was still fantastic to hear it nonetheless. Later my friend told me that this young man was so good at what he did, that he’s already been working in the States with some of the best dance and hip hop producers in the world right now. That is so nice. I hope to meet him again at some point and give his work a listen.
New Year’s Eve and New Year’s day brought more work and things followed on as they’d done on Christmas night. By the time I played on the 1st, I was still a bag of nerves before my set but I’d had two previous gigs of practice in front of large crowds and I was doing the closing set of the day, which in many ways, adds a lot of extra responsibility to the Dj because it’s the last music the audience will hear at the party and send them home remembering the most(hopefully). Earlier that day Lisa Renee had done a live webcast for her Energetic Synthesis website community members and we all participated in a very powerful meditation that again, set up the energy beautifully for me to later walk in and play at my best, with the full assistance of my star family and other light beings who I’m constantly in touch with these days on an intuitive level. Just a side note here – these days I am beginning to feel them more physically though, especially so during my meditations. A number of times lately, I have felt a little brush as they've touched me on my crown, forehead or stroked my arm with the gentlest caresses, just to assure me that they are indeed around. It was very reassuring to get to my last gig, and within ten minutes of being on, knowing that I could feel their strong, loving presence around me again, guiding me on what the best music to play next was and basically helping me not put a foot wrong for two and a half hours. I looked up and said, "Thank you" to the air above the decks a few times. By the end of my last track(I played the 12” of Donna Summer’s “Last Dance”), the predominantly gay crowd and the promoters of the party were extremely happy with me, and so was I.
So many good things have occurred since then, as a result of the gigs and the energy that surrounded them. I’ve gotten some wonderful offers of work, new projects to be involved with - not just with the Djing part of my life but also on a more spiritual level, new friendships have been forged, and older friendships that were under strain have become harmonious again, without any effort or pushing on my behalf. It feels as though I have truly been ignited with a matchstick flame of the Cosmic Fire and a new level of mastery is entering my reality. No doubt the recent trip overseas has been instrumental in this, but perhaps also the time I needed to take for myself to process it all after I got home. I really am very blessed and so honoured to be a witness to my life as Spirit works its Divine creative power through me. May it be so for all of you too.
