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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 7 – 12/23/2017

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on this third day of celebrating soulstice, of standing still with the sun, of celebrating the return of the light, join me at stonehenge, a sacred space of celebrating high holy days…

what a great inward journey we’ve been on these last few weeks and now we arrive home in the first soular gateway to plant seeds of intention, seeds that will ripen and birth our truth…

let’s take this moment of sacred pause to breathe together… get comfortable, breathe naturally and with each inhale, inspire your strengths, your beauty, your couragge and your wisdom…

now, place your hnds on your heart wombspace, your belly, the core of our being breathing these qualities, these virtues, these gifts, these presents, this presence deeply in to every wild cell in your body while listening for the echos reverberating from the deeps…

as we listen, let’s begin spiral dancing down, down, down into a field of snow where we can see stonehenge ahead through the mists and a gathering of we-moon from across the cosmos to celebrate light… feel your ancestors here and all of us energetically holding hands and feeling the divine light of love passing from one to another to another…

oh, she who births the light under the cosmic new moon, teach us and show us the way to birth our truth…

as we pause and listen, release all to pachamama surrendering and softening into gaia, earth mother…

notice now the first light beginning to appear over the stones warming our hearts and seeding what we are to birth…

thank you great mother, we bless and honor you…

namaste, beloveds…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5/5 Years – Day 6/1467 Days – 12/22/2017

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on awakening today to the return of light, i savor standing still with the sun for another day, another eternal moment of softening, surrendering to love, shedding outgrown skins, letting go into grace, re-membering my many times daily mantra of the past 25 moons…

“To be whole, let yourself break.
To be straight, let yourself bend.
To be full, let yourself be empty.
To be new, let yourself wear out.
To have everything, give everything up.

Knowing others is a kind of knowledge;
knowing yourself is wisdom.

Conquering others requires strength;
conquering yourself is true power. “

Lao Tzu

yes, today is a day of celebrating grace by letting go, dropping into simplicity, tuning into the cosmic hum, listening to great silence singing us home, welcoming us to the star within, star of onederfield, heaven on earth… sacred space of radiant re-birth… breathing in and breathing out, we ride the wave of rainbow light through  the night to our home, this moment of delight…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5/5 Years – Day 5/1466 Days – 12/21/2017

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mirroring nature

standing still like the sun

silently dreaming

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i love this moment when all of nature surrenders as we welcome winter and the return of the light bidding farewell to darkness and for a moment of sacred pause we stand still and reflect on this turn around the sun and the ways we have served the web of life, the ways we are called to release to make room for new seeds of intention we are invited now to plant as we draw down the the new moon’s energy into the watery womb… yes, a perfect moment of sitting in the inner light, the sol, the soul on this shortest day and longest night for northern hemispherians, a perfect moment of sitting in the dark with Hecate, goddess of the dark fecundity, holding our hands and hearts as we take this soulstice moment of deep pause for re-membering and clean-sing and re-joy-sing the moons of 2017… seeing through shero’s eyes, we realeyes what we experienced as disappointments, obstacles, challenges all carry a seed, a gift for us to unwrap,,, a present that delights and surprises pointing the way to be peace, love, joy and harmony…

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To the Four Winds and the Four Corners of the Earth

To the Falling Rain and the Fire in the Sky

I call on you in Deep Respect and with Great Gratitude.

I call upon you to Support, Guide and Protect 
all who receive this prayer.

At this time of quiet and stillness

When the Light of the World is dim

And the Darkness around us deep

May we be still and listen for the silent sound of the 
seed of Illumination

That lives, always, within our heart and soul and mind.

May we seek now to awaken to more of the Light within.

For in the dark even the dimmest light can be seen.

In darkness, the faintest flicker of light

Is enough to guide us and show us the way.

May the inner light we now rekindle burn strong and bright.

May it expand and grow throughout the coming year

And may we continue to see, feel, share and 
shine our inner light

Into the World

Even as the outer light returns.

And so it is!

Edward Mills

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keep on shining…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5/5 Years – Day 4/1465 Days – 12/20/2017

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on this, the cusp of soulstice, the day before the sun stands still, i find myself re-membering a lucid dream of profound stillness of many moons ago where i stared into a towering wave stretching across the earth and reaching up to the heavens… suspended in the stillpoint of the ocean of being, WE ARE in this moment, this beautiful moment…

body, speech and mind in perfect harmony

our one heart floating along in rhythm with the waves of the sea

awestruck, we are transfixed by this still mountain of water

with the power to break us, to break our heart wide open

to welcome a new/old world, a new/old way of being

present… now… in the moment…

standing together in love

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today, re-membering and reflecting on the still wave and a thousand other images from this turn around the sun, i am once again transfixed, in awe at the synchronous spinning of the waves, such a divine, rhythmic threading of the web of life… for one brief instant, i see simply breakdown, then, in the next flash the transcendent function kicks in transporting us to the field out beyond, the field of breaking open, breaking free, breaking through into harmony…

feel our one heart smiling as we dance along the spirit path together deeper and deeper into the sacred wheel, spiraling into rainbowville…

magic is on the way…

as we, like the sun, slow down and still invoking the power of this portal, this doorway into the divine feminine and release into the fire of spirit what no longer serves replacing that with an invitation for new seeds’ germination…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5/5 Years – Day 3/1464 Days – 12/19/2017

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for a few more moments, we are still under the spell of this dark new moon, a lovely space i’ve been luxuriating in today, an unexpected gift as i was headed somewhere else until destiny, the driver of the car, had another journey in store…

so, sit here with me for this moment under the dark sky savoring unknowing and mystery in this sacred space of invocation for nurturing the riotous roots down below, of  listening for divine flow, and simply being an instrument of peace…

while we are here, let’s sow a seed of intention that will come to fruition in six months when this new moon of sag will be full in sag, a seed that steps us into mastery, the fullest expression of our beauty, a seed that we’ll fertilize wholeheartedly with integrity and truth while we listen to the echos from our one heart to break open releasing the sprouting of the seed and new growth to unfold organically…

may this moment of fertile darkness find us with an open expectant heart and the sounds of celestial bells humming throughout our being and resounding throughout the cosmos as we now re-memeber this universal truth…

it is only with the heart that we see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5/5 Years – Day 2/1463 Days – 12/18/2017

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for the second day of the fifth year as we dance along the rainbow trail…

Pilgrimage Blessingway

awesome,totally awesome, flowing in beauty before us, behind us, beside us, below us, above us, within us, hear our prayer…

be present in our every step as we wander into wonder

breathe us into being from the well of great silence

bless us as we journey deeper into grace

bless our homecoming into sacred space

for deep within is memory

of an ocean running free

round a field of rainbow light

cosmos of awe, garden of delight

here, breathe us into longing for the distant shore

breathing out belonging of oneness evermore

return us now to the belly, womb of singing cells

here, breathe us in and breathe us out in rhythm with ringing bells

resonance resounding throughout the galaxy

resonance resounding, blessed harmony

awesome,totally awesome, flowing in beauty before us, behind us, beside us, below us, above us, within us, hear our prayer…

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namaste

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5/5 Years – Day 1/1462 Days – 12/17/2017

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on this most auspicious day, this high holy day, this day of first flight 114 years ago inspiring this first day of my new year and winter soulstice, the 6th anniversary of dwelling in the abundance of infinite love and gratitude, the 4th anniversary of the Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage, the amazing new moon in sag joined with the galactic center and the weekly installment of the astonishing light of your being, i celebrate this beautiful moment dancing in melting snow on the path of devocean, with snowy water falling home into vast ocean listening for the call of the wild emanating  from the womb of great silence to soar freely…

How could the soul not take flight
When from the glorious Presence
A soft call flows sweet as honey,
And whispers, “Rise up now, come away.”
How could the fish not jump
Immediately from dry land into water,
When the sound of water from the ocean
Of fresh waves springs to his ear?
How could the hawk not fly away,
Back, back, to the wrist of the kind
As soon as he hears the drum
The king’s baton hits again and again,
Drumming out the signal of return?
How could the Sufi not start to dance,
Turning on himself, like the atom in the sun of eternity,
So he can leap free of this dying world?
Fly away, fly away, bird, to your native home.
You have leaped free of the cage,
Your wings are flung back in the wind of God.
Leave behind the stagnant and marshy waters,
Hurry, hurry, hurry, O bird, to the source of life!

 – Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4/4 Years – Day 364/1461 Days – 12/16/2017

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today is a very special day for me as it marks four turns around the sun on the poetic peace pilgrimage, a breathing and being peace in every moment devocean i practice and it also marks six turns around the sun of dwelling in the superabundance of infinite love and gratitude…

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pilgrimage of peace

a daily breathing practice

in rhythm with flow

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as i sit in this cabin overlooking the salmon river, the sounds of  water moving inspires re-membering all the beautiful moments of this journey of the heart, of  simply breathing into presence, being the now, embracing what is and…

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dancing in rhythm

with river of our being

opening to flow

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along this path of heart, this path of purification, this path of polishing the heart, we keep coming back with every breath, with every step into infinite love and gratitude, coming back home to the heart where we experience over and over again a…

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moment of peace

wildpeace flowing in river ripples

dancing joyously

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how i love this practice of pilgrimage, being a poet on an interior deep sea journey where we are all walking each other home into the center of our one heart…

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standing in the center

seeing in a sacred manner

all being as one spirit

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may we all be…

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nomads in the sea

celebrating rainbow mystery

being harmony

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thanks for showing up with every breath and sharing the journey of heart, this path of purification, this path of polishing our one heart until it reflects our diamond being…

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flowing in beauty

in the field of divine grace

always being the soul of the place

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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 364 – 12/15/2017

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Do not dwell in the past, do not do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

~ Buddha ~

today is the quintessential celebration of arriving home in the present moment… a journey that’s sixty-six years of moments in the making… a journey of realeyesing the journey is the destination, the desined place of being home in the present moment wherever we are….

thousandfold thanks, beloveds, for our walking home together in this moment, this beautiful moment, this one and only moment, this eternal moment…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 363 – 12/14/2017

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 I have come to drag you out of yourself, and take you in my heart.

I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had and lift you like a prayer to the sky.

Rumi

as we enter more and more deeply into the stillness of these holy days, are you hearing that still small voice imploring you to come back and turn toward the being of light you truly are, the luminescent limitless light being beyond the caged protected self of limited vision?

may we all take full advantage of this season of riotous roots, of the stillpoint of creativity to turn away from fear and control and toward love and responsible stewardship for being who we are… a prayer painting the skies, a soul song serenading the seas, a whispering wind wandering the earth in wonder, a sun illuminating the path of our one heart with the eternal fires of  creativity blazing a trail of  golden light…