welcome, openhearted october, a moon where every day the pilgrimage is a devotion to cultivating the open heart of flowing love, peace and joy! i pray you awake today, with a child’s open heart and a beginner’s mind somewhere aware that this beautiful moment has been quietly forming and waiting for the perfect moment to present, to presence…. thanks be for courage kindling our one sweet heart to open to what is and to trust the destination is the journey… we don’t have to know where we are going, how could we in this river of life that’s fluid and dynamic, moving from moment to moment only asking that we simply be open, one with the tides of life… deep bow to green tara, goddess of enlightenment and compassion, for revealing that this is a moment for surrendering suffering to the river of joy, the river below the river, the waters of life always flowing through the deep well of our one being… may we all open our one heart as wide as the sky, as deep as the ocean and smile at this revelation of new life… the open heart promising all is well… ~may we all be peace, may we all be love may we all flow in beauty with an openheart as guide…
today is such a special blessing the space moment as we close this sacred moon of september, a moon of being silently drawn by the pull of love – thank you, dear Rumi, and happiest of turns around the sun… blessing the space of a moon of our witnessing the world turned upside down on both inner and outer planes, one long moon moment of resetting… join me now on this high sand dune with panoramic water views to celebrate the fire dissolving into water, to savor the harvests of the trials faced, the suffering now seen as the grace of awakening, the bittersweet letting go of the small protective self in service to the higher purpose of the all that is… thank you for sitting with the council of elders around the central sun as we reflect upon and share the full filling moments that live forever… A Brave And Startling Truth We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination where all signs tell us It is possible and imperative that we learn A brave and startling truth And when we come to it To the day of peacemaking When we release our fingers From fists of hostility And allow the pure air to cool our palms We, this people, on this small and drifting planet Whose hands can strike with such abandon That in a twinkling, life is sapped from the living Yet those same hands can touch with such healing, irresistible tenderness That the haughty neck is happy to bow And the proud back is glad to bend Out of such chaos, of such contradiction We learn that we are neither devils nor divines When we come to it We, this people, on this wayward, floating body Created on this earth, of this earth Have the power to fashion for this earth A climate where every man and every woman Can live freely without sanctimonious piety Without crippling fear When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world That is when, and only when We come to it. ~ Maya Angelou ~ may we all awaken today…
holy synchronicity! i’m back to posting on this special day of sharing the astonishing light of being and this image i had named blessing the magical pilgrimage which is so perfect for this moment of pilgrimage and yes, batwoman, i love the synchronicty of it being the first night of navaratri… so, beloved sangha of imaginal cells, join me in a magical mystery tour, a pilgrimage into the depths of our one heart… imagine we’ve met in the field pictured here and as we deeply conspire together, see and feel a bubble of light surrounding your physical body and extending out about four feet around you… now imagine this bubble is a window, a circular skylight and simply with your intention open the window as wide as you can and connect with the enormous steams of light flowing down from the upper worlds, the plasma fields, the akasha, the sammi, the energy flow of creation flowing through you and breaking up and releasing any blockages, issues, dams to compost them into the deep earth… the sammi, the electric light stream continues to flow down into the earth engendering a reciprocal response from our earth mother with an ascending magnetic flow of energy of unconditional love whispering that it’s safe to be here, all is well… feel your heart opening and your mind stilling as these two streams of energy flow simultaneously creating a sense of loving peaceful presence as we expand out and deepen further and further into the planet, the soular system, the galaxies out to the edges of creation and beyond where we experience SELF as the infinite one, the one consciousness, we are the drop dissolving into the ocean of being, surrendering to, softening into flow… may this doorway between the worlds always stay open in each wild and beautiful moment and may we step up as conscious, co-creating imaginal cells of liberation breathing in the new /old template of peace…
i love the energy of the new moon that draws us deeply into the dark earth womb, the stillpoint of creation, sacred space of listening for the new story… what is to be birthed… let’s join our hands together and journey into the birthing place feeling this new moon in libra breathing us peacefully, lovingly into a world of harmony… as we invoke her energy, we real-eyes we are one with this divine feminine energy always alive in our deepest center, always moving and changing in rhythmic cycles around the stillpoint… as we breathe the new story in us, sister moon, we open ourselves to more fully receiving and radiating our truth, wisdom and love… the new/ancient story of connection, of interdependence, of the one and the many, each vitally important for the functioning of the whole, each crucial for the onederful beautiful world of our new story… thousandfold thanks, dear new moon in libra, for quickening the re-membrance of cosmic oneness…
it’s been that kind of day… a day of deep peace of the running wave, a day of mysterious wisdom of the stilling wave, a day of dancing in the stillpoint between the worlds witnessing and real-eye-sing we are all being called to slow down, to come home to the heart, the true self, the present moment… riding the wave of heart wisdom right into the center, the temple of emptiness where…. there’s nothing to hold onto… ~ This is the picture I prefer: In the middle of the river, with the shoreline out of view, the raft begins to disintegrate. We find ourselves with absolutely nothing to hold on to. From our conventional standpoint, this is scary and dangerous. However, one small shift of perspective will tell us that having nothing to hold on to is liberating. We could have faith that we won’t drown. Holding on to nothing means we can relax with this fluid, dynamic world. ~ Pema Chödrön ~ ~ namaste, beloveds
today as i contemplate this International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, my reverie turns inward musing on disarming inner nuclear weapons, tending to our one heart in these troubled and gifted times… in the mysterious space of liminality when awakening from resting in the invisible realms, i love being rocked in the lap of grandmother breathing in her boundless love and breathing it out gratefully… re-membering love is the most powerful medicine, i return and return and return and return again to bathe in these healing waters tending the garden of compassion located in the earth of being… ~ In the name of daybreak and the eyelids of morning and the wayfaring moon and the night when it departs, I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder as an architect of peace. In the name of the sun and its minors and the day that embraces it and the cloud veils drawn over it and the uttermost night and the male and the female and the plants bursting with seed and the crowning seasons of the firefly and the apple, I will honor all life —wherever and in whatever form it may dwell—on Earth my home, and in the mansions of the stars. ~ Diane Ackerman ~ ~ let us create a world of peace built on justice and guided by love…
we have arrived… we are home… ~ so glad to be reunited with you and with our one heart bursting wide open in joy today as we walk the pathless path of peace, the pilgrimage of radiance, deeper into cosmic unity and re- member a lost chord of the celestial symphony… we are beloved community belonging to each other eternally in the true refuge of of our one heart… ~ drawing down the energy of the waning moon transporting us into an expansive field of the ocean of being, may we all dwell here in compassion and harmony… ~ an extraordinary journey today… to a whole new state calling for a different way: dance this heart path with loving presence moment by moment taking courage come what may… deepen into trusting the grace that’s always in play… relax and soften surrendering to love… flow with divine source below and above… inside/outside, in front of/behind, all enveloping… every outbreath an emptying, every inbreath a re-membering… ~ namaste’
today is the day to stretch the wings and fly to the other shore… what a day of heart soaring and sowing seeds of bliss from my perch by the open window with a panoramic overview of turtle island filtered through a lens of rainbow skysea taking me to an experience of many moons ago when great mystery revealed that the sky is rainbow colored and there will come a moment when we see it so… it’s been quite a journey across turtle island to come home and quite a journey to return to the other shore home… yes, dear Rumi, we all have wings with which we can soar… namaste’
today is a favorite day of mine, this day of balance,and i celebrate today with a beautiful pilgrimage to a sacred spot with the energy of new world, fragile grains of shifting sand blown out of the ocean of being to be pilgrims, poets on an awakening journey one with all that is… ~ equinox mission: balance the opposites transmuting either/or into both/and celebrating unity’s harmony… ~ breathing in this moment of balance… being balance… reflecting yin/yang above/below, light/dark, spirit/matter as one… being one… creating a new vibration of integration… fusing all paths into one golden path dancing the way to the new world of harmony where we breathe in the rhythm of our one heart… on this day of equinox, we move deeper into the mystery of balancing dark and light in the in between seasons’ space of summer and winter, of inner harvests and planting new seeds, we pause in the balance as the new world is breathing herself alive… on this day energized by being equinox, may we contemplate balance… on this holy day, this day of at one ment, may we reap an inner harvest and appreciate a cornucopia of blessings…may we be gratitude embodied for all that is… ~ O Gracious Goddess of all Fertility, we have sown and reaped the fruits of our actions…. Grant us the courage to plant seeds of joy and love in the coming year… Teach us and show us the secrets of wise cosmic existence.., O luminous one of the night! blessed be!
welcome to this week’s sharing of an image of the astonishing light of being… this moment, this day such a rich and riotous flurry of communion deepening into heart to heart conversation… so much light streaming from the heavens and earth bathing all our relatives in the buoyantsea of all is well… deep bows…
