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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage -Year 10 – Day 11 – 12/27/2022

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we are earth, we are spirit… listening and offering to always act in the interest of the children of all beings of the earth…

tonight is the moment to share our second night’s dream from last night and to honor Kwanzaa’s 2nd day value of self-determination which seems the moment to bring these words to bear… a record 6,036 US children have been killed, injured by gunfire in 2022; that is, as of today 306 children under age 12 were killed by guns and another 668 were injured nationwide and for those ages 12-17, 1,328 were killed and 3,734 were injured… we can do better and we must take up the age old value of acting in the best interest of the earth…

i’m trusting our journey on the Caravan of Re-Joy-Sing, honoring our transcendent journey into light, our taking joy in transforming shadow seeds into blooming gifts and our witnessing these gifts as dreams coming to us each night for the 12 nights of Christmas is fruitful for you especially under last night’s energy of the mystery school of Taurus…

on the second night of Christmas, my true love (Beloved Taurus) gave to me, a dream of… a new song of the earth being sung by the underground root system run riot as grandmother spider spins the web of life of all our relations and white buffalo calf woman moves the web of life aboveground  with prayers of abundance inspiring sacred herds of buffalo to once again dance across the plains organically nourishing the earth as they empty themselves to replenish the soil… and the earth begins to sing the new song of the earth – of  all beings of the earth vibrating at one frequency of  love and peace re-joy-sing in being in harmony and in rhythm with divine flow…

may we all  recognize and honor the sacredness of every life walk and connect in deeper ways to life’s meaning and the values of peace, love, joy and harmony…

thousand fold thanks, great spirit, for whispering this song of the earth of our being for all children of the earth…

namaste’

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage -Year 10 – Day 10 – 12/26/2022

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ah, pilgrimaging with the caravan of re-joy-sing began last night… i’d love to hear of your dream gift from aries, here’s  mine of  this first night’s journey into light, this awakening ever more deeply and expansively of our one illuminated heart…

on the first night of Christmas, my true love (Beloved Aries) gave to me the dream gift of flying with a flock of “strange birds”, circling with unknown imaginal cells holding the same core knowings so that we could effect greater shifting in the collective as we journeyed as on interbeing…

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a flock of geese flying home to sun

singing of joy and peace for everyone

open hearts now re-joy-sing spontaneously

awakening our light song at celestial frequency

 we soar on love’s sunbeams  in wild ecstasy

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“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!“

~ Rumi ~

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thankyou, Beloved, for gifting such a moment of eternity of interbeeing, simply interbeeing fullheartedly/foolheartedly present in every moment, in every beautiful rainbow trail moment of eternity… and, as we go into dreamtime tonight, let’s tune into the element of earth and the energies of taurus to see what the dream gift is…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage -Year 10 – Day 9 – 12/25/2022

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first, an intention for peace…

peace is here
when we want it

peace is here
when we want the health of our people more than global domination,
peace is here
when we want everyone’s prosperity
more than we want to be richer than others,
peace is here
when we want peace more than the illusion of security,
peace is here

peace is here
when we want to move forward more than we want our team to triumph,
peace is here
when we want to get the things we want more than we want the glory,
peace is here
when we want things to be right more than we want the story of being wronged,
peace is here

peace is here
when we want happiness more than we want to win,
peace is here
when we want connection more than we want ambitious achievements,
peace is here
when we want this moment more than we want our future fantasies (that will always fail to satisfy even if they do come true),
peace is here

peace is here
when we want to relax and repair more than we want to defend the story of ourself,
peace is here
when we want to seek understanding more than we want to win the argument,
peace is here
when we want to love more than we want to shield ourself from future grief,
peace is here

peace is here
when we want our sanity more than our reputation,
peace is here
when we want to be loved more than we want to be alone,
peace is here
when want what’s in the interest of all our relations
more than we want what’s in our self-interest
peace is here
when we want to remove the blocks to health more than we want anything else,
peace is here
when we want it
now…

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i’m trusting today has been a day of taking joy for you on yet another feast day celebrating the light, a magical moment of eternity when the portal is wide open for our re-membering who we are… radiant suns and receptive moons of our one cosmic heart…

on these upcoming twelve nights of the 12 Days of Christmas, i invite you to join me once again for our annual special pilgrimage, the Caravan of Re-Joy-Sing, honoring our transcendent/descendent journey into light, our taking joy in transforming shadow seeds into gifts and our witnessing these gifts as dreams coming to us each night for the next 12 nights to the tune of the 12 Days of Christmas…

on the first night of Christmas, my true love (Aries) gave to me, a dream of…  on the second night of Christmas, my true love (Taurus) gave to me, a dream of…  on the third night of Christmas, my true love (Gemini) gave to me, a dream of…   on the fourth night of Christmas, my true love (Cancer) gave to me, a dream of… don’t worry if you are seeing this on the 26th, you can still ask Aries to dream you…

so, you get the idea? each night our dream will be a gift from the sun signs, the light, guiding us, mapping the route along the rainbow trail as we re-member and re-birth more and more of whom we really and truly are…

i take joy with you as we adventure into dreamtime, re-joy-sing in this oft-quoted salutation from the Italian painter and architect Fra Giovanni (Angelico) in 1513…

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“I salute you.

There is nothing I can give you which you have not,
but there is much that while I cannot give,
you can take.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today.
Take heaven.

No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant.
Take peace.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.
Take joy.

And so at this Christmastime,
I greet you, with the prayer
that for you,
now and forever,
the day breaks
and the shadows
flee away.”

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage -Year 10 – Day 8 – 12/24/2022

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today’s holi day journey is the quintessential poetic peace pilgrimage, one flowing moment of intoxication peppered with a string of hiccups, of spirits of peace, love and joy transmuting conflict, fear and sadness while carrying our one heart in a continuous blessingway deeper and deeper into incarnating, embodying the all that is…

thank you, thank you, thank you for this moment of grace, this day of pause, this season of dancing in stillness, merging the opposites into a seamless tapestry, a kaleidoscope of rainbow colored images of the many and the one…

dolphin dancing and leaping like waves flowing in the ocean… pulled by love out of my safe cove into the wider ocean of wonder, beauty, grace… i live in wonder at this journey’s unfolding in such a mysterious, serendipitous, synchronistic way and am so grateful when able to hold the tension of the opposites…

how i love this annual magical ride pulled by shamanic horses of the heart and skysea, our ever present dolphin guides who love taking us into the ocean depths  and space heights where we feel the magnetic  energy of the new moon in Capricorn on this day that hums to the tune of being presence and calls us to listen and attune to the cosmic frequency calling us home, home to the heart…

let us venture now to the river of joy below the river through that well worn wormhole, the rabbit hole, and encounter a communion of ancestors, so many members of the village impacting our destiny so profoundly… yes, today’s holi day journey is an ancestor blessingway overflowing with real eyes vision, realeyezations flowing from our sister moon about the new world we are breathing in where all our children are smiling in delight as we grow into a communal culture of light turned on by soular power to be our fullest expression and deepest purpose… to fly on the wings of love and to ground ourselves into the roots of belonging always being love, joy, peace and harmony…

breathe in this magical moment, this moment of wonder from our earth mother through our one heart and out to sky father who whispers it back to the great mother who breathes us again  and the seamless cycle of return  flows infinitely through the beyond…

one breath, one moment, one step of always being love…

happiest of trails…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage -Year 10 – Day 7 – 12/23/2022

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today’s pilgrimage has a magical mystery tour quality, a perfect backdrop for drawing down the the powerful energies of the thirteenth new moon of this turn around the sun and a perfect moment while still in the portal of soulstice to be still and listen in a deeper way to our one cosmic heart’s whisperings for us all to invoke our shared quantum field of infinite possibilities for setting our intentions for moonifesting a cosmos of harmony where our heart beats as one resonant, unitive field…

in this moment, this beautiful moment of eternity, let’s breathe in peace deeply drawing down the rhythms of the dark moon and cultivate the mountain goat’s ability for receptive waiting by going into “thinking like a mountain” eternity consciousness… breathing in and breathing out, float down to the river below the river and see the polished stone whose jagged edges have been smoothed out by currents and whirlpools and floods and snow and glacier melts over the aeons and watch as this stone now rises revealing its true self as the sea goat of the ocean deeps and a mountain peak of quiet endurance and majestic calm, unmovable and unperturbable…

like the ocean deep and mountain peak, we are in our core, constant and true and able to follow Capricorn’s lead to climb every mountain and to dive deeply into the ocean of being, to fulfill our shared dharma, our right way of living – to co-create a cosmos of harmony, heaven on earth consciousness… now is the moment to plant the energy intentions, to seed our shared field with the resonance of co-creation, co-llaboration and beloved communion… breathing in and breathing out our shared dream intention for a cosmos of true refuge for all our relations…

tune into the star that is being birthed in this moment … a new consciousness of peace and harmony is now ripe to leave the birth canal and come into embodiment collectively and individually though even this division is transcended with this grand convergence into zero point continuum eternal now – blessed are we in the sacred conjunction of the planetary bodies at and as this threshold time into eternity is opening up and the umbilical cord to eden is restored and re-attached and that which was turned upside down is turned downside up in alignment with the naturel flow and breath of creation with rainbow serpent becoming rainbow bridge moonifesting heaven-earth consciousness…

how’s that for a little moonifesting?

yes! i’ll bee planting these heirloom seeds of transformation in the sacred garden and we will all return to the field of unitive love to interbee who we truly are, we will come back to the garden as the stardust beeings we are…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage -Year 10/10 Years – Day 1/3288 Days – 12/17/2022

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today is an especially auspicious day marking the moment of eternity… 759 years ago the poetic peace pilgrim, Rumi, died; 118 years ago the 1st flight took place on the outer banks, my former home; it is the first day of the 12th year of dwelling in the abundance of infinite love and gratitude, it is the first day of the tenth year of  the daily practice of writing this ppp peace and it is… drumroll… the day of a flight of liberation for us all as we tune into the ancient roman feast of saturnalia which is celebrated december 17-23 which this year will be the new moon in capricorn, the 13th moon of this turn around the sun, the lacuna moon, the unfilled space…

in honor of this confluence of riches, let us begin soaring into spaciousness and deepening into our core with Rumi: 

“If you are seeking, seek us with joy
For we live in the kingdom of joy.
Do not give your heart to anything else
But to the love of those who are clear joy,
Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.
For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –
Do not go in the direction of darkness –
I tell you: suns exist.”

what a day of  cosmic flight and deep sea journey dissolved into the radiant light of Green Tara who comes when we call to clear all obstacles and relieve the suffering of all our relatives, a moment of eternity of flying home to the heart through the outer turbulence to soar and swim in inner open spaciousness trusting in the implicate order and listening for the call of the wild emanating  from the watery womb of great silence…

“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!”

 ~ Rumi ~

happiest of turns ’round the sun and may this one be overflowing with love, liberation and luxuriating in each beautiful and interesting sacred moment of eternity…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 365 – 12/16/2022

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today is an incredibly special day in thought word and deed as it marks the completion of nine turns around the sun (that’s 3287 days) posting the poetic peace pilgrimage each night unless on my deathbed or without connection – the ppp is a daily breathing and being peace in every moment devocean i practice… today also marks the completion of eleven turns around the sun (that’s 4018 days) of dwelling in the superabundance of infinite love and gratitude… this 2022 year is so very remarkable personally and collectively with our interbeing’s vision beeing so dramatically refined while the cosm has so profoundly quickened the outpourings of golden light to support the great turning of the ages, the transmutation, the transformation, the unfolding of the birth-death-rebirth cycle of the magical mystery tour we call life…

a turn like no other

breaking down to break through

and gathering strength to make the quantum leap

this year, more expansively and deeply than ever, in the midst of constant stimulation, i have loved taking refuge in living the iconic quest ion of what will i do with my one wild and precious life and have loved witnessing the answer of being drawn by the stronger pull of what i really love and seeing that pull embedded in and engraved upon the compass of the immortal soul while always inviting in each moment of eternity as a friend to ->

open my eyes so i may vision

open my ears so i may listen

open my voice so i may rejoice

open my heart so i may know not knowing

as i sit in the dream cave now, the interior sounds of  water moving inspires re-membering all the beautiful moments of this journey of the heart, of  simply breathing into lovingkindness presence, being the now, embracing the uncertainty and impermanence of what is and…

dan-sing in rhythm

with the river of being

opening to flow

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 no matter what is happening in the outer, coming back home to our one heart where we experience over and over again…

moments of peace

wildpeace flowing in ripples

and dan-sing joyously

how i love this practice of pilgrimage, of living story, of being poets on an interior deep sea journey where we’re all walking each other home into our one heart where we stand in the center seeing in a sacred manner all beings as one spirit…

thanks for being nomads in the sea

celebrating rainbow mystery

being harmony

real-eye-sing more than ever the gift of standing together in solidarity as the dominance world collapses making space for returning to the true reality of interconnection, of belonging to each other, i pledge to live right action in the rhythm of the waves of creation for the benefit of the seven generations… aho…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 364 – 12/15/2022

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in this pivotal moment of eternity, sitting in the blissness blue moon lodge peace hut, i search for words of peace and so resonate with another’s words which mirror my own, one of the original 13 Indigenous Grandmothers who offers these pearls:

SEARCHING FOR WORDS OF PEACE -Grandmother Maria Alice

“At this moment I seek in my heart words of peace, words of union, after several days of perplexity in the face of events and the attitudes of the world’s political leaders.

To talk about peace, it is necessary to find peace in oneself , silence, agreement with life. This is a thorough exercise, very fine. 

We see war everywhere in the world today, the determination to invade, to destroy, to dominate. War-makers speak in the name of peace, of progress, of the defense of self-determination. Everyone develops a lot of speech, but what they all really want is to continue selling weapons, and extorting riches from the earth to use for more destruction and discord.

So, for us, simple people, citizens of the world, workers, women, men, children, who don’t have weapons to sell and don’t want to buy weapons, who aim for the good, who revere life, we need a lot of attention and a lot of conviction in our purpose.

War-makers have many facets and forms of manifestation. They are not only the ones who drop bombs and command tanks, but they are also the great liars who seek to instill in our minds and hearts hatred and malevolence through slander and false news. They are also the silent killers, who poison the land, the waters and the air we breathe, who poison the food we eat, who set the forests on fire out of greed and evil. They are everywhere, in government posts, spreading racism, separation, dispute between people, making our diversity the fraud of separation.

Therefore, to defend peace, we need conviction. Conviction in true love, in the cultivation of life. If we take sides in the war, we have already deviated from the goal. We need to misidentify ourselves from the war dispute, all sides are war-makers.

We live in a time when people despair, looking to lean on some point of strength, to move forward. Let us not be deceived. Our point of strength is not the rulers, it is not the lying deceitful politicians. Our point of strength is the light that emanates from our hearts and radiates, creating solidarity, friendship, union between people and all of life. Our point of strength is manifested in our intuition that shows us collaborative paths that are independent from domination. We are light, we are the manifestation of the Great Spirit of Creation, we are part of the great universal organism.

Attention to the thought of peace, to the cultivation of peace in our hearts. Let’s hold our hands, let’s assemble the union in our hearts, let’s connect with the infinite eternal Breath of Life.

In Peace”

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“Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe. ” 
~ Arundhati Roy ~

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 363 – 12/14/2022

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the embrace of darkness prepares us for great light…

holy synchronisiddhi! on this third day of nine days of the portal of stargate, the gateway of light, it is the feast day of st john of the cross, patron saint of contemplatives, mystics and poets… centuries ahead of the modern discovery of the unconscious, st john spoke of darkness, inner journeys, the dark night of the soul and the shadow self… his genius, his gift for the good of the whole was in living and speaking about the imperative of transformation, of embracing the dark night of the soul and holding steadfast trusting in benevolent great mystery to lovingly bring forth the light…

blessed bee… and so it is… we are walking light waves, souls dressed in sacred biochemical garments playing our soul songs… and, yes! this is the moment of eternity to re-weave the dreamtime world with the wonder, wisdom and great mystery of being alive, fully alive transforming awakened consciousness into the even more beautiful world of blessing, of beloved communitas where we live in peace and harmony co-creating a world of wonder and wisdom…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 362 – 12/13/2022

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“You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.”

~ Rumi ~

the more deeply i dwell in the sacred spaciousness of the eternal present moment continuously chanting make me an instrument of peace and a chorus of thank yous and welcomes and the more wholeheartedly i surrender to love and being loving presence in every moment, the more i am taken to places i could not imagine, to ultima thule, the great beyond within our one cosmic body… today, on this second day of the stargate portal as i look back over 362 days of tripping to unplanned places, i’m in awe of the wondrous beauty of unfolding mystery we see as we are pulled by the pathless path of the heart…

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The Journey

“One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save.“

~ Mary Oliver ~

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