Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage

welcome, welcome to day 57 of a season of peace, a day of leaping into the void of oceanic being trusting in the soul to flow in concert with the magnetic waves of spaciousness, trusting in the waves to bring us home to the one heart to dance with great mystery gracefully…

for so many moons, like you, i have felt this calling to let go of all save the essential sensing deep in my bones a tidal wave building that would sweep away everything in its path and to take refuge in the tiny space of the heart resting in the deep song and peace of the running wave where i am flanked by and hold paws with our sea otter tribe ensuring we all stay connected and do not drift away from each other during the dark night…

in this deep earth space of an unprecedented chaos cycle enveloping the cosmos, we share the tunnel, the birth canal and living the questions of what’s to come…

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First the animals began dying, going extinct, and we did not stop
what we were doing because we are not animals.
Then the glaciers started melting and we did not stop
what we were doing because we thought we could do without them.
Then the forests were disappearing and we did not stop
cutting down the trees
because we could not imagine being unable to breathe.
Then the virus came and there was no one to stop us
but ourselves. ~ Deena Metzger ~

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in this liminal space where existence is at stake, we don’t have the indulgence of lies and pretense, we must live the questions of how to meet the challenges, how to live, we must dig deeply into the roots and listen for their radical (rooted) answers… yes, we are dying, not one of us will get out of here alive… may we use this dark night for the benefit of all and learn how to truly live as the dancing stars we are…

welcome, welcome to day 56 of a season of peace, day 100 of this seventh turn around the sun on the poetic peace pilgrimage and the first night of the celebration of the Hindu festival of Navaratri..

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may the spirit of the sea of love energy open our one heart to re-membering our true nature as an ocean, a devocean of overflowing lovingkindness…

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 the words above echo through me today as i metaphorically meander with the ocean along the rocky coast of life in this moment to look deeply within reflecting upon the vast seasky that stretches forever and ever and listen to the rhythm of the waves and the comforting voice of grandmother resonating from the deeps below…

“I send love and blessings to all from the spirit world. I am so honored to feel your love and your concern. 

Do not forget to do everything you can to heal the oceans and water of this beautiful planet. Send your healing, loving thoughts to the water daily and get others to do the same. You must hold a vision of the water sparkling clean and full of vibrant life, for as you create this vision it will be done. It will however, take millions of people holding this vision to make the shift.

Do not be dragged down by the current chaos in the world. Humans are gifted and powerful creators. You only need to shift your focus ever so slightly to come into alignment and do good for each other and all creatures on planet earth. It is time to forgive and let go of violence. Make your priority loving the earth, loving and supporting each other, loving and protecting all creatures, and doing everything you can to make life a paradise for all.” 

~ Granny ~

may we come home to our open one heart dan-sing synchronicity in alignment with the cosmic truth of our belonging to each other with all of our actions effecting and influencing creation…

welcome, welcome to day 55 of a season of peace and day 99 of this seventh turn around the sun on the poetic peace pilgrimage, a day of drawing down the energy of the dark new moon to midwife the dark night of the soul and the rebirth of the collective true self as we come together in this moment of pause to re-member we belong to each other and are one holy vessel made up of trillions of cells called to be there for each other knowing this in our bones…

 falling in love with paths and pilgrimages as a child, i loved the annual spring ritual of watching The Wizard of Oz and dancing merrily down the yellow brick road with Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion… march winds and turbulent energy flows are taking me back to the whirlwind that began the journey of awakening for Dorothy, for me, for you…

in the midst of the tornado, everything known and stable is deconstructed to be built anew and so we must start fresh with a child’s vision of wonder and trust as we travel the yellow brick road, the golden path, the SHERO Journey to SELF™ where we re-member, like Dorothy, that we had the power all along, we are the power, we always have the ability to come home, we are always home…

may we go forward boldly in sync with the aries new moon to love and serve all our relations…

welcome, welcome to day 54 of a season of peace on the twenty-third day of musing march which had i real-eyesed what this moon would be about, it would be mutating march.. here we are in the last moments of this day in my time zone and the new moon will be here soon so i’ll go ahead and honor the new moon in aries, the first of the astrological new year, this moon of awesome awakening, calling us to trailblaze the pathless path as we rebirth ourselves…

this fiery, go forth boldly new moon which may trigger feeling deep core wounds of abandonment and i’m not enough, also supports our healing and transforming the wounds into strengths and coming into a more profound knowing of who we truly are …

so let us spend some moments in the earth of our being musing upon what seeds need planting in this time of great turning, seeds that will root and anchor us as we all go through this collective timeout, this reset, this rebirth which we all signed up for and are so able to meet the challenges, yes, we are enough, more than enough to be a great orchard commonunity bridging heavenearth…

welcome, welcome to day 53 of a season of peace which synchronisticly falls on world water day and even more synchronisticly, the day we celebrate the astonishing light of our being with source calling me on this third and final day of the bounteous 14th whalewitnessing re-treat to swim in the timeless zone’s waters of life… let’s all take this moment, this breath to reset and to celebrate water = we are the eternal radiance, astonishing lights of beingness made to flow into impermanence, uncertainty and the unknown as holy seaworthy vessels…

UN World Water Day on March 22 is a part of a worldwide mission to ensure everyone has access to safe drinking water. Right now, many of the world’s poorest do not have access to one of our most valuable natural resources.

In many areas around the world taps, pipes and wells simply don’t exist and if they do they’re not affordable for many people. It means drinking dirty water is the only option with dirty water being responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.

We, like all other bodies of water, can change course and follow a sustainable direction by first believing we can and next acting on the belief with action by loving our waters for they are our mother, our ancestors and are the web weaving all our relatives into an amazing tapestry. We have a duty of care to protect and nurture our grandmothers and grandfathers and mothers and fathers who give us life.

May we all envision and answer the urgent call to action for a world where everyone drinks safe water instead of the present figure of only.01% is potable. Here’s a first step whenever using this sacred elixir…

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Prayer When Drinking Water

As I receive this water and it flows through me,
May it become medicine dispelling all ills,
May it become medicine revealing the wisdom within and through out.
I offer apology for any harm done through wrong speech & action

As this water flows through me and becomes vapor,
May it purify the atmosphere
May it nourish the wisdom potential in the people
I offer apology for any harm done through wrong speech & action

As this water flows through me, and returns to the water table
May it remove the impurities of chemicals placed within the water
May the water be made new again
May this water become medicine for all beings in this and all worlds

~ Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo ~

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Piglet’s Song

Let’s find a Way today,
that can take us to tomorrow.
We’ll follow that Way,
A Way like flowing water.

Let’s leave behind,
the things that do not matter.
And we’ll turn our lives,
to a more important chapter.

Let’s take the time and try to find,
what real life has to offer.
And maybe then we’ll find again,
what we had long forgotten.
Like a friend, true ’til the end,
it will help us onward.

The sun is high, the road is wide,
and it starts where we are standing.
No one knows how far it goes,
for the road is never-ending.

It goes away,
beyond what we have thought of.
It flows away,
Away like flowing water.

~ Benjamin Hoff ~

(The Te of Piglet)

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welcome, welcome to day 52 of a season of peace, a day vibrating at a frequency of stillness and to the eve of world water day…. although tomorrow we celebrate a day of honoring and blessing water, everyday is truly a blessing water day, water is the innernet connecting us all, the more blessings of peace, love and harmony we pour into water, the more peaceful, loving and harmonious life is… thousandfold thanks for our joining hands across the cosmos in sacred honoring… thousandfold thanks, water, for giving us life and blessing our earth walks… standing before you, we re-member we are water, we are the ocean in a drop… may our one heart be purified more than ever before for the benefit of all as we drink you into our being and as water reciprocates in the next breath by blessing us and generously bestowing pure water spirits throughout the web of life… water is a mirror for us as well as perfectly mirroring us… water responds in perfect harmony to the messages we send; the more beautiful our transmission, the more beautifully water creates all that is..

as we witness the sun sync into the sea, let us echo a song of the whales, recordkeepers of the ocean of being encouraging our re-membering who we are in this moment of stillness dancing through the fires of purification, clean-sing in the womb of motherwaters breaking through, crowning, poised for rebirth…

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Let us bless the grace of water:

The imagination of the primeval ocean
Where the first forms of life stirred
And emerged to dress the vacant earth
With warm quilts of color.

The well whose liquid root worked
Through the long night of clay,
Trusting ahead of itself openings
That would yet yield to its yearning
Until at last it arises in the desire of light
To discover the pure quiver of itself
Flowing crystal clear and free
Through delighted emptiness.

The courage of a river to continue belief
In the slow fall of ground,
Always falling farther
Toward the unseen ocean.

The river does what words would love,
Keeping its appearance
By insisting on disappearance;
Its only life surrendered
To the event of pilgrimage,
Carrying the origin to the end.

Seldom pushing or straining,
Keeping itself to itself
Everywhere all along its flow…

Let us bless the humility of water,
Always willing to take the shape
Of whatever otherness holds it,

The buoyantsea of water
Stronger than the deadening,
Downward drag of gravity,
The innocence of water,
Flowing forth, without thought
Of what awaits it,
The refreshment of water,
Dissolving the crystals of thirst.

Water: voice of grief,
Cry of love,
In the flowing tear.

Water: vehicle and idiom
Of all the inner voyaging
That keeps us alive.

Blessed be water,
Our first mother.

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“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

welcome, welcome to day 51 of a season of peace, a day of a pilgrimage of devocean to the sea for our fourteenth annual whalewatching re-treat, the strangest, most surreal and sublime one thus far… how i love this day of equinox, of sacred pause, this profound portal all the more so as we stand in such a pivotal moment with everything hanging in the balance… are you feeling the serpentine energies rising from the earth to marry the soular rays flowing down from the skies activating the creation of the cosmic egg as the sun moves into aries and the new astrological year calling for the rebirth of SELF?

 awakening today with a smile, i re-member a quintessence of years ago, i received the dream of going into the wasteland to anoint with holy water which led to a pilgrimage to gather holy water from the heart chakra of the planet as we depart for unharted waters in uncertain times of cosmic chaos cycle…

so much to breathe in this moment  and breathe out with a deep sigh of  ah, of awe… yes! the whole of gaia is in balance today as we celebrate the festival of the sun, the day we all receive the same amount of sun externally and internally… on this day of the earth’s poles being in balance and light piercing through both hemispheres, we are able to see through dimensional veils… seeing the world through eyes of balance, she sings a song of harmony on this first day of the new astrological turn around the sun…

yes! i love this day of balance, such happiness flows like a bubbling brook which reminds me that in addition to being equinox, today is also the International Day of Happiness as decreed by the United Nations… and, it’s the first day of fall for southern hemisphereians and spring for those in the north…

may we be filled with the energies of balance and harmony radiating from this libra super full moon on this high holy day of equinox, of sacred pause with every breath being a blessingway, a blessingway of deepening balance, a flowing with the waters of life in harmony revealing every moment as sacred in our cosmic heart of love…

welcome, welcome to day 50 of a season of peace, equinox and the day of 10 kan in the mayan calendar and the first day of the astrological calendar as the sun moves into aries…

thank you, beloved beauty, emissary of light for this stellar day, equinox being one of my favorites and made so much more special with its being the day of the feathered rainbow serpent, the day of awakening the kan energy, the chi, prana, kundalini, a day of syncing into stillness and being harmony in a culture deepening into lovingkindness, care and compassion…

i feel a moment of quaking at today’s call of the wild to defy gravity even more, to break my heart open wider – am i up for this adventure? yes, hell yes, i am made for this, we are made for this alchemizing, this transmuting of our illusion of certainty into flowing with what is… smiling and chanting thank you, thank you, thank you, i dive into the oceanic depths breathing through our one heart in the rhythm of the waves. in the stillness of deep mystery

according to pythia, psychedelphic rainbow serpent living in the deep waters of the heart of gaia, the great secret of life is to be perfectly still, slowing down to a standstill perfectly poised in peace, breathing into the belly and out through the crown resting more deeply with every breath in the stillpoint of creation where there’s only the dance of rainbow mystery calling us to join in moving in the rhythm that peace prevails on earth and begins with me and thee until we are one wave encircling the cosmos breathing and being peace in every cell and thought, word and deed… yes!

let us close this day of viral love in stillness and KEEPING QUIET with Pablo Neruda…

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Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.

For once on the face of the earth,
let’s not speak in any language;
let’s stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.

It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines;
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

Fisherman in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would look at his hurt hands.

Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victories with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.

What I want should not be confused
with total inactivity.
Life is what it is about;
I want no truck with death.

If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.
Perhaps the earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.

Now I’ll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.

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welcome, welcome to day 49 of a season of peace and to a foreshadowing of/illuminating tomorrow (march 19) when we celebrate equinox as a   festival of the sun, a day to honor the balancing of the sun within oneself… let us share the experience of the inner sun of spirit so beautifully illuminated by this lovely sunlit eye and this poem of Lawrence Ferlinghetti…

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Instructions to Painters & Poets

I asked a hundred painters and a hundred poets
how to paint sunlight
on the face of life
Their answers were ambiguous and ingenuous
as if they were all guarding trade secrets
Whereas it seems to me
all you have to do
is conceive of the whole world
and all humanity
as a kind of art work
a site-specific art work
an art project of the god of light
the whole earth and all that’s in it
to be painted with light

And the first thing you have to do
is paint out postmodern painting
And the next thing is to paint yourself
in your true colors
in primary colors
as you see them
(without whitewash)
paint yourself as you see yourself
without make-up
without masks
Then paint your favorite people and animals
with your brush loaded with light
And be sure you get the perspective right
and don’t fake it
because one false line leads to another

And don’t forget to paint
all those who lived their lives
as bearers of light
Paint their eyes
and the eyes of every animal
and the eyes of beautiful women
known best for the perfection of their breasts
and the eyes of men and women
known only for the light of their minds
Paint the light of their eyes
the light of sunlit laughter
the song of eyes
the song of birds in flight

And remember that the light is within
if it is anywhere
and you must paint from the inside

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may we be sunlit laughter…

Happy St Paddy’s Day!

and, welcome, welcome to day 48 of a season of peace; on this day in the chaos cycle of life, let’s transport ourselves to the emerald isle energetically as i re-member a long ago conversation with and journey to the sun who told me to live in green for that is the color of love and now, who better to hear an echo from than her late great native son, John O’Donahue…

A Celebration Blessing

Now is the time
to free the heart,
Let all intentions and worries stop,
Free the joy inside the self,
Awaken to the wonder
of your life.

Open your eyes and see the friends
Whose hearts recognize your face as kin,
Those whose kindness watchful and near,
Encourages you to live everything here.

See the gifts the years have given,
Things your effort could never earn,
The health to enjoy who you want to be
And the mind to mirror mystery.

May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
may the clarity of light be yours,
may the fluency of the ocean be yours,
may the protection of the ancestors be yours.

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…may a slow
wind work these words
of love around you bringing a smile to your soul…