Push Refresh: Mercurial Meditations 2012

“Butterfly Symphony” by Lauren Harris

I often write my posts to inspired incoming art. It’s like writing to visual music. Please beloved readers send me your art!  This photograph of Lauren Harris is a visual image that describes to me the personal planetary retrogrades of the first half of 2012. Revisit my previous posts about the Mars/Venus Retrogrades and you will understand the trajectory of what I am speaking about here.

Lauren’s butterflies depict great beauty and chaos and every color of the rainbow. There is a sense of many questions, much movement amidst a cacophony of color.

Where should I land? Which flower holds nourishment? I’m a little confused. Should I land here? Feed on this flower? Who are you over there? Do I know you? Do I want to know you? Should we be friends? Are you a weirdo? Are we compatible?

This Mercury Retrograde has allowed us to make the final sweep of closets long in need of cleaning and claim our new territory with heart and hope and specific details of what is required next. We have discovered what we can no longer tolerate ~Mars retrograde Jan-April, 2012~ and have come to realize what truly sparkles our souls ~Venus retrograde May-June, 2012~ and now with Mercury Retrograde July-August, 2012~we set our new desires in motion.

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Many people I know, me included, know it is time to let the winds of change guide us to our next landing place be that with new people, a new land, or just a desire to inhabit a different spiritual, emotional and mental terrain.

Butterfly medicine is a perfect animal to guide us in these times. So vulnerable, yet also so confident in her beauty and ever trusting of the winds that set sail to her life.  The next fragrant fertile flower awaits sure to nourish.

How can we live like this, with such faith in the universal never-ending supply and kindness and synchronicity? Will we ever finally understand that synchronicity is a fundamental law of the universe as real as gravity?  Can we trust there will always be budding flowers of infinite color in which to delight? How can we believe we’ll never lack for anything unless we believe it is so.

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~It is time to push the Refresh Button on your life~

Those were the words I heard upon awakening a few weeks ago.

The refresh button. For those of you who don’t know much about the world of the Internets, pushing the refresh button means that after you have introduced changes into your text/design you can make those changes wondrously appear instantly on your website/link just by pushing that magic circular arrow. You envision, you reconstruct, you edit, you delete, you add new elements. Then you push the refresh button and everything shifts all at once. Like magic! And if things have gone figmo in the world like lightning strikes, power outages that might have wreaked temporary havoc in your electronic world, quite often pushing REFRESH ~that holy spiraling arrow~ often corrects the problem….oh that it could be so in the non-cyber world.

In that moment as you push REFRESH you might anxiously wait ~ will the changes stick? Was it worth the effort? Is this truly what I wanted?

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I received this insight out of the blue after a particularly grueling few weeks

~ a celestial grace ~

With the arrival of these words, push the Refresh Button on your life

how could I not        revisit hope        regain faith

chose to step forward again into my emerging New Field

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I now know we are all becoming collectively stronger. I was not sure that would be true in the past few years.  I was worried about humanity~about me~about all of us. Could we really navigate this shift in consciousness? Did we have the strength to reinvent ourselves and release all our safety nets and launch ourselves like newborns into this NewBorn world?

I remember the day I realized that this was an inside job.  That our previous outer revolutions would soon become primarily inner revolutions. That all change was eventually going to come from within the strength of each individual.  That is the true meaning of democracy. And so in that sense, from all countries of Earth, no matter how despotic or dictatorial the governments might be, change would arise/arrive from within the courageous leaders of each family, each tribe, each continent, each species.

Yes there are courageous Bears and innovative Bluebirds. Even species of creatures have their evolutionary leaders. I bow to Grizzly 399 and 610~our wise Grand Teton Grizzly mothers.  I bow to the curious ones. The open ones. The inquisitive ones. No matter your species. No matter your tribe.

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I do believe the essence of this quote no matter where it came from:

“We are the ones we have been waiting for.”

All history has led us to this moment in time when we must take the leadership of our lives to ensure our collective survival. We are at a critical juncture yet it need not be catastrophic if we will each step into the leadership of our life.

Out of the complexity of our Spirit/Soul elixir we each have a unique way we are intended to help lead this world to greater joy/health/vitality/compassion. Please re-read this piece that speaks to this pressure toward personal integration of our sometimes polarized self:

Integration~Mars Retrograde Part 2

Integration or implosion. Integration or explosion. We will see this happening all around in violent seemingly senseless acts of violence. You might feel it within in days of doubts/depression/self-deprecation. Implosion/explosion or integration?

What does it mean to take the leadership of your life? It means follow the leadership of your heart. What do you love? Who do you love? What do you think needs fixing or greater attention in the world around you? Commit to improving that. Decide love is the ruling factor in any decision you make
from here on out~to eternity.

Every creature has a heart. So~by definition~we all have the responsibility of leadership to follow the truth of our hearts.

We all have this responsibility. Don’t abnegate/abandon this gift.  Set actions in motion based on your inner listening~your inner truth~your deepest desires.

We are the ones we have been waiting for as we find a deeper integration of our highest holiest wisest of Selves with our raucous playful experimental earthly self.

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As I was writing this piece I called upon my great Teachers of all time for assistance. I often pray/commune with them personally. I like to cover my bases. Each has a unique gift and spiritual power. Beings like Quan Kin, Jesus, Merlin, Mary, Buddha, White Buffalo Woman, Lakshmi, Ganesh, Archangel Michael to name a few. Holy Guides like Red Shafted Flicker, Grizzly Bear, every Owl, Blue Hero, Chickadee, Nighthawk, Swan, Otter, Wolf, Badger… I could go on forever. They all seemed to be saying the same thing:

“YOU are the ones WE have been waiting for.”

Say what?

“YOU are the ones WE have been waiting for.”

Say more…

“Do your work. Follow your heart. You are the ones with earthly eyes and ears and hands and hearts. It is you, only you, who can save this world.  Please know. YOU in all your leadership are the ONES we await. We have advised, mentored and educated you for eons. It is your turn. You are us. We are you. Integrated. Whole. One. Follow the leadership of your heart and ALL WILL BE WELL.”

Phew. That’s a bit intimidating yet it makes perfect sense, right?

If anyone wonders what all the hoopla surrounding 2012 is all about, that is it in a nutshell.

It is what the ancient Star Mayans knew and anticipated all along:

The time is NOW
We are the ones we have been waiting for
It is time to step into our spiritual power

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If I may leave you with these words of poem I recently wrote for a friend’s birthday ~ a poem for all of humans at this key juncture in time.

The Light Within
By Lyn Dalebout ~ June 21, 2012

may you fall in love with your beauty
may you awaken to your light within

we never dry up
we never expire
we always burn
with an internal fire

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may you move from the center of your heart
may you know your terms of delight
may you discover the strength within
that got you through ever travail

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may you discover what brings you true joy
may you reveal~revel in your sensual core
thinking is good               reading is fine
but your body is the holy door

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which flower        which poet          what food
breaks open your heart to its core
follow the scent of those trails
they hold clues to inspire

we never dry up
we never expire
we always burn
with an internal fire

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may you turn your outward focus
and face your face in the mirror
may you see what is apparent to us
the wise Being that resides at your core

may you see what we see in your soul
may you know what you bring to our worlds
may you be able to say
at the end of each day

I am one of the most interesting people I know

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never dry up
never expire
always burn
with your internal desire

With love,
Lyn Dalebout
deerlyn@gmail.com