“Raven’s Wing” by Lyn Dalebout
Art is integral to life, this blog. My artist friends inspire me.
I am pleased to actually be posting this photograph of mine thanks be to my electronic pal my new iPhone. This image speaks volumes to me. Yes it is literally Raven’s wing intermingled with Coyote tracks. Yet it also looks like Bear claws or Angels wings or hands in prayer: perhaps all the same. All these Beings have carried me through the challenges of my life. Grace incarnate.
Here are the highlight’s from my posts of 2011
As I revisited my reflections of the pressured changes of 2011, I see how they are setting the stage for even greater catalytic shifts of 2012-2013~more on that in future posts.
I give my greatest thanks to all my collaborative artists. You are the true LIGHTS of my posts. THANK YOU for the great honor of including your work in these posts.
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12/21/2010 Silence~Stillness~Spaciousness
THIS DATE WAS THE TRUE ASTRONOMICAL DATE MARKED BY THE MAYANS AS THE END OF TIME. NOT 2012. BUT THIS SACRED DATE OF 12/21/2010.
I wonder if others are craving what I am craving, longing for what I sense is wanting to be born in our humanity, more silence, more stillness, more spaciousness, more love, more acceptance, more letting each other BE.
You don’t have to be a nun or hermit to value such qualities. You don’t have to be less raucous or wild, if that is your nature, as is my nature, to want these things for our species. When you go to a party, consider listening more and talking less. As you are skiing amidst the masses, pause in the trees and absorb the hush of wind. As you cruise the freeways, punch in a CD of ocean waves or Tibetan monks chanting. You can call in silence~stillness~spaciousness~serenity wherever you are, no matter the circumstance.
I sometimes feel the Great Mother that the Milky Way is to our churning solar system is the ONE who is really hushing us, calming us, comforting us, through silence~stillness~spaciousness~serenity, moving us into a deeper understanding of what it really means to be human, a fully evolving human, in these times of great awakening. How fortunate we are to be here now.
Full of chaos and paradox, amidst all your earthly chores and duties and joys may you also feel yourself as the wide Divine Being that you are.
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1/1/11 The Sun Dog Oracle
When you stare into the shimmering inspiration of a sun dog, one way to view it is two peripheral bands, multicolored, surrounding a single central eye of pure white light, the unrefracted rainbow.Think of your two eyes that look out and see this world in duality and the mystical third eye that sits in the center of your forehead, an inner eye, sometimes called the eye of Horus, that sees with unity and into the invisible worlds beyond form. That single eye sees what unites us, not what divides us. That single eye sees the pure radiant purpose of your life, beyond distractions or illusions.
Our two eyes allow us to have peripheral vision, sometimes a very helpful thing, sometimes providing unending distraction. They see a world in constant creation, happening in every color of the rainbow and revel in our wild eclectic differences that keep it interesting. The rainbow that refracts the ONE light is spectacular to see because it shows us how all the colors,when constrasted/complemented, are even more radiant, more alive in juxtaposition to each other. All the ribbons of colors, like our tribes of humanity, make up the totality of the whole rainbow. No surprise the rainbow is the sign of the coming age of Aquarius (still over 400 years away from a galactic perspective) where we have moved beyond the colors of nations competing to control the Earth but have birthed a global consciousness of cooperation. The rainbow…our many tribes…are a refraction of the ONE sun… and the rainbow is a vivid reminder of the beauty of our diversity.
“Howling Wolves” by Sue Cedarholm
When I think of the focused fusion of the planetary energies right now and where they might be pushing us, the sun dog is a helpful image to meditate upon. This is not a time to get distracted by what is peripheral (def.”of secondary importance”) but to attune to and see with that central shining Sun that illuminates your core, which shines the light on your path to see your next step. I know we must use our peripheal vision to navigate the daily details of life. When you do look out, may your vision be one of appreciation for the prismatic diversity of our Earth. I’ve never liked the use of the word “colorblind” in regards to race, rather might it be better to see with “rainbowed vision”? Hopefully for at least some part of your day, be it in meditation, in church, at yoga, sitting in nature, return to your center, your third eye, to your central Sun. Don’t spend the whole day getting pulled off course by what is endlessly fascinating yet can be time-stealing. Don’t spend too much time trying to change others or to get them to see your point of view. They will eventually GET you, if you are true to your Self. Use this unique temporal portal of planets to assist you to bring your focus back to what remains central to your life, your core beliefs, your one true Self.
When I think of what is central in my life, what lies at my core, I think of this quote by Shunryu Suzuki from “zen mind, beginner’s mind”: “To express yourself freely as you are is the most important thing to make yourself happy and to make others happy”.This sentiment is the core of our American democracy, the mission statement of the Aquarian Age. May it be a prayer for you, for all, in 2011.
May you express yourself freely as you are. This is the most important thing to make yourself happy and to make others happy.
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Feb 2011 Dancing with the Revolution of JOY
The Revolution is Here
***May you move and be moved by these revolutionary energies of Joy washing over the Earth***
I’ve been dancing to Peter Gabriel’s US album:
From the pain come the dream
From the dream come the vision
From the vision come the People
And from the People come the power
From this power comes the change
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O*P*E*N to the New Field
“Door as Portal” by Cindy Schell
New doors are opening, portals of entry into a new Field of consciousness, can you feel it, especially in your heart? If it is true as some astronomical astrologers believe that we have indeed made the literal crossing in galactic space/time on December 21 2010 that the Mayan predicted would happen in December of 2012, then we have in fact entered this new Field of awareness that has been called the end of time. What does that mean, and more importantly, how does it feel?
The end of time simply means past and future no longer hold as much sway over our daily lives, that the experiential NOW is where creation is taking place. I know this can be hard to believe as it can’t really be proven or seen in this visible world. Yet somehow we all get that reality is no longer what we thought it was, even three months ago, before this shift.If you will choose not to dredge up the old grievances/histories of yore, or waste time fantasizing about the future from a place of escapism, but rather set your intentions, turn them over to the Universe, and then just go about your day and watch the magic unfold, all good things will come to you, now more than ever, in the experiential NOW.This is the new possibility, this is where we are being pushed to inhabit.
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Does that sound like goobledegoop? I am having a hard time describing the power of the shift I am experiencing so please bear with me. When I write these astrological posts, I am primarily writing out of my own experience. Being a sidereal Pisces (sign of dreamers/poets/musicians/nappers) some of my information comes from the dreamtime. If you pay attention to your dreams, you can over time discern if a dream is coming to you for your understanding of self, as information for a friend, from poor digestion, or is of a more visionary nature.
I had the latter kind of dream on January 25 this year. It was the day Saturn (decisions/authority)went retrograde, quite often a time when things come to a screeching, dramatic halt, like last year coinciding with the Haitian earthquake, or this year, it was the day the Egyptian revolution began. In my dream, everyone was in some degree of chaos, not knowing where they were going, what to pack, where to go..symbolizing the uncertainty of these times. Suddenly the 13th constellation Ophiuchus (whose entrance onto the national stage in January caused all the hoopla awakening people to learn about their sidereal signs) appeared in a stunningly handsome male body, adorned in jewels and painted with serpent (transformation/shedding) tattoos. He asks me if I am ready to teach on behalf of the stars. I say yes, knowing somehow I have been prepared for this. The next scene is a precarious passage over a high glass bridge that has to be made, but as I commit to crossing, a dear friend reaches out his hand and helps me to the other side.
This dream created a literal heart-opening of life-changing proportions in me. The very next day, and in the ensuing weeks I feel it is easier now to live in a fluid, yet stable joyful place, and whatever happened that night keeps teaching me how to stay present. I could say all my hard work finally paid off, yet this shift happened in an instant, with a dream. I have a sense many people are having these kinds of out of the blue shifts, internal awakenings,and pondering the miraculous nature of how change comes unannounced, yet long prayed for. I think that is the definition of Grace.
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“Flower” by Victoria Blumberg
These energies are o*p*e*n*i*n*g us, especially in the heart chakra, and that shivering of love is reaming out our bodies preparing us for greater levels of living in joy. Sounds nice, but this can be a strange and even uncomfortable process. For some of you, it may feel like you are taking down your guard. Others of a more spiritual bent might be experiencing the further thinning of the veils between the dimensions. Some of you might feel untethered where you simple can’t grasp what’s going on or have a very odd feeling of not having the core identity you used to inhabit. You know you are the same person, yet you are not that same person. Weird. Some might be enjoying a new lightening of all levels, especially in the physical body. These are just a few possibilities. Edie Bennett, a giver of deeksha or oneness blessing speaks about how all the old forms are literally dissolving…both personal identities and collective structures. It’s as if we are going from a world where all has been like a structured ordered golf course and we are NOW returning to a sensual garden of Eden of rainbowed wildflowers…. a big part of this new field is a return to healthy sensuality/sexuality where our human passions are channeled in loving joyful ways. Some like the sound of that, while others cringe in fear. How to live with such chaos of wild beauty all around with no set agenda?
Here is a remarkable YouTube clip in which Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic is addressing the Davos economic summit.**Always a good sign when artists are asked to address economists** In it, he speaks about the field of possibility. It strikes me he is intuiting this new Field coming forth, more alive, here, with each passing day on Earth.
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REM: Revolutionary Evolutionary Momentum March 2 2011
“Deer: Animal of LovingKindness” by September Vhay
~AS ABOVE~SO BELOW~
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When I teach astrology to young students, or older, I speak often of this concept: ~AS ABOVE~SO BELOW. This phrase comes from the opening of The Emerald Tablet by Hermes Trismegistus, the ultimate alchemist and wise teacher of writing, astrology, and other arts. The key to this phrase, which many believe holds the key to all our spiritual/physical mysteries is this: “That which is above is the same as that which is below…Macrocosmos is the same as microcosmos. The Universe is the same as God, God is the same as man, man is the same as the cell, the cell is the same as the atom, and on and on, infinitum.” When I talk about astrology, I use the scientific concept of fractals, which essentially describes what Hermes was attempting to shine light upon. Fractals: Patterns repeat themselves over time and space. Everything in nature is a patterned language, and astrology is one language that articulates those connections.
When we astrologers talk about certain alignments in the heavens, these aren’t just poetic musings or fortune telling, but an attempt to document the literal energetic shifts happening in the heavens that have a very real impact on our lives down here on Earth~AS ABOVE~SO BELOW~This is no different than a weather woman telling us of an approaching tornado, or a weather man alerting us of a coming heat wave. As astrologers, we are reading the cosmic weather. But just like weather reporters, we can only guess at trends, issue planetary warnings, yet we never know the wild outcomes coming our way. That is always in the hands of Nature, always guided by a far deeper Mystery than any system, scientific or metaphysical/spiritual, can describe or comprehend.
~AS ABOVE~SO BELOW~
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“Blacktail Deer Dancing” by September Vhay
Did you know that on February 4-5 2011, the Dalai Lama for the first time offered the initiation for Buddha Maitreya, the 5th Buddha who is preparing humanity to live in a new cycle(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E1C7QNahKA). Maitreya is considered to be the future Buddha, and unlike the former Buddha which has helped eliminate suffering in humans, Maitreya is the Buddha of Joy, Love and Compassion. In researching this, I discovered that he is also referred to as the Water Bearer, just like the constellation of Aquarius the Waterbearer. It seems the 5th Buddha is linked to the Aquarian age, both carrying the wisdom Urn and teaching us the ways of clear, clean emotion. This message,in my opinion, resonates with the stories of the second coming of Christ,which is the really message of the joy of resurrection that follows our pain and struggle. All these religious stories tell the same story, the universal story, the story of our awakening from being a humanity of creating/recreating suffering, to a humanity based in joy, love and compassion, always an individual choice.
~AS ABOVE~SO BELOW~
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QUAKENING: Earthquake/Tsunami/Meltdown March 11 2011
I have lived to tell the story of my death. This line came to me at the end of a walk in the early spring winds. Not that I am anything like Aron Ralston, who lived to tell the story of his death when he literally had to cut off his arm to save his life. Yet this line is true for me, and perhaps, for many of you as well. As I described in a recent post, http://earthwordskyword.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html, we’ve come through some enormous astrological challenges and upgrades over the past three years, much like a death or life changing transformation that has left us utterly different with entirely new goals. For me, my “death” involved grieving the death of a beloved canine companion Cola of 15 years, then working diligently to help a parent with his challenges and ultimately release the family home he built for us 53 years ago. Joyful exhaustion. I wrote, tongue in cheek, to my friends: I feel like Jesus: IT IS FINISHED. If you are still alive, standing upright, intrepid as ever, then you need to give yourself a whole lot of credit for the growth and courage it took to get you here, more prepared, stronger, for what’s to come.
Gratefully, I have returned to my practice of roadside dancing, or glee stops, as I have called them over the years. It’s as if the energy of the times is simply too much to contain, and my body must move, like a playful colt, or a dolphin in the ecstasy of LEAP. I have no idea where this optimism and joy is coming from, in the face of the enormous challenges that are still to come.
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Gyroscopic Equipoise: Spring Equinox 2011
No Boundaries by Alison Brush
http://alisonbrush.30art.com/
If only we could see with our physical eyes that the very fabric of time has shifted. In my opinion, from an astronomical perspective, this is what happened on Winter Solstice 2010. (Please check out this link for what occurred on that day http://www.lunarplanner.com/Snippets/10.12.21-LunarEclipse/.)We have already arrived at the place in galactic alignments that the Mayans say are coming in December 2012. We have crossed over, been pulled through to a whole new Field. We are in a new TEMPORAL TERRAIN. Time as we once experienced it, no longer exists….or has shifted, is no longer as rigid…more flow….we have been birthing this shift, preparing, co-creating this Field for decades. And now, chances are you are reeling and dealing with this shift in your own way, working on regaining some kind of balance to adjust to this new way of Being, of living.
What feels more appropriate at this juncture in the time of no-time is to consider the metaphor of GYROSCOPE as a way to deal with the accelerated pace of this Shift, this new Field. A gyroscope is a wheel or disk mounted so it can spin rapidly about on an axis that is itself free to alter in any direction. This design assures a gyroscope can provide stability or maintain a reference direction in navigation systems~~~Contemplate the equipoise of gyroscope~~~Consider yourself as gyroscope seeking equipoise. Consider this as the way to achieve balance in each and every moment, present to the gift unfolding as you go through your day.
Going In courtesy of Alison Brush
This world of which we are part holds such beauty, almost unbearable at times, and it seems to me our most important job as humans is the preservation of that Beauty till the end of time. And time to enjoy that beauty. When we are confronted, as we are now, with destruction at a catastrophic level due to our ineptitude at handling our own inventions (nuclear reactors), it is a moment to pause, to re-balance ourselves, the world, our choices, our future. It is time to redesign our entire modus operandi…and realign our efforts toward a world of clean sustainable energy/technologies/ways of Being. In this new Field of present moment attunement/alignment, this is the real livelihood. All our efforts, our busyness/business should be headed in that direction:
Preservation of the Beauty of the Earth.
Changing Tides by Alison Brush
During this blessed Springtime of returning light, a moment of equipoise, experiment with moving more from your core in joyful gyroscopic ways. Try the ancient swirling arts of Japanese Aikido or Afro-Brazilian Capoeira, or venture into more modern techniques like Gyrotonics. Or just roll around on the floor with your children or pets… or pull over and roadside dance like me……this emerging Field WHICH WE ARE CREATING is about regaining the balance of joy and flow in our lives. Engaging the body in flowing movements seems key in assisting us to become strong enough to move through these shifts with grace. And imagine this: if the Make a Wish Foundation came to you gifting you your joy, what would it be? You might surprise yourself. I realized I would request a piano lesson from Sir Elton John teaching me how to play one of his more raucous compositions Whitewash County, who knew? Dream large.
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Embedded in an Astrophysical Symphony: Pisces New Moon March, 31 2011
kauai wave courtesy of lee carlman riddell
www.leeriddell.com
Being a sidereal Pisces, I tend to approach the world from a more feeling/intuitive space versus an intellectual stance. Once a few years back as I was in meditation about some issue at the time, I heard these words clearly from my psyche/Angels: Release the need to know.Gravitate toward the Mystery, where all is unfolding moment to moment. Learn to trust THAT kind of knowing, and all will be well.
Trust the Mystery, trust the unfolding Mystery in the now, trust the NOW.
Not to denigrate thinking. I am also an avid reader and lover of ideas, was a bookseller for years. I know that planting the seed of a new idea into the cultural collective Field eventually shifts consciousness. I cherish ingesting/digesting a new idea. Books are the sacred texts that sustain and guide me. Ah, the hieroglyphics of words: one of the key tools used by shamans/politicians/poets/charlatans alike….they know the power to awaken humanity with a well-intentioned prayer, a clearly defined worded intention.
Form your thoughts. Form your words. Form the Field.
For now, until the Gemini New Moon later this spring, take a mind rest, an analytical sabbatical. Let’s talk about this larger Field I continue to address in my writing in a musical way. Beloved friend/sidereal astrologer Nick Anthony Fiorenza calls this Field the “astronomical symphony”. These words struck a chord as I was listening to a series of recordings Nick has created called Planetary Bio-Harmonic audio meditations ( http://www.lunarplanner.com/Harmonics-AV/Planets/index.html ) that help us attune to the various musical signatures created by our planetary friends in the starry heavens and therefore assist us with our divine alignment.
He says it best: “A planet’s harmonic signature is composed of various astrophysical parameters, such as the planet’s orbital time around the sun (the sidereal period): the planet’s circumference, diameter, rotational period, to name just a few. Each parameter has a fundamental wavelength that can be translated to a specific brain wave frequency, and audio frequency, as well as to a specific color in the visible light spectrum~~~~~The harmonic compositions created by all of the individual planetary signatures, as well as the cycles they create with each other, establishes the musical symphony of our solar system, the harmonic environment in which life on Earth evolves. Thus we are not separate from these harmonic resonances, our biological and neurological systems function in attunement to this Astrophysical Symphony (my caps).”
Wow, read that paragraph a few times and digest the wisdom and magic of this truth. It might make you want to stop fighting with your family, or neighboring tribe, pique your curiosity about a more expansive way of Being in the world.
If I may expand on Nick’s statement. We are embedded in this astronomical symphony of harmony, natural flow, cooperation and beauty. A blanket of heavenly harmony covering all the of Earth, every continent, each citizen, every race, all sexes, every species. WE ARE EMBEDDED IN AN ASTRONOMICAL SYMPHONY. The Heaven above the Earth below, and the Earth is evolving within that greater natural harmony of the spheres. And the Universe is evolving because of our hard work. Brilliant design. Brilliant co-collaboration.
But, to what are we attuning? The harmony of the Heavens or the dissonance of a disturbed Earthian species still caught in war-faring? Many Earthians, growing in number, are listening to these wider Fields, and attempting to heal our species before it’s too late. We aren’t out of time yet.
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The Entelechy of Earth: May Day New Moon 2011
Tetons with Snow and a Bit of Sun
www.lucindaabbe.com
Nothing in nature is regressive, all is progressive. All is moving forward like a constantly moving stream or a streaming open unfurling flower. So why would we not choose to align in this divine evolutionary Field of the progression of Life? Why would we not choose align in this divine flow of Life, not choose to be in harmony with heaven and Earth? Why would humanity not choose to progress? Always puzzling to me, that.
This is why I consider myself to be a progressive politically, not aligned with one or the other sometimes polarizing political parties, but progressive like nature is progressive, green like nature is green, ecological like nature is the model of health, vitality, beauty for all. Independent and free, which always encourages an open mind and heart to new ideas, people, solutions.
Spring Comes to the Tetons by Lucinda Abbe
On this May Day…the holy day that sits halfway between the spring equinox of your new intentions and summer solstice of manifesting that dream into reality….. a day of celebrating the joy, sensuality and beauty of living on Earth, and of inhabiting a physical body, I want to honor the ENTELECHY OF EARTH. Such a lovely word. Entelechy: the vital principle that guides the development and functioning of an organism or other system of organization. Entelechy is the ultimate word of faith….all is perfect, all is unfolding in the exact right moment. THE ENTELECHY OF EARTH. I place my heart*soul*body*mind*hope in the guiding Intelligence of Earth.The ground under our feet, the sustaining, nourishing Planetary Being that has our back, if we will choose to live in harmony with that Wise Intelligence. Trust, too, is an attribute of living an entelechal life (my word). Have patience with your self, your process, your own natural flow. Don’t be pushed by others, listen to your own natural rhythms breathing through you, growing you, guiding you. Trust the ENTELECHY OF YOU.
For me, entelechy is the natural flowering of all of us, each of us, into our own divine form, what we were born to do, born to be. No need to force, struggle, push. Just allow the natural unfoldment of your true essence to erupt/arise/ express itself through you, doing what you love, what brings you joy. The entelechy of your heart’s joy, your true north guiding you toward your happiness. You could call this your Heartline. With each heartbeat and the outpouring of cleansed blood, your lifeforce, all is well, all is pushing you toward your next steps. One this May Day New Moon, may you sense an exciting new unfurling within, leading you forward into an expanded creative field you have been intending for quite a while, like the arrow of your Heartline saying this is where I am going…NOW….you are ready to inhabit this new field of your resonant joy.
My friend Laurel “Bru” Wicks~~http://comfortcareandnourishment.com/ pointed out an error in my last post about Ravens. Bru had the good fortune to live with her Raven Val, sharing every aspect of a creative, humorous, loving life together for 13 years. She reminded me~~~forgotten from my favorite ornithology class years ago~~~ that Ravens are in fact a flocking bird….and the phenomenon is called “kettling”, a most delightful word, so I looked it up.
Kettling has two definitions. One is based in the HOPE and possibility of communion/community and the other based in FEAR and control of humanity.
Kettling: a method used by police to maintain order during a large demonstration by confining demonstrators to a small area. FEAR.
Kettling: unmated Ravens dancing in the wind while vocalizing. Sort of like teenagers getting to know each other.
A celebration of connecting. HOPE.
~~~~hope~~~~fear~~~hope~~~~fear~~~~
~~~and so it goes~~~
One definition is about convening in joy, spiraling to a new reality of connection, while the other is about controlling the joy of collaboration, the fear of the mob that has attempted to stop all the great revolutions.
** hope**fear** hope**fear **
and on and on the mind/heart/heart/mind goes
A Braid in the Snake River by Lucinda Abbe
~~This is how the world separates~~
~~how the old skin sheds itself, done, dead, complete~~
The world peels itself away from the old history of fear, a history that has been deriding the majority of the creativity of humanity and stealing its power for its own ends.
~~~This is how the world shifts~~~
One human at a time, one person choosing hope or fear each moment, one being at a time, remembering the power each of us has, must wield now, or abnegate that power, giving it to away to others. The entelechy of you…always your choice..hope or fear…..what is unfolding within you?
Do you believe humans need to be kettled, fearing the power of the individual to live fully in their power of individual choice, or do you embrace the kettling with souls that support you, as you support them, in theEVOLUTIONARY SPIRAL AND DANCE, all empowered, kettling toward our collective awakening?
Will you participate in this miraculous evolutionary spiral and dance…our genetic right, being born human, living the entelechy of you, your birthright? Do you trust the order, justice, the perfection of the unfolding entelechy of the NOW that allows for all of us, each of us, to express our divine-given right to live our joy, not to be usurped or channeled into someone else’s pot of gold?
SunSet Tetons by Lucinda Abbe
On my recent journey to Sedona Arizona, three years in the dreaming, I was blessed to visit with an old friend who shared me wholeheartedly with his community. It was a kettling of love, on every level. As I strolled the red sands and sat beneath the Hall of Records (his name for Courthouse Butte, like an Earthian library where one can access memory/history) I heard words, clearly, distinctly, several times… yet I seemed to question what I was hearing, so I went back for more. “Live your joy”. Really? History itself is saying let go of history, meaning your old story, and celebrate in joy***Really?
I remembered, as the Hall of Records reminded me that years ago I wrote this:
Who needs History
When there is Mystery.
On my final trek of listening, these were the words that greeted me, and might speak to you now:
“You have created the new Field, for many years, through all your endeavors, through your suffering and healing from your suffering…through your conscious intention….you have birthed this Field in which all are cared for, all live their joy, all look after the Other….it is here NOW…..trust, have faith this is so.
YOUR JOB NOW is to visit that Field as often as possible, to inhabit this new Field you have birthed, to recreate your lives and livelihood in that Field of Joy. You are a resonant, radiating Field of Joy. Art, and an artful creative life will lead your way. Follow the heartline of your art, your truth north. The entelechy of you is the entelechy of Earth. Both are linked. Trust.”
I trust the words of the Earth, more than any human words, in truth….they are always my true north, my unquestioned guidance. This Entelechy of Earth is demanding we grow fast, expand now, open to the new Field of Earth. Earth is exhausted by our suffering, depleted by our fighting, at a loss as to our conflicts. Earth is shaking off the old mold, the old humanity and supports….completely… the New Earth, the New Humanity. Earth is unfolding in Love and unfolding us in Love.
What attributes might be important in this coming world? Make up your own list. Here are a few of mine:
Beauty is not peripheral. It is central to all.
Remember your vulnerabilty, sleep under the starry Stars as often as possible.
When all is torn asunder, rebuild, not the walls that separate you from others, but honor what unites us: the heaven above, the common ground of Earth beneath us.
Eat/live like an animal, lean and green.
Reinstate the arts as CENTRAL to our children’s education.
Honor Play as much as Work.
Love the Earth everyday, in thought, in word, in deed.
Inside Pelican Mind May 15 2011
magic greets wisdom
Pelican photographs compliments of Victoria Blumberg
Ah the sanctity and holiness of our Animal Others, our friends that sustain us, surround us, make us so much larger in compassion than we would be if we were the only species on the planet. Cultural diversity is a wonderful gift yet I would not be alive today without species diversity. It is the animals that from our beginning have forever informed us, educated us, on how to be better humans. We will perish without them. We all know this at some deep and ancient level.
May is the month in the Tetons/Yellowstone that the tribes of wild humans often meet up in search of the company of Sandhill Cranes~Bears~Wolves~Moose~Flickers~Deer~Ravens. We are defined by our love for the Animal Others. We gather in observation and celebration of them, and in doing so, have a lot of fun. I recently asked some teachers I was working with to write about what it meant to them to be a Wild Human. I wasn’t sure if it was a worthy exercise, but in fact, it proved to be liberating and evocative. We all have that wild core that longs to sing and dance and be free alongside our worldly responsibilities. Sometimes we need a reminder to reawaken our embodied Joy. Our bodies are wild animals that long to leap and glide and swim just like the Animal Others. Who are you when it comes to your physical form? Mountain Lion? Hummingbird? Badger? Tick? It’s good to know such things and follow through with joyful actions and activities that feed this part of who you are. I believe this is the KEY to health.
try this!
The sidereal Taurus cycle~~May 15 through June 14~~is the natural time each year to reconnect with the joy in your body, and to the body of Earth. If you haven’t yet made the link, your body is the home nearest and dearest to you…. it houses you in this physical dimension. It is intimately linked to the body of Earth. What feeds our bodies is the body of Earth with literal food and also the palates of Beauty that feed our souls. If you haven’t yet made the link, you would be dead without the never-ending gifts of Earth. Some seem to have missed this point in the exploitation of Earth’s bounty. And Earth is our home. It is the universal home to all of humanity. It is our common ground. Such things should seem obvious, yet somehow we have been made to forget.
And Taurus holds another key, almost a paradox this: Supposedly Buddha achieved his spiritual awakening during the time of Taurus. Buddha placed his hand upon the Earth as the true witness as a sign of his enlightenment, of the awakening of the Mind. The awakening of the Mind proven by the grounding of that truth in the Earth. Interesting link. The Embodied Mind. All one, body and mind, mind and body. No separation, all linked, integrated, wholeness.
a unified field
For me, much of this same message is carried on the wings of Pelicans.I want to pay homage again, as I did last spring(http://earthwordskyword.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html) to the Pelican Nation. It is both Joy and Wisdom they call forth from other dimensions, landing in our souls, evoking new possibilities. Do you know Pelican? They are of an ancient avian lineage, and, like the Whales and Elephants, they carry eons of memory and time, what works, what hasn’t worked.They are the most gracious of birds, both graceful and gangly all at once, like we humans.
“The Song of the White Pelican” is one of my favorite essays by our beloved Wyoming mountaineer/philosopher Jack Turner from his revolutionary/must read book “The Abstract Wild”~I would post a link but Jack has no website so you’ll have to order from your favorite independent bookstore. His essay, which I reread often, opened me to contemplate/muse upon the gift that Pelicans bring to our world.
It is this time each year that the Pelicans return with their lilting flight and delight. If I may share this poem, just finished, or maybe a first draft, from a couple years of musings, primarily written at the curvature of calm that is called the Oxbow Bend of the wilder turbulent Snake River.
May we learn from the Pelican tribe, keepers of the Embodied Mind, guides to our future Joy.
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INSIDE PELICAN MIND
poem by Lyn Dalebout
they are the Wise Ones
have seen it all
heard it all
been here throughout the ages
they look upon us with
gentle eyes
like an ancient antarctic dream
eons of Earth and memory
in their Field
they are a dreaming ear
of a once-held Earthly peace
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huddled
in a raft of reverie they are
a far-reaching Mind
as a collective Field
they travel far and wide
high and deep
they are Earthly and celestial
all at once
they are
a once-held Earthly peace
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encircled their elegant heads turn inward
one lustrous white body
each alone asleep yet awake
they breathe as one white Field
a floating down dream lofting large
toward the heavens
then returning to Earth
an ivory raft of calm
teachers of how to live as one
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from their high high flights
with yammer and clack
they spiral to unimaginable heights
where wings
absorb
awakening
Joy
unbounded
then returning to Earth
they erupt in a jubilant gangly grace
that sputters the coldest heart to smile
they gather
and toss
the earthen water to feed their young
no child short changed
no one
is left behind
they glide with glee
and grace
goofiness
how like them
are we
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when they arise together
and fall into flight
their spirals lift the Earth
in evolution
they are old
they are wise
Our Guides
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Launch~~Sacred Activism~~June 2011
Hummingbirds by Lee Riddelll
With the immense hurtling winds of change humming through us, I open this piece with these stunning delightful paintings of my dear friend of Teton longevity Lee Riddell http://www.leeriddell.com~~her Hummingbirds~~Bird of Joy~lightest of birds capable of handling the most rigorous of storms~ traveling furthest~ journeying farthest on the simplest of diets~wise guides for these times.
We have not all physically lived through an F5 tornado or a nuclear meltdown. But at some level all of us are experiencing some version of the swirling twirling spiraling dynamic change demanding we shift NOW, forever releasing all we held dear. Check out this link for some visual imagery of an external eruption of the Chilean volcano that potentially mirrors your internal landscape: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/chilean-volcano-puts-on-a-show/article2048495/
I remember the time in 2009 when under the Jupiter/Neptune conjunction (astrologicially linked to evolving a new level of spiritual/artistic awakening) I had this realization: humanity has reached a moment in our collective evolutionary development~~out of our endless trials of pain nudging us toward awakening~~the next shifts were going to arrive from within, from within each person, all animals, the Earth. It would be the Great Leveling. All would be made equal, everyone’s wisdom would emerge no matter your level of higher education. We had reached the realization that change comes ALWAYS initially from within, traveling outward, moving us toward actions to shift the world. ALWAYS starting from inside us as a result of all we have experienced/loved/learned/released. Each of us, a turbulent potent force for change. Each of us putting our heart’s desires into action. Sacred Activism. That was a good realization that day. I thought things would get easier.
Not so, for most. These turbulent forces of change entered our lives, demanded cataclysmic releases and continue to bring forth an inner resilience for those who chose to remain on Earth. And here we are~still standing upright~simplified~invigorated~like after a passing thunderstorm~drenched~full of fresh clean air~exhilarated.
The trajectory of 2011, astrologically/historically began with revolutionary shifts. Perhaps you felt a new awakening, greater movement toward your beckoning life? We were taken to the new terrain,dreaming large/imagining anew up till January 25 2011. That was the day Saturn went retrograde, the day of the beginning of the Egyptian/MiddleEast revolutions. Since then you may have become aware of what must leave your life in order to grow/what you willingly relinquish/ your clinging nature release/ so you are free*free*free*to be free at last. This outer revolution mirrors our own internal desires for freedom. On every level.
Saturn~planetary ruler of focused discipline/action~ is about to head into direct momentum in relationship to Earth on June 12 2011~
~~Prepare to be launched~~
As Within, so Without~~the key to the Universe. Seriously, think about this, absorb the truth of this ancient ancient teaching empowering all. As Within, so Without. No one controls you, no one owns you, unless you allow it. Attune to within so you can create without in your outer world. It is the Secret of the ages, hidden and buried for generations, now exposed for all to see.
Out of these turbulent times, you have been practicing this truth, because you had to. Right? Because the circumstances of your life demanded you grow into a more powerful Being aware of your abilities to do more with less~to do more with less~and in doing so to wield magic in ways you never dreamed possible.
As Within~So Without
~All is New~ All is Now~
[hr]
A Returning Grace: Summer Solstice 2011
Photographs compliments of Lauren Harris
I would like to share two new poems that had my attention throughout May/June 2011. These poems are linked to specific gatherings I was part of here in my Wyoming Teton home, yet somehow I feel they might have relevance for the larger world. When I write a poem for an event, be it wedding/birth/end-of-life-earthly-celebration my intention is always this: What wants to be heard? I have learned this question/inquiry liberates me and the words to come forth with clarity. Thank you for reading them, ingesting them, perhaps feeling the Earth coming through to speak to us. These poems came out of the profound eclipse shifts of June.
A Returning Grace by Lyn Dalebout
~Grace: courteous goodwill~bestowal of blessings~a short prayer of thanks~
a holy love of place
has brought us here today
with wholeness in our hearts
we sense a returning Grace
we are embedded in this land
timeless yet eternally new
we are wedded to this land
constantly renewed
as Earth we want you present
as Earth we want you whole
as Earth we seek to bridge
the great divides within each soul
once a valley of outlaws and rebels
now innovators explorers all
celebrants of wild beauty
answering the vision questers call
feel the common ground below
embrace the unity of sky above
we live in this unified field
this land itself heals all great divides
we are embedded in this land
timeless yet eternally new
we are wedded to this land
constantly renewed
as Earth we want you present
as Earth we want you whole
as Earth we seek to balance
that which divides each soul
walk with your wild cousins
deer antelope great bear
hummingbirds eagles wrens
with mountain lions wolves
~share~
open space for each to grow
open space for each to be free
dream long-range free-range
think longevity of the whitebark trees
as Earth we see you present
as Earth we see you whole
as Earth we see you balanced
as whole and holy souls
this land has a way of shifting you
you can’t remain here unchanged
destination: transformation
this gift of the Tetons remains
a holy love of place
has brought us here today
with wholeness in our hearts
may we thrive in this emerging Grace
WiseBark: a Cambium Incantation
Poem for the ancient WhiteBark Pines
Lyn Dalebout
WhiteBark Matriarch
Old Growth Patriarch
Enter our Mind Field now
Old Growth Matriarch
WhiteBark Patriarch
Engage our Mind Field now
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Like Pelican Elephant Whale
Keepers of the Records of Time
Beings of Eternal Wisdom
The WhiteBarks are part of this tribe
With twisting twirl and spiral dance
What history You have seen
Lacquered in lichen torched by lightning
Such eternity links every cell
Perched by birds scared by fires
Scratched by the claws of great bear
You awaken within us lessons remembered
Constellated in your wise bark core
Cambrian wisdom ancient and kind
Resides in your cambium core
Entwined intertwined
Your sweet nuts caviar for carnivores
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WhiteBark Matriarch
Old Growth Patriarch
Enter our Heart Mind now
Old Growth Matriarch
Wise Bark Patriarch
Engage our Heart Mind now
~cambium is the living layer of tissue that links the newly forming present day tree with the ancient outerbark historical rings~perhaps a fitting metaphor for our job as evolutionary humans~
[hr]
Alkalize Your Self***Alkalize the Earth August 2011
WhiteBark Pine photographs compliments of David Gonzales and http://www.treefight.org/
399 and cubs compliments of Melissa Miller
We are all Earthers: we all have an Earth certificate, including President Obama. We are all residents of Earth, all one, all united in the common cause of sustaining/maintaining the brilliance/intelligence/beauty of the natural systems that keep us alive. How did we stray so far from that understanding, this one truth? How did we collectively forget that it is Earth Itself that grows us, feeds us, sustains us, buries us, composts us, revives us again and again in constant renewal? AND, all this for free. We have been takers, sorely lacking in reciprocity. It is not too late to refocus our energies on giving back. We are all Earthers. Time to give back.
I want to address the intimate link between the health of our species,YOU as an individual, and the health of the Earth. I want to address our shared chemistry in the context of the metaphor and reality of acidity or alkalinity.
The basic idea, VERY SIMPLIFIED, is as follows: an acidic environment, be it in the climate upon the Earth or the climate within the cells of our bodies will open the doors to all kinds of havoc: pathogens, a weakened immune system, inflammation, cancers. A more alkaline environment~in balance~tends to keep those invading organisms/disease patterns at bay, creating the possibility for better health for the organism, be it Earth, or you. The key to health is to keep our bodies/our Earth more alkaline than acidic.
As the Whitebark Pines were floundering so were the Grizzly Bears. The tiny Whitebark pinenuts are the key nutrients for the immense Grizzly Bears. Both are keystone/cornerstone species to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and are indicators as to the health of the broader vaster ecosystem. As the Whitebark/Grizzlies go, so eventually go the humans.
In 2009 when our forests of the Western US were turning red from this interior fire, like too much inflammation in the human body, I contacted my beloved friend/visionary scientist Lee Klinger who has studied this issue for decades http://suddenoaklifeorg.wordpress.com/. We met as interns in the late 70’s at the nascent beginnings of the Keystone Center http://www.keystone.org/. I asked Lee, what could be done, what can an individual do, what can be said, how can we stop this impending devastation?
Lee was curt, to the point, not effusive: “It has gone too far. Only forest fires and volcanoes…the alkalizing forces of Earth….can shift things now.”
Again, in VERY SIMPLIFIED terms, here is a science lesson, compliments of Lee Klinger, about what may be going on at the global level. The Earth seeks homeostasis: the tendency toward a stable environment. As humans we have liberated carbon reserves from deep within the Earth into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels. There IS more carbon floating in the atmosphere because of us…no question. The Earth, as the wise Being She/It/He is (to appease all) seeks to create carbon sinks to rebalance the chemistry of Earth and to keep the Earth from heating up too much to destroy all manner of life on Earth. How kind, how wise the Earth is.
Enter the mosses. Mosses aid in the formation of peatlands, which are carbon sinks. The blessed mosses literally sponge carbon up from the atmosphere and concentrate the excess and lock it back into the Earth. And guess what? Mosses thrive in acidic environments such as old-growth forests and peatlands. It was Lee that made me aware that mosses are now everywhere. When studying ecology in my younger years, in our years as budding botanists, we were taught mosses were only found in damp moist shady environments. Dampness is what they loved. Just like pathogens/fungi/bacteria thrive in damp environments in our bodies. Now, mosses are everywhere, on dry land, south facing sunny slopes, freeway offramps in full exposure to the sun. Everywhere.Yet there is a downside to their good work in terms of the health of our forests.
As they grow beneath many of our great trees including the ancient WhiteBark Pines, keystone species of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the mosses acidify the soils and leach away nutrients as they soak up the life-giving rains. The trees become bereft of water. Thirst. As the fine roots below the trees die the higher branches become dehydrated, and the trees literally begin to die from the top down.
In a real sense the trees are no longer as strong/vital as they were without the water stress. Their immune systems are compromised, thus opening them up to secondary infection, like the pine bark beetles. This is identical to what happens to humans when our immune systems are depleted/weakened. A cancer/pathogen can enter our body when our personal ecosystem/chemistry is too acidic.
In historical times, fires, both natural and those set by native people’s who understood this link intuitively that to suppress fire was not a healthy choice. They literally set fires burning the mosses to re-alkalize the soils.
*Re-Alkalize our Souls*
The correlations are clear.
~to dance~to pray~to hope~
~ah~the key~beauty~love~heart~
Out of my personal grief of the loss of specific trees, both on the land where I live and in intimate contact with trees of Yellowstone, I began to pray for fires and volcanoes. Mine, a small voice in the wilderness of what I now believe Earth Herself already had imagined/launched. Earth too dreams and seeks balance in all things. Earth is in charge.
On the heels of 2009** behold***in 2010 we saw the massive Russian fires and the Icelandic volcano. Devastating locally yet healing globally. An individual country’s/state’s health is tied to global health. We have named this awareness by specific geographic name: Katrina. Fukushima. Sadly, as has always been the case, citizens in another country suffer so we may all move forward in greater awareness and health. Earthers all. All interconnected. Such courage is demanded of us at these times.
***It is now 2011***
I can vouch~~”to confirm as a result of one’s one experience”~~that the health of many trees has shifted in a positive direction. And the alkalization of the Earth continues: the Arizona fires…the Chilean Volcano. It doesn’t take much to shift the balance either way.
BRING IT ON.
The infant fir tree outside my cabin at Roosevelt Lodge in Yellowstone is no longer wearing a shawl of red.Chartreuse tipped new growth bedecks her beauty. And the lodgepole trees on my property show no signs of previously yellowing needles. What I observe now is that certain trees are fully dead/red/grey. It seems they were the sacrificial trees sent to awaken a sleeping humanity. My friend Amely Greeven http://thereishopeinbeauty.com/ speaks of them as if they were like the monks that set themselves on fire to get our attention. They choose to be the sacrificial Ones to forever shift our consciousness. And the remaining trees are in the process of their own resurrection. They have a new vitality, an excitement of green. I am not a pollyanna or optimist in this.This is the reality of observation. Get out there and see it for yourself.
In a short 2 year period, things have shifted dramatically from death to rebirth. No kidding. All our prayers/efforts have reaped rewards, and of course, Earth did it all/will continue to do it all with her wise awakening eruptions, her tough love fires. We should be in support of Earth as she is our wise Guide. We can be her evolved listeners if we CHOOSE to listen. Such a sacred relationship. Rebirth for all.
David Gonzales heard the call~heeded the call~to help the ailing forests, specifically the ancient Whitebark Pines in the Greater Yellowstone region in 2009. He evoked TreeFight http://www.treefight.org/ which seeks to engage/gather community in hiking to specific holy Whitebark Pines and apply verbenone patches to keep further infestation of the pine beetles from occurring. Like alleopathic medicine, helpful when disease has gone too far, we need these emergency measures to help the trees. David’s work provides vital life-saving solutions, while also engaging the imaginations/hearts of we humans in connecting with individual trees as living Beings in need of our help at this crucial juncture. In choosing to help these trees the potential is also to awaken to our own need as humans to evolve, to WAKE UP to our responsibility as Earthers. May you have the chance to join him and fellow revelers on one of his missions. The poem I posted in my previous piece is in honor of the Whitebarks and in honor of David for answering the call when he was called.
~~Now for the fun part~~
Consider the link between alkalizing yourself is intimately forever linked to the health of Earth. The choices you make every day will either create more unneccesary pollution on the Earth or health for the Earth, our home ground. No one else has more power than you. NO ONE HAS MORE POWER THAN YOU to shift the Earth’s balance toward the alkaline. It turns out if you choose to eat a more alkaline even vegetarian (primarily) diet you are supporting the rejuvenation of Earth’s unfailing resources.
If you really want to help the Earth, your foundation, your sustaining HOME, get busy with your own health/healthy lifestyle.
Here’s a recipe: the first I have ever posted on my blog: FUN!!!
Below is an emerald tonic of youth elixir: This simple shift/choice of having this drink 4-5 times a week will radically shift your personal chemistry= consciousness toward a greater health.
Get a juicer: At least 4-5 times a week juice these ingredients for your own alkalinity/sanity:
5-6 leaves of some form of kale
add in an additional form of chlorophyll: parsley/cilantro/spinach/collard greens
2-3 stalks celery
half a lemon or lime
a chunk of cucumber
To make it a tad more sweet you can add in half an apple or carrot or beet or mint leaves or ginger. But keep the fruit sugars to a minimum or you are veering toward acidity.
I have been drinking some form of this for 5 years, but committed to this drink in earnest in January. It has proven to be a tonic of regeneration/transformation. I have always been a lover of chlorophyll a believer in her magic. Did you know that our blood and the blood of plants**chlorophyll** are virtually identical? Ingesting this emerald elixir both cleanses your blood and aligns you with choices that greatly benefit the larger ecosystems.
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Earth:The Water Planet: Autumnal Equinox 2011
Hurricane Irene at Montauk: Photographs compliments of Lucinda Abbe
Writers write, painters paint, chef’s cook, our holy mechanics fix, philosophers think, inventors invent, creators create to understand/make sense of their lives and the world around them. I am acutely aware of this right now~my journal ever by my side~as I attempt to navigate the enormous changes I am experiencing internally/externally in my personal life, and the catalytic shifts we as a planet and humanity are undergoing.
As I ride these uncertain adventurous waves hitting my own personal shore of shifts, my experience is as that the ground beneath my feet is falling away and is being replaced by a foundation of water. How to navigate this new paradigm, what are the new laws/physics/philosophy? I write this particular piece solely for myself as I try to make sense of these shifts. I hope not to bore you but hope you might find resonance with these words.
I am learning to inhabit the truth that Earth is the Water Planet.
I write this piece as the Fall Equinox portal arrives~definition of portal: doorway/providing access or links to other sites~on Sept 23 2011 in the northern hemisphere. Autumnal Equinox is the equivalent of the third quarter Moon we experience as part of each monthly lunar cycle. This is the moment each month where we turn our awareness to what we have achieved in the previous 3 weeks to what we next want to create. The Fall Equinox is the annual fractal to that monthly cycle. This is the moment for examining the creation cycle of our entire year spanning Dec 21 2010 to Dec 22 2011. This is a turning point in which we are both harvesting the benefits/results of our labors of the previous months and imagining how that “food” on all levels will sustain us/grow us in the coming creative cycle when we bring new dreams to fruition. It is a time we both look back and peer forward. And find out if we are prepared for what lies ahead.
I am a sidereal Pisces. Part of what that means is I reside often~not always by willing choice~in the deep waters of our collective consciousness, ever aware of what is birthing through all of humanity all the time. Sometimes it is hard for me to decipher if what I sense is personal or collective, mine or ours. But I have come to trust my dreams, also the landscape of Pisces, as guidance pure and true, helping me decipher the difference and also honor the sameness of how we are being asked to shift. And rapidly.
I had this dream recently when asking for clarity: my real-life favorite informative friendly Park Ranger appeared as the wise Guide in this dream. Everywhere we tried to travel, solid ground was opening up to raging waters beneath. Bridges giving way, highways with cavernous holes. Ice bridges were melting to expose wild rivers beneath.
Ground giving way to water. Solid becoming liquid.
Earth: The Water Planet.
This paradox that describes our very very special planetary Being.
GroundWater:
Water held underground. What comes to mind is subterranean emotion.
Back to the dream: needless to say I was uncertain about how to proceed. The kind Ranger comes up to us and assures us that there was no problem, that “they” already had methods to keep us safe and help us navigate this new landwater scape. I woke up calm and sensing that the new ways would be shown to me. Have faith. Go forward with care and confidence. Thank you Angel Chris.
Ah..Time. Such a relative concept as Einstien spoke of eloquently in his theory of Relativity. I have been acutely aware of the paradox of the dimensional time shifts we are navigating. It seems that Time is literally accelerating and yet so many of us are redesigning out lives to be able to S L O W D O W N and S I M P L I F Y. Do you feel that in your own life? Perhaps we have to take on more/move faster now to free ourselves to F R E E T I ME so we can eventually move at a more sane pace. Clearly we have all been living/forced to live at an insane pace. Time to stop pacing. To pace ourselves. I applaud the lioness/lion’s courage it takes for each and every one of us to face the challenges of each day. What pioneers we are. ROAR.
Paradoxically all this busyness is forcing us to live more in the P R E S E N T moment. Do you feel that? Like all this crisis is forcing us/allowing us to live more like the more awakened souls of a Buddha or White Buffalo Woman, a Quan Kin, or Christ. We are Saints all. Out of stress can be born great PRESENCE.
Okay. Bear with me. As I said, I am trying to make sense of all these swirling currents surrounding me/us. Back to time and the time shifts we are living through, navigating each in our own unique way.
I had the pleasure of spending time with Jose Arguelles~who left his body in March 2011~ in the mid 1980’s. Jose was a pioneer and radical Being who brought forth the awareness of the Mayan teachings about time travel~which is the genesis of all this talk of 2012~through his books, some complex and almost indecipherable yet fascinating like “Earth Ascending” and others more approachable and mainstream like “Surfers of the Zuvuya.” May you discover the brilliance of his texts in your own time. He remains a leader/navigator through these turbulent times.
I
asked Jose to visit our Teton homeland in 1984 and we did crystal Earthgird ceremony with our budding consciousness/so-called new age community. I won’t name names, but so many of us have gone on to make major shifts in our community from so many levels. What magic we shared***
Jose writes, and I paraphrase: “The world will only change once we accept and PLAY with the next dimension-the fourth dimensional. This transformation entails a revolution of attitude, a change unprecedented in human history.”
I am reminded of what I heard this spring when I visited Sedona Arizona.
“You have created the new Field, for many years, through all your endeavors, through your suffering and healing from your suffering…through your conscious intention….you have birthed this Field in which all are cared for, all live their joy, all look after the Other….it is here NOW…..trust, have faith this is so.
YOUR JOB NOW is to visit that Field as often as possible, to inhabit this new Field you have birthed, to recreate your lives and livelihood in that Field of Joy. You are a resonant, radiating Field of Joy. Art, and an artful creative life will lead your way. Follow the heartline of your art, your truth north. The entelechy of you is the entelechy of Earth. Both are linked. Trust.”
In honor of Jose, I share this, his Prayer of the Seven Galactic Directions:
From the East House of Light
May wisdom dawn in us
So we may see all things in clarity
From the North House of Night
May wisdom ripen in us
So we may know from within
From the West House of Transformation
May wisdom be transformed into right action
So we may do what must be done
From the South House of the Eternal Sun
May right action reap the harvest
So we may enjoy the fruits of planetary being
From the Above House of Heaven
Where star people and ancestors gather
May their blessings come to us now
From the Below House of Earth
May the heartbeat of her crystal core
Bless us with harmonies to end all war.
From the Center Galactic Source
Which is everywhere at once
May everything be known as light in mutual love.
OM YUM HUNAB K’U
EVAM MAYA E MA HO!
Jose Arguelles
In another recent dream, upon asking for guidance to help me navigate these wild waves, I was given this: “There is an outer circumstance you all inhabit, your earthly life, visible, tangible, touchable.
And, there is the Mystery that guides you from the unseen world, the foundation, invisible yet
equally real.”
The only true guidance is what will arise within you. Trust that.
The Water beneath the Earth.
~~Trust the mysterious water beneath the earthly circumstance of your life~~
[hr]
We are all One: 11*11*11
Thanks to Jackson Hole photographer Timothy C. Mayo
This is cool: If you add the last two digits of the year you were born in to the age you are now in 2011 it will add up to 111. This is true for everyone born on planet Earth. The numerology for all of us this year is 111. Quite astounding really.
ONE is obviously about new beginnings. ONE always initiates a new cycle. I like to think that literally/metaphorically all the combos of ONES this year have been initiating progressive new beginnings for each of us/all of us. 1/1/11~1/11/11~10/1/11~10/11/11~11/1/11~11/10/11.
Perhaps all these initiations have been building toward the crescendo of 11*11*11.
I think of 11*11*11 as a cosmic reset button. You know how you reset your odometer to zero when you fill up your gas tank? Ground zero, or may Ground ONE. It’s cool to think it might be true.
Democcupy. Definition: To fully occupy our democracy. I just created that word as I observe the budding revolution of what was initially called Occupy Wall Street.
Democcupy. I have been prone to make up words since I first created my secret language called Jetta in which I used the alphabet in a backward manner. Z was A ~Y was B ~etc. I was young. I assumed no one would figure it out. I have always loved to recreate language~and culture~and encourage my students to do so as well. We are cultural creatives all.
Interesting that another name for the Occupy Wall Street movement is the 99% percent. All but ONE% are included in this movement.
I may piss off some of my more liberal friends but that won’t work. We are all ONE as in 100%.
That doesn’t mean everyone gets that yet, especially the ONE%, but they will and SOON. ONE%, we are all ONE.
That may piss off some of my more conservative friends.
Oh well. No biggie as I feel/know we are all ONE.
Revolutions are good.
Let’s all get to work on recognizing our ONENESS.
Let’s be honest. Don’t we all want to fully occupy our democracy, each in our own way?
Interesting too to note one definition of democracy: the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges.
That’s really what the 99% movement is about. No need to fear it. People keep asking “what’s this movement all about?”
Simply put: we all want to equally occupy our democracy. And be cultural creatives in making it so.
And we can make it so.
Steve Jobs~co-founder of Apple I believe was one of the great cultural creatives to walk the Earth. He co-created the technological keys to expand democracy and so empower each citizen of our beloved planet Earth.
In astrology we say timing is everything. Because it turns out, it is! I find it a stunning synchronicity that his earthly departure coincides with the end of this very long cycle of so much separation just before the new wave of innovation/revolution/oneness arrives. Such sadness in his passing as it seems he is still so needed to keep us moving forward in reinventing the possibilities of our humanity.
He was the fiercest advocate of individuality/originality of all humans. He lived it by personal example and encouraged the younger generations to BE YOURSELF. No more important message. No slaves, creators all. BE YOURSELF. Create from what art/creativity guides you. You are unique. No ONE is like you. BE YOURSELF.
~Now it is up to us to DEMOCCUPY~
ONE is the number of Self. ONE symbolizes the power of the individual as the root source for all change and creativity. BE YOURSELF.
Yes we unite in community. But community is made up of individuals hopefully connected to their unique individual vision and power. BE YOURSELF.
ONE as in individual.
ONE as in the unity of our ONENESS.
A lovely paradox as is the way of the Universal Mystery.
**11**11**11**
Joy to you**
Lyn Dalebout
deerlyn@gmail.com
