2016

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Jo Beall

trees, the beloved community… on this arbor day, a day we have celebrated on turtle island for almost a century and a half, a day like every other for many of us who celebrate the standing tall people daily, i enjoy/injoy a day of shinrin-yoku, a day of relaxing with trees, a day of forest bathing contemplation… of how we two leggeds be longing to belong to a communion, a community as loving as our tree siblings… so much wisdom flows from our elders…

trusting we are respecting our elders and deeply listening as they teach us and show us the way to live wholeheartedly welcoming each moment with open arms…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 134 – 4/28/2016

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Jo Beall

it’s the eve of the waning half moon, a moon known as the wise woman moon, a moon for tuning into comic hum and listening to the soul song of our one heart… a moon phase to slow down, turn within, drop down into the core, the stillpoint of creation to deeply relax… with five planets in retrograde, the energetic impulse to still is amplified and it’s easier to hear the humming soul song, the inner knowing of what waves are ours to weave into quilted webs of radiant light telling the ever unfolding cosmic story and what threads are ours to compost into the ocean of being..

may we all, in joy, enjoy this moment, this beautiful moment of wandering in wonder…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 133 – 4/27/2016

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Jo Beall

today, i feel the crack in our one heart where mystery enters, the wound in our soul where the light illumines, the rupture in our being where love ignites… in this space of retrograde energy, we enjoy/injoy the slowing down, the dropping into the sacred space in the core of our being to patiently await the turning of the tides, the clean-sing of the waters trusting the way is already clear as a space to love beyond all fear…

namaste, beloveds

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 132 – 4/26/2016

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Jo Beall

a beautiful day of abundance created together… being a rose in a garden with you warmed by the sun, essence flowing out as freely as the water fountain… taking no effort, simply being open, surrendered to source…

like these roses, we live in a gift ecology receiving what is needed, giving what is needed… what flows through my rose beingness today is what i’ve been living the last eleven months… the pathway of transforming rupture into rapture, transmuting broken heart into heart broken wide open, ruptured eye/i into eye/i wide open… as we hold the rupture compassionately – awareness – like a rose, blossoms into rapt attention, beholding in awe, rapture, the ecstatic joy always present in the core of our being, patiently awaiting the perfect moment to ripple through and fill the air waves with natural true beingness… mahalo for this moment, this beautiful moment of sharing the milagro field, the field of giving and receiving, the unitive field of abundance created together…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 131 – 4/25/2016

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Jo Beall

join me on a beautiful pilgrimage in one of the most serene places on the planet allowing the deep peace of this sacred space to breathe us, to enter every cell of our being… in this moment, drop down into the core, the well of profound joy and stillness feeling the ever present ancestors and allies guarding the great silence, watching over all that is… drop down a little deeper into the mystery of the great beyond…

I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.

Then the knowing comes: I can open
to another life that’s wide and timeless.

So I am sometimes like a tree
rustling over a gravesite
and making real the dream
of the one its living roots
embrace:

a dream once lost
among sorrows and songs.

~ Ranier Maria Rilke ~

namaste, beloveds

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 130 – 4/24/2016

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Jo Beall

Albert Schweitzer, a childhood hero of mine, impressed me so much with his reverence for life that decades later i included it as one of the practices of my SHERO acronym… i began this year with an intention of being in the moment intimately connected with the all that is in the space surrounding me, of being reverence…

today, i’m luxuriating in the practice of being reverence as divine play, yes, reverence as the play of contemplating and connecting the dots of whatever images, feelings, sensations, re-memberings, visualizations, of whatever is in this moment… reverence as play of witnessing grandmother spider weaving the web of exponentially intricate interconnection, a geometric progression as amazing as the hundreds of thousands of processes going on in our bodies sacredly, secretly, silently, softly, superbly right now, in this moment…

i’d love your pausing with me for a moment of play, a moment of being reverence, a moment of zooming in and zooming out, of deepening, of intimacy as into me i see, a moment of being fully alive, a moment of being reverence for life, reverence for all that is… oh, the places we’ll go…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 129 – 4/23/2016

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Jo Beall

dancing in the center of the still medicine wheel

whirling and twirling the cosmic reel

resonating with heartbeat of earth

listening deeply for the sound of her birth

flowing in this moment of now,

all my relations, to you i bow

in this friendly universe, where trust is the ground of consciousness

organically, our one heart opens wide as an empty vessel of spaciousness

freeing us in every moment to dance in rhythm with ocean

and sing our sacred soul song in wholehearted devotion

with each breath we return to our center, stillpoint of creation, holy ground of surrender

to begin anew with reverence, with a wonderfilled awesome yes, Yes, YES!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 128 – 4/22/2016

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Jo Beall

Happy Love Our Mother Earth Day!

what a perfect way to spend earth day…. with young haiku poets in a zen garden like that on the island of the rising sun…. a sacred space rendering the effusive seven year olds speechless as the serenity of the garden enters their wild cells so deeply… i re-member the very first “earth day” forty-six years ago as if it happened yesterday and what a delight to hear what it means today to our earth children… these young souls born into sustainability, realizing the preciousness of water and fresh air, appreciating all our relations and the importance of working together to honor our island home… yes, perfect way to spend earth day, everyday…

i’d love your joining me in this moment in a meditation to invoke the spirit of our earth mother into our one body… sit easy with a straight spine and a light neck and begin breathing in deeply and comfortably… raise your arms up 60 degrees from horizontal, elbows and wrists straight… stretch your body forward slightly with the angle of the palms following the angle of the arms and the fingers are straight and together, thumbs relaxed… imagine a flame in the center of your being and continue to breathe deeply dropping deeper and deeper into the core…

in closing, inhale deeply with a prayer for peace and our earth mother creatrix.. hold for 15 seconds, exhale, inhale deeply feeling in your heart the blessing of the divine mother… hold for 15 seconds, exhale, inhale deeply feeling the taste of the sweetness of life… hold for 15 seconds, exhale radiating deeply our mother’s love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 127 – 4/21/2016

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Jo Beall

this Scorpio Full Moon comes at the threshold of the full blossoming of Spring, and is the most feminine energy moon of the thirteen moons… imagined as a clover field, this moon is ripe with luck. abundance and finding and awakening to metaphorical four leaf clovers, our own pearls of great price…

the pearl represents our higher self, whose enlightenment and wisdom are the manifestation of our true self.. like the Buddha who once sat under this full moon and received enlightenment, we are invited to face our shadows and harvest the gifts and treasures hidden within which releases our true self to arise from the ashes of these old personal and collective stories and to rebirth completely new stories.

part of my new story/our new story is re-joy-sing in our coming together in harmony to hear and sing the deepest soul song of our one cosmic heart…

we are the grace of all that is

how can we honor and serve you?

we find we are longing to fall deeper into you

for we are the grace of you…

now’s the moment to let go the old

soften the earth and plant new seeds

falling into and going with the flow

warmed and embraced by the inner glow

we are the grace of all that is

re-joy-sing in honoring and serving you

walking the path of devotion, we fall deeper into you

into the stillpoint of creation, into the grace of you…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 126 – 4/20/2016

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Jo Beall

for the beauty of the earth, for the beauty of this magical mountain, tahoma, for the beauty of coming home to the heart, for the beauty of all our relations, for the beauty of this moment overflowing with light and love and joy and peace and harmony, let us all breathe gratitude deeply into our one heart and down into the core and out into the cosmos in ever widening circles of lovingkindness and compassion…

thanks for our being peace and joy in this moment as deep mystery breathes us into living more abundantly, dancing more gracefully and singing more wholeheartedly in appreciation of the all that is…

Abundance Created Together (ACT)

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke –

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