2016

Posted on September 10, 2016 by Jo Beall

since 9 is the number of transformation and this energy resonates so deeply through me, i write on the ninth day of the ninth month of a ninth year from the blissness blue moon lodge, because blue moon lodges are the lodges for transformation, of transformation… this ever present energy sings so loudly through me amplified by the energy of unity, common unity, community, beloved community as the movements of the first peoples extend out to all relations stir our collective inner spirit…

i travel today in spirit with dozens of canoe tribes throughout the usa’s pacific northwest to the sacred lands of standing rock to re-member the dream of transformation… of our awakening and eliminating suffering…

thanks for being the transformation we occupy in the world…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 267 – 9/8/2016

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Jo Beall

maybe, you can relate… today is one of those “storm before the calm” days… mirroring the rising tension in the outer world portending total breakdown, i’m feeling it inside as well as i stretch and try to create a new way of being symbolized by a new website to celebrate 1000 days of the poetic peace pilgrimage which is happening Sunday, 9/11/2016… saying it’s a stretch is putting it ever so mildly…

i’m having to re-member with every breath that creative change or transformation or calm is preceded by letting go of the comfortable or destruction of the existing path or the whirlwind… and, i’m grounding myself with loving kindness and compassion to stay calm in the eye of this hericane…

i sense everything is devolving into chaos, i’m one step away from going over the ledge… somewhere inside me, i hear the voice of wisdom saying to leap into the chaos, the primal space for that is where dancing stars are born, where grace abides…

i’m leaping, leaping in faith and dancing with you on the other side… whee!!!!!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 266 – 9/7/2016

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Jo Beall

another day on the pathless path, another opportunity to contemplate how to act responsibly in these turbulent times, in this moment of quickening… for me, it begins with centering, being still, quieting and then tuning in and listening for great mystery to speak from the the place of silence beyond words, our one heart space, the stillpoint, the deep wellspring of creation of what will last, what is sustainable for seven generations and beyond…

imagine a world where we stop and listen for the voice or knowing of wisdom to guide us when we cannot “see” the way rather than the often default position of rushing in with a solution coming from a place of separation unaligned with true reality, ultimate reality of our living in a cosmos where trillions and trillions of threads are intricately connected in an interdependent web…

thanks be for our waiting for the mud to settle, waiting to move until we are moved, being still until the knowing is formed within…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 265 – 9/6/2016

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Jo Beall

i have always felt more home in the water than on dry land and water was the first word I read and, yes, i am a water sign; so, maybe this explains, at least in part, my deep connection to and love of water… the river people of standing rock stir me to the core… of course i’m not the only one, their stand for water touches a lost chord and reverberates across the planet and beyond… as important as their cause is in the bakken shales of dakota land, it is representative of a much larger issue facing our world and it calls us to respond in reverence and love to our shared vocation as stewards of pachamama, of life…

in response to the question of how to live this wild and precious life, i’m joining in with others and daily thanking our mother waters and meditating with others all over the world at an agreed upon time and planning a pilgrimage to stand in solidarity and donating to the Camp of Sacred Stones and with every breath re-membering I AM Water, we are all water and in this movement uniting us through the source of life, we are constructing a bridge of peace, a rainbow arc encircling the world…

We Are The Eternal Radiance…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 264 – 9/5/2016

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Jo Beall

thank you to farmer of the heart and of the land, Wendell Berry, for so aptly describing my experience of late as i walk this pathless path… these moments when the rubber touches the road and we are given the opportunity to walk our talk, to keep putting one foot in front of the other, to listen deeply within for which way to go, to trust we are being pulled along the path with a heart…

and, thank you to the cosmic hum for singing our soul song through our bones, for leading us along the path with a heart…

into a field of, holy synchronicity!, graceland arises…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 263 – 9/4/2016

Posted on September 5, 2016 by Jo Beall

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

~Hafiz of Shiraz~

this week’s installment of “the astonishing light of being” spotlights the labor of love movement (it is labor day weekend in Canada and the USA), the many hands make light work and make light shine so brightly beings who share their gifts of love and light so generously…

it is so easy to find pictures demonstrating the astonishing light of your being for you and every other being i know more than qualifies… it is so encouraging that in these times of the great turning/returning, the shift back into heart consciousness, more and more of our work force are laborers of love…

may we all celebrate our laboring, our birthing a onederful world of love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 262 – 9/3/2016

Posted on September 4, 2016 by Jo Beall

In Honor of Saint Teresa

The version found written on the wall in Mother Teresa’s home for children in Calcutta:

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

-this version is credited to Mother Teresa

Namaste’

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 261 – 9/2/2016

Posted on September 3, 2016 by Jo Beall

are you still drawing down the energy of the dark new moon and feeling the excitement of new beginnings? i’m so happy to have planted a field of simplicity seeds and to see them already sprouting… i’m also excited about a loooong labor day weekend here on turtle island… not only will i be celebrating the labor force all over the cosmos, but also labor in the sense of giving birth… giving birth to the new in this turning of the seasons space… digging down in the dark earth and resting while taking nourishment from the expansive, underground roots…

what a way, what a space to wander in wonder and celebrate the world to come that is already here in the quantum field where our mental constructs of past, present and future are dissolved into the present moment, the only moment, the only thing that is, the all that is… yes, let’s just share this moment breathing in deeply… love, Love, LOVE!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 260 – 9/1/2016

Posted on September 2, 2016 by Jo Beall

welcome our new moon of synchronous september, perfectly on the new moon in virgo, the foretelling moon… how synchronistic this new beginning ushers in eclipse season with an annular soular eclipse, a ring of fire around the dark moon heralding a golden opportunity to align with new intentions, to plant new seeds of energy… under virgo’s tutelage, we also can be virgin, one-in-her(him)self, more fully an expression of our birthright, more fully committed to serving the whole, the we are, all our relations…

my intention is to align with the master sculpting force that chisels away the stone of illusion and expectation releasing the spirit held within to take flight and dive ever deeper into the peace passing all understanding, the peace found in the center of the medicine wheel…

and as you listen to the song singing you, what do you hear?

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 259 – 8/31/2016

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Jo Beall

whew! awakening august has both flown by at the speed of hummingbird and each day is filled to overflowing with the whole spectrum as if a month has elapsed rather than a day leaving me feeling i’ve covered thousands of miles… so much space to bless this month as we’ve metaphorically traveled the seven seas and everywhere in between even if we never left our dwelling place… and on top of all the awakening and trancing, growing and staying still, moving and grounding, on top of all of these life moments, we are capping off this month’s end with blessing and a new moon in virgo and an annular soular eclipse, a fiery ring around the dark moon…

so, as we bid adieu to one moon, we enjoy an opportunity during eclipse season to release and let go of victimization, illusions, delusions, wounds, toxins, the coulda beens and shoulda beens constricting free flowing and we get to re-align new intentions and plant new seeds of energy staying true to virgo’s call to be fully ourselves and to serve all our relations with our unique gifts…

our one heart sings as we walk this path together, coming home to our one heart, summoning the courage in each moment to take one more step, simply one more step…

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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