2017

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Jo Beall

It’s A Dog’s World…

indeed it is, jo is letting me, nia, aka ms radiance, write the post today… i’m just returning from my first overnight pilgrimage with the fam – what an adventure! we traveled to the land of the ufo festival to gather with a bunch of two leggeds to watch the total eclipse of the sun… the relatives of the human variety got all excited as the big ball of gas in the sky got more and more eclipsed by the moon… we all had to wear these special contraptions on our eyes, they tasted a lot better than they helped me see… my favorite part was licking the dew off the grass and bounding across the field like a jumping bean… the two leggeds loved it when for a split second everything went totally dark… howlelujah! they sounded like my ancestors, the woof clan, who teach that an eclipse on the new moon amplifies the new world’s birth… howlelujah!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 247 – 8/20/2017

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Jo Beall

today, on this weekly celebration of the astonishing light of being, as we make a pilgrimage to be in the path of totality for tomorrow’s historic soular eclipse during the second new moon in leo, it seems only fitting to celebrate the sun – outer, inner and central…

star at the center of the soular system

generator of a dynamic magnetic field

an almost perfect sphere in the heavens

yellow dwarf ball of glowing gases

heart of the cosmos, holder of orbital space

truthsayer of cosmic conspiracy always on our side

purveyor of astonishing light, making all life possible

thousandfold thanks for gifting us courage, the heart of love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 246 – 8/19/2017

Posted on August 19, 2017 by Jo Beall

i love every summer celebrating the O-bon festival when we honor our ancestors’ journeys… i love this turn around the sun the gathering falls on harmonic convergence four days before the historical total soular eclipse beginning its path right here in Oregon arcing across the country from sea to shining sea… i love the ancestors being welcomed home and feted with joyful dance and song before these shining ones are placed as lanterns on the waters to travel back to the other shore…

i love this moment of reflecting on immortality and re-membering we are part of a vast sacred web of interconnection bridging visible with invisible realms…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 245 – 8/18/2017

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Jo Beall

for the past 781 days, i have gathered daily with another in a sacred communion to invoke lovingkindness blessings for all our relatives… each evening we join to offer ourselves, everything we are, to the all that is… we envision the whole cosmos joining us and experiencing our true reality of oneness and numinous love… i love also seeing us joining in this blessing prayed every morning by the Dalai Lama…

May I be a guard for those who need protection

A guide for those on the path

A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood

May I be a lamp in the darkness

A resting place for the weary

A healing medicine for all who are sick

A vase of plenty, a tree of miracles

And for the boundless multitudes of living beings

May I bring sustenance and awakening

Enduring like the earth and sky

Until all beings are freed from sorrow

And all are awakened.

~

may we all imagine, may we all be the frequency of peace, love, joy, wisdom, harmony, justice and compassion…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 244 – 8/17/2017

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Jo Beall

today is the thirtieth anniversary of harmonic convergence and it feels just so… a day of grace, a day when the sun, in the form of holy grandmother spider creatrix, peeks through the clouds offering warm embraces and whispered words of wisdom to be still in this moment of wild abandon, to trust this moment of surrender, to re-member the sun always shines and when it shines on rain, being is transformed into iridescent rainbow arcs encircling the cosmos within and without converging, confluing in perfect harmony, in this moment, this beautiful moment of grace… may we all awaken to the beauty breathing us alive…

aloha and mahalo…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 243 – 8/16/2017

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Jo Beall

on awakening, i re-member a dream of being in a field where the Beloved Communion dwells and hearing that our mission is to sing… as on so many awakenings, a melody sings me as i luxuriate in this liminal space with one sole in dreamtime and the other in awaketime…

are you hearing beloved singing you? listen a little deeper for the cosmic hum as you suspend noise and distraction in this moment, this beautiful moment… are you hearing the whispers of the ancestors flowing through our oceanic body? ah yes, let’s pause here in the stillpoint and align with the rhythm of our one heart…

may earth’s song reach into our deepest and wildest sacred spaces… may we hear the melodic voices of all our relations: stones, stars, streams, breezes, sand, sun, ocean, currents, plants, starfish, seas, planets, creatures, rivers, and winds… may our inhalations inspire re-joy-sing and our exhalations re-sound and re-verberate loingkindness and harmony throughout the watery womb of our one heart…

sing, sing, wherever you are, a song of compassion blessing pachamama, the spirit of land, the spirit of life, the one spirit encircling all in the great web of life intricately interconnecting all our relatives as one body with trillions and trillions of cells resonating as one vast field of love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 242 – 8/15/2017

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Jo Beall

after a week of intensely dancing the opposites, today the pilgrimage turns to a dance of grace welcoming the waning moon and the ending of cycles to prepare for the birthing of the new… moon, world, cosmos, all that is…

yes, beloved, make me an instrument of thy peace,

a hollow reed resonating the dream of the earth where you breathe us in the rhythm of the deep waves

each cell vibrating as humming iridescent light wave

a rebel of love, a reveler of love, a revealer of love, a revolutionary of love taking courage in the dream of second coming, of all awakening in the promised land…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 241 – 8/14/2017

Posted on August 14, 2017 by Jo Beall

i’m walking the bhakti path today,

floating through life in a buoyant way…

with nothing to do and nowhere to go,

resting still in the ocean, the ocean of flow..

chanting love’s names polishes our one heart,

resonating at the frequency of love you impart

raises the vibration of cosmic harmony

attuning us all to the peace of great mystery…

~

after a week of flying with the angels across the vast turbulent sea sky of uncertainty, it’s good to land and stand with you in love today, while each of us invokes the beloved in our own way… perhaps, you’ll join me in placing your hand on your heart and calling up the image of a relation you love… or, maybe, spend time in the company of a tree or play in water and squeal with glee… whatever it is, float in devocean, in the ocean of devotion with your whole wide open wild heart singing, re-joy-sing the psalm of the earth…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 240 – 8/13/2017

Posted on August 13, 2017 by Jo Beall

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

~ Nelson Mandela ~

today as i fly home from Charlottesville across the vast expanse of mountains and plains, rivers and lakes, deserts and rainforests, so much calls out for reflection and contemplation…

fifty-two weeks ago, i began a weekly feature honoring one of us, a pilgrim on our shared journey of light with an amazing luminous being recognized all over the cosmos as an emissary of light, of love, of joy overflowing…

yes, the divine hummingbird reminds us all of our birthright as children of the light.. let us take this moment to invoke her presence of soul consciousness through the hum of her wings, our soul in free flight, resonating with the cosmic hum, the heartbeat of earth mother, flowing in the rhythm of star nation’s light waves…

one year later, another divine hummingbird, another pilgrim on our shared spirit path flies into our consciousness as we re-member Heather who shall always live in our hearts as one who stands in love for love…

as her proud mother proclaims,

“I want her death to be a rallying cry for justice and equality and fairness and compassion…”

may we all come together across the cosmos to move the arc of justice towards its outer manifestation of love and compassion and peace and harmony re-membering our way onward is together as one…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 236 – 8/9/2017

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Jo Beall

today as we fly across the country from west to east on angels’ wings, i re-member that seventy-two years ago, at the end of World War II, an atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki in Japan with the hypocenter right on the grounds of what is now the Peace Memorial Park…

listen to Words of the Sculptor about the Peace Statue he created to commemorate all who lost their lives to atomic radiation:

“After experiencing that nightmarish war, that blood-curdling carnage, that unendurable horror, Who could walk away without praying for peace? This statue was created as a signpost in the struggle for global harmony. Standing ten meters tall, it conveys the profundity of knowledge and the beauty of health and virility. The right hand points to the atomic bomb, the left hand points to peace, and the face prays deeply for the victims of war. Transcending the barriers of race and evoking the qualities of Buddha and God, it is a symbol of the greatest determination ever known in the history of Nagasaki and the highest hope of all mankind.”

-Seibo Kitamura (Spring 1995)

~

may we all sing out for love, peace and harmony for all our relations in our ever expanding universe and thank Great Spirit for blessing us with every breath…

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 –

Monthly Archives: August 2017