Happy 1/1/11(2018)

where to begin on this amazing day of pilgrimage? the first day of a new turn around the sun in this universal year of liberation and a new moon (month) of journeying january, the moon of dreaming and the first day of seven days of rest and the full moon in cancer, the great mother, the moon known as the wolf moon in this year known in chinese astrology as the year of the earth dog or wolf who symbolizes freedom – holy synchronicity – it’s the year of liberation… this supermoon of going inward and listening for truth and speaking it and our festival of illumination pilgrimage with the Caravan of Re-Joy-Sing continues under the supermoon of illumination and under last night’s sign, the seventh night’s sun of the airy sign of Libra bringing a dream gift of an important key to life – balance – is an image that has played through my dreams for as long as i can re-member as has contemplating life as walking a tightrope along the razor’s edge… on this first day of the new year, it feels so right to sit still on the seesaw of life and begin this turn with breathing in Libra’s gift of journeying to the inner stillpoint and breathing out the gift of balance into the cosmos… Here’s an ancient practice of  tonglen, of giving and receiving, that, like metta, empowers compassion and is a beautiful blessing of balance for the full moon…

breathe in deeply and settle into the present moment simply as it is…

look first into the mirror of yourself with the utmost compassion of your divine self seeing your human self with the tenderest love and see the black smoke coming from the wounded human self and take it into the radiant heart of the open sky dissolving the smoke and send back  boundless love and compassion…

next, turn to someone you love who is suffering greatly and take the black ball from their belly and send it to the expansive blue sky of the radiant heart of overflowing love and compassion and send this love to them…

now, turn to someone who has caused you great suffering and see their pain and take it and send it to the radiant heart and shower them with unconditional love…

now, turn to a group that terrifies you and take away all their darkness sending it to the expansive open sky and sending back to them the incandescent love of divine compassion…

finally, let’s  turn to the genocide and torture of beings and to the killers and torturers taking away their suffering and having our one radiant heart transmute it and send it back as a revelation of love…

may we all feel the blessings of this supermoon of illumination, this moon of the great mother of divine love which ends all suffering and liberates us all to be for giving…

howlelujah and namaste…