Monthly Archives: March 2018

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 105 – 3/31/2018

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Named Meditative March 31 Moon Full in Libra 002

i’ve spent the last couple of hours bathing in this full moon of rebirth, this first full moon after equinox inviting our harvesting of  the blessings of our seed energies planted under the new moon… today is a day of  standing in the crossroads and conversing with the dweller at the threshold who invites us to leap off the precipice to die into silence, to die to the past, to die to the future, to die into the breath, to completely let go… here, silence reveals itself as refuge, as awareness that can be trusted, tenderly loving and resounding with the majesty and the mystery of the sacred…

now, let us turn to a favorite full moon bathing practice…

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may we be filled with lovingkindness

may we be well

may we be peacefull and at ease

may we be happy

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may we all awaken to moon’s energy re-membering we are one heart…
may we all awaken to moon’s oceans as clean-sing tears…
may we all awaken to moon’s wind as enlivening breath…
may we all awaken to moon’s landscape as our body…

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may our one heart open dormant seeds
may our tears fill rain clouds
may our breath give flight to migrating birds
may our body be refuge

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may sister moon receive our one heart for her energy
may  sister moon receive our tears for her oceans
may sister moon receive our breath for her wind
may  sister moon receive our body for her landscape

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 may sister moon open dormant seeds
may sister moon fill rain clouds
may sister moon give flight to migrating birds
may  sister moon nurture refuge

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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 104 – 3/30/2018

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Named Meditative March 30 crossroads

Nobody who finds himself on the road to wholeness can escape that characteristic suspension which is the meaning of crucifixion.

For he will infallibly run into things that thwart and “cross” him…

~ CG Jung ~

today, as many across the globe honor this day as Good Friday, a (w)holy day in (w)holy week, i contemplate what crucifixion means and where it leads… i find this Jung quotation about being on the road to (w)holeness necessitating crucifixion so right on for on each of our paths, aren’t we led daily to cross roads where we are given the choice to dissolve into and serve our greater self who responds in kind with wholeheartedly entering the human realm? Isn’t this cross the true cross, the sacred stillpoint in the tiny space of the heart where every dance begins, where we real-eyes the gift of our suffering with grace, of our bearing what is leads us to the deepest peace of the flowing river of joy?

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 103 – 3/29/2018

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Named Meditative March 29 The-First-Supper

in celebration of we’moon herstory month, on this day observed in the christian calendar as the last supper, it seems very fitting to re-member the day from a divine feminine perspective, as a rollicking dinner party a la Judy Chicago’s reinterpretation of The Last Supper from the point of view of women, who, throughout history, have prepared the meals and set the table…

for thirty years, a print of this acrylic has hung in the dining area wherever i live honoring the feminine energy of communion, of feasting, of sharing and sacrificing (as in making sacred) what we have with others…

three years ago on the day of the last supper, i arrived on the isle of avalon, sacred space of the goddess where beloved community of thirteen joined in the breaking of bread and drinking of holy water and clean-sing (cleansing), as in the washing of feet, of our soles who kiss the earth and ground us into embodied presence…

in this moment, in every moment, we offer thanks for our last supper/first supper, last breath/first breath, our always flowing in the rhythm of dying/rebirthing, ebbing/flowing, breathing in/breathing out always being love, always becoming love…

may we all take this moment to ingest the energies of  the divine feminine and divine masculine in sacred communion…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 102 – 3/28/2018

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Named Meditative March 28 Bodhicitta Nags Head 2014 2 018

take heart, pilgrim!

you were born for this:

to leap into the void, sprout wings and fly…

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as i write tonight, i am so tired so i shall let  Pema’s words on the deepening interior journey we are all traversing speak for me…

On the journey of the bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed toward the earth instead of the sky. Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, we move toward turbulence and doubt however we can. We explore the reality and unpredictability of insecurity and pain, and we try not to push it away. If it takes years, if it takes lifetimes, we let it be as it is. At our own pace, without speed or aggression, we move down and down and down. With us move millions of others, our companions in awakening from fear. At the bottom we discover water, the healing water of bodhichitta. Bodhichitta is our heart—our wounded, softened heart. Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die. This love is bodhichitta. It is gentle and warm; it is clear and sharp; it is open and spacious. The awakened heart of bodhichitta is the basic goodness of all beings.

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yes, take heart..

shanti, shanti, shantihi…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 101 – 3/27/2018

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Named Meditative March 27 Leaping into the Void

as a wee child, i was instructed in the wisdom of pausing when things are getting overwhelming… years later i would hear of the wisdom of incorporating this practice of pausing throughout the day according to our ultradian healing rhythm cycling throughout our body every ninety minutes or so… honoring this cycle sustains the natural healing program of  our body temples…

so right now, in this moment, let’s tune in together to the transformational frequency and experience one of the most important actions we can do this moment, this day, this life…

Pause

Breathe

Rest in the Gap

Slow Down

Relax

Witness the Beauty

Listen

Bless this Space…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 100 – 3/26/2018

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Named Meditative March 26 Plgrimage of PEACE Ocean 5-13-2009

100 Days!

On this journey, I AM being present in a deeper way…

each breath through our one heart a gift

each step on earth mother a kiss

each communion with sun a celebration

each reunion with moon a dance

each moment being in flow

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On this road less traveled, I AM trusting more profoundly…

listening to the whispers from our one heart

aligning with cosmic wisdom

 flowing in beauty all around

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On this pilgrimage home, I AM surrendering more completely…

re-membering we are love and that’s all that there is

living from the heart in thought word and deed

real-eye-sing we are rainbow clouds

flowing into great mystery

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 99 – 3/25/2018

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Named Meditative March 25 Dolphin Human Dolphin

holy synchronicity/synchronisiddhi!

children of the earth, in addition to this being the moment for the weekly edition of the astonishing light of being, it is also the 1000th day ofa sacred practice that a soul friend and i invoke daily for the purification and liberation of all our relatives…

we have arrived on this 1000th day, we are at home in a field of grace…

i love the old Tibetan prophecy proclaiming  when 1000 Goddesses gather, the Divine Feminine will rebirth through their combined energies, and the tone of the planet will shift from one of fear to compassion as well as bringing back balance ​between the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine into the cosmos…

today, i/we celebrate the benefits and merits of 1000 days of devoted daily practice of this mystical transmission… i awoke this morning with 1000 Days singing through all 70 trillion wild cells; since we dwell in a field of interbeing, i wonder how many of us are feeling the waves of blessing and purification arising  in this magical moment of rebirth?

i love offering this beloved practice everyday for us all; for me, it’s more crucial than the things we routinely do like brushing teeth and hair and washing your face… as with anything and everything, i am helped and guided along the way… i love sharing gratitude and love for this practice and am so happy to know of many who join in the practice… before doing it everyday, I was doing it intermittently for about 6 months but it was when I shared it with a soul friend who asked if she could join with me in the practice that the 1000% commitment took hold. I highly recommend sharing this journey with a partner or pod… some days I would have foregone the practice without the support of another beating heart… if anyone would like to commune about this practice, i’d love to connect…

even when doing it intermittently, it so quickly took hold and started organizing my life around – everything is grace… in the beginning and still to this day with every invoking, it is a fresh new experience… in the beginning, i had questions sometimes and would live and contemplate them, now, i often don’t hear the words as words, more as a rhythm of sounds, waves of light flowing through each and every cell activating and enlivening…

when asked what has this sacred practice given me, i am quick to answer stability, core stability in the implicate order, divine design, to truly know in every cell no matter what turbulence that in Dame Julian’s immortal words, “all is well…”

with this 1000th day’s impending approach and arrival, so much percolates… i real eyes with both the fire and water eyes, that this commitment to wholehearted love is an ultimate and neverending purification… and, i’m just beginning this practice that flows through us all eternally…

thank you, thank you, thank you…

boundless love!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 98 – 3/24/2018

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Named Meditative March 24 March For Our Lives 3-24-18

1,000,000+ of us flooded streets across the globe today in public protests to protect and save our children calling for actions to control gun violence…

student-driven and student-led, today’s demonstrations powerfully invoked chants of, enough is enough and never again…

in one of the most poignant speeches, MSD survivor, Emma Gonzales listed the names of the 17 people killed when a gunman rampaged through her school on Valentine’s Day… after asking the crowd to fathom how so many could be murdered in only 6 minutes and 20 seconds, Gonzalez  stopped speaking as silent minutes ticked by until an alarm beeped…

“Since the time that I came out here, it has been 6 minutes and 20 seconds. The shooter has ceased shooting, and will soon abandon his rifle, blend in with the students as they escape and walk free for an hour before arrest.”

she finished by enjoining us to fight for your lives before it’s someone else’s job…

welcome to the revolution of standing in love for love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 97 – 3/23/2018

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Named Meditative March 23 NA healing-hand-symboli am so excited… to come home to the sea and to come home to the sea in an amazing, steroid-rich confluence of events… celebrating 999 days of an every day practice of purification along with continuing taking actions for World Water Day on the annual Clean the Beach Day and participating in our 12th Whalewatching and new this year… March for Our Lives…

so, today we fly on the wings of celestial sea eagle to be lifted like a prayer and to be one long emanation and incantation of lovingkindness…

Eagle Poem

To pray you open your whole self
To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon
To one whole voice that is you.
And know there is more
That you can’t see, can’t hear
Can’t know except in moments
Steadily growing, and in languages
That aren’t always sound but other
Circles of motion.
Like eagle that Sunday morning
Over Salt River.  Circles in blue sky
In wind, swept our hearts clean
With sacred wings.
We see you, see ourselves and know
That we must take the utmost care
And kindness in all things.
Breathe in, knowing we are made of
All this, and breathe, knowing
We are truly blessed because we
Were born, and die soon, within a
True circle of motion,
Like eagle rounding out the morning
Inside us.
We pray that it will be done
In beauty.
In beauty.

~ Joy Harjo ~

traveling this pilgrimage through the exterior landscape brings one deeper and deeper into the interior, a coming home to the heart where it becomes clearer and clearer moment by moment that we are always being led…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 96 – 3/22/2018

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Named Meditative March 22 World Water Day

UN World Water Day on March 22 is a part of a worldwide mission to ensure everyone has access to safe drinking water. Right now, many of the world’s poorest do not have access to one of our most valuable natural resources.

In many areas around the world taps, pipes and wells simply don’t exist and if they do they’re not affordable for many people. It means drinking dirty water is the only option with dirty water being responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.

We, like all other bodies of water, can change course and follow a sustainable direction by first believing we can and next acting on the belief with action by loving our waters for they are our mother, our ancestors and are the web weaving all our relatives into an amazing tapestry. We have a duty of care to protect and nurture our grandmothers and grandfathers and mothers and fathers who give us life.

May we all envision and answer the urgent call to action for a world where everyone drinks safe water instead of the present figure of only.01% is potable. Here’s a first step whenever using this sacred elixir…

 Prayer When Drinking Water

As I receive this water and it flows through me,
May it become medicine dispelling all ills,
May it become medicine revealing the wisdom within and through out.
I offer apology for any harm done through wrong speech & action

As this water flows through me and becomes vapor,
May it purify the atmosphere
May it nourish the wisdom potential in the people
I offer apology for any harm done through wrong speech & action

As this water flows through me, and returns to the water table
May it remove the impurities of chemicals placed within the water
May the water be made new again
May this water become medicine for all beings in this and all worlds