2018

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Jo Beall

this day, the last day of awakened april, walpurgis eve, the night to go wild with our bodies filtering sensations and perceptions through a rainbow lens cleansing all doors and windows so that our one heart refracts the light streaming in as an illuminated spiral path perfect for dancing and running naked whirling in the center of the turning wheel of life always being and becoming love… the day we bless the space between us as we close the circle on another moon or month of turning around the sun…

let us take this moment, this beautiful moment to bless this space we share… this deep space of awakening fire as the sun shone through aries now moving into grounding profoundly in the core of our being, dropping down into the rich nurturing earth of taurus…

this space of listening deeply as great mystery hums our soul song through us and we echo it to each other… to return, return, return to love by opening our one heart to divine flow’s breathing us, dreaming us, singing us, praying us, dancing us, comforting us, supporting us, freeing us, animating us, blessing us, consecrating us in this moment, in every beautiful moment…

may we dance rainbow mystery devotedly

may we be more loving than ever before for the well being of all

may we be more compassionate than ever before for the well being of all

may we be more harmonious than ever before for the well being of all

with every breath, may we all be liberated

with every step, may we all come home to our one heart…

~

namaste, beloveds…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 134 – 4/29/2018

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Jo Beall

such a wealth of riches to celebrate on this next to the last day of awakened april, a quintessence of events mirroring the five elements… it’s the full moon in the water sign of scorpio, and it’s lunar beltane when we celebrate the midpoint between equinox and soustice with fire rituals letting go of what no longer serves and it’s our moment to celebrate the astonishing lightness of being by breathing in the air, the whispering wind inspiriting us and breathing out the light transmuted into love… it was arbor day on friday and the tree of life seems so perfect as an image for the lightness of being and he abundance of the earth of being and such a beautiful symbol of the element of ether, of love, unconditional love…

trees, our breath, teach us generosity as mothers of nourishment creating one vast network of trillions and trillions of roots intertwined as one, flooding the struggling with juice, receiving the dying standing talls’ marrow…

not i, only we, this network of generosity, this unfolding synarchy… let’s breathe in deeply filling ourselves with each breath and letting go/ surrendering/softening through our soles with each outbreath…

smiling, we come deeper and deeper home with every breath… allowing… accepting… embracing

feeling our soles on the warm, mossy, forest floor syncing into the soil below while our limbs are outstretched toward the sky… we open deeply to pure presence as we bathe in the stillness and dance in the forest field…

let’s bow deeply to all our relations thanking each other for the sacred circle of life we are…

always being love…

namaste’…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 133 – 4/28/2018

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Jo Beall

all wisdom is within

all strength is within

all there is, is love…

the powerful full moon in scorpio is in full illumination tomorrow at 5:58 PM PDT giving us the energy to transform, to tune into the power of imagination, to walk our talk as pilgrims, poets on a journey home to the heart of peace built on a just balance always guided by love…

let us draw down and surrender to the changes pouring forth from the watery moon…

we are opening… we are surrendering… we are accepting the flow of life… we know we are always divinely supported… we know we carry the wisdom inside. we know we carry truth inside… we know we carry strength inside… everything is unfolding perfectly…

we surrender and accept wholeheartedly life in all its iterations… we soften into the knowing that we are love, loved and loving…

we are now free knowing we are held in the sheltering arms of great spirit…

blessed be!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 132 – 4/27/2018

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Jo Beall

this earth day is one of celebration as our earth citizen chant, may peace prevail on earth, took a giant leap forward with it being the first time a North Korean leader has ever set foot inside South Korea… during this historic meeting, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said “I came here to put an end to the history of confrontation.” the South Korean President, Moon Jae-In, proclaims, ” Kim Jong-un and I declared together that there will be no more war on the Korean Peninsula and a new age of peace has begun…”

yes, today, indeed, is a celebration for all world citizens/siddhizens …

peace prevails on earth!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 131 – 4/26/2018

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Jo Beall

on this earth day, will you join me in listening to an ancient story of opening our hearts to our true nature of wisdom, of radiance, an incandescence that always burns fiercely, magnificently at the core of being no matter how overwhelming things are for our little selves… notice where this story pulls you as we walk home together on the path of transformation…

once upon a time, a young woman was feeling abandoned and overwhelmed at the loss of love… fear clutched her, overwhelmed her and she went searching for a cure for love in the marketplaces, in the temples and nothing would open her heart… she heard tell of a sage who lived in a cave high up on a mountain that towered over her village and so she began the arduous journet to connect with the sage within the cave… she found him bent over a fire in the cave and asked if he had a cure for love and he asks her to return in three days for an answer and she sits in the unknowing of whether there’s a cure and returns as requested…

the sage tells her he has all the ingredients for a love cure save one – would she be willing to get this ingredient? of course she would, nothing was as important… the sage tells hershe needed to bring him the whisker of a living tiger, a whisker from around his mouth close to his teeth… she protests that she is not up to such a dangerous assignment and he reminds her that she said she would gladly find the one missing ingredient and so she makes her way down the mountain and back to her hut where she continues to contemplate this overwhelming task while feeling more abandoned than ever… as she eats her dinner of rice, it comes to her that tigers have to eat as well and she fixes a bowl of rice for the man-eating tiger that lives on the other side of the mountain from the sage… she re-members that tigers aren’t vegetarian and adds some meat sauce for the tiger and takes off up the mountain to find the tiger… when she reaches a place where fear would not let her go any further, she left the bowl and made her way back to the hut…

night after night, she would venture back in search of the tiger, stepping over the empty bowl and going alittle further and leaving another full bowl… one night as she was stepping over the previous night’s empty bowl, she saw the tiger coming towards her and she said that she meant him no harm and that she was on a mission for her soul… as he ate his nightly offering, she summoned her courage and plucked a whisker from his mouth and he pretended not to notice…

dancing down the mountain, the young woman couldn’t wait to return to the sage… the next morning, she made her way to the sage and handed him the whisker which he dropped into the fire and she watched the missing ingredient turn to ash… outraged, she asked why the sage did that and he asked her how she’d been able to accomplish such an impossible task… she recounted how each night she had faced her fear and made her way up the mountain to find the tiger… the sage then asked if the her heart was more dangerous than the heart of a tiger and she real-eyesed that in facing her fears, her heart opened… she now knew her heart, her fear, her soul… she journeyed to the wise center of being and to the fierce, magnificent radiance on the other side of the coin, so to speak…

facing the depths of the ocean of being is overwhelming… sitting in the timeless feelings of abandon and not abandoning ourselves, sitting in the fear and taking one more step is the eternal way of opening the heart ever more widely… fear is the thoroughfare of transformation… so when fear rises , know the true self is calling you into being more of the fullest expression of your true self…

breathe

take one more step

offer gratitude

celebrate!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 130 – 4/25/2018

Posted on April 25, 2018 by Jo Beall

on this earth day, i turn to the words of eco-poet, environmental activist and sacred sage of farsightedness, Thomas Berry, to sing us home along the green path into beloved community…

may we live and put into practice with every step and every breath the dream of the earth…

Reflecting on Earth As Sacred Community

“It takes a universe to bring humans into being, a universe to educate humans, a universe to fulfill the human mode of being. More immediately, it takes a solar system and a planet Earth to shape, educate, and fulfill the human.

We can explain nothing if we cannot explain the whole. Our explanation of any part of the universe is integral to our understanding of the universe itself.

…we must think about and respond to the urgency of a renewal of the integral community of life systems throughout the Earth. Renewal is a community project.

What is needed is a new pattern of rapport with the planet. Here we come to the critical transformation needed in the emotional, aesthetic, spiritual, and religious orders of life. Only a change that profound in human consciousness can remedy the deep cultural pathology manifest in such destructive behavior. Such change is not possible, however, so long as we fail to appreciate the planet that provides us with a world abundant in the volume and variety of food for our nourishment, a world exquisite in supplying beauty of form, sweetness of taste, delicate fragrances for our enjoyment, and exciting challenges for us to overcome with skill and action. The poets and artists can help restore this sense of rapport with the natural world. It is this renewed sense of reciprocity with nature, in all of its complexity and remarkable beauty, that can help provide the psychic and spiritual energies necessary for the work ahead.

We come into being in and through the Earth. Simply put, we are Earthlings. The Earth is our origin, our nourishment, our educator, our healer, our fulfillment. At its core, even our spirituality is Earth derived. The human and the Earth are totally implicated, each in the other. If there is no spirituality in the Earth, then there is no spirituality in ourselves.

We need a spirituality that emerges our of a reality deeper than ourselves, a spirituality that is as deep as the Earth process itself, a spirituality born out of the solar system and even out of the heavens beyond the solar system. For it is in the stars that the primordial elements take shape in both their physical and psychic aspects. Out of these elements the solar system and Earth took shape, and out of Earth, ourselves.

In our contemplation of how tragic moments of disintegration over the course of the centuries were followed by immensely creative moments of renewal, we receive our great hope for the future. To initiate and guide this next creative moment of the story of the Earth is the Great Work of the religions of the world as we move on into the future.”

Thomas Berry

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 129 – 4/24/2018

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Jo Beall

on this earth day, let us color the earth in rainbow love and contemplate the ancient rainbow prophecy…

“When the Condor of the South comes together with the Eagle of the North, the spirit of Mother Earth – Pacha Mama – will awake, then She will awake millions of her children, this will be the Resurrection of the Dead.”

~Inca Elder Willaru Huayta~

and another version of the prophecy…

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.” (Rev. 21:1)

there are as many versions as there are cultures all with the same theme of unification, divine union, heirosgamos inciting transformation, our arrival on the shore of pure consciousness where…

the rivers run free and clear, the forests stand tall and abundant, animals and birds breathe clean air with all that is beautiful our way of life as we smile and walk each other home together…

namaste

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 128 – 4/23/2018

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Jo Beall

today is one of stunning beauty in the neighborhood, both inner… another day of celebrating earth mother, of re-joy-sing with her… yes, everyday is earthday…

In Praise of the Earth

Let us bless
The imagination of the Earth.
That knew early the patience
To harness the mind of time,
Waited for the seas to warm,
Ready to welcome the emergence
Of things dreaming of voyaging
Among the stillness of land.

And how light knew to nurse
The growth until the face of the Earth
Brightened beneath a vision of color.

When the ages of ice came
And sealed the Earth inside
An endless coma of cold,
The heart of the Earth held hope,
Storing fragments of memory,
Ready for the return of the sun.

Let us thank the Earth
That offers ground for home
And holds our feet firm
To walk in space open
To infinite galaxies.

Let us salute the silence
And certainty of mountains:
Their sublime stillness,
Their dream-filled hearts.

The wonder of a garden
Trusting the first warmth of spring
Until its black infinity of cells
Becomes charged with dream;
Then the silent, slow nurture
Of the seed’s self, coaxing it
To trust the act of death.

The humility of the Earth
That transfigures all
That has fallen
Of outlived growth.

The kindness of the Earth,
Opening to receive
Our worn forms
Into the final stillness.

Let us ask forgiveness of the Earth
For all our sins against her:
For our violence and poisonings
Of her beauty.

Let us remember within us
The ancient clay,
Holding the memory of seasons,
The passion of the wind,
The fluency of water,
The warmth of fire,
The quiver-touch of the sun
And shadowed sureness of the moon.

That we may awaken,
To live to the full
The dream of the Earth
Who chose us to emerge
And incarnate its hidden night
In mind, spirit, and light.
~ John O’Donohue ~

may we dream in earth’s rhythms…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 127 – 4/22/2018

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Jo Beall

“BeLoved MothersKind – Weaver of Whirrleds”

Happy B’Earth Day!

Holy Synchronicity!! Holy Trifecta!!!

It is the World Earth Day Collective Celebration along with my Soul Bearthday along with our weekly sharing of an image showing the Astonishing Light of our Being and i’m so honored and delighted that this image that i’ve, we’ve been calling in for years showed up just in time for this very special moment…

I will turn now to the creatrix and midwife of this painting that moves me so deeply for us all to luxuriate in her offering…

“Beloved MothersKind -Weaver of Whirrleds”

Clothed in Light,
Moon at Her feet
12 Stars in Her Crown
She weaves wondrous whirrleds into Being.

Love is her essence,
Gratitude her prayer,
Beauty the Way.

She,
One heART
B’earthing New Realities with every breath,
Co-Creating in Harmony with All that Is,
is
Centered
Present
Flowing
Dreaming Awake
Witnessing
Loving what arises.
Source force energy
– LOVE –
flows down to, thru, from and for Her
Spiraling into Mother Earth
Blooming to rise up and return hOMe
to the heART of Now,
Blessing One and All.
A Flow-er of Love, is She.

BeLoved MothersKind
remembers
We are Love always.
‘Thank you for everything’
is Her living prayer.
And so she flows.

Gratefully, so.
She is US
We are SHE
We are Love always.

~ Stacey Sophia Robyn~

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 126 – 4/21/2018

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Jo Beall

There’s a revolution that needs to happen and it starts from inside each one of us. We need to wake up and fall in love with Earth,

~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~

every day is earth day… as we approach the forty-eighth year of global celebration in this sacred space of great turning and cosmic rite of passage, i find myself listening, on this 222nd day of an illuminating awakening adventure, to prophets, poet activists about the coming cosmic greening…

Turning to One Another

There is no power greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

Ask “What’s possible?” not “What’s wrong?” Keep asking.

Notice what you care about.

Assume that many others share your dreams.

Be brave enough to start a conversation that matters.

Talk to people you know.

Talk to people you don’t know.

Talk to people you never talk to.

Be intrigued by the differences you hear.

Expect to be surprised.

Treasure curiosity more than certainty.

Invite in everybody who cares to work on what’s possible.

Acknowledge that everyone is an expert about something.

Know that creative solutions come from new connections.

Remember, you don’t fear people whose story you know.

Real listening always brings people closer together.

Trust that meaningful conversations can change your world.

Rely on human goodness. Stay together.

~ Margaret Wheatley ~

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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