Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 227 – 7/31/2018

Named Jocund July 31 Blessing the Space Between Us Nags Head 2014 2 019

deep bows to all as we close the circle of jocund (high-spirited) july and bless this space of the deep peace of the flowing wave and big sky and high plains and inner light… for nine days in the middle of the month, i journeyed off grid in a most profound plunge, a bearing witness pilgrimage, a coming full circle, traveling in a caravan of re-joy-sing around the sacred black hills to listen, listen, listen to the land and her people’s heartsong…

every high-spirited moment and breath and step sauntering this holy land is a  living of the question of how do we all get along as we move through the beautiful landscapes where even in the midst of so much wounding, there is more resiliency…

i return from this deep union with spirit and earth, which synchronisticly came during the annual celebration of  Turn Around the Sun Re-Creation ManiFestival Week, more committed than ever to every moment being a moment of peace watered by the river below the river, our underground wellspring, the river of joy…

thousandfold thanks for sharing this journey along the buen camino, the rainbow trail, for coming home to our one heart flowing in rhythm with mystery, dancing and singing in harmony and shining the light of divine love so brightly…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 226 – 7/30/2018

Named Jocund July 30 Rainbow over Bow Lake at Banff NP

thank you for this day of love, peace, harmony and joy…

joy in the morning, joy in the kindness of strangers, joy in seeing the beauty of the moment, the beauty of every moment… thank you for the gift of flowing energy meeting this moment with courage and compassion real-eye-sing we are beloved community knitted together in an ever expanding tapestry delicately woven with a thousand thousandfold threads of luminous light dancing in the quantum field out beyond…

in this field of love may we walk
all day long may we walk
through the turnings may
we walk
on the trail of pollen
may we walk
with love in our one heart may we walk
with  love before us may we walk
with love behind us may we walk
with love above us may we walk
with love all around us may we
walk
wandering on a trail of
love, may we walk
beginning in love
deepening in love

always being love

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 225 – 7/29/2018

Named Jocund July 29 Astonishing Light of Being Awakening Re-TREAT 2017-10-07 002

for today’s weekly installment of sharing an image of the astonishing light of being, i wanted to find the most brilliant picture of sun to go along with the following words…

“If you are seeking, seek us with joy
For we live in the kingdom of joy.
Do not give your heart to anything else
But to the love of those who are clear joy,
Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.
For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –
Do not go in the direction of darkness –
I tell you: suns exist.”

~Rumi ~

and then i found this picture that so matches the energy of today and the still potent moon rays under a leo sun calling us to shine brightly…

as i listen, listen, listen to the cosmos humming today’s heartsong, i go in the direction of the light and see the suns that exist whispering of a new world….

we are a pilgrim people, a journeying peace corps, with a deep abiding peace solid in our core, peace built with poetic justice guided by love, a love more powerful than any other force, a love that flows directly from source… so, let us come together, pilgrims of peace, to create beloved community by being love with every breath and with every step, to create a world where all our relations experience heaven on earth with everyone in the circle of love, the unbroken sacred hoop of life flowing in rhythm like the clouds above, dancing arm in arm under our one central sun, singing the truth that we are one living in rainbow harmony…

namaste…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 224 – 7/28/2018

Named Jocund July 28 Bodhicitta Nags Head 2014 2 018

still in the glow of the potent full moon of midsummer honoring our teachers beginning with the greatest teacher, divine love, and continuing the celebrating with that of  my father’s birth as he now moves across the sky and resting in the image of our teachers of openheartedness, the standing talls whose roots go so deeply into the earth of our being connecting us all and grounding us in the love that is eternal…

let us amplify the practice of lovingkindness with that of  bodhichitta…

the best way to begin a practice of boddhichitta is by thinking of a person whose suffering you feel strongly and whose happiness is very important to you… it could be someone you know or have known, or someone you’ve seen on the street or read about in the newspaper… thinking of certain people naturally and easily awakens bodhicitta in us: we care about them and we don’t want them to suffer… think of such a person and, whether you feel love, gratitude or compassion for them, say, “may they be free of suffering and the root of suffering; may they enjoy happiness and the root of happiness.”

now, think of an area of the world that’s in great turmoil—an area where you know people and animals are suffering a lot… when you’ve chosen the place, think of the men there, and say, “may all the men in that place be free of suffering and the root of suffering; may they enjoy happiness and the root of happiness.” give yourself time… take a few minutes…

next, think of all the women in that place, and wish that they too could be free of suffering and the root of suffering, and that they could enjoy happiness and the root of happiness…

then, think of all of the children in that place and wish that they be free of suffering and the root of suffering, and that they might enjoy happiness and the root of happiness.

finally, think of all the animals in that place—the mammals, the birds, the fish, the insects and all the other animals—and wish that they be free of suffering and the root of suffering; that they might enjoy happiness and the root of happiness…

shanti, shanti, shantihi…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 223 – 7/27/2018

Named Jocund July 27 Love Always in Impermanence

what is happening? an epic moment, the most electrical, mystical moment as we bathe in the moon rays of the most supercharged electromagnetic field of the longest lunar eclipse of the century… yes, this aquarian full blood moon’s energy is amplified geometrically as we are in the vortex of eclipse season… today may well feel like a wild roller coaster ride as we travel at great speed and great stillness through bounteous emotions…

i began celebrating the blessings of this moon of the corn goddess a couple of days ago and still the intense cycling of the moon phases today challenges equanimity calling for  going within and honoring this high holy day, this moon of the guru, the great teacher, divine love…

let’s take this moment to honor our teachers – remember, every moment is a teacher – and hold them in our one heart with infinite love and gratitude for igniting our inner light…

here is a prayer written by Laura Cornell…

 Oh Great Teacher ~ Great Spirit of Ultimate Light
Thank you for all of the blessings you have given me in my life.
Thank you for so many teachers,
Known and unknown,
Remembered and forgotten,
Big and small.
Thank you for my lovers, friends, parents, grandparents, school teachers, meditation teachers, asana teachers, dance teachers, teachers of the ways of the soul.
Thank you for sending me so many companions on my journey through life.
Thank you most of all, Great Spirit, for your presence in my life,
Unending, always available.
My life moves through countless cycles of waxing and waning,
Increase and decrease,
Like this beautiful Moon before me,
But You are always with me.
I give you great thanks.

as always, on the full moon, i join with waves of beings across the cosmos to offer metta, lovingkindness for all…

may we be filled with lovingkindness

may we be well

may we be peaceful and at ease

may we be happy…

namaste, beloveds

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 222 – 7/26/2018

Named Jocund July 26 Light Shine Brightly

woo hoo! yes, it is the moment to get your happy on and shine the light of divine love brilliantly for not only is this the first day of the thirteen moon new year, it is also the eve of the longest lunar eclipse of the century when the moon is closest to the earth casting a red glow and so it is called a blood moon…

re-member every act of shining the light of divine love raises the vibration of oneness throughout the universe, so, yes, let’s get the happy on dancing with the breeze and swaying with the trees, smiling at a stranger and hugging a forest ranger, gazing at the sun and seeing rainbows everywhere as we breathe in the golden light of the beloved and breathe out any resistance to the light and breathe in the golden light again and witness it being a golden sea of love energy encompassing all creation in a boundless ocean of devotion…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 221 – 7/25/2018

Named Jocund July 25 Grandmother Julieta

“My work has harvested souls, a great achievement for humankind, for all of us who believe that things in the world can be better, if we attempt at every moment to do things well: to show respect, to value what has little value today, to feel proud of our identity, to defend our traditions, to defend our traditional medicine, to love and respect our elders and listen to them with great attention, to teach children to live with respect, peace, and love. The mission of all human beings who achieve consciousness is to take care of themselves and Mother Earth.” Julieta Casimiro Estrada

on this the day out of time according to the lunar calendar, i gathered with elders to celebrate the almost full Corn Empress Moon and the harvests she blesses us with so abundantly…

among these many blessings is thework of harvesting that Grandmother Julieta lived as a Curandera of the world dedicating her whole life to prayer…

deep bows…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 220 – 7/24/2018

Named Jocund July 24 Joyous Freespirit

“If you are seeking, seek us with joy
For we live in the kingdom of joy.
Do not give your heart to anything else
But to the love of those who are clear joy,
Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.
For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –
Do not go in the direction of darkness –
I tell you: suns exist.”

~Rumi ~

eleven days ago i took off into the unknown to join a caravan of re-joy-sing and bear witness to our one heart breaking… breaking wide open as we listen in a deeper way to the cosmic hum of the earth of our being feeling the bubbling wellspring of joy in the river below the river…

i return with every breath to the kingdom of joy vowing to live this moment, every moment in joy, the ultimate rebellion for these critical times… thank you for joining me on the caravan of rainbowmaker rebirth, being, living as joyous freespirits….

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 209 – 7/13/2018

Named Jocund July 13 Confluence Caravan of Re-Joy-Sing Confluence Dedication at Chief Timothy 019

we are a pilgrim people, a journeying peace corps, with a deep abiding peace solid in our core, peace built with poetic justice guided by love, a love more powerful than any other force, a love that flows directly from source… so, let us come together, pilgrims of peace, to create beloved community, by being love with every breath, to create a world where all our relations experience heaven on earth, with everyone in the circle of love, flowing in rhythm like the angels above, dancing arm in arm under our central sun, singing the truth that we are one… yes, singing the truth that we are won…

i leave in a few hours to be on a pilgrimage of peacemaking and bearing witness… we travel as a caravan of re-joy-sing honoring sacred sites of the first people and dialoguing on how we live together in harmony respecting the right to freely be one for all and all for one…

happy trails!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 208 – 7/12/2018

Named Jocund July 12 New Moon Supermoon Dream Cave Awakening

are you feeling like you are in the vortex of  mind-bowing change? of  course you are, we are in quite a potent threshold – new moon supermoon soular eclipse in cancer whose already deep feminine energy is amplified by the eclipse which may bring up deep ancestral emotions…

so let us join hands together and draw down the energy of this dark moon calling us into the dream cave of our one heart and be with whatever is there seeing it as an opportunity to purify…

water, we thank you

water, we love you

water, we respect you

now, name the seeds you will be planting

drink the blessed water of life

blessed be

~

yes, this moment and every moment i’m accompanied on the journey into the heart by a child named Bliss… without her by my side this moment and every moment, i would not find the courage to take another step… owing her my all, in return, i devote each breath to her as we rock gently in the waves of creation. may we all care for all our relatives, all the children of the earth being healing presence sowing seeds of joy in our cosmos of peace built on justice guided by unconditional love flowing and being the light she sees in the dark…