2019

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Jo Beall

what a beautiful synchronicity… this day, the last day of awesome april, walpurgis eve, is also 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 all take this moment, this beautiful moment to bless this space we share… this deep space of awakened fire as the sun shone through aries 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, this beautiful moment, in every moment, every beautiful moment…

may we dance rainbow mystery devotedly as we contemplate the space between us…

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 6 – Day 134 – 4/29/2019

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Jo Beall

we are in the phase of the waning half moon, a moon known as the wise woman moon, a moon for tuning into comic hum and listening for the soul song of our one cosmic heart… a cycle to slow down, turn within, drop down into the core, the stillpoint of creation to deeply relax… with potent planets in retrograde, the energetic impulse to still is amplified and it’s easier to hear the humming soul song, the inner knowing of what waves are ours to weave into quilted webs of radiant light telling the ever unfolding cosmic story and what threads are ours to compost into the ocean of being…

may we all, in joy, enjoy this moment, this beautiful moment of wandering in wonder dissolving into dreamtime visioning the world to come…

“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~

another vision of the world to come…

“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)

a vision flowing through this cell…

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…

how i’d love hearing your visions re-membering what we can see can be…

may we all call in peace…

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 more liberated

with every step, may we all come home to true refuge dwelling in our one cosmic heart…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 133 – 4/28/2019

Posted on April 28, 2019 by Jo Beall

welcome, welcome to this astonishing light of being moment involving a deep sea journey into the core of the earth under the waning moon grounding in the cave of soulitude and silence to listen for and to and with the song of the earth calling us to have the courage to see and be the love we are…

~

breathing slowly

ignites the pathway to peace

smiling thank you

~

a love ly rainbow trail this flying down into the deep earth on the wings of condor/eagle to dream, to imagine, to feel the heartbeat’s hum flowing through every cell of cosmic earthmother anchoring and radiating atomic light’s love flow…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 132 – 4/27/2019

Posted on April 27, 2019 by Jo Beall

a beautiful day of abundance created together coming together in a field of roses, of spirit love… being a rose in a garden with you warmed by the sun, essence flowing out as freely as the water fountain… living ease, simply being open, surrendered to source…

one of those days when the currents of the river of life took me in a direction i didn’t see coming… a day of smelling the roses moments until suddenly and unexpectedly the earth begins to move and shake and crack wide open right under your feet…

there is nothing to do and nowhere to go, simply be now here trusting in great mystery sitting in the rupture feeling the pain of a rose thorn prick re-membering we live in gift ecology web receiving what is needed in exactly the right moment, giving what is needed in exactly the right moment…

what flows through this cell of beingness today is the pathway of transforming rupture into rapture, transmuting broken heart into heart broken wide open, ruptured eye/i into eye/i wide open…

as we hold the rupture compassionately, awareness, like a rose, blossoms into rapt attention, beholding in awe, into rapture, the ecstatic joy always present in the core of our being, patiently awaiting the perfect moment to ripple through and fill the air waves with natural true beingness…

mahalo for this moment, this beautiful moment of sharing the milagro field, the field out beyond of giving and receiving, the unitive field of abundance created together…

thank you for being peace – people emerging and cocreating equanimity – joy and love…

namaste’…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 131 – 4/26/2019

Posted on April 26, 2019 by Jo Beall

join me on a beautiful pilgrimage in one of the most serene places on the planet inviting the deep peace of this sacred space to breathe us, to enter every cell of our being… in this moment, drop down into the core, the well of profound joy and stillness feeling the ever present ancestors and allies guarding the great silence, watching over all that is… drop down a little deeper into the mystery of the great beyond…

I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.

Then the knowing comes: I can open
to another life that’s wide and timeless.

So I am sometimes like a tree
rustling over a gravesite
and making real the dream
of the one its living roots
embrace:

a dream once lost
among sorrows and songs.

~ Ranier Maria Rilke ~

namaste, beloveds

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 130 – 4/25/2019

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Jo Beall

it is another day of celebrating earthmother and as the moon of peace and healing wanes, i want to share a healing talisman always with me… accompanying me to all healing temples, blue medicine painted pony sees me and others through everything forming healing community wherever she is…. mary iron eyes worked overtime to complete her vision and prayer, blue medicine, before passing over in 2003…

in honor of the peace and healing moon and earthmother, some wisdom of the first peoples….

The Earth is our Mother, care for her.
Honor your ancestors through your actions.
Open your heart and soul to Great Spirit.
All life is sacred; treat all beings respectfully.
Take from Earth what is needed and nothing more.
Put the good of all before your own interests.
Give constant thanks for each new day.
Speak the truth, but only of good in others.
Follow the rhythms of nature; rise and retire with sun.
Enjoy life’s journey, leave no tracks.

Namaste…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 129 – 4/24/2019

Posted on April 24, 2019 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… every moment, every breath of every day is love your earthmother day… i find myself listening, on this love your earthmother day to prophets and poet activists about the coming cosmic greening when we align with what the sun whispered so long ago…

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 ~

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 128 – 4/23/2019

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Jo Beall

Happy Another Earthmother Day…

for every day is a celebrating of our mother, a resounding of this pledge, this commitment with our bounteous cosmos/with ourselves… for this celebration, this psalm of cosmic adoration, i turn to an eco-poet, environmental activist and sacred sage of farsightedness to walk with us home along the green path into beloved community…

may we live the dream of the earth…

Evening Thoughts: 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

yes, we can be what we have the courage to see… present moment creativity…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 127 – 4/22/2019

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Jo Beall

Happy Earthmother Day!

everyday is earthmother day and there’s so much to say about our fragile/fierce island home… today i’m re-membering this day 49 years ago when 20 million of us human people gathered across the planet and a movement was born catalyzing so much change with monumental changes still called for today…

To honor our pilgrimage with Earth Mother, today i’m luxuriating in this third rock from the sun and want to perfume our field with a song of praise in reverence to our sacred mother…

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 ~

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 126 – 4/21/2019

Posted on April 21, 2019 by Jo Beall

“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been… Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.”

― Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

hallelujah! so much to celebrate today having gone through crucifixion – dying to the false self – we are resurrected, reborn into eternal life, into a second coming of innocence, innersense, the holy fool, the ultimate pilgrim has now come full circle/full spiral and is light living in a visioning state with the courage, the heart to see truly…

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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