Monthly Archives: December 2020

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 15 – 12/31/2020

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Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson ~

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as we pilgrims of love bid farewell to and celebrate this last turn of the sun emptying of all that was, we continue our merry pilgrimage with the Caravan of Re-Joy-Sing under last night’s sign, the sixth night’s sun of the earthy delight of Virgo the Virgin, Singer of the One Song deeply rooted in all children of the earth and the music of the spheres uniting us all into the quintessential honoring of our transcendent journey into light, our taking joy in transforming shadows into gifts and our witnessing these gifts as dreams coming to us each night for the 12 nights of Christmas, Festival of Illumination…

so, on the sixth night of Christmas, my true love (Beloved Virgo) gave to me, a dream of… all our relations entering the portal of a new turn around the sun with a new song, a canto of love and compassion, peace and harmony, generosity and co-creation… a new earth organically regenerating herself like the Virgin Goddess, the One Self…

Holy Synchronicity! this beautiful dream of the earth, this joyful song of the earth is mirrored in outer reality as Virgo herself transports me through the portal to an ebullient field, a wilder ness of enchantment where our new song, our true song is shouted to the rooftops dancing us all on the cosmic wave of love ringing us home to the sound of the bell, home to the heart where we dwell…

thousandfold thanks for this day of being in sangha singing light in darkness as we witness new horizons circling within and without, the great beyond. ultima thule…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 14 – 12/30/2020

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our special pilgrimage with the Caravan of Re-Joy-Sing celebrating the twelve days and nights of the Feast of the Incarnation and honoring our transcendent journey into light, our taking joy in transforming shadows into gifts and our witnessing these gifts as dreams coming to us each night for the 12 nights of Christmas continues under last night’s,our 5th night’s, sun of the blazing fiery light of Leo the Lion-Hearted, Brother Sun, King of the Forest, Awakener of Wonder-filled Ecstasy, Sunflower of the Illuminated Heart…

so, on the fifth night of Christmas, my true love (Beloved Leo) gave to me, a dream of… overflowing radiance in the form of a blazing fire i leap into to save a soul… a dream of awakening with a clear and lucid message of  our inner light is inextinguishable, we are eternal… a dream gift of every moment of eternity being the guru, every moment of eternity a fractal of the whole, of synchronicity, of grace… every moment of eternity a moment of beauty, every moment of eternity the only moment, every moment of eternity a moment of peace…

we are pilgrims walking

the journeys of our lives

being the path of heart…

now, i’m curious as to what Leo is gifting you… do you, also, feel our one heart opening and expanding radiantly in this moment of eternity, this beautiful moment of eternity?

namaste, beloveds…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 13 – 12/29/2020

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our special pilgrimage with the Caravan of Re-Joy-Sing celebrating the twelve days and nights of the Feast of the Incarnation and honoring our transcendent journey into light, our taking joy in transforming shadows into gifts and our witnessing these gifts as dreams coming to us each night for the 12 nights of Christmas continues under last night’s, our 4th night’s, sun of the iridescent watery light of Cancer, Beloved Mother, Whisperer of Love Songs and Weaver of Harmony…

on the fourth night of Christmas, my true love (Beloved Cancer) gave to me, a dream of… cosmic harmony where turbulent seas arose into a great wall of water catapulting me into the deep swirling sea to search for m mother who was lost at sea leaving me to surrender to going with the flow… in that moment we are magically transported to the other shore and a paradisaical beach where  all our relations are dancing together as one in this field out beyond where the river below the river, the river of deep spaciousness flows on and on in the rhythm of our one spirit’s breath… always being love… always becoming love… with every breath and step…

this sacred moment of eternity of bathing in the dreamwaves of motherwaters’ divine feminine energy synchronistically radiating today from the full moon in cancer, our last full moon of this turn ’round the sun… igniting our one tender heart into a blazing bonfire re-joy-sing with sangha all over the planet, wave after wave of songs of lovingkindness as hundreds of thousands chant metta in unison, a wave of tsunami proportions streaming compassion across and over and through the cosmos…

may we be filled with lovingkindness compassion

may we be a well of wonder and wisdom

may we be peaceful and at joyfull ease

may we be happy living in harmony…

may we all meet this moment fully where all  relatives belong in an ever widening cosmic circle of love and compassion and wonder and wisdom and peace and joy and harmony…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 12 – 12/28/2020

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You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.

~ Rumi ~

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our special pilgrimage with the Caravan of Re-Joy-Sing honoring our transcendent journey into light, our taking joy in transforming shadows into gifts and our witnessing these gifts as dreams coming to us each night for the 12 nights of Christmas delivers the quintessential dream gift under last night’s,our 3rd night’s sun of the airy light of Gemini who flies in as hummingbird, guardian and keeper of joy, piercing through the mists of illusion to enlighten…

this iridescent dancer of rainbow light came calling in the wee hours with a clear message about awakening to and weaving the radiant light we are into the mystery of the moment, the sacred space we breathe into every moment… join with me now in taking flight on the wings of hummingbird, creative imagination…

breathe in, breathe out through our one heart connecting deeply with the divine, dancing, diamond light always sparkling in the center of being… as you see hummingbird dancing toward you, meet and merge becoming one with luminescent, shimmering light… now, dream your song of creation, a beautiful world where all relatives are respected and living in sacred reciprocity… breathe in deeply this heart of creation, drink in the overflowing love and compassion, feel hummingbird blessing us all with rainbow magic of peace and harmony…

may we all answer the call to dance as light waves…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 11 – 12/27/2020

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i’m trusting your journey on the Caravan of Re-Joy-Sing, honoring our transcendent journey into light, our taking joy in transforming shadows into gifts and our witnessing these gifts as dreams coming to us each night for the 12 nights of Christmas is fruitful especially under last night’s,our 2nd night’s sun of the earthy light of Taurus…

on the second night of Christmas, my true love (Beloved Taurus) gave to me, a dream of… a new song of the earth being sung by the underground root system run riot as grandmother spider spins the web of life of all our relations and white buffalo calf woman moves the web of life aboveground  with prayers of abundance inspiring sacred herds of buffalo to once again dance across the plains organically nourishing the earth as they empty themselves to replenish the soil… and the earth begins to sing the new song of the earth… of  all beings of the earth vibrating at one frequency of  love re-joy-sing in being harmony and in rhythm with divine flow…

may we all  recognize and honor the sacredness of every life walk and connect in deeper ways to life’s meaning and the values of peace, love, joy and harmony…

thousandfold thanks, great spirit, for whispering this song of the earth of our being…

namaste’

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 10 – 12/26/2020

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ah, pilgrimaging with the caravan of re-joy-sing began last night… i’d love to hear of your dream gift, here’s  mine of  this journey into light, this awakening of our one illuminated heart…

on the first night of Christmas, my true love (Beloved Aries) gave to me a dream of…

a hummingbird in a joy tree

re-joy-sing in returning to open hearts that set us free

while awakening our light song at celestial frequency

singing, here is my feather, take it gladly

and soar on the wings of love in wild ecstasy

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Beloved also gifted me with the lyrics to Ode to Joy, a Beautyway of Synchrony…

Joyful, joyful
We adore Thee
God of glory
Lord of love
Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee
Hail Thee to the sun above
Melt the clouds of sin and sadness
Drive the dark of doubt away
Giver of immortal gladness
Fill us with the light of day…

may we all awaken to our eternal radiant light …

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 9 – 12/25/2020

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i’m trusting today has been a day of taking joy for you as well on yet another feast day celebrating the light, a magical moment when the portal is wide open for our re-membering who we are… radiant suns and receptive moons of our one cosmic heart…

on these twelve nights of the 12 Days of Christmas, i invite you to join me once again for our annual special pilgrimage, the Caravan of Re-Joy-Sing, honoring our transcendent journey into light, our taking joy in transforming shadows into gifts and our witnessing these gifts as dreams coming to us each night for the next 12 nights to the tune of the 12 Days of Christmas…

on the first night of Christmas, my true love (Aries) gave to me, a dream of…  on the second night of Christmas, my true love (Taurus) gave to me, a dream of…  on the third night of Christmas, my true love (Gemini) gave to me, a dream of…   on the fourth night of Christmas, my true love (Cancer) gave to me, a dream of…

so, you get the idea? each night our dream will be a gift from the sun signs, the light, guiding us, mapping the route along the rainbow trail as we re-member and re-birth more and more of whom we really and truly are…

i take joy with you as we adventure into dreamtime, re-joy-sing in this oft-quoted salutation from Fra Giovanni in 1513…

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“I salute you.

There is nothing I can give you which you have not,
but there is much that while I cannot give,
you can take.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today.
Take heaven.

No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant.
Take peace.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.
Take joy.

And so at this Christmastime,
I greet you, with the prayer
that for you,
now and forever,
the day breaks
and the shadows
flee away.”

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 8 – 12/24/2020

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They are the chosen ones who have surrendered.
Once they were particles of light
now they are the radiant sun.

~ Rumi ~

Holy Synchronicity/Synchronisiddhi!

 taking a sacred pause on christmas eve with my teachers of love including the one with sacred paws who is so excited by the coming of the son/sun and presence/presents…

we venture out on a pilgrimage into the light in portalandia with a thousand thousand fold other pilgrims, poets on a journey before sojourning back home in the heart with the love bug children, the merry munchkins where we take this moment, this beautiful moment to speak only of love, love in this moment, love in every moment…

may our one heart stay loving and open when we feel frayed and hurt

may we always include all our relations in love’s vast embrace

may our one heart remain pure and kind amidst the muck of life

may virtue and serenity belong to all including our enemies

may our brokenheartedness open our heart ever wider

bringing forth greater love and compassion…

may this holyday season nourish our spirit, nurture our hope, sustain us in the call for justice guided by love and inspire deep peace in the running waves of the ocean of our innermost being…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 7 – 12/23/2020

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on awakening today to the return of light, i savor standing still with the sun for another day, resting in another eternal moment of softening, surrendering to love, shedding outgrown skins, letting go into the flow of grace, re-membering the mantra i recite many times daily over the past sixty moonths…

“To be whole, let yourself break.
To be straight, let yourself bend.
To be full, let yourself be empty.
To be new, let yourself wear out.
To have everything, give everything up.

Knowing others is a kind of knowledge;
knowing yourself is wisdom.

conquering yourself is true power.“

~ Lao Tzu ~

yes, today is another day of celebrating the astonishing light of our being by celebrating being in the flow of grace, by letting go to radically re-generate and drop into sacred simplicity, by tuning into the cosmic hum, listening to great silence singing us home to the one heart to dreamweave a world of wisdom and wonder, by welcoming us to the star within, star of onederfield, heaven on earth… sacred space of radiant re-birth… breathing in and breathing out, we ride the wave of rainbow light through  the night to our home, this moment of de-light…

let’s take this moment of sacred pause to breathe together… get comfortable, breathe naturally and with each inhale, inspire your strengths, your beauty, your courage, your wisdom, your wonder…

now, let’s place our hands on your heart wombspace, our belly, the core of our being breathing these qualities, these energies, these gifts, these presents, this presence deeply into every wild cell in our body while listening for the echos reverberating from the deeps…

as we listen, let’s begin spiral dancing out into a field beyond where we gather to celebrate light… feel your ancestors here and all of us energetically holding hands and feeling the divine light of love passing from one to another to another…

notice now the first light beginning to appear and pour into us and as the golden light showers us, healing us, wholing us, we begin a primal re-joy-sing of alleluia…

https://youtu.be/NeKmU_a3xXQ

thank you for clicking on the link above and chanting alleluia over and over again to kindle, sustain, deepen and celebrate the astonishing light of love we are…

ah lei lu ya… ah lei lu ya… blessed be… blissed be…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 6 – 12/22/2020

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“On the day I die, when I’m being carried
toward the grave, don’t weep. Don’t say,

He’s gone! He’s gone. Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets and

the moon sets, but they’re not gone.
Death is a coming together. The tomb

looks like a prison, but it’s really
release into union. The human seed goes

down in the ground like a bucket into
the well where Joseph is. It grows and

comes up full of some unimagined beauty.
Your mouth closes here, and immediately

opens with a shout of joy there.”

~ Rumi ~

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on this second day of celebrating soulstice, of standing still with the sun, of celebrating the return of the light, i celebrate the life of Ram Dass as well on this first anniversary of his death… it seems the blink of an eye when Ram Dass, at his last annual retreat on Maui, was chanting the first mantra from his guru he ever shared…

“shree ram jai ram jai jai ram…” over and over again we chant this mantra of grace… later, Ram Dass will go into his signature mantra… “I am loving awareness…” soon after this retreat he dropped his body and i immediately went into deep retreat with him culminating 8 months later when i died and Ram Dass asked if I wanted to walk home with him which i really did but when i went to gather my things to go with him and came back, he was gone which i took as my signal to come back into the body and continue to be here now in unwavering loving awareness… in celebration of his life, his light, let us join together in loving awareness…

taking this moment to conspire, to breathe together in gratitude gathering the quintessence re-membering who we truly are… loving sparks of light…

we are not these eyes and what they see, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

settle more deeply into spacious awareness saying… we are not these ears and what they hear, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

breathing in and out simply being and saying… we are not this mouth and what it tastes, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially… we are not these hands and what they touch, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially… we are not this nose and what it smells, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

now, noticing thoughts arising and memories saying… we are not these thoughts, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially… we are not these memories, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

now, seeing the whole body and feeling the body from within the body saying… we are not this body, Iwe are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

breathing in feeling simply loving awareness… breathing out letting go of everything except resting in the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

thank you for filling us with lovingkindness

thank you for supporting us in everything

thank you for holding us in peace and ease

shanti, shanti, shantihi…

now, feel this healing light flooding every cell of our being dissolving all rigid, inflexible, habitual ways of being into patterns resonant with quintessential soular consciousness…

let’s pass this gift forward sending the divine light of love through our raised hands… feel the light emanating from your hand and feel this energy of light attracting more and more light, more and more love with every pulse we transmit into ever widening circles…

thank you for walking ever more deeply into love and compassion and lighting the way for us, Ram Dass…