Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 147 – 5/12/2022

may we always stand like curious children (aka true scientists) before great mystery…

last night, i intuitively sensed i would want to share this image of a black hole today having no conscious idea that today i would awaken to hear that astronomers have the first image of the black hole at the center of the milky way – holy synchronicity! and, it’s another day in the stillness of the bardo- like state where we have lost our old reality and don’t yet know what our new reality might be in this year of rest luxuriating in true emptiness, sacred space of the void/open spaciousness/liberation where we are free from bondage to any dogma/system/anything and free to be our true nature re-membering we are bits of dancing stars wandering in wondering in the great beyond…

this rupture, this breakdown, this death in our old way of seeing and being, may also bring with it a sense of groundlessness, uncertainty and our instinct to fill in the story as quickly as possible so we can hold on to some sense of continuity in our lives to which i say, not so fast…

injoy this mind-blowing magical mystery tour moment of eternity we all collectively find ourselves in with mama gaia imploring us to deeply reflect upon and contemplate our true reality and how we are to be in the turning and unfolding of great mystery… as Carl Sagan reminds us, “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” yes! we are starlings…

and, may we relax into the reality of not knowing, impermanence and uncertainty as we bear witness compassionately to the powerful dynamism of the cosmos coming into harmony for as surely as we are going through rupture, breakdown and death, we simultaneously are coming into rapture, breakthrough and rebirth if we hold the tension with trust in the unfolding softening into the open spaciousness of creation… let us all re-member that as much as we consciously know, it is only the tip of the iceberg of the ground of our interbeing in the vast oceanic field out beyond right and wrong doing:

“Before you judge others or claim any absolute truth, consider that you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 kilometers per second across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you”. The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato. The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it. This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.”

~Anonymous~

may we gather our courage and use this collective initiation wisely transmuting into dancing rainbow mystery, luminescent stars shining across infinity’s deep sea answering mama gaia’s call to live imaginally, as the next iteration of all our relations living by source’s original instructions in a peaceable realm, a unitive field knowing in every cell we are one…