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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 248 – 8/21/2022

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* written on the total soular eclipse 8/21/17…

groovin’ on the grass

poetic peace pilgrim puppy embraces

the path of totality…

“indeed i am – embracing the path of totality… jo is letting me, nia, aka ms radiance, little ms firecracker, write the post today… i’m just returning from my first overnight pilgrimage with the fam – what an adventure! we traveled to the land of the ufo festival to gather with a bunch of two leggeds to watch the total eclipse of the sun… the relatives of the human variety got all excited as the big ball of gas in the sky got more and more eclipsed by the moon… we all had to wear these special contraptions on our eyes, they tasted a lot better than they helped me see… my favorite part was licking the dew off the grass and bounding across the field like a jumping bean… the two leggeds loved it when for a split second everything went totally dark… howlelujah! they sounded like my ancestors, the woof clan, who teach that an eclipse on the new moon, as this one was, amplifies the new world’s birth… howlelujah!!”

thank you, nia, for re-membering that day and so glad we got to celebrate it again today in a very special way with a convergence of beings interested in flying objects like the one in the astonishing light image for today – woo hoo! the fifth anniversary of the total soular eclipse we experienced here and for all of us who shared this primal event, we remain transfixed and transformed forever by that magical mystical moment… that moment which initiated such a momentous turn around the sun with each moment pulling us deeper and deeper into the tunnel of light…

let’s celebrate totality now and the astonishing light of our interbeing in this sacred moment of eternity by centering together… and so we get comfortable and begin to breathe together, to conspire so we can go deeper and more expansive at the speed of light…

imagine a filament of light lifting us up from the crown chakra and another filament of light grounding us from our root chakra… feel ourselves as a bridge of light uniting heaven and earth…

now, imagine a great star radiating brilliant light over the whole cosmos and pouring this light like a waterfall onto us replenishing our chi and washing away all expended energy into earth for composting…

feel that waterfall of bright, warm, loving light raining down onto our head and suffusing into our eyes which now see beauty everywhere and into our ears which now listen deeply understanding heartfully and now the light suffuses into our tongue and throat so our speech is uplifting and the waterfall flows into our hands imbuing them with healing touch and flows into our lungs cleansing and purifying so each breath is refreshing and revivifying and into our one heart revealing the divine light of our true nature, the inner light of our immortal soul which shines eternally…

savor this light coursing through us enlivening, inspiring, washing away  any blocks and experience the light within merging with the divine light of the waterfall forming a rainbow egg of light completely surrounding us, sheltering us, loving us, freeing us…

may all nourishing thoughts, words and deeds filter through this egg of light as blessings and afflictive ones bounce off the eggshell and be transmuted as blessings as well… yes, let’s go wild – wonder imaginatively in love and devocean… howlelujah!!!

let’s close our sacred ceremony for today with the dedicating of ourselves to living in the unity of our interbeing…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 247 – 8/20/2022

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“Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.”

~ Rumi ~

many, many turns around the sun ago, i spent some sacred moments of eternity with tibetan monks watching as they created their mandalas of colored sands and then let them go to the winds… i was so taken with this as a sacred way of living that i adopted it as a practice to practice each day… as we are called to flow with the turning of the wheel and return to living in the present moment and as i have had so much practice, it is more of a default and still an aspiration… when i am in rhythm with the holoflux, i begin to color on first awakening and continue with every breath as the painting paints me until i float into the night sea journey and the winds blow the sands into the waters… i dream of living in a communal field where we begin our day walking the labyrinth together and then begin our daily sand painting which we will return to as the spirit moves us just as we return to the breath again and again… blessed bee…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 246 – 8/19/2022

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“A MIND THAT HAS NO WALLS, THAT IS NOT BURDENED WITH ITS OWN ACQUISITIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, WITH ITS OWN KNOWLEDGE, A MIND THAT LIVES TIMELESSLY, INSECURELY – TO SUCH A MIND, LIFE IS AN EXTRAORDINARY THING. SUCH A MIND IS LIFE ITSELF…”
– JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI –

today is a day of contemplating and more sacredly reverencing, the hatching, the breaking open of shells that now constrict to move into expanding into a more spacious home, an even more open heart… as with any birth, growth, transition, transformation, there is pain involved which underlines the importance of our nestling together and embracing each other’s journey in the chrysalis and through the birth canal into the river of awakening that flows into the ocean of love…

yes, these moments which seem so deathly to our protective selves are precisely the perfect ones to embrace what is, to befriend whatever comes our way with a loving mantra of thank yous… Rumi says it so beautifully…

“This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond. “

let’s close our sacred ceremony for today with dedicating ourselves to living in the unified field of our interbeing guesthouse…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 245 – 8/18/2022

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“I live my life in widening circles

that reach out across the world.

I may never complete this last one,

but I give myself to it.

I circle around God, that primordial tower.

I’ve been circling for thousands of years

and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,

a storm, or a great song?”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

standing still in the center of the wheel this moment of eternity – on this day when science is catching up understanding we didn’t come from the great bang and women got the right to vote in the usa and It’s Krishna’s birthday and national bee day – communing with source and by extension with all that is brings peace and the understanding it is the moment to break free and live in ever widening circles of compassion spiraling deeper and more expansively…

wowzer! what a most interesting moment we are in as we circle around what is and who we are demonstrating that we, like the cosmos, are ever expanding and deepening and we have it in us to face into the pain, the suffering, the despair of  a world of  uncertainty supported by the boundless wellspring of love always flowing through us, around us, above us below us, beside us…

yes, this moment’s the moment to stop the world, to stand still in the center and listen to all the messages of the inspiriting whirling winds of change as the spirits come back…

re-membering, we can always return to the breath being still and fully present in this beautiful moment being a mantra of thanksgiving, being a falcon of free flight, being a song of joyous delight, taking this moment, this wild precious moment to love boundlessly and shine luminously as a beacon of wise hope and comfort in the storm… blessed bee!

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 244 – 8/17/2022

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today is the thirty-fifth anniversary of harmonic convergence, one of my favorite of days – yes every day is a favorite and every moment of eternity is one of harmonic convergence… i love celbrating this day, every day, as a day of devocean, a day of grace, a day when the sun, in the form of holy grandmother spider creatrix, shines through the clouds offering very warm embraces and whispered words of wisdom to be still in this moment of wild abandon into the great turning, to trust this moment of surrender to the true self, to re-member the sun always shines and when it shines on rain, creation is transformed into iridescent rainbow arcs encircling the cosmos within and without converging, confluing in perfect harmony, in this moment, this beautiful moment of grace… may we all awaken to the beauty breathing us alive…

yes, there is beauty in this moment as we open to mama gaia sending us more and more increasingly emphatic messages about changing our ways of dominion and power over and coming home to walking in balance… yes, caterpillar, let go of ravenous consumption dying to the false self to be re-birthed as imaginal cells of the one body of the true self – rooted, winged deep diving beings of flight…

aloha and mahalo…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 243 – 8/16/2022

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so much to honor and celebrate today on the 4th anniversary of the songbird known as the queen of soul, the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, child musical prodigy, civil rights activist, touchstone of  the times calling us, singing us into the core of being where love, beauty and truth abide, this extraordinary/ordinary being circling around the cosmos singing us home to our one heart…

more than ever, we need the truth and power of Aretha’s soul song… may we be inspired to walk the talk, to dance the soul song of r-e-s-p-e-c-t Aretha so beautifully emanated…

i still can’t re-member a time without her voice echoing in the background, thankfully, her voice echoes eternally…

synchronously, on awakening, i re-member a dream also of six years ago of being in a field where the Beloved Communion dwells and hearing that our mission is to sing… as on so many awakenings, a melody sings me as i luxuriate in this liminal space with one sole in dreamtime and the other in awaketime…

on this anniversary of the queen of soul dropping her body, are you hearing beloved singing you? listen a little deeper for the cosmic hum as you suspend noise and distraction in this moment, this beautiful moment… are you hearing the whispers of the ancestors flowing through our oceanic body? ah yes, let’s pause here in the stillpoint and align with the rhythm of our one heart…

may earth’s song reach into our deepest and wildest sacred spaces… may we hear the melodic voices of all our relations: stones, stars, streams, breezes, sand, sun, ocean, currents, plants, starfish, seas, planets, creatures, rivers, and winds… may our inhalations inspire re-joy-sing and our exhalations re-sound and re-verberate lovingkindness and harmony throughout the watery womb of our one heart…

sing, sing, wherever you are, a song of compassion blessing pachamama, the spirit of land, the spirit of life, the one spirit encircling all in the great web of life intricately interconnecting all our relatives as one body with trillions and trillions of cells resonating and harmoni-sing as we converge into one vast field of love…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 242 – 8/15/2022

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this image visits me frequently now and has for many turns around the sun… in dreams, in waking moments, especially in a moment of turbulence such as our planet is in and on a day such as this, a day of slowing down and seeing inside, of hearing the call to rally for peace as we celebrate the assumption of mother mary sauntering along the rainbow trail, the path with heart, the pilgrimage of the soul, the pathless path…

the peace pilgrimage, the pathless path of soul takes courage, a heart letting go completely to soften into the call of the beloved trusting that in this surrender, the cosm, the cosmos will have our back…

“A true vocation requires shedding anything that would impede or obscure the call. A true pilgrimage requires letting go of the very things most people try to hold onto. In seeking after what the soul desires we become pilgrims with no home but the path the soul would have us follow.”
~ Michael Meade ~

rapidly, i’m approaching the quintessential anniversary of being called into the lion’s roar, into awakening into the deepest initiation adventure of this incarnation, five turns around the sun of arriving, of  coming home into the present moment, the true self wholeheartedly with all the trillions and trillions of wild cells humming, embodying the frequency of soul…

which brings me back to this image of crossing to the other shore, a crossing so much of this incarnation has been about… over the last two and a half years, everyone’s been invited to make this crossing and it’s taken on a deepened and expanded meaning… thich nhat hanh talks about when the boat people were leaving viet nam and facing turbulent seas, if one person could remain calm, they would stay aright… i take this on as a vow to be the person to stay calm in the storm trusting in the cosm always having our backs…

thank you for joining in solidarity as a rebel of love, a reveler of love, a revealer of love, a revolutionary of love taking courage in the dream of second coming, of all awakening in the promised land…

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” ~ Rumi ~

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 241 – 8/14/2022

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“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self.”

~ Bhagavad Gita ~

a day of tahoma, the native name for beloved mt rainier pictured here… love the name tahoma sounding like to home, ah… and in deed, another day of coming home to the heart and trusting in this wild, uncertain journey… trusting in it’s rhythm which dances to the beat of the divine drummer of our one heart… following the rhythm deep within to the silent stillpoint where our most profound purpose lies in the ground of being calling us to nurture this trust daily… calling us to offer full presence, lovingkindness, compassion and generosity which opens the portal to a freedom of floating in the golden buoyant sea and vibrating in a river of joy frequency which is in the core of all being, that field of unitive harmony out beyond and in beyond all boundaries and borders into the unknown where we follow a pathless path, a path the soul carves out and invites us to be open and curious bearing reverential witness to the unfolding and taking action through dreaming, attention, intention…

before signing off, i want to honor that on this date six years ago, i began what has become a weekly sun day practice of reveren-sing the astonishing light of our being and i began with an image of a quintessential emissary of joy – sister hummingbird who reminds us all of our birthright as children of the light… let us take this moment to invoke her presence of soul consciousness through the hum of her wings, our soul in free flight, resonating with the cosmic hum, the heartbeat of earth mother, flowing in the rhythm of star nation’s light waves…

if ever we feel fear, doubt, depression, loss, call on hummer to share the deep sea journey of surrender, the pilgrimage of impermanence… be in this moment, this beautiful moment drinking the nectar and letting it go… breathing in love and breathing out light… singing and re-joy-sing again and again…

thank you for joining me in pau-sing in this moment to drink in beloved’s love and appreciate the unconditional support always offered as we are called to break open our one heart wider and wider and deeper and deeper…

love dan-sing home through the unitive field of harmony with you being breathed together as one…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 240 – 8/13/2022

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“This magnificent refuge is inside you.
Enter.
Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway.
Be bold. Be humble.
 
Put away the incense and forget
the incantations they taught you.
Ask no permission from the authorities.
 
Close your eyes and follow your breath
to the still place that leads
to the invisible path
that leads you home.”

~ St. Teresa of Avila ~

let’s take this sacred moment of eternity to come deeper into our one cosmic heart re-membering the lineage of love of Yeshua and Mary Magdalene who is pictured in this beautiful painting of her by Jennifer Mayol… feel us standing face to face in the beauty of spirit… here now, we create an altar, the outer reflection of our innermost truth…

taking a deep clean-sing breath, we envision now an inner altar in the middle of our chests which is pristine, pure and empty… beneath and beyond is vast space… now, re-member all the different beliefs, concepts and ideas you have accumulated throughout the years visualizing them as dusty clutter on the altar… now, let’s do an inner alchemic sweeping of the altar using our breath:
breathing in all the heaviness into the vastness of the heart and
letting spaciousness and light ride on the out breath, washing the altar clean…

let’s close our sacred ceremony with a commitment to keep the altar of our one cosmic heart empty and clear… as we go deeper and deeper on the journey within, feel all the support in this sacred space of the hara where we follow a path of light through a dark tunnel that starts to open into a cave of the Magdala where we see a figure of pure light and love, the crone magdalene emanates humility and luminosity having moved through deep suffering… she offers to anoint us to keep us open and then offers us a golden chalice of sacred wine… in this communion, we merge with her frequency feeling the inner central sun and moon in sacred union… listen deeply for the messages… blessed bee and deep bows…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 239 – 8/12/2022

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let’s walk a bhakti path today,

floating through life in a buoyant way…

living wu wei effortlessly with no where to go,

resting still in the now here motion, the ocean of flow…

resounding love’s holy names polishes our one cosmic heart,

resonating, reverberating at the frequency of the love we impart

deepening the awakened illuminated heart’s vibration of peace and harmony

attuning us all to the vast expansive spaciousness and infinitude of great mystery

~

today spirit invites dancing life in a sacred way knowing that love, service and re-membrance bring great value to the sacred hoop of life, the unbroken circle of interconnection…

five years ago today, i stood at an altar of love having flown home for a family wedding uniting the opposites with joy and celebration while across town, Charlottesville was exploding… it was good then to be standing in a unitive field of love balancing the hatred happening blocks away and it’s good to stand with you in love today and everyday with each of us invoking the beloved in our own authentic way… perhaps, you’ll join me in placing your hand on your heart and calling up the image of a relation you love… or, maybe, spend time in the company of a tree or play in water and squeal with glee or plant seeds of compassion and joy drawing down the  courage of the leo lionhearts… whatever it is, float in devocean, the ocean of devotion with your  wide open heart re-joy-sing in the dream of the cosm – peace in every moment… i’ve been meaning for weeks now to be celebrating daily here the magdalene and the sacred union she entered into with the beloved. todayy seems just right as goldilocks would say…

~

“This magnificent refuge is inside you.
Enter.
Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway.
Be bold. Be humble.
 
Put away the incense and forget
the incantations they taught you.
Ask no permission from the authorities.
 
Close your eyes and follow your breath
to the still place that leads
to the invisible path
that leads you home.”

~ St. Theresa of Avila ~

in the gospel, Yeshua shows Mary Magdalene a vision of a map of awakening consciousness in the form of the The Tree of Life Within and the 8 gates and challenges we must go through to awaken and embody a more expansive consciousness…

see us walking in the soft light of sunset
the land is hot and dry under our feet
we know this land intimately as mother
there is an inward smile radiating through our interbeing
reaching us through the mirage of space/time…

like a mirror the beloved arrives inside our one cosmic heart
pure presence, warmth, unwavering vast love in our own wondrous heart

thank you, Magdala for leading us into the very depths of the love the beloved embodies…

may we dedicate the fruit of our practice
for the benefit of all sentient beings
and may all beings know peace in our one cosmic heart…

~