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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 248 – 8/21/2023

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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…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 247 – 8/20/2023

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five years ago on this very day i awake with a deep sense of grief, cosmic grief and then i see a poignant image of  Tahlequah, the mourning mother who carried her dead calf  for seventeen days and it takes me to another image of years ago, this one of a mare gone wild searching all over for her colt who was stillborn and it brings me close to home… is there anything more painful than experiencing the loss of a child you have carried inside your heart?

as Tahlequah suffered through this momentous loss swimming over 1000 miles with her dead calf raised above her, she was never alone… her tribe was always close by giving her food, comfort and support… her six kindred sisters forming a seamless circle of love show us all what it means to hold space and compassionately offer support during those moments of heartbreak we all suffer, we all endure…

this circle of crones, these astonishing beings of light inspired me to learn that the elder sisters of the orcas are the ones who know where to find soul and physical nourishment and so are vital for the life of the tribe… once again, these wisdom keepers offer all relatives a loving way to be…

today, i am teleported back to the sacred space of Talequah and i feel so in awe of her actions many moons ago, actions still offering so much wisdom in this epic epoch of mutation when nature messages us over and over to radically change our ways, to root ourselves in a new/old way of walking home together in solidarity and support real-eye-sing we are onebody with all cells belonging to each other interdependent on each other…

may we, like our orca elders, our sisters, know where the feeding grounds of true self nourishment are and how to be with and guide others during these times of  heartbreak to the still waters of solace and the deep peace of the running wave… boundless gratitude to all the orca-like elders who have shared the journey so generously of diving deeper and deeper into the our one cosmic heart of unconditioned love…

ps: Talequah now swims joyfully with her latest offspring as the miraculous cycle of birth, death, rebirth turns eternally in the ocean of being…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 246 – 8/19/2023

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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 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 where all in the caravan of re-joy-sing find true refuge…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 245 – 8/18/2023

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today, amidst all the death and collapse as we live in the confusion of these in between times, we can also celebrate that 60 years ago, James Meredith became the first black man to graduate from the University of Mississippi and today also marks 103 years of women having the right to vote thanks to our feisty ancestors who took sister Harriet at her word and mustered the strength, patience and passion to reach for the stars and change our world with the ratification of the XIXth amendment on 8/18/1920… let’s tune in to a few of our sage ansisters’ words:

“I know that women, once convinced that they are doing what is right, that their rebellion is just, will go on, no matter what the difficulties, no matter what the dangers, so long as there is a woman alive to hold up the flag of rebellion” – Emmeline Pankhurst

“Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand besides us…” – Christabel Pankhurst (Emmaline’s daughter)

“Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied” – Millicent Fawcett

courage, heart does call to us and some days kindling the flame in the heart is more crucial than others, in these moments of eternity with the very air we breathe filled with so much grief and bewilderment, how vital it is to come to the center and breathe in the unconditional love we are re-membering how supported we are in every sacred moment by pachamama, our ancestors embodying so many forms: spirit guides, power animals, mountains, lakes, stars, essences, all our relatives as an ever expanding communion of care and support in service to the whole…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 244 – 8/17/2023

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today is the thirty-sixth 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…

join me for a moment in the clouds of unknowing, the dark stillness where sustainable creation is born, breathing in the deep nourishment from the taproot, the umbilical cord of of earth mother and the golden light of the stars feeling the great central sun in the center of our interbeing being kindled and shining astonishingly through the clouds creating a world of rainbow energy, of harmony, a space always bubbling within when we tune in…

aloha and mahalo…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 243 – 8/16/2023

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i have spent the day listening to this new moon in leo calling on us to embrace our inner majesty, envision new beginnings, and rekindle the spark of life that burns within us all… leo rules the domain of creativity, self-expression and joy and all of these qualities are greatly enhanced with both the sun and venus are in Leo as well… the new moon phase always beckons a fresh start, an opportunity to set intentions and sow the seeds of our future; in leo, this energy manifests as an almost insatiable desire to shine, to stand out from the crowd, and to take center stage in our own life’s narrative as a celebration of our uniqueness and the joyous proclamation of our authentic self as light beings of love…

this new moon is a bit atypical being in leo and super emboldening us with the courage of the lion/lioness to roar, to awaken to this new day, this new you, this new field ripe for seeding with intentions of our deepest heartfelt desires…

may we meet this moment being peace…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 242 – 8/15/2023

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the divine hummingbird reminds us all of our birthright as children of the light, of the sun that never rises and never sets.. let us take this moment of eternity 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…

what a beautiful synchronicity that on this day of celebrating the astonishing light of being, it is also the day of celebrating the assumption of mother mary who is said to have ascended through the Sirian, Solar and Regulus Lights at the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in Turkey… although the Heliacal Rise of Sirius isn’t a fixed time and date, what another beautiful synchronicity that it rose there in Ephesus once again today on her Assumption Day as it did on the actual day… with all the support of the company of heaven, i invite our turning our attention and compassion to all the lands and peoples who i would imagine feel like Job… may we all come together across the cosmos to move the arc of justice towards its outer manifestation of  love and compassion and peace and harmony re-membering our way is together as one and re-membering our birthright  as astonishing beings of light always rising like the sun to meet whatever comes to the web of life and made endurable by our relatives reaching out in loving support…

let us take this moment to invoke sister hummingbird’s 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 re-membering 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…

may we all live in the field of our one illuminated heart…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 241 – 8/14/2023

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“…And this was my true task, to be the
music of the body.  Do you understand? for truly the body needs
a song, a spirit, a soul.  And no less, to make this work,
the soul has need of a body,
and I am both of the earth and I am of the inexplicable
beauty of heaven
where I fly so easily, so welcome, yes,
and this is why I have been sent, to teach this to your heart.”
~ Mary Oliver ~

today, i have listened to so many songs of grief and loss and shock as more and more witnesses of the tragedy on Maui come forward to resound what is unfolding on the island paradise now looking like an atomic bomb dropped so that all i want to do is gather our relations together and sing songs of mourning for all those suffering across the planet…

alas, today, all i have in me is the energy to be with and to re-member we are almost at the 5th 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 as do all the voices of the departed…

synchronously, i also re-member a dream of seven years ago of being in a field where the Beloved Communion dwells and hearing that our mission is to sing, to be the music of the earth body… i sync into the rhythm of the waves listening for the soul song singinging us home…

are you hearing beloved singing you? listen a little deeper for the cosmic hum as you suspend noise and distraction in this moment, this sacred 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 cosmic 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 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 molecules resonating and harmoni-sing as we converge into one vast field of love…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 240 – 8/13/2023

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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 ~

welcome to this sacred moment of eternity celebrating the astonishing light of our being and the start of a new venus synodic cycle gifting us the opportunity to come deeper into our one cosmic heart re-membering the essence of venus energy who takes human form for me in the lineage of 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 as we move into the cycle of venus in leo, in lioness love…

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 we 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 4 day communion of rebirth while venus is invisible as we merge with her frequency feeling the inner central sun and moon in sacred union, listen deeply for the messages… what skins are needing to be shed for new skins to arise, what seeds will you be planting for the next 19 moons? blessed bee and deep bows…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 10 – Day 239 – 8/12/2023

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this day seems to frequently hold a powerful apocalyptic, revealing vibration – nine years ago, it was to awaken and hear of robin’s death (robin williams) that everyperson who so generously shared his humanity/divinity and opened our heats to where we didn’t know our heart was closed; six years ago i’m home for a family wedding and awaken to helicopters flying above learning later they were searching for the murderer of Heather, the young woman mowed down as charlottesville exploded, the young woman who stood for justice, equality, fairness and compassion and every august 12th is world elephant day, elephants play a unique role in natural ecosystems by spreading tree seeds far and wide, contributing to the diversity and well-being of forests with scientists estimating that if forest elephants disappear, the african rainforest will lose 7 percent of its carbon storage ability — stripping our planet of a critical tool as we work to stop climate destruction…

so, this moment and every moment is perfect for calling in the ancient wisdom from elephant spirit and sourcing the divine… simply breathe in earth mother’s love and feel it circulating and humming through every wild cell to the frequency of thanks be thanks be thanks…

radiate the love out to father sky and to all our relations in need of connection, in need of protection, in need of true refuge, belonging space…

re-member these gentle giants today, every day, every moment, this moment, and for all our relations in peril, take a stand for love by saying yes to safeguarding the endangered, the frail, the young… all for one…

listening, listening in a ever deeper way to the council of luminous beings always hear/here for us and encouraging our embarking on the journey into inner space of opening the heart ever wider to love deeply, forgive sincerely and dare greatly…

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