as darkness draws near, reflect on the year
as light goes within, let the hollowing dance begin…
today as we celebrate a treasure trove of riches, let’s begin with the astonishing light of our inner being/interbeing by opening to the lamp of our one cosmic heart being lit by a thousand fold lights…
now that we are feeling the inner light, let’s move on to the dancing in the dark that samhain, all hallows eve, all hollows eve constellates, for on this very night, it is known to those initiated in the great mysteries that both the souls of the trapped will be freed and that the inverse reality of the souls serving the other side of the underworld will come topside to create their own ability to remain amongst the world of the living… this gateway creates an opportunity to repent, clear karma, raise consciousness and return to love once more…
great homage is given in this portal to the ancestors who come and go by the making of potions and preparation of food made for both the living and for those loved ones who have passed and are unable to participate in the physical expression of ingesting the libation offerings…
the celebration of the energies of this profound portal represent the veils of consciousness thinning within us, our hollowing, hallowing and our ability to transcend darkness and density into light as we metaphorically bubble in the cauldron of transformation with the potions where we move from death to rebirth in a sangha field, true refuge in the rains’ deluge… sacred space built on compassion, generosity, harmony and lovingkindness with a mission to eradicate all suffering… in this place devoted to honoring the ancestors while serving all with every breath a practice of dharma, every breath an exhalation of love, we arrive and come home to our one cosmic heart living with all in harmony…
may we all breathe together… may we all breathe together more and more loving presence and more and more trust and more and more surrender into the creative process of love where we are all walking each other home into the heart of the present moment, the only moment, the all that is… may we all breathe together in perfect cosmic harmony where all is well eternally…
and this intention of our all walking each other home into the heart of the present moment brings me to one more of the treasure trove of riches on this day of blessing the space within us as we close out this moon of odyssea, magical mystery tour, and i recall that seven years ago on this turn of the wheel i announced that i would be leaving the community of creatives wher i’d been dwelling to move into blissness blue moon lodge #7 and now as i move ever more deeply into the eighth decade of this incarnation, looks like i’ll be moving shortly into blissness blue moon lodge #8 releasing the challenges of the past 11+ moons of living in a place with contaminated water where we have been advised to leave due to the danger to our lives and rebirthing in a healthy watery womb with more deeply opening to wandering in wonder and weaving the new world with wisdom…
love, love, love from the moon above and this night of the dark portal from whence we all come and will return… tending the fires and stirring the cauldron of transformation are calling us, singing us – may we hollow in and answer the call….