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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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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“…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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“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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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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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

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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 had flown home to stood at an altar of love 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… today with where we are in the venus cycle it feels so right to celebrate the magdalene and the sacred union she entered into with the beloved… yes, todayy seems just right as goldilocks would say…

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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. 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…

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in this moment, this beautiful moment, the sounding and resounding of the bell invites our closing our outer eyes and tuning into the universe of the illuminated heart within… breathe deeply into the belly the radiant light of the inner sun into every one of the trillions of wild molecules we are and take another deep breath and begin to align with the peace of the darkness of inner space… as you float in this spaciousness of the skysea of being, re-member what you love… now, lie down in this field of beauty with all your senses tuned into the cosmic hum of the stillpoint and enjoy the dream images organically arising and dancing through your being…

take comfort in this gentle space with nowhere you must go for you are now here in your space of true refuge, a magical place so easily accessible by simply breathing in the rhythm of light waves and turning your senses within, coming home to our one heart… luxuriate in being taken back to original face to awaken into this cosmos of original blissing (blessing + bliss = blissing) where there’s no where (now here) to go and no thing to do, purely bearing witness to the present moment while acting locally, feeling globally and thinking cosmically…

in this moment, this beautiful moment, listen for beloved’s sweet refrain to come back, come back, return to me dwelling this moment in harmony…

going with the flow… opening to the unfolding… being still mountain reflecting in the mirror lake… attending, intending more and more light and more and more love and more and more trust and more and more surrender…

may we all meet in the field of the illuminated heart to conspire, breathe together resonating in joy to re-birth a planet of peace and harmony that works for all, a cosmos built on justice and guided by compassion and mercy…

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seventy-eight years ago at 11:02 AM on August 9 in Japan, at the end of World War II, another atomic bomb was dropped, this time on the city of Nagasaki with the hypocenter right on the grounds of what is now the Peace Memorial Park where this sculpture rests and shows us the way…

listen deeply to a beautiful excerpt from Words of the Sculptor about the Peace Statue he created to commemorate all who lost their lives to atomic radiation:

“After experiencing that nightmarish war, that blood-curdling carnage, that unendurable horror, Who could walk away without praying for peace? This statue was created as a signpost in the struggle for global harmony. Standing ten meters tall, it conveys the profundity of knowledge and the beauty of health and virility. The right hand points to the atomic bomb, the left hand points to peace, and the face prays deeply for the victims of war. Transcending the barriers of race and evoking the qualities of Buddha and God, it is a symbol of the greatest determination ever known in the history of Nagasaki and the highest hope of all mankind.”

-Seibo Kitamura (Spring 1995)

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may we all sing out for love, peace and harmony for all our relations in our ever expanding and deepening uni/multiverse thanking great mystery for blessing us with every breath and pouring divine light of love generously across the cosm…

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so much to celebrate and commemorate on this day of pilgrimage in the moment of eternity of the heliacal rise of sirius in egypt, that moment when the dog star, the brightest star in the sky rises before the sun… how i love this portal, this gateway into more expansive and deeper realms of consciousness when potent messages from the invisible realms are flowing freely… involving three key players, the sun and earth and the star sirius, this portal is set in motion in july when the sun and sirius known as the spiritual sun seem to merge together and are seen as one with our sun swallowed by sirius to die and be reborn with the frequencies of sirius during the first weeks of august when the sun is in the constellation of leo giving us the name lion’s gate… the energies are potent throughout the portal and especially dramatic on the heliacal rise of our great central sun when the sun and earth are directly opposed and our reborn sun laser beams the energies of the spiritual sun into pachamama raising the earth’s frequency, raising our frequency to love and above… in this mystical gateway which vibrates at the frequency of the energies of empathy, compassion and understanding, it is the moment to boldly dance onward wholeheartedly…

are you feeling the energy of your inner lioness, the divine soular feminine, roaring gently into all your wild molecules and quickening the rhythmic flow of love and compassion?

yes, today the doors of love and compassion are flung wide open for all to breeze through with our courageous lionhearts into this brave new world of lovingkindness and compassion…

let’s all take this moment, this astonishing light of interbeing moment. to bask in the radiant light streaming through us to see through the eyes of wonder and wisdom all that is as it truly is… a beautyway of love and light… as a circle of us gathered to commemorate the moment the bomb exploded in Nagasaki with a moment of silence at 11:02 AM Japan time which is 16 hours ahead of my time zone, we came together to build peace in the world knowing peace is possible…

how i love this portal and feeling the fiery energies of the fierce feminine protectress calling us into greater truth by burning what is stagnant and stuck, transmuting the energy in the fires of purification into the energy of the truth that sets us free to dream ourselves and the world awake with the support of the courageous heart of the lioness always available to breathe us into greater communion with the all that is by syncing into our hara and breathing ourselves deeper into the great world womb feeling the warmth of the brilliant light of our inner fire…

in this sacred consciousness space, how is the lioness calling you to serve and what is Sirius communing with you? what are you re-membering? with a start, it came back to me that 49 years ago, Richard Nixon announce he was resigning the presidency as I was driving home after a summer spent on a horse farm in kentucky training race horses… so many miles and lives traveled since then…

may we all live in the field of the illuminated heart of the beautyway…

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Hibakusha Appeal:  

Hibakusha Earnestly Desire Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

“At present, humanity stands at the crossroads of whether to save our blue planet with all living things on it as it is or to go along the road of self-destruction.

The two atomic bombs dropped on August 6th and 9th 1945 by the US forces totally destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in an instant, and killed and wounded hundreds of thousands of people without discrimination. With corpses charred black, bodies with their skins peeled off and with lines of people tottering in silence, a hell on earth emerged. Those who narrowly survived soon collapsed one after another. For more than 70 years since then we have struggled to live on, afflicted by the delayed effects and by anxiety about the possible effects of radiation on our children and grandchildren. Never again do we want such tragedies to be repeated.

After 11 years of silence following the A-bomb suffering, Hibakusha assembled in Nagasaki in August 1956 and founded Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A-and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations. There we pledged that we would work to “save humanity from its crisis through the lessons learned from our experiences, while at the same time saving ourselves”. Since then we have continued appealing to the world that “there should never be another Hibakusha.” This is the cry of our soul.

Wars and conflicts are still going on in the world, and many lives of innocent people are lost. Nuclear weapons are being used to threaten others. There are also moves to develop new nuclear weapons. The destructive power of existing nuclear weapons, which number well over 10 thousand, amounts to that of tens of thousands of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined. Nuclear weapons are the “weapons of the devil”. They could wipe out the human race and all other creatures. They could destroy the environment and turn the globe into a dead planet.

Human beings have prohibited the use, development, production and possession of biological and chemical weapons by treaties and protocols. Why do we hesitate to prohibit nuclear weapons, which are far more destructive than these weapons? We, the Hibakusha, call on all State Governments to conclude a treaty to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons.

The average age of the Hibakusha now exceeds 80. It is our strong desire to achieve a nuclear weapon-free world in our lifetime, so that succeeding generations of people will not see hell on earth ever again. You, your families and relatives, or any other people should not be made Hibakusha again…”

April 2016

i spend this week deeply listening to the voices of the hibakusha and their co-hearts with their vow of ending nuclear weapons and establishing a culture of peace, a vow i have committed to for for half a century…

to further this vow, may we all join in the call  to prevent nuclear war by:

• renouncing the option of using nuclear weapons first;
• ending the sole, unchecked authority of any president to launch a nuclear attack;
• taking U.S. nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert;
• cancelling the plan to replace its entire arsenal with enhanced weapons; and
• actively pursuing a verifiable agreement among nuclear-armed states to eliminate their nuclear arsenals.

peace be with us all…

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