“If you are seeking, seek us with joy
For we live in the kingdom of joy.
Do not give your heart to anything else
But to the love of those who are clear joy,
Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.
For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –
Do not go in the direction of darkness –
I tell you: suns exist.”

~ Rumi ~

thank you pachamama for birthing today a powerful frequency shift with the ingressing of the new lunar nodes of destiny under the new moon of the great mother which amplifies the flourishing of new seeds, new stories and the loving release of what will no serve the new story we are called to live… today begins in joyfool ceremony of calling in the ancestors, the angels, the elementals, the spirits always protecting us and feeling their love and bouncing it back in an eternal flow of reciprocity and onto communion and ceremony with a partner in peace where we declare our intentions, the new story we shall live and then coming into sangha with renewed commitment to living openheartedly, wholeheartedly and feeling the promised frequency shift and then onto one more circle of celebration and thanksgiving…

ah, awe, the moment of eternity to break the fast and recharge and discover that Santa Claus has come and left a couple of amazing presents for this day of rebirth, gifts to geometrically progress the healing, wholeing journey along the pathless path…

thank you for joining me on the caravan of re-joy-sing and being a holy joyfool practicing joyfoolness with a smile, painting peace in the sky, chanting thank you in a continuous feedback loop, laughing, dancing, singing again and again and again… thousand fold thanks for being joyfools and opening our one heart wider and deeper living from a place of love fed by the bubbling spring of joyfoolness where everything is possible when we live from our true nature…

joyfooly, let’s howl ai ooo at sister moon activating our wild free nature, our deep self who always lives in the land of enchantment connected inextricably to every thread in the infinite web of life, to every branch of the mother tree of life…

only traveling on the path with heart, what a way to live

looking, looking breathlessly, living from the heart

in a field of unity grounded in equanimity…

welcome to a day honoring so much richness and tragedy with much to say in this sacred moment of eternity beginning with noting today is the 161st birthday of unsung hero and pioneering anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells who challenged the media to tell Black truths and who innovated practices that define the field of investigative journalism to this day… by putting her life on the line to count, investigate and report lynchings in America when white-owned media refused to tell these stories, she destroyed the racist narrative that lynching victims were criminals and brought to light the truth: that lynchings were often used as retaliation against Black people who had dared to start businesses, own property and build wealth… also, on this day, seventy eight years ago, the world was forever changed when the U.S. detonated the world’s first nuclear device in the Trinity nuclear test… conducted in the desert of southern New Mexico, opening another chapter in our morally corrupt, racist, and lethal legacy with New Mexico residents not being warned before the Trinity blast, informed of health hazards afterward, nor evacuated before, during, or after the test… exposure rates in public areas from the world’s first nuclear explosion were measured at levels 10,000 times higher than currently allowed… another legacy is that the downwinders of Trinity were largely impoverished agricultural families, mostly Hispanic and Native and even though it was considered one of the dirtiest U.S. nuclear tests, for more than seventy years radiation exposure from inhalation and ingestion of water and food contaminated by the Trinity test fallout was never assessed… now we now know that infant death rates increased by over 20% percent in areas downwind beginning in the very same month of the test since in 2010 the CDC finally admitted that risks to newborns were especially heightened as “residents reported that fallout ‘snowed down’ for days after the blast, most had dairy cows and most collected rainwater off their roofs for drinking.” on a brighter note, today is our day for celebrating the astonishing light of our interbeing as vessels of great mystery shining forth luminously, bastions of living awakened, joyously, freely and harmoniously and this day begins with being reminded of our nature as verbs, flowing, in process with what comes…

i’ll share now a brief meditation from Parker Palmer on life on the Möbius strip which illustrates the truth of life as movement:

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“The curious object pictured is a Möbius strip. If you take your index finger and trace what seems to be the outside surface, you suddenly find yourself on what seems to be the inside surface. Continue along what seems to be the inside surface, and you suddenly find yourself on what seems to be the outside surface.

I need to keep saying ‘what seems to be’ because the Möbius strip has only one side! What look like its inner and outer surfaces flow into each other seamlessly, co-creating the whole. The first time I saw a Möbius strip, I thought, ‘amazing! That’s exactly how life works!’

Whatever is inside of us continually flows outward, helping to form or deform the world — depending on what we send out. Whatever is outside us continually flows inward, helping to form or deform us — depending on how we take it in. Bit by bit, we and our world are endlessly re-made in this eternal inner-outer exchange.

Much depends on what we choose to put into the world from within ourselves — and much depends on how we handle what the world sends back to us. As Thomas Merton said:

‘We don’t have to adjust to the world. We can adjust the world’.

Here’s the question I’ve been asking myself ever since I understood that we live our lives on the Möbius strip:

How can I make more life-giving choices about what to put into the world and how to deal with what the world sends back — choices that might bring new life to me, to others, and to the world we share?”

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yes to there’s only one of us here, all that is confluing, flowing together, dancing into the stillpoint, dancing out from the stillpoint seamlessly always connected, always interbeing, always flowing in the seasky of love energy empowering luminosity and shining the light so brightly that all our relations see the way home, home to our one heart… and, yes, to the beautiful question that we are all being asked to live in this moment of great turning…

“No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.” ~ John Muir ~

this traveler journeyed into the land of enchantment today, not the state of New Mexico where i celebrated my Chiron return 22 years ago, this pilgrimage was an inner one to the deep self, to a way of engaging with the world founded on a visceral sense of belongingness in a many layered world… in this land of enchantment, we participate wholeheartedly and profoundly in the adventure of the magical mystery tout of life… in this land, we are intuitive, we embrace wonder, we are fully engaged in the imaginal realm and deeply rooted in place and community flourishing on the pathless path of heart and meaning respecting the consciousness of children as holy fools and all our wild relations engaged with the small, the slow, the local picking up our thread of the unraveling cosmos to re-create an even more beautiful world by falling in love again and again…

thank you for sharing the journey of ever deepening into rainbow mystery…

on this world orca day alerting us to the vulnerability of this species, i see, in my imagination, 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…

and so, today as i am teleported back to the sacred space of Talequah and feeling 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 our relations 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…

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

WORLD ORCA DAY MISSION:
World Orca Day is a celebration of the species.
We aim to raise awareness of orca in the wild and the threats they face. 
Our overarching goal is to increase protection for the species and, as a result, the oceans.  
We strive to support a movement that brings together people who are interested in, and who advocate for, orca.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

let’s take this moment of eternity, this wild and precious moment to suit up as psychonauts, walk to the launch pad, enter the space capsule, settle into our seat breathing deeply through our one heart as the countdown proceeds… 10, smile… 9, hands on heart… 8, breathe in… 7, down into belly… 6, hold… 5, hold… 4, exhale… 3, release… 2, empty… 1, relax deeper and deeper with every deep breath… blast in…

take a look around as we descend deeper and deeper into the inner space of being… look into the window of your soul with your inner eyes taking in all the beauty, feeling gratitude for this wild and precious moment of having everything that is needed fueled by wonder and awe as your eyes adjust to seeing everything as one, real-eye-sing we are swimming in a sea of love energy…

notice a bright light pulling us into a golden waterfall of luminescence lighting up every wild molecule to vibrate at the frequency of cosmic hum singing us into ecstasy, rainbow harmony… breathe in the bliss and listen, listen, listen for your heartsong calling us into deeper communion of giving and receiving for nothing ever goes one way… breathing in beauty, breathing out compassion… breathing in blessing, breathing out gratitude… injoy as many wild and precious moments here gnowing you are always welcome in the field of flow to rest in the river of life, in the ocean of being and becoming… always being love, always becoming love…

“THE INNER IS FOUNDATION OF THE OUTER
THE STILL IS MASTER OF THE RESTLESS
THE SAGE TRAVELS ALL DAY
YET NEVER LEAVES HER INNER TREASURE.”

“Empty yourself of everything.  Let the mind rest at peace.  The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return… Returning to the Source is stillness, which is the way of Nature.”

  ~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching ~

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in this sacred moment of eternity celebrating the astonishing light of our interbeing and honoring the movement of great turning calling us to come home to the silence of our one heart, i am re-treating around the eternal flame in a dark dream cave where a peaceful stream flows… it is as if i’m in a float tank sans outer sensory stimulation… i re-member five decades ago experiencing a great awakening after real-eye-sing original sin is separation and immediately seeing a clear vision of true reality as the original blessing of oneness… yes, LaoTzu, many thousands and thousands of miles have i traveled in the intervening turns ‘round the sun yet never leaving this inner treasure…

eight years ago on this very day, i am in a parallel rhythm metaphorically floating in the dark in a flotation tank where i begin a lucid cycling journey following behind on my bike the divine child named bliss and her father on their bicycles… i carry my singing bowl in one of my arms and i come to a space where i must stop… here, i begin a wondrous journey exploring open heart u, a dream i’ve been incubating many moons… how much fun to wander these grounds. to meet people who are drawn to be in beloved community, a sangha of the one heart of boundless love where i connect with so many other dog star offspring here on planet in this moment to guide in the opening of inner vision, intuition, to truly serve metaphorically as seeing eye dogs shining light along the pathless path…

holy synchronicity, batwoman! now, 8 years later i am living the same dream albeit this time around it is in an awakened dreamweave as today begins my 11 days of stopping the world and being wu wei to explore and surrender ever more deeply to open heart u… and like the bat people, i hang upside down in the pose of rebirth as still as pythia, the psychedelphic serpent, whispered to me to be as the way of being one with rainbow mystery… it is done, blessed bee, we are humming our way into rainbow mystery…

from the Peace Alliance:

imagine a cosmos of peace with every breath…

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in each and every sacred moment, may we reverence the mystery of cosmic flow and be fully present to whatever may come and go trusting in the web of infinite, interconnected threads woven by creatrix, source of all that is…

may we be still in the muddy waters resting gently in the ebbtide until the waters clear and the seeds begin to sprout while lotus blossoms one petal at a time and wings unfold as they dry in slow motion…

may we all befriend the pregnant pause, the space of stillpoint where we dream in the rhythm of the waves as we mother peace and birth dancing stars…

welcome, well come to another of my favorite days – a day of celebrating our astonishing light of interbeing and the portal of mystic power with the Sirius stargate and the opening of the annual portal to Lions Gate… Venus as the Evening Star in Leo with her energy focalized at the crown – feel the goddess of love amplifying the vibration of love to the highest octave while Sirius, the brightest star, illuminates the night sky and is home, it is said, to the Sirians, advanced beings who heavily influenced the birth of the ancient civilization of Lemuria, the sacred space stretching from present day Mount Shasta to Hawa’ii over to the Land of Oz and to India… Lemuria, home to highly telepathic beings with the dolphin/whale people as their protectors, whispers to us to move deeper and deeper into surrender, into liberation, into grace…

ah, yes, dear Rumi, i awaken in this moment of eternity hearing that voice calling, that voice that has called for so many moons, for so many turns around the sun to turn toward what i/we deeply love for that will save me/us… in truth, it is our only option, the surrendering into love, into the dreamweave of the cosmos…

in this sacred moment of eternity, energies are pulling us magnetically inside to bear witness to the jewels lodged in the deep cavernous space in the ocean of our being… our being that is now at the halfway mark of this massively mutating turn around the sun recapitulating journeying january, the dreaming moon, with july being the re-treating into ourselves moon of the wild pilgrims, poets on a journey into a space of pregnant pause to explore inner terrain and listen for the voice of the great mother whispering words of wisdom, mothering the peace that passeth ordinary understanding, the peace that births a courageous new world of radical harmony and joy and peace and love and generosity and wonder and wisdom… now is the moment to reclaim and embody our self author-ity empowering our expanded and deepened awakening into witnessing consciousness…

how inspiring these whispered words are now at this moment of a perfect storm of crises with the root crisis, the challenging opportunity, being a psychospiritual one cataly-sing a radical transformation into wholeness, mystical union of soulful maturity and spiritual awareness…

yes, we are the ones we have been waiting for to simultaneously hold the tension of the protracted labor pains and surrender into great mystery as emergency transmutes into an emergensea of love energy for us to align, partner with and find again the creative power of fire that lights the cosmos, the all that is, in overflowing golden light…

may we all bathe in this enveloping luminescence breathing in golden light of the blue star, sirius, our spiritual sun and breathing out love and peace in ever widening circles of rhythmic waves across the cosmos into the great beyond and into the (w)hole(y) bottomless well in the center of our onedrous being…

let’s close this sacred space of ceremony by deepening into the well of our being, the watery womb with a few of Lao-Tzu’s sage words…

“The supreme good is like water,
which nourishes all things without trying to.
It flows to the low places loathed by all men.
Therefore, it is like the Tao.
Live in accordance with the nature of things.
In dwelling, be close to the land.
In meditation, go deep in the heart.
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.
In speech, be true.
In ruling be just.
In action, watch the timing.
No fight: No blame.
One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things.
They move in harmony with the present moment,
always knowing the truth of just what to do.”

and, now dear water beings, hold a chalice of water intending it as liquid light and drink it in… closing your eyes, feel the liquid light entering into your heart and soular plexus enlightening and blessing every part of the ocean of our being at the micro and macro cosmic levels carrying the original memory and wisdom of Pachamama bringing into our being that sacred nature… we are the divine mother she lives in us, this central sun lights up our whole being shining 360 degrees around us and above and below us and thanks to this powerful element of water, of liquid light, we are light being born into light… visuali-sing ourselves shining bright for all our relations, we breathe in deeply, open our eyes and SMILE…

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