Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Day 224 – July 28, 2014

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Jo Beall

Back home in Portalandia after a spectacular sojourn, it’s a wonderful day to reflect on this most recent magical mystery tour and celebrate my father’s life on what would be his 92nd birthday… He gifted me with his belief that i could do/be anything and i think he would have loved sharing the birthday pilgrimage with us, actually, he probably did walk with us because from the moment we entered the Olympic Peninsula we walked with the ancestors….

I love our gift of an extra day, the day out of time in the 13 moon calendar for us to begin the pilgrimage of surrender and then to enter wholeheartedly into Rainier on the new moon in Leo is an awesome blessing as was the hummingbird waiting for us at the entrance gate to lead us into joy beyond imagining…

I am completely and totally in love with this mountain, what a blessing to surrender all to her and to flow in beauty being the soul of the space where Tahoma dwells…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Day 223 – July 27, 2014

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Jo Beall

today begins in communion with Tahoma as my eyes feast in wonder and awe and every wild cell in my body vibrates at the bliss frequency…. i am so completely at home, i am ta homa…. immersed in the web of peaks, afloat in a sea of ancient evergreens, dancing in an alpine field awash in flowers…. thank you for this moment of grace, of walking in beauty…

Hallelujah!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Day 222 – July 26, 2014

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Jo Beall

On today’s pilgrimage, i feel like i have died and gone to heaven on this the most magical mystery tour when with every breath and step we are walking with the ancestors on the road from Sunrise to Paradise under the snowy dome known as Tahoma to 1st Nations people and Mt Rainier to the rest… Today is so auspicious as the New Moon in Leo comes in the afternoon and is a perfect time to invoke Tahoma’s nurturance on my deepest intention – to surrender to the divine trusting that love always finds the way…

Over and over, we send thanks to Tahoma for standing strong in the center of this Cascade range of falling waters in a sea of evergreens. A beautiful day of communion in a spectacular sacred space where we all feel the blessings of traveling in this sacred way…

Hallelujah!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Day 221 – July 25, 2014

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Jo Beall

I’ve been on the road today as we make a pilgrimage to Mt Ranier,,, Have a moment to post and wanted to honor the New Moon in Leo that will shine over this massive mountain tomorrow afternoon. Such a fertile time for seeding intentions and then to watch them gather strength as the new moon waxes…. What is calling to be birthed in you? As i float into dreamtime, i’ll be winging a path of intention….

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Day 220 – July 24, 2014

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Jo Beall

In the midst of an overflowing abundance of riches (mahalo to all my relations), with every breath i come home to the heart and be PEACE. I feel it is the most important action/meditation/prayer called for now. It is so easy for me/us to distract with thoughts of what i/we didn’t do, how far behind i/we am/are…. better to dwell in a peace hut in a field of love being that wholeheartedly…

Tomorrow, i go on a Pilgrimage to Mt Ranier and am unsure whether i’ll be off the grid just in case i go completely silent… Rest assured we’ll be dancing peace, love and bliss every step…

Happy Trails!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Day 219 – July 23, 2014

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Jo Beall

dancing with a child today

seeing the world in a different way

through her eyes of innocent wonder

every moment awash in splendor

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Day 218 – July 22, 2014

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Jo Beall

today, i journey through the heart to the heart chakra of our planet for sacred re-creation which was ever so called for by a dream of having my pocketbook taken leaving me without identification…. for many days, i feel an inner fire burning away anything that does not serve and the dream points to just that… when i recheck my bag, i see my wallet is there along with the most vital id…

218 days on the journey of a lifetime, an amazing deepening into being – present to, trusting in, surrendering to and aligned with the divine… a flowing in beauty being the soul of the space, a dancing grace… thank you, thank you, thank you…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Day 217 – July 21, 2014

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Jo Beall

today’s pilgrimage is one of going down to the River Beloved and have her wash over me conducting me into her watery depths for some dreamtime of re-membering/membering and re-creating/creating mystory/mystery… iridescence immersion has a nice ring and an even better feel as i dance around the sun and watch as the moon draws down opening a field for planting anew… What is wanting to be birthed in you?

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Day 216 – July 20, 2014

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Jo Beall

Last night, on the eve of beginning a week long celebration of the Turn Around the Sun Re-Creation ManiFestival, Portalandia and i enjoy a once in a lifetime opportunity to witness the ancient Shinto ritual of Mikagura Sacred Dance. Involving an imaginative journey across time and space, we are transported to the pond in the Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine in Kamakura, Japan where the spirit of kami is enshrined. For some 2000 years, this sacred dance has been performed to please the kami, last night was the first performance in the continental United States.

Beginning with the lighting of the bonfire, we are purified with a branch of Sakaki or evergreen followed with chanting by the priests to invite the kami and more chanting offering hospitality to the kami and ending with chanting to send the kami back to their origin.

Mikagura transports us into a space in harmony with the heavenly bodies, truly, a dancing with the stars….

May we all revere the spirit in nature and live in peace…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Day 215 – July 19, 2014

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Jo Beall

In honor of a beautiful pilgrimage for all, sacred words from the Dine’

In beauty may I walk
All day long may I walk
Through the returning seasons may
I walk
Beautifully will I possess again
Beautifully birds,
Beautifully joyful birds
On the trail marked with pollen
may I walk
With grasshoppers about my feet
may I walk
With dew about my feet may I
walk
With beauty may I walk
With beauty before me may I walk
With beauty behind me may I walk
With beauty above me may I walk
With beauty all around me may I
walk
In old age, wandering on a trail of
beauty, lively, may I walk
In old age, wandering on a trail of
beauty, living again, may I walk
It is finished in beauty.
It is finished in beauty.

Abundance Created Together (ACT)

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke –