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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 146 – 5/10/2020

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“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

~Hafiz ~

for this week’s installment of the astonishing light of being which falls on Mother’s Day, we have a wonderful astonishing light of mothering peace in the person of Julia Ward Howe…

many countries around the world celebrate mother’s day on the second sunday of may; in the United States, the origins of the official holiday go back to 1870 when Julia Ward Howe – an abolitionist best remembered as the poet who wrote “Battle Hymn of the Republic” – worked to establish a Mother’s Peace Day. Howe dedicated the celebration to the eradication of war and organized festivities in Boston for years….

her call for women to arise remains electrifying one hundred and fifty years later… we need to return to its original focus – that of promoting world peace…  on this Mother’s Day, honor your mother by contributing to the “great and general interests of peace” both at home and abroad… when 1000 mothers come together calling for peace, harmony becomes the frequency of consciousness…

may all mothers of invention feeling divine feminine energy rising within, no matter our gender, come together being peace now with the power to heal, soothe suffering, conjure courage and be the transformation…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 145 – 5/9/2020

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i ventured on a re-treat this week to tune into the cosmic hum, that secret song of source singing through us and i real -eyes two years ago on this very week, i also went on a retreat to be one with dolphins, to attune to their sonic field, to drink in the dream of their soul songs and what a delight to have these melodies flowing through the ocean of being, these haunting melodies of re-membering, these beautiful sounds of silence transporting us home sacredly, secretly, silently, softly, surrenderedly, synchronisticly to the place of true belonging, the stillpoint of creation where there’s only the dance of the sounds of silence… i was about to say that the outer world circumstances were so different two years ago and then i re-member the day before i landed a volcano had started erupting so that we were also in such a moment of uncertainty and wondering what’s going on which calls for deep listening…

trees dancing… birds singing,,, winds whispering… leaves rustling… stars sparkling… clouds floating… water falling home… planets orbiting… cats purring…. pots and pans banging welcoming workers home… people singing… gaia’s heartbeat pulsing… flowing in the rhythm of  the cosmic hum… listening, listening, listening to the heartsong which reminds that the world doesn’t come to an end, energy isn’t created or destroyed, it is transmuted and the hum sings to relax into this great turning, to go with the flow down, down, down into the ocean’s core, the stillpoint where all is well, peaceful and serene…

still in the radiation of the super full moon of enlightenment and in the unitve field of silent re-treat, it seems appropriate to close this peace in the manner His Holiness opens each day and may we all join in and take this as our purpose for these times…

May I Be A Guide

May I be a guard for those who need protection
A guide for those on the path
A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood
May I be a lamp in the darkness
A resting place for the weary
A healing medicine for all who are sick
A vase of plenty, a tree of miracles
And for the boundless multitudes of living beings
May I bring sustenance and awakening
Enduring like the earth and the sky
Until all beings are free from sorrow
And all are awakened.

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 144 – 5/8/2020

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may we always stand like curious children before great mystery…

another day in the stillness of the bardo- like state where we have lost our old reality and don’t yet know what our new reality might be luxuriating in true emptiness, sacred space of the void/open spaciousness/liberation where we are free from bondage to any dogma/system/anything and free to be our true nature re-membering we are bits of dancing stars wandering in the great beyond…

this rupture, in our old way of seeing and being, may also bring with it a sense of groundlessness, uncertainty and our instinct to fill in the story as quickly as possible so we can hold on to some sense of continuity in our lives to which i say, not so fast…

injoy this mind-blowing magical mystery tour moment we all collectively find ourselves in with mama gaia imploring us to deeply reflect upon and contemplate our true reality and how we are to be in the turning and unfolding of great mystery… as Carl Sagan reminds us, “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”

and, may we relax into the reality of not knowing, impermanence and uncertainty as we bear witness compassionately to the powerful dynamism of the cosmos coming into harmony…

“Before you judge others or claim any absolute truth, consider that you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 kilometers per second across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you”. The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato. The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it. This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.”

~Anonymous~

may we gather our courage and use this collective initiation wisely transmuting into dancing rainbow mystery, luminescent stars shining across infinity’s deep sea answering mama gaia’s call to live imaginally, as the next iteration of all our relations living by source’s original instructions in a peaceable realm, a unitive field knowing in every cell we are one…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 143 – 5/7/2020

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“Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.”

~John O’Donohue ~

beloved, we hear the call to wander into wonder on this day of the full moon of enlightenment and feel the buddha’s outpouring of blessings inspiring us to fall into grace, to dream in the rhythm of dolphins, to tune into celestial spheres and transform into radiant orbs of luminescence floating through the sky sea of love catalysed to serve and support all sentient beings…

on this day of celebrating awakening to our purpose and trusting in our soul to show us the wat, let us invoke our true nature of divine light…

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I am created by Divine Light

I am sustained by Divine Light

I am protected by Divine Light

I am surrounded by Divine Light

I am ever growing into Divine Light…

Every cell of this my physical body is filled with Divine Light;

Every level of my consciousness is illumined with Divine Light.

The Divine Light penetrates every single cell of my being,

Every level of consciousness.

I have become a channel of pure Light.

I am One with the Light…

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this radiance pilgrimage blessing is a beautyway to open and close each day letting this light spiral from source to the heart…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 142 – 5/6/2020

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on this night before the full super moon of illumination, blessings and enlightenment under the sun of taurus, just hours before the high water mark of spiritual blessing, gifting, offering in the world, the day before wesak, the festival celebrating Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death, let us join together in a one heart meditation in gratitude for every sacred moment and for all our relations living as one rainbow people of peace…

Breathing In, I enjoy my in-breath.
Breathing out, I enjoy my out-breath.
Enjoying In-breath.
Enjoying Out-breath.

Breathing In, I become mindful of my heart beating, sending blood and new oxygen to every part of my body.
Breathing out, I smile to this life, flowing inside me
Aware of heart beating
Smiling to life flowing through me

Breathing In, I feel my in-breath bringing life to every cell of my body
Breathing out, I feel my out-breath deepening my awareness of being alive
In-breath, bringing life to every cell
Out-breath, deepening my being alive

Breathing In, I know that my heart beating is also the heart of my ancestors, with all their dreams, joy, happiness, strength and courage
Breathing out, I am determined to continue to nourish this heart for them and for me
My heart, the heart of my ancestors
Determined to continue their joy, courage and strength

Breathing In, I know that my heart beating is also the heart of my ancestors, with all their fears, sadness, hunger, anger, hatred and discrimination
Breathing out, I am determined to practice to transform the afflictions of my ancestors in my own heart
My heart, the heart of my ancestors
Determined to transform their afflictions

Breathing in, I am aware of the very many hearts beating in this room right now, bringing life, blood and oxygen to many parts of the many bodies here.
Breathing out, I smile to this life flowing all around me
Aware of very many hearts around
Smiling to life flowing all around me

Breathing in, I am aware that all these hearts are the hearts of many ancestors, with their joy, dreams and suffering
Breathing out, I am determined to learn to embrace, accept and love all the people around me
Hearts around, the hearts of many ancestors
Determined to embrace, accept and love

Breathing in, I am aware of the Heart of the Earth under and all around me, beating in the trees, rocks, grass, water, birds…
Breathing out, I take refuge in the Heart of the Earth, in Her Love, Strength, Forbearance and Creativity, always bringing forth new life.
Aware of the Heart of the Earth
Taking refuge in the Earth

may we all be blessed by the thousand thousandfold blessings Buddha rains upon us under this magical moon…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 141 – 5/5/2020

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“We try to re-create ourselves when things fall apart. We return to the solid ground of our self-concept as quickly as possible. …When things fall apart, instead of struggling to regain our concept of who we are, we can use it as an opportunity to be open and inquisitive about what has just happened and what will happen next. That is how we turn this arrow into a flower.”

~ Pema Chödrön ~

i see cinco de mayo as a day of celebrating liberation, once again i honor this day by going on a re-treat inside of our collective re-treat and injoying it as an opportunity to be open and curious about what is going on the continued unfolding of this great mystery…

like you, i’ve been feeling a seismic shift for many moons, thirty years ago i began my daily mantra of being one of the ones to call in the new/old world and here she is and here i am with an emphatic calling to gather with the imaginal cells open to aligning with divine flow…

may we all come into a deeper and more expansive knowing of who we are… slowed down sound and light waves in a sea of love energy, the ocean of being, the flowering field of interconnection and may we take this extraordinary moment to do the deep work of radical (rooted) change by plugging into the taproot/umbilical cord in the core of our interbeing and aligning our antennae with the source antenna…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 139 – 5/3/2020

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today is the day of the week to celebrate the astonishing light of being, when writing last night i wasn’t putting together it was the first saturday in may which is the world labyrinth day of peace, so let’s celebrate our astonishing light of being with walking the labyrinth, coming home to center…

let’s start at the beginning of the labyrinth imagining this meditation as a walking in beautiful nature, into our true beautiful nature… standing at the entrance and centering, going to the still place  of our one heart and listening for intention, where we’ll place our attention as we walk this pilgrimage of the heart…

on peace pilgrimages into the center, i love chanting peace with every step on the way in and thank you on the return offering this prayer for the benefit of all our relations…

now, three deep purifying breaths as we silently  say… make us instruments of peace, peace, peace…

as we tread this path, be aware of the rhythmic ebb and flow of breath sounding like  ocean waves…

letting go into the dance of the stillpoint, we are carried into the center, the heart, to pause and reflect on the deep peace of the running waves…

here in the chrysalis of pregnant pause, let’s injoy silence together contemplating the mystical nature of life and where great mystery is calling us to be… grounding ourselves in the metamorphosing field by breathing in infinite love and breathing out infinite gratitude while opening ever more widely and deeply to our soul song saying…

mystery before us

mystery behind us

mystery beside us

mystery below us

mystery above us

mystery within us

mystery surrounding us

may we all deepen in wonder and awe every moment, every breath, every step joining with all our relatives in the center, in the stillpoint, in communion, common union with all that is filling ourselves to go out into the world and be love and peace and joy…

deep bows…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 138 – 5/2/2020

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a favorite teacher of mine, Albert Einstein, reminds us that no matter how many years we live to always stand like a curious child before Great Mystery…

and, this admonition reminds me of a transformational moment and, yes, this moment is quite the teacher of love… when i was a college student many decades ago following a powerful nirvana experience, i real-eyesed all there is, is love and then wanted to revolutionize education to speak, study, read only of love…

it is metamorphosing may in a moment on the third rock from the sun when we are all in chrysalis (quarantine), what better space to resurrect that  half a century old call for a love revolution?…

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may we greet each moment, each teacher of love, with wonder

may we open the cracks in our one heart each moment to cosmic love’s  healing power

may we embrace great mystery’s flow in every moment

may we dance lightly on the path of reverence melting into cosmic love’s radiant glow in each moment

may we be a caravan of re-joy-sing traveling throughout our inner lanscapes in every moment

always being love, always becoming love

namaste’, beloveds

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 137 – 5/1/2020

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well come, welcome to the first day of may, to may day, to global love day, to international workers day, to this high holy day of  bealltainn (the gaelic spelling) which means bright fire…

in days long ago, the people would light bonfires and shepherd sheep and cows through the night to green pastures… halfway between equinox and solstice, this day has been celebrated as a time of fertility and abundance heralding the start of summer…

what better way to start metamorpho-sing may than by seeding our fertile, creative imaginations in the transformative field with three quest ions, three charged particles, sending us on a quest for the metaphorical holy grail, the sacred cup of the beloved overflowing with love…

what enlivens me wildly in this moment?

what is my soul longing deeply for now?

what’s wanting to flower?

as we dance around the maypole, the tree of abundant life, may we dance these quests and deepen our earth grounding with every breath until we arrive in the core of our being, sacred space of honoring all our relations…

here in the watery womb of divine mother earth, the stillpoint of creation, we saunter along the transformational pathway of changing consciousness, transmuting the microcosmic mystory into the ever-expanding macrocosmic mystery, source of all being…

may we be filled to overflowing throughout the merry, merry month of may and the magical mystery tour of life with divine love and light emanating from great mystery’s wellspring… the ever flowing river below the river of joy, ocean of peace, sea of love energy…

deep bows and boundless gratitude for the beauty of the earth and for all the children of the earth dan-sing into sacred balance…

blessed bee, beloveds…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 136 – 4/30/2020

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come to the river beloved

come to the river beloved

come to the river beloved

on the third call, we hear the waters of our one heart

and respond like every other day in this moon by diving deeply

into the ocean of being, jumping off the cliff into the unknown

to listen with the heart in the space beyond words…

here, in the stillpoint, we surrender into the most profound rest

germinating a transformed energy enlivening every cell with primal wildness…

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what a beautiful synchronicity… this day, walpurgis eve, the night to go wild with our bodies filtering sensations and perceptions through a rainbow lens cleansing all doors and windows, is also the day we bless the space between us as we close the circle on another moon or month (and, what a chaotic/creative moon!) of turning around the sun…

so, more than ever, let us all take this moment, this beautiful moment to bless this space we share… this deep space of mutation and initiation as we collectively journey in the dark, unknown and uncertain to gestate in the core of being, the womb of earthmother and listen, listen listen for her heart song, el canto hondo, the deep soul song of the cosmos calling us to reflect as we midwife an old/new heart consciousness to meet the crises, the dangers and opportunities of this extraordinary moment…

as great mystery hums our soul song through us, may we echo it to each other… to return, return, return to love by opening our one heart to divine flow’s breathing us, dreaming us,  singing us, praying us, dancing us, comforting us, supporting us, freeing us, animating us, blessing us, consecrating us in this extraordinary moment…

let us, meet this moment wholeheartedly and take up the cosmic call to transform our defense system into a sacred immune system supporting, regenerating a world of PEACE where we…

dance rainbow mystery devotedly

be more loving than ever before for the well being of all

be more compassionate than ever before for the well being of all

be more harmonious than ever before for the well being of all

be liberated with every breath

come home to true refuge dwelling in our one heart with every step…

~