“Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?”

~ Shams of Tabriz ~

in the days of Rumi, when you traveled, you pilgrimaged in a caravan and spent the night in a guesthouse, Rumi asked of the pilgrims to look at our heart like a guesthouse graciously entertaining all emotions while not identifying with or attaching to them… Rumi would have us ask, “What is the state of your heart, what are you dreaming into being this moment of eternity?”

and so when joy comes to visit, we welcome joy warmly knowing joy will be moving on with the caravan, this beautiful guest will pass onward… when the next guest knocks at the door, can we welcome sadness as graciously, as an old companion who has visited many times re-membering that sadness like joy does not stay and does pass on as well…

are you able to be this magnanimous with your own heart? know you are a solid, rooted tree of life with arms outstretched to the heavens… we are made in the image of love and this is our work to be and become more and more radical love, rooted love grounded in the deep earth and reaching into the ever expanding vast skysea… my intention more emphatic than ever is to live like the river of life flows carried by the wondrous unfolding of great mystery…

and now, back to our special pilgrimage with the Caravan of Re-Joy-Sing celebrating the twelve nights of the Feast of the Incarnation and honoring our transcendent journey into light, our taking joy in transforming shadow seeds into blooming gifts and our witnessing these gifts as dreams coming to us each night for the 12 nights of Christmas continues under last night’s, our 4th night’s, sun of the iridescent watery light of Cancer, Beloved Mother, Whisperer of Love Songs and Weaver of Harmony…

on the fourth night of Christmas, my true love (Beloved Cancer) gave to me, a dream of… cosmic harmony where turbulent seas arose into a great wall of water catapulting me into the deep swirling sea to connect with the beloved mother energy who whispered to surrender to going with the flow… in that moment, dolphin guides magically appear and guide the way to the other shore and a paradisaical beach where all our relations are dancing together as one in this field out beyond where the river below the river, the river of deep spaciousness flows on and on in the rhythm of our one spirit’s breath… always being love… always becoming love… with every breath and step…

this sacred moment of eternity of bathing in the dreamwaves of motherwaters’ divine feminine energy ignites our one tender heart into a blazing bonfire re-joy-sing with sangha all over the planet in the field of the sacred grove with our roots riotously whispering compassion through the network of interbeing across and over and through the cosmos…

may we all meet this moment fully where all  relatives belong in an ever widening cosmic circle of love and compassion and wonder and wisdom and peace and joy and harmony and where we all injoy flowing in beauty at love’s frequency one with all that is…

“Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?”

~ Shams of Tabriz ~

in the days of Rumi, when you traveled, you pilgrimaged in a caravan and spent the night in a guesthouse, Rumi asked of the pilgrims to look at our heart like a guesthouse graciously entertaining all emotions while not identifying with or attaching to them… Rumi would have us ask, “What is the state of your heart, what are you dreaming into being this moment of eternity?”

and so when joy comes to visit, we welcome joy warmly knowing joy will be moving on with the caravan, this beautiful guest will pass onward… when the next guest knocks at the door, can we welcome sadness as graciously, as an old companion who has visited many times re-membering that sadness like joy does not stay and does pass on as well…

are you able to be this magnanimous with your own heart? know you are a solid, rooted tree of life with arms outstretched to the heavens… we are made in the image of love and this is our work to be and become more and more radical love, rooted love grounded in the deep earth and reaching into the ever expanding vast skysea… my intention more emphatic than ever is to live like the river of life flows carried by the wondrous unfolding of great mystery…

and now, back to our special pilgrimage with the Caravan of Re-Joy-Sing celebrating the twelve nights of the Feast of the Incarnation and honoring our transcendent journey into light, our taking joy in transforming shadow seeds into blooming gifts and our witnessing these gifts as dreams coming to us each night for the 12 nights of Christmas continues under last night’s, our 4th night’s, sun of the iridescent watery light of Cancer, Beloved Mother, Whisperer of Love Songs and Weaver of Harmony…

on the fourth night of Christmas, my true love (Beloved Cancer) gave to me, a dream of… cosmic harmony where turbulent seas arose into a great wall of water catapulting me into the deep swirling sea to connect with the beloved mother energy who whispered to surrender to going with the flow… in that moment, dolphin guides magically appear and guide the way to the other shore and a paradisaical beach where all our relations are dancing together as one in this field out beyond where the river below the river, the river of deep spaciousness flows on and on in the rhythm of our one spirit’s breath… always being love… always becoming love… with every breath and step…

this sacred moment of eternity of bathing in the dreamwaves of motherwaters’ divine feminine energy ignites our one tender heart into a blazing bonfire re-joy-sing with sangha all over the planet in the field of the sacred grove with our roots riotously whispering compassion through the network of interbeing across and over and through the cosmos…

may we all meet this moment fully where all  relatives belong in an ever widening cosmic circle of love and compassion and wonder and wisdom and peace and joy and harmony and where we all injoy flowing in beauty at love’s frequency one with all that is…

“You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.”

~ Rumi ~

our special pilgrimage with the Caravan of Re-Joy-Sing honoring our transcendent journey into light, our taking joy in transforming shadow seeds into blooming gifts and our witnessing these gifts as dreams coming to us each night for the 12 nights of Christmas delivers the quintessential dream gift under last night’s, our 3rd night’s sun of the airy light of Gemini who flies in as hummingbird, guardian and keeper of joy, piercing through the mists of illusion to enlighten…

this iridescent dancer of rainbow light came calling in the wee hours with a clear message about awakening to and weaving the radiant light we are into the mystery of the moment, the sacred space we breathe into every moment… join with me now in taking flight on the wings of hummingbird, creative imagination…

breathe in, breathe out through our one heart connecting deeply with the divine, dancing, diamond light always sparkling in the center of being… as you see hummingbird dancing toward you, meet and merge becoming one with luminescent, shimmering light… now, dream your song of creation, a beautiful world where all relatives are respected and living in sacred reciprocity… breathe in deeply this heart of creation, drink in the overflowing love and compassion, feel hummingbird blessing us all with rainbow magic of peace and harmony…

may we all answer the call to dance as light/sound waves…

we are earth, we are spirit… listening and offering to always act in the interest of the children of all beings of the earth…

tonight is the moment to share our second night’s dream from last night and to honor Kwanzaa’s 2nd day value of self-determination which seems the moment to bring these words to bear… a record 6,036 US children have been killed, injured by gunfire in 2022; that is, as of today 306 children under age 12 were killed by guns and another 668 were injured nationwide and for those ages 12-17, 1,328 were killed and 3,734 were injured… we can do better and we must take up the age old value of acting in the best interest of the earth…

i’m trusting our journey on the Caravan of Re-Joy-Sing, honoring our transcendent journey into light, our taking joy in transforming shadow seeds into blooming gifts and our witnessing these gifts as dreams coming to us each night for the 12 nights of Christmas is fruitful for you especially under last night’s energy of the mystery school of Taurus…

on the second night of Christmas, my true love (Beloved Taurus) gave to me, a dream of… a new song of the earth being sung by the underground root system run riot as grandmother spider spins the web of life of all our relations and white buffalo calf woman moves the web of life aboveground  with prayers of abundance inspiring sacred herds of buffalo to once again dance across the plains organically nourishing the earth as they empty themselves to replenish the soil… and the earth begins to sing the new song of the earth – of  all beings of the earth vibrating at one frequency of  love and peace re-joy-sing in being in harmony and in rhythm with divine flow…

may we all  recognize and honor the sacredness of every life walk and connect in deeper ways to life’s meaning and the values of peace, love, joy and harmony…

thousand fold thanks, great spirit, for whispering this song of the earth of our being for all children of the earth…

namaste’

ah, pilgrimaging with the caravan of re-joy-sing began last night… i’d love to hear of your dream gift from aries, here’s  mine of  this first night’s journey into light, this awakening ever more deeply and expansively of our one illuminated heart…

on the first night of Christmas, my true love (Beloved Aries) gave to me the dream gift of flying with a flock of “strange birds”, circling with unknown imaginal cells holding the same core knowings so that we could effect greater shifting in the collective as we journeyed as on interbeing…

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a flock of geese flying home to sun

singing of joy and peace for everyone

open hearts now re-joy-sing spontaneously

awakening our light song at celestial frequency

 we soar on love’s sunbeams  in wild ecstasy

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“How could the soul not take flight
When from the glorious Presence
A soft call flows sweet as honey,
And whispers, “Rise up now, come away.”
How could the fish not jump
Immediately from dry land into water,
When the sound of water from the ocean
Of fresh waves springs to his ear?
How could the hawk not fly away,
Back, back, to the wrist of the kind
As soon as he hears the drum
The king’s baton hits again and again,
Drumming out the signal of return?
How could the Sufi not start to dance,
Turning on himself, like the atom in the sun of eternity,
So he can leap free of this dying world?
Fly away, fly away, bird, to your native home.
You have leaped free of the cage,
Your wings are flung back in the wind of God.
Leave behind the stagnant and marshy waters,
Hurry, hurry, hurry, O bird, to the source of life!“

~ Rumi ~

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thankyou, Beloved, for gifting such a moment of eternity of interbeeing, simply interbeeing fullheartedly/foolheartedly present in every moment, in every beautiful rainbow trail moment of eternity… and, as we go into dreamtime tonight, let’s tune into the element of earth and the energies of taurus to see what the dream gift is…

first, an intention for peace…

peace is here
when we want it

peace is here
when we want the health of our people more than global domination,
peace is here
when we want everyone’s prosperity
more than we want to be richer than others,
peace is here
when we want peace more than the illusion of security,
peace is here

peace is here
when we want to move forward more than we want our team to triumph,
peace is here
when we want to get the things we want more than we want the glory,
peace is here
when we want things to be right more than we want the story of being wronged,
peace is here

peace is here
when we want happiness more than we want to win,
peace is here
when we want connection more than we want ambitious achievements,
peace is here
when we want this moment more than we want our future fantasies (that will always fail to satisfy even if they do come true),
peace is here

peace is here
when we want to relax and repair more than we want to defend the story of ourself,
peace is here
when we want to seek understanding more than we want to win the argument,
peace is here
when we want to love more than we want to shield ourself from future grief,
peace is here

peace is here
when we want our sanity more than our reputation,
peace is here
when we want to be loved more than we want to be alone,
peace is here
when want what’s in the interest of all our relations
more than we want what’s in our self-interest
peace is here
when we want to remove the blocks to health more than we want anything else,
peace is here
when we want it
now…

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i’m trusting today has been a day of taking joy for you on yet another feast day celebrating the light, a magical moment of eternity when the portal is wide open for our re-membering who we are… radiant suns and receptive moons of our one cosmic heart…

on these upcoming twelve nights of the 12 Days of Christmas, i invite you to join me once again for our annual special pilgrimage, the Caravan of Re-Joy-Sing, honoring our transcendent/descendent journey into light, our taking joy in transforming shadow seeds into gifts and our witnessing these gifts as dreams coming to us each night for the next 12 nights to the tune of the 12 Days of Christmas…

on the first night of Christmas, my true love (Aries) gave to me, a dream of…  on the second night of Christmas, my true love (Taurus) gave to me, a dream of…  on the third night of Christmas, my true love (Gemini) gave to me, a dream of…   on the fourth night of Christmas, my true love (Cancer) gave to me, a dream of… don’t worry if you are seeing this on the 26th, you can still ask Aries to dream you…

so, you get the idea? each night our dream will be a gift from the sun signs, the light, guiding us, mapping the route along the rainbow trail as we re-member and re-birth more and more of whom we really and truly are…

i take joy with you as we adventure into dreamtime, re-joy-sing in this oft-quoted salutation from the Italian painter and architect Fra Giovanni (Angelico) in 1513…

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“I salute you.

There is nothing I can give you which you have not,
but there is much that while I cannot give,
you can take.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today.
Take heaven.

No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant.
Take peace.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.
Take joy.

And so at this Christmastime,
I greet you, with the prayer
that for you,
now and forever,
the day breaks
and the shadows
flee away.”

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today’s holi day journey is the quintessential poetic peace pilgrimage, one flowing moment of intoxication peppered with a string of hiccups, of spirits of peace, love and joy transmuting conflict, fear and sadness while carrying our one heart in a continuous blessingway deeper and deeper into incarnating, embodying the all that is…

thank you, thank you, thank you for this moment of grace, this day of pause, this season of dancing in stillness, merging the opposites into a seamless tapestry, a kaleidoscope of rainbow colored images of the many and the one…

dolphin dancing and leaping like waves flowing in the ocean… pulled by love out of my safe cove into the wider ocean of wonder, beauty, grace… i live in wonder at this journey’s unfolding in such a mysterious, serendipitous, synchronistic way and am so grateful when able to hold the tension of the opposites…

how i love this annual magical ride pulled by shamanic horses of the heart and skysea, our ever present dolphin guides who love taking us into the ocean depths  and space heights where we feel the magnetic  energy of the new moon in Capricorn on this day that hums to the tune of being presence and calls us to listen and attune to the cosmic frequency calling us home, home to the heart…

let us venture now to the river of joy below the river through that well worn wormhole, the rabbit hole, and encounter a communion of ancestors, so many members of the village impacting our destiny so profoundly… yes, today’s holi day journey is an ancestor blessingway overflowing with real eyes vision, realeyezations flowing from our sister moon about the new world we are breathing in where all our children are smiling in delight as we grow into a communal culture of light turned on by soular power to be our fullest expression and deepest purpose… to fly on the wings of love and to ground ourselves into the roots of belonging always being love, joy, peace and harmony…

breathe in this magical moment, this moment of wonder from our earth mother through our one heart and out to sky father who whispers it back to the great mother who breathes us again  and the seamless cycle of return  flows infinitely through the beyond…

one breath, one moment, one step of always being love…

happiest of trails…

today’s pilgrimage has a magical mystery tour quality, a perfect backdrop for drawing down the the powerful energies of the thirteenth new moon of this turn around the sun and a perfect moment while still in the portal of soulstice to be still and listen in a deeper way to our one cosmic heart’s whisperings for us all to invoke our shared quantum field of infinite possibilities for setting our intentions for moonifesting a cosmos of harmony where our heart beats as one resonant, unitive field…

in this moment, this beautiful moment of eternity, let’s breathe in peace deeply drawing down the rhythms of the dark moon and cultivate the mountain goat’s ability for receptive waiting by going into “thinking like a mountain” eternity consciousness… breathing in and breathing out, float down to the river below the river and see the polished stone whose jagged edges have been smoothed out by currents and whirlpools and floods and snow and glacier melts over the aeons and watch as this stone now rises revealing its true self as the sea goat of the ocean deeps and a mountain peak of quiet endurance and majestic calm, unmovable and unperturbable…

like the ocean deep and mountain peak, we are in our core, constant and true and able to follow Capricorn’s lead to climb every mountain and to dive deeply into the ocean of being, to fulfill our shared dharma, our right way of living – to co-create a cosmos of harmony, heaven on earth consciousness… now is the moment to plant the energy intentions, to seed our shared field with the resonance of co-creation, co-llaboration and beloved communion… breathing in and breathing out our shared dream intention for a cosmos of true refuge for all our relations…

tune into the star that is being birthed in this moment … a new consciousness of peace and harmony is now ripe to leave the birth canal and come into embodiment collectively and individually though even this division is transcended with this grand convergence into zero point continuum eternal now – blessed are we in the sacred conjunction of the planetary bodies at and as this threshold time into eternity is opening up and the umbilical cord to eden is restored and re-attached and that which was turned upside down is turned downside up in alignment with the naturel flow and breath of creation with rainbow serpent becoming rainbow bridge moonifesting heaven-earth consciousness…

how’s that for a little moonifesting?

yes! i’ll bee planting these heirloom seeds of transformation in the sacred garden and we will all return to the field of unitive love to interbee who we truly are, we will come back to the garden as the stardust beeings we are…

“On the day I die, when I’m being carried
toward the grave, don’t weep. Don’t say,

He’s gone! He’s gone. Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets and

the moon sets, but they’re not gone.
Death is a coming together. The tomb

looks like a prison, but it’s really
release into union. The human seed goes

down in the ground like a bucket into
the well where Joseph is. It grows and

comes up full of some unimagined beauty.
Your mouth closes here, and immediately

opens with a shout of joy there.”

~ Rumi ~

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on this second day of celebrating soulstice, of standing still with the sun, of celebrating the return of the light, i celebrate the life of Ram Dass as well on this third anniversary of his death… it seems the blink of an eye when Ram Dass, at his last annual retreat on Maui, was chanting the first mantra from his guru he ever shared…

“shree ram jai ram jai jai ram…” over and over again we chant this mantra of grace… later, Ram Dass will go into his signature mantra… “I am loving awareness…” soon after this retreat he dropped his body and i immediately went into deep retreat with him culminating 8 months later when i died and Ram Dass asked if I wanted to walk home with him which i really did but when i went to gather my things to go with him and came back, he was gone which i took as my signal to come back into the body and continue to be here now in unwavering loving awareness… in celebration of his life, his light, let us join together in loving awareness…

taking this moment to conspire, to breathe together in gratitude gathering the quintessence re-membering who we truly are… loving sparks of light…

we are not these eyes and what they see, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

settle more deeply into spacious awareness saying… we are not these ears and what they hear, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

breathing in and out simply being and saying… we are not this mouth and what it tastes, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially… we are not these hands and what they touch, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially… we are not this nose and what it smells, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

now, noticing thoughts arising and memories saying… we are not these thoughts, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially… we are not these memories, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

now, seeing the whole body and feeling the body from within the body saying… we are not this body, we are the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

breathing in feeling simply loving awareness… breathing out letting go of everything except resting in the soul of loving awareness quintessentially…

thank you for filling us with lovingkindness

thank you for supporting us in everything

thank you for holding us in peace and ease

shanti, shanti, shantihi…

now, feel this healing light flooding every cell of our being dissolving all rigid, inflexible, habitual ways of being into patterns resonant with quintessential soular consciousness…

let’s pass this gift forward sending the divine light of love through our raised hands… feel the light emanating from your hand and feel this energy of light attracting more and more light, more and more love with every pulse we transmit into ever widening circles…

thank you for walking ever more deeply into love and compassion and lighting the way for us, Ram Dass…

Don’t you know yet? It’s your light that lights the worlds. ~Rumi~

i love this timeless moment of eternity when all of nature surrenders as we welcome winter in the northern hemisphere and the return of the light bidding farewell to darkness on this shortest day when for a moment of sacred pause we stand still and reflect on this turn around the sun and the ways we have served the web of life, the ways we are called to release to make room for new seeds of intention we are invited now to plant as we draw down the the waning moon’s energy into the watery womb…

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singing light into the dark

connecting with the stillpoint of creation

surrendering to love’s cosmic hum

mirroring nature

standing still like the sun

silently dreaming

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today, while standing still with the sun invoking and breathing in this soulstice blessingway as we birth and nurture light’s eternal renewal, a song from childhood echoes inside, This Little Light of Mine… and, yes, as the words direct, i’m gonna let it shine, shine on the old story burning it away leaving us free to draw down the power of the waning moon and the Capricorn sun to be the new cosmic story…

while sitting today in the dark with Hecate, goddess of the darkness, join me in holding our hands over our heart as we take this soulstice moment of deep pause for re-membering and clean-sing and re-joy-sing the moons of 2022 for when we see through shero’s eyes, we real-eyes what we experienced as disappointments, obstacles, challenges all carry a seed, a gift for us to unwrap… a present that delights and surprises pointing the way to be peace, love, joy and harmony…

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“To the Four Winds and the Four Corners of the Earth

To the Falling Rain and the Fire in the Sky

I call on you in Deep Respect and with Great Gratitude.

I call upon you to Support, Guide and Protect 
all who receive this prayer.

At this time of quiet and stillness

When the Light of the World is dim

And the Darkness around us deep

May we be still and listen for the silent sound of the 
seed of Illumination

That lives, always, within our heart and soul and mind.

May we seek now to awaken to more of the Light within.

For in the dark even the dimmest light can be seen.

In darkness, the faintest flicker of light

Is enough to guide us and show us the way.

May the inner light we now rekindle burn strong and bright.

May it expand and grow throughout the coming year

And may we continue to see, feel, share and 
shine our inner light

Into the World

Even as the outer light returns.

And so it is!”

~Edward Mills~

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keep on shining…