welcome, well come to day 55 of a season of peace and day 99 of this ninth turn around the sun on the poetic peace pilgrimage… with 55 vibrating at the frequency of freedom, how holy synchronisiddhi that today is United Nations International Day of Remembrance of Slavery Victims and the Transatlantic Slave Trade honoring the lives of those who died as a result of slavery and who experienced the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade which makes it a perfect moment to feature such a shero as General Moses who is 200 years old this month and in further celebration of women’s herstory month, it is also the 111th anniversary of a terrible fire in the garment district which led to a protest which led to international women workers day…

the slave trade is now universally regarded as one of the worst ever violations of human rights, a violation viscerally felt by Hariette Tubman as a young child born into and victimized by this inhumane institution which early on she began running from and accomplished by walking through thick forests, over rivers and over hills following the North Star until she got to what she learned was a place called Pennsylvania (a so-called “free” state) and she noted: “I had crossed the line. I was ‘free,’ but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home, after all, was down in Maryland, because my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters and friends were there. But I was free, and they should be free! I would make a home in the North and bring them there!”

She said it. She meant it. She did it.

again and again, she would return to carry out her sacred mission of freedom for the enslaved…later, she said of her upbringing and of slavery itself: “I grew up like a neglected weed — ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. I was not happy or content. Every time I saw a white man, I was afraid of being carried away. I had two sisters carried away in a chain gang — one of them left two children. We were always uneasy. . . . I think slavery is the next thing to hell.” her raids into the prison-states of the South led to the freedom of literally hundreds of Black people including her own aged parents, Harriet and Benjamin Ross…

from beginning to end, the life of General Moses was one of resistance and struggle in freedom’s cause, may we be inspired by her life and take up her mission of waging freedom for all our relatives…

welcome, well come to day 54 of a season of peace, a day of listening to the rhythm of the waves and the song of the soul calling us to come home fully to ourselves and create what is only ours to birth and to the the voice of grandmother echoing from the deeps of the river below the river saying:

“I send love and blessings to all from the spirit world. I am so honored to feel your love and your concern. 

Do not forget to do everything you can to heal the oceans and water of this beautiful planet. Send your healing, loving thoughts to the water daily and get others to do the same. You must hold a vision of the water sparkling clean and full of vibrant life, for as you create this vision it will be done. It will however, take millions of people holding this vision to make the shift.

Do not be dragged down by the current chaos in the world. Humans are gifted and powerful creators. You only need to shift your focus ever so slightly to come into alignment and do good for each other and all creatures on planet earth. It is time to forgive and let go of violence. Make your priority loving the earth, loving and supporting each other, loving and protecting all creatures, and doing everything you can to make life a paradise for all.” 

~ Granny ~

ahhh… love, sweet love… as i float in the spaciousness of the stillpoint, i re-member a poem that it is said that Charlie Chaplin wrote for and read on his seventieth birthday in 1959; many years later Kim McKillen wrote a book with the same poem, As I Began to Love Myself… whether the words are only Kim’s or both of theirs and many other people’s, the poem is so beautiful, so filled with wisdom and exactly the right medicine to sing our one heat home as we watery beings dance along the rainbow trail…

“As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is ‘AUTHENTICITY’.

As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody if I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me. Today I call it “RESPECT”.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it “MATURITY”.

As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment. So I could be calm. Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE”.

As I began to love myself I quit stealing my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm. Today I call it “SIMPLICITY”.

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF”.

As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right, and ever since I was wrong less of the time. Today I discovered that is “MODESTY”.

As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worrying about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where everything is happening. Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT”.

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART”.

We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born. Today I know “THAT IS LIFE”!

welcome, well come to day 53 of a season of peace and to a day of watery loving presence re-treat, a day of savoring the quintessence, the essence of our essence… love, sweet love… as i float in the spaciousness of the stillpoint, i re-member a poem that takes us flying on the wings of celestial seaeagle to be lifted like a prayer and to be one long emanation and incantation of lovingkindness…

Eagle Poem

“To pray you open your whole self
To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon
To one whole voice that is you.
And know there is more
That you can’t see, can’t hear
Can’t know except in moments
Steadily growing, and in languages
That aren’t always sound but other
Circles of motion.
Like eagle that Sunday morning
Over Salt River.  Circles in blue sky
In wind, swept our hearts clean
With sacred wings.
We see you, see ourselves and know
That we must take the utmost care
And kindness in all things.
Breathe in, knowing we are made of
All this, and breathe, knowing
We are truly blessed because we
Were born, and die soon, within a
True circle of motion,
Like eagle rounding out the morning
Inside us.
We pray that it will be done
In beauty.
In beauty.”

~ Joy Harjo ~

traveling this peace pilgrimage through the exterior landscape brings one deeper and deeper into the interior, a coming home to the heart where it is clearer and clearer, moment by moment, that we are always being led… boundless love, co-hearts… 

we are all rainclouds…

mni wiconi

water is life

welcome, well come to day 52 of a season of peace which synchronisticly falls on world water day calling me to totally be a body of water of life… let’s all take this moment, this breath to reset and to celebrate ourselves as bodies of water = we are the eternal radiance, astonishing lights of beingness made to flow into impermanence, uncertainty and the unknown as (w)hol(l)y seaworthy vessels…

UN World Water Day is a part of a worldwide mission to ensure everyone has access to safe drinking water with many in the world not having access to one of our most valuable natural resources…

in many areas around the world, taps, pipes and wells simply don’t exist and if they do they’re not affordable for many people which means drinking dirty water is the only option with dirty water being responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year…

we, like all other bodies of water, can change course and follow a sustainable direction by first believing we can and next acting on the belief with action by loving our waters for they are our mother, our ancestors and are the web weaving all our relatives into an amazing tapestry… we have a duty of care to protect and nurture our grandmothers and grandfathers and mothers and fathers and children who give us life…

let us all in this moment of eternity to breathe deeply together, yes, conspire and envision and answer the urgent call to action for a world where everyone drinks freely and safely of our life giving relative, water, instead of the present figure of only .01% of water being potable… here’s a first step whenever using this sacred elixir…

 Prayer When Drinking Water

“As I receive this water and it flows through me,
May it become medicine dispelling all ills,
May it become medicine revealing the wisdom within and through out.
I offer apology for any harm done through wrong speech & action

As this water flows through me and becomes vapor,
May it purify the atmosphere
May it nourish the wisdom potential in the people
I offer apology for any harm done through wrong speech & action

As this water flows through me, and returns to the water table
May it remove the impurities of chemicals placed within the water
May the water be made new again
May this water become medicine for all beings in this and all worlds“

~ Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo ~

“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.”
~Rainer Maria Rilke~

welcome, well come to day 51 of a season of peace, a day of another pilgrimage of devocean to the sea peacefully voicing the cosmic hum singing an ancient hymn to and for the mother waters in us and surrounding us all, a day of re-membering a dream of seven years ago of going into the wasteland to anoint with holy water all my relations which inspired a pilgrimage to gather holy water from the heart chakra of the planet to share as anointing oil, a ceremony i continue to practice daily in the uncharted waters of the uncertain times in which we swim… let us now be heartened with the sage words of a wise water guardian:

“You have been telling people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered…

Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?

Know your garden.
It is time to speak your truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for your leader.

Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said, “This could be a good time! There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly. Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey come to a halt.

The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word ’struggle’ from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”

~ Hopi Elders’ Prophecy, June 8, 2000 ~

may we real-eyes and celebrate the astonishing light of being in every sacred moment of eternity…

welcome, well come to day 50 of a season of peace, a day of cosmic harmony, how i love this day of sacred pause, this profound portal of equinox amplified with our still being in the glow of the full moon of miracles in virgo, the moon of being one in one’s self… are you feeling the serpentine energies arising from the earth to marry the soular rays flowing down from the skies activating the creation of the cosmic egg as the sun moves into aries and the new astrological year begins?

 awakening today with a smile in this moment of eternity celebrating the astonishing light of being and so much more on this favorite day of cosmic balance, i/we breathe in and breathe out with a deep sigh of  ah, of awe… yes! the whole world is in balance today as we celebrate the festival of the sun, the day we all receive the same amount of sun externally and internally… on this day of the earth’s poles being in balance and light piercing through both hemispheres, we are able to see through dimensional veils… seeing the world through eyes of equanimity, we hear her song of harmony on this first day of the new astrological turn around the sun, this sacred moment of resurrection, of the dawning of consciousness…

yes! i love this day of balance, such happiness flows like a bubbling brook reminding me that in addition to being equinox, today is also the International Day of Happiness as decreed by the United Nations… and, it’s the first day of fall for southern hemisphereians and spring for those of us in the north… what joy to be on the 16th annual whalewatching re-treat on one of my favorite of days made all the more special as this is the day of the feathered rainbow serpent who has dreamed me for almost seven decades and i’d like to invite you to join me in communing with pythia on this her day, our day…

let’s all get comfortable and ground ourselves in spirit by breathing in deeply from the heavens through our third eye of empowerment and our one heart of cosmic love and our belly, the womb of wisdom, the core of being, the ground of being… let us begin to walk along the pathless path as one through the velvety darkness of the wilder ness… as our soles kiss the earth, we become aware of a spark of light up ahead… when we draw closer, we see this spark of light is a golden egg and sitting with the egg is the most radiant rainbow serpent with every scale shining as rubies and diamonds and sapphires and emeralds, she is the creatrix of the cosmos who now wraps herself around the golden egg to prepare for the birth, the dawning of consciousness… at just the right moment, the rainbow goddess cracks open the egg releasing an immense and profoundly powerful flow of luminous light that cleanses the eyes and pierces the veils liberating every cell of our whole body instruments infusing into every cell and resurrecting the vibration of consciousness into the frequency of unconditional love and the peace passing all understanding… breathe this in and with every breath feel the ever deepening absorption of the full expression of the true self, the deep self, the soul on fire…

now, witness the rainbow serpent tansmuting into Great Mother as you mirror the process of transfiguration and intuit she has a message for you, a message of what now needs to be born into consciousness , your unique gift to offer to the web of life in this moment of eternity… receive and bring fully into consciousness these whispered words/images/sensations/knowings of wisdom… stay here as long as you desire knowing you always have the power to return with every breath… when you are ready to depart, bow to the great mother who has a gift for you, a talisman representing all that you are which you hold in your hand and place in your heart as you retrace your steps along the pathless path and arrive back at home in the present moment, beautiful moment…

thanks be beloved beauty for our every breath being a blessingway, a blessingway of deepening balance, a flowing with the waters of life in harmony revealing every moment as sacred in our one cosmic heart of love…

and so it is, blessed bee…

welcome, well come to day 49 of a season of peace, the eve of the equinox and our 16th annual whalewatching adventure, an annual re-treat my daughter and i have been injoying since 2007 when i convinced my doctors to let me have a break from radiation and travel across country to the west coast, my daughter and the whales…

everyday is truly blessing water day, water is the innernet connecting us all, the more blessings of peace, love and harmony we pour into water, the more peaceful, loving and harmonious life is… thousand fold thanks for our joining hands across the cosmos in sacred honoring… thousand fold thanks, water for giving us life and blessing our earth walks… standing before you, we re-member we are water, we are the ocean in a drop… may our one heart be purified more than ever before for the benefit of all as we drink you into our being and as water reciprocates in the next breath by blessing us and generously bestowing pure water spirits throughout the web of life… water is a mirror for us as well as perfectly mirroring us… water responds in perfect harmony to the messages we send; the more beautiful our transmission, the more beautifully water creates all that is,..

In Praise of Water

“Let us bless the grace of water:

The imagination of the primeval ocean
Where the first forms of life stirred
And emerged to dress the vacant earth
With warm quilts of color.

The well whose liquid root worked
Through the long night of clay,
Trusting ahead of itself openings
That would yet yield to its yearning
Until at last it arises in the desire of light
To discover the pure quiver of itself
Flowing crystal clear and free
Through delighted emptiness.

The courage of a river to continue belief
In the slow fall of ground,
Always falling farther
Toward the unseen ocean.

The river does what words would love,
Keeping its appearance
By insisting on disappearance;
Its only life surrendered
To the event of pilgrimage,
Carrying the origin to the end.

Seldom pushing or straining,
Keeping itself to itself
Everywhere all along its flow…

Let us bless the humility of water,
Always willing to take the shape
Of whatever otherness holds it…

Water: vehicle and idiom
Of all the inner voyaging
That keeps us alive.

Blessed be water,
Our first mother.“

~ John O’ Donohue ~

drawing down the virgo miracle full moon

returning now to being wholly oneself in spirit’s womb

to real-eyes we are one cosmic radiant heart of rainbow light beings…

~

welcome, well come to day 48 of a season of peace with the moon full in virgo, this moon of miracles whispering to us to re-member we are bodies of water:

we all come from the goddess

and to her we shall return

like a drop of rain flowing to the ocean

~

we all come from the goddess

and to her we shall return

hoof and horn, hoof and horn, all that dies is reborn

~

we all come from the goddess

and to her we shall return

sage and crone, sage and crone, wisdom’s gift is our own

~

now as we raise our arms to the moon drawing down her golden light of miracles and breathing it into every wild cell in our body, we say in unison:

I stand for myself
as a conduit for the divine source of love to cascade from the cosmic realms
showering and gracing my entire being,
re-minding me of my truth and radiance and
of my service to love…

In the illumination of this moon, I vow to live wholeheartedly.
And so it is.
Blessed Be…

welcome, well come to day 47 of a season of peace when i’m still in the energy of the Cathars in the 13th century and the persecution they suffered at the hands and minds of dominance consciousness and here we are on this day of celebrating St Patrick who drove out the snakes, aka, the druids from Ireland who are the spirit twins of the Cathars, so, on this day in the chaos cycle of life, let’s transport ourselves to the emerald isle of the earth celebrators energetically as i re-member a long ago conversation with and journey to the sun who told me to live in green for that is the color of love and now, who better to hear an echo from than her late great native son, John O’Donahue who certainly embodies the spirit of the Cathars and Druids…

A Celebration Blessing

“Now is the time
to free the heart,
Let all intentions and worries stop,
Free the joy inside the self,
Awaken to the wonder
of your life.

Open your eyes and see the friends
Whose hearts recognize your face as kin,
Those whose kindness watchful and near,
Encourages you to live everything here.

See the gifts the years have given,
Things your effort could never earn,
The health to enjoy who you want to be
And the mind to mirror mystery.

May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
may the clarity of light be yours,
may the fluency of the ocean be yours,
may the protection of the ancestors be yours.

…may a slow
wind work these words
of love around you bringing a smile to your soul…“

welcome, well come to day 46 of a season of peace and to the day marking the 778th anniversary of the siege at Montségur, France in the  the lands where Mary Magdalene carried out her ministry and the Holy Family / Essenes created the “New Bethlehem” after Yeshua’s resurrection… Montségur, the final stronghold of the Cathars during the Inquisition, was the sacred site where Roman soldiers searched for the Holy Grail and sought to destroy the last of the Cathars who were the spiritual initiates of Mary Magdalene and embodied teachings of lovingkindness and living in harmony with the land and another all of our relatives…

legend has it that on Wednesday, March 16, 1244, around 200 souls of Montségur who walked the way of love and refused to surrender their Cathar faith were burned en masse… some locals believe  that when the soldiers entered the space where the Cathars were captured, they had all dissappeared, perhaps ascending en masse…

let’s honor all brave souls who act in truth to power over by resounding the Cathar Creed as we imagine and be the New Jerusalem of peace conceived in love and lived in harmony, the sacred space always alive in the deepest core of the ground of being…

“It has no membership, save those who know they belong.

It has no rivals because it is non competitive.

It has no ambition – it seeks only to serve.

It knows no boundaries, for nationalisms are unloving.

It is not of itself because it seeks to enrich all groups and religions.

It acknowledges all great teachers of all the ages who have shown the truth of love.

Those who participate, practice the truth of love in all their being.

There is no walk of life or nationality that is a barrier.

Those who are, know.

It seeks not to teach, but to be, and by being, enriched.

It recognizes that the way we are may be the way of those around us because we are that way.

It recognizes the whole planet as a being of which we are a part.

It recognizes that the time has come for the supreme transmutation, the ultimate alchemical act of conscious change of the ego in to a voluntary return to the whole.

It does not proclaim itself with a loud voice, but in the subtle realms of loving.

It salutes all those in the past who have blazoned the path, but have paid the price.

It admits no hierarchy or structure, for no one is greater than another.

Its members shall know each other by their deeds and being, and by their eyes and by no other outward sign, save the fraternal embrace.

Each one will dedicate their life to the silent loving of their neighbour and environment, and the planet, will carry out their task, however exalted or humble.

It recognizes the supremacy of the great idea, which may only be accomplished if the human race practices the supremacy of love.

It has no reward to offer, either here or in the hereafter, save that of the ineffable joy of being and loving.

Each shall seek to advance the cause of understanding, doing good by stealth and teaching only by example.

They shall heal their neighbour, their community, our planet and living beings in whatever form they take.

They shall know no fear and feel no shame and their witness shall prevail over all odds.

It has no secret, no arcanum, no initiation, save that of true understanding of the power of love and that, if we want it to be so, the world will change, but only if we change.

All who belong, belong; they belong to the Church of Love.”

may we all journey along the path with heart deepening our connection to and alignment with source and our being one with beloved in this sacred moment of eternity, in every sacred moment of eternity…