welcome, well come to day 31 of a season of peace on this first day of the new moonth of metamorphing march and its treasure trove of riches beginning with this day of Venus conjunct with Jupiter and the 8th day of the metaphorical 40 days in the desert before dying to one life to be reborn into one more, a mysterious metamorphing… welcome, well come to where i live – in the river of life deepening into the river below the river and suspended, paused on the bridge holding the tension of the opposites as this energy moves through melting walls and constrictions that block me from feeling the warm embrace of the web of life, the belonging place for all our relatives, this space where we re-member our true nature as beings of peace who are to live in harmony with all that is… what a moment of eternity we are in with so many opportunities to practice lovingkiindness with actions of compassion beginning right within our ocean of being… in this potent moment of eternity, we have such a beautiful Venusian/Jupiterian opportunity to stand solidly together saying yes to peace, to wage peace with every breath and every step… i’ve been a peace activist for many decades and still know that peace is the way and that most of us want peace; it is my intention at this crossroads moment to do my part knowing our survival depends on it… thank you for being peace in this moment, in every moment…

come now and join me beside the still water on this day of a new beginning and let’s celebrate the astonishing light of our being giving us the courage to look deeply within and act courageously, with great heart co-creating the world of compassion and peace we all know is possible…

let’s hold out our hands to each other, smile and conspire, breathe together through our one heart receiving the golden light pouring into us from our earth mother and sky father who love us so… with each breath we enter deeper and deeper into great mystery…. open the way… toward the one… breathing in… breathing out…

may we experience source, the ultimate spiritual reality of the universe, the power of healing and transformation that is the ultimate reality and shaper of the universe, the transformative power unifying all being as one spiritually-alive, mutually inter-dependent, awesome, flawsome, fantastic, evolving, conscious totality of which we are each a tiny part and totality, the one and the many simultaneously…

blessing the space between us as we journey deeper into  sacred mystery walking each other home, the pilgrimage to our one heart…

  let’s seal this sacred space with the reciting of a poem for cultivating peace = people emerging and cultivating equanimity:

“When the earth is in distress, she attunes with love and sends out a prayer.

The True One hears it, and with total ease is pleased to give strength and steadiness.

by sending a command to the Power of Rain, and the rain pours down in torrents.

The wealth of grain and corn grows thick.

we cannot describe the value.

Oh Naanak, appreciate the Divine Identity.

You, Divine One, cause the life-giving food to be given to all the creatures and peace grows.”

welcome, well come to day 31 of a season of peace on this first day of the new moonth of merging march and its treasure trove of riches beginning with this day known as fat tuesday, a day to go wild before the metaphorical 40 days in the desert before dying to one life to be reborn into one more in tune with great mystery… welcome, well come to where i live – in the river of life deepening into the river below the river and suspended, paused on the bridge holding the tension of the opposites as this energy moves through melting walls and constrictions that block me from feeling the warm embrace of the web of life, the belonging place for all our relatives, this space where we re-member our true nature as beings of peace who are to live in harmony with all that is… what a moment of eternity we are in with so many opportunities to practice lovingkiindness with actions of compassion beginning right within our ocean of being… in this potent moment of eternity, we have such a beautiful opportunity to stand solidly together saying yes to peace, to wage peace with every breath and every step… i’ve been a peace activist for many decades and still know that peace is the way and that most of us want peace; it is my intention at this crossroads moment to do my part knowing our survival depends on it… thank you for being peace in this moment, in every moment…

in this moment of eternity

we are river beloved mirroring reflection

we are full moon waning channeling glow

we are grandmother gaia dreamweaving creation

we are heart open wide radiating flow

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we are full moon waning channeling glow

awakening the beings in the realms below

we are heart open wide radiating flow

rippling love circles in a magical show

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awakening the beings in the realms below

breathing in deeply the cosmic flow

rippling love circles in a magical show

breathing in deeply the cosmic flow

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we are river beloved mirroring reflection

we are grandmother gaia dreamweaving creation

breathing in deeply the cosmic flow

breathing in deeply the cosmic flow

~

i’ve been pondering what to name this march and was so tempted to go again with mutating march as a year later we are still so immersed in mutation and i was equally tempted to go with miracles of march and meditative would be so right as would musing and mesmerizing and on and on and then at the last moment i got that magic, change in consciousness, could encapsulate the mutating and the miraculous so welcome, well come to day 31 of a season of peace on this first day of the new moonth of magical march and its treasure trove of riches as we are still celebrating the energy of the miracles buddha bestows at tibetan new year…

  “The Light of Smiles

I will light the match of smiles. My gloom veil will disappear. I shall behold my soul in the light of smiles hidden behind the accumulated darkness of ages. When I find myself, I shall race through all hearts with the torch of my soul-smiles. My heart will smile first, then my eyes, then my face. Every body part will shine in the light of smiles.

I will run amid the thickets of melancholy hearts and make a bonfire of all sorrows. I am the irresistible fire of smiles. I will fan myself with the breeze of God-joy and blaze my way through the darkness of all minds. My smiles will convey His smiles and whoever meets me will catch a whiff of my divine joy. I will carry fragrant, purifying torches of smiles for all hearts.”

~ from Metaphysical Meditations
by Paramahansa Yogananda ~

may we all travel in an awakened way with hearts wide open and filled with lovingkindness… may we be well and peaceful and at ease and happy…

welcome, welcome to day 31 of a season of peace on the 29th day of the flowering field of february which means it’s a very special day, one that only happens every four years as we leap into this quantum flowering field in the miracle days of the tibetan new year…

so, today, i celebrate all our relatives… yes, you, like his holiness, showing up as sunshine… yes, you showing up being love… yes, you, being harmonizing healer… thousandfold thanks for being astonishing radiant lights… seeing the best in others, spreading lovingkindness virally…

let’s close with the Dalai Lama’s personal daily prayer… “Every day as you wake up, think that I am fortunate to be alive. I have a precious human life, and I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand myself out to others; to achieve enlightenment for all beings.”

welcome, welcome to day 31 of a season of peace… are you feeling the frequency of magic as we move into march under a waxing moon of insiraction? i’m feeling inspired to greet this month as freespirit racing with the wind into a new beginning and a new blessing from John O’Donohue, a  poem for all pilgrims on the spirit path… happiest of trails, beloveds, as we adventure into march wandering into wonder…

Every time you leave home,
Another road takes you
Into a world you were never in.

New strangers on other paths await.
New places that have never seen you
Will startle a little at your entry.
Old places that know you well
Will pretend nothing
Changed since your last visit.

When you travel, you find yourself
Alone in a different way,
More attentive now
To the self you bring along,
Your more subtle eye watching
You abroad; and how what meets you
Touches that part of the heart
That lies low at home:

How you unexpectedly attune
To the timbre in some voice,
Opening in conversation
You want to take in
To where your longing
Has pressed hard enough
Inward, on some unsaid dark,
To create a crystal of insight
You could not have known
You needed
To illuminate
Your way.

When you travel,
A new silence
Goes with you,
And if you listen,
You will hear
What your heart would
Love to say.

A journey can become a sacred thing:
Make sure, before you go,
To take the time
To bless your going forth,
To free your heart of ballast
So that the compass of your soul
Might direct you toward
The territories of spirit
Where you will discover
More of your hidden life,
And the urgencies
That deserve to claim you.

May you travel in an awakened way,
Gathered wisely into your inner ground;
That you may not waste the invitations
Which wait along the way to transform you.

May you travel safely, arrive refreshed,
And live your time away to its fullest;
Return home more enriched, and free
To balance the gift of days which call you.

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yes, may we travel in an awakened way with wide open hearts filled with lovingkindness… may we be well and peaceful and at ease and happy…