holy synchronicity! on this day of celebrating the astonishing lightness of being, are you hearing a crescendo in the call to shine that light?

All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.

~Black Elk ~

today as i listen to the cosmic hum, i see the peace pilgrimage as our unfolding collective journey moving from egocentrism to ecocentrism… let’s listen to the sacred voice always calling us home, home to our one heart, sacred space of allone consciousness, grandmother’s web of intricate connection with every thread interlacing, a tapestry woven of, by and for quintessence, the love essence …

Then a Voice said: “Behold this day, for it is yours to make. Now you shall stand upon the center of the earth to see, for there they are taking you.” I was still on my bay horse, and once more I felt the riders of the west, the north, the east, the south, behind me, as before, and we were going east. I looked ahead and saw the mountains there with rocks and forests on them, and from the mountains flashed all colors upward to the heavens.

Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I saw in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.

Then as I stood there, two men were coming from the east, head first like arrows flying, and between them rose the daybreak star. They came and gave a herb to me and said: “With this on earth you shall undertake anything and do it.” It was the Daybreak-Star herb, the herb of understanding, and they told me to drop it on the earth. I saw it falling far, and when it struck Mother Earth it rooted and grew and flowered, four blossoms on one stem, a black, a white, a scarlet, and a yellow. The rays from these streamed upward to the heavens so that all creatures saw it and in no place was there darkness.

Hehaka Sapa, Black Elk

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

so, dear awakened ones and awakening ones, a little checklist of some signs you are awakening and, yes, smile with everyone you’re feeling…

12 Signs of Awakening

1. An increased tendency to let things happen rather than make them happen.
2. Frequent attacks of smiling.
3. Feelings of being connected with others and nature.
4. Frequent overwhelming episodes of appreciation.
5. A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than from fears based on past experience.
6. An unmistakeable ability to enjoy each moment.
7. A loss of ability to worry.
8. A loss of interest in conflict.
9. A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.
10. A loss of interest in judging others.
11. A loss of interest in judging self.
12. Gaining the ability to love without expecting anything in return.

may we  awaken to and re-member the light we are and  shine, shine, shine…