on awakening today to the return of light, i savor standing still with the sun for another day, resting in another eternal moment of softening, surrendering to love, shedding outgrown skins, letting go into the flow of grace, re-membering my many times daily mantra of the past 52 (the number being of stillness) moons…

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“To be whole, let yourself break.
To be straight, let yourself bend.
To be full, let yourself be empty.
To be new, let yourself wear out.
To have everything, give everything up.

Knowing others is a kind of knowledge;
knowing yourself is wisdom.

Conquering others requires strength;
conquering yourself is true power. “

Lao Tzu

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yes, today is a day of celebrating the astonishing light of our being by celebrating grace by letting go, dropping into simplicity, tuning into the cosmic hum, listening to great silence singing us home, welcoming us to the star within, star of onederfield, heaven on earth… sacred space of radiant re-birth… breathing in and breathing out, we ride the wave of rainbow light through  the night to our home, this moment of de-light…

in addition to being the eve of 11/11 when we  celebrate both the most potent day for manifesting dreams and the 101st Armistice Day, a day of celebrating peace worldwide when the first world war ceased, it is also the day of sharing an image of our astonishing lightness of being…

   thankfully, a dreamtime image emerges, an image that has appeared at potent moments throughout my life to whisper words of wisdom, to paint the vast sky in rainbow colors of harmony, a guide that has been teaching me since i was a child of two…

according to pythia, psychedelic rainbow serpent living in the deep waters of the heart of gaia, the great secret of life is to be perfectly still, slowing down to a standstill perfectly poised in peace, breathing into the belly and out through the crown resting more deeply with every breath in the stillpoint of creation where there’s only the dance of rainbow mystery calling us to join in moving in the rhythm of peace prevailing on earth and thank you for letting it begin with me  and thee until we are one wave encircling the cosmos breathing and being peace in every cell and thought, word and deed… yes!

may we take this moment as the moon waxes full to fill ourselves with loving kindness and peace…

“At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.”

~ Black Elk ~

“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.”

~ TS Eliot ~

i awaken today with a song singing through… Hallelujah, one of my favorite songs of re-joy-sing alerting me to the sacred nature of this day of awakening, of rising from the dead, the things we have died to and re-joining the living in an awakened way….

for so many turns around the sun, i desire to live in a place named Stillness and today on the  52nd day on the road there within a 202nd  day on an initiation path of awakening, all the cells of this cell of the one cell are singing free at last!

this awakening journey along the rainbow trail is all about slowing down, breathing in rhythm with pachamama, anchored with her heartbeat, living cosmic balance breathing in and breathing out…

stillness is all there is and stillness loves dancing, dolphin dancing, in harmony with flow…

slowly, in slow motion, everything gets still and waves of the peace that passes all understanding wash through becoming the frequency of the ocean of being…

stillness, wellspring of joy at rainbow’s end…

happy trails!