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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 71 – 2/25/2017

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Named Freely Flowing February 25 2017 Blue Star Vortex Dancing

veil lifts, door opens

on divine devotion day

of cosmic dancing bliss

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yes, today is a day of devotion, of leaping into the void of creation where we lie in the lap of the divine bathed in the bliss of eternal love culminating tonight in the great night of shiva, moment of illumination when what no longer serves is burned away as we dance with the stars who whisper to us of our soul purpose, why we are here awakening us to the song of the true self, to our soul song…

everything is alive… everything is awakening… everything is moving…. everything is dancing… be still, silent… listen….

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Day 216 – July 20, 2014

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Named Mikagura Oregon Japanese Garden Tanabata Festival July 2014 018

Last night, on the eve of beginning a week long celebration of the Turn Around the Sun Re-Creation ManiFestival, Portalandia and i  enjoy a once in a lifetime opportunity to witness the ancient Shinto ritual of Mikagura Sacred Dance. Involving an imaginative journey across time and space, we are transported to the pond in the Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine in Kamakura, Japan where the spirit of kami is enshrined. For some 2000 years, this sacred dance has been performed to please the kami, last night was the first performance in the continental United States.

Beginning with the lighting of the bonfire, we are purified with a branch of Sakaki or evergreen followed with chanting by the priests to invite the kami and more chanting offering hospitality to the kami and ending with chanting to send the kami back to their origin.

Mikagura transports us into a space in harmony with the heavenly bodies, truly, a dancing with the stars….

May we all revere the spirit in nature and live in peace…