“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.”
~ T.S. Eliot ~

oh, there is so much to whisper into this crystal, this moment of eternity on one of my favorite days of every turn around the sun and this one, so extraordinary…. breathing it in, this moment of soulstice, of stillness of the rainbow serpent, the divine feminine creation energy of our earthmother… the original people ask for all relatives to join in prayer at the time of soulstice to complete this ritual with the rainbow serpent becoming the rainbow bridge uniting heaven and earth and bringing peace and harmony to the ever-expanding cosmos…

now, there is so much more to whisper into this crystal, this moment of foreverness from this peace pilgrim’s perspective with my earliest memory of being visited by the rainbow serpent who sat at the foot of my crib and “taught” me stillness although it took me decades to consciously real-eyes what this awe-full encounter with the numinous had gifted, this resource this immune system booster, this natural vaccine that transmutes lead into gold, fear into love, stress into bless… this rainbow serpent that transmuted into a golden halo of light nineteen years later when at 21 i experienced a great awakening and then like the rainbow serpent i migrated from southeast to northwest to be grounded firmly here on this soulstice to align with the original peoples for the great ritual to complete… here is the stillness song re-joy-sing through this empty reed as all relatives come together calling in peace and harmony:

finding a place where you can sit comfortably, allow your body to find ease and let go of any doing… now, take a full breath – holding it for a moment and then releasing it completely… and, another full breath – holding it for a moment and then releasing it completely… and, one more deep cleansing breath…

continue breathing slowly, deeply and without effort – releasing all doing, simply witnessing the easing of stress and tension in the body and inviting more and more peace and harmony into every wild cell… notice any place that feels tight and release the tension allowing a softening around that area… as you continue to breathe in, begin to draw your attention within with every breath… notice any thoughts and release them gently…

now, draw your attention to our earthmother – no matter where you are sitting, place your attention on the earth below your feet… is it soft and verdant or hard and frozen? your earth – your home – your Mother… notice a pulsing vibration of energy and draw that connection up through your feet, up through your sitz bones – wherever you are connected to our earthmother – and draw that energy up into your first chakra noticing the grounding and connection…

continuing to breathe fully, deeply and with ease,

notice your attention and bring it gently and effortlessly to the vibration of our earthmother within… be one with our Mother as she holds and nurtures us… as you continue deep breathing, begin to bring that connection, that energy up to your heart chakra, noticing the energy, the vibration of the earth as it expands within your heart, within our one heart…

witness any thoughts, feelings or emotions, allowing them and then releasing them with love and ease… feel your heart expanding with each breath… pulling in the energy and vibration of our earthmother, notice your heart expanding with light, love, peace and harmony…

light, love, peace, harmony… your heart opening and expanding with each breath…

light, love, peace, harmony… connecting with the earth, with nature, with all beings…

light, love, peace, harmony… witnessing the intelligence within every living being…

as we breathe together, conspire, we are connecting with all that is, with earth and sky, oceans and mountains, all beings and the cosmos which surrounds us… we are one with all, one rainbow bridge uniting all… light, love, peace and harmony… expanding and connecting with all… gradually bringing our awareness back to our one heart, notice the steady heartbeating of life, the rich fullness and the expansion of the great conjunction, the grand union… blessings/blissings be…

~

Don’t you know yet? It’s your light that lights the worlds. ~Rumi~

i love this timeless moment of eternity when all of nature surrenders as we welcome winter in the northern hemisphere and the return of the light bidding farewell to darkness on this shortest day when for a moment of sacred pause we stand still and reflect on this turn around the sun and the ways we have served the web of life, the ways we are called to release to make room for new seeds of intention we are invited now to plant as we draw down the the waning moon’s energy into the watery womb…

~

singing light into the dark

connecting with the stillpoint of creation

surrendering to love’s cosmic hum

mirroring nature

standing still like the sun

silently dreaming

~

today, while standing still with the sun invoking and breathing in this soulstice blessingway as we birth and nurture light’s eternal renewal, a song from childhood echoes inside, This Little Light of Mine… and, yes, as the words direct, i’m gonna let it shine, shine on the old story burning it away leaving us free to draw down the power of the waning moon and the Capricorn sun to be the new cosmic story…

while sitting today in the dark with Hecate, goddess of the darkness, join me in holding our hands over our heart as we take this soulstice moment of deep pause for re-membering and clean-sing and re-joy-sing the moons of 2022 for when we see through shero’s eyes, we real-eyes what we experienced as disappointments, obstacles, challenges all carry a seed, a gift for us to unwrap… a present that delights and surprises pointing the way to be peace, love, joy and harmony…

~

“To the Four Winds and the Four Corners of the Earth

To the Falling Rain and the Fire in the Sky

I call on you in Deep Respect and with Great Gratitude.

I call upon you to Support, Guide and Protect 
all who receive this prayer.

At this time of quiet and stillness

When the Light of the World is dim

And the Darkness around us deep

May we be still and listen for the silent sound of the 
seed of Illumination

That lives, always, within our heart and soul and mind.

May we seek now to awaken to more of the Light within.

For in the dark even the dimmest light can be seen.

In darkness, the faintest flicker of light

Is enough to guide us and show us the way.

May the inner light we now rekindle burn strong and bright.

May it expand and grow throughout the coming year

And may we continue to see, feel, share and 
shine our inner light

Into the World

Even as the outer light returns.

And so it is!”

~Edward Mills~

~

keep on shining…

“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.”
~ T.S. Eliot ~

oh, there is so much to whisper into this crystal, this moment of eternity on one of my favorite days of every turn around the sun and this one, so extraordinary…. breathing it in, this moment of soulstice, of stillness amplified on steroids by the great conjunction with Jupiter and Saturn coming together (yes, they come together every 12 years but not as closely as this since 1226) at zero degrees Aquarius which heralds a move from earth to air element that will last some 200 years and bring quite a shift in consciousness, and there’s another cycle within cycles, the one of some 2333 turns around the sun as we move from sign to sign, from the age of Pisces into the Age of Aquarius which is being celebrated on our first continent of Australia by the Aborigines, the original peoples, this soulstice in sacred ceremony at Uluru, the divine mother portal of creation and home to the rainbow serpent, the divine feminine creation energy of our earthmother… the original people ask for all relatives to join in prayer at the time of soulstice to complete this ritual with the rainbow serpent becoming the rainbow bridge uniting heaven and earth and bringing peace and harmony to the ever-expanding cosmos…

now, there is so much more to whisper into this crystal, this moment of foreverness from this peace pilgrim’s perspective with my earliest memory of being visited by the rainbow serpent who sat at the foot of my crib and “taught” me stillness although it took me decades to consciously real-eyes what this awe-full encounter with the numinous had gifted, this resource this immune system booster, this natural vaccine that transmutes lead into gold, fear into love, stress into bless… this rainbow serpent that transmuted into a golden halo of light nineteen years later when at 21 i experienced a great awakening and then like the rainbow serpent i migrated from southeast to northwest to be grounded firmly here on this soulstice to align with the original peoples for the great ritual to complete… here is the stillness song re-joy-sing through this empty reed as all relatives come together calling in peace and harmony…

finding a place where you can sit comfortably, allow your body to find ease and let go of any doing… now, take a full breath – holding it for a moment and then releasing it completely… and, another full breath – holding it for a moment and then releasing it completely… and, one more deep cleansing breath…

continue breathing slowly, deeply and without effort – releasing all doing, simply witnessing the easing of stress and tension in the body and inviting more and more peace and harmony into every wild cell… notice any place that feels tight and release the tension allowing a softening around that area… as you continue to breathe in, begin to draw your attention within with every breath… notice any thoughts and release them gently…

now, draw your attention to our earthmother – no matter where you are sitting, place your attention on the earth below your feet… is it soft and verdant or hard and frozen? your earth – your home – your Mother… notice a pulsing vibration of energy and draw that connection up through your feet, up through your sitz bones – wherever you are connected to our earthmother – and draw that energy up into your first chakra noticing the grounding and connection…

continuing to breathe fully, deeply and with ease,

notice your attention and bring it gently and effortlessly to the vibration of our earthmother within… be one with our Mother as she holds and nurtures us… as you continue deep breathing, begin to bring that connection, that energy up to your heart chakra, noticing the energy, the vibration of the earth as it expands within your heart, within our one heart…

witness any thoughts, feelings or emotions, allowing them and then releasing them with love and ease… feel your heart expanding with each breath… pulling in the energy and vibration of our earthmother, notice your heart expanding with light, love, peace and harmony…

light, love, peace, harmony… your heart opening and expanding with each breath…

light, love, peace, harmony… connecting with the earth, with nature, with all beings…

light, love, peace, harmony… witnessing the intelligence within every living being…

as we breathe together, conspire, we are connecting with all that is, with earth and sky, oceans and mountains, all beings and the cosmos which surrounds us… we are one with all, one rainbow bridge uniting all… light, love, peace and harmony… expanding and connecting with all… gradually bringing our awareness back to our one heart, notice the steady heartbeating of life, the rich fullness and the expansion of the great conjunction, the grand union… blessings/blissings be…

Don’t you know yet? It’s your light that lights the worlds. ~Rumi~

i love this moment when all of nature surrenders as we welcome winter in the northern hemisphere and the return of the light bidding farewell to darkness and for a moment of sacred pause we stand still and reflect on this turn around the sun and the ways we have served the web of life, the ways we are called to release to make room for new seeds of intention we are invited now to plant as we draw down the the waning moon’s energy into the watery womb…

~

singing light into the dark

connecting with the stillpoint of creation

surrendering to love’s cosmic hum

mirroring nature

standing still like the sun

silently dreaming

~

today, while standing still with the sun invoking and breathing in this soulstice blessingway as we birth and nurture light’s eternal renewal and reflect and resound, a song from childhood echoes inside, This Little Light of Mine… And, yes, as the words direct, i’m gonna let it shine, shine on the old story burning it away leaving us free to draw down the power of the waning moon and the Capricorn sun to be the new cosmic story…

while sitting today in the dark with Hecate, goddess of the darkness, join me in holding our hands over our heart as we take this soulstice moment of deep pause for re-membering and clean-sing and re-joy-sing the moons of 2019, when we see through shero’s eyes, we real-eyes what we experienced as disappointments, obstacles, challenges all carry a seed, a gift for us to unwrap… a present that delights and surprises pointing the way to be peace, love, joy and harmony…

~

To the Four Winds and the Four Corners of the Earth

To the Falling Rain and the Fire in the Sky

I call on you in Deep Respect and with Great Gratitude.

I call upon you to Support, Guide and Protect 
all who receive this prayer.

At this time of quiet and stillness

When the Light of the World is dim

And the Darkness around us deep

May we be still and listen for the silent sound of the 
seed of Illumination

That lives, always, within our heart and soul and mind.

May we seek now to awaken to more of the Light within.

For in the dark even the dimmest light can be seen.

In darkness, the faintest flicker of light

Is enough to guide us and show us the way.

May the inner light we now rekindle burn strong and bright.

May it expand and grow throughout the coming year

And may we continue to see, feel, share and 
shine our inner light

Into the World

Even as the outer light returns.

And so it is!

Edward Mills

~

keep on shining…

mirroring nature

standing still like the sun

silently dreaming

~

i love this moment when all of nature surrenders as we welcome winter and the return of the light bidding farewell to darkness and for a moment of sacred pause we stand still and reflect on this turn around the sun and the ways we have served the web of life, the ways we are called to release to make room for new seeds of intention we are invited now to plant as we draw down the the new moon’s energy into the watery womb… yes, a perfect moment of sitting in the inner light, the sol, the soul on this shortest day and longest night for northern hemispherians, a perfect moment of sitting in the dark with Hecate, goddess of the dark fecundity, holding our hands and hearts as we take this soulstice moment of deep pause for re-membering and clean-sing and re-joy-sing the moons of 2017… seeing through shero’s eyes, we realeyes what we experienced as disappointments, obstacles, challenges all carry a seed, a gift for us to unwrap,,, a present that delights and surprises pointing the way to be peace, love, joy and harmony…

~

To the Four Winds and the Four Corners of the Earth

To the Falling Rain and the Fire in the Sky

I call on you in Deep Respect and with Great Gratitude.

I call upon you to Support, Guide and Protect 
all who receive this prayer.

At this time of quiet and stillness

When the Light of the World is dim

And the Darkness around us deep

May we be still and listen for the silent sound of the 
seed of Illumination

That lives, always, within our heart and soul and mind.

May we seek now to awaken to more of the Light within.

For in the dark even the dimmest light can be seen.

In darkness, the faintest flicker of light

Is enough to guide us and show us the way.

May the inner light we now rekindle burn strong and bright.

May it expand and grow throughout the coming year

And may we continue to see, feel, share and 
shine our inner light

Into the World

Even as the outer light returns.

And so it is!

Edward Mills

~

keep on shining…

on this shortest day and longest night for northern hemispherians, we sit in the dark with Hecate, goddess of the darkness, holding our hands over our one heart as we take this soulstice moment of deep pause for re-membering and clean-sing and re-joy-sing the moons of 2016… seeing through shero’s eyes, we realeyes what we experience as disappointments, obstacles, challenges all carry a seed, a gift for us to unwrap,,, a present that delights and surprises pointing the way to be peace, love, joy and harmony…

to the four winds and the four corners of the earth

to the falling rain and the fire in the sky

we call on you in deep respect and with infinite love and gratitude 

we call upon you to support, guide and protect
all who receive this prayer

in this time of quiet and stillness

when the light of the world is dim

and the darkness around us is deep

let us be still and listen for the silence of the
seed of illumination

 living always within our spirit and soul and body and mind 

let us seek now to awaken to more of the inner light  

for even in the deepest dark, still, light can be seen 

the faintest flicker of light is enough to guide us and show us the way

may the inner light we now rekindle burn strong and bright 

may it expand and grow and grow throughout the coming year

 may we continue to see, feel, share and  shine our inner light into the world as the outer light returns. 

 standing in love for love…

blessed be!

~