“You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.”

~ Rumi ~

the more deeply i dwell in the sacred spaciousness of the eternal present moment continuously chanting make me an instrument of peace and a chorus of thank yous and welcomes and the more wholeheartedly i surrender to love and being loving presence in every moment, the more i am taken to places i could not imagine, to ultima thule, the great beyond within our one cosmic body… today, as i look back over 362 days of tripping to unplanned places, i’m in awe of the wondrous beauty of unfolding mystery we see, even in the midst of profound unraveling, as we are pulled by the pathless path of the heart…

~

The Journey

“One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save.“

~ Mary Oliver ~

~

welcome, well come to another of my favorite days – 7/7/7, the gateway of mystic power, Venus’ greates brilliance, the Sirius-Sun conjunction and Sirius stargate and the opening of the annual portal to Lions Gate… yes, Venus as the Evening Star in Leo reaches her greatest brilliance today with her energy focalized at the crown – feel the goddess of love amplifying the vibration of love to the highest octave while Sirius, the brightest star, illuminates the night sky and home, it is said, to the Sirians, advanced beings who heavily influenced the birth of the ancient civilization of Lemuria, the sacred space stretching from present day Mount Shasta to Hawa’ii over to the Land of Oz and to India… Lemuria, home to highly telepathic beings with the dolphin/whale people as their protectors and yes! 7/7 is Ringo Starr’s birthday – 83rd to be exact and it is such a day of synchrony as has been every day since soulstice with every day moving us deeper and deeper into surrender, into liberation, into grace…

ah, yes, dear Rumi, i awaken in this moment of eternity hearing that voice calling, that voice that has called for so many moons, for so many turns around the sun to turn toward what i/we deeply love for that will save me/us… in truth, it is our only option, the surrendering into love, into the dreamweave of the cosmos…

did i say already how i love this moment of eternity, this seventh day of the seventh month of joyvolution july in a year vibrating at 7 with 7 being the number of spirit vibrating at a frequency of receptivity, intuition and the divine feminine… energies pulling us magnetically inside to mine the jewels lodged in the deep cavernous space in the ground of our being… our being that is now at the halfway mark of this massively mutating turn around the sun recapitulating journeying january, the dreaming moon,  with july being the re-treating into ourselves moon of the wild pilgrims, poets on a journey into another space of pregnant pause to explore inner terrain and listen for the voice of the great mother whispering words of wisdom, mothering the peace that passeth ordinary understanding, the peace that births a courageous new world of radical harmony and joy and peace and love and generosity and wonder and wisdom… this is the sacred moment of eternity to reclaimand embody our self author-ity empowering our expanded and deepened awakening into witnessing consciousness…

how inspiring these whispered words are now at this moment of a perfect storm of crises with the root crisis, the challenging opportunity, being a psychospiritual one cataly-sing a radical transformation into wholeness, mystical union of soulful maturity and spiritual awareness…

yes, we are the ones we have been waiting for to simultaneously hold the tension of the protracted labor pains and surrender into great mystery as emergency transmutes into an emergensea of love energy for us to align and partner with and find again the creative power of fire that lights the cosmos, the all that is, in overflowing golden light…

may we all bathe in this enveloping luminescence breathing in golden light of the blue star, sirius, our spiritual sun and breathing out love and peace in ever widening circles of rhythmic waves across the cosmos into the great beyond and into the (w)hole(y) bottomless well in the center of our onedrous being…

with a smile mirroring our heart of joy, let’s close this sacred space of ceremony with a blessing into the sacred fire within, the inner light of great spirit residing in all our relatives: may this day be blessed with gifts, lessons, understanding and friends… may our energy be a gift to all we meet… let us be centered, healing and open facing the day with courage, kindness, insight and compassion… may we honor this day…

~

the miracle is to walk on earth in a sacred way as a free and easy wanderer of wonder breathing in the rhythm of the waves  dwelling deeply in the present moment feeling every wild cell humming with abandon in the inner quiet of the stillpoint… in honor of the 3rd anniversary of Mary Oliver’s transition, i walk in silence with Mary in the deep woods living the quest ions she inspires me to contemplate…

“Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”

Mary goes on to answer by saying…

“And I say to my heart:

Rave on.”

and

“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it”

in her much loved, Wild Geese, she is the words above and the words below telling about her life all the while supporting and comforting us as we walk home with her…

“You do not have to be good. / You do not have to walk on your knees / for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. / You only have to let the soft animal of your body / love what it loves. / Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. / Meanwhile the world goes on. / Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain / are moving across the landscapes, / over the prairies and the deep trees, / the mountains and the rivers. / Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, / are heading home again. / Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, / the world offers itself to your imagination, / calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting— / over and over announcing your place / in the family of things.”

let us close with Mary’s closing words…

“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life

I was a bride married to amazement.

I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder

if I have made of my life something particular, and

real.

I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,

or full of argument.

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”

thank you, Mary, beloved sherpa of the natural world for devotedly sharing your wanderings in wonder…

“You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.”

~ Rumi ~

the more deeply i dwell in the sacred spaciousness of the eternal present moment continuously chanting make me an instrument of peace and a chorus of thank yous and welcomes and the more wholeheartedly i surrender to love and being loving presence in every moment, the more i am taken to places i could not imagine, to ultima thule, the great beyond within our one cosmic body… today, on this second day of the stargate portal as i look back over 362 days of tripping to unplanned places, i’m in awe of the wondrous beauty of unfolding mystery we see as we are pulled by the pathless path of the heart…

~

The Journey

“One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save.“

~ Mary Oliver ~

welcome, well come to another of my favorite days – 7/7, the opening of the annual portal to Sirius, the brightest star illuminating the night sky and home it is said to the Sirians, advanced beings who heavily influenced the birth of the ancient civilization of Lemuria, the sacred space stretching from present day Mount Shasta to Hawa’ii over to the Land of Oz and to India… Lemuria, home to highly telepathic beings with the dolphin/whale people as their protectors and yes! 7/7 is Ringo Starr’s birthday – 82nd to be exact and it is such a day of synchrony as has been every day since soulstice with every day moving us deeper and deeper into surrender, into liberation, into grace…

ah, yes, dear Rumi, i awaken in this moment of eternity hearing that voice calling, that voice that has called for so many moons, for so many turns around the sun to turn toward what i/we deeply love for that will save me/us… in truth, it is our only option, the surrendering into love, into the dreamweave of the cosmos…

did i say already how i love this moment of eternity, this seventh day of the seventh month of joyvolution july as 7 is a number of spirit vibrating at a frequency of receptivity, intuition and the divine feminine… energies pulling us magnetically inside to mine the jewels lodged in the deep cavernous space in the ground of our being… our being that is now at the halfway mark of this massively mutating turn around the sun recapitulating journeying january, the dreaming moon,  with july being the re-treating into ourselves moon of the wild pilgrims, poets on a journey into another space of pregnant pause to explore inner terrain and listen for the voice of the great mother whispering words of wisdom, mothering the peace that passeth ordinary understanding, the peace that births a courageous new world of radical harmony and joy and peace and love and generosity and wonder and wisdom…

how inspiring these whispered words are now at this moment of a perfect storm of crises with the root crisis, the challenging opportunity, being a psychospiritual one cataly-sing a radical transformation into wholeness, mystical union of soulful maturity and spiritual awareness…

yes, we are the ones we have been waiting for to simultaneously hold the tension of the protracted labor pains and surrender into great mystery as emergency transmutes into an emergensea of love energy for us to align and partner with and find again the creative power of fire that lights the cosmos, the all that is, in overflowing golden light…

may we all bathe in this enveloping luminescence breathing in golden light of the blue star, sirius, our spiritual sun and breathing out love and peace in ever widening circles of rhythmic waves across the cosmos into the great beyond and into the (w)hole(y) bottomless well in the center of our onedrous being…

with a smile mirroring our heart of joy, let’s close this sacred space of ceremony with a blessing into the sacred fire within, the inner light of great spirit residing in all our relatives: may this day be blessed with gifts, lessons, understanding and friends… may our energy be a gift to all we meet… let us be centered, healing and open facing the day with courage, kindness, insight and compassion… may we honor this day…

You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

~ Rumi ~

the more deeply i dwell in the sacred spaciousness of the eternal present moment continuously chanting make me an instrument of peace and a chorus of thank yous and welcomes and the more wholeheartedly i surrender to love and being loving presence in every moment, the more i am taken to places i could not imagine, to ultima thule, the great beyond within our one cosmic body… today, on this second day of the stargate portal as i look back over 362 days of tripping to unplanned places, i’m in awe of the wondrous beauty of unfolding mystery we see as we are pulled by the pathless path of the heart…

~

The Journey

“One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save.“

~ Mary Oliver ~

“If you are seeking, seek us with joy
For we live in the kingdom of joy.
Do not give your heart to anything else
But to the love of those who are clear joy,
Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.
For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –
Do not go in the direction of darkness –
I tell you: suns exist.”

~ Rumi ~

as i feel the warmth of the outer sun, i’m drawn to the inner sun and i’m re-membering the river of joy below the river always present, always flowing inside of me, inside of you… settling down beside this river of joy, feel the connection to the always present source, always flowing love through us connecting us all as one ocean of compassion… feel our one heart beating resonantly, singing in soulful harmony…

may our hearts burst open in unconditional love

may our minds be illumined by a peace passing all understanding

may our bodies be flooded with central sun’s light

may our spirits touch all that is with our transforming radiant presence

Peace to all beings
Whether near or far
Known or unknown
Real or imaginary
Visible or invisible
Born or yet to be born.
May all beings
Be well and happy
And free from fear.
Peace to all beings
Within and beyond the imagination
In the world of ideas
In the world of memories
And in the world of dreams.
May all beings
Be well and happy
And free from fear.
Peace in all elements
Of earth, air, fire and water
Fulfilled in space
Peace.
Peace in all universes
From the smallest cells in our bodies
To the greatest galaxies in space
Peace
And light rising
Peace to all beings
Within each being here To those beings that have been in the past
And to those beings that are yet to be in the future
May all beings
Within each being here
Be well and happy
And free from fear.

Take all that I say,
And toss away
All that does not
Resonate
For we do not learn
Wisdom and Love
We re-member what’s within…