How much good can you handle; how much love can you take? How much good can you endure before your fortress breaks? ~ Kelly Sullivan Walden
When blessings come in, stop holding your breath, awaiting the other shoe to drop. You no longer need to feel that you’re begging gifts from the universe. May your prayer not be for more, but that you have the eyes to see that what you’ve always wanted is what you’ve always had. Perhaps you thought it was cute to be coy and self-effacing when given a compliment, an acknowledgement, or appreciation? It is time to open your heart, breathe deeply, and receive blessings knowing it is not just about or for you. With every gift you receive, you can give back to life. It is an energy exchange – a perpetuating spiral of appreciation that leads to more to appreciate. This spiral circulates upward, escalating you into higher realms of consciousness. Instead of questioning what you did to deserve all this goodness, pray to become more aware of and receptive to the blessings in your life.
Mantra :: I am present as I open my heart to graciously behold the blessings laying at my feet.
Artwork by Rassouli
~ The Hero’s Journey dream oracle by Kelly Sullivan Walden
Someone made a comment to me recently saying, “I would be happy when Humans can go back to Nature.” I’ve been pondering this for days. When were Humans told they WEREN’T Nature? Where did the concept of separation of man & nature come from?
Did it come when they put shoes on our feet to stop us from grounding with the Earth? Did it come when they put fake hair, nails & make up on women to say our natural appearance was not good enough?
Did the separation happen when they gave us “concrete jungles” to live in and packed us in metropolis areas that seemed like a step up but really were cages? Did our separation come in when the Internet began chaining us to desks and time clocks ticked away?
At some point, while you sat in your office looking out the window didn’t a reminder come?We overlooked the bird as a simple thing. We took butterflies and bees as just “insects”. We took trees for granted as just sources for paper. We took the grass as an annoyance to mow.
But where did those ideas come from? Was it all the perverse system that we were born in to? Or are we also to blame for allowing the eyes that God gave us to become glazed over for material objects and a false sense of “success”.
The man or woman who can go out on a hike and be met by the Sun and know that it’s the Creator’s presence should be the success. Not the man with Millions sitting at a lonesome desk.
The man or woman who can share a bond with an animal and understand the emotions of that being is a success. Not the conglomerates that are built off slave wages and humans backs.
The man or woman who can be alone and in the quiet and feel the Love still beating in their chest EVEN AFTER this world has tried to destroy it; THAT’S THE SUCCESS WE ALL SHOULD STRIVE FOR.
But at no time, through any of these situations or circumstances do I recall anyone saying to us, YOU AND NATURE ARE NO LONGER 1. Because every tree, drop of honey, body of water, blade of grass and animal all came from the CREATOR MOST HIGH. And so have YOU!
Satan has been so busy thinking all of his tricky ways and traps were going to prove that we all would turn away from God. And while many have accepted the way things are… A vast majority has AWAKENED to SEE the Illusions.
But part of SEEING is also RECOGNIZING that the Creator has been awaiting you to look up, to feel his presence and remember the “Foot Steps in the Sand”. When you think he has left you…. He was really carrying you through the Valleys.
For that, a Spirit of Gratitude needs to come upon us that are still here. We are still standing. We are still Awake. We are still Alive as a Collective and as a part of his grand design.
Man/Woman are still a part of Nature. And Nature is still a part of you. Just open your eyes a little wider.
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat, “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
Most people like to fit in. Most people like to feel that all the other people feel that they are quite normal. And other people like to be around people who are very safe, predictable, and well, ordinary. Only, as Alice is told by the Cheshire Cat, we are all mad. There is not a person on this planet that does not have a little secret, or a strange little something they have done, or do. And yet, on and on we go, all the time attempting to be normal.
And ‘normal’ changes all the time. Mostly, people just want to fit in, to blend in with others, to feel that they do not stand out in any way. Standing out can make us vulnerable. It can make us conspicuous. Although our culture adores its iconic people, we do not generally tolerate difference very well. The truth is, we all have our little oddities, and we can exhaust ourselves trying to erase their visibility.
We hide who we truly are. We do not speak of who we are, and we try to convince others that we are just like them. Consider why you would hide any of your own strangeness, when as the Cheshire Cat says, we are all mad here. And we must all be mad – otherwise we would not be here, living another lifetime, brave enough, mad enough, to learn more on this journey of the soul.
Beginning to realize that everyone is interesting, a little bit different and full of secrets, good and bad. Understanding that hiding what makes you your very own self is not only exhausting, but it is robbing the world of your unique wonder. Discovering that you are a little mad – and so, in truth, is everyone else. Embrace your eccentricities and your own peculiar genius.
Did you know your heart produces a measurable electromagnetic field in the shape of a torus called a biofield? Did you know that conscious breathing is the throttle for this energy and your ability to visualize (awareness) focuses this ability to entrain matter?
With that understanding, watch this quick video about how electromagnetic fields influence the brain in ways we are just beginning to understand.
You are the one you have been waiting for! Welcome to the quantum age of humanity!
Shield brother calls to beg me get a message to his girl ancestors stirring, sending messages through our own across the world I am listening, I am following as warriors of the light can only do we ride rootless on heavy medicine every day until our lives are through
CHORUS 1 we ride rootless on heavy medicine disconnected from the ground we ride rootless in dark places unafraid that we might fall or die or drown we are working, we are tireless we are seekers of the way we ride rootless on heavy medicine and we live to fight another day
Time to do the work while my bones and blood are wild with lessons learned and secrets shared Friends and lovers help me put my armor back together and never let me leave home unprepared My comrade sets his fiddle to his shoulder and I know today there’ll be no turning back. We’ll ride rootless on heavy medicine unashamed of what we lack
CHORUS 2 We ride rootless on heavy medicine disconnected from the ground We ride fearless in dark places hearts in danger but our spirits safe and sound We are working, we are tireless singing songs to stir the sky We are honor bound to share these visions walking tall and getting by walking tall when we don’t fly
Dirt beneath my nails I claw my way home from the forest just as crazy as before but I am breathing and I am laughing taking one step at a time bringing truth from door to door and I’m not the only one one of many unafraid to open eyes or heart or mind We ride rootless on heavy medicine and we do it all the time
CHORUS 3 We ride rootless on heavy medicine disconnected from the ground We ride windward across the wasteland skin in danger but our hearts all safe and sound We speak the language of song and shadow We are tenders of the flame We ride rootless on heavy medicine and from day one we’ve never been the same
CHORUS 4 We are healers working retail or working graveyard without pay We tell stories in our circle We listen or we dance or we just pray We are working, we are tireless We are teachers of the way We ride rootless on heavy medicine and we walk it every day
CHORUS 1
END COUNTERMELODY: we are here so the stories get told don’t give up ride out be bold build the fire bright and strong speak your truth and sing your song
you are here so the stories get told goddess bless your weary soul raise your voice to call the cry storytellers never die
goddess bless your weary heart tried and tested, torn apart holding hands around the flames healed and whole we rise again
goddess bless your weary soul we are here so the stories get told and we live to fight another day
credits
from Rootless Digital Single, track released September 13, 2011 Tracked and mixed by Ginger Doss, Eagle Audio All vocals, drums, bass, guitars: S. J. Tucker Words & Music by S. J. Tucker Song art: Rob Carlos, www.colorsmith.com Special thanks: Burt, Kore, Aja, Satyr, Argo, Gingy, Arjil, Cascadia, SG, ATC, and all who listen.
And the other night I saw names sort of attached to a stalk, like brussel sprouts. The names were being drawn away from the stalk, some came lose, and some snapped back to the stalk, magnetized … vibrationally linked.
Manage your energy.
Keep your thoughts light, your heart happy and your energy clean. Purge negativity and fear, do not let it reside in you.
“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still playing a little, “You’d generally get to somewhere else – if you run very fast for a long time as we’ve been doing.”
“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
The lessons of your life are taking place at a fast rate – far to swiftly for you to process them!! It seems you are only just keeping up with all the changes coming to you! You must work very hard to make any discernable progress, for now. You have been trying to get ahead, and yet you always seem to be in the very same place. This could be in almost any aspect of life – your finances, career or success. At this point in time, the answer is to work even harder.
You will not have to do this much work, with this much effort, perhaps ever again. But the only way out of your current situation is to accelerate, get intense and push for the breakthrough that is just ahead of you. You will need to devote more time than you would wish, and sacrifices will need to be made. However, if you do this, you will push through the resistance and explode into the next stage of your life.
Put all your effort into surging ahead and watch as you begin to move, in the tiniest of ways, ahead of where you have been. Once you take that lead, stay focused on where you are going and you will begin to leave the place you find yourself in now. When you push through, others will recognize the incredible dedication you have to your own life. This will inspire them to push forward with their own dreams, too. One thing is for sure, the intensity of your approach brooks no resistance. Your movement and energy will drive away all stagnation. Now go!
A time of very hard work. Getting ahead. Determination and resolve to push through into the next stage. The urge to improve your status and be rewarded. Moving quickly, with strength and stamina. A great deal to process and integrate.
“Dear, dear! How queer everything is today! And yesterday things went on just as usual, I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night?”
Sometimes, we change slowly. A little change here, a small adjustment there, tiny shifts day by day, and over time we grow into a very different version of ourselves. But at other times, we feel like we have been changed in the night. Our day might suddenly, without any warning at all, be very queer indeed. For Alice, and perhaps for you, there is a sense that so very much has changed in an instant, that the world has quite suddenly been turned upside down – or right side up! And, we have not had a moment to grow used to this new reality, the way we now are or the rules of the world we find ourselves inhabiting.
When a time like this comes, we can be in shock, a little numb and have trouble finding our way back to the center of ourselves. If you feel you may have been changed in the night – that your life has changed quite dramatically, quite suddenly – then take a moment. Remember your values, your feelings, yourself. Look about you, steady yourself and breathe in deep. You’ve been rocked and your sense of self, and of reality, is going to take a little time to resettle.
Continue to connect with your core self, be good to you and take it easy, but steadily. Remember, you are finding out who you truly are. Until this moment, you only knew who you could be when faced with certain, predictable circumstances. Now that so much has changed, you will find out so much more about yourself, and in time, this will enrich you so very much.
Sudden, unexpected change. A shock. Unexpected news. Adjusting to a new situation. Finding out more about who you are. Inexperience and uncertainty. An identity crisis due to changed circumstances.
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