Male and female is fundamental to life; partners in work to be done. ~ Oren R. Lyons, Spokesman, Traditional Circle of Elders
The Great Spirit created a system which would allow us to reproduce, to have companionship, to love, to laugh, to cry, and be happy. Man and Woman each have gifts the other doesn’t have. But, together they have these gifts to share with each other. The Great Spirit made it this way. So let us treat each other with respect. Let us look upon each other in a sacred way.
Grandfather, Grandmother, bring the spirits to teach us.
Though my trade may seem humble to many, I am skilled in inner ways. My job may not appear to change the world, but in my consciousness, every movement of my hand corrects a wrong. If I turn a potter’s wheel, I turn the Earth and visualize the healing of this planet. If I swing a hammer, I nail a thought of God to someone’s house and bestow blessings on each room. When I plant a tree, I put in the hole my power, to grow beneath it, making it strong and making me free. I look like your ordinary worker, but I am learning a higher trade. I am in the school of sacred studies and all life is a lesson to me. Mother Earth is my professor, Father Sun, my guide. My work I do for these who sustain me. Humbly, I carryon through the density of Earth’s materiality. Mater, Mother, Matter, you are the expression of all love embodied. ~ The Medicine Woman Oracle
Creation —————- Protection Intuitive Messages —– Guardian Angel Renewal of Peace ——-Acceptance of Love
I call upon the presence of unconditional love. Be here now, without restraint. Fill me and fill this space. Touch all beings with your grace. I feel the presence of unconditional love within me. I acknowledge the presence of unconditional love all around me. I am the presence of unconditional love and in this love, no fear can remain. May unconditional love guide any fear back to the light of love, or back into the earth, as serves the greatest good. My body, mind, heart and soul are now completely bathed in and protected by unconditional love. Through my own free will, this is so. ~ Sacred Rebels Oracle
I am the mediator between my God-self and my world. I bring the within outward, recognizing that my presentation and the world’s response are just. I am at peace with all outcomes.
There is a guiding voice connected to you from within your own heart. You know when to speak and when to be silent. The Peacemaker knows the way of the world, and yet is not overwhelmed. Your higher self knows how to bring your highest vision into creation. You have seen what can be.
You are being moved through changes required for your spiritual growth. Your choice is the create your path, or one will be created for you.
Allow the light to shine through any cracks you might see. You may act intuitively in the world, seeing every side of a dispute, and bring the polarities into balance.
Suffering exists as a signal that one is ready for a new and higher level of being. Listen to the silent whisper. You are a star in the book of changes. Your movement in the dance of life reveals all things sacred, the unchanging within the changed.
As you enter each transformation you will know if you’ve taken the right action. You will know because you will feel the presence of the Peacemaker within you.
Speak clearly when speaking is needed. Stand up where before you have sat back in silence. Let love come through where anger once lived. Feel the physical changes.
It’s time for a change of diet. Eat that which you are not accustomed to. Break the old pattern. Learn to enjoy whatever is put before you.
It is easy to let a sprouting garden of ideas die. The seed energy must be nurtured, and watered by the consciousness of self-responsibility. You make true peace by offering your real Self in a way the world can accept. There is something in you that the world is waiting for.
Do not fear rejection. You must find your niche. For a successful outcome you must not only have a good idea but you must present it in a way that will be acceptable to a specific group of people. Many fail because they are not acting much different than a salesman trying to sell refrigerators to Eskimos.
Badgering never works. Attempting to force another to accept you or your ideas will fail, if not immediately, then eventually. Go with the flow. Let go of the need to conflict with others.
Peacemaking is a fine art. It is often the art of keeping silence, letting go of the egoic need to be right, or one-up on someone. No one was ever reformed permanently by bullying.
The Peacemaker is ever watchful for the right opening to speak just enough to gain interest and respect. This way there is no need to argue and no need to back down from your true stance. You proceed systematically and intuitively forward at a steady pace, counting every tiny advance as a success. Thus, there is no war; there is slowly expanding cooperation.
Don’t you hear it? she asked and I shook my head no and then she started to dance and suddenly there was music everywhere and it went on for a very long time and when I finally found words all I could say was thank you. ~ Brian Andreas
From time to time along your journey, you will serendipitously encounter fellow travelers with whom there are sparks of resonance. It is always a thrill to discover you are exploring similar areas of fascination, and thus uncovering similar revelations within the same parenthesis of time. In these moments allow yourself to be heartened, validated, reassured, and invigorated. You don’t need throngs of people standing shoulder to shoulder with you or cheering you on to be infused with strength and inspiration. There is never a crowd on the leading edge, so if you meet only one kindred soul on your path, consider yourself lucky. Nurture your supportive relationships and feel the blessing of these like-minded souls for their belief in you, and for the mutual blessing you bring to each other. Gratefully see your own courage, wisdom, and adventurous spirit reflected in them.
Mantra :: My fellow travelers infuse me with rocket fuel, so I can go further than I could on my own.
Artwork by Rassouli
The Hero’s Journey dream oracle by Kelly Sullivan Walden
Her every action is infused with loving purpose. Every challenge and every opportunity in your life exists by her divine design. Her spiritual intelligence is within your heart. When you trust in your integrity and proceed according to your soul’s values, you are trusting and empowering her to be at cause in your life. Everything that is happening is part of how your prayers are being answered. A new order is to be established. You are being led to it.
Artwork by Jimmy Manton
To honor dharma means to live according to genuine spiritual principles. What those principles are depends on your inner values. To live according to your values means living with integrity of being, conducting yourself according to an inner spiritual code. If you are not quite ready to take such responsibility, or do not yet have the confidence to trust in your own values, work with an external moral code and attempt to align with that. Morality is like training wheels for the soul, imposing concepts of right and wrong. It is a top-down approach – mind first, then attempting to mold behavior accordingly. Spiritual integrity is a different approach. It does not ask what others think about a matter or how we will be judged for acting in a certain way. Rather, it enquires as to what resonates as the most spiritually aligned course of action. It considers how we can speak and act in such a way that those inner values are respected.
Adherence to external moral codes is useful in the earlier stages of development, but when a soul is ready to grow, being overly guided by morality can undermine spiritual progress. Morality can lead the soul into a state of psychological infancy, responding to externally imposed measures of conduct and aiming to avoid repercussions when a transgression is discovered by another. Or it may suffer with guilt and shame when a moral code has been violated – intentionally or not. In such a mindset, we hand power over to the collective that establishes the code, whether it be a religious, socio-economic, family or political group, or the collective more generally. In following that code, we can adopt something of a childlike attitude to punishment and reward. Hence, the shock when bad things happen to good people.
Those with the courage to grow into following an inner code take greater responsibility for their lives and actions. From greater responsibility arises greater freedom. In moving away from the crowd, such souls can forge their own path. This does not mean we act in ways despicable to others. Certainly, there are people who deny the power of moral code, but also lack an inner connection to spiritual presence, and so move with an absence of integrity altogether. Such people create much pain for themselves and others, as they assume a level of personal power without spiritual maturity to ensure that power is expressed benevolently.
Our evolutionary process for strengthening our connection to dharma, or ‘spiritual law’, transforms our relationship with ourselves, each other and the world. As we grow spiritually and mature at a psychological level, we naturally begin to cultivate our inner values, eschewing those we have been taught that no longer resonate. We learn the often painful lessons of what society says is more important – control, profit or personal gain at any cost, social status through positions of power, for example. We increasingly align ourselves with our values and adhere to them more courageously, evolving them according to inner resonance rather than outer effect. We realize that self-respect is more important than trying to control and manipulate outer events or other people. We are moved from an inner place rather than motivated by external rewards. As a consequence, it is spiritually safe for us to receive an abundance of material blessings because we know we will not try to sell our soul to obtain them.
The Dharma of Kali brings the message that your most abundant successes will manifest when you are aligned with your integrity. You do not need to put your faith in pathways or projects that do not resonate with your deeper spiritual knowing and values. Seeking the ways of the world to bring you what you need is only going to limit your spiritual progress and undermine the most abundant manifestation of your purpose. If you intuitively know that you need to engage with a more traditional worldly means of progress, then you can do so with your spiritual integrity intact and guiding you so you stay true to yourself in the process. As you are guided from within, you shall make the best progress.
I’m sure a lot of you have had this experience where … you’re growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were eighteen months ago. And it’s really frustrating sometimes, when you’re growing up and becoming more capable … It is the same with a company, and the same with the press – the press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is to embrace them and … keep our eye on the prize … and the press and the stock price will take care of themselves. ~ Steve jobs
As you journey back home with your reward in tow, you realize this is more than a footpath. It’s a weave between who you used to be and who you are becoming. You don’t have to know exactly how this process will unfold from here on out, your only job is to keep your eyes on the prize and follow your North Star. At this moment, your North Star is hanging directly over the place where you started this journey. Consider George Bailey in the movie It’s a Wonderful Life. Once he completes his life review and has the epiphany that everyone would not be better off without him, he runs back to Bedford Falls, and is home in time to hug and kiss his family and hang the Christmas Star on the tree. He is in the same place as he started but is changed and willing to participate in life from a whole new perspective.
Mantra :: I am connected with the celestial body of the universe, I have permission to shine at maximum wattage.
I wandered thru the forest for a couple hours this afternoon, what a wonderful treat.
I was thinking about one whom I await … who is already present in a certain fashion.
I look forward to the great unveiling.
Sang a little diddy about it …
On the way home a woman was decorating her yard. She informed me the ornamentals will be lit up between 5 and 9 pm. Guess I’ll be taking another trip out sometime soon.
Here’s a still shot of the area I enjoyed today, such beauty.
