Thank You Real, Feel All The Feels, Nature Love

 

Letting go of all that does not treat our

community and dear loved ones or The World Gently.

 

As Friday's Lunar Eclipse portal opens further

Thank you Cosmic energies for manifesting this intention.

 

Blessings and Much Love.

 

To all

 

Thank you creators who feel fully

 

✨     🌕 ✨

 

Txx

 

"This Is Love"

 

 

"Maybe the only thing which matters is to

find people that love as we do,

that have that same desire to love freely,

to love purely and without « ifs »,

that have that same desire to learn to love

\in the highest way"

 

Thank you

Sophie Gregorie

 

Sophie is a spiritual writer and channel with a background in anthropology and business sciences.

Through her own Twin Flame Journey, she has researched and learnt a lot about the mystery of sacred unions — and now desires to share what she knows with you.

 

#luceatluxvestra #yogalove #dadirri

#forests #mountains #nature

#gratitude.

Go All The Way. Or Don't Start.

It is no secret that when it comes to learning about one’s self or seeking a path of truth, that at some point we gotta dig a little and see what is really going on with us from within. This search, this contemplation is simply an agreement to truly sense or become real about all of what we are. And, this search goes into the good, the bad, and the downright ugly that we all have in our lives.

The good, may or may not be so good once we dig into it, the bad will take time to show up and make us think we are just that, and the ugly is either right out in front of us or hidden way down where we hope that no one can see it.

Regardless of what we find, the searching is the important part as by agreeing to learn to know thyself, we are agreeing to some degree to align to truth and a higher vibrational living that leads to a greater and greater level of awareness and consciousness. Seeking within leads to this more expansive state while dodging, ditching, defending or coping does not. The latter lead to unconscious awareness and the belief that all that bad and ugly stuff is ‘out there’ as opposed to ‘in here.’

That may seem odd at first to truly believe that all enemies and restrictions are within, but as you do a little soul searching and any kind of integration based work, it is only a matter of time until you realize that all frustrations, fears, and suffering stem from within us.

And, as long as we are unaware of this hiding or ditching, the world will feel hostile, scary and upsetting. It is only by embracing all that we are and asking what is hidden to come up that we will be able to learn what we are sensing as ’out there’ is the hostility we have towards others and mostly ourselves.

The bad and the ugly (and even some of the good) many times are labeled the ego, the id, the shadow, or various other titles that label the more defensive or reactive side of our behavior. And, if we go back to the origin of how most, if not all, of this ‘bad’ stuff, was formed then we can see the beauty of it.

The ego, the shadow, even our karmic debt are all part of being human and created in this life or another when our truer nature was threatened or in danger. And, throughout history where life was survival based only, this was accurate. However, in more advanced or civilized times, this isn’t necessarily the case, but the ego still works and forms patterns out of real or perceived threats regardless of how deadly they may or may not be.

These threats lead to the belief that something outside of us did this or that to us creating or enhancing the belief in being separated from others and a wanted externalization in someone or something else to ‘right’ or ‘fix’ us. As these new patterns form, we feel some success or payoff in coping with this as it feels alleviated, which if followed enough times eventually leads us to forgetting what it was we really or truly wanted.

As we continue to align to the ego payoff and not truth, it creates a stronger bond to the coping patterns and creates a cycle of defending that the ego likes and agrees to continue to work towards developing into a full-blown shadow trait or ego pattern. Many of these patterns last a lifetime or many lifetimes, but at some point we begin to feel that something isn’t quite right in how we are reacting, emoting or defending.

When most begin to feel this and have little to no understanding, they try to demonize or ditch the ego…or just ignore it. This won’t work as you are asking your inner darkness to ‘just go away’ without being acknowledged and worse yet trying to also dodge the truer nature that is hidden within it. As we continue to try to demonize or ditch it, it only brings about further suppression or denial leading to a greater level of reactivity, tension and even physical illness as we agree not to face or dodge.

In reality, what occurs in our lives, whether good or bad, is and was all set up via our choices and our karma leading to the potential outcomes of whatever energetic state our choices and karma set us up for… If we can accept this as true, which is challenging, we can see the power of all that occurs as lessons and that the truer nature of our inner self is hidden under these patterns, programs of the defensive nature.

If we begin to search within and have a bit of spiritual training or alignment, we will see quite the display of patterns and programs that are based solely in keeping others away, manipulating them, or even trying to hurt others. The shadow has many aspects to it and can lead to great change if studied and felt within.

It is through bringing up and feeling what is restricting us that we can move closer to truth, happiness and possibly even love. By facing them and feeling them, we have the power to change them.

As, learning to deal with life and not cope our way through, we have a greater chance of true fulfillment and purpose. We can also see that we have the power change these patterns as with a bit of reflection we can realize that we don’t have to choose them but can align to newer ones that may be more loving or healthier. And, keeping on this path, we will see the power of continued searching, acknowledging and releasing as opposed to continued defending or coping.

Take some time to feel out what is limiting you. What is so bad about you. Learn to love yourself and let go of anything that is restrictive or based in the ego. Find methods that allow you to reflect and aid you in self-reflection and the development of your consciousness. The end result will be shocking as you will see how much time an energy you put into coping and defending that now can be used for other things!

Thank you,

Jeff Casper

Smart Phones. Or Not.

Don't ban smartphones

in Australian high schools:

here's why

(and what we can do instead)

By Jocelyn Brewer

The recent announcement that Gaming Disorder (impaired control over gaming) will be included as an official diagnosis in The International Classification of Disease, Eleventh Revision followed hot on the heels of the announcement that the use of mobile devices in NSW schools will be reviewed. As quickly as we become enraptured by the possibilities of tech, we start to question its place in (every crevice) of our lives, especially in the lives of our kids.
While smartphones may pose an unnecessary difficulty in primary schools, I believe the proposal to ban smartphones in Australian high schools would be a backward move that ignores key research. If there is potentially harmful activity, such as bullying, happening in schools, banning phones will most likely drive the behaviours further underground and perhaps into more devious corners.
It would be far more useful (albeit more expensive) for schools, to work in partnership with families and school communities, to improve the way social-emotional skills relevant to upstanding digital citizenry are taught. Digital citizenship involves understanding the rights and responsibilities that come with being online and how to use technology in a positive way.
Australia lags behind the United States in the way we champion digital citizenship and social-emotional learning in schools (two of the very few ways we do lag behind the US educationally). But it is these two key elements that have the combined power to address the current concerns in Australia surrounding ‘screenagers’ and the use of online technology. We’re catching up, but slowly.
Australia’s Digital Education Revolution and what was missing
A decade ago Australia was in the middle of a Digital Education Revolution in schools. Every student in year 9 was handed a laptop with the hope that this would transform learning, and that high schools would suddenly start using information and communication technology (ICT) as quickly as a firewall could be hacked by a gamer keen to play World of Warcraft at lunchtime. The iPhone was in proverbial nappies, the iPad was still a prototype, and high-speed internet was something we were still hopeful to see in our lifetimes.
What was missing from the Digital Education Revolution back then, and what remains a largely gaping hole in most schools now, is a meaningful, authentic approach to effectively embedding digital citizenship and digital literacy into curriculum across subject areas and building digital intelligence across the education ecosystem (beyond students, to teachers and parents as well).
This means students learn skills for effectively navigating the digital space that they can apply right now in their lives, not bookmark for a rainy day, and that these skills are delivered as part of the conversation across all subjects, not just PDHPE.
To date Australia’s interpretation of digital citizenship in schools has largely been around addressing cyber safety and online-bullying (both important domains within the model). Usually we ignore or give scant attention to other areas such as digital health and wellbeing or preventing excessive use through teaching healthy technology habits.
There are indeed parts of our Australian national curriculum that offer an opportunity to address the self-regulation skills we fear young people are missing (and we’re perhaps losing as adults) but the direct connection with digital citizenship is usually not made or if made, not emphasised.
Our current panic over smartphones is based mainly on media ‘clickbait’
The moral panic over the impact of technology on young people’s cognitive and emotional functioning has reached new proportions in a Fortnite fixated, Instagram infatuated generation and the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) landscape in schools. It seems smartphones can be blamed for nearly all the woes of modern society, from the decline in PISA rankings to the spike in the youth suicide rate.
Sadly, most of what schools are reacting to is the media’s most alluring clickbait on the impacts of social media, video games and deceptive notions of ‘addiction’ to devices, rather than evidence-based research from published academics specialising in the area. The best current example of such good research is in UNICEF’s report on Children in a Digital World.
The report tells us the impact of digital technologies on mental wellbeing is U-shaped, meaning both no use and excessive use can have a small negative impact, while moderate use is associated with a small positive one. It is a far cry from headlines attributing a mental health crisis or obesity epidemic to digital device dependence. Additionally, the impact on sedentary behaviour is found to be inconclusive, and unpacking what constitutes ‘excessive’ use and therefore addiction was highly contentious. A crucial point raised is in the methodology used by researchers to ensure rigour in how studies are conducted around children in a digital world.
Alternatives to banning phones in schools
The personal-social capability in our national curriculum is our answer to the social-emotional learning that the US does so well. It offers the opportunity to teach young people discreet, valuable skills around what it means to be human in a digitally saturated age.
From managing your time (and understanding mechanisms around procrastination) in preparing assignments, to building the skills to complete group work effectively, this capability builds a range of skills we might associate with both emotional intelligence and executive functions. Skills range from recognising and regulating emotions, developing empathy and building positive relationships, to making responsible decisions and handling challenging situations – many of which have direct applicability to the issues regularly raised as concerns with young people online.
It is critical to provide young people (and their parents/carers) with the information and skills they need to make effective choices on how, where and when they use their phones, tablets, laptops or gaming consoles. It is also important to give students opportunities to practice, to make (modest) mistakes and therefore to learn from experience.
This means moving from the annual guest speaker on cyberbullying or eSafety, to make being a savvy, kind human online (and off) a central value of school policies. It involves crafting policies to be meaningful, accessible and relevant to students’ day to day living (rather than a document that is trotted out when a breach occurs).
Most of the wellbeing/pastoral care, BYOD/technology and anti-bullying (please someone come up with a better term for this!) policy templates I’ve seen need a major renovation. They need to include a scaffolding of skills required, as well as differentiation across stage levels, as students develop and grow in their interactions with society. They need to be living, connected documents that are reviewed by students (how many schools actively involve students in policy making decisions?) alongside school stakeholders.
So, a decade after the Digital Education Revolution, it’s time school leaders started a serious, substantial Digital Intelligence Revolution. I believe this needs to involve a holistic approach to the challenges of the digital era, where we work together as educators and communities on the social and emotional skills our students need alongside the responsible use of technology, rather than worrying about instilling fear or banning something.
I believe in 2018 we should be working more diligently on empowering young people to connect with their humanity as passionately as they currently connect with their devices.

Jocelyn Brewer is a Sydney based registered psychologist and NESA accredited teacher. She is completing a Masters of Applied Science (CyberPsychology) at the University of Sydney and is a member of Australia’s first formal Cyberspychology research group at the University of Sydney .In 2014, she received a NSW Premiers Teaching Scholarship to research issues relating to digital health and wellbeing. Her NESA endorsed course ‘Leading a Digitally Intelligent School’ will be offered in Semester 2, 2018. For more information about the course please contact Jocelyn (jocelyn@cutthroughhq.com). Jocelyn is on Twitter @JocelynBrewer
This article was originally published on EduResearch Matters. Read the original article.

The Naked Unraveling

Midlife is not a crisis.

 

Midlife is an unraveling.

By definition,

you can’t control or manage an unraveling.

 

So stop trying so hard to control,

simply surrender to your innate imperfect wholeness.

You can’t cure the midlife unraveling with control any more than the acquisitions, accomplishments, and alpha-parenting of our thirties cured our deep longing for permission to slow down and be imperfect.

Midlife is when the universe gently places her hands upon your shoulders, pulls you close, and whispers in your ear:

I’m not screwing around. All of this pretending and performing – these coping mechanisms that you’ve developed to protect yourself from feeling inadequate and getting hurt – has to go.

Your armor is preventing you from growing into your gifts.

I understand that you needed these protections when you were small.
I understand that you believed your armor could help you secure all of the things you needed to feel worthy and lovable, but you’re still searching and you’re more lost than ever.

Time is growing short.
There are unexplored adventures ahead of you.
You can’t live the rest of your life worried about what other people think.
You were born worthy of love and belonging.
Courage and daring are coursing through your veins.
You were made to live and love with your whole heart.
It’s time to show up and be seen.

Thank you Brene Brown

This is one reason why your work reminds me of Brene's.
Inspirational, wild and fiercely compassionate
Thank you also #vle

Integrity, Dignity and Discretion.

 

 

I will not lessen my truth to become digestible.

 

 

 

I will be sparkling sunshine and
raging hurricane knowing that
both powers lie within me.
 

I will not believe that I need to conform
in order to be worthy of love.
 

 

I will choose who I warm to the core
or who I blow to the ground. 
 

 

I do not see my Faith as less than 

because others cannot 

see, meet or align.

 

I will not silence truth to make life

easier for those around me.

Do The Work ~ Dive Deep ~ True North

 

Thank you APM. Thank you Shen

Simply Be, More.

 

#family #yoga nature@ssy

 

Post Script, Note Bene.

Love is pure, love is flow.
Love doesn’t cage. Or expect or transact or sell or control.
Love is a beauty found within wanting to be expressed in myriad ways.
Love is an energy of joy and light desiring to be shared.
Love plays and intertwines, but love doesn’t attach.
Love receives graciously,
Love is Being seen and heard as who we really are.
Love doesn’t mean being with another, love isn’t ‘relationships’.
Love is relating. Firstly To Our Divine Self.
Love is fierce compassion, playful fun, joy and laughter.
Love is Tears, Fears, embracing and facing them through The Fire with vulnerability.
Love is the welcoming the messy, complex and ugly recesses of a whole Self.
Love is allowing freedom, drawn from The Source of the deep well of Self.
Love is not making someone else happy, but rather supporting another's happiness.
Love is not completing another. They already are complete.
Love does not stop you on your way.
Love does not demand, love does not ask you to choose.
Love supports your growth, your evolution, your path.
Love is messy, complex and listens to intent.
Love is seen in the the unspoken of eyes.
Love is aware of insecurities. But never points them out or uses them against, Self or Other.
Love shows up differently in minute moments and ways.
Love is never the same love twice, it iterates and expands and grows.
Love is a shape shifter, a wild chameleon who refuses to Be boxed.
Love heals, love teaches, love grows, love fuels. For those who believe in Magic.
Love loves people enough to let them go. And see what stays or remains.
Love is not obsession. Love is not unhealthy attachment.
Love is passion, with purpose and action and seen in the soul.
Love is silence and solitude, shared space, vital and breathing with life force.
Love does not own. Or expect, or demand, or seek or chase.
Love is surrender, to Self, to serve, to see and accept others exactly as they are,
Love is Already whole and complete and sees perfect creation in all unique imperfections.
Love is expanded and full, desiring to give, smile, share, heal, receive and innocently play.
Love is to not a need to be with, without conditions, in order to love.
Love is not a falling into, not a being with, but a conscious rising, a birth as One Love.
Love is Truth, simple, direct, our base foundation with an unwavering tap root.
Love doesn’t want to possess or own or chase or try, to know, to plan or to trap.
Love is both tender and slow and hot and wild and desires full equal expression. Often.
Love is honest, love is gracious, love is generous, love is fun.

Love just is, it is You.

There is no reason for love.

If there is a reason,

it is not love.
If There is still a problem, you are it.

And Love expands as you expand, love deepens and you deepen, love is The Never Ending Story, infinite spectrums and winding spirals, embraacing light and shadows, tears and joy, pulsing up and down like fire, revolving like stars and planets, breathing in and out like waves and twice daily tides washing anew, refreshing divine waters.

Love slowly simmers, bubbles, caged heat cracks, erupts as wild fire, spewed lava creates new land, flows home as shapes shift and steam as solid cores cool.

Love is a cycle, resiliant, like a single atom, a snow flake forming and floating and landing and melting, a rain drop of water, the moist mountain dew, melding the creeks, making the streams and Meeting its Maker, The Ocean.

Love is dirty, grounded, earthy, like seeds sown, planted, not buried, we patiently tend our soils creating the space, removing the weeds, for The New crops to birth our succulent fruits.
Love is air, floaty, dreamy, stormy, spacious and gracious, the merest zephyr cleanses and clears, cyclone throws off the debris, refreshing earth's palette and re-scaling the skin.

Our Love, Our Nature, Our Cycles so touches others - if we allow it, and see love for what it is.
To the ego Love is a feeling of external arousal centred in the body with a single minded preference. Ego transacts and controls this love with fixed conditions .
To The Soul however, love is an inner harmony, a freedom and alignment of self that alivens One heart. The capacity to Be full and complete, alone. From this state of fullness, Body, Heart and soul love is when two equally open hearts are willing to serve the happiness of each other without excluding themselves.
This full Love is our whole, innocent, innate nature, our hearts over flowing - abundant with gratitude as we walk the grounded and divine path.

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love

be perfectly themselves,

the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

If in loving them we do not love what they are,

but only their potential likeness to ourselves,

then we do not love them:

we only love the reflection of ourselves

we find in them.” 

 

Thomas Merton

Inspired By Sophie G.

Thank you Shen
#ssy #kdc #decklife #vle #decklife #tys

You are Magic ❤️ Dear Artistic (and poetic) Dancer

“You deserve a lover who wants you disheveled, with everything and all the reasons that wake you up in a haste and the demons that won’t let you sleep.

You deserve a lover who makes you feel safe, who can consume this world whole if he walks hand in hand with you; someone who believes that his embraces are a perfect match with your skin.

You deserve a lover who wants to dance with you, who goes to paradise every time he looks into your eyes and never gets tired of studying your expressions.

You deserve a lover who listens when you sing, who supports you when you feel shame and respects your freedom; who flies with you and isn’t afraid to fall.

You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry "

 

by Frida Kahlo

An endless search for "Her Perfect Lover"

 

One theme that constantly emerged in Kahlo's work is suffering.

After a lifetime of physical, emotional, and relationship pains,

Kahlo's worldview was one that understood and embraced the role

 of trauma in human experiences.

In few paintings is this more clear than her 1946

 

''The Wounded Deer''.

"Carma" ~ Some said it expressed her frustration over the botched surgery.
Others said it portrays her incapability to control her own destiny.
And some people said it has sexual implication and expressed
her struggles in numerous failed relationships.      

"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence

all the days and nights that I am away from you".

 

Frida Kahlo

 

Reap What You Sow.
Know What You Deserve

Never Settle For Less.

Know More Dignity

Wounded Deer

Thank you creator, writer, poet, dancer.
Tribute To An Amazingly Talented Artist
Who Lived and Saw Life Through
The Genius of Her Traumatised Soul

There are those who dare to suggest that trauma-survivors are too attached to their trauma.
That they are perpetuating their victimhood.
That they are choosing to remain stuck.

Easy for them to say-
they either didn’t experience as much trauma,
or they have worked only some of it through,
or they are in complete denial.

It’s been my experience that those who are the most affixed to the argument
that we ‘choose’ our traumas,
are usually the ones who are dissociating from them the most.

Their adherence to by passing new age beliefs about choice,
and victimhood, are a dead giveaway.

Let’s be clear about what we are talking about.

Trauma is an embodied experience.
It lives in people's bones, veins, arteries, tissues, muscles, organs.
It’s in their cells, hearts and souls.

Watch The new agers who try to sell advice, woo woo healing,
soul redemption meditations or a magic short retreat fix.
Especially those who are completely unqualified to do so.

Yes, it is often possible to heal trauma,
but not always.

Not in a culture that buries it and that has few methodologies for deep healing.
Not in a world that is still actively victimizing.

Rather than making the assumption that trauma survivors are
perpetuating their victimhood, let’s do something different.

Let’s listen deeply to their stories with a compassionate heart.

Let's just listen.

Perhaps if we listen close enough,
we will also begin to hear our own unresolved wounds rising to the surface,
ready to be shared.

Beware the Charlatans, the Quacks and Fakirs,
Beware The Gurus Wearing Gold and driving A Rolls,
Beware The New Cagers, The White Lighters, The Quick Business Buck Buy Passes,
over stepping Their (non existent) Expertise with No Care For Credibility

Run fast from, the "healers" who Hype,
The Signed Book Launchers with Long Lunches,
(and advertising handouts in the obligatory Free show bag....)

Call Out The Somatic Bullies Yelling at you as a Motivational Speaker

Beware The Weekend Seminar Selling Warriors,
 (be "counsellor trained" in 48 hours, start your own healing business Dream, NOW~) )

Laugh at The Snake Oilers selling You A Pay Pal recurring Product

Beware of All who corporatise Trauma
or have Limited Lived Experience of it
let alone any
compassion or care or empathy
or ability To Hold Space By Listening
or knowledge or certification or qualification. 

Trauma is Not A Product To Be Played With By Ignorance or
Sold With or By Pretense.

Caveat Emptor
Let The Buyer Beware.

Public Act Theatre

Just *who* are our international guests that will collaborate with Public Act Theatre in October?

 This is what they say in their Manifesto:
                                                                
La Pocha Nostra is an ever-morphing transdisciplinary arts organization.

Based in San Francisco with factions in other cities and countries, our original mission statement (2003) read:

“We provide a center and forum for a loose network of international rebel artists from various disciplines, generations, gender persuasions and ethnic backgrounds.” 
 

For 23 years La Pocha Nostra has been fully engaged in the field of performance and live art through myriad collaborations, lectures, writings, pedagogy, activism, and digital art.

"We have reinvented ourselves constantly in order to remain current, sexy and edgy.

We have operated at the intersecting points of new and old (political, cultural, geographic and conceptual) borders. Inevitably, our language, performance strategies, aesthetics, membership and location have changed with the times".

This year, members of La Pocha Nostra (Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Saula and Balitronica Gomez) with local producer Public Act Theatre will hold one of their legendary international performance workshops in Byron Bay, Australia. We consider our workshop intensives to be La Pocha’s most important pedagogical adventures of the year.

This workshop intensive will take place over 5 days at a private venue in the Byron Shire. With daily workshop sessions and exercises, we will explore radical spirituality and the creation of alternative communities through performance.

About the Pocha workshop:

The summer school involves 5-days immersed in performance art with a focus on the human body as a site for creation, reinvention, memory and activism. We will also place particular emphasis on the relationship between the human body and environment and have multiple sites to play with. This amazing cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary and cross-generational laboratory will host up to 24 participants.

The ‘Pocha workshop’ is internationally recognized as an amazing and rigorous artistic and anthropological experiment in which carefully selected artists from several countries and every imaginable artistic, ethnic, multi-cultural, and gender persuasion begin to negotiate common ground. Performance becomes the connective tissue and lingua franca for our temporary community of rebel artists.

As always, space will be limited and is expected to fill quickly. Responding to the economical challenges of our times, notifications of acceptance will be given within two weeks of having submitted your application, this will help you to plan in advance. La Pocha Nostra will help you with official letters if you need them. We encourage all interested applicants to submit your application as soon as possible. Application guidelines included below.

What will be taught?
The exciting 5-hour per-day workshop will offer two parallel processes: Participants are exposed to La Pocha Nostra's most recent performance methodologies, an eclectic combination of exercises borrowed from multiple traditions including performance art, experimental theater and dance, the Suzuki method, performative rituals, performance games and live jam sessions. Parallel to this hands-on process, the group will analyze the creative process, the issues addressed by the work, its aesthetic currency, cultural impact and political pertinence.

Who should attend?
Performance artists, experimental actors, dancers, theorists, activists and students interested in the topics addressed by La Pocha Nostra. Ages can range from 18 to 80 years old. Applicants must have some performance experience, and must be familiar with La Pocha Nostra’s work. The workshop is extremely fun but both physically and intellectually rigorous.

What is the application process?
International participants will be carefully chosen by a selection committee comprised of Pocha Nostra members and other international artists. Please fill the application form online and answer the corresponding questions. Responding to the economical challenges of our times, notifications of acceptance will be given within two weeks of having submitted your application giving you time to plan accordingly. We will be accepting participants on a rolling basis so we encourage submitting your application in advance of the deadline.

How to Heal a Fractured Society.

How to Heal a Fractured Society.

by Hiro Boga.

Wholeness: Your Central Organizing Principle.

Remember, your own wholeness is the ground on which you stand, the ground from which you contribute to the restoration of wholeness in your society. So, do whatever is needed to remain whole, present, healthy, vital and engaged. Prioritize your own needs for safety, stability, connection, rest, play, and communication with your soul. Step back before you become depleted; renew your inner resources daily. Build joy, pleasure, delight into your day-to-day. Cultivate a reservoir of goodness to counteract the effects of societal fragmentation.

A daily practice of energy hygiene is essential, to remain sovereign, effective, creative, and free while continuing to work for the sovereignty and freedom of all beings.

Practice gratitude. Practice it daily. Name and give thanks for the blessings that hold up your life, the blessings you receive, the blessings you offer your world.

Let beauty restore you. The beauty of the natural world. The beauty of our perfectly imperfect humanity. The eloquent beauty of things, which offer their service patiently, without fanfare or expectation of reward.

Express your love daily.

To the earth beneath your feet. The chair you sit in, that cradles you just so. Your bed, your toothbrush, the ant scurrying across your driveway, the trees outside your window whose breath flows through your lungs and keeps you alive. You are in relationship with everything around you. Acknowledge the sacred web of relationship, without which you would not survive.

Create. Create in a variety of ways. Create every day. Creativity is the speedboat that skims you across the waves of powerlessness, despair, denial, and fear. Creativity is a powerful portal into wholeness.

A society that is whole, integrated and coherent is one in which each of its citizens takes responsibility for their own wholeness, and that of the body civic. To be an agent of wholeness in the world, make wholeness the central organizing principle of your life.

From this place of wholeness, turn your attention to the fragmentation in your world.

Begin close to home, with your own community, your immediate environment, your town, your state, your country.

Identify those laws, those policies, that diverge from the values you hold most sacred. Be truthful with yourself and be rigorous – do your research. Who benefits from these fractures, and how? Whom do these fault-lines serve? Who suffers under their yoke? How, and by whose authority, is that suffering inflicted?

Feel your feelings.
Fully, without hiding or turning away. Be a champion of truth.

Take the time to define and articulate a clear vision of the society in which you wish to live, the society you want to help shape for your descendants, and for all beings who will live there. Hold that vision clearly in your heart, in your mind. Revisit it daily. Make it a touchstone for your thoughts, choices, and actions.

Then, dream a new society into being.
What will it look like, feel like, sound like, taste like, this society of your heart’s vision? Whom will it include? How will it serve their perfect unfolding?

Don’t let the complexity of the issues discourage or dissuade you.

Break them down into categories: Clean air and water for all. Holistic healthcare. Education. Housing and food safety. Justice, equity, and the rule of law. Community. The environment. Policies that protect the most vulnerable and lift up the fallen. Free and independent media. Compassionate care and dying with dignity.

Thank you RI.
ggh@vle #mve #ssy

Moments We Have.

Innovation From The Grass Roots

That Systems Support.

Seasons of Change.

This winter, the planet Mars plays a prominent role in the Leo/Aquarius eclipse season (three eclipses in both July and August).

The relationship planets, Mars and Venus are both going retrograde, Mars in Aquarius first, followed by Venus in Scorpio later this spring.

With Jupiter in Scorpio and Uranus moving into Taurus the stage is set for tremendous, intense, unstable, and potentially unbeatable, growth!

Aquarius relates to freedom and the capacity to be true to yourself, whereas both Jupiter and Venus in Scorpio desire intimacy and finding ways to make that work.

It is true that without the one, you cannot have the other.

Most people struggle with finding this balance between freedom and connection.

Your own personal alchemy is revealed in your birth (natal) chart and getting activated by these transits.

Let's explore the current state of affairs and how to evolve them together!

Intentional Sight

Tomorrow belongs to those who hear it coming

 

Stars Over The Dordogne

Stars are dropping thick as stones into the twiggy
Picket of trees whose silhouette is darker
Than the dark of the sky because it is quite starless.
The woods are a well. The stars drop silently.
They seem large, yet they drop, and no gap is visible.
Nor do they send up fires where they fall
Or any signal of distress or anxiousness.
They are eaten immediately by the pines.

Where I am at home, only the sparsest stars
Arrive at twilight, and then after some effort.
And they are wan, dulled by much travelling.
The smaller and more timid never arrive at all
But stay, sitting far out, in their own dust.
They are orphans. I cannot see them. They are lost.
But tonight they have discovered this river with no trouble,
They are scrubbed and self-assured as the great planets.

The Big Dipper is my only familiar.
I miss Orion and Cassiopeia's Chair. Maybe they are
Hanging shyly under the studded horizon
Like a child's too-simple mathematical problem.
Infinite number seems to be the issue up there.
Or else they are present, and their disguise so bright
I am overlooking them by looking too hard.
Perhaps it is the season that is not right.

And what if the sky here is no different,
And it is my eyes that have been sharpening themselves?
Such a luxury of stars would embarrass me.
The few I am used to are plain and durable;
I think they would not wish for this dressy backcloth
Or much company, or the mildness of the south.
They are too puritan and solitary for that—
When one of them falls it leaves a space,

A sense of absence in its old shining place.
And where I lie now, back to my own dark star,
I see those constellations in my head,
Unwarmed by the sweet air of this peach orchard.
There is too much ease here; these stars treat me too well.
On this hill, with its view of lit castles, each swung bell
Is accounting for its cow. I shut my eyes
And drink the small night chill like news of home.

S Plath.

 

Thank you Uncle Vince

Ancient Souls Age In Re-Verse

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