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START CLOSE IN
Start close in,
don't take the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step you don't want to take.
Start with
the ground
you know,
the pale ground
beneath your feet,
your own
way of starting
the conversation.
Start with your own
question,
give up on other
people's questions,
don't let them
smother something
simple.
To find
another's voice
follow
your own voice,
wait until
that voice
becomes a
private ear
listening
to another.
Start right now
take a small step
you can call your own
don't follow
someone else's
heroics, be humble
and focused,
start close in,
don't mistake
that other
for your own.
Start close in,
don't take the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step you don't want to take.
~ David Whyte ~
(River Flow)
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Dear Ones
Many of you are reporting, and I am experiencing, the Ancestors very close to us now. The veils are very thin, and there is much communication going back and forth, and more possible. It is a wonderful time to open to your ancestors if you haven't.
The Ancient Ones, our own Ancestors, recognized the importance of this time of year and they are with us and can be called upon for help, strength, support. Our Ancestors are available to help us and some need help from us. We can invite them in, honor them, return to them any burdens of suffering that we may be carrying for them, and take what is our own.
One thing you can do is invoke your ancestors, on your mothers side and your father's side... together or separately, and make a prayer that those who are 'healed and whole' help the ancestors who need some help on the other side. Then you can ask them for help for yourself, your beloveds, the world.
You can also ask individual ancestors, like parents, grandparents, or a whole lineage, to please take back any and all burdens, suffering, responsibilities that you may be carrying for them, and state that you willingly carry your own. It might go something like this:
"Mother, Grandmothers, I ask that you take back any and all burdens, suffering, responsibilities that i carry for you, for your lineage. I ask the healed and whole ancestors to come to help you if it is difficult for you. I give you what is yours, and keep what is mine. I ask the ancestors who are healed and whole to help me with my journey (or whatever). Thank you, i pray now for all of you." You can do this with your father's lineage as well. You can ask to be shown/understand certain things about your life, your family, your 'mission', etc.
A few years ago I recorded a guided meditation mp3, Ancestral Ceremonies, invoking the ancestors with my friend and didgeridoo player, Gusty Christensen. We both experienced a very powerful transmission while recording. It is most powerfully evocative with headphones, as the recording was done with surround sound - you may feel as though you are right in the middle of it.
You are invited to create a sacred space where you can enter the dreamtime and step into a circle of ancestors, elders, and animals. Led by crow, wind, didjeridoo, voice, breath, and the Divine Shakti, you are invited to meet your longing, yourself, and your Ancient Ones and your Inner Partner. You will have opportunities to partake of healing rituals, attunement, wisdom and surprises that only the Unknown can bring.
Please see Ancestral Ceremonies link below to the Temple Store.
Blessings as we enter the Luminous Darkness more fully,
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Living Grace Fully:
Awake in Your Own Extra/Ordinary Life
A Year-Long Women's Novena Journey Teleconference Begins January 2012
WE and the Planet are radically changing! We can struggle, resist, and fight with what is happening, or we can learn to flow with what is, be the change so that we can, simply by be-ing, help to midwife the collective change as it is unfolding. Share the RIDE into 2012 with a group of women deeply devoted to Being Love and Consciousness and Living Grace Fully.
Borrow the Beloved's eyes. Look through them and you'll see the Beloved's face everywhere... things you have hated will become helpers. ~Rumi flyer Please read What Participants Say About Their Living Grace Fully Experiences HERE |
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 The Extravagant Gesture:
Making Art at the Edge
Mondays
Nov. 21, 28, Dec. 5 & 12
$150
The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
~ Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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To see some of the art made in the last year by participants, go to:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheilafoster/
flyer
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Meditation MP3 Downloads
Ancestral Ceremonies
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Guided Meditation Journey
by Sheila Foster &
Gusty Christensen on Didgeridoo ~
Vol. 2: Always at the Beginning
Samyama Meditations for Grief, Fear, andIntense Emotions ~ mp3 download
Vol. 1, Always at the Beginning
Introduction to Samyama Meditation
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Your Mythic Eyes:
Seeing & Re-Writing Your Life as a Myth
Upcoming Teleconference ~ January 2012 ~ Dates TBA
When we shift the paradigm of our ordinary life events to a mythic paradigm, where we see our challenges as Gatekeepers, profound un-doings as initiations, and the various cast of characters in our families and our world as Kings, Dark Queens, kind Witches, Fairy Goddess Mothers, Knights to the rescue, Gnomes who give clues to where the Treasure lies, and Dragons who seem fierce but we find are really like puppies, we can get a new perspective, solve an apparent problem, magically find a door in what we thought was a 20 foot stone wall. Not only does our perspective change and we see what we could not see from the ordinary view, but solutions that appear magical can actually make changes in our lives. As we change, life changes.
This is not a writing course and there will be no feedback or critique on your writing. This is about fun, stepping over the edge to see beyond the known, discovery, limitless possibilities, and the alchemy of a new way of seeing what you don't ordinarily see. This is an opportunity to lift the veil and see through your own Mythic Eyes.
Flyer will be coming... |
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