Change of Season

Today is the Autumn Equinox. And it’s the day after the International Day of Peace.  And here in Silver City, it’s the first day of the annual Gila River Festival.

Whether or not we are successful food gardeners, working hard to harvest and preserve the fruits of our gardens, there is so much to be done right now.  And for me, most of it has to do with joining with others near and far to pray for, meditate for, and protect the world we love and the world as we wish it to be.  There are so many synchronized meditations being organized right now that i’ve already missed a couple of them.

Oh, well, in my view of the world, in the spiritual dimensions, where we gather to meditate and pray together globally, there IS no time.  So whenever i have a breathing space, i will sit down and set my intention to join with brothers and sisters across space and time to meditate, to visualize a world that works for all beings, to support the inspiring and courageous people gathered at Standing Rock, to send loving, healing, honoring, respectful thoughts and prayers to our beloved Mother the Earth.

As i mentioned in my post a couple of weeks ago (“September”), many visionaries, channelers, astrologers, and other interesting people have predicted that this is the month of great change.  And one, in fact, named TODAY as the start of something big.

Well, it may be so.  But regardless of the timing of cosmic events that help us to move to a better life for all on this planet, i do know that every single time i and you and we focus our attention on that better life, we help it come about.  I don’t know how a 20-minute meditation will affect the financial systems or the outcome of the elections or change the global and national climate of hatred, suspicion, racism, and fear, but i have ultimate faith that it does so.

So i invite you to join me in as many periods of this kind of world-changing activity as you can manage, whether on your own or as part of a synchronized world meditation.

And if you live in the Silver City area, you are most welcome and encouraged to come to the Lotus Center on Broadway at 3:30 for the Fall Equinox Celebration.  Bring your drums, your rattles, your singing bowls, and your open and aspiring hearts!

All is well and all is well and all will be well.

 

 

 

If You Can Keep Your Heart…

Rudyard Kipling wrote in his poem “If”:

“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you”

And today, i’m telling myself “If you can keep your heart full of light when all about you are suffering and struggling”, then what?  If i can do that, i can perhaps counteract to some small extent the wave of pain and violence and dysfunction that seems to be engulfing so much of our planet right now.

I’ve read or heard face-to-face so many harrowing stories today!  Pain and difficulty at all levels of human being, from the individual and personal to the global and planetary.  With each story, i feel my heart sink.  But i am determined to keep on keeping on as a light-worker, as a carrier of the vision of the new world that’s being born. Sometimes that’s easier said than done.  When i feel other people’s pain, my intention is to use that pain as a reminder to visualize the positive, the healing, the building of a world of Love, Harmony, and Beauty.

So how can i do that?  When i feel that heaviness in my heart, as i do right now, i know that what i need to do is head for my meditation room, breathe Light and Love in and out of my heart until i feel it is light and loving again, and then visualize each person whose painful story i heard today, see them healing and healed, free and happy once again, or maybe for the first time. And then visualize the whole earth bathed in its own essential and true Light and Love.

This is the true essence of the Earth, just as it is the true essence of each one of us. Our planetary reality is going through a HUGE change right now, and it can be very challenging for us on all levels.  The remedy, as i see it, is to keep our eyes on the prize.  What’s that? A world that works for everyone, every human being, every culture, every  being, every ecosystem.  A world of cooperation and compassion and co-creation, a world that knows and acts from the knowledge that we are all Once. OK, please excuse me while it retire to my meditation room!

Hiatus

In breaking news today: “A federal judge has granted the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s request to temporarily stop work on some, but not all of a portion of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline to safeguard cultural sites in North Dakota.

“U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said Tuesday that work will temporarily stop between State Highway 1806 and 20 miles east of Lake Oahe, but that work will continue west of the highway because he believes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lacks jurisdiction on private land.”

So, in this historic gathering of Native American tribes to prevent the installation of an oil pipeline across their sacred lands and under the Missouri River, we pause between breaths. Or maybe a pause to just breathe.

The crisis isn’t over; we’re just taking a break until we see what happens next. And so it feels to me in so very many ways on our planet right now. The old ways of competition, the weighing of EVERYTHING by the bottom line, greed, and misuse of power, and the new ways of cooperation, compassion, inclusion, and sharing, are at loggerheads.  Right now. A lot of the confrontation is taking place beyond the physical plane, and it does feel today like a pause to breathe while energies adjust and re-orient

Don’t ask me for particulars about what i’m referring to, because this is so much in the realm of intuition that i don’t know that i can put labels and dates and places on this. But it is September (see my previous post), and many, many, earth-changing, heart-changing evens are possible, maybe even probable.

So let’s take a break to just breathe, deeply and evenly, and as we do so, to envision the world we long to see and to live in and to pass on to the ones coming.  So mote it be.