4/1/2024 0 Comments April 1, 2024Today begins a series of videos about using a pendulum for divination/dowsing - everything from choosing a pendulum to Who are we talking to anyway? to using the pendulum to assist in healings. Keep an eye on this space as I will be updating it in the next few weeks with additional videos, each picking up where the last has left off.
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In exploring the dark of our shadows, we are finally able to illuminate our souls. We are finally able to see ourselves clearly - in all our GLORY. The shadow is the path to our light. Bypassing the shadow necessarily bypasses our light - our medicine - our individual ways of planting love on Earth. Notice the irritations and annoyances of the day. Notice the places where peace is disrupted, where judgment pops up - whether coming from within or toward you, where gossip is a temptation, where self-care is a challenge... Notice these places where ease becomes a challenge... the shadow inviting you in...
explore...play with awareness...experience release... notice glimmers of light... YOUR light... there are threads to growth, to gifts, to divine love here. As divine love enters, we breathe with a little more ease, with a little more freedom, with a little more peace. Our lights reach toward one another. Love (God) has entered. We finish up a BIG BLAST of a moon cycle this week. As the Dark of the Moon (the New Moon, the beginning of the moon cycle when we can't see the moon) approaches, consider looking back over the 28 days of the past moon cycle. Do any of these questions light up for you?
Were there any particular emotional triggers which seemed to return over and over again? Were there any particular joys that appeared or resurfaced in your life? Any words, symbols, numbers, book titles, teachings. people or anything else that may have come to your attention repeatedly during this time period? Have any relationships changed during this time period? Do you feel relieved of any burdens? How have you or your life been changed during this last moon cycle? If any of these questions light up, what does it mean to you? What do you feel is the most loving way to continue this inner work as you move into the New Moon on Sunday? 2/28/2024 0 Comments We wish for you a life...There will be something left undone at the end of each day.
There will be things left on your to-do list when you die. Hopefully. Hopefully. Abundance. Creativity. Vibrancy. Fullness. We do not wish for you an orderly life, packed neatly in attractive little boxes, completed as planned, and on schedule. We wish for you a life lived in the knowing and the uncertainty of the Mystery. In the heartspace of the Mother and the cosmic arms of the Father. In the chaos within the serenity and the serenity within the chaos. We wish for you a life well lived. David, Sunemaura and friends 1/11/2024 1 Comment A Quote I LoveIf Love has not yet won, then the battle is not yet finished. And so, I Rise! (I don't know where I found this - if anyone knows of its origin, please inform me.) update: Longtime friend and colleague Karen Hill found the quote in Alana Fairchild's Earth Warrior's Oracle deck. I truly love and honor the wisdom in Alana Fairchild's decks! At the beginning of every year, usually around Solstice, my spirit circle gives me a list of things to ponder - journal prompts, I would say.
This year’s ponderings are quite different from previous ones and are very interesting. If they feel worth contemplating to you, as they did to me, I have a few suggestions: *Rather than sitting down and working with all the questions at once, work with one question at a time. Give it 24 hours at least. Carry it in your heart and see what comes up. Do journaling with art or words about it. Breathe into the feelings that come up, the questions that come up. I have taken this approach (I’m not through all the questions yet) and it has felt worthy of the time and introspection. *This contemplation is best done in the spirit of openness, love and compassion, especially for self. You know that. But it’s important that we remind each other. *Do explore journaling with both words and art this year. If you lean more or all toward one, play with the other. Skill, talent, etc. aren’t part of the process with either word journaling or art journaling. Self-expression and understanding may be what you're headed for. Let yourself share with yourself in color, shape, texture, line, picture, words - in any configuration that explores and expresses your experience, emotions, thoughts, or whatever may come through. Ponderings as we move from 2023 to 2024: * Consider the time you spent alone in 2023. Consider it in terms of your own preferences and needs – no one else’s thoughts, or opinions. * Consider time spent in 2023 with that person – you know the one – your inner guidance knows the one. And you both know what your heart knows and wants to do with this relationship. * What has prayer looked like and meant to you this year? * Have you glorified Life this year? *** Often our guides give us a word for the year. This is a word to hold sacred and, once again, ponder. This word, however, we hold close to us for the whole year. We ponder. We soak in the word, integrating and absorbing its energy, its essence. We discover its true meaning in our lives. We allow it to change us. Try sitting with your guides and asking for your word for the year. It’s likely that you won’t receive the word instantly. When you hear it though, you will know, especially after hearing it a few times. You will feel it inside you. Much love, Sunemaura and friends 12/28/2023 0 Comments Sacred Stone Solstice CeremonyThis ceremony is to take place any time between Winter Solstice and New Year's. It is a ceremony of releasing the agreements and experiences of the previous year and opening the heart to new agreements and adventures of the new year. Both are done with great gratitude. The ceremony was conceived by Rev.David O'Brien as an earth element based approach to the Burning Bowl ceremony commonly held at this time of year. The ceremony can be performed as an individual or as a group.
Sacred Stone Solstice Ceremony Leader: This earth represents our connection to our Mother Gaia. She anchors our spirits which are all connected in the Great Web of Life. The bowl represents receptivity. The offerings we make are held in the dirt, to be returned to Mother. We offer our prayers and accept her gifts. Freeing thought and feeling, grounding in our Mother's womb, cleansing our hearts, opening our minds, we release agreements with which we no longer agree and forge new agreements, from a place of healing.
I ask to delve deeper. New agreements can be made. May our hearts be guided by our Mother to journey on her with love and respect." 5. Bury this stone in the dirt. Give thanks. 6. As we are given our breaths, our hearts are lit with the light of the heavens, our thoughts are agreement to align with the light. I am a beacon on Gaia, to share my medicine with all who live on her. 7. Return the soil and stones with gratitude to Gaia. Choose a sacred space, if possible. It is up to the individual whether to bury it or not. 8. Always, always end a ceremony with gratitude. Peace, David 9/22/2023 0 Comments Cultivate Hope7/18/2023 0 Comments To Find Quiet in the MindHaving trouble meditating? Have trouble quieting the mind?
When we are busy, busy in our minds, we have very often slipped a bit out of connection with our bodies. Embodiment is a key factor in finding stillness. Try this: Verrry gently, tell your brain "we'll talk about this later." Even more gently, relax your shoulders. Even more gently, breathe in slooowly through your nostrils and slowly, gently out through your mouth. As you breathe, let yourself sink into your seat, into your body. Allow your head to relax, the thoughts in your brain melting into your body, flowing through it so that they eventually move all the way through and discharge into the Earth. Just sink deeply into your body, finding your mind quieter, finding your breathing slower, your body more relaxed, Feel yourself ready for an encounter with stillness. |
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