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Winter Solstice Meditation

The Winter Solstice is the return of light. We endure through the darkness to be reborn in light. Journey within to meet the darkness with love and compassion as we take a moment to forgive ourselves and discover our inner light ever present.

 Music by Maura ten Hoopen. Licensed from restfulmind.com

Fool(ish) Musings

Today we will take some time to think about “the fool’s” journey through life. This theme is represented in literature with works such as “the Epic of Gilgamesh” and ”Alice in Wonderland,” among many others. Joseph Campbell, an American writer and professor, described it as the archetypal hero story.
These themes are prevalent in our lives as we grow from child to adolescent to adult, gaining insight and experience along the way. We begin our journey as the uneducated novice (infant) bound in pure awareness, with no sense of self – hence, the fool.
Our modern language has negative connotations associated with the word FOOL; however, when examined through experience, we see that societal trappings and norms unencumber the fool. The fool experiences life in all its splendor, tasting experience for what it is. There is no shame, no guilt – only pure being.
As babies, we have no sense of self (as in self-consciousness); purely instinctual beings. Our whole experience is based upon survival- cry to be fed, changed, consoled. All our energy is concentrated in the root chakra. As we grow, we develop a sense of separation, of otherness. It is at this point our energy moves into the sacral chakra. We experience the partition based on sex and slowly become aware of the power sex and sexual identification has in our lives. Like the fool/hero on the journey, we must come to understand that power is limited, controlling, and lacking Love. If our karma in this life allows, we move into the third chakra, some of us developing a stable sense of self, or we become lost in the anxiety of trying to fit in. Most people are living through the energy of the lower 3 Chakras.
Progress moving the energy upwards becomes difficult due to our physical plane of existence constantly telling us we need more to be happy, loved, and fit in. Beings stuck here are trapped by instant gratification-always seeking outside of themselves.
The fool/hero, however, can move beyond the physical plane of power after some time. This shift can happen gradually, or some trauma can rend open the heart instantly, allowing the experience of the power of unconditional Love. This subtle energy will enable us to bridge the gap between the lower and upper chakras.
This Love can assist us further on our foolish yet heroic journey. It allows us to see the world for what is in pure Love. It invites gracious speech and action and opens our intuition to allow a depth of understanding: everything is exactly as it should be every moment.
This is the most difficult pill to swallow. War, greed, and suffering are all intrinsic parts of human existence, and they are the opposite side of the coin of Love, compassion, and empathy.
At a point in history, we began to see everything as duality (Eve eating the apple/Gilgamesh and Enkidu), and we lost the pure taste of awareness.
Those whose karma is ripening for awakening feel the “something not quite right” in how we are told to experience life.
The fool’s/hero’s journey is never straight, and it is a crooked path with many missteps and falls along the way.
Take time to look at your life from the perspective of storytelling. Can you identify early life moments where energy stagnated in the lower chakras?
In working with these ideas, we must remember that we are most likely not fully awakening in this go-round, and we are the fool – just beginning to open our eyes to the light of truth. This is a journey of many lifetimes, unpredictable and long.
With this realization, which cannot be intellectualized, we begin to see the face of god in everyone we meet. No one is better than us, no one less than us. All god, all one; All beings are moving toward the light in their way, in their own time.
The person that cut you off on the highway is god; the megalomaniac, hell-bent on persecuting other beings, is also god. It is all energy in form and all one. Ram Dass says, “ it is all grist for the mill.”
Everything we meet is the path.
Namaste

Anahata

I wrote post this back in 2021 when my beloved friend Patty gave me the pendant. Patty passed away Tuesday and my heart breaks for her parents, loved ones and her beloved dog Marley. I am blessed to have known her these few short years. She was one of the strongest, most stubborn, kind hearted, intelligent person I have ever known. I will greatly miss my friend and colleague.


It is not the length of a life, But how many other lives were touched by the GRACE of that one,

Echoing their goodness into eternity.

When the divine touches a life, All of Heaven & Earth shine

With the ethereal light of that soul.

-Kristen Simonds


From 2021…..

A friend gave me this beautifully simple pendant yesterday. She thought I would like it because it is carved from a shell. She was right.

I sat quietly contemplating its simplicity- calcium carbonate which naturally forms a Fibonacci spiral in order for life to protect itself from nature, the very thing that created it. How amazing the circle of life.

The beginning of the spiral sits centered in the heart or we could say the spiral is the heart center. And shouldn’t it? Should love (unconditional Universal love) spiral perfectly outward from each of our heart centers? Our daily responsibilities allow us to forget our true nature, our authentic self. We become caught up in the identity and expectations others have for us and we forgot our expansive nature. We need to take time each day to remember who we are and where we come from.

We are children of the universe, each being as unique as a fingerprint, each with our own energetic identity. We are energy in form, a beautiful process of the Universe.

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Let’s begin to remember our true self, lets open our hearts to LOVE. We can work with our Heart Charka to bring our awareness back to the divine.


Sit quietly and breathe slowly and evenly. Feel your breath move through your physical body. Feel the life force of your breath move through your etheric body. Place your hand over your heart center and breathe slowly and evenly. Visualize radiant healing energy spiraling in your heart center. Allow this energy to spiral in synchronicity with your breath. Feel this energy pulsate within your chest, filling your soul with LOVE & LIGHT. Know you are connected to everything. The universe moves within your heart. Breathe slowly and deeply. Exhale and feel LOVE spiral out from your heart center. With intention send this loving energy out into the world. Inhale and feel LOVE come back to you, flooding your body with light. Breathe out LOVE for all of creation. Breathe in LOVE for your soul. Continue with your breath softly and evenly. Feel your authentic self rise from within, feeling that divine presence deep in the core of your being. You are LOVE. You are the Universe experiencing itself. You are LOVE.


If we take time to practice working with our heart chakra we will begin to naturally radiate the light of unconditional LOVE. We will stop forgetting who we are and we will KNOW.

We are all love. We are one.

Namaste.