Make Love to Life

This message is a gem of a recording that I received in my inbox from one of my teachers, don Oscar,  today.  It is so rich in its message, and in its simplicity, that I took the time to sit down and transcribe it.  Enjoy!~*

It's simple.  It involves being an artist.  It is an anthropology of the Soul... not to be studied, to be memorized, to be with great effort and deliberation... to be contained in any manner.  It is to be danced.  It is to be made love to.  That is why it's appeal is so great.  It does not require a rigorous practice of meditation.  

On the contrary... it requires an open, effortless giving of oneself to the blessing of the perfection of the moment, and engaging in the game of life with the awe inspiring freedom and curiosity of a child.  It also allows for great creativity and great spontaneity and great integration of your own medicine ways, your own meditative practice, your own pagan experience, your own earth honoring ceremonial artistry. 

For this open ended organic participative approach to walking the earth in shamanic service is the dynamism behind evolution.  Evolution itself is really the same as mindful growing of a Soul.  By growing of a Soul just as you would grow a crop of medicinal plants, or edible flowers, simply involves paying attention to the seasons, to the cycles, to the pulses, to the rhythms, and ordering expressions of the natural world... both that witnessed in sky and that witnessed on Earth.  To understand that our mother, Pachamama, is the greatest scholar and University that there is.  It is the sanctuary, the highest temple of learning, the uber Alexandrian library. 

And by learning to observe her ways, and then, when the time is right, to lift your sight to the heavens and take in the movements and prescribed orders of that canopy of stars, will allow you as a two-legged to be the bridge between the worlds of Spirit and Matter, between the Above and the Below.  And all that you experience Within, through that Connectivity, through that inextricable solidarity with the mirroring that takes place in the natural world with a self regulating aesthetic that one can observe in Mother Nature is the great work... is the Rite of Passage... is the becoming.

Earth (W)rap - A Poem

When all has been said and all has been done, a new course is soon clear for
every One.

All being said leaves silence to speak.

One thing to do
makes hearts pound and eyes leak.

The earth solid and warm, with new eyes
takes new form, whispers,

"Been here the whole time.  Let love be the new norm. 
Letting go makes you strong, and with that, nothing's wrong.

Children sing and they cry and they long for what's real,
they must dance
and express with permission to feel.

The stars shine for a reason, the sun
warms up the day,
the road rises to meet you and with joy they will say,

Mistake none, we are here to show you your way."

Prayer for the People

This was written by a friend of mine, and with her permission, I felt the need to share.  Please enjoy.


Prayer for the People

As energies shift and change on the planet it causes stresses in the plates, which then shift as well. As these plates move into a different alignment, it shows us the energy we need to move into – malleable (capable of being honed and shaped without breaking). 

This is reflected in our personal lives and the lives of all we know. There is a real shake-down going on in the world. People are waking up. People are passing beyond the veil to prepare our world on the energetic level.

This has been evident in my life as my relationships change and morph into something other than what they were and as people, young and elder, pass away; people that seemed would be together for always, are divorcing. The most unlikely people are getting together. Something is afoot.

We cannot know all that is happening as it is far beyond our finite mind. We can, however, move into our Spirit and willingly make the shifts required within us. We can do this through prayer and meditation, by quieting our mind, by reaching out to help others, by reaching out for help from others, and by stepping into our Light. ‘We are greater than we know.’ There is an acronym for this – WAG – willingness, action, gratitude.

We create the story of our lives so that we can live on this world ie: wife, husband, father, mother, grandmother, grandfather, friend, healing facilitator, drafts person, and so on, then live out those scripts as best we can, becoming completely involved in the illusion that we call ‘my life’. Entanglement and confusion arise from this behaviour.

When we hang on too tightly to our own personal story, we can be terribly hurt by it. We need to let go of the reigns and give them back to the Creator of All That Is. That is where our Power comes from.

We need to always remember that it is our Spirit within us that animates our flesh and bones, and that it is the survivor in all of this and the only lesson that is ever learned is the lesson of Love. The only question we need to ask ourselves is – did I do that with Love?

Over this last weekend, and every day for as long as it takes, we send healing rays of Love and Light into the situation in Japan, and continue to do so for Libya, Iran, and everywhere that people are suffering.

It is our prayer that all who suffer will know peace and all who hate and fear will move into a state of Love.

Please join us daily, at whatever time is right for you, in prayer and meditation, with the purpose of sending Healing Rays of Love and Light to all who suffer. Thank you.

-L.A.