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.

Dance To Heal The Earth

I really love this writing, about dance, humanity, the Earth, and that which is soon to come.  It really speaks to where I am at right now with my journey, and my dancing path.

I hope you enjoy reading it, and I hope that it strikes a solid and harmonic chord within you, as it did for me.

Dance To Heal The Earth
By Dee Smith

Whenever you dance, wherever you dance, dance to heal the earth!

Dancing is power. Dancing is prayer. Some say that all is dance. Maybe. Now there's a big dance coming, a dance to heal the earth. If you're reading this, you're probably part of it. You take part whenever you do whatever you do to help heal the earth. When you recycle. 

When you choose to show love, to fight for justice, to bring healing, to bring out what is good in others. When you avoid cruelty and dishonesty and waste. When you are outraged. When you speak out. When you give. When you consider the generations to come. 

When you protest to the oppressors and encourage those who feel the cutting edge of injustice. And, of course, when you dance. There is a tree that all the prophets see, and whenever you let your love show, you make the flowers grow.

Soon this dance will be done in a big way, in the old way, on sacred ground. All living things will take part. If you want to, you can take part. No one is twisting your arm. You can stop any time you need to, and start up again whenever you're ready. If you've read this far, you probably know what I'm talking about. You've probably been doing it in one way or another for a good while. Soon will be the time to make no bones about it! Cut loose!

Anytime you dance, anywhere, whether at a party or in church, dance to heal the earth! Let your feet beat a healing rhythm into the earth. Let your feet beat a strengthening rhythm for those who struggle the hardest. 

Let your feet beat a life-giving rhythm for all peoples, regardless of race or national boundary, regardless of whether we're human or whether we're the trees, the air, the fish, the birds, the buffalo, the bear, the crow. We come out of hiding, we come back from the dead, and we dance, and our dance is a prayer, and our songs and our rhythms and our breath give life.

Is the music they're playing some mindless jingle? Never mind, as long as it's not bad music, and you can dance to the beat! Make your own words, and make the words a prayer. A prayer for the end of exploitation, a prayer for the end of lies, a prayer for healing, for justice, for life. Remember your prayer-song, feed it and let it get strong and pass it along. Dance and pray, whenever you dance, dance to heal the earth.

Have you seen anything? Wear it out! Make it so that all can see what you see! Take a white T-shirt and mark it with your dreams. Is there anything you'd like to tell the world? Take your shirt and mark it with your song! This is the way it has been done, so you can do it too. 

Use any color except black (there are reasons for that that will become clearer later), and you'll probably find that a loose, pure cotton T is most comfortable for dancing in. Because this is an actual dance, you dance hard, you sing and breathe hard and sweat. Wear it when you plan to go out dancing, to dance to heal the earth.

Some people do this dance while fasting, and dance for several days straight. But even a few minutes of dancing helps, and joins with all the other dancing going on, everywhere on Earth. Not everyone can fast these days. Besides, you never know when you're gonna dance, and you have to eat sometimes! But if you plan to dance, hold off eating till later, or just have a little. It's easier to dance if you don't have a hotdog weighing you down.

Some people say, do not do sacred things where people are drinking and partying. But all the universe is a sacred place. It really doesn't matter what others are doing, you can make a place sacred wherever you are, with your intention and your prayers. Some people use smoke to make a place sacred; a cigarette or incense stick will do fine. 

You can dance to heal the earth anywhere, even a party or a bar! The earth is everywhere, so you can dance anywhere to heal her. Only one thing. Please hold off drinking or using any other intoxicants till you're done. It works better that way.

The Lie has gone far enough. It spreads and makes everyone sick. Now is the time for this dance to begin. It, too, will spread, and it will bring healing to all. In the beginning, they say, God put a rainbow in the sky, to let us know that Spirit never forgets. Now is the time for us to put a rainbow across the earth, to let God know that we, too, remember.

Dance to heal the earth. Not just when you're dancing, but always. Live the dance, whenever you move, in all you do, dance to heal the earth.

Bringing It Home

The Time is Nigh.  The End is Near.  The poles are reversing.  The ice caps are melting.  The globe is warming.  The Mayan Calendar is closing.  Jesus is coming.  It's the zombie apocalypse.  Shift Happens. 

By now, we've heard it all, in one form or another.  What we choose to believe is our choice.  It is hard to deny that something big is going down.  Hard to deny, I dare say, by anyone.  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        It is very apparent that the world is in a time of massive shift.  No one can truly know what is coming, though many have asserted to know.  Yet with the eyes to see and the ears to hear, we feel it in our bones.  Our hearts may flutter with excitement, while our chests may clutch in fear.  This shift is collective in its nature, and much is being asked of us on a spiritual level, which breathes into all levels of the emotional, mental, and physical self.

In both my work and in my workshops, I am encountering much yearning which is offset by much uncertainty.  This may lead to seeking or to grasping, or it may lead to its opposite - which I have perceived as a sort of numbness.  This numbness allows us to believe that everything is just as it was and nothing is truly "going on".

The Earth is just as it was; sacred resources will supply our employment, plump our wallets and fill our fridges; new vehicles and forever new supersmart me-myself-and-i-phones can continue to fly off the product lines onto shelves and into every room of our homes and they will do so comfortably with no repercussions to our health or safety any level.

But this is not Truth.  We know this.  We know this so deep in our bones, throughout the entire landscape of our hearts and our minds.  We know this, and it rages deep into our very cells to the microcosmic degree.  And we are now being asked to tell ourselves the Truth, every microcosmic moment of every macrocosmic day.

Much is going on, much is happening, and it will not stop anytime soon.  We are being asked to harness our energies, and to get to know them intimately.  What is that niggling behind my eyebrow?  Why is that old injury acting up after all these years?  Why is my menstrual cycle kicking in every two weeks?  Every two months?  Why does my knee give out every time I walk away from so-and-so?  What are these childhood memories resurfacing for?  Why does this shit keep happening to me?

It is time to ask the deeper questions.  It is time again, to believe.  To allow ourselves to remember who we are, where we came from, and where we wish to go.  We have worked long on ourselves, in order to balance ourselves within this process of Healing and Awakening.  It is inevitable, but we can of course put blinders and masks on if we so choose.  It is, after all, a free will universe.  Dates and numbers are effective with which to look to for a landmark of awareness - but nothing within manifest reality is finite.  We are the navigators of our own waters.

We do have help, we do have guidance, but we are being asked to wipe the sleep from our eyes.  We are being asked to stand our ground and not allow the shades to be drawn any longer.  Be the eye of the hurricane, but don't deny the hurricane its existence.  This is an option that we do have.  Pretending no longer serves anyone, anything, anywhere - and things are moving much too swiftly now for us to look away from ourselves in the mirror.

It is not easy to watch this go down, to see the game unfold, to feel the wounds and the pains as they wash to the surface.  But please, let's not allow ourselves to get disheartened.  We are doing the work, we must simply remain diligent.  Let us also not allow the rockiness of this massive shift to give way to a fearful need to control.

This can lead to an insatiable desire for power.  And we are being asked to re-define, re-form, and re-claim this very word.  The power-hunger-program is one born of a very old paradigm which is now causing large ripples and waves as it moves to the surface in order to be cleared.  Let us choose to clear it.  True power comes from within our own selves, our own bodies, our soul vibes and essences.  Let us be clear.  This is not power over - it is power within.  Let us be conscientious that we do not grasp outwards for "pieces of power".    The stars are within us.  

To quote Don Mariano Quispe, of the Q'ero Lineage, "Our inner stars are linked to our souls and with the Kawsay Pacha (living energy world) and with the cosmos, in all of its manifestations.  Each of our inner stars holds information about where we came from and where we are going. It carries information about our biological lineages and about our spiritual lineages. It is like a guiding star - or a guiding light: illuminating the pathways of our souls from the past through the present and into the future ... our inner stars can illuminate areas from our past (including past generations) that are infused with hucha (heavy energy), like emotional hurts from our childhood or physical trauma.  Our inner stars reveal these areas of hucha to us and support us with cleansing and illuminating our past so that our present and future can be clean and clear and radiant."

This is the time to begin to work with our individual abilities, gifts, passions, and "keys".  It is not necessary that we 'go' anywhere.  Let us thrive well in our places, and the temples of our bodies.  Our information and tools are right here inside of us.  We brought them with us when we came into this world.  Let us restore them to their original intended divinity.  As the old adage goes, the only constant we can count on, is that there will be change.

Let us also not give way to the heavy arms of hopelessness.  We are revisiting that which we have allowed, over time, to seep in.  Some old programs and thought patterns have been triggered into release on their own terms and we have had to sit tight for the ride.  Some of the old has taken a lot of work, on an individual basis, in such a way that we have been able to manage the releases and their effects on our personal timing and in some cases, on our own terms.

Now we are being asked to truly feel the beauty and magic of working as a cohesive and interwoven collective.  It would serve us well to keep driving the points of our deepest desires home.  That which we wish to see happen for our families, our communities, our homelands.  Do not give up hope.  Let us place our signatures on those pieces of paper.  And let us sign them, over and over again, until we feel that our voices are heard and that we, ourselves, believe us.

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."