Today we welcome in a new month. Many of you may have looked at the calendar and, like me, wondered for a moment where this year has gone. But, August 1st, which marks the half way point between the Summer Solstice and Autumn Equinox, is really a good time to take that wonderment into deep reflection. 

On the wheel of the year today is called Lammas or Lughnasadh. It is a time to reflect, honor, and celebrate the first fruits and the coming harvest. This day serves as a reminder to take a look at the seeds planted earlier in the year, assess their growth, notice the transformations, maybe give a bit of extra tending, and offer a deeper blessing of gratitude.

Yes, I encourage you to take a few moments today and glance back over your year. Do so as an observer; no judgement, no discouragement, no over enthusiasm. Simply observe your gardens, fields, and orchards with kind, loving, tender eyes and an open, gracious heart.

Look at the seeds you planted this year and the orchards you’ve been tending. What has sprouted and what has not? What has grown out of control or in a different, unexpected, or odd twist? What has been produced so far? Are there areas that need additional weeding? Are there places which are ready to be plucked or needing to be pruned? Are there seeds you might not plant again? Are you inspired to plant others? 

Let the observance continue for as long as comfortable for you, as long as you want. Journal any insights you may have received, even if they seem incomplete, remember the full harvest isn’t upon us just yet. Then, be sure to whisper a blessing of gratitude for the plenty you have and the ever unfolding abunDance. 

NOTE: After writing this, I pulled this card from Awakening to Your Divine Self deck; Unfolding (Surrender, Flow, Dance, Movement, Permission).This card, with her dancer, has colors of the Summery sun and ripening Autumn. It is an unfolding dance. A reminder to trust where we are, right now, to listen to the body, your own and Mother Earth. All things, including each of us, is unfold in their due time, ah, timing. We can’t rush the seed, can we? Part of the card’s beautiful message says, “This card is about giving yourself the time to be still and listen, even as you move imperceptibly, intuitively, like a flower seeking light.”

Seek the light dear ones xox

(If you're interested in working with me and/or you're interest in acquiring your own deck of Awakening to your Divine Self, please contact me.)

When was the last time you looked up into the night sky and really saw the stars? How about the creamy spray of the Milky Way? 

Saturday night I happened to stroll outside and look up, as if being called, and the vista took my breath away. So impressed with what I saw, I had to bring my kids who are home with me out to take a look. For a few moments the three of us, with heads tilted back, spun around taking in as much of the domed landscape as possible. A innumerable amount of stars and the creamy splash of more star light within the clearly visible Milky Way band. Oh so beautiful. What was seen and unseen sparked brief conversation and lingering thoughts for each of us.

When one really looks up and takes in the vista of a star filled night sky wonderment can not help but enter the conscious and subconscious mind. And, those thoughts usually can be peeled back to a sense of significance or insignificance depending on which course they take.

With gratitude and hope I take the course of significance. Significance in that I have been sent to this earthly realm not to merely muddle my way though alone but thought woven connectedness to experience this divine journey, a journey which is only a part of a greater whole, an eternal journey...so much thought, so many reminders, so many questions, all brought anew with one look upwards to the heavens...and mixed in is a sense of longing, a homesickness, a peek at the tapestry of life...

Last night, again, the stars called out to me (actually my daughter called me out, "Hey momma, I've never seen the Big Dipper look this large before, come check it out.") 

So our perspective has shifted, changed a bit, our view expanded and larger, as the Big Dipper, which was amazingly huge last night.

There is a restlessness deep within my bones and I'm being called. Do I follow the course of significance in the call and the restlessness or pass it off as insignificant? Tonight, I shall allow the stars to pull me outside again knowing it is also a pull inside to wonder and weave, to question and know...

Can you hear the stars calling you outside too? 
Is it time to recognize the significance of a restlessness inside of you?

I invite to follow the pull.

Love is such an underused, overused, misused word. It is the subject for many poets, authors, artist from all genres. This could also be the topic of countless blog posts. For the past 20 or so years, my good friend Pat has been the teacher/host of a weekly 'love' class. Oh I know this sounds weird and conjurers up many unnecessary humorous thoughts. But, the class of about 50 gather once a week to hold discussion, support for one another, quite honestly I see them as little lights which must from the heavens be an illuminating beacon as they gather. Basically, the class opens with Pat reading an excerpt from Born for Love: Reflections on Loving, by Leo Buscaglia. A compilation of short essays, statements of thought on love; a beautiful little book. So inspired by this class and in connection to my thoughts of connectedness, I thought I'd have my own sort of sharing once a week here, on my blog, which, I guess, means that yes love is going to be the topic of (maybe not countless) several blog posts. Here's today's and if you feel a tug to comment, ask a question, whatever please feel free to do so right here or in a private message. Oh, here's one more thing, as I always say, "Joy is our purpose," Benjamin Disreli said, "We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." Wow, joy our purpose, love our existence, if we can spread this light of love, well can you only imagine how divine this human existence can be as we gather together on this beautiful little planet we all call home!

Love Has Nothing to do with Competition
page 27

It's unfortunate that so many of us are encouraged to develop a competitive spirit early in life because it so often works to the detriment of cooperative spirit necessary for love. The world becomes an arena of winners and losers, where character is shaped according to one's ability to survive, where winning is the only sign of success and where we are constantly measured against others to determine and validate our worth. Love is not a competitive sport. Winning in love comes through cooperation, compromise, and caring. when we become masters of these skills, everybody wins.

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and along these fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back as effects." Herman Melville

So beautiful! Would love love (yes) love to hear your thoughts! 

Yesterday afternoon a neighbor dropped off some corn. They're crop was full and abundant and they shared. This offering came as a reminded that the full Moon, the Corn Moon was last night. As much as I wanted to melt into Luna, I simply sat under her glow, offering a feeble prayer (if there is such a thing in prayer as feeble), and sending with as much love, compassion, and energy as possible a blessing for our Great Mother Earth and all Her inhabitants. God is always good, gentle, and full of grace. This morning I scrolled upon this poem. It feels right for my heart and soul, which seem to be breathing and beating at a different pace than I. They are telling me they won't slow down or turn around for me to catch up, I must synchronize myself with them, heart and soul. It isn't a deep calling to deep from outside myself or from some known place within, deep is calling to deep from a frontier not yet discover, a more farther away, mysterious place. So, yes Mary Oliver's words feel right with my heart and soul and so I share them here with you, while we remain in the window of Luna's fullness, of the Corn Moon, as we wane and wax once more before the Harvest Moon.
Once again for the first time journey.

 

WILD GEESE
by: Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
Love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell
You of mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
Are moving across the landscapes,
Over the prairies and the deep trees,
The mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
Are heading home again.
Whoever you are, know matter how lonely,
The world offers itself to your imagination,
Calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting,
Over and over announcing your place
In the family of things.

This is Cisco the Kid and Linda.

Linda is a friend and neighbor. 

Cisco is her handsome new beau. 

This is a very magical post about their coming together.

On April 1st, Linda was chatting about how much she wanted a horse. Actually, she commented on a particular photo of a horse, a horse voted as the most beautiful horse, saying, "I WANT THIS HORSE!" followed by, "I want any horse...one day, one day, one day..."

In a short conversation I invited Linda to set her intention to bring 'her' horse home, to stake her claim. 

"If it were only possible," she stated.

Oh my, I couldn't resist, "You dwell in endless possibilities," I told her.

Each of us do, dwell in endless possibilities and potential.

From there we created a vision, a clear vision of her horse. She saw her horse being a Sorrel, she named him Buster and explained why he got his name. Linda envisioned her days with him and then we invoked the feelings and emotion.  

With guidance, in a short time Linda created a clearly written vision of what she wanted complete with, "...July 2014 or sooner..." Always set a target date.
I further invited her to be, "...open and receptive..." to her perfect match. This is so important when setting a vision/intention so not to be completely locked into your vision that when the perfect match shows up, it goes missed or neglected because it isn't the 'exact' request. 

Let me explain this a little more: Clarity in our vision inspires Universe which in turn sets Universe to conspire with us in bringing about our heart's desires. 
(This comes with a warning: be careful what you wish for.) 

Desire Inspire Conspire

Linda also said something many of us feel and say ourselves. "...when God finds me worthy of this gift..."

My response, "...divine daughter, you are worthy right now and so is your horse to be with you!"


Let me explain this a little more: We tend to underestimate our worthiness, that we are loved beyond measure, and our purpose is joy. What brings you true joy? Joy, at this time for Linda, was her horse.


So, after Linda created her vision I invited her to read it every day and to feel it with the same excitement and magic as a child feels on Christmas morning.

Sunday evening I received an excited and joy-filled message from Linda, "...read what I typed back in April. Look what happened!! He's not exactly what I had described and I chose a different name, but it happened when I said it would!! Thank you for helping me with this!! He's a Medicine Hat Ovaro Paint and the Native Americans believe they are "magical". I believe it!! He's beautiful!"

Welcome home Cisco!

And so it is magical...