This autumn, I’m inviting you into the Heart of the Shaman, offering eight steps along the Path of the Inca Wisdom Teachings. Awakening that spark of divinity that sits within all our hearts, that spark that makes us all so unique and creative each in our own way. Let all our hearts awaken to the new possibility of who we could be, and how together we can co-create a new and more life-enriching story for the future of our families, our communities and ultimately for our world.

Learn how to come back into balance and harmony with this series of evenings designed to open the door to the Inca Medicine Wheel teachings. Each week we offer you a pathway that leads you across the threshold to help you discover for yourself the heart of this particular shamanic tradition.

You will learn some beautiful processes that are simple and practical and yet profoundly transformational. Practices that leave you with a deep feeling of inner peace, harmony and balance. Processes that you can take away and bring into your everyday life. 
This is an opportunity to re-discover inner harmony, peace, calm and balance in your world, and a connection to other like-minded individuals who will be sitting with you in this virtual circle every Tuesday evening.

There is a discounted subscription rate to join us for all eight sessions, or join us week-by-week online, from the comfort of your own home, whenever you can at £25 per class. All links and details below…

An 8-week subscription please!

THE MAP OF THE MEDICINE WHEEL:
The Path of the Earthkeeper

Tue 3 October, 7pm-9pm UK/9pm-11pm Ro

The ancient peoples left us maps to guide us, to help us to navigate challenging times, and teach us how to stay in balance and harmony so that we would be able to hold a still note and a vision of the future within the turmoil and upheaval of the present.

The Medicine Wheel is a map of human consciousness, a journey of growth and evolution. 

A map is always helpful when we feel lost, or stuck, when we can’t seem to find our way forward, or when we find ourselves going round in circles. Maps are useful, they help us to find our way, show us directions, but more useful still is to walk the territory, to experience first-hand the landscape; that way the map becomes a living experience, alive and dynamic.

Tonight we invite you to step with us into this map and discover this unique and powerful tradition that has inspired our own souls journey to wholeness. You will learn all about sacred space, and we’ll guide you on a journey around this beautiful medicine wheel that is a bridge (chakana) from where you are now, to where you would like to be.

I can join on Tuesday 3 October!

SEE THE WORLD THROUGH THE EYES OF THE SHAMAN:
The Path of Power
Tue 10 October, 7pm-9pm UK/9pm-11pm Romania

When we shift our perspective, the world around us also changes, and we can find that something that once appeared impossible or hopeless is suddenly transformed so that we see the gift in our situation, and an opportunity for something new to emerge.

The Archetypes that we work with in our Medicine Wheel training – Serpent, Jaguar, Hummingbird, and Eagle-Condor – help us to see our world through new eyes, to shift our perspective from one that feels caught in reaction to one that instead helps to restore balance and harmony. These lenses are powerful and transformational… and tonight you will discover how to use them. These are the forces of nature, the same forces that create everything in the Universe. Serpent helps us to see what is actually happening; Jaguar helps us to see where we are caught in a drama; through the eyes of Hummingbird we see a new possibility, the gift and the learning, and here we find the nectar, the joy and sweetness of life; and Eagle-Condor helps us to soar and see the big picture from the place of pure energy. This evening you will discover how to use these archetypical energies to shift your awareness, and your mindset from victimhood to empowerment. You’ll learn a powerful process that you can use in your everyday life and you will take away a meditation to help you see the world through these new eyes.

I can join on Tuesday 10 October!

CLEANSING THE ENERGY FIELD FOR HEALTH & WELLBEING:
The Path of Healing
Tue 24 October, 7pm-9pm UK/9pm-11pm Romania 

The Kuya Limpia taught to us by the Q’ero shamans is an ancient energy healing that invokes the body’s innate ability to heal itself. In today’s modern world this beautiful process is something that costs nothing and invokes powerful healing whilst creating a great sense of well-being.

For this class, you’ll need to have with you TWO STONES that fit into the palm of your hand (not too big, and not too tiny) and which you can handle easily. (Or your Mesa, if you have begun or completed the Medicine Wheel & Healing Tools training with us.) Another of our allies in this tradition are the stone people. The stone people, with their ancient, quiet and powerful wisdom, can help us to keep the energy body clear of heavy energies (’hucha‘ in the Quechuan language), and this process can help to remove pain and discomfort from the body. The stone people are known as ‘record keepers’; they remember really well – the most important wisdoms have throughout history been drawn or carved into stone – and they can also help to remind us of our true nature.

Chris explains everything you’ll need to know in order to do this process for yourself and for those you share your life with.

I can join on Tuesday 24 October!

THE ANCESTORS:
The Path of Wisdom
Tue 31 October, 7pm-9pm UK/9pm-11pm Romania

Tonight the veils between the worlds thin, and we are able to connect more easily with those who have gone before us. We will be remembering our ancestors, those whose shoulders we stand on. Think for a moment about how many struggles, how many battles, how much sadness, happiness, love, stories and hope for the future that our ancestors had to undergo for us to exist today.

Their stories become our story… like ‘hand-me-downs’ from generation to generation. Some of them gave us gifts that perhaps we didn’t want to receive. Tonight we travel back in time to receive the gift of their wisdom, their love and their dreams and hopes for the future. Wisdom that we can use to call on a new destiny, and gifts with which to create a new path into the future that is different from the past.

I can join on Tue 31 October!

RELEASING THINGS THAT NO LONGER SERVE:
The Path of Compassion
Tue 7 November, 7pm-9pm UK/9pm-11pm Romania

This evening we share with you how to make what we call a sandpainting. We use nature as the landscape on which we paint whatever issues we are caught up in. When we are overwhelmed, when we are triggered, when we are obsessed with an issue that won’t go away, when our minds keep recycling things or when our fearful thoughts take over… then the sandpainting is a great practice to have. It keeps us out of the dramas that are ever present in our world and gives us a tool with which we can find compassion with ourselves, and gain some clarity, and a new perspective on our life. This is a life skill that works wherever you are, and is a great tool to teach your children too.

I can join on Tue 7 November!

RESTORING BALANCE, COMING HOME TO THE BODY: The Path of Peace
Tue 14 November, 7pm-9pm UK/9pm-11pm Romania

In a world full of external stimulus over which we have little or no control, we can find ourselves caught in fight/flight/freeze/faint response. When we are on red alert, we become hypervigilant and we tend to either obsessively worry over things, over-react to situations, or ‘check out’ energetically. Or, if we go to freeze/faint mode we might put our head in the sand, and disappear ourselves. All of these strategies are useful up to a point, but long term they use up too much of our available energy, it’s no wonder we can often feel exhausted by life!

This week you will learn how to shift from ‘worrier’ to ‘warrior’!

We will share with you a practice that disengages that fight/flight reflex when it’s switched on, using two of the archetypical allies that we work with: Jaguar and Eagle/Condor. You’ll learn how to come back into your body after a shock or trauma; how to bring yourself and others back into a calm and peaceful state; and how to bring yourself into right relationship with the Earth.

I can join on Tue 14 November!

RITES, RITUALS & THE POWER OF THE MESA:
The Path of Initiations
Tue 21 November, 7pm-9pm UK/9pm-11pm Romania 

This week, we focus on the importance of working at the mythic and how this helps us to stay out of the emotionally laden limbic brain. Chris tells the story of the energetic transmissions that we receive on our journey around the Medicine Wheel. We explore the meaning of the mesa, the medicine that it holds and the alchemical process of transformation that takes place as we build our personal stone altar. We spend a year creating it, and many more years developing it into a powerful tool for healing and transformation.

We will end the evening with a meditation that connects us with the Bands of Power and Protection, vital protection and support that we can rest in as we navigate these uncertain times. These bands not only support our journey through life, but also align us with the five elements so that we know with certainty that we are safe and held by the forces of nature.

I can join on Tue 21 November!

JOURNEYING FOR HEALING:
The Path of Destiny
Tue 28 November, 7pm-9pm UK/9pm-11pm Romania 

At the heart of all shamanic traditions is journeying. What is so beautiful about the Inca tradition is that here we learn that we can journey not just into the past, but more importantly into the future to call forth our unique destiny; reclaiming our Sovereign Self… this is such a gift!

In this session we will journey to the Upper World, the place of our becoming to claim what we need from our future self: then we can call forth our destiny rather than continue to live from or recreate our past. Here we can source ourselves from our original template… who we were always meant to be… then we have all that we need in order to navigate this great turning time. No matter how challenging our life might feel, when we journey to meet with our future self, we can literally download something completely new and unknown into this present time… a destiny that isn’t informed by our past. In this week’s session we will journey to recover the aspects of us that we need in order to live our one true and precious life.

I can join on Tue 28 November!

I do hope you can join me – I look forward to sitting around this virtual fire together in a group of kindred spirits!

I am able to offer only a few classes each year that are open to everyone (no experience or prior knowledge is required!), so I really hope to see you for this online series  – especially if you’re considering joining us for the Medicine Wheel & Healing Tools training starting in April 2024 in the UK, or March 2024 in Romania.

The 8 sessions take place between TUE 3 OCT – TUE 28 NOV, 7pm-9pm UK time. If you’d like more details about the whole series, click the link below, and I’ll see you very soon!

Full details of the series on Eventbrite????

You might also like to know about…

Our Medicine Wheel & Healing Tools shamanic practitioner training programmes, which begin again in April 2024 in the UK, and March 2024 in Romania. If this evolutionary journey calls, the link below has more details, or connect with me via the Contact page.

Our Medicine Wheel shamanic practitioner training…

YOU ARE WARMLY INVITED TO JOIN US! Thursday 16 – Friday 31 May 2024.

Here at Spirit of the Inca, our sacred journeys to Peru are one of the highlights of our calendar. To say YES! and step in, is to say yes to a great adventure, to a life-changing experience, and to a deeply rewarding personal journey. We call it the Journey Home to the Heart.

Every journey takes us the whole year to plan and organise, and we are excited to be able to share with you all the details for Peru 2024. The group is already forming, and we warmly invite you to join us!

This is an extra-ordinary journey… Here is a snapshot of our day-by-day itinerary. If you’d like more information on the costs and how to join us, or how to get in touch with Chris to find out more, the details on how to do that are below…

WELCOME TO LIMA!
Thursday 16 May

We meet at our airport hotel in Lima this evening, and gather as a group to cross this threshold and begin our journey together. This is a great time to look ahead to the coming days together, and to let the journey reach out and connect with us!

CHINCHEROS LAKE
Friday 17 May

We take a mid-morning flight from Lima over the Andes to Cusco. We will be greeted at the airport by our shamans of the Q’ero lineage, and by a private bus that will take us into the Sacred Valley and to our very first stop, a cleansing water ceremony at Chincheros Lake. The place where earth, sky and water meet.

OLLANTAYTAMBO
Saturday 18 May

Our location for our first few days is always near to this beautiful Inca town, and today is our first gentle walk into this stunning landscape to a little-known temple where we will step into the 9 Rites of the Munay Ki with our Q’ero shamans. Then, we visit with Chino’s family, who always have a warm welcome and a truly memorable meal waiting for us.

OLLANTAYTAMBO TEMPLE & MORAY
Sunday 19 May

Today we spend the morning exploring the main temple at Ollantaytambo, and we’re joined by Jorge Luis Delgado our guide and storyteller as we make our journey through this beautiful landscape. In the afternoon, we travel to Moray, where these extraordinary circles in the earth evoke a real sense of the womb of the feminine. Here, our shamans create a Despacho for us, and we receive the first of the transmissions of the Munay Ki, the Pampamesayoc rites.

MACHU PICCHU
Monday 20 May

After a journey by train (with a glass roof!) up through the cloud forest – a marvel in itself – we spend this afternoon up on Machu Picchu in the company of Jorge Luis Delgado, who has the gift of bringing these ancient sites to life right in front of your eyes. Machu Picchu speaks to the soul of each of us in a way that words cannot express and we will be there as the sun sets over this crystal city.

MANDOR FALLS
Tuesday 21 May

Mandor Falls sits at the heart of the lush cloud forest beneath Machu Picchu. Held by the mountains above us we are cleansed in the flowing waters that become the river Urubamba, the river of light, a sacred reflection of the Milky Way above us. Our Despacho here prepares us for the Munay Ki rites of the Alto Mesayoq… a magical experience in this stunning out-of-the-way landscape.

QILLARUMIYOQ & CHINCHEROS WEAVERS
Wednesday 22 May

Here at Qillarumiyoq we discover the ‘power of moon and stone’. Our shamans, Don Pascual, Don Francisco, Doña Juana, and Chino, create for us a Despacho ceremony, and share the rites of the star keepers, reminding us of our connection to the moon, the stars and the cosmos.

On our way back to our hotel, we visit the weavers of Chincheros. We’ll discover this ancient art of working with the wool of the alpaca and the natural ways to dye wool, and admire (and buy) their wonderful creations. 

PISAC
Thursday 23 May

We are especially grateful for our wonderful bus drivers on days like this, always because of their patience and skill, but also because today we travel a good way up this great mountain for a head start on our walk around this site with some of the most impressive terraces that we’ll see. Here, our shamans prepare a Despacho for the rites that connect us to the time to come… the Mosoq rites, that take us through the centre of the chakana, the Inca Cross to the times that are coming, that is now! In the afternoon we head into Pisac town for lunch and as Pisac has the best of all the markets in the Sacred Valley, there will be shopping!

CUSCO & THE CORICANCHA
Friday 24 May

Cusco is the heart of the Sacred Valley. This beautiful city has so many treasures to discover. In the morning, we head to the Coricancha in the company of our storyteller-guide, Jorge Luis. In the afternoon, we are free to explore this beautiful city.

PUKA PUKARA, TAMBOMACHAY & SACSAYHUAMAN
Saturday 25 May

We’ll head out today to three sites close to Cusco for our final day in the Sacred Valley.

As our time with our Q’ero shamans comes to a close they create for us a final Despacho, and transmit the ninth rite, the Taitanchi rite, where we remember that we are the creators of our own world.

Our visits include Tambomachay, a site devoted to the element of water, and we complete our time in the Sacred Valley with a visit to Sacsayhuaman, the sacred mountain on which Cusco sits.

JOURNEY ACROSS THE ALTIPLANO TO LAKE TITICACA
Sunday 26 May

Today our bus takes on the second half of our journey, through beautiful landscapes over the Altiplano to the Lake at the top of the world. We watch – and feel – the landscape change, stopping off along the way to stretch our legs in a surreal moonscape. Here, in Lake Titicaca, the people live in balance with the beautiful and powerful light of Inti Tayta, Father Sun, on this bountiful Pachamama, Mother Earth.

ARAMU MURU DOORWAY & INCA CAMAÑA
Monday 27 May

The Doorway Aramu Muru was discovered by Jorge Luis himself, and it is here that together we have the opportunity to journey within and through the doorway to experience what the ancient peoples discovered in this landscape.

Inca Camaña, the stairway to the stars… there is nothing more to say and everything to experience here. An extraordinary, little known sacred site, etched into the landscape.

AMANTANI ISLAND
Tuesday 28 May

Today, we head out across the lake by boat to the island of Amantani, where we will spend the night in the homes of the islanders. These generous, heart centred people offer us the chance to learn what it means to live contentedly with very little. Towards the end of the day we walk up to the highest point on the island to watch the glorious sunset, and create a ceremony at the temple of Pachamama, Mother Earth.

TAQUILE ISLAND
Wednesday 29 May

We say our farewells to Amantani this morning and head out across the lake once more, this time to the beautiful island of Taquile. Jorge Luis will lead a ceremony of gratitude and connection with the lake itself. We’ll share a meal with the islanders, then, after a short walk, an opportunity to admire the extraordinary and colourful knitting that is local to this island (and the chance to bring a few items home!)

SILLUSTANI & THE SUN TEMPLE
Thursday 30 May

For our final day out on the land, Jorge Luis will take us to Sillustani and the Sun Temple for a ceremony that enables us to receive the gifts that this journey has offered to us, and to give our gratitude to this land for holding us these days together.

FLIGHTS TO LIMA & HOME…
Friday 31 May

Today, we make our way to Juliaca for our flight to Lima, and then on to connecting flights home. We have journeyed together through beautiful landscapes, on an inner adventure and an outward journey, learning what it means to stay connected to our hearts and to the light that we are…

Here’s how to join us…

COSTS & PAYMENT DETAILS:

Contact Chris directly to let us know you’d like to join us; or, if you’d like to have a chat about the journey, click the button below.

PAYMENT 1: deposit of £550. This books your place on our journey.
PAYMENT 2: US$2,375. (If you’d like a single room, add a supplement of $770.) This instalment enables us to reserve your hotel rooms.
PAYMENT 3: US$2,375 this payment is made in cash when we reach our hotel in Urubamba on Friday 17 May.
All payments, once made, are non-refundable.

BOOKING & JOURNEY INFORMATION:
We also have an in-depth logistics document; if you would like a link to download this, contact us HERE.

I’m saying YES!

You might also like to know about…

… my online series this autumn, the HEART OF THE SHAMAN, beginning Tuesday 3 October.

Together, we’ll take eight steps on the shaman’s path. No experience is necessary – all welcome. Join me for all eight sessions, or week-by-week whenever you can. Click the link below for all the details…

HEART OF THE SHAMAN online series… ????

The Multi coloured threads that form the matrix of our world seem to be unraveling and I can’t help thinking that things will never be the same again.  Perhaps this is a good thing since the blanket of certainty and reassurance that we have wrapped around us has been an illusion.  Day by day we are beginning to realise how closely woven together we actually are.  We are experiencing a chain reaction, like dominoes, as one by one all the things that we have come to expect, and are familiar to us, fall away.

The great unravelling of the matrix has begun.. .and what I feel is important is to decide now, and focus on now, and build momentum around now, is what kind of world do we want to weave?  Because as the old ‘blanket’ that we have woven becomes threadbare, and falls apart.. we must surely weave together something new that serves our world in a way that is different from the past.  If we don’t do this, we will make vain attempts to stitch it all back together, and this won’t work for the times that are coming.  We have too many people who have fallen out of our blanket: refugees, homeless, people who are starving, people who are struggling and have no hope. for the future .. such as it ever been for as long as i can remember.

When we are born into our world, we are born into a web, a weaving that was begun by those who came before us, and continues on through our own families and into the generations that come after us … this web created the blanket that was wrapped around us as we entered our world.   It’s time to re-evaluate and re-new this old blanket.. it’s time to let it go so that we can create something new.

When we let go of something it leaves a vacuum, and as nature abhors a vacuum we must seek to fill it what is important to us now.  We have been seeing over the last year people gathering all over the globe to object to the way things have been. A great reLOVEution has begun.  This revolution was based on the ecological disaster that has been looming for years,  economic inequality and injustice, and the socio-political issues that have left many people bereft of a decent living, and those from war torn countries without homes and separated from their families in search of a better life elsewhere.. and most recently the uprisings around the loss of personal freedom, and the lack of integrity of our so called leaders.  

This gathering of the people is unstoppable..  this virus has been a good excuse to supress the uprising of such discontent.  However, if this this virus has taught us one vital lesson, its the question – how do we really want to live, and what is really important to us as humans?  Rebellion always creates an equal and opposite reaction, and it may not be helpful if we want to create something new.  This belongs to the old paradigm of making war, fighting and conflict.   Neither can we be compliant because this leaves us powerless to change anything.  These two aspects of us as humans is what needs to change if we are to create a new story for ourselves and our world.  That’s doesn’t mean to say we should stop standing up for the values that we believe in, because when we do, we are seen, and it’s heartening to see exactly how many are waking up right now, and to know that we are not alone is our despair for the world.

So how on earth do we change things?

To change things requires us to focus, and build momentum, around the world we want.  I believe that this is happening.  By stopping us in our tracks, we have been forced to stay home, to retreat  from the world we have known, to reflect on how we want our lives to be.. and eventually we will see another way to be: less forced, less driven, less intent on economic growth, more thoughtful of the impact we are making on our world and on each other, more connected to each other and our communities.  It feels as though we are all ready for this, that we have come for this time.  That we have trained for this for eons.  This is the path of the heart. When we drop into our heart we know that we are all one human family, and that when any part of that family is in distress, we all feel that distress.. and when we hurt another we hurt ourselves.  It’s time to come home to the heart, and however you or I do this does not matter.. what matters is that we do what we can to make a difference, in the places where we have an influence, in our families and our communities,  to be the role model for others to follow.

Perhaps then together we can use the old warp and weft.. the fundamentals of what it means to be human, and what our role is here on earth..  to re-weave a tapestry, a new blanket that holds everyone and everything in right relationship, with equality, in integrity and in collaboration with each other.  A new story, a new matrix that our children will be birthed into.

Let’s keep our focus on our hearts, and envision with courage, the future we want… don’t let go of this thread.

There’s a Thread You Follow..

To finish:

Here’s a poem by William Stafford:

There’s a thread you follow.  It goes among the things that change.  But it does not change.  People wonder about what you are pursuing.  You have to explain about the thread.  But it is hard for others to see.  While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding.  You don’t ever let go of the thread.

Are your ready?

Are you ready to take that step.. from where you are to where you want to be?  Are you ready to cross the bridge from your head to your heart?  Are you ready to re-weave the story of your life and create together the kind of world we all know is possible?  Then we are waiting to hear from you.. because we have dedicated our lives to making that journey with you… we know the way, we have the map… and we’d love to hear from you!

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Once upon a time.. not all that long ago in the big scheme of things…. it was a fact that the world was flat.  Everyone knew that it was flat.. and if you set sail and disappeared over the horizon you were lost forever, because of course you had dropped off the edge of the world.  This was true, and the proof was that no-one ever came back!!  And so it was.  (Of course, in my imagination I can see why no-one ever returned… because over the other side of this beautiful blue green planet they had found a tropical island full of mango trees, coconut palms, avocados and pineapples all in abundance  – who would want to come back??!!)

And here’s another story….

Once upon a time… and not all that long ago in the big sheme of things… it was a fact that the sun revolved around the earth, and the earth was at the centre of the Universe (and by default so were we!).  However, I think it was Galileo who discovered by extensive research of the stars, the planets and the cosmos, that in fact it was the earth that revolved around the sun.. so that the sun was at the centre of the Universe… and we, sadly, were not as important as we thought we were in the big scheme of things.  When Galileo discovered this… and spoke out about his discovery… he was imprisoned… presumably because his version of reality now did not agree with the church.. and he was probably labelled a heretic.. a liar and a trouble maker….   until that is … finally it was proved beyond all reasonable doubt that his theory was right.

Facts are facts.. until they are proved otherwise.  We live in an ever expanding, ever changing universe… and sometimes the evolution of our planet happens in great leaps… when how we thought things were.. becomes obsolete.  It’s shocking to some, to find out that things are not as they appear to be.  We want to grasp on to what we know so badly that we will do anything to hold to the ‘truth’ that we think is reality… rather than risk seeing that all along we were wrong.. misinformed, misguided.. or simply did not know.  Once we know… we can’t unknow… we can pretend we don’t… we can put our heads in the sand..  we can argue that facts are facts.. but when the facts don’t hold up… …  what then?

This is where we are right now.  At the edge of a giant leap.. away from an old story… a story that is worn out and no longer fits who we are becoming.  Still, we want to believe in it.. because what we don’t know is what the new story looks like… and frankly we can’t know.    We are at that same moment in time…when we were told the world was round… we haven’t believed this thought before… we don’t know what that means for us… but as the light of awareness dawns.. and we are given more proof.. more and more of us can begin to take on this new story.  

I see this is what is happening.  These times have been prophesied by all the ancient traditions…  we are making a quantum leap.. and we have no idea where we are going so it’s hard to envision a new story that hasn’t been told yet.

Where we are is in the story of The Emperor’s New Clothes.. fairy tales are great resources, tell us what we need to know.. they are maps that can guide us through difficult times.  In the story of the Emperors’ New Clothes the lone boy sees that the Emperor has been duped by the tailors, and though he thinks and believes he looks glorious in his beautiful clothes woven in gold… in fact he is naked.  However because he believes it so strongly, and because he is the king, everyone believes exactly what he does… only the innocent child can see the truth.  This is where we are.. the eyes of the innocent are what is needed… not the eyes of the status quo.  

We have arrived here at this moment in time… at the edge of a new era.. to be the eyes of the innocent.  Don’t let’s be the lone voice.. let’s join hands and become a voice for change.. not by rebelling, although for some of us this is our mission, but by holding a vision of how we want the world to look… and keeping that vision in our awareness, strong and unshakeable… despite what we see in our world.    It’s time to wipe the fairydust from our sleep drenched eyes, wake up and stand for what we really want, based on our values as a sentient human being, and our ethics as caring souls who are here to make a difference, let’s focus on what we truly believe is possible.  

Dreamweavers, artists, poets, writers, musicians, storytellers, healers, shamans let’s all reach out for each others hands so that we know we are not alone in this.. because we are many now.. .and we can do this together.  Don’t let’s waste any more time and energy on how things are, or have been.  It’s time to nourish and nurture all those seeds we have planted in the wild edges.. so that they grow strong and flourish in the time to come.  We are needed now more than at any other time… let’s do this in whatever way works for each of us..  brave, courageous souls.. i truly thank you all for your contribution to our world…  support and encouragement for each other is really needed now..  with huge love and respect for all of you, who like me, are standing in the fires of transformation.. and holding our own.  Blessings on our work.

I believe that we can experience, and live in, the present, the past and the future, and that where we place our intention depends on the kind of future we create.  I believe that they are all possibilities, and that they are available to us as if they are happening all at once in the timeless space between the known and the unknowable.

There are aspects of us that have had already many experiences, life time after life time, as our soul grows and evolves.  There are aspects of our ancestors lives that still live within our DNA, encoded down the generations, helpful or unhelpful, always meant to be an opportunity to adapt and evolve as a species.

We are magnificent adaptors; we have survived as a species, and we will go on adapting, upgrading and surviving; co creating the multiverse that we live in, whether we are conscious of this or not.  If we were conscious of our creation, we would have to ask today ‘what on earth have we created?’  In tthe words of Jesus ‘forgive them Father, for they know not what they do’ ; there lies the key to moving on.  Forgiveness.  Forgiving ourselves because we did not know, we all do the best we can with the knowledge available to us at the time.  Forgiving others for the same reason, and at the same time, when we forgive others we not longer need to hold onto the suffering, the resentmment, or any bitterness.  We free ourselves,, and we set all beings free.  

With freedom comes responsibility.  I see this not as a burden, but as the ability to respond differently.  To choose a different path; not the path of poison, but the path of peace.
From a peaceful place we can sit in stillness, and that’s the place where we can listen.  Listening not to the ego.. whose role it is to keep us safe, and keep the status quo in place.. but listening to the heart of us, to that place where we are all one.  Where we are all one single cell of the great being that we call humanity.  From that still and peaceful place we can journey forwards into the future and connect with the ‘us’ that survived these times.  We can then bring from there what we need now in order to thrive, to flourish, to evolve and grow into the best version of humanity that we can imagine.

For me, this is the place where inspiration comes from. We cannot be inspired when we are fearful, or attached to the pain and suffering that have inflicted on ourselves and each other.  We cannot be inspired when we want to recreate the past as if it were somehow more delightful than the present.  We cannot be inspired if we are full of ourselves, and our desires and addictions for more of anything that distracts, and detracts us from our magnificence as human (and at the same time) spiritual beings.

Inspiration comes as a muse to guide us, and we must allow ourselves to be taken; to ride that wave of light, to travel across the rainbow bridge to the place where everything is and at the same time is not.

What we discover there in that place is that everything in the universe, in the multiverse, begins as pure light, pure energy that has not been touched by our humanness.  Every single thing that has ever been created began as light in this realm. The essence of everything is made of light.  And when we visit this place we can connect with, and call upon, the aspect of us that is light, the essence of us that has not yet become form.  Here we can be encoded, downloaded with what we need in order to create our future self, and bring that into being right now.

When we recieve these codes of light from this realm, we are being downloaded with information, which we take in through the simple act of breathing, and of being, and believing…. then we are inspired to create.  

IMAGINATION IS KEY

What we need then is our imagination.  Imagine what we could create if we all knew that all we had to do was invite in that aspect of us that is waiting for us to reunite with our essence, our light!  When we do, our imagination begins to make into form that which until now has been formless… and for each of us it’s unique.  Our creativity depends on the channel through which this information flows.. that’s our body, our soul and our mind.  We were always meant to be unique, individual and full of meaning and purpose, with a passion for something, and a way to express ourselves.  By using our inspiration plus our imagination, we are also beginning to co create with our source self, our future self.. the future that we want to step into now.

INTUITION IS THE COMPASS

Now we need our intuition.. the ability to listen to the inner prompts, and ask ourselves; ‘is this for me to do?’  ‘Is this wise?’

Our intuition is like an inner compass, that gives us feedback… a good feeling is good feedback!   Our intuition is linked to our feeling body… the joy and lightness in our hearts tells us we are on track, or the tightness or heavy feeling in our belly gives us a warning sign… and so our bodies are great feedback if we choose to listen.

REALISATION

Finally, we make the dream a reality by taking action, the action that we are instinctively compelled to take.

We make that phone call, we write that email, we make an effort that might take us outside of our comfort zone, but we know that each step we take brings us closer to making the dream a reality.

A dream without action is only a daydream
Action without a dream is just a task
A dream with action will change the world! 

When we are aligned with a future that willl serve all humanity for generations to come, in service, in wisdom and with love.. magic will happen.. this is my dream!

When the time is right our soul begins to whisper its intentions, encouraging us to step across the bridge from where we are to where we want to be: into our authentic and genuine life, our unique gift, and to live the life we came to live, to step beyond what we know and evolve and grow.

Maybe the call comes like a whisper hardly audible in our busy lives. Maybe we refuse to listen to the call, even refuse the call itself. Excuses will show up; ‘No I’m too busy, my life is too hectic, I have too much to do here, I have too many other responsibilities’. Maybe we say to ourselves that following our calling, responding to our heart song, isn’t realistic.

The call to evolve and grow can come from within, or if we aren’t good listeners it may come from the outside.. a note, a song, a snatch of conversation, a message from the ‘sacred other’ that comes to us on the wind, or in the sound of the river, or even written on the page as you open a book at random. Sometimes, if we are really ‘hard of hearing’ it will come as a discomfort, an illness, a dis-ease that incapacitates us and then the message gets louder and more insistent until we are ready to hear it, and even then we may not want to respond.

Maybe it feels too much of a challenge and so we busy our lives even more so that we can’t hear the whisper, until eventually it becomes a loud voice that breaks through our comfort zone, often bringing with it a crisis of some sort to wake us up from the illusion that we have been living and bring us back to the real purpose of our lives

When we answer the call of our soul, the next step in the journey is to leave the comfort of what we know, and set off across unknown seas. We embark on a journey of self-discovery. Discovering what we are truly capable of, growing into the person we came to be. It’s an inward journey and when we decide to listen to and follow our heart song, we find the path that leads to the joy of living a wholehearted and meaningful life. The epic journey is the souls journey… what did we come here to be, to do? What was our mission here on earth? What was the real story that brought us here?

It could be that in the beginning, when we set out, we don’t even know what it is we are searching for, but it’s mostly the thought that comes like a quiet whisper in the still moments of our lives… ‘Is this all there is?’ or ‘Was this supposed to be my life?’ We may be haunted by a sense that there is something missing in our lives, but we’re not even sure what it is.

The fact is that most of us refuse the call because we fear the changes that it may bring… we imagine an upheaval, an up turning of our comfortable world, but more than this we fear letting go of what we know… leaving the safety of the shore to set sail across the unknown seas. To answer the call of our soul is the biggest challenge of all. But we can be sure that our soul will call us on… call us to grow – not a better life, not a bigger life, but a more fulfilled and meaningful life.

I believe that deep within us we have a seed that holds the blueprint of who we might become, and just like the acorn that holds the template of the oak tree that it will eventually grow into… we have the possibility to grow into the greatest version of ourselves: the person we were always meant to be, a chance to live the real story that brought us here. We might call this seed our destiny.

This is the path of courage. Courage to answer the calling of our soul, courage to say ‘yes’ wholeheartedly and show up, courage to make a difference in our world.

It feels to me that this is where we are in our lives, I certainly feel that in these days of lockdown ‘pandemonium’ we are all learning that there is more to life.. many of us are learning new skills, new ways of being that mean that the old ways become redundant. It’s interesting to see where this will lead us all as we step into the unknown future that is calling us all towards our destiny as a species. There are some that say that this virus is an ‘upgrade’, and I’m really happy to see it as that. This time has been spoken of as the Great Turning time; we are the turning of the tide… and we are the light that’s deep inside.. this light is a beacon of hope … and it’s important to nurture it, and to keep it alive as we step bravely into the unknown together.

THE CALL

Last night, at the full moon, I gave to the fire ‘enemy consciousness’ because I have come to believe that this kind of thinking is at the heart of the situation we are finding ourselves in right now. Why do we need enemies? Why do we make war? We have had enemies for eons.. when I was a child it was the Russians who were coming, before that the Germans, the Japanese, the Communists, in recent times it’s the terrorists, even now it’s the governments, or the politics, or even governments behind the governments. Whatever we label ‘enemy’ it seems we have given ourselves the right to kill, to vanquish, to be the winner… and the ‘opposition’ , the ‘enemy’, the loser.

This is a fight for power over.. and we seem not to have understood yet that when we fight the enemy we end up becoming the very thing we are fighting. And in truth it really doesn’t matter which side you are on.. the end result is the same… we can claim victory over… but the war is never ever finished.. another enemy shows up and we either see ourselves as the winners or the losers, but I believe that with this kind of thinking everyone loses because we are becoming afraid of our own shadow! And the only winner is the ego, but the ego is never satisfied, and seeks more enemies to vanquish, in a vain attempt to prove it’s worth.

It seems the same with these pandemic diseases… polio, smallpox, cholera, Spanish flu, aids, sars, swine flu, bird flu, Ebola.. etc. etc. These are pandemic viruses that get ever more virulent as time goes on and even now with this latest virus we find ourselves fighting for breath… which actually means fighting for life.

Could it be that this invisible ‘enemy’ like all ‘enemies’ is here to teach us something about where we are right now in the realm of things, what we have become, and if we aren’t awake now its teaching us where we might be heading?
When we make enemies it’s because we are afraid. Instead of realizing that the fear is teaching us something about ourselves, we put our fear onto something that we can ‘vanquish’ , and when we win we can feel good about ourselves, satisfied that we are the winners. However if we understood the true interconnectedness of all life, we would know that what we are fighting is ourselves.. it just looks like someone else, or something else. Whatever we imagine that we have vanquished simply shows up again and again until we finally get the message. Will we ever get the message?

This invisible enemy called corona virus is a great leveler… what it’s telling us that we cannot control it… it has spread across our world in a way that we have never seen before. We are in the grip of fearful thinking that is spreading like wild fire, even quicker than the virus itself.
Our current human response is to kill it before it kills us.. we have made it the enemy that we must fight… rather than seeing the gift that is staring us in the face right now.
AND YET…..

Have you noticed how beautiful the world is becoming, look outside your window, even open your window and listen to the stillness, the quiet. If you’re fortunate you might even hear the bird song begin to seep into your awareness. In the throes of death and destruction, life is still happening in the natural world that we all belong to, that is our home. The trees are in full blossom, spring is happening, and for this life I am deeply grateful. What a blessing is this time. Home.. home with yourself, or with your family. Mother Earth is healing herself from our propensity to think we can control her. Something else has taken over.. and I wonder what it will look like in the time to come.

Today I believe it will come from understanding that the world is benign, and that we are the creators of our world. Every thought we have, becomes our reality. Every belief we hold will create our world. We have a real opportunity now, more than ever, as the world finally comes to a stand still… to decide what we want to create, not from a place of desire, or not enoughness, but from our sense of interconnectedness with all life… and with our deepest needs and values as a human species at the heart of our creations.
We are really being tested with this virus right now: we are being bombarded with fear inducing images, that feed our fearful thoughts, and infect our ability to think straight..this isn’t helpful to our health and our immune systems. We are being tested to let go of fear and come home to our true nature which is love… trust.. joy.. and beyond all of that is grace. The grace that comes from knowing that we are safe.. and that we are part of an infinite cosmos that we may not understand but from which we cannot fall or fail.

SECOND CHAKRA

I want to focus here on the second chakra which is where I believe that the survival instinct lives, and how we can learn from this, and come into balance so that we will have no need of enemies in this world, or any other. It’s the abode of Jaguar in this tradition.. and instinct belongs to the realm of jaguar.. as does intuition. But we can often confuse instinct and intuition.. so I’m looking at both here

INSTINCT

Instinct is a survival mechanism that has been very useful to us as a species. But can we really trust our instincts? Because they can also be ‘off’… especially in places where we are not healed, where we have experienced a trauma… then our instincts may be true only to the extent that they are related to our survival. Our instincts can be useful when we are in a life/death situation and have a need to protect ourselves… its a knee jerk reaction that sends us into fight/flight/freeze/faint.. but we do need to do a reality check before we make any decisions based on those survival instincts.

When our second chakra is out of balance we head straight for the drama triangle, we see the world through the eyes of prey or predator… we become the victims of circumstances, prey to to anything we see as a threat to our survival. We become prey to those who would seek to gain power over us. Our personal power ebbs away leaving us diminished, and we are in danger of giving our power over to those who we believe are more able than we. Our ability to make rational decisions leaves us and we use old habits that might have helped us to survive in the past… and so we keep repeating old patterns.

When we are fearful, our world seems chaotic and one of the strategies we use to regain some order is to seek to control everything. This is where we are today. Fear has taken over our world, and rules are being imposed upon us… rules that give us the illusion of safety in an uncertain world. We are human beings and our deepest need is to connect, but we are being asked to stay separate which is creating more fear. These rules are making us afraid of each other, so that we don’t know who or what we can trust; this is very dangerous for our world.
Fear can drive people to addictions of all kinds. Addictions are strategies that we use to tranquilise our painful feelings, but more than that they come from a sense of not belonging. And at the deepest level, we have stopped belonging to Mother Earth. We have come so far from our connection to our natural world, the nature of us, from our interdependence of all life. We left behind Mother Earth in search of more, and quicker, and better. We stopped belonging to anything significant. We stepped away from our sense of tribe, or family and we began to compete with each other, and fight for resources that we thought we lacked. Even our personal relationships have become power struggles, a desire to get rather than to give what we feel we are missing in our lives. Trying to fill the void with things was never going to satisfy that longing for connection.

What are we missing? We are missing our connection to the earth, and to the cycles of time, and the rhythms of nature. We have let ourselves be allured by the ego desires and wants, and we forgot that we all inhabit this same garden, and that there is enough for all if we all cared enough for each other, rather than for the self.
When our second chakra is out of balance we experience the world as predatory, and we end up with adversarial relationships based on fear. Enemy consciousness takes over. What we fear we must fight. When we believe that we can control all of life, Jaguar lets us know categorically that we are not in control… and even from this thought of not being in control, we can dive into chaos.
We have resisted for so long sliding into the worldwide chaos that we have created. We have shored up our world over and over, keeping things the same, not changing even how we change. How we keep control is by more controls, more rules, more health and safety, so much so that we have forgotten what is real and true. That we are not in control… that we are of the earth, that we were put here to care take this planet… that we are participating in creation every moment with our thoughts, our beliefs and our actions.

All this is a reaction to fear based thinking that has driven us to the brink…. the edge of the world as we know it… now we are being asked to come back home… to recallibrate… to reflect on how we got here… and maybe we will start to use our intuition instead of instinct.. because in the quiet, still place beyond fearful thinking, our intuition will speak to us. Dropping the story that says we are victims will be paramount now.

When the indigenous peoples prophesied these times, they had no concept of 5G, or politics, or technology, or any of the things we are ‘blaming’ this virus on.. they all simply saw a time when the world would turn the right way up. There would be turmoil.. yes, but this turmoil heralds a great change that will bring our world into balance once more. I have faith in this prophecy, but i also know that healing the old wounds that created this separation is vital to our wellbeing as a species… and the second chakra holds the key… we can become the war monger or the warrior of the rainbow… it’s a choice we are all facing right now. Cleaning out the accumulation of trauma, personal and collective from the second chakra is the key to this. We were meant to go through this, and it’s our faith and trust in something greater than our ego that will help us to navigate these stormy seas.

INTUITION, FAITH, TRUST AND A NEW MAP

When the second chakra is clear and in balance, we can connect clearly with our intuition, an inner knowing that tells us the time is right to act, the time is right to move, the time to plant new seeds, the time to harvest, the time to rest… all these come from our intuition which speaks to us not from a fearful place but from deep within. When our second chakra is in balance our intuition is true, and based not on moving away from fear, but on edging our way towards our destiny.

When we trust our intuition we have no need to control anything because it’s an inner knowing that is deep and unshakeable. This is our true power. This intuition has nothing to do with will, or force.. or overpowering another to get your own way , it’s a conviction within that we are exactly where we need to be, doing what comes naturally… without a need to impress, or acting out, or reacting from any other unmet need. It’s a deep and unshakeable wisdom within that compels us in the direction of our dreams.
When our second chakra is in balance we have no need to create enemies that we can fight. When we perceive something or someone as an enemy we are simply being shown the unhealed place within us. It’s an opportunity to heal, to grow and to come back to our centre, return to balance and harmony within.

When we know and accept our humanness in all its guises from the worst to the best of us, we accept others with compassion, and see that the outside world always reflects back to us the condition of our love.
When we seek to destroy another, we come to understand that it is the part of ourselves that we don’t accept that we want to annihilate. We fear difference, we fear what we don’t know, we fear what we don’t understand, we fear the inevitability of death itself… the biggest unknown journey that we will ever undertake.
And yet, when we have looked death in the face, when we know our own shadow aspects, then there is nothing left to defend… nothing to hide, nothing to lose.. death is the ultimate loss and yetwe understand that it is an intrinsic part of life.
Every day we can ask ourselves ‘what needs to die in order that I might live?’ . What old pattern, what old belief that i’m attached to, what thoughts am i thinking that aren’t serving me, what feelings am i hanging on to that i could change in an instant if I chose? This is a really useful practice, particularly for the second chakra to be cleared. Thoughts/feelings/images of the past.. are rarely helpful for the future of our lives. These are the enemies within… that we project outwards in order to heal.. but instead of healing we make them our enemy and then we fear them… creating a continuous cycle … a vicious cycle that keeps us victim of the past, and caught in the consciousness that says that there is an enemy… that we must win at all costs. This is survival of the ego.. that Edges Out God.
The animals and the birds don’t make enemies of each other, they co exist and without intervention from us they co create perfect balance and harmony with all life. The birds don’t compete with who can sing the loudest, or the best! The cherry blossom doesn’t push to become the first to bloom! Nature has its own rhythm and there’s no competition, or need to have power over. Mother Nature is her own power just by being.

When our second chakra is balanced, we have a deep trust in the cycles of life, death and rebirth. We understand that everything that lives will inevitably die, this is the one true certainty that we know! We cannot avoid death… any more than we can control life.
When our second chakra is clear and in balance we are, as the jaguar, fearless. We know instinctively that we belong to Mother Earth… we trust that we are part of the great cycles of life and that she will provide as long as we take care of her. Reciprocity is our guiding principle at this place: what we send out into the world, we will also receive back, what we sow we will harvest. Gratitude is the key: gratitude and appreciation for all the gifts and abundance that is available to us once we step out of the place of victim.
When we see what we are harvesting right now, we understand that we have sown this into our world, we can even then be grateful for the opportunity to see what has not yet been healed, and look to heal the part that we are playing in the drama that is unfolding.
When our second chakra is in balance we understand the interdependence of all life… and when we know we are interdependent we have no need to take more than we need. We know that our interconnectedness means that our every action creates a chain reaction…that ripples out into our world.

Intuition is our ‘inner teacher’ and comes from our inner sense..our innocence. Not touched by our wounded self, our intuition comes through clean and clearest when we are still and quiet, when we are meditating, or when we are out in nature, at a sit spot, or walking in the forest.
Right now it’s our challenge to listen to our intuition .. .even as our instincts are on red alert.

Here’s our opportunity then to do our personal work…. there is a quiet all over our world… a deep stillness which gives us a chance to recallibrate ourselves back to the slower vibrations of Mother Earth. We might ask ourselves how can I respond to what’s happening now, what is being asked of me right now? What needs healing? What can old story can I drop right now? And let our intuition speak to us in the quiet space between the notes.
Our intuition is a response to what’s happening (rather than instinct which is a reaction) Our intuition can offer us a deeper perspective… opening to our intuition allows our imagination to flow in the direction of our dreams, of what’s possible for us as humans, rather than what’s probable, or even inevitable.

So our second chakra needs to be clear in order for us to function from this balanced place. To drop this enemy consciousness, to stop fighting, or defending, and begin to dream something new, we need to be able to stand in our power… and by that i don’t mean force, or will.. both of which are violence; but the kind of power that comes from knowing we are held by Mother Earth.. and to seek to reconnect at that level… to the cycles of life and death and rebirth and not be afraid of either one.

The mayan calendar, which is a map of human consciousness, was very clear.. we always get what we need before we need it. We discovered fire just before the ice age.. what a relief it was to know this simple fact! I’m looking at what we needed to know before the time we are in right now.. and i see that permaculture came into being just in time for us to re-design the ways that we work with the earth. By listening to the land, by learning how nature herself works, we can learn so much more, with faith and trust, about beauty and the sacred way of being. We are learning to develop a mutually beneficial approach to Mother Earth, to honor her and re-think how we work with her. We are beginning to realize that we are not in control .. and that our fear and control issues have led us to the brink of disaster. Sustainability, respect and reciprocity are the keys to our future well being as a species. and we have already been given the tools to make this a reality. Our imagination now is really important going forward.. imagine the kind of world we want to live in, imagine the ind of world we want to leave behind us… imagine it in detail.. and make sure it meets all our needs as brothers and sisters united as one family called ‘the people of the earth’ , imagine that going forward in time…. what will that world look like.. I wonder!

We are at the end of an old era… I’m seeing the death spiral of the old patriarchal paradigms, the media, the politics; the old systems are crumbling perhaps too slowly. At the same time, i feel the emergence of new shoots, at the grass root level. We have been led by wounded Fisher Kings, who have lied and betrayed our good faith, lacking in integrity, or humility, or connection to the people they are meant to serve. When we fight, or kick against something, we tend to become the very thing we are fighting. When we get angry and fearful, we simply create more anger and fear in the world. I don’t believe this is helpful. What is helpful is to do our despair work, to grieve, to gnash our teeth at the injustice and the heartbreaking truth that we are ‘fodder’ for the elite class, and interestingly I feel in that way we have been enslaved in the system that we can do little about… on top of this we, the many, have been let down over and over again by the few. What we do now is really vital.

NEW VISIONS

Buckminster Fuller says that what we need to do is to create a vision of a future that is so much more compelling… a vision that people will align with.. so that we become the magnet for a new way of living. It’s down to us! And to that end we have created a new facebook page, a vision board, where we can all contribute our vision for the future world to offset the main stream media dross, and the nightmare that we seem to be experiencing. In this group: Song of the Soul for Gaia, we will create an on going vision for a future that is very different from the past. We will call on and listen to the voice of the future.. ask the aspect of us that survived these times to inform us now so that as we move through this transition time, we will be guided by a new light that pierces through the veil of illusion and delusion that we have been under, and sets us all free to dream a new more beautiful dream for our world.

HEALING THE WOUNDS

The days that follow this extraordinary experience of being in ‘lockdown’ all over the world, will be important days. Do we really want to go back to ‘normal’? Or do we want to change how we do what we do? It seems to me that we are being invited to re-envision our lives from the roots up. We are being invited to heal the deepest of wounds that we have inflicted on ourselves and each other. We are being compelled even, to step out of the old paradigms, old patterns, old beliefs that do not serve the whole of humanity… into the unified field where we are interdependent and connected to all life. Guardians of the earth, and of our human spirit… both of which are magnificent, ever changing, and ever evolving.

NEW SHOOTS EMERGING….

There are so many new shoots reaching for the light, new ideas, new structures that are emerging now, that we don’t hear of in the mainstream. Here’s just two that I know of, both women, who are pioneers and innovative thinkers.

Kate Raworth has developed what she calls Doughnut Economics, which is a new framework for sustainable development. It’s currently being introduced in Amsterdam as a way to meet the needs of the people, while maintaining ecological and sustainable boundaries. New and innovative thinking, that gives us a ray of hope for a world that is more caring and considerate of all the people in it.

Hilary Cottam is another ray of light, radical thinking and innovative, her work in reforming local communities has the potential to transform the outdated welfare state, creating a new way of working that relies entirely on human connection and a desire to participate and contribute to our communities … well that’s radical! Her latest book Radical Help is worth reading. These are two women that I know of that are making headway in redesigning how we live, how we relate, how we socialise, how re-connect, and offer a great solution to a future that is indeed different from the past.

So things are happening under the radar.. positive and innovative and we must add these to our dreaming. Because these are women making a difference already with these practical applications already taking root in our communities.. if a little slow in germinating, these seeds have great potential.

And of course, there is the permaculture culture which is growing exponentially.. and I believe that this is also where the future will take us.. growing our own food in a way that is totally in harmony with the earth. That has to be a good thing.

What we need above all is Faith.. faith in the fact that something greater is at work in our Universe, something that we can’t see, and do not know. This gives our ego an existential crisis! So we need to add Trust to Faith .. trust that all is exactly as it should be, that we are all on a great journey of awakening. Awakening to something so much bigger than we can imagine.. but what it requires of us is Courage.. courage to say ‘yes’ and take this quantum leap into who we are becoming…. even though we may not know where it leads..

So I will leave this blog here for now…. with these little seeds of hope.. that over time we will add to.. and please add your own dreamseeds to our group: Song of the Soul for Gaia.

Here’s the link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/694184994751838/

The Summer Solstice is a time for celebration throughout our world,  It is an opportunity to celebrate here in the northern hemisphere the longest day, when the sun is at it’s zenith, which is also a real oppportunity to celebrate our magnificence! 

For eons people have gathered at these times, to celebrate the turning of the great wheel of time…. and when the sun is at it’s highest point in the heavens, and we have the longest amount of daylight hours,  Mother Earth is full of herself, she puts on her lushest, most beautiful of clothes, everything is expanding outwards and upwards and the arrival of summer brings with it a real sense of the harvest to come.   We too have the opportunity to be full ourselves… and to celebrate the magnificence of us as humans. Sadly too often we are taught not to be full of ourselves!  To make ourselves small so that we don’t outshine others, or make them envious.  We have been taught to achieve, and push out beyond our limits, not to challenge ourselves to become better, but to challenge ourselves to become better than others.  To compete and compare ourselves is disastrous for our world.  It denies our uniqueness, and leads to mediocracy.  The robin doesn’t try to sing like the blackbird,  the willow doesn’t wish it were an oak, the dandelion doesn’t get depressed because it’s not a rose.  If you step out into nature right now, especially at dawn, you will hear the song of all the birds, loud and bursting with enthusiasm for their song.  The trees are full of themselves too, lush and brimming with life, and the wild flowers blossoming into fullness, all of nature exquisite and exactly as it should be, living side by side in harmony.

So let us all celebrate together what we are capable of in the best possible way:  our courageous hearts, our fire and passion, our beautiful vulnerability that allows us to feel compassion towards ourselves and each other, our ability to adapt and grow despite what life sends our way, our great capacity for kindness and understanding; and the immense resilience of the human spirit that has endured throughout time all kinds of misdeeds and misdirections and still keeps evolving and growing. 

Summer Solstice is an opportunity, as the sun is at  the highest point in our skies, to honour the light that each of us brings to the world.  The Inner Sun that shines out through our actions, our thoughts and our hearts.  It’s a chance to allow ourselves these moments of gratitude for all the abundant opportunities we all have to be ‘great’ in our own unique and individual ways.. to honour our unique and individual gifts and talents and know that  the world is all the more enriched because of our presence in it and our particular contribution to it.

THE SHADOW ON THE SUN

Of course right now there are other forces at work.. …  

At this particular summer solstice there will be a solar eclipse.  What this means is that the moon will cast a shadow over the sun.. and so Grandmother Moon is asking us to see where we cast a shadow over our own inner light.  What unconscious patterns are we holding so that we hide our light.  What fears lurk within our minds and our psyches that will stop us from being the best version of ourselves?  What old patterns from our conditioning as we grew up?  What beliefs do we hold about ourselves and our world?  What experiences have we had that somehow match the beliefs we hold?  What stories do we tell ourselves, or have been told to us that uphold these beliefs? These are great questions to ask ourselves right now.  Questioning our old ways of being means that we can create a crack in the veil of illusion through which more light can shine.  Lighting our way to something new.  

A solar eclipse invites us all to let go of those things that no longer serve.. to eclipse all that has gone before.. so that as we begin this new day,  we begin with a blank canvas, a clear landscape upon which we can paint our dreams.   This is probably the most difficult thing for most of us,  as we have inherited a host of beliefs, and ways of being that are carved into our bones, and etched onto our psyches by stories from the past, from past lives, and unhealed ancestral, generational patterns.. all of which spill into the present, and we have tended as humans to re-create the future from the past. 

However, we are standing at the edge of an extraodinary time in our human evolution and everything that we are seeing … all the shadow aspects of humanity..  the worst of us.. as well as the best of us…are all showing up for us to see.  It’s time to embrace our wholeness.. that includes the dark as well as the light.  When we step into that centre place of unconditional respectful loving presence, we are able to hold duality in our hands and not be tempted to polarise, or separate things into good and bad, right and wrong, … this is the old way, and perhaps we could assign this way of being to the past where it belongs.

Outside of the right/wrong paradigm there is another way.. the path of peace… where we know that we are interdependent with all of creation…. and all connected on this great web of life.. and that every one of us is here to make a contribution; even those things that we deny or exclude are part of the whole.  What we fight, deny or exclude from our reality we are still inherantly attached to.  Letting go requires us to first of all invite into acceptance all those things that we do not accept about others, ourselves and our world; even the worst of us can be embraced by acceptance… so that it too knows acceptance.  This is all about surrendering.  Surrendering to the ‘what is’ of everything.  It’s also a good time to forgive… to forgive the past, to forgive ourselves for what we didn’t know, to forgive others for what they didn’t know, so that in forgiveness we set them free, and we set ourselves free.   With freedom, though, comes responsibility.  Our responsibility is to heal our issues so that we no longer project them onto other, or onto our world. To set ourselves free from the chains, and limitations of the past, so that we can begin again.. with a new story.

NEW DREAM SEEDS

What we need to do is to create a strong and powerful vision of a future that is so much more compelling than the past, a vision that people can align with, so that we become a magnet for a new way of living.  Above all it has to be created from our values as a human family.

As we step into the Summer Solstice, we are not only in an eclipse, but at a new moon.  New moons are times to plant new seeds into the field of awareness. It’s important now to get really clear about what we want to grow in the future, the kind of world we want for our children and our children’s children.  They are the future of our world, and it’s important to hold them as a central theme, as they will receive the impact of our dreaming now.

The future of our world depends on what we envision as dreamers, seers, visionaries, storytellers, artists, poets, troubadours, musicians, mythmakers and the ones who rock the boat.  The words we write or speak will echo a simple truth, the pictures we paint will change perceptions, the songs we sing will sound a new note, the stories we tell will be new and inspiring… above all the dreamseeds we plant now will take root and grow at the wild edges where they will be undisturbed by the status quo,  and our task will be to nourish and care for them so that they grow strong and spread their seeds on the winds of change.

These are times to ask ourselves, what do we really want? What true yearning is in our hearts?  What song does our heart want to sing.  Our heart song can be like a whisper.. or arrive like a thunderbolt.. or be a simple remembering from the child within us that always knew what we wanted to do with our one true and precious life.  The inspiration has to come from a far away place, untouched by our worldly ways, and when we touch it we download a new story into our field of awareness, that changes our story, and our DNA.

A NEW STORY

We are making a journey into an unknown future, to a new place, through uncharted territory, with neither map or compass … to find the voice of the future and discover these new dream seeds.  To be inspired.  In that place we download a new and better song to sing… a note that will affect our DNA and revise our perception of who we are..  these are dramatic times!

Perhaps there is a new story for us to live as a human species here on earth.. perhaps there is no story… or perhaps the story will unfold as we walk the path towards it.  Perhaps Mother Earth has placed us here as dreamers… perhaps we were dreamt by Her .. and our task is to listen to the voice of the future… and let that inform our actions as we move into the times ahead of us. 

We do not know.. but when we have faith and trust as our companions we will enter this new day with hope for the future of our world, a smile that lights up our eyes, and a new song in our hearts.