THE NEBULAE

What is it you see in the light?  From the fully wrought stars flinging forward their light and warmth across the dense black spaces between their bodies and yours, what is it in those golden white songs that does what it does?  

That relevant, life giving property that excites the soil and air and water to warmth, that coaxes the sprouts upwards, and paints the lilies in its glow; what magic has it that makes it essential to life on Earth?

What is a star and how did its light come to be in you?

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,

Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me

from the other side of the veil.

March 13, 2014

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THE BRIGANTINE

           

To say that your Earthly body is a vessel has become a common term. “May the wind be at your back,” “May you know calm seas,” “Smooth seas make poor sailors,” “Fair wind,” and “Dead calm,” are also part of the common vernacular. When it is said that Noah brought into his vessel two of every being currently known on the planet, what is meant by that? The Great Flood, remember, is talked about in many spiritual systems and beliefs, not in the Christian system alone. Every continent and tribe has its own story about the Great Flood.

Look at how the Brigantine is built. The sharp bow at the front is a place of focus. The shorter foremast is in the next position. The taller mainmast is closer to the rear of the ship, from which the topmost view will be superior to the forward mast. Near the stern sits the rudder, the powerful fin by which the vessel may be directed. Working properly together, with a healthy hull and sheets, this ship will know its success most of the time while negotiating its seas.

Will there be times when the seas are too high and rough or when this ship is becalmed, or when an accident has damaged some crucial structure that cripples the ship’s ability to successfully continue on its own egress to the home port? Of course. Accident, illness, and death of the mortal body is inevitable.

The betweentime, or dreamtime, is the sweetness, thrall, terror, and amazement of the journey that you will make while sailing your vessel upon the seas. You are the captain. There are many ways to see your crew:

High Self/ Low Self

High Mind/ Low Mind

Superconscious/ Conscious/ Unconscious/ Subconscious

You could divide your crew into emotions, intentions, phases of life, beliefs or abilities. You could understand your crew as Small Self for the forward mast; High Self for the main mast; the ship as your body; the bowsprit as your individual vision and direction, and the rudder as your karmic direction. 

The most important thing to be aware of is that it takes a proper crew to safely and successfully negotiate a ship through its seas. Every hand must be on deck and accounted for, whether or not this is conscious knowledge to you at all times. There will be smooth seas and storm. There will be seasons for each sheet you rig and a time when they begin to lose their integrity and must be replaced—the same for the lanyards and lines. Your ship will have its time in dry dock.

It will know its abuses and repairs. At some point it will be retired or totally remade or salvaged. In all of this, the precious, beautiful pearl, is that you are never alone in this process. The Great All has seen fit to give you as many hands on deck as are needed to crew your ship. You do this in good company, not alone.

To be a good captain, you must know your crew—who they are and how to rely on them. After all, the captain cannot do all of the jobs of sailing his ship alone. How well do you know your crew? How often do you call up to the spotter in the crow’s nest atop the mainmast and ask for sightings ahead? How often do you look for tell-signs in the waters and air around you, listening to the elements and animals who are speaking about their world—your world—and what’s happening in it?

How often do you give up the struggle to determine where it is you are going and just enjoy where it is that you are—right now in this moment? Look up. Do you remember the Zenith and the Nadir? They are with you always. You are never unconnected, though you sometimes close doors between yourself and your connection, for a multitude of reasons.

How much better you feel when the doors are open: it’s like the first songs of spring, when they come trilling in through the doors and windows of your house after a long winter. Remember that feeling: Relief. Serenity. Companionship. Arrival.

For today, allow yourself to enjoy your vessel. Be new. Arise fullborn with fresh eyes and breathe in the breath of spring in full companionship of a full crew, on a calm and blue sea. Enjoy your Brigantine with its two beautiful masts. Lean back against the warm, solid wood of the foremast and feel the heartbeat of Mother Earth’s womb, still strong in its length.

Know that your High Self and your Tribe, your Angels and Guides who are with you always, are represented by that mainmast, solid and tall behind you, with far vision and power, helping to drive your vessel forward even in heavy seas. For today, allow yourself to enjoy your vessel.

For today, put aside your fears. 

 Lay down your worries 
and instead drink sunshine and breathe the voice of spring.


Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,

Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me
from the other side of the veil.

 March 12, 2014

                                              

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WHITE ROCK HALL

(this is an update from Denise Petrey, the person,
 regarding the spring gatherings at White Rock Hall, 
where I live and teach in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains 
north of Asheville, North Carolina)

When I first walked into the building that was at the time called White Rock Presbyterian Church, I knew that we were meant to be together. After a few dozen miracles and more than a few mishaps, when I had to back up and let go, we finally became a team--only to learn that I couldn't leave the building where it was, its bottom rotting away in the flood plain next to the stream where it had been built in 1909.

Cut to 2007: moving day. White Rock is being towed up the road by a very large truck and two bulldozers. We weren't the only ones praying that it wouldn't be dropped. It sat for over a year on its railroad ties, jacked up 16 feet in the air, battered by the 20-60mph winds over a brutal winter and spring before we could get it put together with the customized foundation that we had to build under it.  Piece of cake.

It's now 2014. While my husband has done some filming of his live show in the sanctuary, I've yet to have my first event here. Each morning I have my coffee in the golden room we call home, its 30x30 square studded with eight huge windows and hung with mirrors that reflect the light. The original oak pews are still here and have enjoyed much company.

I will be delighted to share it with you, in the highest belief that you will also feel the eleven-plus decades of prayers and love that are still lodged here, like love notes stuck in the little crannies between the bevels in the old board walls. On May 11th, Sunday (2014), I invite you to gather with me here at the (still-in-progress) renovated (ing . . .) White Rock Hall  (find WRH on Facebook HERE:  https://www.facebook.com/whiterockhall?ref=hl .)

At 1pm, I'll open the doors to both men and women who are interested in group discussion and support relevant to the kind of Direct Voice Communication that I've been posting on this blog. Please bring snacks and beverages to share if you are able. We have wonderful well water, and I will brew tea and coffee for those who partake.

This is a sunset view from our front porch:

White Rock Hall, original location

on the move

Find White Rock Hall on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/whiterockhall?ref=hl
March 11, 2014

ATTACK THE DAY

There are more glories in the Heavens and Earth than the human mind can allow. What is possible when there is boundless help? When there is inspiration and good company every moment you are awake and aware that you live? 

Don’t live as a shadow of your Self. Live in the realization that wherever you are, you are in sacred space—that you are sacred. Therefore, every thought and deed and perception of failure is part of the divine plan. Don’t quibble over what is small. 

To achieve big things, be big, think big, and know that space and time are limitless. You are limitless.

What do you want? Express it without qualifying terms. One person changes things. It is always one person with one vision, one life, one story, that makes fire on the mountain. Be that fire. Be that change.

Listen closely to the whisperings of your heart. 

We are waiting to help you.

Let’s begin this day with hope.

Let’s begin this day with realization.

Open. Open. Open.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,

Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me

from the other side of the veil.

March 11, 2014

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LYRICISM

To be Lyrical is to be attuned to Great All’s song, following, and adding blended notes and harmonies to the great symphony. When we say that something is Lyrical we mean that it is “in the flow,” similar to what we mean when we say that something is “pure poetry.”

__________

Lyricism as defined by the dictionaries

character or quality of subjectivity and sensuality of expression, especially in the arts

the practice of writing verse in song form rather than narrative form to embody

the poet’s thoughts and emotions  

quality or state of being melodious; melodiousness

an intense outpouring of exuberant emotion

 (Poetry) the quality or style of lyric poetry

emotional or enthusiastic outpouring

the property of sounding like music

having suitable properties for singing

unrestrained/ exaggerated enthusiasm

 ebullience, enthusiasm, exuberance - overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval

an artist's expression of emotion in an imaginative and beautiful way; the quality of being lyrical

______________

What have you in your life that can be described as Lyrical? Home really is where your heart is. Your Soul and Spirit dwelleth with you. You are embodied with your perfections and your flaws in a human vessel that has found its current home on Earth. Look around you. How does your environment support you? It need not be grand or rich, but does your home contain music and poetry and art? Is it Lyrical in its aspects?

Often, the occupants’ demands overwhelm the home’s abilities to allow for the slow, thoughtful forms of artistic design. A place of remembrance, or an altar, can be helpful for bringing into the house or dwelling that which is Lyrical: the shapes, colors, textures, sounds, and flavors of those things which provide pleasure and offer respect to the Elements and matters from which they arise. It need not be large or elaborate. It can be as simple as a vessel of fresh flowers.

Music can create an anchor in your home for Lyricism. Instead of playing the television, when you feel stress, find beautiful music and let yourself experience that music with your whole being, lying still and drinking it through the cells of your body as if it was manna. Allow yourself to “go with the flow” as you free-float, open to the cosmic wonder that this unlocks.

Making art and even looking at art, can also create an experience of Lyricism. Bonding with natural forces can do the same. Meditation. Quiet. Prayer. Solitude. Chant. Seek out these activities. Tune in daily to the Great All.

Use Ritual to seek Peace. Know Lyricism. Contribute to it. When you bend with the flow of the water, letting it shape you, rather than attempting to be the dam, you will find the experience of the stream uplifting. You will invite its hands upon you, and co-create with its forces in reshaping yourself.

Go with the flow, in every 

beautiful, manifest way that you are able, 

and you will see that the stream also goes with you . . .

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,

Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me

from the other side of the veil.

March 10, 2014

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SPECULATION

To speculate is to forward judge, with expectations of the outcome, and gamble on that outcome. This is not foreseeing or prophecy. It is not the same as following intuition. Speculation, even theorem, relies on a data set and that data set’s combined predicted behaviors in predicted environments with predicted stressors, interventions, unexpected failure and successes, and multitudes of unseen and unthought-of other interloping factors.

Will you put your future in the hands of Speculation alone?

Imagine this: You approach the edge of a very high cliff where far below there is nothing but rocky bottom. The edge of the far cliff is so far that it is too far away to reach by jumping. You are now standing at the edge, looking, thinking that a way across should be made.

            1: You speculate, buying that land. Now you can build a road and a bridge between the two points. Later, an earthquake destroys the bridge and you are once again standing at the edge of the cliff looking for a way across.

            2: You speculate, buying the same land, but wait to do any improvements, feeling that your intuition is cautioning you from further, immediate action. The earthquake occurs. The property is now so changed you no longer need a high, expensive bridge and decide that an easily built road will be the best of all possibilities.

           3: You have a vivid, waking dream about a piece of land with two very high points that are separated by a high set of cliffs. In the dream an earthquake occurs, and after the ruin, a beautiful valley springs up, replenished and beautiful. Remembering the first place, you find it in your waking life, and though very attracted to it, you wait and make your speculations, calculations, and discoveries, giving your dream’s prophecy time to show itself. Indeed, the earthquake occurs, changing the landscape. You now buy the land at a greatly reduced rate, and over time it becomes your Eden.

Speculation without the support of your High Self’s resources could lead you to surprises you are unprepared for. This is not a bad thing. You may learn about over-reaching, self-delusion, or the pitfalls of spontaneous material gratification. You may have many satisfactory outcomes. The possibilities provided by the process of Speculation are many and varied.

  

But . . . Speculation supported by High Self, using intuition, prophecy, and the guidance of your Tribe is a keystone to more consistent success, when certain goals are required to be met in certain ways. Are you in your own way? Look for these signs:

            ~ You want things one way today and a different way tomorrow.

            ~ Neither Decision A nor Decision B feels right.

            ~ In trying to move forward, nothing is solidifying on the new project.

            ~ In your imagination, you can’t see yourself in that next place.

            ~ Events and reasoning repeatedly show you why A (current) is better than B (next).

When Speculation is supported by High Self, intuition, your Guides, and your purpose, look for these signs:

            ~ Importance for today’s things and ways begins to dissipate.

            ~ Decision B supplants entirely Decision A.

            ~ With little effort, factors for moving ahead fall into place.

            ~ In your imagination, you fully see yourself in that next place.

            ~ Both events and reasoning repeatedly show you why B (next) is better than A (current).

Distress flaws reasoning. It also creates distance between your emotional body and your intuitive body. Your Guides have a more difficult time communicating with you. You have a more difficult time communicating with your High Self. Other complicating factors may ensue, such as overeating, alcohol consumption, withdrawal, depression, and isolation, which even further deaden the connection between the conscious mind and High Self. 

Self-governing in these matters is difficult; one of the reasons that a spiritual support group has such value. Your co-anchors can help you to spot and address these kinds of difficulties before they become overtly problematic. 

We remind you of the principles of combined energy and exponentials: 1 unit alone; 2 units are squared to equal the power of four and 3 units are squared to equal the power of 9, and thusforth.

To come together and work with like-intentioned individuals can increase your focus and your potential (remembering that we all experience cycles of both outward growth and inward growth, that seek different support systems and methodologies). 

When seeking to work expansively, use discretion, 

following your intuition as you select groups 

who reflect your own growth desires. 

The Great All will respond to your need 

with beautiful and appropriate candor.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,

Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me

from the other side of the veil.

March 9, 2014

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BELIEF FLOW CHART

The human flow chart for understanding the world:

See --à  Describe  --à  Identify  --à  Categorize  --à  Understand  --à  Mythology

We see something, or it becomes known to us. Using our senses, experiences, and belief system, we describe that thing, giving it an identity. That enables us to place it in a category, which is what we must do to understand it. Animals, vegetable, or mineral? Good or bad? Enemy or friend? 

All of these perspectives are based on our mythology, what beliefs we hold to be true according to our senses, experiences, intuition, and social programming.

Is a bee good? When it’s pollinating our plants, yes. When it’s stinging, no. How can a bee be both good and bad? Is the bee confused, or are we confused? Maybe the bee just is, and maybe the bee’s actions are just actions, neither good nor bad.

 How do we release ourselves from these judgments that do not serve us? How do we come to understand our experience for what it is? How do we begin to believe that time is a fable, and that solid objects are no more solid than we are?

---à---à---àBy pulling one thread, it begins to unravel. By deconstructing our mythology, we begin to see that what we have woven together is many colored threads, placing them according to the song in our head. 

And like a beautiful piece of music, 

we can take those many colors, those notes, 

and create a new tapestry, 

one stronger and more beautiful, 

one that when we finally lay down upon it to dream, 

our vision is clear.


Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,

Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me
from the other side of the veil.

March 8, 2014

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