THE MOUNTAIN BELLS AND LOES ****   

I.

Lo and behold, there came rain to the desert, pushing up from parched soil both Lily and Bell. The sweet ringing could be heard at the clifftops and those who could hear knew that their time had come. Like anchors struck on the bottom, the Watchers of that first shift had been steadfast, and blessed in that they did stay where they were bade and did not flee in the face of adversity.

So that wind was a sweet wind, carrying honey, filled with love, with laughter, erasing all doubt. They were not forgotten. And God lifted them up, and made unto them a great feast, and to that plain sent Children who would do the same, from the blooming unto the death. These are cycles of existence. Like Acts of a Play, different metres for different purposes.

II.

               --And so, first the prologue, where we come to the characters, their aspects; setting the stage. Act One introduces the goals, and their possible impediments. Act Two introduces those energies, persons and perceptions that work directly against these goals (we are now in this phase), and Act Three becomes a tableau wherein the very core of Dark and Light struggle to wrest away the control from the other.  In the final Act, we have met with our Character’s flaws, tested his strengths, and abided by while those Opponents work against his will, his fears and doubts, his Earthly weaknesses.

III.

The Final Act is unwritten. Many stories must merge, and every Spirit living in this play must have the opportunity to reprise their roles, to repeat their cases until they are worthy of the highest rewards: if it is their wish to do so. So many languish, never knowing the stage, or the lights, or the words that can be spoken and filled with such light as the vessel can barely hold them. For we say unto all of these Actors on that Stage: Do not utter lines, dead words wrought from history.

~*~

Forge History.

Be thou that vessel which holdeth the Light of God, 

and therefore, alive with HIS WORDS. 

Be that Character and be thou Blessed unto thy family 

and Blessed unto thine world. 

Be that Vessel 

and be liken unto the Hand of God.

End

**** My Guides in 2011 were much more strident and less humorous than the ones working with me now. Their communications were often 'Heavenly' and sometimes very old-world compared to my contemporary Tribe members of today. I do not doubt that my Guides have always been of the same Tribe, but I do think that I get matched with different, individual Guides for different reasons and different messages, as it becomes appropriate. (Either way, I am thankful for their constant support and love in my life.) 

. . . I had just lost five very close family members to sudden death in 2010-2011, and had prepared a sermon for my baby niece's funeral, partially from the bible, when I received this transmission. I took it as a message of hope, and hopefully, others will, too. Many of my messages during that time had the feeling of being spoken "from the mouths of angels." We are perpetually surrounded by those high and loving beings. They believe in us, whether or not we believe in them . . .

Call them Angels, or anything you like. They feel like more than, and apart from, other members of my Tribe. I can't describe them or explain them, and won't try. They are. And it was They who urged me to dig into my archives and make this specific post this morning. For You. You who are reading this post this morning. One person. They send their Love and Light to You that you might know Hope even in your Despair.

****This is a Direct Voice Communication 

from my Tribe, archives of 2011,

from the Instruction Manual

as dictated to me by my Guides at that time.

May 12, 2014

MOTHERING

What is Mothering?  This morning, we will not include the process of Gestation, the growing in the dark of new life.  We speak of the nurturing of new life, and the bringing forth of the female qualities of life in the great homogeneous span of the Great All.  The spectrum of this process is quite wide and varied, from starseeds that follow an internal directive fueled by their own bodies to mammals who care for young many years after their birth.

How does the job of Mothering accomplish, and how is it different from Fathering?  First, let us do a study of polarities and the female and male energy principals:  Female energy is dark and sinking, womblike, close and circular; Male energy moves outward and upward; it searches and reaches, spearlike and piercing.  This is why in so many civilizations, females have kept home and hearth, while males have done the work outside.

However, Mothering is not so simple.  It is not so singular, sleek or clean.  It is not so gender aligned nor so insular.  Does not a Father do some share of the Mothering?  Does not a neighbor or a teacher do some share of Mothering, even if they are childless?  Mothering is a feeling, a quality, a purpose, a ritual, and a rite.  It is a channel that is fed by intuition, tradition, and energetic principles as they are bent and adapted to the environment at hand.

If you are reading this, you had a Mother.  How were you Mothered?  By whom and by what?  How has it influenced your outlook on the world and your Cosmology?  How do you Mother, yourself and others, because of these influences?  Understand the function of your form, and how your form causes you to function.  How much of this can be related to Mothering?

On this, the day dedicated to Mothers, reflect on Mothering.  What does this mean to you and how does it contribute to Who and What you are?  At the very least, remember your Earth Mother and her constant, unfailing contribution to your existence. 

Stop and give thanks—to Gaia, and to all of the Mothers, 

and to all them who Mother in the name of Love.

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. 

Sunday, May 11, 2014

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RESPECT

The healthy regard for the aspects for another; that is Respect.  Make no assumptions.  Have no expectations.  Have Expectations only for your Self.  When you regard that the aspects of another are unclean and/or to be avoided, you will respect that Other with these conditions in mind.  Still, that salutation opined is a form of Respect.  Do you see?

Respect your Earth Mother:  regard Her aspects.  She is the living organism that provides for the needs of your mortal body.  She has provided for the material construction OF your mortal body.  She provides the water and food for your nourishment and the shelter that you require.  She provides your medicines and your communities.  She anchors you in gravity and oxygen and provides for you a space to receive sunshine.  Regard Her aspects.  She is mighty and wild and full of unconditional love.

Respect your Fear: regard its aspects.  It will show you both your strength and your challenges.  It will show you both your dark corners and your light alleyways.  It will show you what you gain through power and what you gain through surrender.

Respect your Love: regard its aspects.  It will show you both your strength and your challenges.  It will show you both your dark corners and your light alleyways.  It will show you what you gain through giving and what you gain through receiving.

Respect your Community: regard its aspects.  The Song of your Community contains the notes that you contribute to it.  How love you your Community’s aspects, and how do you not?  How can its aspects teach you to contribute, lead, and take away differently that you do now?

Respect your Life: regard its aspects.  Do not assume there will be one day more.  Listen to the Song of your Life through the Song of your Heart and Life Eternal.  What is it telling you?  Did you wake to regrets?  What Fears can you kill Today?  What Surrenders can you make?  What Love can you grow?

Respect your Self: regard Your aspects.  You are unique in all of Creation.  While there is a constant thread that moves through you, uniting you with every other aspect of Great All, You have something to contribute that no one else can.  Rise to that.  Rise to your best Self.  Embrace the idea that you were made of Love, with Love, and for the Highest Purpose.  Be That.

Respect Who You Are, What You Are, Where You Are, and everything that you interact with and connect to.  That is, consider the aspects of what is this Life, and respond with Love.

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. 

Saturday, May 10, 2014

FELICITY

When you speak truth with economy and forethought of matters that are uplifting and helpful, you provide great service.  Beware, however, that you do not speak in empty phrases, circularly, or in euphemisms.  Do not make a game of words and emotions.  Do not manipulate.

A Felicity given with words does not guarantee happiness, but a proper skill with words can reflect the understanding of the matter about which one speaks.  We have all heard empty phrases in such great quantity that they no longer have meaning; they have become space holders:  “How nice to meet you.”  “Wonderful to see you again.”  “We should get together.”  “I’m sorry for your loss.”  “That must make you very happy.”

We follow certain etiquettes as we have been taught, according to our time and our culture.  Think about your language and your phrasing, particularly the phrases that you repeat whole, mimicking others.  What do they mean . . . and more importantly, do you mean them?

Will you employ Felicity as a gift for communication, bringing happiness through real connections and proper language?  Or will you offer empty Felicitations, echoes of other empty phrases that have gone before, empty calories for a starving people?

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. 

Friday, May 9, 2014

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PRECISION

Precision is a falsehood when used interchangeably with perfection.  Perfection, if it exists, is known by and accomplished by, only the Supreme Creator.  The more you strive for Perfection, the more you live by false standards.  Precision, however, is a set of standards by which you contract yourself to do the highest work possible:  The Highest Work Possible.

The Highest Work Possible is not Perfect Work.  It is the best work that you are capable of at any given time.  You must factor into your formula, your current conditions:  physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual abilities; your resources, to include, but not limited to: time, money, training, awareness, assistance, and scope; and your place in time and space, which is self-explanatory.

Precision is therefore, the precise following of the goal-set that you have put forth to work toward.  It is a pathway on which you labor, all the while agreeing to be true to the set of principles you have set out for your work and the end product that the work is leading you to.  Precision does not cut corners or make excuses—nor does it assign blame—even for the blaming of Self.

Be Precise.  Use Precision.  And let Precision use You.  
Surrender to Precision for one day and 
notice how it changes the accessibility and ease of your tasks.

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. 

Thursday, May 08, 2014

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HALF FULL OR HALF EMPTY?

You look into the water and see it brimming with activity.  The thrashing of tail and spine makes ominous signs at the surface of the water’s boiling pot.  Danger, it says.  You would not willingly place your hand into that fray.  But what of the still water, with the sun making a golden basket of light down to its sandy bottom, highlighting the open oyster with its magnificent pearl sitting in lustrous splendor on that bed?

How long would you pause before you reached down into those waters and plucked up that pearl from such a bucolic scene?  And how surprised would you be when the waiting shark, who was anchored just beyond the waving meadow of greenery, sliced away your arm?  Like the lamb to slaughter, ‘they’ would say.  The thing ‘you didn’t see coming.’  Is that true?  Or was the waiting pearl ‘too good to be true’?

The glass is half full.  The glass if half empty.  Two ways to think.  Both are appropriate, depending on the circumstance.  When you are guided by Spirit in all ways, spontaneity can be a beautiful condition—the glass half full.  When you are guided by Ego in all ways, spontaneity contains many pitfalls—the glass half empty.  As you navigate your days, which voice is stronger in your internal dialogue?

You are working in your yard, turning over and moving large rocks, often with your face low to the ground.  At some point you stop, suddenly deciding to follow your intuition and use a hoe to turn over the remaining rocks.  Three rocks later, you uncover a nest of baby rattle snakes, who come out snapping.  Had your face been low to the ground, you would have been bitten, perhaps fatally, but you listened to your intuition.

Was your intuition informed by your own high mind, by your guides, by Snake Mind, or by a commingling of all three?  Is the glass half empty (danger)?  Or is the glass half full (method to stay safe)?

This is one example in an endless variety of such:  the difference between the glass being half full and half empty as your perception.  Both are appropriate and valid.  But . . . what if you turned from that polarized thinking and began thinking instead:  the glass is half-filled, neither half-empty nor half-full?

You are a Spirit living in a Body having a Human experience in a Mortal, Physical World.  Therefore, your glass, your vessel, is filled with the fluid, moving, Spirit of You that is Eternal.  Some days your glass will feel nearly full and some days nearly empty.  Some days, you will wonder whether you are more Spirit or more Mortal:  glass more filled or more empty.  Your perceptions and experience will reflect this condition, and these ruminations.

Some days, you will perceive the Water of You to be like that bucolic scene, golden and undisturbed, without the shark—some days, quiet but disturbing, with something lurking at its edges (shark hidden just out of sight).  Some days, you will perceive the Water of You to be like that boiling pot, where lures have been thrown in to draw destruction and change.  You must not only decide what the quantity of water is in your glass, but what the condition of water is in your glass.  This is a more important self-reflection.

The greater the quantity of water in your glass, the greater grows the ability of your glass to withstand the internal pressures of that water.  Do you see?  Take all of the world’s waters and contain them in a glass:  all of their depths and histories and storms.  How strong is that glass?  When the water is shallow in the glass, no great strength is needed.  Throw in the lures and create a feeding frenzy in a tempored glass and that glass will hold.

When the water in glass grows deeper by degree, the feeding frenzy created by the lures creates more pressure.  The glass must now withstand more force.  The “Tempest in the Teapot” might take on tsunami proportions.  It is no longer a matter of glass-half-full or glass-half-empty, but of temporing the glass for the storms of Life.

The tempored glass can take beautiful shapes and remain strong.  It contains its own worlds.  It has its own resonance.  The tempored glass not only withstands the storms it is made subject to, it weaves symphonies as the lightning strikes its courses through the waters.  It becomes a brilliant microcosm inside a macrocosm—of proportions liken to infinity mirrors in a cosmos of rare other factors.

How grows and tempors your glass and the waters in it?  When your storms settle, how look your scenes?  Do not worry over whether your glass is half full or half empty, but how well your glass withstands the its volumes.  What forms arise in you by these trials?  Do you become more narrow in order to keep out the seas?

Or do you expand, and invite inside yourself the deeper exploration of what is yet unknown to you?  The Siren’s Song sings sweetest to the vessel who invites its voice.

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. 

Wednesday, May 07, 2014

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BANNERS

Banners are mediums for proclamation.  They may state our affiliation, and concomitantly, our beliefs.  Secondary to that, is our style of dress, personal presentation, body language, and so forth—our person Banner(s).  How invested are you in the Banners that you fly?  Do you know their deeper meanings, and are you fully, consciously aware of their superficial meanings and how the Banners are perceived?

Just as we often follow the tenets and dogma of structured beliefs that may no longer fit us—or have never fit us—we often find ourselves living and working under a Banner that is just as false.  How do you identify yourself?  Which affiliations with which Banners do you speak of when you are introduced to another person?  How do you use them to help explain your current roles in life?

Example:  I am a human/ I am a woman/ I am a daughter/ I am a sister/ I am a girlfriend/ I am a wife/ I am a mother/ I am a teacher/ I am a liberal/ I am a conservative/ I am a Christian/ I am a Buddhist/ I am a community organizer/ I am a hermit/ I am an extrovert/ 
I am an introvert/ I am a believer in all things natural/ 
I am a believer in all things progressive and new

How many roles do you play in this life and how many Banners do you display to announce these roles?  Study them for authenticity.  How many did you take on due to tradition and the expectations of others . . . and how many are genuine and high-thinking, and support you on an empowered pathway?

Banners are flown to separate, differentiate, and rally.  A Banner used to gather like minds to a like purpose is a powerful instrument.  How often have they been flown to announce harm?  Think through the annals of your human history.  On how many battlefields, did a banner fly to announce an aggressor and defender?  How many times has a Banner announced annihilation?

All Banners are used to separate, differentiate, and rally.  If you do not clearly, truly, understand the deep meanings of the Banners that you fly, you are advertising to the world a falseness—one that is perhaps, harmful.  What you advertise yourself to be is quite often the only thing that people perceive you to be.  How goes your campaign?

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.

Monday, May 05, 2014

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