The Well

How deep is your compassion?
How clean?

When you draw from the well, is the water clear and sweet...
Or do you use it only to quench the fire?

The Well is a still place, a place of endless cycle and regeneration.
It is the Making. The Gathering. The Gift.

The heavens send rain and The Well gathers it.
Light sheds, particles enliven. Waves are amplified.
 It becomes the mirror, the pattern,
and the shell unto which
the Magic gathers and becomes Whole.

You are delivered unto the Well.
Your Song is Woven into Its Waters.
You are born and reborn and nourished.

All of Life is Singing you. Drink there and Deeply.
Bear the Storms and mend the struts. Shelter and Comfort. 

You are not lost. You are not silent. 

By the Waters of the Ever-Purifying Well,
you are known.

Recorded.

Celebrated.

Alive.

When Love feels absent or patience short, drink deeply.

Sing your name. Let It Sing 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.

Sunday, December 20, 2020

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 Star Fire

Life burns in you as brightly as you allow. 
Do not hide your Light, especially from your self. 
What is possible when the Star Fire 
that forged you visibly burns from your core outward?

The Elements are more than cosmic components; they are Live Sparks; progenitors. From their capable and durable expressions, Life forms. They infuse, construct, and drive the many variations of Us.

Close your eyes. Go inside. Find your Star Fire and release the governors you have placed to shield it. For a rarefied moment, consciously allow your Light to shine brightly. Do you feel your Light touching all that is? Can you hear its wordless language?

This expression of Self is the part of you that transcends all bounds. You cannot live perpetually in Its outward Grace, as it would burn you. You are here, on earth, living a mortal life—but that life is meant to be sacred at least as often as it feels profane.

You are flesh and Star Fire, and longing, and hope.

 May you burn brightly and seek good ends.

 

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, December 12, 2020

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Upon the Winding Stair

Look up the spiral staircase, and what do you see? Is your heart glad for the elevation? Are you excited to change your perspective, stair-by-stair adopting new ideas and leaving behind the old ones? Do you anticipate a broader and clearer view? Are you glad for the gains as you climb?

Or . . . do you look Upon the Winding Stair and feel dread? Do you think of little more than the effort required to make the climb? Do you fear falling? Do you believe these higher stairs will afford you nothing beyond your perceived, increased vulnerabilities?

We say in life that we wish for simplicity and clarity, but do we? If you knew today what each ascending step would bring, each joy and hardship, would you climb with an equal tread? What is simple may not be easy. What is clear may strain our heart.

Look at your current position Upon the Winding Stair: what is below? What is above? Are you who you believed you would be, right now, at your current age and status? If so, why? If you are very different than you imagined, why?

All things fall to ruin. Stairs are not made for eternity. They are passages. They are pathways of travel, instruments and tools. And to get to the overlook, you must continue climbing—when you are tired and sad and defeated, as well as when you are eager.

You will find that when you reach the peak, you have been misled, and above this resting place you will find further staircases, further challenges, further prizes. The higher you go, the greater are the staircases to be traveled upon. Keep going. Through doubt and fear, and pain of every kind, keep going.

Upon the Winding Stair you will find the Self. You will look back and with sudden understanding, know the purpose of your climb, and you will find that every indrawn breath and every sigh and pause has brought you to the here and now.

So, lift your foot and straighten your spine. Climb. And marvel at the view.

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, December 06, 2020

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 NO-NAMES

What is a Name, or a Word? Ideas, woven by thoughts and emotions cause us to Name things, to create Words . . . but what if a thought or feeling is too complex 

for the weaving of something?

What if the Ineffable thought, concept, or feeling defies our abilities to catch it as an idea, to carve into eternity its shadow or infrastructure? This is the concept of the Un-Name-Able, the Beyond-Name, the Greater-Than-Name, the No-Names that you intimately know but cannot describe.

No-Name is the wisdom behind your infrastructure, the idea of your purpose, the flame of life, the workings of time and eternity, the spirit and its shadow. No-Name is the Truth and who and what and when you ARE.

Sit a moment with the No-Names in your life. Let your self experience the InEffable, the ImPossible, the UnReachable. Feel the spark inside your self rise to meet this joining with the No-Names. Feel the Greaterness. Now . . . stay in that place until you feel assured of your place IN IT.

 

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, November 28, 2020

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FRAMES

Look at a Frame encompassing a compelling piece of art and you will not notice, 

or will notice with lack of precision, the elements that surround it. 

The Frame has pulled your focus to the area within its boundaries. 

Your Beliefs are Framed this way—you will send your attention 

to the area of focus, and become aware of all things outside

 the Frame as less important, or in the case of your Beliefs, less True.

You have given many thousands of hours of your Beliefs, the ideas and worldviews that live within the Frame. 

But . . . how many hours have you given to the ideas outside your Frame(s), and have you looked upon those outer-Frame ideas with unbiased study?

 Likely, you have not.

First, determine which ideas live within YOUR Frame. Now . . . look at the world for other Frames. Do not discount other Frames as less true than your own, less valid, or less important. Do inventory. What do you find?

As a surety, all people desire to give and receive love, to physically, emotionally, and socially thrive, and to feel engaged with purpose—the higher and more true-feeling, the better. This is the Core. This is Great All, The Greaterness, speaking to you.

Based on these ideas, how do the Frames you find and study compare with your own? When finished with this study, what have you discovered? Do you see these other Framed ideas (these pieces of art or composition) as valid, even if you remain in disagreement? What new perspectives do you gain, not only about these other Frames, but about your own?

You may be strong and still show compassion. You may pursue truth and still speak to other ideas in capable and studied ways. Be as a master of an art gallery when gathering works for an exhibition. You will look at these Framed works and whether or not you find them attractive, plan a display that honors each. This will include editing out those Framed works which do not aspire to Greater Goodness.

Look at the exhibition of Frames that you bring together. Continue to study these Framed Ideas and Beliefs. Continue to clarify and make more compelling and True, your own Framed works. As a curator, your world expands, and with it, your wisdom and understanding.

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, November 21, 2020

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 GREATERness

GreaterNess is the awareness that something Greater than your self, 

you as an individual, and you as a species, 

is at work to drive the locus of existence.

 GreaterNess is the pattern behind the pattern. 

It is the Generator.

What pushes the seedling towards the sun, causes the baby to develop from a moment of fusion, creates the language to which all living things are privy? Do you know the GreaterNess? Do you stop to listen?

Religion is merely a frame for the idea that something Greater, or Divine--a Creator--is not only a part of you, but is responsible for your design and your existence. Whether conceived as “An Eye in the Sky” or a “Whisper in Your Breast,” most humans believe in this idea . . . because it is inborn.

The GreaterNess keeps you company throughout your Life. It Speaks. It Listens. If you let it, the GreaterNess will guide you. Do not deafen your self with Fear. Draw back the curtain and enjoy the spectacle with each and all of your senses.

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, November 19, 2020

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 UNRAVELING

To experience knotted lines, alien junctures, 

and the overwhelm felt when investigating and tracking to the source, 

some complex problem, is to experience Unraveling. 

It may begin in the warm nest of your palms, an historic archive or artifact, 

and even in the mystery of Who-You-Are-Now compared to Who-You-Once-Were—represented by the very heart or center of your knotted lines.

Unraveling these lines, surrendering the cohesive text of previously-formed ideas and beliefs, leads to the Unraveling of False Self. It leads to the understanding that each spur on the line, a refused turn (whether challenge or opportunity), a stalled place (wherein hope and/or understanding breathlessly stops or fails), or a shadowed break from the linear plan, can always be smoothed and re-spun.

 

Just as an artist of fiber gathers, clarifies, spins, and stores their wares, so too can any of us Unravel inferior line and giving it quality attention, re-store that line in a more orderly and beautiful manner, something more fitting for the next creation. Sometimes you cannot get to the next place except by backing up and shifting the trajectory.

 

How is the skein of your Life stored? What have you made with that which you gathered? What are its colors, weights, strength, and flexibility? How often and in what ways do your fibers change?

 

It is not written that you make a declaration, and without fault or change, continue in a direction that may be immature, short-sighted, or underdeveloped. You may at any time, UnRavel the weakest fibers, and re-spinning them, change your trajectory to one more fitting, and supportive, of your largest and brightest ideas.

 

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, November 12, 2020

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