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Hi Everyone,
We had prepared to meet in person for drum circle, but given the circumstances with the collective lockdown, here is an alternative. Create your sacred space. Rattle yourself into it. Call in the directions. Light your candle. Journey to the Lower or Upper World. I have created an Altar in NOR that looks very much like the one we gather around each month. See the Altar and see yourself placing your candle on this altar along with everyone else. All of our candles are on the Altar. Together as a community. Now see yourself floating on a magic carpet. You are flying through the air with your power animal with you. I am on a very large flying carpet, do you see me? When you see me land on my giant carpet alongside everyone else. We are gathered together, gently floating, feeling peaceful, our hearts opening, our breaths slow and measured. With your power animal, sit, remaining open to the collective flow of energy being generated by our community and when you and your power animal feel the time is right, fill with Light. Fill, fill, fill. Keep filling, do not stop. Lose the sense of your body. Your power animal will keep you safe and grounded. Be Light. All of us together Light. Not sending it anywhere, just Being Light. Being Light is the most potent of all healing because it is Pure Love. We need more Love right now, individually and collectively. Love heals. Thank your power animal and anyone else who was with you. Rattle or drum the return so all of you comes back. Please write up your journey on the Blog page. We all learn so much from each other. All the best, Cynthia
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Story has the power to bring soul back to the world: old stories about the earth and its landscape, new stories that give us fresh ideas about connecting to the earth and each other.
Stories can inflame the imagination. Stories about our families and ancestors, stories about the trees and animals and rocks around us; stories about the stars and planets and gods can help us find and remember our place and anchor us in time and space. In re-storying the world, we can restore it. In May’s journey, go to the lower or upper world with your power animal or spirit helper/teacher with an inflamed imagination ready to experience a new story with a fresh idea that will replace an old story about the earth and how we are connected. For example: What is your connection to the earth? Imagine your connection runs deep, seasons flowing through your body, feeling them stirring before you see the signs. What does that story look like, where are you in this story? How does the new story you have written make you feel? Another example: What is your connection to your ancestors/family? Create a hero story about your ancestors. Create a hero story about your family. Imagine knowing them as heroes. I know we are joyfully awaiting the day when we can physically be together in our drum circle. Please post details of your journey on the blog page of our website so we can learn from each other and tend our community. Thank you! Due to the need for social distancing during this time, we will not host our Shamanic Drum Circle in person for the months of April and May.
To stay connected and continue the work our society and our planet needs, we will post a journey on the first Wednesday of the month so we can journey from the safety of our own homes. We can connect in spirit by journeying at 6:30 p.m. If that's not possible for you, please journey on your own, when your schedule allows. When you return safely from your journey to Ordinary Reality, please share your experience in the comments below. If you prefer not to share, just type PASS in the comment field. It would be nice to know how many of us participate! APRIL 2020 JOURNEY: Please read instructions above. Tonight we are going deeper into surrender. Forgive them, even when they are not sorry. Let them be right, if that's what they need. Send them love and send them off. Don't tie yourself to small-mindedness, it will steal your well-being. Denise Levatoff said "To speak of sorrow moves it from it's crouched place barring the way to the soul's hall." Your sorrow unexpressed, kept paved over, blocks the way to your soul. Give voice to that grief, to validate it and to let it speak to you. Let it crack open your heart and in those cracks, let the light shine through to reveal a generous and caring heart, to see your courage. In the speaking of your grief, outrage and sorrow, when you speak the sorrow, possibly...look to see that the sorrow you speak....when you look at our world today....possibly, that sorrow is bigger than you. This thought does not in any way diminish your personal sorrow. wondering, wondering if some of the sorrow in the world is the sorrow of others? The sorrow of refugees, burnt land, homeless animals, the sick and dying...all the images and reports we receive into our hearts.You perhaps are speaking your sorrow and the sorrow of others. Once you open the door to your grief, outrage and sorrow...there is the world, right there. For we are of the world, we are nature and then you are in a terrain the exceeds your previous notions of your delimited self. The journey tonight is one where you and your power animal, or teacher will journey into the lower or upper world to find your grief, rage and sorrow. To sit with it and through your power animal or teacher - have a conversation in the language of love & light for understanding and forgiveness. Then, in agreement with permission, transmute your grief, outrage and sorrow into light. If you do not reach a place of agreement and permission and readiness for transmuting, that is okay, this reflects the need for more understanding. More conversation. |
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