2019 revelation

Last year I posted about the age of Kali Yuga on my Change Warrior blog. In 2017 I was fierce yet more hopeful.

If as most believe we are smack in the throes of Kali Yuga until at least 2025 - what then do we do in the meantime?

The general consensus is that Kali Yuga or the iron age already ended on the 21st of December 2012 with the end of the Mayan calendar.

It will take approximately 15 years for the new cycle to begin. We are now in that transition period between 2012 and 2027. The next cycle, Dwapara Yuga, starts in or around 2027.

Why is there such a difference of opinion among various Masters and Gurus or theorists and historians about these dates and their cycles?

According to sacred scripture and historical research much has to do with two main aspects:

[1] Spiritual teachings are often interpreted or presented in different ways throughout the ages - according to the needs of its seekers or audience.

[2] The speed at which humanity experiences these cycles can be affected either way by our conscious awareness at the time these events are unfolding.

In truth, it all boils down to which path or teacher we personally choose to follow, whether we accept the teachings of that path, and how wholeheartedly we apply it in our lives.

Popular belief today encourages us with the practice of kriyas and meditations designed to raise complete body awareness. To prepare the physiological body, nervous system, and intellectual mind to handle the energy of Kundalini rising within us.

Whatever your culture, tradition or belief it would be wise to pay attention and heed your body's needs. May the road to wellness unfold well for each of us.

the 8 world views

The health of all community depends on how we treat each other.

How we personalize these ancient worldviews and their vibrant practices is for each of us to discover. What does it mean for you: to repair the connections, to water our common roots, to face a life of compassion, to stay in honest conversation, to welcome other views, to honor our uniqueness and commonness, to create a sense of belonging, and to bear witness to each other?

These are not concepts but living tools by which tribes and cultures have sustained human growth on Earth. How can you make good use of these tools today? By figuring out how to enact these practices in our daily life, we can strengthen the human community, one relationship at a time.

In summary, the eight worldviews and their practices are:

• All My Relations from the Native American tradition.

The Practice: To discover, name, and repair the connections that exist between all things.

• Ubuntu from the African tradition.

The Practice: To water the common roots by which we all grow and to honor our strong need to join.

• Thou Art That from the Hindu tradition.

The Practice: To face and feel a life of compassion that honors that we are at heart the same.

• The I and Thou Relationship from the Jewish tradition.

The Practice: To stay committed to the life of honest conversation.

• Ya Ayuni! from the Lebanese tradition.

The Practice: To welcome other views in the belief that we need each other to be complete.

• The Great Spoked Wheel from the early Christian mystic tradition.

The Practice: To embody the paradox of our uniqueness and commonness by which the Great Wheel of Humanity turns.

• Hygge from the Danish tradition.

The Practice: To create well-being, connection, warmth, and a sense of belonging.

• I See You! I Am Here! from the African Bushmen tradition.

The Practice: To be present and bear witness to each other and other life. 

winter solstice wisdom

Winter Solstice is the birthday of the Sun and of the year.

It is a time when we experience the greatest darkness, when the hours of darkness are so much greater than the hours of daylight.

It is within this time of greatest darkness that the Light of the World is reborn, for now the hours of daylight will begin to grow and the hours of darkness will lessen.

Danu the Mother Goddess

It is at Winter Solstice that the truth of our Oneness is most evident, for the darkness that we face is our own darkness and aloneness.

The Light becomes most precious as we realize that it is through the Light that we come to love and appreciate each other.

~ Cathy Pagano, Stories of the Earth:  8 Tales of the Wheel of the Year. 'Winter Solstice'.

Integrative Sound & Music Training

Sound Healing is an exciting Energy Medicine approach developed by Dr. John Beaulieu. 

It integrates energy healing, systems science, molecular research, spiritual wisdom, and use of tuning forks to calibrate the nervous system, stimulate trigger points, and align our posture to visual harmonics. 

Mindful listening, postural analysis, exploration of sonic intervals, and five-element evaluation using voice and movement patterns are foundational to the class. 

The sound methods we will cover include the use of Pythagorean tuning forks, Otto (osteophonic) tuning forks, five-element music, and voice analysis. 

Dr. Beaulieu will also share relevant stories and clinical evidence he has accrued during his thirty-three years of practice.

A Two-Day Workshop
Saturday & Sunday, December 15 – December 16, 2018
December 15, 2018, 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
December 16, 2018, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm

Additional class:
Friday, December 14, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Human TuneIn™ Sound Healing Event with John Beaulieu and Friends
Click here to register

These programs can be taken individually or as part of the Integrative Sound & Music Training program.  

Christmas tradition & worship

“On the 7th day of Christmas my true love gave to me seven swans a-swimming.” 

The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit are: wisdom, understanding, counsel, courage, knowledge, reverence, and wonder or awe. 

Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Folio from Walters manuscript W.171 (15th century)

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, these gifts "complete and perfect the virtues of those who receive them."

• Wisdom is considered the first and the greatest of the gifts. It acts upon both the intellect and the will. According to St. Bernard, it both illumines the mind and instills an attraction to the divine. Adolphe Tanquerey OP explained the difference between the gift of wisdom and that of understanding: "The latter is a view taken by the mind, while the former is an experience undergone by the heart; one is light, the other love, and so they unite and complete one another." A wise and loving heart is the perfection of the theological virtue of charity.

• Understanding helps one relate all truths to one's supernatural purpose; it further illuminates one's understanding of Sacred Scripture; and it assists us to understand the significance of religious ritual. This all gives us a profound appreciation for God’s providence.

• Counsel functions as a sort of supernatural intuition, to enable a person to judge promptly and rightly, especially in difficult situations. It perfects the cardinal virtue of prudence. While prudence operates in accord with reason as enlightened by faith, the gift of counsel operates under the guidance of the Holy Spirit to illuminate the will of God. 

• Fortitude or courage: Aquinas takes its meaning to also encompass endurance. Joseph J. Rickaby describes it as a willingness to stand up for what is right in the sight of God, even if it means accepting rejection, verbal abuse, or physical harm. The gift of fortitude allows people the firmness of mind that is required both in doing good and in enduring evil. It is the perfection of the cardinal virtue of the same name. 

• Knowledge: The gift of knowledge allows one, as far as is humanly possible, to see things from God's perspective. It “allows us to perceive the greatness of God and his love for his creatures” through creation. 

• Piety or reverence: A person with reverence recognizes his total reliance on God and comes before God with humility, trust, and love. Thomas Aquinas says that piety perfects the virtue of religion, which is an aspect of the virtue of justice, in that it accords to God that which is due to God. In a series of talks on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Pope Francis said that piety is a recognition of "...our belonging to God, our deep bond with him, a relationship that gives meaning to our whole life and keeps us resolute, in communion with him, even during the most difficult and troubled moments”. Francis goes on: "Piety is not mere outward religiosity; it is that genuine religious spirit which makes us turn to the Father as his children and to grow in our love for others, seeing them as our brothers and sisters."

• Fear of the Lord or wonder (or awe): With the gift of fear of the Lord, one is made aware of the glory and majesty of God. At a June 2014 general audience Pope Francis said that it “is no servile fear, but rather a joyful awareness of God’s grandeur and a grateful realization that only in him do our hearts find true peace”. A person with wonder and awe knows that God is the perfection of all one desires. This gift is described by Aquinas as a fear of separating oneself from God. He describes the gift as a "filial fear," like a child's fear of offending his father, rather than a "servile fear," that is, a fear of punishment. Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It is the perfection of the theological virtue of hope.

advent season starts today

Advent season starts today. What better time to resurrect this fallow blog? Two years after I had stopped and moved on to other interests, it is time to return.

The Latin word adventus is the translation of the Greek word parousia, (/pəˈruːziə/; Greek: παρουσία) meaning presence, arrival, or official visit.

Christians commonly use Advent to refer to the Second Coming of Christ. The season anticipates the Messiah's arrival from these different perspectives:

1. in the flesh in Bethlehem,
2. in our hearts daily, and
3. in glory at the end of time.

Celebrating Advent typically involves a season of prayer, fasting, and repentance, followed by anticipation, hope, and joy.

It is customary to put up Christmas decorations at this time. Advent also marks the beginning of the Western liturgical year.

Time for me to reboot this blog. This officially marks my renewed commitment as a holistic healer. Sharing what blessing and grace I receive with our online community or anyone interested.

the wake we make

If you’ve been feeling anxious and ungrounded nowadays, you are not alone.

We definitely are living in the midst of interesting times.

These shocks will feel minor as compared with the host of positive changes and new opportunities ushered in by the Revati Full Moon. If you’ve been feeling the heat since last month's eclipse, you’ll soon get some relief.

Prepare to welcome in a new era of abundance and prosperity, and ride the wave of uncertainty until you reach the next level.

This year has been full and frenzied and this last week of October we can look back and begin to see the full extent of what was uncovered, initiated, dissolved and renewed.

Happy Halloween!

Brought to us by KK Ledford, Wild Moon Wisdom Astrology

Alan Watts' Antidote to the Age of Anxiety

Wisdom on overcoming the greatest human frustration from the pioneer of Eastern philosophy in the West.

BY MARIA POPOVA

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timeless reflection on presence over productivity — a timely antidote to the central anxiety of our productivity-obsessed age. Indeed, my own New Year’s resolution has been to stop measuring my days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. But what, exactly, makes that possible?

This concept of presence is rooted in Eastern notions of mindfulness — the ability to go through life with crystalline awareness and fully inhabit our experience — largely popularized in the West by British philosopher and writer Alan Watts (January 6, 1915–November 16, 1973), who also gave us this fantastic meditation on the life of purpose. In the altogether excellent 1951 volume The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety (public library), Watts argues that the root of our human frustration and daily anxiety is our tendency to live for the future, which is an abstraction.

Read the full article at https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/06/alan-watts-wisdom-of-insecurity-1/

Ascension Meditation

Try this beautiful healing technique - it's got unicorns and archangels! What's not to love, right?

Listening to the soothing lovely voice and pace is a delight in itself.

Raise your vibration to a higher level and experience inner peace, harmony and happiness. 

This video is a guided meditation that raises your vibration to the fifth dimension, which leads you on the ascension pathway. 

You will be connected to ten Archangels, who will help you open and activate your 12 chakras. 

This will bring you confidence, hope, wisdom and love. 

aging into true power

Aging Into True Power: Today being my daughter's birthday, it is also my labor of love day! 

A most apt day to celebrate how we've come a looong way, baby!

"A few years ago, I met an old woman in a remote Mayan village in the jungle of  Chiapas, Mexico. We talked a little and smiled a lot, made easy friends, and at the end I asked how old she was. . . . . I realized then that in that village where one of the most culturally isolated Mayan tribes, the Maya Lacandon, had lived for thousands of years, no one knew their age – or cared to."  

"I wondered: What would our Western lives be if we didn’t worry about how old we were, and instead simply grew older, like the moon fades with morning? And what if, in a culture like the one I was born to, women, both young and old, lived free of the oppressive notion that their beauty and worth only decrease with age?"

Read all about it at: 

The Aging Woman Syndrome, or How Women Keep Away From Their Power by Stefana Serafina