rest easy

Have you heard of Trisha Hersey - self proclaimed nap bishop, founder of the Nap Ministry and advocator of radical rest as resistance? Either way, it's time for all of us to join her global movement and nap temple where we can rest in righteous sleep.

Who can fail to love the idea of rest as resistance? Especially in this world where life is such a grind our wheels fail to stop even face with this deadly worldwide pandemic?

In her latest course, Dark Night of the Soul, Sandra Ingerman instructs us in creating a personal altar that changes as we go through changes as well. My altar for the week sits on an old hand embroidered Bedouin tribal cover.

In dreamtime I join its travels up and down the old Silk Road from ancient lowlands of our mother river deltas in Egypt to the distant aerial peaks of the Himalayas. Moving back and forth between East and West, trading knowledge, histories, art and other treasures.

ancient & ageless

In the early 70s I was a rebellious teenager in an all girls Catholic school run by German Benedictine nuns. Lucky for me a young nun came to be our high school principal and she was more open to having us express our new found angst in more productive ways.

We had much to vent as it was not just the birth of flower power and the all too controversial contraceptive pill, it was also the coming of age of the infamous Philippine dictator, Ferdinand Marcos. But that is a long and sordid tale I shall save for the more appropriate telling in my Change Warrior blog instead.

Jesus & Horus

Back then I thought being a hippie chick was the coolest thing. I loved beading my own headbands, wristbands and chokers. Embellishing and embroidering my clothes with thread, leather, cords and fringes would just put me in my creative zone.

#endHUMANtrafficking

What in the world are we to do when stuff like this is still going on in our world? Wake up humans!

As if our caregivers and first responders did not have enough challenges in this time of COVID-19. Life in the time of corona is an on going, full speed, ran away emotional roller coaster.

When the rich and infamous like Prince Andrew, Donald Trump and Bill Clinton are involved -including lawyers William Barr and Kenneth Stark - we truly have to question, what the f*ck? ! ?

Can there be any reason for them to be at a party with dozens of underaged females hosted by a known sex trafficker? Flaunting their salivating feral mugs in well documented press photos? WOW!

This is the first couple of the United States - how sick is that?

We all need to do whatever it takes to end this. How to get involved:

• Highlight the work of first responders in your country, community or organization.
• Share, like and comment on the social media messages for the World Day.
• Donate to the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking, which provides on-the-ground assistance and protection to victims of trafficking.

transmutation with Sandra Ingerman

intention + harmony + love + concentration + focus + union + imagination = transmutation

Sandra Ingerman offers this formula to recall our light and let it shine forth. 

In Shamanism we are taught that everything is connected. Everything that is alive has a spirit and is connected in a web of life. 

Begin to get in touch with your true nature which is light by putting on some relaxing soothing music and allow yourself to get into a quiet place. 

• Take some deep breaths bringing you to a centered place where you will be able to experience a state of harmony and love. 
• Allow yourself to go inside holding the intention that you want to experience the light that shines within your being.
• This will bring you into a state of union with your creator or the power of the universe. 
• Keep your focus and concentrate on your intention. 
• Allow your imagination to help you feel and see your internal light. 
• Give yourself permission to let your light shine fully through you. 

This light is always there and cannot be used up.  The capacity to share your light and be filled by it yourself is endless. Your light cannot be destroyed or taken from you. You do not have to worry about becoming depleted, as the source of this light is infinitely abundant.

Should you wish to continue this practice and share it Sandra has also been generous enough to share this incredible transfiguration ceremony.

May you be filled with light and love and radiate it in your daily life. Blessings always!

wisdom of the stars

It has been a cosmic roller coaster of a week - starting with the full moon and closing with my birthday and the NEOWISE comet peaking on July 12. Happy Birthday to me and what a special gift it is to have my very own stellar fireworks.

Newcomer Comet Neowise, North Wildwood NJ on July 8, 2020 by Chris Bakley

Formally named Comet C2020 F3 NEOWISE by NASA, the newly-discovered comet has been visible in the early hours before sunrise this July. And now it will also be visible in the night sky for the next ten days. Check out this Comet Watch site to track it in your area.

The event is truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience - NASA estimates the comet takes about 6,800 years to complete its path around the sun. Starting this weekend it will be visible to viewers in the Northern Hemisphere in the evening just after sunset. 

How wonderful to have this year's birthday marked by such a spectacular event. Seeded from the stars and lighting up the heavens to shine down on us. Glory be to me! to me! to me!

What a delight it is to have this perfectly timed happy event to mark my auspicious day when the heavens are most closely aligned to my original date of birth. Blessings and gratitude always.

2020 midyear boon

This July full moon has many different names across the world. It's called the Buck Moon, Thunder Moon, Hay Moon, Mead Moon and Ripe Corn Moon.

Buddhists, Hindus and Jains traditionally celebrate Guru Purnima as a day of grace and new possibilities dedicated to all spiritual and academic teachers.

lunar eclipse of July 2020 in Capricorn

Halfway through 2020 the world is still scrambling to salvage what we can of our toxic lives and poisoned planet. The pandemic, lack of clarity, corrupt politicians, failing economies, and bad government and management reflect clearly all that is broken in our systems and human behavior. 

I know how it feels like to let go of everything that does not serve me and make room for the new.

I know how it feels like to fill my mind with loving, life-affirming visions and re-align

with my most optimum future to better serve all of humanity.

I know how it feels like to surround myself with people that are

inspiring, elevating, and know how to have fun and have my back.

I know how it feels like to experience infinite fulfillment and joy. ~ Rosan Cruz/Mataji

Extreme choice and radical change are forced on us now after years of refusing to solve many escalating and growing concerns. Left with little choice maybe we can now collaborate and build community as we are intended to do.

May light and love prevail in honor and compassion for all.

GLO-CAL | the inter-bonding of global & local

"In this quiet where the seismographs register half the usual vibrations and the skies are blue over Beijing, we are discovering the power of the glocal." ~ Kayleigh Stack, Bearing Witness to Earth

The inherent power of Glo-Cal - global and local are not separate or mutually exclusive.

Under quarantine, in isolation or sheltering in place human beings are reaching out across the globe to connect and build communities in ways we have not done in ages.

Due to state and county lock downs many have resorted to supporting local growers and businesses in a variety of creative ways.

Including planting their own edible gardens and re-growing food from usually discarded scraps. Recycling and repurposing what we have instead of trashing stuff all too easily.

Social media, smart phones and online platforms like Google, Skype and Zoom are all blowing up with our need to stay in touch however way we can with family, friends and coworkers.

We manage somehow to congregate in virtual reunions. In the wake of former filial get togethers we come together in alternative options for many life events. Weddings. Funerals. Births. Anniversaries. For lots of occasions and causes.

The crisis and confusion of these past months have brought many together in creative and interesting ways. We manage to cobble up fragmented and multifaceted webs of familiar or strange relations.

In virtual chat rooms all over the world we reach out in interconnectedness. As human beings faced with this deadly pathogen we are made more conscious of daily life choices.

As we gaze into each other, eye-to-eye, smile-to-smile across social distancing may we find a new sense of ourselves as a global humanity living on this incredible planet.

One Earth. One humanity. We are all in this together.

dismantling manifest destiny

This week's episode of The Shaman's Cave centered on the solstice - summer for us here in the northern hemisphere and winter in the south.

In a wind journey that wound us back to the previous solstice in September, we witnessed what seeds we planted then that are now growing in our gardens this summer.

manifest dismantling

September is my fave month because it opens on day one with Mahala's birthday and my labor day. My special request for the month was to call on Spirit of the Higher Realms to share their message of light and love as their willing conscious channel.

troubled times, troubled dreams

Trouble with sleep? Not surprising, given the corona coaster we are on. Giving us quite a few wild rides of our lives. Some expert advice could help us better understand what is showing up for us in dream time. 

Sleep & Dreams online webinar

Former Technion President Professor Peretz Lavie will talk about the correlation between stress and dreams, and how repetitive images of the crisis, amplified in the age of 24/7 visual media, are creeping into our nocturnal wanderings.

Dr. Qanta Ahmed will share her recent experiences treating critically ill COVID-19 patients with sleep disorders. She will also describe how fear of infection and economic hardship have led to a spike in insomnia and offer remedies for a good night’s sleep.

worldly wild women

Women hold a vocabulary

For joy in their mouths like

A field of lavender and bee bellies

Buzzing a hum back into the earth. 

© Liza Wolff-Francis 2018 

June 5 penumbral lunar eclipse & Sagittarius full moon

To wake up each morning filled with such gratitude. Expressing heart felt and soul defining grateful appreciation. Washed in the grace of my own joy and happiness. 

To keep my attention directed and focused here. However dismayed, disgruntled, disjointed the wobble of the world is. 

To accept everything is alright. All is as it should be. In the rumble and rabble of pieces falling into place. 

Reflection. Revelation. Revolution. As the world turns and we spin along.

*Liza Wolff-Francis (Albuquerque, NM) is a poet and writer with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She has a chapbook called Language of Crossing (Swimming with Elephants Publications) which is a collection of poems about the Mexico-U.S. border.