tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10970625866457696722024-03-13T09:23:31.492-07:00MoonCycleCircleThis is a blog of one minute (or less) inspirations based in rhythm with the cycles of the moon. Written for any person interested in living their lives more in Truth. It's also a blog for those who wish to use the moon cycles as a pathway to connect with their own spiritual life, and with all of creation. This blog shares the wisdom and experience of it's author(s) which we have found helpful to us in embodying the fullness of our own lives. Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.comBlogger433125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-48035878881552905412020-10-27T22:00:00.000-07:002020-10-28T01:24:12.117-07:00Addendum to yesterday's post: This is What Healing Looks Like<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;">Addendum to yesterday's post, to the shock witnessing a shredded web: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">After I hit the publish button on yesterday's post, I realized that while my mind had sorted out yesterday's news, the physical and emotional parts of my being was experiencing the numbess that often comes with being in a state of shock. While the painting named the hopefullnes of a positve future, I saw a certain frozeness in the image. A good night of sleep and a bit of time gave space for the completion of October's moon painting:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHw4CX-DN0DJyCzw7bm_QYl43kUgccmLv1yO3bcQsBKV4ThLxiSDrrQbOohbNgPUKunXXUKqi0inajWCCy5jkEWPkjz6Qc8YRnJmi43M1jIMon3tfVNnzVce6HbyWIUCcH7WLKhc6mDYCn/s640/final+final+small+october.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHw4CX-DN0DJyCzw7bm_QYl43kUgccmLv1yO3bcQsBKV4ThLxiSDrrQbOohbNgPUKunXXUKqi0inajWCCy5jkEWPkjz6Qc8YRnJmi43M1jIMon3tfVNnzVce6HbyWIUCcH7WLKhc6mDYCn/s320/final+final+small+october.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Healing has begun.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hope empowers us.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Action energizes us. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">No matter the outcome in days to come </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the reweaving of the fabric of our national community will happen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">we are just not privy to the timing or the form</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">RGB and the new moon of October.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMJsSEqDd7H9ysw05UopG9Y91xlgJQaxAKqfhuWJGjxrSlmE-tl9aXojKZs18O3CSwPiVxgg0fbY-pDfRj5CoCXPX8jaekIIWpvukTuzJBCrZ0zhRS7DMXgZc4HYfr7Tf_LbA_ColQxC0E/s1512/Pink+Moon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="1512" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMJsSEqDd7H9ysw05UopG9Y91xlgJQaxAKqfhuWJGjxrSlmE-tl9aXojKZs18O3CSwPiVxgg0fbY-pDfRj5CoCXPX8jaekIIWpvukTuzJBCrZ0zhRS7DMXgZc4HYfr7Tf_LbA_ColQxC0E/w120-h120/Pink+Moon.jpg" width="120" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"> Painting the day of the a new justice vote. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu3uf1Ab-uA-f6lRBubjhG_pcIbcCaePz_3O_2DCtXH6ai6gzISfeUPiaS6rB4ZrYU7E0sPAXJzyrcMKPBmhWtlpiIF5ZbQeQmzrucl5VnWtqrQWJdV0IWPHAvzmSue23VVcHfuY0JTCeU/s640/IMG_4504.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="627" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu3uf1Ab-uA-f6lRBubjhG_pcIbcCaePz_3O_2DCtXH6ai6gzISfeUPiaS6rB4ZrYU7E0sPAXJzyrcMKPBmhWtlpiIF5ZbQeQmzrucl5VnWtqrQWJdV0IWPHAvzmSue23VVcHfuY0JTCeU/w132-h135/IMG_4504.jpg" width="132" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Now reveals what hope, empowerment, action and energy look like. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhun78nKJ7Kq9QpcCWs0OlRVw21jATHExAA429H2y5yZFxd_RevJz94L7jSLT60jIz6W_RVQlBcJw2ct40FxrhGtKPqOcu-yk1mSj-fqxOHiE9cE3boJ-FmzHivbidw2f9cp1LV4pd5BLaa/s640/final+final+small+october.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhun78nKJ7Kq9QpcCWs0OlRVw21jATHExAA429H2y5yZFxd_RevJz94L7jSLT60jIz6W_RVQlBcJw2ct40FxrhGtKPqOcu-yk1mSj-fqxOHiE9cE3boJ-FmzHivbidw2f9cp1LV4pd5BLaa/w123-h116/final+final+small+october.jpg" width="123" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><p></p>Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-88314578906168774742020-10-26T18:00:00.017-07:002020-10-28T01:23:07.441-07:00In Walking Our Truth We Can Reweave the Tattered Web. <p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrQ9RGrHtQL7SpvRlMBgZBRDKyq1LlMzGKqo1Isj_sLXUcRT8i3OLCRghpknLjoxDxSct2T4eUhYmyG5Iz5u8kLe-t6dCkrTYi9hbN-34eBa1LWo5aro_E__dunmhtSY7t-q2WC3-_mNme/s640/IMG_4504.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="627" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrQ9RGrHtQL7SpvRlMBgZBRDKyq1LlMzGKqo1Isj_sLXUcRT8i3OLCRghpknLjoxDxSct2T4eUhYmyG5Iz5u8kLe-t6dCkrTYi9hbN-34eBa1LWo5aro_E__dunmhtSY7t-q2WC3-_mNme/s320/IMG_4504.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">pink moon final.<br />She brings healing for a new web of truth.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The day Ruth Bader Ginsberg died I painted the new moon for October and the collar of justice she shed that day fell on my painting of the pink new moon </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1097062586645769672/3427858084189079844">https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1097062586645769672/3427858084189079844</a>)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRxqCGg5Vn4UvNv9GrKV9QpQfGpSzh10SBLWj6ck2-iXXBrLmsdgLi6wYP4UEa_kwrKYMRa21jJL04f7CbSMI4F5kt9Fb-uGVB_KO53Mq6caT-rZaMTFWErw42WIpn7H0YuWaQVqpuujte/s1512/Pink+Moon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="1512" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRxqCGg5Vn4UvNv9GrKV9QpQfGpSzh10SBLWj6ck2-iXXBrLmsdgLi6wYP4UEa_kwrKYMRa21jJL04f7CbSMI4F5kt9Fb-uGVB_KO53Mq6caT-rZaMTFWErw42WIpn7H0YuWaQVqpuujte/w281-h281/Pink+Moon.jpg" width="281" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> October Pink Moon unfinished.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I painted the names of all the truth seekers I could muster over the next 30 days, but the painting would not be finished. This morning I woke, and during my morning meditation the image for finishing the pink moon came with urgency. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Layers of paint and lace laid down with an intentionality of their own. As I finished the work the realization came: today an unprecedented action in the United States senate tore apart weavings of the Supreme Court. The energy of the moon painting for Walking Truth tells us that in walking our Truth faithfully we can reweave the web of justice. We each have our own path of Truth, our own contribution to this weaving.</div></div><p></p>Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-34278580841890798442020-09-28T14:24:00.017-07:002020-10-27T20:04:43.983-07:00Walk Truth with Ruth Bader Ginsberg<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhv-TITcVbNo1jM7AwMtjDoW5tyYr5bjoZy_zEXH4sB3ubqF9LRr37eZPCoIzjDHsx5k3V95vSfPMbHHRUAt7ZmniqFbYe7uOjBLK81cvxaF5w43BkkeiWSMV6EsACGBHl32d0_G8UB0sF/s320/Pink+Moon.jpg" /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">October Moon 1 Acrylic & lace on canvas 24x24 unfinished.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">I pour the crimson fluid-acrylic onto my palette. It pools,
glossy, atop the lump of white gesso like newly spilt blood before running down
in rivulets onto the wet paper beneath. It looks like fresh blood diluted and turning
pink as it is washed away. Somehow, this month of the pink moon looks more like
washed away blood than the usual joyful cotton candy pink of celebrating the harvest.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just as I was standing at my easel contemplating how to
paint the emerging moon cycle <i>Walk Truth</i>, Ruth Bader Ginsberg shed her justice collar. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It landed on my
fresh paint. Hanging there, it changed the trajectory of my inquiry.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">How am I/are we to <i>Walk Truth</i> in this time when every
attempt is being made to wash truth away? A passage from the book of Jeremiah
comes into my head: "Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths. Ask 'Where is the good way?' Then walk in it and you will find rest for your souls."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">RBG’s death points out ‘where the good way is’ for me/us to
follow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is Truth in that
path.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is made of integrity. There are
footsteps we can trust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She offers us a
mantle we can pick up and wear as our own. We are not alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">My pink moon will be filled with the names of all the truth
seekers I can come to know as I paint her through the month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am curious who will show up as I seek a
path of integrity and courage. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-17153758129192647972020-07-04T20:00:00.002-07:002020-07-05T03:12:52.740-07:00Love Truth's Full Moon Fire Works<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRbHOg5fkKIctJkwMs-ZR0mP6SHmaXrHr-BLNKabiK-VBVZxQDTew0AFCBtVtZLB2bG4ly-U0ndTMpuu1DjiEiE272yN8Bl6gdkoq3SQ6btMDBpJeIxGgDURNufkub_GiLm8E8eWBry2v6/s5874/Moon_July+Love+Truth.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4416" data-original-width="5874" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRbHOg5fkKIctJkwMs-ZR0mP6SHmaXrHr-BLNKabiK-VBVZxQDTew0AFCBtVtZLB2bG4ly-U0ndTMpuu1DjiEiE272yN8Bl6gdkoq3SQ6btMDBpJeIxGgDURNufkub_GiLm8E8eWBry2v6/s320/Moon_July+Love+Truth.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Independence Day and the Full Moon
shared the fourth of July this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The teaching of this moon cycle for
July is LOVE TRUTH. She seems to be calling out to us to love the TRUTH of our
country, the United States of America. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We need a comprehensive and unconditional
Love to face the truth of our country's history. Facing the truth in our
country's history is the only way to manifest the vision for our country
written by our imperfect founding fathers. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like most communities, our town did
not have official fireworks this year, yet neighbors cobbled together their own
informal shows. I went outside to look at the full moon. A friend had
texted me the moon was unusually large and exceptionally beautiful. A
disorganized yet seeming unending barrage of flashes disrupted my intention of
contemplating this deep yellow globe hanging just above the horizon. My
feelings from earlier in the day flashed in my mind--I woke up feeling an
ambiguous but deep grief. I moved through my day, unsettled by feeling,
but trying to focus on preparations for a social distanced barbeque. When
Alexa selected a patriotic play list, the identity of my grief made itself
known: the meaning I held of this holiday had been torn away from me-not by the
president, although he is the principle catalyst, but by the explosion of truth
telling that is bursting forth upending every aspect of our lives. There was my
grief; the meaning of 'independence day' has been shattered. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I stood in the dark, watching.
Fireworks flared and faded, sulfur smoked wafted thick and then drifted away.
This July full moon, whose meaning for me is a reminder to LOVE TRUTH stayed
steady and unaffected. It is possible to love truth even when it is ugly
and has caused deep and long harm. Anyone who has recovered from an addiction with the help
of the principles and tools of a twelve-step program has this experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our country needs-we need, this kind
of love of Truth that explodes the old myths and lies and nurtures the seeds of
possibility and potential that the visionary authors of our 'declaration of indepence' compiled nearly 245 years ago. We are a country in need of recovery, and
we may not have another chance if we fail to embrace our truths yet
again. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-15882784219799436882020-06-21T02:30:00.000-07:002020-06-21T02:30:02.003-07:00Loves Truth Emerges from a Deep Dark Place<div style="text-align: center;">
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July's New Moon, Loves Truth, emerges from a deep dark Place. </div>
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As seekers of Truth we now have an invitation to acknowldege and be willing to embrace our country's history which powerfully, traumatically, unrelentingly, burst forth. During the moon cycle of Speak Truth which just ended, the deep and concealed stories of our country's truths spilled out on the streets for all the world to witness. </div>
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This new moon cycle has the ability to bring us solice, strength and the courage to continue to face these hard truths and embrace the courage to remedy the untruths the cycle of Speak Truth revealed. All that is required is our willingness to learn how to love truth in all her faces: </div>
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To Love Truth is to fully embrace </div>
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joy and sorrow</div>
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pain and pleasure</div>
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triumph and failure</div>
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history and vision</div>
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with a full and open heart!</div>
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Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-64044704233078279952020-06-05T00:30:00.000-07:002020-06-05T00:30:10.309-07:00A Full Moon Invitation from Speak Truth<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside the Soul of Speaking Truth<br />Red Moon in the Making<br />CJFaivre, 2018, 30X30 Acrylic on Canvas</td></tr>
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Every Full Moon brings two invitations. One is to let go of whatever it is in our life that no longer serves us, or that is harmful to us or to others. The second invitation is to offer the gifts we carry within us to those whom our life touches.<br />
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Most of us spend many moons learning to let go of what holds us back before we enter the space where we get a glimpse of what we can offer others. Over time, we spend more time in this space learning about the gifts of our own being.<br />
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To Speak Truth requires we know this space. I know this space as the 'heart of my soul'. The story of my life is here. I sit in the dark womb of this space with intention. In the dark my fingers are my eyes, and I read the stories of the life I have lived. They are marked on a red timeline in the heiroglyphics of my heart's own language. Here I learn to read the Truth of my stories. <br />
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Stories of my relatives are here, my ancestors, marked as thumprints of gold, they paint the walls of this sacred space. Touching these marks, I can read the Truth their stories have for me. A luminous cross of blessing is suspended in this space, and the wind of the Spirit blows through this space, refreshing both my life and my spirit. <br />
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Tonight, as I sit in my soul space, on the eve of June's Full Moon, the Red Moon shines down on our country as citizens are marching, standing up, kneeling, lying down and crying out for life, for justice and for peace. I am grateful for my timeline of remembering, and for the history of my ancestors, and for the blessing and life-giving breath of Great Spirit. May I learn from my history and the history of others. May we each visit the hearts of our souls and learn the gifts we have to offer and be willing Speak Truth.Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-5746049031898065422020-05-24T00:30:00.000-07:002020-05-24T00:30:06.908-07:00June Moon Cycle Begins Speaking Truth<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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June's moon cycle brings opportunities to practice Speaking Truth. I think this is the perfect medicine to follow the cycle just ended (see: <a href="http://mooncyclecircle.blogspot.com/2020/05/closing-moon-for-maywhat-truths-have-we.html" target="_blank">Closing Moon for May:what truths we have heard</a><a href="http://mooncyclecircle.blogspot.com/2020/05/closing-moon-for-maywhat-truths-have-we.html" target="_blank"> </a>). The legacy of the storyteller comes into play as we step into June's moon cycle. <br />
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On Wednesday, I finished listening to <u>The Great Influenza</u> by John M. Barry. Barry is a researcher and historian. I don't know if he would refer to himself this way, but he is a storyteller who Speaks Truth. There is a lot of story in 560 pages of the book-and a lot of history. History that appears to be repeating itself in our present experience of the COVID19 Pandemic. I began listening to <u>The Great Influenza</u> while I was sewing masks for front-line workers and family, shortly after we had begun to shelter at home in mid-March. I thought Barry's book could offer me a context for what was happening, and did it ever! But rather than being depressing, Barry's story helped me know that I/we are not alone; this has happened before; the suffering and loss is real and far reaching; there is a way forward; what I/we do makes a differrence. Barry's book also gave me a renewed awareness of how important it is to Speak Truth and to discern those who are the Truth Speakers. <br />
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During this June Moon for Speaking Truth, I hope to do my part as Storyteller and Truth Speaker through my painting. The painting above I started two years ago as Red Maddona. I couldn't find a way to finish her, and she has hung dormant on my wall for the past year. As I sat in meditation on the night of May's Closing Moon, the vision of who she is became clear. Red is the color for the moon cycle of June. The Madonna is scattering sacred stories to the world. Storyteller grandmothers are behind her; a child, with no face/or every face, reaches for her. Totems of the drum, coyote, trees, whale and crow (or tucan in you live south of the equator) are beginning to show themselves. All these totems have their own part in teaching us humans what it is to speak truth. I can't wait to see what unfolds, for I often feel the painting paints herself, and that I am just the tool for creating. I'll share in the blog as I paint and I learn. Thanks for reading.<br />
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Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-38618658656113860142020-05-21T04:30:00.000-07:002020-05-21T05:34:56.784-07:00Closing Moon for May...What Truths have we heard?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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This is a long post-It's been a long cycle!<br />
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The fifth moon cycle invites us to become willing and attentive to Hearing Truth. The gift this moon cycle offers is the practice of patient listening. In our current time of upheavel and uncertainty in our communities and countries, many voices are coming at us from many directions and sources.<br />
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I know that for myself, it has not been easy to be patient when those voices are loud and persistant about their version of 'truth', or when the voices speak for and devision. By the time May's new moon began (April 22nd) there were already so many voices from so many sources, I often found myself in a state of uncertainty about where to set my trust for helpful guidance. My days end in a weary kind of exhaustion.<br />
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In inspiration for the May moon cycle painting came on an evening walk at the end of one of those days. It was the first non-rainy day of the cycle and the moon was showing a sliver of crescent. May's new cresent moon rose just above a convergence of electric poles, wires and an ancient elm at the<br />
corner of Illinois and Summit streets; the planet Venus hung in the background, as if in witness. I stopped and looked up, struck by the symbolism. Poles reaching to the sky as if in competition to reach the moon first. Wires crisscrossing in all directions, grandmother tree appeared to arch away from the chaos. May Moon- Hear Truth-hung present, rising above, resting above, it all.<br />
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I sensed this a powerful image, a lesson from Mother Moon. I determined to paint the visual gift she offered me. As I painted over the course of the next ten days, her message for me became clearer: In this age of quantum technology, there IS an onslaught of voices, from all directions. Hearing what is Truth is complicated during this time. <br />
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May moon invites us to move through the cycle we are experiencing as she moves through her cycles. First by recognizing the newness of the cycle; next, in the waxing phase, take time to take without attachment what is being presented. Then, in the light of the full moon we can focus and begin to discern what we are hearing. During the time of the waning moon as this cycle moves toward closure, she teaches us to shed what does not resonate as truth.<br />
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Were are now at the the time of the 'closing moon', or 'dark' moon. we are invited to rest, to integrate what we now know, or perhaps to reflect on questions we may need to ask for more clarity. There will be time for this asking in the new moon to come when we experience the Moon of Speaking Truth. But for now, Moon's message is to be patient, to observe what is unfolding, to let go of what does not resonate, to rest, and to listen for questions that will rise as we prepare to learn to Speak Truth.<br />
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<br />Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-2597986030581518342020-04-29T02:00:00.000-07:002020-04-29T02:00:04.294-07:00Hearing Truth in the Time of Covid 19; May Moon is Listening May is the month to hear truth. This new moon came in true to the color of her cycle - black and in the dead of night. Her arrivial marked the beginning of my household's 6th week of sheltering at home. We had been doing well as a family of three adults manueving ourselves around in our 'cozy' 7 room house. But, upon entering another week with our lives still in limbo, as Illinois' numbers continued to climb--I felt left in the dark--the dark of black moon, black night and black mood.<br />
May Moon invites us to listen, and listen, and then listen ever deeper. I like to think that the color black, the imagery of a 'black' moon, inviting us to hear intently during these weeks of the waxing moon to what is deep within our own hearts and psyches. This kind of hearing is the kind of listening that happens in times of blackness (like this current experience of being in the dark about the path of the pandemic). If we we are patient enough to learn to listen in this way, we will be amazed and guided by what we hear.<br />
This is the truth John of the Cross listened for and finally heard during his Dark Night of the Soul. Jacob wrestling with the angel in a night so black he could not see his foe, listened and heard his true name. This is the transformation toward truth that happens on Vision Quest, sitting in prayerful silence in dark nights of solitude.<br />
If we can practice hearing the truth within our own being during these days of the waxing moon, we will be better prepared to hear what is truth in the cacophony of words in media, politics, and promoters.<br />
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<br />Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-63148570868224376672019-02-04T00:00:00.000-08:002019-02-04T00:00:02.919-08:00February's Waxing Moon Thoughts<br />
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I am thinking these days about what it would look like to
walk around all day as a wise women.
Currently, being ‘wise’ feels more like an awareness that descends upon
me, or into me, and I either have wisdom, or I don’t. Fortunately-the “I don’t have it” times are usually
relegated to something going on in me personally, rather than in my professional
work—which is a VERY good thing! And, my personal struggles certainly bring understanding and compassion to my work as well.</div>
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When I am not in my center, I don’t seem able access to wisdom—or it is very difficult to do this. It is during these times that I feel separate
from the person I would like to be.
For example: I have a vision of
myself as a writer. I do write. I have stashes of notebooks filled with
thoughts and ideas. But, I have not manifested
being a writer as part of my external identity.
There is something that happens inside me when I set a plan for my ‘writer self’
to be active. I get tired. I get distracted. I feel anxious. I feel
disoriented. I feel VERY resistant to
the act of writing. All these are symptoms of being out of my 'center'. During these times, I am not aware Wisdom is available to guide or inform me. It was only when I sat down to write about my
flailing around and feeling like such a failure all day that I was able put anything down on paper. I gave over to the feelings going on inside. I stopped trying to stop doing what I was doing. I sat down and wrote all the X!$&#! I was feeling . (Good for you I'm not sharing that part). I was able to write that stuff- I stopped trying not to be what was going on inside me. I acknowledged and accepted my feelings. It was at this moment I felt an awareness--actually, I felt a kindness come in to my body, I think that this is Wisdom coming in. </div>
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I feel I have learned a bit more about Wisdom: She is a companion and she is ready to inform my life. Remembering the advice from January's clan mother-listening with the heart, catching enough stillness to allow what is, is enough for Wisdom to enter. The waxing moon as she grows to fullness reminds me I have this capacity, too.</div>
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<br />Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-52091045910893864112019-02-03T17:00:00.000-08:002019-02-03T17:00:04.081-08:00New Moon for February 2019<br />
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does it mean to ‘Honor Truth’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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what ‘IS’ as I experience it.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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That I honor.<br />
This requires letting go of the old.<br />
No rushing is allowed!</div>
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to honor the truth of the histories...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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asked to taste what has been laid out before me;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-51510002437050227512018-01-15T00:00:00.000-08:002018-01-15T00:00:55.148-08:00Become Your Vision Through Living the Cycles of Truth <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;">Much of what we learn of the Truth of who we truly are comes through our relationships with others and our experiences in the world. Some of what we take in as Truth is </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;">f</b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;">alse </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;">e</b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;">vidence </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;">a</b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;">ppearing </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;">r</b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;">eal. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;">Some of what we take as true is <b>f</b>uture <b>e</b>vents <b>a</b>lready <b>r</b>uined.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;"> This is the misunderstanding of the instinct of </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;">fear. </b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;"> </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;"> </b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;">In the natural world, the instinct of fear is Creator's gift that tells all Creator's creatures to pay attention to what is coming. That's it. Just pay attention. When we learn to pay attention to what is, then we can begin to discern with our all our physical senses; Truth from illusion as it is revealed in our </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;">relationships and our experiences. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;">Self Reflection: As we sit in the darkness of the closing moon for the 13th Moon Cycle of Be Truth, we are preparing for January's moon cycle, and the gifts of Learn Truth.</span>Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-22886780711739618492018-01-11T00:00:00.000-08:002018-01-11T00:00:24.165-08:00Watching for How We Block Ourselves From Becoming Our VIsionCarolyn shares: This morning I woke up and immediately bumped into the 'me' I dread most. I recognize this 'me' quite readily these days. When I wake up to my alarm and start a conversation about whether or not I should sleep longer, that tells me right away the dreaded 'me' is tussling to take charge. Three snooze buttons later I got up, came downstairs and immediately picked up the latest copy of<a href="http://www.livehappy.com/"> </a>a magazine called 'Live Happy'. I did not feel 'happy'. Instead, what I saw was all the authors-leader, mentors, actresses, counselors sharing their work in this lovely magazine, doing what I felt I wasn't or couldn't do. This was an open door for negation and shut-down of the 'me' that would be visible in my vision. Just when I was starting to feel my next step into Love and Truth about to happen, I get a flash mob of all my old stuff (a flash mob all dressed in black, by the way) which blocks out the Truths which are already a part of me. My vision for my Vision is blocked. This feels terrible to me in all ways: in my body, my thinking, how I feel, and in my connection to my spirit. In the past, this could take me down for days, weeks, months, often using physical illness as the final blow to 'becoming Me'.<br />
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It is so easy to let this sentinel who blares her neon sign-"That's not you!" be the truth-speaker. But...She's not. My best defense against giving her charge of my life is in the daily work I do to keep my chord of connection plugged into Creative Source, Great Mystery Great Spirit, or G.O.D. (Good ,Orderly Direction). This is certainly what walking and resting in the path of the Moon Cycle work helps me do.<br />
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Self Reflection: I am present to myself during these busy days of the waning moon. I AM able to discern the blessed Truth of my Self and the Truth of the emerging vision for me life.Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-63015359015355490342018-01-09T00:00:00.000-08:002018-01-09T00:00:42.874-08:00Come toward the Close of the Waning Moon with Love and GraceWe have been given four weeks of time for rest and reflection.<br />
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On this shortest day of the year, we celebrate the longest night. We are symbolically offered a longer span of darkness to sit with our dreams for what we might be, could be, will be as we consciously commit to being more completely our Self!<br />
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Have a wondrous and inspired solstice! Light a fire or candles to celebrate the gift of darkness, to remember of the gift of light that is eternally within your being, to offer gratitude for the balance of life-the gift of rhythms and cycles.<br />
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Self Reflection: I thank Truth for my light, which becomes visible to me in being with my own dark times.Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-35491923481327848942017-12-20T00:00:00.000-08:002017-12-20T00:00:46.333-08:00How the Will Centers Feel in Our Physical BodyRecognizing who's WILL is in directing our life is truly an amazing fete. It reflects a commitment to to be more fully our True Self. A 'self-hug, pat on the back' is in order. Do that now!<br />
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Energetically, the will centers are energy centers in the backside of our body. They are in alignment with the chakras as represented on the front of the body. It is helpful to think of WILL as the force which supports us in moving out in the world. It is the energy which gives us the little (or sometime forceful) push to take action in our lives. One of my teachers, John Pierrakos, talked about the importance of aligning our will with Divine Will. The question, he said was whether we were aligned with other peoples will, our will, or God’s will? Of course, whose will is in charge dramatically effects our personal development as well as self-discipline, self-determination, and showing up Truthfully in the world.<br />
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When we work with our daily review practice, our goals and our vision for our life, it becomes clear which use of WILL mostly informs our life and our choices. To Live Truth is to have our personal Will and Divine Will be aligned (or as the mystics say, 'as one').<br />
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Self Reflection: Who's really in charge of your life? Give yourself a 'self-hug, pat on the back' for anytime you have given over to Divine Direction-the 'will' of a higher dierction!Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-46640924986232630122017-12-19T00:00:00.000-08:002017-12-19T00:02:15.947-08:00Inner and Outer 'Workings' of Our Cycles of TruthThere are 12 Cycles of Truth as shared by Twylah Nitsch, the Seneca Elder who brought these teachings into the world. <br />
As I have worked with these cycles, I have come to see the first five Cycles of Truth are invitations and instructions for relating to our inner growing, knowing, being. They are in some ways correlated with our senses.**<br />
1. Learn Truth--touch<br />
2. Honor Truth--taste<br />
3. Know/Accept Truth--smell/scent<br />
4. See Truth--sight<br />
5. Hear Truth--hearing/auditory<br />
(Working with each of these cycles incorporates and helps us develop our intuitive/sixth sense.)<br />
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The remaining seven Cycles of Truth are invitations and instructions relating to knowing, being and expressing in the world around us, in our relationships with all-people,creatures, places and things. As we work with cycles 7-12 our intuitive senses and our connection to our understanding of Source also grows and develops.<br />
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6. Speak Truth --speaking only truth as we understand Truth<br />
7. Love Truth --Truth as expressed through our heart<br />
8. Serve Truth --live servicing truth as we understand what is Truth<br />
9. Live Truth -- awareness of Truth resonating in our being<br />
10. Work/Walk Truth --conscious and intentional expression and actions in/of/with Truth<br />
11. Share Truth --willingness to share in actions, words and intention our understanding or Truth<br />
12. Thank Truth --living in/with gratitude<br />
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When Jamie Sams wrote her <i>The 13 Original Clan Mothers</i>, she honored the 13th Cycle 'Be Truth', is the clan mother, Becomes Her Vision. This cycle occurs as the final new moon of the year in our Gregorian calendar. In my work, I use this thirteenth cycle as a month of reflection, self assessment and integration.<br />
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**These are my interpretations and understanding. It is not my intention to represent them in any way as 'official'. <br />
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Self Reflection: Moving through the 13th moon cycle, take time to review and reflect on your experience with each of cycle of Truth.<br />
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<br />Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-77874957920802695082017-12-18T00:00:00.000-08:002017-12-18T00:00:27.848-08:00The 13th New Moon's Invitation to Be Your Vision, Be Your TruthI am the Thirteenth New Moon.<br />
Reflective.<br />
Instructive.<br />
From where have you come, so far? So far!<br />
You are already the vision Creator/Great Mystery/All That Is/God birthed you to be.<br />
Be here now and...<br />
Learn who you are<br />
Honor who you are<br />
Know and Accept who you are<br />
See who you are<br />
Hear who you are<br />
Speak who you are<br />
Love who you are<br />
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I am the 'Be-ing Moon'.<br />
Be with me in my rhythm and flow<br />
My new is your re-newing<br />
My waxing is your filling<br />
My full is your fullness<br />
My waning is your releasing<br />
My void is your resting<br />
Then you will begin again<br />
On the path of your vision.<br />
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I am the 13th Moon Cycle. I am 'Be Truth'.<br />
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Self Reflection: Become Your Vision; Be Truth.Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-13997180645940732342017-12-17T00:00:00.000-08:002017-12-17T00:00:04.989-08:00Closing Moon for December: Using Our Senses to Make Sense of Our Vision<div class="MsoNormal">
When we can be present with all of our senses, we are present to our Self. This helps us take full advantage of all the gifts that ultimately show us our vision. We learn to be fully present to life in the moment and to become more fully aligned with Creator’s purpose for our individual life. We learn to use our senses as tools for connecting to higher frequencies of awareness. We are able to have our senses become more acute and sensitive so that we can respond more proactively, rather than from fear or anxiety. We become more able to use our senses to wake up to the world around us and to our own unique path. Wise use of senses help us let go of, or at least set down, what keeps our vision from being visible (mostly to us).</div>
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Highly developed senses, while they may require our attention and cannot be easily ignored, can bring a sense of ease to our lives once we come to trust them and to use them wisely. The increased awareness with our senses also awakens our intuition, often called the sixth sense, Our sixth sense points the way to becoming our vision. We are at the eve of the New Moon for the 13th Moon Cycle of the year; the cycle of Be Truth. <br />
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Self Reflection: I take time to sit in gratitude for the year that has been. I take time to sit in gratitude for the gifts I have received and for what they portend may already be coming my way. </div>
Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-69799909599039586142017-12-16T00:00:00.000-08:002017-12-16T00:00:06.139-08:00Gratitude Replaces Resolutions<div class="MsoNormal">
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Carolyn Shares: I try
to be positive every time the end of December draws near, but I am most always
crabby as I approach the final weeks of the year. For me, there is a difference between the idea of starting over everyday and starting over in a 'new year' with a set of resolutions. So, here is my resolution solution:<o:p></o:p></div>
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The 13th Moon cycle, 'Be Truth', arrives during these weeks as well. For those of us who use the moon cycles as
guides for growth and change the date of the ‘Real’ new year begins with the New Moon for January. One that day/night, we will take a
deep breath in, and breathing out, start on the next leg of our journey. </div>
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As we look for this new cycle to begin, do a review of the past year by
asking for Guidance and Wisdom to see the Truth of your journey. For the struggles there may have been that
don’t yet make sense, set a place of gratitude for what is yet to be revealed. For any successes, great and small, give yourself appreciation. Sit in Praise for the journey
that has been, and yourself for making the journey up to this
point. Rest in place. Just rest and have gratitude for yourself,
your fellow journeyers and the earth upon which we all travel. Taking these remaining days of the waning moon phase to
rest in thanksgiving without giving into new plans or resolutions will give
more energy and clarity in the week to come as we prepare to step into the starting block
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Self Reflection: This year instead of writing resolutions for the coming year instead, take time to reflect with writing a gratitude list. Trust the time for new will come after this period of rest and reflection.</div>
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This is a post from a year ago on the <a href="http://thecircleofselfmuse.blogspot.com/2014/08/holy-time.html" target="_blank">Circle of Self Muse Blog</a> It is even more relevant, more true, more important to have these holy times--the Whole Me times as I intentionally spend these last few days in the Thank Truth cycle reviewing what I have come to know of my life.</div>
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So my dreams will carry more and more a holy message for my life.</div>
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Self Reflection: Take time during these last few days of the cycle of Thank Truth to hold sacred and abundant gratitude for your Self and your self.</div>
Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-72657553711377797462017-12-14T00:00:00.000-08:002017-12-14T00:00:08.648-08:00What it Means to Honor TruthFrom Sara we receive this words of wisdom: "Within us is already everything we need to know." The difficulty comes in that there are many layers or levels of knowing with us. We can be aware of many things that are 'true' about ourselves.<br />
As we dig deeper into our consciousness, we find that what is true in one experience is not true in another experience. We see that what is true in one relationship is not true in another.<br />
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We are called to have gratitude for whatever truth is revealed, regardless of how we experience that truth. To begin to discern the difference between what is 'true' and what is 'Truth', take all that you have held as true and distill it, refine it, examine it. Where you find a reaction and a rigid response there is likely to be something 'not true'. <br />
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Self Reflection: With gratitude for the experience, thank it and let it go. Where you have found ease, love, peacefulness and compassion, there is likely to be a Truth. With gratitude, place these knowings in your heart, and carry-on.Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14339773002677631338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1097062586645769672.post-80475842013607754602017-12-13T00:00:00.000-08:002017-12-13T00:00:04.316-08:00Who We have Been and Who We Are Becoming<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;">By taking time to reflect on our gratitude, and on how the life we have lived so far interfaces with the vision WE have for our life, we come out of from hiding ourselves from ourselves and the world. We come to know we are already whole. Perhaps we just need to take off the shell that covers our wholeness. We have not allowed ourselves to see the Magnificent Wholeness of who we are. </span></span><br />
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When we fully Thank Truth and express gratitude for our lives, we are willing to receive the Vision for Our Being, we consciously join with Creator to live our life to our fullest potential. We make the decision to let go of our need to be in charge and control of our creative energies. We become willing to have an <b>open mind and heart to receive Creator’s gifts</b>—inspiration, guidance, direction, and impulse so we may be out in the world manifesting and fulfilling our birthright, our purpose.</div>
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Here in this place we do not work alone! And yet, we alone do the work. We alone are responsible for our actions. Yet our actions are made known to us ONLY by our letting go of ‘my way’, the need to control. Preconceived ideas, notions and beliefs—which may be conscious, unconscious or subconscious MUST be set aside for our vision for our life to come clear.<br />
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Self Reflection: I am thankful for the Truth of my life. I live in gratitude. Am I ready to begin the journey to know and become my vision I know from living in these Truth cycles? I will rest and reflect in gratitude for my journey of the past year so I may be re-energized to begin again.</div>
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"...Does truth work in our lives?...Truth Heals the body, purifies the soul, reforms the sinner, solves difficulties, pacifies strife. <i>There is no such thing as undemonstrated understanding. </i>If you wish to know where you really stand spiritually, look about you at your environment, beginning with the body. "There can be nothing in the soul that is not demonstrated sooner or later in the outer, and there is nothing in the outer that does not find some correspondence in the inner." (pg 201) From <a href="http://www.emmetfoxmeetings.com/emmet-fox-daily-readings/emmet-fox-daily-readings-july-20/" target="_blank">Emmet Fox, July 20</a>, (1886-1951), a pioneer of the New Thought movement, continues to inform many wisdom teachers and spiritual searchers. <a href="http://amzn.to/1JV2KDF">Around the Year With Emmet Fox,</a></div>
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It seems all great spiritual teachers, mystics and holy ones were/are seekers of Truth. All of them! When we seek the vision for our life, Truth is likely to show up in one of the many forms we experience working with the moon cycles, which is just one path for searching and knowing Truth. </div>
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Self Reflections: When I intentionally follow the path of my unfolding vision, I am living my life purpose as best as I currently know it, with the Truth I currently know. I can trust teachings on Truth to pop up synchronicitically in my life. This synchronicity is confirmation of my connection to Creation</div>
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