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The Secret Gardener...

This morning I watched a large (brilliant blue) blue jay fly to the ground near my house with a big pointy green acorn in its beak. He then pushed away some of the dry weeds that were missed by the weedeater this summer, and pounded the acorn into the ground. First time I have seen my secret gardener in action.

No wonder I have a valley oak growing so close by near the bedroom window, putting me in such a dilemma for the last couple of years. I just could not pull it up, and it tapped down its long root so fast and deep.  In five years or so, it will obstruct the view from the window.  But, in 10 years maybe it can be used to prop up the house, which is leaning a bit in that direction.

And now, a new tree may be sprouting any day thanks to my secret blue jay gardener.

No, this is not this morning's blue jay, or my own photo. It's from birdwatchingdaily.com.

 

Rumi: Truth does not sleep. Sunlight does not go away. The stars are suns.

"Somewhere inside a real natural soul still thrives"

While sorting receipts and bills, doing my taxes at the most last minute I have ever done them, just now I came across a yellow piece of paper with a special message for me to read....the anthesis to my task at hand.

The message came via workshop flyer from Martin Prechtel:

"So many good people today no longer remember what an intact life feels like or looks like. Most of our villages, tribes and ways of livings have been so thoroughly pounded into the ground of our private personal Amnesia that groans under the boot heels of modernity's heavy tread. But be that as it may, I say our Indigenous Souls still live hiding like stealthy foxes, in the recesses of the infinite wilderness of some forgotten expanse of our real hearts. Somewhere inside a real natural soul still lives.

These soul-foxes are strong and made of a beauty and Indigenous intactness not recognized by the modern mind we've been taught to think with. If each of our wild fox-souls individually tip-toes smiling past the mental sentries that guard the palace walls where our depressions, lethargic cynicism and self righteous opinions hold our Holy Indigenous Seeds as prisoners, then maybe together after watering our seeds with the tears and grief of the remembrance of the joy of a real life, and with a brave love we can each sprout these seeds into the towering stalk of the Divine Mother again. If we all do it together then everywhere a grand Indigenous Diversity of Flowering Hearts could poke up everywhere sprouting a conscious village of hope to plant a time of hope beyond our own.

Grandiose and impossible you say? Well, that's your palace guards talking! Anyway it's better to live and die intactly making good small beauty, and failing magnificently, than to succeed at the low pay of mediocrity and the high pay of a meaningless existence......jump up like the sprouts of a tree whose fruit of hope might feed a time worth living in beyond our own."

floweringmountain.com

squidoo.com/prechtelbooks

Original artwork by Martin Prechtel

Be careful not to be stuck acting from a micro perspective or a macro. Both reflect the other. Most of life is in between.

As you work with the micro details in any situation, be aware of the deep connection to the macro picture. And vice versa. Your perspective will shift in all directions and solutions for life's issues will have deeper meanings.

All of the parts can become more than the whole by itself.

Life is a hologram, where each part contains the whole. All is in one, and one is in all.

 
Night sky photo with the Milky Way making the horizon light up.
Image source: photographer Stéphane Guisard
See the full 360 degree image here and more of his night sky photos here.

Everything we do, think, say is energetically recorded by this Universe. Nothing is missed. No privacy settings to make.

We like to think we can hide out from each other and especially from ourselves. Not so. The all-knowing energy-field that made us is always connected, always tuned in. It's not about being bad or good, this or that. It's about being true to your spiritual blueprint and living your life with ethic and integrity.

Everything that does not fit within this integrity, comes back as karma to be resolved. Our work as humans is to clean up our own messes, again and again, and along the way, invite and nurture and make the entirely new and beautiful to come to life.

The earth shows us how to naturally create this deep beauty all the time, and we keep trying to sweep it under the rug. Ignoring our universal connection, we live with an ignorance that has no excuse.

image: "Karmic", painting by Horacio Cardozo
Horacio Cardozo's artist blog
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More about karma.

Become an inch worm when you're pressured from the have-to-do list. Just try moving one inch at a time and enjoy the view!

Seeing all that needs to be done (by the way, who says it needs to be done?) can be so overwhelming that nothing gets done. Stop the measuring and evaluating your progress and just move...in any direction, from any starting point.

Keep moving and doing a little bit at a time.

image source: eyefetch.com

Our outside world is a reflection of our inner being. Start a little sweeping in both, simultaneously, to shift your life.

In feng shui, there is a jump start you can do when you feel stuck or are overwhelmed by your environment. Move twenty-seven things. By physically shifting the location of these things you stir up the stagnant energy field that can slow everything down.

What if it is really your thinking that is stuck? Moving, or releasing, twenty-seven old perceptions or thought patterns could be overwhelming to try. Or not. Start with one fixed perception about anything, and open for just the possiblity that you could change your mind about this one thing.

© Elsah Cort, from the Hatchery Series

Our emotional bodies are creatures of habit, following old grooves of hurt, disappointment, sadness. Feel it, don't be it.

We often mistake what we emote as reality. And, it is real...but only as real as the perceptions that spawned the feelings. Somehow the sorrowful emotions seem to return with more intensity than the joyful ones. Maybe it's time to take a deep breath and let the heart laugh, or smile just a little.

© Elsah Cort, image from the Earth Series

Half the world has the shortest day tomorrow, the other half, the longest day. Earth dances a spiral dance. Let's step up.

While we, in the northern hemisphere, experience more darkness in our still point tomorrow, the southern hemisphere has equally more light.

We often think all of the world, and reality, is what we are experiencing. The solstice reminds us that not everyone sees the same way. We need every perspective to bring this earth life to fruition. Expand your vision, look with more eyes than just your own.

[Solstice is about stillness, but not quite. The word itself means the point at which the sun seems to stand still, from two Latin words "sol" for sun, "sistere" to come to a stop.]

© Elsah Cort, from the Hatchery Series

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For the first time in 456 years, a total lunar eclipse (full moon) will coincide with the winter solstice. Energetically, this is about awareness of how fixed and closed perspectives can hinder us from seeing the truth. In reading several blogs on the astrological significance of this, I come back to this message...that no one can tell you what this event means for you, except you, but you need clarity and an open mind to process the information. The outward world is a reflection of our inner ones, and eclipses are no exceptions. Remember, that the significance of eclipses plays out way beyond the actual moment of the eclipse itself.

This wikipedia article gives the times for viewing, from 9:37pm PST on December 20, to full eclipse at 12:17 am on December 21.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2010_lunar_eclipse

Let's hope the cloudy forecast for Three Rivers parts long enough for us to view this with our own two eyes.

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More reading on this event at

http://www.realitysandwich.com/2010_time_relate

http://www.zodiacarts.com/whatsup/LunarEclipse.shtml

 

 

"If your mind doesn't fly, then your body will always walk the same old dirt road"...Gabriel Angel, character from movie called Shades of Fear

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