Winds of Change: New vision and inspiration for the journey. A Mystery School Newsletter from Linda Heron Wind published on each Full Moon.

Winds of Change

New vision and inspiration for the journey.
A Mystery School Newsletter from Linda Heron Wind
published on each Full Moon

Contents

March Full Moon (Introduction)
What's Happening
Upcoming Workshops
Ritual - Unity Altar
Meditation Exercise - Journey to the Garden
Suggested Reading
This Month's Article - "I Am" - Magic Words

March Full Moon

Welcome to the second of this new series of newsletters dedicated to keeping the vibration high and helping us all remember who we are and why we are here! A new newsletter will be posted each Full Moon and, if I have your email address, I will send you some information about what is in it to alert you to check the web site.

Things are happening so fast these days it helps to know what is going on in the larger picture when we are trying to interpret the events of our own personal lives. Each newsletter will contain short articles that increase awareness, poetry, a meditation, and suggested practices. There may also be some suggested readings, other web sites of interest, upcoming events, and news from the cosmos.

If there are topics that you would like addressed, please email me and let me know. I am so grateful for the internet as well as the inner-net that allows us all to stay connected even though we are a distance apart in the third dimension.

The magical child
Plays with this illusion like
A ball of de-light!

What's Happening?

I just returned from a Prophets Conference in the Florida Keys. The balmy weather and sunshine certainly warmed my body after this cold Northeast winter, but the wisdom shared warmed my heart and soul! Inspiration is one of the easiest ways to be instantly transported to the higher dimensions of consciousness. The haiku below flowed from the inspiration that grew over the four days spent with highly conscious and loving beings, both presenters and participants.

The choice of what world we wish to live in is definitely upon us and we are presented with that choice daily in many forms. Every relationship, word, action, thought, feeling, and intention falls in one world or the other - the world of unity or the world of separation. Alberto Villoldo made the statement that we are the only people on earth who were cast out of the garden. No other people have such a myth that guides their culture. His suggestion was that we need a massive soul retrieval to bring back the part of us that is still in the garden. Whether we can do that or not I don't know, but I do know that I can call back the connected part of me, and you can call back the connected part of you.

More than ever before, we are being called into mastery in our daily lives, as we release the bonds of separation and live the truth of unity and love with our neighbors, co-workers, partners, children, parents, families, "enemies," all people, all beings, and Earth herself. Love is a daily practice and we must make it the most important work we do as we let it inform each moment.

My mind is a priest
In the temple of my heart
My word - sacrament

It leads me in prayer
Heart-felt feeling and action
In each sacred day

Holy words singing
Hymns of appreciation
Resound through my soul

And the dance begins!
The rhythms of sacred dreams
Dissolve temple walls

The Priest leads the dance
Through the streets of the cosmos
In ecstatic joy!

A new world is born
From love rhythms in our hearts
Being danced in joy!

Upcoming Workshops

The Mirrors of Illusion workshop went very well. It will be interesting to see what everyone creates using the new mirror technique from Passion Play. I may repeat this workshop again in the fall.

The Mastery of Love is coming up the first Sunday in April and I am very excited about this one. As in all of my teaching, practical application of esoteric wisdom is the main focus. I draw from many traditions to find things that really work.

The next two mystery school workshops will be offered in April and May at the CIRCLE Yurt in Victor (see workshop schedule for dates and times). To be eligible to take these workshops you must have completed Pathway to the Stars: The Practice of Harmony, either the workshop or the workbook. If you need the workbook you can order off the web site, by email, by phone, or pick one up at my office. The purpose of this requirement is to have everyone familiar with the concepts so we can quickly move to a deeper level with them.

Join us as we continue to learn and grow together on this magnificent adventure!! Let me know by email or phone if you want to attend.

Mirrors of Illusion
Help me see beyond this world
To what is real.

Inner and outer
Reflections of each other
Which came first? I Am.

Ritual

Unity Altar -
Creating altars is a fun way to bring inner work into the outer world. I invite you to create an altar for the opposites or polarities that you are dancing with. The Mayans say that the third dimension is a tapestry woven on a loom of opposites. As we learn to embrace the whole of a particular polarity we transcend the world of polarity into unity. Anywhere that we are out of balance and not accepting both sides of the polarity, we attract into our lives what we are judging.

On an altar place objects that represent the opposites that you have not yet embraced. There are many possible polarities, such as male-female, messy-neat, planned-spontaneous, early-late, young-old, birth-death, noisy-silent, dark-light, moist-dry, high-low, up-down, etc. You get the picture. Any of these that you have an emotional charge on either side would be a good one to work with.

Once you have created the altar, spend some time daily holding the object on each side of the polarity, getting to know it, feeling it, finding the part of yourself that resonates with it. You might journal about it, looking for the people in your life that play out the opposites, or situations where you play out one position or the other. Notice how this polarity plays out in your daily life.

When you can truly embrace each end of the polarity, transcending into unity, take those objects off the altar and find an object that represents the transcended aspect of that polarity.

Meditation Exercise

Journey to the Garden -
Relax and anchor yourself fully into Earth by extending a root from your tailbone deep into the center of the Earth. Imagine yourself standing at a garden gate. The sign over the gate says, "Paradise."

You know that a part of you is living in love and connection in this garden with access to all knowledge and wisdom. Allow yourself to feel a sense of homecoming, or coming back to a place you never left on some level. Perhaps there is an animal guide with you as you open the gate and follow the garden walk.

Notice the sights and smells, feel the sunshine and breeze as you walk along. Let your intuition guide you to the place where this part of you that you seek is living. When you find the part sit with it awhile and ask if it is willing to come back to your life now, bringing with it the knowledge of connection and love. It may come right away or it may give you information about what needs to change in you for it to be welcome, honored and respected.

If it is willing to come back, imagine it coming into your heart as you return to your body. If not, thank it and let it know that you will be back to visit it again.