Winds of Change
New
vision and inspiration for the journey.
A Mystery School Newsletter
from Linda Heron Wind
published on each Full Moon
April 2005 Full Moon Newsletter
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Winds of Change
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April Full Moon in Scorpio - (April 24, 2005, 6:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time) Lunar Eclipse (4:54 PM EDT) Surrounded
by love Inspiration is The Moon in Scorpio takes us deep for clearing of the deadwood
of the psyche and our lives. Combined with a lunar eclipse, it gives us
the opportunity to look again within us and release the oldest patterns
that still hold us in the lower vibrations. Powerful energy is moving
these days to awaken what is still sleeping and bring forth what has remained
hidden. With the newness of spring and the awakening of the Earth around
us, it is now time to move forward in a new and different way. Clearing away stuff Deep within me are
Emotional Education for Parents and Children. Facilitated by Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D. You probably never went to school to learn about the purpose of your emotions, how they can be effectively expressed, and what they can teach you. If you are like most people you learned about your emotions from your parents who didn't know any more than you did. This usually results in a variety of ineffective ways of responding to your emotions that go all the way from stuffing them to projecting them onto others. Wouldn't it be nice if you and your children could learn
together how to work with emotions in a way that enhances family relationships
and promotes good emotional skills in everyday life? That is exactly what
this series of classes is about. In 4 sessions of 2 1/2 hours each you
will acquire the knowledge and practical skills that will provide a solid
foundation for your family to work effectively with the emotions that
surface in everyday living. Using dialog, role playing, self control techniques, and problem solving skills, parents and their children will learn to identify, express, learn from, and resolve their emotions as well as how to respond in helpful ways to the emotions of others. Outline
WHEN: Will begin in April If you are interested in more information on this workshop you can e-mail me at LHWind@aol.com. UPCOMING SUMMER CAMPS AND WORKSHOPS Medicine
Circle - Vision Quest for Women A Medicine Circle creates a space for you to experience in solitude a deeper connection with yourself and with the whole circle of life that surrounds you. You will remain in your medicine circle, a small space in nature, from sunrise to sunset on Saturday. Preparation for this vision quest will be made on Friday in the form of cleansing and releasing rituals, talking circle and hiking out on the land to find your medicine circle. When you go out to your circle at sunrise on Saturday you will be free of the usual clutter to open up to a deeper part of yourself, to nature as teacher, and to spirit. Sunday will be a day of creating ritual art representing your experience, and, through group process and ceremony, finding ways to integrate your experience into your daily life. We will create together a loving space to explore your growing edge and celebrate the visions that come. Time: Friday June 3 (10 AM) to Sunday June 5 (4 PM) *** The Marriage Basket -Weaving the Aspects of Self into Unity "It is time," said Old Woman, "all the pieces are contained within this basket. I have been gathering them, one by one, and welcoming them home. They now must be woven into something greater than just many pieces in a basket. This is what you have come here for, are you ready to weave yourselves into ……… Well, perhaps it is not for me to say but for you to discover." Are you ready? If your heart says yes, join us in this magical time of using solstice energy and the energy of a common-unity of women doing ritual and ceremony together to weave yourselves into something greater. Under the solstice sun by day and the full moon and stars by night we will create a sacred space to do our work. Sacred art, small group work, large group ritual, sweat lodge, silence in nature, energetic tools, song, dance, and community are a few of the tools we will use to weave the many aspects of our selves into unity, wholeness and holiness. We have all been working hard to gather the authentic pieces of ourselves and now is the time to bring them together to form a container for a radiant wholeness. We move through fear into integrity where the inner self is the outer self and the illusion dances around us in support of the radiance we vibrate out into the world. Begins: Wednesday, June 22 at 7:30pm *** Awakening Spirits Children's Earth School Camps Mystery Schools over the ages taught the basic truths of the Universe that are often found at the core of every major religious and spiritual tradition. Through small group activities and exercises, community talking circles, creative arts, story telling, singing, dancing, ceremony, and sacred play, Awakening Spirits Earth School camps teach a core curriculum that emphasizes:
Earth School camps provide an opportunity for youth and adults to explore and practice together these teachings in a playful and loving atmosphere. *** Mother-Daughter Earth School July 15-17, 2005 When mothers and daughters share the same deep experience of community
where each person, regardless of age, is honored for their gifts and wisdom,
magic happens! Through loving community with ourselves, each other and
the Earth, we learn how to be who we really are and the skills to take
that home to enhance the mother-daughter relationship within the family.
Children spend time in age clustered hoops as well as whole community
activities. Mothers hoop engages in similar learning and activities that
a address mothering concerns as well as self-growth. Come play with us
in the beauty of nature. For: Mothers, grandmothers, aunts (or other caring female adults)
and girls, ages 5-12 *** Parent-Child Earth School August 19-21, 2005 When parents and children engage in the same process of learning about
themselves, it enhances family life. We learn from each other, younger
and older and we engage in creative activities, storytelling, music making,
and playing in the woods and the water. A girls hoop, boys hoop and parents
hoop explore questions and stories and then come together to share around
a camp fire. For: parents, male and female, and sons or daughters ages 5-12 SCHEDULED FALL WORKSHOP Dancing into the Darkness September 23-25, 2005 If we are to survive on this sweet Earth and move into the predicted time of love and peace, we must learn to be the conscious dreamers of our lives and our world. Shamans have known how to dream the world and jaguar teaches us the secrets that the darkness holds. Together we will make our dream masks, call on the jaguar and dance into the darkness to bring these ancient wisdom ways more fully into our lives. Join us as we dance, create ceremony and sacred art, and ride the jaguar into the darkness.
Shequaga is a beautiful 50 acres with creeks, waterfalls, pond, woods, and open fields owned by CIRCLE in the southern tier of NY about 50 minutes south of Rochester. A turtle shaped building houses kitchen, showers, healing room, craft room and an indoor labyrinth. Tent camping with some platforms, and great vegetarian cuisine create a great environment for living in close relationship to the Earth and her rhythms. *** More details on these Summer Camps and Workshops are available on the Workshops page of this website or the CIRCLE website www.circleinc.org. Eclipsing Old Patterns - Prior to the eclipse, prepare a list of all the places in your life you feel stuck. Look at your patterns around these issues and identify the patterns that are not working. Perhaps these patterns worked for you at one point in your life but, if they are not working now, they need to be released. Each pattern that you want to release can be written on a separate piece of paper. I like to write them on circles but any shape will do. Around the time of the eclipse, if possible, or at least on that day, either bury the pieces of paper and plant something on top of them or add them to your compost pile. If you cannot do either of these things, then burn them and scatter the ashes over the Earth. Sit in meditation following this looking at what new patterns you can bring forth in your life at this time. Releasing patterns
Meditation Exercise The Inner Garden - Get yourself in a comfortable position and take a few deep breaths, exhaling a deep root into the Earth to ground yourself. Allow the fresh Earth energy to come up to your heart on the next inhale and then exhale branches and leaves out the top of your head into the sky and stars. Breathe the sky and star energy down into your heart, so that Earth and Sky meet in your heart. Then imagine that you are walking in a garden in your greatly expanded heart. Notice what is growing there and the state of this garden. Is it well tended or are there weeds growing and over ripe fruit laying around. If you come across ripe fruit, savor it and allow it to nourish you. Feel what this fruit symbolizes in your life. If you find fruit that is over ripe, create a compost pile that can nourish the things still growing in your garden, and place the over ripe fruit in it. Notice what old patterns this over ripe fruit represents. Also notice what is not yet ripe and see if it needs a bit more water or fertilizer. Be aware of what these represent in your life. There may also be weeds, things you did not plant in this garden but were placed there by others. Discern whether you need to pull these weeds and compost them or if you need to leave them because they are beneficial to your garden. As you tend this inner garden, be aware that you may visit each day of this waning moon to continue to release what patterns are over ripe and pull weeds if necessary. Give lots of love to what is growing and harvest each day that which is nourishing. Then you can come back into your physical body with a deep breath, stretching and opening your eyes. Garden of my Heart
Ripe Relationship We are always in relationship, with
ourselves, each other, the Earth and all her children. I laugh when people
tell me they feel alone. How can you be alone when you are always there?
But perhaps we experience loneliness when the relationships we have with
ourselves and others are not ripe. What makes a relationship ripe, juicy
and nourishing? Just as ripe fruit must be savored in the moment, relationships
are ripe when they exist in the present moment. The saying that life is what happens
when you are thinking about something else applies here. One purpose of
life is to have experience. It is not to hold on to experience or to think
about what kind of experience you might like to have. The purpose is to
actually have the experience and be fully present for it. Ripeness is
when we are fully present for the experience in this moment without bringing
in past experience or wishing for something else. Notice how much of the
time you think about what has already happened or what you hope for or
worry about happening in the future. And how much time are you really
just present for what the moment holds? With couples almost all the relationship
problems that come up are about the past or future. Either they still
are holding on to the past experience or they want the other person to
be different than they are in the present moment. Past experience makes
good compost material, just like over ripe fruit does. If you hold onto
it too long it gets a bit stinky and it does not nourish you. Its nutrients
are valuable in nourishing new growth if we extract the essence from it
and allow it to change us. We grow from our experiences of the past but
we cannot take them with us and continue to grow. The future is not here
yet and we can never know what exact form it will take. A flower that
buds does not always turn into the fruit we expect. We can tend it and
nurture it, but until the fruit is ripe, it will not nourish us. Only
fruit that is ripe in this moment can do that. Likewise, our relationship with ourselves
must focus on the ripeness that is here now. I am not the same person
I was 10 years ago and neither are you. If I am holding onto who you were
then, I limit the possibilities in our relationship. If I continue to
chastise myself for what I did then, I limit who I can be now. I am always
changing but I cannot live today wishing I could be now who I might become
10 years from now. I must be fully present for who I am in this moment,
accepting that this is the present ripe expression of who I am. I think it is interesting that in
the line in the Lord's Prayer that is often translated, "Deliver
us from evil," when translated directly from Aramaic (the original
language of Jesus), reads, "Keep me from unripeness." So being
unripe, or not fully present in the moment, whether it is over ripe or
not yet ripe, is the definition of evil. When we look at what we call
evil in the world it appears to me that it is where people have been caught
in the past and it is that past not the present moment, that dictates
their actions in the world. Likewise evil may be those who are controlled
by their hopes of the future. The exploitation of the Earth herself, is
done by those who seek happiness in what the future holds, rather than
in the present moment. It strikes me that since the word
"evil" is simply the word "live" spelled backwards,
"live" is what the present is, while "evil" is what
the past and future are. EVIL-LIVE-EVIL or PAST- PRESENT-FUTURE Neither
the past nor the future are alive. Yet how hard it is for us to be fully
present in the moment with no thoughts of the past or future! In that
sense, evil lives in us all to the degree that we are not fully present
in this moment. Try being fully a-LIVE! Savor its juicy, sweet flavor
and aroma! Let it nourish your soul! Click here for the full article. If
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