Winds of Change
New
vision and inspiration for the journey.
A Mystery School Newsletter
from Linda Heron Wind published on each Full Moon
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May Full Moon in Sagittarius - (May 23, 2005, 4:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time)
The Star Path calls me
From deep within my being
"Follow me to source."
Are you disciplined?
Do all parts of your self dance
To divine music
The Sagittarius full moon takes us into the underworld. It is amazing that there are still those dark, untouched, unknown places within us, with all the clearing work we have been doing over the last few years, but, like the mysteries and universe, space is as infinite within as it is outside.
This intense energy that has been swirling around and through
us for the last couple of months, now takes us deeper into our own and
the collective unconscious. The purpose of it all is not to just annoy
us, but to bring more of the unconscious into the territory of conscious
awareness. As we become more aware, consciousness evolves and new ways
of being become more possible. I believe that there is some type of planetary
alignment on May 30th as well, just to move the energy up a notch or two.
Use this intensity to plumb your depths. Shine the light on what you have as yet to own and master in your life. Use all the knowledge you have gained so far to move the stuck places within you. While we all feel like we need a rest from the intensity, it is not likely to give us a rest until we honor its purpose. It follows us wherever we go and calls us to look and listen.
Down we go again
To retrieve the lost treasure
Hidden deep within
I am so excited about doing the Marriage Basket women's camp this year. It feels like the perfect time to use the intensity of the solstice energy to make the leap to another level of awareness and integration. I am already dreaming the basket that will represent my wholeness from the highest consciousness that I can presently attain. Come and join me in this amazing time of transformation!!
SUMMER CAMPS AND WORKSHOPS
Medicine
Circle - Vision Quest for Women
June 4-6, 2005 Shequaga, Dansville, NY
Facilitated by Tracy Bell and Linda Heron Wind
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)
Cost: $150 (limit of 15 participants, all meals provided)
Additional $15 for non-CIRCLE members
Register by: As soon as possible with a deposit of $75 to CIRCLE
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The Marriage Basket -Weaving the Aspects of Self into Unity
June 22-26, 2005 Shequaga, Dansville, NY
Facilitated by Linda Heron Wind and staff
"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
Ends: Sunday, June 26 at 12 Noon
Cost: $250 (additional $15 membership fee for non-CIRCLE members)
Register by: June 1 with $125 deposit (space is limited so register
early to hold your space) 585-924-5620 or LHWind@aol.com
with checks made out to --
CIRCLE, 8042 Main St. Fishers, Victor, NY 14564
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Awakening Spirits Children's Earth School Camps
An opportunity to experience living in harmony with each other and
with the Earth.
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:
- Authenticity - being in good relationship with ourselves, others and the environment
- Accessing and trusting inner guidance
- Working with feelings and emotions to gain wisdom
- Developing effective communication skills - hearing and being heard
- The role of story in our lives - telling and changing our stories
Earth School camps provide an opportunity for youth and adults to explore and practice together these teachings in a playful and loving atmosphere.
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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
Time: Friday, July 15 (10 AM) to Sunday, July 17 (noon)
Cost: $180 for adult and first child, $60 for second child or adult
$25 extra for CIRCLE family membership if not a member
All meals provided.
Register by: June 8 with a deposit of $90 to CIRCLE, remainder
due on July 8
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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
Time: Friday, August 19 (10 AM) to Sunday, August 21 (noon)
Cost: $180 for adult and first child, $60 for second child or adult.
$25 extra for CIRCLE family membership if not a member
All meals provided.
Register by: July 1 with a deposit of $90 to CIRCLE, remainder
due on August 1
FALL WORKSHOP
Dancing into the Darkness September 23-25, 2005
Facilitated by Linda Heron Wind
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.
Time: Friday, September 23, 2005 (6 PM) to Sunday, Septenber 25,
2005 (noon)
Cost: $120 (limited to 15 women and men) $15 extra for non-CIRCLE
members -- All meals provided
Register by: September 9 with a deposit of $60 to CIRCLE
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.
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More details on these Summer Camps and Workshops are available on the Workshops page of this website or the CIRCLE website www.circleinc.org.
Water Elixirs for Change - I love all the information out about how water responds to the vibration of both spoken and written words. It also responds to symbols, music, art, color, and intent from your heart. The ritual for this full moon it to make an elixir from water and your intent as represented by a color, word, or symbol. Take a clear glass or one of a particular color of your choice and tape a word or symbol on the glass. Fill it with pure water, either distilled or spring water. Then set it in the moonlight on one of the nights around the full moon. You may drink it in the morning or let it sit in the sun for further energy of the sun and moon combined. As you drink the water, ask it to take this intention into every space of your body where water exists.
Magic elixirs
Sparkling waters of moonlight
Hold intention true
Meditation Exercise
Journey to the Underworld - The underworld has many forms so I will suggest a few. The purpose of the meditation is to go to the underworld to see what is there. The setting can be a cave opening where you enter and descend to the depths, or perhaps a pool that you leap into and come out the bottom into another world. Some people use a tree and enter a knothole to go down and out the roots. If you like the ocean, wade in and swim to the bottom, either breathing underwater or wearing scuba gear. Or use any method to go down into the depths of yourself. So get yourself comfortable, perhaps listening to a drum or soft music, and enter this underworld. Take a guide, perhaps in the form of an animal, with you or meet the guide there. Hold the intent of seeing what you have not yet seen. Look for that which is the most important to work with or clear at this time. See what it is that is blocking your path. Use the guide or call for assistance if you need it. Awareness is your goal. When you feel complete, come back the way you went and write about your experience.
The underworld calls
Dark places swallow me whole
And light surrounds me
Disciplines and Disciples
The word discipline has many mixed definitions for us.
We have all been disciplined for not behaving as others would like us
to. We have been told that we need to be more disciplined, meaning that
we need to do what we should do, not what we want to do. Discipline has
also been used to designate a particular area of study. Spiritually it
might be the daily practice that we engage in to stay connected with spirit.
Many of these definitions are ones that bring up a sense of resistance
from some part of us that rebels when we believe that we cannot have what
we want.
Another word that comes from discipline is disciple. A disciple is one who follows another or a set of teachings, best known of course from the disciples of Jesus. What it meant for those disciples was that they must give up who they through they were, or their earthly identities, for who they really are within the Christ Light. For each of us discipleship begins when we surrender the identity of our small self for the larger Self who we really are. In order to do this we must discipline the small self, bringing it into alignment with the true self. Click here for the full article.
If
you have comments on this newsletter or ideas for future topics,
call Linda Heron Wind at (585) 924-5620 or send e-mail to LHWind@aol.com.
Check out the article about CIRCLE in the D&C
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/02042S35QT0_news.shtml
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