Winds of Change
New
vision and inspiration for the journey.
A Mystery School Newsletter
from Linda Heron Wind published on each Full Moon
July 2005 Full Moon Newsletter
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July Full Moon in Capricorn - (July 21, 2005 - 7:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time)
Live
in joy and light
Be present each sacred day
Loving completely
All fears are dissolved
Into great pools of laughter
Nourishing our souls.
With the Full Moon in Capricorn again, it looks like we are headed for another dose of intensity that will catapult us deeper within. There seems to be no room for regression to old patterns these days and any movement in that direction is bound to leave us without any doubt that old patterns will no longer work. As we learn to rely solely on our intuitive knowing rather than anything that might rationally grow from the past, we can find ourselves playfully bobbing in the waves.
A digression of focus to the past will leave us gasping for breath as the undertow catches and drags us through the drama one more time until we are content to keep our focus in the present. While these wild rides are a bit disconcerting to say the least, they apparently are necessary to get us to make the evolutionary leap in consciousness that is being called for at this point. We must trust that every experience in our life is leading us toward transformation regardless of how painful or ecstatic it might be. To believe in the light when the sun is shining takes little mastery. To believe in the light in the midst of darkness, now that takes unwavering trust!
In addition, Mercury goes retrograde from July 22nd to August 15th. This
is a bit like going to the beach and seeing a sign that says STRONG UNDERTOW.
So there is no let up in this fast forward mode of releasing the past.
Stay in joy and trust in the present moment and flow with whatever comes.
Chaos surrounds me
Yet my heart remains quiet
Hearing spirit's song
This time we are in
Calls us to do what we find
The most challenging
Emotional Education for Parents and Children will resume again in September. Email LHWind@aol.com if you are interested in being part of that group.
SUMMER CAMPS AND WORKSHOPS
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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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 - Jaguar Dreaming Lodge 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.
Making Your South Shield - When working on developing trust within yourself, it is useful to make a symbolic representation of what you are calling forth. In this case you can make a South shield that represents trusting your experience. Any material can be used to make the shield - fabric, leather, stone, glass, etc. Generally shields are a circular shape but any shape will do. Paint or decorate the shield in whatever symbols hold a feeling of trust for you. On the full moon, let it hang in the moonlight to activate it. Then find a place to hang it where you will see it each day. You might want to journal about whatever trust issues come up in your daily life and how you can use your South shield to help you.
The South Shield protects
By showing me of what is true
Safety is within
Meditation Exercise
Riding the Waves of Now - Get in a comfortable position and take a few deep breaths. Allow yourself to be present with your breath, its gentle movement in and out, your chest and stomach rising and falling. Imagine that you are floating in water and the waves are gentle like the breath, lifting you up and then down in a rocking motion. As you synchronize your breath with the waves, it feels like you are cradled by the water and held safe by this soft, vast, mother ocean. Larger waves might come raising you up higher but you trust the water to support you. Nothing to do, no reason to think, just feeling connected to the water. You are part of it and it is part of you. The water will carry you wherever you need to go and nothing can happen to you that is not already part of the journey. Just staying in the moment, and riding the waves of breath and water, allowing, being, living, loving whatever is. Stay there as long as you like and then come back into your physical body trying to hold that feeling as you feel your breath go in and out throughout your day.
Breathe in and breathe out
Riding waves that come and go
Safe in love's cradle
The Shield of the South
A lot of people are having a difficult time these days feeling safe on Earth. If you look at some of the chaos that is reigning around the world as well as in our own personal lives, it is no wonder that we get a bit jittery. Yet if we can really ground the spiritual perspective into our third dimensional lives, concern about safety disappears. I believe that we are being asked to do exactly that - live from a spiritual perspective. 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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