Winds of Change
New
vision and inspiration for the journey.
A Mystery School Newsletter
from Linda Heron Wind published on each Full Moon
March 2006 Full Moon Newsletter
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Full Moon Eclipse in Virgo
March 14 (Full Moon at 6:35 PM; Eclipse visible in the Eastern US at 6:39
PM Eastern Standard Time)
Path of harmony
Restoration of balance
Inner and outer
A Virgo Full Moon helps us to see what work still needs doing while an eclipse will give us the opportunity to clear the old patterns that arise at this time. The eclipse of the moon on the 14th is followed by an eclipse of the sun on March 29th with the New Moon in Aries at 5:33 AM EST. In the middle of these two eclipses is the Spring Equinox on March 20th. Needless to say this should be an interesting time energetically and an amazing opportunity to do clearing and healing work. Take this time between the eclipses to identify and release any old patterns that you do not wish to take with you into this next cycle. Spring cleaning time!! Use the ritual and meditation below to focus your energy and use it well during this time of transformation. Whatever you focus on at this time will be multiplied by the intensity of energy coming in.
Inner Spring cleaning
Emptying out the closets
Keeping what serves you
UPCOMING CAMPS AND RETREATS
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Living with Joy - Hummingbird's
Journey
June 23 - 25, 2006 A Retreat Weekend with Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D. |
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Hummingbird is a symbol for joy and also for mythic journeys. This weekend retreat gives us time away from our everyday world to return to the silence of our hearts while we are serenaded by the birds, the frogs, the falls, the wind, and inner knowing. This retreat will provide you with alone and silent time in nature as well as sharing circles, and opportunities for creating sacred art. Individual time with Heron will also be available for guidance. We will let hummingbird lead us back to ourselves, as we discover the sweet spring of joy that flows eternally within our hearts.
TIME: Friday June 23
(7 PM) to Sunday June 25 (12 Noon)
COST: $120 (limit of
15 participants). All meals provided.
REGISTER BY: May 21
with a deposit of $60.
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AWAKENING SPIRITS CHILDREN'S EARTH
SCHOOL CAMPS |
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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.
PARENT-CHILD EARTH SCHOOL
July 14-16, 2006
With Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D.
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 July 14
(10 AM) to Sunday July 16 (Noon)
COST: $180 for adult
and first child, $60 for second child or adult. All meals provided.
REGISTER BY: June 15
with a deposit of $90, remainder due on July 1, 2006.
MOTHER-DAUGHTER EARTH SCHOOL
August 4-6
with Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D.
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 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 Aug 4 (10AM)
to Sunday Aug 6 (noon)
COST: $180 for adult
and first child $60 for second child. All meals provided.
REGISTER BY: July 1
with a deposit of $90, remainder due on July 28, 2006.
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DANCING INTO THE DARKNESS:
Entering the Jaguar Dreaming Lodge
September 29 - October 1 with Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D. |
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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
29 (6 PM) to Sunday October 1 (Noon)
COST: $120 (limited
to 15 women or men). All meals provided.
REGISTER BY: September
1 with a deposit of $60, remainder due at retreat.
For more information, call Linda Heron Wind at 585-924-5620
or visit the CIRCLE web site www.circleinc.org.
Releasing Ritual
- On the full moon eclipse, take some time to
look at what old patterns you still are holding onto. Go deep in meditation
and ask what needs to be released to move forward into this new time.
Look for any part of yourself that has not yet been freed into love. Once
you find this pattern or part, create a drawing with colored pencils or
pens that surrounds it with love. Love is the most powerful tool we have
for dissolving resistance to change. Each day between the full moon and
the equinox on March 20th, sing to this part in a loving way to help free
it to shift and change. If you don't know any love songs then just tone
or sing a lullaby.
On the equinox, release the picture in
a fire and draw a new picture that represents the new pattern or healed
part of yourself. Each day between the equinox and solar eclipse on March
29th, sing or tone this new pattern or healed part into being. On the
solar eclipse make a commitment to at least one action you will take daily
in the physical world to support this new growth.
Love the transformer
Alchemist of this new time
Dissolves resistance
Seeding the New Self
- Get comfortable and take a deep breath or two to relax. Imagine that
you find yourself walking on a path through the woods in the springtime.
Smell the forest smells and see the light filtering down through the newly
opened leaves above. Wild flowers are blooming throughout the woods. This
path is leading you to the garden of your heart. As you approach the gate
to the garden you notice the birds singing and the feeling of love shining
through each plant and flower. There is a gardener who is the caretaker
of this garden living in a small hut nearby. The gardener meets you at
the gate and shows you what work must be done to prepare this garden for
the coming season. Perhaps there are old plants still in the garden that
need to be composted to provide the rich soil for new growth. If so notice
or feel what old patterns these old plants represent. Perhaps there is
compost of old patterns already transformed ready to spread, or you may
still need to dig out a few rocks and place them lovingly in a circle
at the center of the garden. They represent the blocks you are currently
encountering that can be transformed into beauty.
When you are ready, talk to the gardener
about what seeds of new patterns need to be planted this season into this
garden in your heart and into your actions in the outer world. Plant whatever
seeds feel right to plant and whatever seeds the gardener gives you. Know
that you can come back to see what has sprouted and what needs watering
and tending. If "weeds" (things you did not intend to plant)
begin to grow, lovingly pull them and place them in the compost pile for
transformation. When you are finished, imagine thanking the gardener,
leaving the garden and closing the gate. As you walk back through the
woods, feel the sunshine coming through the trees and come back into your
physical body.
Repeat this as necessary, and go back to work with the gardener to tend this garden.
Garden of my heart
Grows the seeds that I plant there
Each word and action
Inspiration
Enjoy these poems by Heron: What the Trees Know
Riding the High Energy
Waves
Linda Heron Wind,
Ph.D.
One of the things that often challenges us
is to work with the waves of high energy that are coming through at this
time. It would seem that high energy would feel great and we should be
able to go about our daily lives feeling blissful. Sometimes this is the
case, but, more often than not, high energy pushes us into our oldest
patterns for releasing. "In your face and up your nose," is
the best description of what it feels like to be pushed by the wave. When
you resist the push or go into the same old reaction that you have had
for years, the wave washes over you and turns your world upside down.
And then, of course, there is the undertow!
Since we all have different places within us that are stuck
and resistant to change, the experiences we each have with the energy
waves looks different. A person that is very task focused and time stressed
may be forced in some way just to be. If you are a person who takes care
of others and not themselves, there may be a situation that requires you
to take care of yourself and not others. If you are a person who is very
unforgiving and hard on themselves, you may be confronted with an experience
that requires your self-forgiveness for you to move forward. I think this
gives you a sense of what "in your face and up your nose" looks
like.
When you know what your old patterns are - where you are
stuck and inflexible - it is easier to recognize why the experience you
are having during an energy wave is happening. If I am aware, then I know
that I have two choices: the first is to surrender and go willingly and
the second is to go kicking and screaming all the way (otherwise known
as suffering). Either way, I am going. Even if I find myself in the second
choice and the suffering is upon me, I can surrender and move willingly
into a more expansive and authentic version of myself at anytime.
"Why," you say, "would you kick and scream
and resist change if you are going anyway and it is to a more authentic
place." Fear. Plain and simple, fear is our prison and at the bottom
of all resistance to change. Every time we are ready to move out of the
small room we have been living in, into a more spacious version of ourselves,
FEAR is printed in bold red letters on the door. The antidote to this
venom called fear, that poisons our mind and emotions, is trust. When
you can begin to interpret the feeling of fear as an EXIT sign showing
the doorway out of the smallness you feel trapped in, you begin to head
in the direction it tells you not to go in. "Oh yes, there is the
door out of my current difficulties!" As soon as you move through
the door, the feeling of fear is replaced by a sense of freedom.
So fear is really only a directional sign if we allow
it to be, if we can trust that we are really on a journey of awakening
that is divinely guided. As we move through this wave of energy that is
associated with the eclipses and equinox, stay aware and look for the
EXIT sign rather than holding on to the old furniture and fixtures of
the too small self. Get on your surfboard and ride the wave into the next
part of your journey!
The surf is up now
Will you ride the wave this time
Or resist its call?
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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