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 13, 2006, Full
Moon in Scorpio
(2:51
AM Eastern Daylight Time)
Songs of silence ring
Through the chambers of my heart
Echoes of love songs
Hearts opening wide
Love pours through into the world
Blessing all people
The Full Moon in Scorpio takes us into the
depths of self where things may be intense with whatever focus we choose
to take. If we focus on the cup half empty, it will seem very empty. If
we focus on the cup half full, it will seem very full. Use your focus
wisely to create feelings of inspiration and fullness of life.
This Full Moon is also the lunar Beltane, a time of bringing together what is needed for creation of new things in your life. Integrating parts of self, sorting out those things that must be released for new growth to occur, and creating within you fertile ground for the new growth to take place, are all part of this joyous movement from spring to summer. Again take the time to check your focus and see what new things your energy is feeding.
Cup full or empty?
It depends on where you look
What you choose to see
SUMMER CAMPS AND RETREATS
with Linda Heron Wind, PhD
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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.
A Cup Half Full - On an altar place a cup or bowl and some small slips of paper. Consider what is already in your life that is providing fertile ground for new growth. Perhaps it is friendships, living space, job, things you have learned, characteristics you embody, the beauty around you, etc. As you think of these things, write them on a slip of paper and place them in the bowl. Continue this practice from the full to the new moon. Notice how full your cup or bowl can become when you choose to focus on what is already supporting your journey.
Filling up your cup
With all the blessings you have
Surrounding you now
Showers of Blessings - Get in a comfortable position, close your eyes, and take a few deep breaths to ground and center yourself. Imagine yourself in a beautiful space in nature in the springtime. Perhaps there are wild flowers and trees budding. As you relax deeply in this nourishing place, imagine that as you look around, you begin to notice different things and people appearing. All of them are the blessings in your life. Notice each one and feel gratitude for the blessings they bring. It may even begin to gently rain, with each raindrop cleansing and blessing you on this Earth walk. Perhaps there are animals there who come to offer you blessings as well. Stay in this place until you feel so blessed on your journey. When you are ready to leave, knowing that you can come back at anytime, take a few breaths, and come back into your body to feel those blessing still remaining in your heart.
Showers of blessings
Nourish fertile soil within
Garden of de-light
Inspiration
Enjoy these poems by Heron: What the Trees Know
Laughing with Life
Linda Heron Wind,
Ph.D.
Perhaps humor is the sixth sense. After all, we talk about having a good
sense of humor. Of all the blessings that fill my cup, I think that my
sense of humor is probably the most important. The ability to laugh at
the play of my life and how seriously imbedded I can become in it, makes
everything infinitely easier. Humor creates a lightness of spirit and
relieves the burdens of the great seriousness with which we think about
life and death and the mysteries of the universe. Laughter is healing
and it shakes off the dreariness of perfectionism and the angst around
success and failure. My failures are far funnier than any success that
I have ever had.
I have certainly been blessed with friends
that will laugh with me, even in the middle of some intense drama in which
I find myself. Laughing together creates connection and a feeling of not
being on the journey alone. One friend always used to say, "Oh look
how cute you are! Look at this little mess you have created! Isn't that
adorable!" After I got my teeth unclenched, it would always make
me smile and soon we would be laughing about the past situations that
were even bigger messes.
Laughing at myself creates an acceptance of
the journey. Many times we have been made fun of and laughed at in a way
that makes us feel not ok. When I laugh at myself or help others to laugh
at themselves, it has a good feeling of being ok just the way we are.
Believe me, even those people who look like they know what is going on
don't even have a clue. Such is the nature of the human experience. Life
is full of surprises. I used to have a poster with the saying, "Just
when I think I know the answer, they change the question!" What seemed
like a simple truth yesterday, may be changed or expanded today. I know
when I was 18 or 19 years old, I thought I knew everything. How much I
know has continued to decrease since then.
Often the most difficult times on the journey
have been just such surprises that create opportunities for expansion.
It often is where you feel like you have come to a dead end that a door
you never knew was there and could not have even imagined, will open.
Whether you laugh, cry, or cringe in fear when that dead end comes up
will not change the outcome, but it is certainly more pleasant to laugh
and it seems to help me see the door more quickly. Yes, the journey is
sometimes sad and sometimes fearful and it is important to feel whatever
comes up, but it is only a journey and attaching to those emotions can
delay moving on. Laughter is like the grease that lets us slide into the
next place with grace!
One of the things that I find most humorous
is the tendency I have to make vows about what I will always do or never
do for the rest of my life. I used to think that it was a sign of good
character not to break the vows I made to myself. Since then, I have learned
to be wary of making those kinds of vows that continue the path in a linear
way into the future. Paths are rarely linear and often take sharp turns
in one direction or another. For example, I found myself vowing after
being divorced never to marry again. On this Full Moon in May, I will
be marrying my partner of 20 years. I know that it is a door opening to
something new and that the path has turned in that direction. As I make
new vows I am careful not to say never or always and to keep my sense
of humor about what is happening in the present.
Moving forward now
To where I do not yet know
Possibilities
Laughing with my life
Humor weaves failures into
Stories of power
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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