Winds of Change

New vision and inspiration for the journey.
A Mystery School Newsletter from Linda Heron Wind published on each Full Moon

July 2006 Full Moon Newsletter

July 10, 2006, Full Moon in Capricorn
(Full at 11:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time)

Hummingbird finds joy
In the face of each flower
The hidden sweetness

So she drinks deeply
Taking joy into her heart
To inform action

What's Happening?

With Mercury retrograde for the month of July and the Full Moon in Capricorn, this is a time of looking carefully at what foundations you are laying as we build our dreams in the physical world. There is a mental tendency to reconsider from Mercury, but hold fast and steady through this period regardless of the difficulties and challenges. We are headed toward a vibrational shift mid August so it is a good time for weeding out of our lives what does not support the higher vibration of love and peace.

Don't adjust your dreams
With every bump on the path
Stay true to yourself

SUMMER CAMPS AND RETREATS
with Linda Heron Wind, PhD

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.

DANCING INTO THE DARKNESS: Entering the Jaguar Dreaming Lodge September 29 - October 1 with Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D.

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.

Ritual

Visioning with the Moon - On the Full Moon or in the few days surrounding it, meditate in the moonlight asking the Moon to clear a space within you to receive a vision from spirit, or to plant a vision that you have already received. Notice the inner attitude of your mind and heart around this vision. Draw or write about this vision and over the next two weeks until the New Moon, determine whether you are willing to serve this vision without attachments to ego or outcome. Express gratitude each day for whatever is in the present moment supporting this vision. Each time you express gratitude and move into the present moment with acceptance of what is, you are building a strong foundation for this vision to manifest through you.

Moon visions fill me
With my purpose for being
What I am to serve

Meditation Exercise

Receiving Vision - Get comfortable and take a few deep breaths to relax your body. Imagine yourself in a beautiful place, perhaps a temple by the sea. The light of the Full Moon shimmers across the water and also comes through a circular opening in the roof to fall on an altar in the center of the temple. On that altar is a large round crystal ball. You pull up a cushion and sit before this glowing orb. You know that you must prepare your inner world to receive the vision this crystal ball holds, so you take a deep breath and the on the out breath surrender any ego wants, self-importance, and attachments. Breathing in again, on the second out breath you release the past and future, coming into the present moment. From the energy of the temple itself you breathe in acceptance, and breathe back gratitude for the beauty that surrounds you. Then focus on the crystal ball and allow it to shine into your heart and receive the vision that you are to serve. When you can feel it moving within you, thank the crystal and Grandmother Moon for assisting you. Take some deep breaths and come back to your physical body to journal about what has come.

Inner attitude
Acceptance and gratitude
Visions unfolding

Inspiration

Enjoy these poems by Heron: What the Trees Know

This Month's Article

Dream Manifestation

Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D.

There are many books and teachings about how to manifest dreams into the Earth plane, but I find that the process is a bit tricky and requires more than a conceptual understanding to put it into effect. Generally we are told to hold a vision of what we want and then live as if it were already here. One could easily go bankrupt doing that alone. There are some important steps and vibrational shifts that need to happen first if a dream is to become physical reality.

First, it is important to weed "wanting" out of your dream vision. There are many ways that wanting something blocks getting it and there are no guarantees that your wanting is in line with your soul path. So wanting something is not the same as a vision. Wanting often comes from the ego mind in the form of attachment. We can identify attachment by trying on a statement such as, "If my dream were to manifest, I would be happy." If you agree with that statement, you have some inner work to do to detach happiness from your vision.

Wanting can also come from a heart level. Because we are all related, many of the visions and dreams that come to us involve service work that would benefit others and the Earth. Our hearts can get attached to the causes we serve and that can limit the possible ways in which the dreams can manifest. Keeping our hearts in the moment and holding gratitude for all that supports the vision in the present moment allows grace to flow into the vision in ways that we could never imagine. Grace comes from the divine through us into the world. It is not something that we can make happen by wanting it. Instead we must simply be a good clear container in the present moment, holding the vision with a feeling level of gratitude and non-attachment.

Gratitude and non-attachment are not something you can pretend about since they are a feeling level of vibration. Other words that are similarly vibrationally identified are acceptance and surrender. These also cannot be faked. When we hold a vision, we also must accept what is in the present moment. A vision or dream cannot be a desire to escape from what is. We must also surrender to the way in which the dream is manifesting in the moment which is often different from what we thought it would be. Like walking a labyrinth, while our vision is on the center, we must be present with each step and accept the twists and turns that seemingly take us away from that vision.

So I believe that there are three parts to manifesting a dream. First, you must be open and have fertile ground within you to receive the vision from spirit. It is not "your" vision as it belongs to spirit and, thus, to everyone. Second, you must cultivate an inner attitude of mind and feeling of heart that allows the vision to become more solid through you. These attitudes and feelings are non-attachment, gratitude, presence, surrender, and acceptance, and they must be practiced not just when you are meditating or thinking of the vision, but all the time. Third, you must take action in the world that supports the vision. This action must grow out of that inner garden of attitude and feeling not from thinking and trying to figure it out or make it happen.

When you have mastered the art of manifestation, you will also have mastered yourself, for bringing things from spirit into form through you requires a mastery of mind and heart. Co-creation with the universe is not an easy path nor does it take us to the kind of "dreams" in which we will have everything our ego minds want. However, we have come here to be of service to the new time that is birthing, and as co-creators we must become the midwives to visions of this new world as well as to a larger vision of who we are.

From wanting to grace
The key that opens the door
Simply gratitude

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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