Winds of Change

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

September 2006 Full Moon Newsletter

September 7, 2006, Full Moon in Pisces
(Full at 2:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time; Partial Lunar Eclipse 2:52 PM)

Credibility
Ability to believe
Beyond the senses

Joy is the love song
My human form is singing
To my Divine Self

What's Happening?

An eclipse of the Moon is an opportunity to release emotional patterns that are not serving our wholeness and holiness. Take some time to assess what old emotional patterns of reaction and drama need to be cleared for you to be more joyfully who you are in the present moment. Two weeks later on September 22nd and the New Moon there is a Solar eclipse just before the Equinox (Sept 23). A Solar eclipse asks us to look at the outer patterns - how we use our time, energy, voice, and action in the world. Are these in alignment with our highest self? If not perhaps it is time to eclipse them out of our lives and bring in patterns that support us as we learn to live more fully from our whole and authentic selves. The Equinox energy is a time of balance of the opposites and it calls us to unity within and outside as we continue our journey into the darkness and depths of our souls this winter.

This Full Moon in Pisces calls us to listen deeply to our inner voice. It is a time of feeling and assessing where we are in the journey. Use water for clearing and sit by water to release old patterns. Let the water nourish your body and cleanse all that does not support living in a joyful, loving, and sustainable way.

Shifting and changing
All things are in motion now
Moving toward the One

FALL RETREAT
with Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D.

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.

Fall Mystery School Workshop Series
with Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D.
Held in the yurt in Fishers, NY ($30 each or $75 for the series of 3)

Mastering the Circle of the Heart - November 5, 1-4 pm
We must step into the Circle of the Heart from the directions of the four winds, leaving at the gateway the inner patterns that keep us stuck in the mind. When we step through the gates we access the qualities of the heart that align us with the feeling-tone language of light.

Mastering the Circle of the Soul - December 3, 1-4 pm
We must step into the Circle of the Soul from the four directions, leaving at the gateways the old patterns of the heart that keep us from accessing the wisdom of the soul. When we step through the gates we access soul awareness and consciously embody our divine presence and awareness.

For more information, call Linda Heron Wind at 585-924-5620 or visit the CIRCLE web site www.circleinc.org.

Ritual

Water Rituals for Clearing - Water has long been used as a way of clearing the energy body. The ritual of baptism is one example of this. Water can be drunk as an elixir, prepared by placing a crystal in a clear glass container under the light of the full moon. Drink the water as part of a ritual for aligning with your crystalline light body. You can pray over water and then use it for blessings. You can place words under a glass of water to let the water to absorb them. Words you are releasing will be picked up by the water and it can then be offered back to the Earth. Words you wish to embody will be absorbed by the water and it can then be drunk. Use water to create ritual around this Pisces Full Moon eclipse to help you release the emotional issues that keep you from connecting deeply with your inner voice.

Water is flowing
Cleansing and healing us all
Singing as it moves

Meditation Exercise

Hearing the Inner Voice - Get comfortable and take a few deep breaths, pushing a root down into the Earth from your tailbone and branches up into the sky and stars from the top of your head. On each out-breath release tension and on each in-breath bring in peace. Imagine that you are walking in the woods on a path that feels familiar. You come to some steps that are carved into stone and begin to walk down them, passing through an archway at the bottom. You step out into a meadow with a small lake at one end. As you look around you see a small cottage near the trees across the meadow and know that a guide awaits you there. Cross the meadow and notice if there are any animals that come to walk with you. You see your guide sitting on the porch in a rocking chair and there is an empty chair beside the guide. The guide motions for you to come and sit. As you sit there looking out at the lake and the meadow, you listen as the guide talks. You might hear words or just have an awareness, image or feeling of what is being said. When you feel complete, thank the guide, and return to the archway and move up the steps to the path in the woods. Then come back to your physical body, taking a deep breath.

Listen carefully
And you will hear your heartsong
Guiding your way home

Inspiration

Enjoy these poems by Heron: What the Trees Know

This Month's Article

Sweet Surrender

Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D.

For many, the word surrender means failure, and, in one sense, it is - a failure of the small self to control and change the direction and purpose of your soul path. From a place of greater awareness, surrender is the doorway to true living. The mind balks at surrender where the heart moves into its sweetness with ease. Whether we are surrendering our old patterns like weapons used to fight with our souls, or surrendering to the highest potential possible for us in our lives, it feels like dismantling a dam that has kept the waters from reaching the fertile and creative lands within. Let's explore this magical state called surrender.

One of the first issues that kept surrender at bay within me was the question of who was I surrendering to. Surrender is not giving up but giving over, but to what or who? Many difficult experiences have led me to see that I am surrendering the will of my lower self to my higher self. A good metaphor for this is imagining that I am trying to drive a car but I have only a very small spot that I can see through on the windshield, I do not have the map, and I don't know where I am going. I focus very intently through that one small opening trying to figure it all out. The result is feeling very stressed, anxious, depressed, etc. When I realize that I actually have a chauffeur who knows where we are going and has a map (and is an excellent driver I might add), I move to the place of surrender and turn over the wheel and controls. Then I can just enjoy the scenery and trust what comes.

Trusting that there is someone driving who has a plan is, of course, no small feat. It took me lots of experiences where I could compare what happened when I tried to drive with what happened when my higher self was driving, for me to begin to trust. Now it is so much easier to know that the thing I have the most control over is my inner environment. Once I have learned to control that, perhaps I will have earned my drivers license. To try to drive my outer life before I can navigate the inner roads is silly at best.

Surrender is one of the most important parts of my inner environment that I can control. I can fight or surrender. Believe me, I have had many inner battles where I thought I won only to find that what I was fighting for was not what I expected it to be. My mind will sometimes get arrogant and believe that it knows how things should be for me to be happy, and then it fights for it with my higher self who knows so much more. My higher self does not like to fight so it doesn't resist much when my mind and lower self go to battle with it. It is as if it says, "Ok, have it your way and see what happens. It's not a good idea from my perspective, but I will be waiting when you see through the illusion that is tempting you." I love my higher self's patience and willingness to let me have my own uncomfortable experiences.

Over the years, I have become more likely to listen, less likely to fight, and happy to surrender to the guidance of my higher self. My mind can be ok with not knowing, and free of expectations and attachments to things going a certain way. Sweet surrender is a state of presence that allows me to align with my higher self. It reminds me of an old John Denver song -

"Sweet, sweet surrender; live life without care; like a fish in the water, like a bird in the air." So surrender those old control patterns that end up in the ditch, and let your chauffeur drive awhile.

Surrender calls up
To be open to what comes
To greet it with love

Surrender into
The flowing waters of trust
Arms of the Divine

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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