Winds of Change

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

October 2006 Full Moon Newsletter

October 6, 2006, Full Moon in Aries
(Full at 11:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time)

Gratitude washes
Over my eyes coloring
Everything I see

Grace descends to me
When I let go of wanting
All I need is here

What's Happening?

Having moved through the energy of the eclipses in the last moon cycle, we are left with the aftermath from the changes. The Full Moon in Aries draws us to the inner fire where we can continue the process of clearing by burning the old patterns. This process can fuel the fires that give power to our dreams and light for the journey. We are in a time of great earthquakes on energetic and physical levels. Structures in our lives that once gave us a feeling of safety are collapsing to reveal what is true and beautiful about life on this sweet planet. Our dreams and visions are needed now. Use this Full Moon energy to shine them into the world.

Fire burns within
Giving light to my visions
Igniting my dreams

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, 2006 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, 2006 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

Fuel for the Fire - Think about all that is falling away in your life right now, whether it is old patterns or structure, people or things that seem beyond your control. Write these down on slips of paper - draw them if you like. Then depending on how big a fire you wish to build, you can either keep them as slips of paper that can be burned in a small bowl or you can tie them with yarn to sticks that can be burned in a larger fire. On the Full Moon or the few days before or after, create an outer fire that can represent your inner fire. By the light of the Moon, burn all that you are releasing and then look into the flames to see visions or draw the heat from the flames into your heart to feed the inner fire and inner dreams.

Transforming fire
Consuming the old patterns
Feeding the new dreams

Meditation Exercise

Feeding the Inner Fire - Get into a comfortable place and take a few deep breaths to relax. Close your eyes and imagine that there is a small fire glowing in your belly. Each time you breathe in the fire grows. Let the fire continue to grow until the flames reach up to the bottom of your heart. Your heart is like a pot sitting on this fire and in the pot of your heart are the visions and dreams that were seeded when your soul embodied. Let these dreams and visions begin to cook so that the steam starts to flow through you arteries and veins enlivening every cell with their vibration. Let the dreams cook and grow in strength as you continue to breathe into the fire and feed the flames with all that does not resonate with these dreams. Offer to the fire any old patterns of thought, emotion, or action that stands in the way of the dreams becoming reality. As the flames grow, hear the words that these dreams speak; see the pictures that they paint for you; feel the love that they bring to you. Continue feeding the fire until it feels that nothing stands in the way of your dreams and your whole being glows with the vibration of these dreams.

Grandfather Fire
Accept my offerings now
And light up my dreams

Inspiration

Enjoy these poems by Heron: What the Trees Know

This Month's Article

Depreciation or Appreciation?

Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D.

We know a lot about gratitude and how, as an attitude, it can change our lives. Appreciation may seem similar to gratitude but it is different in a couple of ways. First, appreciation arises out of understanding while gratitude does not require understanding, only feeling. Second, appreciation continues to grow as your understanding expands.

Let me give an example. I was recently talking to someone about the human body and how all the different systems work with each other. Each little part of each cell functions as a part of the whole, while it does its own specific job, and each organ system coordinates with the other. The more we talked the greater appreciation I had for my body. Of course, I also felt grateful that my body allows me to be here on Earth and it seems to work most of the time, but my deep appreciation grew out of understanding the complexities of its operation and the magnificent harmony with which it works. If I were to go and read more about the functioning of cells and the other body systems, my appreciation would deepen. Each time I contemplate all that my body and cells are doing in a given moment, my appreciation grows.

Another example would be when I am eating a meal and I consider all that it took to put that food on my plate. The seeds that were harvested and then planted, the crops that were tended, the hands that tended them, the harvesting and transportation of the crops to the store, the person who stocked them on the shelves, the hands that prepared them, the plate itself and where that came from, etc. The more I understand about what went into putting that food on my plate, the more I appreciate the food.

Again I am grateful for the food but that feeling can come without understanding.
In a way appreciation has to do with valuing something because you understand it in a way that gives you a window to its essence. For me to fully appreciate you, I need to understand you and all the parts of you that give meaning to your present form. Those parts dance around the essence of you and through knowing all parts of you I am given a window to your essence. When we share our dreams and visions, our successes and defeats, the parts we love and the parts we hate, the light and the shadow with each other, we can begin to appreciate the beauty and complexity of who we are.

Now in contrast with appreciation is depreciation. The word depreciation is often used in the context of money, as in when we buy something and it is immediately worth less money because it is not new anymore. The way that I am using depreciation is more in the sense of something losing value. The way that things become valueless to us is by our lack of understanding or even the desire to understand them. When we look at things on the surface and not into their depths, there is no understanding and little value. For example, I picked up an earthworm off the floor the other day and appreciated the work that it did in enriching the soil as well as the beauty of its aliveness and complexities of its systems. If I had looked only at its surface and that it was in a place that it was not suppose to be, I could not have appreciated it nearly as much.

Depreciation is rampant these days as we are lulled by the surface of life. When we cease to look deeply and understand what we encounter in our days, our lives themselves tend to lose their value and we sink into a depression that has been called the procession of the living dead. One of the main causes of depreciation is taking things for granted, not really seeing them or feeling a connection to them. Whether it is the people we pass each day or the things that serve us, we often are not aware of anything but the surface.

Of course, if we examined everything and everyone deeply every minute we would probably not get much else done, but that would be an extreme and it is balance that we seek. When we spend at least some time each day in appreciation, really getting to know the essence of people and things, our connection to life is so much richer. See how many things and people you can find a deep appreciation for today.

Depreciation
Life seems to lose its value
Depression results

Appreciation
Beauty is seen in each form
Connection results

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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