Winter solstice

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As the Light is reborn…

By Stephanie K. Nead

By Stephanie K. Nead

As we move through solstice and into the lengthening light.

In the fall, seeds drop, burrowing into the Earth’s embracing soil, to nestle, be watered by early winter rains, to rot and thus open. As the dark of our northern hemisphere approaches, when all is most fallow, beneath the surface something akin to a miracle is occurring. In the deep dark cold soil, new life is rising. Out of the cracked skin of rotted seed, from within the nourishment at its core — built up, stored light of summer’s sun — new life presses forth and now pushes toward that light which is returning to our skies as the days lengthen. This is such a potent time!

What seed did you drop this fall? What seed needed to rot in cold, wet soil of winter; what needed to compost into new life? And what is being born? What new growth are you feeling under your skin, in your Holy heartbeat, beneath the soil of your life? Can you feel it? Can you speak of it at all? Perhaps not. Let us hold this rebirthing for one another over the next week and a half, during this most powerful time. Let us listen and vision deep within ourselves during this dark time; what is waiting and wanting our attention in order to be born? Listen for its guidance: how and what is the deepest you asking in support of this birthing?

Let us remember that on the other side of our Earth, in the southern hemisphere, we are balanced in our rebirthing by those who are celebrating the fulness and abundance of summer, when all they seeded half a year past is now pouring forth new and vibrant life.

Blessings to you on Solstice, as the Earth is reborn. Blessings on Christmas as so many celebrate a rebirth through a story that speaks to their imagination and soul. Blessings that your soul is always nourishes and held with love…
Stephanie

Our next Our Friends Circle Call will be Sunday, January 5th 2014.  

Anyone is welcome on this call.  Please feel free to forward this email to others. 

The call will run approximately an hour and a half and will start promptly at 4:00.  After a short introduction, Our Friends will share a short talk, then the call will open to questions & answers.   I will record the call.  If you would like a copy of the recording, send me an email after the call at sknp4710@aol.com. 

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Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse &…

Moon Shadow and Sun reflection...deep blessings of Creations energy...

There is much talk about 2012, and much talk about this solstice, with its conjoining lunar eclipse.

I think being blessed with an imagination is, at times, a problem. Or perhaps it is simply our huge human ego, which, despite all evidence to the contrary, still wants our human existence in the Cosmos and in God to be the purpose, center & meaning to both.

So many huge spiritual and astrological dates have come and gone, and lo, little has changed. I’m not saying the energetic events are not huge; I am saying that humans are not the focus or purpose of them.

Creation and God have much more profound, powerful, & extensive foci and purposes than we will ever know while here. What ripples to us of these events and gifts are the tiniest ripples, long dissipated by the much larger waters within which we live and have our being as humans. When it hits us like a black hole, we’ll only know that…we still won’t grok the enormity and meaning of it to Creation and God.

We need to engage, to work with the flow of Creation’s evolution…and for this reason alone. To do this we must disengage our egos; this will also disengage our fear, whose existence only inhibits our ability to commune, connect and be of service — in our small way — to Creation and God.

 It’s not about us. We are sunbeams of the sun.

Perhaps we might start by writing our own autobiography from this moment forward, each of us living the best of ourselves — the highest self we know is within us — in action in the world. Write how we have manifested this in our life as though looking back from 20 or 30 years hence.

Like writing the lists we might use to vision and manifest a new home, we can reach forward and connect with our best life by putting it on paper and then moving toward it with action.

It’s not just what we think and feel, it’s how we act in the world that matters. How do I contribute to the best that I dream?  What are my gifts to bring?  How do my joys apply? 

As the earth shifts, physically and energetically, as the moon illuminates this transition from darkness into light with great clarity, may we take time to breathe it in, to witness it, to sing with the moon, the dark and the light.  May we use this night to turn our energies toward living, in action, the best life we possess inside, the life that yearns to come forth, unique to each soul, into this waiting Gaean Earth. 

 May your darkness nurture you, may your light bless you.  May both, equally, awaken you.  Stephanie

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“The Pivot” Gaia En-Earthed Part V

   

 

"The Lava Darkness" ... what is revealed in the darkness, what embraced, what gifted...in the blessing of the dark, what do you open to receive?

 

(I am deliberately posting this thread in small pieces, because there is much to absorb.  Each piece offers something essential to ponder.  I hope you are finding it nourishing.)  Stephanie

What you consider “the fall,” as so many of your stories portray, is merely the chronicle — very important — of the critical decision that created this art form and  allows this unique exploration to create movement.  The “decision,” the choice, was to create a will that seems to be, believes itself to be, separate from the Creator, the One.  This free will is The pivot upon which turns the creation called human being.      Our Friends

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EarthSong Solstice Connection

Gaian Beauty...newly created each evening...Can you hear the song of this sunset?

 (Leslie’s work with sound is amazing.  It is some of the best and deepest work with sound I have experienced.  Check out her DVDs.  Her “Earthsongs” are simply incredible…she has found the song of each place she is filming.  You can feel it.  I hope others will intentionally connect to the work she is doing this solstice.  Being in deep communion with the earth, with Gaia, is essential for us and for Gaia.  Perhaps it is the most healing work we can do, for ourselves, humanity, and this glorious earth we are so blessed to live within.)  Stephanie

EarthSong Network Newsletter

New Moon – December 2010
 Kia Ora!  Greetings from Dunedin, New Zealand!
 
Networking for the Solstice
I invite you all to link up with us here in Dunedin, New Zealand to celebrate the coming Solstice. Linking up with others who are celebrating and honoring the Earth is a also a powerful practice, because the loving energy we send back and forth between us humans helps form ley lines within the Earth.  Our communion with each other while connecting to the Earth and spiritual energies helps to rebuild and strengthen the Earth’s energetic gridwork.
The three days around each of the Solstices and Equinoxes are the times when the Earth is most able to receive human energy.  This year’s Solstice, Dec. 20 to 22, is going to be a particularly powerful opportunity for honoring and gifting energy to the Earth and aligning with her cycles and seasons because there will also be a Full Moon and Full Lunar Eclipse during that time.
Vision
I want to share the vision I have been given for our Solstice Gathering, “Heart Visions & Soul Songs”  for Dec. 20, 21, & 22, 2010 here in Dunedin.  This gathering is definitely a heart vision for me.  My heart literally throbs when I feel into this gathering and the seed possibilities it contains for each individual participating, for the group, for the Dunedin area, for the connective network of sound circle groups and individuals that link up with us, and for the planet.  
I am being shown a gathering of 6 women, myself and 5 wonderful women I have connected with spiritually and at a deep heart level over a period of several years who will be coming from both the north and south islands:  Pania Lawsen, Heather Burch, Livia Tsai, Jaqueline Joy and Tracey Crampton-Smith.
The time we women spend together will be a spiritual retreat that is part workshop, and part ceremonial practices of using sound, song, and movement, sound sculptures and silence to gift energy to the Earth.  With the intent that she take and use our energy wherever and whenever it is most needed, we will be using times of sounding and times of silence and deep listening to align ourselves with her cycles and rhythms, and current process of rapid evolution. 
We will be visiting at least 6 different sacred spots that lie on the rim of the ancient volcano that surrounds the Dunedin Harbor, beginning with a cleansing ceremony, walking up the creek to Nicols Falls. (It is extremely important to take time to release the density and busyness of everyday life and deepen one’s connection to the Earth, before commencing with Earth energy work and communion.)  
During the 3 days we’ll be circling around the rim, interacting with Earth energies at each of the sacred spots, ending with a gifting ceremony, releasing our energy to the planet and to our sound circle network from a nearby mountain top.  
We will be overtone chanting in caves, creating a Sound Sculpture on the beach, playing in the mud, and dancing with the ocean waves during our three days.   I will once again be teaching the EarthSong practices that I have developed over the past 15 years but what I am most excited about this time is that we will be experiencing it all in the context of Nature.  Sharing our energy in the wild places, taking time to honor Mama Earth and listen for the her Song.
When I asked about how we women could hold sacred space and move around from location to location and take care of practicalities of nurturing our bodies while spending much of our time in altered states, I was shown a diagram of six dots forming a hexagon, surrounded by four dots forming a square.  The four dots represent four men who would be serving to create and hold a safe, nurturing space around us, freeing us to go deeply into the energetic work.  
Working as a team, the four men would help provide our transportation, meals and delivery of meals, and act as guardians both in a practical sense and an energetic sense for the 3 days we are engaged in the process.  
I have been calling people I am connected with at a deep heart level on the phone, so that our group here in Dunedin will be linking up energetically with individuals and groups all over the world.  I invite you to do the same with people and groups you are each connected with – that is, sharing this vision with them of what we (or with what you) will be doing and inviting them to link up in to you (and us) in whatever way fits for them.  
 
(For those of you who have asked, our opening ceremony at Nicols Falls will take place around 10:30 am on Dec. 20 which translates to Dec. 19, 1:30 pm PST.  We will close on Dec. 22 up on the mountain around 3 pm > which would be Dec. 21, 7 pm PST.)
 
Powerful energies are building for this Solstice and I invite you all to take time out to nurture both yourself and the Earth by listening for her song, singing your own song to gift and honor her, and connecting with all those who have deeply touched your heart through the years.
Please call or email me if you have any questions or wish to connect.
In New Zealand: call/text 021-259-0712
In the USA: call 541-255-2295 (this will ring through to my computer in NZ)
International:  call +64 21 259 0712
Namaste,