Open Love Letter To Patriarchy.

Dear Sirs and the majority of Madams,

I ask I beseech and bow on bended knee,
Please...
How have you let it get this far?
How is it that you cannot see
That your actions, thoughts and mindlessness
Are NOT building humanity?

Your philosophies, or lack of them
Are not supportive, protective of our Planets' precious cargo.
Whether it is ithe caring for the trees,
Or the provision of safery for your women and children,
Or indeed the bony brow beaten broken chests of yourselves

Can you not see that your waging of wars
Your obsession with 'more'
Takes into no account
That everything and yet nothing is actually Ours?

NO! you have chosen to be limp and flaccid
In your bravissimo banal attempts
Full of lies and deception
Empty oratory
Bred from the imbalance of your heart.

How is it that you have dared,
Over and over and yet over again,
To rock the boats of our safety?
Had the gall to return us to our leaky vessels
To treacherous seas when we finally, flaillingly
Reach safe shores for one mere morsel of a moment?
Is it because of your own petty selfish and unaswered discontent?

Can you not see that on your watch we lie more frail,
Weakened and depleted.
A death mask, a carcass of our truth
Thrown casually to one side?

I protest when you claim your escrow is to protect,
To provide and buffer us from harm.
In the name of personal paltry pernicious desire
For the sorry sake of pretence and losing face
You put us all at risk.
Every single one of us;
Every man, every woman, every child,
Every plant, every beast.

I used to think that if you rested enough
If I fed you well, mopped your brow,
Tended to you with tenderness
You would waken fresh, soft and clear.
But as you lay snoring
I wept. I knew
We became weaker.
Where did that true warrior go?
Why did you leave without so much as a note
On our fresh pressed pillow?
Where and when did you learn to put intellectual principle
Before real flesh and bone
Love and life?
What gave you the right to leave me to mop up all this mysoginist mess?

Your convoluted ideals more warped over time
Leave us with a sorry withered version of thier initial self.
An aneorexic example, clothed in the finest faux fashions of our day.
The moustaches, the beards all
Clever costumes which hide the lying lips,
The chins and faces of imposters
Those who would trick you in to an allegory of deciet disguised as love,
Posing as passion, appearing as honour.

I ask of the Masculine to disrobe
To shave, to un-slave
Us all from the stories that have kept
Death and drudgery alive,
That put blocks and blinders on our eternal right to thrive.

When will you awaken from your soporific slumber,
From your drugged out half baked brains
Which swim in a soup of no soul?
When will you stop handing out pretty palcebos
Pressed from an ethic that has no heart?

I want to rise up and slap your stupid face
And show the gifts you persistently choose to ignore.
The gift of a child who carries your name
That you forget looks to you for guidance but more for love
Who worships the very ground you walk upon.

I want to remind you of the treasure of that woman
Who lies with you night upon night,
Who sacrifices her beautiful body.
She who has likely been torn apart,
Ripped into a million pieces
So you can experience a new life born to be cherished
So rare a peice of Spirit transformed into Matter
In the caring crucible of her warm womb.

Explain to me. Please do.
What is so much more important than the protection and glory of that?

What career?
What piece of land?
What culture, creed or Holy Book warrants more attention
Than the God who lies crying in a dismal cot
In a dark room of a cold hearted creche,
Or bombed out village?

I fail to understand your ways now.
I have tried.
I have given you every benefit of doubt,
I have silenced the inner sanctum of my Self; my most potent intuition.
I taped up my mouth
Muffled countless screams, pangs of passion and
Retreated to the once jewelled cave of my Divine Femininity
For what?!
To allow you to remain asleep?
To permit you to think that politcal programs
Forged from Ego are the answer?
To let you perpetuate the myth that there are special people,
Leaders, more perfect than you or I
Who will set us free?

Are you even ever present to the joy and peace our own small hearth brings?
Are you ever vaguely aware of the invisible, invincible energy
Each act of home-making brings?
Are you oblivious to the vital sense of belonging, the fragrance of security that
My small hands, tiny feet and huge heart work endlessly to create?
So numbed to the energetics of Creation are 'we',
To the fact that we are one Being expressed in 7 billion ways.


From one sail we are all fashioned.
Each individual a shard of glass
Built to catch the Light
Which we send on into all of existence
To shine, to brighten each day,
Each moment.

That thicker skin you possess
That extra muscle and budding brawn you carry,
Is not present to protect you in battles.
It is your gift, your treasure
To use.
To keep the cold from our Collective Heart.

This misguided Masculine needs to stop and take stock.
It needs to sit, be silent and listen.
No more oratory.
No more propaganda.
No more fear mongering.
No more lies disgused as some elusive truth.
It needs not to run rallies
Or march or protest.
It does not need to defend,
For there is nothing out there other than Us.

Let me strip you bare.
Let me see you walk naked with your sanctimonious Self.
Without your Parlimentarian Papers,
Without your heel spurs and swords
Without your clever speech
Without those Holy Books you hide behind.
Without your fancy suits
And well stocked bank accounts
Without your cigarettes and whiskey
Without your cricket boxes, pads and guards.

Let me take you out of glass walled buildings which stand
Imposing, penile and tall above us all.
Let me bring you down to the place where I live
Amongst the soil and flowers
Where the ants of amore bite my tender toes.
Come sit with me
In the flow of my menstrual blood
That fed you ALL.

Let me show you how the feed this hallowed ground beneath your feet.
Let me help you seep into our Earth
To find your roots and true strength there.
Put your hands upon my face
Close your eyes and feel my skin
Breathe the sweet air I expel
Travel down my tender neck
Touch my breasts
Feel the fullness, the abundance, the force of  all Life
Always there.

Feel how I feed the soul with soft embrace
How my love when stripped back to its barest bones
Is unconditional.
Sit at my feet and listen carefully to the wailing whispers
Carved from my special shortened vocal chords
That will sing lullaby
To nourish every cell, every imagined embryo.

Please I beg on bended knee
From my most servile place
Please stop this pointless pillage
This impotent pretence,
This play, this staged, stooge filled situation.
I can see your scam in every man
In every woman and sorrowfully now in every child.

This is the global health care we truly crave
The salve, the balm.
The treachourous torturous illnesses that ravage our
Hills, our plains, deserts and cities
Stem from one deadly virulent virus;
A lack of Heart.

The most potent of all vaccines is love
And its cousin, compassion.
No strain of bacteria can survive a clear and open heart.
No war, no battle no soap box speech
No policy, no intellectual discourse can protect us
Like the touch,
Like the look of,
Like the surrender to love.

Your ways are not safe.
It is not protection.
It is not manly Manhood.
It is madness!

Dear Sirs and the majority of Madams.
I ask, I beseech and bow on bended knee
Please....
How can you not see
That your current actions, thoughts and mindlessness
Are NOT building humanity.

Yours Sincerely and with love.

Change: The only thing that is certain.

It's ironic isn't it that change, that which we are mostly trained to resist in the name of establishing security, in the endeavour of carving out our personal(stay married), professional(do something 'sensible') and financial (don't change your job) path, is in fact, the most certain and secure aspect of life we realistically have.

The current energies are bringing home how inevitable and indeed powerful change as a force is.  There is just no way that you will be left standing if you attempt to hold change at arms length. It's here, and it's here with a vengeance like never before

It's not that we haven't been as affected by change before. I mean it's always happening to us, to our bodies, to our minds, to our circumstances and of course consistently in nature. Change is part of the cycle of growth, without it we'd not only implode but we'd feel stymied. It's an integral part of freedom; that which we were born to reach for.

If you are alive at this time, it is clear that you signed up to experience and be part of, a huge shift in human evolution; probably the greatest morphing in all of human history for we are on the brink of bringing in a fully formed new consciousness that is more unified than ever before.

As we travel down the birth canal of this momentous change there is with any birth an increase in the pain and suffering.

Since the Wesak Moon (May 14 2014)  the energies of this imminent birth have amped up.  Anything that needed to be addressed when it came to resisting the incoming changes might well have been thrown up ( literally vomited) for you to observe and analyse.   Any 'indigestible' patterns of behaviour in yourself and those around you may well have risen.

Anything that was not moulded, melded, welded of  or to true love, most specifically self love, was/is up for recall.

If the last few months, especially from when Mercury turned retrograde (around  June 14 to July 1), were whammy weeks for you its no surprise.  Mercury retrograde is our friend, (she says twitching!).  The  proverbial 'delays', 'frustrations' and 'outages' in our electronic equipment (that includes us too since we are essentially electro-magnectic creatures), the sense of not moving forward or feeling 'stuck, disempowered (again this applies to our physical vehicle too- groan!) are just ways of our higher selves attempting to contact us and remind us that as with all change, a period of integration (read rest; preferably in an induced coma!) is essential for the 'new' to come online,  reboot or to update the OS  so to speak.

I personally have been unable to write (or speak) a word let alone string a sentence together during this last few weeks, yet today,( the first day of Mercury leaving its retrograde period), I find my fingers winging their way back to the keyboard and my brain seems, after a long hiatus, to be powering up again.

Speaking of brains.  If you have had a bit of a problem with forgetfulness; you know that walking into a room and not knowing why you are there? The opening of the fridge  to stare at its contents for ages wildly wondering why you opened it in the first place feeling?  Or indeed as I have been doing alarmingly regularly, calling someone on the phone and hanging up because I, No. 1 don't know who I have called and No.2 have no idea why I was on the phone in the first place.  It's ok you don't need to contact the nearest Alzheimer's Clinic or overdose on fish oils, its not dementia darlings, it's merely the switch off from one power grid to another; the change over mechanism from 3D to 5D.

On a side note for anyone who is undoubtedly truly suffering from dementia like aliments I do not of course jest or make light of this but in metaphysical terms all 'forgetfulness' is related to an inner desire or dynamic that wishes to hook out of the sufferers current world and move on;  the wish to detach from the possibly enervating life style, personal circumstances that are perhaps less than shiny, that there seems no way out of other than to literally shut down synapses which, keep them attached to the old and malnourishing.

Anyway, back to our current inner climates.

Essentially the changes that are upon us are rooted in the idea that we are re-visiting so called contracts or agreements that we have been operating under in oblivion for many centuries. It's time to see if they truly support our growth and our truth.

For example its quite strange when you stop and think that every single one of us by and large adheres to the agreement of Time.  It is a man made concept that we all 'buy' into.  We 'agree' without thought that there are 60 seconds to a minute and 24 hours in a day and we give the nod to the idea of ageing without so much as the batting of an ever increasing wrinkly eyelid.  And therefore so it must be because what we think we literally create.

We take on many of these 'agreements' as our own without questioning as to whether they truly support the blossoming or even just the peacefulness of our self.

Now is a time when you may have, or will, enter into situations that throw these invisible contracts into the air for re-appraisal or indeed clearing out.  The fine print of these unwritten laws are being magnified, some of them shocking to our upgrading consciousness.

Flare ups with family, an increase in wanting to say 'no' to situations or people which on one hand make you feel liberated yet on the other hand invoke a deep sense of guilt that you have been harbouring and hiding for probably most of your life time(s).  The irrational desire to leave a career or job that has and is sustaining you relatively well, the sudden knowing that it's time to end that relationship, ask your kids to move out,  tell your parents what really hurt you or to just have this uncontrollable  need to break free of something, anything!

In the public arena it's apparent that globally we are in a time of increased awareness of how old, out dated mechanisms such as the current political norms are really not cutting it anymore. I mean they really aren't working anymore.

Essentially democratic processes are losing their initial high minded essence and descending into plain and simple to see examples of the worst elements of duality. Tit for tat responses, forming polices that merely attempt to denigrate the opposition or highlight follies of previous governments are  quite simply too dualistic in nature  and powerless to be able to achieve anything of worth in the new paradigm we are moving into. We the general public want more.

Religious dogma and cultural traditions are losing ground, are losing  their grasp, popularity and efficacy as mechanisms to control or inspire the heart and soul of people all over the world.

For example whilst Pakistan might seem like a hell hole, whilst it might seem like it is a lost cause and not worthy of a second glance (new agers beware your own addiction to 'wrong and right' here) it does provide the perfect petri dish in which to see without any macular impairment, the destruction that duality consciousness fosters.  Barbaric killings rooted in an ideology of honour and shame (dualism), ethnic cleansing (no unity consciousness there),  and the attitude of super powers that deem themselves superior to such cultures and meddle with local affairs with the mindset that 'we know what's best for you' are all examples of how unworkable a patriarchal and dualistic paradigm now is.

This type of illumination is apparent in many countries, States and mind sets. It's not a 'developed vs underdeveloped' world situation. It can be present in the heart of the most educated and not in that of the illiterate or underprivilaged.  The Light shines from those who choose heart, who choose optimism over cleverness.

It is not that there is 'more' of this madness on this precious Earth of ours at the moment, it is merely that   we are awakening to, (with the help of celestial energies and an increase of people choosing to get off the wheel of life as we know it),  new ways of existing.  It is our future to move surely and now rather swiftly away from the harmful, untenable and unsustainable mechanisms of the past, into a more unified and humanitarian future.

So God/ess bless the tragedies and injustices, the cruelty and the violence, the numbskulls and the blockheads of the Now; they are the Light in a thinly veiled disguise.  The best, most powerful contribution we can make to alleviate the suffering and nonsense, is to shed multiple skins that have masked our own suffering or secret places of un-(w)holi-ness.


Yup that is where we are at, at the moment.  We are burning off more dross, losing density; baggage that has held us in a difficult place for so long.  It's a little bit scary, unnerving at best and it may feel like the loss will be too much to bear, or that you won't be able to operate as a normal human being.

Questions and worries will arise.

"How can I not be the daughter/mother my father/child expects/hopes me to be?"

"How can I create boundaries that will I know support my own growth best without hurting an 'other'?"

"How will I support my family if I give up this so called 'good' job?"

"How can I say I don't ascribe my religion and its teachings anymore?"

Fear is the glue that keeps us stuck.  Fear is the antithesis of love and love is where we are headed. We can't be in love and fear at the same time, they are energies that are at opposite ends of the spectrum and like oil and water don't mix well at all.

So.. how do we take all of this on board and still stay sane?  How do we bridge this time of transition and keep a foot in both worlds without falling off the end of it face first in to the mud?

I'll let you into a little secret.  We are already there.  It's now merely a matter of each of us choosing which side of the river we will make our new home.  There is no end line or time  or space when all of life will change for life is not linear.

The change as Gandhi rightly said, is in each of us.  Each time we choose a thought that supports the new improved paradigm, we set up a tent on the easier more equable side of the river.  Each time we fill ourselves with love, offer kindness, compassion and care to our Self, we infuse a million other beings and situations with the same, for our atoms, our cells, are shared by all of us, by the whole of Life on Earth.

Each time we dare stop and look at the trees, the flower that pushes its way up through the crack in the paving stone we contribute to the peace and ease we and the collective are bound for.  Each time we acknowledge as holy as ourselves (for we are God) the bird that sings in the tree or the cow that chews its cud, the homeless on the street or the stone in the sand, we add another brick in the wall we build towards our unity, our joy.

We are on the brink of a momentous move forward into this aspired to New Age and we are being helped by so much, by so many.  The more we dissolve the invisible barriers to loving Self and the visible ones that exist in terms of cultures, creeds, countries and religious/spiritual thinking, the more we are able to integrate and literally "earth" this new paradigm.


We are burning off more dross, losing density, baggage that has held us in place for so long.  It's a little bit scary, unnerving at best and it may feel like the loss will be too much to bear, or that you won't be able to operate as a normal human being.

So.. suggestions for integration? Rest and more rest if you need. Being busy and earning your place on this earth by being in constant motion is one of our weird examples of being still stuck in the old paradigm.  Hook out of the old and into the new. Often this can only be done by stopping by not participating.  Get into nature as often as you can, She brings balance to everything and because She is deeply rooted in the energy of change She will always facilitate any changes we are choosing to make.  Breathe and breathe some more. Breathing is the primary mechanism to filling ourselves with new energy, with new life; it restores, reboots and literally re-builds new cells and new unexplored neural pathways.  It will affect positively any shift you attempt. And lastly slow it down.  Slowness allows the body and mind to connect with the heart which is where the power of change lives now.   It is not in the mind or the intellect.  Our new navigation tool is the feeling life, the emotions for they are our most accurate guidance system; if you don't feel right don't do it and stillness allows you to keep your centre when  all is going mad around you.

Change is a coming.. oh Yeah!  And we are on a home stretch, ready to don our mortar boards and graduate.. if we dare!

The Lion Does Not Sleep Tonight: Love and Luminescence.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Before all you cynics and Hallmark haters walk away, yes I will talk about love, I always do, but as usual it will be from the inside out, from the bigger, deeper and wider picture.  This won't be the chocolate box version of corny cupids' story.

I find it no accident that this much maligned,  often saccharine sweet day that gives many of us toothache and indigestion, brings us a magnificent Full Moon this year. Timely.

Today's Full Moon sits in the sweeping savannah of the regal, "look at me, love me, aren't I just grand" constellation Leo. Its' full- fat, feline face flanked by its luminescent, auric mane, is lit up by the freedom seeking, individualist, care if you dare, Aquarius Sun.

What a lovely Moon to have for February 14th 2014.  So what energies, what enlightened enquiry does our Leo Moon bring to this day of love, roses and cupcakes?

The lion symbolises supreme self love.  He sits gazing proudly upon his pride, upon his 'accomplishments' , or lack of them, (we all know he is quite a lazy bugger) without so much of a tinge of guilty conscience.  The only guilt he ever accepts is gilt.  He knows without thinking that he IS gold, that he is enough and therefore he also has a heart of gold; the ever proud lover of his Pride, excited by their mere existence.

Leo loves himself without reservation and finds it annoying that the rest of us don't know how.  This can be interpreted by us cup-not-so-full mortals as arrogance. I mean who sits up high on a self built podium without feeling the need to justify his existence or lift a royal claw?

This Full Moon is so infused with love of all kinds.  It calls us to take a breath, sit back (preferably on a hillock of some kind) and bask in our own glory.  It begs us to not to tell people about suffering but instead to remind them they are free (Aquarius).  It's time to feel "full' of ourselves, to have the courage (Leo) to be our biggest fans without reservation, to feel the energy of entitlement, of wonder and awe for ourselves.  It is the aristocrat of moons.  A time to eat cake, preferably chocolate and ditch the pious diet of stale bread or humble pie.

The Leo flame of self adoration and the whole of his life (Pride) is consistent, loyal and as pure as 24 carat gold. It truly comes from his big heart. Add to this the illuminating Aquarian Sun that taunts us to set ourselves free, pushes us to attach ourselves fully to our individuality, our YOU-nique expression of Selfhood and you have a likely outpouring of chocolate box emotions for the wonderful that is You.

"As above, so below."  
                                                    
The current cosmic configurations are a call from deep space, that place beyond deep, inside our hearts, that reminds us of the laws of Unity Consciousness, the Law of One.



Leo Full Moon energy highlights these these Laws.  As you set yourself free, as you dare (very Aquarian/Uranian energy) to dream of what you would really do if you had the courage (Leo lion heart) to set in motion a life path that was more free, then you,  in doing so,  begin to set the whole of humanity free.  It's not rocket science, or mushy gushy romantic idealism its actually just quantum physics.

Pardon the pun but todays moon is an Armstrong Moon. One brave step into this Moon's calling is a giant leap for Mankind!

"The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;
She shines on thieves on the garden wall"  R.L Stevenson.

Full Moons occur when the Sun and Moon are in direct opposition, where the Sun shines his torch on her big round face so he can see just who she is, what she wants for (us)today.   Whist the Full Moon is largely associated with the feminine, the feeling, the emotional life within, it is actually also an opportunity to learn how to use the complementary Masculine energy from the Sun sign one is in, and combine it with the Feminine vibrations of the sign the Moon is hanging out in.
Full Moons are a time where the divine aspects of both the Feminine and Masculine are literally shining and reflecting to us at their fullest and most radiant, illuminating the beauty, wisdom and talents of both.  This sacred cosmic marriage gives opportunity to birth more of our own wholeness, allows us to dip into a greater sense of completness.

"Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love's refrain."  Hoagy Charmicheal - Stardust.



Daring to love our Self fully is not selfishness but merely a sign to drop all disguises, all masks to our own truth, our own authenticity.  We carry around a hefty amount of fakeness due to the fact that we have been conditioned from the moment we were born, to respond to the outer world, the external, rather than to take cues from our internal guidance system which would always tell us, if we'd listen, that we are more than magic; made of stardust are We.


Todays' wisdom lies in dropping all external 'coverings" (this is where the word mooning comes from!) so that your true 'light' can shine.  It is a good time to embrace full self acceptance warts and all. There are no deficits or need to make changes.  In the light of unity consciousness there are no 'good' or 'bad' parts of us, we just ARE who we ARE and who we are is already whole. How scary liberating (Aquarius) is that?!

To set your self free by loving all that there IS about you is the ultimate version of Love. The best Valentine's gift you can give yourself.  Once  you afford yourself this upgraded version of love it becomes more than easy to offer the same to others. Bingo! Utopia! Everybody's happy.

Do you see what I see? Reframing.

Interestingly though not surprising, is that  right now, we also have Mercury in Retrograde; the chance to review our past.  Mercury Retrograde is sometimes seen as pain in the bum because it seems to cause delays or glitches or repeat episodes of scenarios we are sick of.  What  his apparent backward movement actually does, is give rise to a kind of  meditation, an inner stalling so we can see in slow-mo "stuffs" gone by.  Its a great window to clamber into the powerful art of re-framing. Any energies vibrating in the frequency of duality that you still lug around, that still influence and colour perceptions about decisions or circumstances you might have been through, are ready for dumping.  The garbage man will be around for a few more days.  Get a few bin bags or even a skip and get rid of it now!

If you are feeling antsy, irritable, unheard, awkward, hurt or angry at the moment. If you seem to be dredging old wounds with stinging, intellectual antiseptics, its time to let go and reframe. It's opportune to don those rose coloured spectacles that everyone told you were useless and offer yourself a  revised version of the incident/feeling/circumstance that allows you to bask in the glow of your own glory, in your true humanity. There are no mistakes only learning experiences.  Really, its time to kiss it all better, love yourself up and carry on.  The giant heart of the King of the Beasts is here to help you swell that self love and admiration.

Our hearts and our world will benefit from this unreserved, embarrassing, surging love.
                       
You may have noticed an increase of posts and sharing of information regarding cruelty to our magnificent animal kingdom.  Calls to provide unconditional love and homes for animals in shelter, outrage at beyond belief shark cullings, whale hunting and everything in between.

Where is this increased compassion and fierce passion coming from?  Yep you got it- that boring old thing called self love. Sorry!   True power without ego comes from within, from filling that pot (belly) of self love I annoyingly keep banging on about.  This is where momentum picks up  and facilitates a more appreciative, connected, and wise planetary experience.

It's time to dissolve the barriers to the beauty of who we are. It's time to amplify our courage to speak up (Mercury) with love (Leo) and dare to bust out of this no longer tenable, inhumane system, to flow into our divine right to freedom and appreciation.(Aquarius/Leo).  Atrocities of the past (retrograde) and present can no longer be muted or dismissed.  We are here and we will roar! (coz we love ourselves enough finally?).

The focus for this Full Moon is to concentrate of the things that feel good; that unite us rather than divide us. Just as Epigentics (google Bruce Lipton) has proved how loving a damaged, sick cell can be healed through offering it compassion, love and visualising it "well", holding awareness and becoming an awake, conscious, truly effective co-creator does not involve coming together in anger or indignation. It is not served best by highlighting horror or illuminating tragedy.  We become more powerful to manifest a more equable existence by rallying together in love rather than in hate, by bringing focus to the miracle that we are, the power that we are, rather than homing in on our deficits or those of the world.

So Happy Valentine's Day! Love this day for what it is, what it brings into focus. Enjoy your chocolates, your cards, your cheesy poems and tokenistic red roses.  It is indeed a day to drop into love, give in, roll over and receive.  Dive deep, go beneath the commercial, consumerist surface in a soul-full, powerful way and love us all into wholeness, into wellness.

May your love for self be as full as this regal Moon.

Shine on!

June Solstice and Magpies; (Really) letting go of the old to create the new.

The past three months or maybe more have brought a persistent Magpie into my life.

She (or he) comes periodically every day and throws herself against various windows around the house. She started by attacking the window most prominent, in the kitchen, which is where I spend a lot of time.  First she would appear to perform this ritual in the early afternoon when I would be most likely be preparing dinner, but in recent days she has been committing virtual suicide many times a day in a variety of places.

The insistent flying into the window is behaviour  said to be caused by adolescent magpies seeing themselves in the reflection of a window attempting to fend off any competition. However having always been claircognizant ( being tuned into signs and symbols that occur in nature and elsewhere), I knew that this bird was bringing more than her natural behaviour into my perception and experience.

Over the months if I am not in the kitchen this bird will fly into the window of the room that I am in at any given time. The frequency and ferocity has increased as though she is really trying to get my attention for an urgent purpose to the point where on some mornings she pecks at the bedroom window even when the curtains are closed and the reflection from the window not so apparent.

Today I finally sat down and spent a good 20 minutes 'asking" her and my unseens her purpose.  This is what came up.
                                             

In Shamanic terms birds represent freedom and Spirit so I sensed that perhaps I was not fully letting my Spirit 'in'. Magpies are also the communicators of the Spirit realm so I was possibly not communicating my own truth with enough courage or conviction.

As the June Solstice arrives on the 21st, astrologically and cosmically it is a time to really let go of any thing that is not aligned with your Source Self.  It is a time where we are being asked to bring to resolution and make conscious any old habits of mind, body and spirit that do not vibrate with the life path and experience you and therefore the collective want to experience.

As we shift from the energies of Gemini (the communicator, conduit, master of the abstract and facilitator of new stories) into the new nurturing container of Cancer where all new life is mothered and given shelter we have the profound opportunity to bring new ways of Be-ingness to ourselves and our Global experience.

Cancer is the womb; the creator.  What ever you put in that womb will be nurtured.  Put more of what we already have in the world in there and the more it will multiply.  Use the Gemini traits of embarking on a new journey, daring to be maverick and having the courage to communicate these changes with a little bit of  "spirit" or cheekiness and Cancer will grow for you a whole new experience.

It's really a time to jettison any ideas or deeply conditioned processes that will hinder y(OUR) expansion.  If you have self derogatory thoughts about your body, your gender, your worth, your work, your interface with any aspect of your existence now is the time to release it for good.

All apparent or hidden energies of duality must be released. All elements of opposition integrated.

Magpies are considered the light in the darkness.  My interpretation of this sign that has been forcefully pushing its pesky way into my life in recent weeks is, that NOW is the time to cut all cords that tie us to anything that does not build peace, abundance and well being.  Now is the time to really fully release all that is not resonant with Source Self.

As we leave the previously pervasive ideology of  duality behind it is interesting that the Magpie with it's colouring, symbolises their  ability to live in the black and the white; it's like they know how to live within the dark and the light simultaneously understanding the benefits of contrast yet disallowing the darkness to be their primary guide.

They tend to collect and hoard 'shiny" things, again a symbol of how we need to continually work consciously to gather within us thoughts and a perspective that focuses on the beauty and magnificence of this physical experience.

The Magpie totem also encourages us to use whatever understanding we already have; the treasures that we are.

Instead of aiming for perfection before we begin the process of letting go of old, unhealthy (after the Solstice, frankly unworkable) notions it's more productive to just start moving gently towards new and desired patterns.

For example if it's your physical well being that is a the top of your list instead of embarking on a boot camp, commissioning the juicer and pushing, punishing yourself into good health it's ok to take the low road of say just adding a green salad to your plate of pizza or taking a 10 minute walk for a few weeks until you build up that sense of enjoyment and empowerment that small changes bring.

The quick or ardent fix is out because with every thought or action that is focused on this dramatic approach to change, there is an accompanying sub-text that is basically saying 'I'm not good enough or what I am doing is not good enough so I have to work really hard at revising that."

Wholeness does not come from highlighting the 'holes."

We cannot change ourselves, our world or our experiences of life by viewing what we are or where we are from a place of underscoring deficit.   A poor man cannot make himself rich by focusing on what he is lacking, a country cannot change its situation by discussing its problems, nor a child become confident by a teacher telling him where he is failing.

The move from Gemini into Cancer that the June Solstice marks, means that we have a window of opportunity to use the Gemini traits of adaptability and communication to facilitate these small but powerful changes in our lives.   Magpies are known for their opportunistic natures often teasing more predatory birds such as eagles to show their prowess.  They have a daredevil nature often swooping in on the unsuspecting.  I don't know how many times my 'tower" has been 'buzzed' by a cheeky Magpie as I hang the washing!

If we are to BE-come more of OUR- Selves, if we are to co- create a collective experience that eradicates the difficulties, horrors and injustices of our history and current time, if we are to bring more health, abundance and well being into all of our experience we are now at a time personally, collectively and well aligned cosmically to take some risks, to behave like the daredevil magical magpie.

Now is the moment where we can bring true resolution to tired, untenable issues that have held us back as individuals and as a species.  It's a clear sign from the uprisings in Turkey and Brazil during the build up towards the June Solstice that we can and must take these opportunities to bring change; dare to be different and take risks.

Here we have a portal to unhook from the pervasive paradigm to put ourselves on the line so we can all grow.  The timing is perfect to leave our history behind and carve out new, more sustainable, more equable and frankly just happier, easier times.

Magpies draw on their resourceful almost eclectic way of living to survive.  Our success depends on using this wide and varied way of being; it is now counting on us to have the courage to  literally "wing" it. The rules that we have lived by thus far are all obsolete.

Magpies are not creatures who stay in the safety of a nest or gather around them secure structures to survive such as Bowerbirds do.  Instead they dare to go get what they need and are much more 'in your face' birds, metaphorically calling us to do the same.

This next few days is the pivot point that we can avail of to be compassionate with ourselves and others around hidden or apparent fears and inadequacies.  We need not confront them head on as has been the previously ascribed methodology. This shift can be made easily and quickly instead by being gentle and respectful in sync with the frequency of  love and peace we all deeply crave.

It's time to reconcile the dualities of our conditioned nature; to resolve any lingering emotional and spiritual oppositions.   Its useful to pay attention to your dreams and hunches and then have the courage to 'go' with the messages they provide. Your steps will not falter if you focus on things that you as an individual value.  As you listen to your heart your heart will naturally open to the dissonant cries of others and your compassion and ability to act upon it will grow.

Selfishness automatically leads to Selflessness.  Can you feel the relief in this statement?  Sit with it an allow it to grow, allow yourself to blossom back into the seed of Source that you know you are. If you feel the relief you know that you are ready to be a harbinger of change.  If you still feel uncomfortable with the idea of Selfishness leading to Selflessness you have been given the gift of knowing that you still have some work to do with aligning with your god-self.

My Magpie's insistent and often grating cries have been screaming at me (and now at you!)  She has been calling me to make that final step and really "wake" up, live consciously in absolute awareness.  She has me walking fully the uncharted territory of truly leaving all dregs of victimhood behind to deliberately create with the support of Uni-versal forces, the life and experience that I know We are meant to have.

The Magpie cries:

"Let go of the old and bring on the new!  Dare you!" 


PS:
As I began to write this the incessant flying into windows stopped and at some point my magical Magpie came to rest on the window sill of my study.  She stayed there for about half an hour flitting from the sill to the Passion Fruit Vine on the opposite boundary wall every so often.  She pecked at the window once or twice as if wanting to get my attention, fixed me with her beady eyed glare and then flew away.  I wonder if she will return.  

Boston bombings, bone rattling earthquakes and balance.

“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau

Bombs in Boston and earthquakes in the Near and Middle East.  We have had two deaths in the family and it seems everywhere I go I see ambulances rushing to the scenes of serious road traffic accidents.  

Its likely Pluto the planet of transformation through destruction is active along with good old Mars putting an explosive oar into our stream of consciousness. 

I am tapping into something beneath the surface that heralds a time of ramping up energies; of change and shift.  It asks the collective to take a leap of faith and let go of all our fears, of all our tendencies to deal with difficulty by putting up more walls, by attempting to find safety in the skirts of "wars" against what we don't like or don't want.

No one in the corridors of power is asking if our current methodolgy of dealing with bombs and other such atrocities involving, invoking more fear and breeding less trust is really working.  Well its clear and apparent despite all the measures put out to increase our security, is in fact not taming this terrorist beast in the slightest.  We aren't safer and we feel more threatened.  

The obstinacy of the pro-gun supporters in the States has not manifested more safety, the wars and drones are killing more, causing more pain and buliding more fear. 

It makes sense that what we focus on we get more of.  Have you ever noticed that when you have pain in your body if you keep thinking about it it gets worse?  The role of pain killers essentially block pathways to the brain that keep your attention on the suffering.  Have you ever seen the merit of a friend who comes around when you have had a bad day, brings a funny movie, a bottle of wine and a box of chocolates?  The shift of focus is what brings relief.  Yet we are largely unconscious of the power of this apparent facile distraction. 

It may sound cruel or inhuman to suggest that in the light of tragedy that we look the other way.  I mean people have been killed, maimed and seriously affected by the Boston bombings and yes there are hundreds who suffer the consequences of drone attacks and so called controlled bombings in the Middle East in the name of bringing peace. However Universal Law would poo poo this approach.  She would instead ask us to look for love to foster ease and peace. She would likely ask us to look out of the window at the blossom on the tree or wish we made cupcakes instead of watching the News.

Compassion is a great healer of all wounds and I sometimes seriously consider the idea that all this horror that we increasingly experience is literally waking us up.  It is in the wake of disaster that you see true humanity at work.  Tragedy brings heart out of the closet and everyone concerned begins to rally round for the good of a unified collective.  

As we hear of the sadness and grief of others we automatically, because we are human, begin to feel compassion for those affected.  We begin to feel vulnerablity; our own and that of others.

As our vulnerablity is highlighted we tend to begin to see our neighbours, our families, friends and even strangers from this perspective.  They are just people like you or I trying to make sense of the world and their experiences. 

When our own lives are touched in some way, either really deeply and personally, or through viewing scenes of horror through media coverage ironically our love for ourselves and our own small lives is set alight.  Once that takes hold our hearts begin to open.  Once our hearts begin to open we start to literally 'feel" the pain of the other.  

I know when I open my heart to myself and feel compassion (not pity) for myself I start to see everyone else's vulnerablity and the beauty of their humanity.  Our hearts literally go 'out' to others, whether its to feel compassion for a mother struggling with a basket load of shopping and a fractious toddler  in the supermarket, the bent old man sitting alone in a cafe reading his paper or the Afghan wedding party decimated by a 'legal' bomb. 

There is always method in some madness especially when we learn to drop our duality glasses and view life from a place of non judgment, from a place where we see that the ideology of right and wrong as being obselete.

Once you adopt this neutral, observant stance beauty, love and compassion literally rises from the dead.

The atrocities that seem to have gone viral of late, those which none of us can hide from any longer, are gifts.  They support this invisible evolutionary shift to a heart centred, more caring, co- creative paradigm.

From vulnerablity and the acceptance of its strength, it's beauty, grows compassion and the realisation that one persons pain is actually part of our own and then from that compassion comes balance.