All will come again – Rainer Maria Rilke

Posted on August 27, 2015 by new desert

All will come again

All will come again into its strength:
the fields undivided, the waters undammed,
the trees towering and the walls built low.
And in the valleys, people as strong and varied as the land.

And no churches
where God is imprisoned and lamented
like a trapped and wounded animal.
The houses welcoming all who knock
and a sense of boundless offering in all relations,
and in you and me.

No yearning for an afterlife,
no looking beyond,
no belittling of death,
but only longing for what belongs to us
and serving earth,
lest we remain unused.
~ Ranier Maria Rilke ~

(Rilke’s Book of Hours:Love Poems to God, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)

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Utopia — Wislawa Szymborska

Posted on August 25, 2015 by new desert

Utopia

Island where all becomes clear.

Solid ground beneath your feet.

The only roads are those that offer access.

Bushes bend beneath the weight of proofs.

The Tree of Valid Supposition grows here
with branches disentangled since time immemorial.

The Tree of Understanding, dazzlingly straight and simple,
sprouts by the spring called Now I Get It.

The thicker the woods, the vaster the vista:
the Valley of Obviously.

If any doubts arise, the wind dispels them instantly.

Echoes stir unsummoned
and eagerly explain all the secrets of the worlds.

On the right a cave where Meaning lies.

On the left the Lake of Deep Conviction.
Truth breaks from the bottom and bobs to the surface.

Unshakable Confidence towers over the valley.
Its peak offers an excellent view of the Essence of Things.

For all its charms, the island is uninhabited,
and the faint footprints scattered on its beaches
turn without exception to the sea.

As if all you can do here is leave
and plunge, never to return, into the depths.

Into unfathomable life.

~ Wislawa Szymborska ~

(A Large Number, trans. by S. Baranczak & C. Cavanagh)

 

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Archangel Uriel’s Message to Humanity at the Dawn of a New Age

Posted on August 7, 2015 by new desert

My name, Uriel, means “Light of God, “ and I have loved humans for millennia.  I could offer you many insights on human evolution, since I have witnessed your development over thousands of years.  I led the great Patriarch, Abraham; I delivered from on high the message to Noah predicting the great flood.  I have interceded on humanity’s behalf many times, and have now the privilege of delivering humans into the Aquarian Age.  I serve as planetary midwife to all taking birth in this New Age.   Today, I speak to you of beauty.

At the closing of any great Age, the human psyche is presented with many images.  Today, they are captured by the media and flashed into your consciousness with strangely little regard.  The process of an Age dying holds numerous similarities to the process of a human death.  When the eyes close and the death process begins, as the blood drains from the frontal region of the brain, images of demons and monsters appear before the dying being.  As the process continues, these dreadful images fade and are replaced by the arising of beautiful beatific images of all types and traditions.

Beautiful beings, angels, and guides, lead the dying through various stages into a great field of divine light.  At this point, one feels suspended in an ocean of love so brilliant as to be utterly unimaginable.  The hellish images dissolved, one opens to a vast spaciousness of love and pure consciousness.  This process takes only a few minutes, and the journey into the in-between state is launched.

In the case of a dying Age, the hellish images are imprinted in the fertile field of consciousness over decades.  You are now in the first stages of a dying Age.  Hellish images confront your hearts and minds in a dizzying, and seemingly infinite array.  You have not yet enjoyed the bliss of the beautiful images that will eventually arise to guide you into this New Age.

While you are not in control of the process, you are certainly instrumental, or can be, in both the timing and the arrival point where the hellish images fall away from the collective psyche.  You do have input into the process, input that is largely determined by the images you entertain in your consciousness.  As an Age closes, visionary revelations increase for those able to apprehend them.   Beatific imprints are pulsed into human consciousness to interrupt the demonic apparitions they will ultimately replace.

Thus, you must rest in the comforting support of beauty.  Surround yourselves with the images that will part the veil and carry you through the maelstrom.  You have not been forgotten, nor has the Divine abandoned Earth.  You are in the process of rediscovering the many faces of the Divine, and you can facilitate the revelatory process by resting your senses in the many forms of beauty that are encoded with the Presence of the Divine.  Feast your eyes on beautiful sights, your ears on beautiful sounds, your smell, taste, and touch with beautiful stimuli.

In like manner, do not receive the many hellish images as if they are real.  Treat them as impressions from a nightmare that, when awakened, are released.  Look and listen for beauty, breathe it into the core of your being, and know you have many friends among the angelic realm who will guide you into deeper and broader experiences of beauty – if you only ask to be so led.  We will greet you in beauty, grace you in beauty, and allow you to rest in beauty.  Reach out with the hands of your hearts and accept the gifts we offer you.  Above all, walk in beauty and offer beauty to all the sentient beings of Earth.

Channeled through Kathlyn Kingdon 2015

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Archangel Uriel (www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RQ2SXO2EVI)

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Archangel Raphael’s Message to Humanity at the Dawn of a New Age

Posted on July 19, 2015 by new desert

I, Raphael, or Israfil, have guided and protected Jewish, Christian, and Islamic pilgrims on holy journeys. I am recognized by all three traditions as a powerful healer, and today, I speak to you of healing. As one spiritual Age closes and another dawns, much healing is required to step safely and prudently from one into the other. The way of the world has always been etched in strife and suffering. As the Piscean Age dissolves and the Aquarian Age dawns, much collective healing is sought by all who are awake enough to make the request.

What wounds are you, together, trying to heal? Indeed, my friends, they are legion. Most could be categorized as wounds of misapplied power, domination, and the manipulative superimposition of one (person, culture, or nation) over another. These wounds are much more difficult to heal than are the devastations arising from natural disasters such as storms, earthquakes, volcanic activity, etc. The activities of the elemental forces are in no way “personal,” and thus can be encountered with relative neutrality, even though their affects may be great.

However, human acts of inhumanity, generally wrought upon those possessing less physical or monetary power, constitute quite another matter. This type of wounding cuts to the very soul, making the needed healing a multi-lifetime endeavor. What’s more, it deeply scars the collective integrity of the race or culture so wounded. In the end, those so wounded become the greatest teachers for humanity, for they have borne a great price for the redemption of the collective consciousness.

Just as I stirred the waters in the pool of Bethesda to heal the ill and infirm lowered into that pool, so I must once again stir the waters of afflicted mind. You are all being called to help me with this great and daunting task. To do so, however, you must first cleanse your minds of the negative imprints of the Taurian, Arian, and Piscean Ages. Approximately 5,000 years ago, as legend holds, humans began constructing a tower, one that they intended to take them into heaven. Of course, they did not understand that “heaven” had to be found inside themselves.

Since their goal of ascending into the realms of the Divine was misinformed and misplaced, they created much havoc. In the end, the story holds, the races were divided by language differences, and people, not understanding one another, began to fight and wage war. While this story may be a great oversimplification in many areas, those who consider themselves healers must recognize that perhaps the wounds of that Taurian Age remain unhealed even today. Truly, they render both the wounded and the wounders unfit for the Aquarian Age.

I speak to you of healing, since it is only through healing the past that the future can realize its promise. I speak to you of healing because you must actualize the healing. While your modern technology offers many graces and gifts, it cannot heal the traumas assimilated into the collective consciousness from prior Ages. These must be released, utterly, from the field of the collective psyche. Yet, progression of Ages notwithstanding, the collective need for a new dimension in healing looms large as the Aquarian Age opens.

I call upon all who have adequate maturity to create, and then enter, a new paradigm for healing the collective wounds of planetary experiencing. Remember, real power is found not in the inflicting of wounds, but in their healing and transformation. As humanity negotiates this New Age, may wisdom and clarity be the guiding light and the force for abundant healing.

Channeled through Kathlyn Kingdon 2015

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Archangel Raphael (http://imgbuddy.com/archangel-raphael-icon.asp)

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Archangel Gabriel’s Message to Humanity at the Dawn of a New Age

Posted on July 13, 2015 by new desert

I speak to you of awakening. The trumpet I blow is an awakening tool. It does not represent sound, although it may be heard. Its blast compels one neither to song nor dance. Like all angels, I am a direct energetic extension of the Divine, sent forth millions of times to facilitate the awakening of pure consciousness in the hearts and minds of humans.

Of old, I appeared to the prophet Daniel, interpreting and explaining his revelatory visions. I was the “man in linen” referenced in the books of Daniel and Ezekiel. In the Kabalistic mysteries, I held the force of Yesod. Later, I appeared to Zacharias, foretelling the birth of the one who was called “John the Baptizer.” I appeared to the Virgin Mary, predicting the birth of her son, Jesus. I carried messages from the Divine to the great prophet Muhammad. Having been given guardian responsibilities for Paradise, I, too, have remained on the forefront of humanity’s evolutionary curve.

I call upon all who have ears to hear, to awaken now from the sleep of illusions. Reject the tyrannical forces of greed, corruption, and arrogance, and turn your attention to awakening into your greater reality. How shall humanity awaken? Must it be through war and violence? These are risky business, since they may actually strengthen the forces of illusion and delusion. Is there not another way? Delight in goodness, truth, compassion, and strength. Abhor the proliferation of armaments, the destruction of cities, and the shedding of innocent blood.

You have been called to lift yourselves above the terrestrial forces of might and domination. You have been called to a greater glory. You can accept the support of angelic forces so immense and far-reaching you cannot even imagine their collective magnitude. Why, then, o human factor, do ye waste the love and grace of the Infinite in such paltry preoccupations? Why continue the destructive trances of prior Ages? Why call upon one another’s baser natures rather than upon one another’s higher natures? To receive goodness each must supply goodness.

Where is the wisdom gained through the experience of planetary history? Has it, too, been buried among the artifacts of war? What is the wisdom in killing one another when humans could be singing to one another, filling children with laughter and security, rather than wanton destruction, dread, and impoverishment? How has Earth been forced into an antagonistic relationship with Her very own children? Who will care for Earth, securing Her right to peace and wholeness?

You are being called to regenerate the lush beauty and fertility of Earth. You are being called to awaken to a pristine planet steeped in wondrous possibilities for a New Age. Who will answer the call? Who will stand forth sounding the trumpet of awakening? Truly, “many are called, but few will be chosen” (Jesus, Matt. 22:14). The complacent fields of repetition (and) compulsion are familiar and formidable. Will they ultimately lull a sleepy humanity back into stupors of vanity, arrogance, and self-importance? Who among the throngs harkens to the trumpet of awakening, and who will simply remain asleep?

I offer humanity the gift of awakening. Let those who would accept this gift reveal their true intentions, that humanity may enter not another Age of darkness and destruction. Behold, the time of awakening is now. Be not slothful in your spiritual ambitions, but fill the world with the energy of enlightenment.

Channeled through Kathlyn Kingdon 2015

 

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A depiction of archangel Gabriel from book ‘The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence’, 14th century.  (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel)

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A Map to the Next World — Joy Harjo

Posted on July 9, 2015 by new desert

A Map to the Next World

In the last days of the fourth world I wished to make a map
for those who would climb through the hole in the sky.

My only tools were the desires of humans as they emerged from the killing fields,
from the bedrooms and the kitchens.

For the soul is a wanderer with many hands and feet.

The map must be of sand and can’t be read by ordinary light.
It must carry fire to the next tribal town, for renewal of spirit.

In the legend are instructions on the language of the land,
how it was we forgot to acknowledge the gift, as if we were not in it or of it.

Take note of the proliferation of supermarkets and malls, the altars of money.
They best describe the detour from grace.

Keep track of the errors of our forgetfulness; a fog steals our children while we sleep.

Flowers of rage spring up in the depression, the monsters are born there of nuclear anger.

Trees of ashes wave good-bye to good-bye and the map appears to disappear.

We no longer know the names of the birds here,
how to speak to them by their personal names.

Once we knew everything in this lush promise.

What I am telling you is real and is printed in a warning on the map.
Our forgetfulness stalks us, walks the earth behind us,
leaving a trail of paper diapers, needles and wasted blood.

An imperfect map will have to do little one.

The place of entry is the sea of your mother’s blood,
your father’s small death as he longs to know himself in another.

There is no exit.

The map can be interpreted through the wall of the intestine —
a spiral on the road of knowledge.

You will travel through the membrane of death,
smell cooking from the encampment where our relatives make a feast
of fresh deer meat and corn soup, in the Milky Way.

They have never left us; we abandoned them for science.

And when you take your next breath as we enter the fifth world there will be no X,
no guide book with words you can carry.

You will have to navigate by your mother’s voice, renew the song she is singing.

Fresh courage glimmers from planets.

And lights the map printed with the blood of history,
a map you will have to know by your intention, by the language of suns.

When you emerge note the tracks of the monster slayers
where they entered the cities of artificial light and killed what was killing us.

You will see red cliffs. They are the heart, contain the ladder.

A white deer will come to greet you when the last human climbs from the destruction.

Remember the hole of our shame marking the act of abandoning our tribal grounds.

We were never perfect.

Yet, the journey we make together is perfect on this earth
who was once a star and made the same mistakes as humans.

We might make them again, she said.

Crucial to finding the way is this: there is no beginning or end.

You must make your own map.

~ Joy Harjo ~

(A Map to the Next World: Poems)

 

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What to Remember When Waking — David Whyte

Posted on July 2, 2015 by new desert

WHAT TO REMEMBER WHEN WAKING

In that first hardly noticed moment
to which you wake,
coming back to this life
from the other more secret,
moveable and frighteningly
honest world
where everything began,
there is a small opening
into the new day
which closes
the moment you begin
your plans.

What you can plan
is too small for you to live.

What you can live wholeheartedly
will make plans
enough for the vitality
hidden in your sleep.

To be human is to become visible
while carrying what is hidden
as a gift to others.

To remember the other world
in this world
is to live in your true inheritance.

You are not a troubled guest on this earth,
you are not an accident
amidst other accidents
you were invited
from another and greater night
than the one from which
you have just emerged.

Now, looking through
the slanting light of the morning
window toward the mountain
presence of everything that can be,
what urgency calls you to your one love? What shape
waits in the seed
of you to grow
and spread its branches
against a future sky?

Is it waiting in the fertile sea?
In the trees beyond the house?
In the life you can imagine for yourself?
In the open and lovely white page
on the waiting desk?

~ David Whyte ~

(The House of Belonging)

 

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Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith — Mary Oliver

Posted on June 22, 2015 by new desert

Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith

Every summer
I listen and look
under the sun’s brass and even into the moonlight,
but I can’t hear anything,
I can’t see anything —

Not the pale roots digging down,
nor the green stalks muscling up,
nor the leaves deepening their damp pleats,
nor the tassels making,
nor the shucks, nor the cobs.

And still, every day,
the leafy fields grow taller and thicker —
green gowns lofting up in the night,
showered with silk.

And so, every summer,
I fail as a witness, seeing nothing —

I am deaf too to the tick of the leaves,
the tapping of downwardness from the banyan feet —
all of it happening beyond any seeable proof,
or hearable hum.

And, therefore, let the immeasurable come.
Let the unknowable touch the buckle of my spine.
Let the wind turn in the trees,
and the mystery hidden in the dirt swing through the air.

How could I look at anything in this world and tremble,
and grip my hands over my heart?
What should I fear?

One morning in the leafy green ocean,
the honeycomb of the corn’s beautiful body
is sure to be there.

~ Mary Oliver ~

(West Wind)

 

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New Moon is Tuesday, June 16 at 8:05 AM Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)

Posted on June 15, 2015 by new desert

This new moon supports a reset in your sense of balance. Whatever you have not had enough of in the past couple of weeks, take some of it today or do some of it today or bring some more of it into your life today. For some, it will be much needed rest. For some much needed social time. For others it may be physical exercise. And some of you may just need to give yourself a gift.

This is also a highly creative and energetic time that may inspire you to want to have or do something different. Just make sure you build balance into whatever you are inspired to have or do. There is an aspect to this New Moon that may cause indecision; too many choices, too much on your plate, too much talk and no action. If you feel stuck in indecision, just go with what draws you most even if you don’t see it as the most practical. And if you feel you are carrying too many expectations from others and they are clouding your personal desires, we have just the remedy!

Blessings,

Lena

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ASTROLOGICAL NOTES

Written by Patricia Liles. Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com

Gemini New Moon
Sun and Moon in Gemini ~ 25º

Tuesday, June 16, 2015 8:05 AM Mountain Time
(June 16, 2:05 PM Greenwich Mean Time)

Stimulation, activity, networking, projects ~ it’s a high voltage time! The air and fire sign planets are in the vast majority, and they turn up the heat and motivate high mental functioning and inspiration.

Mars, the planet most masculine, passionate, physical and action oriented is conjuncting the Sun just days before New Moon (June 14) beginning his own, new two-year cycle. So Mars, Sun, Moon, all in air sign Gemini are like a floodlight on our thinking mechanisms, relatives, information highways, transport systems, and nervous system. With Jupiter, Uranus and Venus along with Juno and Pallas Athena all in fire signs, we have multiple aspects around New Moon for opportunities and ease to open up for us. Who, but you, is going to provide the necessary guidance for this high-octane energy? Gemini and its ruler, Mercury, are neutral – just the messenger. Mars/Sun/Moon need a mission, a project and New Moon is always the time to regroup and get your priorities in order. Unplug and dedicate some New Moon hours to going within your inner sacred space and sort what is your most beneficial focus for the next round.

Mercury is just days out of retrograde and is beginning to creep forward slowly to June 26th when it will reach the degree where it began its retrograde at 13º Gemini. Mercury will happily be in Gemini, its own sign, for an extended 9 weeks instead of the usual two weeks per sign. So we get to study and experience our communication/transportation issues from every possible angle in great detail. Observe carefully those thoughts and words with which you are choosing to create your world.

Both Chiron and Saturn are conspiring to aid us in releasing patterns rooted in our habits of thinking and speaking. Saturn opposes Mercury and Chiron squares the Sun/Moon/Mars. Observing our thoughts and listening to our words, are we aware of what we are beaming out into the airways around us? Are you still imagining your thoughts are invisible to others or are you taking responsibility for what emanates from your inner field? With Mars so prominent, our own inner masculine may be willing to admit to the vulnerability of its woundedness and surrender to a more balanced relationship with the inner feminine.

The Feminine represented by multifaceted Pallas Athena, keeper of our creative intelligence, our ability to visualize and create, gifted healer with the energy modalities and strategic thinker for the betterment of the collective is aligned in an exact Grand Trine with Jupiter, the Expansive One, and Uranus, the Awakener all in fire signs (Sag, Leo, Aries, 19º). Capitalize on all this warm-hearted energy of courage, spontaneity and forward-looking enthusiasm that this alliance has to give.

At the same time, Pallas Athena is opposing the Sun/Moon/Mars trio while Chiron in Pisces, that perpetual chi gong master, squares them all, saying pay equal due to that part of you where your deepest illusions lie. Those dang water signs keep wanting us to tell the emotional truth! And with Chiron in Pisces, we are spurred on to consider all the ways we hold ourselves separate from our essence and the Divine.

Summer Solstice

Now here’s a powerfully important locus of energy. Summer solstice is that point where the Sun is at its peak for the year and the days are longest and the nights are shortest in this hemisphere (reversed in the southern hemisphere) when the magic of midsummer’s night dream is upon us. From the peak on Sunday, June 21, 10:37 AM Mountain Time forward, the light begins to slowly decrease until we come to winter solstice. The Sun moves into watery, emotional Cancer and is traveling with mentally energized Mars still in Gemini, so that will keep the intentions moving forward in an active way especially in those Cancer-ruled areas of home, family and food. Cancer’s ruler, the Moon, is in dynamic, fiery Leo (29º) so personal panache and self-expression will be a delightful addition to our summer months. We also have the benefit or limitation, however you want to look at it, of Saturn’s influence encouraging us to look at our limiting familial obligations and our own fears and inadequacies. Saturn always brings us face to face with how discipline and focus are actually highly beneficial tools in helping us get where we want to be in our lives. Many have talent (Leo) but it’s those with discipline and talent that create success, prominence and accomplishment. So those willing to make adjustments to the demands of Saturn on the energy and exuberance of the Sun/Mars and Leo influences in this solstice chart will experience maximum returns on their investments.

Stimulation of eclipses

There’s a whole school of astrological thought based on the cycle of eclipses. They offer a heads up for the period of time between June 23 and July 5, with June 23-24th to be particularly noteworthy for “Big Events, Big Changes”. During this time frame, that big solar eclipse that was right on the Spring Equinox at 29ºPisces-0ºAries, will be stimulated by a square from Mars and a trine from Saturn. Mars and Saturn do that gas pedal/brake pedal thing. Mars is quite capable of precipitating volatility, hot emotions and impulsive behavior. Also the midpoint of Uranus and Neptune is at the 0ºAries point. ‘Large storms, huge pollution events and tectonic movements” have all occurred at this same sensitive degree point in the recent past. So let’s put our best intentions forward for navigating these upcoming rapids.

Venus/Jupiter

To end on a positive note, I hope you have been looking to the west in the early evening sky to see the beauty and dance of bright Jupiter and BRIGHTER Venus coming ever closer together with their first conjunction on the day of the next Full Moon, July 1 at 21º Leo. As you stand under the night sky looking up at their brilliant light, imagine their gifts raining down on you ~ beauty, pleasure, conviviality, abundance, and the joy in the balance of the feminine and masculine coming together.

06/21 Summer Solstice, Sun in Cancer 10:37 AM Mountain Time
07/01 Capricorn Full Moon 9º 8:19 PM Mountain Time
07/15 Cancer New Moon 23º 7:25 PM Mountain Time

http://thepowerpath.com/moon-updates/new-moon-update-6-16-15/

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God speaks to each of us — Rainer Maria Rilke

Posted on May 21, 2015 by new desert

God speaks to each of us

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

(Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)

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