Remember Your Jingle

Well this was certainly an interesting New Moon. This month as the dreamworkers know was inspired by Mattie Stepanek who truly was a messenger that spread the word about people sharing their heartsongs and to play after every storm.  And the other thing I learned in reading his biography is that he was a prankster. Which was apparent just before I sent the New Moon invitation since I "accidentally" lit a sparkler instead of what I thought was an incense.  I laughed and realized he was being channeled more than I thought.  And interesting how his theme was play after every storm and low and behold we had Hurricane Irene blow through here on the East Coast.  So the timing on that theme was more perfect than I could have imagined.  And although the core of the rain had stopped earlier on Sunday, it was still quite windy.  The MTA had not restored yet so we made this month dream work only.   I actually enjoyed that although the ceremony recap will be a little briefer since I didn't have any extemporaneous speaking in the room.

So as always I opened the directions and called in the sombres aka soul essence of each of the dream workers and lite participants.  Here is a photo of the opening altar.

I went straight into the surrender and I did this to Letting Go by Seal. (Interestingly Youtube didn't have a clip of it, so your on your own if you want to listen to it...you can get a clip through Itunes)   There are always things that bubble up to be surrendered in both attachments to the positive and to the negative.  I love the freedom of letting things go and see which things are meant to stay.  For me although inspired by someone like Mattie who despite his handicaps was truly Messenger as the book was titled and really had a profound impact, can make me feel like a slacker.  That was one of the things I let go.  And I am currently reading a book he wrote about Peace and in it are some emails to Jimmy Carter where he even expresses his self doubts.  Pfew that was a relief.  So was he handicapped, maybe physically, but emotionally and mentally he was more than above average and as he also says we are mosaic.  We each just have to follow our heartsongs and it doesn't have to be huge and pronounced on Oprah.  We just need to make a difference and continue our unfolding.  So below is one of many poems by Mattie called Unfolding that I find quite profound.

Born of the

Dust of humility,

Spread on the

Wings of pride,

Carried by 

Winds of hope

I grow with the 

Ebbing Life Tide

So also attached here as I listened to Seal's Letting Go, I simultaneous did the burning of your surrender emails.  Here is a picture of the burning (since I was alone, I took a picture for your viewing).

After that rather than speak I went straight into the planting seeds.  I did that to two songs.  The first wasn't planned but that psychic IPod of mine, played You Are The Light of the World from Godspell.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzyHcAkCYHI&feature=related  It's a nice reminder and I like it because it makes me want to get up and dance.  I followed that by Tim McGrath's Live Life You Were Dying  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiOcW_YR1G8  Which is what Mattie did because he was. It's interesting to think of living like this..  In fact there are many few people that I know that actually say that they if they died tomorrow they are happy with what they are doing.  Some some may say it's time to make a drastic change but I have another synchronicity here. 

During the hurricane what else do you do but watch movies.  So I wound up watch How Do You Know.  Not my favorite movie but the ending has an interesting story about Play Doh.  Play Doh was originally invented as something that was used to clean soot off of wall paper in the times when we had wood and coal burning stoves.  It was called White Goo.  As we changed to gas and electric, there was no more soot and no reason for White Goo and his business was going under.  However, the inventors sister in law who happened to be a nursery school teacher discovered that the children preferred the white goo to modeling clay.  So she recommended he color it and call it Play Doh.  So the Paul Rudd character says he keeps it around to remind himself that   "We are all just one small adjustment away from making our lives wonderful."  And although not a great quality here is a clip on Youtube so you know I didn't make it up - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyOwmNA0HCk 

Oh and of course I transferrer your dreams into a blossom rose.  I used Purple since that was Mattie's favorite color that represented piece.  And of course a sun flower for our prayers for others and the planet as a whole.  This time I forgot to take a picture on my mesa but caught it in the East River which I went to that evening.  You'll see the by the blurriness of the picutre that the river was still active from the hurricane winds but better blurry then never and it really felt good to feed the river with dreams rather than the fears over the hurricane destruction.

PS Your dreams also got transformed by the fire and will be going in the jar with me to Peru when I make an offering with all your prayers and dreams...the honor is all mine.

Partner With Your Soul...New Moon New Life Recap

As I mentioned in the Dreamwork this month, I really wanted to call this month stop being mean to yourself.  And the main reason is that most of us would not speak the judgements that we do of ourselves to someone else.  And although we do not say them out loud, our soul's have very sensitive hearing and will not speak our soul's calling and wisdom to us if we are going to mean and debate it's advice.  So it's time to treat our soul's as a partner and stop with the inner negative chatter, it really doesn't help anyone.

But I went straight into the core of the summary.  Here is a picture of the altar.

We opened the directions and each person introduced themselves to the mesa.  And for those not present (aka Dreamworkers and Lite participants), I called your sombres into the ceremony.

Again I get ahead of myself as of course the first thing we did was the surrender process.  And as I suggested for the dreamworkers we did it accompanied to P!nks song Please Don't Leave Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eocCPDxKq1o&ob=av3e   The song is intended as a love song but as I keep stressing our relationship with our soul should be like that of a lover.  I do find it funny that often when I'm looking for songs to use in ceremony, as many of you know, I like to find popular songs or showtunes as metaphors.  And I often find that love songs are often perfect metaphors for the struggles that we have with our love of self, our soul's and god.

One thing that the dreamworkers don't know is a line that I actually read just before the ceremony started that I the following spoke into the mesa.  "The tragic sense of life is not unbelief, pessimism, fatalism, or synicism.  It is just ultimate and humiliating realism, which for some reason demands a lot of forgivenes of almost everything.  Faith is simply to trust the real, and to trust that God is found within it--even efore we change it.  This is perhaps our major stumbling stone, the price we must pay to keep the human heart from closing down and to keep the soul open for something more."  It's from a book called Falling Upwards and thought it was perfect to enhance the surrender of the mean thoughts that we have of ourselves.  It's a book about the second half of our lives and how we learn and improve ourselves through our past and mistakes.    It's filled with other gems.

Post the currender we also cleaned ourselfs off with the loving and efficient water process.  I had been at my sister's earlier for my nephews birthday and found that she had these napkins in her bathroom that said Live, Love and Laugh.  And that is pretty much my mode of operating, so I took a few to dry our hands and set the tone for the seed planting process.

And you will see your seeds were printed and woven in with our ceremonial blossoms until the making of the garland of dreams.

So we also did the dreamwork process along with The Dog Days Are Over by Vicci Martinez.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6oPcBvx3nQ What I failded to mention to the people in the room was that this was from a show called the Voice where people compete to make their dreams to come true.  So we don't need to compete but it's time to remember the Dog Days Are Over as long as you let them be and you partner with your wise and loving soul.


We transferred the seeds of the inspirational seed planting ritual and created the garland of dreams.  

Well each of the individual flowers were in the individual yellow spider mums.  I like that I often use spider mums, not only are the easy to weave quickly and they are pretty but the spider medicine shows how we are weaving our dreams and lives into a beautiful garden.  The lovely orange colored sunflower was used for the prayers for others.  The prayers for others.

In the room we waiting to do embody our dreams that were in the water from the ceremony until the chocolate eathing ceremony and yes, we did that to Everybody Rejoice from the Wiz.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-NiH1kH3-E

As I believe the spirit worlds is always rejoicing when they see us and feel us connect in a heartfelt way with our souls and all there wisdom.  And we should do the same rejoicing every day for ourselves.  Typically I go direct to the East River to offer our garland of dreams; however, I decided to let it really absorb all the medicine in the mesa.  I kept it open and am off to the east river once I hit post on this blog.  As you know I don't like to leave any scraps and I'll be converting the papers with your seeds into ash.  Instead of offering those, I will be putting them in a jar I have and will take your seeds with me to Peru where I will offer them in a very sacred location.