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Dear Friends and Community,
I am going to put down the weeks schedule and upcoming events before I write or say anything this time around, as I feel there is much to say.
A note of gratitude for all who showed up in Heart Space to walk the labyrinth on election day and the day after for the walk and meditation.
This week and next…
Saturday Nov 9 ~ 10 to 10:45 AM ~ Qigong Exercise for Balance and Well-Being (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/qigong-exercise-for-balance-and-wellbeing-5/)
Saturday Nov 9 ~ 2 to 3:30 PM ~ The Language of Astology (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/the-language-of-astrology/)
Sunday Nov 10 ~ 10 to 11 AM ~ Rise and Shine Yoga (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/mindful-yoga-2024-11-10/)
Sunday Nov 10 ~ 2 to 4 PM ~ Women’s Ways Circle (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/womens-ways-circle-2024-11-10/)
Monday Nov 11 ~ 6 to 7:15 ~ Monday Meditation (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/meditation-for-beginners-5-classes-25-2024-11-11/)
Tuesday Nov 12 ~ 6:30 to 8 PM ~ Co -Creative Writing and Reading Coven (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/co-creative-writing-coven-6/)
A new prompt for our co-creative writing.
Wednesday Nov 13 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ Intro to Shamanism Begins… (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/introduction-to-shamanism-3/)
No better time to know more…
Thursday Nov 14 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ True River Sangha (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/true-river-sangha-2-2024-11-14/)
Friday Nov 15 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~Heart Space Drum Circle (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/heart-space-drum-circle-2-2024-11-15/)
Saturday Nov 16 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ Sound Bath Journey by WindWave (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/sound-bath-journey-with-windwave-3/)
Sunday Nov 17 ~ 10 to 11 AM ~ Rise and Shine Yoga (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/mindful-yoga-2024-11-17/)
Upcoming:
Tuesday Nov 19 ~ 6:30 to 7:30PM ~ Breath Work and Meditation (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/practicing-presence-2024-11-19/)
Sat/Sun Nov 23/24 ~ 12 to 6 PM ~ 2 Day Shamanic Training / Ancestral Healing from a Shamanic Perspective (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/two-day-training-ancestral-healing-from-a-shamanic-perspective/)
Due to the upcoming holidays I will have to curtail some of my offerings I will have a better idea next week as to what my schedule will be.
Reiki:
Upcoming Reiki Shares in Heart Space
To all that may be interested there are 2 upcoming Reiki shares open to all Reiki 1, 2 and Masters.
Sunday
December 1st, and January 26th
1 to 3 PM /$20/Cash preferred
4 Tables and 2 Lounge Chairs Available
RSVP to all Reiki :
Myra Reichel
610-348-5698
First…
I did try to go at this last evening. I realized I was holding back…perhaps being too cautious. Realizing that I was doing the writing, when usually I am guided to write. I read and reread and could not send it out.
You see I get emails from those who have signed on to get emails. I know this is a varied community,and of course I know some may have voted for this outcome.That is what democracies do. I do not hate anyone for their choice as much as I am bewildered by it. I know not everyone sees things the same way as I do. But this is where I speak from the deep well of my soul what I realize I am being guided to say. And it is where I speak to yours as well. That is the only way we can hear spirit speak, when we are both in that space together. And I trust that voice as one that needs to be heard.
There are some that don’t think so. And this week especially there is one that seems sour and toxic even though his vote was for the winner of this election. I have asked him to take himself off this mailing, and I will say the same to anyone who is not open to being honest about obvious true things, or who would rather berate me for saying what I say when I am trying to reach for the stars in us all…in me, in you.
We knew this year would be difficult because of the election. And it was. And now it is over. And now we know the work that needs to be done to ensure that our country remains a democracy, and to ensure those who are most threatened by this administration, be protected, and kept out of harms way. The dangers are many and they are real, however much that one part of our thinking wants to believe it is not.
If It Were Not For the Darkness…
I have been at this for many hours. I write and it does not feel quite what is begging to be said. I am doing a dance with words and phrases so as not to go too far to offend anyone. And then wonder of wonders, I realize that where we are has gone too far. We allowed it to go this far. And the truth is I may not be able to go far enough to express the very fragile place we are in. I did try over and over again this year, I did.
I have read enough of ancient history over the last 10 years of my life to have probably known better than to hope that our country could have possibly been smart enough to make a good decision about governance. By history, I mean the history before Christ, before Buddha, before Socrates, and even before Pythagoras. Long ago breathing history. And of course a student that goes back that far will begin at the primordial beginning where the breath of life, the Divine Masculine, manifested the energy that looks like matter and form, that is us and all we can see,touch and feel. One goes there to embrace the sacred nature of all life, and realizes that it would always be embodied in Nature, held in the rocks and trees, and in caves, written on walls, carried in the beaks of Ravens and Crows brought to them by Eagles and Hawks, Owls and Condors, all of them,still,oracles,muses, gods and goddesses that lived and still do, telling and portending, giving signs, offering wisdom, letting us know what
to look for when our sacred wholeness was at risk.
And to know that for a time there were people here, our ancestors of long long ago times, that listened, and learned, lived and embodied that sacred wisdom of the Divine Feminine,that just wanted us to prosper together, to experience together our capacity for brilliance and beauty and grace.
And they wrote and told their stories of what was learned, and how what was learned was for healing those in those times and us in these times. And what they told and how they healed was so potent that those who did not want to do the deeper work of knowing made sure that they would diminish them. They would turn and twist into a pretzel, what was straight as an arrow ready to pierce ones heart with love and truth. And they did it wherever and whenever that potency showed up with whomever held it at the time.
And if we do not go back that far or listen to those who have, we instead trade the abundance of truth and wisdom for counterfeit coins that allow us, far too many of us, certainly not all of us, to live in the impoverished scarcity of what we imagine is missing in ourselves, in each other, and in our life. And we come to a moment like this one, and think with dull minds, unlit by wisdom, beauty or grace, that an empty weak man, full of counterfeit coins that he tosses around like paper towels, a liar, convicted felon, forever criminal, want to be dictator, power and greed driven, shameless, hurtful, full of rage and grievance, making promises to extend and advance the harm he wants to inflict, an aging raging darkness, a person who has shown us who he is, who we experienced as a president, who raised an insurrection in this country because he just could not except the results of losing, a shallow man who lives in his deep lower realms. caring for no one but himself…this man, more than
half the country thought, is the person to lead us into the future. Trifling with a democracy as young and fragile as this would never be a good wager.
And yet here we are.
This is not rage or anger, or disappointment. This is just what is true. What we all know. There would always be people like him. It would up to us to never let it happen.This is a deep sadness for our country and for the realization of what had to be ignored, of what one would not ignore in anyone else for a lesser job, but was ignored to make him president. Making someone a president who wants unchecked power for himself to become a dictator, creating a monarchy, was simply unintelligent given all we know, all we have seen and heard and experienced.
Kamala…
She was and will remain a bright light. Her name means Lotus. The Lotus is significant as it emerges through the sedimentary darkness of dense mud. We must do the same. We must not lose our hope or allow our Lotus not to emerge. And as well to know that even though it emerges through the darkest sediment, it emerges, and enters back into the water untouched by that mud. We have to do the same. We have to emerge each day, and manage to stay focused on light, truth and love, on giving from our depth of being, the best of who we are to everyone. And to enter into the shadows of where it is most dark carrying that light as well. That light is our joy of life and within it our resolve to be Kali warriors, compassionate avengers, for all that are in harms way.
I saw Kamala’s radiance as a woman giving birth to a era of light. I saw her virtue and integrity. Her strength and the hope and hopefulness of what is possible when love and kindness towards one another leads the way. When strength is guided by truth and wisdom. The patriarchy saw that too. The misogynist and racist did as well. They are a fearful bunch when there is that much light and hope, especially in a woman. Wherever there is a potency of truth and spirit, they will do their ugly utmost to denigrate and destroy the prospect of a light bearers work to unify rather than separate.
And the women of this country failed the women in their life, their daughters and granddaughters, their nieces and aunts, and their mothers and grandmothers that fought for the freedoms we had and lost. What is it about women who cannot stand up to their abusers? Or women who cannot trust a woman to lead, and a woman of color especially. I voted for your freedoms while you voted against them and yourself. I do not understand how anyone could have found the reasoning in that.
So in this time of men making the rules for woman to carry children yet not providing for them once out of the womb, and even removing the healthcare from a woman who is laboring with miscarriage, allowing her to die, can we see the metaphor here in how they feel they have aborted the birth of change and light that Kamala was carrying for us. But they did not. We are here still. What is true is still true. Is your lamp still lit? Is your focus still clear? Do you know what you stand for? Do you know what to fight for? So the work continues.We cannot get lost in the loss. We must emerge, like the Lotus, into the light.
Something that further opened the lens into the core maga cult. Winning does not make them happy or bring them joy. Winning for them is a mandate to do more harm than good. To be more ugly and more fowl. To double down on their cruelness. Hurting others satisfies them.
Does everyone who voted for him know this. I do not think so. I do not feel that to be true. But they will know and find out that the cost of eggs and bread will be the same, they will see that the rich will grab more of what they already have, leaving the the bread and eggs folk to foot the bill. They will see people, some of their own being harmed, They will see more women die, they will see more guns on the street, and see our freedoms being eroded bit by bit. These were the mandates of this darkness that was ignored, because we simply do not cherish the history of who we are. And we don’t care enough to know, or know enough to care.
“If it were not for the darkness we would not see the stars”. Kamala. used that quote and many people have said it in a variety of ways. It is a primordial truth. Its origins in the breath of creation. Unspoken we know it, as we do also know that darkness does not exist except in the absence of light, in the absence of wisdom and in the abundance of ignorance.Darkness grows and takes hold in the shadows. Our light needs to be ohhh so very bright right now. It needs to grow even brighter in the stillness that gives us the mandate to let it shine. We need to be alert and very much awake.
Can we…
Say love more than any other word. No time for anger…no time for cowering, or hiding in shame of this loss. Do not bother holding grudges against those who voted for this. All that lowers our vibration, dims our light and waste precious time. Doing good in the world will seem foolish to those who’s only agenda is harm. We look like a jester in the kings court doing foolish things that make the king and his court laugh. But the jester is a philosopher-clown, with a good sense of humor who refuses to be misdirected by the whims of kings. An insightful mischief with a wider view of existence, and under the buffoonery of motley dress and in the the words that seem foolish to the court, the words he utters speak to truth. At the bottom of the pecking order, he sees and knows what is truly low…not real, counterfeit. He knows what is false and puffed up pomp, and the selfishness that belongs to it.He know who the real clown is and the circus court he plays to.
Peace and love seem foolish when it feels like fear and hate keep winning. It will be a worthy challenge to pull together our light to defeat what seems like an engulfing darkness. It will be a challenge not to live in expectation of the life we had hoped we were heading into. We serve the light because it is the right thing to do. We serve the light because of Light. It will be a challenge to be patient and also to not be fearful. Pray for the protections we will need, as I feel we will need them. We have to work like we are still in the battle to win.
Stay connected with others. There will be many groups forming that will begin to do the internal work to protect our democracy. They will need help. Indivisible. is such a group if that sounds like something you would like to do. Stay focused and know for sure, that even though it might not seem like it, love never fails. It never has or will. Love will never fail. Learn to understand what that means.
Darkness falls, light rises.
Say love more than ever before.
Love more than you thought you ever could.
Be brave and courageous.
Be a warrior.
Be a seer and visionary.
Talk to the Trees and the Bees.
Know that the greatest illusion is that we are separate.
Breathe.
Read some old wisdom…the Gita comes to mind…the Hermetica, as well and anything that Peter Kingsley has written. He is current but he takes us all the way back….all the way back to our sacred origin.
Meet in places to meditate and learn with others…Heart Space comes to mind.
Be a light to your life.
This will be hard work.
Start with a smile as that seems to be the hardest thing to do right now.
And we go from there.
Yes! This is more of what wanted to be said.
Many may think I have gone too far.
Yet I realize that where we are, we have gone too far. We allowed it to go this far. And the truth is I may not have been able to go far enough to express the very fragile place we are in.
Peace and blessings to everyone.
May love and light prevail in and for us all.
Denise Yocco
Heart Space at Seven Stones
Photo: Spirit Tree in our back yard…an oracle and a friend.
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