Dear Friends and Community,
I spent a strange day yesterday wishing and hoping I would find my way to the many things I wanted to accomplish. A little cleaning,some laundry, some writing, some reading, some planning to get away. Some things were started and some not at all. So mostly I mused over the family vacation that didn’t happen realizing that it is that time away that usually allows me to go through the rest of the summer with those memories. As crazy as they may be sometimes, they are always loaded with love and laughter…the gift of being together.
Missed due to 2 family members getting covid 2 days before we were to go away. And as Nick and I keep trying to capture some summer time away…to get and be somewhere else, as much as we try, we actually don’t know where we want to be. Nothing looks or feels right. It all seems so very strange. I know we will land somewhere, we put the dates down and we will go…somewhere.
We have the wish to go, and so we will. But I had no plan to even tell the vacation story, as I was thinking about a whole different thing. I was thinking about how we grow up wishing. And once I get the schedule down and the few announcements I do have, I will get to the wishing I pondered today, while I did very little else.
Announcements:
Due to setting aside some dates to get away I am having to move the Chakra Workshop to the last weekend in Sept. You see, we just have to get away. Since no one had signed up for it that was the only thing movable.
Friday Aug 16 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ Heart Space Drum Circle (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/heart-space-drum-circle-2-2024-08-16/)
Sunday Aug 18 ~ 10 to 11 AM ~ Rise and Shine Yoga (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/mindful-yoga-2024-08-18/)
Monday Aug 19 ~ 6 to 7:15 ~ Monday Meditation (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/meditation-for-beginners-5-classes-25-2024-08-19/)
Tuesday Aug 20 ~ 6:30 to 8:30 PM ~ Co Creative Writing Coven (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/co-creative-writing-coven-6/)
We will be collaging in this class so we may go a bit later. You can bring your own collage images for what you are planning if you like.
Thursday Aug 22 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ True River Sangha (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/true-river-sangha-2-2024-08-22/)
Friday Aug 23 ~ 6 to 9 PM ~ Batik Workshop (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/batik-workshop/)
Sunday Aug 25 ~ 10 to 11 AM ~ Rise and Shine Yoga (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/mindful-yoga-2024-08-25/)
For Reiki sessions and or trainings please be in touch with Myra Richel at 610-346-5698
Upcoming:
Tuesday Aug 27 ~ 6:30 to 9 PM ~ HeARTSong Soul Art Creation (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/heart-song-soul-art-creation-4/)
Back on the schedule:
Sat Sept 7 ~ 10 to 10:45 AM ~ Qigong Exercise for Balance and Well-being (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/qigong-exercise-for-balance-and-wellbeing-2024-09-07/)
Sunday Sept 8 ~ 2 to 4 PM ~ Women’s Ways Circle (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/womens-ways-circle-2024-09-08/)
Friday Sept 20 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ Heart Space Drum Circle (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/heart-space-drum-circle-2-2024-09-20/)
Sat/Sun Sept 21/22 ~ 12 to 6 PM ~ Shamanic Training/Extraction Healing and Alignment (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/two-day-shamanic-training-event-extraction-healing-and-alignment/)
Intensive Chakra Weekend Workshop Friday Sept 27/ 6:30 to 9PM Sat/Sun Sept 28/29 ~ 12 to 5 PM (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/chakra-intensive-weekend/)
Wednesday Oct 16 ~ 6:30 to 9 PM ~ Crystals as Healer’s Workshop (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/crystals-as-healers-workshop/)
It Begins With Wishing…
We grow up making wishes. We blow out our birthday candles and make a wish. Blow on a Dandelion puff and make a wish. We wish upon a star. Throw a coin in the fountain and make a wish. We wish while breaking the turkey wishing bone. A wish is to make a dream come true. A wish is to dare imagine what we want might occur, what we hope for might happen, however unlikely it may be. Wishing is a yearning for what we may not see as possible…but we wish it anyway.
Wishing is a human thing. We are made to wish…it is part of the magic that we know somewhere exist in us. Children know there is magic afoot. Grownups are good at taking that away from them. Thankfully, many parents today are allowing them to keep their magic and learning to find their own again as well.
I so often forget that for a good many years…about 18 of them at least. I was a dedicated bible student. I was a Jehovah’s Witness, and we were students in a way I had never experienced as a Catholic. Anyway, while much of what I learned I chose to forget, there are some scriptures that are seared into my heart. The truth of them resonant in life and existence. They are repeated in many traditions and cultures throughout the earth, in all directions. Truth is nothing that can change. It speaks to our heart, and asks us to trust what we feel.
We wish because we have something in our heart that no one can take away. We might not realize what it is. We might even roll our eyes at the suggestion. At Ecclesiastes 3:11, it tells of what we have been given. “He has made all things beautiful in its time.He has also put eternity in our hearts;, yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end”.
Some translations say planted, some say set. Eternity exist in us. To wish is to have a sense of the divine in us…that we are capable of having what we might in our mind, think is impossible to have, yet our heart knows it can. To realize we are of use and have a purpose for being here.That the work of Existence looks to us to provide balance on the Earth, if we except the fullness of who we are, as co-creators.
What we wish for when we are children are so often the wishes we think impossible as adults. Kids wish to be happy. We try to make them happy, as much as we can. But what happens when our joy for life seems diminished and far away or even impossible?
Have we stopped wishing? Have we stopped dreaming or hoping, or yearning? Have we stopped asking. imagining there is no one listening?
In that eternity that has been planted, set, and put in our hearts, is also our joy for life. That eternity, is our connection to each other and to the divine in each of us. When we stop wishing, we accept the world as it is, to be all there is. And that is just not true. When we stop asking, we imagine we are just what we can we see and nothing more.
We can remain self-ignored and in so doing we miss so much. We miss our own aliveness. We imagine separation instead of union. The greatest of all illusions is that we are separate from each other. We see what separation does to all of us…it does not just effect one person, or one group of people.
We have been here for far too long to still be without the joy of life. We do not know how to thrive. There is no greater mistake than to not know who we each are. No greater mistake than to possess in ones heart the divine gift of eternity, and not realize to use it. In so doing we miss the power we have to know what it is possible to know…which is more than we can ever imagine.
Wishing, hoping, dreaming…these become our prayers…just a different word. They shoot like arrows straight to the goodness we seek. It is only when we stop wishing, or asking, or praying, that the road becomes detoured and closed. Wish and hope, and dream and pray, and everywhere we are met with with the magic of life and love, and existence. Where we least expect it, whether awake or asleep. on land or sea, night or day, when speaking or in silence. It really is all there is, and we miss it when we ignore our heart and the eternity that is waiting there for us to remember.
Thoughts gleaned from the Hermetica, the transmission called Ignorance of the Soul.
Painting is mine and hard to see all the stars in the image.
May all our dreams be wished into existence.
Peace and blessings,
Denise Yocco
Heart Space at Seven Stones
