as the new moon phase moves on .. repost from 2005

How do you "burn off" karma? The process begins with understanding and wisdom.

There are lots of rituals - the best being the one you make up yourself. An example, I write my intentions for the year on a piece of paper at new years- then around midnight or maybe a bit before.. I can go outside and said hello to the moon and the stars and light my list and watch it burn - sending it out into the ether and the Universe. Anything you can do outside, if you sit somewhere quiet or special to you.. and maybe lite a candle.. I usually lite a candle before bedtime and ask my angels and guides of light to come and be with me.. There's a couple of ideas there. Some people use Doreen Virtue's Goddess Cards and like them.
I like doing a special I Ching casting.

I am wondering, what do others do?

EECHING AT NO MOON

Siyo!

LOOKING FOR CHANGES
I saw a cat with a machine in his brain
The man who fed him said he didn't feel any pain
I'd like to see that man take out the machine
And stick it in his own brain
Do you know what I mean?

I saw a rabbit with its eyes full of tears
Well after all they have been doing it for years
Why don't we make them pay for every last eye
That couldn't cry its own tears
Do you know what I mean?

When I tell you that we'll all be looking for changes
Changes in the way we treat our fellow creatures
And we will learn how to grow
Learn how to grow!

When I tell you that we'll all be looking for changes
Changes in the way we treat our fellow creatures
And we will learn how to grow, yeah
When we're looking for changes

I saw a monkey that was learning to choke
A guy beside him gave him cigarettes to smoke
And every time that monkey started to cough
The bastard laughed his head off!
Do you know what I mean?

When I tell you that we'll all be looking for changes
Changes in the way we treat our fellow creatures
And we will learn how to grow
When we're looking for changes
We're looking for changes
We're looking for changes
We're looking for changes in the way we are.
~ The Beatles

A Message from my “sponsor”

lots of it is just words words words…people behind the words is what it should be about. But the net can do that to people…they get so dang prolific with their beliefs…and connect on a few sentences…) whateva…) and then when someone has a differing stance—or even god forbid a strong voice that is doing something…yikes. Right?

I don’t know why women would want to read fiction over truth…maybe they are only seventeen or something….eh?

It is the new moon…after all. Just show who you are…that is all I can say. People will be people where ever you go. If they are not in a group somewhere…they are at the local coffee shop…or the water cooler…talking about the same dang thing. And you said yourself…you hang with a different crowd…right?

To look at it as a weeding out vs. a judgment thing…like the stones that are in your circle…medicine stones that have been placed…that is who you are. There is no going back. Too bad so sad they don’t get it…maybe they will next time around…or they will hear something again in a different way and they will think…oh yea…V. said that…Other part is…Cassie sue…(lol…and then some)…words that come from one like you are strong…really strong. Incite people…lightening…remember? Lightening doesn’t stop to smell the roses all the time…not saying you don’t belong in one place for long…just that you are here to speak. And you are. And part of the ramification (price …) to pay…) is what happens.
love you too…you are just up against a lot of hogwash. Lol…k?


LET IT BE
When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness
She is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

And when the broken hearted people
Living in the world agree,
There will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is
Still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
YeahThere will be an answer, let it be.

And when the night is cloudy,
There is still a light that shines on me,
Shine on until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be,
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::::::::
THE HEART OF THE MATTER
:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::::::::

I have such a stake in how this cyber circle comes to gather.
The stones are placed in such a way that there can be no
"Another let down"
No “Yet another betrayal.”
Why do I react so personally? Because it is personal.
If you work this hard at being understood,
especially when You are a Cassandra it is no easy task.
You are both participant and “facilitator” wearing two hatz.
The crowns of Queen Bitch and Princess Boohoo
Set down forever by the fireside to melt.
What you don’t want is to be “mother”,
even though it is Inevitable. Mother Earth is to do this.
A motherless daughter, now matter how well trained,
No matter how Self Under-standing IS
Always
All Wayz
Walking the gauntlet,
and gauntlets weren’t they the
Specialty of the House
you grew up!
in.
No Woman has yet improved on the junction
Love thy Neighbor as Thy Self.
Simply put: I am Another Yourself
Mitayake Oyasin.
When you call me softly with Siyo!
I always come.
Call me Mother, Sister, Daughter, Loved One,
But don’t call me “Lady”.
An outdated tag from another life.
A life of patriarchy and repression.
And don’t call me Late for Dinner, either

.:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>>

William Bloom on Does Everyone Create Their Own Reality.

DOES EVERYONE "CREATE THEIR OWN REALITY"? By William Bloom

Sunday, 02 December 2007

ORIGINAL ARTICLE I wrote this for Cygnus Magazine in June 2007. The editors asked me to write something in response to some of the terrible comments around the kidnapping in Portugal of the little girl and other comments concerning Darfur and other world crises. Over the years it has been an honor for me to advance and defend new age and holistic spirituality. I love its open-mindedness, its embrace of metaphysics and the way it combines spiritual work with healthcare. But I have also despaired at times about its apparent lack of morality and compassion when faced with the realities of people’s suffering. This coldness is often explained away with half-baked ideas about how energies, karma and the laws of attraction work. This often reaches a peak of disturbing smugness when a new age ‘philosopher’ faced with cruel suffering says authoritatively: ‘People create their own reality’ or ‘Their soul chose it – its their karma’ or ‘Everything is perfect in God’s Plan – you just need to perceive it differently’. People who say such things seem to have no idea how smug and nasty they sound. Nor of the hurt they cause. Fourteen years ago I had a lower back crisis in which three disks herniated and a tendon tore. The pain was as high on the scale as it can go. I was bed-ridden, then on sticks and it took seven years to recover. Early on, as I hobbled awkwardly on sticks, a new age woman came up to me, poked her face in mine and loudly stated, ‘You know what Louise Hay says about lower back crises, don’t you!’ She was typical of many. A friend recently had a severe heart crisis, was suddenly taken to hospital and told that his life was at risk. He told me that what really frightened him was the thought of informing his spiritual friends, because they would use it as an opportunity to be self-righteous and tell him what he was getting wrong in his life. Of course in both my and his case there were good lessons to be learned, but our life or mobility were threatened and we deserved compassionate friendliness. Isn’t spiritual development about increasing compassion and love? It does not help to have someone chiming, ‘You asked for it. Told you so.’ Even if we did create those illnesses, kindness and support are needed so that we can begin to understand the process.. These minor examples of personal distress are nothing compared to the more dramatic tragedies being endured on the world stage. What follows is recent testimony from a woman at the centre of the Darfur crisis (New Internationalist, June 2007): ‘My baby boy was thrown on the fire in front of me. My daughter was older. They thought she was a boy so they slaughtered her too – they snapped her neck like a chicken. Some of the children they threw down a well …. After they raped the women they cut off their breasts to make them suffer. They used those of us who were left as donkeys.’ Her experience is not unique. Recently too there has been the incident of the little girl kidnapped in Portugal, the tip of an iceberg of the sexual abuse faced by hundreds of thousands of children every day, not to mention the thirty thousand children who daily die of starvation. In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. ~ Anne Frank. Surely all this suffering can only be approached with stillness, humility and wisdom of the heart. Not with half-baked metaphysics and denial. It is pure ignorance, shameful and cold-hearted emotional cruelty to suggest that these women and children asked for this destiny, deserved it, chose it or created their own reality. It completely misunderstands karma and the laws of attraction. There is a frequent error of assuming that souls have complete control and choice over their incarnations. New souls entering for the first time, for example, may simply be drawn to where there is a newly conceived fetus. They may have no choice but to participate in the collective rhythm and cycle. There are more dynamics in incarnation than simple choice. Equally we do not create our lives in isolation. We pass through collective historical and karmic events over which we may have little individual power. We are participants as souls and as biological creatures in a constellation of relationships that includes our species, our gender, our family, our ancestors, our ethnicity and faith. Our parents and children, for example, are within us, as we are also within them. We are not just individual souls creating our own individual lives and futures. We are also subjects of the group soul and our histories and futures are entwined. As a species we have created a shared karma of suffering, and it is as a collective that we experience, redeem and heal it. The collective affects even the most forceful individual. The redemption of all this lies in the fact that each of us has the freedom and power to adopt our own inner attitude regardless of circumstances. I am inspired, for example, by the Catholic priests who chose the way of self-sacrifice and walked with their Jewish parishioners into the Nazi gas chambers. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke It is also completely banal and naïve to suggest that everything in God’s world is good and that it is all a matter of perception. Faced with the reality of a three-year old child being sexually abused, it is simply not possible to make such a statement and be moral. It is in facing reality, not denying it, being in our hearts, that we grow and become wiser. At the same time I fully appreciate how difficult it is to be fully present to suffering. For some people it is overwhelming because it triggers their own pain. But sooner or later on the spiritual path we have to develop the courage and strength to stay stable and loving when faced with these horrors. In the words of Carl Jung: One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.