Freedom from fear, hate, division and prejudice....
Freedom to feel the magic and power of being fully alive.
Freedom…….
When speaking recently on a zoom interview with a student on the opposite side of this country who is doing his doctorate on wolves and humans in the environment, I recalled what living with the wolves and the ancient Indigenous practices here taught me about freedom. In the old story of wolf and dog.....both of them saw that man had fire and they wanted it. Dog said "I will go and get it", and he went and man fed dog and dog didn't return. That was the end of the story. Wolves choose to be free, unafraid and wild, not conditioned or confined.
Indigenous societies understood freedom when doing the giveaway at a Potlatch...they knew the true power of giving everything away, knowing that energy was circular and what goes around comes around. The missionaries didn't understand that and were afraid of the Potlatch and it was banned.
It is time to empower oneself to be truly free to be who and what we were born to be, to feel the magic and power of being alive...speaking one’s truth with care, respect and lucidity, not subject to anyone or anything, honoring the diversity and our own algorhythm without fear.
What we have each been given, being different and unique individuals, has been repressed far too long under a burden of collectivism where conforming has been overwhelming to the point of self imprisonment and self destruction.
These are times to step out, speak freely despite the narrative or limitations, to courageously be one’s self wholly without the strictures and structures that have confined us. That structure is coming to a close but there are still bullies and intimidators who try to control it all due to their fear of freedom and their efforts to hold onto their so called, “wealth and power”.
True prosperity and power is freedom from the burden of wealth and control.
In the teachings of the ancient Dur Bon wisdom out of the mountains of Tibet, it was taught that ….”you only have that which comes to you.”
Each being that we are is a prism of light shining on the whole like facets of a diamond. We were born to be fully alive, excited by living, not shut away in fear of recrimination or criticism by a society that has run its collective gamut. That story, or what is currently called "the narrative", is over, crumbling away like a time worn outer coating, over-used, imbalanced and corrupted by its own inner stagnation. It is out of sync with the universal energies of who we truly are and what we are presently encompassing.
True power is within and with the Earth and the natural forces that make it all possible. Fear is just another form of energy which can be transformed into something to be used for common good. Everything is energy and it is time to let go of unskillful energies and find the great circle of life, the truly sustaining circular energy that makes us and the world go around and to live fully, with passion, integrity and dedication to who we are and what we are meant to be. Shine the light on the darkness and where evil is hiding in the corners.
It is time to be free to live…. and to live freely and in peace together.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” ….Edmund Burke
Remembering the ancient Hawaiian teachings of “Huopenopeno” …the four healing sentences one says are (in any order you wish)….”I’m sorry. I love you. Please forgive me. Thank you.” This can be done in private just thinking about someone or something.
To brothers and sisters out there who know the old teachings of the Anasasazi; It is a powerful time to be drawing the healing circle and lighting a candle in the center of it to focus good energies for the Earth and for All our relations.
May peace and love uplift our hearts and minds.
Happy Full Moon and Solstice!