tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38928415203966124532024-02-29T21:40:27.457-08:00The Goddess & The Open Book TestA blog about spirituality, finding words of power, and gaining an understanding of self. (Isis told me to do start the blog so I did.)Normandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09963184583408795293noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-85164748047177395092023-06-06T17:31:00.001-07:002023-06-06T17:31:58.574-07:002023 - REACHING NEW HEIGHTS<p> <span> Things change. No matter how we fight them, we find that leaning into the painful change allows us to open to new heights. I have moved from Camp Chesterfield, a community I dearly loved, and I am living now in Kentucky--the place of my birth, nestled between its green grasses and hills like a soft, firry animal finding a comfortable lap. I am home.</span></p><p></p><p><img alt="May be an image of clothes iron" class="x1bwycvy x193iq5w x4fas0m x19kjcj4" data-visualcompletion="media-vc-image" height="320" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/350687510_996613525031520_8384798693536589071_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=ljZS1FhtoMsAX9I6QBP&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.xx&oh=00_AfC-p9afEWVjYfwhN_F9TWIEaICh23W5Ij83KVo5aSA_bg&oe=6483F8C9" style="background-color: black; border: 0px; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; max-height: 100vh; max-width: 100%; object-fit: contain;" width="240" /></p> Here is where I spent my days and a few evenings, writing--and waiting for friends to come to write with me, to study mystical texts with me, to smile, to remember and to spin a few yarns. Please contact me. Message me on FB and let's get together to share tea, coffee, memoirs. I love how you stay in my memory and my heart. I call you forth.<p></p><p><br /></p>Normandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09963184583408795293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-40462352227394429892023-04-18T13:22:00.005-07:002023-04-18T13:22:44.377-07:00Exploring the Unseen Conference<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-9567a262-7fff-377f-9a4c-14451a8cc4cc"></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-301fe94b-7fff-65b4-7a9a-4e4420ce7f6a"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhezEKbPowB8rV08iqehJypfOFbIHVK-LqmDM_GAtTBAI23zvc_i-LmyNFoRPquLXAgFVasgt1Ouq-nEKE6e8O1vlZFbBsSDCnAMmgAugcD_e5WFP9atw_EmEh95vcFzogIEV8NbejOrMi6aQaPB2JaK0ToDj3kYwZkRSUO-p-w2hWAKCrVYb0Itj5F/s1384/ancient%20tradition%20of%20angels.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1384" data-original-width="904" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhezEKbPowB8rV08iqehJypfOFbIHVK-LqmDM_GAtTBAI23zvc_i-LmyNFoRPquLXAgFVasgt1Ouq-nEKE6e8O1vlZFbBsSDCnAMmgAugcD_e5WFP9atw_EmEh95vcFzogIEV8NbejOrMi6aQaPB2JaK0ToDj3kYwZkRSUO-p-w2hWAKCrVYb0Itj5F/s320/ancient%20tradition%20of%20angels.jpg" width="209" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Announcing my new book THE ANCIENT TRADITION OF ANGELS by participating in this remarkable conferane on the Unseen. It's time.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">You can feel the energy changing these days in a multitude of ways. In these transitional times, which also hold great potential for transformation and the awakening of our individual and collective consciousness, messages from the unseen world have never been more available to us – or more valuable.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the world at a choice point, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">our ability to connect and work with the unseen is one of the most essential skills we will need to root us in our authentic power, support our expansion, remember who we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">really</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are as divine humans, and help birth the New Earth. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That’s why I’m so delighted to be one of the presenters at </span><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Exploring the Unseen: Unlocking the Secrets of the Non-Material World</span><span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #7030a0; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[<span style="color: black; font-weight: 400;">https://bit.ly/ExploringtheUnseen-NormandiEllis</span>]</span><span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, an online event and retreat April 23</span><span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: super;">rd</span></span><span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to 29</span><span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 2023.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a4064689-7fff-42a1-5f31-bba8af500a09"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Through discussion, experiential practices, ceremony, and activations, you’ll explore and deepen your noticing, listening, receptivity, and discernment on a journey through the non-material world of multidimensional consciousness, dreams, the Akashic records, angels, guides, nature spirits, mediumship, the ancestors, and much more. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">This unique global event, co-hosted by my colleagues, Leslie Zehr (The Universal Dancer) and Keren Brown (WiseWoman Leading), will be live-streamed and interactive, including special opening and closing ceremonies direct from the island of O’ahu.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><div>What might you gain from the Exploring the Unseen Conference, where you can </div></span></span></div></span><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1e0fa0c8-7fff-08d0-0817-542ac757d70a"><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deepen your access to the non-material world to expand your consciousness</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enhance your connection to the unseen world</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Exploring the many ways to enter the unseen realm – and find out why it matters</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Expand your multidimensional awareness to stay grounded and in your power</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strengthening your connection to the unseen as an essential skill for tumultuous times</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enhancing your ability to connect with the unseen: your best superpower in uncertain times</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Remember who you truly are in uncertain times</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joining other cosmic visionaries, pioneers, authors, guides, and teachers, I will be speaking about </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Angels, Neteru and Divine Messengers]</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[April 26, @ 10 am ]</span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This retreat will help you:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">· </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Access deeper wisdom, clarity, and knowing so all areas of your life can flow with more ease and grace</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">· </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trust your intuition and guidance more than ever before</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">· </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stay more rooted, centered, calm, and focused, even in the midst of external challenges</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">· </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Connect you to a deeper sense of meaning and purpose so </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you can be the change</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">This promises to be a profound and transformational event and I look forward to connecting with you there!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">To claim your spot,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: black; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">register here</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #7030a0; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">[</span>https://bit.ly/ExploringtheUnseen-NormandiEllis</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">P.S. And please share the love! If you would share this with others you know, that would be wonderful. Send them to </span><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this link to register</span><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #7030a0; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">[<span style="color: black; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre;">https://bit.ly/ExploringtheUnseen-NormandiEllis</span>]</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> and enjoy the event experience with a friend.
</span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #04ff00; font-size: large;">Attendance is free!</span></b></span></p></li></ol></span><br /><br /></div><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><br /></div>Normandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09963184583408795293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-4323710662068071482020-04-22T03:15:00.003-07:002020-04-22T03:15:41.099-07:00Earth Day Shivers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBzi3jDQa8zmacvo6RR91zULV9n4s8KdwkGO1t3x1WnR6FvOOefz46rbGvAS2RrfXVnITMog2_gZhtMLrv2kfjHQvmSVrjdzsIs-3BNPzKhvrH2j8INyEbZwfEu5f1fPleoBoHGTp4INw/s1600/redbud.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: right; color: #0066cc; float: right; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="315" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBzi3jDQa8zmacvo6RR91zULV9n4s8KdwkGO1t3x1WnR6FvOOefz46rbGvAS2RrfXVnITMog2_gZhtMLrv2kfjHQvmSVrjdzsIs-3BNPzKhvrH2j8INyEbZwfEu5f1fPleoBoHGTp4INw/s320/redbud.jpg" width="320" /></a>I am waiting in the dark<br />like one ray of sunlight<br />Aten<br />ready to pop out<br />
from behind this cloud.<br />
I am morning<br />
longing for bird song.<br />
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I am trillium<br />
with my two budded<br />
lips pursed<br />
suckling cold dew<br />
from the teat of morning.<br />
I am worry, prayer<br />
a trembling kiss.<br />
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I am the chattering<br />
pink teeth mark of redbud<br />
waiting to explode<br />
along the arm of tree.<br />
I am the green hearts<br />
of leaves longing<br />
for perfect light.<br />
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In a cold viral world<br />
I cry: Wake me!<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBzi3jDQa8zmacvo6RR91zULV9n4s8KdwkGO1t3x1WnR6FvOOefz46rbGvAS2RrfXVnITMog2_gZhtMLrv2kfjHQvmSVrjdzsIs-3BNPzKhvrH2j8INyEbZwfEu5f1fPleoBoHGTp4INw/s1600/redbud.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>For goddess sake,<br />
unmask the glory<br />
the aching craving--<br />
this falling in love<br />
with the earth<br />
burning in light.<br />
--Normandi Ellis</div>
Normandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09963184583408795293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-32585350013591961872020-01-03T02:15:00.003-08:002020-01-03T02:15:21.844-08:002020 is a Power Year<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI2bwAYWSmv6GhstdCzj2nLgHES3ch3wjV31hhmdOdBnzhGrhUPpkDy7x5FTY2gco5haBrjw0yUrWIYnB5zZP-LgIbA3Rt2ybpPNvz4g3X0K_5IVNe22eC4AHR39o3jxUo7tvnsijpbXk/s1600/Pythagoras.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: right; color: #0066cc; float: right; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="228" data-original-width="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI2bwAYWSmv6GhstdCzj2nLgHES3ch3wjV31hhmdOdBnzhGrhUPpkDy7x5FTY2gco5haBrjw0yUrWIYnB5zZP-LgIbA3Rt2ybpPNvz4g3X0K_5IVNe22eC4AHR39o3jxUo7tvnsijpbXk/s1600/Pythagoras.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI2bwAYWSmv6GhstdCzj2nLgHES3ch3wjV31hhmdOdBnzhGrhUPpkDy7x5FTY2gco5haBrjw0yUrWIYnB5zZP-LgIbA3Rt2ybpPNvz4g3X0K_5IVNe22eC4AHR39o3jxUo7tvnsijpbXk/s1600/Pythagoras.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>Did you know Pythagoras--yeah, that ancient Greek guy who was responsible for your having to learn the Pythagorean theorem in high school geometry--spent 30 years tramping up and down the Nile, wandering around lost inside the temples of ancient Egypt, begging the old scribes and priests of Ptah and Thoth to teach him everything, or anything, or whatever they knew about magic, the heka of hieroglyphs and numbers. <br />
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EGYPT!<br />
That's the source of all our mystical, magical numerology, as well as our geometry and alchemy. It's a story of secrets and struggle and working against the odds to gain what our heart and mind --nay, our very soul!-- desires.<br />
It's a story fit for a new year--this new year!<br />
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Our 2020 is going to be filled with amazing energy. 2+0+2+0 = the Master number 22, which is the foundation of Temple building. Have you been called to build your Temple yet? Do you know how to manifest the desires within yourself as you stand inside your holy of holies, that sacred ground of your spiritual and alchemical constellation?<br />
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This planet Earth is undergoing massive changes at the hand of the Divine that has cojoined with our human hands to implement The Great Work. This is the future we've been waiting for. We are entering the wave of the New Age.<br />
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Two is the number of partnership, and this year we enter the greatest partnership we can ever imagine, that of partnering with Cosmic Intelligence. Two plus two. (Isis and Thoth. You and me.) We stretch out our hands to touch the hands of the divine. That's four hands, folks! We are linked in a great building partnership. It takes a lot of work, and a lot of love, and a lot of commitment to build this kind of energy to accomplish the Work at hand.<br />
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AND that God Force Energy is twice amplified by the repetition of the number Zero, the Ouroboros--the forcefield of creativity from beginning to end, spiraling over on itself, recombining beginning and end. I'd expect a radical re-shifting in your priorities from focus on the material world to amplified visioning in the spiritual world. <br />
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Which doesn't mean we will be getting off easy with 2020. It is the year of the Master Builder. Perhaps you foresee big things in your life. Thoth and Isis, the Ascended Masters, the Daimon, the Angels of Your Higher Nature--call them what you will--are beside you all the way, ready to assist with the building of the staircase that leads to enlightenment. You are ready to set your new life in motion but remember it is a daily re-ignition of the dream that will keep you going. You can achieve whatever you wish, with a bit of angelic help. And a lot of human determination.<br />
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Keep lighting candles. Affirm your positive steps daily. Get out your day planner. Do the work. Be grateful you are here on this planet to do the work. It is a gift, an honor to be here, working elbow to elbow with the Gods, Goddesses, Angels, and Ascended Masters. Roll up your sleeves!!!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCZhLOCXgNjNf_01QXH8h_BFh1L1_Jo40yOYMQm069J5QKRd8pfR_eEfpDa6p1wQqMiu5qz2rlwaguOGmgzsa8rBN697It8wiLrfYxs6dW8Ca1yN3kYVFeT3jb8HGxlhskif2Nsqk0xU/s1600/Book+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCZhLOCXgNjNf_01QXH8h_BFh1L1_Jo40yOYMQm069J5QKRd8pfR_eEfpDa6p1wQqMiu5qz2rlwaguOGmgzsa8rBN697It8wiLrfYxs6dW8Ca1yN3kYVFeT3jb8HGxlhskif2Nsqk0xU/s1600/Book+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: left; color: #0066cc; float: left; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="900" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCZhLOCXgNjNf_01QXH8h_BFh1L1_Jo40yOYMQm069J5QKRd8pfR_eEfpDa6p1wQqMiu5qz2rlwaguOGmgzsa8rBN697It8wiLrfYxs6dW8Ca1yN3kYVFeT3jb8HGxlhskif2Nsqk0xU/s200/Book+cover.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="133" /></a>Let's go.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCZhLOCXgNjNf_01QXH8h_BFh1L1_Jo40yOYMQm069J5QKRd8pfR_eEfpDa6p1wQqMiu5qz2rlwaguOGmgzsa8rBN697It8wiLrfYxs6dW8Ca1yN3kYVFeT3jb8HGxlhskif2Nsqk0xU/s1600/Book+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: right; color: #0066cc; float: right; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCZhLOCXgNjNf_01QXH8h_BFh1L1_Jo40yOYMQm069J5QKRd8pfR_eEfpDa6p1wQqMiu5qz2rlwaguOGmgzsa8rBN697It8wiLrfYxs6dW8Ca1yN3kYVFeT3jb8HGxlhskif2Nsqk0xU/s1600/Book+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: right; color: #0066cc; float: right; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCZhLOCXgNjNf_01QXH8h_BFh1L1_Jo40yOYMQm069J5QKRd8pfR_eEfpDa6p1wQqMiu5qz2rlwaguOGmgzsa8rBN697It8wiLrfYxs6dW8Ca1yN3kYVFeT3jb8HGxlhskif2Nsqk0xU/s1600/Book+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a>I have some 2020 news of my own. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCZhLOCXgNjNf_01QXH8h_BFh1L1_Jo40yOYMQm069J5QKRd8pfR_eEfpDa6p1wQqMiu5qz2rlwaguOGmgzsa8rBN697It8wiLrfYxs6dW8Ca1yN3kYVFeT3jb8HGxlhskif2Nsqk0xU/s1600/Book+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: right; color: #0066cc; float: right; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">My new book </span><i>Hieroglyphic Words of Power: </i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCZhLOCXgNjNf_01QXH8h_BFh1L1_Jo40yOYMQm069J5QKRd8pfR_eEfpDa6p1wQqMiu5qz2rlwaguOGmgzsa8rBN697It8wiLrfYxs6dW8Ca1yN3kYVFeT3jb8HGxlhskif2Nsqk0xU/s1600/Book+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: right; color: #0066cc; float: right; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></a><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Symbols for Magic, Divination and Dreamwork</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> will be coming out from Bear & Co in May 2020. You can order it here: </span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCZhLOCXgNjNf_01QXH8h_BFh1L1_Jo40yOYMQm069J5QKRd8pfR_eEfpDa6p1wQqMiu5qz2rlwaguOGmgzsa8rBN697It8wiLrfYxs6dW8Ca1yN3kYVFeT3jb8HGxlhskif2Nsqk0xU/s1600/Book+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><b></b><i></i><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></a>https://www.innertraditions.com/hieroglyphic-words-of-power<br />
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Its writing has been a labor of love for about 10 years, the same amount of time it took to write Awakening Osiris, which began my love affair with hieroglyphs and was published back in 1988. This new book explores why hieroglyphs have entranced countless Egyptophiles like me throughout the centuries. Symbol and mythology, combined numerology and the pulse of vibration, the music of language... all moving together to create a kaleidoscope of meaning, layer upon layer. I think you're gonna like it.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFy1LnpeMsKV309CfHQgAtoTEjq8U_Zh0EIs7oAazCT5yZEYCJyXBeqRNg_2yC6FAN9j5f9GjbmxYXYIQzIfBYAco2xbeMK-1T6WXK6NM1UMB4C3VJBLnqub3x9ps5disii0Gym1_O1iA/s1600/Seshet+box+front+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: left; color: #0066cc; float: left; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1132" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFy1LnpeMsKV309CfHQgAtoTEjq8U_Zh0EIs7oAazCT5yZEYCJyXBeqRNg_2yC6FAN9j5f9GjbmxYXYIQzIfBYAco2xbeMK-1T6WXK6NM1UMB4C3VJBLnqub3x9ps5disii0Gym1_O1iA/s200/Seshet+box+front+%25281%2529.jpg" width="141" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFy1LnpeMsKV309CfHQgAtoTEjq8U_Zh0EIs7oAazCT5yZEYCJyXBeqRNg_2yC6FAN9j5f9GjbmxYXYIQzIfBYAco2xbeMK-1T6WXK6NM1UMB4C3VJBLnqub3x9ps5disii0Gym1_O1iA/s1600/Seshet+box+front+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>There is a deck of cards that can be bought separately to accommodate your interest in using the hieroglyphs in an oracular fashion. I've been doing readings with Egyptian hieroglyphs for about 5 years now. First, I made my own deck of cards, then started meditating with each one of them daily, using them in private readings. After a while and some work with my guides, I was able to use them clairvoyantly from my public demonstrations at Camp Chesterfield. The book is a result of all those meditations and work. You can make your own deck, but there is a beautiful ready to go deck called the Oracle of Seshet, which contains the beautiful photographs of hieroglyphs that A. Auset Rohn and I created after a trip through Egypt searching the temples for images that demonstrate the magic of the language. By the way, her photographs appear in the book as well. And I would be remiss if I didn't mention that the handiwork of artist Lexy Hovis also graces the book so that you can draw the hieroglyphs is you like. If you prefer to order a pre-made set to begin with, go to the bottom of the page here: http://www.thegoddessinside.com/must-have-books<br />
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In the early days of working with the hieroglyphs, I teemed up with Jean Houston to do some writing and editing in her book The Passion of Isis and Osiris. That followed the first tour I took in Egypt with her in 1992. For the last five years I have enjoyed traveling around the country teaching my classes in Hieroglyphic Words of Power and giving students the opportunity to learn hieroglyphic oracles by drawing their own cards on slips of papyri. That's still a wonderful way to do it, but I now have included a deck of the same 60 hieroglyphic oracle cards in HiWoPo. They are called Seshet's Oracle, which can be.<br />
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So there's some of my new news.<br />
Interested in studying with me? Contact me at ellisisis@gmail.com.<br />
Stay tuned for more information about my travel plans for Egypt March 2021.</div>
Normandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09963184583408795293noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-86778181106299278022019-07-19T14:43:00.001-07:002019-07-19T14:43:38.128-07:00Keeping Sacred Calendars<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOPn1kk-BJEr6iFR-zEMA_YHUNo9uz2a3FyNmmJSqAJxa2hmsDQpEhezvET7qFBOpuhYlHklx4_xlZY5SM1zWs7D4ksHAqpRo05q4e1uDIwWJBtpklRYFz6-8miKACTTnnlC9nO9QuhnA/s1600/thoth+cauldron+%25283%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: right; color: #0066cc; float: right; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 48px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="239" data-original-width="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOPn1kk-BJEr6iFR-zEMA_YHUNo9uz2a3FyNmmJSqAJxa2hmsDQpEhezvET7qFBOpuhYlHklx4_xlZY5SM1zWs7D4ksHAqpRo05q4e1uDIwWJBtpklRYFz6-8miKACTTnnlC9nO9QuhnA/s1600/thoth+cauldron+%25283%2529.jpg" /></a>When the Egyptian god Thoth created the world in his cauldron, according to myths in Heliopolis, he stirred the waters of creation and found there four pairs of beings, that were basically Infinite Light (Ra & Raet), <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Infinite </span>Darkness <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> (Kek & Keket) <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Infinite <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Time (Heh & <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Heh</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">et</span></span></span></span>) and Infinite Space (Nu & Nut). Some include these two as well: <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Infinite </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Mystery (Amen &Amentet)</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This talk evolved in</span> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the </span>class I was teaching in sacred calendar,<span style="background-color: white;"> exploring a study of time, space, light, and dark as well as creation of the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Some
of you may think that since the close of the Mayan calendar in
2012 there’s not an imperative<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 115%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 48px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">o for </span>learning sacred calendars. I don’t
believe that’s true. The sacred calendar lends a basic understanding for
any metaphysical practice. In essence, sacred calendar is about learning to
understand patterns now so well that you can predict the future and understand
the past. Synchronicity is just a larger pattern that we have not yet grasped.
It’s all in the timing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sacred
calendar is steeped in several important phenomenon: Light, Vibration, Pattern,
and Timing. And as light workers, which is what spiritualists are – whether
Christian or Unitarian or Spiritualist or pagan – sacred calendars help us
understand the importance of the liturgical year as well as give us a grass on
the underlying power of light and dark, the rhythms of human life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meditation
is useful as a tool because in it, you practice being in two worlds—stepping
into earth time and sitting within eternal time. In meditation in eternal time,
you can experience two things. It slows down your body clock enough so that you
can move backward and forward across an infinite psychic space. This is the
true meaning of the voice that speaks over the waters mentioned in Genesis. Here
is how sacred calendars began.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth. 2And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface
of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
3Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4And God saw that
the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. 5And God
called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening
and there was morning, one day. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(New American
Standard Bible Genesis 1:1-5)</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thus,
the first sacred calendar…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
other versions we are told that this is the voice upon the face of the water.
And what is voice but a vibration or read them which sets out an energetic
force that we may define as (New American Standard Bible Genesis 1:1-5) consciousness
of God or God’s will. This vibration is time that ripples across space and sets
the world in motion. From it emerge all atoms, planets and cycles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sacred
calendar is all about seeing the pattern of your life as a mirror of God
consciousness. In meditation you tap into that divine eternal creative. We can
safely say that learning sacred calendar is part of learning how to use the Law
of Vibration and the Law of Rhythm. Rhythm and time are intricately linked, as
space and form are linked to vibration. The law of vibration monitors such
things as the movement of atoms, the beating of the heart, the tug of the moon
tides, the spinning of planets, earth, galaxies and universes. The construction
of brain waves is part of what we metaphysicians call the Law of Thought – and
thought is vibration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Vibration
is what composes space and time. Space and time themselves create
consciousness. Consciousness is the meaning of matter – the things that exist
in time and space in relationship to each other. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
study also shows us the powerful Law of Opposition wherein the sacred calendar
reflects the potencies of light and dark, day and night, hot and cold, birth
and death, sleeping and waking. Without primitive mankind ever knowing that the
earth was tilting on its axis, she understood that a pattern was set for
creating cold winters and hot summers with temperate springs and autumns. By
tracking these patterns of opposition, she could regulate the times when it was
important to plant and sow seeds, as well as to reap grains. Observing the
movements of planets, stars and the sun he could predict the movement of game
across the landscape and thus plan his hunting routes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Time
in general is about understanding cycles and light. (I have to say that as I
was working on this material all of the clocks in my house began to check and
run backwards. After three days they righted themselves. Make of that what you
will. It’s a synchronicity I’ve yet to unravel.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And
so we have used sacred calendars, possibly since the beginning of human
history, to help us modulate our life activities. They tracker agricultural
seasons so that we don’t plant seeds too early or too late, and so that the
shepherd knows when to send his flock or cattle into pasture. Women were
probably the early calendar keepers because they noticed that their menstrual
cycles and the cycles of the moon were similarly influential. Planetary and
stellar cycles influenced the great ancient civilizations: The Mayans tracked
the planet Venus with incredible accuracy and the ancient Egyptians tracked the
helical rising of the star Sirius to ascertain the timing of the Nile flood. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Even
birds, without calendars, migrate North or South based upon the amount of
available sunlight in those places where they live. Their mating season and the
production of eggs to create new life forms is stimulated by the effect of
sunlight on their pineal glands. We are all creatures of light. And as light
workers it is especially important to understand the power that the cycles of
light manifestation have upon us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Everything
is pattern. Observing pattern is not simply observing things that are the same,
but also observing the interaction between things that are somewhat dissimilar
and yet hold a relationship between them. Synchronicity is a pattern whose
cycle we haven’t understood yet, perhaps because we have not observed other
occasions where two seemingly dissimilar things are in conjunction. In truth,
the Law of Unity reminds us that everything is connected by the power of the
divine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sacred
calendar shows you your place in the cosmos. If you choose to accept it – and
by that we mean work in accordance with it and not against it – your life becomes
God-inspired and you reflect the divine spark. In accordance with the Law of
Karma, we might say that difficult lives are about correcting the missed timing
and actions that are out of rhythm from previous incarnations in a particular
place and time. Now you can see that karma is also a cycle of time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Karma
keeps us in balance. Sacred calendar and karma are linked in terms of the Law
of Balance. Karma in a psychological sense as well as an experience is
equivalent to calendar rectification. If you are out of sequence with time in
small ways you must gain or reduce atomic second, which is what NASA has done
over the last decade. If you are out of balance in your life, it may require
the addition of extra lifetimes (epigominal days) to restore the whole pattern.
Balance in your life in large ways may be acquired through many lifetimes,
which is the personal equivalent of the precession of the equinoxes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Any
time that you enter into the area of prediction, that is trying to ascertain
where and when an event will occur, you are gazing into the time and space of a
divine intelligence. The Law of Preponderance tells us that everything is a
part of God consciousness. It all moves together like swarms of bees in a
pattern that may appear random on the surface but the movement altogether has a
kind of intelligence about it. The ancient alchemists who constructed orreries
and planetariums in their laboratories understood that the movement of heavenly
bodies was like watching the cogs in a wheel. One has only to glance at the
Mayan calendar to see that they were making clocks well before the Swiss or
Germans. Stellar bodies and planets have consciousness and operate on the Law
of Vibration. Natural law is God or infinite intelligence. God is eternal – the
past, present and future.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOPn1kk-BJEr6iFR-zEMA_YHUNo9uz2a3FyNmmJSqAJxa2hmsDQpEhezvET7qFBOpuhYlHklx4_xlZY5SM1zWs7D4ksHAqpRo05q4e1uDIwWJBtpklRYFz6-8miKACTTnnlC9nO9QuhnA/s1600/thoth+cauldron+%25283%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That
said, you will find that learning sacred calendar will help you understand such
things as astrology, numerology, and full moon meditations, as well as finding
its usefulness in your work through the metaphysical journal, practical metaphysics,
and ceremony practicum. It is the groundwork for all sacred ritual in every
religion.</span></div>
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Normandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09963184583408795293noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-518596432608837242019-02-26T06:01:00.000-08:002019-02-26T06:01:21.401-08:00Interview with Normandi Ellis on Jamie Dawn Radio<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here is the link. https://www.12radio.com/hosts/C49CB585C58F6CD8/JamieDawn_2_21_2019.mp3?fbclid=IwAR1Yed5AomNx4xRW4nJ-Op-qrLottpJYP07mmfmSRUmzHTd2kbXj8B0oxgY<br />
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Normandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09963184583408795293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-32056752968440959172019-02-16T20:52:00.005-08:002019-02-16T20:57:11.974-08:00Medju Seshet - The Word of the Goddess<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When Voices in Spirit say do something, and I get the goose bumps, I usually do it. I don't often know why. Like years ago now, I heard a voice say "You need to start a blog called "The Goddess and the Open Book Test," and I thought 'That's a silly name. Why would I start a blog called that?'<br />
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And she said, "Because I say so. … You'll see."<br />
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So I did. And now I see. The Word of the Goddess (Medju Seshet) started out with my telling stories about trips to Egypt, then announcing writing classes, and now here I am several years later having completed a book (February 14th- Kiss me) called Medju Seshet: The Lady's Book of Oracles.*<br />
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It began with classes I taught in Hieroglyphic Thinking, which kept expanding and then went straight into automatic writing and the book began to take shape. It offers up the 30 years of study I've done with the Egyptian hieroglyphs. In addition, I've created a series of meditations for each glyph. It also offers ways to use the hieroglyphs as oracles. I hope to place them on a deck of cards and offer those as well as the book. And there are ways to do the layouts.<br />
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So as if that massive project weren't enough the Goddess said, "I want you to start a priestess school." I said, "What? I can't do that. I'm too busy. I'm not all That!" And then she reminded me of a dream that I had had in which Lady Olivia Robertson, of the Fellowship of Isis, came to me in a dream and said "What will you do for the Fellowship of Isis?" and I told her Lady Olivia, whatever you ask. "Done," she said and disappeared. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXDO68hG3Z8YMJpO11QwMfPdZmPWcuoZec0NmihBKHmQX7jTsd5UvyqBKT7GB_zxPUsk91qlhS2SETj5lnIDxUlqC-ffv6jXOPIUtaPZMB5-UTjX00zEINCI0KoqTb1iO98GsyeonTrTA/s1600/seshet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="632" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXDO68hG3Z8YMJpO11QwMfPdZmPWcuoZec0NmihBKHmQX7jTsd5UvyqBKT7GB_zxPUsk91qlhS2SETj5lnIDxUlqC-ffv6jXOPIUtaPZMB5-UTjX00zEINCI0KoqTb1iO98GsyeonTrTA/s320/seshet.jpg" width="210" /></a>So now the voice of the Goddess comes back and says to me, "You already agreed. You said you would do it. Now is the time."<br />
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So now Is the Time! I began a school wherein those who love the Goddess can come to study, and perhaps be ordained if they choose. I didn't know what to call it until I stood outside my favorite little spot in Edfu where Seshet kept the temple prayers on scrolls, and I was leading the meditation with my travelers to receive their Akashic record from Seshet. Someone took my picture and there was standing across from me, a cluster of orbs that as I looked at them created the outline of the Goddess herself. The school is called PAHS * or Per Ankh Het Seshet translated as The House of Life in the Temple of Seshet.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXDO68hG3Z8YMJpO11QwMfPdZmPWcuoZec0NmihBKHmQX7jTsd5UvyqBKT7GB_zxPUsk91qlhS2SETj5lnIDxUlqC-ffv6jXOPIUtaPZMB5-UTjX00zEINCI0KoqTb1iO98GsyeonTrTA/s1600/seshet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>And I reckon I'll create a new blog on that. She seems to be talking to me. I better be listening.<br />
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* Book will be published by Bear&Co/Inner Traditions Fall 2019 I hope.</div>
Normandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09963184583408795293noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-5916923471428005512018-01-20T16:36:00.001-08:002018-01-20T16:37:52.266-08:00WORKING WITH PURPOSE: An Exploration of Spiritual Autobiography<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBIUfDK380W2RICYcUIWI_ngNbBkJBtwKmXnJ1YRPKW3HcZQ6DGSWjzzq-y2w0pHq3Qsh-GacWbSsd7Zwvv1twH_k5Yvhzu8dV0zyqyetVdmAnLQ8eaEey2EALi3mfYuhCPwlMJeYRYXs/s1600/bookshelves.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Lately I’ve been
waking from deep dreams with the startling realization that after 64 years I am still in this
body, and many of my friends are not. I wake with the deep recognition that I shall not always be here. Are you feeling the unanswered questions, too? "My Purpose Is... What have
I learned in this journey thus far? Have I engaged with my life as my soul
required?"</span></div>
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from the shelf. I’ve kept a journal since I was nine and while my life has not
always been well-crafted prose of my experience, it is my journey. And this is the work I
have done--sometimes well and sometimes not so well--to become the person I am thus far.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">This body is a
container for memory. But often the feeling that our experiences are
ours alone leads us into isolation and loneliness. A study of transpersonal
astrology has shown me that my experiences are not so dissimilar from the
experiences of other women at my various ages. Clinging to one’s personal experience leads
to misunderstanding. Rather than imagining that we are writing our daily doings,
imagine that the story we inhabit has been written by a divine hand. Imagine
that as we share our stories with others, we build strength as a group of
awakening souls.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px;">Imagine the Akashic record keepers,
writing upon tablets that contain the story of our lives, the story of a divine
being sent down to earth to inhabit a form and to do some work that really
matters. Our world is composed of the combined stories of all those beings of
light whose souls manifest in commitment to the Great Work.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px;">Writing your spiritual autobiography
means to come to that deep level of understanding that our life is part of a
larger story. Our life is the story of a living, sentient being called Earth. I am calling you to come and write with me. I am calling you to add your voice to a planetary chorus.</span></div>
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at 12:30 pm, then reconvene from 2-5 pm. $50. Limit 16 participants. Please
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class synthesizes the Nine Spiritual Bodies of the Ancient Egyptians, the
Qabala and the way in which the ancient healer/shaman understood all forms as
vibration. Learn how each subtle body influences our lives. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Introduction to the Book of the Dead<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>MAR
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"travel guide to the underworld” helps the soul move through states of
consciousness into the next life. Included are maps of the next world, what to
expect, who to meet and what to say. Through Books of the Afterlife spanning
3000 years. We explore the natural laws that underpin an ancient, shamanic
initiation.</span></div>
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ancient Egyptian look at dreams and various levels of consciousness beyond
ordinary perception of reality. A guide to heaven & hell as states of
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjAknyn2Z5gUnJFYQ0fP3Zyrso2Dvs3Dd-tJKHFzFYPnOB6uAVsaqXhsPeoCKnWkfKNwlZ6AhG-1tXGDQr08yS_wOd2evuU_ovydQa3htX1QaWIzCh65jzJ6yhUNpen81uXuP3x4EFYo/s1600/night+sky.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="765" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjAknyn2Z5gUnJFYQ0fP3Zyrso2Dvs3Dd-tJKHFzFYPnOB6uAVsaqXhsPeoCKnWkfKNwlZ6AhG-1tXGDQr08yS_wOd2evuU_ovydQa3htX1QaWIzCh65jzJ6yhUNpen81uXuP3x4EFYo/s400/night+sky.jpg" width="400" /></a>Please don't tell me it's been almost a year since I posted anything to my blog. That's no way to build a presence. <br />
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Sorry, my friends. I was having a moment, or rather an entire year, in which I didn't want to BE a presence. <br />
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I just wanted to BE PRESENT! <br />
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Even at that, it was still an incredibly full, vivid, active year for me. I don't know about you, but it sometimes seems that all of these time-saving, multiple messaging devices (like computers and cell phones and instant messages--and Facebook) are making it harder--not easier--to have significant conversations with people. It's even harder to have significant, important conversations with oneself to find a quiet, nurturing silence where one's true thoughts and feelings can be heard amid all the clamor for attention.<br />
And let's not be an ostrich about it. There are plenty of things going on out there in<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjAknyn2Z5gUnJFYQ0fP3Zyrso2Dvs3Dd-tJKHFzFYPnOB6uAVsaqXhsPeoCKnWkfKNwlZ6AhG-1tXGDQr08yS_wOd2evuU_ovydQa3htX1QaWIzCh65jzJ6yhUNpen81uXuP3x4EFYo/s1600/night+sky.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjAknyn2Z5gUnJFYQ0fP3Zyrso2Dvs3Dd-tJKHFzFYPnOB6uAVsaqXhsPeoCKnWkfKNwlZ6AhG-1tXGDQr08yS_wOd2evuU_ovydQa3htX1QaWIzCh65jzJ6yhUNpen81uXuP3x4EFYo/s1600/night+sky.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a> the world to make a human being want to stand up and shout out, shout back, etc. It's all those voices though, out there and in here, you know, that make it harder and harder to do what is essential... Which is to Love Ourselves, to Heal Ourselves, and to Heal Our Planet.<br />
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It used to be that I often found that healing space inside the pages of my journal on a quiet morning, sitting on my front porch, listening to the wind in the trees and the birds in the branches. And I still do whenever I can. If you know the importance of these moments of sanity, you probably keep a journal too, and not a TO DO LIST instead of a journal. If you don't know it yet, it's not too late to learn how to hear yourself, how to hear your heart, how to listen to the most important conversations going on within you, around you, and inside your dreams.<br />
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Whether you keep a journal now, have kept one in the past, or want to begin to do so, I want to invite you to come to write with me. I will begin a year-long group writing project this January when we gather for the Annual Night of the Mothers Journal Writing Retrospective. Details are at the end of this blog. If you want to participate, shoot me an instant message on Facebook or email me. I only have room for 10 people this year.<br />
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What I hope to do throughout the year is to find a time and space to write in a similar fashion with other journalers in cafes and living rooms. Writing in groups is a wonderful way to not only say what you need to say, but to hear what you say when you read it out loud, and to surprise yourself by what you didn't know you felt until you said it. The group journal writing experience lends a kind of synergy to the experience of journaling.<br />
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Coffee and friendship are as good as it gets for journal writing. Saturday afternoons, or late nights... Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Egypt. Wherever I travel this year I will be somewhere sitting in a café or on a balcony writing. And I want you to join me. Physically if you can--and I'll let you know where I am. But certainly join me in the ethers if we are not in proximity. So here are the details for the first Journal event. Remember you do need to pre-register as there are only 10 spaces for this annual journal event.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 15pt; margin: 0px;">Why is it called the Night of the Mothers? Because in nearly all sacred traditions, the great goddess births her holy child at winter solstice on the darkest night of the year, bringing forth the new light to a new season.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbBSR3k-mkkYPvBHabsF-BRfhyphenhyphenEtPO_1ohq3RyelKS28dMh9FgauwisIwT4KJB_1jag1EdC4rV9q4O_bwj8H-CATYaOYQQlBvBmgcWfuPk55sUI0NkCrUrE34RdTXVMG5wRBCmpWC7BhA/s1600/nut+and+geb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbBSR3k-mkkYPvBHabsF-BRfhyphenhyphenEtPO_1ohq3RyelKS28dMh9FgauwisIwT4KJB_1jag1EdC4rV9q4O_bwj8H-CATYaOYQQlBvBmgcWfuPk55sUI0NkCrUrE34RdTXVMG5wRBCmpWC7BhA/s320/nut+and+geb.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: 15pt; margin: 0px;">The Great Sky Mother wraps her arms around us, embraces us, and holds us and our dreams within her belly until we are reborn in the new year. All cultures are drawn to this inspiring vision of the night sky with its promised return of the light that celebrates the birth of the divine child. As we leave 2017 and herald in the changes of 2018, we usher in the light within us. </span><u1:p></u1:p></div>
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Hieroglyphs, the <em>medju neter </em>or sacred symbols, were originally used when they first appeared in the pyramid of Unas. Their knowledge gives us truth and wisdom that is still relevant in today’s world. Given our new understanding of that ancient and sacred symbolic language, you will create your own cards, which together will create an oracle deck. You will practice reading your new cards with other students, after which we will combine the new oracle deck with the Anubis Oracle deck and do a reading for our country and the world. To accept responsibility for becoming an oracle, you will be asked to make a covenant with Ma’at, both a goddess and the concept of truth, harmony, cosmic order, justice and balance. You will also be given an empowerment that will awaken sensitivities that are either new or have atrophied in order to expand your intuitive capacities. This two-day seminar will be wrapped in teachings about creating your spiritual/metaphysical journal. This workshop is appropriate for anyone who is interested in healing or ministry work or is on a deep spiritual path that continues to unfold. </div>
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Normandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09963184583408795293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-18763873490087688412016-06-10T08:16:00.004-07:002016-06-10T08:16:52.635-07:00Upcoming Egyptian Workshops June-July<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #538135; font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">I'm sort of turning into a moveable feast this summer. I have events all over the map, which means that I may be coming to a city or state near you. I hope you will seek out the workshops in Kentucky, New York and Michigan, or online. When not on the road, I work in Chesterfield Indiana and am teaching some fabulous metaphysical classes in Astrology, Numerology, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Metaphysical Ethics, Full Moon Meditation, Basic Unity of Religion and even Spiritual Autobiography (The Hero's Quest). Here are a few of the on-the-road offerings for the deep summer months. Check out my webpage: www.normandiellis.com for my info and for information about Camp Chesterfield's seminary offerings go to www.campchesterfield.net. </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">15</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Festivals of the Egyptian Goddesses – The
Festival of Mut <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Online class </b></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">http://mysteryschoolofthegoddess.net</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Because there are only 3 seasons
to an ancient Egyptian year, this festival honors the harvest goddess, the
vulture goddess Mut. In the harsh climate of Egypt, the vulture combines the
energies of devouring the dead and laying the egg of future life.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">6</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Medju
Neter</b> - </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Full
Circle Massage & Education Center <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>465
East High St.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ste 110<br />
Lexington, KY<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>6-10 p.m.<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Call
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">859-229-6679 or email </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">rbogale@gmail.com</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Not only is it possible to walk like an Egyptian in the spirit
world, but we must think like an Egyptian. </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Medju neter meant “hieroglyph” to the ancient
Egyptian, and translated in our language it mean the Word of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #111111;">Think like an
ancient Egyptian as you discover how the priests and priestesses used their
words of power to create sacred texts, prayers, and oracles.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Lady and Her Beasts – </span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">6-10pm<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Full Circle Massage & Education
Center <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><br />
465 East High St.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ste 110,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lexington, KY<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Call
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">859-229-6679 or email </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">rbogale@gmail.com</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Egypt,
the ancients said, was made in the image of heaven, and the earth was a mirror
of the Great Mother, who had many aspects. In this class we celebrate the
sacred feminine and look at aspects of the feminine divine and the
divergent energies of the ancient goddesses of sky, water, snake, star,
vulture, feline, and cow.<span style="color: #111111;"> This is primarily
steeped in Egyptian myth, but includes those cultures who influenced or were
influenced by the Egyptian priestesses. </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Festivals of the Egyptian Goddesses – </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Opening of the New Year & The Rise of the Goddess Isis as <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sothis</span></span></b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://mysteryschoolofthegoddess.net</span></div>
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The Egyptian new year falls in midsummer celebrating the rise of the star
Sirius (Sothis or Isis) in Leo which marked the coming of the Nile’s annual
inundation. At this time all time and all life began anew through the rebirth
of the 5 sacred children: Osiris, Horus, Set, Isis and Nephthys.</span></div>
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Soul and the Phoenix<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>3:45-5:45
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The Great Lakes Retreat Center<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Olivet MI <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">www.thegreatlakesretreat.org/</span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The ancient Egyptian mystery religion
supported the soul’s journey through lifetimes to help bring to consciousness
the wisdom of the ancestors and the God force. The highest spiritual bodies
were the ba soul and the akh, equated with The Phoenix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lecture, discussion, and experiential
activities help the student see how these spiritual bodies function in life on
the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual planes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Active meditations will bring us into direct
contact with these spiritual states and with the karma of our personal
histories. The class concludes with a fire ritual of The Phoenix on its pyre.</span></div>
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Behind</b><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>9 am<br />
Lecture<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>The Great Lakes Retreat
Center<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Olivet MI<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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Mystical Symbology & Oracular Readings</b><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>1-6
pm<br />
Universal Unity of Spirit <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>89 N. Main St. (Rt. 60 ) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cassadaga
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</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">http://universalunityofspirit.org/</span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Think like an ancient Egyptian as you
discover how the priests and priestesses used their words of power to create
sacred texts, prayers, and oracles. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learn
the myths of gods speaking the world into being.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Explore hieroglyphs as symbol and sound
‘magic’. Practice thinking hieroglyphically (on multiple levels). Learn coded
hieroglyphs used in sacred texts. Discover what the Egyptian symbols of your
dreams mean. Create an oracle deck and a text of hieroglyphic symbols; then,
practice reading with your classmates. </span></div>
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of The Sacred Feminine</b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>7-9
pm<br />
Universal Unity of Spirit 89 N. Main St. (Rt. 60 ) Cassadaga NY</span></div>
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the ancients said, was made in the image of heaven, and the earth was a mirror
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feminine divine and the divergent energies of the ancient goddesses of sky,
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The late Philip Coppens said the sacred marriage, or hieros gamos, was often considered the holy Grail of sexual union. This might be understood as the marriage of the king and queen, or the high priest and priestess in the temple, or the union of the king and the land, and even the sexual exchange between Pharaoh and concubines in some cases. A kind of sexual ecstasy was often attributed to this sacred union, in which one’s consciousness became the penultimate God consciousness during ecstasy.<br />
The Greeks said that this kind of sacred marriage was only possible between a God and goddess, but Gnostic and Celtic legends attributed it to an enlightened sexual union between two spiritual beings – often soaring spiritual heights could be attained as a magical practice. Some say the union between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, which created the holy child of Cathar legend, might also be seen as a hieros gamos.<br />
Whatever its exact description, its intention was always a moment of rebirth and renewal. It is a marriage that is blessed by the divine. When God attends this union each one is infused with the energy of the other; like Yin and Yang wherein a part of one takes residence within the other. From this union a sacred child comes forth.<br />
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<i>This excerpt comes from the Hierosgamos of Hathor and Horus, an ancient Egyptian celebration in honor of the May Queen, beloved of the pharaoh. If you would like to know more about this celebration or any of the celebations of the ancient Egptins, sign up for a month or a whole year of Feasts of Light: Celebrations of the Egyptian Goddesses, hosted by Mystery School of the Goddess. http://mysteryschoolofthegoddess.net/</i><br />
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Normandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09963184583408795293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-35110276221705435742016-04-13T19:07:00.001-07:002016-04-13T19:07:24.381-07:00Unas Synchronicities<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtNtSYf6tdGs0K6aV8NAnTlzluZuCG2w_BkAethzeesIjIfIAHVpKfefzIykrG5e_tn8uOMcFb4mYDvwuT2rrddzuzbddLk6XGG6OlCv3Msu_VYn7VbSTdGYZpU3ct1LWVIlLoXYuL2U0/s1600/unas+inner.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>In 1980, as I mentioned before, I fell in love with the hieroglyphs and began to translate the interlinear text from Wallis Budge's book The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Papyrus of Ani. It took me 10 years, and it taught me how to think like a poet.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtNtSYf6tdGs0K6aV8NAnTlzluZuCG2w_BkAethzeesIjIfIAHVpKfefzIykrG5e_tn8uOMcFb4mYDvwuT2rrddzuzbddLk6XGG6OlCv3Msu_VYn7VbSTdGYZpU3ct1LWVIlLoXYuL2U0/s1600/unas+inner.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtNtSYf6tdGs0K6aV8NAnTlzluZuCG2w_BkAethzeesIjIfIAHVpKfefzIykrG5e_tn8uOMcFb4mYDvwuT2rrddzuzbddLk6XGG6OlCv3Msu_VYn7VbSTdGYZpU3ct1LWVIlLoXYuL2U0/s320/unas+inner.png" width="253" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtNtSYf6tdGs0K6aV8NAnTlzluZuCG2w_BkAethzeesIjIfIAHVpKfefzIykrG5e_tn8uOMcFb4mYDvwuT2rrddzuzbddLk6XGG6OlCv3Msu_VYn7VbSTdGYZpU3ct1LWVIlLoXYuL2U0/s1600/unas+inner.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>More than 20 year ago I decided I wanted to translate the hieroglyphs in the Pyramid of Unas. I began eagerly but worked very slowly as I didn't want to make any mistakes. I made a mistake. It was 20 years of tedious work with excessive tracing of my footsteps so I and others could see where I was going and how the work was to be seen. In the meantime Jeremy Naydler published his beautiful work Shamanic Initiations in the Pyramid Text, re-translating the same text and getting sot much of what I was working on that at times I felt he was looking over my shoulder!<br />
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But there is still more work to do here, I thought. So after childbirth, and divorce and following job after job into new city after city, I still hadn't finished the translation of Unas' hieroglyphs. Susan Brind Morrow came out with her translation Dawning Moon of the Mind, for which she got a Guggenheim and I was/am still working with my hieroglyphs. I guess it's not about winning the race, it's about being in love with the language for me. Tonight, I am still as my translations, preparing for a talk at the Global Pyramid Conference in Chicago in May. (Check out the line up of speakers here: https://globalpyramidconference.com/speakers-and-topics/ )<br />
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(In the meantime I will be returning to see my Pyramid of Unas in Egypt in just a few days.)<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtNtSYf6tdGs0K6aV8NAnTlzluZuCG2w_BkAethzeesIjIfIAHVpKfefzIykrG5e_tn8uOMcFb4mYDvwuT2rrddzuzbddLk6XGG6OlCv3Msu_VYn7VbSTdGYZpU3ct1LWVIlLoXYuL2U0/s1600/unas+inner.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>I traveled recently to Las Vegas to tape a segment on the New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove. We talked about what I was learning from the work I've done and the classes I teach in Hieroglyphic Thinking. (And as of this week you can find that interview on Youtube's New Thinking Allowed links.)<br />
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with Normandi Ellis</b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">: </span><br />
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On the airplane I was reading the <span style="font-family: "";">Susan Brind Morrow book and making notes in my journal. I found a Christopher Frye quote about poetry that if I substituted the word hieroglyph for poetry, it said pretty much what I felt...</span><br />
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"<i style="font-family: '';">Hieroglyphs have </i>the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention of seeming to say half as much in twice the time."<br />Yes, I thought that is why it has taken me soooo looooong to complete the translations of these 3 rooms.<br />Note to self: SBM suggests one can read the hieroglyphs jumping across the lines next to each other as well as up and down the line. Oh my Goddes, that is just crazy good.</div>
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It made me want to finish my trip and hurry home and back to Unas. But first I had to do the Las Vegas gig. (Turns out it was a fantastic gig, and we taught and did spring equinox ceremonies, and had a blast. New note to self: Let's not rush through life.)<br />
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"What's your name?" I asked.<br />
"Unas," he said.<br />
What!? Did you say Unas?<br />
"No Unis," he said "like in the Bible."<br />
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I asked him to tell me the story of Unis in the Bible. He said Unis was the man God told to go here but he wouldn't go. He said "No God, not there, "so he stayed home. And God said, "Unis I told you to go. Why don't you go?" He said "I'll go anywhere but there," so he stayed home. So Unis went fishing in his boat and the wind died down and he couldn't leave. A big shark came out of the water and ate him. <br />
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I was starting to catch a glimmer. "You mean a whale?" I asked. <br />
It was in the sea, my driver insisted, and then he was stuck inside the shark for three days. It was so dark, until the shark spat him out on the ground....<br />
"In exactly the same place that god told him to go--Ninevah."<br />
Anyway that is who I am named for. <br />
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"No," he said, and spelled it for me. Y-U-N-I-S.<br />
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After he left me and my luggage at the curb--and believe me for a story like that I tipped him well--I was still thinking about the hieroglyphs my friend Emil was fond of showing us in Karnak. It was the hieroglyph of Jacob's name, spelled in glyphs Y-Ka-B. Yakob/Jacob. Yunis/Jonas/Unis.<br />
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Normandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09963184583408795293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-24853652567514124032016-02-24T07:19:00.001-08:002016-02-24T07:59:41.440-08:00How I Came to Translate the Egyptian Hieroglyphs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">Over the last few months I found myself telling this
story several different times. A radio interviewer or two or three, asked me "So
how did you become interested in the Egyptian hieroglyphs?" And I found myself
telling the same story. Then during a workshop in Knoxville Tennessee a writing
prompt pulled me back to tell the story again.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">I have to say that although the story still
deeply lives in me, I really don’t need to tell it anymore. So here it is one last time on my blog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">The year was 1980. “Now,” said Prof. Goldfarb, “for the second part of
your translation workshop, switch to your third language.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">“Sidney, I don’t have a third language.” I
distinctly remember that moment, standing at a faculty party with my back up
against a wall, literally. I waited all week to make my confession. I thought
okay I’m an imposter and I’ll just have to leave Colorado now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">“Well,” he said. “Pick a language you like and then
teach yourself. Get a good grammar dictionary. Get some variant translations.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">So I picked hieroglyphs. Why? </span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">Maybe because when I was younger I thought I had to
choose between painting and writing. Hieroglyphs combined the best of these
worlds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">But really there was another reason. A friend from the neighborhood in
which I </span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">grown up, Robert Weiler, suggested one day – after a long metaphysical
conversation sitting on a stone wall at the Old State Capital in Frankfort
Kentucky – that I read the Egyptian Book of the Dead. He was so convinced that
I should read it that he walked to me to Poor Richard’s Bookstore across the
street, pulled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Papyrus of Ani</i> by
Budge from the shelf and said, “Buy this.” So I did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">He later came to my house with a cardboard box
filled with other metaphysical books that he had been studying through the
years. He said he had to move out of his apartment; the Old Y building was
being condemned, and anyway he was leaving town. He had no way to keep these
books, so he asked that I keep them until he returned. I said fine. He said you
can read them; you might find them interesting. And he left.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">And I never saw him again. He died. In fact he was
murdered. Of course that’s a whole other story, but he gave such intensity to
these books which he left me and to the Egyptian Book of the Dead which he
insisted that I buy, Robert Weiler was the reason I began a nearly 10 year study of
the history, mythology, and language of ancient Egypt. I was just trying, in
my own way, to make some sense of his death. Surely there must have been a reason
that this book was given to me right before he died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">These metaphysical books of his and that Egyptian
Book of the Dead with its hieroglyphs I kept in mycloset on the top shelf
for another two years. The books almost seemed to vibrate on the shelf.
Sometimes I wake in the night and think I’d left the closet light on. I get up
to turn it off and it would be off. I could feel Robert’s energy in the closet
as if he were saying “I gave this to you for a reason.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">Until that moment when Sidney Goldfarb suggested that
I choose another text to translate, other than Spanish, I really had no idea
what that reason was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUJALpMS2tH9Pg5UzUdA7RvMpUT8bLucatYLa2SwqrChH5ewxd0HlwAWU-PSDkH_8MgglZD_YOLhTh-HOraB31s5ZEIZOHhvo0ag3Gc1Z1Fm-BiFEX4bi8soapjg44jY10totCOZ5YFHM/s1600/IMG_0608.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUJALpMS2tH9Pg5UzUdA7RvMpUT8bLucatYLa2SwqrChH5ewxd0HlwAWU-PSDkH_8MgglZD_YOLhTh-HOraB31s5ZEIZOHhvo0ag3Gc1Z1Fm-BiFEX4bi8soapjg44jY10totCOZ5YFHM/s200/IMG_0608.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">Thus, began my process of translating hieroglyphs
and steeping myself in other symbolic language systems: Mayan glyphs, Mandarin
Chinese, Ogham, Sanskrit, Sumerian Phoenician, and linear A and B. All of these
symbolic languages seemed to point to better poetry, stronger short stories,
more dream interpretation, and now clairvoyant messages and pattern thinking.
The ideal that carried through the symbolic and real languages was this: All
words are magic. All words are words of power. All languages are thought forms and the world itself that
springs from divine thoughts. Yes, and so does silence and the blank page.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">Perhaps this is the true meaning of my blog title
The Goddess IS an open book test. I carry with me a lexicon of symbols, phonetic
and symbolic. I carry with me the stories told to me by my father, a
storyteller and gossip par excellence. The stories he told of the people of his family and
community wove a rich tapestry that it became a mythology and grew larger than life. He told story after story around his mother’s
dining room table. And as a child I lay under that table enthralled with story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">Now I carry the stories myself; it’s our personal
myth. That’s how we come to understand the recurring patterns of our lives – as
if they were story. You have to lose the idea in life or in fiction that you
are making it up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">There is a long part of the story that I want to
tell without any blame. It simply goes like this: I spent 10 years translating
those hieroglyphs over and over from beginning to end of the book, focusing on
the imagery, then the sound, then the mythology, trying to put it all together
so that it did not appear like the gobbledygook most early Egyptian translations
seemed to be. I was long past that translation workshop with Sidney Goldfarb. I
was married, I had a baby, I have a full-time job, and I was having myself
hypnotized in order to wake up at 4 a.m.every morning so that I could write and
work on these hieroglyphs. It seemed to any outsider (and that included friends
and family) that I had lost my mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">Whatever happened I was not going to give up on this
book. I promised myself that I would write this book for the rest of my life if
I had to because I could not do otherwise. I told myself that perhaps I am no
writer, but the writing matters. The pattern I was discovering in my life
mattered. And if I never published a single word in my lifetime, I thought at
least I will have lived my life as a writer. And maybe I had lost my mind, or
at least I lost myself in these glyphs so deeply that they became my reason/my
purpose for being. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">There were many arguments over family
responsibilities with my husband, who one night convinced me that I should throw
the work away and just get on with my life. Driving to the dump with my manuscript
in the backseat of my car that night, I saw the spirit of my friend Robert in
the rearview mirror sitting next to my manuscript. I thought to myself that this was
just my imagination; until he touched me. The act of touching me sent a current of electricity through my body that it shattered me totally. I stopped the car and I shook for another five minutes. When I said “Don’t
you ever do that again to me, Robert. You scared the hell out of me,” he
vanished. I got out and hid my manuscript in my car trunk in the wheel well of the
spare tire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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breaks for a couple more months. Finally, someone asked me if that manuscript
I’d been working on all this time was finished. And he said, “If it is, I would
like to publish it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">In 1989<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>my
first book<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, Awakening Osiris, </i>was
published. I was 35. Everything that happened since then was because of
that magical appearance of Robert Weiler in 1978. Magical things do happen. To
my mind, this is beyond synchronicity. On the first $500 royalty check from my
book I was able to make a side trip from my mother-in-law’s house in Greece to
Egypt. I had spent nearly 10 years steeped in that landscape and time, but I was
only able to see it for the first time in 1989. I felt completely at home in
Egypt, as if I had lived there thousands of times. My soul seemed to know this
place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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becoming the voice of my book on tape. When I met her in a workshop it felt as if she had pulled
me up from under a rock, and she welcomed me into the light. She asked me to accompany
her and Peggy Rubin on a life-changing trip with 90 people to Egypt. I worked
with her some years after as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">I could see in all this the glimmer of my future
life as a writer. I have published 11 books now. More than discovering my writing though,
I discovered a sense of my spiritual home—a place to which I would return again
and again. I live inside the magic of Egypt. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;">I tell my writing students to keep writing until
their stories have finally found them. It’s a beautiful, rich adventure, this
life. This dream of being a writer is not something you have; it’s
something you get to live into. </span></div>
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Normandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09963184583408795293noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-70818510380925176432016-01-05T05:55:00.000-08:002016-01-05T07:18:33.882-08:00Gratitude & New Beginnnings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I have just returned from another trip to my spiritual homeland, Egypt. As always, no sooner do I leave than I look forward to a return. This latest trip was a particularly beautiful one, and its beauty came as a surprise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The fear generated by militants elsewhere, but fanned by the xenophobia of media everywhere actually created a kind of opening and a blessing for those of us who followed a spiritual calling and traveled to Egypt this winter. There were few other sojourners in Egypt at this time, which made my most recent journey through the temples with Deborah Jones and Nine Gates, both poignant and leisurely. It was as if we had been given private visits and more than ample time to explore the tombs, the plateaus, the towns and to sail upon the beautiful waters of the Nile.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What did I do while I was there?</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> I grabbed a lion by the tail and held on, in pursuit of the mysteries!</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9shyphenhyphenTaPCOQaxIeSLExlfQ6bnrDNQmUS9VYRxVzRmatFbBkpS-NSqT2OJTIoQsT6jujQfbGfGdsEyKuSYkwwz3LYyanhub20bQ-xajnc71fwZf-_WrN31rpL1RZQt9R6xgzS5jsV804BI/s1600/1449385987672.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9shyphenhyphenTaPCOQaxIeSLExlfQ6bnrDNQmUS9VYRxVzRmatFbBkpS-NSqT2OJTIoQsT6jujQfbGfGdsEyKuSYkwwz3LYyanhub20bQ-xajnc71fwZf-_WrN31rpL1RZQt9R6xgzS5jsV804BI/s320/1449385987672.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Before our group arrived Deborah and I toured the Coptic churches of Old Cairo, where we witnessed portraits of saints crying tears of sacred oils in the churches dedicated to Saint Barbara, Saint George, Mary of the Iron, and Saints Sergius and Bacchus. We toured the Ben Ezra Synagogue, now closed, but reputed to house the well from which Moses was drawn by the pharaoh's daughter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Later, we</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> went to see one of the most enigmatic sites -- Zabbaleen, also known as Trash City, which is a Coptic community on the outskirts of Cairo. While the streets were lined with mounds of garbage that 70,000 strong community has now become a hub of recycling plastics, metals and other waste. What was most amazing was the Church of St. Simon the Tanner, where the church itself and its Christian icons are carved into the side of a mountain cavern, the cavern having been created during an earthquake in the 12th century. Known as a site of miraculous healings, the church has a large room containing the crutches, wheelchairs and canes of cripples who received their healing there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Once our group arrived, the beautiful and enigmatic Sphinx awaited
our sunrise visit and listened eagerly to our whispered intentions and prayers.
At Saqqara, we had an extended day of visitations to tombs, pyramids,
courtyards, sounding chapels, and the serdab of Djoser. At Philae, the star
Sirius and the constellation Orion (Isis and Osiris to the ancients) watched us from their places in the night
sky as our boat glided silently under a quarter moon toward the Temple of Isis,. There
we prayed for peace, made our petitions in her sanctuary, then awaited Ra dawning over the waters.</span><br />
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ground. Deborah Jones, the Nine Gates Mystery School participants and I were
blessed to travel in style on our dahabeya, the Afandina, which allowed us beautiful,
languid sailing time on the Nile, the most delicious food every cooked by an
Egyptian chef, vistas of sand hills, temples, water buffalo drinking at the
water’s edge, and egrets lifting off the crown of trees to wing their way above
the waters while families of fisherman sliced through the fog and cast their
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">By the final day of our trip, when we emerged from the
initiation inside the Great Pyramid, we were buzzing. Every cell in my body was
thrumming and I was left shivering and speechless from the energy. And thrilled
beyond all reckoning. It was one of the best trips ever.</span></div>
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Come with me to Egypt! April 21-May 5, 2016</h3>
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I take this opportunity to say that I am returning to Egypt in April 2016. I look forward to another great trip with our guide Emil Shaker. I could ask for no better friend and guide through this sacred land. He knows the ins and out of stealth shamanism in the temples better than anyone could imagine. You will, through his magical means of working, gain access to some of the mysteries others can only imagine. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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Indigo Ronlov and I will be leading this trip ASTRAL EGYPT: Living and Dreaming Together. We will combine our sacred practices of art, journaling, hieroglyphic thinking, dreaming and meditation through this amazing temple work. <br />
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On this tour, you will have ample opportunity to explore your personal and collective transpersonal piece of the puzzle through dreams, visioning, writing, and rituals and initiations that are designed to give you direct access to the Egyptian pantheon and the knowledge they wish to impart at each of the monuments you will visit.</span></div>
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Egypt is endowed with sacred symbolic language and art carved on the ancient temples and monuments throughout the land. It has an amazing ability to invoke something deep within, bringing forth our own symbolic language and along with it our transformation and renewal.<br />
Normandi and Indigo will guide you in the cultivation of your own sacred symbols that come from the temples, your dreams (both in the night and the visions of the daylight), and the living architecture of this beautiful land. We will use our initiatory rituals to explore the astral realities between worlds, building relationships with the <em>neteru</em> (the deities of Egypt) and the sacred symbols that will move us, inform us, and ground us into the humanity that we are to become.</span></div>
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In order to keep the dream alive, most days will hold a time to create together. Whether a stroke of a brush or a pen, a word or a picture, you can record the essence of your experience to carry with you to remember. We will laugh heartily and hold and support each other as we dream this alchemical dream together during our nine nights on the Nile on the Dahabeya Afandina, and during the rest of the time as we luxuriate at the Mena House Garden hotel, directly across from the Great Pyramid.<br />
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This tour includes private time during sunrise at the Sphinx, inside the Great Pyramid, and most amazing, sunrise at the Temple of Isis at Philae, where we will be free to experience initiations and rites of passage not available to the public.<br />
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It will be one of the best tours yet. And there is still room. Please contact us today if you are interested. <br />
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Normandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09963184583408795293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-4795564291838083582015-11-24T10:32:00.000-08:002015-11-24T10:32:41.727-08:00I was a stranger, and you invited me in…” (Attributed to Jesus in Matthew 25:35)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">As we fast approach
the Christmas season, we have to pause a moment to remember exactly what it is
that we are celebrating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The birth of a
child in a foreign land, whose parents were refugees fleeing persecution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shown compassion by an innkeeper, that child
grew up to be a human being who embodied compassion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He became the model for how to let the light
of divinity shine through us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">When I travel in old
Cairo in Egypt, which is where I shall be in less than a week, I hope to visit
the Saints Sergius and Bacchus Coptic Church again, which is said to be built
upon the site where the Holy family hid themselves and rested during the Flight
into Egypt as they escaped Herod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">So I am finding
myself struggling to accept the assertion of many theoretically Christian
politicians who suggest that the refugees from Syria – a people who are
escaping the very terrorism that we are witnessing in the Middle East, Lebanon
and Paris—should just go home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviously
that is not a Christian sentiment if we recall the life of Jesus the Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">This is pure and
simple a problem with xenophobia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
phobia of course is an irrational fear—like arachnophobia (fear of spiders), or
claustrophobia (fear of being in enclosed spaces).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Xenophobia is the fear of strangers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And given the psychic fallout from two world
wars, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and on and on back to the edges of
history, xenophobia is a well-rooted fear, and by that we can infer lower
chakra needs based on survival of the species, the family, the homeland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">It goes back as far
as the Israelites being kicked out of every country they entered, and are still
to this day fighting to live in a homeland that is homesteaded, having
previously belonged to the Palestinians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We could go into a long dissertation on global xenophobia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">My point here is that
it is this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">We are not engaged in
some holy war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not us against
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever or whomever <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">them</i> may be: Christians against Muslims,
or Sunni against Shia, or liberals against conservatives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What we truly are working to combat is the
mistrust of our fellow man that shows itself as fundamental extremism on either
side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going Rogue, which is the title of
one book by a Christian fundamentalist politician, is not the answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going rogue implies extreme individualism
that refuses to take into account that not all people can be defined by the
groups to which they belong. Not all Muslim people are jihadists and not all
Christians are xenophobic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">As a Muslim man
condemning the Paris attacks has said on Facebook: Terrorism has no
religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others quoted the Quran 5:32
Whoever kills an innocent person, it is as if he kills all of humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">What we witnessed in
Paris, horrendous as it was and is, is not, as Jeb Bush said, “an organized
attempt to destroy Western civilization.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No. It is an organized attempt to sow panic and fear--and it has done
that pretty well, unfortunately. The murder of random people in random places
throughout Paris, or before that Lebanon, is a means of stirring up xenophobia.
If you fear us, the members of the Islamic State seem to say, then we are the terrorist
rogues who win.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But to my mind the
biggest threat to our society is not Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The biggest danger
that faces us is the belief that we have to fight terrorists <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by committing similar acts of violence and
terror.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Military intervention being one
of these avenues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another might be
closing our borders, shutting the doors in the faces of those who need our
help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Certainly that was
not the intention when in 1885 Emma Lazarus gave us the words carved into the
Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning
to breath free…” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">This is what our
nation stands for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We opened our arms to
Irish immigrants escaping the potato famine. We opened our borders to those
Swedes who needed a land in which to live, and to many who have crossed the
waters to America escaping war, famine, destitution, subjection, religious
persecution. Let’s face it, nearly all of us whose ancestry arrived on these
shores by boat are descendent from the suffering of immigrants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">I am reminded again
of that pregnant woman on the burro seeking shelter when the life of her child
was threatened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am reminded of Mary’s
stalwart husband, Joseph, who continued to knock on doors, walking mile after
mile into the desert as door after door was shut in his face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And again similar images flash before my eyes
of the terrified women, men and children in their dinghies landing on the
shores of Lesbos trying to pass through to some place that will take them in
and feed them. By and large, these are victims—not Syrian terrorists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">And if you are
fleeing a war-torn country, not being allowed a shelter somewhere, facing
vehement aggressive protests inflicts yet another level on terror upon an
already terrorized people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What these
acts of terrorism intend to do is to inspire yet more wrong-headed responses by
people and governments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">So really the
question is this: How do we as spiritualized beings respond to such terrors?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">We must respond with
compassion and love. As 1<sup>st</sup> John: 4:18 tells us: “Perfect love
drives out fear.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this we understand
that the opposite of Love is not hatred. The opposite of Love is Fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A response to this crisis of closing borders,
sending troops on the ground is a response that springs forth from Fear, which
is what the terrorists want. An appropriate response must be true love with
compassion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And how do we do that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">First we pray. We
pray for clarity of vision. We pray for peace for Muslims and Christians and
Buddhist and pagans, for all people everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We pray for those families who are hurting. We pray for our
enemies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matthew 5:34—Pray for your
enemies and those who persecute you. That isn’t an easy thing to do, but it is
a necessary thing. It is what people of peace do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Secondly, we offer
our compassion to those who are hurting. We weep with those who weep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the events of 9-11 unfolded on US soil
15 years ago, the French government cried with us in anguish, saying:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We are all Americans now.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now we cry out with the French citizenry,
“We are all Parisians now.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In truth, we
are becoming more and more citizens of a world that mourns in unison, and
rebuilds in unison and goes on believing that Love again will prevail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">And next, we also
must offer forgiveness to those who have hurt others. Matthew 7:1-2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tells
us:” Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you
will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Martin
Luther King, Jr.—no stranger to persecution and personal violent threat, offers
this profound guidance for living through such crises as these. He says. We
must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the
power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the
worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less
prone to hate our enemies.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="qt143179" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">In
that light it is important to look within ourselves and try to find those
moments when we have been more frightened than loving, more angry than loving,
and try to counter that love with compassion, forgiveness and the determination
to “do what is right.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">This is a difficult
thing to do, but a uniquely powerful thing to do. We know this power exhibited
in the words of our Master Teacher, Jesus Christ. Beaten and impaled by a
sword, hanging on the cross yet his words we recall as the most compassionate
plea ever uttered. Father forgive them for they know not what they do. – Luke:
23-34<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Just as there are
things to do: Pray. And Love Our Neighbors, all of them, as ourselves—there are
also things we should not do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">1. We should not
hate. We see evil and we want to draw swords to fight it, but as Martin Luther
King Jr. said “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate
cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” We cannot reach out in
compassion to some and hate others at the same time. We invoke God into our
hearts that we like all who suffer may heal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">2. We should not take
our anger out on the refugees of any country immigrants are not the enemy. They
are a 21<sup>st</sup> century version of our grandparents, great grandparents
and those before us. And like us, they want to live and protect their families,
as we would. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">3. We should protest
any calls to war with Islam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interfaith
and multi-faith understanding is called for here. Even Muslims honor Jesus as the
way-shower, prophet and elder brother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How can that be against any Christian ideal? Nearly all of the Muslims
that I know in Egypt will say that these terrorists do not represent them,
their families, or their religious and political views.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">This is not a time
where we should give in to fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather
it is a time to unite, a time to honor the humanity of every person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By not doing so, we play into the
expectations of those who terrorize the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Rather than separate
ourselves from the religion of Islam, or from the things which we do not
understand, or frighten us; we need to cultivate an understanding between all
people. All people of all faiths, should invoke the divine into their hearts,
and into their understanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
religion has a patent on divine love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God is like breath. It is everywhere around us, within us, enlivening
us. As has been said. In 1 John 4:12No one has ever seen God; but if we love
one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">I ask you to pray
that Love conquer Fear, that Compassion reign, and that All People move
together in the one divine body of God<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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Normandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09963184583408795293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-36886397975575782312015-09-14T19:57:00.000-07:002015-09-14T19:57:53.829-07:00BA & AKH--THE SOUL AND THE PHOENIX <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Have you been experiencing a feeling of shift
lately, feeling a bit antsy maybe, as if something BIG were about to happen?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">All over the world, a collective re-awakening
has been underway, and has intensified over the last four years. We entered
this shift around 2011 and are in this energy until around 2018. Part of it comes
from that Uranus Pluto square everyone talks about—an energy that resembles
events of the mid to late Sixties which was when Pluto conjuncted Uranus. Remember
where you were then?</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The square is even more of a jolt of
awakening energy than the conjunction was 50 + years ago. To add to this mix
this past year, starting with the solar eclipse on April 14<sup>th</sup>, we
have had four BLOOD MOONS coinciding with those squares. Today Sept 12, we are
experiencing a solar eclipse in Virgo. The last eclipse, a lunar eclipse, will
be in Aries/Libra on Sept 27<sup>th</sup>. Just in time for my birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When an eclipse happens it interrupts
the earth’s magnetic field for a moment, and reboots us, kind of like your
computer rebooting when it downloads new software or programs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What this means is that within the next 2
weeks we have again, an opportunity to receive a download of new consciousness,
a mind and soul reboot that will send us into our next great work.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In a symbolic way what happened in this
eclipse is similar to what happens when a king dies… and that was the old
superstition about eclipses. The regent would die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now in ancient Egypt, the pharaoh/king was a
divine being, a Sun (S U N) of god.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
there were religious rites in which he was eclipsed, underwent a burial rite of
a sort while in trance, in order to ‘download’ his computer, so to speak, in
order to reboot the divine plan for the culture. We are going to talk about
that in a moment, but for now, I hope to set a context for how this energy is
working now, as it may have worked then.</span></div>
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</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In addition to those blood moons and
eclipses going on there are three other outer dwarf planets (beyond Pluto)
contributing to this energy in September. They are Haumea (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hoe-me-a</i>) Makemake and Orcus. Orcus is going to align with Jupiter
to oppose Neptune—an event 500 years in the making. Think of where the culture
was in 1515. We were ending the middle ages that began in 515 AD (another 500
year cycle that began with the collapse of the Roman Empire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Haumea is conjuncting Mercury to oppose
Uranus—the planet knowns for shaking things up and putting a spin on it, and
Makemake will be aligned with the Blood Moon on the 27th.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suffice it to say all of this unusual
activity has astrologers looking at the sky and wondering if this is the moment
that truly jettisons us into a new age. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Certainly it’s giving us a jolt of euphoria,
a very strong willpower to expand and learn, a super heightened sense of
intuition, and psychic abilities. Watch this end of September eclipse—and
remember that an eclipse ALWAYS occurs on a North Node which is a karmic point.
This eclipse and blood moon are quite related to our planetary transformation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Now I am giving you all of this
astrological data because I want you to take seriously the astrological
significance of what I am about to say about the Ba Soul and the Phoenix. These
two spiritual bodies, which if you know Kabbala and the Tree of Life, exist in
the upper two spheres in the spiritual plane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are nine spiritutal bodies in the ancient tradition corresponding
to four planes of existence—physical, astral or emotional, mental and
spiritual. They are the only two winged bodies in the spiritual plane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only these upper two bodies in the spiritual
plane exist beyond the personality lifetime after lifetime. The others function
for a time until their usefulness to the soul is complete and they are
dissolved after death. The ba soul -–usually seen in Egyptian paintings as a
human-headed hawk-- may exist over and beyond a single lifetime, but it too
will eventually need to be dissipated when the soul’s karma is dissolved.
Understand that while you are sitting and breathing in that seat whereyou are,
your ba is with you. It is as living as you are. When you dream, when you
meditate, it, your soul consciousness flies out to where you send it—to other
parts of the universe, into the past or future, into the dreams of other
people, into the land of the dead to see your mom and dad, or just to check on
the baby sleeping in the next room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The akh is a seed atom that descends
from the god force, a yod in the Kabbalistic tradition, and takes root in the
physical form. At death it rolls everything up and returns as a spark of light
to the divine cosmic fire, contributing to the knowledge, wisdom and experience
of the divine energy at work on the earth plane.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ba and Akh at Kether and Chokmah are
permanent bodies relating to the soul and the seed atom, the phoenix part. How
the soul gathers information thru lifetime, adds to akashic records, and at the
point that you no longer need that personal transformational info, recorded at
akashic level, of soul,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it is transmuted
at phoenix level and is sent to seed atom and goes straight back to divine.</span></div>
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</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Atum the Old Kingdom god of creation, of
being & nonbeing, was considered the original alpha and the omega, and it
was no error that made the Greek philosopher Lucretius say in his essay on the
Nature of Being that everything derived from Atum, which he equated with the
atom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the spark of light that becomes
life is known as the seed atom/Atum in each of us. It resides within the
highest spiritual body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s all rolled
back inside us after death and the phoenix takes that info back to the source,
to Atum. The phoenix was not widely discussed in the Middle or New kingdoms of
Egypt. This information comes to us mostly from the Old Kingdom from the
information about the Step Pyramid of Djoser built by Imhotep during the third
dynasty (Imhotep was Egypt’s Leonardo daVinci), from the initiations alluded to
in the Great Pyramid of Giza during the fourth dynasty, and finally from the
FIRST EVER RECORDED hieroglyphic text inscribed in the Pyramid of Unas in the
fifth dynasty. It’s information about the intersecting influences of the ba and
akh. The Pyrmid Text of Unas is the only text that talks about the ladder of
ascension.</span></div>
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</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The royal ascension text in Unas details
how to turn the ba soul into the akh, or phoenix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ba soul has a terrestrial existence
depicted by its human head. The akh is a resident of heaven existing with the
Imperishable Ones, the circumpolar stars that represent the ascended masters
and the ancestors and the deities of Egypt. This image of infinite time and
space is the realm of Atum, the only true source of eternal life because as a
point beween being and nonbeing, it is a state of potentiality.</span></div>
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</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The akh is the resident spark of god
within the human being, making us a co-creator with the divine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This could be seen as a reference to the
saying of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas. “IF anyone asks you where we came
from, tell them we came from the Light.</span></div>
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</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;">T<span style="color: black;">he wingedness of these spiritual bodies depict the
far-reaching abilities of these spiritual energies to move around the world at
will, and to fly in and out of alternate dimensions. They fly up and down the
ladder of consciousness, primarily from divine to human and human to divine,
although in truth everything has consciousness.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Because this is mystery initiation is the last one a human goes
through before the need to no longer be human, it’s not accomplished in a
single lifetime—and I don’t care how advanced you are spiritually, you are not
going to ascend today during or after my talk…</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In fact to put it bluntly I am less concerned about your personal ascension
than I am about our planetary ascension right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes group mind, group will and attention
to group karma to be overcome in order to achieve that noble end. And what it
takes to ascend to the phoenix on an individual level, it also takes to ascend
on a planetary level, but it takes many more souls working on it and doing it. </span></div>
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</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When the englightened pharaoh was
undergoing the ascension process in the ancient days, he was doing so on behalf
of his entire civilization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
intention was to transmute his personal karma while he was still in a physical
form, to die to his old self, and to return renewed. The ancient Egyptians
called this the heb sed, or the festival of renewal and it took place in the 30<sup>th</sup>
year ofhis reign and every 7 years after that. In essence, it was a Saturn
cycle and its squares and oppositions. It was a shamanic initiation which
imitated a death while living. The pharaoh was placed in a shamanic trance,
perhaps through various herbs, and his body was wrapped as if he were a mummy.
Then in this comatose state, his khat, or physical form, was carried on a
sledge to a tomb, perhps to the initiation tomb of Unas, and left there for
three days, essentially buried.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While in
this shamanic trance, the king ascended the ladder of heaven, saw the other
souls ascending to heaven and descending to earth on that same ladder. He flew
up this ladder in his bird-like state being an akh to speak with his ancestors,
with the ascended masters, and the deities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">During this time, he was communing with
them, he received a download of the divine plan, the next order of business to
which he was to dedicate himself and his people to move civilization forward. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Obviously it must have worked to a great
degree because ancient Egyptian culture is one of the few cultures I know that
lasted for nearly 3000 years in tact. That divine plan certainly held the long
view of things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in -9pt 5pt 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Not simply transmuting personal karma, but
as the cultural emissary, the pharaoh transmuted the collective karma of his
people.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I need to mention here that there is a third spiritual body,
albeit a bit lower than the ba and the akh. It is the ka, the animating
principle or desire nature that resides closest to the mental and emotional
planes. Ka expresses our desires—what sustains us: food, a house, a partner,
and divine, sacred love. Its hieroglyph shows two arms outstretched in a way
that can be simultaneously viewed as prayer or grasping something. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is the desire nature that Buddha kept
telling us was going to get us into trouble. It generates a lot of karma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want and I will get what I want…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>unless we learn to transmute the desire
nature by invocation to the divine, saying “This or something better.” Ka is
the energy that keeps us alive on planet earth, but it also generates karma,
which keeps us tied to planet earth. The trick is to relinquish desire for
things that are not a part of the divine plan. The ka is a servant to the akh on
this earth plane until our bodies are no longer necessary.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;">To summarize, your ka keeps you on this plane; your ba contains
your soul’s record, and your akh connects you to your spiritual purpose and
your highest potential. </span></div>
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</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Light is the <i>prima
materia </i>of Creation that emanates from the mind of God and that is what
your akh is, also called the Shining One or the Englightened One. As the
essence the spark from the fiery mind of God, the phoenix is said to be born in
eternal fire. This expanded intelligence and higher consciousness<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is accessible to us now whenever we engage in
work that is undertaken with and known to be of the highest clarity and
spiritual power. Our ba and akh work in concert with the divine beings, whose
very existence is based on cosmic law and order—what the Egyptians knew as ma’at.</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The ba tended to
access the spiritual plane by flying through the Duat, a nether world that
might be defined as the Jungian unconscious (not the Freudian) where the
archetypes and symbols spoke to use to teach, inform, and work with us. It
contained remenants of lifetimes past as well, karmic memories that were part
of the subconscious until such time as we are able to process their messages
and relieve ourselves of them.</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The akh has more direct access to spiritual knowledge, and its
wisdom is unclouded by personal attachments. One experienced the ba soul flying
through the duat, the underworld, moving from east to west in the same
direction the sun moves. In that way one gained an understanding of how to turn
death consciousness into life consciousness. That was the whole point of the
texts that became known as the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Egyptian Book of the Dead</span></i>.* You
can never completely understand the akh or phoenix until you have understood
the way the ba educates the soul. In the realm of the duat, one works on
personal and transpersonal issues related to the progression of the soul. </span></div>
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</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The second way of
accessing spiritual knowledge is by moving from the physical experience into
the spiritual experience through an ascension process that was depicted as the
akh bird flying into the realm of eternity. Known as Akhet (Light Land), this
realm was reached either by way of a long climb up a staircase that resembled
the stacked mastabas of the Step Pyramid, or by ascending a ladder held by both
Horus and Set, one on each side. </span></div>
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</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Once the initiate accessed the divine plan, he had to return to
this world with the Plan. The Pyramid Texts described a kind of communion rite
that was called opening the mouth, and which allowed one to ingest spiritual
food, to be nurtured by it and to bring this nurturing body of God back to his
people for distribution.</span></div>
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</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To “open the mouth”,
as the ancient rite calls it allows us in a spiritual sense to connect with the
god who spoke the world into existence. This merger of divine and human wills,
words and love defines the essence of co-creation. Adding your voice to this
process is of vital importance to the collective mind. We are reminded of the
law that “thoughts are things,” and how they manifest through the action of
speaking them and then acting on those spoken words.</span></div>
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</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;">But here is the trick to becoming an akh and communing with the
divine, first you have to die to your old self, like a caterpillar in a
chrysalis, like a shaman left bound in his mummy rags inside a darkened tomb
under a mound of earth. You must forget your story, your vita and all the
things you’ve accomplished. You must forgive and forget all of those people who
wounded you and all of your old errors in thinking. You must put your karma behind
you. It is the shroud in which you have hidden yourself. Burn it up and rise
like smoke as the eternal living consciousness. You must die to your old self
with no intention of coming back to the way things were.</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;">This my friends is precisely where we are now, poised between
these eclipses in the final moments of a culture that is rapidly shifting into
something that may be unrecognizable to us even 10 or 5 years from now. It’s
happening so fast, and I don’t have to remind you of everything going on in our
world for you to see what I mean. You are already feeling it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The phoenix partakes of a great alchemical mystery—the turning of
lead into gold, the transformation of the physical world and its desires, into
the spiritual dimension and its love wisdom. This shamanic death and rebirth
can be a messy business that involves the disintegration of the ego and
personality as we know it. But the soul knows all about death and renewal, about
maneuvering through the astral realm, and finally making its spiritual
ascension to the fully realized human. </span></div>
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</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The akh as the fully realized highest human potential taps into
the ongoing cyclical, eternal nature of our soul and its evolution through
time. The akh bird’s forté could be summarized as death-rebirth, death-rebirth,
death-rebirth, etc., and what happens between those spaces of death and
rebirth, especially during those less and less fleeting moments of
enlightenment.</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="color: black;">The further up you fly in your
spiritual ascension on this ladder, this Tree of Life, the less you will find
yourself restricted by the physical dimension of your earthly existence. The
danger here is that you become so enthralled with the possibilities of your
spiritual bodies that you may lose the desire to work within your physical body
on the Earth plane. If you have understood, however, that the natural world is
indeed a godly and divinely embodied world, then you realize that you can’t
stop working in the physical because it is still part of the divine—there is no
other place to go. As above, so below . . . As below, so above . . . As within,
so without . . . As without, so within. It’s all one big enchilada. </span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
want to make a note here that I will be leading a Ba and Akh day-long workshop
at Camp Chesterfield where I live on Sept 26<sup>th</sup>. I hope you can join
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I say this because we can do the
work of ascension and burning up karma individually, but it elevates the planet
exponentially when we do it together. The pharaoh in his shamanic initiation
certainly had all of his priests and entourage preparing him for and awaiting
his return. All their thoughts were moving with him in unison.</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Focused
consciousness creates a wave of energy that moves in a determined form.
Consciousness that is unfocused on an outcome creates particles that move in a
random pattern. We know this model from quantum physics. Observed light creates
light waves, and our minds are electrical structures. Focusing our attention on
an ideal amplifies its energy into wave forms moving in unison. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;">You
may also be aware of the idea of entrainment, which means that smaller
vibrations follow the pattern of the strongest vibration. All of the clocks
ticking in a room will eventually follow the rhythm of the loudest and
strongest ticking clock in that same room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The stronger the wave form the more it leads the others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apply that idea to consciousness and you will
understand why I believe that group work and meditations for planetary healing
are a potent use of group consciousness.Of course, every individual is a
conduit for light energy, but like-minded individuals gathered together create
a bundled channel of energies like a light-filled fiber optics cable. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
living masters (who have no observable form on this plane) and their initiates
use the power of the one group combined with their own to exponentially raise
the energies. In particular during the full moons the ascended masters D.K. and
Kuthumi transmit their teachings to create a fellowship and empower all
humankind and planet Earth. Groups working together, meditating at the same
time with the same intention, create an even greater voltage for affecting
change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can create a planetary change
and that work is vitally important now.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Just
as many of us consciously at work to manifest a positive change, many are
perhaps unconsciously manifesting negativity through their actions, thoughts,
and the astral realm of disharmonious emotion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just as we meditate to calm the warlike turmoil of an Islamic State, we
must meditate to calm the rampant materialism of our own culture. We must
combat such mind-numbing materialistic propaganda (“as seen on TV”) with
mindful meditations that set our planet on a better, more compassionate path.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The idea is for each of us to keep burning up our individual
karma and not adding to it. To regenerate our culture from the ashes in which
it now rests, we must focus our love upon the task. Wherever you are in your
life right now is a launching pad for the phoenix. As I look out, I can see
that each of you is a light worker, conscious, fully alive and working on
planetary healing. I thank you for your love of this sacred work. </span></div>
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We had a wonderful North Carolina workshop which began this new work with the spiritual bodies of the ancient Egyptians. Am taking it on the road now to Canada in July. I hope you will join in. Here is the information you might need to register for an amazing workshop on karma, ascension, and the spiritual bodies we cultivate in this and other lifetimes.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 125%;">BLACK MOON MEDITATION<br />
</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">February 19,
2015<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>29<sup>◦</sup> </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 125%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">h</span></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Oh,
darkened moon, shadow-veiled and cold,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Reveal
to us the ancestral spirits, those infinite stars above<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">The
comity of our storied being, long ago and now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Reflected
in the glittering snow about our feet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 431.1pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Remind us of the secret we’ve forgotten –
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">We
are as much Nephthys’ abandoned hound-child <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">As
we are among the Dogon tribe of Isis/Nuit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Children,
gather about the fire like stars<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Turning
in the sacred wheel of sky. Lean close<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">And
press your cheek to the black skin of heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">May
the Sisters whisper the ways of becoming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">May
they sing in your ears the old songs, and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Blow
their breath of life upon you that you may glow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">And
flare and rise up like sparks of fire at night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">May
we take our places in heaven and on earth, and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Among
the creatures and things to whom we belong—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Care-tenders,
encouragers, visionary priestesses and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Priests,
builders, birthers of the art of potentiality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Before
dawn, the cardinal trills, singing in darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">What
is it your own soul wants so desperately?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">While
it is still night, let us celebrate our waiting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">As
much as our doing, our emptiness as much as<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Our
abundance. Soon enough light comes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">The
trees will stand outlined against the hill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">The
breath of laboring cattle blows steamily<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Across
the frozen grass. There is work to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Never
forget how it feels to sing to the dark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Never
forget your own starlight. The very thing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">That
makes you shine uniquely in the world,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Makes
you the same as everyone else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 125%;"><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> This is the question an Egyptian friend of mine recently asked, and I thought it was a good question.</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> I don't think any myth ever stops being relevant, and this particular myth is alive and kicking. Consider
the Middle East, and in this particular case, Egypt. The healing that comes in
that great story comes through gaining the clarity of vision through the Eye of
Horus. Horus, the younger generation of heroes, is always battling chaos,
trying to return his kingdom to the bounty that existed during the time of his
father, Osiris. There are, of course, a couple of layers with this myth. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Set and Horus battle for years, years!!! eons. Set feels
that he never received his fair share of th divine promise, that Osiris had it
all handed to him. Then he killed Osiris to claim himself as heir to the
throne, even attempting to prevent Horus from being born. But the gods and
goddesses watch over this divine but all too human drama. Horus grows up and
wants his birthright.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> The battle is ongoing, each trying to murder the other,
until the goddesses Isis and Hathor intervene because they are the embodiments
of human and spiritual love. When Set overpowers and blinds Horus, his beloved Hathor
heals his blinded eye with the milk of her breast. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">While Horus is being trained to be a spiritual warrior,
he meets his father Osiris, Lord of Duat, in the dreamtime. Osiris teaches him through
the subconcious, through the principles of what we might consider dream,
synchronicity, and the imagination or psychic realm. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And remember here the point is not missed that
the dream world contains our shadows, which really is what we must battle—that is
the dark aspect or ourselves, the disavowed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Oh, I’m the good guy, one might protest. Right. And so is the other.
Neither side must demonize the other.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></span><div style="background: white; margin-left: 4.5pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> The myth also tells us In the midst of the battle the
myth tell us that Isis tried to intervene and stay the hand of Horus when he
was in control, because, or course, neither side can be 'supreme' they must
work in conjunction with each other through love. But Horus didn't like that
idea so he cut off his mother's head. I think we can see that happening today.
Set imprisons Isis to prevent her from birthing and nurturing Horus. Horus
angry with his mother cuts off her head. How's the feminine principle doing in
that battle? She is getting lost and beat up fairly badly.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> But Thoth, god of wisdom replaces her head with that of
Hathor, that beautiful goddess of human and divine love. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> That is the principle
LOVE that balances the battle between left and right. Do you think it is
applicable today in what is going on in the world? Well, yes, I think so.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> I see that battle between
Horus and Set as what is happening in Egypt today. And I see that when both
sides try to imprison or cut off the feminine voice, the battle will do nothing
but continue to rage. Love must prevail, and cosmic order. Isis and Ma'at.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Of course, that is just my
take on it. You can decide for yourself who is Horus, who is Set, and who is
Osiris.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I will say, that in Jungian
terms, we all have within us a feminine archetype that operates on the
principle of love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Call upon her. Go
forth and enact a great love.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Normandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09963184583408795293noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-11474363309894723092013-01-23T08:44:00.000-08:002013-01-23T08:44:04.673-08:00Full Moon Meditation for Aquarius/Leo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The sign of Aquarius is the image of two waves of
water moving in unison. In ancient Egypt this was called the male and female
water, the Nu and Nu-t. The male Nu was the river Nile flowing across the land;
the female Nuit was the body of the Milky Way flowing in a simultaneous stream
above the river. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ancient Egyptian
zodiacs depicted the god Hapi as pouring forth the waters from two jars. An
image that is repeated in the Greek astrological sign.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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dual streams poured forth from two jars is an image also repeated in the Star
card of the Tarot. The unveiled Isis, which is the Star goddess pours one
stream onto earth (the plane of form) and the other into the pool of cosmic
mind. </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Isis appears prominently as Sirus twice a year--once
in summer at her heliacal rising, which annually signaled the Egyptian New Year
and the imminent Nile flood. And at midwinter when high overhead Sirius is the
brightest star in the sky, signaling the birth of the divine child through
Isis. Tonight look for her – a diamond-like star that flashes with green, blue,
pink, and white starlight. And if you continue lifting your gaze upwards, you
will see the constellation of Orion, which the Egyptians associated with
Osiris, the Beloved of Isis.</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In
esoteric circles the sign of Aquarius is the cosmic Christ that appears after
the personal sacrifice that the Christ of the Piscean age represented to lead
his initiates into true humanitarian Love Wisdom in this age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Both Isis and Christ
appear in the bleak winter as the promise of light to come. Both are associated
with the living spiritual waters that flow forth from heaven. Isis, in search
of Osiris, appeared to a group of women at the sacred well in Byblos; they
recognized her by her divine spiritual presence, a heavenly perfume that exuded
from her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Christ appeared at the
well to the Samaritan woman, speaking to her of the living water that he
represented. The Water of Life flows from the throne of heaven. Revelation 22:1
alludes to that water of life saying: "And he showed me a river of water
of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God…” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This water of both
male and female vessel that is the energy of this </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">particular Aquarius Full Moon has important
significance, as it follows the December 21, 2012 shift into the intergalactic
center of the Milky Way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here, as we
enter into the new age, we celebrate this full moon in Aquarius as the sign of
movement from personal consciousness and its desires to the group consciousness
that promotes the love of all humanity. </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is eternal spiritual
renewal—our consciousness merged with divine consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Aquarian energy
is living water that flows from the throne of heaven. It is intended to slack
the thirst of many through the communal well--the acts of sharing, loving, and giving.
The Christed One has said: “Wherever two or more are gathered in my name, there
am I also.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We take this to mean that
the cosmic consciousness is strengthened by work in groups of like-minded
initiates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Whereas Pisces has
been seen as the sacrifice of the one for many individual souls, the Aquarian
energy must be the commitment and willing sacrifice of the many (group
commitment) for the greater good of the planet and each other. By using this
full moon energy you can see the opportunities to see how to make your next
steps, to attain enlightenment, to understand brother and sisterhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We are being
presented with a greater awareness and a time to explore of our place in the
cosmos, greater fields of human endeavor, greater contact with spirituality
sensitive people and with groups for spiritual advancement, right timing and
use of right energies, cooperation with Hierarchy, and contact with the
Christ/Buddha consciousness in meditations and instructions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Creative Work</span></u><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
of true alchemy -- a process of manifesting the inner Divinity through beauty,
goodness and truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That seed of
potential exists in every one of us. You may imagine it as being watered by the
water of life of Aquarius, poured out by Hapi, by Isis, by the Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Enlightenment</span></u><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
as if when a window opens and you see the purpose and beauty of the Life,
feeling the electricity of that moment passing through you. This is similar to
the epiphany that Thomas Merton had (an Aquarian sun with Leo full moon in his
chart) in March 1958 on a sidewalk in Louisville. He was suddenly overwhelmed
with the realization that he loved every person before him. He described it as
awaking from a dream of separateness, every individual “more beautiful than the
sunlight itself.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the third thing we are given a chance to experience is that Brother<u> </u>and
sisterhood as a state of consciousness in which there is no judgment, no
separateness, envy, anger, hatred for you see all is unity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>True freedom from the veil of glamour or
illusion is recognizing that people really do love you, that they will
encourage you toward success. You are protected because there is only one
Light, one Truth and one Reality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We are being directed
now to see the power of working with <u>Group Consciousness</u> in groups of
like-minded people who are working toward the betterment of themselves, their
society, and the planet, with regard for all sentient creatures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Group consciousness
is the greatest lesson we can learn. Form follows thought and so when that
thought is strengthened by multiplication and purified through ritual it has
the potential to do the greatest good, especially when the little will is laid
down in order to serve the Greater Good through Divine Will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We may find that now
in this new era spiritual practices will move away from dwelling on a dying god
whose sacrifice saves individual souls to the consciousness of group engaged in
ritual and ceremony that elevates all. We become less individually mystical and
more dynamically magical. We move away from the either/or world of material
reality vs. spiritual reality, to the more potent realm of matter AND spirit at
work simultaneously. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even if you are working alone at this time of
Aquarius, you are not truly alone, because you may call upon the group
consciousness of the Angelic realm, the archangels and the host of
spiritualized beings and ancestors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
may find yourself being taken out of body at night to an inner school and
taught by a wisdom teacher alongside other initiates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Know that as a disciple you are being asked at
this time to work on both sides of the veil and that you are helping with other
evolutions and the expansion of alternate realities. A lot of astral energy is
available to you now. The more we make ourselves available to work through this
less egoic astral energy (because the ego drops away from the conscious mind
during sleep), the more peace we find on the planet. You may even find your
memory of your dream time work more clear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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accompanied by trials and will not be easy. We are already experiencing trials
of fire, solar flares, melting ice caps, solar heat, shifting tectonic plates,
hurricanes, war, earthquakes, greed, disunity, civil mayhem.. All of the things
we are experiencing we will continue to see for years to come as the shift
takes place. These are not signs of an apocalypse, but a sign of deep
transformation needed to the core of our consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are responsible for overseeing how our
life is transmuting and into what forms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is up to the group to accomplish deep transformation of energies
through Love Wisdom, through Creative Vision, through Cooperation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will execute these tasks through the coming year. How will you be a light-bearer
in a darkened world?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the modern era we see economic collapse,
climate change, and energy crises. These less frequently seen as acts of God,
but are depicted as the inevitable failure of our human consciousness to
conceive alternatives, a failure of the imagination on an enormous scale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are depicted as on a collision course with
our demise because of our unlimited greed and unrestrained growth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, in a LINEAR description of history, the
only result of a genesis is an apocalypse when all that has been created has
been used up.</span></div>
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Gotterdammerung. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Mircea Eliade sees that what marked the pivotal
break of Hebrew religion from Hellenistic and ancient pagan ideas of cosmology,
was its rejection of the narrative of eternal return. Before that, all life
could be framed around the promise of regenesis, as seen in the idea of the Egyptian
solar year or the Near Asian (Egyptian and Babylonian) creation myths.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Once this break occurred, it brought about the
idea that violence, suffering and ecological disorder were no longer arbitrary,
no longer part of an endlessly repeated process, but were a punishment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dangerous climate changes—such as those seen
in Biblical plagues, or even the Great Depression were a direct result of “sins”
committed against either God, or the earth, or both.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Even world wars and bloody injustices and
catastrophic events were Gotterdammerung, revealing the Apocalypse as the
logical conclusion to Genesis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because
this consciousness is so ingrained in the human psyche now as a result of
Biblical proselytizing, it has been categorized as <u>inevitable</u>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if the end of the world is nigh and its
destruction inevitable, then why bother with its trash and depletion and
pollution anyway?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This world view is actually not one that believes
in salvation; its faith rests in damnation alone. The only shred of faith is in
an individual egoic consciousness that might survive by crossing oneself like a
“dotted <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I </i>and a crossed t” just
before the big one blows its last gasket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>I </u></i>will be saved,
but the rest of the world is going to hell in a handbasket.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Please, please, tell me you are not one of those
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you do believe in faith, love
and personal responsibility, if you can handle the idea of the cyclical nature
of reality and the Eternal Return, then work with me now to envision some renewed
life beyond December 21, 2012 that will include a commitment to the
environment, to others on this planet, to the children of the generations who
will follow after.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The ancient Egyptians believed in a concept called
Zep Tepi, or “The First Time” and it happened over and over again, when the
Nile flooded every year to replenish the valley, to prepare it for new growth, and
to give sustenance to its people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If there is a community garden in your area, I
invite you to join them. If there is an environmental preservation organization
in your area, please support them. And check out the website for Interfaith
Power and Light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever you do, become
a co-creator of your life with the divinity of your choice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
Normandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09963184583408795293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-14865554678681951162012-11-14T16:16:00.005-08:002012-11-14T16:16:47.722-08:00Night Crossing into Egypt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">We just returned from one of the best trips to Egypt ever. Still feeling the heady rush of having been rapt in 18 days of wonder, sailing long into the night toward God source. A few poems. (Please be kind and do not copy, although I appreciate your posting the blog note.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">--Normandi</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Hymn
to the Universe</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Here I am amid your
thousand splendors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Here I am longing for
love that says a holy “Yes”</span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">because there is no
fear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />
<div class="MsoPlainText" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Hand of God, hold
mine.</span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Push yourself into my
body, penetrate me</span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">with the sacred
conjunctio of heaven and earth.</span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The body longs for
the divine with a thingly language,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">having forgotten the
shrine that it is.</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The god within is <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">a subtle shift of
breathing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong></strong></span><br />
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Full Moon Sonata</span></b></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Did
the Moon god nibble on his reed pen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">and
write with moonlight in the Nile all night?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Or
were we simply drunk with dancing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Were
we in love with our imaginations and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>memories?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All
night long the music danced across the skin of water;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All
night long we held our breath at the amazement of it--</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Furious
white script on the liquid black canvas of the Nile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Orion
lay on his side asleep in the yellow sand hills.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Sothis
whispered chansons, “Arise, Beloved. Arise.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I
leaned over the deck to trail my fingers in the water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">See
Thoth. I am your scribe up late, writing all night, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">You
were there with me, dancing, smiling. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Did
you see the moon writing a poem full of light for you?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Did
you see me write this one, too?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<br />
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Nuit<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">In the secret bones
of her skull</span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">pasts and futures
intertwine</span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">mothers and fathers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">in hot desires
turning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">souls into stars,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">turning their magic
into me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">With sky blue eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">the Great Wife
appears,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">starlight streams
over her breasts,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">runs in rivulets between
her legs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">She sighs and arches </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">from horizon to
horizon, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">arms above her head,</span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">reaching into
invisibility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">She comes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">whispering</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">ancient mother songs;</span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Stretch out your arms<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">and
touch the sky humming.</span></div>
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