Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Happy Spring Equinox!!!

"Be the change you want to see in the world" Mahatma Gandhi

Spring Equinox is a time for balance and harmony. It is a time when the length of day equals the length of night. It is the time for manifesting our dreams and for synchronizing our inner and outer reality. It is a time for honouring our mother the Earth and for honouring ourselves.

2007 is the year for finding our purpose, our true path and our personal destiny on this planet. It is a time for doing what makes us feel alive and making mother Earth come alive with the energy of our aliveness. It is the light of spring that guides us along our personal journey towards our true purpose.

This is a time for true forgiveness leading the way to lasting peace. True forgiveness is healing -- healing for ourselves, healing for others and healing for the Earth. We all have experienced physical, mental, emotional, psychic or spiritual wounds, hurts, pain or suffering in the past. Continuing to nurse old wounds, to maintain grudges, to hold on to pain and suffering not only hurts ourselves, but also our mother Earth as the energies manifest in the earth body as violence and wars. Now is the time to forgive ourselves and to forgive others. In the eyes of the creator we are already forgiven.

Let go of the energies of all offenses we have committed against ourselves and others in this life or in any past incarnations ... Embrace inner peace and harmony. Find that balance within.

Today, as the seeds of light begin to grow once again, filling the earth with life, let us ask each of the seven directions [East, West, North, South , Above, Below and Within] to help us anchor purpose, peace and forgiveness in our hearts, minds and spirits and in the hearts, minds and spirits of all sentient beings resident on our mother, Earth. Let us stand together as ONE PEOPLE with all the elders from around the world, with the people from all nations and with the people with the bloods of all nations, as we usher in the light of a new beginning, a new way of life based on purpose, peace and forgiveness.

Today, no matter where you are in the world, do what only you can do, however big or small that may be ... say a prayer for peace ... meditate on the manifestation of your soul's purpose ... dance a dance to usher in the light ... chant a chant to celebrate balance and harmony ... shout out the coming of unity and equality for all people!!

To my sisters in the North with whom I normally celebrate Spring Equinox, I send a shout out ... Ashe... One Perfect Love ... keep your flags flying ... so be it ... so let it be ... it is written ... "Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in Heaven."

Today, as I was meditating on the Spring Equinox the doorbell at Linda's house rang. I was the only person here. I answered the doorbell. It was Jessie, my spiritual bro, who I had last seen a month ago as he jumped out of the van as the pilgrimage headed West towards the Sierras and he went hoofing it back east the 2 miles or so to the healing centre. 'Yacko', I said, giving him a hug. 'Ere eMe' was his reply, as he gave me a big bear hug in return.

Jessie, is a thirty something long haired Mexica drummer and Aztec Dancer, who's dance company operates out of New York city. He spends his time travelling between there and San Antonio where he produces videos, drums and is studying the medicine way of the Wirrarica people. He was the only non Wira,Tewari, who was included as part of the spiritual circle of the pilgrimage, as Masauke had given up his traditional spot for Jessie, who had hunted the deer and thus earned the right to do the pilgrimage.

As Jessie was recounting his travels over the past month and I was recounting mine his cellphone rang. It was Masauke, who had left the house several hours earlier. He was checking to see when Jessie was going to come over. As the mathematics would have it Jessie was already sitting in the living room while Masauke was still on his way. When he arrived he conveyed all the messages from the pilgrims, including recounting what one woman had told him about how much the deer that Jessie had brought for the ceremony had helped the community. My bro was pleased with the info. He filled Masauke in on how things had changed for him since the ceremony.

As he was leaving, Jessie told Masauke that he was going to the hospital to drop off some natural health remedies for a man who had broken his neck and was paralyzed. This man had lived for years on a small ranch between San Rafael and Estacion Catorce, about as close as was possible to the healing centre. It was as though Masauke had received a calling card from Spirit. He packed his medicine bag, took out his feather box and his eagle bone whistle and we were off.

I am always amazed at how the mathematics of the medicine world works out. As we got in the van and turned on the radio a program was playing on veterans with spinal cord injuries -- we were on the way to the spinal injury ward of the veterans hospital! On the way we passed a forested green space. It had been raining and was overcast, the light simulating dusk. It was a very rare sight indeed, in the middle of a large city, to see a herd of 12 deer feasting on the budding blossoms. Masauke slowed the van so that we could both bless ourselves with their energy.

We followed Jessie til we reached the hospital. As we entered Masauke noticed the name Z...a, his last name, near the top of the patient list posted near the nursing station. It is a relatively rare Mexican name with that particular spelling, so Masauke inquired at the nursing station as to whether Z...a could have visitors. When the nurses told him he could Masauke told me to follow him and we went off to visit Z...a. We spent 10 minutes talking with Z...a before the nurse came to inform us that Jessie had gone to room 32 and that we were welcome to go, but as the man we were there to visit had an infection, we had to don gowns and gloves before visiting him.

Steve, was in a negative pressure room on the ward, to keep any potential microbes from leaving the room. Donning the yellow paper gown and blue disposable gloves took me back to my days in molecular genetics, getting suited up when going into a containment facility to work on a potentially contagious viruses. Those days seemed like many lifetimes ago when I compared it to heading into a hospital room to do a healing on a patient ... Steve, who had been paralyzed from the waist down since breaking his neck 3 months ago, had not been expecting either Masauke or myself, though Jessie had begun to prep him for what we were about to do.

Masauke introduced both of us and told Steve of our recent trip to Mexico, the pilgrimage, what we had been doing and told Steve what we planned to do with him. Steve was open to this so Masauke took out his feathers, deer tail and eagle bone whistle and began to call in Steve's ancestors and to take him back to a time and place when his body was whole, encouraging him to remember what that wholeness felt like.

As Masauke had been working with Steve for a while when I noticed out of the corner of my eye that there were other people in the outer room suiting up. Before Masauke had finished the ceremony, a tall white woman and a short Asian man entered the room and stood beside Steve's bed. The Asian man was Lama Tongham, who had been in the area doing a weekend meditation retreat. He was there with his host, who was a good friend of Steve's, to do some Tibetan medicine work on Steve. As Masauke finished up and the Lama was beginning Steve's left leg began to twitch. It had not done that before. Steve could feel the energy moving in his body in a way he had never felt.

As Masauke was putting his feathers away, the Lama came over to respectfully ask if he could touch Masauke's healing instument, the feathers and the eagle bone whistle. Lama Tongham was trying to locate the source of the chi, or energy, that we were using. It was very familiar to him, though not from these instruments. He requested that Masauke meet with him to discuss their respective healing traditions before he went to work himself.

As usual, Masauke charged nothing for the healing work. While he bade his farewells and went off to visit with Z...a again, I stayed a while longer in the outer room to watch the Lama at work. When I left to catch up with Masauke he was making arrangements with Z...a for us to come back on Thursday to do a healing on him!! It was all in a Spring Equinox's day's work .. such is the life of the medicine people called by Spirit to follow the medicine way.

Lessons Learned: 1) Always listen to Spirit ... I am only now beginning to learn what is a calling card from Spirit and what is not; 2) Call it mathematics or call it synchronicity, the mathematics never lie; 3) Trust the mathematics! It is ALL mathematics.

Stay tuned. Staywell and Travel with Spirit, Spirit Traveller.

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