past tipping points

Today's session on the Shaman's Cave discusses the ability to meet our future self. Given the news of the Amazon rainforest having tipped past salvation - we need all the help we can get. 

There is an understanding in many spiritual traditions and sciences like quantum physics that we inhabit multiple realities. On a personal and communal basis how do we make a difference and have the support we need? 

In shamanic journeying different choices offer alternative options that impact a variety of our future possibilities. Let us hold the intention of lightening up and growing less dense - together and collectively. 

Evolution is a worthwhile state of being yet it's not an easy or comfortable place to be in. Tested and challenged to stretch and expand - often when we're resistant or ill prepared. 

sandworm & rider - The Art & Soul of Dune

Like Paul Atreides, the central figure in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. Young, displaced, and unsure of himself - his safe Caladan home world lost, moved to the harsh alien world of Arrakis/Dune - all new and unfamiliar, betrayed and left to survive or die. 

Frank Herbert warns about society's tendencies to "give over every decision-making capacity" to a charismatic leader, a hero. Paul himself battles ceaselessly against inner motives and outer driven factors that pull and push at him constantly. 

Any of us today all too easily feel the rub and friction of ceaseless and constant change - epic proportions held over daunting obstacles. All the subtlety seems lost -  along with any clarity or comfort we strive to maintain through these quantum shifts and leaps - in a roller coaster, run amok world. 

What tools would you want for support and help right now? What could aid best in the restoration of our well being? For ourselves, for our world, for our future?

Make your list and let's get this conversation going!

celebrate our harvest

Every soul longs for peace yet we are all meant to live a revolutionary life. Not only lives in revolution or revolt, though for too many that has been their all too sad and sorry fact. 

Revolutionary in the true sense of the word: constituting or bringing about a major or fundamental change. Be an agent of change. 

Many cultures celebrate Midsummer on August 2 and this week is the peak. We are halfway through the summer in all its joy and glory and danger, with its COVID-sharing county fairs, political rodeos, and Olympic upsets. 

Image by Jade Brookbank/Image Source/Getty Images

August begins with Lammas, Loaf Mass Day, Lughnasadh - the day in the Book of Common Prayer calendar when a loaf baked with flour from newly harvested grain is brought to church and blessed, God's blessing is sought for the growing crops. 

Lughnasadh is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season. Named for Lugh, one of the most prominent gods in Irish mythology and member of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Portrayed as a warrior, a king, a master craftsman and a savior. He is associated with skill and mastery in multiple disciplines, including the arts. 

a yellow thread of woes

Victims and martyred Filipinos have proved no-fail and fatal fodder for countless local campaigns - political and religious, personal or accidental. Any cause justifies trotting out this penultimate card, the sacrificial lamb. 

That's what hundreds of years of colonization and the Catholic Church have bestowed on its loyal subjects - martyrs, martyrdom, martyrology. A future heavenly promise of a better afterlife to trump the current hellacious reality of an oppressive down trodden existence. 

Providing a growing menu consisting of enthusiastic descriptions and ghoulish persecutions as various and horrid as can be invented by the human mind, inspired by a herd of raging demons. Or devilishly devised by Duterte driven trolls and minions, as we have today.

fall equinox 2020

Traditionally the autumn equinox is a celebration of the harvest when summer ends and its fruits are collected in preparation for winter. Yet there are other indicators given by the most ancient sacred sites that mark the autumn equinox.

On the day of an equinox, daytime and nighttime are of approximately equal duration all over the planet. There are the scientific approach developed throughout the ages - astronomical, meteorological, phenological.

Digital Art of Robert Jahns

In astronomy all four seasons start along with the equinoxes and solstices. Before the Southward or September equinox - autumn in the northern hemisphere and spring in the south - the Sun rises and sets more northerly. After the equinox it rises and sets more southerly. 

In contrast meteorology divides a year into four seasons - spring, summer, autumn or fall, and winter. Three months for each based on their monthly average temperatures, with summer as the warmest and winter the coldest. 

Phenology applies a range of environmental and biological indicators to mark life cycles in periodic events. How the weather and climate influence such events, like leaves falling off trees or birds migrating to warmer countries. 

July 4th | creature comforts

On the wonder |wander |world blog my daughter Mahala and I collaborate on, we wonder what Fourth of July celebrations would look like this year.

George Washington, Mount Rushmore, Black Hills - Scott Olson/Getty Images

As the [dis]United States of America gear up for Independence Day celebrations this weekend, we wonder what in the world we are offering as well wishers on this occasion.

Sunday thoughts

This time last year Change Warrior was clear across the world - blogging about earth rumblings and volcanic eruptions. 

Today Change Warrior is reposting some worthy contemplation from Rick Jarow on A Culture of Awakening: The Inner and Outer Revolution. 

The post ignited some thought provoking ideas that shook me to the core and made me erupt at the cosmic joke being played out for us all. 

September Days

Last year's blog, Equinox & Eclipses | blood moons & bloody times, focused on September dates of import that impact us all - cosmic, global, national, local and personal - stirring us to the core. 

times we are [not] a'changin'

Returning to the Philippines on an election year is always chaotic and discombobulating.

Archipelago of colors, one strong weave. 
Image courtesy of Haim Chicken

This time a man proud to be known as the Donald Trump of the East may yet reign supreme.

Yet another halfling with pretensions to manliness and personal power runs a close second.

In the wake of Mother's Day Facebook is flooded by such ugliness.

Disappointment overwhelms in the difficulty to reconcile beloved homeland with reviled behavior.

O Pinas kong mahal, so tortured by this whole convoluted affair. 

HERitage & HIStory

The blistering cold of western winters are keeping #wonderwanderwomen indoors. Safe and snug inside, our thoughts are drawn within and back home. 

A recent return to our hometown where we were born and raised was a trip down memory lane and added opportunity to dig into our roots. 

comparison and contrast

As I return from sunny tropics to winter wonderland, my reflections swing between the weirdly wired and wiped out state of the disjointed and discombobulated jet lagged body/mind.

When I am there I cannot help but miss what's here. Being here only makes me miss what was over there. Caught between worlds and the options and opportunities in either.

motion, movement, momentum

as I move into yet another place and unpack to create a new home from scratch I am made present to internal and external forces at play

I like simplifying, getting back to basics and being frugal about it - it's a creative process grounded in practical and applicable reality - what works and what does not 

it's exhilirating to find a new place, case out the new neighborhood, work out the logistics of the move, decide what should go and what to keep 

the change is exciting and expanding