Ruby (New Moon of Enthusiasm)

Ruby's New Moon of Enthusiasm

Our hearts ache with desires and longings for a connection to remain intact after our friends and loved ones have passed the veil. In those numb silent moments, when the voices of our heart and mind falls into stillness, faint whispers can be felt and heard, the reassuring messages of "I am still with you", penetrate to the core of our being where an old and ancient knowledge is sensed, that familiarity of knowing that you know without any words being needed. Like a renewed breath of fresh life, this air seems so different, something new has been added to its energies, something grand seems to explode sending new vibrations and frequencies soaring across our atmosphere, filling us with inspiration of new hopes and possibilities. It's in that split second of quickening that we know all the limitations and boundaries have been removed from our friend's or loved one's life and existence, we know without any doubt that every life experience counts and adds to the whole of All's existence and now everyone has access to that individual life experience, all the knowledge and aspirations, everything that inspired and fueled that individual life becomes available to tap into, it is our gift to each other that our stories are written in the open book among the stars where the energies of all our experiences rain down upon the Earth.  

I don't think I have ever met such an individual as Ruby, she was and is one of the most awe inspiring people I have been honored with knowing. She left me in a state of pure wonderment of pondering her enthusiasm and passion for every day life. She woke up every morning with a burning excitement of expectation toward life, but what she expected...only she can tell us. 

For Ruby, every morning was a hurried routine ritual performed with such child like eagerness, almost as if the first ray of light was sending her a message saying, "the Sun is on the way to pay you a personal visit today, get yourself ready!" And yet, after the showered, semi-formal dressed and polished routine, the breakfast eaten from fine china, the pure crystal juice glasses washed and neatly back in place, I would watch as she would take a deep breath, relax and transform into this elegant creature of grace and poise that faced the majority of her days with nothing more than common everyday occurrences and activities that we all go through...never once did that Royal elite visitor actual show up and walk over her threshold. And yet for eighty and some years, every morning was still met with this same burning hope and enthusiasm...

I was privileged to witness Ruby's last morning routine, performed only hours before the veil was raised and then slowly lowered between us, ritual performed with perfection as always. Once transformed and seated in her favorite spot, she smiled at me and said, "This is going to be an adventure!" 

On January 16th, the Lady of our first New Moon bowed down her own head to receive Miss Ruby's royal calling to usher her on in the journey past the veil.

A life well lived and a life well received.

Much love and many blessings Miss Ruby!

Sacred Seasons: The Whispers Of Autumn

Autumn, Water, Metal, Earth, Quicksilver

Farewells are always bitter sweet, the memory of pure joy and bliss of all the wondrous lush and beauty, the sweet smell of new born life as it unfolds and releases its fresh scent into the ever swirling streams of air, the baby soft down feathers fluttering about as the red and golden leafs slowly drop revealing the marvelously constructed, and yet now empty nests they had been sheltering...protection from the hot sun, winds and rains are no longer needed. Do as the trees do, as the birds take flight drop the dew of your breath upon theirs wings and send them off with blessings filled with the remembrance of the past sacred seasons happily spent together. Bid them to share the gentle touch of sweet fulfillment of longings and hopes everywhere they travel.

As the trees start to undress and prepare for a much needed rest, they drop the dew of their breath over us and whisper secret blessings upon us. The sweet fruits of red, blue and purple say, "take of me and remember the sacred waters and the sacred dust of earthy elements mixed within that course through out all our veins".  The golden fruits of yellow and orange say, "take of me and remember the sacred waters you were formed in." The Lord and Lady whisper, "remember all the ones before you, that brought you forward, remember you are the sacred fruit of the vine and the root that was fed and nourished with light from the Evergreen tree above, you were gifted by these and now carry within your own seed of light. Remember how you gently unfolded down into the living waters and was received and accepted as a most precious creation, these living waters gifted to you, your own ever filling chalice that runs over in abundance. Wherever the wings of the Morning takes you, you shall never lack or want for anything. Remember the sacred Evergreen, for he shall be with you always."

As the natural world around us pours out and gives of its last blessings for this season, we are being called into our own currents and rhythms urging us to finish our own libations and offerings of blessings to be added into the flow of sacredness toward All.  We are reminded by the Sacred Source of all rivers, that even though our side of the world is drawing within for its sacred sleep, the same life giving waters do flow eastward out of the temple, as it weaves its circuit and course in all directions rising above all elements and dropping below all elements, we have the wheel of the year that all seasons are occurring, that there is always those awakening toward the world to raise up the waters of life giving blessings. So, as you pour out your seasonal blessings, freely give back the best you have to give and know that it shall return to you within the sweet dew of the next morning season. 

Many Blessings

~Cizz

Ruth (Sacred Love)

Ruth Holcomb Powell

Aug. 10th 1941- Sept. 2nd 2017

I lift you up and cherish the gifts, lessons and message you brought to us and for us...
These most precious of all things, they can not be bought, nor can they be sold, for you brought them forward to all of us.

When I look at your hands and I search out the works of those most beautiful of hands, I can see your works, I can see that you brought forth all the ancestors of our past generations. Within the gathered assembly of your two hands, I can see my grandmother and I can sense my grandfather and I can hear all of the grands from our past. When I look at my own hands, I see you there in the midst of them. You bring to me a new sense and meaning of what it is to be a sacred speck within a grand and vast gathering, dancing, swirling and floating about within the ancient flow that brings life to all that will open to receive its flow.

You were planted under a great evergreen pine tree, a tree that never sleeps and yet it never awakens, through out all our seasons it has remained steadfast, an ever watchful, patient guardian that reminds us that there is within us a part that needs no sleep and needs no wakefulness, it lacks in no thing and therefore contains within it all things. This tree greets us with celebration at every season of our life. And its companion tree which you lay beneath is small and yet most beloved, it brings love in a sweet and simple spirit that reaches out to all that feel insufficient and insignificant. Our dogwood tree who's spirit has chosen to grow low and close to all that it holds precious and sacred...

But the sweetest things in life are always free
Like the songs the birds would sing
And the sweet new grass of spring
And the sacred blossoms on the dogwood tree

– Heartsong: Dolly Parton

It wasn't until I stood sheltered under these trees and had a sacred family secret revealed to me...

Your most beloved and favored conveyed it to me...

He said he couldn't withhold these hidden seeds, they come at no cost and they freely feed...

He proclaimed... "Aunt Ruth found favor in me!"

Then each little bird sang, "and in me", "and in me",  "and in me".... we are all favored under aunt Ruth's tree. We all received that sacred seed, by water and blood it will feed, ever flowing in the gentle touch she bestowed on me...and me..and me...

From the mouth of our smallest, sweetest little seed, she called out, "Aunt ROOF!"

She sheltered me...and me...and me...

A season well lived and a harvest well received, everyone and everything that enters under the wings of my tree, help me to remember the sacred seeds of the evergreen tree who saw it all and celebrated, one by one, the personal sacredness of "We".

  

Ancestral Healing (The Voice of Dust)

"Thy story shall whisper out of the dust" 

Isa. 29:4

My name is Cizz, I have been called by many names but the one I choose for myself is Cizz, which means sister of fire. I have been so long in the flames of this old age, I have finally reached the ashes and can clearly hear the voices of my ancestors speaking their stories out of the dusty mortar that our physical existence is held together by. I have willingly walked into these flames and traveled to the lowest bowels and pits of suffering and pain to hear the cries for release and forgiveness. I will sit down with you in this dust but we will no longer wail with suffering the lost of hopes and dreams, we will no longer bemoan and blame each other for our self made prisons of stifled and un-lived passions. I will sit down with you in this dust and we will write a new book in this ground, we will each place our finger into this dirt and dusty mortar to write the true story of unconditional love, we will pass that key of release through out all of our generations from the first to the last and then back to the first. We will forgive and allow ourselves to be forgiven, no longer will our ground cry out with bitter blood and shaking voices of shame and revenge. We will allow the salty ocean of our tears and sweat to wash and purify this sacred earth, our mothers, daughters and sisters will know their true worth and receive their full sustains without price and bargain. Our fathers, sons and brothers will be weaned and unshackled, no longer will flesh and gender rule our Day, no longer will terror and quake rule our Night. No longer will we be moved to give ourselves away to prove our love, no longer will we contract for imprisonment and ownership of each other, let our yes be yes and our no be no.

May our First and True Mother be restored and honored in her full strength and beauty without ownership
May our First and True Father know and feel more than respect from us, may He know our real love for him always. I call forth the healers in my family's book of blood, I call forth all the healers of the body, I call forth the healers of the soul, I call forth all the healers of the mind,  I transcend all barriers of cultures, religions, faiths and race, I cry out to all times and all space. I honor you, I cherish you, I lift you up and bear you, my heart will stand and dance with you, I hear your heart's desire, I feel your heart's desire, we will know our heart's desire.

Let the free bonds of trust and honor be restored, let true unconditional love abound, pass this seed of release through out all generations, through out all our lands.


Art/Photo: When You Wishpered by Jenn Violetta

Harvest Moon with Lunar Eclipse (Super Blood Moon)

Oracle of Visions

Just when we thought the Spirit of Mabon and Ostara (September) would ease the flow of the reaping energies, some harvests have brought us up lacking and some has afforded us the abundance of gifts, give thanks in the lesser and the greater for it is all a wondrous work moving us toward much brighter blessings. We will be entering into the Blood of our ancestors with this coming Full Harvest Moon as the earth will be passing between our beloveds in the moon and our beloveds in the sun, this will start our journey into the thinning veil of hearing the voices of those before us, the fae dust is already laid to the wings of the wind!

Our reaping and purging through the partial solar eclipse did not require drastic changes in our personal lives but gave us a gentle ease and pull to prepare us for the total immersion of entering into the menstrual purge of our sisters and mothers in the day and in the night, three generations will align and flow together. The very dust and life force within your own veins will be dancing and speaking with the voices of those before and around us. Some will cry out with bitter and anguished blood and others will sing words of comfort and praise. This will be an emotional experience for all of us, this is the time of all times to bring healing and reconciliation to our Fathers and our Mothers. This is a time for throwing open all the family books of blood and a time to repair and rewrite all of our DNA for all future and past generations!   
  
Our personal card and message for this coming event is, "Inner Peace" an instant in time where all time and reality falls away, all recording of passing time is put on hold, remember the dragonfly, as the dragon that soars and transcends all the veils of time and space that separate us, this flying dragon brings us change in the perspective of self realization that moves us into mental clarity and emotional maturity that fills us with a new understanding of the mysteries and purpose of life, it rest upon a white lily that brings the healing breath from the ground below up through the still and calm waters as a gift of unity in this healing for our times and personal lives here and now. Our ancestors and all future generations are beckoning and calling out to us, from the beginning and from the end of all creations, "put thy heart and mind into the dusty mortar and rewrite our stories, add your voice of healing, joy and love, let all our heart's seed burst forth from the richness below the waters into a New person, a New family, a New humanity and a New creation, let there be a moment of stillness, calm and peace as we reach beyond the veils and embrace each other."

Ancestral Healing

“The collective pain-body is probably encoded within every human’s DNA, although we haven’t discovered it there yet.  ~ Eckhart Tolle

Having experienced the physical passing of four immediate family members in the last nine months has brought the importance of ancestral healing  front stage for me. I have very little doubt of the truth that previous generations have a profound affect on our lives, not just the knowledge, learning and teachings they past down while manifested in this realm, but the unseen and seldom heard, recorded DNA memories. In my own family, while my grandmother was still alive, she experienced an extreme act of violence that traumatized and raised her fear levels into a morbid terror and phobia of the outside world and other people. She lived the major part of her life closed and shut away from the world outside of her house, the simple act of opening the front door rather somebody was knocking or not, was overwhelmingly terrifying for her.  No one (that I can find) from previous generations before her had such a morbid fear and crippling condition anything like hers. But, strangely enough, we are reaching four and five generations out, and several family members that never knew her, not once ever met her and have very little knowledge of her,  now display, suffer and struggle with degrees of the same condition she had.We have a lot a little children starting out earlier in the therapist office and parents wringing their hands with worry that something unexplainable and terribly bad is wrong with their children. Running joke at family events is based in comparing the "shitty DNA" we each inherited. 

We do not realize that whatever has been done, felt or thought is within our DNA. We have inherited all the energetic patterning including our ancestors' thoughts, feelings, illnesses and reactions to both tragedies and celebrations.

Over the years, I have listened to other family members that knew my grandmother, make fun of her and down right belittle her. My own father made the horrible statements that her life was worthless and that she contributed nothing to humanity. But the one thing never heard from these people that knew her so well, was a family secret that got covered up, something that no one wanted to face...what actually caused her condition. Without that knowledge, her condition is unexplainable, just like the extended family being affecting by it today (it's just some shitty DNA we all inherited, right?). The answer to that question is "Yes and No", it is memory energy that will continue to be past along in our family DNA, but as an energy it can be changed and transformed into something more helpful and positive that won't bring with it such crippling affects. Healing ancestral  memory and energy requires honesty and truth, it requires someone in the family being able to pass on the truthful, non candy coated reality of their ancestor's lives. And it requires the younger and newer generations to have the interest in knowing the histories of those that went before them. 

Our ancestors exist not only in genes passed down through the generations, but also in an energetic pattern of thoughts, emotions, illnesses and karma which can effect every part of a person's life. Physical, emotional, mental and spiritual issues can be healed such as alcoholism, depression, mental illness and various physical illnesses. Even criminality which has now been mapped by the Human Genome Project can be addressed by ancestral healing. 

If the family members laughing at my grandmother actually knew what had happened that eventually caused and helped to push her fears over into the morbid, I should hate to think they would not choke on their laughter. I would also hate to think that they would not take the time to consider and acknowledge everything handed down to her and all that she had been taught to believe inside her family circle that lent to the accumulation of "shitty DNA" patterns (Key words here: TAUGHT and PATTERNS) that left her defenseless to the final blow that destroyed all her hopes and dreams while she lived. And as for my father, I could only wish that his statement about grandma not contributing to humanity was true, but, fact is, we all contribute rather we want to or not. 

Normally, the things drawn into the DNA ancestral gene pools are usually the issues we would never want to be passed on and have others affected by them. I'm sure that my grandmother's travel between the veils has thus far been a heart wrenching experience for her to know and sense that her own blocked path and unfinished healing has now extended further into the lives of others coming after her (the more profound and frequent the symptoms showing up in the next generations are signs of her turmoil {grief and guilt}of feeling herself to be the cause). Which starts a chain reaction that will reach back into generations of those that came before her and of those that were here living on earth with her, having them add in and attribute their own "what I did and didn't do that helped cause this", thus sending forward an extremely strong current and vibration through the DNA that affects the greater percentage of people being born into the family's blood line. 

When working with your ancestors on certain issues, don't be surprised if and when you find an unbelievable plethora of seemingly unrelated issues, patterns, behaviors, beliefs, personality traits and characteristics tied into and feeding off of that initial issue. It is also worthy of mention that when it comes to DNA, "likeness attracts likeness", which means that patterns formed and passed on through your mother's family will more than likely match the patterns coming through your father's side also, I have even noticed similar patterns running through the relatives by marriage and not blood such as spouses of uncles, aunts and cousins, etc... 
If you find two people attracted to each other, one of the main things that seals the deal between them is that their DNA is bouncing and singing in harmony.