On This Harvest Moon

The full moon is a time to release what no longer serves you, or what you no longer need in your life or an aspect of yourself that you have outgrown.

To Harvest, is to REAP what you have sown… 
To bring in the fruit of your labor. 
To separate the Wheat from the Chaff….
To prepare for the Winter, the barren time… 

To begin, Center yourself and clear the clutter within. 
Meditate upon the sounds all around and begin to separate each sound from one another.
This Harvest moon, the Full Moon is in Pisces and this is a time of free flowing emotional energy!
Let the emotional energy flow in and throughout your body, mind and soul!! Be filled with love!

Consider the moment.
Consider the day.
Consider the week, the month and the past year!
Look through time and consider your life; your minutes…ask yourself,
What have I learned?
What have I learned?
What have I outgrown?
What baggage am I holding onto, in my life? Be it emotional or physical….

Begin the process of separating what is no longer serving you in this time period. Life is about living in the now. To be in the present we learn from the past and release. We move ahead without the excess baggage belonging to another life.

Next, write down your life lessons and give thanks for the lesson.
Write down what is not serving you in this time.
Visualize a broom sweeping and dusting your mind's corners...
Be thankful
Be thankful
Be thankful
Let the baggage go. Set the paper on fire, wash the burnt pieces away with water and let them fertilize the soil…

Prepare for celebration! Prepare for the bountiful harvest!
The good fruits of your labor to fill you with love and mercy!!
Illuminate your mind!
Create change for balance…
Burdens released, I step forward with the life's living fruit!
 I give to receive and receive to give again.

Personalize your Full moon ceremony. There is no right way. There is no wrong way. Be filled with love, your way is the right way!

I enjoy lighting candles and incense outside under the moon~sometimes I incorporate water…sometimes earth… sometimes only fire… sometimes all!
There are times when I want to be alone.
There are times when my son and I have the ceremony, together…
Sometimes friends come over and we all stand around a fire.. we each speak our words out loud, we cry and laugh and hug… we burn our words in the fire… we drink wine or beer…or water…
Other times, I will have a friend on speakerphone and we will do a moon ceremony together but separate…
Sometimes, I dance…
Sometimes, I sing…
Sometimes, I do both!

I am spiritual, not religious. I have tailored my moon ceremonies to my way of life. My beliefs. I urge you to do the same. Whether you pray to a god, goddess or nature… make This Time, your time…

Under The Harvest Moon!

Love's Angel

I have traveled the world
In search of truth
In search for love

Across time
Across the millennium
Many lives 

I have touched upon the secret
I have witnessed the beauty in death
I have tasted the bitterness in life

Alone, I have walked far into the night
Shadow, my sole companion
This life, this time is not for solitude

This time, 
This life
I am an love's angel

Sending love
Receiving love
Teaching love

Be an angel of love, with me
Send the light out into the night
Brighten the path and love

Let mercy become your friend
Let charity welcome hearts within
Breathe light, breathe love

Drink ambrosia's kiss
Dance in the wind 
Frolic with the grass

Let me love you
I will let you love me
Even if only for a time

Love proves to be free
Love across time
Love across the millennium








  

Embrace

Tasting your mouth
Lips touching lips and lips again
Tongues quenching the thirst, deep
Arms wrapped around arms
Arms intertwined with Legs
Hands holding hands and hands again
Embracing me
Embracing you
Embracing you
Hearts, Souls shatter
As the water fall flows
Plunging the depth, muscles quiver
Engaging one another and another again
Where does the pleasure end
Where does the pleasure begin
Holding your hand in mine
My hand caresses
Your hand pushes back a stray hair
I kiss your mouth
I kiss your mouth
Looking into your eyes, I see
Eyes looking back at me, smiling
Shared pleasure
Shared pleasure
Eyes closed tightly, feeling
Feeling, feeling
Open your eyes, sweet lover
Open your eyes
Watch and see
Watch your heart
Connect
Feel with your soul
And see with your eyes
There is where the truth lies

Strings

Oh play me your heart…
Strings, strumming
Bow bridging
My life up and down
Singing, swaying
I move to the beat
I move to the rhythm
Tears fly and hearts bleed
The music continues
The dance unending

Where do I pick up
A new beat
A new vibrato
How do I speed time
Faster than a 4/4 ratio
I need to sing
Yet the music carries me
Up, Down and around
Waltz with me
Waltz with me
While the strings play
The story my life sings.

A Louse Dream

Last night as I slept, I dreamt part of my scalp left side middle area of about an inch, itched. As I scratched my head, I found a Louse. All I could think is… How do I have LICE!!! In the dream I was transported to a time when my First Grade class was all checked for lice. I was called out as having the bugs. I had to sit in the hall and wait for my mom to pick me up. I had to wait a long time. Horrible feeling, like there was something wrong with me… and you know…all I could think is… My head doesn't itch. I don't have lice. So… My mom took me to the health department and I was rechecked, only to find out that I never had Lice. Only a bad case of dandruff. I remember feeling Numb. Embarrassed. Empty. Sitting in that quiet hallway, alone. Quite the experience for a little 6 year old. 

In this dream, I felt all those emotions and wondered how the heck did I get these bugs. How did I not know or feel them sooner. How was I gonna walk in to a drug store and pick up Lice Shampoo and not feel like I have the Plague. I felt empty and let go of all my emotions. The only way to handle the bugs, is to just do it. Get it over with. 

In part of the dream, I wondered…How long can I get away with having the bugs before people begin to notice. Can I hide them? Can I go through my days with the bugs and be MYSELF? The answer is no. Hiding something is not the way for me. Covering up for another, is not the way for me. I cannot truly be my Self when a parasite is affecting my life. Lice travel from person to person. Before long, I would be spreading the parasite and causing problems in other lives because I did not handle the situation in my own life. 

This morning, I looked up the meaning of Louse Totem and found this.

 Louse(Totem) (Lice) -- Being sucked dry by too many responsibilities or torn in too many directions by well-meaning people, the louse is a message to withdraw and resist being pulled into situations we do not wish for ourselves. Lice are parasitic creatures that require a host in order to exist and indicates that we are either asking too much from others or they are asking too much of us. http://spiritwalkministry.com/spirit_guides/bug__critter_spirits

I do have allot of responsibilities.  I do feel pulled in many directions. Torn in my responsibilities and in what I want. I do cater to myself when possible and shut down emotionally when the parasites in life begin to suck. I forget myself and go through the motions. Some situations are not for me and now is the time for me to see the parasite and quit being a host. Once the host is dry, the parasite moves on. Consider this… How does PLEASING everyone benefit me? When I am dried up and unable to give….They (collectively) move on. 

Consider, "Well-Meaning" People. Yes, they do mean well. They really do. Remember, their meaning is not your meaning. Their need is not your need. Their reason for sucking you dry, has nothing to do with you. Release them. They will find a new host. They always do. 

Consider yourself. Are you asking for too much from another? Have you become the parasite? Look into your meaning. Look into your needs and release yourself into your life. 

Life is about lessons. Learning and creating a better you. Examine your life. Discover your Self. Deepen your ability to be a greater YOU!

Daily, I work on my Self. I want to be the best person, possible. To me and everyone I am associated with… 

I am not the Best Person, yet… I am a work in progress and I will always find the lessons life offers. 

Namaste

Dona

Turning 40

I've turned 40, by the trial of fire. I love being 40, the age thing is amazing! I feel young and healthy. Well,I was sick the entire week prior to my birthday. I made it tho!! My little sister came up for the weekend, to celebrate our birthdays.

Our mother is a different kind of person. Every thing she does is to serve her. She knows my sister doesn't eat pork. Well, guess what was on the menu. Nothing but pork. No one sees her, the way my sister and I do. No one really knows the bull shit residing in her.

The day before my birthday, she brings her entire storage unit of boxes to my house. I have a small house. No room for storage. Everything is in the yard and on my front porch. She said she was going to go thru the boxes and throw away things, sell things and then give away things that didn't sell. So far, her keep pile is large. On my birthday, she was still going thru boxes...she depressed HERSELF and told me that she didn't do anything for my actual birthday because she was sad about all the things she read in the boxes. Dead people's belongings. Like bills and crap from long dead relatives. Those things should have been thrown away long ago.

I'm just hurt because she didn't consider me at all. I do everything for her. Everything. And I am still having trouble with her lack of considering me. When I always consider her. I would really love for her to move out of my house. She is the one person who irks me. Who stresses me.

And then I feel bad. Am I supposed to be more compassionate? More patient? How do I heal from this? She has an inability to reach my expectations of a mom. My expectations have always been low, for her...but I always keep this hope...

I don't even know that I want to see all the lessons in this..except, I will aspire to be amazing and caring to all in my life. Without her inability, I would not have my abilities.

I am still hurt and mad.

A little something about KARMA

KARMA defined~ the force generated by a person's actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical consequences to determine the nature of the person's next existence. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/karma

To transmigrate is to go from one state of existence, to another. So many people "get" the whole concept of KARMA, wrong. I often see posts on social websites about the negativity of a persons actions and how KARMA will bite them in the ass. How is having a negative attitude toward another human being going to benefit you during your transmigration from Earth to your next existence. KARMA is not handled in this life. A person's way of being will be handled in-between lives and metered out in a personal way as depicted by the soul in question and warranted in their next life. KARMA is a personal way of keeping your spiritual life in check.

What I would like to see, is some positive connotations placed upon this word, KARMA. When you see someone doing something fantastic, comment upon the awesomeness and how KARMA is cool! Good KARMA is beautiful! Leave the judgments behind. Leave the negativity behind. Let us raise our energetic awareness to a point where we change the energy surrounding us. Turn negative energy to positive energy. Let us raise our own KARMIC awareness and let others join in on the energy train. 

Here is an example of a post I would like to see changed to something with KARMIC approval… 

One, Ignorant people do not realize anything. The definition of ignorant is~~~ 

a : destitute of knowledge or education <an ignorantsociety>; also : lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified <parents ignorant of modern mathematics>

b : resulting from or showing lack of knowledge or intelligence~~~Merriam-Webster online dictionary

The definition shows the ignorance and vindictive nature of the person who created this diatribe. Let us watch our words and energy we put out in the world. I also hear folks say, KARMA is a bitch. I disagree. KARMA is not a bitch. KARMA IS what KARMA is to be, subjective and  personalized. 

Let us take time to watch our SELVES and feel the magic of who we are and how we are changing the world!!! 

KARMA is BEAUTIFUL!!! 

Much love to you and you and you!!! 

Namaste

Dona