Fire of Resilience

Intuitively I opened one of Rob Hopkins posts from Transition Culture and learned more about Forest Gardens. I was happy to see that mint was part of that garden as I had harvested mine that afternoon. I also learned that soil is best left alone and not turned or dug up as to not disturb the critical fungi and the release of carbon dioxide. This is connection of dots via intuition. I always thought soil likes aeration and to be turned. No doubt those thoughts are part of the historical agricultural and farming framework. So, if Forest Garden thinking and doing was in the consciousness of our ancestors would we have entered the machine age that is now destroying our planet because of imbalanced use.

A couple of women in TW wanted to focus discussion groups around the book Beautiful and Abundant. I expressed that the group would not be a Transition group if we did not focus on Rob’s material. I feel loyal to Rob and know there is a lot of information, inspiration and tools in The Transition Handbook that we have not touched upon.

As we were discussing a book group at the Brunch meeting yesterday I expressed that I was more interested in Talking Circles where each one is an authority sharing what’s moving with them and that this allows for the “creative genius of community” something that comes straight from the handbook. The word “whoo whoo” came out of someone’s mouth in reference to using the term “talking circle.” She doesn’t want us to be too spiritual. And yet she and many of the people at the brunch attend church. My nerves didn’t flinch. My brain body did not react and I noticed this inner stability.

I do have some things to say in response to this “whoo whoo” comment and will include it on the next meeting agenda as Inclusion. I take this very personal but not from ego as some might interpret. I take this personal because of the lineage of indigenous, pagan, shaman and medicine people who lived close to the earth, honored the circle and who were discriminated against. It’s time for this pattern of exclusion to stop! It’s time to walk the talk of inclusion. I am response able to speak out on behalf of all who love what Circle represents. Speaking of…it’s time to promote my Circle of Life ~ Mapping One's Story book and class again now that I have more time.

Kundalini fire allows one to be resilient through sudden shocks and changes of a larger system. That fire is happiness known through simple living. For me this fire resounds in Nature that moves and breathes in circular rhythms.

Which reminds me: when my g-kids and I went bike riding in the Orting Valley I was stunned by the clear cuts and developments all along the plateau. Those developers are criminals. This mentality of paving over Mother Earth is sick! Circulation needs open pores to engage with and move through. Those pores are pure green and blue not muddy grey and black. The choking of our homeland is in our hands as stewards…how do we learn new behavior patterns? Through open pores!

What is it about this long distant star that keeps me engaged in orbital pattern? It's common core substance. It's passion that runs high to low; heaven to earth. It's a weaving spirit, heart, head and body pathway. It's kundalini dragon fire that brings matter to life and life to matter. This is grand in scale -- dragon scale!

Letter to the Editor

I am enjoying your Health and Wellness section in the Woodinville Weekly and appreciate the article Why Every Person Should Meditate by Kimberly Palm, C.M.I. I learned to meditate many years ago and it transformed me and my life for the better. Today much of my meditation practice takes place in nature and in my gardens. Our culture is driven to go-go-go and achieve whereas meditation is a way to slow down and be-be-be still. It’s a way to balance our energies and our lives. Meditation changes our brain waves and gives us access to information that is inspirational. Imagine that! A place within our own being that has intelligent information to sustain us. How about more meditation in our personal lives and less bickering in our community and world?

Summertime and the Livin' Is Easy

Summer Solstice 6/22
Rejection after rejection in the job market is deflating. Glad I have more to be identified with.

Told my daughter I was thinking about making some major changes in my life and was told that I was not to leave town as she needs help with Raelee our new baby due July. So, I decided to dip into savings some more and take the summer off. I let go and it provides more space for listening and Being.

Buttercup continues to be with me and I am learning. I continue to hold my ground that choking out strawberries and columbine and taking over is not okay. There are other ways of relating besides controlling one over the other. How do the parts of an eco-system co-operate in balance and health?

Summer Solstice Fire brought diverse community to the Heritage Garden. Transition has proven to be a catalyst for community building. We don’t have focus for a project(s) however. I saw on TV that Sustainable Seattle is promoting a Happy City and that they were dancing in City Hall! I could get into that here in Woodinville but we need a collective project -- I don’t want to work on a project alone.

My heart is in orbit with a distant star. It is fiery with sparks. A new star comes into my field with friendship, conversation and compatability. My heart is focused elsewhere. As I relate with this new star my path could change…I am aware of that possibility. What to do? I will be honest about my orbital patterns. Change is certain as each star follows their individual heart path. Such is unconditional love. This language reminds me of the NASA emergency alert that someone in Transition told me about: a comet has been triggering the natural disasters around our planet and its back around and even closer on 12/21/12 – the end of the world date. Supposedly this NASA alert to their employees is official. I have not researched it.

6/23
I awoke to daily assignments. I don’t need to find a job – a job is finding me. I have plenty to do here with the Grange, Transition, Sammamish Valley Alliance and my gardens. I want to work in this community to develop this community. It’s work I already love.

In the garden last night I met two new women, talked again to a man who accidentally walked in for our solstice fire and an Eagle Scout troop doing volunteer work. Not working elsewhere allows me to focus locally. It also means I get to be at the King County Fair with our Grange display. I find it comical the things that make me happy these days...I'm definitely a country girl!

Whew!

Redmond PCC just called me in for an interview. I feel a bit relieved.

Now What?

Being unemployed without income makes me very anxious. There are plenty of creative options: sell my car; put household items in storage and live with family in different parts of the country; find a pt job that is boring; let the right job find me. I realize I am free and the choices make me anxious.

Bee Ready for Change

6/13
Enter Bees…and something intense hits the fan.

It began in the morning as I was weeding my strawberry patch and thinking that I weeded strawberries when I was five and I’m still weeding as an Elder. Suddenly I hear “STOP” as I was pulling out the choking buttercup. I continue and hear “DON’T” and I continue. Later I wonder, “What was that?” I’ve never heard a plant deva broadcast so loudly. Now I have to go back, listen more and make amends of some kind. I like soil and open space around plants. Do I need to change this?

I went to work on the farm and negativity was moving through my mental wheels as I worked the earth. I wondered where it was coming from as I had no reason to be thinking this way. Later I learned that one of the owners was mad at me for something I did. I recognized the pattern as the last time she was negative/mad at me I had negative thoughts run through my mind. Interesting how negativity that surrounds me can create thoughts that sound like my own but are not.

Then I had a run-in with the other owner who was very rude. Then someone else did something to make herself look good at my expense. And after work a new garden volunteer and I had a confrontation.

What is going on? At the farm I have been getting impressions of plantation workers, farm hands, ranch hands who have worked under the authority of others. The impressions are not healthy or loving. They are about dominance. Are these from my past life or am I tuning in to the Akashik records or collective consciousness? I am starting to look for another job and that choice will depend on how things go at work today and tomorrow.

I notice that I’m not worried about my future this time around. My morning drumming meditation ended with “I am not afraid.”

Something very new is happening. Laying in bed I felt like I was in a dome bee hive with those cozy cubbies – hexagons??? My world is now even more strange than it was.
I sold the first Bee Alert kit last night at the Bike Maintenance Reskilling Class. This was an over the top positive experience. I felt appreciated and loved and that vibration weaved all around the room. Buzzing good!

6/18
The farm where I work is now using Round Up. It's just another toxic issue on that beautiful piece of property. I quit this job this morning due to the negativity and dysfunction. There is a better pt job out there for me. Now to attract it my way.

6/20
I’ve been thinking about the Buttercup Deva and am aware of its choking ability. I cannot let it choke out my strawberries or other crops in this and other gardens. I acknowledge it as a Being now and give it more space in the gardens now. I'm still listening, learning.

BEEing

Drum Meditation:

I wore fuzzy substance. I was bee. Body started to jerk. I was possessed. Drumming faster, faster. A new experience in body in this realm.

Had powerful dream about a woman and a man. I loved both of them as lovers. Drama around it all. In this realm this morning these two individuals are still with me. How many realities does one live in? If I consider these characters as parts of myself it makes more sense. So, what do they represent? I feel that I know and yet the dramas keep dancing. Like television where the same old dramas keep showing up...low vibrations is the choice of mainstream media. Change the focus, please!

See with eye of BEE and BEEing.

Flower Power

June 11, Saturday: I spent the afternoon with five different men at the Heritage Garden three of whom are volunteers. I marveled at this as there was a time when I didn’t have male friends. At the end of gardening I saw an image of a cobra with its erect upper body and head. I was not drumming or journeying or even being reflective….serpent was simply there in broad daylight of this realm. I acknowledged it but had no idea what its presence meant.

Later in the day I found myself thinking about one certain man –I was missing his connection. This was a complete turnaround and is how it is with this man. He leaves to return again and again. It’s totally out of my hands. It’s totally spiritual. Or maybe it’s that I leave to return again and again. Maybe it’s both of us doing this dance in our separate orbits. Seems to me this is what “unconditional love” is.

When I last saw him my body had said goodbye with my right arm and hand fitting/pressing/hugging vertically against his upper body. It was a gesture that was totally unconscious and was how my body wanted to express/ground passion for him in that moment. As this connection opened up on Saturday so did enchantment that was other dimensional. In the midst of strange images in a strange world my right arm on his upper body became a flower stem. We were flowers!
I am so in love with soil and sun. While bike riding I looked up in the sky and felt a wave of emotion followed by tears. It’s a love like no other. I am a child of Earth and Sky.

June 12, Sunday: I picked up 10 bee kits to launch the Summer Bee Alert project with Crown Bees and Transition Woodinville. As I walked with them to the car I felt a subtle shift – a lifting. I am now a bee keeper with 400 tubular homes for native insects to live so they can pollinate our valley and plateau. It’s a new responsibility, a new role as Gardener.

June 13, Monday: Meditation and drum meditation. Drumming I saw winged ones fly in. Birds….no bees! Bees landed on my body. I drummed. They were bees from all over the planet. My body was Earth body. I drummed noticing they weren’t too lively.

Creative Process

An email to some Transition Woodinville members:

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I'm sorry to hear about your dad. I know that process of parenting our parents can be stressful. Let me know if I can support you in any way. I know that you and I have had our differences but we also have common ground -- heart to heart -- that goes beyond any difference.

I emailed about "rhythms" with a Solstice invitation. I was very active in April with UNLEASHING and in May I was very still and inactive. One morning I woke up with a whole picture of a bee project and then called Dave Hunter. This is how my "creative process" works and surprises me as well as others. This is why I moved forward with a bee project and I meant no disrespect for ______ or her process. I was "inspired" to move in a certain direction. Inspiration hits me after I've been still or quiet. I see it as masculine/outgoing energy and feminine/ingoing energy. This has been happening in my life for many years and is part of that "shamanic" path that I travel. Being telepathic and psychic is not something I talk about openly because so many "Christians" view it as the work of the devil. Lately I feel that I am "coming out" as a "shaman" and being who I am from the inside out. My recent trip to Sedona for the Deepak Chopra workshop and doing a drum meditation at Kachina Woman Vortex added to this experience.

I am attaching a flyer DRAFT of a summer research bee project with Dave Hunter at Crown Bees. I want to change the title to something more upbeat in the way of Transition, some words and use a more creative flyer template. We want to get this out into the community asap. What would be a catchier title?:

Up With Bees
Bee Fruit Full
Bees Count
Bee Lookout
Bee SOS
Bee Alert
Bee Tracking

Thanks for sharing through listening and responding / responding and listening.

June 4:

Meditation:
Room with white light. Light extends downward overarching. I go down to green Frog and mud. I bathe in mud. I listen. I watch. I start to leave coming back up. I hear “wait, not yet, there is more” so I go back and am eye to eye with what looks like a blue-black fly. I think “Blue Orchard Bee” or BOB! I have met Bob. An acknowledgment.

Yesterday I met Dave Hunter with Crown Bees. He’s a national researcher and communicates with bee keepers and scientists worldwide. He showed me his list of worldwide emails. Excitedly I asked if we could share some of those stories. Permission would be required. I’m ready to jump into this bee project. Everything is in place through crown bees all that is needed is outreach and inviting people to participate in this BOB research project. I can easily do that.

One woman (the same one) says that I am usurping her bee project. She wants to get more information and more people. I want to take action, move. She says I “should” be working with someone else and other kinds of bees. I asked her not to “should” me. I immediately included a couple other people from Transition in our email dialogue. It helped as she was much more careful (this time) about what she said, how she said it. I have emphasized how much I value her and our friendship and that I hoped we could work together. She was invited to the meeting with Dave but didn’t show up. Dark and Light hand in hand moving as one.

I was so happy to see a few people respond with gratitude to my introspective email about the turning of cycles and rhythms. My “coming out” process continues. I am more and more on the outside who I am on the inside in this world.

I am creating my reality and find myself working at BarnPlace with a young woman who resonates with Native American culture, fairies and Yogananda.

Life is enchanting as job searches/unemployment ends. What a gift that was allowing time for my life to settle in place. No doubt it continues to settle.

Dear Transition Woodinville

Dear Transition Woodinville Members and Friends:

Transition Woodinville went through a very active phase from October to May. Right now we are very quiet and inactive. These are natural rhythms of Nature: ebb/flow, inhale/exhale, inward/outward, feminine/masculine. Nature has much to teach us about how to live in balance.

So, please in this quiet time don't feel that TW is not moving forward. Take this time to go within and listen to your own rhythms. It's in the quiet that I am inspired and then I am on fire to take action. It's like winter turning to summer in a circle of life expression.

It's the emotional dance of Mother Earth's Spring turning to Summer to Autumn and to Winter. It's a dance of Nature and all her forces. Something most humans take for granted.

In this thread of introspection I'd like to invite you all to our Summer Solstice event on June 21 at the Heritage Garden. Details will be out soon. Let's celebrate our Mother and the turning of one season into the next. And let's celebrate each other in this abundant valley and community. We have much to be thankful for as we turn to summer.

Heart and Soul,

Trish

War Behind Wars

There is a war behind all wars taking place on Planet Earth. That war is between human beings and Goddess, the Divine Feminine.

Winged ones hold the reigns and live behind the veil of consciousness.

Where there is Goddess there is heart centeredness through nurturing, peace and grace. Her opposite is taking away, confrontation and chaos. Goddess threads of opposing Light and Dark weave for the good of the whole.

Humans lift their consciousness to green heart letting go of lower chakra attachments.

Humans align with winged ones underground and overarching.

Humans shift karma of war to karma of peace.

Let natural forces unfurl in fury. Let the old pass away.

New governance arises on the horizon of Planet Earth.

Welcome loved ones. I see you. I acknowledge you in beating wings.

We are one heart, one brain, one body of Cosmic Grace.