Storm offering

A week ago tropical storm Bonnie was moving through the Gulf of Mexico so we at the retreat center took a journey to see our weather teachers and allies. We got to talk to the spirit of the storm and see if it would agree to change course or dissipate. Bonnie was quite willing to talk and agreed to move out of the Gulf going southeast. In the journey I saw her moving to become rain in Africa. Sadly I didn't follow through on checking the international weather. As with all dealings with weather something must be given and Bonnie wanted a mandala made of her storm. So I am posting it here.

Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle

The chi of food

Dear imaginary readers...I say this because I am not sure if anyone ever reads these posts. Still another message in a digital bottle is being put out to electronic sea of Internet consciousness. With all this virtual information and interconnected suspended thought I wanted to comment on something a bit more solid...food.

If any of you have been paying attention to the quality of food in most restaurants (not all but think chain restaurants) you will have noticed a decline in it. I don't mean the meat is spoiled and I am not naming any names (if there are imaginary readers there are also imaginary lawyers). What I mean is the glut of food that is not food. It looks like food, smells somewhat like food, it may have some taste similar to food, but it is not food. It is a mix of food products and chemical preservatives, colorants, and flavor enhancements and substitutes. It has calories (usually too many for the weight conscious), but lacks nutrients and many of its chemical properties have not been sufficiently researched as safe.

It is odd when you are made to feel that you are a food snob when what you want is something that is real. Something that wasn't prepared in a factory, doused with chemicals, frozen shipped across the country and then heated up in a steam tray or broiler and served like it was actually prepared in the kitchen. I hereby refuse to eat anything that isn't food from this point forward, as I am on day 3 of gastric upset from eating out on Thursday night.

It is true that you can raise the energy of what you eat by blessing it. It is true that there are ways to filter out the toxins energetically. It is true that you can redesign your energy so that anything that you consume only serves you. However once you do that usually there isn't much left to nourish you. Calorically speaking food like substances provide fuel, but they don't replenish nutrients and they don't foster a relationship with the land. When I bless real food made by myself or those who care for me I can feel the field of its chi quite strongly, and I know it will strengthen me. I suggest you try an experiment bless all the food you eat , and before you take the first bite try to sense with your hand how big the energy field of the food is. Do this with something you've prepared. Do this with something that's been grown in your (or a friend's) garden. Do this at restaurants. When you buy groceries and are choosing between 2 brands test the chi field of each item.

When we put something of substance in ourselves we heal ourselves and thus the world. Eating locally grown food and organic food helps us to become clearer in our energies and it helps support our community of farmers. It is the season of growth and vegetation so there are many good things to taste. Give yourself something real that is the product of someone's hands.

Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle

The Echo of the Dreamtime

Today was the very first didgeridoo workshop held here in Louisville. As many of you who have sat in circle with me know, I've had a didgeridoo for several years and I love to play it for gatherings. However, I've never really had much instruction and hadn't ever mastered circular breathing or animal calls through the didge. So together with Linda Roe, we coordinated to bring up didgeridoo expert Michael Bacon (he will deny being an expert but that is what I am calling him).

We had 2 full workshops starting this morning at 9. We broke for lunch after noon and then the second class began around 1:30. Many of us were quite out of breath after several hours of making quite ridiculous and indigestion like sounds on our didges. There were several times when not just myself, but most of the room broke out into laughter as our drones fell flat and turned into something sounding more like a bathroom noise. Okay I will type it...we made sounds like loud farts. LOL! I had considered just taking the intermediate workshop since I've had my didge for several years, but I am so glad that I took the beginner's workshop too. I have been apparently been droning in a way that is not quite correct. So next time (and yes there will be a next time) I'd encourage any didge enthusiasts to take both classes.

Apart from fart jokes which none of us voiced, but we were all thinking, Michael also demonstrated his healing modality which combined reiki with the spirit of the didgeridoo. Many of the participants felt the energy move up their spine and out the crown of their head. I felt it moving up, but it swirled in my heart and sort of radiated out from my face and circled the crown. It was a very visceral feeling of warmth and vibration combined with the awareness of the subtle energies moving within me. Personally it sparked several artistic ideas with me and I have a list of tasks to now bring new creations to life.

One of the more memorable moments was a question Linda asked Michael about the sound of the didgeridoo. If the drum is the heart beat of the mother earth what is the sound of the didgeridoo? Barbara Bloecher (also in attendance) always says that the sound of the didgeridoo is the sound of creation. However I had a flash of another way to describe the sound. I hear the didgeridoo as the echo of the dreamtime.

Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle

Faery long days

Well it has been a week since we held our workshop for communicating with Faeries Devas and Nature Spirits. This year we held a day long workshop. I got my own special instructions to channel Faery for the whole workshop. It was interesting to channel all day long and hold the energy of the Green Realm for the workshop. In many ways I think I benefited from the interaction as much as our participants did. My energies have been running in a renewed way. The weather this week has certainly helped in that regard though. We've been blessed with pleasant low humidity days that we didn't get many of this June. Practicing tai chi outside and taking walks in the sunlight as well as the moonlight have seemed to soften my energies.

Touching faery always seems to bring up the appreciation of the little things in life. From a the caress of the wind, to the spill of light upon the ground, to the green of the leaves in high summer. We are treading through the season of light and plenty now. All around us the natural world is suffuse in life and abundance. We need to partake of its light and warmth while we can. The pages of the seasons will turn before we know it, already the days shortening again. However beauty is to be found in every season. If there is one thing that the fair folk have taught me is that their is joy and worth in every single season of life. We often don't realize what we have in one period of our life until we have moved on to the next. The movement of seasons each year gives us the opportunity to appreciate where we are in the greater cycle of nature, and if we can harmonize with them perhaps we can learn do so with our own personal cycle. It is something to think of whether your are in the spring of childhood, the summer of youth, the fall of maturity, or the winter of age there is beauty and worth to be found. For now make use of the blessed season of summer light.

Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle