Molting

Greetings all,

I hope your summer has been fun so far.  I've mostly been getting things done the past few months.  I haven't done much seasonal frolicking.  My fun quotient is definitely down, but I feel like my growth quotient has been up.  I have certainly been receiving omens and signs.

The past year  I have been noticing the sounds of the seasons as they turn.  From the quiet of winter, to the songs of spring birds, and the drone and hum of insects of the summer sun.  I have been fascinated by cicadas for years.  I remember finding their empty exoskeletons as a child.  I was an adult before I saw them in their flying form.  I continue to find their empty husks on the sides of trees, but it wasn't until this summer that I saw one in between stages.  Still wearing that rigid exterior, but on the cusp of breaking free and spreading its wings.  I'd never actually seen what they look like in that husk, even though I hear them all around me in the summer.

People can be like that too.  We see them after they have broken free and soared, or before when they struggle crawling through their challenges.  It is rare that we get to see that point where the change happens, where they're still bound by limitations, but the breaks in their prison are starting to show.  I've seen it several times this summer.  I'm taking it as a sign, that though I still have a lot of struggles going on, I am close to that point where my wings burst forth and I can't be held down any longer.  I could be wrong, but it feels like I am close to achieving the kind of life I would like to live.

Of course that means right now is also a frustrating time.  It's the space where I see my dream in front of me, but I still can't seem to reach it.  Right now the temptation is to give up, start over and try something else.  If I do that though, I'll never get those wings.  That voice that lives in the darker regions of my psyche likes to say things like, "Who are you kidding, you'll never fly anyway."  At this point I don't know if that voice is lying or not, but it doesn't seem to be a kind voice.  This makes me suspicious.  Who is this voice serving?

Why am I telling you this?  Well times of transition are very powerful.  However when we don't complete the process of transformation we end up disempowered and empty.  Disillusionment is a real danger to our growth.  We have to focus and trust if we wish to emerge into a better form of living.

How about you?  Are you very close to realizing a milestone, but seem to be stuck in the last few lengths of the track?  Have you given up too soon?  Have you lost heart?  Is that little voice inside telling you it's pointless to keep trying?  Well consider this your wakeup call.  Listen to the cicadas, even the ones still in their husks.  They are there because thousands of generations before them persevered climbing the trunks of trees, lugging the heavy weight of their outer form until they could leave their burdens behind and spread their wings.  You are here because your ancestors made it, and you carry their strength within you.  Now is the time, trust, keep moving, and soon very soon, your time to fly will be upon you.

Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle

Into Being

Greetings all,

Well this summer is flying by.  I've been trying to absorb as much of the good mellow times as possible.  The warm days and gentle nights, have been quite soothing.  I've been settling into a new routine of teaching, chi kung training, and seeing clients.  The big news is that this week my first guided meditation album was released by Hemi Sync.  I still have a hard time believing how smoothly this project came together.

This past year I've been working on committing to a daily practice. I've settled on working with my energetic cords of relationship.  The idea for this album grew out of that, but also from working with clients for the past few years.  I noticed I was taking them through the same process session after session,  so I thought I would create a recording of the process and put it on my website.  Well inspiration hit and I thought, "Wait I know some of the folks at Hemi Sync, they would be able to make a much nicer recording than I could."  From that seed of an idea I created a written script which I sent off, and from that point on through revisions and contracts the manifesting of this product sprang forth.  This was my first time working collaboratively on a project like this.  I would do it again in a heartbeat.

I find it ironic though that I am doing a meditation on relationships.  That is definitely the area in my life where I have struggled the most.  There is an old belief that we end up teaching what we most need to learn.  I think most of us struggle with our relationships whether they be interpersonal or our relationship to our technology, society, or nature.  Anything I can do energetically to ease the experience is something I need to focus on.

Perhaps I should start with a bit of background on cords.  Basically in many different mystical or spiritual traditions there is the idea that cords of energy connect us to anything or anyone we relate to.  The cords are either strong and flexible, or they are weak and brittle.  I've seen some cords that look like they are diseased, or they look like vines crawling with stinging insects.  We send energy through our cords to each other, and there is a lot of subconscious telepathy that happens via those cords.  It's the phone call from a friend you had just been thinking about sort of event.  Another example is a mother's intuition, when she feels her kid is in danger or up to something.  Most of us have had some experiences like this we can point to in our own lives.

So why make a meditation about this?  Well like I said I have struggled with relationships, and many other people do too.  Once your basic needs are met, your single strongest measure of happiness is going to be the quality of your relationships.  I have been in complete joy or absolute misery depending on the company.  So seeing to the energies that underlie all those connections is crucial.

How about you?  How do you feel about your relationships?  Are they strong and vibrant, or do you feel like you need a gas mask to filter out the poison from some of them?  Do you neglect your connections, or are you neglected?  We are a least 50% responsible for our relationships and it is important that we tend to those connections.  Human beings are a social species, we do not do well in isolation.  So I wish you the best in life and in love.  If you want to purchase my album I will put the link below.

Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle

https://hemi-sync.com/product/cords-of-light/