Well it has been an eventful summer thus far. It's been a reversal of my normal pattern. I generally travel to do workshops and then come back home and apply them. This summer the training I've taken has been locally grown, and I have travelled to apply what I've learned. I can't tell you how much it means to be valued and appreciated by the people I've worked with this past season. I've been to the West to the sands of the sea, and here in Kentucky I've been down to the rolling hills in Bowling Green.
Fall looks as if I will be just as busy. Indeed I will be performing the marriage ceremony for a dear friend. I will be passing the munay-ki rites onto more people (thanks Vicki Jo!), teaching with Leslie about the faeries again, teaching a class on runes, and I will be heading to Columbus Ohio to teach a workshop and do private sessions. I've gotten to work with some lovely people just because I love to play in the energy of miracles and magic. It helps to not be stingy with your talents. Don't keep your gifts all bottled up to only bring out at special occasions, share them and you will be surprised how often people will wish to honor you by paying you for your time and efforts.
Here are a few links to my upcoming events
http://www.theabundancenetwork.info
http://meetup.com/withInsigts/calendar/14545699/
I will keep following the breadcrumbs down my personal medicine road. I hope to encounter you on the way in perfect grace in a gentle way.
Musings
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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
Saturday, July 24, 2010
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
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
Saturday, July 17, 2010
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
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
Friday, July 2, 2010
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
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
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Quickening fire
So summer has been here in a humid way. I try and get out as much as possible because the season does tend to fly by so rapidly. Lately in the evenings I have been noticing the fire flies being more active than I remember seeing them in years. I have also discovered that occasionally they aren't fire flies at all, but some of our faery cousins. It has become like a game to catch them in the act. If you want to play too look for the lights that are just a tad off in the shade...greener, bluer, or whiter than the other fire flies. Whether you catch a glimpse of a faery masquerading amongst the fire flies it is still a beautiful sight. So make sure you take time in the warm months to get out and experience the beauty in the greening of the world.
You may think I have just been sitting on my behind watching the pretty lights, but you would be wrong. Last Sunday I worked at the Healing Clinic held here in Louisville. I read for several people, and I got to hold space for healing one of the healers. I've created a new product which I am testing this month which will be posted up on my main site for sale in a few weeks. I call it the "curse eater"; basically it eats the negative stuff people hurl around at each other and farts out hearts and rainbows. I do need help describing it a bit more artfully, as I don't want to put the word fart on my business website. I've also been working in my studio in preparation for a kiln firing (about time), and I have been preparing for the summer workshop that Leslie and I will be cofacilitating. We are proud to offer once more our Communication with Faeries Devas and Nature Spirits Workshop. We've got our marching orders from the fair folk, and we've already got people signed up.
Next month we'll be hosting a dijeridu class which I am stoked about. I will finally get to practice with a teacher and perhaps get the circular breathing down. I may also in July start reading runes from a local shop once or twice a month. Come August I may be teaching about runes, and I have offers to go up to Columbus Ohio and teach a class on something in the fall. Leslie has been just as busy with her writing career. We've been working hard on making our dreams manifest in the world around us. This blog is part of that as is my youtube channel, Leslie's blog, and my business site. I was down earlier this week counting what was wrong, but I remembered today to count all the things that are right. Do yourself a favor and count all the things are working for your benefit. Be good to yourself and each other and come out and see us at one of our events. We love connecting with you.
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
p.s. Let us know if you read our blogs too....sometimes I wonder if anyone does. LOL
You may think I have just been sitting on my behind watching the pretty lights, but you would be wrong. Last Sunday I worked at the Healing Clinic held here in Louisville. I read for several people, and I got to hold space for healing one of the healers. I've created a new product which I am testing this month which will be posted up on my main site for sale in a few weeks. I call it the "curse eater"; basically it eats the negative stuff people hurl around at each other and farts out hearts and rainbows. I do need help describing it a bit more artfully, as I don't want to put the word fart on my business website. I've also been working in my studio in preparation for a kiln firing (about time), and I have been preparing for the summer workshop that Leslie and I will be cofacilitating. We are proud to offer once more our Communication with Faeries Devas and Nature Spirits Workshop. We've got our marching orders from the fair folk, and we've already got people signed up.
Next month we'll be hosting a dijeridu class which I am stoked about. I will finally get to practice with a teacher and perhaps get the circular breathing down. I may also in July start reading runes from a local shop once or twice a month. Come August I may be teaching about runes, and I have offers to go up to Columbus Ohio and teach a class on something in the fall. Leslie has been just as busy with her writing career. We've been working hard on making our dreams manifest in the world around us. This blog is part of that as is my youtube channel, Leslie's blog, and my business site. I was down earlier this week counting what was wrong, but I remembered today to count all the things that are right. Do yourself a favor and count all the things are working for your benefit. Be good to yourself and each other and come out and see us at one of our events. We love connecting with you.
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
p.s. Let us know if you read our blogs too....sometimes I wonder if anyone does. LOL
Monday, May 24, 2010
Wandering Days
Well I've returned from my whirlwind adventure on the west coast. I hope this is the first of many similar trips. I got to see a long time friend and client I haven't seen in six years. I also got to fly for the first time in eight years and it has changed quite a bit. The highlights of the trip were: getting to meet some of matrix energetics buddies from the messageboard, meeting a long time internet buddy who took me to see the ocean and then to a sushi lunch, and passing on the rites of the munay-ki to my friend who had me flown out there.
It was enlivening to bring the rites of the Inca and the Qero to new people and it was the first time I had done so. I had a feeling of such profound light and fire. I really got to wear the shaman hat for a few days and apply all things I have been studying for the past 2 years. My visit to the ocean actually included a miraculous self healing event. Dragging everything through the airport (needs luggage with wheels) had created a lot of muscle tension. When I went to the ocean I opened myself energetically to the Pacific and was immediately splashed. As I danced out of the surf I noticed that all the tension had left my neck and back.
The other beautiful point of the trip was just the room I had at the Westin hotel. It was beautiful, simple and elegant. Most importantly it was all mine. This was the first time I'd had a room to just myself. I savored every moment of my solitude. Since coming back I have been in a blur of adjusting to the time change, plunging back into studio work, and leading the shamanic weather circle this past Friday. The weather circle was small but intense and the ceremony we did to honor the weather was simple and also profoundly beautiful. Still after work yesterday I was not content to sit still but took to wandering for a walk in the moonlight. I followed the moon roads and the rabbits that flew down them into familiar and strange places. I drank down the moonlight and it fed my spirit in ways I cannot describe. The moon's ways are strange like her children the fey. It may be my fate to walk a moonroad all my own. I'll let you know where it leads.
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
It was enlivening to bring the rites of the Inca and the Qero to new people and it was the first time I had done so. I had a feeling of such profound light and fire. I really got to wear the shaman hat for a few days and apply all things I have been studying for the past 2 years. My visit to the ocean actually included a miraculous self healing event. Dragging everything through the airport (needs luggage with wheels) had created a lot of muscle tension. When I went to the ocean I opened myself energetically to the Pacific and was immediately splashed. As I danced out of the surf I noticed that all the tension had left my neck and back.
The other beautiful point of the trip was just the room I had at the Westin hotel. It was beautiful, simple and elegant. Most importantly it was all mine. This was the first time I'd had a room to just myself. I savored every moment of my solitude. Since coming back I have been in a blur of adjusting to the time change, plunging back into studio work, and leading the shamanic weather circle this past Friday. The weather circle was small but intense and the ceremony we did to honor the weather was simple and also profoundly beautiful. Still after work yesterday I was not content to sit still but took to wandering for a walk in the moonlight. I followed the moon roads and the rabbits that flew down them into familiar and strange places. I drank down the moonlight and it fed my spirit in ways I cannot describe. The moon's ways are strange like her children the fey. It may be my fate to walk a moonroad all my own. I'll let you know where it leads.
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
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