Greetings all,
Late again Mooneagle is what some of you may be thinking. Well better late than not at all. Please bear with me though I've had an eventful week. So much crammed into one space in time I can hardly believe it. I'm wiped out today, but I have my commitment to you and so I am writing as best I can.
The week began with glazing my pots for the kiln. This continued for a few days. My sprayer seems to be broken. Once more I have hit a roadblock with firing. It is the process which turns the impermanent clay into long lasting stone (providing you don't drop it). This last phase of translation from idea to fully formed reality has always been a challenge. Chemicals and clay interact within the heat and fire forming the surfaces and colors that will seal the form into coherence. The fire changes the form and look of a glaze. The color of the glaze doesn't match the color in the mixing bucket. The red looking glaze turns yellow in the fire, the brown turns blue, and okay the green stays green but it is a different green than you see going on the pot.
I was in a frenzy to get this done before the weekend. I was on the road once more this time to Bardstown for the final weekend retreat of the shamanic 2 year program. This has been my journey through the fire. The heat of the spirits' kiln transformed the structure of my life. My relationships melted, fused, cracked. My concepts of myself and my fears (yes my dears I do have them still) shifted. It was sometimes smooth and other times a storm of emotions. So I have come through the fire and here I am transformed, more coherent, full of color.
As I unloaded the kiln this afternoon (I did that before I unpacked) I noticed that the lids on some of my jars were stuck. I wasn't worried. My first teacher showed us how to take something heavy and lightly tap the surface of a jar listening to the vibrations. They change tones right before the lid pops off. It looks like a magic trick when you do it and who is to say it isn't one. So I sat down and tapped my jars, lightly striking them, shifting the vibrations of the vessel until the lid freed itself. I got to thinking that is what these initiations did. They struck me lightly (it doesn't feel light but spirit knows how hard to hit to change the vibration) to get the vessel of my spirit "unstuck". The vibration must change before something is freed from within. Sometimes it is jarring to the self, okay most times it is jarring (haha pun jars, jarring). However it is the only way to become unstuck, to open. I've seen people in their impatience strike a vessel too hard or too soon, and it shatters. Spirit knows what we need to grow and free ourselves.
So my dear readers how about you? What is shaking you? Is it shaking you up or shaking you loose? I can tell you I had my heart broken during this time of initiations, and I can also tell you it has come together more whole than it was before. So before you label something as a setback, tragedy, or loss (and it may be all these things) remember to ask what is being freed in you? What has passed through the fire? What remains, and what is yet to become?
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
Musings
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Prosperity or Abundance?
Greetings all,
As I sit typing out this blog post a steady rain is falling outside the picture window in the house where I am staying this week. The leaves are in the middle of their turning here and the next cross quarter day is coming up in two weeks. I've been pondering the seasons and the nature of the cycles, how it affects my energies as well as humanity as a whole.
I've done a lot of work on abundance over the past few years. I've seen good results, but that ease still sometimes eludes me. I got to thinking about prosperity because we say a lot about manifesting abundance. What I learned when I did all the work to prepare for my abundance download was that abundance was inside of us already. It was written into our very genes and the genes of all biological organisms. Nature is abundant. The thing about nature is not all the fruits are ripening at the same time. It is the same with opportunities, not all chances are present at every moment. Sometimes it really is a "if you call now" moment (to borrow a phrase from infomercials).
So I started thinking about prosperity more. I may not have it right, but it is a theory I am working on. Abundance is present in the universe by default. Lack is something man made (at least that is what my guides tell me). I began theorizing that prosperity is how we manage the abundance of life. Think about it if you have a huge crop but don't harvest, it will rot in the fields. If you have weeks to complete a project but don't start till a few days before the deadline and fail to complete it, then it wasn't the lack of time it was how you managed it.
For myself it has been about how I manage my time and talents as well as where I put my efforts in letting people know what I do. As I have become more consistent and focused I have been rewarded with more. It's almost as if the Universe has a safety mechanism built in. It sees I am handling what I have already and then adds more to the mix. I have to take what I do seriously or no one else will (not too seriously of course because I wouldn't be the Mooneagle if I was too serious). Using the tools I have adeptly makes that abundance multiply and that is when I prosper. To simplify, abundance is the energy and prosperity is how I use it. If I manage to use it wisely then it feeds back on itself keeping the system running with excess energy.
Again I am not sure this is the "truth" if such a thing even exists, but it is an interesting idea to ponder. It is like the Temperance card in tarot. I often interpret that card as having all the ingredients you need to create a solution or overcome a challenge. The raw materials and opportunities exist around us. The first step is waking up to the fact of abundance the next step where so many of us struggle is learning to use what is in ourselves to channel that abundance.
So how can you apply this? Good question I am so glad you asked. Look around you. What are your resources? What are your talents? (Don't say you have none that is hogs wash). What knowledge do you possess? How can you apply what you have and know to change? What if you knew you had all the tools and materials you needed to build a new life? How would that change your approach? Do leave comments and feedback as this theory is still a work in progress.
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
As I sit typing out this blog post a steady rain is falling outside the picture window in the house where I am staying this week. The leaves are in the middle of their turning here and the next cross quarter day is coming up in two weeks. I've been pondering the seasons and the nature of the cycles, how it affects my energies as well as humanity as a whole.
I've done a lot of work on abundance over the past few years. I've seen good results, but that ease still sometimes eludes me. I got to thinking about prosperity because we say a lot about manifesting abundance. What I learned when I did all the work to prepare for my abundance download was that abundance was inside of us already. It was written into our very genes and the genes of all biological organisms. Nature is abundant. The thing about nature is not all the fruits are ripening at the same time. It is the same with opportunities, not all chances are present at every moment. Sometimes it really is a "if you call now" moment (to borrow a phrase from infomercials).
So I started thinking about prosperity more. I may not have it right, but it is a theory I am working on. Abundance is present in the universe by default. Lack is something man made (at least that is what my guides tell me). I began theorizing that prosperity is how we manage the abundance of life. Think about it if you have a huge crop but don't harvest, it will rot in the fields. If you have weeks to complete a project but don't start till a few days before the deadline and fail to complete it, then it wasn't the lack of time it was how you managed it.
For myself it has been about how I manage my time and talents as well as where I put my efforts in letting people know what I do. As I have become more consistent and focused I have been rewarded with more. It's almost as if the Universe has a safety mechanism built in. It sees I am handling what I have already and then adds more to the mix. I have to take what I do seriously or no one else will (not too seriously of course because I wouldn't be the Mooneagle if I was too serious). Using the tools I have adeptly makes that abundance multiply and that is when I prosper. To simplify, abundance is the energy and prosperity is how I use it. If I manage to use it wisely then it feeds back on itself keeping the system running with excess energy.
Again I am not sure this is the "truth" if such a thing even exists, but it is an interesting idea to ponder. It is like the Temperance card in tarot. I often interpret that card as having all the ingredients you need to create a solution or overcome a challenge. The raw materials and opportunities exist around us. The first step is waking up to the fact of abundance the next step where so many of us struggle is learning to use what is in ourselves to channel that abundance.
So how can you apply this? Good question I am so glad you asked. Look around you. What are your resources? What are your talents? (Don't say you have none that is hogs wash). What knowledge do you possess? How can you apply what you have and know to change? What if you knew you had all the tools and materials you needed to build a new life? How would that change your approach? Do leave comments and feedback as this theory is still a work in progress.
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
Saturday, October 12, 2013
On Delay
Delay on,
Hello everybody it seems this week has had the universe teaching me patience and trust. At least that was the lesson plan. I'm pretty sure I bombed the pop quiz. I got upset and went into fear and those dark places in my head. There are some pretty chancy neighborhoods found behind my eyes.
It started with my youtube channel finally approved to receive ad revenue (thank you loyal viewers). Within twelve hours of that I had 2 or more copyright notifications sent to me about some background music (white noise to drown out household sounds). After a few hours of sheer panic that I might lose my channel I ended up taking down a handful of videos (some proactively and now it turns out unnecessarily) that set me back about 14,000 views so now it will be a few months to be back where I was in the view ratings. I had clients delay sessions or cancel for rescheduling. (Guys if you haven't heard back from me yet I haven't forgotten I am on the road). Then of course there was yesterday's 3 hour trip to ULE which turned into a 6 hour slog with detour after detour.
I'd like to say through my delays I've kept a level head, breathed deeply, and trusted the universe's time table. I'd like to say that but I have been on an emotional roller coaster the past week. I was very snippy with people yesterday while trapped on the interstate. (It might have something to do with the fact that I needed to goto the bathroom and I also hadn't had any lunch). What was really highlighted for me was how poorly I reacted when things didn't go the way I wanted or had planned them. I mean I was such a little brat. Then I was annoyed at myself for acting that way which made it worse.
Looking back there are a few silver linings which I was hard pressed to realize in the heat of the moment. With my videos I now have the opportunity to record new ones on some of the old subject matter. I've grown a lot in the 4 years since I jumped on the youtube band wagon. So there will be new and improved videos about playing with time and entropy. Good news for you, but still kind of a bummer for the lost views for myself. The clients that needed a reschedule gave me extra time I needed to prepare for my trip and a bit of breathing space. My detours and delays on the road may have actually saved my life. I started an hour later than I intended and the road ahead had been closed due to a very serious accident. For all I know, if all had gone as I had planned I could have been a roadside casualty.
So what about you? How does this apply to you? Have you been experiencing delays or obstacles in your path? Have you moved with it or have you resisted? Have you just relaxed into trust in the moment allowing things to unfold? If you haven't been the most accepting of what is don't worry just notice and see what other options the universe is dangling in front of you.
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
Hello everybody it seems this week has had the universe teaching me patience and trust. At least that was the lesson plan. I'm pretty sure I bombed the pop quiz. I got upset and went into fear and those dark places in my head. There are some pretty chancy neighborhoods found behind my eyes.
It started with my youtube channel finally approved to receive ad revenue (thank you loyal viewers). Within twelve hours of that I had 2 or more copyright notifications sent to me about some background music (white noise to drown out household sounds). After a few hours of sheer panic that I might lose my channel I ended up taking down a handful of videos (some proactively and now it turns out unnecessarily) that set me back about 14,000 views so now it will be a few months to be back where I was in the view ratings. I had clients delay sessions or cancel for rescheduling. (Guys if you haven't heard back from me yet I haven't forgotten I am on the road). Then of course there was yesterday's 3 hour trip to ULE which turned into a 6 hour slog with detour after detour.
I'd like to say through my delays I've kept a level head, breathed deeply, and trusted the universe's time table. I'd like to say that but I have been on an emotional roller coaster the past week. I was very snippy with people yesterday while trapped on the interstate. (It might have something to do with the fact that I needed to goto the bathroom and I also hadn't had any lunch). What was really highlighted for me was how poorly I reacted when things didn't go the way I wanted or had planned them. I mean I was such a little brat. Then I was annoyed at myself for acting that way which made it worse.
Looking back there are a few silver linings which I was hard pressed to realize in the heat of the moment. With my videos I now have the opportunity to record new ones on some of the old subject matter. I've grown a lot in the 4 years since I jumped on the youtube band wagon. So there will be new and improved videos about playing with time and entropy. Good news for you, but still kind of a bummer for the lost views for myself. The clients that needed a reschedule gave me extra time I needed to prepare for my trip and a bit of breathing space. My detours and delays on the road may have actually saved my life. I started an hour later than I intended and the road ahead had been closed due to a very serious accident. For all I know, if all had gone as I had planned I could have been a roadside casualty.
So what about you? How does this apply to you? Have you been experiencing delays or obstacles in your path? Have you moved with it or have you resisted? Have you just relaxed into trust in the moment allowing things to unfold? If you haven't been the most accepting of what is don't worry just notice and see what other options the universe is dangling in front of you.
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Identity
Greetings all,
This week has been all about emotion it seems. I've been busy in the studio and planning for the month of October. I have two trips scheduled, some teaching, and in person session opportunities in Ohio. Every so many months I check in on some of the metaphysical message boards to see if there are any topic threads I find intriguing or if there is someone looking for some information I may have come across in my development. I found one post by a skeptic that really got me thinking. A lot of people tended to tell them that they were approaching consciousness technologies improperly (they meant well I am sure). I am pretty sure now that the original poster never saw my response which is unfortunate. I think I may have been one of the only people to suggest they get medical care from a licensed provider. Still in my response to their post that all this stuff was new age bull, I came to a personal realization that may help not only myself but all my clients to deepen their experience.
The person was dealing with severe depression and while I think psychiatric care is essential in such cases I also know how much perspective can affect treatment outcomes. I sensed that this person had their identity tangled up with their diagnosis. In such a case how could any treatment shift them out of their condition? How do you shift into "not you"? If you and your condition are entangled at such a deep level that you consider it part of your identity I don't see how you could become anything other than that condition. Before dealing with any condition it would be wise to determine to what degree it is used in defining someone's identity. This will vary of course depending on temperament, attitudes, social feedback, paradigm, and just how much they trust authority figures (such as health care providers in this instance) to dictate reality.
I began to see how many times I defined myself by a condition or limitation. Rather than experiencing a condition I become it. Now I am not suggesting we ignore serious physical or psychological conditions what I am suggesting is that we stop identifying ourselves by them. I have started working on my own self using energetic shifting techniques to first disentangle my identity from specific conditions or limitations. I've also started testing it out on a few close friends (oh you brave few beta testers). So far we have all experienced a more expanded feeling. Still identity is nothing if not a habit. I suspect it will take a sustained effort over a period of time to disengage our identity from our conditions.
How about you? Do you define yourself by a medical problem, relationship challenge, or psychological condition? What would happen if you defined your identity by your passions, your strengths, and your aspirations? Who would you be without your "issues"? Are any of them serving a less developed part of yourself? So if you are not your conditions, issues, or challenges who are you? Let me know when you find out.
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
This week has been all about emotion it seems. I've been busy in the studio and planning for the month of October. I have two trips scheduled, some teaching, and in person session opportunities in Ohio. Every so many months I check in on some of the metaphysical message boards to see if there are any topic threads I find intriguing or if there is someone looking for some information I may have come across in my development. I found one post by a skeptic that really got me thinking. A lot of people tended to tell them that they were approaching consciousness technologies improperly (they meant well I am sure). I am pretty sure now that the original poster never saw my response which is unfortunate. I think I may have been one of the only people to suggest they get medical care from a licensed provider. Still in my response to their post that all this stuff was new age bull, I came to a personal realization that may help not only myself but all my clients to deepen their experience.
The person was dealing with severe depression and while I think psychiatric care is essential in such cases I also know how much perspective can affect treatment outcomes. I sensed that this person had their identity tangled up with their diagnosis. In such a case how could any treatment shift them out of their condition? How do you shift into "not you"? If you and your condition are entangled at such a deep level that you consider it part of your identity I don't see how you could become anything other than that condition. Before dealing with any condition it would be wise to determine to what degree it is used in defining someone's identity. This will vary of course depending on temperament, attitudes, social feedback, paradigm, and just how much they trust authority figures (such as health care providers in this instance) to dictate reality.
I began to see how many times I defined myself by a condition or limitation. Rather than experiencing a condition I become it. Now I am not suggesting we ignore serious physical or psychological conditions what I am suggesting is that we stop identifying ourselves by them. I have started working on my own self using energetic shifting techniques to first disentangle my identity from specific conditions or limitations. I've also started testing it out on a few close friends (oh you brave few beta testers). So far we have all experienced a more expanded feeling. Still identity is nothing if not a habit. I suspect it will take a sustained effort over a period of time to disengage our identity from our conditions.
How about you? Do you define yourself by a medical problem, relationship challenge, or psychological condition? What would happen if you defined your identity by your passions, your strengths, and your aspirations? Who would you be without your "issues"? Are any of them serving a less developed part of yourself? So if you are not your conditions, issues, or challenges who are you? Let me know when you find out.
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
Friday, September 27, 2013
Certainty vs. Integrity
Greetings all,
The equinox has passed. The days grow shorter as we move into autumn. My drumming ceremony this past Sunday was wonderful. I seem to have in the past year or so established a pattern of drumming alone on the equinoxes and in groups on the solstices. I suppose that make sense in a way a solstice is the height of the light or the dark. It is good to share those moments. The equinoxes are about balance and ultimately no one else can balance us except ourselves. I assess at the balance points of the year and celebrate on the terminal points. That said the blessings that came out of the ceremony were palpable. It literally woke a recipient 6 time zones away.
Okay now that I am done blowing my own horn. (Or in this case beating my own drum.) It is time to get topical. One of the challenges of working in this field is conveying the value of my work to others. This goes for both the energy shifting and readings. So much of what I do rests on the principles of uncertainty. Become too certain or focused and you limit the field of possibilities. I've seen other psychics claim over a 90% accuracy rating. First off how in the world did they measure that? I can barely remember what I said in a typical session beyond some of the highlights (and sometimes not even that). Seriously what sort of records are you keeping on your clients? I've also known some readers to "exaggerate" just a wee bit. Generally I am trying not so much to be 100% accurate (as if that were possible) as to be helpful. The map is not the landscape. One of the best readings I ever gave was one that didn't come to pass because the client changed their path.
When it comes to my clearing and shifting work the uncertainty is the name of the game. I am usually dealing in multiple parallel universes, ancestral patterns, and energetic structures. Something will change I am just not exactly sure what that will be. So when people ask me will a session help me ____ my response is that it very well could. It could also address something far more pervasive in your pattern which may or may not affect what you came to see me about. It is generally as useful though and it is what needed to happen rather than what you were focused on. Still people want me to portray absolute confidence before moving into their field. I really couldn't say until I am in the space of the work what is going on. With clients who are in my year program I can't even tell where we'll be from session to session. I could have a session that is completely shamanic in nature or I could be drawing mostly on some of the work I learned from matrix energetics, Reiki, or my own personal modality (yes there is one in the works).
So what to do in a world dominated my marketing? Rather than portray a false sense of certainty I do my best to stay in integrity. It certainly isn't as flashy as most of the email campaigns and programs you see advertised on the web: "Thirty days to a whole new level of prosperity! Become your ideal body type after listening to these audio files for 8 weeks! Manifest your perfect mate!" So I do my best to be upfront and honest with people. I don't know what will happen in a session with me. Something will shift, something will be revealed, but what I am not sure. How could I be sure before you bring in your energies to the session? I often give clients homework so part of the session rests on their willingness to follow through. (I find it fair since my guides give me homework all the time).
So what about you? Do you put on a false face to give the people a show of what they want? Do you know when you are promising the moon? Are you okay with giving people what they need rather than what they say they want? Do you know the difference? Do you know what you need or even what you want? How high is your integrity? We are all many things to many people for we are all many things within ourselves. It is good to know how in alignment with our projections we are. Contemplate that and maybe examine the promises that are made to you by others. Which would you prefer certainty or integrity?
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
The equinox has passed. The days grow shorter as we move into autumn. My drumming ceremony this past Sunday was wonderful. I seem to have in the past year or so established a pattern of drumming alone on the equinoxes and in groups on the solstices. I suppose that make sense in a way a solstice is the height of the light or the dark. It is good to share those moments. The equinoxes are about balance and ultimately no one else can balance us except ourselves. I assess at the balance points of the year and celebrate on the terminal points. That said the blessings that came out of the ceremony were palpable. It literally woke a recipient 6 time zones away.
Okay now that I am done blowing my own horn. (Or in this case beating my own drum.) It is time to get topical. One of the challenges of working in this field is conveying the value of my work to others. This goes for both the energy shifting and readings. So much of what I do rests on the principles of uncertainty. Become too certain or focused and you limit the field of possibilities. I've seen other psychics claim over a 90% accuracy rating. First off how in the world did they measure that? I can barely remember what I said in a typical session beyond some of the highlights (and sometimes not even that). Seriously what sort of records are you keeping on your clients? I've also known some readers to "exaggerate" just a wee bit. Generally I am trying not so much to be 100% accurate (as if that were possible) as to be helpful. The map is not the landscape. One of the best readings I ever gave was one that didn't come to pass because the client changed their path.
When it comes to my clearing and shifting work the uncertainty is the name of the game. I am usually dealing in multiple parallel universes, ancestral patterns, and energetic structures. Something will change I am just not exactly sure what that will be. So when people ask me will a session help me ____ my response is that it very well could. It could also address something far more pervasive in your pattern which may or may not affect what you came to see me about. It is generally as useful though and it is what needed to happen rather than what you were focused on. Still people want me to portray absolute confidence before moving into their field. I really couldn't say until I am in the space of the work what is going on. With clients who are in my year program I can't even tell where we'll be from session to session. I could have a session that is completely shamanic in nature or I could be drawing mostly on some of the work I learned from matrix energetics, Reiki, or my own personal modality (yes there is one in the works).
So what to do in a world dominated my marketing? Rather than portray a false sense of certainty I do my best to stay in integrity. It certainly isn't as flashy as most of the email campaigns and programs you see advertised on the web: "Thirty days to a whole new level of prosperity! Become your ideal body type after listening to these audio files for 8 weeks! Manifest your perfect mate!" So I do my best to be upfront and honest with people. I don't know what will happen in a session with me. Something will shift, something will be revealed, but what I am not sure. How could I be sure before you bring in your energies to the session? I often give clients homework so part of the session rests on their willingness to follow through. (I find it fair since my guides give me homework all the time).
So what about you? Do you put on a false face to give the people a show of what they want? Do you know when you are promising the moon? Are you okay with giving people what they need rather than what they say they want? Do you know the difference? Do you know what you need or even what you want? How high is your integrity? We are all many things to many people for we are all many things within ourselves. It is good to know how in alignment with our projections we are. Contemplate that and maybe examine the promises that are made to you by others. Which would you prefer certainty or integrity?
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Momentum
Greetings all,
The summer flew by and the fall equinox is coming this weekend. I can hardly believe it. The rate of change in my life seems to be increasing. I'm very grateful that my social life has begun to pick up and simultaneously so has my business (coincidence I think not). This whole year has been full of surprises and expansions along with some heartache thrown in to jumpstart me in new directions.
One of the big things I have been focusing on has been consistency. Whether it was in keeping to a schedule, a practice, or intent. I have had a year of inspiration in my artwork. This I attribute to making the commitment to get together with my fellow artists and work together once a month. I have seen my energies shift and strengthen, and I attribute this to regular ceremony and energetic practices. My body has experienced more ease as I have become more consistent with both my tai chi and meditative chi kung practice.
I've heard inspiration is a fickle thing. However I've found that if I strike while the vision is strong with me I can add to the momentum. If I feel dried up on the inspiration front I can always work on something I sketched out earlier when the muse was flinging out ideas. Often times when I start working new ideas come to me, but I at least get to execute what I had envisioned and give it life. Skill comes with consistent practice. Inspiration follows those that follow through.
2013 has been the year of establishing good routines and structures for me. It may have something to do with Saturn moving through Scorpio (my moon sign). I have found that the more I stick with something the better my overall energy becomes. Several months ago I began a weekly prayer rattling ceremony to build energy and raise blessings. It really does help me to bring in sacred power and bless those around me. It helps me to continually sanctify the space in my office along with the smudging. I smudge every time I come into the office. All this builds up energy and pattern. So much so that last week when I forgot to rattle, the energy literally tapped me on the shoulder and cleared its throat. (So not to worry blessing recipients the ceremony was performed).
The last few weeks I have added a new energetic routine to strengthen and build my energy field in my heart. I do this everyday sometimes for just a few minutes before sleep, but it is making a difference. Some days I practice much longer, but the point is I practice everyday. Since I began that practice my business picked up, I've been more productive in my art work, and I just feel more coherent and satisfied.
So you may think well that's great Mr. Mooneagle but I don't have time for all that nonsense. I work a normal job (or if you're here in America more likely 2 or 3). The good news is that most things don't have to take up a lot of time. Five minutes here, ten minutes there practiced consistently over time will yield a much stronger result than sporadically practicing something an hour or so at a time. Using the in between times to practice something as simple as deep breathing with intent is enough to bring about a change in your awareness. The key is momentum, and you get that by sticking with something over the long haul. If you miss a day start again the next day. It really is about the long term.
How about you? Is there something you can do to change that is short and simple? Are there affirmations or contemplations you could stick to your mirror and take a moment with when you start and end your day? Do you have time on your commute, lunch break, or in your winding down time at night to spend five minutes in prayer or meditation? Do you have ten minutes to spare for some chi kung or yoga? Can you take a short walk? What if you just took a few minutes everyday to focus on something uplifting and beam gratitude out to the world? It doesn't have to be long. It doesn't have to be complicated. It just has to be something you do to anchor your intent to grow and change everyday. Try something out for a few weeks, don't get overly ambitious just set aside five to ten minutes a day. Turn off the computer (after you finish reading my blog of course). Put the phone on silent, turn off the television and relax. You'll be glad you did.
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
p.s. Leave a comment below to sound off on what practice you are taking up.
The summer flew by and the fall equinox is coming this weekend. I can hardly believe it. The rate of change in my life seems to be increasing. I'm very grateful that my social life has begun to pick up and simultaneously so has my business (coincidence I think not). This whole year has been full of surprises and expansions along with some heartache thrown in to jumpstart me in new directions.
One of the big things I have been focusing on has been consistency. Whether it was in keeping to a schedule, a practice, or intent. I have had a year of inspiration in my artwork. This I attribute to making the commitment to get together with my fellow artists and work together once a month. I have seen my energies shift and strengthen, and I attribute this to regular ceremony and energetic practices. My body has experienced more ease as I have become more consistent with both my tai chi and meditative chi kung practice.
I've heard inspiration is a fickle thing. However I've found that if I strike while the vision is strong with me I can add to the momentum. If I feel dried up on the inspiration front I can always work on something I sketched out earlier when the muse was flinging out ideas. Often times when I start working new ideas come to me, but I at least get to execute what I had envisioned and give it life. Skill comes with consistent practice. Inspiration follows those that follow through.
2013 has been the year of establishing good routines and structures for me. It may have something to do with Saturn moving through Scorpio (my moon sign). I have found that the more I stick with something the better my overall energy becomes. Several months ago I began a weekly prayer rattling ceremony to build energy and raise blessings. It really does help me to bring in sacred power and bless those around me. It helps me to continually sanctify the space in my office along with the smudging. I smudge every time I come into the office. All this builds up energy and pattern. So much so that last week when I forgot to rattle, the energy literally tapped me on the shoulder and cleared its throat. (So not to worry blessing recipients the ceremony was performed).
The last few weeks I have added a new energetic routine to strengthen and build my energy field in my heart. I do this everyday sometimes for just a few minutes before sleep, but it is making a difference. Some days I practice much longer, but the point is I practice everyday. Since I began that practice my business picked up, I've been more productive in my art work, and I just feel more coherent and satisfied.
So you may think well that's great Mr. Mooneagle but I don't have time for all that nonsense. I work a normal job (or if you're here in America more likely 2 or 3). The good news is that most things don't have to take up a lot of time. Five minutes here, ten minutes there practiced consistently over time will yield a much stronger result than sporadically practicing something an hour or so at a time. Using the in between times to practice something as simple as deep breathing with intent is enough to bring about a change in your awareness. The key is momentum, and you get that by sticking with something over the long haul. If you miss a day start again the next day. It really is about the long term.
How about you? Is there something you can do to change that is short and simple? Are there affirmations or contemplations you could stick to your mirror and take a moment with when you start and end your day? Do you have time on your commute, lunch break, or in your winding down time at night to spend five minutes in prayer or meditation? Do you have ten minutes to spare for some chi kung or yoga? Can you take a short walk? What if you just took a few minutes everyday to focus on something uplifting and beam gratitude out to the world? It doesn't have to be long. It doesn't have to be complicated. It just has to be something you do to anchor your intent to grow and change everyday. Try something out for a few weeks, don't get overly ambitious just set aside five to ten minutes a day. Turn off the computer (after you finish reading my blog of course). Put the phone on silent, turn off the television and relax. You'll be glad you did.
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
p.s. Leave a comment below to sound off on what practice you are taking up.
Friday, September 13, 2013
A Look in the Mirror
Greetings all,
I hope this week finds you well. This week I've noticed a lot of old habits creeping back in. I've been doing relatively well with keeping to a schedule until this past week. Although rather than berate myself perhaps it is simply a chance to look deeper into the mirror to see what is there.
A year ago I was attending the second meeting of the shamanic 2 year program I am enrolled in. We paired up with partners and each of us had to journey for the other to see what to do to get ready for the next session. I remember my partner was nervous before they told me my assignment because their guide had said I wouldn't like it. Then she told me what it was, and I said, "They're right I don't like it one bit." I still did the assignment which was to look at myself in the mirror for fifteen minutes right into my eyes. No distractions, no music, just breathe and gaze. Try it sometime, if you've never done it you may find it challenging to do for fifteen minutes.
Now I find myself finding reflections of myself everywhere. (A wee bit narcissistic, for all I know I could be the reflection). I was at a meditation this week hosted by a friend and we were opposites in dress. I wore a white shirt and black shorts, they wore a black shirt and white shorts. I've been seeing this white and black or yin and yang if you prefer everywhere lately. The world it seems is one great mirror and that holds promise and peril.
Duality is the chessboard on which the game of life seems to be played. People identify with one pole or the other. "I am this, not that." Some people identify by what they are against. You see this a lot at election time when people say they vote for the lesser of the 2 evils. They might not like their candidate, but at least it isn't candidate X. (Political affiliations have been removed to reduce trolling, remember kiddos don't feed the trolls). The world can seem that way, polarized and volatile. As children we are socialized with that very basic structure something is either right or wrong. Even in later life when we intellectually know there is more to a situation than the hero/villain lens we still use it. We're conditioned to use it by our media culture. It stops us from thinking too much.
A lot of change is stymied because of the duality mindset. One thing people in power don't want is for others to be thinking rationally about issues. If they do then those issues can't be used to divide and control them. When we can't see ourselves in others we conversely end up seeing more of ourselves projected out in the world, particularly the parts we don't like about ourselves. There is that peril I was talking about. The world will mirror back to us what we are again and again. If we don't accept it and address it those reflections can become sharper like the shards of a broken mirror.
Some of you will be thinking well that just lets people off the hook for their behavior. It doesn't really. I don't reward unsociable or cruel behavior. I also can't not see myself in that light. I have seen the face of evil, and it is my own. One train of thought that helps though is if you accept the idea of parallel universes. In some cosmological theories for every choice that is made the universe splits off into parallel universes exploring every option. So in some universes I am a psychotic killer who eats babies. (I knew I should have turned left at universe 15664). If you aren't sold on the idea of parallel universes what about reincarnation? If you think you never played the villain you haven't been a student of history. I played that role and being an overachiever I perfected it. I mean I was downright malevolent, I would have fit in with any Disney villain.
So what does it all mean? A lot of consciousness work focuses on coming into neutrality about things. From there a truly free choice can be made. The surface of the mirror is where the power is. It bridges the reflections. Where is the mirror in your world, your consciousness? Where does that reflection pop up for you? Who brings the old patterns to the surface to stare back at you? What about the promise I spoke of, well if everything is reflecting you back, then it puts you in charge. If you accept your reflections and work within yourself then what is reflected back also changes. An old magical theory states if you change yourself you change the world. So what will you see when you chant Mirror mirror on the wall? Will you choose promise or peril?
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
I hope this week finds you well. This week I've noticed a lot of old habits creeping back in. I've been doing relatively well with keeping to a schedule until this past week. Although rather than berate myself perhaps it is simply a chance to look deeper into the mirror to see what is there.
A year ago I was attending the second meeting of the shamanic 2 year program I am enrolled in. We paired up with partners and each of us had to journey for the other to see what to do to get ready for the next session. I remember my partner was nervous before they told me my assignment because their guide had said I wouldn't like it. Then she told me what it was, and I said, "They're right I don't like it one bit." I still did the assignment which was to look at myself in the mirror for fifteen minutes right into my eyes. No distractions, no music, just breathe and gaze. Try it sometime, if you've never done it you may find it challenging to do for fifteen minutes.
Now I find myself finding reflections of myself everywhere. (A wee bit narcissistic, for all I know I could be the reflection). I was at a meditation this week hosted by a friend and we were opposites in dress. I wore a white shirt and black shorts, they wore a black shirt and white shorts. I've been seeing this white and black or yin and yang if you prefer everywhere lately. The world it seems is one great mirror and that holds promise and peril.
Duality is the chessboard on which the game of life seems to be played. People identify with one pole or the other. "I am this, not that." Some people identify by what they are against. You see this a lot at election time when people say they vote for the lesser of the 2 evils. They might not like their candidate, but at least it isn't candidate X. (Political affiliations have been removed to reduce trolling, remember kiddos don't feed the trolls). The world can seem that way, polarized and volatile. As children we are socialized with that very basic structure something is either right or wrong. Even in later life when we intellectually know there is more to a situation than the hero/villain lens we still use it. We're conditioned to use it by our media culture. It stops us from thinking too much.
A lot of change is stymied because of the duality mindset. One thing people in power don't want is for others to be thinking rationally about issues. If they do then those issues can't be used to divide and control them. When we can't see ourselves in others we conversely end up seeing more of ourselves projected out in the world, particularly the parts we don't like about ourselves. There is that peril I was talking about. The world will mirror back to us what we are again and again. If we don't accept it and address it those reflections can become sharper like the shards of a broken mirror.
Some of you will be thinking well that just lets people off the hook for their behavior. It doesn't really. I don't reward unsociable or cruel behavior. I also can't not see myself in that light. I have seen the face of evil, and it is my own. One train of thought that helps though is if you accept the idea of parallel universes. In some cosmological theories for every choice that is made the universe splits off into parallel universes exploring every option. So in some universes I am a psychotic killer who eats babies. (I knew I should have turned left at universe 15664). If you aren't sold on the idea of parallel universes what about reincarnation? If you think you never played the villain you haven't been a student of history. I played that role and being an overachiever I perfected it. I mean I was downright malevolent, I would have fit in with any Disney villain.
So what does it all mean? A lot of consciousness work focuses on coming into neutrality about things. From there a truly free choice can be made. The surface of the mirror is where the power is. It bridges the reflections. Where is the mirror in your world, your consciousness? Where does that reflection pop up for you? Who brings the old patterns to the surface to stare back at you? What about the promise I spoke of, well if everything is reflecting you back, then it puts you in charge. If you accept your reflections and work within yourself then what is reflected back also changes. An old magical theory states if you change yourself you change the world. So what will you see when you chant Mirror mirror on the wall? Will you choose promise or peril?
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
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