Money (and What) Matters

[yezida]

Last weekend saw me in Canada teaching a group of deeply dedicated people. We were working on patterns of earth, of silence, and stability. We also explored, of course, the ways in which we destabilize ourselves, in which we speed up inside, in which we fall prey to worry, to living in the future or the past, to clinging to stories that may not

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Inner/Outer

[panshiva]

"Our personal work does not have to get in the way of our collective work around social justice, caring for the environment, or caring for each other. Our collective work does not have to preclude sitting with ourselves, centering, examining thought and emotion, and changing our own lives. The more we realize that the two are linked, the stronger and more supple we become as individuals and as the collective."

Ever here of or go to this:

http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC23/KleinPP.htm

The basic idea was to get meditators to get active and activist to get meditative. Simple concept...DoBeDoBeDo....

Re: Inner/Outer

[yezida]

Nice! thanks!

[alfrecht]

Very powerful stuff, and an excellent (and useful/productive) ritual!

Money and people's relationships to it is a truly bizarre thing. (Warning--story coming on!...I'll put it in smaller text so as not to take up too much room...)

Back in '08, when I did my book-launch, one of the poems I read from it was the one to the goddess Abundantia, and long before the reading occurred, I knew what had to happen when I read that poem--there needed to be a "shower of coins" accompanying it. Given that I was out of work at the time, I couldn't afford for the coins to be $1 coins, or even quarters; however, being that I had a roof over my head, food stamps, and the ability to do something like have a poetry reading, pennies were not going to do it either. I ended up getting a roll of nickels (and just getting them was something of an experience--it must have been the strangest request the woman at Safeway had that day, and possibly that month!), and then when the poem was read, I poured the coins into a bowl, blessed them with the poem, and

[loveandpower]

A posse of us here get together for The Big Money Ritual each year. We all bring as much cash as we can get our hands on, build a gorgeous altar, paint our toenails gold and play in the money for as long as we can. Singing, playing, passing, receiving, giving, rolling around in and laughing about money is powerful healing and transformation. It works!

How beautiful you were able to send that much needed help to Haiti.

Question of the Witch Current...

[adcougar]

All the magic workers I know have experienced a disruption in their sleep schedule. Only able to sleep in 3-4 hour periods. The sleep is restless, like we are actively doing magic. We wake with senses of fatigue, some mild form of pain (emotional for some, physical for others), and a need to ground, eat protein like during a major magic weekend intensive.

The common Thread:
1. Disruption in sleep
2. Active dream state - not sure to what end.
3. Fatigue and vague senses of pain/hurt (emotional or physical)

Are you and yours experiencing something similar?
Do you see what this may mean or what may be stirring?
Any input/insight would be greatly appreciated.

Much love.
Enjoy the Journey,
~Sphinx.