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Temple of the Rainbow Moon Newsletter

 

March 2008

 

Hello from my heart and welcome to the newsletter of The Temple of the Rainbow Moon. The ‘Temple of the Rainbow Moon’ is what the Goddess told me that I am creating here on Mother Earth. It isn’t an actual building nor is it a religious institution. This temple is a centre of spiritual growth, nurturing & support. Simply put, the ‘temple’ is US: our heartsouls, our true selves – Spirit experiencing life as a human. Each of you who feels the truth of this for themselves is a member of this sacred temple without structure …… we are all divine, living, vibrant parts of the Temple of the Rainbow Moon ~ all are equal, all are ONE

 ~ Lynn  Dream Dancer

 

I wrote the following article a few years ago, however its message seems timely for NOW ………..and I am guided to share it on this site ………

FOR~GIVING
♥ Isn’t it funny how we ‘think’ that we are going to do something in a certain way perhaps by a certain time, but the Universe has other plans for us on how and when that ‘thing’ is actually going to be accomplished? I thought I was actually going to have this newsletter out early in May … wrong … the computer I had been using started to ‘run amok’ and then crashed. When it came back from the computer repair shop it still wasn’t working properly - for me. What was actually going on was that I had to wait to get clarity on the word ‘forgive’ and how often it seemed to be popping up in all sorts of situations for myself and my friends. 

I thought I understood what ‘to forgive’ meant as per the dictionary definition which is ‘to grant free pardon for or remission of [an offence, debt etc] … to cease to feel resentment’ {The Concise Macquarie Dictionary, 1982}. However, what the Goddess wanted me/us to understand was that this is NOT what She means by this term ……. it is not what the Universe is asking us to do. The clarity She wanted to grant me was provided when two friends and I were sitting in the backyard sharing, channelling, healing and generally allowing ourselves to be open to hear what each other had to say, and to receive the messages that Spirit wanted us to hear. Suddenly, in response to what one of my friends had just said about her own healing journey, came the message loud and clear: written in HUGE capital letters before my eyes and heard clearly with my inner voice: that actually we are here ‘for Giving’, we don’t have to absolve, that is to pardon, anyone or anything since in the Creator’s eyes we are already perfect since we are aspects of Her/Him/Great Spirit. 

As was shown to me, Universally there is no right or wrong, no good or bad, nor positive or negative energy. There simply IS energy. It’s only what we ‘feed’ that energy, how we choose to perceive or respond to someone, something, a behaviour, emotion or whatever that gives it/them a particular value. We may then choose to deem that issue to be good or bad depending on whether or not we resonate with that person, place, thing, emotion or situation. It in part comes back to knowing that we are, each and every one of us, responsible for ourselves and how we behave always and in all ways. That means taking responsibility for all of oneself all of the time without blaming anyone else or anything for what we are manifesting in our lives.

Instead of being here to ‘forgive’ or absolve ourself or others, we are here ‘for Giving’. Giving what you may well ask? Well, for Giving love – unconditionally, for Giving peace, joy, gratitude, beauty, acceptance ~ whatever it is that we feel in our hearts that we can give in the moment be it to each other, the Earth Mother, ourselves and so on. We are here for Giving of ourselves. Wow how huge is that ……… and no big burden or guilt trip around sinners and sinning, bad or good energy or whatever, we are simply here for Giving: all of ourselves to Spirit: heart, mind, body and soul in the ways that feel right to us in our hearts.

Two of the ways in which I am learning that I can do my best for Giving are when I surrender and trust that the Goddess will always provide the means for me to do Her Will. For instance when the computer crashed, I was not only provided with a group of wonderful folk who wanted to make their own drums, and thus give me the opportunity to meet more special heart-centred folk and so expand the drum family network, additionally I was able to buy a computer at the perfect price for me. This meant that I could build my own website, get on and plan workshops and so on. I had really stalled on all of this because I got scared. Why? Because that would mean that I ‘had to get on with it’ and put myself ‘out there’. Really out there. That I would have to own this inflowing energy that comes from the Divine or Christed Feminine and start doing my part to facilitate the incoming of the Magdalene energies.

Like many folk I was and am more than willing to promote others. To act as a networker, mentor and a listening heart. But to do ‘my thing’ – whatever that is – well that was something else again. My denial of Divine Will manifested in my life as issues or events with unworthiness as their theme and I would do all manner of things to ‘forgive’ myself and/or others so that I would be more spiritually ‘pure’ and ‘aware’. Yes I bought into all that separation stuff and no doubt still have some work to do there. I have now come to accept that it’s okay to be human and have all these little foibles, actually it’s part of the plan as I now understand it. These days when I wonder how could I possibly hold or carry the Magdalene energies because of all these examples of my unworthiness, that I can be such a ‘b***h’, I feel sick, I’m not ready, I don’t have ‘x’ piece of paper/qualification etc etc I am gently reminded that I am here for Giving. For Giving of myself in service to Divine Will. I had been waiting for years for a ‘sign’ to get on with my ‘work’ when I suddenly discovered that it was staring me in the face all the time. I had written about it in the last newsletter even!

My ‘work’ is about being and accepting all of me NOW, for Giving all of me in service to the Divine which is present within every being including myself. And yours is about for Giving and being all of you NOW. How I ‘bring through’ the Magdalene is about being my natural womanself, my goddess-self in every now, not just when I believe or think that I am having a good day. Every day is a blessing after all.

Consequently, part of my understanding of for Giving has come down to recognising the role that perception plays. Perceptions of how I valued myself and others value themselves. Perceptions of how we ‘think’ things, people or places ‘should’ be. Perceptions of what we believe is good or bad, right or wrong, etc. Until I finally ‘clicked’ and realised how often it’s been our fear-based emotions that block our acceptance of All That Is, & subsequently hold us back because we have perceived them as being spiritually inferior or unworthy of someone on their spiritual path.

When we come to understand that we are here for Giving fully of ourselves to life in all its manifest beauty with its myriad gifts and opportunities to explore our Truths, we come to see that the Goddess manifests Herself in billions of ways. She shows us repeatedly that She knows exactly what She is doing, with whom, when and why. We just have to get out of the way and allow Her through. Each vessel She chooses to select to transmit Her messages/energy is ALREADY perfect because She created us so and we, conscious human Spirit forms, are manifestations of Her.

A part of the Goddess’ plan for me was to get me to sit still and get on and create my website ………. and so I have ……. please take a look and let me know what you feel, send me articles or quotes or your details so I can include information about your contact details and your work if that is what feels right for you ….. or refer the site to your family and friends, this is after all about facilitating the community of the sacred family that we are.

May the Goddess bless you all and fill your way with love, light, joy, peace and prosperity.

Remember ~ We are that diamond in the sky we seek.

 

Or as the Mayan say: "In Lak’ech Ala K’in" ~ ‘I am you and you are me. What I do to you I do to myself.’

 

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This month’s feature article:

Not a Quiet Mind by Prakash

The real Silence is not just an absence, or if it is, it is a very palpable absence; a very full absence, a perfect absence. Nothing is lacking in it. It is pure Vastness, pure Emptiness, pure Being. It is what has been called God. It is not a quiet mind. A quiet mind helps to be receptive to it, helps to awaken to it. But it is there always, whether there is thinking or not.

 

Also, it is not an object. It is not something you can observe. You simply are it. You know it by being it. This is the only way to express it. You are that very palpable absence. Not thinking allows you to experience that there is more to you than thoughts, far more to you than physicality. Thinking is just a very small part of the Consciousness that you are. When thinking is not, you look deeper, and Eternity is there. Infinite space is there, and this Space has the feeling of well-being. It is Love.

 

This well-being is attributed to the fact that you are no more. You feel as though you are not, and because you are not, you most fully are. It is a paradox.

 

The realization is: when thinking is not, I am not. When you realize this, when you awaken, nothing changes. Even while thinking, both are there, thinking and Silence, Aloneness and the crowd. It sounds contradictory, but it is the reality. It is the ultimate Reality.

 

True Silence is not dependent on whether thoughts are present or absent. It is omnipresent. It has nothing to do with your effort to bring it about. The effort may make you more attuned, more receptive, it may remove your ignorance, or it may be the block, but the Silence always is. Once you know it for what it is, that it is not an experience, not a quiet mind, but that It/You are beyond the mind, it never departs, it never moves. Everything proves to be changing but That. It is, always. It is there as the substratum, as Presence, as Awareness. It never moves. This has only been your perception, your delusion. What is eternal is unchanging, but you have to discover what that is to know it.

 

It is like a shadow that follows wherever you go. Only it is not the shadow; the ego is. It is the Reality, The One, and you are That. It is only a shallow observation to say that you become aware of it, or that you realize it. There is no it. You are the Awareness.

 

Excerpted from Thoughts to Stop Thinking, by Prakash  - formerly Kevin Edwards

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Important Beauty Tips

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone ...

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.

Never throw out anybody.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others."

- Sam Levenson

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Who Packs Your Parachute?
Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience!

One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came up and said, "You're Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!"

"How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb.

"I packed your parachute," the man replied. Plumb gasped in surprise and gratitude. The man pumped his hand and said, "I guess it worked!" Plumb assured him, "It sure did. If your chute hadn't worked, I wouldn't be here today."

Plumb couldn't sleep that night, thinking about that man. Plumb says, "I kept wondering what he had looked like in a Navy uniform: a white hat; a bib in the back; and bell-bottom trousers. I wonder how many times I might have seen him and not even said 'Good morning, how are you?' or anything because, you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just a sailor."

Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor had spent at a long wooden table in the bowels of the ship, carefully weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate of someone he didn't know. 

Now, Plumb asks his audience, "Who's packing your parachute?"

Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day. He also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down over enemy territory -- he needed his physical parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute, and his spiritual parachute. He called on all these supports before reaching safety.

Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important. We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason. As you go through this week, this month, this year, recognize people who pack your parachutes.

I am sending you this as my way of thanking you for your part in packing my parachute. And I hope you will send it on to those who have helped pack yours!

Sometimes, we wonder why friends keep forwarding jokes to us without writing a word. Maybe this could explain it: When you are very busy, but still want to keep in touch, guess what you do -- you forward jokes. And
to let you know that you are still remembered, you are still important, you are still loved, you are still cared for, guess what you get? A forwarded joke.

So my friend, next time when you get a joke, don't think that you've been sent just another forwarded joke, but that you've been thought of today and your friend on the other end of your computer wanted to send you a smile, just helping you pack your parachute........

Have a great day and stay in touch....

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May Love have Its way with you ~  Sao

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Global Initiatives and Events:

Atlanta Georgia & Uluru, Australia Medicine Wheel Ceremony 

May 17 & 18th, 2008

Stone Mountain, Atlanta Georgia & Uluru or Ayers Rock,

Alice Springs, Australia
 

Healing Mother Earth Ceremonies

We are calling out to all fellow visionaries and peacekeepers from every walk of life and every nation, to join us and BECOME Earth healers! The ancient prophecies of the Indigenous Nations reveal that this is the time to act, our planet is dying. The pollution of our air and water, the toxins in our soil, our diminishing natural resources, have all caused an imbalance on this planet that is rapidly spiraling out of control! You ask, what can I do to stop it? I am only one person. Please, consider the combined power of many.

Within us all lays the miracle of the rebirth of our planet! Imagine multiplying this miracle by the participation of millions…A simultaneous medicine wheel ceremony is being planned for Stone Mountain in Atlanta, GA, and Ayer’s Rock (Uluru, Kata Tjuta National Park) in Northern Territory, central Australia; May 17th and 18th, 2008. These two mountains are on opposite ends of Mother Earth; By uniting these mountains, of opposite polarity in prayer and spiritual energy, we will restore a balance that has been lost on our planet in these modern times. Very successful ceremonies have already been performed here in North America by Blue Thunder.

In 2004, Blue Thunder, conducted a series of Medicine Wheel Ceremonies to honor the Earth and all creation. The Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park, in Wyoming, and Big Bear Lake in California, became the hubs of these multicultural events. Blue Thunder envisioned that all of mankind would celebrate the blessings of the Earth together. These Medicine Wheel Ceremonies demonstrated how sacred mountains and waterways worked together to bring harmony to our Mother Earth. These ceremonies brought back the balance that restored the waters, rebalanced the super Yellowstone volcanic energy, supporting nature’s abundance within the land through love, peace and prayer.

Blue Thunder, Bennie E. LeBeau, an Elder of the Eastern Shoshone Nation, shares his cultural ceremonial way of life by healing Mother Earth’s sacred sites. What he represents is walking the path of sacredness that brings the Earth healing wisdom and knowledge, through indigenous teachings about the environment, for all nations to share and consider.

Home: (307) 857-6856 ~ Cell: (307) 851-6249

Email: bzahants@yahoo.com

www.earthwisdomfoundation.com ~ www.teton-rainbows.com

www.viisionslifeforecefoundation.com

Earth Wisdom Foundation’s Non-profit Number: EIN 74-3192626
 

Eagle & Condor Nations the Dance of Oneness Gathering 

June 18th to June 21st

West Yellowstone, Montana, Old Airport

Setting Camp June 15th to June 17^th

The tribes are coming to the Yellowstone. Many around the world feel that the prophecies of peace and the coming forth of the 5^th world are going to be fulfilled. The Bird Tribe (Angels) has told Joe Crane, www.atouchofangels.net  that this will, indeed, happen. They tell us that a new Eden-like garden will return to the Earth if we bring the world together. We will soon contact Elders within the Dali Lama’s organization as well as contact Elders from Africa.

We ask all peoples and all tribes who cannot travel to the Yellowstone to enter into their own dances of Oneness. We will send out the patterns of gathering given to us by the angels that people all around the world can use to join us in our Grand Formation at Yellowstone. This will connect people all around the world together along with the Bird Tribes, who will assist humanity in bring forth the first vibrations of Peace, spoken of in the prophecies of the First Nations since ancient times.

Grand Teton Medicine Wheel Ceremony - August 8th, 2008 

Near the Grand Teton National Park site will be announce after Permit has been signed at Moose, Wyoming.

The Indigenous Nations of the Americas are being called to the Yellowstone area from June 18th to the 21st, 2008. Along with this event will be the call for a great Gathering of Nations to unite in Oneness in the Grand Tetons of Wyoming on August 8, 2008 (known as the Great Time of Peace 8:8:8).   For this second ceremony, Blue Thunder will be asking for blessings of support from his Shoshone Nations and all other Nations that will be attending from the Black, White, Yellow and Red Nations.. It will be at this event that the Eagle and Condor Nations will be called to gather together, once again in oneness, to dance the Spirit Dance.  Calling out to their ancestors to join them as we all continue to heal the Environment with our sacred dances giving love to all of creation healing the Spirit of Creation in all things:  The spirit of the trees, rocks, animals, birds, fish, insects, micro organisms 

 and many more, all of creation has songs within the Indigenous Nations as we dance sing the songs. This alone will heal the Environments. This dance was once known as the Spirit Dance done in a circle healing the spirit of all the Plant Kingdoms, Animal Kingdom’s within the Elements of the Earth, Wind, Fire and Water. to complete the healing of the Grand Teton Medicine Wheel.

 The Gathering Video’s on:  www.youtube.com/dreamlodge1

There are two (2) videos I feel are something to check out, thanks….

BlueThunder aka Bennie E. LeBeau

Eastern Shoshone Nation, Wind River Indian Reservation

Fort Washakie, Wyoming

bzahants@yahoo.com

307 857-6856 home or cell 307 851-6249

Websites with information & Sacred Messages for Peace...

www.viisionslifeforcefoundation.com

www.earthwisdomfoundation.com

www.teton-rainbows.com

www.shrinesandsacredsites.com