Ringing Bells, Running Water

Life is getting more and more strange. At least in my world.

Is it 2012? Is it the planets? Is it solar activity, CMEs?[1] My numerology? Biorhythms? My imagination?

One day last week, I got home in the afternoon and the kids told me, “Mom, the doorbell is ringing on its own.” What? Sure enough, 5 minutes later the doorbell rang, and no one was there. I checked. Then there wasn’t another peep out of it. The thing about our doorbell is it’s pretty new, was installed only a couple of months ago. Also, it has about 6 or 8 different ditties it cycles through before you hear the same one again.

That evening the kids and I had different activities going on, so we all got to bed a little later than usual, around 11:00. Imagine my surprise when the doorbell rang at 1:00 a.m., scaring the bejesus out of me. And again, 5 minutes later. And again, 20 minutes later. I had checked from a window, there was no one there. Yet it kept ringing, with its different tones, every 5-20 minutes until 3:30 a.m. It was so surreal, so bizarre, and I was so stuck in that no-brain zone between sleep and awake, there was no way it occurred to me to try and figure out how the doorbell worked and how to “put a cork in it.” I occasionally dozed between rings, which was horrible, being thrust into waking again, so harshly, by this strange-sounding doorbell. When I didn’t doze, I lay there freaking out, wondering if I should call the police to cruise by, just in case … . Like I said, not thinking clearly.

I still haven’t figured out that lesson. Obviously, learn how to take the batteries out of the doorbell, which I later found out is what I could have done. But other than that? Release attachment to a good night's sleep, perhaps? That morning, I went to take a shower—in the main bathroom, not mine, as the hot water in my shower wouldn’t turn on all the way, for some reason. That had been going on for a couple days. So, I take my wonderful shower in the main bathroom of the house, and when I’m ready to get out, the cold water won’t turn off! Too much. I cranked on that handle as hard as I could; “Left is loose, right is tight,” after all, but to no avail. Unbelievable.

Well, when I finally got dressed and got the water turned off at the source, in the basement, and was on my way to a doctor appointment, I finally had time to ponder this ridiculous night… I guess technically my morning. Ringing bells, running water. Ringing bells, just to remind me that I’m not in Control? A reminder to disregard the meaningless in life, and focus on what counts? To not let distractions derail my Path, my Power and Purpose? And running water—an overabundance, of cold water, a flood, which we had already had enough of here in Vermont quite recently. A reminder to Go With The Flow, to let go of the oars and let the Stream take me …. Or, a reminder that the colder weather is coming, and it’s getting time to prepare for Fall, and its pal Winter. And also a reminder: to squeeze the last drops out of summer, to soak in the sun, to revel in the rivers and bathe in the brooks, to bask in the languid laziness of summer afternoons and give thanks for her Glory.

I am reminded—of long summer afternoons in the 1960s when summers seemed endless, and the grass was so comforting, and comfortable, as I lay upon it, a young child, gazing at the sky for hours, watching the clouds, and letting my brain just wander. Did my mother look out her kitchen window at me, think to herself, “Oh, there she is. OK,” and not worry? Or did she wonder just what the heck was I doing out there and think her firstborn was a nutter?

Ringing bells, running water.

Bells are our alarm clocks, our signals, our indicators that something else needs to happen now. Water gives us life, keeps the cycle of life going, water is a constant reminder of the consistency of the life force of the Universe around us.

Ringing bells, running water. A message brought to you by … Life.

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[1] Coronal Mass Ejections

The Devil Colony by James Rollins

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


James Rollins hooked me from the get-go with his book Amazonia. Lo these many years later, with his latest, The Devil Colony, he is still keeping me enthralled.

The Devil Colony is the latest installation of the Sigma Force series, and I was first on the list when the local library got it. I've actually now read it through twice. I love Rollins' writing because the action is fantastic; very descriptive, pulls you right in. Yet the character development stays strong throughout the series--you keep caring about the individuals whose adventures we're addicted to following. And yet the best part for me is how he weaves in real stuff--real technology, real history--to tell the tale. Who knew that elements of our United States Seal came from the Iroquois leader, Chief Canasatego, and others from Manasseh, one of the ten lost tribes of Israel? Food for thought, that.

Great book, great read, an irrisistible distraction from those things we need to do. So don't start it if you have work to do!



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Blue & Green

Summertime ... it's what we put up with mud season and months of frigid temps for, here in Vermont. It's summer beauty is breathtaking; around every corner lies another spectacular vista, with entrancing deep greens of the hills and meadows, and brilliant blues, captured in sky and water alike. I just can't get enough of it.



As a kid, I used to lie on the grassy lawn for hours and just watch the clouds. I remember thinking at the time that green and blue must be very special colors, for God to drape our summer world in them, taking them in with our senses from May to September. They must be healing us, I thought, because they are so dominant at this time, and so intense--demanding to be absorbed, in our face with unstoppable beauty and irrepressible blessing. It's hard for me to now acknowledge that there's not much of it left, this summer of 2011. I haven't climbed Mt. Mansfield yet, nor Camel's Hump, 2 spring goals I have quietly harbored. Where have the days, the weeks gone? There has been lots of time spent in appreciation, though, and time in the mountain rivers, Lake Champlain, Lake Dunmore, an old favorite.


Vermont summers are very giving, in my opinion. We are given warmth, and the joy the sun carries on its Light; we are given gorgeous flowers, their messages borne on fragrantly wafting breezes to delighted olfactory receptors; we are given the exhilaration of the aforementioned vistas and views, those hills and valleys, mountains and waterways, wrapped in summer's mantle of emerald and tourmaline greens, sapphire blues; we are given the bounty of the gardens, the freshness impossible to describe but gratefully received; and we are given respite--respite from the harsh demands of fall, prickling us to "get ready," to batten down the hatches before winter's bite; respite from winter's austerity, winter's starkness and barren chilling cold; respite from the interminable wait... waiting for the sun to turn warm once again. Yes, I'm still basking in summer's warmth and delicious glow.


Yet I can't deny the cooler nights, the approach of school starting up again, and September, and reddening leaves. I won't even try. 50 years of Vermont's changing seasons has prepared me. Prepared me to be grateful and receive and acknowledge all the blessings of all the seasons; prepared me to detach, let go and release them as they come and go; prepared me to be flexible and adaptable and to accept what is; prepared me to have Faith, know that while each season is different, it will come around again. There are still a few more days to really sink into summer's magic and revel in her beauty and blessings. Join me, won't you?

Nature's Lightshow

Last Thursday night I was driving through a part of Shelburne, away from the lights of Rt. 7, my son with me in the car at 10:30 at night. A flash in the northern sky caught my eye. I braked, riveted to the sky. Many miles to the north, lightning lit up the clouds. There were only occasional clear bolts visible, but constant illumination of the clouds between us and the lightning. I'd never seen so much lightning at once in my life. Multiple flashes, every second, here, now there, then on the other side of the northern sky. A constant lightshow, it was mesmerizing. I was captivated.

After 10 minutes of silent, delighted observation, a small, sleepy voice disturbed my vigil. "Mom? Can we go home now?"

It took all my willpower to turn away from the lights; the orange, yellow and pink of the clouds as the lightning continued within them, unabated. I marveled at the silence--not a sound to be heard from the storm so far away--while reveling in the perfect visibility of the visual evidence.

We wended our way home, through the trees and over the hills, losing sight of the magnificent display. But I kept it with me, stored in a file in my brain labeled "Outrageous Nature."

New Moon/Solar Eclipse = hard core processing ...

Yesterday I was walking on a little path at Shelburne Bay Park, beside the LaPlatte; the birds were singing but otherwise it was pretty quiet. There I was, minding my own business ... Until the snakes entered my awareness. On the way out, there were two of them, but they disappeared quickly into the tall grass. One was dark, the other green, I noticed.


On the way back as I neared the trailhead, there was a dark snake with a couple of lighter-colored lines down the side of him. He was just hanging out there on the side of the path, in plain view. He didn't move a muscle as I passed him. So obviously, Spirit wanted me to get the Serpent message. I mean, 3 snakes in one quick walk! There was no ambiguity here. Here is an excerpt, from this website: http://www.whats-your-sign.com/snake-symbolic-meaning.html

In the keen Celtic mind, snake symbolic meaning of transformation came from the shedding of its skin. Physical evidence of leaving its form behind (casting off the old self), and emerging a sleeker, newer version made the snake a powerful symbol of rebirth and renewal. As far as the occult (hidden) symbolic meaning in Celtic and other cultures, this can be connected to the sleuth-like ways of the snake.

Disappearing in colder months and summoned by the sun marks the snake’s connection to the shadow worlds with its successful ability to live within the dark realms for extended periods of time. Alternatively, the snake softly moves into the embrace of the sun, and so it encapsulates the ancient magician's creed of moving in perfect rhythm of natural forces.


In Eastern Indian myth the Sanskrit word for snake is naga and these are associated with the element of water . Picking up water’s symbolism of emotion, love and motion, nagas in this light are considered a feminine aspect and embody nurturing, benevolent, wise qualities. To wit, the practice of nagayuna in Eastern Indian alchemy seeks to achieve loving harmony between the physical and ethereal. Simply put, all of us striving to better ourselves by calmly easing into places of personal balance within the cosmic balance of the whole are practicing this ancient technique.


This is so interesting to me, because of how I’ve been feeling this week. A big issue has been plaguing my soul, and it's been really hard. Definitely shadow stuff. But, maybe that’s what this is telling me—that that is only the symptom, or the thing to draw my attention in. Perhaps the real deal is what the above is saying: achieve loving harmony between the physical and ethereal… calmly ease into places of personal balance within the cosmic balance of the whole. That’s what I should be focusing on. And that’s essentially what I did yesterday morning. I was headed over to my workspace to do some deep processing, and then I remembered the What’s Alive Inside circle. So I turned around and headed over there, getting there late. But I was greeted with open arms.


It was big. It was huge. We had a great morning. I got just what I needed. I loved being there. I got to really just face and be with what was inside me at that moment, which is what has been percolating all week. It was the perfect space to be with it, sit with it, and then transform it--just like the snake, shedding its skin. I was able to shed the pain and the sadness of it, let it go. Thank you, serpents, for the messages and the guidance.


The next piece happened after I was done working yesterday; it was around 5 or so, I was sitting there on the patio to just relax with nature, looking at the beautiful view, taking in the sounds of the birds, the soft breeze caressing my face… I shut my eyes to tune in for a moment when I heard something. I opened my eyes and there was a deer, bounding through the meadow not 30’ in front of me! I moved inadvertently when I first saw it, and it stopped on a dime, and froze. I froze too, and it didn’t see me! It stood there for about 5 seconds, looking around, then bounded off across the knee-high clover field right in front of me. Gorgeous. Wow. So beautiful. So let's check out Deer Medicine.


Just as the deer has an uncanny sense of where to find the green freshness earth provides, we can ask the deer within ourselves to seek out our inner treasures. In meditation or day dream, go on a spiritual hike with the deer. See yourself walking in the woods with the deer leading you into amazing depths within your soul. Each step you and the deer take will lead you deeper into your spiritual knowing, and to limitless treasure within.

The deer (particularly the doe, females) has the capacity for infinite generosity. Their heart rhythms pulse in soft waves of kindness. Match that graciousness by offering your trust to her. She will reward you by leading you to the most powerful spiritual medicine you can fathom. In China the deer is a symbol of happiness and good fortune. Indeed, its name in Chinese is a homonym for the word abundance.


From this, I receive the message to go within myself. Just like I practiced in the morning, this is telling me to remember the goodness within me, remember my Authentic Self, my Spirit. Connect and live it!


As if this weren't all enough, this morning I led my Thursday morning Goddess Gathering. We did an in-depth exploration of our Selves, via the Goddess Support battery. Wow, it was quite a journey for all of us. Ishtar is part of that blend, and Ishtar gave us each a message. (Ishtar is the warrior aspect of the goddess archetype--her keywords are Strength, Power and Passion). Her message to me was, "Stand right here with me! I am no bigger or stronger than you are. Step up! Be here with me, it's Who You Are!" So again, the message is to step into my Power; Be Who I Am. I definitely feel closer to that today ... One of my favorite affirmations I work with is "I am now in joyous alignment with my Highest Path, Power and Purpose, which directs every thought, word and deed throughout my day." Would that I could live up to that every day--but it's a great goal.


Happy New Moon/Solar Eclipse. My astrologer friend Eric says to take it easy the next few days. I recommend it--it behooves us all to give ourselves a break and really go within, do some processing at this time. It will pay off immediately--and we'll likely suffer the consequences if we don't! here's Eric's full forecast:
http://www.spiritofchange.org/daily-astrology-june-2011/daily-astrology-june-30-2011-thursday

A spring gathering of dowsers in the Green Mountains

Woke up with the birds--no, scratch that. I beat 'em by a long shot. 3:00 a.m. And just kept thinking about the wonderful connections and inspiration that happened at the Dowsers convention.


It was incredible! So many good people, both attendees, and speaker/vendors. I enjoyed hanging out with so many old friends, and turning on new ones to my incredible energy tools and what they do. It--the convention--was a transformative experience for many people. One new customer--a woman I know I'll keep in touch with--had one major and 2 mini-breakdowns in the first 3 days. Having experienced the death of her sister and mother to cancer, and her ex to suicide, all in the last 2+ years, there was a lot of pain that needed releasing. The third one happened in front of my booth. I had just applied some of my energy essences to her, and balanced her aura with a wanding technique, when another friend came up and showed us his new essential oil which he'd just purchased from another vendor. "It's called Transformation," he told us, and applied a drop to our 3rd eye chakras. Well, a couple minutes later this woman burst into tears and sobbed for 5 minutes on the shoulder of another wonderful customer-friend who happened by. Then she stopped and started laughing and smiling again. Transformation indeed!


It was so good to be able to have those conversations that I have wanted to have for a long time with friends I haven't seen in months, or longer. Catching up on, not only personal things, but comparing notes on the cosmic and global issues. Wonderful, inspired and inspiring conversations happened every time I turned around. The real fun part for me was turning people on to my essences and batteries. Especially the ones who are "out there" anyway. They sit down with my batteries, hold it to the heart chakra for a moment, and then go, "Oh! ... Oh, yes. Nice." and then they're quiet for a minute, while I watch the facial expressions go from bliss to amazement to joy and back again. I love it.


The really sensitive ones, John Butler, for instance, an amazing healer from Syracuse, just giggled the second he picked it up. Then he laughed. This is all with his eyes closed, he's just taking in the energy and having a ball with it. After trying the Ascension 2012 battery, when he finally could open his eyes, he said, haltingly, "This battery takes you to other dimensions." he paused, closed his eyes again. "You don't just bounce right back," he added. He bought it, right then and there, along with the Ascendant Man Battery. These are the two brand-new ones I made right before convention, and they were a big hit.


Wil Alaura, another great healer in the Syracuse area, enjoyed the batteries also. I ran him through the demonstration meditation, and he told me what he saw psychically, which was very cool. When I pointed out that it could be used two ways, one with the logo away from you, and one with it toward you, he said, "Well, there's a vortex in front of the logo, about 2 inches in front of it, it's right there, I see it." So, that was great; confirmation on what I already knew. The logo I created with MacDragon's help a couple years ago is the perfect symbol to represent my Work. Wil also gave me some great ideas about getting my essences out to practitioners, which I plan to follow up on. He bought the Anti-Stress and the Light Me Up batteries, two of my favorites.


I didn't attend many presentations at all, because I was at my booth selling and sharing and enjoying the people. One I did attend, however, was Darrell Brann's. I forget the title, but it was fantastic. I know that what I'm doing is leading edge, and Darrell's work is also way ahead of the curve. It's nice to meet others who are sailing these uncharted waters. It is a comfort knowing I'm not alone, even though it feels that way a lot. I highly recommend his information. Www.harmonicsofhealing.com.


The other really exciting thing about convention was being able to have Barbara Evans's Image Key cards there, hot off the press. I was one of the five people to receive the prototype deck, which I brought to my Thursday morning Goddess Gathering. We worked with it, loved it, and provided some feedback for Barbara. The final product turned out beautifully. They are gorgeous! It's another thing, though, that people have to "get." "These aren't just pictures," I tell them. "They're multidimensional. A meditation with these images will take you amazing places." Some people did get it, and the cards (a really great price! $22). Barbara is doing an 11-11-11 event in Michigan, and has asked me to come. That's something to look forward to! Check out her divinely-inspired work at http://crystalwingshealingart.com/.

The other really fun part was hanging out with my friend Lee, a crystal miner from Arkansas. He brings boxes full of amazing quartz and it's all dazzling. We share a booth, so I basked in their glow the whole time. His prices were low, quality was outrageous. Everyone was happy. OK, that's it for now. 6:11, time to get up and at 'em. Or, as my dad used to say, "Bounden duty time."


Make your day a good one! :-)

Morning musings...

I woke up this morning with the birds. That's what happens when you leave your windows open at night in my neighborhood. Those birds are rockin' early. I sat up and looked at the clock and it was 4:44. Hmmm, so it's going to be that kind of day, is it? Oh, Good!


I pulled up the laptop, which is running at 44% battery right now as I write, incidentally, and got back to the David Wilcock video I was watching yesterday while on the Chi Machine and doing yoga. This is a great one (as his usually are). It's his appearance at the L.A. conference of Project Camelot, the Awake & Aware conference (I think in '09). It's really good. David really doesn't repeat himself much from event to event. I've seen and heard quite a bit of him, both on videos and in person. I've never heard some of what I was listening to on this video. I love it when he gets really out there.


In this one he is talking about the ley lines in England, sacred sites all over the world and how they are built on points on the Earth energy grid. He also spoke about how our reality consists of SpaceTime and TimeSpace, and how we bounce back and forth constantly between them, the former being 3D Space, 1D Time, and the latter being 3D Time, 1D Space. It's great stuff! Then he gets into the stones themselves, the standing stones and the henges that you find in the UK along the ley lines. "The hyperdimensional energy is what makes the matter that is building the stones," he said. "The matter that makes these stones, the stone itself, the actual hard stuff, is built from hyperdimensional energy; energy from the Timefield is flowing into our SpaceTime. That's what, according to Dr. Dewey Larson, all matter is built from is this hyperdimensional exchange between 3 dimensional time, and three dimensional space. That's all it is. So of course you're going to get time anomalies. But it's also the energy that builds you, it builds your DNA, it builds your bodies, so when you get more of it flowing through you, you're going to get more health and vitality. Because it's the energy of your consciousness, because it IS consciousness."


I love a new explanation for something I have known in my bones for a long time, but trying to spell it out can be challenging. DW has a great way with words. Gregg Braden said in a video I saw yesterday that when we are happy and joyful and full of good energy, our hearts are beaming hugely--the energy extends for kilometers, he said. Just as David said in the quote above, if we get enough of the Life Source energy flowing through us, we are just better--stronger, smarter, healthier, happier. Abraham calls it connected to the Stream. I call it raising our frequency, aligning with our Higher Self. The point is, when we are vibrating that powerfully, we can move mountains. When we are that attuned to the energy that creates worlds, the Sourcefield (DW again), there are literally no limits. He talked also about time travel; how when you learn to go into Timespace, you can move either forward or backward. Depending on how you move, when you pop back into SpaceTime you can be either in the past or the future, if you like--if you jump in behind where you were when you left, you're in the past. If you come back ahead of where you were when you left, you're in the future. We just need to learn how to manipulate it consciously. Who's with me? Let's start practicing.


The bottom line is, we are living life in the fast lane right now, and I mean the cosmic, universal, it's-all-a-crap-shoot fast lane. We can hold our own, energetically, but we need to know how. There are voices of wisdom and knowledge out there who can show you the way ... find one who works for you, who makes sense to you, whose words resonate as truth in your heart... We aren't alone, though sometimes it may feel as if we are. Seek out those kindred spirits who can be your companion on the Path. I have many in my life, I'm blessed that way. Five of them came over yesterday, and we got ourselves in a really blissful and beautiful state with my energy essences, then we put pyramids on our heads and sent out amazing energy to heal the planet, with big crystals and wands in our hands, for good measure. Wow. The energy was astonishing under those pyramids.


If our heart energy extends for kilometers when we're feeling good, as Gregg Braden says, then how far does it go when amplified by large crystals and pyramids? I wonder what it looks like, energetically ... Does a spirit guide look down at the house and see all kinds of light and color streaming out of it for miles? Does it change when we switch the pyramid on our head from a pink one to a blue one? hmm ... interesting questions. I'm sure if you peeked in the window, we looked like a bunch of wingnuts, but we felt GREAT! I know we put out a lot of healing for Earth; for Japan, for the Mississippi flood victims, for the Gulf of Mexico, and all trouble spots on our planet. It felt good. We're going to do a lot more of it. So if you're taking a walk one day, and a wave of bliss washes over you, it just might be that blast of crystal energy coming from my group of friends, sitting here in Vermont with pyramids on our heads. Offered to you, with our love. Enjoy!