What is YOU?
A Full Moon Reflection
Light coming in from all directions
brushing against the container
clear and crystalline
strong and delicate
in your hands
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The light has colors
vibration
sound
it is singing
from the heavens
not as melodic and mellow
as you thought
it is a cacophony of vibrancy
communication across the abyss
of time and action
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Here
in the now
to carry you
to nudge you
with a mother’s heavy hand
towards your future
your truest expression
for the greatest good
of All
Tiny-ish Moon Bite AND Full Moon Feast:
To celebrate my birthday month and show appreciation for you, dear readers, I am going to make this article free in its entirety. Enjoy and share!
Happy Full Moon, May Day, and Beltane!!
This powerful moment is encapsulating a sacred threshold into the next arena of our growth towards liberated expression. That’s a mouthful and a powerful intention!
I have been obsessed lately with the music of Jacob Collier who has been skirting the edges of my vision for the past few years. What he does with live, improvised orchestration is heartbreakingly beautiful and awe inspiring in the same breath.
But his public journey all began over a decade ago when he was a wee lad with a series of remarkable youtube videos in which he plays as an orchestra of one, harmonizing with himself and playing a full band’s worth of instruments. Jacob has the amazing ability to find and give voice to invisible notes that others don’t know exist.
I have been asking myself why at this time has my attention turned in the direction of his work?
In fact, why am I writing about this in a Full Moon article?
Bare with me folks, I’ll come around to the point here, I promise!
One facet of the answer is that Jacob Collier is widely considered a genius and people are often enamored with folks who have unique abilities. Perhaps these mesmerizing talents opens us up to the possibility our own untapped potential.
The specific word people use for his brand of genius is “musical polymath”, the ability to bridge math and music, bringing us into contact with the very fabric of our existence. The way he conducts his voice, an entire orchestra, and even his audience to weave a living tapestry of musically vibrant threads is evocative of this moment.
When I checked in with the Full Moon about this cosmic moment, what she showed me was a container, slender and translucent. It was tapered and open at the top and bottom, but thickly bulbous in the middle.
In the center of the container, little pockets of darkness were rising, like orcs birthing from the inner Earth. As scary as this sounds, the Moon assured me that the darkness is contained and yet visible to be witnessed.
Then the sound began.
Light beings began to sing from all directions across the circle. Each sound had its own color and vibrancy, its own shape and style. As these shimmering threads of song brushed past the container they thickened the walls . This felt instantly calming and reassuring. The light infused the container with color and dissolved the rising darkness, resolving the chaos energy on contact.
The Moon showed me one more thing.
If we fix our attention on the darkness, we start to feel the energy of it reflected in our own body. We worry that we have become infected by the darkness, however, she showed me how it is only a reflex response.
The instruction was to be fearless in releasing the reflection of darkness,
no longer claiming it as ours to carry.
We then can command our attention on the sound and light incoming to help. As in the wise words of Fred Rogers:
“Find the helpers”
Back to Jacob Collier for a moment.
This help is coming from the unseen realms AND from us. We are each capable of becoming a thread in the song of love bombarding that which contains the rising darkness.
And rise it will, rise it must.
Because if we can see it, we can heal it.
And we need to heal the accumulation of wounding to move forward.
Each struggle, each challenge, every so-called failure has the capacity to become a medicine-making moment.
Compassion,
wisdom,
insight and
life-altering understanding
sprouts from
the visible decay
of our deepest pain,
if we choose to hold
these life bumps
in a generative light.
~Spirit
Remember all of this is a choice and the world is full of living examples of the alternative. We can struggle, suffer, fail and not get back up. We can decide the world is against us and we have no choice or power to change our circumstances.
In truth, we always have a powerful choice.
We get to choose where we place our attention and what story we tell about what we are experiencing.
It is through this level of engagement with life’s wildly unpredictable and often deeply uncomfortable challenges that we earn the ability to discover who we truly are, what we value, and how we are equipped to help others.
That is your song, your colorful thread, your healing emanation.
AND the World needs You right now in all your unique vibrancy!
This is your official invitation, no perfection need apply.
All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred.
No one of us stands higher or lower than any other.
Only justice can assure balance: only ecological balance can sustain freedom.
Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity.
~The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
Full Moon Feast:
Since our Tiny Moon Bite overflowed into the full feast this month, I would simply like to offer a quick exercise to bring these ideas into practice!
To grasp onto your particular thread of the tapestry, or sound in the orchestra, you need to deepen your understanding of yourself and your values.
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Take a moment in your journal to write about what you notice in your home that feels like it represents you. When you look around your space, what brings you joy?
This free write can be aided by a time limit for some, like setting a 1-3 minute timer. Others find time limits to be oppressive, so do what is right for you!
When you reflect on what you were drawn to in your personal space, get curious about what qualities and values they represent. For example, if photos of your travels caught your eye, perhaps you value experiencing other cultures first hand.
If you were resonating with the books on your bookshelf, notice the books that call to you the most. You might hold a value towards learning something particular or exploring a certain kind of storytelling.
I personally found myself staring at a collage I made during a community ceremony a couple years ago. I know this is showing me that I value making art as a form of self discovery and I receive extra joy from doing this in community with others.
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The second practice that pops in for this month is thinking about what you do / experience in your life either daily, monthly, seasonally, or annually, that brings you joy. How do your actions represent your values? Are you being nourished enough in this way? Can you commit to more experiences of joy in the coming months?
We are in a place of massive shift and a deluge of new energies flooding our bodies. It is important that we tend to ourselves, weeding out what doesn’t serve us , so that we can make room for what does. This is a threshold and as with all gateways, part of us and our past will be stripped away as we walk through.
I send you my ardent wish that you hold onto what is true to you, what is joyous in your expression, and let everything else fall to your feet and you walk through from “the time before” to “what comes next.”
With Love and Deep Appreciation,
RizAma
