Water Is Life

Our Carbon Debt, Our Moral Duty....

Please check out Jan's Blog:

Water Is Life

Dirty Oil - A Documentary on The Alberta Tar Sands

Always remembering that Water Is Life....

Wishing for you a Sunday of Clarity, Peace and Love!

A'HO!

P.S.  If you watch this on You Tube, follow up with
the suggestions posted there, if you feel so inclined.
Knowledge is Power....

May the Water Flow (For the People of the Azawak)

In searching for something new to post about Water related
issues I came upon this video on You Tube...after reading
about this project I thought I'd share it. 


I've been walking for miles and miles

Along this dusty road beneath a blazing sky

Searching for sustenance

So our children will not die.



I've been waiting for years and years

in this desert for some kind of hope

Praying to the Gods above

That our people can have a fertile home.



May the water flow all over our land

May the children smile again

May the Gods above answer all our prayers

And may the world begin to care

There is so much we have to teach

But love is just outside our reach

There is so much we want to learn

But first this chapter has to turn.



Now children from a distant land

Have helped us dig beneath the sand

Water can now flow to us

And to our animals from the Well of Love.



With new friendships and new strength

Our women can work alongside our men

Start anew to use our tools

Build new roads, home and schools.



May the water flow all over our land

May the children smile again

May the Gods above answer all our prayers

And may the world begin to care

There is so much we have to teach

But love is just outside our reach

There is so much we want to learn

But first this chapter has to turn.



I had a dream that children of all races

Were dancing in the rain

And the deserts of the world

Were filled with flowers and with grain.



And I know that the wisdom of all the ancient ones will guide our way

Brothers and sisters hand in hand

to build a greener day.



May the water flow all over our land

May the children smile again

May the Gods above answer all our prayers

And may the world begin to care

There is so much we have to teach

But love is just outside our reach

There is so much we want to learn

But first this chapter has to turn.

~Words and music by Andrew Kutt~

For more info sign in to You Tube and
watch from there...they have more links
to their work as well.

There is also a blog here on Blogger you
can check out:

http://montessori-amman-imman-project.blogspot.com/

I applaud this Heart Endeavor Wholeheartedly!

A'HO!

Mitakuye Oyasin

On Water....

In an age when man has forgotten his
origins and is blind even to his most
essential needs for survival, water along
with other resources has become the
victim of his indifference.
  ~Rachel Carson~

Water is the only drink for a wise man.
  ~Henry David Thoreau~

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset
and the water caught on fire.
  ~Pamela Hansford Johnson~

All the water that will ever be is,
right now.
  ~National Geographic, October 1993

If there is magic on this planet, it is
contained in water.
  ~Loran Eisely, The Immense Journey,
    1957~

We forget that the water cycle and the
life cycle are one.
  ~Jacques Cousteau~

When you put your hand in a flowing
stream, you touch the last that has
gone before and the first of what is
still to come.
  ~Leonardo da Vinci~

To trace the history of a river or a
raindrop...is also to trace the history
of the soul, the history of the mind
descending and arising in the body.
In both, we constantly seek and
stumble upon divinity, which like
feeding the lake, and the spring
becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills,
falls, and feeds itself all over again.
  ~Gretel Ehrlich~
From Islands, The Universe, Home
1991

All things are connected, like the blood
that runs in your family...The water's
murmur is the voice of my father's father.
The rivers are our brothers.  They quench
our thirst.  The carry our canoes and feed
our children.  You must give to the rivers
of kindness you would give to any brother.
~Chief Seattle~

Here's wishing you all get to a body of
water this New Moon...

In Brilliant Blessing,
A'HO!!!

The Ancient Ones Are Calling...

I received this call for support from the indigenous people of New Zealand, please participate as you are able. The new moon and solar eclipse provide powerful energy for this work!


Many Blessings

Shalahnia

Grandmother Earth is bleeding to death What we can do now?

Turtle speaks: ** "Our Mother Earth is in urgent need of immediate love and support. Her core has been breached and she is bleeding. Unchecked sulphur, oil, and toxic gases in the Gulf of Mexico are giving way to widening fissures that threaten life as we know it, on all the lands and in all the waters we love. ~ It need not be so ~ The Ancient Ones are calling on humankind to go to the waters." *

For the sake of our dear mokopuna and generations of grandchildren to come, the time is critical. And so, Dear human kind.. All Our Relations.. Let us answer the call of the ancestors and join our hearts in intention to curtail the hemorrhage, address the underlying grief and wrong-thinking, and send love to our beloved Grandmother Earth.

THE TIME IS NOW: July 25 through 30, astrological likelihood for further breakdown of old structures such as we have seen is ripe. However, on July 12 (New Zealand time) the sun sextiles Mars, and Venus and Regulus are aligned. We experience a solar eclipse crossing through the Pacific and directly over the emotional, naval center of the earth (Rapanui / Easter Island). We exit the tunnel, which began at the lunar eclipse and Grand Cross on June 26. This will be the opportune window to avert further injury and to begin restoration of our beautiful Mother.

~ We Are Water ~ All things are alive and connected through water. Water is a conscious conduit and instantaneous transmitter of intention. Our intention is that we not go again the way of Atlantis, but to replenish and rejoin our Mother in truth, beauty and harmony. *

We call for prayer-gatherings over local waterways This Sunday July 11 at dawn and at dusk in preparation for the great shadow eclipse, and again gathering on Monday the 12th at the actual time of the eclipse: (7:35am NZ time.) Go to www.timeanddate.com/worldclock for your local time. Those nearby are invited to come to Waikirikiri River at White Cliffs Domain, out of Christchurch, New Zealand at 7:30am, and again at 6pm, both days.

Please share this timely intention worldwide via e-chains and websites. And individually.. beginning immediately, with every morning and evening star.. Let us send from our hearts, messages of deeply felt apology and love, through bright Venus to the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Let us re-imagine, with our hearts, her waters once again crystalline and shimmering with life and light. We need not try to understand how this will be accomplished, but envision it so, with great love. United in purpose, the will of the highest good shall become manifest. Let it be so.

In gratitude, and in service to our beloved mother Papatūānuku / Gaia Makere, Mareikura o Waitaha (Waitaha Grandmother), Juliette Peck, Loraine Web, Rua Pick, Michelle Croft, Dianne Cutler, Remy Kiehn-Lindsey, Barry Mathers
*Copyrite Rua Pick 2010 **
Ancient Waitaha Rock Art
www.waitaha.org.nz/grandmother
 
Shalahnia Kimberling

A Beautiful Sharing...

I wanted to share with all of you this
most beautiful Water Ceremony as it
was shared with me.  I asked for
permission to reshare it here and
Rev. Vajra Ma graciously gave that
permission, so I thank her profusely!

If you would like to use it you must ask
permission to do so, as in ceremony or
ritual all things are Sacred and Honored.

The beautiful poem shared by Persephone
Wolfshadow is very moving and touched
me to the core.

Thank You!

Water ceremony at the Southern Oregon Temple of the Goddess Sunday, June27, 2010, in solidarity with ceremony held in New Orleans, Minneapolis and around the world— “Apology to the Spirit of the Sea, for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill” (photo--Yoruba altar with Yemaya, at SOTG)


Eight congregants and presiding Priestess Vajra Ma did ceremony with fresh local spring water that had been gathered that morning, contained in a brilliant blue altar chalice. First, Priestess Vajra Ma sprinkled some of the water on a sensually curved dried seaweed she had recently found at the ocean: Water returned to its source. Then she took the seaweed to the Temple’s Yoruba Altar and offered it to Yemaya, Goddess of the Ocean. She held up the chalice into the center of the circle while Persephone Wolfshadow read her devotional poem of apology and adoration to the spring water and the Waters of the World:

[excerpts] "…Sweet water, coming from the deepest earth…sweet and energizing as you are to us, we must treat your mother the ocean far better than we do…I’m so sorry my dear love water…I have seen your beauty dear sister. I have felt your purity wash my soul of sadness . Your ocean surges and purges the hate of the world. You connect us to each other, all religions, water encompasses all. You nourish us in the womb and stay with us to death…we must protect you."

Vajra Ma then poured the water from the altar chalice into individual cups which each participant held to their heart, imbuing the water with gratitude and love, (knowing that water crystals respond as per Masuro Emoto's research and photographs).

We meditated on the countless times in our lives when we were blessed by water---drinking it, bathing in it, weeping and sweating it, cooking with it, seeing it in lakes, rivers, ocean and the sky, eating it in food, and in the many other ways water is part of our lives. We reflected on how we were mindful or unmindful of the blessing and interaction with water over the years. We sent gratitude and awareness to the times when we were not as mindful as we now know to be.

After imbuing the water in our cups with love and gratitude, we sent this same intention and vibration into the waters in our town, the pipes of the building we were in and the homes around us, into the streams and clouds and into the waters in the Rogue River that runs nearby. Into the water in our bodies and in all the human, animal and plant bodies in our region. Then we expanded this to the ocean and waters around the world into all countries, homes, creatures, plants and people, with special awareness of the waters and creatures which are poisoned from the oil-bleeding wound in the Gulf of Mexico.

Persephone read another devotional poem of praise and healing to the Mother Waters.[excerpts] “…O wondrous water dance with us, we will give you energy

to heal the wound we have created. We pour our magic at your sacred streams that course to the rivers which surge to the ocean. Our magick and intent will help nurse the ocean to health, without you life is impossible…”

We then handed the cup to the person next to us, acknowledging how our love and gratitude affects and flows to those around us. Then, one at a time, around the circle each person dipped their fingers into the water and anointed the forehead of the person to their left, pronouncing a blessing upon them, whatever words and feeling flowed from our heart---like water. And so nine blessings were spoken. Priestess Vajra Ma then brought the empty altar chalice to each person who poured their water back, refilling the chalice in offering to the Great Mother Water. What we offer is already and always Hers—Source--flowing from Her to us and back to Her. Water is one. (end of ritual)

WATER is the DIVINE MOTHER in action and She calling us to awaken. WATER is the MOTHER and MIRROR of the SOUL of HUMANITY and She is calling us to unite as one human family, to remember who we are. Along with my grief, I take heart in how all the degradation, disrespect, ignorance, greed and destruction humanity has perpetrated over the centuries is presently being reflected in WATER. Water is the final place, we can go no further, for SHE is LIFE. We must awaken or die. She is calling us to awaken. So be it!”
~ Rev. Vajra Ma ~

Pictures are of Yemaya the Ocean Mother,
and Rogue River.