A Newsletter created and sent during the Full Moons. Full Moons? Yes, many count not one, but 4 full moon phases in the Hawaiian Moon Calendar... It's all about Gratitude!
Lunar Eclipse, Full Moon, Amazing Grace
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"I think the worst thing you could do this week is be inflexible, with your actions, with your thinking – especially with how you choose to see things. Just let it be what it is. Description works better than judgement. For instance, instead of calling someone a horse’s ass, describe the traits and actions that make you think that. It makes no difference to the horse’s ass, but it makes YOU a richer character.
It also helps you get into the flow. If you’re flexible, any little clue, any push or pull can shift you into the exact place you need to be. When we act in this connected spirit, we can get somewhere magical. Maybe not quite yet, but we get in the wave that’s going there." - Satori writes about this week of Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius
Life is full and surprising. We're settling in, making adjustments, getting to know this beautiful land, our neighbors and the people who share this place with us. After two weeks we have spread ourselves into the space around the vardo and found we need to make changes to things we thought might work, but didn't; and found other amazing gifts to fill in the gaps.
And across the Pacific on the windward side of O'ahu, Carter Lanakila Kupuohi'apaihala Brown? He's growing big and bright like the seed of sunflower we sent to the family for Christmas. Amazing! Yay mo'opuna. Yay mo'opuna's dad and mom.
Here's the evidence of Pete's DIY months of trenching, negotiating, and hard work to get us power and water. The decorative doo-dahs are the Moki touches. The shiny Calendula are her own delightful selves filling that pot, voluntarily.
I took the photo above from the edge of the attached wall that gives us an outdoor/summer time kitchen shelter. The curtain that hangs in the clear sided wall is an old, old favorite piece of fabric that once covered all the windows in our cottage in Manoa Valley on O'ahu. This is the last of that Manoa time, a sweet memory and a simple kind of reminder of how time travels with you. It warms my heart to see the printed curtain when I wake in the morning, or walk around during the day. You know how that feels?
The Full Moon-Eclipse will take take tomorrow morning very early on the Pacific coast where we are. It's densely cloudy here, but I imagine the full moon won't be hard to feel. Elsa Panizzon calls this moon a time of generosity and grace.
We're feeling pretty darn happy about being here at "the pond." Back in March, I wrote about the theory of 'returning to the pond.' Theory has flowed into reality with a helpful dose of grace. We overflow with gratitude for life as it unfolds, and reveals how we can course correct some bad choices. The way forward is to do the 'thing' differently whenever it shows up wearing a different mask, scent, circumstance.
I'm especially grateful for the Hawaiian Life Ways Oli training that I'm doing. Just began my second month of Oli Honua II with Kekuhi Kealiikanaole. Digging deeper, and reviewing all the chants we learned last month. Whoa! Maleka's mom, Mapuana is in the class with me so that doubled the 'ike and fun for both of us. Yup, when you chant/oli the Universe the Universe chants back.
One last bit of overflowing to top off this post. Sam Lee, British song collector and delightfully vibrant Romani Traveller adoptee. I discovered Sam Lee thanks to generous Terri Windling. Click here to listen to more of Sam Lee.
This video is Sam Lee with Elizabeth Fraser singing the Moon Shines Bright
Big aloha and heart-felt appreciation to our family and friends near and far for the place you fill in our lives. It's a mystery this life is in the big and small of every being.
We live on a pond -- covered over by mossy patchwork, wild grass, Clover and Buttercups during the spring and summer -- of slowly moving freshwater less than two feet below. The forest that edges this pond "Ke Kuapa 'o Maxwelton Creek" is home to beautiful old Cedar, Hemlock, Fir and a wet canopied floor with pockets of bogs black and primordial to maintain the natural cycle of life and death. These wetlands are a perfect place for insects, especially mosquito. One of the beings who have hatched and shown themselves in growing numbers are Dragonflies. Last night we watched a Dragonfly much like this one perch, fly and return to the tip of the bamboo pole that holds our fabric door in place. " Dragonflies, which eat insects as adults, are a great control on the mosquito population. A single dragonfly can eat 30 to hundreds of mosquitoes per day." - "14 Fun Facts about Dragonflies" There's a connection I see between the arrival of Dragonflies and m
"The journey was not easy. Very few journeys are, Sophie thought, and they are made even more difficult when you are planning to skip a country illegally in broad daylight. "'Pack light," said Charles. "If we are seen leaving, we must look like we're going to the dentist." "The dentist/ We never go to the dentist." "To a concert, then. One bag and nothing else." - Chapter 6 of The Rooftoppers , by Katherine Rundell If you are new to my writing, and the many blogs I've created, welcome first of all and I suppose it is only fair for you to know 'the journey' began decades ago when I began believing in what the characters Sophie and Charles call 'the possible.' Let the characters speak for themselves; I quote a bit more from The Rooftoppers , by Katherine Rundnell: " Almost impossible means still possible." Sophie tried to stand up straight and sound adult; people believed you more easily if you
This newsletter, Na'u ka hau'oli , is a container of overflowing experiences. Gathered here and shared during the fullest illuminations of our moon, this full moon the gift is a fishpond of abundance surrounded and encircled by the ingenuity and creativity of the best forms of life as I experience it. Joyful, surprised and amazed at the restorative nature of a loving and caring Mother, I fill this monthly bundle with words, dreams, messages and clues to imagine the world I can thrive in. The worlds leak The theme of over-flowing, abundance, and gratitude are the foundation or the wrapping for this newsletter. This month, when the Spring Equinox, Ka Piko o Wakea has come to recommit to the reciprocal and restorative nature of being ... AS IN A FISH POND abundant with food ... I begin with this quote and link to thoughts and prayers from Clarissa Pinkola Estes. The quote below and the link to La Contadora is such a loving message about 'leaks.' "I think th
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