A Time in Space

by Sarah Honu-Heart Gallant

I’m honored to be filling in for my friend Patti Lightflower. Her last article referencing the Japanese Art of Wabi Sabi, the mending of broken pottery with gold was such a powerful description and metaphor of a life progression, a beautiful philosophy of owning, as inherently valuable, all we experience, and a crossroad that I feel so many of us find ourselves on at this time. It’s a threshold of rebirth, claiming and integrating, embodying and expressing, the treasures gleaned upon the journey as Patti’s article so eloquently expressed with magical sprinkles of devotion and commitment. Imagine traveling the golden rivers of our own body temples, vessels that have been mended with self-compassion, love, and wisdom over time and lifetimes. This practical magic of authentic evolving wholeness reaches within and moves without as one breath, deeply peaceful, grounded, transcending space and time. On this page, I share a collage card titled Earthing. Creating these collage cards are a part of my own process of reaching within, moving without, and although you can’t see it in the image, the cards are all trimmed in gold . This one was made after a powerful integrative experience I had on a trip to Maui in 2014. The writing came spontaneously shortly after its creation, and feels to parallel what Patti shared last issue summed up in the last line of her poem “I am a Universe of I Am’s” Warm Greetings from Deep Space! It doesn’t really matter whether Inner or Outer - it’s really all ONE isn’t it? We are multidimensional Star beings just like you. We are in you, you are in us - our collective consciousness exists in every flower, rock, tree, water droplet and indeed in the very ground you walk upon on Gaia and in every heavenly being and body. We have long resided as image in a stack carefully and lovingly preserved for a special collage cardmaking moment, one that would be certain to make you smile. Yet our Essence is everywhere you look. We make ourselves more tangibly known to you at this time to say that we come in Peace... ...In DEEP PEACE from DEEP SPACE and with ONE VOICE that encourages us all to deepen our connection to each other and to all living things in whatever form that may take for each of us - for surely in doing this, beginning in small ways, all together we are co-creating a new collective form; a Star Ship whose capacities we’ve only just begun to imagine. Whilst we are imagining, let us not forget that we as individuals, and our ways of contributing and working, may be very different yet are equally valuable. We are world-bridgers of sorts, rainbow riders and funloving spirits who raise a hand in friendship and cooperative alliance and in a high-five appreciation of YOU.

We hear the Music of the Spheres and join the Universal Dance contributing our Steps and our Notes to Freedom’s Song. Standing Open, we allow our growing awareness of the Interconnectedness of all of Life to inform us and permeate each of our Hearts, and from the One Heart space we are committed to Spreading all the Love that we can.

Will you join us as we glide on Resonant Sparks and Rainbow Arcs, Singing in Praise of Mother Earth while poised at Heaven’s Door? Although we understand the gravity of these times, we also plan on having some serious fun along the way! – Sarah Honu-Heart Gallant

About the Author: Sarah is a weaver who delights in magically mixing multiple modalities. Her joy has been in discovering and sharing tangible proof of what she has always felt in her heart: all she has explored throughout life is connected (and connects us all) together. You can reach her by email sarahsnowowl@gmail.com and through her website http://loominosity.net, which is in the process of being updated, and more specifically about working with collage at Visioning with Heart (loominosity.net)

There are many traditions around the world celebrating each New Year by bringing in the best intentions for success all year through! Below are several examples of these special celebrations for ringing in the New Year!

Greece: A cake is baked to honor St. Basil, inside the cake a silver or gold coin is placed. A slice of cake is given to each family member, the one who has the coin will be blessed with luck during the coming year.

Netherlands: Many cultures believe the shape of a ring is good luck, for this reason, the Dutch often eat donuts to ensure good fortune for the coming year.

Scandinavia: Some popular food items are consumed for good luck, like herring, accompanied by carrots and cabbage for assurances of wealth in the coming year. In some areas of Finland, on New Years Eve, a bucket of snow is brought in and tin metal is melted on the stove for each family member. After it is melted for that person, they throw it quickly in the bucket of snow. Whatever the shape the metal forms, represents a symbol of what your future will be for the coming year.

Canada: The traditional polar bear swim takes place, people of all ages with bathing suits plunge into the icy water, which surrounds Vancouver, during the winter.

Ireland: One ancient Irish custom on New Year’s Eve was to take a large loaf of bread or large slice of Christmas cake and hammer it against the door or window. This was done to drive out any misfortune and, allow happiness to enter.

Portugal and Spain: The people of the Iberian Peninsula pick and eat twelve grapes from a bunch just as the clock strikes twelve on New Year’s Eve. This tradition is said to ensure twelve happy months in the coming year.

United States: New Year’s Eve in the United States is a major social event, party goers stay out until dawn. The traditional New Year ball is dropped every year in Times Square, New York city at the stroke of midnight.

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Brian Eastman, LIIFT Practitioner 513 541 1257 - brian.eastman@LIIFT.info

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