WINTER 2007 • Light Link # 10 • Santa Cruz • California

by Majio

Thoughts of the possibly impending and necessary Paradigm Shift is giving many of us serious consideration to structures that hold together our daily lives and even our civilization. Reflection on the arbitrary constructs that form our realities are further stimulated by the ending of the 5000 year old Mayan calendar cycle in a few years and the ongoing movement to return a lunar calendar. Celebration of this pivotal time of year, if nothing but the change of calendar always brings of questions as to the authenticity of the structure of the dates.

Even as a Buddhist I am engaged in Christian mythology, willing and even eager to celebrate Christ consciousness. And like many of us every year I feel caught in the commercial machinery and obvious manipulations of the calendar and dates by ruling and political entities.

The pre-Christian initiates beheld the Christ in the Sun-sphere aware of the earth and cosmic connection at this time of year. January 6th continued to be celebrated among the early Christians until the 4th century. With the change of emphasis to December 25th as the birth of Child-Jesus, much of the understanding of this sacred time and the cosmic influences on the earth involving the Christ energy was obscured.

It is gratifying however to find that such esoteric traditions as Theosophy and Anthroposophy verify that our midwinter holiday is a powerful season grounded in the cycles of earth and cosmic forces. The 13 Holy Nights and 12 Holy Days, between December 24 and January 6 is indeed the time of difference between the Solar and Lunar Calendar when the cosmic forces that are accessible. This window is a time of soul-renewal to sustain us with abundant life force to last through the year.
The 12 Holy Days reflect the 12 months of the New Year and are an opportunity to empower the soul for creative spiritual activity into the year ahead. Mystery schools believe that the soul-spirit forces are nearest to union with the earth from Christ Mass Eve to January 6th, Epiphany and each of the holy days correspond with a particular month of the year. December 25th relates to April, December 26th to May and through the months until January 6th relates to March. You can take note of weather, daily events, nighttime dreams which metaphorically inform you of the year to come. I have found this process a focus that assist inner reflection and frames the year if only poetically rom this time.

Lighting an additional candles each evening During the Holy Nights is a simple way to honor the time. If interested I have some roughly translated pages from German that have more information on the relationship of the Holy Days to the Zodiac as well to the rest of the year and other Christian symbols and holiday. Call 420-1349 for more info.

by Michele DeMoulin, Rev. RMT

Blessed are we to live in such an extraordinary time! The collective shift towards the light that we, and the very planet we live upon, are daily experiencing, is in essence, a celebration of the Heart. In learning to embody the Light, we must come to deeper truth in understanding, as well as experience, of the Heart.

The Heart – both individual and collective - is the bridge between the spiritual and physical realms. It is the voice of the Soul. It is the vehicle through which the Divine Presence facilitates transformation of our beings, our individual lives, and of all life.

Our Hearts are multifaceted organisms, layered with rich and potentially ever-deepening avenues of expression and embodiment. In order to more fully align with the Light, the Divine Ones are gradually and consistently increasing our frequencies. We may think of it as though we were stringed instruments. The Great Spirit is “plucking” our strings to heighten our vibration. This is forging within our Hearts, and correspondingly within our World Heart, the brilliant diamonds that are their essences. Following are some tools for strengthening the Heart and maximizing the gifts of this metamorphic process:

• Open to the beauty and sacredness of daily life. Seek it. Allow it to wash over you. Feel its
  presence within you. Feel grateful. Feel awestruck.
  
  
• Consciously develop personal integrity through increased attention to honesty, both with self and others.
  
  
• Develop capacity for heart-felt love through regularly expressing love, appreciation, gratitude and tenderness.
  
  
• Spend time on the Earth feeling peaceful.
  
  
• Give yourself permission and time for joy, play, creativity, curiosity, passion, and learning.
  
  
• Tune into your Heart, ask it questions and let it reveal itself to you. It is a muscle that, like any other, strengthens with use.
  

May the diamond of your Heart shine brightly throughout time!!

Michele DeMoulin (831) 457-7788 www.voiceofthesoul.net or www.micheledemoulin.com

with Missy Willwreker and Majio
FEBRUARY 1-3, 2008; Fri. 7-9 PM, Sat. 9-5:30PM, Sun. 10-3PM

How can you be a carrier of strength and change on this planet?
Join us on an exploration through Shamanic Journey and Transformational Painting to discover the power and wisdom within yourself. This weekend we:

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  Journey in the lower world to meet and connect with the involutionary energies of the animals, plants, rocks and elements to share their wisdom.
  
  
• Journey into the upper world to be enlightened by sound & light beings, angels, star beings and ancestors for our personal quest. 
  
  
• Bring the gifts of guidance received in these journeys through the middle world for spiritual healing of your physical, mental, emotional and psychic well-being. 

Step deeply into each of these journeys through painting, physically embodying the power of transformational healing.

A workshop for the Soul’s Pilgrimage, a collaborative weekend workshop with Majio, and with Marsha Hudson

February 8-10, March 22-24 & May10-12. Take individual components or together.

A three day workshop in a powerful combination of deep process painting and collaborative dream work with Majio, mixed media artist and facilitator of dream work and creative process, and Marsha Hudson, dream worker, writer, and teacher. In this workshop you will experience the exhilaration of discovering a soul making task through the illumination of dream work and painting, all in the supportive embrace of the community. This, and subsequent workshops, offers a pilgrimage into soul through encountering the creative interplay of our dreams and our creative, art making selves.
No experience in art or painting is required or recommended in this safe and freeing atmosphere of trust and playful expression. Like the images of dreams the paintings arise for healing, integration and guidance to empower participant and community.

This workshop is the first in a series of three workshops to bring the initiate through the three phases of the pilgrimage: February 8-10, Over the Threshold, March 22-24, On the Path, and May 10-12, The Arrival.

Fee: $260 for each weekend or early bird special two weeks prior, $225 and $25 materials fee which includes art materials and digital photos of paintings stages. All three weekend package deal for $600 before Jan. 25th plus $75 materials fee.

$100 Registration fee to hold your place through Palpal. More Info

About the Co-Directors of Anavami Center for Mastering the Art of Life

Michele DeMoulin, Reverend, Reiki Master Teacher is an Interfaith Minister, founded in the teachings of the ancient Essene Brethren. Ceremonies and Services, heartfelt and soulful are shaped to individual preferences. Michele offers Healing With Love, Reiki Instruction, Reiki I through Master Level and The program for the Development for Higher Love and Higher Life.www.voiceofthesoul.net

Majio’s study for over a decade in the cultural arts in Japan has deeply formed her approach to art and meaning making. She has a MA in Creation Spirituality from Naropa University & worked with Jeremy Taylor at the Marin Institute of Projective Dreamwork for several years. She shows her artwork internationally and leads creative process retreats several times a year Taos and El Rito, New Mexico.

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