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Full Moon Dreamboard: The Full Worm Moon

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Jamie’s explanation for this Full Moon Dreamboard is:

…this March moon is when the earth starts to soften and the burrowers of her soil find their way to the surface…What if we took our cue from spring and allowed ourselves to soften? What if we let what’s within us find its way to the surface? What tender dreams would be revealed?

Under this Full Worm Moon, open your awareness. Pay attention to the the dreams that are wiggling their way to the surface. What wishes are asking for your attention? What is beginning to emerge?

I had a sense of what this dreamboard would include even before I started selecting images: self-love, self-care, space, stillness, simplicity, middle path, power, and freedom. These are the tender dreams beginning to emerge, asking for my attention.

The owl here represents wisdom. Both the stack and the circle of stones represent balance, a middle way, the path. Three of the images include natural bodies of water. The picture of Haystack Rock, on the Oregon Coast, with the person and the dog is the dream of summer, the freedom of that place, the stillness and spaciousness, contentment. There are bodies, both moving and still, in states of meditative practice and joy, and many statements of embodiment: opening to healing, healing through movement, embodying change, embodying breakthroughs, embracing uncertainty, eliciting change from within. There is power, even in this gentleness. There is the truth, the whole truth. Mother Nature, health and well-being.

Wishcasting Wednesday

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image from Jamie's post

How do you wish to spend your time?

Practice: Yoga, meditation, writing, and dog. I read a really great quote in Women Food and God by Geneen Roth about practice:

Spiritual teachers from every tradition describe a profound stillness that is the unvarnished truth of one’s–everyone’s–true nature. But it needs to be broken down in bits by using words and practices because it’s too big to assimilate, especially when people are totally convinced of the damage at their core. The purpose of a spiritual path or religion [and practice] is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

Self-Care: Doing what it takes to BE healthy and content and well. Some of this is through my practices. It’s also rest, healthy eating, exercise, connection. Understanding my hungers, feeding and connecting with them.

Good (sometimes great) work: Doing work that is satisfying, gives me joy and energy, is creative, but that also serves others, helps them and is of benefit, eases suffering, is wise and kind.

Love: This is a practice and a profession–it’s everything. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength. Loving someone deeply gives you courage,” (Lao Tzu).

Connection: Being mindful and present, brave and open-hearted, awake and alive.

Relaxed: Peaceful, workable, at ease, free, joyful, happy, a sense of well-being and balance, healthy.

Fit and strong body: Healthy food, enough rest, yoga, meditation, training with Johnny, running with the dogs, hiking.

Deep connection with Eric.

Creative: Making art–quilting, drawing, painting, photography, web design, writing. Being “in the flow,” connected to my basic goodness, content.

Learning: Satisfying my curiosity, following my longing, studying and embodying wisdom and kindness. Teaching, mentoring, and healing. Manifesting knowledge and compassion.