During these past months I have been experiencing huge waves of grief, followed by new levels of awareness.

I am becoming more conscious of  in every way how much my parents love or lack of it created who I am today…

The universe abhors a void so every time something is removed or deemed ineffective or unworthy, something else of a higher frequency appears to replace it…

I had a vision the other night… it was 3am on my roof grid in the Balian Palace…
A vision of the universal polarity, between male and female…
A wild visual experience of expansion, contraction, enmeshment and liberation.

Vivid colors accompanied the images as I watched what seemed to be The Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine struggle through the erotic, outrageous dance of relationship… the journey to the bliss of integration…

I had a revelation of forgiveness.

How to free myself from the grinding process of humanization, forced upon me by my parents obvious (and some not so obvious) dysfunctions… Since I am not of this earth originally, I find the process of humanization daunting!

The integration process… a mystery…

Then I had a clear awakening.
It does not need to be a process of intellectual analysis… it can be a transpersonal experience beyond mind…
How to achieve this?

Ceremony and ritual…

Do it the way it has always been done… It’s worked for centuries…
Experience the marriage of the dark and the light, the male and the female…

Imbue the Ogoh – Ogoh with all the dysfunctional patterns of your parents…
Of yourself…
See them married and integrating in the ever Divine Ceremonial Dance of life death and rebirth…

Load them up with all the pain, frustration, rage, grief, disappointment, and resentment you can find inside you, then set the whole thing ablaze… on the river beach in the dark of night, at the perfect time for liberation!

This year in March leading up to the Equinox…
We are laying the groundwork for a new experience on Earth!
A new form of relationship that will clear the way for each of us to experience true love and devotion from a worthy partner….

If that is your ambition or your quest, I highly recommend this incredible event….

Nyepi 2010

Bali… a land of deep healing and infinite wisdom, ancient ceremonies support the evolution of modern mystics… Come and experience this for yourself…
You will not be disappointed!

Shankari the Alchemist is a master magician, trained in many traditions, she has worked with the priests of Bali for 22 years.

She has a deep understanding of the elemental powers and how to harness them in service to the healing and ‘enlightening’ of your Being.

Dance laugh and sing… long into the velvet night

Experience the integration of your child-self with your adult-self…

Be present for the marriage of ‘the dark and the light’
The integration of the positive and negative, the past and the future….

Within yourself and the greater cosmos…. Experience …Magic in action…

There is the extraordinary opportunity here… for 22 individuals… to learn and practice powerful magic for transformation…from a master teacher and practitioner of the arts.

Individuals who are willing to step forward and explore the mysterious terrain of personal alchemy….’The Alchemy of Enlightenment’ with Shankari, your humble servant in the dance….

All profit from this event will be used in the creation of the Sacred Dance Mystery School and Divine Mother Soup Kitchen, Big Island Hawaii…. Ah hui ho!

I have been in Bali for the last two months… it’s wonderful to be in such a nurturing environment….

It soothes the soul and reconnects the human spirit to the natural world.

I feel so blessed to be here and to feel the healing power of the earth… here in this spot, by the river, looking down to the sea.

When you arrive in Bali as a stranger you will be surprised how warm, happy and welcoming the people are…

They are genuinely loving and inclusive… how can this be so…. after centuries of slavery and mistreatment, by their own Maharajah’s, the Dutch plantation owners, the Japanese invaders and now the abusive Multi National Corporations?

I believe it’s because the Balinese have a secret.

As a culture (not Indonesia) the Balinese are truly the last Magicians on earth working in the old ways….

This is why we understand each other…. this is why it is such a healing environment for me…

Do you remember the Bali Bomb Attack?

One year, one month and one day after 9/11…. Manufactured by the same force as 9/11 for the same purpose…. to get the troops to Iraq… to protect the oil owned by some very greedy irresponsible individuals called corporations who have the power through control of the media to command governments…

After that bomb which killed 220 people and engaged 88 countries in a huge international interconnected healing process….

The Balinese Priests found in their ancient records a prophesy, about  just such a catastrophic event and a clear list of instructions for the priests on how to ‘space clear’ and ‘restart and heal the heart’ of the island!

It was transcribed six hundred years earlier, from a vision by a priestess while praying in the Temple high up on Batu Karo, the nearest volcanic mountain to the retreat center.

Yes that’s right! Bali is truly a land of organic magic.

The priests of the old land based religion found the instructions for the ceremonies to be performed to restart the heart of the island…

Everyone joined in….. for months large groups of men clad in black shirts and a black and white checked sarongs (the black and white checked sarongs representing the integration of the dark and the light,)  walked the back streets of villages with big wooden bells on their chests, holding them with both hands, in unison they would shake the bell and make the sound of an enormous heart beat that traveled out over the land through the villages, the rice fields, the coconut plantations and down through the rivers onto the beaches….

The sound seemed to reactivate all parts of the island….

It was a truly thrilling experience, to be in the midst of such single minded devotion to the energetic health of mother earth, ‘Dewi Sri’ in Balinese.

As an active alchemist and ritual magician I was fascinated by the highly organized ceremonies prepared and carried out in a rolling fashion across the island… by a cultural system dedicated to the energetic health of their land and the inner health and harmony of their people.  Such love and devotion with no promotion or advertising or resistance was amazing to watch…..

How do the people of Bali stay so calm and so clearly happy despite being enslaved and abused in all manner of ways for centuries?

There are perhaps a variety of answers to this question….

One of their secrets,  is they have developed annual space clearing rituals as a context for whole communities to express their creativity coupled with rage and fear appropriately… rather than in petty ways, against each other and more importantly they wisely created ‘time’ to integrate the outcome…. A change in frequency… How amazing is that!?

The time of year they chose to perform this profound social ritual for peace by expressing creative rage aligns with Easter in the Christian experience, the Passover for the Jewish community, it includes the ideas of the Wicker Man and in more recent times the modern American Mystics of ‘Burning Man’…. in US underground culture.

The rule is … if you don’t let loose once a year, your negative energy will overcome you and disturb the harmony of the village…
Now we all know that’s true!

I have been thinking about this for a while and now I am going to do something about it!

I’m going to stop trying so hard and relax, play, dance, sing and swim in the sacred dance of ceremonial life in Bali for ten days….

We get to build two giant size bamboo puppets from all local materials. They are known as ‘The Ogoh Ogoh’ (literal translation ‘more than one Ogre’). The night of the burning…. On the river beach…. We get to scream and rage with the village and set them on fire…..

By the end of the “Night of Fires”, ‘The Ogoh Ogoh’ have finished their important work… they are a cosmic sponge for all forms of evil, all forms of disharmony in the body, mind and spirit of communities and the individuals.

Join me… let’s find out what we can do together…
Nyepi 2010… read all about the workshop, what we will be doing and how to join in here…

I’m ready to have fun, play and create with my soul family, I’m ready to express my feelings and find a new level of inner peace on the day of silence… are you interested?

Blazing tales of wonder,
Remembering all we have ever been and are about to become…… S xxx

There is a sub conscious phenomenon currently occurring on a planetary level…
It is shaping the activities of millions of people on earth.
What is it?

As I am sure you are aware, humans live in a polarized world, swinging from one extreme to the other in the constant search for meaning and purpose to our life here on earth.

We are pretty smart as a race.
We have mastered so many aspects within our physical world that we have begun to think of ourselves in a new way.
I believe it is a kind of cosmic conspiracy that has brought us to this situation…

One minute we were powerless, uneducated peasants…
The next we have access to the world through the internet.
Consequently we have developed a kind of NARCISSISM which has us saving the planet and the next moment…

Confronted with the truth of our powerlessness we are overcome with INERTIA…
Confronted with the reality of our circumstances we go into overwhelm and despair…
Soon after we swing back into saving the world….
I have this experience myself….

I have recently spoken to many who have a similar pattern…..
It comes back to self love (even if you are powerless and ‘wrong’ and Surrender…. Surrender to the Divine Plan with TRUST in the process.

The Divine needs our support, but not our ‘advice’ on how it ’should’ be done!….
I am exploring my own emotional and mental…. Spiritual and Physical responses….
How are you experiencing this phenomena?

In Hawaii we celebrated the full moon…
The moon was aloft in the black velvet, cloudless sky.
The wind had dropped completely, in the stillness we could hear the roar of silence!
(The sound of the blood rushing past your eardrums)…
We were four women…
Representing mixed races of all ages… the child, the young woman, the mother, and the grandmother…

The power of The Divine Feminine…
We were greeted by Pele the Goddess of the Volcano and given the gift of clear sight….
We called all the elemental and angelic energies to align with the people healing and rebuilding in Samoa, The Philippines and Indonesia… the  Tsunami spirit has been hard at work tearing apart their world…. Preparing them for  re-creation….

In the process there is a lot of pain and displacement.
I wanted to use this powerful Moon in Taurus to carry hope into the hearts of those who feel abandoned…

From 2000 feet up the Volcano we sent this prayer out.
Focusing our intention for expanded love through the center of the Vortex in our earth grid then rippling across the oceans and entering all dark places on earth, in search of those sisters and brothers  in need of hope and light through the darkness of despair that follows such huge natural disasters…
This is the core of the meditation…

“Where there is despair
Let there be Trust in Divine Intent
Where there is chaos
Let there be evidence of Divine Order
Where there is darkness,
Let there be Light.
Where there is anger,
Let there be Peace.
Where there is sadness,
Let there be joy.

May this prayer filled with clear intent reverberate across the skies and touch all those in need with the Love of The Divine Mother.
So Be It… And it is So…

This is the core of  our communal prayer.
I felt it flow from our circle of women…
Servants of the Divine Goddess of All Creation ….
Out into the Islands then across the oceans and into every dark place on earth….
Let me know if you felt a shift of any sort!

I am so grateful for the opportunity to connect with all of you and experience  our family of Light expanding across the planet and through dimensions.
Blazing tales of wonder,
Remembering all we have ever been and are about to become…… S xxx

The topic of health within our modern society seems to me to be upside down.
There was a time in ancient China when everyone within a community would contribute to the wealth and well being of the local doctor for as long as people were well.

As soon as someone became ill the income for the doctor ceased until everyone was healthy again!
Of course in our society it works in reverse.

The sicker the community becomes, the more wealth is accumulated by the drug companies and people who work in the medical profession.

I believe in a healthy diet with very limited animal proteins because I know that it is overloading our bodies with proteins we cannot use and do not need, creating the fertile ground for cancer cells to flourish, especially if I am indolent and have large areas of my body that never become oxygenated!
I know to watch for signs of dehydration…
When I sneeze I know it’s time to put on a jacket.
I know that if I begin to get a stuffy nose all I need to do is raise my body temperature until I sweat and it will disappear completely.
I know how to look after myself, I do not expect anyone else to do that for me.

No disease or pain can exist within the physical body without first existing in the emotional body.
So guard your emotional body well.
Have many tools at your disposal to engage your whole self in pursuits that bring you joy!
You will end up where you aim your attention.
Your health must be in your hands.
Stay conscious.

The current system is like a snake eating it’s tail.
Step outside the whole dance.
Become your own best remedy and your own informed healer.

Louise Hay wrote a book many years ago called “You Can Heal Your Life” …
It had a rainbow on the front cover.
Within this small paperback book was a list of illnesses and the emotional field that they carried.

The Liver is the organ that carries our anger… do you see that we live in an angry world, where everyday even the food we eat to bring us comfort and sustenance is sabotaged and we are left feeling just slightly angry and most likely suffering from indigestion!

Like the ads for peptobismol…

Eat as much food that actually makes you sick, then drink this chemical and it will push it all through very quickly while artificially neutralizing the acid caused by the horrendous combination of things you have forced into your stomach.

The stomach is the first brain!
That’s right! As in a gut feeling?

What you eat is what gives you your brain power and your emotional balance.
If you eat a well balanced meal you will have a well balanced day, or evening…
If you eat a whole lot of indigestible almost plastic food and blast it through with a chemical like a human “Drain-o”, what do you expect your brain and emotional body to feed on?

You have just had a big meal but you have not actually fed yourself!

Now… This is when you create arguments and get into all sorts of trouble, because your ‘victim’ reality comes up…  sure you are being mistreated or misunderstood in some way that matches a pattern from your childhood and your focus becomes stuck.
Not on the road ahead and all your future dreams and possibilities, but rather on lack and limitation and how unfair everything is….
At this point… EAT SOMETHING NUTRITIOUS… and GET OVER IT!… FAST!

There is not a minute to waste on negative thinking of any sort! Our journey is up to us…

Our health along the journey is up to us!
No matter what your condition it is never too late to try something new!
Change the way you think!
Think up not down!
Think big, not small… think INCLUSIVE… rather than exclusive!

Just agreeing to fake a smile can change your brain frequency into a higher more spacious vibration…

There is magic everywhere and in everyone.
You have the power to keep yourself well.
It is a choice!
Read the labels,
Know what your body needs.
Listen carefully to what your body tells you and act consciously to create balance.
Balance is a matter of conscious choice.
Keep your spine flexible and your mind agile.
Take care of your spirit, through art or music or some form of creative expression… of course you do not have to limit your pursuits to one…

I play the flute, the Moroccan drum called a Darabuka, I love to sing, chant in Sanskrit, In Hebrew, and I am learning how to chant in Hawaiian now.
I also create mosaics, draw, write and garden… all these things keep me healthy in my body, mind and spirit, so I can enjoy my work and be creative with my vision of the future…

Health is first a state of mind and second a lifestyle choice…
Make a choice to step outside the circle of the snake eating it’s tail…
You have great power to learn understand and heal yourself…
It’s up to you to do this… the alternative is that you live your life as a cash cow for the drug companies who get richer and richer with each new disease… You will be amazed how wise you really are at a soul level!

Pray…
Meditate…
Love with an open heart, give service to others freely.
Remember you are abundant and beloved of the Goddess of All Creation…
Bring forward your higher self and ask your body for the truth… then be still and listen.

Blazing tales of wonder remembering all we have ever been and are about to become…
Your sister through chaos and comfort…
Shankari the Alchemist…

I have been away from Hawaii for months…
I have a lot of diverse interests and responsibilities.

On my return to the islands I went up to Orchid Parkway for a quick look, to see if everything had survived my absence, before I collapsed into my need for rest.

I was completely jet lagged and a little delirious from exhaustion that first afternoon as I scurried from the fig tree to the orange trees, Loquat, Avocados and the corn — it was waste high in the center of the first sacred circle I have built on the property… all was well.

I went on down the hill, home to my place, to finally have a good rest.

Today I finally returned to begin to work once more on my vision for a sacred garden and a soup kitchen set up in service to the local community.
When I arrived, I was astounded to discover that while I have been traveling and agonizing over the fate of the world… the sweet corn was growing! This is a miracle!

The corn is growing in about 3 inches of earth on a lava slab in the desert of Ka’u County Hawaii.
This doesn’t sound amazing but think of the miracle that happens every time you plant a seed of any sort!

The sweet corn is laden with ‘ears’ — which is an interesting metaphor under the circumstances… and these ears are as sweet as you have ever tasted!

Metaphorically the work of feeding the community has already begun… the builders told me they have been happily eating from the source since I have been gone… in service to the community… does mean everyone!

I am sooo excited by the project… and willing to share the dream with whoever comes my way and wants to contribute with love and compassion… I have a dream that the soup we make will be the most delicious and healing soup in the world!

The corn, the figs, the tomatoes… there is evidence I have already enrolled help from the Fairy Kingdom and the Angelic realm… miracles appear every day…

Perhaps you will be my next miracle?

If there is anyone out there who would like to join in the fun please contact Lily here in the Hawaii office at 808 929 7564 or send an email to feedtheworld@shankari.com

I will be happy to do work trade if you want to holiday in Hawaii at the Mystery School and use the gifts and skills God gave you, in service to the greater good… beyond religious persuasion, come along and have some fun with us as we execute a green revolution.

Anyone skilled in perma culture gardening techniques is very warmly welcomed…
I am tired of doing it alone and it’s time to stand up and ask for help.
Please help me… there I have said it!

Love and blessings
Blazing lightness… S xxxxx

Wow…
Doesn’t time just fly by?!
It seems it was only yesterday we were celebrating the Spring Equinox.

This is a very potent time of year because it’s when the energy of nature has reached a pivot point of equilibrium… Night and day are the same length and after that moment the energy begins to recede once again.

It’s a solar event…

The moment when day’s journey reaches the moment of equality with the night…
It’s a marriage of equal yet opposite energy….
A time of change and integration…

Lately I find that I have become a burden unto myself as my fear of the future has made me blind.

Now I understand!

To be blind is to be forced to begin to use your other senses.
To awaken to the whole of yourself and not to focus on the small part that lives in fear of lack.

I am ready…

As I sit here in my garden in Hawaii… it is such a beautiful evening.
I can feel the energy of the Goddess lifting me up…
The stars are so bright I feel inclined to sing to them!
With my imagination I stretch out my hand, take a few and pop then into my mouth.

As I swallow, I actually feel a sparkling effervescence inside traveling down my body and through every cell.
I am filled with stellar energy and ready for the next step…
The equinox when used properly can support your life into great change…

The autumn equinox leads into winter so it is a time where you are naturally contracting and taking stock of your stores for the winter ahead.
A time of preparation for hibernation…
But not forever…
In only six months time everything will change to the reverse position and the energy is awakening and preparing for the joyous nature of summer.
I will be in Bali!

My students and I will have made monsters — Ogoh-Ogohs from bamboo, leaves and jeweled paper…
We will dance in the streets with them… attracting the negative energy that surrounds us, carrying it in a theatrical procession followed by the members of the whole village and what seems to be a hundred screaming children… to the river’s beach… their faces alive with anticipation and adrenaline…

When we reach the bank of the river the monsters will be burned down in preparation for the day of complete silence that follows…
Nyepi, a sacred event in Bali.
An experience of a lifetime…
The whole island of Bali goes into silence so that they can clear the energy in preparation for the year ahead in gratitude for all the blessings already received.

Come and join me in Bali for the next equinox…
Pray with me and be cleansed by the sacred waters of the crocodile temple…
Meet the wonderful old women that are the priests of this amazing jungle temple and ancient sacred space.
In the coming weeks I will be sharing more information about how you can participate and prepare yourself for the coming journey.

The equinox…
Such a great inspiration!
With mother nature, nothing ever stays the same because to be alive we will always experience the OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE…
Use it wisely!
How are YOU going? Are you feeling inspired?
Have you found some solutions? How can I help?

Blazing tales of wonder remembering all we have ever been and are about to become.
Riding the lightning bolt of change in the new millennium
Your sister through chaos and comfort
Shankari the Alchemist xxx

Our greatest challenge on earth today is not global warming or the price of gas… it’s despair! Despair is worse than a physical disease and more debilitating than the weather or politics!
It can be deadly!

Why do we feel despair?

We go into ‘despair’ when we believe in lack… lack of love, lack of food, lack of money, lack of control…

We feel more and more powerless in our daily experience of life… too much debt, not enough love, no freedom…

There is a feeling of spiraling despair that we as Light Workers must be aware of and approach with caution… I sometimes have these feelings myself!
How do we do that?

Recipe for changing despair into hope….

1. Feed your spirit positive information and stimulus…
Music, fragrances, fresh flowers… reminders of Mother Nature and the beauty of the earth… if you look hard there are more happy, positive stories in every area of life, than sad ones…

2. Remember to feed your body good food…
Give your brain a chance to work well and be in service. Not with just sugar and comfort food… it’s time to break out the onions and vinegar!

3. Develop relationships with positive friends…
Let go of the people that express feelings and ideas that bring you down.

4. Be disciplined with your energy and pay attention to the things that inspire you!

Pharmaceutical drugs can NEVER be the answer.

I speak from experience when I say:
‘We must be responsible for our own healing and our own energy’…

The metaphor I like to remember is simple;
Life is just like driving a car.
When you are driving, you must focus your attention on where you want to go and call in all the energies to support your intent… your eyes, ears, hands, feet… your whole body.

Like life… it doesn’t function well if you close your eyes or take your hands of the wheel!
You also can’t spend all your time looking in the rear view mirror… or you will crash!
You cannot spend your time, fussing around, feeling powerless while not looking at the road or steering your vehicle!

You, yourself must take control of your vehicle and your journey.

In order to be successful, you must look at the road, take charge of the steering wheel, then focus your vision and intent on the road up ahead… not directly under the wheels!

Do we continue to agree to a consciousness of lack?
Or… Are we going to hold strong to a consciousness of ‘more than enough for my needs!?

I don’t believe in monopolies…
Or aspire to abundance that makes one person rich and another poor…
I do believe the consciousness of the world is turning…
We must not claim huge abundance!
Why do we need so much more than anyone else?

Surely as Enlightened Beings we understand the process of empowering each other within the flow of available resources so that we can live in peace, wisdom and understanding…

Now, I challenge myself and all of you to describe the road ahead in positive terms.
It’s up to us!

Creating abundance…
Living a stress free, joyful life…
Engaged in what brings us the greatest pleasure.

In this way we really can experience ‘heaven on earth’… and we won’t be alone when we get there, since others will be equally as blessed!

From Shankari the Alchemist,
Blazing tales of wonder…
Remembering all we have ever been and are about to become.
Your sister through chaos and comfort…
Blessings S xx

I’m sharing this story with you because feel it has a great teaching for me… and perhaps for you. We will always find our way home if we think like a cat!

Recently in the district of Ka’u… at the Southern end of The Big Island,  “Teddie’s Safe Haven” has been performing a spaying operation to limit the number of feral cats in the district.

They lend residents traps to catch feral cats on their properties and bring them in for free neutering.

I have become a big fan and am working on ways to support their activities in Hawaii.

Why?

My personal experience…
When I left Hawaii for Bali in March, I had four cats… A lot, but still reasonable for a three acre property. When I returned a few months later I had twelve cats!
I was dumbfounded! How did this happen?
Quite simply!
A Calico colored feral mother had parked herself under my house and happily given birth to six kittens!

She’d brought along the big red feral dad and a black and white friend to keep her company; probably a sister or brother … perhaps they came because they could smell the food my staff diligently left out for my own cats while I was absent. Suddenly, I had a mass population of cats!

What to do?

By now all the kittens had grown to adolescence and were getting ready to repeat the population explosion again and again between themselves. This was an emergency!

I heard about the a local feral cat rescue and spaying program: Yes! Yes! Yes!

Essentially, ‘Feral’ means the cats don’t trust humans, nor look to them for nurturing or to give nurturing… which is indeed a domesticated cat’s true desire and chosen purpose. This spaying program was a big blessing.

I collected eight traps and set to work… in fact it took about nine hours… from 10pm until 7am to catch all but one (the smartest of the lot… I will get him next time!). They were completely feral and not at all happy at being caught; they bashed their cages with their noses until they all had a headache I’m sure… They all still wear the scars!

Once they were “done” I had to decide what to do with so many cats… The majority were showing signs of slowly being more interested in becoming friends and in fact today I can report that most allow me to pat them and come to the sound of my voice. I love cats and am willing to be the mother of a crowd as long as they are not continually reproducing but I certainly didn’t want to release the feral mum and dad — this wild couple,  back onto my home property so the bullying of my own could continue…

They were not friendly… they were scary!
I drove around and around with them… with their cages in the back of my truck, trying to decide where to leave them; decide what would be best for everyone.

It was not until very late in the afternoon, that I decided to release them into my Orchid property. I gave them food and told them I would be back the following day.
I guess they must have started their journey back home soon after…

On the fourth day, they both appeared back at my place five miles down the side of the volcano, having crossed over the highway! At first, I simply didn’t believe it, I thought the dad was just another big red tom cat looking to push his nose in here now the other one was gone…
But when I saw the Calico mother with my own eyes I was convinced and astounded!

These two cats, as a couple, had walked back the five miles from my other place, across the highway… How extraordinary is mother nature?
What made those cats so sure of where their home was?
Did they navigate by smell?… by the stars? … by magnetic resonance?
How… why?!

Why had they chosen my ‘house’ as their ‘home’, uninvited, unwanted, determined felines.
No wonder cats scare people!

A cat never sees difficulties… a brick wall does not stop a cat but rather provides a vantage point… They are so brilliantly aligned with their place in the order of things…
How can a human ever imagine a cat could get lost?

Activate the cat within you and I will activate the cat within me…

We will trust in our own power to navigate the mysteries of the journey back home and never give up!
Never allowing ourselves to take anything too personally;
Staying disciplined within our mind and not letting ourselves to drown in the water of our emotions…
We will be adamant about what we want and where we belong…
Never taking no for an answer…
Never give up on your quest…
And I will never give up on mine…!

I have come to accept these two wild beings into the family. I believe over time, the big red tom will calm down and become a more loving parent to his offspring. When he had his balls, he was aggressive and competitive; for food and sex! In the future he has the capacity to become more interested in other things. The Calico mother is still the most fearful and makes me think she reflects some part of myself that I have not yet allowed others to come in close contact with.

Life really is a mystery.

These cats have certainly sent me on a new learning curve… Forever grateful for the lessons, the adventures and the many wonderful friends I ‘ve made along the way.

Cats are one of my blessings, I have been drawing pictures of my kittens all my life. I created a wonderful set of cards called “The Angel Cats of Self Healing”;  all the images are from my drawings,  if you would like to see them online please click here: Angel Cats

The profit from the sale of these cards will go to “Teddie’s Safe Haven” for spaying feral cats in Hawaii.

I’m glad to be of service to such a worthy cause, protecting the native wild life of Hawaii and improving the lives of those cats already born and living in the lava fields of Ka’u County…
Have a great day and remember to purr every now and again. It is so good for the soul!

Blazing tales of wonder,
Your sister through chaos and comfort,
Remembering all we have ever been and are about to become…
Blessings from Shankari the Alchemist   xxxx

I had one of those moments yesterday when I broke the rules!
The rule in question is the one about not offering help unless you are invited!

It’s a very hard thing to do and it takes great discipline… To wait to be asked.
Especially if you feel love and concern for your fellow travelers on the journey of life.

Yesterday I blew it!

I walked up to a woman who was in serious emotional pain…
Her forehead was creased and scrunched as she said to me, “I don’t know what you are talking about… I am not angry or hurt…. Just a little sad! ”

She was furious with God… it was so obvious… if it had been a dog it would have bit me!
I quickly apologized for my mistake and agreed with her world view…
Stepping away quickly…
I was ashamed!

Have I learned nothing?
Am I so ignorant and foolish still? Apparently so!

She had good reason to be suffering.
She and her family are Christian Missionaries. I met them at a church meeting in Chiang Mai Thailand. Her husband had been kidnapped by Moslems in Pakistan.

He had been released only a week earlier….
Her husbands kidneys were exhausted and it showed in the dark rings under his eyes.
He was warm and obviously good at his job.

He was willing and interested when I suggested his adrenal system was exhausted and he needed support for his kidney function before he went out to fight that good fight one more time!

He was happy for the info… but his wife lives on that river in Egypt…De. Nile…

And I did not handle my own energy with enough reserve to be of genuine support to her.

I needed to ask her first if she would like my help and humbly accept her answer….

My heart goes out to everyone in dark emotional places because I have been there myself so often…

There is always light and dark….
Our job as genuine light workers is to respect the balance and be of true service to others from a place of genuine compassion and non judgment…

Blazing tales of wonder….. Still learning how to use my energy wisely….
To be continued…
S xx

I am a very visual person, without a vision it is very hard for me to act.
When I am not in motion “doing something” I go into self criticism.
It’s a strange dynamic when you think about it.

We come from a culture that frowns on open space…. too much free time and open space is dangerous.
You might stop and ask yourself how you really feel if you have too much free time on your hands… idle hands do the devils work!

But then again, we must have ‘time for self’ or we will go completely crazy or at least become physically unbalanced and eventually sick and tired of everything.

The vision I had was somewhat of an evolution, arriving in parts, like a puzzle.

First … in real life, I was made custodian of a life size, porcelain and gold, standing Quan Yin.
This is definitely not living room furniture… she and her two life size consorts, an old man carrying a child and a dragon staff and a younger man carrying yet more children in his arms and on his shoulders… and scrolls that would appear to be “the law”.

These three potent sculptural representations of cosmic law and compassion currently take up the better part of my front porch with the White Owl Mosaic.

I was feeling crowded and yet honored to have their presence at the Mystery School in Hawaii.
Slowly things have unfolded… or at least it feels slow when you are in the eye of the hurricane.
The land has appeared to build the temple… the vision was of that temple, with it’s breadth and height… the heart wood of four fur trees was immediately manifested and donated as the Pillars of the New Temple to Peace in Hawaii. Since then I have had constant visions of pathways and sacred geometric grids, gardens and flowering trees.

It’s underway… the tide is changing and compassion is returning to the hearts of humankind.
I have heard recently of honey gathered from rooftop gardens in Manhattan… and of ‘guerrilla gardening’ becoming a fad across the planet…. god bless everyone learning to grow food again and applying their imaginations to how to do this under impossible circumstances.

I’m excited… jumping out of my skin with the adventure of creation looming before me.
I’m building a food garden within a labyrinth of sacred symbols and silent spaces.

Where I live there is no dirt.
I mean absolutely no earth…. simply rocks.
There is no water unless you buy it and truck it in, there are trade winds that irregularly blow at 40mph…
I’m bored if its not almost impossible…
that must be why I got the job!

I lay in bed at night and ponder things like how to pull water from the air for the food garden…
I think I have figured it out by the way.
I lay awake and think of ways to turn a desert into a garden for the sake of all it will feed, in all the different ways it will contribute to the community at large…

Food is important, food for the spirit, food for the eyes and food for the body… my vision is to provide all these things in one sacred place… activated for deep and permanent healing of the individual soul.

Why not?
Life must continue to be a challenge and an adventure until the day we die…. or we are already dead in some respects just waiting for the rest to catch up.
Plan a garden of your own.
Invite your friends to come and join in.
I’s a wonderful thing to share the food you have grown with others.
Start with something small… parsley… or tomatoes perhaps… then build to your imagination… the sky is the limit!

I do not believe as a culture we are meant to live with such financial pressure for our daily sustenance and am working on becoming energy efficient in every aspect of my life.

Soon the Hawaii School will be completely off the grid with solar panels — and if I can master this water collection story, it will enable us to live and breathe and create constantly, within an environment that is self sufficient and leaving almost no carbon footprint upon the earth.

Those involved in the creation will be and are fed at a creative level, constantly growing their self-esteem.

I have a friend named Bob, from Michigan.
He had been in Hawaii a few months when he came to visit one day and said, “I’m sorry but I have become homeless and I would like to live in the shed in your green house…. can I do that?”

I said … “You know there have been times when I wanted to move into the shed in the green house myself! Of course you can sleep there until you find a home of your own.”

This was quite a few months ago!
Bob is a trained chef, who has previously held jobs of great importance in big international hotel kitchens… but he has lost his feeling for cooking and now prefers to build rock walls.
The walls he’s built on the property for the Quan Yin Temple and the Peace Garden are amazing.
He expresses such grace and charm that I’m flabbergasted.

In this manner he has rebuilt his self-regard, lost a ton of weight and is genuinely happy for the first time in years!
He may even be interested in food again soon… we are planning to build a big stone oven to bake community bread in the future…

Food and the Magic of form and space… this is my vision and clear intent.

Creating a magical labyrinth of food and silence that will profoundly heal all who come and experience the frequency of compassion in this form… here in the lava deserts of Hawaii…. a place at the end of the universe, becoming a ‘beacon of light’ to the world.

I love you all and trust you will have your own vision soon…With your own vision comes the freedom to throw yourself heart and soul into your evolution…
towards freedom and joy!

Come and join me when you have some time.
We are always creating something in service to the Goddess.

Blazing tales of wonder, remembering all we have been and learning to love what we are becoming…..   Sxxxx