I am developing the Ocean View Creative Arts Festival Hawaii… the OVCA Festival…

My vision is to bring the powerful process I have experienced in Bali with the creation of the “Ogoh- Ogoh” and the way they absorb negative energy from the island of Bali annually.

…For more info on the Ogoh-Ogoh… please read “The Original Burning Man”

They are created by the village, and then burned after they have absorbed all the demonic energy floating around the island.
I want to bring this process here to Hawaii and teach the kids in Foster Care how to build these monsters from bamboo and Paper Mache so they can absorb all the demonic energy on the island. Especially the energy created and sustained by the use of the drugs like Meth which is sadly epidemic on the island of Hawaii.

This could be very powerful magic by the people for the people…

In the creation and then the burning of these effigies of darkness we can do a great service to the energy of the whole island chain.

There will be crystals on exhibition and for sale, art competitions and sale.
An “Earth Oven” baking bread, live music carried on the wind… good feelings all round.
Healing modalities of all sorts

A Sound healing Stage with Crystal Bowls, Flute, Chanting, Brass Bowls, Guided Meditations…
Renewable energy ideas showcased.  Alternative building materials and techniques displayed, recycling and zero carbon footprint intention…

Food stalls from all over the world, organics and honey, bee keeping workshops…
Stage for live theatrical pieces, Dance performance,  Poetry Out Loud performances,  Live music, guitars… perhaps a song writing competition? Gardening competitions throughout the district… tours of the winning gardens…

I have so many ideas I am going to burst, if there is anyone out there in my audience who has experience with such things or would like to come and spend time in Hawaii helping me get this together for August 2011 please do not hesitate to contact me and let me know how we can work together to make magic happen in Hawaii .

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’ve been away quite a while…seems like years… journeying with the White Rabbit…

At the end of the tunnel of darkness, I discovered I’d returned to the beginning once again…

Darrrh !!!

On the journey I explored my weakness, my illusions, my denial…

But still I arrived back at the beginning…  No great revelation, the simple truth…whether the banks are collapsing, the sky is caving in or the water on the earth is polluted…

Each of us is responsible for our own feelings.

We create our own feelings by the way that we perceive, we interpret, we see our experiences; shaped by the influences and experiences of our lives and the resulting sense of self.

Who am I and what am I worth in the grand scheme?

Am I important and why?
How do I fail myself… why do I get so disempowered?

It’s so simple I could choke!

I thought I already knew, but somehow I had forgotten…

I am released from the responsibility of meeting anyone’s emotional needs…

Everyone is responsible for their own feelings and reality.

I am not responsible for the feelings of others…

BUT… I am 100% responsible for my own feelings…

I will no longer be available for abuse… self inflicted or by invitation…
I will be free, to love unconditionally and creatively, to work with passion and celebration…

And then to rest, in the certain knowledge,

I am a child of Infinite Source (IS)…
I am a conduit of Light into the Earth,
I will fulfill my mission with Grace and Ease,
I am that!

Blessings for the Balinese New Year,
the Equinox and the beginning of the rest of your precious,
potentially potent, life on Earth!
S xxx

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

From extensive personal experience, I know that birthdays most often bring out the worst in us because they represent a time of intense self analysis…

I don’t know anyone that simply has a “happy birthday” no matter how well intentioned everyone else in their life may be…  because birthdays have been filled with drama since that dramatic day when you and I were born!

Birthdays bring up ’stuff’… they make us question our intent, our purpose and our position in the game plan…
If we have not eaten well and are short on brain fuel we will become very self critical… try not to do this… it is so destructive in the long run…

This birthday has been no different for me!
I have been reassessing who I am, where I am meant to be and how to best use my limited resources in service to my personal and spiritual evolution and that of the world around me…  and still take good care of my beloved staff in Bali… (all 120 of them) and their families…

I have been amazed as I walk through my remarkable creation in Bali…
So much hope, love and energy has been shared here, so many dreams and schemes have unfolded and become reality… 20 years is a long time.

I am reminded everywhere of how much I have been loved and have had the opportunity to love in return… this is the great blessing!

I am reminded by all my creations to love myself unconditionally, to stop criticizing myself and putting myself down when I do not measure up…

That’s why I started the “Sparkle Club”,  so that on your birthday there would be a wonderful, special opportunity to change your energy, through upgrading your jewels.

I have a new piece myself… it’s a silver belt buckle, made with inlaid rubies and then gold dipped.
I have designed it to take any color belt… thanks to the wonders of Velcro!

This may not seem so auspicious, but I must share with you… five kids… never left me with a waist!
I have lived most of my adult life waistless!
Now, thanks to a few well planned exercises and some commitment I have a svelt figure and for the first time… in decades, I have a waist! So… what to do but flaunt it!

I am excited, I am ‘born again’.
I am one of those people who was born old and serious and have finally learned to play as I have become older… it seems like a contradiction in terms but that’s the truth. As a child I felt very responsible for my mother, now finally as an ‘older woman’, I have raised my kids and built my business on rules of freedom and responsibility in equal measure…

Now it is time to enjoy the ‘freedom’ part… and let the others take on the responsibility.
I have a waist and now it is adorned with an amazing belt buckle filled with rubies, to activate a nobility and wealth frequency within my solar plexus.

So far it seems to be working like a charm!
Blessings on your day… be kind to yourself… you’re worth it!

And blessings of the same nature to Obama whose birthday is the day after mine on the 4th of August… may his time be one of angel blessings and may his inner and outer critics… take the day off!

Love and blessings from beautiful Bali…
Blazing tales of wonder, remembering all we have been and learning to love what we are becoming…..   Sxxxxxx

“there will always be those higher and those lower, those more successful and those less successful than yourself… so don’t fret… relax!”

Ultimately it is about context…
You can reign in hell or serve in heaven, it’s up to you and your choice of activities and venue.

I have recognized in myself recently a new frequency of ‘Being’.
I am a very competitive soul…
I have always been proactive and enthusiastic for success at every level.

The shift has occurred at a profoundly deep level.
I have come to realize I am genuinely happy!

In terms of competitiveness, I am so happy,
I feel as if I have won the biggest prize available!
Not because of a person, business or relationship, but because I have found this place inside myself that is absolutely content.

I feel as if I have already won, so now there is nothing left to do but help everyone else!

All my past competitiveness is somehow transformed into a new vehicle of experience.
All my creativity is enthusiastically focused on how to help other people and survive the coming world challenges with Grace.

This is not because I suddenly have more money; on the contrary, like everyone else today, my cash flow has dried up to a large extent…

I have to recreate myself and my business in order to survive.
Like the world around me,
I am in a state of upheaval and challenged at every level, however I can also say…
despite all this,
I am ecstatically happy and even content!

This is not because I feel loved and accepted by a human beloved… on the contrary, I haven’t been so alone in my whole life; since the disgraceful way my last marriage dissolved, I feel no need to go there again in the near future…

So what’s happening?

I feel filled up with ‘The Holy Spirit’…
I feel as if I am dancing with Krishna…

I have found that ‘frequency of being’ inside myself…
the place that is:

Joyful in the face of chaos…
Trusting in the face of universal deception…
Inspired in a context of fear and…
Enthusiastic in the face of hopelessness…

I must be crazy!

Or… coming into alignment with the ascension process… surrendering my need for applause from the gallery and giving up all sense of competitiveness…
Now is the time for co operation, co-creation and co-mmunity…

The ‘co’… means ‘together’… we will not survive into the future if we act alone… we must work together for the benefit of all… not for our nuclear family or our little local clubs, not for the survival of our country, our religion or our race… but for the survival of our PLANET!

to be continued…

Blazing tales of wonder
Remembering all we have ever been and are about to become
Your sister through chaos and comfort …
Shankari the Alchemist… ever learning, always growing…
Hokulani
Hawaii

There is a lot of talk about ‘recovery’ and ‘investment packages’ by the governments of the world.

But is that really what we want?

For it to go back to how it was?… as a global culture over the last fifty years we have been using up natural resources at an astronomical rate!
That’s what’s really happening.

We have come to a point of global reckoning …
I believe that’s what’s reflected from this economic meltdown… We would not change our ways unless we hit the wall like this as a planet!  Unless you are ready to join the military, there may be no job security in the future….yikes!

And the promotion for the military is all over the media….
It’s a new world — forcing us all into a new perception and that’s not such a bad thing.

It’s time to give up the idea of redundant, disposable living!

That’s a way of seeing resources as endless,  so there is no need to be conservative or respectful of  those you are using. This is a frequency of being that has permeated our world to the extent that we do this to our old people as much as our old cars….

We live in a world dedicated to obsolescence in order to stimulate industry and we cannot keep doing this anymore!

My jewelry falls into the category of a luxury item, however I would like you to know we make our jewelry in very conservative, respectful way.

We are very conscious of our carbon footprint and I am proud of my team for their loving, caring energy that goes into every part of the production and distribution of my pieces.

Each piece is designed to rejuvenate your energy, inspire your spirit and remind you in hard times that you are really a Queen or King in service to your people.

Every conscious person on earth has to be diligent. We have all been lulled into the idea of comfort and convenience being our primary agenda when life is so much more.

Life must be full of other things like  passion, creativity, adventure, evolution…

None of these pursuits are particularly comfortable or convenient but they are the essence of a healthy life.

Perhaps this is why people are so depressed?
They are comfortable and isolated…

Unsupported in their creativity or in expressing their passionate soul.

My jewelry is an activator…
Designed to support you through these difficult days.

I love you and I believe in you… As I believe in myself and our common destiny as healers of the earth.

I am proud to be part of the generation that will usher in a new world consciousness of love and respect for our beloved Mother Earth.

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

Shankari the Alchemist xxx

Recently I harvested enough purple sweet potatoes to feed an army… for a month… the tomatoes are in abundance and Avocado keep appearing in my kitchen , gifts from friends and neighbors who have too much.

Yesterday it was Mother’s Day…

I was feeling a deep sense of peace and pleasure, we had a picnic by the ocean down at Whittington Beach Park, with many friends and no family.  My kids are scattered all over the world, they can’t be dropping their lives to come here in person to say Happy Mother’s Day!…

I felt blessed since I had heard them already… it was a good day, we played music, ate local food grown organically and cooked with love…

That evening, with the ‘almost’ full moon over head and Venus hanging big and bright in the eastern sky,  I drove up to the new property on Orchid and Seaview, where I’m currently building accommodation for the Mystery School here in Hawaii.

I sat in the stillness. It was around 4am, the sun just starting to light up the sky… the air  cool and sweet smelling, the birds awakening with the light and commencing their morning ritual of singing the sunrise into the consciousness of the world.

As I sat in the semi darkness, I became more and more filled with what felt like effervescence… soon finding myself with tears pouring down my face and the revelation that

I was experiencing pure joy!

No one ever really explains what joy actually is because it’s a feeling… and like a color… a feeling is experienced by each of us differently.

As far as I can tell, I was in complete joy, filled up and overflowing with the love of The Divine Mother of All Creation, the life force of the universe…

A few moments later I had a download… a living vision… a daydream at dawn… whatever you want to call it….

As clear as day, I saw a temple built for the Divine Mother and a garden all around growing food, in the front was a beautiful kitchen and we were making wonderful soup from all the food and feeding the poor of the district.

It came to me in a heart beat.  These exchanges with other dimensions are outside normal time and space…   and as a result, are always a little strange when they happen.

That’s why we have to learn to trust the unseen real… to know that we are not being overcome by a demonic force because we have suddenly lost control of every aspect of our experience. But rather in the ‘letting go’ we are ‘letting God’ show us how we can be most useful at the time.

So now I know my mission with that part of the land and the purpose for all the extra food we’re growing in the district… when I came back to real time I was so elated I floated home and fell asleep with a big smile on my face…

It is so wonderful to actually experience joy once again.
As we get older it’s easy to become afraid and get caught up in the mundane,  forgetting the joyful world of creativity open to us always. My teacher often said that “in every case, charity is for the giver not the receiver… never delude yourself!”

After thirty three years of life experience, since his class, I know he was right. I am very clear this vision was a gift and the instruction… an honor and a privilege.

There is no doubt — I want to create this for the joy and satisfaction the adventure will bring to me personally — the challenge it will provide my creative soul, and the pleasure I will get from helping others less fortunate, while gathering the community in acts of co-operation and self caring…

Why will I do it?
For the pleasure of my heart and soul and the experience of joy… the effervescent aspect of the God force that makes my eyes water and my heart sing.

Blazing tales of wonder,
remembering all we have ever been and are about to become.

Your sister through chaos and comfort,
Shankari the Alchemist
….in the garden of Eden, on the side of a volcano, at the end of the earth… playing the flute for the Queen of Heaven…

I felt the presence of many ancient and future students and creative souls from around the world, around the sacred fire.

The Great Mother of all creation was kind to us. The trade winds were gentle and the night sky clear and sparkling with a billion stars. We performed ceremony directly under the Milky Way with the Moon and Jupiter as our sentinels. With the smell of Plumeria (Franjipani) and night blooming jasmine on the breeze, our spirits soared.

Each participant provided a piece- a poem, a song, a mantra, a musical interlude. The tapestry of grace and beauty created by their overlapping love was a breath taking experience.

We shared Pomegranate wine from a Persian Blue Glass Chalice and declared our intention for change and positive evolution then grounded our purpose with the energy of the Star Ruby in the crystal wand dedicated to the mystery school. Spirals of light from the grid mixed with the fire works as they spun in space.

I felt you there. I felt the energies of the planet re-aligning for the better. I felt in my bones how powerful we all are as a team intending to do good upon the Earth.

I believe in you and your power to make a difference!

I am ready, everyday adjusting to what IS and never complaining about what IS NOT. You are becoming masters of your own destiny. It is the skill to use what YOU HAVE to create WHAT YOU WANT, and never complaining, explaining, and dismissing our power to make a positive difference here and now, with what you have available NOW. Opening up to all possibilities, feeling the love of the universe lift us up and out of fear and sadness and into trust and joy!

We can make 2009 really wonderful because we are the ones having the experience. Choose to love and live in joy, the here and now, and live in appreciation-this is how to magnetically align to all good things.

Loving you from the inside out!

Blazing tales of Wonder, remembering all we have ever been and all we are about to become.

Your sister through chaos and comfort,

Shankari the Alchemist.

During my formative years I was fortunate to have a great teacher who shared with me some of the true secrets of success, as an evolving student of the mysteries. One of his constant themes was “Change Your Patterns”-Never create routines that take over and leave you in a mindless robotic state of being. When you break your patterns, you change your expectations.

Now it’s up to you, are you expecting things to get better or worse? Do you read the absence of an old pattern or friend as abandonment or freedom? For myself, this New Year Celebration is about letting go of old patterns of relationship that do not serve my highest good and taking on a new way of seeing and feeling about myself and my mission.

I warmly invite you to take a moment on New Year’s Eve to see yourself sitting by a sacred fire in Hawaii at the mystery school. Feel the warmth expand your heart. Hear the music and allow the memories within your soul self to bring you home to your own heart. Know that I am with you in your moment of sadness, I have cried and laughed and prayed out loud, let peace allow all that does not bring you joy to dissolve into the fire.

Lift your head and see the horizon with 270 degrees of Ocean View, The freedom of open  illuminated lava flows from ancient days, trade winds cleanse your soul, blowing gently through your spirit. Expand your potential, your happiness.

Be in the now, let everything else fall away so you can dance in the dawn of a new time on Earth. It’s up to you! No one else can do it for you! You must search for joy and freedom within your world and expand upon that!

Blazing tales of wonder, remembering all we have ever been and are about to become, letting go of judgment on ourselves and each other.

Shankari the Alchemist

p.s. Choosing Freedom, Creativity, Lightness and Joy, all targets for a successful New Year!