Life is an amazing dance…
And like all good dance, there is structure; but what makes it so special and different and your own, is the level and quality of personal  improvisation within the form.

Twenty years ago I arrived in Bali to start living my vision… to make jewelry to empower the ‘light workers’ of the world.

I have struggled from the beginning…
I have had no training in this life, how to run a business… I have never been to school to find out how you are supposed to do this ‘properly’!  In the long run I feel this was of benefit to me.

Under these circumstances… because I had no ‘box’, I was expecting everyone else to fit into, I was open to new thought and new ways of doing things.
Since my arrival in 1988, I have been creative in all my endeavors.

The company of over 100 souls, runs itself because I have built it on the model of Social Business.

This means, my aim is to empower people; educate and encourage creativity and responsibility within the group and always remember it’s about the quality of our life, not the state of our profit margin.

I have never laid people off in times of crisis… and there have been many!
I have lived through the ousting of Suharto (A dictator for 42 years), the financial crisis that devalued the currency overnight and had us all in a spin, the election and consequent riots of the first new leader since Suharto…

I have married, given birth and divorced since I have been here… and more recently there was the bomb the year after 9-11-01 and the recent bomb in Jakarta… all acts of powerless men craving attention for their cause…

What have I learned in thinking about the last twenty years?

I love my family.
My children and my family of Talismans of Power.
I feel honored and blessed to have been a part of their life for so long.

I know they love me as unconditionally as I do them; we are blessed to be in the dance together.
I believe this is the energy that shines through all our work together and why the value of what we produce will continue to grow in the future.

This knowledge keeps me healthy and emotionally balanced where ever I am in the world… to know I am loved… and will be protected against the dark night should that moment arrive.

To go to sleep at night, knowing we are still a family of light despite the dark times surrounding us… keeps a smile on my face.

Despite the current challenges, all the gang are smiling. As we were preparing for the party, we were completing the prayers for Saraswati, the Goddess of Beauty, music, wisdom and jewels…. it was her sacred day and all my staff and I spent the morning praying in the garden by the temple… it was a sublime experience and reminds me of why I came here and why I will never give up and run away…

This is an important part of my personal commitment to my extended family in the third world. Their safety, joy and evolution is just as important to me as my own or those of others in more salubrious locations.

Life is a brilliant adventure… and for those whose hearts hear the music, the tickets are free for the dance…

Blazing tales of wonder…. S xxx

The energy has been swirling around lately…
I feel it in every pocket of my experience.  I have never felt so completely joyful before… yet everyday I am indeed confronted with the actual collapse of the world as I have known it.

In the midst of all the chaos there are pockets of Divine Mystery…

On Monday of this week the most beautiful couple came down to the end of the universe and were married on the White Owl Grid of The Mystery School.

They brought three generations of their family … made vows of love and devotion before the assembled energies both seen and unseen,  the light surrounding them was palpable…

I used the sacred blue chalice with the crystal stem covered with amethysts and lotus in the silver work to share sparkling organic raspberry wine filled with the energy of the event… and the wisdom wand of the Mystery School to  allow the couple to heal the past and recreate the future in a positive, powerful way, in service to the children and their friends and family of the greater world community.

As I called out the ‘invocation for perfection’ in Sanskrit, the wind carried the sound through the gullies down the hillside to the sea.  The Hawaiian Kahuna (masters) seemed to come out of the mists of time and were standing witness to this most sacred event.

Andre and Kiva from West Texas were bound together through love and clear intention… to share the challenges of what is to come…  As a partnership …. In love and in lightness…

It was my privilege and my pleasure to be of service to Andre and Kiva… and their whole family. They chose rings I designed and made in advance, they were gracious and caring of everyone in their group…. this beautiful celebration showed me once more the joy available in times of change and challenge.

The angels are with them every step of the way, providing the support they need to fulfill their personal missions within the context of profoundly moving romantic love…. And rambunctious family gatherings loaded with kids and chaos as part of the geography of a full and happy life.

The perfection mantra goes like this…

(English translation)
Everything in life is perfect… in time and space
Everything in life is perfect… when seen as God’s Grace
Everything is perfect whether sunshine or rain
Because…
When you take the perfect from the perfect…
Only the perfect remains…
Peace, peace, peace…

To chant these words in Sanskrit, is to open the portal for all possibilities
… this was my gift to them… the invocation of perfection!

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