In every story , that is our lives, the narrative within you is part of  the microcosm, within the macrocosm.
Your uniqueness  spirals out from you, like quintessence, an energetic pulse of light that seeks to know.
That seeks to love.
Your minds voice address the world each day, the usual inner dialogue..
the demands are great upon waking, the worries the tensions, the needs of others,
all the clamoring mouths,

the awareness of great  suffering in a silent scream that echos.

So quiet that voice that is yours

and instead of  letting it re tell the same old story ,
listen with your  eyes,
look deep into the world you see unfurl around you
a reflection of who you are
can you see the details?
let them take you into the moment,
inside the core of it,

the trace of sleep in your child’s eyes as she rubs it away
the way the skin wrinkles and stretches  under her palm,
the taste of  fresh soft bread..with a hint of saltiness,
the deep lines of age on your Mothers face
A lovers last words to you, his voice, the way he held you.

All part of your story , that stretches back and forward
its spine flexing through time, stretching out to the dark unknown.
being written by you,
for you and for me,

you are within my story
as I am within yours
as you read these words and know
that they flow from a greater story
bowed on the string that is my hearts note

Its  being told through every pulse of light
through every myth and word  and deed that comes from longing
because
love is a web of light
and

we are all connected

http://www.thesilverbranch.org/ninthwave/journey.html

I just signed up to do this course, a journey I hope I will be worthy of and will grow through.

See my other post here http://feralandwild.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/empowered-by-the-goddess-danu/

this happened on a day of great contemplation and was an answer to  some deeper questions..

Link here,  I have updated  all with links that work now.

http://www.thesilverbranch.org/ninthwave/ this is  the  home of the course by  the wonderful Lunaea Weatherstone and MaryScarlett Amaris

This  first song and this woman had a huge impact on me many years ago as a young Scot reading up about what happened in the world. I was in my early teens and when I first heard her and saw her and was immediately smitten with her,  more inspiring to me than any so called pop star.. and she and her voice led  me on a journey, I read Bury my Heart, I read about the clearances in my country and felt the shame and the horror. I saw the lies of Hollywood saw the machinery of the great lie  in action .

I still read about and grieve for what  we are loosing in Indigenous cultures the world over, for along with the people we lose the spirit and the knowledge  of the land they have tended..we lose the wild in them also.. we lose and have lost , so much, that it is incomprehensible and incalculable the repercussions for generations to come.

She still has such fire in her, it seems  even more so , I was thrilled to receive this new song in a link from Sorrow ( thank you  my anam cara)  She is still  an activist, still with fire in her belly and I really hope her voice is heard.

I give thanks to her for her inspiration..I give thanks for so much more each day . Blessings .

Category:  Music

Buffy Sainte Marie – No No Keshagesh

I never saw so many business suits.
Never knew a dollar sign that looked so cute.
Never knew a junkie with a money jones:
He’s singing, “who’s selling park place. who’s buying boardwalk”?
These old men they make their dirty deals.
Go in the back room and see what they can steal.
Talk about your beautiful and spacious skies.
It’s about uranium; it’s about the water rights.
Put mother nature on a luncheon plate.
They cut her up and call it real estate.
Want all the resources and all of the land.
They make a war over it: blow things up for it.
The reservation now is poverty row.
There’s something cooking and the lights are low.
Somebody’s trying to save our mother earth.
I’m gonna help them to save it,
To sing it and bring it

Singing: no no keshagesh:
You can’t do that no more, (no more, no more no more)
No, no, no, no keshagesh
You can’t do that no more, (no more, no more no more)
No, no, no, no keshagesh
You can’t do that no more, (no more, no more no more)
No, no, no, no keshagesh
You can’t do that no more, (no more, no more no more)

Ole columbus he was looking good,
When he got lost in our neighborhood.
Garden of eden right before his eyes.
Now it’s all spy ware: now it’s all income tax.
Ole’ brother midas looking hungry today.
What he can’t buy he’ll get some other way.
Send in the troopers if the natives resist.
Old, old story boys, that’s how you do it boys.
Look at these people; ah they’re on a roll.
Gonna have it all, gonna have complete control.
Want all the resources and all of the land.
They’ll break the law for it: blow things up for it.
When all our champions are off in the war,
Their final rip off here and is always on.
Mr. greed i think your time has come.
We’re gonna sing it and pray it and live it then say it.

Singing: no no keshagesh:
You can’t do that no more, (no more, no more no more)
No, no, no, no keshagesh
You can’t do that no more, (no more, no more no more)
No, no, no, no keshagesh
You can’t do that no more, (no more, no more no more)
No, no, no, no keshagesh
You can’t do that no more, (no more, no more no more)

Chrissie Hynde – Hymn to her – Buenos Aires, 13/11/04

Beautiful acoustic version

LET ME INSIDE YOU
INTO YOUR ROOM
I’VE HEARD IT’S LINED
WITH THE THINGS YOU DON’T SHOW
LAY ME BESIDE YOU
DOWN ON THE FLOOR
I’VE BEEN YOUR LOVER
FROM THE WOMB TO THE TOMB
I DRESS AS YOUR DAUGHTER
WHEN THE MOON BECOMES ROUND
YOU BE MY MOTHER
WHEN EVERYTHING’S GONE

AND SHE WILL ALWAYS CARRY ON
SOMETHING IS LOST
BUT SOMETHING IS FOUND
THEY WILL KEEP ON SPEAKING HER NAME
SOMETHINGS CHANGE
SOME STAY THE SAME

KEEP BECKONING TO ME
FROM BEHIND THAT CLOSED DOOR
THE MAID AND THE MOTHER
AND THE CRONE THAT’S GROWN OLD

I HEAR YOUR VOICE
COMING OUT OF THAT HOLE
I LISTEN TO YOU
AND I WANT SOME MORE
I LISTEN TO YOU
AND I WANT SOME MORE

AND SHE WILL ALWAYS CARRY ON
SOMETHING IS LOST
BUT SOMETHING IS FOUND
THEY WILL KEEP ON SPEAKING HER NAME
SOME THINGS CHANGE
SOME STAY THE SAME

I walked the shore yesterday as I always do, but it was a day  of inner turmoil, questing and seeking answers . I sat on my rock at high tide, watching the waves for a time then  closing my eyes, and as usual I opened them to find a seal gazing into mine…This happens every time I walk there now..a sea blessing in so many ways a connection to my Grandmother also, who would call to the seals and they would come and listen to her singing.

So I called to the Goddess and asked for her to converse with me, to send some special energy, some wisdom and a  name came through..one I have come across before but when I came home and did my reading I realised just how appropriate she was for this time..

from this wonderful source here you will learn more.

http://www.orderwhitemoon.org/goddess/Danu.html

and from here comes this extract

http://www.pyramidcompany.com/CJT/index_GoddessDanu.htm

I feel so blessed and guided

~Who Is Goddess Danu . . .

Goddess Danu is considered the most ancient of all Celtic Deities.  Her name means knowledge, wisdom, teacher, wealth and abundance.  She is also known as Dana and as her Welsh equivalent, Don.

Some references have her as so ancient that she is both goddess and god and refer to Danu as an all-encompassing Divine Source.

This multi-faceted aspect of the Divine Feminine is experienced as the air we breathe, as the river that nourishes all of life, as the bounty and abundance of earth and as the cosmic energy of universal wisdom.

A Triple Goddess, which means she is able to take the form of the Maiden, the Mother or the Crone, and a Divine Lady who is the essence of the earth, the air and the essence of water, Danu is able to embody the form/energy suited the situation.  Here she brings the power of versatility and teaches us to honor and respect diversity within ourselves and within others and reminds us to honor each stage of our physical life.

Goddess Danu is strongly associated with the Tuatha de Dannan, which means “The Children of Danu.”  The Tuatha de Dannan are believed to have been the wise ones, the alchemists of ancient Ireland.  Some references have them as actual descendants of Danu.  It is believed that when the Gaelics invaded Ireland, the Tuatha de Dannan shape shifted to the Sidhe (shee) who are considered the “farey folk” or the Leprechauns of Ireland.  Danu will act as a Divine Ambassador to the Elemental Kingdoms, providing platforms for positive interactions with the Leprechauns and the Faery Folk.

Some of Danu’s symbols include holy stones, horses – particularly mares, seagulls, fish, amber, gold, royalty/empress, rivers, sea, flowing water, air, wind, earth, moon, keys and crowns.

Danu is commonly considered the first Great Mother of Ireland, Divine Creator aspect of the Goddess who birthed all things into being.  She is an Earth Goddess, associated with fertility, growth, plenty, abundance, agriculture, cultivation and with nurturing of the land.

Rivers, flowing water and the sea are also Danu’s Domain.  Within this water form she wields the magic of Divine Flow.  This River Goddess offers to clear stagnant energy and to remove blockages so that our efforts easily flow into fruition.  As the river eventually flows into the sea, here Danu brings motivation to move within the direction of our dreams.

Danu brings the attributes of inspiration, intellect, change and transcendence within her aspect as a Goddess of Air.  As a Cosmic Goddess, Danu is the essence of Universal Wisdom and Divine Knowledge.  She knows the secrets of Divine Alchemy and Divine Magic and reminds us that through our Oneness to the Divine Source, there really are no “secrets,” we are essentially one with All Encompassing Universal Wisdom.

Within all her forms Danu brings the reminder that the power to create the life that we desire resides within us.  She reminds us that we are innately attuned with the wisdom of our Ascended Self, and through the integrity of our Divine Essential Self our power is always aligned with Purity of Purpose.~

In Irish, the name means “swift flowing.” The root “dan” means “knowledge” in Gaelic. In Welsh “dan-“ means “low ground” or “moist earth.” The name Danu seems cognate with the Sanskrit, “Dana” which means “waters of heaven.” In Hindu, Danu means “unknown.”

In Celtic Mythology, the Goddess Danu was the mother Goddess of the Tuatha Dé Danann (The Tribes of Danu). The Hindu Goddess Danu appears in the Vedic story “The Churning of the Oceans,” as the goddess of the primordial waters of creation.

Danu

She is a river,
Her blood flows down across the Land.
Her whispering lips birth her names into the void:
Danu
Danand
Don

Listen to the voice:
Deep as a well that vanishes into the darkness, echoing with secret desires
With sighs that bring both pleasure and pain,
Washing away death with life.

In her arms she carries all lives into the cradle of the Earth:
Embracing our bones,
Like shining pieces of stone.

Praise to Danu

“Danu rolls in the midst of never-ceasing currents flowing without a rest forever onward”1
The Rig-Veda translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith, 1889. Peter Myers, January 15, 2002

Praise to Danu

“Danu rolls in the midst of never-ceasing currents flowing without a rest forever onward”1
The Rig-Veda translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith, 1889. Peter Myers, January 15, 2002

These are the tests of the sea
The third wave is for courage
The sixth wave is for perseverance
The ninth wave is for surrender

Lunaea Weatherstone

Nine waves before you,
Nine winds above you,
Nine paths beneath you,
Nine fires transform you,
Nine wells sustain you,
Nine wisdoms open you,
Nine gifts given you,
Nine skills given you,
Nine strengths given you,
All Ninefold the blessings of the Goddess.
from a blessing by Caitlin Matthews

More to come to  explain this slight shift ..in terms of the blog, I did not want to move nor open another one so I decided to go back to my original title and source…