Speaker 1: Happy New Year. This week, we're sharing a many episode
Speaker 1: from Deb exploring the connection between us all, and then
Speaker 1: we'll wrap up with a guided meditation on being the light.
Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome to another episode of wisdom from Deb.
Speaker 2: If it's safe for you to do so, sit back,
Speaker 2: take some long, slow, deep breaths, close your eyes, and
Speaker 2: just relax into what I'm about to say. I hope
Speaker 2: this episode speaks to you so in my practices. We've
Speaker 2: recently passed the dawning of a new year. In ancient
Speaker 2: Celtic traditions, Sowin October thirty first is both the end
Speaker 2: of the year and the beginning of a new one.
Speaker 2: The last of the harvest festivals. Sowin ushers in a
Speaker 2: time when we've completed preparations for the harsh winter ahead.
Speaker 2: It's now time to slow down, to be still, to
Speaker 2: gather by the fire, tell stories, make music, enjoy time
Speaker 2: with family and friends. It's a time to create, to sew,
Speaker 2: to knit, to string berries for the Yule tree, and
Speaker 2: so much more. And now is also the time for
Speaker 2: deep reflection. Who am I? What is my place in
Speaker 2: the world? What do I believe? Where do I turn
Speaker 2: for guidance? And perhaps most important, did I metaphorically harvest
Speaker 2: what I intended to plant this year? And what will
Speaker 2: I plant next spring that makes the world a better place?
Speaker 2: So come with me as we explore two guide posts
Speaker 2: that may help you answer some of these questions. The
Speaker 2: first guide post is the Fool Key from to Row.
Speaker 2: If you are looking for a metaphor for life's journey
Speaker 2: and lessons, the Fool is your guide. One of the
Speaker 2: things I love so deeply about to Row is that
Speaker 2: it is so much more than a divination tool. There's
Speaker 2: so much hidden in the keys in plain sight. The
Speaker 2: Fool takes us with him or her We really don't
Speaker 2: know gender on an exploration of both the world around
Speaker 2: us and the world within us. We've all been at
Speaker 2: that place that time in our lives, like the Fool,
Speaker 2: where we're about to step off of prefaces into the unknown,
Speaker 2: and we're both terrified and elated. And the fool, although
Speaker 2: he may not realize or understand it yet, has all
Speaker 2: the tools he or she needs for the adventure already
Speaker 2: stored in that wallet on the stick that is carried
Speaker 2: on the shoulders. We too have tools that we need
Speaker 2: as we travel through life, but sometimes we forget we
Speaker 2: have them, or don't believe that they will serve us.
Speaker 2: Learning to trust our internal tools is one of our
Speaker 2: lessons that we must learn along with the Fool. The
Speaker 2: lessons come as they will, as they're needed over time.
Speaker 2: In the background of the Fool key are snow capped
Speaker 2: mountains that eventually begin to melt, becoming water that flows
Speaker 2: through the major arcana keys to become the water. In
Speaker 2: the background of the final key of the major arcana,
Speaker 2: the world. The figure in that key dances on the water,
Speaker 2: holding the wands of the Magician, turning the hangedman right
Speaker 2: side up, and surrounded by a laurel wreath of victory
Speaker 2: tied with the left scapes of eternity. The Fool is
Speaker 2: connected to all the keys that guide the path right
Speaker 2: up to the end, where the Fool dances with the
Speaker 2: world and the journey spends once again. The symbols and
Speaker 2: gifts that come to us from the archetypes into row
Speaker 2: are too numerous to even mention. But they are us
Speaker 2: and we are them, and it is such a wonderful
Speaker 2: way to look at ourselves and the world around us.
Speaker 2: And so what I've just said brings me to the
Speaker 2: second guidepost that helps you think about your path in
Speaker 2: the coming months. In the Lakota language, as in many
Speaker 2: indigenous languages, there's no word for animal, but rather we
Speaker 2: speak of nations and peoples. There's no hierarchy. All life
Speaker 2: moves inside a sacred circle, so we don't speak of
Speaker 2: animals but nations, for example, the buffalo nation, the rabbit nation,
Speaker 2: the flounder nation, or peoples the antelope people, the rat people,
Speaker 2: the blue jay people. One is not better or more
Speaker 2: important or cooler than another. The mighty ant has a
Speaker 2: place in the circle of life that is just as
Speaker 2: important as the place is held by the mountain lion
Speaker 2: or the whale. Human people have no more power or
Speaker 2: no more rights than elephant people or the opossum people
Speaker 2: are the octopus people. When we take humans out of
Speaker 2: the center of the circle, we see connection and oneness
Speaker 2: through a different lens. But the notion of oneness is
Speaker 2: bigger than connection among two legged, four legged, winged, crawling,
Speaker 2: and swimming people. Hear those words again, two legged, four legged, winged, crawling,
Speaker 2: swimming people. It feels different when we describe our brothers
Speaker 2: and sisters this way, doesn't it. The notion of oneness
Speaker 2: also is about connecting to the standing and stone and
Speaker 2: water people, the earth, the sea, and the sky. People
Speaker 2: speak of the oak people, the azalea nation, the rose
Speaker 2: quartz nation, the choral people, the star nations. Lakota sentence
Speaker 2: for which I'm describing you've heard me say it before
Speaker 2: is matakiasin. Roughly translated, it means all my relations are
Speaker 2: We are all related? Do you know? I bet you do.
Speaker 2: That science is diving deeply into the notion that there
Speaker 2: really is only one tree and that its roots connect
Speaker 2: everything that the fungi nation communicates all around the world
Speaker 2: with the energy of just one mushroom. And by the way,
Speaker 2: that is a very simplistic description of a very complex
Speaker 2: scientific process the fascinating to read about. So stay with
Speaker 2: me here because the idea of matakiasi is deeply related
Speaker 2: back to science, to quantum physics and scienceetix. Which that
Speaker 2: lends me then to a social science term called systems theory.
Speaker 2: Here's what I mean. Quantum physicists have named that space
Speaker 2: in an atom between protons, electrons, and neutrons as quarks,
Speaker 2: and scientists know that within a quark is something else,
Speaker 2: something even smaller, But we don't yet have the equipment
Speaker 2: to learn what it is. There is a belief that
Speaker 2: within a quark lies infinity at its smallest and that
Speaker 2: that small, small, small infinity never stops. Conversely, thanks to
Speaker 2: the work of the James Webb telescope, we're learning that
Speaker 2: there is a bigger, larger, bigger out there out there.
Speaker 2: The point is this everything is connected, from the infinitely
Speaker 2: smallness within a quark to the infinitely largeness in the
Speaker 2: universe beyond universe. Everything is energy, and the only thing
Speaker 2: that makes us different from each other is the rate
Speaker 2: at which we vibrate. That's why there's really no mereor
Speaker 2: you in this conversation today. That's a whole other conversation perhaps,
Speaker 2: But bear with me here to think about the idea
Speaker 2: that we're all just the same energy vibrating at our
Speaker 2: unique rates. We are all the same energy vibrating at
Speaker 2: different rates. Everything is oneness, and in the social sciences
Speaker 2: we call that oneness. Systems theory the many definitions of
Speaker 2: what a system is, but here's the one that I
Speaker 2: use most often. A system is a dynamic order of
Speaker 2: parts and processes standing in mutual interaction, dynamic, always moving, changing,
Speaker 2: becoming order. There is orderleness in chaos. Systems have parts,
Speaker 2: parts that are tangible, and processes which are not, but
Speaker 2: all of these components work together to make a whole.
Speaker 2: The simplest example, of course, I can give you your
Speaker 2: You are a system. You are always dynamic, always orderly,
Speaker 2: and all the parts and processes work together. You as
Speaker 2: a system carry within you subsystems. Think circulatory, digestive, reproductive systems.
Speaker 2: For example. All those parts and processes are orderly, all
Speaker 2: are dynamic, and all are standing in mutual interaction. And
Speaker 2: each of us is, also, in addition to being a
Speaker 2: system in and of it, ourselves, a subsystem of larger systems,
Speaker 2: our families, our friends, this podcast, family, our city, country,
Speaker 2: the world. What I've just described to you is a
Speaker 2: system working in perfect and divine order, a system functioning
Speaker 2: in a homeostatic balanced state. Oh but would that, Albays
Speaker 2: be so? We know that that isn't true in today's world.
Speaker 2: We know that we, as a system, and the systems
Speaker 2: around us are sometimes broken in pain, in dire circu ccumstances,
Speaker 2: in violence, in war, and hunger, in homelessness, on and on.
Speaker 2: The list can go of what a system out of
Speaker 2: balance in an entropic state looks like we know that
Speaker 2: entropy leads to more and more randomness and chaos. What
Speaker 2: we have lost as we spiral more deeply into entropy
Speaker 2: in whatever way and whatever circumstance. Whatever we've lost is connection,
Speaker 2: And now we're back to mataki uasi. Ironically, I think
Speaker 2: it's easier for many of us to conceptualize our connectedness
Speaker 2: to our four legged or standing brothers and sisters than
Speaker 2: our connectedness to some of our two legged brothers and sisters.
Speaker 2: We can see ourselves vibrating with giraffes and cedar trees,
Speaker 2: but not sometimes with people whose beliefs are different from ours.
Speaker 2: We sometimes put two leggeds in boxes and leave them
Speaker 2: there forever. So my question to all of us is,
Speaker 2: how do I live matakiazi? How do I live connectedness?
Speaker 2: I can intellectualize the concept forever, but can I feel
Speaker 2: it deeply? And how do I actually live it on
Speaker 2: a daily basis? I confess I don't always. I was
Speaker 2: taught as a child to look at our differences. Our
Speaker 2: uniqueness is from others. I've been steeped most of my
Speaker 2: life in that ancient notion of quote dominion. Over that
Speaker 2: I learned about when I read the Garden of Eden's
Speaker 2: story as a child, a feeling that gives us some
Speaker 2: kind of a sense of power. I don't always live,
Speaker 2: MATAKIASI when I'm not conscious of or responsible about who
Speaker 2: or what I eat. I'm sure you have examples in
Speaker 2: your life that you're thinking about as I'm talking. So
Speaker 2: what can we do on an every day basis? Here
Speaker 2: are some ways I try and that feel right to me.
Speaker 2: I try not to use them and us language. There
Speaker 2: is no other, There is just us. I offer gratitude
Speaker 2: to the natural world around me, the trees, the birds,
Speaker 2: the ants, everyone. I say thank you when electricity and
Speaker 2: electronics work. I send up prayers for those in pain
Speaker 2: and suffering. I ask to become more aware of my
Speaker 2: connection to all that is, and I am always aware
Speaker 2: that I could do more. As I mentioned at the
Speaker 2: beginning of this episode, now is a great time to
Speaker 2: ponder who you are, how you live, and how connection
Speaker 2: speaks in your life. I invite you to sit with
Speaker 2: these ideas and think about connectedness and how you experience
Speaker 2: it in your life, and how you might experience more.
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Speaker 2: see the spinning of the seasons and our place in them,
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Speaker 2: listening to this episode of wisdom from Dan.
Speaker 1: Thank you dev that was great. Now we're going to
Speaker 1: take a very quick break and when we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll share our guided meditation. Now we're going to wrap
Speaker 1: up with a Be the Light meditation I shared on
Speaker 1: the show almost six years ago that centers on filling yourself, others,
Speaker 1: and our whole world with light. Make sure you can
Speaker 1: listen when you're able to lie down and have a
Speaker 1: peaceful moment to yourself. I hope you enjoy it. Wishing
Speaker 1: you all a happy, healthy, magical new Year. Let's take
Speaker 1: a moment to focus our hearts on calling our angel
Speaker 1: Raphael to help bring healing to this planet. We ask
Speaker 1: ark Angel Michael to defend us against illness, us, fear,
Speaker 1: and anxiety. We call on our angel Gabriel to help
Speaker 1: us communicate peace, health and hope. We ask Archangel Uriel
Speaker 1: to clear the path before us so that we may
Speaker 1: walk together seeking to help one another. Share the light,
Speaker 1: Embrace the light and be the light for this meditation.
Speaker 1: You can light a candle or hold a crystal. Make
Speaker 1: sure you are in a place where you won't be disturbed.
Speaker 1: Silence your phone, and give yourself permission to create a
Speaker 1: moment of sacred space in your busy life. When you're ready,
Speaker 1: close your eyes, take a deep breath. Feel the tension
Speaker 1: melting away from your neck, your shoulders, and your back.
Speaker 1: Visualize yourself breathing in white light. Inhale the white light deeply,
Speaker 1: feeling your belly expand and fill with light. Allow the
Speaker 1: light to pour through your head, neck, and shoulders. Feel
Speaker 1: its calming, healing sensation spilling into your arms, crooks of
Speaker 1: your elbows, your wrist, flooding into each of your ten fingers.
Speaker 1: With each exhale, you see yourself releasing all this fatigue
Speaker 1: and old, stagnant energy. With each outtake of breath. Inhale
Speaker 1: the white light again, pulling it into your torso, hips
Speaker 1: and legs, releasing any old tensions. As you let go
Speaker 1: of all it is no longer serving. You feel the
Speaker 1: white light soaking into your muscles, tissues, cells, bones, filling
Speaker 1: you with a sense of total peace and relaxation. Inhale
Speaker 1: deeply again, sending the white light into your ankles, feet,
Speaker 1: and toes. Feel the light extending through you and going down, down, down,
Speaker 1: into the Earth's rich soil, anchoring you and her protective embrace.
Speaker 1: Inhale the light once again. See a tube of white
Speaker 1: light coming down from the heavens, going through you and
Speaker 1: down to the Earth's crust, so that you're anchored in
Speaker 1: the light and connected to the heavens above. Visualize an
Speaker 1: angel in front of you. See this angel glowing with
Speaker 1: a beautiful bright light. See yourself stepping into the warm
Speaker 1: glow of this light. Think of anything in your life
Speaker 1: that is weighing you down and hand it to the angel.
Speaker 1: Give any bills, relationship, health, job, or school worries to
Speaker 1: this angel. Just let it all go, knowing and trusting
Speaker 1: that your team of helpers will take this from you
Speaker 1: and return perfect peace to your energy. Feel the lighter
Speaker 1: sensation that flows through you as you release and let
Speaker 1: this go. Continue to breathe deeply, allowing your belly to
Speaker 1: fill and expand as your muscles and your energy continue
Speaker 1: to relax and let go. Watch as the angel nods
Speaker 1: to you and flies up to the heavens to take
Speaker 1: your troubles and worries away for you. Now you see
Speaker 1: another angel standing in front of you. This angel is
Speaker 1: holding a ball of light. As you watch, the light
Speaker 1: grows brighter and brighter until it's bigger than both of you.
Speaker 1: The angel motions for you to step into this light.
Speaker 1: As you move into the light, you feel flooded with
Speaker 1: sensations of love and peace. You feel whole accepted in
Speaker 1: love for who you are. Stay in this peaceful space
Speaker 1: for a moment, allowing the light to work through you.
Speaker 1: Feel the gentle sensation of the light burning away from
Speaker 1: your energy, anything that is no longer serving you. The
Speaker 1: light grows brighter and bigger and to gather you and
Speaker 1: your angel. Watch as the light expands and grows and
Speaker 1: reaches out to everyone listening now, embracing us all in
Speaker 1: a perfect circle of light and healing. Take a moment
Speaker 1: to really feel this light going through you and expanding
Speaker 1: out to everyone listening right now and circling each and
Speaker 1: every one us on a continuing circle of light, healing, hease,
Speaker 1: and love. The light continues to grow and expand until
Speaker 1: you see it surrounding the entire Earth. See the light
Speaker 1: flooding the oceans of the world, topping over the mountains
Speaker 1: on each continent, skating over and through the lakes and rivers,
Speaker 1: traveling down the roads and pathways. Watch as the light
Speaker 1: surrounds and fills each and every building and home on
Speaker 1: our beautiful planet. See it filling up the forest, the deserts,
Speaker 1: and plains with its lovely, peaceful, and healing light. Visualize
Speaker 1: the light coursing through the insects, animals, and birds throughout
Speaker 1: the world as it passes over woods, farms, and dives
Speaker 1: deep into the Earth's soil. See the light going into
Speaker 1: all the seeds that are being planted in the earth
Speaker 1: right now. See the light going into all the seeds
Speaker 1: of thought that we're all putting out into the world. Now,
Speaker 1: send the light into each and every human walking this planet.
Speaker 1: Visualize a ribbon of light connecting from your angel's heart
Speaker 1: to yours and moving out to every other person on
Speaker 1: our planet as it wraps and connects each of us
Speaker 1: in its loving light. Take a moment to focus on
Speaker 1: all the love you hold within your beautiful soul. Send
Speaker 1: this love out to the world, knowing that just like
Speaker 1: an echo, this gift of love will return to you.
Speaker 1: Visualize peace and perfect communication flowing through these ribbons of
Speaker 1: light connecting the world, and an energetic vibration of healing
Speaker 1: and renewal. Think of the word piece and what it
Speaker 1: means to you, and send this out to the world.
Speaker 1: Stay a moment in this space of total connection as
Speaker 1: you feel the light flowing through you and out from
Speaker 1: you to every living being on this planet. When you
Speaker 1: feel ready, take another deep breath, bringing your focus and
Speaker 1: attention back to your room. Stretch your arms and legs,
Speaker 1: and flutter your eyes open as you come back into
Speaker 1: your present awareness. Know that you can take this feeling
Speaker 1: of peace and universal love with you throughout the day
Speaker 1: because you are the light and we all hold this
Speaker 1: light within us. Thank you so much for listening be
Speaker 1: the light for yourself and others. Thank you for listening
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