Tag Archives: Consciousness

A Whale of a Tide Rolling In

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Whale guides us into the realm of our soul’s purpose
When we honor the depth of our inner waters, we awaken the magic of joy

We are living in dangerous times, and the appeal to nationalism is rising
The Military-Industrial Complex fattens itself with protectionist alliances

Authentic purity is about aligning with the Universal pillars of Love and Truth
Tapping into our soul potential awakens deeper seas of freedom and empowerment

We are social creatures that should care about our entire pod
But not at the expense of getting caught up in the undertow of a herd mentality

Waking up to Karmic responsibility does relax a sense security and comfort
There is always a price to appeasement and keeping the peace

But inner peace will reflect in our outer world with greater cumulative power than
the control of Big Business governing and micro-managing our free-spirited Nature

The same rings true in personal relationships

The ghosts of Winter and yesteryear are here to remind us of
where we were and where we are heading

Picture a Whale to dive into the living memory of Mother Earth
Swim into new leagues of empathy

Spring is arriving, and its accompanying Equinox rolls in the later tides of March
Energetic equality dances again where light and dark are in alignment

But before that, a Full Worm Moon arrives with Daylight Savings Time
on Sunday, March 12

See you further on up the trails,

Ari

With Owl’s Vision, We See with a Keen View

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Owl’s night vision zeros in on shadowy
darkness shrouding our World today . . .

There are so many secrets and closeted dysfunctions
whispering along the tree lines

Termites and mouse hoardings are exposing themselves now . . .
Once lurking underground, underneath the topsoil

Grandmother Moon softens inward darker emotions
They don’t need to charge hateful bites that burden your soul

Let the internal flames of Truth and Power of Love
reflect in your outer world experience

In spite of wintry winds and cold weather to come
Remember to nurture your inner torch with love, light and laughter!

Some of our ancestors have called owls cats with wings
Because they are stealthy predators who see in the dark effectively

When racing thoughts take flight, making relaxation difficult at night . . .
Picture an Owl and send a message of sunlight to loosen your stiff neck

Old ghosts and energies are here to reawaken novel opportunities
to remember and make amends with our ancestors who have passed on

Arriving New Moon beginnings are here to help us proceed through
our daily routine with feminine softness as we turn our clocks yinward

Sometimes emotional pain might be asking us to attend to the details of
giving up hoardings of excess baggage that weighs down our collective soul

It’s OK to love yourself in a quiet way by getting some rest and
take refuge from the storms

See you further on up the trails,

Ari

Time to Buck Up to Deer’s Gentle Directional Pointing Toward New Adventures

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Deer reflects a gentle and compassionate approach toward
by being lured into deeply mysterious adventures in your soul’s forest

Autumn’s foliage changes colors before eyes to see
Time to venture deeper into woods

Light fades, veils thin and the line between
spirit and material realities are bending gradually

A tear falls down my cheek as I remember those close to me
who have left this Earth, pets and other animal friends included

Sadness and grieving fill souls with death and dying as
Mother Nature’s projects a theatrical performance hinting at tragedy

Right and left hemispheres shift from center-left
Tis the season to transition into the right side of our brains

It can become a Bear to get stuck in the more bitter and
polarized conflicted dramas of the lower chakras, doom and gloom so without

Souls descend further yinward into darker and feminine
primal imaginative intuitive realms of cognition

Imagination is a grand canyon of possibilities
Notice the Dreamtime silently gaining lucidity in its visions

Isn’t it is a challenge and opportunity to find middle ground amidst
the current events of polarized times we live in today?

May Deer guide you into new adventures in your consciousness
Discover a new way to look at past relationships without fear

Her energy will help you examine with a gentle gaze and
dissolve any uncomfortable perceptions of people, places and things

Even if our world  were to flip upside down and
another planet entered into our collective orbit . . .

Relax any perceptions looked upon as spooky ghosts, monsters and demons
And call on Deer to gently let them pass with care

See you further up the trails,

Ari

Remembering Old Mother Goose

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A powerful Aries New Moon shot through our skies last week
These energies can help us stay on target as we traverse through the
fiery energetic aftershocks of Spring Eclipse season

Here on the ground Goose signifies an opportune time for new beginnings
The impetus for breathing out the old grows with
breathing in the rising Light in the air

Time to breathe in fresh new approaches to
harmonize with each other and our environment

Use the energies of Goose to align with the spirit of a new season

Take a look back in the rearview mirror and imagine a road less traveled ahead

Geese reflect the possibilities of healthy egalitarian soul to soul connections
They are good role models for high fidelity in couple partnerships

Let go of codependent, tit for tat entanglements with form
As identification with ego-driven desires relax, spiritual power grows

Life is a spiritual quest . . .
Remember the ancestral wisdom that reminds us that a journey of a thousand miles
always started with a single step

Let Goose guide you into a legendary sense of adventure during your travels here

A healthy relationship to yourself first is based on a mutual and trusting
intermarriage between your Divine masculine and feminine selves

Goose awakens creative forces of purification, renewal and intimacy
as you co-author your Life story with your Higher authentic Self

What unchartered places in your consciousness want to awaken to self-discovery?

Geese serve as inspiration to explore a vegetarian diet
This is good food for healthy soulful digestion

Flying in a V formation utilizes maximum energy
where every bird takes its turn at egalitarian propulsion

A wise old adage of what is good for the goose is good for the gander is personified

A seductive vote for Donald Trump, behind the smokescreen,
simply reveals a greedy silver spoon rebel without a cause
Whilst in reality, a vote for him is a vote for more oppression by the Empire
vilifying the poor and oppressed is not being pro-American

A vote for Hillery Clinton is new on the surface,
in the sense that America would give birth to Her first woman as President,
an elderly minority of the opulent White woman of course . . .

And then there is Bernie Sanders running on the political playing field
Ever humble, modest and honest, though a minority candidate that comes
from lower middle class Jewish heritage
Did you know that back in the 90’s, powerful feminist
Gloria Steinem coined Sanders an “honorary woman”

There is a rising climate of consciousness on our Planet today that
wants to level the playing field through a motivation
for all of us to live, work and play together in a socially democratic fashion

But we are living in divisive times today . . .
Like Yin and Yang, order and chaos are mixing it up

Today’s violence reminds us of our need to step up to peace
Be part of the solution by loving yourself and one another

It is imperative to heal our illusion of us and them
May we let go of a dying old elitist world mentality that glamorize angels and demons

Remember that out of the ashes,
a Phoenix Rising is born anew

See your further on up the trails,

Ari

I am pleased to announced the forthcoming arrival of my first published book. I will
keep you posted when it is released to the public. It is a collaboration of
my writing and my Aunt Barbara’s artwork.

Catching and Releasing Judgments with Pelican’s Guidance

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Pelican flies into our daily meditations

We are guided into the realm of forgiveness and
releasing judgments that we hold toward others and often ourselves

Our judgments can be incessant like a chattering monkey
They carry a charge and have a tendency to target others

In this space, viewing the perceived transgressions of someone else
looks like a separate entity from our own identity

It’s easy to search, find and target blame here . . .

But for now we have a spiritual opportunity here to take a
closer look at the unexamined shadow side of our own souls
to see our own reflection

Might as well go deep into your heart and find forgiveness
Dig deep to release your judgments to the Universe to
transmute them into the Light

Yang is rising now until He peaks on the Summer Solstice
in the Northern Hemisphere

Yin gains momentum in the Southern Hemisphere
where She shrouds Yang

Nature reveals that everything is transitory, fleeting and ephemeral

What looks like a curse might very well be a blessing in disguise
It just doesn’t seem like that right now from a place of judgment

When we hold on to our judgments,
We become blocked from cleaner flowing energetic waters

Pelicans are good role models for balancing competition and cooperation
They know when to catch and release fish

Meditation on forgiveness awakens the reality of inner peace
Our souls become lighter and more buoyant

Do whatever you can to let your judgements go
and allow your blossoming spiritual power to grow

Wall Street candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are
Imperial front-runner politicians advancing their
political careers in a well-oiled machine

Ask yourself who would the Klan vote for?
Then simply vote for someone else in good standing with the poor and oppressed

Look at social democratic challenger Bernie Sanders stoking the embers
of the will of the people by simply calling for our
constitutional right to promote our society’s general welfare . . .

With all these new beginnings and changing tides, a New Moon must be in the air

See you up the trails,

Ari

I am pleased to announced the forthcoming arrival of my first published book. I will
keep you posted when it is released to the public. It is a collaboration of
my writing and my Aunt Barbara’s artwork.

Robin Raps Powerful Spring Lyrics of Rising Light, While the Base of Winter’s Darkness Fades to Black

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A March Full Worm Moon waxes now until shortly after Spring Equinox
Robins abound as early birds get the worms

The seasons are changing . . .

Lao Tzu blows in with the wind echoing that “Nature is the best physician”

There are rotting logs, stagnant waters and familiar terrains
that leave us feeling secure and stable

It’s so easy to get stuck in the blues of muddy waters

But you can also leap onto a different Lily Pad and
a new reality might appear out of the thicket

Like the Equinox in Fall,
Light and Dark energies are on equal ground

It is natural to see equanimity play out in Nature
with masculine and feminine energies commingling
with the flitting of order and chaos

Can you hear the new winds chimes of freedom blowing in the wind?

But the anchored in old hooks of the Empire don’t want
to let go and relax their firm grip

Look at Donald Trump greedily grab and gobble up Big Money
Wait a moment and you will see Hillary Clinton at a Super Pac pep rally
program designed to keep the Billionaire Class in charge

Doesn’t this sound like a repeat performance at the Club folks?

Blazing new trails from that dying old world
is an Aquarian consciousness Bernie Sanders,
aligned with the power to the people movement

The buds of the disenfranchised are growing in numbers
We need to hear the spring in their voices without losing our minds to madness!

Stop doing the same thing over and over
with an expectation that something different will take place

Exhale your old habitual mental tapes and breathe in a mantra of oneness and
universal interconnectedness with everyone and everything

We have become comfortable with the status quo and
addicted to our old ways of doing business on Planet Earth

Band aid life support systems are losing their stick

What new flowers want to grow into your consciousness?

May creativity come blazing in to express their energies in your direction
through the eyes of positive interpretations and silver linings!

See you up the trails,

Ari

A Self Protective Shell with Turtle Provides Safe Haven as a Spirit Guide

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Now more than ever may we become quiet enough to heed Turtle’s wisdom
Remember that stillness speaks through the sound of silence

These are the days of diving into the depth of our inner seas
Because we are all globally swimming in perceived divisive waters of polarity

But underground forces know there is oneness and unity

Turtle is a good reminder to be patient, gentle and kind to yourself
during this process of evolutionary growth that is not without its growing pains

Light and Dark energies will be on equal ground on Spring Equinox
Tis the season to heal polarity in the collective waters of consciousness

In this Chinese Year of the Monkey . . .

Might as well use the rising intensities to invigorate your committment
to relax your own chattering monkey mind

A hurry up offense is a popular way to live on Earth today . . .

Batter up, strike out and who’s on first?
The thoughts and emotional reactions to those thoughts can be incessant

The stories and monkey mind chatter can come on fast and furious
like a perfect storm even

Envisioning a light-hearted, playful and even childlike sense of humor of Self
enhances the ability to see the interplay
between wisdom and folly as comedic theater

Are you hating that person with political beliefs divergent from yours?
It’s just a reflection of leaving behind old shores,
while moving into new lands of thought

Please consider heeding the experiential wisdom of Ram Das
to just learn to love everybody and everything

The wind and the rain have a way of washing things out
Cleaning up with consistent exercise and eating energetically grounding foods
moves things around with the good stink of healthy fertilizer for those in our wake

Mother Earth’s ancient wisdom is to stay low like the depths of the ocean

Is it time to retreat into a protective bubble and shield yourself
from the worries of the world of 10,000 things?

Or do you need to come out of your shell and socialize more frequently?

The tides of climate change are shifting and gaining momentum . . .

Like the transition from Winter to Spring

The weather underground is budding with new growth
As your buried ideas surface from their dark Winter’s slumber

They are waking up and wanting to spring into action
In the sunlight of Spring Eclipse season

Keep your wits by recognizing that order and chaos are dancing together
Just as light and dark forces moving with one another

We are here to sit with tension of opposites
and make friends with the conflict of duality

Do what ever you can to slow down and observe the moments as they spring up
Try to do this without judgment and learn to be with what is

Meditation on Turtle will help you cultivate energy gradually like the power of water

A Full Worm Moon arrives on Hump Day after Spring Equinox
Symbolic of a new season and the early bird getting the worm

See you further on up the trails,

Ari

Dolphin Trails

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Dolphin guides our souls into the watery wake of a waning Snow Moon
The time is Now to cultivate an agile mind and balance our heads and hearts

Shortly arriving Spring Eclipse season sings mystical melodies to our souls
in the primal key of sound frequencies attuned to our emotional feeling-states

Meditation on Dolphin can help you communicate effectively

Look at those words that want to jump out of your mouth . . .

Take a deep breath and be mindful of how you speak

Dolphin swims in the deep feminine waters of creation, passion and sexuality
In much the same way of the peaceful warrior . . .

Dolphin builds power gradually and is released through softness

Just be mindful of deep belly breathing –
Trust your gut . . . and let it relax

Sonar is subatomic hearing through our heart-mind

What is your Self saying to yourself?

Surf the curious, intellectual and intuitive waves with Dolphin’s guidance

Know your uniqueness within Oneness

We are one human family and collective consciousness . . .

Our imperfections and eccentricities are what make us unique

Breath out yesterdays old ghosts and wounded demons
that have haunted the better devil you know

Take back any outward projections and release their energies

Breath in the sunlit clouds of mutability into your Being . . .

Altered states and New Dimensions are accessed through deep belly breathing

Become carefully mindful of your submerged thoughts
The shadow-building of unconsciousness is polluting our world

But isn’t that obvious?

Becoming the change you want to see in the world is a good mantra to live by

Masculine and feminine energies will flow together
in tides of synchronized oceanic swimming

On Spring Equinox in later March . . .

Regardless of where you are at on the spectrum of consciousness . . .

Just learn to Love everything and become the revolutionary change
that swims in through fluid empathic hate-free zones

Till the next trailhead,

Ari

A Whale of a Tide Rolling In

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Whale guides us into deeper seas of our shared collective consciousness
May we be hip to the presence of the multidimensional wavelengths of Mother Earth

Their sonar is an empathic connection to Her planetary heartbeat

Exhale dead air and breathe in a sailor’s delight

Whales give good pod casts on healthy family matters
We are redefining family and learning to pool our resources together . . .

Through Whale medicine, we hear inside ourselves with deeper insights
Our sensitivities are powering up in the Tao of now

Spring astrological Eclipse storms are brewing
the winds of change are blowing in the air

The jet streams of nouveaux energies
want to light the torches of chi that surrounds and binds us

As luminous beings, may we awaken our “liminal” experiences
that were perhaps previously submerged underwater

A Full Snow Moon appears in the skies
As Nature’s sunlight is rising

Do you feel the underground weather heating up?

On Spring Equinox . . .
Light and dark forces will be in transient balance

Picture Whale cresting near a shoreline
beneath the bounty of a mountain range

Take in this Divine Love into your hearts

Whale blows steam into the waters of an egalitarian New Earth
May our medicine shields release and let-go of
dualities and relax tendencies to demonize ill-perceived enemies

Imagine floating cities flowing with free and clean energy
with equal access to resources . . .

See these possibilities crest on our horizon –
Revealing a New World of healthy Galactic interdependence

We are polarized right now on Planet Earth
The American political stage is no exception . . .

Art imitates reality with Trump and Sanders playing on opposite sides of the
political football field, while the other players cluster somewhere in the middle

One wants to rigidly build more divisive boarders and the other wants to facilitate
safe passage and increased traffic flow through egalitarian causeways

The Military-Industrial Complex and its group psychology of mass manipulation
Takes an authentic look at itself and realizes

Now is the time to relax the rigid and
compartmentalized grip on the public mind

Do you have the faith to allow the universal pillars of Love and Truth set you free?

Nurturing program development of a spiritually reflective lens of Self
Facilitates movement into the creative waters of an actualized soul potential

See that our suffering is largely a product of “the ghettos of the mind”

Till we meet again at the trail head,

Ari