Hope, Balance, and Beauty

     These are strange, in-between times for all of us. There’s rising hope: will we be able to sustain it? There’s potential for decency and community: how do we find our way through the morass of blame, self-righteousness, and anger that’s taken over public discourse? There’s the beauty that surrounds us, always: do we take it in, nurture ourselves, let our hearts brighten with the harmony inherent in nature? There’s the balance that comes at fall equinox—equal night and day, dark and light, as we shift towards the ending of summer, the dying back of our gardens, and the reddening colors of fall leaves. 

     What balance will you cultivate in your life? The ease of being with the satisfaction of doing? Inner and outer work? Living from both your mind and heart? Whatever balance calls to you, the energy of the turning of the sun will aid you!

     I’ve taken a break these last few months, after 20 years! of writing monthly Shifting Your Consciousness newsletters, giving myself gifts of time and space to listen deeply. It’s been delicious, confusing, question-raising, and wonderful. Some days I’ve had so many topics I wanted to address that I couldn’t decide; other days my mind was empty, just being present to trees and wind, light and shadow. 

A Gratitude Story

     Gratitude has threaded through these months, following a ceremony organized by a shamanic friend of mine.  Seventeen of us gathered, and I want to share a beautiful story of what happened.

     Gathering in a circle, we took time to listen to each other as each person held her individual offerings of flowers, speaking her gratitude. We placed our bundles in a hole in the Earth to offer thanks and appreciation back to the Earth. At the end we were guided in a meditation to connect our hearts and inner light in a great column of light and send the power of our gratitude out into the world.

     What struck the deepest chord in me was listening to how my friend had been able to shift his perception of his parents and experience his gratitude for what they’d given him. After a long road of struggling with abandonment, he’d embraced his 96-year old father and his mother with Alzheimer’s. Since trauma work has been a big part of my own healing, it was beautiful and inspiring to hear him speak the love and connection he’d developed over the last few years with both these parents. And humbling, since I am still working to forgive my own.

     The next morning, my friend and his sister were holding their mother‘s hands when she passed peacefully into the next world. He had created a space of appreciation and love for her to let go, and our group had shared that energy by creating a larger field of gratitude to hold him and her as she made her transition.
     We weren’t expecting this. You never know when somebody is going to move on. But as each of us took in the story we all felt the same thing: we had created a powerful field of love in which anything was possible with that bundle of spoken gratitude that we had gifted to the Earth. 

     When we combine our personal energy in a group field, and really focus on our intent on being the love and light that we are together, we create a great source of energy that continues on and on. 

     We can tap into this field each time we need to renew, or be sustained, or remember that everything is possible. 

     Ceremonies are not only powerful, but sorely needed by all of us. Taking a few hours out of your life to gather and see what happens is a great gift to yourself in the world. Soon I'll organize an in-person community gratitude ceremony in Sonoma, and I hope you'll join us if you're able.
 

What you give love to, you give life to... 

Where your energy goes, your attention flows...

Interviews and Resources

Shaman Portal webinar with Meg: the video is unfortunately no longer available, but you can Listen Here!

Your bright, shining light, your heart, and your love are essential to these troubled times!  The people of the High Andes live with a cosmovision where stars and rivers, stones and mountains inform their daily lives. Discover from this time-tested tradition how to lift heaviness from your heart and open to the beauty and harmony of our interconnected world. 

In this Shaman Portal webinar with Meg you’ll learn potent, embodied practices and explore practical strategies for shifting your energy and awareness. Find the courage and tools to step from separation to connection and belonging.

A book that's really helped me see into my family's legacies of abandonment is It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn. With powerful stories throughout, so you can really understand how transforming traumatic legacies changes your life, the book offers practical questions you can use to plumb your experience and forgive those whose PTSD informed your own.  

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