Sedna and the Magic of the Pearl Pentacle December 9, 2009
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I learned a new word last weekend – “nacre.” It means “mother of pearl,” but it can also be used as a verb, as in “we will now nacre over the grit of life to form it into a pearl.” It seems like such a simple way to deal with all the annoying irritations of life. Just nacre over them and presto, we have pearls instead of grit! Why didn’t I ever think of it before?
As an EFT therapist, I spend a lot of time dealing with people’s grit (not to mention my own) – the grit of childhood traumas, physical illness, fears and phobias, thwarted desires, and accumulated emotional set backs, all of which can stop a person in their tracks. While EFT is amazingly effective at dissolving the grit most of the time, and my clients generally leave saying things like, “Wow! I feel so much better,” there are occasional times when a problem just does not seem to budge. I wonder if these more stubborn problems are pieces of grit that people really need in order to form pearls of wisdom in their lives. Maybe a process of nacring over them might be a better way to assist the healing process in such cases. But enough speculation – the point of this blog is the pearl pentacle work.
There are five points, of course, representing Love, Power/Liberty, Law, Wisdom, and Knowledge. In our Reclaiming Tradition workshop (the final one of four core classes) we worked with these five points and coated them with imaginary nacre. This was a surprisingly soothing process. I didn’t notice it so much at the time. Naturally, I nacred along with the rest of the group, but it wasn’t until several days later that I really noticed the soothing effect. Things that had been bugging the hell out of me the week before, now seem mellow and easy to deal with. Life seems to have taken a smooth turn for the better. Weird!
Even though I’ve been working with magic for many years, it never ceases to amaze me that it works! A simple process of flowing imaginary nacre over gritty inner issues can actually create a smoother flowing life, almost effortlessly. Not that the pearl pentacle didn’t bring up any gritty stuff. It did – and I will be using EFT to clear it, just like before. But the real grit, the true grit of John Wayne fame – the kind of grit I need to stand up to the slings and arrows of life – I will hang on to that so I can nacre over it.
Of course, I don’t want to be another John Wayne type! I want pearly true grit. I have to admit, I didn’t believe it when people said that “Pearl” would smooth over the rough edges brought up by “Iron,” but it did just that. Iron left me feeling raw and vulnerable, but Pearl feels like a scab over the wounds – a pearly pretty sort of scab. On the surface, it looks like nothing has really changed, but my outlook has shifted and that changes everything.
Throughout the Pearl process, we worked with the story of Sedna, an Inuit goddess of the sea. Her life was full of the most bitter betrayals, yet she turned her injuries into gifts. When her father threw her overboard into the ocean and cut off her fingers so she could not climb back into their boat, she transformed her severed fingers into fish and seals to feed her people.
We each took turns aspecting Sedna (allowing her to speak through us and experience through our bodies). What struck me most about this process was that she is STILL being betrayed – by us. She was very distraught about the way we have been treating the waters of the world and she asked repeatedly, through different speakers, that we take care of the water.
I wonder if she will be able to transform the mid-ocean swamp of plastic the size of Texas into a gift. I wonder if she can possibly transform all the Prozac and pesticides that we dump into toilets, streams and rivers. Then there is the massive runoff of E. coli and salmonella tainted water from feedlots and slaughterhouses of the meat industry. And what about the growing level of acid in the oceans that threatens to dissolve the shells of shellfish? Can she deal with that?
That is an interesting question, since we have been working with nacre. What if we allow the oceans to become so acidic that nacre no longer exists, except in our imaginations? Something to think about. I know one thing. The muggle world is not taking these issues seriously enough, so maybe we need to give Sedna some help in whatever way we can. What are we putting into the water that washes down our drains? What are we allowing corporations and governments to dump into our waters? And how are we relating to the living element of water in our own bodies?
Are we dumping acidic sugars, chemicals and drugs into our bloodstreams? Are we eating enough green vegetables and fruits to keep our systems alkaline, so our bones and teeth don’t dissolve? Funny how the microcosm reflects the macrocosm, isn’t it? Nacre in real life is totally dependent on proper pH levels – and we are the only ones who can monitor and maintain them in our oceans and in our own bodies. I don’t think we can nacre over that.
For more information on the Pearl Pentacle – http://www.feritradition.org/witcheye/essay_pearlpent.htm
The Magic of Red & White Dragons, Rivers & Roses December 6, 2009
Posted by wulfworks in Uncategorized.Tags: hummingbird animal ally, magic, magick, Merlin predictions, myth-working, red and white dragons, red and white roses, rivers of blood and tears
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Red & White Dragons
As if the Iron Pentacle didn’t stir up enough stuff to process, I jumped right into the red and white dragon energies of the Underworld the next weekend in a powerful workshop led by R. J. Stewart. Working with myths is a sure way to get us in touch with very deep and magical realities! Whether the stories are based on “real” events in the material world or events purely of the inner realms, they have been passed down from one generation to another because they connect us with truths that resonate deep in our collective psyche. In short, the myths work magic inside us. This is certainly true of Merlin’s tale of the red and white dragons.
As background we must refer to the story of King Vortigern and Merlin as recorded by Geoffrey of Monmouth. It starts with Vortigern’s tower.
“He assembled stonemasons from different parts of the country and ordered them to build a tower for him. The masons gathered and began to lay the foundations of their tower. However much they built one day the earth swallowed up the next, in such a way that they had no idea where their work had vanished to.”
Monmouth’s work is easy to find, so I won’t take space here to repeat the whole story. The key point is that Vortigern was told by his magicians that they had to pour the blood of a boy without a father on the foundations of his tower to prevent it from falling each time they tried to build it. Merlin was that boy who, according to the story, had a human mother and a spirit or faery father. Rather than be sacrificed for the tower, Merlin offered to tell King Vortigern the real reason the tower kept falling. Beneath the hill on which they were trying to build the tower, he said there was a cavern. In the cavern was a pool, and at the bottom of the pool were two vessels containing a red and a white dragon.
King Vortigern dug into the hill and drained the pool to discover the two vessels which then broke open to release the dragons. Immediately the dragons began to twist together in a fight, or in love making according to some sources. On one level the dragons represent the invading Saxons and the native British at the time of King Vortigern, but of course they also have a much deeper mythical meaning. They are in fact the root energy of physical manifestation, the yin and yang energies that infuse all of what we call reality.
When we visualize the hill of Vortigern’s tower before us and imagine entering the underworld cavern and then descending into the pool, we can contact these red and white dragon energies. These are the primal energies of creation rooted in the core of Earth. They are reflected in the streams of blood and tears (lymph) within our bodies. The twining of the dragons is also reflected in the double helix form of our DNA, which the dragons represent on a cosmic level.
This work can have profound life-changing implications. The first thing I noticed when connecting with the dragon energy was that it felt very enlivening. I could feel a tingling rising up from my feet to energize my whole body. It felt like a healing and balancing energy, yet if one was not well grounded the energy could possibly overload the circuits, so to speak.
It is hard to describe the vitalizing and uplifting force of these dragons that I had invited into my consciousness, but I suspect that it is very healing, particularly to blood and bone. In fact, my intuition is that it could be a valuable aid in cases of osteoporosis, which seems to be caused on an energetic level by disconnection from earth and stone energies. This enlivening Earth force is almost totally absent from modern consciousness in the industrialized world. How often do most of us actually touch the Earth with our bare feet or hands? How often do we consciously allow the positive and negative energies of our Earth Star to flow within us?
White Spring at Glastonbury
And then we moved on to the rivers of blood and tears of the Underworld. The river of blood flows from the red dragon and the river of tears flows from the white dragon. We visualized entering the underworld through the plant realm of nature while gathering our faery and animal allies around us. Then traveled down into the mineral realm of stone where we followed the dark red river of blood to a cliff where it fell off into an ocean of tears. On the other side of this ocean a white river rose up to the top of another cliff. The energies of this place were quite different from those of the dragons. There was a heavy downward pull and a sense of deep sorrow and pain that was being transformed by the underworld energies. It is said that all the blood and tears that are spilled in the human world flow down into the faery realm to be transmuted and healed in these two rivers. This journey felt like another kind of healing, though with more of an eerie sense of stillness, as if all the sorrow and pain of life was flowing through it and I could only watch.
Red Spring at Glastonbury
I left a spontaneous gift of a small white feather that fell over the cliff to be stained red with blood. My mind still hasn’t figured out the significance of that, but I think that is a good thing. Confounding the mind can lead to much deeper learning and healing. We returned through the mineral and plant worlds, back to our “normal” awareness, but inside me I still carry the echo of that deep, deep ocean of tears with the river of blood flowing into it. Interesting, isn’t it, that our blood has its own pumping system of heart and lungs, but our lymph remains still like an ocean unless we exercise our bodies to move it. (Even more interesting to make that observation in a workshop where we pretty much sat still the whole time!) The white river only moves with action!
Red & White Roses that Guard the Faery Spring
From the red river grows the red rose, while the white rose grows from the white river. These roses grow over a faery spring, the gateway to the Underworld, guarding it from intruders. This is where the energy of the red and white dragons becomes manifest in the outer world of plants. Animals and faeries can pass easily through the briar thorns, but most humans cannot. That is why we need faery and animal allies for our underworld journeys. They know the secret ways and they can transmute the energies that might be harmful to us. This alliance, however is not only to serve us. We must be just as much in their service.
This faery spring comes up from the Underworld at the center of the crossroads where all directions and all dimensions come together. It is here that we can meet the ancestors, faery and animal allies, angels, and all manner of other beings. The price of entrance is a drop of our blood from the prick of a rose thorn. My own personal experience was that my tears were also accepted as an entrance fee and they were easily made available when my animal ally powerfully merged with my consciousness.
Upon entering this realm, I found a rich and diverse world shimmering with beautiful star light. Such beauty is hard to resist, but of course we had to return. Return we did, I with a new sense of wholeness and balance, and a much deeper connection with my animal ally, the exquisite little hummingbird.
Hummingbird - Animal Ally
In the faery realm, small is big. I really experienced this at the faery spring. I first met hummingbird awhile back when I was looking for my animal ally. I was expecting something big and powerful, and one that I had worked with before… a horse or wolf at least. But it was hummingbird who came. Tiny and fragile. I have to admit, it bothered me a little. What, I wondered, could a tiny little hummingbird do? Still, it was the animal who answered my quest for an ally, so I accepted it with gratitude. I often felt it beside me in my inner adventures, and even sometimes in the outer world. After awhile I couldn’t imagine wanting a different animal ally. (But see the human foolishness of wondering what the ally can do for ME? When I should have been wondering what we could do together?)
Anyway, this hummingbird that seems so tiny and fragile in our world, was a mighty force in the faery realm. It was actually bigger than me! When it came to meet me this time I felt it push against my energy field, but it did not force itself on me. It was more like an invitation. Do you want to merge with my consciousness? Do you really want to enter fully into this alliance? At first I resisted a little. It felt so huge and overpowering. That is when the tears came to my eyes. Tears of joy and tears of fear. And I knew that this was my one chance to say yes or no. This was the moment I had to decide. Am I going forward or stagnating?
Yes, I said… of course. Yes to hummingbird with all his huge, magical, powerful energy. A thousand times yes. And I was suddenly filled with the whirring, wonderful essence of hummingbird who is now a third part of my life journey. Sweet little hummingbird, my teacher, my companion, my ally. Thank you so very much! Hmmm… interesting, after all this, that he is so drawn to the color red… the red of the rose, and of blood, and of the dragon.
My faery ally is not yet so well integrated, but I see now what potential there is in such alliances. The adventure continues…
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Working with the Iron Pentacle December 3, 2009
Posted by wulfworks in Uncategorized.Tags: healing with magic, Hindu mythology, Iron pentacle, Kali, magic, myth-working, Reclaiming, Shiva
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Iron Pentacle
The whole idea is to look into your personal shadows in the areas of sex, power, pride, passion and self, and explore how they relate to each other in your life. We worked with the story of Kali and Shiva from Hindu mythology and it fit perfectly! I have to admit, since this particular pentacle work is relatively modern and not passed down from ancient tradition, I wasn’t expecting the magic to be all that powerful. Wrong!
I have great respect for the ancient myths and traditions, but I see now that it doesn’t have to be ancient to be powerful. Myth-working, I suppose, will be powerful no matter what the context. Change is definitely happening! One thing that happens when you look into your shadows is that the stuff you didn’t want to see or feel is suddenly running through your blood and staring you in the face. That includes disappointment, anger, shame, fear, vulnerability, self-criticism, confusion, and a bunch of other stuff that can’t even be expressed in words.
Starting with sex, which in the physical world is where all life begins, we worked our way around the circle to self. By that time I felt like I’d been through the wringer, but that was just the beginning. Now, two days later the shock waves are still rumbling through. Take a deep breath. Coming to terms with all the disappointments of a lifetime can be a monumental task! Where is the fairy-tale romance my inner child was counting on? Why have I never fully stood in my power? How come it is so easy to get stuck in deflated pride? Why has my passion so often been a sideline, pushed aside to make room for practicality and security? And self… who is it anyway… really? Is it the face I show the world, or the face I keep to myself, or is it something beyond either of those? One exercise we did was very revealing.
When working with the point of pride, we were asked to find our true authentic self. Where did we feel like we were most strong and capable and secure? Where did our true self flow unimpeded? For me it was in writing, which I found a bit surprising, because I have always thought of myself as an artist at heart… a visual artist. Yet it was in writing that I found the anchor to my authentic self. And it was to writing that I had to go back to pull myself out of the state of deflated pride. Funny how easy it was to get stuck there!
Another interesting thing is how much anger is coming to the surface in these days after the workshop… anger mostly at myself for “wasting” opportunities, fearing my own power, allowing my passion to be squelched… anger that is likely to explode on unsuspecting people if they happen to cross me. Watch out! Take a deep breath. All part of the clearing process. Interesting also that I just happened to be in the middle of a physical cleansing process at the same time (blood, colon, liver, parasite cleanse).
I have spent most of my life thinking anger was a bad thing. I never even allowed myself to feel it, but obviously it was there and it is ready to be felt now, like it or not. Take a deep breath. And underneath it there is a deep sadness. Sadness for all the unrealized dreams, all the broken promises, the destruction in the world – of lives, forests, species, ecosystems, hopes… and my own sense of self-worth which has been eroded away by constant self-criticism.
There is nothing unique about any of that. Billions of people are in the same boat, chipping away at themselves until they have nothing left but Prozac, TV, crack, pot, chocolate, booze, and fast cars to distract them from the pain. But here is the difference. When we stop and take a look into our shadows and stir up that pain, anger, sadness,and fear, it starts moving. That sort of movement doesn’t feel all that good. That’s why we stuffed it in the first place. But if we can just allow it to move through us, like the dance of Kali on a rampage after devouring demons, there will be a point where she stops and recognizes the pure innocence of our inner self… and as she recognizes our true nature, so too will we.
Kali is the archetypal destroyer, yet when Shiva laid himself down at her feet, she recognized the purity of his being and became the archetypal nurturer. Only when she has finished destroying our demons will she be able to recognize the true essence of who we are. Take a deep breath. So, as in the story of Shiva and Kali, I choose to let Kali rampage through my inner world, kicking up anger, fear, pain, and sadness in her wake. I choose to lie helpless on the battlefield of my soul, waiting for the moment she will recognize the essence of who I am, so that I can be free of the demons that haunt my shadows.
I don’t want to numb myself with drugs, booze and fast cars. I want to feel the stomping of Kali’s dance and the earthquakes that cause my illusions to crumble. I want to be fully awake and aware in the moment Kali stops with her tongue hanging out in amazement at the sight of me lying on her battlefield of destruction… the me that I really am. I don’t want to miss that. Take a deep breath. Okay, I feel better now. I also found the following interesting article about how the Iron and Pearl pentacles fit the Qabalistic tree of life for those who are interested in such things. I thought it was fascinating. – http://www.wiggage.com/witch/penttree.html
Talking with Nature December 1, 2009
Posted by wulfworks in Uncategorized.Tags: animal communication, healing energy of nature, Michael Roads, nature communication, nature god, nature spirit communication, nature wisdom, Pan, plant communication
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Talking with Nature and Journey into Nature
A friend recommended Michael Roads’ Talking with Nature and Journey into Nature, which are two books that have been combined into one. I am now halfway through the second book and I find it hard to put it down!
Some people might find it unbelievable, but this stuff inspires me. Mr. Roads spends his time talking with trees, stones, animals, and Pan. They offer him deep wisdom which he shares in his books, wisdom that sounds very familiar to me. The reason it sounds familiar is that I sometimes take my notebook out to the woods or to the foot of a waterfall where I also receive messages from Nature Spirits. I have not been as dedicated to the process as Mr. Roads seems to be, and for that I am sorry, because in reading his books I have become aware that there is a crying need within humanity to make such connections.
In some ways this can be a painful process, because the mundane world begins to feel hollow and meaningless the more we connect with the rich diversity and depth of Nature. A trip to the shopping mall becomes simply baffling. Humans begin to seem more confusing and strange. And yet we are as much one with all of them as we are with the rest of Nature. Even so, the pure love emanating from a rock or tree is clear and unconfused. No expectations. No pretense. Such pure love heals the pain.
It is a healing energy that we find in Nature, an energy of balance and harmony from which so many humans seem to be cut off – so cut off that we can pollute our planet, clear cut forests, and wipe out entire species of animals and plants while we barely even notice what we are doing. What if we all started listening the way Michael Roads does? What if we listened to the voice of the river that receives our industrial waste, or the voices of trees being felled in the forests of the world? Wouldn’t we have a whole different way of treating them?
I would hope so. In fact, I intend to add my voice to the voice of Michael Roads. One more small voice like the voice of a Who down in Whoville in the story of Horace Hears a Who. When enough of us start listening and adding our voices to speak out for Nature there will be changes. Big changes. To me that is the Pagan path – the path of harmony with Nature, and to find harmony, we have to learn to listen and receive Nature’s point of view. Who knows? Maybe one day kids will think it’s cooler to sit on a rock listening to the voice of a stream than plugging the latest Ipod or cell phone into their ears. That will be a good day for all of us.
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What is Magic? November 15, 2009
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I just watched a short teaser film for the upcoming documentary called “What is Magic?” http://www.youtube.com/whatismagicseries
It got me thinking once again about what magic is and what it means in my life. People in the film said things like, “Here is the new there” (patting the heart), and “It’s when I feel like I’m in the exact place I’m supposed to be.” But what is it really? We can certainly feel magic working in our lives, but it is hard to define. Magic has been with us since prehistoric times, so it must be part of human nature, yet the majority of modern Americans say they don’t even believe magic exists. Why is that?
In the Celtic world, magic has always been connected with the Otherworlds of the faery, creature, ancestral, and angelic realms, yet people who delve into these realms are often far from feeling that they are in the “exact place” they are supposed to be. In fact, in many pagan and magical gatherings I’ve noticed a pronounced lack of physical health and emotional balance, which should be a good indication of someone being in the “exact place” they are supposed to be. If our magic is really working for us, we will be inwardly joyful, healthy, and aligned with the flow of nature and life, or else what is the point of it?
That is a good question to start with. What IS the point of magic? I can only answer for myself. To me, magic is a path of balance, harmony, and wholeness. We all started out in that ideal state, or close to it, when we were born, but life tended to knock us off balance over the years. Magic is a way of getting back in balance. Dion Fortune famously said, “Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.” I would think the whole point of changing consciousness is to reach a state that feels better, more whole, and more balanced, and that sense of wholeness and balance will in turn help to heal and balance the world around us.
In modern society, we have segmented our balance into compartments: physical health (to be managed by doctors with scalpels and drugs), emotional/mental health (to be managed by shrinks with talk therapy and drugs), and spiritual health (to be managed by ministers, priests, rabbis, churches… and sometimes more drugs!) Almost half of our population is ingesting prescription drugs every day, and that doesn’t even include the recreational drug and alcohol users and addictions to junk food. Something is terribly wrong with this picture. It is about as far from the way people in the film defined magic as we could get! Which leads me to the conclusion that we need more of that kind of magic in the world – the kind that feels like HERE (in the heart) really is the new there, exactly where we are supposed to be.
Of course, I can only work on myself and my own balance, but I believe that each of us affects the whole. My own magical practice, and yours, can be like a homeopathic remedy that subtly shifts the balance of the entire world. One person really can make a difference when aligned with true magic. 
Ella Young was such a person. She was best known for being a political activist and environmentalist, but she was also instrumental in saving the redwood forests of California with her magic. It is said that she did visualizations, on top of Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County, to get wealthy people to buy up old growth redwoods so they could be preserved. She also held “goddess workshops” in California, back in the early 1900s! Many other people, including Dion Fortune, were working magically with the “green ray” that has since become a strong environmental movement.
Someone who requires proof would counter that there is no connection between these magical workings and the events of the outer world, yet they cannot prove their point of view, either! What we CAN prove, if only to ourselves, is that magic can and does transform us. By consciously working with the elements of our natural world, the seven directions around, above, below, and within us, and the mythical paths laid out for us by our ancestors, we can deepen our experience of ourselves and the world around us. We can discover aspects of ourselves that were lost or forgotten, and we can align ourselves with the flow of Energy that creates worlds. In short, magic can lead us closer to fulfilling the inscription on the Temple of Delphi, “Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe and the gods.”
That brings me to the crop circle image at the top of this blog. How did you feel when you first looked at it? When I first saw it, my heart gave a little leap of joy, as if to say YES! That is who you really are. You are expansive and beautiful, powerful and free, and capable of knowing “the universe and the gods.” Know thyself, indeed!
How often do we really acknowledge or even recognize our beauty, power, and wonder? If we are walking the true path of magic, we will have caught glimpses of it here and there. We will have a sense of ourselves as part of the expansive universe in which all things are constantly transformed, though the inner truth remains the same. We will know that appearances are fleeting, but energies remain. We will find increasing balance, harmony, abundance, and joy in our inner and outer reality. Yet we still cannot define magic. Not really, because magic is who we are when we truly know ourselves, and who we are cannot be defined.
Water Magic – Dr. Emoto and Ho’ oponopono October 18, 2009
Posted by wulfworks in Magical Earth Healing, Uncategorized.Tags: dr-emoto, earth healing, earth stewardship, forgiveness, gratitude, healing water, ho-oponopono, love, magic, magick, oceans
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Blessing the Sea of Tears
Lately, my attention has been repeatedly called to the plight of water. Through my Underworld journey to “the sea of tears” and then working with the Inuit goddess Sedna in her ocean home, I have become increasingly aware of the need to heal and bless the waters I encounter in my daily life.
Frankly, I am not going to be one of the people who sail out to the middle of the ocean to clean up the swamp of plastic that is collecting there. I get nervous when I can’t see the shore! But I’m really glad there are other people who enjoy sailing, who are willing to take on that job. I don’t have the scientific background to be able to tackle the problem of ocean acidity, or even to help clear the pollution in our local lakes and streams. Aside from buying organic produce, recycling my plastic, and making sure I never pour anything toxic down the drain, there is not a whole lot I can do to help water on a physical level.
Fortunately, we can all do something right from home to heal the waters in magical ways. There are two compatible directions I see for this work, neither of which might be called magical by the people who promote them. They are Dr. Emoto’s experiments with healing water through words and intentions, and the Ho’ oponopono practice from Hawaii. I have never heard of anyone using Ho’ oponopono specifically to heal water, but what Dr. Emoto is doing is very similar to Ho’ oponopono.
Dr. Emoto
First of all, if you are not familiar with Dr. Emoto’s experiments, you should check out his website – http://www.hado.net/
He has been using a special process of freezing water into crystals after exposing it to different words and thoughts. Water exposed to words like love and gratitude, or uplifting music, will form beautiful, symmetrical crystals like the one below. When exposed to negative thoughts, like hate and criticism, the water creates unformed and irregular shapes. Dr. Emoto found that when groups of people offered positive thoughts to polluted water the crystals then formed more symmetrical and complex forms.
Water After Uplifting Music
Many of the phrases Dr. Emoto uses in healing the waters sound like Ho’ oponopono phrases – I’m sorry, please forgive me, I thank you, I love you. In Ho’ oponopono these words are used to heal people and relationships. Since we are all connected, we can work on healing within ourselves and it will affect others.
Of course, in addition to other humans, we are also connected with our planet, the elements, and everything in the universe, so it makes sense that Ho’ oponopono could also be used for healing the world of nature. That sounds like magic to me. I define magic as the process of intentionally moving and transmuting energy within the self. Because “the self” is part of the weave of all that is, we can affect changes in the outer world through our inner energy work.
So every time I take a drink of water, wash my hands, take a shower, wash my clothes, fill a pot to cook with, wash dishes, or water my plants I have an opportunity to practice magical healing. While focusing on water I can shift my inner energy by repeating the Ho’ oponopono mantra – I’m sorry, please forgive me, I thank you, I love you. This not only makes me feel uplifted, but also uplifts the energy of the water I am using, and as Dr. Emoto discovered, actually changes the crystal forms that water makes when it freezes.
Funny thing, as I sit here looking out at the rain falling on the leaves of a young redwood tree outside my window, tears come to my eyes. Not only are the sparkling rain droplets exquisitely beautiful, but I really do feel great love and gratitude for the gift of water. I AM truly sorry for all the pollution and lack of appreciation for water. Please forgive me. I thank you, and I love you water. With these thoughts and feelings, the water in my own body responds by flowing out of my eyes in joy. And THAT is magic!
Here’s a beautiful Ho’ oponopono song/video. If the word “God” doesn’t resonate with you, plug in a different word that feels good to you. Don’t be surprised if the song gets stuck in your head! -
http://www.youtube.com/user/nowness7#p/a
Ocean photo at top by Ben Aronoff http://www.flickr.com/photos/fogline/
