Haiku Ellipses...Invitation...Response...

GALAXIES ON FIRE circles of colors pulsating, undulating galaxies on fire i love the interweaving of colored, spirally, circular shapes that remind me of clusters of galaxies that pulsate, undulate, and dance with the energy of fire... consider dancing with the fire of the different galaxy clusters (parts of your life...a simple beginning is to consider the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of your life--for a deeper meditation of these aspects see Stephan A. Schwartz's book The 8 laws of change --word power meditation). alternatively, one might think of the colored circles as different energy centers akin to chakras (see Joyce Hawkes book Cell level healing for meditation on colored chakras). 

IMMORTAL DIAMOND Starting with a cross adding more crosses and dots immortal diamond Immortal diamond is comprised of many crosses...Richard Rhor's book The Immortal Diamond  discusses the mystery of the cross, the paschal mystery, the life, death, and resurrection of Christ as a pattern for all life...that all of us live, die many mini deaths before our final mortal death, and have many resurrections before we die...this pattern is the way of nature, plants living, dying, and resurrecting from seeds to grow more plants...one characteristic of this mysterious pattern is the immortal diamond, an eternal and unbreakable pattern. For practice, let us examine our lives for where there is life, death, and resurrection...let us take comfort in the thought that we are patterned after the immortal diamond.

ALL THE TIME 5 senses dancing with each other to create being, thoughts, feelings All this is happening, all the time....every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year of every decade of every life...are we aware of any of it? how do we make any sense of it ALL? The 5 senses give rise to our thought forms and feelings, to our sense of self, enabling us to listen to each other and to all of life (the song of life--self, others, nature, and God/Goddess--the Divine), to rising consciousness...my son Danny, when i showed him the picture below, said it reminded him of a CELL--yes, the cell of life...see book C ell level healing: The bridge from soul  to cell by Joyce Whiteley Hawkes for more on this. Practice: To stop in the middle of our day (and/or at the beginning and/or end), and meditatively conduct a sensory sweep of our beingness, systematically directing our attention to each of the senses--both inside and outside of us...what...

GOLDEN BALL OF LIGHT AND LOVE Oh healing loving gold sphere of light energy fill us with your love The golden ball of light is an image in many  meditations...i add the phrase "healing, loving" and visualize the golden ball of light in my abdominal area, radiating healing and love throughout my body, and beyond to all creation. As a practice for morning prayer/mediation, after connecting with the healing, loving golden ball of light and energy in my abdomen, i imagine different people inside of this golden ball, sending them healing, loving light and energy...i also include all of mother nature...from the fungi in the soil, to insects (e.g., dragonfly), reptiles (e.g., sky blue lizard), amphibians (e.g., frogs), and animals (e.g., dogs) as well as plants, flowers, trees, birds and the elemental mountains, hills, canyons, valleys, waterfalls, rainfall, rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, puddles, waterways, bays, oceans, sky, sun, moon, stars, planets, galaxies, and all of creati...

ALMOND from almond center all creation emerges divine feminine in sacred geometry, one begins with the monad, a single circle...adding a second overlapping circle makes for the dyad, and in the intersection of the dyads lies the almond at the center...in the space of the almond there is a smaller almond shape, a portal, the birthing place of all creation...the divine feminine. what two circles (areas or things) of your life can you bring together in a mutual interaction/dialogue to create something new that neither circle alone could create?  what newness can you birth into the universe as an act of divine feminine?    

TREE PEOPLE the human being  locked within the bark of tree grounded and stretching bare plywood makes up the inside of the double doors to our outside shed...observing closely outlines of robed figures, dark brown heads, flowing robes, outstretched arms touching each other at the fingertips, all surrounded by layered rings...these are tree people living inside the wooden panels of the doors...similarly in the image below, there is a tree person stretching, yearning, reaching for the sky while simultaneously planted/grounded in Mother earth. being grounded in the earth and simultaneously stretching for the sky is a dynamic tension  within us, the urge for rootedness, for home and family, and also the urge to grow, to reach beyond to something greater... i like to imagine i am tree , grounded, standing barefoot on the earth while facing the rising sunrise, letting my arms and hands, like branches, reach toward the sun in a symbolic gesture: oh great sun, fill us with your lov...

ROUND & ROUND round and round she goes spheres of green and yellow lights held within blackness the combination of green and yellow remind me of plants and sunshine, photosythesis, the life-giving process of converting sunlight into energy--it takes two to create the miracle of fruit, and all of this is held within the "womb of darkness" that is Mother Nature. similarly, we too can bring an awareness of our own body and being, becoming receptive to light and love from nature and others, embodying the life energies, creating wonder, mirth, life, providing gifts of love for all, and all encompassed and permeated by a secret and invisible darkness that is the spirit of the Creator. stand or sit in the morning sunlight and absorb the rays of goodness and love, let them refresh and nourish your life for creative activity that positively impacts all life around you.  

SQUARED CIRCLE begin with the square add circles and some bubbles immersed in the mix the inside of the image below looks mechanical while the outer edges seem more flower like...maybe that's what happens when you try to square a circle... imposing the four sided structure of the square  onto the smooth flow of a circle creates tension which is released in the outer bubbles. what natural things in your life ( circles ) might you be trying to manipulate/control/force into a particular structure ( square )? could you loosen the grip of some of these squares to allow the energy/forces of the natural circles to bubble forth? or better yet resist the urge to control in the first place and allow the natural flow of the circle to unfold over time.  

BOUNDLESS AWARENESS inside the spiral moving outward toward the edge boundless awareness the easiest way i find to get "inside the spiral" is meditation with eyes closed, slow breaths, letting thoughts pass like wind escorting clouds across the blue sky for at least 30-40 mins in a quiet comfortable place where you won't be interrupted... allowing the mind and body to quiet and rest/be...then, at this still point, almost ironically, consciousness expands to include "boundless awareness", the sense of interconnection with everything--but it's not like i am everything, it's more like my being expands to include everything in a feeling kind of way, my experience of this is at the level of the eyes, both right and left expands horizontally, and i feel like everything is included--language falls so short of the actual experience as with describing most mystical states. take time to be and feel the boundless awareness that moves from inside the spiral of your ...

CENTER STAR looking from center of the multi-pointed star infinite circles can we consciously stand at the center of our lives...do we see the multi-pointed star that lives there...pointing to infinite circles of life and energy around and beyond us... imagine all of creation, all of LIFE...imagine your BEING at the center of this life...connect the two great forces/energies of "life and being" with your intentional PRESENCE...draw lines of energy from your being to all of life...you are connected to everything in the universe with these lines and circles of light, energy, forces...WOW!