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Fire & Ice

by Deb Strafuss December 31, 2012

The moon ringed in arcs of lighted ice while Tungurahua erupted in fire as the winter solstice and the Mayan calendar collided in transmutational energies on December 21st. (See my facebook page for pictures of these events) As we begin this new year of our journey on earth let us walk with our hearts and inner beings open. This is a time of intensified spiritual activity and communication. Record your dreams and visions, hopes and intuitions. Meditate. Pray. Seek direction and guidance. Walk forth and listen to their

Voices

Heaven and Earth did speak

In mysteries where they meet

Ice and Fire conspire to point the way

How much louder must they plead Fire and Ice

to touch our sensitivity?

While weather roils

And gunmen’s toils

bring all our hopes to spoil

Let fire burn and ice construe

A new, restructured, clearer view

Bringing rest to those who grieve

A path to those who cannot perceive,

Testing will and strength and belief

In fathomed tones far beneath

The fairyland we live in.

December 31, 2012 0 comments

Spiritual

Balance

by Deb Strafuss October 11, 2012

In this time of transitions, of Falling – away from Summer and into Winter, sleep, and death – into that unbreathing waiting, hibernating, of long nights and howling northern winds to which we look as it comes to meet us once again, I ask

Is there Balance?

Or is there only loss?

And gain

the up and down

around and around

of our pain,

the joy

and sorrow,

All the same?

Mother

in her wisdom knows

this is how time

comes and goes.

Breathe,

the peacefulness flows

Breathe

in being, and know

The flight of birds

of time that wings,

The depth of earth and hope and

Sing

the songs of

Being Whole

Fresh and new

and

young and old

Wisdom

in her time here

whispers in tones most clear

Rest, stop, release, fear.

Give, receive, believe

Stop, go, fast, slow

And be

October 11, 2012 0 comments

Spiritual

Venus Transit

by Deb Strafuss June 6, 2012

The Queen

The Queen marks her 60th year of reign

as Venus passes the sun again

Women celebrate with style

Their unique and beautiful power

While the World watches and waits

for a visit from the fates

The Goddesses of old

have long been foretold

to be the vessels of our faith.

Hope and Love their birth on earth..

our hearts in harmony, wait…

Photos courtesy of: (Queen) Boston.com

(Venus) NASA- Venus from space

June 6, 2012 0 comments

Nature Spiritual

Kodalith Kries

by Deb Strafuss March 25, 2012

Spider veined to the sky

Yearning branches Cry

“Oh Spring of everything

within me try!”

Lift and push and peel away

winter’s dying decaying day

surging within my sleeping veins

Spring re-works it’s way to gain,

upon a world re-born each day,

it’s magic in the air we breathe –

the life of newness re-conceived.

Deep down amidst dry branches brown

and parched with winter’s pain,

lifted up against that backdrop – Spring

brings Life and Hope to living things….

March 25, 2012 0 comments

Spiritual

Drumming the Fires of Spring

by Deb Strafuss March 21, 2012

I have recently discovered the joys of drumming the moons and the seasons of Earth

Sunday night I could not join my sisters in the tipi, but celebrated the advent of Spring with my brother in our yard under the full spring night sky. Greeting Venus and Jupiter in the East, Mars in the West, viewing Beetlejuice in the belt of Orion and gazing on the red dwarf giant eye of his friend Taurus, the bull; I danced with the seven sisters of the Plieades, whose number I counted at 24 – the sky is full of sister stars – and viewed the birthplace of stars in the belt of Orion, the nebula known by the Mayans centuries ago, while going back and forth between the eye of the scope and my makeshift drum by the dancing fire….

A ceremony of Spring

Drumming Spring:

Oh East!

The breath of our delight!

Air and spirit are your sight.

Bring us to your inner might

rose soft petals in spring’s flight

Oh air! That present here at breath

bears us in it’s moving rest –

Where hawks delight on thee to fly –

Fire Dance seeing clearly from the sky

calling softly as they cry

to us, earth-bound in our nests-

Resting on our Mother’s breast

Clay-born, sightless, wingless forms

here to suck in earth’s deep charms

Oh wind!

Do keep us in your ear

whisper of your journey here

that we may ride with you…

Oh South!

Of passion’s heated fire…

Rise up! Rise up!

And inspire!

Burn our dross and fears away

En-flamed upon a bright new day

Beat heart and soul into our passion

Forge our minds in new impressions

White-hot leaping roaring tide

of fearless flaming burning stride

Illumine all our souls inside

Oh beat the drums of passiontide!

Flame dance Oh West!

To you we look

We rush

We glide

Like memories on the morning tide

Oh clear bright morn of evensong

Oh restless calling of the sea

wide-stretched unto eternity –

true rollings thunder on our sand.

Let us, transfixed

grab hold your hand

to sail upon your teaming shores

Abundancy within your roars

Let us respond with open hearts

to greet your cool-washed shores of love.

Oh Mother, North to thee we come!

Keeper of the lover’s womb – light flame

Barren of our cares and faults

Oh Mother, Northland of our birth

to thee we turn

the air-wind-fire-swept sea does toss

its heart at you,

and is not lost –

upon your comfort cold-kept shores

beyond all cares,

roiled and trodden in the years

Oh heal, Oh Heal

Oh blessed earth

Oh Heal, Oh Heal

in new re-birth

Oh Mother, Blessed Final Flame

Mother

Earth.

Salute

Salute to the Earth

Salute to my sisters

Salute to the upward skybeing sun

Salute to Spring, begun!

March 21, 2012 1 comment

Nature Spiritual

Ode to the Even – Spring of Songs

by Deb Strafuss March 10, 2012

Moon Glow

March 10, 2012 0 comments

Life Spiritual

Leavings……

by Deb Strafuss April 23, 2011

I feel compelled to write about leavings…..

During this time of religious reflections, contemplations, celebrations and remembrances, it is important to note

that beginnings require endings

Abraham left his home

the Israelites left Egypt – a place of refuge that had become bondage

Jesus left the realm of spirit

then he left the realm of earth

we left home when it was our time,

our children leave home when it is theirs

Beauty Joy and Grief

are closely experienced

to run from one requires you to leave the others

To embrace the pain, sadness and fears of goodbye

leaves you open to the beauty and joy of

New Beginnings

Beauty Joy Grief

turning over a new leaf

all these new beginnings grow

all things newly done bring hope

The only caution we are given once a new path has been chosen

don’t look back

back to the place where safety becomes bondage

Beauty, Joy, Grief

Turning over a new leaf

Finding courage for the way

Living forward day by day

May we all exercise the courage to

face our griefs

choose our paths

follow our joy

and find our beauty

April 23, 2011 1 comment

Spiritual

Icy Reflections…

by Deb Strafuss February 7, 2011

Ice-laced, morning chased

frozen thoughts are raised

reaching to the cold gray sky

asking questions – how and why

Frozen – – in a solemn grip

a single snowflake falls

silently we watch and wait

while a stark earth calls

Unable, unwilling, unspoken

to respond

unknowing, uncaring, not there –

we go on…

Never quite, in our sight

clearly seeing what we’ve done;

where we’ve gone…

Some mornings I rise with joys, others with questions and cold. I seem to read the earth message – search for it – as I rise. Fast frozen in this chrysalis of winter – now is the time to let those questions out into the depths of a cold sleeping world, from a frozen heart. Let them go. Breathe them out. Do not worry how they sound or what they mean. They fall upon the snow-topped frozen earth and wait – like us – for spring. Go about your day. Lose yourself in the concretes of must-dos….those questions lie like burning seeds upon the frame of time. Given, they will rebirth, and visit you with surprise, when time responds and we have ears …

February 7, 2011 1 comment

Spiritual

Happy Winter Solstice!

by Deb Strafuss December 23, 2010

In the dark I rise

and close my eyes

winter’s painted white

all sins lost within the night

softly falling out of sight…

Time to light the light!

One flickering flame

a wealth of bright to gain

sheds warming glow

to draw me close

against the darkness of the snow

Time to celebrate the nights of life! To welcome the chrysalis of winter, to wonder and hibernate in the soul’s sleep of cold and dark while the spirit’s work of life and creation form in the dark. Let winter into your soul, wander in its inner warmth, the energy of new thoughts, directions, plans and life that will bud and grow within the depth of your being if only you let them grow as you slumber in winter’s keep. Do not fight the darkness, fear it or run from it. Embrace the winters of your soul. They are the fertile ground for growth.

Happy New Year

December 23, 2010 0 comments