Spring Equinox Mojo 2012

Spring Equinox 2012

  For some an equinox can come and go without a noticeable ripple. Spring Equinox is just another day on planet Earth for most beings.  For me Celestial cycles are more like up-grades… penetrating alterations to previous data.  Like a software upgrade to facilitate operations.   Where ever I am in my life process, a surge of Nature enters and alters my operating system.  This recent Spring Equinox followed the pattern and coinciding with the New Moon, the re-boot introduced a new program to begin a change routine. 

  As I was in the process of organizing my upcoming gardening season I was taking into account the early arrival of Spring/Summer here in Colorado and adjusting to the need to get going with seasonal chores much earlier than ever before.  It looks as though a challenging, hot, dry climate will alter all previous patterns of Nature.  So I got busy cleaning yards and gardens up right away.

  As I dealt with my various clients, management companies and residents, assembling a list of properties to maintain this season, I had many drop outs from previous years, due to circumstances beyond my control.  One property management company lost control of four apartments I cared for, and one of their owners found a cheap kid to replace me with.

  Two other residents and past clients opted out for budget concerns, and my largest and favorite property (my Western roof perch for Sunset) now has new residents and will be taking over most if not all of the work I did there for over a dozen years.  So, before I start working I am already down seven properties including my most valued estate.  Big changes and losses were shaking my confidence.  Every one of these issues affected my ability to generate income, have a good work season, and feel good about myself. 

  Things were looking bleak for me, especially after struggling through a disappointing winter snow removal season.  The thought of turning sixty this summer, the aches and pains of a worn out hip socket and no young helper to assist me this year were weighing upon my spirit.  I found myself (once again) on the brink of poverty, facing an uncertain future with no wiggle room.  Naturally, this sinking energy spilled over into my personal relationships and challenged my ability to stay positive and excited about things to come. 

  Well, I decided to begin with the yards that remained and began cleaning a yard, its gardens and its water feature, on the Spring Equinox in a pretty low mood.   As I started turning this ten by ten vegetable garden to ready the soil so the clients could plant their early seeds, I bent over a border shrub.  I noticed a white flash in amongst all the green and brown and reached automatically for it, cleaning out trash as always.  It was a golf ball from the course bordering the property, just divided by an irrigation canal.  I find them from time to time, wayward shots.  Titlist, Nike, corporate logo’s, charities, I have buckets of them from over the years, from different properties around golf courses. 

  Well this ball that I found, at a perilously low level of crappy attitude was unique.  In the past, yards have always had a direct method of communicating with my spirit.  We have a history of speaking in the playful language of  random toy discovery. My guides plant clues in yards before me and I recognize the message internally.  I trust these communications because they have accurately predicted many events in my past.  The synchronicity in the way they appear, the location, as well as the humor level and timing, all say something symbolically. 

 

  This toy said, simply, “MOJO”…  Well, my brain immediately jumped to the conclusion that I had gotten my mojo back, ala {“Austin Powers”}. My body responded by looking up to the sky, stretching and receiving the download.  I couldn’t help but smile, I felt new strength arrive.  The Sun infused my spirit with the whisper of mysterious, sacred life.  Breathing deeply, I realized, I had reached maximum emptiness which means… “hold on tight…, fulfilling opportunities await”!

  So, now the filling begins.  As I finished out a couple of hours of hard digging and cleaning chores I grew stronger and more enthusiastic.  As I wrapped it up with this resident I listened to a phone message asking me to take on a new property for an old acquaintance, “Chuck Austin”.  Mojo flowing through Austin!  “Funny Stuff”!!!  This is a great addition to my responsibilities, with tree and sprinkler work and lots of ground to clean and then maintain for the season.  Harmony predicted and preceded by Humor…

  Before I can drive off, the phone rings with another call from a past client, (Chuck Austin’s son in law) asking me to bring a trailer to a property I was familiar with, to remove any left behind items and haul them from the premises.  The house has a beautiful yard, with about an acre of lawn and Pine trees that I had tended to on a couple of seasonal clean ups in the past. 

  It had just been sold and I had blown and raked the yard clean in the past few days, making it presentable for the new buyers.  I did not arrange a time or any contact with others preferring to come and go as I please.  So, after lunch, I arrived to clean out scrap wood, old paint cans, bunny hutch, trash, wood pile, etc. 

  As time unfolds the new buyer emerges from the house and meets me.  She just happened to be there for a few minutes to meet with her interior designer.  She spots me and wants to show me around and point to trash.  As we walk she finds out I am a groundskeeper and familiar with her new yard.  Without question, she felt my vibe,

sized me up and seized the opportunity .  She hires me to begin immediately.  She trusts me without knowing anything about me and gives me her contact information.  No interview, no discussion of credentials or compensation.  Just tag, you are “IT”, plan it, do it and name your price! 

  It turns out she is a Doctor with a practice at our local hospital and her husband is also in a successful career but is unfamiliar with yard work and fixing things.  I also felt the instinctual connection with her and agreed without hesitation.  This budding friendship is a perfect fit for us all.

  As I recounted this “Mojo”  story, at the Austin residence the next day, to a buddy who is not easily shaken by my weird path, I ended the tale with a caution.  The old yin/ yang balance must be in play.  “Surely I will now be pooped on” I stated.  On the next incoming call, as he drove away, sure enough there was the poop. 

 

  The husband, my new client, whom I haven’t met yet, had raged with his real estate agents that his back yard was still a mine field of dog poop.  Well, I agreed to go pick it all up the next morning and charge the sellers.  I filled three five gallon buckets and hope it will put me on good terms with his majesty, the king of this beautiful yard. 

   So I believe I’ve got my mojo flowing once again.  My season of work is blossoming before me, a month early.  I’ve trimmed roses, raked leaves, cleaned gutters and formed game plans for my new clients.  While working at the Austin’s, the neighbors from both sides asked for my card and anticipate using me at various times for their chores too. 

  What an impact a New Moon Spring Equinox can make to one ready to listen to Nature…

LIFE is a BALL, let it roll and play on…

emptycloud

3/23/2012

  

Whilst at the Portal of the Abyss

Wispful Poetry
from emptycloud
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Whilst at the Portal of the Abyss
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Portals penetrate
open and separate
exit or enclose
Enter to escape
through and beyond
the side you suppose
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Portals are dead and somewhat blind to you and me
No one has yet tread through the Temporal Sea

To see what could be waving in the eyes of aliens
Dream as gazing through an inter-dimensional lens

Offering a convenient escape from our fears and pain
Whether fiction or fact portals hypothetically remain
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Time and space without such a window
Is much like a wasp that has lost a wing
A destiny grounded with a hopeless ring
Loosing its potential for any future flight
With no escape from whatever be the case
Like a life trapped in time without a space
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Portals perpetually peep
weathered and worn
Cracked and forlorn
they join two as if one
One and the same
held in shuttered refrain
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Windows welcome distant whispers within
While walls withhold foul weather with out
Outside is the rain inside the insane game
Portals offer instant escape from the pain
Rising and falling of fate can quickly exchange
Some hope for rescue from what we can't explain
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Passing through time to distant worlds we race
Imagining our private vortex of common space
Revealing...concealing... transcending mass
Into expressions of unique and distant tasks
Transmitting our mystified conscience afar
We pray to penetrate these portals to stars
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
all rights dissolve emptycloud 10/31/2009

Greetings Earth bound co-Creators

I am emitting this translucent transmission with hopes that it may arrive at various nodes of curiosity as to my present state of being. Sent to address any concern for my recent silence and answer questions as to my how’s abouts, as we traverse the mid point of the Mayan, fifth night, in the evolution of consciousness. My present cloudy condition can be easily imagined but difficult to explain. Simply put…I fell off the wagon, or more precisely, the space ship.

As the acceleration of our planetary development registered a higher vibration some time in early spring my cloud sprung a leak. My clouded consciousness evaporated at a high rate of speed and I basically fell off the planet. I warped and morphed into unexplored realms and lost track of time and space. Drifting through void, purple haze and strawberry fields I was propelled to an unfamiliar arm of this spiral Milky Way galaxy where my ears popped, my eyes bulged, my tongue shriveled, my nose froze and my feelings disappeared. Adrift, in a space that made no sense whatsoever, a time of nonsense. I had arrived in the Dark Space of Anti-matter. I believe I traveled from vague to vacant, from insane to inane and possibly slipped from more to less with a twist of stellar osmosis.

The presently progressing passage through the global consciousness of being presented a portal to the Universal conscience. A rift of the drift for my mind to sift. I was overwhelmed and subsumed, blissed out and bemused, plus deeply bummed and bewildered. In a state of dumb wonder and arrested awe.

“Who cares”, I don’t give a shit”, “why try” and “so what” were frequent epithets of expression for my exasperation. They began to replace “go with the flow” and “let it be”, disrupting my generally balanced state of affairs. Thoughts of the world going to Hell in a hand-basket became appealing as a matter of fact we should work to speed it up since that’s the way the world goes round. Look around, read the headlines, pay out the nose for basic needs. Nature is busting its seams and the rich and lame won’t notice till it is a reality show on the mind-meld-tube.

Well anyway, I blinked out and took these two arms of the galaxy with me. You might have read about it if you keep up with the space science news. It’s been light years for me here but the scientists on Earth just got wind of it and reported us missing last week (your time). Nobody had noticed my being gone, but take out a couple arms from a galaxy and sooner or later some nosey scientist will stop picking their nose and scratch their heads.

I desperately needed somewhere to be so this seemed a likely solution. The Milky Way doesn’t care about a couple billion stars. It is too lonely on Earth with the present course of species elimination and the downward spiral of morals and behavior for me to return to my previous natural life. I don’t feel like trading carbon credits and growing bio-fuels, nor do I want to confront Iran’s nuclear ambitions or China’s resource consumption. It is all too disenfranchising for me to loose sleep over even though it rocks my world. I’ve heard enough conspiracy theories to squelch this dragon’s fire.

So I’m going to hang out in space for a while and play around a bit. Maybe I will travel around photographing Natures beauty before it fizzles and write a little nonsense. I’ll be posting the pictures from time to time in the galleries at emptycloud.org if you care for a glimpse of the wonders I find along the way. I can be reached if you come with a mind from the heart. Imagine, wonder and touch the heavens with your eyes wide open. I am there.

Spontaneously,

emptycloud

What Can Be Done To Overcome?

What Can Be Done To Overcome?

I can only speak for One!

This is my course of fun;

I have gotten rid of Stuff…it just weighs me down and tears me apart.

Recycling, pairing down, giving away, always more stripping of stuff to do.

I connect my little self daily, to my Overself and ground it to my Underself.

My inner light taps into the Universal Light and grounds in the Nature of being.

I connect with humanity with care and compassion for each and every Me.

On the net, in these tribes, in traffic, stores, shops, whether in the news or pews.

I replace the usual shallow breathing with intent to circulate Qi through me.

I listen to my body with a scan and then stretch, move and flow as seems fit.

I am replacing meat and processed food with healthier choices, like Quinoa.

Removing sugar, coffee, ice cream and additives from the diet has helped.

I drive less, shop less, curse less and read instead of turning to the hypno-box.

I create frequently, with flute and drum, pen and ink, computer and dreams.

I listen and love others with full attention not a hidden selfish agenda.

I reach out and put out time and attention, without expecting pay back or pay off.

I greet the day with Gratitude, spend it in Wonder, and dream it with Awe.

These simple steps have made a difference in me, my relations, and our world.

It’s only a start, there is more to learn...

The only constant is change, with every turn….

Care to join in, improve your bit….

Our planet will welcome it…..

Copyright: 03/17/08

All rights dissolved…emptycloud…

The ball is in your court....kick it!

I may stir up a nest of hornets with this,... but I think concern over chem- trails and fear based agendas are becoming easy whimp- outs for people who are slowly transforming to sheeple. If you are feeling victimized take your power back. Live the life you love and damn the torpedoes. I've got those same vapor trails over head, the same altered tap water, and social indoctrination. I'm not coughing or mellowing to join the party-line. I'm not fooled by the election hype or merchandising or the war machines. I've always been on the fringe of society and a rebellious market-place apostle for what is good and compassionate and I ain't changing. I breath deeply this so called altered air, the same air as you, while I do my Qi gong in the morning to nourish myself. Subject to the same E.M meg-howitzers disturbing our brain waves. I breath air mixed with con-trails deeply, as I climb to 10,000 and 13,000 feet on hikes in nature every week to refresh body and spirit. I don't say this to brag or appear special, I'm not! I am average John. I am not coughing! I am not controlled! I am not intimidated! I am not succumbing to diabolical plans! I remain independent, healthy and strong. I don't need movies to ferret out the weasels, or reveal the injustices. I don't need T.V. to show me reality or breaking news. I don't feed it time and energy and it fades away into the background of what is grand and wondrous about humanity and Gaia. If you have a backbone use it.
Things don't just change with big gatherings. Change begins within self, strong selves. Then when they come together. They stand for strength and faith, not hopes and wishes.

A lesson learned

Deepest Gratitude to All of You …my mirrors…

Sharing My present lesson … me - guilty of over-reification

An excerpt from; Vitality Energy Spirit a Taoist Sourcebook

Translated and edited by; Thomas Cleary

The Obstacle of Principal

Even when the obstacle of Doubt is removed, there is still the obstacle of Principal, which is even more harmful to the Way. The obstacle caused by individual clinging to partiality prevents comprehensive perception. The obstacle of Confucians is in reification, the obstacle of Taoists is in nothingness, and the obstacle of Buddhists is in emptiness.

Reification

Those obstructed by reification cling to partial principle; while they act in illusory situations, deal with illusory affairs, and see illusory persons, they take them all to actually exist. They belabor their minds, wear out their bodies, and exhaust their energy, considering all this obligatory in principle, unaware that these ideas are obstacles.

Now in human life, benevolence, duty, kindness, generosity, loyalty, respect, restraint, and vigor are all the abundant energy of heaven and earth; they are to be practiced genuinely and should not be considered in vain. If the principles one observes are not fully digested however, and one clings to partial principles, then this will degenerate into a bad cause.

Sentimental benevolence, ostentatious dutifulness, petty loyalty, and ignorant respectfulness are criticized even in Confucianism, to say nothing of Taoism. It is lamentable how people are obstructed by reification; they fall into a pit of fire, without real understanding. The psychological certitude of sages is comprehended and penetrated by silent recognition and thorough investigation; there is nothing idle in it at all.

Nothingness

Those obstructed by nothingness, clinging one-sidedly to this principle, sit blankly to clear away sense objects and think that the Way is herein. None of them seek the secrets of nurturing the three treasures ( Vitality Energy, Spirit). Though they speak of reaching nothingness, this is simply not the Way. The ultimate way is not in reification, nor simple nothingness. The mystical essential is to balance openness and realism.

Emptiness

Those obstructed by emptiness cling to this partial principle; not knowing true essence, they vainly talk of empty emptiness, and emptiness is not voided, so it becomes nihilistic emptiness. Ultimately they are unaware of the independence of original true suchness.

Sectarianism

All those obstructed by the three obstacles of reification, nothingness, and emptiness are unable to reconcile the three teachings of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.

This results in sectarian differences and disputes. Confucians criticize the nothingness of Taoism, Taoists criticize the emptiness of Buddhism, Buddhists criticize the path of Confucianism – and so it goes on endlessly, back and forth. They do not realize that the basis is really one, even though the doctrines may be different. Their perception is divisive because they are obstructed by their principles.

Integration

The obstacle of reification leads to delusion, which makes it hard to wake up. The obstacle of nothingness leads to withering, in which there is no realism. The obstacle of emptiness leads to quietism, which reverts to nihilism. The ancient sages were realistic yet open, empty yet realistic. They saw that emptiness is not empty, that emptiness does not void anything. This is the Supreme Way. It is attained by integration. It is only because of succumbing to the obstacles of principals that no one knows this. So students of the Way should be careful.

I shall be more careful……..

………..e

Surfing the Edge of Knowledge

Surfing the Edge of Knowledge

Some surfers search the web for meaning,
Intellectualizing, and preaching as they go.
Reading, posting, cutting and pasting,
Sharing what they think they now know.

Some search for new connections,
Checking profiles and linking to and fro.
At times this gets contentious
As righteousness tends to grow.

Pursuing pleasures and desire
We navigate from page to page
Sending emotocons to express feelings
Inventing characters of adjustable age.

Google found this…
Wik-pedia said that…
You need another upgrade
To browse to where It’s at.

All the answers are out there,
Most of the questions as well,
Cutting age science is exploding
And blending with heaven and hell.

The Universe goes this way.
Dark Matter has been exposed.
Societies go that way.
Recycled I suppose…

While digging through internet knowledge
Our curious, opened minds were exposed,
To a myriad of mythical magic,
To thoughts previously undisclosed.


New ideas challenged our Way of life.

The growing ozone hole,
the northward migrating trees
the shrinking carbon sink,
disappearing amphibians and bees,
shriveling water resource and desertification
enormous, expanding Oceanic plastic gyres,
the potential of the approaching solar cycle,
the rising and warming of polluted seas,

Aerosols, greenhouse gasses, microwave dangers
Tectonic rumbling, the species extinction rate,
Nostradamus, Hopi and Biblical prophecy warnings
Reptilians among us, we can dream and co-create,
Planet Nirubu, Mayan shaman, channeled Angels,

The winter equinox of 2012, the end’s, approaching date,
Global Pole shift, Gamma wave or Galactic alignment,
Human overpopulation, the accelerating glacial melt rate,
Electro-magnetic weapons, and nano-bombs,
Twin flames, Soul mates and Karmic fate.

Threats from asteroids, comets and satellites,
Genetic enhancements, cloning, robots and UFOs,
Light workers, Star children, Indigos, Walk-Ins,
Global Spying, subliminal marketing, and target advertising,
Avian flu, HIV, bio-warfare, Herpes and STDs,

Religious fervor, contentious dogma and suicide bombers,
Political deceit, Oil depletion, financial manipulation,
Extra-terrestrial existence past, present and future,
The ever-ascending consciousness of mankind,
driving the vehicle of the inter-dimensional light body,


What is so hard to understand about;
Integral living within a Spiraling dynamic matrix
of orderly yet undecided quanta?

What is missing before we can skillfully intuit
with a liberated multi-dimensional consciousness?

Being unique yet One and All of the Omni-verse is child’s play.

What prevents us from achieving harmonic resonance,
as demonstrated by intelligent water molecules?

Becoming more efficient as time is infinitely compressed?
Stay healthy while poisoning the planet?

Express Sacred emotions while financially going broke?
Open Chakras that are vibrating at higher frequencies?

What hope have we?
Will computers set us free?

Ejecting past notions and certainty.
Holding on to insanity and insecurity.

Sharing what we feel…?
Feeling what we share…?

So which way is up?
Which way do we go?
Can we figure it out,
Before we all blow?

At the edge of this brink,
We must try not to blink.
Accelerating knowledge
Proves we could go extinct.

emptycloud...12/01/2007

Cloudy Visions 1

Vaporous thoughts

Transcending time

Swirling emotions

Tendrils climb

Expanded essence

Entwining space

Imprinted patterns

Exchanging place

Tingling senses

Witness being

Mingling mythical

Mysteries fleeing

Coalescing light

Dampening fear

Conscious creation

Of love so clear

Emptycloud Oct 31 2007