As we prepare to Dance in Appreciation of Mother Earth and our Journey on September 26th, we thought we would share some of what we’ve learned about the ways of ceremony.

Ceremony enables us to reach into those deep places within the soul. Ceremony is like the construction of a bridge that spans the barriers that we have created in our everyday lives, so we can touch the realms of our soul.

Ceremony is very intentional. When it is constructed with all the essential elements, we can very freely and easily move into the realm of the soul and have awareness in that realm as well as providing a means or a path for the soul to come forth and have expression in our everyday world. As change comes from the soul, from the Spirit interacting within the realm of the soul, ceremony can be very essential in our lives.

Ceremony, as you can see, is a catalyst for change in our world.

Is it any wonder that John Many Voices Armbruster would say, “What you do is no small thing”?

As we prepare for ceremony, let us be intent-ful. Let us individually set our pylons, steel spans, cables, concrete, pavement, and paint the reflective road lines. And when each one’s foundation is set, each of us can cut our ceremonial ribbon so the bridge is open for travel, so we can soar.

Remember, in our community, the Blue Heron people live through you. The peaceful, but fiercely individualistic approach to the spiritual life distinguishes you. I am so grateful for the precious way of ceremony that has been constructed over these many years with our Earthkeeper Blue Heron people.

Let us sing, dance, drum, and pray together with joy, appreciation and kindness. This moment in time is like no other, because what happens today may depend on what we do tomorrow.

Let’s also remember to laugh and not get all holy about it!

Hugs as always, Tracy ~ each person is responsible to find the truths they came to learn on earth. We share what has come to us. Take what you want…leave the rest…we share because it’s time.

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As we continued John Armbrusters vision

    …join us as we… 

Dance in Appreciation of Mother Earth

September 26, 2009

Indiana Dunes State Park

Join Us in Celebrating the Gift of Life

and the Beauty of the Earth Around Us…

Grandma Rosie shares, “We dance for the future of the Children”

Grandma Rosie Dancing Flower

Apache Elder, Head Pow Wow Dancer,

Teacher of Traditional Ways of Women and

Elder of the Earthkeeper Dance

Please contact us for a dance flyer and details at youncedjt@verizon.net

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Information on Blue Heron Dancers

In a Sacred Circle,

With a Blue Heron Dancer’s view,

The clarity of vision,

Comes to us anew.

Direction with purpose,

Great Mystery will bring,

Strong Spirit Allies,

To grace our Dance dreams.

The Earthkeeper Family welcomes you to the dance. The vision of the dance speaks of a time of new directions or strengthening of the present path based on personal truth. Sometimes, to find this truth it is necessary to enter a Sacred Dance.

A Sacred Dance is one tool used by those seeking direction in life. Every time anyone seeks truth of a balanced heart, the intuitive process can allow the truth to come forward. Truth is the final destination of any seeker’s path. When the truth is found inside of the Self, there is no need to look further.

All who attend the dance will be able to participate in this by entering the circle.

The purpose of committing to be a Blue Heron Dancer is to proclaim yourself as a seeker in finding a way to contact this state of inner knowing, so truth might be present on the dancer’s spiritual path. The goal of the Blue Heron Dancer is to find that place of inner-serenity thus bringing balance, which honors our Mother, the Earth.

The Blue Heron Dancer commits to participate in a full day of ceremonial rounds starting at 7:00 am and which concludes under the Star Nation at around 10:00 pm.

Please contact us by August 22, 2009 at youncedjt@verizon.net if you are interested in committing to being a Blue Heron dancer and/or for more information regarding the responsibilities and what is needed to participate as a Blue Heron Dancer.

It’s been well over 5 years since John left us. It seems like another lifetime now. I sit here wondering what happens after we pass and where John is in this universe. Perhaps he has returned already and is growing up in Burma or Sweden or maybe he returned as the one of last Siberian Tigers. Maybe his spirit passed into Unity and Many Voices is heard as a whisper on the wind.

Last week, a friend of mine passed who believed only oblivion awaited him after death. I’m confident he’s experienced a big surprise, just not sure what kind.

As I grow older, only now do I realize how clueless I really am, and that the Great Mystery is indeed just that. Nonetheless, there’s mountains of evidence that the world and it’s inhabitants are on the cusp of a momentous change, greater than anything in recorded history. For the first time, human beings have available to them, the knowledge of all the great wisdom traditions, we can see and hear each other regardless of geography or culture, and evolution has become visible and is in my view, undeniable. Ancient Secrets have been opened and are available to anyone who seeks them.  Even more, some of us are beginning to become free and responsible to consciously participate in our own evolution for the first time in human history.

A new age is dawning, but how it’s going to look, nobody can say. Historical evidence of emerging memes has always shown that the emergence of a new stage of human evolution is wholly unpredictable. Visions of “earth changes”, 2012, and such are always partial perspectives by nature, grasped onto by opportunists and fanatics, and inevitably proven off base. Remember California falling into the Pacific in the 1970s? Or Gregg Braden’s reversal of the earth’s rotation just few years ago?

Now the big theme is 2012 and the end of the Mayan calendar. Even if this calendar’s end is a predictor of enormous transformation, it’s only a sign on the road. We’ve been evolving for millions of years and it’s taken every day of every one of those millions of years to reach this day on my calendar. So I just keep breathing and put one foot in front of the other as best I can. And try to pay attention. As I grow older, I think maybe my job as a human being is 90% suiting up and showing up. So that’s my prayer now. I pray I can add some beauty to this world by participating in life. Whatever happens, we’re in for a helluva ride in the coming years.

I pray you and I can celebrate witnessing and participating in the most amazing time ever on earth. Have a look.

Both in the media and in the neighborhood, I hear both misinformed denial and hysteria about global warming– which leads me to look at empirical data to make a determination for myself. One of the places I look for data is the NSIDC. The arctic region is the canary in the coal mine so to speak. Climate changes are greatly magnified at the poles, and moreso at the noth pole because the ice rests on the ocean instead of land.

Arctic ice is thinning even more rapidly than many of the more pessimistic projections about global warming. We’re on track to continue the decline in summer ice this year. If predicted weather patterns are correct, my home state of Arizona will become hotter and drier than it already is. We are in a decade-long drought. The prognosis is for more heat and less rain.

Here is the latest data: NSIDC.