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Sacred Journeys: Everyday Rituals & Celebrations

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:04:51 -0400

with Kim Elkington

Sacred Journeys

Mon, 7 Jun 2010 12:39:37 -0400

The water needs our help before it is destroyed. Through some back room deals, a devastating change has been made to the Fisheries Act that now allows mining companies to dump mine tailings waste into pristine lakes across the country. This happened in 2002, both in the U.S. and Canada, from intense pressure exerted by multinational mining companies, to make mining more profitable at the expense of pristine lakes and rivers. Canada’s government is not consulting with the people whose land it is, or the people down stream. Nor is any voice given to the millions of birds, fish, animals and plants that depend on the body of water for life itself.

Sacred Journeys

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:19:59 -0400

I’ve just returned home from a lovely impromptu Earth Day celebration at our local community centre, and I am buoyed by how much this small town has grown comfortable with the change and differences between people.

Sacred Journeys

Thu, 1 Apr 2010 16:16:04 -0400

It is spring and the energy is here to plant our seeds, to make our dreams come true. At a collective and energetic level there is also a powerful calling this year to reach out to each other, to voice what we are choosing to no longer feed, and to express what in our hearts we know we must now manifest in the new earth. There is a lot of confusion and darkness out there as one world ends and we co-create the next. It is important to hold the light, and even visualize how it might express itself, without getting pulled down into the darkness.

Sacred Journeys: Everyday Rituals & Celebrations

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 02:19:58 -0500

with Kim Elkington

Sacred Journeys

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 02:42:05 -0500

Everyday Rituals & Celebrations with Kim Elkington

Sacred Journeys

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 16:18:46 -0500

with Kim Elkington

Sacred Journeys

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:36:55 -0400

I feel almost as though we have turned the corner, that we are in a new world now. I can’t quite put my finger on it, just a feeling that we are slipping seamlessly into a new weaving of ourselves. One way to describe it is an awareness of being both engaged and detached at the same time, aware of breathing deeper and floating slightly above the constant stream of engaging events. That’s it; we are all lighter, a little higher, shining a little brighter.

Everyday Rituals & Celebrations with Kim Elkington

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 18:42:19 -0400

The phone rang first thing on the morning of my birthday. Oh good, I thought, a loved one is going to sing happy birthday. However, at the other end of the receiver was a mechanized voice saying: “Don't be alarmed” (and then something about how there was still time to reduce my insurance premiums). Hmmmm. This was an interesting message to arrive for the year ahead. So I wrote it on my blackboard.

Sacred Journeys

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 20:03:26 -0400

Everyday Rituals & Celebrations with Kim Elkington

Sacred Journeys

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 09:54:10 -0400

Remember to breathe this summer, because it is going to be a wild ride. Every moment is so full of meaning it is vibrating, leaving us all feeling too busy for anything extra. Ironically, I am most aware of the ‘quickening’ by how I will suddenly stop, mid-action, and disappear for a few moments, and then waken to where I am. Part of it is an exhaustion that comes from adjusting to the new pace. My personal theory is that we are being re-tuned, constantly, taking in more information from unexpected things, like the quality of light reflected off the water, or the vibrancy of a red nasturtium, or the presence of others. According to those who track the stars, this is going to be the pace of the summer.

We are being opened, expanded and filled from all directions these days as Chiron, the ‘wounded healer,’ is aligned with Jupiter and Neptune. We’ve talked about this before, in the sense that we need to let go of our attachments to past beliefs, past hurts, anything that is preventing us moving into creating a new world for ourselves. All of us are going through this right now and the stars are nudging us along.

At a simple level we might notice we are absolutely bored with the violent, competitive, degrading and dysfunctional world TV offers. We’ve moved on, and are turning it off.

At a more profound level we are exploring and facing deep wounds. People are sick, people are in pain, people are dying. Maybe we are just feeling deeply vulnerable, or frustrated or alone. Right now we are being supported to move into the pain. The deeper we go, the sooner we will be set free, to evolve into co-creating a new world. The Iranian people are doing it right now in front of the whole world.

Recently I was part of an incredible event, which I highly recommend for women and girls of all ages, where one can dance, drum, chant, didgeridoo, make rattles, do pipe ceremony or just connect and camp with like minded women and girls (www.drumcamps.ca).

The event was about finding our voices in order to express ourselves in the new world and explore where we are going, what we have to do to get there, and how good the process can be. We opened vortexes, we laughed, learned, shared, played and cried.

Sacred Journeys: Everyday Rituals & Celebrations

Mon, 1 Jun 2009 19:17:36 -0400

with Kim Elkington

There is so much going on right now for us as a species, it is at times dizzying. Pluto is up there encouraging us to take responsibility for who we are, and as we do so Saturn is changing the structure of the world in response. We are living very creative lives as we prepare to continue birthing our authentic selves in the world this summer.

Sacred Journeys

Tue, 5 May 2009 13:48:00 -0400

Well, the cow birds and red winged blackbirds have returned and are hanging out now at the bird feeder. Meanwhile, many of my familiar winter-feathered friends are showing off their colourful new mating feathers. These are signs that spring has arrived and soon the forest floor will be covered in delicious wild plants like trout lilies, leeks, fiddle heads and edible spring flowers. If we time it right, once the young forest plants have run their course, the garden should have begun producing.

Sacred Journeys

Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:27:18 -0400

Everyday Rituals & Celebrations with Kim Elkington

Sacred Journeys

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 21:39:49 -0500

by Kim Elkington

There have been two additions to my life in this snowy season that have really improved winter for me. One has been the purchase of light-weight snowshoes. They opened up the world in unexpected ways. Suddenly deep snow is not a hindrance to going for a good walk. Before, getting exercise meant following ski trails. Now I can head out at lunch, alone or with a friends, for a river or park or mountain and just go. If a dog is with me, I can let him lead the way and have a new adventure every time.