EmPower 

Aligning with inner

and outer 

perfection of nature.

discovering the power 

of alignment, 

through a process, 

time,

space,

honoring our unity 

of oneness,

layering of color, 

& line

creates me whole,

in gratitude,

peace,

love...


                                                                       
....© *    Greg Patch  2011.....

* © is intended for thieves only...

just grows this way

just grows this way                                                        ©Greg Patch

Bee paper making

a gift                                                 ©Aravel Forbes

enThanks Aravel for your/our/my B ing!...

labor w/ease of integration

  labor w/ease of integration                                                     ©Greg Patch


 

As we sent our messages...

we spoke with her underbelly

we walked softly on Earth

to see us go free...

WeSheHe are.

Butterfly and Us                                                                   ©Greg Patch

come Lilith, follow the red/orange path from the sea of chaotic patriarchy with us...

                                                                                           ©Greg Patch

taken at Wrightsville Beach, NC this morning as the Sun rose, shining the light for Lilith

to be, with us...

Cherrie's Tanager

this is a male Cherrie's Tanager of the Pacific Coast Costa Rica. while I was in Dominical

one followed me around quite a bit. He wing touched me twice, one on the left cheek and one on the right. the writer at http://creagrus.home.montereybay.com/tanagers.html reports spectrographically the intense red on male Ramphocelus is the brightest red in the bird world. With each brushing Cherrie's bright red exploded, flashing this red throughout my vision and being. I'll be looking, meditating and learning on this more during the next year. 

P48 & P50 a collaboration continues

a collaboration continues

P48 & P50 http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2012/03/p48-p50.html

!!!Happy Halloween!!!

In the explanation below from Wikipedia no connection is made to the celebration in Mexico, and other parts of the world, of the Day of the Dead. By reading the research in Wikipedia and the connection of Samhain to a celebration of last harvest before frost and the ancestors I'm not sure why that connection isn't made. Based on traditional peoples celebrating seasonal changes in a realistic way it would be logical this time seasonally would be celebrated globally during times before organized religions re-invented our world to support their forcefully removing the power from the people and taking it into the hands of the church and/or the state by worshipping a God(s), King or Queen. When each of us realize our connective energetic power center with spirit or universal consciousness power we will be free. Today my/our/your power is being taken again. This time in the form of and by banks and corporations. It can only be taken if each of us together gives it away. 

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain

Gaelic folklore (Scotland and Ireland)

The Samhain celebrations have survived in several guises as a festival dedicated to the harvest and the dead. In Ireland and Scotland, theFéile na Marbh "festival of the dead" is the name of All Souls', a church festival introduced on the eve of All Saints in the 11th century.

The night of Samhain, in Irish, Oíche Samhna and Scots Gaelic, Oidhche Samhna, is one of the principal festivals of the Celtic calendar, and falls on the October 31. It represents the final harvest. In modern Ireland and Scotland, the name by which Halloween is known in theGaelic language is still Oíche/Oidhche Samhna. It is still the custom in some areas to set a place for the dead at the Samhain feast, and to tell tales of the ancestors on that night.^[4][15]

Traditionally, Samhain was time to take stock of the herds and grain supplies, and decide which animals would need to be slaughtered in order for the people and livestock to survive the winter. This custom is still observed by many who farm and raise livestock ^[4][15] because it is when meat will keep since the freeze has come and also since summer grass is gone and free foraging is no longer possible.

Bonfires played a large part in the festivities celebrated down through the last several centuries, and up through the present day in some rural areas of the Celtic nations and the diaspora. Villagers were said to have cast the bones of the slaughtered cattle upon the flames. In the pre-Christian Gaelic world, cattle were the primary unit of currency and the center of agricultural and pastoral life. Samhain was the traditional time for slaughter, for preparing stores of meat and grain to last through the coming winter.

With the bonfire ablaze, the villagers extinguished all other fires. Each family then solemnly lit its hearth from the common flame, thus bonding the families of the village together. Often two bonfires would be built side by side, and the people would walk between the fires as a ritual of purification. Sometimes the cattle and other livestock would be driven between the fires, as well.^[4][15]

The Gaelic custom of wearing costumes and masks was an attempt to copy the evil spirits or ward them off. In Scotland the dead were impersonated by young men with masked, veiled or blackened faces, dressed in white.^[16][17] Candle lanterns (Gaelic: samhnag), carved from turnips, were part of the traditional festival. Large turnips were hollowed out, carved with faces, placed in windows to ward off evil spirits.^[17]

Guisers — men in disguise — were prevalent in the 16th century in the Scottish countryside. Children going door to door "guising" (or "Galoshin" on the south bank of the lower Clyde) in costumes and masks, carrying turnip lanterns, offering entertainment of various sorts in return for food or coins, was traditional in the 19th century and continued well into the 20th century.^[18] At the time of mass transatlantic Irish and Scottish immigration, which popularized Halloween in North America, Halloween in Ireland and Scotland had a strong tradition of guising and pranks.^[19]

Divination is a common folkloric practice that has also survived in rural areas.^[20] The most common uses were to determine the identity of one's future spouse, the location of one's future home, and how many children a person might have. Seasonal foods such as apples and nuts were often employed in these rituals. Apples were peeled, the peel tossed over the shoulder, and its shape examined to see if it formed the first letter of the future spouse's name.^[21] Nuts were roasted on the hearth and their movements interpreted - if the nuts stayed together, so would the couple. Egg whites were dropped in a glass of water, and the shapes foretold the number of future children. Children would also chase crows and divine some of these things from how many birds appeared or the direction the birds flew.^[4][15][16]

[edit]Celtic revival

A connection of the medieval feis of Samhain with pre-Christian traditions was drawn by the "notoriously unreliable" Geoffrey Keating (d. 1644), who claimed that the druids of Ireland would assemble on the night of Samhain to kindle a sacred fire. Ronald Hutton notes that while medieval Irish authors do attribute a historical pagan significance to the Beltane festival, they are silent in this respect in regard to Samhain, apparently because no tradition of pagan ritual had survived into the Christian period. Hutton supposes that Keating's account may be due to a confusion of a tradition pertaining to Beltane.^[10]

Its description as "Celtic New Year" was popularised in 18th century literature.^{[dubious – discuss][22]} From this usage in the Romanticist Celtic Revival, Samhain is still popularly regarded as the "Celtic New Year" in the contemporary Celtic cultures, both in the Six Celtic Nations and the diaspora. For instance, the contemporary calendars produced by the Celtic League begin and end at Samhain.^[23]

[edit]Related festivals

Further information: All Saints and Halloween

In parts of western Brittany, Samhain is still heralded by the baking of kornigou, cakes baked in the shape of antlers to commemorate thegod of winter^{[citation needed]} shedding his 'cuckold' horns as he returns to his kingdom in the Otherworld. The Romans identified Samhain with their own feast of the dead, the Lemuria, which was observed in the days leading up to May 13. With Christianization, the festival in November (not the Roman festival in May) became All Hallows' Day on November 1 followed by All Souls' Day, on November 2. Over time, the night of October 31 came to be called All Hallow's Eve, and the remnants festival dedicated to the dead eventually morphed into thesecular holiday known as Halloween.

The Welsh equivalent of this holiday is called Nos Galan Gaeaf (see Calan Gaeaf). As with Samhain, this marks the beginning of the dark half of the year and it officially begins at sunset on October 31.

The Manx celebrate Hop-tu-Naa, which is a celebration of the original New Year's Eve. The term is Manx Gaelic in origin, deriving fromShogh ta’n Oie, meaning "this is the night". Traditionally, children dress as scary beings, carry turnips rather than pumpkins and sing an Anglicised version of Jinnie the Witch and may go from house to house asking for sweets or money.

The Cornish equivalent of this holiday is known as Allantide or in the revived Cornish language Nos Calan Gwaf.

Shakti

 from:
 http://www.sanatansociety.org/hindu_gods_and_goddesses/shakti.htm

The Hindu Goddess Shakti
Shakti is also named Devi, Parvati, Durga, Kali and many other names.

"Shakti is the divine force, manifesting to destroy demonic forces and restore balance."

feminine and masculine balance in our brain, the left and the right, the with in and the with out...

"Every God in Hinduism has his Shakti and without that energy they have no power. Lakshmi is the energy of Vishnu. Parvati is energy of Shiva. Shakti is also called Devi or mahadevi, assuming different roles as Sati, Parvati, Durga and Kali.

So Shakti is the mother goddess, the source of all, the universal principle of energy, power or creativity. The worship of Shakti as this energy is the main objective of Tantra Yoga. Shakti is inseparable from the one who beholds her, the Shakti-man, the masculine principle or Universal father. Shakti-man is called Brahman by the writers of the Upanishads. In the Tantric tradition he is called Shiva.

The play of female energy has no beginning and no end. Although it is restless, the energy moves through alternating periods of motion and rest, during which order is re-established. Tantra believes that as long as the phenomenal world exists, it is the Universal mother who is the creator, preserver and destroyer. Thus Shakti should be worshipped as an aspect of the divine.

The motivating force behind this eternal play that creates the illusionary world of phenomena is the power of desire. This desire is present in the one who is without attributes, the nameless and formless aspect of the divine."

 enThanks to my students/teachers

a weaver with its' webh

a weaver with its webh                  2011                ©Greg Patch

A spider weaves with its webh and re minds us of the network that we weave with all. The web is what supports us in our seeking nourishment/sustenance/support in the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, the fire that warms and enlightens us, the space we share and those and ourselves that we live with. The spider shows how we are connected to all that is around and within us.

This re minds me of a classic to understanding wholisitic medicine I was guided to read by my teachers early on in realizing my work as a wholistic herbalist/dietary counsel and as an artist. Ted Kaptchuk's "The Web That Has No Weaver"  is an introductory connector in understanding the spirit of relationship of Western and Chinese natural medicines.

Wholistic Co-Creative Healing

 

a self/other cathartic writing of ...a processing transformation...

  Moved this past winter in shifts, in a flash, drove to/from the northeast to visit family/friends and dropped from the ladder of the loft I was constructing. Was returning to my bed after taking a leak around 2:30AM am in the dark and the mattress I was gripped onto to pull myself up shifted. Letting go... and landed in a crouching position. One of my favorite yoga positions. The damage done. Acumulatively into the now with a sprained rt knee, strained right sacroilliac joint, stressed already stressed/never repaired dislocated left shoulder and severe bodily misalignment from compensating from the injuries had me down. Wholistic injury! Coming back up, leg stretches and twists are still shaky. Lots of stretching/restrengthening rehab to go and bionic dental surgery scheduled for the summer.
  Many thanks for all the wonderful support I have received from 2 amazing physical therapists, several Reiki practitioners, an acupuncturist for depression; compromised liver, a fantastic alignment masseuse, an Ayurvedic dietary & herbal counsel for my prostate cancer combined with my own herbal protocol, making art, astrology, 3 different restorative yoga instructors, all the many guides, friends and family (particularly some of my Mom's great genes and encouragement that keep me trucking on!) and my own persistence and still learning self love/respect and accepting myself as a spiritual being in a human body. Toward healing Wholisticly. Tomorrow will start seeing a Network Chiropractic for more continuous healing work - enThanks all!
Love/Peace/Co-Creativity in healing to I/WE/ALL.

The Omo People

                              

EmPower 

Aligning with inner

and outer 

perfection of nature.

discovering the power 

of alignment, 

through a process, 

time,

space,

honoring our unity 

of oneness,

layering of color, 

& line

creates me whole,

in gratitude,

peace,

love.

                                                                       © Greg Patch  2011

Throat Chakra Vishuddha

the changing of the background colors on my blog from green/heart chakra to blue/throat chakra.  


from http://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/article/256

Visuddha - The Throat Chakra

THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN BY ANODEA JUDITH ON MAY 30, 2002

Element: Sound 
Color: Bright Blue 
Verb: I speak 
Attributes: Sound, vibration, communication, creativity 

Chakra 5 is located in the region of the neck and shoulders and is the center of communication and creativity. Its color is a bright turquoise blue, mixing the deep indigo of the sixth chakra with the green of the heart. Its lotus has 16 petals, upon which are inscribed all the vowels of the Sanskrit language. Vowels are generally thought to represent spirit, while consonants give the edges and definitions which define matter. As we enter chakra 5, we are crossing deeper into the realms of mind and spirit. 

This lotus is called Visuddha, which means "purification." To successfully reach and open the fifth chakra, the body must attain a certain level of purification, which helps to achieve the sensitivity needed for the subtler levels of the upper chakra. 

Classically, the element associated with this level is ether, or akasha, meaning "spirit," as well as the element of sound. Sound is a rhythmic vibration of air molecules as they are impacted by matter in movement. If I clap my hands, the sound that reaches you is from the air I have displaced. All sound is a vibration, and all things, living and nonliving, have a unique vibration. At this level, we do not see the world as individual things or their activities but as a complex interwoven net of energies with characteristic vibrational rhythms. 

The Hindus believe that the universe itself is made of sound. Mother Kali, the destroyer, is said to have the power to remove the letters of the alphabet from the petals of the chakras when she chooses to destroy the world. Without sound and language, there is no form. 

Sound waves are subject to a principle called resonance, also known as "rhythm entrainment" or "sympathetic vibration." Resonance is what occurs when sound waves of similar frequency meet—they lock into phase, with their vibrations oscillating at the same time. That which is in phase tends to remain in phase; hence, the interlocking of vibrational waves creates the ongoing harmony and substance that we experience in the world. Our breathing, heart rate, brain waves, and sleeping and eating patterns are all rhythmic activities that "entrain" or connect us with the world around us. When we are feeling harmonious with our surroundings, then our internal rhythms are resonating within ourselves. This resonance will, in turn, call other wave forms into harmony with it, bringing strength and integrity to the organism. 

From sound we get communication. Communication is the activity and function of the fifth chakra. Here we have language, a complex pattern of sound and rhythm, through which we symbolize the physical world around us. Through symbol, we have a more efficient way of dealing with the world. I can describe my car, but I can’t bring it into the room with me. I can call New York without actually going there. Our minds work with symbols. We think in words, as well as image and sensory memory. The world of the upper chakras is symbolic of the world below. 

Communication is a rhythmic activity. The more resonant our own internal rhythms, the more easily and pleasantly we will communicate. Studies have shown that regardless of the content of words used, listeners and speakers enter into a rhythm entrainment as they converse. It is believed that understanding occurs only when entrainment can take place. 

Communication involves both listening and speaking. If one’s fifth chakra is closed down, then there is fear of expressing oneself, fear of speaking one’s truth, or excessive shyness. The voice itself is timid and the words are few. If the chakra is too open, we are so busy expressing that we forget to listen, or our voice is dissonant, and we are unable to enter into resonance with those around us. 

Ideally, the fifth chakra should be connected to the self—to all the other chakras above and below—to visions of the mind and the feelings from body with equal ease. 

Chanting is an activity that increases the overall resonance of our being, allowing all our internal systems to enter into a rhythmic harmony. When chanting is practiced as a group activity, it enhances resonance and communication with the group as a whole. From Zen monasteries to rock concerts, this is a powerful tool for enhancing collective consciousness. 

The fifth chakra is also a center of creativity, another form of symbolic communication. As we open up this center, we open up our creative potential. The greater our resonance within, the greater the power within our creations.