It's late on the full moon and I'm happy to present another installment of Animal Balance. It's been quite a month so far and I hope you find it useful in some way.
What follows are selections from my journal entries starting from the new moon... Thank You Animals. You have been helpful with Your Guidance. I Wonder what Mysteries you will bring?
Mother Earth is Beaver Father Sky is Bat and Squirrel is the Child Heart
Beaver, Builder of Dreams, thank you for sharing the Wisdom you carry. I've seen you in the River at Dusk or not seen but heard You slap your tail on the water in warning. Once we saw an old beaver on the river bank in broad daylight. Bless You Beaver. Come to me now and show me the way.
Bat, You have been out every evening lately. As the days get shorter we meet as I walk to the river. Sometimes you visit the back yard at night when we light the torches and sit at night by the pond with a fire burning in the chiminea. You are a Creature of the night Sky, very comfortable with darkness. I greet You! Guide me and teach me the Way back to Who I Really Am.
Squirrel, Child of my Heart, Gatherer, Friend of Trees. You know when to work and when to play, You have shown me how to gather my heart's devotion and how to share my love with others. I Thank You. I know You are also helping me gather my thoughts and storing them in the Earth. Small seeds sprout. Some acorns feed you today, others forgotten, grow into solid Oaks that provide shelter and deep connection to the Earth.
Thank You Again and Again Divine Child, Divine Golden Child of my Heart. Awaken my Original Innocence and Purity. Make me Simple, Humble and Forgiving. Show me the Way of Abundance and Generosity.
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Beaver, I thank you for your presence and guidance here this month. You are a great builder of dreams. You swim in the River at night alerting your family with the slap of your tail on the Water. What do you have to say?
I am Beaver. I am here for You and for All to help build upon the Dream of right relationships and co-creation. I work together easily with my Brothers and Sisters as you once did. I fell trees and build dams to form ponds. I am a master of flow and a master of breath.
In the flow of family life is often helps to slow the flow of your breath and create still pools in which to reflect things as they are. Seeing each One as they are you begin to see their Uniqueness. In this reflection you also see yourself as You are.
What thoughts do you carry each day? Remember these thoughts are like the trees I cut and carry. They become your Home, your Shelter and your source of food. If a log has rotted it may be time to find a new one to replace it now.
My home has many doors, exits and entrances that allow and invite new ideas from the Realm of Infinite Possibilities. I Honor You and I come to aid you in this Allowing.
From the Heart of the Earth Mother, feel and know that I Honor Your Dream of Freedom and Peace. Know that Love Power casts out all Doubt and Fear. I am known as the Busy Beaver always busy in the flow of Life with Love, Gratitude for Who You Are and Respect for Each One.
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Bat, do you have some words to share?
I am Bat. By some I am seen as a symbol of death and rebirth. By others I am seen as a symbol longevity and abundance. Still others see me as evil or scary. But I am a sociable creature among my own kind and I am here to help the People see through the darkness that sometimes surrounds them.
I come out at night to eat insects or fruit. You must also face the dark night of your seed fears by learning to navigate with Love and Wisdom. As you gradually learn to see them for what they are they will hold less and less power over you.
Then you will begin to see that they are like swarms of tiny insects buzzing around you that have created a great disturbance in your Mind well beyond their true stature. I am the only mammal that can fly so I will show you that you too can fly. Rise above the plane of doubt and fear on the Wings of Love Power that connect you to All Life.
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I have been watching you Squirrel. Grey squirrels and red squirrels are very active this month. Are you ready to speak?
Yes, I am Squirrel, your long time friend and ally. I am as happy to be playing in the trees as to be running or digging on the ground. In this was I help join Earth and Sky. I am here to help balance these aspects of yourself: work and play, pleasure and pain, sorrow and joy, grief and renewal.
I shuttle the seed messages from your subconscious mind to conscious mind and back again. And I will lift your Thought Higher into the superconscious. Your Spirit Naturally soars when you are having Fun. Your Heart Sings and draws abundant Joy from a vast reservoir of Awareness of What Is.
You can then take that seed feeling and bury it in the Earth like I do my acorns. I easily find food during any dark season with my excellent sense of smell. Drawing from the Infinite Abundance I always have more than I need, enough to share and enough to give back to our Mother Earth.
I offer this Nut of Wisdom to You with Gratitude for Who You Are, my Friend, {!firstname}, Child of my Heart! With Boundless Love, Peace and Harmony.
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Beaver, you are quietly swimming in the subconscious River working and building this dream of Life. Will you come up again and speak your Wisdom?
Yes, I am Beaver, the Doer always busy with my Creations. I am here to represent the Mother, the One, the Sole Doer. I am also known as the Dream Builder. You may have many dreams as night, but when you wake they fade away very quickly leaving only a feeling.
You know whether they were nightmares or pleasant dreams. When the emotion is strong enough you bring back an image perhaps into waking. I am your Ally and worker in the Dreamtime building houses and directing activities that you may have given up on in your life.
You may give up on your Dream, but you may not realize that the Dream will never give up on You! It is as if the Dream has a Life of its own. It has been given to you for the sake of All that Is. If you have forgotten I will help you remember.
I breathe and dive deep in the river holding my breath up to 15 minutes. As you slow your breath you create space between breaths. In that space you release tiny bubbles of Divine Joy, the source of your true Nature. In the reflection of even the tiniest bubble of Joy you may see your Dream.
As you puff and expand that bubble your dream will also grow in clarity. Remember the thoughts and desires that made your Heart sing as a little Child? They are still with you now.
During this time of remembrance you also remember the Ones who have gone before. In memories of the Dead you find both Grief and Inspiration . You Feel their Loss and Full-Fillment as tow sides of the same River.
Do not fear what may come or be discouraged, but continue to Build your Dream All the while expanding your Bubble of Joy. Then when you wake from this Dream of Life and your Bubble bursts you will say, "I, a tiny bubble of laughter, have become the sea of mirth itself."*
Make a funeral pyre of all your sorrows and concerns for this World. Know that the Mother holds you lovingly in Her Heart now and Always. Go in Peace.
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Surely Bat with its habit of hanging upside down to sleep each day wrapped in its own wings is an ally in developing calmness in this topsy-turvy world. Bat will you speak?
Certainly, I am Bat, here for you always as are all the aspects of you Self, ready to come whenever You ask. Remember to ask. Ask and strongly demand the Presence of your allies and guides who are here to help translate the Guidance of the One Mother Father Friend.
Often when you ask or pray for help you are in a state of weakness or fear. I understand. That is why you need help. This is the paradox of the present day. The law of attraction says that what you give your attention to grows leaving many afraid to face their fears.
You must face your fear of the darkness with Love in your Heart. You must own your weakness to find your strength. I hang upside down each day as I sleep so I can see each thought a new way. In the cave of Silence I observe the shadows in calmness, then fly out at dusk and begin to turn them around in Dreamtime.
My flight looks shaky and uncertain to your eyes, but I consume a large number of pests each night. You too are learning to navigate the Shadows when you send out thoughts of Love, Gratitude and Respect for All Life. This is the way through the dark night.
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I keep seeing squirrels, often with nuts, digging or sitting in trees eating, running through the yard over the roof, through the trees and across the fence. Squirrel I Love to see you. Guide my little Child to the rebirth of the Heart's Love.
I am Squirrel. I appeared in the South and I am here to help awaken your Child Heart, the Core Innocence Inside you. When you play to connect to the Place of Wonder which I s the door to the Great Mystery, you connect to the Heart of the Earth Mother and as you go deeper you re-enter Her Womb.
The Mother is in labor for You. Sometimes it is painful and She feels your pain. As She labors to give birth to Her Mystery Egg from deep I Her Core Heart You are in a time of Rebirth. It is called Purification time which is also a time of Death for People, Animals, Things and Thought patterns.
As you view Death and Destruction in the World allow and know that this allows our Mother to receive many in Her Core for Purification and rebirth. As you walk each day you are being shown the parts of your self that you must die to: greed, anger, fear, guilt - all the usual suspects.
When you feel these painful feelings realize they are laboring for your rebirth in Wonder, Innocence and Pure Joy. Hold fast to the nut of Truth, then bury it deep within for Wisdom truly is the greatest cleanser.
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Thank You Beaver
Thank You Bat
Thank You Squirrel
Bless Bless, Pine Tree
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(* from the poem Samadhi by Paramahansa Yogananda)
