An interesting day already, arose early, watered the garden, ate breakfast and had my coffee.  Had a zoom meeting with our Sufi circle guides and now sort of ready to start the day and it is 11 am.   The meeting was beautiful and a deeper merging of hearts is happening.  There is something about this pandemic that has made possible a deeper connection with those who don’t live nearby.  

A deep dive into soul presence is now possible and necessary and it is truly happening all over the world.  For too long we have been busy, running this way and that.  There is a part of each of us that has been engaged in creating an inner path to follow and this is the one we need to turn to now.  Our inner soul is crying out to be set free.  It knows the way to come forth.  We have but to listen and to follow instructions arising from our deepest soul heart.  So, be still today and know that there is one who knows what to do within us.  All is well.  Blessings and a deep bow to your soul.

It is chilly here in Colorado for an August day. I find myself reaching for a blanket to warm my shivers. It may be partly due to the inward focus of my attention.

Today seems to be a good day to stay centered and grounded. It feels as if we are being called to bring something from deep in the interior of our being up to the surface to serve the outer world. Integrity and impeccable discernment are greatly needed. It feels like a challenge of some sort. I feel a longing to be more rooted, more inside the Mystery, but there is no going back. Many of us have been working on the inside for a very long time. Now the world is calling us forth. Will we listen? Will we accept the challenge? We don’t feel ready and yet, there seems to be little choice. Let’s allow ourselves to be drawn deeply into the flow of energy arising from the heart of our Earth Mother. Together we can succeed. Join me?

I find it interesting that I have a transit happening right now and on and off for the rest of the year as it goes retrograde and then back across again.  Mars in the sky is nearing the same degree as my natal Mars in Aries in the 10th house.  Lots of physical energy that needs an outlet, which is sort of difficult.  It is very hot outside and I don’t feel comfortable going to the YMCA right now due to COVID.  I ordered a fold up exercise bike that a friend of mine has and loves.  Really need to be moving right now.  

How are you all doing?  Such a strange time.  Some are feeling more settled now and others are very much on edge.  I seem to go back and forth a bit.  Mostly settled, but now and again on edge.  The transit I mentioned makes feeling centered somewhat more difficult.  My desire is to ground deeply into Earth and open to being a conduit for that vibrant energy.

Sending love and support for your process.

habiba

An interesting feeling today of sort of coasting.  I don’t feel like I really wish to exert myself to start anything or to work on anything right now.  Yet there are things to do, ways to proceed.  Perhaps I am gathering strength for what is ahead.  We are moving into and through a somewhat narrow pathway now.  There is a flow and it will guide us, if we allow it.  And so I relax and just let myself be moved gently forward.  If I resist this flow, it will build and the way will seem more violent than it needs to be.  

A bit of guidance from Green Hope Farm  – The Angels explain, “We ask you to trust that this disequilibrium is coming to an end.  We ask you to open your hearts to the truth that love, an immense love, is with you as humanity finds its way, a new way.  The very stars are sending you support.”  They say that nothing can stop the patriarchal structures from their dissolution and that humanity is on a wonderful evolutionary curve upwards and onwards.  Green Hope farm is a wonderful source of flower essences to help us move through the collapse of the old vibrations into the new Earth.  https://www.greenhopeessences.com/

Sending love and support for your journey.  You are stronger than you know.  Trust yourself and your knowing.  Blessings.

Non-linear Time 

Hi beloveds;   Here is another weekly sharing from the book I wrote sometime back.

It definitly fits with today.

Hugs,  habiba

“Let the golden honey run out of the jar.  

Let the water be sweetened in our mixing bowl. 

Three giant spoonfuls of Summer – nectar, sunshine, the hum of bees, warm nights, 

And ourselves in the grass.  

Three giant spoonfuls of Summer sweetening the water in the mixing bowl. 

We need this liquid gold to remember the goodness of life…  the taste of honey. 

The memory of Summer, that it returns, that at the center the open flower is sweet, 

That at the center, when it opens, we too are sweet, and love, like a swarm of bees 

Can fly into us…ecstatic, nectar-drunk and powdered with pollen 

Our bread will have this poured-from-the-center rich gold…three giant spoonfuls.” 

Gunilla Norris, Becoming Bread

The heat of the Summer days can be a delight.  We can begin to see, in the radiance of the Summer sun, how the ingredients of our life, the past experiences, have been blended into the tasty quality of our present and gratitude will begin to arise.  We have been on a great journey and each step of the way has been recorded in the journal of our life experiences.  This is a journey that we agreed to take before embarking upon it.  We knew it would be difficult, for there was much that we had the need to learn and experience before we could arrive at this present moment.  The only question is, how much courage do we have available to enter our inner depths and make the shifts that will let those experiences blend into the whole.  Some experiences have been extremely painful and we have held them apart, through suppression and denial, for we have feared that they would overpower us.  Perhaps some things are still too painful to truly feel at the present time and this is as it should be.  To all things there is a season.  Maybe there are other things that it would benefit us to revisit, to soften around, so that forgiveness and even gratitude might arise.  It is amazing what can be accomplished, if one is willing.

A dear friend of mine told me of his process.  He was dealing with a painful pattern in the present and decided to see if he could trace it on the inner planes back to its root.  He found himself as a very small boy, 2 or 3, sitting sobbing on the steps in his apartment.  He knew that his mum wasn’t home and he was feeling very alone and abandoned.  My friend watched for a time and then decided to enter the scene, on the inner planes and offer comfort to this small boy, who was himself at a younger age.  He held the child and told him that he would always be there for him.  The child relaxed against him, in trust.  After the meditation was complete, he decided to call his mum and ask her if such a thing had really happened when he was small.  She told him of a time when she had run out to the corner market when he had been napping and that he had awoken and been totally panicked.  She also said that the child was calm when she returned and said that a nice man had come and told him that he would always be there for him when the child needed him to come. 

Yes!  Isn’t this amazing? Time is not only linear.  What we do today can affect what happened in what we see as the past.  This week let us contemplate what is arising as a challenge in our present and see if we can follow its roots back to its origin.  Let us allow the honey of the now to flow back into the bread of our being.  Bless your heart!

Kabir, Habiba Ashki. Embracing a New Planetary Consciousness (p. 77). Wasteland Press. Kindle Edition. 

Today I am considering my need to put boundaries around the things I truly need to focus on. I have been guided to a few projects and these are the ones I need to give my time and energy to and yet it seems so easy to get distracted by others and their need for my input – at least they think they need it. Truly everyone is much more capable than they believe. Last year I wrote ‘Just say NO!’ on every day of my calendar for a whole month and that worked. Now, with the COVID isolation, it seems too easy to just let things drift.

We are in a time when we need to really lean into what is ours to do, to sort out the things that are not important or not ours and to be persistent in tending to the things that do matter. If enough of us do this, we will begin to sense something beautiful coming forth, the birthing of something totally new. May we commit to doing what is ours to do. And so it is!

Something is moving today, an opening arising from deep under the surface chaos. Will we listen? Will we lean into the opportunity? We are being called upon right now to make a difference. Can we stand in our own center, our own sovereignty now and not be swayed by events happening around us? This does not mean that we don’t do the work we are being called to do, but that we do it from a deeply grounded place that is connected to Source and to Mother Earth.

We seem to have forgotten as a species how deeply rooted we are to the planet. I watched this Ted talk yesterday and it really speaks to this. I hope you enjoy it. Blessings on this Earth Walk. May we awaken to the needs of the whole. May we do the work that allows every being to thrive.

We are definitely in the midst of summer right now.  Outside it is hot and dry here in Colorado.  A huge fire rages on the western slope, over 20,000 acres.  My body does not deal well with heat.  I just spent time out watering the garden and working with the squash vines that are heavy with fruit to support their bounty.  Now my body feels tired and in need of a rest.  

Even though this is an outward time of the year, usually, this year there is more of a sense of interiority with the pandemic keeping us closer to home.  Since interiority is my usual way of life, it does not seem particularly odd to me, but I am curious how others are doing with it.  

There is such polarity in the world and especially here in the United States.  Truly the states are not very united right now.  May the gift of the power of unity from yesterday spread and bring us to healing and hope.  Blessings on your day.

Good morning, beloveds;  Today I am thinking of the sacred hoop and the teachings that my friend Anita Sanchez wrote of in her book, The Four Sacred Gifts, Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times.  She speaks of the gifts that were given by an elder, Don Coyhis at a gathering of elders from across the world back in 1995.  These gifts are medicine for today and they are sorely needed. 

They are:

The power to forgive the unforgivable

The power of unity

The power of healing

The power of hope

Today, as the old ways are crumbling, we must be willing to use these gifts wisely, to share them freely for life depends on this.  We are seeking that the circle be restored, that all of life be woven back into the sacred hoop which will provide what is needed for inherent thriving for all life.  May it be so.  And so it is!

This was the post from my book for this past week of Summer.  It is so fitting for this time even though written some time ago. I hope you enjoy it.  habiba

Summer Week 7 Barriers Falling 

“All the talents of God are within you. 

How could this be otherwise 

When your soul 

Derived from His Genes!

 I love that expression, 

‘All the talents of God are within you.’”

 -Daniel Ladinsky, The Gift: Poems by Hafiz

 It feels right now as if all of the barriers that we have erected to separate us from Life, from creation, from each other are falling away.  I feel a shakiness deep inside, like I have no idea what tomorrow will bring.  People call, wanting to make plans and I don’t know what to say.  Who knows what the next moment will be like, let alone next week?  All of the carefully built walls are crumbling.  The back of my heart is on fire.  

Something is burning and I remember a poem that our Sheikha Fariha wrote a few years ago that started, “Burn, lovers, burn.”  It said that as we enter the fiery furnace we will hear a voice saying, “Fire, be cool for my friend, as you were cool for Abraham!”  I am yearning for that voice right now.  It isn’t just the temperature outside, but something deep within that is burning.  I decide to stop and to just breathe into this as I bring my consciousness to this burning.  I enter the furnace and it does feel cool, even though the heat flows now through my entire body, not just centered in one place.  Allow!  Just allow it to flow!  Another wave arises and now I see that it is light, not fire, and that the sense of fire came from the friction of my own resistance.  Asking if there are words to explain this, I hear, “This is the light of a soul becoming embodied.  Do not resist.”  The ego/donkey is afraid, but is assured that the best master is coming now,  just relax and allow something entirely new to occur.  Allow the talents of God to awaken.  Let the light of His Genes bring light to every cell of the body.  Let the light of wisdom bring light to the mental faculties.  

The words of a mystic hymn that we often sing at zikr arise from deep within me.  “Burning, burning, drifting in a sea of Love.  Lost is my body.  Lost is my intellect.  Like wind blowing on an empty mountain road, come see what mystic love has done to me.”  Enter with me into the bright majesty of this sacred moment.  We are like sparks as the iron and flint of this moment strike together. Prepare the tinder.  Prepare the kindling.  Bring branches and logs to add as the fire grows.  All is welcome in the sacred fire.  Some say that this is Agni, the mouth of the Gods, a place of sacrifice.  Let us surrender to the burning.  Our belief in separation is the only sacrifice needed.  Burn, lovers, burn.  You don’t have to believe in separation any more.  Enter the sacred fire and be.  The talents that you carry are hidden behind the walls that are ripe for burning.  Come with me.  Enter the fire with me.  It is time.

Kabir, Habiba Ashki. Embracing a New Planetary Consciousness (pp. 74-75). Wasteland Press. Kindle Edition.