Hello Friends

On a beautiful day in the glorious state of Maine, I write my newsletter to you with hopes on getting outdoors soon. I do think we should embrace the good weather when it comes, making hay in a fun way so to speak. How marvelous is the magic of the season of harvest. I know that this week that we have been in has brought intense challenges to many, many people. The words calamity and chaos are fitting. There is (astrologically speaking) much planet intensity going on. Like a pow wow of potent cosmic energy mixing with the mercury retrograde that is making it hard to get across good points and making those who think they have it all put us up against walls with anger or hidden agendas. When folks come to my office and say “why” is this or that happening to them sometimes I am guided to say…” why not?”  It often is the impetus to get someone to drop down and pray, ask for help, take a serious look at how they can react or not react to situations to bring about inner peace or better outcomes. This is the whole reason why we are in such serious times of transition. If we dont change the hows and how comes into how to’s and thank you’s, well…a broken system (or relationship, practice, family, or the like) will never heal.

Like most of the crud that is coming up in odd ways to be healed, so too is our nations system being broken down to be rebuilt. If the common good for all (that includes our home planet Earth) is not heeded now, nothing will ever work right or work well. Just like nature works seasonly and constantly to rebalance eco systems, gardens and shorelines, everything will find a way to be balanced. That is the natural law of the cosmos, the universal mind and the mind of the Creator. We are not separate from It nor It from us. Until we understand what that means to us and to our living in unison and brother/sisterhood here globally, we will keep making dire mistakes. But we have a chance right now to try to make choices based on a community minded way of living. We ARE the creators of this. It is easier to do than we think, its all about letting greed take a back seat and remembering that no matter what, goodness and Light are how we need to do business.

Most all of my clients are filing in having one of two reactions to times of late. Panic and fear, utter literal illness growing inside their bodies with fears that are arrising, or a new, magical oddly intituve happy and inquisitive way of taclking ideas, change or hope and clarity. There is not alot of gray there. It’s one or the other, like a battle of one side of consciousness (ego, dogma, following other’s fears) fighting or staring at the other side of consciousness (Spirit filled, heart based, open, curious, trusting, intuitive) and it is happening to everyone; Healers, doctors, lawyers, librarians, teachers, government officials, military officers, artists, writers, dancers, police officers, accountants, internet developers, children, older folks, black, white, all religions, all creeds everyone in every country. Just look at how some  things are crumbling. Please do not fear these times and do not tap into fear. Turn off the news or the internet if you can not take it; and then go out and BE THE CHANGE  that you want to see. “Lord, make me and instrument of thy peace..” and if you do not know how or what you feel is “Lord” to you.. well, time to mediate on what that means to you. Is it dancing? Teaching? Is it praying to a tree? Is it a Temple of worship? Is it a family dinner table, with the TV off? What ever brings you closer to that which needs to give you faith. Find it and know that fear, is and always will be the path to the dark side (thanks Yoda). So, do everything you can to steer clear of negative people, ideas, music, institutions, or those posing as healers trying to convince you yourself, have no power in your soul to make your life magic and full of possibility right now. All broken systems will find a way to right themselves. We have the Light on our side. We have you and me and we have Love. Love always heals that which needs to be healed.

With a reminder to check in with me for classes in September, I’m going to leave you with the reminder of the fact that I’m here being a voice for your Guidace to help you find the way to find YOUR truth and happiness. So c’mon in and we can build up a new world “together, all in one” …

and with some words from Martin Luther King that feel fitting right now.

“The time has come for an all-out world war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for “the least of these”. Deeply etched in the fiber of our religious tradition is the conviction that men are made in the image of God and that they are souls of infinite metaphysical value, the heirs of a legacy of dignity and worth. If we feel this as a profound moral fact, we cannot be content to see men hungry, to see men victimized with starvation and ill health when we have the means to help them. The wealthy nations must go all out to bridge the gulf between the rich minority and the poor majority.

In the final analysis, the rich must not ignore the poor because both rich and poor are tied in a single garment of destiny. All life is interrelated, and all men are interdependent. The agony of the poor diminishes the rich, and the salvation of the poor enlarges the rich. We are inevitably our brothers’ keeper because of the interrelated structure of reality. John Donne interpreted this truth in graphic terms when he affirmed:

No man is an Iland, intire of its selfe: every
man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the
maine: if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea,
Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie
were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends
or of thine owne were: any mans death
diminishes me, because I am involved in
Mankinde: and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls: it tolls for thee.”

and remember ,

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” 
— Rumi

Giving you all my Love and sharing profound Faith and Blessings for all properity,

Sarah

Hi All,

Just a mini post to give you some love while the mercury on our thermometers soars close to the triple digits. Many folks find this hard to deal with. Obviously its not good to get overheated or stay out in the air too long, but there is the knowing that the same as all trying times, this too shall pass. So as we get closer to August we come out of a period of wild planet activity and many folks are moving forward to the new.

Just wanted to let you know that August will be interesting as Mercury is going retrograde from the 2nd to the 26th, almost the whole month. So know there will be technical snafus and communication “problems”. This is a good tome to revisit old project or ideas but not sign contracts into huge new things as long as you know you may have to rework that later. But no worries. Retrogrades let us slow down some part of our lives in a good way to let us re-group or re-vamp something we need to.

Just be patient and have a sense of humor and let your heart do the talking, not your expectations and your frustrations. Hey, its summer! Its hot! Its fun! Its full of things to let our inner child go. So I will write soon again, as I have classes to offer soon and other news as we approach September.

Turn off your TVs and your news and get out ( when the heat is not so oppressive ) and be in the now.

Sending Love and helping you untangle the changes of life, everyday.

Blessings,       Sarah

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer.  My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music.  It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.  ~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit

This is a good look at the moon on a hot summer night song to let you get creative and flow into new dreams and letting go into a creative space of Love . Enjoy!

Happy Holiday and Solstice Season All,

After our first snow it finally seems like winter has arrived here in Southern Maine. The chill and the darkness begs to be acknowledged. With that we light up lights and put the wood in the stove and light candles. Most of us will take heed to listen to gentle pulls to go a bit within and look at things and thoughts and issues that reside within us that long to come out now. The irony has it that inner issues that seem dark or lonely come out to the front right when we do the most of our celebration and sharing with friends and family. It serves as a balm and a catalyst for us to heal that which needs to be healed. As you can see from the news of late, it is not just personal issues that long to come out into the forefront and be noticed. It is also global and political issues that are coming to the dinner table. There is much work to do in the way of healing that which is broken. Anger, mistrust, and hurt is an obvious reaction. While it is helpful to let those emotions out in a healthy way, there could be a new way of doing things. Maybe long talks and long walks could help. Making music, writing letters, praying and finding a spiritual outlet. Negativity is a death sentence for Hope. Being careful to look at things and ideas from different perspectives and all sides of the issues may be the best way to heal that which is within us and without of us. Have you ever actually sat in silence and thought about how others may feel or what they may need. To put others first is a big step for some and that may heal many things. That is the true kind of gift giving you can give loved ones this holiday.

Greetings, Friends near and Far

The August newsletter finally comes. In the later summer, with good weather here in Maine. Low humidity, sunshine, clear air. Such a gift, such a blessing. This sure has been a time of extremes and oddly, moments of peace in chaos. Weather extremes (Moscow, Pakistan) even here with great heat waves . The air of extreme seems to be on the lips of people coming in to see me and other blogs by healers, social commentators, and within all those who are awake. If there are issues that need one’s attention, well they seem to be knocking at the doorway for awareness fully. You may find that this is a time of what seems to be duality or contradiction. Hope for yourselves in issues of survival of your innermost dreams and goals at the same time with molehills that seem like mountains to climb-over.

Happy Spring All

This has been quite a spring for us all, has it not? With odd weather patterns and strange news and earth eruptions it has been what we can call changing or renewing. I, as with many of you, have had to take time to just be quiet and integrate all the patterns of energy in the world. I feel as though it is waves, standstills and rises of thoughts and healing, events and ideas.

I have noticed that our seeming “battle” with our inner selves is moving itself from the folds of our subconscious out to our conscious, making our lives a bit of either chaos or of good healing.