Dawnings

 Time to pass the  Torch

The Lighting of the Olympic Torch Ceremony in Greece was beautifully choreographed in its ancient tradition. Here it is again: every four years, the Leap year when we catch up a day to tweak our human designed calendars to match solar time, and the year we celebrate with the Olympic Games.

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“The context within which we place ourselves and the focus we choose as a filter on life, provides a matrix of meaning for our minds.”

This Saturday night, millions of man made lights will be turned off for an hour in a symbolic gesture of solidarity to demonstrate our willingness to restrain the affluenza that is a world plague.
Earth hour, from 8-9 pm. Across the globe. 

Time for the first fire of the season in a clean fireplace: home, hearth and friends by firelight. Or is that too much CO2 emissions?

Time for peace.

  There are many festivals celebrated at this time of the solar cycle: the cosmic clocks of the Equinox and Aries Full Moon provide a focus in time and space for us to contemplate endings and beginnings, seasons and cycles. It provides a welcome release for holidays and regeneration. 

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“If we think about it too much, we miss the moment, that occurs in time and space, wherein we can expand beyond small and petty personal concerns and just be, here, right now, anywhere, anywhen, alive and oh, yes, aware.”

May this festival ‘time-out’ bring refreshment of the Spirit of Life.

Blessings,

Hilary

[pic (c) by Monica Henry: 'Starting Out']

EARTH HOUR: 29 March 2008, 8-9 pm

Saturday 29 March with the Moon in Capricorn a global community shares an hour of consideration in a common purpose:

“Hey, I just signed up to the new Earth Hour website for 2008 and I thought you might like to take a look and possibly sign up too. Earth Hour is on 29 March 2008 at 8pm, and it looks like it’s going to be really big. So far, as well as Sydney, there’ll also be Chicago, Tel Aviv, Manila, Copenhagen, Melbourne, Brisbane and Toronto all turning off their lights for an hour in the name of fighting global warming. And I’m sure there’ll be more cities by March. Sign up for Earth Hour with me by visiting http://www.earthhour.org/sign-up and join the movement.”

11 March Update:  Spiral In …

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“… what we need and want for ourselves is what we are wanting for all.”

blessings!

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 An interesting lecture:  Shaping a Sustainable Future

Professor Ian Lowe speaks at the Spirituality and Sustainability Forum: 6/07/07 

“The future is not somewhere we are going, but something we are creating.”

Blessings for the new Moon in Pisces and for International Women’s Day.

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Hilary