Primal Words of Power: December 2011

Saturday, December 31, 2011

2012

‎2012. The turning of the wheel.

Praying for an astonishing shift in our collective psyche, one which will enable us to meet the astonishing shift in our circumstances; resolving to work diligently and live joyously into and through both of these shifts.

Blessings of love and vision to all of you. Beautiful beings, look at yourselves in the radiant mirror of this precious life.

Celebrate Gaia and she will sustain you. Celebrate Durga and she will protect you. Celebrate White Buffalo Woman and she will move among you.

The Gregorian calendar New Year is upon us.

I hope to meet 2012 with great peace and great clarity, and to move within it from great love and great courage.

But living from the global perspective, I remember that there are numerous beginnings wrapped within the beginning: Chinese New Year (Jan. 23), Tibetan New Year (Feb. 22), Persian New Year (March 20), Rosh Hashanah (Sept. 16), Samhain (Nov 6) and of course the Equinoxes (March 19 and December 21) and the Solstices (June 20 and September 22), and ...

The circle of life always ending, always beginning, always turning toward itself ...

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Solstice: This World is Kerdiwen's Cauldron

Stonehedge from the Northeast

Winter Solstice. Profound. Turning at the nadir. Seeing in the dark. But simultaneously, Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. These realities do not contradict each other, they compliment and amplify each other. Choose to live with a Planetary Consciousness. All polarities exist, but only within a greater oneness.

Similarly, the Pathless Path leads from all four directions; if you journey far enough from one direction, you emerge from the others to meet yourself. There is nowhere it is not. Although it eludes mapping, it cannot escape you, because it is you. There is only one great circle.

This world is Kerdiwen's Cauldron. Everything is poured in; all good is broken open, all bad is boiled away. Pursue the human far enough and you will discover the divine; pursue the divine far enough and you will discover the human.

-- Richard Power

About Richard Power

Richard Power writes and speaks on spirituality, human rights and sustainability, as well as risk, security and intelligence. He is the author of seven books. For more information, visit his author's page Amazon.com.

This blog, Primal Words of Power, focuses on exploring new language for the truths of the ancient future, and reflects insights into Vajrayana Buddha Dharma, Trika (Kashmir Shaivism), Shamanism, and other aspects of the world's collective mystical heritage.

Power's Words of Power blog is widely respected as a source of commentary on human rights (with an emphasis on Darfur), sustainability (with an emphasis on the Climate Crisis), and progressive politics (with an emphasis on the health of our democratic institutions, in particular the news media).

Power's views on security, risk and intelligence have been quoted in mainstream news media, including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters and Associated Press, and he has been interviewed on CNN, PBS, NPR and BBC. He is a frequent contributor to CSO Magazine, and serves as a member of CSO's Technical Advisory Board. Power has delivered briefings and led training in forty countries, and has been an adviser to governments and corporations.