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Music by Deanna Neil
I will send peace flowing over her like a river (x3). Amen (x3)
I will comfort you as a mother comforts her child (x3). Amen (x3)
I will send peace flowing over her like a river (x3). Amen (x3)
Source: Isaiah 66:12-13
Iyar
Caroline Rothstein performs Holy On My Own
https://www.carolinerothstein.com/video/holy-on-my-own-by-caroline-rothstein-live/
The Beginning
By Rachel Kann
If you can find stillness,
the jasmine will night-bloom in your direction
and the breeze
will carry its sacred exhalation of perfume
toward you.
Breathe,
the moon will cascade waves of radiance
downward,
drop her silver robes,
glow.
You will awaken,
overtaken by a love
that asks no permission,
golden particles rising
beneath your skin.
all of existence
longs to be an offering.
eternity is a constant whisper
wishing to be listened to.
This is the beginning.
This is only the beginning.
Let it in.
How to Bless the New Moon
By Rachel Kann
Back before the journey began,
before traversing
the massive desert expanse,
before the sea had even split,
way way back in Egypt,
the first collective gift-transmission was given:
With transcendental gentleness, the
Indwelling/Ever-Presence/All-That-Is/Infinite
lifted your chin;
directed your attention
toward the heavens,
said,
Let the moon’s cyclic and fluid beauty
hew you to the rhythm
of time’s unending spiral,
use this precise present
as your very beginning.
Sanctify every recursive moment of holiness
over objects.
Follow the mystery hidden in shadow.
Seek beneath the surface.
Let others bask in the surety of sunlight.
You were born of the moonlight tribe.
Let others be about answers.
You be about questions.
Live in the liminal.
Listen for the subtle metal-scrape:
these are keys unlocking each restraint.
Listen for the whisper:
this is the giving over
of the calling forth
of the new moon
to you.
Listen, for
this is your liberation.