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One night in a dream I saw women all over the world gathering on the new and full moon-- praying, chanting, lighting candles, singing songs, dancing and sending forth blessings of peace into the universe.
Each new and full moon-- wherever you are-- we ask that you take time to join us in a sacred circle and connect with the energy of the circle by sending out peace, love, joy, oneness into the world.
Sites:
-Powerful Passionate Women for Peace
-Joan Clark's Palais Aromaetica
- One World Flag
-DoingIt!-- a journal of positive living
-NCN
-PenMark Potions
-Rock and Roll Stories
Blogroll:
-Joan Clark's Palais Aromaetica
-Joan Clark on BoomerGirl.com
-One World Flag-- intl symbol of diversity
-Flemming funch's Ming the Mechanic
-Rock and Roll Grandma on BoomerGirl.com
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 1 May 2008 @ 14:53
Let’s Stand & Rattle for Peace –
The other day I got an invitation in the mail to participate in the Standing Women’s ceremony that would be conducted at one of the local parks in our community on Mother’s Day – May 11th.
I was so excited about this that I wanted to pass it along to everyone I knew. It is a beautiful tradition that is being created and I hope it will inspire all of you to do the same.
Below is the story of how it got started, how you can join us and where you can find more information.
I hope you will be standing with me and all your loved ones. Take your rattles and rattle for peace, change, and unity.
Here's how it all got started:
Sharon Mehdi wrote a wonderful short story for her five-year old granddaughter, The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering
A quick summary of the story is:
A busboy who worked in a café whose window faced the public park noticed that two grandmotherly looking women had been standing in the park all day without moving at all and without talking. They were dressed up in their Sunday best and were just staring at the town hall. He asked the other patrons in the café what they thought the women were up to. They speculated on a variety of things. Then, a five-year old year who was in the café spoke up and said "One of them is my grandmother and I know what they are doing. They are standing there to save the world." All of the men in the café hooted and howled and laughed. On his way home the busboy decided to ask the women what they were doing and sure enough their answer was "We are saving the world."
Over dinner that evening the busboy told his parents and he and his father hooted and howled, but his mother was totally silent. After dinner, the mother called her best friends to tell them.
The next morning the busboy looked out the café window and the two women were back, along with his mother, her friends, and the women who had been in the café the day before. All were standing in silence staring at the town hall. Again, the men hooted and howled and said things like "You can't save the world by standing in the park. That is what we have armies for," and "everyone knows you have to have banners and slogans to save the world--you can't do it by just standing in the park."
The next day the women were joined by the women who were in the café the day before and a number of their friends. This brought the local newspaper reporter to the scene. He wrote a derisive article about the women. The day after it appeared, hundreds of women showed up to stand in the park in silence. The mayor then told the police chief to make the women leave because they were making the town appear to be foolish. When the police chief told them they would have to disperse because they didn't have a permit, one of them responded that "we are just individuals standing in our public park and we are not giving speeches or having a demonstration so why would we need a permit." The police chief thought about this and agreed with them and left the park.
At this point 2,223 women including the mayor's wife, the police chief's wife, and one five-year old girl were standing in the park to save the world. The news quickly spread and soon women were standing all over the country. The story ended with women standing in every country throughout the globe, standing to save the world. See www.grandmotherbook.com.
This is from the website – www.standingwomen.org
Please stand with us for five minutes of silence at 1 p.m. your local time on May 11, 2008, in your local park, school yard, gathering place, or any place you deem appropriate, to signify your agreement with the statement below. Please stand at a different hour with a different time zone if 1 p.m. is not your preferred time.We ask you to invite the men who you care about to join you. We ask that you bring bells to ring at 1 p.m. to signify the beginning of the five minutes of silence and to ring again to signify the end of the period of silence. During the silence, please think about what you individually and we collectively can do to attain this world. If you need to sit rather than stand, please feel free to do so. Afterwards, hopefully you and your loved ones can talk together about how we can bring about this world.
WILL YOU STAND WITH US?
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20 Apr 2008 @ 03:13
Dear Powerful, Passionate Women for Peace, Full Moon in Scorpio
Full Moon Blessings!
The other day my friend Penny and I were talking and she said, “remember last year when I told you that I wanted to do something with the Women for Women organization”? “Well I signed up today to sponsor a woman for a whole year and it is only $27.00 per month".
I said, "I wanted to do that last year too". So as soon as I got off the phone I signed up to sponsor a woman as well.
Since signing up I have gotten this feeling that it would be something that we as a group could do collectively.
The goal of Women for Women International is to help mobilize women of third world countries to change their lives by bringing a holistic approach to addressing the unique needs of women in conflict and post-conflict environments.
With Mother's Day just around the corner and with the full moon in Scorpio that rules "empowerment" I can't think of a better way to celebrate the power of the divine feminine essence than to support other women who could use our prayers, love, financial blessings and sisterhood.
Here is how YOU can participate!
Just e-mail me and let me know how much you would like to contribute. For a one month sponsorship it is $27.00. Once I gather all the information and collect the money I will send it forward to be processed. You may send me a check made out to women for women or charge your donation to your credit card.
When I receive the packet of information on the woman/women we have sponsored, I will post it on the PPWFP Blog page and each of you will be able to write and connect with the woman/women our circle has sponsored for the year.
I am very excited about expanding our work together and I am looking forward to hearing that you will be joining me in this full moon venture. Thank you Penny for inspiring me, us - to- Be - the Change in the World!
Love,
Joan
Please send checks to Joan Clark - 1661 E. 400 Road, Lawrence, Kansas 66049
You can check out the website at www.womenforwomen.org
Goddess News
Please send in your prayer requests.
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7 Apr 2008 @ 01:31
"Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort which might have saved the world."
Jane Addams
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 7 Apr 2008 @ 01:25
April 6, 2008 – Aires New Moon
"If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now."
Sister Chän Khöng
Dear Powerful, Passionate Women for Peace,
New Moon Blessings!
What are some simple acts of peace that you can begin to do each day that would empower more harmony and peace in your own life? What can you do each morning and night that would make your life more peace filled? In the essence of the Aires moon which supports “new beginnings” what can you begin that would bring you more inner peace?
Do you have any habits that create dis-harmony in your day to day life? Do you have any projects that keep you feeling irritated and therefore affects you from being peace filled? Begin now to do something to change these things in you life-- so you can live more peacefully.
I invite you to experience more peace by committing to self-acts of peace each day for the next 30 days. Be for yourself and show up to make changes in your own life that will create a deep change within.
What in your life do you do, say, believe that keeps you from feeling peace filled? What is it that you can do to change that and what would your life look like if you did?
If we begin each day committed to acts of peace and each evening empowering more peace and harmony in our own lives can you imagine the shifts that would happen around us?
What keeps you in conflict? What flips your switch to the negative? What can you do to stand more powerfully in inner peace? Start now, start in this new Aires moon-- which also rules, courage and self-focus.
You are the answer to the Peace we are envisioning. You are the creatrix for the vision to BE.
Love,
Joan
Goddess News:
Please send in your prayer requests:
Goddess Wedding:
Goddess Nichole Clark is getting married on May 17th. We send her blessings of love and joy as she moves into this next rite of passage. Congratulations!
Goddess Baby on it’s way!
Goddess Jessica is having a baby – due in October right after our Goddess Retreat!!! Please send her lots of great energy as she begins this beautiful journey of moving from the Maiden archetype to Mother.
Blessed Be!
Moon Goddess Retreat –
The Moon Goddess Retreat will be held the week-end of October 24th at the Angel Valley Retreat Center in Sedona, Arizona. The cost of the retreat is $750.00 which includes three nights of shared lodging, food, and retreat fee. Please mark you calendars and join us for a very sacred and joy filled gathering.
The Goddess Aromaetica Spring Line is available at www.joanclark.com.
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27 Mar 2008 @ 19:17
I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible,
To loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch,a promise.
I choose to risk my significance;
to Live
so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.
Dawna Markova
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 27 Mar 2008 @ 19:13
This blog is dedicated to holding the vision for peace and as a gathering place where women can come and get inspired. To find a way to connect with other women who are committed to being a vessel for more peace, love, joy, and oneness.
Each new and full moon you can come here to unite with the energy of all the other women around the world who are celebrating, and creating ceremonies to empower more peace within and without.
Who knows what you will find, some words of inspiration, a poem, a prayer, whatever it is – you can be sure it is anointed in the energies of the moon, and coming to empower the vision we are all sharing for more Peace.
Joan Clark
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27 Mar 2008 @ 19:07
She flew in her room
only at night
when the lights were off
and the shades were drawn
so no one would tell her
that it was impossible.
Kristine Kelly
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27 Mar 2008 @ 19:01
Full Moon Blessings!
When I contemplate the power of love and the freedom we have to choose love I am grateful. Each one of us is free to live with an open heart and to allow the power of divine love to move through us and with us in all that we do. We each have an opportunity to allow the power of love to change us and guide us to create the life we desire to experience.
In this full moon you may want to take a moment or two to go within and see what your authentic feelings and beliefs are about love and loving. Get clear on what is working in your life and what is not and allow the spiritual energies that are swirling around to help you eliminate that which no longer serves you through invoking the power of love within and without.
As we become the vessel for love to work through us – love will come forth. As we become the creator of loving thoughts, words, and actions, love will be empowered more and more in our consciousness and in our lives and those things, people and experiences that do not resonate with this field of consciousness will leave – easily and effortlessly. The power of love creates more love not less, as well as more peace, joy, happiness, health, wealth, creativity, etc. Be not afraid to become that which you truly are – divine love in human form.
Your only choice is to love. Love yourself and keep your heart open. Magic and miracles can find you when your heart is open. Give everything to the power of divine love and claim your freedom to love from this new place within you. The sacred well is always flowing.
Full Moon Blessings!
Joan
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We invite you
to join us
in this goal for Peace
across the world:
one woman,
one prayer,
one blessing at a time. |
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