Dream A New Dream

LIVING IN BALANCE FROM THE HEART

with JoAnne Dodgson, Ed.D.

www.pathwaysforhealing.net • joanne@pathwaysforhealing.net

DREAM A NEW DREAM

This weekend, on Sunday, the earth, moon and sun will join up in creating a total solar eclipse.  When we look at a photograph or even glance toward the sky, our minds tend to interpret what we see in two-dimensional forms – a flat sky, a flat round moon passing in front of a flat circular sun.  This narrowed perspective makes things simple, perhaps, but so much remains hidden from our view.

We miss out on the incredible depths of space we’re gazing into.  We don’t quite let ourselves feel the mystery and magic so alive in the relationships among our earth and moon and sun.  We forget we’re living on an immense spherical planet spinning on her own axis while spiraling through space.  The earth is steadily encircled by a moon who energetically touches all the waters, influencing the ebb and flow of life.  And then there’s our sun, a fiery star so extraordinary who brings light and warmth to the earth from millions and millions of miles away.  And somehow in the midst of the ceaseless cosmic movements of these interwoven orbits in the endless oceans of space, our earth and moon and sun align in a particular way at a specific moment in time to create a solar eclipse.  Wrapping our minds and hearts around all this is something we’ve spent centuries upon centuries trying to achieve – and it’s just a part of the story of our planet and the galaxy and universe we call home.

When we open ourselves up to experience life in it’s fullness and see beyond that flat two-dimensional perspective, we discover we’re not sitting somewhere outside looking in.  We’re in it.  We’re of it.  We are Life.  So connected.  Co-creators of this grand celestial dance.

And therein lies the power of our dreams.

Our dreams, visions and intentions provide the blueprint, the very seed, for everything that comes alive in our everyday world.  Without new dreams, nothing new will grow.

The solar eclipse brings darkness during the daytime and occurs during the new moon/dark moon phase, the time in the lunar cycle when the moon isn’t visible in the night sky.  The nourishing stillness of the deep darkness, amplified by the mystical energies of the eclipse, offers a potent invitation to enter the dreamtime.  To intentionally reach for new visions.  To picture creative change.  To think, feel and explore beyond all the judgments and expectations which have limited our experience and narrowed our view.  The interwoven energies of the earth and moon and sun are calling us to passionately give voice to new dreams.

What do you really want?

How do you want to experience life, moment to moment, day to day?

What do you want for your relationships?  Health?  Home?  Friends and family?

What about the spending and sharing of money and time?

How would you really like the world to be?

What changes would nourish and sustain Life on our planet?

Dream a new dream.
In full color.
In all dimensions.
With rich detail.
Co-creating.
In connection with all life.

New beginnings begin with new dreams.

Manaole U Manaole,

from my heart to the heart of mother earth to your heart,

JoAnne Dodgson