harvesting our life, change, and practice | transform. | aug 2010
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The ninth month of the lunar calendar is known as Ramadan in the Islamic calendar and is the holiest month . Traditionally we are at the phase in the year when the power of the god wanes as the power of the goddess waxes: the purposeful, solar energy of Leo yields to the fertility of Virgo, bearer of grain and the future harvest.
Practice Period Designed for activists, allies & agents of social change, Practice Periods are 27 days of daily inner practice in the midst of our
August has been celebrated as a time for harvest. The Feast of Lammas (from the old English word hlaf-maesse or loaf mass) is celebrated in English-speaking countries as a way of welcoming the harvest. During the celebration "participants bake ritual bread and cakes as an offering." The Egyptian calendar notes the Chief Festival of Thoth (the god who invented magic, music, writing, mathematics, astronomy, etc.) as a time when new patterns of earthly order were determined to re-establish divine design after the flood waters receded. Both are festivals, celebrations of harvest.
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We can utilize the leonine energy of August to help us take more of a leadership role in realizing our true purpose, if we so choose. Similarly, Ramadan is understood as the time to burn away unhealthy ways of the past, the end of which is marked with a bountiful feast. We can use this time to let the fires burn away all that is ready to die and make room for the new life to come. What will you decide to harvest this year? What are the ingredients that will create the life you want to live?
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Read more... Cultivating Compassionate Politics Workshop | September 12, 2010 Countless activist organizations are engaged in political efforts to improve public policies in order opportunities, and protect the environment. And in the personal and social sphere countless individuals have learned how to engage skillfully in compassionate actions that foster self-development, spiritual growth, productive group dynamics, and community service. If activist organizations incorporated more of those personal and social lessons into their political efforts,
"Allah, the personal name of God." Inscribed in Islamic calligraphy on one of eight medallions. Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey. image: angel Kyodo williams
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might they attract more compassion-minded individuals and be more effective?
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