*Happy FULL MOON Womens Day *

ི♥ྀ Much LOVE, GRACE & EMBRACE ི♥ྀ 

to all my SISTERS around the WORLD

*Healing Prayer*

Enjoy this beautiful Lakota Peyote ~ Healing Prayer

*The Window*

Its growing! Its drawing near the FULL MOON again! March 2012. Can you feel it? Now is Tuesday evening, it will be full Thursday morning. Ahhhh.. cycles, rythms, continuity.. circles, The cosmic Mandala, ever revolving, we evolving.

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My window*

Often the subject of my blog posts, well rather the view, or what's happening outside my window. But tonight I perceive it in a new way.  I feel like I, the window, and the outside world, are playing roles in a play where the untouchable is touchable, stillness is movement and matter is Spirit.

I've given my window its own role in this play, because it's such a great poetic character. Like tonight, the way it captured the mysterious moon.. wow! Totally dramatic, great performance. I love it! It has played a big role in this Kolding/Denmark act of my play, Soley's Journey. By framing the season changes so beautifully, it drew my attention to what was happening outside, and by doing so connected me deeply to the primal rythms of Life itself. It reflected the light of the vivid summer green to the autumnal red and yellow, it showed me how the naked crooked branches of the trees in my garden were delicately covered by the soft December snow, and how those same exposed branches are now reaching for the moon, in the soon to be equinox sky* 

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✿ SoonMoon Kisses ✿

*Leap Day*

*Happy Leap Day everyone :) The 29th of February ... WOW.. there is just something very special about this day! We sure are leaping into new heights and dimensions, we as humanity, as ONE. 2012 is truly bringing on a big wave of 
BEAUTY, LOVE & GRACE

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I'm happy to announce that today my beautiful, amazing artist mother published a facebook page:  Art of the Soul by Helga 

Now as am writing this, I'm thrilled to see that already a handful of people are enjoying her paintings, commenting and sharing to their own faceook sites.. its great! 

Facebook is here to stay, therefore I'm embracing the fact that with very little effort it's now possible to connect with friends around the globe, and share inspirations and paths to enlightenment in stories, pictures and videos*

Here is one of my mother's paintings. It is from her DO-ING series and is called GROWING*

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Sometimes I even think that the 'behind the scene' reason for why facebook was invented was to aid the quickening phase, that we humans are going through. Though a lot of 'not so nice things' gets published as well (there will always be a shadow side) we now have a brilliant open source platform where we can come together to share wisdom and our journeys.   That is beautiful*

♥ LOVE, LAUGHTER AND JOY♥ 

*Leave a Light ON*

Marvelous, marvelous.. :) I guess Mars retrogate and the waning moon are the two minuses equaling a BIG PLUS :D Feeling great, its Friday, just spoke to my family and my two dogs in Iceland. Happy and I just started The Dream Collage. (link later when it is ready) I Choose JOY*

Happy Friday Gods and Goddesses* Yours truthfully, always from the HEART, Sóley*

ENJOY: LEAVE A LIGHT ON - Belinda Carlisle

*Full Snow Moon of CHANGE*

Its full moon again. Today has been tough. So many things surfacing, so many things inside that are screaming for confrontation and resolution. A closure. So I can move on. Have to admit that this big day of Wisdom and learning has my absolute permission to end soon! I thank you greatly deep wisdom day. I'm looking forward to being rocked to sleep by the full moon's bright rays, mystically lighting up my room. .... forming moonlight shadows! Love that song.. sometimes its like that!

The moonlight shadow of the tree in my garden just now

Would love to express more, so I will do that tomorrow morning. One more thing thought before I stop, I just received one of my favorite newsletters from White Wolf Journeys, Robbyne LaPlant, and there she was talking about Madonna's half game show at the Super Bowl in America. I had just watched it on Youtube. I really admire Madonna, she has the courage, she dares to BE. Not everything about Madonna (the brand) is to my liking, but her message for Peace always gets through, and she is such an inspiration, to fully shine our brightest. Like the STARS we are. In the end of her show the words WORLD PEACE lit up the ground, and I was so touched! And then the game continued. So symbolic, the show must go on but this time we want

Peace and to be at Ease

* Good night sweet souls*

Its 9.20 am on the 8th of February. My Full Moon calendar, here on the right side, says its still 100% Full Moon. It was beautiful going to bed last night. I needed change, so once again I put my pillow where my feet usually are (love to do that for a change of scenery, I also think it gives me different dreams). Turned like that I could be bathed in the Full Moon rays, getting the deep cleansing effects of its radiating energy. In this position the moon shone right into my face, but softly* Kissing my forehead, whispering that now things WILL change and that all WILL be ok. Reassuring me that I'm in the midst of big CHANGES, like every one of us on Earth. 

We are all going through this as ONE 

"..When you gonna love you as much as I do?" Powerful lyrics by Tori Amos's oh so loved Winter*

 ♥All my LOVE and LIGHT and CHANGE♥

* Brigit's Day ~ Candlemas, the 2nd of February*

There are stirrings within the womb of Mother Earth. Light is quickening* The seeds that were planted on Winter Solstice are beginning to sprout. Outside my window everything is still covered with snow,  the ground, the trees, the rooftops. But today, the 2nd of February is the midway between the solstice and the gifts of Ostara, so the promise of spring is around the corner.

Today we light a candle for the Celtic Goddess Brigit, the Triple Fire Goddess. Brigit's three aspects are: Fire of Inspiration as patroness of poetry, Fire of the Hearth, as patroness of healing and fertility, and Fire of the Forge, as patroness of smithcraft and martial arts.

She has many sides and faces to her, but she is always associated with fire, and to me that also means courage, and the strength to carry on. In the Northern hemisphere we are starting to feel the heavy burden of a long winter, thankful for all the lessons,  but longing for more light and lightness in Life.  Brigit gives us that extra spark to keep on, not to fall back and give up. She is the bringer of hope*

Today I dedicated my candle prayer to Brigit, to ANU the Mother of Goddesses and to Mother Mary

Live well and be Happy*

*LOVE*

*Yesterday's Magic*

~ New Moon & the return of the Water Dragon ~

I'm preparing for my New Moon ceremony tonight! I'm so excited! I feel like I have been waiting for this day for some years now.

It all made sence when I received a newsletter from White Wolf Journeys, Robbyne LaPlant, 4 days ago, a fascinating read about that today is the Chinese New Year of the Water Dragon. WOW! Love it. It gets me all excited. Water and Dragon, power, good luck and good fortune, growth, prosperity, FLOW. Robbyne inspired me to celebrate today, so today has been all about preparing and tuning into the auspicious year ahead. For a ritual, she  suggested a ceremony where you write your intentions on a paper, fold it towards you, signaling your receptivity, put it in a red envelope and under a candle, red preferably, but it is the intention that matters.

Before you write your intentions, you prepare your own sacred space, bring in all the elements, the candle for Fire, Water in a bowl or a glass, incence or a feather like I do for Air, and flower or stone to honor Earth. Aferwards I'm going to the Ocean to connect with the New Moon, the sacred water element.. and greet the Water Dragon, to welcome its energy into my life Ahhhhhhhh... BEAUTY*

I love this image I got sent from my beautiful friend, Grace. The Unity of Quan Yin and the Dragon, such pure strength and compassion. Support. Oneness. No slaying of dragons to portrait strength, but with compassion she is riding the dragon. They support eachother. It is symbolic for the wisdom of having your 'demons' serve you, not threaten you.

I wish you all magnificent and transformational changes* Love, Compassion and Lots of Laughter*
Sóley

I decided to add this video to the post, very relevant and a good read with nice pics :) Enjoy* 

Friday the 13th*

After midnight ~ Full Moon

*Celebrating 'The Thirteenth' *

Art: Susan Seddon Boulet

The thirteenth and last day of Christmas is about to be whirled into the vortex of time. The 'Thirteenth' as we call it in Iceland, has as long as I remember been celebrated with bonfires, and parades with santa clauses and trolls singing and dancing. Around the fires the songs of elves travelling in the light of the Moon are sung and people light their last fireworks from New Year‘s Eve! Tonight is namely the night when the elves and the hidden people move between locations, so there is always the chance of us and them crossing paths on this magical eve!

The moon outside my kitchen window was immense tonight, with many colorful circles around it, breathtakingly beautiful. I tried to capture the magic of it on my camera, it worked  ok, but with the naked eye it was of course much bigger and I could see all the valleys and the shadows so clearly, and then so majestically embraced by these multicolored 'halos'.

I remember my parents making elfmasks for my sister and I. They were pretty, glittery pretty. I wish I had a photo to post, but just imagine paper eye-masks, covered with foil, with lots of lined up colored paliettes that made the eyebrows. The wholes for the eyes were exceptionally well cut, almond shaped and the tops of the masks were then cut in the shape of flames, very fine indeed. I loved wearing mine, it just made the whole experience of this particular eve of the 'Thirteenth' a very special one! 

Below are three famous elf songs sung on New Year's Eve and on the 'Thirteenth' in Iceland. They linger in my Icelandic childhood heart* Enjoy *

*New Years Day of Joy*

I almost can't believe it! Is it really here? Has this long awaited year of 2012 arrived? It is a bit too much almost. Feel like laughing. So strange really. For so many years we have been hearing many things about what will happen in 2012, how the world will change in 2012, so many prophecies, meanings, interpretations and so much wisdom has been poured into our minds and hearts about this famous year. What will happen? Who knows? Well, I have a lot of suggestions, some of them I think are the right answers, maybe! Exactly, I don't have a clue. But what I do know is that some-thing, some-vibe, some peaceful energy, is on the horizon. I'm a believer, I believe that we can live in Harmony and Joy, I feel, I sense, and most importantly, I am. I am, and I am Light, maybe that's enough, maybe that reflects the beauty of simplicity, to just sense and experience that. Nothing more is essential. At least for the time being that’s my truth, I might make new discoveries tomorrow ;)

This is what today has brought me; to be Light, to be all Light means, not heavy, light in spirit, laugh, enjoy life, be energy, radiate, be powerful, be a star. Twinkle! Be the flame who can easily light another flame without becoming smaller or even seize to exist. Flame who sparks another person's flame. Flame, a torch who lights up the mundane life so many of us get wrapped in. Colourful, like the flame. Alive. And warm, it’s good to be a warm character. It's rewarding to us and to all around us.

The video beneath is from Norway, but it reminds me of my Mother Iceland, it could be from Iceland actually, and the Northern Lights... ohhh so beautiful. And Eivør's voice, enchanting, she is from the Farao Islands, but sings in many languages. Here is 'Den Liuse Dag', reminding us of the magic of New Years. I belive that from now until the 6th of January is a time when the veils between worlds is thin. On 'Threttándinn' or The Thirteenth (day of Christmas) we in Iceland celebrate the end of the holiday season, the official last day of Christmas, with bonfires and singing and the evening and night is dedicated to elves and other beings hidden to the naked eye. We open the doors to new adventures*

Happy and joyous 2012 to all*