Orion Wisdom

In some places, Fall is a season of changing energies and cycles, which can be clearly seen. Trees and plants change, metamorphosize and often given us displays of glorious color. In other places, there are changes, but the hues are more subtle or there are blooms that don’t occur in other seasons. Often, we pause to see these changes; to delight in the movement of color. Another aspect of Fall are traditions of thankfulness – holidays celebrating harvest, taking bounty and preparing it to sustain over Winter and even a holiday called ‘Thanksgiving’, anchored in the principle of sharing. In that Fall tradition, we like to include  the idea and principle of appreciation – which we see as an open energy that invites us to recognize,  acknowledge and appreciate the movements of life around us. To embrace them quietly. To feel them as delight. To  have the warmth of heart-felt feeling. All the ways we can experience appreciation.   Appreciation is it’s own ene...

Recently we had several clients who, we feel, benefited from ‘looking again’ at their models of understanding - information they were given; the ‘stories’ of their situation; of their lives. We’ve spoken often of the usefulness in re-examining and reframing the models we create; we are given;  we carry with us from one's earliest understandings. A client often felt ongoing issues connected with their birth by cesarean section, which they thought of as traumatic. They held the ‘working through trauma’ model with some somatic energy work they were participating in. The trauma would emerge in dreams, with a sense of father being less aware and mother being totally asleep. They associated this with a sense they carried of dis-regulation, of being in separate spaces; not being seen or heard, with this sense often emerging when alone. We asked them to explore with us this imagery of isolation and trauma. It is indeed a powerful image one gets of a child lifted out of the mother. T...

  A t this time of the year, we think of family and friends near and far. We look at the past and look forward to the next.  And when times are especially challenging and we find we cannot always be the change-agent we want to be, let's remember that not only can we hold hope, we can create hope and we can do that Together. Together -  connected, interconnected. We gather. We take another’s hand. We stand with each other, in person or through communications. Even when we are singular, we can link with the energy of together.  Together we are emanating the flow of the Interconnectedness of All Things - the principle of Unity within life that ever flows even through the most difficult of times, no matter if it is consciously seen or recognized.  As we often remind you, Unity is not a concept, but an actuality. And when we reach toward each other, stand for each other, listen to each other - Together, we are the holders and sharers of that very Unity. ...

  Client: …and in the end, my anxiety is just over the top, and especially about things I can’t really effect and I need some help with this.  I feel everything so strongly and get overwhelmed so easily.   Orion:   The message is that we persevere .   Through the difficult times, the challenging times, the upending times, one perseveres. The main thing about one’s personal difficult times is that they are occurring in the midst cultural changes and challenges.   And although we may want to keep the culture at bay and feel we can be in our own space, we actually can only do that to a degree; especially if you have already come to recognition of the inter-connection of all things, of Unity.   And an aspect of Unity that often is put to the side, is that we cannot only focus on the Unity that reflects the beauty and wonder of interconnectedness, we must also acknowledge that we may also feel, be impacted and effected by the challenging aspects. Y...

  Fall is often thought of  as a waning time, the beginning of pulling within. But other energies are held within the changing landscapes as well.  Fall is a time of honoring.  We celebrate the idea that there can be other realms of being and connection with them, as in Halloween or All Hallows Eve; 'hallow' meaning  'holy' and' 'sacred'. We remember those who are departed from us with the Day of the Dead or All Souls day.  We celebrate our loved ones lives as they were with us and hold their essence in our hearts.  We embrace the idea of gathering together for meals, celebrating friendship; appreciating the large and small bounties in our life.  We can be moved by the swathes of color that appear, emerging only in certain times and places, and inviting us to feel the specialness of Nature's dance.   And in the midst of  the challenges and discord, we can take our own moments to seek and hold the quality of harmony.  We can find o...

   From Elisabeth   Let me begin with an update on Mimi .  Three and half weeks in we have good  news! In the last few days, Mimi has made wonderful milestones.   She is fully conscious, can breathe on her own and speak softly.   Yesterday she ate some solid food – applesauce and eggs – and was able to sit in a recliner for awhile.   She is still in a step-down ICU unit and various devices and monitors – including her tracheotomy, medication port and feeding-tube will not be removed for a bit longer.   The next step will be a re-habilitation hospital with Traumatic Brain Injury specialty. I want to thank all of you who so graciously contributed to Mimi’s Go Fund Me page. As I said in my last post, I don’t manage the GFM page, but donors are visible at the page.   I sent my personal thanks to all of you I recognized. A couple people who donated anonymously let me know they did so. And if you contributed in this way, please accept ...

  My Dear Orion Circle , My summer ‘vacation’ is not quite that.     On July 17th ,  I had a total right knee replacement. Surgery went smoothly and I’m recuperating well with steady improvement through PT, although energy does fade.     Less than a week after surgery, I learned that my DearHeart step-daughter, Mimi Fitzhugh , was involved in a horrific car accident; her beloved MiniCooper hit by an uninsured drunk driver in a pick-up truck.   He is currently in jail. All our family energy has moved toward Mimi and her recovery.   As of now, although stable, she is still unconscious. She shows some responsiveness. She had 14 broken ribs, with both lungs collapsed, a skull fracture with a brain bleed that has not spread, fracture to C4, but fortunately not the spinal cord, fracture to the occipital eye bone but the eye is intact.  And yet, her brave soul and courageous heart keeps her with us and working to return to herself. Pleas...

It can be very supportive to really remember yourselves as part of the grand collective.  Some people find it disconcerting, at times, to be part of the grand collective.  At other times, when you are feeling in isolation or you are feeling overwhelmed or you don’t know how to muddle through a problem or a challenge, just keep tucked somewhere in your awareness that not only are you really not all alone in it, actually without your conscious awareness recognizing it, aspects of you are probably in communication.  They are already reaching out, trying to as they say, receive or bring in an answer, an insight, an idea.  You are already open to recognizing support.  So often we do see this flow of communication in that kind of thing we call coincidence of synchronicity.  ‘I was just thinking of you and the phone rang.’  ‘I didn’t know where to turn with this problem and suddenly I remembered something I was told a long time ago.’  And so on and so ...