What is success?

The 9th Castlemaine Health & Wellbeing Expo was held on the week-end of the 15th & 16th August. It was a huge success.

What is success and how do we measure it?

For me, one measure is the number of emails I have received from exhibitors thanking Michael and I for a wonderful week end. The other is the number of people we have met and continue to meet on our travels around Castlemaine and Maldon who stop us to let us know how much they enjoyed the week-end and how much they look forward to the Expo each year. Those who visited the Expo early on both days and stayed till stumps made me realize we had provided a safe space for all people to feel confident, and comfortable. They enjoyed the lectures, workshops and meditations on both days, and were able to make conscious choices based on knowledge gained at the Expo and benefitted from hands on therapies they received from the health practitioners. And last but not least, exhibitors welcomed people and it was they who created the warmth that embraced all visitors. The energy generated by all who visited over the week end and the lectures, workshops, meditations and Sacred Sound that started each day rippled out of the Town Hall and cloaked not only Castlemaine but the surrounding areas as well. Nothing is confined it is ever expanding.

It is not about numbers that flow through the doors but the numbers who come because they have a need to know. For this reason alone we will continue to give our time to make a difference in people’s lives with the support of exhibitors who love what they do and do it for their wellbeing and that of others.

The Expo is but one part of what we do. Like you we are involved in myriad of events many of them without even knowing we are involved. More often than not, humans operate on auto pilot which means we give and withhold without even knowing. I believe the time has come for all of us to make the changes we want to see.

Thank you for who you are and what you do. I offer a prayer that abundance, wellbeing and conscious awareness flow into you and through you to make a difference in this perceptual reality that we call Earth.

Jennie

2009 Spring Equinox
SUN MOON DANCE
18th–21st September
CHANGE OF VENUE

This year we will not be going to Uluru but instead we will dance at Maldon. I realize this is very short notice but if you are meant to be at the Dance the Universe will open up and make it possible for you to Dance or assist. I do not mean just sit back and wait, for if you do, nothing will come your way. Make a concerted effort in belief and trust with the need to Dance or assist planted in the fibres of your being. It is this, vibration of need that will flow from you to every part of the universe and gather the threads to weave the fabric of your need into reality. I never tire of saying to those who asks lots of question, “When the Dance reaches into your mind as a regular occurrence then the Dance is calling you to fulfil the promise you made many eons ago. Just show up and Dance. Put your questions and ego behind you and let God take over.”

To Dance is to break with crystallization and the mind ego is great at persuading you to do otherwise. How else can it have control over you if not by ego persuasion to sabotage your growth and potential possibilities?

Spiritual Dance is not a walk in the park, it is confronting, physically demanding, and spiritually rewarding.

The best way to learn more about the Sun Moon Dance is to volunteer your services. There is lot’s to do and we need many willing hands and hearts to keep the space in peace and perfection for the dancers. I know, being part of the Sun Moon Dance is a life changing experience that propels you forward in your quest for connection with spirit. Are you ready to spend the Spring Equinox in prayer?

Direction: Centre, up above, down below within and all around.
Season: The Turning of the Wheel of Life.
Symbolic Objects: Symbols, bell, quartz crystal and altars.
Part of Self: Higher Self, Intuition
Time of Life: Infinity
Time of Day: Time does not know what time it is so all time is but one time - NOW
Colour: Clear, black and silver.
Tree: Fig
Flower: The lotus
Ether Energies unify the personal self with the Spiritual Self and the Soul. It is at oneness with infinity, divinity, the void, everywhere and nowhere.

BALANCE

The Yin Yang symbol is universally know and worn as a symbol of light and dark. It is the symbol of balance. We live in a universe of balance between light energy and dark energy. Day and night are clearly visible in our external world. However the same darkness and light lives within our internal world. We do not physically see it so we do not fully embrace it.

Good experiences make us feel elated, joyous and happy. Negative experiences, fears and past memories depress us – some more than others. They make us feel hopeless, bleak and useless. Negative experiences tend to exclude the light imprisoning us in the dark. This is hell.

When you look closely at “GOOD” and “BAD” you will come to know that they are both pure energy that has taken on a form that is based upon our perception, judgement, even expectation that affects us one way or the other.

Darkness like the light is part of our life and the life of everything in our Universe. It is part of our life force. We are habituated to perceptive thinking. What one person views as "good" another might view as “Bad” or "Evil" and vice versa.

Each of us has a path to tread and how we view the path will influence our perception of our personal life as being filled with “Light” or “Darkness”.

SILENCE

Be still--and from the Silence shall arise
a mem’ry of forgotten mysteries.
A healing peace descending on thy soul
shall bear it up to regions beyond words
Where thou shalt learn the secrets of the earth.
Of wind and flame and how the stars have birth.
Then shalt thou know thy heritage of joy;
Borne on the pinion’s of the Bird of Life,
Tuned to the rhythm of revolving spheres,
Feeling with all that breathes, with all that strives
For union with its prototype above,
the silent comforter whose name is--Love.
-Frances Poile.

MYSTERY SCHOOL

After many years of contemplating and procrastinating I have finally started a Mystery School in Oakleigh to be held on the last Friday of the month at 7.30pm. Energy exchange is $20.00.

Our first evening held on the 27th February was well attended and great. We talked about the Mystery of Fire and its relationship with Spirit before concluding with a meditation of self connection. Since then we have worked with the mysteries of:-
What is a Mystery School?
Prayer & Meditation
The Monstrance
The first rebellion
When ignorance is bliss its folly to be wise
The next one 2012 - Aztec Calendar Stone

If you have spent time contemplating the mysteries of life and living, the up above and down below or merely the fluff in your belly button then join fellow searchers at a Mystery School in Melbourne Last Friday of the month or, Maldon last Sunday of the month.