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The Dance of the Labyrinth

3/2/2014

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Life is so rich and full right now...the deep inner journey in February has sourced the seeds that are coming forth, even through the snow and cold.  Feeling so blessed.

Yesterday we walked the New Moon, New Month, New Opportunities Labyrinth Walk at the Gaiam Labyrinth in Louisville.  This has to be my most favorite labyrinth in Boulder County.  It is an 11 circuit labyrinth that has a very earth, feminine quality to it, and at the same time, has a singular. masculine stone standing in the middle.  It reminds me of an ancient circle of stones with its balance and integration of the masculine and feminine energies.

Here are some images from yesterday's magical, mystical walk.
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Untouched, mystical Gaiam Labyrinth, March 1st, 2014
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This special labyrinth has a sacred geometric symbol at its threshold - the seed of life.  I first connected with this symbol on my 2012 pilgrimage in France from St. Jean Pied de Port through the foothills of the Pyrenees to the city of Auch.  My Pilgrim Sister, Beebe, and I encountered this symbol many times - on church entrances, gate posts, and synchronistically, on Beebe's necklace. 
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Seed of Life on upper right hand side of door frame
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Seed of Life on bottom of stone post
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Seed of Life embedded in Beebe's chest from her necklace!
The Seed of Life contains the patterns of creation as they emerged from the void, out of nothingness and everythingness at the same time.  Out of that centerpoint, thoughts and ideas emerge through our passions and desires to become something.  It is from here that all creation originates and emerges from our desires.
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Seed of Life symbol at threshold of Gaiam Labyrinth, March 1, 2014.
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My Flower of Life necklace above the Seed of Life symbol at Gaiam Labyrinth, February 2013.
The dark moon was at 1 am, so all day yesterday we were informed by the potent powers of the new emerging moon.  Also the first day of the new month, it was the perfect opportunity to open up to, invite and receive what desire is asking to come through us, right now at this time.  We walked with powerful questions such as "What is asking to come through me right now?  What seed, what desire I am seeking that is seeking me?  What is wanting to be birthed through me?  After all, as Rumi says, "what we seek, is seeking us."
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Walking the Labyrinth under the auspices of the March 1st New Moon
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Walking with the questions "What is asking to come through me right now? What seed, what desire I am seeking that is seeking me?
As all six of us walked the labyrinth, allowing our intentions and the questions to walk us, I was struck by the dance we created as we walked.  Every time I walk a labyrinth with a group of people I am in awe of the spontaneous dance that is created by each of us as we weave in and out along the pathways.  At times, I would walk along side by side, parallel paths.  At other times, I would approach some one at the same time that our paths would curve away from each other.  Sometimes, we would approach and look each other in the eyes, acknowledging our fellow pilgrims.  At others, we would walk with our eyes averted, each in our own world on our own journey.  Ah.  The sacred, unrepeatable, unique dance of the labyrinth.  It is a gift in and of itself.
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A view to the south of the Gaiam Labyrinth. Notice the vertical silhouette of the standing stone in the middle.
We stood together in silence in the center of the labyrinth, each of us standing in a petal of the inner rose.  We then walked out and continued our sacred walk into the open space to the north of labyrinth.  We asked to receive a gift from Nature that would symbolize and hold the desire we received in the labyrinth.  We took a "secret" path that took us out of the park, over a wooden stile and into a small woods.  We then came out on to a lookout over Boulder Valley.  No longer protected by the trees, the cold breeze blew through us and we actually invited this element to open up a new space that would become the sacred container to receive, and cultivate the seed of life.  We returned to the labyrinth, and walked it again.  Leaving our gifts from Nature at the threshold surrounding the Seed of Life symbol, we walked this time to plant the seed, commit to its growth and cultivation. With this sacred walk, we planted the seeds of Integration, Faith, Being Seen, Beauty, Release, and Cultivation.  We spoke it aloud, knowing that we had received a potent seed of creation, with the power of an oak tree. 

The Seed I received - much to my surprise - was to "Cultivez mon jardin!" - to actually cultivate a vegetable and flower garden next to the labyrinth in my yard.   I am to be the farmer of the heart and of my desires...and create and cultivate a Seed of Life Garden!

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What are you seeking?  What is seeking you?  What is needing to you step in and allow yourself to know that you are the only person who can bring this seed to life?  That you are its container, and that through you, and only you, this unique seed can become the beautiful flower that it was meant to be.  I wonder's what's possible for our world, our lives as we each step in and receive the Seeds of Life and live our lives to nurture and create these seeds?  How beautiful will your flowers be?!
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The Seed of Life
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The Flower of Life
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    Sarah

    I love to walk.  I love to write.
     

    I am a pilgrim. 
    I am a Womb Shaman.
    I am the Feminine Christ Awakened.  
    ​I am becoming the Feminine Christ Embodied. 


    I walk the sacred spirals of the ancient pilgrimage paths and sacred sites along the "dragon" ley lines of the Earth.  I walk local paths. I walk to be in Nature.  I walk labyrinths and spirals. I walk to move and celebrate my body. I walk to come home to the truth of who I truly am, to connect with the Earth and Spirit, and to live my life aligned with my soul's path. My intention is to walk In Love, As Love, For Love.

    I have led Spiral Path Pilgrimage Walks & Retreats in Cornwall in the very southwest of England.

    Mostly, I have been walking the sacred paths of the Womb Spiral - internally and in Penwith, Cornwall.  These sacred journeys continue to take me more and more deeply in to the core essence of who I am - as a women and as the embodiment of the Divine Feminine.  As I root more deeply into my essence, I have experienced a strength and presence within myself that cultivates a clarity and ferocity that demands a willingness to stand in truth and love.  This in and of itself has created a tsunami of change in my life that 

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    Sarah at Chalice Well, Glastonbury, England, September 2014.

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