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Samhain Blessings

31 Monday Oct 2016

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Blessings, Inspiration, Photography, Reflection

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Robert Moss has so magically written…

The last night of October is the start of Samhain (which is pronounced “sow-in”), the great Celtic festival when the dead walk among the living, the fires are extinguished and rekindled, the god and the goddess come together in sacred union, and as the year turns from light to dark, the seeded earth prepares to give birth again.

It’s a time, when the Celts knew what they were doing, to watch yourself and watch comings and goings from the barrows and mounds that are peopled by ghosts and faeries. It’s a time to honor the friendly dead, and the lordly ones of the Sidhe, and to propitiate the restless dead and remember to send them off and to set or re-set very clear boundaries between the living and the hungry ghosts. It’s a time to look into the future, if you dare, because linear time is stopped when the hollow hills are opened.

As Celtic scholar Marie-Louise Sjoestedt wrote, “This night belongs neither to one year or the other and is, as it were, free from temporal restraint. It seems that the whole supernatural force is attracted by the seam thus left at the point where the two years join, and gathers to invade the world of men.”

If you have never learned to dream or see visions or to feel the presence of the spirits who are always about – if you have never traveled beyond the gates of death or looked into the many realms of the Otherworld – this is the time when you’ll see beyond the veil all the same, because the Otherworld is going to break down the walls of the little box you call a world, and its residents are coming to call on you.

Text adapted from The Dreamer’s Book of the Dead by Robert Moss (Destiny Books)
Full Article … The Robert Moss BLOG

May the ancestors deliver blessings on you and yours…
May the new year bear great fruits for you…
May your granted wishes be as many as the seeds in a pomegranate…
May the slide into darkness bring you light…
May the memories of what has been keep you strong for what is to be…
May this Samhain cleanse your heart, your soul, and your mind!

— traditional Samhain blessing

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Morning 1st Glance 10.27.16

27 Thursday Oct 2016

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Isn’t it a beautiful world
when we can be thrilled by color
quietly carried in the feathers
of those who visit our yards
in the not so early morning…

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There within a stone’s throw
and on constant alert
they protect each other with alertness
thankful for the offering of food
from the human gatherer
yet wary of his threat to their survival

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Satisfied of no imminent danger
while still attuned with all faculties
they are united in their energy

Teaching us all that sustainability
is dependent on trusting each other
to share in the abundance
while on guard from predators

cRb 10.27.16

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24 Monday Oct 2016

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quiet-waters

Quiet Waters resonate
internal stillness
all perception fades away

Let us take a moment whenever possible

to make available
to acknowledge

…internal stillness…

to permit
to yield

…all perception…

to create space
to Allow

cRb 10.24.16

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Completing Cycles

23 Sunday Oct 2016

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Such is the nature of Maple
whose green shade in Summer
allows for gentle breezes to flow
creating lazy afternoons in lawn chairs

First came the changing colors
the inner knowing of a cycle
calling itself back to center
releasing the extension of itself

From Red to Orange and Yellow
softly falling to blanket the lawn
increasing volume with the weather
so suitable for inner water to move

The long drought of the season
perhaps was uncomfortable
yet her fireworks display
is a spectacular testimony to us all

As we also move through the seasons
our water flows to uplift us
and in return retracts on silent cue
to timelines we each create within us

Perhaps we too are thirsty
and calling ourselves back
into the roots of ourselves
to rest and unite within our hearts

One cycle completes as another begins
and so the rings of our inner planes
expand and regenerate in worldly rhythm
in accordance with ancient protocols

cRb 10.23.16

 

 

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25 Years Old and Remembering

20 Thursday Oct 2016

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past-life-obituary

Yes you may all have heard of what is commonly called Near Death Experiences.
Well I Am one of those who have died and returned
and today is my 25th anniversary of that
amazing and blessed event.

There are many books now of those who share their stories and great studies of so many who volunteered to be part of several studies by researchers. I however chose not to.
No, I chose to experience it and not allow others to interpret or program my thinking to what it is according to someone else.

I Am still experiencing it and can share with all honesty that each of you are eternal beings.
Whether you want to believe it or not.

A little background info…
I was an alcoholic and had just been homeless by choice and actually on a suicide mission although I wasn’t consciously aware of it at the time.. I had gotten divorced, had to file bankruptcy due to the divorce and lost relationship with my only my daughter with whom there has never been reconciliation.

So back to the story of my death…
It began on a Saturday, on an exceptionally warm day when I pulled my bike out of storage and went for a ride. It was a 67 Triumph custom chopper which was my escape from reality.

I had a habit of bar-hopping on my bike; cruising to several Biker Bars for a beer and chatting up with whoever you might run into.
That would have been fine but at the last bar there was word of a bar in my town closing that night and it would be a big party … all you could eat and drink for short money.
Well I’m all in for that since there was very little of those opportunities in my life at this point.
I’ll save the details for another story someday as this is a day of remembering and gratitude.

This was what I looked like the day after my motorcycle accident on 10.20.1991.
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It was Sunday when I returned to my body and the Doctor in the hospital welcomed me back
with a sarcastic remark, although quite apropos at the time. “Welcome back Mr. Bergeron  we see you have decided to return! I guess we will finish picking the gravel out of your skull and sew your ear back on.”
I however was not so accepting of his wit, replying, “Knock your socks off Doc!”

Needless to say the next remembrance was a nurse arriving and asking if I thought I could get myself dressed. Being the stubborn macho male I was I said yes and did it. However to this day I cannot remember how I could have done that with all the pain I was in.

When she returned she asked if I had anyone I could call for a ride home and I thought of the only friend I had at the time, my neighbor Jack who had been trying to help me get my act together and turn my life around.
When he arrived he looked at me and said, “They can’t release you!” and went over to the desk to see if I was trying to pull a con. You see, Jack had been and was now a recovering alcoholic as well and was trying to get me to into AA and he knew all the cons that people could and had played.

Nope, they were releasing me… of course they were… I had no insurance!

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This picture on my wall is not Jack but it so resembles him that when I saw it I had to buy it.
He was with me and said what do want that picture for and I laughed and never told him. I knew that one day he would not be in my life and I wanted to always remember how much he had done for me.
I’m crying right now as I type this. Bless you Jack Man wherever you are!
Wow I didn’t expect that.

Jack was a Gunny Sgt in the Marines with a tour of Korea and 2 tours of Vietnam and told me he couldn’t take care of me that I needed 24 hr care. He was right I was a big mess … no broken bones but one painful body that could barely move.

Needless to say I’m still here and writing this and as I healed the physical wounds I had to deal with the issues of a completely new way of seeing the world I was in.

You see when I died and left my body… I remember looking down at myself on the ground all banged up and a cop was asking me for my license and information and I was responding to him as best I could. However the real I, was viewing it like a movie , no pain, no feelings of emotion and moving further away until the vision disappeared.

My next remembrance was that I became Pure Peace, Pure Light and Pure Love.
There is nothing in this human life existence that can truly describe it. It was perfection on all levels.
However I did not stay there, although I could have very easily.

I was called out of that wholeness where I met with etheric beings which I don’t try to describe but allow people to imagine for themselves as they can appear as anything that you will feel comfortable to speak with and we discussed my life as in a review and the why and wherefores of that lifetime. Yet I was given a choice to return or not.

I chose to come back but with some conditions which we discussed at length.
My brain and memory was to be altered so that I could not use it in the same way as before. That I would know whatever I needed when it was appropriate to my purpose and if not, to accept it was not necessary at that moment.
That I would never forget my purpose this time.

My purpose is to be of service in anchoring the Peace, Light and Love that I was, and which had now been imprinted in my physical mind and body, into the Earth and All Life Forms  that I encountered.

And so with that thought I Am Complete…img_01961
I Bless each of you on this day
with that
Divine Peace, Light and Love
of my Experience
May you know in your Hearts
How much you are Loved
and that
You Are Eternal
not as humans
but as Souls

S ource
O f
U nconditional
L ove

Charlie Riverman Bergeron
10.20.2016

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Not Trusting Yourself Lately???

16 Sunday Oct 2016

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Riverman Blessing the York River for the Full Moon on 10.16.16

Trusting Yourself has been a theme this week for many people I talk to and this morning a blog article I posted on facebook was addressing this issue as well.

My own interpretation is that the energies of the Earth are shifting at such great rates that we are sometimes feeling overwhelmed by things we thought we had already moved beyond. Some days we are finding ourselves somewhat lost in our own shirt and shoes.

The article triggered a response from a friend who synchronistically awakened with same theme that I also have been pondering for over a week now.

With her permission I share each of our perspectives as we spontaneously move into resonance with each other.

KN : )… I woke up today with the theme of trust on my mind. Always love the synchronicity of subjects by which we are moved to inspire ourselves each day.


RIVERMAN… Trusting ourselves has come up more than I like to admit and nice to know it is not just me 
KN : )… It’s a work in progress, certainly so, new levels of doubt triggered by the observation of a world still reflecting increasingly painful circumstances of both current and past fears, allowing opportunities to heal those deeper levels of our beliefs in powerlessness or illusions so to restore deeper levels of our power through the release of control in exchange for trust. Always easier said than done at times at this point, of course.

So, no, my friend, you are not alone in that way or in anyway for that matter, in this journey of transformation we have embraced. : ) We are connected to inspire one another through it by sharing our personal challenges and the inspirational pathways we blaze through them, not to pretend we don’t have these challenges of further strengthening ourselves through the chaos of shifts and change, and so we WILL find our way through it.

No question about that, though it does feel and look questionable at times, especially as we observe this pipeline situation and all the reflections of powerlessness it embodies screaming for the release of both personal and collective fear on every level in every way.


 RIVERMAN… So well said and finding our way indeed…
I’m reminded of many walks in the woods where we lose sight of the familiar trail.
Our confidence is strong at first and as we wander, the external light becomes less radiant and the shadows grow much longer.
Here we are called upon to reach within and embrace our own Light.
Our eyes see many negative energies lurking and we lose our sense of purpose and orientation.
Sending this message to the mind that we are on the edge of becoming lost, our trust begins to wane.
We know we are being called to rest and listen, but can we dare to listen to that still quiet voice amongst all the furor.
Yes we must!
For only then will the true path and location, of our exit from the rising and controlling fear be seen clearly.
Trusting ourselves once more and grounding that into the Earth beneath our feet, we regain our strength and move forward.
Knowing we were never really in danger, except to fluctuating circumstances which change directions like the wind.
Perhaps they are all a part of a Grand Design, not perceivable yet, to our ever evolving self.
Perhaps as well, intentioned by ourselves, to promote and remind us of the Powerful Beings WE Truly Are

Original Article which inspired this conversation…
Shanta Gabriel…  Trust in Yourself and Trust in the Angelic energy working through you. Inspiration for the Week – October 16, 2016

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In Peace We Remember

12 Wednesday Oct 2016

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2016_09_13_1512_We are filled
with fading memories
of beautiful moments
enriched by love

All worries and fears
are left behind
in the body
where they once dwelled

We rise
in a glorious vibration
of our deepest
heart resonance

A sea of joy
on which we float
carefree once again
enriched by love

cRb 10.12.16

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A Maple, Some Marigolds and a Bee

08 Saturday Oct 2016

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Beloved maple in my yard
today you do not embrace the sun…
your green is almost gone
your orange turns to red
and deepens
much like our love
for each other

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Beloved marigolds
planted each year
around this tree held together
so that birds have a place to perch
how brilliant you are
in the midst
of changing seasons

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Beloved brother Bee
thank you for your amazing work

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too busy to notice me
while you swiftly visit

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four different flowers
to gather your precious bounty

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I will savor these moments
during the long cold Winter
knowing full well
the beauty
each of you have
left in my memory

cRb 10.8.16

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Morning 1st Glance – 10.6.16

06 Thursday Oct 2016

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Some mornings we awaken
in a somewhat tranquil state
not seeing the Sun yet
and question arising

The cool temperature of Autumn
settling in all around us
with heavy dew on the grass
and branches becoming barren

Beaches remaining untouched
except for the lack of tourists
who now are left with memories
of their escapades in the sand

Yet new sensations of color
begin to lift our hearts
as we move into patterns
that are more reflective
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As we begin to settle ourselves
gathering many resources
for the journey through Winter
which grounds us all once again

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