NEWS

Happy New Year
All the best for 2013

May your dreams lead you along  wonder full paths.
May your friends & family enrich the journey.
May your work & play be fun & rewarding.

 & of course~  May your didgeridoo playing
create awe some moments & openings.
Many blessings on your year.
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21st Dec 2012~" A New Rhythm"

~The day may pass but the essence of the day I sense, is true of these times for years to come~

End of the Mayan Calender, & yet of course a new one begins, a new cycle. Astronomically we have moved through 12 zodiac ages each of approx 2160 years.  Aside from the Mayans, the Tibetans, ancient Egyptians, Cherokee & Hopi Indians also refer to the same 26000 years in their mystical belief systems and saw great significance in this time and transition.

Solstice  2012, the sun is in conjunction with the equator of the Milky Way and our solar system  transverses the physical and therefore  electromagnetic centre of the Galaxy.

The Milky Way  ‘straddles’ the Earth touching it at all points and, according to the Mayan mythology,  a ‘Cosmic Gateway’ is opened.

In mythological language this event signifies the joining of the First Father with the Cosmic Mother – or more precisely: the rebirth of the First Father (the sun of the solstice) through the womb of Cosmic Mother (the dark space in the Milky Way). The beginning of a new Great Cycle and emergence of a new era  - the resetting of the great stellar clock - and perhaps a new stage in the nature of human consciousness and civilization.

WHATS THIS GOT TO DO WITH DIDGERIDOO

I've always played didg for how it makes me feel, its fun & there is a harmonizing, a balancing that seems to occur within, and I so relate to the myth where Ubar the hollow log is related as containing the masculine phalus  spirit  as well as the uterus of the mother, the inner feminine feeling world. (more  on this myth & dreaming Heartland Dance) Thus for me didgeridoo is a gender balanced & inclusive instrument. I reckon for all of us  in these times, men  woman, children; it reminds us to play, enjoy have fun, and to  be earthed and be in our heart. For the heart is the centre, that place beyond opposites and didgeridoo helps us to centre back in. In that place for me it empowers the masculine, the man that I am, as well as supporting me embrace my feminine that is equally a part of me.

I have sensed in my bones for decades that we live in a time where we have the opportunity to reconcile the inner and outer divide. Didgeridoo for me is an incredible friend on that journey. This solstice and this new age,  we keep hearing about.... the heralding of the Aquarian age, is deemed to be a more spiritual and community connected phase in our evolution.  Well sounds good...bring it on.

WE HAD A BEAUTIFUL GATHERING LAST NIGHT
Millions world wide gather/ed to celebrate solstice 21st Dec 2012 and I cant help but share how uplifted I feel post a gathering last night with about 30 friends at our home. We played instruments,  sung songs and shared hopes and dreams. We learnt & sung a particular song that was sung by people world wide on this day, & we played many didgs with five of us there being players.  Two friends also had recently hung out with Djalu and the rhythms were rich and soul filling.  To empower this turning point, that the night centred in on, we  structured  the night around a flexible ritual construct which helped deepen the experience for all.

Whether just a lovely mix of folk  & or the focus of the solstice, it was  wonderful heart opening  experience. And wow did didg gift so much to the eve. I will have a couple of pics & a blog on the ritual/  didg side of things coming.

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