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May 8, 2020 By Lindsey Tarr Leave a Comment

On the Struggle Bus today?

Feeling overwhelmed? Covid gotchu on the Struggle Bus? This Corona Spring continues to be an immense lesson of Mother Earth’s. She reminds us that it is not she who is dying, rather it is we, the most peculiar (in our potential and also blindness) of her children who are not only dying but killing ourselves!

The state of our human world is a reflection of exactly where we are within – confused about Who We Are, distracted. We’ve come to the place that we are, not for lack of practical, easy-to-implement solutions but because spiritually and therefore mentally and physically and therefore socially and politically – we are a mess.

[If these words bring discomfort, please know, for my part, I have no judgement; my pure intention is of compassion and love. In digging to the root of my own discomfort and need to judge, I discovered a deep mistrust of other humans. It is not an original, natural paradigm, rather a great misunderstanding that I’ve since given myself permission to let go of – I trust my brother and sister humans to take their own journey toward healing and Love, as I trust myself to take mine…it is a work in progress!]

We are helped along in this by our exceptional power of rationalization, a gift which was never intended to guide us, rather to support us; as imbalanced individuals we sure can overcomplicate things to the point of paralysis.

This overwhelm cannot be ‘overcome’, rather relaxed into with awareness and healing time – we are what we eat, we are what we buy, we are what we do. We become how we think, we exist as we believe.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if thou gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into thee.
Nietzsche

The implications of this are simple because in each of these things We Have the Control [firstly to stop fighting/conquering/’overcoming’ in general, rather relaxing into and healing]…

Undoing the corruption which has infected our democracy, taking power from the Corporations driving ‘the 9 to 5’, ‘data bundles’, ‘cool’, ‘30-year mortgages’, ‘ownership rights’ and ‘costs’ of water, food, shelter, health, ‘retirement’, ‘tax monies’ which ‘fund’ ‘the dark web’ and ‘gun production’, etc. etc. is merely to choose differently.

These are systems, merely systems we created to serve us and which no longer do in many ways, for many people….[and it is critical to distinguish that it is the systems we participate in and perpetuate (right down to something as ubiquitous as a smart phone which carries within precious metals fought and died over as savagely and systemically as blood diamonds) that no longer serve – that is our way forward, rather than fighting (i.e. struggling) some self-sabotaging, endless maze identifying and targeting some ‘inherent evil’ which is rooting, lurking and presenting within some ‘inherently evil human’. It turns out, what I do for/to me is that which I am doing for/to you and …

The way you see people [you] is the way you treat them [you], and the way you treat them [you] is the way they [you] become.
Goethe

So here we are, full circle… I am what I put into my body, I am what I put into my mind and my spirit, I become as I do with my body, mind and spirit. May it be Truth and Beauty then. Love. Thank you Creator for my healing – that I may Love and be Loved!

Of course, doing the work to get to the root of Why we choose to eat poisonous food that is fast and made by Corporations, why we choose to commit entire lifetimes to careers for retirements into death, why we choose to become indebted to a single, built structure of one place at the sacrifice of an entire world of communities which welcome contributing, open-hearted guests, why we choose struggle … is a good bit of hard work. Hard not complicated though, and actually, we quite love and thrive on purpose-driven (…that Truth and Beauty and Love stuff) days of good, hard work!

Divesting then is quite straightforward. Simply divest from the things that no longer serve you, things that no longer bring you joy because they literally harm you or they literally come at the expense of another living being. When it comes down to it, no matter which of the many brilliant lenses you see with: your life is still just made up of many simple choices that You have the say in!

Power to you – in creating the more beautiful world our Hearts Know is possible! (Indeed, yes! It was a choice to use the Vimeo version of this video rather than the YouTube version.)

Resources

The book The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, by Charles Eisenstein

Charles on the Coronavirus…The Coronation of this time!

Divesting stuff

Unbelievably fun ways to divest
A good written Divesting ‘101’ article
A short sweet divesting video and list of corps (choosing profit over people/planet) to divest from

‘Divestment’ as an activism strategy has gained strength in recent years particularly to affront the fossil fuel industry (system!), though also the larger toxic aspects of the industrial revolution (system!); however, you remember the good old stories of ‘bus boycotts’ affronting racism (system!), the Underground Railroad affronting slavery (system!), and further back than that, the ‘Boston tea boycotts’ affronting imperialism (system!), similar in another part of the world to Ghandi’s spinning wheel and food fasting for independence from British goods, affronting that same imperialism; all the way back to indigenous warriors affronted with mortality, the strategy of selfish, savage colonization (system!)…

Alas, this has all been a work in progress for many lifetimes now!

Getting to the Roots

Each of these artificial and arbitrary systems required us to change Who We Are to fit into them… we had to learn to choose struggle (“discipline”, “sacrifice”) as the “selfless” path, the “righteous” path, the “practical” path, the “respectable” and “honorable” path, in order to spend entire days/lifetimes running the systems of the industrial revolution – otherwise facing (self)judgements made to be negative, wrong, “evil” such as “lazy”, “selfish”, “savage”, “Godless”, “eccentric”, “crazy”, “idealistic”, “feminine”, “emotional”; similarly, we had to learn mistrust to learn judgement to learn inequality to justify the superiority, ownership, conquering which enabled the systems of racism, slavery, imperialism and colonization.

We are Not evil. Rather, with that precious, unique gift of rationality (that great existential, bitter/sweet, double-edged sword of our human experience) as our (mis)guide we taught ourselves to serve systems.

Going forward, we may give ourselves permission to let go, to pause and get to the root of anything ‘demanding’ our energy and which feels like ‘struggle’, to be aware and scrutinizing, i.e. guided first by spirit (feeling) and then supported by our gift of rationalization: of the things which may be systemic, no longer natural but contrived, and which feel different than love, beauty, courage, compassion, wisdom… Truth and Beauty!

May 3, 2020 By Lindsey Tarr Leave a Comment

As above, so below, so within.

A Truth which our ancestors were deeply conscious of and connected with. They knew their place and Who they were. Luckily for us, despite our path of disconnection, the Story of Separation as Charles Eisenstein has given language to so beautifully, the guardians of truth have kept safe the teachings which remind us today, and anytime that we may go inward or into nature, Who We Are.

The reason I write of the great reflection, the Oneness, of Who We Are is because those of us within the Sacred Circle of the Red Road deserve a focus; a mission for what has come to pass and is very much like a society. For the purpose, Creator has connected dots between the healing power of our work as aligned within, which is a direct reflection of our Mother Earth, another direct reflection of the Great Mystery that is the Universe of seen but much more that is unseen – all eloquently connected on many levels or fields… One.

These fields, or planes of energy, a purposeful gradation of seen and unseen, subconscious to superconscious, have been known and taught across time by peoples throughout the world. Today, they are most commonly known in the collective as seven Chakras. Again, these spirals of energy have been known and described throughout the world’s ancient teachings in many ways, taught locally within the language and symbolism of each people and rooted quite literally to the physical place in which they lived.

The actual geographic location is significant because it is the place of that knowledge, as it has been given directly from our great teacher and mother, the Earth. Our ancestors understood that these spirals of energy within us are reflections of those that exist around us and so, across the world, places of ‘power’ are celebrated and honored in ceremony by the original peoples of the land – so she too, our glistening, living Earth star, exists as a beautiful and layered network of energy flows, one within a whole of the Star Nations above us…as above, so below, so within.

Technology and globalization make seeing it all much easier, though it is still our ancestors of their homelands that we look to, for they found believing quite natural, for they knew Who and What they were.

The implications of this are profoundly explicit… prayer power is impactful within but is equally felt across the grand network by which we exist as One. Since beginning this Circle, I’ve come to know that despite our members living throughout the country, across thousands of miles, we are linked. At times, my physical experience is, as I’ve discovered afterwards, a reflection of the others. For example, this week, on Monday, I felt the weight of the world though Nothing within my personal world had shifted profoundly, even noticeably at all; it is truly difficult to emphasize enough or put words to how weird I felt. By Wednesday I had discovered that within the Circle, one had been experiencing a Migraine since Monday as well as growing pains of a recent life-changing decision, and another was going into surgery to fix something from another very recent surgery.

Again, the implications of this are profound – I’ve always known it was important for my own peace to live in a mode of continual growth and, in recent years, how important it would be for me to purify mind, body and spirit, striving to attain a level of healing in which I will indeed someday finally be healed – but I Never understood, as I do now, how critical it is for others that I do this! That which I do for myself is literally as I do for others! How I wish only to give the world brilliant Love and Beauty, yet I know now that my own waves of muddled energy spill over to the world, creating the reality that is! It gives great inspiration for living fully, with clarity and in brilliant, crisp colors!

We are in a time in which Mother Earth has called for great Healing. Then our Circle shall tap into the beautiful “rainbow serpent” of energy wrapping around the world, connecting us all. We shall grow in community and healing power across the world, along Mother Earth’s ‘spirit lines’ and those points of communion – both to heal and be healed… me/we… One.

That is our path.

Corona Spring and Climate Change… How To Celebrate Earth Day This Year

We’ve reached an interesting groove by now. We’re managing our curve, we’re taking our social distancing medicine and seeing results. Still in it though and now mindful of screen time! Simultaneously, and as we approach *‘Earth Day’ nature is rejoicing!

Almost conflicted, many of us have found great joy in seeing the natural world around us blissfully fulfilled by balance!

Here are two ways to embrace Mother Earth as the annual ‘Earth Day’ celebration approaches and which do not require much screen time:

Walk in Solidarity with the Chief for this year’s Walk For The Bees! Get out, #BeeWalkAroundTheBlock in true Covid Spring fashion, with the bees in your heart and send your pictures in to the chief!

Take the next few minutes to Join OneClub! If not right now, then certainly on Earth Day! By spending just a few minutes to join our little club you will make an immediate impact for our trees as well as a lasting one, automatically, each time you conduct your online business.

If you find yourself online, then here is the place to be on ‘Earth Day’!

*Earth Day is every day, is it not? Reach out for help finding the balance in the space that heals you.

Also, be not conflicted, take great peace and guidance from indigenous wisdom now and onward:

This moment humanity is going through can be seen as a portal and as a hole. The decision to fall into the hole or go through the portal is up to you. If they repent of the problem and consume the news 24 hours a day, with little energy, nervous all the time, with pessimism, they will fall into the hole.
But if you take this opportunity to look at yourself, rethink life and death, take care of yourself and others, you will cross the portal.
Take care of your home, take care of your body. Connect with the middle body of your spiritual house, all this is synonymous, that is to say the same.
When you are taking care of one, you are taking care of everything else.
Do not lose the spiritual dimension of this crisis, have the aspect of the eagle, which from above, sees the whole, sees more widely. There is a social demand in this crisis, but there is also a spiritual demand. The two go hand in hand. Without the social dimension, we fall into fanaticism. But without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and lack of meaning. You were prepared to go through this crisis.
Take your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal.
Learn about resistance with indigenous and African peoples: we have always been and continue to be exterminated. But we still haven’t stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire and having fun.
Don’t feel guilty about being happy during this difficult time. You don’t help at all by being sad and without energy. It helps if good things emanate from the Universe now.
It is through joy that one resists.
Also, when the storm passes, you will be very important in the reconstruction of this new world. You need to be well and strong. And, for that, there is no other way than to maintain a beautiful, happy and bright vibration. This has nothing to do with alienation. This is a resistance strategy…. there is a rite of passage called the quest for vision. You spend a few days alone in the forest, without water, without food, without protection. When you go through this portal, you get a new vision of the world, because you have faced your fears, your difficulties…
This is what is asked of you:
What world do you want to build for yourself? For now, this is what you can do: serenity in the storm. Calm down and pray. Everyday. Establish a routine to meet the sacred every day. Good things emanate, what you emanate now is the most important thing. And sing, dance, resist through art, joy, faith and love.
These are good words which were given to me this week and so I am giving them to you. They are being attributed to “White Eagle, Hopi” – though I have not been able to verify this origin.

April 4, 2020 By Lindsey Tarr Leave a Comment

Sacred Circle for Ceremony

Grandmother taught us… Life is a ceremony in itself, worthy of celebrating with ceremony – which means that yours and my life are worth celebrating every single day with a ceremony. When we do a ceremony from our heart, just like anything else growing, a bud will be born within us, and sooner or later that bud will begin to open; it becomes a flower, and that flower comes to full blossom where there will be seeds. But because you and I live on this Earth, winds of change will come upon us and when that happens the seeds will blow away – and somewhere else, another ceremony will be born…. When ceremony loses its spirit, it becomes a ritual – and life today is full of rituals… Grandmother was born in 1893.
Uncle Angaangaq, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), The Mother Earth Delegation of United Indigenous Nations of the North during the time of the Corona Pandemic March 2020

In the summer of last year, 2019, I was gifted a revelation that only now, in its own time, has begun to unfold.

As my spirit has reawoken, my soul reborn, I’ve found such power in meditation which reveals to me more and more the vast unseen. In this process, at one point I came to understand that there would be a significance in gathering together in prayer within the vision plane. At that time, such a thought had never occurred to me… the concept of gathering with another living being, or many, with full intention and awareness, within the realms of the great unseen! I’ve since come to know that all things are possible, much more than the limited experience of our ego-driven physical experience allows us initially to conceive of – until it awakens to the great Truth of our Being.

A Gift for Your Celebration

Within this physical plane we are gathering in the Sacred Circle of the Red Road.

To honor this beautiful ceremony, as a symbol of connection and strength, I would love for you to have your own sacred circle. Each one is made with love and each blessed by our Mother, the Earth.

Your sacred circle is made up of individually twisted braids and beads that can be worn throughout your day – around your wrists and ankles or as a necklace; and so they will be available for you to unwrap and circle around you when grounding in for ceremony, ideally in touch with our Mother, the earth (your feet upon the soil, or grass, or sitting upon a rock). Someday, should the occasion arise in which one or more of us come together in the same place on the Earth, then too our individual circles may be unwrapped to be rejoined together in ceremony. It is a beautiful thing (another act of Shoestring Love in the world!)

Each one is twisted in the way of our Hawaiian relatives, who taught me how rope is made to be unbroken.
The colors that flow throughout, red, yellow, black and white, are used often in the Oglala Lakota tradition of I and my grandmother’s people. The four directions represented in these colors describe Truth, as they represent the circle of life; and so they are reflected also in the harmonious rainbow and in the beautiful rainbow of the human family.

You may order a single long rope or a set of four shorter ones, one for each direction and with the capability of extending the protective power of that sacred hoop to each wrist and ankle during your days.

While it does take more time to unwrap and reconnect each of the four into full circle for ceremony, I have come to find that experience as a gift in itself… taking the time, to care, and to come into circle wholly mindful.

It is also possible with the four braids to leave two, three or all four connected up to wear as you wish.

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March 31, 2020 By Lindsey Tarr Leave a Comment

Whole Earth Balance

We look at our world today and become overwhelmed.

But! Do we ever ask – How the Earth heals herself?

She does it easily with four beautiful systems of energy exchange and abundance.

We are quite familiar with each of these:

Fire, the sun, that brings golden light to all of our days
Air, the cleansing life breaths and movement of every single moment
Water, and the original and absolutely perfect department of transportation
Earth, our foundation, the rich black gold of our soil

As you look to your own life, your own health and life spirit, Are you taking part in the sacred balance of our physical world?

Our peace of mind in these times lies in these four natural systems – when in balance unlock the infinite bliss of the spirit.

The whole earth heals when you set free the balance in the space that heals you, and that is a Hopeful and actionable idea!

One person can become One People can save One Planet!

You can start right here, in the online space you occupy. Please take the first easy, peasy step for healing the space you are in and Mother Earth too…

Join OneClub by saving some trees immediately and automatically with every search!

March 31, 2020 By Lindsey Tarr Leave a Comment

A Sacred Circle of the Red Road

Epic times. Hard to put words to.

Find your resolve and inspiration here; please feel welcome to join us in this sacred circle of healing and love…

I wish health and happiness for each one of us and my heart feels great compassion for those who are suffering. Suffering, however, is not new upon the landscape of the human experience, nor is it inherent. This is why there is room in my heart to find much joy in this moment when the great storm of selfish power is ending. Mother Earth has waited for us to choose a better way all of this time.

Some of us are ready, we’ve been waiting – we are aware of our own innocence, insignificance and Great Oneness simultaneously. For those of us whose eyes are open and ears are listening we are on a path of healing and also serving as healer, of learning while also teaching.

It is a time for our great “Wisdom, Courage, and Compassion”

This then, is a Sacred Circle meant to gather up those of us who understand the call of Mother Earth. We are in process, growing in our Wisdom, Courage and Compassion as we continue to listen closely to learn from Her, from the ancestors of our past and the spirits of Truth who walk among us today.

As a welcome, here is a special gift for each of us who come to this space to better know the story and the Way of the Red Road.

This group is our tepee of many skins. It is a sacred circle and together we sit upon the earth across vast distances. We represent the beautiful blended rainbow of colors of the two-legged.

This is a powerful space to find healing, learning, comfort, support, and focused energy for prayer and creation.

It embodies and fulfills these years of immense transformation, of rebalancing – the feminine spirit flows strongly through this circle because it is a time of coming back to balance, and so the sacred masculine is just as welcome and necessary.

Gathering in the Vision Plane

Because we are distant from each other and often even our own Being in this physical plane, we shall gather in the vision plane… visualizing our circle, our sacred pipe, filled with holy tobacco and even White Buffalo Calf Woman sitting among us, joining us in the rounds of sacred prayer. Her teachings were a gift for those of us listening, especially for guidance in times such as this.

As I send out daily Red Road words and song for your meditation, replace the pipe ceremony as you need with deep breathing or any other means by which you find your way to Relax into Oneness with all that is seen and unseen.

White Buffalo Calf Woman is but one great spirit that has come forth to peoples of history to awaken those they met. Her words in this space are to provide a guide. They are not meant to constrict the path of your spirit as you receive our daily Red Road readings and go forth in meditation; your intuition is a direct means of communication with your Creator Spirit, to deny it is to deny your Creator, to embody it is to find that Infinite Blissful Love, Peace, our given Power of Creation in Love.

Join the Sacred Circle of the Red Road

Upon listening to The Story of White Buffalo Calf Woman and the Way of the Red Road and joining our sacred circle we will be linked in the physical plane, as we are universally, all of the time.

Our community…

Exists to help heal Mother Earth and to make miracles happen!
Is pretty organic. If something is contributing to the healing and learning of the times we are in, and in a spirit of Love, then it is a true gift and blessing to this community – it is welcome and appreciated; the ripples of it will describe Truth and evoke Beauty beyond what you may know.
Benefits from the Buddy system. As you join this circle, please extend an invitation to anyone in your direct circle that comes to mind right now.
Grows from your own inspiration and contribution to the playlist of our meditations and days
Is connected and strengthened by the Sacred Circle of Ceremony
Is energized by your Check-In! For the sake of community and prayer power, it is amazing to hear from you when you sync into the reading and prayer. Feel free to share where on earth you’re sending your love and healing energy in from and anything you are lit up about or needing our love, support or prayer in. For example:

Hey all, checking in with love and gratitude from the occupied land of the *Kumeyaay Nation, USA. Feeling blessed in the miracle of this new day which greeted me with one of the Mothers most fulfilling of experiences – a perfect rainbow, unbroken and clear, framed in a more subtly reflected but full, secondary rainbow. May your hearts feel full, as mine did standing in the soft, golden rain of the morning, the breeze caressing my cheek, the cool water conveying the message of life to my skin, and that perfect reflection expressing all of the Beauty, potential and harmony of this world. MUCH LOVE

*Please help to teach the others how to Honor, in gratitude, the lands and peoples of your story and/or the place where you are now, as often as possible

Please listen or read The Story of White Buffalo Calf Woman and the Way of the Red Road if you have not yet.

Cheers, to the perfect intuition, service and love which dissolves the fear-driven energies of the world away at once and for all time.

The Sacred Circle is gathering.

Many blessings and gratitude to:

Ken Carey whose partnership with Great Spirit has brought us many teachings of times long passed as well as those of the unseen, infinite and timeless – including this retelling of the story of when White Buffalo Calf Woman came to the Buffalo People to gift them the ways of the Red Road, from Return of the Bird Spirits, the vibrations of which meet us as deeply today.
Joyce Sequichie Hifler, a Cherokee sister, who has gathered many teachings of our relatives throughout the history of Turtle Island placing them into easy to follow daily lessons.
Eub Motega whose vibrations in his song of Medicine Power bless the intentions of this Welcome, the beginning of this Sacred Circle

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March 31, 2020 By Lindsey Tarr 2 Comments

Biography

Lindsey is a servant leader in stewardship of our Mother, the Earth, and all of Hers. The Way of this work is in learning the Ways of Love, healing, humility, and continuous growth; it’s the way of the Red Road. In practice it is:

Doing the hard work of remembering Who I Am
Often an immediate, response to a call for help
Serving locally to help bring about balance: building packs of neighbors’ dogs to be able to get them a bit more of the exercise and healthy social engagement for which they are all starving, regenerating soil, catching water, growing food, or within a multi-year, grassroots coalition of environmental and/or social justice
Living in flow, finding direction primarily by relaxing into the perfect instinct of the spirit, only secondarily stepping forward and thinking with the ego, sidekick rather than guide

In reflection, the drive to serve Mother Earth and people have always been her focus…

Within residential solar, her team redirected millions of middle-class dollars and millions of pounds of CO2 in fossil fuel costs by driving direct change to clean energy
In national service, as an Americorps Fire Team Leader, her team of corps members and hundreds of volunteers impacted dozens of communities and nonprofit organizations throughout the southern states, including more than a handful of disaster responses
While putting herself through community college, she began to learn the ways of leadership, canvassing and fundraising for change as she led a team to help drive through the landmark piece of legislation, the Million Solar Roofs bill, with the group Environment California

Even so, 2016 marks a time of rebirth… everything previous feeling like a different lifetime and everything since representing an exciting journey of Truth, remembering; a beautiful story of the really good stuff like freedom, fearlessness, wholeness, purpose and fulfillment!