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Riversong

10/18/2013

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the river is just beyond the gate....
Welcome to my first blog on this my one website to rule them all. (i am have left a trail of blogs and sites behind me as i made my way here.  Claiming my glorious complicated self in the one place)

I want to tell you the story of my love for Rivers.

I am not a river girl by nature.  My awa (Te Reo Maori for river - Maori name the river and the mountain that is connected to them as part of their mihi when they are introducing themselves, which roots them very cleanly to a specific part of this land) is Hatea.

But lately i have become heart sore about the state of our rivers here in New Zealand.  Many of the rivers around my home town are unfit for humans to swim in.  Let alone fish, kura, birds, eels.  I feel immense shame about this and part of me is looking over my shoulder should the NZ tourist board momentarily break down the door.  But it is the truth. 

I do what i can, live clean, pick up rubbish where i find it.

But i want to do more and was feeling stuck until one day i got this song gifted to me by Spirit.  I will say that out loud because i am not a singer.  I have huge voice issues.  Down to having one paralysed vocal chord and having been told not to sing shout or use my voice loudly in order to protect the remaining one.... fat chance... but claiming a song and singing it out loud  is not something i ever thought i would do... and yet...


Anyway this song stayed there.  In my head and in my heart.  
And i began to sing it as i walked by the river, as i drove over the river.... 

I love the simplicity of this offering. Ever since i read Dr Emoto's book i have been really moved when i think about the spirit of the water receiving our thoughts and music and words.  My amazing accupuncture guy, Bob, taught me how to bless water before i drink it and the difference in blessed and non blessed water is palpable.... This blessing song offers the River my intention and love...  I can do it in many ways, in my head, as a hum or really belt it out and be in deep trust that it connects with the spirit of the water.

So i kept singing, like a greeting to water.  Like a bowing to the life of the river.  And i started noticing where rivers came close to the road, where they had always been present and i had never noticed them.  Streams, creeks, all of it connected to the water that bathes us and nurtures us.  It was like it was calling back.  So I kept singing out.

Then i read about Michelle Gardella a woman's photographic work focusing on Rivers and women.  I got brave and sent her my song. (oh, she didn't reply but it seemed like my being brave enough to share it started a wave)  I told some friends about my song. And saw that my song touched people.

Then I read about a painter i admire, Deborah Milton, in Washington. Her blog post talks about her prayer to salmon as a practice.  I felt an immediate kinship with her offering and mine.  When we spoke about it we both saw the synchronicities of what we are doing.  Of how we are sending loving energy into the world focusing on the lifeblood of our planet, the beautiful mother water.  Of how there is great power in this kind of prayer and how we are feeling called to step up and do this work now.  Urgently.  

We have decided to build on this together.  We thought that by synchronizing our offerings we might get some synergy going, have a bigger impact with a joined intention....

Today was the first day we could combine practice (Saturday- full moon day) and i chose the river at Oakura that runs into the sea.  It really is a tiny stream that comes down from the hills where there is forestry and farming.  Not clean from filtering native forest but grubby.  Dirty.  Often walked in by cows.  It has been the home of big long finned eels in the past but our eels are suffering and i have not seen any there in the last few years.

So I sat down on our little jetty and offered up prayer for the water, my little song and finally a heart shaped stone i had found on the beach as an offering of ongoing love.  I sat with my eyes closed and thought about Deborah and the salmon and how we are building something of beauty.  

And i looked down and there in the water was something i had never seen before.  Tiny eels.  1 inch long.  Our equivalent of salmon - migratory, strong, they leave the water and slither across the land to get to more water, breed in the deepest oceans and return to the streams where they spawned.  Like Deborah's salmon.

There they were right there like a little benediction.  A little yes i hear you and i am grateful and this work is connected through time and space to all those who are doing the same.  

A heartfelt song and a wish for a healthy world.  Would you like to join us?

leave me a message and i will send you the details of the offering Deborah and i are dreaming up

Welcome to this world of mine... where i sing to water, see eels and feel grateful for people who open their heart to possibility. 

with love

jane

17 Comments
Kate
10/21/2013 12:33:26 pm

here I am with my voice xx

oh and I've a little song to share. I learnt this years n' years ago - the words will be almost right! It's to be sung in round.

the river is flowing, flowing and flowing
the river is flowing down to the sea
long may she carry me a child I will always be
long may she carry me down to the sea
xx

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jane
10/29/2013 10:09:36 am

i am so blessed to have the River of you in my life Kate <3 your voice is mighty. Welcome. Beloved.

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Maggie Johnson
10/25/2013 03:30:10 pm

Jane - hello from Washington. I got your link from Deborah's blog. Your song is deeply honoring and I am touched in a good way. Nature has a beautiful way of responding to such love with the showing of the baby eel. In gratitude for All Life. <3

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Maggie
10/29/2013 10:10:21 am

Welcome, thank you for coming and for showing up for All Life in this way <3

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Barbara Martin
10/26/2013 01:27:09 am

Jane, (JANE!) how wonderful! And universal. Looking forward to details....

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jane
10/29/2013 10:12:42 am

BARBARA!!! YAHOOO!!! https://www.facebook.com/groups/472065806249973/ is the link to the facebook group <3
would love to see you there!

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jeanie link
10/26/2013 08:36:15 am

jane the beautiful! I will sing along..... our song braid the waters of the earth.....tell me more!

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jane
10/29/2013 10:13:48 am

our songs braid the waters... there is something about the rightness of that healing matrix for the water and for us as a planet that is deeply moving Jeanie - thank you my friend <3

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kat link
10/31/2013 10:23:39 am

And with your song, comes your breath - beautiful, Jane!

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jane
10/31/2013 10:37:50 am

thank you Kat, with breath comes life <3

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Jo link
11/14/2013 06:03:04 pm

Part of the training I'm currently doing involves finding your soul song and I am really struggling with it. My voice just disappears and does not want to play! I hope I find inspiration too. Now the spirit DANCING...I am all in!

I'm really being drawn to the waters here where we live and have been reminded that we have lots of little waterfalls and even a natural spring right next to our house along the streams that wrap around this part of the land. Coming here and reading this - and Deborah's massage on Facebook - seems like the natural next step. x

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Jo link
11/14/2013 06:08:34 pm

By the way, I start every day at sunrise, in a field, with an intention/prayer, spoken to all the directions and all-spirit. I am so happy to have found a web of women doing the same.

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jane
11/15/2013 01:56:40 am

that is beautiful and inspiring... I am so happy to join you in this return to love and a spirit filled path <3 my mornings often consist of rushing children out the door and making school lunches a little more prayer seems like a better start :-)

jane
11/15/2013 01:55:07 am

maybe the song of your spirit lives in the muscles and sinews of you Jo. Maybe you are dancing your song. The Divine seems to me to not have delineations like humans... an expression of your love is what nourishes... I love hearing that the water is calling you too... I think the water is rising up to be heard and when we listen we offer healing both to water and to ourselves <3

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Helen
12/2/2013 08:50:30 pm

Beautiful song, beautiful singing from your heart. I spent the whole of my growing up by a big deep river and I am always called to water, be it salty or fresh. Love what your are evoking in the universe. Let me know what you are cooking up. Sending big love <3

PS Just found your new website - love it

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jane
12/3/2013 04:04:34 am

my darling friend - I will send you an invite to praying true right now xxx and thank you for your kind words

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