Channeling the High Priestess; Be the Observer & Filter Through
You are the observer of, and the filter through which, divinity flows. Become acutely aware of your surroundings, what is displayed, how objects are placed, whose energy is within reach. These are all factors that will have huge effects on your ability to live moment to moment. If you feel stuck move through it, literally. Sink into the pains that ache, shake loose the parts that are tight, coral the pieces that are strewn about waiting for formation. Walk, dance, stretch, release. Be who you came here to be.
*The High Priestess is an entity that uses Tricia as a conduit for divine guidance. She’s lovely.
Wisdom from Martha Graham
Hunter S. Thompson
The Beauty That Is
Insecurity is mine and mine alone.
It taunts my confidence
Tears at my peace.
A hovering grenade of dissatisfaction
Eyeing the landscape of my soul.
I know of it’s poisonous root
Yet I give it it’s demanded respect
An abuser that I want to assuage
I am not sure where to find the strength
To bury it in it’s appropriate resting place
Cover it with Mother Earth
Water it with heavens’ rain
And transform it into the beauty that is
Love of Self.
Free Yourself
Just one question:
What are you going to do today to allow yourself to be freer than you were yesterday?
Reading from Yoga Class 12/2/19 Pema Chodron on Making Room For Growth
“In life we think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem. The real truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together for a time, then they fall back apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that.
Personal discovery and growth coming from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
Suffering comes from wishing things were different. Misery is self inflicted, when we are expecting the “ideal” to overcome the “actual” or deeding things (or people, or places) to be different for us so we can then be happy.
Let the hard things in life break you. Let them effect you. Let them change you. Let the hard moments inform you. Let this pain be your teacher. The experiences of your life are trying to tell you something about yourself. Don’t cop out on that. Don’t run away and hide under your covers. Lean into it.
What is the lesson in this wind? What is the storm trying to tell you? What will you learn if you face it with courage? With full honesty and … lean into it.”
Pema Chodron
Mantra is a Mind Instrument
Take the Risk
The gestation is over.
Time to birth the creation.
Next month, not an option.
Now is the gift.
Dis-integrate doubt.
Outcome inconsequential.
The view; panoramic.
So take the risk.
It is the reason you are here.
Tricia Schwaba, 2019
Naked Simplicity
The stark winter has arrived, the fitful winds kicking up random snow vortexes. No embellishments to distract, no demands of interwoven colors and brilliant foliage. Only bare bones, skeletal earthlings reaching for insight, stretching high to the mysterious ivory, and doused-in-white pines, limbs heavy, demanded by the Earth. As a savior being prayed forth, that which lies deep in the core emerges in crystal-like facets, flashing aqua and violet.
To live in a world where life is constantly in bloom, no stepping back, no opportunity to go dormant, no blank canvas awaiting the brush strokes that are the inevitable thaw, would be it’s own kind of challenge. In this quiescent state, this naked simplicity, our planet most aligns with the expanse of the heavens. What is evident is essential.
Tricia Schwaba, December 1, 2019
Wind Rules
The wind is ruling today whipping the snow into sparkling spirals. It is harsh and so cold it sears and only those built for frozen can stand right now.
Take Up Your Allotted Space Please
It's All Potential
The snow fell last night covering all with a pristine blanket of white, fresh, without carved paths. Previously designated routes have disappeared. It’s all potential. I sit inside with my hot tea watching as the wind whips the flakes into a horizontal frenzy. It reminds me of snowfalls I have experienced in the past, one standing out for offering a moment of profound stillness and silence, the subsequent clarity, cutting right through any doubt that we are divine creatures, and another stimulating persistent, visceral signs of desperation and fear, a lack of control, a spinning, wheels no longer gripping, surrender the only certainty. This snow, this particular morning is peaceful and welcoming. It calls to me, “Dare to take that first step, Seep in your own sensual acuity and witness the stark beauty that is merely a reflection of the blank canvas in front of you.”
Root To Crown Up & Down
Let your root sink in and your crown reach to the heavens.
It will serve you well.
Tricia Schwaba
Tolle Quote
Patti Smith Quote
“By doing something you like and believe in, it gives you internal strength.”
Patti Smith
The Weight of Insecurity
I see his essence buried in a self-imposed cushion. Though the time for padding is done he tries with fruitless effort to stuff his destiny further down, but fate is stronger than his insecurity. Truth sprouts through the layers revealing all that is from clear eyes and a body that serves with strength, free movement & harmony.
My Spontaneous Morning Prayer
I honor myself with stillness & silence.
I drink in the fresh waters.
I take in nature’s beauty.
Sinking into the peace of my essence
That is the light & love of the divine.
Tricia Schwaba, 2019
