Tag: Solstice

Deepen & Celebrate: 2 Events this Solstice Season

Pre-Solstice Sacred Journaling Circle on 19 Dec. invites deepening, replenishing, inner listening in the nurturing longest dark of the year. Then, for a special 21 Dec. Solstice Day with Sacred Space-Holding, we meet at dawn as the light returns. I hold your sacred intent for this day of ritual/ceremony + the shared meta-intent for the emerging reality where All. Life. Flourishes. We gather midday to recalibrate and reconnect. Then we celebrate at sunset with our closing celebration, honoring each intent, ceremony, and ritual — all amplified in sacred-space-holding at this momentous turning of an epoch.

DearHeart,

I send blessings of gratitude. Thank you is a prayer, a living prayer, to you — because your presence is a potent gift to all.

Thank you for being part of co-creating a Seasonal Circle Field over the past year and a half. Its potency is amplifying, thanks to your willingness to play full out several times (8 or so!) a year.

My heart overflows with joy when we gather. In between gatherings, you are held in a potent sacred space of upliftment during my daily practices of Belvaspata, a modality of angelic wholeness received from Infinite Mother and expressed through the Seer Almine.

Welcome to my table, dearheart! <3

During this most potent month-of-December pivot point, the field of the Seasonal Circle expands. I want to share the details, and hope this inspires you to play!

Yin Arising is being born in this astonishing time. As each one willingly welcomes the flows of the luminous essence of Infinite Mother, she shows up from within each one of us. We befriend this newly emergent unknown with much delight and anticipation.

Even while much is unfolding and also de-structuring, (and will continue to do so) we are the ones called into radical radiant Presence to hold the template and the birthing-space for the emergence of a new reality.

It, this new reality of Yin Arising, shows up through us and AS us. I invite each one to live this new reality in each moment. As we do, we add alchemical leverage to the pivot point of an already archetypally-amplified period of this month of December 2020.

Our Gatherings strengthen the individual from within, along with the whole of life — in ways we cannot foresee.


Saturday, 19 December 2020: Pre-Solstice Sacred Journaling Circle– Gather-To-Deepen in the Darkest Days–Listen from within and replenish.
Noon MST – 1:30 MST

Together, traveling in rich and fertile darkness, we hold hands and Navigate by Nature. This gives you a sacred space for discovering your unique way of deepening into your secret inner garden space. Our shared circle offers space-time to cultivate within your depths and nurture your roots.

*How do you come home to yourSelf and stay home — more fully, regularly, ongoingly?

*As you travel through the fertile darkness, what does it mean to you to be able to navigate by nature?

*How can you experience and embody ever-more-subtle shifts through your inner alignment?

We meet via Zoom. (Zoom link sent upon your PayPal registration in sacred exchange from-the-heart.)

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Then …

From the Dark, We Return to the Light

Monday 21 December 2020: Solstice Day of Ceremony and Celebration:
+ Sunrise Zoom Gathering at 7 – 8 AM MST as opening ceremony for a day of ceremony

+ Mid-day (est.12:30 – 1:30 PM MST) reconnection session on Zoom — to recommit, share, recalibrate, refresh in utter devotion on this turning-point day.

+ Sunset Zoom at 5:30 – 6:30 PM MST for our closing celebration of a most epoch-shifting day …


Throughout the day, you and I will both be doing our own Solstice rituals, ceremonies and celebrations. In addition, I hold the sacred space for our group and individual intents, rituals, ceremonies, and celebrations. I also hold the ongoing meta-intent that has been alive for me for a very long time: A New Yin Arising Reality where All. Life. Flourishes. May it be so.

We meet via Zoom. (Zoom link sent upon your PayPal registration in sacred exchange from-the-heart.)

These almost back-to-back gatherings are separate, yet connected. Together, they make a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. From the fertile darkness, we turn the corner into the return of the light. Synergies happen.

Sunrise from 12 Dec 20
We gather in the pre-dawn to begin our day of Sacred Space-Holding, Ceremony, Ritual, Celebration … Together and Separately.

Solstice Day of Ceremony offers an auspicious opening to amplify your intent, your reverence, awe, and wonder for all life and its evolutionary edge in this moment. It honors the living pivot point that you are — as a new reality revolves into presence and manifestation through your attending to it. Life upgrades and blessings abound in limitless possibility. Much is moving — beyond our return to the light.

With that movement, your stillness matters even more than usual.
As you tune into your inner wisdom, that clear, still pool of your heart + body + mind, it opens portals for you to receive at levels never before experienced. You can become a partner and co-creator with life itself in your willing surrender to be upgraded to your most extraordinary self. This is a gift to you, and it’s YOUR gift to the expression of the one life through you.

“BE the change you wish to see” has never been more alive, vital, crucial. It asks our commitment, dedication, and devotion, starting on this pivot-point day of massive transitions. Bring it fully alive from within you.

Why gathering with Bobbye in the Yin Arising sacred circle can make a difference for you, beyond you, and beyond what you can imagine.


December 2020 holds the potential to be a living turning point, an epoch shifting moment. Our Presence makes a difference. Magnifying our Presence from within — through amplifying each and every SongLine within our unique expressions and Song-of-Self — truly IS the “Difference we are here to BE.” Live from that place of your fullest expression in every moment, and all else falls into alignment.

There’s radically up-leveled, archetypal, cosmic support for big changes, and great clearing, healing, making whole — personally, collectively, and for the greater wholeness of the One Life forever flowing.

And simultaneously, the bigger these changes, for those of us walking this evolutionary-edge path, our attending to the smallest of details makes for the greatest shift. Doing so honors and enlivens the truth of the principle that the macrocosm exists in its full radiance in the microcosm.
(That is, within us.)

For those of us who have danced along the evolutionary edge and done the work over eons, THIS is the moment we have been preparing for, even if we didn’t know that was what we were doing…

Both engagements are offered in sacred exchange as pay-from-the-heart.

Please note that for all 3 options, you can attend for the amount most comfortable for you and your financial situation. The amounts listed are suggestions. If you are able to offer more, it helps to offset my expenses for those who can’t afford the suggested levels. If you have some other sacred exchange to suggest, please contact me directly at: BJMiddendorf(at)gmail(dot)com.

[ ] Yes! I want to attend and receive recordings for BOTH DAYS, 19th and 21st December. Suggested TOTAL sacred exchange — including BOTH — $40. suggested.
Https://www.paypal.me/BobbyeMiddendorf

19th December ONLY: I want to attend and receive the recording ONLY for 19th Dec., Pre-Solstice Sacred Journaling Circle. Please list this date in the notes to me in PayPal! $20. suggested.
Https://www.paypal.me/BobbyeMiddendorf

21st December ONLY: I want to attend and receive the recordings ONLY for Solstice Day of Ceremony and Celebration. Please list this date in the notes to me in PayPal! $20. suggested.
Https://www.Paypal.me/BJMiddendorf

Note: The 21st PayPal link is a test, not an error. Thank you!

With love and appreciation,

Bobbye
P.S. If you have questions, please feel free to contact me.

P.P.S. Please tune into your inner wisdom. Feel where and how these events speak to you, where they resonate within. Listen with discernment to the inner whispers. Track the fragrance of your greater-inner-knowing. If now is YOUR time to deepen into inner self-trust and replenishment, then say yes.

This unique space invites you to be present for yourSelf, and with the greater circle of our community of WayMakers, Evolutionaries, and Conscious Creators gathering. Together and in partnership with Infinite Mother, we are co-holding the space for Yin Arising, a brand-new reality coming through.

P.P.P.S. If now is not your time to engage, then may the blessings of Solstice and the return to the light illuminate your path on the journey. Please do stay in touch!

Bobbye Middendorf

About Bobbye

Bobbye Middendorf, MA, is Spoken Word Alchemist, Yin Arising mentor, mystic & catalyst for evolutionaries,  WayMaker for WayMakers, inner wisdom guide, and award-winning wordsmith and healer. She created The Self-Presencing Experience as process-and-practices for visionaries and conscious creators to embody their own wholeness, unique fields of potentiality, and amplified song-of-self. Finding and activating this evolutionary edge, they can embody hope, self-grounding, self-trust, resilience, and joy.  Their regenerativity blossoms with clarity, with expansive expression making life a work of art.

Bobbye “… has an unusual ability to hold space by carefully tending to the creation of a safe and deep container, through the patience and holding of her deep listening and through her caring wisdom. The result is that one sees oneself and one’s situation more clearly, more fully, and with more compassion.”

MD, Ontario, Canada

“Your beautiful words and centering took me beyond words.”

NFS, Hudson River Valley, NY

Apprenticing to your Great Work

The unseen. The invisible world. The Qi field. The Force.

If you are searching for your own Pole Star outside, stop. You are looking where it will never be found.

Sunset, West Placitas, by Bobbye Middendorf
Sunset, West Placitas, by Bobbye Middendorf

Do you deal with what is invisible? Powerful, foundational, yet invisible? The formless and energetic precede form, yet are also within the form. We’ve been taught to hunt far and wide in the outer world for hidden treasure. You are one who guides your people to find it within.

Let me ask: If you do this kind of work for and with others, who helps you hold the space for your own deeper dives?  The deeper you go, the more challenging it can be to do for yourself and by yourself. You can’t hear what you can’t hear, nor see what you can’t see.

None of us are supposed to travel on this energetic upleveling journey alone.

The energetic shifts in our world are palpable, at least to those of us with heightened sensitivity and cultivated presence of deep empathy. The seemingly irreconcilable polarities are being played out with startling regularity, with the space between the poles seeming to exponentially expand, the time between polarizing events now ever shorter.

What has looked like the “way we do things” is breaking down. It’s easy to want to follow a model, especially when things are breaking down. And that’s exactly the time that the model no longer works, especially if you are looking to rebirth a world that works for all.

From this confusion and crumbling, I want to help wise women like you to connect — and stay connected — to your own North Star, your own inner blueprint — the one that is urging you forward. It’s the core essence of your Great Work, the new story that you are compelled to give birth to in our complex and convoluted world.

The emerging new paradigm in business is calling all of us to show up and partner with it and all the disparate parts in a wholly different way. It calls us to live in a way that regenerates ourselves (in body, mind, and spirit). I sense that this is part of what you are doing, or aiming to do. The work calls to be done in a different way, and in so doing, we become apprentices to this new work, this new way of working, and to ourselves as the Co-Creator.

It, the work, shapes us as instruments for its highest expression and most potent unfolding. That’s not how things have been done in the past. We are walking at the leading edge of new ways of working, including this partnering collaboration and co-creation, all of which is coming forth in unimagined ways.

And the new story that you want to shape and share also includes embracing your people while raising them up– your Divine Audience, your soul tribe. These are the people who will appreciate and resonate with the “honing” that has been done on you through your lifetime(s).

[A Sidebar: Today’s #Quest2016 with Jeffrey Davis’ Tracking Wonder Community features Jennifer Louden with this question to unfurl your 2016:

Your Quest2016 Prompt today:

What’s the story you most desire to bring to life in 2016?   

What’s the story your just-right client most desires to bring to life in 2016?

Where do your two stories overlap? #2Stories

For more details on #Quest2016: trackingwonder.com/quest-2016]

I regularly inquire into these two stories, even creating Venn Diagrams to visually map the overlaps.

Your Shero’s Journey

We are hospicing an entire way of life,  we who are the midwives of new visions, Way-Showers to many who are taking up the Shero’s Journey (a concept I learned initially from Tamora Pierce and then also via Jen Louden).

Light-Bringers, Path-Seers, Wisdom-Sharers: We are unveiling the new in a way that shares its foundational roots with ancient, long-forgotten paths.

Put your dreams and visions to work, for now is the time. We are being asked to collaborate and co-create in resonant and regenerative community. Are you ready to articulate the song deep in your heart? To tell the new story?

Let us together bring forth from the heart of co-creation YOUR truest inherent value to be of service in creating a world that works for all beings and all life.

Happy Solstice, following the path of the return of the light. Merry Christmas, where the Light of Divine Love is reborn within your soul. Happy New Year as the path unfolds under your feet for another trip around the sun.

In whatever ways you celebrate at this sacred time, I wish you many blessings as you journey.

Greetings from the Dark of the Year

 

We are called to be the bringers of light, the ones we have
been waiting for, the light bearers, the light workers. Your
light shining in the times of the dark makes a difference.

As the dark of the year descends, throughout delicious December,
know that it is time for dream-renewal on every level. Stretching
into the sacred container of December’s dream time, I invite you
to explore your connections with your own light and amplify
the wattage of the pure light of divine love in connections and
partnership with your sacred siblings.

If you would love some inspiring support, wisdom, and a
circle of light/like-hearted others, if you would love a new
way for you and your business to complete your year with
grace and delight, please say yes to yourself!

See if this sacred bundle of Solstice gifts from 21
wisdom-energy-keepers speaks to your soul, and if so,
please sign up. I am among 21 givers of gifts in this
collection initiated by Success Shaman, Brenda MacIntyre.

I am tickled to be part of this illustrious group.
My contribution and your gift from me:
You might have heard me talk about the Waterfall
of Divine Virtues, on Facebook or in a meeting/attunement/
invocation/collaboration.

If you are intrigued, this is your chance to get
from me some special poems and guided meditations
into the waterfall of the divine.

Specifically the 21 Days of Solstice Gifts…
You can sign up for your gifts — a variety of
wisdom packaged for your delight — over here:
http://wintersolsticegiveaway.com

You will receive messages through Dec 21, and
prior gifts are available for download after you sign
up.

Sending you love and light,

Bobbye
Bobbye Middendorf
Poet and Priestess of Pure Potentiality

Summer Solstice in the Garden

In the Garden —
Summer Solstice 2012

The longest day fades imperceptibly
drop by drop
Delineated by air conditioner fans,
wild cry of kestrel, hovering midair
Unexpected voice in urban landscape
What is rare, wild, beautiful
Not like crow’s testy commentary

Getting the balance back
personal polarities attended to
nutrition for spirit
daily practices that infuse the soul.

Olmsted-the-elder’s layers of green on green
live here under our canopy
safe and leafy havens for fireflies of early summer
beginning their nightly morse code
winking messages of light into
twilight’s tribal rising

Mother Earth gathers skirts of green
plump swaths and celebrations of newly minted leaves
emerging fully into ponderous and lush maturity

MidSummer sings her solstice reflection
in wading pool
brilliant mirror for sky, elm, candle flame

I crane my neck to catch
the final glimmers of sun-soaked leaves
at the top of ailanthus-tree-of-heaven
scooping a breeze onto the page

Blessing the kingdoms of
air and mineral,
flora and fauna,
visible and invisible,
fire and water.
Polarities in name only
That pole is  just the Axis Mundi
whirling our seeming reality on a stick
spinning so fast our eyes
catch the merest glimpse
of fictional characters
hiding under hollyhock leaves

Summer’s verdant blossoming
sweet and heavy
gardenia’s flower perfumes the dusk
in currents hot and cold
across a makeshift desk in Shangri-la
Trees shed dead branches
ice melts in the tea mug
and I await the mellowed and belated darkness
Light leaching from holly and boxwoods first
then from the yellow-y green quince foliage

Dappled illumination shimmers at the bottom of the pool
Reflecting human ingenuity to light the night
And brightly colored strands bedizen a
solitary
celebratory
garden.
Shangri-la indeed.

Who are we kidding?
Celebrating the cycles of Mother Earth
rarely gets a second thought
much less holds a place in (some) human hearts

And so I close the book,
hope warring with despair
(as usual).
A fragment of the light remains
Night’s full closure not yet fully descended.

20 June 2012
Bobbye Middendorf

Winter Solstice 2011 Poem

The lights from many traditions twinkle together at the Winter Solstice. This poem honors the 2011 Winter Solstice and festivals of Light while acknowledging what we share in common.

 

 

 

 

 

 Honoring Winter Solstice 2011

Dusk starts folding in shortly after lunch.
Sun’s Southerly arc
Creates spaciousness in early twilight sky.
A single planet arises above Eastern horizon.
Brightness blooms before darkness descends.

From under a welter of initiatives and mountains of missives
Day’s end and cavernous silence
Swiftly inserted as our salvation
Inviting imagination to play.

Ungainly illusions and expectations knock about
Loud as bumper cars on a fenced track.
Seasonality shored up by carnival barkers spitting
Holiday spirit on sale tags increasingly shrill, urgent, alarming.

Breathe the early night air and embrace
freedom in the dark thrill of silence.
Let peace descend as night laps at the edge of Earth’s carpet.
And when all is darkest night
Consider your mission is simple: to shine.
Other dots illuminate the landscape.
Holidays of Light from every tradition mingle —
Uncertain how far that goodwill extends.
And yet the common foundation for the billions of brilliances —
an underscore, an uncommon heritage of souls.

We are the ones called, called to Light, called to illuminate.
We are the ones answering the call.
We are the ones we have been waiting for.
We are the voices at hand to speak up.
We are the bowl vibrating with resonant waves of love on the wind.
We are the candle shimmering to brighten the darkest corner.
We are the book — the sacred tomes — and each soul a story,
And each story, a connection,
And each connection reverberating…

“We are the ones!”

Launching spots to multi-
Dimensions.

We are the ones.

Shine, my friends.
Shine on, blessed
Illuminati of the Divine Heart Center.

 

Bobbye Middendorf
18 December 2011
Photo courtesy Middendorf-Salovaara

Solstice Greetings from Shangri La

2010 Pre-Solstice

Brilliant
SunSparkles on snow
mingling my tracks with squirrels’
Fluffed robins drunk on fermented berries
Crows sing raucous verses
The passing V of Canada geese honking refrain
And the gibbous moon
rising midday spectral ghostly blur
waxing toward Solstice full
in blue firmament
Magic is airborne
riding currents of
short days with mid-afternoon dusks
punctuated by window candles
Holiday lights like multi-hued
stars of an earthbound universe

Energies of Divine Feminine
a Shakti blossoming
within perfect
circle of protection
Embracings within yin and yang
the balance unspoken
yet profound
Festivities foretold unfold
celebrating rebirth
of love alive
illuminating
the innermost sacred
center of the heart
Divine Love ignites
whisperings soul to soul
Missives of grace

17 December 2010
Bobbye Middendorf
The Write Synergies Guru