Hello Dwayne!

Thanks for the lovely moon! .mmmmm... should I ask who was the model??

Sorry. Monkey got the better of me. I've got a couple of stories I'll

have to send you in regards to working with moon cycles and the Temple

of Chuen. For the last 6 - 8 months, I've been doing new moon

meditations to plant 'seeds' for the coming month. And they're getting

very intriguing to me. Perhaps you might find some value in the stories.

On the new moon for March, I had a vision of a very old, ancient native

woman sitting before a fire. I had flown across oceans to reach her in

the form of a gull. When I arrived, I stood before and said in response

to her unspoken question "I have come for my new moon seeds'. She

reached out and pulled my beating heart from my chest and held it in

her hand. With her other hand, she threw something on the flames and

the fire flared up to engulf the heart. It glowed with a golden light.

She held this heart out to me. And then she opened her other hand to me

as well. It appeared empty to me. I asked "What is this?" She replied "A

Song." I accepted the two 'seeds' and flew back across the oceans.....

About five days later, a dear and beloved friend and working companion

did something I could not believe. We were in a meeting and he slipped

out. He'd gone to ask our supervisor to pull me from the meeting and not

let me back in... he'd felt a moment of panic that I was going to say

too much and cause a large amount of work to be generated. This

supervisor has been causing difficulties for all of us... she's under

stress, is ill and is not dealing with anything in any kind of

integrity, truth or respect. My friend knows this better than most. I

couldn't believe he had done this! I was furious with him and for the

first time in my life, confronted him and spoke of my anger. As we

worked throught what had initiated the whole thing, he realized he'd

over-reacted terribly and agreed to let our supervisor know this. ...

the flame of anger that cleanes impurities, yes? But the month was not

done yet....

I'm in a relationship that is really wonderful and yet challenging. I'm

learning to speak what I feel and say what I need. I reached a crisis

point during this month as well. I finally in desparation called my

companion and told him how I was feeling... how I was willing to stay in

the arena but I cannot do this if I am alone there, that I need to know

he desires to be there too, that we are walking the same path. I was

astounded to discover he's been thinking along the same line as I was.

My heart 'sang' indeed! But what agonies to reach that point! Sigh...

Monkey sure has hard time speaking the heart's truth... so vulnerable an

opening up.

So that was last month. This month, I visited a temple of light. And I

was given a strand of 'Fire Pearls' to lay over my shoulders. And a

black scorpion in my right hand and the golden heart in my left. I

placed the heart back in my chest. And the scorpion leaped up my arm and

paused as if to ask permission to reside in the heart. I nodded yes. And

deep in the heart of gold lies the black emperor scorpion....

Now this one has muliptlicities of meaning... I found out Isis travelled

with 7 scorpions to protect her.. that in most cultures, the scorpion is

respected and feared and revered as symbolizing the death/rebirth cycle.

Needless to say I felt nervous. The man in my life is a Scorpio... 'too

obvious' I thought. But perhaps not... who's to say? Well, four days

after this meditation, the same supervisor pulled me aside to rake me

over the coals for using the printer at work to print something

personal, for using the web and e-mail for non-work related things, etc.

I was dumbfounded. Everyone of us does this in this office... including

this lady. This is a department issue.... yet she singled out me. So I'm

in the midst of finding how to stop these personal attacks in a way with

integrity and with heart... she is ill, stressed out and for some reason

finds me to be a vehicle whereby she can get a sense of control in the

midst of her chaos. Where does the scorpion strike? The scorpion is also

known for striking itself when things get too hot.... have to tread

lightly like the light-hearted Monkey here. Anyway, the month is not

played out yet. I understand this is the month of Thunderbeings. Things

can and may shift suddenly, yes?? Intriguing indeed. Staying present in

the adventure my friend. Staying present.

So there's some stories for you. Hopefully, not too self-involved and

boring. If you have my e-mail address stored somewhere, can you change

it to this address: tiannana@telusplanet.net ... actually, it has a nice

ring come to think of it! Anyhoo, I hope things are well with you and

Ann and company. I hope I can get out to the coast this summer but I

have a feeling I've things to work on here this summer. I'll be moving

into a house for year - house-sitting in a sense - with my daughter and

her friend. I'm looking forward to this but dread the move. Boxes,

boxes, boxes...and they're mostly books!!! But you never know. I might

get to see the ocean somehow. Love & hugs to you and to Ann.

Susan Allore (Tiannana)