DWAYNE: A major threshold of completion arrives as we come to this, the 13th and final Moon cycle of the current lunar year on The Lightning Path.

Core numerical structure of the pyramid temples of time of The Lightning Path

When this Moon ends on January 30, 2006, we will enter the final lunar year of the first of four "Uranian seasons" being revealed in this way.

It takes twenty lunar years (approximately twenty-one Solar years) for all twenty temples of The Lightning Path to be revealed, one Moon cycle at a time. This is exactly one quarter of the eighty-four Solar years it takes for planet Uranus to orbit the Sun, hence the term "Uranian season".

A natural resonance exists between the orbit of Uranus, and The Lightning Path and it is this resonance factor that augments the creativity of anyone open to receiving it.

TERESA: I remembered that last moon Dwayne had said 13 would be the "big one". One sets the stage, seven is the essence, and thirteen is the engine that pulls us through. 13 MANIK indicates fulfillment of the Great Work: the transformation of consciousness.

This lunar year has seen us enter into co-creation every New Moon as a road to transformation and awakening to our most authentic selves. Once again, I refused to indulge in any preconceptions before the day of the New Moon. But in our preliminary meditation a very clear image presented itself. I got very excited. I actually felt tears well up in my eyes, and a pleasurable rush of energy inside my gut. A sure sign that I was onto something. But I was unsure about whether I should share it with Dwayne. I didn't want him to feel I was attempting to steer his own vision-seeking process. So I decided to put it into our ritual. I took a small, lit votive candle, placed it in my cupped palms and held it out to him, urging him to hold his hands over it, as if to warm them. Instantly, We both saw a beautiful mudra in this gesture, and realized it was so very right for the basis of our 13 MANIK painting.

MANIK is about all about mudras, physical postures and gestures we can assume in order to invite the sacred into our lives. We both feel the position of the two pairs of hands to be the Mudra of Co-creation, a symbolic representation of the fundamental polarity: that is, the relationship between The Creative and The Receptive on a personal level. The natural result of this interaction is beauty and love. The alchemical joining of the two beings results in a brilliant point of light radiating pure color in every direction, decorating the world with spontaneous joy and exuberant movement.

.Both "gifts" and "mudras" are keywords for MANIK. We are grateful to have received the gift of both for this Moon cycle. We intend, with this New Moon, to invite mudras into our ongoing rituals as spiritual tools for the Great Work.

Manik New Moon in Capricorn

I came across the latin words, Magnum Opus: the sacred marriage between spirit and matter, the weaving of the Cosmic Mating Dance. Wikipedia on line encyclopedia's definition: Magnum opus (sometimes Opus magnum), from the Latin meaning great work, ! refers to the best or most renowned achievement of an author , artist, or composer. It can also refer to an individual literary or artistic masterpiece. A great start to open to the Manik portal.

In surrendering during last months CIMI energy, I temporarily land in Courtenay at my friend's home, knowing it is a next port of call in manifesting new directions during this Manik wave.

I am surprised, my painting starts out quite differently than I expected. I already had a control agenda that soon gets busted! I like to paint spontaneously and fluidly. I feel an Inner Wisdom/Intelligence ignite! I had already decided to let go of any controls and they did come up quickly. What else can we expect with a Capricorn new moon?

In my meditation dimensional geometric images emerge in my inner vision. I feel and see light pathways open up in my energy body as these picture symbols vibrate through my nervous system. When I am ready to begin my painting I check in with my intuition asking this inner wisdom, where do I start? A triangle calls. I hold the intention to allow my inner voice and vision to guide the! whole painting process. Forms that are more geometric appear as a pattern emerges. With a t-square I plan out where the forms go. Not fun, for this right brain person.

I am guided to go outside, amidst the winter deluge of rain and more rain, my body starts to spontaneously dance and move. I feel a mystical connection as I dance in the beauty of the stillness at winter's wet gate. The ground is soggy and water logged. Wave after wave of energy washes in and out of my body as the living symbols move through my physical body as I open to the elemental directions and the Guardians of the four gates.

As I gaze at my painting, I see a dorje. I only know the term nothing of its meaning. A quick internet search reveals that a! double dorje represents the "thunderbolt of enlightenment", the abrupt change in human consciousness, which is recognized by all great religions as a pivotal opening in the Mystical Realms, and the unity possible between opposites. The dorje, or thunderbolt, and the bell are inseparable ritual objects in Tibetan Buddhism. The dorje, is the masculine principle and is held in the right hand, and represents compassion expressed through skillful means (method). The bell, as feminine principle held in the left hand is wisdom (of emptiness). Together, they represent the attainment of Enlightenment.

As my painting progresses, I begin to feel split open. My rational monkey mind wants to control and direct everything. I feel overwhelmed and pressured to produce something. Critical thoughts and judgments swish around in the ed! dies and pools of my little mind. I want to tear up my painting and stop the craziness. Instead of giving up, I give it up and surrender. I am painting in new art mediums. I feel stretched to the limit. A house full of people here in Courtenay at my friends place will be arriving on the 1st of January. I feel pressured to have my painting completed quickly. Oil pastels jump out at me. Now I am in my natural realm. They allow me to play and release all the tension that had built up. A mountain of music blasts out Bach. Water explodes all around the dorje. It feel like a dark thundering storm as I experience the void. When it is complete, the mental judgments vengefully surface. I let go and empty myself.

A deep intuitive knowing tells me I am tapping into a Tibetan stream of Cosmic Wisdom. In my meditation I experience a symbolic death, knowing all life is transitory, everything returns to the Source. I see and release an energy on the back of my heart chakra which looks like an energetic hook, old guilt around my family of origin. I feel and release fears around death and dying. I know this is part of what is completing as we move through Manik's portal. I open for direction as to what is next. What is next in the vision I have been given? What new direction wants to emerge?

For many years painting has been an integral part of my transformative process. It is my love and passion. I start to feel fearful and critical just thinking about having this ugly art that I have created, on the internet open to other's scrutiny. F! eelings of doubt and pessimism wash away as I surrender my false pride of thinking I am above the creative process, a know-it-all. I've been a closet artist for many years and I know the art is a sacred process when we allow it to be. I also know I have only scratched the surface of the potential that resides within. The truth is a sharp sword, it cuts away all illusions. The truth is there is an artist/healer within everyone. What constitutes good art? In the mystical realms, there is no good and bad, no duality, only creative expression, talents and gifts that lie within every soul waiting to be released. It takes a great act of courage to come out and expose ourselves. The courage of the emerging Rainbow Warriors who weld the Swords of Truth cutting the minds illusions free. I know that what my ego fears are only my own judgments and criticisms projected out onto my own dream fie! ld, manifesting through alike attracts alike.

Throughout this whole painting process I listen to many different kinds of music. What a gift, my friend loves to share her cd collection. When I feel tense, I release through dance and song. I had been wondering since the dorje and bell are the male/female principles in Tibetan Buddhism, where the bell would be in my painting. I realize, that in truly letting go and lovingly cutting away illusions, and releasing all control, that our physical bodies are the bells. All life is sound, vibration, and dance. Our central spinal channel is one with the planet and all creation. The dance of polarities moves through our nervous system as the ida and pingala, the twin serpentine energies that ignite our creative fire. When we allow the old s! tructures to be washed away, we can bathe in the higher frequencies and access previously hidden gifts and talents. In crystal clear clarity the Sword of Truth when combined with the feminine principle of love, cuts away all illusion. We are the Light, we are the dance, we are the song.

As my painting is nearing completion, I am in awe with it. Structure and flow, matter and spirit, feminine and masculine, truth and love, rational and intuitive mind are interwoven. When we connect with the Beauty that we are, beauty reveals itself everywhere.

I release all judgments and criticisms knowing the value is in the effort. My prayer for this New Year is for all beings to be! free of suffering, May all beings realize the true source of happiness, peace, and love. May all beings realize their creative potential and be free in the creative fire to manifest their Authentic Selves and their true hearts desires. Rainbow Warriors are emerging on the collective dreamfield, it is time now to manifest our Vision, both personally and collectively. The "Eagles are gathering." Time to come out of the nest.

My painting process feels complete. On New Years day, a clan arrives for a Carribbean feast.

OM MANI PADME HUM

Sunomi


P.S. I've always known that dance, art and sound would be part of my own personal transformation..... and have had insights over the years... but nothing like what is coming through this Manik new moon opening. I've had some physical challenges with my body this past year, specifically my joints. The dorje is a "living elemental dance" coming through for me to put into my daily practise to open up the energy currents, as a transformative healing relating to a belief it is unsafe to be in my body. And at some point to share with others. Immediately as I atune to the elemental dorje dance, I feel at peace and all pain subsides in my body. How wonderful! What a gift! And isn't Manik about receiving gifts.


What an exciting journey moving through this opening, the Manik portal. Rainbow Warriors are uniting I am feeling inspired by Spirit to make a call to you all. The invitation to co-create with the Lightning Path has been made. Are you ready to join us?

DWAYNE: The Lightning Path is a path of co-creation of new myth and you might ask: "What are some of the basic requirements of anyone taking this path? ..In response, I share with you a passage from Dane Rudhyar that has meant a lot to me in this regard:

How does one become co-creator of the new myth? Always at first by the individual manner in which one straightforwardly meets one's own crises within the context of the collective crisis of Western man. The myth-maker does not meet his crises in terms of strictly personal circumstances and idiosyncrasies; he sees in them symbols; he expands their meaning until they begin not merely to reflect, but bring to a personal focus, the crisis of his culture and, perhaps in the larger sense, of humanity. He lives a symbolic life. But it is the kind of symbolic life that fits in and gives meaning to a crisis situation; it is therefore a life of transformation, an alchemical life, a hierophanic life, revealing of the sacred nature of the world crisis.