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September 2008 email Newsletter
The Brighter the Light
the more dirt you can see
(and a thought for September 11 meditations)
September is always a
little crazy. There is a rush to finish up summer activities
and simultaneously start the school year here in the
Northern Hemisphere. At the same time we are concluding a
nearly two month period of being awash in Sacred Masculine
energies from the Sirius stars.
In a culture more in tune with the seasons and astrological
energy flows, this might translate into setting oneself in
quiet meditation during the heat of the day in order to hear
the next step to take later. Utilizing the Sacred Masculine
energies that come to the planet, and so to each of us every
year, is a task that we, as humans, are just beginning to
comprehend. These energies offer us a potential to create
something without having to recreate what already is. More
on that, and links to two free Sound Healings, in the
article below.
I want to be sure that you know about a Full
Moon Meditation in
Ann Arbor (Sept 13). This meditation we will focus on using
the emotional energies around Sept 11 and ask "What is their
next step?" "How do the energies of the event want to be
now?"
I feel that continuing to look back means we aren't looking
forward and letting transformation take place to the full
extent possible. We can utilize the Sacred Masculine
energies that have accumulated in our plane of reality since
July 23, and act as conscious stewards for 'the next step'.
If you feel drawn, please join me, in person or
long-distance.
Saturday, Sept 13 from 7:30-9:30pm
Full Moon Gathering: A Chant and Meditation Evening
And for those of you in
OTTAWA
and TORONTO
I'm also singing two types of healing concerts in Ottawa.
One is in a big beautiful church in cottage country. The
evening concert starts in twilight, and will move into
complete candlelight (Sept 26). The next night I'm in Old
South Ottawa at the home of Paula Norman. This is more
improvisation, channeling and mediation.
I'll stay in Ottawa to offer Private
Healing Sessions Sunday and
maybe Monday, Sept 28-29. I'll also offer Private Healing
Session in Toronto on Oct 1-2. Please be in touch if you
wish to reserve an appointment time. Tickets and more info
for both concerts are available on my Calendar
page.
And yes, tickets for my early December concert and workshop
in Portland Oregon are now on sale. See the Calendar
page.
onto the official article------
The Brighter the
Light, the more Dirt you can see
(a true story)
-Norma Gentile
The other day I was waiting for a client to arrive. As I
stood in the hallway, I noticed the sunlight pouring in a
window it seldom shines through. The sunbeams slide
underneath a couch, glinting off of the beautiful natural
wood floor, and illuminating a pile of cat vomit. Yes, a
fur-ball. And yes, there is a spiritual message here.
I sighed very deeply. I had just cleaned. And I had missed
it. Totally missed it. Until the setting sun was at just the
right angle to reach all the way underneath the couch, I had
no clue it was there. It was nice and dry. It probably dated
from a few weeks earlier, when I had heard that infamous
sound of a cat releasing a fuzzy fur-ball.
Upon hearing the cat's cough, I had dutifully pulled myself
out of a sound sleep. I walked through every room of the
house. Turning on all of the lights, I searched for the
inevitable warm slippery pile of kitty fur and dinner
remains. For me, the one thing worse than cleaning up a
fur-ball at 3am is finding it with my bare feet during my
morning somnabulance. And yes, I wanted to check on my
kitty, to make sure he was comfortable.
As I gazed at the now setting sun and what it illuminated
underneath the couch the doorbell rang. I didn't have time
to fetch the hairball, as my client had arrived. The sun was
setting, and I knew that within a few minutes the area under
the couch would no longer be visible. I made a mental note
to move the little couch later, and give the floor a good
cleaning.
Why share this story? Besides giving away that I am a cat
person and perhaps not the Martha Stewart of housekeeping, I
mean to point out an opportunity we are given each year with
the arrival of a special Light.
Each year the Sirius stars provide our solar system with a
surge of energy. From about July 23-September 17 there is an
influx of Sacred Masculine energies into our planet from
Sirius. These energies build and peak in the middle and
third week of August, slowly fading away by the end of
September.
While we are bathed in these energies, they provide us with
an abundant amount of Light that reveals what other Light
does not let us see. Just as I could not see the cat's
fur-ball under the couch with regular lighting, there are
personal issues which the Sirius energy illuminates for us
that we normally cannot feel or see.
For this reason, I invite you to consider what you have
noticed is most 'up' for you in August and early September.
What issue or issues do you feel like you are tripping over?
Pay particular attention, my Hathor guide Atamira says, to
'whatever you don't want to deal with, because you already
dealt with it.'
It's like having to do again something that you feel you
just did. I felt a great, deep sigh of resignation about
having to clean under the couch, again, when I thought I was
done cleaning. So too, we often address an issue, go as far
as we can with it, and assume we are done.
It's hard, especially for some of us (like me) to remember
that it isn't a failure on our part when an issue reappears.
It means that we worked the issue or situation as far as we
could with the tools and experience we had at the time. The
re-emergence of an old pattern into our lives means that we
are allowing the Light to shine even more brightly. And we
can now see more than we could before. It also means that
this is an issue or situation our soul is choosing to
change. Our personality may or may not want to change
it.
As you listen to the sound healings, know that whatever you
are noticing and addressing now in your life comes because
you are ready. Not just to change yourself, but also to give
a gift. Every time we change, we offer that change to the
pattern or situation itself.
Every time you or I change, the energy that makes up that
pattern is freed from its form and can itself change. Every
energy is in a cycle of evolution or involution. All That Is
is learning from itself. When we change, we also set free
the energies of that same pattern which were in our bodies
or energy field to continue on their own journey. When we
release these patterns onto their own sacred path, we
experience an uplift ourselves. This is the healing sigh
that often comes just after a sound healing. Just as we
desire to grow, so do all energy patterns desire to move
into their next step of growth.
If you want to read more about this healing process, please
see my article Escorting
Energies Homeward
http://www.healingchants.com/art_int.escortingenergies.html
This is what you will experience during my concerts,
workshops and individual sessions.
Have a listen to this
month's sound healings
http://www.spiritofmaat.com/sep08/sound_healing_sep08.html
1.
A Cricket's Serenade for Your Heart (piano and
voice)
I love sitting down and just playing
piano, letting whatever wants to come out express through my
hands and voice. I am not as trained at playing piano as at
singing. Sometimes this means that when the guides suggest
certain harmonies, my mind lacks the speed to remember that
'oh no, you can't play that note with this other note'. As I
result I wade right into odd harmonic patterns and
eventually find my way back out into a comfortable musical
clarity.
As an energy healer, I know that those moments of tension,
created by the journeying into odd harmonies, are what help
to free the mind to think new thoughts, and let the body
bring to the surface those tensions that are not serving its
health. As you listen, be aware that these moments of
discordance are intentional, and are meant to shake a little
something loose in your mind and body. Ideally, you are just
a little bit different after each listening.
I made these two recordings in my
home. As I was recording I found a cricket happily
accompanying me. After several tries, I gave up thinking
that I had to record without him helping. I sang to him as
he sang to me. He seemed to enjoy this song the most, so I
dedicate it to him. Enjoy!
2.
Opening the Door (voice and Tibetan bowl)
My Hathor guide, Atamira, moves through my voice most easily in very simple formats. Slow notes, accompanied by a single Tibetan Singing Bowl, let us both concentrate on conveying patterns of intentional energies in the music. Close your eyes, and feel how the sound baths you. Remember, each time your body sighs, a small bit of healing has been received.
-Norma Gentile
(with a little help from Atamira, my Hathor guide)
www.HealingChants.com
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ N O R M A'
S E V E N T S ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Private
Healing Sessions
available in SE
Michigan or by phone to other locations now until Sept
23
(Sun Sept 14 reserved for out of towners)
Ann
Arbor, MI
Saturday, Sept 13 from
7:30-9:30pm
Full
Moon Gathering: A Chant and Meditation
Evening
Ottawa,
Canada
Friday, Sept
26 Candlelight
Meditation Concert (Eganville)
Tickets online now
Saturday, Sept
27 Private
Home Healing Concert (Ottawa)
Tickets
online now
Sun-Mon, Sept 28-29
Private
Healing Sessions
Toronto
Wed-Thurs Oct
1-2
Private
Healing Sessions
Phone
Meditation
Tuesday,
October 14 at 8pm-9pm Eastern (New York City time)
Full
Moon Free Telephone Meditation
Information and
meditations from Norma and her guides, Archangel Michael,
Mary, and the Hathor Atamira.
Portland,
Oregon ------- December 5-8
Friday, December 5 at
8pm
SONGS
of SPIRIT: a Candlelight Concert of live sound
healings
at The Old
Church. Tickets online now $20 at door.
Saturday, Dec 6 from
10am-1pm
Embodying
Healing Sounds Workshop
held at
Healing Waters & Sacred Spaces
Tickets $35 now, $45 later
Sun-Mon, Dec 7-8
Private
Healing Sessions
Coming Soon
Retreat Weekend
near Madison/Chicago
Norma's other
offerings
AUDIO CLASSES
Healthy
Wealth
(meditations
and information, available as a CD or mp3
download)
http://www.healingchants.com/podcasts.html
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healings and articles on-line. These are separate from the
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PO Box 971020, Ypsilanti, MI 48198 USA
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