Entering Harvest time ask yourself, how do you receive? Are you aware of the plenty in your life? Where do you feel like there’s more than enough? Where do you feel a lack of abundance? What are you living for? If you had all the time in the world what would you give to yourself? What would you create from all of the blessing that live inside your body? I would ask during this season that you slow down enough to receive our blessings and our loved ones.

Linger with a fresh piece of fruit.

Savor the embrace of a good friend.

Walk with your bare feet on the soft earth of your ancestors.

Breath the fragrance and fullness of all you’ve been given and stand fully receptive in the good you’ve been given. When you are filled with the blessings give them away without any hope of return. The resources are rich. There is an infinite supply and in the allness of this grace and sanctuary, there is no need for yearning.

May you receive your blessings tenfold. May your heart expand to include everything in the Great Mystery.

With love and respect,
Char Sundust

• How to access your intuition.
• How to set clear boundaries in everyday reality.
• How to access a creative sacred life as a practitioner, leader, doctor, therapist, gardener, mother, father or a minister.
• How to access helpful Intuitive skills and personal development skills.
• Symbolic language.
• Visionary work for self and others.
• Shamanic journey work to direct and help others, self and community clarify purpose and extend healing and inspiration.
• Developing medical intuitive skills and recognition of Clairvoyant, Clairsentient and Clairaudient skills.

This 9 month class begins September 25th at 7pm and meets every subsequent Thursday from 7 – 9pm at Bastyr University - Room 186.  In addition there will be two retreats, (a Dreaming retreat in November and a Year End Initiation retreat in June) and one full day Saturday Intensive. Exact dates for the retreat and intensive will be announced shortly.

The class is $25 - $35 for Bastyr students and $45 for all others.  For additional information or to register email or call the office at 206.440.8886.

Power animal retrieval and safety proficiency in the three different realities. How to make a spiritual difference that creates a physical positive change. Integrity and proper use of power in shamanic and spiritual practice. Completion of the First Year Circle, Intuitive Development through Shamanism, is required to participate in this program.

Classes will be held on the fourth Saturday of each month from 10am – 5pm at the Sundust Oracle Institute (exact location TBD). Please note – September’s class will be held on the third Saturday, and the date in May has not yet been finalized. Class will run from September – May.

Here are the exact Saturday dates:
September 20th, 10 – 5pm
October 25th, 10 – 5pm
November 22nd, 10 – 5pm
December 27th, 10 – 5pm
January 24th, 10 – 5pm
February 28th, 10 - 5pm
March 28th, 10 – 5pm
April 25th, 10 – 5pm
May date to be determined

Classes are $165 per class and that is payable before the start of each class. A formal registration will take place at the first class in September. If you are planning to attend please email us or call 206.440.8886 to be placed on our list.

Classes will be 3 day Intensives – Bringing practitioners into Shamanic practice, offering soul retrieval and clearing work to community with experienced practitioners present to hold space, share experiences, and guide new practitioners to effective means of sensing and learning to assist the spirits and dreams of their local and global communities.

• Classes will teach and provide the following:
• Medicine training
• Shamanic Techniques for healing mental and physical illness or Dis-ease
• How to work with disabling addictions
• Counseling techniques in after care
• Care of the healer/practitioner
• Belonging to a healing community
• Integrity in beginning a practice
• Sacred Intention work for self, other and local & global community
• Blessing ways and healing ways
• Wilderness Quest experience offered to explore the territory between self and the Great Mystery. Visioning time to clarify purpose and life dreams.

Completion of 1st and 2nd year programs are required to enter.

The third year class will be in a three day format, starting Friday afternoons from 5 – 8pm, Saturday from 10 – 7pm and Sunday from 10 – 5:30pm. There will be four of these weekend sessions. The cost will be $325 for all three days. The exact location will be announced sometime in September.

Below are the dates for the 2008/2009 class:
October 3rd, 4th & 5th
December 5th, 6th & 7th
January 9th, 10th& 11th
March 6th, 7th, & 8th

Again the schedule for each weekend intensive is as follows:
Friday evening from 5pm – 8pm
Saturday 10am – 7pm
Sunday 10am – 5:30pm

For: New Counselors, Therapists, Soul Retrieval Practitioners, Massage Therapists, M.D.s, N.D.s, Acupuncturists; continuing educational support for those assisting others in their spiritual growth. An ass-kicking class in practitioner’s spiritual, emotional and physical self care. This class will help those who are new to the field get their practice off the ground.

Date: June 28th *(Please call 206-440-8886 to register)
Time: 10am to 5pm
Location: 544 NE 104th Street, Seattle, WA. 98125
Cost: $165
Bring: A sack lunch, journal, pen and an open heart

Sunday June 8th, 5 – 10pm
At the Daybreak Star Cultural Center,
located within 20 acres of Discovery Park on Magnolia Hill.
The address to Discovery Park is: 3801 West Government Way. Once inside the park, there are signs pointing towards Daybreak Star. Dress to feel however you most like to feel; whole, perfect and beautiful.

We are grateful and honored to present ~
~ A short film from Longhouse Media and a Q&A with the filmmakers
~ Erin McNamee
~ Laura Grace
~ Melissa Rosenberger
~ Sarah Bicknell
~ Char Sundust, Sonny Mishra and Seanix
~ Hoedown with Stu
~ Silent and Live Auctions
~ Psychic Readings with the graduates of the Institute
~ A feast of foods native to our region

Thank you for your generous love and support;
May you be Blessed in All ways.

$15 at the door.

Are you tending to your garden? What do you want to grow and flourish? Give it attention, give it appreciation, call understanding, time. Spend some time watching nature unfold. Enjoy today; it is whatever you have been given to tend.

What are you creating? Are you moving at a pace that gives you life instead of draining or over-extending your life force? Spend an hour in the garden with the hummingbirds or the blossoms, warming into their fullness. They don’t think about it for very long… all they need is a little warmth, a little light.

Shine your light, extend your warmth. And notice how the glorious people and work in your life respond, opening in fullness, offering life to your energy.

If not it may be a time for pruning, so next years garden can flourish in the branches of mutual acknowledgement and appreciation. The garden always responds when tended.

Listen during the sunrise – listen. There is a story here. Every day a new step, a new grace, a new opportunity to listen fully. Listen every morning – she has a gift for you.

Be creative. Create, write, dance, play, sing, take photos – something that enriches your own heart that will serve the next seven generations. If it serves to make you happy the next seven generations will feel that and it will make the world better.

Commit to media that inspires – poems, songs, film – bring media into your home that fuels and nourishes the soul, the Beauty Way in your nature. If it does not inspire, don’t watch, listen, or allow it in your environment.

Notice richness. What nourishes your life? Give everything to it; allow yourself to revel in gratitude.

What a great blessing. Thank you for your gifts. Thank you for your interest in a life of Sacred Intention.

May this serve the highest good.

In Beauty - With great love -

Char Sundust

TIME: 6:00pm on Friday to 7:00pm on Sunday

LOCATION: The Nine Muses Ranch, 1033 Red Willow Rd., Kendrick, ID 83537

COST: $375 ($175 non-refundable deposit due by March 25th)

BRING: Paper, journal, pens, bedding, a full heart, and any musical instruments
you have, including hand-held drums and rattles. All lodging and meals will be
provided for the weekend.

Soul Writing Spiritual Retreat for aspiring and seasoned writers. Medicine
wheel class for the writer exploring shamanism as a natural way to access the
greater voice that wishes to flow through us. Poets, short story writers,
novelists, and screen writers.

Entering into greater truth through words; evoking changes that heal the
unconscious. As writers, we have the opportunity to heal the soul and heart.
How do we begin? Where is the middle? And how do we close with devotion and
care?

Writing is a service, a healing modality - the differentiation between our own process
and writing, and writing that gifts other and community. If you love to write or if you
long to write, begin. Now is the only time you have.

Space is limited. Pre-registration is required A registration form is attached
for your convenience. Questions? Please contact Charlene at (206) 440-8886 or
sundustoracle[at]comcast.net.

“Yay, darkness! Winter cool, inside outside, leaves, fire. The bones of trees against the stark sky. How incredibly beautiful, what a gift this day. Remember it’s a gift to you. You can unwrap it with gratitude and care, or not.

Bottom line is: it’s your gift, given to you by Great Mystery. How you choose to receive it, what you you choose to do with it, belongs to you.

Step into the beautiful mystery of winter. Let the season’s work their magic on your life. Cultivate wisdom. Create for the heart of it. Find a sanctuary and cultivate kindness. In the dark, it is important that we be brave, kind, and move slowly. Honor the rhythm of winter. Let your bones rest, and gently, with so much compassion, give yourself time to go inside, so when the time comes you’ll have the strength to grow. Thank you for this beautiful day: another chance to begin again; another chance to rejoice in being able to live; another chance to do what we really were called to do yesterday. Find it, love it, and be a little generous yourself. It’s all a generous gift from the Mystery. May you be blessed on a clear path for always.”

In Beauty, With Gratitude,
Char Sundust

God Death and Poetry

If you ask a question
And hold it in your heart
The how
will reveal itself
a white globe of shell

will move from its underwater home
and stretch out
will enter the world
slowly, bringing what is sacred to the surface
persevering gently, preserving the way
the way is to hold sacred
the way is to listen to all things good

from this place comes the essential
the tenderness questions no one dares to ask
from this place comes
wonder
inspiration
and be aware
the strait path takes courage, and the crooked path awaits
so every day
I will pay attention
Every day
I will break open the dark water
Every day
I will honor what is beautiful and real
in each human being
And every moment
I will surrender the easy path,

Because I am
a disciple of the mysteries

May you be blessed in all ways.

In ceremony,
Char Sundust