Class is held at Bastyr University each Friday from 7pm to 9pm.  February 5th class is being held in room 286.

Cost: $45/evening, sliding scale for Bastyr students/alumns of $35-25.

Link to Bastyr: MAP

Begins on Friday January 29th from 7pm to 9pm

and continues

All day Saturday January 30th and January 31st from 10am to 5pm.

To register, please contact Jeremy at the SOI office.

Hello Every Beautiful One,

This beautiful season calls us to introspection. We go into the deep places where we can experience comfort and care. Inside. Louise Hay has an affirmation that it is safe to look inside. How many of us really understand how true this is? We are truly being called at this time to discover and recover what is valuable to us. What are the great treasures we have given to others through who we are and how we live? What gifts have we given future generations through our mindfulness and creativity? Our creativity is one of our greatest blessings. How can we create a gift, a prayer, a poem for someone who was a treasure to us or brought magic or grace, peace or wisdom into our lives? We are the gifts. How do we treasure our gifts and value the gifts of others? Each day is a gift. Count every meal as a blessing and send loving thoughts to those who prepared it.

Write a letter or poem of gratitude to the earth, to a teacher, to an ancestor, and send it air mail wherever they may be. Come alive, recognize that planting a tree is a powerful remembrance and so is a sculpture, a drawing, a letter, or a dance.

Thank you life. And thank life for you.

Make a blessing, send a voice of gratitude to all that we don’t understand reveling in the Mystery.

With Great Blessings from the Mystery, Char Sundust

In Memoriam

Many blessings and great gratitude to all who supported the transition of a beloved practitioner in our community. Death is a divine appointment with the mystery, we all have this appointment, we don’t know when and we don’t know how, but we do know we want to leave as many blessings as he did in this community and for the sweet earth. This is also a time of death and rebirth. Special deep gratitude to all those who have supported Dariusz Rawa in his journey to the Mystery. This community shines in your strength, kindness and connection to Spirit.

With Deep Love, Char

Our Winter Newsletter for 2010 is now available detailing classes and workshops from January through May. You can download the newsletter PDF here. It includes a registration form within it for your convenience.

Sincerely,

SOI

Spirit of Winter, we ask for your guidance.

May we experience your gifts of dreaming, of gestating, and remembering in the deep places who we are. May we remember our wishes from childhood. May we take action on the beauty that still resides therein, a way that honors the sacred dark that holds the stars, that maintain our wishes until we are willing to bring them down to earth. Help us bring them down to earth.

Thank you Spirits of the North.

Thank you Mystery.

Aho

If you have completed your 2nd Year training, or equivalent through Mentorship, and want to sign up for the 3rd Year Circle, please email Jeremy at sundustoracle[at]comcast.net

To access a PDF copy of this newsletter, click on the link below.

Sundust Oracle Institute’s Summer Newsletter

Blessings of the Summer,

SOI Staff

How can we be the healers we know we can be? Someplace inside us it exists. We want to offer our gifts to the world. We want to bring forward healing options that will serve the heart of our community; while our lives enrich others and we ourselves are able to expand and deepen our own growth, learning, and well-being.

We can explore. We can experiment, and we can (horror of horrors) learn. I love what Patrick O’Neil says, “you can’t do it right.” I love this phrase because it is a reminder that we are all discovering how each moment renews us with a gift, a new learning, or an opportunity to open our hearts in concern for another’s welfare; to open with honor and respect to receive another moment, another surprise. Learning more every moment is the secret to aliveness. Bring compassionate sharing and a wonder for life through your heart. The heart knows. Follow your heart. Trust your gut, trust what you are feeling. Always trust your contact with Spirit, with the Mystery, that brings unsought answers to your door; visions of your future self, of your becoming. We become one step at a time and we continue to become all of our lives towards our deeper, truer, greater selves. This is your life, today, right now, the way it is. If this is not the way you want it then do the work to create a tomorrow that is the way you want it.

Healing is a manifestation of our own goodness towards ourselves, and our own willingness to make medicine of our gifts; and to not allow anything or anyone in our lives that would diminish, or dismiss, or minimize our gifts. Allow only people, places, and things that uplift your talents and refine your soul with truth. Allow only that which can open your heart and your ears and lead to revitalizing your happiness.

“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found a way to serve.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

How do we serve the truth in others about how they want to feel every day for the rest of their lives, and assist them in finding what gives them that feeling? Is it sustainable? Does it bring a blessing to their family, friends, and love ones? If it does then they can do it. And nothing, I promise you, nothing sustains like joy. No person, place, or thing, no external can give you what you are looking for. It is what flows through us that brings us joy. It is our emptiness and our fullness. Our empty hands that have so much to offer bring us the greatest gift. Our greatest offering is in trusting the Mystery and trusting the healing power of love.

Don’t check out, check in. Ask yourself a question and then listen for the answer from the regions of your heart. This is 99.9% accurate for impeccable long term positive direction choice-making.

Listening is the 1st law of love. Not just hearing, not doing something else, but fully tending to the voice of another person. We all know what great courage it takes to use our voice to express ourselves authentically. Listen with your heart. What if you were really listening? Then perhaps the next time you spoke you would also be heard. Don’t be distracted by things you could care less about. Put your focus on what you care more about. Make space for simple pleasures, for fertility, for the soul. Sharon Reed says, “sit still and notice what is moving outside.” I have discovered the pleasure of two Bohemian Waxwings most recently from this exercise. Be there for yourself and you will have a supply, a well, of pleasures to delight. You will fill your own place – the place you give from. From this place you can motivate others toward their own healing.

Discovering what is healing for you, what inspires you, this is life. Simple, sweet, one step at a time, this is your heart. Be the source of its supply and the source of its wondering. You can choose to be a mere puppet of other people’s wants and needs. Or, you can show up, owning yourself, owning your heart with a courageous destiny before you. But choose you must. A vital inspired path is the choice that takes the most consciousness and offers the greatest rewards.

Blessings of the Summer ~

In Beauty and with Great Love,

Char Sundust