9October2009
Posted by sundust oracle under: Current News.
Thank you for your interest in the Soul Purpose Workshop that was scheduled for October 9, 10, 11. We are rescheduling this workshop for a time later in the year. Most likely to be in the Spring or Summer. We look forward to offering you this beautiful medicine at that time.
9September2009
Posted by sundust oracle under: Current News.
Please note the location change for this workshop. Location is now: 544 NE 104th Street, Seattle 98125.
12August2009
Posted by sundust oracle under: Current News.
SOI’s Summer Newsletter is now available, including the Calendar of Events for August 2009 through December of 2009.
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
5August2009
Posted by sundust oracle under: Current News.
Hello Every Beautiful One,
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
11March2009
Posted by sundust oracle under: Current News; Meditation & Prayers.
Hello Every Beautiful One,
Tend to your gifts and they will tend to you. Steward them and they will steward you. Show hospitality and gratitude for the mystery that supports you and it will show gratitude and hospitality and support to you. There is a Tibetan saying that what you give away chases you, wants you, finds you. It’s wonderful who you are. Love it life it be it. I have been waiting for this day when get rich quick schemes are replaced with get happy and fulfilled schemes or authentic dream schemes. In the dream lie the joy, the abundance and nourishment of the soul. If you dream, if you nourish, if you dance or bake, paint or take care of children, if you nurture elders write stories, pray, walk in nature, love birds, if you garden or hunt, if you wild craft, counsel or cook. If you live these gifts fully you will be tended to. We are all builder, we are all tenders, and if we flower in consistency loving what we love, nourishing our dream, facing all things with pause, then reflection, then action, one step at a time. Then we will always have enough.
The Hopi prophecy says grow your own food or at least one food item. Lao Tzu says rejoice in what you have, be content in the way things are. When you realize nothing is lacking the whole world belongs to you. If we have not been doing what we love, then it is time to start over, to clean house so what has meaning will emerge. What we value is the only thing others can value. What we love others will care about also, the others that really matter. To quote Dr. Seuss, say what you feel and be who you are, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Becoming ourselves is a great mystery or as Yates says a terrible beauty. We have to learn something new. How to value who we are and what we have to offer as much as others do. Teacher’s, healer’s visionaries, counselors, bakers, doctors, what is essential has come to the surface and the important question of who are we when there is no almighty buck to follow. Maybe we could return to our hearts. Live simply, simply extend our unique and beautiful medicine, our talents and interests to create a new currency based on fulfillment, tending to community with our talents and bringing and making beauty and soul as a part of everyday life.
We have a choice at this time, to enter a new current, a new way of seeing currency. Remembering our joy and implementing a step by step plan to do what we value each day, to do the hard work of helping others or to play into the lie that we are victims. We are not unless we allow our imagination to be taken by the externals instead of by the drive of our dream and goals. There is an infinite supply of miracles and really it takes very little effort to be one.
What makes you happy? If you don’t remember go on a walking meditation for 15 minutes. Hold in your heart that question and ask to be shown by the great mystery what you enjoy. Nature will show you as you notice, notice the pulse of your heart, notice what you see and hear, and bird’s o wildlife spirit speaks through nature.
Spend time with friends who regenerate you. Talk to one another about how, as Angeles Arrien says, to turn things in a more positive and beneficial direction.
Remember what you enjoy doing in quiet times when you were a child. There is a calling there is a gift there.
Pray, meditate, spend time, reflect, call on assistance to strengthen you, remember the ones who came before. They made it through to bring you into the world, rely on them. What are their gifts that are beautiful…Strength? Courage? What’s good, what’s love, what works? Stay with that and thrive.
We all have a gift that will serve our community, technological, creative, or healing. To teach, nurture, serve, or protect. They are all essential gifts. And no community can go forward unless we all develop and offer our inspired gifts. May we support one another in being real because if there is enough and you are enough, then what are you going to do? It is sure to be the right direction. As the Buddhist quote says ‘if you are headed in the right direction all you need to do is keep on walking.’ There are things that people will always need. People will always need to be fed. Grow food, prepare food, learn about foods that nourish. Learn about foods that heal. People will always need healing and comfort. Develop your innate healing gifts within yourself. That is about listening, counseling, prayers, needles, herbals, surgeries, medical intuitive work, and ceremony. Develop these healing gifts, they will always be needed. Tend to your soul, people will always search for meaning. Deepen your capacity to reflect and access your own wisdom. Wisdom will always be needed. People will always need shelter, protection, nature, and spirit. Human beings will always need beauty, paintings, gardens, wild or otherwise, ways to create and to bring spirit into form. Angeles Arrien says that beauty is a portal to the mystery. What else is needed in the world? What else does the earth need? Human beings will always need this connection. Preserve and protect these resources, this beauty, this aliveness.
In Beauty, With Gratitude, Char Sundust
2January2009
Posted by sundust oracle under: Current News; Meditation & Prayers.
Hello Every Beautiful One,
As we step deeper into winter we have the opportunity to honor the fourth wind from the North. The North brings wisdom from the well, the dark night of stars, and the cool that bundles us up within ourselves. Even when we are in the world there is translucence when we look at ourselves during this time. Some questions to ask ourselves at this time, in order to both deepen our relationship to ourselves and to winter, are:
What do I like about myself? What are my creative talents wanting to bring into being at this time? What is personal for me? Do I professionalize my relationships or do I receive from those I love in intimate ways?
It is easier for some of us to give than to receive. Receiving requires an openness of spirit. Truly receiving requires self love and a generous dose of intimacy and divine love. Curiosity and openness require that we are not opening from a place of dutifulness or control, but from a place of delight and creativity.
How am I receiving love, compliments, and gifts from others? What am I creating at this time? What motivates my giving? Do I give to myself time, energy, gifts, compliments, acknowledgement?
If I were to give from my heart what would it be? A scarf I knitted. A vase I saw in my best friend’s favorite color. A journal with a poem for the writer in my life. A tea cup for a friend who has committed to spending quality time with herself. Or art supplies with paper for family member who has expressed an interest in drawing again.
All of these gifts are from the heart and show that we have been listening to the soul of our friends and loved ones.
A gift from the heart is personal. It is accompanied often times by a note or sometimes with positive acknowledgement of gifts received from that person. In indigenous cultures give-away is a tradition to honor an event, an initiation, a teacher, a parent or a sibling. The spirit will guide this gift so that it will be something that will be a gift that opens the heart and inspires the spirit. Often times we will give the thing most valuable to us, which means that it carries a story and the soul of that story will be felt by the person receiving it. Especially when we go for a healing we always bring a gift that is equal to the healing we would like to receive.
Generosity is a healing salve when it comes from a creative place. When you have given creative thought and energy to a gift the people in your life will recognize that your gift is of the soul.
Gifts are an offering to Eros. May you give what you love and love through your receptive nature. May you do the work of remembering what brings you joy and giving yourself time to do just that. So spring might come a little bit sooner to everyone you adore. Explore your creativity as a blessing and a form of nourishment to enrich your own soul and bless the lives of others. What you make is beautiful. May you explore and share your gifts.
With great gratitude and respect,
Char Sundust
4August2008
Posted by sundust oracle under: Current News; Meditation & Prayers.
It is with deep gratitude that I enter this season of harvest – the season of receiving for human nature and gifting of Mother Nature. It is the time of giving and receiving. Angeles Arrien says “we are here for two reasons, to learn how to give and receive love and to create.”
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
4August2008
Posted by sundust oracle under: Current News; First Year Class.
Spiritual I.D. – Intuitive Development through Shamanism
The guidance of the heart always brings us to Spirit work with Spirit understanding the innate intuitive and visionary ability across cultures, peoples and continents. In this 9 month intensive class you will learn:
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.
4August2008
Posted by sundust oracle under: Current News; Second Year Circle.
Making spiritual healings physical through training in extractions house clearing, physical health intrusion, and healing spirits that are lost or stuck in the middle world reality.
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.
4August2008
Posted by sundust oracle under: Current News; Third Year Clinic.
Medicine training assisting the living and those who have crossed in healing resolution and forgiveness work.
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.
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
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