Moonlit Meditations

Meditation can be one of the most potent methods of service to one's self, community, the earth, and humanity.  Intensified emotions and actions have long been associated with full moons.  We've noticed that our meditations during full moons often appear to have an amplified impact, as well. The magnifying effects of full moons have been written of throughout history, marking auspicious occasions; in folklore, mythology, spiritual celebrations, and harvests. 

Full Buck Moon

July is the month of the Full Buck Moon,  as bucks begin to grow new antlers around this time of year.  The most recent full moon is also known as the Thunder Moon because thunderstorms are so frequent during the month of July.  It's also called the hay moon because it signals to farmers it is time to harvest the hay before the rains come.  

Full moons have been associated with insomnia throughout time.  Research shows that the pineal gland does more than regulate sleep cycles.  Many believe that the iridescence of the moon is a powerful light source that not only suspends sleep, but can stimulate inspiration and divine connection.  Artists, shamans, healers, and seeker all look to the moon for light, externally and internally.  

What is a Full Moon?
"A full moon is a lunar phase that occurs when the moon is completely illuminated, when viewed from Earth.  This is when the Moon is opposite the Earth from the Sun. This means that the (ecliptic) longitudes of the Sun and Moon differ by 180 degrees; the Moon is in opposition with the Sun.  Lunar months, synodic months, average about 29.5 days."  

Samantha is of Native American descent and has always felt a special connection with the moon.  We find that, not only, our planting cycles follow the moon, but our ritual cycles.  When the moon is high and bright in the sky, you can find our entire family enjoying this special luminous, illuminating time.  We enjoy smudging each other, incense rituals, planting, watering, and grooming our green friends,  spending time meditating in the moonlight, and watching Tesla twirl in the moonlight.  Oh, but to see through a two year old's eyes on a full moon!  Watching her be allowed and encouraged to appreciate the fullness of the moon, her decreased desire to sleep, and her increased desire to create excites me to no end.  

We've attempted to allow her to follow her body's natural circadian rhythms since birth, including full moon inspirational   

“but the fully-lighted orb of the moon indicates a free and unimpeded alignment between our planet and the sun, the solar center, the energy source for all life on Earth. At such times we can make a definite approach to God, the Creator, the center of life and intelligence.” ~Alice A. Bailey

Five Day Moon Cycles
As you might have recognized, the impacts of the full moon are usually considered to strongly impact five days.  The two days preceding, the day of the full moon, and the two days following each full moon.  

One line of thought is that the two days prior to the full moon, one should look to release the ego and remove thoughts of one's own issues/problems, whether they impact the mind, body or spirit.  

The day of the full moon is a day for connecting the external to the internal and the internal to the external.  Turning within can have a very powerful outward result.  
The two days following the full moon are days of action and activity.  These are days upon which creative ideas abound in the face of virtually all challenges. 

This was what the Lucia N3 experience looked like last year in the Paleo f(x)™ VIP lounge; such an adventure in extended community and a powerful experience for each of us.  
​Thousands packed into the Palmer Event Center to connect, share understandings, and network.  As we partner with flickerlux again this year, expect our offerings to be more expansive.  See our previous post.  

Once again it's the time of year when Paleo people from all over the planet congregate in Austin, TX.  
 Paleo f(x)™ brings people from all over to Austin TX for a premier holistic wellness event covering health, nutrition, fitness, sustainability, self-development, spirituality, relationships, entrepreneurship, and a good deal in between. It happens in the Palmer Events Center from April 27th through April 29th of 2018, with thousands of attendees from around the world.

You'll find us sharing our gifts and technologies in the VIP Room, look for our table!

See you there!!!
#pfx2018

What an amazing month!?!  We have spent the month socializing, sharing the Lucia No.3, creating art, and we believe we may have found a new, larger, more accessible location for the Lucid Light Meditation Center and Art Studio.  This lovely South Austin location will include a room for Lucid Light sessions and a meditation/yoga/art gallery room.  If all progresses as expected, we hope this will become a space for local visionary artists to gather and create.

Although many artists spent the month of December focused on selling art, ours was occupied with the manifestation of creative expression.  This was expressed in numerous forms: cooking, writing, singing, poetry, painting, and digital art.  The images below are a sampling of some of our favorite digital creations this month.  
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Something else wonderful happened this month.  We discovered more than one art printer who believes they can reproduce our images in a much larger format.  If all goes well, we will move to the larger center and have some art produced in an appropriate size for the new studio/gallery!

Big change is in the air, use it to your (our) advantage. December has reinforced how desires for positive change can become manifest and how that power to create change is amplified with each new participant. "Be the change you wish to see" has seldom appeared so accessible to our culture. 

​What change do you wish to see this year and how can we participate in your vision?

When I first encountered the Lucid Light, I tried and tried to explain some of what I saw under the light, but felt as if my words were not doing the experience justice.  I began doodling similar to the Zentangles mentioned in a previous blog post.

In my first sessions with the Lucia No.3, the first patterns I noticed emerging were starbursts and rays of cuboidal images of blues, oranges, and reds, so that's where I started.   Beginning by creating simple starburst patterns, rotating the starbursts and filling each in with more rays.  I then tried platonic solids on rays,  and repeated and extended the patterns that resulted.  That led me to using sacred geometric designs and repeating their patterns in different arrangements, sizes, and opacities.  I began trying to replicate what I was doing by using specialized software I found that would allow me to enter the number of points, recursion depth, ratios, angles, radius, opacity, color, repetition data, etc.  What you see below are my favorites selected from hours and days of attempts. 

I've always created art for myself.  I say I would like to sell my art, but seldom do and have found myself discouraging and blocking people from purchasing it. These were up in my office for a short while before a client decided they would look better in her yoga room.  She continued to say she wanted them and I finally conceded.  I think I'll print another set as they became welcome focal points for me when doing afternoon meditations and during hands-on healing work.  I'm thrilled that people are enjoying the art I love to create.  

Our meditation during this season in which we celebrate family and thankfulness is one of peace, health, comfort, forgiveness, thankfulness, and fortitude.  We are thankful they are, not only present, but abundant in our lives.  Our meditations of positive manifestation are not focused on ourselves, but on the water protectors of Standing Rock.  

​May you feel the love of all humanity as you peacefully face those who vilify and attack you.  May your integrity, passion, respect, courage, and honor change the collective heart of all mankind.  

We are I. 

In today's world, sometimes a few moments of deep breathing can really change the direction of a day.  

We love participating in people's efforts to connect in deep and meaningful ways with themselves, their surroundings, and their communities.  Each day brings new mirrors into our lives and we are filled with wonder at how our universe works.  

​This blog chronicles our use of the Lucia No.3 as one of the ways we help heal ourselves and encourage those who come to us to do the same.  We are not making any claims that his light heals people.  What we are saying is that the moments that one spends in contemplation can be powerful in how that person views and operates within their universe(s).  We find that the "effortless meditation" the hypnagogic light provides is a mechanism by which we are able to slow down, turn inward, and recognize the subtleties within the self that whisper at a level we seldom focus to hear.  

No matter what you do to hear them, may you hear the whispers of the self that bring you to a more comfortable space of being. 

We had a great time as we spent Friday and Saturday at the ACL Music Festival on Barton Springs Rd. in Austin, TX handing out promotional materials and talking with Festival goers from all over.  As is often the case, very few could wrap their head around what the Lucid Light has to offer.  It can be a challenge to explain what it does and how it might impact an individual and their community when we have an hour to speak with someone, let alone trying to get their attention with a 3-5 second pitch.  

As we would say something like, "We have a light that can open the 3rd eye", most passersby looked at us as if we were out of our minds.  Not so many that we didn't hand out over 1000 "Effortless Meditation" wristbands, but enough to make me stop to question how we might make this more accessible to the average human being..  

As ACL was wrapping up, we set up at Wiley Sea's after party on Saturday night.  It was a lovely gathering of conscious people and music lovers who all seemed to get along flawlessly.  

Sunday was spent dancing with flow toys and connecting with our community as we listened to great live music pour from one of our favorite local bars: the SuareRut Kava Bar on Barton Springs Road.  

We'll be at ACL again next week for more great music and people to meet.  Look for your favorite pineal people as we set up on Barton Springs Rd., in Zilker Park, and at Wiley Sea's after party!  We'd love to have a chat, share some cold water, and maybe a hug or two!

On Sept 22nd; we, and light attendants around the world, will be sharing a special program created by the brilliant people in Austria behind this technology and collecting your responses and insights.  

​Our desire is to introduce our entire community to meditation in an effortless, entertaining, and visually spectacular manner that will help each quickly see the value in, and have a desire to add comfort, ease, and clarity to their lives through meditation.  We believe it is easier to find your way somewhere if you have been there before and this light brings your brainwave states to levels unachievable to most without years of meditation.  The Lucid Light provides a hypnagogic light experience while stimulating the pineal gland (opening the 3rd eye), thereby stimulating/releasing neurotransmitters and hormones associated with the deepest levels of meditation.    Take advantage of this opportunity to experience effortless meditation and a peek into the vast beauty within.  

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