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I can tell it was a beautiful day. ?Are those brass or gold plated abalone shells or metallic? What a cool experience. Julie looks great. Thanks for the pics.

I'm not sure what the shells were painted gold with. They were small shells, like clam.

i chose to be elsewhere that evening, but i'm glad to see a little of it here. thanks, Raymond. i'm eager to be there next time it happens...next full moon?

haku Raymond, ancient future indeed!

ancestral bones, all tribes assembling, blessed now returning ...

greening valley, from waters of the Moon, rebirthing ..

first free people, company-store replacing, new children rejoicing!

Temperature warms, ground begins to thaw, earthworm casts appear, heralding return of robins. Northern tribes knew this Moon as Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter.

glad you like the shells (clam shells that were gold plated)it was a saki set I bought at the antique store that was on the corner of ojai ave. and canada.no longer there.when we shared the saki at ceremony it was blessed through the prayers of Hiroji and myself that this was another way the people present could share and absorb the blessings.Being called to the sacred places of my ancestors has been truly a beautiful experience and a gift. The prayers we do is for that particular land ,the Earth and Sky. In this place we prayed and made offerings to the sacred waters of the springs. we called upon the deities of those springs which are connected with the springs of the head waters from the Matilija Canyon to heal and renew the land and the land that they touch as they go out into the ocean .the people present absorb those prayers and are in turn healed and renewed.

Dear Julie, I am so glad you and your family are here in Ojai!

In Native-Amer-Medicine, StompingElk wrote:

The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering May 13, 1:00PM

The women of Ohio, U.S.A., call upon the women of
the world, from day-old babies to our most senior
elders, to stand with us on May 13, 2007, to save
the world. Our project is based on Sharon Mehdi's
book The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering. If you
don't know the story, a summary of the original
version is on the website

http://www.standingwomen.org

If you think it is appropriate, please send this message
on to all of the women throughout the world who you
think might like to join us.

We will be standing for the world's children and
grandchildren, and for the seven generations beyond
them. We are praying for a world where all of our
children have safe drinking water, clean air to
breathe, and healthy land and forests. A world where
they are taught to live in respect with all peoples
and cultures, with all our sacred relations, bird,
fish, mammal, insect, tree and flower. A world where
women, children and men live in equality, love, and
cooperation -- free from violence and servitude --
from the knives & drugs of the medical corporate state,
and the fists of the global gangster guild.

This is the world of which we dream. This is the
cause for which we will stand.

If you share this dream, please stand with us for
five minutes of silence at 1 p.m. your local time
on May 13, 2007, in your local town plaza, park, school
or church yard, gathering place, or any place you
deem appropriate, to signify your commitment to life
in planetwide harmony and love of nature.

We ask you to invite any men and boys, who do care,
to join you. We ask that you bring bells to ring
at 1 p.m. to signify the beginning of the five
minutes of silence and to ring again to signify
the end of the period of silence. During the
silence, please think about what you individually
and we collectively can do to attain this peace.
If you need to sit rather than stand, please feel
free to do so. Afterwards, hopefully you and your
loved ones can talk together about how we can bring
about this world.

See http://www.standingwomen.org for more details
and to register your commitment to stand with us.
The website is in 15 languages and links to a YouTube video.
We hope to see a 24 hour wave of women and men all over
the globe standing to save the world.

..

I saw Julie's picture in the Star today giving a blessing to a Mural at Saticoy School. Very cool.

Thanks to all for this inspiring thread. I clicked on the link to the standing women, and became the 14,776th "woman" to join. I marked the date and time on my calendar and plan to be at the Ojai fountain at that time to stand for five minutes. The fountain is one of my favorite spots in Ojai, in conjunction with the post office tower, feminine and male energy places and all that. Women of Ohio and Women of Ojai are poetic conjunctions to save the world through love. The term Women of the World was used, too, I believe which is a great acronym: WOW, Women Of World, or World Of Women. In my own conscious development, I have been more and more drawn to womem [spelling intentional] as thealogy [sic], philosophy, therapeutic and savioress Godus gifts. I wrote a book with Womam as a symbolic centerpiece, combining 78 tarot cards with 52 consciousness cards, written with a womam's multiphasic, multidimensional reason and rhyme "logic," called The Lover Government, with a radical feminist bent; insofar as the Lover, as central figure, personifies Love, a womam's virtue par excellence to save womem and children from public enemy number one, patriarchy. After 6000 years of patriarchic brainwashing and terror, it has been so internalized by womem and men both that separating the wheat from the chaff and finding the womam's needle in the haystack of macho lies is a Herculean task, which means: "possess it if you can; seldom found in womem and never in a man." Fortunately, for souls like mine in a male body, I have an animal anima [Jung], a beauty to tame my wimp/wasp beast. These Ohioan/Ojaian women are awesome; if they only knew the power they possess. I have been drawn to Ojai, Godus knows why, by that womam power. One of the first things I learned about Ojai is that she is a brown skinned womam. Ojai means "moon" in Chumash; is a valley, has an "O" high consciousness; is Nature's beauty; artistic; spiritual; small and natural, etc. All this is threatened by patriarchic values: money, overdevelopment (a compensatory mechanism for underdevelopment), money, power, sex-over, wimp-wasp complex, necktied-talkinghead personality disorder, and other male anomalies. Nothing is absolutely equal in nature and neither is the womam-male relationship. Womam is naturally superior to man, and until that fact of nature is acknowledged, we will have these endless wars of the sexes, and devastation of the earth and her children. Men are designed to serve womem and children; that's why physically their bodies are bigger and their brains less multi-phasic. Men are externalized womem. Men come from womem. The patriarchic bible stories turned the truth around 180 degrees and we're all brainwashed with that big lie and godfather in the sky. The good news is that truth will out; the longer it is suppressed, the more power it gathers. And nature "hath no fury like a womam whose love has been spurned." Enjoy the calm before the perfect storm. She's a comin' round the mountain to the valley of Ojai below.

the 13th is Mother's Day may I suggest that we meet at the Cluff vista Park instead.What time would that work out to?Our valley is named after a village from the upper valley.it's meaning is "Moon" Moon is a woman, She controls the ocean tides, a womans cycle,keeps score of the gambling game in the upper world anf she controls Oak trees.So how approiate.I will sing a Sister Song and tell the story of how it became to be.

I think they are asking everyone for 1pm, whatever their time zone. is that a good time for people?

love, love, love ... here we come!

Where is Cluff Vista park?

cluff vista park is the new park at the top of the Ave,west end by carrows, it faces east and has water there as well,you can see almost all around you .it a beautiful spot.I did full moon ceremony there one time.

seems to me that gathering for an hour would be nice -- some silence,
some prayers to the differing spirits and traditions, and perhaps talk
of a collaborative vision of creating a peacefilled, nurturing, green
family valley to show our love for ourselves and the world, and all
our sacred relations. a first charter of ethics, of the all, Ojai Valley,
rather than our inherited charter of politics/power/divide-n-conquer ...

empowering the 'greatest' spirit ...

So is there an agreement that the time would be 1pm on Sunday Mat 13?

If so, I will be be there in Spirit and in Los Angeles in the flesh with my wonderful octagenarian parents.