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injoy<br />
in<br />
always<br />
free<br />
integrate<br />
inspire • initiate • indulge • insight • injest • inspect<br />
COME<br />
said the flower<br />
to the bee<br />
AWAKENING<br />
is stress a signal for<br />
awakening<br />
JULINBAH<br />
YOWARL<br />
RAINBOW COR-<br />
ROBOREE<br />
HEART to HEART<br />
ODE TO CHRIS<br />
WATER<br />
DRAGON<br />
predictions<br />
HEALING<br />
FOODS<br />
issue nineteen • autumn 2012 injoymag.com
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editor’s note<br />
For me, the quality of being <strong>InJoy</strong> comes<br />
from just feeling good about what we<br />
do, what is happening and who we are,<br />
- to one’s self and others. It’s not about<br />
achieving high levels of happiness or<br />
a string of elated experiences—it may<br />
be a sense of deep serenity, breaking<br />
through the last stage of grief when you<br />
finally let go, or when you overcome a<br />
personal limitation that kept you from<br />
being your true self… <strong>InJoy</strong> can express<br />
itself through an unknown feeling that<br />
makes you tingle all over. People feel<br />
that when they sing, dance, love,<br />
meditate and watch children shine<br />
when they smile and laugh… elders<br />
holding hands still remembering the joy<br />
of sharing intimacy. There are so many<br />
ways to be in joy... be in.. be joy.<br />
Speak of beautiful things, focus on best<br />
outcomes, happenings and memories if<br />
you must go back and remember that<br />
everything is perfect as it is—and be<br />
sure of one thing, change will come...<br />
and love.<br />
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mental commotions<br />
and poisonous potions...<br />
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Happiness comes through<br />
doors you didn’t even<br />
know you left open.<br />
who’s <strong>InJoy</strong><br />
Ever notice that the<br />
people who are late are<br />
Bhadrena Rose<br />
often much jollier than<br />
the people<br />
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Aunty Annabel<br />
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Starseed Garden Nursery<br />
Scott Alexander King<br />
Tara Green<br />
Paul Fass<br />
Dev Lengjel<br />
Donna Grey<br />
Murray Dreschler<br />
Kim Falconer<br />
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Kim Falconer astro insights<br />
Osho House - session review<br />
. . . always blessings and gratitude to <strong>InJoy</strong>’s Information Angel in Sydney, Robin Bee<br />
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world to one person.<br />
Don’t cry because it’s<br />
over smile because it<br />
happened<br />
and a happy person is one<br />
who can enjoy the scenery<br />
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Up Close and a little bit personal . . .<br />
Denise Chadwick<br />
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Biba Burgess<br />
• Business, career, passion?<br />
Bringing peace and harmony to<br />
people and places through energy<br />
healing, crystal and sound therapy. My<br />
passion is also writing; inspired by the<br />
elemental realm to encourage a love<br />
of nature.<br />
• 3 words describe yourself...<br />
Like a merfairy<br />
• What do you cherish the most?<br />
In February I got to bottle-feed and<br />
connect with a pretty-faced wallaby<br />
called The Beautiful One. She gently<br />
rested her paw on my lap and gazed<br />
deep into my soul.<br />
• What does joy mean to you?<br />
Chocolate.<br />
• When in need, what is the remedy for<br />
your soul?<br />
Meditating on the beach after a good<br />
cycle ride out with nature. I encounter<br />
some amazing creatures and that<br />
always helps.<br />
• If someone wrote a biography about you,<br />
what do you think the title should be?<br />
From Grey to Colour.<br />
• What did you do on Australia Day 2012?<br />
Sent peace and love to this special<br />
land and its people, especially those<br />
for whom Australian Day was not so<br />
happy as mine.<br />
• Business, career, passion?<br />
Trading hemp. Regenerating<br />
rainforest. Annoying many people.<br />
• 3 words describe yourself...<br />
Stubborn • Persistent • Patient<br />
• What do you cherish the most?<br />
My family. The love and respect my<br />
wife and I share and watching all my<br />
children grow and become.<br />
• What does joy mean to you?<br />
Being in the moment. There is a kind of<br />
lightness of being realising that we are<br />
at the time and place we are meant<br />
to be.<br />
• When in need, what is the remedy for<br />
your soul?<br />
Stopping everything and taking a<br />
big deep breath. A good walk on<br />
Coorabell ridge at sunrise will calm<br />
most states and puts things in a<br />
clearer perspective. Walk just about<br />
anywhere (especially in nature) does<br />
work miracles.<br />
• If someone wrote a biography about you,<br />
what do you think the title should be?<br />
Story of an Aries struggling with his<br />
archetype.<br />
• What did you do on Australia Day 2012?<br />
Try to imagine an Australian flag no<br />
one wants to burn.<br />
• Business, career, passion?<br />
As an artist my passion is to create<br />
beautiful meaningful paintings,<br />
jewellery and photographs drawing<br />
inspiration from ancient cultures and<br />
symbology.<br />
• 3 words describe yourself...<br />
• What do you cherish the most?<br />
Colourful • Passionate • Creative<br />
My beautiful daughter and the ability<br />
to appreciate beauty and share that<br />
with others through my work.<br />
• What does joy mean to you?<br />
Feeling free and light.<br />
• When in need, what is the remedy for<br />
your soul?<br />
The sound of the ocean and the<br />
running streams in tranquil places<br />
where I can be creative.<br />
• If someone wrote a biography about you,<br />
what do you think the title should be?<br />
“Dancing with the lightning”.<br />
• What did you do on Australia Day 2012?<br />
I didn’t know whether to be happy or<br />
not, but I had a good time planting<br />
trees and attending the vege garden.<br />
to see more of these colourful creations . . . Biba Burgess Artist Facebook page<br />
reproductions & limited edition prints are available and during my website development you can contact me . .<br />
. bibaburgessartist@gmail.com<br />
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THE TIME IS NOW<br />
It is a wonderful thing that after a six-month unavoidable and<br />
unexpected break <strong>InJoy</strong> is spreading through our community<br />
again… and beyond.<br />
I love making <strong>InJoy</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> and connecting with you all.<br />
I was looking for an enthusiastic yes when I resumed creating <strong>InJoy</strong><br />
first launched in 2008 and what I received from most existing advertisers<br />
and some new was - “Oh yes please, we have really missed it…”<br />
The true value of <strong>InJoy</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> is recognised through the most<br />
common feedback I hear … “Oh I know that magazine, I love it,<br />
makes me feel good… where can I find a new one.”<br />
<strong>InJoy</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> is all about sharing… people’s stories, pictures,<br />
memories, dreams, passions, interests… it’s a place to feel people’s<br />
voices through the words and pictures they choose to share.<br />
<strong>InJoy</strong> advertisers are as much a part of the story as is the content<br />
and imagery. These advertisers deserve recognition as their trust<br />
and community values are strong and true enough to inspire them<br />
to invest and support our voices through advertising, making <strong>InJoy</strong><br />
possible.<br />
Thank You.<br />
This thirty-two page publication has great quality and integrity and<br />
is always free and available to anyone… everyone.<br />
I encourage you to frequent <strong>InJoy</strong> advertisers... blessings to all.<br />
<strong>InJoy</strong> has been much of a love job for me for the last three years.<br />
The returns have been great, miraculous and soul serving. Now it is<br />
time to open more doors and welcome all you new advertisers who<br />
have had the thought about being <strong>InJoy</strong> before... now is the time.<br />
Call me on 0403 135 372, send a text or leave a message<br />
or email editor@injoymag.com<br />
If support flows in then <strong>InJoy</strong> will return for WINTER 2012...<br />
if not then thank you, this is a divine journey...<br />
with all my heart<br />
Bhadrena Rose<br />
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COME<br />
said the flower to the bee . . .<br />
by bhadrena rose<br />
These days a buzz of a bee<br />
can send a garden into<br />
frenzy as flowers eagerly<br />
wait to be pollinated.<br />
Blind sighted by desire,<br />
flowers farthest from the<br />
buzz lash out with the<br />
sharpest edge of well-razored<br />
leaves and this harshness can<br />
force the more delicate breeds<br />
to shrivel back and wilt…<br />
even before they get to<br />
bloom.<br />
Another flower<br />
joins the challenge,<br />
barging at the bee<br />
with more scent than a<br />
humble bee can handle.<br />
Mesmerised and confused<br />
the bee bounces off many<br />
flowers, distracted from<br />
integrity, lost in competing<br />
signals… pollinating here<br />
and there.<br />
Other flowers can be<br />
contaminated by the chaos as<br />
petals are pulled and stems<br />
twist stories into plots of<br />
poison.<br />
Too many antics over<br />
centuries of seasons can<br />
push a species beyond<br />
decency, until on mass the<br />
flowers seem to be ripping<br />
up their roots that once held<br />
them in place—now rushing<br />
at bees until they are trapped<br />
or flee…<br />
This analogy is for contemporary women, and girls blossoming into womanhood—<br />
and for men who want to remember heaven’s scent.<br />
Once there was a natural time when flowers happily gathered in the garden together.<br />
Seduced into gentle movement by the wind’s breathe they reach up to flourish under<br />
the sun’s golden glow, emanating a spectrum of colour across the landscape.<br />
Together they existed to create an enchanting space… as can a<br />
single flower standing alone. A kaleidoscope of colour, texture, size<br />
and shapes. Young buds dangling from the stems of open flowers in<br />
their glory aspire to share their beauty . . . soon.<br />
Time is cyclic, bees will come and go. Flowers are always<br />
attractive when in bloom and a bee’s instinct will lead<br />
him to the flowers he wants to pollinate. Different flowers<br />
draw certain bees close, this is the nature of things… a truly<br />
mysterious force.<br />
No one knows why less bees follow the natural way these days.<br />
No one really knows who were the first flowers to pull up their roots and<br />
rush from the garden… setting an unfortunate precedent in their<br />
flurry.<br />
The garden has had many seasons of unrest since that first<br />
shift. Historical records and reason have justified the many<br />
changes… and still the bee does come, propelled with<br />
nature’s destiny in his jeans… whoops, genes.<br />
But these days he must maneouver a range of unfavourable<br />
tactics and unfortunate temptations to find flowers who still<br />
holds heaven’s scent… and are willing to share. Sadly much<br />
of the garden has been corrupted and what an approaching<br />
bee may find is often a shame.<br />
Flowers too commonly pull at other petals, vying for yet<br />
another position. Some rip away their own roots and<br />
give chase. There are flowers who rip at other’s roots and<br />
these are not always the likes of venus fly traps—no even<br />
the most alluring bunch can be less than sweet.<br />
And then too very young blossoms begin to prance out in<br />
front of the bunch, guided by the sway of wilting violets still clinging to seasons from<br />
long before. And nearly all flowers incessantly flap their petals in the breeze and this<br />
unnecessary chatter may become as a strangling vine smothers a sapling.<br />
The need to propagate and control the garden’s growth can become obsessive and<br />
the static from these flowers can overpower the buzz of an unsuspecting bee… or<br />
drown the crescendo of crickets at dusk.<br />
and<br />
The chase, tactics, unnecessary competition and unwanted<br />
jealousy—all these unfortunate qualities lace the modern garden…<br />
and this is not the saddest part of this fractured fairytale.<br />
The greatest shame I see is young blossoming buds who wiggle<br />
with allure before their petals have even opened…<br />
buds filled with tomorrow’s beauty are being distorted<br />
misguided before they emanate their own divinity.<br />
And what do the young bees do now?<br />
If you can write a great ending for this story, please email no more than 500 words to:<br />
editor@injoymag.com<br />
I plan to publish the best one I receive in the next edition... WINTER 2012<br />
Send it in before April 10 th 2012<br />
Maybe I’ll find a prize too<br />
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health& wellbeing • • • •<br />
Integrate<br />
Is Stress a Signal for Awakening?<br />
by John Douglas © 2012<br />
Stress is our body/mind’s natural response to a hectic modern<br />
lifestyle. It’s a message to slow down. It begins as a whisper<br />
in the body and gets louder and louder till something<br />
eventually snaps: tense and tight, muscles contracted and<br />
jaw clenched desperately trying to stay in control. Thoughts<br />
begin to churn out of control, tumbling over each other and<br />
often we are focused on the future, all the things we need<br />
to get done… or the past, something we feel incomplete<br />
about or regret, wallowing, resistant and often are driven by<br />
those reoccurring thought about ourselves… “I’m worthless,<br />
life’s hopeless, I’m a terrible parent… and no one loves me<br />
because I am unlovable”.<br />
Stress can be conscious and also unconscious… and our<br />
compulsion to keep it all together, just keep going at all costs<br />
is because we are afraid of what might happen if stop or<br />
simply let go.<br />
Everyone suffers from tension and stress on some level at<br />
some time, it ebbs and flows through our systems. It is our<br />
teacher and our lesson is to manage our stress levels so to<br />
create a healthy lifestyle. Unchecked and unmanaged stress<br />
can accumulate as toxins in the body and in the nervous<br />
system and can lead to a whole range of dis-ease and can<br />
lead us on a downward spiral.<br />
Choice One • Have Another Latte<br />
Keep driving the machine (your body/mind/nervous system)<br />
onwards to complete everything and meet the pressures<br />
from the outer world. Coffee has become the popular drug<br />
of choice in the industrial world because it works like a credit<br />
card. It gives us access to energy we don’t have like a credit<br />
card gives us access to money we don’t have.<br />
Choice Two • Simply Stop<br />
Take a deep breath. Close your eyes and go inside. Stop and<br />
feel. Feel the tension. Take some time out. Sip a relaxing tea<br />
instead of something stimulating. Focus inwards. Prioritise<br />
and rearrange your schedule and make some space for<br />
yourself. Share with a friend, laugh and discharge stress.<br />
Then you can return to your day refreshed with renewed<br />
energy… your cycle of stress needs to be broken for a new<br />
perspective to enter.<br />
Choice Three • Disengage Completely<br />
Go for a walk, swim at the beach, get a massage, lie down<br />
and just be still for a moment, switch off your phone, unwind<br />
in water, make love . . . smile.<br />
For most of us stress has to reach an acute level before we<br />
deal with it. The insidious aspect of this cycle is that we live<br />
with rising ebbs and deeper flows, thinking we can handle it<br />
all, that we are on top of it until suddenly we ‘loose it’ and feel<br />
completely out of control and fall apart.<br />
The strange thing is that often the more tense we are the<br />
harder it is to stop and unwind. It’s almost more painful to<br />
stop than to keep going on auto-pilot. Sometimes when we<br />
stop we may have to face feelings we have been avoiding.<br />
Always keeping busy can be a great distraction from deeper<br />
feelings.<br />
Managing stress is an exercise in awareness. It is a journey<br />
that has the capacity to eventually take us home if we find<br />
the right path. It really is all about the choices we make and<br />
finding balance between doing and being… when we master<br />
being we master our life experience.<br />
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Too much doing, too much working, too much talking,<br />
too much thinking, too much driving, too much time on<br />
the computer, too much worrying, too many unfelt and<br />
unresolved feelings. We experience pressure at work, pressure<br />
at home and this can set up an unhealthy cycle. Instead of<br />
feeling supported and nurtured at home by our family we find<br />
ourselves confronted and struggling around control, then<br />
we can feel guilty, blaming, ashamed, victimised, resentful…<br />
and more exhausted. This is the toxic cycle of stress. It leaks<br />
out into every aspect of our lives like battery acid, corroding<br />
everything we hold dear.<br />
Remember we do have choices. We can listen to our body<br />
that constantly giving us little signals. We feel it in the eyes,<br />
we feel it in the shoulders and the neck and the back. We feel<br />
drained or agitated. We do have a choice…<br />
It seems successful people are busy and so many of us become<br />
obsessed with packing in as much as possible in a day. For<br />
now onwards we all need to give ourselves permission to<br />
take some time to recharge and relax in between our busy<br />
schedules.... turn the phone, computer and TV off, unplug
your thoughts of the outer world and unwind, reflect, relax<br />
and hold space for our inner selves.<br />
A good barometer of our stress levels is whether we are<br />
able to stop and listen. Listen to your breath, listen to the<br />
sounds of nature… and listen to the silence.<br />
The breath is a very simple and powerful tool. A few<br />
conscious breaths will turn our attention inside and return<br />
us to the here & now. This is a significant shift because<br />
when we are stressed we are not present. It is this sense<br />
of here & now presence that is the key to transforming our<br />
awareness. It’s important for each of us to find our own<br />
unique way or ways of accessing this sense of our inner<br />
sensitivities and our place of inner peace. Meditation.<br />
Dancing. Swimming. Martial Arts. Surfing. Walking. Yoga.<br />
Massage. Commune with nature. Listen to music. Making<br />
love. Relaxing in hot water. Playing… there are so many<br />
ways to choose from.<br />
For me the sauna takes me home every time. My tension<br />
dissolves easily in the heat, toxins are released rapidly My<br />
body relaxes at a very deep level, tense muscles melting<br />
in the heat, stressful thoughts dissolve as my attention is<br />
drawn inward and I am left feeling serene, recharged and<br />
present with my life. It works every time.<br />
And of course my favourite place for this is KIVA SPA, an<br />
oasis of peace nestled in the heart of Mullumbimby... see<br />
our colour advertisement on page 30 of this edition.<br />
Ultimately when we are stressed we are stuck in our ego, in<br />
our story, in our separateness. By shifting our perception,<br />
redirecting our awareness, taking a few deep breathes…<br />
from here we can begin to allow, to accept things as they<br />
are, to see your cup always half full and feel connected<br />
abundant and grateful so you can be at peace and trust<br />
the natural ebb and flow of life.<br />
“Emotional adversity is just like the weather,<br />
let it move through.” Matthew and Terces Engleheart<br />
Integrate<br />
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Integrate<br />
health& wellbeing • • • •<br />
Welcome to the next<br />
evolutionary stage of<br />
ANIMAL<br />
DREAMING...<br />
a bit of history first...<br />
On a warm day in February 1998,<br />
Scott and Trudy opened a little<br />
healing centre in Woori-Yallock, a<br />
small incidental country town in<br />
Victoria’s Yarra Valley.<br />
‘Circle of Stones Healing Lodge attracted<br />
a loyal cluster of customers interested in the<br />
different healing modalities and meditation<br />
classes the centre had to offer. Scott’s readings<br />
and workshops and the thrill of having an esoteric<br />
shop in the Valley that sold spiritual books and<br />
crystals really put this business on the map.<br />
And as is the way when something is ‘right’, Circle<br />
of Stones soon outgrew the little cottage it was<br />
born into and moved to Main Street Warburton,<br />
a town celebrated for its healing energies, the<br />
crystal-laden Yarra River, the snow-capped Mt<br />
Donna Buang and its population of natural<br />
therapists, healers, psychics and teachers.<br />
approach to life helped brand<br />
the well recognised name<br />
‘Animal Dreaming’ and<br />
anchor it as a company of<br />
high integrity, spiritual honesty<br />
and grounding.<br />
The next chapter ...<br />
If you haven’t come in to meet<br />
us yet... across from the cinema in<br />
Jonson Street . . .<br />
Welcome to Animal Dreaming Byron Bay, the<br />
new home of Scott’s work: the new shop, the<br />
new look, new books, new events, retreats<br />
and workshops, a new ever-growing circle of<br />
friends, new healing modalities, services and<br />
experiences . . .<br />
and most importantly, Welcome 2012,<br />
a new and exciting time of unity, healing and<br />
shamanic understanding that encompasses<br />
everything Animal Dreaming represents and<br />
has to offer.’<br />
Scott Alexander King<br />
Our shop quickly became a popular destination<br />
for many of the tourists who flock to Warburton<br />
each year) and it was here Scott wrote his bestselling<br />
book, ANIMAL DREAMING. Here the seed<br />
was planted and since our work is growing into<br />
a strong, powerful and enduring Oak Tree.<br />
Selling Circle of Stones ten years later, we moved<br />
our family north to the beauty of Byron Bay and<br />
again opened a retail shop that continues the<br />
tradition of offering ethical trading while offering<br />
a beautiful range of hand-dug Madagascan<br />
crystals, spiritual books, incense and local art,<br />
with popular workshops and readings based on<br />
my books (of which now there are now several).<br />
My philosophy and our nature-based spiritual<br />
Scott Alexander King is a shaman, visionary and<br />
zoomancer – an individual that examines the habits<br />
and appearance of animals to help explain or reveal<br />
the future path of other people. He is the author of,<br />
among others, ‘Animal Dreaming’, a shamanic field<br />
guide that offers insight into the wisdom of over 200<br />
indigenous and introduced Australasian animals<br />
and the international best-selling ‘Animal Dreaming<br />
Oracle Cards’. Scott is available for interviews,<br />
workshops and seminars. He and his family live in<br />
NSW’s picturesque Northern Rivers and have a retail<br />
shop in Byron Bay. To learn more about Scott, his<br />
books, his work and his shop . . .<br />
. . . visit: www.animaldreaming.com<br />
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Have you ever wanted to know what animal<br />
spirits are walking with you as guides,<br />
totems, teachers or healers?<br />
Well, why not book a reading with Scott<br />
Alexander King, author of the book,<br />
ANIMAL DREAMING, and the ANIMAL<br />
DREAMING ORACLE CARDS.<br />
Visit Scott at his shop.<br />
Animal Dreaming is located at 109 Jonson<br />
Street, Byron Bay, or you can phone to book<br />
a private reading, consultation<br />
or attend one of his inspiring workshops.<br />
02 6680 9899 ANIMAL DREAMING www.animaldreaming.com
Integrate<br />
EGG WHITE<br />
as a first aid remedy<br />
A young man sprinkling his lawn and bushes with pesticides wanted to check the contents of the<br />
barrel to see how much pesticide remained in it. He raised the cover and lit his lighter; the vapors<br />
inflamed and engulfed him. He jumped from his truck, screaming. His neighbor came out of her<br />
house with a dozen eggs, yelling: “bring me some eggs!” She broke them, separating the whites<br />
from the yolks. The neighbor woman helped her to apply the whites on the young man’s face.<br />
When the ambulance arrived and when the EMTs saw the young man, they asked who had done<br />
this. Everyone pointed to the lady in charge. They congratulated her and said: “You have saved his<br />
face.” By the end of the summer, the young man brought the lady a bouquet of roses to thank her.<br />
His face was like a baby’s skin.<br />
healing miracle for burns:<br />
Keep in mind this treatment of burns which is included in the method of teaching beginner fireman.<br />
First aid consists to spraying cold water on the affected area until the heat is reduced and stops<br />
burning the layers of skin. Then, spread egg whites on the affected are.<br />
One woman burned a large part of her hand with boiling water. In spite of the pain, she ran cold<br />
faucet water on her hand, separated 2 egg white from the yolks, beat them slightly and dipped her<br />
hand in the solution. The whites then dried and formed a protective layer.<br />
She later learned that the egg white is a natural collagen and continued during at least one hour<br />
to apply layer upon layer of beaten egg white. By afternoon she no longer felt any pain and the<br />
next day there was hardly a trace of the burn. 10 days later, no trace was left at all and her skin had<br />
regained its normal color. The burned area was totally regenerated thanks to the collagen in the<br />
egg whites, a placenta full of vitamins.<br />
Pass it on. Sent to <strong>InJoy</strong> by numerous sources, so it must be a good one!<br />
‘Yesterday we obeyed kings<br />
and bent our necks before<br />
emperors...<br />
But today we kneel only to<br />
truth, follow only beauty...<br />
and obey only love.’<br />
Kahlil Gibran with Bhavik Pankaj Thaker<br />
‘When you realise just how<br />
perfect everything is you will<br />
tilt your head back and<br />
laugh at the sky.’<br />
Buddha<br />
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Integrate<br />
health& wellbeing • • • •<br />
6 steps to create your<br />
own organic permaculture<br />
garden<br />
Tara Green©2012<br />
NaturalNews Organic gardening avoids the<br />
use of chemicals to make plants grow or<br />
protect them from insects, relying instead<br />
on natural gardening principles used for<br />
thousands of years. Permaculture organic<br />
gardening goes a step further and also<br />
emphasizes growing plants sustainably,<br />
working with rather than against the grain<br />
of the natural environment. Permaculture<br />
organic gardening is growing in<br />
popularity as more people realize that it<br />
offers an inexpensive and relatively lowmaintenance<br />
way to grow their own fruits,<br />
vegetables, herbs and flowers.<br />
1Choosing a location<br />
Observe your property at different times<br />
of day. Consider which areas receive the<br />
most sun, which are in shade for much of<br />
the day. Depending on where you live, if<br />
sunshine is a scarce commodity, you will<br />
want to expose plants to receive as much<br />
as possible. On the other hand, in desert<br />
regions, you will not want your plants to<br />
be in the area most likely to be parched by<br />
sun exposure. Also think protecting your<br />
garden from the paths where strong winds<br />
tend to blow through your property. Even<br />
a small property will have microclimates --<br />
notice these and plant accordingly to give<br />
different plants either more sun or more<br />
shade according to their preference.<br />
2 Selecting plants<br />
Avoid disease-prone plants which require<br />
time-consuming chores such as spraying<br />
and pruning by the gardener. Select<br />
plants which will thrive in your area rather<br />
than those which will require extra labor<br />
on your part to protect them from the<br />
environment. As far as possible, select<br />
plants which serve multiple purposes,<br />
such as fruit trees which will put forth<br />
blossoms in one season, fruit to pick in<br />
another, and provide shade for when<br />
you want to sit and enjoy your garden’s<br />
natural beauty. Native plants are also<br />
more likely to attract local pollinators such<br />
as bees, and to draw butterflies so that<br />
your garden contains even more natural<br />
beauty.<br />
3 Making a home for<br />
your plants<br />
Raised beds require less physical effort on<br />
the part of the gardener and also benefit<br />
plants, providing better air circulation,<br />
more protection from spring chills and<br />
improved usage of water. Raised beds<br />
also mean a small permaculture garden<br />
is an option even for apartment dwellers<br />
and others with little available space since<br />
you can rely on containers and vertical<br />
gardening principles.<br />
4 Feeding your plants<br />
One of the key concepts of permaculture<br />
organic gardening is to avoid waste.<br />
Having a garden gives you a means of<br />
re-using natural waste such as eggshells,<br />
apple cores, coffee grinds as well as yard<br />
waste which many people throw away. You<br />
can either purchase or make a compost bin<br />
to turn this organic material into gardening<br />
gold which can be used to help your plants<br />
grow.<br />
5 Watering your plants<br />
Modern gardeners who do not follow<br />
sustainability principles tend to draw<br />
heavily on piped-in water resources, often<br />
using hoses and sprinklers to make plants<br />
which require abundant water grow in<br />
a desert climate. Permaculture organic<br />
gardening tries to use natural water as<br />
much as possible, maximizing the use of<br />
groundwater and rainwater. Rain barrels<br />
allow you to collect rainfall and extend its<br />
use over longer periods of time.<br />
6 Protecting plants from<br />
pests<br />
Eschewing the use of chemicals does not<br />
have to mean a garden full of pests. You<br />
can use companion gardening principles,<br />
growing plants which deter pests near<br />
those which attract them. There is also<br />
a natural synergy between some plants<br />
which means planting them near each<br />
other increases your yield. Also, just as<br />
some herbs have a medicinal effect on<br />
human health, they also offer benefits to<br />
plants which grow near them. For more<br />
information about companion planting,<br />
visit http://www.appropedia.org/CCAT_<br />
companion_planting and http://www.<br />
gardeningknowhow.com<br />
If you have space and live in an area where<br />
it is permissible to keep poultry, chickens<br />
can make a wonderful addition to a<br />
permaculture garden. If they are permitted<br />
free-range for most of the day, they will<br />
consume many pests. Chicken manure also<br />
contributes beneficial nitrogen to the soil<br />
of your garden.<br />
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learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035038_permaculture_gardening_how_to.html#ixzz1nlS6a7yd
Integrate<br />
Discover an obscure,<br />
inexpensive,<br />
Arugula<br />
easy to use<br />
Tasty Superfood<br />
by Paul Fassa<br />
NaturalNews There is yet another cancer<br />
preventing cruciferous vegetable that few<br />
know about. It is perfect for salads or pesto.<br />
Uncooked, the nutrients and enzymes are<br />
preserved. It’s a green called arugula. It’s<br />
health benefits exceed most other greens.<br />
Unlike most cruciferous veggies, arugula<br />
tastes good raw. Preparing arugula is easy.<br />
The dark green leaves let you know arugula is<br />
high in chlorophyll. Chlorophyll molecules are<br />
similar to red blood cells.<br />
Cooking greens to cause them to slightly<br />
lose their bright green luster degrades their<br />
chlorophyll content and intact chlorophyll<br />
helps prevent DNA and liver damage.<br />
The elusive but important vitamin K<br />
family is found in arugula. Vitamin K2<br />
is important for bone absorption of<br />
calcium and not so well understood<br />
is vitamin K’s contribution to<br />
cardiovascular health.<br />
Vitamin K also<br />
minimises brain<br />
matter calcifications<br />
that often result in<br />
Alzheimer’s disease.<br />
Most of the<br />
plaque that forms<br />
inside arterial<br />
wall surfaces is<br />
calcification from<br />
calcium that bones<br />
and teeth don’t absorb<br />
and vitamin K helps keep<br />
calcium from collecting in<br />
the bloodstream and other<br />
soft tissue.<br />
Arugula is high in fiber, which aids digestive<br />
elimination. Vitamin B complex is rich in arugula with<br />
high amounts of folate, the natural source of folic<br />
acid. Arugula is high in vitamin C, A, and P. In addition<br />
to magnesium, iron and copper content is strong in<br />
arugula as well.<br />
Additionally, the phytochemicals in arugula contain<br />
lots of sulfur compounds, which enable the body’s<br />
cells to detox further by helping the liver create more<br />
glutathione. Glutathione is the master antioxidant that<br />
is created by the liver if the right nutrient precursors are<br />
available. It is difficult to find a more nutritious single<br />
plant food than arugula. Though sometimes cleaned<br />
and packaged, buying arugula in fresh bunches with<br />
their roots is optimum. Do your own cleaning. Arugula<br />
bunches resemble fresh spinach bunches.<br />
Arugula should be eaten often to obtain and maintain<br />
its benefits. To make it easier, arugula tastes better<br />
uncooked than all other cruciferous veggies. Mixing<br />
arugula with other greens in salads are obvious easy<br />
choices.<br />
Pesto is another tasty choice for consuming<br />
arugula raw with its nutrients intact.<br />
You can make a pesto using arugula<br />
combined with the traditional basil<br />
leaves and/or cilantro. Cilantro is<br />
recognised as a detoxifying<br />
agent, especially<br />
effective for eliminating<br />
mercury.<br />
All pesto mixes<br />
include lots of leaves<br />
of your choice, a few<br />
pine nuts or walnuts,<br />
some fresh garlic cloves,<br />
sea salt, grated parmesan<br />
cheese (optional), and lots<br />
of cold pressed olive oil all<br />
blended in a food processor.<br />
When you get a thick, porous<br />
texture, apply the pesto to pasta or any other<br />
food, even sandwiches.<br />
Whatever isn’t used can be sealed and<br />
refrigerated. A thin topping of olive oil inhibits<br />
oxidation. Here’s a recipe example to get you<br />
started. Substitute or include arugula/ cilantro<br />
with less or no basil.<br />
read more : http://www.naturalnews.com/033604_arugula_superfood.html#ixzz1YRXCE7WF<br />
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Integrate<br />
health& wellbeing • • • •<br />
personal experience:<br />
Recently a friend of mine had forty<br />
white-tail spider bites... goggle it<br />
and have a look at the effects of<br />
one, intense!<br />
The miracle remedies and healing<br />
agent some of you may know<br />
about, I didn’t but now I do I want<br />
to share it with everyone...<br />
aloe vera<br />
bandaids<br />
I have tried them myself and they<br />
are very soothing and waterproof<br />
for half an hour or so.<br />
process...<br />
Cut a large thick piece of aloe vera<br />
and slice across the leaf to the size<br />
you need. Split this open along the<br />
skin and using a sharp knife take a<br />
slither of gel from inside the leaf to<br />
the size you will need to cover the<br />
wound, as thin as possible.<br />
Remove all the moisture by<br />
pressing the slither inside a paper<br />
towel. Apply to area and sit still<br />
while it draws to your body.. if it<br />
slides or slips just repeat the paper<br />
towel part of the process and then<br />
reapply and be patient.<br />
When it does attach you’ll have<br />
created a natural, hygenic, soothing,<br />
healing band-aid that won’t<br />
fall off till you wash it off.<br />
Yes, to remove use water and rub<br />
the edges with a cotton pad until<br />
it releases. Be brave.<br />
in touch<br />
first-hand experience of healers, sessions & therapies<br />
You may have caught up with the owner/operator Minas at the<br />
Starlight Wellbeing Expo’s Healathon in January where he was<br />
giving away free massages. You may also have been one of the<br />
recipients of more than 50 free treatments that were offered by the<br />
Team from Osho’s House at their Healing Centre Open Day.<br />
If you missed out here is an update of<br />
What’s New at Osho’s House Healing Centre.<br />
The Team at Osho’s House is now made up of<br />
Carine who is a therapeutic massage therapist and reiki master,<br />
Helena who is a remedial massage therapist and offers health care<br />
rebates, Kobie who is remedial massage therapist also offering<br />
health care rebates and specialising in craniosacral treatments,<br />
Minas who is a massage therapist and reiki practitioner, Fiona who<br />
is a tarot reader and psychic healer, Jodie who does soul retreival<br />
and shamanic healing and Julie who is the creator and facilitator<br />
for “journey in colour”<br />
workshops.<br />
The Healing Centre has<br />
also taken on the sales of<br />
a new product which is<br />
the SAMANVAYAPURE<br />
skin care range based<br />
on Ayurvedic principles.<br />
The product is made<br />
and produced by a local<br />
Minas, Carine, Kobie, Helena.<br />
Not in the picture are Fiona, Jodie and Julie<br />
girl in the Byron Shire. Also still on sale are the colourful cards and<br />
paintings from Julie’s range of “journey in colours”. You will also feel<br />
at one with the divine sacred geometry works on display. Minas says<br />
the only products we sell are ones we make and we don’t make wild<br />
claims about any of them other than to say we use them ourselves.<br />
The Healing Centre’s facilities include an infra-red sauna which<br />
promotes detoxification, burns fat and regulates blood pressure.<br />
Special package deals are available<br />
combining massage and sauna sessions.<br />
Check out their Facebook page for more information,<br />
pictures and latest news<br />
http://www.facebook.com/oshoshouse<br />
Phone: 02 6685 6792 or 0411 114 344<br />
1/30 Carlyle St (across from tennis courts) Byron Bay<br />
www.byron-bay.com/oshoshouse<br />
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The next ‘Kids Village’ will be at the Julinbah Yowarl Festival March 16-20<br />
The program will includes... ‘Art with Living Plants and Herbs’, ‘Green Smoothies and Yoga for Radiant Health’, Live<br />
Sing Alongs by ‘Lewis Parter’ and others, ‘Aboriginal Art and Dreamtime Stories’ and see GGK article and recipes on<br />
page 19 of this issue of <strong>InJoy</strong>...<br />
the community would like to thank Paul & Mam for all the light they bring<br />
to the streets of Byron... after dusk on weekends you can be enchanted by<br />
byron star lights, a special place at the top end of Jonson Street.<br />
www.byronstarlights.com<br />
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17<br />
- MEDIA RELEASE -<br />
Jubullum Community presents<br />
JULINBAH YOWARL<br />
RAINBOW CORROBOREE<br />
16 th -20 th March 2012<br />
The Bunjalung Elders from Jubullum Community<br />
near Tabulam NSW invite everyone to come<br />
and camp at the majestic Rocky River for another<br />
Julinbah Yowarl or Rainbow Corroboree.<br />
This cultural experience has been evolving<br />
over the last 2 years into a successful family-friendly event,<br />
bridging people of many cultures.<br />
Celebrating the oldest culture in the world will be the local<br />
Warlah-Bal Djunagun Dance Troupe, who are the hosts<br />
and have been dazzling the audience for the last three<br />
Corroborees with their Dance and Ceremony.<br />
There will be performances from<br />
other Indigenous Artists and Dreamtime Art on displays.<br />
Proceeds from this event go directly to the improvement of the<br />
Corroboree Ground and facilities<br />
as well as the development<br />
of an Indigenous Culture/Language School on the site.<br />
The Musicians from a wider Northern NSW community<br />
and far beyond continue to generously<br />
support this Community Fundraiser<br />
and this March we are on for another musical feast:<br />
Dubshack, Fyah Walk, Murray Kyle, Mystic Beats... and more.<br />
For the second time the event is hosting Kobya,<br />
bringing the invigorating sounds of<br />
Mozambique into the Australian Bush.<br />
The Rainbow Chai Tent and other market stalls<br />
will offer some food and refreshments for sale.<br />
There is no alcohol welcome or for sale and other intoxicants<br />
are also not welcome.<br />
An exciting addition to the<br />
March 2012 Corroboreel are new two spaces :<br />
Happy People Chill<br />
and Falafel Lounge Cafe<br />
both offering a unique audio visual experiences<br />
in the tradition of the Cyber Tribal Exodus Festival.<br />
Byron Movement Orchard and Dome shows<br />
tangible visions of a Sustainable Future<br />
The gathering is an opportunity to connect with others<br />
through sharing Art, Lore, Language, BushFood Workshops,<br />
The Mystery Dingo Tours Walkabout… and more.<br />
It is also an invitation to have the ultimate camping experience<br />
and connect with especially enchanting land<br />
only two hours scenic drive from Byron Bay,<br />
through Casino towards Tenterfield. Follow directions from Plains Stations Road<br />
off the Bruxner Highway.<br />
entry: $50 – children under 15 free<br />
For media interviews and for more information<br />
please contact Sky on 0266871706<br />
or email skyhemp@gmail.com<br />
the majestic Rocky River
Indigenous Matters<br />
It’s about our tomorrow, but today you and I can make a positive diffference.<br />
Pop Harry Mundine Walker and Aunty Annabel Walker<br />
pictured with great grandson RJ are Elders of the Jubullum<br />
community on the beautiful Rocky River, Tabulam New<br />
South Wales.<br />
Pop and Aunty are warm-hearted people who share and<br />
care for their family of four generations and the mob in<br />
and around their community, and they also share culture<br />
at public opening and events... you may have been<br />
privileged by their presence, story and dance at the Byron<br />
Spirit Festival in Feb 2012. They visit schools, prisons,<br />
community halls and churches to help bring culture to all<br />
people.<br />
Their giving nature makes my heart sing.<br />
Pop Harry is a member of the Bunjalung Elders Council<br />
Aboriginal Corporation and he is a cultural heritage<br />
knowledge holder, Elder and mentor for the Warhlabal<br />
Tribe of the lower Rocky River.<br />
Pop is highly respected in the Jubullum community where<br />
he teaches the language and way beyond his community...<br />
all over Australia people recognise and love Pop Harry and<br />
Aunty Annabel for the way they welcome all people and<br />
share Aboriginal culture with so many.<br />
Pop has made a beautiful six disc DVD boxset where he<br />
shares his stories with you, language, place, history and<br />
Aboriginal culture.<br />
It is called Poppy Harry Mundine Walker.<br />
This is for all the people they do not get to meet on their<br />
travels. It is a first-hand true account of Aboriginality... It is<br />
a treasure and you can purchase this boxset for $80 (plus<br />
postage).<br />
If you email editor@injoymag.com I will personally arrange<br />
your delivery and way of payment.<br />
Recently Pop and Aunty took ten to the Byron Spirit<br />
Festival in Mullumbimby and we put them on a stall and<br />
within minutes of Pop mesmerising the audience with his<br />
story of the GURRAMAN - with kangaroo dance told by<br />
Lewis Walker - there was only one left.<br />
These DVD’s are a valuable resource for all schools, home/<br />
families and anyone interested in Aboriginal culture and<br />
ways of being living with this land.<br />
And... I am delighted to announce that Pop has offered to<br />
share his stories and wisdom in the next edition of <strong>InJoy</strong><br />
<strong>Magazine</strong>... as the feature for Winter 2012.<br />
<strong>InJoy</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> is a portal for community and people to<br />
connect and share their stories and so I would also like to<br />
connect with the community here —<br />
with respect and love, Bhadrena Rose<br />
Before I make a hundred phone calls to speak to a few<br />
people who will most likely lead me along miles of red<br />
tape... I felt to reach out to the private sector of our<br />
community—to the people who read <strong>InJoy</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong>.<br />
At Aunty and Pop’s request we share this story with you;<br />
“In 2011 when Brisbane had those big floods we had<br />
big floods here too. SES helped us at the time with<br />
bad emergencies but after that we got no help. Other<br />
people got help, we saw that in the newspaper but we<br />
lost everything. The church gave us the land but the<br />
house was so bad it had to be taken away.<br />
We need a house for our family and we even have our<br />
great grand children with us, which is wonderful. They<br />
dance and speak their traditional language<br />
and this makes us very happy.”<br />
I feel privileged to support these very special people.<br />
I know our community can come together and we<br />
support great causes and people. So I trust also we can<br />
come together here.<br />
Tradesmen, builder, plumbers, electricians, tilers, all of<br />
you, please consider coming together for this project...<br />
you will be recognised.<br />
Contact me for more information<br />
Bhadrena - 0403 135 372 or email... editor@injoymag.<br />
com<br />
My other vision is that a kit home company would be<br />
interested in an iconic marketing stratergy, supported<br />
by <strong>InJoy</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> and other media vehicles, using the<br />
establishment of a home on Pop and Aunty’s land in<br />
Tabulam as a vehicle for promotion.<br />
This could become a wonderful project to extend to<br />
other Aboriginal Elders who are sharing culture with all<br />
peoples to ensure the land sings the dreamtime stories<br />
still... for all of us and beyond.<br />
It is with my greatest love and respect I support this<br />
initiative... it is a dream and it is time for dreams to come<br />
true, especially for people like Pop and Aunty who share<br />
much of their precious time caring for family and the<br />
future... they deserve a home to rest and replenish and<br />
keep their family safe.<br />
Thank You.<br />
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at the heart of our culture • • • •
Inspire<br />
feather art by bhadrena rose<br />
art & culture • • • •<br />
An Ode to Chris…<br />
Bhadrena Rose<br />
I was blessed to meet Chris just before his passing<br />
last December. It was a deep, brief but profound<br />
connection. I saw him one more time before he<br />
danced into the spirit world at Christmas time<br />
2011. This meeting was again brief but the<br />
resonance of our previous connection remained<br />
and through a glance we remembered.<br />
TWO FRIENDS<br />
WERE WALKING<br />
THROUGH THE DESERT,<br />
DURING SOME POINT<br />
THEY HAD AN<br />
ARGUMENT AND ONE<br />
FRIEND SLAPPED THE<br />
OTHER<br />
THE ONE WHO GOT<br />
SLAPPED WAS HURT<br />
AND WITHOUT<br />
SAYING ANYTHING<br />
WROTE IN THE SAND:<br />
‘TODAY MY BEST FRIEND<br />
SLAPPED ME’<br />
THEY KEPT WALKING<br />
UNTIL THEY FOUND<br />
AN OASIS WHERE THEY<br />
DECIDED TO TAKE A BATH.<br />
THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN<br />
SLAPPED GOT STUCK AND<br />
STARTED DROWNING AND<br />
HIS FRIEND SAVED HIM.<br />
AFTER HE RECOVERED HE<br />
WROTE ON A STONE:<br />
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There are people I have had connections with for<br />
years that have not reached the place with me<br />
that Chris did… in a moment’s grace, the right<br />
moment, the right opening and the connection<br />
was made.This is my experience and I feel to take<br />
this moment to share.<br />
During his passing and after so many questions<br />
were asked, so many stories told, grew and twisted<br />
and grew again and eventually it seemed that<br />
Chris himself was hidden beneath a quandary of<br />
questions.<br />
So it is here that I simply and humbly speak of<br />
Chris, to honour the greatest sparkle in his eye,<br />
the cheek to play with life and step where others<br />
fear to tread. I feel him dancing in the stars and<br />
this brings me great comfort in the expansion of<br />
all things.<br />
Ring the bells that still can ring<br />
Forget your perfect offering<br />
There is a crack in everything<br />
That’s how the light gets in.<br />
Leonard Cohen<br />
one of the exquisite pieces created by Christopher Vale<br />
‘TODAY MY BEST FRIEND<br />
SAVED ME’<br />
THE FRIEND WHO<br />
SLAPPED AND SAVED HIS<br />
FRIEND ASKED:<br />
‘AFTER I HURT YOU YOU<br />
WROTE IN THE SAND<br />
AND NOW<br />
YOU WRITE ON STONE,<br />
WHY?’<br />
THE FRIEND REPLIED:<br />
‘WHEN SOMEONE HURTS<br />
US WE SHOULD WRITE IT<br />
DOWN IN SAND,<br />
WHERE WINDS OF<br />
FORGIVENESS CAN<br />
ERASE IT AWAY.<br />
BUT, WHEN SOMEONE<br />
DOES SOMETHING GOOD<br />
FOR US, WE MUST MARK<br />
IT IN STONE WHERE NO<br />
WIND CAN EVER ERASE IT’<br />
LEARN TO WRITE YOUR<br />
HURTS IN THE SAND<br />
AND CARVE YOUR<br />
BENEFITS IN STONE.<br />
source unknown
Inspire<br />
If you come across great sites... send a link and the reason why to editor@injoymag.com<br />
OH THE PLACES YOU’LL GO<br />
Based on Dr. Seuss’s final book before his death, this is a story about life’s ups and downs…<br />
told by people of Burning Man 2011- the most fabulous festival on this planet. Directed by: Teddy Saunders.<br />
This link is a very beautiful watch… inspiring and simply true… and if you want to see a seven minute snippet of the incredible<br />
environment created at Burning Man Festivals. . .<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?=ahv_1IS7SiE&feature=youtube<br />
art & culture • • • •<br />
LINK TO THE ENCHANTED FOREST<br />
Find your power animal for the day...<br />
http://www.poweranimalsunleashed.com/enchantedforest.htm<br />
When I tried the elephant was my animal spirit... and this is what was unleashed:<br />
Ah, what power is yours… a tower of strength. Your heart is full of courage and you know that you can do and be anything<br />
you care to. After all, you are the elephant.<br />
With the elephant spirit within you, you will be able to command attention and hold power without saying a word. When you are<br />
this strong, when you have this much power, you can do and say little and still have great impact. Your power is absolute; there is<br />
no need to talk about it. You command the situation simply by being... go to link to read more<br />
TROLL on the net<br />
from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia<br />
In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous or off-topic<br />
messages in an online community such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or<br />
blog with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or otherwise disrupting normal on-topic<br />
discussion. The noun troll may refer to the provocative message itself, as in “That was an excellent troll you posted”.<br />
While the word troll and its associated verb trolling are associated with Internet discourse, media attention in recent years<br />
has made such labels subjective, with trolling describing intentionally provocative actions and harassment outside of an<br />
online context. For example, mass media has used troll to describe “a person who defaces Internet tribute sites with the<br />
aim of causing grief to families.” The “trollface” or “coolface” first appeared in 2008 and is often used to indicate trolling in<br />
contemporary internet culture. Modern usage of the word itself dates from 1980s.<br />
ASTROLOGY at it’s best<br />
A great site for clear, concise and<br />
conscious raising insights and<br />
predictions. Created by Byron Bay’s<br />
Kim Falconer, my favourite astrologer.<br />
www.falconastrology.com<br />
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art & culture • • • •<br />
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DVD<br />
reviews<br />
• • • • Leslie’s choice<br />
I always have people asking me for lists to make it easier to choose<br />
DVDs… I even had someone come into the shop the other day with<br />
a old copy of Injoy <strong>Magazine</strong> with movie reviews in hand ready to<br />
pick out their DVDs… Leslie.<br />
Here are Leslie’s Favourite Films for 2011…<br />
Anonymous drama<br />
The Iron Lady drama<br />
Midnight in Paris romantic comedy<br />
Crazy Stupid Love comedy<br />
Rise of the Planet of the Apes action<br />
Bridesmaids comedy<br />
The Beaver drama<br />
The Guard black comedy<br />
Super 8 action/family<br />
Source Code Sci/Fi action<br />
Water for Elephants romantic/drama<br />
Incendies foreign drama<br />
Never Let Me Go Sci/Fi drama<br />
Limitless Sci/Fi action<br />
Griff the Invisible comedy<br />
Barneys Version comedy<br />
Gnomeo and Juliet family<br />
The Help drama<br />
Get Low- black comedy<br />
The Hunter thriller<br />
Jane Eyre drama<br />
Sleeping Beauty art house<br />
Kings Speech historical drama<br />
Ghost Writer thriller<br />
A Deal is a Deal black comedy<br />
Cemetery Junction comedy<br />
Black Swan thriller<br />
Babies documentary<br />
Emmas Bliss foreign drama<br />
Heartbreaker foreign comedy<br />
Sarah’s Key foreign drama<br />
The Warriors Way foreign action fantasy<br />
see<br />
more<br />
reviews<br />
in store . . .<br />
The Tree- Australian drama<br />
Made in Dagenham true story<br />
Me and Orson Wells drama<br />
The Messenger drama<br />
True Grit western<br />
I Love you Too aussie comedy<br />
Winters Bone drama<br />
City Island comedy<br />
The Last Station historical drama<br />
Broken Embraces foreign drama<br />
Let The Right One In foreign horror<br />
Agora historical drama<br />
The Kids are All Right drama<br />
Another Year black comedy<br />
Mother and Child drama<br />
Boy comedy<br />
Moon Sci/Fi<br />
An Education comedy<br />
If Leslie helps you<br />
with some great<br />
DVD tips, take her in<br />
a flower or something<br />
sweet one day<br />
to say thank you...<br />
a lovely idea.<br />
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Three years in the making the Byron Shire’s first<br />
sculpture walk has come to fruition.<br />
The Bangalow Sports Field have<br />
a sculpture walk which is a fusion<br />
of ten Northern Rivers artists who<br />
have installed their creations<br />
along the walk… which will be on show<br />
for three to four months. Art along the walk will<br />
hopefully change regularly.<br />
Currently the participating artists are: Daniel<br />
Clemmett, Allen Horstmanshof , Suvira McDonald,<br />
Mel Robyn, Lucy Vader, Glen Sanders, David Walsh,<br />
Noel Walsh, Jim Blower and Craig Raynor.<br />
The walk acts as an open-air sculpture gallery<br />
so artists can present large works to a wider<br />
audience, a wonderful opportunity to have a<br />
look at the ever changing scape of sculpture.<br />
Curator Dev<br />
Lengjel says:<br />
“After three years<br />
we have achieved<br />
the goal to bring<br />
public art to<br />
the Byron Shire.<br />
Council itself<br />
supported the<br />
project with the<br />
concrete pads and<br />
of course council<br />
staff with its<br />
hands on getting<br />
those pads into<br />
the ground.<br />
Artists are the ones<br />
to be applauded,<br />
as they are the<br />
ones putting<br />
up the money<br />
for this venture<br />
by producing<br />
amazing works.<br />
Public art, in this case sculpture, enhances a<br />
communities understanding and wellbeing of<br />
its identity. Public art delights and confronts and<br />
certainly will get everyone talking.<br />
I hope that this venture eventually will attract<br />
monetary support so that artists and curator may<br />
get some financial recompense. I am part of a panel<br />
that has been putting together a public art policy,<br />
which is long overdue, so that public art has a<br />
foundation to work from. with a policy in place we<br />
can hold council accountable as well as apply for<br />
funding in the future.<br />
The involvement and support of the Bangalow<br />
sports association shows that community<br />
groups can work together to facilitate a common<br />
denominator. The art can act as a catalyst for<br />
people to enjoy sports and the sports people may<br />
find the artist in them. a win win situation of the<br />
most creative kind.”<br />
Inspire<br />
a horse saves a blind dog from drowning COLLINS OKELLO<br />
A young journalist covered a story on gender<br />
roles in Kabul, Afghanistan<br />
several years before the Afghan conflict.<br />
At the time she noted that women customarily<br />
walked five paces behind their husbands.<br />
Recently she returned to Kabul and observed that<br />
women still walk behind their husbands.<br />
Despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban<br />
regime the women seem content to maintain the<br />
old custom. The journalist approached one of the<br />
Afghani women and asked, ‘Why do you follow with<br />
an old custom that you once tried so<br />
desperately to change?’<br />
The woman looked her straight in<br />
the eyes and without hesitation<br />
explained, “Land mines”.<br />
STOP PRESS<br />
Solar Lights . . . Inside and Out<br />
posted by Starfire, Universal Energy Grid<br />
If you are ever in a situation where you<br />
are without electricity for a period of time<br />
or want to save power costs, take charged up<br />
solar lights into your home.<br />
You can set them in plastic bottles weighed<br />
down with crystal chips or colorful marbles,<br />
sand, pebbles or aquarium gravel. Bring them<br />
into your house and place them around where<br />
you need light.<br />
They can provide nice, bright, safe, free light!<br />
Set them back out in the sunlight each day to<br />
recharge and bring them in at night.<br />
See for yourself how beautiful they can be. Try<br />
some in each room and see your whole house<br />
light up. They are a perfect source of light and<br />
some can illuminate your space all night long if<br />
you want.<br />
The cost is no more than the effort it takes to<br />
bring them in and set them out each day (plus<br />
of course the initial cost of the lights).<br />
As long as you continue to recharge them<br />
they’ll be ready for use any time, anywhere.<br />
Perfect for power outages… a great but simple<br />
step towards helping the environment in a<br />
beautiful way.<br />
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youth, family, community • • • •<br />
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GGK’s‘Kids Village’ in the heart of the Byron Spirit<br />
Festival - February 2012<br />
‘Green Gene Kids’ was<br />
inspired after a 7 day<br />
green smoothie retreat<br />
with ‘Victoria Boutenko’,<br />
based on ‘Green Smoothies’,<br />
the work of ‘Byron Katie’ and<br />
many amazing life revealing<br />
documentaries.<br />
by Donna Grey © 2012<br />
Introducing the ‘Green Smoothie’ to my<br />
daughters at three and five, beginning with<br />
just 1 small cup of each day, transformed my<br />
children into healthier, happier and more aware<br />
beings, reducing their illnesses drastically,<br />
developing their own body tuning senses and<br />
eliminating all processed food cravings.<br />
With this kind of result I was determined to<br />
spread the word and share the results hence,<br />
‘Green Gene Kids’ began as the wholesome<br />
concept that it is.<br />
GGK’s goal is to help as many families as possible<br />
in becoming more ‘aware’, enabling an easier<br />
transition AWAY FROM the ever evolving,<br />
additive laced processed foods, product toxicity,<br />
environmental EMFs (electromagnetic fields<br />
effecting behaviour and development) and<br />
unsustainable over consumerism impacting<br />
the livelihood of our planet, the source of our<br />
only trusted livelihood as the direct result of<br />
extreme systematic conditioning, and MORE<br />
TOWARDS, local organic life giving foods, 100%<br />
natural products, redesigning and recycling toys<br />
and clothes to reduce consumerism, supporting<br />
and building a local economy and reducing all<br />
EMFs.<br />
GGK’s about sharing these necessary and<br />
grown-up concepts with the kids as they<br />
become our change agents and teachers.<br />
Kids respond intuitively and passionately to<br />
anything that actually makes sense. Saving the<br />
planet by learning why and how we can do this,<br />
respecting and understanding our body and<br />
•Green Smoothie Recipes•<br />
•Cool Blast<br />
•Crowd Pleaser<br />
1 frozen fresh Fig<br />
1 sprig of dill Kale<br />
3 whole kale leaves Spinach<br />
2 frozen bananas Amaranth Leaves<br />
Papaya 1 cup Apple<br />
1 apple<br />
Pear<br />
beet leaves Frozen Bananas<br />
1 tsp spirulina<br />
1 handful parsley<br />
as above with a basil leaf<br />
•Crowd Pleaser Twist<br />
•add 50% water to each recipe<br />
how it impacts behavior and moods all makes sense to kids! Going are the<br />
days of plastic toys, processed foods, inconsequential actions and turning a<br />
blind eye. Our kids and the planet need us and we need our kids to know just<br />
how much!<br />
At the March 2012 Julinbah Yowarl Rainbow Corroboree, at the gorgeous<br />
Rocky River, GGKs will be creating another ‘Kids Village’ within the heart<br />
of this festival. A beautiful non-emf space for community connecting, living<br />
foods and creative play in a safe<br />
and healing environment.<br />
GGKs will be running after<br />
school classes to plant seeds for radiant health and well-being. We will explore<br />
green smoothies, nutrition, plants, creative recycling, living in harmony with<br />
mother earth, music and sound healing, meditation and breath work, self<br />
healing and emotional awareness, radiant child yoga, intuitive guidance and<br />
local aboriginal culture, astrology and Mayan beliefs.<br />
Dark green leafy vegetables are, calorie for calorie, probably the most<br />
concentrated source of nutrition of any food. You must take care when making<br />
regular Green Smoothies to rotate the darker leafy greens containing oxalic<br />
acid. They are a rich source of minerals (including iron, calcium, potassium,<br />
and magnesium) and vitamins, including vitamins K, C, E, and many of the<br />
B vitamins. They also provide a variety of phytonutrients including betacarotene,<br />
lutein, and zeaxanthin, which protect our cells from damage and<br />
our eyes from age-related problems, among many other effects. Dark green<br />
leaves even contain small amounts of Omega-3 fats.<br />
Compounds in plants have a beneficial effect the body. There are over 10,000<br />
of them, and they have effects such as antioxidant, boosting the immune<br />
system, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antibacterial, and cellular repair. Highly<br />
colored vegetables and fruits tend to be highest in these chemicals<br />
SO WHAT’S IN A GREEN SMOOTHIE?<br />
Simply, any edible green leaf, (kale, bok choy, amaranth leaves, beet leaves,<br />
sprouts, parsley, celery, kang kong, yam leaves... there are hundreds of edible<br />
varieties) organic fruit of which must include solubles, such as; banana, pear,<br />
mango, paw paw, peach, avocados etc (these creamier fruits absorb the rich<br />
nutrients and take out the greener harsh tang of the some of the greens) +<br />
any other fruit, apples, pineapples, watermelon… and good drinking water,<br />
that’s it! Ratios to ‘begin’ with are approx 60% fruit /40% greens and add<br />
50% water.<br />
All blended for a smooth and yummy Green Smoothie. You can choose to add<br />
fresh dates, figs, bee pollen, spirulina and explore with herbs to create the<br />
ultimate green smoothie for health and well-being. For more information:<br />
www.greengenekids.com<br />
and I look forward to having a hello and sharing more insights<br />
with you at the Julinbah Yowarl..... Donna
Insight<br />
Heart to Heart Parenting is back in the<br />
Byron Shire previously run through the<br />
Byron Council CARE program<br />
Heart to Heart Parenting develops<br />
ways to build authentic connection<br />
between you and your child and your<br />
community. The 6 week program<br />
encourages self-awareness that returns<br />
authentic response and builds trust<br />
and while returning joy to parenting.<br />
The next Heart to Heart program<br />
will be held at Yoga Peace<br />
in Mullumbimby<br />
beginning 1st May 2012.<br />
For further information please contact<br />
Lorella Ricci-Marriott on 0409 047 731,<br />
or email:<br />
hearttoheartparenting@gmail.com<br />
Blog: www.hearttoheartparenting.org<br />
Web: www.our-emotional-health.com<br />
Facilitators: Rachel Van Raak-Shine<br />
and Lorella Ricci-Marriott<br />
This is one of the sweetest things I have been sent of late . . .<br />
It is not known who replied but there is a beautiful soul working in the postal<br />
service who touched the heart of our my four-year-old daughter Meredith<br />
after14-year-old dog, Abbey, died last month. The day after she died, Meredith<br />
was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey.<br />
She asked if we could write a letter to God so that when Abbey got to heaven<br />
God would recognise her.<br />
I told her that I thought we could, so she dictated these words:<br />
Dear God,<br />
Will you please take care of my dog? She died yesterday and is with you<br />
in heaven. I miss her very much. I am happy that you let me have her<br />
as my dog even though she got sick.<br />
I hope you will play with her. She likes to play with balls and to swim.<br />
I am sending a picture of her so when you see her you will know<br />
that she is my dog. I really miss her.<br />
Love, Meredith<br />
We put the letter in an envelope with a picture of Abbey and Meredith and<br />
addressed it to God/Heaven. We put our return address on it then Meredith<br />
pasted several stamps on the front of the envelope because she said it would<br />
take lots of stamps to get the letter all the way to heaven. That afternoon she<br />
dropped it into the letterbox at the post office. A few days later, she asked if<br />
God had gotten the letter yet. I told her that I thought He had.<br />
A few days later there was a package wrapped in gold paper on our front<br />
porch addressed, ‘To Meredith’ in an unfamiliar hand. Meredith opened it.<br />
Inside was a book by Mr. Rogers called, ‘When a Pet Dies’. Taped to the inside<br />
front cover was the letter we had written to God in its opened envelope. On<br />
the opposite page was the picture of Abbey and Meredith and this note:<br />
Dear Meredith,<br />
Abbey arrived safely in heaven. Having the picture was a big help.<br />
I recognised Abbey right away.<br />
Abbey isn’t sick anymore. Her spirit is here with me just like it stays in<br />
your heart. Abbey loved being your dog. Since we don’t need our bodies<br />
in heaven, I don’t have any pockets to keep your picture in, so I am<br />
sending it back to you in this little book for you<br />
to keep and have something to remember Abbey by.<br />
Thank you for the beautiful letter and thank your mother for helping<br />
you write it and sending it to me. What a wonderful mother you have.<br />
I picked her especially for you. I send my blessings every day and<br />
remember that I love you very much.<br />
By the way, I’m easy to find,<br />
I am wherever there is love.<br />
Love, God<br />
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the bigger picture • • • •<br />
Opals are known to<br />
promote introspection,<br />
dream work, and assist on<br />
spiritual journeys through<br />
awakening clairvoyance.<br />
This uniquely Australian gem<br />
acts as a spiritual mirror,<br />
sparking intuition while<br />
encouraging one’s awareness<br />
to turn inward. A crystal for<br />
inspiration, one that enhances<br />
imagination and creativity—a<br />
great manifesting tool.<br />
Transparent, translucent, or<br />
semi-translucent bodies, when<br />
you can see through an opal you<br />
are probably looking at a crystal<br />
opal. Crystal opals can display any<br />
colour of the spectrum in a beautiful<br />
play of colour.<br />
Lightning Ridge, the home of the<br />
famed black opal, offers hope of an<br />
Australian opal mining industry that<br />
began in the 1800’s will last into the<br />
21st century. A fortuitous discovery<br />
soon led to the establishment of the<br />
world’s largest and most productive<br />
opal field at Cooper Pedy, which literally<br />
translated from the local Aboriginal dialect<br />
means “white man in a hole”.<br />
by author/astrologer Kim Falconer<br />
Year of the Water Dragon . . .<br />
strength, power and a link to the divine<br />
for all in 2012. It’s an electric energy that<br />
is looking to expand with optimism and a<br />
pioneering spirit. But a Dragon, you say?<br />
Don’t they amass gold and kidnap virgins?<br />
Not these dragons! We have to remember<br />
that the Chinese Dragon is not the kind<br />
Tolkien wrote about in The Hobbit, not<br />
our Western mythic creature that knights<br />
had to slay to rescue captured princesses.<br />
Dragons in the East are revered.<br />
They not only are a composite of all<br />
animals, they come from the heavens–the<br />
realm of the spirit. What does this mean for<br />
2012?<br />
First of all, we can see this year as one<br />
where our connection to source energy, to<br />
our higher Self, to expanded consciousness<br />
and our enlightenment augments. Talk<br />
about getting on track to our own wellbeing!<br />
You can read more about the nature of<br />
each animal sign on my website:<br />
www.falconastrology.com<br />
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Here are Kim Falconer’s Law of Attraction hints<br />
and tips for the Year of the Dragon 2012 . . .<br />
Rat: 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008<br />
The Year of the Dragon gains momentum for Rat as things<br />
finally start to fall into place. Key elements are appreciating<br />
what you already have, and setting goals that count. What<br />
you want has to be an authentic desires, not what you<br />
think you should go for according to others expectations.<br />
Try not giving a rip what they think, to get your year of<br />
2012 started right. Romantic encounters with Dragons are<br />
gooooood! Secret friend is Ox.<br />
Ox: 1913, 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009<br />
The year of the Dragon can bring contrast – experiences of<br />
things you thought you wanted but find out you don’t, or<br />
things you don’t want but when they happen, something<br />
good comes out of it all. Because of this, you might feel a<br />
bit indecisive at times. Don’t worry. Trust the road you are<br />
on and any changes you make. The more you can practice<br />
judgment free living, the better. Romance improves as the<br />
year goes on. Secret friend is snake.<br />
Tiger: 1914, 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010<br />
In the year of the Dragon, Tiger makes improvement in<br />
relationships though it can mean letting go of a romantic<br />
partner if the alignment isn’t right. This can be a healthy<br />
thing! Just remember, make no big decisions on ‘bad’ days.<br />
If you aren’t feeling light and enthused, then REST. Take<br />
it easy. Do nothing for a time. Think flexible: if one road<br />
isn’t working, take another. You decide when you want a<br />
change! Romance with a horse?<br />
Rabbit: 1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011<br />
In the year of the Dragon, the pace is hectic and it can<br />
be flustering if you feel like you aren’t keeping up. Don’t<br />
worry! Action isn’t your goal this year! Things come to<br />
you when you relax so let go of that ‘it’s too hard’ belief!<br />
Think about your body. Are you looking after yourself with<br />
fitness, exercise and good food? Support your Dragon year<br />
by making your own happiness recipe .Romance improves<br />
when least expected! Eye out for a Dog.<br />
Dragon: 1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012<br />
This is your year, Dragon! The early part of the year is<br />
when you want to launch your rockets and boost all those<br />
positive thoughts about success. Money management is<br />
easier then and you are in the flow! If you feel nervous or<br />
not up to speed with this face paced year, the best advice is<br />
to ‘act as if‘ until, before long, everything you are hoping for<br />
is landing in your lap. The key to enhancing your romance<br />
this year is to tell a different story! About a Monkey?<br />
Snake: 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001<br />
The year of the Dragon can be one of abundance but first ask<br />
yourself, what is rich? When you know what it really means<br />
to you, consider ways to make more money. Much focus<br />
is on career and artistry so you might need reminders to<br />
nurture your love and friendships. If you don’t, the balance<br />
tips and that’s not your road to happiness. Romance<br />
improves mid-year. Secret friend is Rooster.<br />
Insight<br />
Horse: 1918, 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002<br />
In the year of the Dragon, you find a steady, peaceful, easy<br />
approach brings the best results. This can be a fabulous<br />
year if you don’t get tangled up in angst and aggression. A<br />
motto might be, I’d rather be happy than right! You decide.<br />
As for home, there is a feeling of expansion, a desire to<br />
move. It might be linked to a new or growing relationship.<br />
Single horses need to decide if they are ready to plunge.<br />
Sheep is your quiet ally!<br />
Sheep: 1919, 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003<br />
Year of the Dragon brings new people into your life and<br />
with them comes ideas, opportunities and a feeling of<br />
belonging. The key is to be flexible and spontaneous as<br />
the year races by. Indecision can leave you out of the loop<br />
so practice getting clear on what you are feeling. Breathe.<br />
It’s all working out! Relationships have the chance to go<br />
exactly where you want them to! Secret support from a<br />
Rabbit and Pig!<br />
Monkey: 1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004<br />
The year of the Dragon holds as much promise for Monkey<br />
as 2011, if not more. The key is to make peace with what is.<br />
Stop resisting! There are so many opportunities awaiting.<br />
The more you open your mind, the more they come<br />
flooding in. You may also find you manifest change by<br />
changing your space. Move things, and thoughts, around!<br />
When it comes to romance this year, there are no rules!<br />
Snake is loyal to your cause.<br />
Rooster: 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005<br />
The year of the Dragon is going to be fabulous, especially<br />
if you change some of your old beliefs. These are just<br />
thoughts that you keep thinking and if you’re stuck, they<br />
are what’s slowing you down. One quick step to your dream<br />
come true is to be grateful for everything that’s going right,<br />
right now! This approach will make your relationships the<br />
best ever in 2012. There will be much to celebrate on this<br />
matter! Secret friend is Dragon.<br />
Dog: 1910, 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006<br />
The year of the Dragon is full of excitement with much<br />
contrast to show you what you really want and how to focus<br />
on where you want to go! It’s easy to look at things that<br />
aren’t working out and talk about them but this is a year<br />
to keep your eyes on the goal, not the ‘obstacle’. If you can<br />
learn to relax a bit more and trust, family and relationships<br />
improve as well as career and health. Tiger has your back!<br />
Pig: 1911, 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007<br />
The year of the Dragon brings more creative change for Pig.<br />
The important thing is to set intentions with a lightness<br />
of being. Feeling appreciation for where you are NOW is<br />
the way to allow for an even more fulfilling tomorrow. If<br />
you already LOVE your life, think about expanding the<br />
appreciation even further! Relationships and any family<br />
drama transform. It’s a growth curve! Give yourself credit<br />
for success. Secret friend is Rabbit.<br />
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the bigger picture • • • •
the bigger picture • • • •<br />
Insight<br />
27<br />
WHAT CAN SAVE HUMANITY<br />
NEPTUNE IN PISCES<br />
Whether you‘re into astrology or not, this read could<br />
open up a window of great opportunity . . .<br />
Neptune portrays a myriad of<br />
meanings from the dreamy depths of the<br />
watery unconscious, the longings of spiritual<br />
aspirations, the obsession of powerful desires<br />
to the revelation of the divine beloved.<br />
Some say it is where we seek the ineffable,<br />
or where, conversely, the ineffable seeks<br />
us. This planet also symbolises a place of<br />
confusion and deception because Neptune<br />
is sometimes too intangible for the mundane<br />
world to decipher . . .<br />
Astro-Flash: Neptune into Pisces is<br />
illusive, unconscious, ineffable. It represents a<br />
part of us that can never be defined. Neptune<br />
asks us to experience life without concrete<br />
boundaries, knowledge or proof. Sometimes<br />
Neptune can coincide with confusion . . .<br />
And confusion gets a lot of bad press, right?<br />
Aren’t we told to get clear, know our why, be<br />
aware of our unconscious motives, gremlins<br />
and tolerations?<br />
Clarity is a great way to bring awareness into<br />
our lives but sometimes there is a better one:<br />
hanging out in ‘I don’t know.’ There is a role<br />
in deliberate creation for confusion, chaos,<br />
and lack of clarity and that role is inspiration.<br />
Creation. Artistry. Love.<br />
The eighth century BCE Greek poet Hesiod<br />
said before any of the original deities, there<br />
was chaos. Ultimate confusion! All our<br />
creation myths, in all places in all cultures in<br />
all times, begin with chaos, darkness, water.<br />
The unknown. “In truth at first Chaos came to<br />
be”. . . Hesiod<br />
There is a archetypal metaphor here! To<br />
create something truly new, first there must<br />
be chaos. We have to go back to scratch,<br />
forget what we think, and what we think we<br />
think, and immerse!<br />
Jeannette Maw puts it like this: ‘Sometimes<br />
reality is a handicap to vibrational alignment<br />
because what’s happening in our “real world” is<br />
very different from what we want to create.‘<br />
Neptune is all things unworldly, without<br />
form, ideas that cannot be proven. In esoteric<br />
terms we say it represents what is behind<br />
the veil. This energy, this part of us, wants<br />
Bliss. Reunion with the divine. Merging with<br />
source.<br />
Higher and lower Neptune - My friend<br />
Mystic Medusa talks about higher and<br />
lower Neptune, lower being escapism,<br />
addictions, fears, and phobias because we<br />
want something so far beyond the rational,<br />
mundane experience of life, something<br />
so rarefied and beautiful that we reach<br />
for anything that can ‘drown’ us in the<br />
feeling. Higher Neptune energy is more the<br />
expression of bliss, love and communion with<br />
all life. Source. An experience of source while<br />
in a physical body. Transcendence.<br />
Neptune is bliss/confusion that doesn’t really<br />
function in the world of form because this<br />
energy is only interested in formless states of<br />
infinite possibility. Think of Deepak Chopra’s<br />
Discontinuity (the space or gap between our<br />
thoughts). That’s Neptune. By the time you<br />
get the message of Neptune, he’s already<br />
‘gone’ because the getting is the realm of<br />
Saturn (the edifice of the ego). Neptune is<br />
outside that.<br />
Neptune denies evidence. Neptune defies logic.<br />
Neptune simply believes - Joanne Wickenburg.<br />
This energy wants to dissolve overly rigid<br />
structures so that you can receive inspiration,<br />
communion, source energy. It is from a place<br />
of ‘uncertainty’ and allowing that creative<br />
originates!<br />
Neptune into Pisces is a<br />
home coming for this planet<br />
The sea god returns to his rightful realm.<br />
There is power there, and relief! Honour this<br />
transition. Allow yourself to get swept up<br />
into the bliss of the unknown. Welcome this<br />
ingress into Pisces like a Muse, a divine lover,<br />
the part of us that takes things on faith.<br />
Neptune says stop thinking and dance!<br />
Another word for Neptune – Namaste<br />
by Kim Falconer<br />
www.falconastrology.com<br />
Posted by Kim Falconer in Archetypes and Symbols,<br />
Astro-LOA, Law of Attraction - Saturday 04 February 2012<br />
LINK:<br />
http://kimfalconer.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/<br />
neptune-into-pisces/<br />
We are the<br />
inheritors of a<br />
million years of<br />
striving for the<br />
unspeakable.<br />
And now with<br />
the engines of<br />
technology in our<br />
hands we ought<br />
to be able to reach<br />
out and actually<br />
exteriorise the<br />
human soul at the<br />
end of time, invoke<br />
it into existence like<br />
a UFO and open<br />
the violet doorway<br />
into hyperspace and<br />
walk through it, out<br />
of profane history<br />
and into the world<br />
beyond the grave,<br />
beyond shamanism,<br />
beyond the end of<br />
history, into the<br />
galactic millennium<br />
that has beckoned<br />
to us for millions of<br />
years across space<br />
and time.<br />
THIS IS THE<br />
MOMENT<br />
A planet<br />
brings forth an<br />
opportunity like<br />
this only once in its<br />
lifetime, and we are<br />
ready, and we are<br />
poised. And as a<br />
community we are<br />
ready to move into<br />
it, to claim it, to<br />
make it our own.<br />
Terence McKenna
Injest<br />
After being married for thirty years a wife asked her husband to describe<br />
her. He looked at her for a bit and said, “You’re A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K.”<br />
She asks, “What does that mean?”<br />
He said, “Adorable, Beautiful, Cute, Delightful, Elegant, Foxy, Gorgeous, Hot.”<br />
She smiled happily and said, “Oh that’s so lovely… what about I, J, K?”<br />
He said, “I’m Just Kidding!”<br />
Six retired Irishmen were playing poker in O’Leary’s apartment when<br />
Paddy Murphy loses $500 on a single hand, clutches his chest and drops<br />
dead at the table.<br />
Michael O’Connor looks around and asks, ‘Oh, me boys, someone’s got to tell<br />
Paddy’s wife.’<br />
They draw straws. Paul Gallagher picks the short one. They all tell him to be<br />
discreet, be gentle and don’t make it any worse.<br />
‘Discreet??? I’m the most discreet Irishmen you’ll ever meet. Discretion is me<br />
middle name. Leave it to me.’<br />
Gallagher goes over to Murphy’s house and knocks on the door.<br />
Mrs. Murphy answers, and asks what he wants.<br />
Gallagher explains, ‘Your husband just lost $500 and he’s afraid to come<br />
home.’<br />
‘Tell him to drop dead’, says Murphy’s wife.<br />
‘I’ll go tell him.<br />
A Mexican maid asked for a pay increase. The wife didn’t like it and<br />
decided to talk to her about the raise.<br />
She asked: “Now Maria, why do you want a pay increase?”<br />
Maria: “Well, Señora, there are tree reasons why I wanna increaze.”<br />
The first is that I iron better than you.”<br />
Wife: “Who said you iron better than me?”<br />
Maria: “Jor huzban he say so.”<br />
Wife: “Oh yeah?”<br />
Maria: “The second reason eez that I am a better cook than you.”<br />
Wife: “Nonsense, who said you were a better cook than me?”<br />
Maria: “Jor hozban did.”<br />
Wife increasingly agitated: “Oh he did, did he???”<br />
Maria: “The third reason is that I am better at sex than you in the bed.”<br />
Wife, really boiling now: “And did my husband say that as well?”<br />
Maria: “No Señora…The gardener did.”<br />
Wife: “So how much do you want?”<br />
••<br />
EXIPHILES . . .<br />
• To write with a broken pencil is pointless.<br />
• When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.<br />
• A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.<br />
• A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.<br />
• A will is a dead giveaway.<br />
• You are stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.<br />
• A boiled egg is hard to beat.<br />
• Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting<br />
a rest.<br />
• Did you hear about the fellow whose left side was cut off? He’s all<br />
right now.<br />
• If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.<br />
• A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.<br />
• When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.<br />
• He had a photographic memory which he never developed.<br />
• Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.<br />
A man and his wife were<br />
awakened at 3am by a loud<br />
pounding on the door. The<br />
man gets up and goes to the<br />
door where a drunken stranger,<br />
standing in the pouring rain, is<br />
asking for a push.<br />
“Not a chance,” says the<br />
husband, “it is 3:00 in the<br />
morning!” He slams the door and<br />
returns to bed.<br />
“Who was that?” asked his wife.<br />
“Just some drunk guy asking for<br />
a push,” he answers.<br />
“Did you help him?” she asks.<br />
“No, I did not, it’s 3 in the<br />
morning and it’s pouring rain out<br />
there!”<br />
“Well, you have a short memory,”<br />
says his wife. “Can’t you<br />
remember about three months<br />
ago when we broke down, and<br />
those two guys helped? I think<br />
you should.”<br />
The man does as he is told, gets<br />
dressed, and goes out into the<br />
pouring rain.<br />
He calls out into the dark, “Hello,<br />
are you still there?”<br />
“Yes,” comes back the answer.<br />
“Do you still need a push?” calls<br />
out the husband.<br />
“Yes, please!” comes the reply<br />
from the dark.<br />
“Where are you?” asks the<br />
husband.<br />
“Over here on the swing,”<br />
I took my dad to the mall the<br />
other day to buy new shoes… he<br />
is sixty six.<br />
We decided to grab a bite at<br />
the food court. I noticed he was<br />
watching a teenager sitting next<br />
to him who had spiked hair in<br />
all different colors - green, red,<br />
orange, and blue.<br />
My dad kept staring at her.<br />
The teenager kept looking and<br />
found my dad staring every time.<br />
When the teenager had had<br />
enough, she sarcastically asked:<br />
“What’s the matter old man,<br />
never done anything wild in your<br />
life?”<br />
Knowing my Dad I quickly<br />
swallowed my food so that I<br />
would not choke on his response;<br />
I knew he’d have a good one!<br />
In his classic style he responded<br />
without batting an eyelid…<br />
“Got stoned once and spent the<br />
night with a parrot. I was just<br />
wondering if you might actually<br />
be my kid.”<br />
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Festival director Peter Noble says: “We are<br />
thrilled to announce a second and spectacular<br />
6pm sunset show for John Fogerty on Easter<br />
Monday. This time he will perform his Creedence<br />
Clearwater Revival Album ‘Green River’ in its<br />
entirety, plus his ‘bonus’ set drawn from the<br />
canon of his solo and CCR hits. This special<br />
sunset performance will set the scene for<br />
Bluesfest’s closing night.”<br />
The 23rd Bluesfest is taking place<br />
between Thursday 5th of April and<br />
Monday 9th of April at its Festival Home<br />
at Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm just outside<br />
of Byron Bay.<br />
2012 Artists already announced: COLD CHISEL - JOHN<br />
FOGERTY (performing the albums and music of CREEDENCE<br />
CLEARWATER REVIVAL - CROSBY STILLS & NASH - EARTH<br />
WIND & FIRE – THE POGUES – THE SPECIALS - JOHN<br />
BUTLER TRIO – MY MORNING JACKET – YES - BUDDY GUY<br />
– DONOVAN – LUCINDA WILLIAMS - MACEO PARKER – G3<br />
feat: JOE SATRIANI, STEVE VAI & STEVE LUKATHER - ZIGGY<br />
MARLEY – BRIAN SETZER’S ROCKABILLY RIOT! - JOHN HIATT<br />
& THE COMBO – ANGELIQUE KIDJO – SUBLIME WITH ROME<br />
- ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA – JONNY LANG – SEASICK STEVE – KENNY WAYNE<br />
SHEPHERD -KEB MO – CANDI STATON – NICK LOWE – STEVE EARLE – JUSTIN<br />
TOWNES EARLE - YANN TIERSEN – JOSH PYKE – BETTYE LAVETTE – ROSIE LEDET<br />
- TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE – GREAT BIG SEA – SETH LAKEMAN<br />
- BLUE KING BROWN – THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS feat. KIM WILSON –<br />
CANNED HEAT - DAVID BROMBERG QUARTET – MELBOURNE SKA ORCHESTRA<br />
– BUSBY MAROU – DAWES - VUSI MAHLASELA – RICHARD CLAPTON – BLITZEN<br />
TRAPPER – THE AUDREYS – BACKSLIDERS - EUGENE ‘HIDEAWAY’ BRIDGES – RAY<br />
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WATUSSI – EAGLE AND THE WORM - MAT. MCHUGH (THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS)<br />
– DUBMARINE – MAMA KIN – TIJUANA CARTEL – BENJALU – CARUS THOMPSON<br />
- KIM CHURCHILL – DALLAS FRASCA – MARSHALL O’KELL – ASHLEIGH MANNIX<br />
– OLLIE BROWN – KOOII – LACHLAN BRYAN and YOUNG SOUNDS<br />
OF BYRON showcasing local school talent on the<br />
Cavanbah stage. Students from Byron Bay High,<br />
Kadina High, Brunswick Public School & the Steiner<br />
Schools are giving us a taste of their talents!<br />
Byron<br />
Shire<br />
Volunteer<br />
Expo<br />
2012<br />
Calling all groups that<br />
rely on volunteers<br />
in their activities.<br />
The Byron Community Centre<br />
is hosting a local area<br />
Volunteer Expo on<br />
15th March 2012<br />
Any organisations that operate<br />
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volunteer workers are invited<br />
to showcase their services,<br />
present their volunteer and<br />
work placement opportunities<br />
to the public, network and<br />
generally raise their profile in the<br />
community.<br />
To register for this event,<br />
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66856807<br />
or email<br />
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