13-Moon Date: Moon 10 Day 19
Yellow Crystal Seed
from 13moon.com:
These sixteen principles are summarized as four “guiding principles” essential for the formation and functioning of any community. Adopted to our needs, these principles are:
1. “Starting from Within” – Development comes from within; take responsibility yourself for your relationships; vision is the basis of development; culture is the basis of all healing and development. To make culture real practice time is art, learn from your elders and from nature.
2. “Working in a Circle” – All community, like the path of nature, forms a circle. Make a daily circle and dissolve into one. A circle is a whole system. All approaches must be used and balanced. A circle is unity. A circle means we all share and participate. A circle means we are all equal and maintains the justice of our equality, regardless of age, sex, race, religion, etc.; make decisions from consensus – move the circle, and keep the circle moving.
3. “In a Sacred Manner” – Spirituality is the center of healing and development. Practice daily salat prayer and/or vipassana meditation; make ceremony that integrates the natural elements in natural time with our mind, prayers, and needs. Connect with the Creator. Cultivate a heart-centered approach in all matters. Listen to spirit. Know with whom you are speaking and act and behave accordingly. Walk in balance. Do not violate ethical or moral boundaries. Think before you do anything. Work from principle. Let your principles reflect the order and plan of the universe. Do not sacrifice principle, but remain flexible.
4. “We heal and develop Ourselves, our Relationships and World.” – Learn to live in ways that promote life and uplift others in your environment. Practice sustainability and non-codependence. Do not be afraid to be humble. Seek help when you need it. Respect all living systems and relations. Move to the positive. Be the change you want to see!
If we begin to learn and practice these principles in our communities and integrate them with our Earth Wizards practices, we will become successful and attractive to others dissatisfied with the 12:60 world. Community thrives on intimacy of all as one together. Let us learn to practice intimacy with self-respect!
In sum, as Earth Wizards, we wish to develop an ethic that can be characterized as:
Whole Person – that we are each committed to the care and maintenance of our own autonomy in mutual respect of the autonomy of others.
Whole Family – that we recognize that our family, clan or group bonding will become whole only as each one of us becomes whole
Whole Earth – the wholeness you attain as a person extends to the wholeness we attain as a family which then reflects the wholeness of our relation to the Earth, for it is the Earth which needs us to be whole.
The Creator sustains the flow. Barter and exchange are better than money and help cultivate our ethical character and resourcefulness.
To have something to barter we must all tend the garden together. To sustain ourselves we must learn permaculture, biodynamics, greenhouses. Study your environment. Know your local flora and fauna and what is possible where you live – what are the growing seasons? Learn about dry compost toilets, lime for latrines. Learn about solar panels, alternative energy, and building techniques that manifest energy conservation. Zero residue in energy consumption! ‘Waste free’ is the ‘Earth way’.
There is much to learn. But if we are not ethically attuned, nothing will matter. If we learn and live by such principles as are herein enumerated, nothing will sway us from our path. Let the circle grow. Let the Circle move us. Love is vast, everywhere, and in everything – but belongs to no one. Let the circle move us. We are ONE!
* Praise the Earth!! *Praise the Goddess!! **HAPPY EARTH DAY!** Every day is earth day!!*
