Council of Gnomes Blog

Reminder from Mano: Take time to rejoice in the beauty the color angels create to herald dawn and dusk with sunrise and sunset. A major attraction of the man who became my husband was that he had a magnificent dedication to art. It was not just the outer details of painting, sculpture, poetry, opera, or film that he could explain, but he could, with passion, trace worthy artistic creations back to essence and link them to enduring human aspirations and needs. I knew I would be able to…

I have a little pocketful of “big dreams” (night-time dreams, “big” in the Jungian sense) that I pull from occasionally to savor as unwavering symbols of my life purpose. Much less often I add a new one, as I did the other night. In the dream I was working with a group in which each of us contributed in a way central to our beings, with great energy and joy. I had no sense of “too much” or “too little”, of doubt or hesitation, competition or bluster or…

Reminder from Mano: When you see a face in the bark or leaves of a tree, open your heart and say “hello”. Ask if it wants to speak to you. Ask what you can do for it. The book Barbara is just completing is autobiographical, but specifically it’s a spiritual autobiography. She has a view, now, from her year-90 perch, that unveils for her the adventures and serendipity of how family, friends, teachers, books, travel, moving—all the small and large pieces of her life—fit together like puzzle pieces…

Reminder from Mano: Be aware of the seasons and live vibrantly with gratitude for Mother Nature’s bounty, the generosity and beauty of each season. Savor the flavor of cherries in spring, watermelon in summer, apples in autumn. Enjoy the first bulbs of spring, the leaves that turn in the fall, the winter storm, and summer vacation. For all of your conscious relating with us, we give you the gift of a grateful heart. For several years Steven Odell lived on Barbara’s land, and one of his fine contributions…

Reminder from Mano: Live life abundantly in relationship with nature, recognizing the elemental beings and angels when you feel the freshness of ocean, lake, stream, rain, or snow. If, as Charles Eisenstein proposes, revitalized ritual is “alive, evolving out of the moment, expanding your awareness even to dimensions you may think you don’t know, calling to it those who will hold the space”, then Barbara’s early August 90th birthday celebration in the amphitheater was a beautiful illustration. The sun filtered through the redwoods and madrones, bubbles floated, feet…

Reminder from Mano: When you arrive at all events bring your energy into total presence. Ask, “How may I serve the people, the angels, nature, Spirit? When you leave say goodbye personally to people. Withdraw your energy from the place and ask for blessings on all people, nature and angels who were there. After last month’s blog on oracles, particularly Barbara’s experience with learning to use and trust the pendulum, I began to get the itch to reconnect with one of my earlier oracle consultants, the alchemy stones.…

Reminder from Mano:  “As you walk the earth, enrich your experience by sending blessings. See your feet radiating love into the earth with every step, leaving footprints of love and light wherever you go.” What an interesting conversation it would be to share with a group all of the oracle, or oracle-like tools we have used to guide us in our lifetimes—how we found them, how long we used them, and how they lived in us. For myself, the I Ching caught my attention in the early 1970s,…

Reminder from Mano: You are never alone. You are never to work alone. Always ask the wise ones of the earth before you do a major activity. They can see the larger picture and the flow of energies. When a melanoma once appears somewhere else in the body—when it metastasizes—it alerts its human host that it may turn up anywhere at all . . . in an organ, a lymph node, a muscle, the soft tissue of a breast. These migrational possibilities are way too complex to track or anticipate, and…

Reminder from Mano: When eating a meal, give thanks to the carrot elementals, the broccoli elementals, etc. NOTICE: Barbara will be a presenter at the Starseed Visionary Conference event in Santa Cruz, hosted by Narayani Gaia and Chief Elk Man, on May 13 & 14, 2017. If you cannot attend in person, you can still join the event Livestreaming online. LOCATION: 1119 PACIFIC AVE. 3RD FLOOR. SANTA CRUZ CA (above Logos, enter from Cedar Street side) Since the spring of 2013 when Mano recommended to Barbara that I help create this blog, the three…