News from Awakening Arts: Blessings at the Autumn Equinox

Blessing at the Autumn EquinoxOld worlds are dying Like dessicated leaves we cling to hardening branches till swirling in winds of change we spiral to a soft ground, listening… Listening for the heartbeat of unborn worlds, a future in gestation curling embryos of what we may be… Autumn Equinox is a time of turning within…  The profusion of summer’s riotous colors deliquesce to tones of grey and velvet green withers into brown.  Flowering forms shrivel and fall away as roots deepen into the earth.  As a part of all that is, our energies also seek to go within.  Attune to the energy of this season.  Take time to feel the deeper pulses flowing beneath the surface.  Listen; to the wind, to your heart, to the still small voice and to the silent whispers from Eternity. Creative Odysseys! This fall Dana will be giving a number of workshops on the West Coast of the USA including a very special Vision Quest New Years Retreat at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.  In January join Dana on the big Island of Hawaii for 9 days of rejuvenation, adventure and transformation;  “Wayfarers; an Inner Odyssey at the Heart of the Pacific”  or experience a soothing 12 day Ayurvedic retreat in Kerala India “Yoga, Art & Creativity” On Tour!  Workshops in the US & India October Free Your Creative Spirit!    El Dorado, California           16  Spark Your Creative Genius    Nevada City, California       21-23  Maskmaking   San Francisco, California                             29                                                November  Creativity will Save the World    Palo Alto California        4 Quantum Genius    Palo Alto, California                            5  Imagineering on 11·11·11             TBA                      11 Mandala; Centering the Self    Portland, Oregeon             20  Art in Community    Portland, Oregon                           21- 26                                             December  New Worlds    Seattle Washington                                 1,2 Shamanic Imagineering      Seattle Washington              8-10 New Years Retreat      Petaluma California                      Dec 30-Jan1 January Wayfarers Art Retreat      Hawaii                             12-21 Yoga, Art & Healing      Kerala, India                           Jan 28- February 9 March Symposium on Art & Consciousness  New Delhi, India     12-21 About the Autumn Equinox Autumn in the Garden of Eden by Dana Lynne Andersen An equinox occurs twice a year, when the day and the night are equal, deriving from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night).  It is the moment when the latitudes +L and -L north and south of the Equator experience nights of equal length. Though the term equinox is commonly used to describe the entire day of this passage, it actually occurs at a precise moment in time.  This moment comes twice a year, when there is a location on the Earth’s equator where the center of the Sun can be observed to be vertically overhead, occurring around September 22/23 each Autumn and around March 20/21 each Spring.  At this Equinoctial point, the Sun arrives to where the celestial equator (i.e. declination 0) and ecliptic intersect.  This year, the Autumn Equinox will occur on September 23rd at 9:04 UTC *UTC  (Coordinated Universal Time)  is a time standard based on International Atomic Time (TAI) used when scientific precision is required.  As the difference between UTC and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) must remain within 0.9 seconds (GMT) is considered essentially equivalent. CONTACT: dana@awakeningarts.comwww.awakeningarts.com