This post is a transcript for our latest podcast episode which is a TRAILER for our 2025 Ancestral Think Tank and Artist Retreat: “WHEN WE LIVED & DIED IN THE THRIVING VILLAGE.”
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We invite you to take in this TRAILER as a 7-minute sound healing meditation.
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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
flowers from our garden
flowers, flowers
flowers from our garden
flowers from our world
(verse is sung twice and fades out)
[sounds of water fade in]
Greetings Good Listeners,
When I look toward 2025, I see a great amount of Change that will sweep most of us in its wake.
The change is Holy Grief that we must release,
from generations of Ancestors that must move,
must sing, must heal,
& must dance.
[water fades away]
The change is Earth Shaking Love
that sits quiet in the soul
that lands still like home
in the bones
certain like, it was never gonna miss
and we were never gonna miss it
even though we’ve been missing it for too long
craving it, praying it, yearning it,
shattering for it,
remaining for it,
ever-so-faithful
in moments we were absolutely
ridiculous for choosing it
knowing it could very well
slip through our fingers
had we not remained
oh so ridiculous
Love in 2025 is certain
but also unfamiliar
to our tried and true wounded patterns that we have built such expert coping mechanisms for.
Love in 2025 will challenge us to grow and dismantle in ways that we ache to heal and become more of ourselves.
The change coming is the Materialization of Prayer,
and Promises
coursing through the veins of the planet
the Ancestors who play the long game
and god, have they ever played the long game!
They have lifetimes of scars and sacrifices to prove the long game they know,
and so do we.
Though they move, love, and grieve
as if they have nothing to prove at all.
And, so must we.
When I look into 2025, I see Mighty Change…
but I also see the steady support of longevity
the everlasting
breathing easily, under our feet
[sounds of a heartbeat fade in and out]
I see a healed and healing collective Root Chakra
ensuring our stability in places it matters most
sweetly inviting us to
be held, grounded
prepared, connected and sturdied
through all the changes
we will fall on our knees for,
and fall in love with…
because it is already here.
The heartbeat that is,
it’s here.
Can you feel it?
It’s right here.
Living still, living on.
In the unbroken.
[sounds of a heartbeat fade in and out]
Deep in the Ancestral, Celestial memory
of your bones, stars, lineage, and communal technologies
I would know.
If you’re a Death Surgeon, you know.
[sounds of a tabla drum]
If you’re an Open Heart Surgery Storyteller,
you know
the only constant is change.
If you’re a Time Keeper
you know what time it is on Earth’s clock
you know that We are the Ones tasked to know
Change more than we know anything else
no matter how much we try
not to know
But here’s the thing,
when you know Change
when you know Death
you know
every single time
[background music stops]
There are some things that stay.
There are some things you keep.
For Good.
There are some things that are endless
If you’re Good Listener
You Know.
You hear it, you feel it
endlessness
[sounds of a tabla drum & a low chanting voice]
[a collage of Shaunga singing the opening theme in different octaves]
[flowers from our garden, flowers, flowers,
flowers from our garden, flowers from our world]
reverberating through
the rivers, the mountains,
the flowers from our garden
the flowers from our world
it’s radiating through
the unbroken love story
between the core of the earth
roughly the size of pluto,
and our north star.
That’s us.
The Thriving Global Village.
[background music stops. Shaunga keeps singing]
[flowers from our garden, flowers flowers]
In 2025. We RE-MEMBER.
flowers from our garden, flowers from our world
[sounds of water fade in]
Calling all Good Listeners! We invite you to RE-MEMBER the THRIVING VILLAGE with us, in our 2025 Ancestral Think Tank and Artist Retreat. Check out all the links in the you-know-where.
Doors Open, January 8 2025.
See you there.
[sounds of water fade out]