Lift Us Up

Even stronger than the creative energies of the written or spoken word is the timeless beauty and magical colors and tones of art and spirit when lifted up and transformed by music.

Close your eyes, open your heart and listen to this simple prose-poem-chant-song Lift us up! written by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary. Then Imagine a new world with John Lennon and combine your imagination with Both Sides Now  written by Joni Mitchell and sung here by the lifting, lyrical voice of Judy Collins.

So many, many songs remind me of eras of changing times in my 7 decades remind me of a time, a place, and often of a huge heart rending period of deep loss. But so many more songs lift me joyously up into happier times and the creation of a new era, a new national spirit, or even  a new spirit on earth after great change of even greater loss.

This is a time of rising up and out of such an era such a period of anger and ugliness and loss and truly deeply reflecting on my life, our lives and our loss filled actions and their endless cycles of repercussion and focusing on redemption and rebirth and the transporting of conscious moving into new possibilities of the true spirit of faith-filled love and grace-filled change.

I am chanting and singing and moving this energy into my heart today.

Lift us up and out of the old hierarchical energies of individuation and separation of our ego driven Age of Aries that separated us from connection with each other, our world, and this earth into a selfish ego driven energy of personal attainment and success over unity and healing of the whole.

Now as we enter the Age of Aquarius the old willful energies of Arian adolescence have the opportunity to grow into maturity where love and faith can create a new earth energy.

Lift us up and out of our angry teen-age rebellion of  survival of the individual with its focus on ego-driven attainment of power over others and transform us into the love-filled essence of one heartfilled unity for each and all others.

Now listen to your own heart songs and music and fill your own spirit with meaningful words and melodies of your life. Play those lifting up and soaring and twirling and dancing songs every day from every era of your life and feel the old winter energies recede back into their caves as we come joyously back out into these lovely spring energies  

As I focus more and more on my own deepest values and lose interest in distractions that hinder them, so many songs still epitomize the love I continue to hold in my heart for the people, places, and things I love, and the hopes and dreams I carry for a new and better tomorrow.

America and this world will rise again with love, acceptance, and unity. And for this I pray today and everyday.

Lift us up and let us all rejoice with the faith filled energies of love and hope. 

Michele Bilyeu Creates 

With Heart and Hands: 

Easter in History, Spirituality/Religion

Michele Bilyeu Creates 

With Heart and Hands 

sharing her imaginative, magical, and healing journey from Alaska to Oregon. Creating, designing, sewing, quilting, and wildcrafting from my heart and with my hands.

Fox Fire

In the folklore of Northern Finland, a "Firefox" (tulikettu or tulirepo or tulikko) is a mythical creature that is occasionally spotted by hunters deep in the forest.

Stemming from the tales of hunters spotting a fox whose tail literally twinkles sparks of fire as it raced through the woods, the Firefox its tail sparking and glittering against the darkness and its reflection in the snow, became a sought after sighting if not prize.

This magical, mystical "Firefox" has given its name by the Finns to the beautiful "Aurora Borealis" commonly known as the "Northern Lights".

In Finland they are called "fox fires" ("revontulet"). The Finns believed that it was the fire fox who painted the night sky with its bushy tail into sparkling lights of the northern lights.

Another explanation for Finnish name is the word “repo”, used by the migrant Forest Finns, meaning a spell. Thus, the auroras were spellfires, caused by forces of darkness and light waging war in the sky.

My nephew and his family saw and photographed these beautiful flashing, soaring, and sweeping lights against the winter's dark night sky of Anchorage.
The revontulet fire fox was painting the sky with his flashing tail!

I bring back my childhood memories of my Finnish immigrant grandparents and send love and ancestral healing energies across the night skies.

From these Northern Lights in Alaska to the sprinkles of the foxfire tail re-appearing as a dusting of snow here in Oregon!

Michele Bilyeu Creates With Heart and Hands as she shares her imaginative, magical, and healing journey from Alaska to Oregon. Creating, designing, sewing, quilting, and wildcrafting, from my heart and with my hands