I hope that many of you had a day of rest. Today is my formal day of work. But I had time to write for you. Hope you’re enjoying these. In the next couple days, I have some more interviews coming up!

I mentioned that I would be presenting exceptional women during the 12-day Spirited Women Fest. First interview is with the wonderful Trinity Harris who is 50% of Rainbow Warrior Awaken — wonderful, wonderful cards. Can’t wait to get my hands on them. Given the nature of this blog and my great goals, I asked my interviewees about how their work impacts community…Trinity, thank you so much for your wonderful work.

1. Hi, My name is Trinity Harris.  Thirty one years ago a travel quest that took me all over the Northwest and down the Yukon River through Canada and Alaska, landed me in the lush Willamette Valley of Oregon (Eugene to be exact) and I knew I had found home.  During my years in Eugene I have parented two amazing human beings and been married to a man, Louis Carosio, who has been my friend, my teacher, my soul mate and my business partner.  Together we co-founded the Radiant Life Center through which we offer our counseling, classes and retreats and Pathways to Radiant Loving, which focuses on counseling and retreats for couples. My most recent and very exciting project has been co-creating with artist Mara Berendt Friedman of New Moon Visions, the divination deck and guidebook Rainbow Warrior Awaken!™ Your Journey of Guidance and Healing. A chance meeting of Nancy Mills of The Spirited Woman in the summer of 2010 introduced her to my work and eventually to Rainbow Warrior Awaken! which was first published in November of 2010.

2. My highest intention through these past 31 years has been to reach beyond my fear and limiting beliefs and feelings in order to go Further.  I feel that we create our lives one moment and one thought at a time.  We dream our own dream and we all have the ability to dream well.  It has been my great passion to help others to live free of their self-perceived limitations and to truly find their joy.

3. I start the work of making the world a better place with my own work – taking responsibility for my awakening and transformation.  I strive to inquire within myself for anywhere that my own heart is not open and free.  I desire to love well.  My practice is to find gratitude every day.  If I touch even one client’s heart and help them to be freer of fear and to know their own Essence, I know I have impacted our world in a positive way. My practice as a mother and wife has been to delight in who these special beings are – and release them from my own ego desires, trusting in their unfolding journey.  Rainbow Warrior Awaken!™ is mine and Mara’s contribution to a balancing of Mother Earth. The art, the poetry and the writing represent the archetypal journey of the soul, the journey that we are all on.  When we began the creation of RWA! our intention was to provide both women and men with simple yet deep guidance and healing wisdom.  We knew we wanted our creation to be deeply rooted in the Divine Feminine, helping others to experience and connect more powerfully to that profoundly healing energy within and around us.  We wanted our creation to be a celebration of all that is sacred in our lives and an honoring of the Rainbow Way of Beauty.   As we watch our Rainbow Girl make her way ever further into the world and we hear from others who are touched by her, touched by our work, we feel deeply gratified and grateful.  And did I mention that we are having a great time riding this ride!

4.  Long before the two of us met, in 2004 Mara was inspired to create a painting she called Rainbow Warrior Awaken!  She then began to learn more and more about the various prophecies that involve the Rainbow Warriors. In 2006 another painting came to her, which she entitled Enter the Rainbow Door. Just a few months later we met and though we did not know it at the time, with that meeting we entered the rainbow door. Shortly thereafter I led her in a healing process that left us both completely lit up and open.  Soon after, Mara began to awaken in the night hearing the words “Rainbow Warrior Awaken! the answer is with the maiden”.  She started to receive dreamtime information about a project that was about the Rainbow Warrior and combined her artwork with writing.  She also knew that I was the one she was to co-create this with.  She came to me with just a vision and a lot of notes and drawings on random pieces of paper.  Having no idea what I was about to embark upon, my “YES” was immediate and sure.  We began a 3 & ½ year project that has been our own journey of guidance and healing and growth.  Together we have formed a creative partnership and friendship that we will always cherish.  So beautiful to follow our visions and the inner yes!

5. A 40 year journey of spiritual seeking has brought me to a place where I have stopped looking outside myself for answers.  I know that no path or teacher will lead me to enlightenment.  I have come to know that awakening can only be found by recognizing that I am dreaming, seeking to wake up within the dream and embracing each moment as it is, even when it is challenging. This and being in gratitude for everything as it is, constitutes my spiritual practices.  A favorite author of mine, Jed McKenna, put it so perfectly when he said “The process of awakening can be viewed as the transition between two poles; the journey from fear and wrong making to gratitude and open eyed acceptance”

6. Mara and I and Rainbow Warrior Awaken! will be a feature in “Spirited   Products and Services”.

I will end with the poem for the RWA! card I just drew – asking for whatever wanted to be shared today on this blog.

The Card is #4 – Wisdom Action

• Rainbow Warrior Awaken!
• You stand noble and tall.
• Your action now is needed,
• Your heart does hear the call.
• Containment is of value,
• Calm thoughts bring lotus mind.
• Your wisdom guides your actions.
• Seek council from inside.

© 2010 TrinQuinity Productions Mara Berendt Friedman and Trinity Harris  http://www.rainbowwarriorawaken.com

There’s a big 12-day party going on over at The Spirited Woman Face Book page. We’re all invited to post pictures and poetry and music. Here’s what I posted… big enough for you to see!

Catch the Spirited Women Wind! Day One

I met Deborah Brown, of Boomer and the Babe Network: Giving voice to 78 million Boomers from Coast to Coast and Border to Border, as part of my involvement in The Spirited Women 2012 Directory: Resource for a Spirited Life. Deborah asked me to come on and talk about both Sacred Village and The Councils of Elders Experience. And as is always true, when two spirited women get together, the conversation ranges wildly. I’ll be looking to see what Deborah and I decided to do (and with whom) with the notion of three knots. As my friend Josh mentioned, there’s also a pretty good back story to who I am and how I got here.

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Just because I’m working hard to get everything ready for The Spirited Woman 2012 Directory: Resources for an Inspired Life doesn’t mean I get to slack off as the Priestess!

Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been watching community form around this directory. What’s very interesting and inspiring is that so much of the work being done is being done to help someone else. Or to welcome them. Or to praise them.

All of these women are women who want to increase their visibility or make their bottom line grow. But when Nancy Mills, who conceived of this project, she began to talk about all of us as Women Visionaries, changing the world. And you know what? Words have power. We begin to believe that not only we can change the world, but also that it is our obligation. So you might see hands stretching out from Kenya to Kansas and change happening. And that will be a wonderful thing.

Starting on the first, I’m going to interview some of these women, asking them about the places they want to make a difference. It will be interesting to see what they have to say.

In the meantime, Keep building that World of Peace, Village by Sacred Village.

Ann

This was an amazing story. A man with schizophrenia spent a fair amount of his life thinking that he was talking to God and/or Jesus. It interfered with his life; interrupted his studies, ruined relationships. Eventually he lost much of what life as he had known it. He went on medication; but the doctor never asked him about his hallucinations and what they might mean.

He went to the woods and found some solace and eventually some friends who guided him back to his medications. Somewhere he found a way to ask himself what these delusions of relationship to the Divine might mean. Even though the delusions were somewhat lessened by the drugs, he still had this impulse. He decided to channel these impulses for the good. He does good works and works for causes driven by the voices in his head. He works to bring to justice

He has a job. He has a family. His new family have helped him learn to set boundaries. But within those boundaries and within his loving family he has been encouraged to continue to care for the world. He has taken every bit of who he is, the whole and the broken parts and reached out to the world. Medicine wanted only to silence the voices. Milton Greek thought they might have something worth listening to. And so he does… and then he does good. Many of us don’t struggle half as hard as he does, and yet, we don’t take time to the voices within which push us to stand up and make a difference. What an exceptional man.

Here’s a great story. When Rachel Wheeler was nine she went with her mom to a fundraiser for Haiti. Her mother didn’t think she’d understand much, but she stood on a chair before she left that meeting and declared she was going to raise money to build 12 houses in Haiti.

Three years later, this young woman has raised $250,000 and built 27 houses. Now she’s rebuilding a school — this time with walls. You can read more about her and participate in her quest at http://foodforthepoor.org/rachel

I can’t imagine how proud her parents must be — and how good they must feel about their parenting. She saw a problem and she put her mind to it. Businesses all over the country helped her out. It helps to be a cute 9- or even 12-year-old girl.

But here’s the truth. People want to participate in something larger than they are. Give them a chance! Do something that’s good for the world and invite your friends to c’mon along. You have no idea what you can do. But if you start off with the old “what’s the use?” then nothing magical is going to happen. And who doesn’t want life to be magical. But magic is actually very hard work. But oooh, the results!

Go, Rachel Wheeler!