I ran across this direct translation of the Lord's Prayer from Aramaic to English (instead of from Aramaic to Greek to Latin to English) and just wanted to share it since one of my many projects lately has been going back to the example of Jeshua (Jesus' given name in Hebrew) and the life of love he led. Not the dogma. Not the religion the church made of him, but the example and the wisdom shared in the language they were shared in without any of the multiple translation errors that ended up in the King James version of the bible.
As many of you may know, I (and many others like me --- old souls who have been burned more than once or killed, maimed, and tortured in past lives for speaking our truth) had a real problem with the teacher & ascended master of "Jesus" since I had a real problem with organized religion of any flavor. Making peace with Jeshua or Sananda was very difficult for me and a very big deal when my issues w/ this particular teacher surfaced during a series of meditation classes on Opening to the Divine. (See the Resources for Staying on Your Path section of my book for more information on those classes.) While working through those issues I learned that a lot of old souls or those whose beliefs tend more towards the unconventional, such as Wiccans, Pagans, and other "Earth Religion" folks have a similar problem with organized religion and this particular teacher specifically. There were a lot of heart issues involved there, and this particular teacher is about living in your heart so to work with the energy from this teacher, you've got to work it all through ---- and be able to get to forgiveness of the people (not the actions) on the other side. Anyway, I could say a lot more about just that aspect of my own growth work, and there have been a lot of books written about forgiveness and how it's necessary to your own healing. (See Louise Hay's books for starters.)
What many seem to forget is that Jeshua was Jewish and his native tongue was Aramaic. Not Syrian Aramaic, but ancient Aramaic which is even older and even predates Hebrew. Yes, he probably spoke Latin and Greek as well as since most Rabbi's did (not to mention that Rabbi's are required to be married, but that's another bone). ;> Anyway, here's the translation --- it's quite different and more in line with a much larger view of this teacher of love.
Oh Thou, from whom the breath of life comes, who fills all realms of sound, light and vibration.
May your light be experienced in my utmost holiest. Your Heavenly Domain approaches.
Let your will come true - in the universe (all that vibrates) just as on earth (that is material and dense).
Give us wisdom (understanding, assistance) for our daily need, detach the fetters of faults that bind us, (karma) like we let go the guilt of others.
Let us not be lost in superficial things (materialism, common temptations), but let us be freed from that what keeps us from our true purpose.
From You comes the all-working will, the lively strength to act, the song that beautifies all and renews itself from age to age.
Sealed in trust, faith and truth. (I confirm with my entire being)
Quite a bit different, wouldn't you agree? From that translation, the teacher sounds much more like a "lightworker" than anything else. ;>
Wow has a lot happened in the last few months! There have been several lunar eclipses, one solar eclipse (more about those in a minute and what it means for changes), I have been wearing Morganite (aka pink emerald) the only stone known to bring your soul self closer so that it's easier for you to hear / understand which direction you're supposed to go at any given moment, and I also lost one of my elderly rescue doggy companions of many years. So, let's start with the Morganite then move on to eclipses and changes and I'll end talking about our pets and how much they teach us about unconditional love.
Morganite is also known as pink emerald and it is a heart stone. A very, very strong heart stone that works on feelings of love and trust. This link will show you some images on Google if you haven't seen it before. When I ran across this stone and went looking for its metaphysical properties there was only one source (Avalon Crystals) I ran across that mentioned this "bringing your soul closer" thing. So I let it peculate for a while because sometimes I'll feel pulled to a stone and it passes after whatever particular reason I needed it for passes, and sometimes it doesn't pass quickly, meaning that I really need to purchase that stone and spend some time with it for some deeper issues. And this time, I kept going back to that one source who cited this stone for bringing the soul closer and keeping it closer to the physical body. So, I dug around on Amazon and found a decent size ring of about 1 carat for under $100 and bought it. (For more most stones need to be at least this size or larger for me to "feel" their effects with any power, and it may just be a "me thing.") And I have to tell you, the voice of the soul self (many call it the higher self or the divine self) is so much easier to hear now! Even without sitting in meditation for half an hour---just in day-to-day living---and it helps so much! OMG! I love this stone so much it only leaves my hand to shower or bathe! LOL I love this stone so much, I'm looking at adding some Morganite earrings to wear on those when I especially need to hear loud and clear which choices keep me aligned with my soul self best. Anyway, I just wanted to share this amazing stone with this amazing property.
Lunar Eclipses. Now at about the same time I'm digging around researching Morganite and window shopping for a piece of Morganite jewelry and finally purchasing this piece and starting to wear it, there were several lunar eclipses happening. The best Western Astrologer I know is Stephanie Jones and her information always seems to nail the psychological end of things on a personal level and then on a larger scale national and even planetary level. This what she was saying at about the same time (from May 27):
Powerful Full Moon & Lunar Eclipse last night. Stephanie Jones astrologer has this to say: We’re on the brink of a quickening. Time to wake up! The Sun in Gemini (communication and travel) comes into a perfect opposition with the Moon at 4 degrees of Sagittarius (expansion and adventure) tomorrow and there is a Full Moon Lunar Eclipse.
This is the 3rd eclipse in a row; we’ve had one right after another, every two weeks, since April 25. So it’s likely we feel sort of taken apart, spread all around and not quite put back together again. Also weirdly tired and distracted and unable to focus in the usual way, a little disoriented, vague, depressed maybe even dark – dark like the eclipsed moon.
This has been a deepening time, going down inside, digging around for whatever next morsel of nourishment will now be unveiled and revealed and integrated into our lives as the summer unfolds.
Add to that the perfect Uranus Pluto opposition on Monday, May 20th – many, many things are happening below the surface, like a big whale swimming towards the little kayak, you can feel the wake, maybe even see the blow hole . . . oh boy . . . get ready . . . thar she blows!!
Eclipses are famous for dropping new information in our laps. Lunar Eclipses in particular often spotlight where we need to bring things to a conclusion and move on.
I can feel the beginning of the urge to communicate, reach out, travel, and initiate the next phase. For the past month it’s been enough to maintain, in fact it’s been plenty to just maintain what is already going on and try and feel calm about it – whatever it is. Now we’re on the brink of movement and change.
With the Sun, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter in Gemini the waves of life will move along with a little more get up and go.
May 28 - Venus, planet of love, and Jupiter, planet of expansion and abundance sit right on top of each other and delight in bringing a feeling of expansion and luck and good will and the urge to share and celebrate and be extremely thankful for all of our abundance. This is a lovely aspect to get married under – so that feeling of sweet rapport and harmony is available to infuse into whatever new path is discovered.
June 7 – Neptune goes retrograde and our vision alters a bit – the cosmic lens is on auto focus bringing into sight things you didn’t realize were there and maybe obscuring what you thought was real.
June 10 - Mercury starts to enter the shadow of its next retrograde, so make hay while the tractor is moving forward. Get thing lined up as much as possible so you’re balanced and ready when they start to meander.
June 27 – Mercury retrograde in Cancer until July 20th – themes of home and family come to the surface, we’ll explore this more deeply at the time, but the Earth, your parents and kids, animals, food, and sensitive moodiness will spice up the daily routine.
Take a moment Friday if possible, to bring awareness to the perfect silence inside. Space. The final frontier. The infinite space of nothing and everything.
Notice the excruciating beauty of the infinite unknown in divine presence.
Feel your love of life and all of its complex diversity just for a nano-second for this is the prayer that welcomes the next gift the cosmos has to offer.
Wow Again! Just wait until you hear this next part.
Ch-ch-ch Changes. Turn and face the strange (according to David Bowie), and my life got very strange during this time period. Starting in March, recruiters had started calling be about my day job (technical writing) just out of the blue from LinkedIn. And not only calling but calling specifically about IT Security technical writing positions. After the second call in April, I padded over to the IT Security guy I worked with on-site at the day job in the government agency where I'd been on contract for the last 9 years and said, "what the hell is going on? is there a shortage of security writers?" to which I got a resounding YES.
So, to make a long story short, I talked more with this second recruiter and started a new job on site at one of the best known HMOs in the US whose IT capabilities are far ahead of most other healthcare companies in adapting to Obamacare regulations, including the requirement for digital medical records. They're not only standing up their IT department in Denver (building out 5 floors on a LEEDS building (very green, low carbon footprint)) but also building Technology Risk group inside their IT Security department to look at risk for all the regulations they are subject too, such as SOX, HIPPA, and others. And they needed a writer. A seasoned writer who could handle not only technical documents but business documents and writing policy as well. This small group is swamped with work and trying to stand it all up, and their library is kind of a mish-mash of some existing docs from more than one source and certainly a lot of missing docs, but they're not even in a place yet to do a gap analysis on where they are vs where they want to be because they don't have it all documented. And that's where I come in. Not only did I get a raise, I get to work from home (mostly) and go in for meetings. How sweet is that?! And this was the whale (at least for me) that Steph's astrology was talking about above... I started this new day job on June 10.
Losing long time pets. And that leads me to my last subject. I have, or had, two elderly doggy companions who love it when I work from home. My Bear Lee (or Barely because he's barely a dog) dog will be 14 in July. He's a afghan hound / chow mix who found me when he was 8 weeks old as a stray, and yes his fur is very strange especially on his haunches. :) My Shannon dog was a rescue from the Denver Dumb Friends League in 2003 when she was 2. Shannon was an Australian Shepard mix who had been adopted out from DDFL as a puppy and then brought back when she was 2. When we brought her home, she didn't know how to play (Bear Lee did managed to teach her how to play with him by pulling her ears then running, but she never did get the chase toys thing), had some nerve damage (which my more intuitive friends believed came from a lack of oxygen during birth and my gut has always told me she was the runt of the litter) and was "not quite right."
She had a very sweet temperament once I made it clear I was the alpha, and not her, and she definitely knew where home was. Once when a storm blow the gate open in the back yard (they have a doggie door to come and go as they please from yard to house) and they got out, Bear Lee wandered off to where the nearest children were while Shannon just came around and sat on the front porch and waited for me to come home. She knew where home was. Shannon was 2 yrs younger than Bear Lee and had a higher energy level than him, and he seemed to help calm her down especially on those few occasions I had to kennel them I always made sure they were kenneled together.
Shannon had major separation anxiety and major car ride anxiety both of which were understandable given her history or what little I knew of it anyway. Her anxiety for car rides (pain and pleasure, liked the ride but had a bad history of being left places after them until we found her) and even just being separated from Bear Lee during grooming was so bad that I kept a stash of homeopathic sprays for this and just soaked / sprayed several little dog biscuits and gave them to her to help, and it did help. Anyway, my fuzzy little friend of the last 10 years left this plane on Friday. She hadn't been feeling good and had been eating less and less and stopped eating all together earlier in the week. At the vet, the blood work showed that her kidneys were shutting down just from age. The vet recommended humane euthanasia and to do it quickly... Shannon wasn't running a fever or in pain really but her electrolytes were all whacked out and her blood volume was low so her heart beat was elevated. The vet said she probably just felt like she had a really, really, really bad case of the flu...food made her nauseous and that's why she quit eating.
So Friday was not a very good day. At least I had been working from home that day and the day before, and I knew she was sick and not feeling good and barely had enough energy to come up the stairs with me at night so I had been spending more alone time with her during the week, too. But even with all of that, her little bob tail still wagged when I talked to her, and later when the vet talked to her, when we snuck out of the house in the morning while Bear Lee was sleeping in the yard. That last car ride to the vet was the only time she didn't show her normal car ride anxiety... she was just too tired and really not feeling well at all.
I had always assumed she would outlive Bear Lee because she was younger and a smaller breed (smaller breeds usually live longer), but she had also had a much harder life those first two years before I found her and those foundational years and make all the difference in the world.
Losing pets is and has always been very difficult for me. Pets and your mom are the only beings on this plane who will always love you unconditionally no matter what you do. Now sometimes, you may have to work harder to earn their trust especially if some other human has abused their love and trust in the past, and if you do you will be richly rewarded
Today, Bear Lee started missing his sister...I heard a couple of whimpers just before the mobile groomer arrived and distracted him. Tomorrow will be his first day alone in the house without her while I'm at work (I seem to have meetings lined up Mon, Tue & Wed at this new job) so I will make sure to ask the angels & St. Francis to watch over him while I'm gone. The same light beings I asked into the vet office on Friday to help ease her transition Funny thing later in the day on Friday, I'm often visited by my pets who pass, usually during the first week after their transition and it's a meow or purrr I usually hear to let me know they're OK. This time, Shannon spoke and said simply, "I'm OK now mom." Usually it's people that talk to me that after they pass.... I've also noticed Bear Lee looking intently at things a couple of times, so maybe she'll stay for a bit; at least until I get her ashes back and sprinkle them in the now bare spot (we called it her "wallow" because she loved rolling in the sunshine there close to the house) where she laid all the time. Here's a picture of my fuzzy friend when she was young and strong and loved hiking in the mountains.
