Episode 15

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5th May 2024

Heavenly Mother

Ghia – Reason tells me we have a Heavenly Mother. You can find her in Wisdom, Counsel and Understanding. And wonderfully, in the new moon and rainbows as well.

Find Mandy Green here.

https://www.mandybgreen.com/

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Hooray.

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Kia here.

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I'm this week's host of the

creative, spiritual journey podcast.

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Where Judy and I talk about

what we're learning on this

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crazy journey we call life.

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Today.

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I wanted to talk about new moons,

rainbows and heavenly mother.

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Believe it or not, there is a

connection between these things.

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Let me explain.

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First.

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I wanted to talk about heavenly

mother because may is the month

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we celebrate mother's day.

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And second, I wanted to talk about

heavenly mother because in my

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quest to live seasonally, Closer

to the natural cycles of the earth.

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I have discovered her in some

unexpected places and I thought

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they would be fun to share.

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So don't you love that

we have heavenly parents.

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This is a radical and

extraordinary Christian doctrine.

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And one, I am so grateful to have.

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I often repeat in my mind the opening

line of the young women's theme.

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I am a beloved daughter of

heavenly parents with a divine

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nature and an eternal destiny.

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I will literally lay in bed in

the morning and recite those words

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over and over in my mind so that

whatever is going on that day.

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Whatever I have to do.

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I know who I am and where I'm going.

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I'm also incredibly grateful for Eliza

R snow who penned the words to the him?

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Oh my father.

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Let me read you the third verse.

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I had learned to call the father.

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Through the spirit from on high.

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But until the key of

knowledge was restored.

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I knew not why.

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In the heavens are parents single.

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No, the thought makes reason stare.

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Truth is reason.

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Truth.

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Eternal tells me I've a mother there.

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I love her line.

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Truth makes reason stare.

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If we have a heavenly father, then

we must have a heavenly mother.

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Mother mother, mother.

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One to like to know more about her.

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As a member of the church of Jesus Christ

of latter day saints, we pray to heavenly

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father in the name of Jesus Christ.

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We do not pray to heavenly mother.

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We have also been taught that seeking

greater understanding is an important

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part of spiritual development,

but that we should be cautious.

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Reason does not replace revelation.

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I take that admonition to heart.

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And in regard to heavenly mother.

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I also find myself referring to

doctrine and covenants 25 for.

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Murmur not because of the

things which thou has not seen.

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For their withheld from the

end, from the world, which is

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wisdom in me in a time to come.

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This first causes me to imagine

that heavenly mother has been

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withheld from us for a reason.

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And that at some point.

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Some glorious, wonderful point.

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She will be unveiled.

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She will come forth in her

majesty glory and power, and

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we will know her and love her.

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Until then I believe our heavenly

mother stands firmly beside our

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heavenly father and her son.

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With all that said there are

some wonderful glimpses of

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heavenly mother in scripture.

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That thoughtful scholars have

noted, and I love to study them.

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One of those scholars is Mandy green.

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And I want to share a few things

I have learned from her course

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finding heavenly mother in scripture.

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One of my favorite concepts

from Mandy are her thoughts

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about the artist Henry Moore.

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Who created semi-abstract

bronze sculpture.

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These sculptures, some of which are huge.

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Are known for their negative space.

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Not the form itself, but the

shape you see around them.

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Mandy equates.

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This idea was seeing

heavenly mother in scripture.

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Sometimes we have to look for

what is not there to find her.

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Applying this idea.

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And with her understanding of the

Hebrew language, Mandy talks about

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several key titles of heavenly mother.

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I love these.

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The titles are wisdom

counsel and understanding.

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I'm not going to go into the

Hebrew details about how these

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words represent heavenly mother.

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For that you will have to take Mandy's

course, which I highly recommend.

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But let me highlight these words again.

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Wisdom.

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The ability to discern.

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Insight.

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Good sense.

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Good judgment.

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The Sage.

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Wisdom implies a sense of

judgment, far above average.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Don't you believe that's

our heavenly mother.

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And then there's council.

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To guide.

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Direct Warren advise.

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That's advice as in consultation, a talk.

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Heavenly mother is a counselor.

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And understanding.

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The power to comprehend.

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Friendly.

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Harmonious relational.

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Understanding that's not formal, but

binding, compassionate, empathetic.

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Ah, that's beautiful.

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Wisdom council understanding.

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Don't those words.

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Describe your imaginations

of a heavenly mother.

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They do mine.

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And here's where my brain takes

a huge leap with this concept of

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looking at the negative space.

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In my humble, innocent quest to live

closer to the earth and the seasons.

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I have been contemplating

the moon and its cycles.

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And what, if anything, it

could have to teach me.

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So when Mandy talked about this idea

of looking for heavenly mother in the

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negative spaces, My mind jumped to

the moon, specifically the new moon.

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The ultimate negative space.

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There, but not there.

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Unseen in the shadows.

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To me that describes my

current relationship with her.

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Not there, but there.

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And here's.

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What's cool.

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I love the light of the full

moon, all the more because of

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the darkness of the new moon.

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It's part of the cycle.

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Well, we love our heavenly

mother all the more for not

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having known her for a season.

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I don't know for sure.

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But the idea just makes me happy

and I'm fascinated that trying to

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tune into the moon and its cycles

has led me to heavenly mother.

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I suppose this shouldn't be surprising.

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Through time, the moon has

been seen as a feminine symbol.

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With its cycle representing

immortality and eternity.

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Another thing that for me, ties

the moon to heavenly mother.

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Is that the moon is said to represent

our development well, earth side.

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The new moon being infancy.

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The Crescent moon being youth,

the full moon adulthood.

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And the waning moon that decline of life.

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And the idea is our heavenly mother, is

there the whole time watching over us.

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Even if we don't see her, she is there.

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You know, As I was preparing

for this podcast, the words moon

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mother kept coming to my mind.

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And I could even recall the

sound of moon mother's voice.

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And as these thoughts came to me, I

began to remember that as a child, I had

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a record with a story about moon mother.

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I wanted to remember the story.

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So I began searching the internet

and I found lots of moon mother's

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stories from all different cultures.

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Native American, Japanese, Greek.

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They all have this moon mother tradition.

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I'm sharing this because with all the

different cultures, having the same idea.

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I would suspect it's one of those things

that's been hardwired into our DNA.

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Somehow, it makes sense to me that the

moon and heavenly mother are connected.

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So there you go.

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Those are my thoughts about

the moon and heavenly mother.

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I hope they encourage

you to watch the moon.

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Now I want to talk about the rainbow.

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I love this.

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It takes a bit of explaining.

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So bear with me.

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It will be worth it.

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Margaret Barker, a Methodist preacher

and biblical scholar found this one

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little change in words, when she was

doing her own translation of the Bible.

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In Ezekiel 10, 20 other translators

use the words, the living creature.

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Referring to the creature.

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I saw in a vision as

recorded in a ZKO one.

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Margaret Barker feels a better translation

would be, she is the living creature.

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There is no official explanation for the

vision in No one, no revelation exists.

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That explains it.

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But Margaret's translation allows us to

wonder if the vision is heavenly mother.

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Because who else could the Xi be?

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You don't have to believe me.

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You don't have to believe Margaret Barker.

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This is simply something to ponder.

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If you are interested.

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Here are my thoughts.

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I could spend all day talking about

One and all the ways I see a feminine

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creature who might be heavenly mother.

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But that would be too

much for this podcast.

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I just want to say that I see

this creature energetically.

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I see chakra like wheels of energy

and symbolism in the animals.

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Love in the wings and

steadfastness in her movement.

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I read it for yourself

and ponder what you see.

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The one part I want to take a

moment to talk about is found in

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the last two verses of Ezekiel one.

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says describing the creature.

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I saw as it were the appearance of

fire and it had brightness roundabout

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as the appearance of the bow that

is in the cloud in the day of rain.

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She was seen engulfed in the

bright radiant light of a rainbow.

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I love that.

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Where I live in the high desert.

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I see rainbows most often in the summer

when it is so hot and dry and thunder

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clouds begin to build and I'm watching

them and hoping and praying that it

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will rain and cool down the earth.

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Often it doesn't and the clouds

drift away leaving me disappointed.

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But many times the heavenly rains fall.

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And I can't resist dancing

outside until I'm soaked.

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And then if I'm lucky, As I have

been on several occasions, I will

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see my whole valley arched from cliff

to cliff with a glorious rainbow.

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To me, this brings up the

negative space idea again.

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The hot, dry longing for relief.

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And then the rain finally comes quenching

the earth, like the love of a mother.

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Our heavenly mother.

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And that reflection.

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That reflection of light off

water droplets creates a glorious

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rainbow where nothing was before.

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So that is the second way.

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I've come to see her as a longing.

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A longing relieved by water droplets,

sunlight, and the creation of a rainbow.

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There was so much, we don't

know about heavenly mother.

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But I have every faith that

the knowledge will come.

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And that when the time is right,

we will be flooded with her wisdom.

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And it will be as a quenching rain.

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I told you in another podcast

that I live in a dugout and that

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my desk is right by a window.

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What I didn't mention is that I have

rainbow creating stickers on the window.

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And in the morning when the sun

shines through little rainbows sign

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around my space, making me so happy.

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Are they a gift from heavenly mother?

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I like to think so.

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So that's where mother's day.

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And my creative spiritual journey

have taken me over the last few weeks.

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I had no idea that I would

find my heavenly mother in

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the moon and in rainbows.

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Look for her yourself, and don't

forget to check the negative spaces.

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If you enjoyed this episode,

please share it with a friend.

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And if you're inclined, please

leave us a five-star review.

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Your help is the only way Judy and I

will be able to continue this podcast.

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Reason tells me I have a heavenly mother.

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And that until she is unveiled,

I can find her in wisdom.

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Counsel and understanding.

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As well as the moon and rainbows.

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Nama stay.

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