Flashes of Insight

SACRED RIVER SACRED SPRING
I have never been to a man made grotto or any of the well known ones however there is a particular spring head in the Itchetuknee River which is a crystal clear turquoise blue spring fed river and this one in particular, known as the Blue Hole, is a grotto for sure. I have had the same feeling diving into other spring heads in the many springs and rivers of this kind in Florida but the Blue Hole to me is like diving into the Yoni of Oshun. (read on…)

Questions by Ayedo

1. How do you get by spiritually when the world turns cold, icy,
dark, rainy or foggy?

2. Who are your spirit friends?

3. How do you connect with community for spiritual survival?

4. What spirit, deity or animal helps you get by during winter,
helping you find daily pleasure instead of angst as you maneuver
the dimly lit, slippery path in winter’s wake

Thanks so much for posing these provocative questions as I am very much struggling with them myself. I have been quietly acknowledging to myself that I am feeling blue and missing my core of friends all of whom died within a year of each other. I have made other friends but the deep kind don’t come easy.
Being the community Priestess and Shaman doesn’t always help either as all assume that you are fine always.
I rarely if ever get really depressed but I can feel it poking around my edges like a little frost in this cooler time.
So after contemplating these questions, I said to myself, Enough of This and lit my favorite incense in every room and proceeded to go out to feed my beautiful Appaloosa Mare.
I know that I find my deepest peace and sustenance in this Shamanic realm that I co - create under the loving arms of the Grandmother Tree in my White Room (read on…)

Modeling New Ways of Being-The Annual Wise Woman’s Festival Preparing for the 5thYear April 4-6!
by Flash Silvermoon

These are very exciting times and it has never been more important for us to start living into a higher consciousness.
The Annual Wise Woman’s Festival is one of those experiences of living into a such a consciousness and space that grows year after year in empowerment,safety,and deep sharing by all.
Its hard to find words to describe the intensity and subtlety of the uplifting feelings we enjoy at the WWFest.It is always a heartwarming empowering experience of soul connection for many with their sisters, lovers and friends. (read on…)

CALL TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE
Yeah I am finally giving this workshop/playshop

COME RELEASE YOUR INNER DRUMMER

PLAYSHOP
FRIDAY DEC 7 7-9PM @WILD IRIS BOOKS
WITH FLASH SILVERMOON
There’s always something magical when women put their hands on a drum and this night will open that road for you.For the beginner and advanced levels

bring your drums and other percussive noisy toys and join in a circle of drum jams and drum talk.If you don’t have a drum, some may be available for sale and some will be available just to play.
Cost $15
WILD IRIS BOOKS 802 WEST UNIVERSITY AVE
GAINESVILLE FL FOR INFO CALL 375-7477
OR FLASH- 352 4752432
to hear some of Flashes Music and drumming go to this site below and download some free music from her CD’s
* The Wise Woman’s Tarot - http://www.flashsilvermoon.com *

A piece that was excerpted for a book published on Feminist activists of the early 70’s it is written and editted by Barbara Love who wrote Sappho Was a Right On Woman. Might Have been called Women Who Changed the World 1970-75

Their editted version of this article is infinitely more tame.

I entered the Women’s Movement in 1970 from the left, I was very involved with the Anti-war Movement for several years before as well as Civil Rights. I went to Woodstock in ‘69 and I was very much a child of the ’60’s. a child of Woodstock Nation.

However, my politics of peace and love got very radicalized after being teargassed in DC during some Moratorium marches and did major organizing for May Day ‘70. I also participated earlier in the Poor Peoples March when it came through my College.

In 1970, I ran for Miss Trenton State College in NJ as a feminist and blew the doors off the competition. All the papers interviewed me for weeks and the show actually brought together most of the radicals of the day from a tri state area. It was a riot and the Dean tried to arrest me for inciting one but I helped contain the experience to a political event and also made sure that interviewers and other protesters only put down the beauty pageant, not the women in them!

(read on…)

Flash Silvermoon Interview..for Pagan Pathways
Date: 10/2/2007 8:36:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Thank you so much for agreeing to share with us! Please do tell us about yourself and feel free to be as in depth as you like!We would love to print your picture too!

ok I will pick a couple for ya

Where were you born and raised and what are some of your earliest memories?

I was born in the presence of my mother on March 18, 1950, in Jersey City, NJ. I am quite sure that my room must have faced the Statue of Liberty because I have been a freedom fighter for as long as I can remember. They tell me that after singing Happy Birthday to me on my first birthday, I smiled and put my fist through the cake!

My first Feminist action took place in kindergarten at 4 yrs of age. I had been participating in the rhythm band for a couple of weeks just waiting for my turn to play the snare drum. I had clicked the claves and clanged the triangle but that magic moment when my sticks would strike the skin of the DRUM was awaiting me that morning or so I thought. I was not raised to think that girls were inferior to boys so imagine my surprise when I had the sticks taken from my hands and was told that girls could play anything but this and that I could go to the back of the line again.

My little egalitarian heart was breaking but I screwed up my courage to tell the teacher that this was unfair and was there something else that I could do during this time as I didn’t want to be a part of something so unfair. She told me that I could fingerprint and so I stood in the corner for the rest of the year and finger-painted during the rhythm band time.
This theme and connection with the drums has followed me all the way through adulthood and today am appreciated as an accomplished percussionist. (read on…)

5. SAVOR YOU LIKE CHOCOLATE

I want to savor you like chocolate , baby
     So let those flavors flow…
I want to savor you like chocolate mama, so let your body go.
Well, we don’t need to rush…there’s so very much,
     so very much we can share, ooh, yeah…
I want to savor you like chocolate, baby, melting me into you.

Slowly like honey, our flavors blend,
     mocha dark & bittersweet
A taste so sublime I want it all of the time
     Ooh, baby, you’re so sweet.

Well, we can heat it up or play so very cool
Loving you all night is what I want to do
I want to savor you like chocolate so do me a favor…
     be my favorite flavor
Melting all over me, my favorite fantasy.
You into me.  Me into you,  Oh, my Goddess, what we gonna do.

I want to savor you like chocolate, so give me a taste
     there’s no time to waste.
So slowly go down …(I really mean it); Slowly go down…
I ain’t  fooling around, baby baby and slowly go down…with me.
Oh c’mon baby let’s savor it
* The Wise Woman’s Tarot - http://www.flashsilvermoon.com *

As I begin my 2nd Saturn Cycle, I find myself looking deep into the eyes of the Crone. Outside of the physical issues and breakdowns that old injuries offer up as a medal of sorts for a life lived,my mind and spirit feel amazingly spry.

My perception of time is now including a sense of limitation ie, I am without the sense of time being infinite that I had in my 20’s which is really good I think.I recognize that all roads are not necessarily worth taking and that the wrong “yes” could turn into a “no” for something that could be of true benefit.

I choose my yesses more carefully now and yet endeavor to make those choices with an open heart and mind.Nothing like a few good surprises to keep you young and if you hold the reigns too tight you never know the ecstasy of flight.

(read on…)

Sun and Moon say I am what I am but then I hear other themes that shout their demands
We want our air-time,says Uranus its me
And I don’t get no realer why dontcha see
I’m the focal point that you can’t ignore
though I’m sitting perched hidden over Cancer’s door
Even my Cancer can rise.that’s a fact

(read on…)

N’AWLINS ON MY MINDBlues/ 
Date: 9/13/2005 8:49:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time

N’AWLINS ON MY MIND
    Flash Silvermoon c Goddesstunes 2005
[organ driven mournful blues sound]
I
The dead are walkin down the streets of N’Awlins
And I feel their footsteps break night’s silent scream     [2x]
No honkey tonk piano rings out on old Bourbon Street
And the wind howls ghostly through the trees
II
Seems like someone just forgot ’bout the people of N’awlins
When the water comes up there’s no place to go[2x]
I feel the Spirits gatherin out on old Congo Square
And Mamselle Marie Laveau she’s a standin there
[organ solo to afro rhythm drum break]
   Blood mix with mud through the Bayou flood 2x      
  Children in the streets  with not enough to eat
    Gris gris gumboyaya Gris gris gumboyaya [3x]
   Sacred Jambalaya
[these words continue in background under rap]
Children starving in the streets not enough to eat
Not enough to drink  Livin in dirt and stink
No roof over their heads  too many needlessly dead
What could be in their heads to bring the aid so slow
People got no where to go how could they not know
What millions of us knew, but these monied few
just had too much to do ——–oh wade in the water
wade in the water children  wade in the water someone’s in trouble in the waters 2x
           Don’t leave them all alone ]
           Damballah take them home] 2x
  Dancin’ with the Snake,,,Until the levee breaks
Damballah Damballah Damballah Damballah Aweido
                   [3x]
Don’t leave them all alone
Damballah take them  home (read on…)

Ok, ok, ok, gals, ya gotta get real, and do whatya feel,
’cause this Shrub’s a fool, so I be takin’ ya ta school, ya see it’s up to you, it’s up to me, there’s more happenin’ here than what ya see.

(read on…)

Keepin’ it real so do whatcha feel takin it to the streets would really be sweet for the sis and bros and mamas and kids an alien-nation of peaceseeking freaks who will stand and speak and never run when the rest of the sheeple are under the gun.

Now we can see em leap like rats from a sinking stinking ship of state and who can they even delegate to take the hit for the pompous ass who still thinks he owns the vote of the masses who can’t get off their collective asses to notice that our democracy is dead and gone
Dead as the children in the Desert storms that lay waste to both sides while claiming to heal
when all they really want is some oil to steal or sell to the highest bidder and nobody gonna be the winner.

STAND UP SHEEPLE ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE

        SACRED BLOOD
FLASH SILVERMOON C goddess tunes
under a Pisces full moon/lunar eclipse
[This is a chant and can be done as a round too]

SACRED………BLOOD   SACRED  BLOOD  2X
MOONTIME COMES   MOONTIME FLOWS
MOONTIME STOPS    MOONTIME GOES

WOMAN IS WHOLE….WOMAN IS WHOLE  2X
GODDESS IS NEAR     GODDESS IS HERE
SHINES LIKE THE MOON  SHINES LIKE THE SUN

SACRED BLOOD…………..SACRED BLOOD 2X

FROM THE WOMB TO THE TOMB 2X
SACRED LIFE   SACRED BREATH
SACRED BIRTH     SACRED DEATH

SACRED BLOOD       SACRED    BLOOD 2X

APHRODITE BREAKOUT Flash Silvermoon
C Goddesstunes Full Moon in Pisces/Lunar Eclipse 8/28/07
[sound like a Latin/Blues Funk raveup]

APHRODITE BREAKOUT
CHORUS-
Tonight is the night we’re gonna let it all come down Tonight is the night we’re gonna turn this world
around
See Aphrodite Breakout Aphrodite bring your lovin
home (read on…)

Modeling New Ways of Being-The 4th Annual Wise Woman’s Festival by Flash Silvermoon

These are very exciting times and it has never been more important for us to
start living into a higher consciousness. The 4th Annual Wise Woman’s Festival
ended this weekend and was one of those experiences of living into a higher
consciousness. Its almost hard to describe the subtlety of the uplifting
feelings.It was as always a heartwarming empowering experience. I feel great
satisfaction knowing that we made magic for 3 days and absolutely raised the energy
of all who were there while grounding that consciousness on the earth. (read on…)