ONE World - ONE HeART

As you will see from the above illustration, I am taking part in Lisa OceanDreamer's giveaway draw. If you go to her site http://heartofthenest.blogspot.com/ down the side bar you will see a list of all the participants and you enter all the draws, you never know you might get lucky.

The prize I am offering is a Spirit Healing doll, I can't show you the actual doll as they are made for the person and no one else, I try to include attributes of the person I am making for. Therefore, I am just showing two illustrations of the type of doll I am talking about. You can keep them on your desk or hang them by your bed and they will send out serene vibes to you. They tend to be between eight and ten inches tall. I will be having the draw on the 21st March and then I will contact the winner. The doll should be made and ready to post by early April. If you would like to be in the draw just leave a comment on my comments section, anytime between today and 21st March.

Further to my previous postings about the speeding up of time I have been doing some research, and so far the following is what I have come up with. I am just showing what I have found out, it is up to you to believe it or not. All over I have come across references to the acceleration of time, how everyone seems to think it is moving forward with ever greater speed. Well, it is ! Many people from visionaries, soothsayers to scientists have been writing, speaking and working on the strange happening. Many, including some scientists look to the Mayan Calendar for an explanation of this. The Mayan calendar is due to end on either November, 2011 or December, 2012, depending on which way the calculations are made. This is when time is supposed to end, maybe not the end of the world full stop, but definitely the end of the world measured by time as we know it. Afterwards everything will be different. By the Mayan calendar, the years before the end will be noted by time speeding up, and many difficult situations and terrible catastrophes in the world. It is said that the speed of creation itself has speeded up.

It can be put like this, if you brought back your great grandmother and sat her in a room with a computer, mobile phone, interactive television etc she would think we were wizards. Even just thinking how technology has grown since we were children, I would never have believed I could type a letter and someone in Australia would have it one minute later. It is the speed of our discovering this technology that is one of the reasons time speeds up, plus the fact we are near the end of a whole calendar cycle. Think how long, how many centuries, men farmed, worked from their own homes, kept to natural hours of daylight and then came the Industrial Revolution and time in a man made way began to rule our day.

From the Mayan Calendar the path leads to the Native American tribe of Hopi. Their elders have nine signs of the end of this circle of the world. Martin Gasheseoma, who as far as I can find out is an elder himself [please tell me if this is incorrect but I have seen him referred to as one] and these he lists as the nine signs, that will bring about the Fifth World.

These prophecies were actually told by White Feather of the Bear Clan and are said to be of ancient origin.

This is the First Sign: We were told of the coming of the white-skinned men, like Pahana, but not living like Pahana -- men who took the land that was not theirs and who struck their enemies with thunder. (Guns)

This is the Second Sign: Our lands will see the coming of spinning wheels filled with voices. (Covered wagons)

This is the Third Sign: A strange beast like a buffalo but with great long horns, will overrun the land in large numbers. (Longhorn cattle)

This is the Fourth Sign: The land will be crossed by snakes of iron. (Railroad tracks)

This is the Fifth Sign: The land shall be criss-crossed by a giant spider's web. (Power and telephone lines)

This is the Sixth Sign: The land shall be criss-crossed with rivers of stone that make pictures in the sun. (Concrete roads and their mirage-producing effects.)

This is the Seventh Sign: You will hear of the sea turning black, and many living things dying because of it. (Oil spills)

This is the Eighth Sign: You will see many youth, who wear their hair long like our people, come and join the tribal nations, to learn our ways and wisdom. (Hippies)

This is the Ninth and Last Sign: You will hear of a dwelling-place in the heavens, above the earth, that shall fall with a great crash. It will appear as a blue star.




Very soon after this, the ceremonies of the Hopi people will cease. Other signs of the world shaking will be:-
Trees will dies - acid rain the and the demise of the rain forest
Man will build a house in the sky - space station
Cold places will become hot - global warming
Lands will sink into the ocean, lands will rise from the ocean
There will be an appearance of the Blue Star Kachina

That is where my research has led me for now, I have put this down for you all to read, make of it what you will. If you have any interesting theories or know more about any of the above please let me know, I would be most interested.

The historical photographs above were taken by Edward Curtis, the first is of the Hopi men entering for the Snake Dance and the second is of a Hopi cornfield.

FAIRY STEPS

I was interested to note on Robyn's site the photograph of the fairy steps she had taken, and that made me remember that in my county we also have some fairy steps. Photographs of which are at the beginning of this blog and below.

In the bottom western part of Cumbria here is a village called Beetham, and from that village a path through woodland climbs to Beetham fell [mountain] and that leads to the Fairy Steps. The steps are a natural staircase in limestone crags. On two levels. As you can see it is a narrow passage that squeezes between two sheer rock face crags. The legend says that if you manage to ascend or descend these steps without touching either of the limestone crags the fairies will grant you a wish. I fear that unless you are of the stature of a fairy there is no chance of an adult human achieving this task. Those with second sight are believed to be able to witness the fairy folk skipping up the steps.



Beetham Steps are on what are known in the region of Cumbria as a Corpse trail. These are paths that criss cross Cumbria where corpses were carried in their coffins to burial at a local church, usually they are in the remoter parts of the region. You can see the iron rings in the crags where the ropes were put through to lower the coffin down to the next level. A lot of these old corpse roads abound in legends. Another legend about Beetham and the corpse road is of The Cappel a fiery eyed demon dog that can appear.

The fairies of Beetham Steps are in the bottom part of Cumbria, but there is a legend concerning the fairy people, much nearer to me which is called The Luck of Edenhall. Edenhall was the residence of the Musgrave family. It is said that in the garden of this house there was a well full of excellent springwater known as St Cuthbert's Well. There was a sacred chalice that had once belonged to the nearby church, also known as St Cuthbert's which the fairies had long ago purloined. It is said that one evening a servant went to draw water from this well and surprised a group of fairies playing on the green near the well. They had dropped the chalice by the well whilst they amused themselves and the crafty servant snatched it up, they flew at him and tried to recover it but after a struggle gave it up. They flew away chanting 'If that glass either break or fall, Farewell the luck of Edenhall'.



The actual chalice is now in the V & A museum in London. It is made of Syrian glass in the 13th century, and enamelled. It has a leather case to be kept in [ there is a photograph of it above]. It is obviously some artifact brought back from the Crusades. It stayed with Musgrave family for a couple of hundreds of years, one of Musgraves, was said to have a party trick of tossing the chalice in the air and letting a manservant catch it. Another generation of Musgraves used to take turns of drinking out of it, a napkin, held beneath the glass so no harm could come to it. However, I fear that although the chalice remains unbroken, the luck of Edenhall did run out as it burnt down in 1934.



I can now show you, as in the photograph above, the healing spirit doll I made for the Hello Dolly, doll swap for Stacia. I didn't want to show this doll on my site until she had received it. This doll is called 'Lady of the Greenery' and is a healing spirit doll that also wishes to heal planet Earth as well. I am now beginning this month's doll which I am making for Kai, this is a Moon Goddess, as that is the theme this month. I am hoping to be able to personally hand this one over to her. What fun! - I feel nervous and giggly already!



This gorgeous box of goodies from a Secret Fairy landed on my doorstep on Saturday. Thank you so much Kris, it is absolutely gorgeous. All so beautifully wrapped, it contained a sweet handmade cushion decorated with pompoms and with an appliqued cupcake on, a lovely squishy teddy bear, a notebook which is a two year planner, that should keep me on track with my projects, a lovely ATC and handmade card and some yummy chocolates, Ferraro Rocher [my favourites], some samples of other chocolates and a Hershey Bar, of the most gorgeous dark chocolate filled with cranberries and macedonia nuts - delish! And the fulfillment of a dream, when I was a little girl and my cousin used to send me American comics, I always wanted to try a Hershey bar, and decades later I have.



A coda to my musings on time, I have just come across an article that mentions the fact that most people now say that time is accelerating, [which is what I had been thinking] and suggests that this is due to us coming near to the end of the Mayan calendar wheel. I shall be looking into this theory and reporting back to you all.