THE EARTH CHANGES ARE HERE, THE EARTH CHANGES ARE HERE

As many of you may know, my career has had many an exciting twist and turn. My life has been dedicated to the pleasure of being a reporter. Sometimes it has been for national magazines or international organizations. Sometimes I have written documentaries or corporate training materials. My task, since a young one is to Watch, Look and Transform what I see into words, pictures, sounds and motion. I come from a long line of journal keepers, and delight each time my father sends me a few pages from his own personal insights of the life and times we live in Like most, I watch the world through many eyes and I distill what I see and attempt to translate it into something meaningful or pleasurable. On good day, I can do both. Today, as I muse over waiting in line for an hour yesterday for gas that was ONLY $3.82 a gallon instead of $3.99 down the street, I feel a story coming on.

On my sixteenth birthday, my Dad bought me my first car. It was a 1954 Studebaker and it cost him a whooping $225. I had to pay for my own insurance and gas. I had always earned my own way and this was a huge gift to get, and one that sticks in my mind as a tribute to the love my dad had for me. Also, I think her was panicked that I might actually try to ride that scooter I just bought for $75, after I got it all painted to my fancy. He wanted more metal around me while I zoomed the highways. He was right. So I traded the scooter to a friend for a hunting rifle for my Dad, and I took the Studebaker. That day I filled it up at the local Sinclair Gas station. Gas was 20 CENTS a gallon, and my mom and I shared that car for the next year. I was living pretty much full time as a nanny for my Drama teacher, and Mom was getting her Special Ed degree so she could become a teacher. We shared that car, each putting $2.50 into the gas kitty to carry us through the week. I drove that car to Utah to go to BYU on less than $15.00. I drove that car to live in California with my dear old girlfriend Ravenwood. Even with the hotel and the tire replacement in Las Vegas...now there’s a story...we got to California on the cash we had saved from cashing in food coupons and pop bottles. We were thrilled that we had just gotten a raise to $1.25 an hour and we could live well on that!! The rent at our first apartment was $40 a month. We ate lots of hamburgers from Dairy Queen left overs where I was the night manager. We left to move to California with less than $500 between us, and we knew we would be just fine.

By April of 1970, we drove that Studebaker to a love in at a big Utah park. It was Earth Day, and Hippies had joined hands to show concern for the environment. I was stunned that folks knew so much about toxic waste and the need to recycle. I was excited to hear of the work that would be done to save the wild life, the water, the parks, the planet. I was so excited that I worked really hard to save up enough money to buy a 1969 BRAND NEW VW, so we could see the country. My commune friends and I bought a Golden Eagle Pass for $15.00 that allowed us to stay in all State and Federal parks for a year. We filled that little car ( Gas was up to 35 cents a gallon) with camping gear and a life times supply of granola bars and hit the road. We ended up in Oregon a few months later and could get day work in orchards, farms, canneries and fish factories. We were in heaven. We would make weekend runs to Ken Keasey’s place and play with the Merry Pranksters of Oregon. We played every chance we got. We could do anything we wanted and live great on a few hundred a month. Our rent on a small farm was less than $100 a month, and when I got pregnant, we even got food stamps for three months. That was so demoralizing, that I swore I would always work after that. And clearly I did and I do.

By 1973 through 1975, I had my own Talk Show on TV. Charla’s Corner was all about caring for the Planet. It was not a real popular show in Thermopolis, Wyoming. It was, however, all they had, until I was replaced with cartoons. I probably got more out of the show than anyone else. I could watch the planet as it made it’s transformations. I became a teacher on the subject soon there after. The subject of Earth Changes guided my career to the top media board rooms. It took me to the phone companies, where we developed voice recognition systems and cell phones. All the while I was the agitator who kept saying..” Oh yeh, this is progress, but what about the environment? What about the elements?” No one in the Board room wanted to hear it. They wanted me to go out and convince small towns that clear cutting to put in towers would be safe. NOW WE ARE SOON TO GO FROM ANALOG TO DIGITAL ...We are going to change the entire frequency of life and communication and this is HUGE!!!

In the 80's and 90's, I could be found on stages all over the country expressing concern and begging folks to build the survival back packs and to prepare to be able to evacuate major cities when storms and such hit. We taught folks to build fires with out matches and to forage for foods. We discussed what it would be like IF gas went over $2.50 or if food prices doubled. ( NPR reports that one BILLION PEOPLE WILL STARVE TO DEATH THIS YEAR) Folks acted like I was some kind of alarmist, instead of well studied realist. So I gave up. I rang that bell like Paul Revere. I warned folks about hurricanes and levees breaking and water being more costly than gas. I cried in the night and wrote in the days. It scared folks and no one wanted to hear it. Now we live it, and more. It is scarey out there, and we haven’t seen anything yet.

SO WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO. This reporter tells you that there is another story out there right now. There is a story of renewal, and gentle breezes. There is a story of Hope that is SO HUGE, that IT IS THE EARTH CHANGES. The story is all about regeneration and planting new seeds. It is a story of the great Shamanic Death of Mother Earth and how she emerges from the ashes to build a new. It is the story of the coming Golden Age that is SO CLOSE WE CAN TASTE IT. We are already feeling it as it shakes us into action. We are waking in the night with dreams and knowing of solutions and things that we must do to allow this process to take place. This dear friends is the most EXCITING TIME in the history of this planet. Except for maybe the years it was born the first time.

Do you know how amazing it is for us all to be linked in this regeneration process and how much the Universe has trusted us to be able to do it. We have everything we need right at our fingertips, we must just stop and breath and hear it, feel it and work it. I was listening to a story about how the trees have a system to maintain a temperature of 70 degrees. That is why some leaves cluster and others reach into the wind to BREATHE...yep they knew how to do breath-work before us. Darn, just when we thought we had a new idea.

In this time, I am more super charged than I have ever felt in my life. After a full year of constant ritual and prayer about what to do, and how to do it. I am knowing, it is all about shifting frequencies. We must get light enough to connect with the frequencies of the new paradigm. That means we have to clean our bodies of the same toxins mother earth must clear from hers. We need to remove the sugars ( Come on, even I taught Sugar Blues in the 70's...I just loved it sooo much it was hard to kick) Her Wheat is spoiled and it spoils inside us. Her dairy is filled with pesticides and preservatives. Her vegetables are trapped in cans filled with poison. So we must adjust our environment to shift hers. The medications clog the strands of the web we weave and we are not hearing each other clearly. We need to find more natural ways to keep the frequency connected...or to know when our energy is so jagged that we are harming others with our own internal quaking.

We need to work with the Elements and the Alchemy of our times. We need to come into a new balance with everything around ourselves and we need to listen to the dreams and calls in the nights. The time to connect and to bring our SOUL-utions together is now.

We are told this gas price is stuck for a long time to come. We are told that it is going to get worse...IT DOES NOT HAVE TO GET WORSE, AND WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER TO BRING HOPE AND SOLUTION TO THE CHILDREN.

I Invite you to join me/ us in this effort.

We are making some Earth Change shifts at Hawkwind. Right now we have two pieces of property for sale that face us. Each is near four acres, potential huge gardening patch, and has road access, but also a quiet wooded area with the stream crossing through it. This land was our back up savings in case it got crazy out there. We are inviting folks of like mind to join us in the garden of the new age. We are inviting folks who want to work in community to create sustainable solutions to join us in this shift at Hawkwind. This is prime property and the developer would love it. We would choose to sell to like mind and like Spirit. Also, there is soon to be a very large offering next door. So we could expand right now, if folks were wanting to get out of the city. The cost of living is way less out here, and the Atlanta folks are making weekend places here right and left. We would love to see someone come out to begin to build that will stay one day. Or even better is a family who could be here now.

We are still seeking a grounds keeper to move in to the side room at the mess hall and assist us with maintaining the property for community use. This is way too much for three of us to do alone, and we don’t want to. We are welcoming other folks to join in and take advantage of our 20 years of efforts.

A new 2009 schedule is emerging on our web site this week. Dates are still being filled in, as I am heading back out on the road to a dozen locations next year to plant new seeds of hope and regeneration. I will share my time between Hawkwind, Venus Rising, Oregon, New Orleans, My daughter in Atlanta, Thunder’s Ranch, and work with Mz. Imani and the transformation portals we have found in our ritual work and tools.

CHARLA’S NEW WORKSHOPS WILL BE:

* Two Women;’s circles with rites of passage rituals offered of the Grandmothers of many nations.

* TOOLS FOR TRANSFORMATION, working with Body, Mind, Spirit

* REGENERATION OF THE BODY TO OVER COME CHRONIC DISEASE AND PAIN

* SHAMANIC PRACTICE OF WORKING THE ELEMENTS, RITUAL AND RENEWAL OF SPIRIT

* THE BLUE STAR OF RENEWAL BEYOND 2012

* ALCHEMICAL HEALING AND RITES OF THE ANCIENTS

* ANCIENT PRACTICE MERGE WITH NEW THOUGHT AND PROPHECY

* WORKING WITH THE MEDICINE WHEEL AS A SOURCE OF HEALING AND TRANSFORMATION

Tarwater will continue to offer his purification rituals, and he will teach on Sunday Mornings four times a year. Gather the men and he will do a shield building and warriors weekend...but you have to gather them and tell him you have enough to make it worth the time for him to leave work that pays the Hawkwind bills.

Lulu is offering a series of workshops , purification and women’s rituals. She is amazing with the plants and can also help you learn how to manage an at home business while raising children.

We have four new teachers who will be offering everything from breath work to new forms of personal growth. We will be offering support for solutions to the needs of nurturing and moving beyond fear into wholeness. We will be bringing Mz. Imani and her magical music to dance and dance and dance....and of course we will still be bringing our own Spirit Renewal Dance each year, and a new way of questing with your Spirit. It is time to move into the exciting new paradigm of YES, we are all able to regenerate at some level, and more than that, we all have the connection of each other to get us through anything.

We will be shifting our 501c3 in the fall, but will continue to gather funds for the current programs, until that shift is ready to offer. WATCH YOU E-MAIL FOR THE NEXT EXCITING PIECE OF NEWS.

Blessings and Hope

May our Walk be Gentle and our Medicine be filled with Joy

Charla and crew