As shared in the blog of my friend Yvette, HAPPINESS IS CONTAGIOUS!  It has now been studied and proven, that if you create happiness and share it with another person, they will become happy, and they will share it and so on and so on!

Still don't believe me ... this is what *they* say:

"Happiness is contagious, spreading among friends, neighbors, siblings and spouses like the flu, according to a large study that for the first time shows how emotion can ripple through clusters of people who may not even know each other."  Read the rest of the Washington Post article here.

So, there you have it.  Let's raise happiness all over the world ... together!  Let's breathe this "contagion" into the souls of all who have lost hope, healing the hurts, and celebrating in joy.  Create whatever gives you happiness and share it with the world on 25 July 2K9!

peace & harmony,
elaine
'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'

I picked Saturday, 25 July 2008 as the date for the 2009 Gaia Peace Festival.  It could have been any day I wanted, but as with most things in my life, I wanted my choice to have purpose.

The "Day Out of Time" is the 365th day of the year, based on a 13-moon, 28-day month based calendar that allows one day a year to be a day of adjustment that belongs to no structure:  its not a day of the week, it has no month, it is a "free day."

Those that have come before me, have worked at creating a discussion and movement to change our present calendar system -- that which was established by Pope Gregory the XIII known as the "Gregorian Calendar."†

I understand the intention of World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement is to bring our planet to a peaceful harmonic timing frequency through calendar reform.  Their establishment of a lunar based calendar is based largely on the remarkably complex and accurate Mayan calendar.  The day they established for this Day of Time is most closely relating to 25 July on the common or Gregorian calendar.

I recognize and want to support the Global Calendar Peace Movement's efforts to bring peace through cultural reform, a non-violent attempt to create a time structure for the planet that is based on peace and sustainability. 

I personally have celebrated the "Day Out of Time" since 2005.    For me, the Day Out of Time represents a day of celebratory adjustment to the things we consciously know have passed away as well as those we do not.  By taking a moment, a day if you will


A moment to incorporate all of the cosmic wobbles and nuances produced as  energies interact within our most intimate inner world, within our relationships with one another and our external world, to the ripple effect our energies have throughout the cosmos.


Allowing time and space for our awareness to grow and expand until the moment when the static structure of time for this 3rd dimensional earth experience is once again established for our collective experience for a new year of interaction, growth, movement and change.

Taking the time each year allows a more acute personal and global adjustment than the four year cycle offered by the Gregorian system.  Eventually moving toward self and global realization that time is our construct to create in each moment, and that, individually AND as a collective, our planet can eventual move with complete present moment self-awareness and peaceful order.

That is why I chose 25 July 2009 as the day to amplify happiness on the earth grid and invite you to join me in expressing and sharing your happiness in conscious connection on this day.

Astrologically, a heliocentric view of our earth presents us the global opportunity to realize deeper, the value of joy, happiness and expansion of not just our physical interactions (Jupiter), but our spiritual and cosmic ones (Neptune) and our self-healing ones (Chiron) as well.  And, offering us a moment to adjust those new and deeper connections with the limitations and structure presently in place (Saturn) as well as with its executor or administrator (Mercury).

peace & harmony,
elaine
'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'

†For those who know me, the study of time and calendars is an integral part of my journey.  I believe that the construct of the Gregorian calendar and its use today on a global scale is one of our greatest challenges to global balance, personal empowerment and collective peace.

Hi!

I am happy today.  Even though the world is not "perfect," even though I'M not "perfect," I am happy.

Content to hold to faith that "all things work together for good," I now seek to focus on the "things" that are my "work."   So, right now I am happy that I have the freedom and ability to do that with the knowledge that the fruit of my work can only further increase my ability to receive and share a deeper level of happiness with the world.

I have many talents and things that I do which make me happy.  I know that I am not the only person like that on this planet of our's.

Organizing and bringing people together is one of my favorite things to do.  Creating something out of nothing and sharing it for free is the way I love to do it most.  Energy never goes away, it is either active or it is potential.  Fohat is an expression that defines the energy that is potential or inert:  Energy that is not presently active.  It is through the initiation of ideas that give energy new inertia to begin changing the world.  Through the pure intention of being and sharing happiness, we can initialize a collective ball of energy focused on increasing the level and depth of happiness in our world.

The Gaia Peace Festival is not to counter any other energy or to create energy in response or reaction to anything that is already in existence, but to create a new spark, a new idea that is based in our own individual happiness and sharing that with the world.

The initiation of happy fohat energy on the global energy grid is the purpose of the 2009 Gaia Peace Festival.  There is much true happiness in the world that is dormant and can be activated and freed from its present state of inertia.  That is the mission of the 2009 Gaia Peace Festival.

peace & harmony,
elaine
'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'