January 23-27th- the advent of the dark moon of aquarius and the solar eclipse

if the title wasn't enough to hint at the madness that was this last weekend, well then please do understand that the energy was out of this world (pun intended... the dark moon... solar eclipse...got it?? okay good...).  If im not mistaken the shift into aquarius is supposed to represent a shift in consciousness.  Rainbow Serpent was the perfect festival to represent this symbol.  That in conjunction with the solar eclipse (which was only seen in certain parts of the world like Asia or Japan, and Brazil i think) meant that the vampires were coming out!  There was something in the air that you could feel.  Even before the festival began the vibration of everything was so intensified that I knew something big was about to happen.  When i found out about the moon and eclipse i knew it was coming.  Then the Rainbow Serpent Festival began...

It was a week of preparation and months of anticipation.  Now that it is all over i look back and think of how great it would be if everyone could experience that intense level of awareness and consciousness.  It was my first festival and one of the greatest memories of recent times, and def. one of the tops in my entire life.  Being surrounded by thousands of like-minded individuals is the best way to really let go of ego and feel life's vibration and start the process to evolve to another level.  I wish it didn't have to end this morning, even though i am exhausted.

So we arrived on Friday afternoon, got a perfect camp site that was close to everything and started the weekend.  We basically got acquainted with the city and the layout and then started to meet soon to be friends.  We danced, we partied, and saw some amazing art shows.  I ended up getting painted and this is when the energy really took control and we let loose.  

Saturday is the most memorable day for me and one of the greatest days of my life.  I awoke to start my day on Reiki.  My healer said that she was getting some strong psychic pulls coming from me so she asked to incorporate that into her reiki session and i can't believe how accurate she was and how much that effected me.  Her "specialty" was that "she had the healing power of mother universe."  I didn't really understand what she meant at first.  A lot of it is really personal but she was able to read me like a book:  She knew i had a few blocked chakras (my throat and my stomach-which i have had problems with lately), she pointed out some anxiety related issues i have had (probably related to traveling), she said that i needed to release a lot of energy and just go out and yell, she said that i needed to give affection and receive it (that i should go ask random strangers for hugs), she knew i was a performer, she knew a lot about me, and she even predicted something about a red star tattoo (she didn't know much about it except that it was on someone else and that it related to me) and how it was going to have a lot of significance for me.  I still don't fully understand the whole meaning of this.  Anyway because she had the healing power of mother universe she said that all i had to do was ask and i would receive.  That the universe would provide me because my intention was good, and it was magnified through her.  I was skeptical, but did it anyway.  Well it worked, and worked in a matter of minutes!  

I finished the reiki session and talked to her for a bit (i highly recommend that you experience the power of reiki if you never have.  Im committed to learning how to harness its powers.  Every time i utilize it, im amazed).  After i left her, i was walking around and ended up at a mantra chanting meditation class.  This immediately after reiki, was awesome.  Then immediately after meditation i met a massuese who gave me a lomi lomi massage.  Its a hawaiian full body massage that not only massages but works positive energy into your system and releases negative energy from you.  He also gave me incredible advice and sent me on my way.  Well all this healing is exactly what i needed and part of what i had asked for.  The compound effects from all three of these sessions sent my energy into an enlightened blissfull state and those around me seemed to notice.  I can't even describe the high i was feeling.  This was part one of the day, part two was even better...

Its getting long, ill leave out the details, but sierra and i hit the dance floor and met two lovely ladies. One of these ladies i fell in love with.  I don't know if i believe in love at first sight, but this girl stopped me in my tracks and i could tell that she felt the same.  It was crazy to feel it so intense.  Just as the Reiki healer had said... incredible attraction and affection was there if i just asked for it to come.  The sickest opening ceremony started and somehow the energy rose to another level and one of the craziest nights of my life ensued.  I have never ever, in my entire life, reached that level of euphoria and pure nirvana:  I saw things in ways i have never seen them before, I felt things i have never felt,  I tasted things like they have never tasted, I heard music sound more beautiful than ever, I can't even describe it.  I have never been on such a high vibration as i was that night, and i was able to share it with some of my closest friends and even a new friend.  I will never forget it.  I didn't even have to eat or drink much and i was perfectly fine.  Ask me later and ill give you more details from the night.

Sunday we dressed up in our ninja turtle costumes.  We had body paint, our turtle shells, masks, etc. and me being the orange party dude i had to have some spinning poi for nunchaku.  People were so appreciative of our costumes and the effort we put into it that we would have to stop about every five feet and take pictures.  We ended up taking hundreds of pics with random strangers.  We got filmed and will end up on the Rainbow Serpent DVD.  Check out the website for some of our ninja turtle pics (its on the facebook page).  We just cruised around and crashed the dance floors with our turtle shuffles and had a blast. We even met people after the fact who didn't see us but were still talking about our costumes.  I had no idea they would be so popular.  Finch had Crang hanging out of his shorts and even painted it green for effect.  It was so funny to see peoples reactions to it when they didn't notice it at first.  

That night was amazing and I saw some of the sickest poi shows i have ever seen.  Spinning fire is another thing that i am dedicated to learn.  Its such an elegant, stylish art form that makes people stop and stare.  I am hooked.  I saw some performers do things that seem humanly impossible.  The rest of the festival was awesome as well, but we took it fairly easy and had to recover.

The festival went all the way until this morning.  We had a great time and didn't want to leave so we stayed all the way to the end.  We weren't sure how we were going to get home and ended up hitchin it the whole way back.  We got lucky and met some beautiful ladies who had room in a camper van, and just like mother universe said when you ask you receive.  It was sychronicity at work and we ended up helping each other out.  They needed info. that we had and they helped us in ways we needed.  It was no coincidence that we met them.  Its amazing how things work out sometimes, but it all has to do with the power of pure intent and desire.  

So we are back in Melbourne for now and staying with Alex again, at least for a few days.  I have a date tomorrow with the lovely lady i met and who knows what will happen.  I do know that i want to hit the road despite the fact that i met her.  If you know me, you know that i won't let anything get in the way of my goals, we shall see...  

So Rainbow Serpent was an incredible festival that set the tone for a way of consciousness i want to be permanent.  Its amazing to tap into the deepest power of the human body!  Can't wait for Burning Man.

DEdLee "when you don't stop, you continue" michaelangelo

ingenious quote from our belligerant state of the weekend "humans get naked to make turtles and turtles get naked to make humans"

what is the date January 20th??

Just a few things to report... but then again i do love writing

Been a busy last few days since i quit my job.  It was over six weeks of work, and it always seems that around that six week mark i get bored.  So said goodbye collected my pay and started preparing for the festival that is Rainbow Serpent.  If you know nothing about it, its Australia's version of Burning Man, and if you know nothing about that either then i highly urge you to open another tab and check them out.  They are amazing in every way.  The only way to completely surround yourself with like minded people who are there for the same reason as you are... progress in every facet of life.  Music, art, events, lifestyle, and fun... im really looking forward to Luke Brown (he known as an enlightened prophet), the energy network, breath of life, R.I.S.E. (rythmic, interactive, Self-Expansion involving yoga, meditation, and reiki!), merkabah lightbody activation and Sacred Geometry, Mayan calendar workshops, Qi Gong, Soundhealing, and Tantra bliss (awakening life's stagnant energy within your body), Yoga, dance classes, huge live music bands, only to name a few.  Yeah its a hippy fest, but that is only part of it.  I have a lot of friends that will be going with me as well.  This will be a life changing event and im just waiting to see what happens here that will set the next chapter in motion.  Im completely stoked.  Its starts on thursday the 23rd and will end on monday the 27th.

So i have been preparing for this trip the last few days: rides, food, water, alcohol, supplies, and the best part... our costumes.  Everyone is supposed to dress up for this and a few of my friends and I decided we are going to go as the Ninja Turtles.  Handmade (and awesome) turtle shells, body paint, weapons, etc. the whole nine.  Remember our award winning costumes we made that one year??  well we are doing them again plus some.  This year we will also have April Oneil, and Casey the hockey dude... remember him?? (well it will be done by Kirsten, but i know she can pull it off), and some spinning poi.  Imagine lifelike ninja turtles walking in all spinning poi in synchronicity!  We are gonna try to pull that off.  Its gonna be a great weekend for sure.  

After RS we are not sure what is going to happen.  We all have open minds, but a desire to leave the city for the horizon.  We don't have a plan but i do know that it feels good to just go with the flow.  One of my reasons for being here is to push my boundaries and one thing i have always done is try to plan everything out to the point of stress and frustration.  Im letting go and trusting that all is going to work out with a job and housing (once again).  Intuition and pure intent say that things are about to become the journey i came here for.  We may come back to the city, but i have a feeling we are about to hit the road and work on a farm or find a beach.  

So all is well here.  Taking the steps to live in the moment, every moment, and i highly urge you to do the same.  You'll never fall in love with a passion if you don't fall at all.  

Until next time, i wish you stellar...

danny "Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our personal legend...  The only way to truly live our dreams is to wake up" california

January 12th- 10 days to go!!!!

Me and my new travel mate have once again morphed into turtles and started to carry our lives on our back.  We left the city for our much anticipated destination that resides in the trees of Hawthorn.  Sierra met a lovely lady named Alex who offered to let us stay at her place until we leave for Rainbow Serpent.  So we are here in Hawthorn with Alex and her sister until we leave for Rainbow Serpent.  Leaving the city is awesome- as much as i liked Melbourne it feels good to get away from it.  Ill be back there on my way to work, but not living there feels great.  

So Rainbow Serpent is quickly approaching and this is the culmination of the reason we came here.  Its gonna be a great festival full of energy, healing, art, and people.  I cannot wait.  After RS we think we are going to head west or go work on a farm again.  I want to get to a place with a better beach and live on the road.  So time is winding down here and im excited.  It will be sad to leave all of my friends i have made, but it has been fun.  That's the update for ya.  We are well and hope that you are all the same or better.  Miss you friends and family.  Ill write more soon now that i have good access to the internet and many adventures soon to come.

sLEEzy " we are what we think we are" D

six days into 2009...

Gotta start off by saying that NYE was incredible. Looking back on that night it seems so surreal. I know it happened but it seems more like a dream. We partied way to hard and i ended up getting sick for my first time here in Australia, but no worries. I had not been drinking much and so that day i took to it like i never missed a beat from my past. My body was not prepared for it. My bodies immune system took some damage from that night and i ended up getting sick which i am just now getting over. Just the same cold that everyone else seems to be getting in the world. On the road to recovery... Ask me details from my New Years and ill be happy to explain, but will not do so on here, as some may not want to hear allllll of em. Not what you are thinking though, i didn't even get my NY kiss!, but i didn't care either. Good times abound.

So now Sierra and Finch are both here, Finch arrived a few days ago, and we are just waiting it out for Rainbow Serpent. Finch is probably going to leave for a few days to go to Tazmania and Sierra and I are most likely stuck here working. We need to save up some money for now. We are having a blast though and trying to enjoy life in the city. Its a great place. Its starting to warm up a lot as well. The weather has been wierd (cold) and today was really hot. I think the dead heat of summer will be arriving soon.

In the process of making my new tattoo. Its gonna be sick. Details to come on that, im getting kicked off.

so im editing a day later... my next tattoo is gonna be about consciousness, awakening, passions, insight, and life. It all revolves around my favorite band Incubus' album cover for Light Grenades. Its an exploding grenade, but im going to change it to reflect my style. Inside this grenade i will have all of the above elements incorporated and it will reflect my life as of late. This new period of travel and passion in my life is a big testament to the story behind the tattoo, which i feel is the only reason a person should get something so permanent. It has to reflect you and who you are, and a good story to go with it is nice. That is exactly what this tattoo will be. I just have to find the right artist and have the money at the time. I never rush a tattoo, but i can feel it manifesting in my favor. We shall see. The drawing i have of it in my journal is enough to get me excited.

much love,

danny