March/April 2011 Cover Artist
Awakening the Rainbow Warrior
by Mara Berendt Friedman
In 2006, I met with my new friend, Trinity Harris, who guided me through a deep healing session. A few months later, I was awakened night after night with dream message fragments. I kept receiving this phrase: Rainbow warrior awaken! The answer is with the maiden. This potent message led to the creation of the Rainbow Warrior Awaken! card deck and guidebook with Harris.
I am filled with a sense of peace that I picked up the rainbow thread and followed it to a beautiful place. We are here on Mother Earth to develop compassion for self and other, as well as to discover what we love and to share our healing gifts. In doing so, we walk the rainbow way of beauty.
When I speak of the rainbow way of beauty, I am dreaming of a reverent and authentic way of living on our planet that springs from cooperation and love. I am imagining a life guided by the light of spirit, in which our actions are in service to each other and to the health of our earth. My vision of healing is one that begins within the individual heart and ripples outward into the world, expanding beyond the universe.
Mara Berendt Friedman, an Oregon-based artist and owner of New Moon Visions, has her painting Sweet Reverie featured on the cover of New Connexion. She is cofounder of STREAM, a sacred art school dedicated to the nurturance of true self expression and the rainbow way of beauty. Visit www.newmoonvisions.com.