You, whose power animal is the deer, may find it meaningful that this is the time of the year when deer leave their antlers on the ground for other animals to feed on. The antlers can be seen as the symbol of higher faculties, and since they are mostly made up of calcium, you canContinue reading “Shedding Antlers In the Cold Season”
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New Year’s Week In 2020
In many ancient cultures, including the Chinese, homes are being cleaned before the New Year. If your home is spic and span and already welcoming of the New Year, clean it through smoke (herbs on coal), fire (candles), water (sprinkle with water and herbs) and air (open the windows and doors) to invite the bestContinue reading “New Year’s Week In 2020”
Gifts and Gifts Opened
You can not control life. You can not control love. Wisdom, however, is anything but random and unpredictable. Wisdom is the choice for life to be as it is and for love to come as it is. Wisdom never fights life or love; by definition that would not be wisdom. Wisdom is a reward toContinue reading “Gifts and Gifts Opened”
December’s Custom Of Spreading Love
Treat yourself to well-being on this day. Today is a good day for gratitude. Today is a good day for connection. If you are social distancing this year, connect with all you love through your heart centre and send them a sincere blessing for the year on the way. May everything that is good inContinue reading “December’s Custom Of Spreading Love”
A Week For Love In December
May the holidays refresh you and make you smile a lot. Use this time on what you need: a lucky break from routines, the opportunity to spend time on something that restores you or with good people, to observe the sacred in the land (post solstice), in the collective consciousness (festivities), in the generosity ofContinue reading “A Week For Love In December”
Fatherhood: Joseph, Jesus’ Father
It is strange that in all this time Joseph, Jesus’ earthly father, was never promoted as the role model for men, or a champion of masculinity – although he seemed to have it all. What do I mean by having it all? Kindness, love, patience, wisdom, emotional intelligence, the gift of intuition, integrity, a greatContinue reading “Fatherhood: Joseph, Jesus’ Father”
Well-Being On Christmas
Santosha, my first thought on Christmas Day. Santosha means contentment and was one of Patanjali’s disciplines. May Santosha fill your soul, body and mind. May it shine in you and from you into the world. May these holidays give you memories that are friendly and sweet.No stress. Christmas Day 2014
Lockdown # 2 In Ontario
Ooooh, we are heading into lockdown number 2 after Boxing Day.. It will go for weeks… I don’t know how business can survive that.. But for domestic life, here is a second chance for closeness and more harmony between people who live together, for renewed focus on home matters, for the creation of a futureContinue reading “Lockdown # 2 In Ontario”
Happy Solstice. Happy Great Conjunction.
It is the first day of the new season: winter up here in the North, summer in the Southern hemisphere. So take that first step into your future today. If you have taken the time to introspect this year, you have found many things to be grateful for and (the opposite!) things to leave in the past;Continue reading “Happy Solstice. Happy Great Conjunction.”
Welcome, Winter Solstice
May your new season be everything you ask for and everything you work for. Envision what it would mean to thrive, how you could feel, what you would do, who is with you, and how you relate to, celebrate and grow the good fortune in your life — and then, do what you can toContinue reading “Welcome, Winter Solstice”
Healing Circle on 18 December
#reikisend #allourrelations #Gaia #wellbeing #Friday We are sending our thanks to everything that is working well in our lives. We are sending light towards the growing well-being of animals, plants, people and waters on earth. We are sending reiki to all who are ready to receive it and to ourselves – the participants in thisContinue reading “Healing Circle on 18 December”
Sit In the Power Of Enough
This morning, in a semi-awake state, my subconscious started to list all the reasons why I had to get out to a plant shop, the most appealing reason being “Tomorrow is my birthday.. It is time to treat myself..” However, I do have enough plants. I mean, I have a lot more plants than the average person.Continue reading “Sit In the Power Of Enough”
The Foresight of the Ancestors
The wisdom of the elders is only a wisdom if the elders were wiser than you — if they made better choices, less harmful choices, were luckier as a result of their decisions, and if they had sense. The reason why we have plenty of extremism instead of wisdom in this era is that theContinue reading “The Foresight of the Ancestors”
We Idolize Those Who Treat Us Unwell (But We Respect Those Who Treat Us Well)
Just like the first great boyfriend who shows us what we have missed on other dates, or the first great girlfriend who lets you feel love instead of confusion, so can the politician who acts on vision and keeps his promise change our perception of what is benign and what is harm. Someone decent andContinue reading “We Idolize Those Who Treat Us Unwell (But We Respect Those Who Treat Us Well)”
Daily Thanks
I am grateful for the freedom to compost thoughts that are unhelpful and untrue. I am grateful for the freedom to promote thoughts that are benign and true. I am grateful for the freedom to tolerate thoughts that are neither benign nor helpful, neither true nor untrue, but somewhere in between. I am free toContinue reading “Daily Thanks”
The Four Pillars Of Self-Care
The four pillars of basic self-care are: * food * exercise * feelings (total acceptance) * sleep Develop the 4 pillars, so that they turn into routine. Strengthen the one pillar that you tend to neglect. Keep it up. 12 December 2017
Drum Medicine
dedicated to Sheila E and Tony Williams, born on this day Percussion is the fastest way to clear the air in the space and bring more warmth to it. Percussion is also very effective for cutting through hypnotic energies, sent out by people who are persuasive, though ignorant and malevolent. (They are among us, likeContinue reading “Drum Medicine”
12/12: A Master Drummers’ Birthday
I listen to the drums to heat up a place, to “flush out” energies and thoughts that I don’t want to keep, to repair myself after disappointments, sadness and upsets, to come back to me, to feel myself again, to find my groove again. The unfriendlier the events, the more percussion I play at home.Continue reading “12/12: A Master Drummers’ Birthday”
The Smell of the Earth in December
Root vegetables smell like the soil they grow in, and the soil that is adapting to the cold season smells faintly of the vegetables and the flowers it was a home to, for months. The garden that was is still here like an idea, because the scents linger. The scent of parsnip and pumpkin lingersContinue reading “The Smell of the Earth in December”
A Christmas Tree Without the Tree
No tree, just lights, in a corner. It is easy to replicate. It fits into small, and even irregular spaces. My mom used to gather needle-tree branches and arrange them in pleasing ways, so that there was a good scent in the home.. I find that nice, too.. With string lights and a few branches,Continue reading “A Christmas Tree Without the Tree”
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