Merry Yule-The Winter Solstice began today December 21st, 2015

Merry Yule-The Winter Solstice began today December 21st, 2015
 I awakened this morning with a smile on my face and was filled with love & gratitude for this wondrous day
My Rune card for today is #8 Fertility- the birthing of New Beginnings
My chores are done, the bills are paid and now on to a magnificent dinner to celebrate this Yule Tide Blessing and the winter Solstice with a bit of Merriment.
I decorated my fireplace with birch (traditional Yule Logs) logs that were a gift from a friend which is also my Celtic Tree-as I was born on Christmas. I placed white candles and rock crystals on the mantel to celebrate my new beginnings today. I just love rituals! I was raised that way. Even though it wasn't something I was ever taught, it  was spirit that guided me to gather and my mom was just so accepting of my whimsy and excitement of it all. The gathering of  pine cones, birch branches, stones, rocks, shells or whatever made my heart sing. I can remember my sister who never participated in such things, would say to my mother, "Mom, she's doing it again!" My mother would always just laugh and say, "Oh Victoria, just leave her alone, let her decorate with what makes her happy!" and my sister would always give me that look like your stupid and I hate you! But it was ok that we were so very different after all and we still are to this very day.
I love this world I dwell in, it's peaceful, calm and filled with joy. Being this close to God is so comfortable for me and I honor every minuet of my day that I can spend there.
Enjoy the day and while relaxing tonight in your easy chair, close your eyes and think about the things you would like to see in your life for 2016 as it's the best day to plan for it. New beginnings
are abound for everyone who takes the time to set their intension and expand their container to make room to receive the new coming in.
Merry Yule to you this day and many blessings going forward, enjoy the solstice♥

till next time. . .

December 25th 2015 Full Moon in Cancer

December 25th 2015 Christmas Full Moon in Cancer and it's happening at 11:11am.
This is the first full moon on Christmas Day for 38 years, the last one was in 1977
As I sit here and chow away at my spoon full of peanut butter dipped into granola, my mind is just racing as I think back to 1977. WOW! What a time that was. My son just started kindergarten in Sept and I was starting a new job in Mt. Prospect, so we had to move as it was too far to travel back and forth to Dundee, since I had no one to care for him after school except our German shepherd, Joe.
I was working as a Rental Consultant for an Apartment complex so an apartment was part of my salary. Moving was a given with this type of job, so onward we went but not for long, I hated living at the end of Ohare Field. The planes looked like they would fly into my front picture window, the power lines hummed outside my back door and the traffic was unreal. This was no place to raise a child that's for sure.
How things just start to flood your mind as you drift back in time. Funny how things are so much more clear to you now, all the learning experiences of the past and how well we maneuver along through our lives. It is amazing how the planetary influences effect our lives, things we don't even notice on a daily basis and how our lives run this parallel course through time, where we keep going in the same circle, learning the lessons over and over until we finally master them, then we can move on to something new. I know this is all about Mercury, Pluto and Uranus which always takes us back to take a look at the life lessons  we have past through before we transmute into new dimensional aspects. 
Have fun celebrating the Winter Solstice tomorrow and enjoy the Full Cancer Moon on Christmas Day

Many blessings to you this Winter Holiday Season. . .

Santa Stars and snowmen are still available on my ETSY Shop www.Etsy.com/shop/cranesnest
and I will continue to stock snowmen through the winter