Yule Tide Blessings

Ahhh, it's almost that time again. . . break out the Yule log, light your candles, put up the tree and get ready to sit in the gathering room with friends and family.
Pretty soon the snow will start to fall and blanket the earth to protect nature from the harshness of winter. And as we hunker down for the winter solstice we'll have time to reflect on all those holidays gone by that held all the magic of the season.
The Santa Moon's are ready to roll and the candles are nearly all poured. For me Christmas is a time to be spent getting ready until the time runs out. That's when I'll sit back and enjoy the present. In the moment, as the magic of the day unfolds like a well written script, I'll play my role and cherish the time as the new memories are manifested and become reality. Everything I have worked for will come full circle as does the circle of the year and I'll enjoy every single smidgen of it. Enjoying the love, the laughter and healing.

Speaking of healing. . .I have become obsessed with making the chakra pyramid candle series again this year.
This Root Chakra candle is not complete yet but this is the base product of what it will look like. It will be topped with a snow cap for the season and tucked inside this candle is a Tibetan Crystal, which after the candle has burned down, the buyer will have the blessed crystal to carry and use as grounding energy.
 Chakra Pyramid candles are a 7 candle series which include Chakra Meditations and a full color booklet, which explains each of the seven chakras, where they are located, what energy they rule and all the pertinent properties of each chakra.
Since winter is long, we have plenty of time to meditate to clear our chakras and heal our selves.

For now, enjoy the holiday season. . .I should get back to work, many Santa's to finish and candles to pour.

many blessings. . .

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New Years Day

   And what does January hold?
Clean account books, bare diaries,
Three hundred & sixty five new days,
neatly parceled into weeks, months and season's.
A chuck of time, of life. . . those first few notes
like an orchestra tuning up before the play begins,

                                        Phyllis Nicholson
                              Country Bouquet 1947






 

December is closing fast. . .

December is here and the selling season for Ebay is nearly at it's seasonal end.
The Yule tree has been decorated for the celebration, as the wheel of the year turns and the solstice will soon begin.

This month always brings me to the shutting down of my creative persecutes with anticipation of the "New Year, New Start" mentality as it seems. And as I sit back with a book in my comfy chair, tending the fire that burns in the fireplace, watching flames dance, as if in their own sort of celebration, across the logs, I dream of the many things I drew out in my tablet but never had time to either finish or start to create, I am always reminded of how time flies past when you are forced to sell yourself for an hourly wage to keep above the fast moving waters that rush our lives along.

Pretty soon I will endure, yet another birthday and I really have to wonder where this river of motion is taking me. I enjoy my life and the ability I have to not only be successful in my work but to create my primitive artistry which supplements my income, or at least pays for all the junk I purchase to afford to craft my days away. And then I have to wonder. . . What! Is the question? As I look back through my picture albums of the things spirit has guided me to create, I am filled with a child like wonder...it's one of gratitude and unconditional love for the forces that push me along this path, being ever so grateful for sooo many wonderful things in my life. I soulfully appreciate every healthy day I spend, mindlessly crafting, staying in the present and loving the gifts of this life.

So as I anticipate another year of learning, growing and expressing myself through my primitive artistry my heart swells with the excitement and wonder to see what gifts are laid before me in the year come. I'll look forward to it and start my planning with great pleasure as this will be one spectacular year indeed. 2012!!! WOW!!!