It’s the time of year to look back at where we have come from and choose a path forward. I have more to say on that topic which I will save for later. However for now, I will start with a blog post, which is something I have not done for quite a while. As I was setting my intention for what I would like to see in the coming year, I was contacted by MysticMag, and so I decided (or the Universe decided) it was the perfect time to become more visible again, and post more often.
Therefore please join me in my wonderful opportunity to be interviewed by MysticMag. I really enjoyed answering questions about my book, my work as a a spiritual counselor and High Priestess in the Sylvan tradition, and to go into some detail about how my spirituality combines with role playing games within the game I am currently writing. Please check out the interview below.
So it occurred to me this evening that along with the healing that is happening on planet Earth with so many humans taking a virus imposed “time out”. That there is another potential gift from all of this.
Backstory is that I had a powerful experience recently. Since the end of December due to some health challenges and surgeries that kept me at home, off work, and essentially self isolating as a result, I found myself outside of the “rat race” and fully experienced for the first time in years that even if that race was for a good cause it was still not my race to run. Getting a rest from it all reset my energy entirely.
The experience changed me on a fundamental level and through that it became very clear to me what I needed to do; meaning leave the job I had been saying I’d leave for the last two years, and go back and give energy to what I truly love. The experience also gave me enough of my own energy back to be able to finally act on that information and give notice, even though it included doing it in the continued face of uncertainty.
Having said all that it occurred to me that there is a possibility that some (many?) of the people who are having to stay at home for an extended period of time may also be gifted with distance from some particular way of existing, perhaps be redirected to art & music & games & writing & reading & spirituality, or whatever else might truly call to them.
In so doing it’s possible an entire section of the population could choose differently when the time comes to leave their homes and re-enter the outside world. That choice could change the face of society in a positive way.
I find myself thinking of this lately, as life just keeps escalating. Not sure who can relate to what I’m thinking, but here goes. (You know me I’m the Analogy Queen ).
You know when you’re playing a game, more specifically a video game or some variant… and you’re getting ready to change to the next level? What happens?
Right!
Things get progressively harder and more intense and then … You run into what is known as the “boss”, the big bad gatekeeper of the end of that level. It’s the way these games work. You have to find a way to battle or subdue or in some way defeat or get past the boss in order to make it out of that level into the next higher one.
I have often had to save and retry a bunch of times to get past some particular nasty “big bads”. I’ve gone online to find out how other people have succeeded. I’ve looked for different ways to approach or timing to use, or find out where it’s vulnerable. I eventually find a way through even if it seems like I never will, even if it feels like this level is wayyy too hard and there’s no way through.
The way is built into the game. It’s there somewhere.
Anyway, through the battle(s) the experience points gained help you to increase your character’s abilities, level up and sometimes allow you to have new spells and helpers (what you get depends on the kind of character you are playing of course).
Remember what the other thing is that happens? Yes! Once you defeat the boss, what’s left behind are coins and armor and trinkets and magical items. Often beyond the level of your character, but that will give you advantages and even more fun, as you move on into the next levels of the game.
You can always tell you are at the end of one level and the threshold of the next level by the appearance of a big bad scary powerful something…dragon, massive spider, Orc king, Sorcerer, Virus.
Remember…Next level, on the other side, just saying.
I wanted to put this out there for everyone. My birthday is this month so I am adding a special for March. Please email or text me to set up an appointment, or if you have questions.
This offer is of course good for all new clients and also for regular clients who want to add an additional session to what they have already scheduled for the month.
Gratitude.
There’s a part of my heart that never aged.
Kept apart from the rest of my life, observing events, but not touched.
In amber…glowing golden, kept with other treasures, and memories.
Forgotten like so many things, that will reemerge at some predestined time when all is added back to us once more.
There’s a part of my heart that is still young, that is fresh and new and in awe.
(I had felt I had lost so much of it when Bowie passed, and now I see that there may be more than I knew.)
In me it blooms. Today I am reminded it was never lost.
No matter what the mirror reflects. I know now that I am not so old as I thought, and will never truly be, no one is…
I know now why the old men sit and reminisce, playing games in the park.
I am reminded and renewed by reconnections and memories, coming to it from another place, with more understanding, the kind that only comes with age.
Blessed am I, by my past. By the tender group of souls I came here with, some of them have moved on, and some of them, gratefully, are traveling with me still.
