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Do an inventory of thanks. Walk through your home, inside and out, and see all that is there. All that is there makes the home feel as it does. Think of each thing and the memory it holds. Who held it and enjoyed it? What of the time it first came into your possession? Feel that moment for its energy is there in. The inventory of thanks strokes the energy of the object so it feeds you and all those around it for many days to come. As if dusting off the energy. Bringing it back to life.

This inventory of thanks also rewards and reminds. So much is there for you. So many sweet memories. So many special objects. Things once someone else’s but now yours. Let that energy connect you to them again. Each room will feel purer and each object more alive. You will emerge from each room happier and more understanding of your good fortune as well as what is truly important.

It is also a time of purging. Some objects do not connect to us but may with others. Share of these things so that their energy may serve more when in other hands. This is as spring cleaning was of old. A time to reflect and appreciate. Time to shake off the cobwebs of self and have a home shining with the energy of appreciation.

The energy will feed the grass and plants and animals all around you and the place you call home. It will radiate and attract. People will want to be there. Plants will smile at the sun as they bask in the light of your happiness. Animals will feel the peaceful energy of appreciation and be calmer. All will be well. The annual re-birth will make it so.

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In this life, we need each other. Of the flesh. To be with. To touch. To love. On other plains and in other existences, that will be much different. Your energy will merge with those like you and others to be one yet apart. You will feel the strength of self and connection there. That wonderful mix of collective and solitude will be yours each moment.

Taste that hint of that now when guided by those you know. Those that can move you above your crown for even the shortest of moments. Those who can touch you and let the inner forces stir to heal as well as comfort. Those of other plains now, before, and forever. Some are among you now. Some of you are those and have yet to taste it. Others will come to you as you better live this so that you may link with those who guide you. Those of you that guide will touch many and expand the kindred.

Embrace the need to be with others on this plain. The flesh has needs that must be met. Above the crown is forever. Below the crown in now. Now must be balanced or forever may not be reached. Laugh together. Cry together. The more comfort and joy you feel with others, the more comfort and joy you feel when alone.

The energy of the many makes us stronger. The energy of each makes the many stronger. The energy of self is not enough to sustain forever. It must link to feed and be fed. Link. It will bring you comfort and joy.

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Enjoy the openness. Be outside and willing to feel the dirt. That is the yearning. That is the unsettledness. The earth beckons. Gaia stretches awake and calls to you. It is time for planting. Time for sitting in the sun. Time for savoring the buds and then the leaves and the blooms. Time for watching as young ones discover the flight of butterflies and the mastery of ants.

There has been one revolution since the Equinox and already you feel the light of the season. That is as it should be. For every time there is a season. Sing of it.

Reflect back to the playful nature of this time and then make it so again. There is much strength in all of you. This time fuels it. As the unbundled clothing frees the flesh, the flesh breathes deeper and deeper. You are less removed from nature. You draw back to roots that are there all the time but now seen when you are within. Open so that the air flows and sings and energizes. It will give you answers and love.

Adult Kids

Can you picture the relationship you will have with your kids when they are adult? I guess some can. Some of those images might even match the reality. For me, if I could have, I would have been wrong. I couldn’t have and didn’t and the reality still stuns me. On so many levels.

Three kids. All different. The oldest the most like me in many ways, the middle one more like me than either of us will admit, and the youngest like a me that I am still discovering. She is doing things I probably should have a lot earlier in life. She lives a life of free spirit and freethinking that I am living now only she is doing it three decades before I got around to it. Try and wrap your head around that.

She did things that inspired me to do things. Things like learning and giving Bodywork. In her late twenties, she went first. In my late Fifties, I went second. We both ended up in different places……because we are different people. She comes at life in a way that questions things and how they should look. I do that as well. She just did it a lot younger than I did. So we look at things in ways that challenges what is said to be right……and we arrive at two different outlooks , both different than what we were taught and shown as what life should look like.

We are alike in many ways. Kindred rebels. It feels like she is a hippie…..and I am too. She comes at it with a naturalness even though she was born long after the 60s. I came to it eventually even though I lived the 60s and initially made other choices. I guess that makes me a Later Day Hippie……and her…..well, cool. We both question the “system”. We embrace the global community and work on being good members of the eco-system. We are considered a bit weird and embrace what we are with little regard to labels, judgments, or expectations. She is me as I should have been as I become me as I should be. That is as cool as it is freaky.

My parents wanted me to ellipse them. To have more than they did. To amass more stuff and be better off than they were. It was part of the American Dream……that our children with be better off than we were. Each generation an improvement. I kinda hit that mark and kinda missed it by a country mile. My life is much different than I expected and my parents were more inspirational to the man I became then either of them ever knew. They would like the peace and purpose I feel everyday….I am one with the world. They showed me the way. I have it easier than they did and honor them because they were very good people who deserved to have it easier than they did.

When I look at my youngest, she is on the way to be more than me in how she approaches life and touches the world. She will ellipse me……even as I move towards being more of whatever it is I am. She is on track to something important…and right….and all hers. I could not picture our relationship now back when she was that kid and I was that young Dad. It turned out better than anything I could imagine. I hope to be like her when I grow up.

Happy Birthday, Susie. Love, Dad

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The time of joy is here. Feel the energy of re-birth in you, around you, and of you. The sleeping is over and all wake up refreshed. Feel the rain as nurturing and sweetly refreshing. Take in the light to better see in the darkness. Breathe deeply for new air comes with the saplings and buds. It is a time a life. A time of joy. A time of dancing.

All things are better now and will continue to be. Community is stronger and bigger. The SOURCE sees and smiles and laughs and loves. The beasts embrace their yoke and work eagerly from sun-up to sun-down. There is singing in hearts and minds and souls. The slumber inside and our moves away with a stretch of the meta-physical and the last yawn of sleep.

Surround yourself with purity and light. Wash off the dust of doubt. Purge the sludge of the unknown. See the answers and share them. This is a wondrous time and healing is underway. There is healing energy in all of you. Share it. Turn it on yourself first. It makes you stronger as well as better.

Feel the kiss of beginnings long awaited. There is sanctuary at hand and you are it. Together. Believe in yourself and those like you. Act. Love. Trust.

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We made it!

Ostara is celebration. We made it through the dark and the cold. It is the joyous reconnection to the belief that all things survive. We feel life in Ostara.

This feeling of resurrection and re-birth crosses time and space. Ostara is rooted in a time when winters killed. The cold battered, land was barren, game was hidden, food stores close to depletion, and hope felt distant. In winter, nature pruned. Many things died as we huddled in the cold and prayed to survive. In that darkness, death was all around and we wondered if it was our time. We wondered if we were strong enough to make it. Winter touched our connection with life as many things moved beyond this realm. Light returned in even the smallest dose and we welcomed it. We emerged from hiding and hibernation. Our ancestors greeted the barest hint of thaw with dance and fire and joy. They saw the animals move forth again and mate to begin another circle around the sun. Food would soon grow on tree and bush and more. Soon, there would be much to gather and share again.

If the Wheel of Life has a starting point, it is Ostara. We looked to the heavens and felt safe again…selected to live another cycle. It was time to gather. Some prepared for planting. They honed the plows and assembled together in a joyous pre-game show for the work ahead. Just as the very survival we celebrated was linked to the last harvest and gathering, our continued existence was again linked to the abundance that would soon return and be ours to share as tribe. Ostara is fertility and beginning and more.

Eggs showed in nests and burrows. Bulbs birthed buds of beauty. Bodies felt warm and encouraged touch. Eggs became magical on the Equinox, March 21, when they stood on end on that one special day. A balancing act that defied the known and called us to feel forces much greater than our earthly vessels. The Gods and Goddess made eggs dance as the light returned.

Soon, some named their Gods and Goddesses. One of the first so named is Eostre, the German Goddess of Spring, for whom Ostara is named. Eostre is linked to the East, where the Sun rose and shined brighter and earlier as spring warmed the ground. Eostre also links fittingly to Shining and Glorious. The celebrations were rich and pure with dancing, mating, and joy. Ostara is nature’s call to multiply. Rabbits and their impressive fertility symbolized the sheet magick of reproduction and life.

Passover is honored in this time. Life and survival emphasized again. Easter is marked in this time and the story of life over death literally. The theme is common…life celebrated. Ostara reminds us that light and joy return and are to be shared by all.

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The Circle closes again and the changes are what is right. On the cusp of Ostara, look forward but savor what was and carry forth with you what will benefit. Leave behind the darkness and woe for that burden delays and stalls the carriers. Armor yourself in the hope and joy of Trust of the Source.

What you are now is very different from what entered Ostara even one circle ago. As that being was different from the circle prior and the one prior to that as far back as circles go. In that same manner, you will different one circle hence for that is growth and that is right. Honor what was but be what is and become what will be. Fill the circle with answers and light. The light of self as well as the light of herd and Tribe.

Bridge. Lead. Explore. Dance. Sing. Love. Trust. Comfort. Study. Share. Actions after actions after actions. Just be you and you will be with those that accept, love, and protect you.