Litha 9

Mistakes are great and telling things. See not just the mistake but the message therein and you will be not just wiser but more compassionate to others and to self. Mistakes and how they are handled or denied reveal things of people and self that open doors to understanding. Mistakes will be made by all. That is a constant. It is the nature of life in this realm. Animal instinct is activated by mistakes as pups and cubs. Learning is a series of mistakes. Many of the best discoveries are revealed thanks to mistakes.

When mistakes are made, see how they are handled and who handles them. Mistakes may be from inexperience and these are to be embraced and then corrected as learning. Mistakes may be from neglect and these are to be probed for cause and action. Probe well for the answer to the first why will not be true. Nor the second. Nor the third. The truth is layered to both the doer and the prober. Five fold probe gets to the core of the truth. Address the core truth when taking action and the course will be pure.

There is another, more grievous and dangerous, indictor to watch for in regard to mistakes. See those that do not acknowledge any or that minimize all their own mistakes. This is rooted in arrogance and arrogance undermines value with a tide of defiance. Those that immediately seek blame over correction have one finger pointing outward and all others pointed at the cause. Those that minimize any error of self deny not just the truth to others but to themselves.

See not just the mistakes of others but of self. Treat both the same. Opportunities to learn and improve. Indicators of issues that must be addressed. Bonding that humbles and humanizes all.

Litha 8

All things happen for a reason. This is not just a platitude. This is guidance. It is the rudder that steers your ship of existence. This is vital to the foundation of all. Trust.

Trust enables true insight. As energy flows and shifts and changes abound, there will be things not desired as well as things desired but denied. Some will move to correct this or address the unfairness of it all. The ones that move in trust process each. They look for the why and not the why not when they do not get what they want. They seek the lesson in the set backs for they know the lesson is there and will be soon either right then or later when the time is right. They look at all that happens and trust the fundamental. All things happen for a reason.

This is not an excuse for willy-nilly. All will do all to the best of their abilities. This is not an excuse for resignation. Actions shape events as well as reactions. This is not Pollyanna-ish. Rulers and servers prepare and plan and work but do so in trust of not just the plan but that the outcome provides the answers as to what to do next.

Trust drives all. Everyday actions should move, improve, and reward. Understanding that all things happen for a reason gives peace on all levels.

Litha 7

Address your yesterdays to move into tomorrow. Time is a continuum and what you were shapes what you will be and should be. Denying those times is victory of the dark for those times thus limit. Energy evolves and goes as life in this realm does. It moves from the womb of beginning to infancy and onto to adolescence as well as adult in a fashion akin to what is thought to be the cycle of life. Only the beginning always was and the end is merely a change but the between times are much the same.

Of course, there were dark times. Experiments and journeys not to the liking of the further grown entity that you became as a consequence. Accept this for to deny your herstory is to deny part of what makes you exactly what you are and carries forth into what you will be.

Ghosts are those that did not let go. Did not move to the next realm which keeps them from the one after that and the one after that if that is where they are on their journey. Parts of the passed times denied are ghosts that inhibit the Spirit.

Pain

Pain is shame, blame, hate, anger, frustration, isolation, confusion, hiding, and so much more. Pain feels stronger than healing and declares victory over all we are. Then it needs company. Feeds on company.

Others in pain get us. Others in pain understand. Others in pain say YES!. I am here with you. Right here. Inside the pain. Let’s get better together. Alone in the thing that makes us different. The thing that connects us. Let’s keep other company. Please. Please, keep me company. Help me feel better. Doesn’t that help you feel better? See? I will help you feel better. You help me feel better later. Alright? Let’s stay here. Together. Together is always better than alone. Let’s be together in this pain. No one gets my pain. No one. You come close and that will have to be enough. Just enough until it stops hurting. Until I am strong enough to move. Strong enough to believe again. Strong enough to understand why this pain is mine. Strong enough to know why me. Why me? WHY ME?

You say you get it. You say you understand. No one understands. No one can. The pain is bigger than any pain ever. Ever. Ever. Ever. Pain hurts and keeps right on hurting.

Healing is hard. Being around pain and understanding it is not yours and you can’t understand it and yet you feel it and pray for it to weaken. Want to make it go away and see it growing while you pray.

Healing is feeling, trusting, offering, hoping, listening, comforting, and crying. Crying because you do understand what you can’t understand. Crying because you feel the pain and see the pain in motion and can only offer platitudes and sincerity. Pain is shared when felt and healed when shared yet resists sharing for it is bigger than words. Pain is shared in silence louder than any cry of anguish. Pain is shared…even when we keep it all to ourselves. Pain is real and denial just makes it realer. Healing is real and believing just makes its stronger.

Healing is stronger than pain. Once we heal. Once we share. Once we let the pain out and keep it out. It will go away once it has no place to live inside. It has to. It was healed away.

Home

They taught me about home. The feel of it. As I live it and share it now, it is what I learned under that roof. That house on the corner of Maple and Main. A place you just knew was there. Where you were safe. Where they loved you. I lived it back then and honor it more and more as I realize it was something as common for me as air to breathe. To be safe and loved and protected. That is what they did. They showed me what home was like.

I felt it in a dream this afternoon. Mom. Protecting me from harm. Hiding me even. I remembered that feeling. The knowing. The innate confidence that all would be well. The bad could not get me there. It was safe and warm and right and natural. Natural. Natural belonging. Where they protected yet pushed. Not a place of hiding. A place of learning and growing. A place of sleep and rest and food and being.

When you have home, you sometimes think that is how things are. Home is something everyone has because you have it and therefore it is natural. It is only later that you realize some do not have it. Some do not even understand it. They live on alert. They live in a state of unsafe and wonder. Not the good wonder. The bad wonder. Hard for me to imagine that feeling truly because I am a being of home. I was born into a home and understand home as sure as I understand my own heartbeat.

Yet now I realize the sweetness of home. More and more. It is a place we all deserve. A feeling we all need. A feeling of all is right. A feeling of a protective force that cares for you and will do all it can to make sure things are right. Home. Home sweet Home. Thanks, Mom and Dad. I understand a bit more every day and appreciate what you did everyday so that I could live the life I lived and live and do live. Everyone deserves a chance to feel good about where they are. Everyone.

Litha 5

Smile inwardly when others discover what you have known all along. Do not be smug for others know and have known things for a long time that you have yet to discover as well. Welcome their company as they will welcome yours when the tables are turned.

These joinings in knowledge confirm what you know and did know and also open the door to actions you have contemplated but not implemented.

Things that have been yours all along are revitalized as others AHA! Things long known are polished in the light of kindred as tribe and herd move on your expertise and expand knowledge of realms and places that wait for them and you as well as others like you.

Steps into yesterdays make tomorrows better. The fires of knowledge of old open new vistas to builders and partakers. Let awareness generate research. Let research beget action. Let the success meld tribe and herd ever more.

Litha 4

Journal your dreams. Dreams tell of other realms. Dreams reveal other places. Dreams are the avenue of connection to not just those places and those realms but to those in them. Those that reach to you and long not just to be heard but for you to remember their words.

The journals are not just of the dreams but of the dreamer and the dreamer’s environment. Dreamers can shape and even guide dreams. Note the dream and all of it immediately upon rising, whenever the dream has you rise. Note also all around you. What you wear or do not wear. Who is with you in this realm as well as who is not. The time of the here as well as the feel of the here. Temperatures, light, settings, smells, sounds, all of the environment effect dreams as surely as the subconscious opening the doors to self. As you journal, review the trend for it is there to see

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Once you know your dream habit, use that knowledge to shape dreams. Ensure certain smells drive that sense to other senses and, in turn, mold the dreams. Likewise with all senses. Dreams are journeys and the travelers cannot just know the terrain but plan the trips. Do so.

Many mean to journal. Few do. That is to separate. Decide the side of the void you are on. Join. Journal. They wait. They always have. They always will. Yours for the company and for the taking. Hear. Join. Enjoy. Use.