can you believe that this puss in boots has four boots? it actually makes sense, cats don't walk on two legs. today was given over to cleaning and clearing. every time i clean my mind feels clearer. i received a couple of cards for my birthday with birds on them, and i have made a perch atop my bulletin board for the birds. there is already a watercolor of a wren there. very soon it will be solstice, and from then on we head into the light. this time of year is very special for me. i love the images that float through my mind... candles, pine trees, snow, snowflakes, fires, tea... as well as the scent of cypress and pine resin. at this time of year i feel the earth sleeping down deep beneath all the snow. the energies are drawn down and resting. seeds are awaiting the coming year and their rebirth.
traditionally the winter is a time for introspection and reflection, as well as for dreaming of the year to come. lately i have been feeling very liminal, words and concepts leaving my waking mind. there is a layer in all of us where stories reside. i really could live at that layer forever. my heart has been feeling very open lately as well, with green vines and leaves reaching from its core. oh but all of this only when i am clear, otherwise, inundated with chaos and the fast paced world, i become foggy and my favorite parts of living withdraw from my consciousness. i have heard that the garden of eden was a state of consciousness, and that heaven is here if we but look - fractols spiralling in the deepness of a plant, the healing vibration of a cat purr, the invisible magnetic strands of love we all reach towards others, the light of each individual consciousness as one flame.
