The Day After Tomorrow

In one of my weekly emails, a few weeks ago I mentioned the word Shift, a single word reference I first heard Jan 1st 2013.
Then Jan 5th 2013 there was a reference I should watch the movie, The Day After Tomorrow, with Dennis Quaid; a movie I've watched more than once already, about 6 times; which in itself is very interesting because usually, once I've watched a movie, I don't enjoy watching them again, alone a half a dozen times.
Jan 17th I took 'their' (their referring to that higher source of info that comes to me) advice and watched it. One... I hoped it would stop this repeated message EVERY DAY and second, I was intrigued as to what I was suppose to 'see' or 'hear', and why did I need to watch this movie again; a movie that has intrigued me since I first saw in around 2005-2006.
For those who don't know the movie, it is about global warming, the shifting or calving of an ice shelve, and the impact this 'shift' has on our earth. This shift in the movie is not what is expected in global warming, instead it puts us into an ice age, in 8 days.
Of course, it's a movie and it's done for entertainment purposes, and some of it is sensationalized for such purposes...yet after watching it again, I 'see' there's much in there that should be taken to heart, that I didn't 'see' before and it's not just about global warming.
It did get my attention more so this time, for the fact in the very first few minutes of the movie, there was that one impactul word....Shift.

I'd forgotten that much of the devastation for the movies sake was located in the Northeast with New York, and Manhattan being the hardest hit, with rains, floods, tsunami's and eventually snows and ice that buried much of the city. It felt more personalized this time, and ironically, for me anyhow, the location the main characters went for safety meant something; the Library....a place of knowledge and enlightenment.
Once in there to stay warm they had to do the unthinkable, burn the books. Also, all communications were lost, except for the land-line phones, making sense or giving confirmation to one message I'm always getting, 'do not give up your land-line'.
As I watched, with more attention to detail this time, I 'saw' how they survived was not with technology but the old ways...land line phones, natural gas stove, people helping people, news papers and actual bound books. For me, there was a message in the fact they burned the books in the library to stay warm; metaphorically implying, with kindles, nooks etc., in a way we are 'burning' books and the written word slowly removing them from our lives. That because technology is slowly taking away the physical aspects of books, if we allow this to happen, it indicated those people, with out the physical aspects of the those books and the knowledge within those books, would have died.
One book they did not burn, a medical book, saved the life of a girl. In another part of the movie, a trick learned by a homeless person, that made his way to the library with his dog (dogs are guardians in the Medicine Helper world), was to use actual newspaper to help keep them warm by lining their clothes with it. The movie incorporated survival skills without technology, listening to intuition, knowing the directions, and the use of actual books. This too confirming all these same messages that have been repeated to me, many times over the past couple years, to be prepared.
Then, this time, a reference to another book they saved in the library, I'd not caught before, was a book/bible.considered one of the first books written. In the book (which if your interest is peaked to search on your own) The prefaces reads..'This book belongs to the very few. Perhaps none of them is even living yet. Possibly they are the readers who understand my Zarathustra: how could I confound myself with those for whom there are ears listening today? -- Only the day after tomorrow belongs to me. Some are born posthumously.'

If you haven't watch the movie, it might be one you'll want to, or maybe re-watch it again. It gave me confirmations about what I've 'heard' the past few months, about survival skills, community, stocking up. I want to mention too, that though technology is good and it's serves much, it is important not to get lost in it or over use it. We must aware too of the loss of our infrastructure, and not throwing away the old ways, community and family.

Be well
Laugh often
Love large
Dig in the dirt
Grow a garden
and may the sun light your way
Kellie
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Hello From Herbs & Things

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.
~Toni Morrison~

Dream Time Medicine Helpers was another fun night at Herbs & Things, or at least I thought so. I think the others had fun too....because we were here for a while:) What was nice too, The day after, some had ah ha's,...I'm smiling because that's what it's all about.
I had a message filled dream that night too.

It's 5 AM, Sunday morning Jan 19th 2013...and the winds are howling and rumbling through the valley like a freight train or a barrage of airplanes flying low overhead. I have to admit, though I love a breezy day, I'm not fond of the winds when they whip like this, but while in the Wheel on Saturday...I heard, 'these winds are the winds of change' so do not be afraid. Alas, I guess I better keep my journal handy because of messages that might be coming through and keep my ears open; I don't want to miss anything, or say as I was saying for days..."Oh I heard that but I didn't write it down or tell you".
Which brings me to, during Dream time Medicine Helpers...we touched on the subject again about journaling, and writing things down.
Someone expressed that it was amazing I've been journaling since 1977. I told them that some years were inconsistent others were every day...so
as I was typing this, I thought what the heck, I'll look back and see what my first journal entry was for Jan 19th and what it had to say.
My first entry was a couple days before Christmas Dec 1977. It was Ricks and my first Christmas together. I turned my journal pages to the first Jan 19th entry, it was 1978.
1978's Jan. 19th was pretty much the same as this 2013 Jan 19th. I wrote of feeding horses, doing this and that, a storm brewing, that was 'running late', much like this 2013 Jan. 19th winter storm, Rick was working nights at Flickinger's then.
I was not surprised at how similar things were on the same days 35 years apart, That's one thing I've learned in journaling is how cyclical life is. There were a few things that got my attention....one of the first things was my writing and how neat and organized it was...Wow I thought was, I must have had more time...LOL. Then a most interesting entry,...was....There was a Canadian Goose on Mom and Dad's back house step today.
My first written thought then was what was Goose doing on their back patio step, in Jan, how odd is that. Well of course, I wish I knew then what I know now, but it wasn't time yet. There were other things I needed to do and learn first... but see that's the splendor in journaling. I am seeing that even then the animals spoke and though I didn't understand the message, I knew in my heart it had significance. I think, in the next few days, I'll have to go through and read more of what happened that year.
But what I now find most intriguing, even though I did not 'know' then I was being spoken too, that they spoke anyway, and now I can see it...and it coincided with I'd just started journaling a few days before, and Goose speaks of, the written word.
Isn't that fascinating... and here, 35 years to the day, I am still writing...every day, even if its just notes.

Another thing...the number of years...35 peak my attention...Why?
3+5 = 8...
8 is my power number..and what does the number 8 speak of? Power, money and infinity...Not sure where the money is yet, but the infinity...well so far I've lived here, on this land and in this house my whole life...and the power, I believe could be the power of God/spirit/ and angels that are allowed to flow through me. My house number is...8441...8+4+4+1=17 ....1+7=8
In Feng Shui a number 8 house, is about money, abundance, success, prosperity, power, which doesn't mean of rolling in dough,(abundance comes in more ways than just monies)
Goose also speaks of the Quest and travels to legendary places...also get this...the number 8 is prominent with Goose. There are 8 species in North America and the number 8 of course is symbolic. Also the formation geese fly in, is shaped like an arrow...and there is more and as you could see I could go on forever...but with out, or actually more of my lack of ability to verbally express the significance of this, I intuitively understand how it all connects and I was suppose to read something from 35 years ago that encompassed so much that's transpired over the years.
Thus... Journal my dears...Journal:)
Oh another intriguing thing...the weather of Jan 19th 1978...it was very similar to this Jan 19th's 2013 weather, in that the weather people had warned of expected high winds, very cold air coming in and then snow, possibly a lake effect a couple days after..and what has our weather from Jan 19th doing...High wind warnings, very cold air front coming in and Lake effect snows...
Cool, very cool (no pun intended, just my age showing:)

Apparently God, my Spirit Guides or the Angles, wanted to get a message to me, and chose to do it Via Raccoon.
As we covered in Dream time Medicine Helpers, most often when we are to get a message via nature....nature will be persistent.
Thursday, morning, standing in the living room looking out the window towards the Wheel and lands, I saw a Raccoon scamper through the field and across the road up into the woods...I thought, strange a Raccoon is out in the day like that; remember that and wait to see if you get raccoon again.
Saturday when the dogs and I went for our walk, in the fairy garden I saw Raccoon Tracks...take note Kellie.
Later that morning, opening the shop, the oracle animal spirit cards I haven't touched in a while.. I decided to ask..."what do I need to know today?"
What turned up...yes...Raccoon...thus I paid attention.

What does Raccoon Speak of...
In spite of any doubts right now, I have the resources I need for a current situation.
Pay close attention to signs and omens your Ancestors or deceased loved ones are trying to give you a message.
It's important to stay emotionally and mentally flexible for the next few days; events will require you to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances.
Some sort of deception is going on around you, so trust and listen to your intuition.

Monday while in the Wheel I had another great adventure and lesson about and with colors and...a conversation with the Ancestors :)...they had a very nice message:) 

Be well
Laugh often
Love large
Dig in the dirt
Grow a garden
and may the sun light your way
Kellie
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