Part of Herbs & Things March 6th email.
I don't know what is is, but I keep
forgetting this is March, it doesn't feel like it...but March
2nd, I would have sworn I heard a
Red Wing Black Bird, an indicator that springs is really right around the
corner. They left late last year too...Red Wing Black Bird speaks
of...Understanding the energies of Mother Nature. Hmm I wonder then,, I think I
heard while plowing March 4th, "one of those rare March storms is
coming?"
For us? don't know...snow, rain, ice...don't know that
either; As always it will remain to be seen if I heard correctly
or misinterpreted 'their' meaning. :)
'They' have been telling me for days, weeks,
that I need to get back in a routine of
meditating, especially now, because I'm not mowing, weeding the
gardens...things that are mediation times for me. I've started again and it was
a little difficult at first, but I'm remembering mediation not only refreshes
the mind but the whole body...READ HERE about difficulties you may have meditation and how to fix
that, by remembering...even in mediation not one size or way fits all and it's
not always about clearing the mind.
There are many ways to
mediate...doing something you love, sitting in nature and being still...what
works best for you. Believe it or not, some days sitting listening to quiet
mediation music is annoying to my senses, those are the days I need a walk in
nature, to work in the garden, sit under a tree, mow the lawn and or wheel, or
simply be in the solitude of the shower where outside sounds are
muffled.
Tuesday morning I went for
a walk without the dogs, they were kind of driving me nuts, as
all 'children' do from time to time.
That morning while meditating I was told
I need rest and to do something fun today. So, I went for a walk without the
kids...LOL
The day was a beautiful sunny day that felt wonderful. The birds
in the valley were busy with their chatter, though quieter as I walked up
Partridge road.
On the way back down the hill, a Pine tree caught my
attention and I had to walk to it. Immediately I felt warmth, love and In my
eyes it was the essence of a beautiful tree, not very big, but it's beauty and
softness, drew me nearer. I noticed it is growing on the side of a bank and that
in order to grow straight up, its trunk had to curve at a 90 degree angle to
grow towards the sun. I spent about 10 minutes there in it's welcoming energy.
In that time I heard, "Always reach for the sun and you will grow.
My energies can help with your physical pain".
So of course,
for you and me, I had to search what Pine speaks of.
Pine speaks of balancing
strengths, softness and offers emotional protection. It repeals negative
energies...and more. But the one thing that really hit home is Pine is
associated with Mithra... associated with the
Zoroastrian's (remember from The Day After Tomorrow
movie's book) and Mithra is also a judicial figure, an all-seeing protector
of Truth, guardian of cattle, the harvest and of The Waters... but wait....in
Christianity...in Rome,
Mithras was a sun god, and, in Persia, he was a god of the
morning sun...There is much more. But what's exciting that I
'heard' correctly..because as you all know I don't always trust what I am
hearing; this is a wow, that I can't say this was my imagination when I heard,
"Always reach for the sun and you will Grow".
My interpretation, always look
to God and or your higher source and you will grow. Oh yeah...I heard Pine's
message correct...:)
READ MORE about MITHRA
Want a belly laugh...all
you have to do, is let one Maddie Bear dog, wearing an E collar, enter barn, and
see chickens, turn into 6 chicken little's thinking for sure the sky is
falling, horses snorting and running around in the stalls and cats hissing at
the creature that must be from hell. Poor Maddie was just dong her normal thing
strolling through the barn, un-aware of the impact her new look had on the
barn residents. She looked dejected not only from having to the wear the E
collar, but that her kitty's didn't want to play with her, the chickens didn't
come to check her out and the horses were snorting and running from her and she
wasn't even chasing them, which makes it no fun at all.
Makes me wonder, just
what did all of them think she was?
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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Friday, March 8, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
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.'
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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Herbs & Things
Be well
Laugh often
Love large
Dig in the dirt
Grow a garden
and may the sun light your way
Kellie
+
Herbs & Things