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The days leading up to Christmas were filled with family activities like the family picture with Santa, driving around looking at Christmas lights. Once Solstice arrived, outward activities ground to a turtle's pace and I found the quiet reflective time I was craving. We found joy in connecting while staying in our Christmas pajamas all day and playing board games or snuggling up to each other on the couch while watching our favorite holiday movies. And in the silence, we've come to the final wishcasting for this year and Jamie asks What do you wish for the New Year?  I'm still in the process of dreaming 2012 into
being~thanks to the lovely Leonie and her extra beautiful 2012 Creating your Goddess Year Workbook and Calendar, but this I know for sure I wish to stand firm in the knowledge that everything is truly happening in accordance with divine timing and that I can choose how to move through it all because Goddess has already given me the tools I need deep inside of me. No matter what comes my way in this New Year, I wish to meet it all with my heart wide open, ready to receive the deep blessings, healings, and lessons from every moment. As we bid 2011 farewell, I offer a blessing for us all May we harvest the lessons this year taught us with a grateful heart. May we connect with the power of love and dream a new year of peace and harmony into existence May we raise the vibration of the planet with the depth of our love for ourselves, each other and all beings. Ashe' Amen And so it is You are a being of infinite power, beauty and grace
just because of who you are right now. Perhaps you've been looking for guidance, wishing for someone to show you the way. Perhaps you don't believe in yourself because your inner critic is continually reminding you of all the times you've done it wrong piling should after should all over you. Perhaps you've experienced the deepest sadness of your life thus far and can't seem to find your way out. Whatever the part of your story being experienced now...you are STILL a being of infinite power, beauty and grace. Look in the mirror and be reminded of who you are.. I grew up in Texas where the only seasons are Summer and not Summer. When I was a kid watching the weather forecast on the news and they'd talk about the remote possibility of snow, I got excited. Kids always find the magic of snow. It rarely happened but when it did snow, the whole town would practically shut down. But it never stayed around longer than a day or two tops. Even now, every time I see snow, it's a magical experience. My first honest to goodness 'White Christmas' happened when I was living in Germany. Woefully ill prepared, I layered my daughter and myself with all the clothes I could find and made our way to the wooded park area behind the military housing.  I'll never forget the way the snow delicately balanced on the
naked tree branches, the icicles sparkle as the sun caught their gaze, or the deer as surprised to see us as we were to see him who stood and watched us looking at the snow. No where else have a found the depth of silence the snow covered ground offered Truly the only sound we heard was the crunch of our feet in the snow. We returned to our home, welcoming the warmth and maintaining the comfortable blanket of silence the Christmas snow had wrapped around all of us. We made hot cocoa and snuggled together on the couch to look at our Christmas tree lights drifting off to sleep. Now we come to the Wishcasting before Christmas where Jamie asks What is your winter wish? My winter wish is to find the comfortable silence once again in the magical snow.  "There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself."
- Ruth Stout Here we are at the third to the last wishcasting of the year.
I'm starting the process of saying goodbye to the old year finishing up projects and making space to welcome in the new. Jamie's question for us today, "What is your deepest wish?" feels in alignment with every thing I'm doing in my new year dreaming. As I sat with today's question, a quote attributed to Confucius came to me; 'I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being' The more I let those words run through my brain the more true and good they seemed to me. I believe deep at the center of my being, this person called Dionne is doing a dance with the divine, whom I call Goddess/God/All That Is. And in that space is everything I was, everything I am and everything I will be. It's up to me to move my divine energy into the world. And that truly is my deepest wish...to live my life from the divine spark giving expression to everything that is me from the deep place at the center of my being. |
Blessings!I'm Dionne, a Natural Rhythms Creation Coach and Elemental Forces of Creation Oracle Reader. I teach people how to tune into to the power of the elements and rhythms of nature to design a life they love 
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