I wanted to let everyone know that I won't be posting for a bit (like that's anything new) as my carpal tunnel and arthritis is acting up to a point where typing is a fairly painful thing to do. This is a royal pain as I had a series of posts I was getting ready to start publishing and had planned on launching The Stone Phoenix within the week. Anywho, I'm resting my hands and wrists as much as I can and hope to be back online productively within a few days.
Love & Blessings,
Shel
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
A glass of bliss
Sometime's the beauty in life really is the simple things. Find them, savor them, and share them. Joy comes in the sharing of that which gives us the joy in the first place. Find your joy and share it with the world dear one.
Love and Blessings
Shel
Friday, September 16, 2011
Sage and sage advice
What is it exactly about this time of year? Is it the start of school? The change of season being upon us? Solar flares? The immanent months of darkness? I don't know what it is but this time of year turns me in to a bundle of contradictions. It is the start of an emotional roller coaster gone outta control. A roller coaster that for at least the next 6 months. I can't say that this is the case for everyone but, I know I can't be the only one who feels this way.
So what can we do about it? Well, I can't speak for everyone but I can tell you what I decided to do this year to help stave off the crazies. It occurred to me as I was computing the other day how very long it's been since I did a space clearing. Like the whole house, not just one area or room. So Right then and there I put down what I was working on and went to my bedroom and the alter that I have on top of the small bookshelf there and grabbed my large sage bundle and the handmade feather fan that I picked up at CRF years ago and started to smudge. I made my way, room to room, from one end of the house to the other fanning sage smoke into every nook and cranny. Once I had made a pass I chimed the two crystal wind chimes I have hanging in front of our living room windows. I then proceed to make my way, in reverse, back to my alter. It felt much better in the house but I decided it didn't feel done. So out came the sacred space incense stick. Repeating process I used with the sage I went through with the incense with the exception of making a second pass. Instead, after I chimed the crystals I left the incense it the living room and made a quick batch of blessed water and blessed all the doors and windows in the house. Pouring the remaining blessed water just outside the threshold I moved the incense to the alter to finish burning and was done.
I can't even begin to tell you the difference it made. Not only did it clear the space but it gave me time to think and realize that I have been VERY lax about this kind of thing. So I devised a plan to get me not only though the dark and sometimes depressing fall and winter months but, the whole year. The plan is to repeat this process every new moon. The only change will be that I won't be using the quick batch of blessed water. Instead I will be blessing it under the full moon each month, making a new batch each time. The plan also includes meditation and yoga everyday. Again, things I have been rather lax about. I've been letting myself get so wound up in starting the store and all the other day to day things that get in the way that enrichment and spirituality have been put to the wayside. There is of couse more than a full plate that has been getting in the way bit that is a tale for another post.
So what I want to know my dear readers is, what do you do to help yourselves through the emotional roller coaster of the dark season? If you don't have anything your normally do I hope that maybe this helps to inspire you.
Blessing,
Shel
So what can we do about it? Well, I can't speak for everyone but I can tell you what I decided to do this year to help stave off the crazies. It occurred to me as I was computing the other day how very long it's been since I did a space clearing. Like the whole house, not just one area or room. So Right then and there I put down what I was working on and went to my bedroom and the alter that I have on top of the small bookshelf there and grabbed my large sage bundle and the handmade feather fan that I picked up at CRF years ago and started to smudge. I made my way, room to room, from one end of the house to the other fanning sage smoke into every nook and cranny. Once I had made a pass I chimed the two crystal wind chimes I have hanging in front of our living room windows. I then proceed to make my way, in reverse, back to my alter. It felt much better in the house but I decided it didn't feel done. So out came the sacred space incense stick. Repeating process I used with the sage I went through with the incense with the exception of making a second pass. Instead, after I chimed the crystals I left the incense it the living room and made a quick batch of blessed water and blessed all the doors and windows in the house. Pouring the remaining blessed water just outside the threshold I moved the incense to the alter to finish burning and was done.
I can't even begin to tell you the difference it made. Not only did it clear the space but it gave me time to think and realize that I have been VERY lax about this kind of thing. So I devised a plan to get me not only though the dark and sometimes depressing fall and winter months but, the whole year. The plan is to repeat this process every new moon. The only change will be that I won't be using the quick batch of blessed water. Instead I will be blessing it under the full moon each month, making a new batch each time. The plan also includes meditation and yoga everyday. Again, things I have been rather lax about. I've been letting myself get so wound up in starting the store and all the other day to day things that get in the way that enrichment and spirituality have been put to the wayside. There is of couse more than a full plate that has been getting in the way bit that is a tale for another post.
So what I want to know my dear readers is, what do you do to help yourselves through the emotional roller coaster of the dark season? If you don't have anything your normally do I hope that maybe this helps to inspire you.
Blessing,
Shel
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Aqua and Sequins, the universe has a plan....
This is a good night to create. I just finished putting to background paint down on a piece that I'm working on and am waiting for it to dry so I can move to the next color. The hunky hubby left for work about 20 mins ago so rather than toss and turn in my empty bed, I bury myself in art. It works out even though I hate when he works nights. Night is actually one of my favorite times to work. It's quiet, no kids to pulling me away every five seconds, my son isn't asking ten million questions, and I can rock to the iPod while I work. Plus I can make a mess. Of course sometimes the noise and distraction makes the journey of the art more full.
The paints haven't come out to play in some time so it is blissful to have the brush in my hand again. It gives me the ability to see things differently. I have to wonder if it's like that for other's when they paint (or do whatever kind of art they do). Do whole new worlds of possibilities open up? Do things that you have been trying to sort out suddenly pull into focus? I'm not talking about your subject matter here, but everyday kind of things.
Something magical happened for me tonight as I spread that aqua paint across stretched canvas. The frustration and anger that I've been feeling for the last few days just melted away like they were never there. Is this why people love to paint? I have never felt that before. Admittedly I have only recently begun to use this medium of expression but I don't feel this way when I bead, or crochet, or even cross stitch. Maybe it has something to do with the subject matter of this particular piece. It wasn't a spur of the moment idea. This painting has been brewing for some time. I first sketched it out while I was reading a book a few months ago. It was one of those ideas that hits you and you just have to get it down. But it wasn't time. Maybe it was waiting. Waiting for the right moment and all the right factors to aline.
Is the universe really that intuitive? It must be. All the pieces needed to be lined up just so for art to be born. And they are in line and it is beautiful.
It makes you think.
The paints haven't come out to play in some time so it is blissful to have the brush in my hand again. It gives me the ability to see things differently. I have to wonder if it's like that for other's when they paint (or do whatever kind of art they do). Do whole new worlds of possibilities open up? Do things that you have been trying to sort out suddenly pull into focus? I'm not talking about your subject matter here, but everyday kind of things.
Something magical happened for me tonight as I spread that aqua paint across stretched canvas. The frustration and anger that I've been feeling for the last few days just melted away like they were never there. Is this why people love to paint? I have never felt that before. Admittedly I have only recently begun to use this medium of expression but I don't feel this way when I bead, or crochet, or even cross stitch. Maybe it has something to do with the subject matter of this particular piece. It wasn't a spur of the moment idea. This painting has been brewing for some time. I first sketched it out while I was reading a book a few months ago. It was one of those ideas that hits you and you just have to get it down. But it wasn't time. Maybe it was waiting. Waiting for the right moment and all the right factors to aline.
Is the universe really that intuitive? It must be. All the pieces needed to be lined up just so for art to be born. And they are in line and it is beautiful.
It makes you think.
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