Waltz Day
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yes, my dears, it’s December 31st, twenty-twenty-three. 123123. New year’s eve. It’s a good time to brush off my blog, which has been hopping up and down in front of me like a little dog begging for attention for several weeks. I have been training in my excellent new job, and I've been neglectful with all the big winter festivities to plan and get through. tsk tsk, I am not a very good blogkeeper. I must endeavor to do better in the new year. I have been thinking about dear lunamoonmoth and have woken up early in the wee hours of the morning several times with brilliant ideas that fade with morning business. I must learn to keep a notebook next to my pillow.
2023 Now. Wow, what a year for your blogmistress. Lowlows and highhighs. I find those blog posts and articles that dredge up the past year to be tedious, actually… so let’s just light a candle to the ever-increasing lightening of the days since the Solstice on the 21st of December, and look forward to a fresh new year, like a sweet, fragrant, fresh loaf of bread coming out of the oven, or a fresh, unmarked field of snow. Let’s think about possibility and hope.
Look, I know, I know the world and the Nation are messy right now, but let’s not internalize that and let it poison our cells. We can do what we can do. Vote. Of course. Get more involved locally and even beyond if that’s your thing. If it’s not, if it’s all too messy and upsetting, know that holding peace and justice in your heart and home makes a difference, too.
Let’s have reading for the end of the year. I’m going to draw from the Mystical Shaman Oracle. The first card reflects the past year. The second card represents the present, and the third card gives intention towards the future. Kind of like Marley’s ghosts, when you think about it.
Card one, reflection of the year past, is The Arrow.
The Essence: “Receiving this symbol reminds you that when you are in alignment with your heart and soul, you are on target and will soon be hitting your mark. Be true to your calling, release attachments, and free yourself from the bondage of unbridled ambition. Now is revealed to be a moment of contact in which your intention meets the material world. The arrow also symbolizes the need to set your creativity free.”
Well, if this represents the past year, then for me it must have been one of those fancy arrows that can change direction a lot, like the one in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, you know, the one the space pirate guy had that he controlled with a whistle. I feel pretty on target now. and I guess all the many twists and turns of the year led me to this place. How about you? Does this card resonate with your experience of 2023?
Card two is The Coyote.
The Essence: “The Coyote is the symbol of the sacred trickster, the one who provides detours for growth and understanding by ensuring that things don’t go as planned. The Coyote brings the energy of divine deception to set you free from the shackles of that which doesn’t serve you. Sometimes, it appears that you will get everything you want, only to find that Coyote brings you the opposite of what you hoped for. The lessons offered by Coyote may at first appear confusing, but they are most sacred and always for your highest good.”
Ah trickster Coyote. I would have predicted Coyote as card one and Arrow as card two more naturally in my own life story, but this is how they fell.
Card three is Lightning.
The Essence: “The formidable electrical discharge of a lightning bolt brightens the sky and strikes the earth, accompanied by the mighty sound of thunder. This phenomenon has a positive aspect—the light illuminates the Earth and the psyche. But there is a destructive side as well; the bolt can burn, and even kill, if it’s too strong.”
Lightning— thrilling… hair raising! a promise, and a caution. Lightning comes with storms. Unsettling and turbulent times? Flashes of insight. Zeus, Thor, Jupiter, Minerva, Raiju… Many mythologies and stories!
I have always LOVED thunderstorms and lightning.
Have you seen the movie “Sweet Home Alabama” with Reese Witherspoon and Josh Lucas? He is an artist who buries iron rods into the sand; when the lightning hits the rods, it turns the sand into amazing glass sculptures. I thought that was so cool (and I hope it’s real).
ANYHOW!
There you go for your Waltz day.
HAPPY NEW YEAR to you for tomorrow!
Post note one: I was an Amazon Associate when I began this blog. I am no longer. I make no money on anything I suggest or connect here, but on things I like, I put a connection just because I want to make it easy if you want to check it out, too.
Post note two: after finding that lovely waltz with Tom Hiddleston I am watching the movie it came from, Crimson Peak. Very pretty spooky del Toro film. I love Tom Hiddleston.
