How Big are Your Balls? Lol. Welcoming The Dark, Creativity, Intuition and the glorious Winter Solstice is coming!

Happy Magickal, Merry, Mystical, Marvellous, Magnanimous, Manifesting Monday!

How are you?  If you celebrated Thanksgiving I hope it was relaxing, fun and made your heart sparkle.  

Here the air has literally changed and I can smell that early winter smell mixed with wood smoke from cosy fireplaces.  

As I go for my big yomps with Danu the wise (and highly energetic) therapy doggo I’ve noticed that people are putting up tons of sparkly lights – I so LOVE sparkly lights! 

When I moved here a couple of years ago I noticed that people decorated their outdoor trees with HUGE, I mean HUGE Big Balls!  Which was a “new to me” thing, (Thus very quickly I experienced Big Ball Envy!)  So I thought – I need me some BIG BALLS!  Bright, shiny, sparkly and eye-catching lolol.  

I put this thought out there to friends and random strangers and lo and behold I manifested gorgeous gold crescent moons with a single star on them, big glorious gold balls and …….. Drum roll please!  BIG BLUE BALLS!  

(Trust me, some days I have the humour of a 10 year old boy!)  Yup, huge, mammoth BIG BLUE SHINY BALLS!  Snort! 

I have since added more big balls so we now have gold, red, and blue balls.  Thus, on Sunday when we had a glorious sunny day for a change I got out the ladder and bedecked the heck out of the tree in front of the house and a couple of wee Garry Oaks on the boulevard.  It looks quite cheerful, sparkly and makes me smile.

So when a rather crotchety person walked by and said “You’re putting Xmas decorations up already?”  I just grinned and said “these are my Solstice balls, and I like my balls big!” 

Okay enough of those shenanigans!  

Can you feel it?  The change in the season, the change in the energy?  

We are in the glorious late Fall and early Winter energy where we are being invited to go into the dark, to go inward, to ponder, perk, plan and prepare!  

Winter Solstice is just around the corner and I am so thrilled as it is one of my most favourite times of year.  I will be putting together a glorious package on rituals, energy and ways of celebrating the Winter Solstice, so make sure you are on the email list. 

However, the bottom line is very much about – into the dark we go to nourish, replenish and rejuvenate.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been finding with the shorter days and longer nights that my Creativity has been going through the roof.  I’ve been knitting, doing macrame, making wee mushrooms out of clay, writing tons and tons and it has felt so nourishing and satisfying.  It’s also increased my intuition 10 fold (which has been most interesting).  

As when we allow Creativity to flow through us (without any attachment to perfection on the end result), it allows our Intuition to flow alongside and that’s when Magick happens! 

What is something you have thought about making or creating but have held off due to overthinking and trying to make it perfect?  I dare you to try it this week.  Set aside some time in the evenings to just play!

Okay, let’s crack on with the reading.  Are you ready?

When I asked my guides who wanted to come and play this week they picked the gorgeous Wild Wisdom Faeries.

Now if these guides are new to you, please let me introduce them as not to, would be rather rude!  

It is time.  It is that Once Upon a Time again. Time to return to our relationship with the wild places, the wild ones, the faeries and our wildish selves.  For as we do, miracles of healing will occur.  Just as faeries cleanse and purify the water, the air, the earth, the fire and the spirit, when we reweave our sacred alliance with the faery realms, we too begin to heal.  From our sadness.  Our loneliness.  From our souls that cry out for the poetry that is the soul of the world.

If you yearn to shine once again, if you wish to reclaim the wildish self who lives at the heart of you, who knows how to be well, to be happy, to be whole…..if you wish to clear illness, guilt, and untruths from your life and truly, deeply heal and transform, then these guides are your keys to the faery realm, and there you will be reborn.  

Perfect guides for the energy shift that is happening and as we move closer to Solstice when the Fae come to dance.  

Okay dear one, take a moment.  Breathe yourself back into your body.  Allow your heart to beam like a glorious magnet and pull all the pieces of yourself back that you may have left scattered throughout the day.  

Then when you are ready I invite you to see in your minds eye a warm, welcoming darkness that wraps itself around you like a soothing weighted blanket.  

Your body and mind relax and from this place your Creativity surges bringing with it your own delicious Intuition.  Breathe that in.  Then when you are ready, pick the card or cards that whisper to you, tickle the edges.  

Did you remember to pick?

Let’s go have a look shall we?

CHILD OF THE MOON

It is time to allow the cycles of time, the tides and the flow of life herself, and even the power of the moon’s cleansing light to help you to forgive someone.  For if you are suffering right now, it must be due to a feeling of resentment or dislike that remains within you.  

There is nothing that forgiveness and her power cannot heal.  But how to do this, when life seems to flood us with memories of incidents that have wounded us?

It’s time to conduct a forgiveness ceremony as sincerely as you can in order not to recreate a situation that has previously hurt you.  While you are still vibrating to the energy of the past, it cannot help but repeat itself, even if the echoes do grow fainter.

You can attain enlightenment – a lessening of the burdens, a reduction in grief, a return of good cheer and optimism – through forgiveness.  

By forgiving those who have hurt or persecuted us, we allow ourselves to be free.  

Ask the faeries to assist you, to help you find the opportunities to exercise your forgiveness muscles.  Ask them to help you clear under moonlight, and watch them clear and brush from you all the debris that causes you pain.  Just volunteer for this.  Just all it to happen.  Just be willing, be open to it.  

You will know you have forgiven when reminders of the person or situation no longer cause you distress.  You will see the blessings and the lesson, and you will not allow this to take place again because forgiveness frees us from the shackles of pain that tie us to the past and to people we have long left behind.

When we do not forgive, we are, energetically and quite literally, dragging them around behind us.  And it is that weight that can hold us back from our true potential.  

ONCE WAS INNOCENT

Once you did not know.  You did not know the truth that your heart belongs to nature, that you were born innocent and you shall die wise, and that this is the true natural law.  Once you did not know.  But now you do.  And now you do know, you must decide what to do.  

Once you’ve experienced the magick of life, watched the moonlight woven into jewels, water offer herself to the thirsty roots of trees for drink and heard the birds speak one with the other.  Now you know of this magick, what will you do?  Pretend to live as before?  Endlessly go though the days, the next so much the same as the day before that it feels you are endlessly reworking ever so slightly the same time between sunrise and sunset?

Now you know.  What will you do?

If you are courageous, you can now become who you truly are on every level, including the magickal level.  When you accept this part of who you are, and accept that this magick you have experienced is natural and good, you will grow stronger, more fearless, more calm, more effective and you will draw to you the people who can echo back to you these truths you have found.

You will no longer mind not fitting into a realm you always feared living in, and you will know you can find your own path, tangled and wooded as it may be.  You can no longer deny what you have seen, heard, felt and touched and been touched by.  You know magick is true and real.  And that wonderment is your path, from this time forth.

So what to do?  Seek advice and consult people who have had similar experiences.  Surround yourself with knowledge, and know that the innocence is not lost, and that your beliefs are not naive.  Your wisdom is not telling your truth, and acknowledging your experience.  

Choose, let your blood sing and your heart will open.  And you will be in wonderment evermore.  

I wonder, too.  What will you choose?

GREENMANS DOOR

The faery know that there are times when the door to their realm is firmly, well, shut.  They choose when and to whom the door will open.  And while they may not look like they are on guard, the beautiful faery maiden swinging oh so casually on the handle, and the Greenman of the wood – literally – behind her will not let any pass unless they have shown they are good and wild at heart.  

But what the faery also knows, and what you are about to learn, is a great secret.  For there are eight great doors to Faery every 13 moons, and they are as old as Mother Earth herself, and are powerful portals to other dimensions and worlds.  Each of these great doorways and portals occurs throughout what witches call the Wheel of the Year, and they run from sundown to sundown the following day.  

These eight special times have long been covered, or changed, or smothered by other lore.  But now you know their true magicks, you too can experience the door opening.  And if you are wondering when the next time is, it’s the Winter Solstice.  These doorways, once walked through, can assist you in detaching from harmful thoughts, relationships and behaviours.  Walking through these doorways HEALS.

You are about to pass through a potential doorway of time, thus you will soon have access to other dimensions and realities, including that of the faery.  

It is time to consider becoming a walker between the worlds, to dance in the liminal space and the field of infinite possibilities.  To draw back the veil and to part the mists.  

To do so will bring healing, change and powerful magicks into your current reality.  Ask the Greenman and the faery maiden for permission to enter and make an offering.  Then prepare for deep, beautiful, abiding change.  

Make an offering, place your hand on the door, and push ever so gently.  Then she will open.  

Wow!  What glorious cards – how did you feel about the ones you picked?  Well delicious lovely I wish you a stupendous week, may you take time to go inwards and allow your own unique creativity to come and play.  Over the next bit we will be exploring the Winter Solstice, and a few other delightful nuggets to support you as we move through this last month of 2022.  Many of you have asked if I am opening up spots for a personalised reading as a Solstice special.  I will let you know next week.  Sending you huge hugs and squeezes, and remember – You are a glorious Creative being with big balls!  Lol.  Have a great week!