Lighting the Path Less Taken

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I notice now and again, the world goes quiet...then I notice...goodness so have I. I think look and wonder why and what I should be paying attention too. I just recently had a talk with a good friend about boards and how they go quite silent then something or someone will breeze in and fill the world with fresh air and thought again.

I really feel it is the moons. New moons make one feel quiet, contemplative, tentative...full moons are robust and passionate for the shaking up of the quiet. After the full; one breathes relief, I smile...then it begins again!

See if you can see the cycle from this moon to the next and wonder too.

Yup, moons have a lot to answer to.
xx

The night was soft as a lover's hand, quiet and fragrant, the stars shining like diamonds and the moon low and almost full. The air warm and soft swirled around my feet like kittens teasing for attention. I raised my arms and honored the 4 thanking Spirit and Mother for such wonderful gifts just there for the taking. I find myself awakening about the same time each night. I let the dog out and stand on the porch..the peepers are awake now and they sing thru the night. Then back up the stair to my soft bed...perhaps to dream again.

Very well put young lady
I like your words

hermie

Thank you Hermie, I love words...folks would do well to savor and taste them like the finest chocolates. I was once an English major and a pretty fair writer...I find I am drawn back to them and perhaps one day will pen a wee book or something. In the meantime I love to put emotion to words so they feel

I agree, you have a way with words.
I was thinking you should write a book
xx

Awakened again this time by the cold wind hitting windows frosted with damp. Out with the dog and look to see the naked limbs of the trees bowing as the wind blew fast and hard.

Old Man Winter chuckled, "thought you had spring eh child?"

I smiled and said, "aye Sir, but you must let the world know you hate to leave us... the time for warm fires, hot tea, cuddles to keep warm ebb like tides and we like Nature begin to come out of caves and work the Earth again..til next time..."

"Yes!", he blew fiercely, "winter is thought time...have you completed your thoughts, Child?"

Hmmm; I thought, as the dog returned.....perhaps not completely...I have a few more fences left yet, let it blow then....

In the dark, the wind howls like a lost wolf. The cabin shakes like my hands. I hear the winds, hand like beating against the rooftop and windows, it fits...like the slowly simmering anger I am trying keep from letting from a cage long locked. I can be civil, in control, I chant the principles I live by yet the voice tells me to anger it to set free repression.

How is it I have come so far and so alone. I step out into the midnight sky clouds racing by on the wind with only the barest twinkle of light, moon heavy and full like a mother's breast, I ask them what now?...and why alone....I ask Spirit for a wee bit, a sign, a dream...a bit a guidance to mend the fences I have in my head, my heart....a bit a sleep please.

This is a good thing suggested by Mia...a place for thots in the dark, in the light, with the good and maybe some not so good. In the writing, the telling, illumination may well shine...in time, in time and the dark is so fleeting like the night....dawn brings fresh promise.

and no need to comment, after all it's just a running thot

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just read my horoscope for today 12:18am sigh I really will try to get to sleep now

April 05, 2009

Leo (7/23-8/22)

There are a lot of different emotions churning around deep inside your heart, but today it's finally going to be easy for you to get a handle on each and every one of them. It's time to do some sorting -- toss out the emotions that are useless, like regret. Focus on your feelings of anger and determination, because those are what will motivate you and help you gain more confidence for what you need to do today. Introspection can create a great deal of strength.

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When you walk alone in the glade
And walk alone in the glen
Everything is at peace within you
You are left alone with your thoughts

You are alone with your feelings
The breeze circles you with leaves
You can feel the peace all around you
Then the uneasiness comes over you

You have stopped looking outwards at nature
You are looking inwards at human nature
The peace of where you are is disturbed
As you dig deep into the past

Deep into your heart
Listening to the doubts and fears
Buried deep within your soul
Are hidden things best forgotten?

Best left sleeping alone unremembered
Are the fears of your past?
The fears of growing up
The hurts of your past

When you walk in your glades
When you walk in your glen
You are alone with nature
Alone with your thoughts

When you catch a branch
And cut out a piece of your skin
You are alone again with your thoughts
No one to stick the plaster on you hurt

No one to hold you and cuddle you
Being alone is a state of mind
That creeps up when you think too deeply
When you find that moment you are in pain

You are never alone with nature
You are never alone when the wind howls
You are not alone while you can select you memories
You have friends all around you, just waiting to return that call

Sahje, I feel the same (((hugs)))

Hermie!!
Did you write that?
It describes how I feel exactly!
Wow!

Yes Mia

Its all mine my dear
My mind is a flowing thing

I love Hermit, love you all.

The day has dawned all bright and shiny, the howling windy wolves subside.
The sleep came, held me in it's embrace and filled me with dreams and thots.
I shall walk the glade, sit in the glen alone but never truly alone.
Takes but a thought to feel an embrace from those who care alot.
Old pains, old worries are like burrs in the fur
patient fingers work them thru and out
then brush it smooth and settled once more.
They serve a purpose, challenge one grown complacent but unsettled.
Time to choose, to risk all to become all in the dreams..then never alone, never again. Time to find the gates in the fences.

Hermie, a tear to me eye you brought with the words, filled with feeling and care. I will treasure all of them.

Interesting this...each day a card of Tarot..today's is most thought provoking.

Your Daily Tarot

Today's Card

The Ten of Chalices card suggests that my power today lies in completion. I celebrate and am grateful for captured moments of simple perfection. Satisfying my hearts desire connects me by example to love, beauty, pleasure, and happiness in those around me and gives me confidence to take it to the next level. "We made it." Unconditional love makes a family and home is where the heart is, so at last, I am never alone. I am empowered by gratitude and my gift is emotional fulfillment.

As I slept a sleep so deep, loving the world I was in seeing things and feeling more, a voice spoke, "wake up please"...how very polite but I groaned..."don't wanna".
"Wake up now please", so I took a breath and swam to the surface and asked, "what".
No voice but up I got and walked to the window to see not 50 feet away the shy cougar slipping through the stream bed quickly and silently, on the hunt no doubt for her breakfast of fine grouse. Wake up indeed....our two cougars are very ghostlike, all one ever sees are paw prints if you're lucky...I wonder what it will mean for me this day...she is my totem, newest to my group since last Feb.