Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor. ~Irish Proverb
We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ~Evelyn Dunbar
“Let there be light.” – Genesis 1:3
Some say that we practice the ways of the old craft, of the old wise women from long ago. This may be true, but recently more people are turning back to the ways of organic, natural, products rather than the chemical based ones so perhaps we are in the way of the “new and improved” old ways. Yet most of us would prefer not to go back to no electricity, fire for heat, no way to reach our loved ones to find out if each one is okay. Yes, we don’t cherish or relish the idea of going back to a time we would consider darkness. Yet yesterday we were hit with an ice storm, I used my technology as long as I could until the juice ran out, keeping on my iphone charged as much as possible in case the nursing home should have to call me about my mother. After 5 pm the dogs and I were in complete darkness. Now, thank goodness I make candles so I had a full shelf stocked, I have a green house so I had ceramic flower pots. So using tealights, and 2 ceremic flower pots I built a heater . We were warm and well lit. yet as I realized we might be in darkness, we had inner light. I had time to rest, much needed, meditate, and find inner light. See, I needed that rest, I needed that dark to heal toward the light. So when we find ourselves in darkness of any kind, problems we can see that this darkness gives us time to stop, meditate, find ouranswers, then move toward the light.
Animal totems: seal: Bro seal is much like Bro buffalo. Natives use every part even the bladder as water bladder. Seal also tells us through his medicine to balance light and dark, playful, and work. His totem always reminds us to rest as they love to nap in the sun on a rock in the light.
I am still without electricity. I have charged everything up and will sart work about 4:30 pm centeal and work until my juice runs out Lol. May the fairies dance around all of us today. Love ya Me Cherokee, cidro Frankie capone, sugar Fortune cookie, T amd the swet spirit of bob and Bets.