hello wonderful
hello
how are you? a silly question perhaps. have you taken the time to ask yourself that question?
how is your health? how is your mental condition?
what are you doing, spell-wise, to heal yourself? Do you have your journal? Imbolc is coming right up. I imagine you’ll be working during these days. I think you could be doing quite a few powerful healing spells during this time.
As you know about Imbolc, it’s the cross-quarter that comes between Winter Solstice – a time of darkness, contemplation, and visualization, and Spring Equinox – a time of increased light, a moment of balance, and the quickening of the Earth.
At Imbolc, you can seed what you dreamed of during the Winter Solstice, which will come to fruition in the Summer and be harvested at the Autumnal Equinox.
It is a good time to do rituals of self-healing, visualization, and new life. The seed sleeps in the dark Earth, and more sun warms the Earth, bringing the seed to a simmer. As a time of increasing light, this festival can have aspects of increasing light on things you want in your life – like increased health and worth.
It’s also a time of many many candles, symbolically a time of much light), or a fire to warm, or ritualized burning.
Where is your pain? Is it behind the heart? Should we work on your heart chakra? Do you have rose quartz for pain and self-love?
I did a little more research, fluorite and smokey quartz could also benefit.
You could also write an 11-line poem/chant during which you can visualize your heart returning to perfect health.
I would also spend some time doing a tarot reading and meditating on what comes up for you. I’ve been doing extended tarot readings where I sketch the dominant image of the card in my journal and then write out the aspects of the description that stand out most for me.
We are in a waxing moon phase, getting close to the full moon, so any work you do that is increasing would be good. Increased health, immune system, energy, vitality, love, and healing are all good things to visualize.
I haven’t talked too much about them yet, but affirmations and visualizations are also powerful tools.
Affirmations and visualization are very powerful. I don’t know if you are working with that, as well as working with your chakras.
Where is your pain? Perhaps spend some time in silence and do a body scan to see what is coming up.
In general for Imbolc, we can focus on self-healing, care, and love.
Is your pain is centralized in your chest? This is related to the heart chakra – so there may be healing there that needs to happen. Some releasing and some increasing. If it’s lower than that, it would be your solar plexus chakra, and higher would be your throat chakra. So color visualizing blue and green or green and yellow in those spots. Plus visualizing their condition – are they vibrant and spiraling with energy and sparks? Or are they dull, listing, and lethargic? Visualizing them as glittering and spiraling is a great meditation.
An affirmation you could use, related to swallowing, is: I have the strength, power, and skill to digest whatever comes my way. I nourish myself with love. I welcome new ideas and new concepts and prepare them for digestion and assimilation. Life agrees with me. I assimilate the new every moment of the day. All is well.
Other affirmations I use on the regular:
My body knows how to heal itself. I trust the wisdom of my body.
I love and approve of myself. I am safe.
I trust the process of life.
I choose to be peaceful and harmonious. My thinking is peaceful, calm, and centered.
I’m happy to help you get any of these things together, or craft something with you.
I just want to encourage you to use your faith and belief system for your betterment and healing. Faith is what gets you through and helps you endure.
You are a powerful spirit, a dynamic and impressive being. Do you feel that sometimes you keep things on the surface – light-hearted, animated, and cheery – to allay your true feelings? Do you gloss over and mask your shadow aspects?
Being healed and whole means embracing all aspects of yourself. You are a delight and safe. The people who love you love all of you.
Continue to prepare yourself for this life by practicing, now, how to heal yourself, and truly take care of your spirit, body, and mind.
No matter where you go in life, you will always be there. That sounds ridiculous and obvious – and it is. I acknowledge that.
But what I mean is that, if you aren’t at peace with, content with, love and cherish yourself, no one else – no romantic partner, parent, teacher, employer, or friend, will ever be able to fill that space within you.
That is the Great Life Lesson. The one we all know when we are born, that we forget for a few decades, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to remember.
Your current state is significant. Our bodies are miracles – every system working in concert to produce YOU! Our basic systems harmonizing in the background while we fling ourselves around from work to school, to rehearsals and practices, driving and drinking, cooking and cleaning, forgetting that we are Earth Angels.
Your body says, Slow Down. Notice. Listen.
There is a body-mind connection. When you don’t listen, your body will call louder and louder until you do – like in my recent cancer case. I needed to be shut all/the/way/down to hear what my heart was saying. I got the message. I learned what needed to change in my life to heal patterns and myself.
Your body is telling you something.
What emotions are you neglecting? What do you want to say that you are choking back? What don’t you want to swallow?
You are deeply loved and cherished. Your wellness is paramount. You are important.
I am eager to help you in whatever way you need. I can listen.
I’m in your corner.