From here it gets interesting
The seasons are starting to change in Florida. This seems a bit odd I am sure since the seasons do not change in Southern Florida the way they do when people think of seasons changing. There are no leaf colors, there is no snow, no grand monumental change that marks the seasons. It gradually begins to cool off and not get so oppressively hot. Eventually tapering off to being mid seventies during the day and in the sixties at night. Lovely and in my opinion perfect weather.
During this time I tend to do two things simultaneously. One being a lot of end of year review and introspection, the other being spending time outside. A lot of things begin happening around Samhain and the completion is by the end of the year. This seems to be the case for me every year.
Right now I am standing upon a precipice of magnificent change both in my personal life and that in my life as a Priestess. At the present I feel that everything about me is ready to change and transform. This is no small change but something that will forever be a part of me in every way.
Today I am looking around my extremely cluttered desk, and partially cluttered altar (I took pictures of a new potential product that is a Sacred Mists own creation) and two things caught my eyes. One a pendant I have that I bought from the Sacred Mists Shoppe that is a pewter dragonfly totem on a beaded silver chain. Normally I keep this on my monitor hanging as Dragonfly is one of my power animals. The other was a single peacock feather that I’ve had for quite sometime. Peacock is also a power animal.
Dragonfly has been in my dreams lately most abundantly with the most vivid but two nights ago. I dreamt there was a dragonfly nymph in my bathroom. Beautiful little creature with blue in her wings and green on her body. She allowed me to cup her in my hands to release her to the outside. Blue for healing, green for fertility and new growth. Hmm interesting I thought upon waking up that day. Today my peacock
feather took a tumble from it’s resting place to a large glass star ‘candy dish’ that I use to hold pillar candles. Here are the same colors with a bit of golden and indigo in the mix.
Yes things are changing, I am changing and growing. The journey to this point in my path has been extremely brambly and nettle ridden. I am sore, tired and hurting in some ways still from events more than a year old. I’ve moved towards working past the hurt and healing my spirit.
What is coming, I can’t say for sure but I have been given flashes of ideas and inspirations of what may come. I am embracing the changes, my fault and working forward. I understand that I cannot grow and evolve as a person and a Priestess without painful lessons and decisions. I will embrace these changes, these pains and from them become a stronger person. I have worked very hard to learn and earn my place in my path. I cannot allow the challenges of being a Priestess to thwart the work because for me it is all about service. I am a Priestess, I have a calling to serve those who come to me or to where I can be helpful to them.
There is much in my mind and heart that I wish to say but for now, I will say simply this. I am here. I have made mistakes. I have learned from them and continue to learn from them. I am thankful for those who have stood by me throughout in ways that words cannot simply express. For the small handful of people who have talked me off of spiritual ledges, thank you. Thank you hardly can be enough.
You have been blazing a trail on the Well Worn Path before me, right from when I first found Sacred Mists. I am always grateful that even in the midst of your own dark moments, you still find the time to care for and protect those of us who are traveling behind you on that Path. I will always be there, right behind you, ready to support you if needed, just as you have done for me. This is the very reason that the cycles continue forever, for this is you and I manifesting the essence of Deity within us.
Blessed be and much love!