@jeanne-mayell, thank you for making this its own thread!
I originally commented on the other thread in hopes of shifting the energy. I'm a stand for miracles, even if it looks like there's a snowball's chance in you-know-where that something unexpected and good can happen. Sometimes I feel the need to be the voice for that.
I've had many positive and unexpected miracles in my life.
When I really want to get in the good feeling energy of it, I think about this moment in basketball.
I'm not a sports fan, so it's funny that I saw this live. But it was awesome!
The Portland Trailblazers hadn't been in a playoff in years. The desire to win was high, but fans had been let down for years and dared not get their hopes up.
This was the game that would determine if they made it to the playoffs... or not. The tension was palpable. Would their hopes and wishes be dashed again???
See for yourself what happened
See the response at the end there?
THAT is a great feeling to cultivate! When you want something good to come, embody THAT kind of energy for it, in advance. 😀 That energy can bend reality in our favor.
I still bring myself back to how good it will feel - like end of this game good! - when melon head is done and in the rearview mirror and we can get back to the business of sane and joyful living.
I unexpectedly was very sick all year. Past health issues set the stage and a severely arrogant and incompetent doctor started my health on a downward spiral with incorrect diagnoses and overprescribing of drugs. A few specialists later, I have a treatment plan that is working. It is possible that I may be able to manage the symptoms with meds and not need surgery. Will know more in a few weeks.
What I learned:
How to rest..
My job won't fall apart if I take time off.
What I put in my body needs to be healthy.
Walking away and letting go of someone I loved who doesn't reciprocate it is a brave act of self love.
Not being able to be fully successful at letting go and having to start over is natural.
Working on my Art business enriches me.
It's good to accept the substitute love available in life despite losing love.
Sometimes if you are lucky other people will step up to love you.
I can sing again and now appreciate that missing piece is back in my soul.
@ghandigirl My friend I appreciate this update, and you! These are great lessons to learn!
I appreciate people sharing their struggles that led to some triumphs of spirit and inner growth. I grew up a Daddy’s Little Girl until I became engaged. I suddenly was not as important to my beloved father and he even began to mock me. The pain and confusion hurt but I learned to grow up some more and become more dependent on myself. Bc I married my father (metaphorically), I struggled w independence within the marriage. Leaving after 15 yrs of emotional abandonment, I garnered the strength to finish college and pursue my beloved teaching career. Abandonment is a thread throughout my life—father, mother, husband, siblings, friends. I know that we all experience abandonment in one form or another and it’s taught me how much inner resilience I possess and how nothing in life is guaranteed. What I can guarantee is my own care for my heart, body, and soul and not succumbing to stagnancy but to always grow, grow, grow… even in the darkest rooms and in the quietest corners. Peace and Love to All
@ghandigirl, Sending you all the love and healing my heart can flow out to you. We send it in Circle of Light too. You are brave and strong and we love you. Your wisdom is profound. We all need your words.
@earthangel, what a beautiful wise sharing. Thank you for being there for us all, and especially for yourself. I am so blessed that we accidentally met in 2023 in person in one of the great New York City art museums. And that I met your dear husband too.
You are both precious to us all.
Keep dreaming though!!! I do believe we are moving into a new paradigm in which the patriarchy and the unwholesome rich, along with corp bigwigs, will be brought to justice. The transmutation is finally beginning. As I have often said, albeit usually in more spiritual terms, the dark tends to celebrate too soon. This has been coming for a long time now, since the Civil War, if you read Heather Cox Richardson.
The dark minds think they have won. The wild rich boy with the chainsaw, dancing with an implement that is meant for clearing the dead wood away is a potent symbol of that misunderstanding of where we are and how they have NOT won, not at all. What that manic monster didn't understand is they are the dead wood. Evil only sees self, and although it may take time, dreadful, painful time, in this year of 2025, ultimately they will dance no more.
We rise. We are Light and we RISE with brightness, and that brightness disperses the dregs of dark that have been working from the shadows. The darkness never understands that Dawn always arrives. Always. What we need to learn from this era's battle, is how to avoid allowing the dark back in for another try at us down the future lines.
What we think and how we act are important. Don't let the evil of others overwhelm and shroud you in dark. Don't be them. We are capable and resilient. The rising Light that uncovers what they thought would always be hidden is in, of, around, and through US (and that is us, the people and U.S the country.) We are a bright Light rising in strength, courage, and most of all, TRUTH. Truth, which will seal their doom, and bring daylight back to Earth. Humanity has fought this fight more than once. We always win. We WILL win now.
What is both harder for us to see and yet nearer than we can even intuitively wrestle with, is that we are in the turning of the world. Although it is scary as heck, "the times they are a changing." Hold to that. We are in the turning. We have some ugly to go through, deep-dish, poisonous ugly—but I do, deep in my soul, know we will survive and thrive as the dark dissolves and flees into nothingness. It feels as if 2026 will be the first faint but beautiful hues that deepen into the dawn of a world based in Light. WE are the Light. We RISE. Never forget that.
oooohh kay, guess that was kind of Spirit influenced. I am all too aware of the scary now and the scary look into the rest of the year. Like all of us I get angry, scared, infuriated. I guess instead of falling into scary I'll do my best to take the illumination that expands when Spirit chooses to jump into my fingers. Let's trust ourselves and our Light.
We RISE.
I'm posting a section of a post from @tesseract here because it lifted my spirits and gave me some much needed oomph tonight. This is an unexpectedly positive thing and my heart is so grateful for it, thank you!