I’m just gonna leave you to contemplate this statement and that when you are Present, you are a gift to the world. Yes I know, that’s very cheesy, but it is the time of year for cheese and wine (or maybe that should be spelt whine).
Lets be honest, the majority of us do like to whine about Christmas, whether it’s about the weather at this time of year, how stressful it is, about how expensive it is, about the in-laws, about whether Christ actually existed, about whether the church stole Christmas from the Pagans (you know, like a big rebrand), about how sad it is that Christmas has become all about commercialism, over consumption and buying presents instead of about being Present.
Even with this awareness that something isn’t quite the ticket (otherwise we wouldn’t need to whine about it so much, would we?), many of us still compulsively go out every year and spend money we haven’t got, over eat, over drink, over give, over effort, over and over and over and over, year after year after year after year.
It would not be unreasonable to consider that we might be under a consumerist spell of sorts, a kind of mass hypnosis. So how would we break free from such a spell, which is very clever, covers all angles and is essentially self perpetuating?
As a practitioner of Magickal Arts and Healing (don’t worry I’m more Mildred Hubble than Malificent!), I offer The Silent Revolution as a potential solution, an opportunity to hang out, however briefly, in the place where spells cannot exist. The Anahata. The Heart. That which is “unstruck”.
Spells can be clever, but being clever is not the same as being wise. Can Heart Words Meditation and Ascension Meditation style practices free us from mind control, whether from internal conditioning or the external authorities kind? That is yet to be revealed and it is a very fine line to walk as these practices can become another form of delusion if we don’t fully understand what they are asking of us.
Heart Words Meditation is certainly, in my experience, most helpful as an everyday tool in seeing what is true and what is not (including being honest about the fact that sometimes we might like to have a whine, lol) and in growing alert awareness of ones own discerning and wise Presence (which may choose to refuse a wine).. Is it a red pill, blue pill kind of scenario. Yeah for sure. Maybe life is all just one big movie.
My Mum would love life to be one long perpetual Christmas romance movie. Maybe your movie preference is more of a thriller, lots of drama and lots of violence, which is great on screen but is that really the life you want to live? Maybe you, simply being you, as a wonderful mixture of human messiness imbued with an awesome Divine Presence, is the absolute perfect part you need to play in the movie of your own life. Maybe what you think you want (for Christmas or in the movie of your life), isn’t actually what you want or need. You won’t know either way until you get it.
I’m literally just off to see Moana 2 with my girls. I don’t own a TV but I do like a good movie. Whatever you’re watching this Christmas, whether with family or with your Self, may you wholeheartedly enjoy your cheese and whine and most of all enjoy your own and each others Presence.
As we are back on the cheese you might like to read my poem God and Cheese. It was a favourite back in the day at Scribal Gathering and one of my most requested poems to date.
If you’re on instagram, you might like to check out a recording of The Pause and the outtakes leading up to it being recorded. Part of my intentions for 2025 are to become more visible. I have HUGE resistance to that AND I am open to alchemise that resistance into the fuel that propels me out of my little safe hidden hole. You can follow me @thebendywitch.
Here’s the zoom registration link for tonights Meditation Cafe, Monday 23rd December 2024, 7.30pm, Join us as we explore Christmas Presence
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