With a full heart, wishing you abundance on this pink full moon day.
Yesterday was a beautiful Earth Day. On my nature walk, I foraged flowers that had fallen to the ground under a beautiful pink tree abundant with pink blooms. This is the Japanese cherry tree, or Prunus serrulata.
I gently carried these flowers home and arranged them in my grandmother’s glass bowl. This round pink detail on my table - I find it a lovely parallel to the full moon in the sky.
My kittens already love it. Check out this video I made of this lovely little detail. Also on instagram here.
Lessons from water and earth
The last few nights, I have had this thought as I enter the shower : I should make this a cleansing ritual. Just because, you know, sometimes you get busy during the day and you collect these little clouds of worry swirling around your head, clouds of tension in the body, in the shoulders. At least I can say that is my sensory experience in particularly active seasons.
It is not unfamiliar for me to get to this feeling of airy flighty-ness where I am moving around and trying to do too many things in a quick succession. So, I go to nature and ground down. I seek the trees. I spend time noticing and admiring the beautiful things, such as the pink flowers. There, the clouds of worry are lifted into the tree branches and lighter, sometimes fully released.
I’ve re-remembered that sometimes, I require some extra steps to lift these clouds of worry using other elements - such as water or fire. Today, I am focusing primarily on water. Though I have been lighting a few candles here and there to brighten my rooms :)
This weekend, I used my shower to tell my subconscious to let go of the scary images I had seen in a movie. I.e. - “You can let that go, you can forget that now, we’re going to bed.” My belief in this ritual does help my mind.
I employed this cleansing and clearing intention in my routine last night for one the most important reasons to me - dispelling pain, guilt, and sadness.
I’ve got a little extra emotion and drama in my cup recently. As a result, over the previous two days, on a few occasions I had been a bit shorter in patience and had sharper tongue than usual towards H. We both ended up with wounded feelings at the end of the weekend. We both apologized. I had tears of guilt and regret.
Tears like that usually leave me feeling emptied and certainly more sensitive. My body ringing like a long wind chime. Drained, emptied, ringing into quiet.
So, I receive forgiveness with an open heart. So, I take my shower and let it restore me. I let it wash away all my worries and all my little guilty feelings. I let it fill me back up with this sensation that I so love - warm water. I let it restore me for restful sleep and I believe that all will feel better in the morning, and it did.
Every wash can be a ritual of cleansing. Wash away the day. Wash away the worries. Water the plants and wash away the thirst. Wash away the perceived stagnation. Welcome circulation.
I ran water over the pink cherry blossom flowers in their bowl and I ran water over myself for renewal.
I am continuing to arrange my life and doing it beautifully.
I am loving, even when not perfect. I am inspired by divine perfect love.
I call in an abundance of pink and an abundance of love. I call in wellness and healing. I call in restoration to the earth. May all beings live in peace and harmony. Amen. 💗
sincerely,
I read and read again and think “ I wish I could do that”. Then I think “Does she really do that?”. And then… I guess I know it can be done because I know you would not put it out into the universe unless you believed it. Then I think maybe step #1 is thinking about it. 💖
Amen. 💞