MEMENTOS & THE SHADOWS OF INK

   ~how archives reflect angles and ages

Once a thing is written, and believed, it persists. You may destroy manuscripts, and evidence of manuscripts, but the words once written have already made their wave. The Mementos, and the Shadows of Ink, now exist in the Hall of Concordance. The piece has been engraved.

Think about a troubling memory—something that caused you to change your opinion about a person, place, or a thing. Later, you might understand that the entire construct was false, or was falsely observed, such as having viewed it through child eyes. You may later experience a similar circumstance through a more mature lens, but your initial contact with such a thing lingers. Its Shadow has helped you to form your tenets and beliefs.

If your first contact with the world is one of despair, violence, and insecurity, that Memento will live on with you, even when your world moves away from those things and never revisits them. You may currently know that other ways to live exist, but once you have separated from those ways and Created new ways, you will not magically become unaware of the first.

The Master’s task then, is to stay aware of those things that helped to form you, whether deleterious or beneficial, and understand that in the construct of Great All, someone is currently formed around those experiences and beliefs. Perhaps, they haven’t the will, the awareness, or the support to rise above or transmute them. This is all the same, whether or not those Shadows and Mementos are remembered in a positive or negative light.

Do you believe that every trip to the dentist ends with a milkshake-reward? Do you believe that eating with your elbows on the table will earn you a slap? Do you believe that you’ll always be picked last for the sports team at school, or that being Class President earns you things that you needn't work for? You will find many of these biases hiding inside you.

This is why words are so powerful. Humans use words to frame experiences. Humans use words to identify, to exchange communications, to tell truth, to tell lies, to label or include or exclude. Words are used to influence and condemn. They are used to express love.

And words are wrapped all around and through your life. Word-Thoughts are so powerful, we cannot fail to form them, even when we believe we are communicating without them.

So do an inventory of which Mementos and which Faded Inks are creating a weight in your life. Mind your words as you speak them, and even as you think them. Indelible, indestructible words have made you, and continue to shape you. Make the commands that words trigger and drive serve you, and serve all of Creation in the Highest ways possible.

Blessed Be This Day
 
This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,
Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me
from the other side of the veil.
 
Friday, March 18, 2022

 

 

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 COMPLICATIONS

You may believe that Complications are extra factors making something more difficult, like an original medical condition compounded upon by another, or making repairs to something with no instructions or guidance. However, in the matter of watches, a Complication is an additional function—more work for the watch maker—more features for the user.

 What if you thought of Complications in terms of extra features?

How would this change your problem-set and your options for problem-solving?

 

Falling short on money to pay your mortgage is a Complication in the finances, in your perceived emotional security, and perhaps in your lifestyle and beliefs. In the Complications of solving the problem, do you find a job that you like better, take a loan from someone who becomes a friend, or find a new skill that provides greater life satisfaction?

 A Complication does not equal failure; it does not equal life itself becoming complicated. Complications can be an arrival to a new and better hierarchy. It is a Complication when your business grows so that you must hire an employee, but that employee make give you benefits you didn’t expect. Marriage and partnership is a Complication; you must give and share and compromise. In turn, you will have someone who shares with you.

 A child is a Complication. Returning to school is a Complication. Change of any kind tends to bring Complications.

 Instead of looking at Complications as factors that impede and make challenge more difficult, can you see Complications through the lens of higher potential? Can you look at Complications as a watch maker of old, seeing the beauty in extra functions and features, that when working in harmony, bring great joy?

 

Blessed Be This Day  

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,
Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me
from the other side of the veil.  

Wednesday, March 17, 2022 

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 THE LONG ROAD

The length of the Long Road is determined by the person traveling and by the manner in which they travel. How often do you take inventory of your surroundings? Do you have memories that color what you see? Do you amble by foot, or do you speed along by motorized conveyance?

From a higher perspective, the Long Road is not so long, even when weighed by such pain and suffering, the traveler must go slowly and under great duress. On the Road, you cannot travel backwards, and you may not re-pave the past. You must move forward: through the darkness, through routes unchartered, through gauntlets of monsters and threats that promise narrowing you to the bone.

This is the experience of Life—to know all the colors and the nuance and even suggestion of the colors—so that when you meet another traveler, you have a better chance of seeing what they see. When you have seen through the filters of another, you will engage based on commonalities . . . and would you cut off your own arm?

The Long Road can indeed feel very Long. When you pause, you will notice what is coming to bloom, and what is leaving behind its petals and seeds. You will see the bobcat cross the road, and know every kind of weather. You will see forms in the clouds and reflections in the rain. You will feel your separateness, and your togetherness.

On the Long Road, you will come to turns, and twists, and places where the road has been washed away, causing you to navigate by the stars. Look up to the stars. Know that what has made them, has made you, and that their Light is still inside you. You are sun, and the reflection of the sun.

You are what makes seeds open in the dark. Your Light casts shadows, that you may know the form of things, and you will see this shadow of self/Self on the Road as you traverse. You are the Road, and the Sun, and the Anima. You are a nucleus.

Be on the Long Road, wide awake, wide aware, widely reaching. Worry not so much about your destination, but revel in the fact that you are placing your own steps—that the miracle of you/You is traveling through the world, sublimely Alive.

Blessed Be This Day  

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,
Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me
from the other side of the veil. 

 Wednesday, March 17, 2022

 

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 GROUNDING

You have likely heard the term: Grounding. 

Whether you know Grounding as a state or a condition,

or the process of signing in to the Earth's beneficent harmonies, 

Grounding is magnificently healing and centering.

Humans are creatures of movement and task. We have deep memories and deeper hungers. We do not, for long, sit complacent and content. Some of these rising desire-energies are disruptive, unlike the high ones experienced from receiving new knowledge or self-truth.

Grounding—not only being aware of the Earth and Its energies—is both a state and a tool. When we say that a person is ~Grounded~ we likely mean that they display patience and compassion, that they are practical and helpful. We might also mean that they take action with a great awareness of intuition and heart.

How Grounded are you? How do you know when you’re Grounded? How do you know when you are not Grounded? Are you aware of the Earth? Can you feel Its electromagnetism? Can you pause in your busy day and connect to the very primal and physical force that helps to animate you?

Can you remember why you are a child of Earth? 

Can you remember what that means? 

When was the last time you sat on the Earth, 

when you walked barefoot in the soil and grass? 

When was the last time you could hear Earth singing 

through your body, reverberating in your Spirit?

The greatest Gate Keeper, Healer, and Inspirationalist is right here, beneath your feet at all times. Remember to wake your self from slumber, and as often as you can, give thanks.

Blessed Be This Day 

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,
Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me
from the other side of the veil.

 Tuesday, March 16, 2022

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SUFFERANCE

Failing to denounce a thing does not release you from Sufferance.

Making a compact to exist in a miserable state—without working towards a Higher goal—is not brave or absolute or a mark of fine character. To exist in Sufferance, you must play victim. You must inner-speak that your untenable condition is no fault of your own, and thereby without remedy.

Sufferance serves no one, unlike Suffer-ing, which can provide its own understanding, and the growth of clarity and compassion. Sufferance requires a martyr, and when has playing a martyr ever improved a person’s condition, or choices?

You may say: I cannot do this or that; I am bound by circumstance; this reality will not change by my own will. With Sufferance in place, choices narrow. If you are a dog who eats its kibbles but will not hunt, will you test your chains? Will you remember the unhaunted sun and wind? Will you remember running free?

Whatever your Sufferance, you must harken your own powers. See clearly the limitations around you—how they were set, and how they can be altered. It is noble to be the hero for others . . .

but it is far more helpful to be a hero for self/Self. . . .

When you lift and transmute your possibilities,

all the lives around you are lifted.

 

Be gone, Sufferance.

Seek instead your own Illumination.

Blessed Be This Day 

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,
Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me
from the other side of the veil.

 Monday, March 14, 2022

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BEAMING

When you feel the energy inside you gather to a bright white point, you may focus this outwardly. Similar to the experience of smiling at a stranger in a show of camaraderie, Beaming this loving energy towards a person, place, or thing carries great Effect.

Likewise, if the energy inside you is hostile, cutting, or harmful, you must do your best to transform your intentions, so that no harm is done to another.

How do you know when someone out of sight is watching you? How is it you feel the unspoken tensions or unrest in a room? You may say that you are an expert in the human condition—and you are. You have studied the characters around you: body language, emotion that is displayed in facial expression and movement. You have taken note of how each person interacts with the world: confidence and apathy, extroversion and introversion, self-love, self-pity, and self-awareness. These studies you make are instinctual.

But . . . how best do you make the way ahead? Do you use the Sacred Light that moves through you, forging a path with Grace and Compassion? Do you Beam your Light to others as a reminder, and an invitation, to engage their own Light? Do you broadcast best wishes and unconditional Love?

This Beaming is not a matter of judgment or agreement. You do not agree or disagree, align or oppose when you Beam your Love for Great All from a still and quiet center. You are reminding. You are comforting. You are radiating.

You are not a frail object that hides from the world. You are a live and interactive part of Great All, and your every thought, deed, and belief is joined in the conversation, whether or not you whisper a single word.

Be Aware of what you are Beaming out to the world. While we are all part of the decay and the regeneration, fine-tuning your contributions can bring great joy. And as a certainty, with Right Intention, it will enlarge and improve your life and your world by the greatest measures.

 

Blessed Be This Day 

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,
Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me
from the other side of the veil.

 Sunday, March 13, 2022

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 THE SACRED

 

Does it surprise you to consider that you are Sacred, living amidst The Sacred?

Is not your every thought, deed, and intention, moving you in a direction that will one day result in your crossing from this mortal plane? To be in body is not a limitation, as you might believe, but an opportunity to experience Creation through a mortal lens.

You are Spirit and Soul on a journey, and this may entail little more than watching the horizon as you pass, noticing a sunrise or a sunset. You may have desired only to have this experience of living—not necessarily to leave an imprint of your mortal life—yet you may.

So, relax. Be kind. Speak truth. Give with abandon and receive with Gratitude. Know that your existence leaves Its own trail of Light. You need not strive for what is magnificent and unforgettable. Your breath is change. Your heartbeat is music.

Be in The Sacred, and let The Sacred dwell within you.

Blessed Be This Day 

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,
Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me
from the other side of the veil.

 Saturday, March 12, 2022

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