Happy New Year!

The past couple of years I’ve done something different. I’ve had so much fun with it I think it’s a good tradition to do with you.

Rather than thinking about either New Year Resolutions to break all too soon, or hoping to a get a glimpse of what someone thinks of the future, hoping it happens, let’s each first do our own personal predictions for our coming year.

To get into the spirit of it, I’ll share mine from last year. You might remember I suggested last year that we each create three fun predictions for ourselves and tape them on the fridge as daily reminders and then see what they look like at the end of the year.

What I Predicted For This Year

Here’s what mine were and how they turned out:

1. Settle down somewhere perfect in my own little place.
2. An unexpected financial boon, a small nest egg.
3. Time to write a book.

How Did I Come Up With Those?

I didn’t just sort for a few random desires. I wanted to know what I intended for myself in that place of deeper or Soul Longings. So I spent some time playing with the questions, a few days. Then I sat down to meditate on it one day, pen and paper in hand. I asked my Higher Self for words, feelings or images that indicated what my Soul intended for my life for 2020.

First I saw a little cottage 🏡 in a neighborhood. It felt like mine and the feeling was settled, so I wrote that down for my first one. (more…)

2020 is completing and the year ahead waits for its cue. I asked for a message for all of us, assuming words of closure for the past and guidance regarding what lies ahead. But that’s not what came through.

Instead, the Heart of Love message brought us each a letter from our Higher Self about the light of the New Year. What a refreshing delight!

Happy New Year!
XOMaHuLiLi

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Message From the Heart of Love
A Letter From Your Higher Self

My dearest friend,

Greetings to you from the light of your being, that which is in essence your Highest of Self. For I am that which you be upon the higher planes of being. I am that, as it integrates in your form in physical life. (more…)

Welcome to Christmas at my place! Because it’s my first Christmas in my own home in 12 years, I started early this year. The day after Thanksgiving I got to the lot well ahead the Black Friday crowd to buy my live tree. I choose a shapely little three foot Dwarf Colorado Blue Spruce in a bucket. I’ll move it outside in January. In February I’ll plant it to replace the tree we had to cut down due to sever damage after the ice storm. It’ll make the yard less forlorn.

Spruce is the smell of Christmas for me because we only had Sitka Spruce in my area when I was a child. My dad was very selective when he and my brothers went out to find the perfect tree. He wanted it as full and with branches as evenly spaced as possible.

Sitka Spruce are a little scrawny if you’re used to bushier Pines and Spruce. He went so far as to drill the trunk and wire spare branches into the holes in the empty spots so the tree would be fuller and more balanced. He was as finicky about the lights and always strung them himself, carefully running lights along the length of every branch from tip to trunk. (more…)