~5 days of enchantment~day 5~

 

okay so i have a rather large gap here~there was no wifi at the field i was camped up in and so it has given me a week of 'mulling' for this post.

 

day 5 of jani's 5 days of enchantment brings us

 

 

creative essence

 

*sigh*

 

those words are just so perfect

 

 

 my credo

i love this and the words i wrote will become my mantra, i think i may even print them off and hang them in my work room to remind myself of this path.

so this is a manifesto for living, what my life is about.
i think if i put it here it is a statement of intent that will fly out into the world, be heard and come into fruition~to quote jean-luc picard

make it so


my credo is one of creativity, spirituality and living a 'true life'.
my focus will be on these, they will envelop my days, they will enhance my days.
my life will become more beautiful because of these things, more productive because of these things and

my

soul

will

sing!


 

 



~5 days of enchantment~day 4~

hello to day four (four? already?!)

 

of my blogalong with jani's

 

5 days of enchantment

 

and its

 

 water

 

i am so excited as water really is me...that's why i put it up in huge letters

 

of course by now you know i am an Aquarian (by the way i really am the Aquarian you read about in all those pages you find on the characters of Aquarians...in fact i could have written the book on being an Aquarian...honest.

 

anyway so fixed air sign but the water bearer is not all about water as we might think (depending on our source) but of duality and the cleansing power of water. i would delve into this deeper but we are off camping today and i really need to be getting dressed and finishing my packing but hey...this is important to me!

 

water...

although i do drink other things, water is always my first love~i always think how clean it is, how it really does symbolise a cleansing force in every way, for all of us animal species and pachamama too.

 

however for me showering and bathing is not an enjoyable experience...rest assured i do bathe/shower, i don't go around my daily life in a little cloud of grubby miasma like

pigpen

it is linked with my m.e/fibro that what should be a nice relaxing bath as suggested many times by swampy to help ease the pain only makes me feel incredibly unwell and so i always shower, which seems to take forever as i live in constant fear of having a dizzy spell or one of my regular stumbles and  brain myself on the sink as i fall out of the bath.

 

so my alternative ritual for bringing water into my daily life involves my sacred garden

i have a small pond with a waterfall which sits under my rowan which i adore. okay so it is a manmade structure but it is all aging nicely...i do love a nice bit of lichen! and the grass has grown right up to the edges so it now looks like some natural pool you would find in a forest glade.

 

then a few weeks ago when i started to work with the elements and creating areas for each i wanted some natural bowl to place in the west...well a trip down the tip (sorry...ahem...'recycling centre') with some green to be composted i found a large grey carved marble bowl...oh how perfect was that? i needed something and it was put in my path (this has happened quite a few times down the tip which is quite spooky...in a good way)

it now sits in the west where i refresh it with clean water every few days, while the old waters my garden.

 

 

now i really must get going and finish my packing as we have to be at the cattery at 10am...my heart is breaking at having to leave my kittens even for 6 days...i secretly kept hoping i would go down with a cold in order to stay home with them.

 

if i can get on wifi i will be writing day 5 tomorrow...if not i shall blog it when i am home but will try to post pictures from my playbook on the facebook group!

 

 

5 days of enchantment~day 3

...this post i will not be leaving in draft!

 

 

 

here we are at day 3 of day 5 with jani

 

and we have reached

 

fire

heat, warmth,

celebration,

 community, release, festival,

wheels

 

 

oh my but do i love a good fire, the best are ones lit outside and the burning is just leaves and wood~i so wish i could bottle the smell of wood smoke.

i shall tell you a little secret...if i am anywhere near a good old 'bombie' i make sure i stand in the smoke to absorb that smell and there are many nights when i go to bed smelling of wood smoke from my own little fire here in my garden...

 

one of my samhain fires

 

living here in the forest we get a lot of bonfires and if we are heading somewhere in pretty pagan and see wood smoke drifting across our path i quickly open the window to allow the smell in!

 

i think this love goes well with my being an air sign as the wood smoke moves on the drafts of air to reach me...

 

 



~5 days of enchantment~day 2~

 

here we are on day two of Jani's 5 days of enchantment

 

so

 

air

 

i think being an Aquarian~the water barer and an air sign, this is perfect for me.

 

as i sit here typing i have a cool breeze flowing over me from the open window behind me and bird song floating in that cool air.

usually i sit outside in my nook burning incense and often take photos of the smoke as it rises~i have a supply of Glastonbury bought incense like jani and adore it (there shall be much re-stocking next Tuesday when i am there again!) but i also burn nag champa, a lose blend made my friend tilli and sometimes my own blend.

 

i also burn it in my work room when i am working although with a closed door between me and the rest of the house as swampy is not overly keen (grrrr!)

 

Aquarius is a fix air sign, ruled by eccentric and unpredictable Uranus and hard working Saturn~i am all about thinking, focus, humanity and rebellion!

 

 

take three deep breaths...

 

everyday, first thing, preferably out in your garden!

 

i do this each morning in my garden (unless our rain makes me think monsoon has come to the new forest!) i love getting out there as early as possible and just 'being' enjoying the peace and birdsong...