The Ace of Swords and Peace

Today is the Iroquois Feast of the Dead:

    “The most important of all Huron festivals was the Feast of the Dead. This feast was held every ten years and it usually involved several satellite communities. This feast was a celebration of the dead and a social gathering. The community's dead, who had not had a violent demise, were removed from their individual graves and reburied in a common burial plot. During the ten-day feast, eight days were spent in careful preparation of the corpses, whose flesh was stripped and then burned. The souls of the dead were now free to travel west to the land of the souls. This land was similar to the villages of the deceased, but complete with dead members of the family. Here all members of a family lived together as they had when they were alive. During the feast, presents brought by family mourners were collected and redistributed by a village headman. For the Huron, the Feast of the Dead was an act of reverence that also promoted good will among neighbouring communities.”     http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/firstnations/iroq.html

Yesterday I had a job interview in the morning and as I drove to the location of the interview and where I may end up working if I interviewed well I was filled with a bit of unease and uncertainty about whether or not I wanted to work at such a place and in such a location.  However, when I walked into the interview and met the three people there my unease and uncertainty was replaced by a sense of calm, comfort, and ease.  The interview felt like more of chat amongst friends than an attempt to sell myself and my talents to a potential employer.  I walked out of there wanting the job.  Thank You Spirit.

As I drove I contemplated the rest of the day and decided to return home to plan and schedule another interview as I was shortlisted for an interview with another company.  I did that and then felt like I needed to visit a newly discovered store so I ate lunch and headed out.

Reflections Books is easy to find and there is ample free parking available.  As soon as I parked and stepped out of the car I noticed the great energy emanating from the store.  As I walked up to the store I took notice of the many free magazines available on an outside rack to pick up when I left the store.  Inside the store one can find many great items for all matters of spirit and energy—cards, crystals, tarot decks, candles, books, jewelry, and more.  I picked up some incense and a Chakra Stone Kit as I browsed the store taking in the great energy that this store has to offer.  I took notice of a bumper sticker—“Peace Begins With Me” and adopted that as I drove home in the sometimes nerve-wracking traffic—some driver’s really incense me.  I left the store, picked up my free magazines and made my way back home.

At home, I completed house chores and worked on my cards—sensing that the magazines I picked up had many messages for me to read and take to heart.  So as I relaxed for parts of the remainder of the afternoon and then in the evening after dinner I flipped through and read articles from them.  Peace, calm, forgiveness, love, changing the world beginning with ourselves.  Great messages that changed me.  And I slept with the bag of chakra stones and crystal under my pillow and had a wondrous night of sleep and swirling colours and energies.

Thank You Spirit.

Spirit Is and today’s visiting Tarot Card is the “Ace of Swords: An idea.  Starting to develop a plan or strategy.”

This card is reflective on yesterday’s precious moments of discovery and new energies and spirits about me.  A sense of knowing, a sense of purpose, a sense of continuing on this amazing path of life, of purpose, of learning and discovery.  Looking at the joys of life more than it’s burdens, celebrating my accomplishments rather than counting up my failures.  Of chasing and looking forward to my dreams and goals with a new zest and excitement rather than fearing they will never happen.
I’m celebrating my life more than I’m regretting the things I’ve not done or may never do.  I’m alive.  I’m well.  I’m in the here and now.

I find it amazing that a simple discovery of and a visit to a bookstore I never heard of or knew about until Sunday evening and visited yesterday can have such a profound effect on my life, yet it has and I’m celebrating this.

Oh and something I read in “Issues for EMPOWERMENT”:

Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard     work.  It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.”—Unknown

Peace Begins with ME.

Thank You Spirit.

Blessed Be.