Superlative Deviation: Life With Meaning, Life With Joy

Surprise! I’m bringing back a project I did a while back called The True Sacred Space and am giving it new life as a long-running series. Today, we’ll start with how my favorite holiday went this year.

The Angelic End-of-Year Festival is my favorite holy day. I always chuckle when I say this because in truth, it lasts forty days and forty nights. This year, I’d hoped to accomplish a long list of goals for the season; but Heaven had other ideas.

Employment Challenge and the Future

It started when I received some guidance via a reading from Alura. Since then, I’ve been working hard to ramp up a secondary career that will (eventually) bring in extra income. While writing is my primary career, I’m not yet able to earn enough to live off of.

As long-time readers of my blog and author page will know, I’ve been job hunting for quite a long time now. While I’ve been able to earn a few dollars here and there, gainful employment has proved elusive. I know others who are in a similar situation and are very disheartened by the state of the job market – if you can even call it a job market anymore.

My reading also raised concerns about the impact of the current atmospheric energies on my spiritual body. I’m financially unable to get energy work done more than once a year. If I managed to land an outside job, the build-up of external energy would eventually impact my health. This would lead to things such as illness, time off work – and therefore, loss of pay – and unexpected bills created by health problems.

The best option was to focus on work-from-home opportunities and try to build up a writing business of some sort. This would also help my mother, as we continue to share the apartment. It will give her peace of mind knowing that someone is keeping an eye on things and accomplishing basic household tasks (cleaning, cooking, grocery shopping, etc.) that she’s not able to do because of her hours.

Creating the Job and Lack of “Time”

A writing business takes a lot of time and effort to start up, particularly if you’ve never done something like it before. After a while, I was able to find something that sounded more like what the Heavens and my guides were suggesting and went for it. I’m not happy with it, but I do it anyway because I have faith it will lead to something greater down the road.

At the moment, I’m spending a lot of time reading and learning, which can make me anxious because I worry about it taking too much time. I also have concerns about finances and being able to contribute to the household in other ways. Having come from the family background I do, I believe I might have a phobia about being the type of person who doesn’t contribute. I need to remember that I’m forging my own path by learning from my own and other’s mistakes. I’ve made my choice to do better.

That’s the upside. The downside is that I’ve had less time and energy to do the things I had hoped to do this season. And the fact that “they” are speeding time up more and more doesn’t exactly help matters. It seems both my mother and I have been working all the hours of the day – weekdays and weekends – all this year. We seldom go out anymore except to run errands or keep appointments. Even then, I end up doing a lot of stuff by myself, which gets lonely after a while.

Making Time

A few weeks ago, we chose to go to the bookstore for some tea and a chat. It was the first time in months that we’d done anything fun. We did have to choose to do it, though. There were plenty of other things we could have gotten done, but we decided “downtime” was more important. Sometimes, I do wonder if not getting out more is bad; but then I remind myself that this is temporary. Things will improve. That’s what we’re working for.

During the same trip, we also made time to check out one of our local thrift shops and were rewarded with a few things we needed and one item we had wanted but never expected to find. That was a happy day.

I’ve also made a point to decorate for the season, even if it’s nothing more than making our door wreath and putting certain colors on our altar. We also kept up the tradition of keeping a candle lit for as many hours of the day and night as possible for the Deities honored during the forty days and forty nights of the festival.

Doing these small things really kept our morale up. We felt revitalized and not so disconnected from the traditions. I’m happy we overcame these obstacles and wonder what next year has in store.

The Value of November

Sadly, many these days have made a habit of jumping right into Christmas, choosing to completely disregard Thanksgiving and all of late fall as if it doesn’t exist. I think this is a serious mistake, particularly in light of the increased speed with which time is being moved forward.

While we don’t celebrate the fact that many Natives were kidnapped, enslaved, and killed by early settlers (not all settlers, but some) – and while Grianstad is a more appropriate version of “Thanksgiving”, in our opinion – we value this time as a rest period to help come down from the excitement of the previous forty days. Even though we weren’t able to do very much this year, the festival still held a certain energy. And it’s nice to be able to relax after that.

It’s also time to start cleaning up and making last-minute preparations for winter. This is the last chance to get everything done before the colder weather creates new difficulties. Even if this winter is not very cold, there are still things we’re watching out for – both seasonally and out in the world. Also, the shorter days of the season are even shorter now. Therefore, November is a very important month that we don’t ignore.

Now, let’s see what happens during the dead zone…