Hello 2024...Mid Winter Reflections

It's late afternoon. The sky a pale grey, held in stark contrast with the darker tones of branches, is shifting cooler as a silent sunset approaches. A light snow falls, weighing on thin, deep tourmaline green needles. An assortment of birds and squirrels and that one male cardinal sans his lady are enjoying a late lunch at the feeder. Feeder. That's a strange word. I prefer the Buffet. It's cold. I'm home and warm. A veggie soup is simmering away. I'll make cornbread later to accompany it.

I've been detaching. Severing ropes and grinding through lengths of chain that society has bound around me. Cutting ties, keeping others. Immersing myself in the natural world, connecting with the spirit realm, trying to make sense of it all. 2023 was a weird year. A lot of us felt it. Some did not. I've been on this journey now for over a decade, and year after year...it gets even weirder! Time stopped when Covid hit, and the Time of the Introvert began. And that time has, inch by inch, been overtaken once again by the hustle and bustle...the go here, do that, shop, visit, commute, work, traffic, rush, politics, corruption, social media, phone in hand, be busy every minute of everyday...and don't forget self proclaimed victimhood.....I really was born sick of this culture!

In 2021, according to spiritual communities, the general timeline of reality broke in two, each branching off in opposite directions. I was sus as I usually am, but I've been feeling it and I can no longer deny it. I see people and their lives and I feel as if I'm not on the same planet anymore! So much has changed! I can't go back!......but they trudge onward as they ever have...but I can never go back!

The light has changed. The birds are nestering in for the night. The snow becoming a brilliant blue in the fading light. The green boughs slowly turn black as a slight breeze whispers its way up through sleepy branches...

I like to assign a theme to the years as they tick by. Reflecting in December what had happened, what I learned, what epiphanies I'd had. This year, though, I'm going to mix it up. This year's theme will be The Duality of Timelines. After all, that is what this shift feels like. The walking the hedge line between realities, crossing over when need be into the muggle world and all it represents, looking around and feeling like a foreigner in my own life, and stepping back over into this new, better place. A place of quiet and abundance, a natural flow with the wheel of the year, resonance with the earth, faith in the universe, connection to spirit...an understanding. A place of endless possible realities with the ability to shape those realities. This shift is not new. It's been slowly building momentum for years now and it's not going away.

I'm excited. I'm planning, mapping, shedding, unmooring, detaching. Do you feel the shift? Is your intuition calling you to see this shift? Are you changing, reworking your life? It's mad as ever out there, my dears. Stay sane and grab hold of the reins. It's your reality. No one else's.

Warmest Wishes,

Archaena