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Here’s why I love Autumn…
It’s not just the Fall colors of autumn leaves changing and brightening up the landscape with what I call “fireworks stuck into trees,” nor is it just the cooler days & nights. It’s not even the back-to-school routine that puts the day into little airtight compartments.
It’s all of those, but it’s just the Spirit of Autumn ~ The way we all draw together to celebrate the light in the darkness.
The way a single tree can make us ooohhh and ahhhh as if we were watching a fireworks display.
The way everyone starts making PSL memes on-line and joking with each other about that one flavor.
The way we start baking and sharing recipes and meals with one another.
The way we connect to our collective communities after a summer of running all over the place to vacation.
Autumn is a homecoming, to ourselves and to each other. It’s a season of connecting with our kindred spirits, our families, our communities.
Fall Festivals, pumpkin patches, Halloween parades ~ In a word: Community.
I don’t know what it is about Autumn that seems to bring all of us together. It could be the many ways I listed above, but one thing is for certain: It’s a time of restoration & reflection, of simpler times and activities that delight us, like jumping into a pile of colorful leaves, or handing out pieces of candy to neighborhood children.
This is why I love Autumn.
Click here to read June's thoughts on today's Cosmic Clusterfuck!
This blog will express my firsthand experiences with racism and also about where I stand with Black Lives Matter.
In this week's blog, June highlights various divination tools and how they can help when seeking spiritual guidance, but the biggest tools of all come from within.
When I used to teach freshman English classes, one of the biggest and best things I could teach my students was good study habits. It is easy to cram and over study at the last minute only to panic and zone out on the exam the next day. Cramming information into the mind is like waking up late to get to the airport and you haven’t packed yet. It’s a rush job, useless things are packed, and necessary items are left ignored on the floor.
One technique that helps us remember is our sense of smell. Smell, or chemodetection, our oldest sense helps us stay safe in our environments. This is directly connected to our memories so we can remember which areas, foods, or people are safe and which are harmful.
So how does this remotely connect to studying? When we are trying to remember new or difficult information, using smell can help connect new information to old information. For example, lighting a lavender scented candle while studying and then wearing an aromatherapy necklace or bracelet to class with lavender oil in it during the test will trigger the memory which is connected to the lavender aroma. To say that it is truly that easy is an understatement!
We can use smells to change our mood to uplifting (lemongrass), keep us focused (peppermint), or calm us down (lavender). Just thinking of the smell of chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven evokes memories – our brains can’t help but take us back to the smell connected to the associated memory.
Practice including your favorite smell during your daily or weekly meditation practice to help you feel calm and centered throughout your day or week. You can also create combination scents that serve dual purposes, like orange and clove for a calming warm feeling or lemon and lime for a peppy get up & go citrus smell.
No matter what you want to recall, using our olfactory-installed sense of smell is an easy way to combine our physiology to help enhance our spirituality.
✨ Blessings ✨ Blessed Be ✨ Namaste ✨
❤️ Sitting out back, enjoying the sun. ❤️
❤️ Cardinals fly by, one by one. ❤️
❤️ Bright red cardinals, reminders so dear. ❤️
❤️ Of departed loves. Remind me “I’m here.” ❤️
💙 Happy Memorial Day, My Kindred Spirits! 💙
💙 To all of the servicemen and servicewomen who have served our country 💙
💙 Thank You ~ One and All 💙
✨ Blessings ✨ Blessed Be ✨ Namaste ✨
With Spring smells in the air, June shares her favorite incense smells and how they connect to her spirit and with other kindred spirits.
What a lovely spring we've been having these past few days. The warm sun. Puffy, white clouds. Opening the windows. Letting air in. Clearing old stagnant air out. And cleaning things out of the house that we no longer need or use.
This Spring, it's not only a great time to clean out the house, but also to clear out the clutter from our minds, spirits, and energy fields. What a great feeling to have clarity in our homes and in our minds.
What are some things that you need to clear out of your home, your mind, or your spirit?
❓June invites other kindred spirits to answer 20 Questions for 2020 and see if your expectations are being met or still need a little work ❓
In this week’s Monday blog, June offers 3 simple steps to help you practice how to be gentle with yourself 🌹
Allowing a vision to unfold itself