There are certain themes to which one returns over and over. Love is one of these. Love is a word that is over-used. Love is a word that carries so many connotations it is almost impossible to define. Love is a word that carries its own energy, regardless of what you may think or feel about love, regardless of what your experience of love may have been. The love we speak of here is that unconditional love of the divine for all its manifestations. One can say, the unconditional love for itself in all its many forms.

On October the 31^st we experienced Beltane in the Southern Hemisphere and Samhain (Halloween) in the Northern Hemisphere. This is a time when the veil between all worlds, your multi dimensional selves is at its thinnest and we have the opportunity to embrace and love all parts of our whole, the one. For me Beltane is the sacred marriage of feminine/masculine the god/goddess within - when we connect and rebirth the truth of self. Samhain is the illumination of shadows, the underworld and death embrace the fear of the hidden and unknown with love and feel it transform into life. Both festivals allow a transformation to take place through sacred fire - feel the veil dissolve as you come together with you - merging into liquid gold - spiritual alchemy... feel the divine essence/soul/spirit of you..

This energy moves through November allowing the presence of spirit to be felt strongly. As the days become longer, allow yourself to catch glimpses of the transcendental light that illuminates all existence, to feel the love that radiates all around you. It is a good time to love the earth and be loved by it.

Exercise:

Take a moment, a day, an hour, this month to go out into nature, wherever you can find it, or sit on a hillside, or by a lake, under the sky, the blue sky of spring. As you sit there, let yourself feel how much the earth and sky love you, how much the trees love you, the rocks, the ground beneath you, the water, that everything around you is the manifestation of that divine intelligence from which life arises. Everything around you in its very nature supports all life, your life. All around you life is bursting forth even as the year is dying.

Simply sit with the thought "I am loved." Place your hand upon the earth, lean your back against the tree, look up at the sky. Allow the thought "I am loved" to permeate your heart, your body, your mind, Feel that love being returned. From the depths of your being love arises, for tree, earth, sky, for the leaf that falls, and for the bare branch. Honour the profound relationship you have with earth and sky, with water, with the light that surrounds you as you sit there. The love that you give and receive will nourish and sustain you. Now, when the veils are thin, and worlds beyond worlds of spirit open themselves more readily to your vision, take time to open yourself to the love that surrounds you.

Denise runs casual meditation classes every:
Wednesday Evening at 7pm and Friday Morning at 10am.
The cost is $12.00 per class. 
The actual meditation is 30-40 minutes long.