Reflections On A Rainy Day

Today, I woke up to heavy rain and wind. It was raining so hard I could barely see the neighbors house across the street.

Later I wandered quietly back to my desk,  savoring the warm comfort of my office. My quiet little world where I can dream, write and create.

A brief interlude~ a respite from the heavy rain that had been falling all morning.

Standing in a place where land and sky meet ~ Capturing reflections , clouds winging past, moments, wind and more rain. . .

A perfect lunch for a day like this  . . .

“Soup is the song of the hearth…  and the home.” ~ Louis P. De Gouy

The ever-changing play of darkness and light ~  Dark clouds hang above our head. The storm in all it’s fierceness is still beautiful, poetic, and lyrical as winter gives way to spring.

“Last night the rain spoke to me
slowly, saying, what joy
to come falling out of the brisk cloud,
to be happy again in a new way
on the earth!” ~ Mary Oliver

“Everyday Goddessing  is about sharing magical techniques and sacred wisdom with other beautiful Goddess women. I believe that within every woman there is a goddess, a wise woman, beautiful, creative, powerful, with a deep soul, and that everything we need and are looking for is already inside  each of us.” – Rose Arizmendi

Finding Joy on Valentine’s Day

I feel joy when I walk in the rain, when raindrops coalesce, clinging on my eyelashes, and when I listen to the sound of rain falling , dancing across my windowpane.

I feel joy when I find  heart shaped crystals and other goodies that I tucked away for a rainy day ~ waiting … forgotten in a drawer until I find them again.

I find joy in eating chocolate on Valentine’s Day.

And most of all I find joy in having a quiet moment to myself ~ a moment of quietude to appreciate and reflect on the sacred in my precious, ordinary life that I share with my family.

~ Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you.~

In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery.
It’s the place of reflection and contemplation,
and it’s the place where we can connect
with the deep knowing, with the deep wisdom way.

~ Angeles Arrien

“Everyday Goddessing  is about sharing magical techniques and sacred wisdom with other beautiful Goddess women. I believe that within every woman there is a goddess, a wise woman, beautiful, creative, powerful, with a deep soul, and that everything we need and are looking for is already inside  each of us.” – Rose Arizmendi

Inspirational Friday~You Are Worth the Time

The alchemy of creating art comes from your heart, the deep places within you and your response to what is going on around you. It is an expression of your heart and soul. I find that creating art is a profoundly healing act in itself, and feeds me on every level: Physical, mental and spiritual.

I found this great video on YouTube and loved it.

“Creativity is a shapechanger. One moment it takes this form, the next that. It is like a dazzling spirit who appears to us all, yet is hard to describe for no one agrees on what they saw in that brilliant flash.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Everyday Goddessing  is about sharing magical techniques and sacred wisdom with other beautiful Goddess women. I believe that within every woman there is a goddess, a wise woman, beautiful, creative, powerful, with a deep soul, and that everything we need and are looking for is already inside  each of us.” – Rose Arizmendi

Listening to the Sacred

Early this morning before dawn I found myself wide awake, I didn’t really want to get out of bed. I laid there  beneath soft, warm flannel sheets willing myself to go back to sleep. Needless to say it didn’t work.

With great effort I managed to crawl out of bed and make my way to the kitchen to make a cup of tea. By the time I finished I could see traces of light slowly seeping over the hills. I stood quietly watching the play of light and shadow dancing across the roof tops ~ bare tree branches ~ light spilling over my fingers ~ mesmerized.

Suddenly bird song filled the air and the deep rich scent of mother earth wafted up. In that one moment, I was finely attuned to every scent, movement, color and shape around me. Listening ~ listening  to the sacred language of mother nature.

Later, when returning to the kitchen for another cup of tea, I noticed that our prayer lily had bloomed. Such grace, the long slender stalk reaching towards the ceiling ever seeking the light. What a wonderful gift on this day of celebration ~ Happy Imbolc Everyone!  So grateful that winter will soon give way to spring.

“And that is just the point… how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That’s the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. “Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?”
~ Mary Oliver

“Everyday Goddessing  is about sharing magical techniques and sacred wisdom with other beautiful Goddess women. I believe that within every woman there is a goddess, a wise woman, beautiful, creative, powerful, with a deep soul, and that everything we need and are looking for is already inside  each of us.” – Rose Arizmendi

Inspirational Friday ~ Meditation

“Compare the serene and simple splendor of a rose in bloom with the tensions and restlessness of your life. The rose has a a gift that you lack; It is perfectly content to be itself. It has not been programmed from birth, as you have been, to be dissatisfied with itself, so it has not the slightest urge to be anything other than it is. That is why it possesses the artless grace and absence of inner conflict that among humans is only found in little children and mystics.” ~ Anthony DeMello, The Way To Love

“The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.” ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Here is a wonderful video on meditation that I would like to share with you. . .

Walking the  sacred path ~ mindfulness ~ awareness ~ Joy

This is one of my favorite outdoor labyrinths in San Anselmo. Walking the labyrinth always brings  me to a place within, where I experience healing, connection and love for all life and deep gratitude. . . Blessings to all and have a great weekend. ~ Rose

Come, come whoever you are.
Wanderer, worshipper,
Lover of leaving ~ it doesn’t matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vows
A hundred times, a thousand times.
Come, come again, come.
~ Rumi

“Everyday Goddessing  is about sharing magical techniques and sacred wisdom with other beautiful Goddess women. I believe that within every woman there is a goddess, a wise woman, beautiful, creative, powerful, with a deep soul, and that everything we need and are looking for is already inside  each of us.” – Rose Arizmendi