Daylight Savings Time

Get ready to spring forward one hour this weekend. Yes, it’s that time again. Remember to set your clocks one hour ahead on Sunday.

This excerpt from “The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks in 1947: written by Robertson Davies, pretty much sums up my feelings about the daylight savings time issue.

“I don’t really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.”

Daily Spiritual Practice

Why is our daily personal spiritual practice important?
From my own perspective a daily personal practice keeps us grounded in our work, less stressed out, and more connected with the Divine. Yet, life happens and there are those days when even the best of intentions go awry.

Friends have said that “not practicing seems to make a critical difference in their lives, they begin to notice feeling out of sorts, drained, disjointed, stressed out, a disconnect, edgy, and that something is lacking.”

Due to our very busy lives, it may seem difficult to cultivate a daily practice, yet the very act of lighting a candle, opening and listening for guidance can have a profound effect on the rest of your day. These simple acts can open doors that once seemed closed.

“Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart – a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water – I accept with joy.” – Bhagavad Gita

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

A Living Guide

The  Collage above was created using Painter IX and Photoshop.The photograph is of one of my favorite Kuan Yin statues,  I decided to make it the focal point of my digital collage.

“Many say that Kuan Yin, as the goddess of compassion, evokes the softer side of human nature–the innate softness and unconditional love that counterbalances the drive for competition and dominance.” – Colleen O’Connor.

Today I found this wonderful Living Guide tucked away in my file cabinet and wanted to share it with you.

A Living Guide

• Complement three people every day.
• Watch a sunrise at least once a year.
• Be the first to say, “Hello.”
• Live beneath your means.
• Treat everyone like you want to be treated.
• Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen.
• Forget the Joneses.
• Never deprive someone of hope. It may be all he has.
• Pray not for things, but for wisdom and courage.
• Be tough-minded but tenderhearted.
• Be kinder than necessary.
• Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
• Keep your promises.
• Learn to show cheerfulness, even when you don’t feel like it.
• Remember that overnight success usually takes about fifteen years.
• Leave everything better than you found it.
• Remember that winners do what losers don’t want to do.
• When you arrive at your job in the morning, let the first thing you say brighten everyone’s day.
• Don’t rain on other people’s parades.
• Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love him or her.

– Author Unknown

Tuesday

“The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that I exist.” – Dag Hammarskjold

Prayer Beads

Nearly two thirds of the world’s population – pray with beads.

Each bead counted is an individual prayer or mantra, and the repetition of prayers and mantras is meant to facilitate complete focus on the prayer or mantra itself. For many people prayer beads have symbolized the commitment and connection to a spiritual life.

We may wear them, carry them, touch them as they remind us of the divine presence of spirit in everyday life. They offer us a way to ground ourselves in the present moment and enhance our meditation practice.

They have become an integral part of my spiritual practice. I keep my beautiful prayer beads on my bedside table, and use them as part of my morning and evening meditation. When I awake and reach for my prayer beads I am comforted by the texture and shape of each bead as my fingers move from one bead to the next.

Several years ago, I created two prayer bead necklaces with a variety of gemstones, ceramic beads, seeds, bone and finished the ends with amulets and charms. In the photo above you can see the many different shapes of beads I used.

“To use beads with a prayer, Indian, Moslem or  Christian, is to enflesh the words, make thought tangible.” – Madeleine L’Engle – The summer of the Great – Grandmother

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