[Ebon]

Originally Posted by foxyshaman

So Ebon, what do you see as your next level in your journey of consciousness? What does that look like? What tools do you envision enabling you to move to the next level?

My journey right now is trying to integrate and utilize what I have learnt about myself and my spiritual path in the last year. I have worked on the soil of my soul diligently in the last year. In the spring/early summer I saw myself as a field freshly plowed, exposing the deep rich soil of my soul. Bare, black and holding my breath, almost with excitement of the potential of growth. The summer passed, much has changed. I now am in the Dark of the Year and see hibernating within me small seeds of change. My Spirit knows a Mighty Oak grows but from a single small Acorn. What will I look like as I continue to grow.


The Celebration/Ritual I am holding on Dec 22 is called Dreaming the Dark. There are three parts to choose from for the attendees... Aspecting, Joiking and Drumming. Each has an important part to play. For each needs the other. The Spirit we are Aspecting is Eros...Love... the spirit born of Night and Choas.

That sounds wonderful.

So, as you move Ebon, and others, into the new chapter, new phase, out of the Darkness of the Season, I do wonder what it is we envision for our change. How will we manifest and change ourselves... for better or worse?? What does Eros have to teach me. What can I learn from the parents of Love... Night and Chaos?? Which parent am I more drawn to?? How much of Eros can I bring into myself??



We hear so often... it is all about Love... and the Darkness that lives within me begs me to question that. Before Love what was there??

Honestly I think we need to experience some sort of Darkness to learn and grow from. We can also grow from love but I think the important thing to remember is for me personally is to come from a place of love. It took me a long long time to get here but the more I do it the happier I feel and the better my life is.

I am talking in circles. Trying to formulate my own ideas. I am comforted by the Change. I am held by Change. I am called forth to stand and be strong in Change. I am asked to embrace Change. I am required to wear Change.

It's the only thing that is constant. Some trees remind me of life. Like the leaves die and fall off every year then grow back when the season is right. It's like life experiences, we must let go of the old to let our new experiences happen.

Ahhhhhh I love this time of year. Reflection. Introspection. Inspiration. Dreams.

That is absolutely beautiful. That's exactly what I am hoping for. I really feel like I am fertile soil and I've planted my seeds. I'm just waiting for them to grow, working on my garden self as I go along and seeing where the Universe takes me. I try not to look at my bad times as dark times, I try to look at them as harder learning experiences. I'm going through one of them right now but I know, as always I will be fine. Just trying to figure out the lesson in all of this.