Every Day Will Be Your Christmas

Every Day Will Be Your Christmas

- Sri Swami Satchidananda

"Lord you are the Light of Lights.  You are the source of all lights.  You are the Sun of Suns, Moon of Moons, Star of Stars.  You are the light within and without.  You are the light of the enlightened.  Kindly lead us from the darkness of ignorance to the light of understanding to realise the truth behind all these names and forms." 'This is my prayer on this holy occasion.'

"Every holy day should remind us of our inherent divine nature.  At least on that holy day we should forget all the man-made differences, even the differences that are seen in nature, and rise above these differences to recognise our spiritual oneness.

Don't just run after things.  Look within.  Experience that joy, that peace, that Jesus, that Moses, that Allah, that Mohammed, that Buddha.  Use any name you want.  That's my sincere wish for you.  Think of that.  Let this holy day bring this light into you so you can celebrate, Hannukah, Christmas, New Year, all the holy days all the time.  You don't need to depend on a calendar, certain months, certain days, certain years.  Every day will be your Christmas.  Every day you will be receiving gifts through your chimney.  Santa Claus will be there with you always.

When the man begins to sight the glorious inner light,

He drops all ego's fight, and knows the mission right,

Does everything in delight and ever simply feels light.

May the Light of Lights light our lives.  May the light of Hannukah be lit within you.  May the Christ light be born in you.  May the New Year dawn in you and bring a new life in the spirit.  May this holy season inspire you with peace and joy.  May God be with you."


I am truly inspired by this reading and as you are all my brothers and sisters, I wished to share it with you....as it matters not which path we follow, we are all one and all divine.  X


Moon - New Moon 2%

Yoga - No asanas yet today, just Pranayama :)

Card Message - Ten of Pentacles
You may be in receipt of a leagacy, or are creating one - either your family of wider community.  Prosperity.  Suitable conditions for making investments.  Even difficult circumstancescan carry hidden benefits.  The chance to count our blessings - and discover they are too numerours to count.

25th December - Brumalia
Brumalia was an ancient Roman solstice festival honoring Bacchus, generally held on 25 December and possibly related to the ancient Greek Lenaia (held in honour of Dionysus). The festival included drinking and merriment. The name is derived from the Latin word bruma, meaning "shortest day" or even "winter".  The Brumalia was also celebrated during the space of thirty days, commencing on 24 November. This was instituted by Romulus, who entertained the Senate during this time. During this feast, prophetic indications were taken of the prospects for the remaining part of the winter.
Gratitude - We are divine

As one world flows into another..

As dusk falls a new world is revealed

Its funny how our perception of objects change as light recedes, what may look perfectly normal in broad daylight, looks completely different at dusk.  I came across this concept as I was out today in the late afternoon, as you read on you'll see what I mean.

I went out for a walk today with a dear friend and our children, after a short while we came across a small church tucked out the way and in the grounds were the most amazing trees.  The light was already disappearing fast,  but there was still ample enough to see all the different types of trees within the churchyard.  Everything from Yew to Laurel and Fir to Birch, there were also lots of rhodedendrons, but these were clipped and grown like small twisted trees, rather than bushes......their multiple small trunks made the most amazing witchy looking trees.

One Fir tree had grown in such a way that early on its it's life it had split from one into two tree, but where the split was, it had grown into a flat seat shape.  The girth of the trunk was a good metre if not more, so there was a seat big enough for a person on each side, it looked like a grand living throne.

We carried on exploring round the churchyard and found a secluded corner where an old rotting Oak tree stood.  At first you couldn't tell it had died, for the front was covered with ivy, but when you went around the back of the tree, you could see the outer trunk had rotted away right though to the centre.  As it had rotted, bits had broken away forming holes and little shelves, the whole inner core was pitted with nooks and crannies.  It resembled a set of higgledy piggledy shelves and reminded me of something out of an Enid Blyton book.  When we looked at the roots we could see a burrow, it was very defined and when I shone a small light down it it, you could see it went down a very long way.

The last tree we visited was a Pine tree of sorts, the light was quite poor at this point, but you could still make out the needles growing out from the stems and branches.  This was a monster tree, it clearly dwarfed anything else growing within the churchyard, the girth of the trunk was easily 2 1/2 - 3 metres in diameter.  What was so interesting was that it was multiple trees in one and had at least 3 sides to it, so a loose triangular shaped trunk, rather than cylindrical. 

One the side that I first looked at, I noticed that there were 4 trunks that were growing up from the main trunk, and they were all in a row.  I thought they looked like 4 brothers, each one just a fraction taller than the last.  My friend pointed out that it looked very much like a 4 fingered hand coming out of the earth - maybe it was Gaia.  Then as we looked at the main trunk we could make out 2 squares, they were slightly different shade to the rest of the trunk.  The larger one was about 1/2 metre square and low down on the trunk, almost touching the roots.  The other square was much smaller , and this was higher up and off to one side of the larger square.  Believe it or not, they looked just like a door and window, it seemed so real that we had to touch the trunk to see. 

As we moved round the tree we came to what would be a corner....if it were a real triangle, that is.....2 smaller trunks were growing up here, out of the main trunk.  They started off growing side by side and as they got taller a gap between them appeared, this gap widened the higher the trees grew.  Behind them in the gap grew a third trunk, bigger than the 2 in front of it.....it seemed a very  striking and architectural feature.....you felt like you were looking within the tree.  My friend found they were very Ent like and I could see just what she meant.

The last side we looked at had been chopped back a little, but rather than takeaway the trees features, it added to them.  What peered out at us was a large and old face, with deep set eyes, heavy eyebrows with horns growing from them, and a long flowing beard.  This was a very ancient and wisened masculine face.  It was the most amazing tree and one worth going back to.

So this was our meeting with trees......I hasten to add that no mind altering substances were taken, the landscape literally changed as the light disappeared.  You very much felt that one world was moving into another, a sort of magical shift.

So what do we really see when we look at something, different people will say different things for it is all just a matter of perception.   X

Moon - Waning Gibbous 58%

Yoga - Surya Namaskara

Card Message - The Sun

You are free to express the radient essence of your being.  Joy and creationflow from you like the rays of the sun.

Happiness, Contentment, Success, Energy, Wonder, Lucidity, Optimism, Joy, Freedom, Fruition, and Creative expression.

16th December - Sapientia/Sophia

The festival of the goddess of wisdom Sapientia, or Sophia immediately precedes the major period of licence during the year, when wisdom may not be the ruling quality.