Today’s Oracle
My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:
260) The fastest way to become
rich as to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to the become poor is to
socialize with the rich. -- Nassim Taleb
You can use my Potent
Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help. Hold a question in your
heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. It
will be a response to your question. Play with it.
Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new
perceptions. They consist of distilled genius.
Get the Wizard's Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles.
Why Would You Want to Make an Altar?
Why would you want to make your own alter?
First – It’s fun.
Second – You literally get to take your connection to the Sacred
into your own hands without the need of an intermediary.
Third – During the process of making the altar, you may learn
something about yourself and your connection to the Sacred. You may have insights into the core of what’s
happening in your life. Your prayers
will become more effectively pointed as a result.
Fourth – Building an altar focuses your intent. It puts muscle into your prayer or into your
manifestation. Just wrestling with the
design opens up your Buddha brain. And
that opens your heart and soul for insight to enter.
Another Book Giveaway
I’m giving away my well beloved Kindle book Altar Making: An Active Meditation for
Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your starting November 23, 2013 at 12:01 AM
PST – ends midnight, PST November 27, 2013.
Take advantage of this offer and let your friends know.
Here’s how I’m using altar making this week…
I Survived My Surgery
You may know that I had hip replacement surgery on Oct. 21st
2013. I survived and am healing well. Rehabilitation takes months and I’m walking without
a cane now.
After major life events, I find I wonder, “What’s next? Where is my life taking me now?”
You may recall my recent pre-surgery blog post -- Relax, You’re Going to Die.
In that blog I included these instructions:
Relax, you’re going to die.
There is no-where to go
And no-thing to do.
And from that view point ask
What’s the next right thing to do?
I survived. I’m
healing. I can relax, I’m going to
die. So, what’s the next right thing for
me?
During my preparation for the surgery, the idea of making a mobile of origami cranes came to me. After the surgery the image stuck, so I’m creating an altar with cranes. It will be a mobile.
Cranes
Cranes symbolize
happiness, good luck, longevity, and peace.
As I live into being an elder,
these seem like good things.
You can watch this video to learn to fold them here.
Gotta go and create now.
I expect that whilst constructing the mobile, collecting the windfall cedar branches for cross bars, folding the cranes, I’ll have a better sense of the next right thing for me.
May you be light hearted and free,
William
P.S. My newest book Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing - An Illustrated Journey echoes all these ideas. Go read the description and consider getting it. It makes a great holiday present. At 8 x 10 inches, the trade paperback version makes a great coffee table book. One with soul.
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Crane image courtesy of Anusorn P nachol /
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