It's harvest day!
Over 2 months ago, I planted organic lettuce, spinach, chives, and cilantro and I did the whole thing organically (which was an expensive challenge). We had quite a fight with powdery mildew to which I learned about Neem Oil, but too late for the spinach, they didn't make it. I also learned about a water milk solution and water baking soda solution, but neither did anything like the Neem Oil. The lettuce was not at the fullest it could be and some was lost to the mildew infestation, but some was saved too (though growth somewhat stunted.) Chives came out ok, but I learned the hard way, not to plant too much in one spot and that did stunt their growth a little...oops. The cilantro however, flourished! So tonight is harvest salad with a little lettuce, chives, and a lot of cilantro. Now I know what to do (and what not to do) for next time! :D
This was a rewarding experiment for my family and I and has really taught us the value we place on food and it's proper handling and care. It is a labor of love indeed, tending and taking care of plants. They need the same things we do in order to survive and thrive. I found myself out there a few times a week just giving them energy (that is what saved some of my lettuce) as well as fussing over every little leaf and pulling out seeds and tree debris from their pots.
I hope I learned enough to go for my second batch of veggies here soon! Time will tell. But in the meantime, there will be amazing raw and healthy salad for this family tonight!
I hope to extend my gardening and planting to full self-sustainability, that is the goal! No more grocery stores, spending outrageous amounts of money on organic food, or the cost of gas to our local organic food store (about an hour away from our house). I am pretty sure I have a ways to go and quite a bit more to learn until that goal is reached, but I am ok with it. Time is time and it's always worth a positive investment in.
I also found a great video of this guy who has been living off of wild food for 12 years and is as healthy as can be! Makes me think of other options beside my own gardening in case I continue to have iffy harvests. Here is the video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IzxRDsBtXrM
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Full Moon with Lunar Eclipse this Sat, CHANGE IS HERE, are you ready?
It's been a mix of really good and really brutal last couple of days here in the Brightlynn house. Lots of changes coming in, some good, some sad...but it is what it is. With the shift energy that started to come in on the 28th of October and then 11/11/11 (you can see my channeled message about this shift here), it's a wonder when I look around at my life and see that hardly anything is as it was before those dates AND we are still in Mercury Retrograde for the next week! AHHHHHHH!
This is where our own spirituality comes into play. We celebrate the full moon every month by bringing it into our lives with magic and manifestation. Depending on the theme of the full moon for the month (you can do an astrology search for the different months and their full moon meanings), we channel our energy as a family to bring in our wants and needs (usually the same things) to have a flourishing and abundant month.
We do this by all sitting down at our table that we've decorated with our sacred treasures and begin by writing out our "intention-based petitions" for the month. These are little scraps of paper with our desires written on them in a certain format and burned later during one of our high vibration spiritual songs. An example of one of our more common petitions is...
"Our family is healthy, happy, whole, and harmonious very gently right now."
We write our petitions in the present tense (as if they already happened or are happening) and include a "gently or very gently" in order to ensure a smoother transition, followed by our trigger words, "right now" to ensure instant manifestation. And the most important thing...everything is written in the POSITIVE. I have learned (the hard way) when asking the Universe for anything, not to include any negative verbiage in my petition writing or I will have to walk through that before I get my desired outcome. For example, once I asked to be pain-free and healthy...well, pain is a "negative" word and what happened to me was a whole lot of pain followed by many trips to the hospital and naturopath to find a way to alleviate it. It eventually worked, but I had to walk through the pain part first. So now, if I was still having a pain issue, I would write it out as...
"I am perfectly healthy, gently balanced, and aligned to my highest possible vibration very gently right now."
All positive, no negatives, and goes above and beyond any issues I could be currently having.
When we have (as a family) all of our petitions written and ready for burning, we charge them with the full moon and our own energy and send them lots of love vibes. Love always speeds things along and provides a nice cushion to the energy. It is a very simple thing we do but it is so effective and bonding to the family.
This particular full moon is a doozy as it culminates with all the shift energy, mercury retrograde, a lunar eclipse (click here for more info), and is the last month of the year before "the big year" of 2012. All this means is GET READY FOR CHANGE and RAPID CHANGE. If you have any baggage or old junk from your past (even immediate past) that you need to shed. NOW IS THE TIME TO SHED IT. You don't want to bring that in with you into the new year...especially 2012. The energy of that year is intense to say the least and shedding any unresolved stuff then will be much more intense...and who wants that? This is also the perfect time to get clear on what you want for next year, and "intending it". I wrote out a list of all that I want to accomplish for next year and I plan on sending that up to the Universe for manifestation once I've shed my old stuff away (and the old stuff can be internal or external).
One really good thing to do (and is highly recommended) before or during your ceremony, is to have an offering to the Universe. Usually, I will channel a Universal petition that I get from whoever is joining us at our ceremony and add that to the family petition pile (written in the same format) AND we will also donate to charity (even if it's small, like freecycle give-aways, food bank donations, or good will clothing drop offs). This brings in a sense of giving and receiving energy and a thankfulness to what one already haves. That energy will only speed and ease everything along nicely.
Don't worry about this chaotic and uprooting energy (it's coming to an end soon), the last half of Dec has a much calmer flow especially for those that have done the work of letting go of the old and making way for the new. Which is exactly the kind of energy we need to usher in one of the most epic years of our existence.
Many happy, abundant, and easy transitioning energy to you and yours this full moon and Holiday Season.
Love,
The Brightlynn Household
This is where our own spirituality comes into play. We celebrate the full moon every month by bringing it into our lives with magic and manifestation. Depending on the theme of the full moon for the month (you can do an astrology search for the different months and their full moon meanings), we channel our energy as a family to bring in our wants and needs (usually the same things) to have a flourishing and abundant month.
We do this by all sitting down at our table that we've decorated with our sacred treasures and begin by writing out our "intention-based petitions" for the month. These are little scraps of paper with our desires written on them in a certain format and burned later during one of our high vibration spiritual songs. An example of one of our more common petitions is...
"Our family is healthy, happy, whole, and harmonious very gently right now."
We write our petitions in the present tense (as if they already happened or are happening) and include a "gently or very gently" in order to ensure a smoother transition, followed by our trigger words, "right now" to ensure instant manifestation. And the most important thing...everything is written in the POSITIVE. I have learned (the hard way) when asking the Universe for anything, not to include any negative verbiage in my petition writing or I will have to walk through that before I get my desired outcome. For example, once I asked to be pain-free and healthy...well, pain is a "negative" word and what happened to me was a whole lot of pain followed by many trips to the hospital and naturopath to find a way to alleviate it. It eventually worked, but I had to walk through the pain part first. So now, if I was still having a pain issue, I would write it out as...
"I am perfectly healthy, gently balanced, and aligned to my highest possible vibration very gently right now."
All positive, no negatives, and goes above and beyond any issues I could be currently having.
When we have (as a family) all of our petitions written and ready for burning, we charge them with the full moon and our own energy and send them lots of love vibes. Love always speeds things along and provides a nice cushion to the energy. It is a very simple thing we do but it is so effective and bonding to the family.
This particular full moon is a doozy as it culminates with all the shift energy, mercury retrograde, a lunar eclipse (click here for more info), and is the last month of the year before "the big year" of 2012. All this means is GET READY FOR CHANGE and RAPID CHANGE. If you have any baggage or old junk from your past (even immediate past) that you need to shed. NOW IS THE TIME TO SHED IT. You don't want to bring that in with you into the new year...especially 2012. The energy of that year is intense to say the least and shedding any unresolved stuff then will be much more intense...and who wants that? This is also the perfect time to get clear on what you want for next year, and "intending it". I wrote out a list of all that I want to accomplish for next year and I plan on sending that up to the Universe for manifestation once I've shed my old stuff away (and the old stuff can be internal or external).
One really good thing to do (and is highly recommended) before or during your ceremony, is to have an offering to the Universe. Usually, I will channel a Universal petition that I get from whoever is joining us at our ceremony and add that to the family petition pile (written in the same format) AND we will also donate to charity (even if it's small, like freecycle give-aways, food bank donations, or good will clothing drop offs). This brings in a sense of giving and receiving energy and a thankfulness to what one already haves. That energy will only speed and ease everything along nicely.
Don't worry about this chaotic and uprooting energy (it's coming to an end soon), the last half of Dec has a much calmer flow especially for those that have done the work of letting go of the old and making way for the new. Which is exactly the kind of energy we need to usher in one of the most epic years of our existence.
Many happy, abundant, and easy transitioning energy to you and yours this full moon and Holiday Season.
Love,
The Brightlynn Household
Friday, December 2, 2011
"Are you ready to go home to 5D Earth..."
This has been a crazy and tiring Mercury Retrograde so far (started Nov 23/24 ends Dec 13/14...depending on where you are in the world). I have been VERY tired and lethargic and so writing and doing my normal everyday "working towards the goal" stuff has been challenging to say the least. I have however enjoyed watching and reading online posts and videos about the upcoming shift and I found one in particular that was VERY insightful. I thought I would share it on here since I resonate with it so well. It explains a lot of the reasoning why I do what I do (and I am not alone).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnuOM1Jy6qQ&feature=related
Thank you in5d for posting this video! To find out more about the shift and "in5d" go to http://www.in5d.com/ UPDATED DAILY! The Internet's largest Esoteric, Spiritual and Metaphysical Database!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnuOM1Jy6qQ&feature=related
Thank you in5d for posting this video! To find out more about the shift and "in5d" go to http://www.in5d.com/ UPDATED DAILY! The Internet's largest Esoteric, Spiritual and Metaphysical Database!
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