Seasonal magic

I love this time of year. The leaves are falling, changing colors, the air has a chill in it, great weather to be in front of a fire with a book, my dogs and some hot chocolate. When I was growing up my sisters used to make the chocolate for me, seems my mom was delegating her motherly duties to my three sisters. They made the hot chocolate with real milk and sometimes cinnamon tea. To make cinnamon tea you take two cinnamon sticks and put that in a quart and a half of water. Bring to boil and the longer you simmer it the more color and flavor it gets. I love it all by itself or making my hot chocolate with it instead of just plain water! I also like to buy those little candy canes and put one in the bottom of my hot water for hot chocolate, add the chocolate mix and ta da, candy cane hot chocolate. I know I am spoiled, someone has to do it.

The spirits are restless these days. As we head into October and the Day of the Dead celebration. Some call it all hallows eve, or Sam something most call it Halloween. As we pass towards the end of the year the spiritual energy grows and with it paranormal activity rises. My friend who works for a property management company, says they have a spirit that talks to them. It has moved from the “model apartment” to the office. The motion detectors in the office have gone off and there was no one there to set it off, no one alive that is.

I think one of the spirits around here followed me home as I saw it a couple nights ago flying in my bedroom. Just a dark shadow shape, human head, and the rest just a wispy shadow. It didn’t threaten me just wanted to be close to me. Did you know that the more spiritual power you have the brighter your spiritual light? Way back in the early 90’s my mom came to visit. We went to a local supermarket and I told her to watch a parking lot light. It will go out when I get out of the car and when I go into the market it will come back on. Sure enough it did as I said it would. Mom said stop doing what your doing. She didn’t understand that I wasn’t doing anything, just being me, can’t stop being all this (points to self), just not possible. Since then my spiritual light has gotten much bigger than a parking lot. You know those lights that come on when the ambient light is too low, they operate on a photo electric eye that senses light or the lack of it. When my spiritual light is detected, that sensor sees it as sunlight and turns off. I don’t even notice those street lights going out anymore.

I walk my dogs in all kinds of weather and lately there has been so much rain my phone weather app keeps telling me there is a flood warning. On the bright side all that water has gotten rid of the huge flea population we had. Dogs are combing out clean again, flea free! It was raining so hard it looked like someone turned on a huge shower and left it running all day! Had to play doggie dress up and put my dogs in rain gear. That is what my son calls it when I put sweaters or t-shirts on my dogs. I hate that!

Let yourself be pulled into the spirit of the season, I assure you it is real. The spirit of fall, harvest, Oktoberfest, Halloween, allow yourself to embrace joy. If your blessed with more than you need this is a great time to share it. Donate to a food bank, do something in your comfort zone that helps others and you will be blessed even more. May we all find seasonal magic to warm our hearts.

Walks With Thunder