51. Winter Solstice: Embrace the Darkness

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51. Everything begins in the dark.

Today is the Solstice. We’re wrapping up the solstice meandering chat that goes all over the place.

Talk with the Unseen. Embrace the dark.

Miigwetch, Tapadh Leat.

🌀The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

🌀The Cailleach Ken Library

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Transcript

Lezley (00:00):

I don't know why I'm sharing that. Maybe you need to be grounded too. Maybe that's why. I dunno what the fuck is happening. And it's important to know that we're all here doing this change together. There is literally a transformation happening in the world as more of us become brave enough to speak our truths out into land, the more that people feel courageous enough, courage, the root of courage is heart. The more people follow heart wisdom and speak into the world, their heart truths, the more that this will change. And everyone's working. Everyone who's here came to make this change together. Literally, no one isn't here without express agreement. Everyone's here with consenting, everyone consented to be physical here. Everything, everything. Everyone that's here agreed to be here and we're all doing this transformation and this transition together. We're doing it together and we're doing it in all different ways. We all came with our own special, unique skills. Every single one of us has a unique gift and skill that we can utilize in the world to help bring connection, to help dissolve separation, to help dissolve fragmentation. And that's what we're doing to allow the expression of spirit fully in the world of form.

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And there's different ways to do it. Some people protest, some people are activists, some people are focused on healing and other people are focused on, I dunno, gardening or really physical things. We all have our own gifts and specialties and ways of being. And when we allow all the ways of being to be valued and to be welcomed, we change everything and everyone can participate in exactly their right way. I know for me, I have for most of my life related with the world through spiritual and emotional lenses. It's not that I'm not physical and it's not that I'm not mental or intelligent or think, but those two are my primary means. The easement. They are an easy means for me to connect to wisdom. The challenge for me is to be physically here. And that is good to know because when I know what my challenge is, then I can work to bring that into my life on a regular basis because given without thought on it, I will.

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I can just go into emotion and spirit and not be grounded at all. So being grounded is fundamental for me, man. I gave myself the freedom to talk all over the place here, but this is, I'm not sticking to this plan at all. This is wild. This is way off track. I've been saying don't be afraid of the dark. Don't be afraid of the dark. There's no end. There's no death. Doesn't actually exist. It's a transition. And Celts not only believed in reincarnation, they believed in an ongoing fluid cycle of existence that Celts would actually make IOUs with one another for future lifetimes. So I don't know. You might've come into this life with an IOU for someone and constantly feeling like you're indebted. You might be, you might be. I'm not sure how useful that is though. I think promises of past lives can be unhelpful here.

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Cults believe. We believe in reincarnation. I definitely believe in reincarnation. I speak with the dead on the regular and they are very chatty and they are very interesting. They have a very unique perspective on the world and there is no other place there's, it's not like the unseen are separated from us somewhere else. They're right here. They're all around us all the time. It's just very busy here. It's just we're on a frequency that's much slower and denser than they are. Oh, hey, this is me popping in with an ad. Go join the library. Join the library and dig deeper into ancestors and Anam and Celtic reconnection and talk about the dead. Learn about morrin. She's our Celtic ancestor here to teach us about reconnection. Check it out, it's free. Join the list. Join the library. See you in the library. The debt are here.

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There is no death. We all go on and we change. And there is only change. Nothing is static. Nothing stays the same. Okay? So the dark and the deep of this time going into the dark and the deep can be scary because there is no control. You don't get to say what comes up. You don't get to determine how you feel. Basically. You need to have the courage to allow, just to allow. And I want to ask my fellow women, ladies, you attracted to some weird shit. You attracted to some dark weird shit. You attracted to flies, bugs, skulls. Do you like to dig in the dirt? Do you like to lie in the water? Do you like the night? Do you like the nighttime? Do you like to move around in the dark? Do you like crows? Do you like carrying birds flies, carrying birds, beetles, all the things that consume flesh. You interested in the decomposition of bodies? Yeah.

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I understand why men are afraid of witches. I understand why men are afraid of powerful women because when women are allowed to be fully, fully themselves, we travel between both the sun and the moon. We travel between both the light and the dark, and both are invited and welcomed if you have this attraction to carrying things. For me, I love Turkey vultures. Turkey vultures are an unexpected symbol of spiritual wisdom in my life, and I love them whenever they show up and they're fucking ugly. And I love their ugly little bald heads because they're created perfectly for what they do. I want you to know that your attraction to crows and vultures and beetles and bugs that eat bodies is because you are connected to the unseen. You are connected. These are all psycho pumps. Psycho pumps are believed to carry the souls into the afterlife, carry the souls to the moon, into the unseen.

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Your attraction to these processes and these things, it's not weird and it's not creepy. It is creation. Reaching out to resonate with your interest because you are not afraid of the dark. You're not afraid of all the things that the dark represents. The dark just represents unknown wisdom. It represents unknown healing. It represents unknown. The dark represents all the things that can be. Celts. Believe that the dark comes first, that the day begins at night, and that nothing is created without the dark. That the womb and the deep underneath in the dirt. For seeds and beings to grow, we need the dark. We need the quiet, nurturing, comfort of the dark to feed and hold and nurture the growth of both ideas and physical beings. So this time of life, this time of the year in the dark is about going inside to decide what you will nourish and what you will bring to planting.

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Come spring, if you're attracted to these dark things, you're likely a medium. You probably are already talking to spirit. You're probably already in communication with the unseen. And the fact is everyone is, this isn't like a special thing for just some people. This is for everyone. But like all things, some are more in tune and gifted than others. I am not a numbers person. There's some things that allude me. There's a lot of things that allude me. And how much better is the world when we allow our gifts to be shared as they are instead of trying to make them into something else? Part of this in this dark time is to encourage you, my dark women, my psychic witches, my mediums, my channels, my oracles, all the women of tour the Ry, embrace your gift, embrace your wisdom and your way of knowing, because we need all the ways of knowing.

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I thought my December message was going to be talking to Muireann. Muireann is my she's, she's our Celtic ancestor. She's the Celtic ancestor that I asked for to teach me about my Celtic roots and spirituality and culture. She does, and she's available for everyone. Muireann Muireann is a, she is hag. I love that word, the hag, the crone in the Holy Shit handbook. It was really just beautiful essential threshold to my reconnecting to Celtic root and soul reconnecting to Anam and the ancestors on Mishiike Minisi. He was fantastic. I love him. And so I thought, oh, I'll talk to him. So I did and I decided that it would be good to have that chat be available in the library. So in the Kaan Library, the Cailleach Ken Library is a library of reconnecting.

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It's reconnecting the spirit, it's reconnecting the Celtic roots. It's a library of resources and tools for you to and experience presence here. Experience yourself as a expression of soul in the world of form, and to begin to shift perspective into one of land. And spirit feeds a fusA and it is all in a very Celtic way and rooting on Turtle Island. We do not reconnect to roots on Turtle Island without open arms to indigenous learning and knowledge keepers and learning and being honourable in honourable relationship with land in the people of the land. It's just the way, anyway, all of that's going on in the library. The is like the hag, the witch, the lady of winter. She's a Celtic land goddess. And Ken just means knowing and sharing and learning. It's learning about being a witch. It's the witch library.

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Interestingly, Robin Wild Kimmerer just released Service berry, the Service berry. Oh, it's up there. And it's all about reciprocity and the gift economy in the world and encouraging us to wherever we can begin to practice in a gift economy. Celtic practice has a spiritual gift economy. It's Votive Offerings. Votive Offerings is part of a spiritual gift economy. I wrote about it in Tabhartis Bòid. That's what it means. Tabhartis Bòid is votive offerings. I wrote about it. So check out. I talk about with Murieann, what are votive offerings to Celtic cultural and spiritual practice and how you can use those in your life to come into a more direct personal relationship with land and spirit through reciprocity. What votive offerings are, they are an act of reciprocity in the world. You can do them to ask for things. You can do them in gratitude anyway, check that out in the library. I wrote about them on the website. I honour the world with feed and seed. I am very grateful for land and I love them dearly.

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