everything’s hitched to everything else

John Muir wrote that if you tug on something, you’ll find it’s hitched to everything else in the universe…and that would include you…and me…and the church of the asshole neighbors.

Everything is connected to everything else.

Everything is part of everything else.

Everything has energy.

Everything has spirit or consciousness.

still with me?

Or, as the Beatles put it, “I am he and you are we and I am she and we are altogether” or something along those lines:

Everything has energy.

Some energy feels good: we desire it, we feel good in it; feeling good give us energy and sustains us. Positive energy creates more positive energy.

Some energy doesn’t feel good: it makes us uncomfortable. Even if we don’t know why, we don’t want to be around it; negative energy saps our energy, makes us feel bad. Negative energy creates more negative energy.

Being surrounded by members of the church of the asshole neighbors for many years now has created so much negative energy that it has become debilitating; it has sapped my energy to the extent that I am having difficulties balancing their negative energy with our positive energy, and finding it downright impossible to find the energy to right their wrongs (for example, to provide the DA’s office with information they need to enforce the restraining order, to provide my insurance company with the information they need to determine if they will file a motion to enforce a settlement agreement, to help the city enforce code violations by my neighbors which are impacting my property etc). In addition, this toxic energy has impacted negatively on my relationships with my family, my friends, and my employer.

What to do?

Positive energy can be created, evoked through prayers and rituals; making positive energy can be as easy as making love, lighting a candle, sharing a hug, expressing positive and hopeful ideas.

Sometimes more powerful rituals are needed, rituals which will protect a home and its inhabitants from the negative energy raging around it (failing hillsides, drug deals, trespassing, fights).

The two days prior and the three days following a lunar eclipse are particularly powerful days for creating change, for changing energy. It is a time of flux, a time of energy balancing, a time for cleansing, reflection, renewal. Energies run high and powerful.

We are using the energy set in motion to cleanse, to replace undesirable energy with desirable energy, to replace hatred, anger and fear with love, love, love. We cleansed the house in the hour before the eclipse with white sage and love. Four of my closest friends and my sister “smudged” the house, inside and out, by burning white sage leaves which banishes negative energy. Smoke was wafted across doors, windows, mirrors, the perimeters and then into the center of rooms. Windows and mirrors outside, and the outside perimeter of the house was smudged, so that inside and outside, from floor to ceiling, had been touched with smoke and cleansed. Finally, we smudged a roll of string and wrapped it around the perimeter of the house, and part of our property, particularly in contested areas (where a neighbor assaulted me and where he cut into our fences and gates) as a circle of protection.

***From the Element of Fire Comes this smoke,

which is Air.

From the Element of Earth Grows this plant,

which is Water.

I call upon the Elements and the Blessings of Spirit

To please cleanse our home

For the good of all.***

While this is a lovely rite which I found online at ambrosia’s website , we kept our intention simple and focused on banishing hate and bringing in love, with the emphasis on having loving thoughts and feelings.

more soon…