My sister recently suggested that I watch the popular movie, The Conjuring, which is supposedly a true story about a property possessed by all sorts of demonic forces. I was game.
I liked the movie, but it didn't scare me in the way that my sister had prepared me for. I told her my feelings, that as Marianne Williamson says, "The Devil is all in your head, and that's the worst place he can be." I told her that this paranormal ghost-busting stuff has largely been a disappoint to me; I have visited and even slept in supposedly haunted buildings and seen nothing (and I was looking!). I get no response from the Ouija board. What has happened to me is information in dreams, premonitions, and flashes of loved ones gone. Blessings with my tarot career and a keen insight that my clients rave over. Good things. I have come to the conclusion that this is because I choose to live in the light.
I told my sister that I thought the Ed Warren demonologist character in The Conjuring was able to do the exorcism because he knew simply that he was a positive force, acting out of love and truth, in the best interest of the people in the home. The Warrens had their moments of being scared, sure. They are human, and occasionally they looked at the darkness. It happens. Occasionally, the floor between the walls did fall out beneath them. But overall they stayed in a place of truth and love and that rode them through it. The Warrens never really felt terror, did they?
I was on Facebook last night. One of my animal rescue friends posted a photo of a dog that had died in the cold weather, frozen and neglected. It was horrible to see, and as can be expected, there was a rash of comments spewing hatred to the neglectful owners, and crying out in helplessness about our terrible world. It is so very easy to go there. To feed the darkness and let it swallow you up.
I want to encourage you not to. If we slip into that dark place of despair, we ARE building that dark force. Call it the Devil or whatever you want to. Last night on Facebook, I chose in that moment to concentrate on what good things I have done personally to make this world a better place. In my lifetime, I have saved a bunch of cats. I have four now, after having just lost a beloved one to cancer. I have given these cats a good life in my little corner of the world. I donate to charities that help animals and people. I help people in need, and I share my blessings as I can. I do my part. That is something, and while it is not healing the world on a grand scale, you can bet it matters to the lives I touch. There is still some goodness and some beauty in the world, if we want to look for it. Every day, it is our decision if we want to turn our head to the news, perhaps, and watch the wars and horror, watch the economy slip down the drain, and mire ourselves in the negative as we feel so utterly powerless and helpless. Or, we can say, "What positive thing can I do today? How can I make my little corner of the world better?"
My sister is facing some hard times, and she said that when she went to bed last night, she heard my voice telling her that I know nothing evil can beat me, because I'm aligned with goodness. And she knew right then and there that this was true for her as well. That any bad-ass problem or person that comes her way is just a thing, and she can focus on that and let it make her miserable, or she can put her energy into correcting what she can. In conjuring love and truth and positivity in the way that she can change the lives of those around her.
I told her that I would put a tarot card down for her, to guide her day today. It was the Nine of Cups, reversed. This card was a gift to me too. It is a card that says not everything is perfect, but there are still some good things to remember. It is a card of gratitude and attitude. It is a card that knows that our outcomes are direct results of what we conjure.
Keep looking to the light, even if we can't always live there in every second.
3 comments:
I really liked your statement about doing positive, healing works, rather responding to situations like that your friend posted about animal abuse by succumbing to the temptation to spew abuse/ criticism of others. When we do that, we operate out of a place of brokenness and despair over our perceived feelings of powerlessness, fostering a knot of negative energy, trapping itself within us and blocking our source of blessing in the Universe. Responding to negative events with positive, healing works,not only is not only a blessing in that it protects our own internal source of light, but generates outward, exponentially, creating a chain reaction through those we touch. Way to "Be the Light!"
I really liked your statement about doing positive, healing works, rather responding to situations like that your friend posted about animal abuse by succumbing to the temptation to spew abuse/ criticism of others. When we do that, we operate out of a place of brokenness and despair over our perceived feelings of powerlessness, fostering a knot of negative energy, trapping itself within us and blocking our source of blessing in the Universe. Responding to negative events with positive, healing works,not only is not only a blessing in that it protects our own internal source of light, but generates outward, exponentially, creating a chain reaction through those we touch. Way to "Be the Light!"
Praying for your sister.
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