Gathering wishes?
These are wishes about gathering and about gathering wishes.
This is the 384th week of wishing. Nearly seven and a half years.
A lot is gathered here.
A lot of us have gathered here over the years.
We have gathered to wish wishes and seed seeds, we have gathered to think collectively about the process of wishing, and we have gathered to glow joy and support for each other, to say: oh wow what beautiful wishes…
Into the pot!
What am I adding today to my pot of wishes?
- Standing in my power.
- RESOLVED!
- Companionship.
- Doing what has meaning for me while I still can.
- Time to burn some sage.
- A new metaphor, please.
- Permission abounds.
- Boundaries, speaking of things that bound and abound, I need some.
- Ten Percent Fiercer!
- Extra luck.
- Purpose and Clarity.
- A small village in Italy? Possibly this is just a clue.
- What if [project] can happen so much faster than I think?
- A loving coven of fairy godmothers to blow kisses at my tiny sweet project, pretty sure coven is not the correct right collective noun, but it feels right, so I’m going with it.
What do I know about gathering?
Coming together and bringing together.
I want coming together in the form of companionship, like-minded people (or do I mean like-hearted people?), playmates.
I want bringing together in the form of collecting sparks, excitement, enthusiasm, support, shared passion, shared warmth.
How can we do this?
This week is American Thanksgiving, the loneliest day of the year (for some of us) and the most stressful day of the year (for others of us).
For everyone reading in other countries, I apologize for yet another post centered around what is happening here. I don’t know what to say about that other than that this is where the energy/focus is for me right now, and it is all very intense and overwhelming. Come gather with me/us too, and we will find our way (eventually) to talking about the bigger themes.
Anyway, here is what I am thinking. We need a gathering place. Can we become one?
For everyone who is alone on this day, we need a place to gather, some place away from the endless photos of food and other people’s gatherings.
For everyone who is reminded on this day of the painful history of this country and this holiday, the awful things we did to the native people of this country, and are still doing today in north dakota, everyone feeling the dangerous scary political climate, a place to gather and feel feelings and breathe.
For everyone who is with family at uncomfortable gatherings, anyone who finds themselves expected to politely sit at a table with people who used their vote and their privilege to bring into power the person who thinks it’s perfectly okay to assault women whenever you think you can get away with it, who doesn’t have an answer for how a muslim registry differs from the nazi registry of jews, who is appointing white supremacists to government positions…
I don’t even know what to say about that, I’m sorry that you are going through this, and I want to invite you to my table, my gathering.
You are invited to make use of our secret invisible blanket permission slip generator to invent any excuse to come hang out with us here, even if just for a few minutes when you can! Come by and say hi, drop off a wish, throw a superpower into the pot, take a few breaths, whatever helps…
Secret Invisible Blanket Permission Slips.
Our secret invisible blanket permission slip generator is busy churning out every possible reason for you to leave the table for a much-needed sanity
We have imaginary “work emergencies”, temporary ailments, friend’s cats that need to be urgently checked on. Whatever you need, we have it.
Come gather with us.
What is happening at our gathering?
We are throwing a gathering where we gather together and where we can gather comforting thoughts.
We are gathering wishes — leave as many as you like!
We are invoking superpowers, casting stones (yes, skipping them) and spells.
We can invent magical costumes and secret identities. We can play in any way we want.
My questions…
These are the stones I am skipping:
- If a benevolent panther could give me a training in boundaries and how to restore them, what do I want to know and what does it want to tell me?
- What am I not seeing?
- How can I best take care of myself today?
The gathering knows.
How do we want to gather? What do we want to gather?
What do we want to illuminate?
What happens when we gather together?
Anything else about my wish?
I am noticing that this has been an exceptionally hard year, and the one about to come in is asking for me to be very clear about how I am going to use my powers and when I need to conserve them.
I am noticing that I am very, very tired.
I am noticing that right now with the massive swirling chaotic energy of the world right now (and specifically the internet), I am not highly functional, and I’m pretty sure there are notes about this in the Book of Me. Right. Yes. This does in fact happen every single year.
Adding permission and legitimacy to the pot. Adding spaciousness and rest.
Ah, I see. This is also a wish about gathering strength, gathering in spirit, gathering in retreat in order to respond with powerful conviction.
And it is a wish about progress that happens deep under the surface.
And it is a wish about sanctuary, which is what we do here. We make sanctuary. We change space and we change how we are in our space.
What is a gathering sanctuary?
Maybe that is what I want to investigate next.
I am trusting that this wish, like all the wishes we have wished here, will reveal treasure that I can’t even imagine yet, just through naming it.
Looking forward to discovering what is in here. Looking forward to playing with you.
Invitation: come play with me…
You are invited to share this post and to share many !!!!!! about what is here,
or share appreciation or anything sparked for you while reading…
Deposit wishes, gwishes, superpowers, qualities, ingredients, intel, possibly in code.
Safe space for creative exploration asks us to let go of care-taking and advice-giving.
Wishes are never late because whenever you wish is the right time for wishing.
We remember that people vary and my wishes don’t have to be yours, each process is unique, and this is a good thing.
Here’s how we meet each other’s wishes: with great kindness and appreciation and awe, whispering (and sometimes shouting) oh, wow what beautiful wishes!
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This Elfin Witch (not *too* unlike a fairy godmother) is blowing kisses towards your tiny sweet project.
AND, whilst I’m not in the States (but in a state), I’m deliciously excited about Gatherings! It makes me think of bringing our loving, accepting, welcoming energies all together to create a fiercely loving force to be reckoned with–a gestalt!
Pot Wishes (both personally and globally):
~ safety
~ energy
~ delight
~ Things to Look Forward to
~ Safe and Secure Connections
~ escape
~ Big Ways Forward
~ Anti-Despair Strategies
~ the safety to express All of me
~ unity
~ did I mention Safety?
Sending Safety to those most vulnerable, those most in need of it, alongside cloaks of gentleness and I-Get-It-ness. (This includes myself, as I’m needing waves of this too *smiles ruefully*)
Haha I am also in a state! 🙂 Here’s to those fiercely loving forces! And your excellent pot wishes, may it be so! <3
Shared energy is so good–Companionship! xx
What beautiful wishes! And what a lovely, fierce, magical gathering.
What wishes do I want to throw in the pot?
– Begin From Compassion
– Carrying only what is mine to carry
– But also Carrying Together?
– Hm, let’s restate these wishes: Carrying Alone Only What Is Mine Alone To Carry; Carrying Together What We Share
In this chaotic energy I have noticed so much pain in the emotions that live in my legs, and I’m wondering how much of this is mine and how much of this is the world. And OF COURSE my legs are carrying this like they carry all of me. Thank you, legs, but you can let this go now.
Superpowers I Would Like:
– Glowing Powerful Boundaries
– Fierce and Kind and Fiercely Kind
– Safe and Loved
And I would like to invoke something about my fingertips and that it is safe to touch, to reach out to myself and to reach out to others, but I don’t have a clever name for it yet so I’ll just let it percolate in my mind and float up to the stars. All my love to everyone at this wonderful gathering.
Fabulous superpowers! May it be so x
My voice teacher/reiki person, treating my unusually aching legs, said that everyone is coming in with leg complaints. Bearing the burden? Wanting to run away?
Sending extra luck your way, Havi.
Sending extra luck to everyone here who wants or would like some!
Throwing into the wish pot:
– extra luck
– clarity and compassion and the articulation thereof
– health & healing, on and on. Vitality.
– space and spaciousness, and flow for the insides
– patience for this day and for the shopping season and the shopping holiday and for the glums that tint it all
<3 × infinity for this.
Popping in quickly to sprinkle some magical ingredients into the pot…
…cozy naps!
…favorite songs!
…delicious aromas!
…a sky filled with stars!
I am now applying a salve that smooths and soothes away crankiness. Help yourself, if you wish; there's plenty.
I shall return… *tiptoes away*
I am gwhispering a gwish to have deep, rich, beautiful dreams while I sleep tonight, and to wake inspired.
Thank you for this wonderful, magical space!
I recently wished for the SuperPower of Reality Vision, and I leave it here beside the pot rather than throwing it in, with a cautionary note, like you would have for VERY hot chili powder – careful with this stuff!!
Also throwing in,
– The Power of Just Getting On With It
– May Kindness Prevail
– Phoenix Energy
Blowing witchy kisses from the wilds of Hergest Ridge to everyone’s tiny sweet wishes!
I am a Fairy Godmother! Well known for it. Blowing kisses to you and your project, Havi. And at everyone else’s projects and wishes!
What am I wishing for this week? Something about deshouldifying and deurgentising, I think. I’d like to get better at doing nothing, feel more comfortable with empty space.
Related: if there happened to be a purple candle (proxy!), I would be happy to buy a box of matches and light the purple candle. But I can’t find a purple candle, and I don’t think I can afford the wax and the dye and the special saucepans and whatever else it is one needs to make purple candles.
I would like: a) to find an existing purple candle; or, b) for someone else, having learned of my desire to light a purple candle, to make purple candles for themself and for me; or, c) to discover that I am mistaken about my budget for candle-making equipment; or, d) some other solution that allows me to light a purple candle.
And I would like the superpower of knowing what I need.
*breathes deeply*
I am glad to be in this space and at this gathering–thank you, Havi!
Superpowers I’d like to invoke and add to the pot:
• The superpower of Savoring All Healthy Pleasures,
• The superpower of Finding Unexpected Strength and Bravery Within Ourselves,
• The superpower of Wisely Choosing when and how to Act in the World AND when and how to Replenish and Attend to Our Own other Needs,
• The superpower of Exploring Toward Good New Possibilities, EVEN THOUGH, and
• The superpower of Wisely and Carefully Deploying PERSISTENT Good Will.
These, or things that are even better!
For anyone who might be interested, I’ve started collecting links related to the current political situation in the USA, including resources for care of self and others, suggestions for political action, and more. Anyone who would like to have a look at it can find it at http://light-of-summer.livejournal.com/285100.html . Recommended protective gear: crown and forcefield.
*another deep breath*
Sending good wishes to all!
Thank you for the link collection. I hope to live up to the commitment of the safety pin, but I pray that I will not have to because Nothing Dire Happens.
Thank YOU for letting me know that the links collection reached you!
Morning! Blowing kisses and fairy dust all over.
i am very grateful that T’giving is not the bleak brown stressful day it once was for me. I am enjoying this day a lot more than ever, but I can still feel the lonely and the stress. Not a fan.
Wishes past and present:
-well this week, Operations Scary Sequin, Natasha and Bianca Jaguar all intersected and coalesced and it was Big Healing Joy. Not only did i achieve a lifelong dream (i named this month the Moon of Dreams and Wishes), but now this is something I am, not soemthing I want to be. the healing is profound, and i am so happy
-which also strengthened the foundation of a creative life i am trying to support and make be real. which i have not even named til now, it’s so tiny and soft
-but i know it’s about living in the Treehouse, and it’s about Quarters, because the Autumn Lodge is built for art making
-lots of worries and stresses have departed because i stopped feeding them.
-i got a serious clue about a new Op called sexypants
Coming In:
-the new Best Practices includes more refinements in the diet and exercise pieces. I’ve integrated some good changes, and i see the enxt steps: eliminate beef, lots more juicing, more veggies.
— i need moy own SlowMotion Training Montage.
-the art is really deepening but i what i need is better systems for keeping track and stay active. it’s great top have so many projects, but it also gets paralyzing. how can i keep moving to the next thing? how i can keep moving from one finished thing to the next thing? transitions, evlautions–how do i keep moving forward.
– what’s next for the Meetup, and faor my practice in general? it’s time to step up the work for Pcon
-also 2017? what’s our work there? I know it’s about increasing skills, creating more stability and strength in the homestead and in myself.
-i cant even sort out what to do next about the election and its aftermath. i am trying so hard not to give into despair, but the ways all the Game Rigging is showing up here, i have to stay mindful that tearing off after each new target of outrage–oh such a target-rich environment–is not the answer
-exquisite self-care and safety first
-I know what to do Next. Breathe, have tea, and move onto the next thing.