sitting with the Elders

It's that time of year. I always thought Christmas to be truly magical. I am fortunate enough to have very fond memories of childhood Christmases. They were so full of light & anticipation.
I suppose I have got to that age now, as indeed my children have, where Christmas does not have the potency it once had or maybe it has not quite lost it's special charm.
Silver Birch, that very special & famous guide to Maurice Barbanell & now known by so many, tells us that Christmas is a special time in the spirit world. The elders, the wise counsel gather together to discuss our progress as a collective on the physical plane. Their wish is for us to do well & progress.
My deepest wish is that as we head into the forthcoming year that we find the space in our lives to grow & develop as a people but also as individuals.
The only reason we are born is to bring forth our potential, it is that which literally keeps the earth spinning. Part of our potential is our true soul mate, our other half, our divine self, the spirit. Over the years there is a sense that we have become seperated form our soul mate.
Seperation will be & is the biggest cause of our dis-ease, war & the huge sense of lack that stands at the door  of our new promised land.
We can but hope that the Elders in their infinite wisdom shine their eternal love on us & guide us into a new paradigm where we can live as one, not just collectively but within ourselves.

My first Blog. The HIEROPHANT.

Welcome to my first blog!! I am thrilled to be able to be finally up & running & I hope to be able to offer a place that is inspiring & interesting.

This card holds powerful spiritual connotations & indicates a spiritual influence threading through into the overall trends of the day.

It is extraordinary how the choice of a card, drawn randomly from the deck can mirror where we are on the daily matrix.

Today, for example, saw me encouraging charitable activities into my life. I felt it important to balance out the business ego with being able to give of myself simply because I could, in the hope that another may benefit from it.

It's all too easy to speak the spiritual babble but we have to be able to walk our talk, sometimes all this stuff about manifesting our material means can consume the desire to give.

Whilst it is good to be focussed on our physical needs it is also important to feed the soul. We can do this by giving & forgiving, thereby liberating ourselves from the dense earth vibrations that hold us in time & space.

I see the Hierophant as the liberater. He follows the physical builder of civilisations, the Emperor. In order to understand the Hierophant we have to understand the  Emperor, who I see as Ishkendar/Alexander.

If one could imagine that our hero, the Emperor, has built his city, organised it's citizens, trade & commerce, land & possessions & power & hierarchy are at the very heart of all of this. Yet it is not sustainable with out being tempered by a higher consciousness.....enter the Hierophant.

The Hierophant can represent that spark of consciousness that comes to the Earth plane to lift humanity to a higher plane of thinking. Over the centuries we have had various emissaries that have visited this plane, all of them have entered at a time that ensured the endurance of the human race by bringing balance & peace at a time of darkness which required enlightenment.

We could call the Hierophant, al - Hakim, ''the wise, the perfectly wise''.A transcendent essence of illuminating vision & pure spiritual knowledge that irridates the the awakened heart with wisdom.

So, we could see the Hierophant as  genius & revelation. Traditional teaching & spiritual doctrine.

 Everything has shadow & he has to consider a need to be the centre of attention, false piety & the inability to spiritualise over negativity, thereby leading to melancholy & megalamania.

''A wise man is a mercy for the two worlds''.    Rumi.