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Shine Your Lïght

 Our theme for our December Red Thread Circle was Shine Your Lïght. 

In the Northern Hemisphere, night comes earlier, and light and warmth feel extra precious. Since humans began using fire, tending and keeping it has been a sacred task. In Denmark, the word Hygge is used to denote a cozy, comfortable atmosphere, which often includes firefight, candles, soft and fuzzy fabrics. 

This last summer, with hot winds from the east and dry forests,  Oregon and the NW had many wildfires - there is a fine line between safety and danger!

Some inquiries to ponder: what encourages you and brings you light and hope? Where do you struggle? What encourages you, and gives you hope? What beings feelings of safety?

Shine Your Lïght

  • Take a moment to center, pour a cup of tea, light a candle, tug your Red Thread
  • Work on paper, canvas, your Smashbook or art journal
  • Write several Light words - qualities you hold for yourself and for your community
  • Choose images for these qualities: stars, candles, a hearth or fire circle 
Sun and shapes
The dark is nurturing, and encourages us to rest and replenish. We can bring that dark into the background, around our light. Some of us wrote those words in watercolor or Inktense pencils, and later activated with water.
 
This makes a lovely Neurographic exercise, and is good for cards. Who could you share a little Lïght with?

  • Begin bringing  Neurographic lines around and through your lights 
  • Use different color markers if you wish
  • Round the intersections
  • Observe your body and emotions
  • Make sure lines go to the edges of your paper
  • Circles bring harmony - round any new crossings
Adding color
  • Use the same color in at least three adjacent or nearby cells
  • What words do you associate with nurturing darkness? 
  • Write them in watercolor pencil around the lights - I used several dark colours
  • Observe how your body feels as you draw, as you balance light and dark
  • Add glitter, shimmer, prayer dots, a red line for the RT connection
  • Darker "field lines" help hold the energy of the shifts.
Shining Stars
"From the first rounding of intersections and angles, there is a sense of recreating wholeness, of softening the edges of harsh thoughts; of merging with our greater intentions and better knowing. Of being whole and letting go of fear, of opening to unlimited possibilities."   
 
How will you shine this season? 
How do you bring light into your heart and home?       
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  1. CarynDecember 14, 2020 at 6:29 PM

    So sorry I missed this month, hoping to rejoin in the New Year❣️

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