5555

5555 day: a free write poem
Fifth month.
Fifth day.
Fifth day of the week.
and the year '23 equals 5 in numerology.
Transformation and clarity.
Fully moon in Scorpio.
AND a lunar eclipse.
Deep change in pursuit of desires.
Forward motion energy.
It's quite literally written in the stars.

Something I have learned about myself is that everything becomes an alter; an offering of gratitude and love to honor myself, my ancestors and the Most High. Yesterday, I made coffee and surrounded the mug with crystals, literature, my journal and all of my intention as I offered gratitude for the blessing of the ritual flowing through me. Direct, Divine Guidance steers me. 

I also finished reading "The Pilgrimage" by Paulo Coelho. It took me six days to read, but it felt like months. Reading these words felt like I was on the same timeline as the journey the writer was traveling during his pilgrimage, and caused me to reflect often on my own journey. I found myself asking myself, 
what does it mean to come back home to yourself?
My answer has not yet fully formulated, as I am still walking the path, but I am learning that traveling the roads of my inner landscape is a beautiful adventure. The pitstops are enjoyable and challenging while offering many lessons to learn. I get the same feelings of excitement that arise when preparing for a trip, but while I am traveling I continue to realize that the journey never has to end. 
I am learning that homesickness doesn't exist when you are already home. 

(Some) Favorite Quotes from The Pilgrimage:

"Time isn't something that always proceeds at the same page. It is we who determine how quickly time passes."

"I could always be reborn, as many times as I wanted, until my arms were long enough to embrace the earth from which I had come."

"When you are moving towards an objective it is very important to pay attention to the road. It is the road that teaches us the best way to get there, and the road enriches us as we walk it's length."

"Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you."

"God's only form of punishment is to make someone who interrupts a work of love continue it."

"When we love and believe form the bottom of our heart, we feel ourselves to be stronger than anyone in the world, and we feel a serenity that is based on the certainty that nothing can shake our faith."

"If you were able to levitate yourself, you would not have had a problem. But you anted to be brave, when it was enough to have been intelligent." 

"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."

"In order for agape to flourish, I must not be afraid to change my life. If I like what I was doing, very well. But if I did not, there was always the time for a change. If I allowed change to occur, I would be transforming myself into a fertile field and allowing the Creative Imagination to sow its seeds in me."

"The only way to make the right decision is to know what the wrong decision is. You have to examine the other path, without fear and without being morbid, and then decide."

"Everything is contained in sounds-the past, the present, and the future. The person who does not know how to listen will never hear the advice that life offers us all the time. And only the person who listens to the sounds of the moment is able to make the right decisions."

"When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward."

"The miracle of transforming what you do into what you believe in."

"I am walking in order to see the story of my rebirth published."

Views from my journal space: