Magic, Whimsy and a Goodbye

My writing this week has a touch of the mystical and fun in it. So welcome to the fun and joy I feel in the journey.

For months now I have been feeling a longing for some story, movie, offering to bring me to a place of the mystical, imaginal and magical. This feeling has been so strong at times I have felt it like a homesickness, a deep longing in my heart for a returning to something I love. Or a moving forward to…. The images that have come with the feeling are of sitting in a rosewood lined library with all the ancient wisdom and inspiration flowing around, in and through me. Each book in this library is filled with a deep resonance of its wisdom. Each word, sentence, paragraph and chapter carries this resonance and it permeates my being when I need exactly what the book has to offer and inspires me to the future when I need inspiration.

“I do believe in an everyday sort of magic — the inexplicable connectedness we
sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like;
the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity;
the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone.”
― Charles de Lint

The feeling was so strong this week I started asking. I shared my feeling with friends and asked if this feeling reminded them of a book, movie or something they could recommend.

Synchronicity & Following Threads

Some wonderful friends suggested books that lead to other great finds.

And

James C. Christensen* my favourite artist posted on his Facebook page a link to a movie made from one of his books of paintings called “The Voyage of the Unicorn”. Taking this as a sign I watched and guess what? You guessed it. The library in the ship is a rosewood lined library with magical books.

And

I taught my Counselling Hypnotherapy class and was offered a gift of a magical journey from one of my new colleagues. He took me on a journey to the place I described above. That is the joy of hypnotherapy, you can journey anywhere.  Well I did and guess what I found. Remember that character I told you about in my last blog? He came to visit me in my journey. I held him in my hand and could see every knob, muscle, horn and wing this little fellow possessed. The characters in my stories really are coming alive for me and living within me.

That lead me to some more threads and offerings. Tonight as I sat down to do a Way of the Heart™  integration I was offered two things that helped to develop his personality and characteristics more deeply.

Feng Shui II™ took me to the Wabi-Sabi House. Wabi-Sabi is the Japanese art of appreciating the imperfect, primitive and incomplete. Appreciating the beauty of things as they are at this moment. Finding the beauty in what seems ordinary.
Which was so much fun because as I had this little Dragon in my hand I could see all his beauty, imperfections and primitive nature.

Which lead me to my next gift from Feng Shui I. The question it took me to was: “Do you care what others think of you?” While I was writing of my journey through my life around caring what others think about me, I had an inspiration.

What if this little bull dog of a dragon did not care what others thought. He knew his heart so well “what others thought” was just “what others thought” and he could kindly not care.

This week has been one of following threads and listening to inspiration through the filter of writing my book, developing characters and filling in the world I am creating. I just love using my Way of the Heart™ manuals to help me write my stories and explore myself.

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the
greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

The magical, mystical, alchemical, glorious adventure visited me this week in many ways and I am learning to trust, deepen my faith and open to the unknown.
Thanks so much dear Mystery.

 I have come to drag you out of yourself, and take my heart.
I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had
and lift you like a prayer to the sky.

Rumi

*I found out some very sad news this week. James Christensen passed away in
early January. I truly want to honour this man, the great joy and whimsical beauty
that he brought to my life through his art. It is so fascinating to feel that I will miss
somebody who I didn’t really know, yet felt I knew through his art and through the
colour and magic that he shared with me and the world.
Thank you James, may your journey be blessed.
You will find one of his whimsical paintings below.