"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." — Robert Louis Stevenson
November is one of the most beautiful months of the year in the southern hemisphere. The cold should be gone and the summer's intense heat has not yet arrived. The
trees and grass are green. The birds are building their nests and the first crops in my garden have begun to sprout. Well that is ideal anyway. A bit different to what we have been having with the East Coast sweltering and the South Island in snow on the same day.
November, a month that has the birth of Prince Charles (1948), the Mariner 9 the first spacecraft to orbit another planet reached Mars (1971) and the Social Security Amendment Act introduced the Domestic Purposes benefit to our social welfare system (1973) among other historic happenings.
For me a most important historic event in November took place at Parihaka in 1881 when a combined force of 1500 armed constabulary advanced on a small township and arrested passive-resistance leaders Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi. People were evicted and their homes destroyed. Now it is the venue for the Annual Parihaka Peace Festival. I find thinking on Parihaka and peace much more helpful than celebrating Guy Fawkes.
It is said that November and its pensive lunar phase shines a spotlight on the darkest, most cluttered corners of our inner self and asks us to look back at the things we might want to change.
November is a time for transformation, a time to release energy that has bogged us down, a way to move forward and find forgiveness.
My Angels remind me that releasing this energy, transforming and moving forward is never easy. I know that real transformation requires me to be very honest and that means to get real with myself first and know that everything I seek is right inside of me. Let's ask our Angels to be close as transformation takes place within us.
Arohanui.
Shirley-Joy.
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