This has been a challenging year so far, for me and many I’ve talked with.  So it set me to thinking about happiness.  I tend to be on the serious side, but consider myself to be a mostly happy person.  But lately, not so much.  So I asked myself:  ‘When was the last time I felt truly happy?’

The answer came quickly.  A few weeks ago I took a short trip down to the Oregon Coast for a visit with my older sister and her husband, who live at the south end of Lincoln City close to the Siletz Bay.

This is their wonderful home.

All the windows and a back porch face a small river behind the house.

 

I’m always happy when I’m here, but there’s a particular time on this latest trip I wanted to share. 

I arrived on a Monday in the midst of a huge rainstorm.  Soon after I arrived, we went out to dinner at a restaurant that sits right above the ‘D’ River where it runs into the ocean.  I sat there looking at the ocean through a gray veil of rain.  However, I had a huge smile on my face!

That night I was in bed reading (in the guest apartment over the garage), and the storm really let loose.  The rain pounded and the wind threatened to carry the roof away!  I finally got to sleep and awakened to the gray light of a cloudy early morning.  But it wasn’t raining and the wind was still.

I jumped into my clothes and was down on the beach (a few blocks away) before 7:00 AM.  Even when it’s cloudy or wet the Siletz channel running into the ocean is dramatically beautiful.  And it certainly was that morning.  I took a deep breath and filled all my senses with the ocean magic.  I watched the seals swimming for a while and then headed for the rock beds while the tide was low.

 

Now we come to it – the moment of epiphany, when I realized I was completely and utterly happy in my favorite place, doing one of my favorite things as I bent down and picked up that first shining agate! (The yellowish stone in the left center of this picture.)

 

When one of those times comes together for you, there’s no other way to describe it than pure bliss!  Of course, each of us will find that bliss in their own special time and circumstance, but treasure it and repeat as often as possible or, as Abraham Hicks would say, ‘it’s how to allow well-being’!

In Loving Resonance, Lahrinda

Cooperation, not competition!  That’s the direction so many of us are taking these days.  Walking the path of self-empowerment and being the source for the world we create demands the kind of awareness that leads to this choice.

In keeping with that spirit, I’d like to introduce you to another website all about mandalas.  One day while exploring some of the beautiful mandala products on Zazzle; I discovered Lois Eiler’s store and, subsequently, her home website called Mandala Colors.  In turn, she discovered my Zazzle store and asked if she could feature me and my work in an article on her website.

I was more than happy and appreciative of her request and gave her the ’thumbs-up’.  She created an amazing and very professional article about Symbalas.  Please take a look at her website and the article she produced and enjoy. Mandala Colors.

Thank you, Lois, and the wonderful work you do!

In Loving Resonance,
Lahrinda

We are starting the New Year with some powerful astrological configurations.  I have a background in astrology, but am not a practicing astrologer.  I am a symbolist working from the level of vibration and resonance.  However, having a sun in Capricorn makes it hard to miss all the energies coming this way in that sign. 

Today heralds the New Year with a Lunar eclipse (Moon in Cancer opposite Sun in Capricorn, both squaring Saturn for good measure).  Looking at this configuration from my perspective reveals a beautiful isosceles triangle with a baseline of the parenting axis (Cancer – Capricorn and the Moon – Sun or the mother – father archetypes).  The peak of the triangle is anchored in the Saturnian realm of our perception of reality, which leads us to ask a serious question.  Are we parenting ourselves?  Are we truly integrating the mother/father axis and embracing ourselves and our view of others with a connected wholeness?  Are we releasing old stereotypes?  Are we able to see with the large golden eyes of a 10 foot tall, blue ‘Avatar’?  By the way, I recommend that movie from the depths of my being!

Let’s talk a bit more about this powerful triangle which is introducing our New Year, 2010, a ’3′ year!  A triangle is the first form possible in geometry and embodies the creative principle.  So the question now becomes:  are we living our lives from a place of wholeness, immersed in the creativity of doing what we love and knowing that our passion is the key to universal resonance?  A powerful thought for a powerful New Year!  Speaking for myself, I say ‘YES’!  And I wish you a spiraling Symbala and Happy New Year!

In Loving Resonance,

Lahrinda