The Yurt at Yule

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I thought I would start a winter yurt thread. So here is the yurt being decked with evergreens and alight with candles. A fire in the library is casting flickering shapes on Gothicmamas purple plush sofas and squishy beanbags and a low table is laid for tea.

Outside the forest is quiet and hung with drops of moisture and ready for the first snow to lay along the branches of the trees. The lake will be frozen in time for mid winter when we can go skating and the grasses of the prairie are rustling and frosted.

Lovely - you forgot the odd Yule spider lurking in the tree...

Ah the spiders are spinning their webs still thank you for that reminder. I have made a big pile of old wood from the trees which I will burn on the solstice and am making candles with the children in jewel like colours ready to welcome the sun.

FrivolentDemon am I the odd spider in the tree, look closer its a butterfly

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Skating sounds nice. Think my skates will be PyroPaps that spark as I skate, bringing heat and theatre to the cold nights

Ah Paps. How are you?

Today I sorted out candles for the tree made out of coloured wax by the children and each a different jewel colour.

I am crap Glitter, but its a phase and am working on erasing the phase over time.

I have been discovering the"soul" in a deeper way, my tiger and bear take me on a journey that is slow, difficult and insightful. We stop and visit friends as we go and learn, practice and give.

Candlemaking with the children here too as the local park as a wee hut where you can make a lovely candle

I am now wondering if Cod is lurking as she posted same time as me on another thread

might as well speak my mind

Sorry you are feeling crap Paps and the best jounreies where we learn the most (I find anyway)are the hardest.

Durr dyslexia sets in journies!

I should have emailed you really and told you I that I have not been feeling up to Yurt activities. Just have not been feeling very communicative and abit protective.

Facing the issues is helping and getting good results

Perhaps we should head off together today to the bubbling brook of desires and get pampered and filled with joyous bubbles of power and strength x

No problem my life is problematic and I find being here very soothing as I consider possibilities not open to me in rl!

Take care Paps and enjoy life it takes a lot of strength to see the downs as positive but I have found so much out about myself and who I am and whilst it has been painful have enjoyed the results.

Humans are expert at down and experimentally changeable at up! I am not one to sit on my arse, nor head in sand. But it does take courage to face all that we are and are not.

A mate has just introduced this insight to me which says it all really!! Avidya

It is interesting Paps. I hvae heard about it through the budhist stuff I read and the letting go and not being into ego is very hard.

Oh hello I am baffled by a sentence on Wilkipedia which says "Avidy? is a lack of knowing, and can be associated with intention"

I wonder what they mean exactly by intention??

Off to wonder in the long grass in search of intentions!

most of it is baffling but perhaps that is why they do it. I often find that anything spiritual/religious has to be made more difficult and the cynic in me wonders if that is because if we worked it out too easily we would know it was nonsense.

Am reading Richard Dawkins so that may be it and he seem pretty simple to understand. He does not include budhism in religions whihc is good as he says it is a philosophy whihc again I agree with.

Anyway am off to the hot pools for a soak and then for a ride and later nail bar methinks for a relaxing pedicure and new look!

perhaps they are referring to daily actions and activities that come from our thoughts. Spiritual intention is generally aiming at being aware. Guess I see and use the word intention differntly from how they refer to it.

Glad to hear you are reading good stuff. I am reading a soul mate book atm - in a spiritual rather than therapy driven ethos. Quite fascinating and a good way to see bigger pictures rather the speck on the lint!.

Your new look is very foxy mama - it has inspired me to head to the same place for deluxe pampering

Then drinks on the deck to discuss Melsy´s search for a soul group

morning Papillon - sorry to see you've been feeling low. I've been looking into intention myself recently (in an "action follows thought" kind of way) you may find this book this interesting

Thanks Iris and nice to "see" you

Hello guys am going into yurt mode this weekend and hiding in here for the duration!

Cool Yurt girl guide stakeout.... I have a nice stash of herbals for baking and blowing elaborate smoke rings akin to Gandolf ship designs. Also learnt lovely eye mediation yesterday at Pixie Pilates so we can get out the gongs and bells and go into clock eyed state of being!

Off to the kitchen to bake with the elves - will be back later for scrumptious brunch of hash browns, field mushrooms and stuffed tomatoes. I feel like a Yurt fry up

Yeh Paps that sounds great and an energy booster is required for me at the moment. Also this time of year can sap energy I find. THe darkness and cold and wet here can take away positive energy. So today after my brunch may dose in front of Gothicmamas fire in the library and see pictures in the huge fire which burns there.

Breakfast was a good start to the day, did you enjoy the Chi Ball session - a way to fill up our energy

I am coming up to the Library now with goodies for the fire picture ceremonies. I see a glowing ember which dances slowing, calm in itself, delighting in the self, smiling a secret warm smile full of abundance. The fire brings us out of our cold places and reminds us to reconnect to this sacred gift of heat.

mmmm good cookie

LOL Paps!Busy busy in rl but here am toasting my feet by GMs fire! Look forward to a good chat later in a mellow evening sort of way. I also enjoyed the breakfast and the CHi balls which were new to me.

Well it was lights out for me very earlier, the ds cookie would not go to sleep and I managed to nod off while waiting for him to zzzzz !

Hope you had a good evening and are looking forward to enjoying the Kahuna Bodywork massage lined up for this afternoon. Don´t forget to wear flowers in your hair

I have a completely over the top gerbera in my hair now red and beautiful! Hope you got some sleep paps!

Am in a manic mood today adn need some calming tea.

Delightful concotions of tea are my speciality - I have a wonderful teapot that serves the world and those who are in it. I will mix an infusion of valerian, camomile, rosehip and sweet wood roots. It is mellow and lets the mind unwind from oppression and gives the breathe space to breath.

Am quite tired from a childrens party this afternoon, so feel the urge to climb into my Bongian thistledown nest and slumber into the night kitchen