The Mystical Eighth
THE BIG IDEA
After almost two full months of inner work, self adjustment, visioning, softening, bargaining, praying and outright begging for the life and world you want to experience, it is time to take an official spiritual vacation day.
According to the Torah Omens, this Friday night is the most favorable time of the year to kick up your heels and chill out with the divine. The mystical eighth day, ‘shemini atzeret’ is a true spirit day.
Sense into the feeling of completion, relax into your renewed spiritual connection, trust in the annual spiritual process to renew you, (and an entire spiritual nation) at cellular level. Find an extra burst of joy there. As the torah is re- wound to the first thoughts of creation, allow yourself to believe in a time before your ‘stories’ about yourself existed and, like the torah, start on an entirely fresh page.
This is the blessing, thanks Moses.
P.S. This week we also bury Moses, our greatest spiritual teacher. If you can, take a moment to thank him for bringing down the tools of spiritual renewal and alignment into our conscious grasp… despite how much we continue to complain about it all….
START OVER…
Overlapping with The Mystical Eighth Day (shemini atzeret) is Simchat Torah - a day dedicated to celebrate the physical torah.
If you have the patience and energy, try to find a gathering of people traditionally celebrating the torah. You might want to go close and see the letters, you might want to hold it in your arms and dance, you might want to simply tap into the celebratory energy that surrounds the day. Whatever you are called to do, invite yourself into the consciousness of consciousness, and it’s process of absolute renewal; of literally rewinding the scroll and together, starting the story again. Try your best, to do sense into that literal renewal process and apply it to your own life story.
Feel yourself re-started. Totally forgiven, totally blessed, a thought waiting to form.
Step out of the sukkah and this holiday cycle, and into your totally new being.
Shabbat shalom and Happy Everything!!!!