Here is the companion post to "This is an Act of Love". Here is where I'm going to meditate on all that I'm thankful for in my life. I'll try not to make it too long, as the aim of this blog is not to advertise my own life, but help you manage and understand your own.
I urge you all to meditate on what you're thankful for in your lives, and take the time out to write it down somewhere, and contemplate in silence the total mystery and wonder of being, and being happily.
I have to say, I don't really advocate measuring up happiness against a backdrop of personal and other-personal sorrow.
You know, like, when people say, "Be thankful for what you have, because someone else is dying right this instant."
It's a downer, and it kills the fun and happiness of that moment when you're supposed to be communicating with the Universal Power through your core.
Rather, I advocate being thankful, for the sake of it.
Just be thankful. Don't overanalyze it. It's a simple state of being. You just have to thank to reach that state :) That's the only requirement.
Again, I would like to urge you to write it all down. I find that writing stuff down cements it as a reality somewhere outside of your brain. It's the proof that you're really thankful, as for some of us it may be difficult to even get words of thanks off the tips of our tongues, especially if they aren't meant. So please, make this written-down prayer of thanks your credit card voucher, your proof of purchase, whatever you want to make it out to be.
I wish you a Sunday full of love and compassion for yourselves and the people around you.
Without further ado, here it goes:
- I am thankful for the love of my God, and my love and rediscovery of Him every time that I stray, come back, then stray again, from the path of expressing my own spirit.
- I am thankful for the love and health of my mother, as she is the one woman who has ever really understood me without having to be told what I am. Well, she understands me as much as anyone can understand me, and for that, I am thankful. (My mother is a brave, fiery Sagittarian-Lioness. Me being an Aquarian-Virgoan, we definitely have our tiffs, but we keep learning so much from one another. I miss you yelling at me, Mama. But even more, I miss yelling back.)
- I am thankful for the love that my friend Carl gives me so selflessly and trustingly. He really makes me feel like I have somebody in the world, who sees the same rainbow and believes in the future of dreams. Thank you so much. (Carl is a Gemini. You can see why we get along so effortlessly.)
- I am thankful towards my dear friend Bruna; I have a lot to thank her for. The stories she lets me read before anyone else, and snapping me back to reality when I need it, and just all the dreams and love we've shared, and shall continue to share, with God's blessing. (Bruna is a Libran, the most compatible sign for an Aquarius. Gemini is a freakishly close second.)
- I am thankful for the month of August, which I got to spend in isolation for the most part, reading, polishing up my dreams, and meditating in the heat of the Mediterranean summer. I loved it.
- I am thankful for my helpful neighbor B., who always makes himself useful without being asked and has made the paperwork parts of living in Prague a whole lot easier since I've been here. Thanks, B., I'm picking up your skills. (B. is a Pisces.)
- I am thankful for all the friendly faces I've become acquainted with in Prague. I'm happy that I'm getting along with people and communicating as much as possible.
- I am thankful for the love I have discovered latent within myself, towards myself. That is perhaps the greatest gift of all. It's given me a lot of inner peace.
- I'm thankful for my dream more or less coming true.
- I'm thankful for the music I get to sing and all the emotions and thoughts I release through that process.
- I'm thankful for the books I'm reading and the new points of view I'm discovering.
- I'm thankful for good food, and handsome men.
- I'm thankful for my "Aquarius" mug.
- I'm thankful for my nice smile, and my glib manner, and my eyes, which have never failed me at making a man want to cradle me in his arms.
- I'm thankful for my one true love, H., for letting me go, and giving me the permission to set myself free. You're someone who I loved for a long time, and love still, but it's better for us to be distant from one another, and let the course of life move us in different directions. I'm thankful that you're beautiful and sweet and happy, which is what we both deserve to be (H. is another Aquarius. Dear me!)
- I'm thankful for the day, and that's there nothing I really have to do right about now.
- I'm thankful for the past flames of my young life. Thank you for teaching me that I'd much rather remain celibate than have to act a certain way every day that isn't fully who I am. Thank you for outraging my ideals, so that I could learn to hold on to them even harder. Thank you for teaching me what it really takes to love someone productively. Thank you for teaching me the joys of submitting to a man. Thank you for letting me use you as lab rats on various occasions. Thanks for the kisses, that made me feel even more lonely than I was prior. But more than anything, thanks for the ideas you enabled me to think of. Yeah, just thanks, I guess.
- I'm thankful for my vacillating mind - if that wasn't the case, I'd turn into a fossil, always thinking about memories.
- I'm thankful that I genuinely feel for other humans on a personal level, and yet see the forest beyond the trees.
- I'm thankful for all of this. It's surreal, and it still feels like a dream. I guess I'm thankful for that above all else.
It isn't about ego, it's about loss of ego.
Happy Sunday, friends! Feel free to e-mail me your astrology questions, and any spiritual or romantic qualms you may be having. My gmail is bemgcasrbaquarian@gmail.com
Signed, your friendly Water Bearer.
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