My Spiritual Windows

When I was a child, on May 1 st of each year, at school streamers were hung in many colors from a tall pole and everyone participated in a May Pole dance around the pole. I knew when I came home that day my mother would have taken muffin papers and filled them with nuts, mints, and candy to distribute to our neighbors. Today, very little is done in regards to May Day, a tradition of another time. Today, Winter Solstice ushered in a period signified by being the shortest day/longest night of the year. In ancient times, Winter Solstice marked a day when the year was concluded, during the time of Winter Solstice people would nurture a new plan of creation into being on the Spring Equinox. A time when ideas/crops were planted and as the ancients understood, allowed to grow corn. Summer Solstice would bring the time of growth, when idea/crops took hold and grew into a harvest. Fall Equinox brought the time of harvesting ideas/corn and storing the abundance/bounty, which had been created.

Once I was given a message by the Elder, on a brisk day in the Earth world an event was to happen which would change the energy of the visitors to the world. Elder, came saying, "Moniko, I wish for you to be my special messenger. The energy over the Earth has become dense; voices of change in the prayers are now creating ripples throughout the universes. Do you desire Moniko to travel to Earth?" As Elder spoke, my own voice paused, thoughts filling my senses of what message I might take to the Earth which would assist in restoring balance. As I found my voice again, like a lightning bolt of energy the words responding to the Elder were "I am already there Elder!" Smiling back, Elder said, "You have learned well Moniko." As the messenger Moniko, you will take the form of the dove. On Earth, the dove is already accepted as a sign of hope and purity, allowing you as the messenger, to be the message easily." Moniko, through the underst