From Chez Piñata,
I'm Colleen Thomas.
This is daily magic for peace.
Today we will honor the magic of family.
Welcome to the circle.
Today all you need is a family photo.
This could be chosen family or biological family and if you don't have a photo around,
It's fine to just picture one of your favorite photos or even just a favorite moment with your favorite people.
I welcome you here.
I am so glad you're joining us in circle today.
I invite you to take a breath and take your seat and release anything you don't need to think about for the next few minutes.
As we get started today,
I'm going to invite you into a heart experience of visualizing somebody that you really love.
This could be a person.
This could be an animal.
This could be just anybody that you might miss or you really love and imagine that they're right in front of you and imagine looking into their eyes.
Just let yourself fall into their eyes.
Fall into the love that you see in their eyes for you,
The love that they have for you,
The love they are showing you.
Just allow yourself to melt into that love and notice your heart and allow that love to go all the way into your heart,
Allowing your heart to expand and grow and be calmed and empowered and brightened.
And as you are ready,
I invite you to take a breath with me.
And as we let go of this loved one,
Let's connect in with our grounding cord and our bubble space.
Notice what your space is like,
Your bubble space as you ground,
As you connect down to the earth.
Also feel into the space that's two to three feet around you on every side and see if you want to smarten it up a little bit,
Maybe clean out any energy that's not yours or smooth the edges of it,
Just making it exactly what you need.
And when you're ready,
I invite you to take another breath.
So we just did a quick experience of connecting with the heart and getting nice and grounded,
Adjusting our bubble space.
Now let's turn to our photo or the image in our mind of being with family.
We're going to talk about family in two ways today.
First,
Holding family the way we are empowered and enlivened and recharged through our connection to family.
And also sending out prayers and magic for the people in Ukraine and Russia to be extra connected to the magic of family right now.
So first,
Just starting in us,
Within us,
Noticing whatever connections we have with our family.
They can be a mixed bag.
Family can be a mixed bag.
So we want to invite in and welcome in any mixed feelings that might be here.
And as you sort through all these feelings,
I invite you to see if you can find any that are positive,
Finding those positive feelings that hopefully are there for you of the connection to these people,
These people that tell you that you belong and you matter and they care about you and that their life would be less than without you.
So that feeling of belonging,
Just see if you can feel it in your body.
What does it feel like to walk into a room of these people if that happens to you and they're just like,
Hey,
You're here and you just,
There's no question,
You're part of the group,
You're welcome,
You belong.
This is a magical thing,
Especially because as humans,
We are so interconnected and we need interconnection to be healthy.
We need interconnection to be vibrant.
So just taking a moment to notice where you have that in your life and pausing to give some gratitude for that and maybe letting it soak in to your awareness and your body.
What does it feel like to notice that?
And now opening up to any guides or guardians that you work with and the numinous goddesses or gods and inviting them to kind of come into that feeling and enliven it even more,
Make it a little brighter,
Make it a little more powerful because now let's go ahead and share that.
Let's send out our connection to that magic of family out to the folks in Ukraine and Russia and send some of that to them because we know that the family structure is taking such a hit right now and there is grief and there is destruction and there is lack of communication and there is separation happening.
And while we can't fix that,
Maybe we can send some of the love and the connection that we are feeling over to the people there.
And in this process,
I think it's important to make room for our own grief because even though most of us are probably separate from the front lines and the direct losses,
It is such a grief to be witnessing what is happening.
So any grief you are feeling today,
I welcome that to the circle.
We're big enough to hold that.
There is room for all of you and you can connect in with these helpers who help you to send this love.
And this is our prayer and our magic today to send this beauty,
This belonging,
This caring and this connection and this deep,
Deep gratitude for the magic of family,
Sharing it out,
Sending it out toward Ukraine and Russia.
And just allowing it to go,
Maybe wiggle your fingers and allow it to just leave and go where it needs to go,
Trusting it will go exactly where it needs to go.
And I thank you so much for joining me in this bit of magic today.
May it be so.
Thank you so much for being with us today.
Your presence,
Your energy and your heart make all the difference in healing our world.
Remember to breathe today,
Breathe and expand.
And I hope you join us again next time.
Please consider inviting a friend.
That's it for Daily Magic for Peace.
Our music is by Terry Hughes.
I'm Colleen Thomas.
Thanks for listening.
