A Hallowed Eve

Divine Healer - Soulcollage card by Hettienne

All Hallow's Eve

All Saints Day Eve

Halloween

Samhain

Dia de los Muertos

Many celebrations over the period of

31 October and 1 November every year.

When you Google these holy, hallowed, days, 

you find many discussions about

how they are related or not.

Either way, you cannot miss the fact

that in the Northern Hemisphere,

people are preparing for the end of Autumn

and the start of Winter;

a transition time honouring departed souls

and the lives of those who have gone before us,
be they saints, sages or ancestors.

Here, in the Southern Hemisphere,

we are into spring and on the wheel of the year

it is Beltane, halfway between the Spring Equinox

and the Summer Solstice.

Outside it is a lovely, chilly rainy day. 

My hawthorn is not flowering yet, so spring

has not officially arrived.

Any time of transitioning is fraught with thoughts of the unknown.

This is my offering to us as we transition from the one realm

to the other :  the Spirit of the Divine Healer within.

She transforms all fearful thoughts into beautiful

roses of love.

Om Shanty, Shalom, Peace, Hettienne

Blooming of the Heart

Blooming of the Heart

Soulcollage image by Hettienne - read in sidebar about 

Soulcollage images 

"The purpose of life is not to do as the majority do,

but to live according to the inner law 

which you understand in yourself"

For the Unknown Self

Picture taken in my garden at my home (Sancta Maria)

For the Unknown Self

So much of what delights and troubles you

Happens on a surface

You take for ground.

Your mind thinks your life alone,

Your eyes consider air your nearest neighbor,

Yet it seems that a little below your heart

There houses in you an unknown self

Who prefers the patterns of the dark

And is not persuaded by the eye's affection

Or caught by the flash of thought.

It is a self that enjoys contemplative patience

With all your unfolding expression,

Is never drawn to break into light

Though you entangle yourself in unworthiness

And misjudge what you do and who you are.

It presides within like an evening freedom

That will often see you enchanted by twilight

Without ever recognizing the falling night,

It resembles the under-earth of your visible life:

All you do and say and think is fostered

Deep in its opaque and prevenient clay.

It dwells in a strange, yet rhythmic ease

That is not ruffled by disappointment;

It presides in a deeper current of time

Free from the force of cause and sequence

That otherwise shapes your life.

Were it to break forth into day,

Its dark light might quench your mind,

For it knows how your primeval heart

Sisters every cell of your life

To all your known mind would avoid,

Thus it knows to dwell in you gently,

Offering you only discrete glimpses

Of how you construct your life.

At times, it will lead you strangely,

Magnetized by some resonance

That ambushes your vigilance.

It works most resolutely at night

As the poet who draws your dreams,

Creating for you many secret doors,

Decorated with pictures of your hunger;

It has the dignity of the angelic

That knows you to your roots,

Always awaiting your deeper befriending

To take you beyond the threshold of want,

Where all your diverse strainings

Can come to wholesome ease.

-John O'Donohue (1956-2008)

Copyright of pictures

  Great was my surprise when I found this image of mine

on an Etsy shop for sale!!!

You can purchase my photograph in various sizes,

in a frame, without a frame

and as stationery!

The only problem is that the shop is not my shop,

but Bernadette's Cupboard

and I did not give permission for my photograph to be used

and definitely not sold.

When I contacted the shop owner she challenged me

as to how did I copyright the picture and how can I

prove that I am the photographer, despite the fact

that I pointed her to this blog post where I shared

the sacred process of creating this devotion

http://www.path-of-divine-love.com/2012/02/holy-day-of-our-lady-of-lourdes.html

For those who are uncertain about copyright, I found the following on

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/copyright-fair-use-and-how-it-works-for-online-images/

Copyright attaches at the time of creation and there is no requirement to use the “circle c”. Image source: renjith krishnan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Copyright is a federal law of the United States that protects original works of authorship. A work of authorship includes literary, written, dramatic, artistic, musical and certain other types of works.

Copyright attaches as soon as the original work is created, and applies to both published and unpublished works. As soon as you type words, click the shutter on your camera (or, for many of you, hit the home button on your iPhone), apply paint to canvas or paper or lay down tracks for your next hit, you’ve got a copyright (with some exceptions).

Copyright is an automatic right and does not require the author to file special paperwork, as is the case for trademark and patent. Registration is required to enforce the rights, but as a matter of right, an author is not required to register anything to get the right to use the “circle c,” showing the work is copyrighted.

One of the many terrific things about copyright is that it comes with a host of exclusive rights that allow the owner to do or authorize a number of things and exercise substantial control over his or her work. The copyright owner has the right to do four things (called exclusive rights):

1.            Reproduce the copyrighted work;

2.            Display the copyrighted work publicly;

3.            Prepare derivative works based on the copyrighted work; and

4.            Distribute copies of the copyrighted work to the public by sale, rental or lending, and/or to display                the image.

I am more upset about my picture being named May Day!! and somewhere

else Mary in the Garden, than the fact

that someone else is making money from it.