November 21st
Today is a fiery day! Today is SPICY! It is an action packed day as I am spending most of the day training with Mom and Andrew. I will work out tension ... or get it worked out of me. Today the chakra and the virtue align well together. Holy cow.....
Today is Day 3 with the Solar Plexus Chakra and the Bushido Virtue of Yu, Heroic Courage. I don;t consider myself very heroic, even tho I am often called a hero by people when I am being an EMT. First Responders are heroes, I suppose. I just don't see myself that way. It is all about Fire today.
I have a fall colors.... I just don't always wear them. I made a point to dress like a Gryffendor today for just this purpose... oh and to make the twins squee. I also set up the outdoor lanterns with candles that I will light this evening. I placed a large citrine stone (health, protection, and projection) and amber (power and energy) from my trunk on my bamboo table, but pocketed the tiger eye (courage, confidence, protection, inner and outer strength, decision-making). I have decided to do that rite of passage today. It is the New Moon. I made spicy chai coffee. I rarely like coffee, but sometimes you need a blended something for a helluva kick. I kept some of that constantly available at the dojo while we trained.
Breakfast will be spiced eggs wrapped in tortillas. Lunch will be fried dumplings with spicy dipping sauce. Poking Dad for a hearty spicy dinner with chicken. Dessert will have to be yogourt and bananas to save me from the spiciness. Snack was popcorn! Cheesy and spicy popcorn.
The Root Chakra is about power, confidence, taking action, control and self-control, willpower, and personal strength. It builds on yesterday nicely. Today I take action. That is the mantra for the day and the associate right.
I HAVE THE RIGHT TO ACT!
I made sure to light the lanterns about my home. I brought the brazier outside for a rite later. Action that I will take.
For now I consider Heroic Courage as I so a moving meditation on my tatami mats of my ritual space indoors. Heroic courage is not blind. It challenges and questions. It stands up to those you might admire most when you feel things are just wrong. It is using inner strength and intelligence. It is not giving up just because things get hard. It is acting when you must, even if you are afraid, acting despite fear.
I HAVE THE RIGHT TO ACT!
This chakra is blocked and challenged by shame and disappointment. What am I ashamed of? I am ashamed of stepping off my path and not being true to myself. There are better ways I could have handled the situation we were in. There had to be. There had to be a way to not compromise who I am. I cannot undo what was done, but I can bloody well commit to not repeat it!
With conviction, I get some rice paper and set up calligraphy on the bamboo table. On the rice paper, i write the Oath of the Healer's Path. I wanted someone there to witness my vows... but I suppose it does not matter.
That evening, a brazier is lit behind my hut and shines brightly with candlelit lanterns about to guide anyone to the Japanese Maple Tree and the little stone circle I built behind my place. Whether anyone show up there or not. I go outside with the scroll of rice paper. I open it and read from it the Oath of the Healer's Path:
"I am Tae. I am a healer!
I swear this oath to all the gods and beings that may witness me.
I walk the path of the healer.
I swear to treat the afflicted.
I swear to cleanse impurity.
I swear to mourn in tragedy.
I am a HEALER!
And I will never stray from this path again.
SO MOTE IT BE!"
I burn the scroll in the brazier's fire that is scented with ginger, cinnamon, and other hot spices. With a couple breaths, I reach into and collect some of the ashes, managing my Life Sphere to heal any burns I might incur. Then I anoints myself with those ashes, comfortable that I swore a sacred oath with my soul.
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