Okay last year I wrote a rant about the Grimoire that entailed Halloween – at least from my limited point of view anyways. This rant isn’t my true Halloween one, it’s a pre one, as I love this time of year so much I have to write twice about it. I still love the way individuals minds expand this time of year, and same as last year you see it expressed all over the place. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve seen around town wearing mini-billboards with their opinions/judgments on them. I for one… Love it! For every one person’s judgment I see or hear; it spawns the Type 5 in me to get to researching and making sure what I believe in still holds true. In case you didn’t read that installment of the Enneagram I did when a friend said and moved to a 5, with my newfound sense of clarity, or rather at least I really really research something before I leap to the next. Okay back on task with my monkey mind…

Pre-Halloween… It’s a week where we move from Leo, to Virgo then finally right around Halloween… BAM Scorpio! Voila – go slay some demons, only to arise as the romantic and well survived Sagittarius the following week – but alas the monkey mind has run amuck again. But what I find so cool about this occurring at this time of year is that it happens during harvest time (unless you life in AK and everything is already frozen). Allow a moment to let your wild woman (or man to be polite) take stock of what exactly in your life is where it needs to be or whether or not it needs to be moved. Perhaps, that’s the source of some of my ever building frustration these days is the buildup is reaching an apex and there needs to be some “housecleaning”. What needs less? What needs more? What are we still asking for that perhaps we no longer need that has become habit? What needs to be loosened, tightened or patched? Just as the animals do or we even used to do, it’s time to take stock, do some rearranging and internal housecleaning just as we would if we were cinching ourselves up for the long winter. Perhaps that is why we see so much dramatic expression of opinion this time of year, is because folks want one last ditch effort to hold onto their agreements before letting them go or finding new ones.

During the long dark winter months it technically should leave time for us to work on issues that we may be dragging around with us that weight us down. Ideally it would be nice if life would slow down enough for this to take place, but beings that my life has not slowed down since birth I’ve had to retrain myself to work on issues “as I go”. Hey I’m such a multi-tasker on the go that my dreams help free me from issues that I’m lugging around, and FYI this has been one heckuva week in dreamland! Every night this week I feel like Indiana Jones going on a new adventure when I lay my head down to sleep, and I wake up feeling almost as beaten up.

Whether you realize it or not, you do have time to work on internal issues, really it doesn’t have to be a huge act and while the universe does love ritual, it doesn’t have to be grand. Simply put… Envision slapping a “do not disturb” sticky note to your forehead for about 2 to 3 minutes to do some quick internal stock work. Usually this happens quite on accident these moments are when your mind wanders; fades, and or you briefly slip into daydream world. Usually someone snaps you out of it and makes fun of you but believe it or not these few precious moments where your mind has a moment to fly free your really working on yourself. I have to hold onto this believe as heavens’ knows I have issues and I need all my spare seconds to work on them. And yes I frequently daydream thank you for asking. Those precious moments of mental freedom leave me feeling rejuvenated and often wishing I were somewhere else too.

So as the ground freezes and us Alaskans turn our eyes to the night heavens and see our old friends the stars that we haven’t seen all summer, it’s serves as a reminder that it’s that time of year when taking stock of what your going to use to get you through your winter, and whether or not you’re a radical or a conservative type it’s okay, just make sure you aren’t lugging around something internally that makes you believe what you believe.