Accidentally Sacred

Daily Draw: Scarab Oracle ~ The Temple

Drawing the Temple Scarab foretells or recommends taking time for community or religious service, or alternately, create some type of sacred enclosure within the home. Excellent advice with the coming New Year and what seems to be our eternal and internal compulsion to do/be/get better as a year turns.

I have two of these spaces in my home, both came about by accident but both spaces I treat with great respect because they seem to bring out the best in me when I use them. One is a small odd shaped space which turned out to be just big enough for a rocker and a small table. I've used this space nearly daily for about 10 years as a morning reading area. It is quiet, no one ever bothers the space and with a nice tablecloth and a group of candles burning it makes me feel good to be there. Currently I'm reading The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice by T. K. V. Desikachar.

The other spot is the top of a dresser which I call a naturescape because it started with a accidental gathering of things from nature as I was cleaning my office. When I realized these petals, cones, rocks, carried a theme but had no place to live, I added a tablecloth and many more items that had just been stuck hither and yon all over the house. I didn't know I was a nature pack rat until that day. The space holds huge crystal geodes, rocks and minerals, shells, feathers, dried flowers, sand, moss, a fairy door, rosaries, crosses, a tiny pocket shrine, and the most recent addition, a prayer bowl.

Maybe they bring out the best in me because once formed they are treated and tended with respectful intent?

"If you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect." ~ J. Michael Straczynski 1954-