When the stars have turned.

“When you learn something new, you just feel good. You feel that the stars have turned,” she says. “And then if you live with people, they’ll just love you for it. It’s a win win.”

- Odette Williams

The summer was spent learning how to put up food. We only grew a few things but they were generous and the local farms helped with the rest. This house sits on old Farmland and it has been my dream to turn it back into as much producing land as I am able.

As I learned to can various foods the kids got excited. Some of them didn't care about the food but they seemed to be happy that I was happy. The kitchen would overheat and tomato guts would be covering the island and I felt a presence that I've decided only comes when I can foods (you have to be so careful and accurate).

I read that quote above and that is surely what happened. I felt the stars had turned and the people I live with loved me for it.

A few weeks ago I had the call to go back and read some old emails and watch the videos I had made from Magic Making Circle, the program I ran for 5 years, the program that was who I was.

I had a curiosity to see who I was then, how the years had changed me.

As I was reading and watching myself grow younger and younger as I slipped through time I could feel the years that I was grounded and the years that I was barely holding on. You can see it my eyes. I could feel it like a time machine ride.

I thought, maybe I should go back into this and relearn from my past self AND teach my past self. As I started to work through the material that whisper or nudge came on; do you know the one?

The one that tells you the thing you don't want to know yet. That one.

Then in the morning I crawled down to a chilly house in my slippers and there was a large white feather.

And feathers were how all of it began, so many years ago.

All of the magic and the circling and the iterating and I felt the stars had turned.

"Damnit," I jokingly said to no one. Here we go.

And you?

Have you felt the stars turn? Have you been adventuring and learning? Have you had the perfect cup of coffee or baked the most delicious pie crust?

It is all connected, this beautiful adventure we are on, learning, a little something new every chance we can.