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Happy Friday to you!
Please take a moment and send prayers, Love and Light to all those in California whose lives are devastated by raging fires!
Please!
Most people wouldn’t think there is much in common in the date of 12-12, Hanukkah, Our Lady of Guadalupe and the State of Alabama, much less see the Godsign that is there. Unfortunately these days in the US we sometimes forget how much all of us have in common.
The number 12 can be used by God as Godsign to help you look at the big circles that come ‘full circle’ in the eternal round. To trust in outcomes that take a while to unfold. Twelve can keep showing Up as Godsign to help you see bigger pictures and to know there is always a completion, which then leads to beginning again.
This coming Tuesday is 12-12 and is spiritually a very big day in many places of our world. The number 12 is often used as Godsign and this year 12-12 honors the sacred power of Light in one culture, the sacredness of the Divine Feminine and her power to bring Light on Earth in another culture, and the free will we have in the US for each of us to choose between the forces of Light and Dark.
Twelve is significant for many reasons; there are twelve months in the year, there were twelve tribes in Israel, Jesus had twelve apostles, there are twelve astrological signs in the zodiac, and our modern clock is divided into two groups of twelve hours. Twelve is considered to be the ancient number of completion as it signals the end of childhood and the beginning stages of adulthood. Additionally, the ancient numbering and measuring systems are based on this number, as evidenced by terms such as a dozen (12), a gross (12 times 12), a shilling (12 pence) and a foot (12 inches). There are twelve days of Yuletide and Christmas; these celebrations are also found in Vedic, Chinese, Pagan and European symbolism. The 12 days are said to forecast the meteorological pattern of the twelve months of the coming year.
There are twelve members of the council of the Dalai Lama. There were twelve knights of the Round Table at King Arthur’s court. There are twelve animal symbols in the Chinese Zodiac: Boar, Rooster, Dog, Dragon, Goat, Hare, Horse, Monkey, Ox, Rat, Snake and Tiger.
12-12 every year is my niece Kelsey’s birthday. Happy Birthday Kelsey!
12-12 this year is the first day of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, honoring the Hebrew people regaining control of their Temple in Jerusalem and rededicating the Temple. The name “Hanukkah” derives from the Hebrew verb “חנך”, meaning “to dedicate”.
In 165 BC Judah was the leader of the Jewish people and they had regained control of their sacred Temple in Jerusalem. Judah ordered the Temple to be cleansed, a new altar to be built in place of the polluted one and new holy vessels to be made. According to the Talmud, unadulterated and undefiled pure olive oil with the seal of the kohen gadol (high priest) was needed for the menorah in the Temple, which was required to burn throughout the night every night. One flask was found with only enough oil to burn for one day, yet it burned for eight days, the time needed to prepare a fresh supply of kosher oil for the menorah. An eight-day festival was declared by the Jewish sages to commemorate this miracle.
On 12-12 this year, millions of Jewish families around the world will honor the Lights of the Menorah. They will exchange gifts for 8 nights, such as books or games. Fried foods (such as latkes (potato pancakes), jelly doughnuts (sufganiyot), and Sephardic bimuelos) are eaten to commemorate the importance of oil during the celebration of Hanukkah.
Families will celebrate and honor the power of Light to shine brighter, to last longer, and be a beacon even when humans don’t believe that our Creator creates more than enough. Hanukkah celebrates a faith and belief that God brings more than enough into our lives.
On 12-12 each year it is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, when the Catholic church honors one of its most venerated women, also know as the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe. Official Catholic accounts state that the Virgin Mary appeared four times before Juan Diego and one more before Juan Diego’s uncle. On 12-12 of 1531 CE, the Virgin Mary appeared to Juan the 4th time. That day she stated to Juan the words which have become the most famous of her visitations to Juan and are inscribed over the main entrance to the Basilica of Guadalupe. She asked, “¿No estoy yo aquí que soy tu madre?” (Am I not here, I who am your mother?). She assured Juan that his very sick uncle had recovered and she told him to gather flowers from the top of Tepeyac Hill in Guadalupe, which was normally barren, especially in December. Juan followed her instructions and he found Castilian roses, not native to Mexico, blooming there. The Virgin arranged the flowers in Juan’s tilma, or cloak, and when Juan Diego opened his cloak before the Mexican archbishop Zumárraga on December 12, 1531 CE, the flowers fell to the floor, and on the fabric of Juan’s cloak was the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
This cloak and the venerated image of the Virgin Mary is enshrined within the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. The basilica is the most visited Catholic pilgrimage site in the world, and the world’s third most-visited sacred site. Happy Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
On 12-12 of 2013, Our Lady of Guadalupe helped Griffin give me a Christmas gift. It was placed at the base of a wall hanging of her where I work. It was miraculous and unforgettable. It is impossible to completely thank Her for the sacred Gift that they sent to me on 12-12 that year. I am eternally grateful for the Light She brought into my life at a very dark Christmas for me. I have honored Her and the date 12-12 ever since. She is the one who suggested this year it would be good to honor the Light in life and explore the Godsign found around 12-12. I would tell you the story of the Gift she and Griffin brought to me but it would take pages here. I am happy to explain it all to you anytime we are together. It always makes me smile.
Also happening on 12-12 this year, the people of Alabama will vote for a new Senator. They have to decide what is Light and what is Dark, what is the right vote for them and their state. If they truly look to the Light, look to Love for the correct vote, as Christians (what would Jesus say?) as honorable men and woman, they will honor the Light of Love for one another. I send prayers and energy to Alabama and I hope you consider doing that as well. Hold up the Light for them all, send the sacred energy of Love to Alabama and trust . . . We as one nation, one US, one people, during the Holy Season, must trust the outcome. The number 12 will follow you around to remind you that a Sacred Light shines on through these sacred seasons till the twelfth of forever!
The Twelve Days of Christmas
On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me
Twelve Drummers Drumming
Eleven Pipers Piping
Ten Lords a Leaping
Nine Ladies Dancing
Eight Maids a Milking
Seven Swans a Swimming
Six Geese a Laying
Five Golden Rings
Four Calling Birds
Three French Hens
Two Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.
Twelfth of Never
by Johnny Mathis
You ask how much I need you, must I explain?
I need you, oh my darling, like roses need rain.
You ask how long I’ll love you; I’ll tell you true:
Until the twelfth of never, I’ll still be loving you.
Hold me close, never let me go.
Hold me close, melt my heart like April snow.
I’ll love you till the bluebells forget to bloom;
I’ll love you till the clover has lost its perfume.
I’ll love you till the poets run out of rhyme,
Until the twelfth of never and that’s a long, long time.
Hold me close, never let me go.
Hold me close, melt my heart like April snow.
I’ll love you till the bluebells forget to bloom;
I’ll love you till the clover has lost its perfume.
I’ll love you till the poets run out of rhyme,
Until the twelfth of never and that’s a long, long time.