“Magic Spirit in Christmas?”

“twas the night before Christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…”

I was not raised with a religion nor have I taken one on in my adult life. Instead, I’ve always had the freedom to find my spiritual soul food in the many teachings, practices and daily living that surrounds me infinitely. One such expression of soul food for me is the celebration of Christmas: a time of year seen usually in a religious expression of Christianity or mass marketing and shopping hysteria politely called consumerism.

I see, feel and thrive on a third expression – one of creating moments of joy through magic.

The best thing about having children is the opportunity to

create moments of joy for them!

To relive, recreate and enliven rituals that brought you joy as a child along with making new rituals that suit your own family unit, means coming up with ways of making children’s imagination, Santa and the magic that surrounds Christmas, come to life. Imagining, creativity, children and rituals are all things that genuinely resonate with my joy-full side of Being.

Years ago, I channeled a being called Santa Claus, to ask for Christmas ideas and insights for a corporate function. I remember sitting on the couch and feeling this innate sense of ginormous amounts of joy come through my physical body which was unable to contain it all. I ho ho ho-ed throughout the voice channeling and boomed out laughter definitely not my own. What struck me the most after that experience of suggestions and insight, was the generous dose of sincere desire for joy to be brought to Earth, to humanity and most especially to children through the celebration of Christmas season across the world. The obvious sharing of a desire to unite the masses under an umbrella of giving and a sense of magic (major magic needed for Santa to get down chimneys and travel the world over in 24 hr period!) was what I heard and felt from Spirit that evening I channeled Santa.

Years later, with children of my own, I made as my priority, the embracing of the natural and inherent wisdom of a child to trust in things greater than itself – to fully embrace what we call magic. Magic is seen as a power to do impossible things, miraculous things by using special words or actions to help make manifest. Because of my own experiences of Christmas: Christmas Eve celebrated with my German heritage acknowledged and Christmas Day filled with Christmas pudding and reverence for my British ancestry, and a need to make Santa real, I rapidly developed Christmas Eve into “Family Christmas” with family gifts and family time spent together. Christmas Day became “Santa’s Day” and started off early with stockings filled with trinkets, chocolates and small gifts along with the “Santa Wish List” item(s) that each child had innocently sent off to the North Pole and entrusted to the elves to communicate to Santa.

And so it was that my children grew up with a sense of wonder at their abundant manifestation tools they were trying out in their own world. They truly believed they were sending wishes to Santa, to be received in a tangible form by themselves. This imprinted them with the knowledge that they are the co-creators of their dreams and wishes. Ooooh, as their mom, seeing their unadulterated pleasure and joy, wonder and amazement at getting exactly what they asked for, from “Santa”, I too was filled with the joy and exuberance of the occasion.

A wise being once told me the importance of listening to a child when they ask for a special something they dream of – be it at birthday or Christmas time – and to do everything in one’s power to make at least one of their wished for items come true. The teaching wasn’t given to create an entitled or spoiled child but instead given as a moment a child can learn from that he/she really does have the power to make their wishes come true, through the magic and belief in a bigger power and presence.

Remember, you are your own master co-creator and manifestor

of all that you wish for and dream of.

To this day, I still feel an upliftment and a desire to participate in that sense of united celebration of magic and possibilities manifested through inner-sense/innocence and the joy of Christmas. Hat’s off to all of the parents and caregivers the world over that work diligently to ensure the magic of possibilities, wishes and prosperity is experienced by multiples of children the world over. If ever there is a sense of the world uniting in joy, I trust it to be on the back of children and their inner most ability to find joy in the moment.

May you and yours know and feel moments of joy this festive season as we all face challenging, changing times. May you remember your inner-sense, thereby remembering the uplifting energies of gratitude, faith, hope, joy, magic and love. May we all spread love and kindness right now when the world needs it most. May you feel the Spirit of love and joy in Christmas .

Unity, festivity, joy, laughter, magic and love to you all. Ho, Ho, Ho!

Much love always

Colette

Colette, mother to 2 beautiful daughters and author of “Spirit in Pregnancy & Birth – Practical and spiritual care, ceremonies and celebrations” has always had her heart set on helping others through her ability to listen, feel and then support through guidance and a change in perspective, offering emotional support that lets people feel safe and heard.

Loving to share her experiences, knowledge and perceptions of the world around us, Colette has many interests that fuel her sharing and nurturing nature: Alternative modalities, nutrition, women’s health, conscious birth and parenting, astrology, Mother Earth, transformation, healing, channeling, spirituality, Mother Nature and much more.

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