Memories from Earth: Holidays

Earth is a place that's big on holidays. Mostly because of its temporally linear nature along with the programming from the 3D Matrix regarding the specificity of cycles and dates. Yes, there's also some energetic contribution to some negative entities that happens, but I figure that also depends on how you experience a holiday. So, let's chat about this.

Mostly what I want to do here is share my experience of holidays on Earth this lifetime. What it felt like to celebrate them. What I liked about them. What I didn't like. That sort of thing.

I know among my fellow stellar Lyrians, you do not really celebrate holidays, because 1) every day is "holy", 2) you don't observe calendars, 3) you aren't religious. I'm sure there's an observation of the cycles of your respective planets, but it's not like that's anything special to you. It's just "Ah, here is winter. I had better make sure the roof is in good repair." Or "The lemon trees are ready! I think I'll make a lemon cake with what I just picked."

Different energy from a holiday. Very different.

On Earth, the energies in the human collective are ramped up on a holiday, some more than others. And the emotional experience can be different depending on where you are. There are also certain times of the year on Earth where the vibration of your local area shifts a little bit and you have a "veil thinning" effect. I can talk about that a little bit first, then I'll cover some holiday experiences.

Where I lived on Earth, in the spring time around the equinox and in the fall around the equinox the energies would shift upward in vibration significantly for about a moon cycle or two. Some years it was stronger than others.

In the spring, I'd feel this sudden urge to go "adventuring". The potential for manifestation was so much more powerful and I'd pick up on it as a feeling of wanting to go magnificent places and see new things. The colors would feel brighter, the air cleaner, the sun more loving. The restless desire for new some years would be almost overpowering. I sometimes wondered if I had some kind of odd Celtic genetic predisposition that would suddenly wake up and want to drown me in its passion. A bit of "Tookishness" if we want to reference The Hobbit.

In the fall, there's a different kind of restlessness. The colors get brighter again, the air gets even more transparent, and it seems as if every living thing has a living edge to it. Which is to say, auras become more visible. I could feel more energies around me. As if I could reach out and just grab a layer of reality and rip it away like it was paper. Instead of a desire to travel, there's a desire to sink inward into nature. I want to go deeper into the woods, deeper into the lake, deeper into the strange, shadowy corners of a meadow.

I'm fairly sure every planet is like this in that you can sense the seasons in this way. But I think on Earth, just like so many other things, the visceral quality of the experience is cranked up as high as it will go.

Holidays

There are a ridiculous number of holidays on Earth, really, it's like we want an excuse to not work every 5 minutes (I don't anyone for this sentiment, Earth inhabitants work way too much). But I think that's a control mechanism, too. It's like the cheese reward for the rat in the maze. Keeps you hopeful and not looking very hard at how dissatisfying your shite job is that you only do to make money to perpetuate the systems that require money so you have to work more to make more money. Round and round that goes! Throw some holidays in the mix, and you find that little piece of cheese of relief at exiting the wheel. Only to go right back on it.

Ah, but it's not all bad.

My favorite holidays growing up were Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. As an adult, I trimmed that down to just Thanksgiving and Christmas. All the spring and summer holidays can take a hike. They aren't that great. Fall and winter is where it's at in terms of merrymaking.

I liked Halloween as a kid, mostly because of the time of year, and because on that day humanity's consciousness ramps up the effects of the equinox even higher than usual. I loved to do trick-or-treating and walk around in the dark with my friends and see all my neighbors...and score massive amounts of sugar. But looking back on it, the best parts were the day we would carve our pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns. And how everyone would decorate their houses with spooky decorations.

Never mind the demons and entities taking advantage of the fear on that holiday, most humans have a lot of fun with it. They use it as an excuse to be children again, something they don't do very often. As an adult, I would go on night hikes around that time if the weather permitted.

Thanksgiving was one of those holidays that I loved because of the food, my Earth personality was a Taurus after all, not so much because of seeing my family. I...admittedly did not feel comfortable around my extended family. I felt weirdly shy around them and like I just couldn't trust them. My brother shared this sentiment. Still, we loved all the food.

As an adult, I enjoyed the holiday because I'd have a good meal with the people I liked best. The difference here is I would choose which family members I wanted to see. Often it was my dad, some of our close friends, and nobody I didn't like seeing. Only people I wanted to see and have a meal with. That made the experience way more enjoyable and full of good-hearted conversation and fellowship.

Christmas was almost exactly the same growing up and as an adult. Christmas was that one holiday where that day was always spent only with our immediate family. We'd wake up, and dad would make a fancy breakfast. We'd all sit on the couch and open presents (that my brother and I totally already found hiding weeks prior and examined--it was part of the game). I loved the smell of the Christmas tree. The whole season was over-pressured commercially, I think, but the process of getting the tree, decorating it, watching all the little lights go up around the neighborhoods...all of that was just lovely and magical.

This was the one time of year I liked going to a church. Many churches would hold a "candlelight service" where the preacher would read the story of Jesus' birth (naturally), and then we'd all hold little candles and sing songs together. That part was the best part. I liked everyone standing in the darkened room, lit by hundreds of tiny candles, and everyone singing Christmas carols. There was some serious magic happening in that service when we'd do that. I could feel it. From the ritual of each person lighting the next person's candle with their own to everyone singing, sometimes crying because they'd feel so much joy (or a release of sorrow).

Sometimes magical things happen even in the densest of planets. Things like that.

As an adult, I didn't go to church anymore, but I'd sing Christmas carols on my way to and from places. Maybe the thing I didn't like too much about Christmas was the pressure to get people gifts. That started to get to me, because I'd fuss over getting, or making, just the right one. Otherwise, Christmas morning as an adult involved alcoholic mimosas, fancy breakfast, and opening presents. Just like childhood, really.

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I've thought a lot about what Earth would be like minus the controllers. Would they still have holidays? I think so. I have a feeling many Earth humans would keep their traditions, but perhaps change the time they occur, the reasoning behind them, and remove some of the social pressure.

But yes, I could see Earth humans continuing to have holidays and celebrations. They love celebrating things and excuses to make piles of food and get together. Any excuse to light fireworks or decorate their homes. It's something that brings them too much joy for them to totally discard wholesale.

I thank you for your time. Adiamas.

--Kyriel