Nov. 11: 11/11 in These Foolish Things

It’s Monday, but I had the day off work because it is Veteran’s Day. Thank you, Veterans, for your service.

It’s also 1111, which is supposed to be a very high-vibrational day of new beginnings and good manifestations.

I went to lunch today with my friend Michelle, who I hadn’t seen in close to a YEAR (we were shocked when we realized that, but the last time we did anything together was the holiday time in her town’s square, all decked out for the holidays).

Anyway, we met for lunch in a town in between the two of our towns, a super cute and quaint place. The weather was lovely and we had SO MUCH to talk about, including an amazing wellness retreat she attended earlier in the year in Mexico (and I told her about my recent wellness weekend on my birthday).

We ended up talking about the fact that today is an amazing manifestation day, and she told me about creating an alter in her studio (she’s an artist by trade), and showed me pictures of the altar she filled with candles and family photos and butterflies and trinkets from her youth.

I went straight home and started creating my own manifestation altar! I decided to use one of the little tables on my balcony, so it’s not a super large altar, and it doesn’t look like I’m a crazy person or a witch or anything like that - I am using the tiny tabletop firepit as my “flame” and I am keeping the beautiful polished stones that i already had on that table. And my pretty and colorful succulents. And then I added some things that I placed inside a box, so that when I go outside to meditate in front of this altar, I can open the box and focus on the following:

1. A “keep growing” sticker that Wen gave me last weekend for our Halloween/post-Birthday Girls weekend - keep growing is the perfect little saying. Keep growing physically, mentally, spiritually, and relationally.

2. A stylized book of matches that looks like naked ladies, which is a reminder to at least try to show a little spicy and hot side every now and then. In fact, I want to update my Bumble profile with some new pics that hopefully look a little refreshed and maybe less boring/outdated. I need to manifest my flirty side again.

3. A cute little crocheted bumble bee that a friend gave me a while back when we had craft night at Lesbian Crush’s place. Again, manifesting relationships that are buzzier, more exciting! Not only in love, but in friendship.

4. My BADASS button that my former boss at [previous company] gave me before I started chemotherapy. Manifesting my inner badass to get that fucking rockstar job that I so deserve!

5. The heart sandstone rock that a man had carved and handed out at the top of a giant rock formation in Sedona, Arizona when I went there with [Athena]. It was a special trip and the rock is carved in the shape of a heart. It is filled with unconditional love and magic. And I sure could use more unconditional love and magic in my life and I’d like to spread more of it to the world, so I feel like it’s a perfect part of my manifestation altar.

6. A crocheted rope choker, to remind myself to keep creating beautiful things that I like to create by hand. There are so many things I have been wanting to work on, including Christmas decorations and gifts as well as pretty accessories for myself.

7. A shiny, fancy, cowboy belt buckle that I’d forgotten until I opened a box of treasures in the back of my storage closet today. The buckle gives off a lot of masculine energy to not only attract more masculine energy to my current life in the form of a man, but also to manifest that masculine energy inside myself since it’s pretty clear we’re going to have to use more of it now that the election has been determined.

And I think that’s everything for now. I can add to the altar and change it at any time, and I like that better than a vision board, I think. Let’s see how this goes over the coming days and weeks. It really has me thinking a lot about the new year coming up.

The manifestation begins now…
xo,
GS