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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  Okay, I just realized it’s not still morning … so that makes it even wilder, lol ;) 

 The “Wolf” totem is coming to me (have seen “wolf” around me several times in the last day or so)…  I was just now reading on a site about Goji berries (healthy exotic berry), cacao-covered ones, which sounded particularly yummy.  And then my mind started wandering…thinking about the late (very late) breakfast I’d just enjoyed.  I was having passionate thoughts about my grapefruit, lol   Wondering what others might think of my thoughts.  I looked up and saw “wolfberry” right in front of me on the Goji page.  It says the wolfberry is a larger version of the goji…  Anyway, I took that as another wolf sighting :)  Maybe an encouragment to share my thoughts.  I’ll  do another post for Wolf Totem interpretations.

I’ve recently greatly altered my diet.  I used to be vegetarian, and then for a time, “vegan,” and up until recently I referenced myself as “almost vegetarian,” still eating very little animal products.  This type of eating has done me no favors, and I’m so grateful that I’ve finally come to my senses in that regard — and most especially grateful for my coming upon this special blog on this topic. 

I feel my vegetarianism (which spanned a lot of years) has been another version of my decade of starving myself via anorexic behavior in my twenties.  I’m intuitively getting the “vegetarianism” was a mask of that continuing, when I had thought I had overcome it. 

Now, I’m beginning to eat healthy, organic, REAL food — organic meat, eggs, raw-milk cheese, oh-ma-gawd delicious healthy butter…  I never woulda thought, but I (and I think most of us do) truly need these foods to be healthy.  Not the screwed-up variety of them, which most of us eat, but the real deal, as Nature intended…  And I’m seeing my health improve — finally — with the addition of these wonderful foods…and realizing that grandma and grandpa ate these foods, and did just fine and dandy on them :)

So here are some, um, more of my wild thoughts :)  I used to cringe at holding a package of red meat.  It’s still not my favorite thing, but I’m seeing differently now.  I always bless and thank the animal that it was, but it’s not that animal anymore.  Although I do think that our food, even after processed and all that “refining” still has some “life energy” to it or it would be of no value to us whatsoever — and, of course, a lot of our food today is like that.  But the core of the animal, it’s spirit (yes, animals, all things, have “spiritual” energy), is no longer in the meat.  Meat is just a material thing now that was designed by Nature to further sustain our lives, and the lives of other animals.  But it is still a gift from that animal…  If it was gross, bad or wrong for me to eat it, then it would not be healing my body…  What more would be an indication that this is aligned with Nature?  Animals eat animals, nothing wicked or evil is a part of that.  But how that animal may have been treated prior to its sacrifice to sustain another being’s life, there is often much “evil” in the mainstream process of that.  But that’s another topic.

And then I was thinking about balance, and how we hold on to our extremes…  And how raw foodists avow that their diet is the best because the foods are “alive.”  And that sounds good to me, but is “alive” all we need?  How do we know that too much “alive” isn’t a good thing? :)  If our lives were always totally, totally about love, would we really be “getting it”?  Both the understanding and the love? :)  Don’t we need to experience a dab of the “hate” to understand how amazing the love is?  Do we need a few healthy “dead” foods to balance it all out? :)  But let me put an emphasis on “healthy,” I don’t see most mainstream food as healthy — very “dead,” but also infused with “poison” on a variety of energetic levels.  I don’t feel my body wants or needs any of that.

But this post was actually spurred when I was enjoying my grapefruit :)  I love grapefruit.  And I know a fresh grapefruit still has a lot of ALIVE energy in it.  (And lotsa Vitamin C, yay!)  Vegetarians have no problem eating a grapefruit, and yet it has more alive energy than a piece of meat, I think.  Alive!  Vibrating with aliveness — and I think that means “consciousness” :)  So what keeps it from knowing I’m eating it??  :)   From our limited thinking, wouldn’t that seem more cruel than eating the “dead” foods?  See?  Wild thoughts, eh? lol

And I know how everything takes on energy, how we continually exchange it with everything around us.  So I’m eating my grapefruit, enjoying it out the wazoo :)  I’m taking in  its energy, it’s feeling mine…so I’m having this delicious, vibrantly energetic dance with my grapefruit, lol! ;)  And I’m thinking, can my grapefruit feel this?  If it can, then it’s feelin’ a lot of joy and gratitude :)  That must be fun for the grapefruit too…even though it’s dying in the process.  Was this ritual something the grapefruit lived for, came about for, looked forward too? :)  Hmmm.  Death and joy intermingled… And then thoughts came of the short lives of butterflies, and bees …   They come and go lightly through that doorway that is death/rebirth (same thing) … all just part of the “flow” that is this magical life on Earth :)   Hmmm, maybe the butterflies and bees…and grapefruits, and wolfberries, know something we don’t ;)

Peace,
Dove

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