Birgit Holdinghausen Reiki Master

18/05/2024

Start each day with the choice to feel good. 💚

29/11/2023

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12/11/2023

10/11/2023

An Osprey just before it hits the water. 🦅😲

The photographer of these amazing photos is Chen Chengguang.

10/11/2023

"A magnificent killer whale named Tahlequah
gave birth and caught the world’s attention.

Her calf died only thirty minutes after being born, each of those blessed minutes a sacrament to the progeny of love.

But the real reason journalists and photographers and millions of viewers followed this mother’s story, was her willingness to grieve unbidden, to become a thing utterly governed by kinship.

After a year and a half of growing this enormous life inside of her belly, and the immense feat of labor, and a half an hour of looking into one another’s eyes, Tahlequah proceeded to carry her dead baby on the tip of her nose for seventeen days, traveling more than a thousand miles all throughout the Salish Sea.

And some people think that grief is not
inexplicably beautiful. But perhaps it’s because those people (who are us people) no longer see grieving enacted publicly as a plea for sanity, as a way of feeding that which grants us life.

There was no real grieving at my mother’s funeral––

sniffling and shoving tears back up into our eyes, yes, but no keening. No collapsing into the bottomless cavern of one another’s trembling arms, no crying out into the insufferable heat of that late-summer day, and certainly no carrying my mom’s dead body as a holy procession all throughout the places she ever knew and loved.

So I continued to carry her mostly on my own.

I wailed in the privacy of my own home long after the funeral was over, with only the hurting eyes of my husband to behold me––a kind of holding that was never meant to be done alone.

I imagine that if killer whales were not endangered, Tahlequah would have swam those seventeen days with a grand procession of many other glistening, black and white giants all across the ocean.

Or perhaps she swam for one thousand miles
to personify the loneliness of her grief in a world spiraling toward oblivion.

And our savagery for not swimming alongside her; for taking pictures, for watching her exquisite ceremony on our little screens as if it were pure entertainment, as if that couldn’t be any one of us, carrying our dead children out into the dark and emptied streets."

From ‘The Progeny of Love' by April Tierney, Artwork by Lori Christopher 🐋

19/06/2023

The people we spend the most time will massively effect our behaviors, our mood, and our relationship with ourselves and others.

Now is the time to be brave, notice what happens to your life when you’re with people who are disrespectful, condescending, negative, and dishonest. Become keenly aware of how this plays a role in your energy, and your enthusiasm for life to live each day being your truest, best self.

Stand up, make a plan, and kindly remove them from your circle of influence.
If complete removal is not possible limit the time greatly, and put an invisible shield around you when you’re with them.
Don’t engage, try to change, or be involved. Do the obligatory time and make it short.

But for the most part we can let people go and wish them well, we’re just too afraid of what might happen.
Will they dislike me? Will I be alone?
The unknown is scary, but the pain of the reality of the now is worse.

Enough is enough. You deserve better.
This is your year for being brave and going after the happy successful life you deeply desire. 💙

19/06/2023

ASHMOLEAN STONES: 5 Platonic Solids from 3,500 Years Ago! well before Pythagoras' time.

These hand-sized spherical stones are on display at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, suggest a life of creative, intellectual synthesis for the Neolithic craftsmen of Britain
who fashioned and “wrapped” them with leather thongs.
These specimens could be the oldest evidence of possible planetary grid research.
Scholars are amazed and startled at their precise geometric proportions.
Keith Critchlow, in his book, “Time Stands Still” estimates that their construction was at least 1,000 years before Plato
described his 5 Platonic Solids in the Timaeus, (that is about 1,400BC).
Archeologists still believe that this time period was the time of a Primitive Cave Man!
yet here we have clear evidence of a highly sophisticated and intelligent race of People.

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Top Row – Five Neolithic Stone Spheres Still Shocks Scientists.
Bottom Row - Three Scottish examples, in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow.

19/06/2023

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