Calling ourselves “Scar Clan” emerged through the threads of love and the tapestry of long life, and has bound us together in a unique bond, marked by shared experiences and cherished memories. As we gather before our Dia de los Muertos altar, we long for the day when we can reunite with our ancestors, celebrating the eternal connection that runs through our veins.
With every offering placed upon the altar, we honor the past and anticipate the future, knowing that our love will guide us to that sacred heart where our ancestors await, ready to welcome us into their timeless embrace.
We create an altar and invite our ancestors to return home and visit. During this week we celebrate life and love together as we offer remembrance and gifts.
Dia de los Muertos
October 28 – November 3rd
October 28th – The first candle is lit, and a white flower is placed to receive lost souls.
October 29th – The next candle is lit, and a case of water is placed, dedicated to the abandoned and forgotten deceased.
October 30th – Another candle is lit, a glass of water is placed, and white bread is placed, for the deceased who left without eating, perhaps through an accident.
October 31st – Another candle is lit, a glass of water is placed, a white bread is placed, and we add some fruit for our ancestors.
November 1st – All Saint’s Day, the souls who died as children arrive this day. All the food is put on the altar.
November 2nd – Day of the faithful departed. Souls of the dead adults come to collect and eat the offering that their families place.
November 3rd – The last white candle is lit, and we say goodbye to our deceased and the offering is removed.
Supplies
Candles 5
Water carafe, glass of water
White Flower 1, Flowers for display, such as traditional marigolds
Being a ‘sensitive’ means we pick up information not only from the normal types of stimulus around us, but we seem to have wider-range receivers that also tune in some of the subtler realms.
It can be overlapping noise or a sudden, clear sound or voice. There is always a physical co-relation in the moment. A catching of the breath. A cool sense brushes past. A warm moment settles on you. You just never know.
For me, it’s like soft radio is on with conversations going all the time. It can be like television clips suddenly play for a moment and interact with us.
When ‘they’ see that you can see them… well, game’s on. Then the Others can be insistent in their effort to communicate. Loud. Direct and in your face. Begging with heart to have you share something with a loved one. Sensitives can learn to block it out or tune it in, but somehow we learn to live with it.
Someone asked me recently if reiki could be used to facilitate and even enhance a “sensitive’s” experience of interacting with Spirit.
That got me thinking.
Of course, I answered yes! Reiki is awesome for this. I use it all the time. Just becoming present to the Reiki Precepts will calm and focus me.
Still, I began reflecting on how that simple reiki training evolved for me over the last 25 years as a reiki master/sensitive.
Using reiki seems like an original ritual as inherently natural as breathing. A pulsing life that connects, channels and commutes reiki; or “divinely intellingent life energy”.
It can give you so very much more than a little deepening. Is it a tool? A practice? Knowledge to be shared?
The only true answer I can give is that it is. That we can channel it. We can access and influence raw life energy. Intention creates!
We do it all the time.
Being a sensitive has meant I’ve needed to define myself and my boundaries very well in order to stay healthy and safe. Reiki practice absolutely helps me do that.
Using reiki will help you center yourself well and stay protected.
That keeps us safe with regard to unknown elements nearby and allows us to do our good work. Remember; do not assume that every thing out there you come across has your best interest in mind. At all.
Be smart. Stay focused. Know who you are.
Reiki energy helps clarify our minds. Clarify everything. Sitting here writing this I keep thinking of the word succinct. Reiki expands access to life energy and increases the level of power flow .
So, what about using reiki with a sensitive’s abilities? How does that work?
The simple answer is that reiki heightens and purifies vibration levels in every thing it moves through. Sensitivities are sharper. More information comes to you from your environment.
Try this visual… Imagine being in a comfortable room. There is a lovely lamp right there, but it’s not lit. It’s low light in the room and we’re not really noticing much around us..
Using reiki is like plugging that lamp in.
With reiki, we are lit up. Nothing has changed. But, with the light now shining, more information and resources are available to you. Reiki will expand the area of direct interaction and influence you have access to.
Your little piece of the void – and experience of the dimensions that overlap our reality – just lit up and spread out.
I particularly love the beauty that moving with reiki through these realms provides. Every eye you come across and look into recognizes it. They see you too!
We will instantly have something in common if we acknowledge the light in each other when we see it. It makes a solid beginning for conversation, simple understanding or a passing moment with a stranger.
The quiet simplicity makes reiki an elegantly powerful way to turn on our light and have access to a greater experience of our own lives.
