Author: Ki McGraw

Welcome, May! This Beltane, the fire on my altar sits amongst the flowers from our anniversary after watching the Marilyn Monroe biopic. My husband’s early programming paraded about in the solar eclipse energy as I witnessed.

My own early programming is also stirred up as my grandma’s name is May. While she was no Marilyn, she continues to walk with me through my life. She keeps me hoofing.

Who walks with you? What of your early programming continues? Ki to Happiness walks with the memories that help me keep my chin up.

As the energies shift today into the new moon, we will experience a solar eclipse. When we are unaware of these energies, we may feel them in our subconscious and act out in frustration. Becoming conscious of these energies empowers us to do something else.

The recommendation is to do something creative, whatever that means to you and your artistic soul. Especially doing so with regard to your own personal habits you might find the next month filling with personal progress. Plant the seeds of your conscious intentions today for beauty, harmony and love.

Can you channel your frustrations and hindrances into a creative outlet today? What intentions would you like to set for the month of May? Ki to Happiness plants seeds of consciousness.

I didn’t work with my writing coach yesterday. It’s our week off , yet we are friends, so we try to talk anyway. Despite emailing, texting, and calling I heard nothing back.

In her absence I felt the undertow of love I have for her pulling me toward the awareness of how significant she has become in my life beyond her excellent coaching. I made sure I let her know that this morning in my response to an email I received from her in the night. Sometimes absence makes the heart more aware of the fondness between us.

In the absence of a loved one, what do you do with the undertow? Have you done all you can to let them know how important they are to you? Ki to Happiness expresses her love in the awareness brought forth from absence.

In my husband‘s younger days, he was an exceptional athlete. In addition to his fine yoga practice, in his adulthood he also continued to be able to run like a gazelle. He utilized these abilities to their full extent coaching basketball for our son and his team for years, as I assisted.

It’s humbling and painful for him to walk now after his stroke. Yet his athletic spirit keeps him on his new program. I’m rewarded by walking with him, if slowly, as for a time it wasn’t possible.

What abilities have you lost in your life? Are you able to channel your essential spirit into your new activities? Ki to Happiness walks in peace together with Bob

When Covid restrictions hit, I needed help revising my old manuscript so I signed up for a writing class called Whose Story is It-Fact or Fiction, offered by an old friend who is an award winning author. As we dug into the class material I embraced the awareness that all stories are partly fiction. That freed me to continue rewriting and revising.

These days truth seems to depend on who you ask. Facts are only as good as the researchers who often have a vested interest in swaying opinion. Within each of us, we hold the truth of our soul, which frees me to continue here.

What do you need to free yourself up so you can continue offering the truth of your soul? How willing are you to embrace your story as it is, partly factual and partly confabulated? Ki to Happiness learned a long time ago from one of her mentors “We are all making it up, so make it good”!

20 years ago Bob and I graduated our 1st Yoga Teacher Training group in Bali. We had the local priest come to bless the ceremony. As we planned our wedding in Seattle for the following month, we asked the priest to bless our intended wedding rings at the graduation ceremony as well.

We didn’t realize that the priest would actually marry us then and there. Surprise! 20 years later, I’m still surprised.

What surprised you 20 years ago? Was it blessed? Ki to Happiness shares her surprise blessing daily through Hatha Yoga Center hybrid classes and private sessions.

I practice yoga every day. I’ve been doing so for decades. I do so so that when the rest of my life happens, I continue with my practices and they serve me to stay well balanced, centered, and connected to my highest guidance.

Last night another cat was left outside our home inside the building. I slept poorly, tossing and turning in my unconscious connection to his disturbance. My practices got me up early as usual so I could go to his aid, and then shift directly into all of our ritual practices together.

What do you do every day? How does it help you when you face challenges? Ki to Happiness spontaneously turns toward those practices she ritualistically engages with every day.

I found ranuculus and anemones at our local Saturday Farmers Market. The fresh bouquet beings to bloom. It will open its petals to greet our 20 year anniversary 4/26.

I love the farmers. I gladly share my abundance with them as they so steadily do with our community. Bob and I continue to cultivate our bond so it blooms for all to enjoy, like the bouquet.

What are you cultivating? How can you best share it? Ki to Happiness offers steady abundance of unconditional love from the Invisible Supply.

Living at the edge of our existence brings us present. Many seek out the experience through adventure or extreme challenges. Unconsciously we may bring it on through injury or illness.

As we become aware of this, we can choose consciously to go to our edge through our breath and yoga postures. Once we arrive at the end of our flexibility or breath capacity, we find ourselves anew. Being real, present and awake to the marvelousness of life is it’s own reward.

What helps you to be real? How gracefully can you choose those situations, circumstances or conditions? Ki to Happiness chooses to be real with yoga practices.

As we celebrate our collective home of the earth this day, let’s do so as we ground in abundance. Every breath we take has been provided for us. Every step we have taken, we have landed on solid ground eventually.

Every hope and dream has been ignited from an invisible flame. Every feeling issues forth from the fountain of our being. I am a vessel of these abundant blessings with you.

How comfortable are you with being an earthling? Can you open yourself to receive the abundance of the good mother earth? Ki to Happiness is blessed to share this earthly home with you a while.