Keep those Heart Fire's Burning

Sitting cozy here by the fire at home, after what seems like a whirlwind autumn and winter, I have time to reflect and collect inspiration.

The recent whirlings have included being an historical Ancient Egyptian Queen, Nodgmet at the British Museum; creating masks of Anubis and Thoth; designing and editing this year's Mexihka Calendar; selling our Heart Flower Herbal creams at various christmas markets, going to Ireland for the holidays, visiting the States, doing treatments, temazcals (Mexihka Sweat lodge Ceremony) and seminars and then completing my final training in Mexico.

And after all that racing around, being at home and quiet in the dark of winter feels a bit like bliss. This photograph seemed the most appropriate for keeping the cozy feeling. I took it this October when I was visiting my family. After finishing giving treatments to some of my family, I stood out by the fire and realised it had naturally formed a heart.

Fire, as the ancestors tell us, is the oldest energy. Hue Hue Teotl in the nahuatl: Old Old Energy. Sometimes it is called Grandfather. It is the passion for our lover, the creative spark that ignites with a new idea, it is the force of transformation that could burn a forest to replenish it, or a flame in the window to guide us home. The line between ally and enemy is fine and is decided by our choices, our conscious awareness.