Conscious holiday giving. It’s not all about Consumerism, and no it’s not about religion too, well not for me. For me it goes back further than that.
Maybe it’s too late, maybe you already bought half the shops out of stock, or maybe you’ve been waiting for the green light to grinch it up too..
Each year this becomes a stronger pull for me to not want to give or recieve things.
For me, it simply seems crazy (like many things, too many things to mention haha) that we would keep spending our hard earned cash on frivolous trash which is basically utilised for 1 day, ever, as next year of course, there will be another band of buying to replace the discarded items from this year past.. And the cycle continues.
Maybe I am a grinch, or an overly deep thinker but to me it seems we need a few more people to have some discernment around things so easily manipulated by media, big brands and ideals which clearly don’t care for the future of generations, even if they pretend to care for 1 or 2 days à year, to get us to give them more money.
If we really look at it, astrologically if we look at science and physics, Christmas, as in the 24th, is the 3rd day after the solstice (we usually have 3 days to feel the effects of shifts and changes within the planets, moon and stars, ie the sun), the birth of the sun from the darkness, or as christians see it the birth of the son of God.
We are celebrating the returning of light, in the northern hemisphere, the sun, the giver of life (watch a plant or human try to grow without light), for me THIS is the miracle. The simple fact of light and warmth from the Sun God coming back to help food and air-cleaning trees to regrow (you know, the real essentials). All of this with the presence of the ones we love, a cold time, great to eat, drink, hibernate and be merry with them.
I don’t understand why we’ve allowed media companies to turn this into another excuse to make money. “Oh the economy”… There are more important things to life than economics and capitalism.
Money comes and goes, but our time and people in our lives, never again will the chance of these moments come back. I would rather visit someone I love, do something together. Or make a gift of warmth, or find something to bring them light (without the packaging).
Consciousness seems to be the new fad, which seems ironic, from my perspective, considering the above. Hence, if we’re ‘being conscious’, why not include conscious gifting this holiday period?
Love n peace x