Hello Welcome 🙂 This edition of the “Gifts from Younger Me” newsletter contains Pages 21-35 of “What if Magic Is Real?”, a fully handwritten book completed in the span of 2 months (January 26th 2024 – March 24th 2024). If this is the first edition you’re catching, I recommend backtracking to get a better sense of what’s going on. View previous editions HERE.
January 30th 2024…
~ Good Morning.
J: Good Morning.
~ Come have a seat with us on these cushions in the grass. We don’t always have to be discussing something. We can also sit and look around and breathe and feel the breeze and listen to the birds.
J: I lay down and place my head in her lap. She puts her arms around me and holds me. Younger me runs to join and snuggles within my arms with a smile. She holds my arms tight and I give her a squeeze. I close my eyes and settle into both holding and being held.
~ We can stay here as long as you like <3
J: Choosing to believe this is real, is beautiful. Let’s stay a while.
~ It’s real. It’s real. It’s real. I love you. I love you. I love you. We love you. We love you. You magical creature.
February 6th 2024…
J: Maybe I have such a strong connection with paper because I have such a strong connection to trees.
~ Yes! Build on that, explore that.
J: Okay. Well. Trees are amazing. They symbolize a passage between worlds because their roots reach to hell and their branches reach to heaven (it’s an expression). They connect the soil to the sky, and the sky to the soil. Trees also intertwine with each other, connecting via those same roots and branches. So… paper holds that same significance. Paper is the path between worlds. The story remains one despite being on different pages because all the pages are intertwined with each other.
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~That’s great but you’re focusing on the trees rather than on your connection to the trees.
J: I see what you mean but I’m tired right now. The only other thing I can think of on this topic is that I love hugging trees, I love climbing trees; spending time near trees and in them, I feel a sense of safety and calm. I feel loved by trees. I feel like I’m a part of nature and like I don’t need to be anything other than me when I’m around trees. Maybe we can say paper gives me the space and safely to express myself, be all of who I am.
~ Lovely. I can see that you’re tired so I won’t push this topic more. But I hope it got you thinking, I hope it inspired some curiosity in you. My goal now is to guide you back to an unshakable belief in magic and in your magic. My goal is to guide you to strengthen your power- which requires nothing but practice.
J: I find it interesting that you used the word “inspire”. I was just telling my friends yesterday that I declare the existence of a new word: “inspirating” which has the same meaning as the word “inspire”
I think it sounds better to say “that book was inspirating to me” rather than “that book was inspiring to me.” Inspiring is too round of a word for the meaning it has because inspiration can be a spark, it can have a kick, it can be a bit pointy. So we need that “t” in “inspirating”.
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~ You, feeling pulled to declare the existence of a new word! Your magic is settling into your body. Wonderful! Keep declaring words when you want to. You’ll soon find out how much the language you use matters.
J: I want to share another so-called coincidence. On February 4th (2 days ago), I had a flight from Madrid to New York. When I got in the taxi to go to the airport, the first thing I heard on the radio was someone reciting a Harry Potter quote where Dumbledore said that words are magic, words are powerful (it was in Spanish so I don’t remember the exact quote but I know this is another example of our conversations showing up in my physical world).
Words are magic. And the words I think and the words I say are important. And, I think the words I write are even more important. The fact that I write is the most important.
We stroll along a path in the forest not saying anything more for a while. We reach a spot with a gray rock poking out of the ground, about half of my height.
~ Let’s sit here a moment. I have something to tell you.
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~ A long time ago you were born among the stars. You were one of the wisest and wildest. You worked with other stars together as a team . Well, let me not say “worked”. There was a good amount of responsibility but it wasn’t considered “work”. It was play. It was dancing in your meaning.
With these stars you were safe. You didn’t know what the words safe or unsafe meant because you never felt unsafe. You belonged and you created that place of belonging for others.
You and the other stars were pillars of light and dark.
You danced and created on the infinite darkness. Just like you do now when you close your eyes and imagine something.
What happened, and how you got from there to where you are now is something we can talk about another time.
But hear me when I say this: You are not just one of the people on Earth who can see magic. You are a guardian of magic. (Sidenote, that doesn’t mean you fight the people who can’t see magic.)
You are magic growing up in a world that largely doesn’t believe in your existence. In order to guide others to see magic, you need to allow yourself to be seen, and heard.
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Let me say that one more time. You are magic on Earth. If you want to step into your purpose, if you want others to see magic, you need to learn to let yourself be seen.
Stop walking around like you aren’t the guardian of magic. Stop walking around hoping someone will see your hidden identity and write you a permission slip to embody it.
You don’t need people’s permission.
You are literally here on different rules than the ones human society told to your human self. And you know it!
You’ve known it for a long time. The hamster wheel doesn’t apply to you.
You also know that you are supported. All the time. By me, by others in Eponicericeval, by other pillars of light and dark. You ask us for help and we’re here. We are only waiting for your words, for the actions you want to take, for the painting you want to make.
Do you feel that lock in you? The doubt that you are this powerful being that can choose the actions we execute to help your purpose. I’m not going to sit here longer and convince you of your ability to design, convince you of who you are. You know. And enough is enough. You know you are. Break, that, LOCK.
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J: Hahahaha! Julie, my love. It’s been too long. We do have much to do, don’t we? We have more words to invent, stories to tell, pictures to paint in infinite space. My oh my.
You don’t need to convince me of anything more.
I’m here!
I’m here!
I’m fabulously here!
Ah, I’ll admit the human world is quite confusing. How exactly to use my powers here, I gladly recruit your help to figure it out. As far as I can remember this is the most interesting game yet. The limits make the creativity all the more fun.
Anyway, my human is tired. I need to bring her some rest, some sleep. So I’m going to go for now. If I ever take too long a time to visit Eponicericeval, send me a message in my physical world. Don’t let me forget.
We have my outfit to plan.
I love you. Good Night. Sweet dreams.
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February 9th 2024…
J: Hi. Good Morning. I have a question, who is Julie? I know I was the one speaking on page 32 and 33 but I don’t know why I said what I said, and I really don’t think that sounded like me. It sounded like a man speaking. Was it me?
~ Good Morning Janet. I’m so happy to see you again and to hear you asking questions. Let me start with the second question. Yes, it’s you. A part of you. It’s the Luigi Lemoncello, Willy Wonka, magical-showman-who-wants-to-build-wonderous-places part of you. It’s the confident character who orchestrates mysteries for others to have fun solving. Don’t separate it from yourself.
And who is Julie? I don’t know. Me I guess. It’s the name you’ve chosen to call me for the time being.
Up Next: February 9th 2024 Continued… J: I don’t know who you are. I mean, I don’t know what you are. You feel different to me each time we talk…
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