Why would you allow yourself to die over and over again. You, just as I, are a messenger. We behold power not known to this world, and yet you die for them. Only to come back to put forth majesticy to die again. How can you do that for them?

As the Phoenix sat there starting to smolder with compounded tears in its eyes, spoke to the raven with such clarity. You ask me why and how, old one. My answer is that of hope and faith. For I leave my imprint knowing the flame will not be forgotten. I forge Faith through the flame knowing love will always shine through. For it is the power of love that brings me back to life, each and every time. For what you view as dying is just another form of rebirth. If there was no love I would never be reborn. Old one... messenger... when you tell this tale, speak of magic and wonder. Not tragedy and futility. Go forth and share what you have seen, for who and what I am comes only once in a life to show you the magic that still exists.

Raven sat there, head bowed for the rest of the engagement, feeling only what Phoenix had spoken. Watching love transform chaos and destruction back into beauty and grace. Love… love is magic.

~ Miss Riddle ♡

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Humanity

The world is slowly cracking open all around us, revealing multitudes of corruption and greed that has kept us in chains for too long. Rome needed to fall.

We are choosing the fate of not only us on this planet right now, but everything that resides here and for generations to come. If we’re lucky to see that far ahead. We have developed a mentality that we can destroy things and it’s okay - someone else will clean it up or we can just go get a new one. Not everything works like that. We have lost our sense of responsibility and personal power. You would be amazed at how many beautiful, positive changes can come out of gaining and implementing those two concepts. We truly do hold the key to changing and saving things. It is and always has been up to us. We are the saviours we have been waiting for.

A lot of us feel there is no hope. That we have already hit the point of no return. While we are at the end of certain things, death does not always mean death as the way you think; it usually means rebirth. A catastrophic change like a dying Phoenix. A change so severe and grand that kills the old way of things, and brings upon a new age. An age of sustainability and logic. We possess all of the tools and technology necessary to usher in this new dawn. It’s grasping ourselves enough to lead with logic and no fear of the new. The unknown is not something to fear, but something to embrace with curiosity.

How do we get there? How do we make the change of the world is in chains? In concept, very easily. The world will only change once we each make changes within our own lives, and within ourselves to allow this new world to come into fruition. If you want kindness, be kind. If you want beauty, plant seeds. For every smile given ripples out 100 times.

We have hatred, poverty, sexual injustices, an immense amount of unprecedented and unneeded deaths, carelessness, greed, envy, etc. The root of all these problems is the self and life’s conditioning. Which are two concepts you are able to break the chains of. You are the only one who holds the key. Outside circumstances or things will never change the mechanics of the formula of how this works. The hardest thing to do is accept that you need to heal yourself, and then do the healing work - both mentally and physically.

Each person has their own personal journey of healing. There is no one size fits all. But the key mechanics of how to achieve healing will all be the same. How you get yourself there is up to you. It’s not about conforming, it’s about leading with logic. Logic is another key to getting us out of this big picture disaster we have allowed to happen. Each of us has a unique set of skills and perspectives. If we put them towards solving our problems and instead of allowing everything that divides us - divide us, we could come together and make this change expidentially faster than we could have never initially imagined. We need to learn to lead with our mind and hearts instead of our hurts.

For every problem that exists does have a solution - even if you can’t see it yet. This is the law of yin and yang - balance. With every negative simultaneously exists a positive, and vice versa. We have our solutions. The first step is hope. The second step is faith. The third step is self awareness. The fourth step is taking back your personal power. The fifth step is understanding and accepting your responsibility not only to your life and immediate people/things, but also to the entire world around you. The sixth is implementing those realizations and putting action and changes behind it.

If everyone would do this in their own life and their own personal way with the uniqueness given to them - we would see a ripple through humanity in a positive way. Then we could learn to set aside our differences and work together to build solutions to our problems. The issue is not possessing solutions, it’s about regaining our humanity.