Elixer

It looks as though I may begin another period of juice to start on my birthday, September 28. I don’t usually breathe a word about my birthday to people, because as far as I am concerned, that is my private affair and I don’t need others to trouble themselves with its celebration.

I had considered starting juice today and actually have, having had about a gallon of juice thus far, since today is the autumnal equinox, a cosmically auspicious time, but since the birthday is up in 6 days, I thought that would be an even more auspicious time to me personally.

Whether or not I do begin juice on September 28, however, does remain to be seen. Having come off of 112 days of juice just under 3 months ago, I am not feeling particularly enthusiastic about going the liquid route again just yet. But having said that, the juice diet is never something that has been easy for me to start, so if I can do it, certainly anybody can!

Speaking of birthdays, one can view one’s birthday as a sort of hub in the wheel of one’s affairs, or should I say, cycles. The birthday is a time when the pranas flow nicely. It is said that the hour of one’s birth is a particularly auspicious time for pranayama.

As humans, we require three types of “physical” food and they come in this order: breath, liquid and solid food. Breath, of course, being the most important, it is possible to tremendously charge oneself with prana through the exercise of pranayama.

However, one should not dismiss the prana contained in fresh, raw juices made from organic or wild produce, as liquid is second in importance only to breath and is, strictly speaking, certainly more important than solids. Such juice or liquid is like an elixir of The Mother Earth Herself, and of course, The Sun, the living plants being virtual pranic batteries as it were.

And, as those who advocate a living, raw plant based diet, we also get our pranas through the living cells of plants which are indeed pranic batteries of the Earth, and Sun’s energy, and Cosmic energies too. To take these foods after having been cooked would certainly diminish the quality and quantity of that prana.

Having said all these things, I did also get a gracious email today from David and Katrina Rainoshek. I thought it to be rather synchronistic to have received such a generous email from the pioneers of juice feasting not only on the day that I originally contemplated going on juice, but also 6 days prior to the tentative official start, a sign perhaps that it is indeed time to have another go?

As David has said in the past, this is a hero's journey.

Indeed, is this a hero's journey!

We are One. We are One! The more one aligns oneself with the Earth and the Sun and the Heavens above, the more the realization of Oneness takes place and the more synchronistic life gets.