Hello and welcome to your daily fortune practice with me Keziah Gibbons.
Use this short practice every morning to recognize good fortune and invite in more.
Start by making yourself comfortable in your practice space.
Ensure that you're comfortable and well supported.
Notice your breathing allowing it to become naturally restful without any forcing.
You may notice sights,
Sounds and external sensations during this practice and if you do so understand that this is just life going on around you in all its wonder and return your attention to the practice.
You may also notice thoughts,
Sensations and emotions at any point during the practice and if you do so give thanks for the gift of life going on within you and return your attention to the practice.
When you're ready close your eyes and turn your attention inwards.
Feel yourself anchored where you're supported by whatever you're resting on grounded in the moment.
Allow your breathing to reach all the way down to where you're supported.
Now bring your internal focus to the place behind your forehead where your third eye is.
You might notice colors or images as you focus on this area but equally you're noticing might be more in the form of sensation,
Space,
Resonance or even sound or words.
Whatever your experience is it is right and valid.
Allowing your attention to rest here follow your own awareness inwards going deeper inside now until you find a sacred space within.
In this place we are going to place an altar to fortune and this is the altar that you will tend daily as you invite in good fortune and give thanks for all that you already have.
Don't worry if you can't find this altar immediately.
Each time you practice you create it inside yourself making room for fortune within you.
Let's start by illuminating the altar.
Imagine that you're lighting a candle in that sacred space inside.
You might visualize the flame perhaps the color of the candle or you might hear the sound of the flame as it lights and flickers or you may just feel a place inside that is a little warmer as if lit by a candle.
It is your intention that you're offering to fortune and so the intention is enough.
As this candle flame lights and grows within you you might bring something in to represent fortune.
This could be an image of the goddess Fortuna,
The wheel of fortune,
A four-leaf clover or anything that represents fortune to you.
But it doesn't have to be an image you might simply recall the feeling that you had last time you couldn't believe your luck or appreciated a moment of good fortune in your life.
Or you might speak words invoking,
Inviting and honoring fortune in whatever way is meaningful to you.
Now that your candle is lit and you have an inner altar dedicated to fortune take a few moments to appreciate the good fortune that you already have or have had in your life.
What makes you feel most fortunate in life?
Allow your mental list to get as long as you like including relationships,
Prosperity,
Safety,
Opportunities,
Health,
Time when things have gone your way,
Lucky surprises,
Every instance of good fortune that you can think of.
As you recall all the good fortune that is already yours or that you have experienced in the past make offerings of it on your altar.
It is enough to recall and acknowledge your good fortune.
And you may or may not find that images,
Sounds,
Words and feelings gather around your altar testifying to your good fortune.
When you're ready give thanks for all the good fortune that you have had in your life so far.
Even if things have been challenging recently there will be little moments of fortune past and present for you to acknowledge and give thanks for.
And your gratitude is a good way to cultivate the relationship with fortune.
Acknowledge what even the smallest incidences of fortune have given you.
When you have given thanks aloud or in your mind's voice take a moment to sit peacefully with your awareness of the energy of fortune.
When you are ready ask fortune to smile on you.
You may have a specific endeavor in mind or may just wish for fortune to be present in your life in general.
Be clear on what it would mean for you to have fortune's blessing and you may wish to offer a blessing on fortune,
On the world or on a specific person as part of your practice.
Come back to the candle at the altar.
Notice any changes which may have taken place as you practice today.
Anything you see,
Feel,
Hear or know as you sit with your inner altar to fortune.
Leave the candle burning knowing that it is an internal representation of your dedication to fortune and come away from the altar ready to close the practice.
Return to your awareness of your physical experience,
Your breathing,
The way your body is supported.
Allow yourself to rest for a moment in the peacefulness of this.
Gradually open your awareness back up to the space around you.
You may notice sounds around you and lights coming in through your eyes.
You may wish to move in some way,
Perhaps even to add a little smile to your face.
When you're ready,
If you haven't already,
You may open your eyes.
Allow your body to move and go about your day carrying fortune's blessing with you.
Return to this practice daily to cultivate your relationship with fortune.
In the meantime,
I wish you many blessings and all good things.
