There are 40 days left in this year! What does That make you think of?

Forty days and forty nights of the biblical flood. Forty days Moses was on Mt. Sinai receiving the Ten Declarations (commandments doesn't really quite describe them properly). Forty days in the wilderness for Jesus/Yeshua. Forty years the Israelites wandered in the desert. Et cetera.

In other words, 40 is a pretty significant, symbolic number. There are other examples, but suffice it to say, 'things can drastically change' in a forty day period, right?

In the Hebrew aleph-bet the letter that signifies '40' is the thirteenth letter, mem. That 13 has issues, too, right? ;-D Anyway, this letter represents the element of water. Interesting when you think of the flood, huh? So what is the deal with water?

Water is an element of change, as are fire and wind. Water is the element of thought, intuition, emotion. It is the spiritual aspect of life.

A Jewish mikvah, which we would--erroneously--compare to a baptismal, is filled with 40 se'ahs (a measurement) of water. At certain times a person will go to the mikvah for a ceremonial act wherein s/he will not take in a breath, as we are wont to do, but will blow out their breath and go under the water. At this point it is believed that without the 'breath of life' they are at one with The One, as spirit with spirit, I guess you could say. When they emerge, they are renewed.

I could get way deeper here, but I will leave you with this thought: If the earth was renewed after 40 days and 40 nights under water; if a new 'people' were 'created' crossing the Sea of Reeds (Red Sea) and receiving the 'commandments' after Moses spent 40 days on the mount, what great changes can you manifest for yourself beginning to today that you can see fulfilled on the first of the new year, 40 days from now?

I look forward to seeing the 'new and improved' you (and me) on January 1st. Take a deep breath--then slowly breath out...imagine, believe, be transformed!

Harvester Zoe (Maybe tomorrow I will discuss how the 13 works with this--It isn't an unlucky number at all! Someone remind me!) ;-D