Hiya!

Last night, I went with a friend of mine to see Debbie Ford.  I have read a few of her books and LOVE her work…she is all about the shadow.

What is the shadow?

Well, think of a person that drives you nuts…or better yet…pisses you off…or even better better yet…someone you hate!  Now, think about what you hate about that person…what are the traits that this person has that rubs you the wrong way.  It is not about the behaviors…it is about the traits. For example: let’s say that the person you are thinking of (the one who makes you want to scream!) is ALWAYS late.  Being late is a behavior.  What is the trait behind being late?

Selfish?

Indulgant?

Flacky?

Okay.  So now that you have thought of a trait…or a string of them. (more…)

Ahhhhhh the beautiful fragrance of a fresh new year!  I can smell it in the air.  I can hear folks talking about it in line at the store.  I hear adds on TV pumpin’ it up….

We love a clean slate.  We love a do over.  We love the opportunity to bring new energy to something that we want.

Here is a beautiful clean slate…January 1st 2009….all fresh…waiting for the master piece to be painted.

So, how do we honor the energy of a clean slate without covering it with a bunch of garbage? (more…)

Hello there!
It snowed today here in Colorado.  It felt nice and cozy.  Yes, I LOVE the cold.  My fella calls me the "ice queen."  The colder and snowier…the better.  So, I am very excited that its fall and soon will be winter. 

I used to live in Santa Barbara, California…it is beautiful there and I love the ocean…but, it was ALWAYS sunny.  Drove me nuts.  I used to say that it was like living with a roommate who smiled all the time…ya just want to smack em and say…"get a mood would ya!!!!!"

Okay…enough weather talk.
On to the tarot card for the week.  This one was chosen from my "Angelic Messenger Cards."

Enjoy!

Sustenance

Present challenge:  Merging your guidance from your angelic teachers to help you love yourself.

You are needing to sustain your body and maintain your inner balance more completely and thoroughly as you surmount the challenges and accept the changes in your life.  You may feel you’ve been too heavily influenced by the opinions and actions of others and that you are now seeking to stay within your own power and find your love for yourself, so that you can grow spiritually even if others choose not to."

Angelic Message
Sustenance

"You may not think of angels supporting your life as directly as we do, but the angelic realm is committed to helping each human being in many specific ways to transform current personal and planetary difficulties.  We seek to enlighten humanity to move more completely into a course of wise action stemming from a creative involvement with us and with all inspired teachers of love and compassion.  We are ever-present to you as a source of love and enduring support.   we are in your dreams by night and your meditations by day.  we are always with you through pain or loss, through death and transcendence, and through joy, health, recovery, and lasting success.

You speak to us and we speak to you most directly through the beauty of Flowers on your Earth.  The flowers are our angelic messengers, meant to offer you our love and support.  When you look into the face of a flower you see the Universe, the galaxies, the starts, and the planets sprinkled and clustered across the sky.  You see life, death, and re-birth.  You see human frailty, fear, and loss as well as courage, joy, and ascension.

Working with flower images will help you develop your intuition and your ability to more readily interpret life symbolically and archetypally.  Guidance is everywhere around you.  As you accept that you and we are one, then the fact that you are for the moment physical and we are for the time being no physical will present no barriers to our being together.

We speak to you through flowers so that you can draw essential help and love for your own life.  There are lessons to be learned by observing flowers.  You can hear us each day, each moment, and benefit from closing the space between your heart and our love, between your point to transformation and our assurance of your eternal life."

Spiritual Opportunity

The guidance being shared with you is to focus on the power of challenge and the importance of lessons learned.  Even though you may experience stressful, fearful or anxiety-producing times in your daily living, Source continues to reach out to you.  You benefit from listening in love to your spirit and to your non-physical teachers. As you grow through challenges to your physical health and the continued well-being and growth in your relationships, your spirit is sustaining and strengthening you and encouraging your acceptance of lasting well-being.

You are more effective, productive, and capable of love yourself when you seek and live the guidance that is so continually available to you through flowers.  You will be more successful in finding happiness in your own partnership or close relationships as you accept your own spiritual center and seek to know it better.  If others talk behind your back or misrepresent your motives, or if people you love seem to wobble and vacillate emotionally and seem unable to offer you what you need, understand that they too are seeking a spiritual center, whether they are able to verbalize that search or not.

Unconditional love for self and others, fairness, compassion, understanding, lack of judgment–all are qualities that emerge when individuals are sustained by their spirit and they know it.

Here are some questions to ask yourself the next time you have an upsetting or incomplete conversation:

• What can I take in from the conversation that can help me?
• What belief about myself is being challenged?
• What am I willing to admit about myself and the other person without judging the rightness or wrongness of either my response or that of the other person?

Be easy with all of this…its meant to soothe…not hurt!

Hi there everyone.  It has been a couple of weeks since I felt inspired to write.  I had a bit of a wrestle with this health blip of mine and the pain sucked out all the inspiration from my system! 

But, I am feeling better now and interestingly enough…as soon as the searing pain went away…I started to have these funny things…I think they are called "thoughts"…anyway, they started showing up in my brain.  Yay!!!!!

So, now I can actually string thoughts together and make sentences!  Ah, miracles DO happen every day!!!!!!!!!

Now, on to the tarot card choice for this week.  This card has been chosen from Doreen Virtues:
Goddess Guidance Oracle Card.

BAST
Independent

"Your independence is a foundation for your strength and success."

Message from Bast:  "Like the cat, you’re fiercely independent, yet you also need affection and playful companions.  Now is the time to balance your social interactions with solitude.  While you may ask others for their opinions, ultimately you must make your own decisions.  Your freedom and independence are top priorities, so ensure that these characteristics are nurtured."

Various Meanings of this Card:  Spend time alone * Give yourself permission to play * Ask for your needs to be met * Make your own decision * Work with cats * Pay attention to your pet feline and/or get a new cat

About Bast:  Rhymes with Mast:  The Egyptian goddess Bast transforms into a cat each night and protects her family and those who call upon her with her all-seeing night vision.  She exhibits the catlike traits of the feminine, which include gracefulness, independence, playfulness, and intuition.  Bast also works with cat lovers to help their feline companions.  The daughter of the sun god, Ra, Bast has the rare distinction of being both a moon and a sun goddess.

Interesting card indeedy!  I am soooooooo NOT a cat person…but, I am fiercely independent.  I like dogs:)  Ah, well…whaddya gonna do! 

Here are some questions to ponder:

• What would support more freedom for you this week?

• In what ways is your natural independence wanting more of a say in your day to day?

• Since we are all born to play, some times we honor this…sometimes not…what ways can you tap into this playful energy on a day to day basis?

Well, gotta fly…I am off to go paint some doodles with my new paint brushes. 

Ta Ta for now!

Hello there fabulous people!

Hope you are all doing well…or on your way to feeling a bit better!

We enjoyed a gorgeous weekend here in Northern Colorado.  Perfect weather…blue skies and cool temperatures with a nice breeze!  There are some new visitors to my bird feeders.  Not sure who they are…gotta look em up in my bird book. 

We also have a new…bigger visitor.  Not sure what it is.  But, it is big enough to knock over one of my larger, metal bird feeders and break it.  Maybe its a large raccoon named Vinny…or something.  Only comes out at night!  Sneaky, big fella!

Well, time for me to Rune your week!

This weeks Rune:

Raido

JOURNEY * COMMUNICATION * UNION * REUNION

Inner worth mounts here, and at such a time you are not intended to rely entirely upon your own power. Instead, ask what constitutes right action.  Ask through prayer or mediation, through addressing the Witness Self, the Teacher Within.  Once you are clear, you can neutralize your refusal to let right action flow through you.  Not intent on movement, be content to wait; while you wait, keep on removing resistances.  As the obstructions give way, all remorse arising from trying to make things happen disappears.

The journey is toward self-healing, self-change and union.  You are concerned here with nothing less than unobstructed, perfect union.  But the union of Heaven and Earth cannot be forced.  Regulate any excesses in your life.  Material advantages must not weight heavily on the journey of the self towed the Self.  Stand apart even from like-minded others;  the notion of strength in numbers does not apply at such a time, for this part of the journey–the soul’s journey–cannot be shared.

Another of the Cycle Runes, Raido carries within its form the Rune of Joy, for now the end is in sight.  You are no longer burdened by what you’ve left behind.  Heaven above you and Earth below you unite within you to support you on your way."

Many of the journeys that we take with the Self are solo journeys.  These are not journeys that can be shared with others.  It seems that the act of trying to share these mysteries with someone else, lose something in translation. 

It is an amazing thing to witness the Self alone and have that witnessing be fulfilling.

It is amazing to have moments when Heaven and Earth blend within ourselves…when there is no separation.  To feel the flow of source and how this feels as it connects with the human self are the moments that can feel full of magic. 

So, fabulous readers…

What is uniting "from above and below" within you?

What internal conflicts within you, those places that have two sides, two elements, are ready to communicate and create a union of thought that will bring you more peace?

Can you feel the soft breeze of Joy hangin’ out underneath all of this?

Ain’t it grand?
Love it…love it….love it!!!!!

Please feel free to share your thoughts:)  Comments are so appreciated!

Oh…and on a totally different note…"Desperate Housewives" season premier is on in just a little bit!  Yay! 

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend.

I had a lovely day on Saturday.  Went up to the mountains for a hike with a girlfriend of mine.  It was beautiful up there.  The aspens are just beginning to turn yellow…gorgeous!  We made friends with a little chipmunk.  This little friend hung out with us while we hung out by a small lake and talked about art.

Today was cloudy and cool.  I spent the day in pain, watching romantic comedies and avoiding talking to friends on the phone.  Ah contrast….don’tcha just love it?!

Okay…on to the Tarot Card for this week.  It is a good one!

This weeks card was chosen from The Housewives Tarot: A Domestic Divination Kit with Deck and Instruction Book~

SIX OF SWORDS
Revelations * Transition * Better Times Ahead

"After spending so much time and energy looking for a way out of your troubles, you’ve finally seen the light.  With a spark of insight, it looks like you can finally put your troubles behind you.  This is a transitory period in your life; you will be moving out of the darkness and into the sunshine.  It’s time to release all the pent-up anxiety and aggression and make way for happier times."

Love this! 

So, think of some ways that will allow you to release any remaining pent up anxiety.
How about some ways that can assist you in releasing that remaining aggression?  A good run?  A hard hike?  A long journaling session?  Painting a room?  Clearing the summer plants in your garden?  There are so many ways to do this.

Makin’ ways for happier times…not too shabby!!!!!

Have fun!
Talk to you tomorrow!