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Savoring a Moment

I’m taking a class with Vivienne McMaster, Be Your Own Beloved. It’s about “seeing ourselves with kindness through our cameras.”

This is only the first week into this class and I feel already like I’ve opened myself up to a whole new place within myself of creativity and exploration of parts of me that I haven’t touched.

Today’s assignment is about savoring a moment and exploring the feelings that we experience in that moment.

For me that moment is when I’m in my sacred alone. When I am in the quiet of the morning hours and I feel myself, I feel my body, I feel my higher self, I feel the energy that is in me and around me. I love these times the most, they don’t happen so clearly every day, but when they do, ahhh they are the most precious to me.

What moments do you savor? What moments make you feel most at peace and connected?

Blessings

November 8, 2015November 8, 2015

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What’s Next in 2016

October is when I start to explore my sacred journey. It’s when I start thinking of what has come together for me this year? What do I want to let go of, what do I want more of. What am I doing to make changes, to open and allow in the new.

At the beginning of this year I decided that I want more community, spiritual partnerships, mystical experiences, peace, harmony…

I wanted what Mary Oliver wrote –

Pay attention

Be astonished

Tell about it

I think I did some of this.

I have moved myself out of fear and into the unknown with trust and faith in the Universe. And glorious miracles have happened.

I have paid more attention to compassion, surrender, love; I have opened to the mystery in a greater, richer way than ever before. I have welcomed new astonishments into my life; I have embraced my oracle cards in a new way, and am now feeling a pull to the Tarot.

I have stepped into my power and am lighting the way.

I have been letting the outrageous out.

With all of this my word for this year was ‘courage’ and courage has certainly been my companion. And so has our heavenly Mother Mary supporting me on my journey.

So now is the time to think about what I want to bring into my life in this next year?

Up to now I thought that ‘courage’ was still such a strong energy that it will continue to be one of my words for next year, but today I got the feeling that It may not be so. Maybe courage is kind of done with me. A couple of weeks ago when I asked the Universe for a word that will carry me for next year, immediately before I could even finish that thought the word ‘health’ popped into my mind. And it’s still with me as a strong energy. So ‘health’ is my word. And I’ll see how honoring health in mind, body and spirit will unfold and reveal itself to me in 2016.

Silence – that is being in silence with myself is something that I crave more of, so this will most definitely carry over to next year. I am now on day 10 of a promise I made to myself of not turning on my computer before I spend time in silence every morning. I spend time journal writing every day and I just sit quietly with myself immersed in my own thoughts. There is always plenty of time to be involved with the outside.

Showing up for me – for what I want, for what honors me, for what nourishes me, is a goal I have set for myself for this next year. Being in my power means all of this.

Some of the words that I will carry with me

Believe

Trust

Surrender

Wonder

Listen

Nourish

Ask

Give

Love

Yes

Miracles

Pray

Gratitude

Of course I’m not complete yet and have more to think of and prepare for my luscious next year, but this is a beginning.

I am open and I allow the Universe to unfold its treasures through me.

And so it is.

How are you honoring yourself? What have you accomplished this year? What do you want for yourself for next year, for 2016?

Blessings

October 30, 2015November 1, 2015

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Miracles in the Everyday

I’m so blown away by the magic of this universe. I finally created a FB page that is dedicated and connected to my blog and I wanted to write something special for my first posting, but couldn’t think of anything. So I let go of trying to do it, and let the universe guide me and I couldn’t have picked anything better.

Today I knew I had to have Mother Mary open this journey and as I was shuffling the deck the most perfect oracle card jumped out. This card never came to me before.

“Our Lady of Manifest Miracles”

“We may think of miracles as special, out-of-the-ordinary occurrences, yet Mother Mary teaches us that the miraculous is meant to happen every day…”

Can you get any more perfect than this???

Yes, miracles happen in the everyday ordinary days. Not just in the extraordinary. Not just to those special few deserving ones. No, my beautiful friends, we can each find the miracles in our everyday, if we have the courage to look for them.

It takes courage to find miracles when we’re afraid to open up, to be vulnerable, to forgive, to give a smile, to let yourself love, to let go of stuff that no longer serves your highest good – But here is where the miracles are.

It takes courage to step into your power. To say I’m special, I’m important. I deserve. I am worthy. I’m following my dreams no matter what. I love me – But here is where the miracles are.

It takes courage to find the miracles in the ordinary everyday, when life gets tough, when your health is failing. When on those days when it seems like nothing is going your way. When you feel alone. When it seems that all that life is doing is throwing you curve balls – But here is where the miracles are.

And you can find the miracles in the courage it takes to write from your heart and still publish after those doubts and accusations and the not good enoughs kick in.

Yes, it is in the everyday occurrences that miracles manifest, can you see them? Share your miracles, love to hear them.

Thank you Divine Loving Mother.

Many Blessings

The oracle card is from the Mother Mary Oracle by Alana Fairchild and artwork Shiloh Sophia McCloud

October 24, 2015November 1, 2015

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Nuggets of Wisdom

Often we busy ourselves with things that have to , need to, must get done – putting ourselves on the back burner. We think later I’ll make the time, but that later never comes.

Here is your Nugget of Wisdom for this weekend –

Take a few moments this weekend and embrace your inner goddess.

Make the time to dream of royal dreams.

Relax and bask in the possibilities that are now only in your imagination.

Allow for grandiose dreams to make themselves known, they are already true in the realms of all possibilities.

Can you see them as already manifested in reality?

Did you take a few moments for you? Love to hear from you.

Weekend Blessings

Art by Christian Schloe Digital Artwork

September 12, 2015September 13, 2015

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Shine Bright

If you’ve been hiding in the closet it’s time to come out and shine. You are here to create, you are here to be powerful, you are here to shine your light into the world and this is the time to move out from behind, to stop hiding behind the wall of fear, to be empowered and shine.

Gaze by BearlyFeline.deviantart.com

The new moon in Leo now is flooding us with power and we’re being asked to let go of the past and welcome in the new.

We’re being asked to heal our hearts and to live our lives in our authentic true North.

This new moon is holding a creative power and is unleashing its powerful golden light. We are invited to discover our unique gifts and create a vision with joy and love.

We are

LOVE ONLY LOVE

Let go

Step into your power

Let your ‘outrageous’ come out

Let the golden light of Leo Moon envelop you

Shine bright!

How are you being called to shine? I invite you to share your inner calling here, love to hear from you.

Leo Moon Blessings

August 14, 2015August 15, 2015

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Entering a New Phase

I am here.

I am present.

I am open.

I am ready.

~ Janet Conner

I have entered a new phase in my life.

A higher level of consciousness.

I’m letting go and trusting in the Mystery.

I’m not real steady here yet, old habits, old thoughts and old fears keep on showing up and I have to be conscious of them and weed them out.

Form and Formless by Krystle Smith

I don’t know what’s waiting for me in this new phase, this new higher consciousness, but what I know for sure is that I have to embrace it fully and completely, honor it and step into it with courage and conviction and stand in my power – be in the knowing that this new journey that is unfolding its glorious path right in front of my eyes, is exactly where I need to be right now.

I’m being given exactly what I need on this new path to reach a deeper knowing. The people that appear on my path, the partnerships I’m forming, the lessons, the messages from Spirit guides, animal guides, my angels and celestial beings, and the visions that are popping into my head, are all here to support me and this Mystery is holding me up in its loving arms and I am ready –

I am ready.

Invitation – take some time to reflect on your own path, where are you on your journey? What do you need to weed out? What are you embracing? Come and share here, I love to hear from you.

Many Blessings

August 5, 2015August 5, 2015

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