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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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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

Masha4 Comments

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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Re-Claiming ME

In my Womanrune Immersion class with Molly Remer, the Rune a couple of days ago was the Egg.

Rune of naming. Word of Power. Magic Naming. Communication.

The word “naming” stuck with me all day I finally realized that I have been – naming me – for the last few years, and that in naming me I am – claiming me.

I CLAIM ME!

It’s taken me most of my life to claim me, to bring me out of deep hiding. I am the daughter of holocaust survivors, my parents were the only survivors out of their entire families. They each spent five years in concentration camps and I grew up listening to my mother tell me every day of the horrors of concentration camps.

As a young child I didn’t understand the words, their meaning, the heartbreak that each word carried, but I felt and absorbed my mothers pain, her guilt, her tears that ran down her face. I felt her body as she held me on her lap with the horrors she lived through.

As a child, I didn’t know how to process this and so I hid myself away, I hid so far and so deep that I almost didn’t find myself. I was born a year after my parents were liberated. I now know that the purpose I was born for was to give power and light. My parents were so broken, their heart, their spirit, their soul was shattered to pieces but they were able to go on living because of me. I gave them life, I gave them hope, I gave them a reason to go on, I gave them a purpose. And I gave them my power; I gave them the light they needed.

In the last few years I have been re-claiming my light and my power. Slowly I have been digging myself out of hiding and come to know who I am on my own without the holocaust. My parents have both transitioned to Love, they don’t need my power or my light now anymore and I am re-claiming me back.

The holocaust will always be a part of me; it’s my legacy, my history, my ancestry. But, if I stay hidden away I will always be a victim of it and live under it’s ashes.

I need to re-claim ME, to know my passions, my desires, to live in my power and to shine my light.

And so, I’m claiming ME. My power. My light.

How about you? Are you re-claiming yourself from your story? Post your re-claiming of you here, I’d love to know.

Many Blessings

July 19, 2015July 19, 2015

Masha12 Comments

Letting Go

I’m taking a class with Molly Remer “Womanrunes Immersion.” As soon as I picked this card “The Reflection” Rune of Surrender. Gentleness. Sacrifice. Letting Go. The image of three birds flying high up in the blue sky came to me, and I had the feeling that I was to give them what no longer fits for me. I was to let go of what is still holding me back from expanding and living in my truth.

Letting go of what contracts me.

I get attached to the old and familiar and have a hard time letting go.

Sometimes they’ve been with me for so long that I don’t even notice them anymore. Like right now as I’m writing the thought of it having to be something meaningful, have a purpose and be perfect and brilliant, has come up and is invading my being. I have to be conscious of these thoughts, recognize them, thank them, and send them on their way – reminding myself that right now I’m writing in my journal and this is for me alone and no one else, if I want to share it later I can always tweak it or leave it as is (if I’m really brave.)

When I allow those old thoughts to overtake me, and I’m editing every word before it even comes out and shows up on the page, it closes me up from getting to my truth.

This image has brought a new awareness.

As I mentioned in my last posting, I’ve entered a new higher level of consciousness, where I’m barely over the threshold, and I’m being asked to let go of all that is keeping me in a place that has finished teaching me.

I get so settled in my daily routines, in rituals that I have become used to, in prayers that I repeat every day but that have lost their meaning for me. In thoughts that repeat themselves. In habits that I just hold on to and not notice.

Moving into this new higher consciousness I have to let go of old thoughts, old rituals, old prayers, old affirmations, old ways of being that are no longer aligned with who I am and who I am becoming.

This rune Reflection and the image of the birds, is a reminder that I need to be fully present and connected to my highest and I can’t be, if there are interferences that are enclosing and contracting me.

So here I am –

E x p a n d i n g

L e t t i n g G o –

of all that is contracting me –

I let the birds carry it away…

I make room to welcome that which has yet to reveal itself to me.

That mystery that is waiting to awaken an even deeper awareness within me.

I l e t g o…

Use the image of the birds flying off with what you are letting go of. Share it here, I’d love to know what you have released.

Blessings

June 30, 2015

Masha8 Comments