The Inside Job

As astrologer Molly McCord titled her recent video, the new moon on 11/13/23 is indeed full of “Volatile Changes, Shake-Ups”, with an opportunity, to “Move Forward With A Deeper Sense of Power”. But accessing one’s internal power means removing the debris field that’s stands between you and your relationship with self.

Deal breakers in relationships also includes putting the brakes on listening to “unconditional crap” we tell ourselves on a regular basis. Through a program I’m studying we are learning to backtrack to their roots any trigger emotions felt from things people say or do in current time. Roots often embedded in childhood experiences, ways we’ve hurt others, things people said and did to us, and situations we misunderstood. Now when I see the mainstream headlines, and hear how people talk about the world (and themselves) it’s abundantly clear we have a lot of internal housekeeping to do, in the name of self-love. ❤

Our personal and world problems aren’t caused by some ‘other’ person(s)…. they are rooted in disempowerment from within. Feeling disempowered is rooted in fear… fear of not being loved, of losing one’s sense of purpose, of losing all one has acquired, even fear of complete annihilation, all of which equates to facing death in some form or other.

I used to equate death with failure – whether it was actual physical death, death of a relationship etc, and in my ignorance thought if I just tried hard enough and gave of myself endlessly, everything would get better, because I also equated suffering with failure. Ultimately though, death and suffering are not signs of failure, they’re just part of life on Earth; it’s the perception that matters. If all you perceive is a world suffering more than you can see beauty, perfection, and life in an ever-evolving state, then the person who needs the most help is you.

The more each of us takes the deep dive to clean internal closets and retrieve treasures long forgotten, the more our ripple effect calms, benefits and maybe inspires others who we interact with to begin their own inner journey. That’s really all one can do, and that’s totally ok. Feeling a need to constantly rescue others from suffering and potential death is a false program. It’s fine to assist if they ask for help, but people should not be denied their right to experience suffering. Trust them to have the strength of deep diving, of finding their own internal gifts. If they literally die from trying to make it in this world, no need to judge. A lot of hidden, global suffering is rising at this time, and will continue to rise, as part of our species’ evolutionary process. It can be overwhelming at times to see the extent of suffering that has been going on. Step back, recharge your batteries, honestly assess what can and cannot be handled, ask others to assist when you don’t know what to do, and learn to help only to the extent that it doesn’t continually deplete your inner resources. That is how, slowly but surely, a world is healed.❤🪶🌎

While on the topic of shadow work and loving lost parts of our self, let us not forget there also exists inner light. That Light is the radiant, infinite, ever loving truth of one’s soul, the greater part of you that keeps your heart beating, your lungs breathing, the earth spinning, the galaxy turning. It is the ultimate perfection of All that dances the sun to rise, the tides to turn, and prevents all of Creation from from crashing into itself and disappearing into oblivion. That, too, lives within every cell. Morning and evening, take a moment to say thank you, give yourself a big hug, and be in awe of the fact that you and all of this amazingness even exists !

Photo credits:
Shadow Self, Pinterest
Child, Vickirebeccaart.com

Helpful links:
http://www.Trust-Technique.com

Intuition.

The zen master shot an arrow in the dark, struck and split the first arrow in the bullseye. The student wondered how, without visibly seeing the target, his teacher could be so accurate.

“You believe you need your eyes to see because you believe the world is out there, beyond. You are the arrow, you are the bow, and you are the target. The arrow wants to return home to the target. The wise artist gets mind and senses out of the way and allows the arrow to navigate itself home.

“The years spent learning how to draw and release the arrow was you learning how to let it shoot. The archer is merely a channel for the art of zen. Achieving a target through the use of one’s visual sense is merely a good ‘trick shooter’.”

Likewise, this is how one achieves their life goals. Edgar Cayce, the sleeping prophet, reminded his readers that intuition is an inside job when quoting the bible, “Seek for the kingdom within, everything else will be naturally forthcoming.”

Our true nature is intuition first and, like water, it flows effortlessly. Modern culture, however, places the conscious mind as priority over intuition, leading us astray with incessent monkey-chattter and chasing exterior goals that leave the heart unfulfilled. The conscious mind is a helpful filter, but it assumes true knowledge and therefore meaningful existence must only come from without, not from within.

How does one return to a healthy balance between intuition and conscious mind while living in a hardcore, left-brained culture? Play games!

Sheryl Wagner’s website (link below) offers a variety of easy games to help one dial in. She has an interesting background story that returned her intuitive gifts to the surface. By the time she reached her 30’s, after experiencing the loss of her dear childhood friend, PTSD from a medical trauma resulting in her own near-death-experience, and corporate world burn-out, she finally had a nervous breakdown. Sheryl returned to her parent’s home, realized her combination of high sensitivity and ADHD needed to be channeled in a healthier way, and committed herself to mediumship training. She spent long evening hours talking with her deceased grandmother which truly helped reopen her inherent childhood intuitive abilities.

Granted one does not have to experience so much trauma to restore their inherent gifts of insight and flow, yet most of us are in trauma state because of the cultural programs and severe imbalances that exist.

I hope you enjoyed blog and will explore the links provided below. Best wishes to your health and happiness.

– Listening to your intuition | The Channel of your Guardian Angel – Edgar Cayce
https://www.realityrevolution.com

– Edgar Cayce
https://www.edgarcayce.org/

– Intuition Games
Sheryl Wagner, https://www.sherylwagnermedium.com/blog/20-psychic-exercises-to-develop-your-intuition

art credit:

  • “Blindfolded Yogini” (vrschikasana II), pinterest
  • “The Kingdom Of God Is Within You” by Heather McLean, pinterest

Book Recommendation: Life Is Always Smiling| Stories from My Life


I don’t typically recommend a book before reading it, but in this case I’ll make an exception. Professor Chen is a powerhouse of a woman who brought the medical qigong form, Soaring Crane, to the U.S. From there she taught at the local college where my instructor picked up the lineage, and I learned from her. Many variations of Qigong exist, as anyone perusing youtube will find out, but this particular form has been a saving grace for rebalancing me on the physical, mental, emotional levels. I am grateful and delighted to see Prof. Chen wrote a biography about her life!

Here is a mini description of her life from her book:
Chen, Hui Xian, now eighty years young [as of 2014], recounts with astonishing clarity stories from her remarkable life. Born to parents who were both physicians, Chen was one of eleven surviving siblings. It was a privileged beginning, but shortly, the family found itself fleeing from the invasion and subsequent war with Japan. After the war, Chen being fluent in English became, at age twenty-three, a translator for Premier Zhou, En Lai until the government quietly labeled her ‘an unannounced Rightest’ and, just as quietly, she no longer had the important job of translator. Instead, she was transferred to teach English at various institutes, colleges and schools. And, being an intellectual under Chairman Mao’s leadership, she was sent to the countryside to be re-educated by the peasants. That’s when health issues became a problem. Two unhappy marriages, two babies to care for and feed during an epidemic famine and an unmanageable workload added to Chen’s poor health. Then, in 1981, she was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer! At this point the universe took charge of her life and the person we know as our much-loved Qigong Master was born. First, the practice of Soaring Crane Qigong healed her of her cancer. And, finally, with the help-and-encouragement of many Grand Masters of Qigong, the Dao revealed to her, her true life’s mission: Go and spread the healing, transcendent powers of Qigong throughout the world. It was a gigantic mission she has magnificently undertaken and accomplished.”

Healing Land of Trauma

Each day I take a glance at the mainstream news headlines to know who or what could use some prayers. Yesterday I learned that two lives were swiftly lost in a flash of anger, and the event occurred outside of where a favorite family restaurant once existed.

As the saying goes, “We all live downstream,” which in its origin was referring to physical pollution, but it also refers to energetic influences. Just as smoke from a distant fire drifts for miles and lands in your nose, so too does the emotional and mental frequencies emitted by your neighbors from near and far drift into your space and potentially affect your mood.

With this in mind I felt compelled to offer an act of love and ask forgiveness from the spirit of place where the land suffered this recent act of violence. An open wound was left, as well as in the hearts and minds of people who work in nearby stores, where children sat close by in a car, all of whom are now living with some degree of PTSD wondering how safe their neighborhood is. Not to mention, what a swift exit for the two souls who suddenly found themselves permanently out of body. Did anyone say a prayer to ease their shock and assist in their crossing?

While talking with a friend today we discussed how often these traumas are taking place and how overwhelmed people feel, leaving them in a state of fear at a time when unity is greatly needed. Moments like these are opportunities for the collective to practice bravery, compassion, and act on balancing the scale as often as possible, in whatever manner feels befitting.

I remembered buying some tiny, clay-shaped angel “seeds” years ago. While we toured one house after another, searching for the perfect abode, we would leave an angel at each residence, as a thank-you token. Today, however, the angel seed would be used as a healing gift, along with a prayer for all involved. It would be a symbolic gesture to place a guardian angel who would oversee the area, preventing further trauma while the wound healed.

If you find this idea welcoming and wish to get angel seeds from the Sophia Center please see their website link below. Or, perhaps you’ll be inspired to create your own gift of healing to offer the land, water, air and spirits who dwell in the region. Whatever you choose to do will be perfect and most welcomed.

Another item in the making is compiling a small journal of prayers and poems from any number of sources and different cultures. Keeping such a journal nearby to draw upon as needed is a fun, heartfelt way to touch base with spirit whenever the occasion calls for some inspirational words.

❤️🦋❤️🦋❤️🦋❤️🦋❤️🦋❤️🦋

Sophia Center is a non-profit organization also known as Sophia’s
Gifts of the Spirit. It’s mission is to inspire a shift in consciousness
through educational opportunities and products that invite fuller
expression of the Sacred dimension of our lives and our ever
evolving human family.
https://www.sophiacenter.org

Honoring spirit of place when buying a new home:
https://reginachante.org/2019/02/15/small-acts-of-gratitude-in-buying-selling-homes/

Tabbouleh!

🌿”Rejoice in the green fire of life!”🌿

Fiona MacLeod

Yes, indeed! As the wheel of the year turns we finally seemed to have arrived at (a late) spring. Excellent time to clean house, internally and externally.

One doesn’t have to wait for spring to indulge in parsley, a powerhouse plant known for its high vitamin/mineral content, but tabbouleh is such a pretty, “spring green” dish to make. Today’s blog is a version with almonds replacing the bulgar wheat traditionally used. If you don’t have a food processor no worries, just prepare for some extra chopping.


Ingredients:
* 1/4 cup almonds
* 2 cups chopped parsley
* handful of chopped mint leaves
* 1 heirloom tomato (or regular tomato)
* 1/2 chopped red onion
* 1/2 tsp lemon juice
* 1 tsp olive oil
* salt & fresh ground pepper (to taste)

Mix all the ingredients together except parsley and almonds – leave those two off to the side. Once all is well blended stir in the parsley, almonds, add salt/pepper to taste.

A fascinating background of parsley’s magical influence includes placing a sprig of it on plates of food to prevent contamination, a cultural habit that is quickly fading away in most restaurants. According to author Scott Cunningham, parsley may used in baths to “stop all misfortune”, and “worn on the head to prevent inebriation.” Try explaining that to your local pub friends when you don parsley on your crown! 😄

Other delightful ways to enjoy tabbouleh is to mix it was avocado and spread it on toast, put it on your eggs, or mix with a salad. Perhaps you have other ways to enjoy Tabbouleh which I hope you’ll share in the comments below.
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sources:
book: Medical Medium Life Changing Foods.., by Anthony Williams.
book: Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs, by Scott Cunningham



🥭 Mango Dreams 🥭

I’m back! It’s a been a ridiculously long hiatus, but so much new stuff to share! One of my latest discoveries is how to make a non-dairy mango lassi drink, or maybe you’d call it pudding, or mango meringue! Wooo hoo ❣️ Whatever texture adjective you like, it’s just yummay!

Back in the day I’d wander the store produce aisles, see the mangoes and think, “Yep, there’s that tropical fruit I’ll never know how to cut”. Then someone invented a clever little “mango slicer” gadget (see image below)…

While flipping through Anthony Williams’ (Medical Medium) book titled, Life Changing Food | Save yourself and the ones You Love With the Hidden Healing Powers of Fruits & Vegetables, he reveals the really amazing properties of mango as a:


* Sleep aid (especially if mango is consumed right before rest)
* Digestion and immune strengthener
* and so, so much more!
Who knew? Just looking at the mango makes me feel happier – such great color!

Added bonus: Combining mango with celery or a leafy salad gives one an extra boost of energy instead of a nap! Great snack combo before doing strenuous exercises or a physically demanding job.

Included in his book was a recipe for mango lassi, one of my fave drinks on a hot summer day. Typically it’s made with plain yogurt which I didn’t have, but no problem. Blending the following ingredients made for a very tasty vegan lassi:

* 1/2 banana (chilled in freezer beforehand)
* 1/2 cup oat milk
* 1 mango (pit and skin removed)
* a dash of cardamom powder
* topped with a mint leaf (optional)
Blend it all together in a mixer and voila! A cup of fluffy, creamy, healthy yum!
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Navigating the Chaos

In the storms of life the questions one might ask is:

  • Do we thrive in chaos?
  • Does chaos give us a greater sense of purpose and growth in this life?
  • Does chaos make us want to hide in the closet looking for a door to Narnia?
  • Or, do we encourage chaos because it distracts us from having to go within and touch the heart of hidden issues plaguing our sense of peace?

Sometimes chaos does help humanity really thrive and shine. Take the horrific “Ice Bomb” storms that blanketed over 60% of the nation this holiday season. Stories abound of heroic, life-saving acts. Yes, if chaos doesn’t occur too often or too long, helping others gives us a sense of purpose and self-love.

Do we want to hide from chaos? Well, if it keeps going on, and on, and on, it can drain a soul of its will to step out the front door.

But sometimes…. we attract chaos into our lives, pour more fuel on that fire, and become the best “dystopian” film makers ever! We can abuse our creative gifts by pointing the camera too much on the chaos “out there” and not enough within. Why, perhaps because we believe the biggest, scariest monsters lurk in the hidden corners of our memory, inside wounds that never healed, needs that went unmet, and cries that fell on deaf ears because the body’s host was too busy trying to win a Grammy award for a Blockbuster Disaster story.

In other scenarios, we can’t handle any more chaos! And let’s be honest, humanity can be one rude-dude who needs a good poke in the eye now and again.

Since that’s not an option (without serious consequences) we suck it up, put on a face (or a mask to hide our grimace) and squash that anger, hurt and betrayal deep down into our guts. It would be cool if we could just 💩 those emotions out, but no. Instead, they seep into the crevices of the body’s tissues, set up camp in the joints, and shake the nervous system awake in the wee hours of the night (if one even has the luxury of falling peacefully asleep in the first place). Eventually an existential crisis occurs. We KNOW we’re better than this, we deserve better than this, but do we have the tools to remedy the situation? What are those tools, anyway

Well for starters…

“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: “When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?”

― Gabrielle Roth

Tool #1: Playfulness…
Perhaps we’ve become “too adult” and forgotten how to play?

It’s ok, just look to Nature. The animals remind us to stay in communication, play outside, smile more, smell the flowers, dance with expression and sing our hearts out!

Of course, eating healthy is always a top priority!

And, Nature is always encouraging us to make new friends!

Tool#2: Leadership….
Taking back the lead role in our life movie is a most rewarding feeling! If we give all our power and inner light to someone’s else’s version of reality, bog down watching too much news, or blame our shortcomings on being a poor example of a human being, please know this: We were born for these times.

The world needs each and every one of us right now to step up to the plate, raise the bar a little higher, and help each other find inspiration, laughter, and hope. It starts as an inside job that evolves into outside action. If you’re alive and reading this, Tag! You’re it!

Talking With Birds & Clouds

For a magical moment today I felt absolutely magnetized to go outside and take in the raw, winter sunlight. Such a beautiful day, even with the crisp cold air.

After a few minutes I tilted my head back to look at the bright, blue sky and noticed three birds gliding clockwise, so slowly, and way, way high up in the air. Suddenly the crows began their distress cawing, but to me these looked initially like seagulls so why were the crows upset? On closer look a touch of gray could be spotted in their wings and their shape didn’t quite match the seagull body. “Hmm,…these might actually be falcons,” I thought to myself.

A couple crows swooped into the nearby evergreen, a grand and beautiful tree. I couldn’t see what they were chasing except a brief glimpse of a white bird silhouette. Perhaps there were actually four falcons and one came in low? The crows swooped in and out of that pine tree, over and over, cawing like mad and clearly upset! Then it was over. The crows flew off in silence back to their brooding grounds across the street. I never saw the white bird leave which felt odd, but I also didn’t get the sense the crows had mortally wounded it. The conclusion was it must’ve exited in a direction I couldn’t see from the ground.

Looking right, in the direction the crows flew, I saw a stunning image in the soft haze: A perfect formation appearing like a white bird in flight! Ah! Why is my camera nowhere around when I see these things? The image attached is the best artistic rendition I could manage, just to give you an idea.

Some while back I had watched video footage presented by water researcher, Veda Austin, showing her photographs of water that had remembered images she gave it. Stunning and fun stuff to witness! Japanese scientist, author and doctor of alternative medicine, Masaru Emoto, whose popular book, “The Hidden Messages in Water” revealed similar discoveries. In his findings the water given positive messages made perfectly beautiful snowflake images when frozen and photographed, while water that had been polluted with toxins (including toxic thoughts and emotions) quickly lost its geometric symmetry.

I wondered if the water molecules in the cloud, “seeing” the interaction of the birds was mirroring back to me that it, too, was witness to the bird show and/or to my mind’s perception and this is how it chose to communicate with me. Perhaps it was acknowledgement of a shared experience between the environment and my consciousness that, had I not been paying attention, would’ve completely missed?

If you are interested in learning more about water and its amazing properties please check out the following links, and Thank you for reading this blog! You’re much appreciated! 😘🙏🌟

Veda Austin
https://www.vedaaustin.com/

Masaru Emoto
https://masaru-emoto.net/en/
https://www.emotopeaceproject.net/