July begins and ends with a Full Moon!! We have the Mead or Blessings or Thunder or Lightning Moon at the beginning of the month and a Blue Moon at the end. The energy throughout July will be extremely high. There are some surprises in store for us after the Full moon so be ready for some good times.
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Here’s what’s happening this week! Full moon right in the middle of our week lets us relax Monday and Tuesday while the Moon is working on getting it’s full shine on !! After the Full moon Surprises are coming your way. All positive things some big and some small. Also a reminder from Spirit to enjoy each moment as it comes and stop worrying so much about what’s coming that you miss out on life right here – right now.
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Today’s message talks about why we hold on to the people and things we hold on to and when we will be able to let go and move forward. Enjoy!
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Remember just a short time ago during the New moon when you had all this energy and hopes for your dreams coming true? Well you need to tap back into that energy and keep moving forward. Spirit shows me everyone starting to slow down, but encourages us all to keep moving forward. It may feel like you aren’t going anywhere at the moment but all the small things you are doing now will add up to something big after the next full moon which is less than a week away!
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Oooooooooo boy.. change is on the way. There is a shift in our worlds happening today!!! Some will see it right away and some may not. Within the next 2 weeks everyone will definitely start seeing that change that happens today… come to light. Watch the video to find out more about this change!
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Oy! This is something I have found myself doing all the time. As soon as I realize I’m doing it… I stop! We put expectations on others without them even knowing it and when they don’t fulfill those expectations that they didn’t even know about… we feel sad, hurt and let down. The key here is recognizing our own behaviors and changing them within ourselves.
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How many plans have you made, started and then somewhere before the plan was complete… you dropped it? If you want to see actual results from your plans you’ll have to see them through. You can’t start something, give up on it somewhere before it’s complete and expect the results of a finished project. Let’s call these plans “Unfinished Business” … Too much unfinished business will clutter your life just like your unfinished projects will clutter your garage.
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The New moon has just passed and so now it is time to get to work on all the things we started. At this time you will find that your checklist is getting smaller, things on that list are getting done without much effort. Spirit says be careful not to focus too much on the things that seem to be a bit harder to get done. If you have to skip something on your list for now, that’s ok… you can come back to it later. Don’t dwell and don’t beat yourself up over any one task.
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I don’t know how…. Oh how I hate to hear those words in today’s world with all the information available to you at your finger tips. When you say these words, you are giving yourself permission to stay right where you are. If you truly want to learn something, then you’ll find a way. If you truly want to move forward, you will. Excuses are just permission to not grow, not change, not move forward and to not be your best.
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New Painting I just completed – The Witch’s Tree – Her roots buried deep within the Earth, the branches a symbol of her magic. She casts in all directions and weaves her magical intent through the lives of many. Reaching toward the stars, there are no limits to the powers within. She, all alone can accomplish all that she wishes. Her trusting familiar at her side, together they fear nothing. Death is just a mere shift in energy. Looking out into the world, they see all the possibilities before them and they cast, they heal and they make this world a better place.
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Today I speak about where I feel we are at the moment. For a long time, many of us have been doing a lot of work but feeling like we were going no where. It has felt like a constant struggle for us to move forward, no matter how much we have tried. So, I give you a fun analogy about being on the wrong side of a lucky penny. Enjoy!
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The Summer Solstice – the longest day of the year… well the most daylight hours of the year anyway! The Summer Solstice reminds us to embrace our own light. It asks us to take a look inside and get to know and understand our light. What makes it grow brighter? What weakens our light? Are you hiding your light? Why? Are you afraid to let it shine? There is no need to fear the light within us. Embrace it! Let it shine!
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Spirit has a great message for you this morning. Spirit says to be careful about worrying and stressing over every detail of life that you miss out on what’s going on right now. When your focus is so far out ahead of where you are now, you completely miss what’s in front of you right here where you are.
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This time Spirit asks YOU a question: Who are you? Spirit asks that you go deep within and explore the many aspects of yourself. What excites you, what calls to you, what makes you feel full, what guides you, what scares you, what pushes you away????
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Spirit urges you to take another look at your plan today. Don’t stress and don’t worry if you have to shuffle things around a bit. Also don’t forget to listen to your own intuition, let it guide you in the right direction. Not heading that inner call will get you in a place you don’t want to be, so listen!
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Spirit Message for the day. Today I speak about the questions I get ask most often and the focus that is on most people’s minds. I then tell you what the focus should actually be 😉 . Life changes when you make it change.
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I am a survivor of all kinds of abuse, from being molested as a child to being stalked, having a gun pointed at them and from physical, mental and verbal abuse, from being bullied and made fun of to being made to feel like I was nothing at all. Many times I wanted to check out of this life and end the pain. Every time I found a reason to stay. I survived… you can too. There is help, but you must tell others what is going on and ask for the help.
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When you are feeling discouraged and maybe even feel like just giving up… Spirit urges me to remind you to hold on.. it’s not time to be giving up. It’s all about timing… being in the right place at the right time in front of the right person. You will get to where you are suppose to be.. just hang in there!
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The Solstice is at the end of out week but we need to begin to prepare now. Spirit urges us to go inside and inspect the many aspects of our lives and of our inner self. Look at where you draw light and power from and then look at the areas of your life and within yourself that you need extra light and a bit more power. Strengthen the parts that need strengthening and lighten the areas that aren’t so filled with light. By the time the Solstice arrives you will be dancing and celebrating!
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What a MAGICAL WEEK!! Staring off the week with a New Moon to help you get started on all the things you want to do right now and then ending this busy busy week with the Summer Solstice!!! This is the Summer, when you look back later in life, this one will be one to remember. MAGICAL!
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Spirit message for today. I felt so urged to deliver this message. I had written down the words “Stop waiting to be happy” last night on a post it note. I kept looking at it today, asking Spirit if it was time to talk about it and all I kept getting was “No, not yet”. Then I found myself a few moments ago feeling pushed to go ahead and do it NOW. There is someone out there that will get this message because of timing more than any other reason. So, I listened to Spirit, verbalized the message and here we are. I hope it reached everyone who needs it!
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With a new moon cycle. It is time to start those projects you’ve been wanting to get done, try new things, new techniques and possibly even new ways of thinking.
Now is a good time to do an overlook of your life and get rid of anything that doesn’t belong. Start thinking about where you want the rest of your life to go and start doing the things to get you there. Keep positive thoughts and a positive outlook as you move forward and use the energy of this New Moon to help boost you to the new beginnings that you want/need in your life.
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Today’s message from Spirit: Don’t force it, it you are having to force something at this moment, STOP. That is clearly not the piece of the puzzle you should be working on at this moment. Put it to the side and look at your plan of action, find something else to work on that feels much better for now. You’ll get back to that other piece when the time is right. Also Spirit urges you to take care of yourself, take a time out as needed to stay healthy for the fabulous road ahead!
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It’s that magical time here on Earth where dreams are starting to come true. Spirit takes his foot off the brake and allows us to move forward. He has a warning for us as well but right now, we are capable of making all of our dreams come true if we are willing to put the work into it. The planets are aligned and it’s our time!!!! Obstacles fall out of the way and the debris is removed for a clear road ahead!
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This is something I wrote back in 2006 🙂
A few weeks ago I had something come to me in a vision and take away something very precious and dear to me. I was crushed and very upset to the point of actually crying. This reaper of death came right up to me and took my dreams! Yes .. that’s what I said.. believe it or not! I saw him coming toward me and froze, not really in fear, more in confusion of why it was he was coming towards ME!!!!!!!! To my surprise he took away my dreams, and for anyone who knows me or reads any of my blogs, you will know how very important my dreams are to me. My dreams take me to the many places I can’t go in physical form. They take me to the arms of the one I love, they teach me the many lessons of life, they calm my fears and give me hope, they show me new paths and they help me to grow.
I wondered for a long time what it was that I had done that was so bad that I deserved such a thing as to have my dreams taken away. Each night I would try my best to dream and nothing. Nothing at all would come to me. My dreams were truly gone. What was I to do? I tried everything I knew to get my dreams to come back to me and I worked on being an even better person. I worked on more of my inner self, hoping it would be enough and that I would finally deserve or earn my dreams back… but no… nothing.
Then one night… I was sick and tired of not having my dreams!! I went off to where I knew the reaper would be that held my dreams… the shadow lands… that place … that very dark place that most fear. I overcame my own fear of that place for I learned that we must have such a place to have balance… light and dark… good and bad… for if everything was light or good.. how would we recognize the dark or the bad .. simply we wouldn’t. We’d know nothing different, everything would be exactly the same… just as to know great happiness you must first know great sorrow.
So I went to the shadow lands and searched out the reaper. I found him with my dreams right there hanging around his neck as if it were nothing but a charm .. hmmmp! So I walked right up to him… looked right into the darkness of his face and those soulless eyes and took back what was mine! I then dealt with him and let him know that there would not ever be another thing he would be allowed to take from me. I was taking back control of my own life and no longer allowing others to take away anything what was special or dear to me.
At first I hadn’t given much thought after I dealt with the reaper of why he took my dreams in the first place. I simply thought he did it just because he could… because that’s the type of spirit he was.
But today for some odd reason.. driving home from work … it dawned on me. The reaper was not actually the “Real” reaper of death… just designed to represent that to create fear and to be able to get my dreams from me that much easier. It worked… it was all a test … and the whole time I had it inside myself to get my dreams back at any time. I just didn’t know it.
If you want something bad enough, then you must take “ACTION” to keep it or get it back. You must be willing and ready to “FIGHT” for what you love, what you believe in and what you want. The reaper came to me and I did nothing. I didn’t fight… I didn’t chase after him… I didn’t protect myself… I did nothing but watch as he took away my dreams and then left with them. All I did was think about it … over and over and over … I let it consume my thoughts .. and mostly only thought about why is it I wasn’t worthy of keeping my own dreams or what had I done that was so wrong. It wasn’t about that at all. It was just a lesson to teach me to stop allowing others to take from me. Stop allowing pieces of myself to be given to those who did not deserve them and to fight for the things I hold dear. Leaving myself open is and can be damaging because not everyone or thing is honest and trust worthy. Many are out to cause harm… intentional or not. I must guard myself and those I love. I must pay more attention to my surroundings and make sure the things that are special to me don’t slip away .. or worse yet taken.
I thank who ever sent the reaper to take my dreams … it was a very valuable lesson .. and I shall forever hold on to this lesson and live by it!
Many Blessings,
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If you are a healer of any kind, a spiritualist, an enlightened one, etc… PLEASE take a moment to listen to this message from Spirit. It is coming .. it is here the time of awakening!! Enjoy!
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Life is one big jigsaw puzzle. In this video, I tell you how I explained the details of our lives as a puzzle to a friend of mine. It was a fun analogy that I think you all will relate to and hopefully enjoy!
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Today I share with you my very own personal story of change and how my world fell apart so it could fall back together again. How I was warned, how I reacted to it and how I started working through it and began putting my life back together after it had been torn completely apart.
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In this video I talk about a completely different way of understanding what your life purpose may be. ENJOY!
Please understand that the points made in any and all of my videos are based on my own beliefs, experiences and feelings, in no way do I wish to force anyone to believe any particular way. If you feel drawn to my messages then great! If not .. then they are clearly not meant for you.
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It’s time to stop looking over that plan of yours.. time to stop letting excuses, worries and fear get in your way and it’s time to get up and put action behind those plans. It’s time to create the next phase of your life. The planets are lined up in favor of you accomplishing your dreams. YOU have to get up and start moving in the direction of those dreams. YOU have to start making the needed changes to make them happen. Ready… Set.. GO!
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We all do this… we paint a picture of how we think our lives should be, what it should look like, who is in it and how they look and behave. Think about that image you have painted and ask yourself where does that come from. How much of what is in that picture is you and how much of it comes from other sources like environment, family, friends, media even. Be careful not to push away people because they don’t match the painting in your head… don’t pull away from opportunities because they aren’t in your painting. Stop looking at that painting and start living.
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The number one question I get all the time. Will I Ever Be Happy?
I give you the answer that spirit gives me. I have also struggled with this in my life but I have learned to listen and understand .. FINALLY!
I hope you enjoy my explanation of Finding Happiness Within and I hope more than anything that you too will also be able to find and experience it!
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Words and thoughts have power. Our lives are what we believe them to be. Our future is what we believe it will be. We must always be aware of our thoughts and what we tell ourselves and what we allow ourselves to believe. The first step to a better life is believing in a better life. We must plant seeds of positive thought inside ourselves, nourish those seeds with love and light and before you know it… those seeds will have grown into something beautiful. A Better LIFE… a Better YOU!
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In today’s video I tell you all about the visions I had during last night’s full moon. It involves two wolves, pregnancy and the birth of something new. Enjoy!
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I’m going to and start doing a Monthly spirit message at the beginning of each month. This is your message for the month of June 2015. Hopefully as I start doing them they will just get better and better. Anyway… ENJOY!
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Whatever it is in life that has caused you pain… let it go. Right now, this minute release it. You no longer need to hold on to it. It’s in the past and you no longer live there. The years you have spent telling yourself you have let it go, let that go as well. The lies you’ve told yourself, saying that you are okay, yep, let those go too. The reasoning, the guilt, the pain, the torment, the memories, the denial, the feeling that you needed to pay for your mistakes, the story of it all… let it all go. Truly, once and for all… LET Whatever IT is… GO! Don’t, for one more minute let it hold you back from living, from loving, from believing, from wishing, from hoping, from doing, from becoming! Don’t allow it one more second to steal away your happiness, your peace and your life. Just LET IT GO!
If you must… stand outside in the rain and allow it to be washed away from your being and then stand in the sunlight and allow yourself to be consumed with the light of healing. It’s okay to be okay. It’s okay to let the pain go. There is no need to wear it like a badge. I doubt the lessons will ever be forgotten, but the pain is no longer needed… so let it go.
We tell ourselves so many lies and the biggest being that we are okay with how things are, how they have been and how they may continue to be. We find ourselves just getting by. We tell ourselves that we have let stuff go that we clearly have not. We tell ourselves and everyone else that we are okay, when deep inside we still feel that same ol’ pain.
The first step we must take now is by telling ourselves the truth. The truth that part of our past still haunts us and that we have not actually let any of it go.
So here I am, taking the first step… I have spent my life holding on to a number of bad memories, a number of bad experiences and a number of bad choices. Afraid that I would repeat the past, I have held on to these things, not because I wanted to, but because I didn’t want them to come back around. Having them felt like a report card showing I passed that class, meaning I wouldn’t have to repeat it again. So, I held on without realizing I was holding on.
Today…. I begin the process of truly letting it all go. There is no actual class for life or for living. There is no report card at the end of it all that shows how well I did or didn’t do… there is only a life lived. How well that life is lived is up to me. It’s time to start truly living, it’s time to let go.
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The Healing Path of the Raven & Wolf 