December Energy Update: Continued from NewsLetter

Almost There! 

Transitions can feel uncomfortable.  We haven't left the Bush parallel and are not quite in the Obama one. This has a destabilizing effect, causing the stock market to continue its roller coaster ride and the government to keep on throwing huge sums money at corporate bailouts. People are scared and don't know what will happen. 

Treasury Secretary Paulson is a good example of this, changing his mind constantly about what to do about the economy. All of this can seem weird and irrational, and  yet it will continue. Notice if your instinctive center is a bit jumpy about what Bush is doing before he leaves. He intends on creating karma on his way out the door, and you may be sensing it. He represents a dying, oil-based paradigm,which won't let go of its power hold without putting up a fight. 

At a spiritual level, however, powerful changes are taking place with the breakdown of systems that no longer work to clear the path for innovative ways of being. One theme for 2009: Don't just think outside the box, let go of the box completely. 

Tools for Transition: Gratitude, Adaptability, Creativity 

As corny as it sounds, gratitude will take you a long way in manifesting your needs in these difficult times. Under the laws of  attraction, gratitude is an energy that attracts love, healing, and abundance. Close your eyes and take a moment to be thankful for all have,your health, your beautiful home, all those you love, those that love you, your furry friends, and the daily 

abundance you do experience. Notice what happens to your body and overall peacefulness when you do this exercise. Ask your guides and higher self for what you want from this place of peace and love. 

We will continue to make adjustments in this instinctive year in preparation for a new cycle of being on this planet. Rigid adherence to the way it was and attachment to form will cause suffering. Learn to adapt to the global and economic changes by being creative. If you lost your job in the real estate market, discern what talents and strengths you have that can be applied to another industry. Even if it is only temporary, it may give you the stability you need. 

Make adjustments in your lifestyle in order to keep financially afloat. Get rid of your cable TV and spend more time with friends or reading. Some of you may find this is the perfect time to go back to school and complete a degree or learn a trade. Call upon your spirit guides and physical plane pals for support. Trade your services to get what you want. If necessary, get a business coach or a job placement counselor. Whatever you are attached to, try letting go, keep an open mind and another door will open. As older souls, you have been through much worse. Do you remember the Plague or the Inquisition? Do you remember how cold it was and how much disease there was in your past lives? You can do this.

 December Energies: 

·        As a reminder, the instinctive year is still putting pressure on everyone
to make changes at the deepest levels of your being. Take time to observe
what you are currently working on. Acknowledge how much you have shifted
this year and make a list so you can look at it. Include all accomplishments
you have made spiritually, emotionally, financially, physically, with your
health, and more. Take time to appreciate yourself for all you have done. Great ritual for a New Years Celebration!

·        The early part of December brings inspirational energies, which make it an
ideal time to tune into the visions of possibilities for the upcoming year.
Connect with your higher self and ask to be shown. Make a plan.

·        Also, pay attention to the desire to overspend or overextend during this
time. Be practical, grounded and deliberate with your resources.

·        By mid-month, watch out for irritability and a flaring of tempers. This is
in part due to the current economic upheaval we are all going through, which causes people to feel frightened and out of control. Most people act out their fear through anger and aggression. Deal with your fears constructively exercise, talk about them, seek healing support  and be alert not to take on the projected anger of others.  Take responsibility for yourself; foster cooperation and compassion.

·        Overall, December favors being with your “spiritual family” or DNA family members who make you feel loved and appreciated. It’s time to nurture yourself by stocking up on healthy comfort foods, cuddling up with pets, enjoying intimate get-togethers with like-minded pals, snuggling in bed with a good book, and other nourishing activities. Be kind and loving to yourself and let go of self-criticism. Let yourself have some fun!  This will build your energy, or chi, which you will need in the extreme next year.

·        By the end of the month, you may experience heaviness as the incoming energies on 2009 start merging. Next year has a low frequency, a plodding pace and may feel like you are walking through molasses. If you took the time to nourish yourself in December, you will be thankful that you did come 2009.

Newsletter November Energy Update: Get Your Parallel Groove On

That's because during powerful shifts such as this, your higher self and essence have collaborated to create the appropriate scenarios and relationships that you will need on the new parallel. This is because your spirit is adjust to the new energy and deciding what you will need to pack for the journey. In the weeks leading up to the election, you may experience yourself rethinking your life, changing your mind, and either drawing from your past or creating whole new paths.
Your spirit (higher self / essence) are deciding whether you need a new healer, a new business partner; or whether now is the time to move to another state. It is investigating how these new energies will impact your original blueprint for this life, deciding what it must add or release to make it possible.
Who gets on your personal parallel is important to your spirit. It is looking for individuals necessary for your support as well as whatever agreements and karmas you need. You may find friends from your past resurface while current friendships start to fade away. This may seem odd to your personality, but it starts to happen anyway.
During these shifts, you may have intense dreams about people and various circumstances where you are either delving into the past or doing something completely different. Sometimes our spirit will process a past experience of the astral plane so that it won't have to carry the unresolved energy of it into the new parallel. These dreams are giving your personality a glimpse of what your spirit is sorting. Years from now you may experience déjà vu as you find yourself living one of your dreams.

As opposed to the conscious sorting one may experience during a nexus, with a parallel shift you will find yourself gravitating towards one thing or another quite naturally. This is due to decisions already made at the spirit level.
If you want to play with the upcoming parallel shift, visualize the parallel reality where McCain wins, moving the time line in your mind out to four years after the election. What does it feel like? Are you tense or relaxed or neither? What are you doing there? What adjustments did you make about your life in that parallel? Are you living in the U.S.? (That was a joke.) What is the state of the world? What happens with Iraq?
Now visualize Obama wins and again move the time line out. Notice the difference in your body, your emotional center, and your thinking. What adjustments did you make in the Obama parallel? Are you tense or relaxed? Did you change jobs? What is the state of global affairs? What happens with Afganistan and Iraq?


After the Election: Full Speed Ahead
It will take a week or two after the election to allow everyone's instinctive center to adjust to the new parallel. If you are having a difficult time adjusting, you might consider the use of Rescue Remedy (Bach flower essence) or Arnica Montana (homeopathic remedy) which can be used for high levels of stress and shock. You might want it just to get through election night.
No matter what happens, it will be a huge adjustment.
Once people ground into the new parallel, they will feel more confident about getting through the current economic and environmental issues. From mid-November into December, the pace then picks up and it's full speed forward.

The 2008 Bioneers Conference

I left the Bioneers Conference feeling a bit sad. The turn out was about half of the people they had last year and there was definitely a “down” feeling by the founders of the Bioneers, Kenny Ausbel and Nina Simmons. With our economy in a recession, if I dare use the “r” word, it was obvious people were not spending money to attend. I even opted to buy one of their discounted tickets, which meant we, my friend Linda and I, sat in a tent watching speakers on a huge screen rather than sit in the luxurious theatre to see them live.

The overall impression of the presenters made us all aware that the global warming issue is real and happening quicker than first estimated. From the point of view of the founders, more funding is necessary to educate people to make a substantive change. At the same time our economy, and the rest of the world for that matter, is feeling financially contracted. I just felt a wee bit bummed about this.

On the upside, hanging out for a day with great speakers and conscious people is always inspiring for me. Janine Benyus, a biologist and author, talked about her passion, biomimicry. This is the study of natural intelligence in all life forms to figure out ways to create sustainable products and processes. If there is a problem to be solved, she asks the question: How would nature do it? Some of her examples are architecturally designed buildings that cool themselves, which was inspired by termites; and the control of bacteria, which was inspired by how red algae protect themselves from various bacteria. You can learn more about biomimicry and purchase her new book 101 Nature’s Best World-Changing Innovations Inspired by Nature by going to http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/


She told a story about a New Zealand woman who spends her days off work sitting in a forest to protect Kiwis, an endangered bird, from non-indigenous predators. Some kind of light beam is placed around the nest so that when the parent Kiwi leaves, it notifies the “bird sitter” to protect the egg. There are times when this woman would literally place blankets around and over the egg to keep it safe. Janine, who clearly loves this earth, asked each of us to please “tuck in and keep safe” our own “egg” in nature wherever we live.

Bill McKibben was another innovative speaker at the Bioneers. An author and environmentalist, his current book is entitled Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. In it he describes the trend we will all be seeing in the future, and that is the “need to move beyond ‘growth’ as the paramount economic ideal and pursue prosperity in a more local direction, with cities, suburbs, and regions producing more of their own food, generating more of their own energy, and even creating more of their own culture and entertainment.” The message is: GET LOCAL AND FORM COMMUNITIES. You can learn more about him at http://www.billmckibben.com/


Being a very energetic Artisan, Bill had all of us take out our cell phones and text both presidential candidates to invite them to the UN Climate Meeting in Poland in December of 2008. The goal is 35,000 text messages to McCain and Obama by Election Day. You can help by going to http://www.350.org/and click on the box “Invitation Counter” and enter your info. They are currently at 31,000 invitations. The significance of “350” is that according to scientific study, humans must reduce carbon dioxide to no more than 350 parts per million in the atmosphere to avoid permanent damage to the planet.

After listening to six main speakers, a bunch of other speakers in between, lots of PowerPoint presentations with graphs, charts, numbers, statistics, data, and more, my brain was absolutely fried. My right brain was desperate for balance. Linda, who is pictured, and I headed out for the lawn and a picnic lunch. It was a beautiful, sunny fall day. It felt so relaxing sitting under the trees and enjoying one of my best pals.

From then on, we decided to roam the exhibit hall, allowing our minds to relax and browse the booths. There is one booth that we always seem to end up staring at with morbid fascination. It’s the one where people put their feet in an ionized footbath that is supposed to draw toxins out of the body. A handful of people lined up in a row with their feet soaking in these “magical” baths lined the main walkway. The water in every one of these footbaths is absolutely filthy, gross and disgusting looking. It really turns my stomach! Some of them have dirty bubbles around their ankles. This reminds me of a bad past life in the Dark Ages and the Plague. I always wonder if this really works or is just hype. I thought I would see if I could find anything on this topic on the internet, and low and behold I found this site: http://www.chem1.com/CQ/FootBathBunk.html.

I still don’t know what to think. The person who writes this website is a total Skeptic and probably a young soul as well.

The last experience I want to share has to do with water. On the grounds by the exhibition hall, three women put together a water-gathering place to honor the water spirits. Springs and water holes historically have been places to gather water, a necessary element, and to connect with community. They have also been places of healing and meditation, such as the spring of Lourdes.

Mary White, Andree Thompson, and Christina Bertea built a recycled pond using a discarded satellite dish, because it represents communication. Solar floating flowers were placed in the pond to keep mosquitoes away. Blue ribbons were also tied to the surrounding trees to allow people to leave messages, which they indicated is a tradition in some cultures. The pond was graced with a Hopi saying, “When the springs dry up, the earth is tired.”

There was something very amazing about this exhibit. While it was very simple, the water element felt strong and alive. At the same time it was soothing and calming. The water elementals were definitely very active. My hunch is the reason it seemed so alive is that those three gals did some sort of invocation or ritual to enliven this sweet, little pond with all that water energy. By the way, if you do have any kind of ponds or fountains, do your own invocation and invite the water spirits to share your space, bringing their healing energy with them. Offer them gratitude and see what happens.

"October Energy Update" Continued from News Letter:

Spiritual Balancing and Course Corrections
Maybe the job was making you miserable and physically sick, and it was Spirit’s way of getting you “back on track” with the Life Purpose you created before incarnating. An argument with a loved one might mean the “air needs to be cleared” so you will be able to stick with your intended agreements. Others may experience this month on an internal level, making changes in how they think about a person, problem or life path. The key to working with the energy this month is to understand the circumstances presented are signals to your personality that balance and a change in course are necessary.
There is also an emphasis on relationships in October. You may find yourself reconnecting to someone from the past, transforming a current relationship or making new friends. You may be inspired to heal a painful relationship to allow release and completion. Despite the fact Mercury is retrograde, communication is favorable and constructive if you stay in balance and open to new ideas. Libra the Scales, the Sun Sign for October, asks us to hold the middle point and watch that we don’t fall in the rut of taking sides. Polarities create each other and keep karma in play with heavy emotional states. The world is full of polarities. The current polarity being played out in the U.S. is the battle of the Democrats and Republicans. With the impending election it may be difficult to stay somewhat neutral. Polarities always insist there is a good guy and a bad guy. Mostly they each side is a reflection of the other. Stay anchored in your truth from a place of peace and know there is a higher evolution being played out.
Harmony and balance for the mind and body are vital for October. For mental equilibrium, keep an open mind and stay connected to your higher consciousness. Develop balance for the body with grounding activities such as tai chi, walks in nature, chi gung, yoga, meditation, or just plain stretching. Creating or connecting to Beauty is also harmonizing. Beauty emanates from the Buddhaic Plane, the higher moving center. Notice that whenever you are observing something of beauty – a sunset, a child, a flower – your focus is totally in the present, or what Eckart Tolle calls the "power of now." Find ways of harmonizing your life, especially as tensions build around the impending election.

Celestial Points of Interest:
Libra Mercury Retrograde – September 24 to October 15
New Moon: Scorpio New Moon / October 28
Full Moon: Aires Full Moon / October 14

Earth Spirit Living: Bringing Heaven and Nature Into Your Home

I recently read a book by Ann Marie Holmes, entitled Earth Spirit Living: Bringing Heaven and Nature Into Your Home. The overall theme of the book is how we can partner with the earth to heal nature and ourselves. The author believes each one of us has the ability to tune into our surroundings and homes and make a difference in our quality of life. This book was written as “an offering for all who long to live in ways that are healthy and harmonious, joyfully connected to Self, to others, and to our planetary home.”

Ann Marie studied under Professor Lin Yun, leader of the Black Sect Tantric Buddhist School of Feng Shui in San Francisco, and spent many years at Findhorn in northern Scotland. The Findhorn Foundation describes themselves as a “spiritual community, ecovillage and an international centre for holistic education, helping to unfold a new human consciousness and create a positive and sustainable future.” http://www.findhorn.org/ The author blends Feng Shui and her intuitive earth work to give the reader an understanding of why making a loving connection to nature is so valuable, along with easy-to-use techniques to make this happen. Just a few of the benefits of attuning to the energies around us are better health, more harmonious relationships, improved prosperity, effectiveness at work, reduced stress, and more.

Part One of the book explains the earth’s energy web and the various aspects of it such as ley lines, vortexes, and power points. The author introduces the concept of “body radar,” and teaches the reader how to discern the subtle energies of the earth by tuning into the flow or blockages in environments. She talks about connecting to the nature spirits in rocks, water, trees and flowers. She believes we all have “body radar” and need only pay attention to our surroundings to discover it.

Part Two gives in-depth information on Feng Shui for home and office. Ann Marie talks about how to restore balance and vitality to these two important areas of our lives and provides solutions to problematic spaces. The third part covers moving, remodeling and building a new home or structure. The last section offers practical, do-it-yourself exercises and visualizations for using your body radar, as well as cures for land and environments, ceremonies and other conscious practices regarding land and structures.

To date this is the best book I have read on creating a conscious, loving connection to the earth and our surroundings. The book flows and is easy to understand for those not used to tuning into nature energy or feng shui. Ann Marie wants the reader to know they have the ability to work with energy and encourages us to feel free to explore the given techniques. You don’t need to go to Findhorn or study feng shui for years to be effective. You can do this and it’s fun! We do have the ability to make the connection; it just takes practice.

The cures, ceremonies, and techniques presented in the book are definitely worth trying. I was instructed by “the fairies” to create a water feature on our front porch to flow more chi/energy into our home. The front door symbolically represents an individual’s connection to the world. If the front door area is lifeless and blocked in some way, then the energy doesn’t flow to the individual. The energy I am referring to translates to money, abundance of all forms, and even recognition by the outer world.

I assembled the fountain using Ann Marie’s tips and intention setting and then created a ceremony to bless the fountain and invite in the water spirits. The splashing water and plants give me a joyous feeling, and bring harmony and energy to our home. I actually like coming in and out of the front door. Since I set it up, my husband was chosen Employee of the Quarter and I am getting more social invitations. I’ll keep you posted on how it’s working.

There is a lot of great information in this book about healing our earth and our environments. Besides recycling and going “green,” I believe we need to make a spiritual connection to the earth. This book helps the average person do just that.

For those of you who are Michael students, Ann Marie is a 4th Old Sage with a Scholar essence twin. Her goal is Growth, attitude of Spiritualist, mode of Observation and emotionally centered. She clearly has a big heart for mother nature. Find her book on Amazon. www.amazon.com

The Incredible Lightness of Fairies

Over the years, many of you have heard me talk about going to Oregon to visit my dad and his wife. They live on Sutton Lake just north of Florence in what used to be my grandmother’s house. I spent many summers fishing, swimming, clamming and climbing sand dunes. Their home is perfectly situated inland just out of reach from the fog yet only a few minutes drive from the coast and the famous Oregon Dunes National Recreational Area. Their house is warm and cozy with real pine paneling on the walls. The upstairs has two large bedrooms, and I like to sleep in the room on the upper right as you look at the house. I have a lot of happy memories staying there.
Considering my grandfather bought the property over 75 years ago, there hasn’t been much building in the area. To the east of their place are three houses tucked in wooded areas, and to the west is a lush meadow surrounded by old growth trees. I was later to discover that fairies gather at a powerful spot at the base of the meadow.
But my fairy story actually begins with a nap. But before I get to what happened, I first have to talk about the legendary naps at grandma’s house. The sudden urge to take a nap in the afternoon happens to me and just about everybody else that visits. It is such a relaxing place with calming energy emanating from the trees and lake that I get sleepy and want to lie down during the day. I feel all of my stress melt away and my muscles unwind.
This past July I went to Oregon because my dad had knee surgery, and I wanted to lend a hand when he came home from the hospital. The day I arrived, I felt like taking a rest in the late afternoon. As I dozed off, something kept distracting my mind. I couldn’t relax and sleep. It felt like something or someone was tugging on my awareness. I finally stopped trying to nap and paid attention. I was suddenly overcome with the most sweet flower smell and a joyful, uplifting energy. From my past experiences with earth spirits, I knew it was fairy energy. I opened my mind to find out what they wanted, and I instantly felt their desire to connect with me. It seems they had a request.
In general I have found earth spirits are very motivated to connect to those humans that are open to their presence. They seem to know we must work together for the wellbeing and sustainability of our planet. Whenever I travel to natural surroundings, I find they often show up to “talk.”
The fairies told me they wanted to bring healing energy to the lake itself, the surrounding terrain, and the people who lived around the lake. I was surprised they were interested in healing people, but they indicated it was part of their purpose to bring harmony and balance to humans as well as the land, plants and animals. I was to “clear” all the negative human energies around the lake. These energies consist of negative thoughts and emotions left by humans. I am defining “negative” as anything driven by shadow emotions, such as fear, anger and shame. I have come to understand that earth spirits, such as fairies, are not capable of clearing human energy; their job is to work with life force energy. If humans “pick up after themselves,” they can do their job efficiently.
The Oregon fairies told me they “live” near a stand of old trees at base of the meadow. They indicated this location is a power spot, which is why I’m sure they hang there, and that the entire lake is fed life force energy from this point. I hadn’t really thought about it before, but when I hiked around to the point of land across the lake from the meadow and looked, I could see what they were talking about. The photo shows the meadow lined with trees, which is the natural topography. The fairy glen is at the very back of the meadow. You can see the natural flow of powerful earth energy pouring out to the lake. Sorry, I couldn’t get a good shot of the fairy glen. Of course, I did as they instructed. I never like to let my fairy friends down. I borrowed my dad’s “field car,” a dusty, old Toyota Corolla, which always has rock samples and a geology pick in it (my dad is a geologist), and took off on the road encircling the lake. As I drove, I invoked all kinds of guides and angels to assist in clearing any “bad vibes.” The fairies were with me all the way, sweeping behind my car with the most beautiful healing energy. I “saw” a golden mist moving through the land, trees, into the water and into the various homes. I experienced this as calming, peaceful, soothing and joyful. I felt satisfied at being able to be of service to our planet and the people. The whole experience felt like a blessing.

That task done, I had to have one of my favorite desserts: huckleberry pie. Shirley, my dad’s wife, usually bakes several when I visit. We usually eat pie for breakfast. Here is a picture of huckleberries on the vine. They’re not ripe yet and are still green. When I was taking this picture, I thanked the Huckleberry Fairy for such a yummy fruit. My dad and Shirley usually get a good crop unless the bears get them first.

Mornings are serene and magical on the lake and a great time to sit on the dock and behold the “mist fairies.” Being in the peacefulness is meditative. Here are some pictures of mornings on the lake. One of them shows the wooden gangway I walk on to get to the dock. My dad was still in the hospital after knee surgery, so I thought I would take some time and head north up the coast and breath in the Pacific Ocean air. The weather was absolutely glorious, sun shining, blue skies. Just a few minutes drive from their house is the Heceta Lighthouse and the Sea Lion Caves tourist site, where you can take an elevator to sea level caves where sea lions birth their young. South of the Heceta Lighthouse is a beautiful white sandy beach called Heceta Beach, which stretches several miles. Oregon holds a special place in my heart because of its beauty, fairies, and really great times in nature with my family. And my dad is doing just great with his new knee.

"September Energy Update" continued from newsletter.

The challenge this month is the Chief Feature of Self-Destruction, particularly in the form of addictions. All humans have an Addict Subpersonality. This subpersonality is activated when there is unresolved pain, which stems mainly from the Inner Child. When the main personality is avoiding the pain, the Addict Sub is set into motion by urging the personality to do something to diminish it. “Have a drink,” it says. “Go shopping and buy more stuff.” The addiction is meant to make the entire personality feel better, and it does temporarily. Eventually the cycle of pain and addictive behaviors start all over again. The Addict isn’t bad, but actually has a good intention of helping, even if it is shortsighted. If your addictions are up, take a moment to thank your Addict for its help, and then consider going to the source of your pain and stress.
Mercury goes retrograde on September 24th until October 15th. Make sure to be clear in your personal and work communications. The New Moon in Libra on September 29 ushers in feminine energy for the month of October with an emphasis on partnership, money, personal worth and what you are willing to give yourself.
The period from the Fall Equinox on September 22 to the Winter Solstice on December 21 provides grounded, balanced energy for manifesting. The U.S. economy remains sluggish, but still moves forward. Spending is down as consumers remain cautious and uncertain about the election and the overall economy. Manifesting flows if you make solid, well thought out goals and then implement a step-by-step plan to get them done. It takes only a little energy now to make it happen. For those with an artistic flare, make yourself a “Treasure Map” to remind yourself of your dreams.


In appreciation, and peace for All