Reflection and the Princess of Disks

Princess of Disks

I’ve always been somewhat reluctant to ask my guides for assistance on some matters that just seemed, well, a little trivial to be interrupting my celestial dream team with. After all, aren’t they busy with deeply meditative, savings us from the ravages of man, kind of spiritual stuff? So I finally got it through my stubborn German head that this is why they are here and began to ask for assistance much more frequently.

When I sat down to write this post, I thought I’d play around with my new relationship and specifically ask for a little help. I performed my usual routine to connect with my spirit guides and asked them for some direction on this post and I received clairaudiently, from a very soft and unassuming voice, “Pick a Card”… I had on my desk, a deck of Thoth Tarot Cards that I bought a few years back on a whim and rediscovered the deck during a recent move. Having dabbled a little bit with the cards, I was familiar with the deck but never seriously experimented with them as a form of divination.

Given such clear direction from my guides, I figured, what the hell, I’m game.

Tarot cards represent, through the artwork, very powerful symbolism and archetypes, and can be interpreted many different ways depending on what the imagery represents to the viewer. I reached for the deck, gave it a cut, maybe two, and picked a card that I felt wanted to be displayed; it was the Princess of Disks.

I sat back in my chair and studied the card by candlelight, staying quiet and detached while I continued focusing on the imagery and the energy of the card.

The Princess of Disks is one of the most vibrant cards in the entire deck. My interpretation, (and I remind you… I’m not a card-reader), is of a young woman reflecting on her past as she looks down into a chasm. She is holding a shield with the yin/yang symbol on the face and a lighted staff pointing down and projecting a bright light into the depth (the past?).  She stands proud and strong in her present state as she is collecting herself to continue boldly with her life’s journey…balanced, emotionally collected and empowered. There is an appearance of a subtle bump in her mid-section and she appears to be nurturing a new life yet to be born. It is truly a card of transitions.

It only took a few seconds for me to realize that this card was a reflection of where I was in my life at this point in time. I have transitioned from learning everything I could about business and finance for the last 28 years, to making a commitment to share my experiences, healing abilities and intuition, in service to others. I was at the end of one very important chapter of my life and turning the first page of another. I’ve been spending a lot of time reflecting on my personal journey…where I’d been and planning where I was going, a new and wonderful life gestating inside of me. My guides delivered.

Please, give it a try yourself. Take a look at the card at the top of the page. How do you personally resonate with the Princess of Disks?  Do you feel you have reached a point of personal reflection and are planning your next move? Or do you feel you might still be scaling the vertical walls, still shaken by the turmoil below?

What is the Princess of Disks saying to you?

Please leave me a comment and let me know if you also received an intuitive response.

Think I’ll go on a Walkabout

I’ve  always had a very strong and personal connection with nature. Looking back, I guess it started in my teen years in Ohio. I would load up my 1972 Ford Pinto, with the family dog slobbering on the dash, out for a walk once or twice a week.  I just couldn’t stand to be stuck inside.

While living in the Pacific Northwest, I had every opportunity to get out in it’s fabled rain forests and waterfalls, snow capped mountains and miles of coastline. When it wasn’t raining, and sometimes even when it was, it presented an opportunity for some of the best nature days in the World. This is where I  started to pay close attention to what my spirit guides and mother nature was really sharing with me.

After a particularly tough week of being tugged and prodded like a horse on auction day, I loaded up my two dogs Jake and Cali into the back of the Subaru, for a much needed break. I was living in Port Angeles at the time and it was just a short drive to the coast to one of my favorite hiking spots along the bay.

As I walked along the beach, allowing  my thoughts to drift with each wave, I looked for beach glass, listened to the sounds of the surf and contemplated the events of  the week from hell.

After walking  a half mile up the beach, I came to a spot where Ennis Creek empties into the Straits of Juan DeFuca. The outlet formed a large sandbar that was only visible during a low tide. Just between the mouth of the creek and the surf stood, perfectly poised on one leg,  a Great Blue Heron, patiently waiting for his next meal to swim by. I stopped in my tracks and watched, doing my best not to scare him off.

It was amazing the amount of focus he possessed. Standing perfectly still on a single spindly leg, it’s sleek head turning first from one side then the other… it’s eyes tracking a meal, all as the surf threatened to take him out to sea. The Heron never faltered or even flinched.  My dogs and I were no more than ten yards away yet, he paid us little attention and continued his singular pursuit. I sat on a piece of driftwood and quietly watched from a distance, amazed at how this large bird (it must of stood four feet tall), could stay so balanced and focused even with intruders interrupting his hunt. I watched for a bit longer, hoping to see him catch a fish, however, my dog Cali let me know that they were on a walk and nudged me with a wet nose to get me moving again.

It wasn’t until later that day that I understood the significance of the sighting. The Heron represented three different lessons for me that I needed that day. One was to be patient, I’m not a very patient person, so that revelation was no surprise. The second was, that even though events seem to be crashing around you, stay balanced and well grounded. The third message from this encounter was to choose to do one thing at a time and don’t allow yourself to become distracted. I had two particular projects on my mind that were giving me fits and I needed to decide which project would serve the immediate need and put the other aside for more direct attention later.

We are constantly receiving guidance if we know where to look and how to interpret the soul speak, which is very subtle and understated. We just need to be present and observe with a certain amount of detachment and openness in order to understand.

Often these nudges present themselves as something that just seems a little odd or out of place, a way of prompting us to look a little deeper. For instance, my mother’s soul visits from time to time as a hummingbird, even in the dead of winter, so try watching for life’s little clues and synchronicities yourself.

I have since  moved from Washington State and began a new life in the Valley of the Sun…Phoenix, Arizona. I wonder what the lizards have to say?

Wouldn’t it be Great If…

Ah, 2010, the tumultuous end to another decade. It seems that everyone, everywhere we look are talking about how sucky the last ten years really were for them personally. The economy sucks, their relationships suck, their jobs suck and we are all waiting for something to happen to remove the suckiness from our lives.

We are all being called on by spirit to make some drastic and downright scary changes and move forward into our own personal power. Spirit is calling you to make the changes that it has been hounding you to make, clearing the way for you to develop into your authentic kick-ass self.

We have known for years where the life we are leading, conforming to societal pressures, taking the advice of other “experts”, has led us…unhappy, unfulfilled and begging for more.

Before we incarnate into the physical, we chart a life plan with our higher self and some additional help from other souls we have incorporated on our team, to experience the primary and sometimes secondary life lessons that we have incarnated to work through. When we attempt to ignore our inner voice, our spirit, we end up dissatisfied and lost in what can be reflected as our own hell on earth.

Small synchronicities show up for all of us all the time, we are just too involved in our own situations to slow down and listen to the message, the message from our higher self and spirit guide team designed to keep us on track and fulfill our purpose. But hey, shit happens, and it is easier to keep doing what we have always done. We tell ourselves that we can’t possibly follow our authentic path, we have responsibilities, we have a mortgage, we have a family and others to think about first. I can’t be so selfish and ignore that fact can I?

Well, I’ve got news for you…that loudmouth that is always clammering in your head, screaming at you with all the horrible details as to why you can’t follow your dreams and purpose is your Ego…the part of you that is attached to the past and absolutely terrified by the future.

I had the opportunity this past week to participate in a Tele-class provided by Leah Shapiro of Defythebox.com called “Clearing your Way”. Leah is a manifestation master that coaches people to escape from their pre-packaged life. She directs her clients on how to change their personal energy patterns in order to manifest the life that they are destined to experience.

Leah shared one (among other) ways to shift ones energy that really stuck with me and I found so simple yet profound, that I had to share. Ask yourself “Wouldn’t it be Great If” …and you fill in the blank. Finish the statement in the most outrageous way that you can think of.

Wouldn’t it be Great If… I could finally kick to the curb all the relationships that aren’t supporting me and keeping me stuck?

Wouldn’t it be Great If… I could finally follow my bliss and create the authentic life that I deserve?

Wouldn’t it be Great If… I looked in my bank account and it reflected three… or four… (or more!) Commas?

Wouldn’t it be Great If…I finally had the courage to listen to my heart and follow my inner badass self?

Right now, take the time to say these words out loud…Wouldn’t it be Great If, and allow your inner voice to complete the phrase. Now, pay attention to how you feel. Do you feel the authentic shift in energy? Do you feel the tingling and warmth radiating from your chest and vibrating from your entire body? Can you feel the energy shifting outward to fill the space you are in? This simple shift in energy is also being projected out into the Universe to create a simple request for what you truly desire.

Quite simply, Your Energy Follows Your Thoughts. My healing work, Soul Realignment, is all about energy, clearing energetic darkness that needs to fall away from our emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. Energetic influences that have been carried, in some instances, throughout many lifetimes, holding us back from truly coming into our own power.

Practice this simple technique for shifting your energy in 2010 and see if you can start the new decade creating the kick ass life that you deserve.