Winter’s Dark Night

Many people seem to be experiencing great shifts and changes this winter.  They seem even more extreme than usual.  The vibrations surrounding the Earth right now are very chaotic, they are filled with revolution, freedom and breaking away from patterns of behavior.  This energy can seem extremely disturbing and downright irritating as it brings to the surface old fears, doubts, anger, rage, sorrow, grief and despair.  Work with the energy by claiming the light within your heart and soul.  Remember that the light shines into the darkness and does not fear what it sees in the shadows. You have more power to claim this energy and use it to build your dreams than to cower in fear from the velocity of the energy.

The dark night of the soul waits for no one to place a date on the calendar to deal with it.  The dark night comes when the soul is ready to see into the deepest, darkest depths and come out as a shining light, braver, stronger and bolder than before.

Cave of Despair and Grief

This winter provides a great time to experience the dark night of the soul.  Winter is the time to reflect, review and release all of the past year and often times, years of pain, mistakes and regrets.  This winter seems to have taken the darkness to a whole new level.  With weather extremes and energetic vibrational extremes forcing many of us to take refuge and hide away.

Go with the natural flow of the season.  Take time to relax, give yourself the freedom to review your life without prejudice or criticism.  It is ok to have made mistakes and it is ok to forgive yourself and others for pain that has been caused in your life.  Let go of the pain, release the regrets and reclaim your power.

If you feel as though you are overwhelmed by the darkness of the season, make sure to keep light around you.  Light candles, turn on the xmas lights if they are still up and replace light bulbs with full-spectrum light that will reflect the sun. 

Be gentle with yourself and take time to nurture your soul at this time.  Plan activities that will boost your spirit, feed your soul and renew your energies.  Surround yourself with friends and family who support you and let go of those that don’t.

Winter can be difficult, but it doesn’t have to drag you down to the depths of despair.  You will survive the winter, allow this time of reflection to help you clear the path to a brighter spring.  Reflect on new goals, new ideas and new creations to birth this spring.  What do you want to plant? 

In order to plant anything, you will have to let the ground rest and regain the vital nutrients the soil needs to allow any new life to grow.  Nourish the soil of your soul’s garden.  Clear away the debris that will threaten the new growth and weed out all that zaps your garden of vitality.   Allow yourself to sit in the mud, let it soak into your pores and cleanse away the toxins that have built up.  You will feel so much better when you are done and wash it all away in the rain.

Stormy Field

Fucking Perfect to Me

 

I saw the video the other day for Pink’s new song Fucking Perfect.  Some of the lyrics really tapped into part of my psyche and reminded me of how much pain people are feeling.  That we are built in such a complex way, our minds can be filled with so many traps to drag us down into darkness, depression and despair.  Many times these thoughts stem from childhood where we were beat down, broken down and made to feel less than the magnificent masterpieces that we are.  We are each a masterpiece, miracle creation that is waiting to shine the special light that is inside.  Don’t allow fear from childhood or stress from life keep you from being who you came to the Earth to be.  You are more than the darkest thought or fear that hides in the depths of your mind and the doubt that hides in your heart of hearts.

 ”You’re so mean

When you talk

About yourself, you were wrong

Change the voices in your head

Make them like you instead”

Change the voices and thoughts in your head that say you aren’t good enough, you aren’t strong enough or you aren’t pretty enough.  Whatever it is, there is never ‘enough’ to make you perfect.  YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE PERFECT – BE YOU! Be who you came here to be.  Be proud of who you came to the Earth to be. 

Who you are is enough, just as you are right now.  Every time a negative thought or fear pops into your mind, cancel and delete it.  Replace that thought with one that affirms your beauty, intelligence, charm, love, kindness, generosity, creativity…the list is endless.  The negative back talk is so limited, don’t get trapped in the cave of darkness simply because it is comfortable.  Be brave and enter into the light, enter into the world with the faith that who you are is enough just as you are. 

If you need help with affirmations or letting go of negative thoughts, please contact me.  I would be more than happy to help  you heal and release negative thoughts that keep you trapped in pain, hurt and fear.

I realize that for some of my readers that this video may be triggering, especially the images of suicide.  Please if you need help, support or feel triggered, reach out for help.  If you are triggered by images of suicide, I would recommend not watching the video.

Pink – Fucking Perfect  – (Suicide Trigger Warning!)

I copied the below warning signs from www.save.org

Warning Signs of Suicide

• Ideation (thinking, talking or wishing about suicide)
• Substance use or abuse (increased use or change in substance)
• Purposelessness (no sense of purpose or belonging)
• Anger
• Trapped (feeling like there is no way out)
• Hopelessness (there is nothing to live for, no hope or optimism)
• Withdrawal (from family, friends, work, school, activities, hobbies)
• Anxiety (restlessness, irritability, agitation)
• Recklessness (high risk-taking behavior)
• Mood disturbance (dramatic changes in mood)

If you or someone you know have any of the above signs, please reach out.  Seek medical attention immediately, call 911 if you are tempted to harm yourself or know of anyone else who wants to hurt themselves.  If you see the signs, don’t wait for someone else to figure it out.  Those precious moments could be what changes into a mircale that is transformed by help, healing and recovery.

Suicide prevention sites:

Suicide Awareness Voices of Education: www.save.org

National Suicide Prevention Hotline: http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/  or call 1-800-273-TALK

Movie for teens about suicide prevention: To Save a Life Movie http://tosavealifemovie.com/
Dan Savage ”It Gets Better” Project: http://www.youtube.com/user/itgetsbetterproject

If you know of other sites or services that could help assist others in the prevention of suicide, please leave a comment.  Thanks!

Remember you are LOVED! You are LOVED for who you are now – in this moment- always and all ways! Never ever doubt it!

Preparing for Fall

Yellow Daisy

I can hardly believe that fall is fast approaching and summer is ending.  Perhaps this year it feels earlier than usual due to school starting a few weeks earlier in Florida than when I had lived up North and school didn’t start until after Labor Day, particularly not until after the Minnesota State Fair and the exhibition of the summer harvest in all of its magnificent glory.  In preparation for the coming fall, now is a good time to take stock of what you have accomplished over this year’s growing season.  

• Where the seeds that you planted in the spring able to take root and blossom into something you are proud of? 
• Do you still need to coax out a harvest from all the hard work you have done? 
• Perhaps some of your plants have died due to lack of water or nourishment?

Review each area of your life.  Praise yourself for all the hard work you have accomplished, even if it is not quite ready for you to harvest right now.  Perhaps what you are trying to grow is a winter crop that will bloom under the proper nourishment and support.  There is still time to reap an abundant harvest.  Are you open to receiving infinite abundance and prosperity in all areas of your life? 

Weed out of your life people, places and circumstances that take too much of your time and resources without giving anything back.  Don’t let weeds ruin the garden of your soul.  Many times weeds seem pretty and bright at first, it is only after time that you realize that they have taken over the entire garden and drowned out any other flower or plant.  You have a choice of what you allow to grow within the garden of your soul.  Be a master gardener and decide what is most important to your life and cultivate those positive choices in every aspect of your life.  You can create a masterpiece. 

Allow the energy from the full moon, release any build up of negativity and any regrets you may have over what has or hasn’t happened this summer.  Take time to rest, play and bask in the sun before the dark days of winter.  Store up all the joy, pleasure and relaxation that you can.  Give yourself permission to play with guilt-free abandon and spontaneity. 

  

Release the Old – Embrace the New 2010

Today is the final day for 2009, and so many of us are ready for the year to be over!  It has been a year of trial and challenge for so many.  Have you been able to make it through the fire and rise above the negativity?  This New Year’s Eve is a perfect time to reflect on this last year, the good, bad and ugly of what has happened not only in your life but in the world around you.  Take stock of what has worked and what hasn’t.  What areas of your life have you triumphed and succeeded, what areas fell short and disappointed you? 

So many lightworkers, healers, spiritual coaches have been through the fires of challenge and strengthening to improve their resolve for creation of a better world.  Perhaps as a coach or leader you have felt your own light diminish in your times of trial.  It is time to let go of the draining energies of this last year and rise above the challenge.  Allow your light to return brighter and greater than ever.  Learn from this last year, remember who you have always been regardless of the physical challenges that have been present.  While 2009, was not a 9 year numerlogically, it felt like a 9 combined with an 11.  9 – being a time for closure of old projects, completion of cycles and preparation for a brand new phase of life.  11 – being a spiritual time of challenge, mastery of oneself and joining with your higher spiritual purpose.  As a year of spiritual mastery and completion – it is no wonder that this last year was filled with so much focus on the release of physical securities, physical dependency on money, material wealth and bringing to light all of the excess of the ego. 

It was all in preparation for a higher level of spiritual life, a return to oneness with a true purpose or mission for life.  With so many having lost jobs it left openings for a return to what each person saw as their true passion for this life, what their dreams were and where they may be better suited to live.  It is freeing to let go of the tight bonds of the box of office life or working for another to have a stable and secure financial life.  When one is bound in a box, it is hard for growth to happen.  Just like a fish in a small bowl, it doesn’t grow any larger than the confines of the bowl.  But a similar fish in a pond or ocean could grow to ten times its size. 

When the spirit is allowed control over your life, your life grows to ten times its size, because the spirit knows that there are infinite possibilities for your life.  There are infinite supplies, infinite abundance and limitless energy to supply your passion, your higher purpose and your life when you unite yourself with the infinite creator or all things.  It is not only about the law of attraction to solely have material wealth and abundnace.  Move beyond the physical to the true abundance of what is gained by uniting with the divine and returning to a state of oneness with all in spirit.  Infinite peace, infinite love and infinite joy are waiting for you!

Tonight – take advantage of the energy of the birth of the New Year with the full blue moon.  Write out all that you want to let go of from this last year or any painful memory, regret or negativity that haunts your life in any way.  Let go of it all and release it back to God and the Universe.  Give thanks for the challenges, abundance and blessings in your life.  With gratitude fully accept the happiness, peace and harmony that are the gifts for you to receive. 

Then take time to dream, visualize the goals and intentions that you want to happen this next year.  What do you hope for, what do you long to have happen in your life?  Anything is possible, don’t limit yourself or your life with negativity or self-imposed limits.  Dream as big as the sky and write it out.  Try to really find your heart’s desire, your soul’s desire for this next year.  Write everything out and then release it to God and the Universe.  Rather than worry about each little detail of how these goals could possibly happen, allow the infinite creator to assit you in their creation.  God has infinite ways to manifest in your life and when you join forces with the infinite creator – your life will have infinite ways to have your goals manifest.  Be open to receiving divine guidance, support and wisdom on how to acheive your dreams.  When you are open to divine inspiration – miracles happen in your life.

2010 – is a year for miracles, a year for working as one with God, as the co-creator of your life if you choose to align with your spiritual nature and your highest self for the best possible life.  2010 – numerologically is a 3 year and a 10 year.  10 – being one with the infinite.  3 – being in harmony with the community, allowing your light to be shared with the world around you.  As we each work toward living our higher purpose, we can work together to build a better world filled with light, hope, love and peace.  However, if you resisted the lessons of this past year and still refuse to go with the flow of life.  This next year may be filled with further challenges that are meant to awaken you to your soul’s purpose.  Trinity (3) represents cycles of many kinds: life-death-rebirth,  Maiden-Mother-Crone, God-Christ-Holy Spirit.  Allow yourself the gift of working with the cycles of life – freely and with ease.  Use this year to transform your life. 

If you are struggling to transform your life or feel overwhelmed in the face of the new year, please contact me.  I have been transforming my life and others for more than a decade.  I would be happy to share the wisdom and guidance I have received to help you on your journey. 

Wishing everyone a brilliantly blessed New Year filled with love, joy, happiness, strength, renewed faith, peace and prosperity beyond your wildest dreams! It is all waiting for you – embrace it!

Ritual for Releasing Negativity and Claiming Positive Energy

 

Sacred Tools used in the Ritual

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tonight in our Spiritual Gathering we performed a ritual for the release of negativity and the claiming of positive energy.  We started off with a smudging of each other with sage and created our sacred space.  We then moved into the Release of Negativity Ritual.  It was a fairly simple ritual but had profound results on everyone as we went through the process.  The ritual involved charged salt, water and wine.  We called on Mother Father God, the Arch Angels, Spirit Guides and our Higher Selves to help bless the tools we were using and help us to perform the various parts of the ritual.  After we blessed the sea salt, we released all of our negativity, fear, blocks and pain into the salt as we held it in our hands.  The salt was cleansed away by holy water that had been charged with essential oils and crystals and the water had been blessed to insure complete release of all that was not of our highest and greatest good.  The ritual was closed with a charged cordial of wine that was blessed for abundance, joy of life and positive energy; we held the wine in our hands to imbibe it with our intentions for our journeys.   

 

 

 

      

Charged Salt and Ritual Tools

 

 

 

 

 

Blessing of the Salt

 

Dear Mother Father God, we call upon you now to come and aid us in our rituals tonight.  We call upon your Holy Spirit to rain down on us and fill us with fire to burn away the negativity within us.  Help us release all ties that bind us, release all pain that continues to wound us and release all fears that block us.  With hope and fear in our hearts we celebrate a new beginning.  We call upon all of the Arch Angels to come and heal all wounds.  We call upon our Higher Selves and Spirit Guides to come and release all ties that no longer serve us and help us release any fears that block us.  Let us create a space within ourselves so that we may be filled again with light and positive energy. Amen.

 

Prayerful Intention for Releasing Negativity – For each Person to repeat.

 

While holding this salt within my hand

I let go of all that is not within my plan

I strip away all that is negative

Leaving room for the positive.

All that is not of my greatest good

Will now leave my life as it should.

 

Close up of the charged water and wine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blessing of the Water

 

Dear God, Goddess, All That Is, bless this water with divine love and light.  Let it be a living crystal that carries away all of the negativity that is held within the salt in our hands.  Fill the water with purity and let it cleanse us of all that is not of our highest and greatest good.  Bless this water with hope and joy for the new beginning that is upon us. As we leave the past and look forward with hope for our future, bless this water with clarity and discernment to know where our journey will take us and the guidance to know what steps to take along the way.  We call upon the Arch Angels to come to us and fill us with positive energy; let all places that are now free of negativity be filled with divine light and love.  We call upon our Spirit Guides and Higher Selves to assist us in receiving all that is of our highest and greatest good now. Amen.

 

Before washing away the salt, each person was asked:  Do you freely release all that is not of your highest good from every level of your being and all that is negative in your life at this time?

 

Blessing of the Wine

 

Dear Mother Father God, please bless this wine so that it overflows with abundance and joy for life!  Let this wine remind us of the sweetness of life and the possibility of what even a small change can make in the creation of our lives. Bless this wine with love, joy, and peace.  May it fortify us to make positive changes in our lives and fill us with courage to live for love and not fear.   We ask that you bless us and help us to shine as the powerful beacons of love and light that we are.  We thank you, all of the arch angels, higher selves and spirit guides for working with us tonight.  Amen.

 

After the blessing, the wine was poured and each person was asked to hold their glass in their hands. 

 

As we hold the wine in our hands, let all of our positive intentions for our journeys flow into the wine.  So that our individual thoughts and prayers are taken within us, become part of us and fill every cell of our body.