Trust

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My word for 2013 is Trust. I want to learn to trust myself. My intuition. My body. My heart. I just finished my Reiki Master training this weekend. I have a lot of information to process. There are things that I am not allowed to talk about.......things that we as Reiki Practitioners are asked to keep sacred. However, there is one thing that I learned this weekend that I really want to share with you.

Check in with your Heart every day. Listen to what your heart has to say each and every day. Right now, put your hand on your heart, take a deep breath and ask your heart a question.....any question......ask it anything you need an answer to......and then listen. Your heart will never lie to you.....you may not always like what your heart says.....but it will never lie. After you get your answer, go sit quietly and journal about your question and what your heart had to say.

This one act, the act of checking in with my heart every single day is my first step in learning to Trust.

Blue Stocking Salon

Hi friends. Today I would like to share something with you. Some friends of mine from Soulodge are teaching an ecourse called Bones of Wisdom: Identifying and Collecting Deep Personal Meaning. It's an 8 week course and I think it is going to be an amazing journey. Go here and check it out......I hope to see you there!!

I will be back soon to share my word for 2013......it's going to an amazing year!!!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas my friends!!!

my soul's purpose

hi all. i have so much to tell you! you may remember my post back in september where i mentioned the possibility of changes coming to this blog. for a while i thought i wouldn't be making any changes.....but so many things have happened in the last few months.

i went through my reiki II training and next month i will taking my reiki master's class! i have started making art journals.....i made them for each of my friends in my weekly mentoring group and they LOVED them. i am going to be selling them AND i am going to start teaching art journaling workshops at the same place that i attend my mentoring group class. i want to teach others to use art journaling as a healing tool in the same way that i did. you see.....during this past year i was working through my childhood abuse and i wrote in a journal every day......worked through the really deeeep stuff. after my journal was filled.....when this layer of healing was done......i wasn't sure what to DO with the journal.....i thought about burning it.....i thought about wrapping it up and sitting on my bookcase as a reminder of the healing that i had experienced.....but none of that seemed "right" for me. then one day it came to me to art journal right over all that pain. to turn the pain into beauty.....and that's where my dream began. that is when i decided i had to help others heal through art journaling too. i wasn't sure how that was going to look.....how i was going to do that.....and then it just came to me. everything has just started coming together. the journals turned out beautifully and i already have orders!! i am figuring out the workshops that i want to teach and i'm also going to offer art journaling fun nights where it's open to just come and work on your art journal as a group and have some fun at the same time.

i really can't wait to see where this coming year takes me.....my soul's purpose is unfolding in front of me and it is very exciting. i hope with all of the changes.....which will include changes in my blog.....a brand new blog and website.....that you all will follow me.

A Blessing

I know that the storm is gone now.....but this was shared with me on facebook and I wanted to share it here. The storm was already in full swing here when it was shared so I did this from the safety of my home....but now that I have this I will use it in the future when a storm is heading our way. This is so beautiful and I felt inspired to share it with you all......please enjoy.

 prayers for mama earth during this cleansing storm ♥

From Tree Whisperer Dr. Jim Conroy:

Go outside and walk among your trees and plants on your property.
You may also touch them.
(Or stay inside where it is safe, if the storm has already approached you - envision walking/touching.)

In your heart, say the following phrases to all your trees and plants.
(If you are elsewhere, ask your trees to send these wishes to the trees in the hurricane affected areas.)

"I care for you....
There is a big storm coming.

Roots, please grip soil and earth with all your might.
Trunk, branches, and stems, please be supple and bend like a dancer.
Leaves, please drop if you can, or become slippery and turn on edge so
the wind-driven rain slips past you or any snow slips off.

Community of Green Beings, please tighten your web of connections.

Ecosystem, please become connected and interconnected.

Element of Earth, please hold roots tight.
Element of Air, please caress, not assault.
Element of Water, please flow smoothly over.
Element of Fire, please give strength to the whole.
Spirit of the Land, please meet the Spirit of the Storm
with serenity."

You may also wish to place an offering herb in 4 directions on the ground
around the house, asking the Earth Mother to protect you and all.

Aaahhhh.....My Favorite Time of Year

It's already the middle of October.....my absolute favorite month.....and of course Halloween......my favorite holiday!! Until yesterday I had not felt inspired to decorate for Halloween.....for some reason I have been in a bit of a funk......but I have had so much clarity in the last few days that I am feeling fantastic!! As you can see I have changed my blog theme with my Autumn/Winter theme.....ok....well I didn't change it......Sharon with Plumrose Lane did it for me......I'm not very savvy when it comes to doing stuff like that. I guess I could learn.....but it's so much easier and FASTER to have someone that knows what the heck their doing just get it done!!! Thank you Sharon!!!

Sooooo.......as you can see......there is my Halloween Altar.......you may remember Lucinda from my Witches Tea Party from last year......I added some new elements this year.....one being my new Halloween Tree. I wanted this tree last year SO badly.....but I just refused to pay full price for it.....so I waited and missed out on it last year.....they were gone before I could get one....BUT I grabbed it up this year as soon as it went on sale.....yay!! I haven't found a new witch to add to my little coven that I have growing.....but I'm on the look out!

I can't tell you how good it feels to be back to blogging. I may not be as good as other bloggers.....I may not have as many followers and comments as other bloggers......but it's not about that for me......I've never once thought I should quit blogging because not enough people read my blog......I do it because it's FUN and it brings me joy.....and that is what matters......AND I appreciate every single comment that I get!!!

Have a Magical Day.......

Missing You

Hi my friends! I miss you guys!! I realized yesterday just how much I missed this little world of mine! I have been on such a deep spiritual journey that somehow for some strange reason I felt this world or this part of me didn't fit in.......or I guess the better way to say it is.......I didn't know HOW it fit in.....how they fit together. I have been exploring other types of creative outlets.....and they have been such fun and I am glad that I have done this.....BUT I realized after talking to some friends that blogging IS a creative outlet.....it's the creative outlet that I have LOVED. I found atc's here......I found YOU the creative kindred spirits that I had been looking for.......for so so long. I have missed reading all my favorite blogs and all of the blog parties.....and joining in on all of the wonderful artistic swaps.......I have missed YOU!

 When I was talking to my friends I was talking about how I used to love to write when I was a kid in school. How English was my favorite subject and how I wrote all. the. time. I always thought I would grow up and write for a living. I had all of my teachers telling me how good I was......encouraging me......and then as an adult someone told me I couldn't write......in fact she said I wrote like a third grader.....OUCH. One of my friends said that I only believed I was a good writer because I was dependent on OTHER people telling me I was.....I didn't actually believe it for myself.....or that one person wouldn't have been able to take that from my spirit. After that day I never wrote anything again. That is until I started blogging!! I never thought about that before......I never put that together.....that I was actually writing again. I guess because I wasn't writing fiction.....because I was writing about my life......I didn't think about it being writing.....weird huh?? Well.....I have decided that I am NOT going to change this blog.....the look may change.....but the name will not change because the name and what this blog has become is a huge part of who I am.....the fun whimsical side of me.....and of course that side of me can join the spiritual side of me.....because it's ME!

So my friends......I am back. I will be getting back to reading and commenting on all of my favorite blogs, and I will be writing here on a regular basis again......I will be signing up for my favorite swaps and looking for some blog parties to join....although I have already missed some of my favorites. I am back in the blogging saddle! I hope you are still out there......still reading......what little I have been writing......and I hope you will come back. 

Have a Magical Day........