I felt that sharing the intuitive experiences that come my way and perspectives that I derive from them may be of use. Also, for those friends yet unmet, to get a clearer
understanding of who I am and a glimpse of the inner working and journey and how I
process along the way.
April 27, 2009, 9:44 am This last Saturday was a very interesting day, to say the very least.
My sister had tried since February to connect me with a wonderful lady that owns a fantastic gem shop about half an hour away from where I live. For some reason the timing never worked until this last Saturday. And even then it was
was up in the air if we would connect at all.. I had other commitments I had made for friends and I got a call early morning from my sister saying she had inadvertently locked her keys in her car
And needed me to call her mate to have him come open the door of her vehicle for her.
At this time I am shaking my head wondering if with all the roadblocks from the
Universe if this meeting was meant to happen, or if we were “swimming upstream”.
We finally made it to the store, met this beautiful Spirit woman and it felt right to do
A intuitive “reading” with her.
I had been talking to her for about 10 minutes and then I looked out of the large
window that was right behind her, and I had her turn around and we walked out
of her shop to see 2 beautiful bald eagles flying in tandem. In the course of the
20 minutes we were outside we saw 7 bald eagles and a hawk flying the different
directions over her shop. Come to find out that the Eagle was one of her totems and
it has always a native america totem of both my sister and myself.
And to think, if we had given up, we would have missed those magical moments!
So it felt like one of the many lessons was being fully present and paying attention
And knowing that we are all divinely guided to BE exactly where we need to BE and
Getting out of the way, things will work out magnificently. The timing was not to hurry, allowing things to naturally unfold instead of trying to bend and “make” things fit, (which in my experience, never works anyway) and it is too much work. I definitely prefer being In the feminine “flow” as opposed to the masculine I will “make” things happen.(Is that is even possible anymore)?
So, today pay attention today to how much you are “in the flow” and how much activity and energy you Are using to “make things happen” for yourself. When I consciously choose to follow
my inner “flow” and be at “ease” instead of stress, many magical doors seem to open
by themselves. Why not give it a try? What have you got to loose except the stress you don’t need anyway? Back to top
Amazing Grace
March 27, 2009, 2:00 pm I have always been fascinated by this song.
This song has always seemed to be so simple, honest and to the point.
In the world today, where most of the time “spin is in” this is a refreshing change. I am all for simple, honest and to the point.
On this planet right now it is at an amazing pivotal point of change.
I have always been fascinated by women who
are master intuitives,who are always feeling, sharing, and courageous.
These women are showing the way for the rest of us.
Some of these names are Penney Peirce, Louise Lebrun and Karen Bishop.
I check out their websites regularly to see what new things they are up to.
These women are all very radical, free thinkers who are putting themselves
Out there, on the internet, in life, living vitally, honestly and with integrity,
Experiencing new vistas and trailblazing for the rest of us.
Karen Bishop,on her website, talks about Earth Angels how we all are earth angels helping, Loving, showing and creating the way for the amazing things that are
happening now and are to come.
Whenever I read Karen’s website, I feel like (even if it is for a few seconds or minutes that I can BREATH, release and know that we are all creating together) and WE CAN DO THIS! What ever THIS is for each of us..
I was thinking in the last few days of if I had one word, that I would symbolize as
ME (my own uniqueness-my own special resonance) that would be READER…
Be it a reader of books, trends, energy or people. That is one trait that seems to have always been with me. Always observing, and with the help of these women above, they
help me reach for the best “me” I can be.
Namaste
Raven Back to top
Answering the Call of your Soul: A Sacred Pilgrimage
August 24, 2008, 2:26 pm What does this statement mean to you?
My first trip to England in 2000 was exactly that: My first Sacred Pilgrimage. I have always been a huge fan of the legend of King Arthur and a very powerful book that I read many years ago, The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley has left an indelible print of my soul.
One of the only \"flies in the ointment\" was that on my first trip I didn\'t have time enough to climb Glastonbury Tor. I also had been praying for years to be able to go back and make that dream a reality.
That dream was finally realized this July. A very special spirit sister and I was able to make the return to England treck a reality.
When I think back now there were so many powerful places that we visited. The most powerful experience for me was being able to visit the Chalice Well and being able to go into The White Spring House. We got at the spring quite early and by some bit of magic the well house was open. When going in it was very dark and there were many different little grotto\'s with just as many sacred altars. I also found a very sacred quiet place there that was at the top of a dark magical hallway of stairs that our guides (who have been going there for years) didn\'t even know existed. This trip was definately a wonderful healing for my heart and my head.
I know that for me this sacred Pilgrimage has reignited my passion for life and my own unique journey. It also has given me a gratefulness and appreciation for the life and the experiences of magic that surround me every day.
Also, if you want to read a wonderful story about another womans sacred pilgrimage journey, please read \"Crossing to Avalon, A Women\'s Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine\" by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. Her powerful and wonderful narrative gave me the courage to approach my own return to Sacred Avalon. Thank you, Dr. Shinoda and all the Sacred Goddesses that I met on my trip that continue to inspire and heal me. Back to top
Embracing Transformation
May 31, 2008, 5:39 am It has been a long time since I have written. Some of it has been “busyness”
with day to day living. But some of it has been waiting until I felt I had something
worthwhile to say.
This past year has been very challenging and exciting for me. One challenge was
to find out if I was still going to have a manufacturing job after a great restructuring
of the company. I have been asked to stay and now I am in the process
of learning other jobs within the company.
My Intuitive Consulting business is transforming as well. With the economy
The way it is and all are struggling to make ends meet it has been a great time for
me to do my “going within” work, and two very different, unforeseen directions are emerging.
The first opportunity is that this Spring I took my first certification class for the Bach Flower Remedies.
Dr. Edward Bach developed the Bach Flower Remedies approximately 70 years
ago.I feel using these essences of flowers and trees for healing are just as necessary in todays
World.
My goal is to be able to use these remedies in tandem with my intuitive
sessions to provide another dimension to my clients own healing work.
The second opportunity that has emerged is working with a very vibrant,
intuitive woman who is developing her own unique coaching method to share
with the world.
I have been getting lessons in balance and discernment as well. It seems
The more I grow and learn, the challenge of staying open, soft and receptive are
the keynotes of how my growth evolves.
How do you view transformation? Is it hurdle or a hard lesson to be learned and
Fought against? Or do you view it as an opportunity for growth?
I vote to embrace optimism and look for the highest good for all.
One lesson that I observed this spring was a man who I highly respect,who desperately wanted to be a part of the company’s growth.
When he was staying open and “pliable” it seemed that he would be kept.
The longer the time frame went on with no answers in sight (he thought)
the more angry and aggressive he became.
In the end it was decided that he would not stay with the company.
I notice that when I stop trying to make the pieces of my life “fit” and get out
of the way, there is less wear and tear of my soul involved.
How about you? Back to top
Mama Gert's Spagetti and Meatballs
April 28, 2007, 8:49 am From my earliest memories I remember the smell of my mother’s
“from scratch” spagetti and meatballs permiating through the house.
She would get up early and the sauce would be cooked and stirred through out the day,which is something that has got lost for most of us in our daily hectic lives.
As a young child I remember my mom getting up early to cut up the
Onions, green peppers and garlic. I remember asking her as I got
older, Mom, what is the “mystery” ingredient because it always tastes
so good. She would always smile, and now I know that mystery ingredient was love, and generous portions of it!
My mom didn’t have an easy life, but she always had a ready smile
And was one of those folks that would give you the shirt right off
Her back . She had a wicked sense of humor and you didn’t want
To get on her “bad side” because if you did she didn’t give you an
easy time of it to get back into her good graces.
I was thinking of her this morning when I got up early to do the preparation for my own spagetti sauce. To this day, within my family
When I mention I am cooking it to my cousin's they all get a dreamy look on their faces of happy times together settling down to enjoy
the feast.
The recipe has changed slightly, from just regular ground beef to a
beef and lamb blend. I also now add my own “personal touches”
With fresh basil and herbs when she used regular italian seasoning,
but the smells permiating from the kitchen are still the same.
Some memorys are timeless. My life mate never met my mom while She was alive, but when I announce that I am going to cook Mama
Gert's spagetti and meatballs you can see the look of joy and happiness that runs across his face. She has been gone for 21 years and every time I cook her sauce its my way of asking her back for a visit to my heart and soul
because I miss her every day, but to me that is one of Her timeless legacys. If I can have the gift of being remembered for my sauce
as she was, I will feel I have made a difference, and I can’t think of
A better way to be remembered! I love you mom! Back to top
Intuitive Musings 101
March 4, 2007, 10:47 am For the last year I have been really pondering what all the “meanings” of
Psychic gifts and terms and how they resonate with me. To clarify that
Statement, I had a friend that termed me a “psychic” when she would do
advertising for the gatherings she would put together.
At the time this word bothered me a little, but not enough to invest
emotional energy into it.
Last year I went to a phenomenal women’s meeting and on the way home
I was gifted with the word “intuitive” in talking to a very close friend. That
word seemed to resonate with meaning from deep inside me. I felt led
To come home and really do some in depth searching on the internet to
research what that word meant and how it related to me and what I feel
Is one of my Divine gifts received from Spirit or God, or however you
conceptualize Divineness.
In my research in checking the “Wickapedia” definition for “Intuitive”
is “ Understanding without apparent effort, quick and ready
insight seemingly independent of previous experiences or empirical knowledge:”
That meaning seemed to really define how the information I receive comes to me.
Let me share a story to clarify that.
Many years ago I was driving with a boyfriend to a city about 2 hours away
from my current home. I had been to the city a few times, had never driven
around in it, there was only one way my parents had taken me to that city to visit
an aunt. I had only been there maybe 4 times. On that journey with my
boyfriend and a pair of friends,my boyfriend left home without directions and at that time there were no
cell phones and he didn’t have the telephone number of the sister we were going
to visit. As we got to this city the mood and the feelings of all in the car
got more frantic because we were supposed to be there at a certain time to meet
with his family. I felt then it was important to stay focused and quiet and I remember
doing a grounding prayer for guidance. At that time I remember
coming out of my quiet space and giving my boyfriend exact directions to how to reach his sisters house. When we reached the
house, all within the car got very quiet and there seemed to be no rational
way of how I would “know” how to reach my destination or by what means
this happened. As you can imagine, there was a great degree of skepticism
and fear (no matter the answer was given, I was merely the mouthpiece from
Spirit) and the connection was made. This is just one of many stories of how
I process energy and knowledge on a daily basis.
I believe we all have intuitive gifts and we all process them in many different ways.
From the “gut feeling” to when you first meet a person, and you feel like you have
Known them “forever” or on the first meeting with a person you just “know” that
The reaction between the two of you is like “fire” and “water” and you would
never be close.
I also know with the various examples that have happened to me when I listen
To my own unique inner knowledge and quiet my heart and mind I am open to the
Divine, I know which step to take.
I also believe that when we allow space for magic in our lives the Divine opens that door to create that magic within ourselves.
January 21, 2007, 11:12 am There seems to be alot of energy moving for me lately. It is also getting clearer for me to see
other peoples energy and power plays.
One thing that has been a burning desire lately is to really find out and check out the vibrations or other people that are doing intuitive work. I am finding that I am putting my findings together in different ways that I used to. It was never "good or bad" but I would just sit with my feelings and let things unfold. Where now it is getting clearer that I am looking for specific frequencys of people that I am drawn to be with and work with. I know it sounds very odd and strange but there it is.
I also am very happy that winter is finally here, because this is the time that I schedule for myself to go into hybernation and work with my "going within energy" to a deeper level. I took my walking meditation this morning and was processing why I haven't felt the need or desire to write yet, my Spirit is definately pointing me in that directions, but that creative muse hasn't summoned me, but I do get glimpses of it. Also, the old tapes of why should I write something when there are so many great works out there that people have specific things to say and mine are all in "feeling" form. When I was pondering that I looked over and in this bush there was the most beautiful red cardinal. He didn't stop for a picture, but he was very loud and clear with his clicking and his entrance, he couldn't be missed. I thanked him and had a warm cheery glow inside after seeing him. I came home to look at one of my wonderful resource books by Ted Andrews called Animal Speak and
the Cardinal is a sign of Renewed Vitality through recognizing self importance. Mr. Andrews goes onto say they brighten your environment and catch the eye and add color to our lifes, when they appear as a totem they remind us to become like them. Add color to your life and remember everything you do is of importance...hmmmmmmm...Thank you Mr. Andrews and Spirit for that very important lesson. Much to ponder there... Back to top
Looking for Magic Everyday
January 4, 2007, 4:51 am I had a very wonderful dream I woke up to the other day. I dreampt I was in this room with Elves and Fairys and it was a wonderful healing way to start the day. Waking up to the word Magic was very powerful. How easy it is with our daily round to just "go numb" and figure that what you see is what you get. I noticed a very important lesson that day, when I focused on the magic, that is what I saw, heard and felt. I also heard a song sung by Bing Crosby that I had never heard in 40+ years named Christmas in Kilarny, I believe it was.
How is that for magic?
Alot to be said for seeing the "treasure" in every day. That is one of the things I am focusing on this year, to "keep it simple"
with my food and energy choices.
May you all have a magical, abundant and healthy new year of 2007! Back to top
Taking time for Self-Finding Balance
October 25, 2006, 11:02 am As I sit here on my beautiful front porch basking in the sun of this fall day, I Think back of the 5 days I have taken off (finally) and am now having a chance to recount some of the things I have gleened from it.
First, I know now I needed to take time off (honestly) a month ago. I had long since gone past the point of needing quiet peaceful introspection, and when I manifest “flu” and “illness” it is time to take some serious down time…
Second, I realized that after my 40 plus hour regular job, I had opportunities that I needed to get to work on in my “other full time job”, my workshops and intuitive sessions. How can one chart a course quietly when one is running in 3 different directions?
So today is a “light” day before gathering myself to go back to my
manufacturing job tomorrow, take a walk, write in my journal, catch up
On my emails and just “be” not “do”. And it feels JUST RIGHT to me. Back to top
Walking as excercise & meditation
October 11, 2006, 4:53 pm One thing I have been trying to incorporate in my life recently is excercise. By nature I am a very happy couch potato, but I have known for a
while I need to "get moving".
After seeing an Oprah show with Janet Jackson, and the declaration that for her 40 is the new
20 definately got me thinking, and reflecting.
With my walk that day and thereafter I thought
about some of the fun things I used to do. In
highschool I used to love to run and "sprinting" was a passion. I realized that after many years, and surgery on my ankle years ago that I hadn't run in way too long.
That day I started slowly building up my sprints again. I started at four and last week was up to 11 when my joints started to bother me, but I finally realized that I enjoy doing this, and I will moderate my activity but I feel so much better with my half hour excercise in the morning and my walk/sprints at night. I also am realizing what true disipline is, getting up and "doing it" even when the most enjoyable thing would be to "sleep in". Now to keep the momentum going!!!
September 17, 2006
Last afternoon an outdoor Mama cat left her precious kitten. Hoping that
Mama would come back I kept circulating hot water bottles outside, beside the little one
In hopes that Mama would come back and the wee one would survive.
Yesterday Late last night we came home and realized that wee one was still by the water bottle.
After much agony, I decided to bring the wee one in my office, surrounded him with
The water bottles got up in the night and fed him, hoping against hope that his strong
Little spirit would survive. This morning after my first entry I went in about twenty
Minutes later and I felt he had passed. He was stone cold and looked like his little
Body was locking up. After finding that I went to my mate and said we had lost him.
So I let it go, tried to go through my daily round, even went so far as to go out to
My sacred garden to dig a hole for him. Shortly after I went in to check on him and
low and behold, he was alive…the little wee Spirit was still fighting.. I was encouraged, I
called the animal hot line and was told that he needed to be massaged to dispel his
waste, because at 3 days old his poor little frail body didn’t know what to do or how
to do it. So we went for the feeding and valiantly worked on the massage. Twenty
minutes later he was fed and we were both exhausted from trying to make things happen.
That was when I decided it was time to take a break. I took a walk, came home to check
On him and Spirit told me to let him be. He taught me about courage. To keep on trying
When you don’t think you can try any more. Discernment showed me when it was time to
Get out of the way and let Spirit handle it. I couldn’t continue to “make” him try when
His wee body was so week and tired. The best I could do was to offer love, and encouragement and let he and the Creator make the decision. I believe he has gone,
I checked a while ago, I saw a bloody little mouth a cold little body but a warm little
Spirit who went in peace. Bless you, Little one…
September 22, 2006, 8:50 pm Last Thursday, at 4:30 in the morning, I awoke with a start to a close “mewing” that was located somewhere outside our bedroom window. Hitting the floor running is not normally the way I like to start my day. But my mate and I grabbed a flashlight
and headed out the door to find out what was going on. After a bit of poking around
we found a next door “wild” cat giving birth in our outside bulkhead. After that
realization we decided to let nature take its course and leave things alone.
On Saturday both my mate and myself were planning to attend a funeral of a close
Friend. I had slept poorly the night before and signs were showing I was coming down
With a cold-sinus infection, so it seemed very clear from God/Goddess/Spirit that I
was meant to stay close to home that day.
By strange coincidence, about 15 minutes after my mate left for the funeral, a great
sister friend of mine was at my door. With one look on her face, I knew something
was terribly wrong. In sharing her truth it was very clear that a/I was NOT meant to
be at the funeral and Spirit had other plans for me that day. We had a quiet, restful
healing time that was sacred to both of us, that we both needed, but it was very clear
that it wasn’t me or she leading it, it was a cocreation on both of our parts and
the truth that “there is a reason for everything” certainly did come home to both of us.
After she left, I decided the best healing I could give myself was a nap. I laid down
for about an hour, and I woke up to the same loud mewing I looked down from my
open bedroom window and there was “MaMa” kitty moving her kittens, her eyes and
my eyes met, I said something quietly peaceful (I thought) and then off she went, leaving
one of her three day old kittens behind.
I knew the best thing I could do is to leave the kitten alone, not touch it, and hopefully
she would come back and get it, so that is what I did. About three hours later, still no
“MaMa” kitty. It was starting to get colder and what to do next? I called our vetenarian
(Saturday afternoon late, not much luck, but thank goodness they left an emergency number) I called the number and talked to a great gal who advised why don’t you take
an empty plastic jug/container, fill it up with hot water and put it next to the kitten to keep it warm. It would give the kitten additional time for the MaMa cat to come back if she was spooked. So I did. I changed the water to warm it up twice and then my mate
and I headed out to visit friends for the evening. It was a wonderful time, however,
arriving home, I had to look outside and there was the kitten, still there.
A moral dilemma, Should I leave it and let “nature take its course” or
what should I do? I have two inside cats and my experience with the outside cats so far
Had been there are so many of them, and not all of them are healthy. I can’t bring the
Kitten in with my cats because I can’t or won’t infect them with some disease.
At that time, I decided for me I just couldn’t let it die (which my feeling was it would,
either from cold or starvation or a wild animal getting it) and my Spirit couldn’t live
with that. I decided to bring the wee one in, keep it warm in my office with the hot
water bottles and decided I would feed it every few hours to at least give it a fighting
chance.
I must say, it is 8:30 Sunday morning and my wee patient made it through the night.
I have no idea the next curve in the road, but I feel good about how things have
proceeded so far. And I know that I can look myself in the mirror and realized I
have done the best I can…and today is another adventure.
