Oracle Card of the Day: April 23 2015

So, Ive been compelled to hold off on the How to deal with your Demons post that I said I would post next. I will definitely get into how to transfigure your traumas, emotions and any unresolved feelings that you have been hiding from and turn it into your gold to unfold a life greater than you could have ever imagined.

I feel like I need to pull a Spirit Guide card to help some folks out there in daily dilemmas or life changing situations. If this card resinates with you and you take something from it, then it was meant for you. If you cannot see how this card effects your current situation, please meditate on it and see if something comes to you or someone you know.

The deck I am using is Ask Your Guides by Sonia Choquette. I like this deck because of its simple yet influential messages. These are straight forward signs from your guides on how to interpret and manage the situations you find yourself in.

Are you ready?? Let's pull a card.

I have pulled the Life Force/Aphrodite card. This card represents Seduction, Libido, Sexuality, and Attraction.

Your sexuality is awake and on fire, and your lustier appetites are in search of satisfaction. You're attractive, seductive, and powerful, and a "green light" of availability to a sexual partner is flashing. This is what makes the world go' round, and nothing is more intriguing and exciting than your life force asserting itself. The Key to enjoying this fiery essence is containment. You must control and direct your life-force energy rather than allow it to control and overwhelm you. Otherwise, you can become mindlessly addicted to your senses, which can be debilitating and enslaving.

Delight in your sensual self, but be discriminating about where it leads you. Use your judgment. Raw life force is best partnered with reason and the greater force of love to bring to you the heightened state of ecstasy you seek. Trust the sensual goddess Aphrodite as she unleashes your passions, but respect her as well. Her message for you: "Use your fiery passion creatively, not destructively."

This can mean literally and figuratively. The sense I get when reading this card is that the seduction you have towards life and living in a purely happy space is awakened. In this day and age, many people are reaching a certain level of faith and spirituality that has awakened them to an energetic level of seeking and understanding. This card feels like it is conveying the message of using your passion for life and highest path to creatively get to know yourself intimately. Spend time meditating, playing music, and producing artwork. What ever it is that speaks to your soul, that is your seductive self.

This card is also tell you to do so in balance. If you become too manic is your spiritual path and attaining an enlightened state, you may at the same time hinder the destine path you are supposed to be on.

Take your time to get to know yourself and your abilities. We all have them. Practice honing your gifts(s) and play with them to practice their accuracy, but take care not to become so obsessed with using them that you actually manifest the wrong information out of anxiousness and want.

Please let me know if you enjoy these Oracle card readings and I will make them a regular posting.

Please take care of yourself and practice your gifts with open hearts and loving intention.
-Heather

Heaven is not a destination but rather a state of consciousness.

There is a mega-church near my house and they have a very large and flamboyant banner in front that reads HEAVEN. Every time I drive by it forces me to ponder the meaning of heaven and is it really a place in the sky that a lot of people hope they go to after they die.

Heaven is a state of consciousness. It is a way to perceive your life and environment. Heaven is a state of knowing and accepting the things that are sometime hidden when you have closed your soul off to what the universe has to offer. Once you understand how the universe works and how every single thing you think and feel will materialize into your life, then you can start to create your own heaven on earth.

If heaven is a state of consciousness then why are there stories of people who have died, have seen heaven and then have been brought back to life? This, I feel, is because when our physical bodies have died, our souls are at their most enlightened states. At the soul level, you are aware of all the good, bad, life lessons and karma that you have been through and still need to go through in the next life. When you work though all the bad, appreciate all the good and balance out the karmic scales, your soul can achieve heaven. You don't have to wait until you die to achieve the heaven state that I am talking about. You can work to clear up the "garbage" that poisons your soul, rots your light, and keeps you from living the life that you want to have.

Are you living in a state of need or want? Are you hiding emotions deep down that you do not want to deal with? Do you spend too much time judging others? All of these feelings and actions are what darken the life force with in you. Imagine you have a bright light radiating from your body. This is your life force. Inside this light you are warm and at peace. In this light everything is calm and you are at peace with your self.

Now imagine that this light has big dark brown spots in it. They look like oil spills in your beautiful light moving around like a dirty Lava Lamp. These oil spill are all over your light and soon they start to leak into the rest of your light. Your physical body feels heavy and your energy is weak. You feel sad, angry and even sick. Your once light and energetic soul is now heavy and stagnant.

To turn this around, start your day by listing off all the things you are grateful for. This will force you to see the good in your life, if even for a few minutes. Then make a plan to help atlas one person that day. It can be holding a door open for some one. Letting someone who has 2 items go in front of you in the grocery line. It can  be over tipping at a restaurant or buy a meal for a homeless person. Do at least one thing today to make someone else life a little easier.

Start living your life being grateful for everyday that you wake up. Thats step 1. Step 2 is to resolve any emotions that you may be holding back. This is the tricky part. You hid them for a reason. You have to look your "demons" straight in the eye and tell them that they are not gonna rule your life anymore. When you start living your life with out the fear, then life will get a whole lot easier.

For example, you are broke and barely living paycheck to paycheck. Debt collectors are calling and your can barely afford gas or food. Sound familiar? Lets take a look at where your judgements are. Are you envious of someone who makes more than you? Do you speak poorly about your current job? Do you judge your bosses and co-workers? When our life force is muddied with anger and judgements it tends to spill over into our lives. We are NEVER in a situation by accident. There is something that you are supposed to learn from the current situation. It is your job to figure out what that thing is?

Is that co-worker that you hate so much really teaching how to love unconditionally...or at least understand conditionally? Is that boss who keeps giving you work really teaching you to push yourself just a little further? Is your insufficient paycheck teaching you how to budget and spend sparingly? In every bad or hard situation, there is a positive life changing lesson with in it. Once you start seeing these positive lessons and acknowledging them and accepting them, your life will start to shift to match your new thoughts. What you think will materialize in your life so why not make what you think positive instead of negative??

There is a process that you need to go through to clean up all the karmic baggage that keeps you from living the heaven on earth state that you could be living. We will talk about this next time. For now, your homework is to make a list of all the things you are grateful for and to do nice things for other people. Thats all. Notice how your life shifts just be doing your homework I just gave you and comment on if you see the shift.

Until then, be nice to your fellow creatures and take care of yourself.
-Heather

Intuition is more than just your instinct.

Everyone can be intuitive. You just have to be willing to open yourself up to perceiving the world in a much different form than the way you have been taught. Intuition is a knowing or a feeling about your environment and other people around you.

Intuition can come to you as a feeling, a thought, a smell or taste, and even as a noise or song. Have you ever been thinking of a random song on the radio while driving and then you change the channel and that very song is on? It is kinda like that. Sometimes when I have an issue, I will go for a walk. I ask for answers or a start of a resolution. Sometime during my walk, and idea will POP into my head and i get chills all over my body. I then feel really excited because I know that the idea was divinely placed and that it is my intuition giving me a starting place to resolve or deal with my issue. For example, I am at the start of writing a book, but I have moved into a new job and have no time at this point in the year to continue writing. I felt awful that I had to put my book on the back burner so to speak. I was getting the urge to write but couldn't find time to do it.

I went for a walk and asked for help with the urges to write and wether or not writing the book was for my highest at this point. During the walk I had an A-HA moment....why don't I write a blog?! I could meet the urge to write while at the same time helping to organize the outline of my book. I got chills and knew that just as I had asked for answers, I was given the answers.

Intuition works in a way that will make sense to you. While I need visuals and ideas for grasp that the Universe (or God for some people) was giving me what I need and request in order to keep me on my soul's highest path. For others, you may have dreams or get feelings, you may even hear "something" talking to you. It is all the same. It is just in different mediums that are dependent on the individual.

Once you realize that you can talk with the Universe (God) and it will answer you, you can start to practice. Ask for a solution to a problem or issue. Ask in a general open-ended format. Such as, "I ask that you guide me to financial security when it is in your divine timing when it is in my highest good."If you ask specific questions like "when will I get a job that pays me more money so I won't be broke", the energy behind it is out of need and want and not of your highest good and may lead to manifestations instead of a divine unfolding. Once you ask stop worrying about it. Completely give it to the Universe and know that it was heard and it will be answered. This is where the practice comes in......have patience and let go.

Go about your life and know that when it is the correct moment, you will experience and consciously observe that your question is being answered. You may start to see that more job opportunities pop up around you or that you keep having this urge to start your own business. You will see that life will shift to support you instead of working against you. Usually when it seems that life is totally against you and everything is wrong, that is when you need your faith and complete understanding of the universal energies that create your conscious environment the most.

If your life is negative, your thoughts are too negative. You are what you think. Once you realize this, you can use your intuition and understanding to help create a life for yourself greater than you could have ever imagined.

Go for a walk. Ask your questions. Just wait. It is kinda fun when yo get the hang of it. Take care of your self and each other.
-Heather

What it means to be an Empath from an Empath

Being an Empath is tough. You are ultra-sensitive to other people's energy, attitudes, and company. It is like a big ball of emotions, anxiety and confusion inside your body. Sometime you find yourself angry and don't know why. Other times you find your self at the brink of tears and again, you don't know why.

When you are an empath you feel and sense others energy and emotions. That is a lot to take on. If someone is deeply sad or angry, it seems to make or break your entire personality. You may  not even be acting like your self. Almost like you are someone else and in a way you are. I thought I had something seriously wrong with me. I felt almost Bi-polar and maybe like I was suffering from anxiety and depression. I was put on medications and they helped a little but I hated being on the meds. So I decided I rather live with the emotions and anxiety rather than feel numb to the world. That is when I started to do some research.

Western medicine is great, don't get me wrong, but sometimes there are things out side the scope of understanding and proof. I was reading about the gift of Empathy and it started to make sense. I started to read about the signs and symptoms of what it meant to be an empath and better yet, how to protect yourself.

I was at work. I worked in a hospital and sometimes things got stressful. One day I started to feel really angry and I had no idea where it was coming from. I was pissed at everything and everyone. I was a little taken back because I had no just cause for how I was feeling. I was just feeling it. So I went on a little break, took a couple deep breaths and really focused on why I was feeling they way I was. Going outside had helped because I was no longer in that environment or around those co-corkers, so I had a bit more clarity. As I sat quietly and focused on my breathing I started to get a sense or knowing that one of my co-workers was having a hard time. I was visualizing that she was having home problems with her husband. That night I even had a dream in which she told me she and her husband were splitting. I didn't put two and two together yet. After going back to work a few days later and speaking with her, she told me that she was having problems at home and was angry at her life, her job and just pretty much hated the world. That's when I knew.......not only can I see and sense things about people but I was an Empath and could feel other people's energy.

This can be a blessing and a curse. A blessing because you can sense people and their motives before they are obvious to others. A curse because if you do not know how to protect yourself, you can be overcome with so many emotions that you can literally feel crazy. How you choose to deal with your gift is totally up to you. Learning a basic protection method will help you appreciate your gift more and will help you want to use it.

Step 1: Find yourself a quite place. Indoors or outside, it doesn't really matter as long as you feel at peace and won't be distracted.

Step 2: Close your eyes and take slow steady breaths. Take 20 breaths.

Step 3: As you are breathing, start to visualize your heart space. Imagine there is a purple or blue tornado swirling around your heart. As you are seeing this tornado swirl around your heart focus on which direction it is turning. I always remember Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosy. When your heart tornado is spinning left (counterclockwise) you are open and susceptible to psychic attack. Now visualize your heart tornado changing direction. It is spinning right (clockwise) and you will gradually start to feel that open door into your higher self start to close. Notice how you start to feel peaceful and calm. Less stressed.

Step 4: Slowly come back into your self and you environment. This may take a few times to practice and really visualize but once you get comfortable with it, you will now control your own space and when and where you decide to be open.

I hope that you find some peace within and see your gift as a blessing rather than a curse. The gift was given to you, so there is a purpose for it. The fun part is finding what that purpose is.
-Heather