Angel Card of the Week: Love/Compassion

Week of 8/26/12

This week's angel card is the Love/Compassion card from Dr. Steven Farmer's Earth Magic Oracle. On sight it really to pull at my heart strings, it's very tender, and very sweet. For such a seemingly soft and tender emotion, love can be a very powerful experience, it can overwhelm, it can inspire, and it can heal like nothing else can. There is a potency and a unexplained tangibility to it that not even science can fully explain. When someone is lying in a hospital bed and family or friends are near, its very healing and they are much more well off than if they weren't.

I did an experiment last night with this card, it was the last thing I looked at before I fell asleep, and asked my angels to explain I how I needed to interpret this card for you all. I must admit I expected a dream full of pretty imagery, much like my other dreams, vivid and pleasant. To my surprise that did not occur; I instead saw some rather dark imagery, and I was using Love (Reiki) to dispel it! It was no easy task, but I prevailed, or rather Love Conquered All, despite any fears or struggles, love won out.

I think the message is clear, no matter how overwhelmed you feel or at a lost, etc, trust that love, yours and or that of Spirit's will guide you to the best outcome.

Have a lovely week!  

Disapproving Faces: Not Everybody Will Like You

from The Daily Om August 23, 2012

by Madisyn Taylor

Not everybody we meet will like us and it is ok to move into acceptance rather than trying to make somebody like you.


It is not necessarily a pleasant experience, but there will be times in our lives when we come across people who do not like us. As we know, like attracts like, so usually when they don’t like us it is because they are not like us. Rather than taking it personally, we can let them be who they are, accepting that each of us is allowed to have different perspectives and opinions. When we give others that freedom, we claim it for ourselves as well, releasing ourselves from the need for their approval so we can devote our energy toward more rewarding pursuits.


While approval from others is a nice feeling, when we come to depend on it we may lose our way on our own path. There are those who will not like us no matter what we do, but that doesn’t mean that there is anything wrong with us. Each of us has our own filters built from our experiences over time. They may see in us something that is merely a projection of their understanding, but we have no control over the interpretations of others. The best we can do is to hope that the role we play in the script of their lives is helpful to them, and follow our own inner guidance with integrity.


As we reap the benefits of walking our perfect paths, we grow to appreciate the feeling of fully being ourselves. The need to have everyone like us will be replaced by the exhilaration of discovering that we are attracting like-minded individuals into our lives—people who like us because they understand and appreciate the truth of who we are. We free ourselves from trying to twist into shapes that will fit the spaces provided by others’ limited understanding and gain a new sense of freedom, allowing us to expand into becoming exactly who we’re meant to be. And in doing what we know to be right for us, we show others that they can do it too. Cocreating our lives with the universe and its energy of pure potential, we transcend limitations and empower ourselves to shine our unique light, fully and freely.

Angel Card of The Week: Third-Eye Chakra

Week of 8/19/12

The angel card of the week is, "Third-Eye Chakra", this is one of the most beautiful cards in Dr. Doreen Virtue's Angel Therapy deck. Synchronicity seems to be the thread that holds my life together, over this past weekend I had many synchronistic conversations and revelations, and often times with these weekly angel card readings I find the card somehow relates personally to myself. Why is this card so synchronistic? Well, this week's card, the Third-Eye Chakra, is all about messages, psychic messages, messages from your angels, guides, crossed over loved ones, etc.

I had some wonderful conversations last week about this very topic! I am finding more and more people having these vibes, visions, and feelings that something or someone is watching them; there is a lot of talk lately about thinning veils...I believe wholeheartedly in a 'collective consciousness', and honestly do hope that we are ascending to a new level of consciousness in this much talked about 2012.  Either way, we are seemingly more open to receive and be aware, so as walk around in this newfound channel, why not be a clear channel?

This week ask yourself, are you clear in your Third-Eye? What can you release, how can you unblock and stagnation clouding your mental clarity? Ask your angels for assistance with this, Dr. Virtue offers this statement, "please clear my third eye of any old fear energies, entities, or other blocks or intrusions". Accept your that we as a global conscious are moving towards greater vision and clarity.

Enjoy your week!

Happy Birthday Grand Master Usui!

Today would have been our founder, Mikao Usui's 147th Birthday! His legacy as a healer, teacher, and guide lives on strong today. Each day countless people are discovering Reiki, becoming attuned practitioners of Reiki and continuing his work as healers and educators. So today I want to take simple moment to wish Grand Master Usui a very Happy Birthday! We thank you for guiding us, we thank you for rediscovering Reiki, and we thank you for sharing this gift with others.

Angel Card of the Week: Archangel Raphael

Week of 8/12/12

This week's card comes from Dr. Doreen Virtues' Angel Therapy Deck. It is always such a treat to receive the "Archangel Raphael" card! I think of Raphael as the Healer's Healer. This card is about healing, and channelling healing energy, "Raphael will send God's healing energy through you so that you're a conduit for Divine light and love." We are all capable of healing ourselves, feeling or channelling Divine love and light. If you are not attuned to a healing frequency such as Reiki, you need not worry, prayer works, visualization works! See, sense and imagine the Divine Love of God pouring over you, feel it coursing through you, and visualize yourself in your idea of perfect health. You can do this for yourself, for your loved ones, or anyone or thing in need of healing.

I am fortunate enough to live near the beach, and one of my favorite things to do is draw the Reiki symbols close to the water in the sand and watch the waves sweep it back in to the ocean. I image these symbols being carried to places I have never been and traveling across the globe healing our planet. If you are not a Reiki Practitioner, you can do this with other symbols like the heart, or the peace sign, be creative!  If you are not near the beach, you can fill a water bottle with water and draw the symbols as your pour the water out on some grass, use your imagination and good intentions.

Have a great week!

My Reiki Master Attunement Experience

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Over the August 4th & 5th weekend I was blessed to receive the honored Reiki Master Attunement after a one year training course. The amount of love, joy, and gratitude that I felt in this one year, and especially over our weekend together is something I cannot fully express in words. I was attuned along with five other incredible friends by our beloved Reiki Master Marla Mervis of Living Light Reiki (Santa Monica).

As I prepared for the Reiki Master Attunement, (click here if you missed it), I felt detox symtoms beginning already, which I must say concerned me a bit, and made me wonder, 'If I am feeling this way already, then what will happen after the attunement?'  I had experienced some stomach discomfort after other attunements in the past. Upon arriving to my attunement location, I found out I wasn't the only one experiencing this, the others in my class were also experiencing, stomach/digestive issues, headaches and flus, as if our bodies were already in process to be 'changed'.


Our weekend was filled with exchanges of gratitude and tears of joy, laughter and sweetness as we closed our educational year together. This was my Reiki Master's first Master class, so this just made all the more special, we felt such pride for her and her dedication to teaching all of us, guiding us, counseling us, and so much more. A week later, I am still overcome by gratitude like I have never felt before.

The Reiki Master Attunement itself was amazing. It was very different from the previous attunements I had received. My experiences with Reiki I, II, and the Advanced Practitioner course (similar to the Master Attunement, but without the Master symbol), were all pretty mellow. I have heard of other's having these amazing experiences and visuals, but for me they were generally pretty calm. The Reiki Master Attunement was pure power like I have never ever felt before.

I closed my eyes and my Reiki Master started with the first person on the far left of me, I was the last one on the far right. As soon as she begun with the first person, I felt a wave or surge of power move over us from left to right. I soon became very much aware of several people in the room with us, I take it that these were our angels, loved ones who had crossed over, Spirit Guides and our Ascended Reiki Masters. I also felt intense heat, everything on me was hot like I was sitting near a heater. I felt someone standing in front of, on the right side of me, and behind me the entire time, even though I logically knew that my Reiki Master had not reached me yet. This gave me such great comfort. The Being in front of me I could see slightly, it was a white vibrating silhouette of a short woman with her hair pinned up on top of her head and arms in front of her, palms touching. When my Reiki Master did reach me, she proceeded with the Attunement, I felt some vibrations in my Third Eye, and then she was done. She left to do whatever else she had to do to complete the process, I continued sitting with my eyes closed and then very suddenly I left a powerful whoosh run thru my Crown down through my stomach, the very core of me, and then it expanded out! This very startling and unexpected. The only visual I can use to describe it was that of a upside-down mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb. It was very solid, very powerful, very purple, and just wow amazing!

When we shared our experiences after we completed the attunement process, my Reiki Master shared with me that when she finally reached me, she felt removed from her body and that Hawayo Takata had stepped in to attune me. I was speechless. I have a specially affinity for Madame Takata which I will share at another time; after hearing that, I was once again overcome with emotion.

We made our journey home, I experienced a pretty bad headache, some nausea & queasiness, and so much heat throughout my body. I was a bit wired when I came home, but when I did eventually begin to fall asleep, I kept opening my eyes, because I saw an outline of a very large transparent crystal, it was as though I was looking through crystal eyes. The second time I woke I saw what I can only describe as a bright orange wall of energy. The Third and final time I woke because I thought my boyfriend had touched my arm to wake me, but when I turned over her was facing the opposite direction and sound asleep. The next morning he asked if I had touched him, all I could do was laugh because I had experienced the same. This was a firm touch, as if someone was holding your arm fairly tightly, but in a non-threatening way. I'm not sure who touched us in this "I'm just checking in on you" sort of way, but I feel it was Madame Takata.

This past week has felt pretty easeful for me, I feel pockets of vibrational sensations in my body, and I sleep so deeply! I also have a lot of stomach rumbling, directly at the top of my stomach (Solar Plexus area), my ears are popping a bit, but overall I feel good. I feel a better sense of clarity and wanting to dissolve anything 'unnecessary' very quickly, I question things such as my role in relationship to others, what's fair and balanced even on the smallest levels, etc. I was also able to attend a Reiki Practitioner circle and use my new Reiki Master Reiki, LOL. The Reiki that night was very interesting, it flows a lot clearer and smoother, Reiki energy was already something pretty 'tangible' to me, but that has been boosted even more. While I was channelling for someone, I felt that bolted to the ground sensation which was amazing for me, because I tend to be one who floats on the ceiling, this solid grounding is very new to me.

I'm enjoying this journey, which will continue as long as I exist, as we all are dynamic works in progress. I have so much more to share, I have many business plans that I was able to dive head first into after receiving this powerful Master Attunement, so much more energy, clarity, and drive to see my plans through with the guidance of Reiki. I can't wait to share more soon!


Love & Light





         

Showing Up for Life: Actively Participating

from the Daily Om August 6, 2012

by Madisyn Taylor  

If you show up for yourself in your life, the universe will show up for you.

The way we walk into a room says a lot about the way we live our lives. When we walk into a room curious about what’s happening, willing to engage, and perceiving ourselves as an active participant with something to offer, then we have really shown up to the party. When we walk into a room with our eyes down, or nervously smiling, we are holding ourselves back for one reason or another. We may be hurting inside and in need of healing, or we may lack the confidence required to really be present in the room. Still, just noticing that we’re not really showing up, and having a vision of what it will look and feel like when we do, can give us the inspiration we need to recover ourselves. 

Even if we are suffering, we can show up to that experience ready to fully engage in it and learn what it has to offer. When we show up for our life, we are actively participating in being a happy person, achieving our goals, and generally living the life our soul really wants. If we need healing, we begin the process of seeking out those who can help us heal. If we need experience, we find the places and opportunities that can give us the experience we need in order to do the work we want to do in the world. Whatever we need, we look for it, and when we find it, we engage in the process of letting ourselves have it. When we do this kind of work, we become lively, confident, and passionate individuals. 

There is almost nothing better in the world than the feeling of showing up for our own lives. When we can do this, we become people that are more alive and who have the ability to make things happen in our lives and the lives of the people around us. We walk through the world with the knowledge that we have a lot to offer and the desire to share it.

Angel Card of the Week: Be Willing to Forgive

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Week of 8/5/12

This week's angel card comes from Dr. Doreen Virtue's Angel Therapy Oracle,  Be Willing to Forgive. This title certainly says it all. This card has come up before, on my post from May 21, 2012, click here. Usually I will reshuffle the cards as not to repeat one that has come up so soon...with this I knew it was it had an urge to speak, but I still reshuffled got the card again, and my ego decided it didn't want that card so I left it until this morning when, well this card came up once again screaming at me to look at it.   If I have to look so do you, as we are all reflections of each other.

This card to me is all about self-love through forgiveness. This can be forgiving yourself, or forgiving others. Holding on to past suffering is not a loving act, it is a limitation on your soul's growth. Today personally I embark on becoming a Reiki Master, and it is imperative that I forgive right now. I had not realized that I needed to find forgiveness with anyone until they showed up a day before my Reiki Master attunement, know-coincidence! I had forgot about this person for many years, and when I saw them I realized that I needed to find forgiveness around that situation, and really my past actions towards that person.

Release yourself from any guilt you may be carrying for hurting someone, release the person who has caused you pain. Forgiveness is release, and clears a space for good to fill it.

Have a wonderful week!

Preparing for the Reiki Master Attunement

Tomorrow will mark the conclusion of my Reiki Master class, I will be attuned at the Master level.; and just because I will be a Reiki Master does not mean that I will stop learning, this is where the real life lessons begin. I really do not know what to expect, and perhaps that is a good thing. I have done my best to not speculate on how this attunement may differ from the previous ones, but I did let my curiosity get the best of me. I decided to 'google' "Reiki Master Attunement" and similar inquiries, to my surprise there was not much information on this. I did unfortunately find a lot of horrible misinformation about Reiki in general. Prior to this I have been pretty careful to not read anything online about Reiki, don't get me wrong, there are some quality sites, and genuine Reiki practitioners out there, but not very many. I told myself I would not read anything about Reiki since there were so many 'schools' of Reiki, and so many opinions, I wanted to focus on what was presented before me, but now that I am coming to the end of my formal Reiki education, I am wanting to see just what else is being said and what can I add to the pot. From all the misinformation out there, I can apparently add a lot! We must be much more responsible with what we are presenting!

Bust back to my attunement preparations. 

In the week before my attunement I have abstained from alcohol, had little meat, and not too much caffeine...gotta love the coffee shops on every corner. I have Reiki'd myself daily, I did a house clearing with the Reiki symbols. In several of my first attunements and even some re-attunements, I would feel detoxing symptoms in my digestive system for a few days afterwards, and now ironically I feel like I am detoxing already. Butterflies maybe? Whatever it is, I'm a trooper, and it has not slowed me down. I have been up past 1:30 AM every night this week and still managed to get to work and function with reasonably high energy, my creative thought process has been moving very quickly. Something is happening, and I welcome clearing of anything not needed in my body or energetic field, but spirits, can we please do this with some grace & ease? Thanks.     

Stay tuned folks! I will report my experiences with this attunement, and how it differs from the previous attunements that I have had before. 

Dreaming of Fireflies

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I had a really beautiful dream the other night. It was about lightning bugs, or fireflies. The dream was very simple, a dark background, that I actually recalled had a cool breezy temperature to it, like a nice Summer evening, and these beautiful little fireflies just hovering in the darkness. If you have ever seen fireflies in person you understand just how graceful these little bugs are. These little creatures hold a very sentimental place in my childhood memories. I grew up in the Mid-west and when you saw the first glimpse of lightning bugs, I knew summer had arrived, it was almost time for my birthday, and the 4th of July was near, Summer was a time of magic for me!


I write this post because I asked a question to my angels before I fell asleep. I asked them to please let me know they were there, because I had been feeling a bit off center. I know without a doubt that the Light will never ever abandon me, but I felt as tho they were taking care of some super top secret business on the "other-side" that was not for me to know about at this time. I will digress a bit further by saying that, for quite some time now, I have felt that my angels and guardians have been working very hard on something that will have a direct effect on my life and I have not been able to pinpoint it, and it has been driving me crazy. Its a weird feeling to have, especially when it has been hovering for so long. If anything comes out of it, it's that I appreciate my openness to feeling the invisible presences around me, and notice when they feel a bit further away.


To continue, I requested that my angels contact me in my dreams and let me know they were still near, and voila! Fireflies, my favorite in the bug kingdom, even more than ladybugs...interesting that my favorites are all beetles, and I recently learned that Cancer the Crab (my sun and rising sign) are represented by the beetle in Ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) Astrology, know-coincidences. Continuing on...I went for my trusty Animal Speak book by Ted Andrews to see what he had to say about my firefly friends, and sadly I did not see anything on the subject. But never fear, the Internet does wondrous things, like, give you a quote from another Ted Andrews book called, Animal Wisdom.


"For those to whom the firefly appears, it is time to trust in your own rhythms--physical and spiritual. Our hopes will begin to manifest, and our ability to inspire will grow. Fireflies remind us that there are others who will respond to us and who are like us. They flash with similar creative rhythms. They will make their presence known soon, and they will make our life more creative and healthier."

Seeing the lightening bugs in my dreams was so soothing and really put any anxiety I had to rest.

Here are some other keywords associated with the firefly as animal totem,

• Inspiration
• Illumination
• Patience
• Attraction
• Energy
• Hope
• Aspiration
• Guidance
• Efficiency
• Creativity
• New Ideas
• Awakening

I love building a relationship with my Angels, and trusting that they will respond when I ask them to.