Monthly Archives: May 2013
May 2013 Energy Forecast with Lee Harris – Fear & Intimacy
I usually do a little summary of Lee’s forecasts to introduce them, but in my opinion, this is such a great forecast that I feel it is best to just listen, and maybe listen again to it, as the subtleties of what he is sharing are important aspects to the integration we are being asked to embrace. The things he talks about being consciously aware of will take practice and the depths we are moving into will call forth our courage. Intimacy with self and others at a level never gone before is unraveling and since these themes are things I have also been sharing about in recent posts, Lee’s video is a great reiteration to bring it altogether. As much as we’ve been ingrained with old programming, the reiteration of new is never a waste of time, so it may become natural to our way of being once again.
The Symbolic and Spiritual Aspects of Cleaning – How You Can Optimize You
I’m a hugely symbolic person and live my life as a “work of art” that I create in each moment with everything within and without being sacred, and seeing all things as mirroring symbolism that reflect the state of my being.
Since the beginning, I have always been in constant transformation…it comes second-nature to me and I am continuously embracing change. Along with that, I have continuously also been huge on cleaning out, purging, cleansing – whatever you’d like to call it – which I see as a natural cycle that flows in and out by my giving and receiving, releasing and embracing…all mirroring of the natural rhythms of the Earth and the Universal experience.
This cleansing cycle is something inherent within me and even my body works in direct mirror to this, with all things that go in, go out…nothing is held on to 🙂 I feel that the level of ease or difficulty to which all experiences in our lives take place, directly mirrors our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual landscape in totality and how we process things in all of these ways.
I just went through another round (which happens about every few months, or less, depending on what my energy calls for) of releasing, therefore cleaning out. Yesterday I gave away a huge load of things, with one load going to Good Will and then two large boxes going to faery friends who are my size. I love sharing my things with others and often I feel that I acquire things more for others than myself, as some things don’t stay long in my life, and I can tell immediately who they would perfectly match. I have found this to be true about a lot of things..that I am a channel to help things get to where they need to be.
And yesterday, as I sent off and dropped off all my goodies to everyone, feeling so good that others will be receiving joy from these gifts, I also felt a huge energetic shift. I had felt energy building and by releasing some of that steam, things then have room to recalibrate and make space for other things. Immediately after my drop off, I went to the store with a handy coupon on hand I had just received, and picked up 13 new canvases to create more Crystal Illuminations. Even though I knew this was coming, it hadn’t felt right until this day and with the opening of new energy coming in, by releasing the old, I can see how I’ve embraced and opened the door for the next evolution of creation to flow in.
There is definitely an inherent symbolic and spiritual aspect of cleaning. I know in my life, there simply is no doubt about that. There is also a powerful symbolism in keeping things tidy in your space you live and work in. This organization and orderliness assists you in staying clear and focused, and away from the confusion.
Whether its laundry, papers, clothing, dishes, leaves in the yard, emails, voicemails, things around the house…this all weighs heavily on your energetic clarity and vibrancy. You can effect your optimization by being mindful of your surroundings and what they are reflecting about your inner environment. And when you learn to release more simple things in life you learn the power of detaching and how attachment is counterproductive to the nature of the Universe.
When you clean up and clean out, you free yourself to unlimited possibilities. The channels open. The blockages unclog.
It is definitely therapeutic as well. You can even make a fun meditational and intentful experience out of the cleaning out process, chanting mantras, making up a song and dance, saying affirmations, stating things like “as I release the old, I now welcome the new in for the highest good of all concerned…” etc. You can see each item that needs to be removed or cleaned out as representing a resentment, envy, anger, frustration, or anything that is disconnecting you from being centered, balanced, and connected to Source. And imagine that as you organize, bag up, rake, throw away, that each of those things go away and release from your experience, as you forgive and send unconditional love and compassion to yourself and others.
This is a way you can enjoy the process and realize the benefits, rather than seeing it as a chore and hard work. Know that with each step you take in clearing away, you are clearing your own way in life for all possibilities, opportunities, and inspirations to flow in, as you are allowing things to flow out.
Happy cleaning!
A Dream Calls…
…Are You Ready to Answer?
If you have been feeling ready to really jump start your life, are looking to receive the nurturing and support that can help take you to the next level, are aching for a bit of sparkly magic, then you may want to consider joining a truly heart-opening experience with people just like you on the Summer Solstice Rhythm of Renewal Retreat that I am hosting in Bimini, Bahamas at The Atlantis Rejuvenation Center.
I can’t say enough about this magical place and how all of the alchemical elements provided can really make a difference in your life. There aren’t words for the magnitude of beauty experienced together…it just simply is an “experience.”
If you have had the dream to go to Bimini, swim with your wild dolphin brothers and sisters, visit one of the most powerful sacred spots – the Atlantis Vortex, and experience the potentialities available on such a life-enhancing journey, then perhaps this is your time to “fertilize” your dream into being.
Alongside the magic, you will be pampered in daily yoga opportunities, enlivening raw vegan food, and integrative healing support, as well as experience Reiki with me and more.
photo i took of our dolphin friends from the boat on the last trip
Whether you can swim or not, this trip supports all levels of experiences and has a staff that will assist your needs in every way. You can also choose to connect and tune in with the dolphins from the boat, which is just as powerful to be in their energy. Experienced swimmers like myself are there to help beginners and life jackets are available so you can enjoy floating in the water and practice to your level of comfort.
Everything is optional…this is YOUR trip and we aim to support what you desire for optimal fulfillment.
The season in Bimini at The ARC has already kicked off with great energy – the Atlantis Vortex is open and this week’s first group of the season had amazing and powerful experiences there, as well as shared several magical dolphin swims. I am so excited to return again with you.
Please explore all the beautiful opportunities here: Bimini Retreat 2013
A deposit holds your space at the pre-registration discounted prices offered until tomorrow, Sunday 5/5/13 – Please see details below.
Saying yes to the journey is how things happen. I’ve experienced it myself and I’ve seen others experience it too. Everything is possible and where there is a will, you’ll create the way.
If this journey calls to your heart or you know someone who it beautifully mirrors, let your heart lead the way.
SAVE UP TO $200
Register on or before Sunday 5/5/13 AND bring a guest along and you’ll each receive $200 off your retreat package price!
Contact me at tania@taniamarie.com to assist with your questions and registering.
Be Your Own True Friend & Come To Experience Others In Their True Light As Well
At Machu Picchu honoring the friend within me
I was just texting with a friend and their timing couldn’t have been more synchronous. Literally, in the middle of putting together this short post that I felt guided to quickly share, their text came through. My post inspiration is on “true friendship,” having seen this come up as a theme a lot in very sad ways, and what this friend said and shared just went along with it.
They shared with me how lonely they feel…and that they have no friends, to which I responded, “I can’t speak for anyone else in your life, but you have a true friend in me and perhaps the loneliness is asking you to love yourself more and realize the best friend you have within.”
From there all authenticity reveals itself and life is enriched.
“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.” ~Roderick Thorp
“Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
The most important thing is to learn to be your own true friend…the one that provides everything you need unconditionally and allows you to then give TRULY to others. This also opens up your channels to RECEIVE from others, as even when you desire to feel something from another person, they can only do so to the extent by which you are able to accept, receive and feel it from yourself.
Amy and me meeting at “the Heart” in Peru
The value you place on you will always be reflected. And the DEPTH that you receive in experience from others will grow in mirror to the DEPTH of the authenticity you experience within. If you desire more than superficial niceties and the occasional bursts of joy that leave you empty at the end of the day when they are no longer around, look within and consistently tap into the flow of that infinite source of true unconditional love daily for yourself in authentic ways.
The highs and the lows of life can eventually come to rest in more balance and harmony, as we keep going further in our self-love and innate Divinity with each pendulum swing.
Laura and I mirroring the Ancient Sumerians and each other
The challenges we have with people and “friends” stems from our relationship with ourselves. They will mirror EXACTLY what we need to see and embrace and what we need to cultivate more of so that we are no longer triggered, threatened, envious of, frustrated, hurt, or angered by others. Turning away or cutting someone out of your life is not the answer either. This works for removing the triggers that may be annoying or bothersome and helps provide you the space to recoup your energy, but if you haven’t taken the time to courageously and vulnerably look within and haven’t done integrative healing work about what exactly it is about the experience with that person that bothered you or created the adversity you experienced, it will inevitably circle around again in some form or another until you stand still with the truth and integrate it unconditionally.
To learn to walk a life of true alchemy you must practice it. Part of living is about learning the simple secrets of alchemy and remembering the magician that you are, as part of the Universal, Ever-Loving and Continually Creative Source.
I guarantee you that when you look within yourself, ask the challenging questions, and process the adjustments and changes for yourself on all levels, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, your experience with that person, persons, or anything that triggers you will simply and magically transform. Sometimes we think the experiences have shifted because the other person just starts to mirror your avoidance too and so then you live in untruth until the next trigger that blows out and you wonder how that happened, or until the next trigger that may not even stem from them, but comes from someone or something else altogether to get your attention.
Things don’t just go away unless we do the powerful work.
We can’t fool ourselves by avoiding or filling our lives with stimulation. At some point or another, which is definitely the focus of the energy now that is making it crucial and no longer a luxury to say, “I’ll work on that later,” we will have to do the deeper integrative processing…and this will lead to the new, authentic, and consistently harmonious and magical experiences that have never been possible before.
In the end, after the veils fall, you will come to know yourself as the best friend you always wished for, and you will come to know who really was always your unconditionally loving friend. And when you do, cherish your and their preciousness and carry that through to every connection you have with others so that you can be that true friend they can cherish as well.
“I believe that true friends talk without intention, give without reason, care without expectation, love without condition, and will be there through thick and thin.” ~Nishan Panwar
“At the end of the day, the people who really matter will be the ones standing next to you watching the sun set and assuring you that it will rise again in the morning.” ~Ash Sweeney
“Friendship isn’t about whom you have known the longest …It’s about who came, and never left your side.” ~Unknown
Every day is opportunity to challenge our hearts deeper and come to know and cherish the friend within so that we can really see and experience others in their true light as well.
Seraphinite – The Powerful Winged Angel Healer Supporting Our Luminous Being
Today I would like to share another beautiful crystal friend of mine with you that has also become a new favorite and sits with me daily. I am constantly in awe of how crystals and stones so aligned with my personal journey, service, and where things are shifting on collective levels, find their way to me. Crystals that never would have been on my radar years ago, or even months ago, just show up. Yes, when we are ready, the tools, teachers, guidance, and support appear.
My crystal friend is the angelic Seraphinite, and just as its name reflects, it does indeed embody the “spirit of an angel.”
A Seraphim, by definition, is an angelic being, considered to belong to the highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy that has three pairs of wings.
Wikipedia shares that the word Seraphim, literally means “burning ones” and the word “seraph” is normally a synonym for serpents when used in the Hebrew Bible. A seminal passage in the Book of Isaiah (Isaiah 6:1-8) used the term to describe fiery six-winged beings that fly around God’s throne as caretakers singing “holy, holy, holy”.
The angelic Seraphinite not only carries the energy of these powerful angels, but it also resembles them with the silvery infused angel wings that appear inside. It is one of the most powerful stones for physical body healing and a great stone for healers and self healing, which also happens to perfectly align with my constantly seeing the 4:44 or repetitive 4’s in general on a daily and multiple times a day basis – a sign that angels are presently surrounding and supporting you.
Seraphinite, as you can see in the photos of mine, is a beautiful, deep green – when caught in the light is Earthy and resembles the vernal forests in Spring, but can be a very dark, almost black-green, like the depths of the forests when you venture beyond the Sun’s reach. It is one of the Angel Crystals that gets its deep green from the Chlorite in it, which is extremely healing and sometimes also appears in clear Quartz. There are silver “fronds”, like a fern has, throughout the crystal that flash brilliantly in the light. It is these “fronds” that resemble also the angelic wings.
Their green color represents the renewal of life, physical healing, the essence of the Heart Chakra, and Earth connection, which helps people who feel alienated from their physical bodies to appreciate and love the wonder and miracle of their physical form. With this appreciation you are open to allowing more light to infuse your human body. You can place it on any part of the body where you feel more balance is needed and where there is a disconnect experienced. One way to meditate with it can be to imagine silver light wings softly feathering in and around you as you visualize and embrace your body in wholeness and unified health and well-being.
It is definitely an enchanting crystal and touches my faery heart deeply.
It’s very dark, almost black coloring adds the element of grounding. The silvery wings are almost white, which symbolize Spirit and flow of nonphysical energy. This reflects a physical entity infused with the light of Spirit, so they are much like Earth Angels manifest, or the new Luminous Humans we are becoming.
This also demonstrates the fundamentals of healing and how it works by infusing the being with vibrational energy to assist the shifting alignments needing for optimal well-being. Sounds and feel like Reiki to me. 🙂
Not only beautiful, this crystal is a very special one energetically as well. Seraphinite, found only in the Lake Baikal region of Siberia, is considered by many as the premier healing stone of this age most suited to bringing the body into line with Light energy. It is among the most powerful of stones also for bringing into alignment the “I AM” column of the spinal cord. Of course its lovely green coloring reveals it as the perfect Heart Chakra stone that both centers, energizes, harmonizes, and bridges everything all at once.
Seraphinite carries a very feminine energy, which supports greater awareness and experience of the Divine Feminine, but it also is a healing crystal known to aid cellular regeneration! It even has the ability to help you become aware of diseases linked to issues from past lives and is believed to cause old patterns of dis-ease and imbalance to fall away. This creates the opportunity and space for new patterns to form that are of the highest order of wholeness. It can aid the decoding of the DNA to help bring about the decline of former systemic diseases and as they subside, the vibrations of the new arrangements within your DNA become prominent.
Seraphinite provides clarity of vision and understanding to see and know truth about your life, as well as what needs to be changed in order to experience the harmony you desire and deserve. It also encourages daily contact with the highest order of angels when you meditate. You can use it on any area or Chakra of the body, but some examples are placing it on your Crown Chakra for aligning all of your Chakras, holding it over your Heart Chakra to receive its healing love and protection, as well as to be able to always give unconditional love to others that resides innately in your heart.
An idea for meditating with your Seraphinite:
Softly gaze at your Seraphinite with slightly unfocused eyes and focus on the pattern in your stone, then close your eyes and imagine the pattern dissolving, understanding that it represents your own core patterns and as it is recognized and dissolved, so are yours. Then, turn your stone over and become aware of the pattern on the other side. See it as the new model and pattern of healing and balance and imagine this pattern infusing your being, as you embody your Divinity.
As I shared in my announcement post about my new “crystal illumination” Etsy Shop, if there is a specific crystal that speaks to you, or if one of my crystal friends that I share about, like this beautiful Seraphinite, feels resonating to you as well, you can commission them as Crystal Illuminations sacred paintings by contacting me. I may also have some stand-alone healing crystals available too, so either send me an inquiry or keep checking back at the shop.
Fertilizing Your Dreams This 5/5 – Happy Bealtaine & Bimini
Today is May Day or Bealtaine – the Gaelic May Day festival, usually seen as a Pagan fertility festival for encouraging growth and celebrating the fertile lands, crops and animals to thrive in abundance, as well as a time to celebrate bringing fertility to hopes and dreams. So while you may or may not be Pagan, it seems like a perfect way to fertilize the dreams you have through actions that bring you closer to your goals.
Bealtaine is halfway between the two Quarter Sun Celebrations, Spring Equinox (Ostara) and Summer Solstice (Litha), and exactly opposite November 1 (Samhain). This year the actual Cross Quarter between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice is on May 5th (5/5), but Bealtaine is always traditionally celebrated on May 1st.
I wasn’t aware that 5/5 was the actual Cross-Quarter day, until this morning when Laura Bruno posted her lovely Bealtaine wishes with a beautiful video to immerse yourself in the freshness of the Earth, from one of my favorite sacred places visited – Ireland. However, if you remember me posting about the extension to the Summer Solstice Bimini Retreat until 5/5, then you’ll come to see some of the synchronous connections I was picking up on.
The post subtitle was: Opportunity to Create the Dream. And in the post I shared about being guided to provide more time for people to move through things holding them back from their dreams, feeling that many are feeling challenged with fears, blocks, unclarity, and frustration right now, and talked about taking steps to address this. This synchronously goes along with the “fertilization of dreams through actions to bring yourself closer to your goals.” Coincidence?
I also mentioned that it was interesting this date had come up to extend the discount time until, as it also was a special day for me in other ways too, including the synchronicity that I would be teaching a Reiki 3 Master Teacher class for 4 of the beautiful friends that had gone through Reiki 1 and 2 training with me on the Winter Solstice 12/21/12 Bimini Retreat, as well as happens to be my Russian Tortoise’s 10th birthday, and is the 5 year anniversary of my receiving my beloved Nestor’s ashes home with me.
A lot of celebration, honoring, and powerful transformational experiences and opportunities all culminating on this Cross-Quarter day.
I love to see how things I’m guided to do, unfold in “serendipitous” flow.
So, if you are one of the people that has this dream to go to Bimini, swim with your wild dolphin brothers and sisters, visit one of the most powerful sacred spots – the Atlantis Vortex, and experience the potentialities available on such a life-enhancing journey, then perhaps this is your time to “fertilize” your dream into being.
The season in Bimini at The ARC has already kicked off with great energy – the Atlantis Vortex is open and this week’s first group of the season had amazing and powerful experiences there, as well as shared several magical dolphin swims. I can’t wait!
As mentioned, the extension on the up to $200 off special for this retreat is now good until Sunday 5/5/13.
So, if you register on or before Sunday 5/5/13 you will receive $100 off your retreat package price.
If you bring a friend or loved one with you, you’ll each receive $100 off your retreat package price (whether you register before 5/5/13 or not).
OR
If you register by 5/5/13 AND bring a guest along, you’ll each receive $200 off your retreat package price!
A deposit holds your space at the discounted price.
Saying yes to the journey is how things happen. I’ve experienced it myself and I’ve seen others experience it too. Everything is possible and where there is a will, you’ll create the way.
See link for details about the trip: Summer Solstice Bimini Retreat and contact me at tania@taniamarie.com with questions and to register.
Happy Bealtaine!