Monthly Archives: August 2013
Meatonomics: The Eye-Opening New Book by David Robinson Simon That Lifts The Veil On The Meat And Dairy Industry
“This important book joins the ranks of T. Colin Campbell’s Whole and The China Study in its power to expose the truth and begin to repair the health care crisis.”
~ Patti Breitman, co-author of How to Eat Like a Vegetarian, Even If You Never Want To Be One
“Consumers can only make wise purchases of meat if the price they pay reflects the full cost of producing it—when there are no ‘hidden’ costs like subsidies or environmental damage. Simon is the first author to attempt a complete accounting of all these hidden costs, something that should be applauded by the vegan and meat-lover alike.”
~ F. Bailey Norwood, Ph.D., author of Compassion By the Pound and Professor of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University
There are some incredible visionaries “being the change” and channeling pivotal and illuminating material and creations these days, especially via the medium of books. David Robinson Simon is one such literary visionary whose new book, Meatonomics, is creating major waves across the collective web of life.
If you aren’t familiar yet with David, you will likely hear more about him, as he is a leading voice in the field of sustainable consumption and a voice for the voiceless.
He is also making waves of change for First Amendment rights. Read on below in the interview to find out more about this.
David also happens to be my partner in life and I couldn’t be more proud of the service he is giving from his heart.
However, partner or not, there is no doubt he is one of the most passionately dedicated and influential people I know, working to create a new reality. I’m always amazed by people like him who are able to accomplish so much and who are “doing” so much in terms of helping things to shift – not just talking about it.
Meatonomics has received some astounding and compelling reviews by some influential people and publications, which I’ll let speak for themselves. Some of them include John Robbins, Will Tuttle, Ph.D., Rory Freedman, James McWilliams, Ph.D., Publishers Weekly, Patti Breitman, and more.
I highly recommend you check out what they have to say here: Meatonomics Praise and Reviews
But before getting into what David’s book is about, I decided to do a short interview with him, to provide an inside look at who he is a bit more and how the evolution of his life has brought him to write Meatonomics.
Interview with David Robinson Simon:
Tania: I understand that the majority of your life you have consumed meat and dairy, and in fact you ate a lot of fast food. How long have you been vegan, what brought you to this lifestyle choice, and how has your life changed because of this choice in terms of quality of your life and your relationship to the world at large?
David: Yes, it’s true: for most of my life I was a classic junk-food junkie, living on chili dogs and bacon double-cheeseburgers. I went vegan in the spring of 2008 after watching a few factory-farming videos that simply stunned me with their cruelty. Although I didn’t change my diet for health reasons, I started to notice immediate health benefits. Within the first few months, I lost 15 pounds and my cholesterol dropped from 200 to 160 (now it’s 140).
But for me, the main benefit of a vegan lifestyle has been a greater feeling of connectedness with the planet and its inhabitants. I tread with a lighter footprint. And I think I’ve become more empathetic and compassionate in my interactions with others.
Tania: What was the driving force behind writing Meatonomics for you?
David: A few years ago, I emailed a slaughterhouse video to a friend who taught at a major law school to see what he would think of it. He wrote back that while the practices in the film were clearly inhumane, they were likely illegal – and for that reason, they were anomalies. But after doing some research, I learned that in fact, the cruel practices that show up in slaughterhouse videos are generally legal. That’s because unlike most other animals, who are protected from cruelty, farmed animals are not covered by most states’ anti-cruelty laws. For example, Connecticut makes it completely legal to “maliciously and intentionally” torture, mutilate, or kill a farmed animal.
These laws are bad for animals and consumers, and they serve only one purpose: to help factory farmers make more money. Further, such laws – and the behaviors they spur in producers – are responsible for a variety of social ills, including health problems, environmental damage, and classic “market failure” in the meat and dairy system. The economic forces of factory farming have not received much attention, so I thought this would make a good subject for a book.
Tania: Speaking of laws, can you share a little about your work in regard to exercising the First Amendment and how you are helping to protect this right?
David: California is one of the few states where free speech rights can be exercised inside a shopping mall. However, since most shopping malls would rather not have people inside protesting or doing outreach, the malls do their best to quash these rights. By writing letters and sometimes threatening – or actually pursuing – litigation, I’ve convinced a number of malls in Southern California to let people engage in much more meaningful expressive activity. I’m currently litigating a pro bono case for an animal advocacy group against South Coast Plaza, the biggest mall in Southern California and one of the biggest in the country.
Tania: If you could only share one thing that you felt it important for people to know about food consumption and its effects, what would that be?
David: Despite the conventional wisdom that says meat and dairy are good for us, the overwhelming body of objective, clinical research shows the opposite – that these foods are damaging our health. Americans’ meat consumption has doubled in the past 75 years, and that’s the main reason why one in three of us have heart disease, two in three are overweight, and we have three times the incidence of cancer as the rest of the world.
Tania: What do you hope people take away from your book?
David: I hope readers will see that U.S. animal food producers use a variety of sophisticated techniques to make consumers buy more meat and dairy, which causes Americans to eat more meat per capita than any other people on the planet. I hope readers will learn how they’re being manipulated by factory farmers, and that, particularly in the huge quantities Americans consume these foods, meat, fish, eggs and dairy are not healthy. And finally, I hope readers will use that knowledge to reduce their consumption of animal foods – or better yet, give them up completely.
Tania: When you aren’t practicing law, advocating for animals, or helping to create a conscious world through your insightful and inspirational work, what do you enjoy doing in your off-time?
David: Spending time with family and friends is one of the most important things to me. Since get-togethers seem to typically revolve around food, they often involve interesting vegan restaurants (two of my favorites are Crossroads and Shojin in Los Angeles). I also try to get some exercise a few times a week; which usually means yoga or swimming at the gym and I try to meditate or stretch in the mornings when I can.
I like to read and am a big fan of classics that I can read for free on my Kindle (I found most of Thomas Hardy’s novels that way). I also like independent films and documentaries and watch a few of those a week. We don’t have regular TV so aside from indie films and documentaries there are a few Netflix series I enjoy, including Portlandia, Breaking Bad, House of Cards, and Hemlock Grove.
Weekends are the best. If I’m not on a hike, at the beach, or struggling in the garden (unfortunately I do not have a green thumb), I might be lying on the couch taking a cat-nap – with a real cat curled up next to or on top of me.
About Meatonomics:
David Simon’s Meatonomics (Conari Press, 2013) is a leading book in its genre to actually explore the unseen economic forces driving our animal food system, and the eye-opening, strange ways these forces are affecting consumers’ and taxpayers’ spending, eating, health, prosperity, and longevity. It also sheds light on how consumer decisions are largely influenced by external and extremely misleading factors, taking away our conscious decision making process in terms of what, or even how much, we consume.
For almost as long as they’ve been in use, factory farms have been synonymous with three kinds of problems: environmental, nutritional, and ethical. But today, new data compels us to consider an overlooked fourth category: economic.
Meatonomics illuminates this bizarre system and provides ways to fix it. It is also a new look at the upside-down industry of meat and dairy production/factory farming, and its revelations are shocking.
David shares: One curious fact to emerge from the book is that animal food producers impose almost $2 in hidden costs on Americans for every $1 of product they sell at retail. Another is that by “externalizing” most of their costs in this fashion and taking other steps to keep prices artificially low and manipulate buying behavior, these producers deprive consumers of the ability to make informed, independent decisions about how much meat and dairy to eat. That’s the main reason Americans consume more meat per person than anyone else on the planet.
Here’s an inside look at sample chapters and information you can look forward to exploring with David in Meatonomics:
Part I: Influencing the Consumer
1. The Brave New World of Government Marketing . . . . . 3
2. Massaging the Message: Shaping Consumer Beliefs. . . 16
3. Sausage Making and Lawmaking: Influence in the
Political Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4 . Regulatory Conflict and Consumer Confusion . . . . . 55
Part II: The Hidden Costs of Meatonomics
5. Feeding at the Subsidy Trough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
6. Diseases and Doctor Bills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
7. The Sustainability Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
8. The Costs of Cruelty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
9. Fishing Follies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144
10. Recipes for Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162
Meatonomics is scheduled for release in September 2013, just under two weeks away, but is available now on Amazon at special pre-order price with free shipping here: Meatonomics
It is also available at Barnes & Noble and Powells
You can follow David and explore all of the latest updates, upcoming events, reviews of the book, sample chapters, ordering information, and provocative posts on the forces of Meatonomics and how those forces affect our individual health, the environment, how we treat animals, and ultimately, our national prosperity at www.meatonomics.com.
David has already been speaking at engagements about Meatonomics this summer, but the official book launch tour begins August 31st on the East Coast (Martha’s Vineyard, NYC, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston) for the first half of September and then will hit the West Coast (LA, San Diego, Orange County – and more to be announced) starting September 28th. David will also be giving the Keynote Address at the Toronto Vegetarian Festival on September 6th. So there are many opportunities to catch one of his illuminating and engaging talks (including upcoming Radio and TV interviews), meet David in person, and pick up a signed book.
For a list of all the events, dates, and times visit: Meatonomics Events
Bio:
David Robinson Simon is a lawyer and advocate for sustainable consumption. He works as general counsel for a healthcare company and serves on the board of the APRL Fund, a non-profit dedicated to protecting animals. David received his B.A. from U.C. Berkeley and his J.D. from the University of Southern California. He is also the author of New Millennium Law Dictionary, a full-length legal dictionary. He lives in Southern California with his partner, artist Tania Marie, and their rabbit, tortoise, and two cats.
You can also find David on Facebook at: Meatonomics
Or you can follow David’s Tweets on Twitter at: Meatonomics
If you’d like to contact David with any questions you can do so here: Contact David Simon
And any publicity questions can be directed to either Bonni Hamilton, Director of Marketing and Digital Content at Email: bhamilton@rwwbooks.com or Anne Sullivan, Publicity Consultant at Email: anne.a.sullivan@gmail.com
David Simon Discusses “Meatonomics” in this Video Trailer:
From the Ocean’s Creative Depths a Cosmic Rebirthing Emerges Through an Enchanting Underwater Sacred Tattoo Design
I really enjoy each of the sacred tattoo designs I have the honor to assist with and this one was an added joy, as it blended dear elements of my own heart, as well as was for a dear soul in my life.
I wanted to make sure to create something that was reflective of my seeing her in her wholeness, yet that would also hold the space for her highest potential through a graceful and flowing journey of evolution.
She already had an older tattoo (as you see pictured left), which was my foundation to work from, and then I had to incorporate the new elements to transform it into the new energy of who she is now and is becoming.
The result was this channeled creation you see above, which is almost like a cosmic, underwater enchantment scene that is the landscape of her essence as seen from within, reflected out, and will hold the space and energy of this. It also reflects within this, the concept of “as above, so below”, as well – helping to create the core foundation that supports and sustains her new birthing into being.
She shared with me some of the symbols she is drawn to and having known her story, I was guided to use the symbols of the lotus, dolphin, mermaid and spiraling energy of water and cycles of life for this creation. These seemed to speak through her most at this time in her life and as most reflective of her journey in essence. A couple of additions that came through were a sort of cosmic infinity flame at center of the dolphin and mermaid and the two spiraling nautilus shells anchoring the energy below.
The design she already had directs energy both down to her Root Chakra and the Earth, through the point at the bottom, as well as up and out in all directions of the wave spirals.
The design I created adds to this with drawing energy up through the highest point at top, furls out through the opening lotus petals, and spirals in all directions with the extended side designs of what I see as reflective of the water’s energy, spirals of life, and also of the stems and roots of the lotus below the water that anchor and ground.
The top of the design is more organic and then blends into a symmetry and balance of delicate flow, rooted in the ancient nautilus shells that have a feminine curving grace, from which the spiraling energy emerges.
The design will slightly and gracefully wrap around to the sides with a flowing essence that moves the energy not only up and down, but circling around, left and right as well – the four directions. I wanted to try to make the design look like it was meant to be created as one piece, rather than looking like we are piecing things together – like it was meant that way originally. In a way, it has sort of a henna-like design quality/feel to it with a two-dimensional aspect, plus some three-dimensional aspects at top.
The essence of the piece captures a rebirthing process, an integration of duality into wholeness, a partnering of the twin soul aspect within self and then respectively, also with another.
The mermaid – an aspect of her, as well as the dolphin.
It carries the magical flow essence that creatures of the ocean know very well how to do, the continuous evolving through the spirals of life, the waves of the ocean, the nautilus symbolism, healing others through the healing waters represented in the spiraling waves, as well as the dolphins in their nurturing gentleness and Universal Love nature that knows the connective state of each other as a collective community, and it embodies peace, harmony, joy and love that she wanted.
It even has the quality of “Namaste” emanating subtly that she had mentioned wanting too, as there is a subtle design aspect that I added to be like two hands coming together in prayer/honoring that you can see the top of the fingers of, at center top of the design/doubling as lotus petals (which are also like cosmic flames themselves) – and the dolphin and mermaid are each aspects entwined into one of what would be the two hands at either side.
I added a cosmic infinity flame I created between the two, where the lotus unfurls to birth this fusion of divine union.
Dolphins symbolize playfulness, transcendence, gentleness, harmony, intelligence, contentment, friendship, community, resurrection, generosity, power, compassion, well being, purity of heart.
As I shared from astrologer Cathy Lynn Pagano in my earlier post today on the Full Blue Moon in Aquarius:
“The Sabian symbol for the Sun at 29* Leo is: A mermaid emerges from the ocean waves ready for rebirth in human form. In one sense, a mermaid symbolizes a new feeling arising from the collective unconscious. Part woman, part fish, the mermaid brings us news of what is going on in the creative depths of the ocean which gave us all birth. A new manifestation of the Anima Mundi or World Soul yearns to be reborn as Lady Wisdom.
This felt so perfect for the symbolism of the mermaid in the design.
The lotus is a powerful and ancient image symbolizing harmony, spiritual illumination and unlimited potential. The lotus is a type of water lily which rises from the sludge of muddy waters and opens into a beautiful flower. It is often used as a mandala, or circular symbol, but any way you use the Lotus in a spiritual practice, it will provide a resonant field that reinforces the concept of resurrection. Human mistakes and challenges are the fertilizer for brilliance and awakened creation as the Lotus shows us. Born in the murkiest of ponds, Lotus still emerges pure. Use the Lotus as a reminder that “this, too, shall pass.” Be assured that all fertilizer nurtures a beautiful new life. In the greater world, Lotus is a peaceful cosmic beacon for forgiveness, gratitude and compassion to prevail where the sludge of conflict has resided. Using this symbol on water invites a balance between humility and pride.
The Nautilus shells to me are of an ancient nature and with its integrated chambers is symbolic of continuous progress, balance, new ideas, visionary discoveries, innovation and inspiration, renewal, eternal continuity, expansion, consistency, evolution, interconnectedness, divine perfection, natural flow, stability and internal harmony within regeneration, abundant creative energy – in general, a symbol of life and “the journey home” to Source within All That Is, through a succession of transcendent spirals. When gazing upon the Nautilus it provides a serene sense of balance and well being.
The spiral itself is a symbol of creation, movement, fluidity, surrender/releasing, holistic growth, and awareness of the one within the context of the whole. It reveals the cyclical nature of life, the consciousness of nature from core center expanding outward, and the relationship between unity and multiplicity. It is the limitless spirals that move both “inward towards the Source of creation and eternally outward with Source’s continual self-creation.” In this way, the spiral reflects the contiguous journey home to who you really are and the journey to be one with Source.
Overall, there is a feeling of connection both to the Earth and Cosmos, that is grounded, yet flowing, as well as continually blossoming with renewal, the quality of Divine Goddess energy that is whole in sacred union from within, there is a sense of her exquisite nature and simplistic elegance, loving tenderness, yet empowered beingness, nurturing and creative passion of her spirit that is being both celebrated, as it blossoms, AND shared with others, and inner peace in all of life’s cycles.
I’m sure there is much more that can be found and felt. And really the details don’t matter as much so as the essence of how it feels when it is worn as a mirror of the soul, and gazed upon by anyone who mirrors that reflection.
I so love to see what channels through with each person, as I truly believe that the essence of the soul is reflected in the design that emerges. True beauty is all I see when I work with each person, and the result of that in manifested design, is the unique channel of the soul mirrored.
If you would like to partner in co-creating your own sacred tattoo design to embody the empowerment you desire, you can contact me at tania@spiritualskin.com. Remember that there is currently a waiting list and price changes are going to be in effect at start of 2014.
For more information about the process and pricing please visit: What is a Tattoo Design Consultation
Some people have preferred to read my book, Spiritual Skin ~ Sacred Tattoos: More than Skin Deep, especially if they are new to sacred tattoo designs, before embarking on this journey.
If you are drawn to learn more about sacred tattoos you can order a copy of the book here: Spiritual Skin
It is also available in Kindle and PDF formats here: Spiritual Skin
Full Blue Moon in Aquarius ~ August 20th 2013
We are at yet another Full Moon (time flies) and a Blue Moon at that! This is the second Full Moon in the air sign of Aquarius we are experiencing this year – the first was July 22nd, 2013. It is opposite the Sun in the fire sign of Leo.
Air and fire are both wonderful purification elements that can be useful in supporting the release of outmoded everything – especially ideas and beliefs about yourself that are blocking you from being your natural you and living from your authentic core beingness. This is particularly a good time to create a sacred ritual around this process of letting go, transmutation, and integration.
“If you have built your castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” ~Henry David Thoreau
This is a time for grounding visions into manifested form, as you come into your trueness, and for following your heart completely in order to utilize its power of love and creative magic to materialize new opportunities, realities, and doorways of experience.
“A window of opportunity won’t open itself.” ~Dave Weinbaum
You must be ready to embrace and move with the changes that flow in and to follow the guidance of your intuitive knowingness with full trust and action. There is no time to push the nudges off until tomorrow. Seize the moment, as tomorrow is only a continuum of what you choose from the now.
Be love, stay alert and present, keep balanced, trust what you know without proof, always stay in and listen to your heart, and you will raise your vibration with this consistent practice.
This is also a time for creativity to be flooding your experience and it’s opportune and important to allow that channel of self-expressive passion to flow through. This will allow you to grow and experience more of yourself, bringing you to an experience of self value and love that is important in your ability to give of the same to others in service of your gifts.
Be willing to face everything on the most intimate of levels within yourself. This courageous vulnerability to look within, will be the point of power to transform your experiences.
Leo is the confident energy of heart-centered creativity, spirit, love, and both generosity to self and others. And with this comes the responsibility of knowing you are powerful, not powerless, in every situation. Leo’s fiery alchemy has the ability to help us transmute and go into a new and more profound understanding of ourselves and All That Is.
Me with Sekhmet in Egypt
A good example of this energy, is one of my favorite Egyptian Goddesses – Sekhmet – Lady of the Sacred Flame/Eye of the Sun/The Powerful One – who is the creative fire and energizing life force within the creation. She wears the Solar Serpent – symbol of regeneration – and her power is a partnering duality of creation (development of life) along with destruction (death). These are the natural cycles of life that maintain the universal harmony of cosmic order.
It is time to realize our worth and embrace, with fullness of heart, being our own responsible, conscious authority and creative alchemist in the world – much like the caterpillar to butterfly effect.
This brings us to the power of the air element of Aquarius with its higher mind of cosmic and divine order that operates from the highest good and benefit of humanity. You will find your freedom, when you are operating from the bigger picture vision of harmony, co-creating, and altruistic love.
Everything starts within us and that is where you need to look and work with first and foremost.
As Cathy Lynn Pagano, astrologer and author of a new book, “Wisdom’s Daughters: How Women Can Change the World” shares:
“The Sabian symbol for the Sun at 29* Leo is: A mermaid emerges from the ocean waves ready for rebirth in human form. In one sense, a mermaid symbolizes a new feeling arising from the collective unconscious. Part woman, part fish, the mermaid brings us news of what is going on in the creative depths of the ocean which gave us all birth. A new manifestation of the Anima Mundi or World Soul yearns to be reborn as Lady Wisdom.
(I love this part about the mermaid, as I’m currently finalizing a sacred tattoo design that synchronously incorporates a mermaid and cosmic flame, which I’ll share later today)
The Sabian symbol for the Moon at 29* Aquarius is: A butterfly emerging from a chrysalis. This emergence speaks of a complete metamorphosis, a structural renewal of the patterns of life and relationship. We have to let go of the old structures that emerged from the archetypes long ago, structures which built patriarchy when we needed that form. But now those forms are dead and deadening. When archetypal patterns lose the feeling depths, they become stereotypes. We live in a culture of stereotypes which urgently needs renewal. Let the archetypal energies of life renew themselves in new patterns and forms, reshaping humanity to a larger consciousness and beauty.”
A “Spiritual Skin” Design Graces the Cover of Kathy Jourdain’s New Book, “Embracing The Stranger In Me: A Journey to Open Heartedness”
Today I want to briefly share some very exciting news about an inspirational new book that is now available. Not only do I foresee it being another empowering tool that will support many globally, but I am also deeply honored and grateful to have my artwork gracing the cover.
Kathy Jourdain and I connected via Facebook, through a synchronous connection via another sacred tattoo design I created for a shared friend. It was an instant bond right from the onset and it was clear our paths were meant to converge to channel this divinely aligned co-creation. I can’t express enough what an honor it has been to work with Kathy and to experience the beauty of such an amazing bridge worker spreading her light and love all over the world.
From client to friend, I cherish the connection she and I now share, as bridge workers and beyond, as well as cherish all of the amazing soul friendships that I have been blessed to have in my life that the service I do enables me to connect with.
Kathy will be sharing more about the amazing story behind her sacred tattoo, which she also now wears upon her back over her Heart Chakra, once her website is launched here shortly. In the meantime, I would just like to express how meaningful and priceless the work I do is to me, that bridges connections between myself and so many across the globe in deep ways.
As Kathy shares, and I heart and soul-fully agree, “When she gets homesick, it is not for the place she calls home, but for the people she has the privilege of knowing and falling in love with all over the world.”
Beautifully and perfectly put Kathy – my sentiments exactly.
I just received a copy of Kathy’s new book, “Embracing The Stranger In Me: A Journey to Open Heartedness” – published by Balboa Press – A Division of Hay House, in the mail this weekend and was so moved to see and feel the emanation of this stunning cover that seems to glow with such powerful simplicity, the core essence of her story. It was a beautiful, channeled, collaborative co-creation between Kathy, the Balboa Press designers, and myself.
What an amazing gift to receive and more so, was the beautiful, personally signed dedication I found inside the cover from Kathy that truly touched my heart. Thank you Kathy.
I am so looking forward to continuing to read her personal journey, seeded deep in symbolism that threads a woven tapestry of experience – one that we can each find gems of inspiration, empowerment, and support from. After which, I will share a review.
In the meantime, here is a brief overview of Kathy Jourdain’s book:
This is an empowering—though at times heartbreaking—work that seeks to encourage others to embrace their inner selves in the face of adversity. It illuminates how we make meaning of our experiences by the stories we tell and how stories of human tragedy can be transformed through the perspective of soul journey with the potential to shift the shape of your life.
And here are a few of the many wonderful comments from people about Kathy and her book that continue to flow in:
“Reading your book is an intimate exchange between the reader and the book.”
“You are an amazing story teller! I was riveted…”
“This amazing book has made me laugh out loud, weep, ponder, and made my hands sweat and shake…sometimes while reading the same page!”
“I am devouring your book. Opened it this morning and having been reading it ever since. I am touched by your grace, eloquence, and honesty.”
About Kathy Jourdain:
This book took shape and form at the confluence of three significant threads in Kathy Jourdain’s life over five years from 2005 to 2010. One was awakening to a spiritual lineage deeply buried in her consciousness. Another was being confronted by a physical lineage she had no idea existed. The third was discovering how to walk in the world with strength, joy, and compassion and to be powerful in her vulnerability, growing her depth of presence and capacity to do deep, meaningful work in the world.
Kathy is a powerful practitioner of the Art of Hosting Conversations That Matter, a self-organizing, emergent global network living the principles and practices of shared responsibility and shared leadership. It demands that practitioners become increasingly self-aware and present and that they collaborate with others in tackling some of the most pressing issues of our time.
As a global steward of these principles and practices, Kathy is invited into hosting teams and consulting work for increasingly difficult work, primarily in Canada, the United States and Brazil. She shares what she is learning through her writing on her blog, Shape Shift.
She was born in Nova Scotia, was raised there and has lived there all her life. She currently resides in Bedford.
Embracing The Stranger In Me: A Journey to Open Heartedness by Kathy Jourdain is available now from Balboa Press here:
This title is also available through your local bookseller or preferred on-line retailer. And if you’re in Halifax, Nova Scotia, you can also now find it on the shelves of Little Mysteries.
You can also follow updates about Kathy’s book at her Facebook page:
If you would like to partner in co-creating your own sacred tattoo design to embody the empowerment you desire, you can contact me at tania@spiritualskin.com. Remember that there is currently a waiting list and price changes are going to be in effect at start of 2014.
For more information about the process and pricing please visit: What is a Tattoo Design Consultation
Sea Lion Wisdom – Balancing Inner & Outer to Reveal the Truth & Beauty of You
I love when nature reflects messages to me and especially love when it comes in the form of an animal spirit guide. I cherish my time outdoors connecting with our dear Gaia (Mother Earth) and am grateful for the blessings she is always so generous in gifting.
I see many animals always and sometimes they are reflecting a magical moment, confirmation of something that I just was thinking about or asking, reflecting what I’m currently focused on or moving into, or are providing guiding wisdom for things currently in my life.
After an 8-mile hike, which I enjoyed once again in my flip flops – the best way to go for me these days – we made our way to the beach for a picnic lunch, reading, and napping. I usually see a lot of interesting things at my favorite beach, Crystal Cove, and today I was instantly greeted, as I 
approached the water’s edge, by a large male California Sea Lion. He was not more than 20 feet away swimming and playing in the waves and following me as I walked the same direction. It was really a sweet experience.
Of course I wondered about his appearance and while I knew some basics about Sea Lion symbolism, I wanted to delve into it further, so I started doing some researching and came upon some info that I thought I’d share, as I know people not only have similar experiences, but they may come up in dreams, thoughts, or be an animal totem for you. I also felt that the Sea Lion medicine was particularly timely and relevant to things collectively and even in terms of my post yesterday on intuition and the importance of listening to that inner guidance.
Sea Lion wisdom includes such things as creativity, protection during change, lucid dreaming, movement through emotions, and the inner voice. They are symbols of abundance in many Northwest Coast tribes and in some Nuu-chah-nulth tribes, Sea-Lion plays the mythologically important role of Earthdiver, bringing mud from the bottom of the ocean for Raven to use to create the earth.
The new info I found was in Ina Woolcott’s piece “Seal, Sea Lion, Power Animal Symbol of The Inner Voice” of ShamanicJourney.com, which was particularly interesting to me. Here is what she shares, alongside the same wisdom I already mentioned above:
Seals spend much of their lives in the sea, but they give birth on land. This shows us that there are 2 necessary things that help fulfill our dreams and visions. These are formed deep within us, and are nurtured through the power of our ability to envision them using all our senses. They are most easily made ‘real’ by us when we implement practical and material acts. A lot of the time when us humans are ‘creating’ something, the feeling side of things is absent.
During the mating season, males can partake in extremely savage battles one minute and be playful and amusing the next. Seals have the agility to move from anger to complete calm.
Seals are (obviously) sea mammals, and are highly symbolic of our feeling, sensual selves. The seal helps us to remember our connection to our deep inner rhythms, feelings, and knowing, as represented by the sea. As humans generally believe themselves to be apart from ‘animals’, when really we are a-part of them, we often fight giving in to these deep rhythms and are afraid of ‘losing’ what we consider to be ourselves. When we are afraid of drowning in these depths, Seal being a good swimmer and knowing how to flow with the ever changing current, reminds us how to swim with the current. When we do this the negative feelings we have created such as worry, fear and anxiety are released from our minds. If seal enters your life, you are being asked to review the ebb and flow of your thoughts and emotions and find and keep up a point of balance.
Water is a creative element and symbolizes the feminine imagination and intuition. If the seal appears in your life, pay close attention to your imagination and insight – in the waking state and in dreamtime. A lot of what you imagine generally has a strong basis in reality, no matter how far-off it may seem. People with seal as a power animal are generally highly imaginative and very creative. They will need activities that channel and direct this. The Seal/Sea Lion can show you how to develop and focus your imagination.
Rather than having external ears, seals have small openings. This shows their deep affinity with their inner voice, and can show you how to listen to your inner self, balance your life to it. Your dreams will become more vivid and significant.
Seals swim both below and above water, giving them the ability to experience both the inner and outer worlds.
They teach those with this totem how to flow, how to hear, and how to discover the deeper mysteries of their true nature. Seals are keepers of wisdom. They reveal to us what is hidden deep within ourselves, and teach us how to integrate our imagination with the reasoning power of the intellect. This will give balance and harmony on all levels.
The seal which is so sleek and gorgeous in the water, teaches us how to feel at home in our bodies, and to uncover our inner beauty.
I LOVE Sea Lion’s message and I feel that he was definitely another added nod to yesterday’s post and provided a fluid continuum to the theme of honoring that voice within, the importance of staying balanced so that you can sustain clarity, the importance of flowing and not attaching to any emotions and things, embracing cycles and swimming with the currents of life, be willing to courageously explore the depths of experience and your creative expression, and trusting the feelings and visions you receive.
All answers lie within your beautiful heart and will be reflected for you – As within, so without – As above, so below.
Risk False Security to Gain Wholeness – When You Receive Direction from Your Intuitive Self Do You Listen?
Have you noticed how more and more you are being asked to trust your intuition and follow through in support of what its message is? Intuition seems to be a common and prevalent theme to pay attention to, from what I’m hearing, sensing, and experiencing, and what I find is that we simply don’t have the luxury or the grace period we used to, to NOT listen and act up on it anymore.
I was talking to my friend yesterday about this, as we strolled along the beach, and she shared the same has been coming up strongly for her in terms of needing to be very mindful and honoring of her intuition and when I shared the story below with her, she was grateful for the reminder and the message. Our own experiences are not just helpful for our own processes, but can also help others going through the same. This is why I like to share things I go through, as I find it always is connected to and supportive for what others are feeling.
Along our walk some both interesting and magical, immediate messages/signs took place as well, which is simply evidence of the instantaneous and “now” experience of everything when you put out a question or intention, speak a truth from your heart, and get a feeling you act on or disregard. The effects of synchronicity, gifts, messages, and help asked for, all come immediately.
A very strange/synchronous appearance of a large dead Moray Eel showed up on the beach, as my friend was sharing something with me (an odd sighting I have never seen before and was quite “alien” looking in its bloated form.) It was definitely a message, symbolic of the conversation and the fact that I believe it had been spear hunted (as I saw a puncture through the side of its neck where water was bubbling out), and the eyes were missing, also had meaning. Later, after I was discussing Marsh Hawks and their graceful appearances in my life quite often and recently, as well as saying how much I LOVE them, I immediately found a hawk feather on the beach (my second hawk feather, but very interesting to find it along the shoreline, as I usually see the hawks on hikes or more inland). A lovely and magical message for me in reciprocating love and vision.
And messages come in many forms, but the most important and originating form, is as your intuition.
Here’s what Shakti Gawain shares about intuition in her book, “Living in the Light” :
“The true solution is to re-educate ourselves to listen to and trust the inner truths that come to us through our intuitive feelings. We must learn to act on them, even though it may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we “should” do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority. To live this way is to risk losing everything that we have held onto for reasons of external (false) security, but we will gain integrity, wholeness, true power, creativity, and the real security of knowing that we are in alignment with the power of the universe.
I am not attempting to disregard or eliminate the rational mind by suggesting that our intuitive awareness is the guiding force in our lives. The intellect is a very powerful tool, best used to support and give expression to our intuitive wisdom, rather than to suppress our intuition as we now use it. Most of us have programmed our intellect to doubt our intuition. When an intuitive feeling arises, our rational minds immediately say, “I don’t think that will work,” “nobody else is doing it that way,” or “what a foolish idea,” and the intuition is disregarded.
As we move into the new world, it is time to re-educate our intellect to recognize the intuition as a valid source of information and guidance. We must train our intellect to listen to and express the intuitive voice. The intellect is by nature very disciplined and this discipline can help us to ask for and receive the direction of the intuitive self.”
We all have our moments when we are a little “off”, not fully balanced, have a lot going on and may not be functioning as clearly as we are used to in terms of hearing or supporting our intuition – and all of this is perfect and not anything to get upset about, judge, or get stressed over – it’s simply part of the evolution of your soul and is so beautifully assisting you to greater heights and depths of experience. Once you become aware of something, just make the new adjustments and changes to support it, and move forward. There will always be something new to learn, but over time, perhaps they will be just that – new things 😉
I know that for myself, if I for one second don’t act upon my intuition, I will get a very large Universal/Cosmic message and sign immediately as a reminder that I know better and I simply can’t afford at this stage in my experience to disregard anything I feel and know. Part of this has to do with not only it being important personally to my path, but in terms of the connective thread of that path with the collective, in responsible service, it is all interwoven with. Every choice made is not isolated to ourselves and has impact in greater ways than we realize. I’ve seen how ultra-presence is needed always in choosing responsibly. This is why I am very much more discerning about things in my life now and don’t put myself in unnecessary risk of anything, if I can help it. While I know I am always protected, I also know I can’t go around acting irresponsibly. You can always shift something by a choice that will set a different course.
Luckily, there are very few times anymore that I do not listen and act on my intuition, but if I don’t, the experience seems very tied into something large I am working on in terms of my path. So the small “random” seeming thing I didn’t listen to, is connected to a larger picture I’m being asked to move into. But, as shared, whereas in the past I had more leeway, now I find that immediately I will get a very loud reminder.
Sometimes it can seem like such minute, random, or inconsequential things that your nudges tell you to do or not do. And yet, you come to find they aren’t so little, when you experience the “reminder” and, later, connect the dots with the meaning for you. There is much more at work going on behind the scenes than you may be aware of.
One of the times I did not trust my intuition happened just a couple of days ago and felt it important to share, as a good example of what I am talking about.
I was invited to go somewhere – a spiritual center that was re-opening. Seems pretty harmless and perhaps even aligned or supportive, right? It was sort of a weird, energetic day to start off with, and I had a lot going on, so my usual clear and strong inner support system was skewed. It didn’t seem like a big deal at first, but I had the feeling it wasn’t really something for me to go to, for whatever reason. (I don’t always know why I feel something, but I just KNOW). Yet, with the energetics feeling off-balance that day, my mind got into the mix and started thinking, “what harm could it do?”, “it’s really close to home”, “it’s a free spiritual event”, “friends are going”, “why not?”
So you can see how the left brain started to override the right, rather than support the right with its first insight.
So, I tried to call the place to see about scheduling a couple of free offerings and when I did some weird stuff on the phone took place where the first person I talked to didn’t have the right information and gave me over to someone else and then they put me on “fake” hold, lol, and then said, “well just come in and we’ll get you in an appointment.” I thought, “hmmm, that’s odd, but ok fine.” (second dismissal of intuition and heart nudge).
Then just right before I was going to leave, my intuition got stronger and started to override the left brain (coming more into its power again) and I decided not to go. I wasn’t sure why, it just felt not right, not important and a waste of time, or some other reason I wasn’t aware of. In some ways this could seem silly, but I just really was not on board in the same way others were for this. The teeter-totter was playing out in my mind, rather than staying centered in my heart.
I messaged my partner, Dave and told him I wasn’t going to go, as earlier I mentioned to him that I would be. I said to him that I thought I’d waste my time. And I sat for a moment and then my mind said, “oh why not just go, what harm can it do? It’s less than 10 minutes away, you can go quickly, check it out and leave.” (Silly in my book, as this is not my usual protocol, as I honor my feelings and things like this haven’t been a challenge for me for a long time.)
But, for whatever reason, my Higher Self and the Universe had a lesson for me today on this energetically off-day. It seemed very strange to be wishy-washy, but like anything, it’s always perfect and my choices would help me to see why.
I then re-messaged Dave and said, “I’m not feeling it, but I’m trying to be open, so I’ll just go quickly and come back.” (Another dismissal). When I messaged this, the time of my message said 2:22 pm and that means the angels are supporting your thoughts, it’s a sign of confirmation and a call to further action along your path. It’s about faith and trust and your Divine life and soul mission. It has to do with balance and keeping up the good work you are doing, as evidence of your manifestations are coming into being.
And I have had this come up recently, the 2:22 when I have had intuitive nudges and then followed them, then received this message and they’ve always been supporting my acting upon my intuition and result in fortuitous things. In this case, it was a message to trust my intuition (not the decision to go despite it) and yet I still didn’t for whatever reason.
So, I left the house and not more than 30 seconds down the street I miss getting into a bad car accident by literally an inch, when someone not watching pulls out of their driveway and almost hits me. It was such a bizarre experience too, as it was surreal and the way my car and my hands at the wheel reacted with perfect precision, angle, and timing to “just” miss the hit, was a bit supernatural. Even the angle at which my car moved, was not normal and I felt the car do something not normal, as I know my car quite well. It felt like something beyond me had moved my hands and car.
I instantly knew what this all meant. That what I’d known in the first place – I was not to go to this event, for whatever reason – was far more important than it seemed, and this was my reminder warning that I cannot afford NOT to listen at any given moment in my life, even when it seems so inconsequential.
I instantly got chills, thanked the Universe and my guides, and drove past the freeway on-ramp I would have been taking, and went a different direction, instead, to a metaphysical store by my house I’d been wanting to visit for a while. There I re-centered, breathed, spent time with some crystals to rebalance, and was back on track, feeling clear and confirming my intuitive feelings, forgiving myself for not listening, having gratitude for the support, protection, messages, the process and the growth it provided, and then went back home in peace and renewed connection to what this meant with bigger things going on in my life right now.
When I got home, I messaged Dave to let him know I hadn’t gone, what happened, and how I felt back in my center, balanced and renewed on a whole other level with my intuitive trust, the message time was 3:33 pm (exactly 1 hour and 11 minutes later). 333 is a message that the Ascended Masters are with you, loving, guiding, protecting you always, and working with you on all levels to assist you in your endeavors and with serving your Divine life purpose and soul mission. It is also a reminder that you can call upon them when feeling perplexed or confused, as to your life purpose or anything you need assistance with.
Even though I had some senses on why this may have been, it ultimately doesn’t matter what the reason was for why I was not to go, nor do I need to know. All I need to know is that my intuition is always right, always has been, and always will be. Our intuition and heart always has the answers. When the heart and intuition are supported, there becomes no necessity to reiterate with reasoning, as that is wholeness in itself. (11:11 am as I just wrote that)
Everything is always in Divine perfection, but we can always be a more present, conscious, and co-creative partner to experience in our highest way.
The message here is to listen with all of your senses, be as present as possible with yourself, support your feelings despite all else, and be gentle with yourself along the process. There is no greater time than this now moment, to walk in the fullness and wholeness of you.
21 – Day Mantra Meditation Journey with Deva Premal & Miten is Back! Join In September 10th!
Back by popular demand, Deva Premal and Miten are offering their 21 Day Mantra Meditation journey once again. I posted it the first time, so that if you felt called you could join along, and I’m posting it again for another chance. They are celebrating their MantraFest tour of the USA & Canada this fall, and what a wonderful gift to share with us all.
I have had the opportunity to experience them and their music in person at a concert in Maui and in Portland, OR and already have my tickets to see them at Bhakti Fest on Friday 9/6, as well as in Escondido, CA on Sunday 11/3 with special guests, GuruGanesha Band. Yes, I am quite excited.
You can check out their tour dates and cities here: Deva Premal & Miten
Perhaps you might feel called to join one of their many concerts as they tour, which is an experience not to be missed, if you can. But if not, the 21-Day Mantra Meditation is a beautiful journey you will cherish.
It’s an opportunity to not only integrate things at a deep, core level, but to also join as one with thousands of others across the globe to create loving change and awareness. Last April over 64,000 people from 201 countries participated in their first online offering of this. And now, you too can join, whether you did or didn’t before, and immerse yourself in the beautiful and empowering energy you will be igniting for self and others, simultaneously.
The second 21-Day Mantra Meditation journey will begin September 10th and it is a three week experience that will bring you into the powerful world of mantras, as you explore a new mantra daily, come to understand their meaning and powerful energy they help to access, as well as enjoy a guided meditation into the chanting. The journey is also available for purchase, so you can have access to it any time. I find it to be a wonderful gift to self or others, and did get it myself.
This is an amazing opportunity for deep spiritual rebirth amidst any intensities you are experiencing or working through, as you break down, release, and build anew.
You can easily follow along in your own sacred space, giving yourself a gift of nurtured empowerment from the inside out.
Mantras are a Universal language that vibrationally resonate on a cellular level, having the power to effect our physicality as well as connect us to our Higher Consciousness.
Sound creates a unique reflective response on very deep levels. Sacred chanting of Universal Sanskrit Mantras creates powerful sound vibrations which are capable of transforming energy at all levels of creation.
Mantras have the ability to reach the subconscious level in order to shift things within our karmic stored patterns. Proper recitation helps invoke the latent power within us and can bless us in every facet of our life.
You can sign up and access here. Enjoy the journey!
A Little Message of Personal Gratitude that Pervaded My Day
This is just a short little post of some extra love and gratitude in my heart that’s been flowing through my day. I almost was going to post this on Facebook, but I felt guided, rather, to document it here on the pages that mean very much to me.
My day since this morning has been unfolding beautifully and magically, including some encounters with others at a few stores I visited after my session, and continues to carry forth into my design time right now.
Today was yet another reminder to count my blessings and deepen my gratitude.
As I was supporting a regular client of mine in an in-home Reiki session today I was feeling the Divine reflection of the relating and connection, and after, I had to take a moment in the car before driving away to regroup, so to speak, feeling choked up, and to reflect on how much I love what I do and am grateful for the honor and opportunity to do it.
The opportunities to connect with and support so many souls in such a profound way, from all walks of life and from all over the world, there simply are no words for, to share how beautiful that is. Whether it’s sending support by distance, through an email, in a brief exchange at the grocery store, or in some beautiful spot on the globe, the feeling is the same. It just overflows in warm, precious rainbow bubbles within the heart.
I know that many of you teachers and healers know what I’m sharing.
Today’s session with a spiritually open man in his early 70’s, an Australian native living in the hills of Laguna Beach, where we connect in an empowering way to support his challenges and to help him to move into a new phase of his life, is one of those priceless moments in my life.
After providing the session, done with the backdrop of the ocean view through the window, I could only say:
“Thank you for the honor of being here with this soul, at this time. There’s no place I would rather be. And at every moment, I am exactly where I need to be, where ever that is. All is truly Divine in the world.”
Creating a Gateway Through the Heart Chakra for Connection & Telepathic Communication
Heart Sanctum ~ “Love In, Love Out” by Tania Marie
30” x 30” Acrylic on Canvas
http://taniamarie.com/gallery3.htm
I was reading a channeled message this morning about “The Power of Portals” from Peggy Black and the “team” and found it to be aligned with what I wanted to share today about the heart and its ability to bridge communication by assisting with telepathy. In the message, they discussed the energy centers/portals that exist in all dimensions, both planetary and off-planet, as well as the ones that reside within our body temples – called Chakras. All of these acting as gateways into other spaces and dimensions, as well as to deeper levels of connecting.
The part that of course stood out was the sharing about the Heart and its powerful importance in our roles as the Multi-dimensional Beings that we are. Why? Because to me, the Heart has always held the key and is my truth for alchemy of all experiences.
It is also the Heart that creates the possibility for pure and vulnerable communication. It can assist you in clearing the other Chakras and empowering them into their wholeness, as it is the integrative “Bridge” between all of them – Lower and Upper. When this clarity opens more and more within your Chakra system – governed by the heart, this is when telepathic relating becomes much clearer and easier to exchange between each other, as it once was.
I know I’ve said it before, but telepathy is my preferred method of communicating and have always been utilizing it even though I write and talk just as anyone else. I do find words to be limiting however, and so this is when I may go silent and yet am ever-present.
There is much more going on beneath the surface in all that I convey and I find that it is so much easier to share the magnitude of feeling or to describe something, when it is conveyed through a projected feeling, vision, essence…
I’ve been excited to see how telepathy is increasing and this is evident in all of the synchronous and immediate experiences that take place right after you feel or think something inside of, and with all of, your heart. Others are picking up on it and reflecting it back. And the more and more we work with the healing power of the heart, the more powerful all of our experiences become and the more pure and clear of intent they are.
It is my hope that we continue to re-engage this innate ability we have, as it truly makes for more simplified ways of experiencing. It removes the veils and walls, as well as the need to manipulate or devise ways of expressing ourselves that create confusion, static and inconsistency, since they do not match the energy and feeling behind the words. Yes, of course this may be scary, to actually have your feelings revealed, but the truth is, they already ARE being felt and known, whether you like it or not.
People just may not be telling you, yet you may find, if you become more present in heart with yourself and others, that you will know right away when you are being true to yourself, when others are being true, and why perhaps different circumstances than you hoped from what you concocted to say, happen. And why perhaps some people are not in your experience anymore or are not as eager to listen to what you have to say, until you align your feelings and thoughts more.
People who are sensitive to energy, feel the truth behind your words. And your own experiences reveal the truth, as you manifest, attract, and reflect exactly what is a mirror of your energy and core feelings, not what is a mirror of your words.
In order to align with all parts of yourself, the Heart will be your best support system in doing so, as it helps you to intuitively sense from its awareness. It has the ability to feel and see where something is blocked and closed within your Chakras and through its wisdom and healing, can help to shift, and in essence return, the imagined pains into free flowing empowerment once again.
And when you have an empowered and clear heart, you not only will have more enriching connections and communication here on Earth with all of life, but you will also create a pure gateway to Galactic and Universal energy at large.
As one of my favorite Books/Movies – The Secret of Nimh – shares from the words of Nicodemus (as you know simplicity is what I favor):
“Courage of the heart is very rare. The stone has a power when it’s there.” – In essence, when you have the courage to embrace, TRULY, going into the vulnerability of your heart, you discover its strength that has the power to move mountains and to change anything with its alchemy.
Here is the channeled message from Peggy and the “team” I will leave you with:
“The most important portal/chakra in the human is the heart. It is the heart which manages and maintains the entire physical form. It is the consciousness of the heart, the energy field of the heart that is the link and the connection to the divine and to life itself. The heart is the gateway to all awareness and well-being. The heart is the thinking/feeling/knowing aspect of a multidimensional starhuman.
Your culture, your society; your programming and teachings have not included this important piece of information. It is the mystic, the seer, the sensitive who has recognized that the heart is the doorway to all intelligent knowing.
The health of the human heart is and has been one of the mysteries in your medical field. What is not included in the information is the realization that the heart is the cosmic gateway for each individual. This is the seat of your unique self. It is from the open, loving, conscious heart that all things unfold and all mysteries are resolved.
We are inviting you to continue with your dedicated intention to heal your heart portal for it is through this heart portal that galactic and universal energy is received.
The most important tool in the healing, harmonizing and balancing of your heart portal is to continue to turn your awareness to the vibrations of joy, gratitude and appreciation. It is the power of these vibrations which allows the heart center/heart portal to heal from all the emotional wounds carried. It is your willingness and intent that can heal your heart.
The heart portal was designed to serve as the gateway to the stars. This heart portal allows the energy to flow from divine source and the heart center processes this energy for the expansion of the human being.
Each human being is asked to give service work for the wholeness and healing of the heart center of humanity. It is when human beings live from an open and healed heart portal that they know and feel their connections with each other as the true multidimensional star beings that they are.”
Pre-Order Special – Prints Now Available of Eternal Harmony – The Journey Home
Eternal Harmony – The Journey Home by Tania Marie
30″ x 40″ Acrylic on Canvas with a touch of Metallic Gold at Center
There was an amazing response to this painting I posted a few weeks ago that really kind of blew me away. I was so moved by the sharing of feelings that people had from viewing this and the extent to which they described those feelings and what it reflected for them.
This inspires the creative force behind what I do, as while I express my authenticity, I am aware how it simultaneously is collectively connected in service.
When I create a channeled painting, it is always Source from which I am creating from that comes through my individual connection and expression of that.
Because of this and after receiving several messages from people that were interested in ordering prints of it, I looked into making that possible and am happy to share that this will be so.
It really meant a lot to me to feel what others received from this channeled creation, as it reflected something very pure birthing forth.
I was deeply touched by this expression that someone shared when they saw it:
“What a breathtaking painting, Tania. The energy of Love you infused into this is as unmistakable as the essence of Divine Inspiration that gave birth to it. It truly represents our collective journey Home, with the various swirls symbolizing the various life experiences that all serve to lead us to a beautiful and infinite space in the center of the Universe….which can be said is our Heart and Soul.”
I shared about this piece when I first posted it, which you can read here: Eternal Harmony – The Journey Home
All of that being said, Pre-Orders are now available for this painting, while it is in process of recreation.
So if you are interested in this piece, you can place orders now at Special Pre-Order Discount Prices of 20% Off until September 22nd, 2013 (Fall Equinox), after which the full pricing will go into effect.
Eternal Harmony – The Journey Home will be available in 3 sizes and 2 different options of fine art paper or gallery wrap canvas (gallery wrap means the image will flow over in extension, onto the sides of the canvas so that you do not end up with white/blank sides, but a beautiful extended image that does not need to be framed, as it beautifully creates a flowing/continuous image).
Each giclee on canvas will be hand-touched with metallic gold by me, so you will have the same effects as the original, along with the personal artist touch to each.
Here are the options and pricing for pre-orders (along with the full pricing) – Shipping/Handling not included:
9″ x 12″ Giclee on Fine Art Paper – Pre-Order Special Price: $48 – (Full Price: $60) = 20% Off
22.5″ x 30″ Canvas Gallery Wrap – Pre-Order Special Price: $400 – (Full Price: $500) = 20% Off
30″ x 40″ Canvas Gallery Wrap (original size) – Pre-Order Special Price: $640 – (Full Price: $800) = 20% Off
Payment Plan Options Available – Contact me at tania@taniamarie.com with inquiries and orders.