Monthly Archives: July 2014
The Elf Tree
This is such a sweet, enchanting, perfect little message of hope, belief, and all things magickal. Of course my Faery sister Laura reblogged this too from the mystical Cnawan Fahey – he knows how to capture Faery hearts š
I also feel that this short post on “The Elf Tree” goes wonderfully with Cnawan’s poem shared the day before titled “Crimson Dawn”. They both speak to all things possible and the power of belief.
There are hidden gifts in everything for those with hearts to see them.
Here is Cnawan’s poem, “Crimson Dawn”:
The gray dawn
of an overcast life
brings another day
beneath the shroud
of sorrow.
But to part the clouds
to find that inner light
and cast it upon the pain
transmutes grief to glory.
Every poignant tale
that pangs the heart
with colors of emotion
is born of alchemy
when someone let the sun shine
upon their clouds of sorrow.
Freedom
Me in Ecuador
āThe most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.ā ~Jim Morrison
“You find freedom inside – nowhere else. In the heart of every human being is that one space which is free, which is filled with Peace, and which is full of Love.” ~Prem Rawat
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” ~Sigmund Freud
Every day you have the ability to choose to exercise your sovereign free will. Let today be a reminder to always remember and embody who you really are.
Plumeria and Apples – Nature is Our Natural Guide to Life
As we said goodbye to June, so too did I say goodbye to the Star Jasmine that enchanted the garden. This morning I found just a handful of them still “hanging out” hidden at the bottom of one of the 6 plants. Seems they are wanting to secretly stick around a while longer, as their friends have departed a few weeks ago.
And as the seasons always do see the natural cycles of birth, transformation, and rebirth – one of the joys of observing Earth’s miracles and one of the most powerful lessons to teach us about relaxing into letting go and trusting – July is bringing a new blossoming of life to the garden.
The pink Plumeria are beginning to bloom and soon there will be a tropical abundance of beauty to soak in. And not far from the Plumeria, Apples are also making their announcement of arrival.
Nature knows not time. She doesn’t gauge whether she needs to hurry up, or slow down. She simply welcomes the peace of every single moment in perfect balance and alignment with the natural rhythms, reflecting a reality that just “is” and is constantly recreating itself.
But for us humans, “time” moves quickly and we feel hardly able to keep up with the shifts – much of this having to do with how we perceive things.
The consistent thing we can count on is change.
Nature does it so effortlessly and gracefully.
It’s us humans who awkwardly and painfully refuse, fight, and try to control this natural flow.
We are all on a highly transmutational journey right now and as this has been unfolding for me, it is calling me to ensure that I am recreating my life in flowing reflection to the changes. If one thing changes, I feel that all needs to change on every level to support the process. So, I’m also in a new cycle of transformational “death” and new growth like Mother Nature.
Nothing is meant to stay exactly the same. It’s inevitable to change. The way it changes is up to you, including the way you perceive the changes.
Whether it decays, rots and explodes, or transmutes with graceful embrace, you can still understand the perfection of this as a gift to self. And maybe when you realize your ability to not only shift perception, you will also realize your ability to change the course of just “how” the change takes place to match your choosing.
Yes, at times, things can feel a bit odd during the process of shifting, as part of you is already accelerated into another new experience/reality and living there in knowingness, but simultaneously you area aware of the parts of you that are needing to process one step at a time, in order to integrate in wholeness, the speeding frequency being transmuted.
It becomes quite the paradox of things “speeding up”, but personally needing to “slow down.”
This is something we are temporarily having to focus on and teach ourselves, until we return back to being in natural flow and then it will just become second nature like breathing.
This pointing again at getting back to those “roots” and temporarily narrowing your focus to the here and now, as well as focusing on yourself, being personally mindful of your energy and needs, where adjustments are needed, and becoming aware of what emotions/beliefs are really running the show.
It’s all beautifully inter-twined and connected to everything, so if you get lost or confused, you have so many reflections to help light the way.
It’s an interesting place and time we are in, as we stand in several realities at once and pull them into the present in order to realize each for the gifts they offer, Ā but without dwelling in, or feeling rushed by, one or the other.
Gather the seeds of wisdom and sprinkle them into loving expression with the wholeness of who are in this moment.
Then, be all that you can be and live your purpose, on purpose, from your heart’s truth.
I love Earth’s wisdom. Nature is the best classroom for learning that will teach you all that you need to know.
Plumeria symbolism includes natural beauty, charm, grace, new life, new beginnings, creation and recreation, the Sun, perfection of all things as is, dedication, devotion, love, immortality, healing powers, liveliness, life, and birth.
Apples and Apple Trees symbolize love, truth, peace, beauty, honesty, remembrance, honesty, purity, knowledge, wisdom, joyousness, fertility, abundance, and earthly desires.
I love the reflections and guide posts these beautiful gifts are offering.
July’s Inspired Special & Registration Deadlines
July’s Inspired Special
For the month of July I am featuring a new item specifically focused on this month’s theme of “getting to the root of things,” which I shared about yesterday.
All this month I am offering a 15 minute laser-focused, distant Reiki & Crystal Healing Session to help unblock, bring to the surface, and help you to get in touch with the core (perhaps hidden) challenges that may be running the show. These will help to support a return to balance, but are intended to help reveal, get you to feel, and release, providing you the opportunity to make changes with greater awareness.
Then it is up to you to partner in this process and implement the change.
You can purchase one of these for the special July pricing of just $44.Ā
Two for $77 (savings of $11)Ā
Or a package of Three for $111 Ā (savings of $21) Ā Ā Ā
You can purchase these now to lock in the price and use them later (as long as they are used within 2014), or they can be scheduled in succession as a series to really help blast through things. There is no limit on how many can be purchased, as it depends on your personal needs, just as long as they are purchased by July 31st.
July’s Registration Deadlines Ā
July 11th – Last Day to Register for Bimini Retreat
If you are still on the fence about joining the “Accelerate Your Vibration” Retreat July 20th – 25th, you have just 8Ā moreĀ days to register, as 7/11 is the last day to do so.
I will not be offering another retreat in Bimini next year, as I have been, and I can’t say if and when I will again, as the energy grid is calling me elsewhere. But this July’s retreat has some powerful focuses. So, if you’ve been pushing this off and wanting to come, this may be the one!
You can explore the retreat details here to decide if you’d like to join us:
Accelerate Your Vibration Bimini Retreat
July 12th – Last Day Pre-Registration Discount for Crystal Magick Workshop
July 12th’s Full Moon is the deadline for pre-registration discounts (that’s just 9 days more) on the upcoming Crystal Magick Workshop Sunday, August 24th 9am – 5pm.
Energy Exchange:Ā
If Registered by July 12th’s Full Moon:Ā $275 (savings of $50)Ā
If you Register with a friend:Ā $500 ($250 each – savings of $75)Ā
If Registered after July 12th:Ā $325Ā
For all the details please visit:Ā
Crystal Magick and the Journey Within: A Creative Exploration for Personal Alchemy
If you have any questions, would like to purchase this month’s special, or register for the retreat or workshop you can contact me at tania@taniamarie.comĀ
Getting to the Root of Things
Photo I took of a magickal tree in High Park, Toronto
Going back to our ārootsā is a theme I feel speaking loudly. Weāve been so focused on the wider perspective and being of service, that weāve forgotten that all of this stems on how fortified our core āwell of lifeā that supplies the resources to do so, is.
And to say itās been off balance, depleted, and overlooked I feel is an understatement.
The consciousness of a tree is innately and automatically awareĀ of its inner city circuitry that needs all of its parts and that all parts work together and optimally, if above and below are in balance.
And just as a tree grows expansively when its roots are strong and nourished from the Earth, it receives sunlight and water, and it unconditionally welcomes all of the elements that make it possible, so too do we when our roots are firmly grounded and we receive the rich, balanced nurturing and integrative love needed from the relationship synthesis we have with the nature of ourselves and all that surrounds us.
If you feel your energy has been leaking everywhere but to you, that you have poor boundaries (or no idea you even needed some healthy ones intact to discern with), have been living in scarcity consciousness, have fears of letting go, are struggling with emotional dysfunction, stress, anxiousness, insecurity, frustration, and restlessness, then your Root Chakra is in need of your love and integration.
A healthy Root Chakra would sustain you in vitality and support healthy growth from a balanced sense of self that is very self-empowered and self-aware. It is your grounding force for overall well being, determines how you function in life, and is the foundation for development of your individual expression of personality.
Our limiting beliefs from old rooted patterns of our early years and āpastā lives affect how we are operating in the world and with others today.
Any unfinished business and unconsciously seeded hidden layers are still running the show now, whether you are aware of this or not.
This is why only concentrating in the upper Chakras and expanding our consciousness in these areas will only get us so far. And this is why we are needing to slow down and start listening to the messages within our very flesh and bones that are stored deeply in our DNA, as integrating these frequencies, and giving rise to their ancient wisdom, will assist us in fully shifting into new realities.
Right now, some of the frustration and challenge is because we are split with part of us in a new reality and parts of us still in the old. You can only remain split for so long, before something’s gotta give.
Every day the things and people that trigger us and ruffle our feathers, are the very ways and reminders that we show ourselves what we need to work on within, by their reflection of our own rejected or denied emotions and old patterned beliefs we thought were no longer there.
But in fact, we had simply focused energy elsewhere with a bombardment of well meaning positive thoughts that simply kept them at bay.
As we expand and nourish parts of us, let us not forget ALL of our parts, as the only way that we function most beneficially is as a WHOLE.
We can utilize the stronger, more developed, wiser parts of ourselves to access and support those that are in need. And when we welcome these parts into the dance with us, we will develop a new rhythm that will no longer be missing any beats.
Let us create an equal partnership and healthy relating family within ourselves, and not neglect any one of the children that need our loving attention.
Answers are revealed when we courageously journey back to the root of things. This calls for slowing down, taking care of your needs and well-being, letting go of the “have to’s”, being more still and listening to what you are truly feeling in every moment.
Truth will reveal itself, if you invite it.
Dolphin Dreams
Photo I took in the Galapagos of Dolphins soaring through the waters
Dream time has been increasingly potent for me, as I continue toĀ go through personal shifts. Not only do I have some really blatant and powerful messages come through for self, but I have been receiving extremely precise and clear prophetic dreams for others that demonstrate much remote viewing and telepathy at work in the night, as well as being called in by others in need.
A LOT is going on when my eyes close and the head hits the pillow.
I’m sure for many of you as well.
I’ve had a series of rich dreams the last week and last night brought in another beautiful animal spirit guide – Dolphin – which felt especially meaningful/healing in relation to the night before’s dream. Her presence and interaction was also synchronous in terms of retreat time coming up in Bimini as well.
The part of the dream I remember took place on the shoreline of a beach somewhere at night. I recall being in the shallow waters there up to my knees and a Dolphin coming to me. She stayed in the very shallow water, basically resting easily on the sand below and at times just resting on the shore with me, as the water lapped around us. We had some very beautiful connective time as we laid there together and I would hold her with my arms around her, or gently rubbed her and held her face with my hands. And she would nuzzle, touch, and wrap herself as much around me as she could, as we communicated telepathically and with a very deep, heart connection.
It was like reunited best friends or even twin souls. And I know that that reuniting was not only providing personal healing and transformative support, but was helping me to engage (or re-engage if you will) a deeper part of myself that she was representing and bringing forth more consciously that was needed right now, and crucial in fact.
There were other things involved in the dream and another dream evolved from it, but I am meant to only really remember what is most important.
What happened next was that it was time for her to go and this was very distressing emotionally for us both.
Some people/or beings came to take her back to where she was needed. I had the impression immediately that she was of importance where she came from and was fully devoted to a life of service and a mission and had been able to/or stolen some moments with me to connect, knowing of my needs for her (brings up emotions again right now for me writing that) at this time. She was some sort of a protector and guide to the animal kingdom and Earth, as well as a Cosmic Missionary/Bridge Worker who journeys far and wide, as guided/needed.
It actually didn’t hit me until I sat here to write this, that this Dolphin feels to be a potential emanation of my beloved Cosmic Nestor (my rabbit familiar – in this life – that transitioned 6 years ago), whom you hear me talk of much.
As she was reluctantly leaving we both cried soulful cries that we must physically part for now. I remained in the shallow water crying with outstretched arms and she echoed my cries and tears as she swam off, being led by those that had come for her. I remember when she received the call to return, it broke our hearts, but we both understood what was for now in our present roles/realities and how our love shared, is the essence joy/service we embody in all that we create and share.
So, I have been sitting with all of the beautiful energy, supportive healing, and messages she gifted me, as I receive insights for implementation that will assist my shifts and integration that I am undergoing.
Since she came through as a Dolphin, this symbolism was purposeful to convey what was needed. I’ve known of Dolphin messages and what they represent generally or how they make me feel when they show up, but I wanted to delve a bit more into their medicine to see if something would trigger deeper consciousness for me and perhaps for you as well, if Dolphin is an Animal Spirit Guide you are blessed with too.
Being a Pisces, I am very connected to the mysteries and creatures of the ocean. Many of you will share remembrance of realities in the watery civilizations of times “past” and the Cosmic Waters of your essence that you are.
These heart-centered, highly evolved beings help to spread and anchor Crystalline Energy to light the Earth and they strengthen the song lines through the grid (encouraging us to work in alignment with Nature and Crystals), as they transmit their light frequency vibrations of love and harmony. Through their presence and interactions here and with us, they help awaken us to our truest and most joyous self that is anchored in unconditional love and innate freedom.
Sites like http://www.animalspirits.com/ share some of the general wisdom of Dolphins that include:
- Knowledge of the sea
- Patron of sailors
- Change
- Wisdom
- Balance
- Harmony
- Communication skills
- Freedom
- Trust
- Understanding the power of rhythm in your life
- Use of breath to release intense emotions
- Water element magick
But Dolphins also bring us playfulness, transcendence, gentleness and generosity, intelligence, friendship, community, deep contentment, personal power in divine flow, and even renewal/rebirth.
Since they have that element of harmony and balance it is understandable that they are also connected to duality and yin/yang. This, in part, has to do with being both mammal and fish and being of the water but able to breathe air. They dwell in a state of two realities and two worlds and so I see them as bridge workers and able to transmute energy. They have both the essence inherent of the Sun and Moon in this regard – the outward expressions, life, activity, vibrancy, intellect, manifestation, and masculinity, as well as the inward expressions of intuition, creation, hidden powers, feelings, dreams, mutability, and femininity.
There seems to be this playful and inquisitive invitation that dolphins beckon us to adventure with them on. Perhaps it’s to explore new realms of your work, relationships and friendships, places of domicile, or maybe even simply to explore the inner realm of emotion and creative passion wanting expression. Long thought to be messengers of the Gods/Goddesses and inter-dimensional travelers bringing messages of divine guidance, love and harmony, they carry with them an innate healing energy that is calming, pure of light, and rich with intuitive wisdom that speaks from the grace and heart of a wise child.
This purity and innocence they embody teaches us to trust and tune within in order to commune with the natural rhythms and flow in the mirror of their flight.
Dolphin spirit guides are spiritual beings that remind of us our authenticity and help to align us in the spirit of our true nature. Their magickal and mysterious nature also invoke a calling from within that remembers our connection with the vastness of our soul that is of this Earth but not of it.
They remind us of times and places far and wide, spanning the Cosmos as well as the Ancient Earth and its lost worlds that once were.
Something stirs within us when Dolphin graces our life, and this awakening helps to activate a realignment with living in natural harmony with all of life.
I read that when Dolphin appears he/she is a symbol for living life from true purpose, on purpose, as a creative, abundant and vibrant being. They also invite us more into the depths of our higher heart communicative abilities and further development of them through intuition, vulnerability, psychic awareness, and telepathy. Not to mention, I believe, they open us to our creative voice and expressing the frequency vibrations of our authenticity through it.
This feels very accurate for me, as the inner communication skills, as well as advanced communication skills like telepathy and clairvoyance have been at the forefront of my experience, along with voice.
They are also known to draw our attention to this present moment and encourage us to be all that we can be right now, as well as have gratitude for everything we DO have.
I also read that Dolphin invites us to make an assessment of our lives and our connection to Spirit for further expansion in these realms. A deeper dedication may be called forth now, as not only is it part of your mission, but it is needed collectively to support the energetic field of experience in evolutionary expansion as well. Dolphins have a gentle, but strong pull that mirrors our readiness for initiation into a higher state of being that calls from a deep place within that remembers who you are and what you have chosen to do in this reality you have embodied. Something that has not been accessed yet, or is in need of being more fully cultivated, may have drawn in your Dolphin friend to remind you.
This also feels true for me and whether the Dolphin was Nestor, another guide, simply an aspect of myself, or all of the above, as it ultimately IS anyway, I have asked myself to go to another level and it is more than a want, but an inner knowing of soul timing being of the essence.
Dolphins also possess a very powerful, but gentle transformative healing energy that comes from their love of being of service always, and hence this love is consistently and eternally exuding from them. Their ability is so magnified and pure that they can support healing on all levels and just being in their presence activates this on a DNA level. It’s one reason people are drawn to swim with them, besides the pure joy experienced.
Dolphin helps us to travel through portals of time and space and when we do, we will find our personal and magickal gifts that present unlimited possibilities.
When you want to connect more with your Dolphin spirit guide, meditation, ocean visits, surrounding yourself with their and the ocean’s symbolism, or actual sacred time with them in their environment can help awaken what is within that they message and invite you into.
I’m grateful to be journeying soon to commune in waking life, as a mirror to my dream life. And I’m exploring further the integration and expansion I’ve called upon now.
July/August 2014 Energy Forecast – Lee Harris
I SO have been experiencing this and was just writing a little bit about these very things that Lee shares in the July/August Forecast. I also found it synchronous to read his newsletter update and how he recently had a health check up and was needing to incorporate more rest and self-time, pulling back from things and part-time working. He mentions how it’s funny/crazy how it takes something like this to give ourselves permission to slow down as a human being.
I recently had been seeing the same in a few people around me and mentioned this to them, but it also takes a readiness to accept and that’s something individuals only can choose for themselves.
For myself, I know that because I used to do the same, I no longer wait until it’s gotten that bad in order to do something and make a change. So, with personal nudges I sensed, I have also recently decided to make some major changes in my own life and before anything DID come to pass health-wise, decided to do some precautionary health check-ins so that I can optimize and nip things before they progress into something more.
That said, there is so much rapidly happening and one of the things getting challenged, which most people would maybe have thought they had a handle on (at the least), or was easier to “control”, is our mental capacity.
Lee shares that our mental capacity is being challenged during the transmutational shifts we are going through, as we are bringing in new ways and energies.
As you open beyond how you’ve been trained and bring in the whole energy field, things are starting to change and the old brain is really feeling “odd” and things that come through you may not make sense, are jumbled, or people really don’t understand it anymore because it is coming from somewhere else that presently doesn’t mesh.
I have SO been experiencing this and finding challenge sharing things because what I’m sharing is “out there” and hasn’t anchored yet. I’m changing much of what I used to say, believe, and teach, and understanding things on another expansive level that really has me at odds at times in how to relay this coherently, let alone in any sort of terms that would be understood. So, it does make me more present and surveying the realm of perspectives and possibilities when I talk about something, which in effect creates a more compassionate, understanding, and less judgmental experience the more I open to exploring where it takes me.
So, if you’re feeling this too, just know that there are others like you, if not in your immediate circle right now, feeling the same as you.
It also helps in expanding our communication to be in our hearts more.
The brain is now becoming of service rather than a leader – a brain of the heart. So this speaks to why words jumble (which happens often to me) because it isn’t running ahead, but rather staying present and allowing feelings to speak through it. And this will take some adjustment time while the two find the rhythm of the dance together.
And as mentioned, like Lee, and likely many of you, I have been needing to pull back and slow down and readjust a lot of things and really focus on “me”. Everything needs to slow down, which is funny because so much is speeding up. Quite a paradox. š
But don’t get caught in attacking yourself, as self-judgments are the “old way” of thinking too. We are interconnected and playing out or mirroring “bigger” things for the collective. This is why knowing yourself is crucial and realizing what your personal and natural frequency is in your centered heart and feeling space is so important.
Come to trust that things are not meant to work right now, if they aren’t. The old way is trying to understand a reason for this. The world isn’t ready for what you are creating yet. So be with yourself and allow things to integrate without pressures. Do what you can, right now.
I have experienced this so much and is why I have let go of things I used to do, in order for energy frequencies collectively to get there. But they still percolate in the background and are gathering energy momentum with everything I do and the collective does. I’ll Ā likely let go of more and can feel how I am being held off on other things as well. Acceptance and staying balanced/grounded will help. And when you feel yourself going off the deep end in one way more than another, don’t wait until you’re drowning to start swimming back to center.
People are spinning off their center A LOT. People are running and trying HARDER to MAKE things work rather than slowing down and coming into relaxing in trust.
Movement and change is constant and very rapid. Flexibility is necessary and sensing everything so that you can move with that, without attaching, is key. There’s still an adjustment time while we figure things out within ourselves first, then we’ll know how/when to share it with others.
You need to learn to exist within your Heart Center and FEEL EVERYTHING.
How to remain connected to yourself while connected to others is the focus being learned. And sunlight and nature will help you integrate the energies we are receiving.
Here’s Lee to expound on all of this: