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A Message from Blue Jay
Rest, city errands, cleaning out my closet, finalizing things, and cleansing rains upon completion of it all were the themes of the day and a half stop over in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. We had a completely private little haven camp site surrounded by trees and lawn making it a perfect sanctuary for all of this, but it was Blue Jay who was the highlight. Since we didn’t venture out except for errands and a late linner upon arrival, his coming to me was definitely noted for a message of presence, wise and balanced use of personal power, resourceful adaptability for ease,.creative self expression and assertion, and bringing higher thoughts into action.
He sat in the tree next to my window, moving from branch to branch incessantly talking away to get my attention and peering into the window. His voice shifted into varying degrees of communication, but he was definitely on a mission and the message was coming from a deep, powerful place within him, despite his size. He was confident and assertive, but also soft and majestic.
His beautiful blue immediately connects me to the power of the throat chakra and its symbolism of creative self expression, sound and song, and having something to communicate that is unique to my voice. He seems to be saying “get to it!” with his loud expressions that went on for about 10 minutes, as he leaned forward toward the window.
Of course synchronously I’ve been aching to get back to my focuses that indeed utilize my gift of creative expression and communicating through my individual works in process. Where I had reservation on clarity of the messages and my ability to communicate them before, there is no need now and I have felt a readiness and timeliness.
Blue Jay comes to share it is time to embrace, develop, and apply your gifts to their fullest. You cannot afford to neglect them. And when bringing higher thoughts into action, unlimited potentials await you.
There’s no need to seek or call attention to anything, only a need to respond to what’s before you and to the world.
Blue Jay reminds us to sink into the comfort of ourselves where ever we are. To assert our personal truth and authenticity, and to communicate what feels to express that in any given moment.
This bringing to mind personal boundaries and undoing any repressive tendencies we have.
Blue Jay seems to own her/his space and knows how to focus and call the shots in her/his life of when, where, how, and with whom and what to use their energy.
They bring a message of embracing life to the fullest no matter where you are and engaging in that which you love at all times.
They shine a light of brightness to any situation and can see you through the darkness as well, bringing to light the shadow in which you can utilize to create greater potency with the gifts you bring forth.
Blue Jay embodies a presence of knowing her/his gifts, but knowing is not enough. They know the importance of cultivating them and bringing them forth with wise use of discernment.
Their appearance seems to call you forth into this realization and knowing that the time is here where all that you’ve learned so far is ready for the next evolution of expression with great clarity and vibrancy.
I did some researching into Blue Jay and found that the word “jay” come from the Latin word “Gaea” meaning Mother Earth. And since they are aviary brothers and sisters, with a crest that reaches into the heavens, they directly link us with both Earth and Universal/Cosmic energies, bridging them for integration and active expression of divinity brought into embodiment.
I also found that in Native symbolism their gorgeous blue that mirrors the sky is said to indicate a double vision or double clarity that symbolizes their/your ability to express the purity and truth of your heart and soul and to have great clarity of thought when bringing that forth to share with others.
I loved that my beautiful Blue Jay friend appeared at this time and that he spent time preening himself and exposing his soft under feathers inbetween his communicating with me.
To me this spoke to knowing one’s self worth, that what you have to share is of value, that self nurturing is important, and the tenderness of this act toward self is a reminder that the way we bring forth our personal power can have a soft, gentle essence at the core of the clarified, strength of expression.
Purpose is Presence
Everything you do can be a spiritual experience.
If you find yourself currently in an experience, job, etc. that is not what your heart dreams of, rather than let the mind take over and create misery with its judgments, allow the heart to see every situation’s potentials for spiritual growth and soul evolution on your journey.
You are in the perfect place right now and PURPOSE is the PRESENCE you bring to that moment.
When you wage a war upon things, the battle you experience is only within yourself.
Relaxing into the journey and being present to recognize the gifts along the way, will provide guiding lights of transmutation your heart can then embrace.
Life is an experience you choose and create each moment.
~ A Different Perspective on Purpose: What if Purpose Looked Like This?
I know that many of you are in constant search of your PURPOSE.
And you define yourself by something outside of you that you do in order to feel a certain way about yourself that if removed, would leave you feeling empty.
Or, you try to piece together what you think you should be doing in order to fit a certain idea.
I’ve shared that search for challenging and exhausting years myself.
And it wasn’t until I stopped searching, and started being present with myself and what was naturally moving through me in the moment that I relaxed into what was showing up in the stream of energy.
This stream of energy was always the present undercurrent, but I was struggling to swim ahead of it.
This stream of energy may shift, but being present within it and what is showing up supplied my purpose.
From there I simply could choose what flowed with that energy stream and felt joyful and in harmony with it.
Whether that was creating something new from that energy stream or showing up more within my current experiences with all of me, there was no essential difference.
Purpose resides in the grace of presence.
Purpose is your showing up in complete presence with this moment and every moment thereafter.
The rest naturally unfolds from there.
I shared this photo, as it reflects the state of sweet presence.
And in that present moment they (Cosmo and Dave) are fulfilling their purpose.
Mornings have become our favorite times to anchor in “being” for ungauged periods, because this helps us to be in that state of presence and awareness, setting the tone for the day.
There’s no greater guide in my life for this than precious Cosmo who is ever-present and embodying purpose.
Mornings spent just holding him, as he sleeps, stirs and licks us, brings us into peaceful surrender to that presence.
Nothing else matters but that eternal and potent moment of rich presence of being.
And all things become clear.
Cosmo is my cherished teacher for all new realities in creation.
Dear Meltdown: Welcome, & Meet My Friend Mindfulness ~ Camilla Downs
This article written by my amazing friend Camilla Downs is one I just had to share, as the story I feel is one that can support and inspire so many others.
A little background bio on Camilla and her beautiful family:
Camilla Downs is best-selling author of “D iz for Different – One Woman’s Journey to Acceptance,” blogger at Mindful Musings, and inspirational speaker. Her passion is writing, sharing her life experiences, mindfulness, meditation, emotional connection, and nature photography. She is a single parent to 14-year-old Lillian Darnell, and 10-year-old Thomas Darnell. She and her kids call themselves Team TLC to correspond with the first letters of each of their names. They are six months into a living-in-a-tiny-home adventure. Lillian has a rare chromosome deletion called 18p-, and although Thomas has not been officially diagnosed, he struggles with sensory processing issues.
I left this comment on the article, which I’ll share here, followed by the link to Camilla’s article.
Much love and gratitude Camilla for sharing so vulnerably and to your magickal daughter Lillian and fellow Faery, whom I have come to adore through our Facebook friendship and seeing her posts of all the amazing things she continues to accomplish.
“Such a powerful and meaningful story for us all Camilla. Thank you so much for sharing this and for being such an unconditionally loving and amazingly brave mother, woman, and soul. You and Lillian are such gifts to each other and your story is a true blessing for us all to learn from and remind us of the need for mindful presence and ways in which we can practice this within our own lives, as well as with those in need of our support. Lillian is a magickal soul and with your loving guidance, is blossoming into the amazing being she came to be, with so much to offer the world. Much love to you both.”
Dear Meltdown: Welcome, & Meet My Friend Mindfulness by Camilla Downs
Breath is a Dance
Every thought you are thinking is creating your future.
Every breath you are taking is affirming your feelings.
Stay present to the breath of your heart.
When you are feeling really good, pay attention to how you are breathing.
When you are feeling frustration, anger, sadness, disappointment, confusion….pay attention to how you are breathing.
You are the power in your world to change how you feel by changing your way of receiving life with more conscious breathing and choices.
Matching and balancing your breath to your physical, emotional, and mental state becomes a dance that can either flow in graceful rhythm, or step all over itself in discord.
If you want to shift the rhythm of your dance, stay present with how you breathe in life.
If you want to be more compassionately empathic in your relationships with others and all of life, learn to match your breath to All That Is and you will understand on a deeper level.
Conversely, if you’d like to create collective shifts by embodying a certain vibrational experience, pay attention to regulating your breath in rhythm with your essence, so that others may know the experience of their own when breathing with you.
Breathing together balances and harmonizes.
You can choose to meet others in their breath, or receive their meeting with yours.
Mindfulness ~ Your Impact on the World
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. ~Jane Goodall