Time to Listen

A month or so ago I had a private Tarot reading with my lovely friend, mentor and spiritual worker, Kitty Phillips. Among the many things she told me was the need to take time out for myself, relax more and just chill. Knowing me well, she went on to emphasis the point and said that if I didn't take the time needed, Spirit would force me into it around March-time.

Now it's not that I don't listen, or take advice seriously, but sometimes taking time out is easier said than done. I knew I had my first free weekend since Christmas coming up so figured I would just plod on. Why, oh why don't I just listen!

They hit me last night with a thumping great migraine just 30-minutes before I was due up at Como to run a meditation course. "Oh not now?" I pleaded, as I sat back and closed my eyes.

After half hour I felt slightly better, the visual disturbances had died down so off I went to my class. As the evening wore on my headache started and I wasn't sorry when the session came to an end.

The minute I walked back in the house the visual disturbances began again. What on earth was going on? This had never happened before. I sat and closed my eyes but it just wasn't shifting. I finally took some pain killers and went off to bed.

This morning I felt better, but not brilliant. The visual disturbances have gone, as has the thumping head. In it's place is a huge solid ball that thumps around in my head every time I move; I'm left feeling drained and and good for nothing.

Oh yes, I've listened now! I have spent the whole day doing nothing, just a little reading and watching some TV. I will have an early night in bed and tomorrow I will feel back to normal.

From now on I will make sure I take a little time for me, and do what I'm told to when Spirit tells me. Another lesson learned! 

Do You See What I See?

Last week I was sitting at the Como Centre waiting for some students to arrive and not doing very much at all - just being.  My focus kept going to the door.  Why?  There's nothing special about our door, it's just a door.
But then I saw them - can you?

Angel Wings.

I sat and focussed on them for a while, and just waited. The tingling started and then that lovely feeling of beautiful warm energy closing around me.  I just sat, and enjoyed that wonderful feeling, feeling loved, feeling supported.  Words cannot describe that amazing feeling of knowing that your guides and angels are drawing close.

They had no words for me, I wondered why they were there.

Then I remembered that two days later we would be running our Angels, Archangels and Ascended Masters Workshop!  Their presence was simply their way of saying "we'll be back".

It Just Keeps Getting Better

Yes, it just keeps getting better and better - our Spiritual Development Group that is.

Gill and I had spent the afternoon in our lovely Como Centre and the energy was positively charged.  We watched two rainbows, one of which was a double and so bright, and they always bring a great sense of anticipation for me. There were orbs in our room and spirit were playing with us again.  I just knew that the circle was going to be good.

I wasn't disappointed.  As soon as we sat and linked hands, a great beam of white light from floor to ceiling opened to my left.  Guides came, our wonderful Gatekeeper came and the amazing Angels came.  The white light to my left held a guide and he stayed with me throughout answering my many questions.  People started popping in and there was a really strong US Air Force connection and Charles was back from the last Circle.

We did some rescue work and helped a lady find her missing son.  I asked the Guide why we were doing rescue work when we had asked to connect with the higher guides and ascended masters who could teach us.  His reply was that everyone starts at the bottom and works up!  If we went straight to the top it would to be totally overwhelming - we had to start slowly.  He went on to assure me that we were totally protected and no-one would be allowed in who could cause us harm - he understood my thoughts.

Slowly we started to move onwards and upwards and some fabulous guides came to teach us, their message being pretty much the same - we had the knowledge and we would be given more, but we had to share it.  Learning was pointless if we didn't share.  We were also told that individual meditation was vital and shouldn't be neglected.

There was much more but finally we were taken even higher to a point where we shared an incarnation.  We were given gifts and were thanked for working with Spirit.

Personally, I continue to feel amazed and honoured to be able to work with Spirit in this way.  I will do my utmost to strengthen the connection, to have patience and to trust them completely in order that I may follow the path that is mine to achieve.

Tarot Readings

I was stark raving bonkers at the time, but in one of those wonderful moments of feeling pretty invincible I agreed to do a whole day of Tarot readings to raise funds for charity.

"What's wrong with that?" I hear you say.  Well nothing at all if you are an experienced Tarot reader - I'm not!  Oh I had a Tarot deck, and had used them regularly, but they had been in a box hidden in the loft somewhere and I hadn't looked at them since we moved here over 20-years ago.

What was I doing? What on earth made me say yes? Had I lost the plot completely?

Well I had a lot of work to do, that much was obvious.  So I talked to my own spiritual teacher and mentor thinking she would say "what on earth are you doing?" but no, she just said "fabulous, about time you got on with it".  So I ordered a new pack of Tarot cards and got to work.

My teacher, Kitty, is amazing and spent a lot of time coaching and encouraging me until I began to feel a little more confident that I could do it.  She also volunteered to come over and join us on the day but, she added, that didn't mean I could opt out and send everyone to her!

So Saturday came and four of us spent the day giving Tarot readings in The Mix, Wantage.  We had a steady flow and by the end of the day had raised just over £100 for the Bowen4Children clinic.

It was, on my part, another leap of faith.  I had asked my guides for help and they didn't let me down.  Yes, I was out of my comfort zone but, to be honest, I enjoyed every minute of it and once I got started I found it all just flowed.

Will I do it again? You bet I will but this time it will be at the Como Centre.

A Little Cosmic Order

A couple of weeks ago I saw an article asking for people who had retrained or started a new career at the age of 60 to e-mail their story to a reporter at a national newspaper.  "Oooo, that's me" I thought and spent the next 30-minutes umming and arring about whether I should e-mail or not. It would be such fabulous publicity for the Como Centre.

Eventually I sent the e-mail, reasoning that I had been presented with an opportunity and it was down to me to grab it.  That evening I placed a cosmic order asking that I would be successful and my story would be featured.  The following day an e-mail came back saying that my story had been submitted to the Editor for consideration.  I put the whole thing out of my mind.

Monday morning and another e-mail - the Editor thought my story was fascinating and wanted to feature it.  I was asked if I could do a telephone interview the following day and whether I would be available for a photo shoot on the Friday!  Excited was an understatement.

The interview went well and last Friday I went off to the Centre to meet the photographer and a stylist - yes, I was getting a make-over too.  Well how fabulous was all this, another successful cosmic order.

The stylist brought two dresses and a pair of shoes with her!  I took the bag off to the ladies to change but - ugghh - not me at all.  I was persuaded to wear them but I felt uncomfortable in the dresses and the shoes were far too high for me.  As I tottered about I began to feel like Miss Piggy!!  Why hadn't I cosmic ordered a successful photo shoot for the good of ALL concerned?

The article should be in the newspaper soon and I have to say I am a bit apprehensive - I just hope they choose the most flattering photo.

But there's the lesson - I hurriedly put in a cosmic order but I hadn't thought it through first.  I hadn't been specific about what I wanted the outcome to be and I certainly hadn't managed my expectations.

Needless to say another order was placed that evening.

[Ellen Watts, author of the book illustrated, taught me how to successfully cosmic order. I highly recommend her book and her courses]

Synchronicity?

Last week we held our second Spiritual Development Group and while I won't bore you with all the details, I do want to share this with you.

I felt a man drawing close to me, he was in uniform and had a cap on his head. The jacket was blue and had a belt round the middle.  An American Air Force uniform.  He was young, but not in years; rather in time spent working in spirit.  A nice man, kindly and with a bit of a twinkle.  He had been sent to work with us; we would grow together.

I had the sense that we were being observed; someone was making sure that we worked together and all was well.  I saw us (our Circle) as fledgling birds, flapping tiny little wings and preparing to fly.  Then I was shown an eagle, soaring in the clear blue sky.  I knew we would eventually be like the eagle, but we had a lot of work to do first - we couldn't run before we could walk.

I was also being told that we had to trust and let ourselves go completely; we would be guided on that over the coming months.

Another in our circle also connected with the American and had quite a chat with him.  He was a major in the US Air Force, his name was Charles and he came from Chicago.  He passed as an older man back home.  He was indeed here to help us; he would also learn from us as he was new to this kind of work.

After we closed the circle and sat chatting, it suddenly dawned on us that our Centre is on the site of the old Second World War US Military Base!

Was Charles based here?  Is it easier to connect with him because we are located on the same site?  Were we guided to our lovely Centre because it is on the Base?  So many questions for Charles at our next meeting.

Is this a case of classic synchronicity I wonder?

Grounding

The other day I read an article about Reiki* which gave fresh insight into how we use the symbols.  For those of you who do not practice, I should explain that when we are attuned to Reiki Level II and above we are given symbols which enhance the Reiki we give.

The article said that the first symbol, CKR, is associated with grounding and connecting to earth energies. It went on to suggest that Reiki practitioners should initially work with this symbol alone to establish a strong connection to the earth energies, to feel these energies within the body thus establishing good grounding practises.

As a Reiki Master Teacher, I use all the symbols daily to affirm and connect with the Reiki energy.  But this article actually made me stop and think - should I go back to basics and just concentrate and work with one symbol at a time?

So this morning I worked with just the first Reiki symbol, CKR, with an interesting result.

I always ask four of the Archangels to protect and guide me throughout the day and night.  I did exactly that this morning but what amused me was that, in addition to feeling the Archangels drawing close, I saw a large glass dome coming down over my head and completely encasing my body - a bit like the domes that are placed over cakes to keep them fresh!  Woo, that was new!  I could see out of the dome, could hear and could move freely but my feet were firmly connected to the ground.

Working with just this one symbol had definitely grounded and connected me to the earth energies.  More work is needed before I move on to the next symbol but really looking forward to working in this way.

*References: Breaking the Reiki Code by Frans and Bronwen Stiene (2004). Facebook: International House of Reiki.