Infinite Ball of light

This painting was done by my most beloved kindred, Jamie. We were taken by the idea of painting mandalas, the Eastern talismans of healing; symbols that project the power of the self.

Mandalas are traditionally geometric in shape and patterned with particular colours that reflect the self and the healing colours required for the individual.

This painting is an expression, not a mandala in its traditional form, but I look at it and it heals my soul in its own little way. The yellow ball churns in the core of me, like my solar plexus chakra; it spirals into oranges and reds.

Tones of solar colours; the element of fire; the significance of light reminds me to embrace my solar energy, that eternal flame that I need paired with my lunar energy to restore my balance.

Orange gives us confidence and creativity, a dose of red brings us passion and the brightness of yellow stimulates our sense of self-worth and empowerment.

As I look at this painting, not only does it bring me great joy and pride to know that my love expressed such beauty in colour but it also reminds me of that solar power that I must remember to absorb and store within.

In grey-washed times, through crying window panes, it is important to hold onto that infinite ball of light...

Sulis

The Goddess Oracle is a stunning deck of divination cards that are ilustrated and interpreted with goddesses from all pantheons and cultures. This beautiful illustration is of Sulis, the Ancient British Sun goddess of illness/wellness. She represents healing and has a shrine in Bath, England.

Sulis says that when we are in a time of illness, it is time to direct energy inward, when we are in a time of wellness we must project it out.

This deck of cards comes with a book that gives the meaning to each card along with a lovely poem for each goddess as well as the mythology and meditation that corresponds to the deity.

The Sulis meditation is so comforting and full of beautiful imagery. It takes you deep into the root of a tree, along a stone path with plants on either side. You follow the light and meet Sulis at the other end and she takes you to her healing bath where you emerge yourself in the water where you feel refreshed, invigorated and recharged.

All meditations in The Goddess Oracle cards guide you into a space and time where you can mend whatever it is that is blocking your fruitful path.

Seek strength from the ancient deities and embrace your inner goddess.

Colour Me Happy

How to Heal with Color by American author Ted Andrews, provided me with great insight into the various ways in which we can use colour to highten our vibrations, to balance our moods and open up creativity as well as other numerous therapeutic activities to heal our bodies and minds.

By meditation, temperature rising and lowering, colour breathing and mandala colouring, we stimulate our energy centres, which one could also refer to as the chakras, therefore activating our highest charge through the wonderous properties of light! In fact, this therapy is so vibrant and invorgorating, there is simply no reason why it wouldn't have a positive effect; it truly is a complimentary therapy that doesn't get enough attention. Colours of the Soul is an excellent website to find out more and I am delving deeper into this maginificent therapy and practice to further my own experiences and developments to become a practitioner. I took this mini colour test provided by Colours of the Soul and the reading was certainly spot on as it simply confirmed my own thoughts about my new spiritual pursuits. Have a go...embrace the colour in your life...

Recall

Primate, Tibetan Monk, Tribal Hunter, Greek Philosopher...I do not speak of the past but of the eternal now...the eternal soul of us all that cycles through what we know as evolution.

Awakening Far Memory, a delightful set of cards that one cannot put a price on for its ability to aid us in unlocking memories of our everlong conciousness. A regression reading kick starts the path to erasing century-old imprints on the psyche...amazing what we come to discover about ourselves that have always been - all apart from this protective casing that we call our body.

This is not fortune telling. This isn't a 'what could have been'. It is a nudge to recollect past lives; memories that have been scarred by the trauma of death and even birth that has caused us to forget it all.

I've had wonderful reflections over the past week that have made me see, feel and hear...clairvoyance, clairsentience and clairaudience...whatever you wish to call these gifts that every one of us has...we have the ability to piece it all together to enable us to remember it all in the next life.

I have recently experienced this joy of remembering and reflection with my closest kindreds and all I can say about this phenomenal practice is: what a joy to know what our conciousness has stored for us during this space and time and what excitement it gives to think of what we can hold onto for our future journey.

-a spark has ignited and this is just the beginning to my personal pursuit of knowledge.

The Etheral Body

My mind throbs after taking in so much overwhelming information about Astral Projection. I have just finished reading The Enigma of Out-of-Body Travel by Susy Smith; a second hand book given to me as a gift by my beloved.

This book delivers incredible encounters from expert projecters to the most sceptical of people, all who have experienced a time when their etheral body left their physical one. It is a subject which has fascinated me since my teen years and having recaptured the interest, I feel a pull towards it.

Personal experiences of loved ones have been shared with me and how lucky I am to say that I know this amazing ability is accessible...thought and control are the driving forces of this practice and the rewards of this can only be release and joy; your soul travelling through your home, a new city, the universe; obtaining knowledge on your adventures...all we can ask of ourselves is to return to our peaceful armour that lays still where it was left for caution is to be taken when attempting Astral Projection. Like a car left running without the driver, the engine will eventually cut out. But isn't it only fair that we show our etheral body the world and beyond as it is sealed in our physical vehicles for lifetimes? Of course there are other ways for us to wander onto other planes...this is just a glimpse.

-Travel safe.

Polarity

She is bound to neither and free of none
Held by the sky; dangles from a star.

A toe kept on the Moon; a fingertip kept
on Earth's ground.

Her eyes weighty, like clouds before
waters break.

Waning and Waxing

As Lady Moon hides in her time of waning, I am using this time of Aries to take a plunge in my projects; putting the pro-active, head-on nature of the Ram to make candles.

I have been blending natural soy wax with healing oils, re-juvenating oils and grounding oils to make personalised recipes for the needs of close individuals; and yet that won't be all. As we move into my sign of Taurus, I will be channelling my bull vibrations into charging ahead with creativity to make plenty of new blends. These solid pillars will be looking for homes to burn their bright beams of love and lunar light to those who desire to receive them.

For now, they are happily residing with me in The Moonchild Garden...meet you there?

Together We Bind

On the stroke of midnight, spirits gather as witnesses to a Handfasting...focus is on love and commitment...hands tightly held.

A glass of red wine for both to drink from...a bunch of roses as an offering to Goddess...two scrolls to exhange, with special words inked on each page.

A ceremony taken place for two souls to confirm their bond, share their feelings and to take an oath to walk lifetimes together. A ritual performed under the waxing moon in the time of Virgo...the hand ticks past 12 and there is no looking back to the past with uncertainty...only looking forward with hands clasped, hearts open and a promise made between two kindreds to walk on without doubt of harmony and peace.

A year and a day until Goddess can renew the blessing.

The Chariot

Amongst years of dabbling in Tarot, I have come across various sets owned by friends and have always been intrigued by each. I myself have always held The Mythic Tarot close to my heart as it ignites the affinity that I have with Greek Mythology. I read my big sister's Greek Myth book religiously as an adoloscent and noted particular Gods and Goddesses that I seemed to take a liking to the most. My name is of Greek origin and means 'crown' and I have been told by many mediums that a particular Greek spirit seems to guide me often. But what does this all mean and where do I begin to unpick these Ancient Greek associations?

Well I am making it part of my journey to seek this - the first step was having a friend work out which Tarot card represented me; a calculation he did based upon my date of birth. This exercise can be found in Aleister Crowley's The Book of Thoth. Turns out, my triumph number is 7. According to esoteric texts, 7 is the number of earthly and divine harmony. However, with The Chariot card this doesn't seem like an easy goal to achieve. It speaks of a battle that one must face along this path to achieving victory. This idea seems to apply to everyone, not just me. But what I do find interesting is that Ares the Greek war God is represented in my Mythic deck. Upon this realisation, a strange feeling twinged in my solar plexus - I've encountered him before. As a teenager, I sought him as a figure of protection and not as a Deity of bloodlust as many will describe him.

I went to the British Museum today; a place I hadn't visited since an excursion with my sister roughly 13 years ago. I tried to find my good friend Ares but to no avail; perhaps this was due to lack of time and poor navigation. I shall go back again and find him; maybe at the museum, maybe somewhere else.

Is this all too serendipitous? If so, how do I understand this? When we have these waves of 'recognition' or just a gut feeling that there is a link on our current path that perhaps goes back lifetimes, what do we do with this knowledge?

When I see Ares, I'll ask.

Om

After posing in this peaceful stance with my kindred Emma, I realised that I could do with a good meditation but we all seem to think that we just don't have the time. Shame on us. The hour that we spend on Facebook or the half an hour we spend watching a TV sitcom we could be attuning ourselves...balancing our chakras...calming the mind...making our bodies a grounded haven of pure energy so that we may progress in our daily routine with peace and restoration.

Me personally, I make it up as I go along, whether it's visualising a great white light coursing through my body or mentally walking myself into a place of serenity. Some have their 'happy places' all figured out and can go there whenever they feel out of sorts.

So I'm making it a must for this new astrological year to meditate as often as possible...I believe that a 15 minute meditation session will be just as good as a short holiday - which I just cannot afford anyway. And with stresses like making it through airport checks and hauling luggage, all that peace you may have installed zaps away as soon as you get off the plane.

Travel spiritually...it's better for the soul.

Here's a good place to start if you're not sure how to begin:

www.learningmeditation.com

Visit the mediation rooms for quick techniques that will suit your schedule, or browse their shop for books and cds to help you create your sacred space.


-Namaste