3 minutes from lighter to darker

‘each encounter holds the capacity to render us lighter, or to colour the experience of our world darker’

3 minutes that will change your perspective ....

LIGHTER OR DARKER from Nic Askew on Vimeo.

I Am - A Poem by Laura Barrette Shannon

I am a spark of light from the sun

Leaving the source

Separating

Forgetting

The ONE.

I am the seasons flowing through time

Living the illusion

Playing 

Laughing

Crying

I am the shaper of all that be

Experiencing life

Creating

Dreaming

Reality

I am the rain falling into the sea

Joining the source

Merging

Remembering

Me 

Laura Barrette Shannon ,2003

In celebration of National Poetry in Your Pocket - Laura gifted me the right's to post her incredible poem.  You can visit Laura at https://www.facebook.com/poet.philosopher.friend

to read more of her poetry and other writings.

Thank you Laura for blessing my journey with your friendship.  Mwah

Lessons from "Stink Weed" and Snakes

I share frequently on Face book my gardens.  I have a "love affair" with my flowers and plants.  I have area's that I call the nursery where plants are being started or need some extra tender loving care.  It is more than a passion.  It was shared with me a very long time ago from a mentor, if you want to get grounded the two easiest ways to do that are to clean your toilet or dig your hands in the earth.  While the toilet must be cleaned, I find it much more enjoyable to dig my hands into the earth.

We make our own compost and usually have eight to ten yards of compost ready for spring planting each year.  Though it may not be the most attractive part of gardening, we always have piles of compost in various stages  around the property.  Here in Florida that rich black earth is priceless.  I digress.

This morning my thoughts were to spend some time in the front gardens which have been some what neglected in the past month.  The famous "stink weed" plant growing rampant.  The peeking of wild carrot and other blades of "weeds" poking around the crocus.  It can be a bit dangerous for me to weed actually as I am highly allergic to the red ants that seem to be everywhere in Florida.  It has been suggested that I wear long sleeves, high socks, and most definitely gloves when I garden.  Of course, I can not bring myself to wear gloves.  The touch of the dirt against my finger tips just gives me goosebumps and transports me to another place.

So what is the lesson?  I have often used the metaphor of weeding my garden's for weeding the unwanted or no longer useful parts of life.  With each blade pulled, I would visualize the pulling of something from my life (perhaps a bad habit or negative thought).  This has always been my lesson in the gardens to look deeply within and what no longer serves me on my path today.  This morning was different.  This morning I sat on the grass at first just savoring the warm rays of the sun beaming down.  Inhaling deeply to breath all that fresh air into my lungs.  Having not been out there for some time I was soaking it all in.

As I started to pull some of the stink weed from around a plant, I heard a distinct voice whispering "ouch".  I stopped and looked around for a moment.  Being that I often "hear" things, I had to make sure it was a whisper in the wind and not someone actually speaking.  Shaking my head I began again to pull and tug at the difficult weed.

I often talk with my flowers as I am working in the gardens and today was no different.  Well, it was different actually.  I was cursing at the stink weed.  "I have done everything to get rid of you.  I burned you to send the signature out that you are not wanted.  I have buried you.  I have burned you.  What do I have to do to make you stop growing in my garden?"

That is when it happened - the big "ahha" lesson.  The "stink weed" started talking back.  Then the birds started yelling and squawking.  My quiet peaceful time in the garden was not to be.  "Why are you trying to kill me?"

"You are a weed," I started in this long conversation with the stink weed.

"A weed to you, but not to all."

"I do not know a gardener that would call you anything but a weed."

"The creator does not make mistakes in what creates.  I am only a weed because you say so.  Do you not think that their is a purpose for all things?"

Gasp!  A "stink weed" is going to give me a philosophical discussion on perspectives.  This is so not going to happen.  The weed is out of here was my thought.  So I started tugging and pulling even harder and for some reason beyond my own understanding this particular strand I could not pull out of the ground.  I sat back a bit frustrated.

I was forced to listen to the words in winds that the "stink weed" was speaking.  The perspective of what I determine to be a weed and what the Creator determines to be a weed was shifting.  It was only because I had  a preconceived notion as to what the garden should look like that I deemed what was weed and what was not.  As I sat there contemplating what was being shared, I was startled by a black racer snake.  A rather large black racer.  While they are not dangerous and are welcome in my gardens, the size startled me.

In total amazement and complete awe, I got to experience  (for the first time I might add) a snake shedding its skin.  As the snake slowly moved through the stink weed and crocus flowers it began to emerge from the skin.  I dared not move fearing I would scare the beautiful renewal process.  Mesmerizing is the only word I can use to describe.  Once the process was complete and it did take some time, the whispers began again.

"There is a purpose to all things.  A weed is only a weed because you perceive it to be so.  This is true in your garden as it is in your life."  Ouch!



Lessons can come from any place if only our hearts and souls are open to hearing them.

National Poetry In Your Pocket Day

Shakti Fire

Sacred Fire

Fuel my Life

Purifying the Eternal Way

Through the Garden of the Gods

The flowing Fire

Igniting the seeds of Life

Giving breath to form

Deep within

The Garden of the Gods

The masterpiece birthed

Rainbows fused

The womb grows

The Heart and Soul 

In the Garden of the Gods

Created of the Sacred Fires

Awoken to the Sacred Fires

Nourished by the Sacred Fires

Birthed by the Sacred Fires

Held by the Garden of the Gods

Eternal Flames of Love

Cross the cycles of life

Dance the Songs

Long forgotten

From the Garden of the Gods

Separation now ended

Duality now One

In flow and Love

I awaken in Union

With the Garden of the Gods

The Question of Time Lines in Readings

Question:  Why won’t you give me an approximate date for _XXX_ to happen?  A date would be helpful.

Answer:  First, understand that when anyone is doing a projection/reading for another it is always based upon the path you are traveling at this exact moment.  If nothing at all shifts or changes, this is the outcome.  Change one thing, an attitude, a feeling, an emotion and the shift of the result will be incurred. 

Second, the concept of time is man made.  The Universe does not understand time as humans have designed it.  As so much of a reading/projection is vague in its self (example:  question asked “will I get the job?”) the answer is vague.  More specific (“when will I get the job”) questions, tend to result in more specific answers.  

Yet, again the first comment comes into play.

Time is a complexity that as human beings we seem to be obsessed with.  We want to know when things will change.  When will be happy?  When will I become prosperous?  The universe or the energetic frequencies that exist does not operate within the constraints of a twelve month year that has 365 ¼ days.  That is human made. 

The real issue that I have when doing projections or readings is getting people to understand what the real question should be.  If you are looking to be prosperous, what does prosperous really mean to you?  If you want to be happy, what does being happy really mean to you?  Many times these answers shift the questions being asked.  But that is another blog post.

The underlying answer to the question of why can you not give me an exact date goes back to the Universe being on a different time schedule that we as humans are on.  The purpose of a reading is to alert you of upcoming events so that we can shift the event if we consciously decide to.  It allows one to “choose” the path they are going to travel rather than allowing events to choose for you.

Make Sense?

Water element verse Fire element

Question: You talk a lot about the element of fire. Do you work with other elements? I am a Water element and would like information on the water element.

Answer: I do speak of fire often, as it is the power element that I work with. As I say to many who come to me “Walk in your own power, not in the shadow of another”. Each one has a different and unique strength within, use that strength but do not forget about the rest of the wheel.

In shamanic work you work with all the elements of nature. Fire, Earth, Air, Water, and Spirit. The Medicine Wheel circle encompasses all the energetics of the spiral. The Medicine Wheel is in constant motion as are all of the human spirits. Our lives, whether conscious or subconsciously, are expressed in the Medicine Wheel movement.

Every six months, I travel the outer spokes and inner spokes of the wheel to seek out where balance in the harmony of the elements needs to be made. (You can go back in older posts and see different periods where I posted questions/meditations that I ponder during this time). I share on the element of fire, yet the alchemy of the Medicine Wheel is that fire must have earth elements to burn, air for fuel and spirit to fan. The water washes the ash away from the last fire. All the elements are threads of the tapestry; without one the fabric would not hold together.

You specifically asked of water. The element of water is considered to be the purest form of liquid. It can shapeshift into a variety of forms – solid, gas, fresh or salt. It is the element that sustains life and can cause death and destruction. It is a powerful element that many take for granted. Air (wind) and fire can destroy it and yet air carries it and it quells fire.

Water stands still or rampages in destruction. It stands in many minds as innocence, purity, cleansing, and creation. But if not held in balance, the reality is that its wisdom transforms. Water is shapeless and those who resonate with the water sign, emotions and boundaries are difficult. Being shapeless, water signs can flow and manifest easily if the emotions are kept in check.

The truth of elements is that each of us need to remain balanced within all the elements. Being a fire person, the water element helps with this such as learning to be still and nurture self. The vital point is to find your strength within each element and use them together in a balanced way. Walking the wheel helps with carrying the medicine of each element.

Hope this answers your question.

Misplaced Energy - What is it and Where does it come from?

Question:  Carla you spoke of misplaced energy in a recent post (Negative Imprints and Psychic Hooks)  Can you explain where this misplaced energy comes from or what causes it?  I am confused.

Answer:  We know that everything is energy.  Our thoughts, our emotions, and our actions.  The medical community, all though not directly stating it is energy, has come to see this is true.  Traditional medicine tells us that, for example, stress can cause us to have heart problems to blood pressure conditions.  We know that the emotional state of worry and anxiety can cause us to have ulcers.  I share this to point out even traditional medicine shows that this type of energy exists.

What does it have to do with misplaced energy?  Energy is stored in the body.  Whether that energy is from these types of emotional energy or injury energy, it is energy that does not resonate in a healthy way with the human energy matrix.  Therefore it is misplaced.

If you are angry or someone else is angry at you, that energy will not resonate with the balanced and harmonious energy of the human spirit.  It will cause mental, emotional, and even physical imbalance – it doesn't fit – therefore, it is misplaced. 

If you injure your ankle, for example, the energy that is there can cause on the physical level pain, swelling, and fear of further pain if step wrong.  On an energy level that can attract fear in lack of foundation, fear of economic security from not being able to perform your job, anger at self for the injury, and on and on.  If the energy is not cleared, healing on the physical level can take longer; as well as the injury sending out the energetic signature of fear and anger.  This attracts more misplaced energy.  It is a cycle that once begun can be difficult to escape if not done so consciously.

Removing the misplaced energy removes the signature of like attracts like that does not resonate with the consciousness of balanced, grounded energy.

Hope that answers your question.

The Spirit of Women is Rising

The especial genius of women, I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.  -Margaret Fuller

Artwork by Dana Tiger

The spirit of women is rising.  As a shift in energies is occurring, women are moving into a new vision.  A birthing that is creating an emerging healing of the feminine energies of the spirit, the mind, and the body.  As this shift is occurring, women are beginning to trust themselves, trust one another, and trust in the weaving of a tapestry.  As Robin Rice of Be Who You Are says, "the era of the lone-wolf is over".

The journey we call life holds many possibilities; the only way to dive into those possibilities is through healing and taking the risk of changing the old beliefs that we are only one in this vast world.  To listen and support one another rather than compete goes against every thing we have been taught.  The idea of collaborating in order to co-create is not a new idea.  It is the way of the elders.

There was a time that a "tribe" would come together to work as one unit whether it be to "raise" a barn or "raise" a child.  Each one had a purpose that was unique to them, and without the unique piece the "raising" could not occur.  As women we no longer can just accept; but rather we must rise up and challenge ourselves.  Challenge ourselves to hold the spirit within in reverence.

In our desire to envision a new realm of possibilities we must become whole again.  No longer can we be that "lone wolf" as the inner urging to create change is birthed.  The meaning in this life, the secret to the inner peace and happiness, is found within the co creation of a "tribe" that supports, nurtures, and shares loving energies with one another.  It is possible to step out of the fear and insecurities that have been molded into our biology and courageously face  a new horizon.  How?

For decades, perhaps centuries, we have quelled the inner knowing of becoming unified with the web of life.  We have stifled the inner quest for changing the landscape as society has told us "not to rock the boat".  Now it time to realize that when we pause and hear the whispers in the wind our elders share we can heal ourselves and our "tribes".  It is time to remember that everything belongs to the Spiral of Life.  The spirit that is breathed into the spiral and gives it power comes from a thousand lungs - from the souls of every consciousness of all living entities.  We are all One within this Spiral of Life.

The power of comes from the soul.  The soul of the Universe, the soul of the Creative Source, the soul of the sun, and the soul of each one of you reading this.  It is real power.  There was a time when the "tribe" remembered that this power was carried and protected by the women.  They nurtured it and cared for it.  Over the times this power was desecrated and given away.  In general women had to withdraw their power - withdraw their energetic movement and flow.  It had to be protected and hidden as the chalice of the woman had to survive.

Now it is time for all to bring out their chalice - to gather their "tribe" - to radiate their energetic flow.  Now it is time to find the "especial genius" that is intuitively woman. It is time for women to openly exhibit their power, their knowledge, and their leadership.  The ancient symbol of unity is the circle.  It is the sacred hoop of wholeness and female power.  It represents the feminine spirit in a sacred space that is unbreakable.  It is time to bring the circle - the hoop - to its power.

It is time to restore the balance of the energies.  For this to happen, you must first restore your own power - restore your own energies so that the balance of the humanity "tribe" can be restored and all be lifted in the eternal flame of love.

Will you join the "tribe" of female energies shifting and co-create a new sacred hoop for the humanity "tribe"?

Rainbow Warrior Phrophecies

 A 19th century mystic, Eyes of Fire a wise-women of the Ininiwok peoples, 

commonly known now as the Cree Indians 

Rainbow Warrior Prophecy:

The sky is clouding, the grass is fading,

People in anguish, the dark is rising.

The Earth She writhes beneath the claws

of the minds that are poisoned

Her children tossed on the waves

of cruel desire and corruption

It could be you, don't shrink away

from the need of the hour

Don't turn away from the hand

stretched in pain of your Mother.

Her name means freedom, Her body earthgreen,

Her blood clear water, her voice is birdsong.

The Earth cries out, can't you hear,

take your courage in hand now.m

Our deeds must speak of the love for all beings

waxing strong now

We can't allow the heartless ones

to destroy this great wonder

Slaughtering wales, felling trees,

with no thought for the future.

Here rule the demons, they love no creature,

Their words are poison, they weave dark futures.

A-a-a-a-ah

A-a-a-a-ah

Gather all ye who love the world

from distant lands beneath the tall sky

In visions past I have seen you awake the spirit moving

Gather all ye who love the world

from distant lands beneath the tall sky

In visions past I have seen you awake the spirit moving

And now the wind is shifting, the tide is turning,

The mist is rising, a rainbow forming

Rainbow warriors, the stars are calling

Rainbow warriors, the trees are falling

Rainbow warriors, the spirit dying,

Rainbow warriors, the world is crying out in pain.

And I shall never rest in peace till this cruel reign is ended

And all the children of the Earth shall be free,

Her wounds all mended.

Your time has come, make the Earth green again,

don't delay now.

Victory has been foreseen for the people who do.

Rainbow warriors, create new Eden,

Clear rain a'falling, blue sky unending,

Unfearful faces, starlight revealing,

Small creatures dancing, glad voices singing,

Free children playing with chains that are broken,

Rainbow warriors, the future lies within your hands.

Patricio Dominguez, Pueblo: The ancestors said that... there would come a time when the Earth would become very sick. Because of this unrelenting greed of the new culture, the Earth would be filled with deadly liquids and metals, the air would be rendered foul with smoke and ash, and even the rains, which were intended to cleanse the Earth, would plummet in poison drops. Birds would fall from the sky, fish and would turn belly up in the waters and whole forests would begin to die.

Patricio Dominguez, Pueblo: 'Under the symbol of the rainbow, all of the races and all of the religions of the world would band together to spread the great wisdom of living in harmony with each other and with all the creations of the Earth. Those who taught this way would come to be known as "the rainbow warriors". Although they would be warriors, they would carry with them the spirits of the ancestors, they would carry the light of knowledge in their heads and love in their hearts, and they would do no harm to any other living thing. The legend said that after a great struggle, using only the force of peace, these rainbow warriors would finally bring an end to the destruction and desecration of Mother Earth and that peace and plenty would then reign through a long, joyous and peaceful golden age here on Mother Earth.'