Joy Express

As I wrote the title of this post, I was reminded of a dear friend, whose birthday it is today … and He IS Magnificent!  He knows he is talented and capable and such a showman.  He works his magnificence and weaves it into his performances as a skilled gymnast and circus performer. 

And, he is often tormented by that same magnificence.  It really is hard work living with such an extrovert personality and larger than life attitude to, well, life.

What I Love about him is his Passion.  He knows what he wants, and what he loves, and he goes out and gets it.  He knows he is Magnificent.

Today, I am off to “Angel World”, my Day of Indulgence at Essence of Isis.  I LOVE being in the shop ~ I love the energy, the space and freedom, hanging out with Suzie, and being given the opportunity and permission to share Angel Readings with clients.  Really, it is my Bliss.

I LOVE feeling that I am Being All That I Can Be … that always happens when I am doing Angel things.  This coming week has lots of Angel Energy with Angel Brunch on Monday ~ a variation on the regular ‘lunch’ session to change things up a bit ~ and workshop preparation for Saturday’s event, Let’s Talk Angels!  Whenever I am indulging in this energy I feel great!  Oh, and it’s the full moon, so I will be making up my next crystal essence.  Woo Hoo!

Often a client comes for a reading because he or she is at a loss and doesn’t know how to move forward from where they are at.  Many people come and have a reading because they want answers.  Answers to all the questions of the Universe but mostly about Love and The Future.  It’s almost the exact opposite of why I used to have readings ~ I only wanted to visit the past, my Past Lifetimes and any previous incarnations I may have shared with people around me.  I guess that was my way of understanding the future … I found out about the past, gained understanding about relationships/choices/decisions then used that knowledge to help make decisions/choices in the here and now.

I began to gather the Pieces of Me and weave them into a tapestry of Michelle.  Which is how I started the journey to Discovering My Magnificence.

Many clients are kind of ‘beaten down’ with life and living and find themselves challenged on the self worth front.  I am there to remind them that they are wonderful, and loved by the Angels, and to reignite their connections with their own magnificence.  When we share that feeling of ‘Champagne Bubbles’, we realise that we really are Magnificent, and the world seems much more manageable.

Life really is all about Remembering Who We Are ~ Magnificent Souls, Magnificent People.

My new theme, for July, is “Voyage”.  I am quite excited about having created the Medicine-Wheel One-Year Layout as suggessted by Denise Linn in the Soul Coaching Oracle Cards Guidebook.  I am also excited that a few people I know have done their own layouts, as well, and we can share about our experiences.

While this card can be interpreted literally – oh, boy, I am hanging out for a holiday! – it is really all about the Spiritual Journey.  And, as I read the guide book about “Voyage” I realised that I actually started a new part of my journey, on the first of July. 

My favourite sentence in Denise Linn’s book:  You’re a sacred traveller on a pilgrimage to your Soul.  Ahhhhh.

I really enJOY watching how the month pans out and seeing what synchronicity the Universe provides.  My “Purification” month finished off with several days of ‘finding myself’ again … the ’self’ which had become buried under the pressure and stresses I allowed into my world during the previous 10 weeks, or more.  Finishing the month with school holidays has allowed me to ‘declutter’ all the ’stuff’ in my thoughts and life … I have been able to practise slowing down and taking the time to smell the ‘jonquils’.   I am very grateful for the opportunity to learn these lessons and also very grateful to be feeling so much more relaxed!

My Spiritual Voyage has begun with a remembering of being punished, in a past life, for being ‘different’.  I have always had an extreme fear of being locked away and assumed it was something to do with mental illness.  It was similar.  I was shut in a cupboard as a very small child, by my puritan parents, because I was exhibiting signs of psychic behaviour. [WOW! I just realised that I made that discovery exactly one month ago!!]  Those souls who were my parents in that past lifetime are also key figures in my current lifetime. 

I am blessed with some very special people in my life, one of whom is a Bach Flower Practitioner.  She is my “Go To” person for all things emotional and I popped over to her place to pick up a remedy which addresses “Fear of Success”; Shock, Grief & Fear; Breaking Links; and Past Life issues.  How cool is that?!!

I spent the morning, yesterday, with Lovely Norma of Harp to Heart Healing, indulging in her monthly meditation class.  Oh Wow.  What a Blissful Experience!

Going to Norma’s is always like visiting an oasis of beauty, pampering and JOY.  Even the drive there is a bit like that … the faeries are dancing in the trees and the magick has seeped from her house and garden, down the hill of her street and flows along the main road.  It’s like the energy is calling to you as you drive to Norma’s home.

As we began the session, we slowed down thoughts, and our breathing, so that the only sounds which could be heard were Norma’s voice, the tinkling of the water fountain and the birds outside.  I struggled with keeping tuned in for the first part of the meditation because my mind is very comfortable with chasing thoughts!  The most interesting part of that experience was noticing that once I slowed down enough, all the thoughts which haven’t had a chance to ‘be heard’ flew in to my head!  It reacquainted me with the realisation I’ve had before, which is that when I slow down, I am even more intuitive!  In fact, I clearly remember receiving ideas about workshops for my Angel Business - which have now escaped me!

Being the Winter Solstice, we were encouraged to write ourselves a letter, talking about where we are at now or where we wanted to be in 6 months time.  I wrote about where I was at that moment then scattered words/themes across the page and decorated them with coloured frames, like flowers, using pastels.  It was fun!  Norma asked us to address an envelope to ourselves then collected our letters and promised to post them to us at the Summer Solstice.  It was a fabulous idea.

We then visited our Heart Space.  Oh, dear.  Mine was very sad.  I have been very sad.  My heart was black and crispy, and I was a little shocked.  Initially, that scene was confronting but when I thought about how tired I am feeling and how much I desire a holiday, and the fact that Josh was mugged last week, I figured that my heart looked exactly like it was supposed to! 

I had an explore around my Heart Garden and was taken in hand by my Guardian Angel.  She showed me a ‘rock’ garden – kind of like some of those monolithic rocks you find in the bush.  She showed me that when I rubbed hard on the ‘rock’ all the outside layers of mud and yuk came away.  Underneath was a beautiful dark green jade crystal ~ a lot of dark green jade crystals!  Oh, Wow!

As I turned around to look further around my Heart Garden, I saw the Sun.  It was Bright and Huge and really, really present.  It shone down through my garden, and my body, and my aura.  It was all encompassing. 

After our Visualisation, Norma asked us to draw or write about our experiences using our non-dominant hands.  That is quite tricky!  Even moreso was the effort I had to use by drawing with my left hand and using pastels!  I am quite controlled in how I work creatively and given my very clear visualisation picture, I really wanted to capture that, accurately.  Still, I honoured the process and drew the Blackened Heart, the blackened crystals and the Sun.  The Sun was really easy to draw and just flowed ~ I really noticed that it was significantly easier than the other aspects of my drawing.

Norma explained to us, afterwards, that this process was all about connecting with our inner child.  I saw clearly that the ’stuff’ which has been bogging me down, recently, was the hard-to-draw part of the picture, and the part that was really easy was the Sun, the Light, which is always there and always has been.  I guess it’s a bit hard to describe so others can actually understand clearly, but it was really significant to me.

We finished up with another meditation which involved our ‘path’ and where we were going with our journeys … I was already pretty familiar with mine so it was a nice indulgence.  An even nicer indulgence was listening to Norma playing the Harp ~ Oh, WOW!  Sheer Bliss!

Our discussion process involved sharing our experiences and observations, taking some Mini Angel Cards ~ mine were “Expectancy” and “Truth” ~ and partaking in tea and biscuits (heart shaped, of course!).

I left Norma’s feeling how I feel after an hour’s massage, even similar to how I feel after a week’s sailing!  It was Wonderful!  I am certainly going to book in for a monthly indulgence.  Thank you, Norma!!

What a FABULOUS day!  The shop was filled with gorgeous people ~ LOTS of my friends visited and that was really cool! ~ and I met so many wonderful ladies who shared just a little part of their lives with me during their mini readings.

I am Blessed.

There really is something quite magical about getting together with a group of like minded people and working hard for something you believe in.  That’s what the day at Essence of Isis was like.  Suzie had lots of family and friends helping out, scrumptious chocolate balls to accompany tea and coffee, lots and lots of visitors … it really was a magnificent way to celebrate the opening of the new Crystal Shop.

We were given goodie bags which contained a tea light candle, incense, rose quartz crystal and some workshop flyers.  Essence of Isis is having a whole lot of specials during the month of June so if you are in town, pop by and visit.  I am there on Wednesdays for Angel Readings and Baze is in on Saturdays for massage opportunities.  Woo Hoo!  Essence of Isis is definitely the place to visit!

This month has been all about “Beginnings” … at the end of April, I facilitated an Oracle Card session using Denise Linn’s Soul Coaching Oracle Card Deck and we explored the different layouts recommended in the Guide Book.  The one we had most ‘fun’ with was the “Medicine-Wheel One-Year Spread” because it gave us an idea of what was to come in our next 12 months.

May has really been a month of  endings and beginnings, well, maybe more Beginnings because I haven’t really ended anything significant … other than the ‘old’ Joy Express template!  The most substantial ‘Beginning’ has been taking my Angel Readings to Essence of Isis, in Thomastown.  That has been AWESOME!  Life has become so much more manageable on so many different levels that it’s now easy to ‘go to work’.

Other ‘new’ things in my world are more about attitudes and behaviours … Kels is flexing her muscles and ready to move on with life ~ she is in that changeover period of leaving primary school and beginning high school, although it does seem a little early!   That means a new period in our relationship where I have had to approach her as an almost high school person rather than a little girl.  It’s been a bit of an adjustment!

At the other extreme, Daniel is working, inspired, happy and never home.  We manage a few sentences in person at 5.45am each morning when he’s at home, and by phone in the evening when he’s away.  Our household is adjusting to the dynamics of 4 members rather than 5.  It’s like Daniel is just a visitor, now, who appears for dinner on Sunday evening.

David has returned to ‘out of the house employment’, too, this month.  That has been a big adjustment because I had become very dependent on the easy access to David for conversation, going out, sharing responsibilities, emotional wellbeing … but, we are more resilient than ever before and, I think, our relationship is stronger than it ever has been. 

As a result of those little but huge changes, my life and lots of my attitudes have been adjusting, too.  I am in the process of streamlining a few of my commitments; of realigning my priorities (like discussing with David when exactly we can have some quality time together, just the two of us); and redesigning my Stampin’ Up! and Angel businesses.  Oh, and I had the overwhelming urge to ‘change up’ Joy Express, this week!  

I have used the ‘Beginnings” card from the Soul Coaching Oracle Card Deck as a guide for the month.  I have watched to see whether it was reflective of my life happenings, and it has been.  I like having a little extra insight about what to expect, and I also like having the opportunity to be reminded of and to reflect on what has happened, in relation to the theme of the month.

Tomorrow is June and the theme for the month is “Purification”.  I wonder what that will bring?