Journey Journal: Food for thought.

I’m waxing the philosophical this week. I feel like I’m swimming in the sea of consciousness while I’m practicing practicality, and dancing with a cough. I present to you my inspirations this week, the things that make me go “hmm,” and leave the comments open for discussion. Here are the things that have made me go “aaaah” during the week.

Sounds True Podcast: Insights From the Edge

Give yourself time with this. It is a lot about consciousness, soul, identity, and an incredible interview with one of our Spiritual Elders, Ram Dass.

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Update: Started Massage School

So maybe you’ve been by a few times that I haven’t posted a lot in the last few weeks at Lifencompass. Don’t worry I haven’t given up all hope on comments and regular readers and canned the site –can you imagine?– but I have gotten busy with school . 

A few weeks ago amidst the Mercury Retrograde in Aries I made a sudden shift and leaped into massage school at the National Holistic Institute. I haven’t looked back with any regret. No, not even the schedule change that moved my waking hours from 9 am to 6 am, or the commute.

I’ve met a group of people who  I can connect with, in a classroom setting, about a subject I am passionate about, health and well-being.  Continue reading

Tarot Cycle: March New Moon, High Priestess

Just a few notes on the Journey if you are just joining me. The Tarot Cycle is a demonstration of personal evolution using the Keys of the Tarot, in harmony with the lunar cycle, and displayed here at Lifencompass as an offering. I felt like this year of all years, was the perfect time to take initiative in my life and demonstrate that journey in readings, poetry, art, and doing. The Tarot Cycle is a reading but not a forecast of the “future,” the Tarot in this case are used as personal, alchemical, tools of transformation. Sign posts of influences and energies.

I draw on the personal and the collective to create the monthly forecast, and it is encouraged to pull the monthly card and draw your own cards in a reading to see what influences you may be experiencing. Maybe you can see something in my tarot spreads but you will probably receive more if you likewise draw the cards and contemplate them. All things connected, lots of possibilities, I hope that my words and poetry inspire others to find within themselves the light, energy, and focus to light the way forward for their own self.

That is the Goal of the first part of the Tarot Cycle, The Hermit as an archetype, finding our own inner light and bringing it out. Leaving the life we are expected to live and finding the life we are meant to live. You can read more about the Tarot Cycle, intent, and catch up here at Lifencompass

On the heels of the fool… I bring you Cycle Three: The Priestess. 

Water and Light

Welcome back to the Tarot Cycle, The third moon of this month has begun to wax. Out of darkness, reflecting light in the night sky. Illumination grows. This morning, amidst candles and smoke, working with a new tool (thank you Stang & Cauldron) and journeying into the spiritual sky I get the following.  

Remember that the Priestess is the channel, becoming the wisdom. She is not the light she is the energy of light on water, and that is warmth. She is not the reflection she is the dazzling interaction of energy entering stillness. She is dark and light, she is the Priestess. The drawing of cards came in three rays, twice. I have included them in two images below…

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Journey Work – Mitakuye Oyasin: Musing on relationships

Welcome.

Mitakuye Oyasin: Musing on relationships is part of the Carnival of Healing this month. I am a long time supporter of the blog carnival and I want to extend a warm welcome to all the readers and participating bloggers.

Before I begin I want to start with something simple, a few breaths to get centered. I know it’s not how we usually begin a blog post but today I feel it. One of my teachers Maria taught me a version of this exercise and this morning I return to it, as I have for almost 18 years. 

Breathing in deeply through the nose, down into the navel –my friend Kau’i calls this the place of the soul– holding it for a comfortable moment as we feel that breath fill all of our lungs, and then exhaling easily. Again, breath in, and out. Once more. Through the nose, into the navel, filling lungs, and out the mouth. Do it with ease.

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