Monday Message 8\7\17

Are you here? Right now, in this moment, are you present? This is a bit of a trick question. Most of us are not. We are in the future, hoping for or dreading some real or imagined event. Conversely, we are perhaps in the past, agonizing over a trauma or enjoying a sweet memory. These activities, looking forward or glancing back, have their usefulness, but right now, you are needed here.

Do you know why? Here, this moment, is very special. You are standing in the gateway of so many good things, and they are just waiting for you to notice so they can join you in this moment. So, just for now, let the past remain the past and the future go unpredicted. Let yourself have this moment and all the good that is waiting to flood in when you seize it.

Monday Message 7/31/17

Monday Message
July 31st 2017

Walls and defenses have their place. They have protected your tender heart and battered soul while you healed from your wounds. Protection and isolation are two different things. Stay behind your walls and find stillness, find peace, and find your center. Then you are ready to open the door and let yourself be filled. Remember, you are the bouncer to your inner self. Only let in what is bright and shining and helpful. Do not, however, languish in an ivory tower and let your stillness deafen you to the song of the Universe.

Monday Message- 7/24/17

The Dark Lady

Myk the Myomancer

The Faery Who Was Kissed by the Pixies-Reversed

Deep within you, there are seeds of such unimaginable wonder. They remain there, untouched by the light of the Sun or the nourishment of the loamy Earth. The strange fruit they would become remains a mystery, because you leave them closed up tightly, hermetically sealed within your darkest self. Are you afraid to know, or are you afraid because you know the cost of letting such seeds be sown?

 I feel it is the latter. The hints are all around you, but you lack the tools of the gardener. These tools are the courage to begin, knowing failure and blight are just as likely as lush success, and the patience to be a good and faithful steward to your growth.

Love yourself enough to let the Sun shine into your soul. Spread love around like fertilizer, and watch what springs forth with abandon. That love and light will be returned to you in spades.

Monday Message 8/26/13

The Guardians at the Gate. The Bright Mother, Death

A New life, a new beginning awaits. What must you release to let this new life begin? Do not be afraid, the Mother has her hand upon you. Let it end, it has run it's course, and it's passing makes room for you to pass into this new start!

Monday Message 8\19\13

Letting go is not losing control. Tightly regimented life and mind are a sign of fear, not control, in this instance. Give yourself the freedom to run a little wild and learn something new about yourself from the outcome. Turn right instead of left and always remember each day of your life is a fresh page waiting to be written. Do not copy and paste, write a masterpiece.

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The Master Maker

UnDressing of a Salad

Epona's Wild Daughter

We have skills, and the power of invention lives within us all. Do you know what we have to do in order to achieve the impossible? We only have to focus our mighty talents on a single goal, and we can make the fantastic into reality. 

So why don't we? The inner shadows, the nightmares which cling to us after waking, and putting too much stock in whispered doubts until it is a shouting in our heads that we will fail.

Look up. Look out. Look around. reach for the stars, and if you leave those dark shadows at your feet, they will fall away as you lift up to the next level.

Brightest Blessings

H.W.

Last Night

I spent a quiet Strawberry Moon in Sagittarius last night. I spent it with my Faery Oracle cards. About 8pm last night the Hubs took over the Witchlings and I locked myself back in our bedroom, which luckily for us is oddly soundproof , and took out my deck. I cleansed it, charged it with positive energy, and then snuggled in to have a chat with my Faery Guides. 

Let me just say to start, I have a real problem with negative self-talk. It is something you would not guess if you know me. because I am a "fake it till you feel it" kind of person and tend to just power through. I have been a Reader since shortly after I began my Path, about 1998 by my calculations. I have Read Tarot in various forms, Gypsy Witch cards (which were given to me as a joke and I ended up LOVING them) and then about 4 years ago a dear friend gave me the Faery Oracle cards. Reading has always been a part of my Faith and Craft, and I have always read for friends. My "professional" Reading career has been hit or miss, because I talk myself out of it. This is, admittedly, kinda stupid. I have always had great, positive experiences at Psychic fairs, and later on Keen. I enjoy it immensely both the Reading itself, and the connection to the people I Read for. I like the work, and I like to help people find their answers.

 Then life steps in, I get too busy to do Readings, and time passes. This somehow unravels all the positive, and doubt in myself as a Reader creeps in. Believe me, I'm working on it. So last night I centered myself, got a pen, shuffled the deck, and took a moment with each card. 

I turned each card over, took a moment with it, and made a little note along the border about what it means to me. Just keywords, really, but just a little something to assure my neurotic self that I would not "blank out" on the card if it came up in a Reading, which has never happened, and I don't know why I get so worked up over it, but there it is. I don't know if this is a common thing, but I got the idea from a 3rd hand Tarot deck a friend gave me long ago that a Reader had given her to learn Tarot with. (You might notice I get a lot of decks as gifts, I'm a lucky girl!)

Anyway, I happily played, talked, and reconnected with the deck, and when the Hubs came back to go to bed, I thought maybe 15-30 minutes had passed. It was after 10pm. I had a some cards left, but I will finish up with them later today. I thanked my Guides for a wonderful time, tucked the 'finished' ones in their pouch, and the ones yet to be done into the book for later.  I grounded myself, and snuggled in with the Hubs to sleep.

All in all, it was a great night. Once again, there does not need to be High Ritual to make Magick. It's about your connection to the Magick all around you. 

Brightest Blessings!

H.W.

Monday Message

Good Monday morning to you all! On a former blog and mailing list I had a feature for the days Faery focus, in which I did a mini reading from my Faery Oracle cards for a general focus for that day for my readers. I have been (finally) reading again and thought I would start the Faery Focus readings back up on this blog. Well that was when I had one kid, fewer critters around the house, and was not running my own business, so now I am shooting for a weekly focus lol.  So, without further ado, here is what the Faeries would like you to know and work on this week...

The three cards are Nelys the Alchemist, inverted

Himself

Flaff the Flooter, inverted

Nelys is here to help us, but we are all getting in her way, and are our own worst enemies and biggest road blocks right now.  She is nudging us in the right direction, but we are swatting her away like a fly, and she is about to use that big old wand she is holding to herd us a little more 'forcefully', so we might want to get moving on our own. The third card is Flaff, who is also working hard to help Nelys get us on the Path. He speaks to the part of us who may feel that nudge from Nelys, and fly off into the clouds in a flurry in search of dreams.  Flaff is here to remind us that it is a good idea to follow dreams, but a better idea to learn how to fly before we take off up there. If we don't do the work first and know how to soar,  it is a long way back down, and a rocky landing.  Between them is Himself.  He energizes both his partner cards in the reading, and wants to do the same for us.  He is the Shaman, and the powers of healing and creativity swirl around him.  He not only wants us on this new Path, he wants to dance with us along it. Dance with Himself, and you might be surprised by what shakes loose from within you.

That is the first of our Monday Messages...and by the way the blue thing in the corner of the picture is my new, snuggly card bag. I LOVE it, it was hand crocheted and I bought it at Tree of Life in Chesterfield. It looks like it was made of Muppet fur lol. My Faeries are very warm and cozy in there, and it is a reward to them for me neglecting them for soooooo long.  Here is a closer look.

Have a Blessed week!

H.W.