Dear Beautiful Blog Friends:
For the past two years I have been facilitating a monthly angelic message circle known as the IN THE LOOP group. We gather together the first Thursday night of each month via the telephone in a teleconference room. It has been a healing, blessing and enlightenment experience where earth angels and heavenly angels commune together. There are approximately 30 people from all across the USA who registered for this year's experience which will end next month. Each of the participants receives a personal message of upliftment and inspiration from the angels.
Prior to each teleclass gathering, I am inspired by the angels to sit at the computer and I become an scribe for the angels and bring a message to each person.
For the month of July it was getting pretty close to the time of the class on the first Thursday of the new month, and I had not been given the signal from the angels to sit down and take dictation. Needless to say, my spiritual self is trusting and obedient; however, my ego was starting to do a little dance called: The Freakout.
The morning of the actual teleclass, I was awoken by the angels and told to gather together all the decks of spiritual divination cards that I have purchased over the years. From the many decks that I brought together from the four corners of our home into my office, I was then inspired by the angels as to which spiritual deck was to be used for each of the IN THE LOOP members. A unique deck was chosen for each member of the sacred circle. Once the deck was chosen for each person, I was given a mini angel reading of 3 cards by the angels.
I am sharing this experience with you in my blog for a couple of reasons. The first is that I think that many of you reading this blog probably are like me and have a lot of decks or sets of spiritual divination cards. It was really wonderful revisiting them. In fact, it was downright joyful. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the artwork of the decks of cards; some of which I had totally forgotten about. It felt like a reunion experience with some dear friends from the past.
There are saints, crystal deva, mermaids, dolphins, Mayan, Toltec, fairy, tree, flowers, animal spirit,crystal skull, Runes,inner child, ally, dream, Celtic, sweet dreams/bedtime, tantric, goddess, crone, Avalon tarot, DaVinci tarot, alchemical tarot, templar tarot, kabbalah, I Ching card decks. There are Karma Angels, Angelic Messenger, Kabbalah Angels, Angel Blessings, Archangel Oracle, Angels, Gods and Goddesses, and my own SPIRITUALS deck - and this is just to name a few of the many, many decks and sets of spiritual divination cards on the planet.
Hallmark and the American Greeting companies have nothing on any one of us. We communicate with cards. I am honoring you as I write this blog to you for keeping the lines of communication with spirit open through the use of divination cards. There are times in all of our lives where we feel blocked and stagnate and we think we aren't hearing the divine. And even in those times of frustration, we have reached for a deck and drawn a card to inspire us on our path. We have invested in our spiritual growth through purchasing spiritual divination tools that envelop us in the beauty of the art and the inspiration of the messages.
We have listened with the ears of our heart to spirit through the inspirational cards that we keep near us on our nightstands. We have them in our cars. We keep them close to us on our desks, in our briefcases and pocketbooks. And some decks can be found on kitchen counters so we can take a card from a blessing bowl in the center of the kitchen table as we head out the door to work. We grab a piece of fruit for nourishing our body and a spiritual message card to nourish our soul.
We keep them in velvet or silk pouches or wooden boxes. I was as amazed as to the containers that I have chosen for the decks of cards as I was in remembering the decks. I delighted in being reminded that throughout the years I have been drawn to use items such as little girls' purses as sacred card containers.
Years ago during my angel lectures, I would take a deck of my SPIRITUALS and pass the deck around the audience at the beginning of my presentation. I asked everyone to draw one card and read the message and then put the card back into the deck as the angels might want someone else to read that same card as a message. I was speaking to a large audience and as the cards made their way to the back of the room, a gentleman spoke up and said, "Jayne, I don't think you have a full deck." That was one of the funniest moments ever. I responded by saying, "Sir, I hope that isn't a message you are channeling from spirit, but rather telling me about the status of the deck of SPIRITUALS.
I am sharing with you the 3 questions that I was asked by the angels to use in the
3-card reading so that if you are inspired to do so, you will get out a deck of cards you haven't used for awhile and have a reunion experience, too.
The questions are connected to Matthew 7:7 - Ask and ye shall receive; seek and ye shall find; knock and the door shall be opened.
1. Ask for a message from your I AM Presence with the first card drawn. The first card is a blessing to help you know yourself as your I AM Presence.
2. Seek to find your Divine Identity through the second card drawn. The second card will bring a blessing of an activity you can do to be closer to your divine identity.
3. Knock and the door of opportunity shall be opened to you. The third card drawn will reveal information about this door of opportunity that will be presenting itself to you shortly.
Here's wishing each and every one of you blessings of uplifting and inspired divine dialogue with your spiritual divination cards.
Love in abundance, Jayne
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
The Healing Energies of Completion
Have you ever had so many irons in the fire, or juggling so many balls in the air at the same time, that you felt if you completed something - anything - it would be a major healing to your soul? Well, I've been feeling that way lately and decided to take a closer look at the healing energies of completion and accomplishing the experience of completion (even if on a small scale) in my life.
Completion originates with the Latin word: com (thoroughly) plere (to fill). When something is complete it is wholly finished. When we complete something, we accomplish the task. Jesus shared in his final statements made while on the cross the powerful words, "It is finished."
I encourage you to take a look at whatever needs to be completed in your life. I took a walk around our home with the Feng Shui Angels and took an inventory of what tasks were calling out and saying to me "finish me" or radiating an "incomplete" energy. I decided I would be totally honest with myself and get real on whether or not I even still wanted to complete some of the creative projects I had started.
Completion can occur by realizing you no longer want to finish the project and you liberate yourself from the weight of feeling incomplete about it. In short, you outgrew the idea. If you were a child, you wouldn't be trying to fit into a piece of clothing that you had outgrown. You would accept, "This doesn't fit me any longer" - and be done with it.
Some activities may speak to you that you still want to do them. I encourage you to make time to do the project or decide upon a time schedule for the project. Now, it may be a project that requires money to finish the task. If that is the case, then set up in your budget a column for putting a few dollars away, whenever possible, for the accomplishment of this project. A lot of times we put the pressure of waiting for a windfall to come our way in order to get tasks completed. Live life with ease and grace by setting aside a few dollars at a time and little by little the dollars will grow into the amount that is needed. In this way, you are moving towards completion by directing money (energy) to be saved towards the completion.
In Native American rituals the spiritual energies of the four directions (north, south, east and west) are honored and invoked in ceremonies. Infinite spirit/Great Spirit is honored as all energies originate from Creator, i.e. the mind of God.
When we find ourselves scattered in all directions, we can do a healing by bringing ourselves into one-mindedness. One-mindedness keeps us on our spiritual path. The one-mindedness thought I am suggesting is completion. A simple healing is to ask yourself: What task can I complete today?
The angels encourage us not to get caught in the "fret net". Fret comes from an Old English word (fretan) that means to devour. When we worry about things, we are literally allowing the worry to consume us or devour our energy. The healing is to refocus fretting energies to active completion energies. I encourage everyone to not only: Don't worry, be happy; but also - Don't worry, be busy completing what needs to get done or completed in your life. Nike has a slogan: Just do it.
We are being called to look at projects we can wrap up. Are there any cleaning projects in your home that you want to tackle and finish. Letting go of things that are no longer useful or purposeful or working is an act of completion. All of us know how great it feels when we can step back and say to ourselves, "I did it; it's finished; the job is completed." A powerful healing is experienced in completion.
This is a month of activity, i.e. the activity of completing. Complete:
Reading a book you started reading. Making phone calls you need to make. Writing letters you need to write. Cleaning out closets that need to be straightened up. Wrapping up loose ends in a nice bow and saying to yourself, "There, that's done. I completed that task."
All such projects require making time to complete the tasks. Pay attention to how you allow what was going to be a few minutes on the computer or watching TV to expand into lost time, i.e. where did the time go?
Be a time master this month. Sometimes, I look at the clock and make a note to myself of the time and then inspire myself to work for the next 15 minutes as focused as I can be on whatever project is at hand. Start the day spending a few moments thinking about what you plan to complete. Honor yourself at the end of the day by reflecting upon what was accomplished.
I recently read in the book Secrets of Simplicity by Mary Carlomagno that procrastination has a domino effect. It not only impacts what isn't being completed, but is taking energy away from something that is waiting to be started anew. The new cannot start because the unfinished it still taking up space. Completion is the act of closing old doors so that new doors can open.
In 1994, I remember when Archangel Michael inspired me to leave my job in order to work full time for the company of angels. I was hesitate because of fear of the unknown. What truly was the angelic motivation (or angelic kick in the butt) was when Michael said that there was someone who was waiting for me to get up out of the chair of the old job, so they could replace me. Michael said I would be quickly replaced and it would be a financial healing to the new employee. And he was right. I was replaced in less than a day and the woman even told me what a blessing the job was to her. I had to be the one who recognized I was complete in that job and needed to move forward. And when I resigned I said to my former employer, "I am leaving for no other reason than it is time to do so." It was time to close one chapter of my life and open the pages to a new chapter serving God in cooperation with the angels.
Another thought I loved in the book Secrets of Simplicity is the teaching that sacrifice comes from a place of powerful decision making. Deprivation comes from powerlessness. Embrace the power to choose what you are willing to sacrifice.
We may have to choose to make sacrifices in order to complete what needs to be finished but we are choosing to do what needs to be done. The fact that we are the ones making the decision empowers us.
Sometimes we feel that when we are completing chores, we are having to sacrifice fun time. I am sharing Mary's thought about sacrifice as it conveys that by choosing to sacrifice the time for play in order to complete chores, we are being powerful individuals and making positive decisions that support our spiritual growth.
The angels are emphasizing in a big way that completion is important as it brings healing to our lives. Before you leave any meetings, pause and ask yourself if you are complete in any assignments you were given as a result of the meeting, i.e. do you feel complete in knowing what is expected of you? I know we have all had experiences from attending meetings where we feel that we are more confused after the meeting than when we went into the meeting.
Another form of completion is being able to say no. When someone asks you something, and you definitely are not going to do it, say no. This completes the exchange and you have closed the door on you being the answer the person was seeking, and the person can go forward and find the answer another way.
When we are truthful with our no's, the space is created for the yes's that are attuned to the highest good for all involved.
Love in abundance, Jayne
Completion originates with the Latin word: com (thoroughly) plere (to fill). When something is complete it is wholly finished. When we complete something, we accomplish the task. Jesus shared in his final statements made while on the cross the powerful words, "It is finished."
I encourage you to take a look at whatever needs to be completed in your life. I took a walk around our home with the Feng Shui Angels and took an inventory of what tasks were calling out and saying to me "finish me" or radiating an "incomplete" energy. I decided I would be totally honest with myself and get real on whether or not I even still wanted to complete some of the creative projects I had started.
Completion can occur by realizing you no longer want to finish the project and you liberate yourself from the weight of feeling incomplete about it. In short, you outgrew the idea. If you were a child, you wouldn't be trying to fit into a piece of clothing that you had outgrown. You would accept, "This doesn't fit me any longer" - and be done with it.
Some activities may speak to you that you still want to do them. I encourage you to make time to do the project or decide upon a time schedule for the project. Now, it may be a project that requires money to finish the task. If that is the case, then set up in your budget a column for putting a few dollars away, whenever possible, for the accomplishment of this project. A lot of times we put the pressure of waiting for a windfall to come our way in order to get tasks completed. Live life with ease and grace by setting aside a few dollars at a time and little by little the dollars will grow into the amount that is needed. In this way, you are moving towards completion by directing money (energy) to be saved towards the completion.
In Native American rituals the spiritual energies of the four directions (north, south, east and west) are honored and invoked in ceremonies. Infinite spirit/Great Spirit is honored as all energies originate from Creator, i.e. the mind of God.
When we find ourselves scattered in all directions, we can do a healing by bringing ourselves into one-mindedness. One-mindedness keeps us on our spiritual path. The one-mindedness thought I am suggesting is completion. A simple healing is to ask yourself: What task can I complete today?
The angels encourage us not to get caught in the "fret net". Fret comes from an Old English word (fretan) that means to devour. When we worry about things, we are literally allowing the worry to consume us or devour our energy. The healing is to refocus fretting energies to active completion energies. I encourage everyone to not only: Don't worry, be happy; but also - Don't worry, be busy completing what needs to get done or completed in your life. Nike has a slogan: Just do it.
We are being called to look at projects we can wrap up. Are there any cleaning projects in your home that you want to tackle and finish. Letting go of things that are no longer useful or purposeful or working is an act of completion. All of us know how great it feels when we can step back and say to ourselves, "I did it; it's finished; the job is completed." A powerful healing is experienced in completion.
This is a month of activity, i.e. the activity of completing. Complete:
Reading a book you started reading. Making phone calls you need to make. Writing letters you need to write. Cleaning out closets that need to be straightened up. Wrapping up loose ends in a nice bow and saying to yourself, "There, that's done. I completed that task."
All such projects require making time to complete the tasks. Pay attention to how you allow what was going to be a few minutes on the computer or watching TV to expand into lost time, i.e. where did the time go?
Be a time master this month. Sometimes, I look at the clock and make a note to myself of the time and then inspire myself to work for the next 15 minutes as focused as I can be on whatever project is at hand. Start the day spending a few moments thinking about what you plan to complete. Honor yourself at the end of the day by reflecting upon what was accomplished.
I recently read in the book Secrets of Simplicity by Mary Carlomagno that procrastination has a domino effect. It not only impacts what isn't being completed, but is taking energy away from something that is waiting to be started anew. The new cannot start because the unfinished it still taking up space. Completion is the act of closing old doors so that new doors can open.
In 1994, I remember when Archangel Michael inspired me to leave my job in order to work full time for the company of angels. I was hesitate because of fear of the unknown. What truly was the angelic motivation (or angelic kick in the butt) was when Michael said that there was someone who was waiting for me to get up out of the chair of the old job, so they could replace me. Michael said I would be quickly replaced and it would be a financial healing to the new employee. And he was right. I was replaced in less than a day and the woman even told me what a blessing the job was to her. I had to be the one who recognized I was complete in that job and needed to move forward. And when I resigned I said to my former employer, "I am leaving for no other reason than it is time to do so." It was time to close one chapter of my life and open the pages to a new chapter serving God in cooperation with the angels.
Another thought I loved in the book Secrets of Simplicity is the teaching that sacrifice comes from a place of powerful decision making. Deprivation comes from powerlessness. Embrace the power to choose what you are willing to sacrifice.
We may have to choose to make sacrifices in order to complete what needs to be finished but we are choosing to do what needs to be done. The fact that we are the ones making the decision empowers us.
Sometimes we feel that when we are completing chores, we are having to sacrifice fun time. I am sharing Mary's thought about sacrifice as it conveys that by choosing to sacrifice the time for play in order to complete chores, we are being powerful individuals and making positive decisions that support our spiritual growth.
The angels are emphasizing in a big way that completion is important as it brings healing to our lives. Before you leave any meetings, pause and ask yourself if you are complete in any assignments you were given as a result of the meeting, i.e. do you feel complete in knowing what is expected of you? I know we have all had experiences from attending meetings where we feel that we are more confused after the meeting than when we went into the meeting.
Another form of completion is being able to say no. When someone asks you something, and you definitely are not going to do it, say no. This completes the exchange and you have closed the door on you being the answer the person was seeking, and the person can go forward and find the answer another way.
When we are truthful with our no's, the space is created for the yes's that are attuned to the highest good for all involved.
Love in abundance, Jayne
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
The Pollen Path
On June 6,1989 my first husband, after 18 years of marriage, informed me that he was starting a new life without me. He stated that he would be moving out on June 30th. Needless to say, it was like an atom bomb had been dropped on my world. I am eternally grateful for God's support, guidance and strength and for the inspirations given to me by the angels in helping me put one foot in front of the other and move forward in my life. One of the angels' inspirations was to register for a week-long herbalist class held on a mountaintop in Vermont.
The class took place only a month or so after my husband's departure, so I was pretty much a shell-shocked woman. I flew to Vermont and my suitcase which departed with me in Baltimore didn't arrive with me in Montpelier. It would be days before it would show up. In looking back I know that God was helping me acclimate myself with the little unknowns, i.e. I didn't know where my clothes were;I didn't know when I would ever see them again, etc, and of course, the big unknowns, what would life be like on my own?
In the middle of the week the teacher - a master herbalist - taught us a Native American ritual of creating a prayer bundle. We each made a prayer bundle and then were instructed to go out into nature and find a tree we connected with. We were to hang the prayer bundle on the tree and release our prayers to God. I made my prayer bundle with the request that my suitcase would show up. I went to one of the biggest trees on the property as I wanted my prayer to go straight up to God. I attached my prayer bundle to one of the branches. I crawled out from underneath the tree and was walking on the road back to the house when I was approached by an automobile. The driver stopped and asked if I knew where he could find Jayne Howard as he had a suitcase to deliver to her. I remember being very impressed with the expediency of God's response to prayer bundles.
I greatly admire the woman who was my teacher. She is someone who has literally gone into a woods and has been able to find dinner in the plants and herbs. She epitomizes self-sufficiency and I know that God placed me in her care so that I would start believing in my own self-sufficiency. However, I wouldn't be truthful if I didn't admit that this was a very challenging week for me because of the emotions I was experiencing from the separation I was in the midst of and the divorce on the horizon.
I guess I was pretty pathetic and the woman took pity on me, because she suggested that maybe an emotional breakdown diversion would be for me to watch videos in the basement of her house. I am someone who loves going to the movies and watching videos. So I was thrilled with her suggestion. I went into the basement(a place of pure base chakra security/foundation energies) where the video player was and began watching a series I had never heard of before: The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell.
I now know that God guided me to Vermont to meet Joseph Campbell (via video) because the experience was life-changing. The diversion from emotional heartbreak became a passionate experience of pure heart joy. I loved the wisdom of Joseph Campbell. I couldn't wait for the herb classes to be over. During free time, when others were doing creative herby-type activities, I would go into the basement and put on another vhs tape. I was enchanted. I was mesmerized. I was reborn. There were so much that spoke to my soul in the six-part series. I drank in every word that Joseph Campbell spoke.
To this day, I remember the chills I got in hearing Dr. Campbell say the Sanskrit words, "Sat chit ananda" - Follow your bliss. He commented that one of his students from Sarah Lawrence University asked him, "Dr. Campbell, what is my bliss?" He replied, "That, dear one, is what you get to spend your life finding out." I felt he was speaking the words directly to me and my new life.
I was empowered by the wisdom shared of the Navaho having a powerful shamanic ritual that they call the pollen path. Pollen is the life source, The pollen path is the path to the center. Dr. Campbell shared the Navaho's wisdom words: "Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I’m on the pollen path."
I didn't know what was ahead of me; however, I was choosing that my path would be the pollen path. From that moment forward, my life would be a path of beauty and bliss. Dr. Campbell explained in The Power of Myth videos that we are all on own hero's journey. The Pollen Path is such a journey. I could identify with our hearts being the hive and that we are called to be diligent to our sacred pollen path creating honey that is sweet to the Divine's lips.
Years later, in my travels I came across a Native Amrican sand painting of the Pollen Path. The art was created as part of a Navaho blessing ceremony. In researching the art I learned from Margaret Schevill Link's The Pollen Path and Joseph Campbell's Inner Space that the art depicts the Initiate entering the path of the rainbow. The Initiate passes onto the yellow pollen path between the two mysterious Ethkaynaashi Spirit Bringers or Guardian Beings, and comes into the white field of ritual ceremony through the Navajo Tree of Life, the Green Corn Plant. The corn plant has seven markers which correspond to the seven chakras. The Initiate has to pass through both the female and male experience as he goes on the path. The female experience symbolized by the smooth curved lines of the rainbow (red and blue) and the male by the crooked, dynamic lines of the lightning. Passing out of the top through the corn tassels, he comes to the Blue Bird, which signifies blessing and peace.
As I mentioned, the week on the mountaintop in Vermont was a stretch for me. I remembered one of the most bliss filled afternoons was when our group took a field trip to a bed and breakfast. We were served afternoon tea and we got to walk the property and see the owner's magnificient herb garden. On the way home we stopped at a Ben and Jerry's and had ice cream.
At the beginning of the week, the teacher had made mention of the ice cream outing. One of my emotional life preservers was the thought of having ice cream. Ice cream is one of my bliss foods. Driving from the bed and breakfast, on route back home and going to the Ben and Jerry's, one of my fellow students riding in the car I was riding, made the suggestion that we should skip ice cream because of dairy products not being good for us. I am certain to this day she still shutters at the thought of my threatening voice of what was going to happen to her if we didn't make the planned ice cream stop. The short version goes like this: "Jayne gets ice cream, and no one gets hurt."
When I think of my week in Vermont, I remember: prayer bundles; Joseph Campbell; the Pollen Path and ice cream.
Those sweet memories came rushing back to me today when I came across an advertisement by Haagen-Dazs (I have no ice cream prejudices). Haagen-Daz is promoting a campaign: Haagen-Dazs loves Honey Bees. I am giving you the link to their page of Gardening Tips for attracting bees:
http://www.helpthehoneybees.com/
In our own gardens we can link ourselves with the mystical pollen path by creating an environment that is beautiful, attractive and supportive of honey bees.
Until my next post: BEE HAPPY.
Love, Jayne
PS: Don't miss reading the book or watching the movie: The Secret Life of Bees
The class took place only a month or so after my husband's departure, so I was pretty much a shell-shocked woman. I flew to Vermont and my suitcase which departed with me in Baltimore didn't arrive with me in Montpelier. It would be days before it would show up. In looking back I know that God was helping me acclimate myself with the little unknowns, i.e. I didn't know where my clothes were;I didn't know when I would ever see them again, etc, and of course, the big unknowns, what would life be like on my own?
In the middle of the week the teacher - a master herbalist - taught us a Native American ritual of creating a prayer bundle. We each made a prayer bundle and then were instructed to go out into nature and find a tree we connected with. We were to hang the prayer bundle on the tree and release our prayers to God. I made my prayer bundle with the request that my suitcase would show up. I went to one of the biggest trees on the property as I wanted my prayer to go straight up to God. I attached my prayer bundle to one of the branches. I crawled out from underneath the tree and was walking on the road back to the house when I was approached by an automobile. The driver stopped and asked if I knew where he could find Jayne Howard as he had a suitcase to deliver to her. I remember being very impressed with the expediency of God's response to prayer bundles.
I greatly admire the woman who was my teacher. She is someone who has literally gone into a woods and has been able to find dinner in the plants and herbs. She epitomizes self-sufficiency and I know that God placed me in her care so that I would start believing in my own self-sufficiency. However, I wouldn't be truthful if I didn't admit that this was a very challenging week for me because of the emotions I was experiencing from the separation I was in the midst of and the divorce on the horizon.
I guess I was pretty pathetic and the woman took pity on me, because she suggested that maybe an emotional breakdown diversion would be for me to watch videos in the basement of her house. I am someone who loves going to the movies and watching videos. So I was thrilled with her suggestion. I went into the basement(a place of pure base chakra security/foundation energies) where the video player was and began watching a series I had never heard of before: The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell.
I now know that God guided me to Vermont to meet Joseph Campbell (via video) because the experience was life-changing. The diversion from emotional heartbreak became a passionate experience of pure heart joy. I loved the wisdom of Joseph Campbell. I couldn't wait for the herb classes to be over. During free time, when others were doing creative herby-type activities, I would go into the basement and put on another vhs tape. I was enchanted. I was mesmerized. I was reborn. There were so much that spoke to my soul in the six-part series. I drank in every word that Joseph Campbell spoke.
To this day, I remember the chills I got in hearing Dr. Campbell say the Sanskrit words, "Sat chit ananda" - Follow your bliss. He commented that one of his students from Sarah Lawrence University asked him, "Dr. Campbell, what is my bliss?" He replied, "That, dear one, is what you get to spend your life finding out." I felt he was speaking the words directly to me and my new life.
I was empowered by the wisdom shared of the Navaho having a powerful shamanic ritual that they call the pollen path. Pollen is the life source, The pollen path is the path to the center. Dr. Campbell shared the Navaho's wisdom words: "Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I’m on the pollen path."
I didn't know what was ahead of me; however, I was choosing that my path would be the pollen path. From that moment forward, my life would be a path of beauty and bliss. Dr. Campbell explained in The Power of Myth videos that we are all on own hero's journey. The Pollen Path is such a journey. I could identify with our hearts being the hive and that we are called to be diligent to our sacred pollen path creating honey that is sweet to the Divine's lips.
Years later, in my travels I came across a Native Amrican sand painting of the Pollen Path. The art was created as part of a Navaho blessing ceremony. In researching the art I learned from Margaret Schevill Link's The Pollen Path and Joseph Campbell's Inner Space that the art depicts the Initiate entering the path of the rainbow. The Initiate passes onto the yellow pollen path between the two mysterious Ethkaynaashi Spirit Bringers or Guardian Beings, and comes into the white field of ritual ceremony through the Navajo Tree of Life, the Green Corn Plant. The corn plant has seven markers which correspond to the seven chakras. The Initiate has to pass through both the female and male experience as he goes on the path. The female experience symbolized by the smooth curved lines of the rainbow (red and blue) and the male by the crooked, dynamic lines of the lightning. Passing out of the top through the corn tassels, he comes to the Blue Bird, which signifies blessing and peace.
As I mentioned, the week on the mountaintop in Vermont was a stretch for me. I remembered one of the most bliss filled afternoons was when our group took a field trip to a bed and breakfast. We were served afternoon tea and we got to walk the property and see the owner's magnificient herb garden. On the way home we stopped at a Ben and Jerry's and had ice cream.
At the beginning of the week, the teacher had made mention of the ice cream outing. One of my emotional life preservers was the thought of having ice cream. Ice cream is one of my bliss foods. Driving from the bed and breakfast, on route back home and going to the Ben and Jerry's, one of my fellow students riding in the car I was riding, made the suggestion that we should skip ice cream because of dairy products not being good for us. I am certain to this day she still shutters at the thought of my threatening voice of what was going to happen to her if we didn't make the planned ice cream stop. The short version goes like this: "Jayne gets ice cream, and no one gets hurt."
When I think of my week in Vermont, I remember: prayer bundles; Joseph Campbell; the Pollen Path and ice cream.
Those sweet memories came rushing back to me today when I came across an advertisement by Haagen-Dazs (I have no ice cream prejudices). Haagen-Daz is promoting a campaign: Haagen-Dazs loves Honey Bees. I am giving you the link to their page of Gardening Tips for attracting bees:
http://www.helpthehoneybees.com/
In our own gardens we can link ourselves with the mystical pollen path by creating an environment that is beautiful, attractive and supportive of honey bees.
Until my next post: BEE HAPPY.
Love, Jayne
PS: Don't miss reading the book or watching the movie: The Secret Life of Bees
Monday, May 4, 2009
LET THE SUNSHINE IN
Angelic Blessings of Springtime Joy to Everyone:
Perhaps some of you remember living in a household where springtime meant a time for a thorough spring cleaning. Spring cleaning was a ritual of opening windows and letting fresh air in; taking rugs outside and shaking them clean; scrubbing the house from top to bottom until everything was shining clean and bright. The sunshine energy of springtime that was being experienced outside of the house, was felt inside the house through the abundant cleaning. There's something rejuvenating and regenerating about spring cleaning. It clears and cleans the home and the soul at the same time. "Cleanliness is next to godliness." - F. Bacon.
I love working with the word images of the Sabian Symbols. Sabian Symbols are a set of descriptive statements that were developed by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones for each of the 360 degrees of the astrological zodiac.
There's one sabian symbol that expresses the thought: "A woman holding a bag outside of a window." The symbolism of a woman holding a bag out of a window, is connected to the practice of placing items outside in the fresh air. By doing this practice, the stale and musty odors of winter were replaced by the fresh, new crisp smells of spring.
You may also have childhood memories of a clothes lines in the backyard and the wonderful smell of clothes that had been hung outside to dry. A family would have a clothes line; a clothes pole to keep the line from dragging on the ground once the clothes were hung on the line; a clothes basket for carrying clothes to and from the clothes line and clothes pins for hanging the clothes on the line. Perhaps you also remember running outside to gather clothes off the line because a rainstorm was rapidly approaching.
The angels are giving us a message this month to clean up and clear away the old. In little ways and big ways, we can make things better in our lives. It's springtime. Yippee! Let's open the windows and shake out old, stale, stagnate energies and replace them with abundant fresh air energies. Let the sunshine in.
We can apply this message first on a physical level by gentle breathing exercises that allow more fresh air into our lungs and bodies. We can open windows in our households, and let fresh air into our rooms. Additionally, we can be on the lookout for stagnate thinking, and allow fresh air to circulate in our thinking.
We're being asked to take a look at our lives and see what we are holding on to. It can be "stuff" in our actual environment or "stuff" inside of ourselves. It's all clutter. It's time to bring it out to the light of day.
I'd like to share with you the lyrics for the song entitled: STUFF
Written by Kelly Garrett/Tim Owens
"Catalogs fillin' up the mailbox
Home shopping on the cable box
And www dot
Oh there's no escape
Delivery truck coming up 'round the bend
Beep, beep, beep, just backing in
Sign here and here and here again
'Cause it's no money down no payments till
Your whole place is cram packed filed with
Stuff (stuff) stack it on stack it on up
(Stuff) never gonna ever get enough (stuff)
Oh it's treasure till it's mine then it ain't worth a dime
It's stuff (stuff) spreading like weeds
Dragging me under in an endless sea of stuff
(Stuff) There ain't no end
Got to get a bigger place so I can move in
More stuff
It's getting late but it's alright
The get-it-all mart opened up all night
You can catch it all with a quick swipe
It's easier everyday
Suv's and mini vans
Parading 'round in caravans
Toting off more than their tires can stand
'Cause it's no money down no payments till
Every square inch of the whole world's filled with
Stuff (stuff) stack it on stack it on up
(Stuff) never gonna ever get enough (stuff)
Oh it's treasure till it's mine then it ain't worth a dime
It's stuff (stuff) spreading like weeds
Dragging me under in an endless sea of stuff
(Stuff) There ain't no end
Got to get a bigger place so I can move in
More stuff
Drag it in, pack it in
The man with the most
He just wins more stuff
Stuff (stuff) stack it on stack it on up
(Stuff) never gonna ever get enough (stuff)
Oh it's treasure till it's mine then it ain't worth a dime
It's stuff (stuff) spreading like weeds
Dragging me under in an endless sea of stuff
(Stuff) There ain't no end
Got to get a bigger place so I can move in
More stuff"
We're being inspired to take a look at how we have become Stuff Masters; masters of accumulating stuff.
In my booklet Angelic Feng Shui: 101 Way to Make Your Home Heaven on Earth,I share that first we accumulate stuff; and then it starts accumulating us. In short, it takes our energy from us. It takes our energy by being in the way, i.e. we may be moving it around the house - here, there and everywhere - sometimes even into storage lockers that we rent; it takes our energy in having to dust it and keep it clean; it takes our energy by taking up space. I am certain you have heard people comment that they don't want to think about ever having to move because they will have to deal with all their stuff.
It's cleaning time. It's clearing time. We're clearing out old habits. We're discarding thoughts and things that are just no longer relevant to our lives. Get the dust bunnies out from under the bed and out of our minds, too. We are being inspired to ask ourselves: What are we holding onto; and why?
Clean out; clear out; release; let go; discard. We're making room for more sunshine and fresh air in our lives.
There's a lot of changes going on in our nation's economy and as a result people are getting creative about stretching dollars they have and finding new money sources. Last weekend Chuck and I commented to each other on the abundance of yard sales we saw taking place. There were yard sales everywhere. Some were on people's lawns; some on church parking lots. Walmart even rented space on its big parking lot ($15 a table) for a community yard sale which I thought was an absolute hoot because a lot of people buy their stuff from Walmart.
People are releasing the old in the hope of transmuting their former treasures to cash. Mercury is retrograde. So it's a great time to have dialogue with things we've purchased in the past, i.e. "Why did I buy this?" or "Why am I keeping this?" Mercury is the planet that rules our mental faculties; our thinking energies. Mercury is the ruler of Gemini; the zodiac sign of the third house of the sacred wheel. The message of the third house is: I THINK THEREFORE I AM. Let this be a time of thinking about belongings from our past that are clogging up our ability to be mindful in the now. Do we really need these things now? You might find yourself saying, "I THINK I am going to release this item THEREFORE I AM free.
George Bernard Shaw wrote: "Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world."
"God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones." - Dwight L. Moody
I remember in my childhood days singing a song at our Methodist church where the only words I remember to this day are "open up your heart and let the sunshine in." I decided to find the lyrics to share with you and I was amused by the rest of the lyrics. In closing, I share this song with you and the reminder from the angels...let the sunshine in your life.
LET THE SUNSHINE IN
Written by Stuart Hamblen;
Copyright 1953 by Hamblen Music Company
Mommy told me something
A little kid should know
It's all about the devil
And I've learned to hate him so
She said he causes trouble
When you let him in the room,
He will never ever leave you
If your heart is filled with gloom
So let the sun shine in
Face it with a grin
Smilers never lose
And frowners never win
So let the sun shine in
Face it with a grin
Open up your heart and let the sun shine in
When you are unhappy
The devil wears a grin
But oh, he starts to running
When the light comes pouring in
I know he'll be unhappy
'Cause I'll never wear a frown
Maybe if we keep on smiling
He'll get tired of hanging 'round.
If I forget to say my prayers
The devil jumps with glee
But he feels so awful awful
When he sees me on my knees
So if you're full of trouble
And you never seem to win
Just open up your heart and let the sun shine in
So let the sun shine in
Face it with a grin
Smilers never lose
And frowners never win
So let the sun shine in
Face it with a grin
Open up your heart
And let the sun shine in.
Angelic Blessings of Sunshine and Light,
Love, Jayne
Perhaps some of you remember living in a household where springtime meant a time for a thorough spring cleaning. Spring cleaning was a ritual of opening windows and letting fresh air in; taking rugs outside and shaking them clean; scrubbing the house from top to bottom until everything was shining clean and bright. The sunshine energy of springtime that was being experienced outside of the house, was felt inside the house through the abundant cleaning. There's something rejuvenating and regenerating about spring cleaning. It clears and cleans the home and the soul at the same time. "Cleanliness is next to godliness." - F. Bacon.
I love working with the word images of the Sabian Symbols. Sabian Symbols are a set of descriptive statements that were developed by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones for each of the 360 degrees of the astrological zodiac.
There's one sabian symbol that expresses the thought: "A woman holding a bag outside of a window." The symbolism of a woman holding a bag out of a window, is connected to the practice of placing items outside in the fresh air. By doing this practice, the stale and musty odors of winter were replaced by the fresh, new crisp smells of spring.
You may also have childhood memories of a clothes lines in the backyard and the wonderful smell of clothes that had been hung outside to dry. A family would have a clothes line; a clothes pole to keep the line from dragging on the ground once the clothes were hung on the line; a clothes basket for carrying clothes to and from the clothes line and clothes pins for hanging the clothes on the line. Perhaps you also remember running outside to gather clothes off the line because a rainstorm was rapidly approaching.
The angels are giving us a message this month to clean up and clear away the old. In little ways and big ways, we can make things better in our lives. It's springtime. Yippee! Let's open the windows and shake out old, stale, stagnate energies and replace them with abundant fresh air energies. Let the sunshine in.
We can apply this message first on a physical level by gentle breathing exercises that allow more fresh air into our lungs and bodies. We can open windows in our households, and let fresh air into our rooms. Additionally, we can be on the lookout for stagnate thinking, and allow fresh air to circulate in our thinking.
We're being asked to take a look at our lives and see what we are holding on to. It can be "stuff" in our actual environment or "stuff" inside of ourselves. It's all clutter. It's time to bring it out to the light of day.
I'd like to share with you the lyrics for the song entitled: STUFF
Written by Kelly Garrett/Tim Owens
"Catalogs fillin' up the mailbox
Home shopping on the cable box
And www dot
Oh there's no escape
Delivery truck coming up 'round the bend
Beep, beep, beep, just backing in
Sign here and here and here again
'Cause it's no money down no payments till
Your whole place is cram packed filed with
Stuff (stuff) stack it on stack it on up
(Stuff) never gonna ever get enough (stuff)
Oh it's treasure till it's mine then it ain't worth a dime
It's stuff (stuff) spreading like weeds
Dragging me under in an endless sea of stuff
(Stuff) There ain't no end
Got to get a bigger place so I can move in
More stuff
It's getting late but it's alright
The get-it-all mart opened up all night
You can catch it all with a quick swipe
It's easier everyday
Suv's and mini vans
Parading 'round in caravans
Toting off more than their tires can stand
'Cause it's no money down no payments till
Every square inch of the whole world's filled with
Stuff (stuff) stack it on stack it on up
(Stuff) never gonna ever get enough (stuff)
Oh it's treasure till it's mine then it ain't worth a dime
It's stuff (stuff) spreading like weeds
Dragging me under in an endless sea of stuff
(Stuff) There ain't no end
Got to get a bigger place so I can move in
More stuff
Drag it in, pack it in
The man with the most
He just wins more stuff
Stuff (stuff) stack it on stack it on up
(Stuff) never gonna ever get enough (stuff)
Oh it's treasure till it's mine then it ain't worth a dime
It's stuff (stuff) spreading like weeds
Dragging me under in an endless sea of stuff
(Stuff) There ain't no end
Got to get a bigger place so I can move in
More stuff"
We're being inspired to take a look at how we have become Stuff Masters; masters of accumulating stuff.
In my booklet Angelic Feng Shui: 101 Way to Make Your Home Heaven on Earth,I share that first we accumulate stuff; and then it starts accumulating us. In short, it takes our energy from us. It takes our energy by being in the way, i.e. we may be moving it around the house - here, there and everywhere - sometimes even into storage lockers that we rent; it takes our energy in having to dust it and keep it clean; it takes our energy by taking up space. I am certain you have heard people comment that they don't want to think about ever having to move because they will have to deal with all their stuff.
It's cleaning time. It's clearing time. We're clearing out old habits. We're discarding thoughts and things that are just no longer relevant to our lives. Get the dust bunnies out from under the bed and out of our minds, too. We are being inspired to ask ourselves: What are we holding onto; and why?
Clean out; clear out; release; let go; discard. We're making room for more sunshine and fresh air in our lives.
There's a lot of changes going on in our nation's economy and as a result people are getting creative about stretching dollars they have and finding new money sources. Last weekend Chuck and I commented to each other on the abundance of yard sales we saw taking place. There were yard sales everywhere. Some were on people's lawns; some on church parking lots. Walmart even rented space on its big parking lot ($15 a table) for a community yard sale which I thought was an absolute hoot because a lot of people buy their stuff from Walmart.
People are releasing the old in the hope of transmuting their former treasures to cash. Mercury is retrograde. So it's a great time to have dialogue with things we've purchased in the past, i.e. "Why did I buy this?" or "Why am I keeping this?" Mercury is the planet that rules our mental faculties; our thinking energies. Mercury is the ruler of Gemini; the zodiac sign of the third house of the sacred wheel. The message of the third house is: I THINK THEREFORE I AM. Let this be a time of thinking about belongings from our past that are clogging up our ability to be mindful in the now. Do we really need these things now? You might find yourself saying, "I THINK I am going to release this item THEREFORE I AM free.
George Bernard Shaw wrote: "Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world."
"God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones." - Dwight L. Moody
I remember in my childhood days singing a song at our Methodist church where the only words I remember to this day are "open up your heart and let the sunshine in." I decided to find the lyrics to share with you and I was amused by the rest of the lyrics. In closing, I share this song with you and the reminder from the angels...let the sunshine in your life.
LET THE SUNSHINE IN
Written by Stuart Hamblen;
Copyright 1953 by Hamblen Music Company
Mommy told me something
A little kid should know
It's all about the devil
And I've learned to hate him so
She said he causes trouble
When you let him in the room,
He will never ever leave you
If your heart is filled with gloom
So let the sun shine in
Face it with a grin
Smilers never lose
And frowners never win
So let the sun shine in
Face it with a grin
Open up your heart and let the sun shine in
When you are unhappy
The devil wears a grin
But oh, he starts to running
When the light comes pouring in
I know he'll be unhappy
'Cause I'll never wear a frown
Maybe if we keep on smiling
He'll get tired of hanging 'round.
If I forget to say my prayers
The devil jumps with glee
But he feels so awful awful
When he sees me on my knees
So if you're full of trouble
And you never seem to win
Just open up your heart and let the sun shine in
So let the sun shine in
Face it with a grin
Smilers never lose
And frowners never win
So let the sun shine in
Face it with a grin
Open up your heart
And let the sun shine in.
Angelic Blessings of Sunshine and Light,
Love, Jayne
Monday, April 27, 2009
What are your life props?
Angelic Blessings to everyone.
About a week ago, Chuck and I went to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. We went there for the Galileo exhibit which features one of his telescopes along with about 100 other scientific instruments. Galileo didn't invent the telescope. He improved the magnification abilities of the telescope from 3x to 20x. That's a quantum leap of the visual kind. It was amazing to be standing next to his telescope on display in a case, and being able to see his handwriting on the side of the instrument. I was pretty overwhelmed with emotion.
I recommend this exhibit to everyone. 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy and it is the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Galileo's telescope. This is the first time the telescope has ventured out of Italy. As I have shared in classes I teach, I encourage people to pay attention when art is on the move - especially objects that have never been outside of their native land before. When that happens, something big is going on energy-wise. Galileo's telescope and other crafted instruments not only have great scientific significance; additionally, they are beautiful works of art. So we have the energy of science and art on the move together. Just imagine, prior to the exhibit's arrival in Philadelphia, the Paul Revere angels excitedly announcing, "Galileo's telescope is coming! Galileo's telescope is coming!" We are blessed to have this magnficient instrument (and the entire exhibit) here on loan to the Franklin Institute from a museum in Florence, Italy.
While at the Franklin Institute, Chuck and I were treated to a delightful surprise. We were also able to see an exhibit of the movie props of the movies made from C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; and also Prince Caspian.
We went into a room where we waited our turn to enter the exhibit. While in the room I discovered that part of the exhibit was C. S. Lewis' writing desk. Some of my favorite life moments have been when I have had the opportunity to tour the homes of favorite authors and see their writing desks. A writing desk (or now a computer desk) is for me where heaven and earth come together. It exemplifies sacred space that honors the gift of imagination and inspiration. The writer receives divinely inspired ideas and thoughts and captures them with pen or computer. It was a pure joy moment for me to receive the surprise blessing of seeing C. S. Lewis' desk. I stood there and kept saying, "Thank you, God, for this sweet surprise."
And then quite magically, the doors of the wardrobe opened up and we were ushered into another world. Just as the children in C. S. Lewis' story had done, we walked through the mink coats contained in the closet. We stepped out of the wardrobe into the land of Narnia and just as in the movie - the snow fell softly upon us. We were in Narnia.
It was a magical experience. We got to see the ice queen's sled; the costumes worn in the movies (Prince Caspian/The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe)and swords and shields. We got to go inside one of the little houses of the animals where I think I overdosed on cuteness. For those of you who live in the Maryland area, you may remember Enchanted Forest. Well, being in the little animal house took me right back to my childhood days of visiting Enchanted Forest.
Reflecting upon movies, I thought about how important props are to a movie's message. Props create the atmosphere and the environment. Props support the experience that the movie director wants us to have. When you are watching a movie, aren't you sometimes enthralled by the detail of the props in the background?
And so here's my question. What are your life props? If, as the director of your life, you want to support and convey the message of love in your life script, what props are you filling your life with that create an atmosphere of the importance of love? If love is your message, then live with love. Look around your home, and see the props. Is your home filled with flowers your love, music your love, art you love, etc?
My life message is to be an earth angel of inspiration. One of my messages of inspiration, is to take time to play and be joyous. We're here at Camp Earth, where our divine parents sent us for a lifetime of play.
We have a stairway that goes up the center of our house. I go up and down the stairway what seems like a zillion times a day. At Christmas time, I delight in first choosing a special bear for each step of the stairway and then in seeing daily all the different bears as I go up and down the steps. At Easter time, the stairway is a Bunny Trail. I just packed away the bunnies and now every step shares play space with a gnome. There are those who run with the bulls. There's a book entitled, "Women Who Run With the Wolves." Well, I run with the gnomes. The banister is wrapped with garlands of flowers - purples and pinks - and adorned with dragonfly lights. The lights I purchased at Five Below; the garlands at Walmart. Many of my gnomes were purchased at Weis Groceries. Chuck loves unpacking the groceries: milk, bread, gnomes.
It's all about what we nourish ourselves with. Good food for the body. Good food for the soul. And good food for our eyes to feast upon, too. Giving our souls' eyes the bountiful feast of seeing spiritual props in our homes and in our lives; props that remind us our spiritual ideals and message for our lives.
Sending you lots of love from the sacred space of my computer desk here in our Gnome, Sweet Gnome.
Love, Jayne
About a week ago, Chuck and I went to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. We went there for the Galileo exhibit which features one of his telescopes along with about 100 other scientific instruments. Galileo didn't invent the telescope. He improved the magnification abilities of the telescope from 3x to 20x. That's a quantum leap of the visual kind. It was amazing to be standing next to his telescope on display in a case, and being able to see his handwriting on the side of the instrument. I was pretty overwhelmed with emotion.
I recommend this exhibit to everyone. 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy and it is the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Galileo's telescope. This is the first time the telescope has ventured out of Italy. As I have shared in classes I teach, I encourage people to pay attention when art is on the move - especially objects that have never been outside of their native land before. When that happens, something big is going on energy-wise. Galileo's telescope and other crafted instruments not only have great scientific significance; additionally, they are beautiful works of art. So we have the energy of science and art on the move together. Just imagine, prior to the exhibit's arrival in Philadelphia, the Paul Revere angels excitedly announcing, "Galileo's telescope is coming! Galileo's telescope is coming!" We are blessed to have this magnficient instrument (and the entire exhibit) here on loan to the Franklin Institute from a museum in Florence, Italy.
While at the Franklin Institute, Chuck and I were treated to a delightful surprise. We were also able to see an exhibit of the movie props of the movies made from C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; and also Prince Caspian.
We went into a room where we waited our turn to enter the exhibit. While in the room I discovered that part of the exhibit was C. S. Lewis' writing desk. Some of my favorite life moments have been when I have had the opportunity to tour the homes of favorite authors and see their writing desks. A writing desk (or now a computer desk) is for me where heaven and earth come together. It exemplifies sacred space that honors the gift of imagination and inspiration. The writer receives divinely inspired ideas and thoughts and captures them with pen or computer. It was a pure joy moment for me to receive the surprise blessing of seeing C. S. Lewis' desk. I stood there and kept saying, "Thank you, God, for this sweet surprise."
And then quite magically, the doors of the wardrobe opened up and we were ushered into another world. Just as the children in C. S. Lewis' story had done, we walked through the mink coats contained in the closet. We stepped out of the wardrobe into the land of Narnia and just as in the movie - the snow fell softly upon us. We were in Narnia.
It was a magical experience. We got to see the ice queen's sled; the costumes worn in the movies (Prince Caspian/The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe)and swords and shields. We got to go inside one of the little houses of the animals where I think I overdosed on cuteness. For those of you who live in the Maryland area, you may remember Enchanted Forest. Well, being in the little animal house took me right back to my childhood days of visiting Enchanted Forest.
Reflecting upon movies, I thought about how important props are to a movie's message. Props create the atmosphere and the environment. Props support the experience that the movie director wants us to have. When you are watching a movie, aren't you sometimes enthralled by the detail of the props in the background?
And so here's my question. What are your life props? If, as the director of your life, you want to support and convey the message of love in your life script, what props are you filling your life with that create an atmosphere of the importance of love? If love is your message, then live with love. Look around your home, and see the props. Is your home filled with flowers your love, music your love, art you love, etc?
My life message is to be an earth angel of inspiration. One of my messages of inspiration, is to take time to play and be joyous. We're here at Camp Earth, where our divine parents sent us for a lifetime of play.
We have a stairway that goes up the center of our house. I go up and down the stairway what seems like a zillion times a day. At Christmas time, I delight in first choosing a special bear for each step of the stairway and then in seeing daily all the different bears as I go up and down the steps. At Easter time, the stairway is a Bunny Trail. I just packed away the bunnies and now every step shares play space with a gnome. There are those who run with the bulls. There's a book entitled, "Women Who Run With the Wolves." Well, I run with the gnomes. The banister is wrapped with garlands of flowers - purples and pinks - and adorned with dragonfly lights. The lights I purchased at Five Below; the garlands at Walmart. Many of my gnomes were purchased at Weis Groceries. Chuck loves unpacking the groceries: milk, bread, gnomes.
It's all about what we nourish ourselves with. Good food for the body. Good food for the soul. And good food for our eyes to feast upon, too. Giving our souls' eyes the bountiful feast of seeing spiritual props in our homes and in our lives; props that remind us our spiritual ideals and message for our lives.
Sending you lots of love from the sacred space of my computer desk here in our Gnome, Sweet Gnome.
Love, Jayne
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Who's Dreaming You
In March of this year, Chuck and I went to Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC to see the play The Heavens Are Hung in Black. The title of the play is a statement made by Abraham Lincoln after seeing the casualty reports for the deaths at Gettysburg.
Throughout the play the audience shares with Lincoln the emotional turmoil he experienced over the casualities of war. As a result of the weight that was upon his shoulders as Commander In Chief, he wasn't able to sleep; and when he did sleep, he would have intense dreams. In many of his dreams he would be visited by those who had died in the Civil War battles.
Near the end of the play Lincoln experiences a dream where he finds himself sitting in a boat with Uncle Tom, a character from Harriet Beecher's Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Just as a side note, in my own reading about Lincoln's psychic interests, I learned that Stowe shared with Lincoln that it was actually spirit that dictated to her every word of the book. In her biography, written by Edward Wagenknecht, she shares that the inspiration she received was "blown through her mind as with the rushing of a mighty wind." She said the book was written through her.
Lincoln's maid, Marian Vance, shared that after Lincoln read the book he was so worked up from the story and felt a calling to take a crack at ending slavery. Lincoln said, "And when I do, I will make it count, if I can't bust it completely up."
Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the cause to end slavery. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States alone. The book's impact was so great that when Lincoln first met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln is quoted as having declared, "So this is the little lady who made this big war."
In the play "The Heavens Are Hung in Black," when Lincoln finds himself in a boat with Uncle Tom, Lincoln comments on his dreaming of Uncle Tom. Uncle Tom responds that it wasn't Lincoln who did the dreaming, but rather Uncle Tom dreamt of Lincoln and because of this Lincoln found himself in a dream with Uncle Tom.
I am certain you, too, have had powerful moments when your thinking takes a shift into a new direction. This was one of those moments for me. We think we are doing the dreaming and then one of the dream characters tell us the reality: someone's dreaming you. There's a consciousness shift taking place. We experience something greater dreaming us.
The character of Uncle Tom represents the divine ideal of all humans deserving equality and freedom. All of us are God's children. The divine assigned Uncle Tom the assignment of being a fictional messenger (through Stowe's words). The divine was giving Lincoln a glimpse into the divine's dream of Lincoln being "in the same boat" with scribes of freedom. Lincoln would go on to scribe the Emancipation Proclamation. I believe that Lincoln, too, experienced the mighty wind blowing through his mind. The divine wind of change was blowing through the mind of Lincoln.
Lincoln once said, "I have had so many evidences of His direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above."
As you may know, I have authored three angel books. My first book is entitled Commune With the Angels. Years ago, when I was giving a seminar based on the book, the person who hosted me prepared a flyer to promote my appearance and transposed the letters so that my seminar became known as: Commune With the Angles. I loved the error because the angels do inspire us to look at life from many different angles.
When I heard Uncle Tom tell Lincoln that Lincoln was being dreamt of, it inspired me to think this thought: Who is dreaming me? Just as the angels are our cosmic cheerleaders and are inspiring us to stay on our spiritual course and path with decisions and choices that enhance our spiritual growth, could there also be a divine "dreaming" connection with those who have come before us that we share a divine ideal resonance with. Could we be experiencing ourselves being dreamed into reality by the divine in support of the divine's plan? Who is dreaming you? Who is dreaming me?
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a divine scribe. Lincoln, too was a divine scribe, and was finding himself being dreamt of by an inspirational fictional character that originated from the infinite mind/infinite intelligence.
Often times our ego will have us sharing with others the dream we had last night, i.e."Let me tell you about the dream I had last night." We immediately take ownership of the dream, ie. it's my dream. Because it shows up in our mind, we make claim to it: it's mine.
What if the dream did not originate with us. Just imagine somewhere in the universe, the angels conversing about a dream in which you are being dreamt into action and into service. The angels are watching the Dream Cinema channel on God Direct TV. The angels could be saying, "Did you see where God dreamt Jayne into being in last night's episode of Close Encounters of the Angelic Kind?" You are experiencing yourself as part of a divine dream and a bigger picture. We could easily be entertaining the angels - in fact, entertaining the universe.
In the future, when you have a dream that intrigues or interests you, pause and ask yourself, "Who could be dreaming me?...and if I am being "dreamt of" for a divine reason, what divine ideal or divine plan is the dream about?"
As I was writing this blog, I remembered a recent dream that I thought I had dreamt. I was witnessing myself being on a highway where a major accident was taking place with a lot of vehicles involved in continuous crashing. As I watched, I saw a huge tractor trailer - an 18 wheeler - coming towards me. The vehicle was totally out of control and when it got next to me, it flipped over. And I remember thinking to myself just before the flipover, "Well, this is how I am going to leave earth." It was a pretty matter-of-fact remark. The short version: I'm out of here now. Instead, the tractor trailer fell on top of me but I wasn't where the tractor trailer landed. I somehow had merged through the tractor trailer and was on the other side of the tractor trailer. I was now where the trailer had been when it started to flip. I remember in the dream wanting to look at the material the truck was made of because I thought it was the truck that had changed.
In writing this blog, I am being inspired to think that the divine is dreaming of humans realizing that we are made of energy that can move through solids. I am part of the dream episode entitled: Humans Morph Into Light. Somewhere there was a dream director who had a script that calls for humans to experience morphing into light. This casting director says, "Ok, let's have this happen in Jayne's mind." The mighty wind of morph-ability just blew through my mind.
In closing this blog, I want to share one more Lincoln quote which I think is absolutely a hoot. Lincoln had been challenged to a duel by James Shield. Shields had taken insult to words Lincoln had written about him. If this has happened in 2009, we could give Shields a copy of The Four Agreements where one of the agreements with ourselves is not to take anything personally. A duel between Shields and Lincoln could have resulted in a very non-abundant outcome. We all should say a prayer of thanks and gratefulness to God that this was a duel that never took place.
When Lincoln was approached by one of Shields' representatives and was told that because Lincoln was being challenged by Shields, Lincoln had the choice of weapons to be used in the duel. Lincoln replied, "How about cow dung at five paces."
Angelic Blessings of Morph-ability.
Love, Jayne
Throughout the play the audience shares with Lincoln the emotional turmoil he experienced over the casualities of war. As a result of the weight that was upon his shoulders as Commander In Chief, he wasn't able to sleep; and when he did sleep, he would have intense dreams. In many of his dreams he would be visited by those who had died in the Civil War battles.
Near the end of the play Lincoln experiences a dream where he finds himself sitting in a boat with Uncle Tom, a character from Harriet Beecher's Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Just as a side note, in my own reading about Lincoln's psychic interests, I learned that Stowe shared with Lincoln that it was actually spirit that dictated to her every word of the book. In her biography, written by Edward Wagenknecht, she shares that the inspiration she received was "blown through her mind as with the rushing of a mighty wind." She said the book was written through her.
Lincoln's maid, Marian Vance, shared that after Lincoln read the book he was so worked up from the story and felt a calling to take a crack at ending slavery. Lincoln said, "And when I do, I will make it count, if I can't bust it completely up."
Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the cause to end slavery. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States alone. The book's impact was so great that when Lincoln first met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln is quoted as having declared, "So this is the little lady who made this big war."
In the play "The Heavens Are Hung in Black," when Lincoln finds himself in a boat with Uncle Tom, Lincoln comments on his dreaming of Uncle Tom. Uncle Tom responds that it wasn't Lincoln who did the dreaming, but rather Uncle Tom dreamt of Lincoln and because of this Lincoln found himself in a dream with Uncle Tom.
I am certain you, too, have had powerful moments when your thinking takes a shift into a new direction. This was one of those moments for me. We think we are doing the dreaming and then one of the dream characters tell us the reality: someone's dreaming you. There's a consciousness shift taking place. We experience something greater dreaming us.
The character of Uncle Tom represents the divine ideal of all humans deserving equality and freedom. All of us are God's children. The divine assigned Uncle Tom the assignment of being a fictional messenger (through Stowe's words). The divine was giving Lincoln a glimpse into the divine's dream of Lincoln being "in the same boat" with scribes of freedom. Lincoln would go on to scribe the Emancipation Proclamation. I believe that Lincoln, too, experienced the mighty wind blowing through his mind. The divine wind of change was blowing through the mind of Lincoln.
Lincoln once said, "I have had so many evidences of His direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above."
As you may know, I have authored three angel books. My first book is entitled Commune With the Angels. Years ago, when I was giving a seminar based on the book, the person who hosted me prepared a flyer to promote my appearance and transposed the letters so that my seminar became known as: Commune With the Angles. I loved the error because the angels do inspire us to look at life from many different angles.
When I heard Uncle Tom tell Lincoln that Lincoln was being dreamt of, it inspired me to think this thought: Who is dreaming me? Just as the angels are our cosmic cheerleaders and are inspiring us to stay on our spiritual course and path with decisions and choices that enhance our spiritual growth, could there also be a divine "dreaming" connection with those who have come before us that we share a divine ideal resonance with. Could we be experiencing ourselves being dreamed into reality by the divine in support of the divine's plan? Who is dreaming you? Who is dreaming me?
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a divine scribe. Lincoln, too was a divine scribe, and was finding himself being dreamt of by an inspirational fictional character that originated from the infinite mind/infinite intelligence.
Often times our ego will have us sharing with others the dream we had last night, i.e."Let me tell you about the dream I had last night." We immediately take ownership of the dream, ie. it's my dream. Because it shows up in our mind, we make claim to it: it's mine.
What if the dream did not originate with us. Just imagine somewhere in the universe, the angels conversing about a dream in which you are being dreamt into action and into service. The angels are watching the Dream Cinema channel on God Direct TV. The angels could be saying, "Did you see where God dreamt Jayne into being in last night's episode of Close Encounters of the Angelic Kind?" You are experiencing yourself as part of a divine dream and a bigger picture. We could easily be entertaining the angels - in fact, entertaining the universe.
In the future, when you have a dream that intrigues or interests you, pause and ask yourself, "Who could be dreaming me?...and if I am being "dreamt of" for a divine reason, what divine ideal or divine plan is the dream about?"
As I was writing this blog, I remembered a recent dream that I thought I had dreamt. I was witnessing myself being on a highway where a major accident was taking place with a lot of vehicles involved in continuous crashing. As I watched, I saw a huge tractor trailer - an 18 wheeler - coming towards me. The vehicle was totally out of control and when it got next to me, it flipped over. And I remember thinking to myself just before the flipover, "Well, this is how I am going to leave earth." It was a pretty matter-of-fact remark. The short version: I'm out of here now. Instead, the tractor trailer fell on top of me but I wasn't where the tractor trailer landed. I somehow had merged through the tractor trailer and was on the other side of the tractor trailer. I was now where the trailer had been when it started to flip. I remember in the dream wanting to look at the material the truck was made of because I thought it was the truck that had changed.
In writing this blog, I am being inspired to think that the divine is dreaming of humans realizing that we are made of energy that can move through solids. I am part of the dream episode entitled: Humans Morph Into Light. Somewhere there was a dream director who had a script that calls for humans to experience morphing into light. This casting director says, "Ok, let's have this happen in Jayne's mind." The mighty wind of morph-ability just blew through my mind.
In closing this blog, I want to share one more Lincoln quote which I think is absolutely a hoot. Lincoln had been challenged to a duel by James Shield. Shields had taken insult to words Lincoln had written about him. If this has happened in 2009, we could give Shields a copy of The Four Agreements where one of the agreements with ourselves is not to take anything personally. A duel between Shields and Lincoln could have resulted in a very non-abundant outcome. We all should say a prayer of thanks and gratefulness to God that this was a duel that never took place.
When Lincoln was approached by one of Shields' representatives and was told that because Lincoln was being challenged by Shields, Lincoln had the choice of weapons to be used in the duel. Lincoln replied, "How about cow dung at five paces."
Angelic Blessings of Morph-ability.
Love, Jayne
Monday, April 6, 2009
Dogs Are Angels with Fur
As you may know, the movie Marley and Me was released on DVD last week. I had been waiting for this to happen. Even though I really wanted to see this movie as I am goofy over dogs, I knew that I would have to do it in the privacy of our home with access to an endless supply of kleenex. I was right in making that decision. I am still recovering from watching the DVD.
Thinking of Marley, I was inspired to share with you my story about our Jack Russell Terrier, Jackie. In 2003, my husband and I had two Jack Russells - Benny and Riot. Benny is now 18 years old. Riot is now 12 years old. I really wanted a third dog. Chuck wasn't abundant with the idea. I did get him to agree that we could be Jack Russell foster parents for a third dog. We would be guardian to the dog until someone adopted the dog. At least that was supposed to be the plan. There was a greater God plan in the works.
Jackie was our first (and last) foster dog assignment. When we picked up Jackie from Jack Russell Rescue she was 12 years old. She had had only one owner in her life and that owner had recently died. Because of her owner's death she was taken to the humane society and from there was rescued by Jack Russell Rescue. Jackie looked and acted like a very old dog. Jackie could hardly walk. She couldn't climb steps. She had cataracts. She didn't have much of an appetite. She had visible tumors. I remember my husband looking at Jackie and then looking at me and asking, "Who exactly is going to be adopting this dog?" It turned out that we were the ones. That was God's plan.
Additionally, when we picked up Jackie and placed her in the back seat of our jeep, I got close to her. I got right up to her face, and reassured her that she had a permanent home with us and she had no more worries of not being cared for and loved. It wasn't smart on my part to invade her space especially during a time when sweet Jackie didn't know what was going on. Jackie proceeded to bite my nose.
As the days turned into weeks, we fell in love with Jackie and she fell in love with our family. She especially adored being with Benny and Riot. You could see in her eyes the happiness of having buddies. In the morning, when the 3 JRT's ran down the steps to go outside, Jackie was thrilled to be part of the charge of the light brigade. She adored romping with them in the backyard. Because of her being with our JRT's, Jackie got a bounce in her step. She bounded up and down the steps with ease and fully regained a hearty appetite. She got a new lease on life.
I told Jackie that prior to us I knew she had had one owner her entire life and probably missed this man terribly. The man had to have been very special because he loved JRT's like us. This man had gotten Jackie as a puppy. He kept excellent care of Jackie and I had been given a thorough file of all her regular vet visits. So I knew he loved her dearly and that they were super close to each other. He had died suddenly. It was my hope that in heaven he was comforted in knowing that in fulfilling God's plan, the angels had brought Jackie into our home to be loved and that we were striving to be as wonderful a guardian to Jackie as he had been. I told her that this man was welcomed in our house if ever he wanted to come visit and be with her spiritually.
Jackie blessed our family for four years. Just before Christmas, Jackie became seriously ill and my dear vet attempted to prepare me for the worst. I identified with the scene in Marley and Me, where John responds to his vet's telling him the worst scenerio. Instead of the worst, I was given a miracle. I considered it my Christmas present. With the help of meds, tlc, and my personally feeding her deli roast beef, Jackie fully recovered.
She would be her happy, zany Jackie self for another six months. I never stopped thanking God for the extra time I had been given with Jackie. In some way, I knew Jackie was on borrowed time. And then in June cancer caused major complications. Jackie did not to want to eat any more. we, of course, took her to the vet to see what could be done to heal our precious Jackie.
I remember having a knowingness that there would be no miracle this time and feeling the deep pain in my heart in having to accept this reality. Her sweet little body was becoming weaker. I felt like less and less of Jackie was here with us, and more of her was already heavenbound .
We knew she was looking to us to be loving guardians and do what was right in order for her not to suffer. Just like John and Marley, we held our precious Jackie in our arms as she closed her eyes to earth and opened them in heaven. I know the angels were there with all of us as Jackie was lovingly taken into heaven to be rejoined with her previous owner.
I was an emotional mess after Jackie's death. I repeatedly said to Jackie in heaven, "I know you are with your longtime owner, but if you ever want to float down from heaven and have a romp around the house, please know that I would love it. I miss you terribly."
I lead meditation groups in my home and one particular evening as I was concluding a meditation and the group members were still in a peaceful energy space, I opened my eyes to the room and there in the middle of the room was Jackie. She was so real that I reached to hug her. And then I realized that she was there in spirit. My heart leaped with joy. Glorious healing joy radiated through my entire being.
I am someone who truly believes that the God loves us in merciful and miraculous ways. I am so thankful to God for giving me that vision of Jackie. How did it happen? It was just God being God.
There's so much to thank God for in our lives. I am especially thankful for dogs who are truly angels with fur.
Thinking of Marley, I was inspired to share with you my story about our Jack Russell Terrier, Jackie. In 2003, my husband and I had two Jack Russells - Benny and Riot. Benny is now 18 years old. Riot is now 12 years old. I really wanted a third dog. Chuck wasn't abundant with the idea. I did get him to agree that we could be Jack Russell foster parents for a third dog. We would be guardian to the dog until someone adopted the dog. At least that was supposed to be the plan. There was a greater God plan in the works.
Jackie was our first (and last) foster dog assignment. When we picked up Jackie from Jack Russell Rescue she was 12 years old. She had had only one owner in her life and that owner had recently died. Because of her owner's death she was taken to the humane society and from there was rescued by Jack Russell Rescue. Jackie looked and acted like a very old dog. Jackie could hardly walk. She couldn't climb steps. She had cataracts. She didn't have much of an appetite. She had visible tumors. I remember my husband looking at Jackie and then looking at me and asking, "Who exactly is going to be adopting this dog?" It turned out that we were the ones. That was God's plan.
Additionally, when we picked up Jackie and placed her in the back seat of our jeep, I got close to her. I got right up to her face, and reassured her that she had a permanent home with us and she had no more worries of not being cared for and loved. It wasn't smart on my part to invade her space especially during a time when sweet Jackie didn't know what was going on. Jackie proceeded to bite my nose.
As the days turned into weeks, we fell in love with Jackie and she fell in love with our family. She especially adored being with Benny and Riot. You could see in her eyes the happiness of having buddies. In the morning, when the 3 JRT's ran down the steps to go outside, Jackie was thrilled to be part of the charge of the light brigade. She adored romping with them in the backyard. Because of her being with our JRT's, Jackie got a bounce in her step. She bounded up and down the steps with ease and fully regained a hearty appetite. She got a new lease on life.
I told Jackie that prior to us I knew she had had one owner her entire life and probably missed this man terribly. The man had to have been very special because he loved JRT's like us. This man had gotten Jackie as a puppy. He kept excellent care of Jackie and I had been given a thorough file of all her regular vet visits. So I knew he loved her dearly and that they were super close to each other. He had died suddenly. It was my hope that in heaven he was comforted in knowing that in fulfilling God's plan, the angels had brought Jackie into our home to be loved and that we were striving to be as wonderful a guardian to Jackie as he had been. I told her that this man was welcomed in our house if ever he wanted to come visit and be with her spiritually.
Jackie blessed our family for four years. Just before Christmas, Jackie became seriously ill and my dear vet attempted to prepare me for the worst. I identified with the scene in Marley and Me, where John responds to his vet's telling him the worst scenerio. Instead of the worst, I was given a miracle. I considered it my Christmas present. With the help of meds, tlc, and my personally feeding her deli roast beef, Jackie fully recovered.
She would be her happy, zany Jackie self for another six months. I never stopped thanking God for the extra time I had been given with Jackie. In some way, I knew Jackie was on borrowed time. And then in June cancer caused major complications. Jackie did not to want to eat any more. we, of course, took her to the vet to see what could be done to heal our precious Jackie.
I remember having a knowingness that there would be no miracle this time and feeling the deep pain in my heart in having to accept this reality. Her sweet little body was becoming weaker. I felt like less and less of Jackie was here with us, and more of her was already heavenbound .
We knew she was looking to us to be loving guardians and do what was right in order for her not to suffer. Just like John and Marley, we held our precious Jackie in our arms as she closed her eyes to earth and opened them in heaven. I know the angels were there with all of us as Jackie was lovingly taken into heaven to be rejoined with her previous owner.
I was an emotional mess after Jackie's death. I repeatedly said to Jackie in heaven, "I know you are with your longtime owner, but if you ever want to float down from heaven and have a romp around the house, please know that I would love it. I miss you terribly."
I lead meditation groups in my home and one particular evening as I was concluding a meditation and the group members were still in a peaceful energy space, I opened my eyes to the room and there in the middle of the room was Jackie. She was so real that I reached to hug her. And then I realized that she was there in spirit. My heart leaped with joy. Glorious healing joy radiated through my entire being.
I am someone who truly believes that the God loves us in merciful and miraculous ways. I am so thankful to God for giving me that vision of Jackie. How did it happen? It was just God being God.
There's so much to thank God for in our lives. I am especially thankful for dogs who are truly angels with fur.
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