New Years Eve 2009 is a Full, Blue Moon Eclipse

Today's New Years eve, going into 2010 is a full, blue moon eclipse.

What a wonderful gift it is, this energy moving us forward into a new year of miracles manifesting in our lives and leaving the old behind us.

As I look out into the yard at the old barn, thrilled with the prospects of what is to come, my heart is filled with gratitude for everyone and everything in my life. I've said many times in the past years that this one is going to be the best year yet but this year it is so different. I am on the brink of something really grand about to happen in our lives. I have manifested many wonderful things this year and know that the best is yet to come. This full/blue moon energy has me dancing on the snow covered deck around this beautiful house in the woods as I am certain that 2010 will be a year of fast turn arounds and a bounty of cherished ordeals.

Follow your heart today and close your eyes. . .dream your dreams as they are right around the corner, waiting for you to arrive to complete the scene that is in your minds eye. . and may God bless each and everyone one of us through this decention into our positive futures. . .

Happy New Year. . . . 2010

First Snowfall of December

Happy December, it is 1 degree outside today and it is wonderful to look out my front window and see a forest. . .
The move went very well considering everything and the time of year. I'm not quite settled but that will happen in the winter months ahead. News from my oldest son, they are joining me for the Christmas Yule holidays and my little family will be together to ring in the most cherished holiday of the year, Christmas, Oh happy day.
The days move very fast out here in the quiet of the woods. My days zoom past until it is time to leave for work and I so look forward to those days that I do not have to leave home to participate in the outside world.
Have a Merry Merry Holiday season, be safe and may God bless you with everything you have dreamed for. . .
as for me I am working on a new ebay store front, what do you think about Primitive Hallow for a name?
until next time. . .

Good bye city life

Good-bye city life. . .
After all these months of noise and parking tickets I'm getting back out of the city and moving to a house in the woods!! Oh Happy day!
It's going to be a tough and cold move but it's fabulous and ok with me.
Back to the country in a cabin nestled into the woods, only 13 miles from work. Oh my God, I just can't wait to get there.
People at work know that I have been very taxed living in the city and I just keep saying, "I just want to move to the woods!" Then one day while calling on properties for rent I came across this ad that read "Bristol/Union Grove area, Hwy 50 and I94." I thought huh? that's not right. Well it ended up that it's not right but from the first time I talked to her and found out it is a property I have long admired. It's this large, cabin, nestled back off the road in the woods, that you get only a fleeting glimpse of after the leaves have fallen off the trees. I have driven past this property for years and I am thrilled that I am going to live there until the owners retire from farming. Even though it will be only a few years, I am certain that this place will bring much serenity to my being, of which I have been craving like chocolate ice cream. The picture of this barn is pretty close to the one on the property and will make a wonderful backdrop and view out the kitchen window.
Remembering now one of my earlier posts about manifesting, I pasted a picture of a cabin in the woods. See how fast we are manifesting these days? I urge you to be careful what you ask for as we are getting very good at this. . .

with love and light

New Year Focus and Meditation

With the All Hallows Eve behind us and moving us into the new year, here today is the celebration of all spirits that guide, direct and come to us as the veil has been lifted allowing us to receive guidance with much clarity. Today is All Saints Day. The day in which many religous organizations celebrate the masters that have come before us and even though, parted from our sight, still guide us through our everyday lives. Taking the time to meditate, or pray as many choose to call the silence and opportunity to go within ourselves, to seek that which we do not see with our own two eyes. As we rush through our daily lives we forget sometimes that it is important to meditate, to go within and close the door so that we may receive the abundance of guidance and learning that is provided there. I encourage you to do that today. Seek that which is holy, a coming together of lost fragments and the comfort in being. . .
The full harvest moon will take place on Monday, November 2 which will remove the negative aspects and bring us into a time of manifestation. Today is the day to ask for what ever you would like to clear from your path bringing you closer to your future and 2010.
Have a wondrous day. . .

Getting Settled into Burlington

I hope you've been enjoying the relatively nice weather. Wisconsin has been a little cold at night but it sure makes for good sleeping.
Our shop is doing pretty well for the state of this economy and our building sign will be ready soon so Essential Pleasures will soon have it's grand opening, the plans are in the making and will be announced as soon as it arrives. This is like starting all over again.

I moved into town and have been setting up my new apartment in this very old building but it has been a true adventure. I'm looking forward to getting everything complete so that I am able to get my art studio back up and running as I really miss my creative space.
I was forced to take a full time job again and it has been most time consuming after working only three days a week and selling my creations but the future is looking bright. Soon things will start to fall into place and the summer time always brings a newness to my artwork. Being upstairs from the store is a real treat too. It's nice to know I may wonder downstairs and be at the store anytime I care to do so. I have been so blessed with the ability to see my dreams come into view and to be surrounded by some of the most wonderful friends and family any entity could ever ask for.
I have also been studying the effects of dehydration on the human body and the illness it causes. We are much like the planet we live on and require much water to maintain our health and happiness here on earth. Did you know that dehydration is the number one aliment of the human body? The effects of dehydration cause so many ills but the trick is to have properly pH balanced alkaline water with small enough molecules for the body to be able to absorb the water properly. Most of the water we are drinking is dead water. . .so we aren't really getting any benefits from it and We are filling up the dumps with billions of plastic water bottles a year. With all the chemicals to keep down the bacteria in our water supply, our bodies are unable to absorb it to become fully hydrated. Dr's. know that we need more water and tell us to drink it but most of the water available to us in inadequate and is not keeping our dehydration under control. In my next few articles, I will go into this subject in more detail to help educate you on the effects of dehydration, the symptoms, and the deceases that are caused from dehydration. I think it's time we all start looking for ways to cut our health care costs and find ways to get more healthy through natural healing or your doctor will prescribe another medication for you that will just cover the symptoms up and never cure your ills. I am certain that you will enjoy the next few articles on water and learn enough to set you in the right direction.
until then. . .
with love and light

Returning to Excellence

Returning to Excellence is where I find myself on my journey into the unknown.
I have been absent for a time, staying in a most wonderful lake house in Wisconsin, enjoying the sunsets, watching spring come into bloom and working a full time position again. The respa from the normal life I had come to know, was a true gift in every sense of the word and the time I spent away from the place I call home has changed as well.
I have moved into the city, the noise pollution and busy streets, trains, etc. is a different life all together. I have to wonder if I'll find a parking spot for my pickup truck on a daily basis, then move it in two hours if I arrive home before 6pm. Oh the joy of city life. . .
I can remember sitting in the dinning room of my country place, looking into the painting on the wall of an Italian Villa, and wishing I could be in that place. . . so it ends up that the apartment I rented is that Villa, only it is placed above the store we rent in Burlington, which is what I was manifesting for a year ago. As my life shifts and takes turns down avenues I have not gone down before, my life is a true adventure and now that I am moved I look forward to getting my art studio put back together so I will be able to get back to my art work. Before I know it the fall of the year will be just around the bend and the rush for the Christmas season will be upon us. I look forward to my joint venture with my friend at Oakridge Primitives and filling our store (Essential Pleasures) with more fun seasonal decor, soaps, candles and all the fun things that make our world a wonderful place to be. Stop in and visit us at 557 N. Pine Street in Burlington, Wisconsin should you happen to be in the area, we would love to visit with you and warm your heart with our treasures.

with love and light. . .
till next time

Twists and Turns

Ahh, Life does take it's twists and turns doesn't it.
As the New Moon brings to us the newness of life in itself and a time to reflect yet again the twists and turns of our lives. As we sit back and watch as the end of an era has passed before us and people have gone other places or home to God we look around in the wonder of what this new year will actually bring forth as it begins to unfold. For me it has been a huge transformation both spiritually and emotionally as I let go completely of the past and move into the unknown future. I have no expectations of what this life will deal me in my next hand, only knowing and trusting that the future is a journey I am looking forward to. As we go and grow through our transitions in this life time we are able to look back with a positive knowing, that the learning in the past has brought us through to this place we find ourselves, in the now.
A new president with a totally different outlook on how this country should be run, a more accepting of spiritual interests has made it's way to the surface in our culture and a time of self. To focus our interests on what makes us the person we are and the direction we want to go in, in our lives. We are spiritual beings of light having a human experience, I truly believe that with all my heart. Grounded in my heart chakra there is a love for all mankind, no matter what they present themselves to be, I still see them as they are, wonderful expresions of life, as they live on to light the way for anothers healing, the journey goes on.
So I leave you today with the thought. . .knowing that you are spirit, and are capable of doing or being anything that you could imagine, who are you. . . look deep within your soul. . .

with love and light . . . .

The Vernal (Spring) Equinox

The spring equinox is one of the four great solar festivals of the year. Day and night are equal, poised and balanced, but about to tip over on the side of light. The spring equinox is sacred to dawn, youth, the morning star and the east. The Saxon goddess, Eostre (from whose name we get the direction East and the holiday Easter) is a dawn goddess, like Aurora and Eos. Just as the dawn is the time of new light, so the vernal equinox is the time of new life. The New Year In many traditions, this is the start of the new year. The Roman year began on the ides of March (15th). The astrological year begins on the equinox when the moon moves into the first sign of the Zodiac, Aries, the Ram. The Greek God Ares is equivalent to the Roman Mars for whom the month of March is named. Between the 12th century and 1752, March 25th was the day the year changed in England and Ireland. March 25, 1212 was the day after March 24, 1211. The Coming of the Spring Although we saw the first promise of spring at Candlemas in the swelling buds, there were still nights of frost and darkness ahead. Now spring is manifest. Demeter is reunited with her daughter, Kore (the essence of spring), who has been in the Underworld for six months and the earth once again teems with life. The month of March contains holidays dedicated to all the great mother goddesses: Astarte, Isis, Aprhrodite, Cybele and the Virgin Mary. The goddess shows herself in the blossoms, the leaves on the trees, the sprouting of the crops, the mating of birds, the birth of young animals. In the agricultural cycle, it is time for planting. We are assured that life will continue.

Our Process of Energy

How are you processing energy these days?
Many people around me, including myself have been having a hard time with the processing of energy as of late. This energy effects us in a number of ways. . .

• feeling overwhelmingly tired
• Headaches and muscle aches
• confused or angry feelings that are inappropriate to the situation at hand
• sick to your stomach or spastic colon
  
• General fatigue and/or feeling helpless in helping others around you

Some of us are experiencing many negative aspects as the vibration of past karma is being released from us and our worlds are being turned up side down in preparation of the future energies coming to us.

As we enter and pass through this current shift, which will be magnified with the Spring Equinox on March 20th, letting go of the fear is the most important part of this transition. Let go and allow Source to bring you through this ever so tough transition into the higher vibration of healing which you deserve after this long haul of near torment. Seek to find source within you and allow yourself to let go of the past, the karma and the short comings of others. Know that you are moving toward the vibration you seek and understand that you will no longer have to process the old energy much longer as you move to a higher place where the love of source will guide you past the polarity of this shift in consciousness.

I would like you to take the time and opportunity to understand my message by visiting Uriel Heals.com and read or listen to Jennifer Hoffman as she channel Archangel Uriel, and his guidance through this vibrational shift.

We have all come to this place at this time to heal our past karma so that we are able to help heal not only the earth but all it's inhabitants, to lead them back home to source and find the spiritual mastery we seek through the love we think we are missing. There is no separation, only the remembrance of a love that we are not able to encounter on this plane. Follow your heart and visit Uriel Heals for more answers to your never ending questions.

Life is an adventure. . . not a destination. . .

with love and light. . .

till next time

The Age of Aquarius

Just a quick tid bit,
Valentines Day 2009, at 7:34am, we have finally and officially moved into the Age of Aquarius. This marks the day many have waited for as the universe is now filled with love.

Are you feeling it too?

May God bless us all with the abundance of love, for one another as we open up to the fact that we are one, not separate of each other as we once perceived.

Through love we shall conquer all ill perceptions in all directions of time. . . .

with love and light

Cranesnest Personal Hexagram:

41: Decrease

Friday, February 13th, 2009

General Meaning: Increase and decrease are part of the natural cycle of life. As spiritual author long ago put it, 'To every thing there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.' Like a reservoir that is being used to irrigate the fields, learning to accept a decrease in position or material possessions is part of preparing for increase in the future.

We may live in materialistic times, but there is no disgrace in material decrease, particularly if it represents an investment in future gain — even if that gain be in the form of one's education or the development of personal character. Likewise, the inner strength that comes from bearing loss can be balanced by a corresponding increase in inner strength and insight — as in the expression 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' When letting go of attachment and personal demands leads to a greater simplicity in daily life, good fortune often comes calling.

In nature, the lake evaporates to form the clouds that drop the rain that nurtures the surrounding forest. As the forest grows thick, more rain is captured for the lake. Similarly, an 'evaporation' or decrease in one area of your life, may give rise to an eventual increase in another. A loss of responsibility at work can mean more free time; more free time may generate more career options. A period of decrease is not necessarily a bad thing; in fact, it can free the spirit and fill the soul.

Be mindful of the lesson of young lovers: even with a minimum of possessions, feelings of the heart can bring an unsurpassed richness to life. The smallest of actions, if sincere, have value. So remain confident, for a time of decrease may actually bode good fortune, especially if you remain open to that possibility.

Let go of frustration, resistance and regret over whatever may be going down at this time. Accept the cycle, and remember what goes down must come up.

With all the changes going on in my life I understand that this hexagram in particular is most important to me now.

If you would like to investigate this form of divination for yourself, go to www.tarot.com and sign up to receive your hexagram, daily numerology and horoscopes, to help you stay on top of the current planetary aspects and moon phases and how they effect your life.

Our world is changing at a very fast rate, you can learn so much on this site to help you to navigate through your day with a little more ease.

We have begun to do card readings at our shop in Burlington, for a one on one experience, if you live in the area. We are located at 557 Pine Street, Burlington, Wisconsin 53105.

Go check it out and do have a wondrous day. . .

Valentine's Day and the stars

So what are your plans for Valentines Day

Well if your planning on going out, maybe this information will be useful to you.

Expansive Jupiter’s conjunction with the karmically connected Lunar North Node in Aquarius is excellent for meeting wise and generous individuals. Understanding how our individual stories fit into the book of human experience provides a richer context in which to expand our consciousness.

Mercury’s return to intellectual Aquarius tunes minds to higher frequencies of awareness. Rigid thinking is replaced by a more holistic view of reality, one that helps us pull disparate bits of experiences into a more comprehensive picture that is illuminated with insights.

What ever you decide to do, have a wonderful Valentine's Day.

with love and light. . .

till next time

Valentines Anyone?

Oh my, it's nearly Valentines Day isn't it? Time has just slipped past me as I have begun a new job and attempting to finish up some old business.
When we think of Valentine's Day, we seem to gravitate to those years when we were lavishly bathed in roses and candy, maybe a candle lit dinner with that oh so special loved one.
But what happens when the cards are on the shelves and that special someone is no longer in your life? Does it make you feel sad, hurt, angry, alone or discontent with the situation? Or are you happy in your life, being who you are and feeling loved in spite of the fact that there isn't anyone to buy you a card or candy this year.
Well, I too have given this much thought, and you know, it's all good for me at this point in my life. But then I have come a very long way in the past four years spiritually and I know that I am loved even if there is no card or candy.
If there was someone who left your life abruptly, or someone you hold onto with anger, I'd like you to close your eyes and see them as you remember them. Think about what they did that hurt or upset you, the reasons why you are no longer together. Now, I'd like you to think of when you were with them and they made you happy. Do you feel the difference? You need to forgive them and let go. More importantly, you need to forgive yourself so that you are able to move forward. You don't have to forgive the actions but forgive the person and feel all that love come back to you. Feel the happiness and lightheartedness that is yours to enjoy forever because you know that it was a life lesson and even though you may not see the lesson now, know that you will, sometime soon, because you were able to forgive and let go. Look into your heart, forgive and set yourself free. It's time. Forgiveness is the best gift you could give yourself. Then work on the life you look forward to in the near future.
Happy Valentine's Day and God bless

Holystic Healing and EFT

Have you heard of EFT? Emotional Freedom Technique.
EFT is done by tapping on your meridian points to release negative energies and bring you into balance. You can go to www.Emofree.com to learn more. There is a download link, to download the EFT manual so you are able to start right away. The download is free and so is the newsletter.
Emotional Freedom Technique is a relatively new way to enhance your life through controlling your emotions. Sometimes we have hidden phobias and/or conditions that keep us from being the person we would like to be. For some people it appears as physical pain and we don't know what is wrong. It's difficult to go to the doctor and tell them that you are in pain when you can't even explain it to them where the pain is or where the discomfort originates from. Essentially they have two choices. To either put you through a battery of tests, which with limited insurance coverages, the tests are not completely covered, and are inconclusive as they can't find a reason for the pain or they prescribe an anxiety medication since it appears to be fear based. And most of the time it is anxiety and fear based but the last thing we need is to be put on more drugs. This is where EFT makes a huge difference in ones life. As a Hypnotherapist, I have found that many holistic healers are using EFT in their programs these days. EFT makes a big difference in these peoples lives. Where there is fear, it is replaced by tapping away the fear with EFT. Away with the fear, away with the pain.
This procedure has been used with great success when used on veterans with PTSD, children of alcoholics, people with social anxiety, depression, undiagnosed physical pain and many other disorders. A death that you never were able to deal with when someone you cared for passed over, guilt, unresolved fears from loosing a job or abandoned by a loved one. This stimulation to your meridian points has proven itself over and over again, countless times and yet it is still overlooked by most as a solution to ongoing problems that can't seem to be dealt with in the western medical traditions. Why suffer with what we call inhibitions, insecurities or low self esteem, I encourage you to take a look at this site and see if there is something you could be tapping away in yours or a loved ones life to ease the stresses that keep you from doing what you want to accomplish in your life. Life is too precious to spend it in fear and pain, especially since there is an answer and free help out there. Just do yourself a favor and take a few minuets to check it out, I'm sure you'll be glad you did.

New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aquarius

The New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aquarius tonight at 11:55pm PST. This conjunction of the Sun and Moon in innovative Aquarius is a powerful solar eclipse that offers an exciting new vision of the future. Normally, eclipses are associated with loss, and we can expect some outmoded organizations, ideals and friendships to be put to rest. However, opportunistic Jupiter’s conjunction with the New Moon in this progressive sign offers hope through fresh thinking. Recognizing a more comprehensive pattern of connections among people, processes and groups can reveal resources and relationships to rebuild our communities and ourselves. Mercury goes direct again on January 31st and a Full Moon Eclipse will be seen on February 9th this year: article by Jeff Jawer at Star I.Q.

A few lucky people in the Indian Ocean will be treated to a rare event on Monday when an annular solar eclipse will transform the Sun into a dark disc with a blazing ring-shaped corona around its rim.

In solar eclipses, the Moon moves between the Sun and Earth, casting its shadow on the terrestrial surface.

In an annular eclipse, a tiny shift in distance that results from celestial mechanics means the Moon does not completely cover the Sun's face, as it does in a total eclipse.

Instead, for those directly under the alignment, the Moon covers most of the Sun's surface, and a ring-like crown of solar light blazes from the edge of the disk.

For those watching from the fringe of the track, the Sun is partially obscured, as if a bite has been taken out of it.

According to veteran NASA eclipse-watcher Fred Espenak, the total eclipse track will run from west to east on Monday from 0606 GMT to 0952 GMT.

It will traverse the Indian Ocean and western Indonesia before petering out just short of Mindanao, the Philippines.

The partial eclipse will be seen in a much wider swathe, including the southern third of Africa, Madagascar, Australia, Southeast India, Southeast Asia and Indonesia.

It will be the only annular solar eclipse this year. The last was on 7 February, 2007, and after Monday, the next one will be on 15 January, 2010.

The big event for eclipse junkies this year is on July 22, when a total solar eclipse will be visible from India and China, the world's two most populous countries.

Information slowed during Mercury’s three-week retrograde period will begin to flow more freely in the days ahead. Discussions put on hold are ready to begin again with a sense of renewal that can overcome previous obstacles. Solid planning and sound logic are essential to making your point with chatty Mercury turning direct in well-organized Capricorn.

This is your time to start something new, to do a ritual or meditate to manifest the upcoming future of your life. To put your dreams into focus and start moving forward. With Mercury's return from retrograde motion on January 31st you will see things starting to come into full motion

Essential Pleasures Inc is Open for buisness

Essential Pleasure Inc. is open and up and running.
Even though the weather has been cold and the snow is falling our shop has been busy with not only on lookers but buyers as well.
We are still in transition selling the last owners stuff as well as our own but we are making our own brands of soap, both natural and magical along with some other goodies on the metaphysical side. Herbs, oils and other natural substances have a long history of use in magick. Their natural energies have been experimented with for so many centuries that those who practice magickal art know almost intuitively what plants correspond best with energies of what magickal need. Always remember that the magick is not in the herb or the scent of the oil but in you, as you set your intention for it to be so. The herb acts as the catalyst to help you focus your energy and because it contains sympathetic energy, it helps you to channel that energy toward it's goal. In some cases the scent of the herb is alone, all that is needed and will provide the trigger for the magick. In our culture it is referred to as Aromatherapy. Aroma magick is created each time you use a particular scent or scent blend for a spell. For instance lavender promotes relaxation and calmness, jasmine is seductive, lemon is invigorating and so on. This is the basis for some really strong magick. The slightest whiff of sandalwood oil mentally transports me back to my earliest times of magick. As a whole we don't even realize that it is magickal if our mindset is not that of being magickal. People all over the world create magick everyday and don't realize the connection. Aromatherapy has proven it self as a very powerful tool and brings about natural healing through the senses aligning you with the universe to be in the flow. When we are in tune with our higher selves we are happy and heal.
You all know that I do healing Chakra meditations, well we are developing a soap for that purpose. It helps you to align your chakras. This soap will stimulate, open, cleanse and balance the chakras from root to crown.
So in moving towards that direction we are working on magickal soaps, bath salts, lotions, shampoos, hair conditioners, scrubs and soaks to mention a few.
We are looking forward to all our new productions and getting things under way. . .
till next time

Happy New 2009

Happy New Year "2009"
I bring to you happy wishes and tidings of joy for the new year of 2009.
A little update on what we can expect this year from a spiritual standpoint. 2009 will be a time of great change in the universe. There will be a birthing, per say, in the shifts of consciousness from the old beliefs into the new vibrations coming into our reality. Beginning in March through June, many will move to accommodate their shift in vibration to places with a vibrational match. People will migrate to places where the vortexes are opening and drawing them closer to those geographical areas to cause a unity in vibration and pulling people together in order to increase those needed vibrations for healing and transition. For some, it is a time of going home as their work here has ended, their karma healed and they choose to go home. For many the shift is causing physical signs as well. An overall not feeling well, almost like morning sickness, upset stomach, headaches, nausea, being tired, low motivation making you want to just sleep. Know that this is in accordance to the earths alignment and repair of itself. People who have been living in isolation will move or be moved where there vibrations are crucial to the combined effort towards this concentrated vibration and then there lives will move more smoothly, they will be happy and in tune with life when they are relocated and they will struggle less to overcome daily anxieties. So the message here is to go with the flow, allow it to take you where you need to be. This is an 11 vibrational year, which has not happened since 1901 & then again in 1910, so the last 100 years have been out of vibration and now is the time to move forward full circle and enjoy all the healing and burning off of karma. We are no longer in the Christ Martyr experience and it is time to move into the Christ Victorious era where the earth and all of it's inhabitants will share in the victory and vibration of all our hard work as lighworkers as the Polarity is now completed. We move from being Lightworkers as we have successfully healed and processed the energies and will soon move to being the Lightbearers. Knowing that we are the light, the beacons that shall light the way for all to come and finally heal or leave the planet. The lower energies are being squeezed out, the birthing of light, they will either have to transcend or go home. This squeezing will be a painful process as so many of us have already been through it and as we come into our power the elements of past, present, future will start to melt away and we will be in the now, continuum, when the third dimension will start to blend and the energies will begin to show through. The calendar year will start to feel as though they are passing very fast but your reality will actually begin to slow down as you start to see your manifestations come into form. This is a time when you must focus your energies on what you truly want as they will start to appear at a rapid pace and if you have wasted your time on focusing on the things in your life that you did not want, you will see them in your life as more chaos, thus wasting your precious time in manifesting more of what you don't want in your life. It's time to raise your vibration, live in the knowing that you are a being of light and are capable of being happy and that you have everything you have asked for. Live in the moment, the now and allow yourself to dream big because it's coming to you now as you read this blog. Lift yourself up from the dogma of what you have always thought was reality and come into the light where you are with God and the Goddess and take responsibility for your God given rights and powers.
If you are confused with my rambling today, please go to Uriel Heals and read Jennifers newsletters so that you are more clear of what I am talking about.
God be with you, Happy New Year