Summer Solstice June 21st

The summer solstice is today or if you live in Australia then it's the first day of winter. Where ever you dwell may it be a wonderful day for you. The Solstice holds the energy of the longest day here in the northern hemisphere and with the new moon  just a couple of days off, I have been spending my time exercising my imagination and being creative with my life ahead of me. Setting intentions for the developments I would like to see manifest in my life. The first step in this process is Thinking! Think about, dream about and allow your creativity to flow towards how you would like to see your self in the future. Whether it be in a new home, car, job or maybe a relationship? A new career, change in life style to improve your health. Quitting a bad habit is always a great place to start too.
So sit back, close your eyes and go to your special place where the colors swirl and the peacefulness is abundant. Do your grounding meditation and Picture yourself where you really would like to be and set your intentions to make this real for yourself. The Universe works on the method of supply & demand just like everything else so just know that you can have what ever you picture for yourself and then start to move toward it. Seeing yourself in this picture is very important and oh, getting off the couch and going after your dream really helps too.
I have made manifest so many things this year and while I was moving towards my goal some other things happened that were a little unpleasant but I understand that some things must come to an end so that the new is able to move in. One door closes so another can open per say. So while you are manifesting to become something else in your life don't get to upset if the old moves out of the way. At that point you just need to see the energy movement and trust in the Universe that everything is about the divine timing of the process. I am thrilled to be a part of this movement and ultimately know that no matter what, everything will come about just as I had created it. The unexpected parts are a real part of the adventure.And I love a good adventure and can't wait to see this one through.
So come on, get busy and move some energy of your own


Till next time


many blessings

Beltane, Celtic festival of summer

Today we stand at the threshold of Beltane, the Celtic festival of summer, when the entire green world is charged with new life beneath the growing sun. In Ireland, Beltane (celebrated May 1st) was known as one of the three "spirit nights" of the year—along with Midsummer's Eve and Halloween—a time when the faeries rode out of their dwellings in the Hollow Hills within the Earth into the human world.
Until the 20th century, many people had encounters with faeries and lived side by side with them in quite a natural way. Some of these faery-seers descended from generations of country-dwellers who kept the old beliefs intact; others were visionaries, poets, and artists who refused to be influenced by the modern, materialistic worldview that, in William Blake's words, can only "see with, not thru, the eye."
The Nature of Faeries

A Guided Faery Medition With Mara Freeman But what are faeries and do they still exist today? Many people still think of them as the delightful, gauzy-winged creatures of children’s books—but this was not always so. Those faeries were a product of Victorian literature. Before that, there was a strong recognition throughout Europe of a host of sentient beings who are mostly non-physical entities, although they can be seen with the inner eye. What’s more, they knew that faeries do not dwell in a far-off realm, but live within the subtle dimension of our world, co-existing with us in the cracks of our everyday reality.

The Hawthorn tree, a common faery dwelling. Photo by Susa Morgan-BlackFaeries range from tall, beautiful, noble creatures to diminutive imps called "little people," with many shapes and sizes in between. There are solitary faeries, like the household brownie who looks like a small stocky man with a gray beard; leathery gnomes who dwell in forests and caves; "trooping faeries" who dance, sing, and feast together in the faery hills; and tribes of Cornish piskies, with red hair, pointed ears, and turned-up noses. One of the best explanations of what faeries are comes from an unlikely source, a 17th-century minister of the Church of Scotland: The Reverend Robert Kirk called them "a middle nature betwixt man and angel." They are creatures of light and energy, of "force" rather than "form," who can shift their shape as they please, unbound by laws of the physical world.


A Faery Encounter, Read by Mara Freeman All faeries are deeply connected to the living Earth. The Faery Queen spoken of in so many ballads and stories is a Celtic aspect of Gaia, the Earth Goddess. The faeries sometimes called "nature spirits" are involved with the processes of nature—birth, growth, decay, and the changing of the seasons—while "elementals" are responsible for cycles of water, earth, air, and fire. Other faery tribes interact more with the human world, bestowing gifts such as healing, music, and seership upon their favorite mortals.

Today, a new awareness of faeries is returning as people are awakening to the reality of worlds not normally apparent. It seems that, with the current crises on Earth, we are being called to reconnect with those beings of light with whom we once consciously shared our planet home. When we pollute, degrade, and destroy the land, sea, and skies, we are destroying their world, too; we tear apart the exquisitely woven tapestry of all creation. And so faeries are bringing messages from the Earth, urging us to change our ways from living in separateness to an awareness of our interconnectedness with all beings, visible and invisible.

I took this article from Beliefnet.com where I visit daily for the angel of the day and thought it would be nice to share with you on this special day. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Being one with nature, I look forward to this process in spring to reconnect myself to the earth and natural surroundings I live in. It brings me to a place inside myself that reassures me that all is good in this human experience and helps me to stay grounded in this much to crazy world I live in. I've included a meditation link should you care to indulge yourself in this Beltane festival as well. Peace to you. . .


How to connect with faeries...

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/190/story_19019_1.html?WT.mc_id=NL24#