Yule Tide Blessings

Ahhh, it's almost that time again. . . break out the Yule log, light your candles, put up the tree and get ready to sit in the gathering room with friends and family.
Pretty soon the snow will start to fall and blanket the earth to protect nature from the harshness of winter. And as we hunker down for the winter solstice we'll have time to reflect on all those holidays gone by that held all the magic of the season.
The Santa Moon's are ready to roll and the candles are nearly all poured. For me Christmas is a time to be spent getting ready until the time runs out. That's when I'll sit back and enjoy the present. In the moment, as the magic of the day unfolds like a well written script, I'll play my role and cherish the time as the new memories are manifested and become reality. Everything I have worked for will come full circle as does the circle of the year and I'll enjoy every single smidgen of it. Enjoying the love, the laughter and healing.

Speaking of healing. . .I have become obsessed with making the chakra pyramid candle series again this year.
This Root Chakra candle is not complete yet but this is the base product of what it will look like. It will be topped with a snow cap for the season and tucked inside this candle is a Tibetan Crystal, which after the candle has burned down, the buyer will have the blessed crystal to carry and use as grounding energy.
 Chakra Pyramid candles are a 7 candle series which include Chakra Meditations and a full color booklet, which explains each of the seven chakras, where they are located, what energy they rule and all the pertinent properties of each chakra.
Since winter is long, we have plenty of time to meditate to clear our chakras and heal our selves.

For now, enjoy the holiday season. . .I should get back to work, many Santa's to finish and candles to pour.

many blessings. . .

visit me at www.cranesnestcreations/etsy.com

Happy Hallows Eve, End of the Mayan Calendar, New Moon, New Start

Happy Hallows Eve Everyone,

The New Moon on the 26th brings in a new energy for us in this time. One of healing, forgiveness and unconditional love.

October 28th marks the end of the Mayan calendar. And of course. . .
Tis the Witches New Year on the Wheel of the year, October 31st, bringing us into the November 1st energy, The Day of the Dead or All Saint's Day, when we celebrate our ancestors and those who went before us.
Sometimes looking back is not always the easiest thing we can do when we are attempting to stay focused on moving forward in our lives. The past serves no purpose to us now as there is no way to change it but if we can learn and heal, then we are able to move our lives forward in a positive direction, leaving all those memories behind. Allowing the karma that brought us to this place to heal and through forgiveness we are able to let go and move on. This time of year is always the best time for this sort of clearing of the mind, soul and spirit. As we move into the winter and solstice, a quiet healing begins. . .thus pushing us forward, into the spring and renewal of growth. So relax and enjoy this time as we pass through a most needed sorting of the pasts gone by and start planning for our most wonderful futures.
Is there something in your life that recently ended? A relationship, job, long time habit that you were able to let go of? Have you allowed it to pass and become more comfortable with it? Allowing the healing to take place through forgiveness? Have you unattached yourself from it completely yet? Letting go of the emotions that surround it?


Let's take in a deep cleansing breath and ground ourselves. . .sit in a chair with your feet flat on the floor, hands rested gently on your lap. As you begin to take a deep breath, feel the light coming up from the floor beneath your feet, raising up through your legs, torso, up into your heart chakra. As you start your exhale, push the air out around you forming a circle of light, about arms length around you. . . 


Now on the second breath. . . nice and slow, taking in the light from the crystalline matrix above your head, filling your self with the white light, go deep as you wish and bring the light to your heart chakra. . . as you exhale again . . pushing the light out around you to form a circle of light as far out as you can reach. . .

On the third breath, we are going to bring in the light from both our feet, from deep within the earth and from the top of our heads, from the crystalline matrix above your head, and as we pull the air in, the two will meet at your heart chakra, holding that light for as long as you can, envision now , your wishes for the situation you are letting go of. . . exhale and surround yourself once again with a circle of light. . . and as you relax into the healing of the situation you are envisioning, tie a string around your wish or who ever it is this wish is intended for. Now imagine you are cutting the string that goes from you to them/or it. As you do, hold it in your hands, taking in the energy of forgiveness and then letting it go. You may even imagine yourself handing it out to the largest angel you can think of, giving it to the angel for safe keeping, allowing yourself the freedom from it as it is now in the care of the angels, giving you the opportunity to move forward on your path without any hurt or emotion towards it any longer. Completely unattached. . . 


Now take in one more deep breath, from both the top of your head and the bottoms of your feet and feel the cleansing of this light  as it passes through your entire being, as it meets at your heart chakra, now fill yourself with unconditional love . . . and on the exhale imagine yourself free at last from the pain and any discomfort this has caused you in the past, being pushed out of you and into the universe for total forgiveness. . . see it all float away with the angel. . .leaving you filled with peace and unconditional love. . . 

You can return to your environment anytime you wish. . . feeling cleansed, loved and knowing that the healing is complete as you move forward in your life. . .

What ever faith you are, matters not because you are you, free to celebrate whatever it is you believe in. . . most of all believe in yourself, you are a powerful energy and deserve the life of your dreams. . . 


May the season of your life be blessed with much love. . . 


Thank you for joining me today

Fabulous February

February has arrived in Wisconsin with another bang, cold, snow and now here on the 6th it is sunshine and 27 degrees. Looking across the snow laden back yard there are bunny tracks which tells us that spring is just around the corner as the little ones are coming out and wandering in the early morning.

Jupiter and Pluto are melding today, bringing us the treasure of fantasy, the rambling of spirit. Even though the day could be a little confusing as we attempt to do too much, and memories of past seem to arrive again, we will deal with it and be left with a sense of forgiveness for those we have left behind us as we move forward.

February is bringing lessons in courage and release. But what we didn't expect is that the future is up to us, choose what you want, there is no more karma to lead you down your path, it's wide open now, your options are unlimited so choose wisely. Shift your energy and choose. . . what's your wildest dreams, your biggest hope? That is what February energy is about.

I have posted in my side bar, a link to Uriel Heals and the channel Jennifer Hoffman. The link will take you to Blog Talk radio where you are able to listen to her show and the web site where she shares the messages from Archangel Uriel.

Take time in your day to communicate with source, to listen for guidance, either in the morning or before you arise or when you lay down at night, before you go to sleep, open your heart to the source within you, allow your connection with source to fill your being with the love of the divine, allow it to encompass you and be filled with the energy of your future.

One of my last posts I had mentioned a new ebay store called Primitive Hallow. After contemplating that and setting up my shop with templates, etc, I had not realized at that time that it was not about my artwork. So I am pleased to say that I am staying at Oakridge Primitives where I belong with my dearest ever friend, Vicki, who loves and makes every effort to understand me. It appears that Primitive Hallow is about spirit. . . a place to bring forth the meditations and communications I receive. I have made this blog to messy with art and spirit so I am separating the two and will coninue these conversations on Primitive Hallows blog.

But, before I go allow me to offer you one more meditation to help you ground yourself when the energies around you are getting to be too much to handle

Sit back in your chair, feet touching the floor, back straight and your hands on your lap. As you take in a deep breath feel the earths energy rising up through the floor, into your feet, up though your legs, belly and into your heart chakra. As you release the breath, allow it to surround you in a bubble that extends to arms reach. Again take a deep breath and upon release, the air is filling your bubble with healing love, heart chakra energy. Now as you take in another breath, see the light above your head as a stream of light entering through the top of your head going straight into the heart chakra. Now on the exhale see the white and green energies mix inside your bubble and know that you are safe within this healing bubble of energy , that all energy around you is being processed and keeping you safe from the outside world.

When I am experiencing too much outside energy, I do this to protect myself, so that I do not absorb too much of other peoples energy as it makes me "ill" feeling.

Have a wonderous day and remember to make your visions very clear and don't be afraid to live your fantasy, it is yours in the making.

with love and light. . .

A Day filled with Balance

Today's full moon brought with it the endings I have been looking forward to and with it the brightness to look to the light of the future. The full harvest moon shown so bright in the night sky tonight giving way to a cleansing that I have not felt in a very long time. I'm sure most of my readers know that I am a Hypnotherapist. I know that my art and chakra meditations hold presence over the majority of the posts on my blog, but I would like to take you to a place of total relaxation. When someone practices meditation it is the same thing as being hypnotized. Except for the fact that it is self induced instead of being guided. You become totally relaxed, which in turn allows you to reach your higher self. The ultimate purpose of meditation. Some people think that they can not reach that higher state and so they become frustrated with themselves and give up trying to meditate. The whole trick to being able to meditate is to learn to relax. So I would like to take you through a relaxation and cleansing, so that you are able to meditate. Meditation has many benefits. Self healing, self esteem, visualisation practices, even manifesting your dreams. Without the ability to fully relax, one can not hope to change anything in their lives. We are composed of energy, and when we are able to slow ourselves down to a frequency compatible to a meditative state wonderful changes are within our reach. So let us start.
Sit in a quiet place free from TV, phones and the distractions of the world around you. Close your eyes and breath in deeply and slowly in through your nose to the count of five. Filling your entire diaphragm with air. Envision the air being of white light, filling your lungs and belly with cleansing white light. Hold it to the slow count of five and exhale through your mouth to a slow count of five. While exhaling, envision the air coming out of your mouth as gray air, watch all the toxins being released from your body as you exhale. Now, do it again. Breath in through your nose, seeing the white cleansing light filling your body with clean air to the count of five. Hold it to the slow count of five and exhale, seeing the gray toxins leaving you again to the count of five. Now while breathing in you are going to see the white light surrounding your feet and ankles, feel the tension leaving your feet and ankles as you exhale. Inhaling again seeing the white light rising to your calves and surrounding them with white healing light, you feel them relax and release all tensions as you exhale. Now inhale again, the white light is traveling up around your knees, releasing all the tensions, keep going, up to the thighs, feel the white light release all the tensions in your entire legs now. Fully relaxed. While taking in yet another deep healing breath feel the white light fill your abdomen, pelvic girdle all the way up to your torso, exhale and feel all the muscles relax and tingle. Keep going, breath in and fill your chest all the way to your shoulders and as you exhale, feel the relaxation throughout your entire body. Now your neck, arms, all the way to the tips of your fingers, feel the white light cleanse and relax all the muscles, relieving you of all the tension while you exhale. Now around your head, face, sinus passages, ears, throat, behind your eyes, your jaw and to the top of your head, taking in healing white light, feel all the pressures just fade away. Breath normal now enjoying the pleasure of this full relaxation, this healing gift from god and the universe. Allow yourself to feel grateful for all the wonderful things in your life, your health, the people you love, your ability to heal yourself, this gift of total relaxation. Stay focused on your breath so that your mind does not wander. Now is there something you seek answers to? Throw them out there and then quiet your mind again and listen.
I do this before I go to sleep at night. It helps me to relax from the days tensions and to give thanks for all the wonders in my life. When you practice this often enough, you will begin to find that you are able to bring yourself to this place with little effort any time you need to shut down for two to three minuets during a stressfull day. Pretty soon, you will be able to command your body to relax but it does take practice. It takes time to train your body to do anything so don't get discouraged if you don't get there right away. Keep working on it, you'll accomplish not only relaxation but a whole lot more once you are trained. Meditation can happen spontaneously with practice.
I'll leave you with this, work on it as the benefits far surpass the time it takes to learn to relax.
I hope your day was a wonderful as mine. Bliss to you