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When I saw this photo it really resonated with me. I wasn’t sure exactly where the feelings of relating to it were coming from until I thought about it overnight.
Times, days, nights let’s face it, the past years have been difficult in some ways and yet phenomenal in other ways. It’s confusing and overwhelming. And please, these are my thoughts. I’m just sharing through my experiences and observations on the views from the roller coaster.
Foundations that once felt safe are being demolished and totally remodeled in our bodies, mind and spirit. The reconfiguration of family and friends have been if anything enlightening. Attached to the new foundation, we grow within all of our relationships or have realized we painfully have to let go of what is toxic to our being. I’m not talking about people having disagreements I’m talking about toxicity at a high level.
Then we move to our power. So many doors have opened up to allow us to grow and expand and stand again in the beauty of that energy. . Not ego power but a power of knowing our own survival is coming from this very core of who we are. This comes from a place within where our life experiences have gathered and united with our life force to catapult us forward. However and here we go, choices. Did we open the doors or walk on by? There is no wrong, I do believe these opportunities follow us around, sit with us, run circles around us and trip us up sometimes until we notice.
The heart, what about the love that is bursting out of our human body, our seams per say. Even in the midst of disease, wars, abuses of our children, elderly, veterans, our animal kingdom….you get it. In some way you have felt it too. It’s overwhelming to have that grand love bursting from within in a space while darkness is knocking on our doors. But hey….the darkness is not going to win. Maybe we get tired and overwhelmed when we look at it ALL and feel that we don’t have the energy, strength or time to be the change. Pick one thing maybe, or just let that love inside you grow and share it through prayer and healing, touch and listening. All these things zap the energy of the negative. Believe it or not, you are the change the world wanted, needed and loves. Even if it’s a silent isolated love it’s doing its work. Shine your light.
Speaking your truth in a manic world is not easy is it? Finding your own inner light and balance before you speak, while trying to do it with a grace and ease is challenging. With the current energies I have not used my speech for the good on some days, however I’m observant of that and apologize from the heart not the “oh shit” zone. I’ve waited for apologies that I may never get and it just is one of those doors showing me where I need to go and what I may need to leave behind. Our ability to share, to verbalize and create from that space is such a gift. To use it daily with hate, spit and venom hurts you more than it hurts the person, place or thing you throw it at. What about all of the outer influences? How can we speak nicely about war etc….I’m not saying that, but what if we weaken its power by sending it the love and light of the divine. That’s us doing the work of grace.
It’s time to open our eyes, our minds to the power of our own being. Connect with the divine. Be a part of a big picture or a silent space of light. Not just sending it out but feeling in our bodies, as deep as our cellular level. There’s an old saying. It’s time to “rise and shine”. Do it. Loud and proud or in silent serendipity. Be you. It’s what the World/Universe has been waiting for.
As for the picture? Anything can survive in unimaginable spaces if the determination to thrive and be, is alive. That is the magic of being.
By Tracey Sivek
It can happen so slowly. Life becomes overwhelming to the point that we feel we are drowning. It edges in, in a way that may be so simplistic. A negative thought, sadness or anxiety. There are so many starting points. Grief and Trauma, or unresolved issues can simply rise slowly, filling us up completely before we know it. Even the best people have challenges. The “highest vibrational” people can succumb to roadblocks in their growth. We are all trying to rise and be the best we can be. But let’s face it, we are also human. Balancing who we are and what we are here to do. Our faith, our beliefs in the divine energies are what keeps us from fully drowning from the obstructions we find in our path.
But our beliefs, our view of the Divine also gives us a light to reach for. Though the darkness may surround the Light, it can never eclipse it. But we cannot see it if we do not look. All we need do is look, see, reach, and take one more step. The times we live in are disturbing to say the least, and exactly the time to lift your heads to seek the light and reflect it into the darkness that influences our society.
See, reach, and take one more step. And remember this; where there is life, there is hope.
Mervyn Kelly and Tracey Sivek
Sticks and Stones~With a Dash of Hope
Let’s face it. With all that has happened to us personally and in society in general we are sometimes overwhelmed by just knowing who we are in the grand scheme of things. Are we going to make it? Should we tuck or run? Do we just armor up or boundary up and go deeper within and hide in that disconnect? I cannot say what is right for you. I know I’m depending on my Guides, God and angelics to assist me in all of this.
I know that hope needs to be fed and fear given the boot. Too much of whom we are has been spent inside the anger of our global disposition. God has not forgotten us.
All this is about a master plan. Maybe we feel angst that we weren’t invited to the master plan committee but let it go. Fear, control, manipulation, passive aggressive behavior has been a determining block for how we are living our lives as of late.
Thought for today. When someone purposely pokes the hornets’ nest, when someone’s political beliefs are not yours, when any one thing is abused in this world, all species included, the answer is forgiveness.
Understanding that we all have our own levels of belief allows people to be who they are, and you don’t have to abide by that unless you feel that helps you grow. Bless the situation, bless the people and for Gods sake bless yourself. We don’t give ourselves enough credit for being a force in nature.
Most of all. When snarky arrives at your door, if depression and anxiety is not understood, when all the things you believe in are met with opposition then bless it. Breathe, and please don’t let the trigger own you anymore. We are individually perfection at its best with a divine blueprint. Own it. And more than anything…..”Stay in your own lane”….
Blessings be….
What a perfect stormy day to share a story. During my travels to see my sister and reconnect after the pandemic for the first time I experienced many awakenings. My spirit was thrown into the winds of the ocean and I rode every wave. The emotions, observance and wisdom that came forward weren’t exactly easy to process.
The lessons seemed to anchor around the circle of life. Showing me the delicate, then showing me the opposite as in survival. Some of the lessons were seriously within feet or yards of me. For instance, sitting and having a nighttime cocktail I look up to the hill where I heard a rustle. There was a Female deer and a fawn running. Instantly my Disneyland heart was like “awe”… but then comes the bobcat chasing them and I was deflated. I secretly damned Disney for always have a sad scene. Then we move to the Turkeys in the road. Two adults and 6 little babes. Again, the awe factor. Boom…seeing the healthy Coyote a few feet away eyeing his lunch. Then I was out on the deck, a fat dove on the incline of the hill just 4 feet from me gets swooped up by a hawk.
Do you see what I mean? I could stay in the obvious of it all but there was a deeper meaning for me. I was supposed to see the right of survival. The just cause of the circle of life. As if that wasn’t powerful enough, I also felt it in the air. In the wind coming off the ocean and the power of each wave. The vibrations of the ground during a 6.0 somewhere. Messages, delicate and harsh, about life and death and survival.
So my thoughts in this lifetime, and messages from other lifetimes rose within each wave. Watching the flood. Feeling the mist kiss my face and then watching it recede. . It’s about recognizing the truth in it all. What each segment of life means to us. What it is all for and about in our grand scheme. For me the grand scheme is this moment right here. Who I am in it, what I’m doing with it and how it applies the grandness of the Universe. It’s about not just loving the delicate within it’s also about engaging in that God given strength. Power for the sweetness, power for the love, power for positive change and most of all power of survival.
Open your heart and eyes to the deeper meaning of all that is surrounding you. You are not the opinion of others. You are divine, so step into it with grace and ease. Embrace the strengths that you’ve been hiding. Engage in your worthiness.
This is delicate survival…xoxo
What if all those things you felt from your first memories, through teenage years and stayed as you grew older.....were all of a sudden healed in a way that brought the ultimate knowing to you?
All of my life I've had questions. All of my life I've dived deep into so many healing modalities to try to vibe myself up to "feel" like I was doing all I could to heal me. I have to say, and I'll be honest I thought these fragmented parts of me were just what they were and I needed to wear my shit shoes my whole life while wading through it all. Not in a "poor woe is me" way but instead in a "I'm at a loss" way.
My point... a specific time, place and person showed up. A trusted friend and a shamanic healer with ancestors/allies that guide her way. I'm talking about Soul retrieval. I've had versions of this in my early years and never felt a change. I blamed my "cursed" self for not being perfect, not being of the high vibe of all of my teachers and friends. The truth is. I had to be ready. I had to have the right healer, I had to let life unfold in an organic way.
Those bits and pieces of me have been woken and weaved together like a colorful tapestry. It was a healing journey but not easy or taken lightly. For the first time I saw what was eating away at me. I watched it leave and I wept.
If you are feeling it's time to integrate the fragments of who you are and you are ready, contact me. I may have someone for you that can assist.
I'm still in awe, I still feel it to my bones and soul bones. And I'm beyond grateful and blessed.
Here's to growth, here's to never giving up, and here's to all the men and woman out there doing the ancestral work...
Blessings be from a very unified me...xoxo
I got permission to share Her contact is: https://www.facebook.com/charlotteshemaya
All the changes and so much more to come. How do you keep the darkness at bay? With this past year its been difficult to decipher what is ours and what belongs to the whole collective.
I've kept it at bay for myself by continuing to include my spiritual beliefs in my everyday life. That doesn't mean I'm perfect and or smell like roses, however I've survived up to this point with love as my basic necessity. These days can be eye opening and heart wrenching, yet we hold on to hope with a tight grip.
This life is beautiful, unique, and I like our outer shells a lot more than I do some Universal shells lol Just sayin..
This picture was a part of my hope process. I took this picture over 4 years ago with my sister in Santa Cruz. Words can't adequately describe the beauty of that moment, the smells, the sounds. I'm looking forward to the day when she and I are standing here again...soaking up that Lemurian energy and loving the moment as it simply unfolds.
Here's to you, here's to us all...love, light and sometimes a little whoop ass. Oh and patience... xoxo love and blessings to you..
A seed was planted this weekend. One that grows from love and gets sustenance from the light within.
A random happening. This weekend I was in Teacher/Wisdom Keeper training for Ama Deus, a healing modality based on love energy.
After class, four of us went for a drive to enjoy the outdoors. Visiting those favorite places of peace. In our adventurous day we stop into Evolve in Glen Arbor to say hello.
While I was getting checked out, a little girl caught my eye. She has large Crystalline eyes, soft round face and her innocence was pouring out from her energy as she looked at the crystals/stones.
I said hi, and engaged and she pulled back a bit then said hello. Testing the waters lol, seeing if I was safe. She showed me what she was looking at and again with such excitement. Her brother turned the corner and was inquisitive as to who his sister was talking to so we began to chat.
I told them both they could pick something out and I'd buy it for them with permission from whoever they were with. The boy ran back and said "yes she said it was ok"....with a big smile on his face. He picked out a nice sized rose quartz....she picked out a tree with Aventurine stones on it. After I gave them their stones I turned to say goodbye. She looked pouty and said I can't give you a hug but I want to. So I crossed my heart with my hands and said lets do it this way. I leaned in closed my eyes and hugged in an alternate but powerful way. As I got into the car I looked up and saw them outside the door. Both waving and all excited. Then something just golden happened. They did the sign for "I love you"... I almost cried and the love poured into my heart. We of course did it back and started to pull away. They ran down the sidewalk waving the symbol at us in such excitement. This experience wasn't about what I did for these two children or that I bought them something. It was just a divine moment. A moment that was worth far more then what I bought for them....because what they did for me was priceless. It's been far too long since I have felt a wave of love pass through me like this. I will never forget them and they will live in my prayers and hearts for all time.
You see they....planted a seed inside my heart.
In this past year I took the time to dive within and open up old doors to create a new energy for me in this lifetime.
I started my Druid studies and am moving along slowly. Moving quickly through this wouldn’t serve me one bit so I am taking my time and absorbing all that I can. It’s a natural and organic awakening to energy that was once in my realm. I am blessed for the rediscovery.
I am also wrapping up my Priestess Training. I am a Jaguar Priestess from the Andean Masters in Peru. This has been very close to the Earth/Sky energy of the Druid studies. I love the women that have been journeying with me and birthing that exquisite into my life today.
I have also taken Level one to the Soulminding Classes and am looking forward to Level two. The lessons there are also invaluable.
This past weekend I became a Wisdom Keeper in the Ama Deus tradition of healing. A healing modality based on love, healing all brokenness.
Overload? Energy Addict? No. To me this time of silence in the past year was for me to dust off all portions, bits and pieces of who I’ve been and pour them into my current melting pot of self.
This time has been full of many lessons. Most of all was forgiveness. Not just for others but for my portion of the combined journey with them. I’m in no way perfect and never will be but I will try always to be a better version of myself daily. Of course I’m human. There are days when rude people, traffic, and less then caring people cross my path, and I do my best accordingly. ;)
The part of the year that saved me, was when my familiar re-entered my life. An orange dragon with matching fire came into my dream time. It’s my friend, my soul, my anchor and my protector. A love of this magnitude reminded me of how large our soul bodies are. The ancient times showing up and reminding me of our power and grace.
I have been truly blessed in this past year. Trials and all. Easy? Not so much but it proved to me that I am a survivor and have more strength then I ever realized. So to honor this new awakening I wanted to have a neckless made to honor it. Just randomly I noticed a woman who makes and sells them. Long story short I asked her to make me my shield. The picture I shared here is just that.
I am all things of this Earth, I am a Jaguar Woman, and a Priestess and believer in all things divine…all while in this shell of human.
This journey was made possible by all of my friends, family and soul family members. I love you all with a soft grace and with the passion of the flame.
Blessings be
Tracey
Thank you Juanita Melendez for the exquisite neckless/shield that you created for me. Love and blessings to you always…xoxo
When someone’s ego is so inflated that they attack you and your achievements just remember what it took for you to actually dare to do what you did. Remember the joy the pain and the accomplishment. They are dealing with their own lack of self worth and in reality it doesn't have anything do with you. And it has everything to do with them... So dare to be and bless the fact that your heart comes from a place of integrity..xo
Good morning. The snow is gently falling. Now if the anxiety in the world could just do the same that would be great.
I'm seriously blessed with so many people in my life that make these times look as smooth as JIF peanut butter. There are some that have been completely leveled by all that has transpired over the past year. Both are survivors. Both hold the hand of the other and move forward. I'm not blowing sunshine at the situation with my head in the sand but truly we are doing pretty good with holding the light during these dark times.
As most know by my book on the dark night of the soul....I'm not afraid of diving in and stirring lessons up to transmute. But to say it's a fun ride in the park? No I can't.
In other words...I love you all for your resilience and compassion. I honor each of us for making a positive difference in these challenging times.
My Dad wrote this for me years ago and it's how I really feel about my family and friends.
"Love cannot be measured
for in one brief moment
it reaches out and touches
someone and it shall last a
lifetime".
We have made special connections in this life, good, bad or ugly there have been many teachers along the way. I bless those short relationships along with my lifetime relationships.
Let's just love...deal?
It's been far to long~
Good morning
Have you ever woke up in the morning with anxiety about all the things you need to get done in one day?
And then I laugh at myself because I know it will all work out. Simply let the day unfold, breathe and be true to the moment you are in. Why do we let ourselves feel overwhelmed when we also know we can and are getting it done.
I do think part of it is that I would like to stay home under my blankets, with my cats on my lap and watching ghost shows.
Ahh yes that’s the cause of the anxiety.
I embrace today knowing all my to do’s will be done with grace and ease and I will not just survive...I’ll make time for love.
Blessings be.
For those who don't know I also do home health care. Over the years of being with these people they aren't just clients they are my family. Being observant of their journey while they move through the last stages of life or exist daily with disability's can take your emotions into depths of worry and care that you never knew.
This past Saturday, just into Saturday at 12:39 I got a call from one of my ladies. She said she wasn't feeling well and I said I would be right over. It took me only 10 minutes. She was already gone. This beautiful lady was finally released from the pain of cancer and of missing the love of her life that had passed on many years ago. I did the usual by calling 911 and while we had moments alone I said a prayer of thankfulness for her life lived and her friendship. We had just been shopping the morning before and laughing and I did some Reiki on her and then we had tea. I cried from that place of void where there would be a hole in my day where we use to be. Yet my heart knew she was finally back home in the arms of her lover.
Our elderly are those precious jewels that we are gifted. Some of us see this and some don't. We sometimes can't look beyond the burden of care and the change in who they become in the end. There are so many factors involved here. All I can share from my own lessons with my Mother is this. Look at your loved one in two ways. They are who they have always been in your life, then there is their pain body. The pain body is the one that tries so hard to defeat us and chews away at our energy. When you feel that way, center your heart and remember the truth of who they really are, and love yourself for being able to see that and your own beauty.
They say life is short, and believe me it can be. But instead of thinking that, maybe just live day to day in the love of God/Universe and be the best we can be. Some of those days may be us struggling through the dark and some are like we are as high as the stars themselves.
Let your days unfold like the lotus seeking the sun. Be the root that feeds that bloom from the depths of the murky water below. Both in balance is needed in all things.
So a day later, with the sunshine streaming through the window I'm feeling her love. I'm feeling her joy. So to you my friend I say thank you for sharing your heart with me.
Journey on~
Water draws me in like an old lover. Whispering sweet everything to me. Enticing me inside every drop, while gathering thoughts of yesterday and this moment. Dream state becomes a part of every breath. All my problems drift away in the current and there I am left for a bountiful renewal.
Baptism of sorts. Cleansing away the monkey brain and allowing me to just be. Why is that important? Because I'm tired of being a fool and being fooled. Of people hurting each other over and over for reasons that make no sense. I've lost so much that there are too many moments where I wonder if I'll ever be found again. I feel like God put love in my life only to tease me with it. I watched the faces of my parents as they died and then my sister which was all too soon. Loosing all this love to find what? Self love? Self preservation? Well, I'm not good at alone. I don't do it well. And when my eyes meet the water, when my heart feels the vibration of the flow, I'm so close to heaven that I feel them all as if they were standing there with me again. My lover looking into my eyes. My Father, larger than life smiling at me. My Mother's grace and softness soothing me. And the most loyal and committed love from my sister.
That's why I love any body of water so much...it's me...getting to be with them all again...in my little piece of heaven..xo