Hi Beary Flash here entertaining your questions now! [ for all the questions I changed the text color for the answers except for the big piece on Rainbow Goddess Path]

Q. Could you tell us a little bit about about your path and how it has developed? What advice would you give to yourself as you were when you started out if you could talk to yourself then?


The best way that I can accurately describe  my path today as I know it is to call it The Rainbow Goddess Path.

WALKING A RAINBOW GODDESS PATH

For me, there is nothing more important than my spiritual path which I am knowing and understanding more each day. I have walked this path for many many moons calling myself or being called a Witch, Shaman,,Healer, Pagan, Goddess worshiper working with  Dianic Wicca,Yoruba, Native American, Feng Sui, Tantric paths and others.

I finally recognize and have words for this path that I walk now and it is a Rainbow Goddess Path where we honor diversity with many traditions, not to water any down, but to embrace each unique part and hold Sacred that which resonates. This does not  include the appropriation of another’s culture and passing it off as your own.
For me this is a decidedly Womanspirit path yet one that goes beyond the Western European and Celtic styles that have been the mainstay of my Dianic Wiccan circles for some 20 years.

You might think that after working for 25+ years on the Wise Woman’s Tarot, which is among other things, a Global View of the Goddess, creating Womanspirit Rising 1990, which was the first Multi-traditional Women’s Spirituality Gathering in the South at least, or surely the creation of the Annual Wise Woman Festival which is in its 8th year should  have suggested that my spirituality had gone Global, had become larger than one tradition and that this was done by me with intention or moved through me by the Goddess.

It is not unusual for my intellect to play catch up with my intuition. I essentially follow my inner guidance and do what appears to be my mission and then understand it intellectually later which is the opposite of how Western and mainstream folk go about their lives.
Being a double Pisces,I am content to swim through the cosmic waters in my own unique style and I rarely feel the need to define myself too tightly.

At this point though, it feels so important to not only claim this Rainbow Goddess Path that I walk and have also defined, but to embrace it so that I may experience it more fully and share with others of a like mind as well.
I have so enjoyed getting to know other Priestesses and Priests, Shamans, and Medicine Women whose spirituality, like mine, is as much a part of them as their own skin. It is refreshing for me to meet with others who coexist with me on the Mother who see the world through a similar and heartful lens.

The Blues Sisters

As both a Dianic Witch and one who walks a Rainbow Goddess Path, our ways are more tribal and inclusive and do not bow to the traditions and expectations of the corporate world. We approach the world with a vision and a deep dream of peace and harmony as well as a desire for us each to become a progressive flash point for positive change, justice and healing.
Leadership is important yet we need to move away from the more hierarchical ways of most traditions and seek to empower the individuals which ultimately co creates a more powerful circle.

There’s no getting away from the fact that some of us , like myself have worked our entire lives serving as Priestesses and teachers and we just plain know more, however, that doesn’t mean we should hold onto that position for dear life and not teach others to one day be able to step up as well. As a matter of fact, if we do not, our magic and wisdom will die with us

We Elders do deserve our space, honor and respect and we need to be conscious of our responsibility to help create the New World being birthed as the Blue Star whirls and swirls pitching us to and fro in this Cauldron of seeming Chaos.
It is no longer possible to”not know” where we are to place our energies. Ignorance is not bliss and we each need to find that magical space where we can be most in touch with the inner and outer Goddess as well as our personal Mission Plan.

If I could speak to little Flash when she was just a Flicker, I would affirm to her that she is wise and a very unique individual who knows how to follow her gut and that it will never fail her. I would tell her that as she does this, she will always know the right direction and that one day she will inspire and teach many women and some men how to honor the Mother and themselves.

Q. Has there been any one event or experience which has been especially important to the development of your path?

I had begun experiencing my spirituality as a teenager, opening to reading Tarot Cards, having out of body experiences and experimenting with psychometry, object reading. I had studied  the writings of Edgar Cayce, who shares my birth date, and many other metaphysical volumes but the one thing that dumped me head first into the deep end of the psychic pool was my connection with the spirit of Janis Joplin shortly after her death in Oct 1970!

I hesitate to share that fact because when you include a famous person, folks tend not to believe you but this is the Goddess honest truth.

You can read the entire story in my new E book Janis Joplin and Me, 40 Years of Music and Magic  I finally felt like I could write this all down last year on the 40th Anniversary of her death. You can get it through my website http://www.flashsilvermoon.com and judge for yourself. Having a powerful spirit such as hers communicating with you on a daily basis will get anybody jump started I will tell you that. When I was a Witchlet of 20, I wondered, “Why me?”, but as a 61 year old Crone, I have come to understand exactly  why she came to me, and then it was time to tell the story.

As I became a feminist  in my early twenties and then a lesbian, Positive Magic and Witchcraft felt like just the thing for me. Marion Weinstein who wrote the book of that name was an early influence on WBAI radio in NYC. When Z Budapest came to town in 1975 bringing the first Dianic Wiccan Circle to New York, I felt like my sexual, political and spiritual world came together as we connected at Kay Gardner’s house at first as a part of the Susan B Anthony Coven and then as the new Amelia Earhart Coven. Days later I moved to North Central Florida and started the Elizabeth Gould Davis Coven which is still in existence here at my Sanctuary of Moonhaven in Melrose.  Z and I are still sisters all these many years later.

Meeting and working with Z Budapest was a life changing experience. She gave me a format for the spiritual path that I was seeking with Dianic Wicca and she is a most charismatic Priestess. The Women’s Spirituality Movement at large owes a huge debt of gratitude to Z for her work as an organizer,Priestess and author.

Q. You have been called a ‘Spiritual Renaissance Woman’; what do you think this means and do you think the term applies to you?
Yes, when I look at my website and work at balancing the projects in my life, I see the many worlds that I inhabit, I can definitely see myself in that light!

I am a Priestess, psychic, astrologer, stone healer, animal communicator and vibrational healer [which encompasses crystals, gem elixirs,flower essences, starlight elixirs, aroma therapy, Reiki, grid keeping and making, weather work, and sound healing]. I work with Feng Sui and other methods to clear and effect change in homes.

I teach, am a published author, radio personality both guest and host of my own weekly talk show every Wed 8:30-9 Pm EST called “What the Animals Tell Me” http://www.internetvoicesradio.com LIVE on Wed and Archives anytime, anywhere too this is a station with Global Reach. This is one of the ways that I am able to help the beloved animals. I also volunteer as an Animal Communicator and Healer at Junglefriends Primate Sanctuary, Windhorse Sanctuary and EARS Endangered Animal Rescue Sanctuary which is mostly Big Cats whom I adore and some bears and others too. Soon I hope to work with the Elephants at a local Sanctuary.

Lastly, and originally firstly, I am a musician and perform and record. I have 2 CD’s available of rock, blues, worldbeat, funk and jazz. I have  been performing since I was  13 in the folk clubs o NYC and then rock venues all over the country. More about that later

Q. To what extent does your path inspire your music? Does your music affect your path and if so in what ways?

Well, I am a very spontaneous person even though I can be very organized when it comes to recording and somewhat in performing and my spirituality feels that way as well. I don’t like a lot of rules and boundaries so I really enjoy playing and writing all kinds of music. I can perform spontaneous Space Music at the drop of a hat to wrap around one of my guided visualizations and draw people into the outer realms for healing and relaxation or play this same type of music and shape shift with the dolphins and whales and guide them away from the BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. I had Full Moon music Circles to do that for about a year. The animals really love this stuff too.

After an afternoon of teaching classes at the Wise Woman’s Festival or for some rally for Gay Pride or other Human Rights causes, I will gather up my Blues Sisters and we will tear up the place rockin’ and jamming til midnight and beyond with hi-energy rock, blues,world, funk and jazz so that we can all kick it hard and dance like dervishes to shake off the funk that can gather on us!

. Because I am a Priestess and another Blues Sister Omi Aladora Ajamu are both longtime Priestesses of our own cultures, the music we create  is absolutely elevating and engages all 7 chakras. The other regular Blues Sisters such as Pandora, Denise and Alycin are all very spiritual women as well so we can all appreciate the energetic and healing magic of music.

I like to write music that is uplifting even if I have to share a difficult subject like Katrina, in my yet to be released song called N’awlins on my Mind. Here I started off with a mournful blues tune to describe the misery and rage and then turned it into a rap over Afro Cuban drumming and even a few rounds of the Spiritual “Wade in the Water”,to bring in some of the many elements of African Music together honoring those lost. The song ends with a chant to Damballa Aweido the sacred ancestral serpent imploring  to retrieve these lost ones of the Diaspora.

“Don’t Leave them all alone,Damballa take them home…Damballa Damballa Damballa Damballa Aweido ” Each time I perform this one my body shakes and I know some of the lost are taken home.

Q. What does being an animal communicator involve? Are there any drawbacks to being able to communicate with animals?

I adore animals plain and simple and always have. Even when my practice did not involve animals specifically I did the occasional animal reading for my own animals sometimes as well as using my skills to find missing pets which is the hardest thing that I do. My Wise Woman’s Tarot even has a section on Reading For Your Pets!

After working almost exclusively for people for about 18 years or so I began working with animals in earnest partly because my own animals were aging and needed a more alternative approach than ordinary veterinary medicine. I had certainly begun learning how to communicate with them more deeply as my Shepherd Luna became paraplegic and needed me to help her get around. Her story is also in The Wise Woman’s Tarot.

The big shift was when the Vet told me that my dog Spirit, who was only 1 1/2 Years of age, would maybe live another couple of years at best due to a heart problem. First I freaked and then I got busy and found a remarkable woman, Kay Cornish Mann, who indeed was very skilled as an holistic animal healer, and she was an ANIMAL COMMUNICATOR. We hit it off and began working on Spirit and then some of my others  and in this process, I also became an Animal Communicator and my healing skills grew and were greatly enhanced by learning from my mentor. By the way Spirie, or as he came to be called, Bear, a more grounded name, lived to be 13 years old.

What I know now is that the animals communicate with us and each other all the time and that we can become part of the conversation and have a much richer relationship or we can miss that depth of connection when we assume that they are “just animals.”

Listening is the big part of communicating with animals and it means first and foremost to “expect to hear from them.” Our human chauvinism can keep us from knowing much more about their world which is quite beautiful and can teach us all a lot. This is true whether I am communicating with Daunte my tiger friend at EARS who didn’t pop right up and visit last week because he was hurting and needed a homeopathic for arthritis or when I am listening to my own dog Happy when she gives me that look to tell me that one of her cats is at the back door.

Sometimes I literally hear their voice inside my head telling me things or they may shoot me a visual or an emotion or all three. Treating them with Flower Essences, Gem Elixirs or Homeopathics is a joy as they often show healing and progress immediately unlike humans who tend to put up more blocks.

It is so amazing to see Duke the tiger lapping up Arbor Garden Flower Essence from my dropper and thanking me with big tiger licks all over my hands, he is a doll, or when the monkeys take the Lithium Quartz Gem Elixir spritz that I make and take it in their little hands and rub themselves all over and then ask for more. Sometimes as with Duke, I have been able to pull animals off the edge of death because I can hear what they need when the vets have given up and this is so fulfilling.

I am putting the finishing touches on my book about animals; Lifetime Companions: Love Never Dies, which deals with holistic healing, my adventures with sanctuary and other animals as well as my own and most importantly, reincarnation and our pets.

How could there be any drawbacks to this except for the fact that one cannot always save them all.

Come to my BLOG on my site http://www.flashsilvermoon.com for many many wonderful tales of Animal Healing and Women’s Spirituality too.

Q. Could you tell us a little bit about the Womanspirit Rising circle and why you created it?

Great question and good story too. It was April 1990 3 AM and I was awakened by some deep female voice telling me,”Flash you must gather the women!” OK, OK I grumbled when I wake up.” No, now the voice commanded!” By this time my whole body trembled and shook. The Goddess Herself had a plan for me and I had best be up to the challenge.

I had organized many circles and events but nothing like what I was about to undertake. Between 3 and 6 AM I got an Astrological fix on the date July 10 1990,Full Moon in Capricorn with all the outer planets making an aspect to Mama Moon. the place, Kanapaha Botanical Gardens in Gainesville Florida, and all but one of the Priestesses and co Priestesses. I wanted to create a Multi-Traditional Circle that wove together the many cultures of women on the planet, to activate all the Ancient Mothers, and so we did.

I figured that in order to have a really large circle cleansing the circle with fire and water would need a fire and water witch in each of the 4 directions to work simultaneously clockwise covering their quadrant so that  cleansing would not take the whole day. This also spread the power around and got more women involved and worked perfectly.

Without any big publicity in the papers or on line we manifested over 350 women of every age and style in this small college town with a simple black and white flier. Clearly the Goddess knew that it was time to empty the Broom Closet and activate the Divine Feminine. I also created a portion of the circle called The Ancient Mothers Speak and asked some 13 women to come dressed to represent as many different Goddesses and speak a few lines that I had written and it was absolutely stunning.

I had my friend Bahira, the Jew Witch and eclectic mix of Buddhism and New Age to call in the East, I covered the South as a Dianic Priestess, Georg Suzuki, Shaman of Native American and Japanese origin called in the West and I wanted an African Priestess to bring in the North but I didn’t know any.

This piece seemed most important and fortunately another friend told me that some Yoruba Priests had recently moved to town. I called the Baba and he referred me to Ayoka, the most serene being that I think I have ever met. She is a Priest of Yemonja, the Yoruba [Nigerian] Orisha [Goddess] of the Ocean and the Moon. She agreed to be the Priestess of the North and also call in the Ancestors and our group was complete.

Typically when you create an event you wind up waiting around for all the latecomers but not this event. The 4 of us Priestesses couldn’t even find a good parking spot 1/2 hr before Womanspirit Rising so we were high to start. I do believe this first  Circle was the most powerful that I have ever experienced and that is saying something.

Q. Your Wisewoman’s Tarot is a well-known and respected tarot; could you tell us about how you created it and your inspirations? Other than the Wisewoman’s Tarot, do you have a favourite tarot set?

Wow, The Wise Woman’s Tarot was a huge process and took me a mere 25 years. I did not originally plan on creating a new deck and book rather I thought that I was creating a good “How to book” that my many students had requested. There was this one renegade page called Visions for a New Deck and that little imperialist took over the entire project! Let me say contrary to Amazon.com,, The Wise Woman’s Tarot is not out of print and is very available through my website.

As I have stated before, I tend to listen to Spirit for my instructions and follow them when so directed and such was the case with TWWT.  I started when I was around 26, a Maiden, and she was published on Oct 31 2002. I had worked with and taught the Tarot for some 6 years before beginning this project which actually turned out to be a life-work.

Because I have deep respect for the Tarot as a body of esoteric knowledge, I didn’t want to just slap a feminist wash over the cards or repeat what anyone else had done so I researched Global Goddess herstory for 15 years.

My process with choosing which Goddesses, Gods and Heroines to match with certain cards was a total intuitive process. I did not say to myself, let’s find a Native American for the 4 of wands or an Egyptian for the Universe[my card for the World] rather I allowed thousands of years of myth and herstory to wash over me til the right match bubbled up to take its rightful place in the Major or Minor Arcana. I wanted for this deck to make a space for all cultures at the metaphysical table and particularly to reveal the fact that the Goddess, Matriarchy and even Amazonism was a worldwide phenomena just as Patriarchy is today.[hopefully not for long though]

This journey does not represent a desire on my part to live in the past but rather to update the Tarot, take it out of the Middle Ages, to give images that all races can relate, and to honor the Divine Feminine in all her glory. Some of the male deities that I show are pre patriarchal to offer a better male image and some are some of the good old bad boys of patriarchal culture like Rama.

I offer images of very familiar Goddesses like Isis, Kwan Yin, Hecate and White Buffalo Woman, Amateratsu the Sun Goddess that is still worshipped to this day by the Shinto of Japan orlesser known deities like Perchta from Germany, Sabulana from South Africa, Bochica from Colombia, Oshun from Nigeria, or Thorgerd from Iceland.

Something deep inside me pushed me onward through this seemingly never ending process of finding all the Goddesses and others to create this deck and then finding the right illustrator was quite a challenge but as you can see, Barbara Vogel perfectly executed my designs and text rendering a vibrant, potent and exquisite tribute to all these Ancient Ones. I wanted the images to be as powerful as the text and I believe she delivered just that. As I began using the  first  photos of the images in order to be able to finish  my  writing about this deck I discovered that  one of the main differences in using my deck was that it connected me to Ancestral energies, past life energies as well as deepened my understanding of the Tarot itself.

Seeing all these images spring to life and being able to wrap my words around them was absolutely thrilling and totally inspired me to bring this baby out of the womb and into the world. This could have not been accomplished without the  support and  publishing by Tara Silverfox who midwifed this labor of love into manifestation.

It was Tara’s idea to give the book a spiral binding allowing it to be very user friendly and many other details that were beyond my energy at the end of this project. Tara also had the idea to have our own pouches created to hold the book and deck rather than putting  many dollars into plastic and cardboard packaging that would only grace the landfills. We also wanted the money to make these bags to go to women.

Having lived in Afghanistan for many years Tara knew of a women’s artist collective called Parsa who had survived under most extreme conditions and we agreed to give them the job and they created the most gorgeous hand made ,hand dyed silk pouches. It felt so good to put the consciousness of TWWT into manifestation supporting women from around the world.

As far as other decks, I have enjoyed using The Secret Dakini Oracle, The Medicine Cards and the old standard Rider Waite Smith Deck. I add the word Smith to this deck as it was illustrated by Pamela Coleman Smith who rarely gets the credit that she deserves.

 Whew BIG SUBJECT

Q. What are you working on at the moment?

 I have quite a few projects simmering on the back front and side burners. I am doing more work at the Animal Sanctuaries lately. I will be working on a video to illustrate the many forms of holistic health care that can help the animals lead happier and healthier lives and not be bound only to drugs, in particular the primate and big cat sanctuaries.

Some of my students are making a Documentary about my life and I am about to produce more recorded music both of the Space Music variety as well as  my Hi energy rock n blues music.I am hoping to be able to record some music specifically for the animals too.

I am seeking publishers for several books that are almost complete and are being finished as we speak.

Lifetime Companions : Love Never Dies about my work with the animals.

Flash Silvermoon’s Planetary Playbook and CD’s

This is a good and progressive astrology book coupled with a series of Astrological Visualizations, Meditations and Rituals for the 12 signs of the Zodiac.

These guided visualizations will  be recorded with my multi keyboard/percussion Space Music to help each journey elevate and flow. The book needs to be re edited and I need to record the CDs for this to be complete.

 Temple of Isis -This is my channeled remembrance of my life as one of the Priestesses Of Isis in the Temple of the Bells in Egypt

Flashbacks – In process -My autobiography which highlights those fabulous 60′s and 70′s as well as my later years from a Woman Identified perspective – lots of fun to read and write. Tales from my well spent youth and the wise woman that I have become.

I would really love to work with Oprah Winfrey about raising consciousness around the lives of animals particularly how to communicate with them and understand how they can and do reincarnate so that all animal lovers can be relieved of some of the grief of loss..

So….. this was quite a project but as you can see  my plate is kind of full and

I LOVE IT ALL!!

BLESSED BE FLASH SILVERMOON

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by Flash Silvermoon        

It was one of those beautiful warm sunny days that we in North Central Florida adore, especially when it comes at the end of January. I made a New Years promise to myself and the animals that I would do my best to get to an animal Sanctuary a week and since the end of December, my photographer friend Pandora and I have done just that and are just loving it.

I have a very special affection for the Big Cats and  and the women who care for them. I
I have been coming to EARS since 2001. As an Animal Communicator and healer, I  have made some incredibly deep friendships with the animals, especially the tigers and I don’t think that it hurts that I am a Tiger in the Chinese zodiac. My physical energy and stamina seem to extend far beyond my typical levels when I am there which still surprises me. Outside of my beautiful home/sanctuary at Moonhaven in Melrose, Florida, there is no place that I would rather be.

For as many times as I go to this little piece of animal heaven, I am always blown away with gratitude for the work being done at EARS and even more for the opportunity to be able to share my energies and abilities with the animals that need me. As I stand by the turnout of gentle tiger, Rick James I am overwhelmed by his tender greeting, always sweet kisses on my hands as he rubs against the mesh between us like a big house cat.

I must have racked up some nice piles of good karma to have the honor of walking amongst tigers and lions and bears Oh my! Of all the unusual things that I have done in my life,  this connection and healing work with exotic animals and especially the big cats was something that this psychic didn’t see coming.

Coming to EARS is not like going to a zoo for me even though there is always a  needed separation between the people and the animals. It’s like coming to visit my old friends who just happen to be 4 legged, furry and rather large. One must never forget that these are still wild animals, but with many of the cats and bears you would never know this by the way we interact.

The two young lions, Venus and Apollo are now roaring and Gail Bowen, one of the founders exclaimed that it was very unusual for them to be roaring at this time. I suggested that maybe they were calling us because we had promised to come back and visit as we passed their turnout when we entered the compound. Pandora and I called Venus and Apollo, our roaring friends, and assured them that we would return next time and they got quiet so it was agreed that they were only saying hello and wanted us to come back.

It is most important to share that I have been treating most of these animals since they were babies with Greenhope Farm Flower Essences,Homeopathy, my Gem Elixirs, healing energy and most importantly, LOVE. Anybody who thinks that animals don’t remember a kindness, need only view the welcome that I receive  from my 4 legged friends at EARS.Their warmth and joy is totally contagious and opens my heart to its fullest.

Delilah is a new and younger tigress but has always been extremely friendly and today is no exception. As a matter of fact, she like all the other tigresses is in heat so she is really
friendly and wants loads of attention. We rub her and talk to her and she responds with little tiger licks and a lot of chuffing which is the sound that all tigers make when they are happy. I know that being in season is somewhat uncomfortable for them and so I give her some Arbor Garden flower essence which makes people and animals feel like they are being held by the angels and it is also anti inflammatory. She seems happy for the drops and the nurturing and sprints off to roll around in her huge turnout. Before we leave that section she returns over and over for more scratches and drops.          Delilah

The animals of EARS are all happy, well fed, clean and well loved now but some, as in any sanctuary, have really sad stories of injury, neglect and abandonment. This is not a breeding facility or a place to adopt or sell exotics. The animals find their forever homes here at EARS where they are safe from exploitation and all of the other harsh ways that animals can find themselves treated.  Sadly there are some 10,000 tigers in this country with unscrupulous breeders creating more daily and they are on the verge of extinction in the wild. As much as all the  people who rescue and create sanctuaries for the exotics love their animals, we all wish that they were living in their real homes and running free.

Getting off my soap box for a moment, the reason we came to EARS on this particular day was because 2 of my lion friends who had passed away over the last few years had come to me in my morning meditation several days before.

Sierra

In all my years visiting the cats and meditating,  this had never happened so I took it seriously. Jumanji, who has had to be the most gorgeous male lion that ever lived was the first to appear and then Sierra, the lioness who I had shared many special moments with in the past. It was as if they placed their faces in front of mine one at a time so that I could see each one clearly and then Sierra looked to the right showing me an orange tiger walking away. I tried to tune in to which one it was because I got the clear message that this tiger needed my help. I had a sense that the tiger in question was Zhivah a very sweet cat who had had some problem with her front leg.

I decided to call Gail and see if any of the orange tigers were having any trouble. She said that everyone was basically fine. When I asked her about Zhivah she said that she hadn’t been doing too well since Sierra died,They were a real odd couple because one was a tigress and the other a lioness and that usually does not happen but they truly adored each other. Gail told me that when Sierra was dying from cancer, Zhivah licked her day and night as she lay with a morphine drip in her side and when beautiful Sierra took her last breath, Zhivah draped her body over her dead partner. They were so so precious.

And still, some foolish people will report after years of “study” that animals indeed have feelings!

I had treated Zhivah for grief a while ago when it was fresher but apparently she still needed some help in that process and I had been summoned by the spirit of Sierra and Jumanji to do just that. It is not impossible to get some homeopathics into the mouth of a gentle tiger and I was gambling that I would be successful by simply placing them on her tongue when she licked my hand. Because she was in heat and bouncing around a bit with her roommate Daunte I had to be quick and watch for my moment and then seize it.Yes! I was able to slide it right on top of her tongue. I wasn’t afraid because she is one of the very gentlest of the tigers and I have learned from treating monkeys how to work really fast.

When treating animals with flower essences, gem elixirs or homeopathy, you will know that you have hit your mark if they either get really peaceful, which she did, or get extremely active and exhilarated which she did later having a full on love fest with dear Daunte, another of my all time fave cats. He had always wanted to love her and be loved by her and it gave my heart such peace seeing these beautiful tigers, one white and one orange bounding and cuddling and licking each other in pure joy.  It was clear that the homeopathic that I had given her for grief had helped her move beyond her pain and loss as did the spritz that I sprayed on both of them called Illuminating White Light.

I only hope that their love affair lasts beyond her heat for Daunte’s sake. It is important for all of us to have someone to love and the Big Cats are no different.

Daunte is a tiger that I have known since he was a cub and such a sweet boy he was and is.  When he was about a year old he was  a Surprise Guest at the 2nd Annual Wise Woman’s Festival that I produce and he was the perfect gentleman and a delight to all.

Daunte was a sickly cub and almost didn’t make it on several occasions. I treated him many times and took him on as a special friend to visit regularly. At first, I thought that I might sit and read to him having heard from another source that animals liked this sort of thing and no doubt some do however, Mr. Daunte had  some better ideas for our friendship and it was called playing Pounce!

At this point in his young life, he was in a round and ample cage all by himself near the lions. He had a little house inside and when he saw me coming he would play hide and seek with me, ducking behind his little house. My job was to lean near the cage and call him pretending that I didn’t see him and then he would come flying at me pouncing in my direction as I of course  jumped backwards. He loved this more physical game and we played often and it is no doubt part of the reason that he happily comes  to me whenever I return giving me big tiger kisses all over my hands and making his distinctive happy groaning sounds that are all Daunte. So many Daunte stories to tell but I don;t want to digress too far from this beautiful day at EARS.

After treating Zhivah and Daunte I really felt  like I had accomplished my main mission for this trip but I had many more friends to visit. { Just as an update : Zhivah is much happier than before and is joyfully accepting Daunte as her new partner. I am so deeply satisfied knowing that I could make a difference in the lives of 2 of my favorite tigers}

Believe it or not, there is also a large turnout which is the home for some 6 or 7 deer not far from the cats and we stepped inside to visit  with them. I saw Cherie laying in the shade. She was the first deer that came to EARS and fortunately I was there that day s well when she arrived so small and scared after her mother  had been killed on the road. We could see that she was blind, born with no eyes and so of course she would find a home at EARS. The day she  arrived was the birthday of our dear friend Cherie who had passed away several years before and so the new little fawn was called Cherie. From that day on it seemed as though the word was out in deerville that EARS was a cool place to live and so several more wound up being given a home there.

I got to interact with Bucky and Vinny a bit and Bucky was very kissy. I gave them all some flower essences as well. They seemed amazingly placid for living so near so many big cats but all seemed quite well with the deer section.

Next stop was the huge and gorgeous white Sultan. Sometimes he may appear to be a formidable wild cat but today, he was more like a big white pussycat. I also knew Sultan as a little cub and even fed him his ba ba {bottle} on many occasions. He was a very even tempered cub unlike some of the white variety and was absolutely adorable. Hard to imagine this humongous tiger could have been so little but he was.

Today,  I can feel a little restlessness in him so I offer Sultan some drops of Arbor Garden at which point he suddenly laid down in front of us as peaceful as you please. Gail exclaimed,” That’s amazing, he just laid right down!” None of us expected such an instantaneous reaction but it really can work that way sometimes.After many Sultan kisses we moved on before he played one of his favorite games with his beloved swimming pool; splash Flash. Don’t ask!

Animals are so receptive to alternative medicine and have no need to block or question the process. All they need to know is does it feel better or not! They don’t hide their good response or rationalize their improvement like many people do by saying,”Oh maybe I just wanted it to make me better………ad nauseum” I find the honesty of animals so refreshing.

I could not leave EARS without seeing my bestest buddy Duke. My connection with him is a huge

story in itself  but let me just say for brevity that I helped save his life when he was dying.

Before reaching Duke’s compound, we passed the leopards and the monkeys and we visited with them briefly. Gail has a precious new Capuchin  that she has rescued who is an absolute doll, very young and playful and I gave him some drops which he predictably loved. All the primates that I have treated seem to love this stuff as well as the gem elixirs that I spritzed as well.

As we walked further around the bend I caught sight of the bears and they caught sight of me as well. There always has to be some bear time after all. I visited Cozy bear first and he was being kind of quiet so I moved down to Adam and his brother bear and old Mama bear who is nobody’s mom but takes on the role. Gail gave us vanilla thins to give them treats.

Bears have notorious sweet tooths and these lived up to their reputation quite nicely. Even though their larger turnout is not complete yet the cubs play happily bounding from one space to the next. They are not so small anymore and are about 51/2 feet tall when they stand up in front of me or maybe taller. They are all loving the cookies and taking them eagerly as fast as we can get them out of the bag. Sometimes the boys start to get grabby with the cookies and so Mama steps in and separates them to keep the peace. She is usually pretty shy but when she saw me giving the boys their flowers, she decided that she had to have some of the lovely flower essences for herself and then we had 3 very happy bears. Adam decided that a few drops was not enough for him and must have extended his tongue out nearly a foot to grab more and of course I gave him his reward.

We bid the bears a fond goodbye and proceeded on to the next tiger compound where Duke and maybe 8 other tigers live. Normie was out in his turnout and Judy was busy but I had one more mission to accomplish and that was to share some love with my dear friend Duke.

I knew that my strength was waning and that soon my blood sugar would be dropping so I passed up all the other cats and got over to Duke who was also snuggling up with Elke , the oldest of the tigers and another gentle soul like Duke. I got my usual loving Duke greeting, multitudes of tiger kisses as he chuffed away and rubbed up against his enclosure and me. He looked me right in the eyes  and I knew that he wanted his flowers too. I think that Duke likes flower essences better than anyone at EARS. He always surprises new comers when they see me treat him because he laps the flower essences from my dropper so enthusiastically that you would think it was steak or some meat.

I was thrilled to my core seeing Duke and Elke romancing each other. Since I have known Duke, he has lost 2 wives and my earliest treatments for him were for grief. We understood each other very well because I had also lost 2 mates in a very short time and we actually healed each other quite a bit. I would have to say that these cats have easily healed me as much as I have healed them.

Both Duke and Elke were happy to show us their new found love and I could feel my own heart bursting open at the sight of their tiger cuddling and play. I spritzed them both with Illuminating White Light Gem Elixir/Essential Oil Mix and it was if their energies lit and sparkled even more. Elke was also in heat so after I treated Duke with his fave Arbor Garden, I gave her some Animal Emergency to make the heat not as agitating. I barely had to ask her if she wanted some and she was up on her feet leaving her playmate on the ground. Her eyes looked brighter than I remembered and I could hear her say a big Yes in my head as a response to the flowers. Usually, I treat Elke with the Caretaker flower essence and she loves to take care of babies. Clearly Duke and she are taking good care of each other now and this is an enormous blessing.

These creatures were not meant to live their lives in cages or turnouts no matter how splendid and clean so if they can at least have the companionship of their own kind this is a gift beyond compare. I am always so grateful to my big cat and bear friends for sharing their lives with me and I try to do what I can to share my best with them.

It is always hardest to leave Duke because he and I had gotten so so close  during the summer of 05. Helping save his life was probably one of the most profound moments of my life and I will always be deeply honored to have been chosen  for the opportunity to save such an extraordinary being. Whenever I am around the big cats my heart opens   wider than I think possible and today is  no exception.

Goodbye EARS, Gail, Duke, Daunte, Zhivah, Elke, Delilah, Cozy, Sultan, Venus, Apollo, Tienamen, Cherie, Bucky, Rick James, Sebastian, Diva, MacGraw, Normie,Judy,Tom Quinn, Sue Sue, Tigger, Savanah, Rajah, and all the others and the spirits of Jumanji, Sierra and Athena. I will return soon to share more beautiful days

like this one and to help heal you when I am needed.

Hail Jumanji the Lion King I still miss him and Sierra but now I know that we can always connect when it is important and that feels so good.

Blessings Flash Silvermoon    many pix by Pandora Lightmoon, Darron Dean and others

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I can feel that February will be a very interesting month and in some ways,gentler than some we have endured. Perhaps the presence of Venus, Mercury, Chiron and on Feb 3, Neptune in Pisces is softening some of the hard edges carved out by the continued Uranian / Plutonic barrage of recent months?  Maybe Jupiter lounging around in Taurus and in a harmonious relationship with pugilistic Pluto provides a cozy cushion to allay some of the fears that have been swirling and whirling about our material well being, and the economy could very well improve.

Februaruy 2nd is one of the 8 Pagan Holy Days called Imbolc, Candlemas, Brigid’s Day and even the generic and Americanized Ground Hog Day! On this day, we observe the beginnings of the return of the light hence the lighting of many candles to welcome back the Sun to warm us during these colder times. Earth Religions are very practical and not Supernatural as most would think but rather Super Natural as in totally connected to the natural movements of the seasons. This is why we have Fire Festivals in the winter as a promise to keep the sacred flame of life alive in both inner and outer worlds.[ see other article on Imbolc for info re Moonhaven Celebration Feb 2 ]

The emergence of Neptune into Pisces on Feb 3 til 2025 should herald a much deeper connection with Spirit  and this could really help humanity  tune into to the idea of one loving world, one human family that is inter connected. This paradigm shift of shared power instead of power over could foster tremendous change and prosperity for all if that ideal trickled down to the hearts of the powerful…. and the people are powerful!

We have seen the light and the dark of Neptune in Pisces already as we witnessed the abuse of our sacred Mother Ocean and her creatures at the hands of BP and others. The thing about water is that it is uncontainable in so many ways. What affects the ocean affects the marshes and the land and the  fish and the birds and the air and everything. Neptune can manifest in contamination and it can also raise the human spirit to its greatest heights.

While Neptune dallied briefly in Pisces last year, I found myself creating shamanic healing music for the ocean and its inhabitants and jammed with friends for each Full Moon to send out healing music. Being so Neptunian myself, it was easier for me to manifest some of the more positive aspects of this energy however those with charts and personalities that are more rigid and used to firmer boundaries can experience  the un boundedness of Neptune’s nature to be unsettling and even frightening.

One of the best ways to navigate the uncertain waters of Neptune is to get a feel for the new vibration if it is new to you and allow yourself to become comfortable with the unknown, like an un mapped journey but one which promises a good result if you go with the flow and learn when to paddle around the rocks. Grounding yourself in your spirituality is really important as well to help you TRUST the process when you can’t see around the corner to the outcome.

Of course I cannot underestimate the importance of opening your third eye wide, to listen to that inner voice and learn to turn up the volume. The more that you get used to listening, the stronger and louder those messages will become. This is one of the main things that I teach all of my students.

There was a tremendous response of many healers as well as political muscle to protect our oceans but still this country’s dependence on fossil fuel over other cleaner energies will make the promises around offshore drilling shaky at best.

Water is like music in that it spreads out wrapping one and all in its melodious waves. One can’t forget the amazing work of Dr Emoto regarding the magical way that water responds to positive and negative energies and thought forms so I encourage all of you to try this at home. Take any glass of water and start writing positive affirmations and tape them to the glass on the sides or bottom for a week before you drink it and see what happens, or speak them over the water.

You might even go to your favorite body of water and stir prayers and or  affirmations into it with your fingers ,feet, crystal or magical wand. You can heal the water this way and our waters do need healing.

Melrose Bay which is nearby is the head spring for the entire Santa Fe River System here in North Central Florida hence water from there will ultimately reach the Gulf of Mexico. These are sacred Native American grounds and it has been a wonderful place for me and my sisters to do water healing. I am deliberately emphasizing these facts because we will be seeing over the year just how important the water will be for all and these are some great ways to help. Also stay politically as aware as you can regarding who is protecting or selling the rights to your water supply. Neptune is also known for deception and hiding the truth so you may need to use Plutonic stealth and persistence to get at the truth.

The Full Moon in Leo will brighten everyone’s day as well as balance the Heart and Head energies. These can seem to be in opposition when in reality, they can complement each other and create more wholeness inside relationships and life itself.This will be a great night to be out and about and create whatever your heart desires.

Music, music, music, play more, listen and share it. You can find it to be your best friend and a tremendous balm for the soul. The many forms can serve to move the body, mind and spirit towards any goal including stress release and relaxation and can also pave the way for more challenging pursuits. Our world is operating so much more around vibration and these are changing at a much more rapid rate than ever before with all the Outer Planets, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in high gear. Through music we can catch the vibe and ride it and let it soothe us when we need that or with a funky pulsing beat ignite our souls to action when its time for some momentum.

FEBRUARY 7 FULL MOON IN LEO AT MOONHAVEN

Full Moon in Leo there  will be a music jam here at Moonhaven so c’mon over and rock the cosmos with us  before old eye of Newt puts a condo on Luna!

Not to be a wet blanket but Saturn will also be dancing around that night when she drags all 3 rings backwards as she goes retrograde at 29 degrees of Libra. The 29th degree of any sign is considered very significant as a last chance, if you will, to make things right. There have been a lot of messy political dealings and plenty that we don’t even know about so as a retrograde planet might say, turn about is fair play! Will the wheels of karma create a more even-handed way of life? Should be interesting to see how Libran balance is achieved

I had predicted that political heads would roll and that we would see lots of powerful folks with their proverbial and literal pants down and so it has been and so it will continue. Just an aside regarding politriks and retrogrades, on Election Day 2012, Mercury will be retrograde so I can’t wait to see just how crazy that one gets. We are already seeing tinges of that in the Iowa Primary. This will probably be one of the more confusing elections ever.

I do hope that somehow we do actually see someone pick up the progressive voice because with Uranus in Aries, if that voice is not represented, it will find a way and we may not appreciate the result of suppressed enthusiasm for freedom and equality, just sayin’. You don’t have to be a psychic or astrologer to notice that the roar of freedom is sounding from so many places on the globe and just as in the  60′s, the people are getting sick and tired of being sick and tired.

While Venus has been sashaying her sweetness around in Pisces since January, Mars has been showing his grumpy fussy retrograde self in Virgo since Jan 23 and the temperament isn’t likely to change til April 13 when he does an about face. Til then try not to over think everything. perfection is over rated, rarely possible and grates on the nerves when one attempts to push that envelope too hard. We may find ourselves swimming in all manner of details as Virgo just loves that stuff.  Mars in Virgo will not oppose all the planets in Pisces but that polarity will be emphasized with these energies manifesting so strongly. Pisces sees the big picture and feels everything while Virgo sees the minutia and all those little details that make things work well. When they work together harmoniously it’s a blessing.

Valentine’s Day [hate giving this dude that day let's call it Feast of Aphrodite Day or FAD for ease] should be quite lovely with many planets in soft and sensuous Pisces and Venus and Uranus cookin and electrifyin’ in Aries. The Moon in Scorpio won’t hurt the groove either so plan on settling in or out for a night of passion and sensuality. Remember, we Sisters of the Moon like to give this Celebration at least a week so don’t skimp on the fun.If you are going out and meet a new love don’t focus on longevity just have a good time and who knows what can evolve with Uranus in the mix!

The time from Feb 19 til the New Moon in Pisces on Feb. 21 should offer some totally mystical days with the Sun, Moon, Neptune, Chiron and Mercury all in magical Pisces plus a few asteroids to boot. If you are able to pursue other worldly practices like meditating, getting a reading,  past life regression, astrology chart, stone healing or the like this is a great time for it and I know just the place to come too……does Flash Silvermoon at Moonhaven ring a bell? Honestly , wherever you are, try to find some time to express or dive into your spirituality you won’t regret it. Go to the beach, the river or springs or just sit by your favorite trees, it’s all good and can bring you into a deep harmony and resonance with yourself and Spirit, the Goddess etc.
On the other hand trying to do regular material plane work will not be that easy because the boundaries that you are used to and need just won’t be that available.

The Sun is exactly conjoining Chiron, the planetoid of the Wounded Healer on Feb 24 giving us a rare opportunity to take off the bandages on our sacred woundings, the deep hurts and offer them up to the Sun for cleansing and forgiveness. Why not take this opportunity, seize the moment and heal yourself or enlist the support of good healers and or friends.

This should be a most fascinating time with more surprises and twisting plots than a good Soap Opera. Enjoy the gentler energy and take  the time to let your spirit wander and discover the magic that is always there for you when you remember to be in the moment and be grateful for the beautiful planet that we live on.

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Aries – There may be a lot of water around but my flame is as strong as ever. With Uranus stoking my fires and Venus coming into my sign in time for the Full Moon in Leo,hell what could be better than to dance the night away with all that hot energy cooking. I have been wondering where my energy went but I have a feeling that my high energy Arian self will finally be able to get all my projects done and have a great time doing them. OK, projects be damned, I wanna really party!

Taurus – Party on silly Aries because I will be livin’ large. I have some big plans to fatten my wallet and my prospects for the future. I think this is the time for me to truly meet my mission in the world and I am ready to take action. I know I could just  go on a shopping spree or eat way too much but I want to take this energy and run with it. I usually like someone to point me in the right direction but now I feel more inner drive so look out world this bull is coming through.

Gemini – Not a whole lot of air but I don’t need too much to buzz around. I can catch a Uranian zap or a Neptunian wave and if I really want to play hard ball, I can poke old Pluto and tell him/her that she is but a dwarf planet if I want to get a really animated conversation going which I must admit that I always want that. I am pretty creative at getting communication happening. Doesn’t always matter if we think the same as a matter of fact if you think differently than I do it’s more fun. Words are like music to me and I just adore playing them loud and soft allegro or legato. Color me Gemini.

Cancer – Uranus, I am well aware that you are still zapping me from the 10th house offering me the wildest career options possible so with all the wonderful water lapping around me I am a very happy Moonchild. So often I feel like I have to try to fit in with the mood but no more. I could be a guide now on how to traverse white water, stay out of hot water, or body surf wild water. It’s my realm and I have become accustomed to its gentle and sometimes not so gentle ebb and flow. Uranus has gotten me used to the uncertainty of  my routine and Neptune might just offer me a little peace. I am way ready to Give Peace a Chance.

Leo – Roarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr My Full Moon is almost here and I am going to be one stunning Lion! Not that I am not typically a stunner but for this night, I will pull out all the stops. I am no Fashionista but I always know how to make the most of my assets and they are numerous. All you Aquarians who are playing it oh so cool, get ready to meet your opposite, I am fire to your ice and I am red hot in the winter moonlight. How could anyone not want to punch my dance card? If we manifest what we think and feel, this is going to be one awesome month because as the song says, I am feelin’ free!

Virgo – Gritty Mars has got me in the cross hairs and I feel a lot of agitation. This means that I will have to take some time to let go of all the thoughts that want to dominate my world. Every little thing can feel way too big and it just isn’t. I can be an injustice collector and these old hurts  are no longer needed or serving my growth and most importantly, happiness. This grump has just got to get over the resentment hump because nobody loses more than I do  by this. Please forgive me if I am edgy or too critical and just know that I am being way harder on me. Perhaps I can find a way to clean something or edit something so that I don’t pick at everything. This could be a constructive time if I work it right.

Libra – Oh, I got Saturn on my mind or maybe it has me with all three rings demanding  more structure for my life, my life that usually likes to be able to shift from side to side from moment to moment. Not these days nope and I thought I would be seeing the end of you as you sit there perched at 29 degrees of Libra, no, no retrograde, don’t turn back you will turn into salt. OK that was a little Biblical but jeez who do you have to sleep with to get Saturn off your butt. Answer, no one, you get to sleep with no one. Austerity is not my thing but I am surely imitating someone who likes the idea.

Scorpio – I don’t think that I am going to like Saturn in my sign very much and I know that it will come knocking on my door soon enough. I can prepare though and sow all my wild oats really quick. Anyone reading this know about sowing oats? One Scorp in search of farmer for fun. Lest anyone think that sex is the only thing that I think about, we can talk about money and I better get some socked away because I have til Oct 8 to rake in an income more easily and get myself set up before old Saturn comes to town. I am one to make lemonade when I get lemons and so I will find a way to let some of Saturn’s focused wisdom teach me a thing or two.

Sagittarius – Feeling kind of expansive, but then I always do and I like it that way. As many who know me would say, I am a straight shooter, which doesn’t mean that I shoot straight people but there are a few Repugs that I wouldn’t mind seeing whacked off the campaign trail. Hell you can’t even make up stuff like the crap they say. But I digress. I am really trying to find my mission plan and I have searched the Akashic Records and even my dental records and still feel as overwhelmed by the process and underwhelmed with the outcome. Perhaps Neptune will take me away from all this and plunk me down where I belong.

Capricorn – You think you got problems,  it feels like I’m gonna have slow moving Pluto pushing me up one more mountain for the rest of my life. Hey does that little Planetoid have OCD or what? No one can say that I lack drive but since Pluto jumped on top of my Sun its been one compelling ride after another. I know that we all have free will yada, yada but I can’t honestly say that I have felt like the master of my own fate for a long time. I’m no whiner and I can take whatever he has to dish out but I’d like to have the feeling that I am making my own choices once in awhile and not hurled head long into the next adventure!

Aquarius – I have spent most of my life feeling like some kind of alien no matter what group that I join. We must really be moving into the dawn of the Age of Aquarius because I finally feel like I belong ! I am Occupying Aquarius or is Uranus occupying me? Who cares cause there’s a demo for something at every corner and I can protest with the best of em. Bring your Taurians to the Mall but bring me to the police lines. I got my camcorder, legal aid number scribbled on my arm and a bandana to protect my face from pepper spray. Ah feeling so empowered as I Tweet my way around the world just knowing that there are comrades everywhere and that Power to the People means something again.

Pisces – Take me to the river and drop me in the water! Yes Neptune my mermaid queen never mind that old man in the sea archetype. You sing your siren song so sweet it leaves me breathless, hypnotized and mesmerized at your feet and I want nothing more than to do your bidding, to play in your pool, your ocean, your sacred running waters. I have been waiting for so many years to feel the sweet surrender that you offer, love like a bliss wave washing over me making me sing with joy your magical music of the Spheres. Universal Joy and Peace Live it Now and it Can Be.

Through My Monthly Astroflash,  I have endeavored to offer more gender neutral astrology to speak to all sexual preferences and identities.
If you know your Rising sign, your personal reading will be more accurate if you read the passage for that sign as well as your Sun sign.
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A NEW E-BOOK BY FLASH SILVERMOON

Musician and Shaman, Flash Silvermoon shares the never before told story of her deep connection with Janis Joplin in life and even more importantly, in death! After 40 years and many many fascinating phenomenal experiences, Flash knows that it is time to tell the real story about Janis’ life and death!

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“Janis lifted the Veil for me and then pushed me through not only opening me to the blues but the entire spirit world!”

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When I heard about what had happened to Janis my heart ached and my mind furiously  sought answers. The press said that there was no sign of foul play yet Janis was found dead around 1 AM that morning in the Landmark Hotel in LA with a broken nose and split lip clutching $4.50 which was change from a $5 dollar bill that she had paid to the desk clerk for a pack of cigarettes.

No drugs or paraphernalia were found in her room yet she died of a heroin OD complicated by large amounts of alcohol she had consumed earlier that night partying after the recording session for her new album,Pearl, at Barney’s Beanery.

No foul play they said, and my mind is now less numbed by pain and I wonder how she could have a broken nose, split lip, no drugs or paraphernalia and not have met with foul play?

This was all that I knew about that fateful day until Janis herself started communicating with me and changed everything.

At the time,I had searched the papers and magazines for a more comprehensive view of what had happened to her because to me the tale circulating was full of holes. No one adequately addressed the fact that she had a broken nose and split lip.
I had done a lot of body-surfing back in the day and had come into the shore nose first without breaking my nose,so I know it takes a really strong direct impact to break a nose. The news claimed that she fell out of bed and hurt herself yet the only way that she could have possibly done such damage would be for her to levitate horizontally out of bed and fall flat on her face. This does not sound at all feasible or likely. We all know that anyone who is really wasted on drugs or alcohol would likely bounce and gently roll in a fall because they are more limp and out of control so I give the reporters an F for failing to pursue this conclusion better.
The fact that there were no drugs or paraphernalia in her room should have been questionable also but more explainable.

In an article written in Rolling Stone when Albert Grossman was contesting Janis’ alleged suicide with the Insurance companies, it was suggested that the Coroner on board was known to be shady,for fixing papers and autopsies. He has since passed away so perhaps he can be more easily investigated now. There should be a new investigation of what really happened to Janis as her life was way too precious to be snuffed out without a damn good accounting!

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NEW!! FLASH SILVERMOON GEM ELIXIRS NOW AVAILABLE  Only$15   2 oz spritz bottle

This is The Shift Gem Elixir cooking to help us all adjust to the new  vibrations affecting the planet at this time. This is one of the most potent Elixirs yet and has had a great response amongst my students and clients. These are the  stones that  create The Shift!

The Shift Gem Elixir  by Flash Silvermoon @ Moonhaven

Inside-
lg Lemurian generator,lg blue quartz,lg Lithium generator,lg celestite pt, green zincite, blue lace agate,aquamarine crystal in matrix quartz,Pietrasite,blue onyx
citrine w/ blue torumaline generator

Outside
lg honey stellar beam calcite north,chrysacolla East
the usual 13 from the res plus the usual lg points and the lg Lemurian cluster pointing from the west to east

 Other Flash Silvermoon Gem Elixirs

1.AURA CLEANSE – CLears out unwanted vibrations  body,work place,home

2.FIERY WALL OF PROTECTION – Strong protection for body, mind, spirit, and place

3.LEMURIA – Uplifting bringing the ancient Divine Consciousness forward

4.LITHIUM QUARTZ – Deeply calming,relaxing, sedating

5.RAISE THE VIBE – Elevation

6.WHITE BUFFALO WOMAN – She requested that I make this one to offer her Ancient Earth Wisdom

7.GRANDMOTHER TREE – made from the Grandmother Live Oak of Moonhaven for profound peace,fortitude and grounding

8.PROFOUND GROUND -Reclaim your connection to the Earth

9.THE SHIFT – The Elixir for the Now 2011-2012

10.APHRODITE – All you need is LOVE

11.PROSPERITY – Open the Gate for Prosperity

12 ISIS  UNVEILED – Lift the Veil to Ancient Mysteries

13.WONDROUS WATER – Healing powers of water

14. EARTH CHANGES -How to roll with it

15. DEEP PEACE – Serenity

I am always making new ones and at times need to remake these so let me know in advance if you want a particular Elixir

Enjoy my newest Slide Show of the Big Cats , Bears and Monkeys with Flash at EARS Endangered Animal Rescue Sanctuary. This is one of my most favorite places on the planet and it is considered to be the “Hilton” of the Big Cat Sanctuaries. I feel privileged to be able to share space and time with these amazing beings. My skills as an Animal Communicator and Healer have been greatly enhanced by my work here.

I have been coming to commune and heal and be healed by these animals for some 10 years and have some of my most profound healing experiences of my life here. Some of the cats like Daunte, Sultan and Sue Sue, I have known since they were cubs and you can see pix of them at different ages.You can see me treating them with Flower Essences from Greenhope Farms and an occasional homeopathic. Like people some of the cats like Duke, Daunte, Zhivah, Sierra, Cozy Bear and the young lions enjoy these essences more than others. For those who are either not as friendly or do not like the

taste as much I simply put the essences in their water to work their magic.

Learn Tarot Divination the Wise Woman Way

By Pat Lynch, Host of Speak Up!

Flash Silvermoon has been a well-known psychic, teacher and author for over 40 years.  She is also an Animal Communicator, a skill she uses for her radio show, What the Animals Tell Me, which airs weekly on Internet Voices Radio.  Silvermoon joins Speak Up! to talk about her new book, The Wise Woman’s Tarot which comes with a deck of Tarot cards designed to represent and empower both men and women, of all kinds and signs, in the magic of Tarot.More about Flash Silvermoon Flash has been working with the Tarot as a Psychic, teacher, and author for some 40 years.  Her metaphysical skills and interests are quite varied and she is equally at home reading an Astrological chart as delivering a Past Life Regression, Stone Healing, Flower Essence or Gem Elixir treatment, and of course communicating and treating the beloved animals. She teaches classes and seminars in all of these subjects as well. Flash not only loves animals, but is an Animal Communicator who lives in her Sanctuary, Moonhaven in Melrose, Florida with 4 cats, one happy dog and the Appaloosa Mare Goddess, Chinamoon.  People can hear Flash’s weekly on her Internet Radio show called What the Animals Tell Me on Internet Voices Radio. Flash has appeared on many other radio programs doing live – on air readings as well as teaching classes locally at The Moonhaven Mystery School of Earth Magic for Women,  at the University of Florida and nationally at  Women’s Festivals. Music was her first love and career and it has had to share space with her more esoteric pursuits.  Flash Silvermoon is a keyboard wizard, spirited percussionist, guitarist, and sings some of the most “waili vocals” since Janis Joplin. She performs as a soloist as well as part of her band, The Blues Sisters. Flash has been a very public figure, stirring the Kozmic Cauldron in her community, first in NYC and for the last 35 years in the Gainesville, FL area.  She was Priestess and created the first Multi-Traditional/Woman’s circle in the South called Woman’s Spirit Rising in 1990, which later gave rise years to the first of seven Wise Woman Festivals and were among the first specifically woman-centered Multi-Traditional Spiritual Festivals in the South. Flash’s life-work, The Wise Woman’s Tarot, is a Global Goddess book and deck as well as an excellent tool for Divination. The book is a very user friendly way to learn the skill and art of Tarot Divination.  Because Flash honors and respects the core magic of the Tarot, this project took 25 years to complete and was a labor of love.  Flashes intent was to bring the incredible images and heritage of the Global Divine Feminine in all its multi-cultural beauty into the modern world. In this way, many of the ism’s (racism, sexism, etc) that are so prevalent in many other decks are transmuted into colorful potent images that empower women as well as men to use their intuition to gain a greater understanding of themselves and others.

Raise the Vibe for the Tribe/We Won’t Be Fooled Again
Flash Silvermoon

I moved from NYC in ’75 to be here in Florida in the country near a larger community to prepare for these “Interesting times”, not that I am as prepared as I want to be.

This is an important time also to consider your spiritual resources and find ways and tools for  grounding and self nurturing and healing. Gathering with like minded others is more and more important to help and guide us with a support system ideally close to home. Many of us also can find this on line if not locally.

Funny as I  place these words on the page a storm outside is turning the power on and off as my fingers hit the keyboard

It is so important not to fear and panic though the economy is certainly a scarey wild ride and folks are scrambling to find something solid to hold onto as a bunker against diminishing financial security.

I think the gathering of food is a really good investment
within reason and gathering  supplements and the kind of things that we need that will keep is good planning as well. Basically the more self, and community sufficient that we can be will surely help us through uncertain times.
Focus in on what’s really important and try to make the best choices on how to sustain those things. I do think that getting out of big cities overall is one of the better things to do. I am hoping to be able to put some of
my small savings into some solar stuff. Obviously the more off the grid we are the better and some of that may just not be possible for many. Cultivating good neighbor relations is important too.
I think above and beyond all is the need to keep our spirits and thoughts elevated and positive because we know that the universe also runs on vibration and

RASING THE ViBE FOR THE TRIBE is one of the things that I try to do in every way possible. This culture runs and is motivated mostly by fear so we really need to try not to become victims of their well architected plan to dominate and enslave.
I know, easy for a Pisces to say and yes we need to  deal with physical reality as well but we must not let the fear mongers cow us into a frightened herd.

The Occupy Wall Street Movements are heartening in that there are finally signs that the populace is not willing to be sheeple and will not keep slurping down the corporate Kool Aid that has been masquerading as real life for way too many years. There is some space for optimism here and the people united truly cannot be defeated.

As one of those veterans of many many street battles,  marches and demonstrations and building takeovers from those fabulous sixties, it is heartening to see that Free Radicals are not something we want to remove and that the Teabaggers are not the ones taking over the streets!

It is however not enough to just repeat our previous style of rebellion because these times require a true paradigm shift with the energy changing from the ground up as well as the top down and our spirits must engage in this process. Not everyone necessarily needs to have the spiritual focus that I do nor do I need to have the same exact focus as another but somehow we must approach these changes holistically with body, mind and spirit engaged.

Perhaps the Revolution is gonna be televised after all!

BB Flash

* The Wise Woman’s Tarot – http://www.flashsilvermoon.com *

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WALKING A RAINBOW PATH

Blessings Flash Silvermoon

* The Wise Woman’s Tarot – http://www.flashsilvermoon.com *

Flash Silvermoon, Psychic and Animal Communicator
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Flash, welcome to the program!

Flash not only loves animals, but she is an Animal Communicator and shares her Sanctuary, Moonhaven in Melrose, Fl with 3 cats and one Happy dog.

You can hear Flash weekly on her Internet Radio show called “What the Animals Tell Me” on InternetVoicesRadio.com. This show is designed to bring a deeper love and understanding between humans and animals.

Her latest book: Lifetime Companions: Love Never Dies, is Flashes latest book about the healing work she has done with her animals as well as special tales of healing within wild animal sanctuaries. These stores are both heart warming and amazing and will give you insight and tips on how to help your own companion animals through alternative healing methods and communication.

Another focus of this work is the particular relationship of reincarnation and our animals.

Flash explains, “This knowledge can go a long way towards healing the pain that we all feel when we lose these important parts of our families . Knowing that our beloved animals can and do want to return to us has been a tremendous healing for me and I want to share this with other animal lovers.”

An excerpt from Lifetime Companions, called, “Living With the Mare Goddess Chinamoon”, is featured in an anthology called Angel Horses: Divine Messengers of Hope.
Duke licking FlashLinks: Flash Silvermoon

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http://www.internetvoicesradio.com/en/schedule/flash-silvermoon/

Mon TBA  7-9:30 PM 

Call Flash Silvermoon  (352) 475-2432 To Enroll Now and for more details and easy directions.  7603 ne 221 st Melrose Fl 32666 20 min east of Gville

New Class at  Moonhaven Mystery School of Earth Magic

for Women with Flash Silvermoon  flashsilvermoon@gmail.com

Melrose, Florida (near Gainesville)

Fee will be a mere $62 ideally paid in full in advance or by the first evening. A few trades are possible and we can discuss before hand.

Please reserve your space now

Flash Silvermoon is now accepting applications for students who would be interested in learning about Earth Magic and Psychic Development from a Goddess / Woman-Centered Perspective.

Groups will meet on 4 consecutive Monday nights from 7-9:30 PM at her Sacred Sanctuary of Moonhaven in Melrose, Florida (near Gainesville)

For those who want to seriously pursue your Spiritual Education,  attend 3- 4 week series of classes and on the 13th week we will have a Ceremony of Graduation Honoring you into the Apprentice Level. You can also just commit month to month.For those who have been students and want to complete class to the Apprentice Level this is possible too.

Watch for starting dates here on my BLOG and on Facebook and Twitter

This will be an intimate and cohesive group of dedicated women who will learn in a very hands-on way about:
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* Earth-Keeping
* Magic and Ritual of various traditions
* Making and creating Sacred Grids
* Stone and Crystal Healing and Gem Elixirs
* Psychic Development and Divination through the Tarot, , , Dowsing Rods, the Pendulum and more
* Past Life Regression                                                 
* Animal Communication.
* Astrology
* Flower Essence Therapy and Aromatherapy
* Creating Altars and Feng Shui
* Shamanic Musical Journeying and much much more!

This work will be presented in a “Living Style” ie you will be a part of it and learn how to make the magic part of your daily routine, like a second skin, a place of serenity  and a way of life.

Together we will choose from the above teachings to fill 4 weeks and then we can reconfirm to do another 4 weeks if we choose to cover more or deepen the studies that we do choose.

Groups will meet once a week unless we decide on rare occasion to do a weekend intensive and then we won’t meet again for another week.. This will be a most exciting group and as many of you know, the Sacred Alchemy will create even more than we can imagine…so dream big!!

As many of our Elders pass on it is the job of those who are left to pass on these Ancient and Modern Traditions so that they will not be lost through the sands of time.

If you feel your heart and spirit being drawn to this work please get in touch with Flash.

Contact Flash for more info. 
NEW! pay for classes by credit card at Flash’s Moon Market

* The Wise Woman’s Tarot – http://flashsilvermoon.com *
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