Flashes of Insight

I am aware this AM that I have much to do right here right now in Moonhaven to fine tune the abundant and powerful energies.These feelings entered my awareness after a most shamanic and blissful spirit walk around my land with Jaz and Red to the sacred sites I have consecrated.

The vibe is very deep and sweet and I am feeling very passionate about writing this book,”Lifetime Companions”, and the journey inward that I am being shown. It is a very magical/subtle place, this realm of earth and water spirits/faeries and owls named Sophia that come to deliver sacred messages when you most need them!

I recognize,that at least for right now, time is not infinite, yet it can expand. I want to focus on the most perfect balance that I can create for myself so that my priorities are clear and well directed and of course I want to ideally experience ecstasy while doing it! Such humble goals I entertain!

As I experience each magical moment I find myself wanting to simultaneously savor it and run to the computer to write it all down. Being old and wise enough to know that the magic is in being “in the moment”, I refrain from bolting from a blissful experience to talk about a blissful experience, trusting that at the right time, I will find the words to share these experiences that I might have otherwise dissolved into the frenzy of mundane life…

The morning began for me at 5:30, rising to the dawn, feeding cats,dog,me and then into the cyber sanctum to continue my inner journey while the demands of the world seem further away.

For some reason, and I rarely question why anymore, I found myself rereading my file on the passing of my sweetest of sweet animal companions Spirit /Spir-Bear or just Bear as he was called for his last years.

The file is called “Bear is Flying With the Angels Today” and it is filled with condolences from all the many people who care about me and adored him as well as some of my own words about my Bear Boy.

Perhaps I feel his presence now, perhaps he is trying to reach me, or perhaps I just need him, whatever the process, it brought me deeper into the place where I am sure he lives and maybe a place that we can share from both sides of the Veil.

Chinamoon is patiently waiting in her paddock for me to walk in this world long enough to feed her breakfast. She is one of the most tuned in beings I know on 2.3, or 4 legs!
One night when I was a little concerned about her digestion, I wandered out to her paddock at 3 am armed with a walking staff, a light and some homeopathic nux vomica just in case she was having digestive problems. Groggily she emerged from the thicket where she was clearly fast asleep just to humor me and show me that she was in fact fine. I must admit that I must have looked very much like the traditional Hermit of the Tarot seeking my Appaloosa mare.

They say that payback is a bitch..but in this case..its a mare! The next night at exactly 3 am, I had a weird dream that featured the head of a horse[China’s] coming through my bedroom window, laying itself on my chest! She just had to outdo me and show me that she could wake me up at 3 am also but she didn’t have to even use her legs!
I really do get that these animals with “witch” I cohabit are very elevated beings; angels in fur coats; wise ones on all fours etc and it is through my love, understanding and respect, that I support their evolution as well as my own. That’s why I don’t want to keep the Equine Queen of Moonhaven waiting for her feed,fruit,and hay!
Jaz is lounging on the hot tub waiting to accompany me to the barn. I realize that this is the perfect time to treat her with a homeopathic for her arthritis and so I seize the moment. She purrs and rubs against my hand in appreciation and off we go with Red Bear joining our parade …off to China!

The rich aroma of the blooming magnolia and gardenia blossoms arouse my senses as we pass by. I make a mental note to pick a few later to scent my house. Both Jaz and Red accompany me to the large Pine, Guardian and Sacred Pool of the East, Corner of New Beginnings.

I greet the strong steady spirits in this place placing 4 green pine cones against the base of the tree and affirming a time of new life and new beginnings. With so many endings, I so desire some new beginnings. As I stand here and pause looking to my feline companions, I remember that my friend Gabrielle had reminded me in her condolence message for Bear to go to the Magnolia Tree, the Guardian of the South and the Place of the Heart to soothe my heartache.

Off we walked through the grove of key limes,lemons,tangerines and sour oranges with the sweet magnolia seductively drawing us ever nearer to her fragrant circle. Red played on the paddock fence like the little boy cat that he is while Priestess Jaz and myself concerned ourselves with the “real work.” We had come to worship at the Southern Gate, at the sacred bowl resting on the base of the Magnolia. This cement bowl is filled with rainwater, rose quartz,aphrodite,black tourmaline and quartz. I held my body against the bough of the Magnolia tree and Jaz sat Bast-like on the other side while I wept for the loss of Serena, Manuelo, Bear…and myself.

I asked to be delivered to a love that is sweeter and kinder than the kind that I have known in human form.

I affirm my readiness for that experience when the time is right.

Through my tears I noticed a small iridescent bug floating in the stone basin near the rose quartz. At closer inspection, I discovered a brilliant beetle that looked exactly like the scarab beetle of Ancient Egypt. Was it alive or dead?? I rescued it with my finger and found that indeed it was alive and moving. Not wanting to possibly disturb its meditation in the bowl but thinking it might need to be on something less wet, I placed it on the edge of the bowl with a magnolia flower petal under it.

I knew that there was magic afoot in this exchange and only time or my dreams would tell me the next chapter of the mystery.

Now Red was leading us out of the South towards the West and over to the Pyramid which is the centerpoint of the Sacred Sites of Moonhaven. Here the stone grid vibrates pure and loving energy through the giant rose quartz sphere at its center and up through the open and welcoming arms of the GrandmotherTree.

This Sacred Space was old and consecrated long before I ever drew a breadth. Five hundred years and a lightning strike which split her base in two, this Ancient One summoned me here to this spot to create a home Moonhaven,as a sanctuary for the animal friends in my home and in the wild, nature spirits, non-furry friends and me.

Jaz sits in front of me on an altar table and lays down to absorb the wonderful energy, Red sits under my chair lest any goblins from the underworld decide to arise from the earth. We three sit together lingering in the morning magic of the Spirit World.

I am exquisitely aware of the sacredness of this moment and I smile and thank Spirit and myself for delivering me to this place of deep ecstasy. We probably could have stayed in this spot all day but I knew that soon the heat and bugs would demand another plan. I searched the branches with my eyes for any sign of Sophia the owl but saw no large wide eyed birds staring down at me this time.

I rose and made my way to the Sacred Palm, Guardian of the West, dallying with the fig and eucalyptus trees en route just long enough for Jaz and Red to catch up with me. We stand together sipping a finger full of water from this bowl affirming the joy of diving deep into this mystical world. We move along more quickly to the Faery Oak , the Northern Guardian of Manifestation. I bend over and clear some leaves out of the rain-filled cement-bowl and thank the earth for patiently holding this Sacred Space for us.
I pray that we manifest a world of Peace and Love that can fulfill our fondest dreams…Our last stroll closes the circle as we revisit the Pine in the East.

This was a most memorable morning ritual that I will surely repeat again and again.

These last few months have seemed like a crash course in The Moonhaven Mystery School of Shamanic Studies and Earth Magic! All of my animals and the wild ones out doors are communicating so clearly. This is such a relief, as some of their needs are of a life and death nature. I am finally getting the hang of learning from the animals in a conversational way and not just problem solving. One of my mentors, Kay Cornish Mann , used to reprimand me for not learning more from my group as they had so much to teach. She would tell me to converse with them on a daily basis so that they wouldn’t need to provide me with a crisis just to get my attention. I am finally really doing just that and it is so wonderful.
Sometimes when you are struggling with an issue, people will say, just let go, or love yourself or other well meant phrases and until you really understand those concepts, those words remain empty puzzling phrases that you figure you should understand but really don’t. It was like that for me regarding that concept of conversation with the animals. Now that I really grasp the process from the inside out, I can feel the difference. I am sure that my furry family is taking a deep sigh of relief and I bow to their patience, forbearance and tolerance of my human blind spots.

Once you really enter this place of deep communication with the animals and other earth energies, you will never want to live any other way I assure you. This doesn’t mean that I will always have ALL THE ANSWERS, but it does mean that I will at least know how and where to ask the questions and how to receive the information.

I realize as I sit contemplating the Venus Grid by the Grandmother Tree, that I truly am becoming more and more anchored in 5th Dimensional Reality. My awareness is becoming more and more like that of the animals as I share and deeply observe our world. Simply sitting quietly with Red and feeling the changes in the air as a cool breeze sweeps by us, or the growing intensity of the frog’s rainsong, noticing the call of hawk and crow, or the songs of the cardinal and dove all creating a rich and satisfying soundscape.

I have badly needed this time of reflection and refilling my own sacred well to continue to walk the path of healing and service of which I am so deeply committed.
The Native Americans have a term for learning that comes at you sideways, a path you might not have chosen for yourself. Something or someone in your life needs you to walk through that unknown door and so you do only to find Coyote sitting on his haunches having a good chuckle at the arduous road that you have traveled

One could say that I am sharing from the light and the dark now as I type single-handed with my new white kitten, Star draped over one arm while my dark black tuxedoed elder cat Merlin sits on my toes. One must keep a sense of humor about these things and as Star might say…”Don’t take it all so Sirius!”

Sirius, the star known as the Gateway to the mysteries, on the other hand, is lifting her veil like a newly freed Muslim woman’s shador. Signs of awakening are everywhere as Venus begins her forward motion creating sweet change as the Crow in my yard heralds the news!
I joyfully await further instructions or simply a sense of my next right thing,

This is a not so typical day for me and I hope to enjoy more like it.

Blessings,
Flash