Flashes of Insight

Wide Awake in Paradise 2008 Closes and 2009 Alligns
What a wondrous morning. I just finished a great outdoor shower as I like to do each day unless it is literally freezing. Thankfully today is warm and beautiful. Feeling fresh in my fluffy towel, I brought a bucket of food to my Appaloosa mare Chinamoon who was waiting patiently while “I cleaned up my act,” so to speak.
As she ate, I stroked her and  buried my nose in her soft fur filling my nostrils with her horsey scent. I have loved the scent of horses since I was a little girl and this morning it brought back fond memories and thrilled me to my core.
I was overwhelmed today with the feeling that I had indeed awakened in Paradise. Happy my 9 month old pup who looks like a miniature black Golden Retriever with a personality to match was romping with Star my white Tonkanese cat and Jaz my crone black cat was monitoring the hot tub. My 2 other cats, Red and Tucky were out of sight  but surely enjoying the morning as we all were.
The air was warm for December 17th and my skin was tingling as gentle spring-like breezes dried my body protected by Moonhaven’s privacy and serenity.
Days like this remind me of why I moved to Melrose, the quiet little town in North Central Florida.
How could I have imagined when I left my tiny apartment in the Lower East Side of NYC that I would be living with a horse in my yard which resembles a cross between a jungle and a park. How could I have imagined in my wildest dreams that I would get to spend time and work with lions, tigers, bears, cougars, horses and primates? Not to mention doing my own Internet Radio Show that reaches around the world to help people love,protect,and, understand animals.
I still get to make my living doing music and magic doing readings,healings,classes concerts and the like but so much of that has changed and evolved since I moved to Florida. My life has been filled with many challenges especially for the last 3 years but today I feel more like the Phoenix who has finally risen from her ashes renewed and reenergized. I thought of that as I jumped across the Solstice fire embers. Life is not perfect but I feel a wholeness in my core that feels very solid. I can feel each day how my life and the services that I provide reach out and help humanity as well as the animals. Each day a new person calls me to find their missing cat or help heal a floundering relationship or come to a Sanctuary to help a monkey who is self mutilating or give solace to a woman who is suffering the loss of a beloved pet. This is deeply satisfying and at the same time, I try to have a good balance with my own creativity, self nurturance and the love and nurturing of my animal family and friends.
Sometimes it feels so rich that I can hardly believe that it is my life and sometimes it totally overwhelms.
My mare Chinamoon, alias the Mare Goddess, definitely helps keep me grounded and aware of my place in this world, as her handmaiden of course lest I become to full of myself.
My whole beautiful animal family brings me such joy and laughter each and every day especially when all of them are well which is actually most of the time. During these times you can feel the energy of Moonhaven soar and radiate in great great crystaline light beams helping maintain the planetary hum, the music of the spheres, doing our part to model and sustain global peace and harmony.
Ashe’,A Ho,Namaste,OM,Blessed Be, Merry Solstice and a Happy New Year,
Flash Silvermoon

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