Flashes of Insight

SPIRIT’S STORY SPIRIT SPIR BEAR, BEAR and Tonka Too 
Date: 5/12/2008 1:01:23 AM Eastern DaylightTime

  I have been waiting for quite some time to tell the story of my beloved dog Spirit. Interesting too that at this time I am dogless for the first time since I found Luna in 1973.  Actually there was a span of 2 years after Luna passed that I was dogless but for most of my adult life, I have been graced with wonderful canine company. Tonight is also the eve of Spirit/Bear’s passing on Mother’s Day some 7 years ago.
I am now feeling ready for another dog in my life and am hoping that Spirit/Bear will feel that it is a good time to return to me on this side of the veil. (read on…)

Lions and Tigers and Flash Oh My

Its been a long time since I had a day off of leisure without a new crisis rearing its head but this Sunday, I seized the moment to go to one of my favorite places on the planet, EARS Endangered Animal Rescue Sanctuary run by my 2 friends Gail and Jaye www.BigCatSanctuary.org check this place out if you want to see some gorgeous big cats.
I have been going there to treat and love these beautiful, awesome cats and other creatures for about9 years. During this time I havve built some wonderful relationships with many of the animals there. I have bottle fed some of the tigers that are there since they were no bigger than one of my house cats. (read on…)

Healing Duke the Tiger*************
Date: 6/6/2005 Excerpt from my forthcoming book
LIFETIME COMPANIONS: LOVE NEVER DIES
This book is devoted to the marvelous and amazing animals that I have had the honor to share my life, many of which return again and again to teach and share their love.
One never expects to suddenly wind up in a tiger’s cage pulling this awesome animal from the jaws of death but sometimes, the Goddess has other plans for you and you had best be up to the task at hand!
May 16 was just such a day in my life.
The Full Moon in Sagittarius pushed me back to The Endangered Animal Rescue Sanctuary[EARS], to work on healing Duke, one of the biggest and most splendid tigers you will ever see. I had visited him on Saturday when I heard that he was not doing well and joined the “Duke team” of supporters many of whom have alternated sleeping near his cage for many nights as this case has evolved. As a matter of fact, between Jaye,Gail, Cristina,Morgan,Susan,Amy,Kelly, Craig, and me,Duke has not spent a minute without human company in at least two and a half weeks and believe me he is loving it!. (read on…)

Falling for a Venusian/Uranus/Saturn TSquare 

It had been a long but rewarding day of reading for and treating dogs at Earth Pets Holistic Pet Market. I do this monthly and it is always gratifying to see the little ones change before my eyes after treating them with understanding and flower essences.
I had a nice dinner with a friend  and then went to this lovely gourmet Fresh Market to shop.
Typically, I am home immediately after so that I can put my horse in  before dark and feed her but today my Venusian needs won out over my Saturn in Virgo regimen.Rebellions Uranus who likes to shake up routine must have stoked that one too opposing Saturn. (read on…)

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!

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION AND HEALING DURING EMERGENCIES

We are living in a time where people as well as whole species of animals are being totally toxified by our environment and even the food and water that we consume. This presents a whole aspect to healing that Vets and healers of some 20-30 years ago did not have to contend. Vibrationally everything has been sped up and the toxic effects of fear have created their own traumas.

Therefore, when we try to address health and healing, we must, by the very nature of the current situation, take a very broad and open-ended view of cure.

Bottom line, to begin, one must understand that animals are enlightened beings not underlings below humans. Communicating with them does not mean telling them, it means listening to them. Allowing their thoughts and voices to permeate our consciousness so that we can truly help them and not just decide what they need. You have no idea how thrilled animals are when someone listens to them for a change and they totally open up. They don’t care if you have a degree or if you studied in Harvard. They either feel good about what you offer or they don’t and when you are on target, the reaction is often instant because they have no walls up against alternative anything.

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Flash Silvermoon Interview..for Pagan Pathways
Date: 10/2/2007 8:36:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Thank you so much for agreeing to share with us! Please do tell us about yourself and feel free to be as in depth as you like!We would love to print your picture too!

ok I will pick a couple for ya

Where were you born and raised and what are some of your earliest memories?

I was born in the presence of my mother on March 18, 1950, in Jersey City, NJ. I am quite sure that my room must have faced the Statue of Liberty because I have been a freedom fighter for as long as I can remember. They tell me that after singing Happy Birthday to me on my first birthday, I smiled and put my fist through the cake!

My first Feminist action took place in kindergarten at 4 yrs of age. I had been participating in the rhythm band for a couple of weeks just waiting for my turn to play the snare drum. I had clicked the claves and clanged the triangle but that magic moment when my sticks would strike the skin of the DRUM was awaiting me that morning or so I thought. I was not raised to think that girls were inferior to boys so imagine my surprise when I had the sticks taken from my hands and was told that girls could play anything but this and that I could go to the back of the line again.

My little egalitarian heart was breaking but I screwed up my courage to tell the teacher that this was unfair and was there something else that I could do during this time as I didn’t want to be a part of something so unfair. She told me that I could fingerprint and so I stood in the corner for the rest of the year and finger-painted during the rhythm band time.
This theme and connection with the drums has followed me all the way through adulthood and today am appreciated as an accomplished percussionist. (read on…)

It was a gorgeous and uplifting day at Junglefriends today. I saw some of my favorite monkeys and they were all so glad to see me too. It’s heartwarming how they know I am there to help them and they show it so clearly with their joyful calls and excited little faces.

Macy, one of many white faced capuchins was my first customer and she just adores me. Her human parents told me that she doesn’t even behave with them the way that she does with me sometimes. She called me over today and wrapped her tail around my arm and started looking for my jewelry which was hidden under my shirt, smart monk! Then she showed me her boo boo on her little hand and we put some calendula creme on it which only proved to be like dessert to her as she licked it off as quickly as I could put it on her. She took my hand in hers and gave it little kisses and then groomed my nails picking ever so gently on my unmanicured cuticles for a minute or two. I honestly don’t know who gets more out of this exchange.

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I cried like a baby when I heard the news about Jumangi’s passing yesterday and am going over today to pay my respects and give Jaye and Gail some support. I know that this has been a very hard loss for them. This is a Rescue Sanctuary and as Gail pointed out to me that death is all a part of the process, still there are some that just tug on your heart strings and it was Jumanji who first tugged on mine and whose story brought me to EARS the first time.

At the time I had just lost my sweet dog Bear who was just the dog of my Heart and I was inconsolable. Shortly thereafter Jaye called me about coming over to EARS as she had heard of my animal work. I read Jumanji’s story on their website and I was a goner. I knew that this invitation to EARS had Bear’s pawprints all over it because it was going to take someting as awesome as 40+Big Cats to begin to help me get over losing my Bear Boy….and it was going to take a Big Cat as awesome as Jumanji to keep me going through some of the other huge losses over the years. Going to Ears has been such a healing place for me and a place for me to heal the animals. I never could have dreamed 20 years ago to have had the honor to call a lion or a tiger my friends or to know special women like Gail and Jaye who care for some 45 Big Cats,most of them tigers.Today’s visit will be bittersweet but always so very heartfelt.

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Its so wonderful to see how animals in a family actually act like family. My crew shows me that time and time again. I thought that I would have to put my 14 yr old dog down on New years Eve. He’s half shepherd and half Catahoula Leopard Hound,a leopard shepherd. He by the way ,has had nothing but skin problems since his first rabies shot, never had them before. Those shots are in many cases a veterinary hustle and the honest ones will tell you that they can sometimes cause more harm than good and certainly needn’t be done yearly. The vaccines are good for usually 3 yrs so the yearly shot is just a scam.

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It was a beautiful Florida day and a great time to visit one of my favorite places,EARS,a Big Cat Sanctuary. The smoke of the recent forest fires had subsided so it was safe to venture out for an extended time for a change. The weather was perfect and it was the good thing. Sultan, the almost pure white tiger cub who now probably weighs about 500 lbs loves to play splash with me. He has a big cast iron tub to soak and play in and he just loves to see how wet he can get me.

The first time that he showed me his tub,, he was so excited. I could hear him in my head telling me “Hey Flash ya gotta see something really cool!” Then he ran over to the tub and as soon as I got near enough, he stood on his hind legs making himself nearly 6 feet tall and came crashing down into the water throwing a tiger water wave over my entire body. Before I could catch my breath, he had done it again and now I was soaked to my skin. The next time that I visited him, he was already in his tub so I foolishly thought that I was safe from the deluge. Wrong! This time he came flying up and out of the tub and then came crashing back in to splash me. I always think that I can move far enough away and I am always wrong. He clearly sees it as a very fun game to splash Flash. Now I know to wear cotton when I go to EARS for this reason as he ritually soaks the whole front of me.

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I have had a taxing but exciting day romping through the folds of the 5th Dimension with clients and my own issues and feeling very exhilarated by it all.

As I sit at my computer, I can hear the mysterious hooting of one of the Barred owls that surround my home here at Moonhaven. Her call draws me outside to commune with her. She seems to be about 10 feet away in one the big trees. My home, Moonhaven, is surrounded by a grove of ancient Live Oaks that wrap their wooden arms around my lavender house.

The owl, who I have come to call Sophia, was loud and insistent like she was trying to get my attention. Her night call always gets my attention and will just as often bring me outdoors to hear her more closely.

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