This is a picture of the clouds and mountains from the beautiful home that I am staying at in Santa Fe. I love the skies and how they are ever changing. 20 years in Sacramento, CA with summers of only blue skies makes me doubly appreciative of the variability. Last night there blew up a sudden thunder and lightening storm. My body was dancing in delight as the electrical energy filled the air. I felt so enlivened. Nature is clearly showing me what I need to feel happy and healthy. I need mountains, I need water, I need rocks and trees and I need natural beauty abounding. I want to feel a resonance with the land. I have only felt that deep communion in two places, Bowen Island off of Vancouver, Canada and Albany, West Australia. Neither is a place that I can be now as I know that I am to be in the USA. So lately I am getting clarity on what it is that I need to feel “skippy”. My friend and I were laughing that when I visited her on the island, I was skipping so much of the time as I felt so alive and happy. I want that skippy feeling. The land was singing to me and me to it. That is what comes of being in our place. It is the place where it is easier to take a breath, easier to be in your joy. I am refining my vision of my place and allowing it to come to me. Santa Fe is lovely with its red rocks and turquoise skies but my body feels parched. I need moisture in the air. I love this clarity that is coming in.
When I was driving here on the last leg of my trip, I had a talk with Archangel Michael. I told him that I wanted to be able to hear his voice. I wanted him to channel through me, for me. I have only channeled a dozen times or so and each time it is because someone with me saw the energy emerging and encouraged me or there was a message that came through for people that I was with. I told him that I wanted a daily dialogue and advice when I needed it. And I wanted it now. I was amazed when it came through immediately. I was driving and yet I was speaking to myself out loud, I was even able to stop and ask questions. It was so much fun! I received an affirmation that I was seeking and a strengthening of my sense of knowing. He told me that he had been waiting for me to ask, to know that he is in service to me and that I can ask and expect the aid that I need. Loving this!!! We truly are the masters and have so much at our command. I am finally taking that command with a grateful heart.
So, I am asking for my team to line up my perfect place, where I and the land resonate and where others can come for respite and support. I know that it is on its way. I am asking for daily miracles and magic and know that I am deserving of it all.
Some magic: my friend showing us pictures of her amazing vegetable garden and fruit trees that bore the first year she planted them. How she did not know that certain things did not grow on her island……..and they did for her. That is a powerful message. She believed that something would grow and it did. She did not hold to what others told her or the prevailing wisdom dictated. This is exactly what we are called to do now. To hold to our own inner knowing of the world of peace, unity, abundance for all, harmony and love that is just about here despite all the evidence to the contrary. We can grow a garden of love on this planet as surely as my friend grew celery in a climate not known for it.
When I asked her how she was knew to create this garden she said that she discovered: “Everything wants attention and appreciation. So I gave my garden my appreciation and love.” This is so true of everything!!! It is so simple. The more I know, the simpler it gets. Appreciate. Trust. Love.
Here is a rock that we appreciated last night. A friend had this brought in near her front door. It holds water for the birds after the rain. It was a perfect container for our new moon ceremony last night as we burned papers of all that we wished to release and did a freedom dance with the joy of all that is to come. We thanked the fire salamanders for their dancing flames that consumed our old limiting patterns.
Today we went to the art store to buy supplies for our 4 day workshop that begins in the morning. We were like kids in a candy store. I love the colors and textures and papers. We prepped some canvas boards and I felt like a kid in kindergarten, mixing my primary colors with delight. Here is more clarity, I love to create and play with paints. I am not going to be critical of anything that I do…I am going to simply express whatever needs to come out. My friend and I even talked of burning what we create this week to allow complete freedom. Then I said, ” yes. except if I love the painting.” She said, “How about even if we do love the painting!” Hmmmm. I agreed in concept but reserved the right to decide when the time comes. I am pretty practiced in letting go but may want a piece of the beauty that is planning on coming through now. Who knows. The magic for me is that I have the choice; to create, to destroy, to release, to love. So many options and I am off to dream of putting brush to canvas.
Today was the first day of the art workshop in Santa Fe. I am tired out after 7 hours of painting but feel so joyful! It was a treat to play again with color and brushes and the sweep of my arm moving across the canvas. This a picture of the class where the teacher facilitated. He found that term more accurate than teacher. He did facilitate with such grace and kindness to everyone. Truly, that is what we all need. Art carries a heavy baggage in some ways in that we have so many expectations of how it must be done and who is allowed to call themselves an artist. So many people have had terrible experiences when they were told they could not draw, could not sing, could not dance or play an instrument. All of these are areas of natural expression for us as humans. Yet, we have been fed the lie that only some people have the talent to be an artist, whether that be as a singer or a painter or a musician. If we were not part of that elite group, we were not to participate at all. How silly and sad that is.