*~ MIRACLES ~*

Miracles abound; small, medium, large and XL.  From the smallest bird ~ Hummers, to the largest animals ~ Whales; we see miracles all around us.

Being trapped inside, as many of us are; to jobs, daily living, raising kids, schlepping back and forth from school or the store; it’s easy to forget that we are surrounded by miracles.

The magic of the world gets lost in the daily grind, especially if we spend our time seeking outside of ourselves to suffice our inner desires.  Drugs, drink, pills, TV, social network all can detract us away from our own inner magic and the magic that is all around us. We become automatonic users instead of brilliant creators.

It’s when we take a break from the external world and just go for a walk in the woods or try a new trail on a hike, that we rediscover the mystery of Earth.

She, Gaia – as some call her – is an amazing being.  She is shrouded in mystery and there are layers of ages upon her.  There are places we haven’t yet explained like cities upon cities and the giant Moai statues at Easter Island.  The Earth is wrought with mystery; but because we have created around us familiarity, we forget how amazing she is.

It is time to take a walk on the wild side.  I dare you to go on an adventure!

Go and find a place you have never seen.  Go and find a world where magic is alive.  Get out of the box and live a little; even if it’s just a hiking trail near your home, even if it’s just around the block on your street.  I will bet you don’t know all of your neighbors and someone out there can benefit from some gift you bring to this planet.

I bet you will find that you see things in a new way today.  Create something while you are out there.  Find some leaves and sticks and make a fairy house.  Find a tree and hug it.  Feel the energy of the tree.  Change something no matter how small.  Move a stick, a twig, but make something change.

If you go to the ocean you will see all the elements coming together; air, sun, water, earth, wood.  You will feel the ions shift your body presence.  Feel the sand and the water with your feet or hands, the way the two mix and also the sounds of the elements mixing.  When the waves roll in and move the sand – it is a very distinct sound…  Let that sound feed your spirit and cleanse and release away any unneeded baggage.  Just breathe it away…  Imagine the waves rolling over YOU as you lay on the beach by the water… ~*~

Try to feel the other worlds that exist on this plane along with us.  Open your heart to this idea.  Use your imagination and see into the Fairy realm. Imagine fairies and what they may look like, where they may live and what they may do.  

Start to feel into the Spirit realm; where all the people who have ever gone before us have settled for their rest.  See if, along your journey, you can open to this field of consciousness and send some love into it.

You may be surprised what you get back. 

Ask Spirit to guide you and ask for what you want from it.  Wait and feel.  See if you get any visions while you are exploring; for the journey is not of the body or the mind, but rather of the soul and spirit.  See if Spirit will show you your Angel guide[s].  Open to seeing what Spirit shows you in Love.

See if you can feel differently along your way.  And then come back when you are ready and write about it.

Write about what you saw, felt, heard…

And then see how your life changes, unfolds and shifts…

Miracles really do abound.  And, when we stir the pot of our consciousness we really can change the world.

Be in Peace ~*~

Namaste

Janzee

*~ …Letting go… ~*

We have all heard the term: “Let go, Let God.”

We have been told to just “Surrender” and “Go with the Flow” but what does that really mean?  Many of my clients have spoken to me about the need to maintain this flow of letting go as things keep coming up.  They say ‘”There is always more to let go of! When does it end?!”

I completely understand their frustration.  The trick is detecting the source of the creation of the things that come at us.  When we get to the root of that we can truly surrender and really let go.

An example of this is a recurring pattern in my life where I have been faced with the same test over and over again.  My “Saturnian” tests, shall I say, have been numerous and layered throughout my life starting in my teens and carrying through into my 40’s.

I recently was faced with this pattern again during a recent confrontation with an elder.  It has empowered me to realize that the most important things to let go of are our expectations.

Being really clear on what we are expecting from others frees us.  In having no expectations, we are ultimately free.

Having expectations is like a prison we place ourselves in.  It closes the energetic field down and limits the space for miracles.  Thinking and ego play a big part in expectations.

A few years ago, I was stopped on the way out of a store by an old Indian man.  He said this same thing to me.  He asked me if I knew how to live a happy life.  I said no and listened.  He said “Don’t have any expectations!  If you do your best every time then you have done all you can do.”  He said “You can’t be disappointed if you have done your best!”

It was a very simple message but straight to the point. 

I cannot change other people.  I can only change myself.  The inner work is the only thing that matters…Integrity, honesty, self-respect and self-love. 

That’s not to say be selfish.  Service is the prime honor in life.  Being there for people who are open to receive and ready to do the tough inner work is our highest calling.  Giving is for giving…

Another lesson I received around this came from a very good friend who was in the ICU for 4 months.  When he came out he said to me: “Janice, don’t get into confrontation.  Life is too short.  Move around them, do not interact with people who try to rip you off.  Just go around them and move on.  Life is too precious.”

I hear these elders.  I also see elders who are very stuck and afraid to shift to a higher paradigm. They are so comfortable in their fear that a bulldozer won’t even budge them.  It has been home for so long that is all they know.  Their reality has become too real.

Patterns can be broken.  We all live in our own created environments, but we also all live in one environment on earth…Home vs. home.

We must, and it is imperative at this time more than any other before, fall home to that deep place where we know that we are held in the highest regard by the Creator.

This is the only place to reach a complete letting go of expectations… To KNOW that in light we are HELD and that we are all connected no matter what our ego plays out for us or others do around us… To become so smooth that nothing sticks and we merely can move through the fields of conflicting energy like a fish in water sleek and sliding through the river of life.

Letting go… the great paradigm of movement; moving through mindful of our ability to release as much as we are tempted to hold on…

Be at peace…

Namaste ~*~

Janzee

On …~~~Anxiety… ~*

Anxiety rattles us all at one time or another.  Be it the transition of moving, children changing schools, divorce, new babies or just plain daily chores that need to get done.

I suffer with the rest… Just leaving the house is a challenge sometimes.  Making sure everything is ‘together’ for the day before we depart the premises is a challenging ordeal especially with children.

The one common denominator I have found in regards to Anxiety is speed.  My body cannot move as fast as my mind tells it to.  My head races and my body tries its best to follow suit.  

This 3D world is not set up for human flight.  We are Spiritual Beings having a Human experience.

It is imperative that we stay grounded and earthly.  

I have witnessed others in Anxiety and I myself have experienced it first hand, very recently to be honest.  It is racked with overwhelm and the need to complete things before they are even thought of.  This state of mind and body is not a healthy state.  It is in fact our adrenals which have kicked in and are speeding us up as if we are fleeing a wooly mammoth on the playa.  It is a fight or flight response present in the old reptilian part of our brain.

Common sense would have us reset.

The trick is to notice this WHILE we are in Anxiety.  To consciously agree and reset our thinking first to really make that concerted effort to CALM DOWN feels really impossible.  

This morning after 2 days of anxious running of the monkey mind, I decided to just STOP.  

My angels, guides, higher mind or whoever/whatever you want to call it reset me.  And I am grateful.  I feel better today and feel like I can take on things piecemeal.  

There is a ton of energy being released from our sun in the form of huge solar flares this week and we have to assimilate this new light into our DNA.  We are doing this and it is our choice whether it is easy or painful.  We can surrender to the flow or we can resist it.  Resistance really is futile, because at some point the river will push and then we will have to let go.  It is easier to just allow the flow.

All this was said to me yesterday by my very wise mother, but only today has the wisdom sunk in!   I am grateful I am receptive enough to pull back.

Another lesson in this Anxiety 101 is that the example I set is paramount.  I am responsible for emitting calm energy to my child. More importantly,  I am responsible for demonstrating the ability to shift from one state of mind to another.  It is very important that she sees me being capable of shifting my mindset from one of disturb to one of calm.   In this, she will learn how to self-regulate her own dynamic.  This is one of the greatest gifts I can give my child – the gift of owning her own power.

In anxiety, my mind is a slave driver.  The mind needs to be shackled and fed chocolate chip cookies and milk until it calms [expletive] down.

Psychologists and psychiatrists have detailed explanations for the chemical reactions which happen when the mind is ruling the body and everything’s on overload – Anxiety.  They prescribe medications for people with PTSD who have suffered repeated anxiety from varying incidents ranging from high to low.  

That is one solution – medication.  But a much more effective and long lasting solution is Meditation.  In stilling the mind, the body can reset and everything comes into focus - taking that reset energy into daily living is the challenge.  

[Sometimes in extreme cases, deeper healing on the Spiritual level can be helpful to long lasting solutions.]

Life throws curveballs.

The important thing to know when facing anxiety is that if I calm down…

-         ~ Things will get done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

If I go too fast – faster than my body can handle – everything goes haywire and nothing gets done.  I have experienced spills, bumps, inability to grab things – things just out of reach as if I am a ghost, not in my body because I am not in my body - I am in my head.

·         
~   ~ I need to calm down on purpose.

·         ~ Everything will get done.

·         ~ Breathing is the key.

·        ~ Overwhelm is a red flag.

~ I can choose to stop so I can center, ground, prioritize then act.

Grounding centering exercise:

Close your eyes and take 3 long slow deep breaths sending a grounding chord down to the center of the Earth.  Draw up earth energy so you are connected to Gaia.  Breathe this energy up and down slowly until you feel settled.

You can say these words when you feel grounded:

Ø ~ I am on Earth

Ø ~ I am human and mortal

Ø ~ I have no magic powers on this 3D plane

Ø ~ Only in meditation can I center correctly and see what needs to be done first and foremost.

Ø ~ Then and only then can I START

I hope this helps you as it did me.

Yesterday I had 5 major life changing things going on at the same time and it was so overwhelming I could hardly breathe.  Today feels better.  I am much more settled and centered.  Breathing and meditating does wonders.  We have to watch our minds as they can run amok and take us with them without invitation.

Center and breathe… I AM

Namaste ~*~

Janzee

~* THE FAIRY HOUSES *~

When I was young I was shown by a friend how to make Fairy houses.  She showed me to collect things in the garden like sticks and leaves and other natural things.  Seed pods, feathers even rocks. 

We would create the fairy house on the side of a tree – a shelter for the tiny folk that live in the garden.  

I remember it well and have taken this gift from her into my adult life.

I create Fairy houses.  My daughter and I go into the forests and make them.  We find what we can and use materials in the surrounding areas to create these magical shelters for our unseen friends.

They are magical and purely of the light.  

The experience of creating a Fairy house is nothing short of Spiritual.  Certain items seem to call to become part of the structure.  As if the Fairies themselves are guiding the process, choosing what goes into their new homes.

They are temporary structures no doubt, but what is permanent anyway?

The choosing of the spot is important before you start your Fairy house. It should be somewhat hidden away and protected in some way from animals especially if you are making one in your own home garden and have a dog per se. 

Collecting items for your Fairy house is important to do before you start to build so you have plenty of things to choose from before you begin.

I suggest a lot of sticks of varying sizes for the structure and then leaves and moss or things that are flat for the covering of the outside walls.  Rocks make good chairs and pathway stepping stones and feathers or seed pods make good railings for the entrance.

Finding a good tree to build against is always a good idea for a starting place.  Start by leaning the sticks against the tree wedging the bottom of the stick into the earth if possible – if it is soft enough.  Make two sides and leave an opening in the middle or the one end if possible.  

Once the sticks have been placed against the tree securely then you can lay on the leaves and other flat items like bark strips if you have any.  This makes the house private and cozy.

You can then decorate the outside with some feathers or flowers too.

Make the floor of the Fairy house by placing some large flat leaves or moss if you have some.  Put the rocks on the leaves/moss and make a sitting place for them.  You can put moss on the tree if you have some rocks leaning up against the tree.  This makes a nice backrest for the Fairies when they are seated.

Sprinkle glitter [if you have] around when you are done.  If you don’t, some fine sand will do or dried earth.  You can also imagine you have some magic Fairy dust and pretend you are sprinkling it on the fairy House.

This “Fairy Dust” attracts the Fairies and makes the magic protection as well.  You can invoke the Fairy energy by making up a little rhyme or song after you’re done making your Fairy House inviting them to come and visit their new home.

Imagine Fairies coming to the house in the dusk, the night and the early morning.  Imagine them dancing and enjoying the house you built them!

They are grateful beings of Light and will appreciate your hard work :o)

Here are some photos on my Fairy Workshop page: 

http://www.janicekirkpatrick.com/fairy_house_workshops

Enjoy building!!!

Peace and Namaste ~*

Janzee

THE WALKING WOUNDED

Here’s to the walking wounded and you know who you are.  That’s everyone who’s ever been through hell and back and it doesn’t matter at what age you did it –you are all wounded warriors of the light.

Be you the father who’s slaved to provide for the family unit or the child who was neglected due to the father’s emotional absence.  Be you the victim of a crime perpetrated and never admitted by the abuser or the abusers guilt for committing that crime and never having the courage to face that person and admit the guilt and ask for forgiveness.

We are all walking wounded in one way or another; all of us seeking love and acceptance from one another and thus from God, for does not God reside in every one of us?

One school of thought comes from the energetic vibratory levels of Chiron.  The idea is that the wounded are warriors.  Healers learning to heal themselves and on the way help others as they evolve along their own path; picking up the stones so that others need not trip over them along the path that is already trodden upon.

There are, however, perspectives to take into account.  If we are all facets and mirrors of God, then as we walk our own individual paths, mustn’t we also acknowledge that one person’s lessons may not be learned in the exact same way as another?   So in that, sometimes, ‘helping’ is more like allowing.  One has to weigh these ideologies individually so that proper care is taken so as not to tip the apple cart.

It is up to each of us individually, in respect to the group dynamic, to still glean our insights alone as we also reflect back to the unity consciousness.  A newness may emerge that might not be found through manipulation.

In that newness – a rebirth can occur - one that has not been experienced by any facet of God before.  So, in the idea of this we thus feed the super dynamic and enlighten just in our ‘being’ alone.

One must then fail and fail again to be reminded that all is lessons and all is learning here on this plane.  For to fall and fail is to be vulnerable and open enough to embrace that which will eventually enlighten us and make us stronger in the idea that we really are not alone, but one with everything always.

Here is the key:  There is not good or bad.  There is no duality.  It is created in our minds, this idea, to challenge us to evolve and enlighten ourselves…   To indeed come closer to God… To our own inner HEART WISDOM.  For the Heart is much wiser than the head ~*~

Popular examples we have been given, such as Jesus Christ and the Buddha, show us what we can accomplish if we thwart the duality of the Ego mindset, relinquish manipulation and instead harness our innate God given power of positive intention.  Our Community Heart knows this and knows it WELL.

It is a balancing act.  The wounded warrior is the winner after all.  We are ALL wounded – in one way or another – imprinted by patterning passed down through generations – challenged to break certain cycles and renew in the light. 

When we become aware that that which does not serve us and the greater good NEEDS to be discarded; like sloughing off a dead limb as a tree does,  so a way can be made for something that DOES bear life and WORKS in the PLAY.

I embrace each and every one of you who read this and attune to this vibratory message of LIGHT.

The War is Over.  It’s Safe to Come Home Now.  Peace is With-In and We are All Loved DIVINELY!

Namaste ~*~

Janzee

Persephone

As Persephone enters the underworld, we are reminded of our own innate transitory states of awareness. 

We too must shed the cloaks of pretense and go deep within to seek out the root cause of our own individual and collective demons so we may rise anew when the light returns.

For the change to take place, much must be revealed and this can only happen when we are surrendered in trust that in the deepest depths of darkness and despair, the brightest light can emerge.

I think now of the state of the world financial affairs and how layered through history this mess really is.  It goes deeper than the lowest canyon and spans wider than the broadest valley because over time, this karma has built up and has laid a path for us to deal with now, present time.

We, the keepers of the earth are all responsible for our ancestors’ deeds and misdeeds.  There will be no more avoidance now, we must act and we must act in love and peace.  With this at the forefront we will surely triumph.  There is no room for resentment, pity or feelings of revenge.  We are really and truly all in this together.

Justice shall prevail, but at the same time we must have mercy on all of our brothers and sisters because they too agreed to be the sacrificial lamb in this karmic story.  We all play a part, be it driving a car, choosing to be an omnivore or whatever the subtle or not so subtle case may be.

It is key now to make time for meditation and concentrate when in this open space of awake dreaming, to become aware of our amazing powers of intention --- using our imagination, we can truly change the energy and the world.  The flow is requesting this of us now.  While we eat better, imbibe sacred foods of wisdom and healing, we can then send forth this magic energy into the great collective and feed the abandoned crying children within us all.

Just think of the drug addicts lining city streets --- all abandoned children --- self medicating for years and stuck in a system which no longer wants them nor has a permanent place for broken, mentally and spiritually challenged souls.  It is in this energetic field that we will find the answers we seek.  “My success is in helping You to succeed”.  Cleaning up the collective mess – focusing on where the love is needed is pertinent!  As a society and a ‘superpower’, we need to act and we need to act now.

The collective is crying for this healing.  We know what to do, we just have to focus and concentrate our energy in pure form toward such a goal.  We will and can achieve it…  It is all energy – we know this.

Love one another as Jesus said and forgive your neighbor, for they truly do not know what they do.  Most foul action is done in fear.  We know this too.  Fear of losing security, being alone, hungry, cold --- homeless.

There are so many who need help and a hug.

We have enough.

We have enough to share…

In this – I intend love… and finally forgiveness…

Thank you --- I LOVE YOU!

Namaste ~*

Janzee

The Anti-Obama Problem in the USA

I usually do not write political pieces but due to the course of recent events I have witnessed in the broadband media, the flow of comments through friends on Facebook and the general atmosphere of political opinion I see, hear and feel in this country I sincerely feel this needs to be said.

I am shocked and amazed at the downright verbal aggression from some of my ‘hippy friends’ on Facebook who continue to slur and slander Barack Obama.  You’d think after 8 freakin' years of the worst political debacle in the history of the United States that at least the hippies would be ecstatic over having such an amazingly enlightened man, never mind a spiritually evolved black man, as our nations president.

Barack Obama has had to contend with the likes of the most insidious undermining right wing republican energy this country has ever known.  He has had to balance and juggle continuous and numerous challenges in his first year as our nations’ leader.

I was in Target the other day shopping for a present for my daughters friends’ birthday and we were shopping for cards.  I saw an anti-Obama card in the birthday section and just couldn’t believe the audacity.  GW was an amazingly stupid man.  I can see how this ‘humor’ has now gotten out of hand.

Target is obviously a tea-party supporter.  I saw this in the product display and I also saw the RED theme continuous throughout the store. A color originally meaning blood and power initiated by our Red Brothers and Sisters whose nation this was originally.  It is on their medicine shields and wheels and certainly signifies much more than capitalism and the drive for wealth trough any corrupt means necessary.  I saw very clearly after this last visit, that this would be my very last visit to Target as I see that they are definitely Right Wing supporters. 

I willingly and openly say to my friends who knock Barack Obama due to the fact that they want to whitewash all political figureheads as corrupt and back the ideas of David Icke as gospel that they need to put down the bong, pick up the remote and turn of the TV.  Then they need to sit and think of how THEY would do this differently and please get up and do something proactive, whether its signing petitions online or anything that promotes positive earth conscious changes directed toward our positive movement of a cleaner more peaceful planet.  Sitting on your ass everyday getting stoned and bitching that Obama is just like Bush isn’t helping.  He is nothing like Bush and he never will be.

Barack Obama is an amazing person.  We are blessed and lucky to have him in the Captain’s Chair.  The amount of crap he has had to deal with has been astounding and the man is doing his darnedest to get this country on its feet again and in the positive energetic flow of LIGHT toward a Manifest Destiny we have been prophesized to walk into.

We all are in this together.  There is an Ascension Process going on.  

Being born in South Africa, I have seen the oppression of the Black races first hand.  I knew even when I was a child that they held some incredibly deep and powerful medicine in their beings.  Being painted as thieves and robbers was what the White people in power needed to keep recreating the vicious cycle of condemnation and oppression to keep their spiritual magnitude from rising above the mess.  The simmering anger in the population was mediated with guns and murder.  It was a sick place and I did not realize the magnitude of the situation until I was much older and living here in the USA.

Now, as an American Citizen and a Californian who has traveled to the East Coast and places like Florida to witness the ignorance and small mindedness of some of the people who call themselves Americans, I can honestly say that this country needs a spiritual enema.  As a Nation we are children spiritually speaking.  We have not evolved past a consciousness of the Savior.  This consciousness makes us the spiritual child… the forever victim who needs saving.  

It is time we evolve and step into the adult shoes that have been waiting for us for too long now.  There is work to be done.  Be it changing our mindset to one of a more positive note or even beginning more authentic grassroots movements toward the cleansing and clearing of this nations hand in the continuous pollution of the Earth and non-awareness of the effect we have had on the destruction of eco-systems and wildlife. 

I say now that if you’re bitching about what Obama is doing or hasn’t done yet, then look in the mirror and see how YOU can help him achieve the goal that we are ALL set out to achieve and that is not to be the savior of everyone or the world, but instead to be a forward movement for peace and equilibrium of our worlds delicate balance of life.

This all begins with LOVE and acceptance of what is.  No more denial of how things are.  Instead we have to become brutally honest and get with the positive flow in our own separate intention patterns that we can set as individuals in our everyday existence.  Don’t be deluded into thinking that you don’t matter.  You wouldn’t be here if you didn’t.   We ALL matter… for we are all matter.

Many wise men and women of our time and time before us have said things which reiterate what I am saying here today.  Sitting on your ass pointing fingers at people who are going gray trying to help and heal the broken systems isn’t doing anyone any good.

Gandhi – “we have to be the change we want to see in the world”

JFK – “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what YOU can do for your country”

Scoop Miester – “If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own!”

So, there you have it.  Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it…  We need more wise and enlightened people getting their hands dirty now more than ever.  I think the weed can wait… it’s not going anywhere.  Let others who have been working so hard get a break and let’s get this ball rolling.

Obama is doing a GREAT JOB.  He is an amazing man and we are blessed and lucky to have him as our nations’ leader.  He is a Gift to us from Creator… He holds the blueprints of our new world… He is to be honored and respected and he is not Bush.  He is the anti-Bush :o)  But, be not presumptuous… he needs our help.  All of us… We as a nation need to combine our energies toward one goal – UNIFICATION and LOVE.  The ‘them’ and the “spiritual children” need gentle guidance.  After all, a flower cannot be opened with a hammer.

Many of us have been waiting patiently [and some not so patiently :o)] for all to arise to the challenge.  It is easy to lay back and point the finger, but after all isn’t it YOU who needs to change too?

In light and honesty… Goddess Bless and Namaste ~*

Janzee!