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Summer
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Summer is Mother Earth’s precious gift of sweetness
to us—the season
of luscious fruits and lavish flowers,
of warm days and soft nights,
of relaxation and keeping our fear of winter darkness at bay.
It is a time to have fun and enjoy ourselves—a time
to vacation and feel childlike and free for a while. It is
also a time to assess our goals at the half-way point of the
year (monitoring the plans we have seeded in the Spring).
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As
the warmth of the soil brings forth nourishment we are taught
to nourish ourselves so that we too may grow and evolve.
Solstice in Latin means ‘to stand still’. And
the sun does seems to stand still on June 21 as the Solstice
begins and we enjoy the longest day of the year. We learn
to stand still and honor the light that shines upon us and
that light that shines within us.
This season has long been a time of celebration and ritual
in every culture dating back millennium. We carry the rituals
within us in our DNA and we knit the past, present and future
together as we honor our instincts to celebrate the sun, moon,
stars, life and living. In a metaphysical sense summer also
represents prosperity because we are freely offered the gifts
of Mother Earth—we need only accept the fruits, berries,
nuts, water and sunshine. We are being taught that the universe
will provide for us.
I’ve just returned from Ireland, the isle of Druids,
magic and myth. It was wonderful to begin my summer celebration
in the midst of Spring—a perfectly child-like decision
to make! John and I immersed ourselves in the ancient traditions
that still live, day and night, rain or shine in the sights
and sounds of Galway, Donegal, Derry and Dromore.
If you’d like to see some photos of the megaliths and
cliffs we visited, you can check out my Blog at: http://mythdoctor.blogspot.com.
Come now. Enjoy this issue and I wish you a beautiful, relaxing
and child-like summer. Blessings!
"Remember the wisdom of unpredictability and uncertainty
so that you escape the prison of the known."...Deepak
Chopra, M.D.
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Myth and legend are the universe’s way of preserving
crucial information and ideas.
They are secret, metaphorical tools to bridge the gap in generations
and preserve the ancient wisdom for evolutionary growth —
information that fools and politicians would squash.
Myths are remembered because they inspire our dreams, empower
our goals and bolster hope and imagination within us. They
are immune to destruction by evil kings, popes, politicians
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From my earliest childhood, myths and legends have been my
comfort, my mentors and my source of empowerment. They still
remain my resource for creative expression and enlightenment.
One
of the major principles and myths of ancient wisdom is “as
above, so below.” As Spirit does, you do also. As the
Universe does, you must emulate. There is the Macro Universe
(all things) and the Micro Universe (you). I write this to
set the stage for this fact: the universe is a myth maker
(Macro); you are a myth maker (Micro). You are here to write
the myth of who you are, where you came from, where you are
going, and why. You are connected with all things, in all
times past and future. Every sage, mystic and hierophant has
stressed our oneness with all that is, was or ever will be.
Carl
Jung, the brilliant psychologist believed in a collective
unconscious—all things together in one dynamic Cosmos.
He wrote about archetypes—universal patterns of personalities
that we all inherit through our DNA or that we adopt. You
have many archetypes in your personality—and you may
adopt as many as you wish. It is empowering to write your
own personal myth by allowing any number of archetypes to
flower within you. Where have you walked as Heroine? Or Pioneer?
Wizard? Goddess? Healer? Engineer? Wise Woman? Whatever you
write, you will set those thoughts and actions into motion.
Here’s
how to begin writing your myth: first, reject all the humble
pie that’s been forced down your throat. Do not be humble!
Be assertive. Be honest. Are you smart? Are you beautiful?
Say so. Write it. Begin by writing something like this: Once
upon a time, long, long ago and far, far away...or perhaps
here and now in this time and place... there lived a beautiful
brunette of robust figure and fine features. She was inquisitive,
smart and sassy with a desire to live her dreams, but then
a tragic twist of fortune befell her.
Then write a myth about how she (you) accomplished amazing
things and became known as a healer for the ages.....or whatever
it is you want to accomplish. Make your myth an on-going pilgrimage—always
evolving, ever accepting awards and rewards.
This is a template you are constructing for the universe to
follow. Make it grand and glorious. Write your myth with a
flourish so that you may live with a flourish. And watch for
my upcoming downloadable booklet “Write your Own Myth”.
Joseph Campbell taught that we are our own myth and that we
must write it, not just think it, to make our myth blossom
and unfold.
Writing your own myth works very well with your journaling
practice (see my Spring Equinox issue). Begin today. Now is
always the right (write) time!
"Beauty doesn't hold still but changes with the seasons.
You have it, no
matter what season you're in."...Kavlan Pickford
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I
use the Black Hat Sect method of Feng Shui.
Stand at the front door of your home facing into the house.
The back left 1/3 of your dwelling is your prosperity area.
To energize your prosperity, add some red or purple to the
room (pillows, flowers, paint, etc.)
Keep the lights on for several hours
if it’s a dark room. Get rid of any junk that is piled
up including in closets and drawers; neatness results in order
to your wealth.
If you have a jumbled area, your finances will be jumbled
and disorganized. Remove any broken items, especially clocks
that have stopped.
An aquarium is a nice addition—with gold fish. Gold
needs no explanation. Fish mean prosperity because of their
abundance—there are always more fish in the sea, lots
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A candle brings the fire energy (life giving) to any room.
A clock is also a nice addition—its continuous ticking
introduces immediacy into your wealth. A mobile is nice too
because movement draws the universe’s attention and
auspicious opportunities will reveal themselves. Your finances
will respond positively to all this attention.
One more hint: from the moment I began carrying 3 Chinese
coins tied together with a red silk ribbon in my purse, it
has been full. Feng Shui works!
"The most beautiful stones have been tossed by the wind
and washed by the waters and polished to brilliance by life's
strongest storms."
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The Labyrinth is a fascinating link to the ancient Goddess
spiritual practice encompassing mind, body and spirit.
Walking in circles is not mindless wandering, or a dizzying
experience.
Walking the labyrinth is a direct link to the Divine Feminine
within.
This is a glorious practice that puts you instantly in touch
with the divine, and needs no ‘special’ intermediary
to show you the way. |
A
labyrinth is not a maze. A maze is a man-made rather mean-spirited
entrapment game that purposely gets you lost. The labyrinth,
on the other hand, is based on the lost art of sacred geometry
and you can not get lost, just as you can never be lost in
Spirit—one of its key lessons.
The circular path leads you directly to the center where you
may leave your burdens, and then that path guides you back
out again, free, inspired, unencumbered. I’ve walked
the most famous Chartres Labyrinth just outside Paris several
times, a number of indoor and outdoor labyrinths in Ireland,
a remote Viking nine circle labyrinth on the sea a few miles
north of Gothenburg, Sweden, and several in California many,
many times.
I come to the labyrinth to find peace, answers, inspiration
and guidance.
I walk away with incredible insights that stay with me for
months and years. When I was wandering in a mindless wilderness
of career desert,
I discovered my divine purpose in the labyrinth. I’ve
uncovered hidden fears and gratefully released them.
The myths and legends about the labyrinth and about your own
mythical circuitous route to spirituality become clear as
you walk the twists and turns that mimic your life path and
lead you inexorably to your divinity. The labyrinth is a gift
from the divine. Accepting the gift works wonders.
"The Three Wise Women would have: Asked Directions. Arrived
on time. Helped deliver the baby. Cleaned the stable. Made
a casserole. Brought practical gifts and."..there would
be Peace on Earth.
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This gorgeous, rare and expensive gemstone carries the mystical
energy of consciousness unfolding.
Aquamarine is the color of a summer sea and calls forth the
water elements of primal life, ancient wisdom and evolution.
It also enhances the life-giving fluidity of health and wellness.
Mined in Zambia and Mozambique, it has always been thought
to repel danger and evil. |
Sailors
carried it with them on voyages to attract mermaids to aid
their safe journey across the seas. It is so beautiful that
it seems to be heavenly as well as a Mother Earth treasure.
When worn over the heart it energizes sacred purpose and vision.
The metaphysical interpretation of water is consciousness
(awareness of who you truly are; rebirth into your spiritual
self).
It is interesting that water surrounds and protects the womb
and breaks when we are ushered into this life journey. Aquamarine
is beautiful and powerful. It’s very powerful to know
who you are!
This is a one only Priestess Necklace (pictured).
To purchase it,
email me.
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept
anything but the best, you very often get it."...Somerset
Maugham
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These are the books of transformation for women.
They will inspire, infuriate, and motivate, as they heal your
fears and stoke your desire to be all you were meant to be.
Read them often.
I’ve read Women Who Run with the Wolves in its entirety
every year since it was published in 1990
(that’s 15 full readings. Plus I turn to it often for
a quick pick-me-up). |
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are the Bestsellers for Women:
- Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes,
PhD
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Personal Alchemy, Elaine Maginn Sonne, PhD
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The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
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The Jesus Papers, Michael Baigent
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The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels
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Healing Dreams, Marc Ian Barasch
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Crones Don’t Whine, Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
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Walking a Sacred Path, Dr. Lauren Artress
- Legends of the Stones, Elaine Maginn Sonne, PhD.
Personal
Alchemy, Falling Down and Getting Up. , Elaine
Maginn Sonne, Ph.D.
“Getting up is always easier with someone else’s
support and reminds you that you are not alone.”
I invite you to discover how to find your path in
Personal Alchemy; Click
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I am very pleased with this book and I still read it often
to feel good and keep going. These are inspirational writings
that I wrote when I was Editor of Science of Mind magazine.
They are gathered by month to help with June gloom or February
heartbreak.
Personal Alchemy is like having your own support group at
your fingertips. These writings are my experiences with heartbreak,
sadness, doubt, fear, falling down and getting up and what
helped me to cope.
I know you will enjoy it.
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."...Rumi
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Magic
Square legends originated in most cultures in the early centuries.
They were taught by the brilliant mathematicians Plato, Pythagoras
and Agrippa who believed in the lost art of Sacred Geometry
which held that if certain numbers were formed into a mathematically
equal square they energized an area of magic around the person
who viewed them or used them in ritual.
They are almost completely lost again. The Magic Square of
the Moon below was believed to be especially effective under
the Full Moon. The magic derives from the fact that the numbers
arranged in a square of equal sides all add to the same total,
coming and going, up and down and oft times even from a diagonal.
Cornelius Agrippa had this magic square engraved and wore
it as a talisman for special favor with the heavens and his
soul. Agrippa (1486-1535) wrote: “It is affirmed by
Magicians of Ancient Wisdom that there are certain tables
of numbers distributed to the seven planets, which they call
the sacred tables of the planets, endowed with many, and very
great virtues that represent that divine order of Celestial
numbers—idea's of the divine mind, by means of the soul
of the world.”
It was believed the soul would be reachable and available
for consultation when this Magic Square was seen. I am going
to test this theory and do a full moon journaling and drumming
session under the full moon with this Magic Square as my guide.
It sounds like a fascinating adventure. You might want to
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78 29 70 21 62 13 54 5
6 38 79 30 71 22 63 14 46
47 7 39 80 31 72 23 55 15
16 48 8 40 81 32 64 24 56
57 17 49 9 41 73 33 65 25
26 58 18 50 1 42 74 34 66
67 27 59 10 51 2 43 75 35
36 68 19 60 11 52 3 44 76
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"The world would have you agree with its dismal dream
of limitation.
But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred
visions."...Alan Cohen
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We
are so blessed with a treasure house of hundreds of goddesses,
symbols of the Divine Feminine, to inspire us that I am always
astonished at our blessings... and yet so much in the dark
about many of them.
I think that’s the case for Metis (pronounced METiss).
I’d never heard of her until I started a Goddess Receiving
Circle and began researching the goddess. |
In
Greek, Metis means ‘wise counsel’. She is the
symbol for practical and intellectual wisdom and she is the
perfect goddess to call for when you need to understand a
situation and act with wisdom and skill.
She is also perfect to help us embrace our own creativity
and not be overshadowed by patriarchal and masculine forces.
Call on Metis to make space in your life for solitude and
reflection, to transform from a technical person into an artist,
to discover what the next phase of your life is to be.
Remember the goddess is within you—Metis lies within
your DNA—and therefore you are Metis with all the knowledge,
wisdom and wise counsel you need.
When you are at a stage in life when you are a discerning
combination of intuition, intellect and maturity (seasoned
by life’s successes, failures and challenges) you are
Metis and you are a power for yourself and those who seek
your advice.
Congratulations! And come out, come out, wherever you are!
You can also check out more goddesses in Jean Shinoda Bolen’s
book ‘Goddesses In Older Women.” It’s brilliant.
"None of us is promised tomorrow. Today, in all its beauty,
is all we have."...Kent Nerburn
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- Goddess, Aphrodite
- Women and Talisman's
- Chakra Harmony
- Affirmations & Miracles
- The Pentacle Lie
- Beat of the Drum
- Stand Up & Shout
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I’ve
worn so many hats in my life
it’s hard to know where to begin.
My careers have included:
Editor of Science of Mind magazine,
a monthly philosophy journal started
in 1929 by Ernest Holmes. With a
subscriber base of 90,000 readers.
Founding Editor/Designer of Inner
Visions. Publisher/Graphic Designer: SOS Press, which is still
under
my ownership. And, a Spiritual Coach for 25 years.
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My
grandmother taught me to read tea leaves ...practiced to
this day.
For
10 years I bred and showed Lhasa Apsos. Bred the Purina
Dog Chow Top Show Dog of the Year and Best In Show Champion
Yojimbo Orion (my other true love).
Of the 5 books that I have written, one was a bestseller
on Amazon.com
I’ve been married 3 times, once to an abuser, once
to a savior and now to my Soul Mate, John, for 30 years.
Together, we have restored 8 fixer-upper houses, and live
in one we can’t leave—a Craftsman in Los Angeles
built in 1910. We owned and operated a 35’ cruiser
named Odyssey, and conducted brunch cruises to Catalina.
I have been blessed with 2 wonderful children (Karen and
Stephen) and 3 great grandchildren (Stephanie, RJ and Matt).
Drumming is one of my passions on an ancient Celtic drum,
the Bodhran and facilitating several Wise Woman Circles
and full moon drumming. As a Storyteller/Jewelry Designer
I design jewelry that tells stories to motivate and inspire
women through beauty.
Born in the Year of the Dragon, I am a Virgo with an Aquarius
Rising Sign ...a Feng Shui consultant with an ‘A’
type personality, who loves to knit, garden, travel, read
and do Sudoku puzzles and Cryptograms. And, crazy about
words, music, ancient wisdom, color, Mother Nature and animals.
John calls me an introverted extrovert.
My genealogy that I am following goes back to Ireland, Germany
and France. Each day I meditate, journal and chant. And
I feel like I'm just getting started!
But wait ...think about it; you’ll see that
you also wear many hats.
Why? Because women are fabulous multi-taskers!
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