9 reasons to adore nakedness, i mean tarot

1. Nakedness. Seriously. Naked women, naked truth, transparency. You pick the order.
2. Singing. Your inner wisdom doesn't just speak to you with cards, it SINGS to you! A raw, sweet, in your face song. Every song is different, but an endless possibility of songs, a complex range of notes. Velvety and grinding. Yum.
   
3. Makes the unseen seen. Whether it's your emotions, your thoughts, how energy is flowing, possibilities, emptiness, consciousness...you can see and experience vibrations happening in a more concrete way.
4. Helps the overly heady. Holistic patterns, rhythms. Helps bring right brain thinking, not just linear thinking. Also, drops you into your body by activating your hands touching the cards. For someone who can be overly analytical, I find it helps balance me and get me into heart-mind.
5. Symbol heaven. Objects, Colors, Directions, Planets, Signs, Animals, Numbers. Lightness, Darkness....so many gateways to get your attention and connect with meaningful insight. A thorough collection and range of consciousness to draw upon.
   
6. Storytelling. Rather than just a word or vibe, a story lays out before you. A pattern. A pathway that draws you deeper into you, deeper into truth, deeper into creation...if you listen to the whispers of the story, and the characters, and the theme...beautiful.
   
7. Answers, nice. Learning to question, priceless. Layouts teach you to ask, analyze, organize. And then when there are no cards, your ability to examine complex relationships is right there, in a layout/spread in your mind. Insights even come to a particular location in a 'frame' in my mind...on the right are possibilities, on the left are motivations. Below, what is hidden, above are actions. I don't need cards to have insights or visions show up in certain places within my mind. Organizing clarity.
   
8. Appearing friends. The cards just show up in my mind sometimes. They are friends. Honest friends, tricky friends, mischievous friends, sweet as honey friends....And just like different friends meet different needs, the cards just dance right up into my consciousness and say hello, here is what you seek....look closely at this part of me.
9. Nakedness. Seriously. Strip down and see the truth, baby...it's staring right at you.

Tools are just tools. I see naked, someone else sees whatever they see. The tool bearer is where the insight lays. Cardsl can really help people who are visual or clairvoyant. Can also help someone who is claircognizant (I just know!  This is my primary sense.) to learn to identify intuitions. I've never taught a class specifically on using cards, but this tool was instrumental in helping me trust and be accurate. Maybe someday.

Do you use or like Tarot? Or what helps you gain insight?

this just starts to almost kiss it

The shift the last month has turned my whole perception around. There's nothing new, really...yet everything is new. And words can't touch it. But here I am capturing it the best I can to invite you in...and I've been seeing many mentorees and others around the world stepping in...there is an awakening...

It's as if...

• I was touching a thread... now I'm the whole ribbon and there's not even a ribbon.
• I was noticing intuitions... now intuitions are noticing me.
• I could previously notice various perspectives of corners of mind, of parts of me...now some of the corners just aren't there any more. Merging.
• I was thinking thoughts....now thoughts come by. Curious.
  
• I was separate and knowing there was no separation...now I'm experiencing more of no separation.
• I was sipping spirit regularly...now there is nothing to sip, I'm swallowed.
• I was choosing...now the choice is made.
• I was wondering...now I'm wonder.
• I was looking for clear direction...now I am clarity.
• I was being compassionate as much as I could...now I am compassion.
• I was saying maybe, sometimes, let me grab my cards and check ;)...now I am yes.
• I was on or off...now I am available.
• I was up or down with circumstances...now I embrace all.
• I was kissing myself...now I kiss the sky and I am kissed.
• I was planning...now I am creation, now.
• I was reaching...now I am evolving.
• I was figuring it out...now I am shown.
• I wanted...now I want what is.
  
• I saw colors...now I see spaciousness.
• I got frustrated...now I giggle.
  
• I saw me and you...now I see an emptiness, full of potential, interconnected, evolving.
• I was one frame of consciousness at a time...now corners of my mind aligned. 
  
• I saw fixing...now I see celebrating change.
• I experienced sweetness often...now sweetness is.
• I felt bones, muscles, energy...now I feel light.
• I was thankful for so many things...now I am gratitude.
• I used to act from intention...now more actions arise naturally.

And all of these statements aren't it! 
They only begin to kiss it. 
They learn towards....point towards...
Because "I" is experienced so differently.  The perception of self is transforming.
Not enlightened at all...I know nothing of that...but illuminating, lightening, loving, simple.
Still figuring it out. Still opening to more allowing, more firmness, more flexibility, more trust, more expression...but that corner of my mind that resists myself is shrinking.

I'm being walked right through the discoveries. Guided to experiences. Guided to understanding.
Sharing as much as I can while not knowing. We all are. Are you noticing?

May you kiss the moment, too. Even if only a moment. Just for this moment.

So many of you are experiencing the shift...
How is your perception changing? What do you notice?
When you notice and try to capture in words, you help stabilize your own transformation and assist others. Thank you for sharing your experiences, your doubts, your wonderings.


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spot readings to focus your attention to expand

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I'd be happy to tune into an area you can focus your attention on now to expand your conscious awareness. This is really my primary gift as an intuitive. With the many various things that you can possibly focus on, what can you focus on now that is most aligned with your soul, awareness and potential for expansion... right now.

Just add a comment if you're interested and I'll check in for as many of you as I can.
UPDATE 10/27/09. This post is now closed for further spot readings, but I'll plan to offer them again! Please subscribe to catch them next time. Thanks and much love.

snakes talk to me

Okay. Snakes don't exactly talk to me. Spirit talks through snakes to me.

Okay. Spirit doesn't exactly talk through snakes to me, spirit talks through everything to me.

Now...on to the snake story...

I went for a lomi lomi massage (can you say yum!) and was early for my appointment. I thought to go in because I could start early, but my attention drew me around the parking lot to the side of the building. Sure, fine, a nice little walk on the grass before my appointment. Why not. I wanted to get the relationship thoughts I was having out of my head so I could just enjoy the appointment. Uneventful. Grounding. Not really sure why I'm here. Walk back towards studio and that's when it happened...

Check out the garter snake there! My vibes start pinging. Pay attention. Hello there little guy. What's up. I start watching. Oh, 2 snakes! Laughing. Okay, spirit, I'm paying attention. I know you don't see two snakes in wild together very often. What do you want to show me about relationships. I'm open. (I know that I'll notice what I need to notice.) So here's what I notice:

• One snake leaves the other snake. (Really?I breathe into whatever is so. Snakes are all about shedding and growth. Non-emotional. Are we outgrowing each other? Is my big expansion lately going to move me away from this relationship? I'm open to guidance.)
• Then the snake comes back, hmmm, and gets the other snake to follow. (Not sure if this is me or him. Seems irrelevant, no vibe there. Seems like either of us can venture off and come back. Ping. Independence. Curious. Seems the message is growth and sharing, I help him grow.)
• Then the other snakes leaves, and comes back and gets the first snake. And this pattern repeats several times. (Okay. We don't outgrow each other. We each grow our own ways. We do our own thing and reconnect with each other. We each teach each other. And we each are shedding big patterns and growing. Got it. Thanks, loves.)

It was beautiful watching this continuous dance back and forth between the snakes. And they finally wrap all around each other. It's lovely. I get it. Thanks for teaching me more about interdependence.

Spirit is everywhere, everything. I notice what I notice. And everything teaches me (in surprising ways). And everything supports me (in surprising ways). And everything is wonder.

How does spirit talk to you through animals and nature?

i don't really want to shuffle

About 4 years ago I brought a guy I was seeing to meet my son who was 10 at the time. We decided to play cards. After a hand, my son Chad gave me the cards to let me shuffle.

"You want to learn to shuffle?" my friend asks Chad.

"No, thanks," Chad responds politely.

"Seriously. It's not hard. I can teach you."

"No thanks." Chad replies again.

"Oh! But shuffling is great! It's a great feeling and you have control of the game and you don't have to wait for anyone to shuffle for you. It's easy. I can teach it to you in 2 minutes."

"No. I really don't care. I don't want to shuffle. I just want to play cards."

More requests that turn to prodding, until Chad finally says lets play cards and my friend stops.

All the while, I'm observing the interaction, noticing the clear intent of my friend to help, yet also seeing he was pushing and not accepting Chad's answer. I wondered, does he think Chad is weak for not trying? Why is he pushing so hard? I didn't intervene as Chad clearly was able to take care of this himself.

But I also noticed that if this particular person had done that to me, I would have been "back off! are you criticizing me? why do you care? why aren't you listening to what I want?" While those comments have some truth, Chad's way was is so much purer.

Later that evening, my friend's remark surprised me. "I wish I were like him. I'm so impressed. He's so sure of himself and what he wants. And was completely clear about it."

The clearer and truer we are in our self, the less we are swayed by pressure out of insecurity or to please another and so we don't act defensively or reactively. Yet another way I am grateful to learn from Chad when he simply says, "no thanks."

aspirations not dreams

Been reading to my 14 year old son The Last Lecture, with a theme of achieving childhood dreams.

The obvious mom question to Chad was:

"So, what are your dreams?"

"Aspirations. Not dreams, Mom. I only have one really. To be happy." Chad is clear. "Well, it would be fantastic to run Nintendo, I suppose. Well, maybe not run it, but be the game idea person. Not the person doing the drawings, but the person supervising. The one with the ideas and people telling me how they won't work. But they do work. That would be fun."

No need for me to coach. Just to learn. Know who you are.

Is 'be happy' too simple, too vague?

Motto: aspire vs perspire

get outta my head

I often sing a silly song to my dog to the tune of Spiderpig, ahem, I mean Spiderman.
"Kodiak, Kodiak, does whatever a Kodiak does. Looks so cute. What a hoot. Lookout, here comes the Kodiak".... and so on, bathroom humor removed

The other day I started singing it to the tune of Jesus Christ Superstar, without realizing it.
"Kodiak, Cute-iak, cuddly, happy, licky, love me, fur attack. Kodiak, maniac...and so on"

Then I hear..."WHY ARE YOU SINGING THAT!? THAT'S NOT THE SAME TUNE!"

"Uh, dunno," I smartly replied. "Was it different? I can make up whatever studid song to whatever stupid tune."

"NO WAY. I'VE BEEN HUMMING THAT....IN MY HEAD....NOT OUT LOUD. GET OUTTA MY HEAD, GOOF!"

haha. We laughed. I was tempted to tease with what else I know...but truth is, I had no idea I was doing it. Lately I've been playing a little day-to-day-be-psychic game. That's what I got. :)

Motto as of late: Love me, love me, ruff, ruff