Here is September’s message along with the animal that will guide us about appreciating the in-between space in our lives and learning to trust it. Just click here or on the image above to watch.
I hope you find it helpful!
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XO
Barb
I’m excited to share with you the cover of my Animal Reflections Healing Oracle deck! While I’d been referring to my deck by a working title, this is now the title I’ve chosen after much, well, as the title depicts…reflection.
There is a reason I chose Wolf along with another animal depicted on the cover that perhaps isn’t as obvious. But I’ll begin with Wolf.
I know some of you have been following my journey for quite a long time now (thank you!) and you know that Wolf is one of my spirit guides. Wolf, for me, is all about keeping the heart open. Especially when we are going through emotional pain. It’s about healing that wound within so we don’t build up walls around our hearts and suffer unnecessarily. When we heal what needs our attention the outcome is deeper compassion not only for ourselves but for those around us too.
Wolf is special to me also and is connected to the canine family. And as many of you know, I’ve had some special dog friends who have helped me along my journey.
I recently shared an excerpt from my book I’m Fine Just the Way I Am – Healing Emotional Pain through the Wisdom of Animals and Oracles and the chapter I wrote about my connection with Wolf if you’d like to read that and here is the link.
As to the mystery of the other animal depicted on the cover, I believe you will see it once I share it with you…
It is Firefly!
Firefly is depicted by the glowing bursts of light on the cover that surround the wolf. Firefly and Wolf are represented in the deck also with their own cards. As I began simmering in the idea of creating an animal-themed oracle deck, my purpose for my deck was to help others shine their light out into the world.
It takes courage to walk the path of who we truly are. Wolf stands before you on the path and promises to walk with love and compassion beside you as you take your first step toward honoring all aspects of who you are.
As you take another step, and yet another one, down that path of living in alignment with your heart, your true essence becomes brighter and brighter – just like a firefly!
The more you work with all aspects of what makes you unique, you will vibrate a beacon of light out into the world that will no doubt have a positive effect on those you meet along the way.
A symbol I also included on the cover is that of the spiral. The spiral became so important to me when I first began walking my own spiritual journey over twenty years ago. It’s about the journey to that still place within and where the answers lie and the vitalness of doing the inner work that is necessary to feel whole and at peace with who we are – that we are able to spiral back out and into the world time and time again.
I hope you enjoyed seeing the cover of my animal oracle deck and the story behind it!
XO
Barb
For most of the summer now before John leaves for work in the morning, I have one important question I ask. “Are you working by Cleo today?”
About mid-way through this summer, I received a text from John asking if I could bring his shop vac to the job site as he’d forgotten it. It just so happened that the job site was where Cleo lives. I was more than happy to oblige.
I’d been hearing about this sweet dog from John and a photo or two he had texted me of Cleo hanging out with him while he remodels the family’s kitchen and living area.
Walking through the front door to deliver the shop vac one late morning, the sweet and graceful Cleo came prancing toward me. After petting her and rubbing her ears for a few moments she returned the love by totally leaning into my leg. She stuck there like glue for quite a few minutes while I chatted with the homeowner, Renee, and how Cleo came to be in their lives.
It’s hard not to be smitten with a dog and Cleo definitely wiggled her way right into my heart. Exactly why I’ve been asking the question most days of what job site John will be working at for the day. Though I have to say at times I’ve been a bit jealous when I know he gets to hang out with Cleo!
Even with the noise of a nail gun, hammers, saws, and a loud shop vac, Cleo stays close by watching John work. But when other subcontractors like the drywallers and plumbers have shown up, Cleo does not want to be near them. It’s almost as if her heart belongs to only one contractor. And that is John.
It got me thinking that perhaps Cleo is a magical dog.
Because it just so happens that the talk of bringing another dog into our lives began a few months ago. Well, for me, it began about two and a half years ago, but alas, that is another story I suppose. But the short of it is I have missed the companionship of a dog.
The other side to this though is that I’ve really appreciated the deepening of my relationship with John and the more time we’ve been able to spend together. That has definitely been a big bonus!
There have been many times my heart has ached for another dog. While I’m also grateful for the time I’ve been able to spend concentrating on myself also.
While staying at a campground in Florida for a month this past March there were dogs on just about every campsite. A few kitties too! So in one way, I got to be around dogs, but in another way, that ache would return again at times.
It was at this same campground that I began to open to the possibility of a larger RV – which had been a dream of John’s – and one thing led to another and we’d end up finding a great deal on a new to us motor coach we purchased a few months ago.
And that is when the talk of bringing another dog into our lives began. So we shall see. There are some days I’d really like a dog now, while there is another part of me that still wants to wait. So I continue to trust that when the time is right the stars will align and we will find the dog that is meant for us.
But for now. I think maybe….just maybe…Cleo is a magical dog who is opening our hearts to love again.
XO
Barb