New Moon in Scorpio Reading: Healing the Core Wound

Posted by Barbara Techel

Happy New Moon in Scorpio (plus partial eclipse), friends!

What core wound do we need to heal, how to do that, and what will we gain from it? Today I pull three cards from my Animal Reflections Healing Oracle deck.

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I hope you find the reading helpful. 

XO

Barb

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Barb Techel – Nurturing Curator – How This Descriptive Expression Came to Be

Posted by Barbara Techel

A while back I updated the home page of my website along with the banner for my newsletter that shares the way in which I now describe myself in an overall way and that is as Nurturing Curator.

I’d not really shared that I’d done this, but just put it out there – sort of like when you open a new retail store and you have a “soft opening.” I was still playing with the positioning of where to place Nurturing Curator in the context of my other descriptions. But I believe I’ve finally landed on what feels right.

Here is the backstory:

It was a gentle nudge from a friend who encouraged me to give thought to something that would be more organic for me. I’d been using a descriptive word in part, that my friend uses for something she is passionate about. It was something she shared with me that came to her in an organic way and I could appreciate that. While it isn’t copyrighted and anyone can use this word I’d been using, I did appreciate her invitation to consider something that was just for me.

Though for a brief moment, I wasn’t sure I wanted to let go of this particular way in which I’d been describing myself. I also don’t really care for titles or labels as that can sometimes feel boxed in, but alas, it’s how we often understand who others are and what they are passionate about – so I was open to the idea of giving this more thought. 

It was about a day or two later that my friend reached out to me again sharing with me a dream she had. In it, an older woman mentor – not someone she knew in waking life – was talking about me and said, “Oh, she’s a lovely curator!” 

My friend looked up the meaning that she shared with me and means a keeper or custodian along with an older connection to someone who keeps things safe in order to heal (or “cure”) others. My friend said she thought of my cards and readings and how I draw from many different sources.

I was so touched when she shared this with me and the word curator resonated. Perhaps there was something more for me to explore here and I found myself excited about it!

As I allowed the word curator to simmer in my being it was a few days later that my heart landed on the word, nurturing, to add to the front of the word curator. While I love how Nurturing Curator describes all of who I am in my working life from facilitating readings and healing sessions for pets and people, to writing, creating animal art, and the animal-themed animal oracle cards I’ll release early next year, it really does encompass who I strive to be in all areas of my life. And this includes nurturing myself too. How often it is that we can forget that in order to bring our best selves to others and our work it’s important to take care of our needs also.

So I felt so honored to have been gifted this organic way of how this descriptive expression came to be through my friend’s dream and then my pondering it further to now say I am a Nurturing Curator. I also love how I can continue to expand into Nurturing Curator as there are endless possibilities and who knows where my heart will take me and land next!

And there you have it – like a Grand Opening after the soft opening! 

XO

Barb

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Animal Wayshowers: The Lightworkers Ushering In 5D Consciousness – Features My Dog Gidget. Book Review.

Posted by Barbara Techel

I still recall when I finished reading Tammy’s first book, Soul Healing with Our Animal Companions. Reading that book, it felt like Tammy was inside my world and the healing journey I’d just walked with my dachshund, Gidget.  Gidget and I could have definitely been a poster human and dog duo for the book about two beings who healed their trauma together and went on to experience a profoundly life-changing and deeper connection because of it and which I’d end up chronicling in my own memoir.

Once you experience this type of profound and transformative shift within yourself and then witness the extraordinary positive change in your animal friend because of it, you want this for all humans and animals on this planet.

So when Tammy was writing this, her third book, Animal Wayshowers: The Lightworkers Ushering In 5D Consciousness I was deeply honored when she asked if the story of Gidget and me could be included.

Just into the first few pages of reading her new book, I felt welcome and familiar emotions stirring within my heart. Tears filled my eyes in recognition and understanding of this delicate dance that life is and how our animal friends give their all to help us shift into a more heart-opening way of being.

It takes just a shift in our perception to understand how energy works and how our animals are masters at reading the energy of those they love. All in an effort to help humans become more whole and at peace within themselves — this is what Tammy shares so eloquently with stories from other animal-human duos, personal reflections, and sound and simple advice of how we can all move into this more conscious awareness and do the inner work so that all beings can live together in harmony.

I believe at my core that animals are here on this planet walking with love beside us, wanting more than anything for us to heal. Tammy’s book really is one that everyone who shares a home with an animal should read. While the work isn’t always easy, it is deeply rewarding, and you will be left in awe of how so many have experienced this 5D reality because of the inner work they’ve done and the championing guides of the animal friends that cheered them on.

One thing, of many, I appreciate in Tammy’s new book is how she touched on one of the most difficult issues in our world – animal abuse. She tenderly shares how these animals have agreed to serve in this way to help evolve the deepening of compassion and empathy not only on an individual level but also as a collective too.

Embracing 5D consciousness through the eyes of our animal friends is brought into the light even more now because of this beautiful and beneficial book Tammy has written. I have no doubt it will help so many more beings who will then become part of this light that continues to expand and that will only continue to grow brighter and brighter as we all walk the earth with more peace within.

From Amazon and where you can pre-order a copy of Tammy’s book:

A guide to understand, support, and honor the soul missions of our animal companions

• Explains how animals that live alongside humans are lightworkers helping to raise the vibration of collective consciousness and aid in humanity’s ascension process

• Shares example stories of incredible animal Wayshowers from around the world whose actions and sacrifices on behalf of their human companions changed them all for the better

• Offers meditations, rituals, and transformational soul practices to embrace 5D frequencies, intuit heart intelligence, connect to the Higher Self, and heal the shadow

Animals are natural holders of 5D consciousness. The extraordinary animals who have chosen, at a soul level, to live alongside humans are lightworkers on the front lines of the animal kingdom’s mission to help people to heal, evolve, and attune to their divine purpose as well as assist in raising the vibration of the planet and collective consciousness to 5D.

As Tammy Billups reveals, once we become aware of the soul path of our animal companions, we are then able to connect with them soul-to-soul, not only supporting their soul missions but also finding the healing we need to let go of 3D reality and begin making the transition to 5D. Sharing example stories of incredible animal Wayshowers from around the world whose actions and sacrifices on behalf of their human companions changed them all for the better, she explores the many levels of service your beloved animal friends are providing you each and every day, including during disasters, storms, pandemics, and even from beyond the physical. She shows how they help shoulder the psychological and emotional burdens we are not yet capable of holding on our own and show us the way back to our own hearts. Presenting guidance to help animals succeed in their goal of raising consciousness, the author offers meditations, rituals, and exercises for applying the teachings of the animal stories shared, including transformational soul practices to embrace 5D frequencies, intuit heart intelligence, connect to the Higher Self, and heal the shadow.

Offering ways to embrace and emulate the soul teachings of our animal companions, Tammy Billups shows that, by honoring animals as courageous guides on our ascension to 5D consciousness, we too can become Wayshowers in our own right.

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XO

Barb

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