Update on Where I’m At with My Animal Reflections Oracle Deck. Plus Sneak Peek!

Things are moving along! Sometimes at the pace of a snail, but hey, that’s movement too.

I’m happy to share that the manuscript with the messages that go with the deck is now in the hands of my editor. I’ve also begun to digitally add the one word meaning for each of my cards. I did have a small set back with this part of the process when I realized half way through the deck that I’d forgotten to include the name of the animal on the card also.

So I allowed a moment or two of frustration to flow through me, then took a deep breath…and began again.

The photo above is a sneak peek at three of the cards from my upcoming deck. I hope you enjoy this little look inside!

XO

Barb

                  

Making a Healing Promise to Yourself – August 2022 Animal Wisdom Reading

How often is it that we ignore or push aside that little voice within. You know the one. The one that is very, very persistent. Nudging you. Niggling at you. Until it has to shout. But let’s hope we listen before then to make the transition that much smoother.

So this month’s reading is about listening to that inner aspect you’ve not been paying much attention to. Time to ask the other aspects of yourself to quiet down and give some TLC to that aspect of yourself that is being drowned out by others within you or around you. Just imagine how good you will feel when you do!

Hope you enjoy this month’s reading. Click here or below to watch!

Have a beautiful week!

XO

Barb

                  

Honoring the Autumn of Life – A New Mixed Media Print

Last week when I posted a photo on Facebook of this piece I created on an 8 x 10 birchwood panel as a gift for a friend who recently retired, I received so many lovely comments! So I decided to offer it for sale as a print in my online website shop. 5 x 7 is $15 and an 8 x 10 is $20 plus $5.00 shipping for either size.

For as long as I’ve known my friend, which has been over 20 years now, she has always adored acorns. One day in May we were visiting in my Joyful Pause Cottage studio when she spied a few dried oak leaves on my art table. She said how much she loved them. Right then I knew what I was going to create for her as a gift for her approaching new phase of life.
 
I included the bluebird, symbolic of happiness as a way of finding joy and new adventures in the autumn of one’s life.
 
The Oak tree from which the sweet acorns grow also known as the Tree of Life symbolic of longevity and considered one of the most sacred tress in many traditions.

Creating this piece had me contemplating once again, the autumn of my life that I am just on the cusp of as I begin my 60th orbit around the sun having just turned 59 a few weeks ago.

So much loving energy went into this piece and brought much peace and contentment as I worked on it…and I’m happy to say my friend was deeply touched and thrilled by it too.

If you’d like to purchase a print, just click here to be taken to the page in my online website shop.

XO

Barb