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Animal Oracle Guidance for the Last Few Weeks of 2019

Posted by Barbara Techel

 

I’d been waiting for this new deck for quite some time and they finally arrived last week. Yippee! So I asked the cards for all of us:

What animal ally is guiding us as we move through these final weeks of 2019?

You can read below or listen to the reading here on SoundCloud.

I’ll admit I was hoping to pull a cute and cuddly animal to share with you. When scorpion presented itself I hesitated whether or not I should go with it.

But alas, after simmering in scorpion medicine, I believe this is just the animal that will guide us in the most beneficial way. 

As I looked at the card I heard, “It’s true, sometimes life stings, but this is where the real value lies. Don’t look away.”

It’s in those goals we perhaps didn’t achieve this year that we wished we did, the emotions that come up for us over the holidays that are challenging, or the feelings of regret or loss, that we can learn from.

We can wallow in the uncomfortable feelings of those situations, or we can take the sting as an opportunity to be gentle with ourselves and look at how we can resolve to change and take what we learned to move forward in a more meaningful way.

There really is no such thing as failure, but rather just information for us to evolve in a new way.

How are you going to direct your life right now so that you move into 2020 with a new perspective? The number 9 on the card is symbolic of endings, so this is a great time to review and set intentions of how you will move forward.

You can do this! Without the sting of life, we wouldn’t grow, and so let Scorpion walk beside you as you boldly accept all that life entails as part of the journey of living here on planet earth.

xo,

Barbara

 

 

Card from: The Ark Animal Tarot and Oracle Deck by Bernadette King

 

The Fairies Came to Dance (video) Plus Oracle and Animal Guidance For the Week

Posted by Barbara Techel

What is it that we need to see a higher perspective of in order to break free?

This is the question that came to mind as I pulled these two cards for our guidance for the week.

The giraffe tall and one who walks with such ease and grace invites us to know that there is no hurry to fully understand a challenge or situation we may find ourselves in that we don’t yet know the answer to.

In order to gain insight and clarity, we are being asked to allow grace to lead the way, open our eyes and our heart to a larger and more vast perspective – simmer and rest in different views – and apply this contemplative spaciousness to an area we perhaps feel stuck in.

It’s in the allowing of our minds to clear of mental clutter, appreciating and soaking in the unknown, and allowing what needs to enter as a whisper from our inner knowing, that a breakthrough is able to flow naturally and help us see things from a different and more enlightened perspective.

It takes courage to follow your truth after you’ve discerned all the vast opinions and thoughts from others. But it’s with the grace and ease of Giraffe that you hold your head high and move forward with what matters most to your soul in order to evolve.

Cards from: Soul Coaching Oracle Cards by Denise Linn and Wild Messengers by Lola Pickett

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As I was moving through my yoga practice this morning I was struck by the sun dancing through the birch tree leaves as I saw it through my window.

We are able to see energy though I’ve not yet been able to, but do know of someone who has experienced this. I couldn’t help but to at first think this is what I was seeing until I realized it was the sun filtering through the birch leaves and seeing it through my window made it appear in a light I’d not witnessed before. And then I just couldn’t’ help think it was the fairies that were here this morning doing a special and magical dance just for me to see.

I grabbed my phone and was able to capture the dancing of light or faeries if you choose to call it this too – and was surprised at how well it came through. Just look at the trunk of the tree and right in front of it you should see the sparkle of dancing light. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did!

Wishing you a beautiful week filled with lots of light…and a few fairies to guide you too.  🙂

XO,

Barbara

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Divine Timing and Dachshund Calendar Giveaway!

Posted by Barbara Techel
Divine Timing and Dachshund Calendar Giveaway!
Frankie sends me a beautiful message

Just this morning I found out I was chosen to be a mentor for Oracle School this fall! I’m so thrilled!

Committed to my own personal growth and those of others this is an honor as this is the school where I recently finished a twelve month intensive of Personal Mastery, The Invision Process and Shared Wisdom, studying with Colette Baron-Reid, earning my new hat and service as an Oracle Guide.

About an hour later the mail arrived with a special package. I didn’t recognize the return label and wondered who it could possibly be from. Even more, what was inside?!

When I opened it there was a note from Brook who said she thought I might enjoy the two enclosed 2019 dachshund tabletop calendars. She said, “Make sure to check out July 22nd!!”

Now in full out curious mode, I quickly flipped the pages and found my dear, sweet Frankie, the star of July 22nd. I was overcome with tears. It was a photo Brook took of Frankie oh-so-many moons ago during a shoot for publicity photos for my first upcoming children’s book I’d be releasing in 2008, Frankie the Walk ‘N Roll Dog.

I knew the emotions I felt were from Spirit as a message that this was no coincidence. Having just learned of being chosen as a mentor for Oracle School, something not even on my radar over a year ago, but then felt called to want to volunteer when the opportunity arose. I trusted if it was meant to be it would happen as not everyone is chosen.

But more than that, as I continue to share here via my blog and newsletters, it’s been about my expanding into helping other women, not always sure of how that would look – a vision I had of myself when I began my work and mission with Frankie over eleven years ago.

It’s been about my struggle to let go of an identity I held onto so tightly that at times I suffered because of it. It wasn’t an easy journey, but then again, that is what life is about – these moments when you feel the rewards so deeply in your heart you know you’d do it all over again.

And such is today, in that golden hour of learning of my added role of being a volunteer mentor to be of service to help others grow into who they are meant to be…and the calendar with Frankie’s photo…a message she sent, through Brook, to let me know I’m exactly where I’m meant to be. I love you sweet girl!

Now it’s time to pay it forward! 

While I’m keeping one of the calendars (of course!), I’m giving away the other to one lucky person! All you have to do is leave a comment below. That’s it. Nothing complicated. Whatever you wish to say. This will enter you in for a chance to win the calendar.

Please do so by 5:00pm cst Thursday, September 6th. Open to US residents only due to shipping costs.

I’ll choose a winner and announce early next week (I’m heading out of town so hence the reason for not announcing until next week).

So stay tuned and make sure I have a way in which I can contact you if you are the winner!

XO,

Barbara