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My Wolf Mixed Media Collage for Sale – The Gentle Call of Wolf

Posted by Barbara Techel

Wolf Mixed Media Collage – The Gentle Call of Wolf – 9 x 12 on birchwood panel – $75.00 plus $8.00 shipping, can be purchased here. Message from Wolf (below) can be adhered to back or sent as separate copy. Let me know your preference when purchasing. For international shipping, please email me for cost.

As I wrote about in a recent blog post, it was laying down for a nap one afternoon that an image similar to this came into my mind. I knew then I wanted to recreate what I was seeing in my minds eye into a mixed media collage.

While I’d finished it about a week ago the message to go with it would take some time to come to the surface.

Wolf for me is all about the heart and she came to me during a time in my life when my heart was broken. While our hearts can feel such exhilaration of love we have a harder time when we experience pain and heartache. How often we want to push those uncomfortable feelings down when they come calling on our door step. But Wolf has taught me to keep my heart open.

And most importantly to feel all that I’m feeling.

So this piece is inspired by my dear friend, Wolf, who continues to walk beside me and encourages me every step of the way to be all of who I am – and especially during difficult times.

Below is the message that comes with this Wolf art piece:

The Gentle Call of Wolf

Wolf comes to you with an important message. There is nothing more important than your heart.

The heart brings joy, love, and peace. This is what inspires you to keep stepping into the one precious self that is you.

But the heart also experiences grief and anger. This is when you want to cry out in pain. To be seen and heard. But how often it is we hold back and don’t allow ourselves to feel. We suffer in shame and a cycle of self-judgment runs through us in a never-ending circle.

Wolf invites you to express your emotions. To howl it out into the Universe as you will be lovingly supported by Mother Nature, the animals, and the Divine.

As you do, this opens a space inside you where you are able to feel a flow of expansion and freedom. You are now able to embrace all of who you are without criticism. You see yourself anew and that you are indeed a magnificent part of the cosmos.

Know that Wolf walks with you every step of the way guiding you to embrace the fullness of you. And encourages you to trust your feelings as valid and important to be all you are meant to be.

With your heart leading the way, your passions and dreams come back into your consciousness once again as Wolf cheers you on to howl with pride and share your wisdom that will echo long after you’ve roamed this earth.

©Barbara Techel

My mixed media Animal Oracle Art thoughtfully blends together chosen images of animals that have inspired and/or captured my attention in some way!  Each image and corresponding backgrounds are enhanced with a variety of pastel chalks, pencils, markers, and paint. My collages include dried florals, leaves, and natural elements I discover on my walks such as acorns, feathers, stones, and tree branches, along with bits of discarded/recycled ephemera. Animal image and supporting images are then curated and adhered to create a dimensional effect that is gently and lovingly nestled with care into a 9 x 12 birchwood shadow box. Comes with an intuited oracle message that can be included on back of piece or sent as separate copy that serves as a guide to deepen the connection to yourself, animals, and nature.

XO

Barb

    

Your True Home – Message of Support and Love

Posted by Barbara Techel

I was nudged several times by Spirit to share this message from an unlikely and surprising character. 

I just kept feeling more and more called that this message wasn’t just for me, but that other’s may benefit too!

A message of support and love I hope you will find helpful.

Now available on my YouTube channel!

I’d love to hear any feedback or reflections!

XO

Barb

    

The Patient Wolf with a Big Heart

Posted by Barbara Techel
Patiently Waiting Inner Wolf potholder by Maria Wulf and wolf card as represented in my Animal Reflections upcoming oracle deck.

Three days had passed since I’d read the post on artist, Maria Wulf’s blog sharing she had some new potholders for sale she’d just created. She named them, Inner Wolf.

I couldn’t get them out of my head. Wolf spirit kept nudging me to go back and see if any of the designs were still available.

I believe that our spirit animal guides speak to us in a variety of different ways as I’ve had many different experiences over the years. And this time, though it may seem unusual, Wolf spirit, a guide who has been with me for quite a few years now, was trying to get my attention once again through Maria’s new creation.

With a final nudge from Wolf I revisited Maria’s post. It was the potholder Maria had named Patiently Waiting that spoke to me and actually brought tears to my eyes. I was happy when I reached out to Maria to find that particular potholder was still available. It was meant to be.

It was later, after receiving it in the mail, and had it sitting on my writing desk for a few days, that I’d realize why this one spoke to me. I reflected on when the spirit of a white wolf came to me during a guided meditation about seven years ago. She came at a time when my heart was shattered from the ending of a friendship I’d given a big piece of my time and heart to. The friendship ended abruptly feeling like it came out of nowhere, though looking back since then I came to understand with more clarity why it had to end when it did.

Wolf spirit was reminding me at that time when my heart was deeply hurting that I still had compassion in my heart, even though I wanted to shut it down so I’d never have to experience that kind of pain again. But white Wolf, while honoring the pain I was experiencing was encouraging me to keep my heart open because it would not only hurt me personally going forward if I didn’t, but could negatively affect my current and future relationships.

Reflecting back on this time and then thinking about the patiently waiting wolf potholder, I realized I was being reminded again about keeping my heart open and not protecting it so fiercely I don’t allow anything in. I felt such love and compassion coming from the image of the wolf on the potholder.

While I don’t wish to share personal details, I realized Wolf’s appearance in this way was about a friendship that is changing in the near future with a friend that will be moving many states away next spring or early summer.

I’d been struggling with my feelings about it, but Wolf spirit, as she has always been for me, was standing patiently by my side, loving me through every emotion that was being stirred within me. I felt her big heart radiating love to me encouraging me to be gentle with myself as I process what will be a new change in my life.

I took note again of the fact that Maria named the post, Inner Wolf. We all have a fierceness, protectiveness, and a loving aspect of ourselves. It’s important to acknowledge all of them and honor each of their processes in order to move through difficulties. So howl when you need to, but also be gentle and loving toward yourself, too.

So in honor of Wolf spirit I’m happy to also share that I have a card in my upcoming Animal Reflections oracle deck to represent her wisdom. You can see the card in the photo above with my now treasured patiently waiting wolf potholder. 

Another way I thought I’d also honor this recent reminder from Wolf spirit is to share an excerpt from my book, I’m Fine Just the Way I Am and the chapter about the white Wolf that came to me and how she eventually shared her name with me.

You can read that excerpt and see the collage card I created to honor that experience here.

XO

Barb