Autumn - A Time of Letting Go

The Autumn Eqinox is upon us and already the distinct chill of Autumn is with us, a chill of cold and - for me at least - a chill of excitement!

I love the Autumn, it is a time of magick, a time of change, a time of preparation when the Earth prepares for her long sleep. It is the count down to Samhein when the veil between our world and the other is the thinest and the ancestors and the Spirits of the Green can be more easily seen and contacted. It is a time of power and shadow, a time of secrets and mystery, a time of colour and harvest, along with Spring it is my time.

Today - on a very rare and precious day off - I have been releasing! Old bags, old clothes - five carrier bags full - casting off my leaves like the tree's will soon do. I remembered, as I gussied myself trying on clothes far too small for me now, a conversation I once had with a tree!

The tree told me that they cast off their leaves in the Autumn because they had absolute and perfect trust that new leaves would come in the spring and that as a result of this trust the leaves always came! The tree told me to trust that when ever I was letting go - of a thing or a person or an opportunity or dream - to remember that something else would always come in time to take it's place!

I choose to remember this then now, not about clothes and bags but about friends and memories and chances and failed attempts. What ever I release, what veer I let go of will return in another way, so long as I trust and know that this is so!





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Scott Pilgrim vs The World

I've just been to see the most amazing film, Scott Pilgrim vs The World! Ok, granted I'm a bit of a comic book geek - and the film is based upon 7 graphic novels - and ok granted I a bit of a chop sokey fan (that's martial arts movies to you) but hey this very witty and innovative film had a great spiritual moral at the end.

Scott, who has to defeat his girlfriends 7 evil super powered ex's in order to be with her faces the ultimate villain first with the power of love, which does not see him victorious and second with the power of self respect! This power trussing the grand villain!

The Masters tells us that although love is a great power in the Universe everything in truth starts and ends with us and as such self respect and self worth and of course self love are in a way more powerful than the love that we mig hold for another, including God!

How wonderful then that such hidden truths can be found here, how wonderful that Spirit works in such ways, very cool, very funny and very appealing to the younger generation.

Go on, give it a try, go and watch it! If nothing else there is a wonderful super powered psychic vegan villain in it, not to be missed!






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Peers from the Past

Have been doing some fascinating research - for my up and coming Seership Workshop this weekend- on those famous Clairvoyants and Channels of the past. Such notables as Helena Blavatsky - the founder of Theosophy - and Charles Leadbetter and Annie Besant who took over from her, as well as more recent notables such as Edgar Casey - the sleeping prophet - and the much more recent Doris Stokes and Dr Joshua David Stone!

There are so many peers of the past that we on the path have forgotten about, brave men and women, often misunderstood, often years before their time, ridiculed and harassed by sceptics who boldly carried on paving the way for us to follow. We should be mindful of these, our spiritual ancestors, as see them as our teachers and guides on the way, we should more regularly celebrate their lives and let them know just how grateful we are for what they have done.

I have also been astonished to see how many of them perished, terribly young, from brain related illnesses or diseases! One can't help but wonder whether this was in part down to an over use of their gift and whether or not too this is something maybe that we should pay heed too!

Here then is to you, the brave and the bold, heralds of a new dawn, we salute you!


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Dr Strange!

I have always been a comic fan, not the Beano and the Dandy but Superman, the Xmen and the Justice League.

I have always found that like science fiction there are hidden truths in comics, be it morals to inspire a younger generation or spiritual truths hidden amongst tales of demons, heroes and magick!

Dr Strange was always one of my favourites supernatural characters, the Sorcerer Supreme and guardian of our Earthly plane against other dimensional invaders he was both exciting and intriguing with his Eye of Agmoto and cloak of levitation.

Tonight I sat and watched an animated movie about him and was transported as a child to those cold Tibetan hills where Dr Strange meets the Ancient One his master and learns the skills of magick! This time however everything seemed slightly different, slightly more possible, slightly more real and as a result of this the excitement seemed even more intense!

Let's not forget that we are not the only channels, prophets and oracles but rather that they are scattered, hidden amongst the science fiction writers, fantasy novelists and comic book creators, working their magick to open our minds and the minds of our children to the ultimate truth!





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Staying Earth Centered

There is always so much to do! I have channelled letters to get out before the end of the month, my Distance Learning Course to prepare for this month, over 40 orders to process from our online shop - comprising of Auragraphs and Soul Mandala's and Numerology Charts and Atlantean Blessings, not to mention my Trance Channellings, Absent Crystal Skull Healing and a workshop to prepare for this weekend!

I know what you are thinking right? Poor old soul, you should try living my life, I have kids to take to school, dinners to cook, emails to reply to, books to balance, cars to mend, international deals to negotiate, animals to feed, parents to care for, illnesses to over come and so the list is endless.

We all have SO much to do in this world and it has to be done right away, now, yesterday if we can manage it! It's so easy to become completely overwhelmed to such an extent that we feel paralysed with the intensity of it all - and I often do!

What we must remember is to breathe, take time out - even if it is just five minutes - get outside, into the air, into the sunshine, into the green and centre ourselves. The Earth can and is willing to help us here, to help us find balance and grace and stillness. Becoming Earth centred - even if it's just once a day for five minutes - can really really help and it's absolutely free!

Give it a try tomorrow, just take five and let the Earth hold you, your chores will still be there when you go back in but you will feel much more capable of dealing with them!

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Tough Times All Round

I have just returned from Surrey having spent a weekend giving consultations, an evening talk and a local church service!

To say I am shattered is an understatement but there is no rest for the wicked and although I took most of today off tomorrow I will be back at it catching up on orders and preparing for this coming weekends workshop!

To say people are in need is an understatement, the readings are becoming more and more challenging as more and more people are in more and more need and the lectures and workshops feel more like quick fixes than permanent solutions as more and more people fall too quickly back into the trap of the "real" world soon after the workshops have come to an end.

But - jobbing readers and healers - beware of burn out and working yourself too hard! Although you might at time literally be the only thing standing between your client and what might seem certain doom you are no good to them if you yourself are hanging on to reality by a thread and so - as so many people say to me - don't work too hard!

These are tough times all round and we - the awoken - are greatly needed but we must not forget ourselves in the process of serving!

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Symbols of Light and Wisdom

Imagine my surprise - when passing the window of the Epsom branch of the HSBC Bank - to see the below! A blatant Wider Waite knock off Tarot Card reinterpreted to advertise the banks latest offers! I love it when this happens! When occult, powerful esoteric symbols find their way into the every day because, no matter the commercial use of them, the powerful thought form energies that have accrued around them for hundreds of years are belting out their light to all who might see them and pass them by! Hooray then for the HSBC, maybe some good will come out of this bank in the end!




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Time To Say Goodbye

Yesterday Andrew and I caught a showing of Toy Story 3! To my surprise the ticket office guy informed me that the first Toy Story took place 15 years ago - when I was the princely age of 24 years old! I have loved the Toy Story movies and as result bought the toys, and the sound track and been a big advocate of the franchise to anyone unfortunate enough to hear me wax lyrical about it. There is a beautiful morality about the films centred around love and friendship and fear or abandonment, accepting ones fate, accept ones self and soldiering on. I have cried when watching, now all three, of the movies which is unusual for me as I am very rarely moved to tears by such things. Toy Story 3 was no exception, it was great, funny, moving, inspiring, touching, the story centring around the toys dilemma when their owner, now all grown up, goes to college leaving them with either the fate of attic, second hand shop or nursery!

So why am I writing about this, you mig ask, well there are important lessons here, issues around mortality and abandonment, the passing of childhood and moving on, wonder joy and innocence that are good for the heart and head to explore, albeit vicariously, as well as a sweetness in a film rare to find which fills the heart with joy. We need this, we the human race, we need such inspiration and when we find it we should embrace it and pass the message on.

I left the film thinking of my pink elephant, a childhood toy who after an accident with my brothers bicep - which I was hitting with the elephant - received emergency surgery and bionic eye! I loved that elephant, loved it, in fact at a time we where seldom parted but now have absolutely no idea what become of it. I feel sad about that, a little like I betrayed my childhood friend and this made me think about those others - people along the way - who I have betrayed by "letting them get away too! Friendship and love is so important, SO important and yet we allow it to disappear so easily and this is tragic, truly tragic and maybe something that we all need to work on a little ... for our sins!

So .... Toy Story 3 ... Inspirational! Go and see it!





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Darkness to Light

Someone sent me this on Facebook today, by the Goddess I love Rumi, what an incredible man he must have been! Today was better but not great, storm clouds hovered menacing me both outside and in. It's a strange bitter taste like a hangover of the heart! But still darkness changed into light for me today, however slowly it took and by this afternoon rainbows, a wonderful sign.

I was reminded by my guide about something they taught me a long time ago, about how much energy we invest in holding on to things, usually bad things like guilt and grievances, when it requires so little energy to let things go! This then is what we must learn, to let things go.

Interesting I thought, after yesterdays blog, that the news tells me there has been a powerful earth quake and after shocks in New Zealand! The Soul, the barometer for the Earth!!!

Enjoy the Rumi and embrace the sentiment.

Darkness to Light


don't be bitter my friend
you'll regret it soon
hold to your togetherness
or surely you'll scatter

don't walk away gloomy
from this garden
you'll end up like an owl
dwelling in old ruins

face the war and
be a warrior like a lion
or you'll end up like a pet
tucked away in a stable

once you conquer
your selfish self
all your darkness
will change to light

~Maulana Rumi

Translated by Nader Khalili

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The Soul as a Barometer for the World

Don't you just hate it when a good day goes bad and just carries on getting worse and worse and worse! No matter how hard you try, to pull yourself out of the funk, no matter how hard you try to make the right decisions - the decisions that will make things better rather than worse - you can't, you don't and the day gets blacker and darker and just plain horrible.

You guessed it, I have had one of those days! And the thing is it should have been a great day, it should have been Top of the Pops.

Now I know we must take responsibility for our actions and I know we can't blame everything on Sun Spots and Ascension Symptoms and Karmic Returns but today got me thinking. What if sometimes, when we have these chest crushing, this is the worst day of my life, I want to end it all days which come from no where and blow up from nothing, what if what we are reacting to is not us, or them but rather the all. If we are all one, aligned and connected then maybe just sometimes our reactions are symptomatic of what the world is feeling, maybe we are a barometer for the pain and predicament of the world and the truth behind the fact that we want to end it all is because the world does, or a huge amount of people do!? Maybe the reason why the world seems black and our hearts seem to be dying inside us is because someone, somewhere out there is having the real day from he'll and we are just ... Helping to pick up the tab.

A spiritual teacher of mine once mentioned something like this to me once, told me that there where certain people, spiritual people, in the world who would help those suffering carry the burden of their fears and pain. I just never imagined I might be one of them, never wanted to be, still don't want to be and maybe I'm I'm not! But maybe you are!!!

So ... What to do (as Guru used to say) well there's the Soul - we can always turn to him or her and then there's the Divine and the Angels and the Masters and if all else fails go for a long walk, have a nap and apologise! Because not matter what is going on your husband/boyfriend/best friend/mother isn't probably going to buy your hippy new age excuse of you carrying the weight of the world upon your shoulders, no matter how true it might be!

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All Parts of the Same Body!

Ulrike Gunther - a Facebook friend - commented today on my previous post about the Violet Duchess saying that many people where suffering from the same symptoms as if we where "all part of the same body"!

This got me thinking, when we are Ill the whole suffers, the pain might be localised but the whole body is effected in one way or another, the thoughts, the feelings, the metabolism, the immune system. So as we are all one, all part of each other and the Divine why shouldn't we all suffer the same or similar maladies - with one variation or emphasis or the other - as the world and humanity evolves and changes. Growing pains for the new Earth!

Today I headed home and left behind my Ma and Pa and brother with a strange mixture of relief at finally having my own space again and returning to my own home and sadness and guilt at leVying them all behind. It is - I guess - as it always has been, the need for separation, to be individual, to be alone, to be free from the Source and yet at the same time the yearning to return to it! And maybe then this is what this pain is that we experience, this heart pain and head pain and failing of the body. The yeRn to return fighting with our yearning to be separate to be individuals to be limited and free?!?

If this then is so then maybe cooperation is the solution for when the body works as a whole, combining it's resources healing occurs! Maybe then when we, humanity, all pull together we will be whole and healed again?


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The Violet Duchess

The other day - at the Elsecar BSSSK Mind Body Spirit Fair - I bought Lucy Cavandish's Oracle of Shadows and Light. Tonight, after returning home with my Ma and Pa I picked the Violet Duchess card. This card talks about frustration and stifled emotions, being stuck and compliant and not true to one self, being a goody two shoes - which I have been one way or another for most of my life - and how when the true nature, our true energy, turns inwards it can cause harm. It marks a moment of honesty, an impending explosion, a revelation! It marks a moment of honesty and truth!! In my line of work maintaining professional decorum is essential, be patient with clients and students, being polite, listening - even when you don't want to, even when all you want to do is scream, or sleep, or run away! Looking after my elderly parents has also required patience, patience which sometimes, to my shame, I have lacked! But lately, whether it's with clients or my folks - or come to that pretty much anyone - my patience and tolerance levels have been way low!

This is not uncommon, many people experience it, particularly lately and some say it is because the Earth, who has always been happy to receive our negative energy and transmute it, is no longer so and is returning it back to us, making us take responsibility for it and deal with it ourselves! I'm not so sure but what is clear to me is that there is a powerful pursuance taking place, a clearing out of our anger, pain and frustration from ages past which is leaving us all at times crabby and emotional.

The guides say Flower Essences can help, the guides say use meditation to release stress and remind us that we expend more energy holding onto stuff that we do letting go of it. The guides say acknowledge it and own it but don't beat our selves up about it. Rather be inspired by it to be better, the guides say we are only human and frustration is natural at this moment in time. The guides say, and this is important, don't take it out on others but accept it and deal with it ourselves.

Easier said than done, but worth the effort I think!


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Healing Through the Aura

Dear Blog,

Last night - after spending almost two entire days in his wheel chair - my Dad was very stiff and sore. He went to bed fearful he might not be able to get himself up at night and so concerned I lay awake worrying about him and thinking what I might do!

I remembered as a younger man, new to the path and still experimenting with the healing power, what I used to do every night before I slept and so I practiced this simple art again.

I unfolded my aura letting it flow out into the house, holding my Father and my Mother and Andrew my partner safely within it and then connecting to my Guardian Angel I allowed the Divine Healing light to flood through it and into them as they slept.

The next morning Dad was more flexible and optimistic capable of standing with greater ease and grace. I allowed myself a secret smile and thanked Spirit for this small miracle.

My parents return home tomorrow, it's been a little stressful caring for them, trying to keep them entertained and watching them at times in pain and looking a little lost so far from home. But it's been wonderful to laugh with them, love them and care for them as they have done and still do me.

I thank the Gods for them and ask that they be ever held in the Divines healing light.


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The Healing Power of Places

Dear Blog,

I find it amazing how much a place can heal, I mean a place ... not necessarily a sacred place or even a quiet place but just a different place, with a different pace of life.

Whilst my parents have been staying the wonder of the location in which my home is situated seems to have folded around them, healing them, restoring them and in certain cases bringing stuff up to be cleared! Today was no exception when a friend of the family - who has been suffering from bereavement - happened by and despite being quite the towny simply did not want to leave! After a while they began to speak about their bereavement and it became apparent that our space was forcing these feelings to the fore to be further healed.

In this day and age then, when healing is so important and so needed, how vital it is for us to remember that sometimes all we need to do is find the right place to facilitate the change that we need and the healing that we require! Nothing more and nothing less than this!





The healing garden of Low Burnfoot!



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1st September

Dear Blog,

It's the 1st of September and there is already a wimsy of Autumn in the early morning despite the Indian Summer we seem to be experiencing.

My mention of my "Ascension Symptoms" on Facebook has generated a fair amount of response from "fellow sufferers" and I wonder what I can do to help us all? Maybe some words of wisdom from on high are called for, I'll see tomorrow if time presents itself for me to ask!

Today Andrew and I took my Mum and Dad to Haverthwaite steam train and then onto Lakeside and the Aquarium! Quite a mixture but still the day for me had an over riding theme of beauty, the Summer sunlight on the tree's as the steam train pulled away, the magical steam collecting like clouds at the tops of the sooty tunnels as the train passed through, the incredible fish swimming around and over us in the Aquariums tunnel and my Ma and Pa, like wise old children discovering the world for the first time, beautiful. Strange how, as they have aged - they are now in their late 80's, they seem to be returning to child like states whilst retaining their memories and wisdom!

September the 1st feels like a bold new adventure and despite all the many things left over from August which I really should have done but didn't and all the things that lay before me pigeon holed into my calendar I feel oddly optimistic and excited! What wonders might this month bring?

Whatever they might be I will try to embrace them with humour and grace, yes humour and grace ... this will be my mantra for the month!

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