The King of Wands

A couple days ago I bought a really cool tarot deck. I love it because it takes you through four greek myths, and ties each scene to a different card in the series. So say the Suit of Cups is about a love story, with the ups, downs and steps that you might expect in a normal relationship. The Suit of Wands is about that creative spark that drives us to create wonderful things in our jobs and in our hobbies. Think it also has to do with how to act on our ambition.  

I've been playing around with it the past few days and have actually done multiple mini-readings on myself to test my knowledge of the cards and also to test my intuition (if that's the right word). One of the things I asked about was my current job, and funny enough the card I pulled reflected one of the things that I'm supposed to work on this year:  Leadership! 

This isn't to say that I'm not a leader now, but what I need to work on is becoming more of a people leader; taking responsibility and initiative. I think the more you advance in the corporate world the more of a leader you need to be. And in life. I am sure it will come in handy if I ever make the move to full-time healer/writer/intuitive. With this in mind I wasn't too surprised when I pulled the following cards last night: 

• Knight of Wands:  Juliet Sharman-Burke tells us this often signifies a change of residence, because the individual feels to cramped in their current surroundings. This is so me! Moving half-way across the world because I was bored and cramped 2 years ago, and I'm still a bit of a nomad. And now my sights are set on healing, but that is definitely part of my life plan .... 

• Ten of Wands: Poor little soul who is overburdened by a really heavy load of sticks. Half them they could dump, and the rest they could carry in a much more convenient way. So true!  I could take a lot of my plate and still be full. This being the 2nd card tells me what I should do. Instead I find myself drifting back to that Knight of Wands and wanting to skeddadle. Not the way forward ... 

• King of Wands:  To quote Juliette Sharman-Burke, this is "the spirit of leadership, the belief that one has a better idea worth promulgating and working to make it manifest." It is also about engaging people and getting them on your side. LOL I wonder what is in store for me here! Maybe soul healing on a much larger scale? I like the sound of that   =) 

I thought this reading was fantastic because I have the qualities of the "Knight" and need to work on becoming a "King". The Queen isn't anywhere in that reading and I'm wondering how one goes about hopping from point A to point C.  The second card connects the dots -> I need to choose my projects carefully and decide what I will focus on.  Again this is something my boss told me to work on LOL. Funny how you can hear the same message in real life and then see it in the cards. It really hit home when I saw the spread, in part because it confirmed what I already knew, but mostly because the cards are so VISUAL. 

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Past Life Traumas of the Physical Kind

Today was another first in my healing sessions! I was working with a Healee who complained of headaches and migraines. Wasn't entirely sure what to do with migraines and we are often told that the head is a very sensitive area to begin with. I went straight for his feet and grounding and channeled healing energy upwards towards his brow and crown chakra, with the intent to gently clear them. 

When that was done I felt moved to work on the solar plexus and the brow chakra, with my hands about 4-5 feet off the body. My dad used to get migraines a lot and it reminds me of him sometimes. I have read up on migraines in my healing books and it will often be tied to the brow chakra's symbolic sight, the client's fearlessness to see their future and their life clearly. The fearlessness can also be affected by the solar plexus, which also happens to be paired with the brow chakra. For this reason I spent a good deal of time working on my client's solar plexus as well as their head. Finally I moved on to the heart-crown pairing for clearing, balancing and healing.  

How do I choose what I work on during a session? Sometimes I cover the bases that I am taught in class. Other times I will remember what I read in a book, so in the case of migraines I worked on the crown and brow primarily. When this isn't enough to cover everything, my clairvoyance or clair-sentience will send me a sign. Today I was pretty much done with the healing session, and had moved to ground the client and close him down. I used a huge grounding cord to draw all of the excess energy from his aura and then send it to the ground, and then used my intent to desensitise each of his chakras. I will visualise a flower petal closing down over each chakra, so that it is contained and protected but not shut. 

I was almost done closing him down when I felt a pain on my skull, around the back on the right side. It was dull but persistent, and told me that I wasn't done with the healing session. When this happens it is important to acknowledge it and then send it away - otherwise as a healer you might hang on to other people's aches and pains!  I asked the pain to tell me what it meant, and  a page from Barbara Brennan's Hand's of Light came to my mind. It is from the chapter where she talks about how past life injuries can cause severe aches and pains. This could be the case if someone was killed in a car accident, or in a war and the injury isn't fully healed from their etheric template. I got the feeling the migraines were linked to an injury from a past life, and that healing that could relieve the migraines by clearing the memory of the injury. 

The healing session went on for an extra 10-15 minutes while I worked on the head injury.  I put my hands on his shoulders and asked the injury to show me what had happened and where the pain was located. Then I sat behind his and held my hands on either side of his head, just a few inches off his skull. I visualised the injury, the pain and the memory has a reddish haze around his head and used the healing energy to clear it upwards and away from his head. Whenever we remove something from the energy field, even if it's a bad memory or a trauma, we need to fill that space with gold healing light. I put my hands around his head again, and channeled gold healing energy all over his head, brain, and even the top of his spine. Finally I put my hands on his shoulders one last time and asked for a good dose of gold energy to fill his up and continue healing throughout the week. I don't think I'm quite done, but that will hold over until our next appointment and it will also enable the healing to continue when I am not there. 

I didn't mention the past life injury to the client when I was done with the healing session. He did feel the energy during the session, but I don't think it will do him any good to know that he may have had an accident in a past life. He may not believe in past lives to begin with, and having that conversation might cast "doubt" and "skepticism" on the healing. What are your thoughts on this? I can't say that I'm 100% convinced that past lives are real, but believing in them makes it easier for me to make sense of things. Past lives put astrology into context and they also make for very interesting discussions on Memories of the Soul! Clients don't need to know what we "see" during a healing session, the healing will still work regardless. I also think I have a deep rooted fear of quack-healers who go about scaring people, so I would rather not go there at all. 

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Ready for Change

I'm feeling stressed these days, lots of changes at work and the people around me are overworked. At least I think they are. I think I may be taking some of their baggage and adding on to my own. 

If I've learned anything from Doreen Virtue's Magical Unicorn cards, it is that change is good. There is a particular card in the deck that really speaks to me. The image is of a big strong Unicorn walking down a path towards us, and just as the snapshot was taken he crosses a gate. It isn't a white unicorn, instead his colors are deep brownish-grey. A grounding color that brings the readee back to the moment and focuses them. The words at the bottom say "The changes you're going through are good." When we flip it, the description goes on to talk about how change is a natural part of life, people move on, grow up, change. 

I welcome change. What worries me is that when all is said and done, I might end up in the same place. Funny thing is the runes, the cards and even Guiding Stars interactive readings told me to stay put. It's worked out well for me so far but I'm still feeling a little bit unsettled and unenthusiastic. 

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Is PMS a Reflection of the Inner Feminine?

Today one of my case studies came in to the healing session with PMS and then she left without it! Was a great experience. I didn't expect that to happen, but we always ask how our case studies feel before and after an energy healing session. The cramps and bloating that come at that time of the month can be a complete pain in arse, and there is often the emotional overhaul that comes with it. I have done self-Reiki to try and ease my own PMS and I feel it is creating a shift in my feminine energy. 

What is the secret? In my case, it has been to accept all aspects of womanhood, PMS included, and stop fighting myself! And a little crystal healing too =) 

• When I lived in Mexico, I had crystal healing a couple times and it seemed to help with PMS and with other hormonal imbalances. I have a history of DVT and my doctors advise against conventional treatments for PMS. So I saw a crystal healer instead, and it helped more than I thought it would. After a few sessions my cramps subsided and I stopped breaking out. Can't really tell you much about the session. I used to lie down on a cot and she would cover my fully-clothed body with tiny crystals and tap her fingers on different parts of my body. I don't remember much more, or how it worked.  

• A couple months ago I started getting stronger cramps and I sat down to work on myself. At first a normal energy healing, then I decided to reach for a pendulum and let it swing over my sacral chakra until it was done clearing it. I didn't really learn this in class, I just asked the pendulum to swing one way for "clear mode" and another way for "healing mode" ... It swung in "healing mode' over both my sacral and root chakra for what felt like ages! At the end I was tired from holding the pendulum, but it helped a LOT with the cramps. 

• A few months later I read You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay. I really do swear by that book! It links physical symptoms and illnesses back to certain emotional and behavioural patterns. What it says about PMS and cramps is really interesting - PMS is due to us rejecting the process of the female body. It makes sense, when I was a teenager I would hate getting my period (who doesn't) and I would always think what a crappy system - can't nature do better than that? My attitude was always one of dread and dislike and I have been passing that stress onto my organs. Up until recently they felt unappreciated. Since then I have been sending my reproductive organs love and thanking them for doing a good job and for being healthy. Now that I welcome the process it has been easier, with less discomfort all round.

I don't explain this when a woman comes in and mentions that she has PMS and cramps, it would be odd if I suggest they speak to their organs. Instead I used a rose quartz wand, a quartz pendulum and a carnelian stone to clear the energy, heal it and then channel warm loving energy and positive feelings into their sacral chakras and the uterus, ovaries, etc etc etc. At first my hands could feel a little pain on the palms when I worked on the sacral, and after a while it cleared. I also worked on grounding out any excess energy and filling their core, their sacral and their grounding cords with rose quartz energy. 

One Last Point - I use complementary therapies everyday hoping that when that time of the month comes, I'll be OK. But if I do have PMS that month, I still take an OTC product. 

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Regina 

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Mind Readers Anonymous

There's a psychic skill that makes me really uncomfortable. You may have heard of empaths, those special people who can feel what others are feeling. For example, empath #1 might be sitting on the bus with a friend. If their friend is down in the dumps that empath might feel down in the dumps as well. If you're perceptive enough you might also know who the feeling or thought is coming from. It's happened to me a couple times, at first I ignored it. There are people who make me feel like crying whenever I see them. I'm not always sure what to do,  how to help, or if I should ignore it and let them be. Awkward.

If empaths know how we feel, do they also hear what we think? 

Remember that Mel Gibson movie, What Women Want? Its about an ad exec in Chicago who wakes up one morning and he can hear all of the thoughts that run through women's heads. There is a scene where an intern thinks she could disappear or die without anyone in her office noticing or even caring. How sad! When he confronts it about her, she is shocked to learn that he could tell. She doesn't know how, but the realisation that her misery was so apparent has her feeling just a little bit sad. This is an extreme case, but most of us wouldn't be too comfortable if we thought other people could hear our thoughts or witness our inner most feelings. 

The past month or so I've had two thoughts that really surprised me. Usually something that I would never say or think in real life. Both times I glanced over to the the person next to me smiling. The first time it happened I was in one of my psychic classes and I thought that the lady sitting next to me might have heard my thought, but looking back on it I probably sensed hers. For a second I thought it was my own and I was really shocked at the un-politically correct joke. 

One of my psychic teachers told us that eventually you can hear other people thinking, particularly if their thoughts are really loud. On a few occasions she has verbally responded to her siblings' thoughts and they always get mad at her for being in their heads. To which she responds by telling them not to think so loudly! LOL

What is the difference between a loud and a quiet thought? I think loud thoughts are projected by our throat chakras even if we do not say them aloud.  That same "tone of thought" is the one I've used when I talk to my Spirit Guides, so it must be some sort of telepathic communication.  I guess there must be people who project their thoughts without realising it, and lucky for them most people can't hear it. 

This post feels like a flight of fancy, would love to HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS on the subject =)

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Taking on Foreign Baggage

When I'm in a healing session I am always careful to clear, balance and heal the client without taking on any of their baggage. People come through our doors with lots of dense energy to clear. I will always ground and protect myself before a session, and I am also very much attuned to healing energy which flows through me into the client. There isn't much energy going in the other direction. 

Today I had a major realisation. 

I need to do the same grounding and protecting in my everyday life! Or to be more accurate, I need to be more aware of my energy levels and my interactions in my day to day life. There have been two cases recently where I was speaking with a friend who is anxious about a particular topic, and in trying to reassure them I take their anxiety and claim is as my own. Subconsciously of course! The 1st time this happened, a colleague was telling me that she doesn't do light weight training at the gym because she's scared of hurting her back and doing permanent damage. 

I remember thinking that was ridiculous! Our bodies are very resistant, there is nothing wrong with her from a medical POV (she has seen doctors). If our bones can heal from an actual break, how likely is it that we will throw our back out permanently by doing crunches? I believe back pain can sometimes be psycho-somatic, there are a couple really good books out there that talk about how our stress, our thoughts and our worries will trigger chronic pain.

The book I'm reading now is called "Why People Get Sick: The Mind-Body Connection". One of the things they talk about is how you might have 10 people with a spinal abnormality but only 5 of them have pain. The authors view is that people with pain actually triggered it somatically, which leads the doctor to order an x-ray that finds a cause in the spinal abnormality. I'm not going to go so far as to say that every case of back pain is psycho-somatic, but mine certainly was. I used a self-healing technique called Knowledge Therapy to condition my body NOT to mask stress and emotional challenges with chronic pain (the theory is that our subconscious mind creates this pain, to distract us from something in our life that would be difficult to face head-on). Please Google Dr John Sarno if you would like to read more about it.

WHAT A HUGE RELIEF THAT HAS BEEN! 

So with all this in mind, I was using my rational mind and arguments to reassure my friend and colleague. Her back was strong, she is young, she had once isolated incident and why would that recur? Our bodies can heal themselves. The rational arguments made no headway, and I started to sense an underlying anxiety and fear. Irrational fear and anxiety. Unfounded fear. But fear that was still very real. What did I do? Have no idea how it happened but I took it off her energetically, and made it mine! The very next night I went to the gym and pulled a little muscle in my neck doing the silliest thing. Really! I need to be more careful.  The unicorn card I've chosen tells us to let go of stress, and if you read the booklet it also tells us that we've been feeling other people's stress and emotions. It encourages us to stop doing this asap. 

This is the 2nd time I take someone's fear or anxiety off them, leaving them really cool, calm and collected. Can't say the same for myself. The good thing is I've learned my lesson and I won't be doing it again. When I was a kid my mom used to tell me not to rescue other kids - my brother and I were the kind who always stood up for the underdog and befriended them. At the time I thought her advice was a little bit selfish and wrong. There is a lot to be said for being nice to the outsiders, but taking on this "I want to help you" role is completely out of place. People have to learn to fend for themselves, and as healers we can only help to a certain point. The rest is their lesson to learn, and we're not doing them any favours if we just lift it off them. Am I being too harsh? I don't think so! Let's see if I can follow my own advice, ask me about it in a couple weeks. 

Love & Light, 

Regina 

ps ... My approach to healing is complementary to medical care, if you have health concerns please see a doctor. Physical problems need physical solutions

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