Guardian Angel Tarot Cards

The last thing I need is a new deck of cards, but that didn't stop me from walking into Barnes & Noble last week and leaving with a brand new set of Guardian Angel Tarot Cards. They are amazing, I have no regrets! My sister asked if they were different from the others I have. Yes and no, but mostly yes. The deck is based on the standard structure and themes of  tarot, with 21 major arcana cards to illustrate big life changes and four suits of element cards to guide us through the details of everyday life. What I love most about the Guardian Angel Tarot, by Doreen Virtue and Radleigh Valentine, is that the messages and the images are peaceful, angelic, and obvious so that the point is clear. My grandmother would love this deck, when others would might raise eyebrows. They are that gentle. 

I also like the way they've translated the Suits of Pentacles, Wands, Air and Swords into what they represent in our lives: Abundance, Action, Thought and Emotions. All of the cards are illustrated in such a way to make them obvious and less prone to misinterpretation, especially by newbies when it comes to tarot reading. A great example is the very first card in any tarot deck: The Fool. In traditional tarot, the Fool shows a young boy walking off a cliff, his trusty dog following him and alerting him to the potential danger of a big fall. The kid however, is following his passions with so much enthusiasm that he hasn't a care in the world. The card can usually be interpreted to say that a leap of faith is required at the moment, and the dog is the guardian who is there to make sure we don't commit a great folly (so take a leap!). 

In the Guardian Angel tarot, again we have a young boy near a cliff, only he isn't jumping off it. Instead, he lets a butterfly take flight and his guardian angel is right behind him, making sure he is safe and supported. The message is the same though it also reminds us to rely on our angels. It's gorgeous, you'll love it! 

Here is a little reading that I gave myself with the Guardian Angel Tarot: 

• Helper of Abundance: Although I have lots to do, it's important to get organised. Once the planning phase is complete, get to work! This is especially helpful right now as I have tons of ideas and I should prioritize. Traditionally the Knight of Pentacles. 

• Guardian of Thought: I may be called on to be a spokesperson for a cause close to my heart. Finding a mentor will help catapult my plans too. To me, this card is about strategizing and focusing my efforts where they will have the strongest influence. I need to give this some more thought, especially as opportunities arise. 

• Messenger of Action: Something exciting in comes to pass in my career. I'll be excited to learn and grow, even if it also brings nervous energy. This card is often about responding to a request, a suggestion or a new opportunity that presents itself. The messenger cards also tell us that we'll get to cut our teeth on a new endevour, possibly requiring a new but exciting skill set! 

This deck is lovely and I'm still getting to know it right now. I'll be practicing with free mini readings over the next few weeks to familiarize myself with the cards and their messages. 

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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuits. Read her books to unlock your intuition. 

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Energy Healing, Reiki and Chemotherapy

I have been out this week. My cousin was hospitalized with a persistent stomach ache, and we learned soon after that it was early stages of Burkitt's Lymphoma. A condition that is thankfully treatable, but the chemotherapy sessions start at full throttle to keep it in check. The treatment involves 4-6 rounds of chemotherapy, each lasting 21 days and for the most part in-patient care, with welcome breaks at home along the way. 

If there's one thing I have learned, it's that my cousin's "let's get this started" attitude has him one step ahead of the curve. The morning after his diagnosis he was in touch asking for energy healing tools to calm down and focus. Meditation proved to be incredibly effective at calming his nerves and connecting with that well of Inner Peace that we all carry. I'm convinced that starting out with meditation grounded his energy and made dealing with the shock of the diagnosis a little bit easier. 

This week I gave him Energy Healing and Reiki ahead of this second chemo infusion. He has responded well to the healings and with his permission I would like to share them here. The techniques are based on my Energy Healing studies at the School of Intuition and Healing, as well as my Reiki Master training with Michael Kauffman in London. 

My approach to energy healing is always complementary to medical care, not a substitute. 

Energy Healing with Gold Light:

• This was a chair healing the morning he checked into the hospital. It lasted  30 minutes. My idea was to give him a good clearing and healing. In Healing School we were taught to channel only universal energy when someone is being treated for cancer or lymphoma, as opposed to Earth energy. The highest vibrational energy I have been able to work with so far is gold energy, a.k.a. Christ Energy. I put my hands on his shoulders and intended for gold energy to flow through his body into the ground, taking any excess stress, tension or chemo "hangovers" into the ground.

• Next I went to his Crown Chakra and visualised silver light coming down from Heaven and filling his Crown with wisdom, understanding and healing. The intention was for that energy to flow down to his Heart Chakra. From there I went to the Heart Chakra and filled it with gold light, letting it overflow to the rest of his body. This is where I stayed the longest and once all of his cells were filled with gold light, I turned to the Physical Heart and Circulatory System. This is where we healers can help the most. 

• Chemotherapy drugs reach every last cell in the human body, reaching healthy cells as well as abnormal ones. If I'm not mistaken, this is why the side effects can be so strong. I sent gold and silver light into the blood stream through the heart, so that all of the body's cells receive that healing as well as the intended effects of the chemotherapy. 

• My intention at the end was for the healing to last a whole week, especially the gold energy and the infusion of light. As with any healing, I ended the session by grounding and protecting his energy. The healing took place 12 hours before chemo was due to start. He was in good spirits and great shape; that's probably why I included so much in the session. On good days we channel more healing that on bad days. For example, I would never give a full-on energy healing to someone who had a bad cold, etc. 

Pre-Chemo Reiki Booster: 

This session took place later in the evening before his chemo treatment started. Ideally I would have sent healing during, but it didn't start until 2 am. The healing took place at 10 pm and lasted 15 minutes. You will need a Reiki Level II Attunement to try it, replacing the master symbols with CKR. 

• In hospitals there is usually less room to maneuver, so I usually hold the patient's hand and use my intention to draw symbols or send energy where needed. Also, as my healing school teachers told us, don't do anything that looks weird in a hospital setting! Here I was able to stand at the bottom of the bed and send healing through the feet, intending for any stress, tension or chemo "hangover" to flow into the ground through my feet. 
• I then sent Reiki to Heart and Solar Plexus with the Usui Master Symbol.  

• Power Symbol on mechanical port in chest, intending for it to send Reiki to the body with the chemo infusion. If removing nausea is in line with highest good, please clear, heal and direct energy directly towards the lymphoma cells.

• Power Symbol drawn over the body through each of the Chakras, starting at the Crown and moving down a straight line to the Base, before looping back through the Brow, Sacral, Solar Plexus, Throat and Heart. I stopped at the Heart and added the distance symbol, intending for this big power symbol to stay active for 72 hours so that Reiki would keep flowing as he detoxed from the chemotherapy. 

• I went back to apply Distance and Power Symbols at the mechanical port, so that the Reiki filter would stay there for 12 hours. Then back to grounding via feet. 

• End session as you normally would, brushing the aura and grounding.

The feedback from both sessions was great! He felt the energy moving through his body, especially during the first one. He also felt it going to his head. The next day my cousin was thrilled because the headaches he had been experiencing disappeared. I also extended my flight and I'll be here next week. He is back home from the hospital today and we will have a Reiki class (attunement) too. In all of this, the biggest plus has been my cousin's fantastic attitude and the way he's embraced knowing what the "problem" is so that he can focus on getting better. On one of his weekends off, he went for a 7k jog and his doctor also signed off on him signing up for the NY Marathon in November. I'm trying to talk him into blogging about training for the marathon. By now I'm sure you're wondering, he is 29 and very awesome! 

Reiki hugs, 

Regina 

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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuits. Read her books to unlock your intuition. 

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Awakening of the Illuminated Heart (ATIH)

A couple weeks ago I attended a lecture at the Kabbalah Centre where the teacher discussed the importance of opening our Hearts (and minds) to the wisdom in others. It's easy to fall into the ego trap of thinking that a particular person has little to teach us, maybe it's someone with a "lower consciousness" (total ego trap) or less prestige, etc. The truth is we can learn things about ourselves and life from everyone and anyone. When we think about that, the Aha! Moments start appearing en masse. 

I usually shy away from certain New Age themes, but last week I went to a heart healing workshop that was wonderful, even if many of the teacher's beliefs about how we humans came to be are diametrically opposed to my own. There were lots of things that made sense and I’d like to cover them all, but the class was too darn long.

Here are the highlights:

• The class is called Taller DESI in Mexico (in the USA, Awakening of the Illuminated Heart by The School of Remembering). It looks at healing the emotional body so we can bring our energy into the present. Out of the mind and to the Heart, where we can listen to our intuition and use the mind's analytical skills to iron out the details. "Follow your Heart but take your brain with you" (Alfred Adler)

• Among other things, we went through a number of meditations that made it very easy for us to connect with Nature, with the Universe and then to center in the Heart, using its energy to create the life we deserve. This co-creation idea resonates with me 100% and I've already written loads on manifesting here, here, here and here. I'll be experimenting with this technique the next few weeks, so stay tuned! To learn the Illuminated Heart's process yourself, sign up for a class or read Drunvalo Melchizedek's' book: Living in the Heart: How to Enter into the Sacred Space within the Heart. 

• The technique involves New Age concepts like the Merkaba, Ascension and other ideas that I was fuzzy on prior to the class. The way I understand it, personal ascension means that we become more zen in our approach to life. You put things in perspective, ground yourself and are less likely to be shaken up by events that might have been stressful before. There's also a global aspect to this, which is when enough of us have become peaceful, collaborative, conscious and proactive, that we're not creating chaos anymore. This resonates as all of my posts leading up to the New Year were on the role we play in achieving peace and prosperity on Earth. It's on all of us, quite literally. 

• This workshop was run by Carlos Cassillas and Paola Marquez, two fantastic teachers who have both been certified by The School of Remembering in Arizona. Thank you both for a wonderful workshop! 

My favorite exercise was one where we connected with our Inner Heart. It's not unlike the GAPP process that I learned at the School of Intuition and Healing. You ground yourself in Mother Nature, connect with the Universe and then centre in the heart. In Healing School, the goal is to draw on healing energies from both sources and channel them to the client, whereas Drunvalo's idea is to connect with both, ground in the heart and stay there. We were supposed to receive an influx of love from the universe, but instead I felt like it wanted to give me power. Creative power, manifesting power, who knows? It made me nervous and I didn't want to receive it. What if I hurt someone? This made me think of a book I read last year: The Essential Dalai Lama. In one of his essays, the Dalai Lama mentions that we block our creative power because we are scared of what we might do. This is why Buddhism encourages compassion and mindfulness; our thoughts have consequences. The idea is to plant a conscious seed so that we generate positive karma in our lives and our communities. There are plenty of similarities between Kabbalah, Positive Karma and this Ascensionist co-creation. Maybe this is where I need to focus my attention. 

If you'd like to learn these techniques for yourself, there are certified teachers all over the world. Find them through the School of Remembering's website, or read Drunvalo's book, Living in the Heart. If you live in Mexico, visit Taller DECI's Facebook Page for available sessions. The theory behind the techniques reads like science fiction, but the techniques themselves have been a blessing. 

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I'm writing for OM TIMES Magazine!

It has been two weeks since my last post and I have plenty of material to make up for it. Funny how things come together sometimes; I've had three big firsts this week! My first and second published magazine articles went live with OM TIMES MAGAZINE the past week or so. One of them even landed on the cover next to the beautifully talented Colette Baron-Reid! See here for 7 Ways to Make Your Guardian Angel's Job Easier. You'll learn how to connect with your Guardian Angel and make full use of his or her angelic powers. 

OM TIMES Magazine also published another article that I would love for you to read, called Self-Healing, Cancer and Forgiveness. Here we look at how the physical body stores emotions, and why it's so important to start with our self-healing journey while we are still healthy. This article picks up where my Self-Healing, Cancer & Love book left off, encouraging us to make healing a part of our daily lives.  

Finally, the last "first" is a Guest Post on TinyBuddha.com, a spiritual blog with "simple wisdom for complex lives". The website is run by a lovely lady named Lori. She's brought together a community of friendly and enthusiastic folks. It's a fantastic place to go if you are looking for inspiration or support. This particular post is on an enjoyable (and patient) approach to weight loss, offering an alternative to the vicious cycle of endless diets. It addresses self-healing, especially when anxiety fuels our cravings. Read it here!

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Water Blessing Meditation

Detoxes are in vogue these days. I myself tried to go an entire month without sugar this January and lasted a whole 21 days! While there are enormous benefits to passing on sugar, my gut feeling is that the best detox we can give our body is to drink plenty of water, day in and day out. It flushes out toxins and keeps us well hydrated. Clean water is something to be incredibly grateful for, even though most of us in the developed world probably take it for granted. That may change in a few decades if we don't take better care of our planet. 

Water is also vital for those of us who practice Reiki, Intuitive Readings or Energy Healing. According to the psychic development blog, A State of Mind, intuitive energies travel through the physical body, using our water reserves as a conduit. That's why it's even more important for healers to drink lots of water, it keeps us fresh and ready to take on new case studies! 

This is one way to look at it: drink water to replenish your intuitive energy levels. We can infuse our drinking water with healing energy to heal ourselves, intending for the water clear and release emotions that are held at a cellular level. This can be done effortlessly with a Reiki II class, though we can also use a simple water blessing meditation if we haven't been attuned to Reiki. We can add a bit of fruit, for example, yellow to boost the Solar Plexus Chakra (that burst of happiness is something I often feel with Reiki sessions).

Both meditative techniques are equally effective, it is the Intention and that counts. Just follow these steps to program your water:

• Formulate Your Intention. Think about what you would like to accomplish with this healing. Are you uncovering your Chiron Wound or maybe, you'd like to heal your Inner Child and let go of any residual grief, confusion or stress from your early years. We can also ask for healing to follow our Highest Good, and let any issues surface when the moment is right, through our thoughts and feelings.  

• Clear Your Working Space. Get yourself a glass of water, and sit down in a quiet and comfortable place, feet on the floor and a glass of water on a table nearby. Close your eyes and visualize a white healing light coming down from the Heavens, through the roof and filling the room that you are in. This white light clears and protects the space around you so that only high-level energy can come in. 

• Ground Yourself in Mother Nature. Visualize tree roots growing out of the bottoms of your feet, into the ground. Intend for the roots to cut through layers of cement, dirt, rock, and molten lava until they reach the center of the earth and dig in. You may see a crystal formation there, let your roots wrap around the crystals anchoring you to their healing energy.

• Attune to Universal Energies. Still firmly grounded, take your attention up through the atmosphere, past the stars, to the highest source of Light. You can call this God, the Universe, Christ Energy or Source. Connect with that Light, and let it come down to meet you. The Light enters your Crown Chakra, travels through your Core to your Heart, and to your palms. Finally we're going to visualise a bubble of healing light surrounding our Aura. 

• Call in Your Helpers. Now it's time to call in our helpers, especially any healing guides or angels. As this is a water blessing, I like to call on Archangel Haniel because she is linked to the moon, changing tides (water) and to emotional healing. Haniel will add her intuitive energy to the water. 

• Infuse Your Water.  Hold the glass of water in your hand, and Intend for your drinking water to take on gentle healing properties. With time, a steady stream of water can wear down even the toughest rocks. We're going to leverage that power to release any mental, emotional or spiritual baggage from the body and soul, slowly but surely. Intend for your entire water supply to be blessed. At this point, one could use three Reiki Level 2 symbols with the intent to program the water and heal the past, present and future.  

• It's Time to Disconnect. Thanking your angels and guides for their help, take your attention back to that highest source of light. We're going to disconnect, knowing that we can repeat this meditation whenever we like. Thank the Light for it's blessing and bring your attention back to your body. Check your grounding roots, draw your Aura in around you, and finally ...

• Shield Your Energy. I like to visualize a protective cloak around my energy field, and intend for it to keep me warm and toasty. Think of it as wearing an energetic overcoat to keep you insulated from the elements. A bubble of light works just as well, it's the intention that counts (((heart))). 

The first time I tried this with Reiki, I set the intention for my drinking water to be infused with light for a year. Since then, I've tried this with shorter time frames so that I can change the Intention when the transformation has taken place (helpful if you're trying to heal a particular pattern). The key is to carry out the meditation and to expect that it will work whenever you have a drink of water. If that feels like a stretch, just thank the Heavens for the healing before taking a sip. Gratitude opens a door for healing to come in!

Reiki hugs, 

Regina 

 

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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuits. Read her books to unlock your intuition. 

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Chiron the Wounded Healer

In Greek mythology, Chiron is the Immortal Healer, unable to heal his own wounds, though he does heal others. He is often associated with the King of Cups, someone who is great at helping others but unable to help himself. A lot of us get into healing because we start out healing ourselves, and then move onto sharing that knowledge with others. Whereas the myth says that Chiron is unable to heal himself, I don't believe that to be true for us. The theory is that if we find the placement of the asteroid Chiron in our birth charts, we can figure out where our soul bears the deepest past life wounds. Any efforts to heal that aspect will have the biggest pay-out. 

Again, the Chiron myth tells us that this scar will be with us through life, but my intuition tells me that we can heal and release it with water, especially if that water is charged with the intention to clear and heal the soul. Running water is gentle, but with time, it is powerful enough to carve out canyons and wear down rocks. By infusing our drinking water with healing energy and intending for it to reach the soul, we can heal even the deepest spiritual wounds. There's one more point, and that's the fact that Chiron (the asteroid) was only discovered in 1977. In astrology, the theory is that planets, asteroids and star systems are discovered when their effects become relevant. We may be the first generation to have the self-awareness necessary for this soul healing to occur. I'm still a Chiron Rookie and it will take a good deal of meditation before I make sense of things. 

If you would like to find your Chiron, you can generate a Free Birth Chart on Astro.com. Then read this article on Chiron in the Houses and Signs, to see what it all means. In my case, it was quite interesting because my Chiron is in Taurus (a 2nd House sign) and I don't have any planets in that quadrant on self, possessions or community. Chiron in Taurus is supposed to be about my relationship with material things, and I am prone to leaving things behind. For example, when I moved from London to Mexico last year, a back injury kept me from moving my things, and rather than pack I gave almost everything to charity. Not sure what that means but Chiron in Taurus says it's about a wound in the "body" and also an irrational relationship with material things. This can lead to "lots of waste" or lots of "economy." I do tend to travel extremely light, my wardrobe is typically small and slow to replenish itself. 

I’m not sure what any of this means just yet. Please let us know what comes up for you and if it resonates. Leave your comments below, or click through to my FB page and comment here. If by the most amazing twist of fate, an astrologer reads this, please share your insights on Chiron with us! =) 

My next post will be on water and how we can charge it with healing energy. Stay tuned!

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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuits. Read her books to unlock your intuition. 

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