Energy, Our Auric Colours and the Colors We Wear...just a little thereof

 

HAPPY THANKFUL THURSDAY <3

Last night I had a wonderful call from a client. She let me know some things I had told her were spot on and gave her a happy heart. Her call gave me a very happy heart too!

During the day I was so happy to receive not 1 but 2 dimes from my Dad on the other side. It wasn't a super hard day but it wasn't the easiest of ones either. He showed me he was there with Love...

Keep your energies (colors of the rainbows) higher over the next few days. We have the 9/11 anniversary this week which isn't always an easy few days. That energy will be imprinted for a long while to come.

Keeping your energy higher helps. Prayers, Meditations, good music, some other things you enjoy will help <3

Yesterday there was a glitch with the interwebs and I had to stop posting because of it. Today I want to go back over colourful things that can help our energy as well as mood. Having gone to a business gathering of sorts yesterday I noticed the people wearing really colourful clothing. Myself I was dressed in a bright turquoise sleeveless blouse and a navy blue pair of pants/trousers that were loose and airy. There were others in some colours. There was also a fair share of black standard business attire.

When I look at someone’s energy I can’t usually see it like I would see you walking into a room. It is more of a sensing the energy and the colours come through as a translation my mind does with the energy. This is how it works with my energy therapy that I do. I sense the colors and the energy center as well as the body’s colours. If I see a gray or dark brown in a person’s tissues/energy it is a sign of significant potential physical issues.

Many years ago I was fascinated (still am) that the daughter of my insurance agent could see the colours in my energy field! She was a sweet little girl and she kept trying to get her mom’s attention. She was trying to ask her mum why I had the colours around me that I do.

I knew nothing of auric energy and colours at the time. My head was too busy with leaving an abusive and difficult marriage. It wasn’t ready for understanding colours. A few years later it was and I was surprised when I looked up the little girls answer when I had asked her years back what colours she was seeing around me.

It’s fascinating to ponder how colours are energy and we can react and act with the colours we wear. What about the ones we love around us? Have you ever asked yourself what colours you don’t like and then asked yourself the why of it? Have you ever thought about what caused you to love or dislike some shade or colour that you may have in a new home or as a gift from someone?

Ponder it a bit, see what comes through. You may surprise even a little bit of you!

Magical Monday - Grief and Allowing

 Before anything else, even though I'm a professional medium and have been for 20 years now, all too well I know grief on a personal basis and a professional one.  Over the last many years I've had my parents, all of my brothers, aunts, uncles as well as cousins to cross over....and fur babies too.  In 2015 one brother crossed and less than ten months later another one crossed over, then two of my fur babies just a few months after that.  It was hard for me then so this is why I write abut this topic even though it doesn't feel like a "Magical" one.  

This comes from my heart and being to you in hopes it may help now or in the future.  

Blessings.....Ada

HAPPY MAGICAL MONDAY!!!!!!!

Yes, grief doesn’t sound Magical. When you are deeply in it, it sure doesn’t feel very magical. It hurts so very deeply and that certainly doesn’t feel magical.

What it does though IS magical in a way. Grief is a process or processes that help us to learn to relive and revive ourselves after a loss. It is a way of how we learn to do things again without that person in our lives any more. Grief gives us an outlet that helps us with our adjusting to life afterward. It’s a natural and normal process or processes that we, and all sentient beings go through.

This year on the media I watched a mother whale carry her dead calf for months because her heartache was so deep. Her pod stayed with her, guarding her and knowing to keep her safe. Personally I’ve watched birds, cats, dogs, and other animals grieve their young. It’s so natural most beings who are sentient do these processes.

Perhaps you’ve had your fur baby or feathered friend grieve their partner or friend? What did they do? I’ve seen also where fur people have played with ‘air’ as it looked but I could feel my fur baby in our home from the other side.

The day after Baby BW passed away I was still a mess. It was when I got into the shower and sat down in it crying that I felt the heavy paws he had had running from one end of our rig to the other! I also felt the back of the bed area go up and down. Heidiweeness hissed like she always did when he would do that! From all that ruckus I knew he was back and even though an accident took him, he came back to let me know he was OK. From time to time I see him out of the corner of my eye, thankfully.

We humans grieve our jobs, homes, relationships too. It can take us years to work through the processes of these times. Sometimes we become so lost because other losses happen in conjunction with the initial loss. I know this all too well from personal experiences.

Those events have redirected me in so many ways.

Sometimes we lose friends after a passing of spouse or partner. There are those that don’t know how to act or react when there is a loss. It hurt when our work mates and friends left me by the side lines. That was another kind of grief to add to the processes I was already going through. Remember it’s not “you” as the reason they do this. Sometimes there are a lot of doors that close in close succession so that new chapters of your life can open more fully.

Grieve it and do it well. This way you can get on with your life as it unfolds.

Today I do believe in throwing our all into grieving and allowing someone to do so. Too many times I’ve heard of people having to go back to work less than a week from a loss. WE NEED TIME to go through our grief and cannot rubber stamp it over and done. In centuries past we took months and sometimes years for us and our society to work through the process. Until the 1600’s professional mourners were hired in many cases more often than not. This process can take years for certain losses and being gentle and good to ourselves is one of the best ways we can work through it.

I’m going to add this here as my last tidbit for the day.

Your grief is as individual as your finger prints. A wise lady told me that a lot of years ago.

Your grieving times will be different for each passing. Some will continue for ages, others not as long.

There’s not just one way to grieve.

You cannot avoid grief without it causing you internal difficulties in your energy and body.

Find one or two friends or family members you can share things with as best as you can. Let their listening ears and open arms hold you steady when the winds of grief howl within you.

Allow yourself the time you need even as you start your new schedule and more in this new part of your life.

Your Loved Ones Are Thinking of You Too!

 

HAPPY MAGICAL MEDIUMSHIP MONDAY!!!!!!!

Remember your Loved Ones are really just a thought away

I often tell my clients that whenever you are thinking of your loved one, they are thinking of you.

My reason for this is because this is part of how they communicate with us.

Losing someone is never an easy gig. There are a lot of factors into each and every loss we have. Just so there are easier times that we connect without really knowing and harder times too. Grief and sadness are often two emotional reasons bound together that don’t let us feel/sense/see their side of this.

So often their communication with us is very gentle. It’s almost as if there was a tiny wind or movement that we can barely detect in our thoughts about them… It can feel deeper and more precious when their old memories come around.

One of our biggest issues is we’ve been taught they cannot communicate. It’s almost as if you have to be some special person to have that little snippet of closeness with them. You can have your family or loved ones thinking about you just as much as anyone like me.

This is including signs too. We all need them, including me. There fore if you have a wonderful memory pop up as you’re doing something, it’s quite possible and probable that they are thinking of that memory too at that time!

A Little about Energy and Music and adding good vibes

 

HAPPY INTUITIVE TOOLS TUESDAY!!!!!

This week I’m wanting to show some things on the energy of music for helping us in our lives. Not just as a relaxing point or a dancing and exercise point (those are wonderful btw!). This sound and musical energy to also use in helping us to mitigate some of the energy we’ve held onto or packed away not wanting to “deal with it” kind of thing.

What does it mean that “everything is energy?” In basic physical science we learned the solid, liquid and gas version of this, maybe as far back as 8^th or 9^th year/grade. But what about the energy particles that are part of us, the mind, soul, spirit and body? What about their states when our “biography becomes our biology?”

The energy of our worries, fears, anxiety, anger, frustrations, jealousies, loves, joys, calmness, peacefulness and more become our biology. The energy of these emotions (and emotional energy is STRONG energy) layers in our energy, emotional and then physical bodies. Clearing out the final layer, our body is only a part of it. Sound and music, as well as other therapies, can help to relieve and even release things before and even after there are issues in our tissues.

We, you or I, can clear the issues and the tissues of so very much… Music and sound can help in that. Music is meant to lift us and I believe, clear us and help us heal from many things. Remember if it can clear our homes, it can clear us and our self and souls too!

The late Dr. Masaru Emoto wrote a book that was years ahead of its time. Just as he was years ahead of his time in ideas and methodologies. IF we look deeply at what vibration does to water, which was shown in his last publication, we can see how vibrational energy affects our every day self as the total package. The water we are, up to 75%, will translate itself into those forms. No wonder we need more gentle to ourselves.

When I was 14 I was introduced to the world of verbal abuse. The downgrading on so many levels because of someone else’s inner turmoil, pain and distress. It was a shock, a pure absolute shock and has taken me years to work through so much of those few years I spent in that abusive life. Unfortunately for these relations I went to live with, this was their norm, their better than they had it life from the past.

Be that as it may I had a lot of unlearning, clearing and coming to terms with from almost the day I left their residence with two small boxes and what money I had been able to squirrel away. I left like a thief in the night because I was stealing myself back to eventually becoming me again. That was just the beginning.

Those energies, which some days I still actively clear one more layer, left imprints. They were as good or better than had they been pounded into a piece of metal. Most mornings I listen to classical, jazz or what is now oldies from the 60’s, 70’s, and later LOL! There’s more from other eras too and those are often later. They help me focus and work just as I paint to music.

Listening to music, and more such as singing bowls, special clearing tunes and just old fashioned sounds of nature have helped me. I have no doubt about that. With setting intentions, we can work and use music as one more tool in our intuitive tool box. There are hundreds of ways to listen to healing sounds that can help you. Find what works for you and see how you can go with intentions set and a happier hopeful heart.

Restarting Blogging and other things with the New Moon and Mercury Retrograde Energy

 HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE!!!!!

Since it IS Mercury Retrograde time, it's a renew, redo and restart time.  So I'm restarting my blog again.  

The end of last year was a very difficult one what with looking for a home for me and the fur babies as well as being under a deadline and difficulties with the previous landlady due to her situation it left me more than tired and drained.  Other things happened that I will admit still hurt my heart and I had to take time for those things as well.  

Add to that working and moving pretty much everything I owned myself didn't leave a lot of time for blogging or even thinking at times.  Getting the fur babies settled and me somewhat settled takes time.  The cold came fast last winter and in an old farm house, getting us insulated was also a priority. Some things I had to set aside.  BTW I'm still looking through a few boxes of things! 

Now I've had a chance to rest, I've been doing readings again for a few months as well as my other work.  

At the beginning of the year I listened to my Guides and Angels that reducing my fee for readings was needed because so very many were feeling the economic crunch of current times.  Indeed many of us are working more than one thing.  

As sensitive souls we can be overwhelmed by so much happening around us as well as in our lives.  Taking time for us to heal, regroup and release is vital for us to function after difficult events.  This is what I've done here.  I'm not going to be blogging daily like I had been.  

That being said I will be setting things here that are what I sense more needed in today's current climate like my FB (Facebook and Instagram posts) on Music and sound which I'll add below.  Please feel free to follow me on those platforms and once I have my Youtube channel back to running within the next few weeks there too.  

Just as I started my move I celebrated my 61st birthday, Christmas came shortly thereafter and as my friend Catherine said to me a while ago "Life be lifin'..." and she's so right there.  So from October to now there's been nothing here but space and space is what I needed.  I hope you'll take a look through things to see if it's something you need. 

Today on my Facebook page I discussed music and its help with our energy.  Oh I know sometimes we need quiet, but I also know music can shift our energies into better places too.  That's why I started listening to music again.  Music I grew up with as well as soothing music for me.  

I'll post that tomorrow.  For today this is enough.  

Take time for yourself and soul whenever you can, only you can do this for you.... 

Wishing you a best and blessed day! 

HAPPY MEDIUMSHIP MYTHS MONDAY!!!!!!!

 

HAPPY MEDIUMSHIP MONDAY!!!!

Warning I’m only half caffeinated as I write this! Hopefully spirit folks will help me catch the typos more than the auto-correct!  LOL!!!!

To me, Mediumship is listening to/sensing/feeling then translating and relaying energy from one energy source (a Spirit Person or Animal) to the human to whom I’m reading for at that time. In other words, I’m a Spirit energy receiving antennae. LOL!

There are a lot of myths about Mediums and we’re going to have fun with some of them today!

I’ll put this as number 1, NO we don’t wear pointy hats unless it’s a holiday…. LOL!!! Some of us can be bitchy that is true, but that doesn’t always mean we’re witchy LOL!!!

The Number 2 for today (although I think this is #1 because of where I live) is those of us that are Mediums do not believe in God/Creator/Divine/Spirit. Often times when I get the question “Do you believe in God?” it’s from someone who has NO CLUE as to me, or most intuitives for that matter. My reply is always polite and with an explanation. That is part of why I’m here, but good grief this myth is so old that you can actually blame early male church understandings for this sort of thing.

God to us may not be what He/She is to you, but we work with LOVE and that makes all the difference!

Myth #3 for today is “You have to be in the same room to get a good reading.” Oh honey, you don’t even have to be in the same continent with some of us! There are some Mediums that prefer good old face to face and that’s great. Some of us, like myself, do readings over the web or in person. Energy is energy and a fun point of those on the other side is they can be with you AND with me communicating in their own way! Weird but Wonderful!

The 4^th Myth for today is……… drum roll please…… A Psychic or a Medium will know EVERYTHING about you when you go for a reading. Oh Please, NO, NO and one more NO! We only receive the information that you NEED and/or that those on the other side need to give. There is NO way we can know everything about you and no way we would want to know everything about you!

This isn’t a myth but it’s a frequent question, but it’s a kind of funny thing. I actually have been asked if I keep your Spirit People… No I don’t. They get to go home with you!!!!!!!

Well, I am a Medium, LOL

 

YOU'RE A MEDIUM!!!!!!!!!

It was in the most unlikely of places that all the pieces to the puzzle came together regarding all the things I'd felt, seen, heard all those years. This day I would learn many of the why's of what had I had worked to hide for most of my life. It was in a new friend's office in a very old building that the light finally turned on for me. Inwardly I was as calm as could be, however, I'll never forget that day I was both elated and mystified by the outcome of what was the turning point in my understanding and my life work.

Early one fall morning while I was still living in Knoxville's downtown historic district, I walked down to a very old and lovely brick Georgian style building where the small business administration offices were at the time. It was a lovely warm morning and a walk seemed more enjoyable than driving the half mile to the offices. Down the roads filled with all manner of antique homes I walked to my destination.

From the very time I had moved to the area I had been drawn to looking at that magnificent old building with it's brick exterior and white shutters like a moth to the flame. As I walked into it for the first time early that morning, a myriad of sensations happened. This was to be a very early morning meeting before most of the good folks working there came to the office. Immediately when I walked into the lower entrance and reception area I felt as if I were being greeted. As I walked into the elevator which was physically empty for all but myself in there I had a crowded feeling as if there were many people in there with me. When I reached the top floor, I walked through areas of cold and very warm energy dismissing this to the air systems in the building.

As I walked up the hall to my left for my meeting I looked behind me repeatedly because I felt as if someone was following me. The aroma of coffee was a lovely welcome to me as I found my way to the office. My meeting took place as planned with Jim and we discussed expanding and marketing my swimming pool business. I proceeded to fill out forms in the little alcove because no matter what you do it seems there is always a set of forms to fill out. I noticed the carpet was an interesting shade of grey blue as I finished and walked out.

After my meeting with Jim I had intended to drop by and see Bob a new friend whom I had met the week before at a business meet and greet type thing. My boyfriend at the time introduced us and we hit it off very well with synchronicities with regard to each of us having three daughters, food and a few things in common. I had known from what I sensed he could use a friend and ear so I went off down the hall to the main area to say hello.

Again I had the feelings of very cool areas as I walked down the hall into the main area. His door I found open but there was no one in the office, but there was a fresh cup of coffee on his desk. So I decided to get a cup of coffee as well and come back in a moment or two. Upon my return there was Bob, this big six foot five dark haired fellow that as I found out later had played college foot ball. He was all smiles and greeted me with his gracious southern manners.

We chatted about daughters, work, business and what we both had done in life thus far. Our conversation was lasting longer than I had originally intended. The energy in his office was different to say the least and I kept feeling as if there was something going on. He mentioned a few things and I went with my feelings to ask “Have you ever noticed anything strange about the energy in this building?” to which he replied a bit eagerly “What do you mean?”

There was something in his being that I knew I could trust him immediately with what I was about to say. He was acting like a giant little kid behind his business desk even with a suit and tie on. I began to tell him of the cold and warm spots and the feelings of being followed all through out the building. He said to me just then “Hold on a minute.” He proceeded to get up from his comfortable chair and walk over to the door, and closed it rather quickly. Sitting down again, noticing my watching him intently, he said “some folks around here won't like hearing what you have to say.” I understood what he meant and proceeded to explain my earlier experiences.

He asked me if I knew anything of the history of the building. I admitted to him that because I had been too busy in my life raising my girls and getting by, that history lessons on the area were greatly lacking. As he told me a bit of the building's history I interrupted him and said well that explains why that man is standing beside you then. He asked me point blank “What man?” Clearing my throat and feeling like I was treading on ice so very thin I was about to find myself over my head, I described this man to the best of my ability.

This strong character, with a grey uniform and gold epaulettes on the shoulders. He showed me a weary demeanor and was still standing strong. I detailed his face and hair white, with a goatee that somewhat made his face a bit pointed more than one would expect. Immediately, Bob became even more exited almost shouting “You can see the colonel! Oh my God you can see the Colonel!!!” This giant little kid emerged with so much excitement, which honestly wasn't anything I had experienced before when telling someone what I could see, shocked me. I was almost dumbstruck. Somebody was excited and happy I could do this. There wasn't time to process in my head his great joy in my revelation.

Bob started asking me many questions. “How long have I been able to do this?” “Do I do this often?” “What else can I pick up on?” and many more. The questions came so quickly I had to take a moment and a deep breath or two in order to reply. I told him that I'd always been able to do this and that it was something I didn't like to discuss because I'd grown up with such negatives about it that saying anything about my extended senses was honestly scary for me to say anything at all.

We talked about our upbringings and how he knew it was hard to come from this type of back ground and open mental doors we had been told not to in so many ways. We discussed the fear factor in some of our understand of how our religious upbringing had made us keep tabs on how we said things and to who we said them to.

Fear is a powerful base root emotion that can affect our entire energy system and being. With me, fear had been the major factor in keeping me quiet about my abilities and gifts until this point in my life. Very few whom I was close to knew I had any abilities. The extent of my abilities I had kept hidden better than the combination at Ft. Knox for most of my life... Even from me.

I met with Bob a few more times at the office when I had other meetings. Over the weeks he asked me if I he could reveal my little secret. At first I was exceptionally hesitant. This was something about me that until Bob had become my friend no one in my past liked. No one before had wanted to view this part of me positively. My abilities had always lead to so much difficulty in the past it took a lot for me to come forward enough for him to know, let alone those in the office he worked with daily.

This would be my next challenge opening the door a little further to the proverbial closet. How far would I walk through it would take years. Like with most things in our lives, it's often the little steps that make the big leaps.

HAPPY SELF AND SOUL CARE SUNDAY….It's something only you can do for you......

 

HAPPY SELF AND SOUL CARE SUNDAY….

Yesterday I wrote about the energies that may be affecting your daily routine. Our world as such doesn’t really believe or understand these energies yet/again. It’s often thought of as piffle or pseudo-science. We can say that this is just the latest thing that has to be re-established in our world just like germ theory in the 1800’s and even the power of electricity in the early 1900’s.

My point is that your energy needs care. Just like a plant or garden need care and attention, you do too. You need fresh air, food, water, and more – your fertilizer which is your self care. It doesn’t matter if it’s books, drawing, painting, dance, bowling, dominoes or jigsaw puzzles just as long as your self care you do often and regularly.

You do for everyone around you more than likely. That’s how we’re taught. The other side of that coin is that you are being selfish if you care for yourself! You are neglecting others if you care for you. Over 20 years ago I suffered a significant breakdown because I followed the old formula of others. I’ve watched many women and some men give and give and give until they give out. It’s what’s been taught to them. Many of us have followed that lead.

Today and every day I hope you take a few minutes to hours for filling you and your energy up. Recently I’ve had another friend to die too young. Over the last several years, I’ve had so many friends and relations to pass over. I still remember the day they told me my brother Billy had died of a heart attack at 50 as he was riding his motorcycle home.

Taking time for you to exercise, play a few hands of cards, dance to old tunes you love, or paint a picture isn’t selfish. It’s taking care of you!

We only have so many rounds we get to go on this blue ball as the person we are now. Take some time for you to enjoy it. Play like a little kid if that makes you feel good. I was in my mid 40’s and went upside down on the bar when my girls and I were walking.

KEEP moving. The body needs it and our hearts are lightened by it too.

One of my favorite things is the 5:30 Waltz on the Classical Station. From another life and lifetime, I do love a good waltz to this day. Whether I’m driving or at home, I enjoy listening to that daily waltz. Sometimes one of my favourites plays which is an added bonus.

Okay, that’s enough for today now we can fill our cups….Enjoy!!!!!

HAPPY SENSING SATURDAY - These energies aren't easy, time to take care of you!

 

HAPPY SENSING SATURDAY!!!!

Usually we have “signs Saturday” but this week we’re going with “Sensing” because of the energies being so frenetic, fear-filled, and in general fukakta all around.

Today I want to help those of you that will see these posts and this blog to limit even just a little, the affects of this energy flowing around us. As you may know by now I’m not the airy fairy kind of Medium. I feel we need real help world wide because fear and lower emotions spread easily than many of us would think.

They also are not unified in how they affect someone.

How do you know it’s possibly affecting you? Similarly to how a loved one or work friend can influence your energy. Your energy shifts and you become cranky or agitated. You could also become sad, have brain fog, or focus is fading in and out. Sound familiar?

Throw in our solar eclipse on Sunday playing tag with the New Moon the same day, which precedes and plays tag with the Equinox on the 22^nd! Monday ought to be interesting for many folks. That being said, you can mitigate some of the effects.

Five ways (you don’t need ALL of them!) the affects.

1> Your mood is changing rapidly at times. You shift too easily into fear or anger, or both.

2> You cannot concentrate and can too often repeat steps and more.

3> You feel flighty headed, it takes almost all your effort to get you into gear with any task.

4> Angry, while there’s a lot for us to be upset about, you feel so angry so often.

5> No energy, and I mean your energy to do much is a push all day every day lately.

Some of these go right along with other energy symptoms, what I’m talking about is these are sudden onset and leave suddenly too!

Yesterday I had a wave, literally I could feel a wave of energy coming through and it was as though all my focus and concentration went out the bloomin’ window! I couldn’t focus on anything to do with work or even getting some things to storage!

What did I do? Once I realized what the bleep was going on, I grounded my energy by cleaning my little lounge area. I pushed my focus into getting all the peripheral packing things away, cleaning and organizing the whole room. It’s real and it does affect those of us that are sensitive. It varies on how strong the reaction but it’s still THERE!

So there are two points there, A – I discerned and figured out what was coming AT ME...that energy wave which cut it’s power to me way down. Then B- I did what I could to ground my energy as best as I could on an 87 degree day. You can actively use the energies that are hitting – and they do come in waves at times – to help you get things sorted. No, I’m not kidding!

There’s a lot I have on my plate currently. Most of us have a lot on our plates. These energies haven’t much to do with our individual situations. It CAN exacerbate how we feel about them. It can heighten our fears, anger and overall energy for things we need to do.

A good example from my world, is that for three days I’ve INTENDED to put things in my storage. However, my focus has been off, way off, for two of those days. Let’s hope it gets better later today… Usually my reactions are a couple of days prior to most other people’s sensing this energy.

When you have the opportunity to put all of these points together. For FB I’ll post the link to the totality of this article.

Now for the hard part. Hopefully you will read the full of things with the link I post later today or tomorrow. Fear and anger are two base energies that we are instinctively able to sense. You don’t have to be a professional anything to sense those. Either or both of these emotions are easily transmitted and felt by others. Think of the grocery store and every body in line within a short period of time! That’s not just coincidence.

The way the energy might work is that fears don’t just come the same to each of us. Your kids can be afraid of a big blue monster pillow and your fears might be getting enough food on the table for the week. Maybe it’s housing payments for your spouse or parents. It could be anything and it will hit your fear spots and theirs. Learn it, know it, shield the shit out of everyone and everything in your home. Turn off the TV and keep going with self protection, like shielding and grounding like I did by simply making myself focus on task at hand.

The biggest help is prayer. Prayer to your Angels, Guides, God, the Archangels and keep doing it. Prayers for your family, fur kids and yourself don’t forget you. Much more help than you realize can come from the Spirit Realm and all that Love will help. Anytime you feel off or something difficult just start out a prayer and keep going. Keep faith thriving for you and your loved ones <3

These types of events are not going to stop. The energy is going to be difficult for some time to come. It is my hope and more that you understand this is happening, you can do things to mitigate it for yourself and you do have the power to do so…

HAPPY FEELING FRIDAY!!!! - Clearing your energy....

 

HAPPY FEELING FRIDAY.

Part of me can’t believe I’ve written that down. It’s because the last few weeks have been ROUGH or RUFF depending on how you want to think of it.

To a few folks I’ve tried to joke about these weeks sounding like a Blues song. It’s not a joke however as so much has happened. Therefore I need to go clear some energy and BE for a while.

Yesterday’s energy between the shooting in Colorado, the murder in Utah, and the 9/11 remembrance, that energy was really hard and harsh to deal with. The other events forthcoming too were part of the horrible energy cocktail!

Today I want to encourage you to find the things that bring you a bit of happiness if not joy. Last night I sat down with a ridiculous and perfect colouring book my oldest daughter gave me two years ago with Cat Butts. Yes, Cat Butts in all sorts of designs and intricate details. It helped me bring that energy down.

Today is a day to actively work it out, because I can’t sit in a hot bathtub for 5 hours as much as I would love to do just that. There’s more to working through it than would appear on the surface for some and yet for others it’s a bit easier. We are all different and unique in many ways.

Today I hope to do a really good energy clearing on myself. It’s overdue and much needed. Energy clearings can do wonders to remove and realign your whole body and energy systems.

Just like we know plants and flowers are healthy with their vibrant colours, so too we have energy colours that show or feel dull if our energy is off.

You and your energy are not separate. You might feel that way because it’s something few of us were taught. It’s not just a cup of coffee in the morning kind of thing. Energy drinks will not fix this kind of energy need. This is the real deal and what our culture of quick and easy doesn’t understand.

Do you feel like you need to sit in the open and breathe in nature? That’s a sign you are clearing your energy. Have you felt overwhelmed with everything but better when you are out walking or even just sitting on your balcony or porch for a few minutes? That’s also part of knowing you need an “energy detox.”

Find a method good for you. That’s all that counts. Personally I feel that we can even combine methods. If you want Angelic help and also crystal assistance do that! Your past lives and intuition are probably guiding you to do just that!

You have to discern what does and doesn’t work for you in this. That makes an incredible difference.

HAPPY WONDERFUL AND WEIRD WEDNESDAY!!! - Empath Style!!!!!!!

 HAPPY WONDERFUL AND WEIRD WEDNESDAY!!!

Emotions are such a tricky topic, let alone empathy! Do you really have the ability, empathy, to feel real emotions from people, fur kids, buildings, furniture and more???

Oh yes you do!!!!

There are some wonderful, funny and weird things that can happen with this clairsentient/clear feeling/empathic world of ours. Clear feeling isn’t just emotions at the moment, it’s a whole lot more! Your feeling abilities can be much more than what is usually just explained on the surface!

You might look at someone you’re picking some weird emotional vibes from and go, wait a minute what they bleep is this? Then you realize it’s just perimenopause and menopause going rounds within this poor woman. Potatoe chips, chocolate and a good bottle of wine are now on her gift list and she might get them this week!

What people don’t’ realize is that we are ALL sending emotional energy every minute of every day! Then add the imprints of not just our bums in the furniture but our emotions too! Rooms, oh yes, even entire buildings! Emotions are strong energy. If they weren’t,why would there be so much emphasis world wide of controlling them!???!!!

So, not only do you have this really wonderful antennae to pick up emotional energy, you also have everyone and pretty much everything broadcasting emotional shite around you 24/7. It doesn’t even have to be your friends and relations, it can be the neighbors next door, the plants in your garden or birds in the air!

Depending on how sensitive you are it is pretty much everywhere and everything. One of the keys is depending upon your sensitivity levels. Be careful what you wish for!!!!

Yonks years ago my daughters and I lived in a wonderful old Victorian home. Untrained in energy self care I would pick up the fight energy of our neighbors next door. Two University professors who could make a cat fight look calm! My youngest daughter used to tell me Momma you’re all spikey! They must be fighting again! That reminder made the “click” of recognition into discernment and it would go away, slowly but it did go!

Imagine being thousands of miles from your spouse or partner and knowing they are soooo angry. Michael was on a business trip, we’d not been living together long although we’d been together for over 2 years. That business trip had him and his boss at the time half way round the globe! Yet when I “put out my feelers” as to why I was so angry, it came back to him.

To me that’s still something pretty amazing!

In my old neighborhood there were the well kept gardens of yester-year. They were now no longer as grand or tamed as it once was over half a century before. There was however a plethora of LOVE sprouting from every tiny bud about to blossom. It was amazing to feel those buds to the ready and of the plant a very similar LOVE as I feel when I now communicate with those on the other side. To me it was so wonderful and a huge plus to these amazing abilities we carry!

What about picking up emotional energy from things like furniture, books, clothes, or any other inanimate object?

Those things are possible too!

Have you moved into a home and felt the heaviness? Have you felt it light and happy? What about gran’s old clock, cookbook or something? Always ask yourself how does it feel?

When I was a kid my mother started collecting religious statues. They were gross ones because there’s nothing like a bleeding heart, rigs or other fluids flowing from a statue in your living room! Used and from estate and yard sales, they would be shelved in our lounge/living room! OY! The fear energy those things carried made me not want to be in there without my parents. Something that didn’t happen until those statues rose to a certain number. EWWWW

One of the awesome things our abilities give us as we go about our days is the ability to KNOW we can send LOVE. We can use our knowledge to send good energy out where needed. This is the basis of the evening prayer calls I set nightly. Sending Loving Compassionate Energy is something that can grow in amazing ways and works far more than one or two sending when we do. We just need to use a focal point.   

 

HAPPY SOULFUL AND SOUL CARE SUNDAY!!!!!!

 HAPPY SOULFUL AND SOUL CARE SUNDAY!!!!!!

We’re in our first Mercury RX Soul Care & Soul Filling Sunday, so remember if things come up for you, let that shit go! In that I am quite sincere because something came up for me today, and very early.

Today marks the first year anniversary of the passing of my adopted mum. Let’s just say I let go and I know she can hear me. Both salvos were let off multiple moments!

Now I feel a bit better.

This is just one tiny facet of things you may feel popping up for you over the next few weeks.

One more point my Guides and Angels want me to share is what is the one more step you need to take if you have one? What do you need to do for you that you aren’t doing as much/well/often and you could benefit from it?

I know what mine is!!!! (or are!!) Think about it for you!!!!!!

Card time!!!!!! There were NO jumpers this week! They were flowing really well once I set the intentions here.

There isn’t a little video this time because I need to have my inside Air Conditioning running and the noise is too much for the little camera.

These cards are from Denise Linn’s Gateway Oracle Card Deck.

They all have points of New Beginnings and Personal Power

“Giving Birth” – Again these are from Denise Linn’s “Gateway” Oracle Card Deck – Now 30 years ago this card would have had me worrying about a new arrival. Now however, not only am I too old, I know that this card signifies New Beginnings and often Ideas and Happenings. This isn’t a time to be anxious and go into “What if” mode. It’s time for Gratitude and knowing what you want to go forward has the perfect timing to come through NOW!

Speaking into being comes to mind with this next Card “Communicating Freely.” Notice the images are lovely and peaceful with nothing harsh. When we speak we bring things forward. We also need to keep in mind that speaking from the depths of ourselves brings things forward as much as it can release from the past. Speaking with care from deep within ourselves can bring forward far more than we might think.

The third card is really interesting to me. “Breaking Barriers” shows us light pouring in as this one greened beautiful new stem comes forward from the brambles!!! That ONE green leafy area from everything else being thorned and spiky. What are the self imposed barriers or ones adopted from others that you need to release and let yourself be? Where in your life do you need to move forward having dropped those barriers? Whatever has been holding you back get rid of it NOW! LET IT GO!!!!! I’m sure some Mercury Rx energy will help out with this one!!!!

As I wrote this and looked at the card I heard the “old” song “I’m coming out!” I don’t remember who it was singing it, but… I hear it all the same!

Our final card for the day from Denise Linn’s “Gateway Oracle Cards” is “Coming into Power” and this card Means what it says. It’s time to step into your own power. This card too speaks of letting go of any old barriers and beliefs that have been holding you back. You are ready to step into your own power and just as the light is beaming onto the lady in the card, you are ready to beam too! Your waiting time is done. The last wee bits of outer shell/barrier/biding is ready to go! One good kick and it’s gone!

Step into being the you that is so vitally needed and now!

 

HAPPY MAGICAL MEDIUMSHIP MONDAY!!! It's All Energy!!!!!!!

 

HAPPY MAGICAL MEDIUMSHIP MONDAY!!!!!!!

Mediumship is only part of what I do in life. Yet it’s the title and moniker that I often put on because it’s easier for people in general to understand.

What exactly is a “Medium?” What do Mediums do and how?

Well, I’m not a small, not a large…. I’m a Medium, LOL!

Just for the record, I’ve set this page up for those of you who want to learn things about mediumship, energy, and a whole lot more. Yes, I do readings as well as energy clearings. There are a lot of ways of contact me for my services. Here however is for those who want to understand the phenomenon of one’s intuition and a whole lot more.

There’s so much more to this world and Mediumship is just a small portion of it.

It’s all Energy.

People in the Spirit world are ENERGY. What exact form of energy is superfluous to this today. They are energy and Mediums connect with and understand (with training overall) their energy.

The best way I’ve ever read or heard about the connection of energy between the medium, sitter and spirit is that we Mediums turn our energy up and the Spirit person brings their energy down a bit. We connect and what to me is still Magic happens.

What makes that connection possible? The strongest and most amazing of energies…. LOVE. There is the energy that makes so much possible. LOVE. They LOVE you in a deep and broad way that isn’t easily definable from a human standpoint. The love we share in this earthly life goes on and is the HOW and WHY this is possible…. That’s Magic!

If you haven’t had success in a reading or signs or anything we deem the usual ADC. It’s not because they don’t love you. There are many reasons why it may take a while. Our own grief and hurt are the biggest ones. Often they want to wait until we’ve gone through the biggest part of all of it in order to be able to understand what they are relaying. There are times they have things they want to work out in the Spirit world too!

Keep the faith because they will come through at some point. Remember, it’s all Love...

HAPPY INTUITIVE TOOLS TUESDAY!!! - Watch how you use that oracle!!!!!

 

HAPPY INTUITIVE TOOLS TUESDAY!!!

Today is an overview of “Oracle Abuse” as it’s called in this field. Oracle abuse can be from a lot of different overuses of anything that has a predictive nature. It can also be from those who are calling on Spirit communication far too much.

How does someone overuse an oracle?

How does someone overuse Mediumship?

You may be asking these questions…

I’m laughing as I think of it as using a Ouija board but it’s got track marks where you want the answers you want!

It’s overly using any tool, be it person or item, trying to get the answers you want instead of what is coming through. This is something that I started experiencing even before I hung my shingle out the door so to speak.

I was still in training and THIS was one of my lessons.

Here’s a hint, if your oracle cards or tarot cards are worn out on only certain cards, you might need to change out and LISTEN. Their answer isn’t going to change.

The most often reason why this happens in a more psychic reading. A person’s “love” for someone and is often a clue to me that they should run like “Forest Gump” in these circumstances.

You know we’ve all had this one person we’re so intent on. That dream come true by words as hollow as a Pixie stick after Halloween. Yes that “ONE LOVE” that either stays like a stain on grannie’s curtains you just cannot get ‘em out….. or that one that leaves faster than chocolate melts in a Georgia hot spell!

Those are the life lesson ones that I can say all day long “Not for long” or “No, this isn’t going to work out well, just stay on a friends basis.” They often go from Psychic to Psychic for confirmation that this will work and that costs a bundle! Oh it sometimes slips that they have seen others on this point.

I’ll let you in on a little secret here, I don’t go through a service to schedule folks so I can eliminate this as part of the issues with some readings.

There was another time someone just “had” to have a reading with me because I was so well recommended. They didn’t get the answers they wanted “like the other psychics” they later claimed. Their thorn in the side was the ex and the ex’s new fiance. “Were they really going to get married? Were they going to move to another town? Were they really so happy?” They didn’t care on their family’s health and medical issues, a child needing them, but the focus was on the ex.

This person was angry with me because the answers I gave were straight forward and NOT what they wanted to hear. This person was very ugly with me towards the end of the call and I had to hang up as I wasn’t going to be abused.

It doesn’t make a difference what deck you use, what tool you work with, if Spirit is saying NO, then it’s “NO.” It’s not going to change because you to to 67 different psychics. What will is your pocket book!

You wouldn’t think mediumship would have this issue. It does! There have been a few folks to contact me for sessions who were making the rounds with a few of us because their loved one had passed. But it really wasn’t about their loved one being on the other side sadly. It was because they themselves didn’t feel loved after their husband or wife had crossed.

They wanted to make sure they were still loved and whatever else by this person on the other side. A “case” of you can never fill the cups of others, only your own cup.

When I was learning I didn’t charge for readings initially. During this short time I had one person who showed me how even mediumship could be used to the point of “Oracle Abuse.”

Initially I thought I was the only person who was reading for her. This one person in particular was told repeatedly by myself and a couple of others in my friends circle at the time that there would be silence soon if this person didn’t stop “needing” as session. I had learned about the others fairly late but as I was learning, this was part of the lessons. It was really late one night, almost midnight, I remember. My phone was on quiet and beside my bed because my daughters were at university. The phone showed this person’s number and I ignored the call and went back to sleep.

In the morning with my coffee I listened to her voicemail. She was ugly, mean and it was like the reaction you might get not giving someone their fix in her voicemail. After I calmed down I called her that day. Laying down the law I told her she would not have another reading by me again. There was no reason for that abuse on any message and we were through.

Being a reader and having rules for my work helps me and helps others too. This is not to be mean although some may perceive it as so. Oracle abuse doesn’t help someone, it actually hurts the one wanting the readings.

It doesn’t help a person to grow soul wise. Their self esteem isn’t helped because they are leaning on the words of others.

It often hurts their finances and a home life.

HAPPY THOUGHT FILLING THURSDAY!!! _ Before the Full Moon

 

*** Over the next week I will be bringing forward more that I've written over the past weeks since my absence.  With everything going on in my life, my energy has been so low at times.  A full plate is an understatement.  Very soon this chapter will move onto the next and things will be a bit easier.  Thank you all for your patience, the few notes of caring and for continuing reading here.  

HAPPY THINKING ABOUT THINGS THURSDAY!!!!

You and I are FEELING the affects of the roller-coasters in our world. That will affect our energies and, as for me today, focusing is a little “off” to put it mildly.

This morning I’m taking a little longer to do the necessary with regard to grounding and centering myself because all of this kind of energy is hampering clearer thought and sensing abilities. Remember we give off as well as take in energy. For clearer thoughts we need to stabilize our energy.

You are your foremost energy tool as I keep saying. That tool is going to give off energy AND pick up what others are emitting. That’s why I say sometimes jokingly we empaths are sponges and we have to clear ourselves and not pick up too much!

Emotions are often symbolized as water. I like this analogy because if water is stationary it might be frozen or a swamp. For a human or other animal on this planet, that’s not good for any part of the being. If we allow a gentle flowing of emotional energy that is the best. Floods of emotional energy are like floods in rivers and streams, they can reset the course by being destructive and eroding. Sometimes all these states are necessary at different times, BUT, we need the calmer balance the vast majority of the time.

Thinking of calmer balance, in two to three days we have Full Moon in Libra. Libra is the great balancer. Those scales are for many things. We’re still under Venus Rx, Mercury’s Rx finished on Monday past, however, we’re in the shadow period for a while still. Doing your best to balance things a bit more could be vital for your daily activities.

Currently, we are almost all experiencing heavier loads in many ways. You have yours and I have mine kind of thing but they are heavier than what you might consider “usual.” I know one family who has parents on both sides to have sudden health crises. Another fellow I know has a sibling that won’t be here for the holidays in November & December. There’s a friend who has had her husband to pass all of a sudden.

Then there are the points some are feeling of finances, relationships, home and hearth as well as more. The loads of many are very heavy now.

These things affect our thoughts as well as feelings. The two are inseparable for most of us. An underlying current of fear in human energies isn’t helping. That is composed from more than I can physically write in this small area. You aren’t alone feeling it though.

Remember we are not alone, even in times where it feels like it.

The other day it was so bad for me with regard to house, home, patient care, and more that I felt like smoking for the first time in YEARS. It was then that I knew it was bad. That’s when I told my friend/now patient I was getting out to the store for a while. I sat in the car park (parking lot) and listened to classical music for 10 minutes before going into the store.

If you find yourself with difficult thoughts and feelings, remember you can change them around. Call a friend. Walk if you can. Find music from when you were young that will help. I showed someone the other day how my enjoying classical music while I’m driving helps me to bring my energy into a better zone. They thought I was nuts. When I put on a station that had older 70’s and 80’s music they were more content. It’s just a matter of choice. What works for you, works for you!

GET TIME FOR YOU. This clears your energy. It can clear your head. I personally don’t give a rat’s backside if you do this in an odd place, just do it. Your thoughts and feelings will be elated you did! Just 10 minutes a day can help. With everything that’s happening in my life, I’m taking an hour or a little more daily. It helps me get centered and sorted as I call it. Give it a try or add more time if you need it. Keep notes on how it works and you may well be happily surprised!

HAPPY THURSDAY AND HAPPY SPRING!!! Vision Board time!!!!!

 

HAPPY SPRING!!!!!!!!! HAPPY EQUINOX AND BLESSINGS ON THE EQUINOX!!!!!!!!!

NOW would be a great time (and by now I mean in the next week or so) to put together your vision board if you've not done it so far this year! It's also a good time to make an addendum to it for clarity!!!!!!!!!

I know I’m going to be getting onto that a bit more today myself. This has not been an easy few days in my world and definitely not for the lady and her hubby. I can’t do anything further for them than what I’m doing but I can make my choices and go forward. Helping myself with a NEW vision board is really a good start.

First though I will clean my home up considerably. As I’m going to be moving soon, getting more things in order is also a necessity.

Do vision boards work? Yes they do!

Years ago I did a vision board for my “new love” and he had wanted to go to live in a cooler climate or so he claimed. I put on it fun things and snow, lots of f’ing snow. I moved back to my home area in a 36 foot RV…..and waited for him, and waited...and no, he didn’t show… But I did get the snow!!!!! Record levels of snow fell and record cold too!

Two things from this. You cannot make a vision board that will make someone do something. Even if they say they do want it, sometimes it’s just their “dream” and they cannot and will not make the steps. The second thing is watch what you put on it. You will get a fair portion of it! After 72 inches of snow and numerous blizzards that year, I’ve had enough snow! LOL!!!

Before you start any little bit of modern magic, make sure your intentions are clear and simple. Saying “I want to help people” is so vague and you might just get a load of stuff you don’t want to go through! Be more specific, “I want to help people who are seniors or single mums or older ladies or gents or kids” find where, who and how by asking yourself specifics.

So, someone is going to ask, “But it’s Mercury Rx!??? How can this be a good time?” LOTS of things happen during Mercury rx. We cannot act like “Chicken Little” when these phases hit. It’s a time for redoing, so redo your vision boards around your home! It’s a time of releasing, so release what is not working and put your heart into what is next!

To me the more positive, loving, compassionate and proactive vision boards we have in our world now, the absolute better for all of us <3
Remember, make sure to put happy feelings into each and every thing you put on your board or boards! <3 <3

Send me a picture!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY SOUL CARE SUNDAY!!!! Help with this week's energy and you!

 

HAPPY SOUL CARE SUNDAY!!!!

Today we’re going to ease into the day. Stateside this is the first of the F’ing “Spring Ahead” and some of us our springs don’t jump that fast any more!

Fortunately I still have the good old fashioned clocks that don’t just pickup the time like a giant hiccup! My old fashioned apple clock above my desk let’s me know this is really an hour earlier. I’m remembering that older tune “Time keeps on slippin’….” by the Steve Miller Band. We get to ride with it …. fly like that eagle…

Relax we’re going to take it good and slow today.

We’re going to ease into today, and as much as we can the rest of this week. The reason is really clear, there’s a LOT of harsh, heavy and difficult energy that we are dealing with currently. It truly IS a global phenomenon. The dominoes are in action and falling as I type this.

Add to that energy a Lunar Eclipse, Mercury Rx, Venus Rx, a truly beautiful Full Moon on March 14^th. The energy uptick is happening even now. We’re going to face this well.

Some of the interesting points for me so far have been:

Vivid dreaming, in colour, full on and very much a review of things to let go of in life!

Organization for the day going out the f’ing window, LOL,

A few glitches in documents being saved

Emotional Energy waves better than surfing at Maui waves...oy

Having to redo important work things over, and over, and over (it was water related too!)

Take things slowly for the next week is the best I can tell you. It’s going to be out of sorts at times. What we’re feeling and seeing on a global level is an upheaval of exceptional proportions. It is NOT magically going to go away. We have to work with our own personal energy to help ourselves through it. Things are changing intensely and we’re going to have to ride most of this out.

****Just as a note to everyone. There are events in our lives that are so strongly imprinted on the fabric of space and time that to me it’s like the print of an old fashioned book, you can feel the typeset in the pages from its pressing. These times are like that. Had they not been I and many others wouldn’t have been able to sense their intensity albeit not the events themselves.

Please keep from berating yourself (known as beating yourself up!) over matters that are currently out of your control. Self care means care and talking badly to yourself helps no one.

Remember this is probably going to be an intense week and fast moving so please, please, please do take care of you from all facets. You will be grateful you did!

HAPPY SENSITIVES SATURDAY!!!! Discerning and clearing out emotional energy you're picking up

 

HAPPY SENSITIVES SATURDAY!!!!

As I promised the other day I want to help you understand a little more on how your abilities may be showing you the energy patterns or more, and more subtly than you may realize. Also you can fix some/most of it very easily and quickly once you know!

We’re starting on a morning that thankfully for me the weather is better than it has been. My fur kids are talking to the birds in the feeders outside their windows. The winds are low at the moment and from my seat here, I can see buds forming on the trees.

For the human “weather” it’s a mixed bag of all sorts. People are afraid and on many different levels.

To quote one of my favourite books “I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. It is the little death that brings on total obliteration. I must face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”*** This is one way to react and act towards our fears, but we must catch them first. Usually it’s not with a Gom jabbar at our neck. Thankfully.

No that’s not here. In our world fear can show up in sensitives by many different routes. It can trigger your own fears specific to you. You may start to over prepare for them, get irritable, or feel depressed or even a bit hopeless.

Once you realize that this is not you, you can fix it easily. Usually discernment for empaths takes the vast majority of emotions coming from others away rapidly. Discernment is realizing that it’s just not coming from you, but from an exterior source. This morning I felt a wave of “cranky energy” when I took a minute and realized it was not me or my emotions but from somewhere/someone outside of myself it rapidly faded away.

Here I’m going to stand tall and strong on my soap box and say – Everyone has a bit of empathy. You ALL have some form of intuitive ability sequence. Whereas you may feel first, then hear or see and onward OR you may see first and then feel and then hear...… It just is how it works for you. Soapbox down……

Basically you need to self appraise your emotional energy now more than ever. There are going to be things you see, or hear, that are triggers and only you can clear it up. Your intuition can show up in your emotions or how your body feels. If you feel tired, like I have lately, it may well be a reflection of how your body is working with the really harsh energy. It’s dense, thick like molasses and not easy to deal with overall. Add to this the waves of energy (remember energy waves travel in ripples like drops in water I feel) so that you can be picking up far before you consciously know what is happening.

It makes no difference HOW you put yourself into action with your discernment process. Most of the time these are simple mental actions you can do from anywhere and at any time. Just keep practicing.

“Repetition is the Mother of skill!”

HAPPY THANKFUL THURSDAY!!! Being thankful where we are in the now

 

HAPPY THANKFUL THURSDAY!!!

This morning (and last night I may add) I came across a quote that Spirit must have sent as a reminder. To paraphrase here:

Remember that your work/job is the dream of others.

Remember that your car is the dream for some.

Remember that your home is the dream of many.

Remember that everything from your walking through the door to getting up in the morning is the dream of many…….

My Guides and Angels have been very insistent that I start our day with this as a reminder to be Thankful of the here and now we have .

It’s not always easy to do. Many of you feel/sense what the energies are even if you are not actively aware of it moment to moment. Later this weekend we will go into this more.

This morning I set aside a time to offer my thanks for so much in my life. It may not seem like a lot to many, but to me there are many wonderful points.

Shortly, in a few weeks, I will need to move. Where am I going? I don’t know. Like I said yesterday I have to “keep the faith” but I’m also adding my thanks for my time here. Things haven’t always been easy here, however, I’ve enjoyed the possums, birds and more. My fur babies and I have had shelter here and I’ve been able to turn it into a reasonably comfortable flat/apartment for us. I’m just thankful I’ve had this time here.

Do you remember the card “Accepting What Is?” That card is a very central point to being thankful for what IS in our lives. Not only can we find our direction from where we start, but we can also know how far we have come as we go through our journey!