Spirit Animal - OWL Wants To Work With Humans

Picture of Great Horned Owl

It is not often that OWL pays continued visits.  However, over the last several weeks, a Great Horned Owl has been showing up around the neighborhood, in pictures, in dream time, and in meditation. 

The message is always the same – “I want to work with you and with others”.

OWL is regarded as a teacher and has been regarded in this way for thousands of years. 

If OWL is showing up for you now, pay attention.  Look to what is going on in your life. 

• do you need to be a night owl?
• do you need to watch behind you and around you all the time?
• do you need to move about your business more quietly, and not share what you are doing with others?
• do you need to be more solitary?

See more on OWL here:

http://angelsandancestors.blogspot.ca/2010/07/spirit-animal-owl-crosses-path.html

http://angelsandancestors.blogspot.ca/2010/01/spirit-animal-owl.html 

http://angelsandancestors.blogspot.ca/2010/08/spirit-animals-fox-owl-and-monarch.html

http://angelsandancestors.blogspot.ca/2013/06/spirit-animal-hawk-owl-gives-advice.html

 

Blessings,

Judy

Spirit Animal - Prairie Chicken In Winter

 

The last several weeks have been very cold.  Finding food in  this cold (-28C with wind chill on top of the cold) is difficult for the birds and the animals.  I put out bird feed under our big pine tree and feed doves, squirrels, magpies, chickadees, blue jays, and most recently, a flock of prairie chickens.

Prairie chicken brings a message.  Even in tough times, stay grounded.  Work with what you have and use it to your advantage.  Recognize that others can do some things better than you do, however, you can capitalize on that task, and take it higher.  Staying low to the ground prevents others from seeing your inventions, or ideas, and gives you time to develop them.

Blessings,

Judy

Buddha Speaks - I Will Benefit Others

 

What a beautiful mission statement to live by!  Would it not be wonderful if more people and more corporations could live in this manner?

Blessings,

Judy

Angels Speak - There are Those That See The Truth

 

When someone speaks the truth, do we recognize it?  If what is being said is different from our belief system,  do we call them liars?  How do we reconcile what we believe with the words that we hear from someone who has impeccable credentials?

Some of you might ask, “Who is Chris Hedges?”   See the information below from Wikipedia.

Christopher Lynn "Chris" Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist specializing in American politics and society. Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of several books including War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002)—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction—Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), Death of the Liberal Class (2010) and his most recent New York Times best seller, written with the cartoonist Joe Sacco, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt(2012). ~~ Wikipedia 

We are seeing the emergence of truth at a level that resonates in our bodies.  All the institutions that we did believe in, have now taken on new identities. Those new identities are all about self interest, and not the people that they are serving.  The concept of service has gone into the ditch, the further down the road these organizations traveled. 

How do you react to this truth?

Blessings,

Judy

Angels Speak - Finding Your Teacher

 

Sometimes, the Universe plays tricks on us… or at least we perceive them as tricks.  We may decide that we will not take any more courses, and then a teacher comes along that we know we must work with.   Or, we may decide not to teach or mentor any longer, and a student shows up that we know we must work with, and coach.

I watch the process happen over and over.  It is a beautiful thing! It means that the Universe has a plan for putting the right student and teacher together.  It means that there is an advantage in moving forward as a team (student and teacher).  Synergies are created that let the student move beyond what they would have done by themselves.  And, the teacher has one more chance to leave a legacy.

Blessings,

Judy

Angels Speak - Moving

Everything is always moving, even if it seems to be standing still.  Even dying is moving; it is just not a way of moving that we in the west are comfortable with.  

Why is that?  We see movement all the time – on streets, in our kitchens, in the sky, on the internet.  We are born of moving parts because our cells are constantly replicating or dying. 

Moving is taking us forward, to a place we have never been.  Sometimes road maps and Google search do not help us in the “getting there”.  Where we are now is a place that we have never been.  It may seem like we have been here before, but, and it is a BIG but, we are not the same person that we were yesterday, so, we have changed.  Therefore, HERE is different.

It is a mind blowing concept to think that my desk is different today then yesterday.  My body recognizes the truth in this.

Blessings,

Judy

Angels Speak–Changing The Energy

 

..everywhere I look I see myself.  There I go: that bald man, this angry child, that fearful cat, that cool stone, that bubbling brook, that worm struggling for its life, that bird desperate to feed her hungry babies, that one trapped in his rage, this one anxious but fearful of finding out why.  Hardly strangers!  Empathy is the life of the soul, I think, because the soul that allows us to see the one in the other is the soul that finds joy.  Claudia Michele

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Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.  Saint Francis de Sales

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We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts.  We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed.  Silence gives us a new outlook on life.  In it we are filled with the energy of God himself that makes us do all things with joy.  Mother Teresa

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Using an inspirational passage...helps to slow down the furious, fragmented activity of the mind so that we can gain control over it...Whatever we drive deep into consciousness, that we become...I usually recommend the Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi:

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life. 

Eknath Easwaran

Blessings,

Judy

Angels Speak - Protection

 

Sometimes, we forget that we can ask for protection each day of our lives, from the Angels.  Try asking for protection today.  Ask for protection from psychic attacks, from manipulations, and from anything that is not for your highest good.

Blessings,

Judy

Buddha Speaks - You Can Follow In My Footsteps

 

Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things. – Buddha

Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life. – Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.  --  Buddha

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is the eternal rule.  --  Buddha

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.  -- Buddha

 

Blessings,

Judy

Angels Speak - Apologize and You Will Feel Better

 

“I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.”
― John Lennon

“In this life, when you deny someone an apology,
you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“An apology is the super glue of life. It can repair just about anything.”
― Lynn Johnston

“Never forget the nine most important words of any family-
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Blessings,

Judy

Spirit Speaks - Be Still To Find Your Center

 

When you are with yourself, you can discover new aspects of self.  Stillness is an act of discovery.  Where does stillness sit with you in the most comfort – at home, at the beach, in the woods, in sanctuary?  Try all these places to find the stillness in you.

Blessings,

Judy

Spirit Speaks - Being There

 

In all the chaos that is today, and in the madness of commuting to work and rushing to hockey practice or soccer practice, take time for stillness.  It will renew you!

Blessings,

Judy

Buddha Speaks - Be Still

 

If you wish to cultivate absolute stillness and clarity of mind, right here and now, sit down and imagine yourself on a peaceful shore or by a tranquil lake. If the mind is a snow globe whirling with thoughts, images, memories, and inchoate feelings, then the winds of internal energy and self-seeking—analyzing, evaluating, pushing and pulling, based on likes and dislikes—are what keep it stirred up and the snowstorm in motion, obscuring the inner landscape. Let the snow globe of your heart and mind settle by relaxing, breathing deeply a few times, and releasing all the tension, preoccupations, and concerns you’ve been carrying—at least for the moment. Let the gentle tide of breath carry it all away like the ocean’s waves, like a waterfall washing your heart, mind, and spirit clean, pure, and bright.
From Buddha Standard Time: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now by Lama Surya Das © 2011. Reprinted with permission of HarperOne, a division of HarperCollinsPublishers

Blessings,

Judy

Buddha Speaks - Virtue

The Dawn of Virtue

We all enter the spiritual path as ego-based beings, and as such we have ego-based hopes and fears. Practice is virtually never what we expect. We feel like we’ve got it all wrong, thinking, 'The more I meditate, the worse I become.' My teacher, Gendun Rinpoche, always responded to this by saying, 'When you see your own shortcomings, it’s the dawn of qualities. If you only see your qualities, there’s a problem.'

- Lama Tsony, "Facing Fear"

Blessings,

Judy

Spirit Speaks - A Way To Be Happy

 

Compassion… does it make you happy.  I find that this works for me.  It is part of what makes me smile at people, and laugh at myself.  If you are feeling blue, go out to a mall, and sit and watch the people.  Surely you will find someone to feel compassion with.

Blessings,

Judy

Angels Speak - Messages

As this month kicks off, watch for signs of Angels around you.  I love this picture from Doreen Virtue. 

It makes me think of all of the stories that people have told me over the past three weeks, about Angels who entered their lives and saved them from a disaster.   I heard stories about Angels coming to sit with a tired driver; Angels knocking the wrong medication out of someone’s hand; Angels giving a message to someone who could hear them and getting that person to phone someone else with a message. 

Blessings,

Judy