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On-going Lessons: Slowing Down and Healing

I wasn’t going to do another blog post so soon. I wanted to give it some time and thought, possibly a little further structure to what I wanted to post. Yet, here I am writing this post, just winging it.

This weekend is Thanksgiving in Canada. This is also the weekend of the Full Hunters Moon in Aries, and the World Wide Womb Blessing. Busy weekend.

An incident screamed at me to slow down.

Now, with that being said I am not the type to busy myself with all sorts of activities or overwhelm my schedule. I enjoy ME time, I enjoy quiet time, I enjoy all of that. However, lately I have been living in a 10 of Wands energy: many creative endeavors, but not carrying them very well.

Rider-Waite-Smith Ten of Wands


We went to my in laws for Thanksgiving. This was meant to be a nice quiet gathering where we had dinner and did a little celebrating for my daughter turning 1 this Tuesday. All of that went very well. However, as the night was coming to a close my daughter finally went up the one small little step that she contemplated over for quite some time. 

It was a blink of an eye she was up and sitting on it. Which wasn’t a problem at all except that she went to lean backwards and that would have resulted in her bashing the back of her head on the hardwood floor. I stepped down and swooped my hand to her back, bracing her fall, however I was not braced for the fact my socked foot had no traction on the floor and my leg slid. 

My knee bent in a way that the Creator of All Things did not intend a joint to bend. It went sideways. I heard a *pop* and thought, “this is how it all ends.” My life flashed in my eyes and I was transported to some next galaxy. This world of pain is definitely in my top 3 least favourite places. I can only imagine what I looked like because I felt the colour leave my body. I felt my soul leave my body. I had the sweats, I felt nauseous, I felt like my bowels were about to evacuate. 

My daughter and I were both screaming on the floor. My husband scooped up the baby. She was fine, probably just a little scared if anything. I had broken her fall and my knee.

In laws came to my rescue with water, ice and naproxen. Well, the ice was frozen strawberries, but it helped! I had to stay on the floor for a few moments. I thought I was going to pass out. I could move my leg. My leg was not unhinged, knee cap seemed in place. After some deep breathing I needed to stand. Really needed to stand and get to the bathroom. The bowels were no joke. 

Sister in law helped me to stand. I could put pressure on my leg. I could hobble unassisted. I headed for the bathroom and I will spare the TMI parts, but I need to mention when I looked in the mirror I matched the porcelain white sink. Even my lips were pure white. I didn’t look like I’d seen a ghost I looked like I was a ghost! 

After some time of elevating the leg, icing the knee, and breastfeeding the baby we headed home. A 3 hour drive, a 3 hour drive (sung to Gilligan’s Island theme). No, I did not go to the emergency room. We were 3 hours from home and I just wanted to be home.

In the car I sent reiki to my knee and leg. I requested distance reiki from my reiki circle. A wonderful and small knit circle of women who promptly sent healing. I am forever grateful. I truly believe that the mixture of taking care of the injury physically combined with reiki helped keep the swelling to a minimum.

I performed a theta meditation in the car as well as when I was laying in bed. I fell asleep in bed and took this as this is what I needed most to heal.

According to Louise Hay in You Can Heal Your Body, the knee represents pride and ego. Stubborn ego and pride. Inability to bend. Fear. Inflexibility. Won’t give in. And sprains mean anger and resistance. Not wanting to move in a certain direction in life. This happened to my left side, the feminine/receptive side. I have some work to do in these areas and what better time to focus on it than when laid up unable to do much else?

I have plans for full moon ritual and for the womb blessing tonight. Both things mostly entail meditation. The injured knee ensures that I will not be distracted by all the things to do around here, that I will be sitting here anyway, and that’s half of the meditation taken care of. Slowing down. Letting go of ego and pride, the need to control things and have them my way. The receptive energies, asking for and receiving help from my husband and son.

The affirmations, as suggested by Louise Hay, for a knee injury and sprain is:”I AM FLEXIBLE AND FLOWING. I TRUST THE PROCESS OF LIFE TO TAKE ME ONLY TO MY HIGHEST GOOD. I AM AT PEACE.”

As for what I am most thankful for this Thanksgiving, is the small price my knee paid in order to save my daughter from cracking her skull. Thankful for all the family and friends I have around me. Thankful for the deeper lessons I am learning in this process. Thankful for the healing modalities I am familiar using, the healing modalities others are sharing, and for Western medicines. Thankful that I used this time for an impromptu blog post which I never intended.

Brightest blessings,
Phoenix Rose

Read more on the Hunters Moon ritual at North Star Mystic’s latest blog – https://www.northstarmystic.com/single-post/2019/10/10/October-13th-Hunters-Moon-in-Aries

Read more about Miranda Gray’s World Wide Womb Blessing – www.wombblessing.com

Read more about metaphysical causes of illness and injury along with affirmations – http://www.vitalaffirmations.com/health/health_af.htm#.XaNSglMpCdP

Dreamwork: Dream Interpretation

In last week’s post we discussed creative triggers that can spark lucidity in dreams.  This week I would like to discuss dream interpretation.  I will not be listing a dictionary of what all symbols could possibly mean.  There are several resources online where you can find these meanings.

Interpreting your dreams is fascinating work and gives an interesting perspective on your subconscious mind. Even if you remember only one thing from your dream last night, look up the symbol meaning. I have listed my two frequented resources for dream meanings at the end of the post. Write the interpretation down in a notebook or your phone.  Many people suggest keeping a dream journal, to be honest, I very rarely journal, but I do have a place to write down those really weird dreams before they’re forgotten.

When first interpreting your dreams do not over analyze.  The number one factor in interpreting a dream is how you felt in the dream, or immediately upon waking.  The feeling and atmosphere dictate more clearly how the dream symbols should be interpreted than the symbols themselves.  If you dream that you’re in the dark, but you are not afraid then this is good indication that this dream is about learning and integrating unknown aspects of yourself, bringing them into awareness for learning and growth. Another could dream that they are in the dark and terribly afraid – same dream symbol – however, they are in denial or have fears about these unknown aspects of themselves.  Same dream, different meanings.

For the next week, pick out 1-3 things you remember from your dream and note their interpretation. Include the following information: how you felt in dream/upon waking, what resonates from the dream symbol interpretation, what doesn’t resonate from the meaning, how you feel this applies to your waking existence.

If you don’t remember any dream symbols, then take note of how you felt, or how you think you felt in the dream. E.g., happy, sad, scared, weird, etc. For further clarification, dream symbols are anything from a person, place, thing, colour, animal, plant, ocean… You name it and there is a dream meaning for it!

Brightest Blessings,
Phoenix Rose
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Dream Interpretation Resources:
–www.dreammoods.com – they also provide a great app, completely free, you can log your dream symbols, they even offer a voice recorder so you don’t have to type first thing.  Just try and understand your morning ramblings later in the day, hah! 🙂

-The Complete Dream Dictionary: A Practical Guide to Interpreting Dreams, Pamela Ball, Castle Publishing 2000

Tarot Talks: Stop Comparing and Start Gaining Clarity

We all search for clarity in various ways. While the motivations may be different for the individual, it all comes from a place of comparisons – wanting what others’ have that we don’t, believing the grass is greener on the other side, or even comparing our current reality to what we think our life “should” look like. This place of comparing emphasizes our insecurities and doubts. It makes our frustration signal rise and the downward spiral begins. We become clouded and need to clear the way to make more effective decisions in our lives.

Tarot is a tool that helps move from a place of comparing to a place of clarity

Tarot is a tool to help gain clarity into a confusing or frustrating situation. The place of comparing isn’t necessarily a negative thing, as humans we need to be able to compare, make sound judgments that could literally mean life or death. We tend to take this comparing to other levels: jealousy, envy, self-doubting, insecurities, and feelings of worthlessness. This was not what our filters of comparison was designed for.
When we are angry or frustrated it often means that we are not in balance. We see, hear, think something that does not line up with our quality, or ideal, existence. Uncomfortable feelings often urge us to act upon “fixing” what may be wrong. This is the process of acting out of anger and winding up with results that actually made things worse for us.  

Tarot can assist in seeing things from different angles and gaining a new perspective, it can help interrupt our negative thought and behavior patterns and suggest new thoughts and behaviours that can assist in getting more effective results.

We have not been taught to listen to our intuition much less trust it. Tarot is a direct line of communication to that inner voice, Higher Self, that sometimes seems to scream at us, though we may be too wrapped up in our own BS to even notice. Thoughts appear, we have beliefs on those thoughts, we have stories we tell ourselves – which may or may not be true – we have all these things circling our minds and it gets muddled up with the voice of our Higher Self which is trying to guide us on our life’s purpose, trying to guide us to succeed and attain our goals. Our mind gets all muddled up with thoughts that we don’t know whether we are legitimately supposed to do something or not. We can no longer tell if it’s our intuition or is it just self-doubt.
A dear Soul Sister of mine said, “we wouldn’t need tarot if we trusted ourselves and didn’t let insecurities hinder us.” One of the first things that you learn in tarot is to trust your intuition. Above all else, no matter what the interpretation books say, go with your intuition and gut feeling on what you see within the cards.  

Tarotists don’t have all the answers, and we are not full of clarity and enlightenment, we are humans and often seek other readers to help us gain clarity in situations.  

Sometimes we cannot see the forest for the trees, and that is okay as it’s a natural part of life, learning, and personal growth. It is normal as humans to need things mirrored back to us to get deeper understandings, and this includes understandings about our own Inner Being. When we compare to others and focus on our have-nots, or to the should-haves it will cause only frustration for ourselves. When we start using tools such as, but not limited to, tarot we can start self-reflecting on our thoughts and behaviours and begin creating a quality life for ourselves. We can start tending our own garden, plant the seeds for the things we want to see grow and weed out the things we do not want. 
Brightest Blessings,
Phoenix Rose
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Featured Crystal: Axinite

Featured Crystal – AXINITE

I was browsing some crystals at my favourite local metaphysical shop, and I noticed Axinte, which I have never seen before.  It is one of those stones that you can get lost gazing into.  It’s is refractive, seeing it in sunlight is different that seeing it while indoors.  Hold a light up to it to see all the layers within it.  It reminded me very much of my fire agate ring.

 Axinite, side one

The info card said “Healing: communication, mind, fractures, organs, mental, physical.  Magickal: Brings spirituality into the world. The stone of friendship.  Helps develop psychic power.  Builds trust in hostile communities.”  Sounds good to me.
I studied it more when I came home and, as with any brown stone, there are  great grounding properties to it, and helps create connections to Gaia, Earth Mother.  It is recommended to use in crystal grids for healing and connecting with the Earth.  It resonates with the Earth Star chakra, the chakra below our feet anchored in the earth.
Combine with a higher vibration stone when tapping into higher realms.  Due to the great grounding properties it is a great stone to accompany in astral projections, and to keep under pillow for lucid dreaming.  It aids in the return to your body, as well as aids in remembering the astral trip and in remembering dreams – lucid or not.
Axinte, side two

This is where my experience with axinite has solidified my newfound love for this gem stone.  I immediately felt grounded holding this stone.  For the past two nights I have been sleeping with it under my pillow and the dreams I’m having are extraordinary and I am remembering a large portion of dreams, including small details.  The dreams are like movies!
I look forward to working further with this crystal.  It is said that it helps accessing Akashic records.  Meditate laying down with the stone over your 3rd eye to help you in dismissing intrusive thoughts, and help calm your mind faster.  Axinite can help in transmuting negativity and minimizes the ego.  It allows you to be more flexible and aides in making changes that may otherwise be hard.
It is the zodiac birthstone for Aries.
It is a good stone to use in business and interpersonal relationships.  Wear a piece around your neck, or keep in a pocket.  It aides in communication and helps build trust.  It can help keep things clear and calm in otherwise sensitive and confrontational situations.
In the healing aspect. a Reiki practitioner may use these stones to help with issues of adrenal glands, the stone is said to give strength, endurance, and gives extra earth energy.  Helps when mending breaks and fractures to bones.  For those with back problems is aids in the alignment of the spine.  This is something that I may find use in, as I have an RSI (repetitive strain injury) to my upper back and neck.
Brightest Blessings,
Phoenix Rose

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