Earth Angels Among Us

Oh I have such a lot to tell you all. I hardly know where to start. At present I am walking in a valley of tears. I am walking in the valley of endings and beginnings; the path of Death (13) in tarot. (2011= 13). Yes, I know some of you think of it as 2011, which is 2+1+1 = 4. There is place for both cards in this year but I do think 13 is the stronger card.  Even in February, (i.e. world news - Egypt) the New Year has been full of endings/beginnings, and yes, you need the strength to survive - the strength and fortitude, of the Emperor.

Anyway, I digress. I am within this valley of tears and yet, today especially, I feel a radiance within it. And the reason - because I think, I am going with the flow.

It is so easy to focus on the energies of the present and ignore those of the future. We are only one year away now from 2012, and in the new energies of Aquarius. My valley I am walking in is a tough one. Yet I am loved in it. I feel loved, now, in it. I have come to this valley many times in the past, and have chosen, with all my fortitude and spiritually, not to enter it. That was my free will.

I think 2012 is about getting ready for a new world to come. I think its all about loosing negative associations and becoming "light"er within.  I've spoken so much in the past of unconditional love. But you know, it is important to love yourself unconditionally, too. That means having a respect for yourself, and living in that respect. In choosing not to enter the valley before, I lost some of that. It is now time I regain it, for 2012..

Just before news that my daughter was expecting my first Grandchild, I felt the presence of a very tall being of light in my home. I can only describe this presence as an Angel; the feeling was of complete awe. And, yes, I did find a feather. That was the next day, it was in my car. That bothered me a great deal, as I thought that was a message to say, "be careful in this car, Gina.". My mother (wise woman!) told me it was probably because in my house, a feather would be lost in the chaos of dogs and cats!

I have also been blessed with meeting two earth Angels. You know sometimes, you never know who you entertain. Who you pass by. The world is so full of magic. You know, so full of magic. One was a lovely man. From Yorkshire. I met him in town one day, and he passed me several bouquets of flowers. There was a fantastic presence about him. A safety, a sense of complete love. Utter serenity. I walked with him a while, and everything went black and white. It was just me and him in colour. The message I got in my head when he was with me was "It will be all right now. You are all right".

The second Angel I met in a supermarket, just a day or two after I was told my beloved Jackory had cancer and that nothing could be done. This lady again, had a presence about her. She was dressed in black lace. I know, not what you would think of an Angel to be dressed in. She asked me where the chocolate biscuits were, and I ignored her. I was lost in my own little world. I can be very selfish sometimes. My thoughts were of my dog. I could not be "bothered" with finding chocolate biscuits, because biscuits were all around us - we were in that part of the supermarket, you know the part where the diets go out of the window. The part where you have to be an Emperor to ignore them and pass on to the aisle with the fruit and veg.

How did I know she was an Angel?  I didn't at the time. She asked me several times about the biscuits, and reluctantly, I gave in. She told me she couldn't read (as in the labels). But She "read"  for me. She gave me a reading then and there, short and sweet. She was bang on in everything she said. She then asked me if I would like to buy a stone of her - that reminded me at the time, of old fashioned gypsy readers. They don't ask money for the reading, instead they ask for you to buy something of them.

I didn't have much money. She gave me two stones "with love" and I said thank you, and moved on, in tears now. Her hand as she touched me was over warm. Like as if she had a temperature, but not clammy. Just over warm, like a warm hot water bottle, or a warm / hot mug - that type of heat. Not burning, just very warm. Very loving. Very soft touch.

I turned to give her my thanks, but she had "gone". I toured that supermarket, not one trace of her. She was not young, not elderly. Her lace was exquisite. She was dressed head to toe in that lace. And you know what? What struck me? She never had a supermarket trolley, or basket with her. And she kind of appeared by me. We were not disturbed by other shoppers at all. It was like time stopped, and there was just me and her in that aisle. Just the same feeling as it felt, when I was with "Bryan" the man I spoke of, earlier.

I am paying the price for not entering this valley sooner. The price was my soul, my spirituality.

 I have to walk through this valley now in order to .....

I don't know. Maybe to enter into the year of 2012 with my spirituality back in tact. Maybe the Divine has my pathway planned, and I have to walk through this valley first. And then, even when and after, I've walked through it, I have free will, to choose the future (which will then be my present moment). I am not drawn to using my cards at this point to ask the reasons why, or seek what the future holds when I am through the valley. I am content with now just being, and allowing, thats important. Of allowing, this flow to take me through this valley.

It can't be as hard as it was, in loosing the earth form of my Jackory. It wont be as hard as that. It is just the unknown, and thats always a bit scary.

We only have today. The present. So one way of dealing with the fear of the unknown, is to live with the present moment than worry about what's ahead. Or why. Or even, why I've chosen to flow into the valley than try to by pass it yet again.

 Quantum theorists have long discussed the theory of time. And the present is all we have, literally. I think it is one reason why us "seers" as fortune tellers, are so often judged harshly.(topic of another blog at some point), and yet that is what a reading should help us to do. To work on our future, today. In the present.  

Angel cards in tarot - the Lovers, Temperance, and Judgement; also to me anyway, Strength - i.e. Love, temperance, judgement, strength - wow. Just what you would think of as qualities of an Angel!  All that you need if you should find yourself in a  valley of tears. If you need Angelic / Divine help / fortitude today, do a search on them on google images. Print them out if you can or just save them on a page on your computer so you can see all of them in one go. Ask for God to send you a team of rescue Angels within the now, to help you with what is of concern to you.

We are looked after. But please remember that sometimes, we have to get through a valley of tears because there may be a garden of roses and a fountain of love for us. Sometimes it is because maybe we have to do it for someone else. The Angel's answer may not be what you want to hear, but you can be sure you are loved, whether you go with the flow, or fall back on the free will of the ego.

Yours, in love and light - in love and light, the Guardian Angel Prayer:

Angel of God, my guardian dear
To whom God's love commits me here
Ever this day and night, be at my side
To light and guard, to rule and guide.
Amen

With love and blessings,

Gina and Jackoryx

How to walk in love and light within the storm of life

God is love. Thats been written in many scriptures of different faiths. There is much to do on the internet currently on the journey into Love by those who have experienced "Near Death Experiences".

It is really hard though on the earth plane to love someone when they are, or seem, unloving towards you. Its tough not to send out the energy that they send, or reflect outwards, whether they speak it, act it, or think it.

In tarot, the 6 cups and in the Major Arcana, "Strength"  comes to mind. 

Love comes in many depths. Perhaps even if we can be non hostile, non aggressive. Non judgmental. 

I'm a great believer in printing out a card of guidance and carrying it with you. Somehow the energies of it seem to "rub off " on you! . 

Absorbing Negative Energies at home

Clear crystal (clear quartz) 

Play some music on a "loop" if you can. E.g. "Your Song" Elton John

                                                                    "All the Time" Christian Andreason (free and on an automatic loop - visit .http://www.allaboutchristian.com/listeningstore/all_the_time/all_the_time_samplev.htm

                                                                     Gregorian chants

                                                                     "The Rosary" - live Rosary prayers on the net, tape/cd

From around the Month of October last year, 2010, there seems to be a real shift of change. I think that this has long been spoken off, but we are in it within the now. It is like a great whirlpool of violet which is shifting us spiritually but also materially, environmentally. For many of us, we are being shaken, including myself. We are being shaken because we have not yet thrown off the mantle of that which has been unhelpful to us in the past. Because we have not yet thrown off the mantle, I believe that for some of us, the energy is shaking that off for us, by the actions of others. That is why it is important to think that each of us is loved. We each have a higher spirit. We each are connected to one another. (check out http://lovepeaceandharmony.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-message-from-st-germainfrom

for a small insight into what is happening. If anything, the last full moon we had showed the importance of this time with the energy, which was incredible. I've never seen the colours that were in the sky at the time of January's full moon. The pinks, the turquoise. And the moon itself, the light and the power of it was just amazing)..

It can be painful once we are being shaken. But in a way, we are being transmuted. Transported to this purple light which takes us forward into 2012 and beyond. It may not be an easy path initially. It is a path of faith. We still do have our free will. We can choose to remain, to stand steadfast despite the whirlpool that is around us. 

Or we can choose to flow with it. Accept the whirlpool of change. I cannot tell you whether you ought to accept it or not. I have chosen to flow with it, despite it being painful, and despite it being the unknown.

I struggle to be as one with the 6 cups, (giving and loving) when in the middle of this whirlpool of change. But I can fall back on 8, Strength, which is an Angel card. Love can be strength. Love can nurture us.

Call love and strength to you. Courage maybe another word you choose to go with. I'm not very courageous and even the word "Courage" makes me shake! So I prefer to go with love and strength. 

In love and in strength I am today

In love and strength my spirit lay

Pink and white my mantle be

To protect and guide me

Within the experience of 

Tough humanity

There is the joy, the gift of Divinity

And what will be, 

May be better for me.

Today is the day of Francis de Sales,  who said that whatever God had in store for him was good, because "God is love".

May love be with you today. It never does leave you. But sometimes you feel bereft of it. Take hold of the 6 cups, and 8, Strength and know that if you feel bereft of it, ask for it to come to you. "Love, come to me now. Love is on it's way". Love never leaves you - check out the Near Death Experiences. So many stories tell us we have guides with us from when we are born that are there with us. You are never alone. I am not alone. We are all truly loved and always will be.

Love and light

Gina and Jackory.x

Psychics and mediums - whats the difference?

Oh my. This is a big one isn't it. First of all there are unhelpful readers, whether they are psychic, or mediums. Also the consistency of readings - it is very rare to get someone who is consistently as good with person A as they are with person B & C.

There are those who say that psychics, spiritualists, mediums are all the same thing. Others say there is a big difference between a psychic reading, and a spiritual one.  Some would say there is no difference, but to me there is. I think it is important to say what type of reading you offer.

A  medium should be able to link you to those that have gone to spirit, to be able to describe them, bring back a memory, offer some comfort, in other words, provide some proof of existence on the higher plains of consciousness. A medium should be able to link to you without any cards/crystal balls/runes/and so on. They should be able to link to you over the phone in the same way as they do face to face.

Some mediums to some degree are psychic. Some psychics can link to spirit for you and are able to pass on a message to you as they read for you.  Others are not yet able to; their skills lie with the cards/runes or with palm reading, and so on.

Some readers are really very good at "fortune telling" as in opportunities that may crop up in the very long term. Sadly, my skills aren't in that area - I'm more for your pathway as in now, up to about 1 year ahead.

So, is it a bad thing, having a psychic reading, if there are readers that are better than others? Or some read "psychically" rather than as a medium?  Is it against God?

I think psychics/mediums/all that is metaphysical has a bad name sometimes, because it may be true that in some circumstances, it could be said that the free will of the individual is being in some way "led" by the reading. Readings are open to your own interpretation.

As a reader I am much happier with the messages that I give that are from spirit (as when I read for someone by holding an object) or using the ribbons, or just sitting next to them. I find though, as  a reader, many people lke face to face readings, where they can see the cards. I think seeing the actual cards is really useful to them -
not because they may understand the significance of each card, but for example if they have a row of brightly colored, happy looking cards, it can lift them up. They can see for themselves, something really nice is on the way for them to look forward to, things aren't so bad after all...

Even without us, the reader, telling them that! In the same way, I am so struck by how comforting a few words can be when you offer them as a reader. Sometimes, it is the daftest thing that you say when you are reading from spirit, not with the cards. It may be a saying that someone would have - just evidence really. That they are living on in the spirit world, and are okay - the smallest thing no matter how daft it seems when you come into your head, can mean so much to the person you are reading for.

So, is it against God? The bible tells us it is. But I'm also sure that God is about comfort, and nurture, and love - and as long as a reading is along those lines, given with love and nurture, then if it benefits, I'm sure it is within the love of the Higher Realms of being... rather than the lower!

With love and light.
Gina and Jackory

Message from Jackory - love the person you love, even if they do not seem as loving to you - one small thing. Even if it is making a coffee and adding their favorite biscuit. Plant small seeds like this regularly. Replace any negative thought about them with a loving one, even if it is a loving thought about something they said or did in the past.

Create peace/harmony: use sound

http://www.myspace.com/cellochanting

Sound creates such an atmosphere. There are so many scientific studies of the effects of sound, not just on plants, but on us, on water - 

I am sure homes would be included in this. Have you ever entered a house and felt completely at peace, and felt the loving feeling, or a feeling of contentment? 

Folk music, classical - (Chopin); harp, even some of the Beetles sons. You can even check out your local Pound shop, they sometimes have some very surprising c.d's that you can play at home.

As you listen, you may like to focus on:

to link to his knowledge and inner wisdom; to dwell in the light that he holds in his lamp. To send the light within his lamp to those around you that you love, to those around you that you are not seeing eye to eye with. 

Perhaps you are drawn to

Focus on the peace, serenity, the flow within the card. Wash clean your troubles and worries as you focus on the card and listen to the music. Allow the Ace of Cups to refresh you. Allow it to comfort you and to bring in abundance in your life. Focus on the Higher Love within this card. Allow the Dove to fly around you, and your home. Feel the "I AM blessed" feeling that comes with the card. Flow then with the card and the music, in your thoughts....

If you work at home, try playing the music at the above link as you workk - I am sure you will benefit!

With love and light

Gina and Jackoryxxx

Soul Healing : drumming, singing, chanting... uplifting!

Queen of Pentacles

I've downloaded a picture for you of the Queen of Pentacles as in  Rider Waite's tarot decks; actually now I've downloaded her, she doesn't really look that happy to me.

She's one of 4 Queens from Tarot, each one a Queen of water, air, earth and fire. She's linked to the Earth.  My star sign is a water one, but I've always felt more at home in fields and hills than on a beach. I love trees and the earth, although I've never really taken to Gardening. I'm the one that will walk through a park and spot the blackbird digging under the tree, or the worm creeping to the top soil - I just love nature. I'm in awe of nature.

I've had my fiftieth birthday (no, sorry, not telling you when!) I guess I've kind of explored the lives of the other three. Maybe in terms of age, the pentacles is appropriate for me. Appropriate for me at this time of life (as in Crone). Coins are for winter. In other ways, she's always appropriate. I've never really got the hang of money issues. I've always had to put off feeling content myself for others. I've kind of always had to manage, for others,
and to a degree am still trying to do that.

She's actually represents something I feel complete in. When Jack and I went to Angelsea, we stayed in this log cabin. It had windows all along one side, which opened up to the hills and fields. We saw the sun come up, and the sun go down. We say day break, night fall. We heard the sounds of the earth all around us. The log cabin blended into it's surroundings and it was so utterly peaceful. The log fire crackled in the evenings. We lived very simply on homemade soups mostly. We took short walks when we could. Life was beautiful.

I digress. Sorry. Back to the Queen of Pentacles. I have to get things in order really. Not emotions. Practical everyday things. I'm helping others, but I also need to work on me. I need to find my style, and be happy in it. I need to nest. But not for others, for me. Lets not forget this Queen came along with the Ace of Swords. My first thought was protection; it was to do with the anger at the time. And yes, there was a lot to do with issues like respect.

But you know, respect comes in many forms, an important one being self respect. "It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style". Quentin Crisp

Being a Queen takes time. I'm embarking, spiritually and in terms of age, on the Queen of Pentacles experiences, having entered into my "crone hood".


 "I am wealthy and live in the paradise of my own creation.  All that I have ever wanted is here now, a part of me... The greatest of my dreams can now be seen in Earth's form. I shall enjoy this, the best of times, and release all guilt from success.  This is the moment I have long awaited. The Great Mother and I are one".
               The Medicine Woman Inner Guidebook by Carol Bridges. Page 161.  


An idea's springing here. Tarot for Crone-hood! 


love and light
Gina and Jackory


If you are in trouble today, and don't know where to turn, ask Jackory to pathfind for you. His pictures on my blog. Call his name, and ask him to path find for you to safety, within love and light. Listen then to what motivates you, instinct? Ideas? Inspiration? What guidance calls to you? If you are lonely, ask him to sit with you. Jack loved people.  When Jack comes, he comes with peaceful, warm love. There is a feeling of intense warmth and love. 

Ace Swords: in spirit, in tarot love and life

Isn't this a fabulous picture? Reminds me of Excalibur, sword of King Arthur.  It was the card that I mentioned in my last post, don't know if you remember? The one I'd said I'd have to live with, to see if I could pick up any more from it. Actually, I did not do that. Christmas and New Year is always a bit of a rough ride personally for me, and I think my first thoughts of protection, was more significant. You know protection is a means of  defense. This sword is held upright. It is usually a sign of respect. Excalibur held the power of the rightful King; i.e. Arthur. 

Odd  this was drawn with the Queen of Pentacles.  I've been thinking about defense and protection in relation to her. The Queen of Pentacles is linked to money, to practical every day things like income and home. 

My first thoughts of protection was right. But protection and defense come in all manner of ways don't they. To protect, you can attack, or think strategy. You can resolve issues. It needs a strong mind, rather than reaction emotionally.

The strength, power of mind. The swords are linked to mind, to the air - and linked  to the Queen. I have power to win through, but it is tough, not easy.

I'm not adding any more to it for now. I want to wait  and see what evolves. The Aces also indicate opportunities... 

So I'm going to wait and see. For now though, with strength of thought, and not of attacking, things seem to have abated. Anger has abated. There is a bit of a wreckage, there always is after a storm. 

I need to recapture the essence though of the Queen of Pentacles. Thats up to me. 

A good start for a new topic? -  The Queens. Building the Queen of Pentacles into my life again. Working on things like respect. Making choices. Strength, peace. Working for the good of all. 

Love you. 

Gina and Jackory