Notes from my Grand Cross Meditation Experience

These are the notes I put together following my teleconferenced session with Katherine Wright Desai and her Grand Cross Meditation;

Excellent sensations. Katherine brought in an energy level that was well beyond our realms. Beyond Ascended Masters. A galactic energy that is embedded in the very fabric of our universe. Katherine described it as being part of the dark matter of space, the space between planets, stars and moons that holds it all together. The energy was very calm, peaceful, loving and all enveloping. In an attempt to give it a name Katherine chose; grandmother / grandfather energy to name it and I think it fits beautifully. Being a grandmother myself I felt a strong identification with it. Feel imbued with a sense of peace and contentment while still fully understanding the work yet to be done. Feel ready, fully engaged and capable.

That's what i was looking for I think! Engaged and capable to move forward. To continue to trust my inner guidance - wait - to trust it even more now as it's that much more aligned to where spirit is leading me! Oh JOY!
When we talked briefly after the session I told Katherine about my sensations. She felt that this energy is indeed stable in comparison to the earth's current energy level. Not that the earth is unstable but that grounding to her isn't as smooth as it has been in the past. Earth is experiencing the same changes and adjustments we are all going through and so it can be more difficult to get a calm sense of energy when grounding with her. This galactic energy seems to smooth out some of those jitters and feels helpful, likely for the earth as well!
With the summits, G8/G-20, happening in the neighboring city of Toronto, my heart energy is focusing on these leaders and their agendas, also on the protesters and on lookers, that they all may sense this peace and use it as their rudder while negotiating and communicating with each other.
Grand Expectations are my effects from this Grand Cross experience, and I lovingly send that energy, that message, to the ethers!
Grand Expectations indeed - for our world - for humanity - for life as we know it! Hoping you will enjoy the ride!

***Special thanks to Katherine for her dedication to assisting us all in these times!****

With love,

...from the garden

Lightworkers! Are you Attuned and Ready to Shine in these times?

The link on the title above will take you to Katherine Wright Desai's website; Vitability.com where you can explore additional information, audio files and text to support you in your work.

The link below is to a specific meditation which is very timely and can assist anyone in finding a good sense of center, peace or grounding, with much support from outer realms. This session allows a strengthening of your own inner sense of sanctuary. From that position you are better equipped to maintain your own steadiness while being in service to others. This is an excellent preparatory for attuning your energies prior to the upcoming lunar eclipse, this Saturday the 26th. 

please click here to download the Universe Soul Temple Sanctuary of Love Attunement....

http://www.vitability.com/aquarianenergyhealing/id119.html 

It's rare that I will send out a blog specifically to lightworkers. It seems however a very good time to share this information. I have experienced this attunement and can speak of it's effects as positive and centering.  If you have been feeling the pressures of late, no matter how the tensions may be showing in your life, it may be a good time to re-charge and reclaim your own sacred soul sanctuary.  This may help you in that regard.

Katherine has arranged a gathering by teleconference to work with the eclipse energy on Saturday morning,
please participate if you are feeling drawn - it is drawing you for a reason - let us join together in discovery and love!

Meditation begins at

 

                                  7:15 a.m. Washington, DC USA Time

6:15 a.m. Chicago time

                                  5:15 a.m. Denver, CO, USA

                                  4:15 a.m. Los Angeles Time

                                                   (Come even if you only have 1 eye open (the 3rd Eye)) 

 

                                12:15 p.m. London, UK Time

                                   6:15 p.m. Jakarta, Indonesia Time 

                                  9:15 p.m  Sydney, Australia Time                                 

                               

 

Check time in your area.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Call in a few minutes before the allotted time to be sure to get a spot. This call will work with Skype for those who use that feature. (I do!) Long distance charges will apply, for those who don't have an unlimited phone plan the call will likely last 45 minutes. This is an approximation only. 

Call in to;

Phone Number:  712 - 432-1690

 

And when prompted key in the entry code below, including the pound sign. 

 

Entry Code:   623 251 #

 

I look forward to participating with you in this meditation if you manage to find the time to be involved.

 

Be sure to share this invite with others - invite your friends or colleagues

 

And If you can't come, have your own gathering of like minded folks to connect & celebrate in Light in your own way. 

If my corner of the world is any indication I can say there are some very strong energies peaking and dancing through the cosmos and the earth. Here in Guelph, Canada, just 100 km west of Toronto, the energies of the gatherings of G20 and G8 world leaders are stirring things up not just in peoples' hearts and minds. Ottawa, our nation's capital, demonstrated the tensions deep within our earth by releasing a magnitude 5 earthquake just yesterday! I am amazed and grateful at our earth mother's calm action believing she has helped pave the way for less tension and more connection as these leaders pursue their agendas.
Did you feel the quake? I know many did - what an experience! What did you think?

With love,
...from the garden

Gone To Seed - an unusual arrangement

By a stroke of luck my camera works - a game that we are playing - one or two photos at a time.
Because I've often felt my most successful photographs are channeled more than created, this little game the camera and I are playing has some surprising and fun aspects. I am enjoying it and willing to keep playing while working on manifesting my next new tool!

such cute little flowers with seed pods too!

A different sort of planter arrangement!

I was thrilled to capture these shots! The mesclun lettuces mix and the spinach I'd planted early in spring had gotten very confused by the strange weather we had in May, rather than supply us with a nice early batch of fresh salad greens we received what appears to be an interesting arrangement of wildflowers!

I find them quite pretty and hoped I could snap a quick shot of them when I grabbed the camera thinking, what the heck it might decide to work today. A couple quick snaps later the camera stopped working again!
Whew, I thought - that was lucky.  Or is it, because it was just what was needed for the latest blog entry?

I have been so anxious over my computer and camera troubles of late I seemed to forget I can simply write...but a picture always adds so much more dimension to a story.

We have strawberries, this year we're growing them in hanging baskets and we're picking a half dozen berries a day - a great snack while out picking weeds or playing with the dogs. They're an odd hybrid that will bloom & produce fruit all summer and the blooms are pink or the more traditional white. I love the pink ones, cuties!

The cherries! Oh My! They are almost ready to pick and this year we got the netting up well before the little green balls starting hinting at some color. That means the birds might get the odd piece of fruit but they won't be stripping the tree clean before we've had a chance to see the cherries ripen to perfection! Yum! The robins and cardinals who live nearby have helped themselves to a few. The grackles and starlings who've gravitated to the big trees nearby knowing the cherries are there aren't so inclined to venture closer with the net in the way. This is our third year with the trees and it looks like it will be the first year we'll get to eat more than the odd sample.

Our grapes have just bloomed - the weird outer-space looking little flowers are transforming into groups of tiny green balls and we'll enjoy watching them ripen through summer and into September when their purple goodness will be savored in jam. If it's an abundant harvest I might try making some grape catsup (ketchup) it's something I always wanted to try!

We have a lawn again - only the odd patch of stubborn ground that's yet to allow the little green sprouts to break through it's tough skin! It's green and pretty and nice to walk on with bare feet. So much better than the mud pit we had in April! The dogs are allowed to romp on it again too - and they are as happy as we are about it! Though we still use the kennel area - it works so well and keeps the Jacks calmer when neighborhood kids are making noise in the school playground next door. It's also the easiest way to keep their potty "business" under control without having to hunt out the poop land-mines on the lawn! I just let them out of the kennel after they've finished what they need to do, they're usually calmer then too! I can imagine, as I'm rarely calm when I really need to go too!
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Next job is replanting our front meadow! It became overgrown with unwanted plants that have choked out my prize sub-alpines. We're still sourcing out some perennials so haven't finalized our plans yet. If we don't finish it in early July we'll likely wait till late September and get it in place so it's ready for next spring.

And if you were wondering about the video experiments I'd alluded to in an earlier post; well gee id YouTube doesn't support easy uploading of those types of recordings! The nerve - I had a few trys at it and each recording got truncated, making it useless as a tool. Since then I've acquired another video editing tool that might help me. I'll be experimenting with it and if successful the results will show up here!

Our garden is our little haven in this wild and crazy world. A place to relax and re-charge. What's yours?

With love,
...from the garden

Designs for Father's Day, my Dad's Know; series and more!

This project helped me shake off my little funk and start moving with my inspirations. I got creative and, as things will happen when I'm in "the zone", I got very productive! We humans often operate on a pattern similar where creativity often follows a depressive episode.

Gee and wasn't there a full moon just Thursday? Ha Ha! As if on cue I put together 15 designs for Father's Day cards, plus a few fun & customizable "I Heart My Dad" items that will be released tomorrow! Check out my card designs at Zazzle. Don't be shy to rate them! Leave a comment if you're inclined. I would truly appreciate the feedback!

create & buy custom products at Zazzle

Of course the above zazzle widget also shows some of my other work in addition to the Father's Day items, 

enjoy & explore if you dare!

We lost Dad to a bizarre shingles side effect about 18 months ago and I'll admit it's been a tough haul since then. The Dad's Know; series has been very helpful for me - as I review my image stocks and recall some of Dad's quirky ways and connect an idea with an image I get to laugh and remember

With love,
...from the garden

Holes of Despair in the Sidewalk of Life?

I can see I've been away far longer than I'd imagined and summer is unfolding quickly in the garden with the warmer than usual weather we are getting this year. Back in April we were playing with computer hook-ups and rearranging our front office and since then our land line phones and both cameras have gone on the blink. A current drought of cash flow doesn't make me any happier, and has required me to look at things from fresh perspectives. Sometimes this is best, despite any frustration it sets off in my experience.  Challenges such as these are that which can be opportunities in waiting. The trick, as has been discussed in the garden before, is to watch for the magic to unfold and to allow the change of perspective, the fresh approach to a reoccurring issue be the catalyst for creativity.

This quote came to my e-mail this morning, in many ways it is a simplification, yet so is life when we let it be!

If you had one goal, and that was to feel good, you would never again need to hear another word from anyone. You would live successfully and happily and in a way of fulfilling your life's purpose ever after. 

--- Abraham

Sometimes I still have to remind myself to watch for the magic, sometimes I need to remember that the tougher things get - the greater the opportunity for life's miracles to unfold. Like anyone, sometimes I forget and I can fall into holes of despair in the sidewalk of my life. Some of those holes are very deep. Climbing back out of many holes can take time and determination. Some are simply small pitfalls that trip me up, they can slow me down when I've pushed too hard and when I need to remember to allow! 

So I am trusting that I can overcome any current pitfalls, I am trusting I can manage to keep my website and associated domains up and running, that computer connections, phones and cameras will begin to cooperate and that once I find the right mortgage broker to talk to we'll get things in place in a way that allows us to move forward once again. And - I'm hoping I can pull it all together this week! Yup, it's a rough sidewalk, it is pock marked and cracked and uneven and full of pot holes.  It's the path I've chosen for whatever reasons and I desire to continue exploring the potential it seems to beckon me with! (...the path less traveled, the beat of a different drum, the unconventional...)

Garden updates will be a bit more challenging for me as we make it through this transition and I will try some YouTube videos using my laptop web cam - that will likely be the easiest way to provide some visuals. Perhaps even the garden will have something to say when I film it. I'll do some test runs in the garden today and if all goes well tomorrow I will have something fun for you to see and possibly to hear as well! 

Stay tuned for that!

With love,
...from the garden

More shots of April Flowers #OEG Life returns in vibrant abundance!

So here are more shots to document what's blooming and when for this year 2010. Things are quite a bit earlier than last year too! Got some great shots!

The Sweet Cherry Tree

The Daffodil , frontal

Primula, pretty!

Wild Violets near the Compost

Sweet Violet is aptly named!

The Blue Scilia are nearly finished

Finally showing off it's finer details!

These are baby spinach! growing in a planter box on the deck.

And here's the mesclun mix I showed in an earlier post, should be about 2 weeks to harvest now!

So much is happening quickly all around the garden. A new pile of topsoil was dug, delivered and dibbled up this afternoon to cover the damage caused by the dogs, then more lawn seed applied. Supposed to rain next day and a half but not enough for the seed so we'll be watering every other day until the grass gets into good shape! The hyacinth are getting ready to bloom, irises, peonies and other plants are barely raising their heads yet! Thank goodness for the enclosure John built! The dogs don't mind at all and they're less likely to lose their ball!

I hear the Osprey are back at Guelph Lake and getting set to nest at the roadside so we'll be out and about for some shots there soon, depending on weather. Those amazing fishing birds are probably setting up shop at the Shan Dam on Lake Belwood too! Wish me luck!

 

 With love,

...from the garden ;-)

#OEG Our Cherry Trees are blooming!

Here's one of the first shots taken this afternoon of the blossoms that opened this morning!
It inspired me right away to apply it to a card design. Also got me thinking about the potential for pretty coordinated sets specific for weddings, maybe even some ideas for attendant gifts and favors! This could be fun and some of the images I manage to capture just seem to want to be used somehow!

I'll add more photos for as long as I can handle being away from my editing tools!

So up close and personal you can almost smell the cherry perfume;

I call this one Edgy!

This one Peachy!

And this one Details!


Lots more life to share still, the garden is exploding into life, including our veggies, be back soon!



With love,

...from the garden  ;-)

New Spring Gallery opening! #OEG

Spring!
It's really setting in now. Birds are nesting, some chicks like morning doves are already hatched, plenty of other eggs have yet to be laid. I love the spring and there seems to be something new and beautiful in the garden every day.

I've put together a Spring gallery of images at my Blogger site. You'll find a link to it near the top of the blog home page. The link is also built into this post's title. I'll build the gallery to include some of this spring's shots as they come along, currently it features some favorites from last spring.

Some of these images, and other favorites have also been utilized to create products like note cards, t-shirts, Keds shoes, fridge magnets and aprons. Check them out at our Zazzle Gallery ; Our Enchanted Garden

Your support of our work is so very appreciated. Words cannot express the joy I feel when I've learned a special image had touched a heart and triggered pleasant memories for someone. We endeavor to share our shots and our thoughts as a sort of therapy for our world. Nature and the natural world we live in is far too often overlooked and discounted.

Noticing the nature around us, appreciating and even encouraging it to flourish are the first steps in what we can each do individually to help our world.  Our world is an enchanted garden and this author, photographer, artist, gardener and spiritualist is finding the ways and means to remind us all that we are human spirits immersed in a magical world!

With love,

...from the garden

A safe enclosure - for our pups and our lawn! #OEG blog post

If you recall last year's blogs we often wrote about the puppies in the garden and the challenges they provided. Our smallest, Mia is one spunky Jack Russell Terrier and she can jump over tall fences. Daisy the Lab has grown to near her full size, about 100 pounds and her weight alone can destroy new sprouts and delicate flowers. Not to mention the beating our lawn has taken as the puppies grew and romped in the back yard with their friends and foster brothers. Mind you, that can't be blamed on the dogs alone - the weather through the past two winters has provided next to no snow cover to keep the root system of  what was left of our lawn healthy. Needless to say - we needed to find a way to keep the dogs and the lawn safe but also in good shape!

Our solution? We built an enclosure at the end of our driveway and the beginning of the backyard, an area that is covered with fine crushed brick gravel and doesn't get muddy. We already had the gate at the driveway so we simply added a second interior fence and gate that connects at the back corner of our deck creating a huge 25' by 35' enclosed area, lots of room for the dogs to run and play and still do their business while leaving the grass seed some time to grow in this lovely warm early spring weather we've been enjoying!

We wondered, after putting up the new gate - why didn't we think of this sooner? Ah well! We spoiled the puppies with all that room to romp and it was good exercise for them. This summer, once the lawn has had a good chance to grow in, we'll allow the dogs to play on the lawn at controlled intervals, hopefully finding a happy medium for both of what we enjoy in the yard; Our dogs and Our Garden!

With love,

...from the garden