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Chatting With Purpose: Open Studio Day One

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room for chattingI’ve been doing a lot of chatting today. After a minor wobble when my nerves wanted to get the better of me I opened my front door for the first day of my Open Studios exhibition.

Firstly, being nervous was a surprise. After all I’ve spent a lot of the last twelve years chatting to many, many people. Most of them on behalf of their loved ones in Spirit. But putting my channelled artwork on display seemed to be a very different thing. Making me much more visible for some reason. Perhaps it was the energy art teacher who told me I couldn’t paint? But I thought I had managed to release that. Perhaps it was inviting people into my space? Not something I’ve really done with my home. But I have done with my Centre. Which very much felt like my home. Or was it that big jump off the cliff to actually respect my ability and show the world that I do? So I pegged my paintings out on my washing line.

A call to anyone who wanted to take a look. A sort of ‘I’m here’. Then the rather anxious wait for people to wander in. I had plenty to keep me occupied so the fluttery feelings quickly disappeared. And then I found myself chatting to a lovely couple. My first visitors. Who stayed for more than a brief glance at my paintings. That turned out to be the pattern of my day. Opportunities to chat. About painting, about life, about spirituality. And in between, in the short pauses, a chance for me to do a little more with my paintings. To process the conversations. And to recognise that my artwork was creating talking points. What more could any artist ask for? My paintings got reactions. Prompted exchanges. And made all of us reflect on something.

How wonderful to be able to start the chatting. To have the means to get people opening up about their thoughts and feelings. I love that I have created a space for us to get to know one another a little better. I’m delighted that I was visible today. That the energy of the paintings touched everyone who came in. Because, in the end, life is all about the connections between us.

Day 953 of my blogging challenge

Sacred Space: Connect To Your Intuition

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sacred spaceI’ve spent a focused and enjoyable day clearing clutter out of my work space. Watching the boxes empty. Recycling, gifting, filing and arranging. It’s all part of my effort to create a sacred space. The place I can be comfortable connecting to my intuition.

Because when I open up to the energy information around me I want to have a peaceful and positive vibe. So spending time going through my old stuff has been a great first step. As I’ve looked through each bundle of papers, memorabilia and objects I have been asking myself what it represents. Is what I’m looking at positive, significant energy? Because my sacred space has to boost me on days when the energy is low vibrational. Is the item or piece of paper any part of my current life? Sometimes I hold on to things that were right for me when I was a different energy person. Letting coasters, pens, thank you cards and photos go clears my space for the me I am today. And more especially the me I want to become.

My sacred space is emerging from under the clutter precisely because I am tuning in to my intuition too. Sensing the energy of what I’m keeping and checking that it matches my hopes and dreams. It matters to me that my papers are tidy in files. I want to have an underlying structure because my life is often very fluid. So being able to put my hands on something the instant I’m prompted to is a great gift to myself. I am also checking what crystals and spiritual objects I have dotted around my scared space. I recently took a good look at all of my tarot and oracle cards to make sure I was only keeping those that would serve me in the future. And I have chosen some of my own channelled intuitive art to brighten my walls too.

Tomorrow I will be continuing creating my sacred space with some more clearing out. Then I can start smudging and finish off with a sound bath and some incense. Finally I have found an easy chair I want to use when I’m sitting in the silence listening to my Guides. There will be cushions. And my space will be complete. What is your sacred space like?

Day 810 of my blogging challenge

Waiting is frustrating!

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imageToday has been the end of a long waiting period. Slowly over the past few months, one by one, my requests to the Universe have been sent to me. There have been times when waiting has seemed like an endless impossibility. Yet all I have been able to do is wait. Never the most patient of people I used to expect my wish list to come flying in as soon as I asked for it. After all I was very clear about what I wanted! I love that my Guides have helped me to learn to wait. And I kick against it still too ?

They know I can feel when the leading edge of something exciting is around me. After all I read energy for a living. When I’ve asked ‘is it time?’ or ‘is it now? or ‘when will it happen’ they have stayed silent. Sometimes I’ve tried to pick a fight with them about when it’s going to happen. I’ve told them they are being smug because they know my timeline and I don’t yet. The remind me that my Spirit evolution isn’t served by remembering the plan I made when in the Spirit World. I have to navigate this life as mostly human. I’ve asked them what the point is of being able to read energy if I can’t get an accurate grip on my future possible. They smile and say I can use it to read for others and that way I will stay on plan. Sometimes to encourage me they have given me broad outlines with hazy detail. Sometimes they have resisted all my prompts and said nothing at all. And every once in a while, usually a few hours before something happens, they have given me the detail.

I have slowly been building my collection of channelled art. I have several painters who work with me on different collections. Of course, the Earth’s ArchAngels all wanted their energy vibrations painting so I could learn to recognise when they were around. I’ve had success with paintings of Dareshiel & two inspired by Shimea in our local Open Art competition. I also work with a Guide who paints crystal vibrations – again so people can have that vibrational energy around them even if they aren’t drawn to crystals – so there is the Crystal Gazing collection. And I have another called The Night Garden inspired by a keen gardener who loves to reconnect people with Mother Earth. I have wanted to share all of this work with people because I know the colour, shape and energy vibration will have meaning for someone.

I have had a couple of articles locally in newspapers and last December some of my ArchAngel paintings featured in Spirit & Destiny magazine. They reviewed one of my Earth ArchAngel workshops where we do some painting. That article took seven months to be produced in print. I found the process frustrating because I had assumed that magazines printed on a shorter timeframe. I was on the point of giving up when the magazine told me the print dates. My Guides had quite a laugh when I had to say sorry to them. You see I had assumed by then that the prompting my Guides had given me to do the piece in the first place had been wrong. In fact I had mostly convinced myself that  next time I should ignore my Guides and not bother. If I had given up the next piece of the jigsaw would have zoomed away from me.

Ages ago a lovely friend of mine asked if I would like to display some of my artwork in a cafe space. I said yes, sent off the info and forgot to put the dates in my 2016 diary. A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by Kindred Spirit magazine (through my lovely friend Brenda at Blackwood Communications) as they were featuring my channelled art in the March/April issue. I was rather stunned because the piece Brenda had emailed them about me was at least 12 months ago. The main painting they wanted to use was ArchAngel Dareshiel of course. He’s already enjoyed being in the public eye. So I was amazed today to be contacted about my cafe display. It’s from next week and could I get my paintings over to them asap. Cue the ArchAngels, crystals and flowers all shouting in the energy that they wanted to go on display!

So the plan is really coming together. I wanted people to be able to enjoy and share the energy vibrations that end up in my paintings. Now they will, at a time that is right for them and me. Too soon and I would have been less confident about my artwork. In fact I might have turned these lovely experiences down altogether. Too late and I would have put my paint brushes away so that I could get on with other work. Now is the perfect timing. Not only for me. I know that the energy Dareshiel and the others bring is necessary and an encouragement to others. We need to find our individual Spirit Light so we can shine and make it active in the world. We are building a global community of Spirit so that we can change the world.

Changing the world will take mega patience. We will have to be prepared to wait, wait and wait some more. We will have to remember that each and every one of us has talents to share. We will need to be brave and bring our skills out into the public so that the Universe can deliver all of our wishes. Dreams do come true. Wishes are honoured. Not always in the way we expect or demand. If you develop a positive attitude to waiting, loose the frustration and remember your own efforts will deliver the dreams to your doorstep it can all,happen much, much sooner than you think.

Day 109 of my blogging challenge.