ABOUT HEARTNSOUL
Hello! I’d like to extend a warm welcome to you and thank you for visiting my new website!
My name is Fiona Forbes and I live in the mountains on the border of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia.
I had another website a number of years ago (www.heartnsoulastrology.com.au) but I’ve grown and needed to also expand into a new, more expansive, identity that is reflective of this growth for, (although I use Astrology as a ‘backdrop’) I have also become more than Astrology!
Hence, birthed herewith is my new website www.heartnsouljourneys.com.au
My name is Fiona Forbes and I live in the mountains on the border of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia.
I had another website a number of years ago (www.heartnsoulastrology.com.au) but I’ve grown and needed to also expand into a new, more expansive, identity that is reflective of this growth for, (although I use Astrology as a ‘backdrop’) I have also become more than Astrology!
Hence, birthed herewith is my new website www.heartnsouljourneys.com.au
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(This photo was taken a few years ago (!) but I don’t have anything more recent that is decent!)
A LITTLE BACKGROUND I am an Aquarian, born 8th February 1956 in Melbourne, Australia. As I will be 68 next February, I have earned the right to call myself an ‘Elder’! Exactly what kind of Elder I am to become however, is still a work in progress! My intent has always been to ‘grow old gracefully’ and “be - while still becoming!” - so let’s hope I manage to do that!
I don’t believe in ‘getting old’ by just “retiring” and becoming old for I feel that this time in our lives can be the most productive and magnificent on the back of all of our life’s choices, perceptions and experiences over the years. If we have ‘digested life well’ I see this as a time to give back and to be of greater service.
I feel our western culture is sadly lacking in Wise Elders. We only have the possibility of becoming wiser if (and as) we ‘digest’ life. Digesting all of our experiences of life needs inner time in connection with a deeper part of ourselves – our Soul.
Because so few older people seem to feel the ‘call’ to shift their focus to a more Soul-centred appreciation and understanding of life, the processes that lead through the initiations into Elderhood are missed. Wise guidance and counsel then becomes tempered by external expectations with its orientation towards success and money. We have moved way too close to ‘success’ being only external and intellectual.
Surely, this then leaves ‘all who come behind us’ sadly lacking in wise nurture, acceptance, encouragement and guidance that comes from “digested Wisdom”.
How and when did we decide to make money our god? I find it curious to remember that money and material possessions are the exact things we cannot take it with us when we leave! This takes me to the question: What is it – exactly – that we do take with us when we leave? The only answer is “consciousness”! Yet so few seem to sign up to ‘life as a Journey towards greater Consciousness!’ This is my attempt to help ‘turn the tide’ towards more ‘inner Journeys in search of and reconnection with Soul.’
I don’t believe in ‘getting old’ by just “retiring” and becoming old for I feel that this time in our lives can be the most productive and magnificent on the back of all of our life’s choices, perceptions and experiences over the years. If we have ‘digested life well’ I see this as a time to give back and to be of greater service.
I feel our western culture is sadly lacking in Wise Elders. We only have the possibility of becoming wiser if (and as) we ‘digest’ life. Digesting all of our experiences of life needs inner time in connection with a deeper part of ourselves – our Soul.
Because so few older people seem to feel the ‘call’ to shift their focus to a more Soul-centred appreciation and understanding of life, the processes that lead through the initiations into Elderhood are missed. Wise guidance and counsel then becomes tempered by external expectations with its orientation towards success and money. We have moved way too close to ‘success’ being only external and intellectual.
Surely, this then leaves ‘all who come behind us’ sadly lacking in wise nurture, acceptance, encouragement and guidance that comes from “digested Wisdom”.
How and when did we decide to make money our god? I find it curious to remember that money and material possessions are the exact things we cannot take it with us when we leave! This takes me to the question: What is it – exactly – that we do take with us when we leave? The only answer is “consciousness”! Yet so few seem to sign up to ‘life as a Journey towards greater Consciousness!’ This is my attempt to help ‘turn the tide’ towards more ‘inner Journeys in search of and reconnection with Soul.’
EARLY LIFE
Looking back, I can now see that the whole of my life has been a Journey! Where that journey may not always have been totally conscious, it has been a Journey just the same and, at my present age, I can now see how it has, for many years, been leading me towards this exact place!
My early life was fairly typical for one born when I was to my parents where they were. I was the second of 4 kids and I would have to say that my childhood was both carefree and happy.
I attended the perfunctory 12 years of school (although for me it was 13 as I did 2 years in Yr 10 with a change of school.) After this, as I had no idea what I wanted to do, I filled in a year by attending secretarial college. I was never a ‘natural secretary’ however, so that year was both laboured and challenging!
Still, I completed it and afterwards worked in legal firms for a few years until by 21, I’d decided to broaden my horizons to travel overseas.
From my cossetted existence up until leaving, I really had little idea that life could be any other way than as I’d experienced, seen and lived it in Australia!
I was blown away from the moment I touched down in the UK! I felt like a bird let out of a cage (even though that cage was only built from, and through, my perceptions of life up until then!)
Over the next years, I travelled extensively through the UK, Europe, Russia and Scandinavia, so I learned about many different cultures, countries, people and walks of life. I started to discover both feeling and depth within myself as I was touched by experiences that I’d only ever seen on screens or studied in books. So much was wondrous and my whole world opened up!
I’d left Australia with a certain amount of money and it didn’t last forever, so when I’d exhausted my reserves, I’d find work, stop for a bit, save like crazy and plan the next ‘leg’ of my travels.
Mostly I’d return to the UK where ‘temp’ work was easy to find as (Australians had wonderful reputations as good workers in those days!), but I did also find work in Austria (where I worked in a pension) and in Italy (where I was an English governess for 3 beautiful, but very indulged little kids for 8 months)
Wherever I was, I’d buckle down and save my little heart out so that, as soon as I could feel the first breath of spring in the air; I’d be ready to hop on the first (and cheapest) plane headed towards the sun! I pretty much lived on the ‘smell of any oily rag’ so as to save all I could for more travel!
In this time, I came to appreciate how those of us who live in and with sunshine in our lives as a constant, don’t function too well when we have to go too long without it! Each Spring, I headed for sunshine, warmth and the ocean!
I was away for 2 ½ years and returned home very different. Life had touched me and I had ‘woken up’. I would never return to the person I was before or the naivety I’d left behind!
I returned to Australia towards the end of 1979 - ready for another adventure.
In tow (following on my heels) was an Englishman (met in Greece under the glorious Aegean sun!) We married in January 1980; proceeded to have 2 beautiful children over the next years and; created a life around them (first in Melbourne and then in Brisbane, Queensland.)
By 1988 we’d decided to offer our littlies more room to grow, so part of that was to sell up in the city and buy a small parcel of land (7 acres) with an old, (somewhat rundown) home on it in Maleny (about an hour and a half north of Brisbane in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.) Maleny was eclectic, interesting and exciting. It was wonderful to be out of the city and we all loved our new environment. It was from this time that I really began my Conscious Journey towards wholeness!
I started exploring and, in those early years there, found interest in many different and new areas of life - from organics, etheric healing, evolution of Consciousness, astrology, energy work and yoga.
People were questing there and I found this refreshing. I was also hungry to learn, so I opened up and started to explore new aspects of (previously unexplored) life all around me. I couldn’t help but grow from it all!
Up until this point, I came to see, I’d kept my deeper feelings hidden under ‘lock and key’, and only occasionally ‘visited them’ at all.
But in Maleny then, I started to acknowledge things I felt inside as shadows and also started to find the wherewithal to take a peek at some of them!
However, ‘cracking open the shell’ to start to look into your own psyche - and soul - can be scary as it can leave you ‘exposed and raw’ and this can lead to being ‘attacked’ by others.
So it was for me! A few people were good at ‘getting at me’ in those early days while I was starting to unpack this new territory and I came to realize that I needed to feel safe and supportive of myself if I was to continue to sustain my explorations and not scuttle away down the first rabbit hole I found to hide out again!
I also came to recognize that within a family when one starts to ‘climb a ladder’ to seek greater understanding of life by looking outside the ‘rabbit warren’ that constituted ‘the family dynamic,’ this can lead to others feeling challenged, insecure, threatened and uncertain. It’s like as the new drops are added to the family dynamic, the alchemical cauldron of the family (that has been the ‘alembic’ and foundation for that family) destabilizes, starts to churn and (ultimately) changes the whole family!
Do all families have one who is a ‘harbinger of change’ and might this actually be necessary?
So it was in my family, and it’s what I recognized happened. However, I guess it’s rare that change is welcomed to be worked with by all in the family! I came to see that the ‘harbinger of change’ is often not embraced within family systems but as an Aquarian, I realized I needed to separate from family if I was ever to find my authentic self!
In that time, I came to understand too how it’s easier for most of us to ‘bail’ on growth to then ‘return to all that is known’ – but I recognized early that this was not my charter or my desire!
It made me realize that, if I chose to keep my Conscious Journey alive, I needed to first support myself and the only way I knew to do this then was to keep what I was finding about myself safe inside until it had grown to become strong enough to ‘hold its own’.
I decided there was no need to ‘shout anything from the roof tops’ – as it was just starting to be found!
Mostly there was little encouragement and nurture from others (as they too were either intent on their journeys and too threatened by mine) so most of my work was by myself and with myself.
Kahlil Gibran’s beautiful quote I found to be true.
“Your pain is but the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
I came to realize that, although by going overseas I had come to see the world as much bigger than I’d thought, there was also a much bigger world inside myself that I recognized, could feel, but also didn’t know very well at all!
Still, it was a start and many ‘seeds were sown’ in that time. I came to accept there was a reason for my existence on Planet Earth and I needed to try to uncover it!
Every mode of newness I discovered helped ‘mine my depths’ and over time I came to feel not only more committed, but also greater acceptance and understanding of the process.
Over many years (with growing confidence) I managed to find the keys to those ‘locked doors’ in my heart and so - by degrees - I managed to ‘grow ever more into the totality of my being’.
Looking back, I can now see that the whole of my life has been a Journey! Where that journey may not always have been totally conscious, it has been a Journey just the same and, at my present age, I can now see how it has, for many years, been leading me towards this exact place!
My early life was fairly typical for one born when I was to my parents where they were. I was the second of 4 kids and I would have to say that my childhood was both carefree and happy.
I attended the perfunctory 12 years of school (although for me it was 13 as I did 2 years in Yr 10 with a change of school.) After this, as I had no idea what I wanted to do, I filled in a year by attending secretarial college. I was never a ‘natural secretary’ however, so that year was both laboured and challenging!
Still, I completed it and afterwards worked in legal firms for a few years until by 21, I’d decided to broaden my horizons to travel overseas.
From my cossetted existence up until leaving, I really had little idea that life could be any other way than as I’d experienced, seen and lived it in Australia!
I was blown away from the moment I touched down in the UK! I felt like a bird let out of a cage (even though that cage was only built from, and through, my perceptions of life up until then!)
Over the next years, I travelled extensively through the UK, Europe, Russia and Scandinavia, so I learned about many different cultures, countries, people and walks of life. I started to discover both feeling and depth within myself as I was touched by experiences that I’d only ever seen on screens or studied in books. So much was wondrous and my whole world opened up!
I’d left Australia with a certain amount of money and it didn’t last forever, so when I’d exhausted my reserves, I’d find work, stop for a bit, save like crazy and plan the next ‘leg’ of my travels.
Mostly I’d return to the UK where ‘temp’ work was easy to find as (Australians had wonderful reputations as good workers in those days!), but I did also find work in Austria (where I worked in a pension) and in Italy (where I was an English governess for 3 beautiful, but very indulged little kids for 8 months)
Wherever I was, I’d buckle down and save my little heart out so that, as soon as I could feel the first breath of spring in the air; I’d be ready to hop on the first (and cheapest) plane headed towards the sun! I pretty much lived on the ‘smell of any oily rag’ so as to save all I could for more travel!
In this time, I came to appreciate how those of us who live in and with sunshine in our lives as a constant, don’t function too well when we have to go too long without it! Each Spring, I headed for sunshine, warmth and the ocean!
I was away for 2 ½ years and returned home very different. Life had touched me and I had ‘woken up’. I would never return to the person I was before or the naivety I’d left behind!
I returned to Australia towards the end of 1979 - ready for another adventure.
In tow (following on my heels) was an Englishman (met in Greece under the glorious Aegean sun!) We married in January 1980; proceeded to have 2 beautiful children over the next years and; created a life around them (first in Melbourne and then in Brisbane, Queensland.)
By 1988 we’d decided to offer our littlies more room to grow, so part of that was to sell up in the city and buy a small parcel of land (7 acres) with an old, (somewhat rundown) home on it in Maleny (about an hour and a half north of Brisbane in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.) Maleny was eclectic, interesting and exciting. It was wonderful to be out of the city and we all loved our new environment. It was from this time that I really began my Conscious Journey towards wholeness!
I started exploring and, in those early years there, found interest in many different and new areas of life - from organics, etheric healing, evolution of Consciousness, astrology, energy work and yoga.
People were questing there and I found this refreshing. I was also hungry to learn, so I opened up and started to explore new aspects of (previously unexplored) life all around me. I couldn’t help but grow from it all!
Up until this point, I came to see, I’d kept my deeper feelings hidden under ‘lock and key’, and only occasionally ‘visited them’ at all.
But in Maleny then, I started to acknowledge things I felt inside as shadows and also started to find the wherewithal to take a peek at some of them!
However, ‘cracking open the shell’ to start to look into your own psyche - and soul - can be scary as it can leave you ‘exposed and raw’ and this can lead to being ‘attacked’ by others.
So it was for me! A few people were good at ‘getting at me’ in those early days while I was starting to unpack this new territory and I came to realize that I needed to feel safe and supportive of myself if I was to continue to sustain my explorations and not scuttle away down the first rabbit hole I found to hide out again!
I also came to recognize that within a family when one starts to ‘climb a ladder’ to seek greater understanding of life by looking outside the ‘rabbit warren’ that constituted ‘the family dynamic,’ this can lead to others feeling challenged, insecure, threatened and uncertain. It’s like as the new drops are added to the family dynamic, the alchemical cauldron of the family (that has been the ‘alembic’ and foundation for that family) destabilizes, starts to churn and (ultimately) changes the whole family!
Do all families have one who is a ‘harbinger of change’ and might this actually be necessary?
So it was in my family, and it’s what I recognized happened. However, I guess it’s rare that change is welcomed to be worked with by all in the family! I came to see that the ‘harbinger of change’ is often not embraced within family systems but as an Aquarian, I realized I needed to separate from family if I was ever to find my authentic self!
In that time, I came to understand too how it’s easier for most of us to ‘bail’ on growth to then ‘return to all that is known’ – but I recognized early that this was not my charter or my desire!
It made me realize that, if I chose to keep my Conscious Journey alive, I needed to first support myself and the only way I knew to do this then was to keep what I was finding about myself safe inside until it had grown to become strong enough to ‘hold its own’.
I decided there was no need to ‘shout anything from the roof tops’ – as it was just starting to be found!
Mostly there was little encouragement and nurture from others (as they too were either intent on their journeys and too threatened by mine) so most of my work was by myself and with myself.
Kahlil Gibran’s beautiful quote I found to be true.
“Your pain is but the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
I came to realize that, although by going overseas I had come to see the world as much bigger than I’d thought, there was also a much bigger world inside myself that I recognized, could feel, but also didn’t know very well at all!
Still, it was a start and many ‘seeds were sown’ in that time. I came to accept there was a reason for my existence on Planet Earth and I needed to try to uncover it!
Every mode of newness I discovered helped ‘mine my depths’ and over time I came to feel not only more committed, but also greater acceptance and understanding of the process.
Over many years (with growing confidence) I managed to find the keys to those ‘locked doors’ in my heart and so - by degrees - I managed to ‘grow ever more into the totality of my being’.
Somewhere in here, I came across Nelson Mandela’s 1994 Inaugural Speech and his words became a ‘guiding light’ then and ‘stuck’!
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequateOur deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?Actually, who are you not to be?You are a child of God.Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone.And as we let our own light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same.As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others”
I accepted that this conscious journey into self is one that lasts the whole of a lifetime, so we never actually “arrive” or stop digging, delving, mining, uncovering, recovering and striving to become a more wholistic version of our own possibilities and potential! This has been my conscious intent and it will be until my very last breath! I am not at all afraid of striving to become more ‘radiant’ and an ‘ever brighter shining light’!Did I mention the word ‘change’?
I remember sitting in the middle of an old cement tennis court on our property, meditating under a full moon, praying the words “I want change! I want change! I want change!”
I got what I was praying for as change came…in every aspect of my life!While I may (as an Aquarian) feel the pull to the New Age slightly differently from others, I believe we can still all feel there needs to be a shift. It’s obvious that we need change…but whether we decide to wakeup to embrace that with conscious intent and understanding of why it’s necessary is the thing!
In the early 1990s – just after I “woke up”, I had what I’ve come to consider a “peak experience”! It was more Clair-cognizance really and it felt like what was revealed and downloaded from the world of Spirit then, was a possibility for how life on Earth for the future (in the upcoming New Age) could become manifest.
It’s hard to put into words but it kind of arrived ‘fully formed’ yet there were no pictures, stories or instructions. Rather it was like a pathway that offered a continual (and unfolding) set of choices, challenges, perceptions and outcomes leading to greater awareness of this process we live. The most profound feelings were of the need to seek wholeness and connection….to myself, others, the Planet and ‘All that is’….so as to find my place.
Up until then, even though I had felt myself as a spiritual being, I had kept that part locked away and separate, contained in the recesses of my inner life where it was safe and where I visited, but I didn’t live.
This revelation however, along with other things, came at the time I was ready to sign up to embark upon life as a conscious journey. So, the ‘seed’ it seems had enough stimulation - and life experience - to start to grow then.
Always I somehow knew that how this could unfold depended first on my ‘signing up’ to undertake it as a Conscious Spiritual journey. It had to start with me.
Then, from there to commit to that Conscious Journey with growing resolve and, at every crossroad along the way, to continually make, feed and incorporate choices that would only support the direction I had come to understand was important.
But, further than this, all I knew then was that I’d entered a maze and like all mazes, it was about finding the right path to the center – the core of my being – to go ‘mining for the gems’. The ‘mining’ required this descent.
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequateOur deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?Actually, who are you not to be?You are a child of God.Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone.And as we let our own light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same.As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others”
I accepted that this conscious journey into self is one that lasts the whole of a lifetime, so we never actually “arrive” or stop digging, delving, mining, uncovering, recovering and striving to become a more wholistic version of our own possibilities and potential! This has been my conscious intent and it will be until my very last breath! I am not at all afraid of striving to become more ‘radiant’ and an ‘ever brighter shining light’!Did I mention the word ‘change’?
I remember sitting in the middle of an old cement tennis court on our property, meditating under a full moon, praying the words “I want change! I want change! I want change!”
I got what I was praying for as change came…in every aspect of my life!While I may (as an Aquarian) feel the pull to the New Age slightly differently from others, I believe we can still all feel there needs to be a shift. It’s obvious that we need change…but whether we decide to wakeup to embrace that with conscious intent and understanding of why it’s necessary is the thing!
In the early 1990s – just after I “woke up”, I had what I’ve come to consider a “peak experience”! It was more Clair-cognizance really and it felt like what was revealed and downloaded from the world of Spirit then, was a possibility for how life on Earth for the future (in the upcoming New Age) could become manifest.
It’s hard to put into words but it kind of arrived ‘fully formed’ yet there were no pictures, stories or instructions. Rather it was like a pathway that offered a continual (and unfolding) set of choices, challenges, perceptions and outcomes leading to greater awareness of this process we live. The most profound feelings were of the need to seek wholeness and connection….to myself, others, the Planet and ‘All that is’….so as to find my place.
Up until then, even though I had felt myself as a spiritual being, I had kept that part locked away and separate, contained in the recesses of my inner life where it was safe and where I visited, but I didn’t live.
This revelation however, along with other things, came at the time I was ready to sign up to embark upon life as a conscious journey. So, the ‘seed’ it seems had enough stimulation - and life experience - to start to grow then.
Always I somehow knew that how this could unfold depended first on my ‘signing up’ to undertake it as a Conscious Spiritual journey. It had to start with me.
Then, from there to commit to that Conscious Journey with growing resolve and, at every crossroad along the way, to continually make, feed and incorporate choices that would only support the direction I had come to understand was important.
But, further than this, all I knew then was that I’d entered a maze and like all mazes, it was about finding the right path to the center – the core of my being – to go ‘mining for the gems’. The ‘mining’ required this descent.
HEART HEALING
It felt like I had – over many lifetimes – carved off and sealed behind locked doors in my heart, pieces of its ability (to love, to feel, to perceive, to comprehend and to understand). This, of course, left me with a diminished ‘heart -response’ to life. I intuitively knew enough to see that, in order to become “whole” again, (to be able to feel with ‘the whole of my heart’) I needed to find the courage to unlock each of those doors in my heart and to unpack why I had needed to close them off in the first place. I came to understand that where this had needed to happen at the time for self-protection, I didn’t want to function in this life from any less than my whole ability to live in ‘heart-space’.
To REvisit those places, to unlock and REtrieve that pain and bring it to acceptance and understanding within myself and; then to REturn to the surface REnewed (and possibly REborn) was imperative. Where this is easy to say – it was not so easy to do!
For, behind each and every one of those doors, there was my stored pain! As it was the result of my reactions to many experiences in the past, it had been easier to ‘shut if away’ than ‘deal with it’! Perhaps I’d intended to deal with it…but never quite got there!
I believe this is the same for all of us…
The healing process around my heart took time; courage; faith; kindness; sensitivity; reflection; honesty; integrity and; digestion and process. I came to see that every aspect of this was part of the process – and was necessary (as steps along the way) and I got better at doing them! As I gained deeper perspective of the process, I slowly came to acceptance – then understanding - of all I found behind each locked door. I consciously decided to accept – and never judge – what I uncovered as I believe judgment takes up too much space in life already without adding more! Besides, to judge something “from the past” felt counter-intuitive – especially if it was on the front burner for healing.
I remember in the beginning not long after I’d come to my ‘locked door’ realization – I felt that I mostly only ‘visited’ my heart. This felt like I went ‘in and out’ of heart-space. There were certain areas in my life that allowed this to happen more easily – like with my kids, certain friends or my dog!
As I continued to heal all of those sad little places in my heart, my ability to feel life more lovingly increased and I started to feel more ‘whole’. With this, by degrees, I became more able to live in my heart…
I’d once heard this described in this way:
With each episode of hurt or pain, (and there are many things that hurt us in life!) we REact. With each episode, it’s like we add another set of ‘glasses’ through which to view life. However, each set of glasses just separates us a little more from realness and adds a little more ‘distortion’, until we are so far from ‘our core nature’, our ‘view on life’ can be quite distorted as we are only ‘seeing things’ through many ‘sets of glasses’!
Almost all of this ‘heart-work’ I kept inside as I grew into it though I did have a couple of trusted friends I could share with. My friends in energy healing helped when my body threw up wobblies!
It took me longer to realize that to fully share and be open to all that was going on ‘inside’ was something I had never been able to do as, opening to this meant total vulnerability so I needed to feel entirely ‘heart-safe’ to do it! This was something I didn’t know, feel or have and it took me many more years to find ‘heart-safe’ space.
It felt like I had – over many lifetimes – carved off and sealed behind locked doors in my heart, pieces of its ability (to love, to feel, to perceive, to comprehend and to understand). This, of course, left me with a diminished ‘heart -response’ to life. I intuitively knew enough to see that, in order to become “whole” again, (to be able to feel with ‘the whole of my heart’) I needed to find the courage to unlock each of those doors in my heart and to unpack why I had needed to close them off in the first place. I came to understand that where this had needed to happen at the time for self-protection, I didn’t want to function in this life from any less than my whole ability to live in ‘heart-space’.
To REvisit those places, to unlock and REtrieve that pain and bring it to acceptance and understanding within myself and; then to REturn to the surface REnewed (and possibly REborn) was imperative. Where this is easy to say – it was not so easy to do!
For, behind each and every one of those doors, there was my stored pain! As it was the result of my reactions to many experiences in the past, it had been easier to ‘shut if away’ than ‘deal with it’! Perhaps I’d intended to deal with it…but never quite got there!
I believe this is the same for all of us…
The healing process around my heart took time; courage; faith; kindness; sensitivity; reflection; honesty; integrity and; digestion and process. I came to see that every aspect of this was part of the process – and was necessary (as steps along the way) and I got better at doing them! As I gained deeper perspective of the process, I slowly came to acceptance – then understanding - of all I found behind each locked door. I consciously decided to accept – and never judge – what I uncovered as I believe judgment takes up too much space in life already without adding more! Besides, to judge something “from the past” felt counter-intuitive – especially if it was on the front burner for healing.
I remember in the beginning not long after I’d come to my ‘locked door’ realization – I felt that I mostly only ‘visited’ my heart. This felt like I went ‘in and out’ of heart-space. There were certain areas in my life that allowed this to happen more easily – like with my kids, certain friends or my dog!
As I continued to heal all of those sad little places in my heart, my ability to feel life more lovingly increased and I started to feel more ‘whole’. With this, by degrees, I became more able to live in my heart…
I’d once heard this described in this way:
With each episode of hurt or pain, (and there are many things that hurt us in life!) we REact. With each episode, it’s like we add another set of ‘glasses’ through which to view life. However, each set of glasses just separates us a little more from realness and adds a little more ‘distortion’, until we are so far from ‘our core nature’, our ‘view on life’ can be quite distorted as we are only ‘seeing things’ through many ‘sets of glasses’!
Almost all of this ‘heart-work’ I kept inside as I grew into it though I did have a couple of trusted friends I could share with. My friends in energy healing helped when my body threw up wobblies!
It took me longer to realize that to fully share and be open to all that was going on ‘inside’ was something I had never been able to do as, opening to this meant total vulnerability so I needed to feel entirely ‘heart-safe’ to do it! This was something I didn’t know, feel or have and it took me many more years to find ‘heart-safe’ space.
ASTROLOGY
My introduction to (and subsequent fascination with) Astrology started about 1992 (with my first consultation) and it has been an active and profound part of my life ever since. I have been a practicing Astrologer since the mid-1990s.
SOUL WORK
My conscious ‘soul work’ also began around the time I first moved to Maleny from 1989, although it took me a few years to find my way and to gain a measure of focus, dedication, commitment and strength in it. The focus has never waned and this process (of conscious self-understanding) has been at the core of everything I have done since. It has also been the richest, most rewarding ‘work’ of my life!Even though I ‘signed up’ from 1989, the process has been unfolding by degrees within me since then. My life as a ‘conscious soul-journey’ just keeps getting richer and richer!
CONTINUATION OF THE STORY…
By 1995, my Englishman and I had “completed a contract” that had been set up somewhere in time and that had played out for over 16 years. It was time for us to go our separate ways. Our children were 14 and 12 by then and although it was hard for them (as indeed I feel it is for all kids whose parents split) it was also necessary.
The next couple of years were transitional as I separated from my husband; sold our property in Maleny; settled things; started a new relationship and; searched for a new place to live.
By 1997 and after a lot of searching, a move came.
My introduction to (and subsequent fascination with) Astrology started about 1992 (with my first consultation) and it has been an active and profound part of my life ever since. I have been a practicing Astrologer since the mid-1990s.
SOUL WORK
My conscious ‘soul work’ also began around the time I first moved to Maleny from 1989, although it took me a few years to find my way and to gain a measure of focus, dedication, commitment and strength in it. The focus has never waned and this process (of conscious self-understanding) has been at the core of everything I have done since. It has also been the richest, most rewarding ‘work’ of my life!Even though I ‘signed up’ from 1989, the process has been unfolding by degrees within me since then. My life as a ‘conscious soul-journey’ just keeps getting richer and richer!
CONTINUATION OF THE STORY…
By 1995, my Englishman and I had “completed a contract” that had been set up somewhere in time and that had played out for over 16 years. It was time for us to go our separate ways. Our children were 14 and 12 by then and although it was hard for them (as indeed I feel it is for all kids whose parents split) it was also necessary.
The next couple of years were transitional as I separated from my husband; sold our property in Maleny; settled things; started a new relationship and; searched for a new place to live.
By 1997 and after a lot of searching, a move came.
HEART SAFE It wasn’t until 1992 that I actually found my first ‘heart-safe’ friendship (though I didn’t ‘coin the label’ until many years later.)
Over the next years as my awareness grew, it felt like a great river really, with lots of both small and large tributaries leading into it. The flow (and the strength) of that river would continue to depend on: the choices I made; the perceptions I had; the process I undertook to make ‘sense and meaning’; the “merging” I would embrace and; the strength and faith I would build from every step along the way.
Where the “revelation” has always been my “guiding star”, what I’ve needed to do in the time since, is translate, apply, grow into, grow from, gain confidence and a certain level of experience and then, figure out how to bring into reality the messages received!
This is the process I have become better at accepting and understanding over time as I’ve come to weaving greater awareness through weaving all the ‘bits’ into the tapestry of both my life and life in general.
Over the next years as my awareness grew, it felt like a great river really, with lots of both small and large tributaries leading into it. The flow (and the strength) of that river would continue to depend on: the choices I made; the perceptions I had; the process I undertook to make ‘sense and meaning’; the “merging” I would embrace and; the strength and faith I would build from every step along the way.
Where the “revelation” has always been my “guiding star”, what I’ve needed to do in the time since, is translate, apply, grow into, grow from, gain confidence and a certain level of experience and then, figure out how to bring into reality the messages received!
This is the process I have become better at accepting and understanding over time as I’ve come to weaving greater awareness through weaving all the ‘bits’ into the tapestry of both my life and life in general.
GEOGRAPHICAL SEPARATION
With my new ‘heart-safe’ partner and my 14-year-old daughter we settled on a bush block of 370acres on the western fall of the Great Dividing Range just outside Killarney in Queensland.
We had a tin shed erected to move into and we then lived in it for 12 years! We also had a daughter born in 1999 - 16 years after my first daughter! I was 43 and revisiting motherhood was certainly a ‘blast into the past’ but it was also richly rewarding as we got to parent this little treasure on the back of our growing connection and awareness.
Our baby daughter needed time…so I was happy to devote it to her although, in the beginning, I did feel some reluctance about being catapulted back into the full-time mothering - where I had been with my first 2 kids before!
I had earned a degree of independence and I loved that – but having another baby mostly put brakes on that! Still, she was with us and just gorgeous so it was lovely to allow her to just sit amongst our natural surroundings, grow into herself and settle into life on Earth!
In those first years, I came to appreciate the need for geographical separation and somehow, our choice to move bush offered greater objectivity, isolation, insulation and emotional separation – from everything.We’d created a new alembic from which to grow stronger.
Belle was birthed in our tin shed; lived totally in our natural surroundings for the first years; attended preschool (by 3) for one morning a week (for a little connection with other kids); builT up to more days over the next 2 years and; started school later than most.
The conventional state school system – where chosen carefully – didn’t suit her well, so towards the end of 2013 we searched for (and subsequently found and applied to) the Cape Byron Steiner School in Byron Bay NSW. She was accepted to start Year 9 in 2014.
Change again! We needed to move as that opportunity required us to change states!
I moved, with Belle to NNSW. Belle settled into her new school happily and for a while, my partner and I took it in turns to come and go back to the mountains. Before long however, it was just him coming and going!
He’d come to us in NNSW every week for about 3 days and then head back to our property to manage all we still had going on here. That lasted for 3 years – til the end of 2016 and Belle’s Year 11. Then, we returned for the holidays to the mountains and the next year, (her HSC year 12), she boarded with her PE teacher and his wife in Brunswick Heads.
That year, (2017) while juggling between Belle at school in Byron Bay, time with my partner and our property, my 90-year-old Mum was also increasingly showing signs of becoming frailer and needing much more help, so in May, I moved to live with her on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland for 3 months. By August, my brother and I had decided her only available option was in a Nursing Home, so we found and settled her into full time care. I returned to the mountains and we travelled often from there to Byron to bring Belle’s HSC year to conclusion.
We settled back into the mountains for necessary respite and by March 2018 Belle had found her somewhat shaky wings, and flown the coup, so – for the first time in 38 years – I found myself with no kids at home!
I got to look at what it takes to RE-invent yourself – yet again – then. It didn’t take long, but it did take permission to claim more space and process!
With my new ‘heart-safe’ partner and my 14-year-old daughter we settled on a bush block of 370acres on the western fall of the Great Dividing Range just outside Killarney in Queensland.
We had a tin shed erected to move into and we then lived in it for 12 years! We also had a daughter born in 1999 - 16 years after my first daughter! I was 43 and revisiting motherhood was certainly a ‘blast into the past’ but it was also richly rewarding as we got to parent this little treasure on the back of our growing connection and awareness.
Our baby daughter needed time…so I was happy to devote it to her although, in the beginning, I did feel some reluctance about being catapulted back into the full-time mothering - where I had been with my first 2 kids before!
I had earned a degree of independence and I loved that – but having another baby mostly put brakes on that! Still, she was with us and just gorgeous so it was lovely to allow her to just sit amongst our natural surroundings, grow into herself and settle into life on Earth!
In those first years, I came to appreciate the need for geographical separation and somehow, our choice to move bush offered greater objectivity, isolation, insulation and emotional separation – from everything.We’d created a new alembic from which to grow stronger.
Belle was birthed in our tin shed; lived totally in our natural surroundings for the first years; attended preschool (by 3) for one morning a week (for a little connection with other kids); builT up to more days over the next 2 years and; started school later than most.
The conventional state school system – where chosen carefully – didn’t suit her well, so towards the end of 2013 we searched for (and subsequently found and applied to) the Cape Byron Steiner School in Byron Bay NSW. She was accepted to start Year 9 in 2014.
Change again! We needed to move as that opportunity required us to change states!
I moved, with Belle to NNSW. Belle settled into her new school happily and for a while, my partner and I took it in turns to come and go back to the mountains. Before long however, it was just him coming and going!
He’d come to us in NNSW every week for about 3 days and then head back to our property to manage all we still had going on here. That lasted for 3 years – til the end of 2016 and Belle’s Year 11. Then, we returned for the holidays to the mountains and the next year, (her HSC year 12), she boarded with her PE teacher and his wife in Brunswick Heads.
That year, (2017) while juggling between Belle at school in Byron Bay, time with my partner and our property, my 90-year-old Mum was also increasingly showing signs of becoming frailer and needing much more help, so in May, I moved to live with her on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland for 3 months. By August, my brother and I had decided her only available option was in a Nursing Home, so we found and settled her into full time care. I returned to the mountains and we travelled often from there to Byron to bring Belle’s HSC year to conclusion.
We settled back into the mountains for necessary respite and by March 2018 Belle had found her somewhat shaky wings, and flown the coup, so – for the first time in 38 years – I found myself with no kids at home!
I got to look at what it takes to RE-invent yourself – yet again – then. It didn’t take long, but it did take permission to claim more space and process!
FINDING THE MISSING LINKS
Part of this process required that I search for and find my missing links - and the recovery of that damaged heart-space was part of this.
I have always felt appreciation that my parents were not at all religious for that meant I came into a relatively clean slate. However, “lack of belief” can be just as challenging as “dogmatic belief” but essentially, because there was no ‘over-riding cosmology’ in my family, I needed to find my own!
My “revelation” gave me a foundation and over the ensuing years this has felt a bit like ‘filling up and joining together carriages of a train’ to do with perception, experience and understanding. It’s been a “ripening” process.But where the engine has always been the driver, somehow it wasn’t connected fully and I came to realize that too!
Where the “revelation” has always since then been also ‘the driver in my life’, I had not fully realized that the sum total of all the experiences I have been attempting to bring to Earth and into being, are a HUGE continually evolving part of that original possibility revealed way back in the early 1990s!
Also, where ‘all the carriages’ in my train had become filled with understanding and awareness, I still needed to go searching for a ‘linchpin’ that would symbolically constitute the joining of my “engine” to all the “carriages” in my life!
Joseph Campbell in his wonderful book “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” says:
“This brings us to the final crisis of the round, to which the whole miraculous excursion has been but a prelude – that, namely, of the paradoxical, supremely difficult threshold-crossing of the hero’s return from the mystic realm into the land of common day. Whether rescued from without, driven from within, or gently carried along by the guiding divinities, he has yet to re-enter with his boom the long-forgotten atmosphere where men who are fractions imagine themselves to be complete. He has yet to confront society with his ego-shattering, life-redeeming elixir, and take the return blow of reasonable queries, hard resentment, and good people at a loss to comprehend”
My darling Mum died early this year - in February 2023. She almost reached 97 and increasingly, I’d needed to invest more and more time into helping her depart this World.
When she did, I felt both relief and sadness, but this also ‘book-ended’ a huge chapter in my life that she had always been part of. That’s an interesting place to be and certainly an initiation into a completely new phase of life – where I had never been before.
Everything before this has brought me to this juncture in my life as well as this particular time in the evolution of the Planet and humanity.
Where I knew I was Aquarian, in the beginning of my wakeup I had little clue what that actually meant, and I certainly didn’t know that I had the potential to be an ‘agent of change’ returned to Earth at this time to help usher in a New Age.
Somewhere deep inside, what I received back then seemed totally possible and from here, looking back, I can see many carriages filled to overflowing that are ready to share.
My new website is my attempt to do just that!
Joseph Campbell has again reminded me of how few meet the challenge of being able “to knit together his (the) two worlds”. (“The Hero with a Thousand Faces”)
I needed to fully realize – then accept - how it is actually the ‘seed’ of my whole life’s work and surely my raison d’etre!
Part of this process required that I search for and find my missing links - and the recovery of that damaged heart-space was part of this.
I have always felt appreciation that my parents were not at all religious for that meant I came into a relatively clean slate. However, “lack of belief” can be just as challenging as “dogmatic belief” but essentially, because there was no ‘over-riding cosmology’ in my family, I needed to find my own!
My “revelation” gave me a foundation and over the ensuing years this has felt a bit like ‘filling up and joining together carriages of a train’ to do with perception, experience and understanding. It’s been a “ripening” process.But where the engine has always been the driver, somehow it wasn’t connected fully and I came to realize that too!
Where the “revelation” has always since then been also ‘the driver in my life’, I had not fully realized that the sum total of all the experiences I have been attempting to bring to Earth and into being, are a HUGE continually evolving part of that original possibility revealed way back in the early 1990s!
Also, where ‘all the carriages’ in my train had become filled with understanding and awareness, I still needed to go searching for a ‘linchpin’ that would symbolically constitute the joining of my “engine” to all the “carriages” in my life!
Joseph Campbell in his wonderful book “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” says:
“This brings us to the final crisis of the round, to which the whole miraculous excursion has been but a prelude – that, namely, of the paradoxical, supremely difficult threshold-crossing of the hero’s return from the mystic realm into the land of common day. Whether rescued from without, driven from within, or gently carried along by the guiding divinities, he has yet to re-enter with his boom the long-forgotten atmosphere where men who are fractions imagine themselves to be complete. He has yet to confront society with his ego-shattering, life-redeeming elixir, and take the return blow of reasonable queries, hard resentment, and good people at a loss to comprehend”
My darling Mum died early this year - in February 2023. She almost reached 97 and increasingly, I’d needed to invest more and more time into helping her depart this World.
When she did, I felt both relief and sadness, but this also ‘book-ended’ a huge chapter in my life that she had always been part of. That’s an interesting place to be and certainly an initiation into a completely new phase of life – where I had never been before.
Everything before this has brought me to this juncture in my life as well as this particular time in the evolution of the Planet and humanity.
Where I knew I was Aquarian, in the beginning of my wakeup I had little clue what that actually meant, and I certainly didn’t know that I had the potential to be an ‘agent of change’ returned to Earth at this time to help usher in a New Age.
Somewhere deep inside, what I received back then seemed totally possible and from here, looking back, I can see many carriages filled to overflowing that are ready to share.
My new website is my attempt to do just that!
Joseph Campbell has again reminded me of how few meet the challenge of being able “to knit together his (the) two worlds”. (“The Hero with a Thousand Faces”)
I needed to fully realize – then accept - how it is actually the ‘seed’ of my whole life’s work and surely my raison d’etre!
Somehow, I’ve also always known that the “Revelation” part, received many years ago, was the easy bit!
The hard part has been how to translate what had been revealed into the myriad choices in everyday experiences to become steps that:
• Have become my rock-solid foundation• resonate with others; • offer how to find, secure, sustain and strengthen connection to a more soul-ful part of ourselves;• can be employed as practical daily rituals and; • can – over time – help lead us back to becoming a more Soul-ful self and living a more Soul-filled life and:• help the Earth, humanity and life in general through the choices we make.
“Life is an echoWhat you send out - comes back” – Chinese Proverb
Thomas Moore’s wonderful book “A Religion of One’s Own” so eloquently challenges us to seek a religion of our own! He is not speaking about any conventional or existing “religion” per se, rather about borrowing, recognizing, claiming, adding and incorporating anything within any existing “religion” that speaks of the many rituals that have been part of them for a long time and go a lot deeper than we may realize.
This took me to considering how I feel we have more recently become stuck in the shallows of religion (rather than remembering the deep and sacred reverence actually espoused in many of the rituals) which seem to have taken many to a total rejection of many of the traditional ones. As I don’t know them and have never been drawn to traditional religion, I would prefer not to use the word “religion”. This is mostly based on so much of the negative conditioning, connotations and judgment that seems to have been lumped on many from the ‘religions of the world’!
I would prefer a ‘fresh start’ to finding our own personal philosophy of life that’s more aligned with a personal approach to our individual spirituality not plugged in to past conditioning and expectations.
In this way, Moore’s challenges in his book certainly parallel my own thoughts of our own individual need to explore, find, hold, live, enjoy, share and express any ritual that resonates deeply for us as spiritual to also then add to the mix anything and everything that we find precious, soul-ful, helpful, supportive and meaningful in our own lives.
There are many ways of finding our way into ‘soulfulness’ – and this can come from anything that brings deeper meaning to us - from churches, art, creativity, tarot cards, crystals, chanting, music, dancing, incense, nature and anything else we find and love!
“To be yourself in a World that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thomas Moore suggests there is much that can be borrowed from the rituals of traditional religion if it’s given their deepest significance and true meaning.
For me, having no religious foundation, this openness to finding the sacred and reverence in religious traditions has the feeling of mindfully not throwing the baby out with the bath water for there is much that has meaning at the deepest levels of it. The distortion within many religions in my opinion often comes from those empowered to determine the scriptures and deliver the words as both are only through the lens of their perceptions.
Finding a personal philosophy that supports us as we evolve surely requires an openness to the mysteries and to not needing to know everything. Remember the seed to fruit analogy? We can ‘ripen’ as we grow!
Where this needs to start with each of us as individuals, the more who wakeup to realize we can actually create our future through the choices we make (by unshackling from the past to then invest in the future) the greater chance we have of “dreaming the future as would love it to be”. If we don’t first dream something, there is no seed to manifest, so how then, can dream become creation!
I believe we can both ‘unshackle from the past’ and ‘dream in the future’ through our daily lives as it’s really about committing to life as a “conscious and soul-filled Journey”. Then, keeping the balance is the only real challenge!
The more of us who wake up to realize that (while committing to ‘do the Work’) we can also “hop onto the rising wave (of consciousness) that might just have the capability of leading us to a new level of existence (and a new more enlightened ability to relate, exchange, share, nurture, encourage, support and live on the Earth plane) by breaking on a new beach”, the greater the possibility we have to help this to happen!
We need to believe this is possible and we also need to have faith that when enough of us are “on the wave” it becomes powerful!
For me, the ‘grounding’ part has taken a long time and it feels like I have needed to pass through more ‘gates of initiation’ than I’ve been able to count!
Yet another stronger and wiser part within me also knows that I would not have been ‘given’ what I have, if it was not ‘time on the Earth’ to be used in some manner for those ready to embrace the possibility here.
It’s likely many of us have ‘peak experiences’ but it’s also likely that lots of us ‘get stuck in our ego…or the clouds’ with them and so they never become of any Earthly good. Grounding a peak experience has been challenging…and the only way I’ve known to do this is through my own life – and living as one with the natural world is a constant reminder of our connection and our place in the Whole
Again, Joseph Campbell reminds me that it’s easier to ‘sleep life away’ than continue on the Hero’s Journey.
Lee-Ann Womack sang a beautifully thought-provoking song a number of years ago that has always stayed with me. It’s called “I Hope you Dance”. Have a listen to the words if you feel drawn to, for they are inviting, challenging and they make you think and question about the choices you might have made in your own life!
The hard part has been how to translate what had been revealed into the myriad choices in everyday experiences to become steps that:
• Have become my rock-solid foundation• resonate with others; • offer how to find, secure, sustain and strengthen connection to a more soul-ful part of ourselves;• can be employed as practical daily rituals and; • can – over time – help lead us back to becoming a more Soul-ful self and living a more Soul-filled life and:• help the Earth, humanity and life in general through the choices we make.
“Life is an echoWhat you send out - comes back” – Chinese Proverb
Thomas Moore’s wonderful book “A Religion of One’s Own” so eloquently challenges us to seek a religion of our own! He is not speaking about any conventional or existing “religion” per se, rather about borrowing, recognizing, claiming, adding and incorporating anything within any existing “religion” that speaks of the many rituals that have been part of them for a long time and go a lot deeper than we may realize.
This took me to considering how I feel we have more recently become stuck in the shallows of religion (rather than remembering the deep and sacred reverence actually espoused in many of the rituals) which seem to have taken many to a total rejection of many of the traditional ones. As I don’t know them and have never been drawn to traditional religion, I would prefer not to use the word “religion”. This is mostly based on so much of the negative conditioning, connotations and judgment that seems to have been lumped on many from the ‘religions of the world’!
I would prefer a ‘fresh start’ to finding our own personal philosophy of life that’s more aligned with a personal approach to our individual spirituality not plugged in to past conditioning and expectations.
In this way, Moore’s challenges in his book certainly parallel my own thoughts of our own individual need to explore, find, hold, live, enjoy, share and express any ritual that resonates deeply for us as spiritual to also then add to the mix anything and everything that we find precious, soul-ful, helpful, supportive and meaningful in our own lives.
There are many ways of finding our way into ‘soulfulness’ – and this can come from anything that brings deeper meaning to us - from churches, art, creativity, tarot cards, crystals, chanting, music, dancing, incense, nature and anything else we find and love!
“To be yourself in a World that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thomas Moore suggests there is much that can be borrowed from the rituals of traditional religion if it’s given their deepest significance and true meaning.
For me, having no religious foundation, this openness to finding the sacred and reverence in religious traditions has the feeling of mindfully not throwing the baby out with the bath water for there is much that has meaning at the deepest levels of it. The distortion within many religions in my opinion often comes from those empowered to determine the scriptures and deliver the words as both are only through the lens of their perceptions.
Finding a personal philosophy that supports us as we evolve surely requires an openness to the mysteries and to not needing to know everything. Remember the seed to fruit analogy? We can ‘ripen’ as we grow!
Where this needs to start with each of us as individuals, the more who wakeup to realize we can actually create our future through the choices we make (by unshackling from the past to then invest in the future) the greater chance we have of “dreaming the future as would love it to be”. If we don’t first dream something, there is no seed to manifest, so how then, can dream become creation!
I believe we can both ‘unshackle from the past’ and ‘dream in the future’ through our daily lives as it’s really about committing to life as a “conscious and soul-filled Journey”. Then, keeping the balance is the only real challenge!
The more of us who wake up to realize that (while committing to ‘do the Work’) we can also “hop onto the rising wave (of consciousness) that might just have the capability of leading us to a new level of existence (and a new more enlightened ability to relate, exchange, share, nurture, encourage, support and live on the Earth plane) by breaking on a new beach”, the greater the possibility we have to help this to happen!
We need to believe this is possible and we also need to have faith that when enough of us are “on the wave” it becomes powerful!
For me, the ‘grounding’ part has taken a long time and it feels like I have needed to pass through more ‘gates of initiation’ than I’ve been able to count!
Yet another stronger and wiser part within me also knows that I would not have been ‘given’ what I have, if it was not ‘time on the Earth’ to be used in some manner for those ready to embrace the possibility here.
It’s likely many of us have ‘peak experiences’ but it’s also likely that lots of us ‘get stuck in our ego…or the clouds’ with them and so they never become of any Earthly good. Grounding a peak experience has been challenging…and the only way I’ve known to do this is through my own life – and living as one with the natural world is a constant reminder of our connection and our place in the Whole
Again, Joseph Campbell reminds me that it’s easier to ‘sleep life away’ than continue on the Hero’s Journey.
Lee-Ann Womack sang a beautifully thought-provoking song a number of years ago that has always stayed with me. It’s called “I Hope you Dance”. Have a listen to the words if you feel drawn to, for they are inviting, challenging and they make you think and question about the choices you might have made in your own life!
WHY HEARTNSOUL?
Always I have felt a loving and healthy connection between “heart and soul” is a key to unfolding our individuality, our spirituality and our highest potential.
What do I mean by this? Well, I believe we care, we feel, we notice, we have a conscience, we make decisions and we become a fuller human being when we live IN our heart!
When we live in our hearts, we can’t kill, maim, hurt each other. We can only share, respect, encourage and help each other! Wouldn’t you like life on Earth to be here?
Claiming more ‘heart-space’ and then becoming it is, I believe, the challenge of each and every human being on this magnificent Planet of ours.
Seeking more is the “Call to Adventure”. It’s the WAKEUP!
Seeking a “Conscious Journey of Life” is about REconnection with not only our own Soul, but the Soul of the whole of Humanity, the Planet and the guiding lights of the Cosmos that show us the way to “the Starry Heavens”.
Here, we know what Plotinus offered:
“The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together”
It’s from this knowing we also totally know that every thought, every word, every action we take affects everything else - for we are ALL ONE!
“May you be strengthened by yesterday’s rain, Walk straight in tomorrow’s wind and cherish each moment of the sun today”
Always I have felt a loving and healthy connection between “heart and soul” is a key to unfolding our individuality, our spirituality and our highest potential.
What do I mean by this? Well, I believe we care, we feel, we notice, we have a conscience, we make decisions and we become a fuller human being when we live IN our heart!
When we live in our hearts, we can’t kill, maim, hurt each other. We can only share, respect, encourage and help each other! Wouldn’t you like life on Earth to be here?
Claiming more ‘heart-space’ and then becoming it is, I believe, the challenge of each and every human being on this magnificent Planet of ours.
Seeking more is the “Call to Adventure”. It’s the WAKEUP!
Seeking a “Conscious Journey of Life” is about REconnection with not only our own Soul, but the Soul of the whole of Humanity, the Planet and the guiding lights of the Cosmos that show us the way to “the Starry Heavens”.
Here, we know what Plotinus offered:
“The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together”
It’s from this knowing we also totally know that every thought, every word, every action we take affects everything else - for we are ALL ONE!
“May you be strengthened by yesterday’s rain, Walk straight in tomorrow’s wind and cherish each moment of the sun today”