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Interviewing Jessica
I was recently asked to share my journey by the site Go Solo.com which features small business owners. Here's a link to that article https://gosolo.subkit.com/jessica-shepherd/ You can also read the article below. Enjoy! Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Jessica Shepherd, owner of Jessica Shepherd, Author & Healer, located in Honolulu, HI, USA. What's your business, and who are your customers? Aloha! I am...
A Simple & GOOD Energy Clearing Exercise
Over the past few weeks I’ve recommitted to feeling GOOD. I know my True Nature is to feel good; I deserve to feel good; and I know anytime I am not, it’s “not me or mine”. This doesn’t mean that I will or should always feel good, but I recognize that when I don’t I am either in an energy or telling myself a story. Let me be clear on what I am saying, on two counts: First, I am NOT a fan of New Thought ideas that perpetuate belief structures about keeping positive. I’m energy sensitive and...
Divine Intervention: Help Is Here
DIVINE INTERVENTION: "Help is here and available for the asking." (or, IF YOU NEED HELP, YOU'VE GOT TO ASK FOR IT.) ** It’s the first full moon of the new year, and it’s a Cancer Full Moon so let’s hear it for all the feels. For Cancer, truly caring for ourselves equals honestly meeting our NEEDS – for care, emotional support, nourishment. This lunation is also square Chiron, which can feel prickly, tender and vulnerable for some. I’m calling this one my “crisis of care” lunation- because at...
GO INWARD
Every year, from mid November thru January, it’s a good idea to pull inward. Why? At this time of year, energetic dis-resonance is higher. Holiday cheer contrasting with the real suffering of human life; materialism with financial restrictions; not to mention the many social commitments, which circulate flus and colds, obligations toward family and the accompanying guilt and pressure… Plus, we are heading into Solstice, 12/21, Capricorn season. All of Nature -human, plant and animal- is meant...
PELE IS MOVING ENERGY (Mauna Loa volcano is erupting!)
When people ask me what I love about living in Hawaii, I usually say: the tropical weather, the ocean, and the connection to the land. Hawaiian culture, as a whole, regards the relationship between land, creatures, humans as sacred and interconnected, and this fact is as palpable and all-encompassing here as the salty island air. So when Mother Earth sends up lava from deep within, rest assured *something* is happening. Especially for those who feel this interconnection with the land, or...
THE TRUTH TAKES NO SIDES
"There are two sides to every story" is a popular phrase, but it easily diminishes, or makes fuzzy logic from, our Inner Knowing. The fact is: Truth doesn't take sides, or have a side at all. It simply is. Like a circle, or the Sun, there are no edges, or sides, to the Truth. Others may attempt to convince you otherwise, so they can stay in their story. You may even tell yourself: How can I insist that I am Right? Perhaps I'm being arrogant? (when, actually, they are the one who is being...
Feel Good Over the Holidays
If I've one best practice about how to best feel good (I've so many, it's hard to narrow down) over the holidays, it is: Only do what YOU WANT to do. I know, easier said than done, but as with most habits, it gets easier the more you do it. Why is this my number one strategy for feeling good at the holidays - and, frankly, life? When we compromise our Self -and by this I mean override our needs, wants and desires- we make our self really vulnerable. Vulnerable to illness, stress, picking up...
SCORPIO THROUGH THE HOUSES: YOU ARE RESOURCEFUL
Sometimes astrology is fun and useful; other times, because it names so many potentials (and not all of them good) I find it stimulates fear and foreboding. Today, because I have always deeply enjoyed this rich time of year, I wanted to bring LIGHT to the way this sign of Scorpio serves us all. First, this recent solar eclipse sheds light on your deepest resources, and delivers empowerment (even through loss, change, transition), especially when you take a particular approach to what is...
The Meaning You Give Things
When I went to take a vitamin and cut my finger on the aluminum wrap, I asked myself: hmmm...Why? It was actually quite hilarious how quickly I tried to assign this simple accident meaning. Apparently, it is that hard-wired into my subconscious; I'm sure being an astrologer, a person who can read symbolic meaning into everything, helps/doesn't help in this. I am oriented toward interpreting things, giving them meaning. Especially physical symptoms. I think this is in part a hangover...
What Does It Mean to Be Energy Sensitive (or an Empath)?
It's a question I've thought about how to answer, for some time now. It's kind of like, If you know you know. The truth is, though, for a long while I was a card carrying member of this club, yet I didn't know this club even existed - so I really didn't know, you know? (yes, I was about to reach for a Fight Club quote, or did I just?). Also, and anyhow, I think it's important to tease out what it means to be energy sensitive because a) we are ALL energy sensitive to varying degrees and b)...
