The perfect people come to us at the perfect times. Teachers, poets, philosophers, friends - they flow in when we need them, we recognize them in the places where our souls match. That's how I feel about Jackie Stewart and the incredible Essence of Wild.

I'm honored to share my story on Essence of Wild today. (My heart charka blooms with joy as I write this!)

Please check it out and consider signing up for the Barefoot Breathing E-course: A journey into the heart of nature for soul-deep reconnection.

What I Wish My Tarot Clients Knew "Everyone has their turn at the wheel.  Life is always in motion.  Don’t get angry if life doesn’t always go your way.  Roll with the punches.  This too shall pass."

The Best Way to Network: Serving People "Some people believe you have be selfish in order to succeed. That in order to be a good networker, you have to look out for yourself. I disagree. The best networker is a servant. Everything else is just sleazy self-promotion, and in the long run, it doesn’t work."

Why I stopped meditating: acts of rebellion + intention "Meditating doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be more compassionate or loving, it just means you can call yourself a meditator."

A Baker's Dozen Truths About You and Your Work "When you attract the people who invest in you, and who benefit from that investment, you prosper. The world prospers with you, in a loving, stewarded way."

I'm thrilled to be on the Miracle readiness site today, chatting with Megan Monique about some real life action steps you can take to experience the presence of miracles in your life. Please come over and join us. 

(I'm also going to be sharing messages from the guides and angels on Megan's Monthly Meditation Circle call on June 1.)

Today's conversation is a continuation of last week's subject - What can you do when someone else is draining your energy and how do you get yourself back in alignment after it happens?

Ah to experience what we are- our Essence that is beingness itself - and then walk with a foot in that knowing, remembering what we are even as we live & delight in our little Who-ness in the world. Forgetting & remembering seems to be the path as we exercise the muscle of keeping one part of our attention on our Being breathing in the scent of the ever-unfolding rose of Essence no matter where we are. I can feel it in my chest- that continually opening rose of the heart, growing impossibly larger, splitting open my smaller notions of what I am, loosening the tight fist of trying. - Oriah Mountain Dreamer

There is no time frame on any of this.

Whatever it is you're doing here, whatever it is you're dreaming, whatever it is you're activating within you. You don't have to push it. You don't have to rush it. No one is keeping score.

The novel I'm writing has been in me for a long time. I wrote the first lines of it five or six years ago. It's gone through many evolutions. I've put it away a lot and tried to forget it. I've given up on it, cried about it, crumpled its pages into little balls and thrown them against the wall. I've opened my files and thought, this is utter shit. I've changed characters, taken out pieces of the plot, wondered if it even had a plot, wondered if it needed one. I've prayed about it, begged about it, pulled cards about it, ignored it. And, in quiet tiny candlelit corners of my heart, I have loved it.

I was thinking the other day about why I don't have any tattoos. I love tattoos on other people. My friends have the most gorgeous artwork on their bodies, and when I'm with them, I have to fight the urge to run my fingertips all over their skin. But I've never gotten a tattoo because of my fickle nature. You may have noticed, I like to change things. A lot. And the thing I change most? My mind. I can love something one day and feel eh about it the next.

In Sitting Still, a Bench Press for the Brain "Forty-three years, one retirement and a second career later, Ms. Splain, who lives in Massapequa, N.Y., and goes by the first name Surabhi, is still practicing. And like many other meditators, she says she believes that it has not only expanded the boundaries of her consciousness, but that it has also had beneficial effects on her brain."

3 Psychic Concepts I Believe are Bullsh*t "Anything with dogma, I automatically discredit."

The Metaphysics of Social Media "In these unstable times of global change, we have the choice of how we participate in the societal shift. We can use the amazing tool of social networking to, in Gandhi’s words, be the change we want to see and directly impact the outcome of these interesting times.  With compassion, intention and awareness we can help bring into being a more enlightened society."

5 Intuitions About Love & Sex You Shouldn't Ignore  "Your entire body–not just your brain–acts as an intuitive receiver, so the more conscious you become of your whole body, perhaps through a discipline like yoga, the more likely you are to tap into realities outside of your immediate setting. "

Maurice Sendak Had Little Tolerance for Bullshit, and Other Fond Memories "Sendak dismissed the notion that children were simple creatures who were easy to please and believed that most children's literature was crap. He would occasionally respond to letters from fans with original illustrations, and was famously delighted by a letter he received from the mother of a child who had received such a letter; according to Sendak, the child loved his drawing so much that he ate it, and that was the best compliment that he possibly could have gotten."

Finding the Motherhood of God "I began to pray for and meditate on a feminine aspect of God to whom I could relate."

I have a guardian angel named Elijah. He is a healing guide - he works with me in my healing practice - but he also works with me, the individual, and the issues I'm healing in my own life.

The other night, I slipped into the bath and began walking, in my mind, through a beautiful, sacred garden. There were other angels, other guardians of mine in the garden,  and they walked with me until the grass and pebble gave way to sand and I was standing by the ocean. There, on the shore, was Elijah.

Impossibly tall.

Impossibly bright.

Impossibly strong.

Love.

He embraced me in his arms of light and we sat together and for a little while, I poured out all of my worries and fears and concerns to him while he laughed.

It's Coffee Circle time! Pull a chair up to our table. Today, we're talking about energetic boundaries and how to protect your energy when you encounter people or situations that leave you feeling drained or overwhelmed or otherwise utzy.*

Distance Healing - Permission or No Permission? "In a state of Being you are the purity of a beautiful, radiating light. You are the sun."

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How to be Defenseless "We’re walking mirrors. We show each other our own truths, our own humanness. When we defend ourselves, we’re denying our authenticity. We’re being fake- but more importantly, when we’re busy defending ourselves, we can’t see that the other person is hurting."

Don't Miss It "Luckily, true beauty is eternal and even ephemeral beauty is seasonal. So, if we are lucky, in nature we can simply go somewhere else to see what we have missed."

Confidence "So the next time you face certain anxiety, check your mind. Has it raced ahead to the future or buried itself in the past? Please try to let go and return your mind to what you are experiencing right now. It’s always good to begin with your body. What sensations are you experiencing? What do you feel? Turn towards your anxiety rather than away.  Open to yourself without hesitation. Greet your experience. What exemplifies confidence better than this?"

My mind is on the moon.

Saturday's Super Moon, to be exact.

Can you feel it?

I haven't studied astrology, but I know that the movement in the sky impacts our movement here on Earth. I understand that we are a part of a living, breathing cosmos. We are all energy. We are interlaced. And I know, of course, that we couldn't live here on this planet, if not for our moon.

The night sky floods me with awe. I find few things as inspiring as gazing up at the indigo dome, the stars, the moon. It's a language I don't know how to speak, but feel deeply.

And I feel a strong sense of importance and meaning gathering around tomorrow's moon.