Art of Awakening Blog
2020: Year of Chaos, or Year of Vision and Possibility? You Decide.
As the pivotal year of 2020 moves into its final months, the infinity sign is showing up to remind us that everything happens in cycles, and all polarities eventually balance out. ...
Making Peace With Evil: The Light Side of Darkness
In my Spirit Animal Awareness deck, each spirit animal card lists a number of attributes or meanings of that animal. It’s interesting to watch people’s reactions when pulling a single card for them....
6 Signs Your Inner Light Warrior is Being Activated
Anyone else feeling a sense of urgency as we move towards this summer’s Solstice and eclipse season? It’s Spirit’s call to activate your divine gifts – but it can get...
You Are Protected! 3 Divine Protection Archetypes to Help You Stay Centered in Challenging Times
It's like Zombie Apocalypse. They're there with empty eyes and clawing hands, but I am not afraid. She's got me. In the past I would have either started out of her arms in fear and landed in their...
January 2019 Wolf Moon Eclipse Spirit Animal Reading
The January Full Moon is traditionally known as the Wolf Moon, so I decided to do something fun and different. This week's video reading is an art reading featuring Wolf. As I paint the...
How do you let go?
"Let go," they say. Everyone says it. If you want to be whole, if you want to be free, if you want to be healed, let go. Easier said than done, don't you think? The other day,...
Goddess Brigid New Year Message – Step into the New Earth with Grace
On New Year's Eve, I was guided to finish a painting I'd started about a year ago based on a sketch of Archangel Haniel. As I did it became clear that it was no longer Haniel, but a beautiful...
Snake Spirit Animal: What is the Symbolic Meaning of Serpent?
Seems like a lot of people these days are transitioning, purging, and/or going through some kind of awakening process. So it's no wonder the Snake spirit animal has been coming up big time, not just...
❤New Year spirit animal reading – survive & thrive in 2019 ❤
Well, here we are, at the end of a new year, and about to launch into the next! Are you with me in wondering how the heck 2018 went by so fast? (Or in being glad it didn't linger any longer than it...
November 2018 Full Moon Clairvoyant and Spirit Animal Reading
If I could sum up what 2018 has been for a lot of people, it would be The Year of the Big Purge. Can you relate? Then you'll probably love this: to me it feels like today's full moon right here is a...
Gardenia Flower Meaning: Symbolic Meaning of Gardenia
Remember the story of Sisyphus, the Greek king whose trickster escapades annoyed the gods so much that he was condemned to forever push a rock uphill, only to have it tumble back down to the bottom...
How to Forgive Yourself When You’ve F***ed Up Royally
We all, at some point in our lives, end up doing things we regret. Perhaps you were hurrying to get to work on time and ran over the cat. Or you lost your cool and spanked your kid. Or you made a...
2 minute Mother Earth meditation for Love and grounding
Happy All Soul's Day! Finding and living our Purpose, learning to bring Heaven to Earth - this is the journey of the soul. Doing this requires us to start connecting and grounding our mental,...
Warning: Rant Ahead (The Lightworker Community Has Our Collective Heads Up Our Butts)
OK, so it's an Aries moon which can bring up some pretty blunt feelings to say the least. And there's a dynamic in the lightworker community that I'm starting to feel really needs to be brought up...
Spirit Animal Reading for 9/14/2018: Hawk medicine for if you’re feeling stuck or challenged
This has been an interesting week. Seems like there's a lot of intense energy swirling around the planet. Or maybe weird stuff going on in the stars. Or something! I've had a lot of people mention...
Spirit Animal Reading for 9/13/18 – Bison’s Tip for Abundance Right Now Today
Every day this month I am doing a spirit animal reading on my YouTube channel from my spirit animal oracle card deck. The power animal coming forward for today is Bison, or Buffalo. Bison is very...
Spirit Animal Reading for 9/10/18: Monday Morning Owl Medicine
Today's spirit animal reading brought up Owl. A big part of Owl medicine has to do with stealth. If you've ever looked closely at an owl feather, you may have noticed the fringes at the edges, which...
Spirit Animal Reading for Sept. 8, 2018 – Frog power animal wisdom
Are you an intuitive or a more logical person? Either way, the Frog power animal offers encouragement today for how to increase the power of your thought. This video also will give some insight into...
Daily Spirit Animal Readings on YouTube in September
Hey there! This has been a wild summer, hasn't it? (Eclipse season, yay!) Fall kicks off the school year, and since we're all in the school of life, I thought I'd try doing daily spirit animal...
Masculine and Feminine Energies in Spirit Animals
I love questions from readers. Here is one from Angie, about masculine and feminine energies in spirit animals: Hi Christie! I enjoyed reading about owl totem. Can you tell me if different species...
What is the Spirit Animal Meaning of Water Strider?
We’ve all heard the story of Jesus walking on water; it’s one of his well-known miracles. But in the animal world, there is an animal that walks around on water as a matter of course, and you are...
Got ascension symptoms? This solstice message is for you.
There is a LOT of energy flying about these days as Planet Earth undergoes a process of ascension. Many of us are ascending with her and this can flush up a TON of stuff. A LOT of people I know and...
Tick bite? Maybe it’s time to set some limits. (Tick spirit animal meaning)
Boundaries. Kind of like putting on tick repellent. Slather on, watch the bloodsuckers drop away. (Got my first tick bite of the year yesterday, can you tell?) 🙂 Tick Power Animal Guidance Much as...
April 2018 Full Moon Animal Card Reading
If you have been following my YouTube channel you'll have noticed I've been experimenting with doing video readings from my spirit animal oracle card deck this month. The first couple were such fun...
Spirit Animal Meaning of Owl
Funny how some animals (like Dolphin) are almost universally loved, while others elicit a whole range of emotions, from reverence to revulsion. Of any bird spirit animal, Owl is perhaps the one that...
When All Seems Bleak…
Snowfall. A world in white. Looks just like winter—but somehow it FEELS like spring. The robins agree: they are back, singing their hearts out in the snow. Just as in spring the weather will...
Crushing Guilt
Guilt is an interesting emotion, because it subverts and manipulates Love. If Love is not present, it's impossible for guilt to take hold. Sometimes in life we find ourselves in situations where our...
Heart’s Center (channeled message from Archangel Haniel)
It feels to me like the spirit world speaks more directly to us through images. However most of us require translation. This message came through first as an image. I've been asking my angels lately...
On Freedom (channeled message from ascended master El Morya)
Freedom. Does your soul crave it? Mine does. I don't know of anyone else who considers Humans a spirit animal, but why not? We are of the earth just like any creature. Every animal has what I think...
“Skunk saved me!” (True spirit animal story)
A client of mine (I’ll call her Jane) shared this with me this week. I thought it was a cool true spirit animal story, and with her permission I’d like to share it with you, too: Jane stepped into...