We are all in this together, this adventure through life, walking our individual paths while navigating all of the challenges life throws at us!
Some of us feel led to share our stories: our stories of how we overcame, what we did to overcome, and how you can overcome too!
Of course there will never be one of us who has all the answers to every question. We have all experienced different phases of the journey. We have all navigated our paths in different ways.
In an effort to share my story with the world, and to help others who are also sharing their stories, I have joined a blogging community. Each Thursday, we hop around to one another's blogs and share the stories that resonate with us and the ones that we feel resonate with our core readers.
Join me on this adventure! Click on the banner below and find some blogs and love them, share them, and help get the messages out to the world!
What is the message? We are all one. There is not one of us in particular that has all the answers, but together, we can share our spirit and our soul with the world, and hopefully, bring peace to someone whose life is in chaos, bring joy to someone who is grieving, bring healing to the heart of one who is brokenhearted. In this way we heal each other, and in turn, heal the world and the planet!
There is a tenet in Reiki which says, When one is hurt, we are all hurt, when one is healed, we are all healed.
Here are a few of my favorite blogs from the past, ones that I particularly liked, that I hope you will like too!!
This one I wrote at the beginning of this year, when I noticed a major shift in my own personal energy. After some connection with spirit, I realized that there was a universal shift happening:
http://www.whispersofjoy.blogspot.com/2014/01/energy-shift.html
Here is a blog I wrote last year, when I came across those who had never heard of shamanism, and wondered exactly what it was and what I did:
http://www.whispersofjoy.blogspot.com/2013/04/getting-to-know-me-part-one.html
http://www.whispersofjoy.blogspot.com/2013/04/getting-to-know-me-part-two.html
And on that hush hush subject of money, and why should healers charge for their services:
http://www.whispersofjoy.blogspot.com/2013/04/and-what-about-money.html
All that being said, I know that everyone loves a deal!! To this end, I wanted to offer a deal for this blog hopping Thursday! If you comment on this blog, I will draw a tarot card for you and give you a short message related to it! and all for free!!
Be sure to click on the banner and check out all of the wonderful blogs posted there as well!!
You can check me out on the "about" section tab at the top of this page! Be sure to check out my website, www.whispersofjoy.net. Like me on facebook and twitter, and in this way we will begin to forge a link that will connect us to one another and also to Spirit!
Remember: We are all one.
I am waaaay behind on your blog, but so happy to get your email this morning! What a great incentive to get over here, too! Looking FW to my card! :-) H.
ReplyDeleteHi Hali.. your card for today is the eight of cups.. this card says that you are about to embark upon a great adventure! You are leaving behind many things that you have established in your life up until now and going out into new territory! This may mean that some relationships are going to be left behind, but there are many new ones in store! The path ahead may have challenges, but nothing that you cannot handle. What a great card!
DeleteAh, time! So glad I took the time to stop by. Obviously, I have a lot of reading to do! I'm ever so happy to have happened upon you and the village hearthers. Loving myself today by editing my new book, Soul Messages, and I'll trade you. I'll pull you a Soul Message card after you pull me a tarot card. And thank you!!
ReplyDeleteAh we do have a lot in common! I am currently finishing up my second book! My first one is a compilation of messages from Spirit over the years, my second is kind of a memoir on how I got here from where I started.
DeleteAre you familiar with the tarot? I ended up deciding to pull two cards for you, because the first card, the ten of swords, is a difficult card. This card indicates that there may be some conflict, words or communications that could be devastating to you. As the majority of this month we are in a Mercury Retrograde, this could be a particularly difficult experience for you. However, the second card I picked was the three of pentacles, which indicates that at some point you will receive some recognition for your skill in your work, and that those to whom you normally look up to will look up to you to admire your work. I am not sure if the two incidents are related to one another, but the good feelings you get from recognition might well offset the difficult nature of the other incident. Of course, the tarot cards are not set in stone, and it is completely within your power to send love and light to this incident that the ten of swords speaks of to offset the outcome. I bless you and send you much love and light! And thanks for the soul card message as well!
Thanks, Joy. My first thought about the 10 of swords was it might have to do with a conversation I'm going to have with an editor to get advice on whether an upcoming project would be able to be pitched to a publisher. So....Mercury Retrograde, good time to lay low!
DeleteThe Soul Message I picked for you is "Your creativity is divinely directed. It is now safe to create. And the message: "As a creative person, you have to master one skill: making your art while your inner critic jumps up and down shouting in the background. The Universe wants you to know that you can deny your creative impulses only so long, and then you start to suffer energetic losses You may be in such a state right now. This can be turned around in an instant by picking up the pen, the brush, the knitting needles, or the measuring spoons, and getting busy.
Your creativity is not self-indulgent, lazy, worthless, lightweight, insignificant, low class, or unprofessional. As a child of the Universe, you have all the credentials you need to step into the sandbox and play. This is not meant to demean what you do, or to downplay credentials, but to shift the emphasis from accomplishment to discovery. While you work on the next great theorem, there is a part of you that is doing somersaults in delight to finally have been freed to play with numbers and concepts the way it loves to do!
Even if you have to hide your creative activities from everybody in your life, because they happen to be the last great Wet Blankets in the world, do yourself a favor and stop trying to hide it from yourself. It is safe to create if you say it is. If you do it now, you will be nurtured in ways that you have been missing for a long time."
And a final reminder, to both us, to take some time for aimless play while we are busy working on our books!
Namaste, and thanks again,
Phyllis
Hi Joy, this is my third attempt! Thanks for the card. I think I know what it's about. I'll keep you posted. Here's your Soul Message:
Delete"Your creativity is divinely directed. It is now safe to create. As a creative person, you have to master one skill: making your art while your inner critic jumps up and down shouting in the background. The Universe wants you to know that you can deny your creative impulses only so long, and then you start to suffer energetic losses. You may be in such a state right now. This can be turned around in an instant by picking up the pen, the brush, the knitting needles, or the measuring spoons, and getting busy.
Your creativity is not self-indulgent, lazy, worthless, lightweight, insignificant, low class, or unprofessional. As a child of the Universe, you have all the credentials you need to step into the sandbox and play. This is not meant to demean what you do, or to downplay credentials, but to shift the emphasis from accomplishment to discovery. While you work on the next great theorem, there is a part of you that is doing somersaults in delight to finally have been freed to play with numbers and concepts the way it loves to do!
Even if you have to hide your creative activities from everybody in your life, because they happen to be the last great Wet Blankets in the world, do yourself a favor and stop trying to hide it from yourself. It is safe to create if you say it is. If you do it now, you will be nurtured in ways that you have been missing for a long time."
Hi Joy
ReplyDeleteThank you once again for being part of the Village Hearth community and sharing your words of wisdom with us through the Blog Hop!
Hi Steffie! Thanks for stopping by! Today I drew the ten of pentacles for you! The ten of pentacles is a card of a happy family life. The sky is blue, there is a rainbow of cups overhead, children playing, a bubbling brook flowing behind the happy couple. What a wonderful card! All is well in Steffie's world! Blessings to you today! Enjoy the people in your life and know that all is well.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Joy! I'll keep you posted about the tarot cards you pulled. It might have been related to the fact that I've tried replying 3 times now. Let's see if I can do it this time. Here is you Soul Message:
ReplyDelete"Your creativity is divinely directed. It is now safe to create. As a creative person, you have to master one skill: making your art while your inner critic jumps up and down shouting in the background. The Universe wants you to know that you can deny your creative impulses only so long, and then you start to suffer energetic losses. You may be in such a state right now. This can be turned around in an instant by picking up the pen, the brush, the knitting needles, or the measuring spoons, and getting busy.
Your creativity is not self-indulgent, lazy, worthless, lightweight, insignificant, low class, or unprofessional. As a child of the Universe, you have all the credentials you need to step into the sandbox and play. This is not meant to demean what you do, or to downplay credentials, but to shift the emphasis from accomplishment to discovery. While you work on the next great theorem, there is a part of you that is doing somersaults in delight to finally have been freed to play with numbers and concepts the way it loves to do!
Even if you have to hide your creative activities from everybody in your life, because they happen to be the last great Wet Blankets in the world, do yourself a favor and stop trying to hide it from yourself. It is safe to create if you say it is. If you do it now, you will be nurtured in ways that you have been missing for a long time."
Thanks, again, it's been a pleasure spending time here and I look forward to more.
Namaste,
Phyllis
Hi Phyllis!! Yes this message is right on! I am my own worst critic!! In my recent meditations with the moon, The Moon Goddess has instructed me to come out of hiding, not unlike the way the moon has been coming more and more into the light in its trek towards the full moon tomorrow. Thanks! You are spot on!
DeleteWell that does my heart good. For a whole set of Soul Message cards, please visit my website!
DeleteHi Joy, I'm so glad I'm paying more attention to these things now. Meditation is helping me a lot. I can kick my butt for not getting your book in Winchester!! I have to order it. thank you for being so inspriational
ReplyDeleteJohnnie Shreve :)
Hi Johnnie! I'm so glad you are seeing results from meditation. Today I pulled the 5 of swords for you. Watch out that words and communications are not misconstrued. With mercury in retrograde, this could become an issue for you. There is the possibility of misunderstandings. Send love and light to all the people in your life with whom there have been conflicts and ask Spirit to bring resolution. Blessings to you!
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