[album]The Grey-Black Horse
I often fall asleep or wake up with the image of an animal in my mind’s eye. This morning it was a grey-black horse with a big rump facing me, as if walking away with its head turning back towards the left to look at me.
Horses are a symbol of travel, power, and freedom. “It has been associated with both burial rites and birth-with individuals riding into and out of the world upon it,” according to Ted Andrews in “Animal Speak, The Spiritual and Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small”.
It could mean that I am feeling constricted and need more freedom. It could be I am walking away from power.
Whatever it means, I sense the horse wants to talk to tell me something. Horses have often been associated with mystical powers, and the ability to sense such power in the two-leggeds.
In the movie, “The Legends of the Lakota” a mystical horse, who was cast away, and named “The Dung Horse” was nursed to health by a young warrior named “Di...

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1/8/12
The beaded turquoise/green purse and the peacock feathers

I dozed off while watching an art documentary on Ed Hardy, and I dreamt.
I had a turquoise and green beaded purse. The colors were brilliant like a peacock’s tail feathers. The purse is typical of what I have in my purse collection.
While at a party of a dear friend, Sharon, I lost my purse in her sofa while I dozed off. When I woke up, I searched for the purse within the sofa, and then elsewhere throughout the house.
My elbow began to itch, and I looked at it. Growing from my elbow were long turquoise and green feathers!
I showed the women at the party my new feathers. Then a gentleman came in, and I told him too. Sharon tenderly chastised me and said, “You don’t need to tell everyone everything.”
The lessons learned from the dream are:
1) We never really lose anything. All things transform into something new. [Energy is never lost.] Though you may have lost friends, you gained valuable lessons...

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There is a small amethyst geode beside my bed. When I've had a stressful day, I visualize that it cradles me like a fetus in my mother's womb . The healing I feel from this is gently calm and peaceful.
I carry the amethyst womb image with me, and use it throughout the day when it is stressful and feel overwhelmed.
I love crystals and use them more and more in my spiritual walk.
In the Native American tradition, I carry a small pouch with several crystals in my purse. I recently attended a class on setting up crystal grids for various intentions.
When I travel, I am always drawn to crystals and rocks cut in the shape of a heart. I am looking at one right now made of red jasper. I use it to ground myself. I hold the small red jasper heart, and I feel connected to Mother Earth and to all that is.



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12/09/11 In this lunar eclipse I choose to walk forward without regrets, embracing the delightful person that I am, loving all but knowing what I accept as truth is far more real to me than what others expect me to believe. Real is what I know, sense and experience.

12/15/11
As I look towards the future I look towards the past. I realize how much I've grown and learned, and I continue to search for all that may help me in my journey.
I remember bits of who I was in past lives. It's not yet all visible to me, and yet I sense a bit of who I was. Perhaps a warrior like Joan of Arc, who I have always admired; a quiet monk meditating at the end of a busy day teaching others the art of meditation; a teacher of the light body, and perhaps an Indian maiden who practiced mysticism as part of daily routine.
Sometimes the vision is clear other times they are glimpses of people, flashes of light and color.
Liana has taught me many things of Native American mysticism, and I enjoy her teaching. She is compassionate, artful, and intelligent. I respect her knowledge. I look forward to the next Shamanic consciousness class next spring.