The Energies of June – 2017

Given how the first months of this year have gone, it is lovely to read of a month where stepping back into flow will be a process of gentle trust (rather than a few where I’ve been tossed back into quite the swirling choppy river currents). No, a gentle re-entry to the river and to trust the currents will be lovely.

Cauldrons and Cupcakes

“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.”
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Hello, Lovelies

Suddenly, here we are at June. June is a gentle month of revitalisation, redirection and emotional and physical nourishment. I’m so up for that. How about you?

 

Cards for the Month:

I’ve chosen two cards for June for you: one from the Osho Zen Tarot Deck, and one from Colette Baron-Reid’s Wisdom of the Oracle. Please note I don’t use these cards in the conventional way, but rather as a stimulus for channelled information.

Here is what I have received from each card:

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
~ Anaïs Nin

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Chakra Journal Challenge – Week 9

The final blog in this Chakra Journal Challenge series by Cauldrons and Cupcakes. The Tibetan singing bowl sound meditation is a beautiful way to integrate all the chakras into a sense of wholeness.

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“And suddenly you realize: you are in every dot of the universe vanishing and arising.”
~  Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

Hello, and welcome to the wrap-up week of our Chakra Journal Challenge!

If you’re only just joining us please go back and read my Orientation Post first.

Bringing It All Together

Now that you have had a chance to tour these eight chakras and to explore how they work and what that means for you, this week we are going to bring this all together.

If you need to review, you can go back and access that chakra work at the links below:

Week 1 – Feet Chakras

Week 2  – Base Chakra

Week 3 – Sacral Chakra

Week 4 – Solar Plexus Chakra

Week 5 – Heart Chakra

Week 6 – Throat Chakra

Week 7 – Third Eye Chakra

Week 8 – Crown Chakra

Guided Meditation:

Again we’re going…

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Chakra Journal Challenge – Week 8

The final in the chakra challenge is the crown chakra (just above the top of your head). It is one that I feel gets a little neglected because it’s so the one so easily overlooked and yet, is one that allows the connections to flow so well. A beautiful sound meditation that resonates through all the levels of our bodies. A wonderful ending to a great set of challenges and discovery. Thank you Nicole.

Cauldrons and Cupcakes

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” ~  Audre Lorde

Hello, and welcome to the final week of our Chakra Journal Challenge!

(Sorry for the slight delay between postings. I’ve been in hospital – but that’s a whole other post.)

If you’re only just joining us please go back and read my Orientation Post first.

About the Crown Chakra

The Crown Chakra is found at the top of our head, and it is the colour white. This is the place where our mind and brain connect in with our entire body, systems and organs. It is a communication hub for the physical body, governing not just our thoughts and our emotions but our hormones, our physical reactions, our metabolism, our nervous system. The Crown Chakra is a doorway to higher awareness and profound…

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The Energies of May – 2017

The year has been a bit bumpier than I would have thought. This is a lovely space to be heading into.

Cauldrons and Cupcakes

“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” ~ Amelia Earhart

Hello, Lovelies

Breathe a sigh of relief. May is here with her gentle heart-nurturing energies, after the upheavals, revelations and hard work of April.

We’ve identified or faced the difficult stuff, and now that we know where we stand the only way for us to move is forward. Of course May also reminds us that we might need a cup of tea and a nap first – and that’s perfectly okay!

Cards for the Month:

I’ve chosen two cards for May for you: one from the Osho Zen Tarot Deck, and one from Colette Baron-Reid’s Wisdom of the Oracle. Please note I don’t use these cards in the conventional way, but rather as a stimulus for channelled information.

Here is what I have received from each card:

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Chakra Journal Challenge – Week 7

Up to week 7 and into the Third Eye chakra, the one in the middle of your forehead.

Cauldrons and Cupcakes

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
― Audre Lorde

Hello, and welcome to Week Seven of our Chakra Journal Challenge!

Every Tuesday in March and April I will post a Journal Challenge for you, based upon a journey through the main chakras. You don’t need to know anything about journalling, chakras, crystals, oracle cards or energy work. I’ll explain everything that you need to do each week. Then you’ll have a week to complete the simple activities I share.

If you’re only just joining us please go back and read my Orientation Post first.

About the Third Eye Chakra

The Third Eye Chakra anchors our perception. Our Third Eye taps into the pineal gland which works with our brain to create images beyond what we can physically see. The colour of…

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Chakra Journal Challenge – Week 6 – Throat Chakra

This week is the throat chakra and a slightly different way to achieve connection. Using bee breath or “Bhramari”. I can remember doing this yoga technique years ago and it always made me dizzy. Looking forward to seeing how well I can do it nowadays. Enjoy!

Cauldrons and Cupcakes

“Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.”
― Barbara De Angelis

Hello, and welcome to Week Six of our Chakra Journal Challenge!

Every Tuesday in March and April I will post a Journal Challenge for you, based upon a journey through the main chakras. You don’t need to know anything about journalling, chakras, crystals, oracle cards or energy work. I’ll explain everything that you need to do each week. Then you’ll have a week to complete the simple activities I share.

If you’re only just joining us please go back and read my Orientation Post first.

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Chakra Journal Challenge – Week 5 – Heart Chakra

There are no accidents that a week off and the resumption of this challenge, with the heart chakra no less, arrives on the full moon. A full moon which is also focusing on love and relationships with others but also self.

Cauldrons and Cupcakes

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Hello, and welcome to Week Five of our Chakra Journal Challenge!

Every Tuesday in March and April I will post a Journal Challenge for you, based upon a journey through the main chakras. You don’t need to know anything about journalling, chakras, crystals, oracle cards or energy work. I’ll explain everything that you need to do each week. Then you’ll have a week to complete the simple activities I share.

If you’re only just joining us please go back and read my Orientation Post first.

About the Heart Chakra

The Heart Chakra is located right where our heart is, in the centre of our chests. The colour of the Heart Chakra is green.

The…

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How to do Tonglen Meditation – a Beginner’s Guide

Before I understood what it was, or could even sit in quiet meditation for long, this is a meditation I did for years. Tonglen is Tibetan for ‘giving and receiving’. I’ve always felt a deep connection to both His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people. Life is fascinating.

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Heart Chakra image from Juicy*S

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” 
~ Charles Dickens

At times it is easy to feel small and insignificant – unable to help when all we feel in our hearts is an urge to try. When those we know are suffering, or when there is a catastrophe in another part of the world we might wonder what can be done.

There is something we can do. Meditate!

I first started practicing this meditation as a small girl – maybe three or four years of age.  No one taught me.  I just seemed to know what to do.  My baby sister was fidgeting and restless one night, tossing and turning in the bed beside mine as her teeth came through. I breathed in her fever and distress with every in-breath, and with every out-breath I imagined my breath covering her…

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Chakra Journal Challenge: Week 4 – Solar Plexus Chakra

Week 4, the solar plexus chakra. As we own all we can be and stand in our identity we shine bright and balanced. Doing this on the day of the new moon I’m looking forward to the sunburst as a result.

Cauldrons and Cupcakes

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

“I’m the Boss of Me!” ~ Nicole Cody, aged 5

Hello, and welcome to Week Four of our Chakra Journal Challenge!

Every Tuesday in March and April I will post a Journal for you, based upon a journey through the main chakras. You don’t need to know anything about journalling, chakras, crystals, oracle cards or energy work. I’ll explain everything that you need to do each week. Then you’ll have a week to complete the simple activities I share.

If you’re only just joining us please go back and read my Orientation Post first.

About the Solar Plexus Chakra

The Solar Plexus Chakra is located at our belly button, and it is bright yellow in colour. It’s the place where our sense of self-identity resides. It is where our personal power…

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Chakra Journal Challenge: Week 3 – Sacral Chakra

I nearly forgot today is Tuesday (in part due to some unseasonal weather). Enjoy this week’s Chakra challenge by Nicole.

Cauldrons and Cupcakes

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
~ Osho

Hello, and welcome to Week Three of our Chakra Journal Challenge!

Every Tuesday in March and April I will post a Journal Challenge for you, based upon a journey through the main chakras. You don’t need to know anything about journalling, chakras, crystals, oracle cards or energy work. I’ll explain everything that you need to do each week. Then you’ll have a week to complete the simple activities I share.

If you’re only just joining us please go back and read my Orientation Post first.

About the Sacral Chakra

Orange corresponds to our Sacral Chakra, our centre for Creativity…

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