Hurricane Irma and the Sacred Jacaranda

We left Sarasota Florida on Saturday the day before Hurricane Irma hit. I had been getting the strong message to go since Monday. Finally the whole family felt the same and we made the decision to pack up and go. It is a very strange feeling to be leaving your home not knowing what you will find when you return. The main feeling of course is that everyone is safe and out of harms way. We had my grandchildren and all our animals to consider.

I said my prayers and asked the guardians of my home and yard for protection. We have enormous trees surrounding one side of the house. My beloved Jacaranda, my beautiful friend and comforter stands tall and majestic in the corner of the yard. I prayed I would find her still standing when I returned.

We drove for 17 hours and arrived at 5am In Georgia. We slept a few hours and continued on to North Carolina with 3 cars, 2 children, 4 dogs and a cat. My Petey is old and blind and I worried about how he would take all the upheaval. There is so much to this story but today this is the story I want to tell.

After we settled in our hotel in NC and the storm had passed Sarasota we asked a friend to stop by the house and see if there was any major damage. He reported that the house was ok but the tree in the corner of the yard was uprooted. I was so relieved to hear the trees had not crashed through our home and at the same time my heart sank for my beautiful friend would be no more.

As I sat there absorbing the news I gave thanks for all the divine protection we had along the way on such a strange and stressful trip and that we were all together safe and sound. I prayed for everyone who was experiencing the effects of the storm whether they chose to stay or to go. I was deeply grateful for everything.

The next day as I thought about my beautiful tree who had been my beloved companion from the day I moved into my home I thought too about all the altars I had placed beneath her and all the ceremonies, secrets and magic we had shared.

I thought about how I had taught my grandchildren to honor and love and give thanks to the trees and how much she has meant to them too.

I had been holding back my grief for her because of all the loss that people were suffering all over, such terrible unbearable losses. This was a tree, not a person or a home or any precious irreplaceable thing that people were losing in the aftermath of these terrible storms. I was aware that this was nothing in comparison and I should get on with it and continue my prayers and thankfulness and I did but then out of nowhere the tears came.

The tears were for everyone and everything and I let them flow and I let myself feel it all. I do believe that we are all walking around holding in so much. Times like these when you feel the suffering of others it merges with all the suffering and this is how we connect with everything and everyone. It wakes us and shakes us out of our own little worlds and prayers fill the heavens. We will never know the beauty that is happening above all the chaos and destruction we are experiencing here on earth. Each prayer is a saving grace for someone somewhere, this I know.

After all the praying and the crying I received a text from another friend who offered to go check my home and take pictures and send them to me. And this is my little miracle … the uprooted tree was the tree before the Jacaranda and it was so huge you couldn’t see past it.

So the first friend went no further and described the uprooted tree as the tree in the corner but just beyond that uprooted tree stood my sacred Jacaranda!

When I arrived home I made my way past the uprooted tree leaning on the house and there she was with many gigantic branches lost but still standing strong and majestic. I got my camera, started taking pictures and I asked the guardians to show me how she and my home had been protected and again I gave thanks.

This was the answer.

Still She Stands

 

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Divine Feminine Solar Eclipse Portal

photo by Gail Swanson

 

As we move through the powerful energies leading up to the Solar Eclipse all is escalating within and without. We are in a divine acceleration process. Where you focus your attention is of the utmost importance. This is a time where all we have experienced up to this point is crucial in our staying balanced and authentic.

It has been shown to me in a multitude of ways and signs that The Divine Feminine is entering a portal that can change everything.

What will it take?

It takes REMEMBERING

It takes COURAGE

It takes THE MAGIC YOU POSSESS WITHIN

It takes your DIVINE WILL

It takes EVERYTHING YOU HAVE

Whatever we have done and whatever has been revealed to us up to this point stands on the precipice of stepping in to your complete and total DIVINE FEMININE POWER.

I am completely convinced that even if just a handful of us could fully step into the complete and total amazing reason we are here on this planet at this time it will change EVERYTHING.

As much emerges from the shadows

THERE IS MUCH MORE EMERGING FROM THE LIGHT

When I asked for a divine emanation to aid the divine feminine in taking this next step
I was given this beautiful light image.

Breathe it into your being.

Remember who you are.

 

photo by Gail Swanson

Message of the Earth

Many awaken to the transforming earth energy
many feel this resonance within their own hearts
and wonder how
such uncertainty, such instability
can announce the way to a new way of living

what is it you feel?

memories of the past, present and future
time falling away
speeding up, slowing down

as the world seems to be on the brink of something
so out of reach
so unknowable

lives are brought into sharp focus
for the earth is a loving partner to the eye of the soul
and rattles and shakes
as she casts off the old and births the new

she is calling
she is pleading
do you hear her?

feel the message beneath her crust
for this is the message for each and every soul

for the soul
and of the soul

unite your heart
unite your soul
with the message of the earth

for this message comes from on high
for she is the living , breathing
cosmic sphere of transformation
of transcendence

she wipes from her eyes
her ancient and dried tears
and breathes a sigh of renewal
and hope for humanity

she stands not alone

for as she stretches and as she grows
and the shifts continue to roar
she waits and she watches
listens and feels
for the heartbeat of humanity

and she waits….

for what she now hears
is her own heartbeat
loud and strong
consciously alive with her sacred mission

and she waits….

for she knows the transformation shall only come
when the sound of her own heartbeat
is faintly heard
not for lack of strength
but for the overwhelming and resounding sound
of humanity’s heart
beating as one

 

 

Divine Potential

Yesterday I was very ill. I felt impressed however to get out my art supplies. I started with some small tubes of paint and was having such a difficult time I gave it up and switched to pastels. I can barely draw a stick figure. My children used to cry when they asked me to draw an animal and they would say “That doesn’t look like a horse”! Still I have a desire to create.

When I finished the pastel piece I felt very good about it. I liked looking at it. I said jokingly “Maybe this is where I come from.” Today I went out to take my photos as usual. When I was putting them on my computer I was struck by this one photo. The similarity is undeniable.

Here is the message:

An open heart and open mind fueled by a love of humanity and beyond carries you into a realm of existence that matches your divine vibration.

Contemplating upon these images awakens you to your own individual potential.

That singular unique divine potential when made manifest has the capacity to merge with all divine potential and becomes the catalyst for the change you are seeking.

The Boy and the Painting

When I was seventeen every night on my way home from work I passed a small art studio. On the back wall there was this beautiful painting of the sea. Every night I stood and stared at that painting and thought about how wonderful it would be if I could have it to look at all the time. I was just in love with that painting and the way it made me feel.

Not too long after I met a boy and we started dating. When he took me home to meet his parents we walked into the living room and there on the wall over the fireplace was an almost identical version of the painting in the art gallery. I was so surprised I told them the story of how I looked at a painting so similar to this every night and how much I loved it. The boy’s father told me that he was a painter and it was he who had painted this beautiful painting of the sea.

About a year later I married this boy and my father-in-law sweetly gave me the painting because he knew how much it meant to me. That was the first incredible sign that I was right where I should be and with the boy that would become the love of my life.  I still have the painting and the boy.

Sacred Geometry of Love

I have been taking these cosmic photographs for quite some time now. Today for the first time I brought out my crystal bowls to play to see if there would be any difference in the photos. There was. First I played one bowl and then took some pictures. They were so amazing I got my husband to play two bowls while I took more pictures.

Here is the message I received.

The power within is mightier than you can imagine. Thoughts have a vibration and a power that can harm or save. As the outer becomes more chaotic and nonsensical the inner should blossom as never before. Rise to the occasion. Lift and illuminate. Leave behind the old and worn and bring forth that which shall no longer remain hidden.

All is magnified. All is glorified. That which is visible to the world is of a particular vibration. The awakening of hearts and souls alters the vibration of everything. The awakening has only just begun. In conscious awareness keep your eyes and your heart on one thing only. The sacred truth that dwells within is made up of the sacred geometry of love.

Those that desire to disrupt this sacred love geometry have no power over those who dwell in the heart of love and truth. The journey has been long and arduous. Those who remain true to their inner knowing and their connection to the highest of realms understand the importance of who they are and what they must do. We call upon you to magnify everything you do.

Nurture yourselves as you nurture the earth. Feel about yourselves the way you feel about the earth. As you commune with her she awakens and partners with you in this cosmic loving endeavor. She revels in your love for her and responds in ways powerful and majestic. She merges with you and sends her vibration up and out and there the holy communion takes place.

We send you these universal messages to aid you as you move through these powerful and changing times. You are illuminating and magnifying your own personal sacred geometry. You are communing with the earth, the cosmos and one another. Whether you are called to seclusion or to move to a new geographical location, all is designed for the needs of the individual or soul group.

This loving exchange was magnified today by her intention to enhance the communication through the power of sound. This is an example of what we are trying to convey. Magnify all you do. Expect the miraculous for the miraculous shall soon become commonplace.

Magnify and Glorify.

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A Summer Solstice Story – Part Two – Heaven Sent

To catch up on this ongoing story please see A Summer Solstice Story https://gailheartoflove.wordpress.com/2017/06/23/a-summer-solstice-story/

This is how the day started today.

After what happened at the Summer Solstice Ceremony with the circle of birds over me this picture was the first thing I saw this morning and really this is what it felt like.

I always say when someone you love passes all the other deaths come marching forward and all the grief you have ever felt merges with the newest loss. That is the way it always is for me anyway. I don’t know how I could get through any of this without the magic.

I just found a picture I have never seen in my life. I burst into tears at the sight of it. My memory is not great so I showed it to my husband who remembers everything. He said “I have never seen this picture before.” Now I cried even harder.

There he is, our Billy, the one who lost his life in Viet Nam. There he is smiling at me in a picture we have no idea where it came from. And in no uncertain terms, all these years later, he is telling me for the second time, from beyond the veil “I was there to greet her.”

I knew this and even though I knew this and had seen it and the etching from the Viet Nam wall confirmed it – Billy’s picture arrived today straight from Heaven.

As I am writing this my husband comes in and looks out the window and tells me to look and there is the most beautiful red tailed hawk sitting on our fence. This is the first time we have seen a hawk sitting on our fence and she/he comes right in the middle of this story.

Hawk is the messenger of the spirit world

Hawk spirit animals belong to the realm of bird medicine. It carries the symbolism that comes with the ability to fly and reach the skies.”
 Hawks are the protectors and visionaries of the Air. They hold the key to higher levels of consciousness. This power animal enables us to awaken vision and inspires a creative life purpose. Having Hawk as power animal means your life will be filled with responsibility, because Hawk people seek the overall view. You will most probably be aware of omens and spirit messages.

A Red tailed Hawk is special. It will ALWAYS be with you, for life. It has direct ties to the Kundalini, the seat of primal life force. It is linked to the base chakra. If you have this power animal, you need to be aware of and work toward fulfilling your soul’s destiny. It reflects far greater intensity of energy within your life: physically, emotionally and mentally. Spiritual forces will be felt strong within you.

One trait all hawks share, is the ability to move between the seen and unseen realms gracefully, joining both worlds together. Their acute vision attributes this ability, their discriminating nature keeps them out of dangers path. Hawks have a broad vision, allowing them to see what the future holds. In man this is a symbol of prophetic insight.

“In ancient Egypt, the hawk was considered a royal bird and a symbol of the soul (ba). Isis is said to have shape shifted into a Hawk to save Osiris. Horus also carried Hawk medicine which allowed him to see the “unseeable”.

And so as I have spent this day remembering all the happy days we spent together, my tears of grief and gratitude flow, for the birds and Heaven, for Billy and Kathy and Sally and Emma, all my darling childhood friends who are no longer here.  They speak to me in magical ways from wherever they are. I know that Kathy now rests in the arms of the angels. She is reunited with all her beloveds and one day soon I will hear from her too.

I love you all so.

A Summer Solstice Story

I was asked to read a prayer at our annual Summer Solstice Ceremony on the beach. I have many beautiful prayers written over the years and I am always open to receive a new one if it is meant for a certain time. I have learned that I will be guided to what is to be spoken even down to the last minute. This is what happened for the Solstice. I was guided to read, not a prayer, but a message from Magdalene and right before I left for the ceremony I was guided to a message from Joan of Arc. I realize now these messages are truly divine prayers.

The morning of the ceremony I received a phone call from my childhood friend’s sister asking me if I received something she had sent me and telling me her sister was now in hospice. She told me that her sister had been going through her things and came across something she wanted me to have. I never received it. It was an etching of the name of our friend from the Viet Nam memorial wall and I assume a note to tell me that the end was near.

I made my way to the ceremony feeling upset and unsettled. I prayed and prayed for my friend and her family all through the ceremony. A strong feeling came over me that she would leave today on the glory of the Summer Solstice. I still felt terribly unsettled. Now my name was called and it was time for me to stand and speak the words that were so divinely given. I stood in the Solstice circle. As I spoke these words they vibrated into every cell of my being. I began to feel two things together – peace and strength. I felt the truth and the power in every word. I felt stronger and stronger. I felt them – Magdalene and Joan of Arc and everyone else did too.

I spoke the final word and I heard “Gail look up.”! I looked up and there above me was an enormous circle of birds swirling and swirling. I had never seen anything like it and I felt the power and the love the birds were sending go right through me.

I knew she was home in the arms of the angels.

When I got home my husband told me she passed.

I realized later that I had seen her mother and father and our friend Billy and another friend come for her. The etching she was sending to me was Billy’s.

Godspeed Kathy.

Heaven rejoices at your homecoming.

Your brave and loving mission here is done.

Don’t Give Up

It has been my joy and my mission to share my connection and my experiences with the realms that lie beyond this world. I am blessed and deeply grateful for it all. It has been wondrous but it has also been what feels like the complete opposite.

This I believe is the whole point, to balance these extremes. The trials and the initiations can make you feel like you will not survive them. The love that you feel showering upon you and the messages and synchronicities you receive are beyond what you could ever imagine.

You live in a world that for the most part makes you feel you don’t belong here and you feel this every moment of the day. When you are in nature you feel you are nature. You breathe with the trees, merge with the mountains and dissolve into the sea. This is your true home on earth.

You know there is a higher purpose to everything and you look at everything on every possible level. Your physical body is like an acupuncture point on the planet and you are constantly transmuting enormous energies through your physical body.

You are struck by revelations that make you fall to your knees, both wondrous and horrifying, and you must go through the arduous process of assimilating it all into your physical body and your consciousness.

You know you came here to do this.

You know that each and every thing you overcome yourself, each kindness given, each thing truly forgiven, each act of compassion, each time you raise yourself up and start again, each and every single beautiful thing, you are changing the world.

The journey to love, the journey to truth, the journey to remembering the incredible divine beings we are was not meant to be easy. This is the life where all our past lives are coming forward. This is the shake-up. This is the turning point. This is the where and how we help each other and this planet.

I have seen firsthand, by the grace of Heaven, a person who to the outside world seems to be suffering, is lifting the lives of strangers thousand of miles away. What each of us does is magnified a million times fold by just knowing that this is not a possibility it is a divine truth.

As this journey continues, more and more I am so deeply grateful for those who travel this path, for it is true that knowing that even one someone understands can feel like a lifesaver.

Those that read this are my fellow travelers. I am sending a note of love and appreciation for every one of you.

I understand.

I am with you.

Don’t give up.

Love Nature and Magic

This is a story of the way nature heals. This is a story of what love can do. And this is a story of magic.  I was having a very rough day and I was in tears. My husband knows that the beach is everything to me. It was the end of a long day and we were both tired. He said “Come on I’ll drive you to the beach.”

The moment we got there the dolphins arrived and they were very close to the shore. We rushed over to where they were and I was immediately filled with such joy. We watched as they swam out to sea and marveled at how this happened the moment we arrived. I wish I had time to get my camera to capture the moment but it happened just as we placed our things on the sand.

As soon as we got into the water to swim I turned and saw the most beautiful rainbow and then we noticed there were two.  Double Rainbow.

Then I felt something under my feet and reached down to find a rock in the shape of a heart.

I took some pictures of the beauty that was happening all around us. Sometimes the pictures come out blurry for no reason but that is when the magic shows up.

Nature is the healing balm. Love took me out of my sorrow and brought me to the sea. Magic is everywhere.

I am blessed.

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