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GIFTED GODDESS COLBY REBEL Dive into this months Gifted Goddess interview talking all things purpose and passion with Colby Rebel
What is Your Superpower? 7 TIPS TO LIVING YOUR PURPOSE WITH PASSION AND UNLOCKING THAT PERFECT CAREER
AUGUST 2020
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It’s time to let go! WITH OUR 6 STEP RITUAL
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Letter from Founder Meet our founder Kim Bleeze
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Contents Check out what’s in our issue!
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Editing Team Meet our editing team
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What is Your Superpower? Tips to the perfect career
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Music of the Month Miss Honey: New Earth Nectar
45 Radical Thinking
10 Book of the Month
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11 Our Gifted Goddess Meet Colby Rebel
49 With Love From the Afterlife Spirit, soul, and psychic advice
21 The Power to Heal
53 Numerology
25 Mind Body Spirit Immunity
57 Horrorscopes and Stars
27 Manifesting Your Dreams
63 Classifieds
31 Protect Your Energy
66 You Are Invited
Change Makers 3rd Edition
The healing power of affirmations Healing with gut health
Turn your thoughts into reality Balance your life
Inner strength and passion 6 step ritual
Who are our fierce experts? Health and fitness
Re-think your way into joyous living Words of wisdom from the Earth
Read your numbers for this month What do your stars say? Products and Services Are we looking for you?
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What is
YOUR
Superpower? by Colby Rebel
7 TIPS TO LIVING YOUR PURPOSE WITH PASSION AND UNLOCKING THAT
PERFECT CAREER
Are you feeling as if there is something more out there for you, but having trouble discovering what that may be? Do you wake up dreading to go to your daily job, but feel there is no other choice? Do you dream of doing something different yet can’t seem to discover what that may be for you? We all come here with innate soulpurpose. There is an inner destiny and although we know this on a soul level, we sometimes struggle with finding what that may be for us. So, we fall into the daily grind to pay the bills and leave each day with a feeling of emptiness. The key to fulfillment is finding your soul purpose. You can discover your soul purpose by first unlocking your superpower. Your superpower is a quality or trait that comes naturally to you. Discovering your superpower will guide you to unlocking that perfect career you secretly desire.
How do you find your superpower? Start with what comes naturally for you. For instance, are you a good listener? Your soul purpose may be as a counselor or therapist. Perhaps, you have an eye for color? Your purpose may be to make others feel more empowered through fashion, design or consulting. Do you tend to feel energy around you? You may be here to lend healing in the form of reiki or other forms of healing. All of these natural traits may be your hidden superpower! By understanding your natural gifts, you can then lean into what that deeper purpose is for you. Perhaps you have been searching for your life purpose and feel discouraged that it hasn’t already presented itself. Most times, we are overthinking our natural gifts. We take them for granted (because they are easy for us) and by default, don’t realize the depths of what we have to offer. When you can look at what comes easy for you and start to put a plan around it, you see it grow. In that growth emerges your truelife purpose. The purpose that makes you feel fulfilled. The purpose that inspires you and ignites your soul deep within.
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Colby Rebel Our gifted goddess by Kim Bleeze
We all have an inner light to shine. One that has the potential to create a positive impact on our little version of the world. Yet, we often may find ourselves shying away from that truthful part of ourselves. Choosing instead, to remain hidden and only dreaming about our dreams rather than daring to make them come true. Then there are those fierce women in the world who understanding their worth, their drive, their passion and see it as a non-negotiable. Taking a leap of faith with both feet first and going after what calls to their heart, instead of allowing their fear to be in the driver’s seat. It will be those women whose inner light shines naturally brighter and for no more a reason than choosing to know courage and own their fierce truth. They dare to follow their dreams and in doing so, become a beacon of hope and inspiration for others whom they touch along the way. These are our Gifted Goddesses. Women just like you and me who dared to follow their calling and leap with both feet, intuitively following their souls’ path and saying yes to where their intuition guides them. These women not only live with passion and purpose, they use it to create a massive impact too. I trust you will be as inspired by their stories as we are and for this month’s issue, let us introduce you to Colby Rebel. Colby Rebel is an internationally recognized Psychic Medium, Certified Master Spiritual Teacher, Radio Host and Best-Selling author located in Los Angeles, CA. Here is what she had to say.
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“We are on a healing journey our whole life. From the day that we were old enough to understand that it’s our responsibility to take care of ourselves”.
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L.A. Dawson
The Power to Heal How the Healing Power of Affirmations Helped Her Recover from Years of Debilitating Pain Written by Elizabeth Vigar
L.A. Dawson is not one to give up. Back in 2011, she became aware of the debilitating effects that Lyme disease was having on her body and she was thrown into a world of pain and medication. The symptoms of the disease created in her a vulnerability that led to a gruesome accident. Her recovery has been a painful and challenging journey for L.A. But, she says it is the desire to leave a legacy that will make her children proud that has given her the strength to find hope, resilience and healing. L.A. Dawson is an author, life coach and health coach who specialises in stress and crisis, and she writes for Social Life magazine in New York City. She became a health and life coach after an accident almost took her life. Nowadays, she feels inspired to take those who are suffering, on a healing journey and help them find hope, health and peace.
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Mind Body Spirit
Immunity Healing with Gut Health
by L. A. Dawson Self-care has always been paramount in my life. Eating well and exercising daily was ingrained in me by my athletic father. I learned that a strong immune system has always been key to a healthy body, but the protocols have changed as research changes. It can be daunting to keep up with the information. Getting Health and Life Coaching credentials helped me sift through the endless material. As I progressed through vegetarianism and back, I realized a healthy immune system is important, but what that means changes based on your body and its’ presenting gut health. We meet our bodies’ needs at the place where it is at NOW. Our gut contains about 75% of our immune systems. The first step is to assess your gut health. Keep a journal of food sensitivities and eliminate what does not work. You can try to rotate them back in, but carefully, because the goal is to have good digestion without irritation.
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Two foods that assist in excellent gut health are RAW turmeric and blueberries. If you cannot tolerate the bitterness of the raw turmeric, then capsules are a good alternative. Blueberries have natural sugar, so I enjoy them three times a week. Too much sugar feeds an inflammatory response in the body, which ultimately can cause disease.
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Eat the rainbow! Fruits and vegetables feed all the senses while improving immunity. It is a full body experience to cook a rainbow of foods that we know are good for us, but this also feeds our souls. The mind, body, spirit connection is ever-present as we feed our bodies healthily. Making a conscious decision to treat our bodies with respect and love, cooking food that is healthy, and finally ingesting with positive intentions is no longer considered “out there” thinking. The brain is a muscle. Putting that powerful muscle into our positive decisions improves the outcome. Go out into the dirt and get your hands dirty! Certain microbes in dirt can help our immune systems fight a virus or bacteria. Gardening makes you feel part of something bigger and research has shown it can lift depression which ultimately builds immunity. Also, while gardening in the sun you receive a dose of Vitamin D which energizes infection fighting cells.
Vitamins and supplements absolutely can help boost immunity. Personally, I believe we should take them… and then take time off, to give your gut a re-set. Typically, I do three months on, two weeks off. However, during Covid-19, I have stayed on my personal protocol with only a few days off every few months. I take supplements suggested to me by a nutritionist who knows I had Neurological Lyme Disease. I also do research on each supplement that I add to make sure I am not taking toxic amounts. This is important because everyone reacts differently. Get to know your body and gut intimately. When you do, you gain valuable knowledge about what your body needs. Also, your body can develop sudden allergic reactions or sensitivities even if you have taken a vitamin regularly. The following is a list of supplements to build a strong immunity. Before you decide to take any supplements, check with your doctor that it does not conflict with medications you take, and that it is safe for you. I am not a medical professional and do not prescribe or suggest you take any of these. • Ocular Protect whole body formula -This formula is a daily eye protective multivitamin • Neurochondria by Thorne Research – brain formula • Elderberry Elixir – immunity formula • Olive Leaf Complex – immune support and antioxidant • NAC – free radical protection • Selenium – immune support • Vitamin C – immune support IMAGE © Tijana / Adobe Stock
• Curcumin – free radical fighter
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• 24 strain probiotic – gut health • B-12 sublingually – energy and nervous system health • Vitamin D3 – mood elevator • Decaf-Green tea capsules – immunity and heart health • Quercetin + Nettles – anti-inflammatory and allergies • Zinc – immune support • Lactoferrin -immune support
Gut health is equal to caring for your immune system. It can be challenging to understand what your body needs but putting the time in will give you lifelong benefits. Whiles spas and facials are fun and may make your face glow… a healthy immune system makes you shine from within radiating excellent health. Join me… choose health!
Meet L. A. Dawson L.A. Dawson is an author, life coach and health coach who specialises in stress and crisis, and she writes for Social Life magazine in New York City. She became a health and life coach after an accident almost took her life. Nowadays, she feels inspired to take those who are suffering on a healing journey and help them find hope, health, and peace. www.liveandheal.com
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Manifesting Your Dreams
Live a Life of Abundance and Turn Your Thoughts into Reality Written by Elizabeth Vigar What would you say if I told you that your dreams no longer have to be just fantasy, but that they can become real goals that you actively begin achieving right now? Better yet, these goals do not require anything other than a shift in your mindset, a little belief, and some patience. Learning how our thoughts create our reality is at the core of understanding manifestation. To see the positive changes we want to experience in our life, we need to learn how to align our thoughts with joy and love. In doing this, we create the space to welcome everything we want into our life. Many of us are not aware of how we attract things we don’t want into our lives. We have grown accustomed to and even comfortable with our feelings of fear. We unconsciously believe that we must pay for happiness with suffering. Many of us may even believe that we do not deserve happiness. We worry that there isn’t enough for everyone. This shows through our feelings of competitiveness, inadequacy, rejection, and comparison. These are known as low-frequency thoughts. They can become habitual and make us operate at a lower frequency.
“Fear-minded thinking puts us out of alignment with positive energy. When we are out of alignment with positive energy, we’re disconnected from the support of the Universe.” – Gabrielle Bernstein We need to start aligning our thoughts with joy and love. When you have loving thoughts, your emotions shift and your energy changes. Feeling these high-
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frequency emotions enables us to resonate at a higher frequency. This is known as realigning with the Universe. You can begin doing this by simply being grateful for what you already have and being open to creative possibilities for abundance. By thinking joyful and loving thoughts, we naturally attract more of those things into our life. But the more we have fearful thoughts, the less we can consciously create space for solutions.
How can I feel joyful and loving when I am sad and depressed? It takes practice to learn how to manifest good things in your life. When we are feeling lowfrequency emotions, it can seem impossible to shift our mindset out of an energetic slump. The best way to start is by becoming consciously aware of your thoughts. When you recognise yourself feeling low-frequency emotions like fear, anxiety, guilt, shame and depression, try remembering all the things that you already have that you can be grateful for. By doing this seemingly small thing, you can make the necessary shift that will start to produce more positive and higher-frequency emotions. Ask yourself, “are my thoughts in alignment with joy”?
“The real secret is to feel good. To love yourself in the moment and not compare yourself to where you think you should be. Because once you just start being psyched about what is, more of what you desire comes to you.” – Gabrielle Bernstein
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Protect Your
ENERGY
Balance Your Life IMAGES Š Microgen / Adobe Stock
by Karina Barca
We are currently living in a world where our physical, spiritual, emotional and mental health and overall wellbeing are being affected and challenged dramatically. During this time, our foundations are being rocked on many different levels. We are all being triggered in different ways due to our belief systems, trauma, the environmental factors that we grew up with, and the ones we currently have in our lives. There is a deep need to feel safe physically, mentally, and spiritually. And it’s especially important during these unpredictable and unprecedented times, where fear and uncertainty are at the forefront of the collective on a global scale. So what can we do to help ourselves? Protecting your aura/energy and instilling firm boundaries is the key. Just as we protect our physical bodies, we also have to protect and take care our energetic bodies. Your aura is your energetic field, which surrounds all of you. When you keep it clear, it helps protect your energy and also raises your vibration and/or frequency.
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Here are some techniques that can help to clear your energy Going for a swim or having a bath with epsom salts or sea salt.
C leansing yourself and your home with white
sage, palo santo, cedar or any other plant/herb that resonates with you. When sageing your home, pay close attention to the corners and behind doors where stagnant energy builds. Due to the smoke released during this process, you may want to remove the batteries from your smoke alarms. Once finished, you may want to leave your home for about an hour. Open the windows upon your return to allow fresh air and new energy into your home. Don’t forget to replace the batteries in your smoke alarms too!
M editation. This releases stresses and
doesn’t allow them to continue building up in your nervous system. If your mind is not quiet, that is perfectly fine. Just allow the thoughts to come and go. When it comes to meditation, a shallow dive is always better than no dive at all.
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earing protective crystals that are grounding and protect against negativity. My favourites are hematite, black tourmaline and pyrite. You can also place them around your home, or do a crystal grid with a specific intention. But be mindful of crystals placed on your bedside table. Grounding crystals are best suited for this.
S pend time alone and in nature to recharge.
Touch the earth, the trees, kick off your shoes and socks and feel the earth beneath your feet to ground yourself. Envision your energy going into the Mother Earth and then her energy entering and filling you on the inside. Do this in a cyclical manner.
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isten to your intuition. Many are looking for connections through devices and social media. All of this is external. Take time to go internally and connect with yourself and your intuition. What are you feeling? Acknowledge your emotions and what is happening within. Build that connection and trust with yourself.
L isten to uplifting music. Sing! Dance! Try
some vibrational music such as 432hz and 528hz. Listen to high frequency sounds, singing bowls or chant a mantra.
B urn incense or use an oil burner with your favourite essential oils.
B ook a healing session. This will help to
address your triggers and clear any blocks, emotions, mental health issues and traumas, just to name a few. Many healers do remote/ distant energy healing, which can be just as powerful as one done in person. I speak from my own personal experience as a Healer, and also as one who receives both personal and distant healings.
E xercise daily and keep hydrated. Moving
your physical body helps move stagnant energy, stresses and also keeps your energy flowing. During stressful times, our automatic response is to be in a state of ‘fight or flight’. Our organs go into overdrive, especially our kidneys and adrenal glands. Keeping yourself hydrated is super beneficial for these organs and your overall wellbeing.
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ractice gratitude and faith. You can do this through prayer, meditation, positive affirmations or even start a gratitude diary. A few minutes in the morning and then again at night can do wonders as it directly connects you to your heart.
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The R itual of Letting Go
A 6-step ritual to help you let go of the old, and prepare yourself to welcome in the new. by Kim Bleeze What’s that saying…? “All good things come to an end?” Although true to some extent, it can also be challenging when change happens, or something ends. When a relationship, job, experience, behaviour, way of being, or current phase of life ends, letting go can be a little tough for some. And that’s especially true if those things have held meaning in our life at some point. It’s hard, even when we know that the change may be for the best. Learning to let go of what doesn’t belong in our life; the pain, the hurt, the loss, the old thinking and who we used to identify ourselves with, is an important aspect of moving forward towards a more rewarding life. Whether that is feeling a certain way, a relationship that needs to change, that job you just lost or the career path you wish to change. Energetically, letting go of it is really important. It creates room for the universe to deliver an upgraded version of what we need and what we wish to manifest in our in life right now. Then when we create ritual around that, the letting go process becomes more powerful. This allows us to energetically close the door on what is no longer good for us. It also contributes to the energy of new beginnings that are more worthy of our focus, time, and attention. So, I’ve created this ‘Letting Go Ritual’ to make it easier for you to find release in all things that need to go. Like all the things that need to change or be removed from your life completely. Exciting, right? Well I hope so, because by saying yes to this ritual, you are also saying yes to opening the door and making room for all the new and amazing stuff that is coming your way. Especially the bits that are related to living your soul purpose, because there has never been a better time to reconnect to what your soul already knows.
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The Ritual Step 1.. Set Up Your Space Go ahead and set your space up in a manner that resonates with you. You will need your items to be placed to the front of you and in reach. So give thought to this as you lay out your space or room. I personally like to place cushions on the floor and sit on these with an altar in front of me! Just as long as it feels physically and energetically comfortable to you.
Step 2.. Intent and Presence Take a moment to just breathe and settle into your space. Once you feel settled, go ahead and welcome in the intent of what you want this ritual to achieve. Continue breathing in that energy and intent and allow that to ground you in staying present in the moment.
Step 3.. Lighting the Candle When you are in ritual, there is purposeful action in every moment and in every action. So, now that it is time to begin, light the candle with presence and intent for what you are creating. Continue focusing on your breath. Breathe deeply in and out as you stare into the flame. Allow yourself to reach a state of inner peace and tranquillity as you surrender to the sacredness of ritual.
Step 4.. Writing Take your writing paper and pen and write down everything you wish to release. That’s right get it all out! Keep going until you have thoroughly gotten it all off your chest. You are the only one who will see this so be honest, real, and raw. Allow yourself to express and release any emotion that comes up too.
I love this step. Burning in ritual is an ancient remedy of release! Begin by saying these words: “I let go and release all that no longer belongs in my life”, or whatever words resonate for you personally. Take your written-on-paper and light a corner of it making sure it is well lit. Then place it in the fire-proof bowl and watch it burn as you continue to pray your commitment of letting go to the universe.
Step 6.. Final Release You have just released an immense amount of stagnate energy from your life. So it is important to shake this off. You can do this by rubbing your hands together and then separately shaking them. Or, as I love to do, get up and move your whole body and/or dance and shake it off that way. Enjoy the process of release and letting go of the old! Fierce Truths Magazine
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Step 5.. Burn it all away
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A 1st-Degree Muay Thai Kickboxer and sole owner of Jo’s Fitness Studio. Muay Thai has made Jo stronger, more comfortable in her own skin, and taught her to have faith and trust in herself. She now hopes to inspire, and help others overcome their own obstacles by sharing her expertise in fitness.
A Melbourne-based healer, intuitive and mentor. For the last 27 years, Scott has worked with men and women who want to find a new way of peaceful living that is in harmony with their true selves and others. He believes that any personal journey is an “inside job”: it begins with focusing on ourselves.
A plant wisdom keeper, ceremonialist, shamanic healer and therapist. Also a kitchen witch, plant based chef, yoga teacher, earth doula, bio-regionalist, and a practising animist. She runs workshops, sacred cacao ceremonies, mentoring programmes and will bring through earth wisdom.
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A free-spirited gypsy traveller and creative at heart who has worked as a medium, psychic, mentor, teacher, speaker, and healer for over 10 years. She has passion for inspiring people to be real, raw, and awakened to their soul’s path, and will be sharing stories and bringing messages through from spirit.
An expert Numerologist, psychic medium and teacher of her crafts. She has a passion for sharing the benefits of Numerology as a key to understanding everyday life and awakening the soul’s journey. Stephanie will reveal current cycles and identify areas that may need to be enhanced or nurtured.
An Internationally recognised Intuitive Astrologer, medium, psychic and entrepreneur who has been working professionally in her craft for over 25 years. Lana will be sharing her invaluable expertise as our in-house Astrologist each month and is renown for her accuracy and detail.
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By Scott Grasso
Re-Think Your Way Into Joyous Living Hello family! I am delighted to share my experience with you about making healthy changes regarding how we think about ourselves, others and the world. There has never been a greater need for selfaware, empowered sisters and brothers who are radiating their light and love in the world.
L et’s face it, most people I know are waking up and trying to recover from SOMETHING in their lives. It’s important to understand that anytime we experience trauma or negativity, it affects how we think and feel about ourselves, others and the world. So let’s spend some time together in self-reflection. I had to do a thorough spiritual house cleaning before the sunlight of the Spirit could begin to shine through me. There was a lot of work to eliminate the dis-ease that I found within myself. It’s so easy for me
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to become distracted by the wrongdoings of others -- to point the “finger” and pass judgment. Or I can be co-dependently focused on “helping others” in order to feel better about my damaged self. My ugly truth is that I used to be quite smug about proclaiming my righteousness and criticising the shortcomings of others. I actually liked to feel annoyed and angry. It gave me a false sense of superiority. Today, I know that anger is a drug that I picked up. It made me feel powerful when I was feeling power-less in areas of my life. You see, my fragile
ego actually needed to be “right” about everything. A spiritual advisor once asked me: “Scott, do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?” I thought: “What a stupid question. Of course, I want to be RIGHT!”
“Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?” Regrettably, being “right” rarely leads us to the experience of happiness. It separates us from others instead of drawing us closer to our brothers and sisters. The result of always being “right” is ultimately, loneliness. We need to turn our attention inwards on ourselves if we
by admitting that my diseased thinking was causing me extraordinary pain and terrible isolation. Then, I had to ask for help. I found a professional listener and recovery specialists. Oh, that was very difficult for me! I was taught to “pull myself up by my boot-straps” and keep propelling myself forward by the force of my own self-will.
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And just to be completely transparent: My willingness to do self-work has never been motivated by virtue. It wasn’t like I thought: “Hmm. It’s a rainy Saturday and I have nothing to do, so I think I’ll unpack the overwhelming existential pain of being me”. Pain has always been my prime motivator. My spiritual advisor says that I never see the light; instead, I always feel the heat.
want to live happily in the world with others who have different ideologies and opinions. We must be the change within our own selves that we want to see in the world, before we can move out and truly make a difference for others and the planet.
“We must be the change within our own selves that we want to see in the world.” How do we find our way out of that old stuff that haunts us, defines our identities and warps our perception? In my experience, I needed to start
I only make healing progress when the pain of staying stuck is greater than my fear of looking at myself. I wanted to use the power of my intellect to solve all of my problems. I did not understand that my head was full of dis-eased ideas and warped core beliefs about myself, others and the world. It’s important for you to name that loud, negative, critical and judging voice that may be in your head. Then let’s develop a dialogue with that negative persona, because that voice is not who you really are. I call mine Phyllis. She’s an 80-year-old cranky retiree who lives in a dirty caravan out in the desert. She chain-smokes unfiltered Camel cigarettes. Phyllis is ALWAYS complaining about something or someone. She is afraid of everything and everyone. Who is your critical voice? Now that you have named that toxic voice in your head, let’s continue our self-reflection exercise by saying a prayer like this: “Dear Loving Universe (even if you don’t believe that today): I am sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. I am willing to acknowledge and change the old stories that I tell myself and others. Please help me to choose a different way to relate to my life and the world.” Of course, this language is completely optional. Use whatever words work for you. But the key is to express willingness to ask for help and wisdom from outside of yourself.
Dis-eased thinking: Understand your self-centred fears. Freeing yourself from your personal darkness and moving forward with your life often requires a radical re-think of your core thoughts and beliefs. For me, I had to understand that my dis-ease resides in my mind. It is not caused by my boyfriend, a vodka bottle or a packet of TimTams. I was taught that all of my pain and “bad” behaviour was the result of taking action based on two deeply imbedded selfcentred fears: 1. Fear that I am going to lose what I have. 2. Fear that I am not going to get what I want. Sometimes, you can experience both fears at the same time. For instance, as a young gay kid I was terrified that I was not going to find a place where I could feel safe and be accepted for who I really was. As a self-actualised adult, I still have unreasonable fears that I could lose my money, my health, or my partner. Phyllis tells me that I’m not going to be able to support myself as a healer or find community with other healers. Friends in recovery programs remind me that these fears are like termites that devour the foundations of any life that we try and build for ourselves. What are your self-centred fears? Write them down, sit with them for a few days, and then reflect on them again. You can also share your fears with a trusted friend or advisor. I find that speaking about those fears, even out loud to myself, can provide clarity and often takes away a lot of their power. Now that we have some ideas about our fears, we can begin to practice discernment. When we feel triggered in a situation, it is critically important for us to stop, pause and reflect. Inevitably, we will find that one or both of these self-centred fears are present in the moment. Then we can choose to take action or respond from a much more self-aware perspective.
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EARTH By Renée McCready Earth Wisdom Keeper
OUR EVOLUTIONARY HOME IS NATURE The call of the wild exists in our bones and our blood. It sits in our limbic system and our cellular memory; a visceral understanding waiting to be unfurled, brought to the surface and set into motion. The call of the wild by design was, and is, an innate deep thread that links us back to the beginning. It links us back to how our ancestors held knowledge of the plants, animals, season and cycles. Back to the Mitochondrial Eve, our one common female ancestor. We share DNA with plants; they are literally our first ancestors. We have co-evolved with their medicine and food offerings, so why are we so disconnected from the deep nourishment that’s readily available to us?
We all share the same breath; we are exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide with the natural world constantly. You could say we share that same breath with one another, as if we are one fluid energetic self-regulating organism, a collective microbiome of human evolution. I feel in the time we are in right now, we have been conditioned to be separate from the whole. We are separated through the exchange of our breath with one another, the aloha, the life force, being seen as a violator in the global narrative. Right now is such a potent and important time for us to be surrounded by the natural world. It’s so important to make time to walk into a forest or green space. We need to deeply breathe in the terpenes released from the trees to stimulate our immune cells, and to interact with the symbiotic energy exchange from our botanical allies. The land is an old wise ancestor. She wants to know us, observe us, have a relationship with us. She holds codes and sacred knowledge from the wisdom keepers and medicine people that have walked the story lines before us. She wants us to sing to her, touch her, tell her story.
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The great mother desires us to know of our birth-rite to remember who we really are. She is always showing us to rise in love.
“We lost a necessary reverence for the wild and for the feminine” - Gina Raw La Cerva The land teaches us about being patient, about right timing, about slowing down, about surrender. As we weave in the soft fascination of our feminine lineage, the earth rises to meet us. We recall the wild vastness of our own soul’s journey in the
WHISPER The time is now; to awaken and reconnect to the innate sustenance that you hold. Awaken and reconnect to your wild ways and embodied wisdom, and to nature that is your evolutionary home.
A ritual to reawaken your connection to nature
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Find a special spot outside in a green space. It can be your garden, a local park, an area close to a waterway or a forest near your home. Choose a place that you can easily access on a regular basis.
human evolution. This is a way to create a reality where we are not separate or dissonant from one another or from the great mother. When we deny the feminine wild that is part of each and every soul that walks this earth journey, we suppress one of our greatest birthrites. That we are deeply rooted into her. She will never abandon us. She asks us to look to the elements. The water teaches us about flow and emotional expression. The wind teaches us about movement and allowing. The fire teaches us about transformation and cleansing. And the earth teaches us about creativity and love. We yearn to be without limits. We want to sing and dance, as equals side by side, sharing the one breath in the wild ways of our own making.
Make this spot familiar to you. Develop an intimate relationship with the land, a tree, the plants that live and breath in this green space. Create a bond, a friendship with this space, and make time each day to visit this spot. Each time you approach this spot, do so mindfully with reverence. Take a little offering with you: a few dried rose petals, a little cacao, even just a prayer or a little song. Get comfortable and settle yourself in the space. Breathe deeply and relax into your body. Feel yourself dropping into the now moment, just you and the nature environment. Set an intention to connect with the natural world around you. Let go of any distractions from your day. Tune into what you can see, feel, smell, hear, taste. Focus on the experience of being in the moment with the natural world. Allow your childlike curiously to wander, to ponder and explore what it all feels like in relation to you, and you to your surroundings. Take a journal along and write down any feelings or insights. Draw pictures. Ask if it’s ok to collect any offerings like a leaf or a cone, a flower, with thanks. Take the offerings home for your altar. When you’re ready to leave: give gratitude with words, a song, a prayer and say farewell to the space, the tree, plants, land, the spirit of the place. Let them know you will be back again soon. Fierce Truths Magazine
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Numerology With Stephanie McKinnon
August 23-08-2020 – September 22-08-2020 Numerology is the study of the sacred numbers in your life. In this column, I want to educate and empower you to understand your own life. I will draw your awareness to characteristic traits and patterns, as well as, highlight aspects or events that will be played out with every month’s themes as you move throughout your life. All this is revealed through the numbers in your date of birth. This is known as your life path number. You will also discover your personal year number, understand the current year theme of 2020 and the current theme of each month. All this will give you a bigger picture or overview of how or what your current cycle and month means for you. Current Energy Themes of 2020
August 2020
2020=4 – This is the universal overall theme, and here are the traits that you will experience this year:
Use this time to take steps to further build on your long-term security, especially within your finances.
Work, finances, relationships, home, family, friendships, even our health and emotions will be touched. A crushing of illusions, as all truths can be revealed. It is a year that we all need to be personally responsible regarding all matters of our lives. Truth, justice, law and order will be highlighted within our world. A year for us to just get back to what really counts. For some, it will appear to be quite challenging and testing at times. Be aware of what is known as the “shadow you”. This may be traits or patterns within ourselves that we can ignore or be completely unaware of. However, we will need to accept, own or face these at some point in our lives. The 2020 shadow patterns will show up as moments of: Insecurity Instability Being rigid, stubborn, dictatorial, overbearing or lazy
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Be focused and present in all areas, daily. Set the goal to move forward and achieve. Remember that energy flows where our energy and thoughts go. Think positively. Your mind can swing from powerful thoughts to helpless feelings. September 2020
Look at September as a time to spring clean your life before you seek further stability. Areas that can be highlighted with these transformations are home, property, relationships, and work. Come back to the basics in order to prepare yourself to move forward. This may involve “surrendering” for some. This is a time when our collective world will rise through events or moments that pull at ones’ heart strings with compassion for another. Therefore, we will all grow in some way. These moments will differ, from challenging times, to some beautiful moments as individuals.
Overall Month Theme & Pattern for 23 - 08-2020 – 2209 -2020 This is a transformational time within the year’s theme. It is seen and felt strongly within all areas of stability and security, so all our core foundations are being affected. This transformational energy can be felt in your career, home, family and emotional stability. Be aware: this could cause you to feel vulnerable and insecure at times. This is a month where power and survival mode can be seen. It could be playing out within our government or on an individual level in our transforming world. During this time, remind yourself that life has brought you this far and will continue to take you further. Have trust and faith to move through the unknown. Remember that when you let go, this always makes room for the new. If you feel uncomfortable and out of your depth through this time, know you are growing in areas of your soul’s wisdom. Look to the unknown becoming moments of possibilities and sharing new opportunities. This is a wonderful time to reflect what you have learned and how you have grown in wisdom so far this year.
Please note: Numerology moves in cycles of 9 years. Because September is the 9th month, it will bring the energy of transformations and the closing of chapters. There will also be some great wake-up calls.
May I suggest being selfcompassionate, loving and kind to yourself? Then, allow this compassion to flow out to all those you share your time and life with. It will support you and help all in our current world.
Here are this month’s Shadow themes. Patterns seen or felt could include: Judgement Playing the dictator Being stubborn Overindulging Feeling resentful or jealous Be aware: this could highlight where some insecurities lie within you. Know that you are resisting an opportunity to grow and ask yourself why. Let the courage within you rise. You have this. Below is your guide for your Life Path and your Personal Year. For instance, if you are Life path of 9 and in a personal year of 7, read both to get your personal forecast. Then consider the 2020 themes and the current month’s themes.
Life Path Number This is calculated with your date of birth. Start by adding up the individual numbers within your date of birth. Then, keep breaking them down untill you have a single digit. The exceptions are the numbers 11, 22 and 33. To put it simply, your life path is an important piece in the puzzle of your life. It is the main theme that you walk and grow through in your daily life. Below is an example breakdown of a Life Path. This example is based on Elvis Presley. Elvis’s Date of Birth is 08/01/1935 0+8+0+1+1+9+3+5=27=2+7= 9 So Elvis’ life path number is 9.
Personal Year Your personal year is calculated by adding the numbers of the date and month of birth together with the year of your last birthday. So if your last birthday was in the previous year, then you use that year. Your personal year goes from birthday to birthday. Then continue to break down the numbers until you get one digit. The exceptions are the numbers 11-22-33. Personal year is the theme you learn and grow through this year, in conjunction with your life path theme. So if Elvis was alive this year, we would calculate this as 08/01/2020, then break it down to a single digit. 0+8+0+1+2+0+2+0 =13=1+3=4. Elvis’s personal year would be a 4.
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23rd August 2020 to 22nd September 2020
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Virgo
Happy Birthday Virgo! Happy Personal New Year, Virgo! This is your time to feel empowered and follow your own path of service in the most effective and efficient way. Patience is the key for you to express your deepest truth and connect with the right people, at the right time. Focus on mind, body and soul during the Full Moon in Pisces, your opposition. This will help you determine what you need to release on a soul level and enhance your imagination to find inner peace. Mercury moving into Libra will help you to focus on the work you are doing and communicate this with your social, work or business networks. Venus also moves into Leo on the same day, and will team up with Mercury to help you work with your creative flair to bring your ideas into form. Tread carefully though Virgo. The the flip side of both these energies can also lead to arguments, negative drama, impatience and flared egos. Take time to step back and look at how everything fits into your bigger picture. Mars Retrograde in Aries may leave you feeling like you’re not getting any cooperation and taking one step forward and three steps back. Don’t take it personally. Everyone else will be feeling this too. Jupiter in Capricorn is a positive energy. It drives you to move forward with all your work behind the scenes so you can be more productive and make things happen. You are in a prime position with the New Moon in Virgo to feel into what matters to you and the people you serve. Paying attention to the details is very important with this manifesting Moon. Don’t hold back on anything because you feel it’s not quite perfect yet Virgo. Allow everything to
fall into place and let the Universe deliver what you deserve to receive.
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LIBRA
22nd September to 23rd October 2020
SCORPIO
23rd October to 22nd November 2020
SAGITTARIUS
22nd November to 21st December 2020
CAPRICORN
22nd December 2019 to 21st January 2020
The Libran Moon will kick off this month by encouraging you to pay attention to the details and find balance within. Whilst Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto are still challenging you to focus on what really matters, consider what you actually need to be responsible for and let the rest go. Expanding on your truth will serve you well as Mercury moves into your sign, presenting the opportunity to express your thoughts and ideas in a diplomatic and productive manner. Venus moving into Leo is complimentary for expressing your creative ideas and sharing them with family, friends and work colleagues. You may feel like you’re in a holding bay with Mars Retrograde in Aries, your opposition. Try not to read into it. This is a great time to prioritise your plans in order to head in the right direction for you. Jupiter in Capricorn is heading direct and may challenge you on which direction to head in first. Assess what is in alignment with you and your responsibilities, then allow them to fall into place before the New Moon in Virgo begins her new cycle. Everything is about timing Libra, in the lead up to your Personal New Year on the 22nd September 2020.
As the Virgo season kicks off, you will be presented with some productive and fruitful energy with work or business ventures. The Universe is encouraging you to trust your intuition and execute your plans to manifest your vision. Avoid trying to control the outcome. Work with the Full Moon in Pisces to release anything that you should have let go of years ago, and to prepare for bigger and brighter opportunities to come. Mercury in Libra will help you find the balance with your thoughts and ideas. However, don’t be surprised by hidden agendas when Venus moves into Leo on the same day. Try not to let your ego get in the way; focus deeper instead. Things may not go according to plan when Mars in Aries heads Retrograde. Don’t put your plans on hold. Stay focused; the best laid plans are the ones that take you places. Jupiter heading direct in Capricorn will show you how everything will fall into place with some patience and imagination in the mix. The New Moon in Virgo will help you to ground in and focus on what really matters and feel the balance being created as we transit into Libra on the 22nd September 2020.
The time of Virgo may feel like it is presenting you with challenges, but it’s actually showing you what you are capable of overcoming. You will have the opportunity to expand on your thoughts and ideas, if you avoid rebelling and focus on learning instead. This will help you to identify the details in your big picture. Avoid being impulsive around the Full Moon in Pisces. Work with the energy and release anything that may be blocking your flow. You will feel more positive when Mercury moves into Libra and Venus moves into Leo. Communication in relationships will help you to understand other people’s ideas of truth and philosophy and connect you with the right people. Then you can let go of those who are no longer in alignment. Mars Retrograde in Aries will show you another way to be more effective and efficient with your plans. Jupiter heading direct will lift you and help you to see the right direction to expand your knowledge and wisdom, and become the authority in your field. Don’t be phased by any challenges presented to you with the New Moon in Virgo. It’s showing you where you can expand next, so go with the flow.
If you are looking for a new direction to be of service in your career, this Virgo energy is perfect for highlighting the right path for you. Make the most of this energy surge. The Moon moving into your sign, will team up with Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto to get things done in every area of your life. The Full Moon in Pisces supports you to clear away any unwanted energy and preconditioned thought patterns that have been challenging you in the past. Take time to step back and reassess. Think about what is happening in your life, and with whom, when Mercury moves into Libra and Venus moves into Leo. Understanding how you attract abundance and security will be productive when the Moon moves into Taurus. Mars Retrograde in Aries may leave you feeling challenged to execute the plans you have in place to achieve. Trust the process. Jupiter heading direct in Capricorn will feel like a breath of fresh air to grow your nest egg. The New Moon in Virgo will help you to manifest your ideas around work and service to others. Prepare to stay positive and grounded as we move into the energy of Libra next month. Fierce Truths Magazine
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