Rayven Michaels

Yesterways WiseCraft Wicca: Could your psychic attacker be....YOU?: Bet that thought never even crossed your mind did it? That your psychic attacker might actually be YOU? Instead you've been racking your...

Imbolc was today but I had no time to do ritual. I left home before dawn and traveled  more than an hour to be with my grandchildren for the day. Though it is a narrow road through the country with no cellphone signal, the long miles passage through the dark morning hours went well. I arrived timely for my daughter to walk across the street to her work (what a lucky commute), I crawled into bed with my tiny tot grandson and snuggled down for an hour more of rest. What a great surprise it was to awaken and find not only the light of day but the white of snow! I should pay far more attention to the weather as a Witch than I have done. The snow came on fast and hard and swallowed the land in a sea of white. Knowing that I was far from home and the roads that would take me home are hilly, narrow, winding, treacherous and unforgiving I had a bit of a panic. So, back up plans for the day were made and my journey home began much earlier than originally planned. Only the weather, roads and very cautious drivers ruled the trip. I followed behind a big rig for never ending miles and he barely traveled 30 miles per hour. Trailing behind him was such a bluster of snow that would white out my windshield so I had no choice but to hang back and travel slower than he -- so I found myself traveling barely 20 miles per hour. I feared at times that I would not be able to gain the necessary speed to make the hills but my trusty van accommodated me nicely, thank goodness. After far longer than normal, I made it home. The snow easily mounted to 6 or more inches. I was quite surprised. I had expected mere *spitting* of snow flurries. Shame on me.

Wow! Has it really been August 2013 since I posted? Well, golly gee and shame on me! But I am back now. This winter has had me a bit kicked with a cold. First I ached all over, not nauseated or nasty iggies like that but just all around aching and a strong desire to lay still so it didn't hurt. Probably not the best plan since I am still struggling with the shoulder injury. Inactivity with the shoulder is a guaranteed set back on its progress and that means a painful push to get back on track. So, definitely don't want to go back there. Well, the achiness passed and then lo and behold, along came stuffed up ears but no cough. With a stuffed up nose, I had to breathe through my mouth and that unfortunately meant really dry parched tonsils the next morning which are actually beyond huge anyway. So, fast forward to get out of that stage we actually have coughing now, a dry cough. Ugh! But lots of coughing and a deep down feeling that my bronchials needed to purge but they were just too tight to be productive. Now that brings in SORE RIBS. Egads! Seems never ending. LOL  By now I sound like quite the whiner and I have to laugh at myself, that is, if laughing wasn't so painful to the ribs.

As a short aside, I actually did have a laughing spasm today that was debilitatingly painful but I couldn't help myself. I was literally in histeria with tears flowing. The kind of deep, shaking all over, toss the head back and throaty laugh that leaves your belly shaking and RIBS, and you can barely breathe, but you catch your breath and go at it again. You know the sort of laugh I mean? And contagious too because I had my British friend getting caught up in the giggles to spite himself. What was it all about? A GoDaddy commerical with Jean Claude Van Damme. Oh if you haven't seen it, then it is time that you should! Here's the subject video so you can see for yourself what all the fuss was about.




Now that I have that little mess out of the way, let's get to some serious conversation. So, as I gushed on about being so miserably ill for a while now, it had to cross your mind, "well I thought she was some sort of energy healer and all that, so what is she doing being all sickly if she can do healing?" That's a very good question and I discussed that very thing with my Earth Spirit Soul business partner Sol Ess. We pondered why is it that healers will do great wonders for others and then fail so miserably for themselves. He and I came up with a few ideas. First off, it comes natural to do healing on other people and we give it our all. We both agreed that it was instinctual. However, for whatever the reason, he was the same as I was in admitting that when we feel sick ourselves, we don't even think of doing the healing on ourselves. Now how crazy is that? It was quite a realization really. I have to wonder if it is because as we feel bad, we get caught up in feeling bad and just sort of loose touch with things. I know as a young teen and early 20s and later as a young mother, I simply didn't tolerate illness. I had the attitude that I just didn't have time for it. And I truly didn't have time to be ill and I pushed through any illness with minimal effect. Somehow, I beat it down in such early stages that I barely could recognize that it had been upon me. So, why would it be different for me now? Well, I figure age plays some part in it. I am guessing that as I have aged and entered menopause that my immunity system has slowed down considerably. It reminds me of ages 6 to 8 when I moved from one state to another and was suddenly besieged by every possible childhood illness practically back to back. After that, my immunity system was so strong that as a grown woman, it took 8 years for me to become pregnant. After a series of tests, they determined my immune system was attacking and stopping fertilization. Bizarre. And now it feels like here I am in a second child hood getting slammed with all this illness back to back again. Ugh! Not liking that at all, not one bit.

Anyway, after the talk with Sol today, I vowed to break out my fierce attitude and declare war on my illness and let it know that it isn't welcome in my body anymore. It's reign of terror is over. I will be running energy on myself and treating me like any other client and breaking out all the big guns on healing. Let's see how quickly this dissipates after me struggling with it these past several weeks.

I sincerely hope the New Year is finding every one happy and healthy.

Bright Blessings to All,
Rayven Michaels

Amethyst is one of my all time favorite crystals and thankfully it is very universal in nature.  It is a purple quartz crystal that was thought by the Romans to provide protection from drunkeness.

This powerful crystal helps provide calm, balance, patience and peace. As if these qualities alone aren't powerful enough, Amethyst also enhances spirituality, intuition and psychic abilities.  It does this by making a clear connection between the earth plane and other planes and worlds.
Amethyst is also excellent for meditation and lucid dreaming. It is used to open one's channels to telepathy, past life regression, clairaudience, clairvoyance, and communication with angels. Amethyst also protects against psychic attacks, especially during spiritual work.

This is truly just a tip of the iceberg of the many helpful purposes of using the Amethyst. Watch for our crystal healing course coming soon.

Bright Blessings,
~Rayven~

Working on a few things for the Learning Center and indulging my Gypsy heritage by listening to gyspy music. Soul is singing!  Have a listen...

Bright Blessings
~Rayven~

I'm so excited! Remember I told you good things were coming? Well, Earth Spirit Soul Learning Center has arrived!  It is a self-paced online classes in psychic skills, reiki, meditation, chakras, auras, energy healing, and more! Become a member and let us assist you on your journey to self enlightenment and greater understanding at a reasonable cost in the convenience of your own home.   And what's even better, you get it ALL for a one time lifetime membership fee of $99 US.

Check it out here: http://www.earthspiritsoul.com/

In addition to being a Psychic, Energy Healer etc., as with many people, my interests are wide and varied.  Tonight, I was digging around on YouTube and low and behold, I found the documentary video called Lords of Stroud which featured a gaming group that I participated in.  It was quite fun run across this again and to remember the good old days.

I am the Mage with the wild black hair wearing a leather vest and carrying a staff.  This event was very loosely scripted and flowed according to the choices made by the children (one of which is my daughter by the way).  When the children got to me, I would either be their ally if they were friendly and help them seek the beast, or if they were hostile, then I would be a formidable enemy.  They chose to call me friend and I assisted them in finding the beast they sought.

My book Bristow Spirits on Route 66 is now available in Amazon Kindle format!

In 2009 I sat down and decided to type up all my ghost experiences and compiled them into a book.
Here is the blurb describing the book:

Every town has its share of ghost stories. This book is a collection of the author's favorite eye witness accounts and personally related tales of spirits on Route 66 in and around Bristow, Oklahoma.
Story topics include:

• A lone cowboy walking eternity away at the stockyards

• Spirit guardian at the Frisco Depot 

• Haunted help at a gift shop

• Ghost with a penchant for cleanliness

• Vaporous attendant at gas station ruins

• Sorrowful siren

• Woman astral projects to give comfort

• In time of need, one woman's voice speaks through another

• A match made in heaven - my personal story in the Forward about the Angel that helped me meet my husband

Reiki is a spiritual practice founded in 1922 by Japanese Buddhist Mikao Usui.  This technique uses energy transmitted through the palms of the hands to do healing on self and others using a variety of hand positions on the bodies.  The hand positions for self are slightly different than those used on others due to the limitations of reach on the personal self.  To acquire this healing ability, one must be attuned by a Reiki Master who performs a series of symbols over the individual so as to open the flow of reiki energy.  There is much debate in the modern Reiki community as to whether these attunements are necessary or whether we already have the energy available to us. The point of this article however, is to focus on the benefits of Reiki as it relates to development of psychic abilities.  More information on Reiki history can be found here on Wiki.

How Does Reiki Help Evolve Psychic Abilities?

The more you allow yourself to be open to spiritual energy, the more you become intuitively aware.  When experiencing the flow of Reiki, you are actively focusing on your intuition.  Intuition becomes stronger with use, just like strengthening a muscle with exercise, so the more you use Reiki, the stronger your intution gets.  This results in you becoming more tuned in to "coincidences" and you notice things have a way of synchronistically lining up.

Self Attunements / Distant Attunements

I know distant Reiki attunements are controversial in the Reiki community (not distant healing which is common practice at Level 2) but for those who don't have access to a local Reiki Master or aren't able to afford to be attuned, you may find this video helpful.





Hope you found this article helpful.

Bright Blessings!
Rayven Michaels

Meditation is an all around excellent practice for developing spirituality, developing psychic abilities, preparing for psychic sessions and just general all around well being.

Meditation can be a great way to meet your spirit guides.  Those experienced with meditation may sit quietly in sacred space in their home, office or in nature or they may choose to play spiritual music.  Others, however, may experience difficulties staying focused and need the benefit of guidance during meditation so that the voice and words lead them towards the purpose of their meditation.  Below are a few guided meditations I found on YouTube that include a variety of styles, music and voices.  I hope you find one of them helpful.  From time to time, I will post more, so check back often, or subscribe to my blog at the bottom of the right column and get notices in real time.

Bright Blessings!
Rayven Michaels

In my previous post, we created a form and chose a name so that we could connect to our Spirit Guide. The next step is to actually communicate with our Guide.  "But", you ask, "if I don't sense my Spirit Guide, how can I communicate with them?" Well then, let's begin there!

Sensing Your Spirit Guide

This exercise will enable you to sense the energy of your Spirit Guide. Seat yourself comfortably in chair, bench or on your bed.  Ask your Guide to come sit beside you. At this point you may or may not feel

I get a lot of messages and questions from frustrated folks that try so hard to meet their Guides and don't ever get validation that their Guide(s) are there.  So, here is a different approach you may find helpful.  You are going to make up a Guide and then treat this Guide as though it were really there. An "imaginary friend" if you will.  Hang with me and hear me through.  The purpose of this exercise is to allow you to have a sense of control and something to identify with instead of just hanging wondering what you should expect.  Also, your Guides will actually be helping you with this exercise so you will be co-creating a form to assist in building a functional link you to your Guide.

Getting Started

To get started, you need to be very clear with your intent. It is not our intent in this exercise to create a "thought form" which in simple terms is a manifestation of energy created to serve a particular task.  Instead,

Do Psychics use Tarot/Oracle Cards?

Although many Psychics often do use Tarot or Oracle cards in their work, not all do.  As with all things, this is the choice of each Psychic as to what tools they incorporate with their readings.  Some Psychics do purely Psychic readings, others may use pendulums, iChing, runes, or other divination systems other than cards.  For those who do use cards, the decks used by each Psychic may be different.  Additionally, a Psychic may also use different decks for different types of readings.

What is the difference between a Tarot Deck and an Oracle Deck?

When buying a deck of cards for the first time, you may see Tarot cards and Oracle cards in the same area wonder what is the difference.  Well, Tarot is a structured system that comes in decks of 78 cards which

Once a person begins communication with Spirit Guides, one does need to make certain it is a "Good Guide".  Always remember that a Guide should be there to "GUIDE" you, NOT bully your or manipulate you.  If the guide you are interacting with seems to be all about what's in it for them, or urges you to do negative and inappropriate things,then by all means you need to break the communication with that particular spirit, because it is NOT a Spirit Guide, but rather a low level spirit entity.  Basically it is a poser attempting to prey on your naivety and hoping that it won't get busted.

What sort of warning signals should you look for? 

If the guide does a lot of ego stroking, be wary.  Examples of this would be any of the traditional relationship manipulations:

It is true that part of being a Psychic or Medium is communicating with Spirit Guides.  However, the great news is ANYONE can communicate with Spirit Guides and even better we ALL have our own personal Spirit Guides that stand at the ready to be of service to us .  People often say their Spirit Guides don't talk to them but that isn't true.  It is more a matter of knowing how to recognize when they are talking to you.

So how do we establish communication with our Spirit Guides and live a "Guided" life?

• First of all, pay attention to your dreams.  Before we incarnated, we had a team of Guides that were in place to support us on this Earth journey.  Knowing that we communicate on the spiritual level but become denser and less capable of communicating with spiritual beings once we came to Earth and in fact, forget completely about them, a safety mechanism was built into us to insure constant access --

Ok, I am always interested in weight loss, who isn't.  And like most people, I try this and that and end up failing miserably.  For the most part I thoroughly believe in managing what you eat and that dirty word exercise.  But even at my best in managing the two, I lose very little and get disheartened and give up.

But then I saw a clip of the Dr. Oz show about the Green Coffee Bean extract.  I love Dr. Oz and I trust him when it comes to natural health methods.  This product captivated me in that it works on the fat in the liver and also the sugar in the blood.  And, an added benefit was that it helps with high cholesterol. Covering all those bases meant it definitely got my attention.  I am signed up and on board for this one, so much so that I am now signed up to market this stuff.  So, as a disclosure, yes, if you click this ad and buy something, I will make a commission, but my most important reason for sharing this is because I know how hard it is to struggle with weight loss so when I find something that really works, I pass on the info.  Be sure to let me know your results.

Blessings, love and light.
Rayven

 

Sometimes I like to run YouTube videos in the background for a little ambiance while I work on the computer.  Here are a few of my favorites!


Crackling Campfire

Nature Sounds 16

4 Hours of Ocean Waves

Here is a little catch up on my goings on lately.  Be sure to read up, there are some things you won't want to miss!


New Blog Design:  Those of you who visit my site regularly will notice my new blog design!  I do admit the picture was taken when I was still coloring my hair.  I promise that I will get an updated photo sporting my silvery locks. I truly am proud to be in the "senior citizen" arena. It was a long and winding road to get here and lots of lessons learned.

Free 10 Minute Reading:  Now, what about that FREE 10 minute reading?  Also as a part of my new blog design, there is a new hot pink form where new subscribers can request a 10 minute reading of their choice -- psychic or akashic records reading.  Fill out the form and send it.  You will then receive a verification email requesting you to confirm your subscription.  Be sure to confirm your subscription so that I will receive your reading request. I wouldn't want you to miss out!

Writing and stuff:  I have been cooking up some new things.  Finally my book that I wrote in 2008 on my paranormal experiences has been released in ebook format! That was exciting.  I have two children's books written.  One has been submitted for illustration.  It will be exciting to see the work of my good friend Rhonda who is an exceptionally talented artist.  And last but not least, my murder mysteries are coming back online for sale.  So, my creative juices have been flowing and going.

Grannying:  But everything is not all work.  I have been enjoying being grandma to my grandson.  As a first time grandmother I have to say, I am biased.  For me, he is the only child that lives and breathes! I think the only other time I felt this way was when I gave birth to his mother.  She was a long time coming and was an only child. Yes indeed, she was spoiled.  But not crippling so.  My daughter has grown up to be a very responsible young woman.


That's it for now.

Blessings, love and light to all!
Rayven Michaels

What is serenity?  By definition it is the state of being calm, peaceful, tranquil and untroubled.  Practicing the art of serenity eliminates stress and helps the body to replenish and heal.

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