Jenny Heston

Weekly Reading August 22nd

Happy glorious Monday! It is so good to be back, I did need the last few weeks to focus on getting us moved and to do some building and renovating – and I am glad I gave myself that time.

It has been super hot here and building in 40C weather has been brutal! There was one day where the sweat was continually pouring down as I am putting in joists and pouring concrete and as I looked around I noticed all my dogs totally flaked out. Is this “The Dog Days of Summer”? Me being me, I went and looked it up – it actually has nothing to do with lethargic dogs, and this is what I found:- “It turns out, the dog days refer to the dog star, Sirius, and its position in the heavens. To the Greeks and Romans, the “dog days” occurred around the day when Sirius appeared to rise just before the sun, in late July. They referred to these days as the hottest time of the year, a period that could bring fever, or even catastrophe!” Thankfully no catastrophe’s here!

Just hot and lots to do!

Okay, let’s get onto the reading. I invite you to take a moment just for you. Stop what you are doing, and start to focus on your breath.

Let’s take a glorious cooling deep breath in by gently closing over the right nostril and breathing through the left. To do this, place your right thumb over your right nostril with your fingers standing up like gorgeous antenna to the Universe. Deep breath in and as you exhale sigh it out through an open mouth. Feel your gorgeous shoulders gently relax. As you keep breathing in this pattern feel your scalp, jaw and cheekbones relax and settle into a glorious space of joy. Take another deep breath and if you are willing see in the centre of your mind a stunning waterfall cascading down over a lip of rock which is covered in lush green ferns and moss, the water then cascades down for metres and crashes down into into a deep cool inviting blue pool of water. Feel the mist that the waterfall sends up, cooling, soothing, very Yin energy – giving and loving. Feel the mist wash over your face and your body, removing anything that is attached to you that is not serving your highest good, anything that is old stuff and needs to be washed away. If you feel comfie with this energy, open your arms wide and receive it, breathing into the cooling, cleansing energy. Stay there for a few moments and let the mist gently nourish and feed you. When you feel ready, take another deep breath in, lower your thumb, thank the waterfall, trust your intuition and yourself to pick the card that wants to work with you this week.

Have you picked? Ready?

SEEING THE TRUE YOU

Sometimes we believe what others tell us we are, as though the self we see reflected back to us through their eyes is truth. You have been putting rather too much faith in the reflections others have of you – to the point that you might not be honouring all that you are and all that you are becoming, because you believe too little of yourself.

You are to begin to develop the art of direct perception. This is the ability to recognise yourself not only in the eyes of others, but from how you feel about yourself, how you experience yourself and how you observe yourself (with compassion and kindness) from within. This is a step towards a radical empowerment that does not require perfection in order for you to recognise you are loveable and have much to offer. It is empowerment based on the acceptance of all that you are.

If you are getting confused about who you are and your motives or actions based on what others are saying or how they are responding to you, step back. In your quest to be a responsible person, you may be unintentionally taking on the feelings of others, making their reflections of you more than they are in truth. More often than not reflections are more about the state of the reflector than what is being reflected. Let those external perceptions go. Can you just acknowledge yourself? Do so and be free!

NEW BIRTH, GUARDED VIGILANTLY

In every creative process, in every birth, in every opening of a new cycle of life, there is a time of vulnerability. This vulnerability is natural and appropriate. It is the foal learning to become steady on its legs Those legs will become remarkably powerful in time, but the process of growth and maturity has to take place, and that requires some wobbly first attempts. It cannot be any other way.

Within you, there is fresh new life emerging like a vibrant green shoot rising up from the earth. This new life is in need of your attention and your care. This could be a new relationship that needs tending with interest and kindness. It could be a new idea that you need to nurture into fullness, because it is going to hold special purpose for your life path. You will not always need to cloak that which is young. Soon enough it will be able to stand up for itself, but for now, your vigilance and care is most certainly required.

Hug your ideas to yourself as though they were a new lover you cannot bear to share with another. In time the world will be the lover receiving the love in your idea. For now, it is for you to love, for you to hold and for you to observe. Keep your sanctuary pure, this may be your room, a sacred place you visit, your own body, into which you retreat in relaxation or meditation. Sometimes you will find that others have taken up residence in your sanctuary. It is time to focus on the purity, light, love and compassion that dwells within you. Everything else will come and go, and that is just fine. But the purity within your sanctuary is eternal. Firmly denounce any intrusion upon the new life by doubt, fear or sabotage.

SHE FEELS, SHE KNOWS

An illumination is erupting from within you as a vision that is bringing what was once obscured into clarity. This is not likely to happen as a blinding, shocking insight, but as more of a softer, gentle knowing. It is like knowing something without understanding exactly when or how you came to know it. This insight will assist you and you are being asked to honour it. You will know which insight it is at the right time. Your heart will tell you.

Something that is far bigger than the immediate situation, issue or moment is of importance – although you will only have a dim sense of that possibility, at best. The situation you find yourself in right now may not be one of joy, but in time you will understand more of the bigger picture. You are being asked to think in terms of long-term happiness. Sometimes this warrants change or even temporary restrictions in the short term. Through the natural process of transformation, great leaps are indeed possible. You simply must be prepared to surrender into the process with absolute trust.

The situations in your current life are particularly geared towards a more significant manifestation that is coming to you, according to your life path and purpose. This is a stage of preparation and of building a foundation that will hold you strong and centred as your creative journey unfolds and your life path becomes ever more brilliant and luminous. So keep plugging away, remain patient but most of all, be hopeful and trust in the light you sense ahead of you, for it is the light that is within you, simply revealed more fully. And all that is happening now, is happening to that end.

Wishing you a glorious week filled with love, light, joy and moments of peace.

Weekly Reading July 25th

Jenny Heston · 5:41 pm ·

Happy hot scorching Monday delicious lovelies (well it’s hot and scorching here). You know the book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up? Well holy hannah, I have never read it but have been purging, tidying and really releasing a lot, clothing, books, DVD’s – STUFF. It feels really good and it feels as if a sense of space has been created for all sorts of new and wonderful things to come in. We are moving this weekend, so I am going to take today off and next week off from readings to allow myself and my family to get done what needs to get done.

I look forward to seeing you all August 8th.

Remember to breathe, laugh, play full out and celebrate how gorgeous and wonderful you are.

Weekly Reading July 18th

Jenny Heston · 4:11 pm ·

Happy glorious Monday delicious lovely! I hope you have had a great week and remembered to practice self care and not let things overwhelm you. At our house we are in the midst of packing and purging as we move in under 2 weeks, on top of that I am building a new garden and a large fence at the new house. So it’s all go! Even more reason why I am being vigilant about practicing energy management and daily nourishing habits. One of those habits being that every morning armed with a nice cuppa tea I sit out on the deck and ask Spirit:- “Allow me to see clearly, the solution or guidance that I need. So I no longer have to worry I am doing the wrong thing.” And then I pull an Angelic Messenger card, I love this deck I have used it every morning without fail for over a year now.

So that is the deck we will be using today! I am very excited to share it with you! It was so lovely to do this reading outside in the dappled sunlight whilst sitting under the bowers of the plum tree.

Let’s take a few moments to get centered and connect to our inner knowing and our higher power.

Gently roll your shoulders up and back and allow the shoulder blades to gently float down either side of your spine. Take a deep nourishing, healing breath in through the nose and gently out through the mouth with a soft sigh. Keeping breathing long and deep and imagine coming from your feet are gorgeous strong roots that are winding their way down into the soil, down, down, down into the center of the earth. Your roots are strong, vibrant and healthy and as they wend further into the earth they are gently pulling up the energy from Pachamama/Gaia/Mother Earth. Bringing this gorgeous green energy up your roots and into your core. As you breathe it in feel your arms stretching towards the sky, reaching towards your guides, angels and desires. Feel your arms turn into strong, supple branches reaching higher and higher, inviting the delicious violet energy from the Universe to flow down your glorious branches into your core to meet with the green healing energy that is coming up from your roots. As these two energies meet such a blessing occurs and to celebrate – from your fingertips explode lots of little seed stars that dance away on the gentle breeze that blows through your glorious leafy branches. These are your desires, your wishes, your blessings heading out in the air to slowly come back to earth and find a place to root and manifest just for you. Take a few more deep breaths as this glorious tree that is filled with the energy of the earth and the energy of the divine and when you are ready slowly bring yourself back to your body and open your eyes.

Remember, this connection is always available to you, when you need it – stand with your feet firmly on the ground and raise your arms over your head and breathe. Know you are a glorious vessel filled with healing and manifesting energy.

We were gloriously joined by Fluorite, Blue Lace Agate, Red Jasper and fresh catnip from the garden.

POWER

You have drawn this card to rediscover a deeper capacity for love and compassion. Through implementation of this realisation, you will advance into authentic spiritual leadership. You have sought guidance for your own life, and now you are to learn to seek guidance for the lives of others and for the earth. You are reawakening to your spirit’s purpose. You are being guided to accept love without judgment and to use compassion freely, and in so doing to remove any constraints and limiting beliefs you’ve placed on the power of love to heal, help, change, and awaken grace within all living things.

The spiritual energy of your life is welling up deep inside you from the core of your being and circling your spine to renew your life. You are in the process of managing this intense emerging energy so that you will direct it toward awakening the God within. Accept your larger role in life and trust that through the grace of your angelic teachers and the Divine you will be able to recognise your opportunities to balance and stabilise your life, the lives of others and the earth’s living environment. Notice the three golden rings of expression of your power. This flower alerts you to work with the three major aspects of spiritual energy: resilience, empathy, and grace!

INTROSPECTION

You have entered a period of rapid internal spiritual change. These changes may be manifesting in your life as an insatiable desire to read and learn from books, a longing to travel, or perhaps a desire to move to or vacation in places offering a very different landscape. Your shifting internal landscape may also be recognisable through sudden mood shifts or the abrupt emergence of ideas, compulsions, feelings, or desires that are entirely new to you. Energy is on the move in your being, and nature is the catalyst to help you learn.

Open to the full presence and power of your life and accept your role as a steward of the earth. You are being encouraged to unfold into the full and glorious nature of your life as this flower is doing symbolically. You are being urged to listen to your heart and to observe life around you in order to sense the true significance of the choices being asked of you. As the ant, caterpillar or field mouse must continually sense and observe its environment for predators, you also are required to continually observe your internal environment for predators. Your predators are a lack of attention to the quality of your life, a lack of love in making choices that affect nature’s well being, a preoccupation with your own needs regardless of the cost to other living things.

PURPOSE

It is time to understand the nature of your lifework and to accept that right now you are living some version of your mission. Accept that your meaningful work is unfolding as you awaken spiritually and that the process can be sped up only through personal spiritual practice. In seeking your life’s means of service and contribution to humanity, you may eventually need further schooling, or you may need to move or change in external ways, but these opportunities will flow smoothly into your life as the natural extension of your inner joy.

How do you find the specific ways to accomplish these things that you came to the earth to do if it is impossible to choose them with your mind? The answer is that you choose them with your heart, and then your mind can put its efforts into giving form and presence to this inner awareness. Please keep joy foremost in your mind and resist the seduction of your ego, which needs to give your service instant shape. Push away the demands of your ego, and listen attentively to the joy radiating from your soul. Your life and your personal spiritual evolution are both in progress, always in the process of discovery. It is your choice whether to remove your gaze from the mountaintop long enough to discover the ground at your feet. Focus on your inner nature before checking the want ads. What you do willingly and effortlessly opens your heart to love and leads to the enhancement of your own goodness and self worth, thus manifesting into the tangible means of service you seek or desire to deepen.

Remember tomorrow is the gorgeous Full Moon (also known as the Buck Moon). It’s time to anchor and really ground new truth, new intentions, new resolutions, new personal practices and focus on balance. Time for you, time for self care and time for service.

10 Lessons from the Garden.

Jenny Heston · 4:32 pm ·

I hated gardening as a kid. Hated it with a passion. I would be given a tiny square of the garden and a plethora of seeds and advised heavily on how to plant them, what they needed etc. Daily I would be told to go water them and tend them – urrrghhh. Why did my parents hate me so much!!! Then the weeds came and I would be forced to go pull them out. I didn’t want to as I didn’t want to be there, I had friends to play with, stuff to do and meh! So the weeds would take over the radishes, nasturtiums or whatever I had planted and I was totally okay with that..

Interestingly enough when I became a mumma, as my kids hit about 3 I would encourage them to come out to the garden, play in the dirt, eat worms, plant something. Some most certainly came and played and others resisted highly, so I didn’t push it. I would throw manure, dirt, straw and compost into a bed and some of the kids would dive in and swim in it all and mix it up for me. Others would run screaming back into the house!

As an adult I love to garden. I love to grow our own food so we always have a massive veggie garden wherever we go. We have certain flowers that we really enjoy looking at and their scent fills the air when we are sitting outside and eating dinner, and having a fresh herb garden to enhance my cooking (did I say cooking is not my forte?) – hells to the yes!

Dirt is soothing. When stressed – playing in the dirt and tending a garden helps to reconnect you back to your body, pulls you out of your head and connects you to the the glorious mother earth. In a study in the Netherlands (as reported by CNN), two groups of students were told to either read indoors or garden for thirty minutes AFTER completing a stressful task. The group that gardened reported being in a better mood than the group that read. And they also exhibited lower levels of cortisol, the stress hormone.

Plants don’t judge! Sometimes we need to share our fears, stories, embarrassments or hopes and desires with someone, just to unpack them and say them outloud. Make sure you pick someone who can really hear you, honour you and not ridicule you. If you don’t have someone safe to do that with talk to the plants.

Deadhead. When the flowers are done, it’s important to either trim them back or just remove their heads. This in turn tidies up the garden and allows for some varieties of flowers to rebloom. This is like de-cluttering your space. If your home, office, studio are in chaos then your mind is often in chaos, you can’t find things, you open the door and get overwhelmed by the mess (so you quickly close the door). Tidying your space and putting things where they are meant to be as well as getting rid of the things that you don’t use any more creates huge physical, emotional and mental space for new and vibrant things to come in.

Weeds. They creep in and if you ignore them they take over everything choking out the flowers, the tomatoes, wrapping themselves up the corn stalks, and where you thought you were going to have beans – you just have weeds! This is like stinky thinking. If you don’t pay attention to your thoughts and limiting beliefs and weed them out regularly with mindful practices your mind can become like a weed choked garden – green, but not productive, and not very pretty!

Sometimes a plant needs to be moved as it isn’t thriving and growing, due to lack of light or nutrients in the the soil, or it’s getting crowded out by something else. This is the same with relationships, some are nourishing and some aren’t and for your own well being sometimes you just need to smile, say thanks and move on to where you can thrive and grow.

If you have a single fruit tree, bees help. They don’t care where the tree is, their job is to pollinate and this in turn serves by helping that tree produce fruit. You may feel that you are all on your own, but in reality if you stepped out the door and went and volunteered somewhere, or went and helped someone else you would find that you are fully supported and can produce fruit from your time and labour. Be the Bee!

The weather can do a lot to help plants grow, but plants also need love, attention, nutrition and fertiliser. Like humans! We need healthy food, water, love, attention, activities that nourish us, and a spiritual practice that feed us. With these things we flourish, bloom and grow in extraordinary ways.

So you planted a seed, what’s the first thing to come up? Dirt! Dirt gets pushed up and out of the way as the sprout grows and reaches toward the sun. This is the same as when we implement something new in our lives, whether it is a mindset change, a new way of eating, going to the gym, trying something new, releasing an old habit – you name it. The Ego kicks up front and centre and will try to convince you this is a dumb idea, but if you just see it as the dirt coming up before that lovely new habit pushes through and throws down strong roots, you are all good.

There are always bugs, one moment you are sitting in your garden feeling very zen and happy and then something flies into your ear or up your nose – don’t freak out (though a bug up the nose is very annoying) – just remove it and carry on. Don’t make that “5 minutes of bug up the nose” an all day event, or an excuse. Someone says something critical or rude to you – pick it out of your nose and let it go. Don’t spend the whole day obsessing about it and wallowing in the things you could have said, what did they mean exactly etc. etc.

Creating a gorgeous garden can take longer than you think – don’t judge it, map it out, stay focused, give it attention, be patient and slowly do it. Like life. If you want to be a top athlete, play the bagpipes, be a world renowned speaker, it takes time, attention and patience. But the daily results and the masterpiece are so frigging worth it.

Happy Gardening.

Weekly Reading July 11th.

Jenny Heston · 4:17 pm ·

Happy Glorious Monday delicious lovely, how are you? Have you been practicing self care? It is vital to water your roots so your Soul can blossom! Here in this neck of the woods I allowed myself to get a tad overwhelmed in the last week with building, coaching, digging large holes and filling them with cement and a myriad of other things. However, when I finally paused to check in as to why this fragmentation and overwhelm were taking over front and centre I realised I had put aside the routines and things that nourish me (as I thought there wasn’t enough time for both – a kind of and/or mentality). Once I made a shift and took those few moments to meditate, chant, do yoga, read, get out in nature everything lined up. It was as if I had plugged back into the motherboard of the Universe (thank goodness as my battery had been getting a tad low).

In that vein, let’s see what guidance, support and healing is coming to you this week with the cards. We are using the gorgeous Kuan Yin Oracle – by Alana Fairchild again this week as they were the ones that literally jumped off the shelf to come play.

So let’s pause for a moment and I invite you to come sit by the ocean on a gorgeous piece of driftwood. As you sit looking out over the water gently close your eyes, hear the waves lapping in and playing music as they dance back down between the pebbles. Imagine a gorgeous ball of white, bright light in your being growing larger and larger, this is your essence your inner light. As the waves play their gorgeous music for you notice your light expanding out of your body, shining out into world, out through any and all mental resistance that you put up to protect yourself. Imagine this light has immense power, and when you shine it out through the fog of your disbelief, concern, or fear it gets even bigger and more radiant! It is now stretching out over the ocean, dancing along the surface. As your light grows and expands a gentle rainstorm starts, but you are warm and dry as there is a canopy from the tree growing out of the cliff next to you. You wonder if you should pull your light back in and as that thought enters your mind the sun illuminates the rain clouds and a gorgeous, vibrant rainbow shines forth and melds with your glorious light. Your light becomes red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet and the love that pulses back to you from the Divine washes away any concerns, doubts, resistance or challenges – you are so loved and you feel it! As the rainbow slowly fades you are filled with a sense of calm, knowing, trust and believing, breathe that in, breathe it into your core! When you feel ready gently open your eyes and come back into your body. Give a great big grin of appreciation and let’s go pick.

If anyone can tell me what the centre crystal is I would greatly appreciate it. So gorgeous and seems to have citrine and something else in there.

EMPRESS OF THE PEARL

You have an inner gift of great value, born of struggle, adversity and challenge. In wisdom you know that suffering can lead to growth provided we are willing to search for a way to heal through it. Seeing challenges as ways to expand your spiritual light empowers you to focus on the growing light, rather than getting caught up in suffering. Natural pearls are rare, lustrous feminine gems, created within a living organism, the pearl oyster. They have a unique creation process. Natural pearls are created when a foreign entity, such as a grain of sand or parasite, finds its way into the pearl oyster. The oyster reacts and creates layers of pearlescent substance, creating a warmly glowing treasure within.

Just like the beautiful and rare natural pearl, you have a unique spiritual beauty to offer to the world. Your pearl is your precious gift, something unique that is being born through your experiences and consciousness that cannot be created or copied by another because it is of your own unique soul light.

Any struggles you have experienced are a karmic gift to help you grow this inner exquisite offering to support the spiritual evolution of humanity. Once you recognise this, you can dispense with your struggles more swiftly, using them to help you grow and not adding unnecessary energy or focus to the problem, which might make it grow instead! Your Soul is growing in lustre and beauty to share with the world!

TO THE CELESTIAL MOUNTAIN

There are times when divine energy is needed to help us achieve our spiritual goals. When you do not feel completely in control of your destiny, the divine is usually gifting you with an opportunity to reach for assistance and to invoke divine power, to call to the celestial mountain so that you might be gifted with a far superior outcome. Your permission to beings that love you unconditionally to offer you help is an expression of spiritual empowerment, you empower those forces to come to your aid and help you manifest your life purpose and destiny.

You are being asked to empower the divine to help you, to call to the celestial mountain within your own heart, to reach out and allow the divine to assist your current life unfoldment. We live in a free will Universe and no matter how much you are loved, in fact, because you are so loved and respected, no being will intervene for you without your permission. Do not believe that asking for help means that you will grow weak or dependent and not grow spiritually. You are doing this to grow in your own mastery at a soul level, not to hand over your life and not take personal and spiritual responsibility for it any more!.

You will discover that your Divine Self is a powerful, living expression of the Source of the Universe. You have within you the power, love and sustenance of the Source of Life itself. So the more you choose to spiritually empower the divine to assist you, the stronger and more conscious your relationship becomes – in other words, in keeping good spiritual company you begin to realise your true nature.

BLOSSOMS OF THE SKY DANCER

Kuan Yin dances creative energy and light across the sky, causing blossoms to descend. In the same way, when we tap into our spiritual power of creation, we cause our life and all of life around us, to bloom. Creation is a natural spiritual power within you, beloved. Force can slow down the process. It is time to stop striving and to allow your manifestation to occur. Trust, let go, allow your creation to flow.

You are creating something important right now, something that is aligned with heavenly forces and light, that is significant for the path of spiritual awakening on this planet. Whether you are fully conscious of it or not, it IS happening. Kuan Yin will support you in your manifestation with her Sky Dance which calls the divine light of inspiration and support into earthly creation, so that we can all experience the divine in form here on earth.

Yin power is the consciousness and “beingness” that allows us to draw into our lives that which we desire. Focus more on allowing, flowing, surrendering and participating in the greater flow, rather than the usual ways in Western culture of doing, making things happen, forcing, intending and holding. Balance doing with being.

Wishing you a glorious week filled with joy, laughter and connection to self, source and others.

Jenny Heston

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