Jenny Heston

Weekly Reading August 29th

Happy glorious Monday delicious lovely!!! Can you believe we are at the end of August, this month has just whipped by in what feels to be a tower of boxes, a wall of heat and a pile of sawdust! We have had tons of baking, energy sapping hot weather and the other day as I was shoveling out a truck full of horse manure to create a gorgeous garden bed a huge flash storm hit. One minute it was sunny, the next it was torrential rain and I was getting covered in horse shit (which I didn’t mind) and it was exceptionally refreshing and cleansing. After the storm passed there was a delicious sense of freshness, newness, unfolding possibilities and calmness in the air.

So with that thought in mind (the storm, not the horse shit), let’s take a moment to drop into ourselves, calm the mind and connect with our gorgeous, strong, loving intuition.

Imagine that you are standing at the silent centre of a great cleansing storm. The wind is whipping around you, you can feel your hair lift with it and there is a sense of wildness, change and unknown. All aspects of your life are rained upon, blown about and even messed up a little. How do you feel?

The storm slowly passes and in its wake you are left with soft sunshine, hair in disarray and slightly soggy feet! Some parts of your life will have been washed away. Some other pieces will be strong and stable, a bit messy perhaps but still there nonetheless. How do you feel?

Underneath your soggy feet you see a pattern forming in the cleansed earth, as if it is rising up from the damp, slightly disturbed soil. A golden gleaming geometric pattern of the flower of life glows. Sense the perfection of the form, see how each flower feeds into the next, in symmetry, harmony and balance. See the golden flowers all interlinking spreading off into the distance and as you raise your eyes from this wonder before you there is a gorgeous rainbow shining brightly in the sky.

So in your gorgeous cleansed and grounded state, trust yourself and pick the card(s) that call to you.

Did you pick?

RESTORE AND REPLENISH

You are in need of something so much deeper than rest. You need restoration, replenishment and revival. This will not necessarily come from lying about somewhere taking a moment out of your day or evening activities.

You are more likely to gain what you need by breaking with your routine completely and doing something different. You need some variety, some spice, some change to bring fresh energy into your body, mind and heart. You need to restore and revive yourself by changing the usual flow of energy through your being. You could stimulate this process by going to a different place, meeting different people and taking different action to what you would usually do.

However, it is now time to move, without pushing yourself, beyond what is known, comfortable and familiar. Life is telling you that it is time to put down the paintbrush, the pen, the endless lists and the thinking mind and get into your body. You are in an important transition phase between one level of experience and the next. If you feel as though you are treading water or are in a sort of purgatory – somewhere between your old life and your new life then this especially applies to you. Soon you will have the power and energy you need to reach for the next level – and succeed.

INSPIRATION

An idea has captured your attention – or will do so very soon. It may be a grand vision or the vague sense of something that could be. You are being encouraged to accept the vision, the idea or the inspiration as it is important to your creative and spiritual growth.

The bee is bringing you healing medicine-wisdom from nature to aid the message of the oracle of Inspiration. The bee is a powerful spirit totem. Bees are able to fly with wings that are significantly small in proportion to their heavier bodies. Your idea, even if it seems like a big, substantial plan that might be difficult to “get off the ground” and up and running, can succeed.

Allow inspiration to fill you with enthusiasm, an expectation of magic and marvelous synchronicity, as people, situations and opportunities fall into place to help bring your inspiration into reality. You are meant to think and do things differently . Your inspiration comes direct from the universal creative source and you are being asked to believe and recognise the signature of great intelligence within your inspirational ideas and creative urges – and to act accordingly. Bee-lieve!

THE PERFECTION OF YOUR LIFE

Have you ever seen a storm pictured from above? It can appear to be so beautiful and elegant. This Is certainly different to the ground view which can be quite a violent experience. So too, there is great beauty in your life now. However,at this point in the natural process, you may be experiencing it as anxiety-inducing rather than beautiful. You may sense it as internal chaos. You may feel it is something that is waiting to erupt from within, as a restlessness or an anxiety that you cannot quite articulate but sense vaguely nonetheless.

Whether the chaos seems subtle,strong, internal or external, this oracle brings the same message for you. All is unfolding according to a perfect higher order. You are currently enduring a cosmic, spiritual storm which is having an impact on you. It is clearing things out, ruffling feathers and preparing you for that lovely, super-fresh, uplifting feeling that one experiences after the storm has finally passed.

No matter what appears to be, in truth there is only the unfolding, creative genius of the universe. You are not forgotten. You have not been looked over. You have not been denied, found wanting or rejected as unworthy. Express whatever is needed, however is needed, this will call on the powerful perfection of your life path, as it aligns for the next creative turn of the spiral of life. Trust and directly experience the flower of life unfolding within you and around you.

Have a glorious week, and don’t forget it is New Moon on September 1st. A great time to hit the reset button and get clear on what you want in your life.

Weekly Reading August 22nd

Jenny Heston · 4:33 pm ·

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.

Jenny Heston

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