Last week I realized I need more time to myself. More time to do what is mine to do, my service to the world by being me. Doing what only I can do. As I look at my past I think my art, my painting, is my most focused and important service I have done.
Each time I go to the studio I align with my Council: Mano, Rama, and Joseph. After a period of meditation, I start painting by intuitively putting colors and shapes on the canvas.
A while ago I had a big surprise that turned into a revelation. The Visiting Nurse came to check my vital signs. They were all normal. The nurse was surprised, I was surprised, my caretaker was surprised. My daughter Donna Theresa was not surprised.
While sorting through papers to bring order in my sitting area I found a small stack of papers held together with a red paper clip entitled TREES. I want to share some of these stories with you. These papers were written between 1996 and 2001. The stories I share today were written when I first began learning and relating more deeply with a new dimension of Tree Consciousness available while visiting the Amphitheater.
Every morning for the last 20 years I do a three card Tarot reading. I type it into the computer and my Council, Rama (an angel), Mano (a gnome), and Joseph (of the Faerie Consciousness) guide my thinking and I write the interpretation into the computer. If I have questions, I write them into the computer and someone from the Council give me the answer. If I have any question about what I receive, I use my pendulum and get a yes or no answer to verify the accuracy of my hearing their guidance.
There is a little more to tell you of my Council.
Sometime in October each year when the weather has a special magical feeling called Indian Summer my friend Andrea and I take a Sentimental Journey. We drive south to the Monterrey/Carmel coast called the 17 MILE DRIVE. White sandy beach tucked into huge rocks with wild and splashing waves call us to sit and absorb this powerful and magical space where ocean and shore meet. Our next stop is to return to a favorite place, Asilomar Conference Grounds.
This is a question many people ask. I am reprinting Mary Jane’s Blog from 2013 with her understanding. My, Barbara’s, simple answer is to simply understand they are Nature Spirits in service to Mother Earth in the realm of air, fire, water, earth.
After celebrating my 98th birthday with a cake with 98 candles, I keep peeking closer to the momentous celebration of being 100. In this blog, I share 3 stories from my latest book, Infused With The Muse: Poetry, Prose and Rambling Thoughts.
Today’s nature stories are two experiences where I related and interacted, 1) with gnomes that appeared in my kitchen when I was baking cookies, and 2) a time five gnomes traveled with me to Ireland. I have two ways I interact with the gnomes. One is ‘A REAL EXPERIENCE’ when I actually see and interact with them outside of me. Other times my interaction with the gnomes is more inside of me. I call this ‘A SEE FEEL EXPERIENCE’, it occurs in my mind and imagination, I am not making it up, it unfolds in front and around me.
Mano: I have asked Barbara to share some of the experience we arranged for her to give to you, our readers, things to notice in your life. We are using Barbara to write her experience to stimulate your awareness to the presence of elementals in your life.
Barbara: In two years I will be 100 years old. I am fascinated, charmed, and in awe to have been on the planet so long. Last week I started re-reading my Spiritual Memoir, Living With The Spirits Of The Land. It is Mother Earth that called me to work with her children.
I am getting ready to write another book. As I look through old journal entries I see things Mano would like for me to share on his Blog.
This month’s blog comes from a January 2007 entry: In my studio last week I saw a circle of angels lining the four walls of my studio. There was a circle of Faerie beings in front of them and then a circle of elementals. They said, “We have been awaiting your presence. You have recommitted your dedication to fulfill your soul call and life path. This always leads you to your studio and to the Amphitheater. We all serve you and the Goddess of the Amphitheater.”
