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Magical Blessings.

by canyon critter on February 12, 2013

so… let me tell you about my week – and it is only Tuesday.

Yesterday, I took Conrad and Sally to the vet. Not having a vet for a year, we were playing catch up with everything – Next is Jack for his eye. OY!

I try to fix what I can , but there are circumstances that need to be seen, especially when I am still only learning.

Conrad has a fatty tumor that is super big and has to have surgery for removal and he has a heart murmur – $600.

Sally. Oh! Sally. You can only imagine what that entailed. Of course, I bring her in and every vet always looks at her in disbelief and says OH! My! she is a train wreck. So there is something very wrong internally and it has to be fixed and there is a new tumor that need xrays to see if there is cancer in the lungs, allergies, she has lost 2 pounds which she can’t afford to do and, and … I will stop there. So we are starting where we can and as I can afford to do things. We are fasting her on nothing but goats milk for a month. I have actually heard of this in Juliette de Baïracli Levy’s book. She was a gypsy herbalist for animals. I LOVE HER. We also put her on some green algae, did some blood work and other tests, until I can afford to do the the test for the injections to heal her internally – I might also do her herbal treatment. I will see. I need to meditate on that one. All this will cost well over $1000. I don’t really even want to think about how much it will cost when said and done. More than I have now, but I do LOVE the vet and that is something huge – trust me.

Sally went to vet yesterday. You can only imagine how that went.

But as much as that did stress me for a bit. I wasn’t worried. I know I will get the money somehow – even if I have to pimp a dog out for work. I have a great group of women in my class that will help network my art and well, I just know that the universe will provide. I have learned that there can’t be an alternative to not succeed.

So that brings us to today. I was on my way to work and I saw a beaver. I have never in my life seen this little critter. He was on the highway and I was so worried about his safety and sent him love and protection. I knew that wasn’t normal so I immediately looked up his medicine and this is a little excerpt from what I read:

The Beaver Totem reminds you that you have to act on your dreams to make them a reality. It is time for action! Beaver can show you how to construct wonderful dreams. In essence, Beaver tells you to believe in your dreams as if they were real. Build on them as if the dream is your reality.

so HOLY COW! I totally needed that today, so thank you little beaver for that little message.

I also had someone go into the realms for me and do a shamanic reading. I haven’t been still enough to be able to journey and listen and really needed assistance and guidance with some things. The message my guides had for me had me in tears, especially after seeing the beaver this morning.

I also just go a part time job within a day of submitting my resume – that usually doesn’t happen here and especially after the vet bills yesterday and well, it will take the pressure of getting my shop going. Plus I am saving for a house with a big bear claw tub. OH HELL YES! I want to buy a house for the sole reason of having a big tub.

Also this morning, I just wanted to write someone I admire and tell her she is amazing. She has a class that I have been swooning over for months and haven’t been able to afford it, but I know in my gut this is one of the paths I am supposed to follow – strongly. She wrote me back and is working something out with me so I can take the class – especially since this is part of my calling. As this happened, It has become more clear the direction I am to take in my class with Daughters of the Earth and the name came to me for my other business and everything.

Hello Clarity and Enlightenment, I have missed you and thanks for stopping in on such a day that I needed you!

And I am taking a creative mentoring workshop later in the month with Alena Hennessy. She is an artist I truly admire…

So yah. I don’t even know what to say today. I am just gonna take it all in.

I feel so blessed.

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ps. I am simply obsessed with hula hooping. If anyone knows where I can get a super awesome one, let me know!

oh yah! and Happy Fat Tuesday and cheers to an awesome week!
the flaming fig

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offering

by canyon critter on February 8, 2013

An offering for tonight

It has been a very intense week. I started a cleanse, failed the cleanse and tried to start again and then ended up editing the cleanse to fit what my body can handle at this time. My class has had my head spinning – in a good but but very challenging way. Questions that make you think beyond the present. So I have been sitting with some spider medicine- weaving my web of thoughts and goals. Last night my apothecary class came together for a ceremony – to release and burn, to bury what does not serve. This was my offering last night. I sat under the stars and moon and sent love to my clan and gave an offering of sage, lavender and rose petals.

Spider medicine
Animal totem tree #lehowl

So yah. Big changes this week – some I am not ready to share yet. Just know I took a leap this week, spread my wings and I am having faith that the wind will catch me and the universe will provide. Life is an adventure, right!?

So… many new things coming to the shop (necklaces, rings, mobiles, animal totem trees!!) I would like to say they will all be in the shop over the weekend, but that just won’t happen. I can only work so fast, but I will try to update every few days 😉

I am also having a  25% off sale starting today Feb 7-11.  Conrad and Sally needs vet care. uh! oh! Plus it is Valentine’s Day this week ♥ Anyone want to send me chocolate?

Ps. I will edit the studio opening shots this weekend and share. It is such a beautiful space, now I just need to get over there and work!

sally

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Tuesday

by canyon critter on February 6, 2013

kiba

“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it’s not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”
It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.
It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.”
― Oriah Mountain Dreamer

coyote

New rings in Le Shop! and more items coming every few days… I am on a roll over here!!

pitbull

kiba

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Tuesday Teaser

by canyon critter on January 30, 2013

tuesday night

I am sitting here drinking chamomile/valerian tea listening to the wind whip and howl the trees around me. It sounds maddening. Truly, I would rather be out with my friends, sipping on an Old Fashioned and listening to some music, but my schedule says no… not now. I have deadlines that I have set for myself. Saturday is a day I look forward to for the studio opening and hanging with friends. Plus, it feels good to accomplish things each day and I need that so I can feel like I am moving forward out of my box. Oh that silly box we put ourselves into. It can be such a challenge to tear it down, mentally. I know I have put myself in one thinking I have to do this or this to be a “real” person. So my goal now is this experiment… What if instead of worrying myself into an anxiety frenzy about a job and money that I put all that energy (which is a lot) into MY business. Pure, streamlined FOCUS. No doubtful thoughts, no negative, no worry – just complete movement. Sawing, writing, photographing, sewing, brewing, planning. I will let you know how it goes. All I can say is for now I am breaking up with trying to be normal. I just can’t be what I am “supposed” to be in other people’s  or society’s eyes. Of course, I have never followed the rules, so why start now.

Living in this moment, doing what I do and making magic happen.

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A mobile for my friends pit bull that passed away

This is a mobile for my friend. Her pit bull passed away and I have had this on the table for months. I am not sure why I never finished it, maybe there was a reason. I think she will like it.

Pink coyote

I have a teacher who has been invaluable to me this last year and presently. She has changed my life and help me see my path. She helps guide a whole community of woman – helping us learn to walk in the seasons of the medicine wheel. She is moving and I want to gift her with several totems. This is just one… Still working on the rest – don’t worry, I will show you 😉

Ps. I will be adding mobiles like these to Le Shop! don’t worry your pretty little heads.

tuesday night

My friend posted this on her fb page. I love it and wanted to share with you.

“Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw at it still. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good — be good for something. All fables indeed have their morals, but the innocent enjoy the story.”
Letters to a Spiritual Seeker ~Henry Thoreau

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Sunshine Monday

by canyon critter on January 29, 2013

So wow! That full moon was extremely powerful for me – the energy of it was a little much ( Leo is a force, though!), but today is much calmer.

I am such a creature of habit. If we don’t walk everyday, we all get in a funk (I am ready for spring). Being in nature and walking is so good for the soul and the mind. Morning glory

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I went to the studio for a bit yesterday, I would like to think I was helpful, but I was too cold to move. ha. I did, however, have an amazing conversation with my friend, E. This whole thing (studio) is divine, I tell you. I needed these people just at this time. Talking with her was so helpful and it confirms what I have been trying to do – streamline things. Focus.

I have a lot of new and different things planned for this blog, the future of Le Howl and our personal life. I am just working my way backwards to get there. It is an adventure – life. I am just so grateful for the amazing people in my life right now- such good energy flowing about.

Can you feel it?

The changes happening everywhere, the energy of the universe, the magic from the earth and the animals, spirits and guides helping us between realms? Are you connected to the divine? Connecting to spirit to feel this? I hope you are… I hope you meditate, sit in stillness, walk barefoot, hug a tree – anything to connect and feel her magic.

There is some powerful energy going on.

So good things are coming. I may not know from which way all the time, but I am open to receive.

“When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.” Socrates

Sally gets her herbal tea in bed every morning :)

So this week, I am starting tinctures and oil infusions to make salves and lotions – for humans and animals. Last night I gave Sally a Calendula, chamomile and peppermint tea rinse for her itchy skin and yes, she gets her herbal tea every morning and night in bed (so spoiled).

I am getting my witchy kitchen ready for brewing!! You want to come over and make magic?

Witches brew over here

Also am setting a date to start filling Le Howl Shop by Feb. 9 – that will give me a week to solder and work in the studio.

The animals... They speak to me.

I have also decided I am done using my little airstream oven. So if anyone wants to share any raw herbal treat recipes… please do. Or if you have any herbal lotions, body care etc… recipes!!?

I don't know. I wonder if she is comfortable enough. #spoiledpup

Have a good week birds. xo

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