The poster reads:
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; And for everything you gain, you lose something else. It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.
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Everything that we do is about balance. You choose the pace of the balance in your life. No one else can choose the balance for you. Choose wisely!
Blessings,
Judy
In the balance between all living things, Blue Jay has wisdom to share with mankind. Blue Jay will lie low to see where food is and then see what she might like. She then will go and pick up a pine cone, fly it to the stash of food, and leave it as she picks up the sunflower seeds that she is really after. In her mind, a seed for a seed. The quantity, size, or effort involved, do not weigh into the equation of “this for that”.
Blue Jay says that if humans were more thoughtful about ensuring that something was left for something that was taken, then the karma for humans would be quite reduced. Since man does not understand balance, and seems to find joy in taking something for nothing, the consequences come in a larger size and last longer. These might be forest fires where trees have been taken by a company where no exchange was made. Or, it might be flooding where fishing without replenishment takes place.
The idea that we need to balance with Nature, when we walk out in Nature, or take from Nature, was a common theme in the lives of our Ancestors. The last four centuries of people in the western world moved away from this. It is time to bring the balance back.
Blessings,
Judy
It is difficult for the mind to come to the right diet, difficult for the mind to stay in the middle. It is just like a clock's pendulum. The pendulum goes to the right, then it moves to the left, then again to the right, and again to the left; the clock's working depends on this movement.
If the pendulum stays in the middle, the clock stops. And when the pendulum moves to the right, you think it is only going to the right, but at the same time it is gathering momentum to go to the left. The more it moves to the right, the more energy it gathers to move to the left, and vice versa. - Osho
Many blessings,
Judy
One of my friends sent me this gorgeous set of pictures of a Black Fawn and its Deer family. It is interesting, I think, that Mother Nature, The Universe, or what ever you wish to call the Power that keeps balance, does balance off the white fawns that are being born with one that is black.
I love the way the black fawn blends into the shadows in the second picture. The shadows remind me of a conversation I was having with one of my friends – that we all need to find and recognize the darkness in ourselves; that the shadow side of ourselves is a gift that allows us to recognize actions that are not for the highest good, and therefore, gives us the freedom of choice to choose to act in a different manner than perhaps our reflexes would have prompted us to act.
May you have the good fortune of meeting a white fawn or a black fawn, or a white deer or black deer.
To find out more about deer, check these posts:
Deer Finds You https://www.lightstationwisdom.com/2023/01/spirit-animal-deer-finds-you.html
Wood Caribou https://www.lightstationwisdom.com/2023/10/wood-caribou.html
Streaming Life https://www.lightstationwisdom.com/2023/01/streamlining-life.html
Elk https://www.lightstationwisdom.com/2023/05/elk-spirit-animal.html
White Elk Speaks https://www.lightstationwisdom.com/2023/03/white-elk-speaks-spirit-animal.html
Many blessings,
Judy
I practice awareness, alignment, and intention. I am in complete balance. I say yes to better experiences. The universe has my back. —Daily Motivation (dailymotivation.site)
I find it more difficult at times to maintain my cool - my awareness and alignment and intention - with all of the strife in the world and around me when I leave the house. Our house and yard have become a sanctuary over time. Going out to a grocery store brings complexities that did not exist several years ago.
My intention is to be a good, kind person that gets along with all...much like the pelicans in the picture. I practice meditations for loving kindness, for gratitude, for tolerance. Sometimes, though, a person crosses your path that makes it so difficult to find the good qualities in them, it is sometimes simpler to walk away from them.
How are you doing in maintaining awareness, Alignment, and Intention?
Blessings,
Judy
"Their big eyes are so well adapted for low-light vision that snow leopards can hunt in near total darkness—but they can still go hungry when humans compete for their prey. Though trophy hunts for wild sheep and goats bring income to local communities, they can deplete food stocks for snow leopards." Out of the Shadows, photo project by Steve Winter The Winner of The Best Wild Nature Photo 2008
Snow Leopard has the colour brown, for the Earth, black for the Night and mystery and magic, and white for the Day, and connection to Great Spirit. The reverence for Snow Leopard is displayed in the many legends around it.
In Nepal, in Dolpo, there are stories of great lamas frequently making trips to Tibet in the form of snow leopards, in search of rare medicinal herbs. Other folklore describes the snow leopard as a “fence” for the crops, meaning that in the absence of snow leopards livestock would be free ranging and thus would invade crop fields.
Dr. John Mock, in 2004, went to Pakistan, and investigated some of their myths. This is one around the Snow Leopard.
Pari are female supernatural denizens of the high mountains. People in Pakistan, Afghanistan, north India and throughout Central Asia are familiar with pari. The Wakhi ethnic population in northern Pakistan, China, Tajikistan and Afghanistan have their own word for pari: mergichan. The mergichan inhabit the mergich realm, which is the realm of the mountains and high pastures. It is a pure, even sacred realm, where the supernatural mountain spirits tend their wild flocks of blue sheep and ibex. The Wakhi word for snow leopard is pes. A pes is a mergich animal found only in mergich areas. It rarely interacts with people, is hard to see, powerful, beautiful, and potentially dangerous. As such, it exemplifies many of the qualities of the mergichan, and so is an appropriate animal shape for them to assume.
If Snow Leopard comes to you, then know it brings several messages, and all of them or some of them may be for you!
May those of you with Leopard medicine find peace.
Many blessings,
Judy
Picture of jaguar from www.animals-images.com
On Sunday, in our Solstice Celebration, several people had an encounter with a jaguar.
Last night, as I was falling asleep, my Black Jaguar, who sits on my Sacral Chakra, popped in and asked, “Why don`t you write about jaguars as spirit animals?” So, today, I will write about jaguar.
Jaguar is sacred to indigenous people in South and Central America. They call it “the animal that kills with a bite”`because the Jaguar kills its prey with a single bite. Jaguar makes a loud coughing noise. She is unable to roar.
In Munay-Ki, Jaguar is a totem that reflects integrity, steadfastness, truth, and the ability to blend in with the day or the night. Her skills include climbing, running steadily for hours at a slow trot, and keen night vision. The people with this totem or spirit animal, are generally agile, loners and leaders, and very good orators. Most Jaguar people are writers and thinkers, and do something to change the world.
Jaguar likes to live in caves, close to water, much like the hermits or isolated monks do. If she appears to you, she may be reminding you that in the Northern hemisphere, people should be moving into a hibernation or isolation stage in their life. Winter is a time of regeneration. This is a time to heal, to refresh the mind, and to contemplate one’s next steps. When we don’t take this time, people get out of balance.
Black jaguar image from www.worldwildlife.org
Have jaguar dreams tonight.
Many Blessings,
Judy
When we had our Winter Solstice gathering, one of the things that we did was pull a card with one word on it. That word is the thing that we will work on over 2024. The card that I pulled was “Truth”. Interesting to me is that stuff that I do every day is supporting that.
In my study of all things Buddhism, I came across a little book called “The Little Book of Zen Haiku, Koans, Sayings” from Barnes and Noble, and edited by Manuela Dunn Mascetti. Now, Koans are stories that are meant to be puzzling to help the student gain enlightenment after meditating on the story – sometimes for great lengths of time.
The Koan that I am sitting with is called “Tipping Over A Vase”.
Hyakujo wished to send a monk to open a new monastery. He told hi disciples that whoever answered a question most ably would be appointed. Placing a water vase on the ground, he asked, “Who can say what this is without calling its name?”
The Chief monk said, “No one can call it a wooden shoe.”
Isan, the cooking monk, tipped over the vase with his foot and went out.
Hyakujo smiled and said, “The chief monk loses.” And, Isan became the master of the new monastery.
The point of the Koan is to show that truth, as symbolized by the water vase, can only be shown. The cooking monk makes this demonstration very effectively.
One of the leadership tools that I used to teach in my Organizational Behaviour Class was “How to Refute Rumour”. The only way was to ignore it, not comment on it, and show the employees what the truth was.
Truth is healing! It gives us a spiritual peace. We feel balanced and at one with all things… Nature is our friend. Sadly, we as a civilization seem to have moved far from Truth. Perhaps we have reached the furthest swing of the pendulum and we are now ready to start kicking over vases, politicians, corrupt CEO’s and Boards, to get at the Truth.
May you find Truth in all you do!
Many Blessings,
Judy
We have all heard all the sayings - “march to the sound of your own drummer”, and “every one marches to a different beat”. Or, “everyone’s marching one way, and you need to get with the program”.
Well, the Angels are saying that it is time for you to remember why you asked to come to Earth to walk “your talk”. YOU did not come here to beat someone else’s drum, you came here to pound out your own tune. Your music, what ever that might be, is what helps keep the world in balance.
Remember the chorus from the song, “I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing”? It goes like this….
Chorus:
I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company
(That's the song I hear)
I'd like to see the world for once
(Let the world sing today)
All standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills
For peace throughout the land
That's the song I hear
(That's the song I hear)
Let the world sing today
(Let the whole wide world keep singing)
A song of peace that echoes on
And never goes away~~(R. Cook/R. Greenway/B. Backer/B. Davis)
The Angels remind you that coming to Earth to get rich or to be poor or to be sick, or to be in a dead end job, was never part of the plan. They tell you that each person was to break free from the constraints of the world created by their parents, and that each person was to live in a way that made that person absolutely happy. Living a life based on “you should”, and “you’d better”, and someone else’s agenda is making people sick – sick to death.
So, sit down on a couch or a log or where ever you are comfortable, and find out what makes you happy, and find out where you want to be. Then, get with your program.
Blessings,
Judy
I get a Daily Motivational Message in my email every morning. I enjoy the ideas and thoughts that pop up from time to time. On Sunday, I was having a discussion with a friend about the purpose of life, and how some folks become so focused on what they think their purpose is that they let a lot of wonderful life pass them by.
Then, on Monday, in my DM message, the following thoughts showed up that seemingly emphasized the discussion of Sunday.
See what you think and what you feel when you read these thoughts or truisms. They deal with balance, life choices, stress, control or not, and the need for calmness and gentleness.
Image of Oxen from www.afb.org/
Oxen pulled the carts and wagons that helped the pioneers cross North America from the East to the West coast.
“Dependable, calm, methodical, patient, hardworking, ambitious, conventional, steady, modest, logical, resolute, tenacious. Can be stubborn, narrow-minded, materialistic, rigid, demanding.” This is the description for OX, in the Chinese Zodiac.
Ox is actually a bull that has been neutered either because of its very gentle disposition which makes it ideal for pulling work, or because the bull is not a good breeder. The best Ox is actually one with horns because the horns help the yoke stay in place. The horns also enable Ox to defend against predators.
Our Ancestors preferred Ox’s draft capabilities over that of a horse or mule where steadiness over speed was required. Ox is sure footed, patient, and generally gets along with anyone or any team-mate. Ox is also stronger, and not likely to injure itself because it is methodical in what it does, and does not jerk or rear against the harness or driver. Ox has also been used for riding because again it will go much longer in the day than a horse will travel.
As Ox is part of the family of cattle and bovines, it brings some of the same messages. If Ox is in your dreams, or shows up in pictures for you, then it does bring you a message. Some of these messages might be:
a) Are you pulling your weight in the world? Ox takes on huge loads and moves them, without protest. Have you been whining and complaining about your lot in life? Are you labelling yourself as a victim? Ox is here to remind you that everything is fair and for a reason. Put your back into what you do, and you will forget about being a victim.
b) Do you help others? Ox is in training for his part as a draft animal by age two to three, and usually will work for four to six years. Ox has committed his life to helping mankind move forward. If you are feeling low self worth, Ox suggests that you find someplace to volunteer. Helping others is the surest way to improve self esteem.
c) Are you working hard, and doing everything yourself? Do you feel unappreciated? Ox reminds you that most animals work better in a team. Why do you try to do it all yourself? Find a good team-mate, and split the work load. Bring your life back into balance.
Ox is a great example of being able to go with the flow in life, and not get excited or emotional.
Many blessings,
Judy
Baker Creek in Banff National Park - Picture by Judy
From the beginning of time, all peoples around the globe have believed in Sacred Laws - the laws of nature, not man made laws. Sacred Laws define how the four elements - air, earth, water, fire - interact with one another. Sacred Laws reflect how the Stone People, Plant People, Tree People, four leggeds, finned, furred and winged-ones all interact. The Sacred Laws also prescribe how the two legged - Man - shall interact with the Earth and all that is upon it.
The Sacred Laws are about the weaving of the energy between all things. It is this set of Laws that allows the Australian Aborigines to communicate with one another across the outback without the use of cell phones. The Laws have dictated that hunters will take the lives of the animals or other live things, with respect. The Laws are about balance. Therefore, the Nature of the Sacred Laws permeates all things as both creation and evolution.
For thousands of years, many MEN have forgotten what it is to be in balance. False laws and rules have been made. The laws and rules end up serving the few, using resources unnecessarily, and creating the environment of scarcity and consumerism. The Sacred Laws are now reinforcing the need for Balance on the Earth. Indeed, it is interesting that in most indigenous societies that our Ancestors lived in, Sacred Laws were put into context as a way of life. The Norse created "Praiseworthy Virtues".
What is praiseworthy?
1. Gifting is praiseworthy.
2. Generosity is praiseworthy.
3. Moderation is praiseworthy.
4. The maintaining of frith ***in all circumstances is praiseworthy.
5. Courage is praiseworthy.
6. The seeking of good over ill is praiseworthy.
7. Hospitality is praiseworthy.
8. Courtesy is praiseworthy.
9. Tolerance is praiseworthy.
10. The pursuit of wisdom and knowledge is praiseworthy.
11. The defence of freedom is praiseworthy.
12. Industriousness is praiseworthy.
13. Vigilance is praiseworthy.
14. The protection, nurturing and forbearing of kin is praiseworthy.
15. Showing respect for elders is praiseworthy.
16. Loyalty to friends and kin is praiseworthy.
17. Keeping an oath is praiseworthy.
18. Honouring the sanctity of marriage is praiseworthy.
19. Refraining from mockery is praiseworthy.
2o. Refraining from arrogance is praiseworthy.
21. Making kin, honour and justice more important than gold is praiseworthy.
22. Cleanliness is praiseworthy.
23. The maintaining of one's dignity in all situations is praiseworthy.
24. Good organization is praiseworthy.
25. Persistence is praiseworthy.
26. The rule of law is praiseworthy.
27. To try ones steel against an opponent fairly is praiseworthy.
28. Respect for the dead is praiseworthy.
29. For a man to never strike a woman is praiseworthy.
30. To not abuse one's power is praiseworthy.
***Frith means PEACE Praiseworthy actions come from the Odinic Mysteries.
After reviewing this list, one feels that the Sacred Laws should be our guiding light.
May all that guides you, be Sacred!
Blessings,
Judy - Lightstationwisdom@gmail.com If you have a thought or comment on this article, I would love to hear it.
I sit quietly and fall into my meditation.
Snort, and pawing, and more snorting. I know that Buffalo has arrived. As ever, he comes in with his big head shaking a greeting, and his snorts telling me that he is well. He settles in for a visit.
Buffalo has visited before and provided a view of the future, where things are just a bit wilder, and where animals each have their own power.
Today, Buffalo is talking about restoring balance to the plains and mountains, and indeed, to the world. Buffalo says that keeping the animals locked up is not the answer to restoring balance. Nor is conservation of animals the way to go. Some species need to die down before they can evolve to the next thing that they were meant to be. And, in some cases, that species is no longer required as a training place for souls. A new, improved (isn’t that what marketers say?) animal is waiting to be activated by soul groups.
Buffalo says that the challenge that faces humans is not that the other species are dying; the challenge is that perhaps the human race has reached its pinnacle and needs to die off. Buffalo says that his kind is pushing for more freedom, much like humans have been for a very long time. He complains that fences are too much control, although he understands the need to keep animals off roads and railway tracks.
He shook his head and gave me a lick, and told me he needed to get back to the others, and he was gone.
Blessings
Judy
I have often wondered about the term “lost souls” and what that means exactly. While sitting in meditation, I asked about lost souls and was told that the world is usually in balance. Some souls find their way quickly between this world and the next. Others, seem to get distracted, and do not follow the path to the next world. These are the lost souls. A soul needs to be ready to move on. Sometimes, they are distracted by those that are left behind. Other times, they get distracted by other lost souls or even energies that urge them to stay and to work with them.
The Angels talked about soul consciousness, gratitude, and the nature of souls as well as Oneness. Much of the meaning gets lost in the translation to earthly terms. For me, there was comfort in knowing that souls are never truly lost. Angels and guardians are always tracking with them.
Life is beautifully mystifying!
Blessings,
Judy
When the breeze blows, and the smell of the ocean falls over the land, and brushes my face, I think about being mindful. We all fully expect to mindful or fully present when we are in meditation. Yet, when I was sitting in my space the other day, Creator moved in and asked me to be more mindful everyday.
My first thought was, “I am”. And, I heard this booming laugh.
And then I remembered that one of the teachings of Spirit is the understanding of “I AM”.
I then thought, what if I just say, “I am mindful.”
With that thought, a rush of energy lifted me and flowed through me.
Being mindful every day means that you are fully aware of what is around you. It is paying attention to the small children, the homeless man, and the smell of smoke in the air. It is finding that balance and shifting from being focused in your mind, on your own things, to shifting to the environment and seeing the inter-connectedness of all things. It is being aware that we are not alone, and that we are part of the whole.
If you have the trait of being observant and paying attention, you are mindful. If you are always in victim mode, you are blaming. Being mindful is rewarding. Try it.
Blessings,
Judy
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