Humans, and mothers especially, have a love-hate relationship with dirt. Yet, dirt grows what we eat. The minerals in it are part of us. We need it! Sometimes, the quickest way to ground absolutely is to touch the earth. Sometimes, getting down in the mud brings a relief to a time filled with stress, grief, and worry.
So, today, if you are having a difficult time with family, work, relationships with friends or lovers, go and find some dirt. it will make you feel better.
Blessings,
Judy
This poster says: Let us not love with words or speech….but with actions and truth.
Well, this poster says it all! Of course, our Ancestors have always said that actions speak louder than words. They also say that love is the way. Strangely, those caught up in material growth and wealth never seem to find time for love. And, by their actions, they show us just how empty they are.
Love fills you up! You do not need to eat, drink, or buy to fill the craving that emptiness brings. Finding that love is not something that you need to go on a quest to find, although I will say that quests are fun. No, the loving is right inside you.
Today is a good day to rummage around in your body and find the love.
Blessings,
Judy
“Spring Palomino Colt” from Microsoft Clip Art 
This is what we call “April Fool’s Day”. Yet, to our Ancestors, this was the day for “Love”. Romans, Greeks, and Norse-Germanic traditions celebrated the goddesses of love, sexuality, orchards and growing things, and water.
This day symbolically represented the day of planting. It was, therefore, necessary to have the Blessings of the Goddesses, for the second Universal Law is “all creation comes from the female”. Women offered fires and incenses and wine to the Goddesses Aphrodite, Venus, Freya, and Hathor (Egyptian). In return, the women wanted a blessing on love, family, birthing, and joy for the next part of their life. In some cases, women might even court the man to let him know they were interested, and then drop him, so that he, in turn, would court her.
It was this day that made fools out of lovers, and lovers out of strangers, for sometimes, the Goddess would sprinkle potions on the food and drink of the humans. It was a day that nothing serious should happen except for the extolling of the virtues of one’s beloved.
April is also the time of the pairing of birds (love birds is the nickname for this time of year), and the building of nests. Baby animals are either present or on their way. This is the month of the “Budding Trees” Full Moon. Planting begins and is sometimes completed during the month.
May your April bring newness to your life!
Blessings,
Judy
Horse on its mum's lap
Some pictures just don't need captions.
There is nothing like Mum's lap no matter who you are.
This is a newborn offspring of Taskin, a Gypsy Stallion owned by Villa Vanners of Oregon ..
These pictures were taken immediately after his birth on April 6. The mare lay down, and then he trotted around and crawled right up into her lap
One of my friends knows how much I like animals. She has gifted me with a set of animal pictures that are amazing!
There are some BIG messages in these actions.
Blessings,
Judy
The poster says: Sometimes all it takes is a SMILE to make everything better!
-by Lendl Ian Servillon
How can one smile such sweet smiles,
When one is so saddened by sorrows for miles,
How can I smile the same smiles,
When life brings me nothing but tears,
I wondered for so long,
What reason you had to smile that long,
To keep smiling though troubles come,
And still remain sweet and silently overcome,
It's such a mystery to me,
Your smiles from heaven with glee,
I adore and yet envy thee,
But I'd rather you smile those at me,
I feel happy when I see you smile,
Even if I'm sad and lonely,
Your smiles bring me somewhere,
I don't even know where,
But it was you,
You gave me the reason to smile,
To smile with no reason,
To smile for a smile,
I guess life is just like that,
We need not a reason to smile,
For a smile is the reason itself,
To rejoice and open-heartedly give thanks,
I learned to smile because of you,
Because your smiles bring me joy when blue,
It proves how well and powerful,
A simple sweet smile can become so beautiful,
Smile for the sake of a smile,
Smile for the sake of happiness,
Smile for the sake of life,
Smile because of hope left in life,
Smile my friends,
Smile for me my Love,
Smile those same sweet smiles,
Smile so the world can be a peaceful dove...
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Dear friends,
Smiling is the best medicine.
Blessings,
Judy
Sometime this week, you will be given a chance to do something different, something you would not ordinarily do. It might be the rekindling of a great love, or the opportunity to work in a different career and still use the skills that you have accumulated over the years. Or, it might be the chance to move to a different city, province, or country. The Gopher’s guidance is…”Go for it!” Nothing happens unless you make a choice to change your life. Gopher knows that no matter how far you “dig” to try and change your life, much of life happens by being in the right place at the right time. Some call this coincidence. In Science, a coincidence is when two rays of light strike a surface at the same place at the same point of time. Sounds like the Universe sending light, doesn’t it? Moreover, Science refers to this event as non-casual. In other words, there are not any events that lead up to it.
So, if you see a Gopher, or several Gophers, or, if you see a lightening strike, know that the Universe is giving you some warning that something unusual is about to happen. It is up to you to choose to accept the gift, or not.
Blessings,
Judy
Check out the amazing ways to celebrate Valentine's Day, even if you are single, or, by yourself for Valentine's Day. This wondeful posting was on www.Gogratitude.org.
#1: Hug a Tree
Appreciate Nature. Go hiking. Surround yourself in
the great outdoors. Soak up the beautiful energies
of Mother Earth. She has a heartbeat. Tune into it.
Express your Love and Gratitude for all the blessings
the Earth bestows you.
Then listen. Who knows? She may have a message for you.
#2: Sit Under the Stars and Appreciate the Cosmos
We live in a vast Universe. Contemplating the Infinite
need not make us feel small.
With love in our hearts, we remember our Connection
to All-That-Is. And recognize we are THAT too, the
realization of which fills our soul with the WONDER of
the Mystery.
#3: Express Appreciation to Your Beloveds
Expand the traditional sense of Valentine's Day Love
to include all your Beloveds. Your kindred. Your soul-
mates. Your friends. Your family. Your children. Your
parents. Your animal companions.
Make it a point to consider what you most appreciate
from those closest to you. Then make sure to express it.
Face to face. Or call them up. Or email them. Or text them.
Or write them a note.
#4: Hug Your Self
Love your Self. Appreciate your Self. Feel deep compassion
for your Self. This is probably the most important thing any
of us could do on Valentine's day and every other day.
For it is only as we Love, accept and honor ourselves -
ego shadows and all - that we can truly love and uplift others.
I love this. I love that we need to do self care, and that we can show our appreciation to ourselves. It is time!
Blessings,
Judy
In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught." – Baba Dioum
February-1-2025
I have great inner strength.
I am living my most blissful life.
I enjoy immersing myself in nature.
I am feeling fresh and rejuvenated.
I am in a state of profound contentment.
I spend my time doing what I love.
Joy is flowing into my life.
I invite a greater sense of balance into my life.
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I sometimes get behind in reading my email. I get daily updates from the site - Daily Motivation - and I love the positive words that the site shares with us.
The affirmations above were sent out on February 1, 2025 but I did not read them until today. My bad. I am sharing them with you so that you can pick the affirmations that speak to you and so that you can add them to your life, if you want.
Each day, I look to find an affirmation that speaks to me and that helps me make sense of something going on in my life in a positive way.
Enjoy the journey!
Blessings,
Judy
The poster reads, “Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike, each has their suffering.” - Buddha
I am seeing more people go out of their way to help others. Still, many people try to put down others, one-up the people around them, and compete with others. These actions are not the way of love and compassion.
I wish for you to find tolerance for others, kindness for all, and compassion for those having trouble.
Blessings,
Judy
I was walking through the park, and my thoughts turned to the idea of being grateful. I am grateful for everything, even the tough things that challenge my faith in a compassionate world, filled with love and laughter. I heard someone say, very far away, “Take it back to the basics!”
Immediately, I knew that meant that one needs to be grateful for all the basic things in life – food, shelter, clothing – all the things in Maslow’s needs hierarchy. And then the Angels, in their mysterious way, directed me to this wonderful prayer.
I share it now with you.
May We Be Grateful
While writing this, I was listening to "Unto The Burning Circle" by Andreas Vollenweider
Polar Bear north of Churchill from https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/facts/polar-bear
In my blogs, I talk about about many topics connected to spirituality. Each topic reflects something that is going on in my life. Therefore, I truly enjoy writing about animals since the ANIMALS are such a large part of my life.
The Polar Bear has been receiving a lot of attention recently. Polar Bear, however, has been a part of my life since 1972. That is the year that I went to work with Hudson Bay Northern Stores. The clerical work that I did was for the Northern Stores in Churchill, Lynn Lake and north in Manitoba, Northern Saskatchewan and Northern Ontario.
In the winter, the Store Managers, Trainees, and sometimes District Managers from our office in Winnipeg travelled back and forth. Many of the residents from the north would come and visit at my desk. They always had great stories of encounters with polar bears, arctic wolves, arctic foxes, and whales and seals and walruses. As they realized that I really loved to hear stories of polar bears, they began to snap pictures of the animals and send them off to me in the next batch of books to be analysed. I began to get several pictures a month during the winter. I kept some of the pictures, however, the earlier photographic paper does yellow over time, and does not stand up to much handling. 
Pictures like this one, of a mother and cubs were common. This picture comes from www.nwf.org.
The point of the story is that when an animal shows up over and over in your life, especially from an early age, a Shaman says that this is one of Power Animals. A Power Animal both shows an aspect of your self as well as showing an external source of power that is always available to you.
At the time that I was meeting Polar Bear for the first time, I did not realize the implications of the true power of this Bear. Polar Bear is truly a specialist in the North - the colour, the ability to hunt all prey in such a camouflaged way as to be invisible, and the great speed - send a message that I did not "get" until a couple of years ago. I think that I am still learning some of it.
What Polar Bear did for me during the time that I worked at Northern Stores was create a love for all things Northern, and a great sadness that the company that I worked for was sponsoring hunters to kill the animals of the North for their fur. I realized that I did not want to be part of that culture and within the year of starting my job, I began taking night classes at University to become something else.
One of the messages that I received from Polar Bear, in a retrospective look at my life, was to move away from being somebody without a goal or a specific purpose. Polar Bear was a BIG motivating factor in moving into Education and then into Accounting, and finally specializing in Accounting Software.
The other thing that Polar Bear did was make sure that I was with the perfect mate. When I met the guy that is now my husband, one of the things that impressed me was that he had a picture of two Polar Bears playing. That picture hung in our bedroom for many years. It is now in our guest room.
I wish you happiness and days of playing!
Blessings,
Judy
I finished reading the five book set of “Percy Jackson and The Olympians” by Rick Riordan, and I was left with some questions. Now, I loved these books. They were, however, written for children. There was so much in the books, I wondered why the message had been targeted to that age group. Whenever I have questions like this, I ask my Angels. Here is what they said…
“ Dearest beloved! You are familiar with the phrase, “History repeats itself!” and with that idea, Rick Riordan was given information from Earth’s history – your ancestral history – to use to shape into ideas that youth would understand today. There are several messages in this work:
- Love is better than anger.
- Anger and grudges held over time become very destructive.
- When one does something out of anger and fear, it will rebound on them.
- Families who turn against one another will destroy the family.
- Family violence may turn outward and involve many people, and may eventually escalate into a war.
How many wars were started by family feuds? Sometimes it is the responsibility of the children to heal the wounds of the parents.”
I see the wisdom in teaching the children those things that have been difficult to teach adults. Perhaps if enough children read these books, that will change.
Blessings,
Judy
This is a channel that I received quite a while ago. My guidance is to share it with all of you today. I hope that it reaches all that need to be aware of it.
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The Angels have been gathering to send different messages to Earth.
“Beloved Ones! We call you this for each of you is part of The One. Each of you has the gift of creation inside you.
This is a time to observe yourself and others. What we see is much fear. Even those that are connected to all things are showing fear over the changes that are happening to the physical earth, to the emotional stability of many people, and to the movement away from science. We say to you that these changes are all part of the process of movement from what you were to who you will be.
All activity happens on four levels – the spiritual, the mental, the emotional, and the physical – and you are concentrating on the physical and emotional. To conquer fear, one must move to the spiritual. Open up to love. Allow love in. Look at each event with love, and without the judgement that you all so readily use. All that happens is for the greatest good. Those that die have agreed to do so under their plan when they came to Earth. Transitioning from the physical body to the spiritual body is simply one breath. In that breath, all that you will be is shown and you feel the light of The One.
When you move past the physical and emotional, the mental makes a brief adjustment, and then there is nothing but everything! This is why you can be without fear. There is so much more that what you experience now.
And, if your path is to stay in the physical, know that fear is not required because there is so much light that is being extended to each of you right now. Abundance is the word of the day. Lose the fear of scarcity, poverty, and powerlessness. You are all powerful! Ask us to come in to remind you of all that you are.
We are your Angels
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Many blessings,
Judy
Picture from medium.com
Last night, as my dog and I walked out in the park at dusk, I could hear all the different frogs singing their songs. And then it got quiet. My dog and I heard this boom, boom, boom. It sounded like a drum. Then, there was a steady rock’n roll beat, and an image appeared. It looked like “Toad” – the toad from Toad Hall – was going to sing. He was standing over the water, and looked about six feet tall.
The words that he sang were “who do you love”, over and over in a deep, bass voice. I know the song, so I was expecting to hear him begin to sing the whole version. However, the words changed to “do you love you”, in the key of G, with a deep, 4/4 drum beat. I was startled! It seemed like all the animals (deer, dogs, ducks, geese) paused and looked up.
I thought I did love me. Yet, when he sang those words, I felt this guilt flow through me as though I did not love myself enough. Wow! That was something that I am going to work on. I realized that Toad was singing about “angel love” or unconditional love, and that I had not gone far enough with me.
Then, Toad began to sing again, “who do you love?”, and the visions I saw were of all the important people in my life. These were the people that I love. My big surprise is that there were several people missing. The missing people were in a screen called – “Like, don’t love even though you thought you did”. Another surprise!
Toad now started singing, “Gotta work it out, baby!” And, he sang that over and over as his voice faded away.
Why did a cartoon or movie type image appear to me? Well, at that moment, Spirit decided that this image was something that I would relate to, and therefore, understand the message more clearly. The images that appear to us, or the words or smells or “knowings” that we get, are symbolic to us as individuals, and sometimes as archetypes of groups or tribes. The symbols convey a message.
I got my message, loud and clear!
Blessings,
Judy
When you look at pictures of parks, forests, and wild rivers and streams, it seems that these wonderful places are getting quite beat up by the numbers of people using them, especially places close to highly populated areas like cities.
When I say “beat up”, I am talking about the garbage left behind, the beaten down grass and bushes where people are walking even though the big sign says, “Area under conservation. Please do not leave the path.” It seems that many people have no respect for the wild - the grasses, trees, animals, birds, etc.
It seems to me that people have forgotten how to walk softly on the Earth. People leave large footprints including garbage, trampled spots, and angry animals.
Many blessings,
Judy
Archangel Haniel artwork by Virginnia www.starlightangel.co.uk
I was sitting and wondering what the blog should be about, and I felt an energy on my left side… behind my shoulder. I heard “write angels speak” and then I asked who? I had some difficulty hearing, and finally heard “Haniel”.
AA Haniel is often called the Angel of the Moon. She also helps those with strong psychic or mystical gifts.
Her message is…
Dear ones, as the Moon changes in relationship to your home, know that it is because of the different Earth shifts, as polarity shifts and your awareness rises. The Moon will call you more now as she speaks of the ebb and flow of life force on Earth. Your life force is anchored in water, therefore you feel the pull of the Moon just as she pulls the waves of the Ocean. The waves are. Whether they are large ones for surfing, or gentle ones that lull the sailors to sleep, the waves never question. They simply exist. If you will pardon the pun, they go with the flow.
That, dear Ones, is exactly what you all need to do. This is a time of letting go. Attachments will be like cement blocks holding you back. It is in not attaching significance to the changing monetary systems and the changing economies that the change will happen swiftly. Healing will begin even as the changes are still completing.
Do what you need to do, and do it with grace and joy. Provide for one another. Share what you have. Do it with love and compassion.
Blessings,
Judy
This is a wonderful day to send love to everyone! This picture is from yellow-net.com.
Valentine’s Day is founded in love, the same love that a priest, Valentine, showed for others. Here is his story.
Valentine was a holy priest in Rome, who, with St. Marius and his family, assisted the martyrs in the persecution under Claudius II. He was apprehended, and sent by the emperor to the prefect of Rome, who, on finding all his promises to make him renounce his faith in effectual, commended him to be beaten with clubs, and afterwards, to be beheaded, which was executed on February 14. – from www.lonekeep.com
Who can beat the unconditional love of a dog?
Cupid, one of the gods in Roman mythology, is the force that controls erotic love. Cupid is the Roman counterpart to the Greek god Eros. His name comes from the Latin word cupido which translates to “passion, desire, yearning, wanting, or longing.” However, in Latin, Cupid is known as Amor. The Latin word amor means “love, infatuation, or passion.” from www.wisegeek.com
Cupid picture from family.webshots.com
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
Many happy times!
Judy
It is here! The New Year! 2024!
We all look forward to a wonderful, fresh start when a new year rolls around. What are you looking for? Improved health? A new job? Better relationships with family and friends? A trip to a faraway place?
These are all wonderful goals. Before you look to the future, take a few minutes to think about what things did not go well in 2023. See if you can decipher why those events went from perfect to chaos. Remember to take responsibility if you had a role in why things did not go according to plan. If the fault was another person or group of people, maybe look at whether you need to have them in your life. We all need to shed the things and people that do not serve our life.
I suggest that you add a couple of things to your goals. These are:
-regular exercise
-meditation at least once a week or more
-deciding to put healthy, wholesome food into your body
-being loving everyday
I do wish each of you a fantastic 2024! I believe that for all the wars and corruption in our politics around the world, that 2024 will be a positive year for all people, if the person lets it be.
Happy New Year!
Many blessings,
Judy
GOOD BYE, 2023!
I hope that you get to party with family or with friends. I hope that you celebrate all the good things that happened this year. I hope that you bless the things that did not go according to plan and set them behind you.
I think that we celebrate the ending of each year because we believe the next year will be so much better! We all hope to find new ways of doing things, lots of abundance, lots of love from new relationships and from existing friends and family.
I wish you a happy New Year’s Eve!
Blessings,
Judy
