Hello Spring!

Sunday September 1st.

Greetings Fellow Journeyers!

A big welcome to Spring which has arrived around here today with a huge choir of birds of different types at dawn, twittering with their voices announcing the day, and claiming their territories! It is a slightly hazy morning, the sun beaming through, mildly tinted a pale orange from the surrounding smokey fog.

There’s lots to consider in Spring.   

Did you know, a dear friend of mine told me once, that the actual vibrational sounds that birds make with their voices, especially in Spring, calls buds to develop and open?! How amazing is that.

Traditionally, Spring is obviously a time of new life. It is also a time of shrugging off the wintery blankets, physical, emotional and mental, and time to take stock. Spring cleaning often comes along with that as the urge to usher in a freshness to Life in general flows from us; to allow the new energies of the more transitional season to be given fresh space to become sown and to grow.

From a Qigong/Feng Shui point of view, Spring has  several aspects. It relates to the direction of EAST, representative of new life or re-birth, as birds nest and lay eggs, baby lambs and many other baby animals arrive (so cute and endearing for our gentler side). The colour of Spring is GREEN, that of new shoots and re-greening of deciduous trees who have lost their leaves through Winter. The body organ relating is the LIVER , which is often in need of gentle attention to be detoxed during this time after such an often sluggish condition over Winter. There is a tone you can sound with your voice to soothe the liver as an added dimension to its healing: ‘ssshhhhh’ as if lulling it to sleep. Just choose any note with your voice that sounds comfortable and after some repetition a resonance within your body can be felt. Work on the liver needs only be subtle and gentle for results to occur sometimes. Also try placing your warm hand over it and imagine beaming the colour green to this organ to add to its healing, soothing ‘treatment’. Our poor old livers work very hard for us. They are a huge organ that wraps around from almost the central area of the stomach (below the ribs) right around the right side of the body. We usually pay little attention to it, unless it gives us trouble, and then because we have been giving it a hard time! Hence, naturopaths, accupuncturists, massage, Reiki and Shamanic practitioners etc are also good to visit in this season!

Spring is also the time for flowers: inspirational, romantic, fragrant and abundant. Flowers remind us of the beauty of our Earth and its cycles and the Nature of Joy. After the winter slothiness, take time to smell them. But sometimes hayfever comes with that, however, which could be a good indication for need of a detox too, on perhaps a deeper level.  These symptomatic ‘blockages’ like hayfever, can become such a distraction, year after year – I know from experience.  Some years ago, I eventually looked at the deeper reasons for my condition (as I have with many other conditions) and found the need to create more efficient ‘flow’ in my life. Referring back to the qigong aspects, as we emerge from winter hybernation, we need to begin a programme of more activity and movement, physically, and mentally, and this leads to those activites for clearing blockages and obstacles like Spring cleaning – inside and out! This allows those creative juices room to flow naturally and inspirationally. Then the more that little bits begin to shift, the better you begin to feel and on it goes.

So, with this new season also today comes Fathers Day here in Australia. Happy Fathers’ Day to all those out there. I know lots of you work very hard at keeping home and family supported, and some get poorly appreciated. . . but you also keep the world turning, even if its your own little world. Blessings to you.

So, that’s about all from me for now. As Spring unfurls like a leaf or a bud, I feel some creative writing emerging as well! Stay tuned! Lots more happening in Spring.

Blessings to you on

The Universal Journey.

Starwhite Earthguide signing out for now. 

With the Highs Come the Lows

Tues 20^th Aug 2013.       

Hello again fellow travellers of The Universal Journey.

Does anyone following my blogs get migraines? I know a few people around me who do. Terrible afflictions! And so debilitating and unexpected at times. Thank the Gods I don’t get many these days, and should have expected one I suppose after the day I had yesterday, but still, to be up 1.30 am doing my relief techniques, then waking with it again later bodes for a very slow rehab day today from that.

I never had an actual real migraine until it came to the 2^nd trimester of my pregnancy. I was working in a local hospital at the time filing in the medical records department, when I suddenly saw distinct red zigzagging lines in front of my eyes. It caught me so off guard that it also made me dizzy and nearly fell from my small step stool. Then the nausea came and only a slight pain in the head to begin with. Later as my pregnancy progressed they became more regular (hormonal as you can guess by now) and fainting came along with them, so that when I needed to rush to be sick in the toilet, I had to leave the door open so my poor husband could retrieve me if necessary (bless him) . . . as I said terrible affliction! 

But into the latter part of my pregnancy they eased radically but resumed later as I entered peri-menopause. My wonderful  obstetrician/gyno helped and offered all he could and we took a couple of avenues with that, until my poor little body just rejected everything and I had to quit all forms of fake hormonal treatments. Agree with it or not, but my greatest relief and release came when I finally walked into his office and stated most firmly that I wanted a hysterectomy! (for other reasons besides migraines). I was even taken by utter surprise myself at just how right this felt to do, despite natural healers oohhs and aahhs of warnings. No, for me it was the absolutely right and best thing to do, although it was not a total hysto. One concerned friend even warned me that I would lose my ‘psychic power’.  Well the years have definitely proven that wrong, andhas  reinforced my very long held understanding that we are all so unique, that what is suitable for one person may be the totally wrong thing for another.

(Please don't take this as my direction for you; it is a very personal decision to have this op and not to be made quickly.)

 After years of my youth being distraught and ravaged by violent periods (sorry to get technical for any males reading this but it might help you understand your female partner) the ultimate ‘sacrifice’ of a small part of my femininity and womanhood, was an easy path to take. For those of you who have read my book The Merlin Effect, I speak of the healing process and amazing insights and metaphysical processes that occurred during this time. No psychic losses to me! And what helped in more recent years has been my Ayurvedic remedies and diet. That created a great change within my body. Although I no longer stick to such a strict Ayurvedic way, I do sometimes revisit some of the old remedies and have much less frequent migraines.

So, from this out-of-sorts-start to my day, I stopped and asked “what’s best for me to do today to help myself recover?” . . . Visions of Tamborine Mt popped into my head, so it was off to there I went!

As I drove out into the countryside, I breathed deeply and felt lighter as the kilometres rolled by. So much so, that on the approach to the Mountain’s base, I felt the blockage lift as I had images of classes etc for me to arrange and communications to be made relating to those. And so, my migrain-ish day, turned out to be a wonderfully opening and fruitful one, with a lovely mountain visit, a little cuppa-time, and a preview at the future plans of my spiritual work ahead. . . .and back to my old self. 

So, as per my previous blogs, between the ‘winds of change’, the trip to Solitude and this day, exciting and altering events have continued to unfold from that in the past week with more to come! . . I can just feel it.

Be Well fellow travellers,

On The Universal Journey.

Aahh. . . Solitude.

Greetings Lovelies,

Once again this morning, the mist surrounds the low lying areas around us and creeps its way up towards our house too. By 7.30am it is so thick that the Sun looks like the Moon -  no more than a simple  silver-white disc barely gleaming through the sea of saturated air. No sun-beams permeate this misty cocktail-shroud. 

Now the reference to the Sun imitating the Moon may be coincidental, but as a part of my Qigong/ Meditation Group daytrip yesterday, I included a variety of Yin-Yang movements to assist the current energy changes occurring (on both personal and worldly scales). After a little explanation and reminder that although Yin and Yang are symbolised as that well known flat black & white designed disc, these two opposite forces are nevertheless  flowing constantly; contained yet uncontained, from all directions sometimes such as a ball; each flowing from one into the other and each always containing a little of the other as it does so. Amongst these Qigong movements was one I  call ‘Raising the Sun and Moon’. Hence my comparison to this morning’s Sun-disc and its refected aspect of the Moon for a brief time. 

Nature is always amazing, as is Qigong and good company.      

So, how was our daytrip??? I am still lost for many words, and continue to digest and process and integrate the images, sights, sounds, scents and collective experiences of it all! I have a tiredness about me today which is usual as I process these types of things; so I keep to myself a lot. And then comes the time later, in the days and weeks to come, which show the true signs of renewal,upliftment and advancement from a special day such as this. So it’s a very slow day for me today and drinking lots more water. Hence, the misty morning has been a perfect aura in which to begin this day of mine. Perhaps a short trip to the beach to paddle and dig my feet in the sand might also help to balance out the effects – from mountains to sea . . .a complete picture of a weekend.

As the title of this blog hints at, the name of the retreat centre/property we visited is ‘Solitude’. . .and that’s what you can have in great abundance there! Overlooking the Numinbah Valley sits this mostly pristine naturally mountain forested property. There are very powerful high frequency areas everywhere, and within those, even higher vibrational spots. You really need more than a day to explore it all. We have stayed in the cosy cabins on previous weekend retreats, as a couple of the group did this time too. But for most of us it was a daytrip this time around. Sometimes, several hours is all you need.

We visited the main ‘points of interest’, meditated, qigong-ed, walked in silent meditation to the occasional gong of the Tibetan bowl (felt like a line of Zen monks actually, winding our way through the forest!)  and sat in even more silent meditation in the sacred spiral there. We laughed, we shared, we breathed deeply, we let go of lots of unnecessary ‘baggage’, lightened up and breathed even more deeply,  We had lots of ah-ha moments and veg’d out and feasted healthfully; renewed long standing connections (with each other and Solitude); and made new ones. I even felt a little like dear Ganesh as I cleared the fallen sticks and branch obstacles from our path! Hahaha! 

Quite a massive day really.  And look forward to the next one. Sincere thank you too to Marga as Solitude’s resident Nature Spirit in the flesh.

Aaahh Solitude. . .  

A droopy but quietly re-empowered Starwhite Earthguide signing off for now,

Be well and happy, good people, Namaste. 

Enjoy The Universal Journey.

Music On The Back Roads Home

What a gorgeous day, again!  A bit of a stormy night  and after another foggy morning sunrise, the sun  is shining through a clear blue sky. A perfect day to get as much washing done as I can.

At the same time, I print up copies of one of my  books  and am playing music from  my child/teenage-hood -  and inspirational at that. I hear these old songs and am transported  back , get goosebumps and shivers as I hear such familiar and long forgotten words and phrases that I see now encouraged me on this great Spiritual Universal Journey! Lots of their music helped me through some unsettled times. Thanks Guys!

I am listening to the old band “America”, and I wait to hear my other old favourites “ Bread”, England Dan and John Ford Coley, maybe a little “Toto” and “Aja” , “Steely Dan”,  Doobie Brothers, my much overplayed but endearing “Fleetwood Mac” and  the “Eagles” of course! . . .and loving the nostalgic trip! Go the old guys and gals, woohoo!

Enjoy The Universal Journey.