+ "Hello Beautiful You!"
Recently I saw a white moth attached to our screen door in the dark of night. How will I capture the picture? I'll have to try.
The lovely silent creature appeared filmy, almost angelic, dancing, reaching upward.
* Lately I have been in chrysalis~I feel like a little green lantern attached to a twig.
What's That?
Feels like a state of non being, jumbled, dazed, confused, mild flu like symptoms. Some others I know are also experiencing this " non sickness" including wandering pain especially in the hips. What is this?
I feel like I am being "rewired." [again]
Years ago, I felt achy and out of place for several days. I visited a friend, knowing I was not contagious. "You're being rewired so you can receive higher vibrations safely," she told me.
"What's rewiring?"
"What you are experiencing."
Handing me a book, she continued, "Rewiring is in this book along with other Angel Information. Someone gave me this book, but I believe it is for you~"
"Thank you~"
I look up the book entry again.
** Ask Your Angels by Alma Daniel:
"Wiring Angels upgrade our systems and increase our capacity for awareness....the process of rewiring can be unsettling and disorienting....if you have flu like symptoms but you don't have a fever, and you know you're not sick-you're probably being rewired...."
*** Randomly I open a Shirley MacLaine, book and read:
"What If our DNA is being activated into a new awareness?"
Are We Listening?
+ "Your answer may be in the form of a feather floating softly to the ground...." Sue Broome, Message from the Angels.
"Here We Grow Again~"
**** "Delete Your Need to Understand," Brugh Joy
Key Words Blog Search: Angel, Butterfly, White Feather, Visions
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* Journey of Becoming
* Taking Flight
* Floating Feather
* Mystery Feather
* Peaceful Mountain
Phantoms
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Resources:
** Ask Your Angels, A Practical Guide to Working with the Messengers of Heaven to Empower and Enrich Your Life by Alma Daniel, quote from A Wiring Angel p. 195.
*** Shirley MacLaine, actress, author, and spiritual teacher, book What If (2013), DNA Changing quote and article p. 196-198. Other books by Shirley include Out on a Limb and The Camino.
**** Quote by Brugh Joy on Debra Basham's post, The Three Injunctions, on blog,Yellow Brick Road, Your Path to Heart and Health, July 19, 2016. Quote from Joy's Way: A Map for the Transformational Journey.
+ Sue Broome, Empowerment4You,com Sue is an Author and Certified Angel Card Reader. Free Newsletter Messages from the Angels and more via E-mail. Quotes from Sue's Blog, June 23, 2016 Listening with Heart/Body, Message from the Angels.
Doreen Virtue: All Things Angel, Healing with the Angels and other books.
Music: Song of the Day: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, U-2's Greatest Hits (1980-1990)
Dahlis Roy: Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Instructor
Photos by Dahlis
The White Moth
Phantoms
* "Hello Gorgeous!"
** "How do you compare to the Butterfly?"
Chrysalis: A time of Change
"I am in chrysalis," I wonder to myself. What does this mean? Change is the only predictable event of the evolving moment. I feel myself wanting to rush ahead yet pull back at the same time, sort of like having one foot on the gas petal full throttle and the other slamming on the breaks all at once.
I was entranced that it took a couple of weeks for the first butterfly to emerge. I thought it was only a couple of days time. You can see a chrysalis in stillness just to the upper left of the first Monarch Butterfly emerging pictured above.
Growth: Caterpiller
Stillness: Chrysalis
Motion: Butterfly Emerging
*** Struggle Gives Strength
I saw these words in my mind. I open my book and search a bit. The words I wrote were not where I thought they were....but then I read:
Ghost in my Dream
Many years ago I wrote: "The dreamscape was painted in the surreal hard-edged style of Edward Hopper, so different from my preferred Impressionism. Edward Hopper's figures sometimes speak of loneliness and alienation whether they are solitary or in groups. Is this the way I feel?"
"Holding myself at arm's length and others even further away," my thoughts echo....
"Is the dream so that I can see myself clearer? Why would I want to? I feel that I have stepped back from myself so that I can get a fresh perspective about my personal healing journey." In the dream I was both the observer and the participant. [There's that chrysalis, a time of change, again.]
"I was painted grey, a foggy mist. The rest of the dream, especially the electric blue light, was photograph clear."
"With my writing and painting, i need space and distance from myself. Are we asking ourselves questions in dreams that we cannot confront while awake?"
To escape, I call my friend Louise.
She tells me this story.
"There was a laboratory experiment nurturing cocoons containing butterflies waiting to emerge. One was struggling to break out....The assistant grabbed the wings gently and pulled out the butterfly....The supervisor said, 'That butterfly will never fly. The struggle of trying to get out gives strength to the wings.' "
Receiving Strength~
* "All five of Our Monarchs Transformed and Took Off!"
Blog Search Key Words: Angel, White Feather, Butterfly
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Journey of Becoming
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Resources:
* The Herbal Mamma, Facebook Page, photo printed with permission
** Sue Broome, Empowerment4You, web site and blog, Message from the Angels posted June 30, 2016, "How Do You Compare to the Butterfly?" Sue is an author, and Certified Angel Card Reader.
Video
Monarch Butterfly emerging from a Chrysalis, Facebook Page, Center for Biological Diversity, June 20, 2016
*** Dahlis Roy: Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Instructor: Silver Butterfly Create A Vision, Awaken Your Creative Spirit, free PDF illustrated E-book, available via e-mail request.
Photo:
Hello Gorgeous, photo of Monarch emerging by The Herbal Mamma
Blue Butterfly Sketch, ink on blue paper by Dahlis
Painting:
Silver Butterfly, oil painting by Dahlis
Friends are hatching Monarch Butterflies in their home for release into the wild.
The Beginning
Hangin' Out
Searching: Out of the Box
Chrysalis: Overnight Magic
On my way into my writing zone today, I got a nudge of inspiration and made a 180 degree turn to pick up a book. I remembered some notes about butterflies. From many years ago, I quickly find....
*** Incoming Spirit
"I stop to download an E-mail from Kathleen. I am surprised not not surprised to read:
'I was amazed and surprised at your book title, Silver Butterfly. Morphing means form [or] change form. In class I note the morpho family of butterflies and how the metamorphic change from cocoon to butterfly is so dramatic. Just like suddenly emerging to a higher spiritual level! Morphing comes from the Greek god Morpheus who is the god of sleep. Sleep involves dreams which have forms hence the connection to the term morph.' "
* "Caterpillar sheds It's skin to find a butterfly within."
"First there is a mountain
then there is no mountain
then there is...."
song lyrics by Donovan.
Patterns
** "And butterflies are free to fly...." music by Elton John lyrics by Bernie Taupin,
Blogger Search Key Words: Butterfly, Angel, Creativity
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The Story of Blue
Lavender Blue
Writing Out Loud
Resources:
* Donovan Leitch, song, There is a Mountain. Donovan is a painter, singer songwriter, poet, and mystic. The Autobiography of Donovan, the Hurdy Gurdy Man, how does Donovan create?
** Elton John (music) and Bernie Taupin (Lyrics), song, Someone Saved My Life Tonight
North American Wildlife, an illustrated guide to 2,000 Plants and Animals, Reader's Digest, (1982) Milkweed Butterflies, Monarchs and Queens (p. 264), and Coppers, Blues, and Hairstreaks (p. 266).
*** Dahlis Roy Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Instructor
Free Illustrated E Book, PDF format, Silver Butterfly Create A Vision, Awaken Your Creative Spirit via E-mail. Out of the Blue continues the evolving journey of becoming.
Images:
Evolving series of first four photos, The Herbal Mamma, printed with permission
Dahlis' images
photo, Monarch on Marigolds
oil painting, Blue Butterfly, the dark blue butterfly, close up in early morning light catches a blend of muted lavenders; greens, and blues
Joey the Collie
While painting Linda's Peaceful Mountain painting, we talked about Joey, Linda's blue merle Collie. Linda loved Joey but there was sparse room for a big active dog who needed to run over larger spaces. Joey was given to a farm. Joey received and gave much love and joy with his family. He loved the children. Linda and Tom visited Joey at his new home~joyful.
"What does Joey look like?"
"He has a large white full collar. He is mostly black except for his face. It has grey and black speckles with tan over eyes and on cheeks."
I remembered, * "Shades of grey from smoke to pearl, mottled with black is called blue merle."
"Do you have photos of Joey?"
"They are in storage, somewhere." I can relate to "photos somewhere...."
I pondered Joey the Collie. I love Joey the Collie. I rewound memories of joyous portraits of many collies painted through the years. My own Collies, Lad and Sky, paraded in front of my eyes.
"Is Joey with you when you meditate in your vision?"
"Sometimes he is there and sometimes not."
I felt that.
While painting Linda's mountain vision, I felt Joey near the pond. One day I "found" him in the pond, a misty image in a vortex of light. I saw his ears and eyes first!
Black and White and Shades of Grey~
The day I finished Linda's painting, I had just sqeezed out some titanium white and black from their tubes. All the other colors on the palette had been used on Linda's mountain painting.
No Paint Left Behind!
Leftover Paint~can paint the best pictures. What will I paint with just "black and white and shades of grey?" Light Bulb: I'll paint Joey the Collie!
Select: The smallest canvas: 8" x 10"
Pick Up one medium sized chisel shaped brush: one brush wonder paints thick and thin lines or blocks of paint. Perfect~
First, I sketched in Joey's head with in my imagination with no paint on the brush, "placing" the image into the space. I close a profile view "easy." I need easy. Paint flowed out as if by magic. I felt gentle refreshing energy. I love bringing an animal friend to life with paint.
Five minutes later, I turn to the palette, brush in hand:
"I'm Out of Paint!"
"I'm having an Out of Paint Experience!"
"Quit!"
Free from touch up, re-working, or thinking Joey has arrived.
Effortless
Later when Linda and Tom came to view the finished mountain, they also noticed Joey.
"That's Joey~"
Joey gazes at Joey in the pond.
Note the images in Joey's painting, around the Collie's ears and down the side of the face we see a baby bird. I also see faces of a terrier, a lamb and a raccoon. Almost visible in the lower right grey painted area is a shadow of an eagle flying toward Joey. There may be more~"Calling All Animals."
** "Let go of agenda or outcome and the universe takes care of the details," Deepak Chopra
Blog Search Key Words: Collie, Visions, Mountain
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Peaceful Mountain~Visions
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Resources:
* Quote about blue merle color is from Laughlin of Fairloch by Betty W. Ford, a story about a blue merle Shetland Sheepdog, written in poetry.
** Deepak Chopra: chopracentermeditation, Meditation helps calm and focus, sparks creativity and enjoyment of life.
Song of the Day: Taylor Swift, debut album, 2006, cut is Tim McGraw, by Taylor Swift and Liz Rose. Playing this song repeating while writing today is upbeat yet relaxing, I can sing and hum along.
David Gilmour: Wider Horizons (2016) VHIC, aired June 18, 2016. Music Documentary, creative process is explored by David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, "Painted movies with sound..."
Albert Payson Terhune, journalist, author, mystic, Lad a Dog, Gray Dawn, and other Collie stories. View The Sunnybank Collies with Terhune on YouTube.
Dahlis Roy: Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Instructor
Paintings by Dahlis
Joey the Collie~absolutely effortless
Joey's Face in the Pond Mist, close up from Peaceful Mountain~Visions painting.
Joey Gazes at Joey in the painted pond, combination of Joey the Collie and close up from Peaceful Mountain~Visions paintings.
