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What a Ride!!

What a Ride!!

 
Wow.  This year, especially the last few months have turned my world upside down.  What do you do when life shakes things up?  I have been studying for years and have collected tools to help me rearrange and put things back into order.  What I have noticed lately is that the tools I have are a little outdated.  I can still use them and put things back in order.  It may look differently, but all the energies are the same.  
 
Now what?  I am open and willing to release and let go of that which no longer serves me.  Conversations with friends have all been centered around this new energy and what we can to do to step into it with ease.  Are you ready?  Are you brave enough?  It is time to step into your power and take off your masks.  It is time to see through the veil of labels and masks we all hide behind.  Look into the eyes of your brothers and sisters.  What do you see? 
 
One of my favorite things I have the privilege of doing at work is to teach others to trust their own intuition.  No one can tell you what is best for you.  We can not move forward by staying in our heads.  It's time to move the energy down into our hearts and make decisions out of love.  Fear based thinking has this whole world spinning into chaos.  I'm dizzy and getting off the merry-go-round.  Will you join me?  Don't worry.  I'll wait for you.     
 
This seemed to be the buzz of conversations at INATS - International New Age Trade Show that Ricki and I just returned from.  We attended workshops & lectures.  Had breakfast with many of our favorites authors.  We found new products, stones and made allot of new friends.  There was magic in the air.  Stop by and feel the renewed energies we brought back with us.
     
Carol & Doreen Virtue
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Namaste’…The light in me greets and honors the light within you.
Carol
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Energies for July 
By Daniele DeVoe, Channel and Healer
  
The Rune for July is: Hagalaz: Disruptive Natural Forces; Elemental Power
Well… this Rune certainly says it all! If there were ever a time in which our dear Gaia has declared her power and her purpose more clearly than what we are witnessing today… that would probably be the final days of Atlantis… and personally, I’d rather not go through that again!
Hagalaz declares that Gaia is shifting her considerable presence into the ascension process with great focus. She is using all the tools at her disposal including the natural forces and the elementals to mitigate the damage that greed and shortsightedness have caused and is declaring her intention to use… unconditional love to shift us all!
For it is true that Gaia has also learned from the past. She knows that power and anger will not solve the issues that have plagued civilization since its very beginnings. She certainly has shown us her willingness to flex her muscles but she is tired of the old ways and eager to lead humanity to new and more lasting results.
If you truly want to help, connect with Gaia and the elementals this month and share your love with them  unconditionally… Their hearts are open and ready… their patience is at an end… the time is now…
(Reference book: The Book of Runes, by Ralph Blum
The card from The Faeries' Oracle, by Brian Froud for July is: Healing
As always in this simple reading, align this card with the Rune above… they work together to offer you the energies of July… And in this case, you will learn where to send your healing (and from whence to receive it!).
July will be a wonderful month to set the habit of sending Light, Love and Healing to our beloved earth! Do this with every breath that you take… inhale the love that supports us all and gives us life… and exhale the love which blesses Gaia and strengthens her. She leads us into the next adventure that is the ascension and to do so she needs our support and energy in the form of unconditional love.
Many of you have begun to send energy to the Gulf of Mexico to clean the waters there (good job!)… Gaia asks that you send Love and Light energy to all her waters… her earth… her air… her light… and even her etheric body… now… always… perpetually…
And as you do, she will gift you with the same blessing… So sweet!
Namasté, dear Lightworkers!
Daniele
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Daniele and her Angelic Guide, Sarrinn, offer Channeled Readings and Divine Grace Healing  to help you live your most joy-filled dreams now. Also: Divine Grace Reiki, Deeksha, Hypnosis, monthly articles in Sedona Journal, classes and more… Tuesdays and Fridays from 10:30 a.m. Until 4 p.m. At The Higher Self Bookstore.
 
 
Daniele’s Class Schedule for July/August
  
Fridays at 1pm: Deeksha and Darshan
(Deeksha will be on summer break for the month of July!)
July 11: Reiki II Intensive for Professional Certification and/or Review
August 7 & 8: Divine Grace Healing 2 day intensive!
Call the store at: 231.941.5805 for more information about any of Daniele's classes or to preregister. More information is also available at: www.LightandBalance.com/Classes  
 
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Greetings human sisters and brothers


I bring you love, light and peace form beneath the sea. Whether you purchase me in my clearest blue form or my foamy greenness - I, Aquamarine, am the one for you.  I bring you courage to dive deep into the waters of life.  I awaken all that is confident and strong inside of you.  It has always been there - we just help you to Know it!  We will help you quiet all that chatter in your mind so you can make better choices without fear.  Carry one of us when you know you’re going  to be surrounded by less than happy campers - we will shield you.  Like the softest, strongest ocean wave we will flow them away from you.  Some of you have become so finely attuned to energy that your sensitivity makes it very hard for you to be in the presence of the unaware.  We will balance that sensitivity with tolerance thereby releasing that uncomfortable judgment. This moment is always the perfe ct time for releasing those self-defeating limits.  I’ll help you sharpen your intuitiveness and clarify your clairvoyant abilities.  We’ve all had those times when what we wanted to say out of love hit people like a mack truck.  We can clear out those evil little tongue twisters from your throat chakra.
 
 
Out of alignment with only a few minutes to spare?  Run a piece of me starting at the root chakra to the top of your head. Instant alignment!
Just as many of you find peace and joy in and around the ocean waves.  You receive the same attunement and energy lift by carrying us in your pocket.   So come and get us when everything inside of you says this is the time to just flow, but your mind just keeps twisting and a turning. We’ll smooth the way for you - just hold us.
Peace love and blessings. Keep on smiling, we love love love ya.
Namaste'
 
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Kafi Gaultier is available on Mon. 11am-4 pm, Sat. 12 am-7 pm, Sundays noon-5pm  
She offers Tarot, Reiki, Magnified Healing and Healing Point Massage.  
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Missy’s Message for July:
“Don’t say how much - show me!”
“Learn by doing.”
“Experience is the best teacher.”
 Do any of these sound familiar?  They keep showing up in my readings as an urging to get out of the house and get your feet onto Mother Earth - shoes are optional!  The exceptionally fine weather we‘re having is making this “strong suggestion” even easier.  It’s an open invitation to release and relax, even if it’s only for a brief moment.  The feeling of rejuvenation will be beneficial for both yourself and all your relations!
Along with being out in Nature, there is also a reminder to drink plenty of water.  Not only are we surrounded by beautiful blue water, our bodies are composed mostly of good, old H2O, so Mother says “love your body - drink up - feel great!”
 If you’re looking for my review this month, my recommendation is a book and double CD combo from Christine Day, “Pleiadian Initiations of Light”.  Talk about an experience!  This easy reading work starts with Day’s personal story of self-healing, and then dives directly into 12 exercises and meditations with corresponding tracks on the two Cd’s.
 
 I’m not sure how Christine Day’s work managed to stay under my radar for so long, but I’m sure happy to have “discovered” her Pleiadian inspired gifts.  This package is all about the gift of experience that keeps on giving - so I invite you to check it out!  You’ll find it in the New Arrivals section at the Higher Self.  In - Joy your summer!
Infinite Blessings to You……Missy
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Missy Purcell is available on Wednesdays & Fridays 4-8 pm
She offers Tarot Card Readings, Reiki, Crystal Stone Healing,
Raindrop Therapy & Divine Grace Healing 
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Do you have enough money?
 
By Jennifer Tavana, Channel/Medium, Hypnotherapist
 
The economy has only been in a transition, and now is the time that your dreams are supported energetically more than ever!  In this post, I am offering up some perspective on the shifting economy as well as what you could do to help you re-evaluate whether or not you feel your job or profession can not only survive, but maybe even grow!
 
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Jennifer Tavana
Spirit Guide Channel/Medium, Hypnotherapist, Soul Balancing Facilitator,
Personal Development Instructor
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Jennifer Tavana is available on Thursday from 11am - 4pm. 
She offers Spirit Guide Channel/Intermediate, Medium, Past-Life Regression, & Hypnosis 
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Happy Anniversary to Me!
 
Yes, ten years ago on July 7, I will celebrate ten years as the caretaker of the Higher Self Bookstore in Traverse City, Michigan. In August of 2000, another new beginning was happening - the first publication of Healing Garden Journal. I wrote the following article for their September issue. I have edited it slightly, but this is it's first re-posting since that time. For some reason, it did not get into Ricki Writes archive on the Higher Self web site. Another coincidence?

This is a story about how I came to be here, and how I feel about the Higher Self to this very day. Enjoy, and thank you, from the fullness of my heart. Without you, this dream could not continue.
(this is my PR pic taken in 2000)

 Why Here? Why Me? 
 
 
by Ricki Blanchard - August 2000
 

Almost four years ago, I stepped into the Higher Self Bookstore and said to myself, "I'd like to do something like this someday." There were books everywhere (I love to read), some I've read, and some on subjects I'd never heard of. Jewelry in shapes and symbols that held my attention. Items for rituals, psychic and inner-exploration, most quite foreign to me. I wanted to hang around, but a long drive back to Downriver Detroit awaited me.

I was in the area to attend a personal growth course in Northport. Five years ago I associated personal growth with college courses and business seminars. I was introduced to a course based on the concept that 'what you believe creates your life'. It change my life and opened me up to infinite possibilities.

Just dreaming, a friend and I imagined creating an entity like the Higher Self in the Downriver Detroit area. I also mentioned having a bookstore someday to my daughter, Anna, who took it all quite seriously. She didn't want the dream, she wanted the reality - and she wanted it now. I could not see how this was possible. She started making signs for the door of the bookstore we would have - someday.

 
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“Thank you for your patronage, your friendship, & your support” Ricki
 
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