New Set: The Goddess Tarot for sale @ MysticEmporium

The following pictures are taken on the top of the mountain behind our house, on a small parcel of woods that lies between us and the development.  If I could have one thing it would be to buy it and keep it as is forever.

I am thrilled to announce that I am going to be participating in Denise Linn's Soul Coaching® Oracle Card Reader Certification Course and couldn't be happier! 

I'm especially exited about Denise Linn's course because I feel quite strongly that it will provide me with the tools I need to help clients and callers along the course of their own soul path. And this is the way I love to read.

The Soul Coaching® Oracle Card Reader Certification Course  airs weekly for eight weeks.  Students are given the option of listening live, via MP3 download or in their Hayhouse account.  

The course began with an introductory session airing on October 16th.  Lesson One followed on the 21st. So I will be listening to both those episodes prior to Monday's class which is going to make for a lovely rest of the week and weekend!  I will also be ordering Denise's Soul Coaching® Oracle Cards which I have been interested in for some time.

I will be talking about Soul Coaching® here in this blog, as well as on the radio show (no longer available).  As the weeks pass, I'll share a bit of what I'm learning and began to incorporate what I'm learning on the radio show.

About The Soul Coaching® Oracle Card Reader Certification Course (from the Hayhouse site):

Become an oracle card reader!  This online certification course gives you the tools that you need to become a clear channel for readings.

In this transformational online certification course, acclaimed healer, author, and teacher Denise Linn, creator of the Soul Coaching® Oracle Card Deck, shares her wealth of expertise on tapping into your inner wisdom so you can activate your intuition and gain the inner tools that you need to explore and expand your oracle card reading skills. She'll even give you tips and insight on setting up your practice as a professional oracle card reader.

Over your eight lessons with Denise, you will:

Denise also shares her special expertise as a world-respected coach and workshop leader to help you build your own successful oracle card reading practice. Your clients will be exhilarated as they find the truth buried within themselves to the deep questions of their lives. 

I am so excited about this course!

To participate in The Soul Coaching® Oracle Card Reader Certification Course and receive your Soul Coaching® Oracle Card Certification please register through Hayhouse here. For more on Denise Linn please check out her lovely website at DeniseLinn.com.

And please check back for updates on this wonderful new adventure :)

In “Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming,” (affiliate link) Dr. Stephen LaBerge uses a phenomena he calls dreamsigns as a trigger event for conscious (lucid) dreaming.  With a practice, a dreamsign alerts the dreamer to the fact that he is dreaming.  Once aware of the dream state, the dreamer can consciously participate and even direct the events of the dream.

LaBerge recommends the keeping of dream journal and suggests setting a clock for the early morning hours to help facilitate dream recall.  I was doing this for sometime with good results but found it necessary to put the practice on hold temporarily.  I am resuming tonight and going forward with the program.

I have reviewed my dream journal  this morning and identified my dream sign style.

LaBerge identifies three basic types of dreamsigns.  Each is a clue that what is occurring is not our ordinary waking reality and can become, in the words of the author, a neon light flashing the message in the dark that the situation in which we find ourselves is one that we have dreamt.

Inner Awareness:  A peculiar thought, strong emotion, unusual sensation or altered perception which would not occur in our usual waking state,  This can include inappropriate or oddly overwhelming emotions, feeling of paralysis or out of body states or magical thinking.  Examples follow.

Action: The dreamer, a dream character or an object in the dream do something unusual or impossible in waking life.  This is an actual dream event as opposed to a dream thought.

Form:  The shape of the dreamer, dream character or that of a dream object is oddly formed, deformed or transforms.  This may also be applied to setting.  Includes anomalies of hair and dress.

Context: The place or situation in the dream is strange.  The dreamer may find himself somewhere that he is unlikely to be in waking life, involved in a strange situation or playing an unaccustomed role.  Objects or people may be out of place or the dream may occur in the past or future.

Dr. LaBerge recommends that the dream journal is examined after 30 consecutive dreams and that a dreamsign inventory be taken.  I have done that and found most of my dreamsigns to be contextual (ego role, character role, setting place) or oddities of setting in regard to form.

As I reacquaint myself with my dream journal I plan to set the alarms for 5:30 AM everyday and immediately ask myself about my dream and write an entry at that time.  Later after I have made some tea, I plan to record the dreamsign, perhaps at the back of the book.

Will share any interesting dreams (most aren’t especially here!

*Most the example given as well as all of the definitions come from Dr. Stephen LaBerge’s wonderful book, “Exploring the World of Lucid Dreams" (affiliate link).

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On the last birthday of the blog (which happens to be my birthday as well) I talked a bit about how the blog started and what it had become.  This year, I want to talk about what keeping this blog has done for me.  

When I started The Mystic in August 2010, my life was very different than it is now.  I had just made a difficult and traumatic career transition and money was in short supply.  People close to me were either largely absent, frequently unwell, or going through their own personal traumas. And I felt very much alone.  

While I knew that something was missing, traditional religious practice just wasn't filling the void.

And then I found New Age spirituality.  It offered something no other spiritual practice had.  In embracing it, I found the freedom and tools which made defining my own path to spirit possible.  For this, I will be eternally grateful.

This blog became my way of focusing on what I was learning and my way of sharing what I found resonant.  It held me accountable.  It helped me to grow. It allowed me to clarify my beliefs and chart my own course.  And somehow, over the course of that, I became a better person than I had been before.

I have a long way to go.  But I do understand where I want to be and much of what I need to do to get there.  In the coming year, I will continue to review contemporary New Age materials but there will be other posts as well.  

My backyard though not really (legally) mine and well outside of my ability to protect.  Still in this space between what was and what will be - we walk, take deep breaths and look out from one mountaintop to another.  Beyond the the trestle and past the curve of the river, just out of view of this picture, is the land that once belonged to my grandfather. Land that I won't see up close again. Everything changes but the moment is always eternal. I'm grateful for all that offers.