Category: Animal Communication

Busy Weekend

4/19/2021

I’m wanting to track all I accomplished this weekend:

I attended the Alchemy Fair in Arlington, WA, on Saturday April 17. It was lovely catching up with people I haven’t seen in over a year and getting to know some new folks. In addition, the venue was the super cool Mirkwood Public House; one of the tarot readers described it as very “Games of Thrones” and indeed was! Lots of great readers and to add to the ambience, a group of musicians jamming on the patio outside.
Later that evening I attended a MeWe Fair online. I went incognito to see just what was what and I loved it. So many great presentations and readers. I will be doing Animal Communication readings at the MeWe Fair on Sunday, May 2nd from 5:00-9:00 PT. I’m thinking of doing a talk on "How EFT can help Animals”. Still don’t know what time I will be doing this talk.
I will also be part of the Animal Communication panel held by MeWe Fairs, Sunday April 25. I ordered an Ethernet > Thunderbolt dongle so I have great internet connectivity that day. I'm a late addition, so my picture isn't on the site at this time, but I will be there!
Sunday I spent lots of time outside because it’s the Pacific Northwest in April and there was not a cloud in the sky for 5 days. it was like living in Arizona!
I wrote four (four!) blog posts, not including this one. I finally dropped into the flow for writing and I love it!
I am part of a collaborative book publishing effort called “Behind the Power”. I finished my chapter this weekend and shared it with some friends who gave me great feedback. There is also an upcoming conference by the same name. You can learn more about it here: https://www.behindthepowerevent.com/
In the midst of all of this I also managed some time sitting outside in a park reading 21st Century Yokel by Tom Cox. Such a great writer. If you like nature, Great Britain, and dry humor, this is the books for you.

The other day I was walking behind a couple and their German Shepard. This dog was young-ish and a bit… exuberant… on the lead, and was not sitting as they stopped for a stop light. The woman who was with the dog snapped, she had had enough: “Why do you always make everything about YOU?!” she yelled at the dog in full view of everyone walking down the street.

Initially I was embarrassed for her to react like that in public with her animal.

And then I remembered - I have been this woman. It’s certainly not something I am proud of, and thankfully I have been graced with non-judgmental people to help me work through the issues that caused this behavior.

You see, I once had a dog who was extremely anxious and needy. Due to her anxiety I could not leave home without her due to the extreme distress it caused her - non stop barking and whining, pooping on the floor - that level of anxiety. Her anxiety wore on me, day after day; week after week; month after month, year after year; dealing with her inability to be alone in the home, taking her with me everywhere I went. A friend once remarked that she was like a co-dependent boyfriend “DON’T LEAVE ME!”

I never yelled at her in public, but I sure did lash out when we were at home. I felt trapped, I cared for her and wanted the best for her, but I was also overwhelmed with having her with me in the car, always searching for a parking place in the shade or finding a pet sitter for her when I had a weekend workshop. I didn’t go to a movie for 10 years because I didn’t want to leave her in the car that long.

It was utterly exhausting.

Seeing this woman act out with her dog reminded me how far I had come. I worked with a therapist, healed my early trauma and most importantly learned about animals, trauma, and effective ways to treat it using animal communication and EFT or “tapping”.

The trauma healing I have witnessed is astonishing quite frankly. Animals and people have had their lives fundamentally changed.

Because of my issues with trauma (both my own and my animal's) and the healing of it, I am blessed to be able to listen to and work with people in a judgement-free way. I’ve been the person who was stressed to the breaking point with my animal and lashed out because if it. I can’t pass judgment on people for this behavior because I’ve been there - it’s part of my shadow work.

As I approach my 2nd Saturn Return, I am becoming increasingly disenchanted with the field of librarianship... a career I chose during my first Saturn Return!

It's not the fault of librarianship... much has changed during the last 29 years as to how people find and interact with information, and what motivated me to attend library school is no longer needed. As libraries continue to re-evaluate how they serve their communities, I find myself doing the same thing on a personal level.

Do I want to end my career in a cube farm doing a job I really no longer enjoy (or really enjoy small parts of)? Or do I want to make a life, doing something I excel at, while helping animals and their people deepen their understanding by resolving issues such as anxiety, behavior problems, and health concerns?

Is that really even a serious question?! As I learned during an intuitive consultation with the fabulous Laura Bruno, your second Solar Return asks you, around the age of 58 or so, to look deeply at how you want to spend the remainder of your "wild and precious life" [Mary Oliver; "A Summer Day"; https://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html]

You see, I'm very intuitive and have lots of skills and have studied many things from house clearing to soul retrieval to tarot cards. I enjoyed learning all of these skills and they helped me hone my intuitive abilities, but I never felt like a could make them my life's work. Laura helped to point me in the direction of animal communication because when she mentioned that I was "a gifted animal communicator" she tapped into my deeply and secretly held desire to spend my days talking with animals.

To strengthen my talents and skills in the field of animal communication and energy healing, I enrolled in Joan Ranquet's Communication with all Life University 18 months ago. While the time I have spent reading animals and learning energy healing has been invaluable, it has not been easy! It's a process and at least for me, was fraught with self-doubt and limiting beliefs that I needed to work through. Why did all of these issues surface now? Because now I am prepared to go out and earn a living doing it. This, this was going to pay my bills and allow me to leave academia behind, but I absolutely had to be clear and unfettered by those pesky limiting gremlins in order to make it happen.

Luckily for me, Joan teaches a fabulous technique, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT or "tapping"), that helps you move through those limiting beliefs and on to a life of your dreams. EFT also works fabulously on animals and I have seen some amazing outcomes that were the result of tapping and I am so excited to add it to the toolkit I use to help animals.

The deep process of getting to know my true self and how I want to connect with my community as my beautiful authentic self has value beyond measure.

Busy Weekend

Warts and all

That Second Saturn Return

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