Archangel Raphael is concerned with our suffering and with everyone receiving his healing energy. His sacred duty is to heal the earth, and our minds, bodies, and inner spirit.

What you may not know is Raphael is also called the Angel of Science and Knowledge. He helps those that serve in any�area of healing capacity. Ask him to help you with your family for healing also. He will inspire you to discover new avenues to help others.

Raphael is the most sociable of the archangels.  He is close to Archangel Michael, and often you will find they work together as a great team. Some would say they are separate, but I have found they are great friends and highly complimentary as partners in a person’s healing process. He is said to have the best sense of humor, the happiest disposition of the archangels.

Archangel Raphael loves bringing good health, happiness and joy everywhere he goes, as he encourages the Guardian Angels in their work. Ask him to be with you at night so you may rest well, and upon waking to help you in your life to heal yourself and others.

For the Christmas season, ask for healing for all, including our Mother Earth.  You will feel closer to Raphael. You may even hear his joyful laughter and feel his grand healing powers.

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It’s definately been a busy day.  Tomorrow will be Full Moon and I am looking forward to doing some of my personal intention candle work. I can feel the moon’s energy already, because here I am late at night busying myself with all of  my writing. I am pretty excited about the aspects of this full moon. Venus, Sag, and Gemini.  Ah yes, I will be glad to gather my goodies together and wish big. I do believe in Santa, I do, I do, I do, and Sag’s ruler, Jupiter is nice and expansive.  The Ho Ho Ho planet, that’s my nickname for Jupiter because I know if I wish BIG, it will be so.  I won’t be wishing for Christmas gifts as that is complete, but I will be asking for Lottery wins.  Metaphorically speaking.  I am practicing being grateful. It’s tried and true plus it does work! Let me quickly share;  I was very busy today in consultations, and I already received a nice Christmas gift from a client. December isn’t quite here either. HoHoHo!! Niiicccee!! Wonderful!!! Great affirmation of my “gratefulness” work earlier in the day. Tomorrow I will ask Venus to help me, and another Goddess that is a good helper, Cerridwen.  She is one of the Celtic Crones that can help me “shapeshift” into a new person. She is a kindly grandmother in my experience, with a great knowledge of herbs and other medicinal plants. Hecate, my Queen of Magick mentor will be included to add that extra umph to insure that I manifest my “big wishes”.

I hope that this will encourage you to do a little magick, because nothing could be better lined up for us to sneak a peek at what is under the tree.  Look in Stregapandora’s Corner, and you will find a simple magical practice to help you make your Biggest, Wildest Dreams come true..Merry Meet!

As an Angel Channeler, I let my clients know how to start recognizing him in their lives. I have a client that wanted to have Michael help her with finding the�best job for her.  I channeled a message from Michael on how she could communicate with him easily.  Not to long after that, she told me how Michael comes and speaks with her. She told me, “I talk to him right before I go to bed.  By being in a quiet, more relaxed “space” I can hear him talk to me in my ear”.  She was excited to share with me that Michael was helping her so much.  She got a great job shortly after this.

It doesn’t take long to develop a personal relationship with Michael.  He is on top of everything and takes action quickly. He “cuts to the chase” and with the Divine Timing I spoke of earlier, things are seredipitously lined up. This is another thing Michael loves to do, line things up, that is. He loves order.

As you ask Michael to help you find your Path, follow your Heart, or Truth, and ask for Protection, I promise you will feel his presence increase in your life.

 

FULL MOON IN GEMINI, VENUS ENTERS SAGITARIUS

What a great time to go do relationship work. Sagitarius, grand “Santa” planet that it is, can grant us our wishes in a big, jovial way. Flirting with our Love Goddess, Venus will make this pairing something to talk about. Now place our twins Gemini in the mix for fun  conversation, and voila, we will be able to communicate our desires to the 10th degree! Christmas as you know is just around the corner so what shall we wish for this holiday season? How about something for ourselves? Ok, then…

Get a candle..preferably a Christmas green, bayberry would be nice. No jar candles, pillars are best.  Since this is Sag’s day, remember the bigger the candle the better. Remember, if you can’t get the color you need, white is always good. Take a pin and place your own name on the side. Put the sigil of  Venus on the one side, and the sigil of Sagitarius on the other. Dress, or anoint the candle with extra virgin olive oil. If you have your own essential oils or wish to buy some, vanilla is a good choice for Venus. Put a few drops of the oil in your hands, enough to anoint the candle.  Hold the candle and state your dedication to the Goddess Venus and while you anoint the candle from top to base three times, state your intentions with a strong focus.

Light the candle, and focus on you first.  Give thanks for all you have, and breathe. Relax and continue to focus. Talk to the Goddess, and let her know what “big” wishes and�desires you would like to manifest. Sag’s fiery nature will manifest your intention quickly. Since Venus rules beauty and love, these desires would be appropriate. Your love interests, your beauty requests, and your career.  The Goddess Venus would love you to ask to release your patterns of shyness, holding yourself back when you would like to advance in your life. If you feel like it, ask to increase your intuitive ablilities.

Talk, talk, talk since this is what Gemini does best. Talk yourself up to the Goddess, and believe that Big Wishes & Dreams do come true. When you feel complete, take a deep breath and close your eyes, breathe in all you wished for.  As you breathe out, let go, trust, and thank Venus for her blessings.

Snuff, never blow out the candle. For the next 7 days continue to light the candle, focus breathe, and review your wishes. You are increasing the momentum of energy, and becoming closer to Venus each day as you do this visualization. When you have completed the 7 days, you may continue to focus on the candle, or you can let it sit until the Solstice, and begin again to “amp” up your intentions. This work will manifest itself within 28 days, or one full moon cycle. When you get to the end of your candle, you must keep it on your alter or near you. This is important so you can be reminded of the work you did. You will see little changes all around you, and should feel differently about yourself if you did what Venus asked.

Remember, Sagitarius is mythical & magical, Gemini is a great conversationalist, and Venus is our Love Goddess! Believe in your Magick!!

IMPROVE YOUR MAGICK – GET OUT OF THE BOX

You do a magick ritual, spell, technique, etc., and to your amazement (or maybe not) it works. In fact, it works very well. So you mark this in your magickal journal as a method you can use to achieve successful results. Each time you use the technique it’s successful! This is something that works.

So you use this method repeatedly. You don’t notice that the degree of success slowly decreases. In fact, you may be puzzled when you notice that this technique a magickal system that had worked so well isn’t working at all. How can this happen?

In a word, the answer is probably focus. When you do something repeatedly, it is common for it to become a habit. You do the techniques by rote, simply repeating the words and actions without even thinking about what you’re doing.

It’s good for the practice of magick to become a habit: Do magick regularly.

It’s not effective to let the practices themselves become a habit.

Part of magick involves the focus of energy. If you’re not focusing, if you’re just repeating what you always do, the energy isn’t there; the magick loses its power and effectiveness.

So if your rituals and magick are starting to fail, what can you do? Get out of the box you’re in. Simply put, try something new. Learn and perform a new technique.

Why will this make a difference? Your previous success has shown that you can already harness magickal energy and achieve goals. By trying something new you will have to really focus on what you’re doing. You’ll bring the focus back to your magick. And you’ll bring back your success.

Back to the Box

Once you are again successful, pay attention to what you’re doing with the new ritual. Become aware of the feelings, emotions, focus, actions, etc. of the new technique. Perhaps you can add extra rituals that you haven’t used before. Maybe you need a more intensive spell that you can attend to. Bringing all of your senses into play helps to manifest your magick more quickly. Asking different Deities that you may have thought about asking and haven’t requested would also bring different energy to your magic.

Childlike play is a good rule of thumb. If you think about the times you delved into your imaginative play you will be able to make the magick you desire come true. It is fun to make-believe.

Full Moon is on its way, so now you have a few tips on how you may be able to amp up your Magickal Power.

BellismaBe,

StregaPandora

Everyday I choose to look at some aspect of myself that seems somewhat incompetent. Well, now that I have already judged myself let me rephrase. Haven’t we all done something that has caused someone pain or discomfort?� How about those times when we find out later, and I mean much later, that we caused them pain through some sort of misunderstood communication? When they finally bring it to our attention, through themselves, or someone lets us know about it, we feel bad. We may believe that now we are ever in their indebtedness. We may feel we have added to their sad state, whatever that state may be. We may chastise ourselves each day, and in the case of healers, even feel we must pay point for point to experience their sadness, pain, or victimness by unconsciously setting ourselves up for an upclose and personal situation to plunge right in and experience it first hand.

However, I must remember I am not responsible for their state.  I must not choose to see people as victims of who I was at that time,or who I am now. If I do, I will be in “Wounded Healer” mode.  I will not be able to be in the state of  “Now” because I am too busy replaying the past drama.  I am bringing myself down.  I am dragging the old used up blankie of the past around with me.

Regardless of the impact my actions have “done” to anyone, they are not my victim! For example, let’s  say we are on an elevator. It collects people on the way up. Some leave. We get cramped. Some people widen the area for others. Some don’t.Toes get stepped on. If that happens, wecan choose to simply ask for forgiveness.  As we choose to ask for forgiveness, if the other person has choice too.  Sometimes that person will stand in their belief and says “no! I choose not to forgive you! you hurt me and I will not forget or forgive you.”  What do we do then? Don’t take their choice to heart. Don’t believe that you need to make a wider berth for them to move through.  Let go and get out of the elevator.  If necessary, change to another. Go up the stairs. We did our part, we chose to let go of the past. Be aware that  sometimes the past doesn’t want to let go of us.

We are not indebted to others “stories”. When we have experiences that seem unkind, it’s an opportunity to just notice, not judge.  So forgive, forget, move on up!

This is a true story that recently happened to me.  Doing what I do just about every day of the year, you can be sure that I am called upon for the “Fairy Godmother swoosh” to fix people’s problems.  Well, fix I do, but not always without a price. As with most good Mediums/Psychics/Healers�I have clients that have numerous problems, and as most true healers know, we are there to “hand hold” our clients and see them through many of their personal stroms. This is my calling and most of the time it’s weathered out in a great way.  This storm got out of control though. And sometimes even a respected Medium such as myself is kept out of the most intimate “loop” of a person’s life, even by Higher Realms.  I have learned through this particular story that if I knew every tiny bit of  information in a person’s life, I could not help the person as well as their guides and angels would like me to. After all, remember, I am human.

So, back to my story… My client, whom I will call Abby, is a person I have stood by through thick and thin.  When we met 3 years ago she asked if I could help her to be with the person she desired.  I told her I could help but assured her that we would not make this person come to her against his will. She could do prayerwork, intention work with the saying of, “this, or something better” to keep things in Divine hands. Plus, it would take time and patience on her part.  Every week she came and I channeled her next steps in her life to improve her self esteem, and teach her ways that would help her to become strong with her Deities.  We also kept track of what was going on in his life, whom I will to refer to as Jacob. And honestly, that is why people do come to see us.  My task is to channel correct information to assist the client to make the best choice. Through the months we talked. In fact, there were times she scheduled daily to get advise and check in on Jacob.  Not only this, but she had many other things going on in her life that I would channel for her and give her what her Angels wanted her to know.  However, there were times Abby was a wreck because Jacob wasn’t making any moves.  He was just sitting there.  He was in between in every area of his life.  He didn’t know what he wanted.  There were many conversations of calming down Abby. She wasn’t getting the “signs’ she wanted, and she wavered back and forth with her own faith in herself.  Time and again, I would get the Angels and Goddess’ message to “have patience, work on you, continue to let go of your attachments to the outcome.”

Channeling was so detailed and intense with her questions, I was given the day and time they would meet. Shortly after that channeling, Abby and Jacob got together on that exact day I saw.She called me and told me in her extremely happy voice they met within ten minutes of the time I told her they would meet. I must admit, I was happily surprised because after all, exact timing is hard to get, alone within minutes. After their meeting, I continued to hear from her for a little while, then silence. I had asked her to do her personal work and check in with her personal goals.  However, as most Mediums/psychics know, when the client gets their “prize” they disappear into the sunset and you may or may not hear from them until the next crisis.

Months passed and the next time I heard from Abby she told me they were going to get married,  just like I channeled for her 3 years previous. Abby was so excited!!! I was invited to the wedding which was going to be within the month. I spoke to her 2 days before the wedding. She was giddy with the anticipation that her dream of all dreams had come true.  Then the call came..Abby was hysterically crying…”don’t come to the wedding. There isn’t going to be one!  Jacob’s gone! He left me at the alter!  He doesn’t want to marry me!!! I can’t believe this! What is happening! Why! Why!” I couldn’t believe it myself. I was completely speechless. I quickly recovered,  and dove right in.  I was ready to help her put the pieces of her shattered life back together.   Through channelings we attempted to get her back on track. Again, days and hours of concentrated work and channelings were given to her.  This event was such a tragedy for her, however,  it was difficult to get her to listen to any of the guidance she was receiving.

This was the beginning of a year and a half of melt downs for Abby, and continuous hysterical behavior.  I was “on call” to her 24/7, spent hundreds of hours calming her down,  along with being just a listening ear.

In her world, she felt she had no one that understood her or what had gone on. Since I had been there from the beginning, Abby told me she trusted me to help her. No one understood the depth of the relationship with Jacob or anything else in her life as I did.  I agreed with her and said I would help to get life back. There were periods of healing for her, but some new storm would come up, and she’d have trauma all over again. Abby simply could not completely get over Jacob leaving her. This seemed to be the heart of the matter with her life.

She had many other issues too that caused her much pain and sorrow. Like our past association, we did channelings to help alleviate her pressures and calm her nerves. Step by step, she did her recovery work, and with time she seemed to finally get better. Abby did what she could to move on from this past event…

Now, to the point of this story…I found out that by accident, (of course it was no accident that I did find out, because the Angels did want me to know), she had secrets I was not aware of. There are so many sorted stories I don’t mention because of the privacy and confidentiality of this person, but aside from what I knew, the things that came out into the open I was and wasn’t surprised at the same.  When I found out the whole story of Abby’s life, a part of her life she would not admit to, I had to make the sad decision to not support her any longer.  It was difficult because I knew so much, had been there for much of her most private moments, happiness�and sorrows in every area of her life. By now, with all of the drama from Jacob leaving her life, and the other secret life she�had never completely revealed to me, Abby requested that I write a letter of recommendation for her to help in a situation she needed outside help with. I wasn’t ever asked in our years previous to do this, but her situation called for credibility.

First, I agreed, but then after thinking long and hard about the bigger picture, I changed my mind. I felt it would come back to haunt me, and would not be a good for me or the people involved with my life. When Abby asked for the written letter, and I didn’t give it to her, that’s when�she turned on me.Was I surprised by this, not really.   I knew from her previous behavior with her own life she might do something like this, but unfortunately she was on the rampage with me now. I did feel somewhat guilty. Should I have just done this. But then on the other hand, would a friend do this to you?  Only one that didn’t really care about me. She made the allegations seemingly as if I would not have anything to do with her. I had abandoned her.  Apparently, some of the things she said were so awful,  I was asked by others that support me in my business what was going on. I had to break some confidentiality to save myself. I wasn’t going to allow myself to be “thrown under the bus”. Unfortunately, this was her answer to me not writing her letter.

So the question is…where does confdentiality end? How close is too close in what I do? When your client’s trust you, do you keep it completely business, and forget to have any compassion at all?

Where is the line of love and the end of the line?

Lessons learned…Wounded Healer Syndrome isn’t for me. I have now made a pact with myself to maintain business as business. Will this take away from my Mediumship/Healer gifts. No.  In fact, I feel I will gain more respect from clients I have allowed to take advantage of me. I am no longer on 24/7 beck and call to clients. A regular schedule is purposeful so my channelings will stay in proper perspective. Knowing what everyone thinks is indeed a gift, but I am not anyone’s “dog and pony show”. I needed this lesson to remind me that I can’t so close to my clients that they “need” me every moment of my waking hours. This will assist me and my clients to maintain a “distance” along with a heathly relationship between us. Finally, don’t feel guilty if I don’t get every little detail from Spirit. It doesn’t mean I am not gifted in what I do, it reminds me that there is Divine Timing in certain circumstances. Had I known everything in Abby’s life, I probably wouldn’t have been able to help her as much as I did in the beginning. She would have felt too intimidated by me knowing her “secrets”.  She wouldn’t have done many of the assignments I channeled for her. She did make progress in her life, especially when she focused on herself alone. When this occured, she did better in her business too.

I must Let Go of the Wounded Healer Syndrome, and you can believe I Will!!

NEW MOON is today, and I will comment on these as well as FULL MOON…Now, I know I could get astrological on you, but I would much rather, and will, channel the New Moons and let you know what the Goddess’ desire for us to do our Magick on.

This NEW MOON in SCORPIO is asking us to put our intentions out to the Angels and Celtic Goddess Brigit. It would be good to get a white candle and scry the side with a pin with Michael, Raphael, Uriel. They will help us to let go of the past beliefs we have in regard to our beliefs about money, relationships, and receive the healing we need. Celtic Fire Goddess Brigit will help to manifest your desires for career, and desires for home and hearth.

New Moon is the time to begin new project. New beliefs about our money is definately a great beginning.  Start with a white candle for purity, orange for success. For simplicity, just put your candle on a plate and light it.  Breathe slowly. Focus on the names of the angels, drawing out the end of their names. This will create a vibration to alert them to attend your magick.  Ask the Celtic Goddess Brigit to help manifest your wishes.  As you focus on the candlelight, write your wishes on paper.  Nine wishes maximum are allowed. Relax and focus on the candle do your best to visualize your disires, along with stating them clearly. When you are complete, snuff, never blow the candle out. Continue this for the next 7 days to increase the momentum of your magick.  Finally…Believe!! in your chosen wishes.  Give your wishes one full cycle of the moon to manifest. They will come true.

**The most potent time is the first 8 hours AFTER the exact time of the New Moon; within the first 48 hours. Don’t miss this opportunity to make wishes for goals you like to reach and experiences you’d like to have. The potency continues to exist for another twelve hours, but is weaker.

Question of the day? How can I make myself bigger than the small tables I sit behind at each place to avail myself to my clients? I think this may be the dilema of alot of healers, mediums, psychics such as myself. I want to dupicate myself, or get my messages out farther than the tiny world I have created at that table or on the phone.  I have so many responsibilites aside from the clients I help, I find it  interesting how I can paint myself into a corner at times. Rambling on yes, because I am taking a moment to reflect on how I set goals to make things happen. You know, I can read in my journals some of the same goals I had years ago. So, being psychic and all, how can I make my life happen to when I am constantly assisting others to get on the boat and move ahead in their lives. I can tell you, I have felt joy and envy at the same time. I am not so above the human characteristic of wishing I was getting “the guy” or “the perfect job” or a “seemingly lottery win” which means a big raise or promotion.

The phrase If it’s to Be, It’s up to Me…well, what kind of a timeclock am I on. Must be Benjamin Button timing. The clock ticking backward going forward.  I look in the mirror, and state to my reflection, “come on you can do this, nodding my head up and down. My mantras include, “I am Very Successful”, “I Am Grateful”. “I deserve to receive great gifts” of whatever. I also chastise myself somewhat, (yes I do this alot), and say “Why are you choosing that again” meaning something isn’t a great choice and will create the same result…something that is beneath what I am desiring.  Sometimes, it’s good to overlook the annoying habits of a person to allow myself to get what I want. Funny thing is, when I “turn it around” and change the  belief or illusion the other person magically treats me different

This brings me to Zadkiel, Archangel of Forgiveness. He, along with many of the angels aren’t called on as much as they were in the past. I definately make use of their gifts. I will take all the help I can.