And the cards said....

Last night I was using my "The Goddess Oracle" cards by Amy Sophia Marashinsky.  They are a beautiful deck of oracle cards.  Each card has a beautiful water colour illustration of a Goddess.  In the book each Goddess has a poem, mythology, meaning of the card, and a ritual suggestion.

It was rather interesting on what cards fell out of the deck, I was shuffling them and I asked for "one of you".  Instead 5 fell out of the deck instead!  Who fell out were amazing, and I want to share who fell out and my thoughts around it.

The first to fall out was Sophia, the Goddess of Wisdom.  She says that we each have the answers we are looking for inside us all.  Each of us know the answers, we just need to slow down go inward ask the questions, then wait for the response.  A wonderful Goddess said this to me the other night, a reminder that all my answers are with in me.  I just have to stop and listen to them!

The second to fall out was Cerridwen, the Goddess of Death and Rebirth.  She talks about cycles, on how some maybe have ended and now you are rebirthing and changing/starting a new cycle.  Wow!  Is what I thought when this one fell out of the deck.  I had a long time cycle end with not going back to dance, and I'm birthing my business of Awakening Goddess.  It's amazing really.  I know I'm on the right path!

The third to fall out was Yemaya, the Goddess of Surrender.  She says that we each need to surrender into things, to let go and trust.  Well, I've been doing that a ton these past few weeks!  Surrendering to the process of what all is going on.  To trust the Universe to lead me in the right direction.  I've trusted and let go, and so many wonderful things are opening up to me.

The fourth to fall out was Matt, the Goddess of Justice.  She speaks about bringing justice into your life.  This was interesting.   Taking care of myself, my "inner justice system" sometimes plays havoc on my dreams and goals.  It's also called the "ego", the negative self talk, and self put downs.  The ego can be a tricky little bugger, most of the time I think I have it covered, but then something will pop into my head that I start to question myself.

And finally the last to fall out of the deck was Lady of the Beasts, the Goddess of Relationships.  She speaks about just that relationships.  To nurture the relationships that I have maybe just started or have had for a very long time.  She also speaks about relationships that maybe toxic or harmful to me as well.  This card again had me going "Wow".  I have connected with so many amazing people of the past few weeks, I've developed relationships with.  I have to remember to keep nurturing those new relationships, and also give attention to relationships that I've had for a long time.  Then there are the ones that are toxic or harmful to me.  We all have them, just need to really look at all of our relationships and decide if they are helpful or hurtful.

So that's what I got out of my cards from last night.  That I am wise, to birth Awakening Goddess, to surrender to the process, have self justice (not beat myself up), and to keep relationships with others strong!

What do you feel you need to concentrate on?  When you dream, how much of it is dreaming big?  Do you listen to the signs?

Trust the process!

Wow!  What a week!  Over the pasts week I've been at two amazing networking events for women business makers.  And let me just say Wow!  The first one was called Womanation.  A small group of women getting together and connecting, sharing contact info and hearing some great speakers!

Then on Thursday night, I was invited to a second event E-Women Calgary.  Again, a great event, been meeting some brilliant women!  All the women I connected with, or reconnected with are so supportive. 

It's taking a lot of trust of these women surrendering to the process.  Letting them guide me and lift me up.  This for many Goddesses is something they work on constantly!  To surrender to the Goddesses, to trust the unknown.

There are many fears around the unknown.....will it work, what's next, and the big question HOW!?!?  I have begun to really start to trust others, the Universe, and especially myself.  That little knot in my stomach that sometimes grows really big.  For me sometimes it's overwhelming at times.  It's all the build up of all the how questions that are growing.

Although, once I give that little "how" another job, I can relax and trust.  Can you? 

Going with the flow and trusting the Universe and myself.  On Tuesday I was at the Womanation event where I saw some beautiful Goddesses we all were connecting and getting to know each other.  One of the amazing ladies asked if I was going to be at another event on Thursday.  I said I didn't know about it.  It was rather interesting what happened next.  The one Goddess called over another and said that I didn't know about the E-Women event.  She said to me "you're coming, no discussion, you're coming."  I relaxed, trusted the process, and I ended up at the event early even on the Thursday evening.

The word relax is a tough one for me to let in.  Even when I was younger, it was hard for me to relax and just let go.  To trust that things will work out, or even relax my body, I know holding things in can be hurtful on my body as well as my heart.  Who doesn't need to remember that?

I love how the Universe is just all lining things up for me.  Once I let go and trust the process. 

When was the last time you trusted the Universe?

Find below a song/video about trusting the Universe/God what ever you believe in.  I stumbled upon the video.  Not what I normally listen too!  But the words are pretty amazing!

When one door closes....

Alright, alright!  Enough hiding!  I've been hiding and it's time to embrace the change and grow and keep on growing.

A couple of weeks ago, my teacher who I was taking dance classes with said that I was not allowed to return, because of Awakening Goddess is seen as a conflict of interest/business to her.

Yes I was shocked, angry, sad and felt let down.  I had been dancing for 3 years with this teacher.  I guess though, time moves on and people change as well. 

I have always remembered the saying of "when one door closes, another one opens".  And I must say since accepting that I will not be dancing with this one teacher any more, many more opportunities to grow Awakening Goddess has opened to me.  With in the two weeks, I've had 4 women approach me in either doing demo's/classes for them, or saying that I can use space that they have to do small group sessions with clients.

As well as being open to other groups organizations that are for women to grow their business/passion for the world.

I am opening all the doors of opportunity and connecting with other amazing women every day.  Either in person or on this amazing invention called the Internet!  Wow!  I wonder how businesses started out and made connections before all this technology took hold?!

I said on the first of January of 2011 that Awakening Goddess was going to blow open in 2011, and it sure has started off with a huge gust of wind!  I'm riding the wave of love and support from everyone letting myself feel and be open to all the possibilities.

Sister, what wave are you riding?  Is it a good one?  You are the powerful creator, you have all the power to change and open that new door of opportunity!

Find  below a video from you-tube that I found called Open The Dur, a beautiful arrangement of artwork and a wonderful message about opening the door of opportunity and imagination!  I do not own any rights to the music or mini video it's self.

Men write books, Women get out there and do it!

So I had another "ah ha" moment a couple of hours ago.  And wanted to blog about it!  My amazing coach posted our  group pictures from our Burlesque Cabaret Christmas Gala today and I came to an interesting realization.

It seems that a lot of the time, when women get brilliant ideas about sharing their gifts for the world they go out and do it, share it with the world.  Men on the other hand, will most of the time get their amazing brilliant ideas and then sit down and write a book about it!

For the past 4 years now (with the new year just starting) I've been dancing with Burlesquercise.  First starting out in Level One and taking steps up the ladder to be now with the Level Three performance group called "The Sizzle Girls".  When I share with others that I do the Burlesque dancing and perform it out in public, I get many different responses from both women and men.  Mostly the comments are very positive.   The women share with me that they would never have the courage to get out there and do the performances in public.  Some women even share with me that they don't even have the courage to be in the group classes.

It takes a lot of courage to do what we do in the performance troops.  To dance the way we do in front of a crowd, many times there are only one or two people in the audience that I may know.  It's powerful to dance in front of others.  To inspire women that they can be sexy no matter what they look like, that they can dance in a sultry way.

The performance troops are out there doing it, not sitting back and writing a book about it!  We are spreading sexiness in a professional way. 

That is also what I am doing with Awakening Goddess, I am yes writing a blog, but also being out in the community doing it.  Sharing my gift of love/my passion/ my purpose out into the world. 

I invite you Sister, to have your amazing brilliant ideas, and then get out there and do  them! 

Find below a slide show video I made of the amazing coyote's from the Sizzle Girls troop that I dance with.  The slide show has the music of what we danced to that night, a cut/arranged version of Speak No Americano.