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There are a few astrological events going on this week, and the highlight will be the Virgo new Moon/solar eclipse, occurring on Sunday. This will set the stage for the next six months, and turn our focus to making the changes that will bring us a step closer to our dreams. We may not get much done the first two days of the week as the Moon wades through Cancer, as the focus will be on our emotional balance rather than what gets done, so go with the flow and don’t worry about material things. The Leo Moon will hang overhead on Wednesday and Thursday, restoring our confidence and making it easier to get things done. Mercury will move into Libra on Thursday, turning our thoughts to relationships, love, and balance. Venus will enter Virgo on Friday, where it will spend the next few weeks encouraging us to make some important decisions about where our priorities are. The Moon travels through Virgo Friday through Sunday, ending the week with the Virgo new Moon/solar eclipse!

How to Vibe with the Light, by Sherrie Dillard

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Are you an empath, intuitive, or highly sensitive? Maybe you're not sure. Perhaps you have moments when you feel as if you are aware of another's feelings, know things without knowing how you know them, or are affected by stimuli that others don't seem to even notice. In the company of certain friends, family, or coworkers, your mood might suddenly change, you might feel tired or over-stimulated, or you maybe experience random intuitive insights and impressions. Sometimes outer things such as noise, smells, artificial light, and a variety of other common everyday stimuli feel uncomfortable or overwhelming. As an intuitive, empathic, or highly sensitive individual, your sensitivity to energy vibes can manifest in a multitude of different ways.

All living beings, within the natural world and the spirit realm, emit energy vibes. Sometimes the energy we feel, absorb, and interact with is beneficial and positive, but not always. For instance, we might feel another's goodness, the comforting warmth of the spirit realm, or the gentle spirit of a plant or animal. Many of us have also had the unpleasant experience of encountering energy vibes that feel uncomfortable or negative. Some feel the emotions of others, such as sadness or pain, as if it was their own. A wave of anxiety might unexpectedly come over us when a friend tells us about her new love interest. For no known reason we might worry about a family member even though they say they are fine.

When the energy vibes we experience are confusing and unsettling, we may try to avoid and control the energy that we feel and absorb. We might seek out techniques that will shield and protect us, like crystals, essential oils, herbs, affirmations, meditation, invoking white light, and creating boundaries with others. Yet, despite our best efforts, we may still take in negative and heavy energy vibes if we aren't vigilant in our awareness of the vibes we encounter. Although outer forms of protection offer some relief and safety, being fearful of physical and spiritual energy influences can increase our stress and concerns.

At the beginning of my career as a medium, empath, and intuitive, I did my best to employ different methods of protection from dark spirits and from the negative energy that sometimes clung to my clients. Over time I noticed that those who carried and emitted sad or heavy energy tended to have more challenges and difficulties in their daily life. There were others who felt like warm sunshine, and more often then not, things had a way of working out for them. I became aware that the energy that I attracted and absorbed wasn't just just determined by who and what I encountered. When I felt connected to high vibration divine energy, dark and heavy energy influences didn't seem to affect me. I had no fear of feeling or absorbing the lower, icky vibrations. Even during sessions that involved the work of releasing others from dark and harmful spirit attachments, I was safe. I had no need to employ other forms of protection. As I raised my vibration, the lower energy that I wanted to avoid fell away.

If you are an empath, intuitive, or highly sensitive, you might feel that you are at the mercy of the energy vibes of others. Even when you are in a positive and lighthearted mood you might find yourself absorbing the gloomy vibes of others. For instance, at a family get together or a party with friends you may find yourself feeling tired and worn out, even though you were enthusiastically charged up about the event before it began. Although you want to come and go without worrying about the energy vibes that you may encounter, you find yourself isolating and staying home. As much we might sometimes want to cease being empathic, intuitive, or highly sensitive, it isn't possible to just stop or cut away this part of who we are. However we don't have to take in the energy vibes that adversely affect us. It may seem that we don't have a choice, yet there is a way. We aren't meant to be an energetic sponge that absorbs harmful and detrimental vibes. Instead, as empaths, intuitives, and the highly sensitive we are able to fill our being with the high frequencies of pure divine life force energy and bring light into the darkness.

To become aware of what is keeping us bound to lower vibrations and fulfill our higher calling, we look to the universal law of attraction that states that likes attract likes. Applied to the empath, intuitive, and the highly sensitive, this means that the energy vibes of others that we attract are similar to our own. This doesn't necessarily mean that the feelings and emotions that we randomly and daily feel determine the energy we receive from others. Loving, positive, and kind people can feel and absorb dark and chaotic energy. Our energy vibe is not just made up of the emotions, moods, and thoughts of which we are conscious. Instead, our strongest vibe is centered in the emotional energy within us that we have repressed and stuffed away. The vibes that we attract are similar to our own unacknowledged stuffed away emotions and unhealed wounds. These are the ones that stick and continue to cling to us. It is what lies within us that we are not aware of that holds the most potent energetic power.

We all harbor past repressed emotions and unhealed wounds. Difficult and challenging experiences can feel overwhelming and we may not be able to fully feel and process our emotions. When we knowingly or unknowingly deny or push down our feelings, they don't dissipate and go away. Instead, they become embedded in our body and energy field and fade out of our conscious awareness. We might also stuff down our feelings because we judge them as bad and unacceptable. As spiritual people we might believe that we can only feel the good and positive and reject what doesn't seem spiritual. However, feeling such things as sadness, anger, frustration, and negativity doesn't make us less spiritual. Our emotions are teachers that can guide us in self awareness, creating healthy boundaries, making choices that speak to our heart, authenticity, and developing compassion for ourselves and others.

It is our vibe, not another's, that is essential for our wellbeing. When we feel our feelings, we are listening to our heart and our inner truth. This empowers us to continue to evolve spiritually. Feeling our difficult emotions doesn't mean that we act on them in ways that are harmful to ourselves and others. It is simply allowing our emotions to surface and having the courage and strength to feel them. When we feel our feelings they dissipate and no longer attract the difficult, confusing, and challenging emotions and energy of others. Once we feel and release our repressed and stuffed away emotions our vibrational energy frequency is able to rise into the higher realms of pure divine energy. It is through this higher frequency that we attract and manifest abundance and the positive and good in all areas of our lives. The law of attraction of likes attract likes is not meant to create confusion and misery, but to enlighten and free us.

To tune into and release your repressed and stuffed away emotions and unhealed wounds try this:

Pay attention to the feelings and vibes that you most often absorb and feel with others. For instance, notice when you repeatedly feel and sense such emotions as sadness, anger, negativity, depression, or loneliness in others. Become aware of how often you feel that another isn't being honest or you don't trust them or feel they are overwhelming, exhausting, or too intense.

When you feel have identified the energy vibes and emotions that you feel and absorb, ask yourself: Where in my body or energy field does this emotion feel the most intense? If you aren't sure, close your eyes and take a deep breath.

Starting at the top of your head, scan your body and feel where you are drawn. Then expand your awareness to your energy field about 12 inches from your body.

Place your hand on the part of your body or energy field where the emotion feels the strongest. This is where similar repressed emotional energy or unhealed wounds may be lodged. There might be more than one area within your body that is storing this energy. Place your hand on the area where the emotion feels strongest. If you aren't able to feel a specific location, place your hands on your heart or solar plexus.

Breathe and send love and compassion to this area. Ask for the force of love to flow through you.

Breathe long deep breaths and relax. Feel whatever surfaces and do your best to identify your emotions as they surface.

If you begin to focus on the situation, event, or person from the past who stirred up these feelings, breathe long deep breaths and exhale. When we consciously become aware of the breath we stop focusing on our thoughts and began to feel.

As you feel the feelings, say something like, "As I feel this emotion, it dissipates and goes into the light."

Continue to breathe and open your heart, mind, and body to the force of love. Let this love move through you and help you to release difficult and stressful emotions

When you feel as if you have done all that you can at this time, imagine white light filling you and attracting and manifesting your highest good in every area of your life. You are free.

It's best to repeat this short exercise often. It may take some to fully release the repressed emotional energy within our body and energy field. We also may unknowingly continue to stuff down our emotions, deny our feelings, and increase the emotional energy stored within.

Allow the rewards of raising the frequency of your vibe to the light flow in.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2024. All rights reserved.

Lately I find myself saying things out loud like I hate my life, and this always surprises me: it just falls out of my mouth as I'm driving to work or I'm rushing to get out the door. I need to uncover what this is all about. Currently I teach kindergarten, and while I love my job, there are aspects of it that I don't like - mainly the exhaustion. At the end of each day, I just have nothing left to give. I find myself trying everything I can to avoid fatigue and keep my energy up. My relationship with my partner is suffering a bit, and prior boyfriends have complained about how wiped out I am at the end of each day. I know I'm not alone, as almost all teachers feel as drained as I do each evening. Is there a spiritual way to keep my energy up? What do you think is causing these sudden thoughts and outbursts about hating my life?

- Stephanie

Astrea:

While it can be a very rewarding experience, teaching little kids can suck the life right out you. Kids are like sponges, and they soak up every iota of energy they can. I taught K-6 for years, and by three o'clock every weekday, I felt like someone had made me into a wet noodle to drag around behind them.

Finally, I discovered the secret that teachers of small fry must have known for centuries: instead of letting wee ones suck you dry, get some energy back from THEM! They have plenty to spare, so they don't mind. Kindergarteners LOVE the teacher. They're willing, ready and able to help you recharge if you let them. While you have to find your own way to do this, here's what worked spectacularly for me:

Find the time of day that you feel the most spent. I'm sure you have one of those circle rugs in your room where you can all sit down together. Have the kids wash their hands, and let the cool water run over each child's hands for at least thirty seconds.

Sit down with them in the circle and join hands. Teach them this little nursery rhyme with one or two kids (and you) in the center of the circle with drums or claves or maracas or something on which they can keep the rhythm. I always put the pot stirrers in the center of the circle with me. Have your beaters beat out sixteen counts in four-four time; that's ONE two three four, TWO two three four, THREE to three four, etc.

Then in that time signature, everyone says:
Earth my body (now four more beats)
Water my blood (beat, beat, beat, beat)
Air my breath (beat, beat, beat, beat)
And Fire my Spirit (beat, beat, beat, beat)
Sun my mind (same as before to the end)
Moon my heart
Rock my Soul
And PUCKER MY POWER!
(Have them make a big smooch noise at the end!)

By the time you've done this three times, the energy flowing into you will be SO GREAT it might even knock you down! Breathe it in. Savor it. Enjoy it. LAUGH.

You'll leave school that day a new person. You'll be energized, upbeat and happy to have shared in all this fabulous, youthful energy.

It sounds silly and frivolous but it works. When that "sinker" towards the end of the day hits you right between the eyes, there is NOTHING like a unified bunch of little kids chanting something powerful to create energy for all involved.

You can use any chant to do this, but this one always seemed the most appropriate, and you can't really get in trouble for teaching something that is nature based. Thanks for teaching, Stephanie. We could use a few thousand more teachers like you!

*****

Susyn:

It sounds as if you're so busy giving to everyone else that you've forgotten to give to yourself. With the high demands on everyone's time and energy these days, it's easy to put our needs on the back burner in order to ensure that everyone else is happy and well taken care of.

Your first task will be to discover how to reclaim some personal time. Then you can use that time to rebuild a connection with your true power source: Spirit.

Most people don't realize how much restorative energy can be gained through meditation, and how just a few minutes each morning can add hours of energy, direction and guidance to the rest of one's day.

Stating that you hate your life indicates that you're more than ready for a change. The frustrating thing is that there doesn't seem to be a way to make these changes or regain your energy.

With regular meditation, you'll be shown how to make those shifts happen. Then many obstacles now in your way will start to disappear on their own.

Let's start with a quick metaphysical pick-me-up that takes just a few minutes. You can use this ritual any time you feel drained, stressed or uneasy, like when you get home from work.

Get a raw egg from the refrigerator, and taking care not to break it, gently rub it over all over your body using a light massage motion. You don't have to undress; just glide it over your clothing. Don't forget your hair, face and neck area.

The egg will act like a magnet to pick up any stray, negative or unsettling energies you may have taken on during the day. Once you've gone over your entire body, you should notice an immediate shift in your energy. Crack the egg into the toilet and flush it away.

I also recommend that you reset your alarm clock fifteen minutes earlier than usual, and spend that time in meditation each morning. As soon as you awaken, instead of going over all that has to be done that day, stop and try to formulate an image to concentrate on as you meditate, such as a rose, a landscape, or an open window.

If your mind starts to drift, keep pulling it back to the image you are creating on your mental screen. Given how frantic your life has been, it may be difficult to spend the whole fifteen minutes meditating at first, so start with five minutes a day the first week, and increase this one minute per day after that.

Throughout the rest of your day, notice how much more energy you have and how much more balanced you feel. Watch how obstacles disappear, and how smoothly your classroom starts running.

Sound like magic? It is! It's also the simplest, quickest avenue to regaining your energy and enthusiasm for life.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.