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July 17 through July 23, 2023

We'll awake to a Cancer new Moon on Monday, which will instill us with the drive to nurture ourselves and others. The generosity continues on Tuesday and Wednesday as the Moon dances through "big-hearted" Leo and inspires us to lean in and reconnect with those closest to us. We'll have to do a little work this week, of course, and Thursday and Friday's Virgo Moon makes these the ideal days to take care of anything we can't put off until next week. The Sun will make its grand entrance into Leo on Saturday, heralding a four-week cycle of self-love, generosity, and strength of heart. A few hours later Venus will turn retrograde, kicking off a six-week cycle of romance and relationship energy that we'll need to pay close attention to. This is the aspect that can bring lovers back from the past, (though not necessarily for a reconnection), or create the opportunity to magically connect with your soul mate. If we're in a relationship that has run its course, this will become more apparent. And if we have been neglecting the valued relationships in our lives, this will become apparent as well. All in all expect a change in some area of your relationship sector over the next month and a half, which is sure to work in your favor!

Four Ways Your Energy Animal Can Appear to You, by Melissa Alvarez

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Animals. We share our world with them, we have them as pets, and they can be a source of comfort and love. Animals can also be spiritual guides for us during times of need or to help us grow on our spiritual path. I call them energy animals because I work with energy and animal frequency, but they're also known as totems, spirit animals, power animals, familiars, and animal spirit guides. All of these terms describe animals that guide, teach, and connect with you in order to deliver messages from the spiritual realm that you need to know at specific points in your life and on your path. Some appear for a short time, others are with us for a lifetime.

When an animal has a message for you, the energy surrounding the animal will feel different. It may feel as if the animal is staring you down, or you just intuitively know that there's something unusual about the bird that keeps perching in trees near you, making you notice it. The animal will not give up until it gets your attention and delivers the information. If you're not paying attention, things will start to happen that captures your awareness and makes you take notice. Your animal encounters may happen more often and with more intensity until finally you say, "What is going on?" That's when you'll be open to receiving the message that the animal is trying to deliver.

I'll give you an example. When I was writing Animal Frequency, there were so many animals showing up at my farm that every day I expected to see a new one and I usually did. It was also foaling season, and for ten days I was dealing with a mare who had retained part of her placenta after foaling out, which is life-threatening and meant I was up every two to four hours throughout the night giving her three to four antibiotic injections at a time to try to save her life in conjunction with her veterinary care. Being severely sleep deprived, I stopped paying attention to the animals showing up and didn't get much written during that time. Then one day shortly after the mare was over the incident I found myself bombarded with dragonflies. I walked out to the barn and there was one flying along beside me. While I did my work I'd find them sitting on the pitchfork handle or on the bags of shavings or they'd land on my arms. I acknowledged them and thanked them for the appearance but I was so tired I didn't think past that. Then I walked out into the yard by the barn and was swarmed with dragonflies all around me. There must have been fifty or sixty of them flying into the wind all around me. They've done this before in this spot but none had ever landed on me, and this time I had four land on me at once and they seemed to be looking right at me. Then when I went on an errand I was sitting at a stoplight and looked over and there was a tiny baby dragonfly sitting on my window starting at me. As soon as I got home I looked at my Animal Frequency manuscript to see what I'd written about the dragonfly. The line that stood out to me was, "Dragonfly means you need to add lightness to your life. Don't get bogged down in the heaviness of the world but be the light, airy being that shines in a multitude of colors." I had been bogged down in heaviness due to the issues with the mare and lack of sleep. I was still worrying about her even though the crisis had passed. Dragonfly helped me see that I needed to let it go so that I could get back to the lightness of being that I try to keep my frequency at. Once I did, everything flowed easily again.

By knowing some of the different ways that animals can try to capture your attention, you'll become more aware of their appearances. They can show up in any way that they believe will make you notice them, so this list is just a mere sampling. Here are four of the most common ways that animals can appear to you when they have a message to deliver.

1. Media
   With more and more people participating in social media, you're sure to see animals in videos, memes, advertising, news, and in online documentaries. When these animal appearances start repeating or standing out then that means there's a message. Seeing a cute lion cub video and then seeing two more lions online can be a sign that they're trying to get a message to you. Now, let's say you're driving to an appointment and see a lion on a billboard, and as you drive past the local zoo you notice a new advertisement for the lion exhibit, and the radio announcer is talking about a show about lions that he saw over the weekend. Once you get to your appointment you open up a magazine while you wait and there's a huge lion staring back at you. Later at home, you turn on the television and hear a lion's roar. By now you have probably realized that lion has a message for you. Take some time to sit quietly and ask lion what its message is and then trust in the first thoughts you receive.
2. Dreams
   When your spirit guides have a hard time reaching you when you're awake, they often appear to you in your dreams. It's the same with your energy animals. In dreams you're more open to receive their messages as long as you can remember the dream. They will return to your dreams multiple times if you forget it. When you see an energy animal in your dream notice what kind of animal it is. What is it doing in your dream? Is it acting as it normally would in real life, or is it doing something that it could never do in real life—like speaking actual words? If it is speaking words, then it's delivering its message the easiest way it knows how—in your native language. Try hard to remember what it said. Also look at the environment of the dream. Is the animal out of place or in its natural habitat? This can all be part of the message. If you dream of a hippo swinging on a swing set maybe it is trying to tell you that your life is out of balance and you need to have more fun. How are you interacting or reacting to the animal? This is part of the message too.
3. Spoken Word
   Sometimes, when you're not paying attention to the animal, the animal will enlist the help of others to get your attention. You may have noticed those lions and they've piqued your interest, but not enough for you to start looking up what they mean or to meditate to ask what the message is. So now your co-worker starts talking about going to the zoo and how wonderful the new lion exhibit is. She might tell you about how they changed the enclosure or that the lioness had cubs. Then your neighbor tells you about a dream she had that featured a lion. Or your significant other tells you about a new project at work that is featuring a lion. After several people have told you their lion stories, now you're inspired to find out exactly what message lion has for you.
4. In the Flesh
   Many times you'll notice animals because they simply show up in person to get your attention. There have been many times when a hawk, snake, alligator, or other animal has shown up on my farm and just stared me down. I believe that the "stare down" is one of their favorite ways to get your attention. I mean, how can you possibly ignore that? Once I had a big red-tailed hawk perch right on the fence and watch me clean a paddock. I kept looking over at him and just got stared at. When I moved to another paddock, the hawk flew over to a low tree branch and stared me down again. By the time I got to the round pen, where it perched on the panel about four feet away from me, I just stopped what I was doing, stared back at him and intuitively opened my energy to its message. Once I'd received it, the hawk made a loud screech and flew away. So when you see an animal in the flesh that seems to be looking at you or that you intuitively feel like there's something special or unusual about the animal, pay attention to it. Take a few moments to commune with it so that you can discover what it needs to tell you.

Connecting with your energy animal can help you in many different ways. It can even be life changing. If you're not paying attention, energy animals can and will use all of these ways at the same time to inundate you with their presence so you pay attention and start to learn more about the animal. Getting your attention is often the hardest part. Once their message is delivered, the animal usually disappears from your life, but you'll probably always remember the message.

I encourage you to take time to open your heart, mind, and intuition to the animals that appear in your life. Connect with them through animal frequency to experience the Divine with them and within yourself.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2017. All rights reserved.

Do you believe in bad luck? Is bad luck something that is or can be influenced in the spiritual world, or is it just coincidence? How do you get yourself out of bad luck, if you can?

Thank you!

Irene

Dreamchaser:

Irene, while most of the human race seems to believe in luck, I personally do not. I have learned through my own experiences and by watching other people that luck is something we create, or in some cases like Job in the Christian Bible, it is handed to us. I have also learned that one's mindset about life can create what appears to be more "good" or "bad" luck.

We all go through trying periods in our lives. Some would attribute this to bad luck, and others would attribute it to lessons we need to learn or just plain old living. No one leads a perfect life. Everyone has times of trouble, drama and sorrow. Some people go through very long periods of time when it appears that nothing is going right.

I myself have been guilty of blaming "bad luck" for my experiences a time or two (or ten trillion!). I often hear that expression, "If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all." That is awful thinking. We need to choose mindsets more like, "I sure am glad all this is happening before summer hits so I can enjoy myself then," or "I sure am glad I got that flat tire. I could have been in an accident up the road." That would be so much better for us.

I really do believe that our experiences are products of our thinking. If we think positive, positive things will happen. If we can see potential negatives as positives, we will make the rough spots in life much easier to go through. THAT is how you change your "bad luck" - you change your mindset. Instead of seeing everything as bad, turn it around and see if you can see the good in it. There is good in every situation. I am going to repeat that: THERE IS GOOD IN EVERY SITUATION!

Now, oftentimes we are given a whole lot to deal with at once. Some higher power deems it necessary for our growth to throw everything but the kitchen sink at us. Those are the times when it is REALLY difficult to see the positive. Those are the times we need to poke our heads WAY up over the pile and see if we can look down the road. For example, if your man says he is leaving you, you can choose to look at the present, which is horrible and hard, or you can look up over the pile and envision the future. The future promises that you will be happy again, you'll get to take that class you wanted to take, you'll get to flirt and date again, and your life WILL go on. All of that is positive stuff. Look OVER the pile when you get slammed.

One of my mantras is, "This too shall pass." NOTHING stays the same. Keep breathing and you WILL get past it all AND be better for it.

I wish you far-sightedness.

*****

Astrea?

A wise old man had a horse. The horse ran away, and his neighbors tried to console him. "Isn't this bad luck?" they said. He answered, "Maybe." The next day the horse came back leading six wild horses with it. The neighbors came to congratulate him. "This is good fortune, is it not?" they asked. The peasant said, "Maybe." The next day his son tried to ride one of the wild horses, but he fell down and broke his leg. The neighbors said, "Isn't it a shame?" The peasant said, "Maybe." Then soldiers came to conscript the youth of the village, and the peasant's son was not chosen because of his broken leg. When the neighbors came to congratulate him, you can guess what the peasant said.

When I was working on the telephone, at least 50 percent of the callers would ask me if I saw them winning the lottery. I only saw that once in five years, and that person won five thousand dollars. She called back the day after to fuss at me about her BAD LUCK at only winning that SMALL amount. (At the time, this was a FORTUNE to me!)

A man who falls madly in love with a married woman with three kids may say to me, "I can't believe I had such bad luck to fall in love with someone who was already married! Why do I always have such BAD LUCK?"

Well, I bet you can see where this is going. One person's good luck is another person's bad luck, and it's the individual's perspective that makes all the difference. If you THINK and PERCEIVE that all you're having is bad luck, then surely, that is all you will have. If you welcome the events into your life as they occur with an open mind and heart, then you will begin to see that luck is something you CREATE, not something that falls out of the sky.

We can change our bad luck to good. If we live our lives in Spirit, then we have an easier time of things. Having faith that God will work FOR us seems to lead to general happiness.

Certainly prayers are often answered, and our Guides and Angels do their best for us, but as long as we are creatures of conscious thought and Free Will, we can think that we are victims of our "luck." The person who seems SO LUCKY to us may have just as many issues and problems as we do. On the whole, however, a person who has a positive outlook will have positive experiences, and a person who insists on seeing the glass as "half empty" is not going to have great "luck." While Spirit can assist us, it's up to us to create what we want in our lives. To change the bad to good, change the way you LOOK at things that happen in your life. It's easier than you think!

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.