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It’s all quiet on the astrological front this week, with no major shifts or events to worry about. Our most productive days of the week work-wise will be Monday and Tuesday as the Moon charges through Capricorn and inspires us to tackle all those chores we’ve been relegating to the back burner. Wednesday through Friday we’ll have the Moon traveling through Aquarius, which will bring out our investigative, inventive, and humanitarian sides, depending on your Sun sign. Whatever your sign is, the theme will be interacting with others to expand our knowledge. An easy weekend awaits under the Pisces Moon, where our focus will be on spiritual balance, internal peace, and ultimate relaxation. We’ll be under the influence of the harvest Moon which peaks at the beginning of next week, which simply adds to the feelings of harmony and accomplishment hanging in the air.

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.

Recently I was at a very busy museum cafeteria with my mother and my sister. There were many more people milling around than there were tables available, but we finally spied one and zipped over to claim it. We were there for a minute, waiting for the people leaving to gather their things, when this Asian woman pushed in and snagged one of the seats. This was fine since there were four seats and only three of us, and we didn't mind sharing. Then, however, she placed her large bag in the chair next to her! She then looked up at me with a challenge in her eyes, and I don't know what came over me, but I refused to back down. We locked eyes and just stared at each other in silence. Though I would normally just shrug something like this off, something in me held firm in this silent battle of wills. I must have won, because she suddenly moved her bag and made a gesture for us to sit. As we ate, she gave me the creeps! Her energy was so strange, and she kept staring at one or the other of us. At the end of the meal, she gave each of us her business card, at which time we learned she was a real estate agent. Here's the weirdest part: as soon as she walked away, all three of us dropped those cards like they were hot. I felt she was trying to get some sort of energetic edge on us by giving us her cards, and intuitively sensed I shouldn't keep it. What do you think? I've never met anyone with energy like hers - it felt sort of inhuman.

- Betsy

Astrea:

Our world gets smaller every day. Easy travel within our own neighborhoods and abroad has made it almost impossible to keep up with how we're supposed to behave in situations with new people, including the strangers we encounter in public places.

As every country has its own customs, it would take a lifetime to learn them all, especially when it comes to meals. If you look around any public place, you can count ten or fifteen different nationalities of people doing what they have to do in order to conduct the business of their day, and each has his own way of doing things.

In many Asian countries, it's customary for strangers to exchange business cards at meals. Even people without business cards have cards with their contact information that are given out to people they encounter, especially in situations like the one you describe.

Most people do that whether they're introduced or run into someone by accident. Sometimes this is done at the beginning of the meal, and since you were the new people at the table, good manners dictated that you should have presented her with YOUR cards as you sat down.

In some cultures, sharing a table would be considered extremely rude if you are not invited to do so, for eating is considered an intimate act. When she snagged the table, the lady put her things in the chair to prevent you from sitting down with her. When you did anyway, you probably offended her.

For example, in many Gypsy tribes, everyone has his own plate and eating utensils. The idea of eating from someone else's plate is considered horrible and unclean, as is the idea of sitting at a table where strangers are eating.

Of course, most people who feel that way would probably avoid eating out altogether, but perhaps this was an isolated incident for this woman, and she is accustomed to eating in places where others would know to avoid contact.

So although the woman's behavior was strange and offensive to you, she was acting according to her own culture's customs. By putting her bag on one of the available chairs, she was silently signaling you to stay away while she ate her meal. You ignored this and sat down anyway - that's why you got her dirty looks.

There was no reason for you to drop those business cards, aside from the fact that you were offended by her behavior. Perhaps she made you feel embarrassed. She was embarrassed too, because she didn't know what was expected of her any more than the three of you knew what she expected you to do.

She wasn't trying to gain some kind of energetic edge on you, but she DID think it was rude for you to sit down at the table where she was enjoying a private meal, just as you felt it was rude of her to try to prevent you from sitting down to eat yours.

*****

Susyn:

I'm sure most everyone can relate to the type of experience you describe and the uncomfortable feeling it left you with. However, it sounds to me like the negative energy you encountered with this woman was more a product of this battle of wills than any malicious or evil intent on her part.

Regardless of their culture or upbringing, there are people in the world who act in thoughtless or even audacious ways by sending out a strong burst of aggressive energy, and this naturally repels us.

For example, if you're sitting in traffic and someone honks their horn at you, whether it's warranted or not, your body reacts by tensing up and generating fear. Then your mind kicks in, and depending on your own personal history, you imagine all sorts of things in response to this energetic affront.

This woman set up a negative vibe by darting in to grab the table and then being stubborn about sharing it, so the energy being exchanged was tense and uneasy from the start. Further, you three represented a united front, but since she was alone, she may have felt outnumbered and uncomfortable.

It's no wonder you all dropped her business cards like hot potatoes when she left, for you certainly wouldn't do business with someone who came across as pushy, selfish or manipulative. However, those perceptions were based on her behavior that day - you don't really know much about her.

On a metaphysical level, perhaps you had a similar encounter or face-off with this woman in a past life. Maybe this took place in an ancient Chinese marketplace or during a war-time skirmish. In any case, this brief encounter could prove vital to raising your awareness in some way.

There's an easy way to determine if your instincts are tuning in to evil intentions during a brief encounter with someone you don't know: usually, this is a feeling that crops up without warning or reason.

So if you sense an unsettling energy coming from another person, especially when there's been no direct interaction, that's when you must trust your feelings, for these are people who could have plans to harm you.

Unsettling feelings that arise from another's behavior have more to do with our personal lessons and issues. In fact, often the people we engage in minor skirmishes with turn out to be spiritual messengers with important lessons to teach us about ourselves.

Remember that you are more spiritually evolved than she is, and that holding on to these feelings gives her power over you. You may want to write the incident down on paper then burn it as a way to clear this entire incident from your mind.

Then if you ever cross paths again, you can greet her with spiritual compassion and power, which will make you immune to any negative vibes she may send your way.

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.