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The Sun makes its annual entrance into Libra on Monday, marking the start of a new season and four weeks of balance, harmony, and contentment. Mars will enter Scorpio on the same day, which could make forward movement a bit ethereal for the next two months. We’ll have to rely on our intuition when making decisions, as accessing the information we need could prove ethereal for a while. The Moon will travel through Scorpio on Wednesday and Thursday, turning our attention to more spiritual endeavors midweek. The Sagittarius Moon will lighten the mood as it travels the heavens Friday through Sunday. With last week’s Virgo new Moon/solar eclipse and the Sun’s move into Libra/start of a new season this week, we’ll definitely need to take a few days off to rest and reflect on things under the light-hearted Sagittarius Sun.

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.

About 20 years ago, I started receiving spontaneous spirit communication, and this led me to develop my mediumship abilities further. For many years I worked successfully as a medium, and then I started to get burned out from the high demand for my services. It was harder and harder for me to find the will and energy to do this sort of work, and I noticed that my readings weren't as amazing and powerful as they used to be, so I took a break and developed web sites for a while. Now that I'm feeling recharged and ready to dig into reading work again, I find that the messages I'm getting just aren't clicking the way they used to. People aren't recognizing the evidential information I bring through, and this is starting to shake my trust in my gift and my connection to my guides. At the same time, I'm wondering if I'm blocking myself because when I make myself available, I quickly get overwhelmed by all the requests I receive for help, guidance, readings, etc. Do you think I'm trying to make myself less connected and successful to minimize the demands on my time and energy? Am I perhaps not meant to pick this up again?

E.

Astrea:

There are as many reasons for psychic burnout as there are psychics. How awful to try to keep working under that cloud; spirit communication is difficult enough without all this extra stress and pressure.

This is a sensitive area, and people who wish to talk to departed loved ones can be some of the most intense clientele, so sometimes mediums have to take a break to retain their gift.

Not only are your clients used to you being available, the spirits you speak with are too, and they're going to try to come through you no matter what YOU may want. That can by tiring and draining in and of itself, without the extra stress of others wanting you to talk to their loved ones in Spirit for them.

Whether they're living or departed, no one who is asking you to communicate for them realizes all that goes into it. It's beyond their understanding, so they keep on demanding.

This kind of ability doesn't really come and go. It's always there, but when we're tired (or simply tired of dealing with people), it becomes much more difficult to do.

You are of course the best judge of when you're ready to do any kind of psychic work, but it can be hard to get enough distance to sort that out. Do you have any kind of support group of other people doing spirit communication work?

Bouncing your feelings and ideas around with even one other person might help more than you think, for someone outside of what you're doing might be able to see things you can't.

Audition your spouse or best friend for the role of judge, and tell them what you feel in the moment you're trying to connect. The people closest to you will be able to pick up subtle changes in your mind and energy, and whether they're psychically sensitive or not, they may be able to pinpoint whatever you're missing that you need to get back on your path.

Sometimes it's better to take another break than to try to force yourself to work. It's not that you're not meant to be doing this work; you're still tired and burned out, that's all.

Talk about your feelings. Take another 90 days to rekindle your energy, and do what you know how to do to block spirits from coming through during that time. Then try again to go back to work.

If you still feel drained, then take another 90 days. If after six months you still aren't able to have the kind of concentration you need, it's time to reconsider this work altogether. Most of us who are mediums also have other psychic gifts that we can employ to give other types of readings, so explore your options and make the most of your talents and skills.

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Susyn:

I can understand the frustration you're experiencing with trying to reconnect with your psychic gifts. We often go through down cycles and have to stop our work in order to regroup, recharge, and revise our focus.

Because the different types of metaphysical work we do can be draining, it's essential that we learn to put boundaries around our work, time and efforts. If you think of the cycle you've just been through as a pendulum (first too much work, swinging back to no work at all) you'll see that we can move back and forth to extremes.

As we continue to swing back and forth between these extremes, they carry less and less momentum, and eventually, we find good inner balance again.

Many of us in this field tend to forget how much effort and energy it takes to provide these gifts and services for others. It's actually very common to suffer this type of burnout and to feel overwhelmed by the demands of this sort of work.

My friends have heard me say more than once, Maybe I should give this up and flip burgers for a living! However, we both know that our purpose is so much greater than that. In fact, if we try to hide or limit our gifts, it can result in depression and even physical illness. Once we've opened this door, all we can do is walk through it.

The fact that you're having trouble clicking with your clients simply means you're still in the process of recharging your gifts. Like exercise, the more you do it, the stronger and more proficient you'll become at it. You needn't give up the work you love; you just need to find a way to balance your work so that it inspires you instead of draining you.

I had a similar experience fifteen years ago when I began channeling a spirit, and without understanding what was happening, had a negative experience that caused me to stop altogether. Within two months I found myself in bed with a serious illness. Over the next two years, I quit all my metaphysical practices: astrology, tarot, even meditation.

When I finally embraced my gifts again, the illness dissipated and slowly I returned to my psychic work. What I noticed during that time is the emphasis of my work changed, and I began to focus on different areas that needed more development.

For example, I took up more writing, as that made it easier to reach many people at once, and I also started teaching and tutoring more. Maybe something similar is happening for you.

I encourage you to continue reclaiming your gifts and your work, and to consider new avenues that will refresh you and inspire fresh passion for your calling. I'm sure that this bump in the road will ultimately carry your work to an even higher form, purpose and power.

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.