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Jupiter heads for Gemini on Monday, expanding our options even further as we look toward our futures with renewed enthusiasm. New information, expanded conversations, and possible new partnerships are all hallmarks of Jupiter as it dances through this sign. The Moon will hang out in Sagittarius on Monday and Tuesday, filling the air with a dose of fun and light-heartedness. The main astrological event of the week is Wednesday’s full Moon in Sagittarius, which can often have us running into people from our past or encountering others who could have a major influence on our lives in the near future. Our most productive days of the week will be on Thursday and Friday as the Moon travels through industrious Capricorn, encouraging us to complete projects and restore order to our finances and homes. We can expect the unexpected under this weekend’s Aquarius Moon, as this sign promotes sudden changes in direction, surprise opportunities, and new options for how we’d like to spend our days.

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.

My husband is an alcoholic who has been going through rehab and detox for the past two months. We separated in November because of his alcohol abuse. The goal was for him to work on his sobriety, and once he was sober for 30 days, he could go home. He's had a number of relapses, however, and that goal has now been made 60 days of sobriety. I have tried my best to be supportive throughout the years that his alcoholism has affected my life and our daughter's life. With this most recent period of treatment however, I just feel so angry and frustrated that it's overwhelming. We're heading out right now to a group session at his treatment facility, but it's so hard to focus all our attention on him yet again, for that is where our focus has been for so long. While I love my husband, I feel I need to help my daughter and myself to release all of this anger, frustration and other emotional baggage so we can move on - with or without him. Where do we start?

Dreamchaser:

Living with an alcoholic or drug addict is incredibly difficult. We all need some consistency and stability at home. You and your daughter have had next to none of that.

I completely understand that you feel the attention has been put on him because he has the sickness and needs the treatment. You and your daughter, however, are the innocent victims of his disease. It is okay to be angry. It is okay to be upset. It is okay to be hurt. You and your daughter should allow yourselves the right to fully feel those emotions. By fully feeling them, you own them, and then you decide what to do with them from that point on.

I know you said you are going to group sessions to help him. Have you and your daughter been to Al-Anon or Alateen by any chance? Al-Anon/ Alateen is a group formed of families and loved ones of alcoholics and addicts. In that place, the attention would be SOLELY focused on you and your daughter - NOT on your husband. You could have people who have shared many of your struggles helping you and guiding you. I suggest you call them. The number in the United States is 1-800-425-2666. If you would prefer, please go to their website at www.al-anon.alateen.org. You can find international listings there as well.

While this may not make you feel better, I really do believe your husband is trying to do his best right now. He never believed you would leave him. While you have been threatening for years, you never did. When you actually DID leave him, he realized he was about to lose the only people who really love him no matter what. That scared him, and now he is serious about getting treatment and becoming a better person for you two.

I feel you need to wait until he has completed the latest round of treatment and see how his behavior is at that point before you decide if you want to divorce him or not. I really believe that you should not subject your daughter to any more of his drinking or his behavior while he is drinking, however. If he does not stay sober this time, you should continue on with the divorce proceedings.

Your daughter should be your primary concern at this point. There are a great number of books available that were written by children who grew up in homes with an alcoholic or drug-addicted parent. At this point, she still has a chance of repairing some of the damage he has caused and going on to live a healthy, productive life. She cannot, however, continue to be subjected to his sickness if he chooses to start drinking again.

Listen to your daughter. She has said all of this to you herself.

I wish you and your family a very happy ending.

*****

Astrea:

I applaud your efforts to stand by your husband and keep your family together, but we all reach our limit eventually. While Cancers are the most tolerant Sign, I feel you've reached the end of your rope.

It's time for you to save yourself and your daughter before it's too late. Your husband may quit drinking someday, and then you may be able to be friends. Right now you have to SURVIVE, as does your daughter.  This bouncing in and out of rehab with him isn't helping you OR your daughter. It's time for the two of you to move on. If he is strong enough to overcome his illness, then he will. If not, you've done your best.

You have a tendency to take the blame for others' actions. INTELLECTUALLY you know none of this if your fault, but you still seem to have a lot of guilt about your husband's drinking. Because of his family and even his DNA, he is predisposed to chemical dependency.

He's going to have to find his own way out of this. Nothing you or your daughter can do will force him to change. He has to WANT it more than anything else in the world. Maybe if you and your daughter leave him, it will give him the strength to want to change - maybe not. Your daughter has her whole life ahead of her, and so do you. It's time you enjoyed better lives.

Your daughter is at a very impressionable age. She could SO EASILY become her dad if you don't get her out of this situation. You are at an age when you can ENJOY your life instead of babysitting someone who has continual relapses. Addiction is a horrible thing, and Air Signs are the most likely to hold on to an addiction for life.

I know you feel sorry for your husband, but enough is enough.  You've been the best wife you could possibly be in this situation, but you have a right to some happiness too.

He has to find his strength within to conquer this addiction. You can still love and care about him, but the time will come when you'll have to do what's best for you and your daughter. Let Spirit guide you in to the future.

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.