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Mercury will move into the sign of Cancer today and we can finally step back from all the lightning-fast thinking that's been a hallmark of the month! Combined with the easy going Libra Moon on Monday and Tuesday, we'll all take a step back to re-balance and regroup. Things could seem a bit ethereal under Wednesday and Thursday's Scorpio Moon, especially with Neptune (the epitome of ethereal!) turning retrograde on Friday. For the next five months the planet that rules spirituality, soulfulness, the occult and the unseen will travel backward through Pisces, the sign it rules. This cycle will bring new visions to life, reveal the answers to questions we haven't been able to answer, and clear out any illusions or misconceptions that have been holding us back. Fun times are the theme of the day under Saturday's Sagittarius Moon, while Sunday's Capricorn Moon will give us a choice; do we want to clean out the garage and have a rummage sale? Or do we want to drop on the couch and catch up on our streaming or napping?

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.

I have had a number of readings from several different readers, and while they have all been extremely nice, not one reading has come to pass. I was recently fired from a job that I loved: supervisor of a large animal hospital. This was unjust, and I was completely knocked off my feet. A new CEO came and several people were discharged for phony reasons. I was told through readings, however, that I was going very far with this company, and that I would be quite successful. I live alone with seven animals to care for, and now have no income. I am single and was also told that I would meet the love of my life - that was said years ago. Do you think the psychics were clueless, telling me what I wanted to hear, or is something else going on?

Blessings, Carol

Dreamchaser:

Carol, I am glad you asked about this. I am sure there are others with similar questions.

Basically, free will changes outcomes. There are no two ways around that fact. Let's use the job situation as an example. The new CEO came into the office, started to work, got entrenched in some politics and changed the outcome by choosing something different from what he had planned upon his arrival. In the case of this CEO, no one could predict his change of heart, as it was a CHOICE that he made midstream. As I said, free will changes outcomes.

When things happen to us that set us back, we have two choices. We can sit around and cry over what could have been, or we can pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and look for what could BE. I got so frustrated with things not working out in my life the way I thought that they were supposed to that I FINALLY decided to take a "backseat" to Spirit.

What I mean by that, Carol, is I just watch what happens in my life. For example, I have notoriously bad taste in men. I seem to pick guys who are just VERY wrong for me. So I asked Spirit to move men I meet out of my life as quickly as possible if they are not right for me. You would not believe the pace of men moving in and out of my life!

Now I could choose to sit back and cry because I really like someone who is not there anymore, or I can find peace knowing that he was not right for me in the first place. I try to use this approach with ALL situations in my life. Granted, I am human and often fall short, but I can always wake up tomorrow and try again. You can do the same thing, Carol. The CEO messed up your plan - so get a new plan. The Christian Bible promises life after death. It is time for a rebirth, Carol.

I do not think that you were told what you wanted to hear or that psychics you talked to are full of nonsense. I think that the situations happening around you are due in a large part to someone else's free will and choice. I think you need to open yourself up to new job offers and to new love. The job became not right for you. The politics under the new regime would have made you crazy. It did not start out that way, but it evolved that way due to people choosing strange alliances and listening to new opinions.

You are being shown via gut instincts and strong feelings of "knowing" what to do next with your life. It would behoove you to listen to yourself and follow that path, no matter how bizarre it may seem. The path is leading you out of lack and into your new future. Follow it with faith.

I wish you wholeness.

*****

Astrea:

People get readings for a million different reasons, with a million different attitudes about doing it. As I've often said, going to TOO MANY readers about the same subject in the same time period (psychic surfing), is a bad idea. It's not as harmful to your spirit as asking the same reader the same questions over and over to try to get reassurance or a different answer, but it's right up there with things that make readings NOT come true. If a person has Faith, the Universe will support the most advantageous outcome. Without that, there won't be anything cooking at all!

A common situation with readings, especially NUMEROUS readings, is that NONE of it makes enough sense to come "true." When a person gets many different readings from many different readers on the same subject, there SHOULD ALWAYS be optimistic points that are common threads. However, people INTERPRET what we say to them in unique ways. You should at least be able to take SOMETHING from a reading that helps you, and most of the time, that's possible.

Also, people I read for frequently insist on putting words in my mouth! "I'm sorry, I don't see him calling you this weekend." "OH, so you're saying it's over, then?" ARGH! While I'm on the soapbox, another problem is when someone says, "But the OTHER readers all said..." GRRRR! I'm not saying that this is what you did with those readings, but since I can only see what I SEE, I can't say why other readers saw things as they did.

When I read my horoscope, I extract from it what I think is relevant and discard the rest. I'm sure I am guilty of seeing things the way I WANT to when I interpret them. Lots of times, I'll look back with an "AHA" of twenty-twenty hindsight.

I remember reading for you right after you lost that job. I remember how disappointed you were to hear that you wouldn't be vindicated, and you and some of the other people who were fired would not be rehired again. We ran out of time before any kind of Love Reading could be done, but in my log, I see you saying, "Will I meet the love of my life?" to which I replied, "Not until you decide you want to meet that person."

Personally, I never know what a person WANTS to hear when they come to me for a reading until I've had a minute or two to get comfortable with their vibration. While I'm rarely accused of telling people "what they want to hear," I have been wrong on MANY occasions. We're not Gods here - we're people just like you. We're just using the spiritual gifts we were born with a little differently than most people do.

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.