Moon Meditations

~by Rev. Courtney Starwolf
www.courtneystarwolf.com

Many mystics pointed toward the same consciousness–the consciousness which embodies our heart.  During this holiday season, when our stress levels are higher then usual, tapping into the higher consciousness, a Christ Consciousness, will only help to de-stress life. Staying centered in the heart is essential to remaining in a state of love, tolerance and compassion.

Communicating with the Christ Consciousness is easier then you think and opening to guidance before meditating is often
the most beneficial way.

• Begin by creating a circle of light. Using your third eye, imagine yourself surrounded by white light. Allow the white light to expand into the room.
• Now, center in your heart chakra and expand the light in your heart out into the circle you’ve just created.
• Tapping into your seventh and eighth chakras, open the light-centers in each and bring the light down into your heart. Let the colors of your heart and soul  dance together.
• Focus on the word “vibration”. Break this word down into it’s syllables: vi-bra-tion.
• Repeat the syllables slowly to yourself three times.
• Repeat the syllables again only faster–3 times.
• Continue repeating the word vibration three times while uping the rate at which you say it ever faster and faster.
• When you feel a ‘buzz’ you’ve reached the heightened vibrational state for your consciousness frequency.
• Allow yourself to feel the “buzz” for 30 seconds.
• Begin bringing your vibration back down to its natural state by reversing the pace at which you spoke the words.

When you’re done with this exercise begin your regular meditation or go about the business of your day.
When you find yourself discouraged, stressed, or in a state of panic, recall the feeling of “the buzz”. Remember that within is the consciousness that allows us to be compassionate with ourselves even when times are rough.

This Friday night, we will access our Inner Light Codes that help us maintain a conscious contact with the higher consciousness
within us.

The Full Moon on Friday night is known as the Snow’s Moon and it is also the 13th moon of the year. A 13th Moon only happens every couple of years, so we are in a period of grace, expanding knowledge and awareness.

Please bring an amethyst with you Friday night.  [available at Celebration]
The amethyst is often thought of as the crystal of the Christ Consciousness.
We will activate our amethyst crystal with our light codes.

***Space is Limited–pre-registration is required***

FINAL FULL MOON ATTUNEMENT
Connecting with Christ Consciousness
Friday, December 12
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Rev. Courtney Starwolf

PLEASE BRING WITH YOU:
Paper, journal, blanket or meditation mat, crystal (quartz and/or amethyst)
Cost: $15
Contact Courtney: courtney@courtneyscc.com
Payments accepted on line at: www.courtneyscc.com

Article:  Discover Your Animal Spirit Guide!

Rev. Courtney Starwolf's Animal Guide

~Rev. Courtney Starwolf

You have most likely been drawn to one.  Perhaps you had a favorite as a child.  As you go through your day one appears over and over again and you think, “That’s strange!  That’s the 4th fox I’ve seen today!”

The animal kingdom speaks to us because we are the stewards of this kingdom.  We have a voice and power to help the animals of the earth and in turn their energy, behavior, and lives influence and mirror our own.

Animal Guides are available to everyone.  You may have already discovered some of your animal allies.  If you have you are very blessed to be working with such dynamic energy and strength for positive change!

If you have not discovered your animal guides, you may have not been aware they are there.  Just as we have a group of spirit guides, we also have Totem Animals, Animal Walk-Throughs, and Animal Helper Guides.

In general the Animal Spirit Guides break down thus:

TOTEM GUIDES:
Your totem animals are those that are with you throughout your lifetime.  They come to you at birth–drawn to you from your former life, brought to you by your mother or father’s lineage, or following your blood line through your last name (i.e. Wolfe, Brown, Fox, Finch).

Animal Walk-Throughs:
By way of Grace, we also receive animal guides that move in and out of our lives depending on our life’s chapter–these are known as Animal Walk-Throughs.  You will know their help when you are drawn to a particular animal or animal energy that you have never been drawn to before.

Animal Helper Guides:
Animal Helpers walk with us for just a short time.  Helping us through a few rough days, or a few celebratory days.  They remind us to stay viligent on our spiritual path.

A Note on Familiars:
If you have a real life animal guide, also known as a familiar, then you are truly blessed!  Familiars are animals that pick you, coming into the real world to help you manifest what is need in life.

How to Meet Your Animal Spirit Guides:

1. Peruse the history of your life, taking note the animal energy that has followed you.  What was your favorite animal as a child?  Does your name lend clues?  Which is your favorite today?
2. Once you receive clues, you must work, work, work to discover what this animal has come to offer you.  Dreams, meditation and journey-work can help with this.  Reading any number of wonderful books at the store can also help you!  I always recommend Animal Speak by Ted Andrews, but there are many others that you may be drawn to that are at the store.
3. Come and join me on the Full Moon next Wednesday as we will journey to the Tree of life and meet our animal guides!

FULL MOON: Journey to the Tree of Life~Meeting Our Animal Guides
Wednesday, November 12 7:00 - 9:00pm (see description below.

To take advantage of this energy and to flex our attraction muscles it is a great idea to begin a Dream Board. Please do not add to one if you already have one.  This Dream Board is to be completely new and infused with the lunar goddesses energy of September 15.  Since we are celebrating the birth of the moon, we will carry NEW energy into our Dream Board.

Spend the weekend thinking about what you want to manifest.  Begin collecting scraps from magazines, quotes from books, and pictures that inspire your feelings to achieve your dreams.  I like to add an image of the Goddess that I want to be my patron for the Dream I want to bring to life.  Get a goal date set in your mind that seems reasonable to you.*

Do not limit your dream board to one dream in one area of your life (i.e.: carrer, health, family, enlightenment, etc).  Use the board as a global overview of your life…even the community you wish to see around you!

Begin by envisioning your life from the Universe’s point of view.  You may want to begin by doing a “Google map” for your home.  Zoom out until you get a good view of your area (your country or continent will do greatly for this part), precisely where you are geographically in the world right now.  Beginning here, imagine what you want globally–can this fit into your dream board?  Zoom in (you can use your mind’s eye for this if you’d rather) to the next level of  country.  What can you dream for your fellows at this level?  Will you add it to your dream board?

Continue zooming in on your sphere of reality (sphere of perception).  Each time you zoom in closer, give yourself a chance to feel where you are in relation to this level of reality. (I.e.–state, city, neighborhood, street, home, family…)

When you finally get to yourself, DREAM BIG.  As you have just seen, the sky is the limit!  Indeed, beyond the sky is the limit!

1. Paint your board a color that inspires and calls to you.  This can be an all over paint, or something that I recommend is tapping out a border and painting the border in your color.  This way, you have a piece that automatically has the flavor of an art piece.  You will be proud to hang it on any wall where you can see it all the time.
2. Using collage techniques, use the images you found that inspire you as your first layer, a wall paper if you will.
3. Next, put on your inspirational quotes.  I like to add any quotes I received from higher guidance, animal allies, and spirit guides in this layer, ever reminding me of my own ability to tap into this guidance at anytime.
4. Add pictures of yourself and family next.
5. Add written pieces of paper that state your specific goals and dreams.  Include your dreams for your community, country, state, city, etc.
6. Finally, the top layer needs to be your prayers, incantations for spirit, Direct statements from Divine (Goddesses, Gods, Divine Knowing, Spirit of Nature, Ascended Masters).

Now, once you have placed everything the way you will want it, remove everything! I layout everything on the floor or table next to the board I am working on and in the exact same order, only backwards.  This means my final layer from step 5 will be on the bottom, the layer from step 1 will be on top as I begin assembling and pasting my layers onto the board.  You will be working from bottom layer to top layer this way.

Do whatever calls to your spirit to close the ritual of creating the Dream Board.  You may want to say a final prayer that ends with “And So It Is”.  When we say, “And So It Is”, we are not in the vibration of asking for a prayer to be answered.  We are in the vibration of KNOWING that it is so.  We are in the vibration of FAITH and BELIEF.  The Divine does not need meandering pleas for something in our life to happen.  Many of us were brought up thinking that this is so.  The Creator Spirit just needs our BELIEF, TRUST, and FAITH that we are connected to the Spiritual Center of the Universe.

Reciting a spell is the same idea. It is my belief that spells, prayers, incantations, wishes, small utterances of wanting something to happen for us, all carry along with in the same frequency to the Divine Ears of Spirit.  Spells just happen to manifest sometimes sooner because they are usually said with such knowing, like what I spoke of earlier.

So please, use what best fits your spirituality for this last part. Anything that is said in accordance with Divine Harmony and within your spirit connection will do.

Next, spend time in quiet contemplation and surrender to your Lunar Goddess.  Asking her to come in to your life, showing you her presence and knowledge.

You may add to your board as you go through the next couple of months, but always re-seal the board with the same symbol.

*The tulmultuous energy that is happening right now will give way to a break in the action near Samhain (Halloween) and into November.  Setting a goal date for somewhere in that time frame may help you in the long run.  However, do what you are guided to!  Your Spirit knows better than I what YOU NEED!

Harvest Moon Image

Many ancient cultures celebrated the birth of the moon around the time we know as “harvest” season.

The moon’s unusual orange glow as it rises on the horizion is a magickal moment and may very well be one of the reasons our anscetors saw this as the birth of the moon.  Red being associated with the life giving blood of woman and childbirth.

As the time of our monthly healing session approaches, I have been in contempalative meditation and have found many ancient Goddesses calling out to be apart of our gathering on September 15.

Although the energy of manifestation will be underlying the evening, many times our goal for the healing during the night of our event will change.  We all have many things happening simultaneously that pull our attention away from purer forms of desire.  As we gather this night we will get a chance to allow the outer lying wants and desires to drop from our consciousness, leaving only our pure light to pull in and magnetize what we wish to manifest.

The energy of the planet now, is ripe with change.  It is imperative to break free of what no longer servers your highest good.  If we do not release the old patterns and with it the old activations in the old paradigm (a lot of ‘old’ there!) we will never be able to put both feet into the new love and the new paradigm.

Please join me in adding this special healing session to your light body, as we activate the lightcodes of strength and power and deactivate the cellular memories of fear and hate.

Many blessings until our paths meet,
Rev. Courtney

Please register for the Healing on The Full Moon for Monday, September 15, 2008 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm: www.courtneyscc.com/events.html

Hi Everyone,

After being on their e-mail list for over a year and never taking any action, other than reading the e-mails and saying to myself “isn’t that sad? But what can I do about it?” I’ve decided that there is something I can do.  I can help spread the message to you about the acts of brutality going on against the North American Wolf in Alaska and also in Yellowstone National Park.

As you might assume, the Wolf is precious to me.  I found that I was not drawn to the wolf, but rather Spirit picked the wolf for me.  Wolf Medicine represents teaching and ‘pack’ pride.  It was just what I needed when I was given my spiritual name “Starwolf”.

I went to www.savewolves.org one day and was applaud by what is going on and happening to these creatures.  Now, I was skeptical about the organization at first.  But I have seen Rodger Schlickeisen,
President of Defenders of Wildlife on many news outlets of late, confirming for me that he is indeed working hard to set right this horrible and unnatural imbalance that is happening to our brothers and sisters of the animal kingdom.  As well as the wealth of information on the Defenders of Wildlife website, I feel that this organization is what it says it is.

I urge you to go to the Defenders of Wildlife website and look around.  Maybe sign up for their e-mails as I have done.  And lastly, maybe make a donation.

Maybe together we can do something to end the brutality.

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Many Blessings until our paths meet,
Courtney

Meditation: What’s in it for you?

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 by Deity