Winding down my week with the Personal Self

Winding down my week with the Personal Self

So this week’s work with the Personal Self /10th archetype on the Tree of Life was very insightful.

On the immediate level of the personal self i.e.; Physical body

I learnt

-I need to disconnect from the computer more, and stop waiting till spring to do it, snowfall be damned. Pushing a stroller and half hauling a 5 year old along side in 2 feet of snow is good exercise, and the oxygen is helpful for my body.

- That my kids need to me to just BE with them. I get wrapped up in form based attention, ( Eckart Tollee’s A New Earth is on my top MUST READ list. He speaks of this aspect of parenting, and I am so grateful he does)

Just drop the analytical side of ‘me’ and embrace the moment.

- that the Higher self really does manifest in plainest sight.

- I am on day 4 of my 28 day Yoga Program, and immediately could feel my bodies needs and where I carry my tension. Man my neck and shoulders hurt, gotta keep gently stretching out that pain.

-Reiki for health and wellness. I managed to remember to include Reiki in my Yoga practice. KAPOW! This year my senses are hightened, so yes I am more reactive as I learn to properly manage this increase. Also enjoy the benefits or feeling the energy move in my body and via breath breathing it into the pain spots on my own body, and in my thoughts and emotions.



I need to work on my Water intake, and Reiki helps with that, even if my desire to drink it isn’t stimulated, the idea of pouring Reiki into it, allows my interest to rise and then I get engaged. Don’t care really that it’s a round about way of doing it, as long as I begin the habit..



As I work to create employment for myself, its been interesting to see what events manifest…I just received notice from my local provincial office that Salon Sub Rosa is officially mine for the having (name wise) and at the same time am realizing that the vehicle I built the idea around will soon no longer be available…so now…need to manifest some wheels…it’s a mobile salon service…so wheels are necessary…but not cheap….well let’s look at the law of attraction. This resonance works quite fast when you open your heart. So rather than mess around with my thoughts and visualizations, I will be day dreaming about making my visits smoothly and promptly without any hassles on the home front to back it all up, but rather than focus on HOW I can get a Car, I will focus on how it feels and open my heart to receive this in kind.

Salon Sub Rosa

As I move to the next archetype the Subconscious Self 9th, I am beginning to see it coming already in my life experiences.

The Tree of Life course is designed for move at your own speed, so how do you know when you are ready for the next level?

You will start seeing with a new perspective

For example

I am very much receiving the most inspiration and interest in the machinery behind the scenes, nervous system, chakras, kundalini, and my dream activity is up.

The archetype of the Subconscious self deals in this area of the Self.

So my subconscious self sabotage will also receive the light of my Higher Self this week.

My motives and instincts will be worth noting…

How reactive I am is a tell tale sign of the inner stillness or choppy-ness of my subconscious waters….



I am also gearing up for my Running with Rainbows Workshop on St.Patrick’s day!

And so am going through color on the levels of Chakras/ Energy as well as color in its own right.

Involution precedes Evolution!

As with color, and health, when our energy is out of whack or ‘off color’ we will soon find it reflected outside of ourselves.

If we notice imbalance in any area of our lives, its starts inside to correct matters. Usually in the mind/ or mental/ emotional bodies. Trace the bad habit to its source thought, and then work to raise the vibration of that thought. Or simply starve it.

There is always choice in how we approach things.

Raising the vibration of a fear based thought transmutes it also, but allows you to consciously engage in your process, occupying the mind and others senses, united through their diversity. Or you can simply work to let it go when ever it arises…first however you need to find it.



Those are some great learning coming down the tree xoxo



As I work on my Rainbow healing art workshop, I also was guided/ interested and provided with a great deal of info on the Dhyani-Buddhas.

My attraction to them started with

- the name. I am reading Helena Blavatsky’s works right now, and she speaks a great deal about the same ideas.



had to smile at this image I found...rainbows anyone?



- That there are 5 of them and that they have colors and symbols associated with them, a favorite activity of mine.

- The Buddhist activity of Sand Mandela’s attracted my creative spirit

- All the art created to express the divine

Tibetan Sand Mandela, this images so engages me it makes me smile.  I would love to try this some day. And to channel Reiki while I do it....I guess I could make one of Consecrated Salt ....hmmmmm new craft for my daughter and I xoxox

- The rainbow in Tibetan art is the symbol for transmission of holy info…

- Reiki symbols are derived from Tibetan and Sanskrit originally…so my intuitive self is highly engaged in the whole study of this process of healing the mind and therefore the self.

- Yoga= unity.



This probably reads like a jumbled mess…but it’s more important that I express this info for myself if for none other.

Journaling helps reinforce to the literal subconscious self, the value you place within the activity.




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Orange and Angels by Maja Larson 2012

Angels and Oranges Feb 20-2012

What is in a name?

What ISN’T I ask you?

Name it, Claim it, the old adage goes.


My name is Maja aka

Magus

Aka

Mother

And the sea of which Astarte rose

Mara

Maia

Maya

Maha

Did you know, ‘Mahamaya’ means ‘Great Illusion’

Ask my husband Matt, he’d know.

Mahat, highest Intelligence

Maat, your hearts in the balance

Feathers, justice, truth

He’s MY magician, in life’s game of chance.

Living up to a name, humanities grand delusion

Out my bedroom window, a tree shivers

I gaze at it wondering wonders….


Why does Orange have no mate?

No matching Rhyme yet, to date.

Orange, a thorn in a vernaculars norm.

In its more Spiritual form-

Orange colors the navels seat.

From our Spirits heat, Kundalini rises to greet.

The Higher Self’s eternal song, the whirling energies

Playing harmonies all day long.

A Song of purpose and of a place we all belong.

Space and Place are doors that usher life in.

To find Orange a mate, simply switch language templates

In French ‘ Orange’ rhymes with ‘ Ange ‘ or Angel

Maybe it came from D’or(e)-ange? Or messenger of gold?

Golden messenger?

Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater, in this new world order.

Spirit hides in plainest sight

Scattered like Osiris a golden god

Glittering in front of us day and night

Isis unveiled knows the way

Its starts within a great tree, hidden

Both near and far away.

Piece by Piece, letter by letter,

Elemental Builders play

(over which no human holds sway)

Flooding the gates of matter, till the wall gives way.

Creativity Unleashed , mysteriums bleed.

Before the tree, first comes the seed.

What is in a name?

Plenty I’d say…

Orange and Angels on a cold winters day.

Every Day Alchemy / Finding the spirit hidden in plain sight…..

                                                                Every Day Alchemy



                                                  Finding the spirit hidden in plain sight…..

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                                                           Some days it’s just that fast!



Who knows why we start and finish things when we do?

Time is after all an illusion, just like reality, it’s a very persistent one.

Endings and beginnings.

They are two sides of the same coin, experience.

Based on observing my own life and living the point of the Tree is to; reconcile the right and left sides of our inner Pillars, or the right and left hemispheres of our brains, the male and female functioning in unity or the Yin and Yang. It can of course be used in many other ways…however for me it’s for personal growth.



On the Tree of Life there are three pillars, the left is called the Pillar of Severity or Karma and the Pillar on the Left is called the Pillar of Mercy or Destiny. But the one that seems to call to my heart is the middle pillar.



The middle pillar if you will is the MOMENT. The Ahhhhhhhhh…..time. Where you are neither here nor there. Depending on how old or full of drama you are, the idea of Ahhhhh time will either seem boring and un exciting or it will seem like the heaven a rest from the bombardment of the Sensational Realm. I am still reconciling, and have reconciled myself to this fact, lol. And in my reconciliatory efforts have discerned that all those ‘ideas’ I had concerning spirit as it would manifest in me, were really charged with a heap load of expectations and pre-conceived ideas. It’s actually very anticlimactic to the ego. I was explaining to my friend’s son, as I gave her her Reiki Attunement, that it would be pretty boring to watch. Lot of sitting and seeing nothing…(unless you are looking with your Inner Eye.)

Didn’t seem to phase him though, and he stayed to watch. It was quite an amazing experience, working quickly to resolve all my own fears and issues that rose up then, as a child watched me at work….



On the Right pillar the pillar of active force in the phenomenal universe, we find three Archetypes,

That of the Creative Self (vibrates to the number 2)

the Constructive Self ( vibrates to the number 4)

and the Feeling Self (vibrates to the number 7)

these titles are the ones I have ascribed to the Kabbalistic terms, which are as follows in the same order, Chokmah, Chesed and Netzach.

Its not my best Image, but its functional, A Tree of Life at a Glance Diagram

This pillar of Destiny is the part of us, the works our way out to explore life, where as say the left side (Pillar of Karma) is what we take in to analyze or dissect. Or another perspective might be, the left is the ‘Particle’ and the right side is the ‘wave’ ( Quantum Physics) , and the middle pillar or place of ‘non-ness’ (or place of SPACE/ the empty room) , is the moment when energy is neither particle nor wave.

And as we move through life we are constantly working to balance the inner left and right sides of ourselves to get them reconciled.

This reconciliation, helps us reach upward and inward so we can access our inner channel that is our direct line to our Higher Self.

Living and acting in life when you are in a reconciled or Still state creates meaningful and loving experience. (please note that I don’t say painless…pain is a part of living.

By Pain I mean, in the natural sense, cruelty and wanton destruction ( not natural states) are the results of minds or personalities that have refused all promptings from their inner self to correct the balance, or have heard and cannot begin to correct the issues on their own.





When we ignore the needs of our inner psychic landscape the inner forces can be hard to contend with. Bottled up stuff leaks or explodes out and wasted energy on values and ideas that don’t sustain our spirits defeat us and drain us of our vitality and interest in life…

We don’t grow unless we are challenged and tested so pain is a necessary part of the process. As you go along and wake up more and more, pain becomes less of a part of the recipe as you act a lot sooner, or in time with the Universal Spirit rather than acting on your own fears and subconscious issues. Kind of like Faith, once you have exercised it you are able to release the need for pain to be a guide for you. )







This week, I have been working to address the inner needs of my own psychic landscape. I was struggling with my inner emotions the other day. When I brought my attention to the inner pain, what I noticed at first, was how much I was buying into it, and how reactive it was causing me to behave.

I was very short tempered, frustrated and due to my work (inner growth) , I was also attracting more and more of the unhealthy energy into my space, serving only to add to the frustration and anger.

Building it, stroking it, I also noted that after some awful rationalizing on my ego’s part, that I didn’t really want to let it go, maybe it was time for me to rage forth like a dragon and purge my reality of what was causing all this.

Aware of my anger and my guides, I asked for clarity and pause!!

PAUSE is such a gift. ( Pause or the Present same coin…)

PAUSE lets you remember the only one holding a gun to your head is YOU.

You are your worst enemy.

Pause lets you catch your breath and SEE yourself.

PAUSE is the dissolving of the back and forth the Pin Ball Machine the Us and Them. The Victim doesn’t exist in the PAUSE.

We have access to our own Majesty in the pause.

Card Exerpt from the Tree of Life On Line Lessons with Our Psychic Art
The Feeling Self/ Netzach 7 Planetary ruler Venus

The pause that came this week, was in the form of the Feeling Self (7). The color attributed to this Archetype is Green which immediately soothed the Red Raging out of whack Restrained Self (5), which vibrates to the color Red. Usually I avoid too much time in the Feeling self as my natural tendencies come from here, I am pretty sure my Aura has a great deal of Green in it. (Hence my natural attraction for the Red in my husbands, I had dreamt of meeting my Boyfriend from Mars (the red planet) before we met.)

This week though, my guides’ message came through lickity split!

I have a large collection of books, I love love love books, especially old books. I like to touch and to smell them, to flip the pages, to just look at them.

My mother gave me her Hard Cover Series of children’s stories that I used to pour over as a child.

I love all the art in these books, and still do.

So when I had finally had enough of myself my redness, I grabbed the first book my eyes settled on. The Magic Garden…book 7.

I flipped open the cover. Inside the hard cover was a hand written note, P.86. So I thought..sounds good.



And Voila, some Egyptian art, my long time favorite style and theme!!

I won’t lie and say all that angst vanished in a poof of realization. It did however cut all that pulsating down, and allow me to do the rest of the work. And breathe. I read the story of the First Cinderella. The Egyptian peoples have been telling the story of Rhodpis.



In this story the female isn’t destitute and in need of rescue, she is free and wild and greets the Sun (Ra) with verse in the morning. She does indeed leave a glass slipper for the King to wonder and dream over its owner, and he calls all the woman in his kingdom to try it…in the end it’s a Father to whom he spared death from (he couldn’t pay his taxes, and the king refused to have his majesty tarnished by children and woman suffering over unpaid taxes) that knows the answer to where to find the mystery woman.



My Personality had a moment of PAUSE in the story, a moment to breath and release.

I know I don’t do anything all by myself.

Whether or not you know it there is a great deal that we all don’t do by ourselves.

I had a minute to let my feelings and emotions go. To release the wave of force that I was subconsciously holding back (bottling up) and causing stress in my inner realm. Inspiration is the great transformer.



Inspiration is being informed by your Spirit or the spirit.



Yesterday brought its share of more lessons to work out, faith among them. I had a lot to do, and places to be. My son had a fever which sliced off a great deal of my plans as I had to go get some medicine. While I was gone a friend I haven’t met yet, but whom I had hoped to meet briefly on her stop through town came by to drop off some of her crafty creations!

BOY it was like Heaven in a box for me. Xoxo

Created Brighids wheels using the length of a string that measure from the tip of your middle finger to your elbows croook.  Then wrapped around the wheel,  the wheel is made of left over inscense sticks. Made one for The Goddess also, and measure my own crook to finger tip 9 times xoxox

Tears of joy, a dream pillow that smells like heaven, made for me with love, oracle cards and the first one ( we had chatted about Imbolc) was Brigit the Celtic Goddess of Healing/ Inspiration/ Crafting. I am so full of joy and gratitude for my friends forgiveness for me not being their to accept her gracious gift, and that in her own way acted in the goddess stead, while keeping the mystery. We will just have to try again and trust in the timing of the Universe.



It’s been a real whirlwind start to 2012 for me and all my projects. I am glad to finally come home to the reality that I am loved, and there is no need for me to hide my ugly side, rather I offer it up to my higher self so that I may see it for what it is, the result of inner imbalance, of which I can correct. And am doing so. It is and will always be the PAUSE that saves me, that allows me to switch gears and let go of wants and needs and of being right and open up to allowing what is already present to be seen with an open heart and light mind.



So I guess my point in all my ramblings, is to say, one day at a time, and that when you ask for help it always comes, but if you are too busy and can’t see it or hear it for what it is, well then…that is a place to start.

Week One / The Personal Self / Oracling for personal growth via the Tree of life

Today is the day I start with the Personal Self

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The Personal Self (aka Malkuth) is the realm of our so called perceptions of Reality. This is the ultimate stage of the Spirit in The Divine Self (1), this is were we hash it all out, Karma destiny you name it, its here.

To start take stock of your own Realm of Reality or Personal self

I am starting with my body, this is the most immediate aspect of my personal self that My Higher self calls my attention to…how can I tell that I need to bring Awareness to this vehicle of spiritual expression…

Let’s see,

My blood pressure is up for a few reasons; one might be a reaction to a pill I take

Another is that I am always on my feet and could really use a nap, but with two kids and my work often ignore a nap and have some coffee or sugar instead…



My neck and back are in pain, largely due to only being able to sleep on my left side…thank you pregnancy! Lol, man all I could dream of while pregnant was being able to sleep on my right side or back or tummy ageing….however after pregnancy I get back spasms if I sleep on it, and cannot get comfortable in any other spot!!

Our mattress is going also…(add that to the list of home repairs also falling the realm of the Personal self) and it doesn’t help that my hubby and I have to cling to the sides or roll over on each other…maybe switching sides might help…

Lack of sleep means lack of lucid dreams which are always nice to feed that inner landscape. Gradually this is returning as my youngest is now sleeping pretty much through the night!

He has his molars coming in though…at 15 mths he has all his teeth! (just like big sis)



So already I can see where work and awareness need application in my Personal self, just in relation to my body!



I think Yoga and drinking more water will go a long way to easing some of those issues. Mindfulness is key!

I can also go into greater depth in my journal if I like and list all that I perceive is in need of work, but sometimes that can be counter productive! And just make me feel swamped. So focusing on some key immediate issues is a good way to wade into the realm of Drama and Suffering and Joy!

Don’t forget joy!

My Personal self has really been enjoying the creativity that my Reiki practice has enabled me to engage in! Reiki Art, Soul Trees, Bound Blessings, and Glitter and Glue Art have all been ways for me to exercise my creative spirit in the real world, and with great satisfaction. My ego is disabled during the process of creating, I don’t think when I create, or feel, it is a zone of stillness I enjoy and it also brings balance to the rest of me!



Reiki Healing Image I created recently titled
Somewhere over the Rainbow
I love making these as it is an act of self love for me also xoxox

So a hobby is also a nice way to bring balance in the physical world.
Oracling during the Tree of Life course

Since this is just day 1 I will keep it relatively short,

I was cleaning up my house in preparation for nap time, and came across some Oracle Cards from my
Ask your Guides Deck/ By Sonia Choquette they were under a rocking chair.

 I wouldn’t have found them had I not been clearing my space. (When I sweep I also automatically, from practice, sweep on the energy level also. Reiki has made chores a whole new experience for me!)

 My creativity guides and joy guides are in full swing for 2012! I almost look forward to finding lost things, as my guides have awesome sense of humor and strive to get me to laugh! I love laughing so it all works out!

I want to share with you the cards and what I see in them, to remind those who will take me on and work with me and the Tree of life, that the course does not ask you to let go of what has served you well in your past, the course asks that you follow your OWN higher self, not mine, the whole point is to guide you back to self reliance and self love. So Don’t ditch your tarot or runes or feel you can’t use them!

The Tree of life is a guide a living street sign, and you will still acquire more skills and tools for your spiritual took kit, down the road, this one I hope will lodge itself in your heart, 11 simple archetypes to remind you where to look, inside.

So this week’s card in an OVERALL sense is the Physical self

But within this I use my Ask Your Guides deck, and since I found them, I feel that my Higher Self has something direct to impart…

The Cards are as follows,


5 Cards laid out as a five pointed star..(earthing one, traced from top point down to bottom left and so on)

1- Balance/ Divine Teachers 36 (“There is no difference between giving and receiving love”)

2- Self Esteem/ Guardian Angel Micheal 16 (“ Stand in your full spiritual adulthood and claim your self esteem by trusting what YOU feel and believe in” )

3-Denial / Divine Helpers 22 (“ Take off the blinders, and be open to the truth about others and yourself. Only then can you learn to grow past problems”)

4-Life Force/ Aphrodite 45 (“ Use your fiery passions creatively not destructively”)

5-Deceit/ Guardian Angels 27 (“ We will watch over you”)

At first glance I will admit my ego is a bit worried over some of the cards…but a deep breath and some pause reveals…



1 What are my motives with regard to my relationships..

2 I had been worrying over being myself…being liked for that and not enjoying that desire in my self…

3 What my mind blots out my heart knows..be honest with myself and see truly

4 I am at different place in myself acceptance that I was 10 years ago, and now is the time to channel that energy up and into my spirit, not to flay it around on others. 

5 Folks might find what I am doing not to their likeing.. or be jealous and watch my own motives, and sub conscious self sabotage, by remaining aware…



My aim is not self aggrandizement, I don’t want fame or celebrity, I have seen enough to know that stuff ruins more lives than it enriches, I want to do what my heart wants and share it with others, to help them do what their heart wants!

I will aim to keep my flame for those gains. Follow your heart right from the start!!


So message recieved, going to drink some H2O and do Day one of my yoga and take it from there!

I would also like to mention How incredibly greatfull I am to my Husband of 8 years and my two kids for their love and patience and encouragement of what my aims are! I wouldn't be able to spend the time I have and do on this subject if they weren't there for me! I love them so much! And am so blessed to have them with me in life xoxoxo
love light and healing Maja xoxo

Back in the saddle so to speak :)

Seems the weirdness with my Blogger spot has sorted itself out some what since I last posted in the fall.


Loads of shifts and changes since the start of 2012 that is for sure. I am more engaged in my life and enjoying all aspects of it.

Happy to say I have a few new things on the go for those who are interested.................


                           Running with Rainbows
                   Healing Art Workshop that I love to offer here in Winnipeg Manitoba

                             Check out this years line up!!! I hope to max out the 20 person limit!




                                                            Salon Sub Rosa
                                                              " I bring the Do' to you "
                                        my Mobile Salon Service that caters exclusively to
                                                                     Brides,
                                                                 Graduations
                                                             and Formal Occasions

                    I am also able to do Dance Troups ie: braids and buns on a group rate

Please contact Maja Larson via bluebuddhaimagerie@gmail.com for more info or to speak with me personaly regarding prices and availablity!




Salon Sub Rosa Services

                   The Blue Buddha Imagerie is up and Running!
                                    This is my web site that hosts my Artwork and my Salon Business

                                                       www.bluebuddhaimagerie.webs.com/



                     I am still happily working with my amazing Friends down over at Our Psychic Art!

                            They have really grown and expanded and offer amazing Free bee’s!!!!

                                                 http://www.ourpsychicart.com/

(Join and be entered to win a Free Reading from one of the amazing Artists there!! Myself included, just finished a Reiki Healing Image for a client there. LOVED every second of it!!!)




Click Here to try a Free One Card Reading from the Major Healing Tarot xoxo




- Really enjoyed my FREE Soul Tree giveaway experience this winter, had 26 lovely souls show up and register at the site, and MAN blew my mind!

(Will blog specifically on this soon!)

What I am really excited to start and is largely responsible for me making an extra effort to carve out writing/ releasing time in my day is my On Line Workshops for learning to Oracle with the Hermetic Tree of Life!!!




It’s offered in 6 Lessons and its pay as you go and learn at your own pace!


Our Psychic Art Web Store

 I will be opening a forum for my students at my Web site (www.bluebuddhaimagerie.webs.com/)
 in order to help personally with you on your journey.
I will be available via email (hoping to get a lap top in 2012 so that I can also add Skype face time with my students) to help you personally work through the 11 archetypes of Balance offered within the system.

At the end you will receive a PDF of the complete workbook which also includes Cards you can print and cut out to use for yourself. Although I will guide you in selecting and creating your own set also!!


Check out my blog as I will be starting today by taking myself through the Tree!
Follow along and see what I am talking about!


Will blog later, nap times are short!!!

Is is Fall allready??? :))

WOW, time flies!!


So much doing going on, feeling a bit like I am treading water!!



Time to write it out to gain some perspective!!



Let’s see where to start…well since home is where the heart is…

My Youngest is now walking...watch out world, he can't walk straight but he can climb up the stairs no prob!!

My eldest just started Martenelle!! Or Kindergarten in English, I look forward to re-learning French while helping her!! I feel learning a second language or more as a child, can definitely improve the mental and visual aspects of the mind! I knew there wouldn’t be an issue when about 2 yrs ago, she turned to me out of the blue and said..

“momma lets count to 5 in Spanish!, Uno, dos, tres quatro cinqo …”

Thank you Dora and Friends!!!



Marigolds and my daughter two of my favorite things..to the right of the image is a Rod Orb...I don't think its associated with my kid, but I think there might be a DOR lay line running under that tree...will see I need to hunt up some facts about this type of phenomena! Any advice is welcome :)




So despite the ease of transition my blood pressure has jumped 50 points…time for me to re-connect with the Personal Self. The Personal self is the 10th Archetype of the Tree of life, the Physical realm. In the personal self the spirit finds its ultimate home. Whether we choose to make this home a habitable environment is truly up to us. Often we allow our minds to wreck serious havoc on our bodies, conscious or not…and I know intuitively that my blood pressure issues have surfaced to help me return to treating my body wisely and with love. Bad habits die hard…

What does my body say to me when I listen consciously and with love and readiness?

DRINK MORE WATER!!!

BREATH, STRETCH!!

This is the Card I include in the Tree of Life workshop for the Personal Self/ aka Malkuth

It is shouting at me to listen, I am not perfect -and find that sharing my own struggles to live up to the spiritual principals I aspire to, helps others remember also that life is a cycle. We run through cycles to resolve all that we are here to resolve on this playing field we know as Reality. It’s about Balance, stability and harmony. About remaining aware/ or conscious of how we are living and engaged in our lives.

I will be offering my Tree of Life workshop for Personal Growth via Our Psychic Art later this year. You will be able to purchase the Workshop in bite size sections and we will work one on one and at your own pace to plant and nurture your Inner Tree of life. I am psyched also to be able to offer video conference calls with me as a part of the package ( via Skype or the Video Chat option at Our Psychic Art), I feel that by meeting face to face so to speak we will be able to asses how the information is integrating for you, and even run through the guided meditations or other exercises that you might be having difficulties with. I love to work in person with people, and offering the video chat option I think will make the process more fun and engaging. Once I remember to stop shouting at the camera…ROTFL!!!

The Tree when integrated consciously helps to act as a Harmonizer and stabilizer in our hearts and minds. Allowing us to have a sturdy archetype in our Psyches to turn to when we feel chaotic or out of balance. And since my body is shouting to be heard, its time for me to turn inward to gain some perspective.

I will begin blogging my journey up the tree, and I invite you to come along and see if perhaps this might be something that you have been looking for.

My certificate of Reiki Master trainer status :)

I am also very happy to say I am now an Independent Reiki Master/ Trainer and have already enjoyed attuning two dear friends via distance and video conference, and am looking forward to 3 students attunements hands on locally this fall!!

The influx of the higher vibration energy has affected all of my senses inner and outer, and taken my art and readings to a new level!! It has been very rewarding and I am very great full for the experience and sharing it!!!

All sorts of new ways to share Reiki Healing have come about!! I have also seen and enjoyed my fellow Reiki Folk expanding on their training and healing. One friend creates a Soul Stone with your name on it, and places it in her Garden!!!

I am enjoying my crystal cauldron but can also see that I am going to try out using a water based Grid to enhance its charge. Creating a twelve pointed star to go around my master crystal was totally fun and very helpful!!

Mye's Reiki Crystal Cauldron ( Grid, but I am a Witch so....)
The spiral papers are the prayers papers for each person! I love charging it and placing it in the sun in the morning to brighten it up.  The full moon was amazing too!!! I highly reccomend trying out sending Reiki to the moon, sun and stars :))

This Mandela was created by me to be able to share an inspired image I had during my first attunement.  The story of Snow White and the 7 dwarves has really come to life in me at this time, and the Reiki symbols really lined up well to express the relationship between the symbols for me.  This image is based in that. It also has a layer that includes a blessing for all to be able to recieve Reiki Healing from meditation with the image. Feel free to down load and share
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Reiki is such a wonderful modality, on a creative level the energy really resonates and fertilizes an open heart!!!

What else has been going on?

Well artistically speaking, it’s been an all out EXPLSION on the creative front…and I wish I could just spend all day making art!! IT is the most satisfying thing for me to create art.

Soul Trees, Bound Blessings, Reiki Healing Art, and fun Collaborations with my spiritual family on Facebook!!!

Frankey Craig - www.ourpsychicart.com (owner of Our Psychic Art) and I are working on a Healing Art Tarot!!! Generally when something is along the Universal Vibe it manifests at lightning speed!!! The Major Arcana flew out of me!!!!

Card no 16 Radiant Life/ The Sun
By Maja Larson 2011

Card no 5 Keeper of the Faith/ The Chariot
By Maja Larson 2011

Now I am turning my mind and heart to the Minor Arcana and the stories they tell!!

All the art will be able to be purchased as cards all the way up to poster size via the Our Psychic Art web store.

The images are amazing!! I am so great full for the love that inspired them and the help from everyone’s guides and angels to find the time in my busy life to work on them!!!

A Soul Tree by Maja Larson 2011
The subject of this one plans to have it put on his Skateboard, I cannot wait to see it!!!
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This soul tree was for a facebook fan page member, I didn't know anything about him, couldn't even get a photo from his own personal page, so just did it in the blind so to speak.  His response was amazing and many things touched upon proved quite real in his life.  Creating this image was VERY healing for me!! It turns out he is a Reiki Practioner as well!!!

See more Soul Trees at
www.facebook.com/majalarson.artist
or check out http://www.ourpsychicart.com/ for more of my Intuive work!!

Soul Trees birth occurred as a part of Frankey’s On Line Psychic Art Lessons!! I highly recommend them, very very affordable and do at your own speed!! The Trees were lesson two, and as soon as this insane rush slows down I am looking forward to lesson 3 of 8 xxx

The soul trees have been a major turning point for me and my own self doubt issues. Channeling is not an easy thing to explain or to re- learn. It took me till now (36 yrs this year, sheesh!!) to finally admit that channel for me is as natural as breathing..there is no need for a major production the channel used for channeling is programmed into ME. So all I need to is focus and engage.

Still there was that niggling doubt…so with soul trees I do ask for name and date of birth however this is more for you than me. For me once I work on the art for your tree, the channeling comes from what I see and sense in the image.

The feedback I get is very validating. So I will keep working and refining them, and enjoying them.

From just individual soul trees, I am now drawn to making them for families, groups, married couples you name it!! Each time I sit down to make one, I can feel my blood pressure drop and my mind relax, so it will be some time before I stop doing these I think.



I am looking forward to attending my first Craft show in November with my eldest. Her art will also be on sale there! Can’t hurt for her to learn early!! We and my mother attended the Goddess festival here in Manitoba this fall, and entrepreneurship was present there too.

Us at the Manitoba Godess Festival! In honor of Isis this year :)

The little girls told mine that they would give her free stuff if she found five people to bring to their booth ( of sticks stones beads and feathers) !!! OFF she went to find people; she came home with 2 shells and a couple of ‘rubies’ beads. 

It will be a great opportunity for me to meet people and get my feet wet as I head into setting up my own business. I have A LOT to learn, but the YMCA here offers a self employment program for free!! I am psyched to be able to launch with guidance in a very practical and real sense. I hope you will all join me at my Web site launch; I will let everyone know via Facebook. )



It’s been a beautiful summer and fall is shaping up well!!

Art by Maja Larson 2011

~ Willow Dust~

Day calls


and I have to rip my eyelids from the castle

of visceral smiles left echoing in your wake


and madness wrenches


a knowing of God to spill over my pitted existence,

polishing the marble I carry to your perfect haven


when we sleep.

Poem by Shawn Van Wyk

My new joy is returning to combine poetry and art. Collaborating has really been rewarding, to be able to reach inward and find new energies to work and create with, exposing your hear and mind to someone else’s to bring something creative and new to life. I really feel this with my Tarot collaboration and am enjoying it with Poetry!

You can find this in my Inspirited Imagery album on Facebook.

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Time to get back to my home and its tending!! Hope to get more regular with my posts again as I start back into my conscious tending of my Inner Tree of Life.

Chaos in the Kitchen...there is no place on heaven or earth that I would rather be xxxx
in my kitchen with God the kids and me.

All my light and

love

mye

Trusting your process; Living and loving your OWN path in life.

Trusting your process; Living and loving your OWN path in life.

First let me share a poem I wrote 2yrs ago now...

The Voice of Silence

You can scream all you want

You can shout in my ear,

But until I kick open the door to my own Soul-

I will not hear

You can prop me up, give a hand

Nail me to a cross

But until confidence is restored-

I will not stand

Pry back the Veils, dispel mystery

Show me deception

But until I embrace perception-

I will not see

Abandon me, turn the other cheek

But until I raise a helping hand

To the benefit of my fellow man-

I will not speak

Break me down, build me higher

But until I starve it out, from my own heart rip it out-

I will not conquer desire

Hang me a lantern; pull the book from the shelf

But until I pull back in

And learn to take it on the chin

I will not know- myself

Sing me sweet songs

Drown me in love

But until I give in

And heed my Silent Voice

I will not know-

Choice.

By Mlarson 2009

Summer is winding down, don’t give me grief…it is, lets just cope ok?!

And with harvest time comes a bit of reflection on where things are coming from and where they might be headed.

My on line Tree of Life test group is winding down in anticipation for my launch on Our Psychic Art. This winter we will be offering a workshop for working with the ancient Mandela, The Tree of Life; A living oracle for personal growth.

I am looking forward to working with others to help them integrate the Tree into their inner landscape helping provide them with the strength and will to follow their hearts and their own Inner Voice of truth, the voice of their spirit.

Following and listening to your heart, is truly what the entire course centers around, we are all born with the knowledge to pursue our dreams passion our purpose in this life, sometimes we need a hand rediscovering what we already know.
My greatest joy in facilitating the learning experience is watching how the Tree comes to express itself through you.

I  encourage a lot of trial and error in the workshop, as well as creative expression with each of the 11 Archetypes we cover. One of my students is an exceptional healer and artist, and each of the Archetypes inspired a painting in her, and each one made my heart sing. To see the similarities and the differences in her journey with the tree, to listen to how its impact has affected her life, and her path. I cannot wait to see what more can come!!

My Uncle Robert a talented artist and gifted Intuitive, had helped me create a set of cards to include with the PDF for the workshop, but I wanted something other than cards.

All I knew was, I wanted something smooth and stone like to work with at this time, more abstract in its representation of the Tree and its wisdom. Lucky stones from Gimili Beach did the trick, and allowed for the set to be strung on a wire.

They fit in my pocket, are simple and the lack of embellishment except for the associated color for the archetype, allows me to use them whenever I please, they look like a bracelet. I find it very soothing to feel their smooth cool surfaces in my hands, and the clicking very relaxing.

Creating your own tool for Oracling has to be one of my favorite parts of the process, and I suppose the most challenging for myself and my students/ fellow learners :)
 When I was about 17 my brother sister and I were up at our family’s cabin in Gimili Manitoba, when I decided I wanted to create a set of the Norse Runes in a piece of drift wood. I had a Ralph Blume deck of Rune Cards, but felt really strongly I wanted to make my own.

I wanted to see if I could and if it would work, such was my understanding of the intuitive process at the time. I had even made a Ouija board once on loose-leaf and using a pencil sharpener as the plate. I found making an oracle didn’t take away from the mystery of using or working with it.

A bit of my own blood and bitching and time and I had my own set of Runes, made by me in my favorite place, they had tones of mystery in them already and they hadn’t even been used, even the blue obvious Pen ink runic lettering didn’t ruin it for me. I love those Runes and still have them, and very much still feel the energetic connection to my creation, the depth that they hold from my use with them over time.

Creating such a tool is the highlight of my workshop if you ask me. It took a couple of tries, but eventually I created a set of 11 stones to represent the Archetypes.

The ego can really hamper creative exercise, and I am not exempt from the struggle, so if you do go about making your own, leave your Ego at the door and save your self a truck load of hassel.

Now that they are made, I definitely am enjoying working with them. They are handy unobstusive and can go in my purse. So when I am at the park with the kids and am inner screaming… “serenity now!” I can work with a tool that immediately overrides my emotions and takes me right to my souls door. To cross the threshold and work with the opportunities there in, I must only relinquish my wants needs and desires.

Which is helpful these days! My husband and children are my greatest allies and teachers!!! I learn the most important lessons on the home front! An underestimated playing field I think, which is ridiculous as most of our lives are played out there. The home is where we feel safe enough to learn the hardest lessons in our lives.

The Alchemy of the every day, a path to enlightenment to be sure. Seeing the divine right in front of you. NOW.

There is plenty, when you know what you are looking for.

For example, I am many things, Lutheran, witch, wiccan, lighworker, etc…but I honestly never really gave much thought to the “god” topic with my eldest. She is 4 going on 5 or 40…it depends..and I figured we had some time.

I figured wrong, and to be honest brought it on myself…by finaly resorting to the idea of a higher power dwelling within her. She is learning to pass the buck with regards to accepting responsibility for her choices…and I felt it was important also that we deal with her inner self checking mechanism. Experience is key to learning in life, but not all learning experiences leave you in one piece, not that a 4 year old dancing on the ledge of a wet bathtub cares ….

Once I introduced that God lives in all of us, and is spirit or energy, she asked if God was a women. I said yes, figuring that this was not a subject she was going to pursue, however when she later asked if a piece of art with a woman on it was god…well we needed to cover that a bit more.

So now she and I pray at bed time, for our loved ones, and folks she creates. We forgive each other, and try to remember that the voice of God isn’t a real voice, and NO god doesn’t think you need another Cookie…

Parenthood is often given a ‘blah’ wrap. Not a bad wrap, but somehow I find that a large part of the world view is that parenthood is kind of a bailout. That if  all you are is a provider or parent, then somehow you aren’t any one…which is ridiculous, as EVERYTHING you learn about life and living happens in the home, heavenly, good, bad, ugly and horrifying happens at home. We are our worst at home. If you want to know what your boy/girlfriend might be like to live with, go to diner at the family home. We are 'who' we are the most at home, whether or not we like that version of ourselvs.
 We are the worst we can be at home, were the masks come off. You will learn a lot watching how siblings divvy up work and exist in the same space. As when you do live with some one, those old hard worn patterns of behavior you learned at home, will find their way to the surface in the one place you feel safest.

Today both my daughter and I are disappointed in ourselves, me for allowing a 4 yr old to bait me and letting myself react strongly and verbally in the store…she for not getting another cookie like she wanted. She did apologize for not listening, after a full throated screaming fit in line for groceries, hair pulling and boogers and tears, THE WORKS!!!

Honestly I am learning to ease up on myself; my inner critic is very highly developed and can be my worst enemy when I am frustrated. So I am unsure as to how to approach my lack of compassion for the lost treat, and my subsequent own acting out… Without a mental whipping that won’t help me change anything, and will only feed the pain body that rose up wildly at the store. ( Bain bodies are covered in Tolle’s A New Earth)

My mother never yelled or spanked, others did with us, but not mom…and therein lies my guilt, why can’t I just shut up? I kept asking myself that today, and my daughter, why can’t we both just shut up and stop thinking about what we are not getting, me missing my respect and her what she so desperately wanted? How come I couldn’t practice what I so often preach, take a deep breath, and let it go. Then act?

Why does my daughter, who is soo like me, bring the absolute WORST out in me? Why is it always an argument…

“Kiddo, I know that is what you want right now, but I need you to listen.”

“ Ok mom, but if you don’t give me another cookie then I am not going to listen.”

KABOOM!

Instead I should have just let her cry…that is natural and healing, screaming at her however is not, and hurts us both in ways I can’t even find the words for.

The sane thing, is to let her cry it out, I KNOW this, but when I am reactive completely seem to forget!

The worst thing about it all…every single thing I said to her, EVERY SINGLE THING, litteraly I am saying to myself right now…and as to who I should be listening to when I am about to misbehave? My higher Self…that is what this journey I am on is about, and she is my Master Teacher in getting me to hear this voice in me and listen to it.  That is why I brought up GOD with my daughter...perhapes to remind myself to listen more.

I am incredibly greatfull for my children, any light workers out there that want to test their mettle,
HAVE KIDS!! Nothing will test your commitment to spiritual values like parenthood!!!

Every single thing you do, has an impact, YOU remember you were a kid once too. Your baggage with your parents will play out between you and your kids, there is no way around that, no matter how well intentioned you might be. Denial and avoidance of the harshness and frustration and pain that is a part of child rearing and self control, cannot be skipped or avoided. All of life is to be lived and learnt from.

So as much as I am still hating myself and trying not to spoil her from my own issues of guilt, I can’t and don’t want hide from the truth, what I want most of all, is to LEARN and not do it again and again and again….
ThankYOU for listening...
writing like this helps hammer home what it is I am trying to work out for myself, if it can help you in any way, I am greatfull.

For my daughter...

Children

Children change us

Mould us

Break us

Rearrange us

A Treasure carried

Revealed through blood sweat and tears

Married Soul to Soul

Despite our Fears

We hope to live long enough to know

That they are safe and wise in these crazy times.

All the I love you’s and crushing embraces

The Universal Child takes us through our paces,

With Dirty smiling faces.

A continuous cycle of Death and Rebirth

As above and so on earth.

I say Heaven is in your own back yard

Trust Me! Its out there scattered amidst the dolls and toy cars.

We never forget the day of their birth

We never forget the ones that left early

Their lessons being less earthly.

We never forget a smile or a tear

Children change us just by being here.

By Maja Larson November 2 /2009

One day at a time….take a deep breath…choose peace instead.
Love maja