Lunar Occultation of Jupiter

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Tonight the Moon will Occult (cover) Jupiter. The dark side of the Moon will highlight Jupiter and it's moons in the sky and this spectacular view will be best seen in southern skies. We will be able to view the occultation unaided so if you can be outside tonight you will see Jupiter disappearing in Melbourne at 11.33pm and reappearing at 12.10am. For more times around Australia here is a great link.
Personally I find all occultations to be very potent and often points of activation for our work and creativity. Tonight we will be infusing the Daughters of the Well Water Snake essences created at the New Moon last weekend with this Lunar Occultation of Jupiter under the chestnut tree. The intention of the essence is to help shed outdated thought patterns and beliefs and to clear the mind. This will also be the last of the natural spring water from Wombat Forest as we will soon be working with the natural and healing spring waters on the mountain ranges of beautiful Warburton.
What will Lady Luna be expressing to Jupiter at midnight tonight? The Moon is in Gemini - a perfect time for embracing new ideas and beliefs around abundance, tolerance and expansiveness (Jupiter). What new dreaming will this spectacular meeting awaken in you?

Reincarnation of the Soul Group

Family in front of the family home in Merino, Victoria 1875
It is very common to be born into a lifetime with the same Soul Group of previous incarnations, often playing our very different roles and relationships. These groups can often be our biggest teachers. In both The Swan Blessing and Femmina Unbound Past Life sessions we sometimes need to understand and clear past life attachment to certain members. Often we need to release vows made to these members in the past so that we can love freely in this lifetime and make choices that serve us in the present.  
Below is the next section of the article we posted yesterday exploring the work of Dr Ian Stevenson discussing the many Soul Groups and attachments.

Principles of Reincarnation or How Reincarnation Works IISIS
Article by: Walter Semkiw, MD, from Born Again and Return of the Revolutionaries

From independently researched reincarnation cases, which in aggregate provide proof of life after death, the following principles are observed:

People appear to come into life in groups, based on shared karma and emotional attachments. Couples often come back together and entire family units can recur. When an individual reincarnates, other members of that person’s karmic group will be present. Identifying members of the person’s karmic group is another important criterion in establishing a past-life match.

Ian Stevenson did a very important twin study in which the past lives of 31 sets of twins (62 people) were factually validated. In 100 percent of these cases, the twins had significant past life relationships. The most common type of past life relationship was that of siblings, followed by friendships, other family relationships, then being spouses in the past incarnation.

Past Life Relationships of Twins

Siblings: 35%

Friends: 29%

Other family relationships: 19%

Spouses: 16%

Stevenson's twin study represents hard evidence that souls plan lifetimes to be reunited with loved ones through reincarnation. Two cases featured in this study involve the reincarnation cases of a set of Burmese twins, which also demonstrate physical resemblance from one incarnation to another. Image comparisons of these Burmese twins, who were sisters in their past incarnations, are provided above. Phyu reincarnated as San and Saipai reincarnated as her twin, Nyunt.

How do we connect with our karmic groups? The answer, it appears, is destiny. In analyzing past-life cases, it is observed that we all have a predetermined destiny or life itinerary which brings us to the people we are supposed to spend time with.

To better understand how destiny works, let us use the analogy of a journey. Think of your life as an extended vacation that you plan in advance. You decide who you want and need to see, where you want to go, and what activities you would like to participate in.

You coordinate your itinerary with the people you are to rendezvous with. You, your karmic friends, and loved ones all agree to the plan before you are born. Once you come into life, destiny ensures that you meet up with your karmic soul group.

The settings for karmic affiliations can be our families, work life and recreational pursuits. These settings are stages on which we play out the karmic dramas of our lives. This casts a new light on Shakespeare’s phrase, “All of life is but a stage.”

We meet up with different karmic groups at different points in life. When we get the urge to take a new job, travel to a new city, or take up a new recreational pursuit, many times this is a part of our destiny being played out. New venues bring us to karmic groups we need to be with.

Encaustic Beeswax Oracle - What do YOU See?

Hello to all of you beautiful artists, I hope you are finding time to make more art of your life. This weekend I found time to unpack our encaustic kits and see what was waiting in the beeswax! We will be holding beeswax encaustic art classes again very soon. This artform is so easy for anyone to use and I encourage you to pick it up if you are feeling blocked around creativity. It is painting with hot wax - like trying to paint with water - you can't control it and that's a very good thing for overcoming perfectionism! We will have details soon for new class times both in Sherbrooke and at Tree of Life in Kew. In the meantime I will be placing encaustic orders at the end of the month, so please let me know if you feel called to play with the Bee.

Amelia Earhart - nor should I consider myself bound to you

Amelia Earhart letter
Amelia Earhart's pre nup via Mystic Medusa

I just saw this recent post by Mystic Medusa - here we see how caged the animal of the aviatrix Amelia Earhart's wild heart felt as she approached the 'attractive cage' of marriage. Such a different time with so few ways to express love in the way that her heart needed. We all have different needs in our relationships, perhaps it's time to understand what helps you to express your own fearless, boundless love.

Real Love

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St Valentine's Day is loaded with emotion and pressure to be in a relationship. As I looked at all the promotional cards and marketing today I thought of how heavy this day can be with it's tiny evaluation of 'real love'. The Beloved appears in so many guises - soul sisters, a circle of dear friends, your family, and your loving animal companions. The love you feel from them and for them is every bit as real.

In the Xhosa Culture, "I am because we are "
St Valentine's Day was actually an effort to christianise the celebration of Lupercalia, a pagan fertility and purification festival held annually on 15th February. Lupercalia was dedicated to Faunus or Pan the Roman god of agriculture and to the lupa or she-wolf who was said to have cared for Romulus and Remus in a sacred cave. Now that's a celebration that inspires me! Don't believe the hype - let inspiration and truth be your guide.

Wolf Girl by Anne Siems

Water Wisdom - you must be unbound

Zena Holloway

“I cannot be born
On solid ground,
Only where everything flows.
To enter my dawn
You must be unbound
From how the fixed world goes.”
“Leave behind
your maps and losses
Let dreams be all your law.
Trust the wind
When the ocean tosses
Burn your boats on the farther shore.”
“Make new songs
And your floating island
Will be rooted beneath the waves.”
“Drink my sun
And you dance on the high land
Your heart, remembering, craves.”
~Robert Moss 
Dreamways of the Iroquois: Honoring the Secret Wishes of the Soul

Forest Dreaming

Hello everyone, we have settled into our nest in Sherbrooke and will be sharing new forest offerings with you all very soon! I was delighted to discover that the enormous tree that embraces our house is the Chestnut Tree. In all of our sessions this will be the tree where we will commence our time together with ceremonial smudging. My dear sister Carolyn reminded me of the Tree Angel Oracle by Fred Hageneder and Anne Heng:

Chestnut Tree

Be with it,
be patient
Everything that you need
Is already before you
And what you need tomorrow 
is already on its way
An abundance of being
nourishes the soul.