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Reconnect Lesson 7: Your Piece of the Puzzle

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Imagine you’re a piece of a puzzle, connected on all sides to others in various ways.

Looking at the big picture, you can see that all the pieces are interconnected. If one piece of the puzzle is missing, there’s a hole. The picture is incomplete.

Can you see how you’re a necessary part of the big picture, an essential piece of the Divine Oneness that is our human community?

What your piece looks like and where it fits within the puzzle will depend on your personality type and preferences.

Which communities you choose to be a part of will be different than for others. What’s important is that you find a good fit for you.

On the one hand, as an introvert who thrives in my time alone, I connect deeply with community through prayerful painting, creating and sharing inspiration online or for exhibitions, and serving clients at a distance. On the other hand , I also enjoy occasional roles as an in-person leader and teacher.  And although I prefer to see friends one at a time for a deeper connection, I also enjoy group retreats, my French improv theatre group ,and my kirtan chanting group. Those last two resulted from a conscious effort to get out more now that I’m not in the classroom every day.

Communing with community can take many forms.

Exercise 1: Conscious Community

Take a look at the shape and size of your puzzle piece and how it touches all sorts of communities on every side.

The knobs represent the communities in which you’re giving. The sockets represent the communities in which you’re receiving. The flush edges are those in which the flow of giving and receiving are equal.

Sometimes, you’ll be more of a giver in one community and more of a receiver in another.

A puzzle piece that fits comfortably in the big picture is one in which there is a balance of knobs, sockets and flush edges.

In this exercise, take inventory of all the communities you’re a part of – family, work, social groups, volunteer positions, leadership roles, audience roles, etc.  Also look at the balance of online and in person communities.

Are you feeling a sense of support and nourishment from some communities?

Are you feeling a sense of purpose and contribution in others?

Does the energy flow feel balanced in your life overall? This doesn’t always mean from the same community. You might be a big giver in one group, a big receiver in another and more of a passive presence in yet another. And sometime you receive so much by the very act of giving.

What often happens, however, is that we get involved in various communities out of obligation or inability to say “no”. We might overcommit ourselves to the detriment of our need for solo time.

Or perhaps we retreat from community for a variety of reasons and end up feeling lonely, separate, or useless.

Here’s your invitation to look at and reshape your puzzle piece if needed.

Is it time to drop some communities that deplete you? Is it time to find new communities that nourish you?

Are all your communities work related? Do you need to join new groups for fun or spiritual sharing?

What works  for you? Consciously create your way of communing with community in a way that’s aligned with your True Self.

Your puzzle piece may change shapes many times in your lifetime, depending on circumstances, location, etc. That’s OK!

Exercise 2: Follow the Community Spirit

Have you ever felt moved to be somewhere or do something but you had no idea why? Did you act on that inspiration or did your logical mind talk you out of it because it was out of the ordinary or a stretch of your comfort zones?

Better yet, have you ever acted on an inspiration to go somewhere or do something to later have it revealed how you ended up being an important piece of the puzzle in a bigger picture you couldn’t have foreseen?

Exercise 2 is all about following those Spirit Calls and trusting that you’re acting on behalf of something greater even if you can’t see the big picture.

It’s not that we’re the Universe’s puppets. But the Universe will act through those open to its messages to answer prayers, manifest dreams, and more.

Trust that if you’re called to do something, even if it’s outside your comfort zone, you could be helping someone in need or placing yourself in a situation to receive the help you need.

When I took inspired action to be artist in residence at Ocean View Gallery for a week last April during my exhibition, I had no clue how my intention to be in community would be so interconnected to what was happening there and in the world.

I was painting “Communing With Community” and was guided to include the Rose Window from the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. I’d been moved to study its design for a few weeks already but wasn’t sure which painting it would be included in.

After deciding this was it, we heard about the devastating fire in Paris. The next day, after I’d started painting it, I learned that one of the gallery owners’ son, Liam, was supposed to sing there in 2 weeks. Instead, once my painting was finished, his Mother found him in the studio singing his solo in front of my painting.

Was I guided to paint this window to help process the waves of feeling sweeping the planet? Was I guided to be in Carbonear to support Liam in a time of disappointment? Was I guided there so he could support me in my time of shock? One thing for sure is that we were both guided there to share in the creation of a beautiful song-infused painting that connected us to a world-wide community of builders and grievers.

I’m not privy to the full extent of it, but this was a wonderful example of how acting on several inspirations led to a very touching community experience that was a highlight in my year.

For this exercise, start your mornings with your version of Saint Francis’s prayer – “Make me an instrument of Thy peace”. Then stay open to how you might be moved to act in the service of community. 

It may be through:

  • a random act of kindness
  • reaching out to someone who crosses your mind
  • being directed to be in a certain place at a certain time
  • etc.

You may never know how big a difference you’re making in your community. A simple smile can save a life.

P.S.   “Communing With Community”  – Original SOLD –  prints in your desired medium & size are available for purchase.Thank you for supporting my art!

P. P.S. You can read the original post on the co-creative process for the painting “The Perfect Unfolding” on my blog here. 

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Re-Connecting #11- The Gateway

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“The Gateway” – #11 in the Re-Connecting Collection. (24″ x 48″) – $3,700 CAD. The original as well as prints are available for purchase.

Warning: I had to leave my childhood nickname ‘Goody Two Shoes’ aside for this post. Painting “The Gateway” was nowhere near the stretch of my comfort zones as writing about it. If you’re not comfortable reading about female genitalia, you may want to skip this one.

But why? As Becky Johansson wrote in the Goddess Conference program for her workshop “Honouring the Sacred Temple; Yonic Wounding, Forgiveness and Honouring”,

“The yoni has been reviled as a source of shame by most of the world, and we as women judged as dirty and unclean for simply having one. This sacred part of our body, the source of life itself, needs to be reclaimed and connected with so that healing can happen for our body as well for the wider world; in healing ourselves we also heal Gaia.”

So here it is – the final piece in my Re-Connecting Collection. Welcome to #11, “The Gateway”. That’s what my Team of Divine Helpers told me my trip to the UK would be and it’s now the name for this creation that was birthed through me.

It wasn’t until a few layers in and the design of the overlapping  Vesica Pisces shape that I realized I was being asked to paint a giant representation of the vulvar anatomy.

But following my time at the Sun Lover Goddess Conference in Glastonbury, it didn’t surprise me.  This sacred geometry represents, among other things, the Yoni, a Sanskrit word literally meaning the womb, the source, and especially the vulva as a symbol of divine procreative energy.  

I confess, I had to Google diagrams to get a better idea of element placement. As a heterosexual woman working in unrelated fields, I don’t have close up exposure to real ones. And high school sex-ed class was a long time ago. As you’ll read in the symbology sections, this led to some powerful and humorous moments.

“The Gateway” has become an important part of how I’m integrating the work I did in body, mind & spirit during my sacred pilgrimage to the UK. Now, it’s your turn to enjoy a visual and energetic discovery of all it has to offer.

Layer by Layer – The Evolution of The Gateway

I started my weeks of painting by massaging the holy waters from Glastonbury’s Red & White Springs into the canvas and smudging my self, the canvas, and my space with the sacred smoke of the palo santo tree. I’d invited my Team of Divine Helpers to join me, set my intentions, and remained open to receiving what wanted to emerge.

As per usual in the intuitive painting process, I started without knowing where it was going. After the first fiery layer, I received inspiration of some of the basic shapes but none of the content. This evolved one layer at a time, one day at a time.

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The Symbolism in The Gateway

The Chalice Well Cover

Visiting the Chalice Well was the main reason I felt called to Glastonbury this summer after using its waters and energy in my art for years.

I always knew that the cover of the well would make its way somewhere in this painting. I was drawn to this symbol for years before I knew what it was. I then embraced it as a visual representation of the marriage of Heaven & Earth and of the Divine Feminine & Masculine. It’s all about Oneness!

” (The cover) was “designed in the nineteenth century by archaeologist Bligh Bond. Crafted of wrought iron and wood, it depicts the Vesica Pisces, a symbol of the divine feminine, and Excalibur, the sword of the legendary King Arthur, who is believed by some to be buried at Glastonbury.

The wellspring at Glastonbury is considered to be one of England’s most Holy sites. The well itself dates back over two thousand years, and was sacred to both early Pagans and the Christians who later built an abbey on the site. Today, the well is a place of pilgrimage for Christians and Pagans alike, many of whom believe the red, iron rich water has healing and miraculous properties. …

An old legend holds that after the crucifixion, Joseph of Arimathea traveled to England and hid the Holy Grail on the premises, accounting for the water’s red hue. Modern Neopagans who use the site equate the waters with the menstruum of the Goddess.”  (source)

Here, I had to choose between the inside or outside cover of the Chalice Well. They’re slightly different. I opted for the inside to symbolize the open well – access to the flowing sacred waters and deep inner wisdom of the well.

If you look at the cover design, the shape between the two interlocking circles is the same as the two vertical elliptical shapes on my painting. That’s the Vesica Pisces.

Not coincidentally, I just found in my web research that The Chalice Well is thought of as a “gateway to the spirit world”.

“This oval space between the circles, this Gateway between the worlds, is called the Akashic or Etheric Field. It is the “bridge between heaven and earth”. The Etheric Field carries vibrational frequencies, sound, color, Light. When we meditate and search the Spiritual Realms we approach the Gate. When we work with Healing Energies, Psychic energies, Mysticism and Magick we enter the Etheric Field and begin to co-create.

If we but trust, and be still we can connect with the Spiritual Realms by entering the Gateway. Whether we seek healing and changes, peace and comfort or guidance and belonging, attuning to the energies of the Chalice Well will help us.”

The Vesica Pisces is also a symbol of:

* Joining of God and Goddess to create an offspring
* Symbol for Jesus Christ
* Halo in medieval art
* Vagina of the feminine- Yoni
* Flower of Life Mandala
* Sacred Geometry of harmonic proportions

At first, I thought I’d be placing the Chalice Well cover design in the smaller orange Vesica Pisces shape (the vaginal entrance), but was redirected to painting it at the site of the clitoris. Divine marriage, gateway to the etheric world, source of ecstasy …. I can understand why it was meant to be placed in this most sensitive spot.

The Sun

When I told a friend that I’d finally been guided to travel to Glastonbury, she told me that my dates coincided with the Sun Lover Goddess Conference. I immediately bought a ticket, figuring it was part of my discovery process of why I was inspired to be there at that time.

For over a week, hundreds of women & men dressed in sun colours delved deep into the realm of the Goddess. What an intense experience I’m so glad I said “yes!” to.

Every day, sometimes more than once, we sang and danced the “Blessing Song” written for the conference by one of its ceremonialists, Sally Pullinger.  As we got to the lyrics “bless you”, we’d extend our hands sideways to meet with our neighbours’. Then, with “bless me”, we’d turn with hands in prayer position. As a few turns were involved, we got to join hands with the neighbours beside us as well as in front & behind.

“Goddess of Sun, Fire, Passion and Love
Heat from below and Light from above
Bless you, Bless me, Bless you, Bless me
Bless you, Bless me, Bless you, Bless me
Goddess, Goddess, Sun Lover Goddess
Shine your Love into the World
Goddess, Goddess, Sun Lover Goddess
Shine your Love into the World.”

I spent a lot of time singing that song while painting the Sun Lover Goddess. It was only once the painting was finished that I noticed how the white dotted arched shapes mimic that of the hands extended and the higher rays of the hands in prayer. Love it!

That’s how it often happens. It was also after I’d intuitively cut the stencil for the basic sun shape (much like we cut paper snowflakes) that I realized that the magenta shapes in between the shooting rays looked like an embrace from the Goddess Herself. It’s a top view of the breasts and two arms around a big gold dot, representing the light within me & you.

Birthing the Earth

In the Goddess tradition, the sun is Mother to the Earth.

Here, she is giving birth to our beloved planet, surrounded by ivy, symbol of loyalty, fertility and eternal life.

You’ll notice that this time, I placed the island of Newfoundland in the centre. That’s where I live. This view of our planet also shows the UK.

One day, while reading the book “Anna – Voices of the Magdalenes” (sequel to “Anna- Grandmother of Jesus”- two books I brought back from the Chalice Well Garden), my brain waves were somewhere between sleep and wakefulness.  That’s when I saw in my mind’s eye a crimson ring with the healing energy symbols of the Karuna Reiki training I received in Glastonbury before the conference.

At first, I painted these around the smaller Vesica Pisces, part of the labia minora. But then, after following up on a hunch about the appropriateness of revealing these sacred symbols, I decided to cover them up with another coat of crimson red, the colour of our moon blood and of the iron-rich Red Spring water at the Chalice Well. The energy is still there even if the symbols aren’t as visible anymore.

The Lion

Ha ha! I got a belly laugh from this one. My Team of Divine Helpers have a sense of humour!

When I first reviewed diagrams of the vulvar anatomy online, I thought to myself ” I won’t be including the urethra.”

Was I wrong! About 5 minutes after receiving the vision for the lion spout from the Chalice Well Garden, it hit me that I’d be painting gushing waters out of the urethra.  I may have been slow to make the link, but I still get a giggle from it.

Upon further reflection, including the lion’s head was also perfect for 2 other reasons.

First, I’d spent a week admiringly gazing at the 2 giant lion heads on stage at the Sun Lover Goddess Conference. Second, I spent all of August 8th (Lionsgate) cloistered at the Chalice Well Gardens.

Here’s what Donna Virgilio, my tour guide to Tintagel-Cornwall the day before, wrote about the Lionsgate Portal, when the sun in Leo aligned with Sirius.

” This is a time of healing, awakening, and opening of the heart.

The Lionsgate Portal is open from July 26th to August 12th, sending beams of high vibrational energy to planet Earth. The zenith energies are at their peak on August 8th.

In numerology, the 8th day of the 8th month is a highly spiritual and charged time. The number 8 represents infinity, the infinite soul that we are and the infinite journey that we take. It represents the “forever conscious” part of our soul; the soul that has lived and will continue to live long after and long before this incarnation.

We will also see the sacred alignment of Venus and Jupiter. This is luscious!

Venus is the planet of love and Jupiter is the planet of abundance, and together on 8/8, they make magic! This is truly special energy and such a gift from the Universe!

These two celestial God & Goddess are aligning in what astrologers call a trine, and this is a harmonious, wonderful aspect that will really help to strengthen the loving, heart-centered energy of the 2019 Lionsgate Portal.

Under this energy, it is going to be easier for us to open and expand to love, beauty, sensuality, compassion, abundance, and all the feel-good emotions that come along with it!”

I must have spent over 4 hours layering and glazing the water, eventually adding sparkly 3-D paint. As you’ll see, this sacred water pools at the bottom of the vaginal orifice before going underground and emerging again in the lake & stream that pass between the dancing flames.

The Dancers

At first, I envisaged the dancing crowds of the conference adorned in sun coloured clothing, celebrating the Goddess in nature.

As I painted them, I understood that we, humanity, dance our days as the sacred flames of creativity, love, purpose & passion. Not only are we witnessing and celebrating the birthing represented in “The Gateway”, but are part of the ongoing process, generation after generation.

Sparkles of mica (the energy of love & compassion) were added to the figures amidst the stained-glass-window look of the scenery around them.

We Are The Creative Flames! Let us join together to co-create the world we dream of living in.

The Marriage of the Divine Feminine & Masculine

I knew that my Team of Divine Helpers wanted me to paint a figurative representation of the marriage of the God & Goddess, Divine Feminine & Masculine (within us & the world) at the top of the labia majora, near the mons pubis.

I procrastinated for days because of my lingering limited thinking about my ability to paint human forms. The ideas gestated until I got myself out of the way enough to receive a vision of how to encircle them around the Chalice Well cover. The initial inspiration happened while sitting on the bus thinking about totally unrelated things. It was like an instant download that had me take a deep audible breath!

That last part of the design is so far from what I’d envisaged and drawn on paper first. I had to remind myself several times that there are no accidents in intuitive painting. I had to be gentle on myself and my painting, loving its awkward teenage stage as we figured out what it wanted to become. In the end, I’m loving what is because I let go of attachment of what I thought it would be.

Entering The Gateway – The Mystery Continues


Although my post-UK painting is finished, Glastonbury isn’t finished with me yet.

First, there are many references to it in the fascinating Anna books I’m reading.

Next, while the varnish was curing, I was at my friend Leslie’s house for our weekly business mastermind meeting. During a dancing break (yes, we know how to have meetings!), I felt called to open the glass door to one of her many display cases to pick a card from a deck I hadn’t noticed before. What was it? The cover of the Chalice Well! On it was written, “Follow your heart and be true to yourself. There are no limits”. Leslie had no idea she had this card!

A few days later, I was watching “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” on Netflix. It’s like a James Bond meets Get Smart movie. One of the controversial scenes involved inserting a tracking device inside a woman’s genetalia at the famous Glastonbury Festival. It happened inside a luxurious sleeping tent, one of the many topics of conversation between myself and a man wearing a kilt on the bus from Glastonbury to London. He lived in Glastonbury, but grew up about 3 blocks from me in Ottawa, Canada. We’d started chatting while waiting for the bus and then he asked to sit with me for the ride. When the bus started getting busy, I’d suggested he look at the seat number he’d been assigned when he purchased his ticket online so we could give it to the person who’d say he was in his/her seat. We were both surprised to find out he was already in it! It’s all very very interesting.

Oh, and this may be too much information – but why stop now. After reflection, I’ve  been assured that this last tid bit will be helpful for someone. They say that where attention goes, energy flows.  Well, after weeks of intense focus on the vulvar anatomy and energy work in and out of the studio, that’s not the only thing flowing. It truly is meno-pause, not meno-stop. After at least 21 months since my last period, I’m experiencing my menstrual flow again. It happened on the day I brought my painting to NL Canvas for scanning so it could be made available for prints – the last step in the creative process. Have I reversed the effects of aging like in the book “Anna”? Maybe not, but despite the Internet’s advisement to get this checked out, I feel strangely happy about this not-coincidence. I certainly don’t want to get pregnant like the 73-year old that my housesister told me just had twins, but I know there’s meaning here. There’s a sense of rejuvenation to it…

“The Gateway” may be the end of my Re-Connecting series, but it’s definitely not the end of the mystery.

Layer by layer, our lives also evolve as we listen to and act upon Guidance. I’m sure glad I did!

What’s calling you?

Title: The Gateway
Year: © 2019
Size:  48“ x 24“ ( 122 cm x 61 cm)
Artist: Dominique Hurley
Materials: Professional acrylics, mica & channeled energy work on gallery-wrapped canvas with painted edges. No framing required. 
Genre: intuitive painting, visionary art, energism art, spiritual art, inspirational art
Price: $3,700 CAD
 You can order prints of “The Gateway” in your choice of size and medium in my print-on-demand shop. If you’re moved to bring the original into your life, it’s also looking for a home 
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Permission Granted – On Summer Sabbatical

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horse painting with sunset colours

“Spirit Horse” (12″ x 24″) – $867 – Buy it here

How good are you at giving yourself permission?

I still can’t believe I’m doing this, but what a relief! Permission granted! 

I’m taking a break from online work while on sacred pilgrimage to Glastonbury. No blog posts. No newsletters until September. I’m not even bringing my computer! I have my skating injury to thank for inspiring this lightening of the load since my shoulders can’t take the weight.

As a full-time artist, sole bread winner & ex-workaholic, this decision wasn’t made easily.

But who would I be if I didn’t practice what I preach, including self-care.

I haven’t missed a newsletter since I started 5 years ago or a blog post in almost twice that time.

But all year, my eyes have been drawn to a magazine clipping in the corner of my Intuitive Vision Board that says “Yes, you can pull off a sabbatical.” 

So I am…. I’m taking a summer sabbatical. This will be your last blog post until September.

That’s not all. I’m going on a total digital detox! 

Despite what the marketing experts say about “out of sight, out of mind” and the potential impact on my income, I’m breaking my pattern of persistency and consistency.

In this day & technological age, we’ve not only become dependent on technology for our life but have started living for it. 

You know I enjoy sharing the love & beauty I experience. I’m all for exploring & expressing it. But I too have been guilty of living only partly in the moment while thinking of what I’ll be posting about it.  I’ll even draft the accompanying text in my mind as I swim, walk, or cycle.

I need a break from that to break that pattern.

This is no ordinary holiday I’m on. It’s a divinely guided sacred pilgrimage and what my Team of Divine Helpers have called a Gateway. 

So I’m giving myself permission to get off my personal Facebook and Instagram while I’m out of the country.

It’s time to disconnect to reconnect. After all, this trip is part of my Re-Connecting project and the build-up to my last painting in the series. 

I have, however, pre-sheduled 3 posts a day on my professional Facebook Page, so feel free to login there if you’re in the mood for a bit of Dominique Hurley art & inspiration. Or peruse the wealth of resources here on my website.

Or maybe this will inspire you to try a digital detox of your own.

Turn your social media off for blocks of time. Check emails only every few days. Give yourself the time and space to be with and for yourself.

And if you’re already great at this, take a look at what other area in your life you don’t give yourself permission in.

Have a great month and I’ll be in touch sometime after I get back. Until then,

Love & Blessings,

Dominique

P.S.  A few days after preparing this post, I found out I didn’t get the $25K art grant I was hoping for to cover my investment in the 9-month project I’ve been working on. The Universe obviously has other plans.. “When one door closes, God opens a window”. I don’t regret spending 2 full weeks preparing the grant application package early in the year. It helped me open up to the inspiration for the details of this guided project, including my amazing week as Artist in Residence in Carbonear. My job is to stay happy no matter what. I appreciate all the abundance in my life, and there’s so much of it. I’ll admit the ego had its few minutes of coping with rejection and expectations. But after grieving what I thought was going to happen, it quickly became time to embrace the mystery of what’s to unfold. I’ve always been creatively resourceful in the past, and so it continues. May we all journey on our Path to our Highest Good with ease & grace. Peace be with us.

Title: Spirit Horse
Year: © 2019
Size:  24“ x  12“ (61 cm x 30.48 cm)
Artist: Dominique Hurley
Materials: Professional acrylics & channeled energy work on gallery-wrapped canvas with painted edges. No framing required. 
Genre: intuitive painting, visionary art, energism art, spiritual art, inspirational art
Price: $867 CAD – Buy it here
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Do Chickens Fly? Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway

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intuitive painting of a snow owl in flight

“Night Vision” (12″x36″) – Prints available in many sizes & mediums. 

Chickens don’t fly very high, very far, or very long. The longest flight recorded was 13 seconds – 10 feet high and 300 feet in distance. So often, they just don’t bother flying at all.

Believe it or not, I’m a big chicken. I’m scared of so much.

People can’t believe that when they look at my life – living and working intuitively in 3 careers on 3 continents and 5 provinces, several returns to school, and now living as a full-time artist & Lightworker.

So maybe it’s not true. But I keep saying it.

After all, I’m concerned at having to figure out my way from the Gatwick airport to Glastonbury with a heavy suitcase in 2 days – 2 trains, a bus, and a taxi after an overnight flight…. scary, right?!

So is the idea of being in a huge crowd of strangers at a Goddess Conference for 9 days. Will I be drained by so much people time? Will I be able to take full advantage of the morning-til-night schedule? Will I have the right clothing for the weather? Will I like my B & B?  Will I have enough sun screen and if not, will I be able to find hypoallergenic natural stuff?  What is this “Gateway” my Team of Divine Helpers told me about?

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

I’m just not a natural risk-taker. I’m not a big fan of change either… but the only thing constant in life is change itself.

The upside to all this is that if I’m guided, nothing stops me. 

I’ve come to trust my intuition. I still feel the fear, but it gets mixed with a level of excitement that’s a sure sign of impending growth. 

Intuition is always a call for growth. Growth means stretching your comfort zones. And stretching can be uncomfortable. Unfamiliar. But oh so worth it!

We’re not meant to stay small. We have to break through that shell that’s our limiting beliefs and fears to spread our wings and fly!

Breath by breath, step by step, keep asking “What would love do now?” Tune into your heart and soar.

One book that really helped me years ago is Susan Jeffers classic ” Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway“. If being a chicken has kept you on the ground or limited the scope of your flight, get yourself a copy. You won’t regret it.

And perhaps stop affirming that you’re a chicken.  Oops, didn’t I just do that?!

Spread Your Owl Wings

Instead, recognize yourself for the wise, powerful, sensitive & agile owl that you are.

You have it in you to appreciate the mystery of the dark nights, seeing with a vision that pierces through the shadows. You too can navigate through the dreamtime to access your Guidance. Through intuition and awareness, you can find your way to new heights and journey new distances.

Emulate the owl. Turn your neck to see a situation from all angles. Your awareness of your fears and of the reality before you will help you gain a more realistic perception of a situation.

Through strategy and awe-inspiring maneuvering, you’ll fly through the challenges to grasp the opportunities.

There’s nothing wrong with chickens. But if you’re ready to claim dominion in this sacred realm that is your life, you may want to start calling yourself an owl instead.

Embrace your magical ability to shift form and reality through the power of your thoughts and actions.

I am.

So here I go. I’m flying to England, embracing the mystery of what my weeks there hold. I’m excited! I’ve done all my research & reservations and now, I just have to trust.

Yes, I feel the fear. I recognize my ego’s desire to keep me in the status quo, to keep me living small, to worry about the “what ifs” and “hows”.

But I also recognize the presence of my True Self. Like the owl, I’m connected to Spirit. I trust that my Guidance can see the big picture and is guiding me each step of the way.

Where are you being a chicken in your life? Are you ready to call in your inner owl instead?

Feel the fear and do it anyway. It’s a much more fulling way to be.

Disclaimer: No identification with actual chickens (living or deceased) is intended or should be inferred. God loves chickens as much as owls. It’s just an expression.

A Close Look at Night Vision II – The Painting

Allow this wise and benevolent owl to open your eyes to a new way of seeing – yourself & the world.  “Night Vision II” has come out of the enchanted forest to guide the way to freer & happier insight.

Note:  The mist in the forest appears white from some angles and iridescent violet and blue from others.

“Night Vision” (12″ x 36″)
Acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas. No framing required.
SOLD

Prints are available in many sizes & mediums.  Order here.

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Re-Connecting #10- Journey of Self-Discovery

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Journey of Self-Discovery painting

“Journey of Self-Discovery” 24″ x 48″ – Original and Prints for sale

Who am I? This is an ageless question asked by countless seekers on their journey of self-discovery.

Do you attribute your temperament to your ancestral make-up or zodiac sign?

How strongly do you identify with your gender, country, religious upbringing?

What books have helped you understand who you are and why you’re here?

What tools have helped you know & accept your personality type?

What has shaped your way of perceiving the world?

From the moment we’re born, we embark on a journey of self-discovery, trying to find our place in relation to our parents, families, communities, social & professional circles, world and beyond.

Who am I? How do I fit in? Where do I fit in? Do I need to fit in?

This journey of self-understanding and identity building is as unique as you are.

“Journey of Self-Discovery”, painting #10 in my Re-Connecting Collection, visually represents what’s helped me understand who and what I am in this lifetime. 

As you keep reading, reflect on what your painting would include.

Journal or sketch it out as part of your re-connecting to your True Self on your path of purpose.

My Ancestry

I’ll admit that when I painted the coloured background at the top of this painting, I hadn’t intended for it to look like the female reproductive system.

That’s often how it works in intuitive painting. It was the shape of this birthing canal that inspired my decision to include my genetic makeup.

I was born in a French Canadian Catholic family in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. My ancestry is 1/8 German, 1/8 Irish, and 3/4 French.

That’s from the earthly perspective.

From a spiritual perspective, however, I believe that I’m an individualized expression of the Divine. I sense it as Truth that we’re all part of that Divine Oneness. That’s why I included a big 3-D drop of gold paint at the very top, representing that drop of the pure divine essence some call God.

Being born into this world from the Spirit World, I chose to paint an angel as the representation of my team of Divine Helpers and other souls who agreed ahead of time to support me in various ways on my earthly journey.

This angel looks very much like the ones in the stained-glass windows at the Notre Dame Basilica in Ottawa – where I received the intuitive message to create this collection.

Journey of Self-Discovery

It was only after I’d painted the top that I realized I’d forgotten to include something that identified me as Canadian. Oops. Yet, it’s a strong part of my identity.

My background living & working in the nation’s capital for many years gave me a good background on what it meant to be Canadian.

But it was when I was teaching about Canada during my 5 years in the Czech Republic and South Korea that I realized how little I truly knew. That’s when I set the intention to discover who I was in relation to this huge land I called home.

Since then, I’ve lived & worked in 5 provinces and have visited the other 5. I’ve yet to explore the 3 territories though.

Until my next intuitive call, I’m happy to continue living on the island of Newfoundland, which I’ve called home since 2011.

So – that’s where that big red maple leaf comes in – added once I’d already painted the other central elements.

First were the 2 triangles pointing in different directions – up for the masculine and down for the feminine. These help shape the overlapping circles and the sacred geometry of the Vesica Pisces. If you’re familiar with my art, you know I use this symbol of two becoming one a lot.

In the sweet spot – the shape at the middle of the two circles – is the third eye. Intuition. My life has been shaped by connecting to my True Self and following my inner guidance around the world. It’s helped me see myself and others through a different perspective – one of increasing love & beauty.

After all, my life purpose is to travel the world exploring and expressing my love of beauty and the beauty of love. It took 6 months of working with the book “What Matters Most” by Hyrum Smith to figure that out.

The centre of my painting is the journey of becoming whole – first as a spiritual being having a human experience.

It’s also about harmonizing  my sacred feminine and masculine. For many years, they were at war inside my head.

I’m not sure if I was born a stronger Right or Left brained child, but I certainly was very well trained in the Left Brain world. So much so that my Right, feminine, intuitive self shrunk with the years until a healer cautioned me to do something about it quick.

That’s when I got back into the arts, which led to strengthening my intuition …. and the rest is history.

The textured couple represent both that balance of the feminine and masculine within me as well as my identity-building within  the context of relationships – with family, friends, co-workers, and soul-mates.

I may be a highly sensitive introvert who enjoys a lot of solo time, but I also cherish my connections with like-minded souls.

I grew up in an insular military family. It was really only after my 10-year marriage and 2 more provinces that I discovered a sense of belonging and community. Before that, I had one or two close friends wherever I lived, but never had a sense of tribe. Saskatoon changed that.

Who we are within society and in relationship with others is a balancing act – one I chose to represent here through the yoga tree pose – grounded & connected in dynamic stillness and mutual support.

The Tools

I’ve been a spiritual seeker from as far as I can remember. I spent many introspective hours alone in nature as a young child. I also remember reading booklets about Saints and the Children’s Bible in my pre-teens.

My grade 9 religious studies teacher, Lysette Brochu, was moved to give me a copy of Og Mandino’s The Greatest Miracle in the World. For decades after that, I mostly read personal and spiritual growth books.

Here, I chose to honour a few of the most significant books from my past.  I let go of books as soon as I read them, so I had to recreate them in Photoshop from scratch. Then, made a gel image transfer so that the books would be semi-transparent, letting the texture and colour of the gold background infuse the titles.

The knowledge and wisdom from these books run through my essence just as my ancestor’s blood run through my veins.

So does what I’ve learned about myself as a Scorpio (in western astrology) and a Fire Horse (in Chinese astrology). The latter are dreaded, I’ve read, by Chinese parents. But I quite like who I am.

Other tools that influenced my self-understanding & self-acceptance were the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the one included in the book Now, Discover Your Strengths.

An Ever Evolving Journey

Emerging more fully into ourselves is a journey that spans many lifetimes, or so I believe.

The clockwise and counter-clockwise spiral vines on the background represent this constant journey of allowing Spirit to guide us inward and then back out again into the world through our various ways of being & doing.

Framing the painting are the two Towers of Truth & Knowledge standing in the etheric plane. These are where I imagine the Akashic Records  (Book of Life) to be stored. They’re like a super computer that can access all information for every individual who has ever lived upon the earth in the past, present & future – thoughts, words, deeds, intentions, etc.

Exploring these on my own and with trained practitioners has been a fun part of this road trip called life.

The Painting – Journey of Self-Discovery

Emerging as my True Self with the help of this entire frame of reference has been a work in progress – a journey of self-discovery and identity-building that I’ve found important in allowing myself to be all I was meant to be. 

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Title:Journey of Self-Discovery
Year: © 2019
Size: 48 “ x 24 “ (122 cm x 61 cm)
Artist: Dominique Hurley
Materials: Professional acrylics & channeled energy work on gallery-wrapped canvas with painted edges. No framing required. 
Genre: intuitive painting, visionary art, energism art, spiritual art, inspirational art
Price: $3,700 CAD  – Purchase online here.
Order prints (in your choice of size & medium)

Who Are You?

This painting is a bit of who I am.  Who are you?  Please share in the comments below 1 thing you would keep the same from my painting and 2 elements that you would add. Books, symbols, etc.

Thanks – I look forward to reading that.

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Meet Me in the Middle for Romance

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Sacred Romance - Meet Me in the Middle - painting of couple in Vesica Pisces

“Meet Me In the Middle” ( 18″ x 36″) – $2, 267 CAD

 

What can I say?!  I’m a romantic. Are you?

Romance is a way of life.

It’s about joining with a moment, a flower, a feeling, a thought, or a person to experience each other with curiosity and wonder.

It’s the creation of something new when two elements of the Divine Oneness come together in that sacred space in the middle to be real.

Is the tree or river impacted by my joy of photographing it? I believe so.

Is your partner impacted by your truly seeing, accepting, and celebrating him or her? Absolutely!

Romance is that awareness and celebration of the delightful , comforting, vulnerable, revealing truth of the moment.

Romance in the Studio

The very creation of this painting was romantic. It gave me its name soon after the vision popped into my mind. I hadn’t even finished varnishing my other dragonfly painting, “Aligned“, when this one called me to join with it for a magical few days of play.

I was taking a break from the spiritually intensive process behind the Re-Connecting Collection. I just wanted to play with paint while watching movies or listening to inspirational podcasts. I was in the mood for something lighter.

I’d had so much fun designing the multi-layered dragonfly stencil for the previous one, so I was thrilled for this new calling. A dragonfly duo! Yay!

“Meet Me in the Middle” celebrates the unconditional love that is possible when both individuals in a couple unite in unconditional love, which is only possible when they let go of illusions & delusions to be  present in Truth. It honours the role of both to see and be seen as well as to accept and be accepted for who they truly are.

Layer after layer the vision came into being as I was willing to meet and be with it.

Relationship as a Sacred Space

Isn’t that just like in relationships?

Emerging into our full selves happens layer by layer, step by step.

Figuring out who we are as individuals and as a couple is a sacred process indeed!

I was married for 10 years.

As we grew together, we got to know ourselves better.

Circumstances made it so we couldn’t be bothered sweating the small stuff. We had too much big stuff to deal with. This challenge was a gift – I had to pull on all my inner and outer resources to support myself and my husband through life & death times.

Once we pulled through the crisis, however, we discovered that to be true to ourselves, we needed to let the other go. We were no longer living in alignment with our Higher Self – something we only discovered as we emerged more fully into authenticity. This required being honest with ourselves first and then each other. Not easy.  No regrets.

We’d been the best of friends and so wishing for the other’s happiness as well as our own was natural. Letting go became the most loving thing to do. We divorced with more love than we when we got together.

Thankfully, because of our challenges, I’d learned to not live under the hold of “What will they think?”. Being true to myself was more important than my fear of judgement. That’s important to live an authentic life. So I never judged my divorce as a failure. I could see it for the success that it was.

We were doing what was right for us and did so lovingly. That was possible because we’d truly lived and loved in the middle of that sacred space.

In Relationship with Your Self First

That was about 17 years ago. I’ve grown a lot since then, continually meeting my Self in that sacred space in the middle – getting to know and love myself as I continue my journey.

It’s so important to take the time to romance your Self, whether you’re single or in relationship.

That way, you’ll bring with you your truest, strongest, most beautiful, and most loving self to the relationship. From that sacred space can only emerge a more magnificent creation born of unconditional love for yourself and your partner.

Doesn’t that sound wonderful? Painting all this in “Meet Me In the Middle”  was part of my romancing idea of joining in Truth with the next right man for me.

Can you relate?

What does “Meet Me In the Middle” bring to heart for you? I’d love to hear about it in the comments below.

The Painting – Meet Me In the Middle

Title: Meet Me in the Middle
Year: © 2019
Size: 18 “ x 36“ (45.72 cm x 91.44 cm)
Artist: Dominique Hurley
Materials: Professional acrylics & channeled energy work on gallery-wrapped canvas with painted edges. No framing required. 
Genre: intuitive painting, visionary art, energism art, spiritual art, inspirational art
Price: $2,267 CAD- Purchase online now.
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Are You Aligned With Your Core Values?

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Are you aligned with your core values? dragonfly painting

“Aligned” (20″ x 20″) – SOLD

Are you living in alignment with your core values?

Are your choices aligned with your Higher Self vision of your life?

I woke up beating myself up because it was already 8:30 AM. My productive hours usually start at 5 AM.  But I stayed up until midnight watching a Bollywood movie, and my body claimed the next 8 hours for sleep.

I could have gone on beating myself up for my poor choice and dove into my work (writing several blog posts).

Instead, I accepted the sun’s rare appearance as an invitation to get myself back on the loving track.

I wouldn’t be spending the whole day until sundown at the computer or in the studio. Nope!

I brushed my teeth, packed my breakfast & pad of paper, and headed out to Fort Amherst on my bike – a seaside spot on the cliffs 20-30 minutes away.  There, I sat for a couple of hours drafting a few blog posts and enjoying just being.

This was only my 2nd time on my bike this year – the weather being only one of the reasons. It felt great to get my body moving with such beauty all around. It was grounding. It was connecting. The sound of the crashing waves on the cliffs nourished my heart while my smoothie and organic grapes nourished my body.

Was I still in negative self-talk? Absolutely not. What I’d perceived as a ‘failure’ was simply motivation to make a better choice for the rest of my day.

My body, mind & spirit were now in the right space to write to you.

That’s what this painting is all about. “Aligned” is a reminder that our life flows from our essence, our core values, towards our Higher Self vision of our life.

The upside down rose quartz worry stone in the top corner represents the dissipation of worries when love & compassion guides our perspective & choices.

Which Way Feels Aligned to You?

Dragonfly energy helps us to look past the illusions and delusions of the shoulds, woulds, and coulds of life to know our own Truth and set our own direction.

This is why I wired the back of the painting in a way that lets you choose to hang “Aligned” in a way that speaks to you on any given day.

Living in alignment isn’t about being and doing for others’ approval. It’s about designing your own best life that reflects your values.

When we let go of those illusions and delusions that we’ve authored or adopted, we naturally become happier and healthier.

What Are Your Core Values?

There’s no one telling me but me what time is best to go to bed or to wake up at. I’ve come to learn with time what my optimal conditions are for a great day. Beating myself up when I change that around a bit, however, is definitely not in alignment with my values of love, including self-love.

Time in nature, exercise, writing from a space of love (vs. obligation/scheduling) – those are in alignment with my core values of spirituality, love, beauty, integrity, and freedom.

What are your core values? What matters most to you?

Take a look at Scott Jeffrey’s list of 200 if you want to dive into this exercise.

Which Areas Are Not Aligned With Your Core Values?

Now take a look at the 8 areas of your life. How can you better live in alignment to your values?

As you read through this list, pay attention to what comes to mind/heart. If it feels loving, it’s your intuition speaking. If it doesn’t, it’s your critical self-talk.

What can you let go of in the areas that feel out of alignment? What can you add more of or change?

The 8 Areas:

  1. Physical Environment
  2. Fun / Recreation
  3. Business / Career
  4. Personal / Spiritual Development
  5. Wellness & Health
  6. Romance / Family
  7. Finances / Life Planning
  8. Society / Community

Awareness is key to emerging more fully as your True Self.

No Regrets

Writing this at the end of a bike ride, sitting on a cliff overlooking the ocean was a great choice. My whole day turned out happier & healthier because I chose not to spiral down the rabbit hole of critical self-talk then dive into my work resenting the fact I was behind schedule and couldn’t enjoy the sunshine while it lasted.

I’ve designed a life and career that allows me the freedom to do so. Sure, sometimes I may not make the best choices. But that’s no reason to beat myself up. That wouldn’t be very loving. Instead, I continue to strive to live in a way that I’ll be able to say on my deathbed – “I have no regrets”.

You? What signals is your body, mind, or spirit giving you today to get your life back on track? These are gifts! Accept and act on those intuitive taps on the shoulders before they become a 2′ x 4′. It becomes harder then to live without regrets.

Aligned – The Painting

“Aligned” – SOLD
(20″ x 20″)
Acrylics & rose quarts on gallery-wrapped canvas. No framing required.

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Get On the Beam – How to Become a Clear Channel

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How to become a clear channel

“On the Beam” (12″ x 24″) – $867 CAD – Purchase through “Earth & Sky Gallery” (summer 2021)

Have you heard the Peace Prayer of Saint Francis that starts with “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace”? That’s part of what channeling means to me.

It’s allowing Source, The Universe, our Higher Self and Teams of Divine Helpers to speak to and work through us. It’s about receiving Guidance and co-creating.

For that to happen, it’s important to be a clear channel.

This is as true when

  • I’m inviting a painting to be created through me as it is
  • when I’m tuning into my intuition to take the next inspired action or
  • receiving one of my long vision sequences for a Divine Storytelling Time intuitive reading client.

The tips I share below on how to become a clear channel will help whether you’re interested in channeling intuitive guidance (my focus), healing energy, or becoming a psychic medium.

Becoming a clear channel is a constant practice of fine tuning through conscious effort. That’s why I like to paint reminders for both of us, including this new painting called “On the Beam”, an idiom that means

“on or along the correct or proper track or way of thinking. A reference to the former practice in which aircraft would home in on a radio beam in order to navigate to their destination.”

Do you recognize the symbolism in the painting? It’s a smaller version of “Time of Ascension“. Usually, artists create a smaller one before the larger one, but I had so much fun with the larger one, I wanted to make a smaller variation in monochromatic tones. It’s not the first time I do things differently – lol.

To be on the beam, to live on track, to be guided by the Light is so important if we want to live our Higher Self version of our life. It makes the difference between living small or living big within your Self and in the service of others. Universal energy and Our Teams of Divine Helpers  are happy to help – we just need to remember to ask for that support and to connect to the resources available to do so.

I’m feeling called right now to become an even cleaner clearer channel. I feel like I’m preparing for something big.

Back in November, I was told that my time in Glastonbury would be a gateway. That’s all I know. I’ll be there for the Sun Lover Goddess Conference (which happened to be at the same time as when I was guided to go) and a solo retreat at the Chalice Well Gardens.

When I was a practicing Catholic, we had the 40 days of Lent to prepare us for the celebration of the resurrection of Christ. Last week, I was asked to take 40 days to consciously prepare for the birth or rebirth of something new in my life.

Co-Creating the “Re-Connecting Collection” of paintings  was part of the original Guided preparation. Now, I’m embracing the mystery and following a call to get more fully on the beam before my trip to the UK.

So this is perfect timing to share some tips on becoming a clear channel. May this also help you tune into your intuition so that you too can allow peace and love to flow through your doing & being.

 

How to Become a Clear Channel

3 Basic Guidelines:

There are 3 basic guidelines that help you prepare in body, mind & spirit to be a channel.

  1.  Clean Up the Channels:
    Let go of anything that either numbs or overexcites you. Depression and anxiety are like static on the line when trying to communicate with your intuition / Team of Divine Helpers. So avoid what affects any of your senses negatively.
  2. Raise Your Vibration:
    Your Team of Divine Helpers (angels,  Spirit Guides,  Higher Self, Jesus, etc.) vibrate at a very high level, so whatever you can do to raise your vibration will help bridge the gap of communication. Do, be, and have what lifts you up!
  3. Trust & Pay Attention: One reason a child finds the eggs at an Easter egg hunt is because she believes they’re out there and won’t stop until she finds some. The child’s curiosity, wonder, and sense of play fill her heart and open her eyes. Her focus is sharp!  These are all necessary ingredients to being a clear channel. Pay attention with all your inner and outer senses to the psychic signs . Learn more about these in my free 75-minute tutorial. Your trust will grow from baby steps to leaps of faith, making it easier to embrace the mystery.

10 Tips to Become a Clear Channel:

  1. Set Your Intention & Ask: Whether it’s through prayer, journaling, goal-setting, etc. make it clear to yourself and The Universe that you want to become a clear channel for Love & Light (use the words that fit your belief system).  Ask and you shall receive. Because of free will, however, you need to ask. Then, open to receiving. If what you receive feels loving, it’s your intuition / Team of Divine Helpers. If it’s not, it’s your ego or an unwelcome presence. So make sure to ask for Guidance from sources of Light & Love working at the Highest Vibration. With a prayer like: “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace”,  the intention and request is there.
  2. Eat Clean: Healthy eating nourishes your body and a healthy body leads to a healthy mind. Some Buddhists abstain from onions, garlic & leeks because they excite the senses. I’ve never tasted coffee, so I’m sensitive to anything with caffeine in it. I try to avoid sugar because the effects are immediately clear – it hits my brain like a steam train! Now if I could only cut back on chips! Gluten and processed foods can cause depression, anxiety or fatigue for some people. Get to know how your body reacts to certain foods. What’s healthy for some may not be for you. What’s important is that you eat in a way that elevates your vibration.
  3. Avoid Drugs & Alcohol: I can’t speak from personal experience as I don’t drink and am one of the rare visionary artist who has never tried drugs. But it seems logical to me that if these things affect your competency behind the wheel, they’ll affect your ability to be a clear channel.
  4. Create Space – Meditate:  Meditation is a great way to create space for listening. When you’re constantly running around distracted, you’re likely missing your Team’s many attempts at communicating with you. Life is noisy. You need to be quiet to hear your Self & Team of Divine Helpers. So make space in your schedule as well as your mind. There are many kinds of meditation to help relax the mind, ground in the body, connect through the breath. Find what works for you.  When I’m not listening to one of the visioning mediations that I channel (which help connect you to your intuition for inspired action), then I’m listening to one of Steve Nobel’s transmissions. These bring in the archangels and the crystalline and central sun grids featured in my paintings “On the Beam” (above) and “Time of Ascension”. I also consider some of my painting sessions meditation. You might meditate while doing the dishes. Or do you spend time in quiet contemplation after your prayers? Again, find what works for you.
  5. Breathe: Your breath is your connection to Spirit. Breathe deeply through various yoga practices or get moving outside in the fresh air.  When you get scared, your breath becomes shallow or cut off , disconnecting you from your Self & Guidance. Unfortunately, many of us have learned to breathe up in our chests instead of deep down in our abdomens. So get back to how you breathed when you were a baby – you were super connected to Spirit back  then and can be again!
  6. Get Centered:  Exercise and gentle stretching can help get that oxygen flowing. It also centres & grounds you in your body. I like to do some restorative yoga and dancing on my mini-trampoline before I channel one of my Divine Storytelling Time packages for a client. What does your body crave?
  7. Nature Time:  Yes, being out in nature gets fresh air in your lungs and grounds you. It’s more than that. The Elements and Elementals are there to support your intentions. Next time you’re anxious, try hugging a tree. Just let it suck all the negativity out of you and down into the earth to be recycled into something that will serve the planet. Then let it connect you to the Heavens. Your whole chakra system will benefit from a nice long tree hug or lying down on the ground. Mother Earth nurtures, cleanses, and raises your vibration.  Go where you feel most uplifted. Every time I’m near a creek, river, lake, or ocean, I become an open vessel. Being in beauty (which is abundant in the great outdoors) brings me even higher and closer to the Light and Love that wants to flow through me.  If you haven’t tried an intuitive walkabout yet, it’s one of the fun & easy ways I teach to access your Guidance, especially in nature. And if you can’t get outside, the energy of crystals can be helpful.
  8. Solo Time: Is it easier for an introvert than an extrovert to channel? Maybe. What’s important is to take the time to be quiet and aware of all your senses and the signs. It’s about becoming a good listener.  Watching movies on your own isn’t what I’m talking about… even though that’s my favourite way to disconnect. It’s more about quiet contemplation or conscious channeling exercises like automatic writing, visioning, etc. Daydreaming is good too – imagination is the first of the higher levels of knowledge. Next comes inspiration and intuition.
  9. Record:  Don’t trust your memory! Use a dream journal, intuition notebook, camera, or voice memo app to record your data. I may take notes or photos on an intuitive walkabout but use my voice memo app to record the 1-hour Divine Storytelling Time sessions. When I used these channeled visions/ teachings for my Enter the Mandala: The 12 Universal Laws project, I was often surprised by what I heard but hadn’t remembered. And once, decades ago, I was confused why I was having such difficulty getting into a college program only to discover in my dream journal that I’d misremembered the Guidance I’d written down. When I applied at the suggested neighbouring university instead, I got in without a problem.
  10. Gratitude: Recognize when you’ve received Guidance, act on it, and be grateful for it. Imagine your appreciation opening the door wider each time. As your Team of Divine Helpers experience your gratitude and witness your willingness to take inspired action, it’ll become easier and easier to communicate with them. Your continued practice at creating a welcoming space and clear strong channels will pave the way to a happier & healthier life.

We Are Not Alone

How to become a clear channel. Get on the beam.We’re not alone. We’re all part of the Divine Oneness. So let’s connect to the flow of love & light that’s always available to us – that’s a part of us.

You’ll see. Co-creating is a lot more fun than trying to do everything on your own.

We knew all this as young kids. We just have to remember how to do it. Hopefully, these tips have helped. They’re all meant to help you be the joyous you that can more easily connect to your Truth.

I’d love to hear which of these tips you find most useful. Please share your experiences in the comments below.

Title: On the Beam – SOLD
Year: © 2019
Size: 24 “ x 12 “ (60.96 cm x 30.48 cm)
Artist: Dominique Hurley
Materials: Professional acrylics & channeled energy work on gallery-wrapped canvas with painted edges. No framing required. 
Genre: intuitive painting, visionary art, energism art, spiritual art, inspirational art

 

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Re-Connecting #9 – Time of Ascension

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“Time of Ascension” (24″ x 48″) – Original & Prints available.

As you contemplate “Time of Ascension”, #9 in the Re-Connecting painting collection, consciously breathe light into your physical, etheric, emotional and mental bodies.

Recharge with every in-breath.  

Release any toxic energy that can be released with every out breath.

Invite your whole Team of Divine Helpers and your Higher Self to be here with you now as you soak in the energy from this new painting.

Ask Archangel Metatron to bathe you in the golden light of the Christ Grid, that energy that comes from the Central Sun through our sun.

Then ask Archangel Sandalphon to energize you with silver light from the crystalline grid from the core of our sacred planet.

This light energy from above and below are clearly represented in this piece.

Less evident but still present is the energy available to us from the horizontal plane.

Invite Archangel Raphael in the east, the healer / magician angel of air to bathe you in green light.

Then ask Archangel Micheal, the warrior/ protector angel of fire in the south to bathe you in electric blue light.

Next, invite Archangel Gabriel, messenger angel of water from the west to hold space for you in diamond white light.

And finally ask for support from Archangel Uriel, angel of earth and physical structures to bathe you in ruby red fire.

Don’t rush the contemplative process.

You take the time to recharge your phone. Don’t forget to recharge yourself.

Allow the energy infused into this painting and the support from the Archangels to nourish your transformational journey.

Each individual that does the inner work to raise his or her consciousness, helps in the ascension of the planet.

Our Teams of Divine Helpers and Universal energy are happy to help – we just need to remember to ask for that support and to connect to the resources available to do so.

Meditation / Contemplation to Recharge the Batteries

It’s too easy to get caught up in the details of our dramas or the busy-ness in our every day lives.

If you’re feeling like you’re stuck in the mud or running on a hamster wheel, you know what I mean.

I find contemplating beauty and meditation break me out of those patterns.

They reconnect me to that  Divine Energy that is available to us all.

There are so many kinds of meditation and contemplation.

The guided visioning meditations I gift you with regularly are but one style. These are intended to help you raise your vibration and connect to your intuitive guidance.

When I’m not listening to the ones I channeled, I’m on YouTube listening to the energy transmissions, meditations, and affirmations by Steve Nobel of The Soul Matrix.

I resonate with his work, which definitely influenced the visuals in this painting.

As part of the retrospective on my life, “Time of Ascension” honours all of the conscious work I’ve done to live a life that’s aligned with my core values and emerge more fully into my Higher Self. I’m still a work in progress.

Watch It Evolve

While I was varnishing “Nature Bound“, I received a vision of what I needed to do for the base layer of the next painting in this collection.  No breaks! The painting marathon continued.

I spent a whole day creating layers of multicoloured stripes. It had the same meditative effect as dot-making, but in a new way. After layers of warm and cool stripes, I dove in with 2 shades of gold.

Then came hours of mathematical and geometrical calculations before painting the light rays. 

Several more hours were spent drawing and cutting the stencil for desired effect on the crystals.

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In Detail

Looking at the crystals close-up, the facets are white from some angles yet various iridescent colours from other angles.

The Lapis Lazuli stone at the top in its deep celestial blue has been a symbol of  honor, gods, power, spirit and vision throughout the ages. It is still a universal symbol of wisdom and truth. Here it’s embedded in mica chips, with the added energy of love & compassion.

Title: Time of Ascension
Year: © 2019
Size: 48 “ x  24“ (122 cm x 61 cm)
Artist: Dominique Hurley
Materials: Professional acrylics, lapis lazuli & mica & channeled energy work on gallery-wrapped canvas with painted edges. No framing required. 
Genre: intuitive painting, visionary art, energism art, spiritual art, inspirational art
Price: $3,700 CAD – purchase original.

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Re-Connecting # 8 – Nature Bound

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A painted retrospective of my spiritual journey in this lifetime would be incomplete without honouring the role of Mother Nature.

The forest definitely had a hand in raising me, especially between the age of 5-10 when we lived in the Black Forest, Germany.

My solo time in nature kept me connected to my Self, the Elementals, and God. Growing up in a time when children could roam free was perfect for an introverted child like me.

I’ve never been known for my memory and couldn’t tell you what I spent my days doing alone in the forest, but I do remember learning at a young age not to talk about it at school because my classmates would laugh at me.

So I kept my stories of my relationship with animals, fairies, angels and whatever else to myself.

I do remember biking to the next village (or what seemed like) at the age of 5 to spend time with the ducks and swan at the pond.

When we moved to Baden-Baden, my parents had to regularly send out search parties in the forest between the base and PMQs at dinner time. I’d have spent hours in there on my own or with a neighbour’s borrowed dog.

I just asked my Papa, and he said he’d find me with butterflies or frogs. I was happy, unaware of time.

In Lahr, we lived close to the Stadpark, an 11-acre garden filled with roaming peacocks and cranes. I regularly wandered there on my own at the age of 8-10 to speak to the unhappy horse in his stall or to admire the flowers.

Throughout our 5 years in Germany, we were blessed to travel far and wide. I remember the cities (especially the pizzerias) but I cherished our time in nature –  skiing in the Swiss Alps to swimming in the Mediterranean Ocean. I wasn’t very athletic and complained during our family hebertism trail hikes, but today I’m so grateful for them.

I got to experience so many of Mother Nature’s beauty as a young one and I continued to seek out contemplation spots as I grew up.

Back in Ottawa, I’d bike to Hogs Back Falls to sit amongst the rocks and sing or contemplate. That was before they fenced them off. Or I’d take the bike trail to a set of swings by the river to feel the freedom of being me. That’s another way to say I was escaping the pressures to become someone different.

My love of beauty fuelled my desire to travel and to seek out nature. It also re-connected me to my intuition when the stresses of the left-brain world had me spinning in the hamster wheel.

Water nourished my soul – I loved nothing better than to cross a lake at a slow breast stroke or spend sunset canoeing with a friend.

Snowshoeing in the Gatineau Hills brought me out in winter. And I loved hiking in the deep snow with my long skirts (with snowpants underneath). Yup, I’m a romantic!

As I said, I’m not the most athletic, but leisurely activity at a slow pace to admire my surroundings has always been pure bliss.

Hiking in groups never worked well as I’d be far behind feeling pressured when I wanted to get on my knees to admire the progress of a snail.

Nature Bound – the Name

So there you have it – # 8 in my Re-Connecting Collection is called “Nature Bound”.

Yes, “bound” is an expression meaning destined or heading towards something, as in going out into nature. But it’s more than that.

This painting’s name also plays with other meanings of “bound”:

  • As a noun, it’s a leaping movement upward – that boost my spirit gets from being in nature.
  • As the past tense of the verb ‘bind’ it means to be united or joined with – as in becoming one with Nature,
  • It also means to be committed to or apprenticed to – alluding to that teacher/student relationship.
  • As an adjective, it talks about the likelihood of something happening – the promise of re-connection that happens when I spend time among the Elements.

Watch it Evolve

I started the bottom layer before heading out to Carbonear for my Artist in Residence week. I used Golden Open paints – professional acrylic paints that stay wet a long time, just like oil paints. So that week away gave it time to dry after the very colourful textured layers.

Part of me regrets covering all that up.But that coursing energy is still under there – the energy flow and Ley lines around the world.

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The Pinecones

See how the tree branches hug each pinecone, embracing each perfectly evolving miracle of nature and nourishing it as it emerges more fully into its Self?

Well, that’s what I was going for anyway…

Did you know this about the pinecone?

“Our “Pineal Gland, shaped like (and named after) the Pinecone, is at the geometric center of our brain and is intimately linked to our body’s perception of light. … It is considered by many to be our biological Third Eye, the “Seat of the Soul,” the “Epicenter of Enlightenment” — and its sacred symbol throughout history, in cultures around the world, has been the Pinecone.”

(source)

I learned that in 2015 after it came to me in a vision for one of my Universal Law mandalas.

This time, I was inspired to include 3 with white dots highlighting the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio. (watch this cool video to learn more).

My initial feeling was that they represented nature’s role in my life as a child, teen, and adult. As I grew, so did my relationship with Nature and with my Self.

What else does this trinity represent for you?

 

The 5 Elements

The frame to this stained-glass window inspired piece is filled with symbols of the 5 Elements: air, water, fire, earth, and aether.

Some of the symbols are universal and others chosen for their personal significance in my life.

 

Thank God for the Creatures

These childlike drawings of a squirrel, bird, and deer came last when I realized that a painting about nature would be incomplete without honouring the four-legged and winged ones.

Nature’s creatures have been my friends, messengers, teachers, and so much more over the years.

May they too continue to find peace and nourishment in nature’s great outdoors.

 

Original & Prints

Title: Nature Bound
Year: © 2019
Size: 48 “ x  24“ (122 cm x 61 cm)
Artist: Dominique Hurley
Materials: Professional acrylics & channeled energy work on gallery-wrapped canvas with painted edges. No framing required. 
Genre: intuitive painting, visionary art, energism art, spiritual art, inspirational art
Price: $3,700 CAD  – purchase now

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