Let’s face it. We live in a busy world. And sometimes, we create even more busy-ness to avoid connecting with our Selves, others, and our team of Divine Helpers.
Intuitive hearing aids like these visual prompts are meant to help you cut through that noise to get back into alignment with your soul.
So tune in and find out what’s your soul’s call for connection!
Which of these 4 photographs from my Connection Collection attracts you most today?
Then, scroll down to find out what this says about you.
Note: My description is just a cue to ignite your own intuition. Contemplate the image and listen to your heart to gain even greater meaning from your choice.
You’re being invited to greater depths of self-awareness and awareness of your environment through your interaction with Mother Nature’s creatures.
Animals can open us to the miracle of beingness – our own and theirs in relationship.
They’ll let you know if you’re truly present, open, and respectful in the moment.
Indeed, these creatures are great mirrors to our current states of being. We can learn so much about ourselves from being around birds, pets, and wildlife.
Horses, for example, are highly aware of our energy, feelings, thoughts, and body language.
This 15-year old Welsh Pony mare called Lacey is part of the team at the Ravenheart Equine Learning centre and retreat in Saskatchewan. Such equine-assisted wellness centres offer programs for self-development and personal growth, healing, grief, relationships, team-building, recovery, and learning.
How are you being called to deepen your relationship with your Self, others, and Mother Nature through the highly sensitive and responsive animals in your life?
* Need more guidance? Work with me: intuitive readings, custom guided meditations, and Soul Energy Portrait Experiences.
Stop and smell the flowers, my friend.
Your life’s garden is already so rich with beauty and colour. Take the time to appreciate all that you’ve cultivated.
Your inner garden too is teaming with the resources and answers you need to move forward in your life.
So take the time to pause and truly be present.
Take nourishment from the health-giving wisdom of your heart. It knows what’s in your Highest Good. It can guide you, through your intuition to the prosperity you deserve.
So first, appreciate the well-being that you have.
Then, keep cultivating from your strengths to create the good life, whatever that means for you.
By tending to your garden, you’ll harvest the rewards. What does this mean to you?
Weed out what no longer serves you to give room for goodness to grow into the Light.
Then share your prosperity with the world in ways that fulfill you. Don’t do it out of obligation. Share your bounty in ways that resonate with your life’s purpose.
Trust your feelings in this process. A sense of expansion means it’s aligned with your soul callings. An immediate feeling of contraction means it isn’t. Any expansion followed by contraction means that fear and ego are stepping in the way.
How can you best weed these out for your well-being and that of world around you?
* Need more guidance? Work with me: intuitive readings, custom guided meditations, and Soul Energy Portrait Experiences.
Are you so preoccupied with looking far ahead in space or time that you’ve forgotten to appreciate the spot in which you’re standing?
Yes, I’m speaking literally as well as metaphorically.
Take a moment. Where are you standing?
Look around. Look up, and yes, look right beneath your feet. What do you see? What are you grateful for?
This photograph was taken one day on a coastal hike. I was so taken with the views of the ocean and islands in the distance that I hadn’t realized what I was standing on. This rock… the most beautiful rock face I’d ever seen…
So what or who are you taking for granted in your immediate environment.
Are you wasting precious energy longing for something in the distance when the gifts are right there in your space?
It’s by first recognizing and connecting to these gifts that your vision for the future will become clearer.
This is also an invitation to reconnect to nature. There’s a life-giving energy there that is unlike any other.
Take the time to go for a walk in nature, no matter the season. You’ll see. It’s a portal to your intuition, clarity, peace, and so much more.
* Need more guidance? Work with me: intuitive readings, custom guided meditations, and Soul Energy Portrait Experiences.
You’re so typically yourself. It’s OK. Laugh at that! It’s great medicine!
And if you and your patterns aren’t funny enough for you, find something else that makes you laugh.
If comedy shows don’t work, have you tried laughter yoga? Or how about inviting your friends, family, or co-workers to lie with heads on each other’s bellies and start a contagious laugh-out.
According to Helpguide.org, ” Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease. Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals. Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain.”
Do you laugh enough?
Your mental, physical, and social health needs it.
So go ahead, bring a bunch of playful people together for a game night or any other activity that might get you laughing – at yourselves and with life.
* Need more guidance? Work with me: intuitive readings, custom guided meditations, and Soul Energy Portrait Experiences.
Feel free to share how your image choice spoke to you in the comments below. I’d love to hear.
Surround yourself with beauty.
Do your walls need a makeover? It’s so important to surround yourself with objects and art that support you on your journey to your Highest Good.
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New Painting: Interbeing – a rainbow forest
/in PaintingsThe studio was all set up for a painting play date with my Self while another blizzard hit St. John’s. I’d smudged (energetic cleansing ritual) with sacred palo santo smoke and invited my team of Divine Helpers to join the fun. Then, my housemate walked in to share about the concept of ‘interbeing’.
I got goosebumps. I knew that my as-yet-unborn painting had already chosen its name.
“Interbeing (Rainbow Forest)” – 15″ x 30″ – SOLD
Sitting cross-legged on the floor, I used every one of my non-metallic fluid acrylic colours, layer after layer, to co-create”Interbeing – Rainbow Forest”.
I had no expectations. No demands. I just needed to play with the energy of colour.
Over the next few days, this rainbow forest emerged, its essence mirrored in both the textured trees and sky.
Coined by Vietnamese Buddhist Monk, scholar, and poet Thich Nhat Hanh, “interbeing” means to inter-dependently co-exist.
Here’s how he explains it:
Appreciation for Interbeing
Give this a try and observe how it’ll raise your vibration and reconnect you to your True Self and Divine Oneness.
Take a few minutes to list out loud with appreciation everything and everyone that is part of this interbeing with you.
Who and what has contributed to the Gift you are today? Who and what has positively contributed to your day, your work, your life?
Let your appreciation carry you, raise you, and connect you.
Interbeing – Forest Rainbow (15″ x 30″)
Acrylics and granular gel on stretched canvas. No framing required.
SOLD
You can also see all my available original paintings here and prints here.
Tune In #4: Your Soul’s Call for Connection
/in Photography Projects, Tune InLet’s face it. We live in a busy world. And sometimes, we create even more busy-ness to avoid connecting with our Selves, others, and our team of Divine Helpers.
Intuitive hearing aids like these visual prompts are meant to help you cut through that noise to get back into alignment with your soul.
So tune in and find out what’s your soul’s call for connection!
Which of these 4 photographs from my Connection Collection attracts you most today?
Then, scroll down to find out what this says about you.
Note: My description is just a cue to ignite your own intuition. Contemplate the image and listen to your heart to gain even greater meaning from your choice.
Want more of my art & inspiration? Join my mailing list and get a free guided meditation mp3.
#1 – Miracles
You’re being invited to greater depths of self-awareness and awareness of your environment through your interaction with Mother Nature’s creatures.
Animals can open us to the miracle of beingness – our own and theirs in relationship.
They’ll let you know if you’re truly present, open, and respectful in the moment.
Indeed, these creatures are great mirrors to our current states of being. We can learn so much about ourselves from being around birds, pets, and wildlife.
Horses, for example, are highly aware of our energy, feelings, thoughts, and body language.
This 15-year old Welsh Pony mare called Lacey is part of the team at the Ravenheart Equine Learning centre and retreat in Saskatchewan. Such equine-assisted wellness centres offer programs for self-development and personal growth, healing, grief, relationships, team-building, recovery, and learning.
How are you being called to deepen your relationship with your Self, others, and Mother Nature through the highly sensitive and responsive animals in your life?
* Need more guidance? Work with me: intuitive readings, custom guided meditations, and Soul Energy Portrait Experiences.
#2 – Prosperity
Stop and smell the flowers, my friend.
Your life’s garden is already so rich with beauty and colour. Take the time to appreciate all that you’ve cultivated.
Your inner garden too is teaming with the resources and answers you need to move forward in your life.
So take the time to pause and truly be present.
Take nourishment from the health-giving wisdom of your heart. It knows what’s in your Highest Good. It can guide you, through your intuition to the prosperity you deserve.
So first, appreciate the well-being that you have.
Then, keep cultivating from your strengths to create the good life, whatever that means for you.
By tending to your garden, you’ll harvest the rewards. What does this mean to you?
Weed out what no longer serves you to give room for goodness to grow into the Light.
Then share your prosperity with the world in ways that fulfill you. Don’t do it out of obligation. Share your bounty in ways that resonate with your life’s purpose.
Trust your feelings in this process. A sense of expansion means it’s aligned with your soul callings. An immediate feeling of contraction means it isn’t. Any expansion followed by contraction means that fear and ego are stepping in the way.
How can you best weed these out for your well-being and that of world around you?
* Need more guidance? Work with me: intuitive readings, custom guided meditations, and Soul Energy Portrait Experiences.
#3 – Rockface
Are you so preoccupied with looking far ahead in space or time that you’ve forgotten to appreciate the spot in which you’re standing?
Yes, I’m speaking literally as well as metaphorically.
Take a moment. Where are you standing?
Look around. Look up, and yes, look right beneath your feet. What do you see? What are you grateful for?
This photograph was taken one day on a coastal hike. I was so taken with the views of the ocean and islands in the distance that I hadn’t realized what I was standing on. This rock… the most beautiful rock face I’d ever seen…
So what or who are you taking for granted in your immediate environment.
Are you wasting precious energy longing for something in the distance when the gifts are right there in your space?
It’s by first recognizing and connecting to these gifts that your vision for the future will become clearer.
This is also an invitation to reconnect to nature. There’s a life-giving energy there that is unlike any other.
Take the time to go for a walk in nature, no matter the season. You’ll see. It’s a portal to your intuition, clarity, peace, and so much more.
* Need more guidance? Work with me: intuitive readings, custom guided meditations, and Soul Energy Portrait Experiences.
#4 – Laughter
You’re so typically yourself. It’s OK. Laugh at that! It’s great medicine!
And if you and your patterns aren’t funny enough for you, find something else that makes you laugh.
If comedy shows don’t work, have you tried laughter yoga? Or how about inviting your friends, family, or co-workers to lie with heads on each other’s bellies and start a contagious laugh-out.
According to Helpguide.org, ” Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease. Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals. Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain.”
Do you laugh enough?
Your mental, physical, and social health needs it.
So go ahead, bring a bunch of playful people together for a game night or any other activity that might get you laughing – at yourselves and with life.
* Need more guidance? Work with me: intuitive readings, custom guided meditations, and Soul Energy Portrait Experiences.
Did you resonate?
Feel free to share how your image choice spoke to you in the comments below. I’d love to hear.
Surround yourself with beauty.
I invite you to visit my online shop for:
P.S. Click here to sign-up for my bi-weekly e-newsletter & get a free guided meditation mp3.
I confess… this felt so good
/in Paintings“Promise (Springtime Lullaby)” – 9″ x 12″
Let me be transparent. That’s how I am.
This felt so good, I have to share.
As soon as I posted photos of this new painting on my Facebook Page, it sold. The Universe rewarded my passion and commitment with the perfect buyer, and fast.
Wow! What a feeling! Such ease & grace.
No years of bringing that painting from one exhibition or event to another; no countless hours working on online marketing for it; no worrying where this month’s grocery money will come from.
Instead, there was a beautiful energy exchange that opened us both to the flow of love, beauty, and abundance. And since this painting was purchased as a gift, the flow has kept on growing.
What would it be if all my paintings found good homes so quickly? I’m open to it!
I’ll admit, it would be much easier to manage my thoughts and feelings. I’m still in training! After all, everything I write for you in this blog comes out of my own transformational journey.
I create because my soul calls me to. The more I create, the happier I am. It elevates my vibration and adds beauty and universal energy to the world. It helps me be in a space of love instead of fear.
I believe that when I do what I love, the Universe supports me.
So thank you to all those who have purchased my work or hired me for my intuitive services, workshops, etc throughout the years.
Thanks also for sharing my work with your friends and family.
Please know that your gift to your Self and loved ones has also been a huge gift to me. One purchase makes such a difference – I trust for us both!
Whether you’re moved to buy right now or not, keep enjoying all I have to give. Some business consultants tell me I give too much, but that too is just part of what I love to do … so I’ll keep on giving.
May we both be supported with ease and grace on our Paths to our Highest Good.
Namaste,
Dominique
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Tune In #3: Your Invitation for Transformation
/in Photography Projects, Tune InYou’re constantly being called to stretch your comfort zones and grow. That’s intuition’s role as a leader. Don’t let your ego keep you small. Accept this invitation for transformation.
Tune in! Which of these photographs from my Transformation Collection calls you most today? Choose the one that makes you feel the most expansive. Your choice will reveal your invitation for transformation.
Note: As you contemplate your chosen image, also add your own interpretation. This is a great way to exercise your intuitive muscles. Why do you think that image is calling you?
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#1 – Shifting
You’re being shaped by your circumstances and environment.
But it’s still your choice as to how these external changes affect your inner landscape.
With every wave of change comes an opportunity for peace and harmony.
Nothing in life is constant but change itself. Pay attention to the rhythms of nature – yours and those of others – and allow yourself to dance gracefully within this ever-shifting reality.
You’re part of the Divine Oneness. You’re both the waves and the shifting sands.
There’s no need to fear change. Be with it.
Ask your Self how you can move with it in ways that add peace to your life.
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#2 – Beingness
You’re being invited to look at your Self and the world through new eyes.
How is your perception affecting your experience of life?
How would that change if you looked at yourself in the mirror in the same way your soul or team of Divine Helpers look at you?
Go ahead, try it. Look into the mirror and ask your Higher Self to guide you as you transform your sight through unconditional love.
What would you forgive? What would you accept? How would it feel to see yourself through the eyes of your soul?
Then look around you at the people and circumstances of your life. Can you feel their call for love?
Love changes everything. It starts in your heart and transforms your vision.
It allows you to be – to simply be. And in so being, you change the world.
* Want to go deeper? My intuitive readings, custom guided meditations, and Soul Energy Portrait Experiences support your intuitive development and transformational journey.
#3 – Transition
You are the result of all the layers of your existence.
Your unique inner and outer beauty emanates from all the joy, healing, grief, growth, wonder, and splendour of your life.
Can you see how your your challenges happened for you, not to you?
Take some time now to reflect on how your past challenges ended up being for your Highest Good.
Then take an inventory of your current difficulties. How can you transform these into gifts? Gifts for yourself and others?
There’s no one else in the world exactly like you. You are the Gift. Unwrap your Self and marvel at the miracle that you are – at all levels and in all layers.
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#4 – Soul Shift
Your life is a series of successes. Can you see that?
Some came to you easily and others required hard work and perseverance.
Then there are the successes you originally labelled as failures…
All of these have brought you here and now. That’s success because it’s opened you up to opportunities unique to who you are.
Is your definition of success the same as it was 5 or 10 years ago? 20 years ago?
Take the time to set your vision on what a successful life looks like for you. Then enjoy the journey there.
Start in your imagination and feed that vision daily in your ways of being and doing.
Success will mean different things for different people.
Let go of definitions that no longer serve you. Let go of limits that you thought defined you.
It’s your time to soar beyond what you previously imagined possible. What does that look like for you?
* Want to go deeper? My intuitive readings, custom guided meditations, and Soul Energy Portrait Experiences support your intuitive development and transformational journey.
Are you feeling it?
Which invitation for transformation spoke to you today? I’d love to hear how the message resonated and / or what you got from the image itself. Please comment below.
What You Look At Matters
Are you surrounded by visual support for your transformational goals?
What you look at matters. Take a look at your home and work environments to see how you can add visual reminders and energetic support as you journey on your Path to your Highest Good.
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Affirmation Booster 1
/in AffirmationsWelcome to your first affirmation booster. Come back often to increase its magic in your life.
Everything you think or say is an affirmation.
Your words and thoughts are like seeds that already hold within them the potential of full growth. The more you repeat them, the more you nourish their manifestation.
That’s great when they’re positive. But your negative thoughts and words are also affirmations, making their destructive power stronger with each repetition.
So think happy thoughts.
See the vision of who you want to be and repeat the words until you’ve formed a new thinking pattern.
As long as you feel the seed of truth in these affirmation, they’ll germinate, sprout, and bloom in your life.
Note: If your computer doesn’t show the slideshow, I’ve listed them below.
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Did this affirmation booster make a difference in your day? How? I’d love to know. Please share in the comments below.
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Tune In #2: Which Treedom Calls You Today?
/in Photography Projects, Tune InWant to find out what your intuition is saying to you? Tune in! Which treedom calls to you most today?
Then, scroll down to find out what it means.
As you contemplate your chosen image, also add your own interpretation. This is a great way to exercise your intuitive muscles. Why do you think that image is calling you?
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#1 – Humble
Your life is of great importance. You’re making a difference.
Indeed, you’re a Gift for those around you.
Do you doubt it?
It’s true.
Allow your being-ness to make an impression where you stand by simply standing there. There’s no need to shout from the rooftops.
Simply be in your here and now.
And connect to the greatness that is all around you.
Acknowledge the support you’ve received to get you here.
Be grateful for both the challenges and ease & grace.
Then, in the peacefulness of your heart, ask your Self why you’re being called to humbleness today.
Your answer is within.
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#2 – Abundance
Your life is a reflection of your inner reality.
What are you feeling? What are you thinking?
You’re already so abundant in so many ways.
Can you name 10 signs of your abundance in various areas of your life?
Bask in the golden glow of your life as it is now.
By first recognizing the light that shines within you and all around you, you attract more of the Universe’s gifts to you.
Yes, focus on your abundance and see it mirrored in its limitless beauty.
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#3 – Healing
Rise up sister! Rise up brother!
Feel Mother Earth’s energy coursing through you from the soles of your feet all the way up to the top of your head.
Then raise your eyes to the Heavens and ask archangel Raphael to bless you with his healing green light.
Visualize these energies intermingling as they infuse your whole being.
Breathe deeply through your nose into areas that you feel need more attention. Your breath is your Life Force.
Then, as you exhale through your mouth, imagine that you’re letting go of all that no longer serves you in body, mind, and spirit. Trust that nature will recycle it into something that’ll serve the Greater Good.
You have amazing healing abilities, and there are so many resources available to help you on your Path to your Highest Good.
Asking for Divine Help, the power of visualization, and deep breathing are a few of these. So is the vibration of beauty.
Spend a few more minutes contemplating this image and soak in its life-enhancing energy.
* Want to go deeper? My intuitive readings, custom guided meditations, and Soul Energy Portrait Experiences support your intuitive development and transformational journey.
#4 – Compassion
Are you feeling motivated to help relieve the suffering of the world?
You’re such a compassionate being.
Know that your thoughts and actions make a difference.
You’ve lived so much already in your life and that experience can help others. You understand them.
Spend a few moments brainstorming ways that your compassion can be put into action.
How can you add your Light to the world? At what scale?
Does a friend or family member need your help?
Are you feeling called to join a committee or organize an event?
Your Light grows as you shine it outwards.
Your Light also grows as you reflect and feed the Light of others.
You know what it means to be a part of the Divine Oneness. Thank for your compassion.
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Did you resonate?
Which treedom spoke to you today? I’d love to hear how the message resonated and / or what you got from the image. Please comment below.
Bring Nature In
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Painting & Poem: Nesting in Peace Reborn
/in Inspiration, PaintingsI’m so happy to share with you my latest co-creation, “Nesting in Peace Reborn”.
I say “co-creation” because I always paint with Source, my team of Divine Helpers, and energies that nourish my soul. This time, there’s an added layer of co-creation!
21 women contributed to today’s offering when I made a public call for names on Facebook. Often, the painting itself gives me its name, but this time, it asked for audience participation.
Once I’d gathered all the name suggestions, I was inspired to incorporate them in a poem.
May the words, images, and painting itself (if you’re moved to add it to your collection), nest in your heart and illuminate your day.
Why this name?
“Nesting” felt right from the moment I read it. It then kept calling back to me every time I contemplated the finished painting.
It resonated for its many meanings:
As someone who uses the full moon’s light energy to clear my rocks and crystals, this 3rd meaning seemed like a perfect bonus.
Then, as I was writing the poem, there was great emotional impact by ending with the words “Peace reborn”. It felt like the culmination of the entire creative process.
Because of the lunar symbolism, I felt its reminder that peace is the result of a cyclical rebirth requiring intention and mindfulness.
The painting is thrilled with its name. You?
Nesting In Peace Reborn
Oh tranquil moon,
Eye of peace,
I’d been waiting in suspense
On this quiet snowy night
For a glimpse of your beauty.
A safe and blessed space
has been prepared
For your arrival.
Oh celestial satellite,
My heart alights
As you play peek-a-moon
Through the delicate snowfall.
Your eternal essence reaches me
Like whispers through the forest.
Separation is an illusion.
We are interconnected
Soul friend – Anam Cara.
Entwined in your sanctuary,
I rejoice in the splendour
Of your welcoming ceremony.
Connected in the heartbeat of this moment
I stand witness to your crowning.
Like a love meteor,
You’ve come home
To clear the nest
And give birth
To the fruit of life.
Your song resounds
Through the fields,
Rocking the oceans and
Holding all of life together.
Oh Mother Moon,
Nesting in the branches
Of the Arbor Vitae,
Cradled in its enduring power,
Your light travels
Down its rivers of serenity,
Through its roots,
And straight to my soul.
Peace reborn.
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Tune In #1 – What’s Your Connection?
/in Photography Projects, Tune InWelcome to the launch of a new series to help you tune in to your intuition for a more fruitful journey on your path to your Highest Good.
Which of these 4 photographs from my Connection Collection attracts you most today?
Then, scroll down to find out what this says about you.
My suggestions come from what I was experiencing at the time of co-creation and what they’re saying to me now. But feel free to add your own interpretation.
You’re truly the best to figure out why you feel called to a particular life-enhancing energy-infused image.
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#1 – Bridge to Contemplation
There are lots of changes happening or about to happen in your life.
Contemplate the mysteries that lie beneath this time of transition.
Then keep walking, stepping beyond your comfort zone so that you may grow even more into your own Light.
You’re almost there. Don’t give up.
The path before you is straight ahead, safe, and clear.
Accept this invitation to cross over the unknown to what is calling you.
Then relish in the pure delight of being You and welcome the miracles and synchronicities that come your way.
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#2 – Gateway
You’re at the portal of your authentic life.
Are you ready to dive in?
Yes, this means letting go of what no longer serves you. This may be challenging but worth it.
Just ask your team of Divine Helpers and Mother Nature to help you let go with ease and grace.
It’ll start happening naturally as you focus on the magnificent beauty of living in total alignment with your soul.
What does that look like? What does it feel like?
Imagine it daily until, little by little, you start living it.
This is your gateway into the kaleidoscope of your Truth. Allow its reflections to feed your imagination and spark your intuition.
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#3 – Nourish
It’s time to nourish your body, mind, and soul, so you can soar in your own life and for the good of all.
What does self-care mean to you right now? How about self-love?
Please don’t assume others can or should know what you need. They’re not mind-readers.
Identify what you need, and don’t be afraid to ask.
How can your friends, family, community and the Universe best support you right now?
Your Divine Helpers are glad to help. But because of Free Will, they too need to be asked.
It’s your turn to receive help – whether from your Self, others or your environment. Ask and you shall receive.
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#4 – Contemplation
Your life is a garden. Are you happy with it?
Contemplate what has led you here and whether you’re still heading in the right direction.
Give yourself a score between 1-10 for how fulfilled you feel in the 8 areas of your life.
Now ask for Guidance and listen to your heart for ways to increase these scores. Keep a record and start implementing inspired actions this week.
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Did you resonate?
Feel free to share in the comments below how your image choice helped you tune in. I’d love to hear.
Surround yourself with beauty.
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New Painting: “Night of the Firefly”
/in PaintingsAcrylics & glass beads on gallery-wrapped canvas (no framing required)
SOLD
This painting was all about the triskelion moon (three-legged spiral) for the first 20 layers or so of the creative process (Yup! A lot of paint and energy channeling inform what you see now).
Then it happened.
I felt it. Firefly energy.
I’ve never connected to that energy in the studio before, although I remember a spectacular evening in the rice fields of Bali.
So I consulted my favourite symbolism website to confirm much of what I’d sensed emerge from the painting itself.
Firefly Energy
Have you ever seen fireflies light up the night? It’s amazing! It’s magical.
These little beacons of light shine, and in doing so, attract others to them. It’s part of their mating ritual (appropriate for Valentine’s Day, right?!).
Firefly energy teaches you to shine from the inside out.
No matter what you look like or what your life is like, when you connect to the Spirit within, your Light illuminates the world and those around you.
Fireflies are also symbols of hope, energy, creativity, guidance, inspiration, attraction, and more.
Let your inner Light guide you into being and acting in ways that are aligned with your Highest Good.
Triskelion Moon
She invites you to connect to the Oneness of which you are a microcosm.
Unlike the firefly, however, the moon’s light doesn’t come from within.
She mirrors the light of the sun- receiving it and sharing it in turn with the Universe.
So yes, connect to your inner Light.
But also mirror and reflect the Light from Source, Mother Nature, your team of Divine Helpers, and your fellow human beings.
By witnessing and receiving their Light, which amplifies your own, you can then share it for the Highest Good of the planet and the Universe.
The Triskele
Once again, I thank the Irish artist Courtney Davis for allowing me to use the drawings from his book “Knotwork & Spirals” as the basis for this Celtic design.
The triskele, or triple spiral, is a symbol of both the active and passive. Here, it’s a reminder to balance your being and doing.
As a symbol of motion, it also beckons you forward through the cycles of your Life Path, much as the moon influences the cycles of the oceans.
Your Invitation
“Night of the Firefly” is your invitation to be a lightworker through love and self-love, in body, mind, and spirit, so that you can illuminate your own life and the lives of those around you. Can you feel its energy?
P.S. When the light shines on the glass beads of the moon and trees from a certain angle, the colours radiate in a most brilliant way.
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“Night of the Firefly” (12″ x 36″)
Acrylics & glass beads on gallery-wrapped canvas (no framing required)
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A Lesson From the Saints
/in Life By DesignDo you pay attention when you’re reading, listening, or watching and your whole being says “Yes!”, “I want that”, “Oh….. wouldn’t that be nice!”?
These soul urgings often come through as a feeling of expansion in your body, mind, or spirit.
It may not be a heart calling for the exact details of what you’re looking at, but an invitation to explore its essence for what it is you truly want.
“Witness” from the Treedom Photography Collection
This happened to me during my recent trip to Ottawa.
I picked up a book on my parents’ shelf on the life of Saint Francis and Saint Clare of Assisi. I’d seen several movies in preparation for my artist retreat in Italy in 2014, but this less romanticized book was based on recent revelations. I was curious.
Growing Up with the Saints
When I was a young child, I really liked a series of inspirational booklets on the saints.
I was impressed at how true to their Selves and Source these men and women had remained, often in the face of persecution.
These stories were building blocks on my lifelong quest to understand unconditional love.
What struck me the most about Saint Francis at the time was that he could speak to the animals, promoting harmony between humans and nature.
I remember my thrill when I later heard that the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York even welcomed an elephant during their annual Feast of Saint Francis blessing of the animals procession. Any saint that could fill a church with animals had my admiration!
But I digress…
How Saint Francis Speaks to Me Now
Saint Francis’s prayer “Make me an instrument of Thy peace” is one I’ve had in my heart for as long as I can remember.
But then I also prayed God regularly that He not call me to become a nun…. I liked boys too much.
But I digress again…
“Contemplation” from the Connection Photography Collection
If you’re not familiar with Saint Francis, he started an order based on compassion and caring service. His brothers walked the Earth bare foot to spread the word of Jesus, much like the first disciples did.
In this book, I learned that the original brothers’ nomadic lifestyle of service allowed for periods of up to 40 days in caves or hermitages for personal devotions.
That’s when my soul said “yes!”.
I long for regular blocks of times in nature or to hermit in my studio to paint and connect to Spirit without the Internet, appointments, and other social or entrepreneurial obligations.
I can get so overwhelmed by all the stimulus and noise (internal and external).
Checking emails and Facebook 20 times a day definitely isn’t healthy. It saps my energy and scatters my focus.
The soul urging I received while reading about the saints and their orders was a confirmation that I need to better structure my days, weeks, and months so that I can both be and serve in ways that nourish my soul.
As I’m still in the early years of figuring out how to not only survive but thrive as a full-time artists, this has been tricky.
Creating a life by design requires constant listening to our hearts, trial & error, and making adjustments.
So one of the many lessons I gleaned from my reading about Saint Francis and Saint Clare is that to be an instrument of the Creator’s peace, I need to ensure my own peace first.
By carving out uninterrupted times of connection in nature or in my studio sanctuary, I can better serve my clients.
What Is Calling You?
So here’s your invitation.
“Dolphin Sky” from the Connection Photography Collection
Pay attention to when your soul urges you through that inner “Ah! Yes!” on any level as you go through your days.
Then explore the essence of those calls and take inspired action to bring you closer to your ideal Life by Design.
Namaste,
Dominique
P.S. Feel free to share some of your recent heart callings in the comments below.