Gifted Guidance Weekly Astrology ~ December 29, 2014 ~ January 4, 2015

The New Year Begins with a Cosmic Bang!

New Year's Day of 2015 kicks off with a big bang that will resound throughout the week. 

See what's in store for you personally with an In-Depth Reading for the Year Ahead from Gifted Guidance.

In the meantime, here's the lowdown on the key cosmic events the week of December 29th ~ January 4th:

Thursday ~ January 1 ~ Mars opposite Jupiter

On the very first day of 2015, Mars in Aquarius will oppose Jupiter. This is larger-than-life energy at its fullest! You have the potential to overdo it because you may feel as if nothing can stop you, but because it's the first day of the New Year, go on ~ full steam ahead!

Saturday ~ January 3 ~ Sun square Uranus; Sun conjunct Pluto; Venus in Aquarius

On Saturday, there's tension. The Sun in Capricorn will square off with Uranus and conjunct Pluto, which may ignite power struggles. If you are frustrated about not being true to your most authentic self, this day will be most difficult. Remember, no one else is responsible for your life. Attempts to manipulate or control others in order to make yourself feel powerful will only backfire.

Also on Saturday, love planet Venus enters Aquarius, where she will remain until January 27. Romance without friendship becomes impossible ~ an alien thought, even. You might also notice that you and those around you enjoy more personal space in the context of social relationships. It's all good.

Sunday ~ January 4 ~ Full Moon in Cancer; Venus sextile Saturn; Mercury in Aquarius

On Sunday, Venus will sextile Saturn, assuring that if you give your lover enough breathing room, he or she will always come back.

Also on Sunday, a Full Moon in Cancer will highlight emotional family matters. If there's a touchy domestic situation you'll need to handle it with care. Mercury will enter Aquarius on this day, as well. Your inventive mind will be on fire.

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Raven is a Holistic Consultant, Angel Intuitive, Spiritual & Energy Healer, Animal Reiki Practitioner, & Spirit Guide Coach who works with the Angels, Spirit Guides & Animal Spirit realms.  She also offers Zyto Scan technology (biosurveys), as well as pure, therapeutic-grade essential oils to enhance her spiritual guidance, Reiki energy healing, and coaching. 

For more information, and for your own personalized reading, please visit her Facebook page to PM her (https://www.facebook.com/GiftedGuidance), or email her at Raven@Gifted-Guidance.com.

Moon Phases ~ First Quarter Moon (waxing) ~ 12/29/14

December 29, 2014 ~ First Quarter Moon (waxing) ~ Our emotional reactions are swift today but, thankfully, we are able to let go of our feelings once they are expressed. The spontaneous Aries Moon kicks us into action before we even create a plan. Meanwhile, rational Mercury forms an anxious aspect to surreal Neptune now, pitting our analytical skills against our overactive imaginations. We may be confused by our daydreams because the boundaries that separate reality from fantasy are blurred.

Emotions begin to stir coupled with recognizing that the new beginnings you are making must also increase personal security to be worthwhile over the long haul. This is a time when it's appropriate to get in touch with your gut instincts and begin to guide your life more deliberately, with an awareness of using your "sixth sense" as well as your enthusiasm. Obstacles may emerge that require you to reevaluate how to better integrate yourself into your immediate environment.

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Raven is a Holistic Consultant, Angel Intuitive, Spiritual & Energy Healer, Animal Reiki Practitioner, & Spirit Guide Coach who works with the Angels, Spirit Guides & Animal Spirit realms.  She also offers Zyto Scan technology (biosurveys), as well as pure, therapeutic-grade essential oils to enhance her spiritual guidance, Reiki energy healing, and coaching. 

For more information, and for your own personalized reading, please visit her Facebook page to PM her (https://www.facebook.com/GiftedGuidance), or email her at Raven@Gifted-Guidance.com.

Daily Quote ~ Abraham ~ Getting Into the Vortex Guided Meditation

There are many situations, attitudes, lifestyles ~ even food choices ~ that you do not want to participate with. Through the living of your life, you have identified many wanted and unwanted aspects, and it is important to remember that none of those unwanted things can jump into your experience, because there is no assertion in your attraction-based Universe.

The choices that others make cannot negatively impact your experience unless you include them in your experience through your attention to them. Things come to you only through your Vibrational invitation ~ and they remain only by your continuing attention to them.

Your Universe is based upon freedom. Freedom for everyone to choose what they give their attention to, and therefore what they choose to experience. And your interaction with one another provides a contrasting basis that assures continual expansion.

When others achieve Vibrational alignment with something they desire, they in no way deprive you of your desires. If your time-space reality has inspired a desire within you, it is certain that your desire can be fulfilled, for your Earth environment has the potential of satisfying the essence of all desires.

 ~ Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop: Getting into the Vortex Guided Meditation CD and User Guide 

on November 01, 2010

When You Are Feeling Overwhelmed . . . .

As joyous as this holiday season is meant to be, the overhyped commercialism also makes it easy to fall into the trap of dwelling on all that we think we need. And all that we don’t have.

It’s so easy to focus on our problems and feel overwhelmed. I know I have those days where I veer off my path and get stuck in that rut.

It's okay to get stuck, however you don't have to stay stuck! Take action NOW by calling on your Angels to offer you guidance! If you want your life to change, YOU must be the change you wish to see.

The fastest way to get out of that rut is to do something for someone less fortunate. For me, it's volunteering at the animal shelter. Just being around those precious furbabies who love you unconditionally and who are so grateful for whatever you have to offer them . . . . it is truly heartwarming. Any worries or woes disappear the minute you see their sweet faces . . . . happy to see you no matter what you look like, or how you feel. They love you anyway.

I always wonder why humans can't be more like animals . . . . however, that is a whole 'nother story! 

Just for today, try to love unconditionally, be grateful, put ego aside and be thankful for all you have in the here and now.


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Raven is a Holistic Consultant, Angel Intuitive, Spiritual & Energy Healer, Animal Reiki Practitioner, & Spirit Guide Coach who works with the Angels, Spirit Guides & Animal Spirit realms.  She also offers Zyto Scan technology (biosurveys), as well as pure, therapeutic-grade essential oils to enhance her spiritual guidance, Reiki energy healing, and coaching. 

For more information, and for your own personalized reading, please visit her Facebook page to PM her (https://www.facebook.com/GiftedGuidance), or email her at Raven@Gifted-Guidance.com.

Moon Phases ~ New Moon (waxing) ~ 12/23/14

December 23, 2014 ~ New Moon (waxing) ~ Our determination to achieve our objectives grows even stronger with five planets gathered in calculating Capricorn. However, we're more apt to consider the consequences of our actions now because we can see distant horizons once realistic Saturn shifts into visionary Sagittarius. This is a two-year transit, but we might start making plans right away. Meanwhile, the Moon enters progressive Aquarius at 9:52 pm EST, validating our focus on the future.

The New Moon is a time best suited for new beginnings! For the first 48 hours following the exact time of the New Moon each month, a window of opportunity opens for making wishes that, if noted, come true in the days and months ahead. There is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm in the atmosphere, making it a great time to go forward and begin projects that you feel instinctively attracted to initiating. Follow your impulses and let yourself make new starts in areas that are important to you.



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Raven is a Holistic Consultant, Angel Intuitive, Spiritual & Energy Healer, Animal Reiki Practitioner, & Spirit Guide Coach who works with the Angels, Spirit Guides & Animal Spirit realms.  She also offers Zyto Scan technology (biosurveys), as well as pure, therapeutic-grade essential oils to enhance her spiritual guidance, Reiki energy healing, and coaching. 

For more information, and for your own personalized reading, please visit her Facebook page to PM her (https://www.facebook.com/GiftedGuidance), or email her at Raven@Gifted-Guidance.com.

What is a Psychic Attack?

What is a Psychic Attack?

A psychic attack is simply negative energy that someone sends with the conscious or unconscious intention to inflict harm upon you, your life or your family. Harm can be launched towards your emotional, physical, spiritual or mental state. Those negative energies can be projected in the form of thought, based mainly upon jealousy toward you. It can also happen for many reasons other than jealousy.

My belief is that psychic attack can be influenced 98% of the time by someone in your surrounding that you already know, even friends or family members, although is not always intentional. These thought forms can be sent consciously or unconsciously. When they are sent unconsciously, the person sending the thoughts is doing so without their own awareness and jealousy, envy, or anger are usually the motivation behind them. A conscious attack is when someone deliberately means harm to you and can be compared to black magic, witchcraft, and spell casting.

Keep in mind that a psychic attack is less about you than it is about the weakness of your attacker.

Recognizing Psychic or Spiritual Attacks

Psychic or spiritual attacks aren't always easy to recognize. For some people, the attacks are so subtle, or have been going on for so long, that the person isn't aware of the attack. For example, my mother . . . . the constant flow of malevolence had been coming at me from her my entire life. It took me until my late teens to realize this, at which time I knew I needed to remove myself from the equation. It had been such a part of the fabric of my life since before I was born, however unlike most others, I was aware of it, but was too young to understand what it was and how to stop it. However, once I was able to escape it, I was abruptly aware of the intensity of it, as well as how incredibly powerful these attacks can be.

To this day, I am free from her attacks, though it took me many years of feeling like an outsider, struggling through life all alone feeling like I didn't really belong anywhere. I researched and sought out spiritual mentors for what seems like an eternity until one day I finally had my "Aha!" moment and the proverbial lightbulb came on. Though I have no idea whether or not my mother is still alive, there has been no effort on her part to contact me to try to make amends. Perhaps one day . . . . however it is no longer something I dwell on. Regardless of that freedom from my mother's malevolence, as an Empath and an HSP, I tend to be vulnerable to the energies all around me, whether from living beings here on Earth, or from spiritual beings who have crossed over. It is especially important that I remember to clear and shield myself on a regular basis, as well as engage in Chakra Clearing and Reiki Energy Healing sessions, which I try to perform monthly (and share with others!).

More obvious attacks will be felt and recognized as such. Such attacks can feel like someone scrabbling to get into your energy field (as a violation of the integrity of your personal space) ~ most often from behind, usually around the shoulders, neck, and back of head. They can also manifest as:

~ disturbances in sleep
~ nightmares
~ a feeling of unease
~ a feeling that your energy field is dirty or unclean or has been invaded in some way
~ a lack of desire to look anyone in the eye because you are not sure who is looking out of your own eyes.

If you are experiencing any of these symptoms and you suspect you are experiencing some kind of psychic attack, this article will shed some light on the subject and provide you with tools you can use to help defend yourself.

The Origin of Psychic and Spiritual Attacks

Psychic and spiritual attacks can have a number of sources, and, depending on the source, have a number of approaches for defending yourself against them. Some attacks come from people you know. Others may come from people you don't know, at least not in this lifetime, who have bad intentions and are targeting you for any number of reasons. One source of usually invasive attacks is the spirits of people who have died but who either haven't figured out that they are dead or who know they are dead but are unwilling, for any number of reasons, to move on. Still others can be dark spirits.

Hard as it is to believe, there are, in fact, some people and spirits who don't have the best of intentions toward other lifeforms. Some of them just haven't ever really developed clear moral and ethical guidelines for themselves, so they are easily influenced by the wrong things . . . . such as a desire for power, or by any number of fears. In fact, fear is a motivating factor in all cases, though the fear may be deeply buried. Always remember that, and remember that you don't need to respond to fear with fear. The higher and more evolved response is love . . . . love for yourself, of course, as well as for others.

When some people die, they don't know where to go or they are afraid to move on. They might not know where to go because in life they had no clear beliefs about an afterlife, or their beliefs about the afterlife are so different from how it actually is that they fail to recognize it. Some people are afraid to move on because they fear they have been so bad or evil that they are going to go to hell. So out of fear, they stay here, and they try to take over someone else's body. They can be especially attracted to sympathetic people or people who are psychically sensitive. This is one reason why I avoid hospitals, graveyards, and similar places as much as possible, since those are places with a very high proportion of lost spirits seeking bodies.

Reasons Why Someone Might Attack You Psychically

~ They are jealous.
~ Your life is progressing forward while theirs is stagnant.
~ They are envious of your looks, your career, your wife or husband, your environment.
~ They are living in their dark side at the moment.
~ Lack of self-conviction.
~ Fear.

If you consciously send negative energy toward someone else with the intention of inflicting harm, then what you send is exactly what you will attract upon yourself in your own life. The Universal Law of Karma states that what goes around comes back around to you multiplied.

Dealing with These Attacks

Depending on the source, there are different approaches for dealing with the attack. There are things you can do for yourself, and there are things you can do to address the attacking entity.

First, understand that nothing can harm you or invade you without your permission. The trick is realizing that you have given permission (if you have). For instance, you might feel you somehow deserve to be attacked, or you might believe that others have the right to attack, or you might feel you don’t deserve to be treated with decency, honesty, and respect. If you believe that you don't deserve much, and that other people, entities, and spirits deserve more than you do, then if an entity tries to invade your space, telling you on the spirit level that he or she "needs" it or "needs" to use your body, then the part of you that believes you deserve less will say "yes."

To deal with this, remind yourself that you are in charge of yourself and your reality, and set clear boundaries between yourself and others. That’s also a good step to take to help clear yourself of those energies. It can be hard to track down the beliefs that allow attack, but the best way to go about resolving this kind of thing is to start with what you are in control of, and that is yourself. You might try keeping a journal, if you don’t already, and explore what it means to you and how you feel and what you are thinking when you feel you are under attack. You might also explore your past to see if there is someone in your past who treated you the same way or who led you to believe that you deserved to be treated that way.

If writing isn’t your cup of tea, then try other things, such as mental exploration, exploring your feelings/emotions, art, meditative physical activity (such as tai chi), or other such activities to help you move through to a clearer space. 

Another thing to try is taking a sea salt bath, or even a shower and scrubbing yourself all over with a combination of sea salt and a mild soap plus peppermint and eucalyptus essential oils. That will have a very good spiritual clearing effect. Use lots of sea salt. You can often buy pre-made salt scrubs, however to avoid chemicals, use this simple recipe for making your own:


Sea Salt Scrub:

1 c Pink Himalayan Sea Salt Crystals  (http://amzn.to/135DZVY)
8-10 drops Young Living Peppermint Essential Oil  (http://bit.ly/GGEOPepp)
8-10 drops Young Living Eucalyptus Essential Oil  (http://bit.ly/GGEOEucRad)
1 Tbsp Almond Oil  (http://amzn.to/1wWPgpe)

Mix all ingredients together in a glass bowl, then store in a glass container until ready to use. For baths use 1 Tbsp under running water. For showers place 1-2 Tbsp in a mesh cloth.


You don’t need to do this every time you shower, but perhaps once a week. Sea salt has an immense capability to clear energy fields. Also, when you shower, imagine that the water is pure loving energy that cleanses your energy field of all negative energies.

Along the same lines of visualization, tend to your energy field every day, several times a day if necessary. Each time, bring your attention to it and imagine that you are clearing it out using your favorite images. Perhaps you can imagine you are standing under a clean, cleansing rain, or that you are being warmed and cleaned by the powerful rays of the sun, so that your energy field is cleared of all debris and dark energies. You might imagine that you are hosing off the inside of your energy field with pure, sparkling energy water that is imbued with the power of Love. Perform your chosen visualization at least once a day.


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Raven is a Holistic Consultant, Angel Intuitive, Spiritual & Energy Healer, Animal Reiki Practitioner, & Spirit Guide Coach who works with the Angels, Spirit Guides & Animal Spirit realms.  She also offers Zyto Scan technology (biosurveys), as well as pure, therapeutic-grade essential oils to enhance her spiritual guidance, Reiki energy healing, and coaching. 

For more information, and for your own personalized reading, please visit her Facebook page to PM her (https://www.facebook.com/GiftedGuidance), or email her at Raven@Gifted-Guidance.com.

The Healing Angels

Angels are celestial beings with no egos, meaning that they are non-judgmental and all-loving. Our deceased loved ones can perform angelic functions; however, we technically call them "Spirit Guides." 

As a lifelong Intuitive, Clairsentient, and Claircognizant, I am enlightened and aware that every person has at least two Guardian Angels and at least one Spirit Guide with them. It is obvious that not everyone listens to their Angels, or heeds their advice.  If they did, we would not have so much cruelty or self-destructive behavior in the world. Nonetheless, the Angels are there whenever we are ready to talk to them and listen to them. 

Angels are non-denominational, and are as much a part of the lives of skeptics and atheists as they are of believers; they are with cruel people as well as Good Samaritans. Angels are with us to enact God's plan of peace, one person at a time. While we are all still personally responsible for our actions, the Angels can help us choose the most effective plan of action. 

And, while we can grow through pain and struggle, we can grow even faster through peace. Anything that helps us be peaceful ~ no matter how large or small ~ is something that the Angels are happy to assist us with. However, we must ask for their help before they are allowed to intervene because of the "Law of Free Will," through which this Universe operates. 

Archangels

When you work with Angels, you can borrow or lean upon their light, as well as their ego-free higher selves. The Angels can help you heal your mind-set so that you repel fear, and approach situations with love. Your Angels have no time or space restrictions, so you need not worry that you are bothering or overtaxing them. 

The word 'Angel' means "messenger of God." When you pray to the Creator, the Angels are sent as message-carriers from the Creator to the created. It is not at all blasphemous to converse with Angels, as any conversation with God results in the Angels speaking to you. Angels, after all, are one with God . . . . they are extensions of God. And so are you. 

When we team up with the Angels, healings occur at miraculous rates and in amazing ways. The Angels can help us heal physically, spiritually, emotionally, financially, and intellectually. They assist us with our careers, health issues, love lives, families, homes, and anything else that is truly important to our peace of mind. 

So whether you desire healing for yourself, for a loved one, or for a client, you will be tapping in to a mighty channel of healing energy by enlisting the Angels' assistance.


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Raven is a Holistic Consultant, Angel Intuitive, Spiritual & Energy Healer, Animal Reiki Practitioner, & Spirit Guide Coach who works with the Angels, Spirit Guides & Animal Spirit realms.  She also offers Zyto Scan technology (biosurveys), as well as pure, therapeutic-grade essential oils to enhance her spiritual guidance, Reiki energy healing, and coaching. 

For more information, and for your own personalized reading, please visit her Facebook page to PM her (https://www.facebook.com/GiftedGuidance), or email her at Raven@Gifted-Guidance.com.