Once Upon a Time... Oshun

In 1996, as part of my Reiki Master candidacy, I set up
Reiki programs with several nursing homes in the area.
This was unheard of at the time. Through a community
outreach grant and the activities directors at a few of
the more prestigious places, I was able to send Reiki
practioners into the facilities to give Reiki to residents
free of charge. I had all kinds of documented studies on relaxation and pain relief which I presented to boards of directors, nurses, and MD’s.

I was also able, through Hospice, to attend transitions and provide services ‘til the end if requested. It was all very groundbreaking and heady stuff, and I felt that I was doing important work
bringing alternative and natural care to venues where mainstream medicine and ho-hum care was the norm.

There were newspaper articles about my work, workshops to give, CEUs for nursing staff, and my mastership was assured. I was really something! I could see my future. I had business
cards printed, ordered really nice state-of-the-art body work tables and was ready to set up a practice and hire the office help! So I thought...

One of my first clients was an elderly woman from the Dominican Rebublic ( I think). She did not know how old she was, although I would guess that she was in her late 90’s. She had come to the US as a teen and worked for several generations for a wealthy family from New
York City who summered here in Wolfeboro, the oldest summer resort in America. She loved it here on the lake. And so it was here that she was resting.

Nanny, as she was known, had cared for this family and their children, and now those children, in gratitude and love had made sure she would spend the rest of her life with the best care money could buy. She was a resident in the best nursing home here, with water views, and fine china, and good art in the dining room. Her bed linens were not issued by the laundry service, they were very fine, a European duvet was covered in embroidered eyelet lace. The exquisite antique furnishings in her room were obviously brought in from the lake house. And every week, I noticed a magnificent arrangement of fresh flowers by the window. Hotel lobby size, no carnations.

The smiling faces of generations of tanned, blue-eyed blond children filled the room in silver frames. Some on horses, some with tennis rackets, in caps and gowns, and some, in wedding gowns, all with Nanny.

She had her hair done every week, and she wore matching Laura Ashley gowns and robes and wore an expensive gold watch, little diamonds in her ears. This was no one’s servant, this was someone’s beloved mother. This was a queen. Now I realize her room and her body, a temple to the Goddess, but how could I have known then? Even they who built it, and maintained it, did not know.

Several strokes had left Nanny with garbled speech and little mobility. She did not mix with the other residents nor did she take part in activities. And although her mind was still pretty sharp, her frail body was withering, and she waited for the spirits of ancestors of her Dominican Republic family to come for her and finally bring her home. I never met her New York family, although I suppose in the end they came for her too.

Nanny did not want the clergy to visit nor did she want the dog lady to bring in the great golden retriever who lavished affection on the residents. She did, however, want an appointment to see the healer.

And that was me.

In those days I was very professional. I would play whale songs and flutes on my little portable CD player and focus on hand positions, carefully listening with my hands. I never brought crystals with me. Never spoke of spirit guides. I was careful not to come across too witchy or new-age. I was after federal grant money, after all.

Nanny was just bones in her bed to the untrained eye, but my hands sensed amazing life force contained in that little body. It was very different energy from any other of the nursing home residents which usually felt very flat, depressed or depleted. I was awestruck at her vibrancy! At
the end of our first session she smiled and said, “thank you Oshun.”
“Susan,” I said.
“Oshun.”

Of course, I assumed (because of her disability or English as her second language) could not
say Susan and what did I care? She was peaceful, not in any pain and she enjoyed our time together. She wanted me to come back. My ego was gratified. I kept notes, documenting it all for an eventual grant.

Each time, I tried to tell her that my name was Susan (soon to be famous Susan, friend of Deepak Chopra and Bill Moyer, right!) And each time I came to give her Reiki treatments she thanked Oshun. Susan. Oshun. Susan. Oshun.

I came to see that her vibrancy was very heart centerd. It was her love force. It was the children she cared for, the beauty of the lake that she loved. Her gratitude for being loved, for having loved. Her life force was her love force. I wrote that down. I was profound!

Toward the end of her life she seemed to gain a little strength, and one day she reached out and took my hand. “Oshun,” she said and I felt a wave of energy shoot through me. Try as I might I could not flow anything to her. Some Reiki Master.

She wanted me to return though and I did but I was beginning to doubt my abilities.

From that day forth I was on the receiving end with Nanny, and luckily I was just wise enough, and just open enough to finally accept it without guilt or judgement. I changed. I remembered.

Why my conditioning and discipline as a Reiki Master Candidate didn’t get in the way remains a mystery. But I allowed the mystery to unfold and Nanny continued to thank Oshun. Then one day, while browsing thru a book about Tarot card decks at Barnes and Noble I discovered that Oshun was a Goddess!

I was able to tell Nanny that I had discovered Oshun and that I understood what she was trying
to tell me. I studied. It was all very different, yet so familiar. I told her about Venus, Istar, Kali. Yemayacame to me in dreams. Oya, Oshun. I began to understand.

Oshun’s holy day is September 11. I told Nanny that was my birthday. She nodded, she knew. She told me pieces of the stories of her remembering. I told her there were similar stories in the Hopi tradition, Zen wisdom tales, and Bilblical parables. She knew. I knew.

She would take my hand and give me her gift. The transmissions were always the same, very distinct energy, although they lasted only a few seconds. An hour long Reiki session seemed ridiculous, infantile, when this energy could be passed in an instant. I began to question everything I knew about spiritual and mind/body healing modalities, including Reiki. It was apparent that I would become a Master of Nothing but Questions.

One day I asked her how she did that. Her answer was simple. “Love you.”

Nanny passed with her hand in mine. I felt her go in a flash of love. She simply became love. In one instant, like light, she was only love. I will never fear death because Nanny showed me how to do it. She was simply restored.

But she gave me lots to fear and and lots to get over in life. She set me upon a path where I confronted my ideas of what a Master is and is not. What a healer is. What spirituality can be. What life is for. What threads connect us all.

Search, abandon. God, Goddess. Create, dissolve. Intellectualize, forget. Finally, all that was left
was the power of love. And the Spirit of Oshun.

Much of this story remains untold because there is no language suitable for miracles. I hold much experience sacred in silence where it belongs. Nanny is one of my greatest teachers, and I have been blessed with some profound ones. Nanny was Priestess, Healer, Teacher, Friend.

I share this story primarily because I want you to keep your heart open, especially when you think you are on the path, doing the do, walking the talk. When you think you are it.
That’s when you need to get ready to re-evaluate in a big way.

Whenever you interact with anyone, remember, by design, each one of us has a profound gift to give another just at the right, life-altering moment. I might have become just another Reiki Master with a massage therapist and accupuncturist sharing space in a strip mall if I had not met Nanny. That's what I wanted to be! That was my highest calling, a dream come true! I never would have become an ebay psychic or swam naked with dolphins and study with Taino elders, or create Oshun Spirit Fragrance Oil, or...

And, I might have even feared an ancient tradition or two, locked in judgement and a false sense of superiority, if I had not embraced the appearance of Oshun in my life.

Like I said, I was just barely wise enough to not let ego and emotion get in the way of a life altering experience. Nanny joyfully possesed Oshun’s dancing spirit, I saw her fully present in the last breath of a tiny, crippled woman. I saw the Goddess in her, I know.

So, instead of becoming a Master I became a student.
Oh, I had the certificate, but it was more of a birth certificate than anything else. The Goddess had taken my hand, literally. She had awakened me to the power of love.

In the hours I sat with Nanny, gazing out her big picture window at the lake, looking at her framed photographs, smelling her roses and lillies, smoothing her beautifully coiffed hair, I also sat with Oshun. With beauty. With harmony. With the love emotion of the initiated. With the knowledge that love is the only question, the only answer, the only prayer.

May you be blessed!

Image credit: www.gods-heros-myth.com/gallery/jessica/oshun.jpg

SAD? Brighten your Spirit and Treat Seasonal Affective Disorder with Color!

Learning about and using color's qualities and properties can enhance your spirit, improve your health, and even expand your consciousness. Known as chromo therapy, color therapy, is used to restore balance wherever our bodies are lacking energy, be it in physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental bodies, or in the auric field that is an energy field that surrounds you. I have long used crystal healing and colored light therapy in conjunction with Reiki during my sessions with clients, and I work with color during my own personal meditations.

Add positive affirmations to light, and you've created a very powerful tool to create and maintain balance in your life!

In each layer of your aura there are different colors that may be used for clearing and re-balancing your energy field. A skilled practitioner does an aura scan or aura reading to determine the health and wellbeing of your spirit– which in turn influences your mind, emotions and physical health. (This can be done over distance as effectively as in person.) When the spirit is is harmony, there is an opening in clearing and healing all aspects of your life.

Color is simply a form of visible light, of electromagnetic energy. Light is the visible reflection off the particles in the atmosphere. Color makes up a band of these light wave frequencies from red at 1/33,000th's of an inch wavelength to violet at 1/67,000 of an inch wavelength. Below red lie infrared and radio waves. Above it: the invisible ultraviolet, x-rays, and gamma rays. We all understand the impact of ultraviolet and x-rays... so of course the light we are able to see as color impacts us as well.

How we "feel" about color is more than psychological. The last decade has proven that lack of color, or more specifically, light, causes millions to suffer each winter from a mild depression known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Because of the complex way in which exposure to various colors acts via the brain upon the autonomic nervous system, exposure to a specific color can even alter physiological measurements such as blood pressure, electrical skin resistance and glandular functions in your body. And they most certainly can affect how we feel on a day-to-day basis.

Wearing faceted crystal beads is an easy and effective way to flood the aura with healing light and color frequencies. Please visit the Journey Beads storefront on Bonanzle and the informational thread which includes a basic color therapy guide. Of course, I am happy to help you create a piece of jewelry or touchstone strand which will be perfectly suited to your wellness goals.

May you be blessed!

http://www.bonanzle.com/JourneyBeads

You are invited to view our new YouTube! video, "Journey Beads Ancient Wisdom"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQi6KlPH9d0

and, our 90 second Holiday video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ybSDFFhz8

Creating Abundance and Healing with Sacred Geometry

In nature, we find common patterns, designs and structures in the most minuscule particles, as well as in the expression of the greater cosmos. These geometrical archetypes reveal the nature of each form and its vibrational resonances. They are also symbolic of the underlying metaphysical principle of the inseparable relationship of the part to the whole.

It is this principle of oneness underlying all geometry, of interconnectedness, inseparability, and union that provides us with a continuous reminder of our relationship to the whole, and a blueprint for the mind of the sacred foundation of all things created. These patterns found throughout the universe, in snowflakes and fern fronds and galaxies, may be used by us in the creation of "highest good" experiences and opportunities.

We are living in challenging times, and we all need to love and support one another in creating healing in ourselves and in our world. As we are all waking up to a higher level of consciousness, we are all experiencing the challenges of claiming our great power, our own Divine Light. Many are having trouble staying connected to higher levels of consciousness while also remaining solidly grounded in the physical world. Applied Sacred Geometry is the key to manifestation, materialization and the creation of harmonious structures and spaces for well-being, peace, creativity, ideas, and healing to come into being.

Gridding is an ancient, powerful modality in which a very focused vortex of Life Force Energy is created by way of prescribed, prescise, sacred geometric patterns.

A Crystalline Grid is activated by connecting specific patterns of light between the stones, using crystalline, mental and divine energies to facilitate transformation. It is the same when using sacred art. Tachyon cells, crystals or stones may be used in the physical, energetic imprints and thought forms are used on the etheric planes. The activation is accomplished using a combination of crystalline, mental and divine energies.

The ancients of all races used crystalline grids to facilitate transformation including healing and manifestation. This sacred, healing art has the capacity to influence the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. Continuous grids greatly accelerate material manifestation and support healing and positive change on all levels. Grids enhance distance healing and prayer work, and once activated, will impact the energies of your environment as well.

I invite you to take ten minutes to explore the art of applied sacred geometry by watching the video "Introduction of Sacred Geometry" by Charles Gilchrest. I also offer sacred geometry and crystal gridding services, study programs, and products on the Oshun Spirit website and in the Bonanzle storefront.

If you wish to create positive change in your life, or in the lives of others, applied sacred geometry is the perfect tool. May you be blessed as a co-creator of peace on Earth and goodwill to all her creatures.

photo credit: http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality

Intuitive Counseling, Psychic Reading, Spiritual Healing... One Love

"What do you do for a living?"

Once upon a time, and just once, I replied that I was an ebay psychic. Of course the person who asked thought I was joking. But it was true. At the time, I was working with dozens of clients each week, all who were finding me on eaby, and I was using my psychic and intuitive skills to help them to become more aware of how their spiritual life (or lack of it) might be influencing the choices and challenges they were experiencing in their relationships, careers, and health.

I don't call myself "Madame Susabella" or dress in flowing robes, but I am what I am. My practice has long since grown past the confines of the ebay metaphysical community, although I do maintain a few listings there. And, my practice and on-line presence has taken several twists and turns along the way.

While I do offer psychic and tarot readings, I have turned my attention to the Tachyon field, and the application of sacred geometry to encode and program vibrations of thoughts and emotion with probable outcomes. Its sort of like embryonic stem cell research without matter! And yes, I use my psychic skills as part of the equation, in conjunction with an understanding of quantum physics, a healthy dose of faith in the structure of an intelligent universe and an appreciation of our human ability to intuit and create with that intelligence. So, I now simply say I am an intuitive counselor. Quantum physics is difficult to explain in a brief, casual encounter.

Although there is nothing wrong with being referred to as a psychic, the term itself has gotten a bit of a bad rap. I personally don’t mind the label psychic, as I see it as a natural ability that has become a valuable skill with years of study and practice, like any other talent be it musical, athletic, or artistic.

Because we are all psychic on some level this ability need not be looked at as if it is a mysterious talent. I think the change in labeling may be to create a distinction between those of us who are interested in helping others with our intuitive tools from the stigma attached from the scamming fortune tellers who call themselves psychic.

Not everyone uses their intuitive natures professionally to help others. Some of us that do are more comfortable being referred to as intuitive counselors or healers.

What’s the difference?
Someone who seeks a psychic may ask: “When will I meet my soul mate?”

A person consulting an intuitive counselor asks: “What can I do differently in my life to help attract a loving partner?”

Intuitive ability is a wonderful gift that offers healers such as myself the opportunity to better understand nature of the challenges their clients are suffering with. A skilled healer can sense and "read" the energy field of the person receiving the healing and provide healing equally effectively if the person is in the same room or across the world. There are many ways one might understand how this works. Much of our everyday experience involves the transfer of energy over long distances. In fact, satellite dishes are just one example. There are energies all about us traveling great distances in short amounts of time, including radio and magnetic waves.

From my own viewpoint, it is not necessary for the energy to “travel” anywhere as I am able to “see” the universe as being like a holograph, where the whole is contained in every part. Time and distance are only concepts which help define our “ordinary” third dimensional reality. The laws of nature which describe subtle energies in the higher dimensions are different than those which describe the denser frequencies including the physical body. As physics explores the layers of the structure of creation, phenomena become less and less localized.

Physicists describe a unified field. This is the field in which I work, actually an altered state of awareness in which the limitations of separation, of time and distance, me and you, and thoughts and forms have been transcended. It is oneness consciousness. Awareness itself, the one field of intelligence and “beingness” in which this whole phenomenal world is contained, is here and there, you and me. One love.

Please feel free to email me at suberry@myfairpoint.net if you have any questions about the services I offer. I look forward to opening my heart as a channel for healing, growth and awareness in your life.

Dolphin Day Dreams from the Andros Ley Lines

The collective consciousness of the dolphins is multidimensional, interplanetary and highly sophisticated. This vibration is different from any other consciousness on earth. I have found that this energy is the clearest and most supportive to our human consciousness. The healing energy of the dolphins is very soothing and pure. On Earth, they remain among the most powerful collective consciousnesses, as yet unaffected by human influences. Connecting with them is a profoundly transformational experience. Whether I make the connection by submerging myself in the sea, or I do it through meditation and prayer, I am, each time, changed by their presence in my life.

As we have our physical ears, eyes and body, so too do we have ears, eyes and bodies that are just as real in other dimensions. These other bodies allow us to sense, feel, navigate and unify all parts of our earthly and Divine selves, so that we may truly become a living temple for Spirit to live in. In practice, dolphins are using these bodies holographicly and modelling how to unite the mind, body and spirit in loving wisdom and power and move fluidly from one to the other without judgment or fear, creating in multiple dimensions, not just in one or two.

Dolphins are transmitters of ancient wisdom and planetary ascension energies. Their energies and consciousness can easily be received through shamanic methods, because they are eager to fulfill their own souls purpose, to make contact, and share. Being in the water with them is unnecessary to make the heart/telepathic connection, although swimming with them is awesome!

To facilitate our connection, it is only necessary to forgive ourselves and our ancestors, for within our DNA we hold many memories and we have spent way too much energy attempting to repress them. At the whurla sites the veils are very thin between dimensions, and the ancestors (spirit guides) are as close as a whisper. A simple prayer of thanksgiving and gratitude is all that is needed to merge dimensionally and access the ancient knowledge in these sacred places.

The messages are crystal clear, this special moment of time, the most spectacular awakening in consciousness that has ever occurred on this planet. There is a divine thread which links all existence with all others in the unified field of pure consciousness, we live in a communicating universe! Dolphins make their energies available to allow anyone who has the desire to go beyond normal boundaries and be lifted up into their frequency.

Each year, the dolphin meditations draw together a worldwide community of individuals and groups desiring harmony, peaceful co-existence, and unity and who wish to merge with dolphin consciousness to ignificantly increase their personal vibrations. The meditations also raise the vibration of all the water on the planet including the water inside our bodies. Yes, this miraculous moment in time is the most spectacular awakening in consciousness that has ever occurred on this planet and ther multidimensional support has never been more readily accessisible en masse.

May the dolphins bless you with their many gifts of wisdom, love, healing, and expanded vision.
May you recognize your Divine self, so that we may truly become a living temple for Spirit.
May you forgive the past, embrace oneness consciousness, and live eternally in love.

Namaste,
Susan

Shopping for a bathing suit, and loving unconditionally in the presence of dolphin consciousness

Later this month I will travel the Bimini Road and offer healings through the Divine Dolphin Energy that I have come to know as the Infinite Goddess Ansa Eeeya. As many of you know, this body of work holds a special place in my heart and I know that these sessions will be an amazing time of growth and awakening for us all! But first, today, I must shop for a new bathing suit.

Perhaps the only species that compares with humans in intelligence, dolphins also possess an innate gentleness and a mysterious power to trigger the healing process in humans while renewing our inherent belief in the beauty and the ecstasy of being alive. There is something about being in the presence of dolphins that not only brings out the best in you, it is known to have healing qualities to relieve chronic pain, restore movement, cure autism, disease and, in a few cases, even cancer.

There is evidence that dolphins trigger the healing process in humans by boosting the production of T-cells and endorphins. After patient and dolphin interactions, scientists have measured a far greater harmony between the left and right sides of the brain. Dolphins produce an intense amount of echolocation energy, which resonates in the bones, such as the skull and the sternum, and then travels up the spine.

Many therapists believe that a dolphin's sonar causes a phenomenon called cavitation inside the soft body tissue of the human body. It precipitates a ripping apart of the molecules. So, if sonar does that with cellular membranes, it could completely change the bio-molecular structure. Many hospitals already use low frequency sound waves to break up kidney stones and gall stones. The physics of that treatment protocol are not different from a dolphin's sonar.

Science apart, there is a deeper meaning to dolphin therapy. Dolphins can do this "procedure" multi-dimensionaly, and from the vantage point of pure love. I believe that dolphins are a higher life form, who are helping lead humanity towards a better future. Dolphins have no prehensile extremities, so their intelligence has never gone in the manipulation of their environment. Their thoughts have developed inward. I suspect that whales and dolphins quite naturally go in the directions we call spiritual—in that they get into meditative states quite easily where they are able to access All That Is for creative healing. Plutarch, the Greek moralist and biographer, said: "To the dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage."

When you encounter a wild dolphin in open waters, something breaks open the conditioned seals of your heart. Dolphins make you feel accepted as you are, with unconditional love, and are able to lead us to a profound inner peace that reaches out to embrace the universe. In scientific terms, this is biophillia, the transformative power that links you to nature, and recent research suggests that dolphins could be the most powerful carriers of this emotion.

Dolphins assist us in seeing our lives as they are from within the 3rd through the 7th dimensions. As we open and allow ourselves to connect to the higher planes, we find there is less judgment and critical thought, simply acceptance. So, I will try to hold this awareness today as I gaze into the dressing room mirror... and accept that this year I probably should purchase a one-piece suit with a lycra spandex panel strategicaly designed to hold in what threatens to spill out.

Acceptance is what Goddess Ansa Eeeya embodies, radiates, and holds in our world. She is a space of loving acceptance. She teaches us that all is an illusion, and the illusions represent our potentials. Therefore, if we simply tap into a different potential and make that our reality, it is. We are urged to see ourselves as we are in the 3rd dimension and also as we are in the 7th. That is creativity! We are creativity!

The Mother Goddess Dolphins, Ansa Eeeya are here to remind us of ways in which we can live in joy, excitement, and love. The Goddess speaks of the way in which we are blending into one, the slowly sagging physical, with the divine mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of ourselves. As these are blended, there will cease to be a separation which in turn will bring each individual greater contentment, joy, balance and love within our lives.

And that begins with an acceptance, a deep acceptance that we already ARE love, joy, and swimming in oceans of abundance, even if we are swimming in a tank suit this year!

I have a few spots open for Remote Dolphin Healings in the sunrise swim sessions and sun salutations, which include a group meditation and a grid construction on the sandbar with the wild dolphins in attendance. Dates TBA. Private healings are sold out this year, but if you would like to participate in the group grid healings, you may purchase on Bonanzle via the New Vision Lightworker Etheric Grid Attunement listing or contact me for more information at suberry@myfairpoint.net. Treat yourself to a remarkable experience that you will cherish forever!