OK...go to this website...have your speakers turned on....move the cursor all over the picture and click on the items....make sure you click the office door open and closed three times.....

http://palinaspresident.com/

Today started last night...LOL.  I had a very long, very involved, very odd dream.  I woke up at 1 AM, 2 AM, 3 AM and 4 AM...each time telling myself that I have to get back into the dream, which I did.  There was a lot going on with the dream but that's not what this blog is about.

I finally woke up at 5 AMish and couldn't get back to sleep so I got up, got ready for work and was there by 7 AM.  I felt pretty good, was rested (oddly enough considering the dream) and had some good energy.  As the day progressed, I began to feel odd.  I left work at 3:30, stopped to get some stuff at the store and came home.  As I was driving, I really focused on this odd sensation that I was having and still feel now.

The only way I can explain it is that I feel like something is wrong, I don't think it directly involves me but feel that something is off.  The best way to describe this feeling is that I hear no "noise"...I'm not picking up any energy and it's really confusing me.  I asked my best friend and he doesn't feel anything and can't pick up on it.

So now I'm asking y'all...my online friends.  Are any of you having weird days?  weird feelings?  odd sensations?  anything?  AND Can anyone offer an explanation?

HELP....this is really strange and it is bothering me.

Thanks!  Love and Light!

Doug

The last couple of weeks have not been the easiest for me.  I've doubted and re-evaluate alot about myself.  It kept getting worse, and worse is exactly how it felt.  Finally....today, it all makes sense.  And all it took was a little grouse for me to understand!

My card, today, was Grouse and Grouse showed up in contrary.   Grouse came to me to remind me that I need to stay grounded...hell, after the last few weeks, I need to ground myself in a major way. I need to use the sacred spiral dance.  So tonight....if you have time, inclination and light to share...send some my way as I ground and hopefully, correct some wrongs within myself and my energy.

Grouse...of the Sacred Spiral,

Leading us on,

To reach the everlasting heights,

Where we can live as one.

(Unless otherwise noted, any of the poems used as part of my DMCM come from the Medicine Card book by Jamie Sams & David Carson.)

SO just when you think you have a good plan, things change on you.  I woke up yesterday, got ready for work, had EVERY intention to pull a medicine card to meditate on all day.  However, that is not how it happened.  I was drawn to my daily animal medicine, not through my cards, by through nature herself.

Crow as everywhere with me yesterday.   I can go for days without seeing a crow but yesterday I saw them and, boy howdy, were they ever chatty.  But what were they telling me?

This one was easy to discern.  Recent events, that I'll not go into, caused me to second guess my views on what is honorable and respectable between friends.  It seems I have a strict set of standards that I apply to my friendships and it is based on honor, love and respect.  My friends, however, are not as strict in their standards, and I'm not saying their way is wrong.  I'm simply saying it is different than mine. 

I spent a lot of time over the past two weeks trying to figure out how to alter my standards to be more like those of my friends, to not be as strict with mine.  I wanted to change how I see things to be able to see them more like everyone else.

Crow cawed to me yesterday to remind me that there is nothing wrong with how I see things, my views are as important and deserving as respect as everyone else's.   I do not have to change myself to appease everyone else.

Crow...

Are you cawing,

So I may know,

The secrets of balance,

Within my soul?

Or are you sending,

your sacred caw

Just to remind me

Of universal laws?

I woke up this morning and it came to me that I needed to start doing my daily medicine card reading/meditation again.  So beginning today, I will draw one medicine card from my deck each morning and focus on the lesson that needs to be learned.  I like to keep track of the cards and thought "why not use my blog to record these".  So here we are....

This morning, I drew WILD BOAR.

Wild Boar...teaches us

to confront without fear,

Ripping apart the denials

and lies that appear,

Testing courage, finding truth,

its medicine will remain,

A part of every human path,

marking the victories we attain.

Wild Boar is about courage and confronting fears, overcoming obstacles, accepting the inevitable.  I have spent as much time as possible (since I am at work) trying to determine what it is that Wild Boar is telling me at this time.  I was, honestly, at a loss until lunch.  My assistant and I had take-out from a local Chinese restaurant and when I opened my fortune cookie, Wild Boar suddenly made sense to me.

Wild Boar showed up today to remind me that no matter what comes my way, I already have the strength and courage to face anything.  We need our strength and our courage to take on the negative but also to embrace the positive.  I simply needed a reminder of that.

Now...some of you (if anyone is reading this..LOL)...some of you may be wondering what that little fortune cookie told me.  Well, I'll tell you and while it may not make sense to you...a connection to Wild Boar resonated strongly within me as I read it.

And the message in my fortune cookie was:

A thrilling time is in your immediate future.

LOVE AND LIGHT

Doug