Opening the gate of transformation

Turtle is sometimes known as the keeper of doors. Turtle slows down time and thus extends life. Turtle energy is the antidote for our times connecting heaven and earth. We learn from Turtle to carry Home wherever we go.

Frog is a symbol of coming into your own personal power. He stays connected to the Creator, the Source of Life, as represented by the Water of Life. In his masculine aspect he represents the ability to detach from a particular emotional level as he matures and to stand his ground on dry land.

Frog knows when to make a leap into a new way of being. He sees his own beauty along with his ugliness teaching us to know our own strengths and weaknesses. When the Frog Prince allows the Princess, the Divine Earth Mother, to kiss him he finds his faults transformed and his majesty restored.

The Mother as Wolf speaks of the disciplined ritual that is required if we are to follow the path of the Core Heart. Wolf draws on the strength and self-knowledge that comes in solitude and open-hearted relaxation. From this stillness grows the awareness and self-assurance of belonging in the pack.

Knowing your own strengths and weaknesses brings you to the doorway, the gate to the path of personal power. Pause and open the gate of transformation that leads to forgiveness and respect.

Earth Service Practice

1) When trials come, breathe three times, slow down and feel deep into the heart space. Feel completely whatever you are feeling including sorrow and fear, then invite your hopes and dreams as well.
2) Now audibly or mentally repeat three times, “I choose and gratefully accept the path of forgiveness and respect for myself and all life. I am free, I am free, I am free!”
3) Look up for a moment and offer the feelings deeply into space above the crown of the head. You may wish to visualize a milky white or golden light. Continue to breathe into the brain cells, down through the spine, past the heart, core and belly to the ground.
4) Allow the sensation to flow out through the feet and base of the spine into the center of the Earth. Now draw up the Mother Love from her Core Heart with Gratitude.

Whale's Song and the Presence

I’d love to talk a little about being Present, what it means to be present and why it is important to healing, awakening and spiritual renewal. I’ve discovered that presence of mind is completely different from being truly present. More often than not the mind distracts us from the present moment by creating a commotion, and “ego dance,” every time it notices we’re starting to calm down and approach real Presence. Being present gives us access to our pure potential in the core heart. Our joyous essence is connected to the Infinite Source and being present connects us to that fountain of unlimited power. But the core heart not only contains this pure essence it also contains the core wound, the delusion, the play of the divine that creates a sense of separation along with our individual nature. That’s why the initial stages of learning to be present may involve remaining in the body/mind even when pain and suffering show up. It may not always be pleasant, but he benefits are great in the long run: Connection to Source, Inspired Action and Divine Grace.

How do we access the present moment? Breath, Silence, Attention, Awareness, Gratitude. These are all a great start, but can we really “access” something that is ours already?

In the Animal message Whale has become a symbol of the Presence and of the Joy that wells up when we are freed from the burdens of past and future time. This freedom comes not through great effort, but from open-hearted relaxation and letting go into the grace of this moment.

Swan speaks to the surrender that leads to grace...

"Don’t ever give up on Joy. Remember the story of the Swan song.
Often the most beautiful joyous vibration comes just when you are
about to give up all hope."

I am Whale. I swim easily into your seas with a song of great joy.
From Joy I came, in Joy I live and in sacred joy I melt at last!

This is true of all Creation – it begins and ends in Joy. As the
Navaho night chant says, “With beauty before me I walk, with
beauty behind me I walk… it is finished in beauty, it is finished in
beauty.”

I carry the constant memory of Beauty and of the Truth of Joy which
underlies and overlays all Creation. This is not a “metaphysical”
truth or mere “pie in the sky when you die.” This is the very real,
pure bliss at your very core just waiting to be realized. All that is
necessary is to open your eyes and ears to the song of Peace and
ever new joy. As the song says, “Who feels it knows it….”

So much fuss and drama keeps 99% of our energy blocking out the
waves of pure happiness that you may be convinced that it does not
even exist, that the drama is real. So at those times your life is dull
or worse, a terrible nightmare.

So many people are currently engrossed in the terrible motion
picture show that you feel waves of collective grief, fear and pain
even if you are generally balanced with a solid emotional
foundation. That is all right.

Let the pain awaken a deeper understanding and it will be seen as a
growing pain. Grow in compassion for those who are lost in this
moment and you will find your own unique way, your own song of
Joy, your Soul song. Use the gift of breath to sing a song that none
have sung, a song that only you know.

In this way your life is gradually and beautifully transformed and
All Life is deeply affected. With abiding Respect and appreciation I
offer all the love and kindness from the Heart of our Mother
through my own heart for the awakening Joy.

Earth Healing for Earth Day

Animal Balance is a vehicle to bring peace and harmony to the world and wholeness to the individual. Spirit and Nature dancing together bring the re-emergence of balance and the re-awakening of free will and the heart’s natural love.

Experience the healing meditation. Listen to the call recording here!




Love and Respect /\

Earth-Service Audio with Sound Healing for Japan

Here's a recording of last Wednesday's group healing meditation for Japan. The first half shares some of my personal healing journey and ways the Animals and Trees can help you on your path.

One friend on the call said "It was powerful." Ana

The last half is Pamir Kiciman's beautiful sound healing chant. Please listen, send and receive healing if you are feeling vulnerable or a bit shaken from recent events. This will help you reconnect.

Many blessings to you All!




Message from Badger


I am Badger, here with a specific medicine today. The masses of the world are undergoing greater hardships through loss and deprivation. Even those of the privileged nations are fearful for their lot.

Loss is felt in the human, animal, vegetable and mineral Nations in the forms of loss of livelihood, habitat and means of survival. Whole species are lost daily and there is a sense of loss of control of a world gone astray.

There is a great loss of face, of social standing and anxiety over the future is prevalent in our times. But all loss comes from separation from the Divine Father/Mother/Friend/Beloved/Child of the One Heart. It is the loss of innocence.

Dig deep into your One Heart in the silence of your meditation and Commune with the One who dwells there and gives All to Everyone. Know that all you thought lost is held in the Core Heart.

Waves of collective grief and anger for the loss of the Earth’s many Children are shaking many to their Core now. As you enter your Core you will know that when we hold fast to our roots in the Earth all will be restored to us there.

You find in your closeness to Creator a new awareness of Who You Really Are: a Blessed Child of Divine Love, Unconditional Forgiveness and Infinite Abundance. Bless You all in Peace from the the One Heart!


NOTE: Check out the Animal Balance Readings link for an updated description of personal healing services.

Hawk eats Starling: Higher Vision versus group consciousness

Just after the Squirrel came to die in the back yard last Fall, I found a pile of feathers in the back yard under the Cherry Tree. A bird hawk had eaten a Starling. Later Little Dog brought me the head, very proud.

Hawk is the guardian and initiates higher vision. Starling is on who lives in a flock and carries the group dynamic to extremes sometimes. The mob mentality can overpower our best intentions and highest good sometimes.

The need for external validation—acceptance from family, friends or clan often overpowers the internal acceptance, the knowing Who We Really Are. At these times Hawk may come to devour the body of ignorance.

We are left feeling torn apart, like the poor Starling, but it is only meant to get us out of our head. It is the nourishment received from consuming the body of Starling that feeds the higher vision of Hawk.

Only by completely embracing the shadows long held in our collective unconscious will we grow into the higher consciousness of the Radiant Self.

Like a Thief in the Night

(exerpt from this month's Animal Balance)

I filled the pond after the Racoons drained out most of the water by knocking the hose out of my stream. It feels like a direct result of my energy work there on the new moon.

Racoon, I call upon you in light and love. I invite your aid and positive energy for the highest good of all. Energy of love, energy of change, bless me with the Wisdom to see past the masks people put on and to see through the ignorance of ages: the false belief in the inherent, independent existence of people and things.

Dharmakaya, Maha Prakriti, Divine Mother, reveal Thyself in my Self and show me through the miracle of Love that I am free to choose any mask, any shape or form and yet remain aware of the formless absolute.

Above all help me with Abundant Love and Wisdom to shape my life in alignment with higher Will to bring the formless into form with beauty, compassion and loving-kindness.

Break me again and again until I see that I am unbreakable, unchangeable Spirit. Smelt my gold from dark ore in the fires of trial and difficulties until I laugh in full radiant awareness of Thy Grace which flows with effortless ease.

Squirrel Speaks of Releasing the Wound

A squirrel came to the back yard with a fatal wound—barely jumping from the roof to a branch of the Cherry Tree, clinging there then moving a little further down the branch—in shock from an accident I suppose.

My friend, Squirrel, you came to say goodbye. I saw your last leap and though you barely held on you did not fall, but managed eventually to climb down the trunk to the ground before your death transition back to Mother Earth, the release from pain and suffering. So I honored this as your last wish, your instinct to be buried under that tree. Your body is now nourishment for her roots washed in heavy rain. Tree of Life, the sacred spiral takes you in.

Squirrel, will you speak?

Yes, I am Squirrel, singing a song for you and all of Earth’s Children from deep in the Core Heart of Mother/Father. My wordless song is a story and a reminder of both the beauty of life and impermanence. Thank you for honoring my body by offering it back to our Mother. Inside, deep inside your inner knowing you feel that what you did for me you did for yourself and for All Life. This is the foundation of Oneness, the unity consciousness which leads to Peace and Harmony.

As I walk my path on the good Blue Road of Spirit I offer you this message of hope for the world and for All that Is. My difficult passage from the roof top to the tree across the branch with guts hanging out is a symbol of woundedness and grief that is felt by humankind and held in the gut. It can be a gnawing empty feeling or a screaming rage. Who feels it knows it.

I am Squirrel, the gatherer who has helped you collect the seeds of the Heart’s Natural Love. That is the perpetual power that carried me across the branch, back to the Tree and down again to Earth. Having given my All I return to the Earth as you will also. Now I am with You in the Core Heart. Give back all your grief and pain and re-connect to the Tree of Life.

Feel the roots of life restore and rebirth You in the Core Heart and You will walk in Balance and Freedom again. With all my Love from the Animals, Plants and Stones, Thanks for listening with an open heart and Respect for All Life.