Author: Tori
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Say Goodbye To Problem Heavy Friends
This year, take the radical step of identifying the people in your life who are problem-heavy. People for whom most exchanges with you present as an opportunity to discuss problems they have no real intention of fixing. People who cannot see you clearly through their own looping story of self-pity. Stand strong in the knowledge that the problems you have are being worked on, and shared with a select few for whom the exchange of growth and recognition is mutual. Take less comfort in company that allows you to stay hidden. Company so self-indulgent that it asks you no questions,…
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How Sensitive Is Your Aura?
For some of us, the ability to tune into our auras or consciously use our intuition is a natural part of life. We’re more sensitive to the energy and intentions moving in and out of our field, more aware of what jars with us in any given moment. Occasionally, this gift is born through trauma, the legacy of one’s survival being dependent on hyper alertness. Other times, our intuition and auric sensitivity is something we have proactively honed, taking the time to rediscover latent and powerful talents. Developing the connection you have to your space will mean different results for…
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February Oracle Reading [2024]
Muse on the elements and what they mean to you. Then go wider… expand. The world would have you focus on water, fire, earth, air. But what love have you shared with the minerals? The stones, rocks, pebbles – the ones at your feet daily? They may not have the shine or glint of crystals, may not have the expensive price tag or cult following, but they are the memory, the bones of the earth. When you feel called to ground, look to the ground. When you’re in need of remembrance, reach to them for guidance. In times to forget,…
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Midwife
You have been asked to birth greatness and your first response, is to cry out for another. Another person, another woman, another soul. You have been called to birth brilliance and so you search for a wise feminine; a she sublime, a she capable, a she strong enough to bear the weight of power surging within you. You look around for the doula, creativity dammed at your roots, eager to flow through the vessel of one fit to withstand its force. You search for the doula, until the message comes, loud, in your quietness, No more humans. No more humans. No more other. Only us. Until…
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A Forgotten Land – Neutrality
Within our society there is a prevailing belief system that some of us follow with near-religious commitment. It’s the belief that positivity is fundamental to emotional stability, that with a positive mental attitude we can overcome, or at very least numb ourselves to, a majority of life’s challenges. When misfortune materialises – a relationship ended, a job lost, an illness discovered – the go-to response toward another person is a mix of empathy and sympathy. We clearly connect with the wider landscape of what emotional or physical loss means, its impact on one’s life and the difficult prospects involved in…
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January Oracle Reading [2024]
This month’s oracle reading has animals all over it. Birds, snakes, deer, wolves, you name it. In the midst of all the death nature displays at this time of year, is the communication between the animals that are dreaming and the ones that are awake; the ones that are alive and the ones that are being re-birthed and transformed. In the same way that we dream to commune with parts of ourselves, our departed ones, our alternative timelines, the animals too talk. Those that have chosen to rest, to hibernate, to stay out of sight – they are communing with…
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From Healing To Healed
There comes a time on your journey when you have to switch from being ‘the one who is healing’ to ‘the one who is healed’. There is a moment, when regardless of your physical or emotional health, you have to eat, walk, dance, love, as though all former setbacks have completed their lessons, have spent their karma. Everything you do must be to honour the whole you who has won the trial, is freed from remand, is living as one who wishes never to go back. The path toward healing can be treacherous. It is long, winding,…
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Rest
Rest, is nourishment. It is not checking emails, messages, or sitting quietly to ponder, the 50 things to do later. They aren’t urgent, anyway. Once the fear is removed, the panic, the ‘what ifs’, all that is left is choice, to do the thing now, or later. Rest, is the master of later. Rest, is eating food that the body, not the mind, craves. It is the herbal infusion that communes, with your needs, on a cellular level. It is the slumber that breathes softly, mistaken, sometimes, for a lover. Rest, sinks far from all surfaces, cannot feel the frantic…
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December Oracle Reading [2023]
The message this month may seem short and somewhat sharp, for those of you who aren’t familiar with my spirit guides. I’ll leave out the swear words, but essentially, it’s ‘don’t **** around next year, do the things that you have to do to make the best of your life‘. Don’t go slow, don’t hedge your bets – just connect to your higher purpose, what you want, and then go for it. If people are going to get hurt, it’s likely it would have happened at some point anyway – choose whether you want to sacrifice your happiness and your…
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Don’t Trust The Process
Don’t trust the process. Trust the stillness that lives in the spaces between. Trust the walk from your bed to the shower, the moments between plating your food and eating it, the life between asking for your dream and receiving what you really need. + Don’t trust the process. Because that is only about trusting what you’re doing, not who you’re being, in between. Your life is not a process. + This emphasis on time on linear movement, will only nail you deeper onto this Earth onto the cross of expectation and maybe even, regret. You came here to learn…
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November Oracle Reading [2023]
The ancestral veneration that began in October is not yet finished. Regardless of your spiritual beliefs or practices, this is a call to be mindful of the calendars you adhere to and the schedules you keep. Pay attention particularly to those that are based on the creation of another mind, another soul’s intention. What does your own heart say? What do you feel you would like to do, with any moment, in any phase of your life? As with the 9-5 job, or the allocated public holidays, there is a constant relinquishing of personal choice, the giving over of autonomy…
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Homesick
We are all homesick. We are all longing for the place to belong, where we may show up whole and seen by the group. Releasing all the ways we water down to fit in, discarding the shadows and the decoys, we have created to throw others off our scent. We are all homesick for the tribes that help the healing of marriages, the nurturing and care for one another’s children, and the soothing to all parts of us that ache. We are all homesick not for the material, the plot of brick and mortar, or piece of land that is vast…
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The Inbetweeners
There are people in your walk through life, who must stand out. They will appear to you as if by design, fertiliser to be sprinkled onto the soil of your consciousness. They will arrive wild and alone, determined to grow, to flourish in your psyche with or without consent. And they will not fit any discernible way into the world you recognise. They are the working class couple in the resort reserved for the super wealthy. They are the family in the restaurant who sit silently across from you, a quiet and undecipherable force of either peace or rage…
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October Oracle Reading [2023]
Pay attention to the signs this month and be open to what they may mean. Ask friends, explore the internet, spend time gathering answers to what you might usually ignore. It’s easy, to fall into the arms of coincidence when you don’t understand the synchronicities occurring in your life – for your life. It’s easy to replace spiritual investigation with cerebral logic ‘it’s just the fifth image of a snake I’ve seen today, it’s just the third time an old friend has called me this week…’ but try to be more accommodating to the symbols and universal whispers around…
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You Have Got to Go All The Way
In coaching, you have got to go all the way. You have got to talk about the feelings, thoughts and experiences that present themselves. The ones that have you believing there is a choice, over whether or not they matter. To awaken the relationship with that part you so desperately want to heal, to grow, to birth, you have got to move through the fear of breaching the dam. You must reassess your dismissal of that which comes masqueraded and clothed in irrelevance and pointlessness. In coaching there are times to bear your soul, in order to heal your heart and your body.…
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September Oracle Reading [2023]
Peace and radiance are about more than sunshine and breezy, balmy days. The peace you want is inside you and sometimes you have to be cracked open to find it. Everything you have been through, everything you have suffered, is currency for either more pain or growth. Choose. Peace is available to you, don’t turn your back on it because the road looks too hard.