Author: Tori
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March Oracle Reading [2023]
Embrace the freedom you have in life to pivot. Imagine yourself on a rollercoaster, and instead of holding on tight when in free fall, practice letting go. Face the fear with complete release and see how different it feels, how the experience changes. Practice trusting that there are forces and mechanisms around you, seen and unseen, that will keep you safe. There is a design that is bigger than you understand and if only you let it do its job, life will be bumpy but ultimately okay. This March, trust the creators of your life as much as you do…
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Are Intrusive Thoughts A ‘Spiritual Issue?’
I’ve been part of a few conversations in the last year or so that have centred around intrusive thoughts. People have asked me whether I believe it’s a spiritual issue, if I think it’s inner demons that can be eradicated with the right approach, or if these troublesome thoughts are common to us all in differing degrees. As much as it’s not the definitive answer most seek, the truth is that the reason for one person’s intrusive thoughts can be light years away from the next person’s. Everyone’s emotional and mental makeup varies vastly, as does their history, relationship to…
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Set High Spiritual Standards
Let’s talk about standards. Let’s dive into what we are and are not willing to accept from our spiritual lives. I’m known personally, for having extremely clear boundaries and a yardstick that can deeply trigger people. It’s not that I’m rigid in my beliefs, or in my way of moving through the world; it’s that there are a definite set of parameters very few people, or institutions, will survive if they breach. And by ‘survive’, I mean be allowed to access me, or my life, in the same way again. It sounds militant, but I’ve made the decision that my…
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February Oracle Reading [2023]
You don’t have to wait for spring; growth is here now. We know this year is about going against the collective norm and February is another opportunity to honour your authenticity. You can sow your seeds and you can have your flowers – it is not one or the other and typical nature cycles need not apply to your goals. This February is a time to look for the seeds (hopes, dreams, ambitions) you planted seasons ago and to ask yourself why they haven’t flourished. Be curious. Do they need to be moved to a more exposed, attentive side…
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Let It Live Outside Your Body
There are an extraordinary amount of healing and therapeutic modalities available to people choosing to explore the inner workings of who they are. As a mentor I see it as my calling to experience any and all that resonate with me, knowing that if they do, I’m sure to meet with people who require that exact knowledge on their own paths. Being able to pivot with a client’s needs and layers is what helps me to facilitate the changes that would usually require multiple practitioners. I was excited when I first moved into the sphere of embodiment work; the ability…
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Where To Start On Your Spiritual Journey
There are multiple entry points into a life that consciously follows a spiritual path. For some, the route is one of enthusiasm and expectation, hearts so full with positivity that communion with higher planes of existence is the only means of release. For others it’s the extremities of trauma that will crack them open. It’s through the suffering and turmoil that they experience the metaphysical world opening up and calling them forth. Both these paths have their own challenges, but they can in a lot of ways be the most straightforward. Another third route into spirituality tends to…
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January Oracle Reading [2023]
This is going to be a month requiring ‘grassroots’ change. This isn’t about starting a new workout regime or healthy eating plan; it’s about listening to the core rhythms within yourself and acting in alignment with them. There will be obvious moments when you must consciously decide between the easy option and the one that’s in-keeping with your gut and your standards. It’s time for you to become choice-aware, to actively see them and to make them. This requires a strength void of victim mentality. It means you’ll go against the grain, that you may experience discomfort, but it’s time…
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Dancing With Your Patterns
Instead of viewing patterns as unchanging reactions that have us careening from one disaster to the next, it’s helpful to see them as multi-faceted parts of ourselves. Ones that are in constant vibration, willing either to be left on course or interrupted. Imagine, if you will, yourself as the grand ballroom in which various parts of you dance. The choreography is created here, parts of you are moving to inner rhythms of experience; your own, your grandmother’s, your father’s. Some parts move wildly, freely, others seek always the perfect partner, feeling, pitch. Our patterns are dance partners we are courting,…
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Healing Fatigue
When we are in the infancy of our self-help journeys, the declarations we make to end all our unhelpful patterns will usually spark apprehension. Suddenly, the fear of how these cyclical habits within us might respond when called out is very tangible. We feel their discomfort at potentially being challenged by us, their host, as awareness readies us to reclaim our power. The further down this road of self-knowledge we go and the more layers of healing we uncover, one might wrongly assume that changes occur like falling dominos. The reality is that a fatigue sometimes, and often does, set in instead. To…
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How Do I Cope, With The Things I hear?
I am sometimes asked what my own coping mechanisms are and how it feels to be surrounded by so much suffering, to spend sessions listening to distress and sorrow, to see and hear people at the worst lows of life. When I shrug and say it doesn’t affect me, or that I am used to it, I understand I could appear as somewhat apathetic. I am fully aware that my composure and ease with the topic may, to an outsider, imply that I am proficient in switching off or that I have become desensitised to the suffering of others. This…
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“Give Me A Minute To Compose Myself.”
Where did we learn, that it is necessary to compose ourselves, to pull together the framework of a calm self that others are expecting to see? If we aim to have honest hearts, what stops us from speaking truer sentences, from stating our desires more accurately? Give me a minute, to repress everything I am naturally feeling in this moment, is what we really mean, everything my body needs to move from the inside outward. Please, would you just wait a couple of seconds, to allow me enough time to hide, to shield, to summon all the boundaries needed,…
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Meet Sandra
Her name was Sandra and there is really only a single way to describe her movement through life. If I had to name it; I mean if I had to put a finger to it, match it to my frame of reference and then commit, it would be to say that she was aggressively indisposed. Yes, that she courted illness as a confidant; an ally doubling as a weapon, aimed toward anyone attempting familiarity with her. You see, she was beautiful. Not beautiful in the sense of ethereal captured in marble, or the boldness of old Hollywood glamour. She was soul…
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Start Asking Yourself The Right Questions
There is too much emphasis, in this realm, that is placed on certainty. Everyone wants to be sure they are doing the right thing; they want to be sure they are making the right decisions, that they have covered all possible scenarios of outcome. And even once they have used logic, emotion and intuition to its fullest extent, the question still remains, but am I sure? Here is a better question: Is it worth the risk? Here is an even better question: Will I survive and be able to cope, if the worst possible outcome occurs? There are no complications…
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Your Relationship May Not Survive Me
Some relationships will simply not survive working with me; they’re not built to withstand the brutality of their own truths. These are the relationships you have with mothers, fathers, friends, children, lovers, spouses, colleagues. They are your relationships with institutions, pets and even, with your former, present and future selves. There is something that you should know, before you ask for help and it doesn’t even matter whom you’re asking. That something is this; The right advice, even if it leads you to despair and suffering, may still be the right advice. The wrong advice, even if it appears…
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Found: David Simmonds, Tuesday 6:35am
He awoke that morning and believed it to be like any other. Placing his feet flat on the floor beside his bed, he put down the phone he had already surveyed for fresh news. Nowhere in his conscious mind was he aware how life changing today would be. Nowhere in his body could he feel the earth ready to fall from under him, like so many dreams he once carried as a child. And yet, that is how it goes. This, so often, is how the moment arrives. One awakens on a day that presents like any other, only to…
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The Gift of Real Magic
I never knew much about magic until a few years ago. There was always a calling toward it, an attraction that felt mutual, yet neither it nor myself were prepared to meet the other half way. So magic circled my existence whilst I settled with making birthday cake wishes and vision boards, in order to manifest my desires. My journey into it was made longer, I’m sure, due to the fact I wasn’t motivated enough to dive in, knowing how deeply I wanted to swim and the dedication it might require. It wasn’t tricks or sleight of hand that…