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How Time Flies!

Five years ago today, myself and my partner’s three kids buried four jars around the garden, containing notes and drawings and things that represented our lives in that moment in time. We then drew a treasure map, and decided that we would dig them up on the 26th March 2016.

 

The weather is terrible, but we went out in the rain in our wellies with a spade, and Luc and I dug up our capsules. The girls will be around later next week, so they will dig theirs up then.

 

 

Mine was easy to find, as I had tucked it into the hollow of a tree, and then placed a tribal metal face to protect it.

 

 

 

Luc’s was a little more interesting to find! We knew which tree it was, and roughly where, but in no time at all, the spade hit a rock. A giant rock. That didn’t move. A little bit confused, we dug around it, and gradually it started moving.

 

 

 

 

 

All the while, we were questioning whether we really would have placed a giant rock over the jar! We had to get a crowbar in the end, to help us ease the rock out, which had actually become attached to the tree root! We managed to lift it out (how we put it in there five years ago, I have no idea) and then with a little more digging. we found Luc’s jar. Phew!

 

 

 

Muddy and wet, we hosed the jars off, and then came back in to reveal the contents. Luc was only seven years old then, so his jar contained adorable drawings of the things he liked at the time. And a message from his sister!

 

 

 

 

My jar contained lots of bits, including three lucky stars I had tucked tiny notes into, a haiku, an affirmation card, my lucky golden cat, an almondy tart label, (I loved it!), a Lindt white chocolate wrapper, the February calendar, and a lucky penny!

 

I also had a note in there about me at that time as well as some pretty wise advice to my 32-year-old self! (the date on the note is the 27th February, because that’s when we created the time capsules, but we didn’t bury them until the 26th March, because we were waiting for Jon to fill his jar, but he never did!)

Some of my predictions have come true, when we did this in 2011, I had yet to publish any books, and wasn’t anywhere near being a well-known author! We plan to create and bury another time capsule, (or several) to be dug up in another five years’ time, when I will be 37… scary!

Would highly recommend doing this, especially with kids, as five years is a long time, and it’s fun to look back at what they loved! When creating it, they might not understand why it’s fun or important, but when they dig it up, it’s like time travelling back to that moment.

Just don’t place massive rocks on top that will get entangled in tree roots!

Twin Flame Separation

I have written a lot of about Twin Flames in my novels, and I have done many Oracle Readings for those who are seeking, or who are separate from their Flames. I get lots of emails and questions from those who are in pain, and I know that my previous posts about Twin Flame separation get viewed every day.

The pain that comes from being separated from your Flame is something I’m quite familiar with, and I can completely empathise with anyone going through it, and have done many times.

In this post though, I want to focus on what makes a Twin Flame relationship work, and how to perceive the separation differently, so that it is no longer as painful. This post is based entirely on my own experiences, and the information that comes to me when I write, and I hope that it may help other Flames out there.

I have talked about how I feel that the Flames are reuniting because Earth Angels are feeling out of place on Earth and are wanting to go home, where they belong. Being with a Twin Flame feels the same as being home. Therefore, your Flame becomes your home. This is great if you are together, but when there is a separation, it can make you feel like you are homeless. Like you are adrift at sea, like you don’t belong anywhere. And for an Earth Angel, those are dangerous things to feel, because it will make them want to go home to their own realm again, and get off this planet.

 

I know that I have felt that way over and over. Like I have no home, I don’t belong. It became easier to cope with over time, after several separations and reunions, but it was still difficult. This year, however, it has changed.

The change has come from a shift in perception. Instead of feeling homeless when separated from my Flame, I am choosing to see my time away from him as an adventure, as a journey that I need to embark on. And that no matter what happens, one day, I will return home to him again. Of course, it helps that we are both still very connected and have reached a stage where we are completely transparent with one another. We don’t hide how we feel, and can still tell each other anything.

Recently, I created a short class in the online Earth Angel Training Academy, about the 3 keys to a happy Twin Flame union. The three keys are needed in all relationships, not just Twin Flame relationships, but I think they are even more important to have in the right quantities in between Flames.

If you are reading this, and you are separated from your Flame, and you are in pain, please know that I and your Angels are surrounding you with love and light, and that you are not alone. It may be impossible at first, to consider looking at the situation in a different way, but when you are ready, if you can change your perception, then it can truly change your life, and give you the energy to focus on your mission on this planet.

 

Reconnecting with the Goddess

This week, I headed to Glastonbury with my mum, for a few days of much-needed chill out time. We stayed in a gorgeous cottage, the Glastonbury Rose (which I would highly recommend) which fit our needs perfectly. On the first afternoon, we enjoyed the sunshine and visited some of the many funky shops, taking in the beautiful clothes and crystals, then we got some tasty gluten-free and veggie ready meals (it’s funny how ready meals are now such a novelty and a treat!) and we relaxed and watched a movie.

On the Tuesday, with me dressed in my best faerie gear, we headed for the indoor market where I planned to have a reading with a psychic called Mitch Garlington. A friend of a friend had also had a reading with Mitch back in January, and I had appeared in that reading. So I figured I should get one for myself.

The amount of information that Mitch packed into our 20 minutes was quite incredible, and everything I have been told recently was confirmed, as well as my current path. My nan came through with something that I haven’t ever told anyone before. It was an incredible reading, and one of the points he made was that I had a Goddess Spirit Guide who was waiting to work with me, but I had not been letting her through.

Doing our best not to get blown over!

So on our final day, when it was blowing a gale, my mum and I headed for the Tor. My intention was to allow the wind to literally blow away everything I needed to release and let go of, in order to connect with my Spirit Guide, and reconnect with the Goddess within myself. We set off up the hill, and the combination of the steep steps and the wind made it a very slow process. As we expressed out loud all we wanted to release, however, I found my steps getting lighter and lighter, until I found it easy to scale the hill, almost dancing along! Then we turned the corner and the winds hit us full force, and we had to hold onto each other in order to remain upright.

The Gateway to the Goddess

We made it finally to the Tor, where we sheltered from the relentless winds, and in walking through the doorway of the Tor, I intended that I was walking through the gateway to connect with the Goddess.

Once we had caught our breath and become calm again, we set off back down the hill, again holding each other for extra stability, then once we were low enough, the winds died down around us, and we made the rest of the journey with ease.

 

 

We made it!

 

We then visited the Chalice Wells and I found a pendant that perfectly captured the essence of what had just transpired.

The Amethyst Goddess

Afterwards, we felt windswept, yet exhilarated. Getting to the top was such a struggle at times that the view was so much sweeter, and the way home so much easier. The whole journey reminded me of what we go through when we are following our path to accomplish our missions.

At first, the path seems steep, arduous and slow. Then as we let go of everything that holds us back. our step becomes lighter, and we find things flow much more easily. Once we have reached a certain place, we find then that things are thrown at us relentlessly, but in order to reach our desires, we must push ahead, and gather those who believe in us to help and support us. Finally, we reach the top, our desired destination, and we relax and rest, and enjoy the view. Our journey home then, is easy and straightforward, though we do still need the love and support of our friends and family. When we reach the end, which is the same place as the beginning, we realise that we are capable of doing anything that we set our minds to. And that no matter how difficult we perceive things to be, and no matter whether the conditions are right or not, if we wish to do it, then we must persevere.

The next journey after that would hopefully be easier, in that we have the faith in ourselves that we can see things through, that we can get to where we wish to go.

So wherever you are in your journey, I hope that you take away from this post the fact that you can do anything you set your mind to, all you need to do is go for it.

 

Live Earth Angel Hangout

This Friday, at 7pm UK time (2pm EST) I will be having a live hangout with John Masiulionis, and we will be chatting about Earth Angels, Twin Flames, writing and upcoming events!

If you would like to participate and ask questions, then click here for the event page. If you would like to watch live on YouTube, click here. There will be a recording posted after the event.

You can watch the trailer for the hangout below. Would love to see you there!

Book Titles – 5 Things to Consider

A new blog post on theamethystangel.com, my experiences with creating book titles! It is at the forefront of my mind as I try to come up with a title for the latest book I am writing in a new trilogy.

I’m not even going to tell you how long it took me to come up with a title for this blog post. Which is about my experiences with creating book titles. Ironic, no?

As the author of ten books, coming up with a decent title for each story is something that I have wrestled with a lot. The title is usually the first thing that people know about your book, and so is the first thing to be judged. (If the title is okay, then the next judgement will be the cover art, then the blurb, then the first page or two, and then the price.)

Some stories come with a clear title, and it would be crazy to consider anything else. I know when I wroteThe Elphite, I really didn’t even consider calling it anything else. But using a made-up word as a book title has its drawbacks…

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Angels in Your Life

On the 12th March, I will be at the Angel’s in Your Life event in Chepstow, a day filled with talks about Angels and lots of stalls selling all things Angel-related! I will be giving a talk about Earth Angels, as well as have a stand with my books and oracle cards.

If you’d like more information, then hop on over to the Facebook page for the event. It’s on from 10am to 4pm, and looks like it’s going to be a wonderful day! I will try to get some photos of it, often at these events I’m so busy chatting that I forget to take pictures!

It’ll be my first event of 2016, but I am sure will not be my last, in fact I have lots of really exciting plans for this year which I am itching to tell you all about, but am waiting for things to be finalised.

I promise though, you will be the first to know when I do!

In other news and spring updates, there are new Oracle Reading videos on my YouTube channel, and I have begun releasing the episodes of a series called The Stories Behind the Stories. These videos feature me talking about what happened behind the scenes of writing and publishing the Earth Angel series. The videos are being released to my Patrons on Patreon first, then to the public a week later, so if you want to be the first to watch – become a Patron now! Every little helps me to keep creating awesome content.

Also, the online Earth Angel Training Academy is growing all the time, there are two classes available at the moment, with the third being created right now! I would be delighted to welcome you to the Academy, go and check it out. You can see a short video on what it’s all about here, and if you have any further questions, just email me at theamethystangel@hotmail.co.uk.

Sending you love and blessings on this lovely sunny day!

Be Your Own Valentine

It’s that time of year again where everything is covered in hearts, there’s overpriced boxes of chocolates crammed in the aisles and bright red and pink cards that announce our love for our significant other.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Valentine’s Day, it’s good to have an excuse to buy flowers and silly gifts for a partner and to eat too much chocolate. But on this particular Valentine’s Day, whether you have a partner or not, I encourage you to become your own Valentine.

You don’t have to spend a fortune, buying yourself lavish gifts, (though you can if you want to!) but I would like to encourage you to really take some time to love and appreciate yourself. Tell your body how much you love it, and how thankful you are for it. Write a list of all the amazing qualities you have. Write down everything you do that makes you beautiful or unique. Promise yourself that you will not speak badly of yourself in any way, to anyone – not even to yourself.

Write down your wildest dreams, and give yourself permission to begin pursuing them. That project that’s been at the bottom of your to-do list? Put it at the top and go for it!

If you have a partner, then encourage them to do these things too. Perhaps you could even do it together, and help to point out each other’s best parts!

When we truly love and honour ourselves, when we speak kind and loving words to and about ourselves, that is when we are really able to deeply love and cherish others. And that is also when others are able to really love and cherish us. If we are always putting ourselves down in order to solicit compliments from others, then we are missing out on the much greater joy of loving ourselves so much that we don’t need others to confirm it, though if they want to of their own accord, we will happily accept their words!

We are constantly fed the message through the media that we are not good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, rich enough etc., and it’s time that we strengthened our belief in ourselves and our love for ourselves and stood proudly and declared:

I am beautiful. I am intelligent. I am abundant. I am awesome. 
And I love myself. 

You are all those things and so much more. And I am sending you an abundance of love and virtual chocolates!

Happy Valentine’s Day, Gorgeous!

 

Listening to the Signs

I’m working hard on getting the next class finished and available in the online Earth Angel Training Academy, and whilst in the middle of writing, my phone decides to call my friend for me. She didn’t answer, but taking this as a sign that maybe I should talk to her, I dialled her landline, and when she checked her mobile, the call was missed at 11:11am. (Which wasn’t the actual time, her phone is ten minutes fast!) Seeing repeated numbers is often a sign from the Angels, so we chatted for a bit, and during our short conversation, she inspired a wonderful idea for the online classes, a new dimension to the information that I hadn’t considered before.

It made me wonder about all the little nudges, feelings, whispers that I probably ignore on a daily basis. I have decided to be more aware and notice things more. Not that I want to spend every moment analysing everything, but just that if you are open to synchronicities and signs, then things are likely to flow better, and great ideas are likely to show up. I do believe that these nudges are coming from our Angels, and this quote from I’m Here pretty much sums it up.

I’m excited to expand the Academy, and am really pleased with all the sign-ups so far! You can still get a free download of The Earth Angel Training Academy and a discount code for the first class at the Academy, simply by expressing your interest in joining to Academy here.

I’m holding the first live hangout of the students on Sunday the 7th February at 8pm, and at 4pm the same day, I am holding a Q & A hangout for anyone who is considering joining, but has questions they’d like answered first!

Better get back to work, here’s a little snapshot of my desk today. Loving my salt lamp from Peace of Stone!

Birthday Gratitude

I know, I can hardly believe it either – it’s my birthday again! I just re-read my birthday post from 2015, and wow, what a different place I was in then. You’ll be pleased to know that I did get slippers, in fact, I have gone through a few pairs since then, because they don’t last very long in a house with wooden floors!

On my last birthday, I remember being in a slightly darker place, where I was struggling and feeling like things weren’t happening. This year, I feel like I am in a completely different space, even though there hasn’t been any dramatic shifts in circumstance, energetically, things have changed. Progress has been steady and organic and heading in an upward trend.

I think the biggest difference is the gratitude I feel for everything in my life, the good, and the so-called bad. It’s all happened for a reason, and I can see now that it was all perfect. Of course, we always see these things in hindsight, but I’m learning to see things as perfect even when they’re happening and they don’t feel good!

After I officially launched my first class in the online Earth Angel Training Academy, I went for a frosty birthday walk in the woods, and took a few pictures before my phone decided it was too cold and stopped working! My mouth was open in awe the whole time at the beautiful scenes around me, and the cold made me so grateful for my warm clothes!

Here’s a few of the pictures, including a spider’s web I photographed in town yesterday.

I can honestly say, that I cannot wait to see what this year brings. It’s going to be magical!

Launching Soon!

I am very pleased to announce that the Earth Angel Training Academy online classes will be launching on the 20th January!

The first class will be Remembering 101, and it will cover the different types of Earth Angel, so you can see which type you identify with. There are downloadable PDFs, so you can print them out, and there will be an audio file for each section too, which will also be downloadable, if you would rather listen to the information.

I will be holding live hangouts for the students once a month, and there will be a private Facebook group for the students to be able to interact with each other and with me!

I will release a new class each week, and there will initially be seven classes, with other classes on the Golden Age Children, and Twin Flames to come too.

I’m incredibly excited! So many beautiful Earth Angels have been asking for this, and after the success of the live classes last year, I knew I had to make it happen, so that my beautiful readers all around the world all had a chance to join in.

To register your interest in the Academy classes, and download your free PDF of The Earth Angel Training Academy, click here, and you will be the first to be emailed with the link to the Academy when it is live and with a discount code!