Elizabeth S. Eiler's Blog

11/11/2020 - SUNRISE IN YOUR HEART

Here is an opportunity to look with compassion on the contents of your heart. As dawn clears shadows from night, your directed light erases darkness cast over things too hard to examine, too precious to discard.

Clutching memories, places, things, or old versions of ourselves wrapped in anger, projected resentment, or fear makes stumbling blocks of what could be distilled wisdom. We’ve done a lot of holistic housecleaning in 2020, not all of it voluntary and some of it painful. Now, we have a chance to go through our spiritual and emotional storehouses to alchemize and reclaim.

Childhood can be so painful we shut away that whole time of our lives – together with innocence and wonder, whole cities and towns, and whatever love or goodness hurt and flawed people were able to share with us. This happens with divorces, job endings, and broken friendships, too.

Removing toxic people and harsh times from our lives doesn’t mean giving up our experiences. Releasing and stepping back from those who cannot or will not change, pollute our energy, or hurt and attack us with dis-eased minds or low-vibration beliefs is powerful compassion for self, radical acceptance, and opens the door to cleansing forgiveness when we scatter outrage, shame, and bitterness to the wind.

We can curate our memories. We don’t have to throw out entire chapters of our lives. We can remember the good in people even as we accept their (and our) limitations. We can keep lighthearted moments, old jokes, and our personal stories without being disloyal to our self-respect and desire to heal. Complete healing comes from dealing with things completely.

Today, I reclaimed a card deck I haven’t touched in years – my Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards deck from Doreen Virtue. After she became a destructive religious zealot, repudiating her life’s work while hurling hateful, ignorant accusations at the spiritual community, I cut off anything with her name on it. She made a U-turn into fear, rigidity, and paranoia, and I wasn’t going with her!

But of course, I don’t have to. My spiritual connection, ministry, healing work, and wisewoman journey can’t be assaulted by what anyone else does. Doreen Virtue may have put all her work on the garbage heap, but that doesn’t prevent other people from salvaging what was good and useful.

So, I reclaimed a deck, using it as a tool to bring Sacred Feminine guidance into today’s energy. I drew cards for Isis and Ishtar – with the simple messages that past life issues are at play, and self-love requires setting boundaries with others.

Past lives – and past living in the current lifetime – are at the surface for all of us when challenged to alchemize our pain, reclaim what rightfully belongs to us, and develop a mature identity. Whether a past lifetime as a Christ follower accused of heresy or a healer burned at the stake, or a current life childhood in a painfully dysfunctional family robbing your history, the past exists for our growth and development. We can pluck the gold from the rubbish. We don’t have to lose it all. Life is not a zero-sum game.

Boundaries mean consciously choosing how far to let anyone’s energy penetrate, if at all. Remembering doesn’t have to be an exercise in self-torture. We can still love and pray even where we have let go. We can acknowledge and share what’s meaningful and helpful without raking over the dung. Looking back doesn’t mean going backwards if we can use our hard-won spiritual wisdom to illuminate what was and manifest higher today.

The sun is out. Cleanse your past with radiant light. Take back what belongs to you as the rest evaporates with the dawn.
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Elizabeth S. Eiler, Ph.D. is an eclectic writer and the published author of three books about spirituality and metaphysics. She is an ordained minister, spiritual teacher, and healer. Her current works in progress are an epic fantasy novel and a poetry collection.

Singing Woman: Voices of the Sacred Feminine
Swift and Brave: Sacred Souls of Animals
Other Nations: A Lightworker's Case Book for Healing, Spiritually Empowering, and Communing with the Animal Kingdom

George Floyd: A Legacy of Hope

The extraordinariness of ordinary people is a vehicle for raising humanity at this beginning of the new age. George Floyd is remembered today for the man that he was, a beloved family member, friend, colleague, and American.

His murder was a flashpoint for centuries of racism, brutality, and otherizing. In many ways, the sadistic killing of George Floyd was the straw that broke the back of America, one more senseless death that couldn’t be allowed to become a three-days’-wonder, swept under the rug and out of memory except for the grief of his family.

Mr. Floyd was a courageous soul who took on the daunting mission of his lifetime knowing he would face injustice and be publicly murdered. Those who undertake difficult life assignments do it because they want to be part of the growth of humankind. As spirit, they understand our divine interconnection, that what happens to one person happens to all. The advancement of his soul through this life raises all souls.

I was born in the 1960’s. When I became an adult in the 1980’s, there was a tug-of-war among my friends between honeyed nostalgia for a false and dreamlike past and the struggle for dignity and opportunity many of us faced with uncertainty. A woman of Jewish heritage arising from a family in poverty, working my way through college, and seeking my spiritual truth, I yearned for Utopia. Some told us it was there in the images of housewives in cocktail dresses vacuuming – but we knew we hadn’t seen it yet.

I became a Christian and ultimately a Gnostic Christian. I had black friends and gay friends and Muslim neighbors and Jewish family. The virtue preached in the 1990’s and 2000’s was tolerance. We're proud of the day we learned tolerating diversity wasn’t even close to enough. The goal has never been just legislation but recognition, not just civility but love - not tolerance, but true acceptance.

In metaphysical circles, we talk about the Crystal, Indigo, and Rainbow children born to elevate humanity – the children that shall lead us. Generation X raised a generation of young people who hit the ground running for equality of opportunity and respect, peace, and environmental justice. We’ve come a long way. Love is love and marriage is marriage. More women than ever before sit in Congress. We’ve had a black President of the United States.

Institutional racism and de facto segregation still rot our communities from the inside out. Women don’t get equal pay for equal work. Transsexual women can’t use public bathrooms in safety or basic human dignity. Nazis and the KKK march through neighborhoods. There are pockets of poverty in this country that rip the façade off ideas of equality of opportunity.

And so, the Age of Pisces passed. It’s 2020. We’re in the midst of a deadly pandemic, a social revolution, economic depression, and existential climate crisis. What in God’s name is happening? We’re reaping the karma of the past age, thousands of years of human experiments, victories, failures, and frailties.

This is the crossroads. Some believe there are spirits incarnate today who were on Atlantis when it sank into the sea, here to prevent a repeat performance. Whatever our past experiences, in this world or any other, we are called to make the new order. This is our chance to grasp at Utopia.

There is no going back. Our fellow men and women will not be dehumanized again. Tyranny, oligarchy, sexism, racism, greed, and bigotry of every kind have had their dark day. In vast numbers, we are here to move the world forward.

We are here to live and die in the Light. Americans are here to live our Constitution, and if any of our brothers and sisters are deprived of their God-given rights to do so, we are all denied. The Light is all of us.

The truth of God is a fullness of all spirits, sacred substance with no race, gender, religion, social class, or nationality. Each of us is indivisible from the totality of humanity and all that lives throughout the universe.

This is the path of the new age. We are riding the crest of a great wave of change, thousands of years in the making. When we can each see ourselves truly in the faces of our neighbors, in the joy and agony of all sentient life, we will have made the shore.

Some food for thought:

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are here in order to grow, to transform, to become their authentic selves.” - Stephan A. Hoeller

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” - Albert Einstein


Elizabeth S. Eiler, Ph.D. is an eclectic writer and the published author of three books about spirituality and metaphysics. She is an ordained minister, spiritual teacher, and healer. Her current works in progress are an epic fantasy novel and a poetry collection.

Singing Woman: Voices of the Sacred Feminine
Swift and Brave: Sacred Souls of Animals
Other Nations: A Lightworker's Case Book for Healing, Spiritually Empowering, and Communing with the Animal Kingdom

Spring Cleaning for the Spirit

The energies of this moment are ripe for Spring Cleaning of all kinds. When we’re surrounded by physical, emotional, or energetic clutter and fog, we can’t think and see clearly and have trouble moving forward.

"We make room for blessings by taking out our literal and figurative trash."

Energy is stored in spaces and things just like in our bodies, minds, and spirits. So, with our personal practices of yoga, meditation, Reiki, massage, exercise, counseling, Earthing, fasting, dietary cleanses, prayer, and whatever else we do, we’re still coming up short if we don’t take care of our spaces.

We make room for blessings by taking out our literal and figurative trash. Radical acceptance and celebration of self means pitching everything that no longer matches or serves us. We should start with destructive thought loops: Rehashing the past, self-sabotaging talk, fear of negative outcomes, and indecisive paralysis.

"Healing is a process of acceptance, forgiveness, and redirection."

Healing is a process of acceptance, forgiveness, and redirection. Example: Accept that Bob is abusive and unstable; it’s radical acceptance when you release the agony of trying to understand why. Mentally forgive him for being a bad actor and declare this to be a self-loving act freeing you from reliving pain. Forgive yourself for what you wish you’d done better. Redirect to this present moment, free of Bob, wiser and at peace.

Throwing out junk around the house is a similar process. Clothes from size 8 days – when you’ve been a size 16 for years – just make you feel bad and take up space that should be filled with your beautiful new clothes. Making it a new day with a confident, sexy, full-figured you in command lets you move past an old dress size and get back into your power.

"We’ve entered the energy of a new normal, new season, and New Age – so we have to clear the decks to be in the flow."

Mementos from toxic jobs or bad relationships hold bitterness, hurt, and failure. Letting go of the boxes of stuff from a business that went under, a job that didn’t work out, and people who hurt you is like cutting yourself free from a trap. You’re literally removing the energetic weight that keeps you from lifting off again.

Sometimes clutter is just junk because we haven’t wanted to make decisions – or we’ve built a protective mountain of stuff to hide our insecurities. Whatever the case, we’ve entered the energy of a new normal, new season, and New Age – so we have to clear the decks to be in the flow.



Here are some of my favorite energy clearing tips for spaces and objects, helping us sweep out more than just garbage bags of stuff.

SMUDGING: This is using the smoke or essence of powerful natural substances to chase and neutralize negativity or create positivity. Smudge sticks are dried herbs tied in bundles for burning, and you can make your own from wildcrafting or herb gardening.

Light the stick at one end and move the smoke around objects and through rooms. Blow the smoke with your breath or use a natural object like a feather or branch to waft it. I use a natural abalone shell to hold the stick or herb bundle, but any natural fireproof substance like rock or clay is perfect.

White Sage: Purification, cleansing, clearing, chasing negativity, detaching spirits
Cedar or Juniper: Strong protection, warding negative energy
Lavender: Elevates mood, gently cleanses and purifies, fosters happiness and calm
Palo Santo (wood) and Pinon Pine (resin): Powerful cleansers of negativity, removal of spirits and entities, brings energies of sacredness.

Open windows when you smudge, allowing dense energy an exit. It’s a good idea to wash windows since these are literally lenses through which we see the world.

Say a prayer or repeat positive affirmations during the process. This can be The Lord’s Prayer, a Rosary, singing a religious or spiritual song, or a prayer of your own making.

Some ideas: “Sacred Source of all Goodness, please blow your holy breath of life into this smoke. Purify my home, every room and object, and the house itself. Bring your grace to my heart and mind, cleansing and uplifting my emotions and thoughts. Bless all who enter here and grant us your everlasting peace. Amen. And so it is.”

“This is my sacred space, purified and cleansed. I intend only good to abide here and blessing to thrive. All density and negativity is released as Universal energies sweep it away, as light as smoke. Love and purity remain. This is my sanctuary. All is well.”

CLEANERS: Strong cleaning products like PineSol are particularly effective in ridding a space of unwanted spiritual energy. Often, thoroughly cleaning from top to bottom is all that’s needed to cleanse and reset a room. YoungLiving has a line of Thieves cleaning products, and Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day has household detergents infused with rose, geranium, lavender, lemon, and other natural scents with uplifting energetic properties.

ESSENTIAL OILS: Diffusing essential oils, burning incense, and using smudge spray are terrific for elevating energy in a space. Frankincense and rose have very high vibrations, and rose is associated with Angel energy and Blessed Mother Mary. Cedar, white fir, rosemary, and basil are grounding and protective. Lavender and sweet orange are calming and encouraging.

BURNING BOWL: Think of a burning bowl ceremony as emotional smudging. This is a great ritual for New Year’s Eve and any time you want to make a fresh start. Write down everything you want to let go of – overeating, self-criticism, financial anxiety – whatever it may be.

Go outside, put the paper into a fireproof bowl, and burn it together with some sage and lavender. You can also toss paper into a chiminea, fire pit, grill, or fireplace – just as long as you burn it safely and don’t set off your smoke alarms!

While the paper burns the representation of what you’re releasing, say an affirmation.

Some ideas: "I’m free, refreshed, and ready for a strong new beginning."

"I release to Mother Earth all these energies and thought forms, now transmuted."

"This is the energy of a new start, and I harness it now for the greatest good of all."

I hope you invite the power and vigor of Spring Cleaning into your life. Holistically, we need and deserve clean, orderly spaces that feed and renew us. Staying home during the pandemic is an opportunity for clarity, insight, and action. Take it and be blessed!
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Elizabeth S. Eiler, Ph.D. is an eclectic writer and the published author of three books about spirituality and metaphysics. Her current works in progress are an epic fantasy novel and a poetry collection.

Singing Woman: Voices of the Sacred Feminine
Swift and Brave: Sacred Souls of Animals
Other Nations: A Lightworker's Case Book for Healing, Spiritually Empowering, and Communing with the Animal Kingdom

Processing through Art - Life in a Pandemic

In the slowness of these different days, I’ve learned my ability to interact with art elevates even dark moments with flashes of higher meaning.

I don’t think people want more content to lift their spirits – they want beauty. The human spirit craves art in dark times because it helps us feel our emotions, process, and raise the vibe.

So here is an offering of poetry, a few verses for our strange new days.

Persistence from the Hearth: Spring in the Time of Pandemic

From the comfort of my kitchen,
window open above the sink
to capture the warm April day
in which I have lately planted
marigold seeds in ancient pots,
everything seems almost normal.

My husband is barely working,
furloughed some days and home early
the rest, but there is a dinner
we could not have shared if things were
normal, so I mix a meatloaf
to busy big band notes and smile.

The golden flower seeds will sprout
and I have to believe we will
be here to water them in June
because the alternative is
not to be considered while I
chop the onions for tonight’s meal.

The news is fear and handwashing
and I watch just enough to know
to Lysol my husband’s shoes when
he comes home from the airport, and
then I switch to swinging music
played when everything was normal.

White plates on blue mats in the light
arranged in shafts from the windows
that face west, I hear children at
a social distance, laughing like
the day is normal, and they give
me permission to welcome joy.

- Elizabeth S. Eiler


Elizabeth S. Eiler, Ph.D. is an eclectic writer and the published author of three books about spirituality and metaphysics. Her current works in progress are an epic fantasy novel and a poetry collection.

Singing Woman: Voices of the Sacred Feminine
Swift and Brave: Sacred Souls of Animals
Other Nations: A Lightworker's Case Book for Healing, Spiritually Empowering, and Communing with the Animal Kingdom

"Never Beg For What You Can Earn"

From October to December, my mother lay dying. Maternal responsibility and a child’s needs changed hands between us. There were things I must and wanted to do. Settling her into a care home, arranging her affairs, paying bills, making medical decisions – these were the last tribute I could make.

The learning curve was steep: Stage IV uterine cancer, scientific research, laws and courts and legal documents, toxic family drama, banks, creditors, probate. Knowledge is power, and thankfully I’m a quick study.

Ben and I dropped everything, drove 3000 miles with two dogs, and lived for weeks in a hotel. I drafted a will on my phone at my mother’s bedside. I flew out alone on an hour’s notice for a lonely vigil as Mother died. Now there’s the labyrinthine and mind-bending process of Probate Court and administering the estate.

I’m tired at times. I’m still learning. Grief comes and goes like an unpredictable tide. I’m working on a memorial. My help and loyalty were all my mother had left.

I found the title quote amidst the archives of Google Chrome searches and pearls of Instagram wisdom. “Never beg for what you can earn.” The empowerment in those seven words has rung like a bell the last three months. I think it will ring true in your life, too.

I stopped reaching out to fake friends who didn't respond when Mother died. I said goodbye to the brother who’d dumped me years ago. I quit believing promises of help that never fit into anyone’s schedule.

Never beg for what you can earn. I rolled up my sleeves and conquered probate filings, obscure banking laws, family feuds, and becoming an adult orphan. Dig deep; we’re more resourceful than we know.

I've focused on the tribe of sisters who prayed, cried, talked, laughed, lit candles, and broke bread with me. My husband, relatives barely known, and family by marriage stepped up and stood by my mother and me. This is what counts.

These are the sort of souls who see love as a way of life and time as a gift rather than an obligation. Cherish them and let the rest go without struggle. Love yourself, and never beg for support or encouragement.

Self-determination is the domain of the Sacred Feminine and our reservoirs of courage. We reach into the complex truth of our identities and find we are enough. Universal supply is available. At the highest levels, we're abundantly nurtured.

Some affirmations to strengthen our spines: I love a challenge. I’m an excellent problem solver. There are always alternatives. Where there is no path, I make my own. I apply myself with grit and dedication. Entering the flow of Spirit, I cocreate reality with the Divine.

Never beg for what you can earn. To a large extent, we manifest our experience and determine our responses. We create from the energies of all our thoughts, emotions, dreams, and actions. We hold the keys. Hard work pays off. We can do it.

There’s an active reclamation of the power we thoughtlessly give away. It may be easier or quicker to delegate authority, but in that context, we’re at the mercy of another. Sometimes it’s positive or necessary; other times we’re shortchanged. When someone is prodded into helping, their grudging efforts are less than we deserve.

The dignity of our spirits demands full engagement, balanced energetic exchanges, the rigorous joy of effort. Annoying grains of sand and rock are the beginnings of pearls. What irritations may portend jewels of another sort in us?

Plowing through challenges and intimidation, I set higher expectations for myself and stopped settling for less in relationships. I learned that letting go is a form of love, too. Success must come from within to be sustainable.

We have surprises up our sleeves, and sometimes adversity is the prompting that reveals them. When you set out to be a lotus and transcend the mud, remember that destiny has set you on a path of intense personal growth and opportunity. Mercy and blessing will appear where you never looked for them.

The fear that lives in our ego selves is a strange beast, trying to protect us by holding us back. We’re master storytellers in the genre of personal horror. But what if things work out? What if you do a phenomenal job? You might just be the superhero for whom you’ve been waiting.

So get up and try. Never beg for what you can earn. You’ll be stunned to learn what you can master. And once you know, you’re unstoppable.


Singing Woman: Voices of the Sacred Feminine

Happiness in Troubled Times

It’s been a rough summer – no sugarcoating it. In the world, there’s been a raft of mass shootings, suicides, political and corporate corruption, angry rhetoric, and division. At home, there was a damaging hailstorm, unexpected bills, medical and dental problems, and friends in crisis.

There’s been a feeling of stagnation and delay, wasted effort, and inadequate outcomes. It’s enough to make anyone start to question their path, priorities, and methods.

Doing a card reading for myself, exploring frustration at slow progress, the guidance was applicable on a much larger scale. (Cards are from Wisdom of the Oracle by Colette Baron-Reid).

Unfinished Symphony appears in readings when clients have too many irons in the fire. We scatter energy and spread ourselves thin with a huge slate of tasks – many untouched or left undone. This card is a signal to prioritize and focus in order to finish.

When one dream project is started and abandoned, loose ends can snare us around the ankles, tripping us up. For me, student loan payments siphon off money I’d like to invest in my work. But it’s deeper than that. I’ve not processed resentment at trusting a private, for-profit college that knowingly promised non-existent careers. It's a shadow 10 years later.

The lesson is acceptance and forgiveness. I made a mistake but learned to successfully invest in myself instead. I can forgive myself for falling prey to a confidence trickster. I’ve gained empathy and compassion for others who’ve been down that road. It’s time to love myself, value my education (academic, emotional, and spiritual), and move on.

Forgiving the university’s predatory admissions process is harder. I’m choosing to release bitterness because it only hurts me. Karma will balance the debt. As a metaphysician, I know making the monthly payments without blame or judgment will make the money easier to attain.

Some lessons come with a higher price than others, but if we grow and help others from the experience, it can be worth it. Perceived mistakes can be important milestones on our journey into truth.

What’s holding you back? Is it unpaid bills, an overwhelming to-do list, or projects you can’t finish on your own? Could it be mistakes for which you haven’t forgiven yourself? A broken relationship from which you still need recovery? Lingering trauma? Staying somewhere too long when your true path was elsewhere?

We need critical assessment. Not every relationship is meant to be permanent – and some are unhealthy or unsafe and need to end. Jobs can have an expiration date. Lingering in a setting that no longer fits can lead to burnout. Maybe the unfinished projects don’t reflect your passion and ought to be released – or they whisper irrational fears of failure and cry out for triumphant completion.

Know when to ask for help and seek collaboration in order to conclude what’s necessary. Be honest about what is past its due date, no longer serves you, or otherwise needs to be released.

Living in the past cheats the present. A woman attended a shamanic healing circle, and the shaman saw the specter of her ex-husband standing over her. She hadn’t healed from the divorce and couldn’t meet anyone new. The men she met spiritually intuited the energy of her former spouse which telegraphed she wasn’t available.

Where is our country stumbling? Racial equality, valuing diversity, women’s rights, the dignity of LGBTQ persons, addressing climate change, animal cruelty and extinction, and availability of affordable housing and healthcare are problems we’ve wrestled with for generations (centuries, in some cases). Until we solve them, achieving unity of purpose and upholding common values, we can’t move forward.

It’s no coincidence the same issues are in the headlines from one election cycle to another – gun violence, climate destruction, environmental pollution, corporate greed, political corruption, hate crimes. Politicians and voters have to step up with honesty, compassion, and courage once and for all. Until our laws reflect enlightenment thinking, our spiritual awakening as a nation will be stalled and our place in the world devalued.

Happy, Happy seems a trite answer to deeply painful problems. “Don’t worry, just be happy.” But why do we want solutions to be so hard? Is it because we feel a little foolish when the truth is simple?

Until we are grateful for what we have, we will never be able to attract lasting, joyful, ethical abundance. The Law of Attraction is clear: Lack mentality attracts more lack; worry draws more things to worry about. Gratitude attracts more things to be grateful for, fosters deep joy and love of life, and raises us to the vibration of all the good outcomes we desire.

Self-talk quickly becomes self-fulfilling prophecy. It’s one way we manifest naturally. An inner soundtrack of “I’m a victim, my life isn’t fair, people are dishonest, I can’t trust anyone, I make bad financial decisions” has a very low vibration. We seek to realize our statements and energetic laws reinforce them.

Happy, Happy is a signal to change our dialogues. “I’m responsible and maturely accept the lessons offered. I learn and move on to a higher reality. I’m wiser, more savvy, and make good decisions based on my experience. I’m ready to joyfully receive blessings from sources known and unknown. I’m grateful for the good things on their way to me now. I find happiness in every day.”

How can we promote happiness tying up those loose ends? Paying off debt frees up funds for retirement savings, a longed-for vacation, or investment in your small business. Learning to see our mundane daily actions as steps along a brighter path helps us move forward peacefully.

Happily tying up loose ends and finishing our unwritten symphonies often requires us to compassionately and intelligently say “No” to more projects. Serving your own needs should be a priority at this time. We need to clear the decks before we taken on any more responsibilities.

Our country needs to decide what candidates and policies are going to address the “pursuit of happiness” the Declaration of Independence asserts is our right. America is not one color, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, religion, et cetera. Opportunities for happiness should encompass the most diverse group possible; the beneficiaries of happiness should look like America.

Happiness covers basics of human dignity, allow for personal growth, spiritual development, and opportunities for service. In our microcosmic and macrocosmic experience, until we get it right, the challenge returns. Climate destruction is an existential threat to all of us; perhaps around this dramatic threat we can unite as one and begin national and global healing.

Let’s finish writing our epics, painting masterpieces, reinventing ourselves, choosing wisdom over resentment, and paying the bills! Then we need to allow ourselves to be happy. We should celebrate our achievements big and small. Joy and appreciation are wings lifting our lives higher.

Choose ascension. Cut loose the baggage weighing you down. Dare to thrive no matter what curve balls or spitballs are lobbed in your direction. We can succeed and be joyful now, in the most turbulent times.



Elizabeth S. Eiler is a Reiki Master, spiritual teacher, and ordained minister. She has a doctorate in metaphysical sciences and owns Seven Stars Healing Arts, LLC. She's written three spiritual books about women and the Divine Feminine, animals, and the nature kingdom.

Joyful Spring Equinox 2019

After a historically harsh winter, there's especially great joy in welcoming spring! Combined with ascension energies and the super moon, we've had a lot to deal with these past few weeks.

We've been undergoing spiritual and energetic spring cleaning, and the effects can feel harsh. Some become frightened at the prospect of realizing personal potential, or intimidated by the turmoil induced by vibrational shifts.

Fear-based reactions to our evolutionary process can result in regression and backsliding. There's danger of running back to limited thinking and imprisoning belief systems in a false sense that these are "safe." Feeling small, being controlled, and having decisions made for you are a false security that denies you the rich personal experience of existence.

We're breaking the old programming that conditioned us to fear our power and deny our intuition. There's more freedom than ever to make our own choices and use our gifts. Sometimes the biggest obstacle is getting over the false notion that we aren't really good enough for that.


I drew a card for today to set a keynote for spring. From the wonderful The Good Tarot by Colette Baron-Reid comes the 10 of Earth.

This card encourages us to take stock of all we have accomplished, recognizing that our dedication, desire, and care have resulted in treasure. We can feel good about what we've accomplished so far. Even more can be done when we tend our vibration, putting out energies of love, hope, and transmutation of negativity.

We are also asked to engage a group dynamic this spring. The highest good of all concerned is an important focus - building stronger societies, healthier relationships, and caring for the planet we all share. What can we do as individuals, and how can we harness our combined energies for optimal results?

Holistic evaluation and vision is essential. We have to see how all parts of ourselves and lives work together. Take everything into account so you can make pinpointed changes and directed improvements.

Embrace your ability to create a joyful life, loving relationships, and compassionate world. Prayer, meditation, vision boards, energy healing, and earthing can free your spirit and help you focus.

This is a time of renewal, healing, restoration, creation, new life, and beginnings. We have blank canvases in front of us. We can choose to paint them with what brings us joy, excitement, love, nurture, hope, learning, and connection.

Have a blessed spring!

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Elizabeth S. Eiler, Ph.D. is an author, Reiki Master, metaphysician, and spiritual teacher. Her books explore the sacred spirituality and potential of women, and the spiritual lives and importance of animals and nature. http://elizabetheilerbooks.homestead.com

Rise and Shine, Sisters!

This is a message for all my fabulous Gen-X sisters – we are on the rise! Mature adult women are leading the positive transformation on this planet, and it’s not by accident.

The third stage of the goddess – the Crone – is the Wisewoman. I don’t see the crow on her shoulder in light of the traditional blah-blah about a carrion bird waiting to devour the old woman ripe for the grave. I see it as a sign of realized magic, keen vision seeing deep below the surface, and strong wings capable of a mighty voyage.

I heard a message today from the wonderful Elizabeth Peru who reminded us what the ancients teach about age: It takes seven years for each major chakra center to bloom to capacity, so spiritual maturity happens at age 49+. Essentially, age 50 is a power platform.

I really felt the momentum of that growth at age 35 – hence my catchphrase, “Life begins at 35!” This is the age of throat chakra growth and opening, so communication becomes a paramount focus. It was precisely at 35 that I started my writing career with a vengeance and wrote four complete fiction novels.

A fifth novel from my late 30’s was never finished. It was my biggest undertaking, an epic fantasy with strong heroines and lessons about greed and the need to love our planet. I tried writing it two different ways, both were terrible, and I gave it up.

This year, I’ve had the life-changing experience of picking up the plot after 12 years. The writing is flowing to create the story I wanted to tell from the beginning. I wasn’t ready at 38, but at 51, I feel like I can do anything!

As I matured into my 40’s, I grew comfortable and strong in my own skin and bones. I have the confidence now to write heroines who are heroic, love that’s raw and real, and mysticism and magic that come from experience and imaginative interpretation.

I used to think I was a late bloomer, but energetically I’m right on track – and a lot of women in their 40’s and 50’s are on that track with me. We’re becoming (or have become) spiritual adults – teachers, mentors, artists, leaders, movers and shakers. We need to celebrate that.

Youth isn’t lost. We haven’t lost anything. We’ve gained the world by climbing the steps into this seat of power, wisdom, vision, courage, and love. When I turned 50, I put a crown on my head and threw a giant party. Let’s do more of that and less lying about our ages, struggling to look 30 forever, and being secretly ashamed or afraid of who we are becoming.

The remnants of patriarchy are terrified of strong women who stand in their power. So, we feel tremendously attacked at this age. The diverse crop of women who’ve entered the hallowed halls of the U.S. Congress are under a microscopic lens of criticism and judgement. Every magazine, commercial, or fashion trend seems designed to render us obsolete – or make us waste precious time, money, and intention on trying to look younger.

But we’re changing this, it’s getting better, and we have to keep pushing for the dignity and worth of every woman. Transgender women are becoming more visible and gaining acceptance. Women of color are making their power known as a political and social force. We’ve stopped being silent about sexual assault and discrimination. Models and actresses weigh more, and I see people who look like me in commercials.

I’d still like to see more grey-haired women cast as something other than wicked witches, dementia patients, or someone in polyester pants curled at the bottom of the stairs pushing a Medic-Alert button. But we’re making progress and gaining momentum in this age of the Divine Feminine.

As we work through ascension transitions in these growing-up years, self-care and attention to personal environments should be paramount. We need to clear out clutter physically and emotionally to create spaciousness for new blessings to enter. Our bodies and homes should not be storehouses for everything we haven’t processed or don’t know how to release.

This requires detoxing at all levels – and sometimes it hurts. But it will never hurt more than being dragged down by what doesn’t serve you, preventing you from living your higher purpose.

Crystalline energies can be wonderfully helpful during these shifts.
• Lepidolite fosters graceful transitions.
• Amethyst helps break addictive behavior and relieves pain.
• Rhodochrosite and hemimorphite help with migraine headaches that can happen with “energy storms” around the crown chakra.
• Ruby, garnet, rose quartz, rhodochrosite, and rhodonite encourage self-love and acceptance.
• Selenite purifies your energy field and aids with detox.
• Orgone, salt lamps, and selenite towers in the bedroom, office, meditation space, and anywhere you spend a lot of time raise the vibration around you, calm emotions, and transmute negativity.

Meditation is essential for hearing your inner voice, coming to terms with issues, and defining your life purpose.

Have a Reiki session to rebalance, clear energetic clutter, and put you in a space of listening.

Learn about past lives through Akashic readings or QHHT; whatever experiences come through will be pertinent to your life now.

Connect with other women through social media, blogging, and spiritual groups as you build your tribe of sisters and create a supportive network.

Most of all, understand that your 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and beyond are a time for you to shine brighter than ever. We’re all in this together. As we raise our own vibration or uplift another woman, we add light to the feminine Collective. So be a beacon, a spotlight, or a candle flame – as long as you shine!
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Elizabeth S. Eiler, Ph.D. is a metaphysician, spiritual teacher, and author of three books about spirituality. Visit her website www.sevenstarshealing.com to learn about her work. See more of her writing at www.elizabetheilerbooks.homestead.com.

Spiritual Authenticity

"Living on purpose is about making life choices from a place of spiritual awareness, taking direction from my divine compass within instead of the chatter of the material world." - Daily Word for Tuesday 12/18/18, A Unity Publication

We were created and incarnated to wrestle with concepts of holiness, morality, and larger life purpose. As human consciousness evolves, we grow into greater capacity for connection with Universal Truth or Sacred Source. It is inherent upon us to ask questions and seek wisdom for ourselves.

Expanding understanding of the holistic human and the nature of divinity makes this an exciting time to experience spiritual freedom and opportunities for education, expression, and community. With the joyous expansion into global exploration of indigenous beliefs, ancient teachings, and newly revealed wisdom, there comes a proportional contraction for some people.

For me, moving into a vigorous, daily, personal relationship with God has been joy-filled, empowering, comforting, challenging, educating, and enlarging. But we are all on a unique personal path of spiritual evolution, and not everyone is here to have the same experiences.

Our metaphysical community, as with spiritual seekers and mystics throughout time, has recently been targeted by fear-mongering and judgment from a former mystic and spiritual teacher. She now insists peace signs, dreamcatchers, all contemporary spiritual revelation, yoga, crystals, acupuncture meridians, chakras, and even sage leaves are evil, bad, and gateways to hell.

This is not my experience and belief - quite the opposite! You and I have the divine right not to be limited by someone else's fear. Each person's intimate experience of the holy is what matters, and no external preaching can substitute for what you have known in your own spirit.

All great spiritual traditions and religions are ways of pointing to the ultimate Divine Power. There is truth and beauty in Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhist and Sufi tradition, Islam, Native American religion, global expressions of shamanism, Wicca, et cetera.

As a human being, you have the right and dignity to choose your own way, make your own assessments, and define what spiritual connection means for you. Never let anyone tell you that your ways of healing, prayer, meditation, wisdom seeking, or joy are bad and wrong.

Your spirit, lifetimes of experience, karma, and relationship with Source belong only to you. Living robustly is about having your own experiences, not living in a cage of someone else's projected fears and perceptions.

You have permission to take the road less traveled and follow Goodness in your own way. May we all be blessed with discernment, clear vision, and loving hearts along the path!

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Elizabeth S. Eiler, Ph.D. is the author of three metaphysical books exploring spiritual topics including women's spirituality and the Sacred Feminine, animal souls and totems, and energy work.

Writing the Path

When kids carve their initials on a tree, they want to immortalize something – the magical, intangible sensation of being in love, or perhaps a brave marker along one of life’s waystations to say “I was here.” Years later, the carver will return to the park or forest, searching with a shimmer of excitement for his tree.

There’s joy in the finding, the incised design perhaps softened and rendered less distinct by time, but there nonetheless. The memories flood back – scent of hot grass drying in the sun, starting of school rushing closer beneath a polished blue sky, the unfamiliar sensation of holding a small hand and feeling joined to some huge mystery spread out upon on the Earth that you have only just found.

So the letters, hearts, and arrows are a repository for consciousness – the soul moving through the psyche and living life. We want to make a record, take a picture, hold a memento. That’s why the carver marks the wood. And it’s why writers write.

My work in progress for 2019 is poetry, the first love of my heart to which I’ve returned after a long absence. And it’s true – absence does make the heart grow fonder.

Writing from the age of five, it was all poetry at first, which to me was spirit language, authentic and primal and suffused with beauty. At thirty-five it became an urgent foray into romance fiction, seeking a market and looking at writing as an escape from corporate America.

After finding my spiritual path, I wrote and published three books in six years. These are the nonfiction record of my spiritual evolution, sharing an awakening understanding, and lending light to the darkness here, at the edge of a new dawn. Their pages open the spiritual world of animals, the nature kingdom, and the Sacred Feminine divinity that is arising now in all women.

So in this new year, my path of spiritual ministry, healing, and teaching takes a divergent route. A branch has bent away from the main artery, and I’m walking the unseen terrain by faith. This is an act of devotion to God and holiness and a willingness to venture into the unknown. My lamp along the way is poetry – light of language enfolding concepts and sensations, daring of bold art to shake things up. The word pictures of questions, lessons, love, pain, and flashes of insight will form the signposts and place names.

I wish you all a year of reading great books in every genre, creative expression, unfettered joy, and refreshing looks into the truth. I hope there will be poetry on your path, like ribbons and roses and things that exist only to delight. It’s in those moments of simple pleasure that we touch the profound, after all – the poems and songs of life and the universe.