Poster Child for why I wrote this book
I would like to start out by thanking Sara for allowing me to share her message.
Synchronicity is the word here. And we both have been inspired by each other. I have inspired her to move forward and embrace who she truly is and she has inspired me to continue to do what I do...spread my message through the written word.
Here is her lengthy message to me:
Dear Mrs. Denice Garrou,
I feel compelled to write to you having just finished your book Dragonhorse....
First let me tell you a little bit about myself. My name is Sara, I am a new mother to a beautiful baby girl who lives in California with her husband and dog. I have always been interested in mysticism and the metaphysical, for as long as I can remember. Also, for as long as I can remember, I have loved horses and rocks/crystals. As a child I rode on an Arabian mare we leased from a nearby ranch. Sadly, I have never owned my own horse, as circumstances have never been right, but I still hope to have that pleasure in the future. I also collected rocks and crystals. To this day I have stones I've had since before I was in the double digits that I simply cannot part with. My husband probably wonders why there are always rocks stuffed into my bags whenever we move!
I love to read and the most exciting thing for me as a child was when Barnes and Nobel was added to our local mall and I discovered the "new age" section of the bookstore. I was not brought up religious and fortunately my family never raised an eyebrow when the books I selected were titles such as "a witches guide to fairy folk", "how to see and read the aura", "how to develop psychic touch", "animal speak", and so on. However as got older, around jr high I think, for no other reasons than my own insecurities, I began to feel extremely self conscious about my interest in magic (which I believe is simply a persons natural state of existence and capabilities). So I would sneak over to the new age section when no one was around and read secretly in my bedroom about casting circles and writing spells.
Now despite my interest in earth based religions, magic, healing, and other such topics, I never really began practicing or really delving into any such practice, as Wicca, paganism, Celtic magic...all topics I read about and was interested in, but weren't quite resonating with me. Maybe it was the formality of the spells, the chants, the rules, or maybe it was just my own prejudice and the shameful fact that I was torn between the fact of wanting to be a witch and at the same time thinking people who claimed such practices were "weirdos". So I quietly kept my own beliefs to myself as the years went by. Then, when I was older, probably a junior or senior in high school, my mom gave me for my birthday a book called "natural witchery". She said it reminded her of me. My mom is not a witch, (that i know of), and I remember being both excited and a little embarrassed by the gift. But that was the first time something clicked with me. It was a practice based solely on your intuition and personal experience and relationship with nature, and I liked it. It still had spells and rituals, but it was more along the lines of what I had been searching for. I kept this book with me, (I still have it now), but unfortunately at that time I was more concerned with getting into college and subsequently, living the college life style, (partying way too much). My spiritual quest had been put on the back burner, but not forgotten.
This august I gave birth to my daughter. Being a mother really got me thinking: what kind of mother do I want to be? What is it I want to teach my child? While academics are no doubt important, I have always thought there are more important things to teach children. I want her to know how to be in tune with the subtle energies around her, how to see the magic and miracle in everyday, how to heal herself and others, be self sustainable and compassionate...
I am lucky enough that my husband has fully supported my decision to be a stay at home mom, and since having her I have resumed my "studies", of developing aura sight and meditations, healing and psychic touch, and other natural abilities I hope to teach and nurture in her. I am writing to you because these past few moths things have been happening at such a rapid pace and I just cannot keep the succession of events leading up to the purchase of your book and the effect it has had on me to myself.
This October two things happened which I feel created a domino effect in my life. The first was my dad giving my daughter and I two small gifts out of the blue. For her, it was a small orgone to put in her room, for myself, an orgone necklace. He told me both had been blessed with reiki. Now I had never heard of reiki, or orgones for that matter. He briefly explained both to me and that was that. I found the ideas interesting but spent more time researching orgones as I found them beautiful and wanted to make my own. I kind of just disregarded the reiki aspect to be honest. However, a few weeks later, a girl who I am friends with on Facebook, (we must have gone to college together but truthfully I'm not quite sure how I know her), posted something about her reiki master giving classes. For some reason this time the term stuck with me. It really rang a bell. Then I remembered my necklace. I rushed to find the little card that had come with it, and there it said "each item has been blessed with Reiki". That's where I had seen the term! I felt a very strong urge to learn more, and over the next few days schemed of a way to learn Reiki myself. The main hurdle was the cost of classes, we are now living off of one income only. But wouldn't you know, there just happened to be classes being taught less than five minutes away from me that were based on donation only! I called my mother and told her about the classes and she decided to join me. So we each donated what we could and became level one certified under a woman whom I am very pleased to have as my reiki master. Since that class I have been practicing every day, with saying and meaning the principles, meditating, and giving reiki to myself and family as well as reading several different books on the subject. It has been under a month since I was attuned and already I feel so different. More peaceful, centered, and just overall positive. I feel great! I really could relate to the whole concept of reiki, as it fits perfectly with my own ideals of the natural divinity we are all part of.
So I was on Pinterest the other day looking up "Reiki" to add images to my reiki board. This eventually led me to search the term "reiki master" under which I came across an image whose caption read "wisdom of the divine feminine". This term hit me hard as I had once read an article in a magazine with a similar title that I very much enjoyed. I then searched this term on meetup.com and this led me to the group "the women's spirituality meetup" which had been created this month and has but one member, the creator. Researching her I learned she teaches "mystical dance", which again, stirred something inside me as I love to dance, especially flow arts like belly dance, poi, hoop, aerial tissu, and aerial hoop. I dance around by myself or with my baby quite often at home. So I started looking up this mystical dance stuff which led me to the studio it is taught at which offers yoga, reiki, massage, and various other classes including "crystal healing". Again, something that struck a cord in my heart. I got on Amazon and looked up "crystal healing" in books then sorted the results by customer reviews. Your book was one of the top ones. Even though I was at the time looking for a book about crystals, your book caught my eye because of the horse and gypsy on the cover. As well as loving rocks and horses, i also have a special place in my heart for gypsys, and there were suddenly two together in front of me when I had been searching for the third, so on a whim I clicked on it, saw the good ratings and downloaded a sample which i immediately started reading. Imagine my surprise as I read the prologue...to hear you speak not only of reiki, but to the exact circumstances of that which I had been feeling my whole life. It really is like something I can't describe clicked in that moment. Like being struck by lightening, such bad Shion in the story! I had to stop and write what was happening down in a journal I've been keeping since the reiki class. I knew I had just fallen down the rabbit hole. Especially as I started reading, (I bought the book as soon as I had finished writing about the preface), and was again shocked to have Shion speaking of the persecution against women (which is something I am also passionate about and part of studying the divine feminine), as well as the atrocities against the "indigenous people". For the past week or so I have felt a profound connection and true heart ache for the Native American people. I had actually discussed it with my husband, mother, in laws, and even brother in passing, mentioning how tragic the loss of such a beautiful culture was to the world, and started watching a documentary about the portrayal of natives in film, simply because I was for some reason very drawn to them in that moment. And to have them described so eerily similarly in your story with the gypsies...
I don't know if this is all really making sense, but one thing is just leading me to something else that will also have a profound impact on my life. I feel as though for the first time in my life I am truly on the right path. I feel as though I have remembered something. Remembered who I am. Since I started reading your book I have started using magic again. I say again but really I mean for the first time, because it never felt natural to me before. It always felt hokey and forced. Now I am suddenly so comfortable with it. I see the ritual aspect of it as a method simply for directing attention. And when attention is focused anything truly is possible. I have been suddenly struck with ideas that I feel in my bones about the things that are woven into my everyday life. Like when I am singing a lullaby to my daughter that my mother sang to me, and I'm watching her eyes droop shut and realizing all the women of my family's past generations are connected by this song. This song has comforted countless infants and sent them off to their dreams. And if not this specific song in this specific family, than the mere act of a mother singing to her child, of lullabies being passed down from one generation to the next. There is magic in that. Or of teas. It suddenly hit me that teas, while sold and enjoyed almost everywhere by everyone, are part of the norm, they really are a beautiful blend of nature that with the right intent could have potent effects. What if these different blends and varieties of teas are just what this ancient wisdom has had to become to survive? I suddenly thought the same about cooking, music, art...it is all miraculous...and with intention, so so powerful. Not only am I thinking these things, but I am feeling more connected to nature, wanting to know more and more how to live with her and protect her.
I feel like I have gotten off track and started rambling. But i really wanted to thank you for your story and the door it has opened for me, or should I say in me. I don't know what it all means yet, but I don't think that happening upon your book about witches and dragons while I was looking for a book about healing crystals was just a coincidence. I was led there by a very specific course of events which each seemed to unlock something within me. Nor do I think my life is going to be quite the same from here on out. I thank you for such a gift.
Best wishes,
Sara
Synchronicity is the word here. And we both have been inspired by each other. I have inspired her to move forward and embrace who she truly is and she has inspired me to continue to do what I do...spread my message through the written word.
Here is her lengthy message to me:
Dear Mrs. Denice Garrou,
I feel compelled to write to you having just finished your book Dragonhorse....
First let me tell you a little bit about myself. My name is Sara, I am a new mother to a beautiful baby girl who lives in California with her husband and dog. I have always been interested in mysticism and the metaphysical, for as long as I can remember. Also, for as long as I can remember, I have loved horses and rocks/crystals. As a child I rode on an Arabian mare we leased from a nearby ranch. Sadly, I have never owned my own horse, as circumstances have never been right, but I still hope to have that pleasure in the future. I also collected rocks and crystals. To this day I have stones I've had since before I was in the double digits that I simply cannot part with. My husband probably wonders why there are always rocks stuffed into my bags whenever we move!
I love to read and the most exciting thing for me as a child was when Barnes and Nobel was added to our local mall and I discovered the "new age" section of the bookstore. I was not brought up religious and fortunately my family never raised an eyebrow when the books I selected were titles such as "a witches guide to fairy folk", "how to see and read the aura", "how to develop psychic touch", "animal speak", and so on. However as got older, around jr high I think, for no other reasons than my own insecurities, I began to feel extremely self conscious about my interest in magic (which I believe is simply a persons natural state of existence and capabilities). So I would sneak over to the new age section when no one was around and read secretly in my bedroom about casting circles and writing spells.
Now despite my interest in earth based religions, magic, healing, and other such topics, I never really began practicing or really delving into any such practice, as Wicca, paganism, Celtic magic...all topics I read about and was interested in, but weren't quite resonating with me. Maybe it was the formality of the spells, the chants, the rules, or maybe it was just my own prejudice and the shameful fact that I was torn between the fact of wanting to be a witch and at the same time thinking people who claimed such practices were "weirdos". So I quietly kept my own beliefs to myself as the years went by. Then, when I was older, probably a junior or senior in high school, my mom gave me for my birthday a book called "natural witchery". She said it reminded her of me. My mom is not a witch, (that i know of), and I remember being both excited and a little embarrassed by the gift. But that was the first time something clicked with me. It was a practice based solely on your intuition and personal experience and relationship with nature, and I liked it. It still had spells and rituals, but it was more along the lines of what I had been searching for. I kept this book with me, (I still have it now), but unfortunately at that time I was more concerned with getting into college and subsequently, living the college life style, (partying way too much). My spiritual quest had been put on the back burner, but not forgotten.
This august I gave birth to my daughter. Being a mother really got me thinking: what kind of mother do I want to be? What is it I want to teach my child? While academics are no doubt important, I have always thought there are more important things to teach children. I want her to know how to be in tune with the subtle energies around her, how to see the magic and miracle in everyday, how to heal herself and others, be self sustainable and compassionate...
I am lucky enough that my husband has fully supported my decision to be a stay at home mom, and since having her I have resumed my "studies", of developing aura sight and meditations, healing and psychic touch, and other natural abilities I hope to teach and nurture in her. I am writing to you because these past few moths things have been happening at such a rapid pace and I just cannot keep the succession of events leading up to the purchase of your book and the effect it has had on me to myself.
This October two things happened which I feel created a domino effect in my life. The first was my dad giving my daughter and I two small gifts out of the blue. For her, it was a small orgone to put in her room, for myself, an orgone necklace. He told me both had been blessed with reiki. Now I had never heard of reiki, or orgones for that matter. He briefly explained both to me and that was that. I found the ideas interesting but spent more time researching orgones as I found them beautiful and wanted to make my own. I kind of just disregarded the reiki aspect to be honest. However, a few weeks later, a girl who I am friends with on Facebook, (we must have gone to college together but truthfully I'm not quite sure how I know her), posted something about her reiki master giving classes. For some reason this time the term stuck with me. It really rang a bell. Then I remembered my necklace. I rushed to find the little card that had come with it, and there it said "each item has been blessed with Reiki". That's where I had seen the term! I felt a very strong urge to learn more, and over the next few days schemed of a way to learn Reiki myself. The main hurdle was the cost of classes, we are now living off of one income only. But wouldn't you know, there just happened to be classes being taught less than five minutes away from me that were based on donation only! I called my mother and told her about the classes and she decided to join me. So we each donated what we could and became level one certified under a woman whom I am very pleased to have as my reiki master. Since that class I have been practicing every day, with saying and meaning the principles, meditating, and giving reiki to myself and family as well as reading several different books on the subject. It has been under a month since I was attuned and already I feel so different. More peaceful, centered, and just overall positive. I feel great! I really could relate to the whole concept of reiki, as it fits perfectly with my own ideals of the natural divinity we are all part of.
So I was on Pinterest the other day looking up "Reiki" to add images to my reiki board. This eventually led me to search the term "reiki master" under which I came across an image whose caption read "wisdom of the divine feminine". This term hit me hard as I had once read an article in a magazine with a similar title that I very much enjoyed. I then searched this term on meetup.com and this led me to the group "the women's spirituality meetup" which had been created this month and has but one member, the creator. Researching her I learned she teaches "mystical dance", which again, stirred something inside me as I love to dance, especially flow arts like belly dance, poi, hoop, aerial tissu, and aerial hoop. I dance around by myself or with my baby quite often at home. So I started looking up this mystical dance stuff which led me to the studio it is taught at which offers yoga, reiki, massage, and various other classes including "crystal healing". Again, something that struck a cord in my heart. I got on Amazon and looked up "crystal healing" in books then sorted the results by customer reviews. Your book was one of the top ones. Even though I was at the time looking for a book about crystals, your book caught my eye because of the horse and gypsy on the cover. As well as loving rocks and horses, i also have a special place in my heart for gypsys, and there were suddenly two together in front of me when I had been searching for the third, so on a whim I clicked on it, saw the good ratings and downloaded a sample which i immediately started reading. Imagine my surprise as I read the prologue...to hear you speak not only of reiki, but to the exact circumstances of that which I had been feeling my whole life. It really is like something I can't describe clicked in that moment. Like being struck by lightening, such bad Shion in the story! I had to stop and write what was happening down in a journal I've been keeping since the reiki class. I knew I had just fallen down the rabbit hole. Especially as I started reading, (I bought the book as soon as I had finished writing about the preface), and was again shocked to have Shion speaking of the persecution against women (which is something I am also passionate about and part of studying the divine feminine), as well as the atrocities against the "indigenous people". For the past week or so I have felt a profound connection and true heart ache for the Native American people. I had actually discussed it with my husband, mother, in laws, and even brother in passing, mentioning how tragic the loss of such a beautiful culture was to the world, and started watching a documentary about the portrayal of natives in film, simply because I was for some reason very drawn to them in that moment. And to have them described so eerily similarly in your story with the gypsies...
I don't know if this is all really making sense, but one thing is just leading me to something else that will also have a profound impact on my life. I feel as though for the first time in my life I am truly on the right path. I feel as though I have remembered something. Remembered who I am. Since I started reading your book I have started using magic again. I say again but really I mean for the first time, because it never felt natural to me before. It always felt hokey and forced. Now I am suddenly so comfortable with it. I see the ritual aspect of it as a method simply for directing attention. And when attention is focused anything truly is possible. I have been suddenly struck with ideas that I feel in my bones about the things that are woven into my everyday life. Like when I am singing a lullaby to my daughter that my mother sang to me, and I'm watching her eyes droop shut and realizing all the women of my family's past generations are connected by this song. This song has comforted countless infants and sent them off to their dreams. And if not this specific song in this specific family, than the mere act of a mother singing to her child, of lullabies being passed down from one generation to the next. There is magic in that. Or of teas. It suddenly hit me that teas, while sold and enjoyed almost everywhere by everyone, are part of the norm, they really are a beautiful blend of nature that with the right intent could have potent effects. What if these different blends and varieties of teas are just what this ancient wisdom has had to become to survive? I suddenly thought the same about cooking, music, art...it is all miraculous...and with intention, so so powerful. Not only am I thinking these things, but I am feeling more connected to nature, wanting to know more and more how to live with her and protect her.
I feel like I have gotten off track and started rambling. But i really wanted to thank you for your story and the door it has opened for me, or should I say in me. I don't know what it all means yet, but I don't think that happening upon your book about witches and dragons while I was looking for a book about healing crystals was just a coincidence. I was led there by a very specific course of events which each seemed to unlock something within me. Nor do I think my life is going to be quite the same from here on out. I thank you for such a gift.
Best wishes,
Sara
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