Why I Started Partying Again!

{ Your Moon Day Oracle for June 2 - 8 }

Hi loves!

This month we have big energy. The atmosphere in the cosmos is supporting our major changes, and our happy growth, but for many of us, that can still be confusing. 

What are our missions? Why are we here? What should we be creating?

If you need some help with those questions, this week's Moon Day Oracle is for you! In it, we highlight the importance of following our joy, in order to activate our true life's purpose - being lightworkers!

I also share a personal story on where my own joy lead me - and it might not be what you expect!

Tune in with me below!

Make sure you focus on your joy this week! And if you need help, remember your lightworker tools! (Prayer, Meditation + Whatever else you love!)

Lots of love,

xo Beth

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Can your Mind be a Good Thing?

Hey lady loves!

Would you say your mind gets in the way of what you want? Like you wish you could just shut it off, and go about your day?

Probably.

But... what if I told you, there’s actually nothing inherently wrong with the mind at all? 

That despite tons of spiritual literature describing the mind as the ‘enemy’, there’s actually nothing bad about it?

Interesting, right?

You see - the mind is just like money. It’s neutral!

It’s affect on your life, and in the world, lies directly in how you use it!

As we’re in the season of Gemini (the most ‘in the mind’ of all the signs), and approaching the New Moon in Gemini on Wednesday, the mind + our relationship with it might be coming up more than usual. 

Watch this week’s Moon Day Oracle to dive deeper + receive some life changing homework that will leave you feeling amazing, thinking amazing, and therefore attracting amazing!

Homework:

Here is the link to Gabrielle Bernstein's talk at Google. Listen to it while doing dishes, cleaning, or absolutely nothing, and I promise you will be left loving your mind and it's potential!

Lots of love, and have a great week!

xo Beth

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Onwards to the Season of Gemini!

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The New Moon is coming up in Gemini, and as we're waning to it, we're still releasing the various aspects of shadow consciousness that were brought up by the Full Moon in Scorpio.

As these changes occur, the bright light of the Gemini and Summer season {For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere!} is coming, and my guides say, we've got to be taking care of our bodies in response to the upcoming (awesome) changes. 

Watch this week's Moon Day Oracle to get the scoop, in an easy to understand language, on the new energies for May 19-25, 2014 and beyond.

Happy week loved ones :)

xo Beth

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It's the Full Moon in Scorpio!

Sometimes when I make my videos, I secretly wish I could exude more positive energy.

Now, I know I’m pretty positive, and often just have a bubbly demeanour, but when you’re looking up to powerhouses + veterans like Gabrielle Bernstein and Doreen Virtue, sometimes your ego can’t help but caught up and compare. 

But this week, there’s been some heavy stuff in my heart and in my belly, and it is the perfect opportunity to show you this: we all have our bad days and all have our good. 

The truly incredible thing about a spiritual practice though, is you can learn to find absolute solace in the dark. When you break through and finally have that release you’ve been looking for - it can feel so sweet. So darkly sweet. 

So this is what this week’s video is about. The Full Moon energy of Scorpio is coming and building up into it’s intensity. Scorpio might tend to bring your deepest and darkest, most treasured and delicate things out, if you choose to look at it that way.

Working with the energy of Scorpio is not necessarily easy, but it's powerful.

So watch below my loves, as I share with you how we can all work with this Scorpion energy, and simply allow whatever we’re going through to pass through us. 

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So much love + fondness for an incredible and breakthrough-filled week ahead:

xo Beth

5 Ways to Connect with Nature That Aren't Boring

Let's face it - usually when nature is mentioned, it sounds positively boring. 'Go for a peaceful walk outside for 20 minutes!' or 'Sit in nature, and just reflect'. 

And I've gotta tell you, I'm a wee bit over nature being mentioned in passing, like it's simply an addition to an already full repertoire of self-help activities. As if a 20 minute stroll on pavement as you walk by a few trees in a park is all you need in order to connect deeply to the earth. 

Contrary to society's messaging - Nature is not boring. Nature is not just 'going outside for a few minutes'. And nature cannot be treated as an afterthought if it is to provide epic transformation in your life.

Captured by Marnie Recker

Nature is where we start and where we end. Nature is everything! Our bodies are made from the food we eat, and the food we eat is nourished by the soil, the minerals, the atmosphere, and the water of the earth. The air we breathe comes from the leaves of plants. When we die, our bodies decompose, and we return in full to the continuous cycle of Gaia. 

It is a part of my mission to open the dialogue surrounding nature. It is my sincere wish that every single being experiences, at least once in their lives, the incredible wisdom + love that is accessible through connecting to the earth.

That won't happen, however, if we keep treating her like an afterthought. But I must say, I do understand where this comes from:

It is because, for the most part, we no longer have meaningful interaction with the earth.

• Rather than walking outside and planting our bare feet on the earth, we put on shoes, and step onto pavement.
• Rather than tending the soil with our bare hands, and growing our own food, from the seeds we've saved - we head to the grocery store and walk down fluorescent lit aisles for processed food in plastic packaging. 
• Rather than chopping wood for fires to warm our homes, we simply turn up the thermostat. 
• And rather than burying our loved ones in the rich warmth of the earth's embrace, we purchase expensive boxes so that their flesh is kept away from the soil.

We have come a long way from the ways of our ancestors, and granted, most of us won't fully recapture the daily closeness we knew hundreds of years ago. However, that doesn't mean that our connection is no longer, or that it is hopeless to try to connect with nature. 

We simply need to find ways to interact meaningfully with the earth again.

Captured by Marnie Recker

What do I mean by interact? I mean a true exchange. Rather than simply gaze upon nature, like a foreign visitor, we need to develop a dialogue with the earth.

We give it energy. It gives us energy.

It is in this way that relationships are formed. For example, if you're trying to develop a friendship, you need to have conversation, right? Same for the earth. You can't just look at her. You need to talk to her. And she will talk right back to you. In fact, she's been calling you this whole time - can you hear?

And so - I would like to offer you a few ways to meaningfully interact with nature, that will bring you back to a place of true connection.

I promise this connection with grow everyday that you nourish it, and in time, you'll be able to have conversations with trees, feel butterflies when you feel a breeze, and generally feel a much more profound connection than you ever thought possible! Yay for that!

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1. Create a Ritual

Ritual is a way that we can see and feel a physical exchange with the earth, without having to chop wood or carry water. 

A ritual is when intention meets action - so it can literally be anything.

Here are examples of rituals I've recently created:

• I carried 3 rose petals into the forest. For each one, I had a different prayer. For the first, I prayed over a specific relationship, and placed it at the base of a cedar tree. For the second, I prayed for a home built with wood or cob, and threw it into the ocean. For the third, I prayed for a sacred partnership to enter my life, and again, let it go into the sea.
• I've asked the cedar tree if I could snip some of it's branches. After I felt that is was OK, I broke some off, and carried them home to create beautiful green arrangements for around my house.
• I've gathered bits of driftwood, shells, and seaweed to create a mandala on the beach, and left it as a gift for the spirits of the earth.
• I've returned my menstrual blood to the earth, and watered my garden with it. (Granted, this might me a stretch for those of you new to earth connection, but blood from our moon times is one of the best fertilizers on the planet!)
• I've left a lock of my hair on a bush as a thank you for providing such a place for me to relax.

You'll notice in most of these rituals, I actually leave something physical with the earth, and let her have it. I find this to be an important part of creating that exchange I was talking about earlier. Feel free to create a ritual of your own, or model one after one I've listed above!

2. Get your Bare Feet on the Earth for at least 10 minutes

This is also known as 'earthing', and is growing an ever increasing body of scientific research for it's benefits. Getting your bare feet on the bare earth offers you that skin-to-skin effect with a loved one - but with the earth! Honestly, you just have to try it to see what I mean. Spend at least 10 minutes, if not 30, with your bare feet on soil, a log, a rock, or sand, and you'll notice a markable difference in your energy. My feet actually feel like they just had a massage when I do this. In most of my Moon Day Oracle videos, my feet are actually bare and resting on the earth.

 

3. Thank your food before you eat it

This is something you can do every day, no matter where you are! To thank our food, and thank Mother Earth for growing it, before we eat it, simply reminds us where it came from. It brings us back to the cycles of the earth, while also infusing it with extra love and the energy of gratitude. Yum!

4. Send love to a tree

This tip is the best ever, if I do say so myself. Many people think you can't talk to trees. In fact, a (former, god bless her) friend of mine, said it was the "f*cking stupidest thing she's ever heard".

Captured by Marnie Recker

Well, she's missing out, let me tell you! :D I've literally received the best advice from trees. But I've found that a key piece in communicating with them, is what I call - 'the bridge'. The bridge is love. You've got your human consciousness, doing it's thang. The tree's got it's tree consciousness, being all zen + powerful. In order to connect these 2 consciousnesses, I use the bridge of love. I simply place my hand on the tree, and send it love, usually in the form of green light. I talk to it, and say 'Hey, I love you! You're awesome.' Sometimes I get not much of anything, but other times, a whole rush of energy comes back to me, and I feel tingles all over.

From there, you can say 'what up!' to the tree and tell it all of your problems and joys and hopes and dreams and fears. Notice what thoughts and feelings come to you after you do this. The ones that feel amazing are likely coming from the tree.   

5. Ask your Spirit Animals to come visit you in the dreamtime

This tip is also the best ever, if I do say so myself. Spirit animals, are like the spirit guides of the earth world. They are the essence of a race of animals that come to you when you need help, guidance, and assistance. 

Most of us work with quite a few different spirit animals, whether we know it or not, though their assistance is powerfully increased when you ask them for help.

Tonight, before you go to bed, simply say 'Spirit Animals, I invoke your presence now. Please come to visit me in the dreamtime tonight, in a way I can truly cherish and remember.'

If you don't get anything right away, keep asking. They'll always come, but not always how you expect it. 

Since practising this request regularly, while sleeping I've been swimming with humpbacks, talked to rabbits, admired butterflies, been surrounded by orcas + rainbows, visited by horses, and much more. 

I love this practice! It's one of the easiest and most rewarding on this list!

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So loved ones - have fun with it - and rekindle your connection to the Sacred Earth Mother. It is the best thing since sliced bread. Actually it is way better.

You're awesome. Now get out there and send love to the first tree you see!

xo Beth

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It's Time to Go Deeper!

{Your Moon Day Oracle for May 5 - 11 }

Hi loves!

I'm digging how these Moon Day Oracles are evolving. At first, they were simply meant to be an energetic forecast for the week ahead. But now - they're turning into videos where I coach you in tandem with the moon cycles! So... that's awesome! :D

This week, tune in with me, as I explain what's important to focus on as we wax up to the Full Moon in Scorpio on May 14th.

I'll give you an exercise straight from my own personal coaching sessions, and we'll meditate together in the heart space, to get some clarity on what to focus on for the week ahead. 

I hope you have the best week ever!

And if you enjoyed this video, please take a moment to share it with a friend!

So much love!

xo Beth

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How to Choose the Perfect Crystal

I know a lot of people, especially women, are attracted to crystals. In fact, for many of us, crystals are one of the first things we connect to on our spiritual journey. They're just so preeetttttyyyyy. 

A lot of the time, this fascination with crystals, though undeniable, seems a bit complicated, maybe even confusing. Firstly - why are we so drawn to them? Secondly - there are so many of them, how do we know which one is right for us? And finally - what do we even DO with them?

All very good questions. 

As a crystal loving lady, I've had the pleasure with working with many, many stones, in part due to my crystal necklace business that I created in 2012. 

A custom piece: Andalusian Quartz 

A custom piece I created for one of my biggest inspirations: Nisha Moodley {Red Phantom Quartz + Prasiolite)

Throughout this time, my job was to go to crystal stores, and select the perfect crystal for my clients in question. Some of these clients were completely new to crystals, and were partly unsure why they were even ordering from me. Others had been collecting gems for a while, and wanted to step further into their world.

Regardless - a common thread was that many women were simply not confident in their ability to choose the right stone for themselves.

So the focus of this post, though I will answer all three questions I posed at the beginning, is to give you a quick lesson on how to choose the perfect stone for yourself. 

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Why crystals?

Crystals are magical. And they are actually conscious beings. Meaning - just like a plant has an intelligence, though we can't necessarily hear it or see it, crystals do too. They feel you when you pick them up. Some of them, I must point out though, have been so traumatized during the collection process (ie. mining without asking permission, handled as though they are mere product, not the culmination of millions of years of evolution in the earth mother) that we might not feel their vibration as easily in the store, as we do when they've been charged, blessed, and honoured for what they truly are. (This is because the crystals feel so unsafe that they have regressed their consciousness to be focused out of their bodies - you know, like how we'll grab a glass of wine or a joint when we feel too emotional and not know how to handle it)

Every crystal is different. Every crystal has it's unique properties. Every crystal has received unique energy from it's unique placement on the planet. I believe that different crystals also connect to different parts of the cosmos - to different star systems, angels, and the like. 

In all - crystals are a mystery. There are a part of the beautiful, great unknown, and to share space with them on the planet at this time is a true gift - they are teachers and healers. I could go on and on, but I'll save more for later blog posts.

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How to Choose the Right One?

Ok. This is the fun part. Crystal choosing is not rocket science. It is not logical. It is intuitive, and in many cases I would say, you simply can't get it wrong. 

All you have to do to choose the perfect crystal is set an intention, and surrender.

Green Fluorite - Great for the nervous systems + attracting fairies

Before you go to the crystal store, simply say "I intend to be guided to the perfect crystal for me at this time. I ask that Archangel Jophiel please clear away any negative energies from me now, so I can clearly see + feel which one will be right for me."

If you forget this prayer when you go, not to worry. The two main points are to set the intention that you'll be drawn to the perfect one for you, and to clear your field so it's open and receiving.

Now walk around. The first one that you are drawn to and touch, is likely a great one for you. 

A big point here - Your job is not to select the one that has what you need on paper. (ie. This stone is great for heart opening and calming stress) It's always nice to read descriptions, but I find reading them after you've selected the stone is best. That way, your mind doesn't get in the way.

You see, these descriptions are simply many people's experiences with the stone, or the traditional history of it. Although these descriptions often have lots of value and truth, they are secondary to your own innate intelligence of what's good for you. Use your intuition & have fun reading the descriptions afterwards.

If you're confused, and you find 5 or 10 more stones while you're at the store, I would advise buying the one that you first touched. 

Clearing the stone when you get home is important, and can be simply done by leaving it in direct sunlight or moonlight for a few hours. (I'll write a more in depth blog post on this later.) 

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Ok - Now what do I do with it?

Hehe - good question. In many cases, a well charged crystal will simply shift the vibration of any space it finds itself in. So the first way to use it, is to simply place it in a room you find yourself in often. (ie. In your bedroom, your car, or kitchen)

Another way to work with them, is to hold them. Simply hold them. Hold them while you're reading, or meditating, or having a phone chat with a friend. This is how you get to know it, while also receive it's healing benefits. Experiment and observe. 

In addition, you can try one of my favourite applications, which is to place stones on your chakras, or on points of your body that are hurting. I have used crystals successfully to treat stomach-aches and menstrual cramps. This process is intuitive. If I'm hurting, I will simply grab the first stone that comes to mind, and place it on the part of my body that is in pain. Sometimes this works magic, and sometimes it only helps a bit. Again, experiment and observe. 

I've laid out very simple ways to use crystals - there are books and courses that deal with crystal healing - but for now, it's best to start intuitively and simply. Just have them around, hold them, and use them when you're in pain. Make up your own ways to use them.

Charge your drinking water, or bring them into the bath. Plant them in your garden, or leave them under your pillow at night.

Have fun, you can't mess up, just go with the flow, your intuition, and know that once you start working with crystals, you will have them in your life for years to come. 

Amethyst - Protective & for the Higher Chakras

Herkimer Diamond - Healing & Opening

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Why I Chose to Create Skincare

Why am I offering organic skincare to you now, beautiful ones?

Let me tell you...

My passion for the environment + feminine well being has taken me to a passion for the products we use in our daily lives. 

Many women don't realize the disastrous effects of many common industries, in this case, the beauty industry. An overwhelming amount of chemicals are used in your average beauty product - yes, even the ones that say 'natural'. More than this, most companies actually test on animals in really grotesque ways - so not only are these products harmful for the body, they're also harming animals, and the world at large as well.

If you're an earth loving lightworker, like me, you know that just won't do!

I've seen firsthand what these 'beauty chemicals' can do to our bodies, and our earth. As a girl growing up with acne, I've tried every product on the market, even resorting to Accutane, and Birth Control at one point.

But in recent years, I've discovered the truth to true beauty. Yes, it's skin deep. It starts in the spirit, in the thoughts, in the diet, and finally, in the skin care + beauty routine. I do a lot of talking about the spirit, the thoughts, and even the diet, so now, dear ones, it's time to talk skin care!

There's a better alternative to the products you've been using! Watch the video below to learn more about my journey with acne, what I learned, and what I've created because of it. 

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Ok. Now that you've heard my story, I have a challenge for you. Go, RIGHT NOW, and grab your lotion, and any other products you use on your face. Read through every single ingredient. Now, breathe. Ok. If you're using what most women are, you probably just read through an intimidating and strange sounding list of chemicals, some of which ended in numbers. 

Now, take a look at the ingredients in what I've created for you:

ROSE NETTLE FACIAL CREME

Ingredients: Coconut Oil*, Sesame Oil*, Rose Petals*, Nettle**, Calendula*, Beeswax, Vitamin E, Apple Cider Vinegar*, Amethyst Charged Rainwater, Usnea Tincture**, Lavender Essential Oil.

*Organic **Wildcrafted  { Moon Charged}

LAVENDER GLOW FACIAL TONER

Ingredients: Aloe Vera Juice*, Lavender*, Yarrow**, Apple Cider Vinegar*, Lavender Essential Oil

*Organic **Wildcrafted  { Moon Charged}

Ahhhh. Sigh of relief. Your face will love you. Your body will thank you. The earth and the fairies will rejoice and dance, now that your daily beauty routine takes care of them!

If you'd like me to send you some of this luxury, I will pop it in the mail for you! Just head over to the Shop and let me know which size you'd like! <3 

So much love! 

xo Beth