Being Fearless

We are rocking and a rolling into summer festivals here at kingstonpsychic.com Why is this being fearless? You never know when  you head out to a weekend event what will happen. One year we nearly got blown off the map during a micro-burst! Sometimes its rainy and cold and sort of lonely out there in our tents. And sometimes we are nearly cooked when it is hot and humid. I love being outside where you are no matter what happens.  Festival readings are short and festival priced. Lots of people who would never have a reading will drop by and 'try' it. That's being fearless too. So here is where we will be over the next little while. Look for us and say HI! Even if you don't feel like a reading..but if you do want a reading here is a hlepful Hint: Sign up early because that list often fills up very fast. Prices this summer: $25 for 15 minutes and $50 for a half hour. Sessions are recorded for you too.

May 18 & 19 from 10 to 5 at Palmer River Paddlers Co-op River Festival.http://www.paddlerco-op.com/content/palmer-river-fest-registration-2013 Paddling lessons and clinics here too! I am taking my kayak for an early spin. Fearless but still hoping to avoid the white water!


May 25 & 26 from 10 to 5 or so: Kemptville Dandelion Festival. Now this is a big happy festival. http://www.thedandelionfestival.ca/


May 31 and June 1 from 11 to 5 or so: Reading in Ottawa at the Crystal Dawn (home to many beautiful crystals waiting for you to buy) at 217 Dalhousie St. Call them directly at 613-241-2262

More festivals all summer long. Drop by and check out this spot. As always I am available full time doing readings, parties and events. 613-549-2438. When you want to tackle life head on and shift things that seem stuck, call!

Fearless Dog Tooth Violets blooming on a sunny spring day. A few days later is was cold and nasty but that didn't stop these beauties from being the best they could be.

We wanted to attend a Tarot Conference in New York City so I drove. That's what Fearless means to me! What do you want to do? Ask yourself: how can I make this happen? We can help you overcome whatever is blocking you if you can't get going.

 Smiling at the NYC traffic!

They call me Miss Fearless. I help more people be fearless and find peace for their soul. It would be great to hear from you or see you at a summer festival.



Helping More People be Fearless and Find Peace for Their Soul

Bill called today asking me to be on the local television show they do just before the news every day. He had obviously been to my website because he said, we want to talk to you about helping people find peace for their soul and how you do it. He was almost whispering like it might be a secret or something.

I was so excited and at the same time humbled when I got off the phone. Excited because someone in the media wanted to talk about peace for the soul. Someone wants to talk about what feeds my soul and I believe is my soul work.

So, how does one find peace for their soul? The first part of my mission though uses the word Fearless. Finding peace for your soul requires a fearless and untiring pursuit of what brings you peace. Fearless to be you. Fearless to say no. Fearless to say yes. Fearless to sit quietly and listen to your own little voice saying “Now wait just a minute here.” Fearless to stand up for what you know to be true. First you have to be fearless in a world where ninety percent or more of our pursuits are driven by fear.

We are consumed by fear that we are not enough, not good enough, not thin enough, not rich enough, not smart enough, not sexy enough, not man enough, not woman enough not a good enough mom or dad or kid. Enough!

Be still. Connect with the Divine Spirit within you. No matter what size, shape, colour, gender, faith, or intelligence we are at this moment we are a reflection of all that has gone before and what has come together to create us just as we are now. The Divine created each of us to be the person we are right now. Why do we spend so much time arguing with the Divine? Is it really very smart to continue this argument? I happen to believe in God as I understand God to be. Should I really say “God, look at me you blew it here didn’t you?” Seems to me that is a pretty foolish dare to toss back at the Creator. Instead, I can know deep within me that while I may not understand why I am here like this in this place at this moment it is perfect. And that if I sit with the energy of the Creator’s faith in me to live my life fearlessly I will know such a deep peace in my soul that I will be filled with wonder, joy and love. This may sound too good to be true. When the people I work with start to believe they are here to be the best version of themselves that they can be, they light up with life. All the fears in the world cannot hold them back from living life peacefully and authentically. I will be blogging more about this in the coming weeks. Drop by and visit us again.

We do have a couple of exciting opportunities to work with us here at kingstonpsychic.com coming up:
Join us February 11, 2013 for five weeks and learn how to be happy. Marilyn has developed this course for people who want to be happy and stay happy. And it works! Here are all the details:
http://www.kingstonpsychic.net/
You will be smiling when you finish this course!

Tarot Intensive Wednesday January 30, 2013
Learn how to manifest with Tarot or Oracle cards, create your own card and make things happen this year! Join us at 6:30 at the Purple Door at 376 Barrie St in Kingston. Here are the details: http://tarotintensive.weebly.com/

Ready to book a reading with Marilyn:
To book a reading at The Purple Door Tuesday to Saturday daytime use this link: https://www.timetrade.com/book/VLZP6
To book a phone reading Monday or Tuesday evenings use this link: https://www.timetrade.com/book/55L1H
And if you need to see me some other time or would like to book me for a party: Call 613-549-2438 or info@kingstonpsychic.com

Good luck in finding peace for your soul in 2013. If  you are struggling please get in touch and let me help you.
Marilyn

Marilyn Shannon is dedicated to helping more people be fearless and find peace for their soul.



Celebrate the Sunrise

This is kingstonpsychic.com's blog by Marilyn Shannon. Today's post is part of the Tarotbloghop with over thirty blogs on the topic "Celebrate the Sunrise" Welcome, whether your are blog hopping or visiting our blog some other way.
The blog before me is by Kareena at http://kareenatarot.blogspot.in/

Celebrate the Sunrise!
The longest day of sunlight evokes magical thoughts for many in the Northern Hemisphere. Nature is voluptuous as it begins to ripen toward harvest. Dancing all night long in filmy white gowns with flowers in your hair (and yes I am of the hippy generation) feels absolutely right now. Funny, thus begins the downward spiral into shorter days. Such a negative thought barely registers on our mental calendar. This day, no matter your Spiritual beliefs we celebrate midsummer days and nights. This day of long sunlight filtering through the magical stones of Stonehenge as it has for centuries on end reminds us that we must celebrate the sunrise not only today but every day.

The Tarot offers us this advice over and over again. No matter how dire our situation, celebrating the possibilities sunrise brings can open our mind to all that is new. We see this in the darkest card of the deck: The Ten of Swords. Even when we appear to be down and out, stabbed in the back at our lowest moment, the Ten of Sword calmly points you toward sunrise. Each new day offers a new opportunity to rise up, shake yourself off and start all over again.
 As Nation’s start the progress of starting all over again during tough economic times we are made aware of the wonder of a new day with all its promise. Sunrise is emblematic of new beginnings and growth each and every day for one and all. Frequently, clients sit before a Tarot card reader seeking a way to fix the mess they find themself in. The suggestion to celebrate is often met with confused bewildered expression of face and voice. “What?” they ask seeing nothing in their dire situation to celebrate. Only when we celebrate can we find the new way. Only new thinking will enable us to leave the old mess behind. Grab that one little shining bit in your life and start celebrating the changes it will bring.

Celebrate this sunrise at the peak of summer glory to claim new awareness for living your own life richly and beautifully. Let the Ten of Sword’s sunrise open you to celebration. If you are too immersed in the darkness, ask for help to see what is clearly waiting for you with each new day. It is amazing what happens when we focus on the new and possible even in times of pain, distress and dis-ease.
A little morning ritual for you: Stand outside at Sunrise: speak only of the blessings and good in your life now; ask for guidance to use these gifts well and wisely and for the greater good this day. Celebrate the sunrise as you start day this way.

 

To hop to the next link visit Ania at http://aniam.co.uk/blog/here-comes-the-sun/
If you find a link that is not working this will connect you to the master list of all blogs on today's topic: http://innerwhisperscouk.blogspot.co.uk/p/litha-blog-hop-master-list.html

Hope you have fun reading all these Tarot Blogs!

The Fire tends to all

Welcome to Marilyn's blog for the Tarot Bloghop on May 1, 2012. If you are arriving from Ania's blog at http://aniam.co.uk/blog/fire-walk-with-me/ welcome!

The Fire Tends to All

As a tarot card reader and coach, there is no doubt that the Fire is within us all. Over the last few weeks, sitting in my easy chair tapping away on the laptop, overseeing what I fear has become a pigeon bordello the Fire that burns in all creatures is right before me! All creatures great and small have a fire within. The bigger question is why? When we think of the fire within as a force that tends to all, a subtle shift occurs. The fire that tends to all creates common ground for all creatures.



In “Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom” Rachel Pollack in her discussion of the Lovers card helps us understand this. Traditionally, the Lovers card had been about choice. The Tarot often illustrates the choice been the light and the dark sometimes seen as good and evil. Pollack suggests “And there are many people who outwardly live socially acceptable lives yet inwardly fight constant torments of desire, fighting urges to adultery, or violence, or simply the desire to leave home and become a wandering tramp.” Page 59 Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom

The Lovers card represents that moment when the Fire that tends to all ignites. This often occurs during adolescence when we take the courageous step away from our family to seek ‘the other’ often through our sexual awareness suggests Pollack. The Fire is ignited. The fire in all of us is the fire to be with someone. We may and often do express this Fire through our sexuality. We also have a fire to be with people who understand us. We seek out people like ourselves and attend events like Tarot conferences, meetings and dances. The fire tending us all sends us off to find our soul mates.

Soul mates may be intimate loving partners. They may also be the people we like to spend time with doing what brings us joy. The most challenging soul mate to find it seems is the one within our own soul. We frequently look for answers and contentment for our soul from others. The Fire tending us all; the fire in our own soul; the fire we may battle through addictions, fear and isolation has the key. We need only open the door. The fire may bring us the Lovers. The same fire may ignite the fear of the Devil seen in card 15 and intimately related to card six the Lovers. We may think we are different or isolate our self. The Fire that tends to all reminds us that we all are here to part of the whole.





The fire in our soul is ours to tend as well. It offers us choices. It offers us potential. It offers us fear or faith that we are good enough today just the way we are. The fire that tends each and every one of us can unite us in community, country and as world creatures. That Fire is the same in all creatures. How will you tend your fire as the season of love, lust, passion and creation gets into full swing? How will you hear the message of our common Fire; the Fire that tends to all?

And to continue this Beltane Bloghop continue on to Gary's blog at: http://theseerscave.webs.com/apps/blog/show/14611390-beltane-bloghop-the-fire-tends-to-all-



Ostara:Paint a journey with new life

Welcome to this version of TarotBlogHop. If you are joining me from Carolyn Cushing's blog at http://artofchangetarot.wordpress.com/ welcome.

Ostara: Paint a journey with new life

It is spring here in Eastern Ontario, Canada.  The passion of the season is evident everywhere. For without passion the journey of new life does not begin. The colour that originally came to mind for this paint job was yellow. It soon became evident that yellow wasn’t enough. At this time of year we need the passion of oranges, reds and yellows and all the combinations in between. Even my fingers feel the tingle of passion colours this week as Spring arrives.  As the cardinals sing romance and the ducks and geese pair up the type of passion is evident everywhere.

These colours are found in the Strength card of the Gaian Tarot. Passion of the heart tames the passion of the wild. The passion of the wild ignites the passion of the heart. The energy flows continuously as seen in the lemniscate. And that feels like these early days of spring. This is when we let the heat of the sun warm us. This is when we long to feel the warm soil in our hands. This is when we let the seeds that have lain dormant all winter ignite. Every single living thing in this part of the world is coming alive with the colours of new life. Those colours this week are the reds, oranges and yellows of passion, creativity and power. Later they will give way to softer colours of greens but not until the passion is spent and the birthing is done.

There is a call now. A call for a new journey painted with our passion. For women and the men who love us this is crucial. My Mother fought for women’s rights long before it was a popular endeavor. Women before her fought long and hard. And yet, for all that passion we are being told yet again that we do not have rights. We are seeing men in legislatures withdrawing those rights. Last spring we saw great revolts around the globe. This spring the journey needs to be painted with even greater courage and strength. We need to fight for the equalization of goods, resources and rights as those who hold the reins fear the loss of their power.  Leaving it to someone else is not good enough. Our journey to a new life this Ostara and Easter needs to be filled with love that is not blind, ignorant or blasé.  Softly but firmly we must each take our feminine magic and use it to create Strength for all.

Oddly, the words 'entrenched' and 'dug in' come to mind. As women we create and bring life into this world. We have won some battles and have rights about how and when we reproduce. We have the right to care for our own health. In Canada, we are not yet facing the same battles as our neighbours in the USA. These battles will come if we don’t raise our voice and express our expectations clearly to our members of parliament and other leaders abroad. We must be passionate as the very roots of our wellbeing are at risk. Painting this spring in the colours of passion to overcome fear, creativity to solve problems and power to know when to speak out. This Ostara painting the journey of new life means raising our voices and being heard, yet again. I am so tired of watching the abuse of women rise worldwide and in our own backyard. Join me won’t you in raising your voice to paint a wonderful world of love?

Are you ready to hop on over to the next blog? Thank you for visiting me here. Here is the link to Hilary at http://www.tarotbyhilary.com/blog/ 

How can I be a better candle?

This blog is part of a Tarot Blog Hop on the topic "How Can I Be a Better Candle?" The blog before mine is written by Louise and you can find her at http://www.priestesstarot.co.uk/

From Marilyn to you:
The best part about February in southeastern Ontario Canada is that the days are ever so slightly longer. I notice it more at the supper hour than in the morning. Years ago, as I crossed the parking lot coming out of work at the end of my work day, the lingering light in the sky filled me with hope that the sun was on its way back to warm the land and my soul.  At the time, I did not know that people for hundreds of years had celebrated this wondrous event. I was content to know if the groundhog had seen his shadow. Now, I happily open my heart to the wonders of nature and the turn of the wheel accepting the guidance of those who know.
This opening of my heart to other ways of celebrating the sacred has had the added benefit of making me a better candle. Opening rather than closing to more sacred practice has helped me find out where I fit. When I know in my heart that I am indeed a small but important link to all that happens in our world, my light shines. I can be a better candle when I ask myself a few simple questions. How does this return of the sun benefit us all? How does it show that we are all connected?
Thoth's Hermit has always struck me as the busiest most illuminatted Hermit card created. That is a purely personal reflection of course. As a Virgo, the Hermit has always felt comfortable to me. I like that the Hermit's light illuminates our inner self and yet offers a beacon of hope to any who see it. Thoth's card seems to be moving rapidly rather than the still image of the Rider Waite Smith deck. Just because we appear to be in deep freeze or reflection does not mean that there is not a lot going on beneath the surface. Deep in our subconscious a light may finally shine on that frozen thing that will allow me to move forward.
When I read for people, I offer them the opportunity to be still, listen, yet actively search and warm that frozen part of themself. Tarot through my efforts to illuminate the message can help people see their own amazing light. If my heart is open and full of light it works all the better. Opening my heart, using my tools makes me a better candle.
Now hop on over to Matt at:
http://personaltarotwithmatt.com/blog

Humpback and The Four of Fire

Humpback and The Four of Fire


Thursday August 18, 2011 with reflections to January 1, 2012

The humpbacks may have eluded us yesterday but nothing could prepare us for Thursday’s events! We began the day paddling through a network of small islands in pretty deep fog. Today, I paddled with Gillian, co-owner of Pacific Northwest Expeditions at http://www.seakayakbc.com/main.html and was very grateful for her sharp eye and chattering biology lesson. I would have missed so much had she not shared so willingly. The highlight of the morning was the plump mauve starfish clinging to the wall of the cliff waiting for the tide to return. We saw many seals resting on rocks that were almost invisible to the untrained eye. Their colouring matched the rocks so well.


A very mature Starfish, clinging to the cliff as the tide recedes. Looks like she is walking to me!

 And birds! Ducks with horns called Rhinoceros Auculets that are native only to this small region of Canada. The paddling was misty and yes mystical. We had lunch on two large out crops of rock called White Cliffs with a few trees and lots of salal, Indian paintbrush, false lily of the valley, heather, stonecrop, strawberries and Eagles! This is where I received my Eagle feather. A pair of Eagles entertained us by flying in and out of the tree on the adjacent outcrop of rock. It was right about here that the battery on my camera died. The fog finally burned off and we could hear loud booms in the distance that no one could quite explain. After lunch we set out to return to camp. Here we were in much more open water than any of our previous paddles. There were many whale watching boats, fishing boats and our three kayaks. Talk about feeling a tad vulnerable. Suddenly, a humpback breeched about four times. Wow! It happens so fast that you really have trouble taking it all in. One Humpback slapped its tale as it dove. Slap is a huge misnomer. For this was the source of the sound we heard earlier. It sounded like thunder aided by dynamite. BOOOOOM!


One of the breeches we witnessed by the local Humpback whales. It is important to study sound and breath when receiving messages from whale.





There were at least a dozen or more whales evident all across the strait. It was so exciting. Finally Brian suggested that we paddle a little closer to shore to get out of all the traffic and for safety reasons. It sounded like a very wise idea to me. The Minke cruised by us again. And as we were getting close to shore a humpback surfaced not far from us. OH! Wow! And it was swimming right for Gillian and I. Had this happened on the first or second day, I think I would have panicked. By now I realized that these magnificent creatures were quite happy to avoid us. In slow motion the whale dove. Its magnificent tail tipped up and slid silently beneath the waters. That same tail that shook the strait could disappear without a sound and barely a ripple! At about the same moment Gillian was telling me to look over the side to see the whale’s footprint or shadow. I did in stunned silence. Here we were in a twenty foot kayak with a forty foot forty ton whale beneath us. We did not speak. The magic of the moment slid past as the whale continued on her way.


After surfacing just in front of us, this huge creature slipped effortlessly beneath the surface and swam under our kayak. That is my shoulder as we wait in our kayak to see what Humpback is going to do.


The card for what does Humpback want me to know was The Four of Fire, from the Gaian Tarot. It shows a woman in a ceremonial ring of candles. She is feeling her power as she receives energy from the earth and the sky. Her jaw is extended much like a whale as it feeds. She is. I am. If I am to know the beauty of my own power, passion and ability to love, I must be open to its magic. The affirmation for this card “I am strong and courageous, and have the power to accomplish anything I choose to do.” I met the whale and it gave me courage to dive deep within my soul and heart and ask for what I want. Whales show us how to find balance and to breathe in life. Whale asked me to listen to the sound of my own life and find its rhythm. What do I want to breathe in at this stage of my life? What is my power now? How am I meant to use it? Questions from my magnificent quest stir within me now on the first day of 2012.



The color orange catches my eye in this Four of Fire from the Gaian Tarot. I am aware more than ever of the need to be very careful of what I create in thought, word and deed as it influences all around me and beyond.