When we use the clairvoyant “rose” as a technique, people are surprised why it works so well.

The rose is of course not really a rose. It’s an energetic container of Universal energy. When we look at this container, it provides us with a symbolic understanding of the energy of the person, relationship, situation or future outcome we are asking about.

Using the rose as a tool allows us to have a certain distance from our own first response to a situation; it helps us let our own judgments, hopes and dreams relax. By looking at the rose, instead of directly at the person or situation we are reading, we are invited to look at the energy or the vibration or the emotion of who or what we are reading.

We are invited to look at the person or situation as a container of energy; as a container of Oneness.  

For example, if a person has very dark energy but a beautiful façade, using the rose allows us to see the energy, without getting distracted by the façade.

If we were to try to read directly from this person, we might get all caught up in our own feelings about beauty or attractiveness.  But when we use the rose as an energetic stand-in, as a symbolic representation of the energetic essence of the situation, we are able to read clearly. 

As we all know, Dorothy set off on the Yellow Brick Road wearing her ruby slippers, trying to get home.

Sometimes people focus on the idea that Dorothy needed to battle the witch, and that this tale was about good vs. evil.

But I like to think of Dorothy as a pioneer in Nowness; she had everything she needed all the time, right on her feet.

She was always home, even when she was in Oz. 

You can go home any time too, just by clicking your heels, or as we might put it in meditative terms, by closing your eyes, taking the deep breath, and connecting to the infinite.

We always have this ability; in fact, it can’t ever be taken from us; this ability to take the breath, enter in to Divine space, and simply be in peace, and comfort, and home.

Dorothy didn’t learn this until the end of her journey. We can understand it Now: you can go home again, over and over and over, as many times as you like.

You may choose to battle apple-throwing trees, fields of popples and flying monkeys, but you don’t have to.

​Home is always within you. 

We often think that we’ll be happy later, when we reach a certain point in our ambition or achieve certain goals.

But actually, we can only be happy Now.

In other words, the future is enchanting to think about, but it’s really a mirage.

And yes, we can head toward it holding it in our vision, thinking that once we get to that oasis, all will be well, we can rest the camel and have some water and go for a meal at the inn.

But in reality, the mirage isn't our life.

Life is where we are Now.

Thus, we don’t have to slog toward the mirage, pretending everything around us is just dry desert. We can let go of the mirage, and look around us in astonishment, to find that we’re not in a dry desert at all!

We're in rich lives, with bodies and imaginations and many, many ways to connect with each other and with our world.

Mirage means illusion. To let go of all illusions and just be where we are, is a courageous act.

And it's the only way to get happiness; to stop seeking it, and see it’s already here. 

​When we are first having a lot of contact with our spirit guides, we begin to become infused with the Divine.

​We go from being quite human in our understanding, to living from our soul: we start to understand that we are soul first, human second, even though our job is to be in both worlds at once.

We become more Divine, every time we are in communication or communion with our spirit guides, and their energetic expression of the Universe/God/one/All.

It’s interesting to experience how one little drop of the Divine can make so much difference: one meditation session, one "entering in." And how that little drop can raise us from mostly human to mostly soul, in any given situation.

One drop more, to shift the balance from mundane to Divine, in any situation.

One drop more of this sweetest nectar, as easy to get as closing your eyes, taking a deep breath, and asking to receive. 

​Upon our arrival into this world, we are given a body to live in, and a personality to move us forward.

You might think of the car we ride in as the body, the driver as the personality, and the soul in the back of the limo, directing it from there.

Some of us have very snappy, motivated, directed personality/drivers.

Some of us are more reticent, afraid.

Some of us are going to take all kinds of risks, shortcuts, while others will abide by the posted speed limit.

There are all kinds of drivers!

The thing is to make friends with your personality, your driver. To not wish for another driver! But to be content and happy and pleased with exactly the driver you’ve been given.

This amazing trifecta of body, personality and soul is yours for this lifetime; it’s an unique combination designed to take you to your destiny, to your particular lessons of soul growth.

So don’t spend any time fighting with your personality, or not liking it, or wishing you were different. Accept this is part of the plan. Get in the car, and let your driver drive you, in the exact perfect way you are meant to be driven.