Toe Dipping Spirituality

What is it?
This is the idea that you have to, “do it all” when it comes to your Spiritual Path. It’s the New Age concept of putting your fingers in all the pie. It often ends up in the study or practice of conflicting paths and leads to burn-out, confusion, loss of identity, or could potentially lead to issues with dark entities. 

Apart from just a general human nature of being curious – which often fades away after we take a sniff and say, no, that’s not for me, – Toe Dipping Spirituality (with a linger) can happen for the following reasons:

1. Power/Control – this is an emotion stirred by the ego, the desire to “Master it all, Learn it all, Be the best at it all,” and is usually a push from dark entities and not from the Light. Seeking to control all aspects of Spirituality is the opposite of one of the most important aspects of the Spiritual Journey: non-attachment.

2. Insecurity – The lack of security that you have in your own abilities or your own place within the Spiritual Community. Feeling as though you are not good enough and need to learn it all in order to be respected, validated, accepted, or trusted. Another cause of insecurity could be from not really knowing who we are; this takes deep healing.

3. Temptation – This ties slightly in with Power though it comes from a more empty place; being tempted by what power potentially awaits you at the end of the path.

Being tempted by what power potentially awaits at the end of a path

4. “Fads” – This leads back to insecurity because path-pavers don’t follow fads and you only follow Spiritual Fads if you fear your own path or strength to walk it.

We don’t need to do it all.

We all have our one path, unique to us. We need not compare our path to the next person.

Curiosity is not dangerous, but the emotion leading our continuation down the path could be. Ask yourself: what is the source of you desiring to ‘Master it all?’ Be honest with the answer that comes to you.

Conflicting paths confuse our spirit.

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Point form notes on Dreams vs Visions

Dreams:
Have emotional responses

You can wake up emotionally responding – you could want to go back to sleep or fear falling back asleep

Get you excited, scared, sad

Cause reactions

Often suit your wants or needs
Can keep you “stuck” in one thought or emotion

Visions:
You mentally process the emotions in the visions without actually feeling them 

Do not cause emotional reactions following them (you do not feel excited, sad, powerful) – once you begin processing them or manifesting them, then your human impact on the vision can cause these reactions but initially, it’s just kind of like an, ‘oh okay,’ moment

Cause a reflection and not a reaction

Leads to betterment 

Often different from what you want or think

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My business merges the many Faces of God. Think of the elements – earth, water, air, fire – so too God has more than one face. He is not just of the Spiritual realm.

Using the material – Tarot Cards – to get a physical representation of a client’s message, using the mental skill of building a story from these cards, emotionally tapping in to what your Highest Self needs to thrive, and spiritually tuning in to a Higher Realm to gain insight from the outside (mediumship), I aim to best understand all of God’s Faces.

A lightworker or healer who only focuses on answers from the Spiritual Realm is missing many aspects of God/the Universe, and will fail to properly root you in what is necessary to create a more blissful life. It’s so easy for people in the Spiritual Community to make the Spirit Realm their focus because the Material world is so much harder to master! If it was simple, everyone would be living a peaceful, happy life and there would be no need for healers, at all.

A lot of spiritual leaders fail to properly address or, or don’t address the Material Self/Material World all. It’s like people who meditate with crystals on their third eye chakra but miss their root chakra – what is the point? No chakra is more important than the other! The roots are needed to be fully planted for the crown to be fully clear.

Missing the material disregards the humanness we are born into – and simply can’t escape or avoid. These bodies, this earthly experience, requires guidance or practice that is given proper roots. Someone without deep Material roots will sway and break in the first storm. Avoidance of our humanness is ignorance, and failure on the part of a spiritual leader. Failing to honour what the physical self, as well as the spiritual self, needs means you’re not honouring all aspects of God and therefore are not honouring all aspects of the Self. And that simply means you’ve failed at the first task of a spiritual journey: Mastery of Self.

You cannot Transcend without first Descending into honouring your material self, loving and understanding and healing it completely. Remember that the root chakra is the first chakra for good reason. Distrust any spiritual guide who is so caught up in the Spirit Realm that they miss the real world around them, with all its wonder and lessons to be learned.

Dark entities* exist and the strength behind the messages and the way they speak to you is not random. Words are selected with intent. 

If you were a child raised in a Christin household, your first trauma would be hearing that you are sinful and need to repent. Dark entities will come to the child of a Christian past can call them a sinner. If you were a child who was told they would never become anything of value or be enough, dark entities will come to you and use the same words. If you were a child who was told how great, beautiful, and how perfect you are, dark entities will come to you and tell you that you are better and more powerful than others and that others just want to bring you down. If, when you were young, your parents called you crazy for what you thought, heard, or felt, dark entities will also call you crazy. If you were a child who was made to feel guilty from a young age, dark entities will come to you and use words that put you in a guilt trip. 

They aren’t dumb! But they aren’t clever, either. 

There is a reason that Shadow Work so often addresses accessing and acknowledging the wounds of the Inner Child. This is precisely the trauma that dark entities play off of. They go to your very first memories and use that convince you of the message they are saying to you. They find your most vulnerable point and use it to their advantage. There is nothing more helpless than a child, so they dive deep into your spirit and find those memories and say exactly the thing that needs to be said that will fill you with self-doubt and darkness. 

While I am only human and am just as susceptible to the dark words of dark entities myself, I don’t fear them. I see right through them and recognize how hollow they are and that helps show me how truly powerless they are against the arsenal I’ve got on my side. I have noticed that a lot of people, out of no where, come to me and share their demons, and figuring out their tactics is like solving a riddle. It brings me a lot of satisfaction (not ego or personal, but joy in knowing I can share this clarity with others) knowing I can figure out their chess move as easy as it is to tie one’s laces. It’s almost /laughable/ how transparent them and their tactics are! But the knowledge isn’t my own; it’s been buried in my spirit by God for me to uncover and share, and I get a beautiful “ah-ha” moment when I really nail it. I guess you could call me the Sherlock Holmes of the Shadows! 

Sometimes I wonder if I’ve done this in a past life, and that’s why it’s so easy for me to battle them – fearlessly – now. Sometimes I wonder if that’s the reason why so many people come to me and say, “Can you shed light on this darkness I’m dealing with?” I’m sure this hasn’t been my first mental battle with these entities, but I’ll continue to unravel them and expose them without hesitation.

*And to clarify: I’m not talking about a sad thought or a low period in your business that causes you stress, I’m talking about real demons, baby. I’m talking about the ones who cloak themselves in familiar clothing to make you trust them but then lead you down a lost path. I’m talking about the ones who start by tempting you with ego, and then consume you and isolate you. I’m talking about the ones who sleep in your chakras and will fight you if you try and kick them out.

“Any true spiritual teacher – even God – is not interested in having your personal power. Rather, the opposite is true: true spiritual teachers are interested in empowering you.” – Joshua David Stone, Ph.D

This is a powerful statement, and it often crosses my mind when I am asked to give readings where clients ask for their definitive future, not realizing that’s not how the Universe works. When the words ‘Destiny is Written’ are spoken it means that all possible outcomes are available to you, and what path you decide to traverse is your Destiny. This was further emphasized in Dr. Brian Weiss’s book when he began studying progression therapy (seeing into the future). He asked his patients to see what their future looked like if they continued with the same habits and struggles they had now, and then to visualize an alternative future where they eliminated these traumas and healed. That is how Free Will works with relation to Destiny. Will we continue to not learn our lesson in this new lifetime and pick the path that causes us pain and struggle, or will we learn from the lessons of our past lives and our present traumas and change the course of our future? 

Someone asked me: how does that work with people who are victims of horrible crimes, who would choose that destiny for themselves? I used my own sexual assault as an example. I did not choose that road (to be sexually assaulted) but my assailant did. He had the Free Will to choose another path but chosen this one. I was caught in the crossfire of his Free Will. This is not Destiny that was written for me; I could have learned the same lessons in this lifetime if he had chosen the other path. He chose the path of aggression, and I was the victim of that decision. I forgive him for choosing this path. 

I told this person that I have likely encountered this person in many other lifetimes, and he probably has been given the same choice in numerous lifetimes as well – act with aggression, or choose the path of compassion – which causes him to repeat this error in this life. He continues to choose aggression of his own Free Will. My path gets tainted by his decision, but this was not written in my Destiny. My Destiny is the path I choose to traverse after this cruelty. My Destiny is what is written by my own Free Will (no one else’s). 

And so my work as a psychic-intuitive reader lays out the same information: here is the outcome you will have if you choose this path, here is what you will have if you choose the other. You make the final decision. You are the one who is given the tools to create your own Free Will, to empower your own life. So many people are so comfortable in their misery that the thought of altering the path they are already walking is a burden to them. They’d much rather have the world feel sorry for them and the miserable life “they’ve been handed”, but no, you have chosen to continue down that path, you have chosen to keep the road of victimization and self-loathing and sorrow. You can create the abundant life you wish for yourself if you are given the proper tools to do so, which is what a Spiritual Healer aims to do for you. 

No Spiritual Healer will be your quick fix, no Spiritual Healer will put the work in for you, so if that’s what you’re expecting, prepare to be disappointed. You are the Master of your own Life, and the work comes from you and your hands. You are handed the tools by a Healer, and encouraged to start chipping away to reveal your marble self on your own terms. 

Sometimes we hate what we are told – I have had and heard of situations where people think the session is an “attack on their character” when really it’s just your Healer clarifying to you where the weaknesses in your character are preventing you from having the successful life you deserve. It’s not meant to offend. It’s not meant to stir your ego. It’s meant to help you be your best self. And if it made you uncomfortable, that should be even more reason to analyze why. 

What trauma, past life memory, or personal insecurity was triggered by this information, and why? How can you use that as a tool to empower yourself and be better? Often we hate what we are told because it means we must begin our marble carving from scratch after we thought we were doing so well! Will you empower yourself with this frustrating information or continue down your path of ego? That choice is up to you. It’s not said to you to take your power from you or make you feel small or incomplete, it’s said to you to help you better yourself, step into your greatness, and live a life of spiritual grace. 

In the end, distrust any healer who says they have all the answers. Distrust anyone who makes you rely on them like a guru and doesn’t give you the strength or confidence to venture out on your own. But also take the time to reflect on how the choices you make affect the Destiny you create for yourself, take time to reflect on where you failed to use the advice or guidance or information provided by healers because it would be: too much work, hurt your ego, meant you had to start from scratch, would require you to walk down a different path when you were quite comfortable on the one you were on. Where have you failed to use these tools handed to you because they challenged you and your confidence or the comfort of your sadness? 

If you won’t walk down your best-self path with your own two feet, don’t think your Spiritual Healer will push you down it. And distrust anyone who does, because Mastery of Self is the foundation of all Spiritual growth and it can only be achieved on your own.

These words are not my own. They came to me during a session with a client in which their Life Purpose was shown to be ‘Mastery of Self’.

“The saying that we are “Made in the Image of God” is not a stretch, because the goal of life, of accessing our Higher Self and transcending this earthly plane, is to recognize that God is truly within each and every one of us. “God” is merely the energy of Love, as it vibrates at the highest frequency. The way we can elevate ourselves is by first acknowledging the Love that exists within us and Loving ourselves beyond measure, and it is then that we are able to extend that Love into the world for others and make a difference at a greater scale. The lesson of Self-Love is the most important message of all. It is truly a Mastery of Self. By transcending the traumas of our past and present lives we break the repetition of hurt and the mentality that we are “not good enough as we are”. We no longer seek our purpose outside of ourselves, but we find it within us, and it begins with that lesson: we are whole and complete as we are. And a purpose that is rooted in loving ourselves is just as important – if not more so – as making a difference in the lives of others. Rising above self-doubt and Mastering ourselves is precisely how we become full and complete enabling us to point out the Kingdom of God that exists within others who doubt it. But the first step is you and your spirit. And that causes a bigger shift in consciousness than you can imagine.”

I think this is it: the initiation of fire that will have me writing the words of Mary (the words I was destined to write on September 1st, 2018). The words that have me speaking of truth and spreading love. I feel the flare of Her love in my heart. Something has awoken in me. 

It’s been a while since I have sat down and written in a journal, but I feel compelled to right now. Remember how I once started my mornings with this? Can I return to that, but this time with greater grace? 

I’ve lost my lust for social media. I am told that if I pray, people will find me, seek out my services, that social media is not necessary for me to send out my ripple of light. I would rather pray than prey.

I can see my heart, its energy reaching into the world like tentacles, sparking the light in others. I am in a daze and my head is pulsating.

I am who you call Michael, though, to me, I am Mik-ael. “Like God”, I am not though. I am for righteousness of the same caliber. I emanate love and look to protect those who seek my loyalty and friendship. I will not appear on my own accord; I require your call. An act of humility which in turn begins an ascension into grace and protection. The Free Will of man is not as complex as they may believe. The power that they have when they just ask is enormous! So many missed opportunities as they sit in their sadness and wallow in their inactions.

Mani-festus – it is in their hands and the Kingdom of Heaven is in their grasp. I speak not of a place but of a state. They seek fulfillment outside themselves when it is in them all along. 

You are loved. Fame is Nothing. I am near.

Sorry for the silence! I’ve been rather busy with this business and the projects surrounding it.

I have noticed exceptional anxiety as of late, so I created a Healing Mandala to print and colour. I invoked the healing of Archangel Raphael while creating this design, was in a calm and meditative state while drawing, and packed it full of love and Light. My hope is that colouring it may bring you a sense of inner stillness when you need it, most.

One of the first things I do in the morning – after I make myself a nice cup of coffee or tea – is do a shuffling of my tarot cards and the oracle deck I’m drawn to for that day, and then choose one from each.

Doing a daily guidance pull is crucial for so many reasons:
– It sets a goal for the day ahead
– It provides advice for challenges you may face
– It gives you a confidence boost and makes you feel like you can handle anything
– It means the day doesn’t leave you blind-sighted
– It gets you closer to better understanding the cards that appear in your life
– It inspires you
– It becomes a journaling prompt or an introspective experience

A quick pull can propel your day in a healthier, more spiritually aware direction that leads to either being ready to change the things we don’t want or the necessary affirmations to manifest the things we do.

Since it is a part of my every day life, I introduced it as one of my services as well, at a very low cost.

You get to choose which oracle you’re draw to for the day, and any purchase made before midnight gets you your pull in your inbox by the time you wake up.

Set your day on the right foot.

While you’re at it, feel free to use my coupon code which expires on 16/02 – if you put a few Daily Pulls into your shopping cart, I’ll deliver one for every day of the week!

xo
C

A lot of Tarot Readers read their cards as upright and reversed. Upright cards are when the cards appear, after shuffling, upright in a reading. Reversed is obviously the opposite. I only read cards as upright.

This is the magic of the Tarot; there are so many messages, so much detail, and so many answers to your cards in their upright position. I don’t feel any need to read cards as “reversed”. While most Tarot Readers use the cards alone to get their messages, I also use intuitive messages from my guides to create spiritual stories for my clients and the stories in the (upright) Tarot are endless!

I have found a few professional readers who have written books about Tarot who agree with me, that especially in the Rider Waite standard design, the imagery and the subtle messages are endless and there is no need to conform to reading cards as “upright” and “reversed”.

I find that if a message doesn’t line up (a sunny card for a not-so-sunny situation) my guides will lead me in that direction and there’s no need for the card to be flipped to determine that. But that never seems to be a concern; the right cards always seem to appear at the right time.

I make an effort to shuffle my cards in same direction but I do not hesitate to flip a card to its upright position if it shows up “reversed” when I’m reading for a client. Already, “reversed” cards are seen as having a weak influence on the situation so what’s the point of focusing on energy that will not have an impact on the client?

Do you read your cards in reverse or just upright? Let me know in the comments below, and let me know why you read the way you do!

xo
C