Great night at Miss Porters House!

Wow - what an exciting night at Miss Porter's House - what an honour to be allowed to explore!
We spent a few hours talking to the spirits at the house, and there were many!
We are still to look through videos and tapes that were recording tonight - but I got a few really great orb photos including the one shown here.
The house is very active - I could feel it the first time I walked into it. Papa Porter is still there and is looking after the joint.
He mentioned a flood at one point and showed me the front door as if to say that the water was going right past the front door. Later that evening one of the girls, who came along, showed me a photo of the front of the building taken in 1927 - it was titled "Flood" and showed the water right up to the top step of the house.The photo was on a poster in the lounge room.
The rooms up stairs were also active, so much so, that all of us felt heavy in the chest and breathless at the entrance to each room.
Hoping that we get to do it again some time soon.

Full Moon Headache!

Its full moon and I have a headache that has been coming on with the rain.
After tonight's ritual I high tailed it home to dose up on some happy pills.
I have a few ideas that I want to manifest over the next few months and tonight's ritual was a good place to get some of that into action.
A plan and ideas are a good place to start and tonight was perfect, even if all that energy building left me with a pulsing headache...
Tomorrow I head out to Miss Porter's House on King street to do some paranormal investigationing!!!
Mmmmm..... a handful of us sitting in dark rooms in an old empty house.
Sounds like fun?

You betcha!

Taking out the trash day!

Maybe Monday mornings should be "taking out the trash" mornings?
Maybe its a good idea to get rid of the shit we build up all week in our houses and in our heads as well.
I finally got to spend an extra hour at home this morning before heading out the door and cleaned up the fridge, did the washing, sorted some paperwork and then cleared my head...
some residue had been sitting there from things that I did not achieve last week yet had my mind set to do..
but then I did achieve other things that I had not planned - so that got balanced out.
I received an email from Aunty Esme this morning and she sends her love to all here in Newcastle.
She is currently house sitting for a friend and on the property there is a nest of eagles that she is watching every morning......that would be tough eh?
She we will thinking about us at full moon tomorrow as we think about her and our thoughts can interwine and meet and pass in the cosmos.......how cool!!!!
Have a good week all - and dont forget to TAKE OUT THE TRASH!!!!!!

Good results!

Well chaulk up another first time experience yesterday - I went to the opening of  the Art Exhibition run by one of the art societies that I belong to and within the first five minutes of opening two paintings sold - one of them being MINE!!!!!! Yay....how exciting meeting the purchaser and talking about my artwork and being congratulated on my art....super cool.
I am so glad that I had a sale - actually the second of the day as one of the art works that I had displayed at last weeks Wallsend art exhibition has also been sold - a lady called me yesterday asking me whether she could put a deposit on the one that she wanted.I have never sold two in one day before.
I also went out to Morpeth to meet two very dedicated ghost investigators who were spending a night in a haunted room at the Royal Inn.
We had coffee and chatted in the lounge area and already there was a great deal of activity around that area. We then walked around the Hotel and went up to the room. This room held many energies, but none bad or scary.
So we talked about what was comming up for me and wwhat they had been experiencing and maybe the caretaker of the property may be able to confirm some of these feelings.
I did not get home till after 11pm and then dreamt about my grandfather who I only know through a single picture of him that I saw at my parents home.

ANOTHER DRAMA

Another drama! Mum had another fall last night and had to be taken to emergency with a suspected broken arm.
Poor mum - I can just imagine how scary this would all be for her and ofcourse, I as usual, am totally flat out and cannot even think about getting to Sydney at this point to offer any assistance or comfort to her....
so I will keep in touch and send her some distance healing - that is the best that I can do...oh and worry a lot ( as I am VERY GOOD at doing that!)
otherwise my next few days are just flat out - tonight I miss one full moon celebration as I have to show up at an art exhibition opening and then I am off to Morpeth for a paranormal investigation that I am joining in.
My views of ghosts and the paranormal are dramatically shifting the more I read and focus my attention on these manifestations, and so experiences like tonight's will give me more food for thought.
This whole area of study is very interesting to me as there are SO many unanswerable questions. There are as many theories as there are phenomena and experiences, some well documented and others just heresay and over inflated by speculation and embellishment.
I do believe that our minds are most powerful, and the influence that this structure has on us, and others,  is astounding and spectacular - maybe we need to look inside ourselves for some of the answers we seek.
My mums brain is changing at a rapid rate - she is still mum, yet she no longer is, and her mind plays games and has changed her identity. It has created a new life, new personas that she has to deal with and has left her with a limited understanding of her world. She has retained all of her memories, yet cannot get to them - sometimes they reappear briefly which means that they are still there......
this is all very much a clue to the reality of the what the brain can do and how it can be damaged, how fragile yet, how precious it is, and how we should be learning to harness our own abilities......what good could we do if we really knew more about our own paranormal abilities...

Lani is at the Cottage next Monday night!

We firstly were going to have Lani as part of our YAAD course for YAAD students only, but as we had so many drop outs over the last few months ( must do something about that underarm odour of mine!!!!!!) we have opened it up to general Cottage participation.
I mention it here because I know that there are some of my readers who may be interested in listening to Lani and really dont connect with the Cottage any more.
Lani will be at the Cottage next Monday evening at 7pm!
Cost is $10 and this will be donated to her to cover her time and costs.
We also ask that you might like to bring a plate to share for tea/ coffee and catch up chat time afterwards.
If you feel that you can come along to enjoy this evening, then please do - I welcome you!

Lani talks dirty.....she says things like "YONI!"  ooohhhh ahhhh!!!!!!he..he...

I saw Stacy De Marco on the tele this morning talking about finding a soul mate using witchcraft......she is a marvelous role model for us all - a beautifully presented, talented, smart woman - but that stigma of the word "witchcraft" was something that was felt throughout the interview. I love the way it was deflected by Stacy and how she turned it around to stress empowerment, focus and responsibility for taking part in your future through active participation...and so it is.
Witchcraft must be bought into the new age for it to be sigificant and meaningful - we cannot all just stand around in cloaks and chant....that makes us about as strange as the other mob....witchcraft and the basis of pagan spirituality is rooted in responsibility in choice and awareness of our role and connection to everything else. Everything that any one of us does changes and shapes our world and the world that we live in...if only everyone understood the power of that!

Happy Mabon!

A beautiful little ceremony was held at Sacred Elements tonight - to celebrate Mabon. We tried to carry on the good work set in place by Aunty Esme and did some chanting and the scones with jam and cream seemed to slide down a treat after ritual.
Thanks to all for your attendance!
I did not sell any of my paintings at either Wallsend Plaza or at the Dobell exhibition...bugger, I was hoping that maybe someone might be tempted.
Never mind we still have the Newcastle Show up this week.
Maybe if you go to the show you might go the the Psychic section - there should be an area that this year is dedicated to psychics and also some stalls.