 Welcome back. This is Ona with Art of Awakening and I'm going to do a little bit of an art reading here for Eclipse Season. I've been, I actually technically don't have the time for this today but I'm doing it anyway because I'm being guided to. And because it's my joy to do so. So I am being asked to bring forward an angel of light for this eclipse season because we are in the midst of eclipse season right now. And we just had a solar eclipse last week. We're looking at a lunar eclipse coming forward next week and it's pretty intense. And I don't know about you but I'm seeing a lot of just disturbances, right? And I know we have the earthquakes in California that certainly counts. I've been hearing a lot of people with experiences with insect incidents. I had bed bugs, yellow jackets I'm hearing, people getting stung, paint your bugs, all sorts of stuff like disturbances, bugging things, bugging, right? Just coming out of the woodwork. I'm also getting a lot of just noise disturbances, jackhammers, pounding in the night, weird mechanical noises, you name it. All this stuff is coming forward and of course it's all metaphorical, right? As we move forward in our spiritual journeys it's like it becomes very apparent that all this stuff that comes forward in life really is just sort of a mirror of what's happening spiritually and you know collectively we're going through a huge, huge shift so we just came through that summer solstice so it is no wonder that a dark rebound kind of happening. Eclipses do that, right? So what an eclipse is is the sun that the light being blocked. And so when it happens like spiritually it's a time of a lot of vulnerability, right, in a way or it's just a time where dark energies can come forward because there's actually, there's some spiritual people that believe that during an eclipse it's actually less, you know, spiritual light that gets through than at night time so, you know, it's pretty it's pretty significant. So if you're experiencing stuff like this, you know, the way I'm looking at it is that it's really a good thing in that it's allowing us to, it's allowing that stuff to come to the surface so we can look at it, right? And this angel really she's got this she's really looking and she can see through this stuff, right? And that's what we're being asked to do is to see through it and to see through something you really have to look at it. I'm going to share a very humbling story that happened to me this week. I belong to a, well I belong to several private groups on Facebook but this particular one acquaintance of mine, this one is all healers that I'm talking about at this group that I belong to and an acquaintance of mine kind of put forward that she wanted to, you know, was open to trading sessions and so I decided yeah sure let's do that. So I met with her on Monday and it was my turn first to be the receiver and I just found myself really, really, really resistant and this particular healer is, she's really good at just kind of digging down, right? And kind of seeing what's underneath and my inner child was like man, super not wanting this to happen. Hold on I'm gonna, well it's gonna try and find an eraser but maybe I'll just make do with what I got. Yeah so it was like, I was super, super resistant and it was like I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine and finally, finally you know she kept working at it you know and I just kind of that part of me broke down and I was like yeah you know what there's all this stuff and to be honest it was like really it brought up like I was just pissed. My inner child was like or you know part of me was just like you know what I have been doing this work for years and years and years and you know and I have come a long way you know but part of me has been like oh well you know I've come this a long way but now it's really time to look at okay where's the deeper stuff right there's a deeper layer and so this ties in with some patterns that I've been seeing you know people come into me whether it's clients or people simply emailing or just people in my life or myself I'm including myself in this like these patterns that I'm seeing and one of them first of all before I go into this I want to say that it is a really wonderful exercise to look back and and I really encourage you to do this because I'm going to say things that are you know maybe going to be triggering egos right that are meant to trigger the ego but but before that it's also really really important to take a look at the progress that you've made right because we all you know if you're watching this you're I'm sure you have made like look back at yourself from two three four years ago even a year ago and it's going to be like a different different person right and I almost feeling like she needs to be she's holding up a mirror let me see how this is going to work anyway um yeah so so first of all just really pat yourself on the back because it's been a tough road a whole whole these past um a few you know months and you know there's that I know that you've made huge progress I know I have um like I look back and and I'm really in a different place than I was um even a year ago but certainly like four years ago way different place manifesting all sorts of things it's been a wild ride and um a lot of good stuff right um okay so that said you know just really give yourself credit but in doing so what you've liberated yourself into is being able to now look at a deeper level a deeper level of you know stuff um um so you know what I'm asking us to look at this this is a mirror but she's also it's also light right get this other hand up here okay yeah so I hope you can see this yeah how good looks looks like it's picking up on the camera um so okay so here are the couple of the patterns that I'm seeing one is patterns of pride right and just straight up pride and that's what I'm talking about with like you know myself that didn't want to see it um you know the the the deeper things that need to be addressed and but there's also there's like different ways for pride to manifest one is like but the one I'm thinking of right now is that I'm fine oh okay there's a couple that are coming forward one is comparing oneself to others right um especially on the spiritual journey um and the way I look at it is like we're all each other's twin flames ultimately right so we're all eventually you know after eons and eons we're all so we're all just facets of god we're all facets of the divine right so eventually we're all gonna kind of meet up in the same place so there's really no no no no such thing as a head or behind spiritually there just isn't um and then also we all have our own gifts and strengths right just like each animal like I'm thinking of like what if a beaver was trying to run like a deer and comparing himself to that and he wouldn't be really in his joy right and we probably wouldn't have the beaver dams because he'd be out there in the forest trying to run like a deer so really it's like but if I mean if he's comparing himself to a deer it it looks like he's not really getting anywhere or doing anything right um maybe not the greatest analogy whatever but I think you know what I'm saying it's like you know we each have our own path and our gift and it's really the encouragement is to really look for the truth of what brings you joy because there's your gift and you know we each have these spiritual gifts and they're brought out in our joy okay for a little color here and uh so you know what's what's holding it back from your joy think about that and then the other one aspect of pride and pride you know we all have it okay so I'm not pointing fingers at anybody except maybe myself right you know because we we all we all have this it's it's the ego the ego is um you know it's a prideful thing and and this is not the same kind of pride as I'm asking you to have when you look back and realize just just how far you've come that's that's that's the light side of pride right you know we we we need that acknowledgement we need that validation um you know that is nothing to avoid right we need to to to hear it from ourselves we need to hear from other people you know I mean it's nice to hear it from other people it helps um but then when the pride becomes like you know this judging kind of deal that's what we want to just sort of avoid it so another type of pride is I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine and I've you know I've been doing the work and I I I know this oh yeah um yeah we've been doing the work and we know this we do know it and that's the thing it's like we do know it underneath and all your higher self does know this stuff right um so the the tricky thing about this kind of pride is that there is like a lot of truth in it right um and that's what makes it so tricky right it's it's easy to see illusion that is pure illusion it's not so easy to see illusion that is mostly truth right but but like um corrupts the truth right that manipulates the truth okay that's a little harder to see so this is why I'm bringing it up um just because it's it's something that we all deal with um so I'm fine look at your life and see where you're where you're telling yourself I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine but it's really not right um you know I'm I've been doing the work yeah if you've been doing the work but you're still experiencing blocks you're still experiencing um you know whatever it is the depression that comes up you know don't feel like these things are bad they are there to just call to attention and bring stuff to light right every time the shadow comes up it's simply asking that we look at it it's asking to be acknowledged right um so when we just look at the truth and accept it that's when you know that's when we can start to shine the light I'm thinking this is a beautiful angel where else we can do what color hair should she have I'm almost getting sort of like this it's just almost like I don't know why I'm thinking kind of purpley purpley hair I've been having purple come forward a lot there's like a lot of purple around lately so purple you know it's the violet flame and it's a transmutation so here's the the encouragement I'm gonna be putting a little shadow in here you know fixing her up a little bit here I may not finish her right now I may just post her later so if you want to see the finished one I'll post her when she's done and you'll need to subscribe for that not pushing you to subscribe I'm just stating the fact here um hold on let me find some purple okay so violet flame you can always call on the violet flame right to transmute things but um which is quite powerful you can meditate with it or just you know call it in maybe this is the angel amethyst but um part of what I'm being guided is really to that it's it's okay so here's here's what I'm being told here's what I'm really tuned into it with nature right because we're dealing with our animal self right um because we're dealing with darkness and darkness comes up and we've all dealt with a lot of darkness and that's why we're you know we're we're coming out of that um so when an animal is injured a lot of the stuff goes back to injury of some sorts to having suffered and you know whether it's this life or past life or whatever it is um so when an animal is injured it it it doesn't like even if it's in a lot of pain um typically a wild animal even a pet is not going to show that pain it's it's they they can be in a huge amount of pain before we you know they even give any whimper right um and there is a reason for this because in the wild any show you know if an animal is obviously vulnerable if it's showing its vulnerability that animal becomes a target for predators absolutely a target okay and so this is an instinctive reaction um it is a survival response okay so when we're in pain when we're feeling threatened or in pain it is a survival response I'm fine right um so I think it's really important to have compassion for ourselves when we have that response um because it's therefore a reason and somebody recently um kind of posted something about the ego being the protector and I thought that was a really wonderful insight um because the ego really developed in animals and we can see that animals do they don't have as strong an ego as we do but um you know they they do have ego right um you know if you've ever seen it can't get pissed off or something right you know they've got an ego um so it's like the ego developed in the animal world as a protector right um and in the mind which is really the ego is really hangs out with the mind a lot right um it was developed as a protector thing for the survival thing to help animals to deal with a harsh environment um so there is this this um inborn tendency in all of us that's our animal part to um to just like say I'm fine and the thing is that when you know and that actually served as well as as humans right in this you know when the world is in 3d well we're shifting out of 3d and it's no longer serving us because it keeps us in 3d right that that idea of I'm fine I can deal with this and what happens is that we it keeps us in those situations that aren't serving us because we're saying I'm fine I can deal with it and then we want to stay there right we don't want to change and so um in order to shift out of that it's really necessary to actually solve the root problem you know address the root problem of what's going on so we can heal so we can move forward because the other um you know because that's that's one aspect of an animal is the fight or flight or the um you know the stiff upper lip kind of response um you know that's one aspect of survival in animals is is that whole stress response but then the other aspect of survival that really doesn't get as much um attention as I think probably it should is the aspect of you know the thriving aspect and that's when you know they're they're they're having their um you know they're meeting behavior and they're feeding behavior and they're giving birth and they're they're happy right and that's where they spend most of their time really and so you know animals because they live in the present they very easily default back to that normal you know um thriving kind of mode okay that's what we need to actually teach ourselves to do and in order to do that because we are so um caught up in the mind um we need to bring it to consciousness right anything that is not um serving us or anything any old wounds we need to actually bring them to consciousness in order to heal them the animals don't necessarily right they just default back but we do and and that's why we go through all this work so um so here is the suggestion is to spend some time spend some time this week this is eclipse season it's also mercury retrograde so this is really really a good time to um sit back and and and um do some reflecting and maybe that's what this mirror is all about right um that she's got in her hand it's a good time to reflect and to really be honest with ourselves looking back looking at and the other thing I'm getting a lot is inner child work okay um dialoguing with the inner child asking the inner child you know um what how they feel it's a lot about feeling feelings coming forward and allowing the feelings to come forward because the feelings are what tell us they show us what's what's you know where where needs to be healed um so a few ways that I found really useful to do this um or one going out in nature is always healing um but you can journal is a really good way um another really good way is through the arts any of the arts um because like just and don't think about it beforehand just either start to paint or start to dance or start to you know write or whatever it is um and see what comes out ask your inner child what she wants to paint or dance or write right um see what comes forward and it might really surprise you it might delight you but it also might bring up stuff you know that to be healed uh like my inner child was you know it's like all about kind of being acknowledged and being recognized and um we all need that right so so see what comes up for you see what you have been denying yourself or see where it feels like other people have denied you remember that it's always a reflection of our own self right even though originally it might be something that happened to you as a child that was beyond your control but you know we all assimilate that stuff so all right so hopefully this has been helpful like I said I'm gonna finish her and um I'll post her as a as just a post when she's done and uh just really have a have a nice relaxing eclipse season uh it's a really good time to just sit back find some stillness breathe and relax and I believe you know I'm feeling like after mercury retrograde is done it'll be a good time to move forward again um but uh take a little celebration have fun I'll catch you next time