 Hello and welcome to Triskel Hearts Golden Compass podcast. I'm your host and producer of the show, Order Queen and today I am delighted to welcome another amazing speaker that we get to meet together, Ona Christy-Martin and Ona is joining me all the way from the states. So welcome Ona. Thank you and thank you so much for having me on. You're so welcome. So for those that don't know Ona, she is a clairvoyant artist, writer and shamanic guide who uses a unique soul visioning process to help people find their spiritual genius. So I look forward to going to those kind of concepts with you. As a mentor Ona has been described as a spiritual jumper cable, cables, functioning like a combination of magic mirror to the soul and inner wilderness guide. She helps her clients connect more deeply with their spiritual guides, clarify their own inner vision and develop a strong inner GPS so they can get on the fast track to living their purpose of how you describe that. Many report that the work results in a deep sense of inner peace, connection and abundance in their life and work. Ona also connects with your higher self and spirit guides to create beautiful personalized artworks that remind you every day of the divine essence of your being. The paintings carry a very high frequency vibration that helps to activate sacred healing energy within you. She is especially known for her connection with spirit animals and is the creator of the spirit animal awareness oracle card deck, which you can get on YouTube and I'll be sharing the link to that in the description. So today Ona is going to be talking about finding your genius own with the help of your spirit animal allies. So Ona tell me how did you get started in this work? Where did this journey start from? That's a really, really good question. I think for for most of us, like all of us, you know, it starts in childhood. I think we each of us has our own, I don't know what I call it spiritual superpowers, which is, you know, just the things that come naturally to us. And for me, it really manifested very early on through the artwork. It was always from the time I could hold a crayon was always, always drawing. I can also remember singing. It's a very, very young child. And interestingly enough, I stopped at about age three. And I'm pretty sure it was like stuff happening in my life. It happens to a lot of us. Light workers, star seeds, we kind of get shut down at some point. And either it's, you know, very early, or we make this conscious conscious decision. Sometimes that it scares us, our gifts, right? And we get shut down. So the singing is starting to come back. But the artwork was something that was constantly with me. And when I was in college, I began to realize that, you know, I do these paintings, and they would be symbolic, right? But I didn't know what they meant, you know, and it started to realize I look back after a year or two years and realize, Oh, well, I could see the meaning in it. And I could see the symbolism and how it related to my life. And so about five years ago, I kind of started the, I hate to say, it was like the start of my awakening, because I think it was sort of, you know, throughout the life, but but the major kind of awakening. And early on in that process, I had this just download to hold my dad in my head and get some paper and see what wanted to come out. So I did that, I was just thinking of him, and started to draw without even thinking about what I was doing. And this bear goddess came out, it was this beautiful goddess with a bear. And I looked at it, and I could see all the symbolism and how it related to him and what it was about. And it's like, Wow, that's really cool. So I tried it with a few other people at each time. It was like the image would come out. And I could see what it meant for them. And it was like, Oh, that's really cool. So shortly after that, I have a friend who were, we're both writers and we met in that way. But she I my writing career had taken off and hers really hadn't. And she she called me one day. She was like, I found out I'm really not a writer. I'm, I'm an energy worker. I'm like, Oh, well, what's that? And the funny thing was that I had already been certified like in Reiki, but it was just like I didn't put the two and two together is like, what the heck is this energy stuff? So she's like, I'll show you. So she did this energy scan technique on me. And I think that was what actually, because it was shortly after that, that I had the art thing with my dad. So that that really kind of helped to trigger this whole thing. But then she invited me down to this workshop in Chicago with her mentor. And I was like, she's like, you got to come and like, okay. And I was like, I agreed. But then I as a last minute, I almost didn't go because I was I was thinking, you know what, it's a long way down there. It was about seven hours away. And there's going to be a pitch, right? They're gonna they're gonna be selling something. I just don't want to go. But then at the last very last minute, I was like, well, you know, what the heck, I'll go anyway. I want to spend some time with Lisa. It'll be fun. I don't have to buy anything. So I went down there all the whole way down. I was thinking, well, you know, I'm not going to buy. I'm not going to buy. Okay, so I get down there and walk into this room. And there's this whole room of people who and I've always felt like kind of an outsider, right? Throughout my whole childhood, we moved a lot. And I never felt like I was kind of, you know, in, walk in there and the whole room, everybody in there was so welcoming. And it was like they got me, like the first time in my life, I was within this room with a whole crowd of people who understood kind of who I was, right? And even though I didn't know I was like an energy worker. And so I was like, when they did make a pitch, and I was like the person at the table to sign up. So that's where I learned the energy scan technique, which I'm incorporating into, you know, what I do. So that's kind of a, I guess, short version of how I got here. Yeah, yeah, we'll, we'll go deeper into, you know, we'll go deeper into it. But that's, that's a fascinating journey, especially, I love the description of your, the exercise you did with your dad and what emerged from that to show your gift. But tell me about the soul. So the soul visioning work. So where did you go, you know, like that, that stepping from just energy healer energy work to the soul visioning process, because that's a whole other, you know, that's a whole other level. Yeah, for me, it was a real struggle. And I know, again, this is also fairly common with very creative people, because creative people tend to be very interested in, and often are good at different things. And so it's, it can be a challenge to figure out, well, what's my actual soul path, you know, where's, which, what can I do to incorporate all these, right? So it was a kind of a long process of figuring out what my actual process is, because I always felt like the art was so important. And it's, it's our society teaches us to put things in boxes, right? You know, you're an artist, or you're an energy worker, or you're a writer, or you're whatever it is. And so I really had internalized that and had this really kind of struggling. It's like, because every time I'd go and starts really stepping out as an energy worker, it just something in me was like, well, yes, but not all of it. I mean, that's not all. And then I'd sort of pull back. And then I'd start stepping out as an artist. But it's like, yes, but it's not all of it. So it was a process of learning to, first of all, accept all of that, and to love myself enough to allow myself to, you know, just to push boundaries. And then to figure out, well, how does this all interact? And how does it all come together? And how do I incorporate all this stuff in, you know, when I'm working with others and so forth. So excuse me. So it, it, what it works out, what it has kind of evolved into is I use it, I think the term visioning is what I sort of settled into, because when I work and with the energy work, I don't, like some people are very like, use their hands a lot to move energy. I'm more of a mind and vision. So I take people in a process like I can sort of see into them, I'll see, I'm very clairvoyant. So, you know, I'll do this process where I look into each other chakras and kind of see what comes up. Often I'll get the clear audience stuff and, you know, just whatever however way it comes up, and I'll describe it to them. And there becomes sort of like this picture that comes up, as well as if they want, I can kind of look into sometimes people are like, Well, can you tell me what my spirit animal is? And I usually tell them, I'm not going to tell you what your primary totem is, because I think that's a very personal relationship. And sometimes it takes a little time to work with the spirit animal on your own. I really encourage people to to do that work, you know, and have that own personal thing. But I can look into them and ask for a spirit animal to come forward and see what wants which one wants to come forward. Sometimes it is their personal totem. Other times it's one that simply has a message for them right at the moment or for a certain phase of their life. But I can't do that work. And another one of the things that I do is, I can ask for an angel to come forward and I'll paint it. So that is all incorporated depending on like what the person chooses what, what, you know, what I've got different packages that I use. You know, so whether they want to come to me for the art or if they're looking for more of the life path kind of thing, but I will bundle the artwork in there because I think it is very powerful. Our minds often will kind of trip us off. So the archetypes, the symbols that come through, those are a way to bypass that monkey brain, that thinking mind. And it will because it bypasses the whole language part of us. It is really a fairly pure channel into, you know, what the divine wants to tell us, it's just that it needs to be interpreted. So that's kind of part of what I do is helping people to access that part. And since for a lot of us aren't real clairvoyants, I can help kind of be that guide to help that come forward and help work through it. And I also do sort of a journeying process, which is like a, like a guided meditation, a very interactive with people. So we'll go into that dream world. And I find that not every client is able to follow that. But most are, and we can kind of go into that dream world, allow the archetypes, the guides, and so forth to come forward and then look with them. And I really consider myself more as a guide and not as a healer. I think everybody is their own healer, right? So I don't feel like I heal people, but I do help guide them and assist them in a self-healing process. Beautifully described. And I want to excite listeners by sharing that Ona is going to be giving a free gift later on in the show. She's going to be offering just, she'll speak to it, but it's about experiencing some of her work. And I'm like, I'm super interested, Ona. I'm like, I'm in. So thank you for describing so beautifully. Yeah, this, you know, what you do around this visioning, this soul visioning process. And you speak then about the genius zone, like finding your genius zone. So maybe if you can talk to that a little bit more as well, like what specifically is that? And how do you find it? Like, how does your process help to find it? Sure. Well, to preface that, I really use nature as a pattern for everything. I think, you know, we're all in this creative process. And we are creators, we're creating our own reality, we're creating our own selves. But nature has this template, right? It's the grand creation that everything unfolds through. And we are, of course, a part of that. But there's this ego, ego part of us, of course, that can miscreate. And so I find nature to be like, this, this pattern that I want to look at for, for for everything, because that that's, it shows us the healthy ways to be, right? It shows us how to thrive. And so looking at nature, I noticed that each creature has its own, what I call superpowers, its own characteristics, whether it's physical characteristics or behavioral that help it to survive and to thrive in its natural environment. And I believe that each one of us has that as well. For instance, one of the clients I've been working with, one of his superpowers is that he, he sees truth, right? And sometimes the superpowers, it's like, it's like, because when I first met him, it, he was going through this, this where he would be caught up in other people's illusions. And as we've been working together, it's like he's been more and more really being able to see through that and really becoming discerning and so forth. And he's got this kind of laser focus where he is a truth seeker. And, and that to me is one of his superpowers is that he just is like this bulldog for the truth, which, which is really, really powerful. And let's see another one that I'm working with. She's able to kind of delve into some really dark, dark, dark stuff that's, that's, you know, underlying the underbelly of society, right? And what she's, you know, what we're realizing that she's able to do is to bring that up to light and to start to transmute that. So each of us has, you know, are different with some people move energy really well through their hands, like my partner, he's just naturally just, he can just pull, you know, funky energy right out of a person. So, but, but sometimes it's like, we're not really aware of those or, or we sort of like, we're not consciously aware of it, or sometimes it's like, because illusion likes to come forward, that the trickster and all of us likes to hide that from us or to put barriers in the way, right? Or to bring us to this point where, you know, this false humility, right, where, oh, it's not, it's nothing or, you know, it's this devaluing of the self. So part of the finding of the superpowers is to really, first of all, identify them, you know, because as I'm working with somebody and something comes forward like that, I'll be like, that's one of your superpowers, right? And they'll be like, Oh, yeah. And, and then but sometimes it's like, there's work around, you know, to value oneself enough, right, to, to recognize that there is value to that, to what they're doing. Like, like, for myself, it was the art, right? Or, you know, part of it was the art, because there's this whole societal thing about starving artists, and there is sort of a devaluing of, of the creative process, right? Or it has to be making money, it's got to be, you know, economically viable or whatever it is, right? Sometimes the superpower is simply presence is simply the ability to just walk into a room and just change the vibration in the room. And you don't have to, like, can you make a career out of that? It doesn't even matter what your career is, right? If that's your superpower. Sometimes it doesn't, like, because people are always looking at, Well, what can I do? What can I do? Well, sometimes it's really more about being. So recognizing some of those, you know, gifts that are necessarily something that society recognizes, right? But as recognizing that as valuable as well. Well, beautifully described. And it's interesting that you use the term superpower almost more than the genius zone. And I love that, you know, that we all have these superpowers that aren't necessarily, yeah, they're not necessarily what you can build a career out of, but career out of, but they're because of their subtle nature. And but they're so much more powerful than that because they, you know, it's that it's, it's, it's a it's a deep truth that comes through. And then that results in a deep knowing of the self, right? And, you know, and it's interesting, when you talk about the the truth, I mean, for me, this golden compass is all about, you know, the new emerging truths. And so some of us have a couple of these superpowers, you know, when you mentioned some of them, I can identify a few that I have, you know, definitely a true seeker, but I can see another mission that I'm, you know, that I'm, you know, also, that person who works at a multi, multi dimensional level, where I'm, where I'm some kind of a justice seeker that I haven't, maybe, maybe tuning in with you will help me to certain a little bit more clear what that superpower is. That's right. And the archetypes will show it too. Yeah, go ahead. Well, interestingly, the archetypes, and yeah, let's let's jump to the spirit, animal archetypes, because that's something that you're going to be, maybe, and yeah, that's something that we've kind of identified as kind of what we want to talk about today. And also maybe that you want to give your offering around, right? So maybe, maybe just like talk about that, like, in terms of how, you know, how that can help, like that, that ally, the spirit animal ally, or the archetype. Right, right. Because the spirit animals, like, there's many, many archetypes, of course, like, you know, the queen, or, you know, any of the angels. And when I work with people, sometimes those will come up to plant totems often come up. The animals as well. But like, I find the animals really interesting to work with, because we can relate to them. Right? You know, we are animals ourselves. And so when an animal comes forward for us, it's, it's very relatable in a way that that you can't really find in any other way, like, we can relate to a plant, but we relate to an animal in a little bit different way, right? We can really feel ourselves as the animal. And so when an animal shows up for you, we can look at, you know, all those superpowers of the animal and see what that is saying to us or the behaviors of the animal. And it can come up in a number of ways. I mean, it can come up as an animal that we really, really identify with. And then, then we're looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the animal. And that will is going to reflect some of your own, you know, your own journey, your own challenges. And it can give us clues as to how to overcome those challenges, as well as it can sort of like, give us a heads up that this might be an area that might be challenging for us. And sometimes we have to draw on maybe a different animal in order to assist or balance out those energies. For instance, my primary totem is a horse and tends to be very kind of forward moving. And that's got a lot of forward momentum kind of energy. If you think of Aries, I've got a lot of Aries kind of deep down in my chart. And so the shadow side of that is like, it could be very impulsive and jumping into things will be without thinking. And that kind of thing that's been something I've been working on a lot. So if you think of horse and bringing that animal into its, into its genius zone, right, as an animal that can really carry us forward and has a lot of power. It requires a lot of balance. If you think of an equestrian has to really have that seat and have the balance and have the calm, right? So these are all things that I've had to work on myself a lot. It's been the kind of the primary journey for me. And the horse really has helped me to kind of understand myself, be more compassionate with myself through the whole process and continuing process of living here on earth. So just as an example. Yeah, well, thank you for that. And I think, yeah, giving giving such examples really help people understand how they can, can be aids, how they can be allies. And I'm interested then just to make that link between, you know, this, the visioning the soul visioning and these archetypes allies, how do they? Yeah, I suppose it's like, it's making that bridge like how do these, how do these different archetypes help us to access our full purpose, right? The visioning process that you talked about? It happens a lot of different ways. Like what I just described about the my own personal totem, a lot of that is just like the mental work, right? And so some of it is like helping the mental side of us understand what's going on so that we can change the way we respond or react to things, right? So training the mind. So that's one aspect of it. But they can actually come forward and really work with us energetically. I've been having that happen lately with the bees. They have been connecting with bees. And actually, I was invited last year to attend this workshop with bees, this kind of shamanic workshop. And about a week or so after I decided I just like I knew right away, okay, I want to do that. And I had this just in vision, this bee angel came through in my journal. And then I happened to like, there were all these synchronicities at this workshop. It was crazy, but I ended up connecting with one of the workshop leaders. And because what as soon as I got there, the thought came into my head, I would really love to do an Oracle deck around bees. And then the next thought that came in was like, Oh, but I don't I've never worked with bees. I don't know enough about them to really do that. And it turned out the workshop leader, I got to chatting with her. She knew I had done this Oracle deck. And she's like, Well, I have this Oracle deck on bees, all written up. But I'm looking for an artist. I'm like, Yeah. And the funny thing is, it's like, you know, people approach me quite frequently about doing decks and so forth projects. And it's like, well, if I'm working on your project, I'm not working. But this time it was like, yes, I this really resonates. So we're working on the thing. And but the bees since then it was almost like, like, they have been coming in and working with me energetically in just amazing ways they've been coming in a lot with client work and just know how to describe it. But but like I said, I go into this sort of meditation journey kind of state when I'm working with clients. And so things will come in sometimes, you know, that's bird animals or whatever, the bees have been frequently coming in as a protector. I remember one time I was in meditation and working through this issue. And the bees just came in and just covered my chakras. And this is what they do when the queen the old queen is ready when when it's like the hive has gotten too big. And it's the swarming process. She'll lay queen eggs and for the young queens queen to take over and she'll leave the hive and she takes the majority of the bees with her. And so in the process where she has to leave the hive and she's very vulnerable, of course, and they all just surround her in this big ball of bees. That's what they were doing. Because I was really like I was literally moving I was moving kind of starting this process of transferring out of my my other business as a writing agency. And I'm sort of in this process of transferring that I was handing some of that stuff over to my daughter. So literally, you know, handing it over to the other the younger queen. And so they were coming in and energetically just protecting. And I was in this very vulnerable stakes. I had this health thing going on. And it was moving. And they were just like, and it felt amazing. And they've been like, there have been several things that they've been doing with me energetically. And so a power animal, or a spirit animal can really have, they definitely have lives of their own. And they can come in an amazing, amazing ways for us. That I could never make this up. You know, it's just like they continually surprised me. Wow. Wow, this is incredible hearing it. And already, you know, I feel that protection, just from from listening to you and bringing in the essence of the bee. So then we can call that in, too. You know, once they've, once we've developed a relationship with them, we can ask them for help or, or, you know, call in that energy. Well, beautiful. I, I'm excited for you just to talk about your offering, because I think it's such a gift for, for our listeners. So if you want to go ahead with that, thank you. Well, the first thing that I will do with every client, whether it's an art clients, because if they, if somebody comes to me for like, and say, an angel painting or something, I need to kind of tune into them. Or if it's an energy client, the first thing I do is what I, what's called an energy scan. So like I mentioned before, we have the chakras and see what comes up. It's a diagnostic procedure really, but it can also be very healing, because it brings to light things. Okay, so a lot of the soul visioning work revolves around being becoming clear about things, becoming aware of them. It's awareness. And so typically an energy scan session is a full hour. But what I'm going to like to offer is a mini one. I don't, I almost never offer free one on one work anymore, because I found that I used to do that. And it would draw a lot of people that just wanted something for nothing. But I think in these times, this time right now, with the whole worldwide, I would like to offer like a mini scan, you know, 20 to 30 minutes, and we'll just kind of look at sort of the some of the major energy coming forward. And, you know, to help to I can't say exactly how it'll work out. It's a lot of it's just the clarity to be clear on what's going on. And then some kind of the human work comes in with that. What I would like to ask in return is because I think there always has to be an energy exchange. It's really, really important. Without an exchange, you get this, like I said, wanting something for nothing. That's the victim mentality. And that's what we're moving out of right now. So in exchange, I would just ask that you pay it forward, you know, find somebody, either somebody in need or somebody you don't know, and give something of yourself to them. Just pass it on. Yeah. Such important, like a beautiful gift. And, and also a really important kind of teaching there around passing on and, you know, not just being a receiver, because of course, yeah, that's that it's not it's not good energetically. So so on how do people then yeah, how do people follow up with you around that? Okay, so my I'm thinking probably I should set up a landing page that they can just sign up for that. So I'll set it up on my website is art of awakening dot life and attention to the dot life because usually you think dot com so art of awakening dot life. And then I'll put slash scan SCAM. And allowed that probably through the end of April. Just for people that hear about it through this interview. Yeah, okay, perfect. Well, that's again, like I say, such a generous gift. I I'm gonna sign up. Yeah, I mean, it's it's such a fascinating process. And as you said, it's, you know, these guides, these allies are there to help support us. And we are going through really challenging times right now with this global pandemic. And I think now more than ever, people can look to these allies can can look to these archetypes for support. And because it is a real soul searching time. So, you know, so really, you know, take this offer. And as only said, pass it on, you know, we, you know, we're in this time of, we really do have to be generous and give back to society in a time of crisis. Absolutely. And it's also, it's this call to purpose, right? Because the world is really shifting right now. And what I'm seeing happening, there's been a few of us who've been sort of like, ahead of the crowd, right, who've been through this awakening process. And now it's hitting the collective, it's hitting the planet, right. And so for many of us who've kind of been through this, it's been a process of purging a process of, of a lot of trials and things, you know, and we've had to come through that and test to pass and so forth. This is just sort of like this, this, this COVID-19 pandemic. This I'm feeling like maybe the first of quite a few interesting shakeups. And, and there's going to be a great need for people to really, you know, those people who have kind of come to a place where they feel strong enough to step forward in whatever way, as healers, or as bringing healing work into whatever they're doing, but finding that purpose and being clear about it so that they can really step into that genius zone, and utilize their superpowers to really assist in this whole process, assist in the collective's healing, right? There's going to be a lot, a lot, a lot more people now starting to need this kind of work. They're, they're, they're needing, you know, those around them that can help to tell them what's happening, you know, to, to help them to stay centered and balanced and to get through this. So, so, so a lot of this work is just about, you know, getting clear and getting, you know, balance that you can go out and, you know, like I said, pay up forward through what you do. So, so yeah, the call to purpose. Yeah, perfect. I think that's, that's actually a great ending that, that rally call for all of us to sort of go deeper in, inwards just to see what the, you know, what the purpose, what our sole purpose really is at this time that we, you know, this time of awakening, let's call it, rather than this time of crisis. Oh, no, thank you so much. Thank you so much. I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed this, and I've taken so much from it. I'm sure, I'm sure our listeners have as well. And, and for sure, I appeal to you to, to get in touch with Onan and go through this process with her. And, you know, like she said, pass it on. Thank you so much for tuning into the Trisco Hearts Golden Compass podcast, go on to the sign, signplied link and see all the other podcasts that are there. And, and I look forward to tuning in to your next, next time we, I published these podcasts every full moon. So, and so that's when you will expect to see them go live. All right, well, thank you all for tuning in. And thanks again, Oh, no, blessings. Thank you so much, Orla. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye.