"It's Like Going to Church"

Had so much fun this morning channeling for the angels and giving readings. The angels impart such fantastic healing vibrations, but they are also just so clever, playful and so much fun with so much experience and wisdom to draw from. It's a total eclipse of the heart. I love doing this work. Just thoroughly enjoy every minute of it. I'm offering discounts this Spring to returning clients. There's incredible value to shamanic angel work. Energy healing, intuition and mediumship go so well together. I am grateful to be of service! If you're in need of a energetic charge, reboot, and communication with the mystical in a grounded fashion with an infusion of miracles that's artsy, poetic and lots of fun!! contact me for a reading at info@pandorapeoples.com. Phone sessions available. (Accepting credit cards... and postcards.) Help yourself get more deeply connected to the depth of your own soul, in a state of reverent remembrance with irreverent humor in the sacred space of the heart.

You are a timeless being of integrated ego and spirit. You are a powerful creative force.

Blithe and Bonny Spring

Perseverance is the order of the day.

Life is distracting enough without being visited by dead people at the drop of a hat. I've learned that I cannot be subjected to the whims of the angels, anymore than those of you mortals. With all of the craziness going down on planet earth, they've had to be a lot less choosy about who passes the spirit guide exams. 'They need back up down there, and PRONTO!' From what I can surmise, they might have some pretty sketchy accreditation programs. That's not to say everyone of your guides is a rookie, but there's a distinct possibility that one of your invisible peeps is an intern and working toward his or her title.

Bottom line, whispers may be suggestions, not heart-stopping, life-altering warnings or commands. Your newbie guardian may loooovvve yardsaling. You may find yourself wondering why in the hell you bought a hutch to display your best porcelain in a nook, when you clearly have no nook, and no fine China. Nor do you have an interest in displaying the chipped remains of your grandfather's collection of WWII-era German beer mugs, his gift to you, the bulk of which your stepmother clandestinely consigned, when he was on his death bed, in an effort to expedite the clearing of his trailer. You'd waited twelve years to touch his precious war momentos placed on the highest shelf, perpetually out of your reach. Glistening, colorful, more ostentatious than the polka-music playing beerhalls from whence they came.

I've no timecard, so I'm punching into my blog this evening, like Foghorn Leghorn clocking into his farmyard job. Cape Cod is a mystical land of synchronicity. It has become a proverbial Family Reunion with souls with whom I've broken bread for centuries across our many lives, and as such, it can be disarming, loads of laughs, and more work than you'd expect. We're, like, resolving karma from ten different lives right now. I'm sorry I stole your chickens. We should have never started that coven. The ax I put through your head, it was meant for the parlor maid. I still love you despite your having abandoned me in the forest with the king's men on horseback with all those drawn bows. You're my spirit sister, always. We're totally good. Let's get a beer, shall we?

I have decided to personalize my book. I am quite eager to do so! Wish me luck, if you cared enough to read this.

Limitless Blessings an Springtidings to you.

Healing Wisdom Goes to Hawaii May 16th

Been having so much fun with my guests on my radio show Healing Wisdom, podcast at http://womr.org

We prerecorded an interview today with sound healer and musician John Dumas. Kauai is contagious. The energy is incredibly powerful medicine. Missing it, and hope to return again soon.

My husband figured out what my book on the sacred feminine is missing! Eureka! I'll be a busy bee this weekend. Yesterday I had a great interview with Lee Roscoe of the Barnstable Patriot. Tomorrow, I speak with a newspaper reporter from Wicked Local. We're getting great coverage for Sacred Shapes: The Geometry of Women. We deserve it! The birth and rebirth stories need to be told! It's such a powerful synergy of wise women that are creating a marvelous synergy for this series of events.

I love this focus on connecting to the heart that is seeping in to popular music and popular culture from ancient healing traditions. In Westernized cultures, we focus so much on intimacy between partners, and expect that romantic love and attachment is supposed to fill us up completely. If we allow music to connect out to our hearts, we can begin to feel the love that knits the hearts of all animals, all souls together, the fabric that creation was woven from. I love how music helps us to feel connected so deeply, particularly music like John Dumas' flute and didgeridoo playing.

John's music is such an incredible reboot for me…I can feel like total collateral damage, like complete disaster capitalism waiting to happen, and then I listen to his music and feel empowered to be present, to be activated, to see all the good that is…to feel at the very core of my being, all of the love emanating and radiating on the planet. It seems we must return to our roots as spiritual beings, to come into a state of balance, to be useful and move forward in our creations. Thursday May 16th tune in at 9am EDT. We talk whales, power animals and the power of positive manifestation.

Ways to Celebrate Earth Day

As climate change is impacting more and more people with rising sea level, flooding, and super storms, paying attention to our impact on the earth is more and more important. Here are some suggestions on what we can do to improve our relationship to Mother Earth today:

* Show your gratitude...give thanks to the earth for the food she provides.
* Give an offering...Sing a song in appreciation or give her a gift. Today is a great day to burn brush and return the ashes to the earth. Or get some worm castings for her soil.
* Start a compost.
* Plant or prepare to plant your own organic non-GMO vegetable garden. The bees are dying off from pesticides. Plant only organic decorative flowers, and many of your decorative flowers will be edible.
* Hug a tree.
* Take a nap outside.
* Climb a tree with friends.
* Ride your bike or walk today.
* Keep the lights off until nightfall.
* Take a hike or go to the beach and bring a bag to pick up trash as you find it.

Lobsterating Your Meal...

Floating tanks sound absolutely delightful!

Poetry, Art and Jane Austen in GLBT-Friendly SF

My iambic pentameter sonnet "My Friend the Oak" has been accepted for a show at the Wickford Art Association Gallery on August 9th. It's one of those shows where the artwork is inspired by poetry. Yay!

In light of recent personal and collective events of a catastrophic and/or mind-boggling nature, including three paranormal hauntings, it seemed high time to in the words of an old friend to 'get jiggy with it' and reply to a resplendent advertisement seeking a partial owner of a sex toy store in Ptown. Nothing like the hauntings of three suiciders in twenty-four hours to put a spring in your step. Tiny Tim, they'll be plenty of edible underwear in everyone's stockings this year! No better time like the apocalypse for integrating some of that 50-shades-of-gray-chic infused with a touch of dungeon-inspired counter-cultural punk from my youth. What better way to express my inner... priestess? And as my husband who plunked me the anonymized email so aptly surmised it's "a great way to meet attractive gay guys". Somehow, I think the upwardly mobile hipsters of the Summerlands of Ptown can use readings with a candid medium and arts advocate when they are done perusing the galleries. I've sometimes pictured myself in old age, as a grand dame of mediumship, looking like Katharine Hepburn in Suddenly Last Summer, as she descends in her elevator, seated on her wicker throne. Owning such a shop would be a delightful excuse for further research into the depths of human sexuality, from a metaphysical perspective. Wait darling, I'm getting some relationship advice for you from your deceased aunt, bring those nipple clamps to the register and come with me. Naomi Wolfe's investigation of the Vagina should inspire all women to get right down to the real nitty gritty.

I believe my mention of "healthy sexuality" in my brief email may have landed me in the Doreen Virtue angel club file for life. Healthy doesn't mean lacking in kink, to me it just means consensual sex between two adults. If Shakespeare were alive today he might be a cross between the late Timothy Leary and Hunter S. Thompson, and have made his money as international playboy Tycoon, owning his own line of environmentally-friendly, TSA-tamper resistant, silicone-based, Cosplay-inspired sex toys that cater to international business men. If Jane Austen were alive today, she might wear leather chaps, sport a tongue barbell and own SF GLBT-friendly Good Vibrations. Oh yeah, she totally would. Totally. The premier magazine "Goforthauger Abbey" might sell out despite its terrible name, and get reprinted in two hundred languages.

Body Consciousness

"What is meditation? Becoming one with the soul. It means banishing the consciousness of being related to the body and to human limitations, and trying to remember that one is a soul. Meditation brings proof of the existence of God." Paramahansa Yogananda

I love Yogananda just as much as the next blonde Los Angeles-born theosophist, but why on earth would anyone want to banish the consciousness of the body? Even people in pain benefit from surrendering to a conscious awareness of their body, in order to heal. In the same way, increasing blood flow to an arthritic join improves mobility and ultimately reduces pain, bringing energy and awareness begets healing. Even if the process is long and arduous, as is the case with many auto-immune or degenerative diseases. But I digress.

One thing underscored by the process of giving birth, is that there is a divine consciousness that imbues everything in the physical plain of existence. Anyone who has every made love knows that the physical plain has deep riches buried within its cavernous chasms. The topography of the planet should be proof enough of the texture and depth of the earthly dimension. It reflects the spectrum of consciousness found within the physical plain from plunging deep into the ocean, to scaling the highest melting mountains. This terrain reflects our own bodies. I felt a deeper level of being in my body during birth than any wonderful love making had revealed. Lovemaking can transport us like a time machine, giving us glimpses of our other lives. It can send us out of our bodies, tumbling in outer space like mating dragonflies. It can even give us a glimpse into our animal nature. The experience of taking mushrooms comes close to my experience of natural birth, in that you can feel like part of the earth and at one with universe, tapping into the consciousness of collective wholeness.

Yogananda, dude, after opening up like the Grand Canyon and seeing that the Earth Mother and I are one and the same, why would I want to banish being related to the body? I was Pachamama. I was Gaia, opening the gateway to the otherworlds. I was a portal and my purpose was to be the bridge, be the vessel to bring life from one dimension to another. The earth vibrates at a higher consciousness always. Yogananda advocates being in the mind and controlling it. I would think there is no need to control the mind, but to loose sight of it, allowing the spirit to be in alignment with the earth plain and God consciousness simultaneously.

I agree that meditation brings proof of the existence of God. So too does making love, nursing a baby, being in nature and smiling, listening to birds chirping in a light drizzle, and taking a hot shower. Agreed that human limitations need to be banished from the mind to reach a deeper consciousness...

Wise Words and the Timelessness of Spirit

Tonight, a girl I went to high school with visited me in spirit. I could hear her voice like it was yesterday. She is still spunky and a self-proclaimed "wise ass". She told me that she watches out for a mutual friend of ours. Her attitude was, "of course, he and I are buds". I'm learning more and more just how many helping hands we have in the spirit realm. I think we're supposed to be evolving, to be more cognizant of our timeless nature. She's "all right and still in one piece". She's certainly an unlikely angel. I get the sense that's she's been working hard as a guardian. She said something interesting, that more and more folks are being employed as guardians to help communicate, educate, and guide our evolution. There are more helpers for those who cross over, and there are more helpers on this planet in our daily lives. It seems like the ancestors and dearly departed are being put to task, to help bring about positive changes on earth. Love? Togetherness? Peace?

It's impossible to use the intuition in a discerning manner, when the fearful part of the brain is in full operation and control of the senses. The fight or flight mechanism, should not be confused with understanding and the processing of the higher mind. Gut reactions are not the same thing as intuition which comes from the heart and the 'third eye'.

May Art Class: It Takes a Village! Shrine to Our Mentors

ART CLASS! Make a Mentor a Timeless Gift

Show your gratitude to someone who has positively influenced your life...

a teacher
a family friend
an uncle or aunt
a grandparent...

IT TAKES A VILLAGE! ‘Shrine’ to Our Mentors
Friday, May 17th, 5-8p.m.
@ Danton Studio
708 RT 134 South Dennis
Register info@pandorapeoples.com
$15 class fee, plus $10 materials fee

Make a protective mentor shield, in the tradition of the family crest or the dream catcher. Mentors help us on our paths, and we learn from their journeys and wisdom. Share your story through your art piece and the written word.

Shields are wooden, 16 inches in diameter.

Your handmade artwork can be part of our reception at the Luminati Gallery in Dennis, Friday May 24th 4-7pm.

As such it will be displayed on an installation, our It Takes a Village! boat, in honor of the mentors of our lives and in honor of the collective work we do to raise the children of the village and create community together. You may bring your mentor, to honor them during our Ceremony of Gratitude at the reception!


Co-Teacher:
Paige is an artist, activist, and mentor whose passion is to create and support community. She has been mentoring for over twenty years with particular focus on honoring the sacred feminine. She is also the Founder and Director of WAVE ~ The Women's Avenue for Voicing Empowerment.

Co-Teacher: Pandora Peoples, artist, psychic medium, herbal practitioner, ceremonial workshop facilitator, writer and radio host of Healing Wisdom Thursday mornings at 9am on 92.1 WOMR-FM Provincetown.

A Mysterious Woman

A mysterious woman at a poetry reading the other day shared some profound thoughts. She called herself something like Earth-Sky-Heaven. In a kind, even and hypnotic voice she talked about quieting the mind for a few minutes each day. She said if half of the world could did this at one time, the results would be profound. I think she implied that out of this quiet mindful state, a higher wisdom and consciousness would be attained with the collective harmony. There's an idea within that premise that we are receptive creators who have a synergy and creative force together when we find our inner balance and set our intention to be present. She says world peace can organically grow out of this simple act. It's a nice antidote to the collective dramas that are creating knee-jerks reactions, instead of intuitive processing.

Regeneration and Rejuvenation

One thing we all need is rest and rejuvenation for balance and health. Children, cats, and dogs, are good at reminding us that we need this. They are constantly emoting love and healing energy. They heal us, when we let them in. Children never lose their ability to heal through love. We have to be humble enough to allow their innate wisdom to teach us. One of the things about co-sleeping, co-napping, or cuddling, is that just like bonding with babies, it opens and heals the heart. So much memory and wisdom is contained within the heart, that is expressly reminds you what you have forgotten to heal and how to do it. Kids give us these amazing tools, to remind us who we were before we were here on planet earth. They remind us of the experience of limitless love, so that we can learn to give back to them and to others in the most responsible, virtuous, heartfelt, and mindful ways. Gentleness and grace are what we are born with. If we can endeavor to return to this state, we are doing good.

You don't need a child, a mate, a cat, or a dog to put their hand or paw over your heart to open and heal you. Healing is only opening to the flow of universal love, acceptance and understanding.

*** On a personal level, I am so grateful to my incredible husband who has been healing me with humor and love for many years. He is a true beacon of light, love, and sanity. He is intuitive, nurturing and handsome and a darling and truly my better half. I think sometimes people are afraid to love their mates as fully as they can, for fear of losing them. It's akin to the fear of jinxing something. I love when I see partners and married couples who dare to love each other and care, and stay with it, patiently, with gratitude and a desire to grow. We have so few role models these days in popular culture. It's okay to love your love with as much love as you have. It's okay to keep loving your children like babies and not try to toughen them up. The world does that or us.

More Guests on Healing Wisdom

My Guests in the next several weeks on Healing Wisdom:

This week vocalist, musician and life coach will Larisa Stow of Larisa Stow and the Shakti Tribe!
April 18th Mystic Pete, musician, author of Book One: Sex and Mysticism and Los Anegeles' KXLU deejay.
April 25th rockstar cellist Joe Kwon of the Avett Brothers!!
May 2nd Naturopath Lisa Arnold discussing natural healing and herbs, and International Herb Day.
May 9th drummer & percussionist Orpheo McCord of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros .... and so many talented stellar beings...stay tuned!!

Thursday mornings at 9am EDT on 92.1 WOMR, 91.3 WFMR, and streaming love live at http://womr.org!

Podcasts available under Listen>spoken word>just scroll down & have a merry time of it!

Gaia's Trees

This is me communing with a tree. Plants have personality and energy just like we do. Trees and plants should be in our grateful thoughts every day. They give us life. They give us oxygen and food. Protecting their health is protecting our own. It is easy to see that the bark of a great many of our local trees is peeling. I also saw this happening in the Santa Monica Mountains. Young trees are uprooting quickly in storms. Broken branches cause power outages. So many trees look like spindly step ladders, because all of the branches have broken off. Bugs erode these dying trees, aerating the bark, allowing moisture to saturate it thoroughly. Perhaps the cause of the peeling. Many of the pesticides have been used in huge quantities here to keep areas around power lines in effect defoliated and to keep lawns green. We have a close to the surface water table, a very special environment with lots of sand, ponds and vernal pools, which keep everything t the surface. I wonder at the quantity of aluminum being put in the atmosphere from cloud seeding, and what the effects are. Trees are not naturally aluminum-resistant, but one company has put themselves in the position to have a monopoly on aluminum-resistant trees. Greed is a very toxic place to be. My Cahuilla Indian teacher said that time is speeding up, like a child moving to the outside of a merry-go-round. These days, bad dharma bites people pretty hard, pretty quick. Hurting the earth is hurting ourselves. Gaia may feel a bit put upon, but she's been around for billions of years...

Book Art Project: 'Clay' Box Turtle

"Mossy" by Jan Brett is a wonderful book about a little girl named Tori and her scientist aunt Dr. Carolina who find a box turtle with a carapace covered in a beautiful mossy garden. They bring her to Dr. Carolina's natural history museum for an exhibit, but soon realize she belongs in nature and misses her new friend Scoot, the dashing ruby-eyed male turtle with whom she has only recently become acquainted. I find it so charming and whimsical that this turtle is carrying a whole habitat on her back. She's like a little earth Goddess.

Today, my friend Jenny and I are helping the kids in the library to make their own Mossy turtles. Miss Jenny made dough for the kids and Raven & I collected moss, lichen and flowers. The moss is drying at 170 degrees F, so that it will not become moldy when the kids bring their turtles home. The flowers will wilt, but the moss will carry on.

Angel Babies

It seems people worry a lot about coddling children in a culture that exploits the loss of innocence and the corruption of youth. A quick look at cartoons today will show you what a cynical and sardonic world view we feed to the hungry young minds of our children. I think the world would benefit so much if we prolong our appreciation for the enchantment and imagination of children. They come to the earth so wise and pure, like little Buddhas or angels. In the West, we stick pacifiers (fake milkless nipples made of plastic) into their mouths and make them sleep in another room in a crib, which might as well be a mile away to a baby. Sleeping next to your baby provides warmth and connection. As adults, some folks feel they suffer from sleeping away from their spouse, why should we expect babies or children to be so different in regards to their parents. I love co-sleeping part of the night. It's really spiritually enriching and bonding. Nothing feels more natural. I also like to indulge in babying my child now and then. I treat him like a baby and coo over him in motherease. I tell him how much I adore him, his eyes, his smile, his toes. I think it's super important for kids to remember the feeling of being a pure innocent being of love and light. Adults thrive when they feel that pure love every now and then too. It feels so fantastic to embody that pure mama or papa love too.

I was listening to my beloved radio station on http://womr.org and Oh My Goddess, I found out that there is a Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival in PTown in the Autumn. It's no wonder I moved to Cape Cod. We have mutual muses! After Shakespeare he's my favorite writer. How thrilling.

The Body's Intuition

There is a wisdom in the body that is undeniable. It exists in a fusion of wisdom in the heart, gut and your intuitive center. Sometimes our intuitive center ("third eye") becomes blocked with psychic built up, in the same way calcium or fatty deposits can line the arteries, or morbid matter becomes stuck in the lining of the intestines. Dreams can help to reveal the contents of our subconscious mind, and what information your intuition has gathered resides there. Just as you can feel an electromagnetic attraction towards that which is truly good for you if you listen, you can get a warning from your body that something or someone may drain your energy or may be a person not working with your highest good in mind. If you feel like you are losing energy from your lower back (achy, soreness or heaviness) in someone's presence or under some circumstances, that is a solid indication to be apprehensive. Perhaps a sign to disconnect, regroup and figure out what is going on with you to get clarity on why you are losing your energy or 'power' around someone.

Counterweight

Genius, author and speaker Dr. Helen Caldicott has agreed to do an interview with me on the Plymouth power plant and to speak with me about about the other work she has done which includes her research on the lizard brain. She is a fascinating intellect. And she kindly addressed me "Dear Pandora". What an honor! She is a beacon of truth and sanity.

In its own small way, my radio program will help be a 'fair and balanced' counterweight to all of the anti-spiritual anti-compassionate anti global-consciousness propaganda woven into the narratives and threads of our popular culture, which is reflective of the disinformation campaigns launched for profit by conglomerates at the expense of the environment and our collective sanity. Many of my guests will undoubtedly bring a transcendental perspective with ideas about how we can transmute energy and heal our bodies.

Soothing a Cough

Coughs often precede or follow a common cold. For this reason, inducing sweating by use of ginger, holy basil, hyssop or yarrow tea will help begin to mend the underlying cause of the cough. A tea made from one ounce of horehound, ½ ounce of hyssop, and ½ ounce of comfrey root simmered in a quart of water down to one pint, strained, to which 1 ounce of licorice extract and six ounces of honey is added, will make a lovely strong tea/syrup. A tablespoon can be given every hour or two as needed. If the phlegm is difficult to expectorate, add a teaspoon of lobelia in the formula’s preparation.

There are many demulcent and anti-inflammatory herbs that soothe the throat. I have found slippery elm inner bark, calendula flowers, lily bulb, and coltsfoot to be particularly helpful in quickly speeding the healing of the throat.

Another useful combination care of Dominion Herbal College is the following powdered herbs:
Elecampane (one ounce)
Skunk cabbage (one ounce)
Aniseed (one ounce)
Pleurisy root (one ounce)
Licorice root (1/2 ounce)
Ginger root (1/2 ounce)
Lobelia (1/4 ounce)
Cayenne (1/4 ounce)


Mix these together. Infuse a teaspoon of the powder in hot water. Sweeten with honey. Take 3 tablespoons 3-4 times daily. Or better yet, Mix an ounce in a jug with a pint of hot water and 4-6 ounces of honey, administer ½ cup four times daily. This is good for bronchitis, asthma and coughs equally.

Healing Wisdom Debut

We had a wonderful debut yesterday of my radio show "Healing Wisdom" with the violinist and vocalist Onyay Pheori of Curious Blue, rock band Jayne and core member of the EarthHarp Collective. In the coming weeks we have kirtan vocalist and transformational life coach Larisa Stow, rockstar cellist Joe Kwon of the Avett Brothers, radio deejay, author & cellist Mystic Pete of KXLU's In a Dream, naturopath Lisa Arnold, drummer and percussionist Orpheo McCord from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, phenomenal sound healer John Dumas, playwright, actor,& artist Taylor Negron, designer Elora Hardy speaking about sustainable housing, and author Dr. Helen Caldicott uranium expert & brain research scientist will be blessing my show as well.

(By the way, for anyone who listened live, the humming isn't on the original interview. There were some loose wires, but the issue has been resolved. You can hear it here: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/womr/.jukebox?action=viewMedia&mediaId=1025335) Also, expect every show after my second to have a tag, concluding the episode.

This weather is crazy, last year was quite tropical by comparison. We had rainy Spring, not a snowy one. Thankfully, the crocuses are still vibrant. The daffodils are beginning to bloom, but the forsythia hasn't began to emerge. I recall in 2011, the summer was hot and filled rainbursts, thunder and lightning storms. Last year was fairly green, and we had a great number of perfect days to ride your bike to the beach and take a dip in the water at sunset. Perhaps, we can sing to the clouds, and summon another tropical summer.