Different purposes…what you call a job or vocation, require specific energies. Set up your “office” to support the energy of your chosen profession. This is the purpose of your sacred space.
When I first began doing readings, I never really considered that I was working. I was curious, practicing my craft. And my foray into the unknown left me feeling bit selfish to reclaim a previously cohabitated space for my own. But once I had more clients, and needed to have the quiet space, I began to enjoy decorating my room, my office, my sacred space.
I treated my new office space like a teenager would their bedroom and decorated my office with personal items that make me smile. There is artwork on the wall that I have collected from my travels and experiences over these past twenty plus years. If I think back, some of the artwork has changed, while others have been hanging in a similar space for years. As Yellow Dog suggested, when I needed to refresh the room’s paint, or, more recently, update the flooring, the whole room was disassembled and reconstructed. I must admit, those few weeks of not giving readings while my office’s new floor was installed were odd for me. But after having workman in my space, it seemed appropriate to rearrange my items. I was surprised that some of my previously cherished possessions didn’t need to come back into my workspace, while I felt the need to buy more.
I have a crystal collection and my usual passion for extra-large Himalayan quartz was replaced with a need to purchase apophyllite and chalcedony from India. Even the items surrounding my computer have changed, as has the computer itself. I didn’t stress when I needed to upgrade, it just felt right. I began replacing copper-based minerals that stand next to my computer with the minerals of pyrite and jet. I have a few photos of grandchildren and my horses in my office because they elicit a sensation of love and joy. I have souvenirs from my travels, like dreamcatchers and Native American made crafts. All these items make me smile, and it’s the joy of looking at them that helps to raise the vibration of the room when I work.
This is the space where I can meditate, feel joy, and expand into the semi-trance state I want to sense when I talk over the telephone to give a client a reading. I feel confident, safe, and loved when I center myself to expand my awareness while in my workspace of an office. This is also the space where I “call in” my Spirit Guides. But they don’t materialize in my room, nor do I travel fully into their realm. We meet in my office, a place in the middle. Yellow Dog interjects:
Yes, the meeting place for the reader and the Guide is usually an agreed upon space that exists between the two realms. Which is convenient because each of your many Spirit Guides usually reside within different realms.
I agree with Yellow Dog. He has shown me his realm of that place of flat-topped golden pyramids with the odd elephants in the distance. While I was shown Hidden Deer’s realm as that place of isolation in the woods beyond the stream, Red and Deb both appeared to me in the Middle World during one of my early shamanic journey experiences. They told me they were Druids, so the oak tree is also present with the two of them in this open green field of their Druidic Middle World realm. Each of these realms has a different vibrational feel to them. I don’t travel deeply within each realm, but rather know the sensation of it—and from a space lingering in-between can best sense each of my guides. Yellow Dog gives me a gentle reminder:
This meeting space or realm may also morph as the reader’s energy changes and evolves.
When I think back over the years there has been a change. At first, I simply decided I’d connect with my Spirid Guide, Red, when I would face the east window of my office where I would see the sun rise. I also frequently see a red-tailed hawk that perches on my neighbor’s tree when I look out that same east facing window. With time, I began associating my spirit guide Druid friend, Red, with the red-tailed hawk. So, I leave any feathers this hawk leaves me in a vase on the east facing windowsill of my office space.
Years later, during another training course in working with plant spirits, I experienced a meditation where I crawled inside a bush of a plant when I faced the sunrise. That sunrise meditation combined itself with Red’s vibration, so I oftentimes envision him at the end of this same plant-encrusted tunnel. But only when the symbology of plant energy lends itself to my upcoming reading.
Other times I sense Red in a realm when he is by a huge bonfire, and sometimes there are even other people there in the distance who dance around the fire. I’m still piecing together the significance of these changes in the scenery around Red when I welcome him into my space. I know some of the changes, like when I see a raised platform for the dead, is a symbol that the upcoming reading is going to be for a dead or dying pet. With every reading experience I learn more about how to understand his “clues.” Yellow Dog fills me in:
Remember, you are not greeting your guide in your sacred space, but in that virtual place of “in-between” realms, or a realm in the middle. This in-between realm is convenient. Like any virtual existence, it is portable, thus allowing the reader to “call upon” his/her Spirit Guides wherever he/she works. But understanding the virtual, in-between meeting realm may not be altered enough to deter negative energies from entering the reader’s aura. For this reason, I also recommend traveling totems or icons that can be used to help designate the reader’s “workspace.”
Such a designation is important when “reading” for humans that have died. For those spirits of client’s deceased loved ones could choose to stay with the reader. This is not a haunting, but rather like a dead-beat friend who lingers, and talks, and bothers because they are bored. If your desire is to work with humans in the spiritual realm and to be a “medium” then the concept of establishing a sacred space could be part of your working world too. But the purpose of this book is to help with animal communication. So, I will dwell upon that vocation.
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If you are curious to understand more about the mixing of energies that could sometime happen during, and linger after reading for an Animal Communication client, then please check out my next Blog entry entitled Homogenizing Emotions.
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