Archive | March 2016

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Ten of Wands – Inverted

10 of Wands - Inverted

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Make sure you’re keeping an eye on things and not getting bogged down or tied up in things you don’t want to be involved with. You’ll get through the week if you stick to your budget and/or your plans for the day. Time to apply your will power and don’t give in to the whims of others. It’s a day to stay the course.


Additional Insight:

Others may not care about tomorrow, but you’ve seen the consequences of those actions. They choose to throw caution to the wind and goof off as they like, not caring about the consequences. They can deal with the credit collectors and in general be miserable because of their bad choices. Save for those few hours of glee when they decide not to care or exercise some self-control.

Learn from their mistakes and keep a vigil over your own path. You’ll avoid the pitfalls and traps. Doing so now will help you down the road when you can be frivolous in a responsible way. It’s not as boring as it sounds. But it is much more practical. Not to mention much smarter and safer for your outlook on things.
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Next On The Ænigma Project – Black Eyed Kids

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The Ænigma Project – Mondays 8 PM EST

The Ænigma Project is a discussion group focused on the realm of the supernatural, paranormal and mysterious events that sometimes take place in our lives. Through multiple view points and experiences, we seek to enlighten our listeners and elucidate that which has become hidden beneath the many layers of misunderstanding and fear.

Join Paul Cagle and his co-hosts Sushi and Springwolf as we share our research, knowledge, insight and humor of the spiritual and paranormal. Be part of the Ænigmite Crew and play “Truth or Tale”, see if you can tell the stories that are real, from those that are made up. And find out what the latest strange or paranormal is being talked about for the week as we discuss the “News of the Day”.

Tune in tonight for our LIVE broadcast.
The radio link on our ListenLIVE page will update for tonight’s show as soon as we go LIVE. You will see the Listen bar change and update for tonight’s scheduled topic. This is your queue to tune in, sit back and enjoy our discussion.

To get into the chat room, scroll down below the radio Listen Bar and you’ll find a sign-in box. No sign-up required, but you can create a registered account if you desire. You can join in the chat room to share your perspective on our topic or ask questions for the panel to contemplate and address. 

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Everyone Loves A Love Story

Respectful Love

Everyone Needs Love

Insights Behind Love

Back on May 15, 2012 I wrote an article about Soul Mates, Twin Souls & Karmic Relationships. It became the most popular post here on Springwolf Reflections. Until, I wrote about my research concerning The Legend Of The Sun and The Moon in June 2014.

Celebrate the love of your soul mate” and variations of that always pop up around February 14th and Valentines Day. But it’s also a sentiment that people are drawn to when they want to celebrate their love with the one who is most dear to them. The idea however is one that has evolved over time and thanks to the greeting card companies has taken on a different meaning than its spiritual definition.

Tell me the story about how the Sun loved the Moon so much he died every night to let her breathe.” It’s a beautiful line that pulls at the hearts of many to want to learn more. Storytellers and romantics alike want to know the origins of that line and where it comes from. They want to hear or read the whole story and share it with the ones they love. Continue reading

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: The Priest – Inverted

The Priest - Inverted

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Cross your fingers and toes, things are about to manifest in your favor. Today and through the weekend, you’ll come across many little successes. Each one will build on the next and by Monday, you’ll be in a much better place; Mind/Body & Spirit.


Additional Insight:

There’s no need to get upset or worry. Don’t be your own nay-sayer. Stop putting yourself down and stop looking at the struggle instead of the accomplishments. Today work on the little things that give you comfort and help you relax. But keep the wheels spinning forward in positive light. As long as you’re moving forward, no matter what the pace, you’re getting there.

Don’t let others bait you into a fight or doing something you really didn’t want to do in the first place. You don’t need their approval. They’re working so hard to get you to do what they want, because they need YOUR approval. Those that try to push you, are afraid you’ll leave them alone. A little compassion and understand will go a long way to reduce the conflict. But kindness doesn’t mean giving in.
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Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Four of Swords

Four of Swords

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Your struggle is over and you can rest. Don’t sit back and forget to do what needs to be done. But stop feeling like you’re on the edge of the cliff. Relax. Everything is ok and you will be able to move forward easily.


Additional Insight:

You and the one close to you have been on edge for many months, maybe even years. Your fortitude and endurance are paying off. Even if you don’t see everything coming to fruition right now, it doesn’t mean things aren’t being worked on behind the scenes.

Don’t dwell in the past. Don’t get stuck in the muck and the mud of past conflicts.  They’ll only hold you back from the blessings you deserve. Let the Divine take care of those who crossed you and allow yourself to move out of the strain, stress and anger.

Your security is at home with the one you love. That’s where you can focus your attentions and relax. Find your strength in the arms of those who you’re close to. If you don’t take the moments of peace and serenity when you can, they can be lost forever. Continue reading

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Wheel of Fortune

Wheel Of Fortune

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

There are many aspects on the wheel of life that point to our fortune. Health, happiness, love, family and yes even finances. The wheel shows us that we have many things to be thankful for today. And that our fortunes can change when we focus on the positive energies of our life. We can use those blessings to free the wheel from the over growth that holds us in place and allows for the manifestation of new fortunes to arrive.


Additional Insight:

We can allow the weeds of the past to grow beneath our feet and eventually clog our ability to move forward. Or we can rise above and focus on what is working, then use that momentum to let go of what’s holding us back. We all have the ability to improvise, adapt and overcome. The question is, are we willing to release the old baggage that keeps us from flying forward with trust and freedom?

Don’t allow fear of change to keep you from taking a well thought out calculated chance. The risk isn’t as great as you might think it is, when you’ve applied yourself to a plan and thought it through as best you can. Continue reading

What Creates A Successful Union

Respectful Love

Respectful Love

Respectful Commitments
While I’m waiting for scans to run on my laptop, I was reminded of what makes a relationship work. It can be applied to any relationship, but in particular to intimate relationships. Whither it’s a marriage or a long-term partnership, you can’t sustain any relationship for the long haul without respect.

When I officiate a wedding, a handfasting, or any commitment ceremony, I always include this:
“A marriage cannot exist and thrive without mutual respect. Respect of ideas, feelings and expressions of conscious and desire. Without respect you cannot support each others dreams, or care for one another in sickness. You cannot share the intimacy of your love, or honor the sacrifices you each will make to sustain your partnership and your family. Respect will maintain your love for one another even when those moments of dissatisfaction arise and angry words are spoken.”

Respect will pull you together in times of stress and struggle. Instead of pushing you apart and creating dissatisfaction, blame and anger that can tear your love apart. It creates a united front based on support and wanting to overcome the challenges life can throw at you. Working together and holding each other up when one of you loses the energy to fight sustains your strength as a partnership. Reminding each other that “we will be ok” goes a long way to helping each of you to fight another day and triumph over adversity.

But respect also works when times are good. When you’re walking down the street and feel the pull to walk arm in arm. For the 20year relationship that sits at a restaurant and still reaches across the table to touch each others hand. It reminds you of why you fell in love in the first place and promotes those soft intimate moments to rub a shoulder, or caress a knee when laughter overcomes you both. Respect is what’s needed for any long-term relationship of love. When you respect your partner, nothing can pull you apart.

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© 2016 Springwolf, D.D., Ph.D. Springwolf Reflections / Springs Haven, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki

Healing Through Compassion & Affirmation

Reiki: Caring with Compassion

From A Traditional Reiki Master

Reiki is an ancient art of healing. It is often referred to as a Zen art of hands on holistic healing, where the healer is a channel for the Divine Universal Life Force Energy.

From the Reiki Alliance:
Reiki is a Japanese word translated as “Universal Life Energy” by Hawayo Takata. 
She brought the possibility of a relationship with this energy to us through Usui Shiki Ryoho, a healing system founded by Mikao Usui in the early part of the 1900’s.

Usui Shiki Ryoho can be translated as “the Usui System of Natural Healing.”
Until the mid-1990’s, this was the most common translation and was used by nearly all of the various forms of hands on healing practice that came from Hawayo Takata’s teaching. At this time, Phyllis Lei Furumoto decided to return to the Japanese title of the practice to identify the form of practice and the system that she teaches: Usui Shiki Ryoho.

Takata trained 21 Reiki Masters before her death in 1980. One of those Masters was Rev. Beth Gray, who was my first Reiki teacher for Reiki I and II. I have been a practicing Reiki Healer since 1989.

Traditional Reiki Hanko

Traditional Reiki Hanko

I convinced a friend to take Reiki, who said she would if I took the classes with her. I call these my refresher classes, this time with John Harvey Gray (Beth’s husband). I really found the refreshers beneficial and they inspired me to take the next step and I became a Reiki Master Channel in 1996.

Over the past two decades of practice I have learned a few things and changed my view of some aspects of Reiki. I originally wrote a set of  articles about Reiki and what I had learned in 1999, and shared them on my website PagansPath and they have seriously needed updating. Primarily because of the evolution of Reiki around the world, some good, some not so good. And because my views on the traditional teachings have also evolved. With practice comes greater understanding and insight.

I overhauled this section in January 2013 and added my Reiki Introduction to my business site, Spring’s Haven. I continue to add and update to these articles, along with sharing perspectives about Reiki here on my blog.  Below you will find links to both the Reiki Introduction and the additional blog perspectives.

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© Springwolfs Hanko
© 2016 Springwolf, D.D., Ph.D. Springwolf Reflections / Springs Haven, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: The Star

The Star

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

It’s not always easy to go with the flow, but it’s a lot easier than going against the current. Don’t make double the work on yourself today. Let things fall where they may and pick them up as you go. There are things that are definitely worth waiting for, so don’t push it!


Additional Insight:

There’s a right time and place for everything in life. If you give in to temptation or try to force things to happen before you’re ready, you likely to fail. And there are plenty of nay-sayers who are standing by waiting and watching for you to fall flat on your face. So don’t give them to chance to point fingers and say “I told you so”. 

You don’t need to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. You can be flexible as things change in the ebb and flow. After all, change is the only constant in the universe. If the door won’t open for you as you pass it by, then it wasn’t meant for you in the first place. Be grateful you didn’t step inside and keep going.
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Next On The Ænigma Project – March Free Form Show

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The Ænigma Project – Mondays 8 PM EST

The Ænigma Project is a discussion group focused on the realm of the supernatural, paranormal and mysterious events that sometimes take place in our lives. Through multiple view points and experiences, we seek to enlighten our listeners and elucidate that which has become hidden beneath the many layers of misunderstanding and fear.

Join Paul Cagle and his co-hosts Sushi and Springwolf as we share our research, knowledge, insight and humor of the spiritual and paranormal. Be part of the Ænigmite Crew and play “Truth or Tale”, see if you can tell the stories that are real, from those that are made up. And find out what the latest strange or paranormal is being talked about for the week as we discuss the “News of the Day”.

Tune in tonight for our LIVE broadcast.
The radio link on our ListenLIVE page will update for tonight’s show as soon as we go LIVE. You will see the Listen bar change and update for tonight’s scheduled topic. This is your queue to tune in, sit back and enjoy our discussion.

To get into the chat room, scroll down below the radio Listen Bar and you’ll find a sign-in box. No sign-up required, but you can create a registered account if you desire. You can join in the chat room to share your perspective on our topic or ask questions for the panel to contemplate and address. 

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