The Legend Of The Sun and The Moon

The History Of How The Sun Loved The Moon

“Tell me the story about how the Sun loved the Moon so much he died every night to let her breathe.”

Oh and yes, it’s breathe. You take in a breath that allows your lungs to breathe. Seems there has been some debate about that too.

The quote itself has captured the imagination of people world-wide. But what is the story and where did it come from? What’s the history or origin of the phrase? Who said it? And what’s the whole story?

I’ve spent a good deal of time searching and delving into the history of this phrase. And continue to search, for the original source. My initial assessment hasn’t changed. No one actually knows where it originated. So far…

Some believe it’s a spin on a much earlier folktale “Why the Sun Chases the Moon”. But there’s no real factual evidence linking these two together. Mostly supposition and that doesn’t make the link clear. It makes it a theory based on opinion. Not good enough for me.

Whither it’s a claim that the story was inspired from the Bible, the Australian Aborigines, Indo-European Pagans, the Norse, the Mayans, various Native American Nations or any other variety of cultures, people want to be “the originators” of this grand phrase and subsequent story. It’s such a great line, everyone simply wants the quote to come from “their” cultural origin and their history. Continue reading →

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Ace of Pentacles – Inverted

Jun9

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Even if you turn the world upside down, you’re still not going to lose what you’ve already accomplished and acquired. Stop letting the fear weaken your resolve, or stagnating your progress! You have the strength to hold on and ability to nurture the seeds you’ve planted in your garden. It promises to be a bountiful harvest, but you must continue to build on what you’ve started. Keep your faith and it will cushion your journey forward.

Additional Insight:

There are many forces at work beneath the surface. Both within yourself and from the unseen spiritual forces around you. Each day you take another step toward taking responsibility and accountability, you are getting closer to the victory you seek.

The spiritual energy is in place and has built a strong framework to uphold you and your crown. Be patient and allow that energy to manifest into the physical foundation that will allow you to grow, expand and achieve your ultimate goals.

Stop allowing fear to enter the picture and weaken your resolve. You’ve been through harder times than this. And you’ve overcome those events and learned valuable lessons. You gained both knowledge and experience that confirms “I can do this”. So stop the self-doubts, stop the self-pity talk, stop allowing fear to rule your thoughts, judgements and decisions. Continue reading →

Sunday Homily: Have Faith, Not Hope

Jun8

One Powerful Change Of Perspective

Today a friend shared a YouTube video that changed the way I look at the words Faith and Hope. And surprising to me, it came from Jim Carrey’s Commencement Address at the 2014 MUM Graduation. (I’m posting the video below.)

He said something that got me thinking.
“Take a chance on faith. Not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire and Faith leaps over it.” ~ Jim Carrey

This week I’ve altered that quote a little bit. I can’t claim it as mine in a copyright; the inspiration and credit still go to Mr. Carrey. But I wanted something that was easier for me to remember and share with others. So here’s what I came up with.
“Have Faith, Not Hope. Hope is a beggar. Faith is a Believer. Hope walks through the fire and Faith leaps over it.” ~ Dr. Vickie Carey 2014

Wow. Hope is a big thing in my thinking. Hope that things will get better; that we will endure the struggles, that we can overcome the challenges. Hope we’ll win the lottery.

If I let go of the begging, as he puts it, what is there? Faith is a belief. And I’m left with: A belief that things will get better. A belief that we will endure the struggles. Belief that we will overcome the challenges. Belief that we WILL win the lottery. Why not?! It has to happen to someone! Continue reading →

On The Next Ænigma Project – The Mysterious case of Elisa Lam

Jun6

Get Your Tinfoil Hat
and Join Us Live!

The Ænigma Project – Mondays 9 PM EST

Due to technical difficulties at the station, we had to cancel tonight’s show. We’ll pick up this same topic next week on the 16th.

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”.

You can join in the chat room to share your perspective or ask questions for the panel to contemplate and address. Or simply listen to the show LIVE!

You can now listen and chat on ANY page. For the web address you only need to put www.tenacityradio.com. Continue reading →

Intriguing Experience In Talking To Ghosts

Jun6

Ghost Radar® by Spud Pickles™ for Android

There’s An App For That

I’ve written about the Android App Ghost Radar here on my blog back in August 2012. I have a good time with this app. The company who makes this app put out a new version this past year that’s supposed to be bigger and better. This one that I’m using is called Ghost Radar Legacy. I haven’t had time to check out the new app, but if you’re interested in these kinds of tools; you might want to visit Ghost Radar Connect on GooglePlay.

Last night I was a guest on Mary Marshall’s ParanormalMD Radio Show and the topic of EMF (Electro Magnetic Field) and EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) tools came up concerning a recent investigation Mary had been on. That conversation inspired me to start up my little App this morning on the way to taking my son to school.

Now I can’t vouch for the accuracy of this app as I stated in the original App review. I’m not a Ghost Hunter or Paranormal Investigator. So this app is purely for my own amusement and interest. But sometimes your experience with such things are so interesting that you do build confidence in the validity of their usage, and that happened to me on this morning.

I was really intrigued by the conversations; I should say the attempted conversation presented by the app during this ride. I thought I’d share some of our interaction with what we heard and what it picked up as we were making our trip to the school. If for no other reason than to share a few moments of “Hmmmm”.

As an adept psychic, I talk to ghosts and spirits all the time. Listening to them takes some effort and it’s not something I do when I’m driving. It’s too much of a distraction. But I do ick up on the energy regardless and trust my instincts to interpret what I’m feeling. This is important to understanding how I use the app. It’s not a one on one conversation like you and I would have. It’s an opportunity to practice “feeling” energy and working on your psychic skills to interpret what you feel or pick up on.

Words Spoken	Our Perspective / Interpretation
Land	My car is broken this week, and I’m driving my Mom’s travel van. This thing is huge! Especially compared to my Mustang. When I started up the van, this was said and my first thought was “Land Yacht”; yep..this thing is huge. And that’s what we call it. So it seemed to fit.
Pretty	As we were driving over the dam road, the ghosties shared this description. Yes it’s a beautiful morning and the view from the dam road looking west up the length of the 300 acre lake was definitely pretty.
Direction	The entrance/exit of our subdivision is part of a ‘T’ intersection. When we stopped the ghosties said this and we took it to be a question. Which direction are we going? We let them know we were going to turn northward.
Spider	On our way up the road, they shared this. Where?! I don’t like spiders inside “my domain”. At first we didn’t find a spider.
Forth	Within a moment of asking that question out loud, they answered us. My husband, Garrett, took this to mean in front of me (no idea why, but I trust his instincts). So we looked around the best we could while driving. There was a spider, but I didn’t see him until after we got to the school. And I quickly put him outside where he belonged!
Brick	Along our drive we pass a small white brick house. To this point in our travel, all the houses and buildings are brick or wood. Except for the church which is way back at the T-intersection. This was said right as we passed that little white brick house.
Wolf	A little farther down the road they shared this. My first reaction was “That’s me”.
Carefully	Once at the school, we sat waiting for the doors to be unlocked for the kids to go in. The child likes having Dad walk him to the doors. As they were getting out, the ghosties shared this suggestion. Which is very fitting considering Garrett is fighting with a very sore toe that’s making it hard for him to walk normally. So yes, getting out carefully was required advice.
Store	Earlier we had been talking about what we’re doing this afternoon when we go out to pick up the child from school. He wants to go into town to spend some of his birthday money. While my boys were in the school, the ghosties said this. And I reminded them, we weren’t going to the store until this afternoon.

I’m open to the idea that this app is nothing more than a random word generator and has no real evidence of ghost interaction. I have a healthy skepticism about paranormal events. I don’t automatically believe them to be real; and I don’t automatically believe them to be fake. The app on GooglePlay clearly states the app is for “Entertainment Purposes”.

But ..I’m also a believer in ghosts and spirits and communication with them. I’m a psychic, a channel, I know the experiences I’ve had talking to ghosts on my own without an EMF, EVP, ghost app or whatever. I’ve been doing it for 40+ years. So yes, I believe it’s possible because I’ve done it and I do it on a daily basis. But frankly it takes some effort to “turn on” the senses and talk/listen to spirit.

I have fun with this app because it doesn’t take a great deal of effort on my part to potentially talk to ghosts in this fashion. And when the words the app picks up relate so well to what’s going on around us or in our conversation, then…come on….there’s got to be something to this. It’s to freaky not too. Right? 😉

I thought it was interesting anyway. And so did Garrett; my skeptic atheist husband.

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Seven of Cups

Jun6

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Study what’s in front of you and appreciate the gifts it brings. You can learn a great deal by looking within the little things to see what they have to offer. Take time to gain an understanding of how one thing touches another, creating ripples through the calm water. Everything you say and do will touch someone else today, in turning touching another and another through out the entire day. Make sure you’re being supportive, encouraging and uplifting. Make your ripple effect a positive one.

Additional Insight:

Don’t let your bad day become someone else’s bad day. Your stress and anxiety is what you decided to hold onto today. If you don’t want to feel that way, then let it go and relax. Don’t try to push it off onto someone else and ruin their day too.

No matter how much you have on your plate, you’ll get through this. Don’t lash out at others and turn their good day into your bad day. Things are moving forward and working out as fast as possible. It may not seem like you’re making headway, but you are. Be careful you’re not undoing all that good work by pushing the negative energies out to manifest and attract more of the same back to you.

Pay attention to your words and don’t go out of your way to push buttons within other people. You know their story and how they got to this point. Don’t make them go back in time and feel the pain of what they went through and have tried so hard to overcome. And don’t try to turn things around and play the role of the victim either. “Oh woe is me” isn’t baggage to be carried by others either. You made these choices. Forgive yourself and get over it.
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Reminder: Spring is On Paranormal MD Radio Tonight!

Jun5

June 5th 9pm Eastern U.S. <– That NOW..sort of

Check out this weeks edition of Paranormal MD Radio where I’ll be joining host Mary Marshall to talk about Pagan Metaphysics 101, and Paganism in general.

Visit the Unexplained Network to stream the show live and online! Select the Listen and Chat option. You don’t have to enter the chat and participate in that if you don’t want to. But you can see what others are saying.

Paranormal MD Radio
Ghosts, Fringe Science, inter-dimensional beings, aliens, UFOs, psychic phenomenon, and conspiracy theories are some of the topics that will be up for discussion on Mary’s show. Toss into the mix some current news, some humor, some insight, and some personal perspectives from your host and her guests, and you have an awesome show you won’t want to miss.

From time to time I make appearances for lectures, workshops, book signings and interviews. We share the dates, locations and information about these events on the Appearance page here on Springwolf Reflections.

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Five of Wands – Inv

Jun5

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

You can’t pass off your responsibilities to someone else and expect to keep the prize or rewards. By doing the work yourself you will gain the knowledge and satisfaction of getting things done. Be curious, explore the world outside your domain and learn something about the world you didn’t know. Don’t remain as the innocent creature inside the egg, secluded from life.

Additional Insight:

All week the insight has been one of self-responsibility and expansion of knowledge and understanding. Here again we have that message to broaden your views and see outside the walls of your shell.

Learning about others doesn’t mean you will take on what you learn. It doesn’t mean you will become what you research. It doesn’t mean you must practice or exercise the actions of those you try to understand. Stop allowing the fear of intolerance to keep you bottled up and secluded within the walls of your domain.

Your walls could have been built by others that have been your only resource for information. By limiting your view to their knowledge, you could be getting a distorted side of the story. Their side may not be as accurate or as just as they present it to be.

The only way around that is to step up and open the doors to the greater world and research other views and perspectives on the topics you’re interested in. Get the bigger picture for yourself and make your own choices and decisions about what you see, hear and read. Take responsibility for your own thoughts and you’ll let the magik of creation guide your steps to peace and happiness.

You can order a personal reading from Spring through the Services at Spring’s Haven. We offer both in-house and email/phone/Skype consultations. As a Ministerial organization, all our consultations are private and strictly confidential. You can find the Mystic Faerie Tarot on Amazon.

Springwolf Reflections 2014 Motto:
I am at peace and live in the moment with all the prosperity and abundance I require!

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: The Tower

Jun4

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Everyone has to start on the bottom floor and work their way up to play the real fun games with the experts. Take your time, learn what you can, research, study and expand your horizons. Don’t be afraid to ask questions outside your comfort zone and don’t be afraid to hear the answers. Even if they’re not what you expected them to be or wanted to hear. Knowledge creates wisdom; not the other way around. If you want to blow the lid off this joint; you’re going to have to work for the access to the top floor.

Additional Insight:

Ignorance is bliss because it allows people to hold the world in a limited view where they can step up on the stage and be the big fish in the tiny pool of water. When something goes wrong, they can blame the world outside and never take accountability for their own actions.

But when that person wants to play on the big stage, yelling, pointing fingers and holding a double standard won’t survive in the grand ocean. Their lack of knowledge creates chaos and havoc that rains down on the rest of us. And that’s not good for anyone. All it will do is attract the bigger fish who will come and to feast on everyone and anyone in their area.

Today is your day to expand your knowledge and open your mind to the bigger picture. If you want to get to the top where your ideas can make significant differences in the world; you must broaden your views and perspectives. You can’t hold the pendulum on one side of the table and believe it will never swing to the other side. There’s no balance in that concept and the forces of nature will constantly work against you.
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Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Two of Swords – Inverted

Jun3

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

You may not have the strength or energy today to get things done or make things happen the way you desire. Let someone help! You don’t have to do it all by yourself. You not only give the blessing of patience for your own well-being; you also allow someone else to express compassion and feel wanted and needed. What a great gift!

Additional Insight:

Needing a little help isn’t a sign of weakness. It doesn’t mean you are incapable of taking care of yourself or what needs to be done. There are two sides to everything and today, you can allow someone to help you and at the same time give them the blessing of learning about compassion and kindness.

Tomorrow when you’re feeling better, you can return the favor or pay it forward to someone else. But be kind to yourself today and allow the Divine Universe to work through others who can give you a hand and help you get things done.

If you remain on your stubborn course and try to do it all, be all things to everyone who needs you; you’re likely to over do it and cause a physical issue to arise. Don’t hurt your back, or stumble, fall and break a leg. Don’t deplete your energy and become susceptible to the latest cold or flu going around. Your ego and pride aren’t worth the price you might end up paying.

Giving to someone in need is as much of a blessing as accepting the help. We all must learn all sides of an issue to fully understand what it means and to experience its energy for higher consciousness. How can you understanding giving, if you have not received? How can you appreciate receiving if you have not given? Allow yourself to be open and learn the lessons that cross your path today with gratitude and thanks.

Springwolf Reflections 2014 Motto:
I am at peace and live in the moment with all the prosperity and abundance I require!

"Believe In Yourself, Even When No One Else Does."
~ Harvey McKay ~
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“Take a chance on faith. Not religion, but faith.
Not hope, but faith.
I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.
Hope walks through the fire and Faith leaps over it.”
~ Jim Carrey ☆ 2014
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“I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less. And I am one of the seven billion human being. Basically we are the same… your emotion, my emotion, your mind, my mind.., same physical. So I always look [at it] that way. We are the same.”
~ Dalai Lama 2012 ~
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"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
~ Bruce Lee 1971