Angel Wings Blog

Well it really is winter wonderland and although it looks beautiful, it causes so much chaos. The Magical Archangel Course had to be cancelled as we had people coming from across the country and Leslie (my co-presenter) and I were unable to get out of the our drives!! This will be rescheduled for early next year.

So I have been confined to quarters, which I have to say has done me a power of good because I have had time to think and play. Much to my delight I have been able to put some new Limited Addition Angels on the on the website myself and although the photographs aren’t as good as the professional ones, it means I will be able to put on small batches of products, which normally wouldn’t be viable. It was so easy, I just don’t know what I have been playing at; I think it’s just because I had the time.

Something that I have always wanted to do is lay in the snow and make a Snow Angel, so armed with my camera, waterproofs and thermals, I went out and laid down in the snow! The first one was a disaster darling, but like anything, practice makes perfect. So here is my snow angel, which I think you will agree looks female!!!


All this was very silly considering I have also had a dreadful, throat and chest infection BUT my inner child said go for it, so I did!!
It was magical out in the garden and I took lots of photographs, although the light wasn’t good. There were glimmers of sunshine but I kept missing them, so it all looks very austere.
When the frost and snow enfold the earth, the Angels and Elementals protect the sleeping nature, waiting for the light to return.
The message for us from the Angels is that even when all seems lifeless, new buds and shoots are forming, waiting for just the right moment to awaken, flourish & grow grow grow……and we should also take a leaf from nature and use this time to look back at the year and then to put plans in place so that at the right moment they too can flourish.

I found this poem that I would like to share

With Love & Angel Blessings
Sharon xx

'Flight of the Snow Angels.'

Beneath sunny kisses
They take to the air
And vanish like the child
That once left them there.
Like a dark bird time sweeps over the hills
And takes the winged prints from snow covered fields
Back to the far north where all angels go
That ever was made by a child in the snow.  

Judy Meeker

I know that it has been such a long time since I ‘blogged’ and I have a million and one excuses, including a bereavement of a very dear family member and a year of builders and mess! My autumn resolution is to Blog more often and I have lots of plans to develop the website.
The sun was shining the other afternoon and I dashed to Wollaton Park to photograph the trees and leaf colours. This Park is so magical to me as I used to play here as a child and although I was banned from walking through the park on the way home from school (in case the boogie man got me!), I frequently did and frequently got into BIG trouble. I used to love cleaning out the tiny streams that the deer used to drink from (I used to go home with my feet wet through) and fishing for newts and tadpoles as well as making daisy chains and blowing dandelion seeds into the wind.

There is a huge oak tree in the park and as I was walking back from this, I heard a noise in the bracken. At first I couldn’t see what it was but then saw antlers and then this amazing stag. It was a magical moment and what I call a now moment when you are totally focused and all other thoughts vanish from your mind.

Talking of magical things, I am running a workshop on November 28th called the Magic of Archangels and we will explore how to work with: Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel, Jophiel, Chamuel and Zadkiel. There will be meditations, creative exercises,  visualisations, and lots of fun to help you to connect and understand how to bring these wonderful and magical Archangels into your life. Click on this link for more details.
This is a great time of year for reflecting on what you have achieved so far and setting some new intentions. I have been journaling every day  (well almost) for the last 12 weeks and have enjoyed it so much that I intend to continue. I decorate the book covers with images of things I would like to have or do in my life, so that I see them everyday when I journal. In this way you are inviting the universe to provide opportunities, people or goodies into your life and you can add positive affirmations as well. Affirmations are positive statements or intentions that can change our negative emotions into positive ones. Many people have created affirmation cards, the most famous being Louise Hay, who I saw at this year’s I Can Do It conference in London. She is incredible for her age and she says that these are her favourites:
Life loves me and I love life
All is well
Everything in my life is working out perfectly
Out of this experience only good will come
When you constantly repeat a positive affirmation, the voice of doom and gloom that roams through our mind is replaced with thoughts of power and love and....all is well x

Ahh, January is here and this has always been my least favourite month. When I was a little girl, my Mother used to keep me in for most of this month, as she always said I needed to hibernate!
Apparently I would stay in warm and snug and do creative things until my birthday at the end of the month. Then I would leap up, put on my new, gorgeous frock and be ready for my party and for the rest of the year I would be a little dynamo!
I don’t actually think that much has changed and if it were at all possible, I would be doing much of the same today!

I looked back at last year’s blog and I wrote about creating a mood board. I actually created two, one for health, travel and home and one for my spiritual growth and creativity. I am really surprized how much I have achieved, in ways that I didn’t envision at all.
One thing I really wanted was a dedicated workshop, rather than an office, where I could experiment and create. I thought I would have to move or rent somewhere and have been looking for a long time, but it turned out to be right here and the builders managed to finish just before Christmas! It’s FAB and I have spent many happy hours sorting and transferring all of my treasured ‘stuff’ into it. With under floor heating and a great view, I am hoping to spend many happy hours developing ideas and just being, not something I do too well.

I spent the New Year in Tynemouth and it really snowed. On first day of the year, I was having a snowball fight on the beach – amazing!

This last week I have been snowed-in and ill with a chest and throat infection. Looking out of the window at the snow filled garden and knowing that I just can’t go anywhere, has done me a power of good and not only am I on the mend but I have had lots of time to think, read and explore possibilities!
Angela phone me and I was telling her about the last Jonnie Walker show on Radio 2 (he has been filling in since Terry Wogan left) and how I love the way he introduces spiritually to his shows and on ‘pause for thought’ there had been a reference to It Came Upon a Midnight Clear by Edmund Hamilton Sears (1849).

Angela then rang back and sang it to me and I had never realised that it was all about Angels. One line in particular sums up for me what the beginning of the year has been about and I hope that you make time in 2010 to listen to your Angels as well!

“The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the Angels sing”

I have to say that I have been very naughty and have not written for a long time.
My summer was much busier than I had intended and I became involved in all sorts of new projects, which although inspiring, left me with very little creative energy.

So with humblest apologies, I will try to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.
So what is new? Well this weekend I made my first green tomato chutney, which wasn’t quite as straight forward as I thought but very satisfying to see in the jars afterwards!

This is my third year of growing tomatoes and I truly think it is the most amazing experience. When those first shoots poke through and already have the delicious smell of tomato, I get so excited and can never bring myself to throw any of the seedlings away.
The last two years have been a disaster, but I’ve learnt and this year I grew four different varieties and they have been ripening in this wonderful late autumn sun.
The greens one were made into the chutney and the rest are waiting to be devoured, yummy!
My other success was my courgettes, although my father was unimpressed when he took them home and realised that they weren’t cucumbers!

So I hear you saying; after all this time she can only talk about veggie, what is spiritual about that?
Well the great Louise Hay uses tomatoes as a metaphor for spiritual growth and beginning with one tiny seed, that is watered, tendered and given lots of sunshiny, life can grow into a magnificent plant full of fruit.

I was also on a course where we were asked to visualise a seed and then imagine where it was growing and what kind of flower it developed into. Being a florist for so many years, I though that I would come up with something exotic but no, I came up with a courgette flower!!
Of course they are magnificent in their own right, big, bold and bright and this related to your life’s work – yellow is for the mind.
So….. A picture of my courgette, just to remind you about the spirituality of every living thing.

Don't forget the BSSK Mind, Body and Spirit event at the Monastery in Manchester, Oct. 17th & 18th.   I am giving a workshop - details are on the events page.

Last weekend I went to Stonehenge, stopping first at Avebury. I thought the stones there were amazing and held lots of energies, set in a beautiful English setting.

Some of the stones had a gentle, soft energy whilst other had little whirlpools of energy where you could see colours and trails of energies coming from your finger tips.

We walked up onto the mound that surrounds the stone circles and saw a recent crop circle – long and arrow shaped in a rape field. There had been rumours of one appearing and there it was! I have never seen one before, so I was really excited and took lots of shots although it was far away. One excited family drove off in their camper to try and find a better view.


We arrived at Stonehenge at about 5.30 but as we had admission to the inner circle, had to wait until 6.30. I have to say that initially I was very disappointed; I thought it would be much bigger but the atmosphere built up with some of our party drumming and generally energising the stones. At one point people were standing between two particular stones, as it was an energy vortex. I have to confess that I had visions of Star Trek, with Clingons appearing at any moment!

Apparently the stones have been badly neglected and misused over the centuries and now the building of the new road has further eroded the natural energies. I got the distinct impression that these great stones needed healing and love from us and we all did our part in giving our energies.

My reward was some wonderful photos where I took the image facing the sun and it has appeared as a rainbow on the stones and my first orb  - a pink one, is in the bottom of the shot. It appeared in several of these photos and in this one you can see the energy around it!



So how good was that? A perfect end to a lovely day with many thanks to Carole from Purpleraze for organising this trip, and to a great crowd of like minded people.

P.S I have also had a couple of trips to the bluebell woods. They are spectacular this year so do hurry, you have probably only got another week left to see them at their best.