The energy of this week is so powerful! I am loving the summer solstice vibes and am excited to teach my workshop this weekend. This week's energy theme has you making the shift into a more energized and illuminated state. But keep in mind it will continue to be in the energy of this year where it happens in a gradual, slow and steady build. So no, you won't become the road runner overnight, and yes, patience will continue to be a theme this year, but you will feel relieved sensing this increasing wave of energy. The elementals compare it to a hike, the first half of this year had you climbing uphill, right now and for the summer you are enjoying the view, and then in the fall and winter, you get to enjoy your walk down. 

The energy and patterns this week coming up for clearing have been around fear of success. Blocks that are preventing you from feeling comfortable expanding into new territory and soaring to new heights have surfaced. Lack of confidence and past disappointments are ready to release as you reconnect with your dreams and wants. This is the perfect week and weekend, especially Thursday, to sit in ceremony and let spirit shed light on some important awarenesses. Here are some questions spirit recommends meditating on:

• What do I really want?
• What steps do I need to take to move this forward?
• Am I making choices and decisions in alignment with my dreams?
• Am I asking for what I want and allowing spirit to help me?

This is a great week to get out of your own way and let spirit lead. It's one thing to wish for what you want, it's another to will it into being. And this is the time for your wishing and willing to come together and make magic. It's never too late to make a change, to heal, and to grow. This is your week to cast light into any remaining shadows of the past as you declare it time to emerge and fly high as the brave soul you have become. 

The terms that have been surfacing repeatedly this week are self-permission and sabotage. The current energy theme is asking you to practice discipline. And it's brought up patterns for clearing around needing or waiting for permission. Spirit reminds you that you came here to shine your inner light as bright as you can, and you don't need permission to do so. It's your destiny to be the best and brightest version of you. So check in and see if there are any blocks preventing you from elevating a relationship in your life. It may be your relationship with work, health, love, or all of the relationships in your life. Do you feel fearful that you'll outgrow people in your life? Do you feel scared that the more you have, the more you'll have to lose? Or perhaps you've burdened yourself with way too much pressure and are overwhelmed to make any change. Take some time to sit with spirit and give yourself permission to ignite your light and shine it out that much brighter, see it cut through the darkness of fear. Remind yourself that you are safe to shine and that sitting on the sidelines isn't safe, it's settling.

Because you are being asked to practice discipline the sabotage piece may primarily take the form of procrastination. It can also show up in various other ways such as comfort eating, self-medicating, and perfectionism. Try to be disciplined while remaining balanced. A message that has also been coming up is the need to have more fun. You may be feeling a bit burnt out or are struggling to get re-energized. Spirit says just start having more fun. The fun factor is also what will maintain balance so you don't dodge the discipline. If you aren't having fun and staying connected to why you are honouring the discipline, you'll lose your drive. Stay focused on your goal and the reward, and enjoy reaching it.

There has been a lot of collective consciousness clearing and it's important to pray and trust in spirit right now. Be conscious of not holding sadness, pain or grief in your heart over what you feel isn't happening. But rather feel and process it so you can clear space for the drive and discipline to work its magic, focusing on what you can make happen. Meet others where they are at but with the intention of lifting energy as opposed to joining it. The sabotage piece will want you to slip into the energy versus bringing your light to stand beside it. And that's why the self-permission is so important, it allows you to honour others while standing strong in your self. The elementals say, be like a tree, that sways joyfully in the breeze with the others but never forsakes its own roots.

Authentic and fearless self-expression is the name of the game this week. The breakthrough you've experienced this month of May has led to a significant heart opening. A heart opening is as beautiful as it sounds. It means you have moved through fear and have willingly accessed a higher level of receiving, love and blessings. But a heart opening can also be accompanied by feeling a greater sense of exposure, vulnerability and fear. This is why you will need to practice trust and rely on resources that create safety. Nurture yourself, relax, and love yourself up this week. Ask spirit to help you let go of any defences or layers of false protection that were created to keep you feeling safe but in fact have kept you guarded. This heart opening is birthing a new fearlessness. You are always evolving and therefore are always becoming a better version of yourself. And this week you are connecting with this newly birthed higher vibrational self. Use an affirmation or mantra that anchors you into safety, such as, 'I am safe in my blessings.'

You may feel the shift into this more authentic self by a subtle increase in sensitivity. You may notice you are drawn to different foods, your appetite changes slightly, you are more sensitive to noise, you are more aware of your bodies reactions to different energies and environments. You may need to revisit or increase your boundaries to honour this new shift and to be sure to maintain or strengthen your daily spiritual practice. You may find you no longer feel the need for certain vices. As the elementals say, 'You are showing your naked self to the world, without a care!' But your naked self is your true self, your soul. This is an abundant shift for as when you move from your heart you are choosing your most blessed path. 

The throat, third eye, and heart chakra are the big ones connected to this current energy theme, so pay attention to them. Any blocks to your self-expression are wanting to be cleared. If you have a symptom connected to the throat and voice, it's time to check in. What is it you aren't saying? Or how can you express it differently? Communication isn't just words and conversation, it can be honoured through writing, painting, singing, talking aloud to spirit, and more. If your eyes are more tired than usual or you have a headache, it's time to check in with the third eye. Are you afraid to see the future? Are you avoiding looking at a situation that needs attention and healing? If your breath is shallow, your chest tight, and you feel sad, it's time to check in with the heart chakra. Is there old hurt and sadness that needs to be released? Are you fearful of going for great versus good? 

This is a time to be selfish in a healthy way and to choose you. Allow yourself to be your top priority this week. Indulge in some self-care and downtime, guilt-free. Play, laugh and connect with your inner child. Enjoy the little things, it's a great time to simplify and focus on your personal life. Work your quirks! Let your eccentricities shine as you embrace your unique self. You are not only lovable, just as you are, you are love. 

This week's theme is coming through loud and clear, my friends! A trust issue is the big one that is surfacing right now. What are you having a hard time trusting in? Love? Humanity? Yourself? The universe? This super fun ball of fear that you've been bouncing around has been leading you to this golden nugget of a deep-rooted trust issue. The good news? You've peeled back enough layers that you can now find yourself at the heart of the matter, and this is where the magic happens. Like a snake, you have been shedding your skin, tying up loose ends, and leaving the past behind you. But in order for you to move forward in confidence, you need to address and heal trust issues that are holding you back. You have to clean house before you can grow, letting go of old attachments and emotions that no longer serve you. There has been a similar image repeating in sessions, and it is that of a ball and chain. Spirit shows people trying to drag this heaviness forward, trying to fix it, and trying to change it. And the more frustrated, tired, and angry people grow at this relentless and unyielding weight, spirit patiently holds loving space and awaits their realization. Spirit waits for them to come to an awareness that all they need to do is unhook from the chain, move forward, and set themselves free. Ask for help. This isn't a time to fake strength and go it alone. This is a time to seek support and to find the strength in your vulnerability. Don't dictate how your help appears, simply ask for it. Every time you find yourself in fear, ask for help, and for source to shift your fear into faith.

An animal symbol that has been popping up, literally in our backyard, is Robin. Robin reminds you that you have to make a nest before you can lay your eggs. And that it's important to pick the right place for your nest so you have the safety and protection to enjoy your growth. You are finding your faith in a whole new empowering light because you are finding it within you. You are asked to accept the truth that you are source light, love, and abundance. When the fear creeps up and the ego wants to challenge you, you have to remind yourself, I AM all that I am asking for. Use your I AM affirmations this week and feel the truth run through your veins as you repeatedly bring yourself from fight to flow. I speak from experience when I remind you that the universe has your back. Source has always provided for me when I've needed it and every fearful moment I've faced, I've come out grateful and better for having gone through it.

You've got this. The light in the dark is the reminder that you are not alone. This theme has been resonating strongly with many people, take comfort in that. We are all in this together, all moving through the same growing pains. If you can't quite connect with your confidence and faith yet, let spirit hold it for you until you are ready. Moving forward, be conscious of what you admire and notice in others, for this is what you are growing and expanding within you. As you continue to ease out of this transition you are going to be aligned with your inner truth more fully than ever before. You will not give thought to competition and fear that there isn't enough to go around. You will stride forward with your new gift of self-belief.

This week's theme asks you to venture out into the unknown, or at least the less familiar. You are being asked to take a risk, a leap of faith. Can you push past the fear and trust in your bright future? Everything you want is making its way to you but you have to choose to let it in. You have to know deep down in your bones that you deserve it and that you can handle it. It won't always be easy but it will be worth it.

Things have been a little heavy lately and that's because you've been grieving what is over and complete. There are endings that you may have found yourself fighting and resisting because they've been familiar for years and part of a significant cycle. And you've been feeling the push to close the chapter fully and move forward in a new light. But this doesn't mean you forget, reject or dismiss the past. Quite the opposite, it means you acknowledge, accept and honour it. This week you are addressing some big fear blocks. All the reasons why you shouldn't or can't do something are coming out of the woodwork. And God bless them! Because they are pushing you to choose great versus good. They are forcing you to self-examine and clear out what you don't have space for anymore. This is a year of you. A time to get clear on what you want and where you are ready to go. You can't base this off anyone else, and you can't base it off where you've been, you can only base it off that fire inside of you that is forever seeking more fuel. The one that steadily whispers, feed me Seymour.

What pisses you off? This is showing you what you are done with. What frustrates you? This is showing you what you want more of. What scares you? This is showing you where you need to go. It's time to take flight, my friends. You are being called to look in the mirror and face some hard truths and harsh realities. At the top of these is the knowing that the only person who can make it happen for you, is you. No matter what support the universe has lined up for you, and no matter how bloody fantastic you know it can be, you have to let it in. If you aren't going to answer the door, someone else will. If you aren't going to do the work, no one can do it for you. I'm shown an image of someone taking a seat on a throne. It's time to step up and claim what is yours. It's time to stop playing small and start making more magic. 

One of the biggest issues I witness with shadow work, which has us face and process our dark parts, is that people get stuck there. A primary focus of my energy work is not just helping people through their shadows but out of them and into the new light they've helped birth. This week is magnifying any remaining shadows so you know what you need to harness and use in order to reap your rewards. Go into your shadows but don't lose sight of the fact that they are temporary. They aren't meant to swallow you up, alternatively, ignoring them has this effect! But they are meant to propel you, moving through your shadows is a powerful initiation into your deepest self and innate magic. Have you lost your get up and go? Maybe you went into a shadow but have yet to realize you've gotten stuck there. This is your signal that it's time to come out and find the light again because your faith is ready to be rewarded. If you notice others resisting or pushing back against your changes you're probably on the right track. Change triggers people because it challenges them to face their own growth or lack thereof. Your very presence can be profoundly triggering whether there is awareness or not. But with great risk comes great reward. So what do you say, are you ready to step farther away from the past and ignite more light? 

Do you want a medium, psychic, channeller or healer? And what is the difference? I see many people get understandably confused not knowing what type of healer they are looking for, or what service they need. 

You'll hear multiple titles used for one healer, or listed on one website because most healers have multiple strengths and offer more than one service. But not everyone is clear on what they offer versus their capabilities. For example, I'm all of the titles listed below but I don't offer all of them as services. I always recommend it is best to seek someone who is trained in the area you're looking for and who does that work full-time. For example, I can do mediumship but I'm not interested in offering mediumship readings so if someone contacts me looking for that I recommend they seek a full-time medium who has made that training their priority. It's difficult to label yourself as a healer because you're trying to take something that exists without limits and put it into a context so it can be understood and received as much as possible. So as a practitioner who may be capable of multiple healing modalities you want to choose what best describes your strengths and services in order to reach your audience and connect with the right clients to be of optimal service. So let's quickly look at some of the most common titles you'll see.

1. Healer - This is the broadest term as it can relate individually to physical, mental, emotional or spiritual aspects. A healer can be a doctor, a naturopath, a therapist, an herbalist, an energy healer etc... Basically, a healer is anyone who can help another person, decreasing or eliminating pain, imbalance, and distress.
2. Psychic - Someone who can connect with and see beyond the limited physical realm and senses. A psychic has developed extrasensory tools: clairvoyance (clear-seeing), clairaudience (clear-hearing), clairsentient (clear-feeling) and claircognizant (clear-thinking). They can use these to access the metaphysical realm and see from past, present, and future. If you are looking for a prediction-based reading you would be looking for a psychic reading.
3. Medium - Someone who can connect with the deceased. A medium acts as a bridge between the spirit world and the physical world. A mediumship reading is what you want to look for when you are seeking to connect with a departed loved one to receive messages and signs from the other side. 
4. Channeller - Someone who can be a connection to and voice for spirit, letting spirit speak through them via writing, drawing, and talking. 
5. Intuitive Healer - Someone who does energy and emotional healing guided by intuition. They are using their psychic strengths to locate imbalances in the energy body, and transform energy to correct them, restoring balance and harmony.
6. Life Coach - Someone who helps you understand and navigate challenges and obstacles in your life. They provide action steps and hold their clients accountable in order to create progress.
7. Shaman - Someone who can travel between physical and spiritual realms to what is called NOR (non-ordinary reality.)

When you're looking for a practitioner you first and foremost want to trust your gut. You will be drawn to the right healers at the right time if you are willing to ask, listen and trust. If you aren't sure ask the practitioner if what you're looking for is what they offer. A healer in their integrity will be honest and if they're not the right fit they'll encourage you to keep looking. I have no problem turning away clients that aren't a resonant match as it's in the greatest good for both of us. There are plenty of qualified healers offering a wide variety of services so ask spirit to connect you with the right one for you and follow the flow of synchronicity as you are led to them.

How many of you feel like this red panda looks? The weekly card posted on Monday encouraged you to forge ahead. And the current energy theme has you addressing and possibly struggling with your willpower. Its been a challenging week with increasing feelings of resistance. You may have been working harder than usual to get things done and to see your obligations through. Make sure you balance your energy out with some well-deserved rest and reward this weekend! 

There are many things that can impact your willpower. You may be tired and need to recuperate from a stressful experience and time. You may be moving through something karmic that is less than desirable but necessary. You may have had your willpower stepped on and are holding emotions such as anger, resentment, guilt and hurt. When you are working to get back in touch with your willpower, or to boost it, it's important to be patient with yourself. If you had a long stressful year with no breaks you're not going to regain it all in a few weeks or even a few months. Sometimes your mind, body, and soul just need to be where they're at. And alternatively, sometimes in order to get your willpower back, you need to push yourself a bit in order to break through the old slog you've been in. Trust your gut about which one resonates for you right now. Mindfulness and a sense of humour are your best allies during these times. Take them with you into the weekend to achieve balance and harmony. When you feel like you are inundated, or that you are fighting a serious lack of motivation, laugh. Get in touch with the absurdity of life and appreciate how colourful and crazy the world can be. It's a balance between knowing when to dig deep and knowing when to throw your hands up in surrender. This week and weekend you'll probably find yourself on both ends of the spectrum at some point.

If something is important to you, dig for it and fight for it, no regrets. If you're not that bothered by something, laugh it off and let it go. I know many of you have felt tired and a bit fed up lately, the elementals say good job for pushing through! Take advantage of the energy by checking in and asking if you have any blocks to your willpower that need to be addressed. And ask if there are any steps you need to take to supplement it. In the meantime use the mantra: This is temporary. And focus on what you're learning and how you're growing. Because on this spiritual journey and personal evolution, no matter how light or dark, there is always buried treasure wanting to be found.