and on the rocks...

shan


on the rocks, photographing my elvin priestess old soul friend,
she told me she was proud of me.
for buying a camera and photographing women and being brave
and doing what i was doing.

my heart sang songs
because of her words.

i am proud of me too.

only 11 left...

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joy upon joys~
how this wonderous day manifests

in the gym, the stretching of limbs
i put my headphones in to drown out the doof-doof music
and instead resonate with the empowering words from abraham hicks.
i find that when i engage my body in exercise
my spirit becomes more sensitive to taking things in ~
and today i choose to fill it with hope and consciousness.

of stretching my body at body balance last night
breathing into my body and releasing
the moves becoming easier
i smile as body and spirit find joy together

of falling into water
floating upon it
releasing thoughts like rainbow strings from my mind
my skin the water's skin the air
where do they end, and the other begin?
bobbing and becoming one.

i return home and He tells me the same
how he meditated upon the couch
and there was no difference between
Inside his body
and Outside.

we sit and laugh in the sun,
picking flecks of fruit salad from the bowl
feeling blessed blessed blessed.


love,
leonie

aching

journal page

I am dreaming of a new way of being.
I want to step into full living, spending these sacred moments deeply.
I bloom into myself like the flowers and the trees do.
I wish to live in my core, knowing the spirit that is myself.
This human body has a soul and she longs to melt into the sunshine and dance into the wind.
I am discovering how to be.
I am aching to learn how to inhabit a new life.

something else...

do you ever have that?
when something makes you feel like something else?

we were in the park at lunch today,
and my love tells me he's thinking he might want a playstation...

and i burst into tears.

i sobbed and sobbed about missing the earth, not feeling balanced, feeling like i'd lived hundreds of lifetimes sleeping on the earth then waking up to find i'm in civilisation and working in a concrete tower, and crying with grief of how much i missed uluru and the desert. how i missed who i was out there. how i missed walking on this earth in conscious knowing i am walking my journey, both with my legs and my spirit. it wasn't about the playstation. it was about this well of water that burst within me, calling to the heavens and falling to the earth.

he softly brushed my hair with his palm, and reminded me that my words are powerful
"when you say you feel disconnected from the earth, be careful. you might end up on mars."

and i realised, with his words, the energy that was soaking through my legs as we walked along on the path.
that my feelings of disconnection were only an illusion of sorts.
the earth was still there, waiting for me to love her.
and i was still here, waiting for me to forgive myself.

there are things changing and swilling in me,
and i am deeply, deeply grateful for them
i know this change is necessary,
and yet i feel like a snake shedding its skin. it mustn't always feel pleasant to do that.
skin too tight, claustrophobia, aching to be new, raw in the new world.

it is true.
and it is divine.
and it is exactly where i am at.

blessed be.
*spoken with a small smile*

love,
leonie

Thank you Water

lake proserpine


Today is World Day of Love and Thanks to Water.

Imagine... sending love and light into water.
For it to cascade in every river, and ruminate in every ocean.
And for every soul on this planet to be drinking in this blessed water.

Water I thank you
Water I honour you
Water I love you.

Check out the above website by Dr Masaru Emoto (of What the Bleep fame). His message of healing with water is truly profound.

some things don't change

leonie and shan playing dress-ups as seventeen year olds...

I've just had a beautiful three days reconnecting with my high school best friend.
We haven't spent that much time together for seven years (eeek, has it really been that long?)
Some things don't change though.
Not our hearts. Not our souls. Not the way that we stay up until the wee hours talking, recounting lifetimes of stories. Not the way we love each other. Not the things that really matter.

And most importantly,
not the way we play dress ups every chance we get.


leonie and shan playing dress-ups and all growned up...

We sat on the floor in my favourite bookstore, reading and discussing books and crystals together.
We spent hours immersed in painting on the floor, creating shared paintings together that developed rich layers and meanings, piled high with our favourite colours, strands of rainbow wool, feathers and stories.



We wandered through art galleries.
We burned sage over each other, and the angels came.
We sat on my favourite rock in the mountains, looking out over the rainforest, hearing the waterfall where the fairies played, and sitting in silence as an owl called to us, over and over again. (Owls are a deep pastlife connection for us).
I photographed the elvin princess that dances inside her...
We shared and we laughed, and we uncovered even more friendship.



I am so deeply grateful to the universe for allowing us this time together.
I am so deeply grateful to the universe for meeting her again this life.
A smile lingers on me today...

love and joy,
Leonie

i create

When you realize how perfect everything is
you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky
~ Buddha


my best friend from highschool arrives tonight for a few days. it has been years since we've spent more than a day together. my heart spills over with joy at seeing my fairy friend again. a long weekend awaits, filled with connecting, laughing, good nosh and sweet, divine moments. how blessed i am. two teenage girls coming together again as women, to forge a new old friendship.

spiritual abundance

unfurl your wings & soar


i have been drinking up new knowledge of abunDance, seeing my relationship with money and shifting my beliefs on prosperity.
(Resources: The Secret movie, 40 Day Prosperity Plan audio cd, Creative Visualisation by shakti gawain)

i am beginning to see how i chopped up spirituality and money, put them in two seperate buckets, thinking they were seperate and could not co-exist together.

now i see they belong together, they are inseperable.
divine abundance to sustain and nourish us on our divine journeys.

when i trust god~great spirit~goddess that i will be strong and wise enough to dance through life, i am also trusting it to support me soulfully, mindfully, creatively and financially. yes, financially. it seems to be the *f* word in spirituality sometimes.

if i trust great spirit to be an abundant source of light that is a part of me, and all around me, would this not also infiltrate the energy of money?

i have in the past felt as though i needed to abstain from money in order to be spiritual. throughout the ages, individuals have chosen to abstain from humanly pursuits including sex and money in order to deepen their connection to the divine. whilst i do honour other's paths, and how they choose to seek great spirit, i wonder how i can evolve into a bigger relationship.

what if i considered *everything* as profound,
a human experience leading to enlightenment?
just as there has been a movement for sacred sexuality,
can there be a movement for divine dollars?

we are all energy. on a physical level, moving down through atoms and particles, at the very base of our bodies is only energy. what we think, how we move our bodies, and what energy we choose to hold affects those energy beings around us, including other souls, our circumstances and even financial energy bodies.

can we create a new paradigm of plentitude?

yesterday i meditated and connected with the great source, in a wide shining beam of white light that descended from a sky of golden white creative energy. i realised in that instant of the potent prosperity that is inherit to the great mystery, and thus inherent to me.

i dream of new ways i can reside in this human body and human life, excavating my true origins, and adorning myself in the cloths of true potential and magnificence.

money energy is the spiritual white elephant, and i am a spirit woman bedecked in a safari outfit.
not so long ago, i wondered at how possibly i could live in spirit and in financial abundance.
now i see that living in spirit is a part of that. it is the canyon of doubt to cross, and the stepping into my role as magician, magic maker and creator of my own destiny.
as i align myself with the energy of the universe, i come to realise the energy of sustenance, creation and nourishment is the most natural thing of all.

i would love to hear your stories of marvellous money, dollar dancing and yin/yang of yen.

love,
leonie

Online Art Sale

You can now purchase artwork from my solo exhibition online through the Leonielife Shop.

enJOY~!

(pictures & the story from the exhibition can be read here)

you.

diana


"we give thanks for our friends.
our dear friends.
we anger each other.
we fail each other.
we share this sad earth, this tender life,
this precious time.
such richness. such wildness.
together we are blown about.
together we are dragged along.
all this delight.
all this suffering.
all this forgiving life.
we hold it together.

amen."

~ michael leunig


i have been ruptured clean by you.
you who have let me in your life.
you who have shared your sacred spirits with me.
you who have chose not to.
you who have stood unblinking before my camera and allowed me to document my divinity.
you who choose not to yet.
you who i forgive.
you who i struggle to forgive.
you who have been the greatest miracles i have ever experienced.
you who have held me when i did not know where the next moment's strength would come from.
you who i tooted in my car yesterday when you cut in.
you who have circled with me.
you who brush my hair.
you who forgive me.
you who struggle to forgive me.
you who i love dearly.
you who i do not.
you who i have learned to leave out of my energy space.
you who leave sweet comments to say "i hear you."
you who chose not to.
you who help me remember my soul.
you who may feel angry with me.
you who are madly in love with me.
you who i feel disappointed by.
you who i have disappointed.
you who feel the greatest.
you who feel the smallest.

i give thanks to each of you, and for all of you,
for being just what i needed.

you who is doing the best you can,
just as i am.

you, i respect you.
you, i honour you.
you, i love you.

with love to the world,
leonie
xoxo

Earth angels

I read this wonderful little book over the last few days, and wanted to share it with you.
Doreen Virtue's "Earth Angels: A Pocket Guide for Incarnated Angels, Elementals, Starpeople, Walk-ins and Wizards"



I grew up feeling like I was different, and now I understand why.
My soul purpose here on life is different ~ it is vibrant and alive, and it guides me at each turn.
When people make mention of my young age, I tell them my childhood felt like I was simply waiting to grow up so I could get back on my spiritual journey again.
It feels good to know I'm not the only one. That there are others out there. That my difference is for a reason.

It has brought me joy and understanding. I read it with laughter and giggles, and on the odd moment, tears. Tears when I realised why my energy can feel intense sometimes and why I feel so guided to speak my truth and be a spiritual teacher.
[For those playing at home, it is because I am from the Wise One tribe]
And... *gentle smile*... why I find it difficult when I offer advice and it isn't used.
When I read this, a familiar voice popped up in my head and said
"Damn straight... don't they know that my advice can change their life! I give great advice!"
I read on to find these words by a fellow Wise One:
"If people would just take my advice all of their problems would cease to be. I'm not being arrogant, I just know what would help them."
At this point, I was both laughing and in tears.
{On the topic, I am learning new ways of accepting and advice giving, it's all a healing journey}

And now I see who the other souls in my life are ~ their purpose, where they are from, why they are the way they are. It makes sense, and it fills me with compassion and love for our unique differences. Even when we look different, act different, do our lives in totally different ways, we all come from the one source with the one truth.

Love.

You can read an overview from the book on the five types of earth angels here, and order the book here.


I would love to hear your earth angel experiences...

blessings,
Leonie

important questions

he takes his shoes off to walk around her


how can i do the work of the goddess more? (keep doing what i'm doing as i am called to it)
how can i be more gentle with myself? (listen to my body, it has all the answers)
how do i remain in connection with the earth? (walk barefoot on Her every day)
how can i ask more for what i truly want? (be clear, be conscious, be true and real)
how do i discover what i truly want? (a whole plethora of ways, a path of its own that is enchanting to discover)

these are my important questions for the week.
i paint and drink chai tea and soak in the sun,
and all the while i am asking and receiving, listening and hearing.


leonie's imminent resources in gentleness, connection and asking
jennifer louden's the woman's comfort book
"the secret" movie
byron chai tea
not finishing books, and being okay with that
a laughing dog
shakti gawain's return to the garden
a wall full of your own photos to gaze upon.


on a sundrenched sunday,
i send you blessings,
Leonie


P.S. the lovely Jackie who posted comments yesterday ~ please email me, I'd love to thank you personally.

belief.

me and he and Her behind us

i read my last post outloud to my love tonight, and we both got a little teary, thinking of that sacred red dust heartland, and our time there together.

if anyone would like to know more of the place i speak of, it is Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock), which is one of Australia's most photographed icons.

What the pictures don't show about Uluru is the deep spirit of the place...
it is truly a heartland, a healing place... it is a holy temple between the sky and the earth, a rock that spans 9 kilometres in circumference and rising from the flat desert plains to a height of over 340 metres. Uluru is BIG. incredibly big. One large, beautiful rock protruding from the desert. Can you imagine the miracle of that? It does seem like a miracle.

Chris said to me while we sat beneath it:
Do you believe the stories of how it was created? Of the ancient beings in the dreaming who helped form it?

And I told him flatly:
I want to believe. But my head just tells me that it's a geological formation.
What do you believe?

And he said softly:
I believe. I want to believe. If I didn't believe in a greater spiritworld, I might as well throw away all my books. I believe in this greater-ness, and I can't explain it, but I do anyway.


so that day i began believing.
in the little things.

when i saw a shard of light dancing in the sky with wings, i believed it was an angel.

when i saw a beating light in the stars, I saw it as a cosmic heartbeat.

when i began believing the miracles began to happen.

i believe in me, i believe in him,
i believe in the desert,
i believe in the spirits and the snakes and the people and the souls and the rocks out there,
i believe in the sanctity and the whole-iness holiness.
i believe in where i am right now.

i believe. i believe.

love,
leonie

i want to be with you.

photo by ellen

i dream of red desert sand
and i dream of me and you
stargazing
healing
meditating
bushwalking
together.

and i want this to be a part of our life here.
i want that desert dancing woman to be me here.

i want to go walking in the dunes with you everynight just to watch the angels in the stars.
i want to be with that beautiful big rock again, the earth's red heart.


Image from NASA

i want to climb the dunes in the afternoon to be with those wise women folk again,
to share stories, and photograph each other in the desert,
be reckless and wild and eat fruit for afternoon tea,
sitting there naked in the desert together,
as womenfolk do.

i want to be with you, i want to be with you.
these words fall out and out and out
who are they for?

they are for my lover and for our love in the desert
they are for mother earth beneath me, cradling me, grounding me,
{i awoke one night in our hotel room, knowing the bed and the floor held me too far away from you}
they are for the desert and uluru and kata tjuta and the desert people,
they are for myself.

i want to be with you great spirit.
i want to be with you.

love,
leonie

woo hoo!

Star of Sunday Canberra Times...

I'll be having an online sale in a week or so, for all those happy campers who weren't able to make it to downtown Australia for the exhibition.

:)

love,
The #1 thing to do this Weekend!