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&lt;a alt="reciprocity mandala" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MTeNhomu8DM/TyLYGBzcwKI/AAAAAAAADHI/OpYY5BC67l4/s1600/linda+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="reciprocity mandala"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MTeNhomu8DM/TyLYGBzcwKI/AAAAAAAADHI/OpYY5BC67l4/s400/linda+1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Reciprocity Mandala (Commissioned Mandala Artwork) © Sue O'Kieffe 2012&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
source image: auralite crystal&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Appreciation significantly turns on the heart. Appreciation is not an emotion that arises spontaneously, but a soul quality we can choose. The more often we choose to be appreciative, the easier this choice becomes and the more frequently our heart opens to give and receive love. &amp;nbsp;~Unknown&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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One of my favorite things as an artist is to create commissioned mandalas. I will be delivering this mandala to my reiki teacher this afternoon. Her mandala was created from a photograph of her own auralite crystal. What a joy it was for me to soothe out the patterns that I felt speak most appropriately to her into this shimmering yet grounded image of harmony, balance and reciprocity, all characteristics of the number 6. I chose to create her mandala with a 6 pointed configuration because hexagons are prevalent within auralite crystal, and I wanted the mandala's energy to resonate closely with that of the crystal. When I emailed a preview of the mandala to my teacher, she responded with these words: &lt;i&gt;Beautiful&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;span style="color: #53432b; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Pearls, oyster shells, snakeskins, old, old Native American clothes from faded deerskin. A wonderful compilation of Nature.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #53432b; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #53432b;"&gt;I would love to create a mandala especially for you. Send me an email for more information!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #53432b;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #53432b;"&gt;~Sue O'Kieffe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #53432b;"&gt;Sacred Circle Mandalas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31512762-2953669558757817039?l=sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~4/pTLGeuVfRo8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~3/pTLGeuVfRo8/commissioned-mandala-art.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sue O'Kieffe)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MTeNhomu8DM/TyLYGBzcwKI/AAAAAAAADHI/OpYY5BC67l4/s72-c/linda+1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com/2012/01/commissioned-mandala-art.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31512762.post-5304471967568176171</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-25T08:08:38.716-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sacred Circle Mandalas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mandalas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">holidays</category><title>Holiday Blessings from Sacred Circle Mandalas</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31512762-5304471967568176171?l=sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~4/NtBUejP_P5k" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~3/NtBUejP_P5k/holiday-blessings-from-sacred-circle.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sue O'Kieffe)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-irx8kdDoS6M/TvdIot74CKI/AAAAAAAADG0/HMstxEivGs4/s72-c/Holiday+Peace+copy.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com/2011/12/holiday-blessings-from-sacred-circle.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31512762.post-1135622503788660199</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-21T08:40:35.692-08:00</atom:updated><title>Lux Invictus Winter Solstice Mandala</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kTEtyt06R2g/TvH7YnTY1qI/AAAAAAAADGo/of1CcZVXCbM/s1600/lux+invictus+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Lux Invictus Mandala"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kTEtyt06R2g/TvH7YnTY1qI/AAAAAAAADGo/of1CcZVXCbM/s400/lux+invictus+copy.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Lux Invictus Mandala (Earth Mystery Mandala series) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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source image: milky quartz elestial&lt;br /&gt;
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I'm honoring the crystal star and the stars inside us all with this Winter Solstice mandala. Yesterday a friend &amp;nbsp;shared this poem&amp;nbsp;with me&amp;nbsp;by &lt;a href="http://www.rahimawarren.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Rahima Warren&lt;/a&gt;, who graciously gave me permission to reprint it here.&lt;br /&gt;
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SOLSTICE POEM&lt;br /&gt;
Winter solstice is a time for&lt;br /&gt;
turning within&lt;br /&gt;
entering the luminous darkness&lt;br /&gt;
of the Longest Night,&lt;br /&gt;
opening to the Yin&lt;br /&gt;
resting in the Cosmic womb&lt;br /&gt;
source of all creation&lt;br /&gt;
in the gentle darkness we can see&lt;br /&gt;
the subtle light of our soul-stars.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Can you see your Self shining&lt;br /&gt;there, a star in the silent firmament?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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Now the Deepest Darkness holds a seed of Light&lt;br /&gt;
waiting to be born into the world,&lt;br /&gt;
into our lives, into our hearts.&lt;br /&gt;
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© Rahima Warren&amp;nbsp;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Blessed be to you all on this darkest night of the year. May we all find our invincible light and be willing to shine bright and be who we came here to be in the days to come.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sue O'Kieffe&lt;br /&gt;
Sacred Circle Mandalas&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Ascended Master Portal (Crystal Vibration Series) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
source image: auralite crystal&lt;br /&gt;
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Today I want everyone who checks in and follows &lt;i&gt;Sacred Circle Mandalas&lt;/i&gt; to know what a pure delight it is for me to bring these mandala images through for you. It is my desire to bring you joy, peace, and harmony and my intent is that you feel uplifted and inspired when in their presence. I hope the healing energies of the sacred geometry that is imbued within each image assists you on your spiritual and healing journeys. &lt;br /&gt;
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I continue to be excited working with this auralite crystal as part of my calling and purpose. This crystal exudes love, calms and fortifies, strengthens and magnetizes, and bonds with the person who holds the stone as &amp;nbsp;if you were a beloved friend. Please feel free to email me or message me on &lt;a href="http://facebook.com/sueokieffe" target="_blank"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; for more information about the crystal or for information on purchasing this mandala.&lt;br /&gt;
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Today I want to share the channeled poetry of my friend Tracie Nichols from &lt;a href="http://alchemyfortheearth.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Alchemy of the Earth&lt;/a&gt;. Tracie channels Gaia, as well as the energy of auralite. This is what came through for her when I asked for her impressions of this ancient stone. And blessed be, my friends, during these times of amazing transformation and energetic shifts. We are all connected. Don't ever forget!&lt;br /&gt;
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~Sue O'Kieffe&lt;br /&gt;
Sacred Circle Mandalas&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Song of the Ancient Ones…&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;I am the ancient bones of the&lt;br /&gt;Earth, our Mother&amp;nbsp;I am the seas&lt;br /&gt;that bathed her passionate surface&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am the liquid stone blood&lt;br /&gt;flowing in her body&lt;br /&gt;cooling to bone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am your foundation&lt;br /&gt;and your freedom&lt;br /&gt;I am the pulsing soul of this&lt;br /&gt;planet made solid&lt;br /&gt;The heartbeat, heartsong&lt;br /&gt;made visible&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your eyes&lt;br /&gt;your sweet human eyes&lt;br /&gt;can only see a tiny fragment&lt;br /&gt;of my spaciousness&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am life&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your life...&lt;br /&gt;The life of the magnificent Gaia...&lt;br /&gt;Life in all forms and vibrations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am shards of Gaia soul&lt;br /&gt;that you can hold in your hands&lt;br /&gt;hold to your heart&lt;br /&gt;cover with your breath&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In your heart with&lt;br /&gt;your heart&lt;br /&gt;we sing the beauty&lt;br /&gt;of this Earth&lt;br /&gt;into being&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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Message from Auralite 10-22-11 received by Tracie Nichols&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://alchemyfortheearth.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Alchemy for the Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright © 2011 by Tracie Nichols&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31512762-4769308277559615991?l=sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~4/MmZngBrEEpU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~3/MmZngBrEEpU/ascended-master-portal.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sue O'Kieffe)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-An06O-cYS_M/Tud-6hq0TLI/AAAAAAAADGM/DnXbjwWXnys/s72-c/ascended+master+mandala+copy.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com/2011/12/ascended-master-portal.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31512762.post-842609992406616675</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-05T11:52:27.198-08:00</atom:updated><title>Infinite Thanksgiving Mandala</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rM97lMptt0s/Ttzm4LSHehI/AAAAAAAADF4/eYz-jPkmAB4/s1600/Infinite+Thanksgiving+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="infinite thanksgiving mandala"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rM97lMptt0s/Ttzm4LSHehI/AAAAAAAADF4/eYz-jPkmAB4/s400/Infinite+Thanksgiving+copy.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Infinite Thanksgiving Mandala &amp;nbsp;(Circles of Awareness 2011) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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source image: beach rock&lt;br /&gt;
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I received this message recently:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;This is a time of abundance for you, not just monetarily (though that too!) but abundance in friends and love. Take stock by writing a list of the things in life that make you feel good, so that you can see how abundance flows in your life. Then give thanks to the Universe and most importantly to yourself for creating and manifesting them.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
This is what came up for me as I reflected on that message: Savor the time you spend with your tribe. Take care of and watch out for each other. Laugh alot. Cry some too. Share food and music and the beat of the drum. Share your dreams. Applaud your growth. Grieve together too. Touch, hold, hug each other. Help each other grow, especially the little ones. Honor community. We are, as a friend recently reminded me, hardwired to belong.&lt;br /&gt;
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I'm not exactly sure what I found on this rock photographed Thanksgiving Day when I was out with my tribe. It may be very tiny mussels. I was attracted to the texture. Today, as I look at it and the mandala that came through from it, I am seeing a &amp;nbsp;microcosmic community growing there at the ocean and is now contained in mandala form.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_cDUjdQYaX0/Ttzkv3OkoMI/AAAAAAAADFo/5ROOHvNo-y8/s1600/view+from+Wedding+Rock+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_cDUjdQYaX0/Ttzkv3OkoMI/AAAAAAAADFo/5ROOHvNo-y8/s320/view+from+Wedding+Rock+copy.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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My tribe and I took a hike Thanksgiving Day climbing rock out at the ocean. Everything I said above I learned that day with them. &amp;nbsp;I took this photo because the rock reminded me of a dolphin. It was a perfect morning. I am so blessed to be part of this tribe.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ASAVXE1zLes/Tt0ZGX-nz9I/AAAAAAAADGA/nSGbUfBPGzQ/s1600/the+tribe+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ASAVXE1zLes/Tt0ZGX-nz9I/AAAAAAAADGA/nSGbUfBPGzQ/s320/the+tribe+2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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How about you? Who is your tribe? Where do you belong?&lt;br /&gt;
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Sue O'Kieffe&lt;br /&gt;
Sacred Circle Mandalas&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a ;title="3rd chakra mandala" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-crGMsvxuZ9c/TsvC18emI3I/AAAAAAAADFY/KkSrIL9OtLY/s1600/3rd+chakra+-+I+am+empowered+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="3rd chakra mandala"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-crGMsvxuZ9c/TsvC18emI3I/AAAAAAAADFY/KkSrIL9OtLY/s400/3rd+chakra+-+I+am+empowered+.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Third Chakra Mandala (Chakra series) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LmfKDBjSLT0/TsvE7D4D9hI/AAAAAAAADFg/1eTf5S2AH78/s1600/3rd+chakra+snapdragon-w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" title="yellow snapdragon"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LmfKDBjSLT0/TsvE7D4D9hI/AAAAAAAADFg/1eTf5S2AH78/s200/3rd+chakra+snapdragon-w.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
source image: yellow snapdragon&lt;br /&gt;
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AFFIRMATIONS:&lt;br /&gt;
I am empowered.&lt;br /&gt;
I take enlightened action for the highest good of all.&lt;br /&gt;
I shine with the Light of God&lt;br /&gt;
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~Sue O'Kieffe&lt;br /&gt;
Sacred Circle Mandalas&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31512762-6605146649907285612?l=sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~4/M9C_72D4_i8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~3/M9C_72D4_i8/third-chakra-mandala-i-am-empowered.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sue O'Kieffe)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-crGMsvxuZ9c/TsvC18emI3I/AAAAAAAADFY/KkSrIL9OtLY/s72-c/3rd+chakra+-+I+am+empowered+.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com/2011/11/third-chakra-mandala-i-am-empowered.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31512762.post-4801140797170230425</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-19T16:28:57.181-08:00</atom:updated><title>Second Chakra Mandala</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RfVcKLM40BM/TshAwchMWiI/AAAAAAAADFI/rfhe1WlPRbk/s1600/second+chakra+-+i+express+my+art+with+joy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="second chakra mandala"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RfVcKLM40BM/TshAwchMWiI/AAAAAAAADFI/rfhe1WlPRbk/s400/second+chakra+-+i+express+my+art+with+joy.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Second Chakra Mandala (chakra series) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9vZkvTd3FHc/TshDzbWuFlI/AAAAAAAADFQ/PyxfpC4Mgr0/s1600/second+chakra+maple+leaf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;" title="maple leaf"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9vZkvTd3FHc/TshDzbWuFlI/AAAAAAAADFQ/PyxfpC4Mgr0/s200/second+chakra+maple+leaf.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9vZkvTd3FHc/TshDzbWuFlI/AAAAAAAADFQ/PyxfpC4Mgr0/s1600/second+chakra+maple+leaf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;source image: maple leaf&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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AFFIRMATIONS&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;I express my art with joy&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;I surrender to the creative energy of the Universe&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;It is natural and easy for me to be creative&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;My feelings are an opportunity to learn, and to return to light and love&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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~Sue O'Kieffe&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Every year I create a create a calendar of &amp;nbsp;mandala art with accompanying inspirational quotes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;This year I was super inspired and created two! Creating these calendars is a total act of love that I get to share with all of you. &amp;nbsp;We need these reminders of healing in our daily lives as we move forward into greater awareness and spiritual growth.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Please take a look at this year's uplifting mandala imagery inspired by nature.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Circles of Transformation&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;Calendar contains twelve months of my nature inspired imagery, and&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Auralite Ascension Circles Calendar&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;has &amp;nbsp;a dozen high frequency auralite mandalas with matching spiritually oriented messages for growth. These calendars make perfect holiday gifts&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6YbxiPg7c84/Trf9dFfI0rI/AAAAAAAADEg/cR_0GS1wkgE/s1600/SCMa_+tRANSFORMATION+2012+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="155" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6YbxiPg7c84/Trf9dFfI0rI/AAAAAAAADEg/cR_0GS1wkgE/s200/SCMa_+tRANSFORMATION+2012+cover.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This year I am &amp;nbsp;offering the opportunity to order calendars directly through me.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Doing so will afford you a bit of a price break in shipping. In order to make sure I can get your calendars delivered in time for the holidays I will need to have payment via PayPal or money order by&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;November 30th&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VTIkwFam_9M/Trf9ZSqUw1I/AAAAAAAADEY/5gKVAousZrg/s1600/SCM+Auralite+2012_a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="155" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VTIkwFam_9M/Trf9ZSqUw1I/AAAAAAAADEY/5gKVAousZrg/s200/SCM+Auralite+2012_a.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To order, please email me&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; at sueok at sbcglobal dot net with the number of calendars you want to order, your payment method, and your email address, and I will send you an invoice for your order.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;To preview these calendars click &lt;a href="http://tinyurl.com/7mqppup" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://tinyurl.com/85wnou6" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/strong&gt;You will be directed to &amp;nbsp;new pages where you can preview the calendars themselves&lt;b&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;Underneath each calendar cover image there is a&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Preview&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;link. Click on that. You will need to manually advance each image by clicking on the forward arrow underneath the calendar image.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Ordering info:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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U.S. Customers1-3 calendars is $24.95 each plus $5.90 shipping Priority Mail with delivery confirmation. More than 3 calendars ship $11.80 Priority Mail.(In comparison, ordering directly from the publisher would &amp;nbsp;cost you $8.99 in shipping for one calendar, $11.99 for 3 calendars, $14.99 for 5 calendars sent FEDEX ground).&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;5 calendars or more of the same calendar design are eligible for a 20% quantity discount.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;California residents will be charged applicable sales tax.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Canadian/Mexican customers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Each calendar is $24.95 USD plus $11.45 shipping Priority Mail. More than 3 calendars ship $26.95 Priority Mail. 5 calendars or more are eligible for a quantity discount.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Customers outside of North America&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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So that you can be sure to receive your calendar on time, I would recommend ordering directly from Lulu. com via the links above.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Local customers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I'd be happy to make arrangements to deliver directly to you.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Gifting someone?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Want me to mail directly to your giftee? I can do that. Just send the necessary information in your email.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Rather just order yourself? Not a problem.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Lulu.com has a 3-5 day printing turn around, and shipping ground FEDEX takes about a week. (Shipping US Mail will take longer and cannot be tracked.) Just go ahead and order when you are on the site.&lt;/div&gt;
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Locally, my calendars will also be available at &lt;a href="http://humboldtherbals.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Humboldt Herbals&lt;/a&gt;, 300 2nd St., Eureka, CA 95501&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Please &amp;nbsp;email me with any questions you may have. You can find my email address on the sidebar to the right. If you got to the end of this post, thank you! Lots of reading I know.&lt;/div&gt;
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Bright blessings to you all.&lt;/div&gt;
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Sue O'Kieffe&lt;/div&gt;
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I belong&lt;/div&gt;
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I am here&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;The past few months have been quite a journey.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Five years ago, after major surgery on my carotid artery, I first learned about auralite amethyst from a man who had direct contact with the owner of the mine deed up in Ontario Canada. The time that I spent learning about and viewing photos of these crystals was a big part of my post operative healing process. This spring I reconnected with this man again on Facebook and was given an opportunity to start selling and working with this stone, using it not only in mandala creation, but learning about its amazing healing properties.Auralite exudes Love and encourages us to get in touch with our deep Truths.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;I have known for a very long time about the great shifts our planet and its inhabitants was going through&lt;/b&gt;, but I only felt minimally involved. Since the stone entered my home and my life, my awareness has gone through major shifts. I believe that auralite &amp;nbsp;is being revealed now to assist humanity with its evolutionary&amp;nbsp;ascension&amp;nbsp;process, and I know that part of my life's purpose is to be of assistance to others in this process, both through my art and through being a promoter and caretaker of auralite amethyst.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Individual prints of the auralite mandalas are available for purchase&lt;/b&gt; at&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://sacredcirclemandalas.etsy.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4272db; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://SacredCircleMandalas.etsy.com"&gt;http://SacredCircleMandalas.etsy.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;. Auralite crystals are available for purchase by contacting me here. There is a link for my email address on the right hand side bar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;The awesome soundtrack for this video was graciously and generously provided by Yatri. You can hear more of her crystal singing bowl music at&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://crystalmusic.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4272db; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://crystalmusic.com"&gt;http://crystalmusic.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;Bright blessings to all of you who find this video. May you be filled with Love and Light!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Isis Calling &amp;nbsp;(Power Shield Series) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;During a meditation at a &amp;nbsp;recent women's gathering held at the Isis Retreat Center in Geyserville, CA, I received the ankh as a personal symbol. The ankh is a symbol of eternal life, among other things, and I am honored to have been called by Isis to convene not only with her but with the amazing tribe of women I met, bonded with, and embraced at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.profcs.com/app/?af=1328290" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Sage Taylor-Kingsley Goddard's Prosperous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt; Goddess retreat.* &amp;nbsp;I used a feather from one of the Royal Palm turkeys that live at the center as a source image for this mandala. Turkeys have always held a special place in my heart, as a symbol of sacrifice and give-away within Native American culture. Now I am learning the word turkey may actually come from the Hebrew word &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;tukki&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;, meaning &amp;nbsp;peacock, which is also a bird sacred to Isis. These royal palms are&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"&gt;a hybrid of different varieties of turkey. According to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Palm_(turkey)"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;he toms are noted for being non-aggressive, and the hens are particularly good mothers. All of this feels right to me when considering the turkeys' spiritual association with &amp;nbsp;honoring the Earth Mother and Isis herself being&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;worshiped&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;as Mother of the Gods. What I really like, though, is knowing that turkey medicine is a reflection of shared blessings.There is something about gathering with women that naturally seems to bring that out. I experienced the spirit of appreciation and validation for one another, profound and deep healings facilitated by Sage's amazing insight, skills, and intuition, joy that comes with getting to know one another, as well as lots and lots of love. During that weekend I also received three messages of next steps for myself, which you will be hearing more about in the days to come.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;I could not let another moment go by without creating a mandala to show my deep appreciation for all who touched me during this retreat. I say thank you and bright blessings to each and everyone of you. May our paths cross again soon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31512762-2565271275871127132?l=sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~4/SpwSV1Vht3Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~3/SpwSV1Vht3Y/isis-calling-mandala.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sue O'Kieffe)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d5SCWz4xgdI/ToD1Tg4j8GI/AAAAAAAADDc/9xSHJMTSzJE/s72-c/isis+calling+copy.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>6</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com/2011/09/isis-calling-mandala.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31512762.post-7113418179666617253</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-08T06:18:36.149-07:00</atom:updated><title>Peace Within Mandala</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BvkUdZb4Xe0/Tj7NtFrsvTI/AAAAAAAADDI/yDZNC5shpfA/s1600/peace+within+mandala+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BvkUdZb4Xe0/Tj7NtFrsvTI/AAAAAAAADDI/yDZNC5shpfA/s400/peace+within+mandala+copy.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Peace Within Mandala (Circles of Transformation) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Looking behind I am filled with gratitude.&lt;br /&gt;
Looking forward I am filled with vision.&lt;br /&gt;
Looking upwards I am filled with strength.&lt;br /&gt;
Looking within I discover peace.&lt;br /&gt;
~Quero Apache Prayer&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;This mandala is dedicated to those who find healing, comfort, and relief from pain through the loving properties of cannabis.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31512762-7113418179666617253?l=sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~4/XD7HtJA2pis" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~3/XD7HtJA2pis/peace-within-mandala.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sue O'Kieffe)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BvkUdZb4Xe0/Tj7NtFrsvTI/AAAAAAAADDI/yDZNC5shpfA/s72-c/peace+within+mandala+copy.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com/2011/08/peace-within-mandala.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31512762.post-9193054502601220138</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-01T06:00:04.530-07:00</atom:updated><title>Love Unifying Mandala</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1qFONgsNiC0/TjY2mB_9C0I/AAAAAAAADDA/gi6ELYF31u4/s1600/love+unifying.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Love Unifying Mandala"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1qFONgsNiC0/TjY2mB_9C0I/AAAAAAAADDA/gi6ELYF31u4/s400/love+unifying.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Love Unifying Mandala (Crystal Vibrations Series) © Sue O'Kieffe&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZdTJ21dRwaY/TjY2nVplFVI/AAAAAAAADDE/4ptOhCm4Gzw/s1600/love+unifying+auralite+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" title="auralite 23 crystal"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="143" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZdTJ21dRwaY/TjY2nVplFVI/AAAAAAAADDE/4ptOhCm4Gzw/s200/love+unifying+auralite+copy.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;source image: auralite 23 crystal slice&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;We are reuniting at this time in order to understand and help one another articulate to those around us what is happening inside of us. While we are each in varying states of reverence, grief, bliss, silence, and speech clearer than we’ve ever spoken, we need to be advocates for one another, drawing one another out with touch, with beauty, with the quiet companionship of the silence of Knowing but no longer alone. ~&lt;a href="http://www.emclairepoet.com/"&gt;Em Claire Poet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Shifts are happening quicker than I can keep up. I find articulating what I am experiencing a challenge, &amp;nbsp;and the wonder of those moments of recognition that I am a part of everything and everything is a part of me exhilarating. Six months ago I never would have believed &amp;nbsp;I would be an advocate, guardian and keeper of these billion year old Auralite 23 crystals. I am blessed to be reunited with them once again.&lt;br /&gt;
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The message that comes through to me in this mandala is about unity consciousness. We &amp;nbsp;band together and support one another, knowing that we are all part of each other and part of God.&lt;br /&gt;
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Share with me, please, what you see and feel in this mandala.&lt;br /&gt;
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If you are drawn to the crystals and want further information, please shoot me an email. Contact information is up there to the right.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31512762-9193054502601220138?l=sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~4/FwObamSDt38" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~3/FwObamSDt38/love-unifying-mandala.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sue O'Kieffe)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1qFONgsNiC0/TjY2mB_9C0I/AAAAAAAADDA/gi6ELYF31u4/s72-c/love+unifying.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com/2011/08/love-unifying-mandala.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31512762.post-4959963392634072840</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-30T08:26:06.610-07:00</atom:updated><title>Transcendent Harmony</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LvCOx2RD7hY/TjM2Lj1_iBI/AAAAAAAADCo/mhnwp9ir_68/s1600/transcendant+harmony.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LvCOx2RD7hY/TjM2Lj1_iBI/AAAAAAAADCo/mhnwp9ir_68/s400/transcendant+harmony.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Transcendent Harmony (Exploring the Mystery) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?&amp;nbsp; I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world. ~ Agnes Martin&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31512762-4959963392634072840?l=sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~4/SO3veO4Ba9Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~3/SO3veO4Ba9Q/transcendent-harmony.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sue O'Kieffe)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LvCOx2RD7hY/TjM2Lj1_iBI/AAAAAAAADCo/mhnwp9ir_68/s72-c/transcendant+harmony.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>6</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com/2011/07/transcendent-harmony.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31512762.post-3322345737379610548</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-24T06:00:01.722-07:00</atom:updated><title>Infinite Peace Mandala</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9w_5NvXrdyM/TisOUA-NTiI/AAAAAAAADCg/43e3YOGxM0Q/s1600/infinite+peace+mandala.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9w_5NvXrdyM/TisOUA-NTiI/AAAAAAAADCg/43e3YOGxM0Q/s400/infinite+peace+mandala.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Infinite Peace Mandala (Crystal Vibrations Series) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8Dv-E377koM/TisPd9fmaFI/AAAAAAAADCk/vG97nRn0kQE/s1600/auralite+grade+b+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="156" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8Dv-E377koM/TisPd9fmaFI/AAAAAAAADCk/vG97nRn0kQE/s200/auralite+grade+b+copy.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;source image: auralite 23 crystal&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The stones of the Earth are singing peace, dear  ones. Can you feel their song echoing in your stone-bones? Can you feel the  peace they sing?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;~&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Message from Gaia via &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://alchemyfortheearth.com/"&gt;Tracie Nichols&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I am honored to be working with these new forms of amethyst coming out of the earth in Ontario, Canada. I am posting this mandala and its source image, a slice of auralite 23 crystal, as a means of introduction to this 1.1 billion year old crystal. My friend &lt;a href="http://dosmangoes.net/"&gt;Doug Schwarzenberger&lt;/a&gt;, geologist and teacher of geology, physics and chemistry at the high school honors level&amp;nbsp;(his website will be up soon),&amp;nbsp;has been directly involved with the mining of these stones as well in the identification of the 23 mineral inclusions contained within.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I am also pleased to share with you Tracie Nichols' Message from Gaia to accompany this mandala. Tracie helps women who love the earth and are on a spiritual or healing path to partner with Gaia, discover their soul's purpose and bring that purpose out in the world. You can learn more about Tracie and receive her daily Gaia messages by going to her website, &lt;a href="http://alchemyfortheearth.com/"&gt;Alchemy for the Earth.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;As always, I would love to hear your response to this mandala. I feel alot of strength and softness in this stone when I wear it and feel its encompassing loving energy translated well into this mandala, which I imagine as a portal to another dimension.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;~Sue O'Kieffe&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Sacred Circle Mandalas&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31512762-3322345737379610548?l=sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~4/fViaMXiZS0A" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~3/fViaMXiZS0A/infinite-peace-mandala.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sue O'Kieffe)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9w_5NvXrdyM/TisOUA-NTiI/AAAAAAAADCg/43e3YOGxM0Q/s72-c/infinite+peace+mandala.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com/2011/07/infinite-peace-mandala.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31512762.post-8779304751794613736</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-04T08:52:51.142-07:00</atom:updated><title>Freedom Flowering Mandala</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fnTVy1paBsg/ThHNU2U9imI/AAAAAAAADBE/u_JcyW--yNE/s1600/freedom+flowering+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="freedom flowering mandala"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fnTVy1paBsg/ThHNU2U9imI/AAAAAAAADBE/u_JcyW--yNE/s400/freedom+flowering+copy.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Freedom Flowering Mandala (Circles of Transformation) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IFlFHadyT8Y/ThHSGtXR06I/AAAAAAAADBI/HiFBngWf6Q0/s1600/freedom+flowering+gerbera+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" title="gerbera daisy"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IFlFHadyT8Y/ThHSGtXR06I/AAAAAAAADBI/HiFBngWf6Q0/s200/freedom+flowering+gerbera+copy.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;source image: gerbera daisy&lt;br /&gt;
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Gerbera daisies seem like one of nature's firework flowers, and so I chose this photograph to create a mandala to honor this day of spiritual blossoming.&lt;br /&gt;
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The following words, part of a larger prayer spoken by intuitive abundance coach and spiritual teacher Sage Taylor Kingsley-Goddard, seemed like a perfect accompaniment to this mandala.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="yiv1794450616MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;"&gt;Let Your  infinite divine heavenly radiance come flowing and  flowering&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="yiv1794450616MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;"&gt;Flowing and  blooming and blossoming into the crowns &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="yiv1794450616MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;"&gt;Of each and  everyone of us&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="yiv1794450616MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;"&gt;So that we can  receive Your golden light&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="yiv1794450616MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;"&gt;The light of  abundance, the light of truth, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="yiv1794450616MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;"&gt;The light of  love, the light of healing, the light of joy…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="yiv1794450616MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="yiv1794450616MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;"&gt;Bring the truth of who we are fully home into our  feet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="yiv1794450616MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;"&gt;And all the way  home into Mother Earth, fully grounding us, fully anchoring  us,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="yiv1794450616MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;"&gt;Fully plugging  us in, fully attaching us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="yiv1794450616MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;"&gt;And yet, even  though we are fully corded to Mother Earth, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="yiv1794450616MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;"&gt;We are free to  float and to fly with Father Sky.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="yiv1794450616MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;"&gt;We are strongly  tethered and yet free.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="yiv1794450616MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;"&gt;~Sage Taylor Kingsley-Goddard&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="yiv1794450616MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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You can learn more about Sage's programs and other offerings at her website, &lt;a href="http://www.profcs.com/app/?af=1328290"&gt;Love and Spirit.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;SAGE is an intuitive  abundance coach and spiritual teacher, Archangel Michael channel, hypnotherapist  and Omnidimensional Energy Healer known as the Transformation and Manifestation  Catalyst. Also a Reiki Master Teacher, interfaith minister, speaker and author,  SAGE specializes in self-love and awakening. She helps conscious creators align  with their passionate life purpose, manifest prosperity, attract lasting  soulmate love and create the life of their dreams.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(In the spirit of full disclosure: I am &amp;nbsp;part of Sage's affiliate program)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31512762-8779304751794613736?l=sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~4/MWs24X5FCgQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~3/MWs24X5FCgQ/freedom-flowering-mandala.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sue O'Kieffe)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fnTVy1paBsg/ThHNU2U9imI/AAAAAAAADBE/u_JcyW--yNE/s72-c/freedom+flowering+copy.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com/2011/07/freedom-flowering-mandala.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31512762.post-2695238631973169798</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-28T11:26:07.217-07:00</atom:updated><title>Infinite Light of Heaven and Earth Mandala</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mo4hDEjo-kE/Tgneq7OD_KI/AAAAAAAADA8/7ue2Xe4H7s8/s1600/infinite+light+of+heaven+and+earth+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="infinite light of heaven and earth mandala"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mo4hDEjo-kE/Tgneq7OD_KI/AAAAAAAADA8/7ue2Xe4H7s8/s400/infinite+light+of+heaven+and+earth+copy.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Infinite Light of Heaven and Earth (Circle of Transformation) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_ykRwV4p5fk/Tgnmm3-RoGI/AAAAAAAADBA/01oR5CjqVuw/s1600/artichoke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" title="artichoke"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_ykRwV4p5fk/Tgnmm3-RoGI/AAAAAAAADBA/01oR5CjqVuw/s200/artichoke.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;source image: artichoke&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend...when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present/love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that brings us pleasure/the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Aside from the fact that I do believe artichokes are one of those culinary delights that are indeed a little bit of heaven on earth, I also like the transformation that occurred in this mandala image, suggesting roots digging deep in the earth while receiving heaven's golden brilliance.&lt;br /&gt;
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Some technical details: For this mandala, I experimented some more using the &lt;a href="http://www.mehdiplugins.com/english/kaleidoscope.htm"&gt;Mehdi Kaleidoscope Plug-In&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for Photoshop along with &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/paintthemoonphotography?sk=info"&gt;Paint the Moon's&lt;/a&gt; Illuminate actions that Annie was giving away a while back on Facebook.&lt;br /&gt;
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These days I experience mandala creation more and more as a transmission. Writing about what these mandalas mean to me is not nearly as important as how you receive and experience them. This is the communication between you and me. I may bring them through, but you bring them to life.&lt;br /&gt;
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I'd love to hear your comments/response.&lt;br /&gt;
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~Sue O'Kieffe&lt;br /&gt;
Sacred Circle Mandalas&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31512762-2695238631973169798?l=sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~4/8fTMDaU35xw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~3/8fTMDaU35xw/infinite-light-of-heaven-and-earth.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sue O'Kieffe)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mo4hDEjo-kE/Tgneq7OD_KI/AAAAAAAADA8/7ue2Xe4H7s8/s72-c/infinite+light+of+heaven+and+earth+copy.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com/2011/06/infinite-light-of-heaven-and-earth.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31512762.post-4951094374044999172</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-26T06:00:03.140-07:00</atom:updated><title>Garden Spirit Mandala</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cT2dgNytaxs/TgZblcOyoWI/AAAAAAAADA0/lB7dFA8Xfi4/s1600/garden+spirit+mandala.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="garden spirit mandala"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cT2dgNytaxs/TgZblcOyoWI/AAAAAAAADA0/lB7dFA8Xfi4/s400/garden+spirit+mandala.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Garden Spirit Mandala (Circles of Transformation series) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mf81W1XJGBU/TgZboDwRMkI/AAAAAAAADA4/D5IBHyKHTNI/s1600/garden+spirit+alstro+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" title="alstroemeria"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mf81W1XJGBU/TgZboDwRMkI/AAAAAAAADA4/D5IBHyKHTNI/s200/garden+spirit+alstro+copy.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;source image: red alstroemeria&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Where you believe there is magic, you will find it ~ Unknown&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Come faeries, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the moutain like a flame ~ Yeats&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;There are fairies at the bottom of our garden ~ Rose Fyleman&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31512762-4951094374044999172?l=sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~4/Y9klJ2ORwqc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~3/Y9klJ2ORwqc/garden-spirit-mandala.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sue O'Kieffe)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cT2dgNytaxs/TgZblcOyoWI/AAAAAAAADA0/lB7dFA8Xfi4/s72-c/garden+spirit+mandala.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com/2011/06/garden-spirit-mandala.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31512762.post-8909237689464366177</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-25T08:53:53.710-07:00</atom:updated><title>Cosmic Wisdom Mandala</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9u3FeQb_MsA/TgX8tr9yFGI/AAAAAAAADAs/58tiBhbl5kg/s1600/cosmic+wisdom+mandala.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="cosmic wisdom mandala"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9u3FeQb_MsA/TgX8tr9yFGI/AAAAAAAADAs/58tiBhbl5kg/s400/cosmic+wisdom+mandala.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cosmic Wisdom Mandala (Circle of Transformation) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;source image: garden sage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere ~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers ~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky ~&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KqfArkz9Q4A/TgYBz15T3ZI/AAAAAAAADAw/rU8fU0mQYTE/s1600/cosmic+wisdom+sage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" title="garden sage"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KqfArkz9Q4A/TgYBz15T3ZI/AAAAAAAADAw/rU8fU0mQYTE/s200/cosmic+wisdom+sage.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;All quotes are from Carl Sagan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Thanks to my new friend Kate and time spent tending her beautiful garden where I experienced the Oneness of Everything over and over again.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways ~&amp;nbsp;Alexander Volkov&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself ~&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Katherine Sharp&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one ~&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;M. Scott Peck&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31512762-5109539002312801841?l=sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~4/49BdEAQXM08" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~3/49BdEAQXM08/wake-up-mandala.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sue O'Kieffe)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wBlRkdDqtFI/TgPZ7h64O5I/AAAAAAAADAk/uyyd5WkfNfU/s72-c/wake+up.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com/2011/06/wake-up-mandala.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31512762.post-4561354451147937483</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-22T16:54:01.718-07:00</atom:updated><title>WORDLESS WEDNESDAY: SUMMER DANCE</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UnhZXVF-4Sk/TgHzX9U6nbI/AAAAAAAADAc/Y9v4KxN_11E/s1600/summer+dance.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="summer dance"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UnhZXVF-4Sk/TgHzX9U6nbI/AAAAAAAADAc/Y9v4KxN_11E/s400/summer+dance.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Summer Dance Mandala (Circles of Summer 2011) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;source image: nasturtium&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NhTps_AQKQg/TgJ_w4FwM5I/AAAAAAAADAg/oAQsCJr9gWM/s1600/summer+dance+nasturtium+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="nasturtium"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NhTps_AQKQg/TgJ_w4FwM5I/AAAAAAAADAg/oAQsCJr9gWM/s200/summer+dance+nasturtium+copy.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31512762-4561354451147937483?l=sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~4/f6XhAVzRlFI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~3/f6XhAVzRlFI/wordless-wednesday-summer-dance.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sue O'Kieffe)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UnhZXVF-4Sk/TgHzX9U6nbI/AAAAAAAADAc/Y9v4KxN_11E/s72-c/summer+dance.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com/2011/06/wordless-wednesday-summer-dance.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31512762.post-4983955190081822804</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-20T08:31:25.844-07:00</atom:updated><title>Courage Mandala</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-50SfA1Q4mmc/Tf9XOVj7fjI/AAAAAAAADAU/fMwJWp2q-4M/s1600/courage+no+glyph.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="courage mandala"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="395" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-50SfA1Q4mmc/Tf9XOVj7fjI/AAAAAAAADAU/fMwJWp2q-4M/s400/courage+no+glyph.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_-Tr7yoVRcY/Tf9gNJtnLkI/AAAAAAAADAY/-4QmuC8sHAg/s1600/courage+source+image+red+yarrow+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="red yarrow"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_-Tr7yoVRcY/Tf9gNJtnLkI/AAAAAAAADAY/-4QmuC8sHAg/s200/courage+source+image+red+yarrow+copy.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Courage Mandala (Circles of Transformation) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power ~ Alan Cohen&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;---------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;I would love to hear your response to this mandala. How do you feel when you take in this image?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;I am the conduit. You bring the mandalas to life.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Crown of Heaven is the next in my series of &amp;nbsp;mandalas for my &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/sueokieffe/posts/1680608662666"&gt;May Day Healing Series&lt;/a&gt;. I wanted to create an image with the higher vibrational &amp;nbsp;blues, indigos and violets for the 5th, 6th and 7th chakras.&lt;br /&gt;
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The day that I captured this photo of the ceanothus I used as the source image, I was struck by the energetic freshness of the bush, which I think had just recently been planted on the Arcata Plaza. It wow'd me.&lt;br /&gt;
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I would love to hear your impressions of this mandala image. How does it feel in your body when you gaze on it? What messages does it offer to you? Many times I had a sense of this sphere tumbling and spinning through the Universe.&lt;br /&gt;
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May we expand our healing to clear out the blocks that prevent us from speaking our truth and saying what we mean, may we open our eyes wide and &amp;nbsp;trust our intuition, may we allow the messages of the Universe to clearly flow through us. May it be so.&lt;br /&gt;
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~Sue O'Kieffe&lt;br /&gt;
Sacred Circle Mandalas&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31512762-4701106732405190306?l=sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~4/VCanTOHVo_Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SacredCircleMandalas/~3/VCanTOHVo_Q/crown-of-heaven-mandala.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sue O'Kieffe)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JYc7UyHFLQY/Td7nGrPu5MI/AAAAAAAAC_8/cqdSdOku5tI/s72-c/crown+of+creation+copy.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com/2011/05/crown-of-heaven-mandala.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31512762.post-5237403340569603684</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-20T06:00:00.693-07:00</atom:updated><title>House of Stars Mandala</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iVyjqMWJHVE/TdWld3KCWLI/AAAAAAAAC_w/C6C7ayv-PUw/s1600/house+of+stars+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="house of stars mandala"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iVyjqMWJHVE/TdWld3KCWLI/AAAAAAAAC_w/C6C7ayv-PUw/s400/house+of+stars+copy.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;House of Stars Mandala (May Day Healing Series) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Source image: blackberry leaves&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DU19tInEG28/TdWmgJwMHWI/AAAAAAAAC_0/1jEiHhC59eo/s1600/house+of+stars+blackberry+leaf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" title="blackberry leaf"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DU19tInEG28/TdWmgJwMHWI/AAAAAAAAC_0/1jEiHhC59eo/s200/house+of+stars+blackberry+leaf.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is the second in a series of mandala images I've created since the events in Pakistan on May 1st. As time has moved on, I have found that I want to focus less on the events of that day, and instead respond to the intuitive responses I received from &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/sueokieffe/posts/1680608662666"&gt;folks on Facebook&lt;/a&gt; who answered my original question:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;dear fb friends assist me in creating a mandala for today ~ i feel the need to do something ~ send me names of colors, numbers, symbols, whatever speaks to you in the moment! let's synergistically bring forth a healing pattern. leave it in my comments. i feel such a need to create art around this event.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Doreen requested green for the heart, for compassion; Kaia requested green for relaxation. &amp;nbsp;I love the texture and patterns of the blackberry leaves I chose for this mandala. May we find a way to remove the thorns that we feel we need to protect our hearts.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Debi suggested adding the power of light, as in a star, and so I felt drawn to create a five pointed mandala. As the mandala began to take shape, I saw a star inside a house sitting in the center of the image. Aren't we all perfect stars of love and light, spiritual beings housed in our human bodies?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Our light continues to grow and expand ever outward.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;My mandala art primarily focuses on individual growth. I am not so comfortable writing about world politics and will leave that for those who do it so much better than I do. My hope and dream is that we may all embrace our love and light and find ways to share it with the world, to be kind with each other. My star sees the reflection of you as a star when I look into your eyes.&lt;br /&gt;
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Be love.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sue O'Kieffe&lt;br /&gt;
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