tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-81246579379836684 2018-03-15T11:54:44-07:00 Minding the heart and mending the soul. TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b01b8d2e2c37c970c 2018-03-15T11:54:44-07:00 2018-03-15T11:54:44-07:00

Let Soul Navigation Cards connect you to your field or knowing and open you to your expanded self! http://www.fuzionhealingarts.com/soul-navigation-cards/

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b01bb0987f797970d 2017-03-27T11:25:00-07:00 2017-03-27T11:25:00-07:00

You may have added fire to the seeds of this new moon in Aries. May your strength always have grace and ease, and pause as the moon touches Venus before completing its cycle.

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b01bb08a19124970d 2015-12-20T18:23:21-08:00 2015-12-20T18:23:21-08:00

Happy Solstice Monday December 21, 2015 The Sun (Sol) appears to stand still (stice). This is the darkest time. It is the time in the northern hemisphere when the sun enters the sign Capricorn, and for 3 days we remain at our darkest point. It represents the cyclical potential for movement into our deepest place, our dark place where seeds incubate and life can begin to germinate again. It is a great time to move into your depth, your deepest heart's desires, and connect to where your light still lives in this darkness. Tune into your Sankalpa, your authentic self's...

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b01a3fd2b95ad970b 2014-07-04T18:38:43-07:00 2014-07-04T18:38:43-07:00

Greetings from Leslie Ciechanowski, As some of you may know I am in my second season studying Family Systemic Constellations with Francesca Mason Boring. I have also been a long time student of Astrological perspectives of the human experience. I have begun the first steps of integrating working within the field of systemic constellations and astrological archetypes, and am pleased to announce my first "plunge" in conducting a workshop in this integrative work. Should you be interested in exploring these "waters", please join me! Saturday, July 12 East West Bookshop 11:00 am - 2:00 pm $25.00 Astrological Explorations with Systemic...

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b01a73da2df11970d 2014-04-05T23:16:48-07:00 2014-04-05T23:16:48-07:00

A great way to pick a card. Listen to the music with your eyes closed and pause when you feel the moment is right. Thank you Kabir and Snatnam Kaur for your angelic voice.

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b017d42567013970c 2013-03-27T16:13:05-07:00 2013-03-27T16:13:05-07:00

Did anyone see the big, beautiful Moon last night? Anyone tipsy by the "Moonshine"? We are in a full Moon phase now and it may be very intense on many levels. The Moon is in diplomatic Libra opposition not just the Sun, but a host of other planetary bodies - Venus, Mars, Uranus, all in Aries. All of these planets including the moon are square Pluto. Creating internal stress and need for movement or quick resolutions. This may sound like a different language - which it is! The short and sweet of it is: remember to breathe, balance needs and...

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b017d422d5a3e970c 2013-03-21T15:02:56-07:00 2013-03-21T15:04:31-07:00

On this second day of spring I pull the Water Card (Soul Navigation Cards) and reflect on its significance immediately after yesterday’s Fire Card for spring. Water is connected to the world of feeling, as distinguished from emotions. Emotions connect us to past feelings that may have created patterned responses, belief systems, and habitual ways of being - separate from temperament. I connect the element of fire with Spirit, and water with Soul. When the water of our soul is clear, unclouded by past emotional patterning, we are able to be more fully present in the moment. And when we...

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b017c37f40931970b 2013-03-20T08:36:11-07:00 2013-03-20T08:36:11-07:00

From the perspective of our blessed planet earth, I imagine the cycles of birth, death, and renewal as a constant. Not just here, everywhere. Life is change, it is a constant whether it is the life of a human being, or that of a far away galaxy. Energy is always in movement, it can neither be created nor destroyed. On this first day of spring, for some the beginning of the New Year, the Fire Card (Soul Navigation Card) appears as the harbinger. How fitting I think, as the Sun enters Aries, a fire sign, and that fire also represents...

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b01676724fe59970b 2012-07-25T09:04:00-07:00 2012-07-25T09:05:32-07:00

Join Leslie Ciechanowski, M. Ed, & Lynn Larkin, MSW, in two Sound Healing Workshop Saturday, July 28, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm AND/OR Sunday July 29, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm East West Bookshop - Seattle, WA www.eastwestbookshop.com Seattle, WA Explore the gifts of sound as a means of meditation, stress relief and healing in our daily lives. Using crystal bowls, voice, and other sound instruments, we will experience how sound can impact body, mind, and spirit. Join in with your own voice, and soak up the energy with sound healers facilitating your journey. Leave with a deeper sense of...

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b017615507057970c 2012-06-11T08:30:22-07:00 2012-06-11T08:30:22-07:00

When we have an abundance of something, we have more than enough to meet our needs. Our cup is not simply full, but overflowing. When we feel there is plenty, and believe there always will be plenty, we more easily engage in generosity of spirit. Abundance is not about how much we have, but rather having more than enough to meet our needs. When people speak of abundance they are often referring to money - perhaps because in our society, money provides us many ways to meet our needs. Abundance, however, can refer to any area of our life, whether...

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b016766e4db90970b 2012-05-28T21:26:42-07:00 2012-05-28T21:26:42-07:00

 Direction moves us towards our intentions, goals or life vision, providing a sense of purpose and meaning in our life, or in our day-to-day activities. A sense of direction guides our choices, movement, and the paths we take, moving us forward towards our goal, and unfolding Self. Sometimes our direction is clear and focused, choices are obvious and there is a sense of progression towards our goals. At other times our direction may seem unclear, guided by a sense of what we do not want, what feels good in the moment, or an inner knowing of what is congruent...

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b016766a3f480970b 2012-05-20T23:08:54-07:00 2012-05-20T23:08:54-07:00

When we act from the deep center of our heart, we are connected to internal guidance that is rooted in both timelessness and expansiveness. Wisdom is discernment through deep listening and balancing experience, understanding, insight. It is using the heart as the lens to see through. Seeing through the eyes of the heart means listening with feeling, compassion and connectedness to our humanity. Feeling is distinguished here from emotionality, sentimentalism, and reactivity, and is defined, in this case, as our present moment response to what is. We often associate wisdom with age, and associate sages with great wisdom that comes...

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b0167667aa760970b 2012-05-13T22:44:30-07:00 2012-05-13T22:44:30-07:00

Earth is the substance of life itself - the rocks, clay, sand and soil from which emerge the trees, plants, and all creatures. Symbolically, it is the substance from which matter emerges into manifestation. Some cosmologies see earth as the clay from which our physical bodies were formed. Mother earth, Gaia, and Demeter are all associated with archetypes of the Earth Mother. Earth holds the qualities of nurturing, strength, steadfastness, and creativity in that it supports and nurtures growth. It is connected to the physical dimension and the realm of the senses. In our language we have sayings such as:...

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b016765ecf609970b 2012-04-30T07:18:46-07:00 2012-04-30T07:18:46-07:00

Expect magic, entertain the mystical, and dance in wonder! Magic engages us in the unexplained wonder and mystery in all of life. It is the place where “coincidences” appear to be planned by some unexplained order and where synchronicities abound - if we have eyes to see. To the “magician”, it is the mastery of his or her craft that hides the mechanism of the constructed illusion. Every move is orchestrated to enhance the illusion. Being our own magician is to be aware of and be able to move within the flow of life’s mysteries, to know how we are...

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b016765978345970b 2012-04-23T08:10:41-07:00 2012-04-23T08:33:51-07:00

Hope is the light at the end of the tunnel, the belief that “this too shall pass”. Its slightest glimmer can take us out of deepest despair and lead us to our sweetest joys. When we are hopeful, the resulting emotion creates an energy shift wherein our positive expectations are able to arise and move beyond doubt and negativity. When we are hopeful, the emotional constriction that doubt, fear, and despair bring is softened and we are able to move to a place of new possibilities. While hope is the expectation of positive possibilities, it does not have to be...

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b0168ea318cd7970c 2012-04-15T23:41:08-07:00 2012-04-15T23:41:08-07:00

When you pull this card there may be something blocking your desired goals, destination or achievements. Obstacles are an impediment of your natural progression, and as with most things, obstacles may originate from within, without, or from an interplay of the two.

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b016764d44cec970b 2012-04-08T22:48:43-07:00 2012-04-08T22:48:43-07:00

Responsibility is the ability to respond and be accountable. It may be felt as a subtle awareness on some level, that accompanies and guides a response. Ones ability to respond is influenced in turn by ones awareness. The extent of ones sense of accountability ranges from ones self, social sphere, family friends, work, etc Biologically, we are guided by instinctual impulses, which can oftentimes direct our propensity to respond such as, a mother’s impulse to nurture her newborn child. Psycho-socially, some factors that guide our accountability are commitment and valued end. If there has been a commitment made to oneself,...

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b0163039908be970d 2012-04-02T07:50:04-07:00 2012-04-02T07:50:04-07:00

Whenever I get this card, I sometimes notice a twinge of irritation arising in me that usually means I need to stop pushing, slow down and allow myself and/or others to move through their process of unfolding. In short, I need more patience. Sometimes we have a lot of patience in certain areas of our life and not in others. Some people may have copious amounts of patience teaching complicated material, or caring for the young, and yet none while driving. Often we have the least amount of patience for ourselves. Regardless of our level of patience, there are usually...

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b016303482063970d 2012-03-25T22:31:40-07:00 2012-03-25T22:31:40-07:00

When we say “YES!” wholeheartedly, every part of our being opens up, and we accept and affirm that which we are saying yes to. At that moment, there may be a sense of expansion in spirit and soul. If we could see our body’s response when we are experiencing a congruent and enthusiastic “YES!”, I imagine we would see our very pores and cells open up to receive! When we fully engage, affirming what is happening in the moment, we enter a state of allowance and are able to overcome resistance.

Leslie tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a4fe3b8e970b016763fbbcac970b 2012-03-19T07:14:04-07:00 2012-03-19T07:14:04-07:00

Peace is often described as the absence of war, strife, conflict, or struggles of any kind in our internal or external world. We all long for peace – a state of ease and harmony – and wish it for others as well: in their homes, their countries and in their hearts. Inner peace is felt as calm, harmony, and a sense of ease deep within our being. When one is at peace with the present moment, nothing needs to be added to or taken away. Peace in the world begins within each individual. When we let go of our internal...

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