The Wisdom and Magic Blog
10 Things To Consider Before Moving To A New Country
There is something romantic, exciting, adventurous about moving to a new country. Or maybe the decision to move to a new country is the result of having had several wonderful vacations in the area being considering, or is based on something read about in books or...
Can Subconscious Limiting Beliefs Affect You?
Beliefs are just thoughts that we think over and over and over again. Thoughts become habituated in us and create our beliefs. Limiting beliefs are repeated thoughts that have a negative impact on what we are trying to accomplish. They limit our ability to succeed. We...
Seeing Driftwood – Recognizing Signs of Success
Have you ever walked along a beach after a storm and noticed how littered the beach was with sticks and bits of debris - driftwood. The average person would likely walk past this debris, ignoring it, or silently thinking about how untidy the beach looks. A creative...
Focusing on Love Versus Happiness
Recently, there have been a lot of conversations, blogs, and information published that is focused on happiness. Happiness as a means of making significant successful changes in a person's life, and as the basis for building an ideal life on. If the job you are...
Four Tips To Help Achieve Greater Alignment
For Conscious Creators, the concept of alignment refers to the situation where you are a vibrational match for what you are trying to manifest. So, for example, when you are in alignment with trying to create a new lifestyle, then you are a vibrational match with the...
The Alignment Trinity
Being in alignment is a powerful manifestors technique and the Alignment tool can help conscious creators be aware of whether they have achieved alignment, or not. Sometimes, both beginner and experienced conscious creators struggle to successfully manifest their...
Food Magic to Enhance Conscious Creation
The history of food magic is absolutely fascinating, well, at least I find food magic fascinating 🙂 For centuries, foods have been used to bolster the energy of rituals, of conscious creations (even before the practice was identified as Conscious Creation or Law of...
Can the Law of Attraction Help Me Get My Ex Back?
Valentine's Day is just past and all you can think of is your ex. You miss them. You want them back. You're willing to try anything to get them back. So the big question on your mind right now is "How do I use the Law of Attraction to bring my ex back?" Not...
Unconditional Self-Love
Everyone has heard of unconditional love - affection without any limitations, love without any conditions. It's the kind of love we look for in soulmates. It's the kind of love we receive from our pets. But is it the kind of love we have for ourselves? I was reading...
Everyday Values vs Personal Core Values
I was having a conversation with a friend the other day about personal core values and the question came up about how many personal core values an individual could have. Numbers discussed ranged from two personal core values to 97. My response, and what I firmly...
Welcome 2016, A Year of Clarity and Energy
Goodbye 2015, Hello 2016!! I don't think I have ever been happier to say "Goodbye!" to a year before, and so excited for a new year to begin. The year 2015 was so bad that I didn't even want to do a review, not even a personal review, in case I attracted more of that...
Clarity First, Then Manifest
Have you ever tried to manifest something and thought that you hadn't been successful? You know you worked your magic to the best of your ability. You were certain that the Universe was hearing your desire, and that all the right energies were lining up perfectly for...
Sliding Through Overwhelm
Overwhelm is a very interesting place to visit, but I am not really excited to be here!! Unfortunately, overwhelm seems to be a place that most big transformations take you through at least once on the journey to something new. It is almost a necessary step towards...
Intuition and Your Core Values
Why are we attracted to some things but not others? Why do some things bring us pure joy but to other people, they bring nothing but pure misery? How can we design a life that is fully in alignment with things and people and activities that we love? What if there was...
Everyday Intuition – Intuitive Eating
When I first started learning about how to develop my intuition, the examples that were being used to illustrate intuition consisted of things like predicting the movement of the Dow Jones Daily Average or the daily price of gold, which is awesome, but not always the...
Tarot PinPointing For Amping Up Intuition
"When we study the imagery and symbols on the cards in a tarot spread, we activate our imagination. That imagination then activates our intuition, which is often the only instrument we have that channels a clear path for us to the truth of the matter. That truth is...
Manifesting Abundance
When you read the word "abundance" what comes to mind, what do you automatically think of? For many people the word "abundance", particularly when it comes to the deliberate creation practices of manifesting abundance, generally has a meaning or a feeling that has...
Tarot as an LOA Manifesting Tool
On their own, Law of Attraction/Deliberate Creation tools, like scripting, or acting as if, or amping it up, can be pretty powerful tools that help people create their soul-aligned life - the life you are destined to live. And for some deliberate creators, manifesting...
Selecting Your First Tarot Deck
When I first started reading Tarot, (actually more 'playing with' than 'reading') I didn't really know what I was doing or what I should be doing, or even if what I was doing was working. I remember selecting my first Tarot...
The Hierophant
I received a new deck of Tarot cards this week - the Alchemical Tarot deck, by Robert M. Place - and the deck is amazing!! The images are beautifully crafted deep in symbolism and meaning. The cards are comfortable and welcoming to hold. And...
Dropping into Wordlessness
JIll Bolte Taylor, in her book My Stroke of Insight, refers to it as stepping to the right. Eben Alexander, in his book Proof of Heaven, refers to it as getting out of your own way. Martha Beck, in her book Finding Your Way In A Wild New World, writes...
Seven Powerful Clarity Tools
Affirmations and I Am statements don't work, at least not for me and not on their own! And if they are not working for me, I imagine there are others who are finding that Affirmations and I Am... statements are not the power tools they had hoped they were! I have...
All Lives Matter
I hadn't given much thought about writing a post on Cecil the Lion, the lion who was killed recently by a trophy hunter, but something about this particular story began to haunt me. There was such a strong public reaction to the passing of this lion....
Accessing Intuition
The Alchemist From the Tarot Illuminati Deck Meaning: The Instigation of Transformations Instigating big changes; having all the necessary resources at hand; intention, energy, will, and resources focused on one intention Looking back over the past few...
Esoteric Wisdom
by: Anne Bolender Esoteric Wisdom is that inner wisdom we all have, that inner knowing of what we like, what we don't like, what makes us happy, what makes us feel free, who we are.... To help access this inner esoteric wisdom, particularly during times of doubt,...
Do You Believe in Magic?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy. - Shakespeare’s Hamlet When I was very young, I used to love watching TV shows like ‘Bewitched’ and ‘I Dream of Jeannie’. Oh, to be able to change my reality by twitching my...
2015 – The Year of Clarity
Farewell 2014. Welcome 2015. My Year of Clarity!! by: Anne Bolender The holiday season has arrived, and with it, the knowledge that another year has sped by. Time for some reflection, some expressions of gratitude, and some intention setting to get the new year...
Happy New Year
Happy New Year! May your journey through 2015 be filled with amazing discoveries and wondrous joy. And that your travels bring you freedom and abundance and many, many gates of opportunities. Big Love
Happy Thanksgiving!!
To all of my amazing American friends, acquaintances and the awesome readers of my posts. Wishing you all an awesome Thanksgiving - one that is full of love and gratitude and family and friends and ........everything wonderful!! Love, gratitude, and Happy...
Tis The Season for Some Amped Up Self Love
"Tis the season to be jolly, fa la la la la, la la, la la!! This is also the season to be shopping, cleaning, cooking, baking, entertaining .... and, for a lot of people, working at a full-time job!!! Sometimes, just sometimes, it's difficult to find the energy to be...