March
Messages From Your Animal Spirit Guides
Message from Panda:
Create a sacred space for yourself in your home and/or place of work.
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Oh, For Heaven's Sake!
Booksigning and Workshop @
For Heaven's Sake Bookstore in Denver, Colorado
Thursday, June 3rd
7-9pm
"Soul Healing with Earth Magic"
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on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Use Oracle Cards to connect you with
animal spirit guides who will advise you about any aspect of your life.
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Healing Your Ancestral Karma
Join Dr. Steven Farmer and Indigenous Australian, Jeremy Donovan
May 29th, 2010
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What is Your Power Animal?
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LET'S TALK Upcoming Radio Interviews Featuring
Dr. Steven Farmer(All Times are in PST)
Wednesday, March 3rd; 6-7pm
"Fire Up Your Soul" on
Conscious Living Radio
w/ host Dr. Linda Christensen
Friday, March 14th; 9-10am
"Transformations w/ Tara" on
Contact Talk Radio
w/ host Tara Sutphen
Wednesday, March 19th 2-4pm
"Our Worlds" on
Z Talk Radio
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Greetings!
Welcome to this edition of my newsletter! I trust that you're enjoying the increasing light as we move through spring and edge closer to summer here in the northern hemisphere. Check out the piece on the upcoming spring equinox excerpted from my book Sacred Ceremony. Meanwhile, our friends in Australia, South Africa, and the rest of the southern hemisphere are headed toward winter.
Seattle, Vancouver, and White Rock, here I come! As you'll see I'm doing several events there just around the corner. I always look forward to visiting the Pacific Northwest and have always had a great experience. If you're in the neighborhood, please join me for at least one of these.
Some exciting projects are in the works, including some items for children, and I'm starting on a new book with my partner, Jesseca, that should prove to be groundbreaking and offer some new perspectives on healing that are congruent with the awakening consciousness that is occurring in so many. The final draft of the manuscript for my Earth Magic Oracle Cards is being prepared for publication, although these won't be available until November 1.
I'm glad to hear that so many of you are enjoying the new radio show, Earth Magic Radio on ContactTalkRadio.com every Thursday from 4-5 Pacific. Each week I tackle a different topic. You can see the schedule and access the archived shows on my website. I also take caller's questions and when requested, do power animal readings. Hope you can join me!
So take a walk outside, breathe in the air, and do so with gratitude for our Earth Mother and all her children!
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April 17th-May 2nd
Last Chance to Register for a once in a lifetime experience!
 Join
soul healers Dr. Steven Farmer and Jade Wah'oo for a spiritual
pilgrimage to the powerful and magical land of Peru! Traveling with a
small group of participants (30 maximum), you'll be immersed in
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The spring or Vernal Equinox is the time of year when the sun crosses the plane of the Earth's equator, and day and night are of equal length across the entire planet. Now there's increasing evidence that the season that was begun on February 1 is blooming much more fully. Since winter is clearly over, now crops can be sown without reservation. Mother Earth is pregnant, and plants and animals are being born everywhere. A belief amongst some Native American peoples is that during this time one must walk very carefully on the Earth because she is swollen and pregnant.
Another name for this seasonal quarter-day is Ostara, also called Oestre or Eostar. An ancient image of Ostara was of a Goddess standing amid the flowers of Spring, holding an egg in one hand, with birds flying all about her and a rabbit hopping around her feet. All of these images appear today during the seasonal festivities as symbols of newborn life. Ostara is also a Northern European name for Astarte, which means "womb," and is another name for Venus, the Goddess of love, passion, and creativity. It was also known as "Lady Day," or Eostre, which took place on the first full moon after the Vernal equinox.
Easter, named after this festival, is one of the Christian Church's "moveable feasts." It falls near this time, and is calculated by a combination of celestial events and the Gregorian calendar. It occurs on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the equinox, and is the celebration of Jesus Christ's resurrection, his triumph over death. Prior to this holiday, members of the Catholic Church prepare with a period of meditation and sacrifice, known as Lent. In its archetypal form, the festival of Ostara is the resurrection of the Light, the triumph of the Sun over winter.
So this festival is the time of renewal and rebirth, of saying a clear and definite farewell to the hibernation that was a central theme of winter and welcoming the increasing light. We notice the obvious signs on the face of the Earth, and as well feel them inside us. Often we start to feel a familiar feeling of restlessness, which sometimes has been called "Spring fever," especially if your work requires you to be inside for long periods of time. It's nature's call to be outside, to renew, to be active and creatively expressive. You'll find you want to sleep less and feel the urge to get up at dawn to enjoy the day.
Commemorating Spring Equinox-Get outdoors! That's the simplest and best way to honor this season. Do so as often as you can. Decorate your altar and your home with flowers, colored eggs, and anything else that reminds you of spring.
Planting now, more than at any other time, becomes a way to connect with the earth and with the season. Again, although we think of this time as the beginning of spring, it really is mid-spring. Create a ceremony around the planting. Pray, meditate, and communicate with the earth spirits (or if you prefer, the faeries and plant devas), and ask their help in growing your flowers or your vegetables. Plant a tree, whether in your own back yard or somewhere in the woods. Toss the seeds from any fruit or vegetables you eat, along the roadside, in your backyard, or anywhere this would be appropriate and environmentally compatible.
 Letting go of the old and unwanted is also a theme, also known as "spring housecleaning." Ideally, if you can find an old oak tree near a stream, act out a ceremony of release and renewal. At this season, this is clearly representational of what Mother Nature is doing. She has cleared out winter, and is now birthing anew. Create the ceremony around this theme. Use a biodegradable symbol of the old, and bury it. Find a symbol, something from the natural world, which represents what is showing the buds of manifestation at this time. Visualize what is growing within you and write it out in your journal.
This is one of the best seasonal holidays to do an Earth Renewal Ceremony. It's a remarkable community event, so persuade some of your friends and family to join in.
Get out at night, somewhere away from city lights, and look at the stars. Learn about some of the springtime constellations, and the movement of the planets. Soak in the nighttime coolness that tells you it's not yet summer. The next seasonal celebration is the one that will herald the beginning of summer.
For more articles written by Dr. Steven Farmer - Go HERE.
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"Dear Doc" - Email your questions about Spirituality Animal Spirit Guides, Shamanism, Soul Healing, Earth Magic or everyday issues... and If we
pick your question, you could be featured in Dr. Steven Farmer's next
newsletter!
Email your submission HERE.
Dear Doc,
 I've been a police officer for the past 12 years, a lecturer in Criminology and five years ago I took the law degree and was admitted to the bar as well. Lately I've been seeing small animals from the corner of my eye basically anywhere, especially in my apartment, where I don't have any pets. I initially had the impression they were mostly cats but then a fortnight ago, I managed to catch a glimpse of a small red fox coming from behind the foot of my bed and dashing towards the door, only to stop for a few seconds to look straight at me. (There aren't any foxes or forest animals in my country). Then out of the blue, around the same time, I've been contacted by my former thesis tutor I had in my law degree, who is an environmental lawyer, who wants me to join University as a full-time lecturer in Environmental and Planning Law.
I was elated by the offer, to say the least. It got me all fired up as I've been feeling an urge to help 'Gaia' for some time now, giving reiki healing to trees and anything green, and sometimes finding myself buying books over the internet about how to communicate with animals. I even purchased a book called 'The cognitive ecology of pollination' for no reason at all, the title just struck me as interesting and I got a few strange looks from my friends, though not from my husband, who is a true hands-on environmentalist who has worked with Greenpeace.
I'm currently doing my PhD in Criminology and because of that, I've been offered to switch to full-time lecturing at University in that field as well. I'm basically too scared to admit that I don't feel attracted to the kind of policing I've been practising any more even though I have invested heavily in my career. Why do I keep seeing small animals, especially of the forest type?
Thanks and God bless! Mary Muscat
Mary,
 Spotting these smaller forest animals means you're being called to do work on behalf of the forests and these critters. Since you specifically mentioned fox, the spirit of Fox is communicating with you via this representative. He's suggesting you don't need to be in the forefront as an activist but instead your best way to help is by being more surreptitious about it, In other words, more in the background.
You also need to be spending more time in the woods, smelling the smells, getting re-acquainted with the spirits that express as the trees, shrubs, and the various animals you will likely encounter. Good luck with your new career!
Many Blessings,
Steven
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Steven is taking your calls and offering his unique Power
Animal readings on his new radio show!
Using his intuitive skills
honed during his years as a psychotherapist and shamanic practitioner
along with his oracle cards, he'll help you discover answers to your
questions about relationships, money, life purpose, spirituality or any
other questions you may have.
During the LIVE Show you can call in at 1-877-230-3062.
 March Show Schedule:
MARCH 4: HEALING WITH YOUR ANIMAL SPIRIT GUIDE
Special LIVE
in-studio broadcast this week as Steven is doing events in the
Seattle-Vancouver area over the next several days (see his website
drstevenfarmer.com for details). Listeners were invited to submit
stories of personal healing experiences with an animal spirit guide and
two were chosen to appear in-studio today to discuss their stories.
Join us for what will prove to be a lively and provocative show. Steven
will also offer spirit animal readings for callers who request them.
MARCH 11:
SOUL HEALING AND TRAUMA RECOVERY MARCH 18:
CELEBRATING THE SPRING EQUINOX
MARCH 25:
HEALING ANCESTRAL KARMA
Did you miss a show? No problem! All shows are in the archives or subscribe to the show on iTunes!
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