Author: designingfairy

I'm Ronni, a designing fairy living among the humans! I'm a writer, illustrator, designer, and animal communicator/medium who loves to share and teach what I've learned in a fun way, whether it's providing tools in my Help! I'm Sensitive series for the sensitive folk, Healing Fairy Alphabet Deck for connecting to your intuition through Nature, the Idea Emporium for thinking like a designer to get out of boxes, or teaching in a classroom lessons I created, I hope my creations help make life more fun and easier. I like to help my fellow sensitives!
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Featured card this week

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T is for Tree Spirit. “You’ve forgotten the earthy side of your nature,” the tree spirit told me. (from the Fairy Healing Alphabet deck copyright 2011 Ronni Ann Hall)

Something  to look at this week: Tree Spirits are such wise and loving beings. This Tree Spirit is letting you know that you are too disconnected from Nature at this time in your life. You need to hug a tree, or walk in the forest, or sit by a pond. Symptoms you are disconnected:

  • you feel “boxed-in” and claustrophobic

  • you work in an environment where there is no windows

  • you feel cranky and irritable

  • you are not feeling creative or hopeful

Fairy task: Bring the outside in. Go hunting for fallen pinecones and forest treasures to bring into your home. Cut a flower from your rose bush and place it into a vase. Open some windows and let light in. Balance will be restored inside of you and around you.

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Manifesting and Odd Timing

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Sometimes what we want can be manifested years ahead and not when we intended. I found a whole bunch of drawings from my sketchbook including this one back in 2007 when I was trying to manifest my ideal backyard:

My backyard now has rose bushes everywhere and flowering bushes. I just planted vegetables (although, between you and me, the celery looks a little wonky), and there’s a ton of amazing trees. There’s lots of privacy and I can paint outside but I like to inside. And Emma Lou, like in the drawing, is happily strolling along the garden with the Fairies. The fence looks like that also. And the pet door.

Could be manifesting or just psychic vision. That happens a great deal, too. Interesting…

spiritual lessons

One of the most important things I am learning

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We really are in Earth School here. We’re constantly learning lessons or understanding and seeing our own patterns reflected back to us in our lives and environment. Sometimes, this is an amazing process and quite fascinating. Other times, it’s just painful or irritating.

I’ve seen a recurring pattern in my own life where those in authority are incompetent and ignorant and stand in the way of loved ones getting the help or assistance they need. My guidance on this was that this mirrored what happened to me when I was ill as a child, so I replay it often.

But this experience helps me as teacher and as a intuitive helper. Who knows? Maybe in another life I was one who was ignorant, making blanket judgements on only what I saw. And that’s the most important thing I am learning. In today’s outdated systems, there’s lots of “that’s how things are done,” “this is the model of how THIS looks like, so everyone fits into one box,” and “this is how it looks, so this is how it is.” But we are all being asked to go deeper; below the surface.

I’ve seen the flip side of this also lately. An acquaintance seemed very sweet and friendly on the surface, but I felt “icky” with. That uncomfortable feeling didn’t go away. This friend became more and more boundary-impaired revealing what maybe what I didn’t want to see. In this situation, I wanted to believe the surface.

I’ve talked often of the veterinarians that would see an illness and stick it into their box or more likely, medical directory, and give a dire diagnosis with no hope. They had no desire for education or other alternatives or even other diagnoses!

In all these situations, they choose not to see and didn’t want to see (myself included). Maybe that would make more work for them. Or, they would have to explore outside their boxes too much, and that’s kinda scary for a great deal of people. Or, in my case, I just wanted to think better of people.

Obviously, this is a thing for me. It’s like an annoying fly buzzing around my face. Sometimes, flies are indications of why we are here. My big mission is to educate others and be a teacher. I like to achieve that in fun, entertaining ways, but it’s still what I have a drive to do. I love to learn. I love to think outside that box, especially when the box isn’t working. Perhaps, that’s what I teach.

We can’t fall for appearances and stay on the surface. There’s always a different story for all situations. That helps me as a teacher or as an intuitive helping people because each dog that bites isn’t just out of fear. Each dog has a different story, and therefore, needs a different solution.

We need to be good detectives.

One of my most favorite tv shows is BONES. There’s a format to the show. They recover bones from a crime scene, identify the bones and cause of death, and then pick up a suspect. The beginning of the show there are ALWAYS false assumptions of what happened. People are placed into little boxes. By the end of the show, there’s the moment when you are usually blown away to learn it was the sweet little housewife who shoveled the guy on the head, or the bad guy wasn’t so bad after all. I love that!

When I used to do readings in the beginning, way back when, I would assume what the situation was, but by the time the reading was over and the dog spoke or the Guides spoke, and like watching an episode of BONES, I was always blown away by the answers and reeducated.

So, what am I saying? Educate yourself!! Get all of the pieces of the puzzle, not just one little jagged edge. Look below the surface and not accept the superficial and let’s start thinking out of those boxes to make some real, decent change.

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Ronni Tip #532

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Repeat this reminder:

And, like most of us, you will try to fix it anyway, but it’s not your job to do. 🙂

empath · empaths

Are you becoming more sensitive?

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It’s Friday and I’m teaching Fairy Online School. Woo-hoo! I’m totally digging teaching the mini-class about Roses. The lesson I received to teach for Lesson 3 is kinda mind-blowing for me and talks about the mission of the Roses.

Are you becoming more empathic? Have you noticed? It seems the more we get rid of our “mud” the more clearly we can see and the more pronounced our abilities. And before you yell at yourself for being so sensitive, like I had one moment the other day, stop and realize what a gift this is.

I’ve been picking up much lately. A dear friend of mine had a problem with spirits in her house and wanted me to pick up what I “got.” Ordinarily, I would need to go quiet my mind, relax, etc., but the information was just there. Instantly. I was actually knee-deep in watching a good show and my attention was elsewhere. That surprised me. Was it that easy now?

The other day, I was in the library and had a sudden, bad stomach ache. I wondered if it was food poisoning or too much milk. When I asked if it was foreign, I received that it was someone else’s energy in my space. They were thinking strongly about me. Once I acknowledged it, made a boundary by asking for it to go away, it did.

We do need to work on stronger protection around us, so we don’t have intruders in the first place. That’s very important, because we need to have safe space for us to breathe. With everything, we are not perfect and can’t be constantly on guard. Sometimes, stuff and folks get pass the guard. Being that sensitive, and immediately picking up that foreign energy or the energies around others, is the next step in our empathic evolution. When you are aware of the foreign energy, is the gift. It’s often when we aren’t, that we take it on and suffer so much. We carry it around like heavy backpacks and wonder why we feel so crappy.  It’s finally using our empathic ability as the gift it is. THAT’S better protection.

Signs you may have foreign energies intruding into your space:

  • SUDDEN is the key word here. You feel good one moment and awful the next. Sudden stomach aches. Sudden overwhelming emotions. If you are releasing emotions, there’s a different feel to them. It’s more gradual.
  • You will feel bad like there is a dark cloud over your head you can’t get rid of.
  • You feel crowded or influenced negatively. I notice when some spirits come around who are tricksters or troublemakers my thinking will change to fearful or negative out of nowhere. If you ask them to stop and your thoughts seem to go away immediately, you’ve got visitors.

Becoming aware is the next step in your Advanced Empathy.

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Shameless plug: for more tools to help harnass your gift, buy my new ebook, Help! I’m Sensitive!

Animals

Toxic and Non-Toxic Plants for Animals

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Super, super important: when planting in your yard, make sure what you plant is non-toxic in nature to your animals. Emma is known to eat things off the ground. I had planted a Tomato Plant only to learn it is toxic to dogs, so I had to replant it somewhere out of reach.

Here’s a list I’ve found with photos that is very helpful:

http://www.aspca.org/Pet-care/poison-control/Plants.aspx?plant_toxicity=non-toxic-to-dogs&page=8

Did you know that Garlic and Onions are very toxic to dogs? As are grapes? Good information to know.

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I’m higher than a kite in my Garden

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I spent most of Memorial Day in my backyard planting. Emma Lou was very helpful assisting, yet, at one point she sat on the huge bag of garden soil because it was so comfortable. Sarah made a few brief appearances in and out of the pet door, perhaps to oversee our work. Speedy was let out of his tank to wander.

I found the most amazing plants that are actually called “Gnome Mix.” They have the most delicious energy, so I brought in a few of the mix into the house and planted the rest in the yard.

After lots of planting of veggies around my trees and a bunch of Marigolds near the Roses (they asked to be), I sat with Emma on the swing to reflect.

I am not the best gardener in the world. I used to think I had a black thumb and most plants would die on me. Now I listen and they all seem to be doing much better. It’s ironic that I teach about Fairy energy and my love of Nature when my gardening skills are sub-par, but I was told, that is what makes the message I deliver more powerful. Anyone can be reconnected to Nature. Not just those with prize-winning gardens!

After some time, I find myself giggling and almost whoozy with the energy of the yard. Perhaps it was my slight allergy to Marigolds, but I was noticing I was feeling mighty good. I didn’t give a hoot about my problems in my life or anything else for that matter. Everything seemed to make me giggle. I had a “fairy high.”

I am convinced that what others have called in the past as “fairy glamour” that lures folks in and casts the spell over them is simply that delicious high we get being in Nature.

The high lasted for hours with no side effects and no munchies. I was feeling groovy just by being so in love with the yard and being in Nature. Maybe you can relate. Perhaps it’s just the Designing Fairy in me. I was home again.

empaths · psychic

Are You Out of the Psychic Closet?

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I’m intuitive. Okay, I’m psychic. There, I said it.

Perhaps it’s the word that is so freaky and scary. We envision women in gypsy garb with a crystal ball trying to scam us for money.

I don’t see the abilities I have as superparanormal in anyway, really. Some folks can play the piano or are great at basketball or amazing singers. I am none of those things. My abilities may have increased and evolved in time from attention and education, but I’m pretty sure I was just wired this way when I came in. I have a very analytical mind, which I’ve mentioned before, so I had to see lots of validations and proof that what I was receiving was correct before I embraced my abilities. After literally saving many animals lives and feeling information there was no way I would have known, I was convinced.

I don’t “do” predictions or tell your fortune. I don’t read minds, at least on purpose. I don’t know how many fingers you are holding up. That’s not my thing. Every psychic is different; Kinda like the superheroes of Xmen–one can throw fire; one can freeze things. My abilities do lie in having advanced empathy–I can feel what others feel and register information from many layers–which I’ve shared and talked about often here at this site. My other abilities lie in connecting to the spirit world and animals through thought and feeling. I also see energies.

Most all my friends are psychic in some way. Most of my readers here, and my clients and students are the same way. It’s the norm for us. I am convinced that in a few years from now we will all have this ability or acknowledge what is already there.

So, I do have to laugh when I hesitate when others ask me what I do. There’s still many who don’t believe in this “stuff.” I think that is so funny. It’s like seeing an elephant in the room and there’s folks who refuse to believe it’s there, when it’s plain as day. I love the scene in the movie, Field of Dreams, when the character’s brother-in-law couldn’t see the spirit baseball field that everyone else could. It was the big running joke of the movie. Only when he believed and opened his heart did he see it. It’s not my job to convince others who are still blind to the elephant. I can live without your approval.

Really creepy thing today: my site can show how viewers found my site through web search. The phrase was “fairy spirit channeling psychiatric disorder”. Oh, that’s funny too. Well, hopefully there’s a group of sort I could join then and have a label. Even better if there’s medication involved! Next they will be saying that talking to God and feeling his/her presence is a sign of mental illness. It’s so old school, people.

Which leads me to a recommendation for Review Thursday. I love, love the show Merlin. The title character, Merlin from King Arthur days, is a young teen trying to protect the future king while having to hide his abilities. The King hates all magic out of fear from those who have misused the ability.

I wish Merlin would just get out of the psychic/magic closet and be who he is. We all know the story that, later, of course, he does.

Until next time. I will meet you at the next meeting for the FairySpirit Channeling Psychiatric Disorder Group. Oooh, I can design the t-shirts.

empath · Flower essences for sensitive · spiritual guidance · spiritual lessons

5 Days of White Pansy and Trust

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I  think  God’s  knowledge  is  in  the  flowers.

I’ve been instructed to use the White Pansy essence I’ve made for dealing with issues of trust. Since I arrogantly expect my clients to use the essences I recommend, I concluded I needed to listen to my own guidance and take the suggestion.

What’s the deal with trust? Why is it so hard to trust that things will work out and the Divine will take care of things when we are faced with tough circumstances that, logically, would make no sense for us to trust in the good?

Day one of taking White Pansy flower essence. I felt my bitter thoughts rise to the surface. I had reason not to trust. I had a long list created in the past few years. Spirit tells me that I often take on others’ faults that are not my own. This makes no sense to me or why this message is relevant to trusting.

Day two. I was journalling like a crazy-flowing pen nut. Insights rose alongside the nasty bitter thoughts. I wasn’t feeling Miss Spiritual at that moment. Not Miss Positive or the teacher I came here to be. It was ugly–I was releasing.

Day three. Things began to shift. I felt more hopeful about life. I was seeing the little ways my Guides helped me every day and I could trust that guidance. If I needed something, it came about.

That morning I unloaded my sadness on my one pal and recalled a time of high stress trauma last year when I lived off my birthday cake for months. I think it was the sugar high I was using to cope with. It started to get a little gross, and my friend shared with me, that at the time, she thought I was eating that cake probably beyond when it was still edible. We laughed about this and I told her I secretly was craving birthday cake at the moment and would love to have some.

Later I walked the girls around the neighborhood, and Danny, my neighbor, came over and told me it was his birthday and they were having a party. Would I like some birthday cake?

Perhaps this is a story of the shelf life of cake and when to throw it out, or  instant validation that I am being taken care of and can trust that, even when I feel that this world is ignoring me and what I need.

Day four. Things shift in my head. I am reminded of all the times outside world looked really bad but was asked by guidance and intuition to trust in the good. I am shown, again, how I am led and taken care of, but still I wonder, why then, was bad things allowed to happen in my life? Where people acting badly were allowed to stay ignorant? What about that? I am in a battle in my head and it’s scary. Which side will win?

Day five. Meltdown. The healing crisis. My loved-one is going through a recurring theme lesson which I relate to.  Finally, the floodgates open with a good cry. It’s a bigger lesson here for me. A huge insight comes through: that throughout my lifetime, when bad things happened or went wrong I was too quick as an empath to jump in and take the fault–think it was something wrong with me. What I saw in my life was often others allowing me to do so or “passing the buck” when they screwed up.

When I was born, I came in with a messed-up stomach. My parents couldn’t fix it and the doctors said I’d just outgrow it. Not a great deal was done for me as I was usually in continuous discomfort. I think in that moment I felt I couldn’t trust “out there.” They let me down. I was allowed to suffer.  That was too hard as a child to face, so I coped by taking it on–it was my fault in some way. I was defective. That’s what kids often believe and do. Making it your fault you can do something about it, or perhaps, create order where the outside order makes no sense or isn’t fair.

My parents and the doctors may have thrown it on me in frustration, and they did care about what I needed, but it was just their ignorance–not knowing other answers or solutions at that time.

I’ve been working through this one issue, henceforth the repeat lessons:

I think about the time Sarah had her inner ear problem and the vet said she had a major neurological issue which would need thousands of dollars of tests and would get much worse. She told me not to feel bad if I had to put her to sleep!  She threw Predisone at her which made her wired and sick. My friend, Cheryl, a naturopathic doctor brought new solutions. She gave Sarah homeopathy and bowen work and although Sarah tilts a little to the right, she does fabulous now. I trusted my intuition and my guidance, and communications from Sarah, that said she’d be fine even though the picture the vet game me differed. I looked for a different answer.

What is harder to heal and what made it hard for me to trust is the last few years when a system created to support families screwed up over and over and wanted to throw it on the family. Cries were not heard. Mistake after mistake. Cover up after cover up of their mistakes. Once again, we were allowed to suffer, and things went horribly wrong. That’s the system here. I will not this time take on the blame. The bottom line is, they are ignorant. They don’t know other answers, like the doctors and the vet, and sadly, they aren’t willing to find them.

So, I am being ignorant when I don’t see there are other answers outside the box and I simply accept “reality.” That’s what I do when I don’t trust Spirit or my guidance and I don’t even fathom there are other solutions that Spirit can create that I don’t know about yet.

I need to grieve those times I was let down and trusted as a small child and as an adult. I’ve being shown this is the block that is in the way of me believing again. The flower has done her job as I shift slowly into more a place of balance by having new answers and then new understanding.

I am still a “show me and prove it” kind of person. The flower can’t change that. I don’t blindly believe. I need to see and hear validation, so that is how Spirit will work with me…for now, until I automatically trust and always look for new answers.

I share this with you because many are going through a greater issue of trust as the world changes and purges all around us, and each of us has our own reasons or experiences that block why we trust in the good. I also wanted to demonstrate how the flower essences work with us to heal. This beautiful flower, a piece of Nature, assisted me in finding out where this issue came from in me. Boy, I really love flower essences! (Okay, my Guides helped too. 🙂 )

Find new answers, Dear one, that this world can’t give you.

Fairy blessings,


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White Pansy is available on my Flower Essences for the Sensitive page for purchase, if you feel guided for help in trusting at this time. I am also here to act as translator for your Guides’ assistance.

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Lightworkers, are we becoming too sensitive?

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I am noticing with my friends, clients and myself, that we are becoming more sensitive and more psychic in our abilities. Are we evolving?

Have you noticed that you can pick up more now what others are feeling or even thinking? I haven’t been able to watch tv shows lately that are dark at all. I rented a copy of Supernatural. It’s a tv series I used to watch and enjoy. I physically hurt through most of it; there was that much violence and cruelty. This wasn’t entertainment. Maybe I am not the too sensitive one. Maybe it’s the world who is getting so numb they can stand this level of darkness assaulting our eyes. I can’t do that anymore.

After having that happen, feeling so sensitive, I first thought, “Do I need to live in a box then, away from the world?” Many of my clients come to me wondering the same things.

And the answer I heard this morning was No. You don’t need to isolate. I think we’ve always been this sensitive, some of us. We came in wired this way. But then we accumulated a great deal of mud and fog to numb over our sensitivity. What we’ve been doing is clearing out the mud and being who we really are under all that crap. So, then, the darkness doesn’t feel right when you’ve just gotten rid of a ton of our own darkness. You no longer resonate. Why would you want a part of what you just got rid of?

Our light is coming back. We aren’t turning into light. We were light to start with! And then we got involved in earth school and layers of mud kept getting added until we didn’t recognize we were light at all. We thought we were dirt. And probably listening to voices growing up telling us we were flawed in some way for being sensitive, we really did believe we were dirt.

So, no. You aren’t too sensitive. You never were. We’ve had to adjust to being here. But now you have no choice as you work on your healing to be anyone but who you really are. One big shining light. Perhaps we are all just lightning bugs.

I think that is kinda cool.