||: Cora Flora :||

Wow. What an amazing time this is to be a human on Earth. I've been going through lots of shifts (deep emotions and physical changes, partly why this letter is little delayed) ~ and a benefit has been that some energizing new Music has begun flowing through me. On the weekend I suddenly felt the impulse to record (and noticed that I had the perfect resources & conditions where I'm staying). Some music flowed through that feel so amazing to me. I feel it's an appetizer of the expansive direction my music is flowing in... Illumination!

It's amazing when the inner flow (feelings and desire) as well as outer flow (perfect resources and conditions) are in alignment. 

On Sunday (the day of the eclipse and new moon) I felt inspired to make this video. The background music is the first song (in demo form) that flowed through. Some exciting new elements for me creatively is the addition of beats, shakers, and dubstep sounds created vocally from the heart. :)

I've been allowing some inner dust to settle and am so grateful for this time in Peterborough. It's a place that's very supportive of deep healing. I've had the pleasure and honour of re-connecting with my friend Gayle, who is presently finishing her new book and helping me put a new skin on my djembe (which I'm SO excited about by the way). We made a few videos and one of them I feel like sharing with you ~ a meditative healing journey to Stonehenge. You can hear my harmonies too, infused with lots of healing intention. :)

Last night I shared a spontaneous card reading with a friend, and I think I said the word "Magic" a hundred times. She was asking me about how I live my life and decide what to do. I realized how much I invite and flow with *Magic*, in the form of prayer, positive energy, synchronicities, faith, and trust. It helped me remember how powerful positive energy and intentions are. Life can be as amazing as we dare to imagine and believe. :)

I'm so grateful for all the support I am receiving. I have so many supportive soul sisters and brothers!!! 

You deserve to blossom into the best that you can be, living the most amazing life you can imagine, and soaking all of it up with an open juicy loving heart. 

To do this though, it's vital that you become your Best Gardener. YOU are the only one who has the power to decide what you deserve, and live it. Others may try to sway you into their versions of you, but it's necessary that you are ROOTED in Who-You-Really-Are, What-You-Truly-Desire, and How-You-Love-To-Live. And so it is. :)

I'm presently in Peterborough, Ontario getting grounded & organized for a few weeks before the summer festival journey begins. It's been interesting finding a balance between freedom and grounding.

I feel lots of sunshine in my heart, and a refreshed devotion to LIVE the most amazing life I can imagine. I wish the same for you too. :) 

 

Love & Light ~*

Inspiration can be found in the strangest of places. I'm presently in a gas station / convenience store / Tim Horton's / Subway in Castle Creek, NY ~ on my way from CoSM to Ithaca. This is a surprisingly fantastic place to tune into inspiration to share on the world wide web (there's free internet here)! I feel this is the perfect moment to have a good write... Writing helps me to connect with my higher self, understand & appreciate my life, and set positive intentions for the future.

Since my last blog I began my journey with the van. It definitely feels like a journey, as I've been learning a lot, discovering new aspects of the world and myself. Before I continue, let there be music! (Aside from the Kenny G renditions of songs from the 90's in this place... Thank Spirit for head phones!)

I could describe every step of the journey, but that feels like documenting a science project, as well there's sooo much. I'd rather let it flow and just share juiciest fruit of the journey ~ what I've learned and enjoyed the most so far: 

❤ I've learned how vital it is to create music from the heart, every day, and send it into the web of life. Music can create an amazing connection to Spirit that is very powerful.  Music is a vital channel for the amazing new energies that are flowing in.
 
❤ I discovered that I LOVE New York. I haven't yet been to the big city (hopefully next time) but I am in love with upstate New York. It has great energy, lush forests, and vibrantly colourful people. I love Canada, but I've explored much of it already, and now this whole new world is opening up to me in the states. :)
 
❤ Buddha has been on my journey; a golden smiling & relaxing Buddha that Theda gave me, as well as a purple Buddha pillow my sister gave me that says "Success is not the key to happiness. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful". My new friend Heru (who introduced me to CoSM when I met up with him in Montreal, and who asked for a ride down to CoSM for the full moon) has taught me a lot about Buddhist teachings in the time I've spent with him. I'm wondering what it means to be a Bodhisattva?

❤ My sensitivity to sound energy is become very intense. I went to a festival on the weekend and the energy of unconscious music and dark dubstep deeply ignited my mission to share high vibrations, illlumination, love, and divine guidance in Music. I'm now moving into exploring creating electronic music. In a few days I'm meeting up with a conscious DJ who I feel guided to collaborate with and learn from. 

❤ True Love is Respectful, Freeing, Supportive, and Empowering. Just sayin! :)

Here's a little vlog I made while I was at CoSM in the amazing white gazebo designed with Native American style animal spirits. As well it has a swing inside. :)

My journey continues on... I'm really glad to be walking (and driving) this path. Tonight I feel like it will be wonderful to sleep in the van to the sound of raindrops. The healing light of the full moon is welcome in my soul. 


Love & Rainbows of Light ~*

Wow... This has been such a powerful waning moon. So powerful that I cut off my dreads. Sunday morning I woke up *knowing* that it was time to release them. During that day,  I kept going back and forth about doing it (I felt scared to be honest)... But then when the sun was setting, I just thought "okay I'm going to do this". It felt empowering, courageous, and a freeing release. I made a little video as I did it, releasing the dreads into the St. Clair River...

Cutting hair is a vulnerable thing, hence the story of Samson & Delilah. Even though I miss the look, the feeling of confidence, and the fun playthings that dreads were to me... I am glad that I had the courage to let them go. 

I've noticed that when I do a ritual like this ~ it's more than just words and actions. It ripples into the Universe. Since that moment there have been many emotions, challenges, and opportunities to evolve in alignment with what I declared.

A few nights after cutting my hair, some very wonderful friends & I had a fire, in the spirit of releasing what no longer serves us. Because it's right before the new moon (a powerful releasing time), it was very potent. Fire is a very good tool for releasing in a quick, transformative, energizing way. 

We were discussing how powerful it is be fearless. There is some fear that is caution (guiding us not to do something that would harm us), whereas some fear is simply our inner limitation ready to be exploded into more love power. A way to tell the difference between the two is: when I imagine doing this thing, does my heart feel contracted or 
 e x p a n d e d ?  The e x p a n s i v e feeling means that the fear is simply a doorway to open up to more of who-we-really-are and what-we-truly-desire in life. 

I had a moment of realizing that I desire to live fearlessly and lovingly. I decided to have my head buzzed by a friend. It felt a m a z i n g. I burned the hair in the fire, as a symbol of living fearlessly. I remembered the scene in V for Vendetta when Natalie Portman realizes that V gave her the gift of fearlessness. 

What a shift!! I find myself perceiving myself in a whole new way. In some ways I feel very vulnerable, soft, and new ~ but I also feel like I've surrendered into being more of who I truly am. The mystical monk look reminds me that I am a spiritual being having a human experience. 

This feels like such a powerful new moon. At 3:18am (EST time) tonight, it will be a completely New Moon and from that moment on, ideally in the first 8 hours, is a very powerful time to write down intentions & wishes. The Universal energies are ready to help us heal, grow, enjoy, and e x p a n d more into the powerful beings of Love and Light that we truly are. :)

Wishing you lots of healing release & amazing renewal as the moon shifts!

P.S. I am feeling *super* inspired by Bjork lately... Especially this song... Make sure you watch the end of the video, and her illumination...

While waiting for my van to be serviced by a mechanic, I've been at my parents' house. One of the blessings of this is discovering the show "Long Island Medium". It's a funny reality TV show about Theresa Caputo, a psychic medium who helps pass on messages from the other side. She is truly gifted, as her messages are all remarkably clear and resonant with the people who receive them! I've shed a LOT of tears the last few days watching ALL the shows I could find online. She is realllly good. Finding this show at my parents house ~ which has felt in the past like a battleground for my spirituality ~ is a divine gift to me. Watching people cry as they receive loving and real messages from their loved ones really touched me. The Love we share is eternal. 

Interestingly enough, there have been major signs about mediumship flowing around me lately. I definitely sense spirits, and remember that in the past I've communicated messages but it scared me, and created some healing havoc in my life. 

Oh wow it just started raining here. Time to open my window to savour the healing sounds and energy of the rain. (They say April showers bring may flowers...)

Something that I'm noticing is that all this spirit communication makes me feel Homesick. Although I know I'm here on Earth in this physical experience with purpose, I miss the all-encompassing Love and Light, Ease and Grace, Harmony and Happiness of Heaven. Perhaps I am being called to create more Heaven on Earth, and being close to the veil breaks my heart open to it. Watching this show helps me remember that we are never alone, and that Love simply is. 

Speaking of Love... My heart has been mega breaking open lately. I'm really yearning for a partner to go deep with, to mutually support, to enjoy life with, to evolve with, to connect to Music, Nature & Spirit together. Even though I've felt disappointed, I am choosing to have faith and hope that there is an amazing partner out there who is perfect for me. I know I deserve to be in an amazing partnership. We all deserve Love.

The moon is waning, and so this is a perfect time for letting go. I'm choosing to let go of all the pain from the past. I'm choosing to let go of my fear of communicating with spirits. I'm choosing to let go of negative thoughts & beliefs. As a symbol of all of this, I'm choosing to cut off my dreads. I've been thinking about it for a few days, and this morning I woke up *knowing* that's what I want to do. It's scary but I know it will feel freeing and enlightening.


In Perfect Love & Perfect Trust ~*


Cora

P.S. Here's a little bit of Long Island Medium for you to enjoy. :)

For the last week or so I've been visiting my family in southern Ontario ~ Corunna to be exact. Life has a perfect flow, and so I know that even thought it's been challenging, I am here with purpose. There has been some healing happening. As well I've discovered some baby photos that opened my heart, made me laugh, helped me appreciate that my physical body is a temporary, unique, amazing gift.

In a recent healing with someone, I was asked to go back to a moment in my baby-hood when I remembered feeling totally safe, happy, cared for, and like this world was a place of pure love, with nothing to fear. The memory of laying on my stomach in the stroller, gazing out the open back came to mind. Finding this photo helped me integrate that feeling of sweet & innocent well-being. :)

I feel that every aspect of our lives is intricately and perfectly designed... It's with purpose that I've been dreaming of buying a VW van to travel and tour in. One of the amazing features (in some models) is being able to lay in the back and gaze out at the world. While I've been visiting family I've been also looking at vans, and have decided to go with a Caravan for this next chapter of my journey. 

Today I was in a store with my Mom and saw a sign that said "The Journey is the Reward"... I feel like this van and journey ahead is a reward. I have the freedom to flow where my heart desires, I have the blessing of cozy shelter, I have the power to share my music with more people. Although walking, public transit, and flowing with the opportunities as they come has been wonderful, I'm ready to *drive* my life. It's symbolic of consciously co-creating the road ahead with my loving intention, and being empowered to appreciatively enjoy every moment of the ride. (As well, getting out to explore!)

I love this song. I remember my first cafe "gig", at the Coffee Lodge in Sarnia when it first opened around 10 years ago. I felt so amazing afterwards, like a flower that just courageously opened and felt the celebratory joy of the sun. I remember the drive home  and listening to this song playing on the radio. It felt super significant, as I felt like my journey of being a musician was just beginning. At that point I was being driven, because I didn't yet have my license. Looking back, I'm so grateful for all the support my parents, friends, family, school, audiences, community, and Spirit have given me... This whole journey ~ perfectly orchestrated ~ is a reward.


Now I feel that it's time to decide what I'd love to experience next in my life. Lately I'm noticing that thoughts are manifesting quickly, and this power is a blessing for all of us. I feel called to continue sharing love, truth, healing and wisdom through MUSIC ~ in ways that bring me great joy & nourishment. 

Music can help us feel good, align with higher vibrations, connect with our souls, and live our lives in alignment with our most meaningful passions!

In Harmony & Grace~*


Cora