Month: June 2011

Sedona Vortex Meditations with Tara Sutphen

• Fee: 1 day $85.00 usd
  
• Fee: 2 days $150.00 usd
  
• Dates: October 15-16, 2011
  
• 9am registration
  
• 10-6pm (2 hr lunch)
  
• Instructions on meeting/maps/instructions upon registration
  
• Materials needed: notebook/pen (more below)
  

To Register:

info@tarasutphen.com

310/770 6454

Tara will take a group of people for meditations at the different Vortexes August 6-7, 2011, Saturday and Sunday.

Sedona is considered a Spiritual Power Place and Native American Holy Ground. The Vortexes have long been studied and spoken about…and the beauty alone is breathtaking.

Tara will start with a past life therapy meditation in each of the vortexes. We will discuss the past lives. Then right there in the vortex we’ll start to work on alleviating the issues or blocks through deep meditation, imagery analysis and understanding. You’ll be able to gain insight on Relationships (Family or Romance), Health, Money, Happiness, Spiritual, or phobia/fears. She will lead Healings of Body, Mind and Spirit at each Vortex – we will work individually and as a group.

Tara will conduct automatic writing sessions and encourage journaling your hopes, aspirations and overcoming.

The Vortexes are labeled masculine and feminine. We will focus on our inner power in the feminine – what do you want to be when you grow up…who am I….Am I the person I long to be…how do I love….where is my talent and skill……..how can I be clear and clean within myself. The outer power is the masculine – who do I appear to be…Am I who I thought I’d be…where’s my vitality level…..what do I want……am I experiencing my purpose….what are my antidotes. And the list of questions you have for yourself that you can share.

This will not be a hiking seminar, rather a time to really connect and flourish within the vortex energy. So we won’t be going very far in. We will find a comfortable place and be there for hours at a time to do our inner work in an outdoor vortex setting.

August in Sedona – supplies: we will need water, sun block, a hat, correct shoes, if you want to sit on something or bring your crystals and different treasures you can.

Tara Sutphen CCHT is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. She’s known as a “Way Clearer” engaging her Celtic and Native American heritage to reprogram behavior, fears and limiting beliefs.

A Master in the Psychic Sciences, Tara’s abilities have been documented since 1981. She is a Clairaudient, Clairvoyant and Clairsentient and her Automatic Writing with her Spirit Guide Abenda is recognized throughout the world.

Tara is celebrated for her Books, CD’s, Dvd’s and Radio Show as well as her Therapy, Gatekeeping, Psychometry, Sorcing, Handwriting Analysis, Esoteric Astrology (Eastern & Western), Soothe Saying, Palmistry, Tarot, Psychic Tracking, Shamanism, and Mysticism.

Tara is in private practice, offering therapy for depression, change, lack of change, reconnection with spirituality, health, purpose, success, goals, money, love, and learning — for singles, teens, parents and/or marriage counseling. Tara is also available for psychic readings, Astrology and lessons on any of the modalities she studied. She conducts seminars, workshops, Shamanistic Rituals and Blessings.

www.tarasutphen.com

 
 

Summer  Solstice, Midsummer, Litha

By Tara Sutphen

21^st June

“In the world’s audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight” – Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Poet, Playwright and Essayist, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, 1861-1941)

Summer Solstice marks the end of the waxing year.  And the rays of the sun directly strike one of the two tropical latitude lines.  June 21 marks the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere, as  winter begins in the southern hemisphere. On this day, the earth’s “circle of luminescence” will be from the Arctic Circle to the Antarctic Circle. The equator receives twelve hours of daylight, as there will be 24 hours of daylight at the North Pole and 24 hours of darkness at the South Pole. All over the world people honor this day as an important reminder of the apex of light and to cast away evil and their problems. Northern Hemisphere inhabitants use June 21 as the day of celebration, but the splendor of light lasts from new moon to full moon.

Worshipping the Sun’s great power, all cultures celebrate in some way. Celts and Slavs dance around bonfires while Chinese marked the day honoring Li, the Goddess of Light. The celebrants of modern and ancient ceremonies tune in that life comes from the sun. It is life giving and life supporting.  We’ve recently had the good fortune to have electricity, greenhouses, and shipment suppliers. How will you celebrate? We all may not get a chance to dance around the bonfire but it’s a time to bask in the light, sit in the sun, cast our worries away and awaken to our lives.

Recipes:

Cucumber Salad

• 1/2 cup sour cream
  2 tablespoons chopped parsley
  2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
  1 tablespoon granulated sugar
  1 tablespoon chopped chives
  3 small cucumbers, thinly sliced
  
• Directions…
  1. Combine the sour cream, parsley, vinegar, sugar, and chives.
  2. Gently fold in cucumbers
  

Spinach-Strawberry Salad

• Yield: 4 to 6 servings
  
• 1/2 cup white sugar
  
• 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
  
• 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
  
• 1-1/2 teaspoons minced onion
  
• 1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
  
• 1/4 teaspoon paprika
  
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  
• 1/4 cup cider vinegar
  
• 1 bag (10 ounces) fresh spinach
  
• 1 pint strawberries, sliced thin
  

In a blender, combine the sugar, sesame seeds, poppy seeds, onion, Worcestershire sauce, paprika, oil, and vinegar. Blend well. If the dressing seems thick, add a few drops of water.

Remove the stems from the spinach and tear the leaves into bite-size pieces. Arrange them on individual salad plates or in a salad bowl. Arrange the strawberries on top. Drizzle the dressing over the strawberries and serve.

Bonnie Brae Strawberry Pie

A mixture of cooked and fresh berries helped make this pie a family favorite.

• 1 quart strawberries or 1 large package frozen strawberries, thawed and drained
  
• 3/4 cup water
  
• 4 tablespoons cornstarch
  
• 1 cup sugar
  
• 1/4 cup water
  
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  
• 1 cup sliced berries, fresh or frozen, thawed and drained
  
• whipped cream
  
• whole berries for garnish
  

Combine strawberries and water in saucepan. Cook until just softened, about 4 or 5 minutes. (Let frozen berries thaw; heat but don’t cook them.) Mix together cornstarch, sugar, and water until smooth; add to hot berries. Cook over medium heat until clear. Add lemon juice; immediately remove from heat and let cool. Place sliced berries in cooked pie shell. To assemble pie, pour cooked mixture over berries, top with whipped cream, and garnish with whole berries.

Old-Fashioned Buttermilk Wedding Cake

Yield: Makes 12 to 16 servings.

• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
  
• 3 cups sugar
  
• 4 cups cake flour
  
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
  
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
  
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
  
• 2 cups buttermilk
  
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  
• 1/2 teaspoon butter flavoring
  
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
  
• 6 egg whites
  

Preheat over to 350° F. Grease and flour three 9-inch round cake pans. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Pour in buttermilk and begin mixing slowly. Continue to mix until well blended. Add flavorings and stir. In another bowl, beat egg whites until stiff. Fold the egg whites into the cake batter. Divide the batter evenly among the prepared pans. Bake for 20 minutes at 350° F, then lower heat to 300°F and bake for about 25 minutes longer, until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Remove cakes from oven and cool on racks. After 10 minutes, remove from pans and continue cooling on racks.

Cream Cheese Frosting

• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
  
• 3 cups confectioners’ sugar
  
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  

No wedding needed to have this cake

Other food /drink ideas –

• mint iced teas, dandelion salads, strawberry shortcakes, geranium leaf sorbet, berry pies
  

Ceremonies:

The Druids celebrated with “The Wedding of Heaven and Earth”.

• Two people represent Mother Earth and the Sun King. Create a Bonfire, dancers adorned in garlands and flowers, and young men jumping through the tall flames. A time of cleansing and renewal. The participants playing Mother Earth and the Sun King go to each participant, and speak to each person as though planting seeds of growth, imparting words of love, wisdom, thankfulness and prosperity.
  

Candle or Bonfire Ritual

• With a candle or your bonfire – Give blessings in the 4 directions. Cast a blessing for yourself, a blessing for the harvest, a blessing for your loved ones, and a blessing for the earth.  (make this blessing 3-5 sentences long for each subject)
  

A Call to Love

• Single women are to sleep with 4 flowers under their pillow
  

Flowers:

• Flowers blooming in your area, also daisies, roses, lilyof the valley, calendulas, marigolds
  

Decorations:

• daisy chains, lavender wreaths, rosemary garlands
  

Head wreath

• Circle base, thin gauge wire, or vines and tie or wire on flowers of your choice
  

Symbols:

• Fire to celebrate the power of the sun, Sun Wheels, Medicine Wheels, Stone Circles, Candle Circles, Mother Goddess, Ripening fruits, Sun Dials, Feathers, and Swords/Blades.
  

Candles:

• Green & Blue representing the earth
  
• White representing God light
  

 

 

Full Moon of Horses

By Tara Sutphen

 
 

Full Moon of Horses at 24* Sagittarius will culminate June 15, 2011 1:13pm pdt/4:13pm edt (almanac) with a Total Eclipse. This Full Moon called by its Celtic name – “Moon of Horses” is an opportunity to evaluate how you handle your emotions and the extremes you find yourself at times. With the moon comes a most powerful time of the earth’s seas being moved by the gravitational pull of the earth and with a total eclipse, you may be feeling even more restless or sensitive. Usually aspects take you off of your demonstrative nature. But not this full moon, it’s set in the fixed star Aculeus, thus setting the aspect in the Scorpion’s tail. The unrest may be drumming up unfinished business in the most peaceful of people. Where do things go amiss and where do things go correctly. Decisions, have they been right or wrong. Are you using your personal power or mismanaging it. Do you even express what you deem influence and potential. Are you capable of so much more and unable to crest your energy to activate skill and talent. You can’t have talent unless you make the effort to risk and try.

 

Everyone has a rage level, we were born with it and must learn to manage it. Although for some reason many people don’t handle anger correctly at the time and a morass of confusion precipitates. Inferiority, resentment, irritation can go on for some time before we are willing to look at what doesn’t create an environment to thrive. Are you assertive and confident or having aggressive tendencies. Aggression is when you find your-self yelling at others aimlessly, becoming insistent, and uncompromising and with passive behavior locked emotionally away in an imprisoned set of rules and agony. How can we use defeat to further ourselves as we bumbe ahead, clumsily allowing our lives to be perplexed and sometimes it’s hurtful, if not slowly or unwittingly destroying ours or others lives. Where does insight begin, and does it make or break us.

 

A first thought would be to start making ourselves strong in body. When we feel good, generally we are confident. We have the wit to say yes and no to good or bad. As we regain a course of action, focus on a target and add intensity, these can be used as a tool toward a direction. Sounds easy, putting it into action is always the test…as we can dream and talk, talk and talk more. We can make a conscious decision to use an upset as a ‘road sign’ to move in another direction, this can give movement to actions and reactions, bringing greater circumstances into a personal sphere. You take the high road or low road…it’s that simple.

 

 

Journal Questions:

 When has Anger worked for you?

 • Physical level

• Emotional level

• Intellectual level

 • Spiritual level

 

What is Happiness?

• Wholesomeness
  
• Contentedness
  
• Money
  
• Love
  
• Family
  
• Friends
  
• Awareness
  
• Wisdom
  

   
   

   Who Angers You? And Why?
  

  • Parents
  

  • Children
  

  • Lovers
  

  • Spouses
  

  • Friendships
  

  • People
  

  • Places
  

  • Career Choices
  

   How can you fix problems with…..
  

  • Parents
  

  • Children
  

  • Lovers
  

  • Spouses
  

  • Friendships
  

  • People
  

  • Places
  

  • Career Choices
  

   Who is angry with you and Why?
  

  • Parents
  

  • Children
  

  • Lovers
  

  • Spouses
  

  • Friendships
  

  • People
  

  • Places
  

  • Career Choices
  

   Are you moved forward or stalled out in these areas when you get angry?
  

    • Parents
  

  • Children
  

  • Lovers
  

  • Spouses
  

  • Friendships
  

  • People
  

  • Places
  

  • Career Choices
  

   
   

  Are you Angry or Proactive? How are you Justifying your attitudes?
  

• What fears has the media, economy and politics created in you?
  
• What is real in your life and what is hoax?
  
• Where are you sidetracking?
  
• Do you worry about issues you can’t control?
  
• Are you taking care of your personal life and relationships?
  
• Are you only sitting in a puddle of worry?
  
• Are you creating change and proactive solutions?  
  
• How do you create proactive movement to secure your place in your environment or country? 
  
• How do you create Love?
  
• How do you create Peace?
  
• How do you create Harmony?
  
• How do you create workable solutions?
  
• Do you take risks?
  
• When you fight in the home, do you always need to be right?
  
• What is right?
  
• What if you are wrong or being emotional, can you come clean – at least with yourself?
  
• Can you apologize?
  
• Can you clearly create a new fine day?
  
• Can you let all the unneeded upheaval you’ve experienced to live tomorrow successfully?
  

  Have you given up on…..
  

  3 – 10 sentences
  

  • Love
  

  • Money
  

  • Wellness
  

  • Happiness
  

  • Playfulness
  

  • Wisdom
  

  • Contentment
  

   
   

    Loved Ones?
  

• What is the style of communication
  
• Are they aware of your feelings
  
• Are you aware of their feelings
  
• What is the compromise
  
• Resolution
  

  Co Workers?
  

• What is the style of communication
  
• Are they aware of your feelings
  
• Are you aware of their feelings
  
• What is the compromise
  
• Resolution
  

   
   

   
   

  Deliberation is the banal of focus and to create a life of vivid beauty we must put up with some degree of disdain and unruliness. This does not bode well for all who seek peace and gentleness, but even in nature there must be a yin to the yang. To become one with ourselves we must accept all the facets of our innate fear and shadows, for to cast light on them will bring us out of darkness.
  

   
   

  “The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgment is never just.” ~D.H. Lawrence quotes (British Poet, Novelist and Essayist, 1885-1930)
  

   

   

  Total Eclipse times/visibility
  

  http://shadowandsubstance.com/
  

  http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar-eclipse-june-15-2011.html