scarcely believe that the year is almost ended again – where did that go lol.
 
 The signs of the coming storm for the planet are growing – financial bubbles in china and america that are spiralling out of control and not even being acknowledged in the propaganda that constitutes modern news, the ebola mess is the first of many to come in the way of pandemics [interesting watching the bubonic plague begin in south america] and the retarded creatures that are drawn to politics and the management of empire – are busily banging the drums of war again.
 
 Stay detached peeps – it is hard some days and I must say I have found it a lot easier since I stopped watching news in the morning [just to see what the bastards are up to lol] and started meditating with this rather extraordinary group of ancient teachers that are being channeled by old Vajra – the dear old Tibetan trained Llama that shares the house here currently. The sessions invariably start this way – “In scanning your system it seems apparent bla bla…..” [invariably spot on lol] and then off into the most amazing practices for waking up, focusing the mind, defocusing the mind, breath work for expansion and contraction, for illness and for health lol…. And on and on it goes. Strongly recommend this for any who live in Adelaide and can get them selves here by 7am.


 
 The Shamanic Bodywork and Sound Healing Workshop went off fabulously with a magical bunch of folk who learned some very useful tools for working with their clients at a much deeper level and lots of fun and laughter too. We shall run more of these later with many other skills to learn!


 
 The Equinox Ceremony with Portia was absolutely stunning also and again without really understanding the full complexity of what we went through and how it works, we were all left with an enduring sense of peace following it – something again that was binding has left the system – as we continue to be immersed in ancient rites of the Sacred Feminine Mysteries.
 
 I have continued my journeys with the great Mother energies in circle work with ethnomedicine and each journey is profound and different and I am truly blessed to be awakening in this path also.


 We will be running a Workshop on the 18^th October called “Relationships and Feng Shui” and will be exploring how to set up your environment for maximising your potential in business and networking and also with your romantic relationships, friendships and family! This will be a lot of fun and you will also go through some simple exercises that will help you identify and deal with the shadow and projected material within yourself that gets in the way and impacts on flourishing in all these areas. Follow the link below in “What’s Coming Up” to register.
 

 On the 7^th of this month there will be a special meditation for the second of the four Tetrad Blood Moons - eclipsed – followed by a Sweat Lodge on the 8^th on the day of the full moon – again see below for details.
 
 The eclipse season is with us again and all the info for that and the rest of the months' wild and woolly astrology is in Cosmic Connections below and in the interim keep staying Zen – remember what comes out of someone else's mouth is about them and not you – we only every see our projection of the other and our own reality mirrored back – don’t personalise it but own your own reaction to it – cause that stuff is about you lol.

Full Moon Meditation with Vajra and the ‘Travelers’ on Tuesday 7^th of October at 7pm.


 
 These fabulous meditations are facilitating some remarkable changes for those attending – it is hard to describe what actually happens except to say they are “channelled” meditations and the energies that come through are taking us every time into deeper levels of self knowledge and awakening. They acknowledge they have been involved here with humanity for a long time, they don’t have names but use some kind of descriptors as we humans need them, that they have come to help as they always do at these times of planetary change and also because they were [in part] part of the construction of this simulation that we find ourselves in.
 
 The differences in them are palpable, the different travellers have very different energies that bring different initiations and immersions and healings and this will continue throughout the year and there will be a retreat for some of us with these energies at the end of November. If you wish to come and maximise the energies contact Prue at prue.blackmore@thrivebydesign.com.au to book a place as this one will fill very quickly lol.
 
 They are held every Tuesday evening and you can contact Prue to attend.
 
Full Moon Eclipse Sweat Lodge - 6.15 pm Tuesday 8th October



On the 8^th of October – the day of the eclipse – there will be a sweat lodge held at the Vales for both men and women at 6.15pm, which will allow those who wish to attend from the city to get there.
The sweat will focus on the themes of this moon and eclipse as outlined in cosmic connections below and allow us to maximise the opportunities for growth, change and renewal.
 
Relationships and Feng Shui - 18th October 9 am to 1 pm



On the 18^th October at the Regal Park Motor Inn in North Adelaide we will be holding a Workshop called “Relationships and Feng Shui”.

The Chinese culture which developed these energetic understandings [along with their wonderful traditional chinese medicine] over 5,000 years [when most of our ancestors were burrowing in caves eating mushrooms and god knows what else lol] has an innate and demonstrable understanding of the energies which surround us all and by manipulating those energies in our homes and offices – we can open all of our relationships up to new potential and harmony.

 In the morning we will focus on romantic relationships including friends and family – the social milieu in which we all exist. You will discover simple tools to harmonise these easing the stress and strain of our family and romantic connections and in this way allowing forward movement or to bring into your life the love and peace you may be yearning for.

 We will also look here at what inside you gets in the way of these relationships! We all have a great capacity to look out and see what is “wrong” with the other person – however when one finger points out, three fingers point back – what we see out there that gets in the way of our harmonious relationships usually has a great deal more to do with us than with the other person and wouldn’t it be great to not have to deal with that any more? You will learn simple and effective tools to deal with your own projections and this indeed is immensely liberating.

Then we shall do the same with your business relationships and networking circles – help you moderate them and also to alleviate that in you which causes the self sabotage behaviour we often despair of – the inability to put ourselves forward with confidence and power. Follow the link to register for this fun, informative and empowering workshop.

Friday 24^th at 6.15 pm there will be a New Moon Solar Eclipse sweat lodge to plant the seeds for the new arising following this strenuous month and eclipses are powerful times to do this and again this will be a mixed sweat for men and women.
 
And don’t forget Beltane at the end of the month in the water based, feminine, southern hemisphere!! We shall hold a gathering on the 1^st of November for this magical time and celebrate the turning of the wheel.
 
Beltane, Bonfires, Horned Gods and Faeiries, The One Tree - Friday 31st October - 1st November


This is a beautiful time of year and throughout history and human culture this turning of the wheel from spring towards summer is celebrated with flower festivals from the Kawoni from the Cherokee, Hanami in Japan, Florifertum in ancient Rome, to the Maypole dancing, Walpurgis night and Beltane itself!

All to celebrate the return of life to the trees and plants and promise of harvest to come.

Beltane, literally meaning “Bright Fire” was to dispel the last of winter, the triumph of light over dark and the bonfires lit were for purification and healing.

For the banishing of the spirits from the night half of the year, who roam one last time on Beltane.

So there shall be poetry and potions, connection to the Faeirie realm, a journey with Cernunnon the Horned God and a deep connection with nature.

Come and discover what awaits you if you dare! There will be more info about what and where closer to the day on our face book page at www.facebook.com/thrivebydesign/  but it will involve a night time fire and festival, a dawn sweat and a fabulous breakfast following lol xx
 

Whole Being Healing - [Harmonic Convergent Vibrational Healing]




There is a technique for healing that is beyond transpersonal counseling, beyond psychotherapy, beyond mindfulness and cognitive change, beyond behavioral challenges. This has flowed from experiments with sound in the recent past but also many years of gently playing with this that in a way is all now coming together.



We all carry things that have accumulated within us both genetically and over life times. Things that erupt in our lives in patterns of familiarity ( not this again!!) and in patterns of pain. As the veil is thinning and we are evolving more and more of this is ‘bleeding’ through into our current existence for healing.

Anxiety, guilt, shame, inadequacy, powerlessness, frustration, rage, resentment, loss, grief and despair.......

Utilising deep emotional release, personal connection with your own Higher Self, body mapping, hands on balancing of the fields around you and harmonic sound – this process reaches you deeply at the heart, mind, body and soul aspects of your reality in a profoundly healing way!

This work has grown out of many years of work in psychiatry and mental health, Psychodynamic and Lomi Lomi bodywork, Harmonic Overtones, Shamanic Practice, Transpersonal Counseling and Art Therapy – amongst many things in my life time of learning and unfolding.

This process follows the pattern of pain around the body, then takes it to the core emotion of that pain and using joint toning, ancient instruments of vibrational healing, ancient words of harmonic power, intent and symbology – a process is set up of a vibrational movement in which nothing that is disharmonious to the system can reside within.

Testimonials


 

“it felt as though layers of light and healing were being built up around me – I was in my body but also not and I felt hollow and yet incredibly grounded”

“I feel amazingly light and my whole body seemed to be vibrating – there were places that got hot or heavy and then it would just melt away”

“I had a vision of many lives as a healer, and paying a price for those lives and of of that falling away as I existed under this bell of light and vibration and none of it mattered any more”

 "It was a series of amazing "aha" moments - from my very first breath I could see how this pain was created and then repeated over and again - it was very powerful - and very healing"



"There was a powerful sense of a whole tribe of ancient women filling me up and lifting me up and I was flowing with them”

“I feel lighter – my head is empty – I was told that I can trust my life!”

” A very intense feeling in my chest and throat – amazing as it melted away and then at the end my third eye seemed to explode as I disappeared and then it all regathered, coming back in slivers and rejoined with new information for me”

“I went back to the beginning of time and picked up the clay that I was made with and I remade my self and then found myself standing outside my body while you worked with my [deceased] mother watching you – so peaceful”

Contact me at prue.blackmore@thrivebydesign.com.au or via http://www.facebook.com/thrivebydesign to come and experience this remarkable process.




Shamanic Healing - what is it and why would I...

Shamanic healing is a very ancient form of working with a client and these practitioners have been around in recorded history for over 60,000 years - from the Tungus in Siberia, from the rock art deep in the mountains of Europe, to the living art of the first people of Oz - in fact they are recorded in all cultures that have occupied this planet through the rituals and ceremonies handed down through the ages.

This profound and powerful way of release and renewal is based upon the principle that what ever is occurring in your current life - break down, break up, illness, grief and loss, guilt and shame, addiction, anxiety and terror, inadequacy and feelings of lack of worth or value - what ever pain or life circumstances you are currently dealing with - it is all based on a disturbance of equilibrium within you.

Something is out of balance. And if it is manifesting in external or internal symptoms to point this out to you, it is doing so that you may do what ever is required to restore balance.

This presupposes a very deep truth. That you are never a victim. That what ever is occurring for you is being co-created by you - with others or with your own physical, psychological, emotional or spiritual reality in order for you to heal [not cure] yourself of the imbalance and allow your life to return to equilibrium.

And you have the power to do this - absolutely. The placebo effect is a classic observation of this ability.

We are taught in the west that an illness is beyond your control and must be medicated or cut in order to subdue it, control or eliminate it and the same with your emotional and psychological world - that it is like a Newtonian clock in that when it breaks - replace the broken bit and all will be well.

Again let us drug the heart and mind into submission. And as for spirituality - well we actually don't get much of that on the planet currently - we have religion instead which is all about giving your power to the priest and they will get you to "god" lol. Crowd control really.

From the moment of your birth unto the moment of your death everything is connected to the web of life - of all creation and your life is a rhythm of ebb and flow, waxing and waning and we are forever experiencing the 'little deaths' of life's changes, release and renewal.

But we are also taught in the west that we can only flow - forward - forcefully - and that change is to be resisted at all costs and the only movement allowed is expansion - there is no room for letting go, for the cycles of life, the seasons, we are death deniers and terrified of our own mortality and this whole process creates an immense imbalance that leads absolutely to the pain and heartache that has become the given norm of the world we currently dwell in.

When a client comes to a Shamanic practitioner for a healing - all of this is understood and woven into the experience. Where the client is - in the long journey between life and death - in the fabric of their social world, included or excluded, valued or not - in the balance of their physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual bodies - is all taken into account as they present - willing to change.

A Shamanic healer will have already done a divination for the client before they present for the treatment - to see what is there in the landscape of the soul's journey.
And when the client arrives and the process begins - the healer enters this landscape to see what is there - they meet the client as their medicine - their connection with spirit nature - bird, animal, a creature that may swim or crawl - and if that creature is bound or trapped or wounded in that landscape - that deep and primordial landscape - then that is resolved in that world in the service of the client.

The are the earliest navigators of consciousness, skillful to a high degree in journeying and bringing back the resources needed to aid the client in the ‘here and now’ process of their lives.
They have many resources and skills at their disposal to ascertain what has led to the client’s symptoms – as they present to them. No matter what the problem, while addressing those symptoms and restoring balance to the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual realms of the client – they are always at heart observing the flight of the soul and where the client is in the journey of their life between birth and death.

The Shaman is a healer, a priest or priestess, a medium and story teller, an actor or entertainer, a trickster and prophet, a world builder and sorcerer, a mage and magician and many possibilities besides. There is a great deal of misinformation out there but in truth it is a lens through which the world can be viewed in new and visionary ways and is the oldest medicine ways practiced in human society.

This profound and deep healing will then flow out into the external world of the client - over the next hours, days, weeks, months and years and it continues to flow into the river of their life.

There may things that the client needs to do after the treatment - what is there is there and instructions are given as required however the balance is restored in a deep and powerful way that then allows other things of imbalance in the clients life to fall back into place.

If you wish to experience this unique and powerful way to discover the depths of your being and journey to that which awaits you - contact Prue on 0419819089 or at prue.blackmore@thrivebydesign.com.au to set up an appointment x

Testimonials

" I do not know really what happened however there is a great cloud lifted from my life - i am more present in the moment and more aware of being here - quite remarkable"

" I have been wrestling with this issue for many years now and have tried many approaches over the years - i cannot believe the difference this has made and I am very surprised and grateful for what happened"




In 2015 we will also be reviving the Circle of Love group for Kids - especially the new kids on the block lol - in which they will learn new tools for working out what is theirs and what is not, how to deal with both, how to understand what is not working in this world and how to detach from other peoples' world views and stay grounded in themselves. We will also be getting them to meditate with some of the amazing household travelers - thus learning new skills about who they are and how to remember that!! More info coming soon about this and how to register!

This will be a new format that will still teach children about where they start and stop and how to not take on other peoples energies thus becoming overwhelmed [they are quite extraordinary empaths the new kids - it is part of what they struggle with - we will also be having them explore their creativity and world using all the five senses in art and creativity that will help them both individually and in the group context.



Meditations and Retreats



The meditations that are held regularly with old Vajra and all the channeled entities continue to blow us all away quite frankly - I am quite profoundly aware that the energies that we are working with - which until now have been contained within the confines of buddhist teachings - are being offered a freedom to express themselves through us which is having a big affect on us and as they express - offer them a freedom quite unheralded. We are being trained in expanding our consciousness, we are having our DNA rewired from the ground up, we are partaking in experiences in the inner planes that will manifest here in the outer planes and it is truly amazing to be a part of it and as they assure us - we all arranged to do this countless lifetimes ago - mad I know - but when you are in it and it is happening - there is no madness - no teachings - only a deeply profound shared experience in which we are all [them too] are changing and growing.

Later this year their will be intensives with Vajra and his Travelers to help everyone free themselves from old outmoded and ancient patterns of feeling and relating that are no longer relevant and in fact not even ours - they are old genetic patterns and need releasing - they simply induce emotional baths that are addictive and destructive and it is time for these rackety ways of being to be got rid of lol


 

We begin this month with Mercury in the dark and wily sign of Scorpio and you can be assured that you will be soaking up info by osmosis with this – moving you from sexual titillation here to spiritual awakening. This sets the tone really for the month ahead however is also very emotionally laden and so as usual we will have a tendency to keep all unfolding insights to ourselves rather than share the pain. This will continue through the massive lunar eclipse this month also until the 10^th.
 
 We also begin this month with Venus in Libra until the 23^rd and as she rules here we are also inclined to help our natures move from the lower bodies and realms into the more refined aspects of true beauty and the elegance of Justice rising. We are inclined to avoid the brutish with this sign however Mercury where it is also has us see deeply.


 And this whole opening to October is blessed with the amazing Grand Fire Trine steadily coming together - with Jupiter, Uranus and Mars [all involved in the last eclipse season in April’s Cardinal Grand Cross] forming fully on the 6^th - and there is a lot that can be resolved now related to those energies now.
 
 This full on event consists of Jupiter in Leo, Uranus in Aries and now Mars arrives in Sagittarius [all around 14 degrees] and with Mercury retro by then in Scorpio to push things along nicely here this is going to blast a lot of rubbish sky high here.
 
 You can already see the worlds mad leaders banging the war drum of old [even though the last mad rampage through the middle east of the last dying super power created the hideous aspects we are dealing with over there – it also a grand reflection of the Pluto in Capricorn and Uranus in Aries Square tearing down the walls of what we thought we could deal with] and they too shall ultimately fall. Watch what is happening with the plagues in Africa [ebola] and South America [bubonic plague] rising also and the unrest stirring in Hong Kong.

 
On the 4^th Mercury stations and then goes retrograde – along with all the usual suspects of double checking everything etc. The retro periods here can be seen as having us swing between our right and left brain really and we are now plummeting into the right-brain idioms of creativity, sensitivity and ultra tuned awareness of the unseen and unspoken in our lives – and all of this in Scorpio.

This is very useful and will have us on our guard and able to see the lies and distortions that are told to us both personally and by the mad dogs who rule the world for the corporations. You will be able to connect the dots and see absolutely what is going on around you and not be fooled by much of it at all. It will allow us to rewrite our story, discarding that which no longer serves us, and this will be needed as this transit may also bring a lot crashing down. The patience of Job will be rewarded here as any frustrations and exhaustions with checking and re-checking will just add to the nightmare.



However this really will let us tap into our brilliance, creativity and genius and with the Sun squaring Pluto with it - we will be pushed to maximise the huge potential here by firing up the sacred geometry being formed with this transit. Fabulous!!!!

It will also bring to the surface dominance by institutions however if the people are prepared to stand solid and still, then the institutions of power will get a taste of where power really lies, now and for the future. In the meantime avoid nasty little authority figures with delusions of power [parking inspectors, bosses, politicians etc].

This can also impact on your sexuality, personal power struggles with people important to you and you will be more likely both to be acting your own wounds out and also being able to see others manipulations – work on seeing your own and you will be better off in the long run and trust this is what is needed now. This really is going to be intense!!
 
On the 5^th when the exact Uranus – Mars trine unfolds it will also give us the power and will to forge ahead with revolutionary plans and to create change – to force it in fact and may bring someone interesting to the public eye in terms of leadership [if so probably a woman].
 
 And as the Grand Fire Trine comes together on the 6^th inspiring change with a bang!! The collective human power here is going to fascinating to watch and could force some incredible turn arounds – also after this the cardinal signs could experience a profound shake up with all kinds of things crashing down. Keep the faith – all things pass and what ever is going down is because it is needed. Aries in particular has taken a hammering.



 These inspirational alignments means some truly miraculous insight or understanding is arising about how we care for our young and the people that care for them – the mothers of life. My sense is it could be to do with religion in some way [forever the oppressor of women and children] in that women somehow come to throw off those bizarre and absurd shackles.
 

And then smack in the middle of all of this there is a Full Moon Eclipse in Aries at 15 degrees turning this trine into a zenith flying kite lol. And soar it will indeed!!!

A Cardinal T-Square will be formed with Uranus and Pluto joining this moon firing up the already chaotic energies at play now and the intensity of what could happen here is really quite huge.

And it is for Freedom!! The great enlightener and shake up master Uranus feeds into this causing us to be obliged to examine the deep shadow side of our nature and that of our soul family. So pay attention and Ask for help from all the spiritual aspects that are here to support and help you now.

This moon will set you free of all your karmic debts and obligations if you work seriously with it, ask and you shall receive – they were not kidding about that. Here is a time you can unshackle yourself from life time vows of poverty, chastity or any other mad nonsense you may have got into lifetimes ago and which still hold you back lol.

Mars trining Jupiter on this day gives us fabulous strength, courage and endurance to rise above all obstacles and forge ahead with what is liberating for us, our human family and the world at large. Here we have the possibility of becoming ourselves rather than the story we were told about who we were meant to be – by other folk who did not have a clue either lol [ad nauseam down the generations].
 


 With these energies you will be able to let go of people that no longer serve – or see how you too have contributed to the game you play with them and let some of these relationships finally grow and evolve. A wild and wooly moon indeed with great transformation possible for women of the world.
 
 This transformation continues to ramp up on the 11^th as the Sun sextiles Jupiter – reminding us we are more than this human form roaming around the planet – that this human form indeed houses a grand spirit that is connected to all – despite the illusion to the contrary. This will encourage us to take risks, to trust ourselves and put ourselves out there with our ideas and new possibilities.

 As Venus opposes Uranus this day also we may also see some wild, bizarre and mad behaviour, socially and also group behaviour producing some interesting expressions in your community. Here the urge for the inner changes to gain outward expression in the collective begin to manifest and demand expression.
 


 As the sacred geometry of all the trines continues, on the 13^th Oct the Sun and North Node weave energies that invite us all to come together as the collective, to see what we need, to bring forth those who may lead us well and with love – releasing the foolish ‘power by force’ mentality of the monkey people currently ‘ruling’ the world.
 
 The wild energies of all the sextiles continues into the next week and it is a great week for sexual healing with tantra and other activities, to relax and pamper ourselves too as needed, to receive healing work [it will all produce fabulous results lol], as will all spell work of a dark and mysterious kind lol.
 
 On the 19^th Oct when Jupiter sextiles the North Node there are some mysterious energies of soul connections around and whom ever you may connect or reconnect with at this time could have a long and protracted impact on your life for many years. Take advantage of all opportunities that come your way this day – they will evolve your soul peeps lol.

 

Then on October 24^th there will be the New Moon Eclipse in Scorpio. The new moon eclipses bring breakdowns of those forces in our lives that are holding us back and if we work with this it can be truly breakthrough in the quality of their effects.

Venus is at play here also facilitating us moving beyond the need to handle this with care [these eclipse energies can be alarming and cause us to do as little as possible] and instead use it to break free again of all the old stories and doing what feels ‘right’ to you – no matter what the consequences.

And as the Sun joins Scorpio here this day – then what is being transformed is from the deep, the dark, the taboo of our shadow that has long been awaiting our perceptive gaze with out fear. The birth changes here can be very painful however this is what we came for it seems so steer a true course – hold onto your values and let them guide you – the waters are large and powerful and when the dam breaks – nothing can withstand the force for change.


 
So as you prepare your aspirational list for this day for the month ahead let it reflect whatever steps you are taking towards self mastery and empowerment by letting go of the shackles of your existence, to be prepared to let go and surrender to that which you may not yet understand, to merge with a larger reality without fear of engulfment, to be understanding of all things even when we don’t ‘get them’ and to be open to our own awakening.

This moon encourages – demands even – that we go beyond the mundane, rational world view and recognise there is a great deal more to us than meets the eye of a jaundiced, limited rational view that boxes people into corners.
 
Mercury goes direct on the 25^th and that will give us new insight into what has just gone down and may require us to undo some of our extreme decisions – should we have given into the mad energies this month lol.
 
 The end of the month brings some lovely, romantic, artistic, dreamy conclusions in which we will be inclined to sit with like minded souls and share ideas, creativity and music to soothe the journey we have just been on lol. Time in nature will be a boon to the soul however do understand the energies are continuing to ramp up – there is no going back – there is no where to go back too and you would not – in your new awareness – want to go there anyway lol xxx