This morning I asked, before I chose the medicine cards of the week, for them to both be in the same "saved group" that I have on my desk top.
The way I have them saved (A to L then M to Z) means that when I open the window in Wisdom Word to edit, I then open a window from the desk top for the content of the animal totem. This morning I only wanted to open once so I asked.........and there they were Armadillo and Blue Heron...I wondered how many things we affect and can affect by asking unconsciously or consciously....By studying and knowing the self ( Blue Heron) we can know how to operate in the world, where we need boundaries ( Armadillo)....It will be interesting to note the relationship between ourselves and between these two totems, the support and the energy of the week. Also interesting to note that our upcoming week is filled with astrological challenges....knowing the self, putting up proper boundaries and taking one step at a time gives us an opportunity to bring in some great healing energy and to let go of things that no longer serve!

Yesterday I experienced the miracle of the honey bees once again. We harvested 7 deep frames of honey and 5 shallow frames of honey. It was so heavy i couldn't believe it and I could not move the hive body with the honey in it!
After almost dropping the bees on the day we put the hive escape board on, ( a board with a hole that allows the bees to go down deeper in the hive at night and out of the honey super-it is designed so they can't get back into the honey super) we could barely lift it back on to the hive. I was disturbed wondering how I would get the honey super off in two days when the bees had moved from their honey. ( After the escape board you wait two days then you harvest the honey). Help came in the form of a slight woman bee keeper from Vermont, she told me I could place an empty super in a black plastic garbage bag and put the heavy frames in one by one! Good idea, it worked!
Any how we uncapped ( slicing off the top wax caps that the bees seal the honey in the comb with) and then put the wooden frames, wax comb filled with honey, in to a hand cranked extractor, which as you crank spins the honey off the comb...sounds easier than it is...12 frames took all day. and created a sticky, tasty mess :) watching the golden honey flow out of the drum (at the end of the day) was worth it! what a miracle...lots of work from those fabulous honey bees to create such bounty. I am grateful to the honey bees for their presence on our world and I am grateful for such a tasty delight :)

Yesterday I spent the day at a bee conference. The VBA Vermont Bee keepers association, held their semi annual meeting in Dorset, VT which is just over the border from where I live in upstate New York. As I listened to the speakers I, once again, was awed by the presence of bees in our world. What an incredible, giving species honey bees are.
Not only do they pollinate making it possible to continue the growth of much of our crops and flowers on the earth, but they make and give us the gift of honey. It is only our greed, and imbalances that have affected the health and lives of these beautiful creatures. Their colonies die out because of a myriad of reasons, pollution, poor agriculture decisions, chemicals, generically altered plants....I admire the bee keepers that are seeking to be more aware of how to support and strengthen the honey bees, with out using more chemicals. Support your local bee keepers! :) and send love and gratitude to the Honey Bees!

Weather you are a leader of one of a leader of many Mountain Lion asks you to be true to your self. Are you moving through live according to your own inner knowing? Or are you looking for others to approve of you ? to like you? The mountain lion comes this week to show us the energy of the week. In order to properly understand what message the great cat has for us we need to go inward and apply Mountain Lion's lessons to our lives. ( see animal totems to read more about Mountain Lion). The support energy is about boundaries and asks us to self question listing a number of questions to help guide us on understanding the use of boundaries!
all and all a good combination for our last week of this summer series!

Happy 4th of July - lets all take our freedom and use it wisely. What ever we all have to complain about we do have to admit that we have an unprecedented amount of freedom. In the past many had to toil from sunrise to sunset just to survive. Let's take a look at our lives and see how we can "free" ourselves from time wasting, thinking, worrying and behavior that distractions us from know our selves better....
Have a Happy 4th and let freedom ring!