I hope you enjoy this wide-ranging discussion.

Brumby mare and foal, January 2012, in our house paddock.

It’s late here at A Place of Peace, the rain falls gently, and when we step outside, we’re greeted by the gentle knicker of a wild mother mare who recognises us as “The Ones Who Bring Food”.   It’s time for their last meal of the day, and the garden has been turned into a nursery for three mother mares and their little filly foals.  The house yard is quite large, and they go under the pine trees and the Hawthorn Tree, the little ones racing around with their tiny tails stuck high in the air.   They are so beautiful, and growing up in complete security, knowing that if they can’t find mum, aunty is close by.  The mares are great mums, and very proud of their babies.  I shudder when I think these foals may never have been born, and their terrified mothers, killed horrifically in slaughter houses which should be shut down forever.

During the day the wild horses graze peacefully in three herds.  Merlin the stallion has his herd which includes the baby colts Emrys and Arthur.   Three grown up colts have their own herd and the girls with baby girls are in by the house.  They are all close by and have the security of seeing each other across the fence.

Zeeka, who passed away in January 2012.

Sadly, we said goodbye to our beloved alpaca Zeeka recently, who pined after his mate Benji who passed last year in October. It is the end of an era here, with no alpacas standing guard over with the goat herd and Sarah the sheep – and to be honest I’m still not quite used to it.

As we were burying Zeeka, I heard the familiar sound of a wild goat mum who had lost her kids. Tamsin and I took the dogs, rushed over and found, thanks to the dogs, two babies left behind. My dogs are untrained kelpies, and yet they know when there is work to do. I asked them to “find” and “hold” and they did – gently, calmly, explaining to the kid that they were friends with thoughts and demeanour, so that I could pick up the baby and take them home.

If we don’t take them home, they are unlikely to survive the night.  We’ve been asked why the mothers leave them and it is for many reasons – sometimes they know the baby isn’t right.  Sometimes the babies fall asleep when the herd walks off.   Sometimes they want us to take care of them.  During the drought the word I heard from one mother as we collected her son, was “hay”. She knew her son would have a good life with us.  She knew he would have food.

Goat Babies, January 2012

Like all goats we’ve hand -raised, we introduce them to the other goats and help them get over their shock with lots of cuddles and rescue remedy.  They all are brought up in the house first. Tamsin is the goat lady and the goats adore her.  This brother and sister are living in the kitchen currently, getting to know everyone and life in the human world (that’s them in the picture sitting on hay).

The brumbies have been interesting. I was shocked to find hoofprints down by the creek, and even across the creek. It started when we gave them  a paddock hay that was not to their taste. It was too much like dried grass. We bought 200 bales of it, after being donated some other lovely meadow hay, which the horses actually like, from one of my lovely students.

Merlin jumped the fence and wandered around the creek, telling me in no uncertain terms that if we couldn’t provide “decent” food, he would have to take his herd to find it himself. And I don’t blame him. The grass is drying and across the creek are lush paddocks full of good stuff, but thanks to the damage from a flash flood we had, there’s currently no water over there. I explained to him that we were working on getting the pipe  fixed and if he could be patient, we would move the herd to greener pastures.

He jumped back into the paddock and I mixed lucerne into the less tasty hay.

Every morning there are 10 brumbies in the paddock, waiting for breakfast, looking innocent.

The brumbies have broken a few fences, showing me they don’t have to stay here at all if they don’t want to. When the shearer came, the nursery herd were so frightened that even the babies leapt the fence, joined the big herd, and they all took off. I had to run after them, calming them down, calling them in, and promising them that no one was going to be killed. Apparently one of the shearers sent a predatory thought to them. It might have been a passing one – but they heard it and shared it with me.

The horses are on extra alert when strangers come.  Their eyes go from soft and curious to wary and guarded.  We might be considered part of the herd but other people are either alarming or to be tolerated.  It’s all about relationship, building trust, and keeping promises.

Speaking of horses we are delighted in the now cemented friendship of Samantha the Shetland and Totem the Goat.  Totem was our first baby we ever adopted from the wild goats, and he would travel in the car with the dogs on outings, as did Sarah the sheep when she arrived.  Totem and Samantha are very bonded and sleep in a stable together at night.  During a recent flash flood, we brought the ponies and Totem up to the high ground of the house.  Totem refused to shelter on the verandah ( and goats don’t really like rain).  Instead, he stood outside the office window with Sam in the pouring rain.

That was another exciting night that had been foretold by a kookaburra, so we were partially prepared.  There was lightning dancing all over the sky, and it was pouring inside and out.  Once all the horses had been moved to high ground ( and I was grateful I’d got in extra torches) , I began to experience a moment of concern for our ancient house.   But then I remembered, two little bush rats had run into the house in plain sight, through the front door!  I knew then the house was safe.  And I silently thanked them.

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Billie Dean is an internationally recognised interspecies telepath, animal and peace advocate and award-winning creative artist.  She  is the author of Secret Animal Business, and  an independent filmmaker of inspiring and heart-warming films about animals and peace.  Billie runs a transformational on-line school Rainbow Fianna, teaching animal communication with ethics and an eclectic blend of native  and visionary wisdom to help people evolve into the human angels animals need them to be. With her husband and daughter, Billie runs A Place of Peace at her home, where over 40 rescued horses run free, and is the founder of The Billie Dean International Deep Peace Organisation, a not-for-profit organsiation to promote peace and freedom for all animals through the arts, education and compassionate action. billiedean.com 

Copyright ©  Billie Dean, 2012.  You are welcome to share  this article but only in its complete form with author, author blurb, and website attached.  Thank you!

Photo credits: Billie Dean and Andrew Einspruch

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The long awaited  year of 2012 has arrived and I’m reminded of the first time I heard about it in 1978.  I was a herb student, and after a field day identifying plants in the wild, our hosts offered a vegetarian lunch (potato patties and salad). The conversation, as we dined alfresco, me with the resident dog at my feet, turned to conspiracy theories.

It was one of those days you just don’t forget. I loved the company I was in, even though I was the youngest there, feeling much more at home in this alternative environment than anything else in my life to date. There were bees buzzing. The dog and I were quietly communing, and the human conversation and company were fascinating.

The conversation turned to 2012.  Was it really the end of the world?  Would a UFO come and get the “good” people? Did you have to believe in Jesus to be saved? Was it all a furfy?  Our host, a very tall man with a beard and overalls, stood up and talked about the Hopi Prophecy, a golden era of peace that needed 144,000 rainbow warriors to make it happen.  I signed up there and then in my heart and soul. That resonated with me. I couldn’t fathom what an era of peace would look like. But I was there.

I attended and filmed the Glastonbury gathering for the Harmonic Convergence, I have had Hopi Elders come and speak to me about putting the word out about the coming earth changes, I’ve talked to all kinds of people, and done a lot of Listening myself.

I even made a film to help people through this time  of change – 2012: This Sacred Earth (or This Sacred Earth:The 2012 Phenomenon).

I learned what it took to be a Rainbow Warrior, and worked hard toward that goal for myself. You can’t sign up for that position with anger in your heart and dirty chakras full of sludge. It’s about getting over being wounded, and becoming as whole as you can be. I founded Rainbow Fianna, a wisdom school, with the intention to help get a few more warriors for peace out there.  This was the mission I felt called by.  When people are at peace, the animals are free.

And now here it is – the Big Year.  What will it bring?  What we call the 2012 Phenomenon has to date been ruthless in its desire to shift people into wholeness. Resist and it goes rough for you. Surrender and you fall into grace. So despite the brutal, grasping of the falling dark masculine archetype, by the end of the ninth wave of the Mayan Calendar according to Calleman (Amazon aff link) and the Gateway of 11:11:11, one could sense the joyous buoyancy of the time to come. And this, by the way, will be a time of balance with the Divine aspects of masculine and feminine in harmony as the Divine Feminine takes her rightful place in each of us.

The holiday season brought relief.  A rest from the world and the realisations of old patterns fell fast and thick– if you were being mindful.  And the wheel turned and 2012 arrived.

Here at A Place of Peace, thunder rolls in the distance and we have just had a shower of much needed rain. It settled the dust. Outside the window are three wild baby foals with their mums, and in the kitchen are two new rescued baby goats sitting together on a pile of hay.

I’ve spent the last three weeks withdrawn from the outside world, “resting” – although it is pretty impossible to rest when caring for animals is a full time job. But to do just one “job” was heaven, and it made me realise that trying to do more is probably crazy. To have time to be, instead of do do do, is something I have heard many, many  people yearning for. Including my own soul.  This is a big note  and something to pay attention to.

For me, as a natural telepath and creative artist, to simply listen, to write, to film and to be with animals and family are things I have been yearning for for a long time. Oh and to be more silly. Definitely that!

Like many people, many ‘aha” moments were had over the holiday break – things like:

“Oh my god, what happened to self love and self care and all the other things I tell everyone else to do?”

And:

“Why is it not okay for me to be comfortable, and what is the block in the way of me going for what really is my authentic self – and prospering from that.”

Now when I say the word “prosper”, I mean it in a different way to the way our society currently sees “wealth”.

For me, it prosperity is about being comfortable, yes, but more about energetic nourishment. It is about the ability to be fully authentic in a world that is rapidly disintegrating and changing, with old ways of working no longer working.

As Phillip Carr Gomm says in our documentary This Sacred Earth: The 2012 Phenomenon, we need to learn to make do with less, and make that hallowed.

Values need to change.  Imagine a world where everyone was nurtured in a wave of self -love and community, occupied by sacred and meaningful encounters with nature and animals, being self-expressive, and generally “playing”.   We can no longer occupy the material mindset.  it doesn’t work.  People aren’t happy with things.  They need meaning.

“Frustration” is the word of the month, I sense. With many people feeling as I did – “Why am I killing myself working like this, and for what?” Frustration is actually a healthy emotion, because it is the first step to wellness. I read somewhere that 97% of people were bordering on burnout. What does that say about our society?

I have been saying for a long time that we need more community, more support of each other, and we really need to follow our hearts into creative authenticity.

This takes courage.

The other thing that has been up is a feeling of irritability, stress, anxiety, general unsettledness.  People have been behaving the opposite of love and peace.   Relationships are being stretched and strained because of this.  The old dark energies are grasping at straws, niggling at the chinks in people’s armour and trying to cause chaos.  It’s more important than ever to be discerning, to be strong, and to focus on shining your light and shining  it on the world you want.

I bring all this up now because on Monday we have a very, very powerful new moon, followed by Mars retrograde. And while I originally thought it was simply a clearing out of old stuff time, it seems there is much more. It feels we are being asked to stop living from external programming – from past lives to parental – and start examining what we are yearning for at a heart and soul level.

Imagine a world where people were actually fulfilled, simply being their unique selves.

Imagine actually following your heart’s true intelligence.

That is surrender. And that is what this time is all about.

When I think about all the things I have to do in order to pay the bills, I feel my body tense and my frequency shut down. Things have changed and I can’t go back to who I was. Frequency is all important in the new era – finding peace within.  And resonating that outwards.  And it seems more urgent than ever that we move into our heart work/play.  Not just for ourselves, but to aid the prophecy into being.  We have a choice — stay in chaotic suffering — or move into peace and grace.

So if you are feeling sensitive, frustrated, irritable or edgy, know you are sensing the energetic shift that is coming. Do you have the courage and discipline to put new habits in place that will take you down the path of soul fulfilment? Or are you going to stay in the same old rut?

Here at home, we’ve started working out again. Sugar is off the menu; pea protein shakes are in. More boundaries will be put into place, more time for spiritual practise, back to yoga and meditation – all the things that were dropped because everything else and everyone else was more important. Hmmn.  And 2 am bedtimes have to go!!  This all calls for discipline.

When I was being trained as an actress, we were taught that our body was a temple.  For many reasons we had to honour our body.  So for me to not take care of myself because I am too busy caring for others, was quite shocking to me, when I realised I’d slipped into patterns of behaviour that were not self-caring.  Caffeine to keep going is not on.

So now we are making decisions based on our heart intelligence and the frequency we sense the activity will bring.  Because the edges are sharper and more defined in 2012.  It is a year to take action, or watch out.  And I say that not to scare anyone, but to try and motivate you.  It is no longer time to put off what you are yearning for.  For the sake of animals, for the sake of the earth, find the peace and contentment you crave.  When you resonate that, you are one of the 144,000 rainbow warriors needed to make the tipping point in the golden era.  You are needed.

2012 is a pivotal year. The spirits are whispering massive change. But if we resist the whispers and don’t put in place the things to support the change, then the Mack trucks will come. Sorry – but my sense is that change is being demanded from our beautiful Mother Earth as we can no longer live so disconnected from her and cause her so much pain. Humans must evolve.

Our beautiful rescue dog Dusty put this very eloquently when he began having seizures recently. He told me it was because he wasn’t able to let go of his old past pattern of persecution and abuse. And in this new time, these things are no longer buried. They are intensified.  It goes harder when you don’t let go.  So we are working to assist him release more fully, to let go into the love he has found here.  So far so good!!

It really is time to work on your stuff.  Let go!  Ask yourself why are you still holding on to that old story?

I’ve noticed “out there” in 3D land it is still pretty crunchy, as most people don’t know what the heck is happening and are feeling activated and scratchy. That’s because of this coming energetic shift.

Even people who do know are feeling exhausted and can barely drag themselves from A to B. Or they did — there seems to be a rising of energy now, strength returning, curiosity as to what this year will bring.  On another level, the new energies are so free-ing and magical that they have me wondering why so many humans are so addicted to suffering? Just let it go already!

Monday’s New Moon is a biggie. It will thrust us forward into a new era like a huge tidal wave of energy. So get out your surfboard, dump all unwanted baggage and start to drive your car and your board forward in the direction your heart wants to go.  We are in the era of a new sun, a new beginning, a new you.

Trust your heart.

In Divine Love and Infinite Peace

- Billie

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Billie Dean is an internationally recognised interspecies telepath, animal and peace advocate and award-winning creative artist.  She  is the author of Secret Animal Business, and  an independent filmmaker of inspiring and heart-warming films about animals and peace.  Billie runs a transformational on-line school Rainbow Fianna, teaching animal communication with ethics and an eclectic blend of native  and visionary wisdom to help people evolve into the human angels animals need them to be. With her husband and daughter, Billie runs A Place of Peace at her home, where over 40 rescued horses run free, and is the founder of The Billie Dean International Deep Peace Organisation, a not-for-profit organsiation to promote peace and freedom for all animals through the arts, education and compassionate action. billiedean.com 

Copyright ©  Billie Dean, 2012.  You are welcome to share  this article but only in its complete form with author, author blurb, and website attached.  Thank you!

Photo credit: Sooraj Shajahan

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Val Heart

One day I happened to glance outside onto the shaded area of my patio deck and noticed my grey tabby cat laying in a regal pose, front arms stretched out with her paws elegantly crossed in front of her. Her eyes were half shut, she seemed to be smiling a Mona Lisa smile, and even from inside the house I could see that she seemed to be vibrating.

Fascinated I watched as her energy seemed to grow and grow until it connected with every living thing and object within at least 50 feet of where she was. The air around her seemed charged with life force and peace, humming with power.

I asked her what she was doing, since it was obvious something remarkable was going on, and she said:

“I am blessing my space, being one with everything and everyone from the trees to the earth to the birds to the insects to the wind…, sharing healing and balance, harmony and peace. This is how to connect and be one with life.

If humans did this regularly, they would not be so sick.

They could allow the richness of life, which surrounds us always, to support, heal and nurture them.

They would be able to hear the wisdom and heart of the world.”

Learning to be fully present, emotionally peaceful is a very fine goal in life.

How does one achieve such a remarkable way of living and being?

To start, begin carefully and consciously observing your animal teachers.

Adopt a daily practice of being in the moment, doing nothing more than letting yourself truly feel all that is around you. Breathe in the richness and fullness of what is. And one day you will find yourself effortlessly connecting with the magic of Source.

See then what new understandings, insights and clarity you become aware of. How different do you feel about yourself, your animals and your world now?

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Val Heart is called The Real Dr Doolittle, and teaches animal lovers how to connect and communicate from the heart. She specializes in resolving behavior, training, performance, health problems, euthanasia decisions. Free AnimalTalk QuickStart Course (value $79), The Real Dr Doolittle (podcast) Show now on iTunes! (210) 863-7928, email: contactval@valheart.com visit valheart.com

Val Heart

I was thrilled to have been interviewed by American animal communicator Val Heart on her show The Real Doctor Dolittle. Val was a delightful host, and we had a lovely discussion. You can listen to it in the player below (requires Flash), or click through to Val’s web site and have a listen there (and even if you do listen to it below, go have a look at Val’s site).

We had a lovely discussion about a lot of things during our hour together, including:

• What the animals want us to desperately know right now.
• What is behind the need for social change and compassionate action.
• Whether animals have an understanding of humans as carnivores (you can guess my take on that one).
• What an animal shaman is and what they do to care for the animals on our planet.
• What my New Shamanism is, and what it could mean for you.
• How The Billie Dean International Deep Peace Organisation will work to support animals across the world.

Here’s Val’s bio:

Val Heart is called The Real Dr Doolittle and is an Expert Animal Whisperer.  She helps people who are struggling with their animals training, behavior, health, and end of life transitions.   She resolves problems in minutes not years because she bridges the gap between people and their animals.  She can also teach you how to be your own Dr Dolittle so you can save money at the vet, and resolve behavior, performance and training problems yourself.  Free AnimalTalk QuickStart Course (value $79), The Real Dr Doolittle Show™ (free podcast) now on iTunes!  (210) 863-7928,  http://www.valheart.com

Summer Solstice Celebration

In our home we celebrate the Solstice, not Christmas, which is for many people becoming increasingly a time of despair and anxiety.  Solstice is one of the Sabbats that has been celebrated throughout time, and for us, it holds far more meaning than the often stress-filled day society tells us we must celebrate.  When we lived in Sydney, we used to hold a Boxing Day gathering for all our circle of friends who were traumatised by their family get togethers.  There were a lot of them!  So Boxing Day became a healing day with spiritual family.

Walking through a Canberra Mall last week to get new dog tags engraved for the dogs, I was overwhelmed by the massive despair that this time of celebration and giving is still creating.  Being an empath, I was feeling teary from the collective sorrow and stress.

Truly, it is time for a massive overhaul of how we consider celebrating Christmas. Talking to people in that mall, I found many were embracing a different approach to gift giving, many were tired of the ritual abuse of animals, and many were wondering where compassion had gone from the human species.   Christmas appeared to many to have become an empty shell, devoid of true meaning.

There must be something in my aura at the moment, because I had strangers asking me about veganism, wanting the world to be a better place for animals. One was a shop keeper who had only heard about it six months ago, and it was like a light had gone on, because she truly cared about animals.  Another was a young girl who served me a vegan meal at a café. I was insistent on no cheese or eggs or dairy, including butter, and she really wanted to get it clear for future customers. We had a great talk, and she told me how concerned she was at the horrors for animals, and wanted to see more social change. It was so lovely to have these conversations and connections with people who recognised the need for a better, kinder world. They wanted to talk to someone already on that path, who would validate their feelings, and give them the strength and direction to follow their heart wisdom.

And then I met one sad, young girl who said she had no plans for Christmas, and was clearly feeling upset about that.  I quickly confided that we didn’t either, and that it was a time to spend with the animals and nature, and give thanks for everything she has. As she has a couple of horses, it made her feel better, and she brightened.  She had been given permission to do her own thing, in her own way.

I’ve since heard that quite a few people are opting out of doing the Christmas thing this year, so it must be an idea that is catching on.  I have heard so many people say they are tired , and limping to the end of the year, and how much pressure Christmas giving puts on them.

We look forward to a Christmas Day of doing nothing, not even exchanging gifts. We will do ceremony on Solstice and be so grateful on Christmas Day for a complete day of rest.   We have library books ready! My extended famiy and I came into an agreement long ago not to do gifts at all. It has all become too much.

I say, let’s forget Christmas as it has been (a consumer junk feast), because, truly, the world needs less plastic tinsel  and unwanted gifts, and a lot more meaning.

Time for a makeover.

I love gifts as much as anyone.  Our family gives to the animals in need, and prefers spontaneous gifts that mean something.  As one of my friends said, “I spend on my children all year, and right at a time when I have big bills to pay, I’m expected to give big presents.”  That’s the stress of having to give at Christmas.

If you want to give, give to those in need – the animals and less fortunate people.  Foster an animal, or sponsor one.  Stretch a little to offer a homeless animal a home.  (In the past. most of our dogs have come to us around Christmas and January).  Plant a tree, do some voluntary work, give  things that people actually need or will nurture them in some way.  Give hand crafted gifts that support artists, or those in developing countries.  Give books or dvds that will inspire and uplift, ( and also support artists).  If you can’t afford to give now, pledge to give something later. Among the best presents I ever received was a song written by my husband, and my daughter’s first real observational writing. Dump the plastic because, truly, our Mother Earth cannot sustain greed and consumerism as it currently stands. And we need to teach our children different values, fast.

My work is about honouring the sacred. And here we have a special time – Solstice, New Moon, Christmas, all lined up in a row.  The astrology is demanding truth, the demise of the old patriachy, the tearing down of old structures, and liberation and freedom from the old ways and ideas that no longer work.

So how about we are honest with ourselves and follow our own truth at this time of year?  Isn’t it supposed to be about kindness, peace, contemplation, and compassion?  Instead of feasting on poor pigs and turkeys, perhaps it should be a day of peace for all species, and gratitude for all that we already have.  Gift giving is fine, when it is in perspective.  But somehow, in our society, the gift from the heart has been lost among the wrapping paper of commercialism and the idea sold to us that the bigger and the more expensive, the better.  I’d like to see gifts of love and compassion to the animals – farm animals spared and the homeless, homed.

As the Christians overlaid many of the pagan special days with their own, it is important to understand Christmas as more than the supposed birth of Christ (because that is truly up for discussion). Perhaps it is, symbolically, about Light.

This is how I like to think of our family celebration at solstice. This is a time of honouring the Light, as the summer solstice is the longest day of light in the year, and light is the middle part of the word en-light-enment.

Perhaps it is no surprise that it is the solstice on 21/12/2012 that is getting all the airplay as “the end of the Mayan Calendar” and the return of the Christ Consciousness on the planet. Please consider the numerology of the day – an 11.

Perhaps that is why 11:11 is showing up all the time.  Because it is about the Light giving us a shift in consciousness.  A massive shift of global consciousness.  If this year is anything to go by, despite all the density and horror that still remains, I have hope that this time next year will be dazzling, because people are waking up.

According to one writer about the number 11, Dee Finney, “Eleven brings the gift of spiritual inheritance, is gifted as the ‘Light-Bearer’. It is the number of the Light within all. Strengthened by the love of Peace, gentleness, sensitivity and insight.”

Sounds like a pretty good gift for Mother Earth next Christmas!

Celebrating Summer Solstice

This is a time of many names – Litha, Mid Summer’s Night Eve, Alban Hefin (the “light of summer” or The Light of the Shore in the Druid tradition). It is a time for celebration of crops and the longest day; a sun festival.

There are many traditional ways to celebrate this special time of the year.  Perhaps celebrate nature with a picnic under the setting sun, and if we weren’t in Australia, an outside fire would be perfect.

Have some friends over for ceremony, song, connecting with the fae, and anything to celebrate the light of the sun.

Give thanks to the sun for blessing us with his presence, and consider the Lion, a solar deity. (Interestingy the beautiful documentary Christian the Lion, based on the book A Lion Called Christian (Amazon affiliate) was aired on TV on Saturday night – and this is the beautiful and inspiring story of two Aussie men and their love of a lion who they raised and then released to the wild.)

Spend time drinking in the early morning rays of the sun, giving thanks for vitamin D and solar information.

Druid’s would often keep vigil from the night before, marking the dawn with ceremony and ritual.

Summer Solstice is a spirit time, like Samhain and Beltane, when the veil is thin and the fae and other magical beings are about. It’s a good time for meditation and listening, writing down any messages you might receive.

In Celtic tradition it was a time to gather the sacred herbs which also bestowed green blessings on the home.

Because this solstice is the prelude to the supposed big one of 2012, I intend to spend much of it Listening. I’ll be contacting the fae, trees and the animals for possible messages or insights and doing ceremony for cleansing and  peace.  Our family will take the day off to be together and enjoy special treats.  We will welcome the Light that is flooding  this Earth right now.  We might even sing.  We will definitely make jokes.  And we will probably dance with the fae!

Solstice/Christmas is a time of good cheer, of expanded hearts, and love.  With the New Moon in the middle of the two, we see a time of new beginnings.  So it’s a good time  to consider your new year’s resolutions — including how to make next Christmas a time of peace and joy for everyone- including our Mother Earth, and  the animals.

Enjoy the holidays!!

In Deep Peace and Soaring Joy,

Billie

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Billie Dean is an internationally recognised interspecies telepath, animal and peace advocate and award-winning creative artist.  She  is the author of Secret Animal Business, and  an independent filmmaker of inspiring and heart-warming films about animals and peace.  Billie runs a transformational on-line school Rainbow Fianna, teaching animal communication with an eclectic blend of native  and visionary wisdom to help people evolve into the human angels animals need them to be. With her husband and daughter, Billie runs A Place of Peace Animal Sanctuaryand is the founder of The Billie Dean International Deep Peace Organisation, a not-for-profit organsiation to promote peace and freedom for all animals through the arts, education and compassionate action. billiedean.com 

Copyright ©  Billie Dean, 2011.  You are welcome to share  this article but only in its complete form with author, author blurb, and website attached.  Thank you!

Photo credit: vintagedept

The following is one of the recipes from our new ebook Loving Kindness Chocolate Indulgence: A Vegan Recipe Book for Animal-Loving Chocoholics, which we released yesterday, and which people are loving.

The Festive Sweets recipe is perfect for this time of year, and fun to do with the kids. This recipe was generously donated by Vegan Family, and our ebook is a fundraiser for the animals of A Place of Peace.

Festive Sweets

Making your own sweets is actually quite fun – children have a great time with this too.  They are also nice gifts if placed in a pretty box or packet.

Ingredients

• Vegan chocolate – I recommend Maya Gold for these – it’s orange spiciness is perfect for this time of year.
• Nuts of your choice (hazel, walnut, pecan, almond, brazil)
• Vegan marzipan (many supermarkets stock this)
• Dates
• Desiccated coconut
• Cocoa
• Icing sugar
• Crystallised angelica
• Glace cherries
• Flaked almonds

Directions

It’s very simple!

1. Melt the chocolate and then dip things in it – nuts, marzipan balls, dates – and then place them on a sheet of grease-proof paper to set.
2. Decorate with angelica, glace cherries (can be made to look like holly) and flaked almonds before the chocolate sets and then you can sprinkle with cocoa, coconut or icing sugar.
3. Dates can be de-stoned and stuffed with marzipan for a non-chocolate treat.
4. Place in petit four cases and enjoy!

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Are your companions feeling the current energies like this poor dog??

December 8, 2012

It has to be a cosmic joke. Christmas is usually an emotionally frayed enough time without Mercury in retrograde, but we’ve had three weeks of it! Mercury goes forward on December 13. Hooray!

When Mercury goes, retrograde it is a good time to go within.  And with the energies of the moment being particularly touchy, if you can go within I would highly advise it. Eat lunch alone! Out in nature. It’s a good time to duck and hide. Hibernate even. Because this Mercury Retrograde is heightened by the December 10th Lunar Eclipse, the 12/12/11 Gateway, and solar flares, it might makes people very stressed if they don’t understand what is going on.

Here at home, we put our heads down and work and tend animals, and it is like we are in our own world. But the number of cries for help are coming in good and fast, so I know people are struggling with this, this time.

Don’t worry. We’ll have a new gateway soon. But the essence of it is that we have to do our personal work, and anything that you find up for healing and release right now, tend to it! If you are triggered by something – it’s an active issue!

For me, I think the word “delegation” is coming up as I, like so many others, are seeing the insanity of our lives – doing, doing, doing – when all our souls want to do is just be.

What can I shed? What can I let go of? Where does my heart lie? What is old past life stuff and what is really my heart’s desire this time around?

The process of simplifying, of de-cluttering and letting go the old in favour of something more “you” is really intense right now. So go with the flow. What changes can you really make? What is your heart and soul really yearning for? And have you found those things that bring you peace, contentment, excitement and happiness?

Imagine a world full of contented people, all doing the things that make them happy? Bliss. This is our future, if we can start today, using the extra fuel power of some pretty intense astrology.

Who is out there complaining? Don’t! Move, shift and float upwards. Complaining holds you anchored in the third dimension, which you created with your complaints!!

The 12 12 11 Gateway is another download of light (have you been feeling those lately?) and some people might find it puts you in a state of giggly silliness, euphoria, relaxation, contentment – and others might find it challenging. The former people might want to make sure they ground. The world might not be looking at this gateway as intensely as 11/11/11 – but remember how that was for you, and take the time to say “thank you”. Watch for signs from nature and Spirit and actively focus on inner peace and quiet (or lively) joy.

My 11/11/11 gateway was sweet. I realised I was manifesting “be-ing”. I felt more relaxed than I have all year – despite work pressure. I took the day off to do ceremony and the Divine Love Healing Circle. I felt giddy with elation, despite grounding techniques, and I heard many lightworking friends also found dreams manifesting with ease: love, new homes, movement. I had a whole weekend off to be me.

I enjoyed simple things like house work singing to Carol King, vegan cooking for teens and listening to live folk music at Music at the Creek, the Majors Creek folk festival. I impulsively bought a secondhand banjo and now I’m having banjo lessons!

Later I had a huge “a-ha” in a bright technicolour life review while standing in the middle of the kitchen, seeing how being too busy was actually extremely unkind to my s-elf. Balance!

The clarity with which realisations came to me was stunning and I made sure I wrote them down. They weren’t just words anymore. I could See  how wrong the old 3-D groove was.

The process of peeling away the dead, asleep suits has accelerated, as the new alive, intuitive, heart-centered people emerge from the dross like phoenixes. Nurturing oneself and others during this time is very very important. Even the animals are sooky. My guidance was, and is, to rest, rest, rest. That’s kind of challenging at this time of year – but do what you can. I was also told that things would move forward again after 12/12/11.

Make sure you use the full opportunity of this time.  Do ceremony, drink in the sun’s rays, open yourself to change, allow yourself to become more sensitive, compassionate, gentle and refined.  And that’s energetic refinement, not, you know, tea in pretty cups.  (Although why not?)

The more awake people are, the more they see the truth of the illusion and traps we’ve fallen into. When you energetically rise higher and higher,  and lighter and lighter, it’s more of a challenge to consider causing anyone harm, least of all innocent animals.  And animal sensitives just become physically unable to tolerate harm of any kind to their animal brothers and sisters.

You see the world differently – what it could be, not what it is. This is why I keep calling for change, and urge my students not to get too caught up in what they see, but to work on themselves so they can see differently. The more people who see the world from the perspective of eagle, for example, the more we will see real change –a world where finally the urgency of compassionate action is a thing of the past because all beings are cared for with love and kindness.

So I am enjoying this process of peeling the old dead suit away with the last (I hope) of any stuff I’m carrying around, and going with my heart intuition about how to live in a new way. A new fun, light-hearted way, even as I continue my heavier work as an animal advocate.

Spirit also told me that my work had only just begun, and then proceeded to send miserable, over crowded, cattle, sheep and logging trucks to cross my path. Just to remind me of the horrors which still exist for the animals and nature. *Sigh.*

It makes me feel so full of gratitude to everyone embracing a Loving Diet (I no longer want to use the term “cruelty free”. That puts the focus on the wrong thing.) Thank you! What we are doing to animals has to stop and this is one big big area of change for 2012. I think it will happen! So instead of focusing on the horrors, I focus on social change.  A Loving Diet that becomes the norm!  And just by embracing this kind of eating, chemically effects people to become more peaceful, joyous, healthy and connected to animals and nature.   High frequency is contagious. (Remember, high frequency people can’t consider harming others.)

There is something in the eating of flesh that keeps people stuck in an old groove of density.  And they realise it as soon as they stop!  It’s okay to be sensitive!

Andrew and I were talking about this just the other day, and as he mentioned, it wasn’t so long ago that it was considered reasonable that black people could be shot by white people, and their children taken away (like we do to the animals.)

Now that we see the awful error of that social more, we are turning our attention to how badly we treat animals. This is a process of awakening, of evolution, of energetic refinement. And so it goes. I have long said that we will look back at this time as brutish and barbaric – and really, the more refined your energies become, the more clear it really is. So today is the enlightenment revolution!

A lot of people are angry at people who are causing suffering to animals through their diet choices, for example. But what we have to realise is that it is a process of evolution. The people stuck in the old ways need to be inspired to flower and grow.  There is no need to be angry.  Please be patient with friends and relatives .  Allow them their process.   Invite them to scrummy vegan dinners.   Invite them to try a Meat free Monday recipe.  For some this is strange eating.  It isn’t meat and three veg.  Over thirty years ago, my friends would rock up to dinner at our place, having stuffed themselves on KFC because they thought I would be serving lettuce leaves.  Hmn.  It is a process of education that Loving meals are yummy, healthy and they make you feel good.

What we have to realise is that peeling away is happening for everyone and everything. Just because we have always used animals certainly doesn’t make it right. And those who react, because they are still clinging to the idea that they don’t want to give up “meat”, have to ask themselves why? Is this a trigger which needs healing and release?  Be adventurous and ask yourself “why not?”

The trend to a Loving Diet is skyrocketing as people become more and more compassionate. We can no longer turn away from the truth of our food industries and the crazy things people do for greed. Meat consumption has become not only unhealthy, but also unholy.

There are so many wonderful benefits of a Loving Diet, including becoming more loving! And more healthy. And at a soul level, more at peace. Let’s face it, few people want to cause suffering. Our society is just conditioned to think it is okay, and it is really painful to realise it isn’t.

And it isn’t.

We have to create new paths and trails, to create a new world of peace for all species. This is my work now – to inspire others to see the possibilities of a different world.

While some people are feeling as though the light at the tunnel is glowing brightly, others are still squinting to see it.

There are reports of animals behaving oddly or getting sick quickly, people under stress and reacting badly , and life feeling as if one just lost the reins of a galloping horse. Ascension symptoms are still things like clearing flus, fatigue, inability to sleep, interrupted sleep patterns, and brain fog. If this is you, lay low – go ground in nature, hug a tree, meditate with your back against one (and don’t forget to leave a gift of rolled oats for energetic exchange).

As 5-D is a karma-free zone, it makes sense that anything left unhealed is up for healing and release. So handle it and be aware of what is triggering you. Don’t just go on the attack. Understand that you are triggered and therefore need to look at something which has come up for healing.

This is a time of change and we have to have change. So shine a light on your own shadow and duck when others reveal theirs! Don’t bother engaging in a battle of tempers.

Keep breathing through the crunchy times and feelings. We’ve had a taste of freedom, and there is more coming.

The trees did tell me it had been harder than anyone thought for humans to shed their density. Ouch!

And don’t forget, we are in a new new time. Never before have we ascended on mass with our bodies. So think about the enormity of this kind of change. We are all pioneers.

Also, be mindful of your thoughts and do what you can to stay positive and buoyant. (Self-nurture is the key here – very important.) Thoughts are manifesting more quickly – even the bad ones. This can get lots of people into trouble. However it is also the sign of the age of grace – so look at your world with an eye to knowing you created it.

And you can change it!

We’re in a time of beginnings, so this is a good time to begin new projects and dream in the kind of life and behaviours that fit a new era society. One of gentleness, respect, compassion and kindness to all species.

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Billie Dean is an internationally recognised interspecies telepath, animal and peace advocate and award-winning creative artist.  She  is the author of Secret Animal Business, and  an independent filmmaker of inspiring and heart-warming films about animals and peace.  Billie runs a transformational on-line school Rainbow Fianna, teaching animal communication with an eclectic blend of native  and visionary wisdom to help people evolve into the human angels animals need them to be. With her husband and daughter, Billie runs A Place of Peace Animal Sanctuary and is the founder of The Billie Dean International Deep Peace Organisation, a not-for-profit organsiation to promote peace and freedom for all animals through the arts, education and compassionate action. billiedean.com 

Copyright ©  Billie Dean, 2011.  You are welcome to share  this article but only in its complete form with author, author blurb, and website attached.  Thank you!

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Hi everyone,

My next Divine Love Healing Circle will be held at the Full Moon, December 11, 2011.

Here is how it works.

If you would like one or more animals included in this particular Divine Love Healing Circle, leave a comment on this blog post giving the animal’s name and breed.  On the the above date, I will conduct  a Divine Love Healing Circle, where I send Divine Love and Deep Forgiveness to the animals listed here, along with the ones who are in my care.

To be clear, I don’t send healing. I send Divine Love and Deep Forgiveness, which is like a blessing for the Highest Good.  That is because I believe it is not up to us to send healing, especially when there is no permission from the person to whom that healing is directed.  Every being has their own soul journey.  By sending Divine Love and Deep Forgiveness, all human ego is out of the way and only pure Divine energy is invoked.

Again, if you want to register your animal for this healing circle, leave a comment below on this bog post (or click the Leave a Comment link above).  Note that comments are moderated on my blog, so your comment will not appear instantly.

Note that I am doing this for free as a service to you and your animals.  Having said that, donations toward helping us take care of our A Place of Peace animals are always appreciated.

Oh, if you experience a change that you can attribute to the healing circle, please feel free to leave that as a comment as well. Also, it is worth checking back on this page once the Circle is done, as I sometimes leave comments and suggestions.  So have a look.

Warm blessings,

Billie

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