Tears for Spheres

Bubble Soap

When I went to put my smoothie cup in the sink just now, I was momentarily transfixed when a shaft of sunlight from the window hit the fluffy soap bubbles as the cup filled up.

I stood there in awe, gazing at all the shimmering, symmetrical, auralicious colors, and listening to the delightful crackling noises as the bubbles began to pop one by one.

Sometimes it’s difficult not to be overcome by the beauty of the infinite miracles that Source is so fond of producing – each one a universe unto itself. 

I nearly wept at the wonder of it all!

And that’s when it suddenly hit me:

I really need to get out more.

Good heavens.

I suspect all the broccoli has gone to my brain.

Jumping Ahead

The night before last seems to have been full of strange and significant dreams for almost everyone I know.

Everything from visitations from deceased pets and loved ones, hideous nightmares, and spiritual guidance seems to have been doled out during the midnight hours.

When I asked around, I was told that it has something to do with an eclipse in Scorpio, but astrology is really not my specialty, so I can’t verify that one way or the other.

Just for fun before I went to bed last night, though, I asked my spirit guides to send me a special dream with some information that I could use to advance my spiritual progress.

To my surprise, I had a dream in which I was given a pendant in the shape of frog, and informed that this was my animal totem, at least for the moment.

I don’t know a lot about frogs as totem animals, so I had to look it up.

Frog Chakra

Oh my. That frog has his sacral and brow chakras on backwards. Should I tell him?

Turns out frogs are regarded as symbols of metamorphosis, communication between the earthly and spiritual realms, good luck and riches, and the study of colors, because frogs themselves are often so colorful.

Here are a couple of links on the subject, if you’d like to read more about it:

http://www.whats-your-sign.com/animal-symbolism-frog.html

http://www.nativebearspirit.com/Animal_Totems.html

This all does seem quite relevant to me right at the moment, as I have been going through a very profound metamorphosis over the last year or two, which I do hope will continue.

And my work definitely does involve colors, and communication between the earthly and spiritual realm, doesn’t it?

Yes indeedy.

I suppose I’m still working on the part about the riches, but I trust the Universe to provide!  Thus far it always has.

Do any of you know what your totem animals are, and if so, how do you use them in your spiritual work?  Tell me all about it in the comments below!

I’ll be on my lily pad if you need me.

Frog Lily Pad

Personality Link Love

For those who were brave enough to do a bit of metaphorical navel-gazing following my previous post (and I hope you were, because the information you get from it can be terribly useful), I suspect that a little more detail on what your results mean might be helpful in applying them to your life.

To that end, I offer three of my favorite personality resources
(presented in size-descending order, as is only proper for the slightly OCD INTJ).

Link Cloud

http://www.personalitypage.com/html/portraits.html

This one is my top favorite, and the first one I always hand out to my victims clients.  There is a great deal of information on here about careers and relationships for the various types, in addition to the general descriptions.

http://www.keirsey.com/default.aspx

There are more detailed Myers-Briggs sorters on this site, as well as descriptions and lists of famous people who might share your type.

http://personalityjunkie.com/

Good descriptions, and more famous people.  Find out what kind of company you’ve been keeping, without even knowing it!

I would love to hear more results from everyone!  The more the merrier!

Are You My Type?

As I’ve been going along with my aura work lately, I’ve noticed that the readings are often nicely supplemented by a little discussion of Myers-Briggs personality types. 

If you don’t know about personality typing already, it’s kind of the scientific version of a chakra reading.  It breaks personality down into four simple components:  Introvert vs. Extravert, Intuitive vs. Sensor, Thinker vs. Feeler, and Judger vs. Perceiver.

What?  Not that simple?  Kind of weird actually?

Okay fine.  I’ll bet you’re a Sensor.  :)

For those who want to know a little more about themselves, however  (and possibly transform their lives and relationships in a truly profound way), I offer the following link:

http://www.personalitytype.com/career_quiz/

Typewriter Ball

No, not THAT type, but you will have a ball taking the quiz!

Here you will find a very short (around five minutes) personality test, composed of four comparative questions.

And unlike aura readings, which I will only do with express permission from each client, I encourage you to take this quiz for not only yourself, but for anyone else you know well enough to do so.

It will give you a tremendous amount of insight into how they think and approach life, which will help you to approach them in a way that may make your relationships far more successful.

The key to tolerance is understanding – and the more of both, the better.

I am an INTJ, for example – actually a highly rational, scientific type, and probably one you would expect to find reading a medical textbook rather than your aura.

But we can be very open-minded and intuitive, and over time I’ve done a whole lot of work to develop my feeling side, which is not naturally strong in my type.

This is the benefit of understanding yourself – it should never serve as an excuse for your weaknesses, but a tool to work around and minimize them.

If you do take the test, drop me a comment and let me know how it turned out!  I’d love to get to know you all a little better.

Sorry for the pop quiz on Monday morning, but I hope you’ll find it’s worth it!

Identity of Mystery Person #1

Wow, where did last week get off to?

Did anyone see it?

Neither did I.

I assume it’s somewhere behind the huge pile of contract work I’ve been doing, or possibly in the even larger pile of clean laundry ready to distribute to the various critters that inhabit my house, including my equally delightful boyfriend.

Yes, I think I see it.

It’s under the towels.

In any case, it seems that I have neglected to reveal the identity of the first mystery man we were working on (well, I was, anyway – I think everyone else has more sensibly been planning their turkey repasts).

I promise to do better next time, right after I wake up from my carb coma.

And in my case, since I suffer from a pretty severe sensitivity to carbs, that coma may turn out to be fairly literal.

It has really been lovely knowing you.

Mystery Person 1

Anyway, as some of you well-informed types were already aware, the person in the photo above is Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, who, according to this Wikipedia article, “ruled Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow by the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979. He was the second and last monarch of the House of Pahlavi of the Iranian monarchy.”

For more information about the Shah, please check out the rest of the article – especially if, like my boyfriend, you are a big fan of what I call wikiwandering – the practice of jumping randomly from one Wikipedia link to another until you have lost all sense of time and reality.

And if you’re not, you should give it a try.

Because who needs reality?

I certainly don’t.

Now, while I was not able to positively identify the Shah on this first go-round, it was clear to me from the photo that he was a dictatorial leader of a middle-eastern country under Western influence, that he had a rather despotic and controlling nature, and might have been responsible for the death or torture of a number of people – all of which proved to be true.

Did you pick up on these traits as well?  Or anything else?  Drop me a comment and let me know.

In this first experiment, I tried a technique that proved to be useful, and which I have since used several times with good results – I ask the subject of the photo a question.

“What are you all about?” is the general gist of the inquiry.  They almost always have something to say in reply, and although it sometimes surprises me, it’s quite often revealing in some important respect.

“I like to conquer and destroy,” was the Shah’s reply.

And from what I can tell, I suspect that he did.

And now, for someone completely different:

Mystery Person 2In selecting our next mystery person, I’m going to jump well out of sequence to the case I was given just yesterday, because the way that his identity came to me was quite unusual, and I feel like sharing.

I will tell you all about it in the next day or so (promise – coma or no coma), but if you’d like to play along, here is his photo:

If this person interests you, feel free to shoot me a comment or an email, and tell me what you think of him.

What does he do for a living?  What sort of a character does he have?  What time period does he belong to?  What is his name?

And most importantly, of course:  What is the deal with that overcoat? 

I mean really.

I would of course be thrilled if my readers would like to participate (yes, I mean both of you!), but if not, I’ll report on the hits that I got on each person, and how I was able to identify them, because it’s been quite a fascinating intuitive journey thus far.

And I do love a good mystery!

Don’t you?

Mystery Person #1

For my intuitively inclined readers, here is a little game that my boyfriend and I have been playing recently.

Don’t worry, it’s safe for work.

Most likely.

Now, I will freely admit that I blatantly borrowed this idea from Anna Sayce’s lovely blog, Psychic But Sane.

Anna offers intuitive development courses through her website, and also occasionally posts psychic experiments on her blog. These consist of a photograph of someone who is reasonably famous, but whose face is not well-known to most people.  Readers are encouraged to comment on their intuitive perceptions about the person, and then Anna reveals the subject’s identity after a few days.

Since I had some success with the experiments she posted (I correctly guessed the first names of the two that I tried), my boyfriend offered to help me with my intuitive development by providing similar photographs of people whose names I might recognize, but whose faces I would not.

This exercise has turned out to be an excellent confidence builder for my intuitive tendencies, and after practicing it for while I thought it might be useful for other people too.  Not to mention a lot of fun!  We’ve been having a great time doing this.

Fortunately for me, due to an extreme fondness for Wikipedia, the aforementioned boyfriend possesses far more information about practically everything on earth than anyone actually needs to, so this task was surprisingly easy for him.

We have been playing this game for a few weeks now, and thus far I have been able to positively identify 14 of the 15 people he has sent me.

In order to do this, I look at the photograph to try and see what initial psychic impressions I get about the person, if any.  I try to identify what sort of character they are/were, what time period they belonged to, what type of work they might have done, and what kind of contribution (or detriment) they may have made to humanity.

Once I have gathered enough pieces of psychic information to really narrow down the search, I then employ the resources of the Internet (yaay, Google!) to try and actually identify the person, and I am not satisfied until I have found the original photograph that I was provided with.

I typically run my initial impressions past my boyfriend, and he is allowed to confirm any hits I get, but not to lead me in any specific direction, or to give me any concrete details whatsoever.  I insist on locating the target without any direct guidance.

One specific technique I like to use is to mentally ask the subject of the the photograph a question about what kind of person they were, or what they were all about. I have gotten some surprisingly accurate and interesting responses using this method, which I will tell you about as we go along.

Another method I have used with some success is to try and interpret the aura colors that I sense around the person in the picture; this has also provided me with information that has helped me to locate at least one of the individuals I was given.

If you would like to play the game too, I will post the photographs I’ve already identified here, and give you a day or two to look for the person yourself.  Afterwards I will let you know who they are, and the psychic hits I received when I investigated him or her.  I will let you know which of your impressions were correct as well.

As an initial example, just so you get an idea of what I’m talking about, below is the very first picture my boyfriend sent to me.

This is the only individual so far that I was not able to positively identify, although I was very close, and would have done so if we had not ended the experiment a little early.

See if you can do better than I did!

Mystery Person 1

Have a look at this person and see what you think of him. What era does the photo belong to? What sort of person is he, where is he from, and what is his role in the world? Do you like him, or not? Why? What do you think his job might be? Did he do the world good, or harm? Don’t discount any seemingly random words or impressions that may arise – as you will see, they can often be accurate.

Drop me a comment if you have any questions as we go along, or email me at info@jeniferflint.com if you think you have identified who the person is.

But only if you find them using your intuitive skills, not if you just already happen to know who they are! And if you do, please don’t give it away.

Happy reading, and I hope to hear from you soon!

Reading Rainbow

Now here is an interesting little intuitive story for you.

It still has me thinking about it on a number of levels, as I’m sure you’ll understand.

Crystal Ball

A friend of mine is getting married in the summer of next year.  For that reason, she recently emailed me photos of her entire bridal party. 

One of the photos she sent was of herself and her two best friends from childhood, just standing together in a kitchen with their arms linked, smiling.

Perfectly ordinary picture.

But as I looked at it, I noticed that the girl on the far left stood out to me for some reason, almost as if she had a line drawn around her, or was somehow a bit more…solid or something.  I kept coming back to that photo and looking at her, and fleeting bits of impressions began to occur to me.

This girl felt very orange and green to me, which in my personal terminology would make her an energetic, ambitious, healer-type personality.  I felt that she had an unusually strong character, a well-developed sense of compassion, and that she wanted to be involved in health care in some way – most likely as a doctor.

I kept hearing the phrase “She’s going away” repeated in my head when I looked at her, and I got the sense she would be traveling to a foreign country to do some sort of philanthropical medical service, such as the Peace Corps or something similar.

I also had the idea that she herself had some medical issue that might have inspired this line of work for her.

These impressions were fairly strong, so when my friend came over for dinner, I just couldn’t help but ask about it.

And to both our surprise, when I shared some of the ideas I had picked up by looking at the picture, they were right on target!

It turned out that the young lady in the photo was currently finishing her training as a nurse, and had just left the country for a two-month mission trip assisting underprivileged children who can’t afford medical care.

And furthermore, this work was inspired by a severe allergy that she had suffered from all her life, and which gave her compassion for people with medical issues.

Wow, really?

Yes indeed.

I pointed out, though, that it wasn’t the word “nurse” I had heard, but “doctor,” and that I doubted this kind and ambitious individual would be satisfied with that level of training.

So when the girl in the picture phoned my friend a couple of days later (knowing nothing of my prediction yet) to announce that she had just applied for medical school, this time NOBODY was surprised.

Except her, when we already knew about it!

Stethoscope Heart

What interests me most about this whole incident is not that I picked up on this information, but that it was so current and important to her life at the moment, which seems to explain the sense of urgency I felt when I looked at her photo.

It may be that as she made the decision to take the next step with her training, she needed to hear that someone out there saw and supported it, and that it was the right thing to do.  This person feels like a caring and selfless soul to me, and it goes without saying that the world needs more of that sort of thing.

But I’m saying it anyway.

She might be just what the doctor ordered!