Hola gorgeous goddess!
I want to talk more about spiritual stuff here. I mean – everything I talk about is spiritual, really. But I want to talk about the practical parts of spirituality too. How I actually DO spirituality, ya know? And I want to learn from you. How you do your spirituality too…
But first: I want to do ze religion talk first, for any new readers who might not be aware of Goddess Guidebook’s Official Spiritual Buffery Policy. {I just made that up but I LIKE it! Let’s pretend it’s all official + everything!}
So: Policy = You are totally + utterly welcome, celebrated + honoured here, no matter what religion you feel called to.
I’ve circled in Goddess circles with women who are atheist, Christian, Muslim, Mormon, Pagan, Hindu + Jewish.
It’s not about the religion’s name. We’re all searching. We’re all wanting love. We are all headed for God, no matter what we call it: Great Spirit, Buddha, God, no god, G_d, Allah.
The Dalai Lama says there are six billion paths up the mountain to God. We each take our different path, but we are all headed in the same direction.
I’m a Spiritual Buffetist: I fill up my plate of faith with delicious morsels from many different spiritual traditions. Whatever feels right to my spirit, I listen to.
And whatever feels right to your spirit? Is utterly perfect for you. No matter what.
So, religion talk aside, I want to talk about lightworking… something which I believe is applicable to all spiritual traditions!
I’m way intrigued by lightworking and lightworkers at the moment.
There’s two reasons for it: Through Different Eyes (ze book I have been in love with lately) is an adventure story of two people travelling around the world to do lightwork. And ze second reason? I know with a sureness in my bones that part of the reason I’m back here in Proserpine again is to be an earth lightworker and help the land here open up and glow. I want to help raise the energies here. Here, people are intrically connected to the earth. Super super grounded. Very base chakra. Which can be a really wonderful thing. I go to sleep every night with the soles of my feet buzzing and tingling from being barefoot out on the earth so much. It can also mean people can be not as open in the upper chakras, especially the third eye {intuition} + crown chakra {connection to spirit}. So I want to help this beautiful little town become really open again. And I just have this strange {well, not so strange, nothing’s reaaaaally that strange} vision that Proserpine needs to connect up to the big golden grid of light around the world. The vision tells me this grid all around the world helps people to heal… and that Proserpine will help to heal people in so many places by joining up.
Anywaysies, I’m now wanting to learn more more more!
And where else to go but to my favourite, wisest goddesses I know? Right here! You!
So… tell me dearest heart…
Let’s have a share in the comments…
Do you consider yourself a lightworker?
How do you do your lightwork?
I’d especially love to hear the techniques you use + how you know when + where to do lightwork too! And anything else you feel called to share would be beautiful too!
Tee hee hee… can you feeeeeel da light being emitttttted from my magical fairy hands???
Don’t tell me that you don’t tie rainbow fairy wings to your head too?
Can’t waaaaaait to read your sharings!
You are so so so loved dearest goddess!
big love,
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This is something I’m SUPER curious about because, while it’s a term I’ve only come across in the last few months, it’s something I feel like I’ve been doing (trying to, anyway) for years but never got the hang of. I would love to hear loads more about this and practical, down to earth techniques for practice and mastery.
SUPER excited also to see more spiritual talk here (in as much as practicality is considered; I do get a big spirit-boost just from reading your writing)!
Oh my sweetest Goddess Leonie! I just did something yesterday that relates exactly to this. I’ve offered some help and direction to my neighbor couple who are fighting. In order to help them heal, I’m planning on offering them gentle guidance away from animosity, towards kindness and compassion for each other. Although I’ve never done anything like this before, my heart is calling for me to do this. Thanks for putting a name to it! Biggest love to you and yours in Porserpine! xoxoxo
leonie i think you have already done a lot of that light work in proserpine.
what has been kind of funny for me, as i progress with my creativity workshops and coaching is that actually what i do isn’t creativity at all. what i do is light. what i am is light. what i give is light. the creativity workshops are only the structure through which i shine and share the light.
and i think, even though we all have different words for it and ideas about it, this is what we’re all doing. and our only real work is dissolving and destroying whatever would block that light from shining as fully and freely as it can.
Goddess Leonie,
I’m a lightworker, doing reiki, often distance reiki (in fact, I just did that last night over the phone, giving treatment to a friend who had a back pain). It turns into an intuitive thing, where I can feel odd things about them, in their bodies and in their energy fields. I once asked, “Why am I suddenly thinking so strongly of coffee?” and my friend on the other end of the line said, “I just drank a big gulp of it!” That was funny!
My education in regards to crystals and grids is lacking, though~ I don’t know how to do a crystal grid; and what you said about connecting your town up to the golden grid of light~ well, as Fabeku (sankofasong.com) could probably tell you, Cincinnati could really use some light-lifting~ and I would love to do my part in that!
They say that our Ohio river is purer now than it’s ever been, but there is still much work that can be done, here!
Um…
What is lightwork?
I know I could Google it, but I’d love to hear a Goddess explanation of it.
Goddess Leonie, I love this topic as well!
big luv!!!
Honestly, I see everything immersed in the One Sacred Love, and we are but a part of this magical tapestry.
I am most drawn into aromatherapy, gemology, angelic reiki, and spiritual hospitality.
I find Mtns such as Colorado or Arizona big energy points for me, and from Sacred feminine -Iona and Paris. I just love Mother Nature and the natural essence and trails of Spirituality that flows from the Center Core -our heart.
I would consider myself a Lightworker heart -In training for some gorgeous roles ahead.. but more importantly just living out the Biggest Luv I know right now is perfect and enough, as it is for all of us. We are softly cushioned wherever we are!
p.s. I adore your fairy wings, that photo made my day.. its so beautiful and silly too
hugs to you my dear…. and your lovely Prosperine.. hearing you talk about walking barefoot on the land is just gorgeous and healing.. I need to be barefoot more.. I find that what you shared of the base chakra is such a unique and important ground to work from — I am usually up in the sky with the mysticism and have to learn to demystify.. so staying grounded is something I am working on..
~Jenn
I am learning to accept the side of me that is a healer and *gulp* lightworker… I have always been more deeply connected to the spiritual side of things and searching for training as a healer but never been in a place where that was acceptable as a calling. More like “oh, that’s nice dear, what a lovely little hobby but don’t let it get in the way of what really matters.” so actually even talking about it still freaks me out a little! I would love to hear so much more about how you and others do lightwork and healing and other lovely soul-enriching, can’t live without it, beautiful things!
I’m so interested in reading and practising lightworking! I have been reading everything I can about Indigo and Crystal people and children. This consciousness is evolving, as we speak, huge shifts are occurring as the human consciousness connects with the collective consciousness. I meditate, chakra meditation is a perfect way of connecting and emanating these energies. I work with crystals, I am spiritual and eclectic, I am a White Witch working with earth and universal energies to heal or effect change. I’m an empath, I feel highly sensitive to the energies of people and can pick up on moods or just ‘know’ things! I’m a typical 1970 love child! I see these same things in my children, I am amazed by them every day, it’s an incredible time! I have a Lemurian seed crystal and it tingles in my hands! I have several more coming, so exciting! I love and work with the phases of the moon, as a nurse I have no doubt whatsoever the effect it has on people, every full moon I have my crystals, my gemstones, my altar, all out recharging under the light and I make sure I get recharged too! My cat gets lunar madness and tears around playing like a kitten, stalking unsuspecting legs as we walk by, her eyes wide and glowing! WOW! I had better stop because I could go on and on, I find this so amazing!
Love a d Light!
Liza
My ways of working with Light?
-teaching women’s sacred dance traditions, tapping into the deep ancestral and natural wisdom of the body.
-staying aware of, and aligning with, natural cycles, especially moon cycles, tidal rhythms, and the life of the forest vegetation throughout the year. Establishing this connection is as simple as being outdoors often and really paying attention. Nature is the most profound teacher.
-practicing kindness
-studying traditions of enLightenment, especially Buddhist traditions, where the purpose of attaining enLightenment is to help and serve others. I love that.
great question, Leonie, thanks for the prompt.
xo
Bronwyn
Hi Leonie and all others
I am a lightworker through and through! I use my gifts to support and heal myself, my children, loved ones, friends/family members, and in my work with clients.
I have even blended my lightworking/intuitive abilities into my bookkeeping business! I offer people what I call a Guided Money Session where I use all of my lightworking abilities to help them heal their relationship with money. At first I was terrified to offer something so different in such an analytical and practical business, but it’s making such a huge world of difference in the lives of my clients that I’ll never turn back! Best thing I ever did for my business, really.
I also consider myself a lightworker as I live in a way that I send positive energy out into my environment and allow it to reach out to everyone I know/meet/interact with. It’s a gift I’ve had since childhood, and I’ve studied a wide variety of religions, modalities, and methods with amazing teachers to really expand my gifts and myself.
Hey, Leonie. Here’s a link to a piece written by Seena B. Frost, who created SoulCollage®. She says that the feminine counterpart to the male lightbearers is the feminine waterbearer archetype. It’s good food for thought. We need both to create balance on Mama Earth, but I think there may be something to this idea (being an Aquarian myself, I’m drawn to the waterbearer archetype). The feminine supplies watery feeling and flow to the masculine energy represented by fire and the sun. What do you think? http://home.earthlink.net/~soulcollage/id25.html
Leonie, I am loving your site ever since I found it, and I’m really feeling a strong need lately to bring more light into my life and cultivate some ability to do lightwork as you say. I’m a very earthy person, very grounded, and from a place very much like what you describe in your town. It’s nice to be so rooted, but I often crave more possibility and insight, and I need to learn to open up to that light. Thanks so much to you and your commenters for sharing here.
Hey Leonie! I have not been very spiritual lately, though I hope that will change now (especially with the Goddess Circle!)… but I do consider myself a light-worker. I’m Wiccan and practice witchcraft, so I love doing spells and magick, especially of the healing variety! I think that qualifies me, what do you think?
I am new here and don’t know what lightwork is: can you guide me darlings? It’s funny, but I think my daughters and I already do it.
When someone is ill or needing some special love we sit in a circle with eachother, sometimes touching hands and we visualize rainbows coming out of the tops of our heads and we think happy loving thoughts and imagine the spectrums going up and merging to become one giant rainbow leaving our home, and soaring to wherever our intended recipient resides. We wish for miracles and blessings, but are rarely specific in what exact miracle or blessing to happen.
Additionally, my daughters and I often sing song together and hold our hands out to intensify our chi and love and let it come pouring out of our bodies through our hands.
We were never taught this … it just came to me when they were babies, that I would put my hands over them to infuse them with my life energy.
Are these examples of what you are calling lightwork?
I definitely consider myself a lightworker, although, I’m having a bit of a struggle (to put it mildly!) with the ‘dark night of the soul,’ lately, so am not really able to connect with that spirit-filled aspect of myself at present. Just trying to ride out this stormy wave with acceptance, until the day when I am plopped back onto the blissful beach of light, once again.
I started this journey almost 2 years ago. It evolved from my discovery of Reiki. My word for this year is synchronicity and everything just flows from within. I am currently a practicing Social Worker in a public school and in a private practice. Since beginning this journey of discovery of “enlightenment” I feel that my ability to help people in distress has become highly energized and almost effortless. I really believe that it all comes from the light within us. It is marvelous. I have received 2 Reiki attunements and studied some Qigong. I practice meditation daily. One huge difference in my life is that I am not fear based any longer. This makes my aura sparkle with love and light.
Hey, Christine! I’m from Cincinnati too, and I agree, this town could use some light. I don’t really know what lightworking is in a formal sense, but I guess I’m doing it anytime I’m lifting someone else up – or lifting myself up – to grow closer to our potential. I once took a tai chi class and felt the powerful chi and even informally did some healing work, although we didn’t call it that at the time.
Oh my! Look at all these beams of light here! Leonie! you, your work, your art, your wisdom, your LIGHT so attracts more and more of us Lightworkers!
I used to consider myself a light-warrior in my early Indigo days, but I have taken on a new title as I crystalize…I like “Light-Shiner”! My light that I share with the world is the same light in all. We are all made of light-goodness! How will you shine it? Does it glitter? Are you sparkling? Yes…you all are bright Light-Shiners.
Shine on Sistars!
Go Melissa,
I love that – Light Shiner!
Don’t have to do stuff, just BE a shining light
Now I just gotta remember that even when I’m grumpy or sad I’m definitely still a shining human angel, lol
Sounds interesting. I’m completely new to the idea. I will look into it more.
One correction worth noting: Mormons are Christians. The official name of the “Mormon” Church is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Hi Leonie, I love that picture of your golden crown! And I do see a bluish white hue around you in the one with the fairy wings.
Yes, I am a lightworker, though I don’t think I’ve ever used that term on myself.
How do I do my lightwork? I spread the message of happiness through my blog, writing about my own happy and spiritual experiences and epiphanies. I walk in nature and absorb all that goodness. I meditate a couple of different ways — the “focus on your breath and think of nothing” type and a psychic meditation that I also use to do aura readings and healings. I do psychic healing paintings! That one still surprises me, in a very good happy way, and I want to, need to, do it more. And I recently started teaching. I work with my client’s Spirit to customize a program for her to see her own spiritual path. It’s based on psychic meditation, but I also use other techniques and rituals, whatever her Spirit shows me works for her. It really feels like I’m beginning to do what I came here to do.
How do I know where and when to do lightwork? Pretty much the way you do — through dreams and synchronicities, visions, meditations, inner guidance, the answers I get during psychic readings.
Thanks for opening this forum. I love talking about this stuff.
Lightworker ?? hmmm… i think its kinda like burden bearer. if you feel someone needed your prayer and advices. you have a lovely
and friendly site. love it!!