Find your balance in everything you do, but rather than stay guarded and secure in a sheltered life give yourself permission to explore a little too. The world is a vast and beautiful place in spite of the things you hear and experience during times of turmoil. There are always pockets of calmness offering spiritual relief. Find them in your own environment or go afar to experience something new. Have no fear; it’s all about having a new experience and enjoying the world you live in. And that is good. And have a little fun too!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

In the stars are the secrets to all of life, in the wind the mysteries sing, in the waters flowing are the elements of the unknown, in the earth the hidden gems of life. You reside in a world of great beauty and light but also of great fierceness and shadow, the two equally necessary. So is it with you too. Do not doubt your own beauty and power, but use them wisely and for good, for that is what you and the world need now more than ever, the beauty of the mind to take right action and the power of the senses to heal. Act with compassion. Think of good. Be a being of light and shadow in appropriate measure, beauty and power in right alignment.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

There is nothing so calming as the quiet stillness within. Find time to do nothing except be still in the moment, your own breath your only company, your empty mind your only goal. To be quiet in the moment is to know the Self as a particle in the Cosmic dance, solitary and yet a part of it all. Find a moment. Breathe. Be. It will do you good.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Learn to read and interpret the signs that come to guide you, both within and without. Your body knows and your senses know things that your mind misses or dismisses. You are all magical beings, but you have  forgotten this most important trait. Regain knowledge of self and all that you are capable of.

Like a warrior stand quiet and still and listen to what nature tells you, your own inner nature and nature outside of you alike. Learn how it speaks to you in dreams and inner signs, but also in the wind and in the heavens. Learn how it speaks of what is and what is to come and most of all how it teaches you to act in accordance with it. Nature knows. And so do you, for you are nature too.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Shadows are present day and night, the parts of the self ignored, compromised, or habitually dominant. Watch what you wish for. It may not be the best thing for you at the moment, a manifestation of some unlived part that is better off left in the shadows. On the other hand, the shadow self must become fully known if one is to truly “know thy self.” All aspects of self are valid and must be explored. The question then becomes: Is it the right time to turn to the shadow, or is it time to turn to the light?

Both extremes are you, but somewhere in between is your balance, where light and shadow are fully known and accepted, kept in balance without excess in either direction, all parts recognizable and easily utilized or put to rest when appropriate. When light and shadow are in proper perspective, all of life is in proper perspective. That is balance!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne