Just learned that six planets this year will be retrograding. Here is a great guide to prepare yourself on various levels. Remember to always focus on what you can change and let go what you cannot and keep on keeping on. 

Here is a very helpful concept to meditate and process thoroughly: 
Chiron is associated with "the wound that cannot heal." Indeed, life always contains a component that can't be entirely fixed or dismissed. You can't un-ring the bell. You can't change the past. What's done is done, and sometimes it leaves an tender scar.
Yes, you can certainly change how you respond to these things. You can change how you express your experience of them, and the priority you give them within the context of your life as a whole. You can even make lemonade out of the lemons that life has handed you, becoming stronger from having survived the sour hardships.
However, in these situations, you can't simply undo what occurred. Certain events and circumstances leave their mark and cannot be conveniently wrapped up in a garbage bag and thrown away. Not all scars fade, and some can start to ache when life's weather revives the memory of how they came to be.
This is the essence of Chiron's "wound that cannot heal." It is not a curse but part of the continuity of life. Even if something can't be fully healed, it doesn't mean you are helpless or powerless. You still have the ability to do something about it ...or with it.

FMI go here. 

 

                                        ~**SUMMER SPECIAL! **~

I'm now offering $20 for 20 minutes of tarot reading via phone, webcam or a videophone for Deaf and hearing folks. The offer expires on August 30th. Advanced reservation is required as I'm quite busy.
Look forward to helping you! 

Have a safe and fun summer everyone. 

​RaVen 

I’ve Met Ghosts Three Times
By RaVen Sequoia 

The first time I have ever seen a ghost when I was about 24 years old. I lived in an old beautiful Victorian house with a roommate. We shared a room. One night I awoke startled and realized I had left my night light lamp on. My roommate in her bed in the other side of the room was sound asleep. To my shock, I saw a beautiful blond thin white woman with her arms outstretched wearing a long layered multi-colored pastels.
I froze in fear, she was staring straight into my eyes. She did not move but was at the edge of my bed near my feet. Petrified, I didn’t know what to do with myself. I peeked over to my roommate but she was asleep and her back faced me.
Slowly I looked over to the ghost and she was still leaning over with arms outstretched. She looked very sad, as if asking to help her. Freaked out, I couldn’t accept that I was seeing this ghost right in front of me. Suddenly I had the strongest urge to pee, not wanting to get out of the bed but feeling my bladder was about to burst, I resentfully and slowly crawled out of my bed. The female ghost still stood - her dress were in varied pastel colors of yellow, blue, pink, peach, white and green.  I slowly stood up acutely aware of how I could still see her from the corner of my eye. I slowly walked by thinking to myself, She cannot move or come any closer to me or I’ll scream. Don’t you dare move.
My body was so tensed from her being too near, I rigidly managed to walk past by her without fainting, peeing in my pants or screaming. Then I ran fast to the bathroom and locked the door. After peeing, I stayed in the bathroom for many hours until dawn. Finally, when I was exhausted of waiting, I carefully walked to the bedroom door and slowly peeked inside. My eyes darted to my bed and the female ghost was no longer there.


NW 24th Ave Ghost Story

A Deaf friend invited me to join her to her company’s business party at her bosses’ luxurious classic large house in NW 24th Ave neighborhood.  The female boss gave a small group of the employees and their loved ones or friends a tour. The house was gorgeously decorated with fascinating archeological antique items. My Deaf friend and I followed the group as her boss led us up to the staircase.
All of the sudden, I felt a freezing cold sweeping sensation pass through my body. It made me stop for a half-a-second but too many people were behind me and so I continued to forged upward. Suddenly, I sensed a cheerful spirit to my right. I looked at each rooms doorways. There were three. The door with the blue room drew me in. I looked at the empty room but suddenly “heard” a giddy laughter emitting from the area I happened to rest my eyes. In my third eye, I sensed a young female figure. I couldn’t see anything with my own eyeballs but sensed it mentally. I immediately turned to my friend and signed to her, 'I sensed a ghost.’ My friend scoffed at me. I asked her to ask her boss. She flushed in embarrassment and refused. I went ahead to ask, my friend tried to pull me back to stop me from asking her boss. Annoyed, I ignored her pleas and walked straight up to her boss and asked in front of the whole group. ‘Do you have a ghost here?’ Her boss smiled and confirmed ‘Yes, we do! We have a friendly ghost here. She likes to play tricks on us. She’s a good spirit. We ask her to stay out of our bedroom though so she’s usually hangs out in the blue room or the art room.’ My friend stared at me in shock. I smiled feeling relieved I sensed something real as that sweet female ghost. Her mischievous personality cheered my spirit up, it was great fun to meet her. I tried to imagine what it was like when a group of living human beings constantly ignores her. But then someone who is sensitive picks up her presence, it must have made her day. I guess even ghosts needs attention too from time to time.


SW Portland Old House

I was hired to organize a man’s office filing cabinet. He lived in an old house that was given to him after his father died. The house was built in the early 1900’s.
In the living room, I was assigned to assort all of the many stacks of papers strewn all over the desk, drawers and floors.
It was a sunny summer day and I was in a good mood especially since I LOVE helping people organize their homes.
After about an hour of organizing my customer’s paperwork… I began to feel depressed. I felt a sense of dread and profound sadness. Perplexed, the drastic shift of mood disturbed my concentration and I had to get up and leave the living room and enter into the kitchen to get my act together.
I questioned myself what could be triggering the sudden onset of depression and sadness. Was it something I ate? No. Was it any personal problems I was struggling with. No. Was it from some sad news that maybe lingering in the back of my mind? No. After exhausting all the logical possibilities of what could sudden slam me from being in a good mood into a despondent state… a teensy tiny voice in my head uttered, “Ghost?”.
I refused to believe that. Dismissing the notion, I immediately went back to the living room to resume my organizing project.
The dread and sadness gripped my lungs to the point I felt I was ready to cry in deep sobs. Alarmed, I could no longer deny that it had to be a ghost. Still skeptical, I asked my customer, who just happened to walk past by me in the hallway, could I talk to him for a minute and he said sure. I asked if he was open minded, he said yes, what is it? Nervously, I asked if there was a ghost in his house. He calmly looked at me with a blank expression and immediately said no. Relieved, I said, ‘Okay, thanks’.
I went back to work and forced myself to finish my task despite feeling depressed still.
Ten minutes later, my customer, walked up to me and admitted, ‘I remembered something, the first owner of this house, a woman, was murdered on the front porch a long time ago. Does that count?’
I thanked him for sharing that information with me.
Strangely enough, I had my bundled sage leaves in my backpack. Normally I don’t go around carrying a sacred smudging stick around. But for some reason, I did anyway. I took the sage stick out and lit it up. Went to the front porch outside.
Feeling sheepish, I looked around to make sure there were no neighbors being able to spot me smudging the front porch. I smudged the entire front porch and suddenly felt a deep dark sad despair in my chest again. I signed to her, “I feel you. I know you’re here. I am recognizing your presence.” The bleeding despair that seeped into my body seemed to slowed down to stay still. Empathetically, I told her that I understood what took place and immediately the gloomy sad emotions gripped my body again. I reassured her it’s all over and it’s time for her to leave. I said I was very sorry she had been murdered and she can go to the next plane, cross over to the other side to her loved ones. She asked me where do I go. I felt around for the entrance and noticed it was the right side above the railing. I pointed the portal and she immediately turned around to look at it. In awe, she stood there just gaping. I smiled and urged her to walk in and it’s okay to go. Time to go and cross over.  The female ghost wearily walked inside it and I felt her getting smaller and smaller and finally the portal closed.
The despairing gloom left my chest and the dark sad mood disappeared. I was back to my old cheerful self.  I felt a solid closure with this old female ghost that was murdered on the front porch. Feeling satisfied, I said a little prayer and bid her well. Went back to work and I was finally able to finish organizing the customer’s paperwork.


These are the three ghosts that I have experienced in my lifetime.
I still don’t like seeing ghosts but feeling them is fine.  But it’s not like I zealously go after them or anything. Just those who really need help to cross over or just friendly ones that needs recognization.


RaVen Sequoia
www.raVensTreasures.org
February 17, 2018
©RaVen Sequoia 2018
Must ask author for permission to share these stories.

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As an experienced Energy Body Worker - specifically in Aura Cleansing and Chakra Balancing, I am often asked what a session entails. 
First off, I need to make it clear, this is not a Reiki Session. I was a Master Reiki Practitioner for over 10 years and then retired and went back to my innate energy work since I've had as a child (as young as 7 years old).  

First I will greet you at your home. We'll need to find a comfortable chair that you can relax in (easy chairs are great since you can lean back and raise your legs). If not a comfortable chair and an ottoman will be great.  Be sure to make the 1 hour to 2 hour session undisturbed. 

The chosen room's stale energy will be cleared with sage smudge (if you're sensitive to herbal smoke, I can use something else). Then I will smudge myself and then you.  We'll discuss what physical, intellectual, emotional or spiritual issues that needs work on. 

Then I will ask you to sit down and relax in the chair. You will be fully clothed but I do ask you to wear a loose fitting comfortable clean clothes. Most people tend to automatically close their eyes and some fall asleep.  What I will be doing is typing up my scanning of your etheric field.  
The ranges of sensations that I literally feel physically varies and it will be noted in your "Before" report. 
The next step is with my hands - I will start cleaning your aura, and balancing your chakras. 
I'll jot down some more notes of changes that has taken place. Lastily, also do cleansing on the back of your body. 

I do a lot of combination of energy body work, shamanism, Inner Child Work, The Healing Codes, crystals, gems & stones and whatever Spirit tells me to do.  

Afterwards, I will share the notes and we'll discuss the observations. 
Please note that I am merely an observer and do not make diagnoses but will often try to explain what some energy fields felt, looked, acted like and share it with you. 

By then I tend to pretty much know what to suggest for self-care after the session. It's entirely up to you to proceed with the self-care soul work or not. 

My job as an aura cleanser and chakra balancer is to initiate a new chapter in your inner-life - the rest is up to you do proceed with inner healing homework of the PIES. I get asked often of how many sessions should they should have - it varies from person to person - normally a person will feel a dramatic shift for the better, when that happens -- then the frequent schedule can change to few times a year and then sometimes to 1 or 2 sessions a year. It depends on your comfort level, financial capacity and time.
Just like how a cellphone needs purging of old apps, or files or photos annually, so do we energy-wise. 
I, personally, feel the need to have energy work on myself from another healer at least 2 to 3 times a year.  

Please note, I do NOT cure people or animals of diseases, cancer or any chronic illnesses, etc - but a lot of people have noticed improvement in their psyche, emotional well being, and often times when an emotional release is allowed, bodily symptoms subside. To read the difference between healing and curing, go here.  To understand how unexpressed or suppressed emotions can cause health problems, read this article here. 

Now I hope you have a better idea of what to expect.
If you have further questions, feel free to email me and I'll be happy to answer them. 

Ethics
I promise to honor your privacy and to respect your physical and emotional boundaries. 
Some of the work requires us being close proximity to each other. Let me know of your comfort level as it's very important you are to feel safe and comfortable. 
Guests are welcome to attend and can help write down information to keep notes for future reference. Be aware that sensitive topics may arise and the person is comfortable witnessing some process work. 

Be well, 

​RaVen Sequoia 

Happy New Year everyone! 

I finally registered my domain from www.RaVensTreasures.weebly.com to www.RaVensTreasures.org. 

A lot has happened in my life personally and healthwise in the past two years and thus I've not been blogging in this site. This year I aim to try to blog every two months with generalized public tarot reading insights & other interesting tidbits for the community in large. We as a society have a lot of response-ability to improve our world. It all starts with each of us doing our best. 

This winter - I'm excited to continue my Adavanced tarot reading schooling with Dusty White as I always been in learning more skills that will enhance my talents.  

Other news:
Last fall I got my new car magnet advertising for Organized Now! business and excited to service my local neighborhood. It's another passion of mine (My sun sign is in Virgo: 1) I love servicing others 2) I love helping others organize their spaces 3) I love short trips as it's adventurous for me to discover new places & meet new people in my community. 

Lastly, I wanted to share this interesting story of how I helped clear a house to get it going for sale:  In 2015, I was able to energetically clear a house that my mother had trouble selling for over 7 years. In less than 6 months, she was finally able to sell it. 
I've discovered her best friend's ghost was still lingering around and she was not ready to let it go. I told my mother to tell MaryLee to release the house & to move on to another plane. I then saged the entire house - in every nook and cranny to remove all blockages in the house. I discovered intuitively that I had to do more rituals outside of the house on all four corners. With intentional meditative concentration - I completed the ritual. Once I sensed an energetic shift in the house, only then I was able to leave the property. 

Was so happy to be able to help get the house sold to the new owner. 

Time to wrap this blog up. Have a productive, safe, healthy new year everyone! 

For an appointment email me through my Home Page. 

Cheers and love, 

​RaVen 

Canadian Geese in Longmont, CO
Photo by RaVen C. Sequoia (C) 2014 - Reprint not permitted. 

This month I will type up an amazing message titled Desiderata - every time I read it - it inspires me to my core. I hope it does the same for you. 
Kindly, 
RaVen 

DESIDERATA

GO PLACIDLY amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.  As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.  Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.  
AVOID LOUD AND AGGRESSIVE PERSONS, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.  Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. 

KEEP INTERESTED IN YOUR OWN CAREER, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. 

BE YOURSELF. Especially, do not feign affection.  Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.  Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.  Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.  But do not distress yourself with imaginings.  Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.  Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. 

YOU ARE A CHILD OF THE UNIVERSE, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.  And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. 

WITH ALL ITS SHAM, DRUDGERY AND BROKEN DREAMS, It is still a beautiful world, be cheerful, strive to be happy. 

                            ~*-------------------------------*~


Moving back to New Jersey, visiting my childhood schools, the houses I grew up in, old neighbors, some few old friends - so many astonishing truths that I thought for so many years turned out to be false. What I thought was false was true.  Clarifications, reminders and deep purging of old beliefs all slipped off of my aura like oil running off of a person's skin.  The weight is finally gone.  I feel so much freer now than I have ever felt in my lifetimes. After 46 years, it's about time, yes?!  2015 has been an eye opening year for me and my personal growth leaped far and wide on multiple levels. 

May 2016 brings us all healing, wisdom, solutions and remember to have fun as well! 

I'm offering a special 3 card reading for $10.00 until Dec 31, 2015. 
Appointment via email. 

Happy Hallow's Eve everyone!


Request $7.00 off for this month- a 10 card Celtic Cross tarot reading session. Advanced reservation required - remember that I'm at the Eastern Time zone. 
Make appointment at: ASLmasterTutor(at)gmail.com

Peace, bountiful, love, happiness - may it all be yours this year! 

Love,
RaVen 

Hi Everyone!
Happy full Aquarius Moon today... 
This month is an exciting one as I was invited by the Deaf Spiritual Network (DSN) to give a two hours presentation on How To Align Your Intuition with Tarot, all in ASL! (American Sign Language). This will be held in Texas. I made my first power point and pretty delighted how it turned out. I hope they will find it fun to look at. 
I will report back in September in how it went. 

For this month, I picked out three cards - 
Queen of Wands: It is time to harvest your last summer month's garden's fruits/vegetables/herbs you've planted in the spring.  Start stock piling to prepare for the fall season - get ready to study recipes for canning or freezing goods. 
Get out in nature and take advantage of the last summer's weather - go out hiking with your pets or your loved ones - make the time, winter will too soon be here. 

XVII  The Star:  It's time to let go of old thoughts that no longer serve you or others - any self defeating negativity/beliefs needs to be shed.  It's time to tell the truth to your loved ones that you've had a hard time honestly expressing - it will be healing for both of you. 
For women:  ground yourselves into appreciating your feminine energies - feminine body - feminine innate powers that you possess - it's time to reclaim our inner feminine energies that's been in the hiding in this dominantly masculine (yang) modern civilization. This is also a great time to do water color painting - or any medium with a lot of colors. 

The Lovers:  This is a month of airing out concerns and goals to make sure you and your partner are on the same wavelength.  Remind each other of your goals as a couple and as individuals and make plans accordingly to meet all of your personal and interpersonal goals. For some couples, on the physical level, doing some physical exercise together will create a loving shared-experience bonding that's been long ignored or forgotten.  
For those living in a warmer climate  - take some solo couple time trips - camping trip- RVing trip - any weekend or even a week long trip (if your schedules permits it)  - it will refreshing your daily grind rut-ness and give a bounce in your step when returning to day to day life.  

Well, that's it for now and I wish you all a fantastic rest of the final summer.  

Kindly, 

RaVen 
www.RaVensTreasures.weebly.com 

Happy New Year everyone! This year, 2014, I plan to get more active in causes that I believe are worth pursuing - all for protecting our earth, plants, animals and ourselves. 
When you have a healthy body, you have a healthy access to your intuition.  Intuition means the ability to focus your attention on subtle energies to gather information in your surroundings. My friend, who is a professional astrologer and a shaman, and I have acknowledged that poor health often results weak intuition sensing.  It seems more and more modern civilized lifestyle steers us far away from getting and staying attuned to our hunches that guides us to make better choices in our lives.  
I once met a hardcore skeptic who did not believe in any intuition at all - ironically, I began to see his auras when he was troubled from time to time - I finally blurted out what I was witnessing in front of me. It began to scare him because I was able to pluck out the truth when he tried very hard to hide it from me.  Somehow, a few years later, I let him convince me that intuition didn't exist and I began to ignore all of my hunches and I nearly died from it.  With this excruciating realization that just because I could not prove to him that intuition is real - I finally recovered and began to embrace both my logic and my intuitive sides of myself.  
Now that I am living a peaceful life - I get constant flashes of prophetic information - it's quite random - some information are silly but it's a good sign that my aura is healing and that I'm sending out my radar to pick up possibly useful information.  
When I give aura cleansing for folks, it's instant, just like riding a bicycle after a long dry spell.  However, I've been meditating deeply lately about how can we as individuals make a positive impact in our lifetime to improve the world we live in? Where to start? 
Number one thing - we must be healthy in order to live a balanced happier lives. 
Since there are people who are doing everything to destroy our health - we need to fight back.  
There's a new website I just discovered about Geo-engineering - also called Chemtrails - it kills with toxic heavy metals sprayed in the air we breathe in and soil from parks we play in and gardens that we grow food and eat from as well as water from our reservoirs.  To learn more about this, click GLOBALSKYWATCH.
In order for us to have a healthy body, we need to protect our environment. How do we make changes in our lives? We first bring awareness and then we invite people to educate themselves of what's happening by revealing the truth. 
How do we discern the truth from lies? This is where you will need both your intuition and logic and weed out any suspicious "too good to be true" propagandas, especially from authoritarian figures.  
We've survived thousands of years without these toxic chemicals that affects our bodies, our minds, our emotions.  Every one of us are now contaminated with more toxic chemicals than we care to admit from the polluted air, chemically treated city water, pesticides in our well water, toxic fertilizers on our farm food, hormones in farm raised animals, and so on.  This needs to stop and to make real changes, the public, has to be educated and the more people are aware, the more pressure we can apply to those who are causing havoc on our health. 
I'm a firm believer of using both your intuition and logic to do research - with the internet now available to the public, it's time to roll our sleeves and dig deep to find truths that is right under our noses.  The answers are there, it's up to you to find them and then distribute the truth to your loved ones so we all can strive to live a healthier life. Let's 2014 be a year of active productive change for the better for us all!