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Self DiscoveryAugust 30

I have experienced a revelation.  It caught me quite off guard, but rang true with crystal clarity: I've spent the last eight years learning to love myself again. 

 I realized that when I looked back over this time, I saw it as one of loss and longing; the loss of myself, and the longing to be loved.  I sorted through the debris of guilt and mourned the loss of my marriage; the facade of a marriage actually, and realized my self doubt was an illusion, superimposed on me by the man I had chosen to spend two decades with.  From Karma I attained my Dharma.

 Now what I found was a renewed love of life, my life, a sense of discovery and adventure that had fallen asleep, and the more I looked within, the more I understood that everything I needed was right there inside of me.  These past years have been some of the most daring and adventurous of my life; and that says a lot for someone who has trekked through Africa.

 I became a seeker again.  My smile returned, and when I looked in the mirror, I began to feel joy instead of anguish.  I want to drink life in, to learn and find new meanings in things I have taken for granted.  I've dusted off the cobwebs from my deepest desires, and opened my heart to a plethora of gifts waiting to be uncovered and shared.

 I wake up each morning and greet the day with gratitude and grace, knowing full well every moment holds the promise for magical happenings.  My inner vision has expanded beyond the boundaries of my self, my home, my earthly existence, to something far greater; a universal connection to a multidimensional source that is there for the asking.

 So I've taken down the barriers and thrown open the gateway to my heart.  I embrace every experience that has led me here, and try to squeeze every drop of joy out of my existence.  I examine each thought, always striving to begin them with "I am", while embracing a deep faith that I have what I need when I need it, and to be a channel of light with love as it's source.  I walk the line between here and over there, but when I look at my physical life and how I have melded it with my spiritual life; I think, "Who says I can't be in two places at once."

ReincarnationAugust 17
Do you ever think about reincarnation and who you've been in other lives? 
 Well I can tell you, you've probably had more incarnations than there are numbers to count.    
 An idea that used to seem so far fetched, has become a mainstream topic.  Why?  Because as we are accelerating our consciousness, the reasonable mind is being overtaken by the spirit.  Realities are overlapping and we are accessing information from other lifetimes.  We are able to see and feel different dimensions, often unawares, that help give rhyme and reason to what our lives are all about now.  The notion that we couldn't possibly have been an iconic figure, or a saint, or someone infamous for that matter, no longer holds true. 

  We are all 'cut from the same cloth' as the saying goes.  We are all one, and we share in divine love equally.
  I'm sure if you are reading this, then you and I have been drawn together for a purpose, and probably knew each other before; maybe many times over.  I always find that when we recognize and remember another element of our soul, it turns the Karmic wheel and allows us to release what we don't need and see the opportunities that await us. 
  Look at patterns that repeat themselves in your life, and through meditation and prayer, ask to recognize  what you have carried in from another life, and how you can transmute that through love.

                         Grace & Peace, Always, Daria

Getting out of my own wayAugust 9

Lately, I've spent a lot of time thinking about how I can get out of my own way. 


I have surmised that the best way do this, is to stay aligned with one's higher purpose, and try to glide through roadblocks without getting caught up in them.     From my vantage point, our biggest obstacle is the need to always achieve the goal, to see the end results.  It's a side effect of the technological way in which we live.

  Instead we need to stay present in the moment while we create the energy of movement, by directing a constant stream of consciousness towards our universal purpose and the energy that exists outside of our immediate physical realm. 

 It sounds almost like an oxymoron, to stay in a moment, yet move through energy, but the design of consciousness is to always be creating itself, and we are participants in that grand symphony.

  Think about the shift most of us in this country have already taken, from when we had to prepare the land, plant crops, tend to them and watch them grow before we could actually harvest and eat them; we would intrinsically be prepared to wait.  We were much more in tune with the cycles of creation and manifestation, which would reflect in every other aspect of out lives. 

  Now if we're hungry, it's literally a few hours to go to the supermarket to buy food, minutes to microwave it, and seconds later we could be eating.  It isn't hard to grasp why 'sowing the seeds of purpose' feels like eons to come to fruition; and when it does, we're on to the next best thing.

  This is not to diminish our need to propel ourselves through life, to experience and seek accomplishment.  It's just my intention to stay focused through the cycles of imagining, creating, attaining, and then enjoying some down time, boredom if you will, before reigniting the desire that starts it all again.

  The great news here is understanding that on a quantum level we are manifesting with the speed of light.  Recognizing that will help keep us aware of our thoughts and intentions, and to keep our focus to that which will illuminate goodness and love, in all ways,

  We are well into transitioning from global citizens to planetary citizens.  We may each have an individual purpose, but our universal purpose is to unite with the discourse of ethereal energy that flows through us as through channels of light, as we are beings of light.  Give attention to your daydreams, as they are doorways through which these messages can flow. 

  So when I feel myself blocked from one of my perceived goals, I step aside, out of my own way, open myself though meditation and prayer, and seek to align myself with the vast array of universal consciousness. 

  It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, 'Beam me up, Scottie!"
New Moon & RainbowsAugust 4

 Today is a new moon, and a wonderful opportunity for new beginnings, and I've been thinking about everything that led me to this moment; right here right now.  I"m always telling people to look for signs, and follow your intuition and that's exactly what happened to me one morning when I woke up out of a sound sleep and thought, "I have to move my show to BBS."  I decided to meditate and ask my guides and the confirmations kept coming.  I have a little saying I love to share with clients whenever they ask me if what they saw or felt was a sign, and I tell them "you are looking for fireworks when you should be looking for fireflies."

  But you know, sometimes those fireworks do happen, and that's what led me here.  I don't know if any of you out there watch the show the Bachelorette, but I admit, I do, even though I know it's Hollywood, but with 25 handsome men it's kind of hard to resist. One of the 2 finalists was a man named Chris who had shared a lot of sentiment about his mom who had passed on.  During one of the shows, he mentioned that his dying mom told him to look for her in rainbows.  When the Bachelorette decided it wasn't Chris, to spare him some heartache she broke with decorum and decided to forgo waiting until the final reveal of the show to tell him.  Ever a gentleman, he was gracious and thanked her for coming to him early, and she left.  Well the cameras kept rolling, and when Chris stepped outside onto the balcony of his tropical hut, there was a huge rainbow in the sky.  He said it hadn't been raining, and he knew without a doubt his mom was sending him love and recognition, because when you love, you never really loose.  Later on he commented that every member of the crew was crying tears of joy and awe.

 

 I had my own rainbow experience one day.  I was really upset and feeling sorry for myself.  I was trying to make a move down south and I had run out of patience.  It was one of those amazing, blustery days with a warm wind blowing and huge, luminous clouds racing across the sky.  It felt eerie and magical all at the same time.  I looked up at the sky and yelled, "If I'm supposed to go, I want to see a rainbow and I want to see it now!"  It was more like a tantrum really and I heard the phone ring and went inside to answer it.  As I turned around to go back outside to talk, I looked up through the glass doors, and there it was, a huge rainbow glowing in the sky.  Talk about being humbled!  I blabbered a bunch of apologies to my guides and thought this isn't about my time line, there is a bigger picture going on here.  

 

 So as we take this journey through matter, remember that within each of us is a beautiful being of light, vibrating to all the frequencies of the rainbow.  When we become self aware and recognize that within us, we align ourselves with the highest frequency of our soul, and emanate that love and light to everyone on the planet.  As the archangels have told me, we are all one, and as we move towards becoming channels of light, we will eventually merge our consciousness with the planet, and collectively the consciousness of the universe, and so on and so on. 

We are all here to serve, to learn and to teach, and a teacher takes the knowledge that is already there, but presents it in a way that inspires.  So my hope is that I will inspire you to remember your birthright as a channel of love and light.

Messages from the 5th DimensionJuly 21
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  Everywhere I turn, there is a constant buss about the topic of 5th dimensional energy.  Our vibrations are rising, and the only thing that has been separating us from the next dimension, [which might only be centimeters away!] or from moving freely between dimensions, is our low vibrations.  Earth is said to be among the lowest and densest vibration, making it a difficult place to be, and that much harder for us to make this transition, or jump.

But that is changing.  The frequency of Earth is on the rise, and so are we.  Just like the strings on a violin, if you pluck one, they will all resonate.

We actually do slip in and out of dimensions more times then we know.  Almost everyone has had a Deja vu moment and instinctively knows what it is.  When our chakras are functioning at an optimal level and we have those 'goose bump' moments that take us out of ourselves, we are literally transported in the space of a few seconds. 

I know that daydreams are yet another portal to take us to alternate dimensions.  Think about it; when you daydream you can be transported and completely out of your body.   Daydreaming is going to a higher vibration, and now I suspect that vibration is the 5th dimension.

The other night I listened to Dolores Cannon, a hypnotherapist, author and teacher, speaking on BBS internet radio about some of the information she has received from the thousands of sessions she's conducted.  She explained how ET's move their ships through any number of dimensions; not with engines, or repelling gravity, but by changing their vibrations.  Physicists say there might be 11 dimensions, but once again, it is our limited thinking that strives to put a number on them, when they are most likely infinite.

So when you find yourself becoming more intuitive, more psychic, hearing glimmers of words, seeing something out of the corner of your eye; here one minute, gone the next, or knowing who is calling a minute before they do, congratulate yourself.  You are moving in syncopated motion with the higher vibrations of the 5th dimension, and one day your dreams, will really become, your reality!


Grace & peace, always, Daria Justyn

 

Hold Your FocusJuly 14
Do you know that what you hold in your thoughts, you will eventually hold in hands?  That is the way the universe works.  God gave us the amazing ability to create our world.  Why then, you might ask, are some things so difficult?
If we didn't know both ends of the spectrum of experience, we wouldn't be able to fully gauge the concepts of what we are here to learn.  If we didn't know fear, we wouldn't appreciate the infinite beauty of love.  When we bring all things into balance, we can feel fear, but we don't allow it to  overtake our thoughts because we understand the powerful energy of love.  We are learning that we can focus of our intent to maintain this balance and just beginning to grasp that the way to fix our malaise is to conceptualize our world the way it was meant to be from the beginning; Eden. 
We know now that the scales have tipped way out of balance.  We are inundated with daily messages of fear that tell us the way to happiness is measured by what we buy, own or eat.   Our outer space defines our inner space, instead of the other way around. 
The veil of our fear is finally lifting, and we are beginning to really understand the power that each one of us holds in out thoughts.  Hopefully ,disaster may have been diverted by the combined power of our intentions to stop the oil flow in the Gulf, and with the help of the Angels to amplify that energy, we might be on our way to believing that what we hold in our hearts, we can manifest. 
Look around you, and if you like what you see and how you feel about yourself, BRAVO!  If not, ask the Archangels and your loved ones and Spirit Guides to help you HOLD YOUR FOCUS for what you want and need for your HIGHEST GOOD.  Do not waiver in your intention.  Be clear, be focused, have patience, and you will see the direct results of your actions. 
Happy 4th of JulyJuly 1
...from Daria Justyn Psychic Medium



sun  When I think of July 4th, I see the image of singer/songwriter Richie Havens sitting on the stage at Woodstock, and how he moved the crowds while singing
"Freedom". 
  I recently sat with my dad to watch the HBO series, "John Adams" and was reminded again of the bravery and sacrifice the founding fathers and their followers made to escape tyranny and greed.  But something John Adams said really resonated with me; it was to not just focus on what we would loose, but the unique opportunity we would have to create  an entirely new form of self-government.
  How far we have come from 1776, and how far we have strayed from those ideals.  The good of all has become the wealth of a few.  We seem to be right back to where we started and the planet is suffering for it.  It's obvious the dire consequences of this oil catastrophe are going to be around for decades.
  But here's the good news: we are once again being given an opportunity to create change and manifest a different kind of world.  There exists the possibility for an evolutionary leap for humanity.  If we understand that collectively, we create change on an energetic level, and that each one of us individually adds to that energy, then we can continue to be conscious of the choices we make, the intentions we have, and the actions we take.
  If we think in terms of acting in a way that will serve a higher purpose for ourselves, for others, for God's creatures, even for the Earth itself, it suddenly makes sense to buy less, do more, share, recycle and live in unity and peace...that is the freedom I embrace.
                             "One nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all."

                                                                    God Bless, Daria
 
Summer Solstice & Lunar EclipseJune 23

Summer is upon us, marked by the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, the Summer Solstice, when the North Pole is pointing toward the sun, as much as is possible. 

 For centuries this day has been celebrated; even by building monuments like Stonehenge, to track the celestial movement of the Earth around the Sun. 

 Coming this weekend, on the tail of the Solstice, there will be a Lunar Eclipse of the moon. The moon has always been associated with intuition, love, magic and fertility.  What could be more beautiful than that glowing orb, hanging in the sky, so full it seems like you can just reach up and touch it? 

The soft glow of the moon represents the Divine Feminine; it evokes images of the Moon Goddess, waving her hand, and leaving trails of stars in its wake. The ancients used the moon to measure time and gestations.  It held the power to bring things to fruition, thus determining the best time for planting, bearing fruit and harvesting crops.  From that grew the fertility aspect of the lunar Goddess.

 

For centuries we've equated love with the moon.  What is more romance than dancing under the moonlight? Legend has it that the mineral, moonstone, will attract your true love, and endearing songs like "Moon River" call to mind the beautiful sight of moon light glimmering on the water. 

But it also represents release, abandon, wolves howling, and cycles ending and beginning.  Native American lore says that the moon holds psychic energy and wisdom, and when wolves bay at the moon, it's to connect with the secrets lying just below the surface of the subconscious.

Astronomers hold the theory that the moon was dislodged from the earth when an asteroid- like body named, Theia, made its wobbly way towards a collision with Earth. It knocked the Earth's axis off kilter by some 23.5 degrees as well as dislodged material that formed the moon. It is responsible for stabilizing Earth's spin axis, giving us our days, our seasons, slowed the tides, and effectually acted on the oceans as a brake on Earth's rotation rate. Otherwise our days would be approximately 6 hours long instead of 24.  That sounds exhausting!

Greetings from a FriendJune 8
I would like to reaffirm to all of you reading this that love is forever, inter dimensional and by love we are all divinely connected.
  The family of my recently deceased friend, Fran Bennett, called me over to her house to give me some of her personal belongings; things they felt might be meaningful for me.  Fran and I shared a very special friendship and I was touched and deeply moved that they made me feel like part of the family.
  Among the gifts were three framed magazines from decades long past; 1917, 1921, and 1937.  My curiosity got the better of me and I decided to take the magazines out of the frames so I could look through and really enjoy them.  As I was pressed for time, I was going to save them for later on in the day, but decided to quickly breezed through them to enjoy all the old advertisements.  Pictures of soup and jellies, breakfast cereal and hair products lined the pages, along with articles, instructions on knitting and painting china; crafts considered proper for women of the time.  While turning the pages, I noticed a story that appeared to be part of a serial, a continuing story that carried over from one issue to the next.  In the center of the page was a box bordered in black, with a synopsis  meant to catch you up on what you had missed from the previous issue. I felt compelled to read it.  It was the story of a man who was to receive an inheritance from his uncle, now deceased, with the condition that he was married.  He was given a mysterious letter which led him to be introduced to sisters, one of whom he began to court.  Her last name was Bennett, just like Fran.
  That morning I had been looking at Fran's picture from the funeral mass I had attended just days before.  I put down her picture and that prompted me to take out the magazines.  I could have skipped right over the story if it hadn't been highlighted by the bold black lines around it.  It got my attention, and so did Fran. 
  For that, I send out my love and gratitude for reaffirming what I already know in my heart to be true; that our loved ones still feel our love and send us theirs.

                                        Grace and Peace, Always,
                                                      Da
ria


The Power of ThoughtJune 3
Did you know that by projecting your thoughts it is possible to change an outcome?
Science has proven this to be true.  But we are so bombarded with negative situations, attested to by tuning into just about any major news program where it's one disaster after another, that we have forgotten the ability we have to create love, harmony and peace.
Imagine if you could focus your thoughts, and create a beautiful outcome, just by projecting the feeling of love.  Now imagine that you connect with a group of likewise individuals and focus your attention and thoughts as a group.  We could change the world, and we are doing so right now, as you read this, whether you believe it or not.
Since every thought resonates with a powerful vibration, merely by training yourself to keep your intentions positive, you can change your world.  Let's practice...
For now, every time you think of the situation of oil leaking into our beautiful oceans, visualize the flow of oil stopping, and the waters returning to their blue, pristine condition.  The sea creatures and the birds are gloriously happy and all is well.  Keep that phrase as a mantra when you think of the spill; ALL IS WELL.
It may seem impossible, but that is the illusion.  We are capable of creating anything we can dream of.  We dream it, intuit it, imagine it and create it.

Live like there’s no tomorrowMay 19

Have you ever asked yourself why you are here, why you have incarnated as part of the human race and what you personally and collectively are here to accomplish?

 

I see the world from two perspectives; one from the physical and one from the spiritual.  On a physical level, I have to stay grounded and take care of my body, nurture myself and try to live in a way that supports nature and feels good.

From a spiritual perspective I understand that I am part of a collective consciousness that has manifested a global society poised for change.  Does it matter what I own or how much money I have?  Only to the degree of what I do with what I have, and how I use my energy to create a loving, peaceful world.

 

We have the ability to create change. We seem to spend a lot of time waiting for change to happen, but it is time to realize that we are the change that’s coming.  We are beginning to initiate monumental changes in our values, our environment, no longer accepting apathy and disregard for precious human life.  We are awakening like a somnolent coming out of a long sleep.  Science is teaching us that we actually do manifest what we focus our attention on.  Can you imagine the possibilities of collectively using that focus to help heal ourselves and our planet?

 

So live like there is no tomorrow.  I used to equate that term with recklessness, but it’s not.  It means staying focused and aware of your thoughts, right now, and look at the reasons why you do something.  Following your dreams and your passions will help you create happiness.  And since creativity is the natural state of consciousness, you’ll live in a constant state of gratitude. 

Take a chance on something that will give you joy, even if others might have a hard time with it.  Because actions that reflect your love for yourself will bring change that ripples through everyone’s energy field connected to you.  It shows others that everything is possible, if you believe and act with integrity, love and compassion.

So be the change, and you’ll love your tomorrow when it becomes your magical today!

What Are You ManifestingMay 12


 Did you know that the cells in the human body are performing trillions of functions, operating like a beautiful symphony under the orchestration of divine consciousness, without you even having to think about it? 

  We can breath and digest food, regulate our body temperature and operate our glandular system; all done automatically.  Why is it so hard then, to understand that in this same way, our cells create our thoughts, and our thoughts and feelings and emotions combine to create our existence. 

  So let's look at and around ourselves and ask the pertinent question, "What am I manifesting?"

  I am fully aware of how doing the kind of energy work that I do can put a strain on my endocrine system.  All of my chakra centers are fully engaged when I 'plug into' different frequencies.  I also know how important it is for me to nurture myself and maintain good, healthy practices to balance this out, both physically and spiritually.  But this is not specific to me; we all live in a world that has put tremendous strains upon our physical and emotional well being.  Because of this, I have learned to become very self-aware, which helps me to notice when everything around me begins to feel erratic or unstable.  I observe when I seem to be bumping into everything, instead of feeling my energy flowing smoothly and I am able to follow my intuition without feeling like a boulder is dropped in my path every few feet.

  I've felt that way lately, and I remain steadfast in my belief that what is happening internally is mirrored externally in our lives.  And when very traumatic events happen, either personally or globally, I continually stop and ask myself if I am balancing this by taking extra special care of myself so my energy stays positively focused, even when everything around me is in chaos.  I know it is time to retreat into serenity, to follow good health practices, to seek the council of friends and fellow energy workers and hold myself in a state of grace through prayer and meditation, until I slowly transform my outer universe to reflect my inner one.  I hope you can do the same.  Then together, we will create a quantum shift that will ripple through the fabric of space and time and we'll have heaven on earth.

Or, in a more practical sense, I'll stop stubbing my toe.


Grace & peace, always,  Daria Justyn
 
Goodbye FranMay 5
  On Wednesday, one of my dearest friends, Fran Bennett, suffered a massive stroke.  For those of you who were wondering,that is why I canceled my show at the last minute.  This past Saturday, Fran passed away and I am devastated by her leaving.

 As a medium, I know this is all part of God's divine plan, but as a human being my heart hurts.  I'll grieve, I'll pray, I'll meditate and send her lots of loving vibrations with the hope that she has a beautiful transition out of this world into the next.  She is such a loving soul that I know she will do her best to help me and all of her family and friends who love her, to feel her presence all around us.

Needless to say, I don't have the energy to do my show tonight on Blog Talk Radio, but please join me next week when numerologist Alison Baughman comes back to Medium in our Midst.


              Grace & Peace, Always, Daria Justyn
Who am I this time?April 27
Who Am I This Time?


 Many years ago, I saw a delightful movie with Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken called,

"Who Am I This Time?"

 It was the story of a man and a woman who belonged to a theater group in a small town.   She was very outgoing, and loved the entire process of the plays.  He was excruciatingly shy, but when he was on stage something magical happened; he completely opened up and took on the characteristics of the role he was playing. 

Although he was madly in love with her, he was too timid to express it.  So she found a play where the main character had to articulate his love.  When he took on that role, he was able to feel the emotions and the passion of the character, and when he delivered that message of love, it was not only coming through him, but from him as well.

When I remembered that movie, I thought that it was a great metaphor for who I am and what I do. 

When I connect with a loved one, I can feel what they felt, see what they saw, and understand what messages they want to send back.  When I connect with Angels and Spirit Guides, I can feel their inspiration and support and know how to channel what I feel to whomever is on the receiving end. 

So now, when I wake up and prepare for the day ahead, and the readings I am going to do, I look up to the Heavens and wonder, 'Who am I this time?"

           

             Grace & Peace, Always, Daria


missionApril 15
“From the time I was very young, I knew I was different. There was always an under current of heightened sensitivity, and a feeling of being outside of the norm.
As a teenage I became aware of this constant feeling that I was supposed to do something unusual with my life. So I left my home and job and embarked on a quest, traveling to different parts of the world, seeing different cultures and studying all things spiritual. One day, many years into my life, I understood with sparkling clarity why I was here, and what I was meant to accomplish.
I am, like all of you, a spiritual being, who finds myself here at what seems to be a pivotal time in the human experience.
I have come equipped with certain abilities that allow me to travel between this world and the other side; and to connect with the higher vibrational energies that co-exist with our world.
The Archangels say that we are all one; that we are an energetic collection of souls who are bound together through a matrix of love. But we have forgotten our ability to manifest exactly what we need to exist in that state of perfection. It is the ‘remembering’ that will create the surge of recognition we need to change the way we live and view our world.
So I come to you as a messenger. My purpose here is to assist each of you to listen to your soul, understand your mission here on Earth, to share your gifts, and overcome your challenges. Life offers us a wonderful opportunity to learn, to grow and to teach. By connecting with your soul, the energies of loved ones who have passed over, Spirit guides, and Archangels, I am able to help you receive guidance, inspiration and acknowledgment. We are all Souls who have come here with a higher purpose, and together, we shall usher in a more peaceful, gentler world, devoid of anger and hate, and instead, create a world filled with love and light.  This is a privilege, and a challenge, for which I am eternally grateful.”
Milo & LucyApril 6
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book The picture of the two cats above is real, even though it looks like a staged Kodak moment.  It's of Milo and Lucy, two sweethearts that share the home of my daughter Jenna and her husband Dave.  Lucy was found in the subway and Milo was taken in after her mother was poisoned.  This is how they wake up most mornings, and is a testament to the bonds of love animals share, not only with us, the humans, but with each other.  Nothing can teach us self-less love and compassion like animals can.  They bring out traits in us that we might not have known we had, if it weren't for having them in our lives.  It could come in just a look, a recognition for a kindness done for them, or the way they curl up in our laps when WE need to be on the receiving end of some comfort and unconditional love.  Let's celebrate what they bring into OUR lives how they become our teachers, and what soul lessons we learn from sharing our planet!

                                           Grace & Peace, always, Daria
The Light of JoyMarch 9

In the face of adversity, sadness or fear, it's almost a primal instinct to panic, retreat inside yourself and close down, or to lash out in anger.  When you are witness this, especially in a loved one who is looking to you for help, it's important to stay aware of your feelings and not let yourself be pulled away from your joy.  If you can hold onto that vibration of joy and positivity; then know that you can be the inspiration that will spark healing in others.  Your resolve in a positive outcome, and the joy you project, will not only help protect you from being swallowed up in negative feelings, but will allow others to feel the love, safety and confidence that you radiate. 

Never let the forces of fear overtake you.  Keep the white light of God's protection and love around you always, and hold on to your joy because you must "live it to give it."  Your energy in the face of adversity will be a shining example for others who will be uplifted by your spirit. 

It's In The Little ThingsMarch 2

So often, during a reading, I've been shown a scene, or heard a snippet of a song, or my attention was drawn to the color of someone's hair.  Many of those times, I wasn't able to get the validation that I would've liked to hear.  My client may have had to do some investigating, to 'connect the dots', especially if the message is for someone other than themselves.

 After many years of doing this work, I've come to understand and accept that if you want instant gratification, go to a drive through window because you won't always find it here.  Instead, I rely on the faith and trust I have in myself, my guides and your loved ones, to steer me in the right direction.  As it is given to me, I will give it to you.

 But every once in awhile I hear back from someone, letting me know they put the puzzle pieces together, and realized that sometimes the messages are in all the little things.

 I received this validation from a young woman who recently lost her husband, and was desperately seeking answers.  I believe she found them; but I'll let her tell the story...

  Two weeks ago you did a reading for me shortly after my husband passed.  I've been meaning to tell you that so many people were touched when I told them of your findings. Many of the messages you relayed have helped me through this difficult time, and on the days/nights that the pain is more difficult, I try to find comfort in what you told me.  During my last reading, you relayed a message that solidified that belief for others as well.
 Right before we ended the call you asked if I had any questions.  My husband had given a specific message for his friend, Jay, and I wondered whether he had anything to tell Jay's wife, another dear friend.  You took a deep breath and then asked, "Does she have blonde hair?"  I replied no.  "Is she a motorcycle girl?"  Again, my response was no.  You proceeded to tell me you heard the song "Blue Skies Smiling at Me" - but I knew nothing about those references.  Then, after another breath, you said you were being surrounded by butterflies.  And you saw a cat.  Now THOSE were two signs/references that I knew because every single gift we had ever purchased for her involved butterflies - she even wears a butterfly necklace - and my husband was very close to her cat, Trouble.  So, again, your gift was confirmed for me once more.
 Then, later that evening I was relaying my notes from our reading to Jay, his wife, and another friend.  When I got to that part, I told them what happened and they became silent.   They said they have a picture that my husband took of Jay and his wife riding Jay's motorcycle home from the beach one day.  It was the summertime and her hair was light, almost blonde.  They were both smiling at him and there was a bright, beautiful, blue sky behind them. 

 It was taken years ago, long before my husband and I met.  I knew nothing of the photo, but apparently it was his favorite picture of his friends.  That's why I didn't get the reference.  It was almost as though he had to think again of something that I would connect with Jay's wife; hence, the butterflies everywhere.
 So, thank you again for bringing a bit of peace into my life,
                                                                             M J

 Sometimes, it's in the little things...

              Wishing you Grace & Peace, always, Daria

Share the JoyFebruary 16


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Life is filled with joy.  Yes, it's all about challenges; emotional, physical and spiritual.  But how we put forth and share our energy, by ourselves and as a group, determines the outcome of those challenges.  Most likely, we will encounter obstruction, but that makes the rewards so much greater. 

 This is not to say all of life is a struggle.  Quite the contrary; life is a mystical journey our soul has set upon to expand its consciousness and connection to the whole, until ultimately, one hopes, to become one with God.

This week, the world comes together for the Olympics.  We celebrate in that spirit of togetherness the unique accomplishments of athletes, many of whom had to overcome great obstacles that test their strength, their determination, their heart and above all their spirit to succeed.

 What one person can do is amazing; what we can do when we come together as a group is beyond amazing.  You can feel the energy and love emanating across the globe as we cry, laugh and send huge vibrations of love to all of the participants.  And most of us aren't even physically there!!   The energy of love has no boundaries.  There are no invisible walls holding it in.  We only have to feel it, and off it goes, skipping through time and space, creating a matrix that we can all feel a part of.

Why do we have to let it end when the games come to a close?  Why can't we see ourselves as part of a loving global community where warfare ends and sharing and brotherhood begins?

The world is not an elusive concept that is representative of the planet; we are the world.  Our energy, our emotions, our thoughts create the unified spirit that is reflected in our everyday life.  Please stay conscious of your thoughts. Share love and joy in every way possible, and maybe someday soon, the spirit of the Olympics will happen every day, instead of every few years.

                             Grace & Peace, always, Daria

Little GuyFebruary 9
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"Little Guy" was a feral cat who roamed the woods by my house and the adjacent neighborhood for the past couple of years.  He was grey, with a round head a little too big for his body.  He reminded me of the Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland with these big blue-green eyes, a calm demeanor and a taste for expensive cat food. 

  I was reluctant to get close to him at first.  I have four cats already and a fifth wasn't part of the plan, especially since I'm planning a move.  But I'd seen him injured more than once, and I decided if I could work with him, maybe I could get him adopted. I even consulted with a pet psychic. 

 My son and I made him a shelter out of a plastic tote box, lined with Styrofoam, and my daughter got a heated pad for it so he would be safe and warm.  But he never slept in it. Instead he sometimes waited in there until I came home and gave him a meal. But after the rain finished or the snow stopped he would show

up and I'd coax him to come next to me to eat.  I felt I was making progress.

 My plans of being patient changed very quickly.  I knew he was having trouble with his ears by the way he was holding them down and scratching, but it was getting worse, and one day, when he turned his head and the sun illuminated the inside of his ear, I could see how bad the condition really was.  So I went to the animal shelter, got one of their cat traps, and when that didn't work, I put his food in my cat carrier. He walked in, I was able to calmly close the door, and brought him to the shelter with the hope he'd be treated and adopted.

 Jersey Shore Animal Shelter is the kind of place you'd want your animal to be in if it turned up lost or injured.  They have a dedicated, caring staff, and will never euthanize an animal unless it absolutely has too.  The problem with feral cats is, they mostly can't be handled, and if they can't be socialized, they can't be adopted.   I had hopes for this cat.  I truly believed that with these patient people working with him, building on what I'd done, he'd come round and enjoy life, safe and warm, in their cat "play room" where cats get to spend time, to romp and play, instead of living life in a cage.

It wasn't to be.  Each time I went back the response was the same; he couldn't be touched.  I knew his ears would need constant medication, not a one shot deal, and even if he was tranquilized it wouldn't change the situation.  My daughter thinks he walked into the cage because he'd had enough of the cold, the rain, the snow and pain.  After 7 days he was humanely euthanized. 

I cried and cried.  I felt such a psychic connection with that cat.  I kept telling him if he wanted to live he could, but if he was ready for Heaven this was his chance.  I got together with a group of my 'soul mates' to send him loving energy while he was still here, but I truly believe his soul made the choice to leave, and I console myself to think he had a week of being safe and warm and fed, instead of dying in the woods when the infection spread to his brain.

 A few days later, I opened an email and was looking at some pictures a friend sent to me of her children.  I was clicking back and forth between 4 pictures, and somehow I clicked the wrong arrow [or the right one, depending on how you look at it] and managed to end up with an animated picture of a gray cat on the screen, blinking his eyes at me, and when I clicked again, a photo of my Mom appeared!

I know these pictures were somewhere in my computer, but I bet its been 2 years since I've seen that animated cat.  And the photo of my Mom, the one we brought to her funeral mass, appearing out of the blue, was surely a sign from Heaven.  I believe my Mom and Little Guy were letting me know I needn't cry, because he made the journey home and they were greeting me together from Heaven.


Perfect TimingFebruary 3
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Perfect timing is nothing more than accepting an opportunity, being open to its possibilities and acting upon it.  I used to wonder if a missed opportunity is gone forever.  Now I realize there is no one perfect time; it's all a matter of perception. 

We are inspired, we're in the right place at the right time, but we decide not to act, even if our intuition is telling us to get up and do it.  We hold ourselves back, insecurity creeps in, we lack the courage or we aren't certain of the outcome and don't want to take the risk.  The key here is if we are prepared, if we have set the stage for our intuition, our daydreams, even our mind to be open, our soul will find a way. 

How do we do that?  By meditating, relaxing, daydreaming and setting the intention that when the timing is right we'll be ready and waiting, whether we are awake or we are asleep.

To illustrate this point, I would like to share a story of serendipitous timing from a client of mine named Kristy.


 

Hello Daria, 

I hope you are doing well.  I just had an experience that I wanted to share with you.

I try to download your shows and transfer them to my ipod so that I can listen during my commute.

I also recently decided to start a yoga class and to try to develop the practice of meditation.

Anyway, just a short while ago I was listening to one of your past shows on my way home. I had a pretty stressful day and dozed off for a few minutes.

I woke back up just as you were telling a caller how helpful meditation can be. You then asked her if there was someone who had passed on that had troubles with the pancreas, and she said yes, diabetes. You then asked if there was someone named Rose.

WOW! My great grandmother, Rose, left us 13 years ago due to her diabetes.

Not only did this just confirm my need to start practicing meditation, but also that she is still with me and guiding me. My family has always believed that she had great psychic powers, yet untrained an untapped, so it makes me feel so great that she is helping me on my journey.

I thought you would like to know. Also, this was one of your first shows, and I find it fascinating that I wasn't meant to hear it till now.  I guess this is the point where I needed that message the most. Thank you!

Kristy

 

My internet radio show, Medium in our Midst, came at the perfect time.  I know that because of the response I've gotten from emails like this one, and the thousands listening [oh, that gives me butterflies!]

Keep yourself open for perfect timing, however it may manifest.

                                       Grace & Peace, Daria Justyn.

PatternsJanuary 14

 When considering Karma, people often ask me if they hurt someone in another lifetime, are they bound to be hurt by them in this one.  The answer is no.  Karma is more about discovering patterns that keep you repeating the same lessons over and over, rather than “an eye for an eye” kind of thing.  When you realize there is an energetic pattern at play, sometimes embedded deep in your soul, it lifts you out of the victim/villain role and gives you the opportunity to use your free will, act with determination and make important changes in your life.  Think of the energy moving through a spiral as it works its way out of your energetic system and out of your life.

 This past year was a time of tumultuousness and unrest, in every sector of the globe; but after upheaval there exists the opportunity for either action or stagnation.  On an energetic level, there is no difference between thoughts and actions; they both reverberate to create your reality.  On the physical plane, you can directly see the results of your actions; the results of thought patterns are harder to see.

 How can you facilitate change in your life?  Meditate, pray and daydream.  This will open up a connection to a higher consciousness where you will glean whatever you need to know, to navigate your way through this lifetime.  Your soul holds all the answers; you just need to reach that higher plane to realize them.  So look for the patterns in your thoughts, keep them focused on love, and create positive actions.

 

shining onJanuary 4
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I wish every one a blessed beginning for 2010 and hope it brings happiness, good health, abundance and above all
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  bookEven in death my mother's light shines on.  I've often wondered, when the time came for her to pass over, if I'd be too emotional to feel her energy around me, or if I would need the services of a medium to make the connection for me. 

Well I didn't have to wonder long.  She keeps showing herself to us in such powerful ways, that it makes it hard to remember the ill woman she became, and easier to remember the vibrant, dynamic, energetic being she used to be.

Yesterday, for example, my family and I were having a conversation about taking her ashes to the cemetery.  Afterward, I had about forty minutes before I had to guest host a radio show, so I turned the TV on and a show I haven't seen in years called "Point Pleasant" came on.  It held my attention because there were flash backs to the days of 1920's when dance marathons were held and people literally danced until they dropped.  I was enjoying the period costumes and wavy hairdo's when they suddenly flashed forward to a scene of a woman in a cemetery.  She walked up to a grave stone, dropped to her knees, and as the camera panned around, the name carved into the stone, "ISABEL", came into view, my mom's name.  Later on that evening I turned on the TV again and there was a Dr. talking about a girl named Isabel who had a problem with a spot on her brain.  {My mom had a stroke.}  I could go on and on, as each of my family members has a few stories of their own to tell, but suffice it to say it gives us great solace to know she is so around us.  It also helps that we understand she is still with us and we are open to her energy and the signs she's giving us.  Will it go on?  I don't know.  But what I do know is that for now, it's hard to stay sad when she keeps shining on.  Thanks Mom !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Daria Justyn Psychic Medium

SnuggiesDecember 23
Before my mom passed, we were watching television together and a commercial for snuggies came up; the blankets with the arms stitched in.  My mom commented on how cozy they looked, so I told her I would buy her and my dad one for Christmas.  A few days after her funeral, dad and I were in Wal Mart and although I had already purchased one for him, I decided to buy two more as gifts. 
 We looked around, in the blanket aisle and a few other places I thought they might be, but couldn't find any.  Finally, I looked at my dad and said, "I think we need to ask someone for help." 
 Immediately, over the loud speaker, a booming voice announced, "The woman looking for the snuggies please come to register 17."  My mouth fell open and I squealed at my dad, 'Did you hear that!  I didn't even ask anyone yet!"  So off we went to find register 17.  We walked up to the counter, waiting to see if anyone else showed up, and no one did.  I greeted the woman behind the counter, and told her that although I hadn't asked anyone for help, I was indeed looking for two snuggies.  She reached behind her, grabbed two boxes, and said, "Here you go!" 
And that, folks, is how my mother rolls!!!!!!!!!!
Until We Meet AgainDecember 15
Until We Meet Again


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My heartfelt thanks go out to each and every one of you for all of your support, kind words and prayers.  My life will never be the same, but I rejoice in the visions I have of my mom being young, vibrant and eternally happy.  Until we meet again mom...


 

Heaven is a little bit brighter, because my mom is there.  Isabel has made it back home, to be with all the family and friends she loved and lost, and I'm sure they're all celebrating her return. 

Mom was a force of nature.  She shone so brightly when she was here on earth.  She had an incredible amount of energy, and accomplished so much in her lifetime.  Loving daughter, wife, mother, doctor's assistant, dean's assistant, shop owner, were some of the tangible things she accomplished and did so well.  But there were so many other helpful and charitable things she did for her family, friends and even strangers, that defined her character.

Mom lived such a rich, full life, and went through it with a smile and a song.  Her biggest lesson to her children was that we could do anything we put our minds to, and we have carried that with us, all through our lives.

So now, after 79 years on earth, and 61 years of marriage to our dad, she has gone home to her heavenly family. She knew how much Christmas meant to all of us, so she chose to leave on Dec. 6th, St Nicholas Day, her way of telling us she would always be with us at Christmas time.  Now she can sing opera with Pavarotti, croon with Sinatra and cook with her grandmother.  But whatever her soul's plan, the ties that bind us to her energy will never be broken.  Mom; your love is like the wind, we may not be able to see it, but we'll always be able to feel it. 

Being Present in the Moment November 30


Much has happened since my last newsletter.  I was back from a trip to Charleston, SC and was on the fast track to preparing for a long awaited move.  I was motivated, 'tuned in' to my guides,  and receiving lots of signs and affirmations.  I was reassuring family and friends that I will be back so often they won't have time to miss me, and to clients that I would be back for groups and that I am just a phone call away.
  That all changed very suddenly when my Mom had two strokes within a few days of each other; or one evolving stroke, depending on who is giving the interpretation.  But the outcome was still the same;  I doubt my mother will ever fully recover.
  Aside from all the tumultuous feelings of helplessness and despair, I had to put my dreams aside, for now, and support the needs of my mom and my family.
  Daily, I remind myself of a few things: For today, I am where I am meant to be, I am grateful for my loving family and that my mom and dad are still in my life, and how important it is to live in the moment and not the past or the future. The past only lives if we keep going back there.  Sometimes it good to be nostalgic, but we can't move forward if we are constantly reliving past moments.
  Being too focused on the future stops us from engaging in the present.  This is not to say that we shouldn't dream, imagine or make plans.  What it does mean is each moment, each hour, each day affords us with potential and possibility.  How we ACCEPT those moments, and how we let ourselves be guided on a path where we may not be able to see the final destination, is paramount to having faith and trust in the journey of our soul. 
  So, for today, and every day, I will meditate, pray and continue to imagine my life filled with love; complete, happy and healthy.  I will live with gratitude and joy for myself, my children, my family and my friends.  And I pray that for whatever time my mother has left here on Earth, she will find serenity, peace, and always know she is loved.

                                           Grace & Peace, always, Daria
My Vet Rocks!!November 18
My Amazing Veterinarian

  I've always believed that people who take care of animals are blessed with a special kind of spirit and special intuitive powers.  Those who go through years of medical school to do it have a deep devotion and a big heart.  I am so blessed to have one of those people taking care of my cats.
  I took Princess in to my vet because she wasn't getting up and going outside the way she usually does.  There were no visible signs of injury or distress, but I knew something was terribly wrong when she spent the whole day on the bed.  My first instinct was to call my vet, but since it was a Sunday, I put in a call to my animal intuitive.  Unfortunately, she wasn't able to get to me before the next evening, so I made the appointment anyway, and first thing in the morning I took Princess to the vet.
  We all know it's a doctors job to be as thorough as possible, and it has to be doubly hard for an animal doctor because they have to rely on skill, intuition, and the human 'parents' since their patients can't verbalize what's wrong.  When I brought Princess in, and she was examined, Dr. C couldn't seem to find anything wrong.  She talked about possibilities, but didn't seem convinced that any of them fit.  So she did an amazing thing; she asked me if I could 'talk to Princess."
  You see, she had come along with a friend to my book signing at the local Barnes and Noble and knew I was psychic.  I was happily surprised that she would ask me that question. 
  I told her I can often speak to others pets', but in these situations I go into panic mode and imagine the worst.  I said that I had an appointment that evening with my pet psychic.  Dr. C felt she could wait a day to see what my intuitive had to say before we ran expensive and possibly unnecessary
 tests.  After that really thorough examination, I agreed.
  When the call came from my pet psychic, I found out Princess had been slammed, falling on her left side, possibly by falling out of a tree.  She seemed relatively OK, but in pain from the aftermath of the fall.  This made sense to me as she was limping a little on her left side when she first came in.  I called  Dr. C first thing in the morning and gave her the information.  She said to bring her in and she would give her a shot that would help with pain and inflammation, without using steroids, and we'd keep an eye on her.
  Two hours later, Princess was up and about, and by the following day she was still moving tentatively, but almost completely recovered.  A week later she's back to normal.
I applaud my vet for recognising an alternative option and saving Princess trauma me a lot of money.  For my part, I trust her skill and judgemant and if she insisted on further tests, I would have taken her advise.  From a psychic perspective I'm so blessed to have a trusted animal intutive and get to hear from my cats and understand what happened, but from a medical perspective I am so grateful for my vet and know she'll be getting great care.  Thanks Dr. C !!!


Let the Magic HappenNovember 3

 When you know something is right; when you feel it in every fiber of your being, your energy exudes it and there is no stopping the universe from taking action.  I call it letting the magic happen.  Something in your life shifts, and there is no turning back, because change is in the air.
 Those around you can feel the shift too.  Some may be supportive and excited, and some may react with disappointment, sadness, or even anger.  But if you live your life with integrity and love, than you need to follow your dreams, make changes with confidence and good things will follow.  Positive energy has a spiraling effect, and eventually it seeps into everyone's lives.
I found my present home quite serendipitously, and I have the 4 Helens who live on the street to prove it.  I call it my little piece of heaven.  It has a lovely solitude, broken only by songbirds.  From my deck I watch the river flow, shaded by magnificent oaks with a break in the sky to watch the clouds drift by.  So why would I want to leave?  Because I hear my destiny calling me.
In my line of work, I'm always looking for validation from my ancestors and spirit guides to keep me moving in the right direction; it just comes with the territory.  Ask and you shall receive. So I've been asking for some extra attention. 
A friend of mine knew I was taking a trip down south and did a meditation with me in mind.  She asked her guides and received three signs: a green skeleton key [green meaning go], a welcome mat, and a white feather [very meaningful for me as it's on the cover of my book.]
Off I went to the town of Summerville near Charleston, SC.  I was supposed to be staying in a beautiful Bed & Breakfast, but when I arrived there was no record of the reservation.  The proprietors remembered the emails and conversation, admitted it was their mistake, so instead of ending up in a small room, was handed the key to a lovely guest cottage on the property.  Oh yes, it was a skeleton key.
Next I was off to look at a community just outside of town that I was considering as a place to live.  I found the street it was on, Central Ave. [the same street name as our flower shop growing up] loved the pastel houses with friendly porches, and with my mind reeling, went to a Barnes & Noble to decompress.  I picked up a home décor magazine, imagining how I would put my design skills to work, when I turned the page and there, big as day, was a large white feather. 
  Feeling very euphoric, I went back to town, spent some time walking around, enjoying the stores and meeting some shopkeepers.  One store was particularly lovely, and as I was commenting on it, my friend stepped outside, looked down, and there was the WELCOME mat in front of the door.
For any of you who have read my book, Angels Whisper to Us, you might remember the story of how I moved into my home and found the florist's card stuck in the baseboard that said, "Welcome to your new home!"  Well on Halloween I was speaking on the phone with another friend, saying again how I loved my home but know it's right to move on, when a family of trick-or-treaters came to the door.  I opened it and the mother said, "We used to live here.  You bought the house from us."  Well I had never met the people I bought the house from, but I told her how much I enjoyed living here.  She said they loved living in the house too, but it was time to move on.
So there you have it.  Not one, but four magical occurrences that tell me I'm on the right road.  So be open to the universe, live your dreams in a loving way, and let the magic happen!
                                                             Grace & peace, Daria
Energy & the ChakrasOctober 20
  Standing outside this morning in the crisp, cool air under the canopy of huge oak trees surrounding my yard, I feel so blessed.  The wind made the sunlight dance through the leaves and the chimes, hanging in the trees, played a symphony that seemed like angels singing.  My energy soared as I stood in gratitude, thanking all the powers that be, for allowing me to live in such a beautiful place.
  The more I looked to the heavens and gave thanks, the more I could feel the flow of energy infusing and emanating from my body.  I began to think that energy is like the wind; you can't see it, but you can feel it.  You can watch the wind move the leaves and hear the rustling sound they make, you can feel the wind slide across your face like a cool touch or watch the clouds race across the sky.   But you don't actually see the wind, just the effect it has.
   Energy moves like the wind, around and through us, pulsating, ebbing and flowing.  We can influence our 'energetic body' by focusing and directing our thoughts and intentions.  We do this through the Chakras, an ancient Sanskrit word meaning spinning wheel.  The Chakras are the pathways, or medians through which the energy flows.  Learning to balance and align the chakras uplifts, energizes and promotes healing. 

Self AwarenessOctober 13
  I am on a journey of self realization.
 
The dictionary describes that term as 'personal completeness.'  I don't know that we are ever complete.  Instead, I think we are constantly expanding souls discovering our limitless potential to be co-creators with God.
Infinite possibilities exist before us.  We choose a life, a gender, a role, a purpose, and then we try and see if it fits.  And even though we think the journey lies before us, it actually lies within us. 
I have seen my purpose as a medium expand beyond delivering messages between loved ones, to being an intermediary between worlds.  I have become a liaison for souls and an emissary for Angels with one goal in mind; to help  embrace the connection we have with all living things and realize our human  potential.
  So I will continue to meditate, pray and with extreme gratitude. I ask for guidance to stretch the limits of my ever expanding consciousness, as I continue to fulfill the mission of my soul. 


The DragonflySeptember 25
The day was balmy and cool; a perfect day for taking a break from work and meditating outside. 
  I began my meditation, visualizing my perfect place, imagining serenity and waiting for the calmness to set in.  But instead, thoughts of mortgages and bills, credit cards and due dates pricked through.  I could feel the panic rising and I opened my eyes to gaze at the blue skies and wispy clouds to bring my focus back.
  What I saw was a solitary dragonfly, floating round and round above my head.  I understood its message instantly.  The dragonfly represents illusion, and I knew that's what all of my worries were; simply an illusion.  
  Ever since I was a little girl, I had a knowing that whatever I needed would come to me.  And it has.  I remembered that feeling of faith and trust that the universe will provide.  The feeling of panic faded away, as quickly as it had come.

  So I do my best to keep my thoughts positive and loving.  I follow the path of least resistance with determination and trust; and as long as the path is filled with the loving light of Spirit, I never need worry.
Sleep walkingSeptember 10
  I had a beautiful, surreal dream last night. 
I was walking through a park; it was night time and the air was filled with a foggy mist.  I heard someone snoring and turned to my left to see a young man who had fallen asleep on a park bench.  I glanced up and saw two policemen, sitting atop horses.  I looked into the eyes of one of the policemen and felt his kind, gentle energy.  A thought crossed my mind; was I walking through his dream?  Or was my spirit gliding through a scene that was actually happening somewhere on the planet, and the policeman 'saw' me as a spirit or a ghost.

  I wonder if some of the spirits we see are people sleeping somewhere that are astral traveling, and those of us that see them mistake them for ghosts. 
  Whenever these musings come to me I always pay attention.  I'll have to investigate that some more!

Psychic ScrabbleAugust 25

Psychic Scrabble



   You have never seen anything funnier than my family trying to play the game of Scrabble.  For any of you who are not familiar with this board game, you form words using letter tiles, but only by adding on to words already formed by your opponents. 
  Well the other night, my mom, my sister, my son and I decided to have a go at it.  It was hysterical!  We are talking about the psychic family here, and every single time one of us would make a word, we would all roar and say they just stole the letter we were going to use.  It was crazy! 
  So while my mother studied with fierce concentration, trying to read our minds, [a trick that kept us in line as teenagers], and my son yawned from complete boredom, Stephanie and I laughed our heads off as we chanted things like, "My mind is blank, my mind is blank!" or "I'm focusing on the flower on the wall paper, I'm not thinking of a letter!".
  Needless to say, you might as well forget about keeping a secret in this family, and, oh yes, mom won by nearly double as she usually does!

 





The Black ShoesAugust 3
I am sending out this story at the request of a client.     She was hoping that it may serve as an example that validations from loved ones on the other side, are not always funny, or joyful or picture perfect.  Sometimes they bring up a painful incident, a memory that you can't let go of.  but they do it with love.
  And when they do, it is always with the intent of helping your spirit let go of grief and move through the healing process that is essential to soul growth . 
  When Bonnie first called me, she was overcome with sorrow due to the passing of her nephew.  Through the readings,she received, faith and family support, she was able to understand more about her nephews journey.  The love he was sending from heaven began to break through the barriers of anger and frustration she was feeling.
  During our last session, she asked her nephew to give me a message or an image; anything she could take back to his father to help him believe his son was safe and happy.
He very clearly showed me a pair of black shoes.  That was all; no explanation, just black shoes.  Just as quickly, that image was replaced with the young man tossing a football, vibrant and happy on the other side.  He kept telling me over and over, "We don't die!"

   A couple of days later, I received a call from Bonnie.  She went back to her brother, told him about the reading, and the message of the black shoes that was just for him.  He knew exactly what it meant.
  He wanted to be the last person to see his son, before the casket was closed.  The covering over his sons' feet slipped, and he saw that his black shoes were wired together.  It was a heart wrenching image, one he couldn't forget.  It felt all wrong, that he should be held there, not able to move, instead of being young and alive.
 This young man knew the painful image his dad  was holding on to, and he wanted to validate for him that he  IS on the other side;  happy, vibrant, and not at all restrained.  On the contrary, he is free from physical boundaries, and now when his dad thinks of him, it can be with love and not regret.
Thank youJuly 26

Thank you all, for your prayers, kind wishes and heartfelt blessings for my mom. Each day comes with new challenges, but she is still with us, and I feel it's a lesson in living in the NOW.

I never know what tomorrow will bring, but I can live today with gratitude. Please keep those prayers coming.                         Thanks, Daria

Share your GiftsJuly 10
   I have been thinking about the journey of the soul, today.  I often speak about soul growth and the lessons we need to master each time around.  But lately I've been musing that our time here on Earth is not just about learning; it is also about teaching and sharing.
   When we incarnate, our soul comes equipped with certain gifts that resonate love, and help to bring understanding and clarity to life on this dense physical plane.

   Life is a gift, meant not only as a school, but as a place to experience exhilarating joy and unequivocal love. The gifts we share on our soul's journey, will bring balance, and equalize our karma, for what we resonate, so will we attract.  The more we give; the more love we send out to others, the more our perspective will change. It will become easier for us to master our lessons, because nothing feels as good as helping others.  We will shift to a higher frequency and we will resonate a kind of 'love armor' a vibration that fear, or anger or hatred simply cannot penetrate.
   So do what you love, share your gifts, and turn your passion into your life's work.  Everyone's soul will benefit, including yours!
                                    Grace & Peace, Daria
The SpiralJune 29
   A dear friend of mine called today, to tell me someone very close to her had died.  As a show of support, her family was gathering round and telling her to keep moving forward.  She remarked to me, that one of her brothers said, "Not forward, but up; keep moving higher."
   I began thinking about the energy of a spiral; up and out, and what a great analogy it is for our time spent here on Earth.
  We start out at the base of the spiral where the space is smaller, more confined, denser; heavy with gravity keeping you in place.  Then, little by little, you work your way up the spiral, each rotation being higher and wider.  Eventually, as your energy rises, you become lighter, move faster and higher, like a satellite circling a planet that moves out of it's gravitational pull.  Each orbit takes it farther and farther away until it eventually leaves the solar system completely. 

   While we are in the physical form, we are like that satellite.  Our soul strives to spiral higher, become lighter and vibrate faster, until we can leave the restraints of our body behind and know the limitless, unbounded light of 'the other side', what we know as Heaven. 
   Love is our fuel.  The more love we radiate, the more we receive, and the faster and higher we move up the spiral and, eventually, return home.
                                    Grace & Peace, Daria
The Green Bay PackersJune 17
   This was so funny that I have to tell you about it.
   As my nephews will attest to, I am terrible when it comes to teams, games, coaches, players; sporting events in general.  I get teased more times then I care to say.  But today, a couple on the 'other side' decided it was time to throw down the gauntlet and challenge me with a team and a coach to get their message across.
  During the reading, I saw the "Green Bay Packers," and thought,"OK someone must be a fan."  Happily I saw the name and not the team logo or I might not have gotten it right.  Then I saw the man who was a former coach, as clear as could be, and I said, "I think I'm seeing Vince Lombardi!"  I was pretty sure it was him, because he has been in the media so often.  So I took the leap and said, "Yes, that's Vince Lombardi.  Does that mean anything to you?
   The person I was reading started laughing and said that a couple very dear to her had passed on, and they were the Lombardi's!
     I have to say I was proud of myself for getting that right, but I also have to add that it's a good thing he was from a few decades ago, because if it was someone currently coaching I would have been hopelessly lost.
   Score one for the 'other side!'
JUNE 12th, ANNUAL LOVING DAY!June 12
     I just read that today, June 12th is annual Loving Day.  Here is the article from the CARE2 web site:
"This annual celebration marks the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Loving vs. Virginia. After being arrested for "cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth," Mildred and Richard Loving, a multiracial couple, dedicated their lives to overturning state laws banning marriages between people of different colors.
Every year since, Loving Day has provided us with an opportunity to cherish and celebrate someone (or something) that brings love into our lives."
So cheers to this couple who knew that love is a vibration that embraces all living things. 
Thought for the day: If we humans were every color of the rainbow, would we embrace the beauty of all those glorious colors, or would we segregate ourselves into even more factions?
On National Loving Day be kind and compassionate and it will be returned abundantly.

All you need is loveJune 3
This morning, as I was taking a book out of it's Barnes & Noble bag, I happened to glance at the verse printed on the entire bag and decided to actually read some of it.  I randomly picked a place, and my eyes fell upon the phrase, " Love is all there is."  Boy did I get goose bumps! 
I wrote about that in my last blog, and I'm thinking the Angels are telling me I'm not done delivering this message yet.  So, as always,  I'll try to keep it in the forefront of my thinking and my actions.
                                         Grace & Peace, Daria
We Are OneMay 28
   While I was in Charleston, recently, I came upon a book by a man who had died no less than three times, and came back with fascinating information each time.  What stunned me was the familiarity I had with the information he was presenting.  In fact, much of it I had written about in "Angels Whisper to Us." 
   One thing in particular stood out, well actually two.  The first was the knowledge he was given that "We are one."  This was the same information I was given in a meditation from Archangel Gabriel that I wrote about in my Blog.  Every single thing we think about and do sends out a ripple of energy that effects everyone else, so keep your thoughts loving.
   The other thing that jumped out at me was when he said how important it is to dream; dream in the metaphorical sense, as in daydreaming.
   With such clarity, I came to the realization that I am part of a group of emissaries whose mission is to deliver information to help forward the soul growth of people on earth and inspire them to accomplish their mission here.  I say this with the utmost gratitude and humility, because I have as much to learn as I have to teach, or I would not be here.  I'd be an angel or a spirit floating around in the hereafter without a care in the world. But being in a body puts me on the same playing field as everyone else, and as I learn, I teach. 
    I have always felt different than the people around me, but once I understood that I came here as a messenger, everything else began falling into place.  So my message today resonates with this truth: "We are all one."  We are all a part of the prime universal truth, and that truth is love. 
   The Beatles got it right when they said "All you need is love."  If you think of how wonderful every cause and effect would be if it emanated from love, the world would be a very different place, a place I KNOW we are all headed.  The outcome is truly up to each one of us because every thought we have, every daydream we are given and every action we take eventually creates the reality we live in.  I want mine to be heaven on earth, and what better way to be than to act with love.  I pray fro the guidance and the strength to accomplish it.
                              

                                                               Grace & Peace, Daria
ForgivenessMay 23
A friend of mine said something to me that really resonated; she said that forgiving someone is so freeing.  That struck a chord with me because I've been talking and teaching alot about looking at life from a soul perspective.
  When someone does something to you that needs to be forgiven, it's likely that they could care less about the effects of their act because if they did, they would express remorse.  That in itself would at least create an opening through which you might consider forgiving them.
   Instead, you carry the burden of holding onto whatever resentment, rage, frustration etc. that their act caused you to feel, whether they know it or not.
   So I can understand how freeing it would be to forgive, because you would be the one letting go of the burden.  I'm not saying this is easy, by any means, and seemingly impossible for some people when you think of the atrocities that have been committed. 
   But from a soul perspective it makes sense.  That if we can look at our life's lessons as choices our soul made ahead of time, and each instance as an opportunity to learn and grow, then i guess learning to forgive is up their with some of the tougher ones.
   i'm still working on mine...
                                                Grace & Peace, Daria
Bye For NowMay 18
      A wonderful thing happened at my workshop on Friday evening. At my Barnes & Noble book signing, I had an email sign up list from which 2 names would be drawn and the winners would each receive a free reading. I sent the winners an email and only one responded.  Since I didn't know the other person, she wasn't a friend or a client, I had no other way of contacting her.  I sent my mass email out with the first names and last initials of the winners, but still no response, so I let it go, knowing these things have a way of working themselves out.
     Well on Friday evening, I recognized one of the women as she had come to the book signing, and asked if she wanted to sign my email list, or if she had already done so.  She said she did, but she'd sign up again because she didn't use it much, so she called home to verify it before she signed again.  I glanced at the name and began the class,
     Later on that night, after I'd gone to bed and was finally able to relax, it dawned on me that her name seemed familiar.  It suddenly came to me why I knew the name; she was the other winner of the free reading!  She had spent the evening speaking about how her mom had recently passed on, and what a difficult time she was having.
     As soon as I got up the next morning I was able to get in touch with her to let her know that her mom had worked overtime to make arrangements from the other side so that she could get her reading and hopefully connect with her when the time comes.   It made my first class all the more special!

I'm off to Charleston SC for a week and will be taking the time to relax and renew and enjoy my birthday.  I'll be taking appointments again as of June 1st.  Enjoy the Memorial Day weekend.
                                                   
                                                                       Grace & Peace, Daria
THE HERKIMER DIAMONDMay 4
I want to share this sweet story with you.

  I woke up Saturday morning and my eye caught sight of the Herkimer diamond [a double terminated quartz crystal] that I had sitting on the night stand in my bedroom. 
  I have minerals all over my house, and it's been there, with some others, for a long time, but I can't remember the last time I picked it up.
  I had the feeling that it was drawing me in, and I like to go with my feelings, so I held onto it during my daily meditation. 
  Soon afterward, three family members came to my door for their scheduled reading.  Somewhere in the middle of it, a place called Franklin came up, Herkimer diamonds and mines. 
  My client understood at once.  She was astonished that a family member on the 'other side' had brought up a time when she was a young girl and had gone with the Girl Scouts to the town of Franklin to look for the quartz crystals called Herkimer diamonds. 
  She called me the next day and here is some of what she had to say: 
"Hi Daria, I just had to thank you for the incredible experience we had with you on Saturday.   When you mentioned the Franklin quary with the Herkimer diamonds, it was beyond belief.  I actually found my collection of the Herkimer diamonds today and I am planning on dividing them up among my 3 children to let them know that someone is always watching over them."
  It wasn't until I went to bed that night that I remembered picking up the Herkimer crystal in the morning, and than placing it on the table next to where I sat to give the reading.  I was just as surprised as she was when I understood how her family in spirit had set the whole thing in motion that morning before she even arrived.
  I bet those Herkimer diamonds are worth more to her than any real diamonds could ever be.  After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
                                               Grace & Peace, Daria
 
 
GHOST BUSTING 101April 27

Late last night, at the stroke of midnight, I got in my car and headed out to the haunted West Side Tavern in Point Pleasant, NJ, in the hopes of contacting souls who seem to be lingering there. 

  Since the former Hotel found it's way into my extended family, it's been impossible to ignore all the energy of souls resonating in the building; "As thick as pea soup" I like to say.   It's been in operation continually since the 1800's, so there's lots of history and reasons why spirits would be hanging around.  It's very colorful past has been widely written about and can be found in many books and also on the internet.  But my purpose in going there last night wasn't to find ghosts, they're pretty evident' but to help them move on.

  I was accompanied by my friend Carol and her sister Marlene' both mediums in their own right' and we met up with my daughter Chelsea and my son-in-law Ian who are also very psychic.  My nephews Chris and Matt were both working there last night' so we were able to hear about their personal experiences with the entities residing there.  It was a hotel after all; these souls checked in but never checked out!

  We had lots of equipment and we saw and heard lots of evidence to confirm what we already knew, that the tavern is haunted.  But what Carol, Marlene and I wanted to do was connect with these souls and find out who they were or why they were still there.

  We each received separate and sometimes connecting threads of information, and when one of us connected with a spirit, Chelsea and Ian included, we were able to feel a palpable shift in the room, one that resulted in hair raising, chills all over energy.  One of the souls actually blew out the candle!

  But it was hours later, when we found ourselves in the attic, that I decided I had to try to find a way to do what I came to do.  I thought of what keeps souls stuck, and it dawned on me that at the core of every soul is love.  Maybe what these souls had in common was they didn't feel loved, when they were alive and even now after they've passed.  So they didn't feel worthy to move on into the light after they died.  Maybe they believed all the bad things that had been said or done to them. 

  I immediately felt an overwhelming rush of emotion and started telling every soul who was present that I send them love and God's blessings.  I let all the loving energy I was feeling flow through me as I kept saying over and over, "God bless you; you are loved." 

  Then I saw a frail, old woman extended her hand to me, and I heard her say,"Thank you for helping me!" Marlene, who was standing next to me saw her tying the ribbon of her bonnet under her chin as if she were getting ready for her journey, and Carol, who was standing at the bottom of the stairs, told me she was tingling from head to toe. 

  In the beginning of the night, I heard someone singing, "In your Easter Bonnet" and Carol looked inside an empty steamer trunk she 'saw' hats.  That was all the validation I needed and I knew this soul was about to move on.

  When I woke up this morning, I realized that love is pivotal and the key for every soul, in every state of being, in every dimension imaginable.  I knew that's what souls need to move on.  So now, whenever I encounter a spirit, stuck or otherwise, my greeting and my goodbye will always be the same: "I wish you love!"

                                         Grace & Peace, Daria Justyn
THE RAINBOWApril 19

THE RAINBOW




For anyone who has doubts about the connection we have with our Angels and Spirit guides, read on.
  During a recent trip to Charleston, I was fortunate enough to meet some friends of my son.  Although they didn't quite know what to make of my being a psychic medium, we got to know each other, they were wonderful and a few of them asked for readings.  I was happy to oblige.  It's so great to plug into the vibrancy of youth, where everything seems possible and emotions run deep. 
  During one such reading, I was talking about watching for signs, and the young man on the receiving end said he didn't believe in signs.  I assured him to have faith, signs were everywhere, and you just had to learn how to pay attention. 

  And then there is the old adage, "Practice what you preach!"
  A few days ago, I felt very depressed for a variety of reasons, the biggest one being that I really feel pulled to go south for awhile.  I've also been wondering if all the eligible men I'm supposed to meet had moved to a different planet. 
  My friend Nancy called to try to persuade me to go out and do something, but I was having none of it.  I was content to wallow in self pity.  While we were talking, which consisted of me complaining and her trying to cheer me up, I looked up at the sky and thought, "I try really hard to help others, I try to do the right thing and to follow the signs, so what about me?  Ok, if I'm supposed to follow my dreams south, then I want to see a rainbow, and I want to see it now!"  Of course I didn't say it out loud for fear of being struck by lightening right on the spot.
  Now let me say that the sky was blustery, the wind was warm and you could say the stage was set.  But I've stood outside countless times after it's rained, looking over the river, wishing I'd see a rainbow but it's been years since I actually have.
  I looked around and saw nothing.  I thought, "Oh sure, like I'm really going to see a rainbow on demand.  This is real life, not HBO!"  So I trudged back inside to continue my conversation.  I didn't make it half way through the kitchen when I decided it was so warm out, I might as well go back outside to talk and enjoy it.   I was reminded of the movie, "Chocolat", where magic blew into town on the warm spring winds.
     So I turned around, walked back outside through the sliding glass doors, and there, hanging in the sky over the river, looking like the Aurora Borealis, was a magnificent rainbow!  Of course all I could do was gasp out the words, "Oh my God, oh my God!" over and over again.  Poor Nancy didn't know what was going on and thought something horrible had happened.  I took a deep breath and felt the flood gates of gratitude open up as chills ran up and down my body.  I realized what an incredible gift I had just been given. 
     When I collected myself enough to speak again, I described to Nancy what I'd been thinking.  Since she lived fairly close, she ran outside and saw the rainbow in all its glory.  Which was a wonderful validation for me because, seriously folks, wouldn't you think it might have been one major hallucination?  Well, it wasn't, it was for real. 
     It's hard to express how much this meant to me.  I spend my days assuring the people I meet that the souls on the other side are just a whisper away, and that they are always at the ready to reassure us that we are not alone in this journey we call life.  Sometimes I forget to take my own advise!
                                          Grace and peace, Daria

 

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 Happy Spring Everyone!

 



 





Circus ActsApril 13
I thought I would share with you that no matter how crazy or bizarre something that comes up in a reading seems, there is always a method to the madness.
     I had a group reading where the circus, a bear, and pigs came up.  Of course, the reaction to my seeing circus acts was met with blank stares. 
     Soon after,
the hostess of the group passed this on to me: "My friend Debbie, who was there with her sister-in-law and friend, called to pass along a message to you.  Her mom told her that her great uncle owned a bear and did an act for the circus, and that her great grandmother owned a pig farm.  Boy you were really on!"
     So you see, they really do have a sense of humor about it!
                                                     Grace & Peace, Daria
Winners AnnouncedApril 1


Book Signing Winners Announced!



signing Dear Daria,
    

     
A heartfelt thank you to all who came out and waited in line to make my Barnes & Noble book signing such a successful event!  A special thanks to the staff for all their help and courtesy.
     As promised, I drew two names from those who attended.  Congratulations to Cara K. and Chris J; your gift certificates for a free     reading have been emailed to you.
My Dad looking very proud!



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West Side Tavern owner Frank and his girlfriend Lauren


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Thank you to my nephew Frank, my incredibly loving sister Stephanie and brother-in-law Frank, and to all the staff at the West Side Tavern in Point Pleasant for the wonderful reception.  Great food, drinks and hospitality were had by all.

 
My beautiful daughters


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ianMy son-in-law, Ian, and his brother, the actor and musician, Alex Skuby celebrating afterward at the West Side.

    
    Thank you to all of my clients and friends who shared in the celebration, especially those who came from far away, like Therese and Alex.  I am blessed to have so many wonderful people in my life.  Thanks to Nancy for assisting me, Vikki for the beautiful Angel flowers, Colleen for saving the day you, and Fran for dancing the night away!
     And let's not forget Carol who insisted we send a lingering spirit into the light.  This was a night worth remembering.
     Last but far from least, thank you, as always, Janet for offering your lovely home on the Ashley River as a place of solace and tranquility to restore and renew my spirit!
                                                                 
                                                   Grace and Peace, Daria Justyn
 


Daria Justyn Psychic Medium
The Tooth FairyMarch 13
15 Years Later


fairy  The Tooth Fairy
     Time has no meaning when we're talking about the afterlife. I'd like to share this story of a husband who connected with his wife, 15 years after he passed on, and used my childhood memory of the tooth faity to do it.
     I did a gallery reading a few evenings ago, and I was hopeful that everyone present would receive some form of acknowledgment, either from a loved one, or about themselves. 
     As with all readings, after a time my energy begins to fade, but sometimes if I stay focused and determined, I can still connect. 
     Such was the case with one woman who sat looking very forelorn.  I took her aside and sat with her.  She told me her husband had passed on 15 years ago, and no one had been able to connect with him, although I seem to remember her saying she felt him around her all the time.
     I held his picture and images started coming to me.  When she began  validatng them, I sighed with relief.  Then the most amazing thing happened; my attention was drawn to his teeth, and I saw the tooth fairy!  I saw the scenario of hiding a tooth and waiting for the tooth fairy to come. 
     She contemplated this for a couple of minutes, and then she looked incredulous.  She told me she had found, in her draw, a perfect little tooth, and had absolutely no idea how it got there!
     Maybe it was there all along and her husband led her to it at exactly the right moment, so I could validate his message of love and support for her.  Or maybe he manifested it out of thin air; who knows what the bonds of love can create. 
     Either way, his message was delivered, his love validated and she left knowing our energy transforms, but never dies.
    



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UPCOMING EVENTS


BARNES & NOBLE BOOK SIGNING

Come celebrate the first day of spring by joining me at Barnes & Noble for my book signing event at their Brick, NJ location.

Bring your family and friends and afterward, come celebrate with live music at the West Side Tavern in Point Pleasant on Route 88.



CHARLESTON BOOK SIGNING
Tuesday, March 24, 2pm to 4pm

Isabella's Collection in the Charleston Place Hotel
199 Meeting St.
Charleston, SC


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Grace and Peace,

Daria Justyn Psychic Medium

   


Post ScriptMarch 6


PS for the Bluebird Story



     Here is a post script to the Bluebird story that I wrote, about the passing of Jean Clayton, my son-in-law, Ian's, mom.  If you haven't read already read it, you can find it on my blog at www.dariajustyn.com.
     The story began with a dream about 'Emma', who turned out to be a rescued black bear, and continued on with a Forget-Me-Not message and the appearance of a bluebird. 
     The evening of the funeral, Ian received a call from his aunt.  She and her daughter had read the story about her sister Jean, her mother Charlotte, and her aunt Nonie.  She told Ian that Emma wasn't only the name of the bear in my friends photo, it was also the name of her and Jean's grandmother, Charlotte and Nonie's mother and his great grandmother.
     In addition to that, Ian had a bunch of old receipts he'd taken out of a wallet and tossed on a table.  He had picked up the pot of Forget-Me-Not seeds to show me, and when he put it back down, it randomly landed on some papers.
    I spoke about the last two times I saw Jean, during the summer when she came up from Delaware, and how the four of us had gone out to dinner.  After I left, Ian gathered up the receipts to put them away, and two were under the seed pot.  When he looked at them, they were from the two places we'd had dinner together, literally months before.
     This is a great example of spiritual syncronicity and signs having meaning for more than one person.
                                                                                Jean Clayton
 

Book SigningsMarch 6

COMING EVENTS
BARNES & NOBLE BOOK SIGNING
Sat, March 21, 7pm to 9pm
44 Brick Plaza, Brick, NJ
     For many of you blanketed with snow, I'm guessing you're longing for warm weather and a change of season.  So come celebrate the first day of spring, by joining me at
Barnes & Noble for my book signing event. 
    Bring your family and friends, and afterward, come celebrate with live music at the West Side Tavern in
Point Pleasant on Route 88.


CHARLESTON BOOK SIGNING
Tues, March 24, 2pm to 4pm
at
Isabella's Collection in
Charleston Place Hotel
199 Meeting St.
Charleston, SC


For anyone in the area, please join me during
Charleston's fashion week for a book signing in the one of the most beautiful places in town. 

Silly humanMarch 2
     I had a dream last night that I was speaking with my spirit guide about love, and the many ways it manifests itself. 
     I thought about how it felt to be deliriously in love.  I paused and asked, "What about people who wait so long to meet, fall in love, and then one of them suddenly dies?"  That seemed so unfair. 
     But she looked at me in a very impatient way and communicated to me [because she actually didn't use words] what a silly thought that was. This life is but a blink of the eye, and after you leave the physical plane, you could both be together for ever, if your soul chooses too.
     It still doesn't make it easy.  But I try to remember that the afterlife is like the beach and life is like a grain of sand.  T
he more I focus on the enormity of the soul, without the confines of the body, the more it helps me to see death as a transition not to be feared, but one our soul welcomes.
     I often wonder if souls on the other side wait with trepidation to be born, but agree to come here because they know they will inevitably die and be able to go 'back home.'
     So I try to make the most of each day, each moment, so that when it's my time to leave, I'll welcome it and not regret it.  Love is never wasted.
                                     Grace and Peace, Daria  
A TRIBUTEFebruary 27


     




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When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.  ~John Burroughs


 

THE BLUEBIRD

      This story is both a tribute and testament to the powerful bonds of love shared by three women; Jean, Charlotte and Eleanor.
      Eleanor, affectionately called Nonie, was the first of the three to pass on.  I have often written about her amazing ability to communicate from the other side, and how the phrase, "Forget-Me-Not" became her calling card.  She used it many times to acknowledge that her presence is still among us.  This didn't surprise me a bit because she was an adventurous spirit, evident by her world travels and being one of the first women to work on Wall Street. 
     When her sister, Charlotte's, time came to cross over, I was sure Nonie would be waiting. 
     I remember that Saturday morning well.  I found some old postcards from the 1900's, and one fell out of my hands onto the floor.  The post card said,
"Forget-Me-Not" on the front, and the words, "I am coming on Saturday" on the back.  Charlotte died later that day, and we all knew who would be waiting to greet her on the other side.
     And now we mourn the loss of Jean, Charlotte's daughter, mother to Alex, Ian and Lisa, who passed away on Sunday morning.  Jean, Charlotte, and Nonie were a formidable unit and spent much of their life together.  I could see how the loss of first one, them the other affected Jean.  But death on the physical plane is birth on the spiritual plane; we know Charlotte and Nonie are celebrating her return home because, once again, they gave us a sign.
     A few days before Jean's passing, I received an email from a friend, telling me I had come to her in a dream and wanted to deliver a message about Emma.  She woke up and didn't recognize the name.  She was anxious about a story she needed to write, concerning a woman in Asia who rescues bears, but wasn't sure how to begin.  After searching their web site for the history of the organization, this is what she found; a picture of the woman hugging a black bear, named Emma. 
     She called me later that day, and as she was telling me this story, a bluebird flew passed her windshield.  She was delighted because she had only seen this beautiful bird one other time.  I told her, I too, had seen a bluebird only once in my life, but the brilliant blue and orange colors were unmistakable.
     That afternoon, I went to see Jean's son, Ian, my son-in-law, and my daughter to wish them a Happy Valentine's Day and Happy Anniversary as they were married on that day.  I found myself daydreaming about Emma and the bluebird and decided to tell them the story.  When I was finished, my daughter gave me some hearts made out of birdseed as a Valentine gift.  I thought this was her psychic side, picking up my story about the bluebird before I even told her.  Then Ian picked up the gift she gave him, to show me.  It was a small pot of flower seeds.   On it, was a paper sleeve with a picture of the flowers in bloom; a lovely, soft blue.  The flowers were "Forget-Me-Not", and their color  was called BLUEBIRD.  Ian and I looked at each other and smiled.  We knew his grandmother and great aunt were arranging Jean's homecoming, and I saw a beautiful meadow decorated with garlands of flowers. 
     Our families feel the void of life without Jean, and grief can be unbearably painful.  Crying releases emotions and cleanses the soul, and the day will come when Jean will send us another sign, and our tears will be tears of joy.  I look forward to that day.
                                                                         Grace and Peace,
                                                                                           Daria


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DARIA JUSTYN          
www.dariajustyn.com    souls@dariajustyn.com     732-278-9484

 

Book signingFebruary 24

Barnes & Noble Booksellers

Book Signing Event

With

 Daria Justyn

Psychic Medium


Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 7pm

With Angels Whisper to Us, learn how to access and understand the guidance, inspiration and acknowledgment that comes to us from Angels, spirit guides and loved ones, who have passed on, via our daydreams.

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Angelic EnergyFebruary 16

 If you think of your vibration as musical notes, you can begin to understand the difference between joy and fear.  The frequency of love and joy is like hearing Angels singing.  It's like the high, tinkling of wind chimes in a gentle breeze, or an opera singer hitting a high note.  You transcend your physical space and your body vibrates to the frequency of the highest realms.   

 The frequency of fear is very different.   Think of the lowest bass note possible, carrying such a strong vibration that it rattles the room and shakes the floor under your feet.  It causes you to panic or at the very least makes you very uncomfortable.

 Open your heart to the high vibrations of the Angels.  The energy you will feel will transport you, soothe and comfort you.  They always stand at the ready, waiting to help.  So meditate, daydream, be health conscious, be attentive to nature and our animal friends, and you will open yourself up to their love and guidance. 

                                                        Blessings, Daria

LOVEFebruary 12
Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate!
                                    ~ Sandra J. Dykes


Love is the epitome of the highest vibration of energy that we can experience.  Its purity transcends all boundaries and cannot be contained; it is within us and without us. It is through this energy that Angels, spirit guides and the souls of our loved ones traverse the constraints of space and time to communicate with us.
 We are definitely on the precipice of great change. It doesn't matter what your political perspective is.  We are all standing at the threshold of a new order, one that demands we engage in the energy of love, sharing and acting in a way that will benefit all of mankind.  That is why daydreams are so important.  They will help us to initiate that change.
 Daydreams contain messages that create an awakening.  They deliver the guidance, inspiration and acknowledgment that will come to us intuitively, to usher in this change.  And it is through our daydreams that we will be given the tools to understand and implement what each of us, as individuals, can do to create a different world, a better world, where our children will resonate with love and there will be no room for fear.  
          Happy Valentine's Day and many blessings, Daria



SPIRITUAL INTUITIONFebruary 10

We all know what intuition is, and how important it is to follow the guidance we receive from it throughout our lives.  But this morning, when I asked the Angels what message they had for me today, spiritual intuition popped into my brain.

 I have gotten quite used to the Angels putting ideas and inspiration in my head through my daydreams, yet I especially enjoy it when my questions evoke such a quick response.

 So I have spent the day pondering what spiritual intuition actually means.  I think it involves feelings versus action. 

 When intuitive thoughts come to us involving situations concerning how we feel about something or someone, maybe this intuition is different from a situation involving action. 

 For instance, you meet someone who sends shivers up your spine, good or bad, or you are angry with someone and trying to decide how to deal with the situation.  You might be angry but your intuition is telling you to be compassionate, or you want to intercede on someone's behalf but your intuition stops you.  These all involve feelings and emotions. 

 On the other hand, sometimes your intuition grabs hold of your gut and propels you to take you action, or conversely stops you, like when you need to make a decision doing something physical, like changing jobs, whether or not to travel, or if you are thinking of relocating or making a major purchase.

Guidance comes in all shapes and sizes, and maybe the Angels want me to pay closer attention to how I act upon my intuition. 

 I never thought to classify intuition, but I know the Angels are sending me a message and I will certainly try.  It has the same kind of mystery surrounding it as the when I heard, "Angels whisper to us in daydreams." Could this be inspiration for a new book, we'll see... 

                                                   Blessings, Daria
Signal From AboveJanuary 27

"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."  Oscar Wilde

 

Last Sunday I had a group reading, and an amazing thing occurred. 

  During the course of the afternoon, I came up with a particular name, and a woman in the group claimed it.  She told me she'd had a dream in which she asked a friend who had been murdered years before, to identify her murderer, and this was the name she was given.  I began tuning in to the energy and I was able to see how the woman was murdered, and some other specifics about the case.  Unfortunately, it was never solved, and I explained why I believed that had happened. 

  During the reading, I got some information about being in an alley, that I believed the deceased knew her killer, and that there was a cover up.  At that instant, a cell phone rang.  Now let me digress here, to say that I begin each reading by asking everyone to silence their phones.  It was so startling that one of the women jumped up to see whose phone it was.  It belonged to this woman, for whom I was getting the information.

  She then proceeded to validate for me, that it was believed her friend met her murderer in a bowling alley, and that she, too, believed there was deception involved because case files were missing.  And by the way, the cell phone caller just happened to be named Ali.     

It was astonishingly evident that her deceased friend gave us that signal, at the perfect moment, to validate what this woman had sensed to be true from the very beginning when the crime was committed, many years before.  And even though her friend was physically taken from her, the love and concern she carried in her heart and her soul could"t be.  Now, after so much time had past, her friend had finally found a way of expressing her gratitude by helping her find her way to this group, and taking advantage of a cell phone forgotten to be silenced.

                                                       Blessings, Daria

 

WHAT'S NEXT?January 13
Wow, Mercury is retrograde and boy have I been feeling it.  For those of you who aren't familiar with the astrological term, anything having to do with communications seems to go awry. 
 For me, I've had a frustrating few weeks waiting for snags with computer information between my publisher and Barnes & Noble to work themselves out, so they can get books into the store and I can begin book signing events.  It's reinforced the idea that we can plan all we want, but it's important to accept delays as all part of the big picture.  I keep telling myself to stay focused in the day and the moment, and stop looking at what's next.  After all, if we try to control everything we don't leave any room for spontaneous happenings, do we.
 Now that my book is finally here, in my hands, everyone keeps asking me, "What's next, what's your marketing plan?"  And as much as I appreciate the concern, and my own efforts to keep the momentum going, I started having a feeling today that what's coming next is going to be unexpected, like nothing I planned.  That led me to thinking: if I keep my attention and intention focused, then how can something just come out of left field. 
 So I asked my Angels to help me understand it.  I began a meditation, and very suddenly an image came to me out of the blue, that answered my question.  I saw the black, infinity of space, and a giant magnet.  It looked like a magnet I had as a child that was red with white tips and shaped like a horse-shoe.  I instinctively knew the magnet represented my intention--to deliver the message that daydreams are incredible tools for soul growth--and it was pulling all kinds of things out of the matrix of all the possibilities that exist for me to accomplish that goal. 
 So I am going to continue to trust that my soul knows what it's doing,
and release feelings of impatience.  I will try to remain flexible and open and above all, be clear in my intentions and listen to my daydreams.  And again, as always, I am eternally grateful to the Angels for giving me such clarity.
                                                Blessings, Daria

A CHANGE COMINGJanuary 9
I believe there is a change coming.  As an eternal optimist I believe this change will be an opportunity for soul growth and spiritual renewal.  It will not be driven by doomsday soothsayers but by faith in the beauty, wonder and capability of the luminous soul that each of us humans possess.
 Astrophysicists have previously said there is matter which makes up a tiny portion of the universe, with the rest being dark matter that acts as a kind of scaffolding that supports matter. But now they are theorizing that together, these make up less than 10% of the universe, and the rest, [more than 90%!] is some indefinable thing holding it all together.  With the speed everything is changing I'm sure it won't be long before they figure it out.
 But I was amazed and it started me thinking.  What if it is God consciousness holding it all together?  Is it the energy of all the souls, Angels, entities, however you want to label them, together with God consciousness keeping it all manifested?  And when we manifest in our own lives, is it a reflection of that same kind of energy?
  We are not solid but actually molecules in motion, so theoretically we should be able to reconfigure our bodies at will, or for that matter change the world we live in. The only thing stopping us is the belief that it's impossible.
 When I wonder at the trillions of universes, spinning and evolving each moment, it seems like such a little thing to create a change in our life just by believing we can do it.  So each day I pray that I will be able to see through the facade of what is impossible and BELIEVE I can do it. It is my faith and trust that I can, that allows me to see through to the souls on the other side.
 So I say, bring on the change, fast or otherwise, and let's imagine and manifest a beautiful and gracious existence, now and forever.
                                                            Blessings, Daria


NewsletterDecember 19

ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF:

ANGELS WHISPER TO US
Decoding the Messages in Daydreams

NOW AVAILABLE  ONLINE:
AMAZON.COM
BARNESANDNOBLE.COM
DARIAJUSTYN.COM

 Angels Whisper to Us will be available in stores  in January.  Please check web site for updates.


" Lace up your wings and meet your Angels half way. Let Daria take you on a journey to that breathtaking space between Heaven and Earth where you'll find answers to questions about career, family, health and love. Daria has helped me achieve my life's purpose in the most remarkable ways and her greatest joy will come from doing the same for you in this spectacular book full of secrets you'll wish you'd learned years ago!" Laura Simpson, Executive Director the Great Animal Rescue Chase
 

Angels Whisper to Us
Decoding the Messages in Daydreams
Dear Daria Justyn,
I have written Angels Whisper to Us because I passionately believe that
daydreams are doorways to a higher consciousness. They deliver messages through which we receive guidance, inspiration and acknowledgment, that come to us from our Angels, Spirit guides and loved ones who have passed over.

"On a clear sunny day, I received a message from the Archangels. It came as a voice whispering, yet filled every fiber of my being with a 'knowing' that daydreams are a doorway to a higher consciousness, a bridge between the physical and spiritual world."
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Read the foreward by Lydia Clar:
Daria Justyn has gone through the entire developmental process-from
beginning to present-because there is no end to knowledge and learning,
and has succeeded in becoming the "Great Daydreamer and Phenomenal
Communicator."
"Angels Whisper to Us" is testimony to her enormous willpower
to succeed while at the same time encouraging others to learn the mental
language of Spirit.
Th is book is just the beginning and I wish her continued success.
Lydia Clar
Psychic Medium
Contact Information

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Daria Justyn
www.dariajustyn.com
email: souls@dariajustyn.com
732-278-9484
 
Daria Justyn
If you would like a signed copy, please order through my web site and include that information.  For any group who wishes to pre-purchase 15 or more copies for a book signing party, I'll come and deliver some messages from the other side.  Distance permitting.
                                    I wish you all a Blessed Season,
                                                              Daria Justyn


Beethoven's 9thNovember 30
If there is anyone out there who can't believe that we can manifest remarkable, incandescently beautiful lives, then I ask you to listen to Beethoven's 9th symphony.  He composed it after he had gone completely deaf! 
  Life is both an adventure and a miracle if we can just get out of our own way and live the life we are truly capable of manifesting.        Blessings, Daria
GOING GREENNovember 24

Change is everywhere; it’s in the very fabric of the air we breathe. 

  That word permeates our world, now, as it filters down through our consciousness and we become aware, on a soul level that everything is in need of change.  There is almost nothing about our existence that will not benefit from change, because as humans we are dynamic molecules in motion and stagnation just doesn’t fit.  When we get too complacent, the universe forces change upon us.  I think that’s what is happening now.  We are being forced to look at how we live and conduct our lives.  As vibrations of light we are beginning to realize that we are a soul in a human body, here on earth to experience growth through love and compassion, and it almost becomes impossible to keep the status quo.

  Fear and greed have reigned havoc over our precious planet as we are pushed further and further to the edge of the precipice.  “When hell freezes over” may not seem so far fetched as weather patterns change beyond our ability to deal with them. 

 In my lifetime, I have seen how we, as a society, became enamored with everything disposable as a convenient way to squeeze more time out of our already over-extended days.  I remember, as a child, my mom telling us people are more important then things.  But I can remember what it was like to use something more then once before discarding it.  A friend of mine joked at a tear down the side of my robe and said, “Time for a new robe.”  I thought for a minute, “that was my yesterday; today I’ll get out the sewing machine and fix it.”

  But this is not the time to panic, because panic is a fear driven emotion.  Instead, believe in the innate ‘knowing’ of your soul.  I believe we have an inner alarm that is telling us the pendulum has swung as far as it can go in one direction and now it’s time to swing the other way.  If NASA can keep the Mars Rover, Spirit, sending data back for ten years using solar panels, [ten years from Mars!!!] then hopefully we can mainstream alternative energy for our bodies that will ultimately be a reflection of our souls.  I can guarantee you that it will make you feel good to know you made a difference, because everything you do has a ripple effect; it “pays it forward.” 

  GOING GREEN takes on a whole new meaning if you look at it this way:  We have energy centers that run in alignment with our spine called “chakras” where we pull in and process energy.  There are seven major chakras that start at the base of the spine and go up through the crown of the head.  They each resonate with the frequency of a color, from red to purple—think rainbow—and the color for the heart chakra is GREEN! It is the middle chakra; the bridge between the lower, physical and emotional centers, and the higher, spiritual and mental chakras.  It is the center for devotion, love and forgiveness and it vibrates with the color green.  So when we say we are going green, we literally mean we are acting from the heart, acting out of love and compassion for ourselves, each other, and the planet!

  I am passionate about the journey our soul has taken on, coming here to experience growth, challenges and all.  If we keep trying to steer a course that raises our vibrations and nurtures our body and our planet, we will give our children a legacy of love and compassion that teaches them to be virtuosos of light.  Let’s make sure it’s a green light!

FALL GREETINGSNovember 10


 It is a perfectly crisp, fall day outside.  Sunlight is streaming through the trees and the last of the oak leaves are raining down with every gust of wind.  The squirrels are literally banging into each other as they race around preparing for the cold winter that may or may not come-they have not heard about global warming.  There are still plenty of birds in the rees, and I am sure some are migrating because they are making sounds and singing songs that my ears are not accustomed to.  The fur on my cats has grown thicker and they are bulking up for the colder weather by eating me out of house and home.

  I enjoy watching all these feathered and furry creatures acclimating themselves for the winter changes to come.  They remind me of some adorable animals who have come through in readings in such a delightful way.  One dog in particular showed up as his large self, but had long, white bunny ears!  At first I thought I was seeing it wrong, but, yes, he stood his ground with large, looping bunny ears.  Well it turned out that the dog loved spending his afternoons with the 15 rabbits that lived in the yard, and this was a fool proof way of letting his person know that he was safe, happy, and not without a sense of humor!

  The seasons are not the only thing changing.  I find my readings have also taken a subtle shift.  More and more of you have gone from wanting only to hear from loved ones who have passed on­-that they made it to the other side and that they are happy­­-to seeking information and validation to help deal with life lessons, and manifesting what you need to accomplish your mission here on Earth. The fact that so many of you are on a soul-searching journey, looking for ways to facilitate soul growth, is a testament to how far our spiritual journeys have taken us in such a relatively short period of time.

  Love yourself. That is the message coming through, over and over again, and the cornerstone of a life rich with fulfillment.  Love has a trickle down effect; it radiates out to everyone around you, but it has to begin with you. 

  This fall, as the seasons change, create a change for yourself, do something nice for YOU!  Begin and end each day by looking in a mirror and telling yourself you are a reflection of God and a child of the universe.  You are awash in a sea of love, and you will radiate love and attract love.  Because no one deserves it more than YOU!

                                                    Blessings, Daria

 

Bye For NowOctober 20

Happy fall everyone!  The last few weeks have been exhaustive and I haven’t been able to write much.  I love to share my inspirations and mystical happenings.  I’m off to New Orleans until the weekend, and when I return I’ll be back, maybe with a few ghost stories to tell.  Be well, and best wishes for a blustery fall.

                                                                                      Blessings, Daria

HAPPY ANNIVERSAY JENNIFEROctober 6

     Some signs are like fireworks, others like fireflies.  Between yesterday and today I’ve seen them both.

     Last evening, while my friend Nancy and I were proof reading a chapter in my upcoming book, our cell phones rang at exactly the same moment.  The section we were working on was about a teenage boy.  We had been at it for a couple of uninterrupted hours, so it was quite a shock for them to go off at the same time, and find the callers were our respective sons.  I took it as an obvious sign of approval that this particular soul was listening.

     Today I went for a walk, something I had to push myself to do as I had some dental surgery and was feeling rather weak.  My neighborhood is generally very quiet and I was surprised to see two women standing in front of a fence and talking about a dog.  I did a double-take because one of the women looked remarkably like a deceased family member, Donna Hamaid.  In fact, I was amazed at the resemblance.  While I was staring, I heard the phrase, “Happy Anniversary!” pop into my head.  I got the familiar goose bumps that accompany my daydreams, so when I got home I called my sister [Donna was her sister-in-law] to see if anyone had an anniversary coming up.  TODAY is the wedding anniversary of Jennifer, Donna’s daughter. 

    That sign was more like a little firefly going off, but once again, if I hadn’t paid attention to that sign and to my daydream, Jennifer wouldn’t have gotten a special congratulation from her mom.  Keep watching for those fireflies!   

                                                                             Blessings, Daria

POSITIVE THOUGHTSSeptember 16

     I truly believe that each and every day the universe can send some magic our way.  Not the pulling a rabbit out of a hat or Hollywood conjuring up a spell kind of magic, but the  unexpected event that comes with the realization that the universe has listened to the deepest longings of our soul and has answered.

     Did you know that when you have a thought a neuron is fired in your brain that sends out the energy of that thought?  For me, this is clarification that your thoughts are actual forms of energy that can and do create your reality.   

     I see myself as having two different kinds of thoughts: the first are the thoughts I create, and the other is what I call my ‘daydream thoughts’, the ones that come from outside of me.  The more time I spend creating positive thoughts and affirmations for myself and then directing that energy with right action, the better the validations in the day. 

     With my ‘daydream thoughts,’ the ones that come to me when my intention is to open myself up for guidance, inspiration and acknowledgment from the other side, I find I see, hear and feel the messages a lot clearer; even the ones that haven’t happened yet. 

     During a group reading this weekend, each time I would focus on my daydream thoughts, I would see a gold ring in the shape of a cross.  I remember them from elementary school days because a lot of the nuns wore them.  No one in the group ‘claimed’ the ring, even though I could see it as clearly as if it were actually hovering in front of me, so I had to let it go.  The following day I met a woman who gave me an important message from my spirit guides, and when she raised her hand to brush her hair back from her eyes, there was the ring on her hand.  This was proof positive that our thoughts do project through time and pull what is in our consciousness into our reality. 

     THE BIG MESSAGE HERE: pay attention to your thoughts and keep them positive.  Trust that your soul is Divine, Infinite, Loving and holds the key to all the joy and abundance that is our birth right, available for each and every one of us.  When you look in the mirror remember that you are not just seeing the reflection of your person, but your soul as well.  Love yourself as all the souls on the other side love you and keep affirming that love as you navigate through this journey we call life.

                                          Blessings, Daria

GRAND CENTRAL STATIONSeptember 8

     A friend of mine called to lament the hardships of trying to re-learn algebra after having been out of school for more years then we both care to remember.  I laughingly told her I would gladly deal with a bedroom full of dead people every night then have to go down that road again.  But that’s only partly true.  I wish I could rig a movie camera up to my brain at night to follow the sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, and sometimes down right scary escapades of my dreams, the place that’s become Grand Central Station.

     I’ve realized over the years that the more readings I do, the more the spirits come to me looking for help; a side effect of doing lots of readings and staying ‘open’ so much. 

  I don’t know if any of you have ever heard of a movie I saw years ago called, “Who am I this time?”  Well that’s what it feels like when I am dreaming and suddenly become aware that I am in a different body, in a place I don’t recognize and seeing events taking place that I have no recollection of.  It’s like being in the show “Quantum Leap” every evening.  I wonder if the writers of these shows were mediums in disguise.

     A few nights ago I fell asleep and found myself in a huge warehouse in some Baltic country, with men who had abducted a boy and were hiding out.  I was supposed to go after one of the captors with a baseball bat.  As soon as I picked up the bat I was transported back to my bed but one of the ‘monsters’ followed me, crawled around the bed, jumped up and put his hands over my mouth.  I screamed until I woke myself up.  I was more angry then scared and yelled at him to get out and how dare he invade my space, then quickly reverted to prayers asking Archangel Michael to ‘beef up security’ if you will.  Yes, just another evening at home.    

     Like everything else in life, balance is the key.  I try to devote as much of my time and energy as I can to helping others, but ultimately the souls coming to me at night for help know that the best way to do that is to put the people who need help in my path.  The other is to pray that I will always be kept safe in the protection of God’s love.

     But sometimes, before I go to sleep, I just sit up and tell any souls listening that they need to leave because I’d like to have a night where I can get some rest and not wake up feeling exhausted, battle weary or frightened.  Sometimes a girl just needs her beauty sleep!

                                                             Blessings, Daria

THE LANGUAGE OF SPIRITAugust 16

     I thoroughly enjoyed a reading I gave yesterday to a woman living in Dublin,  Ireland.  One of the joys of my work is being able to connect with people from around the world and hearing different accents.  It adds a bit of fun to something that can sometimes be somber.  So far, in as many as five different countries, we have either spoken the same language, or my clients were able to speak English. 
     I started traveling abroad at the age of nineteen and it still humbles me when I realize how many people on the globe speak English and I can’t reciprocate.  But I have NEVER had an ear or a talent for learning languages, and believe me I have tried.  Thank goodness for my boyfriend in high school who spoke fluent Italian.  My teacher couldn’t understand how my homework was always perfect and I couldn’t say anything in class other then, “where’s the library?”  
     Well I woke up this morning wondering what it would be like to read for someone with whom I couldn’t communicate; what it would be like to use an interpreter.  But that is exactly what I feel like when I am communicating with your loved ones and spirit guides on the other side.  I become an interpreter of the language of Spirit.  I was thinking how lucky I am that I can draw from a well filled with pictures, symbols and sounds, scents and feelings.  Sometimes they make no sense to me, but none the less I have to deliver the messages in a clear and forthright way and hope that the person receiving the messages can understand and interpret for themselves.
     We are all one in Spirit even though we come from diverse backgrounds.  Remember that on the other side there is only one language that we all share, and that is the language of the Soul.                                    

                                                                        Blessings, Daria


PASSAGESAugust 5

     I love the word ‘passages’.  For me it evokes movement, passage of time, passages to foreign lands, change, transition, openings, access, opportunity.  Then I think of the word die, and I think no, that’s not right.  There is permanence about the word dieing that doesn’t follow nature or fit into the natural world.  We may watch flowers die, but when the seasons change they work their way through the soil to live again.  Others disseminate back into the earth to enrich it and pass into another form.
     In my line of work I teeter back and forth between the joy and sorrow of people passing. But we are body and soul, inextricably combined.  We don’t die; we have a passage to a higher vibration where our existence continues.  Our soul exists in a state of bliss where it can choose another passage; come back into form again, or act a guide to help and nourish the journey of another soul.  Death is not an ending, it is a passage.
     August is here and for those of us on this side of the globe we’ll soon have a passage from summer to fall, easy to believe with the acorns already raining down from the trees around me.  I have had my share of passages lately; a daughter who married and a son leaving to continue his education in another state.  But in the trail of passage comes opportunity, time to start anew and look at life from a different perspective.  So my challenge for you is this: How will you use your passages to enrich your life and the lives of those around you?
     On a lighter note, I have gotten my camera kinks worked out and can offer video cam readings through SKYPE.  It’s fun to see who is at the other end of the virtual line. 
     I’ll be in the Charleston, Kiawah area towards the end of August for anyone interested.  I also want to give a shout out to my international clients who have had readings at the crack of dawn or wee hours into the night, you are real troopers.
     Enjoy what’s left of this season and look forward with anticipation to all the passages life has in store for you.  With great risk comes great reward!

                                                                               Blessings, Daria

heaven and hellJuly 13

     Last night, during a break while I was conducting a group reading, someone asked me how my work as a medium has affected my beliefs about heaven, purgatory and hell.  She went on to say that she had heard if a person got to heaven, they could no longer come through, and how did it all work. 

     Well I grew up, the way many of us do, being taught about heaven and hell as part of religious ‘training’, and having been raised a Catholic, it was, simply put, if you did good you went to heaven, bad you went to hell, and if you weren’t definitively one or the other, you went to purgatory where you did time until you paid for your sins and moved on up.  God was the score keeper.

     Meaning no disrespect to any religious person or group, I have found this to be unequivocally not true.  I believe that heaven is a vibration; a state of being that is perfection, emanating God’s love and we return there when each brief stint in the “school of life” is finished.  Our soul goes home, and we are able to help and guide the ones who are left behind.

    I believe that when we die, we experience everything we did and every life we impacted in a positive or negative way; a life review if you will.  This could represent purgatory, because some of it could be construed as uncomfortable.  Hell, [once again my belief] is a state a soul chooses for what could be a variety of reasons.  They may be addicted to the physical world and become like psychic vampires, drawing energy from people who have weakened their defenses through addictions.  Or they think they don’t deserve to go to heaven because they feel they should be punished for the life they’ve led. Or they are so filled with fear they are afraid of what will be waiting for them so they refuse to move on.  But hope always exists through prayer and love.  Sylvia Brown has written lots on the subject.

    But every soul is welcomed home by God’s loving energy if they choose to embrace it.  And these souls are willing and able, if they so choose, to communicate with their loved ones who are the brave warriors still living here on planet earth.

   I think the world would be quite a different place if children were all allowed to just let their soul remember where it came from, that we are all one religion, children of God, and their ‘church’ would be a meditative state where they would renew their connection to their heavenly home and be filled with God’s love, and be in a state of grace. 

     So please don’t ever think your loved ones can’t hear you’re loving prayers and wishes, they are just a daydream away…

                                                                       Blessings, Daria

Heaven is...July 8
I read something that actor Martin Sheen said and I wanted to share it with you.  he said, "I don't think we go to heaven.  I think we become heaven."
     It warms my heart to think that we are beings of infinite, eternal love.  For a short while, we encase our souls in a body, but ultimately transcend the physical and become immersed, once again in the sea of love that imbues us all with the same loving energy that is God.  I hope this thought brings you strength and solace
                                                                   Blessings, Daria.


Happy 4thJune 4

     Well, I’ve left the beautiful reverie of Charleston, South Carolina behind and it’s time to get back to my life here in New Jersey.  It’s difficult because my soul feels so at home there, but  I’ll be busy with group readings and experimenting with SKYPE a bit more before I feel comfortable enough to offer readings using it, so please be patient.
     I’ve also finished rewriting my book, ANGELS WHISPER TO US, HOW THE POWER OF DAYDREAMS CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE, and I’m very excited to have received the foreword, written with encouragement by my friend, psychic Lydia Clar. 
     Some time ago I decided not to move ahead with the publisher originally interested in it, but good comes in unexpected places as I’ve added information on breath, meditation and the Chakras, the energetic centers of the body.  Even though I now have to start from square one to find an agent or publisher, I feel confident I’ll be led to someone who shares my vision.  Adversity is nothing new in the publishing world, and I have faith my message; that daydreams are tools for guidance, inspiration and acknowledgement is meant to be shared.   So if anyone has any ideas you have my undivided attention.
     July 4th is around the corner for my American friends, and for my friends around the globe thank you for allowing me to be a part of your life.  I wish everyone a prosperous, bountiful summer.  Remember, even in the face of adversity, project good, positive thoughts for yourself because your energy will attract and resonate with the same, and your dreams will be intercepted by loved ones on the other side who are here always, loving and present, helping you when they can.

             Happy summer & many blessings,
                                     Daria

We have a winner!May 14
Thanks to everyone who responded to the SKYPE newsletter and congratulations to Kathy in Arkansas for winning the reading!
I hope to be SKYPING with many of you soon.
                                       Blessings, Daria
WHEN PIGS FLYMay 14

     Happy May everyone!   This month has been filled with unexpected challenges and just as many incredible validations.  I always think that the more spiritually tuned in you become, the more you are willing to take on in the way of life lessons.  But I also know that when we overcome them, the validations and rewards are just as powerful. 
     Many times people assume that because I am a psychic medium that I can always see what’s coming and know how to deal with it.  But it doesn’t work that way, my friends.  If I did, I’d be looking down because I’d be floating around with the angels!  I had a lovely surprise from a client who emailed me to say, “
You are in my thoughts A LOT.  I have been having a lot of Validations from God and those who have passed that they are with me.
Without your reading and my brother coming through I would not have the growth that I am experiencing now.

     This came as quite a surprise at a time when I really needed some words of encouragement, and when I thanked her, she followed by telling me,Thank You....you have given me yet another validation that I am heard. In my prayers and time with what I call my white light  I have asked that I might be filled with the light to pass it to others and not to let those times pass to share when the moment comes.  I will continue to wrap the light around you.  I have to put a big shout out to my brother "Tom" as he is working hard for me and has used me to touch others.  You Daria are an instrument of LOVE and may you be surrounded with Peace now.

      I felt truly humbled by this, but what really touched me was this: 
I find myself instructing people more and more during their readings, to surround themselves with white light and ask for help and guidance so they may sustain their spirituality while facing life’s dilemmas.  I am a messenger, but I have been feeling more and more the need to be a teacher and help everyone understand how they can not only help themselves, but help others…to ‘pay it forward’ if you will.  If I run out of people to do readings for because they can do it for themselves, then I’m sure God will have something else for me to do.  This was a validation for me that people are listening and learning, and as they grow, I grow; it’s all exponential.

     In addition to this kind soul paying it forward, I received a much needed validation that was not only wonderful, but funny as well.
     To say the events preceding this particular Mother’s Day were tumultuous would be an understatement, and as often happens during these times, I found myself speaking with Therese, a family member.  Her sense of humor is unparalleled, and as I was lamenting to her, she kept insisting everything was happening for a reason, in its perfect time and it would all work out, “You’ll see.”  My reply to her was one of my Grandmother’s favorite sayings, which translates to, “When pigs fly!”  She had me laughing as she always does and I said, “wouldn’t it be funny if I turned on the TV or something and saw pigs flying.’ 
     Lo and behold, a few days later when everything actually DID work out, I was on the computer reading the words of encouragement in the paragraphs above, when a new email popped on the screen.  It was a medium friend of mine who was talking about a marathon she had run a few years back called THE FLYING PIGS MARATHON!  It was entitled: ANGELS AND FLYING PIGS.  I jumped up in elation because I knew my guides got the message to Carrie for me at the perfect moment, and she unwittingly passed it on.

So the next time you look into the sky, don’t be afraid if you see flying pigs; they’re just messengers!                  Blessings, Daria

       

PROMISESApril 30

     I want to address an issue that came up in a reading:

                 “Do the deceased keep their promises?”

      When promises are made on the earth plane, they are made from the perspective of the physical dimension.  This is a very limited viewpoint, bound by earthly emotions and inadequate perception.  When someone crosses over to the other side, communication becomes soul to soul, not just personality to personality.  Emotions are put to rest and the ‘Big Picture’ comes into play.  It is all about love and about our HIGHER GOOD.  A promise made by someone before they died becomes a mere glimpse of a much richer tapestry of intricately woven energetic nudges and pushes to guide us to fulfilling whatever would be for our soul’s highest good.  This may not jive with our expectations, but sometimes what we think we need is not what our soul KNOWS we need.
    Trust that our loved ones will work towards guiding us to help fulfill our soul’s mission in this lifetime.  If a promise made is for our highest good, they will move mountains to help.  What is it they say about when a butterfly flaps it’s wings the effect is felt on the other side of the world.  And so it is on the other side.  Love is sent on vibrations of energy that touch us in so many ways.  If we are meant to experience a challenge, then a promise may be an obstacle for our soul growth, and that is, after all, why we are here.                   

                                          Blessings, Daria

EVERY READING IS AN ADVENTUREApril 13

     A lot of people ask me if doings readings and speaking to souls who have passed is draining.  On the contrary, I find it exhilarating.  Yes, after working a few hours without a break can take its toll, but the departed never fail to amaze me.
     I did a reading for someone who received a message in the form of a song.  He knew the song, but hadn’t heard it recently and had no memories associated with it.  It just wasn’t in his frame of reference.
     Then he referred a close friend for a reading and she got a message about the same song, which meant nothing to her.  Of course I didn’t remember about the song from the previous reading until she brought it up, and suddenly the light dawned.  I understood that this song was a ‘code’ the deceased was using as a way of validating how she helped bring them together, a way of validating their friendship.  It was clever to give them both the same message and more importantly it answered a question they had about their relationship.
     Speaking with the other side turns every day is an adventure!
                                              Blessings, Daria

I HEAR YOU DONNAApril 9

     Donna Hamaid is a force to be reckoned with, in life and in death.  She is an extended family member and her passing impacted me in my capacity as a medium that no other had before her.  During the course of her wake and funeral services she came to me in SUCH A BIG WAY, that I was overwhelmed.  I felt a great responsibility to do for my family members what I do for others, and was relieved to say the least, when Donna began coming through at her wake, followed by the dinner, and then appearing in my dreams with detailed messages the evening before her funeral.  I awoke with such excitement by how happy and excited she was to be there, that I couldn’t put on traditional black clothing because I felt more like celebrating then mourning.
     But her family was celebrating.  They were joyful that she was out of pain and in the bliss of heaven, and her sister described it beautifully when she said Donna’s passing, which occurred on her daughter’s thirtieth birthday, was and would always be a reminder to focus on the joy and not the loss.
     I feel a special bond with Donna: I help her from over here and she helps me from over there.  I often fell her presence and when I do I know it’s time to reconnect with her family and be a messenger.  But today I had a call from first her sister and then her daughter who woke up seeing my face and felt the need to contact me, thinking her Mom had something to say.
     Well she did.   It was an acknowledgment FOR ME, and I am so grateful to have received it.  These last two days I had been struggling, thinking of her and wondering if she was still helping me from her vantage point.  Well I was given my answer BIG TIME.  So thank you Donna for sending it, and thank you Therese and Jennifer for delivering it.  It feels wonderful to be on the receiving end of such love.                                                           Blessings, Daria


Angelic MessageApril 1

Pray; not before a thousand storms,
But after a single thank you.

 

     I heard these words early this morning.  They came out of nowhere in a booming voice while I was in that space between a beautiful dream and being fully awake. 
     I understood immediately what they meant.  We tend to pray, asking for help before pending disasters we know are coming, whether they are physical, emotional or natural.  But afterwards, when we have seen our way through, we sometimes forget those simple words and the energy they carry with them.
     I knew these words were from an Angelic messenger, because I don’t speak that way and by the larger then life voice that delivered them.  It isn't often I hear that voice so when I do I pay close attention.  It was the same voice that told me “Angels whisper to us in daydreams’ and I knew my life would never be the same. 
     But that voice is ready and available to all who want to listen.  Last evening during a reading, I was reminded by a soul that on our side of the veil, we see the loss of a young sibling as a life changing, insurmountably grief stricken event.  From their side of the veil they told me his passing was the catalyst that set into motion all of the challenges this family of souls had agreed to take on in this lifetime.  What this message meant for me was that in every disaster, in every loss there is the potential for soul growth, the ying and the yang of it.  If we continue to live in the present moment, finding something to be grateful for, we surround ourselves with an energy that attracts more reasons to say “Thank you” and we will bring more positive situations into our lives.
     So the lesson here is this: the words “Thank you” shouldn’t be reserved for seeing our way through storms, but become an intrinsic part of our life experience.  Pick something every day to say thank you for, because those words will rise up like the musical notes of the most precious song ever composed
.             

                                                                            Blessings, Daria

CelebritiesApril 1

     I often dream of celebrities, I’m sure we all do.  They are always up front in our conscious minds, in newspaper, television, movies; even the supermarket.  So it doesn’t surprise me to dream of them, and when I do, or when they pop into my daydreams, I usually keep it to myself since I am a big believer in personal privacy.  I know being in the public eye goes with the territory, but for those who wish to remain private, I like to honor that.
     I’ve felt the same way about celebrities that have passed over.  I have had them visit me, either in a meditation or in dreams, and I have always kept it to myself.  Then I read something another medium had passed on about a movie star who had crossed over and it got me to thinking: am I being selfish or protective by not putting the message out there?  
     I am a big believer in souls coming to me for a reason and am I being prejudice against them because they are famous?
     Ordinarily, I don’t approach people and blurt out information that they may not be ready to hear.  I’m confident that if someone is supposed to get a message they will find me.  But when you have someone who puts himself in to consciousness of the public purposefully, through their work, then when they pass millions of people know about it and send them energy.  So you can imagine how wonderful that must feel for them. It makes sense to me that they would want everyone to know their love has been received.
     So I am stepping out of my comfort zone, which happens to be a theme for me this week, to deliver a message from Keith Ledger.  He came to me after he passed [we actually met in the place he had passed] and his energy felt wonderful.  He was completely comfortable with his passing and reassured me that it was not done intentionally, although he was using more ‘coping mechanisms’ then he should have.  His energy was so light, not at all like the heaviness that I sometimes feel from people who have taken their own life.  He was happy, striding around like he knew exactly where he was and was so happy to be there.  He told me he could influence many from his vantage point and it was all so clear to him.  He would be a much bigger help to Michelle , their daughter and his family then he could have been here, because his judgment was clouded.  He really seemed so joyous and wanted to return all the love.  He seemed positively buoyant.  I keep hearing a line from a Beatles song; "And in the end, the love you get, is equal to the love you give."  Words to live by, I think.
     I've always been moved by Beatles lyrics and I hope if I ever meet 'Sir Paul' it's still in this life time instead of the next!
     So there you have it.  I don’t know who will read this and it doesn’t matter.  I’m giving his message out and hope it touches someone who needed to hear it and that’s what does matter.  Thanks for the visit Keith.
                                                                         Blessings, Daria

SAVING TIMEMarch 9

     Today we change the clocks for Daylight Savings Time.  Does that mean we can change time?  No, it’s just an illusion, like time itself, something we do to make our lives more convenient.  It does make me think about how much time can go by before someone who has had a reading gets the validation they are looking for.  Time and time again I tell people that they need to be faithful and patient that messages they receive will be validated.  Sometimes we are all blown away right from the beginning, but sometimes I start a reading and all of the names coming through are meaningless and I start to sense the frustration and the ‘did I make a mistake doing this’ from the person on the other end of the phone.  I ask them to write it down or record it and have faith; once these energies are finished, they will step aside. 
     Or situations may come up that they don’t recognize or haven’t happened yet.  That is when I stand firm in saying that if it comes through it has meaning and it will all become clear. 
     I hear countless stories from clients who tell me they spoke with a friend or relative after a reading and the names they didn’t recognize all made sense for them, or an event that happened a week, a month, a year later, sometimes two years brought all the messages to fruition. 
     So hang on to what you wrote or recorded because if you didn’t get the message right away, though most times you do, when you are least expecting it something will click into place and you’ll find your list and there it is.  It just needed time to unfold. 
     When you think about it, in ancient times psychics were called prophets and when they told of a prophesy everyone expected it would take a long time, sometimes many years to happen.  I think people just had so much more patience.  They needed to, there was no instant gratification.  Everything had to come from scratch.  I certainly don’t consider myself a prophet, just making a comparison here as a messenger who has learned the art of patience.
     Time on the other side doesn’t exist, just the way we can’t really ‘save time’ by changing our clocks.  Just have faith and pay attention to your insightful moments, whether they come in a reading or in a daydream and trust that help is always available from the other side.  They just don’t have calendars or clocks!
                                                         Blessings, Daria

POST CARD FROM THE OTHER SIDEMarch 4
     March is finally here which means spring is around the corner.  I don't know about you, but I can't wait!  Winter can seem bleak and gloomy, but the story I am about to relate brings hope and light; a light from the other side.
     My friends Nancy and Fran were here for dinner the other night.  Afterward, we sat in front of the computer to look at a web site we had been discussing.  Fran, being an avid antique dealer is always looking for interesting web sites.  While she was busy searching, Nancy noticed the 'Forget me not' vase that I have on a shelf.  I told them about my son in law's great aunt Nonie and the stories I have written about her passing and how that phrase has become her calling card.  Just as I finished, not more then an instant later, Fran found the site she was looking for and pulled up a page.   There was a large picture of a heart locket, big enough to plainly read the words, "Forget me not" engraved on the front of it.  We were stunned, and I immediately thought Nonie was trying to tell me something, but what? 
     I thought the mystery was solved when I later spoke with Ian who told me his grandmother Charlotte, Nonie's sister and constant companion, had been admitted to the hospital and the prognosis wasn't good.  I tried to reassure Ian that whatever happened, Nonie was around. 
     On Saturday, two days later, Fran was going to be in an antique show and I offered to help her.  She suggested I get some things together and bring them along to sell.  While I was daydreaming about what to bring, I remembered a drawer where I had stashed a few small collectibles, some old post cards among them. I took them out and one fell out of my hands onto the counter.  It said, "Forget Me Not."  Wow, twice in one week!  I hadn't looked in that drawer in over a year, and I really never remembered what the post cards looked like.  In fact, if I knew it was there I probably would have given it to Ian as a memento long ago.  Once again, I tried to reach him, but found out from my mom that he was headed to Delaware to see his grandmother, so I beseeched Nonie to watch over them all.
     Saturday came, the antique show was quite busy, and when it was finally over I was able to listen to the voice messages on my phone.  One was from my daughter saying that Charlotte had passed over that afternoon.  It was sad news.  She was a lovely gentle woman who had lived to be 93 years old.
     On the way home from the show I kept daydreaming about the post card, wondering if there was a message written on it, as it was from 1912.  When I arrived, the first thing I did was to find the post card, turn it over and read what was inscribed.  In beautiful, hand written letters it said, "I am coming on Saturday."
     Nonie and Charlotte were as close as sisters could be.  Both of them were widowed at a young age, and spent most of their lives living together until Nonie passed away, a few years ago.  I'm sure she knew when Charlotte would leave this earth, and the post card was her message to us that she would be there, on Saturday, ready to welcome her sister home.  This story is a lovely testament to the power of love, and how the bonds we share in life are never really broken in death.
                                              Blessing, Daria
CIRCLE OF PRAYERFebruary 26

     The other night I saw a paranormal show that doesn’t just look for a haunting, but helps souls to move on.  One of the ways they do this is to stand in a circle and pray.  It creates an opening, a doorway for the soul to exit. 
     Helping souls move on can be a scary business.  When my team and I go to a clients home to help discover what lost soul is there and why, some very unnerving things can happen.  It takes a lot of courage to stand there when the room goes completely cold and a keyboard starts playing in direct answer to a question, or a toy with no batteries starts moving, or the room lights go off.  But it helps to remember the reason you are there: to help a soul move on, to go home, and to help a family reclaim their living space and bring them peace.
     This circle surprised me because this is what I ask our team to do after a spirit has validated it's presence.  We all want to run from the room, but instead, I ask that we all join hands and form a circle of prayer.  So I was happy to see that what we did instinctually, seems to be the norm in the spirit clearing world.
  So if you feel ‘visited’ by interloping spirits that need to move on, playing havoc with your life and your home, form a circle, hold hands and pray, instead of diving under those covers!  Any prayer will do if the intention is there, but when in doubt, call on Archangel Michael and his army of angels, I do!
     Sometimes all it takes is the recognision this soul needs and to be shown the way.  Maybe it’s like being in a labyrinth and you can’t quite find your way out until you see the light at the end.
     But when they leave, a feeling of peace and gratitude resonates in the air, and you know you have helped a lost soul go home .

While you were sleepingJanuary 18
      I was amazed when a soul gave me an image of a girl cross country skiing, and then gave the same image to his daughter while she was sleeping, to validate a message he was trying to send her through her sister who had come for the reading.  It was the first time anyone ever told me about something like that happening to them.  Read about it on my message board.
Psychic ChildrenJanuary 8

     I saw an incredible show last night about psychic children.  There is a place that I think is called The School of Light that offers these kids a place where they can come together and learn that they are not freaks, but are gifted healers who have come to earth with a purpose.  They go for a weekend where they are given a safe refuge and a sense of community.  There was a medium who led them through the darkness of fear and into a place of understanding and light, who empowered them by having their visions validated and taught them how to protect themselves. It brought childhood memories of nights I spent terrified, seeing people in my bedroom and wondering why I couldn’t sleep without nightmares.  It also helped the parents of these children cope by sharing their experiences.  It helped them to embrace their role as protectors and gave them strength through unity.  If you or your children are struggling with being psychic, there is a network of people who can help you come out of the dark and into the light, myself included.  Don’t be afraid.   Blessings, Daria

HAPPY NEW YEARJanuary 2

     New Year’s Day is a beginning, a time to start over, start fresh, and make resolutions; at least that’s what ‘they’ say.  Who exactly are ‘they’, ‘them’, the collective bee hive of ideas?  I don’t really know, but I prefer to look at each day as new, each day as having infinite potential.  I don’t like to think about ‘wiping the slate clean,’ but rather rearranging the slate, leaving behind what doesn’t work and reinforcing the things that do.  When I focus on what I could do with the day to make it possibly the best day I could have, even it if means doing nothing but much needed relaxation and meditation, then each day is New Years day.  So here’s to making it count; happy new year’s day, each and every day!                                               Blessings, Daria

DO WHAT YOU LOVE!December 30

     DO WHAT YOU LOVE!

      I’ve spent the last few moments listening to a You Tube video that my friend Laura sent to me.  It is from the British version of American Idol, and the performer is a man named Paul Potts, who said he was there to do something he has always dreamed of doing: to sing opera. 
     Now my Mom is a huge opera fan, and I grew up listening to Pavarotti, so to attempt to sing Nessun Dorma, one of the arias he made famous, and a particular favorite of mine, are some very large shoes to fill. 
     I was completely blown away, and moved to tears by this unassuming, humble man who has the most incredible voice.  After he won the competition and was asked how it made him feel, he said it was a privilege to be able to do what he loves. 
     I believe that this gift he has, was just waiting for the perfect moment to be released into the world, and if this is true, what opportunities await all of us; for surely we each have some special gift, some message or deed to share with each other.  We may not even know what it is at this moment, but don’t worry, in time it will be made clear.  All we have to do is ask to be shown the way. 
     So I am taking his advice, and each morning, when I stand and look up at the sky I say to myself that I WILL DO WHAT I LOVE, DO THAT WHICH BRINGS HAPPINESS TO MYSELF AND OTHERS, and God will take care of the rest!  
                               Blessings, today and always, Daria                                                              

APPRECIATIONDecember 27

   

     People talk about random acts of kindness; calling them random because they weren’t given a lot of consideration.  Someone had a feeling and acted upon it, a decision made in an instant, and if someone else benefits from it, so much the better.    
     I believe souls on the other side also benefit from our acts of kindness, random or otherwise.  When we stop to send them gentle thoughts of love, whisper a small prayer, or laugh when we remember some silly thing they did, we send out a vibration of kindness.  But what they want us to realize is that our acts of kindness are seen, felt and APPRECIATED, even on the ‘other side.’
     I was e-mailing a client some information about gift certificates when I was caught off guard, right in the middle of a sentence.  They [on the other side] broke into my thoughts and showed me a large tree with yellow ribbons on it.  Then I heard that song about “tie a yellow ribbon round an old oak tree” playing in my head.  I relayed this information in my email, and the client wrote back to say she passes a large oak tree with a big yellow bow on it each day, and when she does it “Always generates a prayer for those who have passed from me.”  She also said, “I don't know why, but when I pray and feel the light, I am always compelled to pray for those who have already passed and somehow my light expands to cover many that are distantly connected to me.”
     This was their random act of kindness, showing us that prayers and loving thoughts are APPRECIATED FROM THE OTHER SIDE!  It also means that they still stand amongst us, and feel our love as an ever expanding light.  The more people we include in our prayers the more the circle of love expands.
     So whenever you feel compelled to act, remember that no act of kindness goes unnoticed, here or “over there”. 

                                                                      Blessings, Daria

TRUTHDecember 17

     Deceit is a terrible thing.  It blows like an ill wind, on cold gusts that make the river run wild and chills you to the bone.  Like the air, unless it’s windy you may not see it, but you always know it’s there.
     I’m not sure if it’s a psychic thing or not, because I believe everyone knows on some level when they are being lied to, but lately I feel it so quickly, and it’s very uncomfortable.  It can be annoying, comical, or down right hurtful, and then what do you do with that?  Not everyone is ready to be confronted with truth.    
     So I ask my self, what good really comes from lying?  Not much because deep down we always know the truth. I guess it comes down to how much we allow ourselves to see.  As my friend Barney over on the Emerald Isle says, “You have to have a good memory to be a liar.”  
     So I am just trying be a good listener, compassionate, without making judgments, not so easy.  Sometimes people just need to hear themselves lie OUTLOUD.  Then hopefully they can work it out until they are comfortable with the truth, because sidestepping lies is like sidestepping puddles; you just never know when you are going to get your feet wet.  If they can’t do that I then have to keep my distance.  It’s just too hard to keep up the charade.
     I can only speak for myself when I say that if I am tempted to twist the truth to protect someone, I ask myself is it them, or me that I am trying to protect.  The high road can be harder to reach, but the view is so much better!  As the Native Americans say if you live an honest life you can stand in your truth.  I believe that, and what I’ve always told my children; if you have to lie about it, don’t do it!  Good advice I think.

                                                                                 Blessings, Daria

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!December 6

     I am so very happy to announce that my book,

~ANGELS WHISPER TO US ~

HOW THE POWER OF DAYDREAMS CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE

is being published!  This is a very exciting time for me, one I have anticipated with great joy.  If December is the month for receiving gifts, this is a great one for me!

     Many of you know that I wrote this book because I felt truly inspired one day while I was meditating and “speaking” with the Archangels.  In an excerpt from the book I say: “I have come to believe that daydreams are glimpses, openings into the 'other side', a way to connect with our intuition, loved ones and speak with our soul.  They empower us, and are the single most accessible tool we have to keep us moving forward on our spiritual path.  As creators of our own lives, we think, feel, believe and act.  Our actions can become all-consuming, and instead of allowing our thoughts to flow, we set up road blocks and become mired in stress.  When we reach the point of saturation, daydreams are our safety valve.  They are a refreshing respite that takes us out of the moment.  They relax and renew us.  We have stepped away from our bodies and connected with our soul.  That is where the truth lies: information, a loved one, a guide, something fleeting that, if we pay attention, will put us back on our souls’ path.  In that one moment, we have manifested a different reality.   It is in this ‘remembering’, in the elusive power of the daydream that will create the surge of recognition needed to change the way we live and view our lives.”

     I truly believe this message is for everyone; that DAYDREAMS ARE DOORWAYS for intuition, for inspiration and for acknowledgment from our loved ones.  I have always had faith that if I was given this message, I was meant to deliver it because as a psychic medium I am, after all, just a messenger.

     Here is the exciting part for all of you, I hope: I am looking for stories or testimonials about good things that have come from the time we’ve spent together having readings.  If there is a story, event or anecdote you would like to share, it may end up on the cover of the book, or in a future book, with your permission of course.  So send me your stories, I would love to hear them!

     I am also working on a MEDITATION CD to help you learn to relax and make daydreaming that much easier.  It will be available on my website: dariajustyn.com  as soon as it is ready.  There will also be exciting events surrounding the release of the book, which will be sometime in the beginning of the New Year, but I will keep everyone posted.

    I WISH YOU ALL A BLESSED AND HAPPY HOLIDAY, however you celebrate and wherever you are!

                                       May you have peace and be filled with grace,

                                                                                       Blessings Daria

My book is being publishedDecember 1

     This Thanksgiving was filled with a special blessing when I received the news that my book is going to be published.  Some of you may know about it, and for others I have given little glimpses of it in this blog.  So it really was a day to be thankful, surrounded by my family, basking in love and gratitude.  My heart goes out to those that want at this time of year, so please include them in your prayers.  I love the slogan: “Pay it Forward” it never fails to inspire me to reach out.
     Information about the book will be featured on my web site as the process moves forward, along with a lot of exciting happenings, so check in often and BELIEVE that wishes and dreams, especially daydreams, do come true!

                                                                         Blessings, Daria

   

Saying THANK YOUNovember 24

I know these words to be true: GRATITUDE REVERBERATES.

 

     I wake up every morning, look up into the sky and take a moment to be grateful.  Some days, for many things, some days I have to reach down inside to find one very small thing.  But when I really ‘feel’ gratitude, it flows through my being in a palpable way, and I feel like I am rewiring my brain.  Each day I loose a little more of the notion of living without, feeling down, deprived, gloomy, focusing on negative feelings or memories, and all the things that cycle brings with it.  I KNOW WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT, the more grateful I am, the more expansive this feeling becomes and it brings magical moments with it.  So for today, for my children, my family and friends, and all the wonderful people who share their lives with me, I look up into the sky and say THANK YOU!

BREATHE!November 15

     Breathe; it seems like an easy thing to do, something we do without effort, but lately I find myself holding my breath.
     Our bodies need oxygen; from the moment we take our first breath, the one that cements our body to our soul, until the last one that sends our soul home on a gentle breeze. I visualize breath flowing in and out of my body like waves on the shore, each inhale imbuing my body with vitality and peace.  It has a way of calming me down and allows me to hear my guides and angels whispering in my ear.
     The holidays are upon us again; where does the time go?  We combat schedules and lists, sometimes feeling overwhelmed, while feeling sentimental about the past, trying to create new memories and hopefully bringing family together.
     So now, everyday and all during the holidays ahead, remember to breathe.  Let tension flow out of your body, relax for a few moments and reconnect with yourself.  Each time you inhale, visualize everything beautiful, loving and peaceful for yourself and your loved ones entering your body.  With each exhale project loving thoughts, circulating out to everyone like ripples in a pond, and please remember to send prayers and loving thoughts for everyone who is away from home, especially our soldiers. 
     So whenever you catch yourself holding your breath, let go and BREATHE!

                                         Blessings, Daria

 PS Happy Birthday to Donna in heaven, I’m sure you’re celebrating over there!

 

WE ARE ALL ONEOctober 27

 

     It has been raining for days.  While I was out this morning, I overheard someone running through a parking lot without an umbrella say “Cursed rain!”  But if this rain were in California it would truly  be called “Blessed rain.”  So which is it, a blessing or a curse?
     I have been hearing my guides loud and clear these mornings.  As I was waking up, I heard a distinct voice say “This is the universal truth!”  OK, I thought, strange way to start the morning, but I asked, “What is the universal truth?”  The voice answered back, “We are all one.”
     I read something philosopher James Ray wrote about the California fires that struck a chord.  He said: “It is in times of apparent challenge that we test who we really are. The Law of Attraction, which is so popular right now, states that you'll attract who and what you are into your life. This doesn't mean that we should blame ourselves for the fires raging like so many in the media have misinterpreted. Rather everything is your responsibility and nothing is your fault. If you dissect the word (response-ability), you find it really means "the ability to respond." How we choose our responses is what we'll continue to attract, create and become. To think that your life will be challenge free is illusion. Challenges are the way we test how much we have or have not developed our ability to respond.”
     Now it always makes me crazy to think that every hardship is a lesson in disguise, especially when I'm in the middle of a huge one myself, but it makes a lot more sense to me, and gives me comfort, to think that God doesn’t let bad things happen to us, but instead gives us the opportunity to overcome a challenge and be able to look back on it and have learned something valuable for our soul to take home.
     So whether you are in the midst of a blessing or a challenge, these are two sides of the same coin.   We have to pass through the darkness of night to get to the brightness of day. 
     As my guides made very clear to me, the UNIVERSAL TRUTH is that we are all connected, so reach out to someone in need of help, and turn a challenge into a blessing. 
                                        Blessings, Daria

                                                         

FOLLOW THE ENERGYOctober 1

 

     Energy can be a powerful tool, a motivational force to get things moving.  Every once in a while, a situation arises that seems to have a lot of energy swirling around it, and although it may come unexpectedly, sometimes it’s better to switch directions and go with it to see where it takes you. 
     It can arrive as a sweet surprise, and you may not know where it will lead, but sometimes it’s fun to jump into the swift current and go for a ride!  Whether the change it initiates is small or large, it almost always creates a ripple effect that touches every part of your life.  So go with it, move with the energy when you feel that powerful, positive surge of energy sweep down from the heavens and scoop you up like the tide rolling in. Go with it, go for the ride!  See what your life has in store for you!

                                                               Blessings, Daria

GratitudeSeptember 18
    There is a chill in the air, and the acorns are falling out of the trees like rain.  I’ve been spending my mornings outdoors, working under the huge oaks,  appreciating the cool days while trying not to get zonked on the head.  My kitty cats all but dive under the chairs, looking for cover.  Still, I am grateful.
     This has been a difficult summer, lots of trials and tests of faith. I have struggled to remind myself everyday that each lesson can bring growth for my soul.  I call upon my family and friends who are on the other side for help and support, and bask in the energy that surrounds me when I feel them gather round.  But after too many of these gloomy days, I woke up with a start one morning, realizing a full list of things happening in my life that filled me with gratitude.  It was at that moment that I felt the shift, like a weight dropping to the floor, and my mood lifted.  With that came a lightness of being that I found comforting and familiar.
     Now I intentionally try to stay focused on the moment and I remember everyone and everything I am grateful for.  Each day, I stand outside, look to the heavens, and rejoice in living that day in gratitude, because with that energy, good things flow, faith is renewed, and like the new season, I get to begin again.  Besides, I can only ignore being a messenger for so long before the spirits start getting in my face to get with the program and go back to work! 
     Enjoy autumn, wherever you may be.

                                 Blessings, Daria

                                                  

This too shall passAugust 23

     Sometimes the children and the dead take their toll. 
     No one ever said this was going to be easy, and I guess I should be counting my blessings instead of my woes, but today just seems life a woeful day. 
     There are the souls who are following me around, especially in Charleston, a place “alive” with the dead, who just keep trying to get my attention even though I just don’t seem to have the wherewithal to be able to help them.  My friend in the hospital in Ireland waiting weeks for surgery after a collision, and oh yes, there is the “news” that my son keeps seeing dark figures darting in and out of places, which of course, being 20 years old, he thinks is wildly funny, while I stand there chanting prayers of protection to the Holy Spirit and Archangel Michael!
Other then that, being back home seems to bring a new set of challenges each day.  Is there something huge going on with the planets these days?  I have to wonder.  I know that our souls emigrated here for earthly challenges, but come on, where is all the fun stuff hiding lately!  I don't know about you, but my soul needs a respite.
     So my  prayer for today is this; that we, all of us, manifest the joy that should come to us just as easily as breathing, and we laugh more then we cry, and when the hardships come, as they always do, that we remember the words: “This too shall pass.”

                                              Blessings, Daria

BYE FOR NOWAugust 11
Hi Folks, hope you are enjoying your summer, and to my friends overseas, write and let me know if your days have been better then the hot, humid relentless ones we"ve been experiencing here.  I'll be out of state until next week and unavailable for readings until Monday.           God bless, Daria               
What doesn't kill us makes us strongerJuly 25

     We’ve all heard the saying “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” and I am here to say it doesn’t always feel that way.  Misery has reared its ugly head around here lately with the death and near death of family members.
     I constantly tell people in my readings, that we take on challenges in this life, that our soul has pre-arranged to set up some lessons, and because I say it so much it makes it a little easier for me to believe that it really is true.  I, like everyone else, come smack in the face with obstacles in life that sometimes seem insurmountable.  But it is my faith that keeps me going, and understanding that we are ultimately only responsible for our own lives.  As much as I would like to fix every thing and every one, I have to keep reminding myself that we are all on our own journey and our own path.  I hope and pray that as we can go through these rites of passage, we will come out of them a little wiser, with a life a little brighter and a lesson learned.
     I hope you all can enjoy your summer!                               
                                                                 Blessings, Daria

The Right RoadJune 9

     A recent trip to Charleston recently confirmed my belief that if you are traveling the right road, literally and figuratively, protection is all around you.  Spending hours sitting as a passenger in a moving car almost guarantees to lull me into that daydream state that I call ‘psychic central.’     
     The day started out magically when for no apparent reason the car in front of us graciously paid our toll, then when my friend’s deceased grandmother popped in with a few validations, we knew our journey was going to be filled with affirmations.  It wasn’t until a HUGE truck with I don’t know how many sets of wheels pulled up next to us that I truly understood the meaning of the word protection. 

     A  few minutes earlier, driving along, I noticed an open back truck, carrying a wheel chair.  Our conversation had been about the various women in my traveling companion’s family, and I knew her mother had been in a wheel chair before she died.  It was at that moment that one of the tires on the giant truck next to us blew, sending a large piece of it smack into my window.  Luckily, the truck didn’t swerve and my friend had the presence of mind to keep control of the car.  If my window had been open, even a little, I would be minus a face.  Of course it was a no-brainer for me to realize her mom was with us and I shouted a thank you to her for keeping us safe, as we continued on our journey.   If there are any of you who doubts for one moment that it wasn’t her protecting us, let me just say you had to be there!
     I hope, as high summer approaches, you will all manage to stay on your ‘right road’, and that all of your loved ones will be around to keep you safe!

                                                       Blessings, Daria
SYMBOLSMay 15

     Since ancient times, symbols are, and have always been important representations for humanity.  We find them everywhere, religious, cultural, national, right down to something as simple as a picture on a street sign.
     Symbols also have personal significance.  We each have our own symbols, something meaningful only for us.  Part of what I do as a medium is recognizing the symbols, and passing that information along to you, either as a validation that a soul is trying to connect with you, or a way of getting you to pay attention to the clues coming your way.  I think they can be signposts along the way of life, sometimes small, sometimes really in your face, giving you a little “heads up” about what you are doing or about to do.
     I love springtime, and the flowers that come with it, especially a pretty little, deliciously fragrant one called the Lily of the Valley, not only because it blooms in May, right around my birthday, but because it is highly symbolic for me.  Since I was in high school when I climbed the fence around the Lutheran home to pick some of these tiny treasures to use for my prom bouquet, [shh, don’t tell anyone!} they became a symbol of my first love, and they still have meaning for me.  The first home I bought had them growing all over the yard, and when I sold that house and was searching for my present home, I knew I had found it when I spotted the Lily of the Valley surrounding it.  What has always been odd is that it always grows profusely in my yard, but never in the neighbors, not even a straggler! 
     One day, when I move from this home, as I eventually will do, I’ll be looking for my symbol to help me know I’m on the right path.  I like to call it my “yellow brick road”, it may have lots of twists and turns, but it will always lead me home.
     Good luck finding your symbol, and Happy Spring!

                                                                          Blessings, Daria

SHARE!April 20

     Today, on this beautiful, sunny spring day, I read this and wanted to share it with you:

       “Too often in our society; we neglect the importance of creating meaningful connections with the world around us.  I believe that, as soulful beings, we are made to share ourselves with each other.”  J. Holloway

 
    
Today, discover something beautiful about your world, spiritual or otherwise, and pass that joy onto someone else.  It will feel wonderful!

                                                                                     Blessings, Daria

ChangeMarch 6

     Change is inevitable.  It is as much a part of life as breathing.  Just when we get comfortable and feel our life going along on an even keel, the rug gets pulled out from under us.  When that happens, we can either slip and fall, or regain our balance and keep moving forward.  In my prayers every day I ask God, “Please, help me to keep moving forward.”
     I think change comes from our soul, presenting us with another challenge from that long list of life challenges that we need for growth.  We always know when it is coming; an uncomfortable feeling settles in and we start to look around and sense something is not right.   Then it strikes, sometimes softly and with not too much trepidation, and sometimes like a cobra, knowing it's deadly and struggling to survive.
     Every now and then I like to look at myself, do an evaluation, if you will, and see how I have arrived at this place, what felt right and what felt wrong, what I can laugh about and what faltering judgment makes me cry.  But this is a natural process.  If you live each day in the moment, honestly with integrity and listening to your intuition, to your soul, then you can take into your heart all those rich memories that will last a lifetime, and try to learn from mistakes that might not have been so obvious at the time.
     I know when change is coming because I always feel the energy of souls and guides gather round me.  My dreams become more vivid and meaningful.  It is then I try so hard to pray and have faith, to know that with each challenge come great rewards, or maybe great pitfalls.  But there is no judgment here; we only have to answer to ourselves and to God, because we are all equal when it comes to our human frailties.
So pray, take a deep breath, have faith and welcome change as an opportunity for your soul. 
                                                      Blessings, Daria

Waiting to ExhaleFebruary 15

     Sometimes I have to remind myself to breathe!  I was alerted by more then a few friends that John Edward and Allison Du Bois were going to be on Oprah today.  Both John and Allison have been studied at the University of Arizona.  When he mentioned the survival of consciousness, it caused me more then a little frustration as that is the premise of the study for which I am a prospective medium, and it has been over a year now and I still haven’t finished my testing.  It moves along at a snails pace, but I guess that is what makes it a scientific study, thoroughness.
     As if that wasn’t enough, Oprah asked him what it was like to do readings, and he said it was like paying attention to your daydreams. I was on the phone with Lydia Clar and said, “Hello that is the subject of my book!  Is anyone up there [or over there as it were] making arrangements for me to meet an agent or a publisher?” GRRRRRRRR.  Guess this is where I have to take my own advice and have FAITH that everything happens in its own perfect time. 
                                               Blessings, Daria

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAYFebruary 11

     It is February, and here in the US that means Valentine’s Day, a day that celebrates romantic love.  
    A friend of mine who lives in Ireland posted a site where “I love you” was written in just about every language known to man, even sign language.  It got me thinking about the special language I have developed with the “other side” to help me exchange their messages of love.  It includes images, memories, songs and sounds, smells, feelings and emotions, words and phrases.  They have even touched me.  They usually give me so many music references, that a client of mine jokingly told me if this doesn’t work out, I could get a job as a singer.  I don’t think so!  Even my kids turn the radio off if I happen to sing along, definitely not one of my gifts. 
    But this special language I have developed with my guides, spiritual family and all the souls who come to pay me a visit, either in service to you, or just for me, is my way of exchanging those messages of love.
    So this Valentine’s Day, while the music of the Beatles singing “Words of Love” plays softly in the background, I will be thinking of you and wishing all of you a Valentine from your loves on the other side.

                                      Blessings, Daria

DaydreamsJanuary 19

     Do you know where daydreams come from? 
     They light upon us like butterflies, landing at a moment when we are least expecting them.  They come to us at the most unusual times; when we are driving, showering, doing chores, taking a walk, usually relaxed.  But daydreams always come out of the blue, and have you ever stopped to think about why we "dream while we are awake?" 
     I think daydreams are doorways for our angels to enter and whisper in our ears.  They are pathways for our loved ones on the other side to give us that 'nudge' we need to let us know we are not alone.  They open a space for our intuition to 'phone home' and connect with our soul, keeping us on the right path. 
     We come into this life with a plan; events charted throughout our lives, and as each challenge comes up, snippets of helpful guidance come to us through our daydreams.
     How do we tap into this energy and access this guidance?  By paying attention!  When you find that you've slipped away, take a moment to think about where your mind went.  Were you seeing a relative, or hearing a melody that reminds you of a time or place; was it a message that clears away doubt and helps you to move forward?
     Take time each day, to sit and ponder.  Give yourself permission to let your mind wander and let your soul take over.  Talk to your angels and your guides and ask them to use the window of your daydreams to help inspire you.  You won't regret it.
     January's winter days can sometimes be bleak.  Use this time of introspection to learn to tap into your daydreams and you can, one by one, raise your spirituality and make a difference in the world.
                                                           Happy winter, Daria

Jersey CityJanuary 8
Just a quick note of thanks to all who participated in the group reading this past Friday night in Jersey City.  Being born and raised there, it was fun to be back with my friend and assistant Nancy, and connect with Jersey City people [and spirits!]  It felt like being home.  Aside from the fact that I had the ghost of Eileen breathing down my neck all night, we made some great connections and had a special participant: Crystals' cat who sat neck to me for most of the readings.  This was especially fun because she is said to never come out around strangers.
I hope I was able to resolve some issues and help get Eileen's message out there.  It's true when they say..."There's no place like home!"

My Christmas MiracleJanuary 3

     I had my very own Christmas miracle this year.  When I was young, I thought of miracles in terms of loaves and fishes and the parting of the Red Sea.  Now I understand that they can appear in small gestures and not just on great gales of wind.
     I have been writing about the cat that lived outside, and when he showed up injured and in desperate need of help, my prayers were answered when he walked into the cat carrier for his food and I was able to get him to the vet.  I brought him home to recuperate and he did well until all the pain medicine wore off and he slowly retreated behind the washing machine, only coming out to eat and roam the house at night after we were sleeping.
     Well 2 weeks is a long time to go without washing clothes for fear of traumatizing him even more.  The spin cycle of the machine could have pinned him against the wall.  Thank goodness for my very understanding family who offered to take our wash home.
     My sister Michelle is a very big fan of Saint Gerard.  She loves to visit the church of Our Lady of Sorrows and found his statue in an alcove there.  She seems to resonate with his energy, and had been asking for his help with this little cat.  On Christmas day, truly at the end of my rope, she came to dinner with medals of Saint Gerard and gave them to each of us.  I put it in my pocket and said a silent prayer.
    That evening when I walked in the house I realized something felt different...  I saw our cat Princess sitting at my bedroom door looking in, and I knew he was in there.  My son and I ran into the laundry room, saw he was out from behind the machine, and we went to work, pushing together the washer and dryer and blocking off any access that could prove dangerous.  My daughter Jenna was waiting to open gifts, and I was saying, “Not now, I have to do a load of laundry while I have the chance!”
     So little Fuchi, as we call him, now hides under my bed, where he is safe, warm, well fed and being given a chance to heal.  He loves to roam the house at night, sleep on the furniture, and I am giving him all the time he needs to feel comfortable with being part of our family.
Thank you Saint Gerard for answering a prayer!

Never Doubt YourselfDecember 20
     Yesterday, during a reading the question of a spirit guide came up.  When ever anyone asks about their guides, I usually get a clear picture of who they are, their name and whether they lived on earth [as they like to appear as they were during a favorite lifetime.]  When an odd name comes up, I am sometimes riddled with a nagging sense of doubt  and wonder if people think I make this stuff up.  So when a guide told me her name was Willa, I thought OK, here we go again.  Imagine my amazement when I picked up a magazne this morning, one I usually never read, and the first page I turned to had the name WILLA in big, bold letters.  It was like getting a smack in the head from my guides saying, "What were you thinking!  You can't do this work if you are going to doubt yourself."
     So when those sparks come to you in the form of inuition, creativity, or daydreams, NEVER DOUBT YOURSELF!
                                                                        Blessings, Daria

    
My furry friendDecember 11

 To update everyone on my furry friend, the orange cat my son has named Fuchi, he went to the vet today.  After numerous attemps I had been unable to catch him, and yesterday he showed up with a terrible limb.  I was up all night praying for help because I could not even close the door when he came in to eat or he would go ballistic.  This morning I decided to take a chance and put some food in the cat carrier.  To my amazement, he walked right in!  I was able to get him to the vet where he was x-rayed [he had a dislocated hip], neutered, vaccinated and now he is safely tucked away in a room in my house where he will recover.  I can’t tell you how grateful I am!  Thanks you for all your concern!

                                                         Happy Holidays, Daria

Sometimes I feel like the energizer bunny!December 10

     This profession takes its toll.  Anyone who is curious as to why a medium would charge money for their services should walk in my shoes.  The pressure, the expectations, the occasional glib remark made by people as to whether I could “perform” right there and then, as if my agenda is unimportant.
     As with everything else in the universe, readings are cyclical, like the tides or the seasons, sometimes steady, sometimes crazy and sometimes at a lull.  We won’t even go into what happens to communication during the infamous cycles of Mercury going retrograde as it does frequently throughout the year.  In the past, whenever I’ve considered taking the focus of attention off of this to do a regular “day job”, my guides always lead me back with a “what were you thinking” kind of feeling.  And then there is the ever present squeamishness that accompanies every new introduction when the inevitable question arises, ‘So what do you do?”  I always have to stop and decide if I give an innocuous answer, or if I just blurt out, “Oh me, I talk to the dead.”
     A common thread among the mediums that I know is the feeling that we live our lives on the defensive, never knowing when we will be attacked or by whom.  We are always getting messages for people, and have to strategize about whether or not to give someone a message that hasn’t been asked for.  I don’t believe in walking up to people and giving them information that they may not be ready to hear.  I have to wait patiently until they appear before me and ask.  Sometimes they don’t, but it doesn’t stop the feeling of having an elephant sitting on my head until I can shake it loose.
     Dating is another impossible mission.  When a man finds out I am psychic, they tend to think I will spend all of my time reading their minds, ridiculous by the way, and they run for the hills.  So I look at this alone time as well spent thinking about the karmic lessons of my divorce, and unlearning old patterns.
     Would I change a thing about what I do?  Absolutely not; I love the feeling I am left with after I have connected souls and experienced the joy, or closure, or laughter that ensued.  I remember being such a little girl and feeling like there was something I was supposed to do with my life; that I was here for a reason.  Growing up I thought it was to be an artist and create beautiful works of art that would hang in galleries or museums and bring a moment of beauty to everyone who would see them.  How surprised I was when I realized that this is what I was meant to do, and everything that led me up to that moment rang true with a kind of clarity I had never known before.
    It’s all about energy, realizing where you are putting your energy and what kind of energy you are attracting.  When you are aware of your energy, you can learn how and when it is being affected by energy from the other side.  So turn on, plug in, and go for it!

                                                                         Blessings, Daria

Happy Holidays!December 9
     Here we are again, in the midst of the holiday season.  Somehow, celebrating the birth of Jesus has morphed into a mega shopping free for all.  I have been trying to focus on family, and bringing to life traditions passed down to us by generations now gone.  It’s a way of being able to just enjoy each others company, here and “over there.”  We’re not the only ones who “come home for the holidays.”
     I have been very preoccupied lately by a furry orange cat that has found his way to my home and seems to have adopted us.  It has taken me over a month to earn his trust, and on the day I went to the vet to talk about bringing him in, he disappeared.  Who said animals can’t read our minds?  I will never again question the intuitive abilities of animals. 
     After doing everything possible to find him, I put him in God’s hands and prayed to Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron of animals and to Lillith, head of the nature angels, [I like to cover all my bases!] to guide him home.  Nine days later, he showed up at my door, hungry for a meal, and seemingly uninjured.
     I said some prayers of thanks to everyone on the other side and went to attend a meeting I had scheduled.  There, on a huge poster board in front of the room was a quote about imagining the impossible.  It was from Saint Francis of Assisi!
     Knowing my prayers, dreams and wishes are heard was the best Christmas present I could have gotten.  So to all of you, no matter what your religion, beliefs or circumstances this season, remember you are loved from a great and wide vantage point that we like to call Heaven.  Let that nourish and nurture your soul.            
                                       Happy Holidays and many Blessings,

                                                             Daria
Believe in yourself!December 3