Compassionate Being Mandala

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It's been a while since I've offered a glimpse into my process. Enjoy!

~Sue O'Kieffe
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Aham Brahmasmi Mandala

Aham Brahmasmi Mandala ( Crystal Vibration Circles) © Sue O'Kieffe 2012 

source image: red tip auralite crystal

Our true self is expressed in the ancient Sanskrit sutra aham brahmasmi, which means "I am the universe." When we can accept that we are the universe, we can transcend any limiting belief and any emotional turbulence. ~Deepak Chopra

There is a whisper, but it’s louder than the wind.It calls to us, "Come Home. The story is over, the pages are worn thin. Come home."  It’s like a chant, a sacred OM underlying all else. 

...It requires no doing anything, or going anywhere or becoming anything.

If only we see that we are this whispering sound, all else will dissolve into peace.

-- Rafael Stoneman

Commissioned Mandala Art

Reciprocity Mandala (Commissioned Mandala Artwork) © Sue O'Kieffe 2012
source image: auralite crystal

Appreciation significantly turns on the heart. Appreciation is not an emotion that arises spontaneously, but a soul quality we can choose. The more often we choose to be appreciative, the easier this choice becomes and the more frequently our heart opens to give and receive love.  ~Unknown

One of my favorite things as an artist is to create commissioned mandalas. I will be delivering this mandala to my reiki teacher this afternoon. Her mandala was created from a photograph of her own auralite crystal. What a joy it was for me to soothe out the patterns that I felt speak most appropriately to her into this shimmering yet grounded image of harmony, balance and reciprocity, all characteristics of the number 6. I chose to create her mandala with a 6 pointed configuration because hexagons are prevalent within auralite crystal, and I wanted the mandala's energy to resonate closely with that of the crystal. When I emailed a preview of the mandala to my teacher, she responded with these words: Beautiful.Pearls, oyster shells, snakeskins, old, old Native American clothes from faded deerskin. A wonderful compilation of Nature.


I would love to create a mandala especially for you. Send me an email for more information!


~Sue O'Kieffe
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Holiday Blessings from Sacred Circle Mandalas

Lux Invictus Winter Solstice Mandala

 Lux Invictus Mandala (Earth Mystery Mandala series) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011

source image: milky quartz elestial

I'm honoring the crystal star and the stars inside us all with this Winter Solstice mandala. Yesterday a friend  shared this poem with me by Rahima Warren, who graciously gave me permission to reprint it here.

SOLSTICE POEM
Winter solstice is a time for
turning within
entering the luminous darkness
of the Longest Night,
opening to the Yin
resting in the Cosmic womb
source of all creation
in the gentle darkness we can see
the subtle light of our soul-stars.

Can you see your Self shining
there, a star in the silent firmament?

Now the Deepest Darkness holds a seed of Light
waiting to be born into the world,
into our lives, into our hearts.


© Rahima Warren 

Blessed be to you all on this darkest night of the year. May we all find our invincible light and be willing to shine bright and be who we came here to be in the days to come.

Sue O'Kieffe
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Ascended Master Portal

Ascended Master Portal (Crystal Vibration Series) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011
source image: auralite crystal

Today I want everyone who checks in and follows Sacred Circle Mandalas to know what a pure delight it is for me to bring these mandala images through for you. It is my desire to bring you joy, peace, and harmony and my intent is that you feel uplifted and inspired when in their presence. I hope the healing energies of the sacred geometry that is imbued within each image assists you on your spiritual and healing journeys.

I continue to be excited working with this auralite crystal as part of my calling and purpose. This crystal exudes love, calms and fortifies, strengthens and magnetizes, and bonds with the person who holds the stone as  if you were a beloved friend. Please feel free to email me or message me on Facebook for more information about the crystal or for information on purchasing this mandala.

Today I want to share the channeled poetry of my friend Tracie Nichols from Alchemy of the Earth. Tracie channels Gaia, as well as the energy of auralite. This is what came through for her when I asked for her impressions of this ancient stone. And blessed be, my friends, during these times of amazing transformation and energetic shifts. We are all connected. Don't ever forget!

~Sue O'Kieffe
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Song of the Ancient Ones…

I am the ancient bones of the
Earth, our Mother I am the seas
that bathed her passionate surface

I am the liquid stone blood
flowing in her body
cooling to bone

I am your foundation
and your freedom
I am the pulsing soul of this
planet made solid
The heartbeat, heartsong
made visible

Your eyes
your sweet human eyes
can only see a tiny fragment
of my spaciousness

I am life

Your life...
The life of the magnificent Gaia...
Life in all forms and vibrations

I am shards of Gaia soul
that you can hold in your hands
hold to your heart
cover with your breath

In your heart with
your heart
we sing the beauty
of this Earth
into being

Message from Auralite 10-22-11 received by Tracie Nichols
Alchemy for the Earth
Copyright © 2011 by Tracie Nichols

Infinite Thanksgiving Mandala

Infinite Thanksgiving Mandala  (Circles of Awareness 2011) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011

source image: beach rock

I received this message recently:

This is a time of abundance for you, not just monetarily (though that too!) but abundance in friends and love. Take stock by writing a list of the things in life that make you feel good, so that you can see how abundance flows in your life. Then give thanks to the Universe and most importantly to yourself for creating and manifesting them. 

This is what came up for me as I reflected on that message: Savor the time you spend with your tribe. Take care of and watch out for each other. Laugh alot. Cry some too. Share food and music and the beat of the drum. Share your dreams. Applaud your growth. Grieve together too. Touch, hold, hug each other. Help each other grow, especially the little ones. Honor community. We are, as a friend recently reminded me, hardwired to belong.

I'm not exactly sure what I found on this rock photographed Thanksgiving Day when I was out with my tribe. It may be very tiny mussels. I was attracted to the texture. Today, as I look at it and the mandala that came through from it, I am seeing a  microcosmic community growing there at the ocean and is now contained in mandala form.

My tribe and I took a hike Thanksgiving Day climbing rock out at the ocean. Everything I said above I learned that day with them.  I took this photo because the rock reminded me of a dolphin. It was a perfect morning. I am so blessed to be part of this tribe.


How about you? Who is your tribe? Where do you belong?

Sue O'Kieffe
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Third Chakra Mandala - I Am Empowered

Third Chakra Mandala (Chakra series) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011

source image: yellow snapdragon

AFFIRMATIONS:
I am empowered.
I take enlightened action for the highest good of all.
I shine with the Light of God


~Sue O'Kieffe
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Second Chakra Mandala

Second Chakra Mandala (chakra series) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011

source image: maple leaf 

AFFIRMATIONS

I express my art with joy

I surrender to the creative energy of the Universe

It is natural and easy for me to be creative

My feelings are an opportunity to learn, and to return to light and love

~Sue O'Kieffe
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2012 Sacred Circle Mandalas Are Now Available

Every year I create a create a calendar of  mandala art with accompanying inspirational quotes.  This year I was super inspired and created two! Creating these calendars is a total act of love that I get to share with all of you.  We need these reminders of healing in our daily lives as we move forward into greater awareness and spiritual growth.

Please take a look at this year's uplifting mandala imagery inspired by nature. The Circles of Transformation Calendar contains twelve months of my nature inspired imagery, and Auralite Ascension Circles Calendar has  a dozen high frequency auralite mandalas with matching spiritually oriented messages for growth. These calendars make perfect holiday gifts 

This year I am  offering the opportunity to order calendars directly through me. Doing so will afford you a bit of a price break in shipping. In order to make sure I can get your calendars delivered in time for the holidays I will need to have payment via PayPal or money order by November 30th. 

To order, please email me  at sueok at sbcglobal dot net with the number of calendars you want to order, your payment method, and your email address, and I will send you an invoice for your order.

To preview these calendars click here and here. You will be directed to  new pages where you can preview the calendars themselves. Underneath each calendar cover image there is a Preview link. Click on that. You will need to manually advance each image by clicking on the forward arrow underneath the calendar image.

Ordering info:

U.S. Customers1-3 calendars is $24.95 each plus $5.90 shipping Priority Mail with delivery confirmation. More than 3 calendars ship $11.80 Priority Mail.(In comparison, ordering directly from the publisher would  cost you $8.99 in shipping for one calendar, $11.99 for 3 calendars, $14.99 for 5 calendars sent FEDEX ground).

 5 calendars or more of the same calendar design are eligible for a 20% quantity discount. California residents will be charged applicable sales tax.

Canadian/Mexican customers

Each calendar is $24.95 USD plus $11.45 shipping Priority Mail. More than 3 calendars ship $26.95 Priority Mail. 5 calendars or more are eligible for a quantity discount.

Customers outside of North America

So that you can be sure to receive your calendar on time, I would recommend ordering directly from Lulu. com via the links above.

Local customers

I'd be happy to make arrangements to deliver directly to you.

Gifting someone? Want me to mail directly to your giftee? I can do that. Just send the necessary information in your email.

Rather just order yourself? Not a problem. Lulu.com has a 3-5 day printing turn around, and shipping ground FEDEX takes about a week. (Shipping US Mail will take longer and cannot be tracked.) Just go ahead and order when you are on the site.

Locally, my calendars will also be available at Humboldt Herbals, 300 2nd St., Eureka, CA 95501 

Please  email me with any questions you may have. You can find my email address on the sidebar to the right. If you got to the end of this post, thank you! Lots of reading I know.

Bright blessings to you all.

Sue O'Kieffe

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First Chakra Mandala - I BELONG

      First Chakra Mandala (Chakra Series) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011

      source image: hypericum berries

     Affirmations for this chakra:

I belong

I am here

I am enough

Sue O'Kieffe

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Earth Spirit Mandala

Earth Spirit Mandala (Crystal Vibration series) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011source image: auralite amethyst crystal

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others ~ Marian Wright Edelman

Circles for Ascension - Auralite amethyst mandalas

The past few months have been quite a journey.
Five years ago, after major surgery on my carotid artery, I first learned about auralite amethyst from a man who had direct contact with the owner of the mine deed up in Ontario Canada. The time that I spent learning about and viewing photos of these crystals was a big part of my post operative healing process. This spring I reconnected with this man again on Facebook and was given an opportunity to start selling and working with this stone, using it not only in mandala creation, but learning about its amazing healing properties.Auralite exudes Love and encourages us to get in touch with our deep Truths.


I have known for a very long time about the great shifts our planet and its inhabitants was going through, but I only felt minimally involved. Since the stone entered my home and my life, my awareness has gone through major shifts. I believe that auralite  is being revealed now to assist humanity with its evolutionary ascension process, and I know that part of my life's purpose is to be of assistance to others in this process, both through my art and through being a promoter and caretaker of auralite amethyst.





Individual prints of the auralite mandalas are available for purchase at http://SacredCircleMandalas.etsy.com. Auralite crystals are available for purchase by contacting me here. There is a link for my email address on the right hand side bar.
The awesome soundtrack for this video was graciously and generously provided by Yatri. You can hear more of her crystal singing bowl music at http://crystalmusic.com

Bright blessings to all of you who find this video. May you be filled with Love and Light!


Sue O'Kieffe
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Isis Calling Mandala

Isis Calling  (Power Shield Series) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011
source image - royal palm turkey feather

During a meditation at a  recent women's gathering held at the Isis Retreat Center in Geyserville, CA, I received the ankh as a personal symbol. The ankh is a symbol of eternal life, among other things, and I am honored to have been called by Isis to convene not only with her but with the amazing tribe of women I met, bonded with, and embraced at Sage Taylor-Kingsley Goddard's Prosperous Goddess retreat.*  I used a feather from one of the Royal Palm turkeys that live at the center as a source image for this mandala. Turkeys have always held a special place in my heart, as a symbol of sacrifice and give-away within Native American culture. Now I am learning the word turkey may actually come from the Hebrew word tukki, meaning  peacock, which is also a bird sacred to Isis. These royal palms are a hybrid of different varieties of turkey. According to Wikipedia, the toms are noted for being non-aggressive, and the hens are particularly good mothers. All of this feels right to me when considering the turkeys' spiritual association with  honoring the Earth Mother and Isis herself being worshiped as Mother of the Gods. What I really like, though, is knowing that turkey medicine is a reflection of shared blessings.There is something about gathering with women that naturally seems to bring that out. I experienced the spirit of appreciation and validation for one another, profound and deep healings facilitated by Sage's amazing insight, skills, and intuition, joy that comes with getting to know one another, as well as lots and lots of love. During that weekend I also received three messages of next steps for myself, which you will be hearing more about in the days to come. 


I could not let another moment go by without creating a mandala to show my deep appreciation for all who touched me during this retreat. I say thank you and bright blessings to each and everyone of you. May our paths cross again soon.


~Sue O'Kieffe 
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* I am also part of Sage's affiliate program.

Peace Within Mandala

Peace Within Mandala (Circles of Transformation) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011
source image: cannabis

Looking behind I am filled with gratitude.
Looking forward I am filled with vision.
Looking upwards I am filled with strength.
Looking within I discover peace.
~Quero Apache Prayer

This mandala is dedicated to those who find healing, comfort, and relief from pain through the loving properties of cannabis.

~Sue O'Kieffe
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Love Unifying Mandala

 Love Unifying Mandala (Crystal Vibrations Series) © Sue O'Kieffe
source image: auralite 23 crystal slice


We are reuniting at this time in order to understand and help one another articulate to those around us what is happening inside of us. While we are each in varying states of reverence, grief, bliss, silence, and speech clearer than we’ve ever spoken, we need to be advocates for one another, drawing one another out with touch, with beauty, with the quiet companionship of the silence of Knowing but no longer alone. ~Em Claire Poet

Shifts are happening quicker than I can keep up. I find articulating what I am experiencing a challenge,  and the wonder of those moments of recognition that I am a part of everything and everything is a part of me exhilarating. Six months ago I never would have believed  I would be an advocate, guardian and keeper of these billion year old Auralite 23 crystals. I am blessed to be reunited with them once again.

The message that comes through to me in this mandala is about unity consciousness. We  band together and support one another, knowing that we are all part of each other and part of God.

Share with me, please, what you see and feel in this mandala.

If you are drawn to the crystals and want further information, please shoot me an email. Contact information is up there to the right.

Transcendent Harmony

Transcendent Harmony (Exploring the Mystery) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011
source image - hydrangeas

I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?  I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world. ~ Agnes Martin

Infinite Peace Mandala

Infinite Peace Mandala (Crystal Vibrations Series) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011

source image: auralite 23 crystal

The stones of the Earth are singing peace, dear ones. Can you feel their song echoing in your stone-bones? Can you feel the peace they sing?

 ~ Message from Gaia via Tracie Nichols 
 

I am honored to be working with these new forms of amethyst coming out of the earth in Ontario, Canada. I am posting this mandala and its source image, a slice of auralite 23 crystal, as a means of introduction to this 1.1 billion year old crystal. My friend Doug Schwarzenberger, geologist and teacher of geology, physics and chemistry at the high school honors level (his website will be up soon), has been directly involved with the mining of these stones as well in the identification of the 23 mineral inclusions contained within. 

I am also pleased to share with you Tracie Nichols' Message from Gaia to accompany this mandala. Tracie helps women who love the earth and are on a spiritual or healing path to partner with Gaia, discover their soul's purpose and bring that purpose out in the world. You can learn more about Tracie and receive her daily Gaia messages by going to her website, Alchemy for the Earth.

As always, I would love to hear your response to this mandala. I feel alot of strength and softness in this stone when I wear it and feel its encompassing loving energy translated well into this mandala, which I imagine as a portal to another dimension.

~Sue O'Kieffe

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Freedom Flowering Mandala

Freedom Flowering Mandala (Circles of Transformation) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011

source image: gerbera daisy

Gerbera daisies seem like one of nature's firework flowers, and so I chose this photograph to create a mandala to honor this day of spiritual blossoming.

The following words, part of a larger prayer spoken by intuitive abundance coach and spiritual teacher Sage Taylor Kingsley-Goddard, seemed like a perfect accompaniment to this mandala.

Let Your infinite divine heavenly radiance come flowing and flowering

Flowing and blooming and blossoming into the crowns

Of each and everyone of us

So that we can receive Your golden light

The light of abundance, the light of truth,

The light of love, the light of healing, the light of joy…

Bring the truth of who we are fully home into our feet

And all the way home into Mother Earth, fully grounding us, fully anchoring us,

Fully plugging us in, fully attaching us.

And yet, even though we are fully corded to Mother Earth,

We are free to float and to fly with Father Sky.

We are strongly tethered and yet free. 

~Sage Taylor Kingsley-Goddard

You can learn more about Sage's programs and other offerings at her website, Love and Spirit.

SAGE is an intuitive abundance coach and spiritual teacher, Archangel Michael channel, hypnotherapist and Omnidimensional Energy Healer known as the Transformation and Manifestation Catalyst. Also a Reiki Master Teacher, interfaith minister, speaker and author, SAGE specializes in self-love and awakening. She helps conscious creators align with their passionate life purpose, manifest prosperity, attract lasting soulmate love and create the life of their dreams.

(In the spirit of full disclosure: I am  part of Sage's affiliate program)

Infinite Light of Heaven and Earth Mandala

Infinite Light of Heaven and Earth (Circle of Transformation) © Sue O'Kieffe 2011

source image: artichoke

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend...when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present/love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that brings us pleasure/the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Aside from the fact that I do believe artichokes are one of those culinary delights that are indeed a little bit of heaven on earth, I also like the transformation that occurred in this mandala image, suggesting roots digging deep in the earth while receiving heaven's golden brilliance.

Some technical details: For this mandala, I experimented some more using the Mehdi Kaleidoscope Plug-In for Photoshop along with Paint the Moon's Illuminate actions that Annie was giving away a while back on Facebook.

These days I experience mandala creation more and more as a transmission. Writing about what these mandalas mean to me is not nearly as important as how you receive and experience them. This is the communication between you and me. I may bring them through, but you bring them to life.

I'd love to hear your comments/response.

~Sue O'Kieffe
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