This is the story of My Awakening…
When I realised I was intuitively gifted and how my natural way of being wasn’t so natural to everyone, I wanted to explore this to understand myself more and to understand how living my life so naturally intuitively has helped me navigate my way through what life has presented me with. I wanted to understand this natural guidance system I had accessed all my life and so began my quest for greater knowledge, my seeking, my calling and my awakening…
This was in a time before the internet, before Google, when books were the way we researched. I began exploring beliefs, my beliefs, what others believed. I had always been interested in mysteries but this was a quest, a hunger had arisen inside of me, a thirst for knowledge, a thirst for understanding. Something had shifted within me. This was my world, this world of intuitive knowing, this world of subtle messages and signs, this was where I belonged, so I observed, pondered and trusted where it was leading me.
I sought out bookshops that sold everything esoteric, metaphysical, mystical and philosophical. I would spend hours in these wonderful spaces absorbing the atmosphere, shyly perusing the aisles. The books seemed to jump out at me, sometimes it was their covers, or where they were positioned on the shelf, or simply that my hand would gravitate towards them. So I would buy them, feeling I had to own them, rather than borrow them from a library, so I could keep them, treasure them and revisit them. I was collecting stories, as well as collecting the knowledge they contained. I read them, and re-read them, each time getting something else from their pages, sometimes words, sometimes phrases and sometimes it would just be a paragraph that jumped out at me, drawing me into their world so my world would expand.
Music too, was part of this journey, I had been surrounded by music all my life, but it was the lyrics that spoke to me, they gave me a sense of connection.
When I read books about spiritual journeys and inner experiences, they resonated with me, I felt I was walking beside each character and that I was a part of their journey. I was reconnecting and remembering. There were people out there who were just like me, who trusted their instincts, who allowed themselves to live intuitively, who saw life as an unfolding adventure. I started having wonderful philosophical conversations with like-minded friends and played around with giving readings. Soon all my conversations were deep and often predictive. This is what I wanted to do, so one fateful day, I walked into a New Age Bookshop and offered myself as an Intuitive Reader. Two weeks later I had my first gig. I loved my days at the Bookshop surrounded by all those books, and the people they attracted. My world evolved into travelling around Australia doing different gigs, while keeping my spot at the Bookshop when I wasn’t on the road.
And then something even more magical happened, another awakening was taking place with the arrival of my son, and my days on the road ended as our new life began. Our journey together continues and he has grown into a wonderfully creative young man who’s autistic view on the world inspires daily. I am truly blessed to have him in my life.
Now I am beginning a new chapter in this life with the launch of this website, I have been drawn to sharing my gifts with you and in sharing this story, I hope you will be inspired to seek, to question, and to awaken this curiosity for the life that exists within you.
As this project evolves and the journey continues, we will all evolve together and you too can be inspired by your life you are creating…
Love your life and life will love you back…
Mari.