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Coming home to Cleveland, Ohio
was not what I thought I would be doing, not to live at least. Not after being
fortunate enough to sing for a living and with some
of the best in the
business; singing to standing ovations and thrilled at “feeling” and making
others “feel”, The Count Basie Band, O’Jays, even Jon Paris and the
Saturday Night Live horn section two nights in a row (I was asked back for
the second night) at Chicago Blues in New York City. I was living in Portland,
Oregon
which is definitely God’s country; you cannot miss it even if
you are sleeping soundly. Portland, Oregon is home to the Mt. Hood Jazz festival
and everything
progressive, beautiful, wonderful and right.
None of
that matters when your oldest sister is dying of cancer back home in Cleveland,
Ohio. I returned home to Cleveland to spend time with her, she eventually
did pass from this world after that cancer had eaten just about every cell
of her being. Looking back now, she demonstrated a poetic dignity, beauty and
grace. I
am so blessed to have had such an awe-some human in my life at
all, and she was/is my gorgeous sister Barbara.
No musical contract or group
can give you perspective like someone you love being eaten by the hideous
disease of cancer.
In the meantime, my dad took ill with Emphysema. I won’t
be leaving any time soon.
This is my attempt to tell the story of what
transpired between now and then.
Better go back to design and furniture,
something I know just to hold me over while I am here.
“You can’t just start
singing like that!” Said my boss, a lovely well-kept woman who owned
the
furniture/design shop I worked in at the time. This may seem
simple
enough a request, but not for me. You see, I do not have cognitive awareness
that I am singing. How can I stop doing something I do not even know I am
doing? Another piece of discomfort was the price factor; a customer could
become very uncomfortable working on a better price and someone else who is just
nice would have to pay more, I would inform the “nice” person they
could get a better price rather than give the problem customer a better price,
but that meant I
was taking money from the store owner which was also
uncomfortable.
Anyway that night in 1989 after I was “singing” in the store;
I was sitting with my handsome Marlborough man/husband I am crazy about. The
irritating traffic is whooshing by our house which is very close to the
street. We live way out in the country east of Chardon and yet I have to put up
with all the loud traffic and trucks!
Now I have several things
creating a new dilemma for me. You see, I had managed several furniture design
showrooms in the past. I could easily get rehired at any of them. Only,
that won’t stop my random singing. Living in the country (last job was 1hour and
a half away), and those jobs requiring 60 hour minimum weeks becomes
another consideration. I want to please my husband, be the perfect “Disney
wife” take care of and make him the happiest man on the planet!
I would like
to have a child, and that clock is tick, tock ticking away in me.
I am also
having some physical health problems flaring up and that will require time off
of work too.
How can I do a good job for anyone else knowing this?
Make
lemonade out of lemons. Listen to the irritation and the answer will
come.
More loud traffic goes by.
The light finally goes on inside of
me.
I will build my own shop. A simple barn/A-frame will do.
I go outside
to see where and how when I literally “see” the barn standing in all of its
etheric beauty.
I open the door (no, there really isn’t a door) and walk in
and see my writing desk in one corner, cherry bookcase behind it, tapestry and
damask couches and brocade chairs, maple and oak end tables, Victorian
carved oak bed grouping and hammered-iron headboards.
I simply note my
growing inventory list. I will need a good excavator to prepare the field that
is approximately 200 feet east of my home, which sits on 27 acres.
I drive
down to the local corner store to get a reference. “Dick Bosse” is my reply from
the friendly store owner in response to my query. Dick comes walking into the store after the words are barely out of the store owner’s
mouth.
While Dick and I go outside to work out the logistics, Dick says we
will need Barry’s trucking to deliver the layers of rock we will need.
Barry
himself comes driving up in a shiny red truck. Dick and Barry wave to each other
and Dick introduces me “this young lady here is Mrs. Savage and she is considering building a store/barn on her property down the street
here”.
Who is building the barn for her?
I reply “I haven’t found that
person yet, any suggestions?”
They both reply, “how ‘bout Brower?”
Guess
who comes driving up?
Yup, Brower.
Who am I to question any of
this?
Several months later, the store is standing. The work, well there was
plenty. I just thanked God I could do it. Whatever it was, I was glad my angels
were helping me through it all. I had blisters. Sleepless nights.
Anyone who has ever built anything knows you go through many, many obstacles
even with the best laid plans. I cut wood and trim. I laid stones and
rocks by hand in the parking lot. I hung insulation, dry wall, and wall
paper.
I built landscaping boxes, and dug posts for my signs. I fought with
my (ex) husband about the fact he wasn’t helping me. Worse, he would make it
hard for me and anyone trying to help me, should we care to wake the
sleeping bear. (This relationship and my waking up to it comes later in the
story.)
Anyway, I was grateful to be able to do any of it, and that God was
helping me the whole time, how else could I have done all those things I never
did before. (I must admit and give thanks to my sisters Bev and Janet,
my brothers Bob and David, and my friend Lorraine who also came out on several
occasions and gave me a hand too.)
Anyway, I know that gratitude in
times of difficulty and strain is a miracle worker.
It is a great tool and
gift for us at any time, but when you are thankful in difficult times, it moves
mountains.
The store opened following my daily prayers and meditations in the
morning. People came with different stories of how they were drawn to the store.
They told me more often than not; the song I was playing (whatever it
was at the time) meant something very special to them and how it was “weird”
that I should be playing it at that time. I knew better. I know the
power of the Holy Spirit. That which is infused in the all.
We would end up
working together on their house, selecting furniture, colours, arrangement, etc.
What happened in the journey was so far past my knowing world. In the
process of designing homes, one must listen to women’s stories: their pain,
their big love, their deep world. How stretched their beings had become in every direction to be; good girls, good wives, good mothers, good
teachers, good friends, good-no- great lovers, and remain nice and certainly not
become “bitches” and of course the other dilemma-whores, the can’t win
for loosing scenario. Too good in the bedroom and some men can’t wrap their
brain around that.
Not their “good girl wife”~ the Madonna complex. Now
many of these wounded women were on different forms of psycho tropics and felt
bad about that too.
They didn’t know why they were so depressed and how
dare they be- with everything so good. So in the process of listening to women’s
stories, a blooming took place, the river widened in my being and I
began the process of birthing what women needed to make themselves whole. What I
did not expect was that I would be birthed anew too and start my own
process in the discovery of the Divine Feminine. Yes, this little Catholic girl
would become shattered and have to put herself back together again. I
would learn to infuse vibrations of sound into the home in a return to my
musical being and background. But the stories….
“If one woman told her
story ~
The whole earth would crack wide open” - Rainier Marie
Wilke.
I started asking what other forms of natural therapy they had
tried while concurrently they were asking me what forms I had tried. My response
was; yoga, aromatherapy, meditation, Reiki, etc. They would reply with
a dazed look in their faces and more often than not, say something like; “Ra-
what did you say?”
They also started picking up the books (mine) that I
was using for display purposes and asking if they could borrow them. Hmmmm. Not
what I had planned, but ok we can do this. Sure you can borrow the
book. Soon I didn’t have any books left, they were all being borrowed. What are
those things on and around your desk? They would ask. (My affirmations,
crystals, rocks, etc.) I prayed and meditated on it all and asked for
guidance.
I wondered why? Why were so many women depressed and asking me
how I dared to live my life. Surely I was not the only person whose attention
this was getting, was I? I Looked up into the “Heavens” and pleaded for
answers. Truly this would be frightening for the universe asking me to notice
something that other trained professionals should be taking note of and
working on. Not me. I am too wild and un-tethered. I just put colours and
fabrics together and hold peoples hands during the process. Guide them
through the weaving of their desires and their family’s. Oh yes, and the home
that most certainly had visions of its own to be listened to. My heart
just swelled in this sea of pain these women were in and well, at least if I
could make their home “feel” better for them, maybe that would
help.
Things were growing more and more restless inside of me when one
Sunday I decided to attend a new church I had designed a meeting room
for.
The Sermon was “Did you ever notice how God never picks the obvious
person to do His work?”
Come on! My body was buzzing. This buzzing started at
an early age and though I won’t share all of the experiences now, I will share
some just to give you a flavor of my life.
Many of the psychic
experiences I had growing up were “painful” to put it mildly. This is not a
complaint because I know now why; they were forever etched in my being
that way so I would have a much harder time dismissing them. I am grateful for
the rich tapestry that is the weaving of my life!
We will begin with High
School and the story of Diane. I started having really distressing feelings
about her dying somehow knowing she would die from drugs while in her
car. So I went into the principal’s office and tried to convince him of the need
to have classes on drugs before it happened to save her. His response was “who are these kids taking drugs?” Oh yah, let me just give you a list
of the names of kids in pain around me so you can inflict more pain in their
life and I can be a snitch in High school! The only thing he would
agree to was a “my little class” sometime after school. Right, you can barely
keep these kids in school during school hours but they will come after
school to hear why they shouldn’t take drugs? I wanted an accredited class
during school, never mind.
So drugs did take Diane’s life. I do know that she
is in a wonderful place now from my own experience with death. That story will
come later.
It didn’t help to psychically “know” my parents house was robbed
either. The police wanted to know how I could know. I should just tell them so
they could solve the case, since I had to be in on it or how else would
I know?
Was I on drugs? Several days after it happened, I was standing at my
school locker; talking to my friend whose locker was next to mine and a friend
of hers came walking up to say hello to her and said hello to me too.
My whole body started screaming inside. I went to my study hall and all I could
hear screaming somewhere inside my body was “She robbed your house!” It
just got louder and louder inside me and wouldn’t leave me alone. I went to the
class she was in and called her outside to the hall. I tersely said;
“you robbed my house!” She looked at me in this strange way and denied it. The
next thing I knew I was shaking this much larger girl than me and
banging her into the lockers. The whole class came running out exclaiming fight!
We were taken down to the offices. I was reprimanded and told
that the
police were handling it and I was given detentions.
One week later my family
found out that she was one of the thieves.
Going back to when I was a small
child; I remember wondering why no one ever talked about the “Big” people
watching us/me growing up either. What did I have to do to get grownups
to discuss them instead of acting like they weren’t even there? I just kept
entertaining them, dancing, singing, acting, laughing and talking for
them. Maybe since I had such a hard time being “good”, no-one could talk about
it with me yet, this secret of the large beings. Somehow, I felt as if at some
point, we were all going to just acknowledge all this and the whole
“invisible/visible” world we were all in. That just hadn’t happened. Sometime
during the process of going to school and growing up the invisible
people became just that, invisible.
Now in high school I was getting really
depressed feeling how “bad’ I was. Not getting all straight A’s anymore which
were so easy for me. Why was I so “bad” in such a “good” family?
I
actually got myself sick and welcomed it and the days started to drift in and
out as I lay in bed and waited for death to please take me. After about two
weeks of this, a friend of mine came to see what was going on. She
about fell on the floor a gasp when she saw me. My skin had started to turn
yellow and my eyes were yellow/green too, my joints were red, painful
and swollen. She demanded that I tell my mother how sick I was. (I had been
hiding under the covers; my parents owned a store and worked long hours
so it was easy to stay unnoticed). All the better for my plan to lay there and
die.
But my friend Denise Z was adamant. So, I told my mother how sick I
was and maybe I should call the doctor. Now I also had to tell my mother maybe I
was pregnant or “something”. God help me I am such a problem. The
doctor in the emergency room gave me three shots of adrenalin within an hour an
a half. (I was having trouble staying awake at this point). Finally I
just said, “Yes I think I feel better now.” This way my mother wouldn’t have to
wait anymore and I just wanted to go home and sleep anyway.
When we
got home, my mother said she wanted to draw a bath for me that would make me
feel better. Ok, I said. When she came in to see me in the bath, she dropped her jaw too and exclaimed: “Oh my God did that doctor take a look
at you?” “I think so” I said.
“Jesus Christ I’m calling right now and taking
you back to the hospital!”
Back we went, but I remember nothing until the
scream coming out of me and a doctor’s hand pushing on my stomach.
They did
tests, scans, but I was sleeping through it all. I was gone. I fell asleep soon
after waking up to my own scream.
That’s when it happened for the first
time.
I woke up in a different place; a coliseum, Romanesque, and very large.
It was the murmurs of all the people in shrouds around me that made me come to, including my own. I don’t know what language I was speaking; it seemed
similar to the Latin I took, but not that either. Everyone spoke it though. The
murmur was almost deafening. I was praying though and I know what I was
saying, it was just in a different tongue. I was going over my life/lives. In
the center of this vast sea of people was light and light beings. A
large chair (like stone?) held “the One-ness of light” and on either side was
another slightly smaller Chair with two other beings of light. Around
them in a circle were more glowing-adoring beings.
All this I did not see
with my naked eyes. No, I saw it more like I used to see the “Big People” as a
child. You just did not look up and see. I could not. Until all of a sudden it was as if it were my turn or something and the central figure
connected to me and filled me and every cell of my body with this wondrous
feeling I can not explain. It was as if my body was singing with love
in every cell, filled with this glorious light that was musical from the Being in the center of
the coliseum.
After some time, I awoke in another world, a garden. It was
here that Jesus walked beside me. We talked and walked without our usual talking
and walking and everything around us was lit up on the inside. I then
remember being on a street with Him and seeing this long line of people entering
a large building. I wondered what they were all going to do there and
noticed that I knew the people. This thought brought us “sort of float walking”
over closer and into the building. As we entered the line turned into
people I knew better and better, relatives and finally brothers and sisters. My
nephew whom I adored at the time was asking my sister (his mother) Barb
to explain something to him. She just shook her head and had no answer. What! I
thought my oldest sister had all the answers. What could
possibly have
her so sullen and silent. Then I saw my mother, in even worse shape. that
brought my eyes towards a long coffin farther down the room. My body now felt
another shift of knowing as I float- walked near the ceiling over to see who was inside. Yep, you guessed it, me. I quickly said I must return because
they cannot handle this.
I woke inside the hospital room with my mother
holding my arm, head down on it. I said: “Mom you don’t have to worry I was just
with Jesus and I am going to be ok.” She shook her head with big tears
in her eyes and said “Oh for God’s sake, even now you are trying to make me feel
better.” I noticed Happy Days was on TV and fell back asleep.
A
Jaguar was chasing me through the jungle and I was barefoot. I was sweating and
sweating, panting while I ran for my life. I don’t know how long it was before I became conscious in the Intensive Care room. I knew there were
tubes coming out my nose/mouth/arms/stomach and things were beeping everywhere.
My parents and sister were at the foot of the bed with the doctor. A
priest and two nuns came and gave me my last rights. The doctor was telling my
parents they would have to make funeral arrangements. No one lives
after the poison from the ruptured appendix is in the system for two weeks. Once
again, I was screaming inside my body, but could not make it come out of
my mouth. “I am here I wanted to scream out loud!” Nothing. I tried in vain to
move anything, my eyes, my fingers, toes-anything but could not. Out of
body, I tried to shake my mom and say I am here, but she felt
nothing.
Finally, I got my eyes to open! I just pushed and pushed and pushed
and willed them open. I was back!
The ordeal that followed and all the
poison/bile coming out of every orifice we normally have and ones they made
caused me to start vomiting. My stomach open and pouring out this green
stuff too as I wretched was painfully comforting. I could “feel” again.
How I
want to “serve” this Loving, wondrous Being who Loves me so much. It is quite
something Knowing heaven exists, but I experienced it and somehow I am still in this body. No plane, train, or rocket took me to some place in the
sky.
For now I return to the first store I opened on the East side of
Cleveland.
So God doesn’t pick the obvious person heh? That is an
understatement if ever there was one.
OK God, I will do whatever you want me
to, just show me, teach me, give me the teachers and I will have classes in the
store if people will just sign up.
Teachers came into my life. I started
“dreaming” homes before I even went to them. Colours and energy moved around in
that “other vision center in my head”.
My clients signed up for the
classes alright. My clients/friends started glowing with that light
themselves.
By the time my friend Trish asked my to join her on a women’s
retreat called “Sacred Space” on Kelly’s Island, things were really taking an
interesting course. But that trip with Trish, where I thought I was
helping her, turned out to be the real shift.
On the ferry over to the
island, Trish and I started to go up the narrow staircase to the second floor.
It was then that a dream I had with my sister Barb flashed into my
head. This is how I wrote the story in a Newsletter in 2001:
When I first
looked upon the shores of Kelly‘s Island, it was in a dream. My sister Barbara,
who passed from this world in 1990, was guiding me on a journey that would forever change my life. In this dream, shades of Indigo, Royal
Purple, Parrish Blues and Emerald beckoned to me from beneath a Honey Golden
mist. This
futuristic scene rose from the water like the emerald City
from Oz.
When I actually went there in 1993, waves of energy rocked my being.
Stepping on her grounds, she captured my soul, and we easily merged. I had come
to Kelly’
s Island for a Sacred Space women’s retreat with my friend,
Trish.
Normally, my days were spent helping other people heal themselves and
their home, through my “Interior Design” shop. Every other spare minute was
spent working on my own home, which I was rebuilding from a fire, and
my marriage, which by then had hopelessly disintegrated. It was time to get a
little rest, and hopefully some healing myself.
One “coincidence”
and Déjà vu after another had my whole being soon feeling as if 10,000 volts
were running through it. I was directly plugged into the source.
Meeting so many, wonderful “glowing” people, I wish I had the space to tell
you about each and every one of them. What I’m about to tell you now, though, is
when it really gets good…..
It was at an Art Therapy workshop, that
I chose to attend, where I first met her. The instructor read us a beautiful
myth and we were all painting and creating from the heart. I couldn’t
seem to paint a certain colour I had seen in my vision. Not satisfied with my
work, the instructor called us back to circle. Each of us looked at
each other’s work, describing what we saw and shared our feelings. One
silver-haired woman seemed to zone right in on everyone’s work, her wise
analysis having visible effects on those her azure eyes dissected. Some
were moved to tears, including my friend, Trish, who had gone before me. I did
not escape her deep insights either. Then, she raised her own painting.
There before me were the exact colours and scene from my own vision, which I had
tried so hard to create. A voice within me said, “Buy the painting”. I
tried to dismiss the voice, not wanting to seem out of place. After all, no one
else was buying or selling these paintings. The voice persisted and
only grew louder, “Buy the painting”. I was swimming with emotion; this voice
had guided me through many decisions by now,
and was never wrong. This
woman, whoever she was, was very intriguing – but surely they would all think I
was crazy. The words practically leapt from my mouth, “I’ll buy the
painting how much do you want?” Soon we were driving to a house on the lake she
called “Himmelblau”. This wise woman would become a great friend,
teacher and mentor. Her name was Dagmar Celeste.
Two years later, after
almost eight years of marriage, I was going through a divorce. Broken, barely
surviving the sea of pain and feelings of failure that enveloped me,
the barn at Himmelblau became my sanctuary. In this simple and natural
environment, I would heal and be re-born. Some of my first adjustments/lessons:
Raccoons make quite a ruckus at night. They lived above me. Mice will
generally keep to the area you ask them to. You can not get rid of spiders in a
barn. Of course, they were all there to teach me animal medicine, but I
also learned to be careful what you ask for.
One day, while crying, praying
for spiritual guidance and the strength to tread these uncharted waters of
battling someone I loved and cared for so much, and a life I had worked
so hard at, someone knocked on the door. It was Indian Bob; he said “Spirit had
sent him”. I responded “I’m not really in a good place”. He thanked me
for being honest and handed me a stone called a “Wotei”. He told me to wear it
for protection and strength. I told him about the stones, rocks, and feathers I
had been collecting since my first visit. I shared some of the visions
and stories they had given me. He shared some Native American teachings. I
looked around for something to give him, but all I had were cigarettes.
I offered him one, he thanked me. It was then I learned that tobacco was the
Native American gift of
thanks. Once again my inner voice had guided me
correctly. This was the first of many lessons. Bob said, “Tomorrow I will take
you to meet the spirit of Clam Digger woman, keeper of the stones. We
will visit her burial mound; you are a member of her tribe. Tonight we are
having a sweat lodge, you should come.” to be continued.....
G.S.
During the course of all this, my own interests were continuing to grow
as was my educational pursuits. One of those expansions was Aromatherapy. Linda Green, another woman I met at the Sacred Space retreat at Kelly’s had
invited me to come to a Jeannie Rose intensive weekend. At first, I declined
because it was rather expensive and I really didn’t fell I had the
time. However, one of the women that was going to attend and had already paid
the tuition couldn’t make it. She told Linda she wanted me to attend in
her place. Again the universe makes up my mind for me. With just a few nominal
expenses involved I couldn’t decline this generous offer.
To say
that it changed my life is an understatement. I thought I knew about “oils”.
What I learned the first day was how much I didn’t know. Jeannie was spellbinding as she passionately described first one then another oil
holding them “jewel like” in vials up to the light. As she enumerated endless
therapeutic applications for each, she would have us waft the scent and
describe them ourselves.
At one point, I was truly angry at what I felt was a
theft of information, stolen from wise-women long ago. The chorus of women
streaming through my life now parading before my eyes: as the benefits
and healing properties awoke visions of assistance to each and everyone, I at
some point was included too. Handing a vial of what was introduced to
me as “Spikenard” the oil Mary Magdalene used in the anointing of Jesus, Jeannie
had selected that particular oil for me to work with for several hours
of experience and writing. She also told me I would need to keep working with
that oil. Nardostachys Jatamansi, common name Spikenard and nicknamed
“False Valerian Root” or Nard oil would become a dear friend of mine that I
would pass along to many women and “I would do this in memory of her.”
It was among many things for wounds that would not heal, mental, spiritual,
physical and emotional. She was also known as the Grand Balancer. I did not like
this oil at all upon my first experience. I would come to love this oil
above all others.
The day after my spikenard encounter, my head reeling with
all the information on so many levels downloading into my being; a woman named
Linda Honeycutt-LaGrande came up to me and just started laughing. She
said: “You enjoying all this information Miss Gloria?” I replied that indeed I
was, “but how was all this applying to me and why was it all happening
to me?” After all, I was only supposed to be an Interior Designer. She just
laughed again and lifted her hand, finger pointing at her being as she
guided it from top to bottom and stated “Well I guess you really are doing
Interior Design now aren’t you honey?”
My buddy was buzzing so hard inside I
could barely remain standing. Aromatherapy was a deep and profound value that I
continue to share to this day.
Over and over I started turning in all the
pain, mine and all the other women’s into the soil of my being. How can I make a
positive growth with this pain? So I began to till the soil of pain.
That was what we all were doing. Turning it in and surviving. We were standing,
loving, sharing and walking forward in the midst of it all and trying
to look sexy and pretty to boot. (This of course also requires not eating.) I
knew that if we were to recover and survive, we would have to create out of our pain. So creating we were. We were turning the soil and gestating
our seeds of despair and hope for a brighter future. I incorporated one healing
tool after another into my business model that did not exist. It all
really came down to one thing though.
The problem was we had no root to a
feminine sacred model that was whole and reachable. Oh yes, we have the Virgin
Mother and I was taught but has since been revised, the whore Mary
Magdalene.
Just a patriarchy and a long line of blame and shame starting with
that disobedient Eve the temptress and her debauchery with Adam tricking him
into eating the apple too. So much for listening to snakes! We were
banned from the Garden with the Cherubim and flaming sword guarding the gates.
We must go back to where it all began and pick up the tools stolen from
us long ago. We are medicine women but the campaign to discredit women and
disempowering us and the tools we used from nature only got us labeled
as “witches”. We must go back to the tools of our ancestry, the Arc of the
Ancients….
Flash to 1997, living in Lakewood writing an Aromatherapy article
for the Cleveland Bar Journal (OK I am cramming at the last minute with books
and notes everywhere because the article is due the next day…) when the
phone rings. On the other end a voice is telling me that Raj told her she should
call me about working together. Rajendra Khanna is one of the loveliest
humans I have ever had the pleasure and good fortune of meeting. Born in India,
he is humble, brilliant and sincere and among many things taught me how
to meditate around 1984 I believe. He has never had anyone call me.
“What is
your name?” I ask her to repeat. “Vanessa”she replies and I want to know if you
are interested in selling Aromatherapy products?” The buzzing begins.
OK, you have my attention. I asked for her birth information and drew up a
chart. I can see her through the phone and describe her to herself. She starts
laughing
and tells me I am “dead on” even to the clothes she is
wearing. I ask her~ “When can you come over?” Ten minutes later Vanessa is at my
door. The connection is unmistakable. The charge in the air was so
palpable we could have run the entire city on the energy.
I shared my vision
of the new store I wanted to open with healing rooms, interior design /Feng
Shui, books, music, aromatherapy oils and blends and the wellness classes I would like to have there too. About seven hours later Vanessa
left.
Two months later we began our
work together and started teaching and selling aromatherapy products and the
“Total-Sensory-Healing Class that was born in that barn on Kelly’s
Island.
We finally opened our first shop (my second) on Rocky River Drive
near Kamm’s Corner together in 2002. We co-founded Cleveland Polarity with my
friend, MaryJo Ruggieri whom I met while living on Kelly’s Island. We
had one healing room and all the above mentioned Total-Sensory-Living and
Wellness.
Again the same response from people as my first shop, “I just had
to come in here but I didn’t know why, I love this place….”
The stores name:
ArcAncient Aromatherapy came to me after days of trying to come
up with just the right moniker. The word Arc, in Barbara Walker’s
“Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets” briefly stated read: “A female
vessel bearing fruit or seeds to give birth to a new world out of the
destruction and chaos of the old.” Thus, you have: Ark of the Covenant,
Joan de Arc, Arc of the rainbow, etc. OK, arc works for me, and since everything
we were doing was not
new but practiced thousands of years ago it just
sang in my body.
So ArcAncient, Aromatherapy & Interiors was born. The
two A’s could be written as: “As above so below” and they also looked like two
MM’s when written a certain way and since Mary Magdalene was our Patron
Saint of Aromatherapy & healing it all seemed to fit just right.I saw two extremely large angels holding back the veil (they
could hold the earth in their hands) as the words ‘Arc of the Ancients’ and
then ‘ArcAncient’ came drifting through.
As they slid into my consciousness, a huge wave of energy rocked my
body. I knew that was the name, and I
also knew that I had carried it many lifetimes.
It was sacredly given to me as a vessel to anchor the energy and connect
through time to the sacred truth. The
truth that has been buried occulted and hijacked for many many years. Parallel realities have been implanted on the
earth plane through rituals that have obscured the sacredness of the lives we
have all been given. We must connect and
anchor the light of the soul consciously in this earthly dimension.
I closed the store in September of 2008, being an astrologer, I saw the economic crash coming and did not want to fight the tides. I ended up paying for prosecuting the landlord/attorney who hit my then business partner. Many people who said they were 'spiritual' and spouted a lot of 'supposed spiritual terms' abandoned me, robbed me and believed the lies of someone who I helped start a school up here with.
I see a lot of things being taught, that are not spiritual at all.
Remember this:
Anytime, someone is connecting 'spiritual laws' with 'abundance, money, or stuff', they are not teaching HOLY SPIRITUAL LAWS AT ALL.
This is my version of fun.Gloria
O’Neil-Savage’s StoryArcAncient Aromatherapy
Cleveland, Ohio 44135
www.arcancient.com
216-458-1444
Postscript
In 2006,
I started noticing how badly things were 'feeling' in the economy and doing
astrology charts for many people, I could see the change that was coming. In
some charts of prominent bankers, I saw money shifting and buy outs, which
really started me thinking.
In running charts for what was coming, I saw the economic downturn and the
collapse that would surely hit before the end of 2008.
I closed the doors to the store the last day of September of 2008.
It was
an agonizing decision, because I felt people needed me, needed that place to go
where so many people made connections to their new friends, and new lives.
I also don't give up easy, if at all.
Finally, a good friend asked me one day how I could afford to spend so much
time counseling people and educating them after watching me spend several hours
discussing aromatherapy options to assist them in their challenge.
They purchased $15.00 worth of products. (They told me they didn't have much
money, this happened more and more often).
I
thought long and hard about what she said. She was right, I couldn't afford it.
So I closed the doors.
The weekend after I closed the doors, I was sitting outside basking in
the sun (something that was rare if ever in the past 10 years, since I was
always working). The angel Gabriel came
to me, that flash of light, and told me ‘I was finished with that part of my
work’. Huge aching sobs wrecked through
my body, it had been a long haul. “I
have a new mission now” Gabriel continued.
“It is time for you to write about your experiences in a much deeper way”.
I haven’t gone into what really happened with the landlord on Rocky
River Drive, but I will soon. It was a
devastating and unbelievable experience that ended in a 10 day court trial,
which we did win, but which I am still paying for. I would have to sue him civilly to recuperate
all the financial losses of trying to get back what I invested into fixing up
the building/space and the subsequent move/storage/move debacle.
So I am working on that book now, it is about all my mystical
experiences and they are not all good.
But I walk between worlds. I
always have. I will continue to update
all of you.
