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November 15, 2025 · 11:46 am

Oracle of Stillness-Paradox- Joy and Sorrow Walk Together

Yesterday was a day full of challenges and mistakes… I am working on a new series of mixed media weaving and had to do a lot of re-considering and re-working.

I also got a couple of other things quite wrong, so had to remind myself to be curious about what I could do about that.

At bedtime, I asked my Dream Guides and Wise and Well Ancestors for guidance, and what immediately popped up was: Do some Ho Opono Opono, so I did. It’s very helpful!

This morning, I woke up with a cluster of phrases in mind as I floated in the hypnagognic state:

Gifts from the Dream Guides and Wise and Well Ancestors, for sure:

“Pax Vobiscum”, “Fiat Lux”, “Que La Lumiere Soit” and “Pause, Breathe, Begin Again”.

It also made me think:

These challenges are the reason why the mixed media Oracle of Stillness Woven Woman: “Paradox- Joy and Sorrow Walk Together” is so important to me.

She speaks the truth of dealing with the challenges that help me to understand that life is multifaceted, complicated, messy, sometimes uncomfortable and downright miserable at times, too…. BUT… in among all that, there is still Peace, Wisdom, Strength, Tenacity and the ability to maintain the Courage to be Curious and the willingness to accept that sometimes I say and do things that I am unhappy about and have to find a way to reset my compass, and to Pause, Breathe and Begin Again….

Yup. It’s a Paradox and it’s profoundly healing and deeply soulful. Not easy… but oh so necessary.

I’m posting all the images from the Oracle of Stillness here on www.tottietalkscrafts.com

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November 4, 2025 · 10:36 am

Oracle of Stillness Woven Women-The Dreamer

I’ve been working with my dreams for more than 55 years. I began learning how to do that back in University, with my Drawing professor, who was a strong advocate for working with dreams. He encouraged his students to learn techniques like Senoi dreamwork and to make it part of their daily practice. I am so grateful to him, as I have worked with my dreams in an immersive process ever since then.

The Woven Woman mixed media figure that I am sharing today from the Oracle of Stillness series is:

“The Dreamer”.

She’s a gentle dream guide that shows up regularly in my dreams, offering wisdom, protection and guidance.

Perhaps there is a ‘Dream Guide’ that shows up in your dreams?

If there is, then do drawings, write down the dream, watch for co-incidences and synchronicities in your life. It will make your life so much more delicious!

‘The Dreamer’ is one of the ‘Grandmother’s Coat’ series that emerged from a dream, carrying all kinds of meaning and information. Follow your dreams!

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October 31, 2025 · 1:32 pm

Oracle of Stillness Woven Women- She Speaks for the Mountains

Have you ever heard Harry Belafonte singing. “We Come From the Mountains”?

If you haven’t, then please google to see him singing it with the Muppets…. it is the most enchanting song that is all about the ways in which we are all connected.

This Woven Woman from my Oracle of Stillness series is another of the Grandmother’s Coat group of mixed media weaving. Her name is, “She Speaks for the Mountains”.

She came from a dream in which I saw a majestic mountain that was clearly a Goddess.

She moved slowly, slowly and I saw that she was made up of countless tiny elements- each one completely interwoven with all the others, with all of life…. and each element needs to be tended, carefully, tenderly with tenderness. How we treat each element is reflected in all of life…

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October 29, 2025 · 3:58 pm

Oracle of Stillness: Grandmother Owl Dreams of Waking

This Oracle of Stillness Woven Woman is ‘ Grandmother Owl Dreams of Waking’.

She is one of the mixed media woven pieces in the Oracle of Stillness.

In the Oracle of Stillness series, there is a sequence that is based on images that arrived in dreams.

In the first dream, I dreamt I was in a gorgeous forest and the moon was full.

I looked up and there above me, was a shimmering Being who whispered that she dreams of waking. “How would that be?” I asked her.

“Like this” and she opened her wings wide, and it was like being immersed in the Northern Lights.

“And, like this” and she opened her arms wide, and I felt embraced by loving tenderness and ferocious Maternal passion with a cascade of images that flowed by so quickly that it was staggering.

“This is my coat, my Grandmother’s Coat- WEAVE THEM!!!’

– it was like a jolt of electricity shot through me.

And, then, she opened her eyes, and said:

“I am watching and waiting and dreaming”.

Oh my word! I sat bolt upright in bed and started sketching.

I had to make a loom that is specifically for weaving the Grandmother’s Coats (I’ll be showing photos of the other Grandmother’s Coat series soon).

I actually built and re-built the loom for each of the Woven Women who have emerged from the Grandmother’s Coat dreams.

The Grandmother’s Coats are still vibrating in me, and I have a feeling that they are going to be showing up in more new ways…. We shall see what dreams unfold of them and in them!

I’m posting all the images here on www.tottietalkscrafts.com

Sweet Dreams!

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October 24, 2025 · 7:19 am

Oracle of Stillness- Celebrating Lovely People Who Inspire Peace and Goodness and Imagination

Living with chronic illness is mostly really the pits.  But I have found that the sheesh-awfulness of it has honed my radar to notice and dive into the beautiful moments that unfold in unexpected and wonder filled ways. 

For instance, one of our neighbors is the loveliest person… you can feel him quietly walking down the street with his dear little dog.  He has a – hmmm- what to call it ???  a perceptible  quality of lightness and contemplative presence and palpable kindness that is a joy to behold.

( My husband has this same gentle, loving, powerful presence.)

Being grateful for these lovely people (and ALL the precious ones) who carry the energy of peace inspired me to weave the Woven Woman, “Peace” .

It may look like she is alone, but if you look closely, you will see that there are actually 3 figures all interwoven…. all 3 of them are Mermaids and perhaps the 2 smaller Mermaids are the gifts that Peace brings… perhaps they embody the wish for Peace to flow like the oceans…..

Oh! This reminds me of an adorable moment yesterday… I had stepped outside to say goodbye to my daughter and grandson as they drove away from afternoon tea with us.  I was chatting with our next door neighbors and we were utterly delighted when a gaggle of little kids burst out the front door, brandishing various bits and pieces of their Halloween costumes, and flew off the porch. The lead child trumpetted:  Imagination for the win!!!!  

And, we three adults all simultaneously put our hands on our hearts and swayed slightly and nodded: That’s what it’s all about! 

Out of the mouths of babes comes the truth  🙂

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