Silver Hawk

Psychic Art is about personalities it would seem. Spirit Guides are so immaculately suited to the people they come to, and the variety of forms they take that they never cease to amaze me. My work as a psychic artist does seem to involve mostly the area of spirit guides, although I do also get other spirit beings as well. Mediums, psychics and healers are all very aware of the presence of spiritual helpers of different descriptions, and it would appear that more and more other people are becoming aware of them too. This probably has a lot to do with the increasing popularity of anything to do with angels, fairies, magic and things of a psychic nature. Many people, without any particular spiritual inclinations, are aware of their Guardian Angel. 

Without launching into my view of the universe, it is obvious that there are many different levels of awareness, and all these levels are inhabited by sentient beings. With a bit of practice, any of us can access one or more of them, and there are those, of course, who can access them spontaneously.

My own ideas about who or what is ‘out there’ or ‘with us’ was ill-formed, and uninformed really, until I trained as a healer with the Corinthian Church and Healing Association.

What took me to this healing course was fascination and an enthusiasm for learning more about these things, together with a friend, similarly fascinated, who had trained in aromatherapy and reflexology. We used to have animated discussions about books and bits we had read or heard. A clairvoyant I met quite by chance was already taking the healing course, and her enthusiasm was the fuel for us to enrol and get going too.

I also had some experience of ‘sitting in circle’ and ‘met’ someone who I did a little pencil drawing of. Basically, he was Horus, but I knew nothing about Spirit Guides and, in my stupidity, I didn’t actually think to ask what having this Horus figure appear to me actually meant.

The healing course was just great. My friend and I looked forward to it eagerly every week for nine months. What happened was that I began to see faces when I was healing in the aura. When I mentioned it to the teacher he just said that I must have been picking up Spirit Guides, like it was a perfectly reasonable thing to do. It wasn’t scary, just a bit weird, and in a way has continued to be a bit weird. Someone asked me to draw what I saw and it just went from there.

Having ‘seen’ a few faces, I became aware of a face that I just had to draw for myself. It was like, ’Oh well, all right, if you really insist, I’ll draw your face’. So I did. Then it was, ‘Ok, if you insist, I’ll do a painting’. I was strangely reluctant, although the face I felt compelled to draw and the feeling that came with it were wonderful and full of light. It sort of became another thing on a long list of things to be done or dealt with at that time in my life. This ‘person’ turned out to be my main guide Silver Hawk, a Lakota Sioux medicine man. Since I painted him, he has only been one step away. The love I feel from him makes me well up. He is a big man, gentle, quietly spoken, (not that he says a lot!). It would be more reasonable to say that mostly I ‘feel’ what he says, or I see his face and the expression tells me all I need to know.

My friend and I used to do Psychic Fairs together and private bookings where we would spend days introducing our clients to their guides and helpers. Psychic Fairs were not the best place for us though, because most of the general public want to meet with their dear departed and I didn’t always get them. The atmosphere at most of these fairs made our work very draining too, so we stopped and I got picky about where we went out to work. The majority of our work is now done at home where I can create a good environment with a candle, incense, meditation and perhaps music. I prefer silence to work in, but if there’s noise going on around where I live then I play something calming. We don’t need the person to be there. In many respects, it’s easier if they aren’t.

How it works: Well I don’t know really. Like I don’t really know how the drawing gets on the paper. Sure, I’m holding the pastels in my hand but quite how the rest happens I don’t know. I have the picture in my mind and so I put pastel to paper and we begin and carry on until we finish.

How I go about doing a drawing: First, I invite Silver Hawk into my space. I then ask my client to sit quietly and invite whoever wants to be seen to come forward. I also ask them to be aware of any sensations they may be aware of since this sensation goes with whoever it is and will be felt again. If you relate a feeling to a person then you know who’s around. I ask Silver Hawk who is there for the client, and then I wait with closed eyes for the picture. I always get one, but it doesn’t always come the same way. Sometimes I get a face right in front of me. Sometimes I get a picture of a landscape and there’s someone in it, so I have to ask them to come closer, turn around or whatever. Native Americans often like playing games at this stage. They have a great sense of theatre. Sometimes I get people who are especially asked for, but most of what I do doesn’t happen that way.

When I say I get a picture of a landscape, then the landscape will relate to something in the nature of the client’s life. A picture means something, because there aren’t always words, for example, when a platform medium will say  ‘ I have a bunch of flowers here, is there an anniversary, birthday or something to celebrate?’ In my work, however, if I get a dull day in the forest with snow on the ground and a Native American stealthily following tracks, then the implication is that the client in going through a phase where they feel ‘out in the cold’, picking their way cautiously through unfamiliar territory curiously confidant that they are ‘on track’ as it were. However strange the picture I get, I have to tell it how I see it and it will make sense to whomever I’m talking to. Sometimes I get a picture and I know I think, ‘You must be joking!’ but it’s all to do with trusting the information I am given.  

I have a little story that I can share, which gives an idea of how Spirit can reassure us who is there. I recently sent a Spirit Guide drawing to a client through the post. During the night before it arrived, he suddenly sat up in bed to see a giant snowflake 4 to 5 feet across hovering above him. It was there for 15 to 20 seconds. As he went back to sleep he was thinking about what it meant and decided that, because it was so very beautiful in all its twinkling snowy-crystalness, perhaps he was going to enjoy a particularly happy Christmas. In the morning, he received my drawing of an Inuit. He thought that was pretty exciting, that the Guide had announced himself with the snowflake. As it happened, I had also been given a little story with the guide, involving a run-in with a polar bear.

Later that same day, his work took him to a small industrial area to return some equipment. As he turned to go back to his car, he saw a huge polar bear. Yes, really! It was eight feet tall. It was an inflatable and stood outside a motor paint shop. It took him back a bit to see it there, so he said to the guys in the paint shop, ‘What’s with the bear then?’ to which they replied, ‘We found it in the back of a car and thought we’d blow it up. We’re going to deflate it in a minute’.  

Spirit want us to access all the love and support on offer to work our lives out in the most fulfilling way. We get the proof by working with Spirit. We also get it with humour. Just what was the likelihood of seeing a polar bear in middle England on a hot summer day at a car body shop, inflated for a matter of a few minutes?  Humour - it’s extraordinary how often it comes, because many aspects of the spiritual life communicate most profoundly through a light touch.

Autumn 2003

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