This month’s cover girl, Elizabeth Harper, helps us to bring in this New Year with an energy that is full of hope, magic, love and vibrant color.  Speaking with Elizabeth, one would have to wonder if they were speaking with an angel or a faery (I think both.)  A true healer at heart, Elizabeth’s energy is so light, loving, vibrant and full of childlike innocence, it is not hard to imagine the healing effect she can have upon others.  Even simply speaking to her I found myself feeling joyful, relaxed and transformed. Elizabeth’s gifts do not end when it comes to her healing work.  She is also blessed with psychic ability, earth empathy, creativity and an amazing ability to understand color—which she channels into her ColorScope each month.  In addition to this, Elizabeth both beautifully and effortlessly combines all her gifts toward creating healing pieces of jewellery and scarves.  Wherever her path may lead her, she seems to have found the key to embracing the miracle of life, through all its variety of colors, while able to help others to find and embrace this kind of magic as well. Elizabeth has been psychic since birth.  Fortunately, both her mother and brothers are psychic as well, so Elizabeth was raised in an environment where her gifts were accepted as if they were normal.  She states; “I’ve been raised with this [psychic ability] and it has always been part of my life.  Ever since I was a child, I would pick up things about people; I was able to see spirits, and auras, and connect with the future–not so much the past–at least I never made the past my focus.  When younger, and I’m 52 years old, psychics were usually little grannies; ‘cross my palm with silver, and I will tell you your fortune’ kind of thing.  So, I didn’t think of being psychic as a career, and instead I went into nursing, a healing profession.” Though clearly psychic, Elizabeth states, “My abilities have tended to move toward healing, and this is my biggest interest. I consider that absolutely everything I do, which seems to be mostly color, is focused on bringing healing into people’s lives.”  When conducting a healing session she states, “My focus is on ‘what does this person need to heal,’ or ‘what does this person need at this moment.’  It may not even necessarily be what I think they need or what they think they need, but whatever message wants to come through.  Of what does comes through, I often see, sense or feel it in color first.  Then, I translate that into words, interpreting what it means for that person.” Elizabeth further explains that even when she asks questions of her guides, she will often clairaudiently hear answers in the form of words, but will also receive answers in color; receiving answers this way has the capacity to offer her a lot of information. While Elizabeth has studied different modalities of healing and therapy involving color, she believes that such abilities and understanding are innately within us all, if we could only learn to trust it.  For her, taking courses was a way to give herself permission to expand on her abilities and to begin using color in her own intuitive way. While she is trained in other methods of color therapy, a healing modality called “Aura-Soma” helped her understand the energies of not just individual colors, but of color combinations.  This was helpful to her since she explains “people do not just have one color in their aura, but often many.” As part of her Aura-Soma training, Elizabeth makes use of colored bottles.  Because these colored bottles contain oil and water color combinations, and since oil and water do not mix, this allows two color combinations to exist within the same bottle.  It was this two color combination that intrigued Elizabeth.  Explaining how these bottled colors are used within a healing session, she states, “When people are picking the colors, they are receiving healing, even though they don’t really realize it; they are receiving that color on a cellular level– and that color’s intention, so it is healing for them.” Elizabeth does a lot of her work (including teaching) with her husband, a former marine who she considers to be a wonderful life coach and intuitive in his own right.  Elizabeth credits his left-brained groundedness, focus and experience in business as the perfect counterpart to her right-brained intuitive, creative and healing approach.  One type of healing they do together involves taking people into their future selves.  Explaining what this type of healing entails, Elizabeth states, “I paint the energy of the soul moving into their future self.  Then, I create a bracelet with the colors that have linked an individual with their future selves.  So, it is like a little talisman that grounds the future self energy into the now.” Two other ways that Elizabeth uses color toward a healing purpose is through creating colorful gemstone jewelry pieces, as well as beautiful Silk Energy Wraps.  Expect something even more fun and new in the future, since Elizabeth is also working toward making her own fairy wings, wands, fairy crowns and holy grails. Asking Elizabeth how her ColorScopes came about, she replied, “When I was 10 or 11, my mother, who bought me my first Tarot deck and crystal ball around this time, encouraged me to expand my knowledge of divination tools.  So, I read every book I could get my hands on in the library. I learned about numerology and I particularly loved the astrology books; I’ve always been able to do astrology charts. However, it occurred to me that with astrology, we are kind of lumped into that place of ‘Well I’m Pisces, you’re Aries and this person is Taurus, etc.‘ It is like we are given set characteristics so when we read our daily, weekly, or monthly horoscopes it can tend to be very general.  But, if we were to choose and intuit our own horoscope for the day, then wouldn’t that be so much better, to be able to just pick one of the definitions intuitively, instead of being lumped into the space of ‘this is going to happen to all Pisces?’  So, I thought it would be better if we could use our own inner wisdom to direct us to a message, and that message would be behind a color.”  Though Elizabeth uses twelve colors just like there are 12 astrological signs, she believes that her ColorScopes can offer readers something more interactive and intuitive. Asking Elizabeth if there is any insight that she can give us for 2013, she offers; “The world goes through different color phases.  Right now we are in a violet phase, and after that we will go through an indigo phase.  The violet phase that we are in is a color of transformation and of the crown chakra.” She also added.  “We cannot keep sweeping everything under the carpet anymore.  It has to come out.  It has to be healed. That is why there is so much turmoil and it is not going to stop but continue.  And this thing with the 21st of December, many months ago what came to me intuitively was that certain realities will be flipping over, like a pizza or a piece of buttered toast.  It’s going to flip over, and we are going to see the other side of the pizza or the buttered toast.” Elizabeth also explains how for our current time period, the indigo children are bringing their ray into the earth to help move the energies up the chakras.  She tells me, “There is a sense we are moving upward through the chakras.  We are currently moving through the front of the heart chakra through to the other side of this heart chakra [the back], which brings the shifting of emotions.  Then, over the next few hundred years, we will move out of the heart chakra and into the throat, and this will bring more communication.  Then we will move into the third eye, and then the crown.  When this happens–after thousands of years–then there won’t be as many people on the planet.  Earth will come to a place where there are just people here who are the gardeners:  the ones who are here to look after the planet.” I asked Elizabeth if there is anything proactive we can do to move the earth forward instead of looking at the negatives that seem to want our attention right now.  Her advice was to use color.  She explained “The Earth is blue and green.  In Aura-Soma the blue and green bottle is called ‘Heart,’ and so healing the Earth is about healing the heart.  In fact, when somebody chooses the blue and green bottle as a first choice, it means they have come to Earth with an important mission; they are here as an Earth Healer.  And, that blue and green is the ‘heart,’ and this ‘heart’ is Earth.  Take the ‘h’ off the end of the word Earth and put it at the beginning and the word becomes ‘heart.’” Elizabeth continues: “Our hearts are very linked with the Earth.  Of course, the Earth is going to erupt with emotions as we erupt with our emotions.  So, if we want to start to use blues and greens to help to heal the earth, the planet, and the water, then what we can do is take a cup of water, maybe in a blue glass, and put it in the window to create what is called ‘solarized water’–you let sunlight come through that blue glass into the water for about 24 hours. Then, maybe we can pour that water onto the grass with a blessing or a prayer, almost like Native Americans would give tobacco.  When the Native Americans took something away from the Earth, they would give something back.” Elizabeth also added that gratitude is the color of green, coming from the heart. As a tribute to the many out there who like to start the year off with some coloriscious resolutions, I asked Elizabeth if she had any to offer us through her gift of reading colors.  She came up with the three primary colors depending upon what type of resolution we would like to make our focus. The first primary color she discussed was red.  Elizabeth states, “If you want more prosperity, or more abundance and success in your life, then write down your wishes and put them in a red envelop.” For the second primary color which is yellow, Elizabeth advises, “If you want to write a book, or do something with education, or invent something that requires some thought, then yellow is a good color for this.  Yellow stimulates the left brain, but also stimulates higher consciousness as well.  So, it is good for writing books if you want to go with that higher consciousness.” For how to employ the color, Elizabeth states, “You could wear yellow or drink solarized water with a clear cup placed on a piece of yellow paper or with a golden crystal near it.” The last primary color Elizabeth discussed was blue. She relayed, “Blue is a great color for peace, calm and healing, so if there is something you want to heal, even a relationship, you can use blue.  Blue is a nice color to wrap around you, such as to wear something blue or to wrap yourself in blue silk.  You may also wish to drink water from a blue glass.  The point is to bring that blue energy into your energy field, so it is not external to you but more of an internal thing.” Offering how to work with the color she says, “You can wrap yourself in blue, visualize blue, or close your eyes and imagine blue light coming through you.” Elizabeth is also an author and teacher.  Her book Wishing – How to Fulfill Your Heart’s Desire is available on her website, as are many of her courses, jewelry pieces and Silk Energy Wraps.  Please do check out her website www.sealedwithlove.com for all of this and for information on all the different kinds of healing and guidance she has to offer. With all Elizabeth does to inspire others while at the same time bringing inspiration to herself, it is easy to see why she was chosen as our beautiful spirit to grace the cover of this Anniversary New Year’s edition of our magazine.  It is our hope that our readers, through all the vibrancy and color that Elizabeth has to shine, can all enjoy a sparkly New Year and 2013.  May we all, like Elizabeth, have the ability to capture a bright and positive vision of our future; and to keep our energy light and motivated toward our highest and best good throughout 2013 and beyond.]]>