Spirit & Destiny - July 2022

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EDITOR’S LETTER
Welcome
H
oliday destinations dictated by
your star sign, mini dandelion
doughnuts, drawing your way to
success, and why daring to step out
of your comfort zone has major benefits…just
some of the delights in this month’s issue.
With summer in full swing, why not make
the most of it with our sun-inspired dandelion
and orange fritule – mini doughnuts that
capture the sun’s energy in the shape of
delicious treats!
We show you how a set of colouring pencils
could be the key to taking your life in a whole
new direction, achieving your dreams and
finding fulfilment.
Plus, discover how challenging yourself to
try new things can make for a more confident
and resilient you.
And while most of us will be treating our
bodies to a spot of sunshine and vitamin D,
don’t forget about your mind, too. Enter
The SAGE Method, a technique to help you
trust in, and work with, your intuitive abilities.
CHARLOTTE POTTER,
Editor
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Contents
July
28 Real lives
18 ‘Spirit & Destiny revealed my gifts’
Kalpana Jadhav has this magazine to
thank for her spiritual awakening
44 ‘We knew what we had to do!’
Two readers tell how they were guided
to open spiritual shops
50 ‘I’m helping people find their joy’
TV personality, podcaster and regular
host of The One Show Angela Scanlon
talks about her induction into the
spirituality club, one we can all join
66 ‘From teacher to tarot reader’
When Becky Clarke unearthed a dusty
tarot deck, her destiny took its true path
74 ‘Shamanic drumming’s my lifesaver’
Donna Brown found an ancient healing
tool was the key to relieving bodily pain
98 My Spiritual Inspiration
Janet Blades reveals how her Pagan
upbringing inspired her mystical
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ideas from the alternative realm We all know how to tone page 54!
12 Spiritual You our bodies, but a new
The stories you’ve shared with us technique called The SAGE
by letter, email and social media Method will help you tone your
mind, too, and become confident in
ON THE COVER your intuitive abilities 56
32 Draw your dreams!
Looking for a new direction in life?
All you need to map out your
thoughts and feelings is a colouring WELLBEING
pencil or two!
36 Light up your life
p82 Find your own pocket of peace with 56 Health and Wellbeing
the whimsical Transient Light Tarot Our round-up of the latest tips
p18
deck, designed to encourage you to and trends to help you feel
embrace change amazing inside and out!
48 Secrets of the sea 60 Step out of your comfort zone
p68 Learn to go with the ebb and flow of How charting new territories
p36
life’s tides by taking inspiration from builds confidence and
the ocean improves resilience
78 SPIRITUAL FICTION 62 Dandelion delight
p32 p60 Never doubt my love Whip up our sunny
It had been a rocky start to Suzanne dandelion and
and Skylar’s relationship, with a hard orange fritule
lesson learnt
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Regulars
6 80 Treats for the soul
Enter online to bag these goodies
28 A ritual for…Spreading your wings 81 WIN! Tickets to VERVE Festival
Call upon the inspirational and Enter now to celebrate health, wellness,
motivational power of the butterfly yoga, fitness and more in rural Wiltshire
30 SHOPPING Take care of yourself 82 HOROSCOPES July
Make time for you this month with these Find out what the month
mood-boosting products has in store with
54 Subscribe to Spirit & Destiny astrologer
Take out a subscription and have your Emily Sitwell
favourite mag delivered to your door 92 ESSENTIAL
64 Yoga pose Events
Whether you’re a beginner or advanced, What’s on
boat pose will challenge body and mind in July
71 Journalling prompt
Write about compassion and kindness 82
72 Affirmations to help you relax
Repeat these calming words to gain
a sense of tranquility
Spiritual MIND
BODY &
BuzSPIzRIT
7 ways to...
Nurture your soul
with nature
Connecting with the natural world provides
endless mental, physical and spiritual benefits
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TURN WEEDING USE YOUR SENSES through your
INTO A WORKOUT Your back garden or your garden, including
Optimise the amount of nearest green open space lemon balm for stress
exercise you do by making is a sensory haven – an relief, aloe to support
a few smart choices. Try push- explosion of textures, sights and skin and digestion and
mowing your grass or even using smells to delight your senses. spruce tree for immunity.
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an old-school mower that relies Take some time to appreciate

solely on your power – no petrol, every bit of its beauty. CREATE A
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electricity or battery. It’s a win-win ZEN GARDEN

for the environment, too! You can PLAY WITH A zen garden is
also space out the more strenuous SCENT minimalist, meticulously
garden tasks such as weeding, Whether it’s reliving maintained and soothing to the
raking, digging and pruning so positive memories, senses. Add intentionally and
you do a little bit each day rather feeling calmer, or gaining focus carefully placed stones, rocks and
than all at once. and productivity, bringing mood- pebbles, raked sand, and plants
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boosting scents into your garden like creeping thyme, fern and

REPURPOSE or windowbox will help you reap azalea. If you’re short on outdoor
YOUR OUTDOOR their benefits. Lavender, lilac and space, make your own desktop
SPACE gardenia are calming; lily of the garden or buy a kit like Bentley’s improving the biodiversity and
Find a nice quiet spot in valley, freesia and apple blossom Zen Garden Square, £32.99, ecosystem of your space, helping
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ground – perhaps next to some and lotus offer heady refreshment. your garden a delightful and
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of your favourite colourful or BECOME A sensory place in which to spend

scented flowers, near a pleasant- PLANT WITH WILDLIFE HAVEN time. Leave some of your space
sounding fountain or wind chime, PURPOSE Make your garden a wild to encourage birds and
or in a place where you know Far beyond flowering haven for native wildlife hedgehogs, and plant nectar-rich
you’ll see some birds or plants and bushes, including birds, small mammals, flowers to attract pollinators.
butterflies. Lie down on a yoga a whole host of other natural bees and insects. This has a huge ✿ More info Gardening for
mat and practise your asanas bounties are out there boasting range of positive effects, such as Mind, Body and Soul by Annie
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TRENDING
Lucky Symbol
of the month
THE AUM
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spiritual coach Samantha Jayne
‘The aum may be perceived an abundance coach.
as a religious symbol and ‘If you’re looking to improve
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Inspired by the rebalancing rituals of Ayurvedic healing, this salt
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A wave of this green aventurine
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be the sound of God. It is used on your creation or vision
chakras and manage the flow
in many spiritual practices boards, at the top of your
of energy through your body.
from yoga to meditation and journals, or visualise it during
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manifesting. This is how I use your future-life meditations.’
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From the instagram hit
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SEE AND HEAR THE SYMBOL Don’t just use an
this daily planner helps
image of the symbol while meditating, play the sound
you make the most of
of aum too and allow the tone to vibrate deeply through
the mornings. Packed
every cell of your being. It’s a healing energy – a healing
with soothing activities,
vibration that can shift what is blocking your own flow
affirmations, space for
of Divine energy. We are all Divine energy, after all.
reflection, and mood-
This will improve your intuition by reconnecting you to
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Dates for
By seeing and feeling these
your diary
benefits, I can encourage
J u l y people to start a sustainable
journey of their own.’
In her quest to help
others, Claire also created
7 t h an online community,
World
Claire’s Self Love Salon
Chocolate Day
Facebook group, where she
The ancient Mayans believed shares her experiences in
chocolate was an aphrodisiac order to raise awareness of
loaded with mystical and Self-love helped mental health struggles and
medicinal properties. The Claire have faith enable people to talk about
in herself
delicious sweet stuff is their own issues so they feel
celebrated today. Honour it by less alone.
placing some raw chocolate on ‘I have so many more
your sacred altar at home. plans for the salon.
This year we‘ll be
offering a holistic
hairdressing
2 4 t h experience, which
International
incorporates the
Self-Care Day Rising star use of meditation,
Show yourself some love today essential oils and
by pausing and checking in organic products
Haircuts
with yourself to see how you while having your hair
feel on both a physical and done. I also want to
mental level. Try journalling, introduce a reiki evening
and healing
yoga or meditation to help still once a month and we also
your mind. have plans to work with
a homeless centre and
Mental health struggles led hair other charities.
stylist Claire Jones to launch her
Staying positive
award-winning Self Love Salon ‘If someone had asked me
eight years ago, ‘where do
C
laire’s journey from writing in her journal, you see yourself in eight
started over eight Claire wanted to share the years’ time?’ this is not what
years ago when she message with others, showing I would have imagined!
suffered a breakdown after them it’s possible to come ‘I am living proof you can
experiencing very low through depression feeling overcome these things if
self-esteem and depression. more capable and confident you start to learn to love
At the time, a friend who than you’ve ever been. yourself and that’s where it
had recently qualified as a all starts,’ says Claire.
A little faith
reiki therapist offered ‘The voice of self-doubt
Claire a free treatment, When hair stylist Claire still creeps in once in a
opening her eyes to the opened the Self Love Salon while. I still have bad days,
world of holistic healing. in St Helen’s, Merseyside, I still have lows, but I’m so
As a result, Claire felt four years ago, she had no much more capable of
encouraged to try self-help guarantee her career path getting myself back up to
2 9 t h International books, crystals, meditation, would work out, but she feel positive again. I feel it
reiki and other forms of chose to have faith in herself is my absolute purpose to
Tiger Day
treatment, including and her dreams. introduce these things to
The tiger spirit animal sound therapy, cognitive ‘Promoting sustainability is others through using my
symbolises primal instinct, behaviour therapy and at the forefront of my salon,’ salon as a platform.’
courage and personal strength. counselling. Her healing says Claire. ‘I wanted to utilise Claire’s Self Love Salon
This global initiative is all journey even led her to nature’s beauty by having has recently won four
about raising awareness and create her own journal, plants in the salon, and using awards, including one for
promoting tiger conservation. And Knowing Me. essential oils and crystals so being a sustainable salon.
Channel the animal’s power When she discovered customers can feel the energy ✿ More info selflovesalon.
by making today the day how much she benefitted and healing power of nature. co.uk FB @ Self Love Salon
you trust your instinct.
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TRENDING
Celestial season
BOOK OF
Welcome to Cancer season (which runs until July 22nd), the time
THE MONTH…
when everyone’s energy – regardless of their star sign – is
influenced by the Sun moving from Gemini into Cancer.
The Modern Oracle by Lisa Boswell
We’re leaving behind that bright, breezy, carefree Gemini
(Laurence King Publishing, £14.99)
energy and entering a different vibe, one where we really feel our
Award-winning feelings. Make no mistake, this is a season of emotion. Cancer’s
divination teacher and ruling planet is the Moon, the dreamiest and most feminine
Romany gypsy Lisa astral body. It represents emotions, instincts and reactions.
Boswell draws on her
passion for psychic
development in this CANCER INFORMATION
fab fortune-telling
Ruling planet Birthstones
guide where she fuses
The Moon Moonstone
traditional methods of
& amber
divination with modern
day spirituality to
resonate with readers
The themes are all
super-relevant in Zodiac sign
today’s world and will
Constellation
benefit both your life
and your relationships
It’s a good time to…
with others.
Connect with your zodiac sign to achieve your fitness With emotions being at the forefront, this is a key time to open up
goals, climb the career ladder with crystal healing, improve to caring and being cared for. Tell all those you love that you love
your relationship with the help of tarot readings, and indulge them, and let in their love for you in return.
in some meaningful self-reflection by tapping into palmistry.
Lisa divulges answers to some of life’s biggest questions Watch out for…
and gives readers the psychic tools they need to solve
You know the crab’s protective shell? Well, the inward aspect
everyday challenges. Her guidance in dream deciphering
of Cancer season can give you a tendency to sometimes be
through gypsy fortune telling is insightful and mesmerising.
defensive or hypersensitive. Try to keep a check on this.
This is the kind of book that deserves to be read slowly,
with time taken to digest the wealth of information provided.
Try using…
It’s also a great place to start if you want to get in tune with
MOONSTONE is great for bringing equilibrium to emotional
your spirituality for the greater good. A spellbinding read!
instability and helping you understand your emotional self.
IINN OOUURR OORRBBIITT
Our round-up of the teachers who inspire us to be our spiritual best
EXPLORER’S NIGHT SKY EARTHRISE
MIND app instagram
podcast
Learn how to show
Put the cosmos in the
This podcast from more kindness to
palm of your hand and
mindful leadership advisor and planet Earth with this no-nonsense
learn how to navigate the wonders of the
transformative coach Palma Michel Instagram account. Enjoy a grid full
night sky with this stargazing app. Learn
features conscious conversations of inspirational quotes, varied lists
to identify the constellations, as well as
with explorers of the inner and outer of book and video resources, plus
chart and plan for astronomical events
worlds. Expect insightful interviews lots of practical advice on how we
such as full Moons and lunar eclipses.
with adventurers, scientists, artists, can all take action to minimise the
A special night mode helps you read the
activists, founders and conscious impact of climate change.
live 3D map of the heavens in the dark.
leaders who share the practical tools @earthrise.studio
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you need to expand your mind and
find fulfilment. ♥ FOLLOW US @spiritanddestinymagazine ♥
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TAKE SOME TIME OUT Ayurveda, or simply relax and
to prioritise yourself and learn enjoy heavenly massages and ➵
how the Indian traditions of gentle yoga,’ says director of Pukka Inner Peace Organic
Ayurveda could benefit you, The Clover Mill, Julie Dent. Herbal Supplement, £24.99
with a transformative After a personal dosha Combining the latest scientific research
east-meets-west journey of assessment with pulse and with ancient herbal wisdom to support
self-discovery at The Clover tongue diagnosis, you’ll be a busy mind, this supplement contains
Mill Ayurveda and Yoga pampered with prescribed ethically sourced ashwagandha, oat,
Retreat in the Malvern Hills, daily therapeutic Ayurvedic chamomile and lavender.
from July 1st to 6th. treatments, meditation and amazon.co.uk
The Clover Mill experience yoga classes, Ayurvedic talks,
helps rebalance the body and meals made with produce
using Ayurvedic principles, from the mill’s veg garden.
which follow the idea that You’ll also enjoy a cooking
healing of the mind and body demo to help you recreate
Lunar Living
can be achieved through the the delicious dishes at home.
balance of the three doshas – ‘By the end you’ll feel
pita, vita and kapha (which energised and revived and
are unique to each individual). equipped with the tools you Celebrate the

Accommodation is need to lead a more beneficial
provided in contemporary Ayurvedic lifestyle,’ adds Julie. SUPERMOON: JULY 13TH
eco lodges with serene lake Single eco-lodge price
views, set among the green (fully inclusive of the whole marks the second supermoon of the year.
fields and ancient hedgerows programme) for the five-night Use this time to connect with the Earth.
of the iconic hills. stay is £2,235 or £1,895pp for
Set an intention, write it down on a piece
‘Staying at the mill gives two people sharing.
you permission to relax, put ✿ More info theclovermill. of paper and fold it up tightly. Plant some
yourself first, and contemplate com seeds under the moonlight, adding your
your life and who and how intention to the soil. Every time you
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you are, so this retreat is Turn to our
water your seeds, remember you are
suitable for anyone wanting WHAT’S ON GUIDE
on page 92 for lots also nurturing your intention
to improve their physical,
more spiritual
mental and emotional so you too can flourish.
happenings
wellbeing, learn more about
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