From my family to yours - we wish you all the love, abundance and peace you can have AND MORE! Continue to be grateful for what you have, hug your loved ones daily and tell them you love them and most of all, take care of yourself.

I have so much to be thankful for this year and I can truly say that I made great use of my time in 2015. As 2015 comes to a close, let's take the good in our hearts and incorporate them into our daily practices; and learn from the bad. Learn that you are a lot stronger than you think and you have survived worst situations in the past and you are here today. That alone being alive to tell your tale of struggles and overcoming obstacles is a miracle in itself. Realize that you aren't the same person daily because if you are anything like, you strived to be a better person than you were yesterday.

I'll see you next year - till next time, I bid you all love, light and compassion.

~Maria

As promised from last week's blog, here are my videos from Rome, Italy from my May 2015 Roman Holiday. Rome was as unpretentious, in-your-face, fun-loving, sexy and eat-drink-and be merry as I am. I may have fallen in love with Paris; but Rome welcomed me home. She (Rome) welcomed me with open arms like a mother welcoming her daughter after being gone for so long. The energy from the people and the spirits were all quite overwhelming but I soaked it in.

As the tour guides were providing narratives, I allowed myself to be transported back in time to Rome's early days of birth, triumph, defeat and rebirth. I traveled back in time seeing the Sistine Chapel half-way painted as Signor Michelangelo seemed to look down and smile at me as if to greet me, but definitely acknowledge my presence. I "saw" all of the Popes of Rome surround me in St. Peter's Square. I got to witness a chance of a lifetime mass and blessings of my souvenirs by the current Pope Francis. I walked side by side with Rome's very own ancestors as they smiled on - knowing that all of their struggles were not in vain. My faith in God, in humanity was renewed.

I loved the confidence of the Roman women who, it seemed, only knew sexiness came from within. They exuded this confidence that I feel lacks here in the United States because we Americans have allowed our media to be our societal norm. Depicting that women are only sexy if they are skinny and of a certain standard set by Hollywood - which to me is utter bullshit, but that's another day, another topic and another blog. Today, I celebrate and pay homage to Rome - the sexiest and dirtiest (in every sense of the word) yet, Spiritual city; if all of these traits exist in this city then it can also exist in a person.

I hope you enjoy my amateur videos and feel what I've tried to capture on film. Bear with me - I will master the art of videography...sooner than later!

If you have been having the pull to travel to Europe, might I ask this? What is stopping you? Let me tell you this much, with a little planning, saving (YES, IT IS POSSIBLE) and help like I had with European Destinations - it can be done. Keep the faith, pray, act and your prayer will be granted.

Till next time, I bid you all love, light and compassion!

~Maria

Good morning, my loves, this week I'm going to share a little piece of my world through my travels. I'll have some short amateur videos to share with views from the legendary Eiffel Tower, a glimpse of the Louvre and Montmartre Village but I'll be the first to tell you that seeing these videos do not do justice to being in Paris. I fell in love with Paris immediately. My love for Paris and sharing her with you couldn't have come in a better time. Mind you, I went to Paris in May 2015 but I only decided to share my travels with you now...because now the timing is right.

One of my Facebook friends advised me to "get lost" in Paris and believe me, I did so without even trying to get lost. I was walking through the various "rues" and alley ways and I even took the train to board a tour bus to take me to the Moulin Rouge, The Louvre and Montmartre Village! I must say my experience with "Madame" Paris, the city of love was exactly that. I loved how she and the Parisians welcomed me with open arms and were very tolerant and patient with my very limited French, some of them thought how "cute" I was for constantly apologizing for murdering their beautiful French words. Sheesh - definitely on my bucket list is learning to speak French and to speak it fluently!

I'm telling you the vibe I felt and received was liberating! I was only there for a total of 3 days with all 3 days packed with activities such as touring the Eiffel Tower on the first day; walking and getting lost in the city on the 2nd day and ending the 2nd Parisian evening at the world-famous Moulin Rouge; my 3rd and final day, I toured historical Paris and visited both the Louvre and Montmartre Village. The only regret I had was not spending enough time in the Louvre - I could've easily spent 5 hours reveling in the art. I loved viewing Signor Da Vinci's works of art - they seemed to be talking to me. I had no bad experiences and I look forward to revisiting Paris, Provence and Lourdes by 2018.

I don't mind saying that I went there alone and I intended to fall in love. I did fall in love...with Paris. Enough talk - here are the pictures and videos from my lover, Paris.

Next week - we talk about Rome, Italy. Till next time, I bid you all love, light and compassion!

~Maria

Namaste brothers and sisters! WOW - A LOT has happened in the past 11 months and I can dare say that none of my time this year was wasted. In the next couple of weeks, I'll be sharing my short but sweet travel blogs from May 2015 when I visited Paris and Rome. I'll even share some pictures from my Hawaii visit from September.

God has definitely blessed me with another full year of life. There were some ups and downs but the "ups" outweighed the "downs" and for that I'm infinitely grateful.

So this one-card reading today was drawn from Doreen Virtue's & Radleigh Valentine's* "Angel Tarot Cards."

*Forgive me, dear friends, as I had inadvertently excluded Mr. Valentine's name in past blogs - for that I am truly sorry; no harm intended and just a reminder for me to slow down.

The card above is representative of the current situation at hand. Stay focused - just as the beautiful faerie (note:  the beautiful faerie bears a resemblance to actress, Ms. Jessica Alba) is holding her magical staff and reliant upon it to stay focused at the task at hand. Although there may be many distractions and many energies flying all around us, we're being asked to "keep our eyes (just as the faerie is focused on her staff) on the prize." Whatever venture, project or situation you are in now is still too early in the life of it to call it quits. Remember that you were a novice, a "newbie" at one time in your life, remember that wonderment and recapture that part of yourself again so that you can be patient with this leg of your journey. Yes, it is like starting over but every story has its chapters and endings - your "new story" is exactly that - it is just beginning, just be present in the moment, don't rush to make things happen, just allow blessings, mistakes and experiences to shower you and you will be that much more wealthy with life.

Additional messages from Archangel Michael, Raphael and Mother Mary:

Mother Mary - "Think of me and visualize me as your mother wrapping you in the warmth of my embrace and everything will be alright - you have survived and lived through far worst than where you are now. Be patient, dear one."

Archangel Michael - "Please call on me for courage especially when you feel like giving up - say my name and I'll be by your side to keep you focused with the task at hand. You are not alone and you need not do this alone - I can help you if you let me."

Archangel Raphael - "The first step to moving forward is forgiving your past - when you forgive all that's already past, you allow new healing energy to come in and that's where I pour in the abundance of new energy...ONLY if you call on me and [Archangel] Michael and you allow us to help you."

One last note to this reading - tie up any loose ends to your contracts and ask any questions that are needed to learn more about the current situation and how you can move your business, project and situation along, but don't force things to happen. All will happen in divine timing ONCE YOU STEP OUT OF THE WAY. Call on God to send His/Her angels to your side to keep you from going crazy from your own self-inflicted worrisome nature.

Till next time, I bid you all love, light and compassion.

~Maria