Foxfire Studios ~ Visionary Portraits
I used a different size wrap canvas for this visionary portrait, a 24” x 36”, it gives the painting more length and fit the subject better. This is a portrait of one of my mentors, Rev. Wanda Gordon, Pastor of the Temple of Love and Light in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Rev. Wanda passed over in February of 2004. She was just 3 weeks away from her 90th birthday.
I started attending the Temple in November of 2001, when a friend asked me if I would like to go see what a Spiritualistic Church was all about and maybe I would get some of my many questions answered. At this time I had many questions about all the changes happening with me spiritually, one being that I was able to heal by touch, to take someone’s headache away in just a touch to the back of their head…yes, I had many questions. She helped me to understand, as well as others in the congregation, that God was showing me the way by bringing me to a teaching Temple.
Through their guidance and weekly readings at the Temple of Love and Light, I understand now that by surrendering myself to Father God, Mother Goddess and Great Spirit that I am a channeler for God’s healing and by taking that final step of FAITH that I have no fears, for God will take care of me. I have truly been touched by the hand of God, and when I am asked to heal someone I literally see Jesus’ hands cover mine as he is standing next to me. I have learned that I AM GOD as HE IS ME…we are one and through Rev. Wanda’s teachings, through Rev. Renee’s guidance and many others from the Temple (Rev. Renee Haugh is now the Pastor of the Temple of Love and Light) that I have literally seen the Light! Note: the Temple of Love and Light is going through massive building renovation and will open their doors soon to all who want to attend a very spiritual and loving church.
I kept seeing Wanda as a young Egyption girl with a crown of cow horns with a glowing orb. I also saw walking next to her a black panther and leopard. I told Wanda that I wanted to paint her and if she had a photo of her when she was 16 years old (she was 88 at the time) it would help me tremendously to visualize and paint her. The photo of the painting shows you how God guided my hand in this painting. I painted this Visionary Portrait in 2002 and it wasn’t until after her passing that her Spirit guided me to a conference in Allegan, Michigan of the Star of Sakkara, which is held annually by the ‘Sisterhood of the Emerald Fire’. This is a 3 day conference that Rev. Wanda had attended since the 1970’s and she has now guided me to this group for reasons I am only just finding.
I took this painting along to show others as an example of my Visionary Art and a man walked up to me and asked if he could share with me what he saw in the painting. Of course, I said, I’m always open to others ‘eyes’. Now, I just painted this as I was guided and I thought how it truly represented Rev. Wanda and it was my way of thanking her for all she had done for me. He said, by painting her dress white represents the good and divine in all of us and having the black panther looking away showed the dark side, but by putting the Leopard upfront and connecting both black and white, that it showed everything joined together as one. To show both the moon and the sun (orb in horns) that the Divine Feminine was truly working in her and the flow of red hair and the 3 red roses represents the ‘Magdelene’ and being surrounded by purple flames and the color purple showed that she was truly a messenger from God and Goddess through her psychic abilities and that it radiates all that is from Love, Light and Truth.
I was overwhelmed, to say the least, by what he said. It made me understand more about what my Visionary Portraits are about and how they touch people in so many different ways. Rev. Wanda Gordon is no longer humanly with us, but her Spirit is still guideing me and others through our psychic connections. She guided me to that conference…I had another Spirit Fair that I was suppose to attend in Wisconsin that weekend, but the day before I attended a Soul Fest Show in Coldwater, MI I was informed that the Wisconsin Show was cancelled, so I had an empty weekend and I thought, “now what am I going to do?” The next day at the Soul Fest at Soul Selections in Coldwater, Michigan a lady sat down for a reading/drawing and after I read her, she handed me a pamphlet, that she just happened to bring with her that day, and told me I should be part of the ‘Sisterhood’ (Sisterhood of the Emerald Fire) … I had to look it up on the Internet when I got home) and this was a pamphlet on the conference in Allegan, Michigan and, that’s right! You guessed it! It was the same weekend I had just cancelled in Wisconsin.
This is how Spirit works with you, always, once you have surrendered yourself to God and asked for help and guidance. I also had many free classes that were part of the conference by many mediums, healers and teachers and one in particular I knew I was there to meet and to come in contact with and her name is Starr Fuentes, her web site is http://www.starrfu.com - I heard her 2 hour class and was amazed on how proud she makes you feel about yourself once you have accepted yourself as a channeller for God’s healing. I wasn’t going to get a reading, because my funds were low, but I knew I had to speak to her. I went to her tent and she was all signed up for the day, but I wrote my name down and asked only for 15 minutes of her time. Her husband told me later that day that she would see me in the house at 6pm.
The husband and wife team of Rev. Mary and Dean Hardy are the host for 150 people for 3 days and we camp on their lawn and they just put us anywhere we can fit. Plus, 4 different areas for the classes. I did my readings as well that weekend in between the other events. Wanda, in Spirit, truly guided me to a life changing event. God Bless Her!!! Before I sent in my fee for this conference I thought I had to impress Rev. Mary Hardy with my art talent to be able to give my Spirit Art Class there and to do readings, so I sent her my ‘Foxfire Studios’ video. She didn’t need it and returned it to me unopened just before I was to see Starr for my reading. So when Starr called out for the next person, which was me, I had this VHS video in my hand. She asked me what that was and I explained how I had mistakenly sent it to Rev. Mary, when it wasn’t for her…she said of course it wasn’t for her it was for me (meaning herself). I said yes it is…as she held the VHS tape in her hand and patted it with her other hand, she said … do you know that I have 6 books I’m writing now and I can’t find the cover artwork for them … they are in here (as she pats the video) and that you will be famous … I got chills all over me and knew this to be true.
She then told me to get a web site set up, because thousands of people were waiting for me (when I got home from the conference I called my cousin and she was generous enough to let me be on her web site…she is kinexxions, because of the geneology she does and of course I’m the foxfire). Starr also told me a couple of other personal things and told me that after she saw the tape, she would make sure it got to others and she also told me to be proud of who you are that we are the God’s and Goddess’s that he has sent out into this world to heal not just each other, but all of mankind, the earth and beyond.
If you want to know more about the ‘Temple of Sakkara’ conference, just put that in your search engine. Rev. Mary Hardy has an excellent web site at http://www.templeofsakkara.com that explains it all.
And I want to add that Shaman Starr Fuentes' husband, Art Jackson, was there and had the Blue Moon Firewalk (July 31, 2004 the 2nd full moon in a month is a Blue Moon). I participated by drumming for 2 hours, and I had no reason to walk the hot coals, at least I didn’t think so, but anytime we get a chance to release our fears we should do so and I am an official FIREWALKER now and like I’ve said before, when you have surrendered yourself to God there is no fear. I never felt the heat of the coals and did not get burnt. It was amazing and I’m glad I participated in this spiritual shamanic event. Thank You Art for having it at the conference.
I know this has been a long story for Rev. Wanda’s Visionary Portrait, but if anyone who is visiting my pages and understands Astrology and that I am a Sagittarian with my moon in Taurus and Sagittarian rising, knows that I don’t know how to tell a short story. By sharing our adventures with each other is how we learn. So those of you who like to read about others and their experiences with Spirit… ENJOY …those of you that don’t…just enjoy the pictures.
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