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We explore stories of mystical adventure, inner transformation, and a little bit of fire – sometimes literally.
This show is about pushing limits into the unknown, discovering who we really are in the process, and celebrating the moments of connection that make us feel more alive.
Janelle 00:07
Welcome back to The Alighted Way. If you are enjoying the Dragon Stories, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing. We truly appreciate your support. We are going to jump from the frying pan straight into the flames of a different fire in this next episode, as Claudia joins us today. Born into a psychic family, a long line of First Nations people, she is a psychic medium and Reiki master. She has a unique ability to connect to dragons, angels, guides, and the spirit world through her gifts of the four clairs, clear knowing, feeling, seeing, sensing of touch. Claudia has heart-to-heart conversations with the spirit world. She connects with their energy and emotions to bring you heart-centered messages. To explore her work further, check out her website readingsofhope.com, or contact her at claudia@readingsofhope.com. This show is about pushing limits into the unknown, discovering who we really are, and celebrating the moments that make us feel alive. So let's get into it. Welcome, Claudia.
Claudia 01:23
Thank you. Thank you so much for having me here. This is exciting.
Janelle 01:27
Yes, yes. I was very excited to do this interview with you. One from your biography. One of the first questions that I had for you was: I know Colleen, the other co-host, and one of our other interviewers, that people that had been interviewed were talking about Reiki and having experiences in Reiki, and I know that you are a Reiki master, so it's like, have you heard of any stories around dragons within Reiki?
Claudia 02:01
I can't say I really heard any stories, but when I experience, when I'm doing Reiki on people, I actually the mediumship really comes through, and I invite the dragons to help to shift things for my clients. So I have a lot of my own stories, but I can't say I really heard too many of other people's stories.
Janelle 02:25
Yeah, it was more that sometimes people, as spirit guides or as mentors, they will get dragons. So we're just trying to see if there's any other information out there about that we can collect. Okay, but you had sort of your own experience with Reiki. With your was it an angel that helps you with the Reiki?
Claudia 02:50
Actually, I've had so many experiences with angels and dragons. But when I started to work with dragons, is when I went to one of those psychic fairs, and this lady had a whole bunch of card decks for sale. I was very drawn to the dragon deck, and I thought that was kind of strange because I have a Catholic upbringing, and I'm like, well, okay, I'm not too sure why I'm drawn to this dragon deck, but I bought it, and when I went home, I opened up the box and I knocked on the cards to clear them, and I started shuffling. And the first card that I got was the fire dragon, and I thought, oh, okay, and it says that it clears your energy that's not serving you to your highest good, so I thought, well, that's really cool. And I had before I opened up the card deck, I had laundry that was going like I put my some clothes in the laundry, and my laundry went beep, and it was done. I got up from the kitchen and went to the laundry, and I started putting the wet clothes into the dryer. Suddenly, this heat source above my head started to clear things that were not serving me anymore. So to make me ascend faster, and then my fire alarm went off, and I'm like, oh my gosh! I went to my husband. I said, "What's going on? He goes, "I don't know. We were not cooking. We have no candles. We have nothing that could put the fire, you know, put the fire alarm on. So then I'm like, "Wait a minute here. I felt this heat source above my head, and I'm like, "No, could it be? And I'm like, "Okay, that was really weird. I went back to my cards, looking at the deck, and I see that you know it's the fire dragon, and that it's cutting cords. And I'm like, wow, okay, that's interesting. And then about two weeks later, I was trying to sleep, and I couldn't sleep, and I felt a presence around my head. On the outside, and I'm like, "Oh my gosh! So I said to the fire dragon, "Hey, could you actually burn that lower energy that's around my house? And my fire alarm goes off at 1:30 in the morning. Oh wow! So then I knew, okay, wow, you had me at hello. Then I started working with dragons, and I felt that I needed to draw my dragon. So I start started to draw, and my God, I got a name. What my dragon's name was, and then I got proven many times over that they exist. I was doing some artwork, or not artwork, but art class, and we were taking our paint, and we had to put it in a cup and have it layered to whatever different colors. Then we had to put it on the canvas and just shake the paint. And I thought, well, that's really pretty. It looks like earth. I thought, you know, what I did just kind of look like, you know, earth. And so hung it up. And about a couple months later, I heard this voice, and it says, "Turn it around. Your picture, your dragon, your angels, and your unicorn are in it. So I turned it around, and there they were. I couldn't believe. I couldn't believe I couldn't see it before. Now I work with the dragons. They help me to clear energy before my clients show up and they help to protect me, yeah, they're very magical.
Janelle 06:26
So, what are they like? Like, how would you describe them?
Claudia 06:29
Well, my personal one, she told me. She says I'm very small, but I'm very mighty. She says I am so strong, but but my character, I'm very small.
Janelle 06:41
Dynamite can come in small packages.
Claudia 06:44
Exactly. That's what I thought too. With with the fire dragon, he has showed me how powerful he is. The water dragon, I call that the water dragon. When I when we're in drought, I say to the water dragon, "Please help us with the drought, and and then suddenly it's it's you know starts to rain. May not be that day, but you know it starts to happen. Yeah, there's just so many different dragons out there, but I but I mostly work with the fire dragon and my own dragon, just because you know the fire dragon does a lot of clearing and protecting.
Janelle 07:22
If you have your personal dragon and then fire, have you thought about like the elemental aspect of it? Working with all of the elements.
Claudia 07:32
Yes, because there's the earth dragons. No, because there's the ley lines that they work with, and so I have incorporated that with my house because you know you know the ley lines in our house. There's so many the cosmos, the diamond. There's the paint, the pink dragon. So I do some of the meditations that Diana Cooper has mentioned in her book. I do that once in a while, but I just always seem to go back to the fire dragon.
Janelle 08:04
Well, you sort of go back to what you're attracted to and what you're drawn to.
Claudia 08:09
Oh yeah,
Janelle 08:09
we had one other lady that we interviewed that her dragon journey started with the the same author with the same book. Is it Diane
Claudia 08:20
Diana Cooper.
Janelle 08:21
Diana Cooper. Yeah,
Claudia 08:23
yeah. That's the that's the card deck that I got. That's the one that the Fire Dragon basically has talked to me, and the Fire Dragon has talked to me before, just recently, actually, about a couple months ago. I was getting ready for a client to go to the center where I work, and I kept feeling this dark energy, and I thought to myself, "Oh my God, is this my client with the dark energy? I was like, kind of freaked out in a way. And then I thought, "Well, no, no, no, I know what I have to do. So usually before my session starts, I clear the room and I do my symbols, my sound symbols, and I also called the dragons. But before I left, the dragons told me pick a card out of the card out of the dragon deck. This is the one you have to work with today. I'm like, oh, okay. So I picked one card, and it was the exact fire dragon that I got the first time, and it told me this is the only one that can actually clear the energy that's at the center. I got there and I did what I normally do, and I could tell it wasn't enough. I called the fire dragon and I said, "Can you clear this whole space? And it totally cleared it.
Janelle 09:41
Does it clear it with its fire energy? Does it clear it with its breath? I've had sort of different ways or different. How would you describe what it felt like as it was being cleared?
Claudia 09:55
When I call them in, I see the fire dragon in my mind's eye. Clearing with its breath, but also with its its whole being. Like it's it's like it's not just breath. It's it's everything about it.
Janelle 10:10
Was it like every cell of its body?
Claudia 10:13
Every cell of its body, yeah, is
Janelle 10:14
is working towards that.
Claudia 10:16
And then what it does, I get it to go in clockwise to all the rooms, and I see it working, going through the room, going through the corners, doing like a sweep, and just cleaning everything. And it probably, I would say, it's about 30 seconds it takes to do.
Janelle 10:38
Yeah, it it can be that fast for sure.
Claudia 10:40
That fast, yeah, yeah
Janelle 10:42
with dragon assistance,
Claudia 10:43
exactly, yeah. Because when you call them in, like, and I and I call them in for my driving on icy roads, usually I call my own dragon, but sometimes when I'm really scared, I'll call all the dragons. I'm like, oh my god, I need all your help, and I call in Archangel Michael. He's a big one that I work with with the dragons. It's a combination of both.
Janelle 11:08
That's a fascinating mix of Archangel Michael and the dragons because I know that's sort of where I call in both as well. So it can be in tandem or you know separate depending on what I think I need, but yeah, definitely. Do you want to say more about that?
Claudia 11:26
Well, with Archangel Michael, when my clients, what happens is we are carrying a lot of stuff in our chakras. When I'm doing a reading, I can feel when someone's carrying sorrow, pain, sadness, madness, whatever it is, and whatever chakras. Well, tell them if you work with Archangel Michael or your guides or your dragons or your unicorns, whoever you want. You basically ask them, "Thank you, I'll say Archangel Michael, for cutting all cords that are not serving me to my highest good, and I see Archangel Michael with his sword, and I see him cutting the cords on my crown. All the chakras in the front of my body, but also the back of my body, and I see this muck muck that I've been carrying going down the drain, or into a fire pit. Then I also sometimes see that if if I'm carrying something that Archangel Michael did a really good job, but I still feel that there's fibers still hanging on, then I call the dragons in and I say, "Can you burn the rest of the fibers that are on me? And they do their job.
Janelle 12:36
This one time I had called in Archangel Michael to help someone that I was working on, and their wound was great, and they hadn't fully healed it, and they were enmeshed in it, and so Archangel Michael just sort of came in, and he used his sword, and he just sort of stabbed the wound and went, "It needs to die. It really helped the person move forward.
Claudia 13:03
Oh yeah,
Janelle 13:04
from being stuck in the wound.
Claudia 13:07
I had this experience just recently. I'm gonna say it was probably, we'll say, a year ago, where I just had an operation and something happened where my solarplex was out of whack, like something wasn't right, and I could see, I could feel it going into reverse. So I did all my Reiki, I did everything, and I just couldn't seem to get it settled down. So I said to Archangel Michael, I said, "Oh my God, can you help me? I can't stop this. And then suddenly, boom! It stopped. That's how powerful he is.
Janelle 13:44
Yeah, he's a busy guy. I always say that with laughter, but it's really true. Like he's so many people call on him to do so many things to benefit them.
Claudia 13:55
Oh yeah, I when I first started working with him, I when I really started to talk about them to other people, one night I went to bed and I could see this huge blue light at the end and my like where my foot feet are, and it was about 10 feet high and about seven feet wide, and I'm like, oh my gosh, that's you. I was like, "That's really cool.
Janelle 14:22
Yeah, in one of the earlier episodes because I was talking about being at Saint Michael's Mount, Cornwall, England, and it's a it's a crossing point of of two ley lines of Archangel Michael's, and Colleen was like, "Well, what was the energy like? And I was like, "It was a wall. It was a wall of blue energy of him.
Claudia 14:44
Wow!
Janelle 14:45
And and it just enveloped you, and you had your experience. But it's also because I have a relationship with him, like that I could experience that there. I mean, I'm not saying if everybody goes there; that they'll have that same experience. But it was just one of the things that I experienced. So I can hear what you're, what you're sharing. Yeah,
Claudia 15:09
yeah. Like I, I was so impressed that he helped me with my chakra going into reverse. I was like, well, I was calling in everybody from like Reiki. I'm doing this. I'm doing that. But he was the one. I just I can't explain it. It's just it was lovely because for some reason I think after the operation it kind of just put something into reverse in my chakras, and it was the solar plex.
Janelle 15:42
Yeah, I mean because like in shamanic training you can unwind your chakras,
Janelle 15:42
you know, and then wind them back up if you want to clearing clear them out or that sort of thing for sure. In other training I've done. Archangel Michael is royal blue, the energy, the frequency of the light frequency that comes in as royal blue from my own experience, and it seems like that those are things to to look for around him. But in this other course, one of the other associations with royal blue is power. It's an interesting mix with your solar plexus.
Claudia 16:17
Yeah, if you think about with power, yeah, for sure. I'm just grateful. That's all I can say. Just like thank you. It's like because I was going starting to get worried, but yeah, just it's I work with the angels and the dragons and the unicorns, my guides and my ancestors.
Janelle 16:37
That's a lot. It's it's like a whole entourage that that you have.
Claudia 16:43
Oh, I keep them busy. I do.
Janelle 16:46
That's a good thing.
Claudia 16:47
Well, I actually had my guides when I first seen my guides. There was five of them, and they were sitting at a table playing cards. And I'm like, "Well, that's nice that you're playing cards. And then I realize that they're waiting for me to put them to work. That's kind of like, and now they're probably asking for a break now because I put them to work big time. They're like, "Can we have a holiday, please? But they love it when I put them to work. My dragons love it. My angels love it. And my angel, because we all have a personal angel, like a guardian angel, and I was able to connect with her. I took this one course, and they said at the very end of the course, if you want to know who your guardian angel is, just ask, like what her name is or his name. So I'm like, well, okay, I'll do that. So I was done my course, and I said, "Hey, I would love to know what your name is, and got to know the name within two minutes. And I'm like, "No fricking way! I was like, "Wow! And then I even got to see a picture like where I had this situation with my small dog, she jumped off the couch and she she yelped and we were like, "Well, what's wrong with you? and and we couldn't figure it out. And I was ready to turn off the TV, and the TV was playing "In the Arms of an Angel" by Sarah McLaughlin, and I heard a voice say, "Take a picture of this, I'm like, take a picture of the TV? I grabbed my phone and took a picture of the TV. My husband says, "What are you doing? And I said, "Well, taking a picture of a TV. Didn't think too much of it. We took off. We went to go do some shopping. We came back and we realized our dog wasn't doing very well. We took her to the vet right away, and the vet says, "Yeah, she sprained her back, and we're like, "Oh, okay. So we got some pain medication and took her home, and that wasn't it. So we took her back again, and they did more tests, and she has bone cancer. And they said her platelets were low, and she's cross like she's ready to to cross over. We said our goodbyes, and we put our dog down, and then a couple days later, my angel said to me, Claudia, take a look at that picture. I have your dog with me, so in the arms of an angel. So I looked at the picture, and there she was above the TV, in the shadows of the light, with my dog, wow, yeah, was pretty amazing, and I'm like, okay, wow, thank you, because we took it really, really hard, because we did not know she had bone cancer.
Claudia 19:32
It was because our angels are working with all of us, like we all have our own personal angel, we all have our own personal dragon. We all have our own personal spirit guide. They want you to put them to work. Say thank you, angels. Thank you, dragons, for helping me with whatever it is. Help thank you for helping me to get on the right path because that's what they want, and they're. They are helping you, but they're also waiting for you to say something.
Janelle
Yeah, it's interesting. I was wondering if you could talk a little bit more about, like, I know for myself when I'm being called to do something, and I can either answer the call immediately, or I can sort of go, I don't know, said. "Take a picture. It's like I get messages like that quite frequently, and I I don't even think twice about it. But some people may. Like I was walking the other day downtown, and a voice said because I had a sandwich with me, and a voice said, "Give it to the homeless men over there, and I'm like, "Okay, yeah. Like I'm like, "Hey, are you guys hungry? And walked over there, and the one guy said, "Yeah, and I'm like, "Okay, well, this sandwich is for you.
Claudia 20:56
Oh, that's awesome!
Janelle 20:57
I get sort of like quick ones like that, but it's also I also get like, hey, you need to go to Scotland or you need to go to Malta and do this, this, this. There's big ones and there's small ones. I just wondered if you could expand upon sort of maybe some experiences with that.
Claudia 21:14
Well, I tell my clients what happens is our ego gets in the way of our thinking. When once we start realizing what's ego, then we can hear our guides, our angels, our dragons much easier. Because a lot of us have such a busy mind, and once we calm down the mind, that's when you will hear them, and it's just calming down the mind. It took me a while, I would say a long while, to realize that. And then when I had things come into my head that were negative, I would say, cancel, delete, delete that thought. And once I started to do that, then ego got less and less and less to the point now my ego is very very small amount, and I do recognize ego. I'm like, oh, you, and but now I'm so connected to my team that I can hear them.
Janelle 22:18
Yeah, I think it it's a matter of faith as well. It's like one thing to do something once in a while if they ask you to. It's quite another to be in that faith and being able to do what's needed of you.
Claudia 22:37
Oh yeah, for sure. Yeah, just trusting. We have to trust the universe because our the universe has our back. If we force things, then it's you're just you're making it harder. Just allowing and trusting that your team of angels and unicorns and dragons, and they-they've got your back, but you've got to communicate with them.
Janelle 23:06
How do you see the hierarchy between the angels and dragons and unicorns, and what does that look like for you?
Claudia 23:15
Ah, to tell you the truth, I don't put anyone really. Well, I shouldn't say that. If I if I had to choose, I would say definitely the angels. They really have me like big time. Like I love them so much. I mean, I love them all. And my guides, the dragons, they're all the same. Really, the same level, really. But because the angels, I'm more familiar with that since since I have a Catholic upbringing. I think maybe that's where I feel more comfortable. I guess you could say
Janelle 23:49
you feel like they're all co-creators.
Claudia 23:51
Yes.
Janelle 23:52
Okay.
Claudia 23:53
Yeah, yeah. They're all they all have their place. They're all doing their own magic. I find unicorns when I work with them, they're very magical. Like when I say to the unicorns, I said, "Can you make this a magical day? And boom, there it is. Yeah, I'm just like, wow, goosebumps. Wow, it's really cool. So, and the dragons, they're they're. I find that they're protecting and they're they're just doing a lot of different elements, like the earth elements. You know, your water, your fire, your earth, the grounding just goes on and on.
Janelle 24:28
Are you thinking the dragons are more around recently to sort of help people to open people? Is what is your take on that?
Claudia 24:40
Well, many years ago, I'm going to say 20 years, maybe more. I well, let's go 25, 30 years. I was working in retail, and I noticed when I was in the mall, they there was this one store that had tons of dragons, sculptures, everything. Pendants, clothes, and I thought to myself, "What's going on? Why suddenly out of nowhere dragons? And I felt right there that that's when they arrived, that that that's when they came to Earth to help us, and then unicorns, everything unicorns. I'm like, oh my god! This is when they arrived too. That's my theory on it all. It's pretty cool.
Janelle 25:27
So, do you think it's there's a level of helping the earth, which is why so many of them are here now?
Claudia 25:35
Oh yeah, yeah, definitely, yeah, 100% Because we need help with the earth, and if you like, that's why I call the water dragons for when we have drought. And I feel there's angelic dragons, which are on the same level as angels, and then there's also the dragons who, with the ley lines, and oh yeah.
Janelle 25:58
There's definitely, like in the Bible, it talks about the hierarchies of angels and seraphim angels. Some different descriptions of them have been that they look snake-like with faces and wings, and which can be construed as a form of dragon. Yeah,
Claudia 26:20
didn't they just say that the dinosaurs that they are actually thinking that they are the dragons?
Janelle 26:26
Well, the pterosaurs for sure really look like dragons, like with their wings, like they have a big wingspan and legs, and like it. It's quite fascinating how much they look like dragons.
Claudia 26:40
Oh yeah, for sure. And I just heard that just recently that they're saying that the dinosaurs that they are connected to the dragons. But yeah, no, I think for sure that they're here to help us, and I think we have to ask. I've been calling the dragons to. There's this one dragon, the pink dragon in Diana's Cooper's book, where I call this dragon in to give love to the world, and I see the dragon with, and I see a huge heart on Earth because we are lacking love, like we we need more compassion, and unfortunately we seem to be in fight or flight mode for some odd reason.
Janelle 27:26
Yeah, I think love is sort of similar to, or in relation to opening your heart. Like Colleen and I, in another episode, I was talking about it of how how much can you open your heart. Well, it's in infinitesimal. Yes, you know, how much do you want to open your heart, and how much do you want to let love in?
Claudia 27:48
Yeah,
Janelle 27:49
it's it's same same.
Claudia 27:52
Yeah, it is. I will definitely send the world as much love as I possibly can, but I ask the dragons and the angels and the team to help because definitely just one person. So I get my team, and if everybody did that, things would shift immensely because life is tough.
Janelle 28:15
Yeah, it is. Lots of people are down, don't know what to do. They feel stuck. They feel unseen, unheard. There's lots of different dynamics going on right now.
Claudia 28:30
The one thing I have really learned from the team is that they want us to have fun. That right now you're in school, you are learning lessons, and you chose some doozy ones, and they want you to have fun. Do whatever you can to bring joy to your world, because what happens is when you do that, you bring them even closer, because they want to feel your joy.
Janelle 28:57
Well, I had just bought a spray, and it was called Lighten Up.
Claudia 29:04
Oh, nice! Oh my gosh, I love it.
Janelle 29:08
I'm looking forward to spritzing that around my house.
Claudia 29:10
Yeah, exactly. Anything it can be just the smallest little things. They told me when COVID happened that we became so isolated, and we forgot how to have fun. I was telling my clients, "Okay, they're telling me that you're not having fun, and the clients would would say, "Yeah, I'm not. They want you to go have fun, go to the movies, go to the beach or whatever, go have fun, do whatever it takes, and it doesn't have to cost you any money. You can go walk just along the beach, you know, and whatever it is. They just want you to have joy.
Janelle 29:50
Yeah, and to bring on sort of your passions around stuff.
Claudia 29:53
Yeah, that's what it's all about, for sure.
Janelle 29:57
We're sort of bringing this to a close, but I was wondering. If there's anything that needs to be said, or
Claudia 30:04
the biggest thing I can tell people is start cutting cords, and I'm just going to tell them how I do this. So I say to Archangel Michael, I say thank you, Archangel Michael, for cutting all cords that are not serving me to my highest good. I see him with his sword. He's cutting at the crown, all the chakras in the front, in the back, and see all this stuff I've been carrying just going down the drain fire pit. I know I've repeated this before, like I said this, you know, a few minutes ago, but it's so important for us to do this because we're taking on other people's stuff and we're storing them into our chakras, and I think we need to be lighter. I just tell people it's like a suitcase; you're carrying the suitcase everywhere you go, and it's other people's stuff. It's not yours. Get rid of it.
Janelle 30:54
Yeah, my friend tells the story of a backpack. She's like, "Okay, it's time to unpack your backpack. Exactly. She's like taking everything out, and then she's like, "Okay, don't need that. Don't need that. Okay, and then she repacks her backpack and puts it on, and she's ready to go.
Claudia 31:12
Exactly. And you can word this however you want. You don't have to work with angels or dragons. You can say thank you, guides, like or my grandma who has crossed over, or my grandfather for helping me to get rid of things that are not serving me, because they would love to do that for you.
Janelle 31:29
Yeah, because the dragons can also help clear. I know I was doing a whole thing with ancestral work, and my grandfather had sort of come to me in he had died, so he was coming to me in a different form. But it was like I said, "Well, can we clear stuff in the family dynamic and in the lineage with fire? And he, my grandfather, was like, "Well, you can try, and I'm like, "Okay. So then I I I asked the dragons to help me, and like I'm burning off all this stuff. And my grandpa was just like, "Whoa! It was like he was very surprised that that could be used for in the lineage, in the ancestral lineage.
Claudia 32:16
That actually came up today for a client, and I just said that. I said they're telling me you picked up a pattern from your grandfather and your grandmother that they both stayed in a marriage that wasn't healthy. And I said you're doing exactly the same thing. And I so I explained to her too. You can actually stop it and change it by burning, you know, calling your dragons, and definitely cut the cords of that lineage. Yeah, very powerful because we've got the power.
Speaker 2 32:53
Yes,
Claudia 32:53
that's pretty much what I want to tell people. You've got the power. I know I want to break out the song.
Janelle 32:59
Yeah, I was just gonna sing it.
Claudia 33:01
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
Janelle 33:08
Oh, so that's all the questions I have for you. I wanted to thank you so much for coming on and sharing your experiences with us all today.
Claudia 33:19
Oh, thank you very much for having me. This was fun.
Janelle 33:24
There it is, and there you have it. Thank you for sharing and brightening the path today. Join us next time as Janelle discusses her adventures on the Rose Line that flows through Scotland. This episode drops November 12. We will continue to share and explore more stories that may take you beyond the edge of your boundaries. We encourage you to be open and come along for the wild ride. Safety first, though, so buckle up. If you are interested in learning more about dragons, Janelle created an introductory dragon course that is live now. You can go to thealightedway.com website to register or become part of our community or brood in dragon speak and the magic that lies within. New episodes drop twice monthly on Thursdays, so don't miss an episode. Until then, keep the flame of curiosity burning.