Ant speaks: Are you sacrificing your own goals and your own dreams for someone else’s?
Australia: I was 16 years old in a Social Studies’ class when I fell in love with this country. “Finally,” I thought, “A country shaped like a dog’s head; a terrier to be exact.” I went on to daydream about holding a Koala Bear and watching kangaroos hop through their local landscape. From that day on, when someone asked me where I’d like to travel, Australia was the answer. About seven years ago a young friend from Germany, travelled to Australia. She sent me a post card of herself holding a Koala Bear. This was her gift, in case I never made it there myself. Little did you know that it watered the dream I carried deep inside.
I’ve never traveled outside my country just to treat myself. That may sound like a lie since I am writing this from Costa Rica where I’ve been for over two months. I almost treated myself into coming here originally. But I was too fearful to come alone and had talked myself out of it. Within two weeks of that spoken, “No, I can’t do it,” I met a man who was moving to Ecuador, South America. “I’ve had daydreams of South America,” I thought. I immediately wanted to join him. It was a high risk situation but I sold most of my things, gave up my home and job, buried my Mom and packed for the move. I was a bit stubborn at first about seeing the large STOP signs along the way but eventually I paid heed to them. This was not my path, but his. I rerouted to Costa Rica.
I arrived September 21st with a return ticket for December 19th. (Costa Rica
demands that you have a return ticket within 90 days.)
I leaned strongly towards staying longer here. I was quickly rooted in a
routine of working in the green house, preparing outside gardens and
training my friends’ two beautiful German Shepherds. How could I leave?
For several years now I have been paying attention to messages from critters and occasionally from friends. I knew lizard was talking to me as ‘he’ and Gecko started appearing to me more and more. 
Lizard: “Follow your own path. I will help you clear the fears and doubts found along the way.” Gecko chattered to me every night outside my room, “I will help show you how to emerge successfully from the changes occurring within.”
Daily Vultures circled over head. “Fly with us, we will teach you how to bring your unconscious desires into consciousness; soar above your own limitations.” Dove softly cooed, “Tap into your own creative energies.” The Motmot bird sat staring at me on three occasions, “Do you hear me? I will help you manifest your destiny as you listen to your own intuition.” The Kiskadee, too, would land and look at me, “I can teach you to be brave,” I’d feel him say.
Bat, one night, flew across my path in ‘slow motion.’ My friends didn’t seem to take notice but I have watched bats for years and this one was so slow I could see his full body shape. “Listen to the voice of your soul speaking.”
I asked a girlfriend to tune into receiving a dream about me. That night she shared the following exert from her dream of me: “It is time for you to move from the passenger seat to the driver’s seat.” Another girl friend pulled cards for me, at my request and the ‘past changes’ was mentioned as well as new changes coming up. Bat also lead me to hear from Stag through a friend’s visit from one.
I’d like to expound on that message (written in italics) as it was so confirming to my idea of going to Australia.
(Thank you Amy, I used your picture of Stag from http://herladypinkrose.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/stags-message/) 
Stag shared that:
- This is an opportunity to release something, to make room for the new. (Is it time to let go of my attachments to ‘my’ veggie garden and Max and Lily?)
- It’s time to pay close attention to information that comes through psychically. (I’ve shared a few things above under the Bat comments.)
- This is an Invitation for an adventure: I had a sudden invitation to visit Australia from someone last week who I hadn’t chatted with in over a year. I contacted another friend about a blueberry farm he had helped at for two months in 2006. I found out that she looks for help via WOOFers between January and May. I made a list of people, including a cousin who lives in Australia and came up with five names. I phoned my ex boss about some temporary work over Xmas and she said she plans on going to Perth in February and I’m welcome to join her.
There was more from Stag but this paints a clear enough picture. Fears continue to flit in and out ever since I announced my decision. The big challenge will be ‘not to get too comfortable’ back on home ground in Canada. It helps that they’ll be experiencing winter . What gives me the greatest incentive is that this trip is for ME. I hear my ‘teenage me’ sigh, “It’s about time. I thought you’d never care enough to follow through.”
In closing a message from the heart of the German Shepherd breed:
Pursue your passions fearlessly – no matter where they take you.
nanceeshares 