My purpose is to explore and express my love of beauty and the beauty of love. Here’s some of what I’ve come up with.

When Spirit Speaks in Poetry

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One of the layers woven into a Divine Storytelling Time Package is something I call the Spirit Calling Card Reading.

If you’re new here, Divine Storytelling Time is a deeply intuitive offering that unfolds over several hours. It includes a one-hour audio journey and a Visual Gift created from layered symbolic imagery, and it invites a way of listening I often describe as becoming a gentle detective — curious, embodied, and attentive rather than analytical.

This post focuses on the Spirit Calling Card Reading — and invites you to begin engaging with poetic, symbolic guidance in your own life.

A word. An image. A conversation.

Each Spirit Calling Card carries two forms of language at once:

  • a single word

  • and one of my paintings or photographs

These cards come from a now sold-out limited edition set of 88, created from years of visual work and intuitive seeing. The image on each card matters just as much as the word. Together, they speak in a language that bypasses logic and goes straight to felt sense.

At the very beginning of my 4–5 hours of work for a client, I draw five of these cards.

In this particular spread, the words are:

transform · open · truth · love · clarity

Individually, they are simple. Familiar.

But when the images are placed beside them — and the words are allowed to rearrange — they stop behaving like definitions and begin behaving like symbols in motion.

Before you read on…

Before you move any further, I invite you to pause for a moment.

Bring to mind your life as it is right now.
Is there a situation, relationship, decision, or inner question that feels unfinished or unclear?

You don’t need to name it perfectly. Just hold it gently in awareness as you continue reading.

Five words. One living sentence.

Although clients are welcome to explore all possible combinations, I intuitively choose the sentence that feels like the gateway — the one that opens the way into the visions and deeper storytelling that follow.

Here are a few examples of how these five words might come together:

  • Open to true love’s transforming clarity.
  • Transform your truth by loving this clear opening.
  • Love transforms what truth opens with clarity.
  • From openness to clarity: let love truly transform.
  • Open. Be truthful in love. Let clarity transform.
  • Truly open to love by clear transformation.
  • Transform your truth by clearly opening to love.

As you read them, notice:

Which sentence speaks most strongly to the situation you’re holding?
Which one creates a subtle or marked shift in your body — goosebumps, a softening, a resistance, a quiet recognition?

That felt response matters more than understanding the words.

How meaning begins to take shape

Poetic guidance isn’t fixed. It meets the moment you’re in.

Take this sentence:

Open to true love’s transforming clarity.

On one day, this might suggest:

  • opening inwardly rather than outwardly
  • allowing clarity to come through feeling, not explanation
  • letting unconditional love shift how you see the situation before you act or judge

On another day, the same sentence might point to:

  • trying to understand instead of being understood
  • allowing love to shape how you share yourself with the world
  • trusting transformation rather than forcing resolution

Now consider this sentence:

Transform your truth by loving this clear opening.

At one moment, this might look like:

  • recognizing an opening and choosing progress not perfection
  • meeting an opportunity to learn something new
  • receiving a challenge as a gift in the bigger picture of your life

At another time, it could mean:

  • stretching your comfort zones to grow
  • letting love lead rather than control
  • trusting that truth can transform as it’s met with love and openness

These are not instructions — just illustrations.

You’re invited to work with the sentence that speaks most strongly to you.

What might it mean now?
And which meaning feels more aligned with guidance from your Higher Self?

Your meaning matters

After reading the examples, return to the sentence that spoke to you.

Ask yourself:

  • If this sentence were guiding me today, what inspired action might I take?

  • How would I proceed differently?

You don’t need to answer these questions immediately.

Often, the guidance reveals itself later — in a conversation, a choice, a bodily response, or a moment of unexpected clarity.

Try this for yourself

Symbolic language doesn’t give instructions. It opens space.

Return to the five words:

transform · open · truth · love · clarity

Rearrange them.
Say the sentences out loud.

Choose the sentence that feels the strongest — not the one that sounds the most poetic or correct.

Let it walk beside you for the day.
Not as an answer.
As a companion.

A few gentle ways to continue engaging:

  • Turn your sentence into an affirmation and write it down where you can see it.

  • Sit with the images on the cards and notice what additional layers of meaning they evoke.

Then, live your life.

That’s where the wisdom becomes real.

One layer of a larger story

The Spirit Calling Card Reading is only one layer of a Divine Storytelling Time Package.

It opens the door — but it is supported and deepened by the other elements:

  • the one-hour audio journey, where story, metaphor, and insight unfold
  • the Visual Gift, a custom piece of digital art layered with symbolic imagery (with and without an affirmation)
  • and worksheets that support the attitude of the gentle detective

(You may wish to explore those layers in previous blog posts here:)
→ The Visual Gift
→ The Audio Journey
→ The Attitude of the Detective

Together, these layers form a cohesive intuitive reading — one that meets you where you are and walks with you toward what’s emerging.

The Spirit Calling Card layer is delivered as a large printable file, giving you the option to cut out the cards and continue working with them over time.

An Invitation

IIf this style of intuitive coaching resonates — one that works through symbolism, story, and your own inner knowing rather than prediction — you may be ready to receive a Divine Storytelling Time Package of your own.

This work is created intuitively over 4–5 hours, in collaboration with your Team of Divine Helpers.
It is not done live and does not involve Zoom or an in-person session.

Instead, your reading is delivered as a downloadable link, allowing you to work with it in your own time and return to it whenever you feel called.

Investment: $247 CAD

If you feel the quiet yes, you can click below to begin.

👉 [Click here to invest in Divine Storytelling Time]

Trust the timing. This offering is here when you are ready.

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Love Oracle 40 – A Return to Peace

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There are many ways we return to peace.

Not as something we reach once and hold onto…
but as a living experience we move in and out of, again and again.

Sometimes, it asks us to release what we’ve been carrying.
Sometimes, it meets us in a moment of being held.
Sometimes, it rises quietly from within.
And sometimes, it begins as something small we choose to nurture.

Each of these paintings holds a different doorway into that return.

Take a moment to look at them.

Notice which one draws you in…
or perhaps which one stays with you.

Then scroll down to find its message.

You may feel called to one, or to all four.

Trust what speaks.

Love Oracle Message 1 – Let it Be Held

Dear Beloved,

There is something you have been holding very carefully.

Perhaps for a long time.
Perhaps without even realizing the weight of it.

You have carried it with care… with responsibility… with the quiet belief that it is yours to manage, to resolve, to keep steady.

And yet, there is a gentle invitation here.

Not to try harder.
Not to hold more tightly.

But to offer it up.

To place it… fully… into something greater than your own effort.

What if you didn’t have to keep holding this alone?

What if peace is not something you create through control…
but something you enter through surrender?

There is a deeper intelligence moving through your life.
One that does not rush.
One that does not strain.

It does not ask you to abandon what you care about—
only to release the way you are carrying it.

Even now, you can soften your grip.

Even now, you can take one thing—just one—
and lift it into the hands of peace.

Not as a final act.
But as a beginning.

And then notice…

what begins to hold you in return.

Painting: Into the Hands of Peace (12″ x 36″)
Learn more: [Blog post]
Order Prints [In your choice of size & medium]

Love Oracle Message 2: Allow Yourself to Be Held

Dear Beloved,

You have learned how to be strong.

How to keep going.
How to hold yourself steady, even when things feel uncertain.

And this strength is real.

But there is another way peace meets you.

Not through effort…
but through allowing.

There are moments when you are not being asked to stand taller…
but to soften.

To let yourself be supported in ways you may not fully see or understand.

And sometimes… that begins with a simple willingness to ask.

To reach toward someone you trust.
To let another person show up for you.
To allow care to move toward you in a tangible, human way.

Or to turn inward… and quietly ask your Team of Divine Helpers to come closer.
To support you.
To hold what you cannot.

What if being held is not something that just happens…
but something you can open to?

Peace does not always arrive as clarity or resolution.

Sometimes, it comes as an embrace.
Through presence.
Through connection.
Through the quiet ways support finds you when you let it.

You may notice it in a conversation that softens something inside you.
In a hand on your shoulder.
In the unseen comfort that meets you when you pause and ask.

Can you allow that?

Not by pushing…
but by opening.

You are not meant to carry everything alone.

There is strength in what you hold.

And there is also strength in letting yourself be held—
by others,
by the unseen,
and by life itself.

Painting: Held in the Arms of Peace (12″ x 24″)
Learn more: [Blog post]
Order Prints [In your choice of size & medium]

Love Oracle Message 3: Turn Within

Dear Beloved,

There is a part of you that is always at peace.

Not because life is quiet.
Not because the mind is still.

But because it exists beneath all of that.

You may have noticed how quickly your attention is drawn outward—
toward what needs to be done, understood, or resolved.

And yet, the peace you seek is not waiting for you there.

It is waiting for you within.

Not as something to achieve…
but as something to return to.

You do not need a perfect practice.
You do not need to quiet every thought.

You only need a moment of willingness.

A breath where you pause.
A soft turning inward.

Even now, you can feel it.

That subtle presence.
That quiet awareness that has been here all along.

What happens if you rest there… even briefly?

Not reaching.
Not striving.

Just allowing yourself to be with what is already true.

There is a joy that lives in this space.

Not loud.
Not fleeting.

But steady… and ever-renewing.

The more you turn toward it,
the more it reveals itself to you.

And the more you begin to recognize—

you were never separate from it.

Painting: Peace as Ever New Joy (12″ x 24″)
Learn more: [Blog post]
Order Prints [In your choice of size & medium]

Love Oracle Message 4: Tend What is Growing

Dear Beloved,

Not everything in your life is meant to bloom all at once.

There are things quietly taking root within you.
Small shifts.
New ways of being that may not yet be fully visible.

It can be easy to overlook them.

To focus instead on what hasn’t arrived…
what isn’t clear…
what still feels unfinished.

And yet, there is another way of meeting this moment.

What if you are exactly where you need to be?

Not by accident…
but through everything you have lived, chosen, and walked through to arrive here.

There is peace in that.

A quiet settling into the truth that nothing has been wasted.
That every step has shaped who you are… and what is now ready to grow.

From here, your attention can soften and shift.

Not toward what is missing—
but toward what is already taking root.

What is going well?
What feels aligned, even in a small way?
What is asking for your care, your presence, your continued yes?

These are your seeds.

Some you have already planted.
Some are beginning to take hold.
And some are ready now… waiting for you to bring them into the light of your awareness.

Peace is found here.

In honouring what you have already begun—
and in consciously tending what is ready to grow next.

You are not behind.

You are in the midst of your own unfolding.

And your life, as it is right now,
is the ground from which your tree continues to grow.

Stay with it.
Care for it.

And trust what is becoming.

Painting: Planting Seeds of Peace (12″ x 24″)
Learn more: [Blog post]
Order Prints [In your choice of size & medium]

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What Listening Is Really Like

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When people hear the words intuitive reading, they often imagine a conversation — questions asked, insights given, meaning explained.

Divine Storytelling Time is something quite different.

At the heart of the experience is a one-hour audio recording — a continuous, dream-like storytelling journey that unfolds when I ask for a reading for you and connect our Teams of Divine Helpers. What comes is not advice, prediction, or interpretation, but a living inner landscape.

I see what feels like a benevolent cinematic sequence — scene after scene — and I simply describe everything as it appears. There are no villains, no warnings, no outcomes promised. Just imagery, movement, place, and tone — offered faithfully, moment by moment.

My role is not to guide the story or explain it.
My role is to witness and narrate.

Your role is to listen.

And this is where the experience continues long after the recording ends.

Rather than being something you listen to once, Divine Storytelling Time is designed to be returned to again and again. I encourage people to come back to the same recording over time, each listening held with new questions, new life circumstances, and fresh curiosity.

The story doesn’t change.
You do.

What stands out on a second or third listening is often very different from what caught your attention the first time. A small detail may begin to glow. A place that felt neutral may suddenly feel meaningful. A scene you barely noticed may quietly step forward.

This is why listening — not interpretation — is the practice.

Each Divine Storytelling Time includes several elements that support this ongoing relationship with the recording:

  • A one-hour mp3 audio recording of your complete storytelling journey, link delivered by email

  • Two custom Visual Gifts, created using layered photography from my international archive — symbolic companions you can return to visually between listenings (one client’s example above)

  • A photograph of your Spirit Calling Card reading, offering another reflective layer to work with intuitively

  • Worksheets designed to support repeated listening, journaling, and personal reflection over time

Divine Storytelling Time is offered as a complete, self-paced experience at $247 Canadian (~$181 U.S.), with your audio and visual files delivered via a private download link.

These elements aren’t meant to explain the story or tell you what it means. They exist to help you stay in relationship with what you hear — at your own pace, in your own way.

To offer a gentle sense of the tone and rhythm of this work, I’ve also shared a short 6-minute audio sample, recorded at a live event where I offered a brief Divine Storytelling Time experience to a group. It’s not a personal reading — simply a way to hear the style, cadence, and spaciousness of the storytelling.

You can find it here:
https://www.dominiquehurley.com/try-this-6-minute-divine-storytelling-time-sample

Nothing in Divine Storytelling Time is predictive.
Nothing is imposed.
Nothing needs to be solved.

It’s an invitation to listen —
to notice what stays with you,
to return with new questions when they arise,
and to trust your own inner wisdom as the primary guide.

Listening doesn’t end with understanding.
It often reveals the next small, authentic step — when you’re ready to take it.

The story arrives for you.
The meaning unfolds within you.
And, in its own time, inspired action takes shape through you.

And the listening continues,
as long as you wish to stay with it.

“Honestly, working with Dominique was amazing! It was a very powerful experience that I highly recommend. So much of the imagery she created really resonated with me. Her visual gifts are lovely and she has an incredible talent at painting images and entire scenes for you with her words. Through her reading, Dominique was able to channel the answers I was looking for, showing me that they were deep within me all along.”

If this way of listening resonates,
the invitation is open here:

Heart Heart Yes, please.

 

 

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7 Original Universal Law Mandalas Available

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These are more than paintings. They are portals into the Universal Energy Flow.

Co-created with my Team of Divine Helpers in 2015, each mandala carries the living frequency of a Universal Law—inviting you not just to understand it, but to experience it.

If one is meant for you, you’ll feel it. Scroll slowly. Notice what draws you.

Available Original Mandalas

Let yourself pause before reading.

Which one draws your attention first? Which one lingers? That’s the place to begin.

The Law of Correspondence:

The world as you see and experience it stems from your thoughts and feelings. The more you nurture and cultivate your inner world, the more your outer world will match your true essence. Moment-by-moment, are you choosing light or darkness – love or fear?

Learn more
Purchase

 

 

The Law of Cause & Effect:

Everything happens for a reason. Today is the result of your past thoughts and actions. Tomorrow is being shaped through your thoughts and actions of today. What kind of future are you creating?

Learn more
Purchase

 

 

 

painting The Law of Compensation

The Law of Compensation:

The more you give, the more you get. The opposite is also true. So what doors are you opening with your generosity and kindness? What are you contributing, receiving, building in your world?

Learn more
Purchase

 

 

 

The Law of Relativity:

Everything is relative. You create your misery by comparing yourself and your life to what you judge as better people, circumstances, or times. Nothing has meaning except the meaning you give it. Use your judgements to guide you out of the darkness and into the Light. Love what is, and be happy.

Learn more
Purchase

 

 

The Law of Polarity:

We live in a dualistic world. It’s what makes existence possible. There’s no north without south, hot without cold, success without failure, etc. The beauty is that there’s a whole continuum of existence between those polar opposites. When you focus on the opposite of what you don’t want, you start moving along the continuum towards what you do want. Where attention goes, energy flows. You always have a choice. Which way do you want to tip the scale?

Learn more
Purchase

 

The Law of Rhythm:

Nothing is random. There’s order in the Universe through the repetitive movement, patterns, and cycles in everything. This is as true about the seasons as it is about relationships and the economy. Don’t fight the cycles. Work with them to your advantage. Mastering the Law of Rhythm means finding balance and equanimity no matter which way the pendulum is swinging.  Are you riding an emotional roller coaster or are you in a state of inner peace and joy, no matter what?
Learn more
Purchase

 

The Law of Gender:

First, gender exists in everything and on all planes: physical, mental, and spiritual. It takes both male properties (will, penetration, action, expression) and female properties (intuition, openness, allowing, nurturing) for all creation. Second, everything needs time to gestate and grow. For humans, it takes 9 months. For your dreams and goals, it depends. The more you focus on and nurture your dreams, the faster they’ll come to fruition. Any doubt or negativity will stunt or kill their growth. Be patient and keep on believing. Are you feeding your dreams or have you given up on them?

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Benefits

Living with a Universal Law mandala may give you:
• greater clarity in decision-making
• a deeper sense of personal responsibility and empowerment
• more awareness of patterns—and the ability to shift them
• a feeling of being supported by something larger than yourself
• a visual focal point for meditation, reflection, or intention

Each mandala is

• an original 30” x 30” acrylic painting on gallery-wrapped canvas (no framing needed)
• created through an intuitive, meditative process
• connected to one of the Universal Laws

These works have been exhibited across Newfoundland and were featured when I was the godmother of the Atlantic Visual Arts Festival (FAVA) in Caraquet, NB.

There are now 8 remaining from the original 12-piece collection.

Pricing & Purchases

Each mandala is now on sale for $2,500 CAD
(approximately $1,000 below my usual price for this size)

Payment plans are available (up to 12 months)

To purchase:
Follow the link beside each piece or reach out directly to arrange e-transfer or a payment plan.

 

May each mandala find the home it’s meant for.

And if someone comes to mind as you explore these, feel free to pass this along.

 

 

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An Easter Opening of Universal Energy Flow (8 Remain)

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Happy Easter Week!

There’s something about this time of year that feels like a quiet resurrection.

Not always dramatic.
Not always visible.

But something is rising.

Over the past year, I’ve been living a very different rhythm of life—having moved to be with my father, to support him in his 90s. And now, a year later, he is stronger. Steadier. More himself again.

And in that… something in me has also returned.
A new energy. A deeper clarity in my painting and spiritual practice.

Which makes what happened last weekend feel… aligned.

After over a year carefully crated in the studio of my former Newfoundland home, an offer came in for four of my Universal Law Mandalas.

And I said yes.

Not just to the sale…
but to letting the paintings go where they are meant to go—trusting that, in essence, they remain part of the same whole even if separated. (Law of Divine Oneness)

So here we are

I am now releasing the remaining 8 mandalas individually.

Each one:

  • was exhibited as part of the collection on both coasts of Newfoundland
  • was featured at the Festival des Arts Visuels de l’Atlantique (FAVA) in Caraquet, NB
  • carries the teachings of one of the 12 Universal Laws, guided by my Team of Divine Helpers during intuitive readings you can hear in my Guide to the 12 Universal Laws
  • and has been created as both a visual meditation focal point and an energetic portal
  • has an accompanying guided visioning meditation
  • is 30″ x 30″ on gallery-wrapped canvas – no framing required

These are not just paintings.

They are living frequencies. (Law of Vibration)
Anchors for intention.
Mirrors for your inner world. (Law of Correspondence)

An Easter Invitation

Easter reminds us that nothing is ever truly stuck.

Energy moves.
Light returns.
New beginnings are always available. (Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy)

What if this season wasn’t just something you observe…
but something you step into?

What if you chose—consciously—to shift something in your life?

To follow what feels alive. (Law of Attraction)
To take a step toward what matters. (Law of Action)
To trust that what you give your energy to… grows. (Law of Cause & Effect)

A personal note

When I moved into my new space, I had the summary mandala shipped to me.

Every day, I see all 12 Laws reflected back.

And over time, I’ve come to understand their lessons in a much deeper way—
not as an idea… but as a lived experience.

Caregiving time, where presence became the practice.
Rebuilding time, where quiet strength took root.
Nine months without painting.
Then painting again, as the current returned.
Mandalas on pause, held in potential for a year.
Mandalas now finding their way to their new homes.

Everything has its time. (Law of Rhythm)

And when we stop resisting that…
there’s a kind of peace that settles in.

The invitation -and a bit of practical magic

To keep things fair, the remaining 8 are $2,500 each—the same price as the four that already found their homes.

That’s about $1,000 less than my usual pricing for paintings this size—an Easter treat for anyone ready to welcome one home!

Payment plans are welcome—up to a year if needed.

Because for me, this isn’t just about selling paintings.

It’s about trusting that when I share my work—when I let it move into the world—it creates its own return in ways I don’t need to control. (Law of Compensation)

My intention is simple:
to see each of these pieces land where they are truly received.

And truthfully, there is a sense of liberation in this for me as well.

They’ve been held in crates for over a year—waiting, paused, without space to be here with me or to be experienced by others.

There was a time when letting them go felt urgent.
That’s no longer the energy.

Now, it feels like opening a door.
Letting something move again.

Because energy is meant to flow—and these pieces are ready to be seen, lived with, and felt.

You don’t find these pieces by accident.

There is always a resonance.
A recognition.

A sense that something is speaking directly to you. (Law of Relativity)

And when that happens—
you have a choice.

To lean in… or not. (Law of Polarity)

To trust… or to wait.

To nurture what is quietly asking to be born in your life… (Law of Gender)
or to leave it as a possibility.

If one of these mandalas is calling to you, you’ll feel it.

I’ll be traveling to Newfoundland in mid-May to open the crates and deliver the four that have already found their homes.

*It would mean a lot to me to know where the others are going before then.*

See the available mandalas below.

Happy Easter

May this season meet you exactly where you are—
with space to breathe,
with light returning in its own quiet way,
and with a gentle openness to whatever is ready to unfold.

However this time holds meaning for you,
may it offer a sense of renewal,
and a reminder that life is always moving—
often in ways we can’t yet see.

And if something calls to you in the midst of it all—
softly, quietly, but persistently—
may you trust that enough to listen.

Blessings & Thanks,
Dominique

Follow the One That Calls You (8 Available)

Let yourself pause, feel, and notice which one speaks to you.

Follow the link to purchase online, or simply reply to this email to arrange payment by e-transfer or set up a payment plan.

Law of Divine Oneness:  

Sourced from Divine Energy, all that is seen and unseen comes from a field of infinite possibilities. Together, we move as one within a spiralling web of interconnectedness. What you do for one affects everyone. Can you feel yourself moving as part of the Divine Oneness?

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The Law of Correspondence:

The world as you see and experience it stems from your thoughts and feelings. The more you nurture and cultivate your inner world, the more your outer world will match your true essence. Moment-by-moment, are you choosing light or darkness – love or fear?

Learn more
Purchase

 

 

The Law of Cause & Effect:

Everything happens for a reason. Today is the result of your past thoughts and actions. Tomorrow is being shaped through your thoughts and actions of today. What kind of future are you creating?

Learn more
Purchase

 

 

 

painting The Law of Compensation

The Law of Compensation:

The more you give, the more you get. The opposite is also true. So what doors are you opening with your generosity and kindness? What are you contributing, receiving, building in your world?

Learn more
Purchase

 

 

 

The Law of Relativity:

Everything is relative. You create your misery by comparing yourself and your life to what you judge as better people, circumstances, or times. Nothing has meaning except the meaning you give it. Use your judgements to guide you out of the darkness and into the Light. Love what is, and be happy.

Learn more
Purchase

 

 

The Law of Polarity:

We live in a dualistic world. It’s what makes existence possible. There’s no north without south, hot without cold, success without failure, etc. The beauty is that there’s a whole continuum of existence between those polar opposites. When you focus on the opposite of what you don’t want, you start moving along the continuum towards what you do want. Where attention goes, energy flows. You always have a choice. Which way do you want to tip the scale?

Learn more
Purchase

 

The Law of Rhythm:

Nothing is random. There’s order in the Universe through the repetitive movement, patterns, and cycles in everything. This is as true about the seasons as it is about relationships and the economy. Don’t fight the cycles. Work with them to your advantage. Mastering the Law of Rhythm means finding balance and equanimity no matter which way the pendulum is swinging.  Are you riding an emotional roller coaster or are you in a state of inner peace and joy, no matter what?
Learn more
Purchase

 

The Law of Gender:

First, gender exists in everything and on all planes: physical, mental, and spiritual. It takes both male properties (will, penetration, action, expression) and female properties (intuition, openness, allowing, nurturing) for all creation. Second, everything needs time to gestate and grow. For humans, it takes 9 months. For your dreams and goals, it depends. The more you focus on and nurture your dreams, the faster they’ll come to fruition. Any doubt or negativity will stunt or kill their growth. Be patient and keep on believing. Are you feeding your dreams or have you given up on them?

Learn more
Purchase

 

Please share with those you feel would love to know about this opportunity. Blessings & thanks!

 

 

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This Image Is Not Random

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This image came through during a Divine Storytelling Time session.

I have permission to share it — but not the story it belongs to.

And that feels exactly right.

Because this work was never about revealing someone else’s answers.
It’s about helping you remember how to listen to your own.

When a Visual Gift is co-created during a session, it’s shaped intentionally through layers of my own photography, guided by your Team of Divine Helpers and Higher Self.

It doesn’t come as an illustration or a conclusion. It comes as a layered conversation — one that continues long after the session itself has ended.

These images don’t speak in sentences.
They speak in resonance.

You may notice your eyes drawn to one area again and again. A colour that lingers. A shape that feels strangely familiar. Or a quiet emotion you can’t quite name, but don’t want to push away.

That is the language of the soul.

Symbols Are Not Meant to Be Explained Away

We’re often taught to look for immediate meaning — to decode, define, and move on. But symbolic language doesn’t work that way. It unfolds in relationship with time, life, and lived experience.

A symbol may not mean anything to you today.
And then, weeks or months later, something shifts — and suddenly, it does.

This is why I don’t interpret either the story or the Visual Gifts for my clients in a prescriptive way.

My role is not to tell you what something means, but to help create a container where your own inner knowing can speak clearly and safely.

The image becomes a companion.
A mirror.
A quiet guide.

If This Image Stirs Something in You

If you feel drawn in — curious, calmed, unsettled, or gently opened — that response is not accidental.

The same symbolic intelligence is already active in your own life.

It shows up in the stories you’re drawn to.
The places that feel like home.
The questions that return when things go quiet.

In a recent post, I wrote about activating your inner detective — the part of you that notices patterns instead of dismissing them. The part of you that senses there’s more happening beneath the surface, even if you can’t yet name it.

Divine Storytelling Time is where that detective is given space, tools, and permission.

What Is Divine Storytelling Time?

A Divine Storytelling Time session is a held, one-on-one intuitive experience guided by your Team of Divine Helpers.

You aren’t present for the session.

I connect with your Team of Divine Helpers and Higher Self in sacred timing, wherever you are in the world. There’s no scheduling to coordinate and no time zones to navigate.

When the session is complete, you receive a link by email to download everything — including the recorded story and your Visual Gifts — allowing you to listen and reflect in your own space, at your own pace.

Many people find this creates a deeper sense of ease and openness, as there’s nothing to prepare for or perform.

You receive:

  • a recorded 60-minute intuitive story, spoken in the flow of the moment

  • a custom Visual Gift layered with symbolic meaning, provided as a high-resolution file suitable for large-scale printing, with one version including an affirmation and one without

  • a photo of your Spirit Calling Card reading (5 cards)

  • worksheets you can return to again and again as your life unfolds

These sessions are not about prediction or performance.
They are for people who don’t want answers handed to them — but are ready to listen more deeply to what’s already present within themselves.

Nothing is rushed. Nothing is forced.
What comes through arrives with precision and care.

Why the Visual Gift Matters

Words can open a door.
Images help you walk through it.

The Visual Gift you receive is not meant to be “understood” all at once. It’s meant to live with you — to reveal different layers as you do.

Many clients tell me they notice new things in their image (and story) months later, often at moments when they most need guidance or reassurance. That’s because symbolic language moves with you. It doesn’t stay frozen in time.

For some people, the meaning doesn’t stop at the image itself.

Along with the Visual Gift, you also receive links to the original photographs used in its creation. For some, knowing where an image was taken — the land, the light, the moment — becomes an additional layer of meaning, offering another way to listen and reflect.

You don’t need to figure it out.
You only need to stay curious.

An Invitation

If you feel a quiet yes as you read this — not urgency, not pressure, just recognition — that’s enough.

You don’t need to understand every symbol right away.
You only need to notice what stays with you.

A Divine Storytelling Time session is currently offered at:
$247 CAD (approximately $185 USD)

This is a reflective, gently playful, non-predictive session guided by your own inner wisdom.

Ready?

Heart Heart Step into Your Divine Storytelling Time
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Do You Like Mysteries? Activate Your Inner Detective

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Do you love detective movies — the kind where nothing is explained outright, where clues are scattered through images, symbols, overheard phrases, and seemingly small details that later turn out to matter?

Do you enjoy puzzles, inner exploration, and empowerment practices that keep the power in your hands rather than offering ready-made answers?

Then Divine Storytelling Time may be for you.

This is not a reading where I tell you what something means.
It’s an invitation to activate your own intuition — and to strengthen it through story, symbol, and image.

A Story You Don’t Consume — You Work With

When you book a Divine Storytelling Time package, I tune in on your behalf with your Team of Divine Helpers and receive a ~60-minute recorded symbolic story — like a vivid inner movie — co-created specifically for you.

The story arrives layered with scenes, metaphors, emotional tones, and recurring motifs. Nothing is labeled. Nothing is interpreted for you.

Because you are meant to do that part.

You become the detective of your own soul.

Some clues land immediately.
Others unfold slowly.
Some only reveal themselves once life begins to echo what the story has been quietly pointing toward.

This is intentional.

Why This Is Powerful for Developing Your Intuition

Intuition doesn’t grow by being told what something means.
It grows through attention, relationship, and practice.

Divine Storytelling Time is designed to keep the authority with you.

Rather than offering conclusions, the material invites you into an ongoing dialogue with your own inner knowing.

As you live your life, make decisions, notice synchronicities, and revisit the story, meaning reveals itself — not because I said so, but because you recognize it as true.

This is how intuitive trust is built.

The Effect of Practice

Over the years, repeat clients have shared something quietly powerful.

With each Divine Storytelling Time, they often move through the material more fluidly. They recognize symbols sooner. They trust their first impressions more readily. And they notice how their intuition — once tentative — has grown stronger and more responsive through use.

Not because they’re being given better answers.
But because they’ve practiced listening.

Divine Storytelling Time supports this kind of inner skill-building — gently, playfully, and in your own rhythm.

The Visual Gift: Bringing the Work Into Your Space

At the top of this post, you’ll see an example of the kind of multi-layered photographic art piece I create to accompany a Divine Storytelling Time. I call these Visual Gifts.

These images are not illustrations of the story.
They are parallel transmissions — visual landscapes inspired by what comes through, carrying their own symbolic language.

Each piece is created from layers of my own photography, gathered over years of travel and seeing the world through a contemplative lens. I’m intuitively guided through my personal archive of more than 38,000 original images, narrowing it down to five to seven photographs that want to speak together.

I share the source images with you, so you can see where each element comes from and where it was taken. For some, this context becomes part of the guidance — another set of clues woven into the work.

I then work slowly in Photoshop, blending these photographs by hand — shaping light, texture, and form in ways that are both aesthetically harmonious and symbolically and energetically resonant.

What emerges is not generated, but assembled with care — a visual field you can return to, live with, and listen to over time.

Each visual gift is delivered as a large, high-resolution digital file, suitable for printing. You receive the image both with and without an affirmation, so you can choose how you want to live with it.

Many people print their image and place it on a wall in their home, studio, or meditation space, allowing the work to remain alive in their environment — not as something to analyze, but as something to be in relationship with over time.

What’s Included

Your Divine Storytelling Time package includes:

  • A ~60-minute recorded symbolic story (MP3)— a moment-by-moment description of the images, scenes, and impressions I receive as the story unfolds

  • A Spirit Calling Card reading (image)

  • A guided reflection workbook (pdf)

  • A custom, layered digital art piece, delivered as a print-ready file (jpg)

This is material you can return to again and again — working with it for months or even years, until you feel complete.

You’ll know when you’re done.

What’s Involved & How It’s Delivered

Each Divine Storytelling Time takes me approximately 4–5 hours to create as I work in collaboration with your Team of Divine Helpers — listening, recording, and creating the visual piece inspired by what comes through.

Your complete package is delivered by email with a link to download your materials, allowing you to engage with them in your own time and at your own pace.

This Is Not About Answers — It’s About Alignment

Divine Storytelling Time is for those who:

  • want to develop and trust their intuition

  • enjoy symbolic language and inner exploration

  • are navigating decisions without wanting to outsource their knowing

  • feel called to work with Spirit in a collaborative, creative way

I don’t tell you what to do.
I open a space.
I translate what comes through into story and image.

You do the rest.

If You Feel the Pull

Divine Storytelling Time packages are $247 CAD (approximately $175 USD, plus applicable tax).

If this way of working speaks to you — if you enjoy mystery, meaning, and discovering truth through lived experience — you can book your session here:

👉 Divine Storytelling Time Packages
https://www.dominiquehurley.com/product/divine-storytelling-time-package

I’m ready when you are.

Love & Light,
Dominique

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Gliding Through Fear on the Rideau Canal

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The last time I skated on the Rideau Canal was seven years ago.

I’d come to Ottawa for a conference and, after a long day of sitting, went for a night skate, my backpack heavy with everything from the day—computer, books, shoes, boots, purse, and more.

I remember how much I was enjoying myself, gliding through the dimly lit canal, feeling capable and alive.

Then came a very clear intuitive nudge: Get off the canal and take a taxi back to the hotel.

I dismissed it. A taxi felt unnecessary. I was only a few kilometres away. Why not skate?

Not a minute later, my skate caught in a crack I didn’t see. I went down hard, arms up, the strap of my heavy backpack pinching something deep in my shoulder. The pain shot through me.

I couldn’t use my left arm. For weeks, I had to lift it with my right hand just to move it. It took three years of massage, acupuncture, Bowen therapy, and patience before my shoulder felt even somewhat normal again.

After that long recovery, it’s easy to see why seven years later, I was scared—and also excited.

I’d had fun skating over the past few years, from The Loop in St. John’s to recently at Rideau Hall with my new skates.

The joy of skating was real—but so was the fear, creeping in as procrastination and hesitation, that subtle inner resistance that demands willpower. Most of it was about returning to the canal, though part of it was about skating itself.

On a bright, cold Sunday afternoon, it took everything I had to get myself to the canal.

When I stepped off the bus, my right ankle hurt. I paused. Was this intuition—or fear looking for another reason to stop me? I asked quietly for clarity: If I’m meant to skate, let this pass. Within minutes, it did.

Then I put my skates on—and both arches seized into wicked cramps.

I breathed.

I gave myself full permission to quit at any time. Just getting to the canal was already a success. My body was gripped in fear—tight, braced, contracted. I stood still, breathing all the way down into my feet.

Then, instinctively, I took out my camera.

I started playing—shooting skaters, shooting while skating, letting my attention shift outward toward beauty, movement, and other people’s joy.

Somewhere in that shift, the cramps disappeared. My posture softened. My body remembered how to move. And I began to have fun.

Once home, I was already looking forward to returning—still cautious, but far less willing to let fear run the show.

I know from experience that where attention goes, energy flows. If I’d stayed focused on the fear of falling in my mind, my body would eventually have followed. Choosing play, presence, and curiosity, I broke that loop.

You can see a little of that play for yourself in the video at the top of the page — make sure to turn the music on, because it’s such a part of the fun!

Gliding Through Fear

Susan Jeffers, author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, wrote:

“The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it.”

For me, that day, “doing it” didn’t mean pushing through or overriding myself. It meant staying present. Listening. Breathing. Letting fear exist without letting it lead.

Byron Katie reminds us:

“When you argue with reality, you lose—but only 100% of the time.”

My fear wasn’t on the ice beneath my feet. It was in memory and imagination—past injury projected into the future. The moment I returned to this glide, this breath, this body, I stopped arguing with what was actually happening. And reality, it turned out, was kind.

I didn’t skate far that day. I didn’t need to. I left with cold cheeks, warm muscles, a full heart, 47 video clips —and a truth I’ll carry with me.

Even when fear grips us, we can choose presence over paralysis. The invitation is to live fully, here and now, in the only moment that ever truly exists.

I returned a few days later. The ice wasn’t perfect, and neither was I. I fell, slid on my belly, paused, and then got back up. Nothing dramatic. Nothing broken. Just life reminding me that falling isn’t failure—it’s part of learning how to glide.

I laughed the next morning when I read that day’s prayer at the end of the section on Wisdom in the book “Affirmations for Self-Healing” by Swami Kriyananda:

I am grateful, Lord, for every test You send me. Each time I stumble, help me to learn. Each time my human weakness makes me fall, help me to grow stronger. May I realize behind every pain Thy calm, reassuring wisdom.

As 2026 opens, perhaps the question is this:
What fear is ready to be faced—with presence and wisdom as your guide—so it no longer blocks your joy, peace, or trust in the flow of life?

What might happen if, instead of bracing, you let yourself glide freely through it?

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New Interview: Channeled with Julie Edmonds

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I’m excited to share a heartfelt, 40-minute conversation I had with Julie Edmonds on her YouTube show Channeled: Tapping Into the Wisdom of Your Soul — you’ll find the video at the top of this post.

When Julie reached out this past July, just three months after I’d moved from Newfoundland to Ottawa to help my father, I wasn’t painting, wasn’t teaching, and wasn’t sure where my own path was heading. Part of me wondered if I should decline the interview — Was I even an “active” artist or lightworker anymore?

But another part whispered, This story might help someone.
And that was enough.

Julie’s invitation arrived before I had even made the decision to move out of my father’s house (which would soon be for sale) and into my own space.

Looking back, it was perfect timing—another example of how intuitive living often asks us to say yes long before we see the full picture.

By the time we recorded the interview in mid-October, everything had shifted. Papa had regained much of his strength and independence. I was settled in my new home, grounded, connected, and about to start painting the very first piece for my own space.

What’s unfolded since has surprised even me: two personal paintings, four more created for sale, and the birth of Paintings with Purpose—my new offering for those wanting art aligned with their intention.

And yes…
When I listened to the interview, I laughed at how fast I was talking. Months without talking about intuitive living, and suddenly it all came rushing back. Excitement has its own velocity!

In the interview, we explore:

  • How intuition has guided my many moves despite my dislike for change
  • Why saying “yes” to Spirit — even when clarity is foggy — can lead to unexpected transformation
  • the Intuition into Action Treasure Map: 5 Steps to a Happy Healthy Life

Whether you’ve walked with me through this season of change or you’re arriving fresh to my world, I hope this conversation offers something meaningful for your own path.

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I’m Ready When You Are

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The past six and a half months have been a deeply meaningful time of love in action — helping my father settle into his new home after months in hospital, preparing his house for sale, and walking beside him through change. Now, both of us have found our balance again. I’m thrilled to say he celebrated his 93rd birthday in fine form a couple of weeks ago.

Papa is thriving in his residence just a 15-minute walk from my new apartment, and we still enjoy our nature walks together  — sometimes up to 5 km with his walker (watch short video here)! I’ve moved into my own bright, peaceful space — my little monk’s cave in a luxury building — and this new season of quiet independence feels like a conscious act of self-care and renewal.

Since the move on October 1, I’ve been slowing down and listening in. My Me-time has been filled with yoga, meditation, reading spiritual texts by the upper terrace fire, healthy cooking, and creating sacred space. I’ve been painting again (a new work called Cradled in the Infinite, which I’ll share soon) and aligning with the rhythm of Spirit — resting, opening, and co-creating.

Now that I’ve taken the time to realign and care for myself, I’m once again ready to support you on your own journey. 

Divine Storytelling Time Packages — Now Taking Orders

My Divine Storytelling Time intuitive packages are open once more for those who feel called.

These are not psychic readings. They’re soul stories channeled through Spirit to help you reconnect with your own intuition. Each one is a sacred collaboration with your higher guidance.

When I tune in on your behalf, I receive a symbolic story — like a vivid inner movie — filled with images and messages meant just for you. You become the interpreter, the detective of your own soul.

Your package includes:

  • A 60-minute recorded story (mp3)

  • A guided workbook for reflection

  • A downloadable art print of your Spirit Calling Card reading

  • Your Visual Gift: A custom visual digital art piece I create using layers of photography inspired by your story — a luminous expression of your soul’s journey. You can download and have this printed in your choice of size.

This is playful yet profound inner work — a creative mirror to help you realign with your True Self and take inspired steps forward.

I’m now taking new bookings through my online shop or email me back if you want to pay by e-transfer ($247 Canadian + tax / ~ $175 U.S.).

I’m ready when you are. Order Yours by clicking here.

Note: Below is an example of the Visual Gift I create to accompany a client’s Divine Storytelling Time’s recording.

Coming Soon – New Painting Reveal

My next post will share the new painting I’ve been co-creating with Spirit for my sleeping space — a visual prayer called Cradled in the Infinite. Every element carries the energy of protection, healing, and love.

P.S. Early Black Friday Calendar & Print Sale

My print shop will hold its Early Black Friday Sale from November 14 – 21 — 20% off everything, automatically applied at checkout.

This early start ensures plenty of time for printing and shipping before Christmas.

It’s the perfect time to bring some light and colour home — or to gift a loved one something that inspires peace and joy.

Explore my 2026 Heartstrings Calendar (click here), featuring details from some of my favourite paintings, and browse my full selection of prints (click here)— on canvas or paper, in your choice of size.

Mark your calendars and return in a couple of weeks to make your holiday purchases.

From My Heart

May your own inner rhythms bring you back to balance, beauty, and peace.


How can I be of service to you? Just click “reply” and reach out — I answer every email personally.

With love,
Dominique

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