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Discovering your soul's journey through chakra archetypes, nature's medicine and cosmic events. How deeply do you want to live your life? Hello!

Senses of the Soul is dedicated to supporting others on their soulful journey to embrace their highest illuminative potential. All parts of this visionary business, from its clinical practice, product line, Ascension offerings, and seaside garden/botanical sanctuary form a cohesive vision to uplift, inspire and empower others to become conscious co-creators of their own life, and engage as self-r

esponsible caretakers of our beloved planet. Now more than ever we are being called to step up to heal our wounds and reclaim our authentic inner power in service to each other, the planet, and the universe. My name is Samantha Orthlieb - Contemporary Medicine Woman and Evolutionary Oracle who is able to intuit the health challenges of my clients on a physical and psychospiritual level and connect them with the appropriate plant or other vibrational medicine energy needed to restore balance to the individual in the areas he or she needs to heal. I believe that everything on the planet and in the cosmos is part of one universal energy field and that every thought and action has the power to ripple out across the world. We are now in the Age of Aquarius and humanity is in the throes of creating a new way of living and being in preparation for the 2032 Golden Age. It is time to awaken, shed what no longer serves us, and step into our full potential. Illness and chaos will continue to manifest in the body, heart, and mind until we embrace self-responsibility, empowerment, and heart-centered, eco-spirituality. We can then become conscious co-creators with each other and establish a sustainable and fulfilling destiny on the planet for ourselves and future generations. Follow my Ascension Energies Updates for intuitively channeled insights on our Human Ascension process and the embodiment of a new Human Evolutionary Template within ourselves. My Ascension Updates contain the latest themes, patterns, and common health and wellness issues that are affecting each of us and the collective consciousness as we upgrade and heal during this new paradigm of Love and Light. My book: Opening the Senses of the Soul draws on over 20 years of clinical experience working with thousands of clients to illuminate how returning to Mother Earth in the form of vibrational medicine can be one of our most valuable tools in this process. Opening the Senses of the Soul allows us to:

•move past our harmful physical symptoms, patterns, roles, beliefs, and self-serving, fear-based behaviours
•restore balance in our physical bodies and lives and release what no longer serves us
•reclaim our inner power and overcome our current cultural apathy
•open our intuition and awareness to enable us to be of service for the highest good of all
•flow with change and integrate new messages from the universal consciousness into our whole being
•live with depth and focus in our daily experiences

Samantha Orthlieb: Registered Herbalist, Vibrational Medicine practitioner, Evolutionary Oracle, Land Guardian, Plant Protector, and contemporary Medicine Woman. A graduate of Wild Rose College and the Academy of International BioEnergetic Sciences, I have also trained with Pacific Essences, Wild Earth Animal Essences, and Star Essences. www.sensesofthesoul.ca.

08/25/2026

Beautiful Soul, August's botanical ally is one I hold with particular reverence: Reishi.

Reishi has been called the Mushroom of Immortality in traditional Chinese medicine, and while that name carries divine intention, it speaks to something genuinely profound about what this extraordinary fungi offers.

Reishi stills the mind. Not the surface-level quiet of distraction, but the deep, genuine quieting of the mental chatter that keeps us disconnected from our own inner knowing. When the mind is still, the heart can be heard. And when the heart can be heard, we begin to live not from duty or fear, but from passion, purpose, and genuine alignment.

Reishi strengthens the 4th, 5th, and 6th chakras, Heart, Throat, and Third Eye, building a living bridge between the head and the heart, so that inner knowing can be heard and lived with increasing clarity.

And like all mushrooms, Reishi carries the wisdom of transmutation, the murky, mysterious, often uncomfortable process by which something old and decaying becomes the fertile ground for extraordinary new life.

This is the Alchemist's teaching embodied in a single plant ally.

From what is ending in your life right now, what extraordinary new beginning is quietly preparing to emerge?

Love, Samantha

Reishi mushroom essence is an alchemical ingredient in the Alchemist Essence. Reishi Mushroom tincture and essence are in the Alchemist Elixir. Shop Here: https://sensesofthesoul.ca/collections/monthly-specials

08/24/2026

A soul inquiry as we approach the 2nd Eclipse of August, a Pisces Full Moon Partial Lunar Eclipse on August 27th, 9:18PM PT.

What does an empowered future actually look like for you?

Not the life you have been conditioned to want. Not the version of success defined by comparison to others. But the life that arises when 6th chakra archetypes of the Sage within you sees clearly, and The Alchemist within you says: yes, this is what is possible when shadow has been transmuted.

What are you designing right now, from this season of soul-led recalibration?

Not what you will design eventually, when the conditions are perfect and the fear is gone and the path is clear. Now. In the middle of Becoming. With the resources you actually have, the awareness you have genuinely cultivated, and the wisdom you have earned through living.

The theme of August is Designing An Empowered Future. But the emphasis is not on the designing. It is on the empowered.

An empowered future is not built from fear-driven striving. It is not built from comparison or scarcity or the need for approval. It is built from the deep, quiet, soul-sourced knowing of a Sage who has learned what truly matters.

What truly matters to you?

Love Samantha

More in my August Ascension Energies Update: https://sensesofthesoul.ca/blogs/blog/august-2026-designing-an-empowered-future

08/20/2026

M8.12 SOLAR FLARE, Thursday, 20 August 2026 at 4:30am PT. Sun is more active again!

08/18/2026

Beautiful Soul, August's first supporting 6th chakra archetype is The Sage. And it is time to look at this energy more deeply.

The Sage is not simply someone who is old or learned. The Sage is the soul who has moved through enough of life's genuine initiations that they can hold wisdom without becoming attached to it. Who can see clearly without needing to be right. Who has developed what can only be called genuine discernment, the ability to perceive the truth of a situation, a person, or a moment, without the filter of ego, fear, or desire.

The Sage's gift to the world is perspective. The ability to hold seemingly contradictory truths simultaneously. To apply the Law of Relativity not as an intellectual exercise, but as a lived orientation, genuinely understanding that every experience serves a purpose, every pattern reveals a gift, every wound carries the seed of its own medicine.

The Sage's affirmation: I embrace my intuitive power, and allow self-transformation.

The Sage within you has been growing through every experience you have moved through, every challenge that required you to see beyond the surface, every loss that forced a deeper level of truth.

The Sage is not ahead of you on your path. The Sage is you, with the accumulated wisdom of all that you have lived.

Love Samantha

To support the Sage in you: https://sensesofthesoul.ca/collections/essences/products/sageessence

More in my August Ascension Energies Update: https://sensesofthesoul.ca/blogs/blog/august-2026-designing-an-empowered-future

Consider joining my Monthly Soul Journey Box Community: https://sensesofthesoul.ca/pages/new-monthly-soul-journey-box

08/14/2026

Beautiful Soul, on August 13th the Perseids meteor shower peaked and illuminated the sky in the wake of the August 12th New Moon and Total Solar Eclipse. And now, the integration of this powerful portal quietly begins.

Eclipse energy does not land all at once. The seeds planted in a Solar Eclipse portal germinate over days, weeks, and sometimes months. You may not immediately feel the magnitude of what has shifted. But something has shifted, at the level of your Soul's trajectory, your energetic blueprint, and the timeline of your destiny.

This is the patient, precise work of the 6th chakra archetype: The Alchemist

The Alchemist does not pursue dramatic, instantaneous transformation. The Alchemist works at the level of essence, changing the nature of the substance itself, not just its surface appearance. It is deliberate. It is intelligent. And it is rarely visible to the casual eye.

There is no part of what you have been through, no pattern, no wound, no experience you have held as a wrong turn, that was not serving your becoming. Every experience was necessary. Every challenge was the Alchemist's fire, doing its sacred work.

Rest if you need to rest. So much is changing internally so quickly, mind and body. Emotions are running high. The first eclipse this month has done what it was designed to do.

Now it is your task to integrate its gifts, with grace, with patience, and with the deep trust that all is unfolding in perfect time.

Love,
Samantha

More in my August Ascension Energies Update: https://sensesofthesoul.ca/blogs/blog/august-2026-designing-an-empowered-future

Consider joining my Soul Journey Box subscription to support you through these transformative times: https://sensesofthesoul.ca/pages/new-monthly-soul-journey-box

08/12/2026

Tomorrow, August 12, a Solar Eclipse arrives. And this eve of the eclipse is a sacred preparation.

Eclipse energy is not subtle. It accelerates what is already in motion, both the releasing of what is complete, and the arrival of what is being called in. Eclipses compress timelines. What might have taken months can shift in days or hours when the eclipse field is active.

A Solar Eclipse at a New Moon is the most powerful reset portal in the cosmic calendar, erasing old timelines, accelerating soul evolution, and opening the door to a genuinely new beginning that can change the trajectory of the next six months.

Before we step through this threshold, tonight and tomorrow invite an honest preparation:

What are you carrying into this eclipse that you are genuinely ready to release? Not what you think you should release, what you actually, genuinely, feel is complete?

And what empowered future are you choosing to step into? Not a borrowed vision. Your own. The one The Sage within you can see clearly. The one The Alchemist within you is already beginning to build.

Settle into that. The eclipse will meet you there.

Love,
Samantha

More in my August Ascension Energies Update: https://sensesofthesoul.ca/blogs/blog/august-2026-designing-an-empowered-future

If you need support and ritual to ground you during this transformative time: https://sensesofthesoul.ca/pages/new-monthly-soul-journey-box

08/10/2026

Beautiful Soul, August brings with it a profound spiritual law to work with this month: the Law of Relativity.

The Law of Relativity states that nothing in the physical world is inherently good or bad. Experiences are given meaning only through comparison and personal interpretation. A situation is not a problem until we decide, consciously or unconsciously, that it is one.

This is not a call to bypass your pain. It is a call to hold it differently.

When we apply the Law of Relativity honestly to our own lives, something remarkable happens. The wound we have been carrying as evidence that we are broken begins to reveal itself as the precise catalyst for our greatest growth. The pattern we have been ashamed of begins to show its gift. The chapter we have desperately wanted to put behind us begins to show us what it was teaching.

This month, August invites you to reframe past pain as powerful fuel for your Alchemist's inner work. By shifting your perspective, you can cultivate genuine gratitude for your present, and actively choose to design a life anchored in empowerment, inner harmony, and spiritual strength.

The affirmation of August: I dissolve unconscious cords with people and entities. I find harmony in disparate viewpoints and realities.

What is your soul being invited to see differently right now as you prepare to pass through the August 12th New Moon & Total Solar Ecipse Portal?

In service and divine liberation,
Samantha

More in my August Ascension Energies Update: https://sensesofthesoul.ca/blogs/blog/august-2026-designing-an-empowered-future

If you want to learn more about Spiritual Laws and how they affect you each month consider activating your subscription for my Monthly Soul Journey Box: https://sensesofthesoul.ca/pages/new-monthly-soul-journey-box

08/07/2026

August 8th, the Lion's Gate portal reaches its peak.

Every year on 8/8, the Earth, the Sun, and the star Sirius align, creating a direct, luminous channel between the higher cosmic frequencies of Sirian consciousness and the collective field of human awareness.

In ancient Egyptian tradition, the rising of Sirius heralded the flooding of the Nile, the beginning of a new cycle of extraordinary abundance and growth.

The Lion's Gate amplifies manifestation, activates the Third Eye, and delivers what are known as Light Codes directly into the human energy field. These are not metaphors. They are real transmissions of evolutionary intelligence that the soul absorbs when the conditions are right and the vessel is prepared.

August's theme of Designing An Empowered Future finds its greatest cosmic accelerator here.

The 8 carries the energy of infinite abundance and the eternal circulation between the material and spiritual worlds. Double 8, 88, amplifies this exponentially. And Leo, the sign through which this gateway opens, carries the archetypal energy of the sovereign soul: the one who knows, without apology, who they are and what they are here to create.

So you may want to spend some time in stillness, in intentional visioning, or in a simple ritual of gratitude and forward declaration.

The Lion's Gate is one of the most potent portals of the year. Step through it with presence.

Love, Samantha

More in my August Ascension Energies Update: https://sensesofthesoul.ca/blogs/blog/august-2026-designing-an-empowered-future

08/06/2026

Tomorrow (Aug 7th) Mercury's Shadow Lifts, It's Time to Move Fully Forward!

Mercury's post-retrograde shadow period draws to a complete close. The cycle of inner processing, revisiting, and emotional reassessment that began in late June is finally, fully complete.

You have done significant inner work over the past two months. Deep emotional processing. The reclaiming of your authentic voice. The honest reassessment of what you are truly building and what is ready to be released.

Now, with Mercury fully clear and the powerful amplifying energies of August's eclipse season opening around you, there is a natural forward momentum available. The fog lifts. The next steps begin to clarify with greater ease and confidence.

This is a potent moment to bring what has been revealed through the retrograde process into a focus, to look honestly at what has shifted, what still needs tending, and what your soul is genuinely calling you toward next.

Your new story is waiting!

Love Samantha

More in my August Ascension Energies Update: https://sensesofthesoul.ca/blogs/blog/august-2026-designing-an-empowered-future

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