January 18, 2024



Sunday Spiritual Service



The Lotus Center

124 County Highway 58

Oneonta, NY 13820

Also on Zoom



“The Story never ends - in the life of Friends!”           

Evidence of continuing life after death in synchronicity and magical moments-By Rev. Diana Friedell


            Emcee: Rev. Story Ducey



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2024 ISD Membership Drive



Happy New Year to our Members and Friends,


We are so amazed at the progress we've made since ISD Oneonta began its existence in 2016 as "a good idea" in a few people's heads! The Institute for Spiritual Development has has become the first metaphysical church and learning center in our area- as well as a an important part of so many of our lives as we move into our eighth year together. At our ISD Board meeting last night, we reviewed our vision, the "why" that carries us forward with commitment:


We believe that all great religions and philosophies contain within them the spark of truth and wisdom that can inspire within us a more complete understanding of our place in the universe. Aided by this belief, we seek to provide a supportive environment through Sunday services, spiritual healing, fellowship and education.


Here at the Institute, we have had so many great leaders, teachers, students and volunteers, who have kept the fire of that mission growing & thriving with their wisdom, creativity, intuition, support, and resilience to find our way through both the wonderful and the rocky times. We have had many beautiful, hilarious, and magical moments together! We are reaching our goals together.


Now is the time to renew your support and commitment to our mission and vision for 2024. Membership not only sustains ISD Oneonta in our yearly budget, but gives members a good discount on the price of classes/workshops & events. This year, for the first time since 2017, the Finance Committee and the Board decided it was necessary to raise the membership fee from $25 to $30 for an individual and from $35 to $40 for a family. Many of our routine expenses, like our accountant, constant contact, and paypal have raised their prices over the years, and although we have stayed within our budget, there are new expenses that go along with expanding our public reach, to online classes and services. If you want more information about our budget and setting priorities, please refer to the Annual Report from April of 2023. If you are currently a member you can renew your membership here. Our challenge for this year is to have all members renew by January 27th. Do you accept the challenge? If you are thinking about membership at ISD Oneonta, you can learn more and apply for membership here.


We also would like your ideas, thoughts, comments, which will help our ISD Board to formulate a vision for where we are headed in 2024. If you can take a few minutes to fill out the SURVEY, at the button below- your response is very valuable to us!


ISD Member/Friend SURVEY

Upcoming classes and events...


FREE CLASS!

"Ethics and Protocol for Intuitive

and Healing Practitioners"

w/JoAnn & Diana


January 18, 2024 at 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

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All you ever wanted to know about practicing legally, ethically, & correctly in your Psychic & Healing Work. Jo Ann Wormuth, Healing Program Director, and Diana Friedell, Pastor and C o-Director at ISD, review good practice & required protocol for giving messages, and energy healing sessions within ISD and in NY State. Free & Required for Intuitive Practitioner and Healing Program students.



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Magalene Meditation Circle

with Dale Capristo


January 18, 2024 at 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

On Zoom



Magdalena Healing is a global movement dedicated to the rise of the Divine Feminine in balance with the Divine Masculine.

Path of the Magdalene Meditation sessions are an opportunity to join together monthly on line and /or in person to activate the healing frequencies of Mary Magdalene in your own life. Mary Magdalene embodied the highest qualities of the Divine, unshakeable faith, unwavering courage, love in action. Each month a quality of Mary Magdalene; faith, tenderness, intelligence, is explored and activated.



This month's Magdalena quality is Authenticity


As a recovering "people pleaser" I have been honoring myself more as I move into Authenticity. Being able to say no to a request when that is truly what I want to say. Following through with my Soul's desires is also something I am honoring more and more. I am a work in progress and finding the quality of authenticity to be empowering.


-Dale


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Oracle Group on Zoom

with Story L. Ducey -

6 Sessions- Mondays


January 22, 2024 at 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm


Intuitive Development Classes


This Monday Group is called an Oracle Group because we will be focusing first, on deep meditation for healing and renewal for ourselves as we attempt to reenter the world together.


Then, we will be seeking guidance, teachings and home work from Spirit together for all of us and our families as we move through this transition. This is experimental work with Spirit. We allow Spirit to direct us and present the teachings they want us to focus on.

We will record the messaging and seek the overall message as confirmed by the majority of the messaging.


The overall goal is to dissolve challenging personal and communal karma while we seek strength and guidance in creating a new chapter for ourselves as individuals and for our world.


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Meditation for Life Guidance


WHEN: Jan 25th

TIME: 5:30 - 7pm on ZOOM



Meditation allows us to still our busy thoughts, reduce stress, heal our physical bodies, and get answers from our spirit guides & loved ones in spirit. A vital piece of opening & harnessing your intuitive abilities. This three-part class looks at the art, the history, the science, and the magic of meditation from three unique perspectives. Learn to drop into meditation easily w/ISD Faculty, Diana, Renee & Story. If you've taken this before and want to renew your meditation and intuitive practice, this is a good place to start. Review for half price! This course is required for the Intuitive Practitioner Certificate Program, however, there is no need to be enrolled in that program to take this class. Sign up for Part 3 with Story on 1/25 and receive the recordings of Part 1 with Diana, and Part 2 with Renee.



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"Reiki Level 1"

with JoAnn Wormuth


January 27, 2024 at 10:00 am - 5:00 pm


The Lotus Center

124 County Highway 58

Oneonta, NY 13820



Learn to use this ancient Japanese technique for clearing blockages in life force energy - reduce chronic pain, illness, & stress for yourself and others, create more balance, wellness & good health. Increase your power & effectiveness as a healer through JoAnn's Attunements & practice healing with the techniques, under JoAnn's excellent tutelage.



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Foundations 101: "Developing Psychic Pathways"



February 1, 2024 at 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

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“My Spidey Senses are Tingling!!” As spiritual beings how do we receive our psychic information? In what ways are we receiving messages, reading energy, and experiencing those things around us that we cannot physically hear, see, or touch?

And as human beings, how do we interact and understand those around us in the physical world? How do we begin to learn what we are receiving intuitively and what is the ‘junk’ that we have picked up from others?

This two session class, led by Rev. Renee Ranke, will help us to understand how we are receiving our telepathic messages and in what ways we can 'energize' our psychic sensitivity.




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Soul Oracle Vision Board


February 9, 2024 at 10:00 am - 3:00 pm


Upper Susquehanna Cultural Center

79 North Main St.

Milford, NY 13820

607-433-208


Just in time for the New Year, Lori is leading a workshop that helps you become re-acquainted with your Soul's purpose and mission. Powerful meditations and contemplations lead you toward creating your very own Soul Vision Board that will help to guide your decisions and keep you on purpose and on your path in the New Year.

All supplies for your vision board are included in the price of the workshop.


Tuition: $88/ or $77 for ISD Members

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Above picture is shared by Ally. This was her experience, "“Lori Solensten’s Oracle Vision Board class is creative, fun, and is meaningful in a way one wouldn’t expect. I got so much guidance from my higher self and guides that really has helped steer my ship into a new path for me in life. This class is not your average class, it’s really tuning into your own soul in a creative artistic way to see what messages are there. It’s like giving yourself an intuitive psychic reading as art.” - Ally from Sidney, NY




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Check out our January 2023 events calendar for upcoming events and remember to like and follow us on Facebook, to see our events, guided meditations and homilies posted there.


Looking for a moment of Zen? Subscribe to

our ISD Youtube Channel

to watch inspired homilies & guided meditations from our favorite ISD Ministers and guest speakers! 



Prayer Warriors


Just a reminder that we are continuing our Prayer Warriors group, every day at 5pm we pause to pray and send our healing energies where they are most needed right now.


Each day at 5 PM EST, we will pause for about 10 minutes and meditate and pray with the intention of sending healing energy to all. You do not have to be present each day to be part of the prayer/healing team.


If you would like to be part of the Prayer Warriors, or have a request for healing please email our Healing Program director, JoAnn Wormuth at joannwormuth@gmail.com and she will add you to the team, and/or the prayer list.




Our Astrological Forecast


Connie’s Celestial Conversations



I have mentioned several times that the Milky Way Galaxy, as well as our Solar System, is moving into a different part of space and receiving new energies with each seasonal and planetary alignment. Each New and Full Moon, Solstice, Equinox, and Eclipse creates a new input of brand new energies for us to revel in as we become accustomed to the Aquarian Age. I want to explain more about this phenomenon.


The study of several texts, as well as oral indigenous traditions, mentions a connection between the photon belt, Pleiadian star Alcyone, and the Mayan Long Count calendar. 


Science calls this photon belt the “Rings of Alcyone.” This is the observation that our Solar System revolves around the central sun of the Pleiadian constellation, the star Alcyone. This procession takes approximately 26,000 years and we pass through the belt every 13,000 years. This is also found in the form of the Mayan Long Count. (There are discrepancies in the length of years, but not in the “Rings of Alcyone's” existence.)


Some believe we crossed into the edge of the photon belt as early as 1993, all agree that we passed fully into the belt by 2012.


A short, simple explanation of a photon is that it is a particle formed from opposite charges meeting and forming a new particle from the combination rather than anillalating each other, hence fusion rather than fission. This is, in a sense, a neutralizing effect of polarities. On a human basis it essentially means that we can combine the best of the masculine and feminine in ourselves. The theory is that as we become more balanced and complete in ourselves, we are better able to join harmoniously in our cultures, and with our friends, and family units.


The challenge is that all of this new photon light energy accelerates the appearance of blocks and denser energies where we each get to choose our path forward. Do we go forward healed and with less baggage from previous creations? The entrance into the photon belt is a scientific fact. The meaning applied to it is more esoteric. Astrology and Metaphysics finds a great deal of emphasis to the photon belt as it pertains to our personal and collective lived experience. The world's religions talk of a 1,000 years of peace and the Age of Light. 


The incredible news is that the entire Aquarian Age will be in, or very near, the Photon Belt. I invite you to grasp this knowledge as a talisman!




ASTROLOGY FORECAST 

(Jan 16 - 23)


I have written much about PLUTO in the last year. It has been a major player as we exit the age of Pisces. Pluto's emphasis was mostly on the darkness of the underworld, and as analogy, the shadow of the soul. I have received an immense amount of information through dreams, meditation, and automatic writing that changes the message to one of transformation and regeneration, and now here we are with the light of the photon belt as an added bonus!


The SUN and PLUTO waltz into AQUARIUS  together on 1/20, the Sun in the morning and Pluto that evening. This is cause for celebration. The speed of the collective and personal transformation will vary with each person and the  choices they make. I will pass on advice given to me from a source I trust, be it soul level, angelic, ascended master, or source, I do not know for sure. The advice was to think elegantly and seek to express grace. 


You have undoubtedly heard the phrase, “We are the ones we've been waiting for.” I will add to that, “This is the time we've been waiting for. Trust and faith are the currency of the realm.”


The SUN in Aquarius is forward looking and thinking. It is very broad in outlook. It is a mental Air sign. The combination of Aquarius followed by Pisces at the end of each zodiac cycle is interesting. 


The water jar that is part of the symbol of Aquarius is, upon closer examination, star material rather than water. The sign is somewhat detached, possibly helping you to pull yourself out of an exclusive focus on your current life and culture.  Aquarius is humanitarian and altruistic. It has a thousand yard view, that encourages an inclusion of star wisdom. This quality assists you to think clearly about where you wish to go based on where you are, and what you wish to create now. 


We still live in a reality of time/space and duality. This is where it is helpful to remember that what you experience in the present is created from what you thought in the past. There is still a time gap. It is shortening rapidly, which is helping us navigate out of the level of duality we've been accustomed to in previous ages. As this time gap shortens between thought and creation it requires an increased level of expertise, grace, and elegance. Aquarius is a great partner to take along on your journey and now PLUTO will be in Aquarius for 18 years with the exception of a short retrograde back to 29° Capricorn from 9/1/24 - 11/18/24, adding its regenerative power to the creative recipe.


VENUS moves into Capricorn on 1/23 until 2/16. This completes a very interesting and powerful stellium in Capricorn of all 3 personal planets - Mercury, Venus, and Mars until 2/5. This strongly encourages you to employ discipline, dedication, and integrity to your endeavors. It is notable that the interval is 13 days. We have long been conditioned to believe 13 is an unlucky number. Such is not the case. It is actually the first number in a very powerful sequence of 13 - 20 - 33 that is a sacred geometrical fibonacci ratio. VENUS is a benefic planet of beauty that serves as our sister. Allow her to usher you through the opening days of Sun and Pluto in Aquarius as she, Mercury, and Mars trail just behind in Capricorn. 


Use these days well as the personal planets will each conjunct Pluto soon. I repeat again, this is the time we've been waiting for. If challenges arise you will have tremendously powerful assistance in creating something better for yourself. May you find your Godspeed.





ASTROLOGY FORECAST 

(Jan 24 - 31)


There is a FULL MOON in Leo on 1/25 at 5° at 12:54 pm EST. 

The qualities associated with Leo are enhanced during a Full Moon. Leadership and  being in the limelight can be expressed with great love, generosity, enthusiasm, and kindness. The caution is to avoid egotism. 

There are a few aspects worth noting that will influence this Full Moon.


TRINES:  

Uranus/Mercury - Thinking about what makes GOOD leadership is put to the test.


Jupiter/Mercury/Venus - Both benefic planets influence mental, expressive Mercury to encourage beautiful thoughts.


SEXTILES:

Jupiter/Saturn - Structure and discipline will get a lucky boost.


Neptune/Pluto - Dreamy, mystical wishes and feelings may nudge entire populations toward a change of heart and mind about their lives.


SQUARES:


Neptune/Venus - highlights the division between the sexes and the misconduct as well. Opportunity for better solutions is present.


Jupiter/Mars - potentially destructive, war-like energies. Separation of values. Potential to hold a mirror up that shows consequences of violent choices.


North Node/Mercury - This is crunch time for groups and individuals to decide if their thoughts and words are expressing their first, best destiny. If not, there is still time to change minds.


There is another characteristic of note present on this Full Moon day. All the planets except the Moon are in the Eastern Hemisphere of the astrological chart. That indicates an ability to impact the world and to mold circumstances. With the leadership qualities of the Leo moon this becomes more important on a world stage. Perhaps we intend that our leaders make elegant, graceful choices that are humanitarian and altruistic in nature at this time. The energies support this now.


URANUS stations direct in Taurus on 1/27 after being retrograde since 8/28. The retrograde interval has assisted the search for unusual possibilities to shake things up. Maybe you have some things you'd love to try and love to create. In Taurus that would most include things that are Earth based and deal with security and sustenance.

What gifts might you bring to fruition? URANUS encourages sudden developments, perhaps also unusual ones. The developments that work with the Earth, rather than exerting power over her are more favored. New inventions with this goal in mind are surely forthcoming. Look for them and support them if you are able and willing.


Now that the motion is forward things may develop at a surprisingly quick pace. After much retrograde motion by many planets last year, we now have much of the first half of 2024 with most of the planets in forward motion. Mercury in April is the next retrograde. Things that seem stuck or delayed will enjoy more supportive energies.


We, in essence, begin anew in 2024. The planetary ingresses support all those who are intending to become more loving in all the myriad ways that love/grace may be expressed in the world. After a few years of the outer planets forming squares to each other, we now have those planets already in, or moving into, trine formations. This is very beneficial and is cause for hope. Faith in our collective ability to create “Heaven on Earth” is within our sites. It can, and will, happen one person at a time. The great news is that as each individual makes any choices expressing more love and greater abilities we all are lifted to a more divine vibration. The “drop in the ocean becomes the ocean in the drop.” We are all connected with an immense ability to assist each other. May you charge full steam into this wonderful year with enthusiasm and delight toward what you will create.





HEAVEN



What is the Institute for Spiritual Development?


It's both a metaphysical church and an educational center originally founded 40 yrs ago in Sparta, NJ. With the belief that all paths lead us Home, ISD is dedicated to helping each spirit walk their path with courage and joy.



We stand for each individual’s right to seek their own personal Truth, as they respect the same right for others. We honor the sacred texts of all traditions of the Light


The Oneonta NY chapter of ISD was Lovingly created by Rev. Diana Friedell & her sister Rev. Sue Landon. We are now led by a powerful leadership team, and executive board.


ISD is a spiritual community that focuses on healing and intuitive connection, and the joy of finding the spirit connection within rather than being told how it should or could be experienced.

We welcome those who want to belong to a spiritual group of like-minded people, in which you can explore and find your own path in a community of love and support.


There are classes, services, events, and a sense of community and fellowship. Energy healing and intuitive messages are delivered as a regular part of the worship service. Classes offer many tools which will help you on your life path, and the community we are creating together is one of openness and acceptance, and the ability to adapt with change and growth.



Welcome Home!!!


We could use your help. If you would like to volunteer to help with our Metaphysical Library, event planning, service planning, website, office tasks, or anything else- Just call or email Diana!


Did you know that there are other ISD chapters?

It all began with ISD Sparta NJ!

Now there are also chapters in, Washington DC, Treasure Coast Fla, and of course....right here in Oneonta NY.



We would ALL like to welcome you to our new Institute for Spiritual Development Facebook group:



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Together we shine love and light to souls around the country and around the world with education, metaphysical services, healing and community.

We support YOU in your quest to explore, build, and develop your own spiritual connection




Got Bottles & Cans to return?


ISD has a CLYNK account at Hannaford in Oneonta. 

How can I help? 

Email Tom Landon at tflandon51@gmail.com and he will give you a time to pick up stickers at our new ISD headquarters.

Take one to put on each bag that you are bringing to Hannaford- Ask someone there where the bags go. With that correct tag on it, the bottle deposit money goes directly into the ISD Oneonta Account.




Kimberly Winsor

Rev. Story Ducey

Rev. Diana Friedell

ISD Oneonta Board of Director


Kimberly Winsor - President


Jo Ann Wormuth- Vice President


Tom Landon-Secretary


Sali Dellysse - Treasurer


Connie Lull-

Trustee


Susan Owens -

Trustee


Story Ducey -

Ex-Officio Member


Sherry Barton

Trustee




Diana Friedell - ex officio

Our ISD Leadership




Diana Friedell - Pastor, Co-Director


Story Lucile Ducey, Co-Director

Adult Education/Programming Chair

Ministry Training Program


JoAnn Wormuth – Healing Program Director


Carla Finn- Newsletter Editor


Tami Barrows- Administrative Assistant


Amy Gallop- Social Media



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