Hi all...Today is my Birthday and I feel blessed. My gift to myself is seeing that finally, finally the awakening on the planet is taking hold. And I am happy to see that so many of my readers have broken through the illusions to seeing truth!
We all are here now to help each other and to love each other, the mighty force that shall continue to break the chains that bind us. While our civil rights may be violated and our pockets may be empty, the resulting pressures have forced some of the breakthroughs. This will be revealed as a blessing in disguise as critical mass is being reached opening our eyes to the enslavement once and for all, to the true beauty and bounty of who we really are. I have written about trying to rid fear from ourselves in order to live in a new way in the coming years as history is made and changed. All disguises will breakdown and uncover the truth of our enslavement.
On a happy note, Venus (the planet of love) is hovering close by, helping "soul mates" find each other. These connections will make us strong and joyous, and encourage us to live in a new creative way.
To be alive now in physical is to experience the feelings within of creating new pathways, as a kind of ART OF EXISTENCE. It is the ability to cross and re-cross the flux of time by both when the boat springs a leak and sinks before going the distance. Our existence depends upon our stabilizing the various aspects of ourselves. Once we balance the physical, psychological, spiritual, and the religious aspects inside us, our lives fall into a peaceful pattern. What constitutes your fulfillment??? Think on it the coming year...
And so, be your own spiritual practitioner, be your own medium, and let the magic prevail!
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
THE DOORS
"When one door closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us"
Helen Keller.....
*She says it all, doesn't she?
If you lose faith in yourself, who else is there? (A good question...perhaps a Higher Power?)
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Helen Keller.....
*She says it all, doesn't she?
If you lose faith in yourself, who else is there? (A good question...perhaps a Higher Power?)
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
THE WHEEL
There are twenty- two Major Arcana in the tarot deck. Each of the Major Arcana, starting with the Fool and The World, tells us about the different stages of a journey. On a personal level, they tell us about your journey through a relationship or a job, etc. and in a broader sense they tell us about the journey of life itself.
The thirteenth card in the Major Arcana--The Wheel of Fortune--is fascinating and full of symbolism because it points to a time when fate steps in and takes your hand when the Wheel of Fortune shows up in a reading. I Know when my client has reached a pivotal point in a situation or in life in general. For good or for bad, the Wheel turns sometimes in ways that seem mysterious, and steers you one way or the other. New options become available and new steps are needed to move you forward or backward or maybe even to turn you inside out.
Currently, The Wheel of Fortune is very present in your life, influencing you on a grand scale and down to the smaller details of day-to-day existence. There is an enormous influx of energy that is disrupting the patterns you are accustomed to, collapsing some things that need to go, revealing truths, waking you up and breaking you down.
Because I deal with a lot of clients all over the world, I can see this pattern at work, along with the challenges it presents. "Survival Mode" is where most of you are right now, with all the earth stuff that has been going on. The way it manifests--whether it's financial or in relationships, etc.--may be looked at in an individual life, or locally, nationally, globally and even on a cosmic scale. In a way, it's all the same.
Many point to 2012 as the destination. I don't feel that way at all. To me, 2012 is a tipping point or maybe you could say it's the pivotal point that exists in the Wheel of Fortune. The enormous influences we have been feeling in recent years and the changes they have brought about..there is no turning back. You can see the old life only in the rearview mirror because it isn't out front of you anymore. That has been replaced by a new pattern, new potential, new options. The Wheel sure has been turning as time has been speeding up. Haven't you had the feelings that you have been hit with so much and life is on an express lane? Some of you have a glimpse of this and for others it is still to come. This shall be an ongoing process, not a single moment that is frozen in time, and each of you moves through it at a different rate.
Between March and into summer, it will be difficult for some of you to sort out what's real and what's ideal. You may feel like escaping into a different reality because of too much mental activity and abstract thoughts going on in your head. Do your best not to get angry and undisciplined behavior. Relationships of all kinds will feel either very good or very bad and it will seem as though the "middle ground" doesn't exist anymore. Don't worry if this doesn't make sense right now...Just remember it when the feelings begin to rise to the surface. You guys have been pretty complacent going about your old ways of operating. As life becomes more challenging, you sit and pray for deliverance or maybe it's Santa Claus or the tooth fairy you're hoping for. Faith and trust are definitely called for but not in the things outside of yourself. In this case, The Wheel turns you inward and it is only from here that the new pattern and potential can be realized.
*Some biblical thought, attributed to Ezekiel:
"The wheels of activity are not meant to spin outside of My presence. My presence abides within the wheels of activity. It is only when My spirit lifts and you remain in your activity that the wheels spin out of control and produce nothing. I am the cog that is to spin your wheels. I am the wheel within the wheel. My spirit lifts, the wheels must lift with Me. Even your doings must be in My presence, and not just your times of waiting on Me."
(Thank you Barbara Bowen for finding this for me)
GO...WHERE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS LEADS YOU MY FRIENDS.......
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The thirteenth card in the Major Arcana--The Wheel of Fortune--is fascinating and full of symbolism because it points to a time when fate steps in and takes your hand when the Wheel of Fortune shows up in a reading. I Know when my client has reached a pivotal point in a situation or in life in general. For good or for bad, the Wheel turns sometimes in ways that seem mysterious, and steers you one way or the other. New options become available and new steps are needed to move you forward or backward or maybe even to turn you inside out.
Currently, The Wheel of Fortune is very present in your life, influencing you on a grand scale and down to the smaller details of day-to-day existence. There is an enormous influx of energy that is disrupting the patterns you are accustomed to, collapsing some things that need to go, revealing truths, waking you up and breaking you down.
Because I deal with a lot of clients all over the world, I can see this pattern at work, along with the challenges it presents. "Survival Mode" is where most of you are right now, with all the earth stuff that has been going on. The way it manifests--whether it's financial or in relationships, etc.--may be looked at in an individual life, or locally, nationally, globally and even on a cosmic scale. In a way, it's all the same.
Many point to 2012 as the destination. I don't feel that way at all. To me, 2012 is a tipping point or maybe you could say it's the pivotal point that exists in the Wheel of Fortune. The enormous influences we have been feeling in recent years and the changes they have brought about..there is no turning back. You can see the old life only in the rearview mirror because it isn't out front of you anymore. That has been replaced by a new pattern, new potential, new options. The Wheel sure has been turning as time has been speeding up. Haven't you had the feelings that you have been hit with so much and life is on an express lane? Some of you have a glimpse of this and for others it is still to come. This shall be an ongoing process, not a single moment that is frozen in time, and each of you moves through it at a different rate.
Between March and into summer, it will be difficult for some of you to sort out what's real and what's ideal. You may feel like escaping into a different reality because of too much mental activity and abstract thoughts going on in your head. Do your best not to get angry and undisciplined behavior. Relationships of all kinds will feel either very good or very bad and it will seem as though the "middle ground" doesn't exist anymore. Don't worry if this doesn't make sense right now...Just remember it when the feelings begin to rise to the surface. You guys have been pretty complacent going about your old ways of operating. As life becomes more challenging, you sit and pray for deliverance or maybe it's Santa Claus or the tooth fairy you're hoping for. Faith and trust are definitely called for but not in the things outside of yourself. In this case, The Wheel turns you inward and it is only from here that the new pattern and potential can be realized.
*Some biblical thought, attributed to Ezekiel:
"The wheels of activity are not meant to spin outside of My presence. My presence abides within the wheels of activity. It is only when My spirit lifts and you remain in your activity that the wheels spin out of control and produce nothing. I am the cog that is to spin your wheels. I am the wheel within the wheel. My spirit lifts, the wheels must lift with Me. Even your doings must be in My presence, and not just your times of waiting on Me."
(Thank you Barbara Bowen for finding this for me)
GO...WHERE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS LEADS YOU MY FRIENDS.......
Monday, February 8, 2010
AGING???
Recently, I spent some time cleaning out closets, old papers, and just generally getting myself reorganized. I guess it's one way of continuing to make way for new things in this exciting new year. Also, I did some visiting with old friends, reconnecting and catching up on what's happening out there.
After a big party I attended last week, which was well attended by some of those "oldies but goodies" friends, I came home depressed after hearing too many stories about their neck, leg and back pains, arthritis issues and all kinds of other issues.It bothered me that they seemed to have aged so much and that they were more focused on what's wrong with life than on living life to the fullest.
Once home, I went back to clearing out the papers and I came across something my mother had given me some years before she died. Mimi was what people used to call "a live wire", full of life and always ready for a good laugh, she packed her days with as much fun as she could, right to the end of her life!
We had talked several times about how she felt about aging and all that meant for her quality of life. During one conversation she pulled out a piece of paper that had been passed around her circle of friends, and she urged me to read it because she felt it captured the essence of how she felt.
That's the paper I just came across and in reading it again, I was struck by how amazing my mother was (and is), and how she is still giving me good advice. I don't know who wrote this piece but I wanted to pass it along to MY circle of friends, in the hope that the message will strike a chord with you too, no matter what your age is.
"I AM NOW...PROBABLY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE, THE PERSON I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE..OH, NOT MY BODY! I SOMETIMES DESPAIR OVER MY BODY...THE WRINKLES, THE BAGGY EYES, AND THE SAGGING BUTT. OFTEN I AM TAKEN ABACK BY THE OLD PERSON WHO LIVES IN MY MIRROR, BUT I DON'T AGONIZE OVER THOSE THINGS FOR LONG.
I WOULD NEVER TRADE MY AMAZING FRIENDS, MY WONDERFUL LIFE, AND MY LOVING FAMILY FOR LESS GRAY HAIR OR A FLATTER BELLY. AS I HAVE AGED, I'VE BECOME KINDER TO MYSELF, AND LESS CRITICAL OF MYSELF. I'VE BECOME MY OWN FRIEND. I DON'T CHIDE MYSELF FOR EATING THAT EXTRA COOKIE, OR FOR NOT MAKING MY BED, OR FOR BUYING SOMETHING SILLY THAT I DIDN'T NEED. I AM ENTITLED TO OVEREAT, TO BE MESSY OR EXTRAVAGANT. I HAVE SEEN MANY DEAR FRIENDS LEAVE THIS WORLD TOO SOON: BEFORE THEY UNDERSTOOD THE GREAT FREEDOM THAT COMES WITH AGING.
WHOSE BUSINESS IS IT IF I CHOOSE TO READ OR PLAY ON THE COMPUTER UNTIL 4AM, AND SLEEP TILL NOON? I WILL DANCE WITH MYSELF TO THOSE WONDERFUL TUNES OF THE 50'S AND 60'S AND IF I, AT THE SAME TIME WISH TO WEEP OVER A LOST LOVE...I WILL.
I WILL WALK ON THE BEACH IN A SWIM SUIT THAT IS STRETCHED OVER A BULGING BODY, AND WILL DIVE IN THE WAVE WITH ABANDON IF I CHOOSE TO, DESPITE THE PITYING GLANCES FROM THE BIKINI SET. THEY TOO WILL GET OLD.
I KNOW I AM SOMETIMES FORGETFUL. BUT, THERE AGAIN, SOME OF LIFE IS JUST AS WELL FORGOTTEN...AND I EVENTUALLY REMEMBER THE IMPORTANT THINGS. SURE, OVER THE YEARS MY HEART HAS BEEN BROKEN. HOW CAN A HEART NOT BREAK WHEN YOU LOSE A LOVED ONE, OR WHEN A CHILD SUFFERS, OR WHEN A CAR HITS YOUR BELOVED PET? BUT, BROKEN HEARTS ARE WHAT GIVES US STRENGTH AND UNDERSTANDING AND COMPASSION. A HEART NEVER BROKEN IS PRISTINE AND STERILE AND WILL NEVER KNOW THE JOY OF BEING IMPERFECT.
I AM SO BLESSED TO LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO HAVE MY HAIR TURN ALL DIFFERENT SHADES, EVEN GRAY, AND TO HAVE NY YOUTHFUL LAUGHS BE FOREVER ETCHED INTO DEEP GROOVES ON MY FACE. SO MANY HAVE NEVER LAUGHED, AND SO MANY HAVE DIED BEFORE THEIR HAIR COULD TURN SILVER. I CAN SAY "NO" AND MEAN IT. I CAN SAY "YES" AND MEAN IT. AS YOU GET OLDER, IT IS EASIER TO BE POSITIVE. YOU CARE LESS WHATEVER PEOPLE THINK. I DON'T QUESTION MYSELF ANYMORE. I HAVE EARNED THE RIGHT TO BE WRONG.
SOOO...TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, I LIKE GETTING OLD. IT HAS SET ME FREE. I LIKE THE PERSON I HAVE BECOME...I AM NOT GOING TO LIVE FOREVER, BUT WHILE I AM STILL HERE, I WILL NOT WASTE TIME LAMENTING WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN, OR WORRYING ABOUT WHAT WILL BE. AND I SHALL EAT DESSERT EVERY SINGLE DAY...."
TODAY, I WISH YOU A DAY OF ORDINARY MIRACLES*
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After a big party I attended last week, which was well attended by some of those "oldies but goodies" friends, I came home depressed after hearing too many stories about their neck, leg and back pains, arthritis issues and all kinds of other issues.It bothered me that they seemed to have aged so much and that they were more focused on what's wrong with life than on living life to the fullest.
Once home, I went back to clearing out the papers and I came across something my mother had given me some years before she died. Mimi was what people used to call "a live wire", full of life and always ready for a good laugh, she packed her days with as much fun as she could, right to the end of her life!
We had talked several times about how she felt about aging and all that meant for her quality of life. During one conversation she pulled out a piece of paper that had been passed around her circle of friends, and she urged me to read it because she felt it captured the essence of how she felt.
That's the paper I just came across and in reading it again, I was struck by how amazing my mother was (and is), and how she is still giving me good advice. I don't know who wrote this piece but I wanted to pass it along to MY circle of friends, in the hope that the message will strike a chord with you too, no matter what your age is.
"I AM NOW...PROBABLY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE, THE PERSON I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE..OH, NOT MY BODY! I SOMETIMES DESPAIR OVER MY BODY...THE WRINKLES, THE BAGGY EYES, AND THE SAGGING BUTT. OFTEN I AM TAKEN ABACK BY THE OLD PERSON WHO LIVES IN MY MIRROR, BUT I DON'T AGONIZE OVER THOSE THINGS FOR LONG.
I WOULD NEVER TRADE MY AMAZING FRIENDS, MY WONDERFUL LIFE, AND MY LOVING FAMILY FOR LESS GRAY HAIR OR A FLATTER BELLY. AS I HAVE AGED, I'VE BECOME KINDER TO MYSELF, AND LESS CRITICAL OF MYSELF. I'VE BECOME MY OWN FRIEND. I DON'T CHIDE MYSELF FOR EATING THAT EXTRA COOKIE, OR FOR NOT MAKING MY BED, OR FOR BUYING SOMETHING SILLY THAT I DIDN'T NEED. I AM ENTITLED TO OVEREAT, TO BE MESSY OR EXTRAVAGANT. I HAVE SEEN MANY DEAR FRIENDS LEAVE THIS WORLD TOO SOON: BEFORE THEY UNDERSTOOD THE GREAT FREEDOM THAT COMES WITH AGING.
WHOSE BUSINESS IS IT IF I CHOOSE TO READ OR PLAY ON THE COMPUTER UNTIL 4AM, AND SLEEP TILL NOON? I WILL DANCE WITH MYSELF TO THOSE WONDERFUL TUNES OF THE 50'S AND 60'S AND IF I, AT THE SAME TIME WISH TO WEEP OVER A LOST LOVE...I WILL.
I WILL WALK ON THE BEACH IN A SWIM SUIT THAT IS STRETCHED OVER A BULGING BODY, AND WILL DIVE IN THE WAVE WITH ABANDON IF I CHOOSE TO, DESPITE THE PITYING GLANCES FROM THE BIKINI SET. THEY TOO WILL GET OLD.
I KNOW I AM SOMETIMES FORGETFUL. BUT, THERE AGAIN, SOME OF LIFE IS JUST AS WELL FORGOTTEN...AND I EVENTUALLY REMEMBER THE IMPORTANT THINGS. SURE, OVER THE YEARS MY HEART HAS BEEN BROKEN. HOW CAN A HEART NOT BREAK WHEN YOU LOSE A LOVED ONE, OR WHEN A CHILD SUFFERS, OR WHEN A CAR HITS YOUR BELOVED PET? BUT, BROKEN HEARTS ARE WHAT GIVES US STRENGTH AND UNDERSTANDING AND COMPASSION. A HEART NEVER BROKEN IS PRISTINE AND STERILE AND WILL NEVER KNOW THE JOY OF BEING IMPERFECT.
I AM SO BLESSED TO LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO HAVE MY HAIR TURN ALL DIFFERENT SHADES, EVEN GRAY, AND TO HAVE NY YOUTHFUL LAUGHS BE FOREVER ETCHED INTO DEEP GROOVES ON MY FACE. SO MANY HAVE NEVER LAUGHED, AND SO MANY HAVE DIED BEFORE THEIR HAIR COULD TURN SILVER. I CAN SAY "NO" AND MEAN IT. I CAN SAY "YES" AND MEAN IT. AS YOU GET OLDER, IT IS EASIER TO BE POSITIVE. YOU CARE LESS WHATEVER PEOPLE THINK. I DON'T QUESTION MYSELF ANYMORE. I HAVE EARNED THE RIGHT TO BE WRONG.
SOOO...TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, I LIKE GETTING OLD. IT HAS SET ME FREE. I LIKE THE PERSON I HAVE BECOME...I AM NOT GOING TO LIVE FOREVER, BUT WHILE I AM STILL HERE, I WILL NOT WASTE TIME LAMENTING WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN, OR WORRYING ABOUT WHAT WILL BE. AND I SHALL EAT DESSERT EVERY SINGLE DAY...."
TODAY, I WISH YOU A DAY OF ORDINARY MIRACLES*
Monday, February 1, 2010
A TRUE FRIEND
A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart...
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