Sat Chit Ananda

I have a quite a nice day considering I am still trying to climb the equivilant of Mount Everest with a can of coke and big stick.

Still on the Sutras, Tuesday's is Sat Chit Ananda-meaning I am self referred consciousness.

My inner dialogue reflects the fire of my soul.

Alrighty then.

These phrases make it clearer, I hope.

Imagine that you are centered and totally at peace.

Imagine that all beings are your equal.

Imagine that you are detached from the outcome.

Imagine that you are not affected by flattery or criticism.

Imagine that you are looking at the world with knowingness and peace.

Imagine that you exactly what to do in every situation.

Imagine that love radiates from you like light from a bonfire.

Imagine that you are in love with everything and everybody.

Imagine that you are intoxicated with love.

Imagine that the right answer comes to you whenever you are confronted by any question spontaneously.


Sounds lovely, give it a try for the day.

Tat Tvam Asi

I am that.

When I went to Deepak, he recommended repeating a different Sutra everyday.

Monday is Tat Tvam Asi - I am that.

I see the other in myself and myself in the others.

So, for today:

Imagine that your spirit is not only in you but in all other beings and everything that is.

Imagine that everybody is a reflection of yourself.

Imagine that you see what others see.

Imagine that you can feel what others feel.

Imagine that everybody is a reflection of yourself.

And finally- Imagine that you are a person in a hall of mirrors where you can see yourself for miles and every reflection you see is of yourself, but everybody appears different.

Happy Monday to you all: a waxing Moon, Mercury Direct and the blossom is out, filling the air with the promise of possibilities, faeries and magic.


Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

When Violets Appear

I spent some time in the garden today, it's been a long while with Winter demanding gardening be retired till Spring and spell casting be moved indoors for the darker months. I was stunned to find violets springing up in the exact spot where the Sibyls and I had sat spell casting over the Summer and Autumn. I swear on the Goddess, they were not there last year so it has inspired me to look at the meaning of violets from a variety of sources.

When violets appear in your dreams then fortune is not far away.

The Violet is ruled by the planet Venus.

The Violet is associated with Taurus. [I love that, now I know why I adore them!]

The Violet appeared in an ancient Near Eastern myth that probably inspired the Greek and Roman myth of Venus and Adonis. According to this story, the great mother goddess Cybele [Earth Goddess and sounds similar to Sibyl, love it, love it!] loved Attis [Earth God], who was killed while hunting a wild boar. Where his blood fell on the ground, violets grew.

Violets are, significantly, the symbol of mourning, I wonder if they have sprung for one of the Sibyls' devastating and heart wrenching loss she recently has had thrust upon her. Perhaps the Earth Goddess is mourning for her and letting us know she is holding the hands and cradles the vunerable ones who have passed over.

The hopes and fears we experienced as humans is eloquently metaphored by the violet, the bud is so vulnerable and yet so beautiful and when it flowers there is nothing more perfectly sweet.

And finally the Goddess of fertility is Aphrodite and her symbol is the Violet, perhaps she is making her intentions known. I did fertility spells last night in the garden for others, it was dark and under a new moon, so didn't see the violets but it now makes me feel a little more magical in the knowledge of their tender presence.

Carl Jung said: "Meaning makes a great many things endurable, perhaps everything."

He is right, searching for the meaning in Violets at the beginning of this post has bought tears to my eyes for the journey it has taken me on. I now know that with heartbreak comes wisdom, an outpouring of love and compassion from those around you and I know that things will be as they are Meant. Trust in that awareness, trust in the Goddess/Universe/God/ Spirit/or whatever takes your fancy and most of all, trust when miracle violets appear.

A final word from my favorite poet, e.e cummings, whose work was read at the wedding of Gandalf and myself.

yes is a pleasant country:
if's wintry
(my lovely)
let's open the year

both is the very weather
(not either)
my treasure,
when violets appear

love is a deeper season
than reason;
my sweet one
(and april's where we're)

"Possession of the root is punishable by death"

Visits to the spellshop yesterday and today for a major casting weekend, have had a few requests for others so I will see what I can do, meanwhile Gandalf and I are weaving some magic tonight for the business.
I bought some Mandrake root, very expensive but über powerful apparently, it is the root of exorcism, so where there is Mandrake no evil resides. I have to leave it for 3 nights undisturbed in an open vessel then soak it overnight in purified water or wine then use to my hearts content. It is poisonous and can promote psychosis if smoked or ingested. Not planning to any of that, but I am going to charge it then place it in an golden egg that I have bought that opens, Fabergé style and add lodestone and aventurine crystals and place in the office.
So it is -so shall it be!

The Beauty of Knowing

I have had a pile of bills, papers and unopened mail on my study desk for the last few weeks, illness and then a bad case of apathy is to blame for them being ignored for so long.
No judgement, no praise, just the way it has been.

I decided to get on top of it last night and sort, collate, file and move the money around the bank accounts to make do till pay day. Whilst I am not as flush as I would like at the moment, I have experienced more significant financial challenges, so at the end of the sorting session I felt much better. The importance of knowing your financial position, however dire, is the key to moving forward, make yourself become aware, don't judge it and then see what small changes you can make.

I have been reading about 'Money Fears' and how you need to change them on the Money Club.

One of the first things you need to do is write down a list of your money fears, When you see them on paper they will seem improbable and even silly. The ones that could happen, get a plan together to make sure you know what to do if something unexpected happen. I heard a parenting/family expert discussing the breakdown of familes on the radio yesterday and she said the number one factor was no planning for disasters such as job loss, death, accidents.

Another one is to write down you money messages you have received from your parents, was it good or bad? Did you receive a financial education? If not, then you need to educate yourself now as an adult about money and budgeting and planning for the future. Reparenting is always a winner, speak to someone who is good with money and ask for their help.

Do you have a money secret that keeps you awake at night? Tell someone close to you, its amazing how much smaller it seems and they might be able to help you!

Keep a copy of your receipts and see where you spend you cash, scary huh? But good!

There are a heap more, some of them very good. Go here to read more.

May you all be prosperous and your lives filled with good fortune!


P.S Slept like a lamb, sáns sleeping tablet.

Affirmation for Friday

My beliefs create my reality.
I believe in my unlimited prosperity.

From Creating Money.

Thanks again Fish Girl!

The Power of Intention

Todays card from The Power of Intention deck-

By banishing doubt and thinking in no-limit ways, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through. The Power of Intention is so doubt-deficient that when you're connected to it you see what you'd like to have as already being present.


Nice one Wayne!

Void

I pulled a Rune this morning and pulled Wyrd, the rune with no pattern, the void rune. This rune reprsents the rune of fate, accept whatever come my way, whether unpleasant or pleasant. It is the rune of fate and the unknown. I also just read it is a Void moon today, fan-bloody-tastic, advice is do not start anything new or expect too much except delays and dissappointments, you can override the effects by going all out in your effort and cross your fingers but it really is only good to meditate during this time.

Contingency planning

I have been wishing, writing spells and casting them, burning oils and "omm"ing but there is nothing like action! I have decided to take action and move forward with confidence, courage and bravery, maybe all this spiritual work is just giving me the confidence to actually take action.
A few things have happened today to those around me and to do with wishes I asked for on Tuesday night that are out of the ordinary and the timing is too spectacular for me not to see it as auspicious and significant, connected? I hope so, I choose to think so.
However, I have learnt that it is all very well to Trust but helping the Universe perform miracles by actually taking action is the key, meet halfway and see what extraordinary things will occur!
I will let you know what miracles emanate today.

The Day of Resistance

I started with such high hopes after my spell casting session today but all day I have met with resistance, everywhere. Struggling! It has been almost, almost I say, funny. Got it from staff, clients, accounts, children, the dog, bloody hell!
I did look at my transit, I won't bore you with the details, but needless to say I have more Mars in it than a girl actually needs. All Squaring off against Neptune and Jupiter which means I come across lots of questioning, and things get blown out of proportion. Also the Trines with Mercury and Venus means I am seeing the big picture but I need to get planning.
I have been planning, lots of it and reporting, I have a firm understanding of what I need to do to get through the next few weeks but all the same, the resistance is wearing me down a little.

Wednesday

Finally slept after taking a sleeping tablet courtesy of the Brave Lioness, friend and now, drug dealer.
I did a major spell casting last night around wishes for myself and those nearest and dearest.
A lovely evening for intention and I swear I could feel the energy swirling around me. Whatever it is, it works and I know that to be true now.
I received my Creating Money book last night as recommended by Fish Girl. I am so looking forward to reading it, will start this Friday night while Gandalf goes to his Gladiator match.
Speaking of Gandalf, this morning we discussed the eternal struggle at work this year, 2 steps forward, one step back, it hard to get fired up about work sometimes, I need to wrap my thinking gear around this one and move onto another level of consciousness about letting go of needing to feel the struggle to feel alive.

Leave it with me.

More Moon info

New Moon comes in at 2.31pm. I was reading in the book that to create the best possible wish energy then ask within 8 hours of the new moon coming in. Todays moon arrives at 2.31pm. I will ask then but I will prepare this morning though.
Trés exciting!

"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."
Goethe

More Leo Action

Wishes from New Moon Astrology as promised.
To be written by hand on the day of the New Moon, keep in your journal, Book of Secrets or diary and date them for reference.
Some examples are:

Heart Connections:
I want to attract and experince a healthy, happy, romantic relationships.
I want to easily find myself spending time with my children.
or
A Pregnancy Spell and Wish-

Caste a circle, call the four elements and the Goddess down to join me.
Repeat 5 times, once to each direction and once looking down at your cradled arms.

To you my child, my body is open.
To you my child, my mind is open.
To you my child, my heart is open.
By earth, wind, fire and sea
Happy and healthy,
Into my arms you will be.



Creativity:
I want to easily find myself beginning each day with a feeling of enthusiasm
I want to be filled with creative, new ideas.
I want to easily find mnyself involved in activities that evoke my passion and vital interest.

Creativity Spell:

In a bottle, add water, one teaspoon of lavender flowers, five tablespoons of orange zest, one teaspoon of rosemary, one teaspoon if dired geranium flowers. let it steep overnight.
Add to a sacred bath and visualise yourself partaking in a bast source of possibility. If it happens to rain the next day then you will be very lucky!


The wishes are from the book, the spells are not but I think they are fun, embracing my inner pagan!

Happy New Moon!

New Moon in Leo

Grab your broomsticks readers, New Moon in Leo tomorrow, so caste for leadership, courage, money, fame and career improvements. Do not caste for love as Leo could counteract it. But it is a good time to cast for fertility, healing of the upper back, spine and heart.
Tuesdays represents Mars. Courage, energy and physical strength, a perfect day for a spell session.
I will visit the witchy shop and get a ritual together together. I have a book at home on New Moon Wishing in Astrology, so I will peruse that and see what I can share with you there.

Blessed Be.

"We Bake Cakes and Nothing's the Matter!"

I am starting to see the light at the end of July. It has been an incredibly difficult month with death, insomnia, heartbreak and taxes all due.
The most incredible part is that I survived surprisingly intact. I know I still have 7 days left but we are in a balsamic moon phase and I have let go of so much this month that no longer serves me that I feel the worst is over, I trust the worst is over. I feel that things are going to be better, I know they will be better.
My health and loved ones have been top of mind in July and I have been able to serve both in wonderful, life changing ways.
The biggest things this month for me has been to let go when things do not happen the way I would like them to. A quote from Rumi says it best, "Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening."
I have had to trust in the Universe looking after me and making it better than I could have ever imagined. I look forward to seeing what great things will happen this next 7 days.
Interesting then that this month I have had the worst insomnia I have ever experienced. In the last 72 hours I have had 11 hours sleep. I feel like shit but happy in my haze, its almost like I have had an accelerated learning phase as I have thought about so much in the night kitchen.
I read that "Everything that happens in your life is moving your forward in the directions of your goals." Find the good in the bad, know that you will always be taken care of and Trust.

Trust and Fly.

Planning from Within

How can you sell anything if you do not believe its benefits or message deep within your soul?
Whether it is your product or service or someone's else's product and service then you will do so much better if you would bet the farm on it.
I have been thinking about this as I have to sell not only my company's services but also other companies products and services.
It is not enough to create a nice design and clever words, the intention that is within the creation is the key. I ask my staff, "Do you believe it?" I like it when the answer is no, "think, think" we say and look at the project again.

Its Laws of Attraction 101.

Creating the right clients to your business and in my case my clients business's is a matter of thinking about who they are before you start to work for them.
Who are you attracted to and who is attracted to you?
What is your love/interest/ passion?
Write down your perfect day with your perfect set of clients, imagine your diary/schedule filled. Imagine the amount of money in the bank that you need, be careful what you wish for though.
I asked for a certain client last year, I asked and I received but I was not specific enough and I then found the client became inactive as I did not specify the relationship as fruitful and abundant and busy. I just asked to be on their preferred supplier list. I got this and sat there for 12 months with no work! I went back in May and rewrote this with Domonique the Wonderful and I now have 3 major jobs with them in the studio, live and learn!

Signs

I have been reading about the signs that you supposedly receive when you are not living your life on Purpose, when you are making mistake after mistake and not paying heed to the forces around you trying to let you know that your metaphorical boat has sailed a little or a lot off course.
The signs apparently have their own weighted criteria, which I understand as I have written so many tenders over the last 6 months and these often have criteria's to which the document is balanced against. Perhaps spirituality and business are not so far apart as one would think.
The weighting is this:

* Light weight signs; frustration/desperation

• Middle weight signs; defining moments, inspiration and mistakes

* Heavy weight signs; epiphanies, illness/accidents

I tend to pay attention to the Light weight Signs fairly seriously before it gets out of control. Yes I get frustrated periodically and I have experienced desperation in the past but the more I have worked my arse of then let go of any expectations around the outcomes, the more I have seen things fall into place and the sense of things happening on purpose now becomes things happening with Purpose.

Middle weights Signs I like.
Always learning from mistakes. If we split the word you just see they are miss- takes. Try again until you get it right, just change something in the formula and you will get success.
I love the word inspiration. Its origin in etymology is around 5000 B.C coming from the sound speis or peis, an imitation of the sound of blowing or breathing out. Inspiration is literally breath from the Source. Amazing and humbling.
When inspiration strikes, listen.

Heavy weight Signs are more difficult to bear.
The Middle English word "epiphanie" comes via Old French from Late Latin "epiphania," based on Greek epiphaneia "manifestation, show." The Greek word comprises epi- "on, forth" + phan-, "to show." The root of phan- also appears in Greek phantasma "object manifested," phantasia "imagination" (the power to manifest an object).

What does this mean to me? To manifest is to have an epiphany. But you get what you focus on, believe me, I know this to be so true. If you focus on failure and stress and scarcity, you will receive. You will manifest this, you will have an epiphany and see that you are connected to everything and you have more power than you realised, you are part of it all and everything you do, say and think about is connected. You lift the veil of your individuality and become part of the Universal fabric of life. Way hippie I know but I love it!

Accidents and illness I have had to think about.
As a mother of a child with a disability I have thought for 10 years what the higher purpose is for making her life so difficult sometimes. I have no answer other than I knew that she would have issues with the particular part of her body before she was born, I asked the Doctor in the ultrasound whether all was ok and he said yes, [she wasn't injured then] and so when her injury occurred at birth I realised that I KNEW, deep inside me, I knew. Did I create this by focusing on it? No, I hope not, the guilt is enough that I live with everyday that I should have done something, anything different, yet knowing deep inside that it is as it should be. It changes who you are as a parent, who you could have been as the injured. She is the Wounded Healer and I know she will do something amazing, her life, her experience is her Purpose.

My sister received so many warning signs that things were not right with her body and it wasn't till she needed spinal surgery, had gallstones, kidney polyps and liver abnormalities, until her body literally stopped working that she was able to get her cancer diagnosed. I asked her of she would have gone to the doctor earlier and she admitted that "no" she would not have gone. So how many signs did she need to receive before she allowed herself to get on Purpose and heal. She is now in Re-Mission- a lovely word, back on Mission and on Purpose all from heavyweights sign knocking her down and keeping her still till she got the help she needed.


See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky? Or, look at the question this way: Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

Signs [2002]

Dissolution and Resolutions

Blessed and her Ram-Beau celebrated the culmination of her manifestation last night with a lovely soiree to announce their engagement to family and friends. A lovely evening had by all and a magical celebration of Big Love and testament to manifesting your future.

The Contessa spoke of my blog to many people at the party and I was asked by a several folk to help them with their own opportunities in creating their perfect future. I am not sure I am up to that yet, gotta walk my talk for a while more.

My blog was mentioned to someone who, when I explained that it was "spiritual" experiment in my business and my life, actually got up and walked away from my narrative.
I have thought about this throughout the day.

I have an inherent need to express myself to the world and this is made possible right now through this blog. It could be expressed through art, design, music, anything creative, there are no limits but to do this I needed to breakaway from the "tribe" mentality. The constraints of what is "right or wrong" by society to really experience my individuality and share my knowledge. Whilst I know the subject matter is not for everyone, I hope that it is seen with open eyes and hearts by those who know and love me and even those who don't.

I do not expect judgment or praise for this blog, it is just me on the page, all my flaws, heartbreak and occasional success, all I ever wanted to do was enrich my life and hopefully enrich the lives of others with some of my experiments and understandings.

Someone I admire and respect said when I started this blog to expect fear, ridicule and support. I have so far had a taste of all three from people I know and those I don't.
Noam Chomsky writes," Society’s nonconformists do not usually have an easy time of it, at least not while they’re alive. The way things work, society much prefers to honor its "living conformists" and "dead troublemakers."

I am not so self important to think that what I do is changing the world, but it certainly alters it for some in positive ways and that alone must count for something, I hope.
People are interesting and their behaviours can serve as gifts if you let them.
What I gained from the interaction with this person and subsequently thinking about it today, is the absolute understanding that what I do is my own North Star, my version of being creative and learning and that cannot be judged as it is my own experience.
It is, at best, my own attempt to be a better person than I used to be. Everyday this year I have written regardless of who reads it and I have asked for nothing. Nothing.
It is just me in-spirit, in-spired, living my life.

As Stephen King said: "Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up."

I am no longer thirsty. I am the well and within me is the infinite flow of creation and creativity.

Inspiration and respiration

Living on purpose. I am aware that most of my heartache lately has been that I have been entirely reactive and not living in Spirit. I have been living from what I think my ego needs, not what my spirit requires. So back to creating the intention, letting it go and feeding the soul not the ego.
All your 'problems' will be taken care of in creative ways that you could not even make up, life is stranger than fiction. Accept the amazing, the astonishing and awe-inspiring, anything is possible and everything matters.
Gandalf and I stayed up late last night and discussed the fact that Spirituality helps us but doesn't define us or make us better than anyone else and nor does it give us a reason, its just supports us, cheers and cradles us in stormy times. The narrative of our life so far should not define us either but we allow it to everytime we get caught up in habitual drama.
I think of importance of the Yoga breath, everytime we take a inhale we are starting again, every exhale is a choice: stay the same or change what is not working.
Just breathe.

Back at the coalface!

The Moon is in earthy Taurus all day. Life slows down a little, and we get comfortable. Sensual pleasures are pronounced and motivating. We may also be inclined to stubbornness and materialism under this influence. With retrograde Mercury in Cancer quincunx Pluto, we are inclined to second-guess, doubt ourselves and others, and to lack objectivity in our decision-making. Re-assessing decisions we have made already, or adjusting our plans, may be in order.

Sound alright. Suppose it will do.

The Winds of Change and Strength

As I becoming more of an astro dork than ever, I now look to my transits for knowledge with which to understand my more difficult days.

Today's transits say it all.

Jupiter Opposition Midheaven- This means that I have lost my mojo at work, "career stand still" is the word I read. Would rather be at home, making lemon chicken and cupcakes.

Mars Conjunction with the 2nd House- The House of Possessions- A need to be resourceful. Yes, the Goddess Bookkeeper and I were literally scraping the bottom of the barrel today!

Mars squares the Sun- Emotions flare up, be careful.
Goddess and I both had headaches and I wanted to cry. Didn't but wanted to!

Moon Sextile Ascendant - This means that quiet low profile support carries me along.
This is the Goddess and Gandalf, talking me off the ledge.

Sun Sextile Pluto- Getting to the root of the problem.
This makes sense, I did have a light bulb moment during my day and saw where the issues are how they need to be fixed. I read that what Pluto changes cannot be changed back. Good, I need to change and fast!

Sun Sextile Saturn- The planets of authorative decisions. This also rings true, I need to become more authorative and say what I need and when.

Sun Trines Moon- The Moon is in your element, and so are you. Like minds and hearts gravitate toward you -- together you could rule the world, or ought to. Use this smooth energy to make big strides, conquer new ground so you'll be in ever better position when the situation is less ideal. Make time.
Yes, I came home tonight feeling like shit and then I did my chart and realised that I am supposed to go through this till I grow, learn and process my karma.

I need to stop fighting it and let go and see where I can grow and learn and change.

So the things I will change tomorrow:

1] Look at what I need to change in the business.

2] Incorporate into my action plan straight away.

3] Laugh, remember I have been through worse and what doesn't kill you makes you stronger!

4] Get a new client and replace tyre kickers that have been wasting time lately.

5] Remember why we are doing it.

6] Recall the vision we wanted.

7] Write a spell for my future. New Moon on the 25th July in Aries, a perfect time to caste for:

New Beginnings
Self Focus
Independence
Courage
Self Discovery
Innocence and authenticity
Disengaging self absorption.

Will visit the witch shop next week.

I just remembered I was going to do my script yesterday around the money issues when I was interrupted by a phone call and I never got back to it. I will do this tonight.

Email from Blessed:

Loved your blog on compassion. I believe until we actually learn it, we will continue to be tested = shitty world events

I agree. Is compassion the ability to actually suspend judgement and just listen, sympathise and be aware of another suffering ?
Are we not compassionate because we judge someone circumstances, skin colour, language, religion ?
I teach the my little kidlets to:
1] See that they are part of something much bigger than themselves and
2] How to be compassionate to others who are suffering.

Creating a new generation that open their Buddha seed to vibrate higher again!

Found a great explanation here.

Compassion and other catastrophies

I am bewildered by the world at the moment, if Wednesday is hump day, then I have decided that July is hump month. In Australia, this is the coldest month of the year, the darkest and the longest nights. I have known of 8 deaths this month, some close to me, some not and tis is just local.
With the war torn countries on the news every night, children being attacked under the caretakers noses and tsumani's being relegated to page 3 in the daily papers, I wonder what it takes to rise above this.
Compassion is the key to get through this, I heard it explained once. It is from the universal compassion that we heal the world. It would be nice that we were able to have the compasion without the shitful events but that's all part of the scheme I suppose.

It's waning, its pouring!

it is a waning powerful moon this week, so DO NOT START anything new, plus with Mercury Retrograde we are really feeling it in the communication sector.
I am so obsessed by the moon now I have diarised the New and Full and the sign they are in in my diary.
If I have a choice I will always choose a waxing to full period for anything that requires contract signing, paperwork and full on meetings. In fact I think I will cancel all unnecessary appointments in a waning period from now on.
The best things to do during a waning moon is a clear out, get rid of things. I just did a drop to my favourite opshop in Chapel Street, Sacred Heart Mission, their windows are always so witty and make you feel good! In spell working this is the best time to get rid of hexes, poverty, bad luck and general curses. But how do we know if there is a curse on us?
An extraordinary run of bad luck, money problems, feeling negative energy around you. Lift the curse and into the light!

Watery Times

This Cancer June is making us more emotional than usual, Venus also enters Cancer today, encouraging us to nuture and protect our nearest and dearest.
Moon is in Taurus all day. We are motivated by the desire for serenity, security, peace, and comfort. The Moon is at her most sensual and constant in Taurus. Our basic impulses are to relax, resist change, and "stop to smell the roses".
Well, I am off to see the Sibyls and Co as we take care of a loved one. As a Taurean I find there is nothing quite so rewarding as cooking for a beloved one, especially when their heart is hurtin'.
That's what I love about women, any crisis and they come running from the bushes with cake, tea and tissues and are ready to listen, bitch, moan and sympathise . Viva La Fémme!

Where's the divinity?

Difficult day for a few, have done some research and have discovered that we can blame it entirely on the planets! Thank god, its never us is it?
No really, I have thought about this, I never want to use astrology as an arguement for diminished responsibilty but today is actually about the stars.
With the Sun, Pluto, the Moon and Chrion hanging out together and the Moon in Aries, a fiery little sign, this makes for National Ego Day with an extra serving of fuck you!
I read that we should repeat to ourselves "Where's the divinity ?" and look for it all around us as it lurks quietly as not to make to much noise for fear of retribution from the mafia planets all cosied up together. Not to worry, this evening will bring in the Moon in Taurus and the Goddess will appear. Bless her!

Ahoy Matey!

I saw Pirates of the Caribbean 2 this afternoon en familie. Quite fun, lovely use of the myth and archetypes, action packed but story lite.
I left noticing the young people [under 25] wearing the pirate look with much gusto, military jackets, high black boots with a fold over knee high boots and bloody skulls on everything. Any minute now I expect an eye patch and a parrot on a shoulder to be the new IT accessory.
I was in Chapel Street after all.
I know it happens, I did partake in the Flashdance look in 1983 and the I myself have owned some thigh high black suede boots in 1988 as discussed in a previous post but we seem to be starved for any other inspiration at the moment. Supoerman has sunk without as much as a whimper, my Divine Scorp daughter told me that her friend heckled Superman Returns on Friday night, telling him to " cut of the bloody curl", fair call, its a lame hairstyle. But, heckled from a fashion conscious 9 year old ?
Is its a bird, is it a plane, no it's a curl!

Blessed and I discussed yesterday the value of style and its affect on your audience in life.
Blessed told me that I "never look wrong", I concurred, I do err on the classic side but happily so I will admit. I have not subscribed to Fashion since I was about 21.

So I thought about film and its affect on fashion this evening. Then I went deeper into this subject, or as deep as I can get, if film are the myths of our lives then perhaps we take on the costumes of these characters to hook into their courage to face our own internal dramas.
So what does the Pirate Archetype represent? I read that pirates represent a post conventional morality where an individual has interrogated “authority” and found himself the only true metric of his own integrity. Pirates are do not break the law, they transcend it. Cap’n Jack Sparrow himself says that a pirate ship is freedom.
Are these kids in boots trying to transcend authority? Do they gain courage from the Cap'n Jack Sparrow archetype?
I think about the new films that I know that are being made and will be released in the nest 12 months and gave thought to the Archetypes they represent. Sienna Miller is going to play Edie Sedgwick, so expect mod squad/Andy Warhol style to emerge.
Edie was the ultimate Networker Archetype, building up The Factory with New York society making it THE place to be and be seen. I look forward to seeing this new style emerge, but I think that we are not over with the swarthy swashbucklers yet as there is new installment due to be released next year. Arrrrgggghhhhh!

What you need right now

Had a trés blissful day with Blessed, after a particularly shitful week, I felt the time was right for a day without any difficulties.
We set of late morning to find her a dress for her engagement party next week. Blessed suggested the best kept secret dress shop in Melbourne, filled to the brim with dresses in a rainbow of colors and sizes. So I thought of us getting the Star Car Park near the shop, I pictured her car backing into it and blow me down when we saw the park for us when we arrived at the frantically busy shopping centre. As we assessed the dresses I suggested a certain style that perhaps Blessed should channel for the party and the sales girls walked over and was holding THE dress for Blessed. The most perfect, divine flutter of silk and velvet, evoking images of Ali Macgraw with Robert Evans, palazzo's, inheritances and manhattans' served in a highball glass on the terrace at 5pm.
Blessed knew her dress was there and so it was. Meant.

We left, headed up to Chapel Street, I stated to Blessed that I would work on creating another Star Car Park and low and behold there it was outside the shoe shop, as we backed in Blessed and I congratulated ourselves on our skills.

We then found the heavenly velvet evening shoes we had imagined at the dress shop, wandered down Chapel Street and found perfect accessories and 20 minutes later we were sitting at the best table at Cafe E 'Cucina having champagne and pumpkin gnocchi in a porcini sauce with a dash truffle oil and quail rissotto before you could say 'manifestation'.

So what was the secret to our success?
I am starting to get the hang of this manifestation gig now and I see a few recurring themes that I need to share with you:

1] Have clear goals but not expectations. When you throw out to the world you will get will get not what you imagine but what you need. So say, "We want the perfect dress, the best parks and a great lunch" and leave the rest up to the universe. Example: I did imagine the car backing into the park on the street, I just didn't hold onto a particluar car spot.

2] Send out positive energy. Blessed and I had plenty of that today, hi-jinx and the best friend kinda love that souls vibrating together only brings.

3] Be filled with gratitude. Gratitude raises your energy to a higher vibration and then we are able to honor the creative process of manifesting. At lunch Blessed and I toasted with a glass of sparkling wine to how fabulous life is on the Wheel of Fortune, its ups and downs and everything in between. Life is real and with it comes hard days and sleepless nights but sometimes there are moments, brief pauses from the frenetic scramble where you are in the sweet spot, overjoyed with the simple occasion of living.

4] Have intention all the time. When you have intention you are putting it all out on the universal washing line, you are asking for answers and they will come in the form of clues and syncronicities, some are easy to decifer, some take time to become clear but it makes life fun putting it together.


Thanks you Universe for a splendid day!

Time, Planets and other Rumi-nations!

I went back and assessed all the phone calls I received yesterday as my 'horrorscope' said I would be receiving news via the phone lines. Most of them were significant, from my mother telling me the family dog had died to the me having to make a choice over giving a reference for a past staff member who never seemed to fit in. I did the right thing I think, just because she wasn't right at my work doesn't mean she isn't perfect for somewhere else.
My 'horrorscope' is intense at the moment, I am starting to understand my transits more and I more and more convinced about the power of astrology and its effects on everything.
With the incredible insights from my emotional excavation this week via chart matching with my significant relationships and the me reading up on the transits I have a deeper understanding of my place and contracts and thus a peace of what I can change and what I should let go of.
This knowledge has given me much more time to be me, I thought.
Then I read a quote by Rumi: Come out of the Circle of Time and into the Circle of Love.
I was wrong. It is not more time I needed but actually permission to to love and be loved, love is timeless, it exists past death and before birth.
I loved my children before they were born, I waited when I had the Divine Scorpio Daughter for the rush of love that people spoke of when they saw their child for the first time and I later realised that I had already experienced it with every flutter and every kick.
Time did not exist only love. Now and forever.

Coffee, tea or me?

Fashion nostaglia this morning when Mystic asks what was the first item of clothing we bought with our own money.
I caste my mind back to 1989 and remembered a silk shirt from Perri Cutten [was I 50?], a pair of black thigh high suede boots from Midas [was I a pirate?] and a crocodile filofax [ not clothing but still expensive & I didn't have many appointments as I went to Prouds to work everday] then I didn't eat for 2 weeks, no money for food. God, what a wanker, trés pretentious! My Working Girl archetype was clearly top of mind.

This Mercury Retrograde is killing me! I have in the last week revisited all significant relationships with astrology as my navigator, had major communication/tech issues in the workplace and have turned into a hermit. The newspaper are piling along the hallways and I think I may knit myself some fingerless gloves!

Chart is good for the day though, with several charts telling I will receive an excellent phonecall with advice/businesss stuff going on, I will keep you posted.


"Let the river run, let all the dreamers wake the nation."

Theme from Working Girl by Carly Simon

Forecast: bright and sunny with a occasional cloudy spots

I am over my tantrum. Still don't know how to solve anything but I am over worrying about it.
Things went from bad to worse, I cooked dinner and then when I went to eat it realised that there was a dodgy smell eminating from it. Threw it out. When I was trying to start a new meal, the Piscean Son tried to 'shoot' the Scorpio Daughter with a water pistol and poked her in the eye. She screamed. I went nuts and threw the gun in the bin and sent him to his room, he got a blood nose everywhere and then I cried and then Gandalf came home. Noone told me there would be days like this when I walked up the aisle in the big white dress!
I then let go, cooked eggs on toast and then watched my daggy Judi Dench show that I love.

Later that evening phonecall from Brave Lioness who knew things were shitful, she is part psychic/ part Spiritual Biz reader so she is in the know. I discussed with her the art of being open to saying yes. 'Yes' as a word is empowering and I am sure does something positive to your brain chemicals if a study was done by Science dorks. Allow yourself to say yes and watch the world open up!

Astro says that my Saturn is Trine with Chiron.
What does that mean? This influence gives you the opportunity to become more aware of such weaknesses within yourself. It is now particularly important that you try to accept these without immediately wanting to change them. On a more superficial level, this influence should make it easier for you to change course or break out of existing patterns in your life, even when faced with obstacles or resistance from others. This will in any case be a time of increasing psychological stability, in which you will feel more able to get in touch with your own aims and true values.

Good.

Scope for tommorrow looks promising though.
Start again. Start again. Start again.

Fear and Frustration in Las Vegas

Yes my title is crazy but it all fits.
Last night I had a dream I was married to a certain celebrity restaurant critic/ex chef who is funny on his TV show but not, I thought, my type. I was madly in love with him in my dream and we were in Las Vegas together then in Melbourne and we opened a cafe at Flinders Street Station. Ok, I can't even be bothered interpreting it, so weird, I was so terribly fond of him though. Gandalf thought it was funny and we discussed how much of a slut I am for anyone who makes me laugh, this chef/writer/person could laugh me into bed I tell ya! It is the single the most favourite quality in anyone, animal or human.

Then off to work where I am trusting my gut instinct at the moment that tells me that things are not right in the woodshed re: the systems and processes and general small print. Guess what? I was right!

I spent all day cleaning up this work and have come home with a headache behind my right eye. The right side of the brain is the intuitive side, so that makes sense. It is screaming at me to trust it and making my brain fry!
I hacve recently stopped smoking but tonight I want a cigarette! God dammit!

15

Some things to do around the number 15:

1] Walk around your house and find 15 things to give to the charity.

2] For 15 minutes listen to someone speak. Really listen, their fears, their dreams, them bragging about their kids. Do not multitask while listening, be present, be still, be there

3] Meditate for 15 minutes

4] Walk for 15 minutes

5] Have a break at work [you know you never do] for 15 minutes

6] Spend 15 minutes at the beginnning of the day preparing for your fabulous day, write your list

7] Spend 15 minutes cleaning your work space at the end of the day.

8] Spend 15 cleaning out your wallet and sorting your receipts

9] Spend 15 minutes sorting out your emails

10] Spend 15 minutes sorting out your home bills

11] Tidy your wardrobe

12] Cook a meal that takes only 15 minutes

14] Clean out your car

14] Clean out your handbag

15] Have sex. Twice. Ha!


Do one of these everyday and see if life becomes less complicated. Its not a test, only a suggestion.

“It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.”

Old Chinese Proverb

Money, Money, Money

Money. If money is an energy then think about the past week and any thoughts you have had about money, were the thoughts positive or negative?
I read this and I cast my mind back to the past week and any thoughts I had about money. I can't remember, I don't recall anything in particular that was negative but nor do I recall anything overwhelming positive either.
So here I am on a Wednesday afternoon with the Goddess Bookkeeper, staring at a balance sheet wondering where the money will come from to calm the storms that are threatening off shore.
"Wherever it is right now" answers the voice in my head with a bad Indian accent.
Makes me think some more, no I didn't think about money much since last Wednesday, what I should say is I didn't worry about money in the last week, but I also didn't do anything to attract it either.
So back to affirmation land for me.

I enthusiastically welcome unlimited abundance.
I enthusiastically welcome unlimited abundance.
I enthusiastically welcome unlimited abundance.
I enthusiastically welcome unlimited abundance.
I enthusiastically welcome unlimited abundance.
I enthusiastically welcome unlimited abundance.
I enthusiastically welcome unlimited abundance.
I enthusiastically welcome unlimited abundance.
I enthusiastically welcome unlimited abundance.

Banish the dark, welcome the light.

Full moon energy has driven me to bring out the tarot. I am still enthralled with my cards, they seem to connect and calm me whilst offering suggestions from the non local field to try new paths and spurring me onto the road less traveled.
It was a spot on reading and optimistic till the final card which was the Two of Batons, the dueling card, the card of self doubt. Trés relevant, as I lay awake last night and had the voice of self doubt lying next to me on the pillow, whispering sweet nothings into my shell pink ear! Shut the fuck up I told it, it got louder! Nice.

This seems to be a common theme for me, just when I get to a place where I am ready for lift off on a personal project the voice starts. So how do I mute it, how do I let it go?
I read that I should break my dream into short-term projects. Apparently if I am unwilling to turn my dreams into projects, I should check and see if this is a dream you want to keep a dream or one you want to turn into achievement.
Way to take the pressure down man!

What is crazy is that the experiences that were fuelling the self doubt are the reason I am where I am right now. I turned lemons into lemonade, yet I let the past define me when I listened to the voices. Wayne Dyer explains that we are the boat on the sea, we are not the wake behind the boat. We are not the wake. Do not let the past define you.

Final note: This is the message on Wayne Dyers mobile phone, no I am not lying, it really is:

You have reached Wayne Dyer and I want to feel good. If your message is designed to do anything other than make me feel good, you have reached the wrong number.




Trés funny! I may do this myself.
Resolution: I will not say anything to myself or anyone else that is not designed to make them and myself feel good!









P.S You are all fantastic, amazing, brilliant people, who change the world everyday.

A wonderful night for a moondance

A little insight required?

Here tis'!

A Full Moon occurs tonight. With the Moon full and bright in the sky, symbolic "illumination" occurs in our own lives. However, these new feelings and revelations are emotional ones, as there is a sense of emotions bursting forth into our consciousness. It's time to express ourselves, and to let things out of our systems. Of course, we might want to exercise some care while doing so, knowing that what is coming out of us is fresh, unrefined, and not particularly rational as yet. The Cancer Sun encourages us to value our home base and our roots, while Capricorn persuades us to consider our sense of duty and responsibility along public lines. Cancer represents our origins, and Capricorn represents our goals. Neglecting either end of the axis will surely backfire on us. Ideally, a balance should be found between the two energies, and this is what the Full Moon invites us to do. This Full Moon is about balancing our commitment to our career and families.

I make my kids howl at the full moon, to honor and celebrate it, they love it now, don't know when it will stop, but while they are young I think, let's be free and crazy.

Happy Full Moon to you all!

Emotional genomes

I tried a little excerise tonight, I was wary of it as it seemed so simple but....I don't know, there seems to be a little something in it. No, I will not try to color you experience, try it and see what you think.

The premise is this. Saying this script supposedly reprograms your DNA structure and clears you of your most negative emotional sludge. All you do is add in the given places what you are feeling and then what you want to feel.
It does mention God quite a bit, but in a Universal Jedi sense, I am not trying to sell any religion here at all.

So give it a whirl speak it out loud if possible.
Don't feel like a dick, just go with it and be open.



Spirit, please locate the origin of my feeling/thought of feeling negative about....[insert the feeling or belief you want to release here].....

Take each and every level, layer, area and aspect of my be-ing to this origin. Analyze and resolve it perfectly, with God's truth.

Come forward in time, healing every incident based upon the foundation of the first, according to God's will; until I'm at the present, filled with light and truth, God's peace and love, forgiveness of myself for my incorrect perceptions, forgiveness of every person, place, circumstance and event which contributed to this feeling/thought.

With total forgiveness and unconditional love I delete the old from my DNA, release it and let it go now! I feel [Insert the way you want to feel here].........................!!!!!!!!

I allow every physical, mental, emotional and spiritual problem, and inappropriate behaviour based on the old feelings to quickly dissappear.

Thank you, Spirit, for coming to my aid and heping me attain the full measure of my creation.
Thank you , thank you, thank you! I love you and praise God from whom all blessings flow.


Acknowledge the feeling and replace it. You don't need it anymore apparently. I did this with one of my recurring life issues and I did feel a little buzz, I admit. Write this out and carry it with you is a tip, then when you need an emotional DNA makeover then you have your laboratory at the ready!

Souls carried to heaven

I had a charming morning with The Contessa, we discussed everything from Scientology to financial planning over endless cups of tea and omelettes from The Conte: her Live in Chef and Lover, she really is livin' and lovin' Noble Lifestyle.

I then saw Blessed Seraph and her Ram-Beau at the Design Festival in Melbourne, was swell to see them in their love bubble. Blessed is the living example of how you can process you karma quickly by doing things differently to how you have done it in the past and suddenly moving forward at a pace faster than you ever could have realised possible. Dear Blessed's grandmother passed away last week and now Blessed is coming down with a cold. She commented that we are spookily connected which got me thinking about friendships and the patterns in them.

Because I am a giant astro dork, I have a listed all my friends birthdays and times of birth [wherever possible] on my fave website which generate heaps of free charts, [I am tight as well as a dork.] So tonight I did a friendship chart with all my dear ones, here and departed, in hopes to understand any patterns that are occuring. They bought a tear to my eye. If I had read this a long time ago I could have saved myself a lot of heartache and worry at night.

Karma runs deep, it is in its most basic explanation, it is how we metabolise and interpret our past to affect our future. But how does karma work with astrology? There are certain relationships that have affected me deeply, in fact changed me, and the commonality is that we all have Sun in the 10th House. These are the relationships that affect your life purpose, those whom with you have a contract with in this lifetime. These are the ones who I have supposedly sat in the Hall of Ashtic Records with and we have worked out lives purpose together and how we will help each other to get to attain the goals together. We have an 'identity of purpose'. We have karma together that needs to be processed.

It is at once amazing and astounding.

One relationship in particular with Beloved who is no longer on here on earth, states that our relationship has a "dreamlike quality' about it, as if it were too beautiful to be true." because of Moon conjunct Venus. Also the placement of Venus in the 9th House "signifies love as an agent of consciousness expansion." Her death was the very thing that propelled me into looking deeper within myself and the universe around me. Now I see her only in my dreams a few times a year where we are of no particular age, we make each other laugh and she shows me a few more breadcrumbs on the trail to finding real meaning.

I understand more about my friends after tonight, I see the friendships that are for a reason, a season and a lifetime.
Each one is a gift and from the connection I grow.


At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.

Carl Gustav Jung

Passion lurks amongst us

I have thought about passion over the weekend in relation to work.
I discussed with a Special One in my life, who is facing some temporary financial challenges at the moment, the idea that perhaps their passion could be used to actually make some money to help their situation somewhat. The idea of using their special gifts and passion with the purpose of helping their family is the theme of centuries of literature, I know somewhere the poet/artist archetype is smiling down upon them.
The greatest failure in life is inaction. Waiting for someone to hand it to you.
Do something, anything, differently and see what happens. Potentially nothing will ever be the same again, you are forever transformed and that, my friends is growth.

Science, Spirituality and the family tree.

Watching The Ghost In Your Genes.
According to a bunch of renegade scientists, genes have a memory. We aren't just what we eat and think, we are what our parents and grandparents eat and think and saw and even the air that they breathed. So our hereditary characteristics are in fact products of the way our ancestors lived their lives.
I can't blame it on Tom Cruise anymore, I need to go back into therapy to discuss but I will have to take the family tree with me.

The Getting of Wisdom

Being spiritual requires humility, real humility, the complete loss of of ego and the acknowledgement of the infinity of the universe and it being able to give all things if we allow ourselves to receive, be it love, money, laughter and great shoes!
The road to self actualization can start at any moment.
In fact, the exact minute you ask "Why am I here?"

I have been reading about Eastern and Western theories that the self actualized person actually shows the same traits whether it be Maslow's theory or Zen Buddhism that they follow.
These are people who understand the simplicity and wonder of nature, people who are independent of what people think of them and what others do and finally those who are not controlled by self limiting or grandiose thoughts.
Sounds easy huh?

Well I have first one down, there is nothing, nothing, that is as divine as nature, not art, not fashion. No material, man made object. As Frank Lloyd Wright said:" Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."

As for the others, I am working on them but old habits die hard.

So why do it? Why follow this path? What do we gain from it? Why complicate it with all this new age shit?

Well, it makes the time pass faster whilst on this trip. It raises your energy levels, makes you look at your relationships on a deeper level and demand and even receive more than you ever believed possible. Self actualization makes you question your beliefs, emotions and what drives you, it makes you take responsibility for how you interact and react with the world.
This all takes time, real quantative measurements of time. Spending more time contemplating though means less time for the many crises we are addicted to.
The Getting of Spiritual Wisdom is getting to know your life's purpose and then living with that purpose top of mind. Open your eyes. See the signs, the syncro moments that tell you you are on track, see the threads between those souls who you have travelled lifetimes with and be in the moment when you have de-ja-vous when you visit seemingly foreign places.

And after all that laugh, angels fly because they take themselves lightly!

dib, dib, dob, dob

Yesterday was Mastery, today I tackle Excellence.

"Excellence is never an accident. It is achieved in an organisation or institution only as a result of an unrelenting and vigorous insistence on the highest standards of performance."

I think my business is excellent. I am constantly banging on about being better, growing my staff's skills so they can be the best possible. Not better than anyone else, just better than they used to be for themselves.

"Excellence inspires; its electrifies. It potentialises every phrase of the organisation's life.......
Excellence is a state of mind put into action. It is a road map to success. When the climate of excellence exists, all things come easier."


Right then, off my soap box and off to be excellent.


P.S. Did I tell you how much I love my Goddess Bookkeeper?
She is amazing and I am honoured everyday that I get to spend with her!
She is excellence personified!

I love it!

In a letter to Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung wrote:

"My studies in astrology are fascinating...I have come to the firm conclusion that at the moment of birth an individual takes on the characteristic state of the Universe for that moment in time."


Blessed Be!

High Points

• The Goddess Bookkeeper has moved more of the crap in my office into the storeroom.

• Received a lovely comment from a Fish. Bless them made me all warm and fuzzy. Love a comment!

• Have finished writing a proposal and I am pretty happy with it. Not attached to the outcome, but enjoyed writing it, main point.

• Had a nice lunch with someone special.

• Had a dream about someone that I knew and instinctively knew it was a message for them. Told them and it spoke to them so deeply and with such gravity, I realised it was privilege to have the dream gift and I blessed the Universe for giving it to me.

• Have had a few laughs with the people I work with.

• Have organised a breakfast date with my favourite Contessa.

• Money is winging its way to me so I can honor my debts.

• Love is in my heart.

The five point palm-exploding heart technique

I read an interesting article about Mastery last night. "Mastery in one's career and consciouness requires that we consistantly produce results beyond and out of the ordinary."

One way to mastery is to surround yourself with people who are as vibrating as highly as possible, those who ask more of you than you think you can ever achieve. Those who believe in you.
My new phrase I have coined: If they ain't humming then they ain't coming!


Another step is to not have resentment to those Masters around you. "Develop compassion for yourself so you can be in the presence of masters and grow from the experience. Rather than comparing yourself and resenting people who have mastery, remian open and receptive, let the experinence be like the planting of the seed within you that, with nourishment, will into your own individual mastery."


And the final pearl is is, " You must be able to correct yourself without invaildating or condemming yourself. "


Me, Grasshopper likey, likey!


"It's the wood that should fear your hand, not the other way around. No wonder you can't do it, you acquiesce to defeat before you even begin. "
Pai Mei- Kill Bill 2

Batten down the hatches

I am reading about Mercury Retrograde which occurs from the 4th July till the 29th of July. Apparently we are well into the shadow period now with this Mercury Retrogarde in Cancer.
I experienced this today with an outage across Victoria with Broadband for 6 hours and now I ca't access my work server from home! Helpful, not!

So, what does this all mean?
Here is a list of what could potenially go to the shit and how you can prevent it.

• Stay indoors under the doona full dressed in case you need to escape at anytime.
• Technology going to whack out so backup, backup, backup!
• Those ol' family wounds will start to gush blood and gore again , so stay away from them [family] till the 29th, unless you want to say shit you will regret and get excommunicated forever and ever.
• Emotional insecurites pop up again. Do not look into an mirror whilst naked. Do not drink and dial/text old boyfriends. Try to be kind to yourself.

As it is is Mercury Retro in Cancer and Cancerians have to "learn emotional self-reliance", have a think about how you can take care of your emotional needs without draining others or relying on them to make you happy.

Where you have Cancer in your chart will be affected. If you know then go here to learn more.

Just My Luck

As a guilt ridden parent I allowed my daughter, who had to sit through 2 hours of medical procedures today, to take me to a movie of her choice and she wanted to cook the family dinner. Bless her, cooking for the family is still an adventure. Wish I still had the same mojo for this task. Sorry, I digress.
First things first, the movie. Just My Luck with Lindsay Lohan [her birthday yesterday, just found this out when I went to this link, nice syncro moment] and a supporting cast of who cares. I secretly love a preteen movie and this hit all the spots, great clothes, slapstick and a Top 40 soundtrack. The premise is that the luckiest girl in the world kisses the unluckiest boy in the galaxy and they they swap luck, her life turns to shit and his turns to gold, yaydayadayadaya.

As I watched, I wondered if the main character created her own drama after a random tarot reading foretold of her change in the Wheel of Fortune. Did she allow herself to doubt for a moment and then start to attract negative energy ? Her choice were pretty crap, no thought, none of the smarts and moxie she displayed when she was in her luck phase. She didn't get unlucky she got stupid and became a victim.
The Good Doctor in W.A told me of an experiment where people two groups of people were bought together, one considered them lucky and the other unlucky. They were told to go through a newspaper and count the amount of times a particular worked appeared in the dummy newspaper. The groups got started. I don't know the specific statistics but it ended up that the 'lucky' group found an ad quite early on in the paper that said something to the effect,
" Stop counting, the word you are looking for appears 21 times." So they stopped.
The unlucky group didn't see the ad and spent lots of time looking for the word and most of them got the number wrong of how many times it appeared. Those who had seen it thought it was a trick so they ignored it, making their search harder for themselves.
The moral of this story is to look for the signs and you will suddenly find yourself on track and on purpose. Pay attention and then trust your instincts.
All this from a Lindsay Lohan movie.

P.S
Dinner was excellent. Divine Scorp Daughter made tacos with the works, the her own dessert combo of vanilla ice-cream, strawberry topping and garnished with jubes. Classy huh?
It was actually nice in a primary school sort of a way.


P.P.S
Divine 5 yr old Piscean Son is becoming a little 'astrowunderkind'. I saw an interview with Winona Ryder on the E! channel during the taco extravaganza and I commented that she was looking a bit dodgy and sad and I wondered what sign she falls under. Small Fish Son made comment that she looked like a 'Scorpian'. There is no judgement from him attached to this statement but blow me down with a feather boa when I just now googled Winona and she is a Scorpio!
The little freak has the gift.

"Some magic's real."
Cole in The Sixth Sense

More on housekeeping

Just looking at my Moon journal and it states that the crescent moon in Leo we are experiencing is the moon of assertion, mobilizing and resources. Maybe I am in touch with the bio-rhythms of the moon and this is what has prompted me to clean up the study. The journal states that this moon encourages you to not take yourself too seriously and enjoy the process of making a comfortable, welcoming home environment that reflects my personal artistic nature.

Makes sense to me, I know a few people doing this, Blessed Seraph and her Ram-Beau playing house, me playing in my study, the moon affects us all unknowingly whilst we keep on blaming Tom Cruise.
Speaking of which, here is a trés intersting article on why Katie Holmes should run like the wind away from The Tiny One according to her chart. It's his birthday tomorrow. Syncro! Didn't know that till I went to the previous link. I know I am rambling, but......anyway, I could make all sorts of unqualified comments about why he is such a massive tool but I shall leave it to the astrologers to do that. Interesting insights on The Tiny One to be found here.

Scrrryyyyiiiiiing, over you!

I bought a dowsing pendulum for scrying. I know! I said I would try everything this year and I am committed.
I am not sure, I think its a bit like the ouija board, finger on the drinking glass theory, you think you aren't moving it but you are subconsciously affecting it with the slighest muscle movement.
I found a website that has a heap of scrying charts about fate, destiny, money and even what colours are best for me. Apprently a big no to Salmon Pink but a shout out to Reddish Brown for me. Does Salmon Pink look good on anyone? It's such an eighties colour! All Moonlighting and Golden Girls.
Hmm, the jury is out on scrying, but happy to hear from anyone who has had great success using this method, as I say, open to everything, attached to nothing.

Hanging in the 'Rat

Went to Ballarat for a variety of reasons and ended up not doing anything I had planned and found myself in an art gallery having some serious syncrodestiny moments. Too many to believe, it began to get tiring. I said to Gandalf that it was draining trying to understand what it all meant. Maybe sometimes a cigar is just a cigar I know, but these signs were out of control. So much of the art on the wall reflected so many things that we are discovering in our life or are important right now. I felt myself being dragged onto the past during the day also, so did Gandalf, while memories, music and other crap rose to the surface of our consciousness.
I have searched for reasons why, is it astro based? Or just us feeling melancholy for no good reason?
Can't find any good reason other than the temperature being eyeball freezing and it raining the whole time. Maybe we have a case of the SADS. Probably.

Day off tomorrow, I am going to clean up my bomb site study that is driving me nuts. Maybe thats why I am being a pain in the arse. I read that if you have one room in your house that is a shithole filled with crap then it is über bad feng shui. The messy room is stopping your flow and reflects a part of your chi that is being held hostage by your mess.
Clean up your mess piglets and let your chi start flowing !