The end is only the beginning

Spiritual Business is my experiment to mix new age, occultism, spirituality and anything else unusual into my business for one year and see what changes abound; physically, emotionally and financially.

So mote it be.

Moon is in Aries- Time for new beginnings and change.

I set myself a goal on this day last year to do whatever it takes to connect through work. It was warts and all, you heard about what worked and what didn't, the good and the bad, the tiaras and the tears. I am The Spiritual Diva!
I don't mean to be facetious but I do not know how to put it into words: all the experiences and connections I have had in the last 12 months.
Although I am not a big supporter of time [I still believe it is synthetic in its essence] I do understand change and all that it brings.
I also see that I lead an incredibly privileged life and even to be able to have this experience is to be blessed.
I am profoundly changed, I started with dipping my toe in the water, the warmth spread through my whole body until I had no choice but to dive in and trust. Those waters have proved to be soothing, rough, warm and cold but I kept swimming and treading water when I was tired until I reached new shores.
I have questioned myself at times, wondering if in fact I was suffering spiritual madness but I have moved through this and still have a healthy openness to everything.

So what did changes did I see ?

Physically-
•Wonderful renovations at work which a year ago was not even on the radar, which by the way look like David Jones according to The Dear Contessa!
•Two new staff members to add to the 8 that sit in the nest and room for more to come.

Emotionally -
• A new calm that comes with knowing that life will support me and my business.
• Wonderful experiences with old friends and finding new friends.
• No more stress about things that don't matter
• Understanding why I am here on earth and what I am Meant to do.


Financially-
• Better than I ever imagined or could hope for.



As I stated before I will now only blog when I think I have something helpful to tell you but no more musings about my journey, I have noticed that no one asks how I am or about my life anymore as they read the blog, so I suppose they think there is no need to actually inquire about my life anymore than the few sentences I have posted online. I think people are sick of me on my journey and rightly so! It may seem Über narcissistic but it has also been about letting the veil down around pretending that everything is hunky-dory all the time, there have been some of the blackest periods of my professional and personal life in the last 12 months and having something to believe in and trust made it better, even if it was astrology or Feng Shui, whatever blows your hair back, right?
I have come through this journey and I have reevaluated so many things in my life since I started this and I would not change a thing, what started as a business experiment has become a human experiment with me as the guinea pig.

Above all, I know myself. It is a worthy prize for all the digging I have done and certainly a surprise outcome. I did not expect to be making a statement like that at all, I didn't even realise I didn't know who I was to begin with.

So at the risk of being a total wanker, I want to thank a few of the nearest and dearest who have traveled on this journey with me.

-To Gandalf for telling me to do it and loving me when I would sneak off to the study at night to read and blog.
-To the Changelings for being patient when I said sitting at the computer," Let me just finish this!"
- To the Blessed Seraph, my dearest friend, for reading it always, being my biggest cheerleader and being open to try many crazy things with me! I am so glad that all your dreams have come true, my darling.
- To The Piscean Princess, I felt we became true friends through this journey and if for nothing else that this crazy experiment has bought me, your friendship is enough.
- To the Good Doctor, we are a single soul dwelling in two bodies!
- To The Contessa, for reading, making comments and calling to commiserate and celebrate.
- To Domonique the Wonderful for being my teacher and my friend.

And finally to all those who read, wrote to me, posted comments and cared. It means more to me than you will ever realise, so thank you!

Oh my Goddess!

My journey finishes tomorrow! Wow, I better go and think about what it all means I suppose. More later!

The blogman cometh

I likened my recent feelings about finishing this blog as if I were coming out of a cave and standing at its edge and trying to become accustomed to the light.
Makes sense to me anyway.

Jupiter and Uranus sitting in a tree

So Jupiter has finally come home to its ruling planet Sagittarius for the first time in 12 years. Actually this happened back in November, when no doubt you felt things getting a little more intense than usual. Well, get ready to rock because Jupiter is now making friends with Uranus and this makes things heat up even more!
Jupiter is the planet of self improvement and Uranus is the planet of awakenings and the fact that these are in Sagg, which is an über positive sign means that we will get all excited about the potential for change withing us. We may have a massive "wake up and smell the coffee " moment.
My advice is to stay open, be positive and look for the signs!

Not drowning, waving!

I heard a lovely comment today that to compare yourself to others is a sin, when you compare yourself to others you give away your life and its very meaning.
I had to be mindful of that when sitting at a cafe with my children and watching a mothers group meet for coffee this afternoon. They all had their prams and their chitchat and I felt somewhat isolated from their experience. As I looked closely at them I realised that most were older than me with their first child, I was sitting with a 10 year old and a 5 year old. I chose to have my children young but this is not the norm in todays world, so I have never really fitted in this area of my life in terms of ages and stages. I felt a slight yearning for the shared experience, the tribal cords that bind women and child, to not feel on the outside for a brief moment.
I wondered what it would be like now if I was to have my first child and I couldn't imagine it, who I am is made up of the last 11 years of experience of pregnancy and child raising and I like who I have become because of these times.
When I bundled my children into the car to drive home, I said to them," A successful afternoon of doing our errands, having afternoon tea and now home to cook a roast for dinner" and the Piscean 5 year old exclaimed: "I love my world" And I said, "I love you in my world!"
There is no perfect time to have start a family but as my grandmother once said to me, "There are two things in life you will never regret doing- one is having a baby and the other is learning to swim."

Change of pace and space

A divine weekend spent in Sydney with old friends and newer ones who fed and watered us in between our "touristic" jaunts around the stunning city. It was lovely to let go of controlling the space and pace in our normal lives back home and just be and see.

I did a massive brain dump of all that was on my mind in the hotel room yesterday after a successful shopping trip. When I reread it today it seemed all very do-able and achievable, bless the brain dump, it does work and ease the pressure on the grey matter.

I am soon to finish this blog, in 5 days exactly so I have been journaling my biggest learnings for the last 12 months. I plan to not blog everyday after then but only when I come across some information or thoughts that will make a difference to your day, less about my journey and more tidbits to share and to brighten your day.

A big New Moon week with the focus on responsibilty when the New Moon starts in Capricorn. It is time to ask yourself, are you ready to take on FULL responsibility for your own life - your financial independence, your work, your relationships, your happiness?
There is no better time to set financial goals this week or get a better job, anything that gives you choices and independence.

Here is an exercise to try:

1] Write down you list of what you want to create this year for yourself.
Now look at it again and ask for something that is even better than that which you asked for, go for broke on the goal setting!

2] How much intention are you prepared to put towards achieving this? Out of 10? Think about it then answer again.

3] Now think about what you want to manifest this year and ask yourself what you think this will give you in terms of quality of life. [Less stress, hope, love, peace etc]

4] Go back to No 2 and think about how much intention you are prepared to give and see if it is enough for the quality you are trying to bring to your life.

5] Is there anything or anyone in your life that gives you that quality right now?

Getting clarity on what you want will help you recognize it when you it manifests in your life.

Yesterday as I wandered around the Goddess exhibition and I was so darned glad I was there. It was something I had wanted to do for months and sometimes I let those wants slip by because I think there is some thing more important in life but I got myself and my family off our lazy butts and it was even better than I had imagined. It reinforced and educated, thrilled and affected. Making the effort to 'do' pays off better than you can imagine sometimes.

Awake in a new moon

Have spent morning on the couch wearing my nightie and looking at designer clothes online, that is my new way of defragging the grey matter. I had dreams about difficult times for someone in my life last night, it gave me that deeply intuitive feeling that I have when I know a dream is going to come to fruition, so I feel good to be prepared just in case but mindful that things could change for people around me. Of course things change, I know that but we never want hard times for people we love but that is how they grow and evolve so we cannot interfere and head it off at the pass. This difficult time could be the making of them and their lives so who am I to say whether they should go through it or not.

Wanted: One heat shield

There is a reason that spacecraft need heat shields as they come back to earth, it is because of the atmospheric drag. Drag is the resistance of the atmosphere to the fact that you're trying to plow something through it. It is the drag that slows you down and turns your energy into heat. The drag gets more or less depending on the density of the atmosphere and the speed of the object flying through space.
Today I flew back to earth after a spectacular 10 days in the celestial space. The higher you get the less drag you have, so I have been flying around reaching dizzy speeds and admiring the view but inevitably you have to come back to earth. As you fly back to the blue planet you have to burn a lot of fuel to slow down your descent to earth and this takes energy. The more energy you burn the hotter you get, today I burnt the lot but forgot to strap my heat shields on.

I feel better though, reality vs euphoria.

Day has turned to shit!

What started out so hopeful is deteriorating into a soup of disorder and stress, might go and have a cry. Happy New Moon at 5.17pm today.

A day late and a dollar short for me!

Turnover vs Profit

Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity! This from my new book I read last night, I like it!
After sitting with the Ram Accountant yesterday we discussed the facade of turnover and its affect on the ego. Sure, I won a big job but is it worth doing , is there profit there in the budgets?
Good questions and whilst the answer is yes for this one, it may not be the same for every job to come. It got me thinking about the idea of turnover in relation to life experiences. I suppose I liken it to this: you can have a cacophony of life experiences, good and bad, but its what you come out with at the end that really matters.
The ego in turnover is the devil in disguise, there can be big numbers floating about but with razor thin profits. The goal for me now is to focus on staying under the radar, producing excellent work in an excellent environment with excellent profits.
So Mote it Be!

Never ends

I have discovered the learning never ends, it just goes up in levels and intensity. After sitting with Domonique the Wonderful and the Sun Aries/Leo Moon accountant, I have realised I have to now get ready to grow, adapt and consolidate and blah, blah, blah, I shan't bore you with it, but its full on. However like the true Taurean I am, I have bought a new business book and will be pulling that apart asap ready to implement and write the new chapter of our business. New moon in Capricorn tomorrow at 5.17, when I will be in another session with Domonique, beautifully timed by the way! [No accident either.]

Little by little

I had lost my mojo for a certain project but it came rushing back today when I saw some pretty pictures, amazing how it works. Now I want to dump everything on my list and just play with my new project.
I was reading a book about calling in certain Goddesses into your life to get support in your life and St Therese of the Little Flower was mentioned as being the poster girl for taking joy in small tasks. So I will call upon her today, although I am neither a Catholic or religious in any way, but I am not thinking that St Therese will bear this in mind, and I will ask her to help me finish the small things so I can get onto the other things that I love!

I think this quote from Brahma Kumaris sums it up best:

A task left undone remains undone in two places — at the actual location of the task, and inside your head. Incomplete tasks in your head consume the energy of your attention as they gnaw at your conscience. They siphon off a little more of your personal power every time you delay. No need to be a perfectionist, that’s debilitating in an imperfect world, but it’s good to be a ‘completionist’' If you start it, finish it — or forget it.

Amen!

I love to look at how hits come to Spiritual Business through the google search engine. The latest ones that have intrigued me are "Spells to banish and bind an errant husband." And another one "wicca spell to make someone feel the heartache they gave you."
These searches made me sad and fascinated, what is the deal, what are their stories?
I want them to know this. What you wish or others you wish upon yourself 3 times, so be very careful when you cast on others an it has an impact on their free will.
The better casting would be to free yourself from care and heartache, release your heart and your mind and do some sort of a ritual to rid them from your life. So much better!

Moonday Blues

Dark moon phase whilst it rests in Sagg. Mars/ Pluto, Mercury in Aquarius, its all happening! For some more than others though. I am dreaming difficult dreams at the moment, not even worth looking up, I know what they are telling me and I know what I have to do, just do it already Dreamweaver!

Colour in motion

No sign of the missing jewelery yet, but I still haven't done the hardcore spell yet, will go into the city to buy supplies today.

The new staff member is fabulous, the Libran Sylph became quite overwhelmed at their capabilities in the WIP meeting this morning, Bless them both.

I have decided that my office is wanting and so I have organised a repaint of my infamous pink wall, no longer the "womb with a view", I am going for something more calming. I think the pink wall meant that people came into my office and became emotional, no more of that, I am resigning from the therapists position.

Colour has an amazing affect on ones moods, Aura Soma is a divination technique based on colour and it is used in conjuncton with the chakras to heal and get to the underlying reason for the malaise.
Here is a site with a chart with what all the colours symbolise- I am moving from Number 67 to Number 43 for my wall in my office.

Last Quarter and Fries please

Yes, its the last quarter moon, which often throws us into a crisis of confidence after basking in the light of the full moon consciousness from the last few days. The full moon always shows us the Way, the last quarter of the moon asks us to see what has been working for us and let go of the rest until the new moon in Capricorn on the 19th January. This is a terrific New Moon, focussing on goal setting and Capricornical qualities. Read here about it, super article!

Lost things

I have lost a loved piece of jewelry, trying not to stress, just tore the vacumn apart, an attractive task, not! I have said a few little rituals this morning to bring it back to me but I think I require something stronger. Time to bring out the big guns, will try this one later today.

SPELL TO FIND LOST OBJECTS

Tools:

Mirror Orange candle Black candle Small Magnet

Usual ritual requirements, such as incense, quarter candles, and athame.

Method:

First create the Circle and invoke the Elemental Guardians.

Raise a cone of power by chanting and drumming, or racing around the circle.

Then light a Black candle (for solving mysteries, and drawing away the negativeness of the loss),

an Orange candle (for luck and precious objects).

Visualize the lost objects in the mirror as already being found.

Place the magnet between the two candles and stroke it towards you as you recite this rhyme:

"By the wavering flame of this black light,

Grant to me of my jewelry a sight.

By the power of this orange flame,

Give me luck to find the same.

In this mirror the jewelry I see

Make the magnet draw them to me."

Substitute the name of the object for the word "jewelry". Say this three times.

Close the circle, but leave the candles burning with the magnet between them

until the candles burn down.

Good Vibrations

I am loving going to work at the moment, but also able to not be there, if that makes sense. When I am there, I notice the energy has changed dramatically with the new staff and from the new environment but when I leave I am not afraid that things are not going to be done, its easy to let go when I shut the door.
So in that mode, I have decided to not go in this afternoon as was originally planned, or I maybe I will, not sure, that's the lovely part of it all, I can't or not, what ever I want.
Pluto is square Moon today in my chart which probably suggests that I should stay away from people, this is what I have been feeling the last few days no doubt. I am fully booked this weekend with gigs, so I hope Pluto has Vamoosed by then!
The indecisiveness stems from the Moon still being in Libra, a notorious sign for low decision making skills, but they are lovely though all the same.
I still haven't had time to do my clearing spell and intention spell for the new space at work, so I will do that on the weekend, need to have a think about it some more.
Oh, the day is before me and there are so many possibibilties.......

Visualisation

Had a massive psychic moment this morning, which is always thrilling, it still takes me by surprise when it happens. The Moon is in Libra, which promotes diplomacy, togetherness and peace, always good things in a work place. The Libran Sylph announced her resignation to staff today, which I have known about for 10 months, she is setting sail overseas, which is so exciting for her and I wish her love peace and great times. So we have a new person starting on Monday, a Scorpio with a Leo moon, some of my favourite people have this combo!
I am becoming a hermit though I think, having to force myself into the world a little bit at the moment. I am torn, should I honour this phase or should I push through it? Can't answer that right now, will ponder.

What is your Tarot year this year?

Calculate your year cycle.

1. Add together your month and day.
   e.g- Dan: Sept 22 , which is 09, and the day, 22, which adds to 31.
2. Take your 31 and DO NOT REDUCE IT FURTHER. Take this number and add it to the year you wish to know about. For instance, 1997 plus 31, which gives us 2028.
3. Now, take 2028 and add the digits together. 2 + 0 + 2 + 8
4. From this we get 12. Dan is in a 12 year, the Hanged Man. We do not reduce this further to 3, though it is understood that 3, the Empress, is a part of his year cycle energy simply because it is a lower octave of Hanged Man. (12 reduces to 1 plus 2 = 3.)

Then go here to read what your tarot year will be.

Dreams and forward motion

Incredible, bizarre dreams last night, after doing a tarot reading for the symbols of my year ahead. Interesting things came up for me and I am certainly more mindful of my priorities and what I want to achieve this year. I asked a friend last night what her plans were for the year and she told me about her husband and her children but didn't mention her own plans, when I questioned her again about her own plans she struggled and I thought about all the women who struggle to be heard, to allow themselves to live out their own dreams and goals and hopes. Somewhat hard when you don't know what they are though, take some time to allow yourself to have possibilities in life.
I read once that women should have three lives: one to live for their partner, one to live only for their children and one where they live completely for themselves.
I think about that all the time and try to be present when I am in the moment with all of these triple pleasures. It is hard but not impossible.

When The Good Doctor came to stay recently she marveled to me how I could sit in front of the TV at night with my laptop on my knee but when the changelings or Gandalf needed me I was right there. It was not hard for me to be with each task or person 100% and then I would go back to my laptop and be back in that completely. This does not make me more special or gifted, it is something that I have had to master but now I don't feel guilt now that anything is suffering from my lack of attention. What you put your attention on grows, so I divide my attention equally wherever possible, this means that things grow at the same time, albeit slower than me focussing on one thing at a time but still all the time, progress is made.

If you build it

So here's the thing. We renovated the office, make space for possibilities and opportunities. Before this happened I wrote a remittance out for the company and popped in in the banking drawer for a lot of money.
So today we reopened and won a massive job for over that amount, coincidence? I don't think so.
Also, I received a book in the mail when I came home- Write It Down, Make it Happen, which I ordered a while ago. Coincidence? I don't think so!

Ah, sometimes the world is so terrific!

Will it never end????

Gandalf was up till 2.00am with the electricians at the office and the wiring is still not fixed. I tell ya!!! Desperate to talk to someone, I put out my need to the Universe and soon I received an email from the Grecian Goddess late at night and then spent the early hours of the pouring out my heart to her as she takes South America by storm, literally with the rains there at the moment.
We both have Mercury activity in our charts at the moment, me with Venus square Mercury, which is appropriately is titled - Under the carpet. No doubt all the mess I will be cleaning.
Gandalf's chart is Mercury sextile Saturn, which is titled With a Critical Eye.
Perfect as the Moon goes into Virgo today. Hooking into the Virgo temperament today means, cleaning, straightening and obsession. I will try not to let that go to far as I have never sat easy with Virgo's, except The Scribe of course, but that's because she has a Leo Moon and I adore Leonine Moonies! I have so many of them in my life now, they are fabulous!

Connection through dreams

Wonderful dreams last night connected with Blessed, the past the present and the future.
I must say the New Year has been quite soulful for me so far, with lots of syncrodestiny moments, although I wonder, are there more of these moments than usual or am I in fact more aware of them and thus able to recognize them as they happen.
Interestingly enough I am fascinated by the Bohemian Club, de rigueur for any elder United Statesman. Manwitches the lot of them me thinks, make that Manwitch and Rich! Every year some of the USA's most influential get together and talk shop, wear robes dance around fires, hold mock human sacrifices and do the Druid shuffle in front of a giant stone owl. No judgment no praise, just fascinating!
Click here for a purported lists of cloak wearers.

BTW- Their motto is "Weaving spiders come not here."

Ok. Good to know.

House cleansing

I am off to clean the renovated space at work, literally, I will plan a spiritual cleansing for Sunday before everyone come in on Monday.
I read that to improve the chi flow in your space you need to move 40 objects at least to get it circulating again in a positive way, stagnant object create a stagnant chi pond. I think we have moved enough objects at work to have a chi cyclone.

Hungry like the wolf

This Full Moon is in Cancer and this is known as the Wolf Moon. It encourages us to do some sort of a ritual around our family and loved ones to protect them and their homes. It so called because in January in snowy times, prey is scarce and the wolves would be circling the village to await the vulnerable who may stray into dangerous territory. This is also the time to set things in motion: new ideas, goals, dreams and was traditionally the time to prepare for birth.
Lovely!
So, since we are in the Southern Hemisphere I wonder if we can still take on the archetype of the wolf and ask what are we hungry for this year? What have you been circling for a while and are now ready to pounce upon, in the very best sense of the word!
I have set the wheels in motion early with a renovation at work, enrolling in an astrology course and teaching my daughter and myself to touch type with one hand [don't ask!] if she can then I can is my motto!
So off I go, another year, another full moon and life is for the taking.

New chair

I have a new chair for my home office after thinking that the $99 one from Officeworks was offensive to me and my bum. It was quite a pleasant experience , lovely Damian, who works part time, gave me 10% off and an invitation to his new art exhibition, fabulous!
I have come home to my new book which has just been delivered to me, Creative Block. Its fun, lots of tips to help you climb out of your creative rut.
This is good timing as I am currently trying to create something and I am finding any number of distractions and diversions before me than actually committing to the creative process.

Staying on task. My biggest challenge in life!

So I randomly open a page and it asks me....
What was the first job you wanted to have?

I wanted to be a travel agent/detective.
I would be able to travel the world and solve crime, super fab! I used to dress in my Mothers navy blue espadrille heels with ankles ties and use her raffia clutch purse and run around the house with my best friend Mandy. She lived in the house at the back of ours and we played together every day and every weekend. I could not have been happier when she was around. I had a dress up box that was full to bursting with my glamour mothers cast offs and her best friend [travel agent] would give me her old tickets and writing pads and plastic travel wallets. My fitter and turner father would also give me his metalwork ordering pads, but the detective metal worker didn't have the same drawing power somehow.
Mandy and I named our imaginary arch enemy Brutus,[he was the centre of every crime and named after a friends German Shepherd dog],we were savvy, spoke 7 languages each and kept our cosmopolitan vigilante selves a undercover.
Clearly I was watching quite a lot of Charlies' Angels at the time, a big influence on myself and Mandy, although Love Boat featured highly also, as we often travelled by ship to solve the crime of the day. Those pleasure cruises are rife with trouble then and now.
We had a name for the detective agency but I can't remember it now, something hilarious, no doubt. Global Travel maybe?It's right on the tip of my tongue but it will come to me.
So thats' what I wanted to be when I grew up, for a long time.
Thanks for listening.
What did you want to be?

Plans and inspiration

I am very exciting about starting work next week. New staff, new environment, new beginnings. This is the theme for this next quarter for work, new beginnings. I am going to revisit my strategic plans this week to look at the what I am going to achieve if the Gods and Goddess is on my side.

Slowly

Dreaming about the renovation at work, living a nightmare in reality. Tradesmen not turning up, extra expenses, I could never do this as a living.
I have stated to Gandalf that when we buy our dream house it needs to come with everything as I imagined it and never to be changed.. I shall not even move a light fitting. I know it will be swell when its done, but meanwhile I have 10 people turning up to work on Monday but I have to trust it will all work out. Moon is in Cancer, which encourages flexibility and creative solution finding. Sage advice my friends, the Moon knows and so I trust her. Moon in Cancer, which makes us want to be at home and all all domestic goddess like and the Sun in Capricorn, which pushes us towards responsibility and duty. Man, what a drag. I think the Cancer Moon will win though!

Just pulled an Osho Zen tarot card and not surprisingly I pulled The Dream [these cards are frighteningly spot on!],