Push, push, push!

My most recent understanding of the world is that you gotta push through the pain. I am hoping it will get easier.

Lately things have been stalled around me, work, my personal projects. Obstacles making themselves known and frankly not welcomed.

I spent the better half of Saturday afternoon, supposedly put aside to work on my personal project. Instead I spent 90 minutes reading a TomKat blog. What the hell?
An esteemed friend yesterday told me, after I shamefully admitted my secret to her, that my time was not misspent. It was useful procrastination time and should only be seen as such.
Alrighty. I will take this baton and run with it.

I will continue to push, although obstacles are not out of my way and I want to run away to warm climes. Push through, push through, push through......

Venus shares her love

For a while I thought I was turning into the unabomber, so antisocial I was thinking about knitting myself a beanie and building a shed in my backyard for my own personal use. Then Venus moved into my 11th house and Mercury conjunct my Venus and now I am the quite the social butterfly.
Out for drinks with Gandalf on a school night. Then an all too brief lunch with The Contessa yesterday. I opened my house for a dinner last night with a splendid Pisces, Aquarian and a Virgo. Lunch tomorrow at mi casa with Blessed, Ram-Beau and some more folk and their changelings.
I cannot keep this pace up always, but it is swell to know I can put the plans away for the shed for a little while longer.

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends -
it gives a lovely light.
- - - Edna St. Vincent Millay "First Fig"

Did I leave my heart in......

San Francisco coincidences coming thick and fast in the last 24 hours.

Yesterday morning I walked out of my office and announced that I wanted to move to San Francisco, for no good reason. It just popped into my head.

Then I googled for a recipe for fresh tuna and I found a swell casserole recipe, which I printed and then realised it was from the San Francisco Gate paper. [Delicious, thanks for asking.]

And finally, I received a lovely email from Astrobarry , who lives in the city, about this very blog and our mutual appreciation society for Olivia.

What does it all mean?

When I was younger, I did a world tour and spent some time in San Francisco and it is the city I remember the most. The light, the buildings, the wharf, Ghiradelli Square, the Sheraton Palace.

I do have a Venus line and Mercury Line running through this fine city on my Astrodienst, which is meaningful. I will investigate further........ Tales of the City await no doubt.....

Xanadu

Olivias zeitgest is Xanadu, not Grease as some may think. You can argue with me, but I will freeze frame this movie, scene by scene and tell you why she is so Von Fabulous.

She is divine, beguiling and hot as hell as she sings the theme song at the end. [See photos above.] She was all I wanted to be when I was 10 years old.

Love, love, love her and her leg warmers!

Things to do on a rainy day

1] Read parts of three books and not finish any of them √
2] Watch a Woody Allen movie √
3] Knit a few rows of never destined to be finished TV knee rug √
4] Have a bath √
5] Sing to Ella Fitzgerald in bath √
6] Visit a pretty shops √
7] Drape a $500 scarf around my neck for 20 mins whilst in a pretty shop then hand it back to disappointed shopgirl √
8] Drop mystery gift into Piscean Princesses fuse box to cheer her up √
9] Read an article on astronomy and The Vatican √
10] Talk to the dog √


P.S Thanks for the link Mystic.

Suburban Witchcraft

Interesting smell in the air as I took my morning constitutional with the dog. I distinctly smelt frankincense or myrrh as I walked. The real deal, not the stick kind. I wonder if someone was casting a glamour for a fabulous Saturday night.
I hope so. Its moon in Gemini so its all about manifesting and making it happen.

So Mote It Be!

La Dolce Vita

Life is sweet sometimes. Nothing in particular has happened to make me rhapsodise in this manner but I am aware of the blessings all around me at the moment.
Autumn brings out the best in me and a walk really bought it home to me this morning about how privileged I am.
New sneakers, music playing in my ears and the biggest kicker of all, time in which to do the walking.
Time is the gift and I thank the universe for giving me the time to walk and think and spend the day at home writing.

Pisces Lune

The Pisces Moon treated me right his weekend, with a surprise party for Ram-Beau which was just swell, Great food, amazing venue, fun people and kids with a football who played with other kids and no fighting. Just grand!

Then a quiet day spent walking, lunch tidy house, clean car and finishing my book, link here, which I adored BTW, Please consider this book if you are even mildly interested in spirituality.

I have rounded off the day with cooking a tea cake and a casserole for dinner, perfect autumnal fare.

Interestingly I have had many restorative Piscean Dreams about a few issues I have been working on, with my subconscious telling me I am making progress in the non-local field, I just have to wait till I bring it into my local field and everyday life. Gotta have something to look forward to!

Eat, pray, love!

Ladybirds everywhere

These are my new lights around my pin board in my study at home. I found them for half price at a toy shop that was closing down. They amuse me and that counts for something.
Ladybirds are the symbol of motherhood, fertility and the earth. Lovely little things! I used to love finding them as a child, always a promise of better things, like sunny days and mushroom rings.
Having them above me as I work, reminds me of believing in better things and that I can make them happen, well most things, sunny days and mushroom rings are beyond my skills at the moment.

I am working on it though.

Rock on!

Lovely shot of Uluru as I went on the Lira Walk, through the bushlands.
The light in this shot makes me think of The Sixth Sense when Toni Collette's character realises there are spirits in all the photos because of the light streaming in next to her son.

I like to think of this light in the photo as the spirits blowing in the strong winds across the land.

I did have many astral dreams in the Dreamtime country. Babies waiting patiently in the astral came and spoke to me about their parents and the future, a few long dead friends visited and we ate and talked and hugged. The Goddess Bookkeeper came and walked with me in my dreams on red tracks and I thought about Blessed Seraph a lot, wishing she were with me to muse about my thoughts on why we come to worship with our cameras at this ancient pebble.
Souls connected in one heartbeat.

I realise the rock is sacred as it is older than time immemorial and the thought that once there was a mountain range and this is all that is left, serves to remind us about what matters whilst we are here.

I was priviledged to sit under the skies in the middle of the desert and an astronomer and myth teller spoke for an hour about the stars and their meaning. He taught me about the the star Sirius and the Dogon tribe of Africa who knew of white dwarf star that circles it, invisible to the naked eye. How did they know about this star when scientists did not discover it till the 1950's?

He discussed Fish Gods painted on walls of Egyptian pyramids and navigation by the stars and so many theories and ideas that for a brief moment it all made sense and I was at once humbled and at peace.

I looked through the telescope at the rings around Saturn and thanked the the Fish Gods and the White Dwarf and whoever else was responsible for allowing me to have the experience.

I come back surer of my feelings that life is all part of a vast unchanging network of relationships, we connect over and over again in the dreamtime and the present and that I know you and you know me and all together we are knowledge.

I see abundance

Housework done, breakfast in changelings tummies, tracksuits donned and we are off.
The school holidays are upon us and I am required to think of things to do with the children that requires little or no money and expends energy.
Today was a walk or a scoot in their case. We walked and scootered to my favorite shop for a wander and a coffee.

Taking our time, I saw abundance everywhere. Fat dahlias staked in the garden, bees buzzing around wall flowers. A ginger cat on a blue stone wall with a silver birch for shade looking down in disdain as the children flashed by in a blur of noise and colour.
I pottered in the shop and looked at everything whilst I chatted with the gorgeous Qi who is the owner and ultimate Piscean.

On the way back the sun shone and the wind was refreshing and people smiled when we passed them in the street. Our arrival home was met with Gandalf who had crept away from work to bring us all lunch.
Moments of abundance and joy, reminding me that life just gets better and better when your take the time to look.

Moon on the rise

Full Moon in Libra, coming in to rest 3.15 am.

Libran Moons are best to use for asking for balance, assistance in matters before a court and anything justice related. Be mindful that the Sun is in Aries and the Moon in Libra.

As Lisa Dale writes:" The Libran Moon reflects the light of Arian individuality and uses it as the fuel for greater understanding of others. Know thyself and the true nature of all things will be revealed."

The Libran Moon encourages you to build bridges and make amends somewhere. Celebrate togetherness and listen to those around you, they maybe trying to tell you something important.