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