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Blessed Saturday to All!!

I’m having a very slow weekend.  As I sit here typing this, I still don my bed hair, jammie pants, and a big, over-sized sweatshirt.  Ah, the joy of a lazy weekend!

Today my only interest is relaxation and enjoyment, so in the spirit of my goals for today, I give you some things to smile about!

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~ Today, Saturday (2-27-10) @ 3:15pm EST, the Moon v/c until 7:52pm this evening ~

As I’ve already stated and HAVE been saying for days now, my only interest at this time is rest and relaxation!  Coming out of illness and my personal moon cycle AND a lot of stress, being at peace and relaxed and calm are my only concerns right now.  The moon going void of course is always supportive of rest and recuperation mainly because it’s NOT supportive of beginnings or manifesting, which today, is fine by me!

~ When She rights her course @ 7:52pm EST, she’ll move into Virgo where she’ll remain, from Saturday evening, through our Quickening (Full) Moon @ 11:38am on Sunday, and until 12:36pm EST on Monday (3-01-10) ~

My almanac says: Virgo favors the accomplishment of details and commands from higher up.  Focus on health, hygiene, and daily schedules.

Virgo is an Earth sign and places emphasis on things that you might describe as grounding.  Things that are practical, functional, nurturing, stabilizing, etc..

** The Quickening Moon falls Sunday and it’s an AMAZING time for ritual and creation!  We know the Earth below us is stirring to life and we are but a few short weeks away from seeing the first visible signs of life emerging from our Mother.  Preform rituals for self growth and purpose.  What do you want to achieve personally? **

~ Moon Manifestation Tarot Card ~

*I find it ironic that I spilled a potted plant and covered my tarot deck with Earth as I reached for them to draw a card for my Earthy weekend :) *

** Queen of Cups **

The Queen of Cups is telling me to focus upon my intuition and psychic development during this Quickening Moon.  To say I’ve been feeling the quickening of psychic development a lot lately would be an incredibly accurate statement.  As I typed about personal goals and achievements above, I wondered in the back of my mind just what I should personally focus upon.  Looks as though I’ve gotten my answer.

~ My Plan: Saturday evening through Monday afternoon ~

The Full Moon is recognized over 3 days time.  The day before, day of, and day after.  I am very excited about this grounding and centering, Quickening Moon in Virgo.  Especially so now that I’ve drawn the Queen of Cups and am intending to focus upon that little psychic voice inside of me.  That little voice excites me quite thoroughly.

I’ve got no plans, nowhere to be, and nothing happening this weekend.  Not only that, but we’re in the middle of a 3 day snow storm and are quite literally snowbound right now.  How wonderfully perfect!

Today I’m simply going to spend time watching this beautiful storm and communing with my Spirit.  Tomorrow I will take advantage of the Full Moon and do a ritual for the expansion of my psychic vision.  Then Monday is my “Day Spa Monday” so i see no reason why I shouldn’t spend the day honoring my inner and outer Goddess & being at one with the Universe.  Sounds like pure bliss to me!

Plenty of grounding and centering going on.  Oodles of personal focus.  And my personal favorite, lots of rest and relaxation. As a side note, I need to pay some attention to my household cleaning schedule. Time to re-evaluate and rearrange some things. I know I’m not the only person who has some clutter and chaos at home. This weekend is a wonderful time for setting chore lists and schedules. Virgo’s energies are quite conductive to lists and schedules for the household.

What sort of personal goals will you focus on?  What do you want for you?!

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Happy Thursday Everyone!

I have a kiddo home today.  He has a lot of stress going on right now.  He needs a day.

Sometimes we forget that our children are people too.  They have thoughts and feelings and stress and anxiety and fear just like adults do.  And while the things they are stressed out about aren’t a really big deal in the long run, they are the most important things in their life, which to them, makes it just as large, ominous and imposing as anything that might be stressing you out.

I don’t advocate skipping school, but given the nature of what’s happening for him in school right now and the facts that he tried to stay home this morning, then called from the nurses office “nauseated”, and they only have a half day today anyway, I went and picked him up.  I thought he might be faking the belly ache, but then I considered that when I’m stressed out, my belly hurts too.

Cancer stimulates emotional rapport between people.  Pinpoints needs, supports growth and nurturance.  Tend to domestic concerns.

That’s where the moon has been the past couple of days and I’d intended to rest.  I’m glad I went with that because that meant I had nothing else happening while I was in the school standing up for some pretty incredible injustices upon my son.  What a HIGHLY emotional day yesterday was!! For ALL of my clan.

But I do believe there was a pinpointing of needs and it was certainly a fantastic situation for some growth.  When emotions run high though, I find myself simply exhausted!

Having that beautiful moon today begin Her transit through Leo should help me recover from the exhaustion I’m feeling from such an emotional couple of days.

Today, Thursday (2-25-10) @ 12:48pm EST, the Moon v/c until 8:08pm this evening.

Calming rest and relaxation. That is what I’m ALL about on this beautiful day.  I had a pretty large snag in my morning, but I got a fantastic cup of coffee and went through my morning wake up time aimlessly on my laptop.  Then after everyone left for the day, I set my alter and lit a candle and prayed for relaxation and love and guidance.  I prayed for happy and peace filled days for everyone in my life and everyone in their lives too.  Most especially the ones I know that are in need of the peace. *winks@Annie

I’m REALLY sold on setting an alter every morning.  It REALLY has an effect on my mood.  If any other day had started the way this one did, I’d have lost the entire day.  Today, I laugh and move on.

When She rights her course @ 8:08pm EST, she’ll move into Leo where she’ll remain, from Thursday evening until 3:15pm EST on Saturday (2-27-10).

My almanac says: Leo draws emphasis to the self, to central ideas or institutions, away from connections with others and emotional needs.  People tend to be melodramatic.

~ Moon Manifestation Tarot Card ~

Seven of Staffs

~ My Plan: Thursday evening through Saturday afternoon ~

Well, I intend to find some relaxation no matter what!  But it’s looking like overall, it’s literally not in the cards.  The seven of staffs tells me that I’m to be waging war.  I need to stand my ground and be swift and sure.

I’d figured we’d be dealing with the school for the rest of the week and I guess I was right.  I cannot allow injustice upon children.  Now, however, I know that I’m being fully supported by the Universe in this undertaking… Not that there was ever a question.

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It’s a double posting day today!  Hot on the heels of the SynchroDestiny post, I give you Moon Manifestation.

Today, Tuesday (2-23-10) @ 12:29pm EST, the Moon v/c until 6:29pm this evening.

I love when I think I need a break and the Universe agrees.  I intend to relax today.  Yesterday’s “Day Spa Monday” didn’t go as relaxingly as planned.  I did however enjoy my day.  I had some running to do so I popped into my very favorite store in the world, The Silver Branch, while I was out.

I suppose it was meant to be because I met a couple of fantastic women while I was there.  I’ve been consciously attempting to be in a “meeting new people” vibe and I guess it’s working nicely :)

But anyhow, today I will just chill.  I have some minor chores to do, but then I think I may write some more.  It’s nearly 40 degrees outside.  There may be a walk in Abby and Bandit’s near future too!

When She rights her course @ 6:29pm EST, she’ll move into Cancer where she’ll remain, from Tuesday evening until 12:48pm EST on Thursday (2-25-10).

My almanac says: Cancer stimulates emotional rapport between people.  Pinpoints needs, supports growth and nurturance.  Tend to domestic concerns.

My Plan: Tuesday evening through Thursday around noon ~ Emotional is the key word in this for me.  Being “Moon Linked” as I am, as a woman… please know what I mean… I always cycle around the full moon.  This coming Sunday is our next full Moon which makes right NOW my most highly charged, emotional time.

I think I WILL tend to domestic concerns by staying home and just chilling.  I believe that when you’re feeling run down and tired, it’s not a time to chug a coffee and get it together, but a time to allow your body the rest it’s asking you for.

It’s very important to me that my mind and body have a strong connection and communication.  Whenever you “FEEL“, you’re being communicated with.  Sometimes by the mind and sometimes by the body, but emotional and physical feelings are your outer world communicating with your inner world.  Heed their words and honor yourself.

~ Moon Manifestation Tarot Card ~

I’ve been learning about tarot.  I am working with the most beautiful deck.  I adore them.  I love just sitting and shuffling them!  They feel wonderful in my hands.  That might sound nutty, but hopefully some of you out there understand what I’m saying.  The deck is called Tarot of a Moon Garden.

Learning to read tarot cards is one of the things I’m doing this year.  I started out with high hopes and was drawing a card every day.  Then I forgot days, sometimes weeks, and now that I’ve figured out the format for my “Moon Manifestation” and received my gorgeous new deck from Amazon, I’m going to draw a card with each Moon Manifestation post.

So!  Today I have drawn the Eight of Cups.

The eight of cups tells me that I feel weary and run down because I need to let go and move on.  It’s funny that I should draw this card because I know that’s exactly what I need to do, and during this highly emotional week I have highly emotional circumstances impending where there will be an ending for me.  Not a complete severance of relationship, but it’s clearly changing and  I have to let it change and see what comes of it.  I know I’m resisting it because I feel like crap.  My emotions and body are all screaming at me to release it to be as it will.  I will focus on that.

How’s the beginning of your week looking?  oxoxx

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Today I have an article for you that I’m reprinting.   Anyone who knows me knows that I live my life according to synchronicity.  I wanted to give an example of synchronicity but nothing came immediately to mind, so I decided to use the restroom and wait for Hubby to leave so the house would be quiet and I could think more clearly.  Oddly, I ended up with a synchronicity for an example.   Here’s a short and funny story….

I typed out the first two lines of this post and then went to the restroom.   While in there, I saw a magazine I’ve been meaning to reread.

YESTERDAY, I was getting ready to leave the house and just go out and I picked up my little silver hoop earrings.  Holding them in my left hand, I could see the silver of my earrings and the gold of my wedding rings, and I remembered an article I read somewhere once, quite a long time ago.  It talked about playing up your skin tones by finding out if you have warm or cool tones.   To check, you hold up silver and then gold to your skin.  One of them should look better against your skin than the other.  Gold speaks of warm tones and silver speaks of cool tones.  Easy enough!

So this morning, I saw this magazine under 2 books and a small collection of clothes that’d been tossed up onto the shelf for safe keeping.   I reached up and grabbed it, looked at the cover, then flipped absently through a few pages of ads and landed on a word filled page where I could begin to read/skim through.  As my eyes focused upon the first few words, I found myself looking directly at the article snippet I’d previously read a year ago about the warm and cool skin tones.

Now here I am, recounting my delightful synchronicity to you as an introduction to the one and only Deepak Chopra.  If you’ve never read any of Doctor Chopra’s work, I very highly recommend it.  He’s very synchronicity, God, quantum mechanics, inner = outer reality; esk. LOL

My very very very favorite book of his, which I have, covered in marginal notes and yellow and orange highlighter pen, is The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence.  In my humble opinion, this book is like reading about where God meets and interacts with science.  It made sense of a LOT of things for me.  It took Spirituality and Law of Attraction and defined them scientifically showing how they are the same things and the actual mechanics of how LOA works and why.

Anyway… without further ado, I give you Deepak Chopra on synchronicity.  Enjoy and Happy Tuesday *)

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by Deepak Chopra, M.D., New Age Journal

SynchroDestiny

From time to time, we’ve all experienced coincidences that seem to be
endowed with special significance. Perhaps the phone rings with a call from
a long-lost friend just as you’ve been thinking about that person. Or
you keep hearing a certain word or phrase in your reading and conversation.
Or something that you dreamed suddenly appears in real life. The Swiss
psychologist Carl Jung coned a word to describe these moments of
meaningful coincidence: “synchronicity. ”

A synchronicity is a coming together of seemingly unconnected
events. If you focus your attention, you may recognize that your life is shaped by
those moments of meaningful coincidence. You may even be able to nurture
and participate in those moments in a positive way. Together, this
awareness and intention make up what I call your SynchroDestiny.

In any aspect of life, attention and awareness foster growth.
Whenever you focus your attention on a subject or phenomenon, the object of your
attention will grow stronger. The more you become aware of meaningful
coincidences in your life, the more often you will encounter them.

Moreover, meaningful coincidences are well worth your attention.
According to Vedic tradition, there are two characteristics that define a
person on the path toward enlightenment: First, a sense that worries are
disappearing. Things may go wrong, but they don’t bother you anymore. Second, in
every area of your life, you become aware of a growing number of
synchronicities.

Most people experience at least one coincidence in their lives during
a single day. If you do not, don’t worry. Just cultivate an attitude
of relaxed attention and intention. Nature is built on an infinite
number of coincidences, and their presence in your life will soon become
apparent.

SynchroDestiny and the Conscious Energy Field

Although synchronicities may seem like events that just happen by
themselves, SynchroDestiny is definitely something that must be learned. But
this shouldn’t seem at all intimidating. After all, many things that we
take for granted in our everyday lives are actually learned behaviors and
responses.

Even the nature of the physical world is something that we learn
during early childhood. We are told that the whole truth about things is
available to our senses. Thus, when you look at a table, what you see is exactly
what’s there in space and time. It’s a piece of solid matter composed of smaller
pieces of solid matter all the way down to the level of subatomic
particles. This is a materialist interpretation of reality. It’s the way almost
everyone lives day in and day out.

But there is another philosophy, according to which the world that we
perceive through our senses is only a version of a deeper reality.
The Greek philosophers Socrates and Plato, for example, taught that the world
of our senses is a distortion, a mirage–like a shadow playing across a
wall. Many historians believed that the Greeks were influenced by spiritual
thinkers from India, where the idea of a deeper reality has a very long
history.

In Sanskrit, the word “maya” refers to the illusion that we perceive
the true nature of things through our senses. But we’re really seeing only a
very selective aspect of reality. That’s because beyond the manifest
physical universe, there is a field of energy, information, and intelligence
that orchestrates and governs the material environment. This ground-state
of creation is the conscious energy field.

The conscious energy field does not exist independently of our
perception of it. In other words, reality is a two-way street. We are both
transmitters and receivers of information. We are both the creation and the
creators of the conscious energy field. We are participants in a consciousness-
created universe.

This doesn’t mean that there’s no external reality, or that the
universe takes place inside our heads. What it means is that the physical
universe has no qualities or attributes in the absence of a conscious
observer.

For example, we see color as an attribute of physical reality. When
we look at an American flag, we see red, white, and blue. When we look at
the grass, we see green. But colors are not really inherent to the reality.
Instead, the phenomenon of color is a response made by the human nervous
system to stimuli from the environment.

We experience color as if it’s happening outside us, but we’re
actually projecting it from inside us. Color does not exist in the absence of
our observations. We create the phenomenon of color in the conscious
energy field. And we can create other phenomena as well, including
meaningful coincidences.

The Power of Intention

The power of intention is a critical factor in all areas of life.
Simply by intending to create synchronicity in your life, you can nurture that
result.

In Vedic teaching, there is an important concept relating to
spiritual evolution and the role that cosmic intention plays in our lives.
This is the concept of “dharma,” and understanding what dharma means is essential
to bringing synchronicity into your life.

“Dharma” is a Sanskrit word that refers to the natural path a person
is intended to follow through life. Your dharma is your destiny–but it
is destiny without any hint of compulsion or force. On the contrary,
your dharma is the path of least resistance. It’s the course that is most
right and most nourishing– that brings you the greatest fulfillment and the
most happiness.

Each of us has a gift, a special purpose that we alone can give to
the world. This is our individual dharma. We are meant to discover and share
this unique gift. When we do, we have achieved our true purpose in life.
If you are in harmony with your dharma, you will always remain anchored in a
sense of purpose and meaning.

Exercise: Finding Connections

To begin, just look around at the environment you’re in at this
moment. Pick out a certain detail. It may be from the color of the wallpaper of
the room you’re sitting in. It may be an image on a magazine cover. Keep the
image clearly in the mind for a moment.

Now listen to all the sounds that are in your environment. Is there
a conversation going on in the next room? Is there a radio or
television playing? Is someone using a loud lawnmower outside your window?
Pick a sound and hold it clearly in your mind.

Next, pick out some object that’s nearby and touch it. It can be a
coin, a book, or even a cat or a dog. Whatever it is, touch it with full
awareness, feel its texture, and pay attention to whether it’s hard or soft,
cold or warm.

You’ve had three experiences- -one of sight, one of sound, and one of
touch. Now give each of those experiences a one-word name. If your
experience of sound was of a baby crying, you could call it “baby.”

Over the next 24 hours, pay attention to how those words reappear in
your life–and to the memory of the sensory experiences linked to them. As
you look for those words and sense-memories, you’ll discover a series of
synchronicities associated with them. If you turn those words into
omens through the power of intention, you’ll encounter a series of
meaningful coincidences derived from those omens.
This is truly an exercise in using SynchroDestiny. It can also be a
step toward enlightenment, a step toward a richer understanding of your
destiny and how mysterious and magical your life really is.

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Happy Day of Sun & Spirit!

I hope your weekend is going wonderfully.  I’m enjoying the bright sun, streaming through my patio door.  The dogs are outside enjoying the sunshine too!

The group ritual meditation went off without a hitch.  I’m not sure how many participated but I reached out.  Saturday, hubby and I took a road trip to the southern parts of Ohio to buy a truck for our new business.  The truck was for sale for $8000 but we drove away having paid $6500.  Maybe no one handed me $1500, but in my book… it counts! On the trip down, I put my charmed clip on the cash we were carrying.  Make of it what you will!

At the dawn of this beautiful day, the moon was still in Taurus.  At 1:47pm EST She will leave Taurus behind and enter the house of Gemini.

My almanac says: Gemini (The Twins): Things begun now are easily changed by outside influence.  Time for shortcuts, communications, games & fun.

(Hears The Kentucky Headhunters singing Spirit in the Sky in the background from the remodel zone. How fitting!)

My darling love, the Moon, will be in Gemini until She v/c at 12:29pm EST on Tuesday the 23rd.  She’ll be v/c until 6:29pm EST when She enters Cancer!

With the energy not being great for beginnings, I intend to focus more upon things already in the works.  Monday is my “Day Spa Monday” and I don’t plan anything.  I’ll sit and soak and relax and enjoy.  I may run to the library, but just to pick up a book they’re holding for me.  It’s extremely imoprtant to rejuvenate yourself.  If you don’t take time to recharge your own batteries, you’ll have no juice to give your family.

I have cleaning to do at our rental property next week.  Our tenants moved out a while back and I’ve never gotten around to the cleaning that needs done there.  We’ve decided to put it up for sale, which I think I’ll make happen Wednesday or Thursday while the Moon is in Cancer, but more on that when we get there!

Games and fun.  I can do games and fun.  I can already tell that Monday is going to RAWK!  In the meantime, a Tuesday is Gemini will work perfectly for me to cut some corners and get that darned cleaning done finally.

I’ve added a new page to the site.  “Astrological Houses” can be found here.  If you wonder what the energy is according to what house the moon is in, that’s the place to find it!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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Good Friday morning to all of you beautiful bloggies!
I feel so great about the next few days. As many of you know, Ash and I have decided to do a group abundance ritual/meditation tonight. You can find the details for it here.

At 5:55 EST this morning, the moon entered into the house of Taurus.

My almanac says:In Taurus, thing begun DO last, tend to increase in their value, and become hard to alter. Brings out an appreciation for beauty and sensory experience.

She’ll be in Taurus until She v/c @ 7:15 am on Sunday 02-21 until 1:47pm when She settles into Gemini.

I intend to attend my group ritual tonight and charge my money clip talisman and spend time meditating on the abundance all around. Thursday I ventured into the snowy wood to leave gifts of coins and beautiful stones for my Earthy Elementals. Saturday I will do it again. Taurus brings out an appreciation for beauty and there’s nothing I find more beautiful than the sanctity of nature.

I foresee a lazy Sunday morning. With the moon v/c, I like to take my cue to just chill! And what better time to chill with my family than on a lazy Sunday morning.

The moon will be headed straight into airy Gemini Sunday afternoon @ 1:47pm, but I’ll see you again before then. *wink*

You Say Potato, I Say Organic

I am sold.  I am all about the organic potato.  This wasn’t always the case however.

Why I didn’t want to try them.

I can buy a 10 pound bag of Idaho potatoes for $3 or I can buy a 3 pound bag of organic potatoes for $2.50.  Unfortunately math was my strong subject.

Why I decided to try them.

I stumbled upon a top 10 list of produce that retains the highest percentages of chemicals and are best bought organic. Potatoes were #1.  Coffee was #2, but with the amount of coffee I drink, I’d go broke!  One change at a time please.

Why I’m sold.

I bought the 3# of organic potatoes for $2.50.  *cringes* I took them home and the first thing I made with them was french fries.  I scrubbed them with my produce brush (LG fingernail brush), put them through the french fry cutter and dropped them into a bag with some olive oil and sea salt.  I shook them around to coat them and threw them into a 400 degree oven on parchment paper for about 15 minutes.

1* Normally I do up a bunch of potatoes and bake them.  We eat.  What’s left is left.  Usually the dogs get what’s left.  ~  How much money was I wasting by OVER cooking so often.  As I cut up the expensive organics, I was much more conscious to the amount that I would need and I even put out more vegetables to compensate for the smaller amount of potatoes.  Everyone ate everything.

2* These were, by far, the best tasting potatoes I’ve ever eaten.  I didn’t even realize that potatoes really HAD a flavor.  I always thought of them as bland and absorbing whatever flavor they’re added to, but that’s not true.  Potatoes are phenomenally delicious!

So that’s my testimonial for spending the extra money and buying the organic potatoes.  Give them a try, you won’t be sorry!

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This is a manifestation technique that I swear by. I believe that synchronicity, also known as coincidence, is the divine language of the Universe. It is the guidance system that can easily lead you when you follow the signs and allow the meanings to reveal themselves.

People often tell me that they believe synchronicity is special but more as a wink from the Universe and they don’t understand how one can “follow” synchronicity. I always reply, just follow… think about what you feel pulled to… put your focus wherever you see the synchronicity and it will lead you into the lap of the manifestation you desire.

Unfortunately, I am generally hard pressed to give an example. Not because they’re so few, but because they are so constant around me and seemingly interwoven with everything else. Some synchronicity begins leading me YEARS in advance, which you will soon see.

It truly is a magical life and I feel blessed more deeply than I can express at having the opportunity to live it. Without further ado, my synchronicity testimonial.

*) Be Blessed in the Arms of the One ~

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I posted last week about having a UTI and drinking baking soda water and feeling much better. Well, that didn’t last long. That remedy has worked for me in the past, but Friday morning I woke up with a major sinus headache with minor congestion and kept sneezing my head off. Oh, and the return of the burn.

In my opinion… Because I was being invaded by a virus and bacteria at the same time, my immune system couldn’t handle it and I ended up with an unavoided, full blown case of both things. Friday mid morning, I was in the ER reading a book awaiting the results of my urinalysis from the lab.

So, I started taking the dreaded antibiotics on Friday. Saturday I got out of bed to go to the bathroom twice and other than that, I just prayed for death.. Sunday was better, but I still sported my jammies and while I would normally have created my schedule for the week and typed up the Moonday Manifestor, I only had the strength to look up the information. I just couldn’t sit here to type, so back to bed I went.

I noted that the moon came into Pisces early Sunday morning and Pisces is great for dreams and all things psychic. I decided, since I’m taking it easy, I should take advantage of the down time to meditate and focus inward and strengthen that psychic connection that seems to be getting stronger all the time.

So Sunday, I meditated… Monday I was up and around a little more. The boys didn’t have school so we went to lunch with grandma because she doesn’t get to see them much during the school year. When we got back, I was relaxed and happy and felt compelled to pick a tarot card for the day.

I asked where I was heading and I drew the 4 of Pentacles. That told me to cultivate a feeling of gratitude to maintain my current advantage because the time of the creation of my legacy is at hand. That is true. We’re starting a family business soon. We’re still in the very beginning stages right now, but it is imminent… and exciting!

So that buoyed my spirit and gave me pause to consider just what my “current advantage” might be. I checked back to my lunar information for the week and saw that focusing on my psychicness in Pisces was only going to happen through the rest of that day (Monday) through til Tuesday evening.

After that She’d take a turn through passionate and impulsive Aries and land in Taurus @ 5:55am on Friday.

“Wow!” I thought. Here we are in the waxing moon… the best time to expand and create… charging right into Taurus’ staying power. Spells cast and things begun in Taurus are known to increase in their value and be hard to alter… That’s the staying power. I’ve also found that numbers call out to me. Spirit speaks to me through numbers all the time so they always get my attention.

The 5:55 grabbed my eyes immediately and I knew it was a synchronicity I was meant to pay attention to. So I did. I decided that on Friday, in Taurus, I’m going to be doing a ritual for increasing abundance. The timing really IS quite perfect, so mote it be.

I made a notation and went about my day Monday. That night I got an email from a wonderful yahoo group I’m a member of. In it it talked about how to basically stretch your psychic muscles and tune yourself in to what you’re looking for. It suggested sitting quietly in meditation and trying to see, feel, sense, smell WHATEVER.. 3 things from the next day… predictions. I thought it might be fun, especially since increasing my sense of premonition is of great interest to me. I flagged the email and left it to go back to another time.

I went back to the laundry and a thought occurred to me.

One of my personal symbols is an infinity sign. ∞ It appears in several unlikely places in my home and on many belongings. It even appears inside my van, which I manifested from a vision board a couple years ago. The ∞ was how I knew it was the one I was seeking. *snickers* My best friend is even marked with one that she acquired prior to our meeting.

It’s a symbol of peace and eternity and love and everlasting Spirit to me. It brings a certain… vibration to me.

I wonder if you could pick a different symbol. Even something only in your mind, that could represent your desired manifestation. When you’re bored, you could doodle the symbol and connect to the desire… or simply conjure the image in your mind.

I decided it was a thought worth pursuing and made a mental note to bounce the idea off of Ash in the morning, then went off to my room to squeeze in a prerecorded episode of Charmed before bed. The episode was all about talisman and good-luck charms. Curious.

Hubby ended up being called to work and I ended up getting to watch another episode of Charmed. In the second episode, in begins with Phoebe digging through her sister, Piper’s, suitcase. She holds things a moment and focuses, then sets them aside in search of something else. In walks Prue who inquires as to what she’s doing. Phoebe replies that she’s trying to strengthen her psychic muscle by trying to call a premonition TO her instead of waiting for one to strike.

Hmmm… Double curious. Down right synchronistic.

Tuesday morning, I told Ash my idea and she agreed it was interesting and worth pursuit. Then I told her about how I was going to be exercising my psychic muscle and invited her to join me. I went off to my group to copy the instructions and found an email right above it about charging and carrying a talisman.

*My synchronicity siren started screaming*

I copied both things and pasted them over and then recounted the previous night’s encounter with my television show synchronicity reinforcing my “exercising of my psychic muscle”…. Then we talked about the synchronicity of the talisman email and how well that fits exactly what I’d been thinking with the creation of a symbolic intention.

This (Wednesday) morning, my exercise began. I volunteer at the school on Wednesday. Same class, same kids, same teacher. I did some meditation and a little focus work and tried to see what the teacher would be wearing when I got there I said black, conservative shoes… they were brown. I said tan slacks and they were. I said blue top and it was a sweater with a bunch of blue pattern. I was really close.
Satisfied.

I was also meeting K today and decided to try to see what she wore also. I saw her in black boots and she was… dark blue jeans and she was, pink button up blouse but it was tan. I’d seen her hair cut and it wasn’t. I saw her wearing glasses instead of contacts but I was wrong. They were contacts.  But one of the first things she said to me once in the van was “I was thinking we could stop and you could help me pick out a hairdo and I could get a haircut while we’re out!”
Satisfied… Like, totally wowed actually.

So… after all my running, I sat down to chat up my Ash, as I’m apt to do in the afternoon, and I told her about how I needed to find a talisman by Friday and she should too:

me: You need a talisman… btw…something to carry or wear. Before Friday…

Ash: okay! what should it be?

me: It should be anything that represents whatever you want to increase in value or have an abundance of… I was thinking about painting a symbol on a crystal and charging it in Taurus on Friday…
Because it’s not uncommon for me to carry a crystal in my pocket.
If you’re aim is to attract monetary abundance, you could use a money clip…

Ash: *nods

me: I have one…it’s like.. copper or bronze… and its a beetle…Funny… I’ve always held onto it…
I found it on the beach in the sand one day and fell in love… and I’ve even used it…
And because I just suddenly had that snap into my mind… I do believe it’s my talisman :)
I’m going to go find it.

*Synchronicity*

And I did.  Only I couldn’t find it.  I looked where I thought it’s be but to no avail.  This morning however, I drew a tarot card for the day that told me to take a Spiritual approach to my problems and not an egoic one.  So I cleared my mind and placed my hands, palms together, at my heart and recited the following charm three times.

Money clip, money clip come to me.  Let me have you.  Let it be.

After the third recitation, I saw it in my mind’s eye… in the little blue basket by the front door. I turned and left my bedroom and found my money clip exactly where I’d seen it.

*Psychic stretch*

I also found a dime, slid in the middle.  It’s already brought me money :)

Then, while I had time after that, I looked it up online.  I’ve always found this little clip quite curious and I love it.  I didn’t know why there was a beetle on it but I always felt that it was important, so finally, after owning it for 12 years, I looked up the symbolic meaning to the beetle.

According to Kendall-BioResearch.co.uk :

The Sacred Scarab in Egyptian Mythology

According to their ancient texts, the Egyptians believed that the scarab beetle came into being spontaneously from balls of dung and they associated this with their religious ideology of self-creation and resurrection. Thus, the scarab beetle was worshipped under the name Khepri (meaning ‘he who has come into being’ or ‘he who came forth from the earth’). As a self-created deity, Khepri became synonymous with the creator-god, Atum, of earlier times. Furthermore, in the same way that the scarab beetle pushed a ball of dung before it, the Egyptians imagined that Khepri rolled the sun (the solar ‘ball’) across the sky from east to west each day, and so they also regarded Khepri as a form of the sun-god, Ra (or Re). Hence, the scarab became an important symbol of creation, resurrection and everlasting life in the religious mythology of ancient Egypt. Small jars and coffins containing dried (mummified) scarabs were often placed in Egyptian tombs as part of their ancient funeral rites to ensure eternal resurrection (ref. 1).

Large statues of scarab beetles were probably a common feature in ancient Egyptian temples – a colossal scarab statue is still preserved in situ beside the sacred lake in the temple of Amun at Karnak, and a similar colossal scarab carved in granite can be seen on display at the British Museum in London.

The sacred ’sun’ scarab, giving light and warmth, became a popular symbol in everyday life and small amulets (or seals) in the form of scarab beetles were produced in large quantities, either carved in stone or moulded in glass or faience (a ceramic material made from crushed quartz). The flat underside of such scarab amulets was often decorated with geometric patterns or hieroglyphic inscriptions (as shown in the picture below). Scarab amulets were sometimes set into elaborate pieces of jewelry, but more often they were pierced for threading on a simple cord necklace. There were also special unpierced funerial-type scarab amulets, like the so called ‘heart scarab’ shown below. These were placed with the mummified bodies of deceased people in their coffins and tombs as a symbol of resurrection and new life (ref. 2).

HA! Figures I’ve been walking around with an Egyptian God in my pocket!  Even back before I even cared to know the difference.  The pre-earth witch days. LOL

As I read the above for the first time, I started to think about this little money clip.  I found it while very unhappily married to my ex husband.  I was walking on the beach and there it was in the sand. I picked it up and fell immediately in love with it.  It was so weird.  Perfect.

Now, think what you want, but about a month after I started carrying it, my entire life changed.  I met the man who is now my husband and was finally able to break away from the man I was bound to.  The  new man I ‘d met turned out to be the man of my dreams.  Truly.  It’s been a virtual fairy tale for us since.  Even through the rough times.

I’ve never considered the money clip to be of good or bad luck and I never considered the time similarities of my life taking a turn and my finding it.  As far as the money clip goes, I literally never considered it.. at all… in any way.  Yet now I find myself staring in awe.

And as I allowed the idea in, that the clip itself may have always BEEN my talisman already, I had a sudden memory…

I realized that, last year when I found those (2) $50 bills in the parking lot at the grocery store, it was RIGHT after I’d started carrying this clip again.  I recall specifically because the bills were wet and I wrapped the wet bills around the outside of the dry bills and carefully slid the clip down over the $100 that put me in the black for the month.  Before the end of the day, I gave away 10%.

So here I am… following the synchronicity that guides my life.  I’m having a ritual/group focus/group meditation on Friday.  I’ve asked Ash and she’ll be joining me in it.

Group focus is SO much stronger than solitary, so if you’d like to join us in our “Increase & Abundance Meditation” you will need to do the following before Friday:

• Gather yourself a talisman that you will charge and carry with you so you may carry the energy you are wanting to attract.  It can be something you will wear or something you carry in a pocket.  Anything that represents to you whatever it is you want to increase.
• Make sure you know the time for your time zone.  The goal is to all participate at the same time.  We all add the power of our intentions to YOUR attraction and YOU add your power to ours.
• I intend to journal my results.  Any additional monetary abundance that dances into my life on the breath of the wind I intend to note.  I’m learning through my “psychic stretches” that tracking hits it important!
• Increasing monetary abundance is an Earthy goal where increasing love is a Watery goal.  Know the elemental backing your intention.  Patchouli, Jet, & Jasper are also Earthy and will be my incense and crystals for this ritual.  As an extra bonus, my incense holder is a simple, short, glass jar filled with sand.  Nothing like adding Earth Herself to a ritual :) Because I’m a little old school, I’ll probably take a walk to the back corner of our property and offer a gift (coin or two) to the gnomes of the Earth and wish them blessings of much abundance that they may also bless me in return.

I’ll post here on Friday morning with the exact time.  I can ballpark it as being between likely 8 and 10pm EST.  I really hope we can get one or two more.  The more, the merrier.  Hope to… uh… sense you there?.. LOL

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