The Profanity of the Insanity Inspires

April 30th, 2011

SO, a few days ago, I posted, “The Profanity of the Insanity,” and received a very mixed bag of reactions.  Some people agreed to thinking exactly as I am, and others were astounded by my lack of positive thinking.

I actually had a woman who’s writing a book called “The Peace Conspiracy” approach me after reading that post and asked my permission to publish it in her book.

Mixed bag.

I would like to briefly elaborate on why I wrote what I did, and then I’d like to tell you how it has benefited me… because YES, it absolutely has been of benefit to me.

I woke up the other morning and rolled right off the wrong side of the bed.  I was feeling emotional and touchy.  That’s fairly out of character for me, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

After getting everyone out the door for the day, I sat down and immediately watched a video that one of my friends posted on facebook.  I’ve had several questions regarding the current nuclear disaster in Japan, but was having trouble finding the answers, so when I saw this video, I turned it on right away.

It answered all my questions.

Unfortunately, it also scared the ever-loving-shit out of me.

It was a video filled with the worst news I could have imagined and I was suddenly thrust into a state of utter, profound sadness.  Sadness for my brothers and sisters in the world, sadness for myself and my family, sadness at the state of the planet and what we’ve done to Her.

Out of that deep and seemingly endless sorrow, the words of my post flowed.

I literally cried as I typed it.  I felt every word reverberate through my very soul.  I had to write it out.  I had a speak my fear.  I had to allow myself to feel it to its fullest extent and then allow my words to purge it from me.

After I wrote it out, I felt a little better.  Not much, but some.

And it was an actual prayer.  I know it finished like a prayer, and I want to say that I absolutely was screaming it in my head as a prayer.

“I pray for a sign of hope.  I plead for a sign in faith.”  And I did.

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An hour or so later Doreen Virtue updated her status on Facebook and when I read it, I suddenly felt like I absolutely, more than anything in the world, needed to get my hands on a deck of her Angel Cards.  This is odd for me because I have a deck of Tarot cards.  I love them.  I use them.  We communicate just fine.  I’ve never understood the purpose of having more than one deck of cards for divination.

Pushing those doubts aside, I got my things together and left home, headed toward my favorite metaphysical store.

When I arrived, I’d expected the owner to be there but she wasn’t.  Instead, I met a new woman.  A woman who I seemed to have immense amounts of Spiritual opinion in common with.  We stood and just chatted for an hour.

One of the many things we talked about was energy healing.  This has been a very strong interest of mine and it’s been growing in strength lately.  I feel I am being strongly guided to become a healer, and I felt like everything about this woman and conversation was confirming it for me.  Many of the things she said were SO wildly synchronous for me.

She ended up giving me the name of a woman who can help me to harness the energy movement I’m already capable of so I may transfer it to heal others.  I contacted this woman as soon as I arrived home and was able to set up a time, right away, to get together and get my life’s purpose underway!

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When I got to the store, I knew exactly what I was looking for so I started walking around right away, looking for the cards I was after.  To my dismay, there was THREE different Doreen Virtue divination cards.

The Angel Oracle deck

The Archangel deck

Goddess deck

I thought I wanted the Oracle deck, but the other two were so pretty and I found myself suddenly very indecisive.  I picked up and looked at and held each deck, but I couldn’t set down the Oracle deck.  I’d pick up and look at a new deck with my left hand while holding tight to the Oracle deck with my right.

“This must be the one,” I thought, and so I bought them.

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After our conversation, I left the store and headed home to get kids off the school bus.

After I got them settled into their evening grooves, I went to my room to spend some time with my new cards.

I opened the deck and flipped, lovingly, through them all, touching each one.  Then I held them to my heart and said a prayer over them, blessing them and asking the angels to help me to be a channel for the information I’m to receive.  Then I laid my first spread.

The first question I asked my angels was, “Who is with me closest? Who is my most constant guardian and what do they want me to know?”

It’s a three card spread.

My first card, who denotes who is my guardian, was Opal.

Anyone else in the world would’ve accepted an angel named Opal.  For me?  My “Gram” was Opal.  She is the person whom I was closest to my whole life until 1997 when she died.  I learned everything I know from her, and although she was the Bible thumpinest Christian around, I always felt she was strongly psychic and HIGHLY connected.  I’d always wished I’d had more time with her, and now my very first card turned is Opal.

When I’d looked through the cards, touching each one, I never saw that card.  Not until I asked and turned it.  I was touched so profoundly, and  deeply.  I can’t even describe the surrealness of seeing her name.

My second card is to denote the message from my guardian.  It was “Sonya.”  Sonya is bringing me a message from a deceased loved one.  Seriously?  Like I needed the confirmation, and wasn’t floored enough to meet Opal in card one.

Card three tells how your angel is helping you.  I got Adriana.  Adriana says, “I am leading you toward the answer to your prayers.  Please listen to and follow the steps I am communicating through your intuition, thoughts, and dreams.”

So, Gram is my constant guardian, and she’s whispering in my ear and leading me where I need to go.  Wow!  I was speechless.  I can accept that completely, without question.

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So now, I’d like to sum it all up into a nutshell.

I woke in a terribly emotional and down mood.

I watched a video about current events that made me feel lost, powerless, and profoundly sad.

Instead of trying to push away the awfulness I was feeling, I felt it fully, accepting it and living IN it while it was there.  I wrote my feelings out and cried.  I finished by praying for a sign of hope.

I followed a sudden impulse to go buy a deck of cards I’ve known about for weeks, but have felt no pull what-so-ever to purchase before.  Upon reaching the place where I purchased the cards, I met a woman I felt an immediate kinship with, who gave me VERY valuable information.  I followed the information and was assured by the results that the information was GREAT and exactly what I’d been seeking.

Finally, to seal the deal, after blessing my new deck, I lay my first spread to be told that my deceased grandmother is my constant guardian and that she’s leading me if I will only listen and follow.  Keep in mind had I chosen one of the other decks, Opal wouldn’t have been in there which would’ve taken all meaning away for me.   The Spirit was moving me, and by going along with it, I chose correctly, creating the synchronicity that made ALL the difference.

By the end of that day, which clearly started out rather badly, I felt newly empowered.  If the world is going to fall apart and there’s nothing I can do to STOP it… then what could be better than being able to heal.

If what’s happening is beyond my control, then I should take control where I am able.  I am interested in being a healer.  I’ve been moving slowly in that direction for about a year or so now.

As far as I’m concerned, the next best thing to stopping the madness from happening is to heal it once it’s over.

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In closing… I’m glad I allowed my feelings to be as they were.  I’m glad I didn’t clam up, in fear of my “negative thoughts” and resist the flow of grace through my life.  We feel for a reason.  I believe what’s most important is to acknowledge and honor everything that we feel.

If you don’t like the way you feel, ask for help.  Just pray about it.  A Universe of Angels is waiting to show you what’s meant for you to see.  Allow the energy to flow.

Everything that happens in your life is leading you somewhere you’ve already expressed a desire to be.  I believe that with all my heart.  And every time I’m given an opportunity to PROVE that belief by moving forward in faith, I do.

I’m always rewarded with exactly what I need.

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Half Moon Book Review *)

April 12th, 2011

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Today’s Book:

Circle of Three

By Isobel Bird

 

I’m currently 3/4 of the way through book six of this series.

Have you ever wished someone could explain Wicca and witchcraft to you as though you were just learning?  Why not learn along with the girls in this series?

They have a local metaphysical bookstore where they take classes throughout their year and a day of studying.  They go to rituals and celebrate sabbats all while dealing with everyday issues in high school, and common ebbs and flows in relationships all around them.

In book one we’re introduced to Kate, Annie, and Cooper when the girls are thrust together after Kate uses a spell in a spell book while researching witchcraft for a report.  The spell backfires terribly and she recruits the help of Annie, the only other person who’d checked out the same book from the library, to set things right again.

Little do they know, the girls are beginning a beautiful journey into the Spiritual and metaphysical.

And I am REALLY loving going along with them~

These books read VERY fast and easy reads thanks to their Young Adult status, but they’re not immature.  I find them very highly engrossing, and could easily read one in less than a day.

How oh how would I rate this entire series of books?

I would ~ Lend it!

In fact, I think I’m going to buy them all so my kids can read them, and any other children I intend to ruin ;)

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Hoard it! ~ I would put this book on my shelf and never let it leave my house.

Lend it! ~ I would lend this book out with my name inside, and insist on a fairly prompt return.

Give it! ~ I would pass this book on with the hopes that the next person to read it gets as much or more from it than I.

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Gas Whisperer & Other Recent Adventures

April 12th, 2011

Hello People!!!

I’m a day late for my Half Moon Book Review *) but it will post later today!  In the meantime, here’s a snippet of what’s been going on in my life for your own, personal amusement.

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I’ve been trying to get some form of exercise on a daily basis, and the harder I try, the more miserably I seem to fail at it. A few weeks ago I decided that the next morning, Monday, I was going to get off my butt and start running again.

I woke up with my back out, and barely able to move.  Then, after two days, when I finally started to be able to move more freely, I came down with a flu that took me through another week and a half.

A while back, I also went through a really weird loss of control when I was reading Marianne Williamson’s, A Course in Weightloss.  Apparently I have some very serious beliefs and thought patterns related to my body and my weight.  Which isn’t really surprising.  Who HASN’T had their heads filled with garbage about their bodies?

I watched a documentary called Fat Head that really changed the way I was thinking about food.  It’s still pretty far off base as far as I’m concerned because it promotes things I don’t agree with, but taking a more personally tailored approach which includes home cooked, organic produce, and using my own amazing powers of common sense, I’ve found myself eating a low carb diet.

I know our epiphanies are our own, and they’re never as amazing to anyone else, and that’s why I’m not going to babble on about my whole body realization.  The short of it is, I realized that to love, honor, and respect my body is to invite God to experience and create through it.  It’s like cleaning the temple in anticipation of the King’s arrival.

I decided a more structured morning routine was in order.  I make routines, but I’m not so strong with the following of them.  It’s that Aries in me :)

My new, whole being, morning routine is now as follows…

** Body ** Go jog.  Seven and a half minutes out, alternating jogging and walking measured by the distance between phone poles.  Then seven and a half minutes back.  Only 15 minutes.  I can do that.

** Spirit ** Come through the door, out of breath and sweating, pour a glass of water and drink it on the way to my chair.  Open a 15 minute meditation timer, tip my head back and just breathe.  My mind is clear after exercise, and my body is exhausted.  Why not use that to my advantage?

** Mind ** When the meditation timer dings, I refill my water, and grab an apple from the fridge before I reset the 15 minute meditation timer, and pick up whatever Spiritually natured book I am currently reading.

And if I go in directly and shower after my reading, I can knock the whole thing out in an hour.  A one hour daily devotion dedicated to honoring myself, and in doing so, I’m inviting God and my Angels to work through me, because I’ve created a holy and sacred environment within me.

I have been working this routine perfectly for two days now.

Yesterday and today.

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Yesterday~ The Gas Whisperer

I leave to go to the store.  I HAVE to get gas.  I’m a little worried I won’t make it to the station.  I take a deep breath and thank my Angels for their assistance in getting me there and for bringing me peace.

The last time I did that, it was a mind blowing experience, so I was confident that all would be well.  Wouldn’t you know it, I had the exact same experience again!

I saw the gas station sign as I approached and it said $3.78.  I looked away a moment and glanced back up and watched the sign change to $3.89.

CRAP!  What should I do?  But then I knew.  And I had to be right because if I got to the other place at all, I wouldn’t be able to go anywhere else.  I was running on fumes.  And so I went for it.

A couple miles down the road, the sign comes into view as I approach…. $3.75!!  Even cheaper than the original price at the other station!!

And then, in my shock, as I was pulling in, I said, out loud…. Oh my God, I’m like… The Gas Whisperer…. which made me start to giggle a lot harder than one might think. (LOL)

There is only two pumps and there were already four cars parked next to them, but as I pulled in, in a fit of giggles, all four cars pulled away and seemed to circle the pumps on their way out as though they were choreographed.  It was really odd.  But I pulled right up and filled my tank ALL the way up.

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Yesterday Evening ~ Affirmational Assault

I have recently reconnected with a girl who grew up across the street from me.  We were best friends.  We even did that whole “blood sister” thing when we were like, 9 and 10.  We’ve lost touch and reconnected several times through the years.  It’s always almost like we’ve never been apart when we come back together.  We were always close.

We were having a very Spiritual and philosophical conversation on the phone yesterday evening and we got to talking about how I feel about the law of attraction and how I believe the Universe operates, and the evidence I’ve seen in my own life.

Then the conversation turned to money when she found a dollar in a pair of jeans out of the dryer while we were on the phone and she exclaimed, “I love how I keep finding money everywhere!!”

I was absolutely blown away by being given such a BEAUTIFUL soapbox from which to preach (LOL), and I took the opportunity.  I started to tell her how that was a wonderful affirmation, and how if every time she finds ANY money, she would make that declaration, she would find that there would be a lot more found money in her future.

I said…

Every thought is a prayer.  God doesn’t stop listening… you just stop being aware of the presence.  Say things about money that make you happy, like…. I love finding money!  I love when people GIVE me money!!  I feel SO good when I know I have enough money.  I feel so relaxed and contented when money flows easily to me.  I love winning money!  I love GIVING money!!  I love that the world is just one big energy stew and that I can have as much money energy as I want!!  I love that there’s always enough!

It was quite a little rampage I went on.

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And Today ~

I won $70 on a lottery ticket this morning.

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Ironically, I spent $72 yesterday to fill my gas tank.

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