A Healing Way

JANUARY - 2012

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The word for this month (the month Januarius) came from the Roman god of beginnings and endings Janus. Historically, Janus represented the transition between primitive life and civilization, between the countryside and the city, peace and war, and the growing-up of young people.

Astrology

CAPRICORN – The Goat (21 Dec. – 20 Jan.)
Ruled by: Saturn in its Positive Aspect.
Number: 8
Element: Earth

From an astrological perspective, we are transitioning from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. When we look in one direction, we see the breakdown of Piscean structures based on competition and scarcity. And, when we look in the other, we see the sprouting of new Aquarian structures based on partnership principles and the sharing of resources. While this transition can cause confusion and anxiety, it represents a unique window of opportunity for us to evolve.

Numerology

January = Number 1

The number of God,
The prime masculine number,
The Yang,
The number of consciousness, unity, light, Creation, Ego, and Being,
The active principle.
Energy in a state of perpetual motion.
The beginning – that by which all other eight numbers were created.
May be divided into any number leaving it unaltered.
Represents the spirit which can enter all things without changing their outer forms.
Immoveable and unalterable because whether multiplied or divided by itself one remains the same.

This does not happen with any other number.

One is the number of aim, ambition and action and if these qualities are used positively a person can be very successful in life.
Be prepared to work hard and get things done.
Be prepared to encourage and advise others without lessening their consciousness.

Ascension

Many people have been adding to our ability to move into an inter-dimensional shift which has been in the public eye for many years now. With books and suppositions about Mayan Calendar meanings as well as scientific assessments of Solar winds, Sun spot activity and an observable change in consciousness among humans both into service to others and into service to self. With all this information it can become confusing and many may even find a “Guru” to follow blindly. It seems to me that balance and mindfulness is called for in each person as we grow and change during this time of galactic change.

I recently read an article which asks us to be kind. This will radiate as uplifting energy to all beings (all living things). People have been using sound for centuries to heal, move large objects and many other useful activities. Every sound can be identified as a hertz frequency or even as a harmonic.

People like Inventor Nikola Tesla and Physicist Winfried Otto Schumann who experimented with the “earth’s heartbeat” 7.8Hz. and identified the “Schumann resonances (SR) which are a set of spectrum peaks in the extremely low frequency (ELF) portion of the Earth's electromagnetic field spectrum.

Schumann resonances are global electromagnetic resonances, excited by lightning discharges in the cavity formed by the Earth's surface and the ionosphere.” (to read the rest of the data at Wikipedia click: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances ).

This resonance, also known as Earth’s heartbeat, has increased from its normal 7.8 Hz. and is now hovering around the 9 – 11 Hz. level. It is expected to move to 13 Hz. the frequency of unconditional love. Gregg Braden, a geologist who has been studying this, calls this place where the Schumann or magnetic frequency and the electric frequency intersect ZERO POINT.

Quantum physics is giving way to Plasma Physics. Tesla and others tested, postulated, and wrote about what we might call the basis of life. Scientists have split the atom to its smallest piece and what they have found is that at its core an atom is energy. Scientists speak of “standing waves” and electromagnetic frequencies. Lay persons feel or sense what scientists test and declare.

Tesla said in an article written for “the Century, a popular quarterly (V.60 (n. s. v.38) 1900 May-Oct), “I cut myself in the finger, and it pains me: this finger is a part of me. I see a friend hurt, and it hurts me, too: my friend and I are one. And now I see stricken down an enemy, a lump of matter which, of all the lumps of matter in the universe, I care least for, and still it grieves me. Does this not prove that each of us is only a part of a whole?”

Others have identified hertz frequencies attributed to body organs, emotions, electro-magnetic emanations from living beings (all living things), sound, color and even medicines and compounds.

We are all one. Tesla said that and I believe it too. I’ve seen it demonstrated over and over in my life.

If we are to grow in consciousness and move through what appears to be a great shift; one of something like 171 great shifts to occur in our earth’s history, we need to not go into drama and hysterical thinking.

I believe:

It is most important to move lower frequency vibrations like hatred, greed, envy, etc. away from us when we feel these emotions.
The more we feel and resonate with the frequencies of appreciation, compassion, understanding, forgiveness, kindness, joy, ecstasy, happiness and excitement the more we will create healing energies for all.
That at all times and in this year of change especially we are best served to be of service to others rather than to seek to be self-serving.

I have found that I need to:

be mindful of my thinking and feeling states
get more rest before 11 p.m. as Traditional Chinese Medicine suggests,
turn off or do without the TV,
meditate,
take soaking baths (sea-salt),
make certain that what enters my consciousness is truly humorous, uplifting and inspiring.

Performing random acts of kindness are energetically necessary feels good. The thing about random acts of kindness is that they only work if no one finds out.

Offer to watch a friend’s dog or cat so they can do something they want to do.
Smile at the check-out clerk in the grocery store – really smile with your eyes and heart.
While you are waiting for someone in a parking lot, pick up the trash you see around you and put it in a waste receptacle.
Plant a flower or tree.
Grab an abandoned grocery cart as you walk toward the store and push it in to use while you are shopping.

The possibilities for random acts of kindness are rife.
Have a happy 2012.

Peace.

What we do for Friends

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Sometimes there are people who come into your life who are so very precious and make such an impact that you will do everything you can to help them when they are having life events.

This year has been a year of people who have been in and around my life for years some who I have an ongoing relationship with and some where the frequencies of our lives have changed from harmony to disharmony and we have moved apart.

I wrote about the Law of Frequency earlier in the year. How people we might have thought we would be close friends, even family together for life begin to move away from us or we move away from them, either suddenly or over time. I often hear people tell me how guilty they have felt when they don’t feel close to a person any more. That Universal Law talks about just this thing.

It tells us not to place blame or feel shame or anger when a relationship is no longer viable or even marginally happy. After doing all we can to repair and revitalize the relationship if we still find we and they are unhappy with each other, do not labor any longer to try to fix something that may not be broken at all. This relationship may have moved into disharmony or another to say that is to say we and they are vibrating at different frequencies than we did previously.

And, sometimes allowing these relationships to just be what they are and continue on in our lives to grow and change as it appears we are all meant to do, after time has passed sometimes these we or they after making our changes find ourselves resonating together again.

This happened to me in August of this year. Several things happened in accordance with the Law of Harmony (frequency). After my one and only husband died in December, his children – the children of my heart have been in contact with me often as have the children of my brother who died weeks after my husband who died weeks after his best friend and best man at our wedding.

I have gone “Walk-about” from time to time throughout the years and in doing that many relationships have been neglected. One of my ex-husband’s kids searched me out and found me about three years ago and threatened me severely if I ever dropped out of sight again. That made me realize how important it is to stay connected to those we love. I was selfish in just driving away after my mother died, following the nose of my vehicle, going here and there staying with friend/s for awhile, then moving on looking for who I had become and where I needed to settle next.

One friend who is not only a friend but like one of my “daughters” was one such person where our personal vibrations changed and we needed to leave one another alone for awhile. She re-entered my life during a life event for her. I have been happy to be of service to her and to renew our friendship of many years.

Instead of going missing-in-action from my friends and family – this time I stopped updating the website and stopped writing for you. I apologize for just leaving everything as it was in August this year.

I started to write on the next Universal Law today and saw that in fact I had finished the Eight Universal Laws in August. So in looking at what has happened in my life since then, I came to realize that I have been invested in being of service to friends and family and creating new friendships through the work I do. I just checked my mailbox Sunday morning and found a box I expected to be a book – which was really a box of goodies from one of my client/friends near Spokane, WA. I have jokingly been calling her the “cookie lady” because she sent me cookies once for what she considered to be over and above what I charged her for the work we did on her computer.

I am more in the spirit of Christmas this year than I have been in the last fifteen years. Friends of mine who are the most amazing people invite me for computer work, dinner and movies every other week or so. They both have health issues and you wouldn’t know it unless you spent some time with them. We laugh and cry together and that’s before the movies start. Their little dog is a grand dame who runs their household like she should. This past weekend they invited me to decorate cookies. I haven’t decorated a Christmas baked good since the kids and I made a Gingerbread house. I got the gingerbread people. They got sprinkles, no sprinkles, goofy hair or no hair and one of them is shown from the back, wearing a green and red backpack and goofy hair. I had a grand time. I spent four or five hours and decorated ten cookies and ate one. I think Mrs. Claus would have docked my pay.

Years ago I was asked to be a designated payee for a friend who was ill and needed someone to pay his bills for him for awhile. Having been bookkeeper for many businesses as well as my own this task was within my range or skills and I was happy to do this service for him until he was able to begin managing his own finances again. I’ve been doing that kind of thing for another friend since August as well as writing stories for my husband and brother’s kids about hunting, fishing and camping they did that the kids might not have been a part of or were too young to remember very well.

The one year anniversary of the death of the kids father was just a few days ago. When I came home from an afternoon and evening decorating cookies with my other pals I saw a shadowy thing at the top of the stairs down to my house. As I approached the stairs I saw it was a vase of flowers – Yellow Roses. My husband bought me yellow roses for every occasion as he knew they were my favorites. It had begun to freeze that evening so I hurried the flowers into my house and then went back for the rest of the car stuff. When I looked at them set upon the end table in my living room/office. They had dewy water spots on them and shimmered with the light. I had a little cry and am now drying the petals to keep for potpourri.

The next morning I checked email and saw one from the next youngest kid who sent me a thank you email for a special story I wrote for her for her birthday which is also her dad’s death day. I had to cry a little more at the warm words she wrote to me. How could I ever put those connections in jeopardy by just dropping off the face of the earth for three or four years?

By now there should be a new addition to our family or will be soon as my niece is due any minute. My computer is behaving like a machine and won’t let me in to one of the social networks so I can see if she has had our newest family member. I’ve been so excited for her I went a lot nuts over the baby shower – but then what are Aunties for?

Well then, there you have it. Sometimes we are humming along at the same frequency as others and sometimes we aren’t. People who love us just chew us out and let us back in. I love them all friend and family with every beat of my heart.

Have a very harmonic holiday season and may 2012 bring peace, joy and ginger cookies to you all.

August (8) the First Fruits of the Harvest

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On our farm August was month for praying the Sun was strong, Water plentiful and the Wind didn’t blow down your wheat crop. In mountain foothills August was prone to thunderheads and so there we prayed for no cloud to ground lightening. – no fire.

The Numerological Description of the Number 8

The Greeks called 8 the number of justice because of its equal divisions of equally even numbers. Numerologically it represents what is solid and complete. The number 8 also represents cycles of time – the four seasons sub-divided once more by the two solstices and equinoxes. In Christian symbolism it stands for the afterlife. It is considered the number of regeneration . The figure 8 has long been believed to represent the joining of the two spheres of heaven and earth. It is the number of the force which exists between earthly order (the square) and the Universal order (the circle). It is associated with the balancing of forces, the equilibrium of different forms of power and with infinity with its symbol for which is an eight on its side.

8. The Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy

We each of us manifest with every thought we have. Universal Law 8 tells us that we all have within us the ability to change our lives. We can change the condition of our lives, our world and our Universe. Since everything is about energy anyway, when we change our thinking, our beliefs and our actions we are changing the frequency of our energy and we do this every minute. With conscious intention to put our thinking in the higher vibrations we move out of lower vibrations. Through introspection and trusting our innate understanding of what “feels” correct – not what necessarily “feels” good -- just what feels correct. We all know what the small, still voice or the wrenching of our stomach or a sense of peace, awe and wonder is like.

I work with energy every day in my business. Occasionally the process I use will ask that the client seek to experience feeling Love twice as high as Fear. I ask them to close their eyes and see what gives them Joy. When my client does this, I usually see a smile or a small tear appear when they have envisioned that memory of a Joyful experience. And the in that process their Joy is mirrored back to them in a feeling of calm, well-being and happiness. It is an honor to be part of a person’s movement into higher states of vibration and away from the lower vibrations which have caused them unhappiness and possibly harm.

When we “know” what being what my teacher called “Sovereign”, we will always know how to go to that feeling space again. There is a practice in the discipline of Chi Quoung where one learns to come to the state of high energy on the Inner and then move that state out into the Outer. The saying, “As Above, so Below and As Within, So Without” speaks to this moving of energy. First gathering it within, then moving it out and even further out until we see it fill the Universe or whatever we can envision as sending Joy back to the Source.

As we study the previous Universal Laws we see that we are all one and that what we think, believe, say and do affects others. We also see that everything in the Universe moves. Things vibrate creating a frequency a movement of energy. We find that when we understand Laws 1 and 2, we soon see that we must act. The phrase, “Nothing happens until something moves” is so appropriate with the 3rd Law. Then we come to see nothing happens by chance because every action has a reaction or consequence. The 6th Law shows us that there is a visible, tangible effect from our thinking, beliefs and actions. “What goes around comes around.” As we place our attention on the 7th Law we see that we attract the people, situations and “things” into our lives.

As one concept or “Law” flows into another one we become and we become acquainted with what is happening in the “microcosm” that which is on our Inner, we learn that we can move what we experience to a Macrocosm or we might say, we are sending energy to the Universe or back to the Source.

Massage practitioners are trained to not move their hand in one long motion where they would leave their client’s arm for instance because that movement of energy would continue off the end of the fingers and create a “string” of energy to connect the client and the Massage practitioner. We unwittingly create these “aka” strings and between us and others and then wonder why we are exhausted. When I finish a session with a client, I go around them and energetically “cut” any energy strings (aka strings) which might have been created during the session. With the residual energy, I see it move away from myself and my client, out of the room, around the earth and far and perpetually out into the Universe as healing energy. Taking this bit of time leaves me and my client feeling refreshed and even the room feels more clear and inviting.

This practice embodies the Universal Law of Perpetual transmutation of Energy.

July The Seventh Month

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(7) In Numerology

In numerology, the number 7 is considered a highly spiritual and energetically gifted number. The number 7 is unique in that it can divide the number of Eternity and continue on for as long as the number representing Eternity exists. It is at the same time capable at every addition of itself of producing the number 9. Consequently the number 7 creates the basic numbers upon which all material calculations are built and through which thought is expressed. It is a “magic” number appearing often in the Bible related to magical powers.

There are:

7 colors in the spectrum
7 notes in the musical scale
7 features in the human head
7 outside petals in flowers of a pure strain (never cross-pollinating with other plants) like the Lotus flower
7 Chakras
7 days in our week

The Moon, the planet which has the greatest influence upon the rhythms of our lives, has a four-phased cycle (a lunar month). Each phase lasts 7 days – our week.

This number represents the triumph of spirit over matter, the union of three plus four, of heaven and earth and of life and substance.

The 7th Universal Law – The Law of Compensation

The Law of Compensation is about giving and receiving and is aligned with the Law of Cause and Effect which is about how we create and experience the consequences of our creations. Some call these consequences Fate others Karma, others Coincidence. It doesn’t matter what you call it, the Law of Compensation takes it all up a level directly responding to the level of “energy” we but into our actions.

Through the Law of Compensation we receive according to what we give. And, the more we give, the more we receive.

Universal Laws are without judgment and always says, “Yes!” So when we “give” faith, belief, trust, and love that is what the Universe gives back to us. When we give fear, doubt, judgment, and criticism the Universe gives us more of that. And, if we are giving with an expectation of some kind of return we are still coming from an aspect of fear and we will receive more of the energy of fear.

What isn’t Love is always Fear. I’ve read and heard that said and I believe it. We certainly have various words to describe what we call positive and negative, good and bad, right and wrong. I believe at the root we come from either Love or Fear.

I believe everything is energy and all is alive. I also believe we manifest with our every thought. If I have fears of failure, fear of lack or fear of rejection about some feature of my life, I’m asking the Universe for more failure, lack and rejection. If I have faith that all things happen perfectly and I trust in that faith that is what the Universe provides me with.

There is a song I like very much and the chorus has this phrase in it:

“Let our Giveaway be sacred, let our Giveaway be true. Give away to the Giveaway, life force coming through.”

I’ve never been harmed by giving of myself, my time or my “things”. My life has been blessed by what I’ve given. I believe in balance and that everything in the Universe exists in balance. For me it follows that if we give with our whole heart and without expectation we will receive accordingly.

Giving in this manner lets us receive in ways that are more wonderful than we could ever imagine.

I’ve probably told this story here before but I’m going to tell it again. I grew up on a farm in Eastern Washington and I was in high school, my father was ill with something the doctors couldn’t define. What he couldn’t do was raise his arms or lift anything without having the pains associated with heart attack. We had been granted an allotment to raise sugar beets that year and he was sick and in hospital when it was nearing the time to harvest our crop.

My mother was with him two-hundred miles away at the hospital. Alone, on the farm I’d been having nightmares (and day-mares). I was afraid that I didn’t know enough to get our crop in and it would spoil in the ground.

One day I was in our front yard, looking out over our beautiful farm and I began to sing. I don’t even remember what I was singing but it lifted my spirits. I had been singing for quite a while when I became aware that the ground was shaking under my feet. I stopped singing only to hear the sound of heavy equipment moving up our road.

As I stood there trucks and a sugar beet harvester turned into our driveway in a convoy and someone jumped down from one of the machines to ask it I’d lead the way to our beets.

I can never tell this story without having tears of gratitude. Our neighbors had heard about my dad being in hospital and they knew we had sugar beets so they just came and they harvested our crop for us.

That is how the Universe works in my life. I have faith that the Universe will work that way in your life as well. “We are what we think about all day long.” (Wayne Dyer).

Have a happy and safe 4th of July and may you walk in balance.

JUNE (6) –Universal Law #6 The Law of Cause and Effect

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In Numerology (6) is said to be the number of the human Soul because six is symbolic of the union between Fire and Water. It is the number of relaxation and effort. It is also a ‘Perfect number’ because it equals the sum of its divisors (1+2+3=6) and is divisible by both a 3 (odd) and a 2 (even) thus harmoniously combining the elements of each. Six has been ascribed to the number of days of creation and therefore symbolic of the cessation of effort and to the number of love, marriage and domestic happiness. It is a hermaphroditic number.

Fire has long been related to passion, creativity and power. Water is associated with emotion, imagination and intuition. The Six being a number of harmony can strike the chord between peace and war, assertion and aggression. It can signify the unity between human and god.

For people with a date of birth which when added together equals 6 they have the challenge to be of service to others and give help and support when it is called for.

Six: The Law of Cause and Effect

I’ve heard it said that if we make a decision based on self that we will be disappointed or hurt by down the road. I believe this and have seen and experienced it often. I also believe that what I think about all day long is what I ask the Universe for and the Universe always says, Yes!” So what I cause to happen will bring an effect to others or back to me. If as I’ve heard said, “If you squeeze a lemon you get lemon juice.” So if what I think about all day is what I lack or don’t like or don’t want or don’t something else, what I will get is more of what I don’t want.

Conversely, if what I think about is how I can make a change for peace, or for the “good” or whatever, that is what I’ll get more of since the Universe always says, “Yes”.

People tell me changing their thinking is too hard or they’re too old and it will take too long to make a change and other words like that. I have come to believe for myself that if I desire change it can happen all at once. We manifest with every breath we take. We are constantly manifesting. If we aren’t manifesting what we do want then we can change that right now, this instant, this next right now.

Some people are looking forward to June as a summer season, for other’s it is cold and rainy with Thunderstorms and tornados coming down the pike. As young people graduate from high school and college traditionally in this month, they are looking forward to careers and are at a place of endings and new beginnings.

June is a month of new beginnings for gardeners and farmers since it is traditionally the month of new crops and beautiful gardens filled with wonderful blooms and scents. We’ve seen a change in our weather patterns this year though and for many the ground is still too wet to get tractors in to fields and gardens are coming up haphazardly if at all for maybe too much rain and not enough dry days or too much dry and not enough rain.

The Universal Law of cause and effect can be just that the volcano we had April 14, 2010 near Reykjavik is going to affect our weather for a long time to come. I’ve mentioned that event many times when I hear people musing over the change in weather. That volcano was worse that Mt. St. Helen’s by far and our weather will be affected for a few years because of that one event. What is happening in Japan is having repercussions not only for the Japanese but for the world.

Native Americans have been known for their council decisions being thought out to the seventh generation. Can you imagine what things we might not have built that are now causing us devastation if we had the foresight to think so far ahead.

Be mindful, think more than once before doing something or saying something that has the possibility of creating an effect. I’m told everything we do and say causes an effect so mindfulness would be an integral part of the life of people who want to walk gently on our earth.

MAY (5) 2011 and The Law of Cause and Effect

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In Numerology (5) is the number of “Chance”. Some interpreters think five is the most holy of numbers and others think it uncertain, discouraging and hazardous. Five is displayed in Leonard Da Vinci’s drawing “Vitruvian Man, Study of proportions”, from Vitruvius's De Architectura. This famous drawing shows man with arms extended from his body, legs beyond hip width and head erect thus showing the five points of man which are likened to the five-pointed star.

• The five cardinal points plus the center.

• The five elements of Chinese philosophy - Quintessence
(an alchemical term meaning The four elements plus that which encompasses them; that being
the quality of physical consciousness).

Odd numbers represent the male except (1) which is most commonly representative of the number of the Divine; God, Gaea, Wakan Tanka (Great Mystery), and all the other names for “deity”. Even numbers represent the female. Five (5) is the merging of the first feminine number (2) and the first true masculine number (3) creating (5) which is a masculine number. The number 5 is also referred to as the midpoint in the 1-9 number cycle of the decimal system. Thus it is considered to be a pivot point where past and future are both visible at the same time.

May is also the month of my father’s birth. He was born on Beltane; May 1, 1921 and was fifty-four years old when he died. I have loved him all my life.

I always knew he loved my mother and she loved him. They never passed by one another that I knew of without giving a touch, a smile, that look . . . and they loved their family. I knew without a doubt that my father loved me just as I was, in pretty frilly dresses all torn and muddy from following a frog up a stream or in boots and blue jeans worn white from the saddle and from the slide of many hay bales from ground to knees then up to the augur or a hay stack – he loved me no matter what.
He loved me when I was married.. He loved me when it became known that I couldn’t give him grand-children of my body. He loved the grand-children my husband brought to our marriage. He loved us and he taught us all to fish.

He loved my husband who was born May 24 and died December 2010. He love his son who was born May 28 and died January 2010. Love is what endures.

Happy Birthday, my father.

The Fifth Universal Law

The Law of Cause and Effect

This Universal Law states that nothing happens by chance or outside the Universal Laws. Every action has a reaction or consequence and we "reap what we have sown."

My Native American teacher has always said that what we do during the year comes back to us ten-fold in spring. Upon hearing of someone doing harm to self and other living things he would say, “I sure wouldn’t like to be that person come spring”.

There was a time in my life when I attributed “happenings” to chance, happenstance, accident or outside interference. The day came for me when I had to face the fact that “they didn’t do it to me”. It was spring and I had just cleaned the whole house from outside to inside.

I remember clearing off my coffee table which sat a ways back but in front of the fireplace. I’d just cleaned the fireplace and had laid new kindling down with wood to the side prepared for a new fire. I sat on the other side of my coffee table and put there all my woes, grievances, slights, hurts (real and imagined) and resentments and old feuds. I had a funeral for all those things right there in front of my fireplace in my own living room. I cried, spoke the stories of my life right out loud and sang songs from my childhood Sunday school days. I was alone in the house and this was the time for me to grow up and take responsibility for my part in everything that had happened to me at the hand of others or myself.

I forgave them and me and when I was done with this purging and funeral -- I lit the fire.

I wish for you that this spring-time is wonderful and that what you have given to others and yourself (all living things) throughout the year comes back to you now as Joy and Peace and Love. I also wish for that you know who you are inside and out and that you are the same on the inside as you are on the outside.

Walk mindfully well loved one,
          Walk soulfully well loved one,
                 Walk kindly well loved one,
                          Be always coming home.

©2011

April (4) Universal Laws - The Law of Correspondence

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The Four in Numerology is considered a highly spiritual number. Many ancient cultures had four-lettered names for God – allh (Arabian), Adad (Assyrian), Amun (Egyptian), Itga (Tartar), and Esar (Turkish) and so it was considered a sacred number to them as it was to the Pythagoreans as well.
Universally it is aligned with the world, the earth, and is the number of foundation and solid matter. It has been referred to as the most primitive of numbers. Four points are needed to create the tetrahedron. There are four aspects of self: physical body, astral body, soul and spirit. Four functions: sensation, feeling, logical thought and intuition. Four aspects of matter: mineral, gaseous, animal and vegetable.

In this the fourth month we are asked to be organizers; efficient, industrious and practical. This month calls for patience, trust, tenacity and precision. This is a month to slow down and take life more seriously. You may find yourself working hard this month with little leisure time.

This Law states that the principles or laws of physics that explain the physical world - energy, Light, vibration, and motion - have their corresponding principles in the etheric or universe. "As above, so below"

Physics sometimes called the “fundamental science” had its foundation in Pagan nature observations and went through its phase of being denied by “true Science” derided as being nothing more than Numerology. Why ascribing an unsupported way of describing our world from micro to macro was attached to a fine scientific discipline like Numerology always baffles me. But then burning and hanging people who tended to the dis-eases of their communities not only baffles, but begs the question of why Mother Earth has allowed such an ignorant specie to continue to live on her bounty.

Today thanks to the persistent work of pioneers in the field of “what you can’t see, feel or touch” like Michael ColemanTalbot's book The Holographic Universe and Dr. Valerie V. Hunt’s book Infinite Mind. Both books are available this website’s Calendar & Bookstore page through my Amazon Widget.

Michael began writing Science Fiction and with this book has taken us into Quantum Mechanics and Metaphysics. He suggests that the universe is a hologram.

Dr. Hunt is best known for her research in the field of Bio-energy. Her pioneering vision and commitment to highest scientific standards in the fields of physiology, medicine and bioengineering leads us to the first truly scientific understanding of the relationship between energy field disturbances, dis-ease and emotional stressors.

This Universal Law of Correspondence leads me to a conversation I have often with people who work in/at distance with frequencies. I believe all is energy and that all living things send and receive frequencies every moment. Whether I am talking about frequencies or energy or prayer or whatever any person wants to call what we vibrate outward when we send wishes for another’s betterment or for the benefit of Mother Earth and all living things or when we receive prayers or wishes from others for our own well-being on all four realms, we are speaking of As Above, So Below.

As one of my favorite speakers and writers, Wayne Dyer says, “We are what we think about all day long”. And it is my belief that what we think about, what we intend, what we do sends correspondent frequencies into the etheric, the Universe as it were.

The word “etheric” was first know to be used in the 14th century and came from the Latin, Aether, from Greek, Aither, and from Athein meaning to ignite or blaze.

It is used by energy workers to define the divisions of energy fields that wrap around the body three-dimensionally. There are believed to be four to seven etheric layers.

Aether is akin to Ether which has been used to define “up there”. As in “the baloon rose into the ether”.

So this again points to as above, so below or the other way around. What we send out here moves out and out in ripples or concentric circles into the Universe.

This Universal Law is much like the First Nation people’s concept of thinking seven generations out before making a group decision. Not, “I want what I want and I want it right now”, but “how will it affect the world and all living things seven generations out”?

Be mindful and en-joy.

March (3) and The Universal Law of Action (3)

2011-03-13T16:19:00.000-07:00

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. At least that’s what my farmer family always said about this month. In numerology March, the 3rd month is a one of trinities:

· Past, present, future,
· Father mother child,
· Birth, life death

The number 3 in numerology is aligned with the need to work toward success by using or developing our creative talents and to find personal freedom through work.

According to the Farmer’s Almanac for 2011 this is a month of beginnings and endings with much work in between. See: www.alamac.com/bestdays/timetable . If I remember correctly, lambing season started at our farm in Eastern Washington in March and we began to work harder as spring was approaching and after lambing season would come planting and then, and then…

I look at the trinities shown above and think of the cycle of life, or circle of life. I love the Peter, Paul & Mary song from the 60’s “To everything there is a season”. As a farm kid I surely know about seasons and all through this life I’ve watched those seasons become cycles and cycles become circles.

I believe we are all here to heal one another and that means not only am I a giver but also a receiver of good health on all four realms; mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual. When I am in balance I’m closer to the earth and can then feel each season; feel each thing in its season, from the weather to personal relationships. Everything does have a season and in that we can learn to move with grace and ease from one season to another. It feels right that the Universal Law of Vibration from February is followed by the Universal Law of Action.

The Law of Action (3)

From the Twelve Universal Laws, the Third Law – that of Action tells us that we must act, that we must move forward or work in to manifest what we want or dream of on this earth. That we must be our actions should be consistent with our thoughts, dreams, emotions and words.

From earliest times, teachers have spoken and written that we should seek to be grounded in the now and work to be the same on the outside as we are on the inside. I love the phrase, “we are what we think about all day long” from Dr. Wayne Dyer. This means to me that if I think of hostile and angry things then I am going to be a hostile and angry person. If I think of loving and affirming things, I’m going to receive more of those energies – vibrations.
When we judge one another without benefit of any fact, we are judging ourselves and we are living in ignorance. I once lived in a world of sudden violence, hostility, jealousy and hateful feelings. I don’t live there now and haven’t lived there for more of my life than I did live in that world of dark vibrations. I do speak of vibrations and that is because we all and everything does have a vibration, a harmonic even and these vibrations are measurable.

People who practice kinesiology, muscle testing, or dowsing understand that our bodies are quite wise. We know inside what we need and who we need to be around or not. Just ask a potato some day in the grocery store if it wants to come home with you. If your body wants to lean forward the answer is yes, if it wants to lean backward, leave the potato in the store and find one that wants to come home with you. You will be much healthier for this behavior.

Our dreams and wishes, the thoughts we have about these and whether we take action to see these desired things come about is what the Universal Law of Action is all about which similarly is what the numerological description and the Farmer’s Almanac’s description of the month of March and the number 3 is about. Cycles, circles, seasons.

Be in Joy,

February Numbers, Holidays, The Law of Vibration (2)

2011-01-31T18:23:00.000-08:00

February 2011 (6) and Numerology

February, the second month (2) plus 2001 (4) = 6. This is the number of the human Soul because six is symbolic of the union between Fire and Water. It is also the number of ambivalence and effort (in Pythagoras’ Arithromancy, the number Six equates to “Perfected Labor).

Six is considered a ‘Perfect number’ because it equals the sum of its divisors (1+2+3=6) and is divisible by both a 3 (odd) and a 2 (even) thus harmoniously combining the elements of each.

It has been connected with the number of days of creation and as such is symbolic of the cessation of effort.
It is the number of love, marriage and domestic happiness.
It is also a hermaphroditic number.

Since sixes are romantically inclined and lean to the ideal in all matters of the heart, it no mystery that this is the month of Valentine’s Day. Everything for a Six must be harmonious, balanced, artistic and romantic.

Holidays in February

February 2nd (Northern Hemisphere) is the day Imbolc which is a time to celebrate the goddess Brighid, and the end of winter. If you live below the equator, Imbolc is celebrated on August 1st. Unlike solstice and equinox celebrations, these dates don’t change from year to year.

Imbolc celebrates the time of first sign of thawing of streams or other very early signs that winter is waning. It marked the beginning of the lactation of pregnant ewes. The word Imbolg means “in the belly”, and is celebrated in the “quickening of the year” when life is first stirring in the belly of Mother Earth. The goddess Brigit (in Ireland), who is important to hearth and smith fires and poetry, is important at this festival. It is the first day of Spring in the Pagan calendar.

The 14th of February (Valentine’s Day) was named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 500 AD. The day first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. (This excerpt was paraphrased from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day .)

Valentine’s Day is the day you will still see school children carrying, albeit slyly their home-made card for the teacher or that special other person, maybe even taking home the card made for mom from school.

No matter how bad we think our world is overall and that it is going in all the wrong directions, there is still Valentine’s Day.

February (2) and The Universal Law of Vibration

Since we are also talking about the Universal Laws this year, February being the second month (and my birth month) brings us to The Universal Law of Vibration. I particularly like talking about this Universal law as it states that everything in the Universe has a specific, unique vibration. This means that all living things which vibrate in the same range are attracted to each other and the opposite is also true. This is why we are attracted to some things or people and not attracted to others.

As we grow in our spiritual understanding our vibrational frequency changes. When we do this we may cease to be attracted by those still vibrating in the range we used to also vibrate in. This has proven true in my own life over the last three years anyway. When my mother died I realized all the family above me were gone or unavailable to me. I was now eldest my family. I began to just wander from here to there, testing places and people to see where I fitted – to learn who I had become in the years of care-giving and spiritual growth.

I travelled to places and purposefully connected with people I had known for years. Many of those earlier relationships were no longer viable. I wasn’t thinking along the lines of vibrational incompatibility. I now understand from my study of this Universal Law just how right it has been in my life. There are a very few long-time friends and there are many new people with whom I’ve connected and am now even creating a different kind of family these days.

We are vibrating on the same frequency. Just knowing this is true helps me to understand what hurt and baffled me about when I encountered discomfort, even anger and animosity from people and places where I had been kindly welcomed in earlier days.

I work with vibrational energy every day. I understand all is energy and all is vibrating at different frequencies. I also work with color and sound both again having specific frequencies and harmonics. It is interesting that I didn’t see this in the people I had once known and been close with and how touched I felt and still feel when I encounter a person, place or thing who and which vibrates in concert with my own vibrations.

There are 10,000 pounds of household goods from my life and the lives of my family members now gone, sitting in storage in a place far from me. I occasionally wish I had something from storage and find after looking everywhere for it that I do well without it. One day I will go visit the contents of the storage unit and feel the vibrations there, taking only those items which vibrate for me, giving others the chance to experience the rest of my former possessions.

I now know that with the completion of the lessons and experiences from 2000 to 2004 I had in my isolation, intention and attention on my mother’s needs moved out of my previous vibrational level and that is why I became ready for change.

I understand my change in vibration today and know the present “now” in which I live is showing me that I am learning and growing and that I have begun taking on new experiences.

I offer this to encourage you to look at your present “feeling” state, to check how you are vibrating. Ask what attracts you now and see if it is different from what you were attracted to just a while ago.

Peace

January 2011 (4) Meanings and Universal Law #1

2011-01-31T11:45:00.000-08:00

In numerology this coming year 2011 resolves to the number 4 when each of the numbers in it are added together. The number four has long been considered a sacred number of the Pythagoreans representing completion, solidity, stability and equilibrium.

Often referred to as the most primitive of numbers 4 is a “safe” number. It is a feminine number.

Many cultures have four-numbered names for God—Allh (Arabian, Adad (Assyrian), Amun (Egyptian), Itga (Tartar, and Esar (Turkish).

Universally the meaning of the number 4 is the world, the Earth, the Establishment, the number of foundation and solid matter. The points of the compass, the seasons, the elements (earth, air, fire and water), the winds. There are four aspects of the self: physical body, astral body, soul and spirit. There are four functions: sensation, feeling, logical thought and intuition. Four physical senses: hearing, taste, feeling, smell. Four aspects of matter: mineral, gaseous, animal and vegetable.

This “Four” year is one of building, organizing, being efficient, industrious and extremely practical. It is a year of being more “down-to-earth”, more respectable. It indicates a time to slow down and take life more seriously.

During this year I will be taking each of the twelve Universal Laws and talking about them a bit. We’ve heard a lot about the Law of Abundance from movies like the Secret. It is easy to forget there are many other Universal Laws which have been pondered and meditated on for centuries.

The first of these twelve Universal laws is the Law of Divine Oneness - This law is based on the belief that everything is connected and that everything we believe, think, say and do affects everyone and everything in the universe.

Many people have believed throughout time in the oneness of all things and more and more I’ve heard and read the works of others who have come to ponder the oneness of all in this life.

If we are all connected and everything we believe, think, say and do affects everyone and everything in the universe why are some of us trying so hard to find the differences instead of the similarities among people. Why do we find it so hard to celebrate our unity and so very easy to spend billions of dollars and millions of lives making war on one another for what—the bounty of the earth? In the name of God? Domination, control and power.

“He drew a circle to keep me out,

A thing of scorn, and a thing to flout.

But love and I had the wit to win:

We drew a circle that took him in.”

—Edwin Markham

I so love this sentiment. If God is then God is everything — and what does that leave out? No thing. So rather than wrestling with others by thought, word or deed, we can pay attention to what we think about all day long. That is what we become, so if I want more chaos and anger in my life I need to pay attention to what I’m thinking about and if my thinking is chaotic and angry, I can stop! Turn around and change my mind. Put my attention on what my intentions are and look up, tune my thoughts to things that give me courage, neutrality, willingness, acceptance, reason, love, joy, peace and enlightenment.

Sounds like a heavy load to change my thinking to. These words are from the Map of Consciousness from “Power vs. Force” by Sir David R. Hawkins, MD, PhD. http://www.veritaspub.com/ . They resonate at frequencies higher than 100 Hertz and send the harmonies of their word name out and out to cover all of us — our other-selves.

Peace,

December—When The Light Returns

2010-12-30T18:49:00.000-08:00

There’s not much left of December as I write this. We saw the red-hazed full moon, winter equinox and total lunar eclipse all on the 21st. This is a one in 300+ year event.

This month the man to whom I was married for over nine years died. We had been divorced for many years and stayed friends over those years. Love never really dies. Just because people grow apart doesn’t have to mean the love that brought them together diminishes.

I will always love him for many reasons one of the biggest is one that I thought at age twenty-three was not necessarily a reason to love him—that reason is the four lovely women who are his children.

We shared much family together my family, parents, brother, niece and nephew and cousins and their children. We have always been a close family sharing vacations, holidays and always “projects” together. We my husband and I merged our families we had a much bigger group and his children and my cousins children as well as the children of one of his best friends all grew up together.

This year Christmas brought phone calls and Christmas cards his children. We asked each other how we were doing on this day, checking out our current level of grief and sharing a story of two together of happier days and of the days to come and how we walk into tomorrow through today. Living one day at a time which is really all we have can be difficult when we are grieving and it takes the ten-year old grandchild who wants to open presents or just that the dog who needs a walk to bring us out of our reverie and back into the present.

My mother-in-law told me after the death of my own father when I was twenty-seven that her own experience of losing her mother thirty years before was that the pain didn’t ever really leave, she was just better able to handle it with time.

She was a wise woman then and I can pass what she told me and what I’ve come to learn on to the children of my heart.

December is the month of the return of light in the pagan celebrations. December 21st was the shortest day and longest night and from it every day grows longer still bringing more light to our days and hearts until the Summer Solstice when the days grow shorter once again. We are all part of the circle of life and we are all one

Peace.

A Walk With Dale

2010-12-26T07:31:00.000-08:00

He got up slowly from the bed. It was still dark and would be light soon he thought. He noticed that his feet didn’t hurt this morning – no, nothing hurt this morning. He felt like he was thirty-five again and smiled as he thought of his children – Kenni his first born and he felt that wave of love wash over him for those years he’d had with Kenni and Kari the second born while he and Sandie were still married. Kelli the third born had so little of that family time she probably didn’t even remember any of it. Then there was Kristi, born just three months before the family broke apart.

But something wasn’t quite right he thought as he stepped out of the bedroom and onto the basketball court of the Community Center. And there they were all grown up. His eye’s smarted with tears as he looked on them and what husbands, mates, children (his grandchildren) and great grandchildren? What was this all about? How beautiful they all were. They’d grown up so fast, where had the time gone?

And over there were his sisters chattering away as they always had, smiling and laughing at something one of them had said. He felt another wave of love come over him as he saw them now and as they were when he and they were kids.

Their husbands and children and grand and great-grandchildren were all there too. Well, he thought sardonically, “It’s a damned good thing we’re all meeting in this big room. He remembered the year everyone gathered at his folks house to celebrate a family reunion of Grandpa’s family. They had to get a ladder to let everyone get into the photo at one time.

And over there was Neal and Joanie and coming toward him was Roger and Sue – just what had the argument been about that pushed them all apart? Oh, well it was sure great to see them all here now, laughing and telling stories.

This is sure one hell of a dream he thought as he continued out into the group where he was welcomed by this person and that person. It was really great to see everyone. Somewhere he heard music; one of his favorite dance tunes by Eddie Arnold. He thought he’d go find Jane and finish that dance. Where was she anyway?

There was Ken. Wasn’t it just a month or so ago they had lunch together? And there was Jeff and Sandie’s sister, Susie. The food smelled good, guess somebody was cooking salmon. And he remembered fishing in Alaska with Roger last year. And then he remembered all the firsts. The first fish Kenni caught, Kari’s and Kelli’s even Duncan’s but where did Kristi catch her first fish? Hmmm.

Then he turned and was walking toward the doors which lead outside and he saw a menagerie of animals, dogs, cats and was that a crow? Further out he saw Uncle Harry and Fred. I’ll go have a smoke with them he thought then remembered he’d quit smoking when he was forty. As he walked out onto the grass and across to the men, he began to see other people who were outside too. They seemed to be waiting for him. Smiling and welcoming him in. He saw his mom and dad, his grandpa and Aunt Jessie, his cousin Rocky and Uncle Jim.

Then Neil walked up to him and gave him a big hug and beat on his back the way men do. He stepped away a little and looked at his old friend. He thought he’d cry and saw the Neil was crying. It was so good to see him again.

This is sure the strangest dream he ever had. From the moment he woke up to right now when he was seeing impossible people. People he knew had been dead for years some of them. And here they were just as real as he was. What a strange dream or was it a dream in a dream or was it . . . real?

November’s Light

2010-11-07T09:21:00.000-08:00

“As we come around to take our places at the table, a moment to remember and reflect upon our wealth,
Here’s to loving friends and family, here’s to being able together here to gather in good company and health.

And may we released of all those feelings that would harm us, may be have the strength to give them up and get them gone.

Heavy are the satchels filled with anger and false promise, may we have the will to set them down.”

This is the first verse from “May The Light Of Love” by David Roth http://www.davidrothmusic.com/

David is a remarkable writer and performer. This was the first of his songs that I heard and learned. I have sung it for Thanksgiving Day dinners for numerous friends and relatives as they have asked me to say grace.

What this song means to me in this month of Thanksgiving is just that – to hold in my heart a little closer than other days and months that sense of gratitude for life, seeing the abundance that surrounds me and has never ceased to show up in my life, looking at my relationships with other people and seeing where I’ve had feelings that have harmed me. Asking if I am willing to “get them up and get them gone”.

There is not enough room in my life to carry a grudge against any person, place or thing. I was asked the other day if I was using my support system because I have been over working and was starting to feel as if I was catching a cold. I stopped a moment to think about my support system and then said, yes I was leaning in to those who support my well-being and wish me well. I have a solid support system today and am very grateful and appreciative of it.

Over the last few years my earth walk has taken me from being care-giver for my mother who had Alzheimer’s then contracted tonsular cancer and died of the treatment of that cancer to wandering around the state I live in thinking I would test areas and find the place I wanted to live. What really happened was that I re-visited those placed I had already been to and found myself saying goodbye to them and to many of the people I thought I had lifelong relationships with.

As my journey of grief recovery and discovery turned in to a Spiritual journey, I have met and made new friends who have shared their table with me and made my life more full and abundant.

My nephew and niece were both born in November and I remember them in this month as well.

Scorpio is the Scorpion in the Astrological world and falls between October 21st and November 20th. In Numerology it is ruled by the planet Mars and is associated with the number 9 (endings). Scorpio is a water sign. The key words ascribed to a Scorpio are “I see”.

November in our calendar is the eleventh month. The number 11 is only used by numerologists when the assessment of the number 2 (duality and change) doesn’t seem to apply. 11 is a delicately balanced number balancing spiritual/material and positive/negative. Even further the number 11 is a precarious balance between enlightenment and martyrdom.

So David’s song which speaks of being grateful for our “wealth”, and alludes to lifting the cup of acknowledgement for friends and family goes on to ask us to take a moment to remember the lost and lonely among us. He asks us to do what we can to feed the hungry and homeless.

In his verses I hear his wish that we might live in peace, do away with fear and be grateful for that which guides us. He asks that we not be separate from one another.

I’ve been invited to share a day of thanksgiving with friends this month and am looking forward to putting on my apron and helping bake and cook for friends who have extended the gift of family to me.

I wish you happiness and abundance, joy and gratitude in this the wonderful fall month of November.

I’ll end with the refrain from David’s song:

“And may the light of love be shining deep within your spirit,

May the torch of mercy clear the path and show the way,

May the horn of plenty sound so everyone may hear it,

May the light of love be with you every day.”

Peace.

And With The Leaves Comes October......

2010-10-15T20:39:00.000-07:00

People have been talking about 10-10-10 events for months now. I’m a student of numerology and was going to write about this date from that perspective. A friend sent me an email about 10-10-10 which piqued my interest and so I went to the site shown below and read the article Christine DeLorey wrote in a blog about the numerological implications of “tens”, 10-10-10, 10-10-2010, triple digits which appear annually and numerologically appear even before the actual date, i.e. 10-10-2008 which Christine DeLorey (URL below) points out is the first occurrence recently of 10-10-10 because 2008=10. So instead of recreating the wheel I’ll point you to her blog with all support that you read what she has so elegantly put together about this and other dates.

http://creativenumerology.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/10-10-10-welcome-to-the-decade-of-the-tens/

”felt” by Christine DeLorey ©Copyright Christine DeLorey 2010 – all rights reserved

And! Halloween is upon us and with it all its introspection and happiness. Rural, rustic; or “of the country” people now called Pagans have been observing this time of endings and new beginnings for centuries. October 31st is the Eve of the New Year and November 1st is the first day of the New Year. Many believe there is a separation between the physical world and the spirit world. They believe the veil between the living and the dead grows thinner as the end of October draws near. Halloween customs often display element of death. This is a time to remember those who have left this world and of envisioning hopes of renewal and rebirth to come.

My family didn’t call Halloween “year-end”, but it was the end of our farming year. It was also the beginning of a time of celebrating the freedom that concentrated attention to crops; planting, growing, weeding, watering and harvesting. After the farm equipment was put away with other farm tools for the winter we set about preparing for winter which was harsh in Eastern Washington. We lived close to the land, eating what we grew, what we traded for with our neighbors and from what the fish and game we fished for and hunted.

One of my daughters-of-the-heart called me today to give me the information that one of our family’s dearest friends died October 9. He was born in Minnesota, moved to Washington and met and married a lovely woman from farm and logging country in the Snoqualmie Valley. He loved his family, his children, his extended family and then grandchildren and great grandchildren as they came along. He also loved the land and lived close to it. He enjoyed hiking, boating, fishing and bow hunting and many other fun things. He was an excellent pen and ink artist. Years ago he gave me one of his drawings of a soaring eagle. I still treasure it.

The month of October up to the 21st is in the sign of Libra. This is the sign of balance and of balancing the scales. All things seek balance: even water seeks its own level. As the old year passes at the end of harvest a new year begins with the coming of winter - that time of dormancy before spring brings new life to the land. And then the remainder of the month is in the sign of Scorpio

This is a time of reflection and celebration for all the gifts throughout this year. It will be interesting to see what the rest of this month has to offer. It is my hope for all of us that we have hope. That we look forward with mindfulness and look backward with respect and memories of fun and joy.
Peace.

Is Reality a Delusion?

2010-08-28T12:02:00.000-07:00

I have recently been taking a series of classes dealing with Archetypes that we tend to live in or move through in our lives on our “Rising in Consciousness” way. You may find more information about these and other classes as taught by my friend, Gage Tarrant at www.mindnrg.org or email her at gage@mindnrg.org . She suggests reading the book, The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By written by Carol S. Pearson. You may purchase any of the books suggested here from www.amazon.com through my website here on the Calendar and Bookstore tab.

As I’ve been studying these courses I’ve been intrigued that the word “Delusion” comes up often. Last night as I slept the concept of just what is delusion wandered in and out of my sleeping state so after an entire day of being hounded to write about these things, I’ll share some of the research I’ve garnered this evening along with my own beliefs not necessarily come by through any group affiliation.
Scientific and medical communities tend in their pathology (study and diagnosis of disease) to associate illness to delusion or delusion to illness.
I’ve seen a definition of Delusion as (loosely translated) to be an obstinate adherence to a belief even when it causes harm to the “believer”.

The writers go on to describe “delusion” as a belief that is false, fanciful, or derived from deception. When I looked up “deception” I found a definition of it as being: a deceit, bluff and/or mystification and sleight of hand to put forth beliefs that are not “true”.

Someone quoted from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, where the White Queen says, “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” And they go on to use this quote in judgment of people who hold beliefs which these writers believe to be false to fact.

So I looked up “truth” and was overwhelmed with the sheer magnitude of theories about truth. There were nine or ten different theories about “truth” and whole groups of believers lined up in support of their favorite truth theory.

Some said a thing was truth when it conforms to external reality. Hmm, “What’s real asked the Velveteen Rabbit?” This is a quote straight from the well known children’s book The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams which claims no relationship at all to “external reality”. Other theorists said truth is constructed by society. Another group proposes that truth is whatever more than one person might agree to.

One of my favorites is the group who say that something is true when it is seen to be true and they give the example of “snow is white is true”. Well, I don’t know about you, but I’ve seen a lot of snow in my time and not every particle of it is white so for me that blows that theory out of the winter wonderland.

I liked what Kierkegaard had to say about truth. He talks about objective and subject truths. I have brown eyes. That is an objective truth. I believe politicians are inherently dishonest or they become corrupted after they are in office and then become dishonest. This is a subjective truth and in my reality it is “my” truth.

My interest in what is and what isn’t “delusion” stems from my own belief based on my experience and observation of other’s stated beliefs that people who name a belief delusional just don’t understand the situation.

This goes along with the article I wrote here a few months ago about “Contempt prior to Investigation” from a quote ascribed to Herbert Spencer.

If we are to become consciously risen people who co-create our lives for the highest and best good of ourselves and all beings, how can we even consider naming some else’s belief or beliefs as a lie (false to fact) or a delusion?

I believe judgment is an outgrowth of “fear” or (false evidence appearing real) and that it falls far below the “critical level of integrity” which you can find on the “Consciousness Scale” created by Dr. David Hawkins, MD, PhD. (You can purchase his book, Power vs. Force from this site or any book store or you can go to his website at: http://www.veritaspub.com/ )

It is my “subjective truth” that we are all one and that we are all here to heal one another. I’ll even go farther and state my belief that we can rise in consciousness and heal the wounds of our past easily, effortlessly and with grace and strength. We are alive here today to do what we came here to do and I give my intention to those who read this and in a Hololinguistic manner to all beings, to be in enlightenment, peace, joy, love, reason, acceptance, willingness, neutrality and courage.

What is Good about July?

2010-08-28T11:48:00.000-07:00

I searched the internet today to find out about July. It seems to be an unremarkable month for me.

The first thing that caught my eye was “I forgot Day” on July 2nd. It appears this is a day to do one of two things 1) just forget things on this day, or 2) offer up cards of “I’m Sorry” because “I Forgot” – a blanket I forgot so I’m sorry for all those things I forgot. I like this day. It might rehabilitate my overall dislike for July.

When I was a kid we took one day a year off for vacation – July 4th. We got up even earlier than usual on our farm to tend to our chores, load the car with goodies and fishing gear then drive to the next farm 3 over and help them do their chores, gather them up along with all their goodies and meet up with two other families who had done the same thing. Then we drove about one hundred miles to a place above Ellensburg called Colockum Pass. We drove off-roads up to a place where there was hopefully a little creek that filled a small pool where we could put our cold foods and set up a day camp.

We kids were sent off to run to the top of the nearest peak and back again and by that time, breakfast was sizzling on our huge cast iron griddle. After breakfast the men and older boy (my brother) would take fishing poles and gear and go off “fishing”. Most years the only fish caught were by the little kids playing in or around the food cooling pool.

We played, fished ate, made ice cream, had a four-family baseball game in the nearby cow pasture using dried cow-pies for bases. There was often a bull either in that field or near it so we had to watch out for hecklers in the form of a bull.

What was most wonderful for me and I wouldn’t know it until we no longer went on that vacation was that on that day July 4th there were no fireworks, no sounds of loud things blowing up, no fear of fire, no fire trucks or ambulance sirens, just lots of wind and sun and fun.

My girl friend/neighbor’s dad, Russell who was about one-third the size of our boy friends’/neighbor’s dad, Del could eat Del’s weight in home-made ice cream. My dad told the best stories and he and I remembered all the words to the songs we liked to sing. My mom and brother remembered the tune to those songs, thankfully.

Everyone shone at baseball and the bull didn’t scare us farm folk one bit. After a full day of fun and sun, we packed it all up, drove home, left everyone off at their farms and returned to ours for evening milking and more chores before bedtime.

I don’t live in a quiet place like that now and haven’t for years, hence my dislike of the 4th of July. I used to go into the mountains for the day to get away from the racket. It was always a toss-up who disliked the noise the most – me or the dogs. So I always took them and my cat too.

I’ve found though that the 4th’s revelers have all moved into the mountains too. They don’t seem to care or know that the fire-crackers the set off cause forest fires and kill the animals and maybe even people. This year I’ve moved back into a more metropolitan area and so can’t run away to quiet from the fireworks. So June 30th I picked up the DVD’s I checked out from the local library and with earphones in place I intend to spend that day as far away as PBS mysteries can take me.

I’ll always have the memories of our annual vacation day and know that the 2nd is I Forgot Day.

www.bentler.us/eastern-washington/recreation/colockum-wildlife-area.aspx

According to my internet searching July is also the month of:
• Disobedience Day
• Vanilla Ice Cream Day
• Ratcatcher’s Day
• Peach Ice Cream Day
• Fool’s Paradise Day
And…
• Cow Appreciation Day

Well, that all fits in with my happy memories of at least the 4th of July. So maybe I need to revamp my dislike of the entire month just because one or two weeks of it are angry, loud, and dangerous.

I am also reminded that “it” is all good and every day’s a holiday if I just look at it that way.

This month a dear friend is moving into new digs, all my Kith and Kin seem to be well and happy and we are all one.

I’m reminded we are all one because the Seventh Universal Law is the Law of Compensation which gives us proof of the results of our actions. It is the law of rewards and blessings. It works with the Law of Cause and Effect. Here we receive in direct proportion to the energy around our thinking and doing.

The Universe always says “Yes!” so if I’m thinking of how my life is filled with bad things, then I’ll get more bad things and if I’m thinking about how full of abundance and joy my life is that is what I’ll receive more of. And in this month of the Law of Compensation – it’s all about the energy. The more we give the more we can receive.

Oh, and according to my sources, the first Sunday in July which is the 3rd this year is Build a Scarecrow Day. So have a great day building the one scarecrow that is so scary the crows won’t sit on it. And enjoy a lovely garden.

All In The Merry Month of May

2010-06-05T16:09:00.000-07:00

May is the month of flowers, May 1st is traditionally celebrated in Ireland and Scotland as Beltane and the beginning of summer. Beltane falls halfway between the Vernal equinox (Spring) and Midsummer (Summer Solstice). May also commemorates International Worker’s Day or Labour Day in the U.K. Labor Day was originally celebrated on the 1st of May in the U.S. as well but for political reasons was moved to the first Monday in September in 1887. In 1958 President Eisenhower named May 1 as Loyalty Day and as Law Day.

(Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day to check out the definitions of those new commemorative days.

It is also the day of my father’s birth.

The Internet would have us believe this is a custom not done in this day and age except by those who follow the Celtic traditions. When I was young we did make May baskets and dance around the tetherball pole in the school yard weaving ribbons on it for May Day. Children did this at the elementary school I attended in western Washington. And, we made May baskets to take to our parents, grandparents and the neighbors.

I’m glad to have been a child in a time when these kinds of traditions were looked forward to and there was an innocence in my world anyway that allowed me to skip up to my neighbor’s door, knock on it and hand my neighbor a reed woven basket full of spring and summer flowers.

I didn’t know who my neighbors were then. My parents undoubtedly new them I just wanted to give them pretty flowers for May Day. And they smiled and accepted my gift.

I have moved back to a community I lived in many years ago when the streets were safe, the roads were passable and you could actually know your neighbors, even have a bonfire and song fest in the backyard until the dogs howled and shut us down.

Today, when if I want to take a walk and don’t feel safe walking in the neighborhood I live in I have to get in my car, drive to an open walking track like a high school track then walk around and around the track like a gerbil in a cage.

Interesting times we live in. That’s an old Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times”.

An aid car is parked less than a hundred feet from where I sleep. It is parked in a fire zone in the apartment complex I live in. The kids or maybe not just the kids tease the truck because it has an audio alarm which makes loud noises and plays a loud announcement to please step away from the truck. I hear police and aid car sirens or more accurately they are so plentiful now that I don’t really hear them consciously, they just are there in my subconscious. People are shot by angry drivers as they drive on the street I drive on to go to my local library.

When I first moved into the apartment complex I heard whistling one evening and thought how nice that sounded, I hadn’t heard anyone whistle in a long time. Then a teenager told me it wasn’t someone whistling for the fun of it – it was gang members signaling other gang members in code using whistled signals. This is less than thirty feet from where I sleep. And I live in a “nice” neighborhood in a mid-sized town.

How far we’ve come from the May Day dancing and gifting of flowers to the neighbors?

Several people have warned me to be careful about the new bio-warfare killer fungus being sprayed by airplane in what are called Chem Trails. These folks tell me our government is killing us with these “targeted” dispersals of bacterial and viral air borne agents.

Friends of mine are telling me they keep bacterial wipes on their desks at work and don’t touch anything in their office buildings without using these wipes. I’ve not heard that they are wearing gloves and masks to work yet – maybe that’s next.

I believe everything is alive and has a frequency which is constantly being emitted into our world. So if I want to live in a world where May Day baskets are made and happily received I must align myself with those frequencies to keep my thinking on a higher scale.

If I live in fear I open myself up to receiving energies or frequencies whatever you want to call it that will keep me in fear and distrust of others This fear only serves to open me up to accepting illness and disease into my life.

One of my favorite author’s and PBS presenters, Wayne Dyer has said for years that we are what we think about all day long. I believe that. If I’m thinking about doom and gloom, fear and conspiracy that’s what I’ll have in my life. If I’m thinking about how I may serve others, how grateful I am and what gives me joy, that’s what I’ll have in my life.

I choose joy, gratitude and service to others. Happy May Day!

It's All About Energy...

2010-05-01T17:55:00.000-07:00

Many years ago I became ill with encephalitis and meningitis, I decided to kill myself and fell asleep instead. When I awoke it was to a male voice unknown to me speaking in my ear telling me this was not my life to take it was God’s life. That set me on a road which has completely changed my life. I no longer am a computer consultant for a living. I first became a client of a practitioner of Reiki and Cranial/Sacral energy work. Then I become a student of Reiki and cranial/sacral work. Now I am a practitioner and almost four years ago I added a biofeedback stress reduction device brining another dimension to the work.

It amazes me today to look back at where that road from what doctors told me was an incurable and terminal illness has taken me to the place where I live today; in a constant state of grace. I was grossly injured by the illnesses. I had just been told for the “nth” time that I was seriously injured by the diseases and that I needed to stop working, apply for disability and concentrate on maintaining the “remission” the doctors all were so excited about.

The physician of record treating me for the viral condition and it’s after-effects asked if he could write an article about me to send to the New England Journal of Medicine because I seemed to have defied medical opinion and was the only person of record in the U.S. who had this combination of diseases as an adult and managed to continue to live autonomously.

I’ve been asked how it is that I do that. I tell people that I live in a non-linear world. They usually ask me next what in the world is non-linear. What I have found is that I no longer live in a world where I am my brain or my illness or my possessions or anything else of the world. I live in the world I’m just not of it anymore. I don’t wear a watch, haven’t for years. And, if I need to be somewhere, I wake up on time by my inner clock to get where I need to be.

It is completely obvious that Spirit evidently isn’t finished with me yet. I still have purpose. There are things in this life I still have to do and see, feel and be. I am many years away from the original illness and contrary to all medical beliefs I have overcome many of the issues they thought were life-threatening and do live an autonomous life. If I become over-tired, stressed or become infected with flu or a cold I still can get out of remission. I’ve learned to balance periods of exertion with periods of rest. When I get caught up in what other people think about me, I can move into old behaviors in a heartbeat and make myself sick again. When I can stay in peace and am grounded and centered I have a very loving, peaceful, joyful life.

One day I was listening to a tape of a PBS special featuring Dr. Wayne Dyer talking about his latest book. I enjoyed listening to the uplifting things he had to say and then he said, “don’t die with the music still in you.”

I felt tears brimming up when he said it. I didn’t want to die with the music still in me. It hit me so strongly and I’ve never forgotten it. It “resonated” everywhere in and around me.

I knew then and still do know that I had to let my music out. I must give who I am away, share with others, help who I can and let the music flow. When I work with people who are just awakening to the principles of learning how to live life on life’s terms, when I watch them come to rely on a power greater than themselves and see them begin to give up trying to control everything in their lives -- I sing to them.

There are a few songs I like that touch even the toughest person and break the shell of isolation and holding back to let them shed tears and release old resentments and fears. One of them is very simple and quite profound the more I urge people to sing it again and again always with more feeling. It is a song I learned from a Unity Musical Church in Bellevue, WA. It has three lines that when sung over and over until will reach your very soul.

“I am free, I am unlimited. There are no chains to bind me. I am free, I am unlimited right now.”

REPEAT. Try it, try it louder and louder, sing it from your belly, feel it and I promise it will empower you.

I sing it in the car I sing it any where I am whenever I feel the need to sing it. I urge you to sing it, say it, write it, put it on a continuous tape recording and listen to yourself sing or say it. It works. Use any tune that works for you. I can’t put the notes into this book, I don’t know how or I would. My present to you.

My other present is never, never, never give up! That is different from surrendering yourself to your Source, the Divine in all of us. That means sing something every day that uplifts you. It doesn’t matter if you feel you can sing or not. I used to sing flat on many notes, until a man for whom I had done some computer work (yes I can do that today), repaid me by sharing his knowledge of Alexander Technique. Twice or three times we met for about an hour and from the first time we met and I sang for him through the last time I sang and played the guitar, I was never off key. What he taught me was to prepare the instrument - that would be me, close my eyes, go inside and be still a moment and when I was ready, sing. What this did for me was to connect my heart with the music. When I sing from my heart, I never sing off key or out of sync. I already know the song I want to sing, so once the instrument is prepared, the song sings itself. And, with the kind of feeling that touches another person at a feeling level.

I no longer sing songs as songs, striving to just get through the song on key. I don’t even think about that. I don’t think at all. I am present in the moment to the story of the music and the story gets told with all the feeling it needs.

Being present is vital to the way I live today. You’ve heard or possibly read (even on a bumper sticker), “be here now”. By that, I mean this moment as I write these words is the only moment of my life. The next moment hasn’t happened yet and I’m not living in the last moment before this one. Each moment is the now, the only life I have. Now is the only life I have - and now, and now. When you talk and I listen, I listen with everything in me because I am spending my now with you. It is my life it had better have meaning for I am giving a moment of my life for it. It is the only moment I have. That is what being present means to me.

I went missing for so many years. Living with resentment and anger over the past which is past and I’m the only one affected by my past if I hang on to it. Who or whatever I’ve been resentful toward from the past isn’t feeling the resentment and anger, I am. They aren’t staying awake at night reliving the old hurts, or not living their life out of fear from the “terrible” things that happened to me way back then. The sage was right, ‘whoever lives with resentment and wants revenge needs to dig two graves’.

It is certain that my hanging onto resentment, fear and anger, kept me soul sick and sliding into dying on the inside which was leading me to dying on the outside by my thoughts and behaviors. I must leave righteous anger to those better qualified to handle it than me. I’m not sure anyone is qualified to handle righteous anger, but then I don’t know everyone.

What I know for me is that negative emotions make me sick. And I don’t want to live sick anymore. The result in being sick for me would be death in the most hurtful manner. I know I will die one day and that’s not my concern. Death is just another beginning. It is the cycle of life. All nature dies, is reborn and dies again. I believe that applies to me too.

Death isn’t my concern, life is. How will I live this life I’ve been given? Recently I was introduced to a harmonic resonancing solution to dis-ease on all four levels. It makes perfect sense to this, albeit flawed, number oriented brain of mine. It is based on a book entitled, Sanctuary and according to Dr. Dyer’s children, once you read it you will say, “Sanctuary very much”. It is based on the premise which many have spent their lives working toward to one man who with the aid of others, did make it happen and has used it with many hundreds of people, now thousands. It takes the notion that all our tendencies to have that which keeps us separate from our source and all ultimate healing are found within our bodies, either ethereal, chakra, or physical. And that all life is resonance, harmonic and part of a whole. We are indeed holographs of the great I AM living along frozen fragments of light. There is of course much more to it than I can put into words here.

There have been other processes from the ancients to today’s way/s to integrate technology with spirituality. With Max’s system, a picture of me is put onto a tray where with laser technology and algorithms for every dis-ease (he doesn’t mean illness, nor anything the medical community would deal with). He means that which is within us and has the propensity to keep us spiritually out of sync, not living to our potential, tired, living at a lowered consciousness than we came here to live and never finding the real reason we came into this earth walk at all. So, using the techniques he and his staff have created, the photograph of me can be bombarded with tendency erasers to put it mildly and most simply. As this is done to my photograph, I physically, spiritually, mentally and emotionally release from the place of my highest consciousness those things that keep me less than as perfect as I can be at any one moment in time.

This is fascinating to me and something I am in the process of pursuing and am excited to be involved with. I have long felt that all is about harmonics and resonance. Music is number, number is language, all in our known world is alive with harmonic and resonance. The rocks sing. The trees have different voices. These are facts known from the dawn of time. And now we have a way of balancing our energies. A way to allow to each of us and all of us as a whole to come together and raise the consciousness of the planet to a point where we don’t have to make ourselves extinct or live in the nuclear horror which has been painted for us since biblical days.

And since I was introduced to this system I have come to know about many other new and ancient methods of creating the same result.

How does this speak to my earlier question of how will I live this life I’ve been given? I hope to live it in harmony with all life, free from the need to be frozen by fear, paralyzed by worry, or the need to create real diseases in my body by not living my life the way I was meant to – naturally and in love.

Everything is energy.

What is Success

2010-03-31T17:46:00.000-07:00

A dictionary may define success as the opposite of failure. “We won the game!” So we were successful. Some people say that success is the journey not the destination. It is the preparing, the unknown quantities of the goal the thrill of the “chase” that defines a successful outcome because at the end of the journey, now the “chase” must be evaluated and new goals set to maintain the “thrill”. Still others would have us each define what success is personally on many levels as preparation to begin designing the steps toward a goal.

When I was a young girl I had lots of ideas about things to build and things to do. I’d think about them, figure them out and when I was ready I’d take my well thought out plans to my dad. I have to give him credit for not laughing out loud at some, even most of them. No, he listened completely to what I had to say then he sat in the way he had when he was thinking things over and what I remember most about him is that the next words out of his mouth were these; “Well, it seems to me you’ve got three choices.”

First he’d tell me again about the plan I’d just pitched to him, then he’d lay out possibly the opposite of my plan. Finally, he’d tell me of a plan maybe even very close to the one I’d just given him but this one I learned over time, was probably the plan he thought might have the best chance of being successful.

Now I want to tell you about how my dad listened. He looked right at me as I spoke and I’d feel as if he was taking my temperature and checking to see if I’d grown an inch or if my eyes were more hazel than brown. What I felt from him was that he listened to me with everything in him. He saw me he heard me he felt my excitement level and he watched my reasoning skills to see how well thought out my plans were.

He was taking my temperature – he was checking me to see if I liked myself in my picture of my plan. He was looking to see if I felt peaceful and had joy and enthusiasm (this was important to dad, enthusiasm). He was listening to see if I was planning a solo job or if I was going to ask others to help me and he listened to who they might be, checking what he knew about them and their capabilities and honor.

If this was a money-making plan, he listened to my budgeting skills with the keen sense of a spread-sheet aficionado even though this was a long way from “spread-sheet” days, his mind was keen and his ability to compute anything in his head was truly awe inspiring.

He was getting a feel for whether I was “up to the task”. Was I biting off more than I could chew? Was my energy level strong enough to carry me through?

I never felt judged for my worthiness or for the worthiness of the plan. I always knew inside that my father trusted me and loved me unconditionally. So his job was to check all the other things out because he knew that whatever I’d cook up to do would be legal and worthwhile (well at least mostly legal sometimes). We were pioneer farmers living a long way from the law of other people. Our own laws were most important and we lived or died by them.

So, with my idea pitched and my options in front of me I’d go about doing the deal. If the option I chose didn’t work out as I wanted it to, I’d go back to dad (my drawing board) and tell him what went wrong. Again, he’d listen in that x-ray vision way he had and then he’d usually say, “Well, it sounds to me like you’ve got two choices.”

My father died when I was twenty-seven. One day in my thirty-sixth year I overheard one of my step-daughters telling her youngest sister that I always gave her three choices. I had to leave the room to cry a little when I heard dad’s battle plan come from the second generation down. I had to ask him if he’d heard that too. I knew he was proud of the way my husband’s kids turned out (his grand-daughters), not ‘steps but a vital part of our family. He taught all four of them to fish just as he’d taken my brother and me fishing and my nephew and niece when their turns came around. I’m glad he had the chance to interact in their lives before he died.

So how has success been a factor in my adult life? There was a time in my late teens an early “twenties” when I measured success by getting paid the most I could for how I spent my work time. I took jobs that weren’t traditional female jobs and was well paid for them. I green broke and saddle broke horses for people around our area. I sold ads for the local newspaper in my senior year of high-school because I was on the annual staff and so I was going around the country begging for money for that anyway, might as well have the paper paying me too.

When I graduated I already had a job and an apartment in Seattle. I’d signed on to work building airplanes for Boeing. I was in wing sub-assembly for the 737 which was a paper airplane still in Wichita. So with no work in my department I begged work from my lead and made wooden storage units and key ring hangers. Then I “borrowed” a bicycle and an old blueprint and turned my restricted badge upside down under my collar and spent most afternoons riding all over plant II. When summer ended so did the job as Boeing was about to hang out the sign for the last person leaving Seattle to please turn out the lights, this was 1967.

I went to work as a station agent-train order operator/telegrapher for the Milwaukee railroad and worked for them for nearly ten years before they closed up shop and went back east only to then go out of business entirely. I loved working for the railroad. I got to work all the depots in Washington State and some in Idaho. It fit into what would become my “project-oriented” manner of working.

I started a computer consulting business in 1982 or 1983 because I’d come to realize that my skills were best suited on projects than working for one company until retirement. It worked for me.

Did I feel successful about my work life? Yes. I had no fear of walking in to a company, showing them a portfolio or my resume, talking about what I had done and could do and asking what they needed from me. That sense of having no fear of failure or fear of success came directly from my days on that farm. And the skills my dad taught me about thinking and feeling about things I wanted to undertake.

I’m struggling for the first time in my life with work. Questions have plagued my waking and sleeping time, I’ve questioned myself and wrestled in the mud with my fears so hard that I actually weakened myself enough to “catch” a chest cold. People told me that it was “going around” and everyone was getting it. Well “it” or another one like “it” has been going around every year and no matter how exhausted I’ve been, how overworked, I just don’t get “sick”. Then one morning about two weeks ago I had an accident. I burned my hand and fingers quite severely. It was a shock as accidents are and in two days I was sick with the “lung thing”.

I know from Chinese medicine and other areas of research that what affects us physically is directly associated with what we are feeling (or not feeling) in our life. Lungs are associated with a great deal of grief, sadness or loss.

I’ve been journaling and doing things I know to help myself get better. The things I have been experiencing in life over the last year and a half have resulting in grief, sadness and loss for me.

When my mother died six years ago I went into my “cave” and pretty much greeted the sun every morning and greeted the moon every evening. I walked, wrote, did research on a project I decided to work on and went through Mother’s things, sorting, giving away and keeping.

And I gypsy’d around two states looking for where I would settle down for the next part of my life. In several places and with several people I’d known for years I experienced more grief, sadness and loss as those relationships which had once been vital proved to not be viable any longer.

Now I’m embarking on a new way of doing what I’ve been doing. I’m excited about it and there is also shock and fear as like I’ve experienced with the recent friendship losses. As I write this I’ve been wishing my dad was here to run my well thought out ideas by just one more time.

Is it because I’m older now? That doesn’t seem right. I fell and dislocated my shoulder a year ago and that shook my confidence in my ability to stay upright. I lost my “ground”.

My brother died suddenly in a foreign country the first of this year. We were estranged when he died and I feel sad for the loss of his life and our inability to celebrate our lives together. Now I find myself the eldest person in my family. What’s that all about?

What do I know about this? I know I have been experiencing unmanaged grief, sadness, loss and a huge lack of Joy. I’ve allowed fear to overcome faith and lost confidence in the Universe to hold me up and sustain me as I walk forward. And I know that I’m really finished indulging this recent pity party for one.

I haven’t been spending enough time with people who sing and dance, play the drum and the flute, hug on one another and feel blessed to be in one another’s company. I need to get out and be in Joy!

As I’ve have been writing this article I have been going back to the farm and my youth with my father to ask the critical questions. Will I like myself doing what I’m embarking on doing? Am I truly at peace and free from fear, anger, worry and guilt around this area of work? Do I have the personal energy, the enthusiasm for this new way of working? Will the money from this new way of working be sufficient to continue to present more workshops? Will my relationships with the people I’m embarking on this journey with become richer and more viable for the “new” way of working? Will the net funds to be sufficient for me to use the money to enhance the lives of others as well as supply my basic needs?

These are the measures of success for me. I must do what I love and let the money follow, Maslow was right in his concept of “Self Actualization”. It is necessary to have other reasons to work after the basic needs are met. Joy must be at the beginning of and the end of each day of work for me or I won’t do it. I know me. Without enthusiasm and joy, there is not enough money to be had to work.

I’m so glad I got to share some of my father with you today. He was truly a cowboy/philosopher with a lot of rodeo clown thrown in. And, he was the most intelligent human I’ve met in this life. I’ve been invited to be part of the big-brain group and said. “No thanks.” I’ve worked in think tanks, brainstorming until my brain was unhinged. I’ve known many celebrated intelligent people and not one of them was in any way superior to my father. I really like that I’ve lived long enough to come to realize that we are all one – we all want the same things in life, we walk the same dirt, drink the same water and breathe the same air.

So, in my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren on loan to me for a little while and in all the others’ who have and will transit through mine there will be a bit of all of us in every one of us.

Oh, and the answers to my success questions are all YES!

. . .And We Call It Relationship

2010-02-11T15:59:00.000-08:00

I was asked the other day what I thought love is. More precisely, I was asked if I had ever known "that" kind of love. At first I didn't take it seriously - I thought they were talking about the "Across the Crowded Room", Debbie Reynolds and Rock Hudson or Dr. Zhivago "love of a lifetime" love.

That kind of love feels like neurosis to me. An illness one needs to get well from. Over the years my friends and I have talked a great deal about relationships, what we are really talking about is love. I am deeply involved with a loosely organized group of people who have dedicated themselves to seeking and then walking a spiritual path or their own choosing. Our experience tells us we must first seek God and know oursel¬ves [love ourselves] before we can love our fellow man. We also learn to love others and pray they are given that which we most desire in life.

I believe love is a journey of the soul. The soul has no interest in rational, intellectual thought, it is where wonder and imagination grows. Loving soulfully means using our imagina¬tion to see others as they are, not as we would have them be; just to see the wonder of them. To see how we are all created the same yet unique with our own experiences to live and our own diverse roads to travel is a marvel. It is a wondrous thing to spark the curious to know each one. The soul calls out to be amazed at meeting new creations and receiving the gifts they bear.

For me, to love the Divine, my fellow human, creation and myself and to feel love in return is the greatest gift. To be in relationship in a healthy manner, honoring and delighting in the differences of another being, watching them rise in love and daily become who they truly are as I am also honored and sup¬ported to grow and walk my own path is to love and be loved soulfully. There is a time to walk apart, going about our Higher Purpose and a time to come together, to share the silly, intimate and profound parts of our soul, to give time and in the span of time learn to trust enough to have the courage to reveal the dark as well as the light sides of my soul.

We take a risk when we open ourselves to share our soul with another person. The soul knows even though the intellect doesn't that all relationships end. The important lesson is that in the willingness to open and share heart to heart, time is not a factor, only soul's development in the process of relationship. In the timelessness of connecting and bonding, my soul is fed and I am changed for having risked the pain of rejection and loss.

I have a choice. I can choose to live apart, unconscious or I can choose to be open and receptive to life and love.

I have come to believe we can have all things as long as we are willing to let them go.

In a relationship, I see the revealing of my own growth and response to the challenge of risking vulnerability (honesty) with another. The more I become fully conscious, going along my own path, taking the steps to living a spiritual life, the more I see how far I've come by being in relationship with another like-minded person who is also walking their own personal path. When our two imagina-tions come together, we share on a level that has little to do with worldly, sophisticated techni¬ques and more to do with simple, playful, artful, even silly things. This I believe is loving soulfully.

The author of a book quite dear to my heart talks about the great humor and seeming worldliness and levity that people on this path have. How we sometimes shock others at how much fun we have dealing with devastating and deadly diseases. I believe this author under¬stood the soulfulness of recovery.

The relationship we have with one another is intimate and loving, yet fiercely rooted in our desire to have wellness and a spiritual life at all costs.
I am always filled with wonder as people share stories or current life events from a place of such deep pain only to have the next person share their experience in such a way as to have us all in tears of laughter. In the blink of an eye we roll from tears of pain to tears of understanding joy and humor.

And, so . . . . we call the topic relationships, when it is really love we are seeking. There are so many forms of love to experience - that of All That Is (ATI), family and friends, all creation, self and those we choose to love in "that" way.

Maybe my friends were right after all. Love isn't a neurosis one needs to get well from, If the Universal All In All is love as I believe and I am one with that energy, then all things are perfect in my world. Just as my serenity is in direct proportion to my spiritual condition, love is possible to experience in all its forms in direct proportion to how willing I am to be fully present, open and honest in the moment.

Happy New Year - 2010!

2010-02-11T15:55:00.000-08:00

I wrote two checks today with 1/1/ on them. It seemed awkward. Is it 010? No, 2010 or just 10? Hmmm, well that felt different so I wrote the check out dated 1/1/2010.

So what is it about this year over other year’s that seems odd and strange?

In Numerology 2+0+1+0 equals the number 3. Three is the number of time and fate – past, present, future. It is the number of family, of trinities in general such as father, mother, child and birth, life, death. The number three concerns matters of creation and procreation representing both spiritual and sexual creative power. It gives energy and receives understanding in return.

Arithromancy or Numeromancy as it is sometimes known, is an ancient offshoot of numerology seldom heard of today. The three in this Pythagorean system means the recognition of the Divine, the soul; destiny

Thursday is the day of the week associated with the number three and with Jupiter. A homily from ancient tales is: Thursday's child has far to go. In astrology, Jupiter rules Sagittarius which has the ability to expand through growth and understanding. 2010 under Jupiter appears to be about truth, philosophy, travel and physical movement.

The gift of Jupiter is to guide us to highest fulfillment and happiness. The key words for Jupiter are: curiosity, openness, expansion, luck, generosity, life purpose, blessings, optimism, and prosperity
Jupiter is said to influence all the good and noble things of life, and lead each of us toward a higher purpose. 2010 should show us more money and a greater sense of meaning. This is a year to take in new ideas, cultures, people, and allow it to add color and dimension to our lives.

In Sacred Geometry, Jupiter is represented by the statue of Jupiter (or Zeus) at Olympus. Which was built in 433 b.c. in Greece and is said to be the real site of the Olympic games, not Mt. Olympus.

The geometrical shape associated with Jupiter is the Triangle.
Sagittarius is The Archer (21 Nov – 20 Dec.) It is ruled by Jupiter in its positive aspect. The number associated with Sagittarius is 3 in the positive. The element is fire and key words are: I see.

Sagittarius brings out an extensive attitude, expressing freedom together with an urge to explore beyond our known environment.

As January 1st is the birthday of 2010, in numerology, the lesson to be learned in this year is to be able to express freely. Seize every opportunity for self-expression when it arises and develop it to achieve success through creative talents. This is the year to find personal freedom through work. It is the year for the journalist, writer, artist, musician and entertainer.

All things are made of energy. Color, sound and stones all have energetic signatures and vibrate at particular frequencies. The primary colors for the number three are: all shades of mauve, and violet through to the palest purples and lilacs. Subsidiary colors are blue, rose pink and yellow. Colors to avoid are greens, black and grey, also dark browns.

The gem stones associated with the number three are: amethyst and garnets.

Music also has measureable vibrations and the number three is associated with
music which is bright and cheerful usually with a pronounced beat.

Pythagoras has been credited with creating a system of number and letter combinations which were and are still used to “divine” meaning from names, dates and addresses to name some uses. The number three is related to the letters C, L and U.

C is the third letter in the English alphabet representing ‘energy’. The characteristics of this letter are: good-humored, extravagant, dexterous, orator and an organizer.

L is the twelfth letter of the alphabet representing ‘action’. The characteristics of this letter are: benevolent, management, loyal talented, balanced and travel.

U is not only the twenty-first letter of the alphabet but also the fifth and last of the ‘true’ vowels. It represents ‘accumulation’. The characteristics of this letter are: clever, fascination, acquisitive, fortunate and retentive memory.

Our mission in 2010 is to uplift and inspire others. We must learn how to communicate on all levels, improve our knowledge of the world around us. Use time wisely. Concentrate on one thing at a time and come to understand the real meaning of friendship.

The number three has always been regarded as the sublime number and this is evident in the Greek word ‘Trismegistos’ which means thrice greatest or eminently great. To the Pythagoreans it was the number of excellence because it has a beginning, middle, and end. Spells are often repeated three times, fairy tales are full of instances of the number three in the form of wishes, guesses or riddles and, in mythology, Neptune carried a triple-pronged staff. The Delphic Oracle held the tripod in great esteem.

Happy New Year! May this “3 year” bring you abundance on every realm and in all your endeavors.

Blessings, Jane

It's Not Patience -- It's Faith

2009-09-28T13:05:00.000-07:00

I heard Wayne Dyer say this one time in a program he was offering, “Faith is the sound the song bird makes before the dawn.”

I was struck by that vision and have never forgotten it. When I was in my twenties I worked as a station Agent-Operator for the Milwaukee Railroad. I worked all over the rail system in Idaho and Washington. One place in particular I remember well as I had a house provided and lived up in the foothills of mountains. My shift times varied from 8-4, 9-5 or 10-6a.m. That is a backward shift for most and I walked home most mornings in the dark. I called that time of morning Neap time because just as the inexorable tides meet and have a moment of quiet between the incoming the outgoing, the time of day just before daylight breaks has that same stillness, quiet and peaceful feeling about it.

I have heard the interesting “pop” the planet makes as the sun slides out of view in sunset and that is an awesome experience. And I particularly loved starting out in the dark and walking into the dawning and then rising sun as I followed the railroad tracks east toward my old 1930’s two-story home in that small railroad community.

People have asked me often in my life how it is that I can have what seems to them endless patience during times of change, stress and grief. It isn’t patience – it is faith; a word I don’t hear used much anymore in conversation and have yet to hear used in a kind way in any news media.
Right now on our planet many people are afraid. Frightened they will lose what they have or not get enough of what they want. Afraid to speak to the person next to them or make eye contact with anyone they don’t already know. Many people fear the unknown. They fear death or physical harm from outside themselves. For them the world is a scary, dangerous, unfriendly place where no one is to be trusted and it isn’t safe to go anywhere new or different.

And so the world is like that for these frightened people and there seems no relief for their fears. There is no joy, no awe, and no wonder in a fearful life.

Is that they way it is on this ball of dirt we all share? Does it have to be that way?

Some say “no” and I’m one of them for I have heard the song bird sing before the dawn. This small bird sings with faith that another day will dawn. Every day this little bird sings for all of us to hear, sings of another new dawning and another sun rising before it happens.
I have heard it said that the Universe always says “Yes!” and I believe that. And I believe another thing Wayne Dyer talks about in his books, “we are what we think about all day long.”
So, if what I think about all day long is doom and gloom, fear and lack, that is exactly what I am asking for more of in my life. If on the other hand what I think about all day long is abundance, love, harmony, and peace, that is exactly what I’m asking for. And since the Universe always says, “Yes!” these are the things which manifest in my life.

A friend and I have for a few years talked about the possibility of one day being roommates. Every time we’ve discussed it one or both of us have been living somewhere and it hasn’t been possible for us to share a dwelling.

Just recently I moved back from one side of the state to another and my friend moved from another state back to this one. So, we find ourselves both looking for a new place to live at the same time. I love serendipity. We have both searched the rentals and leases on the internet and then narrowed our searches down to seven and went out last week to see them all and find our new “home”.
Not only that, but my friend has been sitting between two potential jobs. This at a time when many people believe there are ‘No’ jobs, she has the interesting dilemma of having two jobs offered to her. It seemed a never-ending process for her as she has been staying with a friend just as I have been.

This morning while writing about the song bird, the chat light went on my computer and it was my friend telling me the decisions have been made and she starts her new job this morning at 10:00 a.m. And since we did found our new “perfect home” last week we can now prepare to move in to that when it is ready for us.

How have we had patience to wait for what we’ve asked the Universe for? It isn’t patience, it is faith. We both believe the world to be a friendly, safe, abundant place and that has made all the difference.

So, if you haven’t already done it, go walk toward the rising sun some morning just before dawn and listen for the song birds who are singing out of joy and possibility with all faith that the sun will rise again. And let yourself feel awe and gratitude.

A Mayan Vacation

2009-07-28T14:52:00.000-07:00

In 1993 I was going to go on vacation to Cancun, Mexico and visit the Mayan Ruins. I’ve been a student of ancient history most of my life. Being a practical sort of person, I bought a travel guide for Mexico and read it. In the back were very strange symbols and number counts. It was the Mayan calendar. The article said no one had successfully figured out the calendar as yet.
Well that was like waving a red flag to this number lover’s brain. I didn’t go to Cancun, I stayed for the better part of a week on my couch figuring out the Mayan Calendar. Then for reasons unknown to me I needed to use Numerology on my results and then I needed to draw connect-a-dots using the numbers.

This is my poor drawing. It is shown in relief here. It is the result of what resolved from my Mayan calendar calculations. I did actually “get” the calendar, but this drawing was compelling to me.

A few years later, I walked into a book store and sitting on a table was a laminated picture with Mayan symbols on it. This is what it looked like:

Borrowed from http://www.weinhold.org/ “2012 Ascension, Rebirth and the Dimensional Shift”, Janae B. Weinhold.

The areas which look black match my inverted drawing and I was drawn to get closer to the piece. When I read the descriptions of the calendar and divination use as that is what this piece was primarily for, I saw that the sections which matched my drawing from years earlier were the high holy days in the Mayan calendar. My travel guide did not say anything about holy days.
I tell this story because it reinforces my belief in the hundredth monkey syndrome or the Knowing Field or the Polymorphic Field or any of the other names for Universal Consciousness. That place where everyone knows everything all at once.

How many times have you heard or read of someone creating something that your grandfather or mother or someone you know had already created years before. Maybe you have it the one they made and now you see them mass produced and for sale in stores. Many folks I’ve talked to have stories like that or other tales of that sort.

I took a class once where the instructor stepped up to a white board and started making black magic marker dots all over the paper. When she was finished she had created a loose outline of a T-rex. She turned to the class and said, “Before the Tyrannosaurus Rex came into existence on the earth there was an energetic signature (polymorphic field) already in existence of the T-rex.
Interesting.

So, what I believe about energy is that it is “all”. We are energetic beings, so is every other being and thing we can find names for. It’s all about energy. What I think about is what I get, immediately. I’ve heard it said that the Universe always says yes. So if we are what we think about, then we will get more of that from the Universe which always says yes.
If my thoughts are on Love, Joy, Peace, Truth and Freedom more of that is going to come into my space which means it will also increase in the Universal Consciousness because I am just one leaf on the tree, I’m not the whole tree. We are all one.
Language fails in the new energy paradigm in which we now live. The word “I” doesn’t work anymore if “we” are all one, nor does the word “You”. Some people use the phrase “he is my other self”. That’s too bulky for me to wrap my tongue around so I’ll stick with “we” for a while.
We can do together what I can’t do alone. “We” is inclusive and brings us all together. “I” fosters isolation and disconnection.

I so love the gift I was given when a dear elder friend told me I needed to find a teacher because my hands were open for healing energy. I experienced being in a waking coma from Encephalitis and Meningitis in 1989. Most adults don’t survive those two diseases together and if they do, they are usually severely brain and neurologically impaired or so I’ve been told. Few live autonomous lives. I had to learn to walk, talk, read, write, all that again. I bought children’s primer books to learn to write. A good friend took me to a class on Calligraphy because it had big letters and the method of creating them was slow and deliberate.

Now people sometimes ask me to teach about energy, the use of the pendulum in everyday life, the healing energy of color, sound and stones. Everything is alive. The rebar used to reinforce buildings is alive. Wood, plastic, cotton, trees, and your coffee or tea cup are all alive. They are constantly moving. When someone breaks a brick with their hand, they are aligning the energy of their hand to that of the brick so as to let their hand pass through the brick and break it in two.

There is much in our world we have been seeing, waking up to knowing and are coming to know or believe that has to do with things we couldn’t see, hear, or touch before. More people are telepathic, clairvoyant, clairaudient, clairsentient, psychic, intuitive and just plain understand of things they otherwise have no way of knowing.

There’s that Knowing Field again. The Polymorphic Field which held the perfect energy signature of the T-rex before it came into existence on this earth. This field also held the energetic signature for everything that has come to exist in our world, for everything that is yet to exist in our world. Or is it that it all exists at the same time we just don’t see it, isolate it – whatever “it“ is – from the other things we do perceive.

That’s the story of my Mayan vacation.