July 30 - August 5
We are headed into the peak of heat the next few weeks in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly here in North America. Something just struck me as I wrote the previous sentence. Wouldn’t it be great if we started to refer to ourselves as continents and not countries and governments? That’s off the topic I was headed into, just a passing thought and one of many, lol.
Where I was headed was this idea…why not use the seasons or the weather of the moment (seeing as how the seasons seem to be quite confused at times) to aid your goals and thinking. Why not use the heat of the summer to grow and give energy to your ideas and to burn off the ones that are no longer needed or out dated?
The Element of Fire
In the body, heat is seen as combustion, it is what the digestion process in action creates. It becomes fuel for the body so make sure you eat peacefully and consciously so the fire can burn brightly and effectively. Light and heat can purify and give you energy to keep moving and growing. See the Sun feeding you and your body. Fire is the spark of life that is in each one of us and it manifests in the body as metabolism.
Developing a relationship with the elements is beneficial to understanding your own body and its needs. Fire is symbolic of the divine force used to create. Your relationship with fire can tell you much about your development in the ability to create your own life. If you have a slow metabolism you may want to begin studying the element of fire to assist with shifting it into higher gear. If you have no passion or are not passionate about any subject or idea then introduce a study of fire to ignite drive and will.
Look to the remaining portion of summer as a time to build energy, to gather the potential of fire to be put to use throughout the rest of the next year and to fill the mind with light. Fire illuminates so that our thoughts can be found.
If you are a fellow blogger I will put a link at the bottom of any article you respond to from your blog. That means links for you and an incentive to write more posts for your own blog, so get busy! And if you think to, a mention of my post and blog is appreciated. Let me know when your post is up by leaving a comment.
Tips & Tools To Get Timing Right - Part 3
This is a 4 part series on tips and tools to get your creative timing on its most advantageous track.
Creative timing often requires the ability to allow things to play out. If you jump the second you see something you don’t want to deal with in the unfolding process you defeat the whole purpose behind creative thinking.
Tip # 2
Wait 30 days for a scenario to unfold.
I often have to back my clients away from the idea that if one tarot reading is helpful then one every day or every week is even better. This generally is not the case* and so I ask my clients to wait 30 days to let things play out and fall into place.
How To Use This
You can apply this to just about any situation that has the following characteristics.
A large number of outcomes possible
Many players involved
A promise from someone
Lots of layers
Involves information that needs to be sorted through
Involves information unfamiliar to you
I also find this useful in everyday living, especially if I am having a physical response to something. The physical response can be fear, a crying jag, or anger. It also works well if you are just plain confused about something and need time.
How To Use Your Time
Ask questions from experts for clarification
Allow your dream state to help answer questions by asking them before you fall asleep and listening to what comes to mind the next morning when you wake.
Spend some time before you fall asleep moving backward through the previous day and catalog in your mind how you felt.
Don’t take anything personally (tougher to do than it sounds)
Remember, creative thinking and timing has everything to do with listening to internal responses. It just can’t be rushed. So the next time you feel a little manic about a relationship situation and feel the need to “mess” with it in a way that is destructive, step back and let it unfold.
Part 4 deals with 90-day wonders and how we can reveal ourselves and others motives.
*Occasionally this works for people who are incremental thinkers, but then that’s a whole other post…
Here's a link to:
Part 1 - Timing Is Everything, Tips & Tools To Get Timing Right
Part 2 - The 3-Day Rule
Part 4 - The 90-Day Rule
Creative timing often requires the ability to allow things to play out. If you jump the second you see something you don’t want to deal with in the unfolding process you defeat the whole purpose behind creative thinking.
Tip # 2
Wait 30 days for a scenario to unfold.
I often have to back my clients away from the idea that if one tarot reading is helpful then one every day or every week is even better. This generally is not the case* and so I ask my clients to wait 30 days to let things play out and fall into place.
How To Use This
You can apply this to just about any situation that has the following characteristics.
I also find this useful in everyday living, especially if I am having a physical response to something. The physical response can be fear, a crying jag, or anger. It also works well if you are just plain confused about something and need time.
How To Use Your Time
Remember, creative thinking and timing has everything to do with listening to internal responses. It just can’t be rushed. So the next time you feel a little manic about a relationship situation and feel the need to “mess” with it in a way that is destructive, step back and let it unfold.
Part 4 deals with 90-day wonders and how we can reveal ourselves and others motives.
*Occasionally this works for people who are incremental thinkers, but then that’s a whole other post…
Here's a link to:
Part 1 - Timing Is Everything, Tips & Tools To Get Timing Right
Part 2 - The 3-Day Rule
Part 4 - The 90-Day Rule
Shamanism, Words and Power - Weekly Tarot Horoscopes
July 23 - July 29
Normally I use Sundays to write about the actual horoscopes of the week, the prominent cards and the things we need to be looking for. But today is different...I have struggled with bad links, log-ins that aren't working and a very slow internet connection...and so I decided to tell you about a great interview I heard yesterday morning as there is a time limitation to hear it for free.
New Dimensions Radio has an enlightening interview with Sandra Ingerman that you can listen to for free until July 30. You will need to register with New Dimensions, it’s free to signup, in order to hear it. You can purchase the audio for $1.99 after the free listening period is over. Not a bad price for great information.
Originally from Brooklyn and now local to New Mexico, Ingerman is working with Shamanism, the spoken word and the creating we do as we speak. She delves into the unseen effects of our thoughts and our words and working with our perceptions. Wonderful information and very useable for anyone, anywhere. She gives several techniques to use during this interview.
For a complete list of Sandra’s books and to read more about Sandra Ingerman here.
Sandra’s books are perfect for a growing library.
Normally I use Sundays to write about the actual horoscopes of the week, the prominent cards and the things we need to be looking for. But today is different...I have struggled with bad links, log-ins that aren't working and a very slow internet connection...and so I decided to tell you about a great interview I heard yesterday morning as there is a time limitation to hear it for free.
New Dimensions Radio has an enlightening interview with Sandra Ingerman that you can listen to for free until July 30. You will need to register with New Dimensions, it’s free to signup, in order to hear it. You can purchase the audio for $1.99 after the free listening period is over. Not a bad price for great information.
Originally from Brooklyn and now local to New Mexico, Ingerman is working with Shamanism, the spoken word and the creating we do as we speak. She delves into the unseen effects of our thoughts and our words and working with our perceptions. Wonderful information and very useable for anyone, anywhere. She gives several techniques to use during this interview.
For a complete list of Sandra’s books and to read more about Sandra Ingerman here.
Sandra’s books are perfect for a growing library.
Tips & Tools To Get Timing Right - Part 2
This is a 4 part series on tips and tools to get your creative timing on its most advantageous track.
Here we are at part 2 of this 4 part series. In part one we discussed the differences between competitive thinking and creative thinking. The reason I began the series with this information is because these tips are for creative thinkers. A competitive thinker isn’t going to be able to use these tips in most cases if at all. These timing tips require the "feeling" side of thinking and the time frame needed to let the next move float to the top and be recognized. Remember creative timing has its own rhythm. This rhythm cannot be timed the same way you would your daily walk or workout.
Timing Tip #1
I call this the “3-day” rule and I first discovered it when a friend of mine revealed she used this one to stay on top of her manipulative spouse. See, he was a competitive thinker and he could get way out of control especially with money and credit cards. His main ammo was “Gotta have it now before the sale price ends” but he also liked using “I can’t complete this project without it.” And his favorite items were electronics (especially computers), software, gadgets and top of the line bar-b-que grills.
When To Use It
Use the 3-day rule when an immediate answer is demanded (demanding is never a good sign if you are a reasonable person and the other person knows this) and always when something doesn’t feel right to you. Simply say that you need some time to give a response and that you will give them an answer in 3 days time. Back them off with a time and date if you must, usually a response of “by the end of the day on Thursday” will do it.
Now I don’t suggest using this with your boss or when creditors call or the police or court system knock at your door or you get stopped at the airport because you have an oversized bottle of shampoo in your carry-on luggage. It is probably best to comply immediately in most of those cases.
What To Do With It
Now that you have a span of time to use, here is what to do with it:
1. Start a dialog with your self and identify the pros and cons of the answers you might give.
2. Allow yourself to agree and disagree with each pro and each con.
3. See how you respond and how the answers feel by living with each for a half day or so and decide which ones you can hang your hat on.
4. Allow the answer to come forward and make your final decision after 3 days.
When I do this I have a tendency to talk to myself quite a bit and work through it off and on during the course of the day and evening. I try to stop before bedtime as I find that upon waking the next morning I usually have some level of clarity that I didn’t the night before and I know it is good information because I have had good rest. If I don’t decide to give it up before falling asleep then I stay awake for hours and that just makes me tired and indecisive. Try reading a book or listening to music to distract your thinking before sleep.
Challenges You Will Face
I find that certain aspects of my life are useful in making decisions and certain things that need to be dealt with will rise as well. Here is a list, in no particular order, of what may need further examination when using the 3 day rule.
1. Your priorities.
2. Your self-esteem.
3. Your relationships.
4. Your goals.
5. Your personal issues.
6. Your life purpose.
I guarantee that you will change your mind a dozen times in the course of 3 days. You may not even have an answer until the last possible moment. That is not necessarily a bad thing. Creative living and thinking incorporate trust and faith in your abilities and your responses. There is a knowing about what is right for you and your family and what is not that comes out of all of this. Yes, you will get better at this with practice.
The Magic Is In The Results
The up side of using this method is that you have time to identify how you really feel. We think we know how we feel all of the time, but we really don’t. How often have you said, “I should have responded with … instead of … ?” or you just plain wish you hadn’t agreed or disagreed the way you had.
Using this method you should have a much better idea of what to say to express yourself in a clear manner - often that is all that is needed in order to be better understood.
But the biggest and best benefit of using this timing rule? I find the problem begins to resolve itself by talking it out over the 3 days. More times than I can recall the answer simply is not needed after all the mental work is done or the person you are responding to completely agrees with you.
In Part 3 we will extend the time frame of creative timing to the 30 day rule.
Here's a link to:
Part 1 - Timing Is Everything, Tips & Tools To Get Timing Right
Part 3 - The 30-Day Rule
Part 4 - The 90-Day Rule
Here we are at part 2 of this 4 part series. In part one we discussed the differences between competitive thinking and creative thinking. The reason I began the series with this information is because these tips are for creative thinkers. A competitive thinker isn’t going to be able to use these tips in most cases if at all. These timing tips require the "feeling" side of thinking and the time frame needed to let the next move float to the top and be recognized. Remember creative timing has its own rhythm. This rhythm cannot be timed the same way you would your daily walk or workout.
Timing Tip #1
I call this the “3-day” rule and I first discovered it when a friend of mine revealed she used this one to stay on top of her manipulative spouse. See, he was a competitive thinker and he could get way out of control especially with money and credit cards. His main ammo was “Gotta have it now before the sale price ends” but he also liked using “I can’t complete this project without it.” And his favorite items were electronics (especially computers), software, gadgets and top of the line bar-b-que grills.
When To Use It
Use the 3-day rule when an immediate answer is demanded (demanding is never a good sign if you are a reasonable person and the other person knows this) and always when something doesn’t feel right to you. Simply say that you need some time to give a response and that you will give them an answer in 3 days time. Back them off with a time and date if you must, usually a response of “by the end of the day on Thursday” will do it.
Now I don’t suggest using this with your boss or when creditors call or the police or court system knock at your door or you get stopped at the airport because you have an oversized bottle of shampoo in your carry-on luggage. It is probably best to comply immediately in most of those cases.
What To Do With It
Now that you have a span of time to use, here is what to do with it:
1. Start a dialog with your self and identify the pros and cons of the answers you might give.
2. Allow yourself to agree and disagree with each pro and each con.
3. See how you respond and how the answers feel by living with each for a half day or so and decide which ones you can hang your hat on.
4. Allow the answer to come forward and make your final decision after 3 days.
When I do this I have a tendency to talk to myself quite a bit and work through it off and on during the course of the day and evening. I try to stop before bedtime as I find that upon waking the next morning I usually have some level of clarity that I didn’t the night before and I know it is good information because I have had good rest. If I don’t decide to give it up before falling asleep then I stay awake for hours and that just makes me tired and indecisive. Try reading a book or listening to music to distract your thinking before sleep.
Challenges You Will Face
I find that certain aspects of my life are useful in making decisions and certain things that need to be dealt with will rise as well. Here is a list, in no particular order, of what may need further examination when using the 3 day rule.
1. Your priorities.
2. Your self-esteem.
3. Your relationships.
4. Your goals.
5. Your personal issues.
6. Your life purpose.
I guarantee that you will change your mind a dozen times in the course of 3 days. You may not even have an answer until the last possible moment. That is not necessarily a bad thing. Creative living and thinking incorporate trust and faith in your abilities and your responses. There is a knowing about what is right for you and your family and what is not that comes out of all of this. Yes, you will get better at this with practice.
The Magic Is In The Results
The up side of using this method is that you have time to identify how you really feel. We think we know how we feel all of the time, but we really don’t. How often have you said, “I should have responded with … instead of … ?” or you just plain wish you hadn’t agreed or disagreed the way you had.
Using this method you should have a much better idea of what to say to express yourself in a clear manner - often that is all that is needed in order to be better understood.
But the biggest and best benefit of using this timing rule? I find the problem begins to resolve itself by talking it out over the 3 days. More times than I can recall the answer simply is not needed after all the mental work is done or the person you are responding to completely agrees with you.
In Part 3 we will extend the time frame of creative timing to the 30 day rule.
Here's a link to:
Part 1 - Timing Is Everything, Tips & Tools To Get Timing Right
Part 3 - The 30-Day Rule
Part 4 - The 90-Day Rule
Fast Linking - Hatshepsut, Egypt, and Toddlers
Just a couple of fastlinks for you:
Why did it take so long to figure this one out? Photo Books are Better for Toddlers Than Illustrated Books and seeing it for real is even better! This information ties into the idea that the images we see and build for ourselves do have meaning in the long run.
Egypt’s Lost Queen, a documentary on the discovery of the mummy of Hatshepsut the only female pharaoh, at least as far as we know, is definitely worth at least 1 viewing. It is 2 hours long and you do have to put up with Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, who thinks he’s Geraldo Rivera. If you can get past the posturing on his part it makes for a nice evening of intrigue. I watched it with a friend who met Hawass and has been in the Cairo Museum. His response to the seeming disarray of the Museum, its objects, and its staff was priceless. He said it is just as confusing and mind boggling as it looks. I asked if the place was well air conditioned and cool inside and he said the only place with a proper cold temperature is the mummy room. And you will notice that not all the mummy’s in the museum are kept in the mummy room. Some are in boxes and in glass cases that don’t seemed to be sealed in anyway. Yikes! It’s a wonder that they even had DNA evidence to make this discovery.
Links to previous FastLinks
Things That Intrigue Me
Stonehenge, Tarot Mysteries, & Creating Your Future
Why did it take so long to figure this one out? Photo Books are Better for Toddlers Than Illustrated Books and seeing it for real is even better! This information ties into the idea that the images we see and build for ourselves do have meaning in the long run.
Egypt’s Lost Queen, a documentary on the discovery of the mummy of Hatshepsut the only female pharaoh, at least as far as we know, is definitely worth at least 1 viewing. It is 2 hours long and you do have to put up with Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, who thinks he’s Geraldo Rivera. If you can get past the posturing on his part it makes for a nice evening of intrigue. I watched it with a friend who met Hawass and has been in the Cairo Museum. His response to the seeming disarray of the Museum, its objects, and its staff was priceless. He said it is just as confusing and mind boggling as it looks. I asked if the place was well air conditioned and cool inside and he said the only place with a proper cold temperature is the mummy room. And you will notice that not all the mummy’s in the museum are kept in the mummy room. Some are in boxes and in glass cases that don’t seemed to be sealed in anyway. Yikes! It’s a wonder that they even had DNA evidence to make this discovery.
Links to previous FastLinks
Things That Intrigue Me
Stonehenge, Tarot Mysteries, & Creating Your Future
48 Hour Film Project, A Perfect Example of Timing and Weekly Tarot Horoscopes
July 16 - July 22
The topic of timing must have been imbedded in my thinking this week (see previous post.) Here’s how it played out for me.
My summer Saturday mornings are spent at the Downtown Grower’s Market here in Albuquerque. I love these mornings and all the activity they bring along with some great people asking for readings. But this particular Saturday was a surprise for me or maybe it was just the timing. As I was attempting to take down my signs and pack up my table and chairs to head home, I was asked by a film crew to be in a scene they were filming. Albuquerque has several film competitions, not to mention poetry slams and lots of local theaters and arts events.
This week the 48-Hour Film project started their weekend competition off with a film boot camp and then sent their teams out into the field to start filming. They have 48 hours to film and edit a short movie (4 to 7 minutes).
Now think about this for a moment, they receive a topic and a time frame, that’s it. The crew has to link up mentally about the goal (the topic) and begin taking action, lots of action, allowing the topic to develop and the things they need to appear for them. Well, there I was, “the fortune teller” a title I detest but I went with it. It was "timing" afterall and I saw the beauty of it. In 15-20 minutes the scene, at least my part in it, was mapped out, walked through and filmed from every angle so they had enough to work with in the editing room. Then off they went to search for the next scene.
What a great way to face the world, armed with an idea and a goal and the guts to take action. First viewing is Tuesday night. I’ll let ya know how they did and if I ended up on the cutting room floor!
If you are a fellow blogger I will put a link at the bottom of any article you respond to from your blog. That means links for you and an incentive to write more posts for your own blog, so get busy! And if you think to, a mention of my post and blog is appreciated. Let me know when your post is up by leaving a comment.
The topic of timing must have been imbedded in my thinking this week (see previous post.) Here’s how it played out for me.
My summer Saturday mornings are spent at the Downtown Grower’s Market here in Albuquerque. I love these mornings and all the activity they bring along with some great people asking for readings. But this particular Saturday was a surprise for me or maybe it was just the timing. As I was attempting to take down my signs and pack up my table and chairs to head home, I was asked by a film crew to be in a scene they were filming. Albuquerque has several film competitions, not to mention poetry slams and lots of local theaters and arts events.
This week the 48-Hour Film project started their weekend competition off with a film boot camp and then sent their teams out into the field to start filming. They have 48 hours to film and edit a short movie (4 to 7 minutes).
Now think about this for a moment, they receive a topic and a time frame, that’s it. The crew has to link up mentally about the goal (the topic) and begin taking action, lots of action, allowing the topic to develop and the things they need to appear for them. Well, there I was, “the fortune teller” a title I detest but I went with it. It was "timing" afterall and I saw the beauty of it. In 15-20 minutes the scene, at least my part in it, was mapped out, walked through and filmed from every angle so they had enough to work with in the editing room. Then off they went to search for the next scene.
What a great way to face the world, armed with an idea and a goal and the guts to take action. First viewing is Tuesday night. I’ll let ya know how they did and if I ended up on the cutting room floor!
If you are a fellow blogger I will put a link at the bottom of any article you respond to from your blog. That means links for you and an incentive to write more posts for your own blog, so get busy! And if you think to, a mention of my post and blog is appreciated. Let me know when your post is up by leaving a comment.
Timing Is Everything - Tips & Tools To Get Timing Right
This is a 4 part series on tips and tools to get your creative timing on its most advantageous track.
In part 1, we start with some ideas about the differences between competitive thinking and creative thinking and will follow up with three posts (parts 2, 3, and 4), each on a different creative timing rule that I have personally followed over the years and highly recommend to my clients.
I came to write this series because of what I was hearing from clients, many of whom tend toward panic and indecision. It occurred to me that they were responding to life with competitive thinking when creative thinking would work better for them.
Creative versus Creative
Creative thinkers and creative people can be 2 different animals. We have all heard or read about artists and creative people in general who have a lot of talent but no business sense. And business people who are great organizers and directors but couldn’t put a crayon to paper to draw a map or organize their thoughts to create a brochure. Then there are those who can do both and amaze all of us.
Creative thinkers don’t have to be able to draw, paint, write novels or make music. The business world or the arts can have creative thinkers as it has nothing to do with a physical end product so much as it is about thought.
Competing versus Competitive
Competing does not have to be competitive. Competing should be a way of gauging what you are good at and where you might need improvement and should not be imprinted as a win or lose situation. It should be challenging. Thinking competitively sets competitive thinkers up for a win or lose lifestyle and it should set up creative thinkers for gauging where and when changes may need to happen. Thinking comeptitively reinforces the ideas of not being enough, not being good enough, of not having enough, of having nothing to show for your hard work.
Competitive thinking reinforces the need to build a lifestyle at the ignorance or missteps of others and doing so intentionally. Timing in this scenario is about hostile takeovers and not about the flow of living. There are always people on the top and people on the bottom or people on their way in either direction. Here the purpose is always to gain something over others.
Can you be creative and competitive at the same time? I don’t believe that you can because one negates the other. You can have flashes of each but not at the same time, which is where many of us find ourselves existing.
Creative Timing
In the creative process you visualize what you want and allow it to manifest under its own movement while taking action toward the goal. Creative thinking requires the inclusion of the flow of life, which means the result and process will be advantageous to all those involved, whether they are clients, vendors or the creators.
Maybe you are creating a line of essential oils that will benefit the health of the consumer, or products that relieve pain in a safe manner, or paintings that enhance the power and energy of the viewer or the home they are placed in. You can take this farther – a builder may decide to purchase older properties that are filled with harmful products like asbestos or formaldehyde and rebuild them to be “green” buildings. This is completely different than a company who decides to sell vitamins and to market them as something that they are not. Or selling a vehicle that is not what it is presented as being or any product that is poorly made just to turn a buck – this is competitive thinking.
Creative thinkers look for benefits for everyone and compete. Competitive thinkers look for the benefits for themselves only. Can you see how the timing might be different for each group? One flows on its own and the other embodies fear – I can't trust life because there is never enough so I better grab what I can, now.
Part 2 - The 3-Day Rule
Part 3 - The 30-Day Rule
Part 4 - The 90-Day Rule
In part 1, we start with some ideas about the differences between competitive thinking and creative thinking and will follow up with three posts (parts 2, 3, and 4), each on a different creative timing rule that I have personally followed over the years and highly recommend to my clients.
I came to write this series because of what I was hearing from clients, many of whom tend toward panic and indecision. It occurred to me that they were responding to life with competitive thinking when creative thinking would work better for them.
Creative versus Creative
Creative thinkers and creative people can be 2 different animals. We have all heard or read about artists and creative people in general who have a lot of talent but no business sense. And business people who are great organizers and directors but couldn’t put a crayon to paper to draw a map or organize their thoughts to create a brochure. Then there are those who can do both and amaze all of us.
Creative thinkers don’t have to be able to draw, paint, write novels or make music. The business world or the arts can have creative thinkers as it has nothing to do with a physical end product so much as it is about thought.
Competing versus Competitive
Competing does not have to be competitive. Competing should be a way of gauging what you are good at and where you might need improvement and should not be imprinted as a win or lose situation. It should be challenging. Thinking competitively sets competitive thinkers up for a win or lose lifestyle and it should set up creative thinkers for gauging where and when changes may need to happen. Thinking comeptitively reinforces the ideas of not being enough, not being good enough, of not having enough, of having nothing to show for your hard work.
Competitive thinking reinforces the need to build a lifestyle at the ignorance or missteps of others and doing so intentionally. Timing in this scenario is about hostile takeovers and not about the flow of living. There are always people on the top and people on the bottom or people on their way in either direction. Here the purpose is always to gain something over others.
Can you be creative and competitive at the same time? I don’t believe that you can because one negates the other. You can have flashes of each but not at the same time, which is where many of us find ourselves existing.
Creative Timing
In the creative process you visualize what you want and allow it to manifest under its own movement while taking action toward the goal. Creative thinking requires the inclusion of the flow of life, which means the result and process will be advantageous to all those involved, whether they are clients, vendors or the creators.
Maybe you are creating a line of essential oils that will benefit the health of the consumer, or products that relieve pain in a safe manner, or paintings that enhance the power and energy of the viewer or the home they are placed in. You can take this farther – a builder may decide to purchase older properties that are filled with harmful products like asbestos or formaldehyde and rebuild them to be “green” buildings. This is completely different than a company who decides to sell vitamins and to market them as something that they are not. Or selling a vehicle that is not what it is presented as being or any product that is poorly made just to turn a buck – this is competitive thinking.
Creative thinkers look for benefits for everyone and compete. Competitive thinkers look for the benefits for themselves only. Can you see how the timing might be different for each group? One flows on its own and the other embodies fear – I can't trust life because there is never enough so I better grab what I can, now.
Part 2 - The 3-Day Rule
Part 3 - The 30-Day Rule
Part 4 - The 90-Day Rule
Expectation Kills Momentum - Weekly Tarot Horoscopes
Juy 9 - July 15
If you have access to the Internet, which you obviously do or you wouldn’t be reading this, you have access to worlds of possibility. The claim that you can’t or couldn’t or don’t know how really shine forth as excuses when you are connected to the world through the Internet. How could it be that you can’t when you are? How could it be that you don’t know how when you have access to information and experts that can teach you how?
Does it mean you can go on the way you have been? No, it does not. It means you change your patterns. Is it easy? Not necessarily. You must be diligent and watch your levels of expectation as you make these changes.
Knowing and expecting are two different things in this instance. If you expect something to happen by a certain date you may be setting yourself up for failure. If you know that the change is happening as you read this and will line up at the most appropriate time then you are removing the prospect of expectation and hence panic – you are being “it” or becoming “it.” You are also removing the need or habit of control and this is a good thing to let go of.
Skills and the sharpening of ability don’t happen without effort; they don’t just magically appear intact and in action. Taking a moment to assess what skills you might need to fulfill your goals and dreams and then finding a way to acquire those skills is part of taking action.
If you are living what you do not want then there is no need to dwell on it any longer as you know full well what you do not want. As you read your horoscopes this week remember to leave expectation behind and focus on being the best at the moment and attaining the skills needed to proceed. The rest will fall into place.
If you have access to the Internet, which you obviously do or you wouldn’t be reading this, you have access to worlds of possibility. The claim that you can’t or couldn’t or don’t know how really shine forth as excuses when you are connected to the world through the Internet. How could it be that you can’t when you are? How could it be that you don’t know how when you have access to information and experts that can teach you how?
Does it mean you can go on the way you have been? No, it does not. It means you change your patterns. Is it easy? Not necessarily. You must be diligent and watch your levels of expectation as you make these changes.
Knowing and expecting are two different things in this instance. If you expect something to happen by a certain date you may be setting yourself up for failure. If you know that the change is happening as you read this and will line up at the most appropriate time then you are removing the prospect of expectation and hence panic – you are being “it” or becoming “it.” You are also removing the need or habit of control and this is a good thing to let go of.
Skills and the sharpening of ability don’t happen without effort; they don’t just magically appear intact and in action. Taking a moment to assess what skills you might need to fulfill your goals and dreams and then finding a way to acquire those skills is part of taking action.
If you are living what you do not want then there is no need to dwell on it any longer as you know full well what you do not want. As you read your horoscopes this week remember to leave expectation behind and focus on being the best at the moment and attaining the skills needed to proceed. The rest will fall into place.
Fast Linking - Angels, Paul Simon, & Habits of Speech
Great and rare interview with Paul Simon on Charlie Rose last week. Simon is the first recipient of the Library of Congress's annual Gershwin Prize for Popular Song award. I was particularly drawn to the second half of the interview when Simon spoke of "getting plugged into the big force" and being grateful for the moments of connectedness. He also talks about his approach to creativity and the cycles he works within.
A search on "habits of speech" resulted in an article on Language: The Key that Opens or Closes that Important Door. The article outlines habits of speech that serve "to deflect the power or clarity of our communication." Worth reading if you are working with changing your thinking and working toward manifesting through thought. Speech patterns refelct thinking.
The search also helped me find this link about morphogenetic fields. I was intrigued by the final paragraph that stated "Accepting the idea of morphogenetic fields also opens the door to the scientific investigation of the idea that consciousness and mental processes can function without physical support. This would allow the existence of non- physical beings (gods, angels, life after death, etc.) - a subject of prime interest to most religious and spiritual traditions." I believe this paragraph is attributed to astrophysicist and founder of the Context Institute, Robert Gilman.
Here are more fast links:
Things That Intrigue Me
Stonehenge, Tarot Mysteries, & Creating Your Future
A search on "habits of speech" resulted in an article on Language: The Key that Opens or Closes that Important Door. The article outlines habits of speech that serve "to deflect the power or clarity of our communication." Worth reading if you are working with changing your thinking and working toward manifesting through thought. Speech patterns refelct thinking.
The search also helped me find this link about morphogenetic fields. I was intrigued by the final paragraph that stated "Accepting the idea of morphogenetic fields also opens the door to the scientific investigation of the idea that consciousness and mental processes can function without physical support. This would allow the existence of non- physical beings (gods, angels, life after death, etc.) - a subject of prime interest to most religious and spiritual traditions." I believe this paragraph is attributed to astrophysicist and founder of the Context Institute, Robert Gilman.
Here are more fast links:
Things That Intrigue Me
Stonehenge, Tarot Mysteries, & Creating Your Future
Give Up? Are You Kidding? - Weekly Tarot Horoscopes
Juy 2 - July 8
Lots of strong feelings this week cause many of us to want to throw in the towel. Don’t. Don’t hand over your power to someone else just to placate the invaders. Do, however, measure carefully what you want to gain and what needs to drop away. Walk into any fray knowing what you want to gain from it. Formulate a direction before so that you have a foundation to act from. If you walk in with greed on the brain then you are missing the point.
It is those of use that have no foundation or a faulty foundation (premise can be substituted for the word foundation) that get knocked to the bottom. Giving yourself a point to work from means having a way to make clear and advantageous decisions – it gives you a place to refer the decisions to and the ability to ask, “Does it serve my purpose?” before saying yea or nay. The universe has an uncanny ability to match your needs to the right opportunity. Know this and live it.
Living is not a competition but if you choose to live your life in a competitive manner then someone wins and someone loses. Believing this is truth puts you into cycles of worry, concern, judging, and waves of superiority and inferiority. When did any of that get us where we need to go?
Education is the key.
Lots of strong feelings this week cause many of us to want to throw in the towel. Don’t. Don’t hand over your power to someone else just to placate the invaders. Do, however, measure carefully what you want to gain and what needs to drop away. Walk into any fray knowing what you want to gain from it. Formulate a direction before so that you have a foundation to act from. If you walk in with greed on the brain then you are missing the point.
It is those of use that have no foundation or a faulty foundation (premise can be substituted for the word foundation) that get knocked to the bottom. Giving yourself a point to work from means having a way to make clear and advantageous decisions – it gives you a place to refer the decisions to and the ability to ask, “Does it serve my purpose?” before saying yea or nay. The universe has an uncanny ability to match your needs to the right opportunity. Know this and live it.
Living is not a competition but if you choose to live your life in a competitive manner then someone wins and someone loses. Believing this is truth puts you into cycles of worry, concern, judging, and waves of superiority and inferiority. When did any of that get us where we need to go?
Education is the key.
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