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Here we are at the beginning of a new week and I wanted to acknowledge the change I am about to make in my readings.

NEW FORMAT
Here's the deal...everyone needs to begin thinking of themselves as part of the whole and not an astrological sign. If your identity is tied to an astrology sign you need to make a personal shift and drop that identity. The astrology horoscope concept is losing its ability to inform and requires us to re-merge with the whole. Instead, I will be writing toward the community.

I will be checking planetary, astrological and tarot to write a weekly planning guide for you.


Happy Easter and a big, formal welcome to Spring and all her beautiful aspects.

HOME

Downsizing and clearing clutter are topics we all need to address in the next month. If you don't take these matters into your own hands, the energy the objects hold in their existing pattern will draw what it projects and you won't get your say in the process. Better to take it on yourself and use the energy to propel you toward something you truly want.

Realize as you are tackling this project that you are moving things around inside your own world. Choose carefully what it is you want to change and release it by giving away your things or giving them a new life of some kind. Yes, throwing things away is just fine and so is re-purposing within the home. However, a completely clean start will require giving the item away. I suggest Goodwill because they give people jobs and they also recycle much of what is given them when they determine they cannot sell it.

Trust your intuition and responses and don't second guess yourself. In other words, don't chase the garbage truck down the street to recover something, just let it go.

WORK

We are in a period of integration and transition as a society. There is far more that needs to come down regarding our government and the momentum will be building for that in the coming weeks. This may mean more jobs disappearing and require each of us to re-evaluate what it is we think we are suppose to be doing.

Even when we are fully employed and paid well, we must keep our eyes open and our hearts connected to what we are delivering at the end of the day or week. The summer is building to be fast and furious leaving many workers and companies devastated and others winning easily. No one is getting something better than the other, really. There is always something waiting to fill in the open space. Remember this when faced with a pink slip or a rough week. You must keep your eye on the ideas of “curiosity and miracles.” Be curious. Expect miracles.”

If you can learn to clap and say “Oh goodie! Something great is coming.” every time something appears to go wrong you will be far ahead of everyone else. Could it be that easy? Yes, it is. The tough part is keeping your crazy monkey mind under control and away from defeating thoughts and behavior.

FINANCES

Buy local. Go through every item you purchase weekly and figure out a way to buy it locally. Not through a local company that ships it in to your town or area, NO. Find some one who makes it locally. It may take a while for some items to manifest and there will be things you will need to give up or only purchase occasionally – like sushi in the desert or New Mexican green chile in Vermont.

You need to begin living locally but not giving up a national or international mentality. Some time toward the end of the summer we are going to see food shortages. Best get your ducks in a row now.

HERE IS WHAT TO PRACTICE

Look for the connection you have with each person you come across during your day. Your opinion of their beliefs, the way they dress or the things they say need to be put aside. Find where you do connect—they are mothers, fathers, daughters, brothers, sisters, sons...people who walk, bike, run, play sports, dance...get the idea? So the person ringing the cash register doesn't look like you and your immediate response is to back off but wait you hear them talking about sewing and you sew or you heard them talking about sports and they like the same team you like...get it?

Change Is A Good Thing - Weekly Tarot Horoscopes

August 20 - August 26

Friend or Foe
Change is good. New shoes, groceries and gas for the car are good too. Watching a Netflix movie is good. Keeping the bathroom and the kitchen clean is good too. Did I mention that change is good? Finding a new place for Saturday lunch is good. Getting a pay increase is even better. Receiving a pay cut may mean it is time to change jobs and change our thinking and make things better for ourselves. So why do we think change is bad? Why does everyone have such a problem with change?

Do we think we need to gain something in order for change to be good? Do we fear death and so any change that occurs is an indication that death is imminent, that things might not be as they appear? Do we perceive that no gain for us means change is detrimental in some way? Maybe change just means we haven’t been paying attention, like a friendly reminder that life works in cycles.

Question
I don’t have any answers this week, just questions about why change is such a block for us. And this thought: Change is only bad if you think of it that way, even in the worst of circumstances.

I’ve spent the last week in training mode, learning new things about my job and discovering my connections to a whole new generation of people and new friends. I’ve had several readings for others that stumped me and accusations that astounded me. All of it has got me thinking a lot about change. Oh yes, and it probably has something to do with studying in depth a card that often causes people to shudder when it shows up in a reading.

Making New Images
Change/Transformation requires our self-conscious to adjust and/or make new images and image making is a strange bedfellow. It does not begin with seeing with the eyes so much as with seeing internally. It is fed by sound, smell, taste, touch and knowing. Then it is fed by actual sight, if you are blessed with that gift. It has more to do with needs and feelings and desire than it has with objects and money and power. Image making has everything to do with change because in order to achieve those images we must be willing to aggressively make and accept change in our lives.

So if you don’t like change you can give me yours. I like quarters and half-dollars the best.