The numbers game

In the past 30 days, I have found myself increasingly more aware and trustful of the intuition. Many situations have arisen in which I made predictions. All of them having to do with dates, numbers, or financial figures. Every week [at least twice during] this has happened. I guessed the amount of money acquired by the sale of a home, predicted and dated the birth of a child, the outcome of a phone call to customer service before the call was made, and various other oddities. None of these seem to be extraordinary. Honestly anyone with a keen sense of the world and how things work could easily come up with a similar guess right? Not at all. Not to the penny, point and accuracy of these predictions. I’m not saying I am a sylvia brown. She’s an incredibly aware soul and on an entirely different level. I am reaffirming to the universe that I am ever more so aware of what is happening around me, and building a higher sense of thankfulness, thoughtfulness and trust within the Divine. Did I also mention I predicted the amount of my girlfriends raise and bonus last Christmas? And that was to the PENNY as well. No coincidence here either. I’m just listening to the little voice inside.

I am going to have to do more research on this and try to find numeric divination affinity information if any and or why I would be so attuned to this. Then again, it may be just another splinter side effect of the path.

Namastae

I have a woodpecker

I was up early over the weekend, fighting a viral infection that has plagued me on and off for the better of two months now.  After the passing of a relative in mid February I have just been warn down.  I have been in this flat for the better of 6 months now and sat many a morning at this window.  And suddenly, there it was.  The unmistakable pecking right outside my window.  In the early morning all you hear are the birds.  Calling back and forth, having a great time before the humans get up and bunk up their day.  I looked but I couldn’t see him.

Woodpeckers forecast prophecy, magic power, and are a warning for rain.  I had three phoebe moments that weekend and wrote all of them down.  One on Friday, and dreams Saturday and Sunday night.  I believe it strange that people conveniently link the magic of the universe to suit their own lives.  What timing and coincidence no?    That was completely tongue and cheek.  You know better than that.  I cannot manipulate the universe to suit my own needs I can only ask, and be aware of the gifts as they are presented.  The bear and the woodpecker have become very important to me in the last year.

What are your animal totems?  Namastae

A shocking Monday

I have moved a lot in my life.  I am thankful today to admit I’m happy right where I am.  Being settled doesn’t mean I need my feet cemented in the ground.  It just means I’m content for now.  I have no doubt things will change in the next year or two but I’ll deal with them then.

After I moved into my flat, I realized that I had become somewhat of a soap pack rat.  After Christmas I found myself with a closet filled with fufu and shishi [girly] bottles of foamy flower smelling soaps.  I am not a pack rat by nature.  I’ve moved too much for this and couldn’t understand why I’d still had so much soap.  I ended up taking 4 bottles of it to work, and placing one bottle by each sink in the ladies bathroom.  The first time I did it, it was deliberate.  Everyone loved it.  A month later I found more soap.  I couldn’t understand why or WHERE all of this was coming from!?!  So I took the other bottles in as well.  About a week ago some stranger from across the hall [this is a huge building with about 1000 people working in it] walked into my office and said “Are you the woman putting that soap in the bathroom?”.  I said yes.  She then replied “everyone on that side of the floor just wanted to thank you”.  I laughed and said she was welcome lol.

This morning I walked into the ladies room and low and behold, there were four new bottles of scented soap, a bottle of hand lotion, a bottle of hair spray, and a few boxes of tea.   Pure kindness and an unknown gesture of paying it forward.  I hope that others continue the tradition and I will certainly throw my hat into the ring one or two more times.  Spreading anonymous joy and comfort is one of the benefits of being here.  I see and experience it every day [or at least I really try to notice!].

Namastae

Landing that new job

This is an exercise I use almost weekly to prompt the universe for the desired results.   Even though the weekly needs and wants change on a daily basis, you can perform this meditation within 60 seconds of your waking consciousness every morning.  It’s always best to do things when you awake, not before you rest.  Your mind and your body aren’t designed after a full day exposure to this life to focus.

The exercise to land that new job

Sit upright in your favorite area.  It can be anywhere, your chair at home, your couch, your bed, even the bathroom [no I'm not kidding anywhere you can get quiet time kids lol].  This exercise is modified depending on what stage you’re development is in.  The first part is for the people that have had their first interview and gotten the process started.  Visualize that hiring managers face.  Mainly directly at the top of their nose.  Then visualize your name in light blue letters literally drawn on their face.  Say your name over and over and over.  Aloud or in your mind.  The purpose of this exercise is to send your energies to that individual and make sure you are the first thing on their mind in the morning.  Try to make sure you’re not tired, or angry or aggravated about anything else.  All of what you project will be infused onto this person.

For people that have not started the process of finding that new position yet

Wake in the morning and sit quietly as instructed with the other exercise.  This time you will also have a paper and pen standing by.  Quiet your mind.  Write down 4 things you would like the universe to bring you.  It very simply starts with “I ask the universe today to bring me the opportunity of x job”.  You can phrase the other two sentences any way you wish.  You could write as much or as little as you wish.  When you are finished writing these lines [and be as SPECIFIC as you can] close your eyes and place your finger tips on each line.  Repeating it over and over to yourself.  When you’re through repeating it and asking the universe close your eyes in reflection, and say thank you.

Asking to win the lottery may be extreme, but I’ve honestly won many other things.  I need to remind you of a few other things as we go through our exercises.  If financial gain, working conditions, or working location is your own issue, then concentrate on that instead of spreading yourself thin.  Ask your hearts desire, and you just may get it.  Don’t be shy, the universe knows exactly who you are.

Namastae

Monthly workshop-a new day comes

I have decided to write exercises here for you once a month. These may include daily mantras or tools designed specifically to get us motivated and practice what we preach. They will be applicable to anyone and everyone based on average real life situations. They care not of your color, belief or societal status. They are a culmination of my learning throughout the years and have benefited me greatly.

Please remember this however. What works for me may not work for you. None of these are concrete in structure and you can change them as often or as little or not at all to suit your own personal needs. My first exercise will be a daily visualization to land that new job you want! I’m very excited to share this with you all and hope you stay tuned.

Namastae

p.s. My vacation has officially ended.  I just can’t keep my hands or myself away from a pc for more than 48 hours!  I blame Spring.  A welcome change is on it’s way kids.  Bring it on!

Transformations

Some of my clients have blogs. I read them all daily and enjoy every one of them. Even the ones I no longer give readings too. One of my clients in particular has made such a transformation it warrants mention. When I first started reading it I couldn’t understand anything she was trying to say. Disjointed, disgruntled and plain old pissed! It was dark in content and generally unhappy. She has taken it upon herself to return to school, lay off the sauce, go to yoga, and work on a reiki certification. The funk has almost been completely scrubbed from her blog now. And although the visuals of it may appear darker, the words are much softer and the human element has clawed it’s way to the light. She’s getting it! I am so proud of her. Even if she’s not proud of herself and her reality at any given moment sucks, I am so so proud Good job Nik, keep inspiring yourself and the rest that are able to enjoy watching you unfold into your own. You are so much stronger than you used to be. It feels good to be in control of your own skin doesn’t it? Namastae my friend.

Solitude with Deepak Chopra

I know it sounds like a breakfast cereal. But in circles of faith and wisdom he comes highly recommended. A few months ago in the bitter cold of January I started cleaning out my metaphysical closet. I was giving away books, crystals, and divination tools that I had held onto for years in hopes of following the tao te ching practices of releasing material wealth. Well, this completely opened up my life for new and better teaching materials. My aunt Lorraine gave me two large bags of reading materials, and this book was one of the items. It’s called “The Path to Love” by Deepak Chopra.

I have lost yet another family member within the past few months [this being the third, three years in a row now] and life once again in it’s cyclical fashion is just a bitch. I’m tired of the sadness and grief and burden that death brings to the remaining few of us left here to deal with aftermath. As a result of his passing I have come to the conclusion that mourning is a selfish act. It’s part of human make up, but unless a lesson is learned from it, it will repeat itself in a selfish manner and wear us down. I have chosen not to take that route this time, and I am truly thankful he is gone. No human should suffer with illness. No creature of God should suffer period, even if they deserve it, but that’s another blog in and of itself.

So I am finding myself at another crossroads as far as knowledge and teaching is concerned. This, coupled with past winter blues, and a brief but ever so influential scuffle on a tarot forum with judgmental negative ignorance [your basic board/forum no life post daily trolls] has left me in limbo.

I picked the book back up today and opened it to the page I had left off. This is what it said “Spirituality begins with a vision, but reality doesn’t fit that vision. The path is what brings them together. Most people who want to experience inner growth begin as Nina did, by reading the vast inspirational literature. They become discontented with the distance between their own lives and the enlightened existence they discover in their readings; they start to make a break [hence my vacation]. Yet after the break nothing seems to really change. The haunting insecurity and loneliness, the sense of confusion and conflict are still there. But instead of feeling let down by this “failure”, you need to realize that all spiritual work is done by yourself, with yourself, and for yourself. No one “out there” can take responsibility. It is alright to be aware of the distance between vision and reality, because that is what it feels like to be on the path. If you had no gaps to close, you wouldn’t need the path”.

Well isn’t that just a kick in the ass? I am enrolling myself into an intensive 9 month class for higher learning. Break time is over.

Namastae

This is worth writing about

I know I know I am on vacation I get it. But that doesn’t mean I stop reading world news. I may not watch it, but I read everything. This particular story is worth discussing. Mainly because a picture is worth a thousand words. The scientists and logical ones are all welcome to participate and negate everything they see touch smell taste and hear. Have at it! But THIS story about seeing Jesus in glass at a local Orlando Hospital is not uncommon.  People FEEL and see spiritual things throughout their entire lives.  This dimension is peppered with unexplained phenomena of good in the garden of evil.  Open your eyes for Christ sake!  It is EVERYWHERE.  Your guides, ghosts, energies, whatever you cannot explain.  Things beyond human present day explanation.  Things deep seated in our conscious histories.  It’s like connective tissue weaving the fabric of time.

It’s all about faith.  Faith in what?  Faith in the Divine.  Do you have it?  Do you use it?  Do you ever consciously THINK about it?  Change your reality.  Perception is everything.  WHAT do you perceive exists and gets you through the day?  Certainly not food water or basic physical needs.  Faith ya’ll, just faith.

Namastae

I am officially on vacation!

I am taking a 30 day sabbatical from readings and work.   This will be my last post for about a month guys.  Keep your head above water and remember to be thankful for the little things.  See you all in 30 days!

Namastae

Humility versus Humiliation

A few weeks ago I had a client with a really hard reading.  I struggled like I haven’t in a very long time.  Contrary to popular belief, these visions and intuitive words during reading interpretations do not just flow like a river.  We do need to meditate and concentrate on listening to the cards.  But for this particular reading I was in conflict.  So much so I sat there and looked at these cards for at least 3 days.  Normally for a life reading this is not unusual.  The unusual part was the actual interpretation.  While half of me felt the discomfort and chaos of the true meaning, the literal interpretations were giving mixed signals.  So the actual reading itself I felt [and my client] was truly half incorrect.  This did not help her at all.

I am a firm believer in matching the right psychic for your needs.  Some of us will not be able to read for you at all, while others can.  I am not correct in every reading, this is one of the main points before I get too off topic.  The next point was humiliation.  I did feel humiliation because I was wrong.  In direct opposition of my truest intent to help and based on the founding principals of my business and nature, I could not help her.  I was wrong.  This was a source of sadness for me.  I spent several days after wondering what happened and where the lesson was in all of it.  Once I figured out and linked the lesson, I was left to deal with the emotional aspect of it, hence humiliation.

In hindsight, I believe humiliation is way too strong of an emotion to attribute to the reading.  It is a lesson, and the client projected kindness.  I did what I thought was morally and ethically correct for my own purpose, and refunded and restructured the reading with the client.  This gave me peace, and I hope it gave her some as well.  I have downgraded the emotion to disappointment with solid learning and lesson truth, which made me actually feel so much better.   In turn I learned something about my business, my tarot, my abilities, and myself.

Be kind to yourself, remove the ego, and lose the drama.  I have that embedded in my brain now.  And life goes on