10 years time

Think back over the last decade of your life.  Take a sheet of paper out and write down the best and worse times of the last decade.  Then reach back further [if you can] and decipher the previous 10 before that.  Write everything good and everything bad down.  Do you see a pattern?  Life patterns are cyclical, some good some bad but every 10 years of your life something major happens and spins you into a new direction good or bad.  I have identified the pattern in my own.  I am just about at the heightened eclipse of my 10 year cycle for the good.  The first 5 years of a new decade seem to always go the wrong way for me.  Now that I have the identifiers in front of me what can I learn from them?  I see I have a bit of ego always stemming from the temporary translucence of ego.  I am on top of the world, untouchable and unstoppable.

Five years ago I was at the lowest point of my entire existence.  It was the only time in 39 years I can remember saying to myself consciously “please god…do not let me wake in the morning”.  I now know this is really not the way it works.  And if I had chosen to really check out that morning, something would have gone horribly wrong with my physical state.  Hindsight is always 20/20 but deep down I knew that my nephews and best friends life the next day would have been forever distressed if they found auntie sonic no longer breathing the next day.  So the journey continued.

Fast forward five years later.  I have a profession that allows me the luxury of creative freedom and expression.  I have a family that loves me unconditionally.  I am about to embark on new roots with the purchase of a home.  I have learned to love myself first and foremost and dropped all bags of guilt/hurt/negativity bricks along the way, leaving them to be converted throughout the cosmos in hopes of setting an example and conversion for others.  I get to wake up every day with bug eyed pug kisses and a song in my heart.  Short of walking on water I think life is pretty incredible.  Not right now, not later, not before, it just IS.  No matter what state I am in.  The wind will continue to blow, the water will continue to flow, the fire will continue to burn and the earth will continue to learn.

What about your cycle?

Namastae

Todays question..something to ponder for yourself

Today was a more important day than most others I supposed and it is a rare moon indeed when I ask my own cards questions. Tonight happened to be one of those times. In response I pulled the Success card.

This is a good news card that indicates after a lot of hard work and difficulties; you are now beginning to achieve the success you dreamed of, one that is recognized by other people. This can mean that you have gained some qualifications, a promotion at work, have won a race you trained for, had an exhibition of your paintings or have performed your music in public to general acclaim. Spiritually this is the flame that warms and nurtures and although it can lead you into the realms of pure joy, for though the spirit must sometimes be tempered by hardship, it must also be kindled by ecstasy.

I do not need acclaim or recognition. What struck a chord within, was the message of spirit. “for though the spirit must sometimes be tempered by hardship, it must also be kindled by ecstasy.”

Usually when something goes right for us, we are humbled, appreciative and happy.  I think I’m going to have to do a little more soul searching to kindle with ecstasy.  I’m usually only blissfully happy in those moments of linear time when the wind hits my face, the sun comes out from the clouds, the rain pounds on my window to say hello or the warmth from a fire reaches my legs.

Life is god…<that was a typo, and yet somehow nothing is an accident>…

Namastae

Todays food for thought

There are three types of people in your world.

1. People that avoid you because they do not want to deal with you
2. People that help you
3. People that hurt you

Make a list of everyone you know on a sheet of paper. Then categorize each one. Where do the numbers stack up? Environment, influence and emotion. Everything comes in a trinity. Where and when does your own self love come into play?

The 10 day meditation project

Within the next week I will begin a series of meditation projects, some smaller than others but it will all be designed around manifestation and a desired result.  The goal will be to create the prediciton and desired results, and seal them in an envelope only to be revisited after the session has been completed.  I need to do a little more research on planet alignment and check my astrological chart.  Energies will help the flow so performing the experiment during the right moon cycle will aid the research.

It will require time [about an hour a day], a pen and piece of paper.   Who’s in?

Namastae

Todays Bibliomancy Reading

Instead of grabbing a book off of one of my shelves, I turned to the electronic highway.  I posted a few words in google, chose the #7 as where I needed to be, clicked the link, scanned the page obscurely with my eyes off to the side and stopped where I needed to be.  This is your message of the day, this is the lesson I am to learn today.  And it is brilliant!

“Identify causes.  As already mentioned change is one of the chief causes of stress.   An accumulation of life’s everyday annoyances can also build up a significant stress level—perhaps even more than one single traumatic event. As the old saying puts it: “It’s the little things that bother us, and put us on the rack; you can sit upon a mountain, but you can’t sit on a tack.”

The bottle has been uncorked

The eve of the waxing full moon is upon us.  There are 2 phases of the moon that you need to pay attention too to ride the energy waves.  The waxing and the waning.  When the moon is in the waxing phase, it is becoming fuller on its way to being completely full in the sky.  Just after it’s peak at being full, it then starts to wane.  The waning moon phase is what you would use to assist you in removing things from your life.  The waxing is what would be used to bring things into your life, no matter what it is.  A thought, an emotion, a different state of being.  YOU create your own reality.  Have you not learned this by now?  I cannot stress it enough.

Tonight is the most potent time to manifest something for yourself.  Write it down, think it, read it, say it aloud.  Bring that person to you, send that message via telepathy.  You can do this.  Write it in your journal, verbally TELL the cosmos what it is you need.  All you have to do is ask, I swear it can happen.  More importantly you need to believe in yourself.  More on that in the next blog!

Hinduism insight of the day-self manifestation

People ask me my religious label all the time.  There is no way to describe what I am, so for the sake of simplicity I say Pagan.  Because it is the elements I am closest with in this dimension.  However, the Taoists, and the Hindus and the Buddhists have a lot to say about the way the world works.  I am in the process of manifesting something very large for myself.  The material object itself is not important.  It’s symbolism and the hope it brings however is.  In a personal way it represents self achievement and preservation for only me, not for status significance.  Because I cannot tie myself to material things in this lifetime [albeit still love them from time to time-everyone loves a luxury].  I read something in one of Deepak Chopras books about Hindu manifestation and found some fascinating items I’d like to share.  Special thanks to G. Beesley for the following information and sharing it with the world.

Hindu Attitudes Towards Suffering
Because Hindus believe that all experiences are the result of their karma, or actions, they are more able to accept their suffering. For them all suffering is an inevitable consequence of their being reborn into samsara and the material world. From a positive point of view, the experience of suffering can act to spur the Hindu on towards practising virtue and therefore creating good karma, as well as abandoning non-virtue by refraining from creating bad karma. Finally, for those with higher religious aspirations, suffering causes Hindus to seek liberation (moksha) from the cycle of birth and death.
From a negative perspective, a belief that suffering is the result of karma can lead to a cynical attitude to the suffering of others: ‘He deserves everything he gets; he created the cause of his pain’.
Hindu Attitudes Towards Wealth and Poverty

Generally speaking, Hindus see wealth in a positive light, viewing it as the result of previously created good karma. Artha, one of the four aims of Hindu life, encourages Hindus to earn an honest living, a sentiment echoed in theLaws of Manu.   Varnashramdharma rules state that those at the householder or grihasta stage should provide for their family via an honest living through wealth accumulated in a way appropriate to their social class or varna.
While those in the upper varnas are encouraged to practice generosity as a means of karmically maintaining their status, the poorer varnas are encouraged to maintain their practice of artha in order to purify the causes of their poverty and create the cause for wealth in their future lives.

Hindu Attitudes Towards the Created World
a) Animals
Animals often experience great suffering. As with humans, Hindus have a duty to practice ahimsa or non-violence towards them in order to try and relieve their suffering. However, while an animal rebirth may be inferior to a human one from the viewpoint of the amount of pain experienced, this does not mean that animals are inferior to humans: both are worthy of ahimsa, both are beings that have been reborn into samsara, both are subject to karma, and both have an atman or True Self within them. For a Hindu, all that separates animals and humans is time!
In some cases, animals may even be considered superior to humans: because gods often appear in animal forms in the Hindu pantheon, those animals are considered to be manifestations of the particular deity they are associated with. For example, monkeys are seen as the god Hanuman, elephants are seen as Ganesha. Again, the cow is highly revered in Hindu religion, its body being seen as the dwelling place of the gods. Because the god Shiva’s mount is the bull Nandi, they are also seen in a divine light.

b) The Natural World
The natural world is treated with respect by Hindus because it, like themselves, is part of god or Brahman, the Supreme Spirit. As a result, if they damage their environment, Hindus believe they are creating negative karma. And so, before a building project is started, for example, Hindus will perform a puja to ask the god’s permission. During the puja, they will make offerings to the gods and ask for their blessing that the project is successful.
Mountains such as Kailash in the Himalayas are believed to be the home of the gods and are therefore important places of religious pilgrimage. Again, just as the river Ganga (or Ganges) runs from the Himalayas, the river is considered to be a manifestation of the god Shiva and is sometimes shown in pictures of the god, sprouting from his crown. Bathing in the Ganges is said to purify bad karma and its water is said to have miraculous healing properties.

Head Injuries

In 2005 I took a spill down a flight of stairs in my parents home very early in the am.  Now you may be wondering how a lawn gnome could miss a step, being so close to the ground and all.  The truth is, I missed 2 of them.  My foot went straight for the landing while being 2 stairs higher.  My head hit the floor and I passed out.  Thankfully no one was home.  I woke up flat on my back on the basement floor and I was disoriented.  I crawled to the bathroom and was sick instantly.  After a few rounds of ick [not going into detail here folks] I managed to crawl my way back upstairs, call in sick, and I went back to bed.  I took 2 tylenol and went to sleep for 7 hours.  After I awoke, I was sore but fine and didn’t think anything of it.  Don’t you think that if a human being hit their head on concrete hard enough to pass out, there would be some kind of damage there?  Bleeding?  anything?  You would think so right????  I would.  So what happened?  Nothing.  Nothing happened.  I am reading about famous people in the news today, and how parents around the world were alerted to this odd condition of brain bleeding if you are in an accident.

There are some things in this life that are within your control.  You have a choice of when it is your time to go and how it happens.  I hope you realize this.  You’ve already written it in your chart.  Your life was mapped out from the minute you got back.  This isn’t the end all be all finite lifetime of existance.  It’s one very small scratch on the surface of humanity and the cosmos.  There are other dimensions woven into our own, and we are all one big part of this cosmic flow.  Every thing you see, and everything you do not see has energy.  I’m going off on a tangent but my point is this.  I hit the concrete hard enough to knock myself OUT.  There had to be some kind of damage there.  And what happened?  Nothing….an idea is born when you give it life, and not until such time.  Good or bad.

Food for thought kids..

Carrying all the weight

We are born, we go through life learning, and then our time is through.  As you’re walking the path, remember that it’s not your job to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders.  Ever hopeful, ever positive, even I cannot do it.  You cannot change people or the way they do things.  The only thing you can do, is be a shining light they gravitate too.  Because you are the becon, just remember that and you can continue on the path even at night with a bright light paving the way.

Namastae

The Disconnect

Along with a new season comes a new wave of ebb and flow.  Spring showers bring May flowers if I gather that correctly.  Now is the time to open the windows and soak in the rebirth of the new season.  You’re not the only one that has felt segregated from everyone and thing around you.  This past moon cycles energy was almost too much to bare.  Aim high and go beyond the moon babies.  Because if you fall short, at least you can look up and still be among the stars.

All my love,

S