Confinements
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Valid during many months: During this time you may have fewer resources available for doing what you want, and you may have to focus the available resources on more restricted and concentrated objectives. The effects of this influence are several. First, structure in your life will change significantly, but not suddenly or without warning. The changes brought about during this time are inherent in what is being changed, if you look carefully. It is rather like an inevitable conclusion of a situation. During this period some things will come to an end or an old order of life will cease. On a metaphysical level, this influence means that factors are now being incorporated into the structure of your life that will later bring about evolution and growth. This process involves getting rid of old structures. What happens now will have great consequences in fourteen years.
On a material level, this influence often causes financial problems or other kinds of shortages. Sometimes government or other officials will impose heavy burdens that greatly restrict your freedom of movement. It is also possible that some incident or accident may affect your health and thereby restrict your freedom of movement. I was joking about the Yikes but Yikes!!!!
All of these effects confine your energies so that later they can be focused upon matters that will require your full attention. If your energy is spread too thin, later crises will be much more difficult to bear. Then you will have to go through a most unpleasant house- cleaning of everything in your life that interferes with your natural pattern of evolution.
As you are more and more restricted by circumstances and the need to use your resources conservatively, do not simply hold in your energies. Build new structures to correct the problems you face now, and concentrate all your energy on bringing about necessary evolution in your life.
Don't I know it? Dang.....this ain't lookin' good.....
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Messages
You ever feel like you are receiving messages that you don't want to? I'm always a bit reluctant to trust myself completely when I start thinking that I should take anything personally since I have a tendency to jump to the worst conclusion first. It's just my nature, I grew up in a situation where words were weighted so I learned to weigh other's words. I have found as I've gotten older that not everyone has hidden meanings behind their words. But some do. I have also learned that actions really DO speak louder than words. But inaction is the most powerful message.
So many people are afraid of confrontation or afraid to say how they really feel. We are so afraid of the inner shadow--we think if we let it out or even admit that it's there that people won't like us or worse...we won't like ourselves. We will mess up our story. We want to believe that we are ALL good and everyone else is the bad guy. Truth is, we are all good and we are all bad and it really doesn't matter anyway. As I say over and over in yoga, nothing is stagnant, everything changes, you cannot balance if you are unmoving. Yin and Yang is not just a symbol. You cannot know the dark without knowing the light.
One of the first things they teach you in parenting classes (yes, they do exist) is to focus on the person, not on their behavior. Because the behavior changes, good choices come, bad choices are made, but the person--the Soul remains the same. The Essence, the Spirit, has nothing to do with actions, it is the witness, the one who watches. The more you can step into the witness, detach from the behavior of yourselves and others, the easier it is to receive the message. Doesn't mean that insensitivity or inaction or actions of others won't hurt, but if you focus too long on the hurt, you will miss the intention of the message.
You know, none of this is easy. And none of it is supposed to be. If everything is easy, we coast. When it gets tough, action is required. The only way to know right action is to step out of the situation. To witness, to take away the labels of good and bad, right and wrong and stay detached.
For as long as it takes...for as long as it takes. I know something big is trying to come through right now. There is much sadness. I must sit with it. This is why they call it practice.
Inaction speaks louder than words.
So many people are afraid of confrontation or afraid to say how they really feel. We are so afraid of the inner shadow--we think if we let it out or even admit that it's there that people won't like us or worse...we won't like ourselves. We will mess up our story. We want to believe that we are ALL good and everyone else is the bad guy. Truth is, we are all good and we are all bad and it really doesn't matter anyway. As I say over and over in yoga, nothing is stagnant, everything changes, you cannot balance if you are unmoving. Yin and Yang is not just a symbol. You cannot know the dark without knowing the light.
One of the first things they teach you in parenting classes (yes, they do exist) is to focus on the person, not on their behavior. Because the behavior changes, good choices come, bad choices are made, but the person--the Soul remains the same. The Essence, the Spirit, has nothing to do with actions, it is the witness, the one who watches. The more you can step into the witness, detach from the behavior of yourselves and others, the easier it is to receive the message. Doesn't mean that insensitivity or inaction or actions of others won't hurt, but if you focus too long on the hurt, you will miss the intention of the message.
You know, none of this is easy. And none of it is supposed to be. If everything is easy, we coast. When it gets tough, action is required. The only way to know right action is to step out of the situation. To witness, to take away the labels of good and bad, right and wrong and stay detached.
For as long as it takes...for as long as it takes. I know something big is trying to come through right now. There is much sadness. I must sit with it. This is why they call it practice.
Inaction speaks louder than words.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Changing Hats
It's occurred to me that maybe the expression "Jack of All Trades" is not necessarily a compliment. My Dad's name is Jack. He's a builder. He built my childhood home. We had great fun making a placque that said, "This is the House that Jack Built" for our front door. I always felt that Jack of All Trades was a good thing, because my Dad truly is a Jack of All Trades and a Master of quite a few. He can do just about anything building wise, electric, plumbing, heating and a/c, on and on and on....
I feel a little nutty. Course the SoulCollage obsession is helping add to the frenzy :) The last few cards feel a bit all over the place......
The Changing Landscape....
My Inner Mothra....
The Grower.....
The Black Hole......Double Yikes!
I always wanted to be like him--not building wise but knowing how to do a bunch of things. That's why I have studied so many different things, you get to dabble....and the things you really like you get to perfect. It's seems like a good thing until you are doing all of them at the same time.....Yikes!
I'm directing/producing a kid's variety show while I'm planning the SoulCollage weekend while I'm creating the new website and the new business while I'm trying to get my house clean with a broken washer while I'm trying to help the kids and husband through their current crisis du jour. I have bulbs that need to be planted, herbs that need to be harvesting and winter clothes that need to come out.
I feel a little nutty. Course the SoulCollage obsession is helping add to the frenzy :) The last few cards feel a bit all over the place......The Changing Landscape....
My Inner Mothra....
The Grower..... The Black Hole......Double Yikes!I'm sure it's all good.....or will be. Or is meant to be.
By the Way.....How U Doing?
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Boy to Man
So my son turns 21 today. He is officially an adult. When I look at him, I try to see signs of this. I am squinting....but nuttin'. Of course, the big thing is oooo ahhhh he can now buy alcohol. Wow. So here's where the hope for the solid foundation kicks in. I'm not really worried about that, I know he actually has brains and has had it drilled into his head enough about drinking and driving and excess and alcoholism, so I feel like there's not too much more to say about that.
It's all the rest. Letting go of childishness, blame and the world owes me a living attitude. It's how to be a man, how to be a father, how to be a decent human being....did I tell him everything? Why work is not just work but contribution. How hardship is a learning opportunity. How to be humble and productive even if the other guy isn't. How to respect age and wisdom (so far, this has not been his strong point...) How to understand forever isn't.
How to turn regret into action. And most important, how to change your story. Again and again. How to figure out that your past does not define your future unless you let it. How you don't have to be "that guy" no matter where you come from.
21 years just doesn't seem like enough time to teach all that. Or learn it. But it does seem like the time to teach is done. Time to learn.....
Happy Birthday, Woodstock! Time to fly....
It's all the rest. Letting go of childishness, blame and the world owes me a living attitude. It's how to be a man, how to be a father, how to be a decent human being....did I tell him everything? Why work is not just work but contribution. How hardship is a learning opportunity. How to be humble and productive even if the other guy isn't. How to respect age and wisdom (so far, this has not been his strong point...) How to understand forever isn't.
How to turn regret into action. And most important, how to change your story. Again and again. How to figure out that your past does not define your future unless you let it. How you don't have to be "that guy" no matter where you come from.
21 years just doesn't seem like enough time to teach all that. Or learn it. But it does seem like the time to teach is done. Time to learn.....
Happy Birthday, Woodstock! Time to fly....
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Keep on growing....
No Card Today. But I do have some random SoulCollage thoughts. I promise eventually I will stop obsessing and balance soon.....I just am very excited about this process! Believe me, I have done all kinds of workshops and inner work. Therapy, Tai Chi, Yoga, Reiki, Chi Gong, BioSpiritual Focusing, tarot reading, journaling, meditation and on and on, but I don't think any one thing has sparked me the way this has. And I think that statement is the reason. It's like Seena took all of those wonderful tools and placed them into one toolbox.
We were chatting last night at yoga about how hard it is to really make people understand what SoulCollage is. Sheree was saying that depending on the audience it is important that you hit their niche. Like to arty/crafty people you talk up the collage portion and to seekers/spiritualists you talk about the soul & mystic side of it. Trying to publicize the workshop has been a challenge--coming up with the right wording.
The way I understood it before I went to the training was that you were making your own deck of tarot cards. That was my spark of interest because that's something I understand. It turned out to be so much more. Seena sent me an email yesterday with a guideline on how to use the cards as prayer cards. Which is something else entirely and yet another "tool"....
"For people of faith, theology matters. Their orientation toward and relationship with the Mystery we call God shapes the way they see, experience, understand and speak about the activity of God in creation and in human life—both mysterious and personal. By offering SoulCollage in the practice and language of prayer, the mysterious interaction between image and maker with the Mystery we call God, is named and acknowledged.
From a SoulCollage Prayer Card point of view, selecting images, making cards, journaling, contemplating, sharing is all prayer. For example, images are selected and cards made in contemplative silence; "reading" becomes meditative prayer along with journaling; the "interpretive dimension" is the deep place in the human psyche/soul/body where dreams and wisdom come from, the place beneath our conscious knowing where the Mystery of God meets us in our interior and our human story for transformation and healing; contemplative prayer is entry into further depths (in God); sharing with another becomes both "Holy Listening and Holy Witnessing" to another’s lifestory. "
Marjorie Smith --Presbyterian Minister, Spiritual Director, BioSpiritual Focusing Facilitator
This is just fascinating me. I don't mind telling you. My path has crisscrossed some of these great women, we have shared some of the same healing tools and it just feels so.....I don't know the words.....right to have stumbled across this now. I've been at a point in my career where I feel like I'm just going nowhere and I've been trying to tell myself that I am where I wanted to be, to just accept my gifts and use them and not expect anything more. But I'm a grower--that's why I garden, that's why I teach, that's why I read. I cannot be stagnant--I love to learn, I love to explore and I love to share.....
Ooops, think I found my next card.
We were chatting last night at yoga about how hard it is to really make people understand what SoulCollage is. Sheree was saying that depending on the audience it is important that you hit their niche. Like to arty/crafty people you talk up the collage portion and to seekers/spiritualists you talk about the soul & mystic side of it. Trying to publicize the workshop has been a challenge--coming up with the right wording.
The way I understood it before I went to the training was that you were making your own deck of tarot cards. That was my spark of interest because that's something I understand. It turned out to be so much more. Seena sent me an email yesterday with a guideline on how to use the cards as prayer cards. Which is something else entirely and yet another "tool"....
"For people of faith, theology matters. Their orientation toward and relationship with the Mystery we call God shapes the way they see, experience, understand and speak about the activity of God in creation and in human life—both mysterious and personal. By offering SoulCollage in the practice and language of prayer, the mysterious interaction between image and maker with the Mystery we call God, is named and acknowledged.
From a SoulCollage Prayer Card point of view, selecting images, making cards, journaling, contemplating, sharing is all prayer. For example, images are selected and cards made in contemplative silence; "reading" becomes meditative prayer along with journaling; the "interpretive dimension" is the deep place in the human psyche/soul/body where dreams and wisdom come from, the place beneath our conscious knowing where the Mystery of God meets us in our interior and our human story for transformation and healing; contemplative prayer is entry into further depths (in God); sharing with another becomes both "Holy Listening and Holy Witnessing" to another’s lifestory. "
Marjorie Smith --Presbyterian Minister, Spiritual Director, BioSpiritual Focusing Facilitator
This is just fascinating me. I don't mind telling you. My path has crisscrossed some of these great women, we have shared some of the same healing tools and it just feels so.....I don't know the words.....right to have stumbled across this now. I've been at a point in my career where I feel like I'm just going nowhere and I've been trying to tell myself that I am where I wanted to be, to just accept my gifts and use them and not expect anything more. But I'm a grower--that's why I garden, that's why I teach, that's why I read. I cannot be stagnant--I love to learn, I love to explore and I love to share.....
Ooops, think I found my next card.
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