Relationships: Venus goes direct

We are finally heading out of Venus retrograde in Aries which began on March 6th. It goes direct on Friday, April 17th, and stations at 29 degrees of Pisces. The 29th degree of any sign is what is called a “critical” degree, which means that the energy of that particular sign is intensified as it leaves the sign. The effects of the retrograde period will continue to be felt until around May 21, when Venus returns to the 16th degree of Aries, where it first stationed. This time frame is called the "Shadow Period", and can be as intense as the actual retro phase.

Venus rules feelings and emotion, values, relationships, fashion, and all forms of money and wealth. It rules social attitudes and behaviors, female relationships and social interactions at every level. Venus rules romance, marriage and other partnerships, and the pursuit of pleasure. Venus in Aries is very romantic and is the rush of feelings we feel when we first fall in love. It is impetuous and impulsive. It is courtship and all of the excitement we feel in the beginning of a relationship.

During a retrograde period the things Venus influences are of less concern to us. It is not time to initiate a romantic relationship or try to move one forward. When Venus goes direct things seem to begin to have a life of their own, energy moves easier, and projects that we wanted to complete progress towards that goal. If you have felt a financial lack, money should begin to flow easier to you. Old debts can be repaid and new opportunities for jobs/careers are presented. During the “shadow period” we might experience some of the feeling of lack that we experienced in the retro phase. Keep focused on what you want and vision positive outcomes.

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Relationships are something we all have had experience with from the beginning of our life. If one believes in reincarnation then we are drawn to the mother/father/family that will serve us best in our spiritual growth and evolution while we are on this planet. We also come in with set ideas about life based on cellular memory. These memories get activated as we move through our life. Whether we are relating in a romantic relationship or with friends or family, we are being influenced by cellular memory. Have you ever met someone that you instantly liked or felt drawn to, or someone that appeared to be a nice person but for some reason you just could not stand? This is your cellular memory being activated by that person’s energy coming into your space and you into theirs. Sometimes this is called “karmic” relationships, and for good or for not, they make a profound influence on our life. The greatest blessings of course are the relationships that we draw in that have good memories, the greatest hardships can be the ones that we have unfinished business with, or a need to complete. Either way relationships are with us constantly in our life, reflecting back to us where we still might need to grow, or showing us where we have grown. We must be the conscious participant. Whether it is friendship, family, marriage, etc., be aware that you have the greatest opportunity to grow, when you interact with another. The times that we spend alone are meant for us to turn within, to examine ourselves so we can try out our growth when we interact with others. If someone “pushes” a button with you try to move out of anger, anxiety or fear and be the observer of self.

We all have a need to be loved and to give love. Each one of us exhibits love to another in the way that we have been shown what love is. One of the most difficult things to understand is that another person might love us but does not show it in actions or words in the way that we might need. Most problems begin when our expectations do not get met. Communication is the key that will give us solutions to these issues. When I look at relationships with astrology, be they personal or business, I look at the persons Mercury, what sign it is in will tell me how this person communicates. Fire signs are passionate, Air signs love to talk, Water signs want to hear and talk about feelings, and Earth signs are about practicality. So the sign your Mercury is in is very important in your style of communicating.

As we move forward with Venus direct hopefully you will have spent some time examining what is important to you, your values, and how you want to live your life. In these times of difficult Pluto in Capricorn events and change, it will become more important to vision how we want things to be. Pluto in Capricorn will tear down the established structure to be rebuilt anew. It is a shared vision of values that we as a society need to bring forth. Perhaps we will now go back to valuing our relationships more, in our families, neighborhoods and in our country. With the Pluto station and retrograde until September of this year we will be looking at how we deal with authority, who we project authority onto and where we learned in our family to see who the authority was. In a lot of families this can be dear old dad. “Just wait until your dad comes home” is something I remember from my childhood that meant I was really in trouble. For those of us who did not grow up in two parent households the authority figure could have been projected onto anyone.
Now in the bigger picture we will be looking at our government and how that idea of authority in our lives will change. Already we are seeing the beginning of changes in institutions such as education, banking, insurance companies, etc., albeit forced. As we look at rebuilding our countries infrastructure will it be rebuilt with new technologies such as high speed trains, stronger bridges, more efficient automobiles, better transportation in general? New technologies now have a chance to come forward and make significant changes in how we live. Pluto in Capricorn can break down the barriers of resistance to free energy ideas. Taking those patents off the shelf and allowing them to be utilized in making life easier for us all. Perhaps we will see a more balanced government of and for the people. Certainly we are seeing an example of Pluto in Capricorn at work by the national “tea parties” being planned for April 15th.

Expect more earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods and melting ice caps as even the earth goes through a restructuring. Perhaps this is where we will begin to realize just how important relationships are in our lives.


“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” ~Oprah Winfrey

Next: Past, Present and Future Lives

From Here to There

As we progress in our learning we sometimes experience phenomena that we do not understand or need help to explain. One of those experiences for me was Bi Location.

Bi Location: In the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, it is defined as:

Main Entry: bi·lo·ca·tion
Pronunciation: 'bI-lO-"kA-sh&n
Function: noun
Date: 1858
Definition: the state of being or ability to be in two places at the same time

The ability to appear in two places at once is called bi location and is something that most remote viewers have the ability to do. Although the term is recently used more by current groups researching and practicing remote viewing, it is a very old technique and in the past has been called astral projection. One of the things that a lot of people strive to learn as they pursue their spiritual path is astral projection. There are some people who do it naturally and probably do not realize that they are doing it. Perhaps this comes from other lifetimes of practicing, and for the most part is done in the dream state. Many times people ask me about dreaming and dreams, feeling as if they have traveled to a distant place and felt they were actually there, but as an observer. This of course is an example of astral projection in the dream state. I have one friend that attends parties with people she does not know but always has a fun time!

The physical body remains in bed sleeping and the etheric body travels to another location, or even just another room. This can be somewhere on the physical plane or in any dimension, planet, etc. The person they visit may be in the sleep state and out in their etheric body as well. People report having conversations and doing things together, but often do not realize that they are actually astrally traveling and attribute it to just “crazy dreams”.

Although not usually seen by the people they visit, or seen in the place they visit, occasionally this does happen. I dimension trek to many places and usually am accompanied by a guide who shows up when I have been seen by other guides who tell me I can not be there. My guide always assures me that I can be anywhere I want, and to ignore the admonishment.

All the bodies

Most people know that the etheric body is the form closest to our physical body, where our chakras interact, and where these energy centers connect to our body. This is where you will see the colors of the aura. As mentioned in the previous blog, I was able to not only “see” the physical body of my teacher disappear but also the etheric body. It is the practice of meditation that enables us to be in the right frequency. Meditation is the key to all of our development spiritually. It helps us to learn the practice of detachment. This is where we learn to not judge events as good or bad and where we can learn to act and not react.

Physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies are energy fields in motion. All resonate and vibrate at specific frequencies. The physical body reacts to the emotional body which can be controlled by the mental body, and all serve the spiritual body, or our “Divine Intelligence/Higher Self.” It is our thinking processes or the “mental” body that influence the other bodies for positive or negative. The emotional body does not recognize time and is the one that we have the most issues with learning to control. It is the repository of all lifetimes and contains all of our emotional reactions on the cellular level.

Learning how

In my own personal experience of bi location, again I was being inner plane taught. I had not studied this phenomena nor was I particularly interested in learning about astral projection. However in one afternoon I was taught about bi location and shown “how” I was able to do it. The story as it happened was actually a by product of me helping another person. This young woman was a friend of my oldest daughter, and her grandmother had passed over within the last few months. My daughter told her of my mediumship abilities and that perhaps I could answer some questions for her, so time was made for her to come and visit. At the visit she spoke of how she had spent a lot of her youth with her grandmother and how close she had been to her. She wanted to be able to connect with her and I was impressed by spirit that instead of giving her a message, that it was more important to help her learn to communicate. She already felt that there was life after death and that her grandmother was around her, but wanted to know how she could communicate. So I spent some time teaching her a technique that she could implement. I suggested she write a letter to her grandmother, then put it away and when impressed get the paper out and write what she felt her grandmother would reply. This exercise would prepare her for more communication in the future and in different ways. She was a sweet girl and was very appreciative of the help and time I had given her. After she left I went to take a bath and meditate As I soaked in the water I reflected on the time that she was there and my heart opened to the fact that this young girl was so interested in learning to develop her abilities The open heart vibration enveloped my whole body and I felt joy and love surround me. As I was enjoying this experience a knock at the bathroom door brought me back to 3D reality. My oldest daughter wanted to know if I could speak to her friend again, she was upset about something that had happened when she got home. She had gone home and was preparing to do her writing exercise, walking from her bedroom to the living room she passed by the bathroom and saw a woman in her bathtub! Her shock made the vision disappear and then she was so upset at what had happened she called to see if I was available to talk to her. I told my daughter as I realized what had happened to tell her it was just me appearing, not to worry and to relax and I would call her back and explain. Thus not only did I experience my first bi location but was also able to teach about it!! Since then I have had people tell me that they have “felt” me in their physical space when they needed me and how calming it had been. Some have sworn they saw me appear in their space. I am sure they did.

And how can one use this?

Where can you serve and how? Over the years as I learned more about my self and my abilities I realized that I am a remote viewer, among other things. As someone who can do remote viewing I have used this to help people in many ways. Healing is a good example just being able to project healing energy to someone through your physical space to them is phenomenal in itself. But it also shows that we are all truly connected. Many of you already use this ability but are perhaps not conscious of it. The solution is to keep your heart open and to remember to always operate from that place as you progress along your path.

Relationships in 2009, the 11/2 year

Signs and Symbols

Everything that appears in our reality originates as a thought or desire, our consciousness presents this to us in the form that we have intended. As discussed in the previous blog, we see what we want to see, and are in agreement with others to see. The simplest form of this is signs and symbols and is how the subconscious works. Even people are presented as symbolic, or can be a sign. Someone may appear in your life with a quality that you need to incorporate, or appear at a time when they are needed by you, or you by them, and for whatever reason. When we dream, sometimes our dreams appear to make “no sense”. Even in dreams that process out our daily experiences there can be signs or symbols that will help you to process or integrate the things that will help you to grow. Learning to incorporate signs and symbols into our daily lives can enrich our conscious experience. Since we already pay attention to signs every day, (we all know what a stop sign or red light represents), incorporating or expanding our perspective on signs can be fulfilling. Some people turn on the radio in their car and hear a song that has meaning to what they might have been thinking of. This is humorously called “radio readings”.


Many of the meanings assigned to signs and symbols are considered a universal language and have traditional interpretations, but others speak to us through our own cultural or ethnic belief systems, and not every sign or symbol we perceive is something that we will need to act upon. It is our mind and through our intuition that we will know how to utilize the information of the signs and symbols that we register.


Our understanding of "signs" comes from our observation of repetitive patterns and what the results are. In the present, collective beliefs about omens for example, have become discounted as superstition however they still appear as subconscious symbols. The part of the brain that is the core of our evolvement can only speak to us in symbols.


Traditionally, throughout the ages, the interpretation of signs and symbols was designated to Prophets, Oracles, High Priests and Priestesses, etc. Astrology is a science that came long before Astronomy and is based on symbols. In modern day we still have those who are the interpreters for the many even though we are now supposed to do our own personal interpreting. They now have different titles and different forms. Mass media, politicians, religious leaders are the new prophets and oracles. Some people still have a foot in the old paradigm of letting someone else tell them what they need, or should believe, as truth.


Years ago I spent time with a friend in Northern California who was the head man for his tribe. I used to go with friends and camp by the river and get away from television, radio and any other external information. After a few days you become totally in tune with nature. You observe what the animals around you are doing, you begin to feel your senses become more attuned, and your intuition is sharpened as all the external noise of society is excluded from your reality. The result is the feeling that you are moving in a river, flowing with everything and everyone who is around you. There becomes a synchronistic series of events as time becomes less and less important and you only focus on time because you are hungry or the sky lets you know that the sun is setting and the moon rising. The insects let you know what the weather will be like, the trees will show you whether it will be a dry year or a wet year, how much snow to expect, etc. After a time of living in this environment everything becomes symbolic and has meaning. Coming back to the city can be almost painful and some time was needed to acclimate to the noise and business around me, the schedules that have nothing to do with physical rhythm, and to balance out the idea that one can still be in tune with the signs and symbols in a false environment. But these trips were important as they helped me to find balance in any situation, to seek out the signs and symbols to guide me through all that noise.

Challenges and assistance that one might encounter in interpreting signs and symbols, and how to learn to relax into the Tao.

Noise

Quieting the mind is one of the most important things to do, whether one defines this quieting as daily meditation, or spending time alone relaxing, this is one of the most important steps to take. Turn down the noise.


Judging events as good or bad


Observing


Things that happen to us are not necessarily good or bad, it is strictly our interpretation of the event that dictates what we judge it to be. Events can guide, instruct and inform. Rather than judging events as "good luck or bad luck," it behooves us to look at them as what, how and why, to guide us along our path. If you can stay in that neutral place, then you will welcome the signs that appear in your space. If you stir up feelings of fear, then you will not hear or see the messages of divine support around you. For example, it's easy to think of observing a car accident as a "bad" sign, or perhaps a warning. Possibly you have been driving too fast lately, always in a hurry and have had the intuition that you should slow down. The accident can be a reminder to listen to your intuition and drive more carefully, not necessarily an indicator that you will be involved in an accident. Often our intuition will speak to us in this way and it might not always be the still small voice within that we hear, instead an incident in our environment that we observe can be the reminder to listen to that still small voice.


Practicing

In my life as a spiritual counselor I use the tools of Astrology and Tarot because the symbology of these two practices, help trigger my intuition. Astrology is the art of interpretation of symbols and patterns that operate without and within a person and are expressed through planets. Each planet represents an energetic way of being and expressing. The moon for example represents our emotions, and the sign it is in is “how” we express our emotions. The Tarot is rich in symbolism and depending on which deck you are drawn to will speak to universal or personal interpretation. Learning to use tools such as these can assist you in working with signs and symbols in your life.

Keeping a dream journal as writing down your dreams is another good way to work with signs and symbols. When I was younger I literally dreamt future events, right down to the least of details. Some people can ask for a question to be answered in their dreams. This can sometimes be the only time we have to hear important messages.

What symbols are you attracted to? For awhile for me it has been hearts, I see them everywhere and they appear in my paintings. The message to me is to remember to keep an open heart and to live from that place. Numbers can also be seen as signs and symbols as the practice of Numerology shows us the patterns. It is so popular that here in my town, at the motor vehicle department they are used to people coming in and asking for certain combinations of letters and numbers for license plates.

Colors can be symbolic, what colors do you prefer to have around you or wear? I notice that on the days that I need more energy I tend to look towards the brighter colors to wear, and on the days where I just want to be more reflective I tend to wear more black.


Ask yourself if you want to see your world in a different way, see change coming into your life in a more joyful way, and with less judgment of self and others. Try living in the flow of signs and symbols, quiet the noise and listen to your intuition to guide you more on your path. Create the life that you want to see, look at signs and symbols as a feedback loop.


Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart truly desires must come to you.- Shakti Gawain



Next: how to get from here to there

Full Mooon Muses

“Real integrity is doing the right thing,
knowing that nobody’s going to know
whether you did it or not.”
-Oprah Winfrey

Good words, good intentions, and the outcome will always be great when you operate from this place of integrity. However, we are approaching transparency in all the actions of our life and the impending new paradigm will be one where we will know whether someone has integrity in actions or not.

Transparency

Imagine a world where everyone was spiritually advanced, conscious beings acting consciously, and automatically always doing the right thing because people would know if you were not acting with integrity, and why would you not want to anyway? Can you perceive of a life like this? If you can, you are ahead of everyone else around you, but where are these people you need now? How does one find others who want to live a life of integrity and transparency now? They surely are out there, you can not be the only one who speaks their truth, acts and speaks from the heart, and is only interested in being who you are at all times, and in all situations. No false ego base, no puffing and huffing about how great you are, how intelligent, etc.

Where to go

The terms frequency and vibration are terms you will hear more and more. Everything in our universe has a frequency or vibration, everything. In certain healing modalities the healing is accomplished by tuning into and matching the frequency of the part of the body that is in need of healing. A healthy liver has a frequency, so does a heart, brain, soul, etc. One simply tunes into, or vibrates, the healthy frequency and the organ responds in kind. There are many examples of this in healings and “miracles”.

“Feeling” the world around you which is made up of frequencies is the way to discern what is right for you or not. A Master Teacher, Vitvan, whose works I studied had said: “We live in a sea of frequencies”.

Love, hate, anger, joy, these are all frequencies. All you have to do is register (acknowledge/focus into) the frequency and you are in it.

Example: One can not be in more than one frequency at a time, you might shift focus quickly, but you are either in the frequency of Love, or you are not, and as a result are registering something else. There are no worries about misjudging by appearances or personality. Who to trust and who not; the person that “seemed” so nice turned out to be a serial killer. Yikes! All the neighbors said he was such a nice guy. Outer appearances are deceiving. One must “feel” it or not. One can not “think” it, or “analyze it” to understand it.

On Time

Throughout this era we have heard about time in the conventional way. “Taking time”, or “making time” to build relationships, these are wonderful concepts, and ones to heed, but in the new paradigm our sense of known time may change as we begin to move effortlessly from one situation to another. Some of us are already feeling the nudges of moving, finding a place where you feel you belong, looking for the community of like minds, like frequencies. If you are one of those feeling the nudge but do not yet have a “feel” for where that is, do not worry or stress, all will be shown to you in divine order. Doors will open, people will show up when needed, and old ways of manipulations will be a thing of the past. There really is no need but to vision what one wants and needs, and then follow the frequency. Struggle will be a thing of the past.

What will it be like to have those around us who vibe in our frequency and us in theirs? Appearances may certainly be deceiving and this is where we must feel the energy of the others, does this energy resonate with ours? Does it feel like a comfortable easiness with no effort to communicate, or is it a struggle to align energies and communicate? Do we try to argue and manipulate to get our way? Or do we see that the natural flow of things brings us what we need. Manipulations will feel painful, others control trips will make us edgy. There is no need to control anything or anyone but self. The tension and stress that is created when one tries to make things happen does not fit in our new world. Many of us are already very weary of the control and manipulations, the lack of integrity, the missing transparency. We see this in the media daily, we hear of the lies that try to tell us as to who are to blame for the economic mess. It is hard at times to maintain hope, faith, and trust in our vision of what will be. But remember this, it is coming, it will be, it is destined, it was foretold, and we are the ones we have been waiting for. No one knows what is right for you, but you! Bless those who think they know, but keep focused on your truth. Forgive and forget!

next: allowing!