I keep getting calls about a conflict between several business partners, each with a different story, no one acting particularly conscious.   I wish I didn’t feel compelled to jump into this with them and make everyone come clean and stop the hating and bad mouthing. It’s not my job to do, And everyone is passing along stories that they don’t know are true. All they know is this is what their “friend in the know” told them. And then everyone takes sides.  I have been “betrayed” by my share of “friends” in my lifetime, and each time it happens it just serves as a springboard to even higher understanding. The closer the former friendship, the greater the karmic weight to drop, allowing your balloon to soar higher and higher.  It gets scary when we drop our weights. When familiar people begin to fade from our life, or when friends and lovers betray us, we can tend to see it as being abandoned if we don’t recognize that we were growing vibrationally apart from them for a long time, and this was a blessing in disguise. It can be scary to drop our weights when we’ve grown used to the burden. There’s a difference between what grounds us and what holds us down.

RELATED: Just because something feels familiar and comfortable doesn’t mean it’s good for you

A friend emailed me: “Can you enlighten us on what is going on in the earth’s energy field?  We are feeling strange in a not too pleasant way…  Thank you.   I replied, “Uh oh, I may not be the one to answer that.  I look at things a whole different way.  I know that everything is always evolving and changing and our biggest job in life is to surf the environment we find ourselves in and make the most of it.  I think it doesn’t matter what is happening to the earth’s energy field, that we each are personally very powerful vortexes of energy ourselves.  My experience is that our personal energy can override the prevalent energy of any physical locale, that we are indeed the vortex. That by becoming conscious and aware within this powerful vortex of a vehicle, we learn to master it so that body and mind do our bidding.  Meaning with practice we can discipline our physical bodies to awaken early and sit for meditation and contemplation, and allow us to form habitual patterns to practice our daily affirmations and visualizations and prepaving our happy tomorrows, etc.  Continue reading →

Some people say to me, “you’ve changed… what happened?” and all I can say is, how f*cking far back do you want me to go?

I just spent an hour taking apart my tub and its little tile wall to make it easier for the plumber to see what he’s dealing with in finding the leak that goes through the wall. This is an oversized fiberglass tub that we set up on cinder blocks inside the master shower in 1988 then fashioned a little wall in front and tiled it. It’s like opening a time capsule! Maybe I’ll stick the tub out in the garden instead of a kiddie pool!   Below, I have it exposed and ready to pull out. What you’re looking at here is an oversized tub set into a shower stall space. then it was tiled around and I have pulled off most of those tiles. Ima pull it out and leave a shower space only. Fingers crossed it’s not too much work.

RELATED: I test my shower again for a leak

Consider this when “it just feels right.” Just because something feels familiar and comfortable doesn’t mean it’s good for you. When people go from one toxic or abusive relationship to another, for instance, it’s because that is what feels normal, it’s what feels familiar. Being able to adjust to an abnormal situation isn’t always healthy. Begin training yourself into more daily joy and see what begins feeling good and comfortable thirty days down the road. You’re welcome.

Goddess Art, celebrating the feminine spirit

I’m seeking art that depicts and celebrates women, “goddess art,” “sisterhood art,” art depicting women and women bonding, women supporting women, women celebrating the feminine spirit. If you know an artist who might have art to submit for consideration, please tag them with this post. The painting or artwork will contain 2 or more women interacting with each other. Include a few lines telling what the scene depicts.  Here are our –> art submission guidelines.  Email Andrea at horizonsmagazine@gmail.com

Sisterhood art – art with two or more women interacting with each other

Just polished my toenails a pale, pearlescent baby pink. I’m not a mani/pedi chick. I’m a gardener. These look pretty but I wonder if my toenails are gasping for air?

I’d thought about buying one of these little pools so I could float at home on hot days but then thought what a waste of water since I’d have to empty it at night. I’d have to keep a tarp across it to keep out falling leaves, misquito larvae and raccoons. Right, raccoons, I hope they don’t climb up it, they climb up everything. Still, I’m missing my Jacuzzi tub and thought this might be a summer substitute.
An hour later: Ok, I bought this little pool, it was $24.97 at Walmart. I had a compressor to blow it up, but didn’t realize I needed an adapter like you’d use to blow up an air mattress. My neighbor had one tho, but 20 minutes later my ancient compressor gave out. I went back to the store to look at compressors since I need a new one for my bicycle tires anyway. I had to laugh. This is how a $24 pool turns into $100 purchase.   Continue reading →

June 2015 cover

Hello and welcome to the June 2015 edition of Horizons Magazine. Happy Summer Solstice, a time when the sun lingers the longest of any other day. It is a time of intensity, renewal and great potential. I typically do a burning bowl ceremony at Summer Solstice, just making some symbolic notes of things I’d like to be free of, which I then burn in my chimenea.  I think of it as a time of renewal.  A time to make things new and get clear what I want for the rest of the year.  Summer Solstice is also Father’s Day. A time to celebrate the men in your life. Tell them how much you appreciate them, maybe light a candle for those who have moved on. “…the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later is that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.”  ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities.   Continue reading →

If I do what satisfies my soul – whether I make money at it or not – then my life is filled with joy. When my soul feels satisfied, other streams of joy and income start coming in as if from nowhere. Or I might start making money doing what satisfies my soul. But the feeling satisfied part has to come first. My job is to find out what satisfies my soul. All else will follow.