I did a friend’s astrological natal/birth chart and found we have a lot of the same aspects.  We’re both motivated and motivating, creative, self sufficient, responsible, growth- and education-oriented.  She also has psychic ability plastered all over her chart and I pointed that out to her.  She wrote me back, saying “My “spidey sense” is very much lacking. I was just telling my girlfriend how I envied people who could do that. I guess I can tell whether someone is “good” or “bad” quickly, but the only sense I have is intuition, maybe.”

Aha!  A common misunderstanding!  I replied to her:  “That’s all that psychic stuff is really, just intuition – it’s just amped up for whoever practices using it is all.  You know and intuit more than you think you do.  Not every thought that comes into your head in your own voice is your own thought, you know 🙂

And there’s lots of ways of expressing a thought.

Say we’re walking outside and I suddenly think of my friend Jan.  I can say to you:

1.  I just thought of Jan.  I wonder if she’s on her way over or going to call.
2.  Jan’s on her way over, I feel her energy.
3.  My guides just told me Jan is coming here.
4.  God is sending Jan over with a message for me.

or if I’m theatrical and want to impress a simple mind, I might say “There’s a Native American guide standing behind you and he’s telling me that Jan is on her way here with a message”

In all 4 cases, it might just be that – out of nowhere – I get a thought of Jan.  I always know that a thought out of nowhere has information for me, so I always immediately ask (internally) for more information, and I’ll get it.

Of course then it starts coming to me like my own thoughts, so if I haven’t spent some time meditating and disciplining my mind to stay focused, I won’t know which thought is which.  But all it takes is a little paying attention to each thought as it comes up.

And of course that’s easier to do if you’re living alone with sufficient resources to control every element of your environment, and have no distracting mind chatter in the background as you practice learning to differentiate the source of your thoughts.  hahahahaha

But of course, that’s the trick: if you want it, really want it, you’ll be willing to create the meditation and discipline practice time it takes.  If you only kind of want it and practice once a month or so, you’ll get there, it may just take longer. “

It’s like I absolutely without a doubt want to be comfortable and content with my life, but I only kind of want to be rich and famous.  So I’m living the first dream, while the second is on its way to me as quickly and easily – proportionally – as I put my thought and effort into attracting and allowing it.

I’m glad I never heard my mother say growing up that she couldn’t handle something or that she was worried about anything.  That helped me grow up thinking that somehow, someway, I had a protector and a safety net and that I could get through anything.  Of course I thankfully learned as an adult that I needed to find that strength and security from within, since I was the only one I could count on.

You know I always thought when my mom passed that I would be totally freaked out about it.  We’d always been so close, she’s the only one who knows all my secrets, we spoke almost every day.  But when it happened, there was a sudden knowing that it was, as Abraham-Hicks says, as if she were simply in the next room.  I knew the body before me was no longer my mom.  I knew the hand I held was simply flesh and bone.  I felt the heart of her centered squarely above eye level, above the bed.  Just like in the movies.  I felt she was just as close as she’d ever been and felt no separation.   Thankfully that has continued to this day.

But everyone experiences life and death in their own way.  Here is a link to an article I wrote entitled The End of Death As We Know It: What the Crossing Over Experience was Like, as Reported By Those Who Made the Transition

I am always comforted by knowing what comes next.  I like to plan and map out things.  It is a real comfort to me knowing the actual transition will be easy, almost seamless.  Kind of like – well, just driving from Yuma to Phoenix.