YinYang, my Minicow Yinnie

After decades of having several cats, I’m now down to one.  Both of us seem fine with it.  I sure go through a lot less cat food, vacuum up less cat hair, and far less yard debris gets tracked into the house.  I’ve never been very hands on with my pets.  Now I’ll brush her when she jumps up and she’ll let me do that as long as I want to.  Her nails nab me but I don’t cut them since she’s an indoor/outdoor kitty.  Sometimes I’ll wake up in the recliner with her sleeping on my chest.  Thankfully that’s not often.  All last year I had an allergic reaction to her and no longer do.  The things our minds make us think is real!

I stood watching the waterfall in Unity Park this morning before church, meditating on the pouring of the water into the pond.  That rushing is the same feeling I get when I feel love pouring through me.  When I feel love pouring through me, I recognize that as my alignment with Source energy, as the connection to the God within me.  When I feel love pouring through me, all problems disappear, and nothing seems worth troubling over. It’s easy for past hurts to be forgiven.  It’s a feeling I wish everyone could feel.  It’s the same feeling as the feeling of a new infatuation, whether for a lover or a grandchild or new puppy.   When you feel it, savor it so that you can store it in your memory bank as fuel for future visualizations. Generate that feeling of the love flow by thinking whatever thoughts generate that emotional response in you.  Breathe the feeling deeply within you, then slowly exhale it out into the world.  You can direct that love flow onto whoever’s life you want to send a blessing to.  It helps to remember that everything is a miracle.  This extended rendition by Faith Rivera of Peter Mayer’s song makes the love flow start in me.  Bask in it yourself –>  Everything is holy now.
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Last night after dusk, I headed out to the firepit for new moon ceremony. This one was special, as it fell on my birthday.  My intention for this new moon was simply to attract honest, like minded friends with whom to engage in fulfilling and meaningful projects.  It’s already begun and more appear every day.    Last night’s ritual had more to do with gratitude, since I’m already in the flow.  First I dug up the crystals I buried last weekend and rinsed them in rainwater. I laid them on a scarf to dry as I prepared the small fire for the evening puja.  I could feel the intense fresh energy from the stones even though I was closer to the fire than to them.  That’s why you can’t always trust the seen world: I was closer to the flames than to my crystals, yet I could feel their energy more intensely.    Continue reading →

\I’m heading out to the firepit for new moon ceremony. When it comes to setting goals or planning ahead for the future, there is no better time to get started than at the new moon.  My intention is simply to attract honest, like minded friends who I can do fun and meaningful projects with.  It’s already begun.  More appear every day.  I am just out of my second Saturn return, which is when many people from 20-30 years previous begin to reappear in your life.  So tonight’s ritual will have more to do with gratitude, since I’m already in the flow.  First I’ll dig up the crystals I buried last weekend and rinse them in rainwater. It’s been a most magical day. I woke up just happy to have the day alone to myself to work on the magazine, yet it’s been one fun detour after another. I went to lunch with an old friend and it was cool when he said grace automatically.  He spoke of being a prayer warrior.  I can dig it.  When I say prayers for my clients and advertisers each day, I include not only everyone on the healing bench, but everyone I know or don’t know around me in the city, the state, the country, the planet.  I hear a siren and say a prayer for the first responders, the patient the family, the medical personnel. It’s nice to have a friend with a similar daily practice. Ah, I can work tomorrow.

Yin Yang got to meet Rusty the 7 month old Pomeranian today. I thought she’d like him since he was her size. She was not amused. Maybe because he had fish breath and we didn’t bring her any… “Well, that Hotel California visit set up by the Cosmos and today was a page straight out of Carlos Castaneda” saieth the unnamed one.

On my birthday, I celebrate my mother, Anne Perez, who carried me and birthed me on this day. She was the best inspiration a kid could have, supported me in everything I did and encouraged me to dream. She told me anything was possible. She said I was born under a lucky star and I’ve spent my whole life believing that and proving her right. I love you, Momma, we’ll meet again. Happy birthday to us.  Thank you for my life.