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“You have no idea how hard I have looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What’s the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the Ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It is no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I have brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.” Rumi
We can all use a hand up
Roomi and I were catching up yesterday after work and I asked, “How did your day go? What did you do today?” He responded, “I did nothing all day, I accomplished nothing.” This from a man who just spent two hours helping me straighten out the shed and getting my two bicycles up and running. This from a man who spends time at the computer each day blogging and responding to people who comment on his blog and email him about it. I was amused he didn’t count that as work. Work isn’t just where you earn dollars, work is where you make a difference in someone’s life. Work just isn’t the $10 an hour you make at your cashier job, or the $80k you make at your engineer job. Work is also the contribution you make to those around you hour by hour, day by day, whether it be in your attitude, your kindness or your helpfulness. The work you do to satisfy your own soul and serve others is your real work in the world. Seva is a word used for selfless service, for work offered to God. Your seva is your real work in the world.
Whoever is in charge of the sound for Showtime on Brighthouse Cable, dudes, how about fixing it so we can at least hear what all the actors are saying, not just the loud ones.
You know how it is when you tell a story. If anyone else is in the story, it’s their story too and they may not tell it the way you tell it. I wrote a short post Why I don’t mind when my man writes love songs about other women. I thought: since we’re all friends, it would be fun to give everyone’s name and give the circumstances, since they were so synchronistic and of note. Of course, I couldn’t do that since not everyone cares to take everything public the way my bf and I have agreed to. I find the less secrets I have, the happier I am. Maybe that’s just because there’s less to remember. Continue reading
I always ask people to give me feedback about which psychic readers they would and would not recommend, and why. This is a letter I received last year. “I got a reading with Rev DP. The reading left me depressed and angry because of what she told me was on my future and there was no way to change it. I was not not told about death or sickness but stuff definitely unwelcome in my life. I was told I was going to write a book well I am not a writer or that committed to do such a thing. That my ex husband was very abusive verbally to me and that he was going to leave my life for good very angry and that the relationship with my boyfriend was over for good because he found somebody who was very compatible with but he would not marry her and that such relationship break up was protection from financial difficulties for myself. Instead my boyfriend and this woman were going to have horrible financial problems and one of them was going to move away. And that I was going to meet someone very intelligent with whom I was going to have a very steamy affair and we were going to be very in love with each other but for the meantime I was going to avoid him and that she could see me doing that.
Yesterday my roommate was involved in a variety of projects which kept drawing my attention to what he was doing, rather than what I needed to be doing. I told him it’s like watching the bunny do one cute thing after another. At at the end of the day — in box still full, calls unreturned, emails unanswered — I realize I’ve done nothing all day except follow the flippin bunny. And I wonder how I get off schedule? My biggest occupational hazard has always been feeling as though I have no time to myself. As a spiritual counselor, I connect with dozens of people each week and listen to their challenges and concerns. If I’m not mindful, I can allow myself to fall into their vibe and let myself get caught up in their tension and worry. If I do it enough, I can slow my income down to a trickle. It only ever happens when I just let the hamster wheel run through my head, rather than stepping away and letting myself take time for conscious thought. Continue reading
Ma Yoga Shakti
Mataji, Ma Yogashakti is now in residence at the Palm Bay ashram. There will be a full moon puja Monday, June 4, from 5-6pm. Bring a piece of fruit, a flower and a pure heart. There will be meditation with Mataji on Thursday June 7 from 7-8pm. Mataji says this will be her last visit. Come bask in the presence of this holy teacher, whom we are blessed to have among us in the flesh. Mataji is one of 5 living female hindu saints documented in Daughters of the Goddess, The Women Saints of India authored by Linda Johnsen. The Yogashakti Mission is located in Palm Bay at 3895 Hield Rd NW. Call 321-725 4024 and visit www.yogashakti.org
Lose yourself,
Lose yourself in this love.
When you lose yourself in this love,
you will find everything. — Rumi
Wherever Uranus is in your birth chart is where you’re in for some cosmic surprises. Sometimes it’s liberating, and other times you’re thrown into utter chaos. Uranus represents spirit and free will, breaking with law and tradition, and that which is sudden, unexpected and out of control in life. Uranus symbolizes unpredictable change, intuition, genius, individualism, independence, freedom, social reform, rebels, inventions, electricity, and the joining of the personal to the collective consciousness and the group mind. In the physical body it rules electrical nerve impulses. Uranus is known in astrology as the “Awakener,” since its aspects and transits bring sudden change and upheavals are a necessary break from restrictions in favor of a more liberated path. The Uranus opposition occurs somewhere around the age of 40, when transiting Uranus opposes your own natal Uranus. Also known as the mid-life crisis, this is when people suddenly cast off whatever keeps them from fulfilling their destiny. You might get the courage to leave a stagnant relationship, or to suddenly follow a long-buried dream. When I began my Uranus opposition, I discovered Abraham-Hicks, began seeing new possibilities in my life and Horizons Magazine was born. Uranus sets us free when we’ve become too rigid or structured. While its influence is disruptive, a crisis tends to sharpen the focus, make you feel more alive. Uranus can remind you of what you really want, not what you’ve been conditioned to think you want. Uranus rules Aquarius and those with a heavy influence in their chart are born to shake things up. For just $22, lI can do a Predictive Astrology report for you, which is a three month transit report, telling where your planets are now , what is being influenced and what you can be prepared for. Continue reading
A man who lived on the northern frontier of China was skilled in interpreting events. One day, for no reason, his horse ran away to the nomads across the border. Everyone tried to console him, but his father said, “What makes you so sure this isn’t a blessing?” Some months later his horse returned, bringing a splendid nomad stallion. Everyone congratulated him, but his father said, “What makes you so sure this isn’t a disaster?” Their household was richer by a fine horse, which his son loved to ride. One day he fell and broke his hip. Everyone tried to console him, but his father said, “What makes you so sure this isn’t a blessing?”
A year later the nomads came in force across the border, and every able-bodied man took his bow and went into battle. The Chinese frontiersmen lost nine of every ten men. Only because the son was lame did the father and son survive to take care of each other. Truly, blessing turns to disaster, and disaster to blessing: the changes have no end, nor can the mystery be fathomed.
The Lost Horse,
Chinese Folktale.